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Another ship wreck has been discovered in the Great Lakes, but it's not in the icy waters of Lake Superior.
This time, the wreck was discovered in the middle of Lake Michigan, about halfway between Milwaukee and Grand Haven.
The discovery was made last October, during a dive in about 350 feet of water, but officials from the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association just announced it today.
They say the divers who found it were down at the site a long time.
"It takes us 3 to 4 minutes to get down," says Jeff Vos, MSRA Technical Diver, "but takes us over two hours to come back up."
"We wait an hour, we wait another hour, and then almost three hours before the divers came up," recalls Valerie Van Heest, MSRA Director.
"Of course were worried about them, but of course we see their bubbles on the surface so we know that they're on their way up."
The divers were indeed on their way up – with a major discovery.
"But then when they break surface and Jeff is able to say it's a schooner it's a schooner it's got two masts it's about 90 feet long," says Van Heest.
"Those were the clues we needed to start doing our research."
According to records, he MSRA believes it may be the wreckage of the St. Peter, a ship that sank in 1874 while delivering a load of wheat from Chicago to Buffalo, New York.
"St. Peter is the patron saint of sailors, and in this case he was doing his job because all seven crew members lived. But imagine they had to row a boat to shore 35 miles to save themselves."
In all, the group has found 14 different ship wrecks, and this could be one of the best.
"The hull is complete, and a lot of the wrecks that we find are really beat up by the weather and ice and things, says Van Heest, "but this thing this wreck is deep enough that it's pretty well preserved."
"In Lake Michigan I would venture to say theres still 200 or so significant boats waiting to be found. We have about half a dozen on our hit list."
The MSRA plans to showoff everything they've found so far at a presentation on April 21. The even will be held at the knickerbocker theatre in Holland.
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The Rays do look like contenders. Look at the Yanks run differential though. 358 runs scored. 357 runs allowed. They are lucky to still be in this at all.
I still like Baltimore as #2. They have a ton of hitting and Feldman should help them some. They probably are not done either in terms of trades. If Bundy had not gotten hurt he would be their #2 by now. That really cost them.
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Last year I discovered the beauty of Granada Tile when I saw their tiles installed in the Delphine restaurant in the W Hollywood. (I am a little late on the bandwagon.) When I found out that they were a locally based and family owned business, I had to meet with the owners to learn more about the cement tiles.
Granada Tile's cement tiles are made by hand in Nicaragua using a very old technique that was developed in France. Over lunch the owners were explaining to me the process of making a tile and the casting of the mold for each tile. I insisted that the next time they paid a visit to the factory that they record the process. They just got back from their last trip and returned with a video! Nothing replaces handmade craftsmanship - I am glad it is still alive.
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Wow, I grew up with these tiles all over the southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Spain to Provence and Italy, where they are a middle class staple used to add cheerful pattern to floors in hot climes without rugs. I loved them as a kid, but the down side is you are stuck with this pattern "for a lifetime."
OMG those are gorgeous. Totally lusting after a tiled backsplash from Granada now.
So cool to see the process! I don't mind the idea of having the same tile for a lifetime if the style is a classic one, even if it's a bold classic. It's when the style can easily become dated that you run into problems. When in doubt, go with a tile similar to those found in the oldest homes.
Hey, our house had the same Armstrong vinyl stick-on "Spanish" patterned "tiles" for over 40 years. Which would you rather look at? I'm going with the encaustic (i.e. cement) tiles, hands-down.
Just about every finish decision you make in a house is more or less permanent.
Impressive amount of hand work per tile -- no wonder they are costy!
Wow - I always wondered how these beauties were made - never thought it was so intensive. But it is definitely worth the effort.
Growing up in Spain I always lived with these tiles and to this day a room that has these tiles - no matter how out-of-fashion they may be, always looks spectacular and special.
Mschatelaine is right - Just about every finish decision you make in a house is more or less permanent.
Pretty, pretty. Good quality tile can last a long long time. If I ever get to renovate in Los Angeles this will be the type I choose.
My flat has those tiles!! It was a PRO when we were thinking of buy it! And yes, they are costy... but here in Spain there are several factorys.
