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The Christian books, Bible stories, and audio books below are the perfect introduction to reading for your littlest ones. Whether it's through the exciting stories of Adventures in Odyssey, Berenstain Bears, or anything else, you're sure to find the right pick to entertain your child and teach them some life lessons along the way.
The Berenstain Bears Bedtime Devotional
Mike BerenstainRegular Price: $12.99 Special Price $10.39Add Your ReviewThe Berenstain Bears Bedtime Devotional>/i> is perfect for little cubs settling down for a good night's sleep. Including a devotion for each day with a reflection, Scripture, and a Bear Prayer for the End of Day from Brother, Sister, and even Honey Bear, these 90 reflectio... Learn More
The Berenstain Bears Classic Collection Box Set
Jan &. Mike BerenstainRegular Price: $34.99 Special Price $27.99Add Your ReviewFor the first time, 10 beloved Berenstain Bear Living Lights books are together in one collection! Join Mama, Papa, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear as they learn about the Golden Rule, the importance of kindness and forgiveness, how to say their prayers, and much more. Inclu... Learn More
The Berenstain Bears' Holiday Cookbook: Cub-Friendly Cooking with an Adult
Mike Berenstain, Mike BerenstainRegular Price: $12.99 Special Price $10.39The Berenstain Bears' Holiday Cookbook by Mike Berenstain is a great way for kids to cook up their favorite Bear family's favorite holiday foods. Filled with traditional holiday recipes like Frosted Sugar Cookies, Pumpkin Pie, Hot Apple Cider Punch, Cranberry Stuffing, and m... Learn More
Little Bible Heroes Storybook
Mike Krome, Victoria Kovacs, David RyleyRegular Price: $14.99 Special Price $11.99Add Your ReviewChildren love heroes, and there's no better place to find heroes than in the Bible. This collection offers 16 stories of bravery, faithfulness, and kindness that are straight from the Bible and perfect for little hero-loving hearts! For added fun and learning, each story inc... Learn More
The Berenstain Bears Visit the Firehouse
Mike BerenstainRegular Price: $3.99 Special Price $3.19Add Your ReviewDing, ding, ding! With an alarm bell, a sliding pole, and three big trucks, the firehouse is an exciting place to visit. Come along as the Berenstain Bears meet everyday heroes—firefighters! Product Details: Ages: 4 - 8Pages: 24Released: 05/2016 Learn More
The Berenstain Bears' Caring and Sharing Treasury
Jan &. Mike Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, Mike BerenstainRegular Price: $10.99 Special Price $8.79Time after time the Living Lights Berenstain Bears series has attracted young readers through creative and engaging stories that not only entertain but teach values and life lessons. Now, five of the series' most loved books are available in a comprehensive bind-up. This L... Learn More
The Berenstain Bears School Time Blessings
Mike BerenstainRegular Price: $3.99 Special Price $3.19In The Berenstain Bears School Time Blessings, all three Bear cubs are excited and a little nervous as they head back to school. When challenges and fears almost get the better of the cubs, Mama and Papa step in and remind Brother, Sister, and Honey that with their support, ... Learn More
Great Stories of the Bible
David Miles, David MilesRegular Price: $11.99 Special Price $9.59Great Stories of the Bible by David Miles is based on The Adventure Bible, and is a collection of 6-stories, all in one edition. Read along and learn about some of the most epic adventures in the Old and New Testaments. Stories include: God's Great Creation Facing the Bla... Learn More
Heroes of the Bible Treasury
David Miles, David MilesRegular Price: $11.99 Special Price $9.59Heroes of the Bible Treasury by David Miles is based on The Adventure Bible, and is a collection of 6-stories, all in one edition. Read along and learn about some of the bravest heroes in the Old and New Testaments. Stories include: Noah's Voyage Joseph the Dreamer Mos... Learn More
VeggieTales: Larryboy and the Rude Beet
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Rich Rodriguez has fired all nine remaining Michigan assistant coaches, the Detroit News is reporting tonight. They will all coach through the Michigan bowl game.
"He told us all, and we respect him for that," said Erik Campbell, who played football for Michigan and has been receivers coach under Lloyd Carr. "It's part of the profession. It's good for us because now we have closure.
"We knew the possibility that he would not rehire us was there. You never know until you here the words, and today was the day."
This could have MAJOR ramifications on recruiting. Sam McGuffie, for example, was very close to Michigan's coaching staff and Terrelle Pryor had a good relationship with Scot Loefler.
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Published on January 12, 2012
GOLDEN STORY — Members of the Gander B Atom Flyers who defeated the Bishop's Falls Express to capture gold at this past weekend's S&P Invitational Atom Hockey Tournament include: (front row, from left) Matthew Hicks, Tyler Brown, Ty Matthews, Will Parsons; (second row) Phillip Cipaianu, Peter Kelly, Ethan Blake, Joseph Mitchell, Michael Gill, Ian Simpson, Andrew Parsons, Devon Noel, Evan Barron; (third row) Tyrone Wells, Thomas Gill, Skyler Saunders, Andrew Hunt; (back row) head coach John Gill, assistant coach Jaret Blake, manager Patti Hunt and trainer Dave Noel.
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Published on January 12, 2012
BIG CHANCE — Gander Flyers' Will Parsons, middle, gets a chance in close against the Clarenville Caribous, while teammates Andrew Hunt, left, and Skyler Saunders, right, get ready for a possible rebound.
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Strong D leads B Flyers to S&P gold
The Gander B Atom Flyers depended on a strong defensive effort to capture gold at this past weekend's S&P Invitational Atom Hockey Tournament.
The Flyers finished a three-game round robin with a 2-0-1 record, but more astoundingly, allowed just one goal against in those three games.
In the final against the Bishop's Falls Express, Peter Kelly scored twice, while Matthew Hicks, Skyler Saunders and Will Parsons added singles to lead the Flyers to a 5-1 gold-medal win.
"I'm very pleased with the gold medal. They were behind in two games they played, but they stuck with the game plan, played hard, showed good sportsmanship, and they persevered," said head coach John Gill after the gold-medal presentations Sunday morning. "I'm very proud of them."
Of everything the team did right over the weekend, Gill was extremely complimentary of the way his team played on the defensive side of the puck. The opposition can't win if it can't score, and if the Flyers continue to dominate defensively, opposing teams are going to have a tough time figuring out how to put the puck into the back of the net.
Playing a strong defensive game is something Gill brought into the very first practice, and it's something he'll continue working on as the season progresses.
