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We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are:
first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance;
third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins;
fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Words: Joseph Smith, 1805-1844
Music: Vanja Y. Watkins, b. 1938. © 1978 IRI
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Walleye Wild Rice Cakes with Wasabi Dressing
Cindi Rockwell of Berkley, Michigan, says this recipe, which has two signature Minnesota ingredients, was inspired by the resort her grandparents owned there.
Pepper-Lime Shrimp and Grits
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Dill, shrimp and a hint of vinegar shine in this light, veggie-filled dish.
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Grilling brings out the sweetness in cherry tomatoes, which pair beautifully with the smoky flavor of planked salmon. Brown rice or quinoa round out a healthy dinner.
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Freshwater salmon soaks up the flavor of cider-tarragon marinade created by Sally Sibthorpe of Shelby Township, Michigan. She finishes the elegant main dish with a cream sauce scented with aniselike tarragon.
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Caribbean Shrimp Kabobs
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This flaky white fish looks like a gourmet dish when served over a bed of couscous and dressed with mesclun (a mix of salad greens) and colorful radish slivers.
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Shrimp and Tilapia Ceviche
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A mixture of fresh basil, pistachios, lime juice, garlic and butter tops easy grilled salmon. Store leftover pistachio-basil butter in your refrigerator for up to a week; toss with hot pasta or spread on toasted French bread.
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Every self-respecting North Shore cook makes a version of this traditional old Scandinavian main dish. The father of Grand Marais, Minnesota, native Nancy Lindquist brought his recipe with him from Norway. These tasty fish cakes are based on that recipe. A touch of nutmeg flavors the moist-on-the-inside and crisp-on-the-outside patties.
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Sustainable subdivisions – ventilation monitoring
CRC Construction Innovation (2006) Sustainable subdivisions – ventilation monitoring. CRC for Construction Innovation, Brisbane.
Australia's current pattern of residential development is typified by relatively low-density subdivision of land and highlights the necessity for development to be more sustainable to avoid unnecessary demand on natural resources and to prevent environmental degradation and to safeguard the environment for future generations. What role can climatically appropriate sub-division design play in decreasing the use of energy required to cool premises by maximising access to natural ventilation? How can this design be achieved?
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Types of Publisher
There are various specialist areas of publishing and the larger companies cover them all. For some composers/songwriters it might be more advantageous to work with a smaller company which caters specifically to their needs.
Some of the different publishing areas are listed below:
Commercial Publisher
Essentially all publishers are commercial publishers, but within the industry this term is used to distinguish this branch of publishing from companies specialising in production music.
Library/Production music publisher
Production music, which is also known as library music, tended to be associated with what was played in elevators, but these days it cuts across all genres and includes everything from classical to hip-hop and jazz. The key difference to other areas of publishing, is that this music is made available specifically for audio visual use in films, advertisements and broadcasts. In the case of Imagem Production Music, some 40,000 media professionals have access to this music library and in exchange for a fee, are free to use compositions without having to seek permission from the writer. This means that the composer/songwriter waives 'moral rights' in terms of who uses the compositions, but because the process for being able to use the music is very simple, it also means that the work might have a higher chance of being selected.
A library publisher will secure the writer an advance for the composition, and in the UK royalties will be collected and distributed by MCPS and PRS.
Buyout publisher
A buyout publisher targets the same client base as the library publisher, but buys out the rights to the mechanical royalties in return for a flat fee paid to the composer/songwriter, who will then only receive PRS royalties where they are applicable. It is worth noting the buyout publisher will also sell the music for use in areas where no performance royalties are payable, for example corporate videos. Moreover, if the music is used on a 'sampled' rather than a 'census' broadcaster, the likelihood of receiving PRS royalties is very slim.
Copy Editing: the Cambridge handbook for editors authors and publishers
Judith Butcher, Cambridge University Press, 1992
Editing Early Music
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Phoenix Seniors Reflect on Careers and 2011 Season
By: Jill Wunrow and Katie Phernetton
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay (11-7-1, 5-3 HL) men's soccer team wrapped up its 2011 season advancing to the semifinals of the Horizon League Championship while having four players selected to the All-League Teams.
With the end of another season, the Phoenix bids farewell to its four seniors, Second Team All-League selection Stuart Grable (Neenah, Wis.), AJ Konchar (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Tony Patterson (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) and Horizon League Player of the Year Tony Walls (Wauwatosa, Wis.).
The class of Grable, Konchar, Patterson and Walls has combined for 32 goals, 12 game-winning goals and 29 assists throughout 76 contests while aiding Green Bay to its first-ever Horizon League Tournament Championship in 2009, followed by the program's second appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
In Horizon League play, the class of 2011 has won three Chancellor's Cup meetings and just this season led Green Bay to its first victory on the road at Cleveland State for the first time in their careers.
With an overall record of 44-21-11 and 21-11-2 in conference play, Grable, Konchar, Patterson and Walls have always helped their team finish among the top four in the regular-season Horizon League standings in addition to finishing their careers with an impressive combined record of 6-2 against in-state rivals Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
Individually, Stuart Grable had best season of his collegiate career during his senior season. Grable finished the 2011 season leading the Phoenix and Horizon League with seven assists and was a Second Team All-League selection for the first time in his career. A Horizon League All-Tournament Team selection, Grable played in every game since joining the Phoenix in 2008 while starting in 60 games since his sophomore year. One of the most versatile players for the Phoenix, during his senior campaign, the captain was awarded the annual Aldo Santaga Scholarship which recognizes a senior who has demonstrated academic and athletic excellence throughout his career.
Konchar has been an asset to the Phoenix both on and off the field throughout his entire career, the three-time Horizon League Academic Honor Roll selection has appeared in 66 games for Green Bay while starting 10. Konchar has registered eight goals during his career with the Phoenix while scoring a career-high five during his sophomore campaign. In addition, he was voted by his teammates for scoring the goal of the year in Green Bay's double overtime win against UIC Oct. 10, 2009. During his junior season, the 6'2" forward registered three goals with two of them being game winners.
