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Joe Watkins' plan to save Chester Upland involves closing schools, cutting staff
Chief Recovery Officer Joe Watkins released a financial and academic recovery plan for the Chester Upland School District that restores art and music programs but includes mid-year staffing cuts and school consolidations and a property tax increase.
Among the details in his recovery plan, Watkins is suggesting Chester Upland close Columbus Elementary School and shift the students to other elementary schools during this year's winter break.
Before the start of the 2013-2014 school year, Chester Upland will need to close Stetser Elementary, he said, and relocate the STEM magnet high school program – currently housed at Smedley High School – to its own space in Chester High.
Watkins also said the district's administrative offices will be moved to Chester High School.
If the district is to prosper, Chester Upland must close its $3.2 million deficit, Watkins said, and begin to attract back students who have departed in favor of charter schools.
The district's deficit is projected to grow to $181 million within five years if the recovery plan is not implemented, Watkins said.
Watkins is recommending Chester Upland reduce its faculty and staff by 17 employees this school year and another 53 employees next year.
The building closures and staff cuts are expected to save the district about $2 million each year, he said.
To raise additional funds, Watkins recommends the district secure additional federal funding through grants, step up collection of delinquent property taxes and implement a property tax increase consistent with the cost of living index.
He also wants to raise private funding and begin an endowment. Continued...
To gain students – and the critical subsidies that follow – Watkins said the district must improve its academic programs.
He is working to return music and art throughout the district and provide afterschool, summer school and daycare programs. He also wants to have a permanent superintendent hired to a long-term contract by April 1.
Watkins' plan seeks to regain 4.5 percent of students from charters and cyber charter schools next year and an additional 3 percent in each subsequent year through the 2017-18 school year.
There are 2,899 students enrolled in Chester Upland schools. Another 3,997 students live within the district attend charter and cyber charter schools.
The plan also establishes various academic performance benchmarks that must be achieved within the next two years. If the district cannot meet them, it will transfer power to an external management organization, which could be a combination of charter and cyber schools and an education management organization.
Watkins was appointed by state Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis after Chester Upland was declared financially distressed in August. He was charged with developing and overseeing the implementation of a financial recovery plan.
The school board now has 10 days to approve the plan. If it does, Tomalis must also sign off on the plan. Otherwise, Watkins must revise the plan.
If the board does not approve the plan, Tomalis can seek a receivership for the district.
Watkins' plan was completed with the assistance of Public Financial Management, a national financial advisory firm.
Watkins announced his recovery plan at a noon press conference today. He will host a meeting at 6 p.m. today at Showalter Intermediate School review the plan with the public.
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NEW YORK–Metal designer Michael Aram has added two members to its team here, to develop its sales and design staff.
Pamela Burke has been named vice president of sales, a new position. Reporting to Sebastian Herald, Aram's chief executive officer, Burke was last at international sourcing company Li & Fung, where she served in a global sales position.
In addition, Brandon Garrett has been named design development manager, also a new position and reporting to both Herald and Aram. His experience includes positions at Slatkin & Co. and Avon.
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Automatic scoring tallies progress at bowling lanes with optional bumpers stationed near pool tables, arcade games, and a bar
Capitol City Crawler
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Vineyard spanning 112 acres of Texas hill country hosts picnics complete with fine cheeses, meats and chocolates ideal for wine pairings
Go Paddle Down
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The Blanton Museum of Art
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Pioneer Farms
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AMERICAN FORK, Utah, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Utah-based IT outsourcing company Integratechs added PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Digital Security Standard) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance to its list of IT services on February 1, 2013. With recent changes to these standards and increased enforcement trickling down to solo practitioners and small businesses, Integratechs has chosen to offer PCI-DSS and HIPAA compliance as a stand-alone service or as part of a larger IT outsourcing package.
Integratechs, the first company in Utah to offer a full suite of PCI-DSS and HIPAA compliance services, has already begun providing these services to businesses, gaining three new PCI-DSS clients in February. "This will provide an exceptionally-higher level of service to existing customers as well as open additional revenue streams to coincide with future growth," said Blayne Baker, VP of Sales at Integratechs.