This tiles are beautiful, but very delicate and vinegar, lemon, can leave stains, they need treatmen with wax or similar, never bleach....
Or you can go to Morocco and get lower quality cement tiles for a few dollars each. Fine for a wall, a bit riskier for a floor, even though they are used for floors all the time.
I recently saw beautiful colored but not painted tiles, maybe on Dwell.com, that I listed after. I don't think the manufacturer was listed.
I spent some wonderful time in Nicaragua during the 90's and these tiles were everywhere. So beautiful!
This is absolutely amazing. But how can you weld that bronze mold?


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Timothy L. Hoskins, Operating on suspended operators license
Mary R. Mathis, Improper passing, Faillure of owner to maintain required Insurance/security 1st off
Misty D. Smith, Operating on suspended operators license, Failure of non-owner to maintain required Insurance/security 1st off, Failure to produce Insurance card, One headlight
Rocky Namauu, Reckless driving
Marietta Abner, Failure to register transfer of motor vehicle, License to be in possession, D.U.I. 1st off
Lester Smith Jr., Executed bench warrant (Failure to pay fines)
Lonnie W. Robinson, Failure of owner to maintain required Insurance/security 1st off, No registration plates, No registration receipt
Melissa Metcalf, Failure of owner to maintain required Insurance/security 1st off
Chasity R. Barger, Public Intoxication
Nicholas Waldridge Public Intoxication
Charles G. Hoskins, Inadequate silencer, No registration plates, No registration receipt
Steven Riley, Speeding 15 MPH over limit
Felix Cottrell, Tampering with physical evidence, Possession of marijuana, Possession of drug paraphernalia
Brad Jackson, Driving D.U.I. suspended license 1st off, Failure to yield right of way
Tony Buttery, Theft by unlawful taking U/$500 (Shoplifting), Criminal trespassing 2nd degree
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Jail Report ReleasesChasity R. Barger 10/15/11, Antonia Bowling 10/19/11, Felix Cottrell 10/17/11, John Duff 10/18/11, Bridget Fields 10/13/11, Dennis Hacker 10/19/11, Leonard Hoskins 10/12/11, Tonya Lynn Hoskins 10/12/11, Sonny Hubbard 10/15/11, Tracy Jackson 10/17/11, Lonzo Mills 10/18/11, Brian Keith Napier 10/19/11, Sherry Renee Potts 10/15/11, Betty Joe Sandlin 10/18/11, Jerry Sizemore 10/18/11, Carla Ray Smallwood 10/18/11, Frankie Ray Smith 10/19/11, Joe B. Smith 10/16/11, Kenneth R. Smith 10/17/11, Sammy Wagers 10/17/11, Nicholas Waldridge 10/15/11, Joshua Whitaker 10/17/11, Dusty Wise 10/14/11, Dusty Wise 10/18/11, Elbert Woods 10/17/11
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On April 23, 1955, he was married to the former Callie Metcalf in Jellico, Tennessee, and she survives. Mr. King retired from Samuel Bingham Rollers of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a member, former pastor and current Sunday School teacher of the Scipio United Baptist Church of Scipo, Ohio.
Besides his wife, Callie, he is survived by daughters, Brenda (Stan) Sumner and Linda (Harry) Keith, all of Brookville, Jona King of Middletown, Ohio, and Christina Zeinner of West Harrison; a sister, Ruth Tincher of Mt. Orab, Ohio; brothers, Dennis King of Goshen, Ohio, Blaine and James King, both of Mt. Orab, Ohio, and Denver, Leonard Dale, and Darrell King, all of Clay County, Kentucky; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Roger Lee King; two sisters, Lola Miles and Lydia Boggs; and three brothers, Paul, Isaac and Earl King.
Funeral services were held at 1 PM Monday, September 26th, at the Scipio United Baptist Church with James House and Ernie Murray officiating. Burial followed in Maple Grove Cemetery with family members serving as pallbearers.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Cook Funeral Home of Brookville was in charge of the arrangements.