Patterson has played in 67 games for the Phoenix while starting every game since his sophomore campaign. The 5'9" midfielder has started a total of 57 contests, including Green Bay's NCAA Tournament game against Notre Dame in 2009. Throughout his career, Patterson has fired 27 shots on goal while netting four. During his sophomore season, Patterson scored a career high two goals in a four game span including the game-winning goal at Robert Morris.
Horizon League Player of the Year and First Team All-League selection, Tony Walls, finished his career leading the Phoenix with seven goals during his senior campaign. Walls' seven goals were also the fourth best among players in the Horizon League. Walls scored 18 total goals throughout his career, including the program's only goal ever scored in the 2009 NCAA Tournament. This season Walls was ranked as high as No. 21 in the weekly TopDrawerSoccer.com Poll, the highest among any player in the Horizon League.
The three-time First Team All-League selection has appeared in 74 games for the Phoenix and during his junior campaign was named to the Herman Trophy Watch List. The 5'11" midfielder was selected to TopDrawerSoccer.com's All-Rookie First Team during his freshman season and has since been a two-time NSCAA Great Lakes All-Region selection his sophomore and junior seasons.
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I was pleased to see last week that Professor Epstein had penned a response to my criticism of his recent piece on Hoover's Defining Ideas in which he argued against treating protection of civil liberties and privacy as "nonnegotiable" in the context of counterterrorism. It is not the disagreement that is pleasing, of course, but the opportunity to air it, which can foster discussion of these issues among libertarians while illustrating to the broader world how seriously libertarians take both security and liberty.
What's most important in Professor Epstein's rejoinder is what comes at the end. He says that I should "comment constructively on serious proposals" rather than take an a priori position that civil liberties and privacy will often impede expansions of government power proposed in the name of counterterrorism.
I believe that Professor Epstein and I share the same prior commitments–to limited government, free markets, and peace. Having left it implicit before, I'll state that I, too, believe that protection of life and property is the primary function of the state. But I also believe that excesses in pursuit of security can cost society and our liberties more than they produce in benefits.
Some years of work on counterterrorism, civil liberties, and privacy bring me to my conclusions. I had put in a half-decade of work on privacy before my six years of service on the Department of Homeland Security's privacy advisory committee began in 2005. While interacting with numerous DHS components and their programs, I helped produce the DHS Privacy Committee's risk-management-oriented "Framework for Privacy Analysis of Programs, Technologies, and Applications." From time to time, I've also examined programs in the Science and Technology Directorate at DHS through the Homeland Security Institute. My direct knowledge of the issues in counterterrorism pales in comparison to the 30+ experts my Cato colleagues and I convened in private and public conferences in 2009 and 2010, of course, but my analysis benefitted from that experience and from co-editing the Cato book: Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy is Failing and How to Fix It.
Whether I'm operating from an inappropriate a priori position or not, I don't accept Professor Epstein's shift of the burden. I will certainly comment constructively when the opportunity arises, but it is up to the government, its defenders, and here Professor Epstein to show that security programs are within the government's constitutional powers, that such programs are not otherwise proscribed by the constitution, and that they cost-effectively make our society more secure.
The latter two questions are collapsed somewhat by the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonableness, or "fit" between means and ends when a search or seizure occurs. And to the extent I can discern the program that Professor Epstein prefers, I have commented on it as constructively as I can.


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Recognizing lowball valuations can lead to large profits.
By Vladimir Jelisavcic
In today's environment of uncertain equity
valuations and historically low yields on corporate credit,
late-stage liquidations present an opportunity to earn solid
returns with much less exposure to market risk. Most of the
risk of liquidations is process and timing risk. In cases where
all assets have been sold, such as MF Global and Nortel, there
is no fundamental market risk. Risks are reduced solely to
process and timing.
When most investors think of investing in
liquidations, they typically focus on just two liquidation
variables: what the assets are worth, and how long it will take
to get cash out of the liquidation. A critical aspect of
liquidations that is not sufficiently appreciated is the risk
that liabilities will be greater or lesser than originally
estimated. This is an important factor because cash proceeds
from asset sales, after paying secured creditors and
professional fees are often shared with all unsecured
The greater the amount of liabilities, the smaller
the recovery. The lesser the amount of liabilities, the larger
the recovery to each creditor. The risk that liabilities will
grow is called dilution risk, and that they will shrink is
sometimes called anti-dilution. Exploiting these observations
between the perceived and actual amount of dilutive liabilities
is an example of true alpha generation in mature liquidations.
These observations persist because most investors rely on
liability estimates published by professionals managing
liquidations. Not enough analysis is done by investors to
accurately estimate liabilities by reviewing individual
Investors in liquidations are essentially taking
three types of risk: asset value risk (which includes costs of
the liquidation), timing, and the risk of dilutive liabilities.
Asset value risk is a function of market prices. Time delay
reduces rates of return. Dilutive liability risk is purely
process-driven and not correlated with financial market
conditions. We have found from experience that dilutive
liability risk is the best form of risk to take.
A liquidating debtor distributes cash from selling
assets. Assets are typically sold in private transactions so
that investors avoid the risk of an uncertain public market
valuation. In addition, professionals running a liquidation
have incentives to underestimate asset value, and overestimate
the amount of liabilities. This conservative reporting posture
does not alter fundamental asset values. Conservative reporting
enhances their reputations as skilled professionals. It does,
however, tend to lower entry prices as most investors take cues
from the conservative reporting of professionals. This tendency
to "under-promise" enables professionals to "over-deliver" and
report a series of upside surprises as successive reports are
released to creditors. This contributes to less volatility in
market prices and more stable returns.
For those reasons, liabilities are almost always
overstated. Liquidators take a conservative posture when
estimating the amount of dilutive liabilities, and tend to
overstate potentially disputed claims. Also, if liquidators try
to reduce these liabilities by actively objecting to claims,
certain creditors holding claims might not actively defend
against these objections because of cost, or creditor-fatigue.
