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Churchill & Sarsden Heritage Centre
Housed in the remains of the old medieval church, the Heritage Centre is in a stunning setting...1.73 miles away
Chastleton - St Mary's Church
Next to the National Trust property of Chastleton House (pre-booking required for visiting) the...1.76 miles away
Chastleton House
A rare gem of a Jacobean country house, Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 by a...1.78 miles away
Churchill - All Saints Church
Built in 1826, All Saints has a west tower that is a slimmer version of the tower of Magdalen...2.08 miles away
Chipping Norton - St Mary the Virgin Church
A wool church and Grade I listed building, St Mary the Virgin is tucked away near the bottom of the...2.61 miles away
Cotswold Cycle Hire
Cotswold Cycle Hire offer quality cycle hire that comes to you, with free collection and delivery...2.7 miles away
Chipping Norton Museum of Local History
An independent museum located on the first floor of the 19th century Chipping Norton Co-op...2.73 miles away
The Theatre
We are a theatre, an arthouse cinema, a gallery and a concert hall. In the heart of the...2.74 miles away
Rollright Stones
The Rollright Stones are a group of prehistoric megalithic monuments built from large natural...2.82 miles away
Chipping Norton Leisure Centre
Chipping Norton Leisure Centre's facilities include: 25m four lane swimming pool; four court sports...2.88 miles away
The Lido at Chipping Norton
Surrounded by large fenced lawns, The Lido at Chipping Norton is the perfect day out for the...2.94 miles away
The Wychwood Golf Club
The Wychwood Golf Club is home to a beautifully maintained course boasting USGA greens, allowing...3.92 miles away
Cotswolds Club
A scenic parkland course, 6,316 yard 18 hole, that provides a constant challenge for golfers of...4.08 miles away
Fairytale Farm
Fairytale Farm mixes classic fairy tales, animals and adventure play to create a sensory and...4.17 miles away
Foxholes Nature Reserve
Foxholes is a tranquil woodland sloping down to the River Evenlode with year-round colour and...4.39 miles away
Great Rollright - St Andrew's Church
Set on a small rise to the east of the village of Great Rollright, St Andrew's church, despite its...4.46 miles away
Idbury - St Nicholas Church
Mainly 15th century in character, but with a fine reset 12th century Norman north doorway with...4.88 miles away
Ascott-under-Wychwood - Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity is set in the heart of the beautiful village of Ascott-under-Wychwood. It abounds with...5.62 miles away
Shorthampton - All Saints Church
The hamlet of Shorthampton consists of little more than a farm and the church. The church has an...5.69 miles away
Shipton-under-Wychwood - St Mary's Church
This handsome medieval church, mainly dating between the 13th and 15th centuries, has a wonderful...5.73 miles away
Heythrop Park Resort Golf
A new course with a rich past. The new 7,008 yard par 72 golf course has been designed by...5.81 miles away
Heythrop Park Resort Spa
A newly refurbished spa, with a luxurious environment where you can look forward to a...5.84 miles away
Wychwood Wild Garden
Wychwood Wild Garden is a beautiful woodland and garden, close to the centre of...5.99 miles away
Batsford Arboretum & Garden Centre
Batsford Arboretum is home to one of the country's largest private tree collections. Enjoy early...6.63 miles away
Enstone - St Kenelm's Church
The earliest church here dates from around 850 AD and the present church has thirteen centuries of...6.94 miles away
Charlbury - St Mary the Virgin Church
Parts of the present building date from the 12th century, though a Saxon church may have existed...7.18 miles away
Charlbury Museum
Charlbury Museum is an independent museum, run entirely by volunteers. Its five rooms are crammed...7.22 miles away
Birdland Park & Gardens
Discover an amazing world of birds and their Jurassic ancestors.
