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Letter from Ukraine.
Yesterday, the New York Times published a letter from Myroslav Marynovych, vice rector of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, in response to this disturbing report--one of many about the ongoing crisis there. Marynovych has written a longer open letter titled, "What Can Ukraine Expect from the West Now?" Here it is, in full:
I write to you as a former prisoner of conscience of the Brezhnev era. All other titles are rapidly losing sense in the light of the bleeding Ukrainian Maidan [the central Independence Square].
All my life I admired Western civilization as the realm of values. Now I am close to rephrasing Byron's words: "Frailty, thy name is Europe!" The strength of bitterness here is matched by the strength of our love for Europe.
If it still concerns anybody in decision-making circles, I may answer the question in the title.
First and foremost, stop "expressing deep concern". All protestors on the Maidan have an allergy to this by now in these circumstances senseless phrase, while all gangsters in the Ukrainian governmental gang enjoy mocking the helplessness of the EU.
Take sanctions. Don't waste time in searching for their Achilles' heel: it is the money deposited in your banks. Execute your own laws and stop money laundering. The Europe we want to be part of can never degrade the absolute value of human lives in favor of an absolute importance of money.
Also cancel Western visas for all governmental gangsters and their families. It is a scandal that ordinary Ukrainians living their simple lives have to provide their ancestors' family trees to obtain a visa while ruling criminals guilty of murder, "disappearances", and fraud in the eyes of the whole world enjoy virtually free-entry status in Europe.
Do not listen to Yanukovych's and Putin's propagandistic sirens. Just put cotton in your ears. Be able to decode their lie; otherwise they will decode your ability to defend yourself.
Instead, listen to Ukrainian media sacrificing their journalists' lives to get truthful information. Do not rely so much upon the information provided by your special correspondents in other countries who come to Ukraine for a day or two. Hire Ukrainians who live in this country to translate the Ukrainian cry of pain. Secure money for that right now instead of waiting for funds from next year's budget.
Come to Ukrainian hospitals and talk to so-called "extremists" who want to "subvert the legitimately elected government," those who have "cruelly beaten" policemen and "deliberately" blasted explosives to wound themselves. Yes, the face of war is cruel. But, arriving at the Maidan, these people repeated almost literally what King George VI said to his people on the 3 September 1939: "We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called… to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world."
Go out of your zone of comfort! Just recall the coddled ancient Romans who refused to do that in time. Cajoling Putin won't bring you security. Letting him take control over Ukraine could make the world peace even more vulnerable. A Ukraine divided by force won't bring the world peace, just as a Poland and Germany divided by force didn't bring peace to the world.
Let us conclude in solidarity with the King and the Ukrainian people: "The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it, ready for whatever service or sacrifice it may demand, then with God's help, we shall prevail."
Myroslav Marynovych
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I am sympathetic to the Ukrainians having grown up with so many and being on Slavic descent on my father's side.
However, there really is a divide within that country that and culture that goes back at least 1000 years. On one side, there is the pro-Russian side (not surprising religiously Orthodox) and on the other side, there is the more pro-Western side (not surprisingly while Eastern rite, they remain Catholic). In fact, most of the Eastern rite that I have known eventually migrated over to the RC side just because easier to access, etc. So, basically, this cultural side is more Western than the other half that is more Russian.
That country's dividing line can be seen as far back as the great schism between the Eastern and Latin church.
I see no workable solution except, perhaps, further balkanization meaning split the country in half, with one half European, and the other Russian. Together they can form a kind of confederation.
I think we should exercise some caution as I have read that there is some evidence of US hired proxies that are agitating this tumult. Maybe there is and maybe there isn't but the Ukraine is hugely symbolic for Russia and we should not be playing games on that turf.
Reading around on the situation in the Ukraine, I get the impression that the U.S. and the EU, if not exactly playing games, don't have a set policy that they are pursuing, if not together than separately.
President Obama anouncing that "there will be consequences," says the obvious without saying anything in particular. Chancellor Angela Merkel receiving the leader of the opposition smiles and shakes hands but no more than the rest of the EU is she ready to make a counter-offer to Russia's billions. And with good reason: the EU can't afford it and it would be supporting the Ukrainian economy for decades.
George D's mention of a split between East and West in the Ukraine may be in the cards, but it is hard to see how that will solve its economic and political problems. Change is hard. And I don't see that the U.S., our state department, or Victoria Nuland know what they're doing, except egging people on--for what end? Poking Putin in the nose. That's not policy, that's school year behavior.
In my view, these situations are exceedingly complicated and as we've seen in other situations, not easily solved by outside entities, be they the US, the EU or even Russia. The real question, it seems to me, is what would the EU actually do, to solve this problem? I have read and heard some commentators who suggest that Russia could ultimately send in troops to assist the Ukranian government. I am skeptical that the EU, and certainly the US, are willing to do any such thing. And at some level, hard though it may be, just using good offices to try and bring about some sort of settlement might be the only viable alternative.
While rather many Commonweal readers seem concerned with counting angels on the head of a pin with respect to NDU's legal response to the ACA, we have the makings of a potential civil war warming up in the wings. We probaly should be praying for discernment by our leaders as to how the US should react if Putin sends Russian troops into Ukraine.
Of course Putin knows that there is no political will in the EU or USA to intevene in Ukraine, so what exacty would be his disincentive? He can show the power of Greater Rssia, and indeed his own authority to lead where others only talk.
I seems a very frightening situation to me.
Mark L.
But Mark, the real question is what, beyond giving both sides a " stern taking to" maybe implementing a few sanctions, can and should the US and/or the EU do? That's really the issue isn't it? Just as when the US intervened in Panama duing the Bush years, the Soviets could wag fingers and such, but not much else, in this instance we can do little more than that. How exactly would you propose we intervene, particularly given that by most reports the nation is fairly evenly split between those seeking to move west and those seeking to return east?
To the question of Putin sending in Russian troops: Wouldn't that really start a Civil War? This is not Hungary in 1956 or Czecheslovakia in 1968. Stories in the NYTimes have reported that outside of Kiev, Ukranians are breaking into police and army supplies of weapons. Don't know how many they have requisitioned (and in some places the police and army may be on the Opposition's side), but it certainly looks like war could break out, especially if the Russians sent troops.