Thus, in a liquidation, a large stated amount of liabilities is
often a source of upside. Over time, the liabilities will be
reduced, leading to higher recoveries for creditors with valid
claims, often referred to as denominator reduction.
Hedging this liability risk is usually not possible
with reference to external instruments, such as securities of
comparable companies, or with credit or equity indices.
However, hedging within the same capital structure may be
possible in larger bankruptcy cases with complex capital
structures that will change in value based on the growth or
shrinkage of liabilities.
The best way for investors to understand to what
extent liabilities are overstated is a "bottom-up" review of
claims. Thankfully, in U.S. cases a register of all filed
claims is publicly available. Investors can take a look at some
of the largest claims, review any supporting documents and map
out a range of scenarios. The high end of the range of
liabilities might estimate that 90% of creditors' claims are
allowed as valid, the low end of the range might only allow for
75%. Of course, the devil is in the details. Investors need to
understand the facts of each major asserted claim and apply
judgment to estimating possible outcomes.
The liquidation of Lehman Brothers Special
Financing Inc. ("LBSF") is a good example of value creation
through reduction in liabilities. LBSF was the customer-facing
derivatives trading subsidiary of Lehman. Exhibits to Lehman's
Disclosure Statement dated August 31, 2011 estimated
approximately $48.4 billion of liabilities at LBSF. We
initially estimated the value of LBSF's assets (consisting of
cash, intercompany accounts-receivable, etc.) at $12.6 billion,
resulting in a value of LBSF claims of 26% (12.6/48.4). A few
months later, on February 15, 2012, a motion was filed by
Lehman publicly disclosing that its estimate of LBSF's
liabilities had declined by $3.7 billion to $44.7 billion. This
anti-dilutive reduction in liabilities increased the value of
LBSF claims by 2.2 points to 28.2% (12.6/44.7). It is our view
that this is the beginning of a process of further denominator
reduction that will create additional value for holders of
valid LBSF claims.
I believe that investing in liquidations is the
best distressed debt "business" to be in. Bankruptcies can
either be reorganizations where new securities are distributed
to one or more classes of debt, or liquidations with cash
payouts. Investing in bankruptcy reorganizations and receiving
reorganized securities can be very profitable when financial
markets are rebounding from a cyclical trough, such as in 2009.
However, this type of bankruptcy investment carries with it
risks of misjudging a reorganized company's business value,
industry trends, and the general state of financial markets and
macro economy. By contrast, investing in liquidations is a
process-driven strategy with much lower volatility than
reorganizations. It's not a wave you can ride easily, but it
offers attractive results for those willing to put in the
Vladimir Jelisavcic is founder and
managing principal of Bowery Investment Management, a
distressed debt hedge fund based in New York.
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Depending on the severity of your loved one's behavior or condition, it may be appropriate to ask him or her to seek support from a group such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Often an evaluation by an addiction professional helps determine the extent of the problem and identifies appropriate treatment options.
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Little Rock records 9.0" of snow Christmas Day, making it the second snowiest December day on record and the 7th snowiest day overall since 1879.
Snowfall amounts so far as of between 10PM Tuesday and Midnight Wednesday morning:
Little Rock: 9.0"
North Little Rock: 8.6"
Maumelle: 9"
Conway: 8.8"
Lonoke: 7"
Mena: 11.5"
Batesville: 7.0"
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Sherwood: 6.3"
Searcy: 6.0"
Hot Springs: 7.0"
Bryant: 7.0"
West Little Rock: 8.0"
Wye Mountain: 11.5"
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When Nicki burst onto the scene in 2010, it was already apparent that she loved experimenting with her hair and makeup. This pink and black 'do, while definitely a funky and fun start, is pretty boring compared to the big beauty statements we've seen this star make over the past few years!
Check out that volume! Nicki's pink lips have become a signature part of her everyday look, but that orange hair was a one-time style. We actually love the color, but the curls look a little too undone and frizzy, although the fact that she's performing could probably be to blame!
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Melissa Gira Grant provides an excellent overview of the history of sex work in the United States before about 1920. Highly recommended read.
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When is one a "sex worker" and when is one a "whore"?
When is one a "sex worker" and when is one a "whore"?
That reminds me — haven't had buckwheat pancakes in ages. Gotta get down to one of the old diners in the East Village this weekend and fix that.
One is a "whore" when the "John" is an "asshole."
When one is judged by a Conservative who did't feck him/her.
If your friend, family member, or crony, fecked him/her, he/she's a sex worker.
If YOU fecked him/her, then he/she led you on, and is a whore.
This has been today's edition of SATSQ.
It varies if the individual in question works odobenidae
I admit, I had to look it up.
So disappointed that that isn't a euphemism for something.
Do fuck off.
Sorry. Not in the mood for pancakes.
When is one a "sex worker" and when is one a "whore"?
They're synonyms, really, but sex workers is more polite because it isn't also used as an insult. There's an argument to be made for reclaiming whore but that argument needs to be made by actual sex workers.
Why do you ask?
Because he's a judgmental fuckwit.
I wouldn't call you a sex worker for monied interests. But I would use the other term.
Goo goo ga joob!
I say "willing" in a deliberate pushback against our contemporary ideas about sex, sex for sale and consent: the false premise that no one, and in particular, no woman would sell sex if she had any other options.
Perhaps I'm wrong (I'm not even remotely up on the sociology of attitudes towards sex work), but it seems to me that two much more common premises about sex work in the U.S. are that the women in question are either too lazy/stupid to get "real" jobs or are so wantonly promiscuous that given that they were going to be having all that sex anyway they might as well get paid for it.
You're not wrong (at least from what I've seen as well, though I am by no means an expert on the issue), but why Grant made that statment is made a little clearer when put into the context of current feminist debate and discussion about sex work.
Yeah. Thinking about it a little more, I suspect that the attitudes I outline are the unreflective conservative view of sex work while the attitude she describes is the unreflective liberal/feminist one. Neither, of course, is particularly apt or useful.
