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Carolyn Haywood
3 January 1898 - 11 January 1990
Carolyn Haywood was born on January 3, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charles and Mary Emma (Cook) Haywood. She had one younger brother, who became a silversmith. He passed away in 1958.
As a young girl, Haywood spent most of her spare time drawing and painting. She had hopes of becoming an artist.
After graduating from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and the Philadelphia Normal School in 1922, she spent a year teaching at the Friends Central School, a private school.
In 1923, Haywood received a scholarship for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied for three years. While at the academy, she became a Cresson traveling scholar when she was awarded a European scholarhip in 1924. She spent a year traveling the Continent before returning to her final year at the academy.
Upon returning in 1925, she started her studies in illustration under the tutelage of Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, whose illustrations appeared in Harper's and Scribner's magazines, and Jessie Wilcox Smith, who painted the covers for Good Housekeeping for 15 years. She was also an assistant to the mural painter Violet Oakely, who was working on a series of murals for the Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg, at this time. All three of these women were gifted pupils of Howard Pyle, who is well-known for his children's books in the area of fables.
"During this time I was becoming more and more interested in children's books and eventually, through my interest in illustration, I found my way to Harcourt where Elizabeth Hamilton was editor of their juvenile department. She encouraged me to write something about little American children doing the things that little American children like to do." [2] It was that conversation that gave Haywood the idea for her first book, "B" is for Betsy, which was published in 1939. She wrote eight books in the Betsy series.
Even when she was busy with writing, Haywood still made time to paint. She particularly enjoyed painting children's portraits. Haywood was also well-known for her painted murals, which can be found in banks and schools in the Philadelphia area. While the children in her books are not based on real children, when she worked on her illustrations she did use real children to model for her drawings.
In 1947, Haywood introduced her readers to a new character, Eddie, with her book Little Eddie. She continued writing and illustrating series books about Betsy and Eddie as well as a number of other characters for nearly half a century.
"My books are naturally intended for children from 4 to 11 and are written with the idea of supplying the beginning reader with books that are more developed than picture books." [2] Her books have been published in a number of languages including French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
In the 1970's, Haywood stopped illustrating her books and let other artists, including Victor Ambrus, illustrate her stories. She is also noted for her holiday stories, which were published in the children's magazine Jack and Jill. She also wrote a number of adult books including Book of Honor, a collection of biographies of famous Pennsylvanian women.
When Haywood was not writing, she enjoyed reading, traveling and being with people.
Carolyn Haywood died on January 11, 1990.
Information for this biography was taken from:1) "Carolyn Haywoood Papers" USM de Grummond Collection; http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degru,/findaids/haywood.htm.
2) Anne Commire (ed.). Something About the Author, #1; Gale Research Company: Detroit, Mich., 1971.
3) Anne Commire (ed.). Something About the Author, #29; Gale Research Company: Detroit, Mich., 1982
4) Stanley J. Kunitz & Howard Haycroft (ed.). The Junior Book of Authors; The H.W. Wilson Company: New York, 1951.
5) Tiffany's Favorite Author: Carolyn Haywood; http://www.okcps.k12/ok.us/fillmore/tiffany.htm.
E-HAY A Christmas Fantasy (1972) -- Follow Santa through his childhood years and learn how he got into the toy-giving business.
E-HAY A Valentine Fantasy (1976) -- A tale of how Valentine's Day came into existance and how the heart became its symbol.
J-HAY "B" Is for Betsy (1939) -- Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm.
J-HAY Back to School With Betsy (1943) -- Third-grader Betsy and her friend Billy seem to be always getting into scrapes both inside and outside of school.
J-HAY Betsy and the Boys (1945) -- Betsy and her fourth-grade friends discover football.
J-HAY/J-P-HAY Betsy's Little Star (1950) -- Meet Betsy's little sister Star as she starts kindergarten.
J-HAY Betsy's Play School (1977) -- Betsy organizes a summer play school for six neighborhood children.
J-HAY Betsy's Winterhouse (1958) -- Betsy's father builds a winterhouse for her and her friends to play in during the winter.
J-HAY "C" Is for Cupcake (1974) -- Join Christie in the adventures she shares with her rabbit Cupcake and the other members of her first grade class.
J-HAY Eddie and the Fire Engine (1949) -- Eight-year-old Eddie Wilson, who collects valuable property and stray animals, acquires a goat and an old fire engine.
J-HAY Eddie Makes Music (1957) -- Eddie becomes an accomplished music maker when his friends all begin to take music lessons.
J-HAY Eddie's Menagerie (1978) -- Join Eddie as he gets a job in a pet shop and acquires a hat that soon becomes one of his most prized possessions.
J-P-HAY Halloween Treats (1981) -- A collection of short stories to get children of all ages in the mood for Halloween.
J-HAY Here Comes the Bus! (1963) -- Jonathan, otherwise known as Taffy, finds fun as he starts his school career.
J-HAY Here's a Penny (1944) -- The story of six-year-old Penny, whose real name is William, but who looked like a copper penny when he was adopted as a baby.
J-Haywood Little Eddie (1947) -- Whether Eddie's finding homes for a crowd of stray cats, preparing himself for a career in dogcatching, or picketing the baseball team, his happy adventures are sure to win lots of friends.
J-P-HAY Merry Christmas From Betsy (1970) -- A collection of previously published stories which relate the Christmas adventures of Betsy and her sister Star.
J-HAY The Mixed-Up Twins (1952) -- Meet the Onalds. Their real names are Ronald and Donald, but since they are twins and look exactly alike, they are always being mixed up by everyone.
J-HAY Penny and Peter (1946) -- Whenever Penny and his adopted brother Peter decide to help their parents, they usually end up in trouble.
J-HAY Penny Goes to Camp (1948) -- Penny and his adopted brother Peter are not looking forward to going to summer camp, but as the time to go approaches they change their mind.
J-HAY Primrose Day (1942) -- Merry Primrose Ramsay is a little English girl who comes to America because of World War II and finds fun and humorous adventures with her little cousin Jerry.
J-HAY Taffy and Melissa Molasses (1969) -- During her summer vacation, Melissa, her brother Taffy, and their friend Jon have one adventure after another, beginning with a Fourth of July flag-raising party.
J-Haywood Two and Two is Four (1968) -- Teddy and Babs Robinson move with their family to the country and meet Peter and Jane, who are visiting their grandparents for the summer.
"Carolyn Haywoood Papers" USM de Grummond Collection (http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degru,/findaids/haywood.htm) -This site is part of the University of Southern Mississippi's McCain Library Special Collection in literature. It includes a brief biography, a list of Haywood's works, and a list of the special pieces related to the author that the library owns.
Tiffany's Favorite Author: Carolyn Haywood (http://www.okcps.k12/ok.us/fillmore/tiffany.htm) - This site provides a brief biography of Haywood and a list of many of her popular children's books.