Admire exotic and rare birds...7.47 miles away
Leafield - St Michael and All Angels Church
Designed in 1859 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, St Michael and All Angels was consecrated in 1860,...7.94 miles away
Great Tew - St Michael & All Angels Church
Approached through an unusual gateway, along a path flanked by ha-has, Great Tew's church is barely...8.1 miles away
Ditchley Park
When not in use for conferences and other activities, the Mansion and grounds are open...8.35 miles away
Finstock - Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity was built in Gothic Revival style in 1841, though then it only consisted of the nave....8.63 miles away
Fulbrook - St James the Great Church
St James the Great Church is a fine example of a Norman church that managed to escape overly...8.8 miles away
Burford - St John the Baptist Church
One of the large Cotswold 'wool churches' built between 1160 and 1475. Items of interest include: a...9.22 miles away
Swinbrook - St Mary's Church
Set in the Windrush Valley, St Mary's church is 12th century with early enlargements and a tower...9.33 miles away
Widford - St Oswald's Church
A tiny church on its own in the Windrush Valley. In 1904 it was found to have been built on the...9.36 miles away
Burford Ghost Trail
An historically informative yet hugely entertaining way to soak up the atmosphere of this beautiful...9.38 miles away
Tolsey Museum
Recently re-opened after refurbishment, the Tolsey Museum is housed in the early Tudor market...9.4 miles away
The Burford Tour
At The Burford Tour we aim to show you how this beautiful medieval town has developed over the...9.4 miles away
Wilcote - St Peter's Church
St Peter's Church in Wilcote is probably of 12th century origin but with a significant Victorian...9.69 miles away


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The boys track team finished up District competition over the weekend at Piqua coming home in 4th out of 18 teams. The boys competed well and ended the competition with 5 athletes moving on to the Regional track meet this week in Piqua.
Ryan Michael in the 1600m run
Collin Genslinger in the 100m dash
Adam Valenti in the Discus
PJ Varnadoe in the High Jump
Jarrett Lynch in the Pole Vault
Other outstanding performances came from our 4x200m relay team of Lucas Lynch, Zach Keener, Braden Brem, and PJ Varnadoe broke the school record with a 1:32.15!
The 4x100m relay of Lynch, Brem, Wood, Genslinger placed 5th
Aaron Valenti placed 8th in the 300 hurdles
Trevor Paringer placed 7th in the 3200m run
Mason Pledger placed 7th in the high jump
Adam Valenti placed 5th in the shot put
AJ Martinez placed 7th in the 800m run
Congratulations to all of the boys on a great season and best of luck to those continuing to compete for a chance to qualify for State next week!

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UK close to deflation
The Bank of England is set to slash its inflation forecast to near zero when it publishes an updated outlook for the UK economy. As Ciara Lee reports it raises the prospect of the Bank of England's first ever deflation report.
Deflation is close - but don't worry. That was the message from Bank of England governor Mark Carney, as he explained why UK inflation is at its lowest level in nearly 15 years. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BANK OF ENGLAND CHIEF MARK CARNEY, SAYING: "The MPC estimates that two thirds of the gap between the current inflation rate and target, is explained by the sharp falls in food and energy prices, and this is generally good news for British households. The MPC's job is to provide clarity over the horizon over which it is aiming to bring inflation back to target and take the necessary steps to do so." Those steps could involve a rate cut and QE. A halving in global oil prices and a strong pound has pushed down UK inflation to 0.5 percent, way below the Bank's 2 percent target. But Carney says it's unlikely to lead to a deflationary spiral like that feared in the euro zone. NAB's Nick Parsons says markets aren't convinced. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NICK PARSONS, MARKET STRATEGIST AT NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK, SAYING: "It's all very well for him to have the same definition as Mr Draghi does, but it still begs the question why did Mr Draghi throw a trillion euros at it when Mr Carney appears so relaxed." Cheaper fuel has put more money in the pockets of consumers and factories had a strong January as their costs fell. Some economists predict this year Britain will see its fastest growth in nearly a decade. That's good news for Prime Minister David Cameron facing an election in May, and in full campaign mode. ACTUALYITY - CAMERON SAYING: "I am at top speed" (English) But Cameron might not want to celebrate too soon - he's in the midst of a political storm, surrounding an HSBC tax avasion row. A number of Conservative party donors held accounts with the bank in Switzerland, where the tax dodging allegedly took place The opposition has been quick to jump on the issue. SOUNDBITE (English) ED MILIBAND, LABOUR LEADER, SAYING: "He's a dodgy Prime Minister, surrounded by dodgy donors." But Labour donors have been named too - making it hard for some chose between them. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NICK PARSONS, SAYING: "For the first time in a generation politics matters. It hasn't mattered for the last 25 years. Both major parties have essentially offered the same programme to the electorate." There's still no runaway leader yet in the elelction campaign. And any sign that the economy is going off track could be a key factor.


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We are currently under a tornado watch here in Maine! For this state, this is extremely rare. I can't ever remember it happening before (though I'm sure it's happened once or twice) in my lifetime. Wierd, wacky stuff!