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She is survived by the following children: Carlie Sandlin Jones, Brookville, Indiana, Donnie Jones, Scottsburg, Indiana, Martin Jones & Darlene Cox, both of Kinkaid, Noah Jones, Keavy, KY, Mary Martha Gregory, London & Phurbia Bessie Strenger, West Harrison, Ohio.
She was preceeded in death by her son, Shirley Jones.
She is also survived by 18 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren, & 1 sister, Bertha Smith, West Harrison, Indiana.
Funeral services for Tamsy Jones were held Wednesday at 12:00 noon at the Little Goose Baptist Church with Cecil Benge & Donnie Jones officiating. Burial will follow at the Little Goose Cemetery at Urban.
Visitation will be after 6:00 PM Monday at the Britton Funeral Home & after 12:00 noon Tuesday at her home.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) -- Congresswoman Candice Miller of Michigan says that reauthorizing what she calls a flawed National Flood Insurance Program is a mistake and she wants Governor Snyder to opt Michigan out of it altogether.
Miller says the program is 25-billion dollars in debt because politics sets the rates not actuarial costs. As a result, she says, too many people pay rates below what they should given their risk while others, like many in Michigan, are forced to pay into a program they don't need to in order to subsidize those lower rates.
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The Earth is what matters
Its a real shame that this has all been so politicized and skewed. The earth really deserves better as do the people on it.
The earths climate is changing. That is something that we do know.
What science doesnt know is why.
All this wasted time over how much or if humans caused it totally disrespectful to the earth and life and any sense of interconnectedness, in my opinion.
Does it matter why its happening when the tsunami hits and now toxic waste is in the ocean because one corporation or the other didn't want to build the nuclear power plant away from the coast?
Does it matter when the gulf is full of oil because the dikes were built strong enough but not strong enough to withstand a storm we couldnt imagine or didnt want to believe could happen?
Does it really matter?
One thing science knows is that more heat in the atmosphere changes the weather we get extreme weather tsunamis; tornadoes this causes havoc and costs millions of dollars when a country is hit not to mention the devastation to human psyches or animal life.
Global warming really should be called climate change pure and simple its real, its here, get used to it stop arguing about the whys and stick in some infrastructure on a local or national level, who cares which and use some common sense to protect people and the environment from the devastation these environmental changes will cause.
Now thats a nice idea no matter what the catalyst!
Does it matter?
Well yes, it matters a great deal, when the rich, powerful and elite are using the false pretense of "Man Made" global warning, as a political leverage, to steal our wealth and personal power. They are calling it, Climate Change, now, because it is proven that the Earth is not just heating up, but experiencing both, extreme heat and cold.
The whole lie about man made global warning was pertetrated, in order to tax businesses and citizens of every country (especially, the most wealthy cournties) and to steal control of all the Earths energy and resources.
The idea of "Cap and Trade," or Carbon Trading, came from Ken Lay, the man who's schemes and dishonesty, bankrupted Enron Corporation. The ruling elite have planned to tax us for the very air that we breathe.... by calling it our "Carbon Footprint."
Are we experiencing "Climate Change?" Yes, indeed we are. Most scientists agree that this change in our weather is caused by heavy solar activity.... and it is cyclic. It happens about every 5000 years.
(but you see, that is a natural process and with no one to blame, there is no one to tax).
If you would like to know more about how the elite ruling class, through the UN, plan to steal our land and our rights to own personal property, just do a search on "AGENDA 21." They are getting full control of our food supply, next on the AGENDA, is to stop people from building homes and living out, in the country. (They are doing this benignly, by using terms, like: "Sustainable Development, Green Communities, Smart Communities," etc...
but the truth is, it's all about the UN getting control of all land and natural resources.
Does any of this matter? Only if your right to life, liberty and personal property, matter.
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I like Luther. To my mind, it is one of a very few programs that center on a male character of African descent without either pathologizing him or writing him into a series of polarized (violent or noble/long-suffering, but dignified) stereotypes. The main character is complicated, yes. And like many other cop shows, the drama arises from a series of questionable decisions with respect to the law and policing practice. The thing is, though, that most of these decisions are narratively driven -- that is, they are both event/plot focused and directly tied to psychological character/personality. They are not connected to elements external to the series. And by that, I mean that they are not about someone's (inaccurate) imaginings of what it means to be a black man.