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Treasures of old / Walt Disney.
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- Publisher: United States : Disney Enterpries Inc., 1998.
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Celebaby: Simon Cowell And Baby Eric Pose In Matching Designer Shades
Simon Cowell impressed us all this week when he completed the ASL ice bucket challenge and promptly nominated Cheryl Cole (sorry, I mean Cheryl Fernandez-Versini) to go next.
But it's no wonder he carried his own challenge off with such aplomb - judging by this photo, he's evidently one cool dude, even when the temperature soars. As is baby Eric, who seems to own a matching pair of designer aviator shades. Nice.
The proud new Pop took to Twitter to share this snap with his fans and followers, tweeting:
"Taking after daddy."
The Daily Mirror reports:
"Let's hope that Eric steers clear from the high-waisted jeans for a while though!"
"Baby Eric's mother Lauren Silverman recently revealed that she was keen to have more children with the music mogul, telling The Mirror that having Eric with Simon had been a 'blessing', while Simon admitted he's keen for a little girl."
"'I was never able to have a child for a long time, it's the biggest blessing,' Lauren said."
"'With Simon I'm the happiest I've ever been. He's an amazing dad, he does all the nappies, very hands-on. I love him. We'll definitely have more children.'"
So much for Simon vowing, before little Eric arrived, that he would NEVER change a nappy! It's pretty sweet to think that fatherhood has softened the notoriously frosty judge.
How has parenthood changed your partner? Did you have a nappy-resistant other half who now thinks nothing of dealing with night-time explosions? We'd love to hear all about it on our Facebook page and you can follow us on Twitter - we're @Playpennies and we'd love to chat with you online.
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Seattleites aren't used to seeing their sports stars hoisting trophies and donning "champions" T-shirts as confetti falls around them. After all, success has been hard to come by in the world of Seattle sports.
But on Sunday, after the Seahawks beat the rival 49ers 23-17 in the NFC Championship Game at CenturyLink Field, that all changed. The 12th Man went wild as Seahawks owner Paul Allen, head coach Pete Carroll, quarterback Russell Wilson and many others hoisted the NFC championship trophy over their heads.
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." – James Baldwin.
Once he signed the richest contract ever given to an NFL running back Friday afternoon, there was seemingly no price he could not pay for whatever he desired.
In the weeks that preceded that moment, he endured the cost of accumulated knowledge.
"Gong into contracts you have to know the business side of it and going through this situation I know more than I ever thought about the business," he said. "It's just different situation that I went through. And the point I was at and understanding where the team was at, I'm very satisfied with this deal."
The record-setting running back agreed to a four-year extension with the Tennessee Titans that guaranteed him $30 million and offered the potential for him to make as much as $56 million over the next six seasons.
That came after he staged a holdout, which caused him to miss the entire training camp as well as all four preseason contests. He spent the majority of that time in Orlando, Fla., where he worked out under the direction of personal trainers and talked as many as "five or six times a day" with his agent, Joel Segal.
"[I was] missing playing football, back in Orlando working out every day and just nothing to do after that," he said. "Basically, the best thing is getting back to Nashville, getting back with my teammates so I can help this organization win."
Johnson said he watched very little of the Titans' preseason performances – it was too hard, he said – but stayed in contact with some teammates, primarily fellow running back Javon Ringer. He said he also received support from other players around the league who had been through similar things.
With a little more than a week before the regular-season opener (Sept. 11 at Jacksonville), he expects to be able to assume a full workload almost immediately.
"Anytime I step on the field or I'm with a team I want to be the best player out there and help my team win," Johnson said. "I feel like if I'm not the best player at my position or the best player out there on the field I don't feel like I'm doing my job. So just because I got a deal, I don't think I won't play as hard as I've been playing.
"… My mindset and the player that I am, of course I'm ready to say I'll take the whole load. … But you never know your body until you go through the situation."
He does, however, know much more about the business side of being an NFL player than he did a few months ago.
"At the end of the day, it's about more than just the big contract and getting the money – that's the business side of it – but the type of player I am," Johnson said. "When I'm out there on the field I want to be the best and when it's time to win I want the team to count on me. I want to put the team on my shoulders and steer us to victory."


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Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett addressed the state of Indiana's education system Tuesday in front of an invitation only audience at the Indiana Historical Society.
Gov. Mitch Daniels introduced Bennett, calling him the nation's foremost reformer when it comes to education.
"Indiana's taken some powerful steps for Indiana students these past four years... and I believe we can do even more to advance education in the years ahead," Bennett said.
In his third annual State of Education address, Bennett pointed out specific school success stories and challenged people to check out the progress for themselves.
"Today if you visit your neighborhood schools, you're likely to see some amazing things happening in the classrooms," he said.
Bennett touted an increase in graduation rates and students passing assessment tests -- expanding school choice and state intervention for failing schools.
His education overhaul policies have drawn criticism, but Bennett said the reforms are working.
"Since the state began taking steps to enforce the measures outlined in our school accountability law, the number of schools chronically underperforming has dramatically reduced," he said.
But Bennett's challenger, Democrat Glenda Ritz, takes issue with those reforms.
"He and I differ greatly," Ritz said.
Ritz said Bennett's agenda is all about privatization of schools and said she believes she has a better plan.
"I'd like to replace the current pass-fail assessment system -- testing our students all the time in the classroom with limited time to actually do real instruction with real growth model assessment -- so we really know the level of our students in the classroom," she said.
As for the future of education in Indiana, Bennett said the state should consider expanding accountability to the district level. He believes student performance is rooted in district-level leadership.