"The first things we introduced to these players were responsibilities in our own end, defensive face-off positioning, and what to do when you win a defensive zone face-off and what to do when you lose the defensive zone face-off. We haven't brought much offensive play into our practices just yet, we'll probably start now, but we start at home with defence," said Gill. "We had only two goals scored against us in four games, so it speaks well of our goalie Tyler Brown, our defence, and our back-checking forwards."
After working hard in practice and throughout the annual S&P tournament, Saunders was more than happy with his team's achievement.
Although he's still early in his minor hockey career, the young Saunders already knows how gratifying it is to see how hard work can pay off.
"After working so hard these past few days, winning the gold medal is a pretty good feeling," said Saunders. "We worked really hard over the four games we played, so it feels good to come out on top."
"After working so hard these past few days, winning the gold medal is a pretty good feeling." Skyler Saunders
The win was extra special for Parsons, who in three round-robin games led all Flyers in scoring with four points (two goals, two assists). The atom player has laced up his skates many times in his young life, but coming out on the winning end of a gold-medal game is something he's never experienced before.
"This feels really good," said Parsons. "This is the first gold medal I've ever won, and we work so hard in our practices, and we work so hard in our games, it just turned us into a good hockey team."
Added inspiration
Before the B Flyers competed for the gold, players like Saunders took in the gold-medal game in the C division between the Flyers and Clarenville Caribous. Saunders looked on from behind the glass as the Flyers edged the Caribous 3-2, which gave him a new sense of confidence.
"Seeing them win the gold medal, I knew if they could win their gold, we could win ours," said Saunders.
Both Parsons and Saunders said winning the gold medal at home was extra icing on the cake. Hearing the cheering crowd, according to the two players, pumped the team up, and winning the gold in front of family and friends was very satisfying.
That feeling of satisfaction was shared by Gill, who said he can't help but feel satisfied every time he watches his players do what they learn every practice.
"It's very satisfying when you see the players playing responsibly, doing their individual jobs and trusting their teammates," said Gill. "You can see sometimes in a particular game or practice when the light bulb comes in a child, and it's very satisfying when you see that."


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In the last decade or so, many collaborative technologies have been developed which aim to allow people in geographically distributed locations to work together as if sharing the same space. Such tools range from the simple asynchronous resources of email and file transfer, to fully-featured collaborative virtual environments allowing virtual groups of designers to interact with virtual designs in real time. Despite many reported practical experiments with such tools, it is far from clear which flavour of collaborative technology best suits collaborative design. This study takes the approach of studying one particular form of design collaboration — the small group design meeting — and briefly discusses how such interaction could be technologically supported in virtual space. In particular, we will focus on the use of shared design workspace.
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Though a couple of generations younger, Princess Diana resides there, too, as do several queens of England, Marilyn Monroe and a bevy of beautiful Gibson Girls.
They make their home in a house filled with antiques and relics from an elegant past -doors, mirrors, fireplaces, paintings - some items retrieved from the old Battle House Hotel as it was being remodeled and some from mansions and townhouses and other buildings in downtown Mobile. Some accessories and construction pieces, which the La Trace's son Ricky acquired, are from the Blackstone Hotel, built in Chicago in 1908.
The house that Georgia La Trace and her husband moved into in 1995 was built for the Dennison family in 1954. Located just off Airport Boulevard west of Azalea Road, the area was still "in the country" then, and the now-busy thoroughfare was still an unpaved road. The Dennisons, La Trace said, once kept horses there, and later developed part of the property into Jackson Heights subdivision.
The family had much of the home's unique structural pieces imported or they re-used building materials from homes and buildings that were being demolished. For example, the medallions around the ceiling light fixtures are made of zinc and were imported from Austria. And the six tall white columns that embrace the two-story home are made from redwood trees that the Dennisons had shipped in from California, La Trace said.
The brick that make up the walkway leading to the entrance, the steps and the front porch are all from the old Lyric Theatre, and the front door, molding and porch light fixture (formerly a gaslight) once graced an 1860 home that stood on the corner of Government and Dearborn streets. Many of the dining room fittings and the staircase also came from that house or from another home on Jackson Street.
Once inside this exceptional home, a visitor's attention is immediately drawn to La Trace's many collections, particularly the dolls. But the construction of the home, along with Georgia La Trace's interior decorator's eye and personal taste soon follow.
La Trace has been collecting dolls for perhaps 40 years, and they fill, very tastefully, some portion of almost every room. In addition to the Gone With the Wind characters, La Trace has one cabinet filled with brides, including Grace Kelly in the gown she wore when she married Prince Ranier of Monaco, and Liz Taylor in a dress from one of her weddings. The display piece once belonged to actor Raymond Massey and held his stock of liquor, La Trace said.
La Trace owned an antique shop - Georgia's Parlor - in Mobile, and some of the beautiful rugs and display centers come from there. One cabinet holds about 20 Princess Di dolls - Di in her wedding dress, in boxy suits and jaunty hats, in little black numbers and in the midnight-blue velvet evening gown she wore when she danced with John Travolta at a White House gala in 1985.
On a small landing at the top of the stairs, a shelf holds Marilyn Monroe in her iconic poses - standing on the grate with her white dress blowing in the wind, wearing the classic pink sheath and singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." On the wall behind her are paintings and pictures of several of the homes and hotels from which the house has claimed mantels, doors, light fixtures and staircases.
The Gibson Girls hold a special fascination for La Trace, and she has many of them. The women in those 1890s dresses and full, upswept hairdos were feminine, elegant, beautiful and confident, she said. And they are on dressers and chests of drawers in bedrooms throughout the upstairs area.
La Trace's collections don't end with dolls. Her formal dining room - where the entire fireplace was transported from a demolished Baptist church in Mobile - has shelves exhibiting decades old Franklin Mint plates and tea cups decorated in "Flowers of the Month."
From that Chicago hotel's Presidential Suite, La Trace has adorned some walls with
paintings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Dolley Madison - and one enormous gilt-framed mirror from the presidential bathroom.
She shares her home with several well-loved cats.
There is elegance and style and unique, personal touches inside the home and out. Black, wrought iron decorates a balcony on the second floor, and on that Old-Mobile brick front gallery are colorfully cushioned settees and rockers of white wicker and a white iron-work table centered with a blue hydrangea that just invites visitors to join La Trace for a glass of sweet iced tea - or perhaps a mint julep.


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JACKSON, MI -- The start of a new year brings new plans, goals and ambitions.
Lily Missions Center, a recreational and learning facility for at-risk youth, is preparing for its annual fundraising campaign with a goal to raise $15,000 for items such as books and testing supplies.