The HIPAA Act has been in place since 1996. It was originally designed to protect confidential patient information, among other reasons. PCI-DSS, first established in 2004, was designed to protect customer data stored on credit cards. It calls upon businesses to verify that their machines and software have sufficient protection against fraud. In 2013, however, sweeping changes to PCI-DSS and HIPAA created much stiffer penalties for violators ($1.5 million per HIPAA violation and up to $500,000 per PCI-DSS violation).
"Historically, HIPAA compliance (unlike PCI-DSS) has had a rather broad definition," commented Thomas McCrory, Information Systems Analyst with Integratechs. "More recently, we're beginning to see specific organizational requirements. With strict enforcement and stiff penalties for non-compliance, businesses have really been put on notice to ensure that patient data is being protected. It's an exciting time to be a part of that shift toward really defining how we go about maintaining that privacy."
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I woke up early that morning with the intention of helping to fake a TEDx Conference.
Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 6: Critical Vulnerability
Throughout this guide I've tried to isolate the patterns of how we think about the Future-Present, as symbolized by particular evocative technology. By engaging five, extraordinarily knowledgeable informants, I've traced their thoughts into directional arcs that don't necessarily nail down this swirling cloud of future-forward ideas, but at least give us sense of the difficulty of the terrain.
The archetypes are stories, each one about us, our ideas, and our material world. The excitement of the future is represented by the LED. Neodymium magnets tell a story about the the allure of technological magic interacting with our everyday life. The fable of the cyborg explains a bit about our interface with our own history. The theology of our technologically advanced commodities are explained to us through drones. And our maps tendency to glitch is a cautionary tale about our minds' inherent difficulties in navigating all of these different idea structures at the same time.
I like to think of these archetypes as stories, because there is something harmless in allegory. A meaning is intended, but if it doesn't particular stick, or if as storyteller I trip in my delivery, the stakes are low. These are not actually designs for massive structures, harnessing dangerous physical forces to be constrained within conduits wrapped around us while we sleep at night. If these narratives become unpleasant, we can simply wake up, dispelling them like a dream, returning to the safe world of consistent reality that is not fraught with loops of meaning and pitfalls of symbolism. We can clear the slate easily, claiming the fallibility of narratives, and returning to the kernel of "simple" material things, ignoring the implications of our ideas. And then the next night, we have a chance to dream again.
But what I have come ...
Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 5: Schematic Maps
When attempting to map out the Future-Present, there is not just one map to consider; there are three. These three categorical types of map—our mental maps, symbolic maps, and broken maps--are each a schematic layer in our effort to perceive the world, and it is in their dissonance that the world actually exists. We must identify not only what these maps are, but what they are when they fail. In the fractures, one sees the spidering web of weaknesses, the many possible scenarios of rupture that select without warning. Reality is unpredictable, bursting from its constraining archetypes. And yet it is uncannily similar to all the breaks we've seen before, like a river delta resembling a tree.
The first category of map resides somewhere in the brain, perhaps in the hippocampus. It is through these networks that our neurology gives us a sense of space that we might try to express, record, and share with others. In studies performed on mice, "place fields" have been identified in their hippocampal neurons. Everytime the mouse passes through a particular known place in its terrain, a burst of action potential fires through the same neurons. We know less about the human brain, but it is clear that our hippocampus is important to forming memories, and that larger hippocampi correlate with people who have more detailed place knowledge, London cab drivers, for example. Somewhere, lurking inside the chemical differences between the inside and outside of neurons, in the minor voltages and in the ever-changing and evolving cell pattern of our neuroanatomy, is a material record of what we mean when we sense our geography. We cannot read this map— we can only think it. We express this map's imperfections via our senses. When this map fails, we feel lost.