Why any more than Germany or the U.S. would Putin send troops?
The media is hot on this story, of course, and pretty soon there will be calls for "Do something! Do anything!" Who will be first? Vladmir Putin or Lindsay Graham?
I'm thinking something closer to the2008-09 Russia-Georgia situation than Hungary or Czechoslovakia. I know the situation was somewhat different, breakaway republics from Georgia.
I do agree with you though that there will soon be call to do something. John McCain will no doubt be calling for arming somebody. As to the question of why would the Russians act before the Germans or the US, The Russians would be more likely to take some military action mostly because Ukraine is historically closely tied to the Soviet Union, and before that the Russian Empire and before even that, Kievan Rus, the Slavic confederation of the 9th through 13th(ish) Centuries. And in some sense, isn't the issue of ties between Ukraine and Russia at the heart of the current upheaval? The opposition became serious when President Yanokovich decided to enter economic ties with Russia rather than the EU.
Jim Dunn,
It is exactly beause of your concerns tha I hope for discernment by our gvernment and the EU. I hope there are persns beter trained and wth btter itelligncetyha I havewo have ebeen fllowng Ukraineyrs ad I hope that those in power can and will listen to advice of hones brokers within theivr own and related staff. Having had a first-hand look for 12 months on an occasion when the US decided to intervene in a civil war, I have no desire whatsoever that another boy or girl should be in such a position, especialy ased on such apallingly por understandng as we used then. Pray for peace.
Margaret O'Brien Stenfels,
Why would Putin send in troops? Well, because he can, tout court. He can as a practical matter, sharing a long border and wth high-quality infrastructure, under his control in place. He an as rhetorical matter, "to protect Russia's strategic interests and to protect traditionally Russian people." See Russian intervention in Georgia as examples.
He can as a strategic matter to show the power and authority of Russia, and as a matter of the first-draft of history: Vladimir Putin isthe Great Man whose vision and will set Greater Russia on the road back to its rightful place in History.
I hope I am very wrong.
Mark L.
Here's a thought experiment: Western Ukraine has at various points in its history been part of Poland, Lithuania, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, why doesn't Poland send in troops? Not sure Austria has a military. That Russia traces its origins to Kiev (true or not) hardly seems more dispositive than that parts of Ukraine were once Poland.
Re a split up of the country: Looking at a map, which I just did, I see that Kiev is in the center with the Dnieper River running down the middle. Is that a logical border for two different countries, one leaning to the EU, the other to Russia?
And here is a map that explains some of the issues (from the WashPost). And another.
President Obama anouncing that "there will be consequences," says the obvious without saying anything in particular.
He could bring home our Olympic athletes, right now. That would be consequential for Putin.
Putin may be emboldened by the success of the Olympics (as der Führer was in 1936).
I did not like the way the BBC World Service fomented strife in Syria for the last 3-4 years. Caution is in order here too. Is the following Putin propaganda? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OBeYg8KdtY#t=334
Putin's anti-gay thuggery plays a role in his Ukraine designs: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/fascism-russia-and-...
Tim Kelleher at RealClearReligion writes here about Orthodox involvement, some of it heroic, in the conflict. A riveting photo, too.
Here's an historical anecdote. I knew a Ukranian rather well in the 1950's. He was the fiance' of my Filippino room-mate. He was vociferously nationalistic and hated Russia. One day my room-mate was really miffed about his frequent ranting about the two, and she commented to me, "Why does he carry on so about Russia and the Ukraine? As far as I can see, the only difference between the two is that one is the conquorer and the other is the conquored."
Old antipathies last centuries, sometimes millenia.
JP: Yes, a riveting photo. I do wonder sometimes how much the varied traditions of Christianity present in Ukraine, and much of Eastern Europe, contribute to the turmoil and how much to reconciliation. That photo and others suggest a peace-making effort.


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Started to order one until I started reading the condition(s).. the refurbished was graded a 5 (out of what? Their FAQ said they were graded A, B, C), the used one said it had a scratched screen. Pass.
I love my 32gb Sony Tablet S... but I'm not entirely sure about this retailer... I'd pass on this as well, just for peace of mind. But if you're willing to take the chance with the retailer, go for it - the tablet does not disappoint.
CowBoom is owned by best buy. As for the grade, they have a tendency to overstate how bad the condition is. If they day it has some scratches and stuff like that, there might be just a tiny scratch on the back or something. Check out previous posts from cowboom to see what I mean, a lot of people have bought from them and had no problems.
Maybe Woot will get some more of the NEW 32GB S tablets for $260 so I'll wait
These tablets are junk. Poor wifi range, no gorilla or dragon glass, and it locks up randomly and often.
Because these actually have an IR port, they can be used as a very amazing universal remote control.
But with all the other downsides to this device, that might be the best use for one. Goodness knows I've considered it.
Sold out at $189.99; "add to cart" gave me a grade 5 for $240. Pass.
@aphroat: You have to use the code at checkout (see original post). They are not sold out at this price. Grade 5 is really much better than they lead you to believe. I have bought LOTS of stuff from them.
@morriea: Oooh, RTFP. Oops :D
Put one in your cart, see the condition.. if you don't like it, remove it and repeat. I finally found a 7. I bought it after reading that they overstated the wear. I have my fingers crossed.
So would you guys get this or the 32gb touchpad at the same price point?
@bdogatx: If I had to choose between those 2...this, hands down.
These already have an Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) update available from Sony. Just connect to Wi-Fi and it should prompt you to download the update. Sony is very good about updating their Android devices.
My tablet arrived today. For a 7 it's got some scratches that are livable - none are on the screen. My problem however, was the shipping. It came in a box with flaps that tucked into the box BUT THERE WAS NO TAPE on it at all! ANYONE could have opened that box. I've got a message into Cowboom to see what's supposed to be in the box to see if its all there, but it's too early for a reply.
@skunkmonkey: Ha! The remote thing works pretty well on TV, DVD player, stereo system and cable box.
I have had my Tablet S for about 2 weeks and when I received it I was concerned about the fact that the packaging wasn't sealed. Everything, that was supposed to be with my item as outlined in my cart was there and my tablet was secured in the box with some shrink wrap type material. The condition code for my tablet was either 5 or 6 and honestly, it looked brand new to me! At first I was nervous about ordering from cowboom but now I recommend it to a lot of friends. My tablet has worked awesome and the price was even better after $50 off!! Tried to order another for a friend today but the discount code has expired.