I wish the Ironside team had taken a leaf from the Luther script book: Race matters. And because race matters in the ways that it does, disability in Ironside becomes doubly significant.
We are, mostly from film, accustomed to seeing successful African-American actors take lead action roles, but I am hard pressed to think of a successful network primetime show that has cast a (male) African American actor in the lead. [Yes, Scandal, always. But Scandal is very centered in a particular woman's/women's world.]
Do you remember Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior? It was an unsuccessful spin-off: anchored by Forest Whitaker, poorly conceptualized, weakly written, and justly cancelled after one season. I admit to having watched the show regularly. I found myself considering the characterization of the primary character, Sam Cooper. As I contrasted Cooper with the depiction of the impulsive, quick to anger, less controlled and still gentle, caring Derek Morgan (played by Shemar Moore on the original Criminal Minds), I came to think that Cooper's sadness was intended to counterbalance conventional stereotypes of black men and counteract a mainstream audience's understanding of roles appropriate for black men.
So many of the lead cops in these kinds of programs are what I call "good renegades." They bend a couple of rules here and there; they are strong, sometimes angry, always action-oriented, bad-good boys. Given the way our culture understands race, I think the script writing/visioning team thought it was impossible for the show to be successful on the networks if they cast a black male lead who has these characteristics. So, they characterized Cooper differently: Cooper was rule-driven, saddened by the pressure of and for success, pained by the crimes before him and quietly hurt by whatever burdens his history laid upon him. In other words, Cooper was to be seen as deeply empathetic.
I'm pained by a reality in which I find myself saying some version of "it is novel for lead black characters in this genre to be seen as feeling," but it is nonetheless an important statement. Derek Morgan cannot lead the BAU full time; Sam Cooper can and does. Or at least, he might have been able to had the writing of the show been better. (I do not want to believe that people did not watch simply because the lead was an African-American man.)
Luther, by contrast, ran three seasons and is on its way to becoming a film. Instead of watching Luther, I get the sense that the Ironside writers watched and modeled their primary character after Suspect Behavior. Mainstream American television audiences are different from those in the UK; race is different in the US, too. Suspect Behavior might well have seemed a better model. But instead of relying on emotional characterization, the Ironside team took disability as their crutch. Spinal cord injury is not a physical reality in this show; it's a metaphor that washes away mainstream fear about the cocky, outspoken, and successful black man.
If we see disability as a metaphor that governs (might one say "overcomes"?) racial stereotype and not a reality potentially lived by all of us regardless of race and ethnicity, we can make better sense of the opening episodes' two most important scenes: the opening, the flashback in which Ironside dangles a suspect hanging off the roof, and the transition/insight moment when Ironside breaks the case while processing his anger about the disabling shooting.
Both Luther and Ironside dangle suspects in their opening episodes. Unseen, Luther lets his fall to the death -- deliberately (though an inquiry later finds him not guilty). It's a deeply shocking moment that hangs over the rest of the programme. The central character has committed murder minutes into the first episode; when will he be discovered and how? What will be the consequences of this act? You never quite lose sight of this drama, tied as it intimately is to the personality of Luther. Each time this incident comes up, the viewer is asked to see Luther as someone so deeply principled that he can err -- grievously -- for the right cause. This and other errors combine to reveal a character so vulnerable, so powerful and so interesting that his psychological makeup is not easily tied to common perceptions of race.
Within five minutes of the opening, Ironside is shown in a flashback to his non-disabled state. His partner bashes the suspect with a railroad tie, Ironside dangles him off the roof, and both laugh and talk as they do so. The suspect does not fall. Theoretically, this should make Ironside the "better" cop -- the more "human" cop -- but it does not work that way. The show opens with Ironside hitting a suspect who has been dragged into a car; he gives the suspect a knife and dares the suspect to stab him; the suspect breaks down -- stabbing a disabled person, angry or not, is too much. It's as if the writers want to say Ironside was a tough rule-breaker before the accident; he is a tough rule-breaker after the accident. Like other television detectives, he gets to beat up suspects; here, however, the violence is a means of showing he is still "effective," still one of the team, more than up to the job.