The second map is spoken aloud, in the possibility of uttering a symbolic map. Humans are never content at forming schema and just keeping them to themselves. Our schemas are meant to be shared, explained, inscribed, and signified. But the topology of these symbolic maps are as complicated and multifaceted as our neurology. It was Alfred Korzybski who constructed the phrase so relevant to our contemporary times, as the second part of a statement first spoken in 1931:
A) A map may have a structure similar or dissimilar to the structure of the territory...
B) A map is not the territory.
Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 4: The Commodity Swarm
"Bomb the Drone" (Demilit project)
A certain thread of theology holds that angels are not actual entities; they are human characterizations of god's infinite will, manifested in singular points of time and space that we can only represent as corporeal actions by supernatural beings. Drones are the same. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles themselves are made of very real alloys and composites, flown with very real bands of electromagnetic energy emitted from satellite and ground station, launching weapons with exothermic warheads resulting in very real deaths. But "Drones", as we have come to know them, represent an intensely collapsed political, economic, and social cosmology. They are singular points of world-historical militarism, state control, and technological specialty, orbiting high above our heads, the new astrological wanderers of our mortal fates. Dare we ask the rhetorical question: how many drones can surveil the head of a pin? MQ-1 Predator, MQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-9 Reaper, RQ-170 Sentinel: these names are the basis of a new hierarchical choir of angels, as cataloged by Jane's All the World's Aircraft.
Drones function in our current Future-Present, as a category conglomerated from many components. A MQ-4 has very little to do, technologically, with a smartphone-controlled quadrocopter. The relationship between them, which we fetishize into the category of "drone", is a composite of factors and values so intricate as to border on the cosmological. It is true that they both fly, with different types of remote control. They both contain cameras, so that a person can see a visual field from the vehicle's perspective. They both contain technological advances that are not entirely new innovations, though their widespread use and public recognition is a relatively recent event. And yet, one is an expensive toy, while the other changes the geopolitical landscape as a weapon of war. It is only when their use, political significance, and market value are networked to their technological construction that they become equivalent in the Future-Present cosmology.
If angels are too metaphysical a means of getting at the cultural function of such a unifying concept, let us utilize a more atheistic church, another sort of holy ghost. Drones are technology, commodified. Commodities are objects, abstracted from their strict material origins, and invested with a surplus of market-meaning. An automobile, for example, is not so much the frame riding on four wheels; it is not pivotal object of the American Dream; it is more than a single class of "Sport Utility" use-case or a particular brand name. It is all of these things. It is a history of technological advancement, a society's main means of transportation, and a set of cultural value signifiers, condensed into a single object. What does precision milling equipment have to do with "Tell Laura I Love Her?" Everything and nothing. Technological commodities exists in multiple dimensions of technology, culture, economics, and politics simultaneously. What we perceive is the object, but behind it, is its cosmological network. We watch a video of a drone swarm in a college laboratory. We hear a news report about a drone strike on the other side of the world. We dream about the future of airspace regulation over drone-like inventions that don't exist yet. We interact with all of these threads when we think, talk, or work with drones...
Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 3: The Cyborg-Historical
Superflux headset to enable prosthetic vision.
The Future-Present is something that once one has begun to notice it, it becomes very difficult to not see. This visual pattern of our conception of the future has the occult symbolism of apophenia, an illusion of perception generated as glitching artifact by the same non-illusory means by which we perceive reality. The shape of history projected forward in time looms out in the shape of a monster from patterns of moss on our architecture, and as a prophet from coffee stains on news magazines. Our imagination builds reality both forward and backward in time, as our vision builds reality on both isomorphic sides of the mirror. Our speculative thought catalogs these alternate realities, and we attach them to ourselves like equipment strapped to the stomach of a soldier, and we drag them along with us as we crawl across the surface of the earth, dodging death. Or so we dream, as we let our eyes slowly unfocus, gazing at our liquid crystal screens.