So far, the campaign has raised $6,000.
For the past 12 years, Lily Missions Center, a division of Lily Missionary Baptist Church, has offered after-school and summer reading programs for children ages 5 to 14.
The youth center, 1117 W.G. Wade Drive, also provides programs for high school students such as the Teen Transition Program and College Preparation Workshop, which equip students for college and future success.
"Our main goal is to change the lives of youth," said the Rev. James Hines, pastor at Lily Missionary Baptist Church. "During the after-school program, kids can come in and get help with homework, play basketball, and just interact with other children."
Each program will benefit from money raised throughout the year.
"We really try to raise most of the money through community members who have been contributing since the beginning, and through our church congregation," Hines said.
The church sends out about 200 letters each year to past donors, Jackson residents and members of the congregation to keep the program going.
"I always tell people it's a tool not a trophy," Hines said of the youth center. "A trophy collects dust; a tool fixes things. But a tool gets broken sometimes."For more information on programs offered at Lily Missions Center or to donate, call 517-783-5568.


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Don't cry, Axl Rose. You can surely replace $200,000 worth of stolen jewelry, right?
Apparently, someone swiped three gold-and-diamond necklaces from the Guns N' Roses singer at a party following a show in Paris Tuesday night, according to NME.com.
Rose was reportedly "fuming" once he found out his necklaces had disappeared. Who could blame him?
Anyway, French police are investigating, so Axl should rest easy. Got to have a little patience, bro.
The report says also the band recently ended a run of European shows by being hit with money and pint glasses and have been criticized for starting shows late.
Another report says that the current version of GNR has actually banned fans from wearing clothing featuring the likeness of former guitarist Slash after a falling out between him and Rose.


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KALAMAZOO, MI – The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is investigating the death of Western Michigan University student Logan H. Knibbe.
Knibbe, 21, was pronounced dead at his home at 1006 Davis Street at 4:45 p.m. April 6, according to his death certificate. He is originally from East Grand Rapids.
KDPS Chief Jeff Hadley said toxicology and autopsy reports are pending and the death is being investigated as suspicious due to Knibbe's age.
WMU Director of University Relations Cheryl Roland said the university has no further information regarding Knibbe's death.
Roland said it was the third student death since December. She said one student died of cancer and another as a result from a seizure in December.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Rolston: "It's not a huge surprise" to be placed on waivers
Brian Rolston said he wasn't a shock to him when Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello told him after today's practice that he had been placed on waivers.
"It's not a huge surprise," he said. "Obviously. I didn't know it was going to happen today, but I can't say it's a surprise. We all know that since September our whole team has been waiting for something to happen and, again, we're in a situation that with the way the season has been going, it can't really be a surprise."
Rolston didn't seem to take the decision to place him on waivers personally.
"I've been in this league a long time," he said. "Is it disappointing to be placed on waivers? I suppose it is. But I'm not overly disappointed. This could be an opportunity to play somewhere else. If not, I may be playing for the Devils tomorrow night (against Phoenix).
Rolston said that Lamoriello did not tell him if he intends to place him on re-entry waivers if he is not claimed off regular waivers by another team before Wednesday's noon deadline (which would allow teams to pick him up for half of his salary and cap hit). Lamoriello also did not tell him if he intends to assign him to Albany of the AHL (though that seems an unlikely scenario considering Rolston's full cap hit of $5,062,500 will continue to count against the team's cap because it is a 35-and-over contract).
"I don't know any of that information," he said. "If another team claims me, I have to look at it as an opportunity to go somehwere else and play. If not, I may be playing for the Devils tomorrow night."
When I asked Rolston if he would go to Albany if he was assigned there, "Of course I'll go."
Rolston, 37, has been a disappointment since signing a four-year, $20.25 million contract with the Devils as an unrestricted free agent on July 1, 2008. After scoring 30-plus goals for three consecutive seasons with Minnesota, Rolston scored 15 in 65 games in 2008-09 (when he missed 17 with a high ankle sprain) and had 20 in 80 games in 2009-10. This season, he has just two goals and two assists in 15 games. He missed 14 contests with a sports hernia.
I asked Rolston if Lamoriello expressed dispappointment today in the way he has played.
"Lou is a hands-on GM and we've had conversations throughout the year here," Rolston siad. "He just explained what the situation is."
Was this decision salary-cap related?
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Last major merger was Comcast's purchase of NBC Universal in 2011
Polls show Clinton in huge lead over Trump
Four fix-it stations being installed downtown by Wyatt and BBB
The election is rigged. That is the claim from one of our presidential candidates. It is not true, of course, but that isn't stopping some from believing it. The fact...
There's cold. And then there's subzero, frostbite cold. That's what we have
It's hard not to want to warm up your car a little when the mercury dips
20 year old James Misleveck, one of two men who escaped from a Black
La Crosse police have no suspects yet in an attack on one of their own.
The La Crosse County Health Department has issued a public health alert to remind people to stay indoors. For people needing shelter, accommodations have been expanded at both the Salvation Army and the La Crosse Warming Center.
The City of La Crosse and the La Crosse Center have opened the doors of the South Hall for overnight and daytime warming. People needing to get out of the cold for a few hours or a few nights can enter the center through the South Hall entrance on 2nd Street.
The La Crosse Area VOAD has mobilized the resources of its membership to provide cots, blankets, food, and volunteers to accommodate overnight shelter from the cold between the hours of 5:00 PM through 8:00 AM for tonight and Tuesday night. The La Crosse Center will welcome families and individuals.
The Tomah VA Medical Center's Outpatient Clinics in La Crosse, Clark County
Less than a week into the new year, three people have died in area accidents
Changes coming soon to a vending machine near you. Valerie Pampuch
Frigid temperatures predicted for today led Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton,
The cold snap we are experiencing has had an effect on the La Crosse Airport
Two bodies have been recovered from a car that went into the Mississippi River at Winona...
Police in Winona got a call early Sunday morning, after a witness found a broken guard rail, a license plate, and tracks near the river. The car was brought out of the water around noon, and the bodies of a man and woman were inside the vehicle. This crash comes less than a week after a woman from Winona died when her car crashed into Swift Creek in La Crosse.
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Many predators hunt by camouflaging themselves and waiting for unwary prey to swim close enough to become a meal. One species of frogfish managed to hide from scientists, too. Only in 2015 did researchers rediscover this color-changing critter dwelling in tropical and subtropical waters and determine that it was an entirely new genus and species, Porophryne erythrodactylus. What makes frogfish such successful predators is their ability to completely blend into the sponges and corals where they lay in wait, so it's incredibly difficult for unsuspecting prey to spot them.