Monthly Archives: July 2008
flamingo birthday cake
My birthday is coming up, and my family had an early celebration for me (and others) yesterday. Guess what the cake was?! A pink flamingo!!!! They made it especially for me. It was so cool!
I also got a hand-made flamingo tote bag, pillow, and bird house, all of which I love! Plus, a beautiful, colorful bouquet of flowers, and more! 😀
I got a free Motorola Q 9 from a survey site! Not kidding…
As you may or may not know, I work from home as a freelance web and graphic designer, online boutique owner, auction seller, etc. I, like many others, have also been lured into the potentially shady, waste of your time world of paid (or not-so) online surveys. There are times when my regular work is slow, so I figured it wouldn't hurt in my down time to see if one could actually make any money from any of those survey sites that are all over the place.
I went crazy and signed up at a slew of survey sites. Most survey sites that you come across are just directories of real survey sites, and so I often felt that it was just a stupid wild goose chase. A lot of survey sites only give people sweepstakes entries for surveys completed; those are a waste of time IMHO.
I did come across a few survey sites that I found to be completely legit, and I actually got something from them. Two days ago, I got a free Motorola Q 9 delivered to me from one of them! No shit. I figured I'd post about them, because I know a lot of people out there search for paid survey sites, and maybe this will help prevent someone from going on a wild goose chase, or even worse, paying someone for a list of legit survey sites, as some sites you come across try to get you to do.
Plus, I just wanted to show off my new Moto $400 smart phone that I got for free!
The site I ended up getting the free phone from is Lightspeed Panel. I had been signed up with them and taking surveys for a month or so before I got the phone. I took every survey they sent. I'm not sure if those factors had anything to do with me getting the phone or not. I started a survey they sent me which was about cell phones, and it ended with them asking if I'd like to receive the phone and participate in a study about it and it's OS, Windows Mobile.
How it works is I get to keep the phone for a year and use it as my regular phone. They send periodic surveys through e-mail and to the phone. There's also a little feedback system on the phone where if I like or don't like something, I can take a screenshot and send it to them with a comment. They want you to have unlimited data on your cell phone plan so you can use the internet features at will and really test all of the phone's features. They send me a $40 check every month to cover the data plan, which is more than enough. I also get an additional $50 check for taking a particular initial survey of the phone.
So, in short, I just got an awesome smart phone to use, with unlimited data added to my cell phone plan for free, and then some!
Other than randomly sending you things, Lightspeed rewards you with points for every survey you complete. The points can be redeemed for $ sent to your Paypal account, various gift certificates, electronic and other items, etc. I took a few surveys, and redeemed some points for $5 sent to my Paypal account, which I really got. I have enough points for another $5, but I'm going to save them up and get something better.
Another site that's good is American Consumer Opinion. I got a check in the mail for $7 from them for completing just one survey, and I have a couple more checks on the way. Every survey you complete from them gets you a check in the mail.
There is also MySurvey.com. They also operate on a points per completed survey basis. You redeem your points for cash, various merchandise, etc. I got a free 10 pound bag of Purina One cat food sent to me to try and take a survey about. I believe I've also got a box of hair color coming to me. Haven't redeemed my points for anything yet.
I also got a one time mystery shopper gig from one of them, but I can't remember which survey site it came from. I'll edit this when I figure it out lol. I'm going to be a mystery shopper at a restaurant, and take a survey afterwards. They're going to reimburse me with $40.
Yes, a couple of the survey links above are affiliate links. But I'd be foolish if they weren't, since I'm posting the links anyway. 😉 I get a dollar or so if people sign up….
So, if you're bored, go take some surveys and get stuff hehe.
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is best friend day. :/
And, it's also the first day of July, which is one of my favorite months! Mainly because my birthday, and my sisters' birthdays are this month. But also just because it's summer, and I LOVE summer! Yay!


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PARIS (Reuters) - If Britain's departure from the European Union disrupts trade to the extent PSA Group (PEUP.PA) has to make cars separately for the two markets, there would "necessarily be an impact" on its UK production, the automaker's European boss said on Tuesday.
"We've been doing all we can to develop our UK business, restore Vauxhall and Opel profitability, reinvesting in Luton and improving our sites' competitiveness in order to help them face up to an uncertain future," Maxime Picat told Reuters at the Paris auto show.
"But there are limits. Those limits are customs barriers, and the loss of freedom of movement, for people and goods. If we get to that point, we will be obliged to take measures.