The Future-Present hangs heavy with acquired schematization, grows thickly in the rhizomatics of our mental constructs, and with this decaying biomass, lubricates the sliding transmission of our worldviews. But while the implications of the Future-Present for philosophical theories that deploy such semiotic hardware are important, there is a complex material realm of the Future-Present that should not be ignored. Regardless of what sort of opaque, nebulous terms we develop for the clouds in our temporal vision, they have material form with which we will collide with if we don't watch where we are going. The gears of the mechanisms are sharp, and the metabolized exertions to avoid injury on the cutting edge are chemically taxing.
This is not simply a matter of seeing correctly and avoiding illusion. The illusions have important meanings. Patterns are the visual boundaries of underlying systems. When a slime mold grows into nearly the exact same shape as the Tokyo rail system, this is not a random coincidence...


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Thanksgiving shopping took a noticeable bite out of Black Friday's start to the holiday season. The latest survey found retail sales in stores fell slightly from last year.
Saturday's report from retail technology company ShopperTrak found consumers spent $11.2 billion at stores across the U.S. That is down 1.8 percent from last year's total.
This year's Friday results appear to have been tempered by hundreds of thousands of shoppers hitting sales Thursday evening while still full of Thanksgiving dinner. Retailers including Sears, Target and Wal-Mart got their deals rolling as early as 8 p.m. on Turkey Day.
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I had some time on my hands so I thought I'd build myself a theme for when Frog reached a marketable point for me. So here's a link to it. It's a take on both unbound and the Frog CMS site put together. I built it out of the unbound theme and it still contains much of the same css with some minor adjustments to colors. Most changes being in the header area. I plan on making a second layout with two columns instead of three to make more options. Update: link fixed. Update 2: Theme link just click on the .zip file to download the rebound theme |
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Thanks, if someone knows how to make the photo appear feel free to post it so it can be seen without going to the link. I've also created two more 2 column layouts, one with a small column on the right, the other on the left. I plan on finishing the template soon and getting it into a bundle probably sometime tomorrow. : ) |
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Hi moser – nice one! An elegant reworking of "Unbound" – like it! Here's the pic: (All you do is put the image's url between exclamation marks.) Will you be providing a download link when the "bundle" is ready? Hope so! |
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The New Theme Rebound is ready!!! phew! I don't know why I decided to put together three layouts. I hate inline and display : ) • New look for header of unbound theme styled after Frog CMS site Here are some photos: ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. Now there's only one little problem… I have no site or ftp of my own to upload it to : / |
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I'd be more than happy to host it for you, moser. Let me know, tyler [at] tbeckett [dot] net. |
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@moser – clearly you are a glutton for punishment! :) If mtylerb hosts them, I'll make sure they get linked from MadeByFrog.com when he's got them available. Also, you wrote: I have "proper" hosting for my "main" sites, but I first tried out Byethost. There are a number of good free hosting solutions out there. Byethost is reliable and very supportive. You can have your own Frog site up and running in about 10 minutes! (That's what TestFrog is running on, btw.) |
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@david – Thanks for the advice. I've heard of bytehost but never used it before. Very handy, so here's the file… just download the rebound file |
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@moser – fast work! P.s. the only thing you should not do from Byethost is "hotlink" a file for download, or you will get some strange 404/forwarding thing happening. O_o But I think you discovered that already! ;) |
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indeed I did : ) |
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Here's a link to a demo of the new Frog Theme I built a while back |
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Hi Moser, Nice work, looks good, I'm sure I will end up using this… One small bit of feedback. It's probably my old eyes :) but the main nav hover has too little change – I think the hover css needs to be a lighter grey. cheers, Dave |
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Nice and elegant ! Nothing to add :)) |
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Thanks for the pos. feedback @Davep Part of the reason I made the theme the way I did is that it is super easy to change the color scheme of the header, body, footer, and links, by changing the colors for any of them quickly in the css or adding images. : ) |
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wow I really like the dark frontside theme :) I mean REALLY like it :) nice job |
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Finally added this to Frog's themes page. Thanks again, moser! |
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Navigation doesn't seem to work in ie6 or 7. Looks like a z-index problem maybe? I'm in over my head. Maybe a little help? Thanks! |


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This post has been a long time coming. Between a few freelance writing projects and my curatorial debut, I have had very little free time left to finish this post. Plus I have managed to forget butter the last three times I went grocery shopping. Without it, these pretty madeleines would have been very sad tasting. A madeleine is a small sponge cake that hails from the northeast of France – the Lorraine region to be exact. The cakes are distinctive for their shell-like appearance and are made with a dedicated pan especially for madeleines, available at most home-ware shops.