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Hey! I would be glad to have you as a healer on Project Wizard Tales! If you could just head to the Project Wizard Tales page here, add your name to our list of healers and choose 3 articles you would like to work on, that would be great. We are currently trying to promote the Wizard's father (The Wizard and the Hopping Pot) article, so if you could work on that it would be great. I'll give you a badge if you work hard! Thanks. --Margiechocoholic Owl me! 07:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey, you've been doing some really good work on the project, particularly on the Wizard's Father article, so I've decided to award you this badge:
Put it on your userpage if you like. Well done! --Margiechocoholic Owl me! 23:23, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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You're welcome. Actually, if you could, it would be good to create a Wizard (The Wizard and the Hopping Pot) article. It's pretty strange that it hasn't been done yet. I'll give you a hardworking badge if you make it really good, check out the Project Wizard Tales page for more info. --Margiechocoholic Owl me! 02:15, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


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Dramatic video of a rescue by Port Isaac RNLI lifeboat is now available.
It shows the Port Isaac lifeboat volunteers racing through rough seas to find an angler who had fallen off rocks near Tintagel Head. The video was shot by Matt Main using an RNLI helmet camera and finishes abruptly because it was damaged during the recovery of the man into the D class inshore lifeboat.The fisherman, who was washed off rocks near Tintagel Head, was rescued on Monday 31 December by the volunteer crew of the Port Isaac RNLI inshore lifeboat. It's believed the man had been in the water for up to an hour before he was found. With the helicopter continuing to search for other possible casualties, the lifeboat crew decided to head for the nearest harbour – Boscastle – where the fisherman was met by paramedics and then transported on to hospital by land ambulance. It was late afternoon when the three RNLI volunteers launched onboard the D class inshore lifeboat Copeland Bell following reports that a fisherman had been washed off rocks and in to the sea. In a big sea and a large swell Andy Cameron (Helm), Nicky Bradbury and Matt Main managed to find the man and get him into the lifeboat. At this point it was getting dark. Entering the harbour in challenging conditions and fading light took all the skill and training of volunteer Helmsman Andy Cameron.Christopher Key, Boscastle Harbour Master, oversaw the arrival of the lifeboat. In a letter to Bob Bulgin, Chairman of the Port Isaac RNLI lifeboat station, he wrote:'The weather conditions between Tintagel at Boscastle were appalling with high winds and a heavy ground sea running at about eight to ten feet swell size and large sets of waves I would estimate as much as fourteen feet, which were breaking across the harbour mouth. With the tide flooding the ground sea was particularly aggressive.' 'I have no doubt that the decision to enter Boscastle Harbour with the light fading and nearly gone was extremely difficult and in my opinion the courage and ability demonstrated by the crew, not only in the initial rescue but also in safely navigating the entrance to Boscastle Harbour through heavy surf with rocks littered all around, was of the highest calibre. I know that the crew selflessly put their own lives at very great risk last night. On behalf of my (Boscastle Harbour) association we appreciate their outstanding conduct.'The lifeboat sustained some damage during the rescue and with conditions building it was decided to leave it in Boscastle overnight. The lifeboat was repaired and back on service the following day.Phil Tidy is the RNLI volunteer Lifeboat Operations Manager at Port Isaac:'The crew did extremely well to find and rescue the man and that's the best news for all of us. This rescue, happening late in the afternoon on New Year's Eve, highlights the extraordinary commitment of the RNLI's volunteer crew who are willing to drop everything to help save a life at sea. To know we helped someone in trouble was a good way to see in the New Year.'Helmsman Andy Cameron said: 'We don't know the name of the gentleman we helped, but he is in our thoughts and we hope he is making a swift and full recovery.'Notes to editorsPlease note, the download button on the video does not work - please contact the RNLI Press Office on 01202 336789 to get a copy of the video file.
Following a rescue of a similar nature back in April 2012 Matt Main and Nicky Bradbury were awarded the RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. They'll receive the medals at the charity's Annual Presentation of Awards in May 2013. The RNLI Silver Medal for Gallantry was awarded to Damien Bolton who was the Helm on that occasion.Media contacts
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The hits just keep on coming for new MSU head football coach mark Dantonio and his staff on the recruiting charts.
Kicker Aaron Bates told GSN that he gave Dantonio his verbal commitment to attend Michigan State and will enroll this summer.
"He pretty much told me that (the punting job) was mine to lose and that was exciting, " said Bates. Michigan State loses All-American punter Brandon Fields to graduation and Bates will be given a shot at coming in and taking over immediately.
Bates says that while he has a strong leg, he knows he has some things to work on. "I've never really had a kicking coach because I play baseball and basketball. I'm excited because (former MSU punter) Craig Jarrett is a graduate assistant and he's going to help me work on some things that I need to work on."
We asked Bates was it a little intimidating to think that about punting in a high pressure environments like the "Horseshoe"in Columbus or on the road in South Bend and Ann Arbor."
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So how's the speed and stability of the site and forum for everyone?
its very good...for the last week or so the site is almost speeding
Speed seems OK but there is noticeable lag in loading and swapping pages. The lag may be being caused by delays in resolving the DNS or some other problem with the host network.
Note: I have checked the settings for e-mail notification of replies. I do not want them and set it up correctly in the user settings but I'm still getting an e-mail every time someone posts in the thread.
Bejohnson, posts #233 & #247 had the notification box checked. I've turned those off for you. ;)
Both main site and forum are slow to load for me.
Speed is generally good. The slow speeds are noticeable when first entering the forums and selecting "new posts" and "mark all forums read". Not bad though, I just take a few seconds to stand up and take a break.
Well, this new server really should not be slow. It's not instant for me, but it's not far off. So I wonder why some of you are finding it slow. hmmmm
Would have to break them down per internet provider and trace their route to 3GM. It can't be fast for everyone. I also think Zach has not turned on the tweaks yet since the server move. And because our web master has a day job and wife & kids we just have to wait. ;)
True, I don't think Zach has tweaking the new server yet, so that could help.
Yup, back on post #313
""Zach Wrote: Keep in mind folks that I still have tweaking to do including accelerators. Forums will speed up too once I pull the "crap" threads out (years of spam messages etc)...
could that "learning cache" have anything to do with the speed?