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Recently Albert Ellis was asked to speak to two groups of students about REBT. Naturally he said, "Yes!"
The first group of students met with Dr. Ellis at the Rehab center where he was undergoing physical therapy following a long illness.
When the second group was due to meet with Dr. Ellis, he had been readmitted to hospital. But that didn't stop him. He gave his talk, and answered students' questions from his hospital bed.
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Travel Guide Europe Poland Katowice
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Katowice is a city in the southern Polish region of Silesia. Although the city itself has just over 300,000 inhabitants, the total urban area has around 2.8 million inhabitants and the metropolitan area 5.3 million!
The city is currently in a period of regeneration and growth. The previous main train station - considered a masterpiece of Brutalist architecture by some, but an eyesore by many others - is gone, replaced by a modern station with attached shopping mall. A so-called Cultural Zone has been created, and around 1 billion zloty spent on its development, comprising an exhibition centre, concert hall and museum. The whole rynek (market square) area is also being rejuvenated. It all contributes to the sense of a city engaged in positive change.
OFF is an annual three-day music festival held in Dolina Trzech Stawów (Valley of the Three Ponds) in Katowice. 2015 featured Ride, Patti Smith and Run the Jewels, with tickets costing from 200 to 320zl for the three days, depending on when purchased.
Tauron Nowa Muzyka is an annual festival of electronic music held in the Silesian Museum - a former coalmine converted into a cultural space, which opened to the public in June 2015. Previous acts have included Autechre, Kelis, Bonobo Live Band, Chet Faker, Mouse on Mars and Flying Lotus. Winner of Best Small European Festival in 2014.
Katowice International Airport (KTW) is about 30 kilometres north of the city centre. Ryanair flies to Birmingham, Bologna, Dublin and London. Wizzair flies to Barcelona, Bergen, Burgas, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Forli, Frankfurt, Liverpool, London, Madrid, Malmö, Milan, Oslo, Paris, Pisa, Rome, Stockholm and Venice. A few other airlines serve destinations like Kiev, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, Turin, Munich and Tel Aviv.
A one-way transfer by bus to Katowice city centre costs 27PLN, and the journey takes about an hour.
Trains from all parts of Poland and other countries arrive at Central Station. There are fourteen trains per day between Warsaw and Katowice and twenty-eight trains per day between Kraków and Katowice during the day; the journey takes 180 minutes (from Warsaw and Wrocław) and 80 minutes (from Kraków). You can arrive by train directly from Vienna, Budapest, Kiev, Berlin, Ostrava, Praha, Bohumin, Bratislava, Zilina, Český Těšín, Hamburg, Moscow, Minsk.
The main approaches to Katowice are:
Long-distance bus services arrive at International Katowice Bus Station (in the city centre, close to Sadowa Street). The main operator is Eurolines.
Polskibus offers daily routes from Katowice to the following locations: Warsaw (near metro station Wilanów) via Częstochowa and Vienna, Austria via Bratislava, Slovakia. Fares can be as low as 2 zł.
A comprehensive bus and tram network makes getting round Katowice easy, and links it to the adjoining towns and cities in the metropolis. You have to buy tickets in advance, and then validate them on the bus or tram. You can buy tickets from small kiosks near to tram stops, and also from the machines which can occasionally be found, for instance at Rondo im. Generała Jerzego (the big roundabout by the Spodek).
There are many restaurants in Katowice, including international chains such as McDonald's, Burger King or Pizza Hut. Like elsewhere in Poland, majority of restaurants in Katowice represent European style cuisine, in particular, Polish one, with a number of Silesian regional dishes. It is not uncommon for a restaurant menu to have an English description, but you cannot always rely on it; similarly, younger staff may speak passable English, but no guarantees there neither.
In addition to restaurants accessible from the streets, there are also some to be found in large malls and shopping centers.
The main drinking zone is Mariacka (pronounced 'marry-ATS-ka') - a pedestrianised street in the heart of the downtown. It has a buzz about it pretty much every night of the week, but especially at weekends, and especially in the summer, when the ogródki (beer gardens) line the street the whole way down, and the street is full of people and energy. The quieter, slightly more upmarket part of the street is at the end near the church, separated somewhat from the more raucous part by another street that bisects it.
View our map of accommodation in Katowice or use the form below to search for availability (Travellerspoint receives a commission for bookings made through the form)
Unilever, Oracle, Capgemini, Orange (Poland) and IBM all have offices in Katowice.
As with most of Poland, there is a high demand for English classes in Katowice. A native-speaker should find it relatively easy to acquire new clients on a one-to-one basis, and there are also various English schools in the city.
There is a (so-called) co-working space in Galeria Katowicka - the shopping mall that adjoins the train station. It's actually just a walk-in space with chairs and tables, power sockets and wifi, next door to the food hall area. It's completely free to use. The space is mostly used by students, and is sometimes used for training purposes by staff of the shopping mall, making it unavailable for use. You can print documents downstairs at the reception desk of the shopping mall, for a small fee.
A more professional, co-working space exists in the north of the city, in the Wełnowiec neighbourhood on Ul. Aleja Korfantego. It's actually space to rent in the offices of IT company Orbit One. One Office is offers a range of packages from 175PLN for a week to 600PLN for full-time monthly access. They have a one-day free trial for those wishing to check out the service first.
The best cafes for getting work done are the Starbucks at Galeria Katowicka (adjoining the train station), Dobra Karma (świętego Jacka 1), Coffee Synergia (Andrzeja 29) and Kafej (Chorzowska 5).
There is also an excellent library - Biblioteka Śląska
(Plac Rady Europy 1) - in the south of the centre, with plenty of desk space, power outlets, lockers, wifi, a drinks machine and even a small cafe. It can be a good idea to sign up for a library card (for a small fee) if you plan to use the space regularly.
Katowice has a number of universities, including the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, the Medical University of Silesia (Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny / SUM), the University of Economics in Katowice (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach), the University of Silesia in Katowice (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach) and some faculties of the Silesian University of Technology (Politechnika Śląska).
In the cities there are more and more Wifi Hot Spots, so if you have your own mobile device, you can connect. Best chances of finding one are at airports, railway stations, in cafés, shopping malls and universities. Places like McDonald's and Starbucks usually have unlimited free wifi. In some hotels you can find free wifi, though you might have to pay as well or maybe just use it for a limited amount of time. Internet cafes become less popular recently as people prefer to use internet at homes.
See also: International Telephone Calls
To call to Poland from abroad, dial the Polish country code,48, then the number without the leading 0, as if calling from a domestic mobile phone.
The general emergency number is 112. Police (997), Ambulance (999) and Fire (998) have phone numbers as well, and municipal police has 986 as a number.
Mobile phones work almost across the whole country. There are four mobile phone operators in Poland: Plus, T-Mobile, Orange and Play. About 98% of the country is covered by the standard European GSM 900/1800 MHz network, the remaining 2% are wildlife reserves or high mountains. 3G is available in almost every town.
Domestic call rates are roughly the same across all services. Prepaid starter kits with SIM card (called starter in Polish) are widely available in reasonable prices (PLN5-20, most of which is available for calls), in most of the shops, supermarkets and news agents.
Just about every shopping centre has at least one independent cellphone shop, the guys who run them are usually knowledgeable and have a range of cheap handsets which you can use as a local / travel phone. This may be a good option since juggling SIM cards is always a pain.
Poczta Polska is the Polish public post service. Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Friday. Some offices are open on Saturday until 2:00pm and the main post offices in major cities are open daily, 24 hours. Services are generally ok, but don't expact it to be fast and it is not always reliable, though most letters, postcards and parcels will arrive at its destinations after a week or two. You can find the red post boxes dotted throughout the country. You can check this postal website to see how much sending a letter, postcard or parcels costs, both domestically as well as internationally. For sending packages internationally, you can also check FedEx, TNT, DHL or UPS, as they have fast and reliable services and generally competitive prices as well.
We have a comprehensive list of accommodation in Katowice searchable right here on Travellerspoint. You can use our map to quickly compare budget, mid-range or top of the range accommodation in Katowice and areas nearby.
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Friday, Aug. 7
Grovetown vs. Statesboro, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 10
Grovetown vs. Washington-Wilkes, 5 p.m.
Lakeside at Burke County, 5
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Grovetown vs. Westside, 5 p.m.
Greenbrier vs. Burke County, 5:30
Lakeside vs. Hephzibah,5
Evans at Thomson, To be announced
Harlem vs. Butler, 6 p.m.
Greenbrier High School athletic director Garrett Black was like a kid in a candy store Monday morning.
Arranged through mutual friends, Black was able to bring in former National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion "Wildfire" Tommy Rich to speak to the coaching staff and administration. In introducing him and displaying his championship belt, Black showed his reverence to the professional wrestler.
Even though they won the region title for a third consecutive year in 2014, in 2015, the Harlem High School Lady Bulldogs are being driven by what they didn't do, which was make it to the state round of eight.
Grovetown begins the chase for the Region 2-AAAAA title and GHSA Class AAAAA state championship when they open up at home against Statesboro on Friday night.
The Lady Warriors and the rest of the region schools will be looking to topple county rival Greenbrier which enters the season after a 36-6 campaign and the Class AAAAA state title. Coach Garrett Black doesn't see his team as the defending state champions, however.
"It's a new year, different group of kids," Black said. "We're not defending anything, this is an entirely different group. Last year's group is gone."
In 2013, Warren Coombs turned some heads by flashing incredible athleticism on the football field for Greenbrier High School. Anyone who had seen him run track was not surprised at all.
Two of the county's top swimmers, who will be returning for their senior years of high school competition, are finishing out their summers strong.
Teammates in the Aiken-Augusta Swim League, Greenbrier High School's Brennan Day and Evans' Aaron Hendry are competing in the 2015 Speedo Junior National Championships and the 2015 Southern Zone Championships, respectively.
Day is in San Antonio, Texas, swimming in the Junior Nationals for the second consecutive year.
I came across a story this week on USA football that I first thought was a joke, but apparently the author, Peter Schwartz, was serious.
It essentially said that coaches aren't babysitters and took to task those parents who do not spend the entire time at each child's practice.
Yes, Allen Iverson, practice.
Now, I won't say anything about those who choose to open their folding chairs and spend the whole time at their son's or daughter's practices. If that's something they want to do and coaches don't object, more power to them.
The hopes that the Martinez-Evans Little League senior league team had of advancing to the 2015 Senior League Baseball League World Series were dashed Wednesday night.
In what was an oft-delayed tournament because of weather, MELL was eliminated by South Carolina, 8-4, Wednesday. Virginia would then beat South Carolina, 2-1, to win the championship.
"It was a great experience, the guys played really well," said MELL manager Steven Gibbons.
Reigning Columbia County football player of the year Stephen Houzah plays his first collegiate game in a few weeks for the Mercer Bears. Houzah was terrific during his entire career at Lakeside, but especially his senior campaign.
Fall sports registration
Registration for Columbia County fall sports – baseball, football, soccer and softball – is ongoing and ends Aug. 14. Cost for baseball, soccer and softball is $80 for the first child, $70 for the second child and $60 for each additional child. Cost for football is $90 for the first child, $80 for the second child and $70 for each additional child. On-site registration at Patriots Park is Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fishing tournament
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Owls Linked With Djimi Traore Swoop
Wednesday have been linked with a move for former Liverpool and Portsmouth defender Djmi Traore in the media as Alan Irvine seeks to bolster his squad in January.
The Daily Mail is reporting that the Owls are set to splash the cash in the January transfer window thanks to new chairman Milan Mandaric, with Traore one of four names linked with a move to Hillsborough.
Defender Traore, curently at French club Monaco, could return to England with a move to Wednesday alongside team-mate Serge Gapke, 23, Nice hitman Mamadou Bagayoko and Leeds United midfielder Amdy Faye.
The transfer targets are the first since Mandaric took over at Hillsborough.
And the new Owls chairman will be keen to throw his money behind a promotion push this season, especially after the 5-1 thrashing at Exter on Saturday, which highlighted weaknesses in Irvine's squad.
Expect more to follow in the coming weeks as the start of the January transfer window edges closer.