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I've not had a look at these yet, but a friend was presented with these exact questions at an interview.
I've not had a look at these yet, but a friend was presented with these exact questions at an interview.
nice link karl
a summary of importants questions!
- Manuel Jordan
Kill Your Pride, Share Your Knowledge With All
The Fear Of The LORD Is The Beginning Of Knowledge, But Fools Despise Wisdom And Discipline. Proverbs 1:7
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I've not through them in detail yet, I just thought it might be interesting to have a look at. Especially as people seem to be using them in interviews already.
You can try with this link
There are two good tests on Skill-guru
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second one is on Spring Transaction management
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I want to share few questions. (Spring+iBATIS+JSF).
1. When we use setter injection and constructor injection?
2. I have a class and I want to make it singleton then how can I do that using spring?
3. How can I manage transaction with iBATIS?
4. How we configure iBATIS with Spring?
5. If I wnat to configure struts with spring then, to which module the integration belogs?
6. What are the techniques we used to congfigure the security?
7. What is the diffrence between AbstractController and MultiActionController?
8. How you integrate jsf with spring?
9. What are the necessory steps to configure spring mvc?
10. How you said spring is light weight freamework?
11. What is transaction management?
12. What is dirty read?
13. What is phantom read?
14. What is isolation? types?
15. What is propagation? types?
16. Why we use annotations? Diffrent annotations in spring?
17. How you use (or read) the bean in java file?
I hope this will help......
here are some more Spring Framework Interview Questions And Answers


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Height: | 6-1 |
Weight: | 193 |
Year: | R-Fr. |
Hometown: | Tyrone, GA |
High School: | Sandy Creek |
Position: | WR |
Hoof Prints: A playmaking wide receiver who will add depth to a veteran receiving corps... chose UB for the shared commitment to athletics and academics.
Freshman (2010): Redshirted in his first season at Buffalo.
High School: A first-team All-Region player who helped his Sandy Creek team to the state championship in 2009 for coach Chip Walker…UB staff says he has great hands, speed and body control…an explosive player who has been a difference maker in his career…had 37 receptions for 600 yards and six touchdowns while earning All-County honors…also lettered in basketball and track.


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Like the majority of Des Moines' bars, there's nothing extraordinary about Fourth Down. But on our recent visit, we were surprised to see that everyone's treated like a regular, including the out-of-towners.
8:05 p.m. We arrive at Fourth Down, a bar on Fourth Street in the Court Avenue District that sits below ground level. As we make our way down the stairs, we pass two middle-aged men chatting and smoking. "I used to show horses," one says to the other. We walk through the door and find a boisterous crowd of seven perched at the bar. "She was purring," says one patron excitedly. "She was purrrrrring!" Simultaneously, the bartender is greeting us: " 'Sup, 'sup, 'sup, 'sup?" If the oral onslaught is an indication of how this night will go, this should be interesting.
8:06 p.m. We sit next to the rowdy crew at the bar. The bartender, juggling aluminum tumblers and tossing them in the air and catching them a la Tom Cruise in "Cocktail" (albeit a version of the character Brian Flanagan with a shaved head and soul patch) asks what we'd like to drink. I order a draw of the Sam Adams seasonal, and my drinking partner opts for a bottle of Coors Light.
8:08 p.m. A sign behind the bar tells us there are 285 days until St. Patrick's Day. Though Fourth Down is a sports bar and not an Irish bar, apparently the appeal of the Irish drinking holiday is universal. Another sign boasts the happy hour specials. From 4 to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, domestic draws are $1.75, bottles are $2, and Captain Morgan and Long Island Iced Teas are $3.