I'm not sure that depictions in popular culture are the best indicators of "common premises" but I'm not sure I've ever seen either of those portrayed. Prostitutes are almost always portrayed as victims either of deceptive pimps/traffickers or of addiction, with a rise more recently in more positive, "willing", versions, which still generally get some kind of either tragic or redemptive arc.
I think they're portrayed very positively, although "positive" in a way that's enormously problematic in many dimensions. Of course fiction is the public face of the discussion and that contempt could lie just beneath the surface. Obviously lots of fucked-up attitudes lurk there, but I don't recognize the particular ones you're referencing.
I would say that 'other options' included minimum-wage McJobs, but those aren't even fallback options for people anymore.
It's simple economics. Sex work can be a very easy job for the money. If you are at all young and good looking, you are looking at around 1000 dollars for a couple hours on the high end of escorting. That is a middle class income for only a couple of hours of work every week.
The people that can write for a living are usually from a class where these calculations aren't even a consideration. But really, 80 hours of a degrading, tiring service job versus 2 hours of variable sex with strangers? It's not much of a contest for those that don't have qualms about sex.
This has been another episode of Proclamations, Dudely.
Pardon. Proclamations, Dudely, Middling Class.
Pro-tip: most sex workers are not "high end" / top shelf / some other dehumanizing bullshit.
Indeed not, but then most anythings are not at the high end of their thing. To deny the agency of the ones that are seems as unreasonable as pretending that there is no such thing as a crack-whore [and if there were, it was her own fault].
What in the hell is a crack-whore, really? Anything like a young buck or a welfare queen?
Who's denying their agency? Their experiences (safe, clean, completely consensual, probably a bit of fun, very profitable) are not the norm–and that's perfectly fine.
wjt wonders above what myth about sex workers is the most insidious. I take the position that the Young, Safe, Clean, White, Female Sex Worker (happy hooker, heart of gold, popular cultural icon), while it describes a tiny sliver of sex workers world-wide, is a particularly undesirable one because it allows people already afforded the greatest privileges to drown out, intentionally or inadvertently, the women, children, and men who don't share those positive experiences.
I never said it wasn't a shit job. I just placed it on a spectrum of shit jobs. It would become less shitty if it was legalized and regulated, but whatever. You don't even think as a guy I can comment, so I don't really care what you have to say.
If you had a real response, it might be interesting to hear. Instead you don't even bother with a name. Lame.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where,don't know when.
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
JenBob want a pancake?
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Erik cares about people who aren't white and male and the issues that affect them. What a fag, amirite?
Fuck you, Auto Correct. If I want fucking "emirate," I'll fucking type "emirate."
So is Erik the Parrot best friends with LoomisBot, or are they enemies?
Bitter enemies. I don't ever remember the LoomisBot mentioning critical theory, so by bringing it up Erik the Parrot is introducing extraneous, irrational elements into the rigidly-defined merciless logic of the LoomisBot's programming.
Interesting article but the reliance on the work of Herbert Asbury is problematic. Asbury's books are weirdly fascinating (especially The Gangs of New York) but they have absolutely no citations to books, newspapers, etc and its impossible to know how accurate they are.
[…] media, I've seen a fair number of things about prostitution today. Erik Loomis points to an interesting history of sex work. Then there's this Julie Bindel piece arguing that "the Dutch experiment in legalized […]
Prostitution/sex-work is so absolutely ubiquitous in the historical record that the question of whether and under what conditions it has been 'legal' is of entirely marginal consequence to its reality – although, of course, not to the individual lives of those working under different regimes. It is only the ongoing pretence that it is somehow a marginal and dangerous innovation that is remarkable, and worthy of analysis. There is, after all, a reason they refer to espionage as the 'second oldest profession'.
…So, in fact, its legal status makes quite a bit of difference then. Considering how many people work.
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Is it a cliche to have wepons match the paint scheme of armor?
I just thought of this as I was adding some red to my black handgun so it would stand out a bit against my armor.
I have most of my arsenal with black as the base color and red details. The only thing that steers away from this is my silver hilted, red bladed saber (the $7 toy from wal*mart).
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By Rob Kelly
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has hailed the "unbelievable" experience of starring for England at this summer's European Championship.
The 18-year-old had never made a senior appearance for the national team before his call-up to Roy Hodgson's 23-man squad for the tournament.
Despite his relative inexperience, the teenager started England's opening match against France and stepped off the bench against Sweden and Ukraine - and he loved every moment.
"It was everything I expected and a bit more - it was an amazing experience all round," Oxlade-Chamberlain told Arsenal Player.
"Obviously it was my first involvement in a senior England squad, and for it to be at a massive tournament like the Euros - well, it doesn't get much better than that. It was brilliant to be in and around the squad and to train with the players I trained with. I learnt a lot from it.
"I didn't expect to play, but then I didn't expect to go in the first place! It was all a bit of a surprise but I tried to take it in my stride. I was grateful for every minute that I got on the pitch and the whole experience was unbelievable."
Oxlade-Chamberlain says the gravity of the situation only dawned on him moments before kick off against France.
"When you're in the stadium it feels like every other game, but when we broke out after the national anthem we did the team picture," he said.
"It was just before kick off and there were a few people stretching, and it hit me that every one of my mates was probably watching at the pub I had watched [the World Cup] at two years ago.
"You realise that everyone in England is probably watching, and millions of people around the world are too.
"That was when I realised it was a massive occasion and I was buzzing when it sank in. It makes you want to achieve and prove yourself."
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26th annual Ambulance Chase to raise funds for Cass Community Social Services
DETROIT (Sept. 12, 2011) – Wayne State University Law School alumni, students and friends are invited to assist a local nonprofit in its efforts to enhance the local community as the Wayne Law Student Board of Governors (SBG) hosts the 26th annual Ambulance Chase Charity Run/Walk at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.