Can someone personally vouch for this seller? They seem pretty sketch to me.
I have purchased from them and have had no issues. Pay attention to the condition code and what is and isn't included though. I purchased a condition code 5 and couldn't tell that it had been used.


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DENVER � It was the end of his freshman term in the House of Representatives, and J. Paul Brown looked cut up.
A week before the end of the session, the Ignacio Republican showed up for work with a nasty cut near his left eye. Brown, a sheep rancher, was chasing a runaway ram when he fell into a pile of cedar branches.
He joked that he got the wounds from Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, the powerful chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. To Sonnenberg�s chagrin, Brown bucked him that day, voting against Sonnenberg�s bill to punish cities and counties that delay gas drilling.
At times over the past term, Brown has gotten tangled in thickets at the state Capitol, too.
He�s the most conservative representative from District 59 in many years � his predecessors were Republicans Ellen Roberts and Mark Larson and Democrat Jim Dyer � and at times, Democrats and others have pushed back hard against his bills.
�I�ve tried to be me. I haven�t tried to hide who I am or what my principles are,� Brown said.
Brown wears his heart on his sleeve � or at least on his jacket. Every day, he wears a Christian cross lapel pin decorated with an American flag pattern.
But he rarely speaks of religion or social issues in the Capitol.
In the House chamber, he usually remains in his seat and listens during debates while many other lawmakers are working on unrelated bills in side conversations. When he does get up to speak, it�s often about natural resources or the state�s aging buildings.
Diverse district
The new legislative districts dealt Brown a tough hand. His 59th District swapped easy-to-reach and conservative Cortez for Gunnison, a faraway town with a college and many more Democrats.
Brown adapted, sponsoring a bill with Gunnison�s senator, Democrat Gail Schwartz, to rename Western State College as a university.
His opponent this fall, Durango Democrat Mike McLachlan, said he likes Brown as a person.
�My major criticism of Representative Brown is his ideological perspective is so narrow that he doesn�t listen to and act on all the diverse interests in the 59th,� McLachlan said.
McLachlan, a former attorney for La Plata County and a state solicitor, said he has proved he can work easily with Republicans on practical problem-solving.
�You couldn�t have two more different people than the two of us,� McLachlan said.
Brown, though, can point to his record this year. As one of six lawmakers on the committee tasked with overseeing state property, Brown became one of the loudest voices for spending money now to finish long-delayed maintenance projects.
It�s more important to fix existing buildings than to build new ones, he said.
�If we�re not going to take care of things, should we even be doing it in the first place?� Brown said.
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Although he rarely speaks of religion inside the Capitol, he doesn�t shy away from it outside.
On May 3, he prayed at the National Day of Prayer that a House panel later in the day would defeat a bill for civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.
�We pray, Father, especially today, that you would be with those that make decisions in this place, the General Assembly of Colorado ... as they make a decision on civil unions, that they would use your word, that they would do as you want them to do, not as the world wants us to do. In Jesus� name we pray,� Brown said.
McLachlan supports civil unions.
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Brown also tangled with Democrats last year when he and Roberts, now a senator, sponsored a Republican bill on congressional redistricting. And he butted heads with county commissioners this year when he wanted to let small counties elect their commissioners by district, instead of countywide. Both bills died.
But his legislative record is 10-4, and he has sponsored bills that attracted wide support.
He and Roberts ran the bill to bring a new judge to the La Plata and Archuleta county district. He also sponsored popular Senate bills to make it easier for schools to hire speakers of Native American languages and to ban bath salts, a synthetic drug.
In 2011, Brown�s first session, he gained fame as the bear guy with his bill to overturn a 1992 ballot initiative that banned spring and summer bear hunting. The bill expired in the House after it became apparent some Republicans and most Democrats were going to vote against it.
As a sheep rancher, Brown said he has had problems with predatory bears. He�s satisfied that he called attention to the bear population, which he thinks is increasing.
�I think I did force the hand of Parks and Wildlife to start doing some studies and find out how many bears there are,� Brown said.
However, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton said the state�s study of the bear population began in 2009 near Aspen, and a larger study in Durango had been planned before Brown ran his bill.
�Obviously, Representative Brown is passionate about the bear issue, and we�re pleased that we�ve been able to provide him with information about black bear management and research efforts in the state,� Hampton wrote in an email.
It will take several more years to get results from the bear study. But Brown will have to wait only until November to see how well voters in his new district like him.


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I stumbled across Shaolinhouse.com and they are running a sale on their Exotic Hardwood dummies. These are normally priced at $2100.00 and are $500.00 off at a sale price of $1600.00
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I downloaded the vanilla demo. Can I use my save from the demo if I purchase the game?
Thank you
I downloaded the vanilla demo. Can I use my save from the demo if I purchase the game?
Thank you
yes you can continue your save from your demo onto the full version but there are a lot more leagues available if you were to start a new game on the full version.
Yes as long as you realise that it is a very limited database and available leagues
Ahhh.....didn't think of that...
Ok thank you very much for the replies.
Oh...does anyone know why on steam its $40 and if I look at the other link to purchase the download it looks like its $15?
În the UK you can get it for 15 pounds by now, so I'd guess the $15 pricce may be closer to the truth...
Thank you for the reply
Like Charlo and FrazT have said, the demo is very limited. For the sake of losing half a season in the game, id buy the game and patch to 10.3 then start a new game.
Possibly go to the Editors forum and download a database update from Forbsie/Chris22 or CromScott which will update the teams and promotions/relegations up to roughly the present day.
But you can get it from many on line stores for a smaller price:
Amazon it is $34.90
BUT Direct to Drive have it on sale at the moment.
This site is useful:
Just a quick question. I've not bought FM10 yet but I'm seriously thinking about it. But I've heard about some installation problems and I dont really know what Steam is. So could someone possibly tell me about installation and Steam please? And also, how do you download the leagues? Are they already on the game and you have to tick the box next to it? Sorry about my non-existent knowledge
not everyone has had installation issues only some but they are easily fixed with the right help steam is a program that allows you to buy games,you choose your game you want to buy enter payment card detaisl they take payment then you download and install game as for the leagues you want to play there are 100`s of leagues in game you just select what countries and leagues you want to play then start game
Ok. Cheers. I'll be checking ye olde bank account soon then and may have to buy this game.