8:14 p.m. Justin Bieber's "Girlfriend" comes on. The five girls at the end of the bar, in town from Iowa City and celebrating one's 21st birthday, are giggling uncontrollably as they flirt with Flanagan, who is again trying to impress with flying aluminum tumblers. Two fall to the floor, and we silently hope they end up in the sink.
8:21 p.m. Signs behind the bar indicate that both Iowa State and University of Iowa fans gather here. We suspect this is only half true, but it's too early to tell.
8:35 p.m. A new group of middle-aged people enter the bar. Flanagan, ever the entertainer, greets them. "Come on in," he shouts. "Let's get drunk." They sit in an adjacent room housing a pool table and a small, elevated stage illuminated by track lights. Flanagan leaves his post behind the bar to take their drink orders.
8:37 p.m. More people enter. Same Flanagan greeting. "Come on in. Let's get drunk."
9:06 p.m. A gentleman over 40 arrives and orders a glass of water. "Did you just get out of jail or what?" asks the Door Guy. "Yeah, how'd you know?" he replies. This interaction flabbergasts us. We're surprised he has the gall to ask, and even more surprised he pegged this thirsty patron as a jailbird.
9:10 p.m. Flanagan is reliving the angst of his teenage years with two patrons he knows from his high school. Flanagan is complaining about girls who wouldn't give him the time of day.
9:24 p.m. We overhear a 20something seated next to us. "I can't wait until I can play basketball against my kids," he says. "I'm gonna dominate them. I'm gonna show no mercy." We wonder silently if this will be the first and only time.
9:25 p.m. Flanagan's high school buddies are getting up to leave. "Hey Scott," one says. "We're going to go give some girls wet willies. Then we're going to go home." We fear that these ladies' ears may actually be on the receiving end of a spit-ladled finger.
9:35 p.m. A man comes in off the street. He's been looking for a place to watch the UFC fights. Despite the fact that "fourth down" is a football term, perhaps leading him to believe it's a sports bar, the TVs are instead tuned to "Ridiculousness," a television show depicting Internet videos of people inadvertently hurting themselves during amateur stunts. He stays anyway.
9:44 p.m. I mention my Iowa State roots. Flanagan confirms my earlier suspicion. "You know we're Hawkeye fans down here," he says. "The ISU sign is just for show."
9:51 p.m. I embark on a quest to find the women's restroom. I take a few steps up into the pool table room, take a left and find myself in a small, dim room with a couch and a few chairs. I cross that room and enter a door to the left, take a few steps down, and finally locate it. Opening the door, I'm stunned to see that I have to walk up three more steps to an elevated toilet. I'm also confused by the gigantic mirror placed across from it. I'm not sure I've ever been forced to watch myself pee before, nor have I ever had to work so hard to do it.
9:56 p.m. Flanagan pulls out the aluminum cups again, this time ending with two of them pressed against his pecs, creating cones that would make Madonna blush.
10:03 p.m. Flanagan, once again up to his crazy antics, changes the words to Notorious BIG's "Big Poppa." "Throw your hands in the air, if you're a true bald man," he sings.
10:17 p.m. The secondary bartender rings a gigantic bell behind the bar. "Big tip," he says enthusiastically. That's what she said, says our inner frat boy.
10:25 p.m. We head out into the night, fully aware that the appeal of Fourth Down is not the décor, nor its underwhelming selection of beer, but the company it keeps.
Fourth Down
Find it: 215 Fourth St.