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Kalli always imagined life would be easier if she could just read people's minds. But when a freak accident gives her such a gift, her life becomes anything but easy, especially after her best friend is accused of murder.…Kalli's a shy, slightly OCD, mind-reading fashion designer with a prissy calico cat and hand sanitizer always at the ready. Nik's a loud and boisterous half-Greek detective with a big, sloppy St. Bernard and a devil-may-care attitude.
In other words, Kalliope Ballas and Nikos Stevens are not a good match, despite the opinions of Kalli's overbearing mother and the rest of her tight-knit adoptive Greek family.
So when a murder investigation brings the mismatched pair together and Kalli must use her newfound ability to clear her best friend's name, how can she explain how she knows what she knows without confessing her mind-reading ability to Nik?
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I bought this Kindle book because I really like Kari Lee Townsend's books, then Audible advertised it as a Whispersync for Voice companion. The book is funny, the mystery is good (although I had my suspicions), and the characters are quirky and, of course, really good looking.
Peril for Your Thoughts is a quick read about a lingerie designer who falls off a balcony and is suddenly able to read the thoughts of anyone she touches. Of course, she doesn't go around touching a lot of people because she is germ phobic and a bit of a hypochondriac. Her Greek mother (Kalli is adopted, so she is not Greek by birth) is anxious to marry off her 29 year old daughter so she can have grandbabies.
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At Galvanize, we're putting a whole new spin on Study Hall with monthly, members-only sessions. At every Study Hall, industry all-stars present on one of three topics –– growth, funding, or product –– and collaborate with Galvanizers to spur innovation, solve problems, and harness the power of our dynamic startup community.
The Boulder campus had the honor of hosting a Product Study Hall focused on UX/UI Design Thinking with Nina Baliga, freelance UX Designer at Graphicacy. Nina launched a project that consisted of building mobile apps to help prevent violence against Cambodian women. Her work is a true testiment to how UX/UI design can not only change the way a consumer views a product but also how it can change the view for an entire culture.
The Study Hall session began with breaking down UX design and why is it important. UX design is meant to be more than making something pretty, it's about your user's needs and their experience with your product. In order to deliver the user needs, you must define the goal of what you are creating. Start by defining your intention and the process to achieve your goal – focusing on the details may deter you from building a holistic process.
Define your Goals: Be clear and concise with what you are trying to provide to the end user. Start with broad strokes and narrow it down through the discovery process. Goals define your product.
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articles edited in
November 2007 to show information most useful for Molokan and Jumper genealogy.
1. Russian Genealogy
Author: Ginny
Summary: A comprehensive
guide, with loads of links, for getting started searching for your
family roots.
A Dictionary of Surnames. Hanks, Patrick
Flavia Hodges. David L. Gold, special consultant for Jewish names. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1988. This reference work includes
a large number of Jewish, Russian and German names. Especially useful
is the index which links the variants, equivalents, derivatives and
cognates of names to surnames cited in the text. The introduction
includes information on Jewish family names, surnames in the Soviet
Union, surnames of Eastern Europe outside Russia, and surnames in
German-speaking countries. [See
3 book reviews.]
Be sure to see the Origin and Meaning of
Molokan and Jumper Surnames, on the Doukhobor
Genealogy Website, by Jonathan Kalmakoff.
International Vital Records Handbook. 4th ed. Kemp, Thomas J. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing, 2000. Russia, pp. 515-520. This work refers to The Russian-American Genealogical Archival Service as a source for vital records in Russia. It seems that this service went out of business about a year or so after the Handbook was published. The form provided may still prove useful for sorting the information you have on an individual and showing what you may still need to find.
The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library.
Edited by Johni Cerny and Wendy Elliott. Salt Lake City, UT:
Ancestry, 1988.
Despite the publication date, this work is an excellent resource. The
book has introductory information about each country, it's archival
records and resources, and what the LDS Family History Library has
available on microfilm (up to 1988). Chapter 20 covers the Soviet
Union, as well as the Eastern European countries of Romania,
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Poland. You may be able to update
this material by going into LDS online catalog at http://www.familysearch.com and
clicking on the tab labeled Library. [Buy
from Amazon.com for less than $1.]
You can request that copies of relevant microfilms be sent to a local branch of the LDS Library. To find the branch nearest you, go to the above web address. Click on the box that says "Library" and scroll to the bottom of the page. In Massachusetts the New England Historic Genealogical Society on Newbury Street in Boston can order the LDS microfilms for patrons. The NEHGS has much longer hours than the local LDS Family History Library branches.
In Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents. Shea, Jonathan D. vol. 2. Russian. New Britain, CT: Language & Lineage Press, 2002. This book is a must when you are dealing with unfamiliar languages.
Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic
Guide to the Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Edited
by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted. 2 vols. M. E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 2000.
Consulting Grimsted's work may prove useful for tracking the location
of various types of records. [This book is at most major university
Periodical Articles
These two articles are critical if you are beginning the search for your Russian ancestors.
"Digging Up Your Russian Roots" Richardson, Paul E. Russian Life. June 1997. pp. 35+.
"Discovering Your Russian Roots." Krasner-Khait, Barbara. Russian Life. Year 44, No. 4. July/August 2001. pp. 57 - 61.
Many of the web sites that follow were originally listed in the above article by Barbara Krasner-Khait. Some of these web addresses have changed since 2001. The updated addresses are given below.
The two additional articles listed below deal specifically with Russian Archives.
Patricia Kennedy. "Increasing Reference
Access to
Post-1991 Russian Archives."[1,009K PDF] Slavic Review, vol. 56,
no. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 718-759.
Mehr, Kahlile. "Genealogical Sources in Soviet Archives." Genealogical Journal, No. 2, June 1978, pp. 65-76.
Copies of these last two articles can be requested from Interlibrary Loan. The Grimsted article can also be found on the JStore database available at various libraries. Check the public and academic libraries closest to you to see if this database is available.
Useful Internet SitesMolokan and Jumper Genealogy. Links to most all the on-line information about Molokans and Jumpers. Contribute your information, or send in your questions.
Molokan and Jumper Genealogy board/forum. Thousands of messages, obituaries, lists, links, and questions.
Origin and Meaning of Molokan and Jumper Surnames, by Jonathan Kalmakoff. Lists 100s of last names, including nearly all who migrated to America.
Russia Family Database
Russian roots: The Gateway to Genealogy in Russia
of East European Family History Societies
Family Immigration Center
Petersburg Archives
of Congress Catalog
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (Federal Records including Immigration, Naturalization, Military, and Census) Washington, DC | Waltham, MA Look for and click on links to genealogical topics on the archives home pages.
University of
Texas at Austin
York Public Library
Family History Libary, Salt Lake
Getting Professional Help
Individual ResearchersNancy Poppin-Posey. Speicalizes in Molokan and Jumper genealogy. Find over a 1000 of her informative posts on the Molokan and Jumper Genealogy board/forum. E-mail: email@example.com
Jonathan Kalmakoff. Hosts the Doukhobor Genealogy Website, with the informative Origin and Meaning of Molokan and Jumper Surnames and Molokan and Jumper Immigration Via Canada. He has research contacts in the Former Soviet Union. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Website for the Association of Professional Genealogists In Moscow. If you do not read Russian, click on the Association name in English. It will bring you to a list of professional genealogists.
A list of individual researchers at the website Researching Russian Roots: The Gateway to Genealogy in Russia.
Professional Service Firms
Blitz Information Center. This is a small part of the larger website sponsored by the Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies.
Miriam Weiner's Routes
to Roots:
Tracing Jewish Roots in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. Routes to
Roots is located in Seacaucus, New Jersey. The e-mail address is
firstname.lastname@example.com. Weiner offers both archival research and
tours to the areas listed above.
2. Digging up your Russian Roots
Author: Paul
E. Richardson
Summary: How to trace your family roots from Russia, with resource listings and interesting facts on the "waves" of Russian immigration to the US.
If you have family roots in Russia, you are in good company. Between 1820 and 1992, according to INS data, some 3,512,332 individuals immigrated to the United States from Russia, most of them around the turn of the century (2.5 mn between 1897 and WWI).
The largest component (over 50% by one estimate) of this emigration during tsarist times was Jews leaving the Pale of Settlement in the late 1800s and during WWI. This was supplemented by Jewish emigration from the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s (some 200,000 persons). Gary Mokotoff, publisher of Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, said it is estimated that 95% of all Jews in America have family roots in the territory of Russia and the former USSR.
A second important ethnic emigration from Russia in the past century has been Germans who were invited to settle on the Volga and the Black Sea by Catherine the Great in 1763. The 1897 Russian Census showed some 1.7 mn Germans residing in Russia. In 1979 the number had risen little, to 1.9 mn, indicating significant emigration in the interim.
Most all Germans in Russia were deported from their original homes on the Volga or Black Sea to Kazakhstan or Siberia during WWII. Many left during WWI and WWII — some 1.4 mn emigrating to Germany; still others left after some freedom of emigration was introduced in 1987. Many Germans from Russia ended up in the US, mainly in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and the Dakotas. Indeed, the Germans from Russia Historical Society has estimated that over half the current residents of North Dakota are Germans from Russia and/or their descendants.
Finally, during the Russian Civil War (1918-1922), there was a large exodus from Russia by those opposed to or threatened by the new Bolshevik regime. During this period, some 2 mn persons emigrated from Russia to Western Europe and the United States.
The Paper Trail
Tracing one's roots back into Russia can be a daunting task. It was not until very recently that Russian archivists have even accepted the importance of genealogical research (archival genealogical research was forbidden in Soviet times as a bourgeois pursuit). What is more, while archives do maintain important and useful documents for such research, serious budgetary shortfalls threaten these holdings and have led to shutdowns because of unsafe working conditions and staff shortages.
Nonetheless, there are considerable resources available both inside and outside Russia to help trace one's roots. For, even 100 years ago, it was hard for a person of any prominence in Russian society not to leave a paper trail. There is a service record (posluzhnoy spisok) for most persons who held any rank in the military or civil service from the mid-1800s to 1917, or for any member of the nobility. There are parish records ("metrical books") for members of Christian churches (non-Orthodox churches were required to annually submit copies of their birth, death and marriage records to St. Petersburg). Jewish surnames can often be found by searching city and business directories. And there are court records, land ownership records, contracts, police records, books of residency of rented homes and apartments (domovye knigi), records of German colonization of the Volga and Black Sea, records of Jewish colonization of Ukraine, draft records, prison records, school records, Communist Party records, genealogy records and coats of arms for noble families, adoption records, etc.
Obviously, it is much easier to track down pre-revolutionary records on prominent individuals — members of the nobility, the merchant class, military officers, etc. — than it is on persons without property or position in the Russian empire. Even so, it is difficult to impossible for an inexperienced, private individual to navigate dark, dissheveled historical archives without a guide, much less to decipher (and translate) ornate, old-Russian handwriting.
"We gave a few pages of this old script — as a test — to a translation firm in L.A.," said Edward Nute, president of Blitz, a genealogical research firm specializing in Russia and the Baltics, "and they threw up their hands."
Getting Started
So how do you get started? Begin by subscribing to Avotaynu and Everton's Genealogical Helper. These are two invaluable publications that will help you learn from others' mistakes, search out reputable researchers through their advertisements and learn about the latest discoveries in the field.
While you are waiting for your first issues of the magazines to arrive, start documenting yourself. Get down in writing everything you and your known, living relatives know about your family tree as far back as possible. This includes dates, places of residence, dates of emigration and immigration (passenger lists of ships arriving in the US are available, as are citizenship application records, etc.), known and suspected relatives and history (where worked or served, religious affiliation, reason for leaving, possible run-ins with the tsarist police or KGB, contact with Russian consulates in the US, etc.).
This should then be collated with what other genealogists might have already found out about your family, either directly or indirectly when researching their own family. Avotaynu offers databases of over 2000 Jewish genealogists researching ancestral towns and surnames, plus has online surname databases, cemetery records, Russian consular records, names of refusniks, and much, much more. The two German-Russian societies have regular conventions and help members organize themselves by village, so that researchers can meet with descendants of the village their family came from and compare notes. Philip Freimann, whose family descends from Katharinenstadt (now Marx) met cousins he did not previously know of at such conventions. Finally, Rand (follow links from url given under "Genealogy Resources on the Internet," below) offers an online database where you can search by last name and retrieve a list of other genealogists researching the same or related last names (this is for all names, not just people with Russian roots).
Having gathered all this information (perhaps inputting it into one of the many software programs for this purpose now on the market — make sure it is GEDCOM-compatible), you follow the basic genealogist's precept of "begin from what you know and work back in time." Of course, what you know or what your family members purport to know (often referred to as "family traditions") often turns out to be quite far from the truth. Particularly when there is an emigration experience involved, which can lead to linguistic distortion of names, locations and events, to say nothing of "remembered" dates.
When it comes time to tap into documents in archives in Russia, turn to the experts. While it might seem romantic to undertake some of this research yourself, it will most likely turn fruitless. Blitz, RAGAS and FAST are research companies with vast experience in the Moscow and St. Petersburg archives. Reputable firms and individuals with specific research experience into Jewish and German-Russian genealogy also regularly advertise in Avotaynu and Evertons.
Thanks to the efforts of the Mormon Church and others, many important documents from Russian archives are available in the US. The Mormons have microfilmed many Jewish birth, marriage, divorce and death records, metrical books for many German parishes, in addition to many city registers. The German-Russian historical societies have libraries with extensive holdings, including completed Family Data Sheets, church, census lists and cemetery records, published books and more. The New York Public Library has city directories for Moscow and St. Petersburg, genealogical charts and heraldry information on nobility, a large amount of information for Jewish genealogists, as well as city directories and information on Polish nobility. Other large public and university libraries, such as Harvard and Yale may have similar holdings.
In sum, there is a wealth of new resources available in archives, libraries and online. The opening of previously closed, former Soviet archives has been of particular significance and offers huge, new possibilities for genealogical research if your family has roots in Russia and the former USSR. This article is merely an introduction to these new possibilities, indicating the starting points for successful research. The rest, as they say, is up to you. Happy digging!See also this Russian Life article for a useful listing of online resources.