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Leading up to the 2013 NHL Entry Draft on June 30, the Rampage will revisit the draft memories of several players recently selected by the Florida Panthers.
See below as goaltender Jacob Markstrom discusses his memories of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft held at the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario.
Jacob Markstrom
Position: Goaltender
Selected in the second round, 31st overall, of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft
Drafted from the Swedish Hockey League's Brynas, IF
What are some of your memories of the draft?
Obviously it's a big day, especially when you are ranked high. My draft was in Ottawa and the building was packed with fans for the draft. That was my first real taste of North American hockey. I knew the NHL was big, but I wasn't expecting that many fans to show up for the draft. My family was able to make the trip from Sweden to be there with me. Having them there made it very special.
How tough is it to sit there and wait for your name to get called?
It was a big relief when I finally heard my name called. The first round went about four or five hours and I was hoping to get picked somewhere in there. Unfortunately I didn't get picked on that first day in the first round, so I was a little disappointed.
But then you were the first selection in the second round…
Yea, I remember I was a little disappointed that first night and I didn't get a lot of sleep. But I came back the next day for the second round and I was actually the first player selected. So I waited around all the time on the first day and then the second day I was drafted right way. I was really happy to be picked by the Panthers and just to be part of an NHL team. It was a great feeling.
Draft Memories Archive:
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Why are the absorption lines so wide on the second spectrum? Are they even absorption lines at all, or another phenomenon altogether?


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Tips or techniques to use when you don't know how to code something?
I recently graduated on a Computing course, and luckily got a job as a junior programmer. Now, I have been given a series of tasks, from a bigger project.
My company has (supposedly) bought a revenue/sales software written in PHP. Basically this whole big piece of software needs to be modified to meet my country standards.
I have been given a large number of tasks to do in a relatively small time span. Now, this might be my very own understanding of the whole timing problem, but this seems a very big thing to do because I need to fully understand:
- the whole system structure
- the "style" in which it has been written, classes, functions, etc.
- the database structure
Considering the above, I need to add some functionality, some of which can be considered "core" ones which, in my opinion, is a too long of a job to be done in 6 days.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Eliminate ompi/class/ompi_[circular_buffer_]fifo.h
From: Eugene Loh (Eugene.Loh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-12 17:58:17
Sorry, what's the connection? Are we talking about
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1791 ? Are you simply saying
that if I'm doing some sm BTL work, I should also look at 1791? I'm
trying to figure out if there's some more specific connection I'm missing.
Ralph Castain wrote:
> You might want to look at ticket #1791 while you are doing this -
> Brad added some valuable data earlier today.
> On Feb 12, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Eugene Loh wrote:
>> Jeff Squyres wrote:
>>> This should probably include the disclaimer that we talked about
>>> this extensively yesterday at the sm/btl meeting after the MPI
>>> Forum meeting in San Jose.
>>> Eugene has been working on new sm stuff (as he has posted), and we
>>> had a very productive meeting yesterday discussing what he has
>>> done and how to get it all into the trunk. Have a look at his
>>> slides at the bottom of this wiki page:
>>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/Feb09Meetingsjc
>>> Eugene will be replacing the current sm btl with a new one
>> Let's downgrade that statement. I intend to make a series of
>> putbacks to the current sm BTL to improve latency. I'm not so much
>> "replacing" the current BTL as doing some optimization work.
>>> that uses a single queue and various other improvements. Hence,
>>> the current ompi_*fifo.h files will no longer be necessary.
>>> Additionally, we resolved the "abstraction break" issues that were
>>> discussed here on the list a little while ago -- we think all the
>>> improvements can be done in the current architecture without
>>> disrupting the abstraction barriers. This RFC is one step in the
>>> process; eliminate some no- longer-necessary kruft.
>>> On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Eugene Loh wrote:
>>>> RFC: Eliminate ompi/class/ompi_[circular_buffer_]fifo.h
>>>> WHAT: Eliminate those two include files.
>>>> WHY: These include files are only used by the sm BTL. They
>>>> are not generally usable. Further, the sm BTL will soon no
>>>> longer use them. The current FIFOs support only a single sender
>>>> each and we want multiple senders to be able to share a common
>>>> FIFO. The current FIFOs also can grow without bound, which is
>>>> complicated support that we don't think we need.
>>>> WHERE: Two include files: ompi/class/ompi_[circular_buffer_]fifo.h
>>>> WHEN: "Immediately". Intended for 1.3.x.
>>>> TIMEOUT: February 20, 2009.


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The 5 Most Secretly Badass Countries
#2. Brazilian Police Are Urban Warfare Specialists
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There's a lot more to Brazil than just soccer, bikini waxes, and Carnivale. For example, slums. The poorest shanty towns, known as favelas, are home to 11 million people and very few city services. And what residents lack in running water, toilets, electricity, and access to food they make up for with drug lords and one of the world's highest crime rates.
Eleicoes 2008
So it all balances out.
So one could go from thinking of Brazil as a year-round Mardi Gras to picturing it as a lawless hellhole -- especially if you've played the Favela level in Modern Warfare 2. Shit, you know things have gone south when your town gets its own FPS multiplayer map.
The Reality
The Brazilian police are really serious about keeping Brazil's poorest neighborhoods from becoming a real-life violent video game. While your local neighborhood cop drives around a shitty Crown Vic, Brazilian forces drive around in fucking tanks:
The Brigade
"It corners like Chief Wiggum."
That is Rio's Batalhao de Operacoes Policiais Especiais, or BOPE. Their badges don't have some stupid star on them -- they look like Hell's Angels badges.
Alexandre de Souza, Millitar Police
Although once you start seeing it as a skull with pigtails, you can't unsee it.
BOPE policemen have to pass a training regimen similar to what Navy SEALs and Green Berets have to go through, extensively training in urban warfare operations. And despite their intimidating presence, BOPE officers are only a part of a larger pacification program, and they consider themselves the bringers of peace. For example, it took 3,000 officers and soldiers to clear the bad guys out of the 80,000 strong Rocinha slum.