The learning cache will speed things up later. The big difference right now is the new server upgrade. But yeah, caching is more ideal because it removes the need for plugging away at the hard drives / memory / processing time before it's sent out. It pretty darn fast for me right now. I have no complaints. :)
We have a number of caches implemented for HTML, CSS and JS rendering. I will be implementing some PHP and MYSQL caches this weekend. I will also be fixing a lot of the little/annoying issues people have been experiencing and possibly bringing the user control panel and/or PM'ing...
Looking forward to this upcoming weekend Zach ;)
OH wow.. A few days of silence actually scares me..lol
Hopefully the silence will be broken this weekend with Zach's massive site improvements and tweaks ;)
Will we be getting our post counts back from the old forum?
At some point yes. Zach's main focus is getting the site up and running smooth before he hits the little things.
Slugbug Posts: 1,018 in the old 3GM forum.
I miss all the Search features.
I still wonder why you didn't stick with a standard product like IPB or PHPBB, etc. They are all fairly similar and easy to make use of as a result of that familiarity.
But I will keep thinking positive. :)
I am sure the features will come with time. I am just glad we have the "New Posts" link.
Every time I look around Zach is adding something. :)
It's just that there are 100% free, turn-key solutions with all the features that everybody is used to working near 100% right from the start, and I don't get why someone wouldn't want to just save all the time, effort and money and use one of those.
I'm pretty dense though... :)
But STILL!!!
Flogging a dead horse eh.
Yeah, it is an annoying failing of mine.
Sorry about that...
BTW, is there a "QUOTE" button in our future?
Here, this game should keep your mind off the dead horse for a while.
I noticed that this link:
Points to the previous Forums. Are they coming back? Or is it just an aside that will be removed in favor of the new layout/code?
It's only there for archives.
Correct. The old forums are still there in an archived state to which users can still reference their previous materials and so that people trying to find stuff via search engines can still find what they are looking for. :)
Very good to know. Thanks much for the replies.
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Scott Gardner was in a dark place when he scrambled to hide his drugs and his pipe as his 10-year-old son, Ben, stood crying at his front door. "You're killing yourself," Ben yelled at him.
After Gardner's silent mother led his distraught son away, Gardner went back to his living room and got high.
The road to the depths of Gardner's life is long and complicated and involves a lot of hurt. His life has been raw and real, and people say that's why he can help troubled girls — girls who have seen lots of other people give up on them.
Gardner never gives up on anybody. He's alive, he says, because of hope.
Gardner is the founder and director of Pathway of Hope, a residential treatment home for troubled teen girls with a variety of struggles, from drug addiction to histories of abuse to breaking the law.
About 80 percent are sent there by the court. The rest are enrolled by their parents, desperate to get their healthy daughters back.
"It's a family home, not an institution," says Gardner, 51, who lives in Grand Rapids and runs Pathway, in Evart, near Reed City, home to about a dozen girls at a time.
"Love matters," he says. "It just does."
Gardner, who has a master's degree in Christian counseling, does counseling sessions with Pathway girls and their parents at a Northeast Grand Rapids church to save area parents the long drive to Evart.
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, he's in a small church classroom with a teen Pathway resident named Morgan, her mom and her stepdad.
Morgan has been at Pathway for six weeks, there to recover from drug and behavior problems. It's time to take stock of her progress.
This is the first time Morgan has met with her mom and stepdad since she's been at Pathway. It's an emotionally raw session, Morgan slowly and painfully revealing how she felt pushed aside when her mom remarried. How she feels unloved. Her mom listens, rubbing Morgan's back occasionally, her eyes filled with pain.
"You've been mad a long time," Gardner tells Morgan.
She nods, wiping away tears.
"I'm mad because she wouldn't let me do stuff," Morgan says of her mom.
"That's not why you're mad," Gardner tells her. "Have you been able yet to see what you're really mad about? It's OK if you haven't."
Silence, then tearful sniffles.
"I'm mad because my dad hasn't been in my life and my mom hasn't been in my life, either," Morgan says, dissolving into sobs.
Gardner sits back in his chair.
"Now we're getting somewhere," he says.
Gardner knows about abandonment and pain. He didn't have much of a relationship with his late dad, Chuck, whom he calls uninvolved and intimidating.
"He worked from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., then he hit the local bars," he says. An alcoholic, Gardner says, he was physically and verbally abusive.
"My mom was my parent," he says.
When Scott was 11, he lay in bed one night and overheard his dad telling his mom, Esther, that he didn't love her anymore, and he was leaving her and their seven kids, after 23 years of marriage.
"I cried myself to sleep," he recalls. "With the blanket over my head. I said I would never be like him. I would be the best dad."
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• At age 14, he drove a 13-speed, 25-ton garbage truck, helping his stepdad with the family trash-hauling business.
• He's owned 75 cars in the past 16 years, including a Chevy Avalon, a Ford Taurus, 1957 Chevy, 1972 Volkswagon convertible, Dodge Nitro and Cadillac Seville. He really likes cars.
• He was a professional kick boxer in the early 1980s, training with former world kickboxing champion Dino Newville.
• "Because of where he's been, he doesn't have a lot of fear," his wife, Sue, says. "He'll get a call from somebody who needs him, and he'll just go — to the 'hood, to some home, to a dangerous area. There are times I've been scared."
• The man who used to live on the edge is happiest mowing his lawn. "I just like being home, in my yard," he says.
His mom later remarried Chet, whom Gardner calls "a bonus."
"He was spiritual," he says. "He taught me a work ethic."
But things took another bad turn when Scott was molested by a family member.
"The only guy who could protect me had left me," he says of his dad.
Scott attended a tiny Wesleyan high school in Cedar Springs, where there were just five kids in his class. He likes to joke how he was fifth in his graduating class.
He was athletic but angry, taking his aggression out on the playing field. He fought a lot.
At 15, he started smoking marijuana and drinking Boone's Farm. By high school graduation, he was addicted to cocaine.
He got married in 1978 to his high school girlfriend, Sonia. They had a baby son, Benjamin.
One day when Ben was 2, Gardner packed up all the clothes he could fit in a brown paper bag and told Sonia he was leaving.
"I went to Ben and said my silent goodbye," he recalls. "I knew I couldn't parent and be a husband. I didn't want to put any time into emotions. I loved drugs."
Sonia remarried, and soon Ben lived far away, in Oklahoma, then Texas. Eight years went by, and Gardner didn't see him.
Meanwhile, Gardner was 30 and regularly got his stomach pumped from drug overdoses.