Consisting of a 2.2-mile race (shorter for those who prefer to walk) during which participants run or walk behind an ambulance, the event pokes fun at the stereotype of the ambulance-chasing lawyer. Typically, about 250 people run the race, with another 100 to 150 attending the event as spectators.
All proceeds, including profits from a $15 entrance fee for students (who show a valid WSU ID) and $20 entrance fee for non-students, will once again benefit Cass Community Social Services (CCSS). CCSS is a Detroit-based charity dedicated to making a profound difference in the lives of those in need by providing for basic necessities such as affordable housing, promoting self-reliance, and encouraging community involvement and improvement.
"This event allows the Student Board of Governors to raise funds for an organization that is such a vital asset to the city," said SBG Vice President Ashley Star Fisher. "We are committed to making a difference in Detroit and believe in the importance of pitching in where we can. We hope area organizations will join us in ensuring the success of this year's Ambulance Chase."
Added Jason Pearsall, SBG community service chairman and co-chair of the Ambulance Chase, "The Ambulance Chase is an opportunity for Wayne Law students, friends and alumni to come together for a truly enjoyable event that has a meaningful impact on our community."
The Ambulance Chase will begin in front of the Law School, located at 471 West Palmer Street in Detroit. A barbeque for participants and spectators will take place at the conclusion of the race.
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Chef Hermann to cook meal for students in remodeled Quarterdeck
Posted: August 26th, 2012
NEW! August 22 - Construction video recaps . . .
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Lake Superior State University students and staff will get a look at an extensive remodeling of the campus Quarterdeck dining hall during a grand opening at 11 a.m. on Aug. 30 that will feature a meal cooked by northern Michigan's famed Chef Hermann Suhs.
Suhs, who has been regularly featured on northern Michigan television for many years, is owner of the 3-star European Café in Cadillac, Mich.
LSSU Walker Cisler Center Manager and Food Service Director Ray Schebel said several special guests in addition to Chef Hermann will attend the event to help the Sault Area Chamber of Commerce Redcoats cut the opening ribbon, including representatives of Sodexo Group, LSSU's food service provider.
Schebel said the renovation is a major improvement to the Walker Cisler Student and Conference Center, which has been remodeled extensively over the past few years. He and others visited three universities that had recently undergone similar cafeteria improvements to find out what students liked and didn't like about their renovations. The discussions helped form LSSU's plan for the Quarterdeck.
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"The renovations include improved seating and new cooking and serving areas," Schebel said. "We now have booths in addition to standard tables and chairs, and serving areas that will allow some of the meals to be cooked in front of the students. There is also an area that can be used as a stage for performances during or after meals. We believe it will be a more inviting and comfortable area for our students."
New food areas include Bella Trattoria, with Italian-style cooking, including pizzas, pastas, lasagna, and more; the Wild Mushroom, which features fresh produce, gluten-free and vegetarian entrees; Basic Kneads, a hot/cold deli sandwich spot; Magellan's, which will include foods from around the world, some familiar and some new; and the Red Hot Chef, a station where food will be prepared in front of the diners. The Flying Star Grill will include familiar favorites of burgers, fries, grilled sandwiches and deep-fried items.
"Our Rotisserie area will feature slow-roasted meats and vegetables, as well as having accompaniments to make a complete meal," Schebel said. "This area will also allow us to promote take-out meals for anyone wanting a meal to go."
Schebel said his staff is excited to have Chef Hermann come to campus. Noted for his cooking show on northern Michigan television station TV 9/10, Suhs has operated Hermann's European Café in Cadillac since 1985. Born in Austria, where he was apprenticed for five years in Vienna, he has been employed around the world as a chef, including positions in Sweden, where he earned his master chef certificate, Thailand, the Caribbean Islands and Nepal, where he was personal chef to the King of Nepal.
Suhs came to the U.S. in 1978, where he worked in Florida at Innisbrook Resort, one of the nation's larges convention resorts, and Hawk's Cay Resort, where his dining room earned a AAA Three Diamond acclaim. He was executive chef at Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City before opening his restaurant in Cadillac.
Sodexo paid for the Quarterdeck remodeling as part of a 10-year extension of its contract on campus that calls for $750,000 in improvements to LSSU food service facilities. Construction took place over the summer, while LSSU students, summer camp visitors and staff ate in a large tent set up outside the Cisler Center.
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By Nik Brumsack
Thomas Eisfeld has enjoyed his first year in England and admits he will never forget the dramatic night he made his debut.
Eisfeld has excelled this season and was the Club's top scorer in the first stage of the Under-21 Premier League, where he netted eight times. That fine form caught the eye of boss Arsène Wenger, who gave the German his first-team bow in the incredible 7-5 win over Reading in the last 16 of the Capital One Cup.
"At the moment I'm happy," Eisfeld told Arsenal Player. "I had a tough start last year because it was a big adjustment to move from German football to English football. But now everything has turned out really well and I think things can continue to progress well. But I know I can still improve.
"[My debut against Reading] was a completely unique experience and one that I will never forget. When I came onto the pitch, I had this really good feeling. I thought we could still turn the game around. Then it happened and I'm delighted that we managed to win the game in the way we did.
"I thought my performance was good, considering it was my first game, but it could have been better. I got good reviews from a lot of people and I was happy with the way it went.
"In a way it's unbelievable to make your debut in a game like that because we, the Club, wrote ourselves into the history books."
Watch the full interview with Thomas on Arsenal Player now.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Frank writes:
Hi, I have been a professional programmer/architect for over 25 years, my Sister has been for over 35 years. My thought is this We have never found anything wrong with the Vista (Pro) OS. I don't get it, we both had it it since it first came out. My wife had Windows 7 and I don't see much functional difference. Is it all just marketing?
Part of the issue with Vista was change. It was very different from XP. Some programs that worked with XP, didn't work with Vista.
Some of the difference include the Windows 7 XP mode that allows you to run a virtual XP machine. (I used this a lot at a previous job where the software was nearly a decade old). Win 7 also allows you to pin almost anything to the taskbar and it came with a native ISO burner, has improved handwriting recognition and improves performance on processors and boot performance.