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Szczupak succeeds Mike Thieneman, who recently retired from the company.
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While posting on MKFS's thread about unrealized potential (titled "cuz it's the off season" or something like that; if it was in front of me I'd state it exactly), I came up with creating a thread about skaters who you would have liked to have seen skate a little longer, long enough to maybe win a Worlds or Nats medal that they never won. These are not skaters who left due to injury, but skaters who just felt it was time to move on, either to a pro career or life in general. (Tho I will allow that some of the skaters on my list MAY have left due to injury, but if so I am unaware of that being the reason.)
My personal list:
Sandy Lenz, the #3 member of the US Ladies team at the Lake Placid Olys (9th place). Very talented lady, would have been interesting to see how she would have done over the next couple of seasons. She went pro because competition made her so nervous she'd be physically ill.
Denise Biellmann. One of my all time favorites, would have loved to have seen her win another World title or 2, and an Olympic medal. Left for the same reason Sandy did.
Kristiina Wegelius. From Finland, she was one of those skaters who always seemed to be among the also rans at major competitions; almost always in top 3 after the figures at majors but never won a Euro or World medal. Retired in '83 after finishing 6th at Worlds in Helsinki. I am half convined that had she stayed around one more year, she would have won the bronze in Sarajevo. The bronze winner there, the late Kira Ivanova, was certainly not much in the free skating department and I think Wegelius could have taken her. Certainly, she had better figures than Ivanova.
Karen Kwan. I always liked her style, and I think it would have been special for her and Michelle to have been on the same podium at Nats just once.
Kristi Yamaguchi. Seems like just when she became a wonderful, artistic, well-rounded skater, she went pro. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened had she decided to stay around and defend in Lillehammer. Would she have beaten Baiul, pushing her down to silver or bronze? And if so, would Oksana have stayed around a few more years instead of heading right into the high-money instant fame game she didn't handle particularly well at such a young age? Would Tonya & Nancy never have happened? Or would it have been Tonya & Kristi instead? Actually, one could probably do a whole thread on this alone....
Mikkeline Kierkgaard. I certainly don't blame her for bolting from under the thumb of the Danish federation, but I would have loved to have seen what she could have accomplished had she stayed a solo skater. I'm not sure she would have ever made a Worlds or Euros podium, but I do think she could have at least won a few GP medals.
Brian Pockar. One of the main reasons I wish he'd stayed around for Sarajevo is that I've heard so much great stuff about his skating, but have never actually seen it, despite his World bronze in 82. (TV coverage was rather sketchy back in those days.) Plus, the Pockar-Orser matchups at Canadians in 83 and 84 would have been most interesting. And would they have perhaps both won medals in Sarajevo? Due to politics in those days, probably not, but it is something to wonder.
Rudi Cerne. 4th at Sarajevo Olymics, 5th at Worlds one month later, then went pro (I believe.) So close.... why not stay around one more year and see what could happen?
Mark Mitchell. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened on both National and World levels had he stayed around a couple of seasons longer. He did have some pretty good results at his brief time near the top.
Gillian Wachsmann & Todd Waggoner. Anyone remember the 1986 National Pairs champions? They finished 4th in the short at the Calgary Olys, and had a wonderful long program that might have given them the bronze -- had mistakes not been made. Also finished 5th in Worlds that year. I was very disappointed when they opted not to continue the next season; I think they could have ended up with a Worlds medal.
Karen Barber & Nick Slater. #2 in England during T & D's entire reign, they had a shot to come into their own in 1985 and did it with an absolutely dazzling free dance that showed that this couple, too, was capable of some terrific stuff. But a rumor got out that they had stolen the concept from a pro number that T & D were doing at about the same time (tho the basic concept was the same, the dances were entirely different; plus B & S had not even heard about the T & D number until after they had choreographed it) and they were left off the podium at Euros that year, thus killing Karen's desire to compete. They were the last of the great British dance couples of the 50s thru 80s, and ice dancing in England, once its mecca, has never been the same since. And if their 85 Free Dance was any indication, we may have missed a lot of great stuff.
Lisa Spitz & Scott Gregory. It's a shame these two broke up; yes, Scott went on to greater success with Suzanne Semanick, but I liked the stuff he did with Lisa better.
Jamie Silverstein. Jamie, Jamie, come back!! She and Justin Pekerak were great together, she was terrific with Ryan O'Meara -- she's just fabulous and I'd love to see more of her.
Dominique Yvon & Frederic Palleul. Delightful to watch by all accounts, they were France's #2 behind the Duchesnays, but left the scene after Albertville. Would they have been as succesful in subsequent seasons as the #3 French team at the time, Moniotte & Lavanchy? We'll never know.