"If we suddenly have to start manufacturing for the UK in the UK, and for Europe in Europe, there will necessarily be an impact on UK production," Picat said in an interview.
"We're not going to be dogmatic about it, and there's no question of punishing the UK. We'd take a look at our two factories, the state of our business, and look for a solution. But I don't know where that will lead us in terms of the sustainability of our sites."
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intro: With the deadline to sign up for health insurance only two weeks away, just 4.2 million Americans have enrolled in a policy, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
If you're one of the millions who still don't have coverage, this is what you need to know.
quicklist: 1 category: Obamacare Deadline title: When is the deadline? url: text: Under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Americans must sign up and pay for health insurance by March 31, 2014 or face a possible tax penalty.
(Source: healthcare.gov)
Related: Obamacare Explained (Like You're An Idiot)
quicklist: 2 category: Obamacare Deadline title: How much is the penalty? url: text: If you fail to secure a health insurance policy before the deadline, you will pay $95 or one percent of your income – whichever is higher – on next year's tax return. There is also a penalty $47.50 for every uninsured child under the age of 18 with a maximum penalty of $285 per family.
(Source: healthcare.gov)
quicklist: 3 category: Obamacare Deadline title: Is anyone excused from paying the penalty? url: text: In most, but not all states, anyone who has an income that is less than 100 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, or FPL, will not have to buy health insurance and will not pay a penalty.
The FPL is defined by the government as the minimum income threshold required for basic needs such as food, shelter and transportation. If you make less than 100 percent of the FPL, health insurance is considered unaffordable for you but you might qualify for other types of government assistance including some health care programs. In most states, if you make between 100 and 400 percent of the FPL you are eligible for tax credits to help pay for a health insurance policy.
(Source: getinsured.com)
Related: New Health Insurance Rights for Same-Sex Couples
quicklist: 4 category: Obamacare Deadline title: What type of health insurance do I need to avoid the penalty url: text: Most Americans need to purchase a qualified plan that covers the "minimum essential benefits" which includes things like maternity and newborn services, emergency care and prescription drugs. There are some notable exceptions. Grandfathered plans in place before March of 2010 don't have to follow the rules. Neither do most employer, COBRA or military plans. If you have Medicare you're also excused from paying a penalty and the same is true for most Medicaid policies. Anyone under 30 can still carry a catastrophic plan that offers bare minimum coverage.
(Source: getinsured.com)
quicklist: 5 category: Obamacare Deadline title: Once the deadline has passed can I still buy insurance? url: text: Unless you have what's known as a "qualifying event" you'll have to do without insurance until the next sign up period which begins on November 15, 2014. A qualifying event, like switching jobs, having a baby or moving out of state, allows you to buy a plan during a 60-day "special enrollment" period.
(Source: healthcare.gov)
quicklist: 6 category: Obamacare Deadline title: Is it cheaper to pay the penalty? url: text: Believe it or not, depending on where you live and how much money you make, it's actually cheaper to buy insurance than pay the penalty, according to Ivan Williams a senior policy advisor with the certified insurance marketplace, GetInsured.
For example, if you are a 26-year-old singleton living in Greenville, Ky. and you make around $20,000 a year, the tax credits you receive completely offsets the cost of your insurance premiums for a Silver level plan -- so your policy costs you nothing.
"For some ages and income groups, this is true or close to true in other parts of the country too," Williams said.
Price of premiums aside, Williams said you also have to factor in the cost of healthcare if you decide to forego insurance. Even someone under the age of 26 who falls into the "young and invincible" category still has a one in ten chance of racking up at least $13,000 worth of medical bills this year, he said.
quicklist: 7 category: Obamacare Deadline title: So how do I sign up? url: text: For online sign up, go to healthcare.gov, your state's marketplace or a certified insurance website like GetInsured, ehealth or Go Health Insurance. You can also purchase plans from a certified broker over the phone or in person. But do it now. It definitely takes more than 15 minutes to complete the sign up process.
(Source: healthcare.gov)
Related: Obama Says Health Care Program Stable


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How to survive crisis with money ?
Economic crisis has left it's trace on all of us. We are thinking every day how to survive, save some money, and yet do some things that makes us happy.
It is some kind of art to learn to live with less money, especially if you used to live really good.
For some people money is just something that provides them food, water, home, clothes, etc.