The valence of these transgressions is different. Now that Ironside is disabled, the power dynamic of "officer/suspect" has changed. Power is all too often seen as a function of physical strength. Disabled people are supposed to be weak, physically and figuratively; they are in this scenario powerless. Thus though Ironside wears a badge, we viewers are supposed to assume that power resides with the suspect. We are supposed to admire the bravery of a disabled man who hits a non-cuffed suspect, offers him a knife, and dares him to use it. In the midst of this sappy stereotyping, the fact that the officer assaults the suspect is lost. Ironside is "bad-ass" (a favourite media word for the show), because he has a bad ass.
Disability challenges the viewer to reinterpret the meaning of, well, everything. Also lost in the stereotyping above is an understanding of what might motivate a disabled man to take such extreme risks with his life and body. In television series, those who have such an outsize liking for risk are treated as if they were either depressed, angry, or both. So, yes. Let's talk about those things -- because, for television, the transition into disablement can only bring an irresolvable depression and/or anger. (Not that these don't happen; they just don't seem to happen the ways television thinks.)
To the non-disabled world, it makes sense for Ironside to be as angry as he occasionally is: that's the pain of disablement speaking. It makes him non-threatening; it counterbalances those stereotypes of angry black men. For the non-disabled world of television, Ironside's anger at his disability is inspirational, so inspirational that it enables Ironside's crime-solving insights: this is why the angry boxing scene is critical.
It had to be boxing, of course, basketball or any other sport -- certainly not football -- would not do. Ironside is shown coaching ice-hockey, but boxing is significant. It's where black men in television go to work out their anger, to be found, to be offered discipline, focus, and a way out of their circumstances. Regardless of the actual reality, boxing in television has a metaphorical purpose. As Ironside punches his anger out, Tech N9ne's lyrics blare, miscontextualized. The song is in part about drugs and in part about inner personality demons. In the show, it's about the anger, the rage at the disability and the shooting. And suddenly, as Ironside pushes his wheelchair into his wall -- literally hitting the figurative brick wall -- he breaks his case.
In my last post about the series, I am going to write about how the understanding of disability as a function and not a reality affects the language in which Hollywood and mainstream reporters discuss the show. If you understand disability as a figure or metaphor, how can you cast disabled actors? In particular, I will be looking at how the figurative understanding and the casting of Mr. Underwood continue the discussion of what one reporter calls "color-blind" casting.


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The great young warrior Yakupov showed his expert marksmanship in Neftekhimik's last game, delivering two bullets to the heart of his opponent. The young man from the land of Petrochemistry will one day make his fortune in the land of the fossil, but for now he's trending with a wow factor most every game.
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Coming Soon: Fizzy Carbonated Milk from Coca-Cola
Here's one more product from the department of things-that-don't-need-any-more-sugar-added-to-them-thank-you-very-much: Fizzy bottled milk with, of course, an extra scoop of sweetness. Coca-Cola is currently test marketing Vio, a flavored, carbonated milk beverage, in three US cities.
We are slightly intrigued, though, because — hey, fizzy milk! Also, fizzy milk beverages are very popular in Asia. So will this one make it in the States?
And the press releases are worth reading just for the entertaining aspects, too. The drink is being marketed as a carbonated "vibrancy" drink, and a Coke copywriter said it tastes "like a birthday party for a polar bear."
Right. We've been waiting for one of those.
The beverage is sweetened with cane sugar, contains a "hint" of skim milk, and comes in flavors like berry and peach mango.
• Read more: New From Coca-Cola ... Fizzy Milk? at the Times of London
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That just sounds vile. I can't even imagine fizzy milk.
O! Will it be like a bottled egg cream, perhaps? That's the one American fizzy dairy beverage I can think of. (Well, my dad's eggnog, but I sort of gather that's unusual for eggnog).
no no no.
I imagine egg creams.... nonetheless, it's just another nasty empty calorie beverage with tons of corn syrup.