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Contact centre Journeycall, which has bases in both Brechin and Laurencekirk, has announced three new appointments.
The company announced the new arrivals as part of their bid to strengthen its existing experience of smart technology customer services to support parent group, ESP's emerging 'smart cities' programme.
Dr Steve Cassidy, former managing director of MMM Group, joins ESP as head of future mobility and will work closely with Sheryll Ricketts, who as been appointed as group director of strategy.
Last but not least, Janet Taylor takes up the role of Group Sales Director.
The appointments are designed to increase the expertise within group businesses, including Journeycall, which handles customer ticketing/smartcard sales and support for a number of the UK's largest public transport operators.
ESP Group, Chief Operating Officer, David Burdett said: "Mobility is a key topic but it means much more than simply transportation.
"Future mobility is about providing the right services to consumers as and when they are needed to ensure they are not only fit for purpose at launch but more importantly we build a sustainable system capable of meeting future requirements."
The new appointments will ensure that Journeycall's high quality customer contact services continue to expand maintaining its position as a market leading public transport ticketing sales and customer support service.
Sheryll Ricketts will help define the systems and technology that smart ticketing projects will require. Journeycall will continue to be the interface on behalf of its transport operator clients, with customers wishing to buy travel tickets or who need support information services.
Dr Cassidy said: "Having worked with ESP Group in a consultancy capacity since 2001, I jumped at the chance to take on this visionary role with the company.
"My experience is in designing new mobility services which aim to help make cities work better."


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As we wrote way back in May, a filmmaker by the name of Griffin Hammond decided that it was due time someone made the definitive documentary about the hot sauce on everyone's consciousness.
And now not only is the film's trailer available to watch online, but so is the whole 33-minute movie (that is, if you're willing to fork over $5 to Vimeo to do it).
By the look of the trailer, which features Jet Tila, interviews with people in Si Racha (the city in Thailand that inspired the sauce), and an obligatory visit inside the factory, Hammond has covered his bases. Of course, the man everyone wants to see and hear is the wizard himself, David Tran, founder of Huy Fong Foods. Yes, he's in the movie.
You'll want to pay the $5 just to watch him expound hot sauce wisdom like a sage, or at least see if he has anything to say about those irate Irwindale residents who got his factory shut down because of the alleged hot-saucy smells it was emitting.
You can watch the trailer below.
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I had to make the assumption that the problem was incorrectly worded. What he really meant was the anna_g problem in this link:
Because the problem as is worded does not have a solution that I can find.
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Welcome to the forum. The number is 105263157894736842.
See this link here from post #4 onward:
Find a number that if you swap first and last digit you will get two times bigger number (example: 2*abcdef=fbcdea)
Do you have any idea?
-number is 18 digit
-first digit is even number
-last digit is odd number
-only one of digits is zero


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Man charged with using fake $50s at car wash
Published 6:01 pm, Friday, August 30, 2013
Kevin Jones, 21, of Farmington, was charged on a warrant Thursday at Bridgeport Superior Court, with passing two counterfeit bills in Fairfield earlier this year.
Jones was charged with two counts each of first-degree forgery and sixth-degree larceny and held on a $10,000 bond.
According to police, Jones use a fake $50 bill on Jan. 28 to pay for a $4.99 car wash at Russell Speeder's on Villa Avenue. It is a practice of the car wash to write the date and license plate number on any $50 or $100 bills used at there, according to the report.
Jone returned to the car wash Feb. 14 and again used another fake $50 bill.
During the investigation, police detectives determined that bills bearing the exact same serial number had been used on eight different occasions.