It's a bit like the differences between 8 and 8.1. Except 8.1 was free.
I was fine with Vista and asked this same question to an IT guy a few years back and he grumbled and said, "It's just different."
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text: Interview by Slava Malamud for Sport-express.ru JW: Let's speak English, ok? I'm afraid it won't be equally good in Russian. I try really hard but make lots of mistakes. There are so many rules in Russian, learning them all is beyond me. SM: Can you read Russian? JW: Read and write. I read your paper. SM: Do you like it? JW: Mostly. Say hello to Elena Vaitsekhovskaya, I've known her for a while. A couple of months ago Weir stated he was coming back to the amateur sport, as if he suddenly recalled he forgot something there. Perhaps he was just missing shocking the judges? It's not as if he became any less tame in the last couple of years, he is still capable to shock. `Those are the best sneakers ever!' exclamed a woman passing by a table where Weir and I were sitting. She pointed on Johnny's shoes - black sneakers decorated with some metal things. Johnny thanked her. The lady was not joking and made sure to repeat those were the best sneakers. Ever. She didn't bother elucidating on how well she knows the history of the sneakers, but Johnny didn't argue. Besides, it seemed he kind of agreed with her. Today's Johnny is an open and well meaning guy. He is not hiding his preferences and the consiquences. He recently got married. To a Russian guy, of course. His name now is Johnny Weir-Voronov. He has a puppy named Artiom Viktorovich Weir-Voronov. Does your dog have a paternal name? No? Congrats, you are not Johnny. You probably don't have his sneakers either. Phoenix in the aquarium SM: So what's with the come back? Have the process started? JW: Yes. Both the LP and the SP are done, I'm working on the quad. I have a loose a couple of pounds more, than will spend the summer to get back into a shape. SM: Do you have to face any injuries you were not aware of? JW: New? No, I got all the old ones back. But you know, I'm older and deal with it differently. I have a strategy. SM: So the programmes are ready... JW: In general yes. They are still to be polished but the skeleton is ready. SM: Can you tell a bit? Which music are you going to use? JW: It's a special kind of music. I'll just mention that I was personally given my SP music by Lady Gaga. SM: You're kidding.... JW: Nope. The SP will be really cool. As for the LP... I went to the skaters of the 50s and the 60s, whose programme was much longer and included cuts from different pieces. I'll have the same, but modern and with a fast beat. There will be a lot of classical bits, music everyone knows. The theme of the programme is phoenix. How it rises from the ashes. SM: Do you mean yourself? JW: You bet. I'll tell my story on the ice. SM: You spent 2 years of your life doing whatever you want. Why have you decided to return to the sport? JW: I'm glad I took a 2 years break. I needed to get away from the skating and live without it. Figure skating is like a huge aquarium. SM: Aquarium? JW: Well, yes. You live like a fish behind the glass. Everyone can see you, everyone knows everything about everyone, gossip all the time. I guess it's the same in the hockey. Anyway, I escaped it all and was thrilled. Got married. My life is wonderful. I realized figure skating is not the only thing I can do and there are other things in life. So this is my current attitude: I'm on the ice because I want to be there, not because I have no choice. BABUSHKA ТАРАСОВА SM: So what are you going to be like on the ice? Will we see the old Johnny Weir or a new one? JW: I hope you'll see a more wise Johnny Weir. I was silly when young, aren't we all? I was strong minded, wouldn't listen to anyone. When you behave like that you are in your shell and when you have a bad day there is no one to get you out, you're alone. Now I have no reason to be like that. I did all I could do for the USA figure skating. If nothing will work this time I'll just retire and will be happy. So the new Johnny Weir is more relaxed and calmed. I hope it'll help me to become a better skater I was before. SM: You are sure? What if you don't care about the winning and the competition anymore? JW: I never really cared at the first place. I'm not like Pluschenko, who fights for his life on every competition. Perhaps because he is a Russian and I'm an American and we don't have to, unlike you, Russians to fight and suffer for everything. Perhaps it's just me - I'm not willing to kill for the victory. You, Russians, like the hockey and it shows. To score, to help the team... I can't escape the fact that in figure skating everything is decided by 14 eldery wo/men. SM: George Forman once told me the Russian boxers are more hungry and aggressive than the Americans. JW: The Russian system in Figure skating is the most serious one. It's especially true about the old Soviet coaches. Either you are successful, or you are a nothing. SM: Were you shocked when facing that school? Tarasova probably wasnt' all nice and fluffy with you. JW: It was just what I needed. You see, my first coach, Priscilla Hill taught me everything I know. But she is a very loving and a tender person, perhaps a bit too much. Tarasova kicked my ass. Outside the rink she was just a babushka: was feeding me, combing me.. Galina Zmievskaya is the same: on the ice she is the hardest and the cruelest person, while outside the rink our relationship is very warm. SM: What is so special about the Russian figure skating school? What does it mean - skating like a Russian? JW: I can explain that since I was always learning about the Russian school. The Russians do everything very dramatically. The Americans are more preserved in their moves. The Russians go to the extreme with the moves, the music, the costumes. The arms and legs moves are very wide, with a huge amplitude. The Americans make it all smaller. SM: In the back times you used to name parts of your costumes. JW: Don't worry, I'm as weird as I used to be. If I need to name a programme or a cosume - I will. Why not have fun. The worst thing is to be too serious. What's the point doing something that doesn't make you happy? SM: I have an impression all your weirdness is calculated.... JW: Calculated?! No. I'm really weird and don't mind it. SM: The others do though. JW: Figure skating is an old sport. Not old, but well, eldery. The traditions are very important and the old people are ruling everything. Those people, by the way, are not interested in the gay athlets, and that's despite the fact in the USA the figure skating has kind of a `gay' reputation. It's just that everyone would rather keep it quiet and not upset the others. I decided a long time ago there is nothing more important in life than to be what I am. As a consequence on one hand I didn't have to be in the usual boundaries. On the other hand I realize