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"We got the perp, but his clothes didn't survive the encounter."
That's 3,000 personnel with tanks, snipers, helicopters, and months of planning for what basically ended in an internal military occupation.
And it worked. When BOPE and their tanks leave, the Police Pacification Unit takes over. These guys are part police, part social workers, and they're there to keep the drug thugs from returning, and to help make the favelas a little more livable. And those guys don't leave. So far Rio has pulled off pacification operations 30 times in 30 different neighborhoods, each now guarded by their own police force.
Christophe Simon / Getty
Otherwise known as "army."
Still, we're going to go out on a limb and recommend that 2016 athletes stick to the Olympic Village during the games.
#1. The African Union Did What Nobody Else Could: Cleaned Up Somalia
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Africa is a big place. Assuming that the whole continent is in a constant state of any one bad thing is like assuming that all Americans wear cowboy hats and play for the NBA. Focus in on Somalia, on the other hand, and most of us have a pretty specific picture of life on the ground. Pirates! Warlords! Drought conditions! Anarchy! It's like Mad Max or, well, any Hollywood movie set in Africa.
AFP / Getty
Those bullet suspenders are gonna pinch like hell once the kid starts shooting.
Conditions are so bad in Somalia that both the U.N. and the U.S. have been unable to help ... twice. If only someone would come along to clean up the mess.
The Reality
Someone has come along -- someone called Africa. Specifically, the peacekeeping arm of the African Union.
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Otherwise known as "all the flags."
You could fill a library with books, diagrams, and Web comics trying to explain the situation in Somalia, but in a nutshell, the country suffered under the control of warlords, thugs, and ne'er-do-wells for most of the 1990s. Between 1992 and 1993, the U.N. and the U.S. tried to step up to the plate and get bellies fed. You probably remember the results of their efforts in the form of Black Hawk Down and footage of American bodies getting dragged through Mogadishu. It was not a good time. By the mid-2000s, a new group of al-Qaida extremists were in charge of Mogadishu and people were starving again.
But this time around, the U.N. and U.S. helped through the brand new African Union, a federation of 54 African states created to confront AIDS, malaria, drought, and bad guys running lawless states. Beginning in 2007, troops from Burundi, Nigeria, Malawi, and Uganda pledged to help out, while Tanzania offered to train newly formed Somali troops. It took a while, but within four years, the A.U. kicked the bad guys out of Mogadishu and are now in the process of driving them out of Somalia altogether.
AFP / Getty
"License and registration?"
This wasn't the only success of A.U. forces, either. They staged an Omaha Beach-style invasion of Anjouan Island in 2008, sending rebel leader Mohamed Bacar off the island and fleeing for his life. They were also the only peacekeeping troops in Darfur until 2007, when the U.N. finally got involved. Hell, why can't Bono raise money for these guys?
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I am looking for a word that describes audio that does not contain words.
For instance:
John William's piece Duel of the Fates would be this, since they are just vocables for their musical effect, similar to the way any other instrument is used in that context.
A recording of machine gun fire would be this, since there is no linguistic meaning.
A song where someone is singing would not be this, because there are words with actual meaning.
A book recording would not be this.
Speaking in Tongues by the Talking Heads, and the main theme of Close Encounters of the Third Kind are sort of borderline, I'm really not sure which side they would fall on.
Does anyone know of a word or phrase that would describe this category of sound?


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The incident was reported around 6 p.m. Sunday at the victim's residence on Woodend Road in rural Tonganoxie, according to Maj. Jeff Dedeke, chief deputy for the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office.
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The suspect was arrested for an allegation of aggravated assault.
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The fix does not stay, guess I'll wait for Apple to releases a fix.
It usually shutdown in 2,3 seconds while I was on Lion. I upgraded to ML recently and this happened.
In launchd-shutdown log, I found this
20006079 com.apple.launchd 1 com.apple.securityd 17 Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing
20008561 com.apple.launchd 1 com.apple.coreservices.appleevents 65 Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing
Things I have tried but no luck:
- I have reset PRAM
- clear kext-cache. it works at first shutdown only though.
Any idea how to fix this!?


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Many webmasters have told that article submission is the best way to get backlinks and effective method of link building. But, I have seen in many sites that from article submission websites are getting very few backlinks. Can anyone SEO expert here to tell me that how can I make an optimum use of my article? And kindly, tell me that what are its importance?
Optimum use of an Article
According to me best articles are best on your site and not on other sites for links. You can get links in many other ways as well.
When you submit a fresh article and once it gets approved what you can do is you can bookmark that article link through Social Bookmarking and can also post it on social networking sites.
Post your article on that article sites which can approve your posted article instant or within 48 hrs. once your article is approved you can do bookmark of that approved article link and you can do smo activity for that approved link.
If you submit article in one place, that is on your website and promote them individually, then it would be more beneficial than article submission sites.
But if you publish one article on different sites so it might attract 3 or 4 links, but it would weak the value of article that it have.
Originally Posted by lizatailor23After Google Panda released no one is doing Article submission because most of the article websites are affected by Google Panda, so be careful don't go with articles for sometime.
Sorry Matt Cutts But Google Panda Update Simply Doesn't Work
Only 27 people like that FB link and I am sure 99% of those people are webmasters whose sites has been de-ranked.
First, article submission creates duplicate content.
Second, after Panda update many good article directories are turning nofollow. So, I don't find any benefit in article submission.


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A common meme running around in my gaming table is that White Wolf is being terribly changed by piracy.
The thesis is: Too many people pirate, therefore WW is not profitable, therefore they are no longer creating new books.
Are they really publishing much less than they used to? Are sales really down? If so, to what extent might these be changes attributable to piracy?


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Sculpted by Jean Debuffet in 1977, this iconic sculpture was first displayed at the 1100 Louisiana Building and later moved to Discovery Green Park in 2008. The sculpture is part of Debuffet's Hourloupe Cycle, a collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings conceived with black, white, red, and blue ballpoint pens. Monument au Fantome is made of steel armature covered by fiberglass.
Fun Fact: The different pieces of the sculpture are believed to represent a hedge, chimney, dog, phantom, mast, tree, and church.