I was thinking of egg cream as well or cream soda. I'm sure that's where they got their inspiration but I wonder if those flavors scored low in panel tastings. I could see that with cream soda which is nothing like it's original ancestor. If you told people that cream soda is actually supposed to have cream in it they would probably barf.
As I write this, I can't help but think of what Coca Cola has up their sleeve with this product. Forgive me if I seem cynical but, it's coca cola and if public schools may be forced to get rid of coke it would make sense for coke to replace it with something--no? How about fun milk?
I am curious, so I will probably try it. I think I would prefer a coffee or chocolate version rather than the fruity flavors. I like that they are using cane sugar rather than corn syrup.
It's not even fizzy milk. It's only got a hint of milk. Doesn't sound very nice to me.
I'd probably want to try it before it gets my vote. I like drinks like Calpis, etc. so this doesn't sound that strange to me.
It sounds disgusting but to each their own.
I agree with art above that this is Coca Cola's safety strategy for remaining in schools. Whether it sounds delicious or repulsive is a matter of taste, but it's really about feeding kids sugar and keeping their dollar in the soft drink machine slot.
Love this-- my husband said that sounds like making string cheese with pop rocks. Ha!
Not only just a "hint of milk"--a hint of SKIM milk. Sounds even less nice to me.
If I wanted to drink milk, I'd drink milk. Not a soda company's idea of milk.
This really does sound like junk food marketed as something healthy. Milk, cane sugar, berries. Right! I'd like to see the complete ingredient list. I wouldn't be surprised if it's as unnatural as throwing "a birthday party for a polar bear". I'd really love to see what a polar bear would do if you tried.
gross! I really can't see kids being willing to drink this.
Ok, I got it--this is like bottled Italian cream soda, maybe? I guess that will depend on how much milk is in it. Anybody out there in the NY area tried it yet?
Doesn't anyone remember the "fizzys" of the 1980's? They were little flavor tablets that you could put in any beverage to make it bubbly and sweet. We used to put them in our milk all of the time as kids, and we even named our first dog Fizzy because of them. Looking back at it I want to vomit, but they were fun as a child. I totally see the appeal.
This page says they were from the 70's, but I wasn't around then so I was either drinking REALLY OLD tablets, or they lasted a few decades. http://www.inthe70s.com/food/fizzytablets1.shtml
The term "fizzy milk" makes me think of milk that just came out of someone's nose because they laughed while drinking or choked on it. Which is totally disgusting.
lol @ alaylam. I wish you were in the fizzy milk drink focus group at Coca-Cola HQ so you could tell them what fizzy milk means to you. Nose-milk. Classic!


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A Comparison of Tennessee Williams and Anton Chekhov
This essay sets out to make a comparison analysis between the American playwright Tennessee Williams and Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Both playwrights are outstanding figures in the world literature, via case study of The Glass Menageric and The Cherry Orchard, we got a conclusion that Tennessee Williams was much indebted to Anton Chekhov who exerted great influence on the former. Key words: Tennessee Williams; Anton Chekhov; world literature
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With some sadness over old friends gone and joined by some new friends, Mr. Thanksgiving announced Thursday that he would serve a community Thanksgiving dinner for the 42nd year in a row.Each year, Bob Vogelbaugh, known as Mr. Thanksgiving, makes sure thousands of Quad-Citians have a chance to enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner in the company of others.This year, Mr. Vogelbaugh tearfully dedicated the dinner to Stu Olson and JoAnne Ufheil, friends and volunteers for the dinner, who recently died of cancer.He also welcomed the Moline Police Benevolent Association which, instead of providing Thanksgiving dinner baskets to residents this year, decided to throw in with Mr. Vogelbaugh and gave him a check for $2,000 on Thursday.Mr. Vogelbaugh described everyone involved in the experience, including the diners, as family, and said the event belongs to all of them. "It's not my dinner anymore." Including the money from the police, Mr. Vogelbaugh said he had about $6,000, but needed another $10,000 to put on the event.The police association was represented by Moline Police Benevolent president Nate Medinger and Benevolent secretary Nate Hoover.They said the association decided they could do more good by helping Mr. Vogelbaugh's efforts rather than working on their own. In other years, the association fed hundreds with the baskets while Mr. Vogelbaugh reaches thousands. Officers also will be present to help at the dinner.Last year, about 2,700 people were served Thanksgiving dinner, and Mr. Vogelbaugh said he's expecting even more people this year. He usually has about 400 volunteers helping him.Diners can expect all the traditional Thanksgiving food, Mr. Vogelbaugh said. Much of it will be catered by Hy-Vee this year because equipment in the former Bishop's at SouthPark he normally uses to prepare food has been removed.MetroLINK planner Chelsey Hohensee said people without transportation to the dinner can get a ride from MetroLINK, but must call (309) 788-3360 to schedule it by noon Nov. 19. The service is available in MetroLINK's normal Illinois Quad-Cities range, Ms. Hohensee said, adding that every year, about 60 to 70 people get to the dinner with MetroLINK's help.In 2010, Mr. Vogelbaugh announced he would be setting aside his role as Mr. Thanksgiving, but later changed his mind because of public response.This year, he said he will continue in the role as long as his health holds out.