Hours: 4:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Monday through Friday, noon-2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday
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Sweet Pea Soup with Warm Lardons |
Category: | Appetizers |
Source: | From the Wine Enthusiast Pairings Book |
Description: | Chef Jeff Raider at Valley at the Garrison Restaurant in Garrison, New York, combines fresh peas with pea leaves and fresh mint for this singularly colored summer soup. |
Ingredients: | 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil ½ small spring onion, roughly chopped 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped 2 ¼ cups light chicken stock or water 1 ¼ cups fresh peas 1 ¼ cups tightly packed fresh pea leaves 14 leaves fresh mint (no stems) Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon chopped into small lardon slab bacon |
Directions: | Heat the olive oil in a medium nonreactive soup pot over medium heat. Add the spring onion and garlic and sweat until soft. Do not allow to color. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Add the peas and simmer until the peas are tender. Pour the contents into a blender and process on high speed until smooth. Add the raw pea leaves and process again until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer the soup to a nonreactive container, cover, and refrigerate until chilled. When ready to serve, in a small skillet, cook the bacon until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towels. To serve, ladle the soup into stemmed glasses or small cups and garnish each serving with some of the lardons. |


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Poisoned terrier dug up from grave in France
Poisoned and buried alive, a Jack Russell terrier was unearthed in France by a man who saw the ground moving and ran to get a shovel.
Firefighters rushed the dog — named Ethan — to an animal hospital, where he is recovering, according to the Associated Press.
Sabrina Zamora, president of an animal association in Charleville-Mezieres, 125 miles northeast of Paris, said the dog was dug up by a pedestrian who noticed the ground wiggling along a lakeside pedestrian path.
Veterinarian Philippe Michon said when firemen brought the terrier to his office "he was completely cold, he was barely breathing."
Michon used hot water bottles to warm up Ethan's body and hydrated him with intravenous fluids. Within 24 hours, he was back on his feet. The vet said convulsions from being poisoned may have been what led to his grave being noticed.
Ethan was identified through a microchip that also revealed he'd been buried alive on his third birthday.
His owner told police he had given the dog away earlier, but police are continuing their investigation.
(Photo: Sabrina Zamora, president of an animal protection association, holds Ethan at Ligue Interet a la Societe et de l'Animal; Associated Press)
Posted by jwoestendiek October 23rd, 2012 under Muttsblog.
Tags: alive, animals, buried, Charleville-Mezieres, dog, dogs, dug, ethan, france, grave, ground, jack russell terrier, Ligue Interet a la Societe et de l'Animal, moved, pets, Philippe Michon, poisoned, recovering, rescued, Sabrina Zamora, saved, shovel, unearthed
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The prominent scrollwork on this head and footboard is secured in place with decorative banding. And the 12 solid castings give the bed a playful character not found in most iron beds. The heavy tubing creating the overall shape of the bed display softly rounded shoulders that give historic appeal. Another elevating feature to the bed is the finish. It carries an intricacy that may not be noticed at first glance. When viewed up close the finish glows with an inner warmth that warrants the name Rusty Gold, and makes it a perfect match for a warm toned bedding ensemble.
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Comments about Fashion Bed Group Grafton Metal Bed in Rusty Gold Finish:
[...]The bed is exactly as pictured--I put it together in a few hrs--(handy girl) didn't even need a screw driver! swapped out the metal washers for rubber ones and haven't heard a hint of a squeak....
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Beautiful Bed
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from Miami, FL
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I was a little apprehensive about buying the product because the prior review had experienced creaks. However, it looked so pretty and it was what I was looking for so I bought it. My husband assembled it in about 10 min. He tightened everything real well and our bed DOES NOT creak. Its solid as an oak and its gorgeous to look at. It really made a difference in the room. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for a nice brass bed that will go with anything, is inexpensive and looks and feels like a million bucks.
Nice looking frame
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The utmost example of lame.
The pinnacle of pointlessness. Weak-sauce is best used as an adjective to decribe how pitifully someone has failed when they were actually trying their very best. When motivating your children:
"Really son, is that the best you can do? What is that? A TURD!!! You are supposed to be drawing a picture of your family for this homework assignment! Do you hate us? Would you prefer living on the street? That finger painting is so WEAK-SAUCE!!! No, you are weak-sauce! |
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lame, bad, performing poorly, opposite of money. (History). Originally coined by Craig's friend from college, Danny, weak-sauce has become a much needed buzzword in the lame, not cool category, with thanks to Boomer Esiason and Marv Albert who used it on an Monday Night Football broadcast in '02. The Denver Nuggets scored 68 points in the entire game yesterday, making their offensive output weak-sauce.