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E.g. Google has minimal web design (just a search box). How do you define minimal design? How does this relate to minimalism in general? Is Facebook also minimalism at least from the beginning?
As a style, people often describe very thin lines and neutral shades of color as minimal. If you emphasize everything, nothing gets emphasized. Minimalist art is about emphasis. I suppose you could relate this to web design by saying minimalist design emphasizes content (text, video, sound).
Minimalism in design sprung from WW2. There was a new emphasis on mass production after the war and designers rejected the heavy ornamentation of the past. That's where Helvetica comes from. It's a very "neutral" typeface. It works with everything. It's like wearing jeans. Modernism is basically a lack of ornamentation in design and minimalism is an artistic movement.
As far as advantages and disadvantages, that depends on the audience's background. Your taste changes over time, especially where you focus your attention. If you listen to a lot of music, for example, your taste for music becomes more sophisticated and you might dislike what's played on the radio. The more design one learns, the greater preference for simplicity.
We live in a complex world. Not everything can be simple. Expert users are going to want more complexity and features as they learn the system. Users want the system to be simple and easy to learn just starting out.
What a great question, Niklas. I'm a huge fan of minimalism so I took a chance to write an elaborate answer.
First, I beg to differ: the art movement and the design style are not the same thing. "Minimalism" as an eponymous art movement has formed in 60s, after the WWII, taking it's roots in various precessing art movements such as Constructivism, Modernism, Cubism, political and, more importantly, industrial changes, but as a path of creative thought, minimalism is literally ancient.
If you look into why Paleolithic people chose minimalistic style to express themselves, you will get an essential answer to your question: this style is extremely affordable in all possible ways.
This particular characteristic made minimalism the choice of Modern era production that turned to masses: the goal of mass culture was to provide literally everybody with various objects, and minimalism made it possible, as it reduced the costs of production. If you take a look into contemporary mass-production iconic brands such as iPhone, IKEA and Zara, they turn to minimalism for maximum universality because they design for everyone. While their opposite elite production brands such as Vertu and Hermes are anything but minimalistic: richly ornate and detailed, they hint that the their buyer is a (very important) individual Person.
High aesthetic value
Minimalistic design concept is quite old and familiar to all cultures, but some cultures built their whole aesthetics principle system on it. Most prominently, Japanese culture and Protestant culture. Both had a tremendous influence on the shared global aesthetic perception.
Minimalistic style is great when it frames something of a bigger value: the data (or Big Data for that matter), lots of content or other loads of information.
The strongest sides of this style are also the weakest ones, put in a different context.
Lack of individuality — all iPhones look the same, and a house furnished with IKEA furniture exclusively might look like no one is living there.
Modest if cheaper look — it takes skill to make minimalistic design to work, and to avoid a look of poorly executed design.
Lack of engagement — as there are sometimes no obvious semantic ideas expressed by minimalist style, it fails to resonate with the viewer at times.
Can quickly get visually boring — this is why Google is providing entertaining and changeable doodles to the entry form.
First Question: Google keeps their design minimalist because they want search to be easy and "fun". Second Question: A minimalist design shows data in the most efficient way as possible. Example: Google shows there search box in the middle, different google services on the top, and keeps your account information on the right hand side. Easy to use for the user (When you search on google they show this search tool for advance users)...
When thinking about Remote Controls (RC) and UIs of the kind...
Maximalist RCs had a lot of functionality, flexibility and versatility available, as compared to its minimalist counterpart with a really small subset of that functionality.
However most of the time those maximalist UIs wouldn't be touched by the target audience, they wouldn't learn how to use the RC and would spend the same buttons than in the minimalist one.
So in my own terms, flexibility, flexibility and versatility come as a trade off of ease of use.
I'm pretty sure Sony Engineers were delighted by all the functions available through the RC, but that wasn't the common user, and the RC itself allowed the user to perform activities that involved a lot of use cases that were seldom used, incurring in time, resources and manufacturing costs that were not relevant for the RC user niche.
Minimal design would put first the a basic-function-set of an UI on hardware or software rather than flexibility and versatility.
Maximal design would put first flexibility and versatility of an UI on hardware or software rather than ease of use.
Minimalism as a design preference (as opposed to an artistic/aesthetic preference) comes from this thought process:
Now, this doesn't imply that all Minimalism in this sense looks like Google's search page, or even that it has to follow this black text on a white page approach. Aggressively simplified pages, like teaser pages for online services, or splash pages for services like Square are built with this idea in mind that you should steer the user to completing a single, simple task.
Now, as far as pros/cons go, which is the heart of your question:
Advantages -
The more cruft you can cut, the more efficient you can be in conveying your message.
People behave differently on the web: less attention, skimming rather than reading. People scan pages visually. More widely, people are overloaded with information. Minimalism reduces clutter, so while it doesn't in itself make important things stand out (and there will always be a role for proper structuring of information), it does help to make the signal to noise ratio better.
I think this answer can be summed up by one simple rule:
Space is your friend!
It's not just about being minimal in everything, as dropdowns/headers/footers/menus/etc. can be hidden/flyouts/modals/on other pages/etc., it's more about not cluttering up your page so the user's eye goes where you want it to by giving the appropriate amount of space so as not to frustrate your user when they are looking for something.


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To get "You're My Hero!" you must finish all of the challenges listed in the Saintsbook. This is probably one of the more involved achievements in the game.
What's the best way to clear each challenge?
To get "You're My Hero!" you must finish all of the challenges listed in the Saintsbook. This is probably one of the more involved achievements in the game.
What's the best way to clear each challenge?
The best way to finish challenges is to wait until you've finished the main story missions and you've cleared all the levels of all the activities. By this point in the game, you'll probably at or very close to level 50 respect, and have enough cash to afford at least the "damage immunity" upgrades and "infinite explosive ammo/grenades" upgrades. You'll also probably have cleared some of them just by completing the objectives in other game modes. Trying to max out most of these challenges before that point is just going to be a waste of time.
Be warned that there may be minor spoilers below, so if you haven't finished the story and the side activities you might want to stop reading here. Nothing major, but still, you've been warned.