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The North Nelson Water District Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved a proposal that will allow Louisville Water Company (LWC) to supply drinking water to the District for the next 50 years.
LWC already supplies 300,000 gallons of water daily to North Nelson through a wholesale contract. The new agreement calls for North Nelson to purchase a minimum of 500,000 gallons a day beginning in 2011 and then 750,000 gallons a day by 2016.
In addition, LWC and North Nelson District are working together to fund improvements including a 16-inch water line and booster pump station along Kentucky 245 in Clermont. The project will also make water available to an area in Bullitt County that is currently not served with a public water supply. Click here to see a map of the planned improvements.
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LWC's Board of Water Works approved the agreement at its September meeting. The infrastructure improvements will be complete by December, 2010.
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Join the PUMA Social Club in Johannesburg on March 10th at the Corner House and show us your After Hours thelete skills. Featured late night games will be darts, ping-pong, bowling, pool and foosball as well as live performances by select artists. To check out your photobooth pictures taken at PUMA Social Club, click here.
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Tired of waiting for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to finish its investigation into money missing from the Hollywood Police Department's evidence locker, Assistant City Manager Frank Fernandez has ordered an internal review including an inventory of the locker.
"I don't know what's in there," said Fernandez, who oversees the city's police department. "We need to have accountability."
Fernandez said FDLE's ongoing investigation into what could be as much as $175,000 missing from the evidence locker will continue, but he believes the city needs to look into department policies and procedures, and get a better grasp of what is in there and what, if anything, is missing.
"Given the allegations that have surfaced with the property unit, we have an obligation to inventory and audit the unit to ensure the integrity," said Fernandez, who has met with FDLE for updates on the case, but would not elaborate on the investigation. "Our investigation will not jeopardize the case."
Broward County and state law enforcement authorities have been looking into the missing money — estimates range from $125,000 to $175,000 — from Hollywood's property locker for nearly a year.
Sources have told the Miami Herald that the FDLE investigation is focusing on retired Sgt. John Nevins, whose job included overseeing the evidence room until he retired in April 2011. However, everyone who has had contact with the locker is being scrutinized.
That following December, Nevins was capture on surveillance tape carrying boxes out of the police department to his car.
Nevins told the Miami Herald that the boxes — which he took from the storage room, not the property vault — were empty and he was using them to pack gifts for the needy.
A civilian employee, Tony Dong, was later fired after he was later seen on video letting Nevins, his former boss, in and letting him leave with the boxes.
When contacted recently, Nevins said it was in "his best interest" not to comment.
He earlier denied having anything to do with the missing money.
"I have never taken anything out of the property vault,'' Nevins said. "I only took some empty boxes from the storage area.''
Nevins also said that when he took over the vault in 2006, "it was a mess."
Gretl Plessinger, spokeswoman for the FDLE, said Thursday that because the investigation was still active, she could not comment. The Broward State Attorney's Office also said it could not comment on the case.
The property locker, which is under video monitoring and scanned inventory control, stores all property seized in connection with a criminal case including money, drugs, guns and other valuables collected at a crime scene.
Employees, civilians and police officers can only enter the evidence area with permission and must be buzzed in and sign a log, according to police department procedure manual.