On the other hand you have those types of people who see money as something else. It will build their reputation, maybe they will earn some kind of title in the society, enhance their status, etc, so if they don't have enough money, they would probably feel totally alone.
You are probably convinced that you do not know how to change the habits, and that means you cannot live in a different way. To say " cannot " is like saying " I do not want. " In this attitude lies a strong resistance to adapt to new circumstances.
If you are willing to reconsider your attitude, and realize that you can actually live normally, even if you have less money than before, you will open up new opportunities for yourself, and get back on the track.
Those who are addicted to shopping will have to delay that habit for a little while. It doesn't mean you will never buy again, it just means you will have to wait for that moment, and save some money until then.
The point is do not be depressed. Every crisis has to pass, so will yours.


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Anyone who's worked 15 minutes knows what it's like to work wounded. Maybe your physically sick, but you can't take a day. You might really not "feel" like work today, but you also know you need to be there. You may have 1000 other things you'd rather do than go to work, but you go.
Many people also know what it's like to still go workout because you love your sport, your committed to the challenge or someone is going to be looking for you. You've worked wounded.
Here's a little kick in the pants to keep going after your goals and keep adapting.


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Some of the following houses may not be decorating their houses in 2015, click here for the 2015 decorated houses!
Click here to see all posts about what's going this season in Fort Wayne!
Looking for the most outlandish holiday spirit? I've found it here in Fort Wayne! Last year I wrote a post that featured three homes around Fort Wayne that have been favorites on our annual holiday home tour. But three is just not enough! Feast your eyes on these spectacles of the season.
"Fa-la-la-la-la-Lot of Yard Decor"
- Northwest Fort Wayne
- 9346 Auburn Road
- This yard is decorated for many holidays, not just Christmas.
- Over 20 different scenes set up in the yard and on the roof featuring classic and modern Christmas decorations.
"Wallen Road Wonders"
- Northwest Fort Wayne
- "Blow-up Bonanza" at 750 West Wallen Road has nearly 20 blow-up decorations in the front yard. These larger-than-life displays will leave you wide-eyed in wonder.
- "Candy Land" at 224 West Wallen Road features what my child's imagination sees as hundreds of trees decorated in the colors of the season.
- Caution: there are not great spots to pull over and enjoy these displays, so take advantage of the low 35 mile per hour speed limit as you drive by.
"Season's Greetings...on all sides"
- New Haven, Indiana
- 1828 South Tyland
- Over 30,000 lights cover all four sides of this house and both sides of the roof!
- A unique feature of this home is that the owners have the lights on at night and in the morning. Using timers, they take advantage of daylight savings and turn the lights back on from 5-8 am each morning now through January 2nd. What a lovely way to start the day!
"Festive Fanatic"
- Southwest Fort Wayne
- 8512 Forsythia Court in Westcott Ridge
- The lights don't just dazzle...they dance! Tune your car radio to hear the music behind the motion.
- As far as we know, this is the only house in Fort Wayne that even puts lights over their yard!
"Hoosier Hysteria"
- Southwest Fort Wayne
- Plumbago Court in Vera Cruz
- Some people are basketball fans. And then there is this house.
- Of Yahoo! Sports fame, thanks to their choreography of Christian Watford's 3-pointer.
"Symphony of Sights"
- Southwest Fort Wayne
- Corner of Ruffner and Caravelle in Bridgewater addition
- This house has been lit since 2006 and has grown to feature of 40,000 lights timed to an hour's worth of music.
- Tune your car radio to 91.3 to hear the music making these lights move. You can even watch these lights online at lacawb.com!
I encourage you to grab a coffee or hot chocolate from a local spot like Old Crown, Firefly, the Friendly Fox, or DeBrand location to take on your home tour. While you're touring the town, listen to 95.1 or 97.3 and enjoy the sounds of the season as you search for crazy Christmas houses. And let me know what houses I've missed! To help you navigate, I've put this year's homes plus last year's (minus "The Clark W Griswold" house, which will not be lit this year) in a Google Map. Just add your starting location and final destination to enjoy an evening out gazing at the lights.


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The Master of Suspense would have made a better movie …
Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins: 360) was a great filmmaker with a lot of issues. He ate too much. He was pathetically dependent on his wife, Alma (Helen Mirren: The Door). Though their marriage was devoid of passion, he obsessed over the nubile blondes he directed. And, if Hitchcock is to be believed, he identified fully and had imaginary conversations with serial killer Ed Gein (Michael Wincott: A Lonely Place for Dying).