STAG Commandos stop spawning after you clear the game. Some people have reported that you can get STAG Commando kills by replaying the final mission. I've also seen a co-op bug that if you don't finish the game on your own save (ie, you use the co-op skip feature on the final level) you won't be able to replay the final mission. If this happens, you'll have to co-op with someone who still has the ability to spawn Commandos, or be ready to load an earlier save.
Survival is key
By far one of the most time consuming ones is the Survival challenge. This is time consuming for 2 reasons: one is that it takes a while to complete each wave of each survival, and the other is that you can't decide when one starts. Always answer your cellphone when you're given the option, and make sure that you're going to the location and staying within the radius for the entire challenge. Don't bother bringing a chopper or VTOL to these, as it's somewhat glitchy about how high off the ground you can be and still stay within the radius.
If you've got most/all of the damage immunity and it's a timed survival, just hide someplace and perhaps mark a few of the Saints in the area as your homies. Let them do the work, and revive them as needed. You can hide inside buildings, behind low walls, underground, etc, so long as you stay within the red circle on your map.
If you're working on a "kill x number to get to the next wave" survival challenge, you'll want to focus on blowing up gang cars. Kill off or dismiss any homies, as their kills don't seem to count. If you've got a co-op partner, their kills do count.
Each survival is unique, in that you'll get a different call from a different person inviting you, and they'll send you to a particular location each time they call. Even if you answer the call, it's possible to "miss" the challenge by ignoring the blue map icon for long enough. If you miss the call or the challenge, they will call you back again later.
To get survival challenges to spawn, you'll have to be on foot and not involved in another activity. (see Is there any way to force a survival challenge to start?) I recommend doing the following while you wait:
Group 1: Hostages and Surfing
Group 2: Looks like we're going to have to JUUUUUMMMMMP!
Group 3: Stupid Car Tricks
During all of these you'll likely spend time wandering around on foot. If you still don't have all of them, just stand around in a quiet area and wait for the phone calls.
Post Survival Cleanup
These challenges you likely got organically during the story missions and the survival challenge farming, but I'll do a quick overview of them and how to farm them should you find yourself lacking:
I was also having trouble taunting 50 gang members because I finished the game and there's no of them left around. If you use one of the activities where you fight on foot,the hard level of Trafficking is what I use,it can be done. Wait until you have a 5 star notoriety then quit the diversion and all the gang members will be standing where they were before you quit. Kill enough to get at least a 4 star notoriety then run to a store or crib you own,go inside and rid yourself of the notoriety,come back out and taunt someone,kill until a lot more gang members show up and repeat. It's a pain but it's the only way I knew to do it.
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5 Reasons The Oscars Matter Even Less Than You Thought
#2. The Academy Hates Political Relevance: Best Picture (1989, 2005)
Accusing the Academy of making decisions for political reasons isn't necessarily a critique. Movies are cultural events. If the zeitgeist makes an "issue movie" more relevant, there's no reason that shouldn't be factored into the equation. The problem is how bad the Academy tends to fuck up the math.
Do The Right Thing is generally considered one of the most potent American films about race. It's one of only five movies ever to be selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry during its first year of eligibility.
And these guys really dug it.
The film's climactic race riot came three years before the entire city of Los Angeles followed suit. At the time of its release, Spike Lee's film was a wakeup call. Sure, racism still existed in 80s movies, but only as a setup for snappy one liners from the darker half of a buddy cop duo.
The Academy's choice for Best Picture in 1989 was Driving Miss Daisy, an ode to the quiet dignity of a black servant (Morgan Freeman) who spends the majority of his life eating the shit talked by a wrinkled sack of racism in a sundress. Daisy was 48 Hours for the art house set-which meant the film has less pulse than a bowl of oatmeal. Daisy got the award for being a palatable examination of race, an issue that was on people's minds that year. It just happened to be on people's minds because Do The Right Thing, which wasn't even nominated, had sounded the alarm.
Morgan Freeman is 170-years old
Proving that the Circle of Ineptitude can extend to issues as well as actors, in 2005 the Academy's Best Picture winner Crash was a ridiculous fairy tale about race relations in Los Angeles that most people had already forgotten by the time the Oscars rolled around. Two far better and more politically relevant movies, Brokeback Mountain and Capote, were both overlooked, presumably for splitting the pro-homo vote.
#1. The Academy Loves Irrelevant Studio Politics: Best Picture (1998, 1942)
With their track record of fuck-uppery, you'd think Hollywood would take the Oscars with a grain of salt. When the barometer for artistic success in your industry doesn't even really care if you're all that good at what you do, then why should you? If you took such an innocent attitude into an Oscar race against the Weinsteins, you'd wake up the morning of the Oscars wearing a necklace made from the teeth of the Chinese dignitary whose murder they'd framed you for.
Throughout the 90s, Miramax's entire business plan was built around creating films specifically tailored to the Academy's delicate sensibilities, banking on the added exposure a win would bring. This plan was put to the test in 1998, when Miramax's Shakespeare in Love was nominated alongside Saving Private Ryan, which spent the summer making every war film that had ever won an Oscar look like a high school play. It was a foregone conclusion Saving Private Ryan would win. And then the campaign started.
The month leading up to the Academy Awards are like an especially petty high school election, if high school students had access to the money cannon that made Transformers 2 possible. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, "Miramax spent an estimated $16 million (about $2,700 for each academy member) on its Shakespeare (in Love) campaign." Miramax also leaned on journalists to criticize Private Ryan for being historically inaccurate, a ballsy maneuver when you consider that Ryan's storming of Normandy made veterans of that battle shit their theater seats, and Miramax's film turned Shakespeare's creative process into a gender bending romantic comedy.
Didn't matter. On the night of the Awards, Shakespeare in Love shocked everyone by winning Best Picture award out from under the Citizen Kane of modern war films.
Which brings us to the Citizen Kane of all films: Citizen Kane. Anyone who cares a little too much about movies swears Orson Wells's 1942 film is the best thing ever projected onto a silver screen. And it's not like people didn't realize it at the time: It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and was widely expected to win most if not all of them. Then William Randolph Hearst, the publishing giant whose life Kane is loosely based on, started a smear campaign that focused on director Orson Wells's contempt for Hollywood. On the night of the Awards, the audience of Academy members actually booed every time Wells's name was mentioned. The most influential film of all time lost Best Picture to How Green Was My Valley, a film that archeological records indicate nobody gave a shit about even then.