Ask him what his life was like then, how bad things were, and Gardner is quiet for a long time. His dog Harley readjusts on the couch of their Northeast Grand Rapids home. The phone rings. Still, he's quiet. It seems he might not answer.
"Snorting cocaine was no longer doing it for me," he finally says. "So, I'd eat it. I would eat cocaine. I would snort it, smoke it and eat it. I needed that three-step process. On top of that, my favorite drink was Jack Daniels."
He couldn't afford his habit, he says, so he started dealing.
"The drugs were eating my guts out," he says. "I'm puking up black and red from my stomach."
He saw demons and chased them around the house with pots and pans. Paranoid, he stuck kitchen knives in the molding around his doors for protection.
A fateful visit
Meanwhile, out of the blue, his son Ben, now 10, called. He wanted to come visit for Christmas.
"My focus was to try to get through every hour without needing a fix," he says.
It didn't work. One night he called his sister to babysit, drove Ben to her house in Byron Center and went out for cocaine. He lied to Ben that he was sick and was going to the hospital.
"The next morning, my mom pulled up in my driveway with Ben," he recalls. "I scrambled to put away my drugs and my pipe. Ben was at my door crying. He said, 'You're a liar. You're killing yourself.'
"My mom was standing behind him. She didn't say anything. She had been through all this before.
"Ben's last words to me were, 'I never want to see you again.' They shut the door and left. I went into the living room and got high."
Two hours later, Ben called him. He apologized for what he said.
'That wrecked me," Gardner says. "I said, 'You didn't do anything bad.'"
For days, that was all he could think about.
'I couldn't get away from how terrible a father I was," he says. "This kid had been rejected by me twice. He'd been rejected for eight years. And he had the moral decency to tell me he was sorry?"
Gardner smoked his last piece of crack, then called the pastor, sent by his mom, who had been knocking on his door regularly, trying to help.
"I started the journey to getting better."
Gardner's journey to getting better involved multiple treatment centers and several years. He had a five-year relationship with a woman and had a daughter with her, named Brittney.
Meeting Sue
During a stint at Mel Trotter Ministries, he met Sue Wudyka, a staff member there. She saw things in Gardner he didn't see in himself.
"He was a leader at Mel Trotter, with the men there," says Sue, 50, now curriculum director at the Careerline Tech Center in Holland. "I saw his leadership, his potential. He was super handsome. He had charisma. I began to fall in love with him.
"I knew he would be successful," she says. "He wanted a new life."
He and Sue got married in 1994 and started a family with Sue's two young sons, Joe, now 23, and Jeff, 20, from a previous marriage.
"My mom told Sue she was crazier than I was to marry me," Gardner says. "I wasn't good at relationships. I had no money. No clothes. I was fired from my last job. My mom said our marriage wouldn't last 15 minutes.
"She was mad at me for taking another family's life and potentially ruining it."
Things were OK for a while, but after a year, Gardner, still dogged by anger, childhood abuse and insecurity, relapsed and turned back to drugs.
"I was devastated," Sue recalls. "I thought, 'This can't be real.' I questioned him. I questioned my faith. I always considered myself a level-headed, intelligent person. But I look back and think, 'Sue, you were crazy.'"
Finding healing
She drove him to Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services.
"She made sure I stayed there," he says.
Gardner would regularly meet with a psychiatrist for the next 12 years. He still goes to counseling every three months "to keep things in check."
"No drugs in 17 years," he says proudly. "Every act of obedience is a victory. Every victory brings you one step closer to the miracle."
Gardner got a job at a residential treatment center for boys, first as a direct care worker, then as a counselor once he had his degree.
"I understood their brokenness," he says.
A friend suggested he start a home for troubled girls. It made no sense to him, but when he started doing research, talking to judges, he discovered there was a need.
Gardner formed a board of directors and started speaking at churches to raise money. He and Sue moved to a new house and opened Pathway of Hope in 2002 in their house in Evart.
The name seems to fit the place. About 200 girls have gone through the program. Eleven babies have been born there. Judges Patricia Gardner, Kathleen Feeney and Nanaruth Carpenter, of Kent County Circuit Court's family division, endorse the program.
Parents tell how it saved their daughters.
"The biggest thing is, he didn't give up on her," says Steve Kandt, a Mount Clemens dad whose daughter, Kelsey, spent 10 months at Pathway. She came home seven months ago.
Two other rehab centers failed them, Kandt says.
"Scott and his staff have genuine love to give," Kandt says. "They treat the girls with dignity. They build a relationship with them.
"The girls relate to Scott," Kandt says. "They can't give him a story that shocks him. He's been there, done that — more than anything any of these girls have experienced. It sounds like he's fortunate to still be alive."
Kelsey, an 18-year-old high school senior, says when her parents dropped her off at the Pathway house, "I had no intention of recovering from my addiction. Scott understood the place I was at. He said, 'I've been there.' I thought, 'Somebody finally gets it.'
"I'm not gonna say things are perfect, but they're a lot better than they were before," Kelsey says. "I'm not using."
These days, Gardner is a guy who loves to be at home and likes shopping for argyle socks. When he visited Las Vegas recently with Sue, who attended a conference there, it was too crazy for him.
He tosses out tidbits that make you think, about deep waters being cleansing, about living graciously.
Ask Gardner what still haunts him, and he thinks for a minute.
"I'm still sad over wasted nonsense," he says. "But I don't live there."
His work, he says, feeds his soul.
"To lead a broken person to freedom?" Gardner says. "There's no greater reward."
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The chick most likely born first was assigned the named Matilda. Her band number is black/red 33 C. The chick most likely born second gets the gender-neutral name Viking, with a band number of black/red 34 C. The chick officials believe was born last, was named Titan. Her band number reads black/red 32 C.
Officials from the Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Division examined and banded the chicks May 30.
The three chicks were all female and weighed about two pounds, except Matilda, who was a little bigger and had more developed feathers than her siblings.
When determining the sex of the chick, as well as which one was born first, officials must rely on weight alone, according to Lori Sargent, DNR biologist.
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Many eyes have watched the family through the live Ustream feed set up by the county. The family lives in a parapet area outside the 18th floor of the Jackson County Tower Building, 120 W. Michigan Ave. Many have been waiting for the DNR to officially assign the names and some say they can even tell the chicks apart from one another through the live stream.


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MARYSVILLE Puttin on the dog was part of puttin on the Ritz at the second annual Grandview Village Costume Fashion Show Sept. 22.
It was a senior moment to forget, unless you counted all the laughs at the retirement community when the aging hipsters hit the catwalk dressed in a variety of outfits from an Arlington costume shop.