my results as the athlete suffered. A shower for me, a platinum gold to Pluschenko. SM: If the judging wasn't biased in what place would you finish in the 2010 Olympics? JW: Wow... you know how long it took me to watch the other's skates? I was heartbroken after Vancouver. I was depressed and lost all the interest in figure skating. Vancouver was the peak. Indeed, it was the peak moment of my life - the most emotional, dramatic, the best one. I left the ice with so many feelings, but once the marks showed it was obvious I'm being put on the 6th place. Wow, I thought, so how well the others must have skated? Yet the journalists in the mixed zone were reporting that this skater fell, that one stopped in the middle of the programme, that one shitted on the ice, one burnt himself from his nostrils... So why wasn't I placed higher?... After 7-8 months I calmed down enough to watch the skating. I think I should had finished 3rd in Vancouver. SM: It seemed you were less disappointed than Pluschenko. JW: You bet. SM: How did you take his reaction - that he deserved a platinum medal etc? JW: Figure skating takes your whole life. Pluschneko rested for 3 years after Turino and if he came back it was probably not for the silver, right? So if it's the only thing you aim for, the only thing you wake up thinking in the morning and you don't get it... anyone would be upset. I'm actually much closer to Evgeny than to Evan Lysacek and I cheer for him. Of course as far as the USA PR goes he did some damage. But everyone deals with the disappointments in their own way. Galina (Zmievskaya) after I had finished 6th went to McDonalds and eat chips. To do something like that she has to be really depressed. I went crying in the shower. Evgeny spoke about a platinum medal. Everyone and whatever calms them down. SM: So your relationship with Lysachek, who became the champion are still so so? JW: I havent' seen him for a very long time. The poison was mainly made by the USA media. And the FS federation. Of course we don't really like each other, but when I got married he was one of the first to congratulate me, which shocked me. Guess we both grew up. We don't have to like each other, but I have much more respect to his achievements now. SM: So now you are back to figure skating. Do you think your odds are higher? The judges became more liberal? JW: I thinks so. I hope so. If not -well, hey ho. By the way, the federation treats me better than ever. Guess they realize I'm the only one who can keep the figure skating popular in the USA. Evan won the Olympics but no one has a clue who is he. Yes. I can make our sport popular again.. I hope the federation will let me participate all the competitions I have to and will explain how to be liked by the judges as well as the public. For the last 2 years I got too used to skate for people who would clap just if I shake my ass. SM: Do you think you might make hte judges like you? JW: It's going to be hard. It's hard to Pluschenko, but he came back. I'm not nearly as popular as Zhenya in Russia. Though I have nothing to complain - I am loved and appreciated in the USA overall, the federation knows it and needs me. Where the guy gets the Russian depression from? SM: By the figure skating standards in Sochi you'll be an old man. If you make it there at all. JW: Yes, I'll be 29. But I only started skating when I was 12, so I'll have 17 years of skating. Many of my rivals started skating when they were 2, so their body was under the pressure for much longer than mine. Why not make it to Sochi? The competition in the USA is not so hard right now. SM: What can you look for in Sochi? JW: it's a competition, so I aim to win. What's the point otherwise. If you go knowing you are not going to win why go? Just stay home. But I'll be thrilled just to be in Sochi. 3 Olympics is a huge success. SM: Especially taking into an account how much you love Russia. JW: Of course! Russia is my inspiration. I mean the coaches, the music, the culture and the figure skating tradition. To finish my skating career in Russia is a dream. Besides, I will be skating under my new last name - Weir-Voronov. SM: Where do you get it from? You from a village in Pennsylvania. There are no Russians there. JW: No idea. I just have it. SOme like maths. Some have some weird hobbies. I've been interested in Russia since I was 5. What is that country? Why no one except for me likes it? Why are there beautiful buildings on the Red SquarE? What is communism? I'm enchanted by all that. SM: Have you found something in Russian culture that shook your world? JW: Even the poorest of the Russians, one with no money and no job would behave as if he was Putin. It's a very Russian thing to behave like that. I respect it. In the USA people are afraid to do what they like in case they offend someone. Russians don't give a damn. They just need to feel they are in the rule and everyone else to agree. I'm interested in Russian history -it's so romantic with all the ups and down. The Red Square is the most beautiful place on earth. Every time I walk there I'm amazed. SM: Guess there aren't many cheburashka collectors in the USA JW: Even our puppy has a cheburashka. SM: How many do you have? JW: you know the Japanese bought the rights for Cheburashka? So every time I go to Japan I bring a suitcase full of Cheburashkas. I have them in every possible colour and shape. The Japanese have a great imagination and dress them in everytning possible. Cheburashki on the skates, wearing my costumes... Guess I can supply enough cheburashkas for 5-6 primary schools. SM: Its a weird toy. That what he sings about himself... JW: But it's so cute. Thats why I like it. No one knows where it came from and how it ended in the box of the oranges. That is why it is so loved. SM: Let's have a Russian culture quiz. For example: what is your favourite Russian book? JW: I have a small book of Pushkin's poetry I carry with me everywhere. SM: Pushkin is hard to translate. Do you have favourite quotes? JW: I recall one, but think it's actually Tolstoy: Upon the brink of a wild stream he stood and dreamed a mighty dream. SM: It's Pushkin actually? JW: I screwed, huh. Indeed Pushkin. SM: Favourite movie? JW Moskva slezam nye verit. (Moscow does not believe the tears) SM: Good choice. Favourite celebrity? JW: Alla Pugacheva. I adore her. If only because deep down I'm an old Russian woman myself. And Sergey Lazarev. MS: An old Russian woman? JW: a lot of my friends are eldery Russian ladies. My coaches, their friends, my dentist and her friends. We like talking about bags and fur coats, how to make the salads right.... MS: There you go: the favourite dish? JW: My mother in law does incredibly tasty pirozhki with chicken. I like olivier salad and black caviar. MS: The favourite Russian athlet? JW: Evgeny Pluschenko, Irina Slutskaya, the gymnast Sveltlana Khorkina. I adore her, she is a diva. How I was a Boris Eltsyn SM:I'm just trying to picture