Fernandez said he and Interim Chief Vincent Affanato have already made some changes, including a new key card system and more cameras "to tighten up security."
But Fernandez said he is working with the city's procurement department to hire a company that can go through all of the department's logs and make sure the records match the property being stored.
He also wants make sure the city's procedures are up-to-date and being followed. As part of a bigger effort to put all sworn officers on the street, a civilian employee, rather than a sworn officer, will soon be hired to oversee the locker.
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Teen Bride Courtney Stodden, Doug Hutchison Call Amanda Bynes 'Ugly' After Twitter 'Cancer Patient' Insults
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After months of Amanda Bynes' social media "ugly" call-outs, "Teen Bride" Courtney Stodden was reportedly asked what she would do if she was the the next victim.
Stodden simply replied, "I would call her ugly too."
At press time, Bynes hadn't responded to the comment -- but only time will tell.
Previous victims of Bynes and her ugly insults on Twitter include Drake, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna and even the Obamas.
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Kansas City, MO -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars today declared victory in a Federal Lawsuit ( Rainey v VA) filed over allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the VA and its director of the Houston National Cemetery.
Federal District Judge Lynn N. Hughes signed a consent decree ordering the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to lift the ban on prayer and the word "God" at national cemeteries, to revoke national policies hostile to religion, and to reopen the Chapel which identity was previously changed to "meeting facility" at the Houston National Cemetery.
Texas-based Liberty Institute filed suit on behalf of the VFW over allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the VA and its director of the Houston National Cemetery. Officials told the VFW they could not have prayer during the burial services of veterans unless the family requested it specifically in writing and submitted the prayer to VA officials for pre-approval.
"The VFW is grateful that the government has restored the basic tenets recognized in the U.S. Constitution -- which guarantees fundamental rights of religious expression and freedom of speech -- to patriotic Americans who sacrifice everything to defend it. This is indeed a victory." said VFW National Commander Richard DeNoyer.
"We are thankful that after almost five months of litigation, the government is finally doing the right thing by entering into a consent decree and ending religious hostility at the Houston National Cemetery," said Jeff Mateer, general counsel for Liberty Institute. "The decree not only impacts religious freedoms in Houston, but at all VA cemeteries nationwide because the government has agreed to modify two national policies hostile to religion."
The order also requires the VA to change its national policies regarding volunteer honor guards. These changes will now allow the reading of "Thirteen Fold" Flag Recitations unless the deceased veteran's family requests otherwise, volunteer honor guards to provide their own texts of recitations to the funeral homes for the funeral homes to offer those options to the deceased veteran's survivor(s) for consideration, and the VFW honor guards to work independently with funeral homes to coordinate provision of volunteer services at the committal services scheduled at the cemetery without interference from the government.
"I am glad to see the VA overturn these policies, which will allow us to perform the entire VFW burial ritual," said Inge Conley, Commander of VFW District 4 in Houston and the VFW entity that initiated the lawsuit. "We should be able to include prayers, mentions of God, and the phrase, 'May God grant you, grace, mercy and peace,' to grieving families laying American soldiers to res
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I was right. Her name is Arleen Ocasio, an Obama appointee.
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I was right. Her name is Arleen Ocasio, an Obama appointee.
"....Ocasio, the cemetery's Obama-appointed director, has been credibly accused of engaging in a pattern of censorship directed against private religious expression."
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The VA was doing this? The Veterans Administration? The federal agency charged with protecting the veterans was preventing them from having prayers and the mention of God at their funerals???!!!!
What kind of country would allow this to be done IN THE NAME OF OUR VETS by the very agency set up to serve them?
If there is one person out there now who doesn't understand just how far into the "politically correct" gutter this country has been taken by the smarmy progressive leftist, godless, scum running our schools, courts, government and media, it is because he or she just hasn't got the sense God gave a mule and sure as hell doesn't deserve the right to vote.
I want to know the name of the VA official that approved this anti-religious policy. There is a person or persons who did this and this person or persons needs to be identified. I want some accountability for once.
My guess is he or she or it was an Obama appointee.
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