Residents were dressed according to a movie theme this year, and outfits included regulars from many Disney flicks, including Mickie and Minnie Mouse, Cruella Deville and others. Kids and grandkids got into the act, too, parading around as Raggedy Ann and Andy, a rock star, a movie star and many others.
Cleopatra came without her asp, and Juliet was sans Romeo, just for the night. The crowd was stunned to hear resident Donna Woodward vamp as an opera singer: the 82-year-old was really getting into the role, belting out an aria to the amazement of all.
You know her pipes are still working, jibbed emcee Barbara Lester.
Woodward used to sing on stage, mostly country and western classics. She said she was glad that her voice wasnt affected by a stroke several years back. The costume show was more than just a chance to strut her stuff in an outrageous flapper outfit.
I think it gives me a chance to get out, Woodward said.
For Grandview Village executive director Debra Loughrey-Johnson, the show started last year as an attempt to help a new business get some press and make a splash in the community. She had heard about Gussie and Gertie at a chamber of commerce event, where owners Laurie Faaberg and Becky Walsh wore two of the 800 costumes they had at the time. L-J asked if they could put on a show to create some buzz in town, but she didnt realize how much fun her residents would have.
They were really cute when they came to the chamber the first time, Loughrey-Johnson said. They were so agreeable and the residents had so much fun and they asked Can we do it again this year?
Now the racks at Gussie and Gerties have more than 1,200 costumes to choose from and the firm fitted the outfits, delivered them to the retirement center and picked them up after the show. Loughrey-Johnson said family members had a blast and that several said they havent seen their moms laugh so hard in years.
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It really is PR for both of us, she said.
L-J got a huge laugh in her outfit: dressed as the Seattle Space Needle, she assured the audience that her elevator went all the way to the top.
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An American Crime
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An American Crime
by Eric D. Snider
Grade: C
Released: January 18, 2007
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The question I have for the makers of "An American Crime" is: why? What purpose does your film serve? For I have watched it, and I have contemplated it, and I can come up with no good reason for it to exist. It dredges up awful memories and conjures horrific images, and to what end? To inform us that such unpleasantness sometimes occurs in real life? Fine -- but shouldn't part of your agenda also be to show us WHY? Merely relating an awful story and saying, "This really happened" isn't much of a raison d'etre. That's what we have newspapers for.
The American crime of the title refers to an incident in 1965 in which a 16-year-old Indianapolis girl was confined, tortured, starved, and maliciously abused by the woman in whose care her parents had left her, as well as by the woman's own children and by kids in the neighborhood. The woman went on trial, and the case sent shudders across America. It was a creepy story, especially coming from wholesome, Midwestern Indiana. California, sure. They'll lock up and torture kids out there. But Indiana?!
Ellen Page, the young firecracker of an actress who played the vengeful would-be victim in "Hard Candy," plays the victim here. She is Sylvia Likens, a smart, pretty, well-behaved girl with a younger sister, Jennie (Hayley McFarland). The girls' parents travel with a booth on the county fair circuit and must often leave the girls with friends or relatives for weeks at a time. Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener) is neither friend nor relative, but she agrees to take the girls for $20 a week, figuring with six kids of her own, another two won't matter much.
Gertie is divorced and in poor health, smokes constantly and drinks regularly, and can claim a much younger local man (James Franco) as the father of her latest baby. She needs the $20 a week badly; the rest of her income is from doing people's ironing and from the part-time job her oldest daughter, Paula (Ari Graynor), holds.
Paula is secretly dating a young married man, Bradley (Brian Geraghty), and she confides in Sylvia -- her new foster sister and gal-pal -- that she's pregnant. When rumors of this start to circulate, Gertie refuses to believe it, taking out her anger and jealousy on Sylvia instead. Sylvia is young and hopeful, brimming with potential. She is everything Gertie no longer is, and she represents what Gertie's own children could have been, if they hadn't had such a screw-up for a mother.
The abuse begins somewhat traditionally (belt whippings), becomes cruel (cigarette burns), and then advances into territory that is downright ghastly (I will provide no examples). Bizarrely, the other children take part in it, and soon their friends from school and church start coming over to beat on the girl in the basement, too. Sylvia's sister, Jennie, is left untouched, too terrified to try to get help.
Director Tommy O'Haver, whose last film, "Ella Enchanted," also centered on a young girl being forced to do things against her will, jumps back and forth between the 1966 trial and the 1965 events in question. The courtroom scenes (with a prosecutor played by Bradley Whitford) take all their dialogue from the actual trial transcripts, and that gives them a certain realistic thrill. We know this is what these people actually said, with the cadences and idiosyncrasies of real-life courtroom testimony intact.
The other scenes, on the other hand, written by O'Haver and Irene Turner, are obligated to take certain liberties, and to fictionalize things that weren't on the public record. This is done believably enough, I guess, in that I can take the movie's word for it that this is more or less what happened. What's missing is the insight.
Why would people behave this way? Gertie gets her one scene to explain her twisted psyche (marvelously acted by Keener, a great actress when it comes to dark material, though it's heretofore usually been comedy), and while one scene isn't enough, it's a start. But what about everyone else? What about the neighbor kids, many of whom, in scenes where they aren't terrorizing Sylvia, seem perfectly normal? When they're asked in court why they did it, each one says, "I don't know, sir." No doubt that's really what they said. They probably couldn't explain it. So shouldn't that be the movie's job, to explain, or at least shed some light on, what causes society to break down this way? And if the movie's answer is, "We don't know; that's just how it is," that simply begs the question, "Then why did you make the movie?"
I suspect O'Haver's intention with the film was, indeed, to find meaning in the crime and to look for its causes; the press materials indicate as much. That's good, because on face value alone, the film comes dangerously close to sensationalism, seeming to re-create the horror just for perversity's sake. I'm glad O'Haver had nobler goals than that; I just wish he'd succeeded at accomplishing them.
Grade: C
Rated R, some profanity, some sexual dialogue, some disturbing violence, pervasive disturbing themes
1 hr., 32 min.
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The average rental price in Harbor City is currently $1,345, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 74.6% of California neighborhoods.
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Harbor City real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Harbor City neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
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The St John Ambulance Museum moved from its original location in a 1969 ambulance depot used when St John ran the ambulance service in South Australia, to its current home, a 19th century cottage at 72 Edmund Avenue, Unley in 2013.