a Russian athlet who loves the USA as much as you love Russia. Think he would have a hard time. How is it to be a rusophil in the USA? JW: The Americans ask me the same. How come? Where does it come from? They are just curious. Guess in Russia such a person would be crusified without a chance to explain. But I did a lot of silly things, I have to admin. Wearing a sweater with a `USSR' on it for the Olympics warm up for example. It was a present from Tatiana Totmianina. Guess the federation would be more happy if sitting with my coach in the K&C I spoke English rather than Russian. Who knows what I'm saying there right in front of the cameras. There were some other moments which didn't quite thrill everyone. But all and all people like it that I represent the USA in it's best - having the freedom to be what I want and love what I want. SM: Does many in the USA like it? JW: Well, not everyone, of course, but it's my fault. I used to be very aggressive throwing it into people's faces. I didn't realize the reaction it would create. I didn't realize how many people would be watching me in Turino Olympics. Of course some reacted quite harshly. Some ever threatened me. I had to register under a false name in the hotels. I was using `Boris Eltsyn' quite often. SM: How were you threatened? On the phone? JW: Calls, letters. I once received a fax saying `be a man and die. The reason was my costume that included fur. Those protesters against the fur are totally screwed up. I still receive some letters - the religious groups, the homophobes... It's worse when they actually try to get me. Now I'm being chased by one female fan. She is completely mad. She threatens me, Voronov, one of my friends who she imagined is my lover... it's hard dealing with mad people. SM: Speaking of homophobia... you know how it is in Russia. Do you like it less as the result? JW: It is painful to think people like me can't lead a normal life in Russian. It is painful to think those who speak up for them is being shut up. But what can you do? Being gay is not about being an American or a Russian or a Chinese or anything else. There is more or less the same amount of use everywhere. If I had a choice I would be heterosexual and wouldnt' suffer. It's so much easier! But I don't have a choice, nor does anyone else. It hurts me Russia doesn't recognize my way of living and hates it. But I love Russia despite it. I would have lived in Russia if I could. At least in Moscow. SM: You mean there are no problems in Moscow and St. Petersburg? JW: Never happened. Never! Think once someone was trying to steal my bag in Moscow. I attended a gay bar in Moscow once. There were other skaters who joined just out of curiosity. The security was so high. They didn't turn the music on till 3AM just to keep it low. It's sad. Russia is so modern in many ways, but as far as the gay rights go it's in the middle ages. There is no progress. As much as I'd like to be a Russian I am actually not and I can't fight with the homophobia in Russia. SM: did your mother cry when you told her? JW: Sure. All the parents who find our their children are gay start blaming themselves - as if it was their mistake. What my mother had to do with that? I was like that since I was 6... Now our relationship with her and with Viktor's parents are great, and that's despite the fact I'm not an easy person to live with. Horses, Lady Gaga, Chanel SM: Have you ever tried changing your skating style, make it more masculine? JW: You bet I had. I used to work with Marina Anisina, the Olympics ice dance champion. She came up with a very interesting programmes where I was depicting a chess board in the SP and Jesus in the LP. She wanted me to skate in the most contemporary, sharp, masculine way. To get away from all the elegance and the ballet. But this is what I like! My idol is Mikhail Baryshnikov. It didn't quite work out.. though it was during a bad time in my life in general - my private life was down, I was depressed and it showed in my skating. SM: You said you started skating when you were 12, which is very late. I heard it took you one week to learn the axel jump. JW: Yes! I watched it very closely on the TV, then went to a frozen corn field near my home and jumped it. SM: Landing on one foot? JW: All as it should be. Why not? I'm from such an American nowhere that I'm not used to be afraid. I'm afraid of sharks and bug crowds. Spiders. But not of falling on the ice! We have so much snow and ice in Pennsylvania at the winter that your whole ass becomes one huge blue mark. Besides, I was riding the horses before that. SM: Jumping above the fences? JW: Yes. I was really small. Sitting on an animal of the size of a car and jump above things - now that is scary. SM: Were you any good? JW: Quite decent. I was first interested in soccer, but its' not for me. A team game, running, sweating, kicking the ball.. thanks, but no thanks. I tried skiing, and then switched to the horses. I was quite close to qualifying to the national team of my age, but then I got interesting in figure skating and forgot about the rest. SM: Lady Gaga gave you the music. Are you friends? JW: As much as you can be friends with a superstar. She supports me, takes interest in my career. I was once sitting in her mother's restaurant and her mother told me `It would be great if you skated to Gaga's music' SM: Gaga? JW: Well, no, of course she called her Stephanie. Anyway, mom called the daughter and she sent me the music. SM: Will you copy Gaga's costume? JW: Perhaps. SM: The judges will just love it. JW: (laughts) we'll see. I just want to have fun. If it annoys people, makes them think, cry or laugh - well ,great! Who knows whether I'll win or finish 20th? But I'll be doing exactly what I wanted and nothing else. Guess my time to win the Olympic medal has passed, but to entertain people, change the sport, change my opinion on myself - that I still can do. SM: You once said when you skate you are in the world of your dream and you want to take the viewer there with you. What does that world look like? JW: Like the inside of the cloud. It's all sparkling and smells with Chanel n. 5 SM Cant' say I'm very surprised. JW: it's my world. It's light, sparkling and good smelling.


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We've been working on these since we went to CV (our first convention) this fall. What a blast we had!! the best was the battle sceen we would put on when we came back to the Hilton each night in the lobby... leia and jedi would come in first... then the Fetts and battle and capture them and then bobbel head Vader would enter. Then we would escort them to the elevator. there was also a cheerleading convention and a mary kay conevention being held there.... what a circus!! It would take us 30 mins just to enter or leave the hotel with all the pics being taken.... Yes we are already talking about doing it again!
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