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Law enforcement officials in Marin County have released images of two men suspected of carrying out a burglary in Novato on Saturday.
Sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. the two suspects entered a home in the Bel Marin Keys area and made off with gaming consoles and electronics, according to the Marin County Sheriff's Office. The homeowner caught images of the suspects on home surveillance cameras.
Around the same time, two similar burglaries were reported in unincorporated Novato, authorities said.
Anyone who can identify the suspects is urged to contact the Marin County Sheriff's Office at (415)473-7233.


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Does Construct check at the start of the event (before the first loop is ran) and simply loops the action X amount of times, or does Construct check at the end of each loop to see if the number of loops is has performed is >= X?
My issue is that I'm working on a random level generator, and because I'm not brilliant enough to write an a perfect algorithm I simply want Construct to check if the last placement of structures is legal, and if not to delete the last structure placed and to add another structure to be placed (by increasing the loop count) to offset it. As you can guess this is only possible if Construct's Repeat event in the latter manner.


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Nina and Cutegeek @ CES 2014
It's that time of year again…CES 2014! I will be covering the event for both the examiner and cutegeek starting January 5th. This year I will be attending the CES Unveiled 1/5, Press Day 1/6 , Pepcom 1/6, and Showstoppers 1/7 along with walking the CES floor. I will be checking in on facebook , posting videos and pictures on my youtube channel, instagram, and twitter with the hash tag #ninaces2014.
Keep checking in daily for pictures and news from CES 2014!


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Speaking from Geneva, International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid confirmed to a news conference that UCI had decided to uphold USADA'S decision to strip Armstrong of his Tour titles. "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling," McQuaid said. Now it is the turn of Tour de France organizers to have their say as the race prepares to celebrate its 100th edition next year. Armstrong won consecutive Tours from 1999-2005. Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said earlier the Tour will have no official winners for the seven races Armstrong won if he is stripped of his victories by the UCI. USADA has said the Tour titles should not be given to other riders who finished on the podium. The agency said 20 of the 21 riders on the podium in the Tour from 1999 through 2005 have been "directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations" or other means. It added that of the 45 riders on the podium between 1996 and 2010, 36 were by cyclists "similarly tainted by doping."
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by AthlonSavage
He didn't get caught, that is the thing.
Only on speculation and witness testimony. He is a notorious jagoff, I bet some ticked people are getting back at him.
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
reply to post by nixie_nox
They wouldnt strip him unless the evidence was bullet proof because they know if it isnt he take them to court and win.
This is a guy who cancer in his lungs, his brains, his testicles. He lost one of his balls, for Christ's sake. And he's getting double the amount of oxygen out of every breath!? The question shouldn't be 'was he doping?' but 'why aren't all of us doping?' I get winded lighting a cigarette!
Originally posted by aynock
reply to post by buster2010
there is a massive amount of eyewitness testimony given under oath - nearly a dozen former team mates have ruined their own reputations by telling the truth, many of whom had not tested positive before
this isn't about lance armstrong - it's about the ubiquity of cheating in proffessional cycling in the recent past
fans of the sport (as i am) deserve the truth - and it's that armstrong and many others were cheating
if someone committed a crime against you and ten people witnessed it and gave evidence in court, i think you'd be pretty disapointed if they got offedit on 22-10-2012 by aynock because: filled out


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My writing life began as a young reader. When I was little, I devoured books! I couldn't get enough of them! Some of my favorite books included: Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards, The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. But the two books I loved the most were Homecoming, and Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt. I often feel that my character, Jasmine, would be great friends with Dicey!
As a child, I stored my books in a bright, yellow bookcase. When I started teaching seventh grade, the bookcase reappeared and I took it to my classroom. I placed those same books that I had read in the bookcase, and set up a Readers Workshop,and a Writers Workshop. As I got money to buy new books, I gradually took out my own copies, replaced them with newer books, and returned my books to my bookcase at home.
Having Fun…
My most interesting job in high school was working at Six Flags over Mid-America. Growing up in St. Louis, I spent long, hot, humid days at the pool. I dreamed of working as a life guard and sitting on those high seats working on my golden tan! But, when it came time to take the final lifesaving test—I did not pass! In fact, I almost drowned! The following spring, I attended a job fair for Six Flags over Mid-America. I took a job working in the Games Department of Six Flags. I loved it! I worked in both Old Chicago and Britannia and quickly worked my way up to Assistant Forman. At Six Flags, I met a lot of people who became great friends, and I was always really glad I didn't pass my lifesaving test!
I graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from St. John Fisher in Rochester, New York, and after graduating, moved to the Pacific Northwest. I spent six years teaching seventh and eighth grade, and another two years working at an alternative high school. But there was always something else that called to me besides teaching. It seemed that I'd never forgotten the part of me that loved those middle school stories so much!
In the summer of 2002, I applied and was accepted to the National Book Foundation Summer Camp. At Camp, I met Norma Fox Mazer and Ann Angel who both encouraged me to apply to the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children Program. I applied, and, the following summer, set off on a journey which shaped my career as a writer. Both my novels were a part of my work at Vermont College. Stained Glass Summer was my thesis novel and Weaving Magic was started in my third semester with advisor, Liza Ketchum. I also worked a lot on picture books with advisors, Sharon Darrow, Lisa Jahn-Clough, and Kathi Appelt.
Where I am now…
Eventually, I left teaching. But, I still wanted a way to stay connected to kids. A writer friend, who was working with Richard Gold at Pongo Publishing, suggested that I seek out a juvenile detention center and ask if I could do some writing workshops. I followed her advice and began facilitating poetry workshops at Denney Juvenile Justice Center. To date, we have published five books of their poems through the Blanche Miller Art Exhibit Program, and keep a blog of their poetry. Please visit my web page Juvenile Detention Workshops to learn more!
One thing I have learned about writing is the stories we write from the heart will find homes, and they will find the readers who need to read them.
Please stop by my blog and visit with me!


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The quote in the headline comes from Pablo Sandoval, whose first-inning home run was the Giants' offense in tonight's 2-1 loss to the Marlins, who had dropped seven in a row until the dark cloud that is the World Series champs came to town.
I get asked a lot if the clubhouse looks tight in the midst of 11 losses in 14 games. I can't say that. It does seem a little quieter, but not by Pablo Sandoval's locker. Well, let me clarify that. He wasn't hooting and hollering after this loss. Actually, he was speaking quietly to Andres Torres (0-3, three strikeouts), who most definitely is not having fun. On top of everything else, Torres fouled a ball off his shin and was limping.
Sandoval turned 25 yesterday. He is enjoying a great renaissance season after he was threatened with a Fresno apartment lease at the end of last season if he didn't shape up. How could he not smile?
Here is the full Sandoval quote: "One thing I'm doing is having fun in this game. We've got a lot of pressure on, so we have to try to focus more on having fun. We're not having fun right now."
Fun would be a hit or two with runners in scoring position. Fun would be watching Carlos Beltran back in the lineup spraying doubles from gap to gap. Fun would be just getting a groundball with the infield back, less than two outs and the other team conceding the run.
It's hard to watch the Giants right now, to look at the lineup, and say they can do all that, except for one thing: They were doing that — without Buster Posey, without Freddy Sanchez — until they walked into Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park two weeks ago tonight.
Yes, just two weeks ago the Giants were 61-44 and leading the West by five games. Now, they are a second-place team, and Arizona has the look of a division winner.
You don't need to be Pollyanna to see the Giants lifting themselves out of this. The hitting is not going to be great this year. It might not be very good. But Nate Schierholtz returns tonight, and once Beltran returns, even if it's after 15 days on the DL, the Giants could have a good enough offense to support this pitching staff. They had one for the first four months of the season.
If they still can't do it with Schierholtz and Beltran, and still don't give Brandon Belt a look before Sept. 1, the faithful will have every right to look at a management team that absolutely did wonders last year and say, "What the heck are you doing?"