St John began in South Australia in 1885 and the museum has records going back to the first First Aid classes conducted then. The St John Ambulance Brigade began in South Australia in 1914, followed by the St John Cadets began in 1936. Their enthusiasm has seen an Annual Recreational Camp take place every year since 1951. The latest branch of St John is the Community Care Branch which was established in 1992 and has helped hundreds of people, mainly elderly citizens, to continue living in comfort in their own homes.
The museum is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting and reseearching the work of St John volunteers over its centuries' long history. The museum has a large collection artefacts, photographs, documents and uniforms.
Much has changed since litters were the ambulances of the day. There are two early litters on display, including an Ashford Litter, the original 'St John's Ambulance'. Learn more of how British Royalty is involved with the St John organisation and see the Eve's Rocker, once used in resuscitation before mouth to mouth. There are several forms of first aid treatment we now regard as obsolete, so view the development of first aid knowledge over the years.
A key feature of the museum is the painting of Sir Edward Hayward, who was Chairman of the Council of St John from 1950 to 1976 and then President from 1976-1986. Sir Edward organised for St John to take over the State's Ambulance Service in the 1950s.
St John Ambulance is part of the The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Learn more at the museum about the Order, formally established in 1113.
The museum was officially reopened by Professor John Pearn, Priory Librarian St John Australia, Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of Queensland and Senior Paediatrician of the Royal Children's Hospital Queensland on Sunday 5 May 2013. He unveiled a replica of the 900 year old Papal Bull that marks the beginning of the original Knights Hospitallers, who were the inspiration of today's St John.


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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (1537/8-1551) Signed and dated 1541
Watercolour on vellum laid on playing card (the ace of clubs) | RCIN 422295
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (1537/8-1551) Signed and dated 1541
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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (1537/8-1551) Signed and dated 1541
Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016
Charles Brandon, third Duke of Suffolk, was the younger son of Charles Brandon, first Duke of Suffolk, and his fourth wife, Katherine Willoughby. He succeeded his elder brother Henry Brandon (422294; Royal Collection) as Duke of Suffolk in 1551, but survived him for less than an hour, dying, like his brother, of the sweating sickness. On his death, the Dukedom became extinct.
Charles Brandon is shown holding a paper which is inscribed with the sitter's age when painted and the date on which the miniature was executed, 10 March 1541. A device often used in Renaissance portraits of adults to indicate learning or gravitas, it recurs elsewhere in Holbein's work such as in his portrait of Hans of Antwerp (1532; 404443, Royal Collection). In conjunction with the serious and thoughtful gaze of the sitter, it serves here to emphasise his studious, perhaps even precocious, nature. The viewer may even be invited to believe that at the age of three he is presenting us with an inscription that he has written himself. This early promise of intellectual attainment was fulfilled during the following decade and such was the standing of the Suffolk brothers amongst the scholarly community at the time of their deaths in 1551 that a eulogy (Vita et obitus duorum fratrum Suffolciensium) was dedicated to them by Thomas Wilson, their former tutor.
This miniature demonstrates Holbein's skilful modelling of form by the painstaking application of neat, hatched strokes, particularly in the internal forms of the face where these are laid over an opaque pink carnation ground in tones of grey and red. His success here lies in effectively conveying the delicate childhood beauty and character of the shortlived third Duke on the reduced scale of the miniature through a powerful combination of graphic skill and close observation. This aspect of Holbein's style was much admired by later miniature painters although few were able to emulate the linearity of his work or the deceptive simplicity of his compositions with such success. Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) claimed in his Treatise concerning the Arte of Limning to have imitated Holbein's style, commending him as 'the greatest master truly in both those arts after the life that ever was: so cunning in both together, and the neatest, and therewithal a good inventor; ...' even though his working techniques were at variance with Holbein's.
This miniature was framed in its present gilt-bronze frame of a leaf and scroll pattern design supplied by J.A. Hatfield of London as part of scheme to re-frame all the historic miniatures instigated by Prince Albert in 1851. Miniatures of this period would originally have been housed in turned ivory or ebony boxes of the type which survives, in an elaborate rose form possibly of German origin, on Holbein's miniature of Anne of Cleves in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Although the miniatures of Henry Brandon and Charles Brandon are listed in Van der Doort's inventory of the collection of Charles I, no mention is made there of their settings. During the reign of Charles II, they were recorded together in one frame hanging in the King's Closet at Whitehall Palace.
Text adapted from Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein, 2011
ProvenanceSir Henry Fanshawe; by whom presented to Charles I, before 1616; Charles II
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But once in a while, when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, there are no losers. Whether or not there's any intent to get better on the part of those involved is irrelevant. What matters is that everyone with a stake in the swap winds up in a stronger position right away.
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Baseball lost two greats Saturday with the passing of St. Louis Cardinals slugger Stan "The Man" Musial and fiery Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver.
None other than Ty Cobb was a big fan of Stan Musial.
"No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer," Cobb said in a Life magazine article. "Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
"He plays as hard when his club is way out in front in a game as he does when they're just a run or two behind."
Weaver, back in 1986, said: "On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' "
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The Giants are only offering No. 1 jerseys with Odell Beckham's name on it, but if their roster is any indication, a No. 13 jersey should be available soon.
According to the team's roster, Beckham will be the eighth Giants player to wear the number, joining some prestigious company:
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Weston Richburg: 60
Jay Bromley: 96
Andre Williams: 34
Nat Berhe: 33
Devon Kennard: 59
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The Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Somerset Hills is now accepting applicants for its 2012 Nursing Scholarships. A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to two qualified Morris or Somerset County students planning to pursue a baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN). Each year since 1991, the VNA has awarded college scholarships to students from Morris or Somerset County, planning to receive a degree in nursing. The scholarships are financed by proceeds from the VNA's bi-annual Rummage Sale and other fundraising efforts.
"The VNA is proud to support all members of our community considering the nursing profession, including graduating high school students and those adults entering the field during a career change," said Ann M. Painter, VNA of Somerset Hills President and CEO. "We are excited to offer this opportunity to all men and women considering such an important, challenging and rewarding future in the health care industry."
Scholarship applications are available from the VNA of Somerset Hills' website at visitingnurse.org or by calling 908-766-0180 ext. 127. Applications must be received by April 20, 2012 and will be reviewed by the Scholarship Committee of the VNA of Somerset Hills Board of Trustees.
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Omaha, NE (NNCNOW.com) --- International Falls, Minn. native Matt Youso has been added to the online roster of the 2013-14 Nebraska-Omaha men's hockey team, with that move happening on Thursday morning.
Youso is the likely replacement for Preston Hodge, who was dismissed from the team earlier this month after being cited by police for disorderly conduct.
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