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when your friend starts to date someone and they ditch you to hang out with their someone special. when it is severe enough then the name "weak-sauce" should be used. also appropriate if someone does something stupid or very embarressing. guy: hey bro, wanna hit the mall up today
guy #2: no man im hangin with the lady tonight guy: weak-sauce bro |
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applies to someone who tries to impress you or do something cool, but instead acts similarly to a mentally retarded kid hooked on ice *Andrew(at school recess in the front of hot chicks):Hey guys this sucks lets play soccer in the hallways!!!
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Jason Silverman's unfertile semen that he plants in every crackwhore he can find in conway, massachusetts. First used when he was raped by a 40 year old fat woman at the age of 7 and this woman never got pregnant like she wanted too. Rob:"Damn yo....Jason just banged that whore from douche street"
other guy: " its ok though because jason has some weak-sauce...the best that shat can do is produce a retard baby that has only one arm but has 11 fingers on it and possibly another crazy fetus hanging off its ass" Rob: "wow, ur right that is some weak-sauce" |


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New Child Sex Assault Charges for Gateway Student, Faces Over 1,000 Years in Prison
Alexander Richter faces 23 additional felony counts of sexual assault of a child, child exploitation and child pornography which could lead to another 625 years in prison on top of the 560 he faces for the 26 original charges.
After Alexander Richter, 28, of Racine, was charged with 26 felony counts of sexual assault of a child, exploitation of a child/filming and child pornography, additional victims have been identified.
Richter was charged Thursday in Racine County Circuit Court with 23 new felony counts including seven counts of first degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 12; eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child/filming, and eight counts of child pornography. If convicted of these new charges, he faces 625 years in prison on top of the 560 years he faces from the 26 original charges. The combined total possible prison time from the two cases is 1,185. The charges also carry the possibility of hundreds of years extended supervision.
The Gateway Technical College student allegedly met his victims after he offered to his classmates to babysit the children in his Jacato Drive apartment.
According to the criminal complaint, four children seen on DVDs taken from Richter's apartment have been identified as a five-year-old girl, a seven-year-old girl, an eight-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
Investigators reported the DVDs show Richter having sexual contact with all the children. The defendant is also seen having sexual intercourse with the female victims and oral sex with the male victim.
During Richter's court appearance on the new charges Thursday, Racine County District Attorney Rich Chiapete said the evidence against Richter are some of the most disturbing images his office has seen.
"These are as shocking and disturbing as any we will ever see," he is quoted as saying in a story from our media partners at Fox 6 News.
Richter will appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 21 for all 49 charges against him. He remains in jail on a $1,000,000 cash bond.
The Racine Police Department continues to investigate this case and believes there are additional victims in the community and perhaps in other areas and states.
"We are concerned there are multiple victims, multiple areas, potentially multiple cities. Most every investigator that's working on this case has children and as such, we're doing what we would want done if our children were victimized, that's the way we look at this case," Racine Police Chief Art Howell said during a press conference Thursday.
If convicted, a judge would determine Richter's sentence, including how much time he would spend in prison and whether he would ever be released into the community on extended supervision. The judge could stack the sentences on top of each other, giving him a sentence hundreds of years long, ensuring he spends the rest of his life in prison, or could choose to have the sentences run at the same time, allowing him the possibility of release at some point in the future.
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8:32 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
Rest assured if he is not placed in protective custody and doesn't kill himself other inmates will make him pay. Sex offenders this vile, especially against children, are treated very very badly in prison. Karma is a beast... pray for the babies and know he will get his medicine.
7:46 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
He will get his in jail by bubba makes me sick if those where my kids he would be done just shows u gotta watch your own kids now an days lots of sickos out there
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2:31 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
The Ultimate Penalty will do just fine here . . . . quit promoting these disgusting behaviors. If you give them Free Room & Board, they have beat the system!


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