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Fundraiser for Alzheimer's Memory Walk Saturday
Sept. 9, 2010 at 4:09 a.m.
Kay Langley understands how difficult it is to watch someone live with Alzheimer's - that is why coordinating a fundraiser to help find a cure was an idea she could not turn away.
"You've got a productive human being who's been intelligent, and all of a sudden, they're not there anymore," she said about her late father's battle with the disease.
Langley, her daughter Janell and several employees from the H-E-B Plus on North Navarro Street decided in July to head a Cruising for a Cure fundraiser to help raise awareness and money for the Alzheimer's Association, she said.
The proceeds from the Saturday event will go toward the Alzheimer's Memory Walk in two weeks.
"People aren't just getting old and losing their minds," she said. "It's a disease."
The event will kick off at the Victoria Harley Davidson with a bike run.
From there, the family event will start at 11 a.m. at the Waterin' Hole Grocery and Lounge on U.S. Highway 87 and Raab Road.
There, children and family can shop for vendor merchandise, participate in family activities, such as a moonwalk, cake walk and horseshoes and washer toss.
A pool tournament and Louisiana Shrimp boil are also planned, she said.
Those involved in the bike run and tournament paid a $20 donation, and small donations will be asked for with many of the games and events.
Also, 20 percent of the vendor sales will be donated to the association.
Langley said she is not sure how well the event will do, but hopes for the best.
"It's our first event," she said. "We would like to raise as much (money) as we can. If we raised $5,000, I'd be tickled to death."


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Warner Bros. have yet to release a trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (although one should be coming soon), so this trailer for the video game will have to do for now.
The trailer begins with a look back at the Part 1 video game, and then flashes in cut scenes from Part 2 which mainly features the destruction surrounding The Battle of Hogwarts. It's hard to tell how closely it will reflect the actual movie, but some shots such as the one above look familiar.
The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 video game will be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS and PC on July 12th, just before the movie is released.


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The Cincinnati Royals are available in the Strikes Back Sim League.
The Cincinnati Royals are available in the Strikes Back Sim League.
Originally Posted by CrazyEights
Shoot me an email on what I need to do to get into this ok ? Do I need to buy a game or what? I am interested so please reply on this board to me ok ?
You don't need to buy the game. It is helpful if you have the game, but most of the owners don't have it. The former GM of this team was Doc Scott, and he has done an incredible job with the team. I have two teams available (Cincinnati and another team), please register for www.strike3forums.com and pm me and let me know that you want the team. I'm Crazyeights over there also. The first person that PMs me will likely get the team so please hurry.Originally Posted by Topcat
Hope im not to late would like the Cincinnati team !!!

PM me on strike3forums and they are yours.Originally Posted by NatiRedGals
If Doc Scott's resigning, I'm thinking youth movement
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
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President Obama meets with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
This report was written by Gary Martin of the Washington bureau.
President Barack Obama huddled Tuesday with Latino lawmakers at the White House on efforts to overcome hurdles and jump start the legislative process for a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year.
Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in advance of a speech that will urge Congress to pass an immigration bill, while the Justice Department reviews the constitutionality of a controversial Arizona law.
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Rep. Charlie Gonzalez
"Let's get the legislative process in motion – that was the whole emphasis of the discussion today," said Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, following the White House meeting.
"Everyone is dedicated to doing something this year," said Gonzalez, who serves as the first vice chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Obama has pointed to the Arizona law, which he said promotes racial profiling, as the example of the need for congressional action.
The Arizona law calls for local police to check the immigration status of those stopped, apprehended or detained for other violations. Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the law.
Obama met with community activists and grassroots groups Monday about that matter.
"The president is asserting the federal government's authority and we strongly urge the Department of Justice to demonstrate needed leadership by challenging the Arizona law," said Ali Noorani with the National Immigration Forum, a leading immigration advocacy group.
Meanwhile, the president has repeatedly called on Republicans to work in a bipartisan effort to provide a federal legislative fix, but he also has conceded he lacks the votes to push through a bill in an election year.
The issue is stalled in Congress.
A broad outline for immigration reform was unveiled earlier this year by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., but no bill has been filed in that chamber.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she would wait for the Senate to act before bringing it to the House floor and forcing vulnerable Democrats to vote on the divisive issue in an election year.
Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., have filed an immigration reform bill in the House that includes a path for citizenship for 11 million people estimated to be in this country illegally.
But Gutierrez told reporters last week that immigration reform lacks a sufficient number of Democratic votes in both the House and Senate.
A bipartisan immigration reform bill died in the Senate in 2007 for lack of Democratic and Republican support.


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Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain Lovesick – Rs 600, available at all Revlon CountersWhat Revlon Says
"It's a pampering balm fused with a lightweight lipstain in an adorable chubby crayon. Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain gives softer, smoother lips with a perfect flush of color that lasts hour after hour. The gel formula comes in 12 vibrant shades that match any look or mood."
-Lightweight Lipstain + Moisturizing Balm
-100% of women who tried it felt their lips were instantly moisturized with a soft stain of color
-Retractable chubby crayon, no sharpener required
Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain Lovesick is a bright Fuchsia Pink shade with purple undertones. I can see some shimmer too but that adds to the shine & Glossiness without looking OTT.
Revlon balm Stains come on twist up crayon look alike packaging. Its retractable so there is no need of sharpening thus no wastage and fuss. The quantity it comes with is enough and will last long IMO.
Texture is balmy and smooth. The crayon glides ion lips smoothly without tugging or pulling. Pigmentation is super awesome, One swipe delivers loads of color. It gives you choice of wearing it sheer (One swipe) or full opaque (building up layers).As far as Staying power is concerned, being a deep color it lasts longer than Revlon Balm Stain Honey. Formula stays on for 1-2 hours and stain stays forever, fades evenly. Last i wore it and stain stayed on for 8+ hours.
Contrary to its balming claims, lips only feel hydrated till the balm is on. Once the formula wears off that dry and chapped feel returns. I highly recommend applying lip balm (regular) over the stain to keep the dehydrated look away.
I strongly feel that "Lovesick" shade would look absolutely beautiful on medium to dusky skin tones, however fairer skintones can find it 'in your face' kind of shade. Its too bright to be worn full opaque if you are a college going or working girl, but applying one layer will solve any issues.
Also girls with pigmented lips will love it. No matter how pigmented lips you have, the color will peek through.
You have to be careful while applying it because if by mistake you apply it outside your lips, it stains :/
- Intensely pigmented.
- Crayon look alike retractable packaging, no sharpening = no wastage.
- Stain stays on for 8+ hours, fades evenly
- The dry chapped feel returns once formula wears off.
Overall Thoughts
A highly recommended product. Revlong Balm stains come in variety of colors and thus make choice easy. I love the formula and minty feel they give. The stain stays on for long hours so great for girls who can not do touch ups during the day. Can be worn as sheer as well as opaque. Highly pigmented and reasonably priced. Though once the balm wears off stained lips feel dry, so one need to apply a lip balm as and when required.
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The Button Coil is a cowl or a scarf you can wrap any way you like. I've been doodling and swatching for this idea for years and finally hit on the right combination of color, texture, and construction. Most of the sample was knit while I waited to pull baguettes out of the oven during my overnight baking shifts.
350 yds worsted weight yarn
Sample was worked in Dream in Color Classy (worsted weight; 100% superwash merino wool; 250 yds/113g skein) in #830 Good Luck Jade
Size 8 (5mm) straight or circular needles or size needed to obtain gauge
Yarn needle for weaving in ends
12 buttons, approximately 3/4-inch in diameter
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Through October 20th, Macy's is offering up 20% off Regular, Sale and Clearance apparel for Him, Her & Kids with the coupon found here (except specials & special buys – exclusions apply)! This coupon should make for some great deals!
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