That'll show him to question Hollywood's integrity.
The passage of time reveals a movie's true quality, not the number of gold statues it won. Citizen Kane didn't win the Best Picture, neither did Raging Bull, or Dr. Strangelove, or Rear Window or Star Wars. Keep that in mind while you're watching the circus, and you'll have a better time all around.
For more on the Academy Awards, check out 5 Great Careers Destroyed By The Post-Oscar Curse and 6 Cheap Acting Tricks That Fool The Critics Every Time.
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This is one of the reasons that pellets were developed. Pellets combined all the "good stuff " into one relatively neat package. We know parrots can be picky so a dish of food where everything looks the same offers less visual temptation to remove the contents. Zupreem makes pellets with colors and without. If your bird likes colorful food Zupreem Fruit BlendorPretty Bird Daily Select offer colorful pellets that many birds find attractive.LaFeber's Nutriberries although considered a bird treat offer a comprehensive nutritionally balanced diet for your bird consisting lots of human grade ingredients like pineapple, papaya, carrots and raisins all rolled up in neat balls. The ball design provides your bird with a variety of beak and tongue sensations while enabling foraging activities.Harrison's and Totally Organics offer USDA certified organic bird food pellets. Goldenfeast bird food has no dyes or preservatives. There can be benefits to these organic bird foods but just like in the grocery stores you'll find the cost of organic bird foods higher.Scenic bird food although not as well-known as the others has been around for more than 25 years and is popular in zoos and animal themed parks as a daily diet. Their pellets are shaped to improve feeding techniques, ease of manipulation, and low waste. Roudybush offers pellets in several sizes and uses different fruits like dried peaches, apricots, plums, bell peppers and carrots in their California Blend as an example.I do hope we made some headway in clarifying the options you have to feed your bird. Feel free to contact us with specific nutrition questions. And remember we are the only company to offer free bird food rewards for all of your purchases
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I'm divorced now and I've updated my name in iCloud but when I send an email from @me.com email my hyphenated name still comes up. How do I change that?
Assuming that you're trying to change your full name (and not the email address itself), you can follow the directions in this Cnet article:
Your updated full name should then be used by the @me.com email address. The article also discusses how to change the displayed full name in the OS X mail client, but this example is a bit more generic.


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It was fun to be in downtown Steubenville on Saturday, Dec. 8, to watch a Christmas parade that was well attended and to stop by the Grand Theater, the site of an open house that offered visitors a chance to see the restored lobby and the status of the theater itself.
Several hundred people attended the open house, according to Scott Dressel, president of the Grand Theater Restoration Project.
An effort to restore the theater at 121 S. Fourth St., Steubenville, was launched about three years ago.
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Open house of restored lobby at Grand Theater
"The comments were positive and supportive, with most everyone wanting to know when we will be open. Of course that depends entirely on donations to get us from where we are to completion," said Dressel, who was pretty busy during that three-hour open house period taking people on tours of the theater area beyond the lobby.
I checked it out myself and did some video footage which you can see with this story on our website. Go to www.heraldstaronline.com and look for this story under the "community" heading of posted articles.
"It was great fun talking to everyone who stopped by and discussing the restoration. Our next step will be completion of the engineering and architectural work," Dressel said.
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Visitors check out the restored lobby of the
Grand Theater during the open house.
-- Janice R. Kiaski
Francesca Carinci, right, with Rachel Roggensack, a
volunteer from Franciscan University of Steubenville
-- Janice R. Kiaski
Checking out the theater
-- Janice R. Kiaski
From left, seated, Donna Keagler, Jan Glaub Rainbolt, Patricia Fletcher and Bob Sticker, and standing, Susanne Curn-Escobar and Cindy Sticker
-- Janice R. Kiaski
A view from inside the theate from the stage and balcony looking toward the lobby
-- Janice R. Kiaski
The event included representatives of the Grand Theater Restoration Project Board, including Donna Keagler and Jan Glaub Rainbolt, selling "Friend of the Grand" annual memberships which are $25 for an individual or $50 for a family.
There also are business memberships available - $100 for businesses with fewer than 50 employees and $1,000 for a corporate one for 50 or more employees.
Board members also were selling Grand Theater pins that double as a Christmas ornament for $10. I have one of them on my Christmas tree, incidentally.
Susanne Curn-Escobar also was on hand and is the board's newest member. "She will be taking on the museum portion of the restoration - everything from fundraising to restoration and the eventual collection and display of the history of entertainment in Steubenville and downtown generally," Dressel said.
The lobby was busy with visitors when I arrived, greeted initially by board member Francesca Carinci and Rachel Roggensack, one of two "elves" from the Franciscan University of Steubenville on duty as door openers.
The lobby looked great, decked out for the holiday with a donated Christmas tree and poinsettias from St. Peter's Catholic Woman's Club. A festive touch.
By the way, Donald Springer was the winner of a $100 Visa gift card as part of a photo contest open to anyone who submitted a photo of themselves in front of the lobby doors with the lobby Christmas tree lights on. The photos were to be posted to the Grand Theater Restoration Project's Facebook page for the random drawing conducted at the open house.
As I left the open house to head out and find a spot to watch the parade, I ran into co-worker and former Jefferson Union High School classmate Pat Mayers Scheel, who was waiting with her mother, Barbara Mayers, to watch the parade.
I mentioned that I'd just come from the Grand Theater, and Barbara, who was eager to visit there after the parade, shared a little story about what makes that place something special to her.
When she was a teenager, the former Barbara Curry - she grew up on Pleasant Heights - had her first date with her future husband, the late David Mayers, at the Grand Theater.
They met in 1947 and went to see "The Egg and I," starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert.
The two were married for 60 years before his death in March 2011.
"It was beautiful," Barbara said of the Grand.
"We always sat in the balcony, and they used to have giveaways on certain days when you would go and they would be on the stage and give dishes away and things like that. I remember that real well."
A promotional flyer notes the restoration goal is that the theater be transformed into "the Grand Event Center and Performing Arts and History Museum to be completed in 11 years."
If you'd like information about the restoration project or want to get involved in seeing the theater brought back to life, contact Dressel at (740) 632-2899.


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