Thank your lucky stars that your friends and family don't resemble the people in
Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper: Hit and Run) is going through a rough patch. An undiagnosed manic-depressive most of his life, Pat got his diagnosis when he nearly beat the life out of his cheating wife's lover.
Like the story of Pi, this movie isn't about lines of dialog. It's about the journey.
Do you have faith? For some the question is easy; for others, an epic journey. One writer (Rafe Spall: Prometheus) is in search of true faith and a story to make him believe in God. His search leads him to Pi (Irrfan Khan: The Amazing Spiderman), a middle-aged man who shares a tale of survival and faith that rivals Job.
A saintly man makes an uninteresting subject
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis: Nine) had just been elected to his second term. He enjoyed a wide popularity in spite of the Civil War, which slaughtered American citizens and deeply divided the country.
Nobody does it betterSkyfall
Fifty years after James Bond ordered his first vodka martini — shaken not stirred — he has become a cultural icon and a bit of a Cold War relic. Donning an impeccable tux, swilling a few drinks, driving too fast in an Aston Martin and having casual sex with every scantily clad woman who catches his eye makes Bond a bit of a dinosaur. The actors may have changed, but the smarmy swinging-sixties vibe has remained.
You'll need an airsick baggie for this one
When SouthJet Airlines flight 227 falls from the sky, some miraculous maneuvers from the captain save most of the passengers from death. Captain Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington: Safe House) is thrust into the spotlight as the media clamors to learn more about the hero.
You can make Hugh Grant old, but you can't make him Asian
A butterfly flaps its wings in 1849 and starts a revolution in a futuristic Korea. Seven stories traverse time and space, interweaving in an overly simplified metaphor for reincarnation. Such is Cloud Atlas, a bloated, visually stunning, poorly acted and frustrating exercise in filmmaking.
The scariest part of this movie is its lack of creativity
Five years ago, Katie Featherston killed her boyfriend, sister and sister's family, sparing only her infant nephew Hunter. Katie and Hunter's whereabouts are still unknown.
A story so crazy it has to be true
A mob is terrifying: throngs of people massing together to chant, brandish firearms and burn effigies, promising violence at every turn. In 1979 Iran, these mobs are becoming a daily occurrence outside the U.S. embassy. Though the danger is palpable, the workers have their orders and try to ignore the daily threats.
Not even death can stand up to the power of love and a few thousand volts
Young science prodigy Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan: Blue Bloods) has one friend in the world: his faithful pup Sparky. They spend their days together making movies, hanging out in Victor's attic workshop and playing ball in the yard.
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What Does Christian Education Only Really Mean?
When someone makes a statement like "The only education we should be interested in is Christian education", it might earn brownie points with certain fanatics.
However, it really needs to be clarified before the wider scope of the Church can endorse it.
For example, does the person making the statement include the entire breadth of human knowledge derived from reflection upon the creation and applications deduced from such cogitation?
If so, the statement can be endorsed.
If the postulator means that the true believer should only concern themselves with those areas carved out as exclusively as "religious", they are sadly mistaken.
For while the decree would seem to highlight the piety of the person making it, it is woefully inadequate to the complexity of the epistemological realities in which we find ourselves.
This is especially brought to light when the person is making such a proclamation over Internet technology in general and Facebook in particular.
For while the scientific advances making such wondrous technological breakthroughs possible are based upon principles established by God, I am not sure these devices would have come into existence by those that only sat around having the Scriptures drilled into their heads in a setting reminiscent of cultic brainwashing.
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Frederick Meekins is an independent theologian and social critic. He holds a BS in Political Science/History. Frederick earned a MA in Apologetics & Christian Philosophy from Trinity Theological Seminary. Frederick holds a Doctor of Practical Theology through the Master's Graduate School Of Divinity in Evansville, Indiana. Dr. Meekins earned a Ph.D. in Apologetics through Newburgh Theological Seminary. His books are available in print and electronic formats through Amazon.com. His ministry site, Issachar Bible Church & Apologetics Research Institute, can be found at http://issacharbiblechurch.blogspot.com/. The Twitter page of Dr. Meekins can be found at
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Using a prestige class in an older style game is easy. Have an entrance requirement. This triggers the drawbacks and restrictions. Then the character may split experience points between his two classes as he wishes.
10) Thief: If you're going to take the thief as a class, perhaps it works best as a prestige class. This may in fact have been the original intent. If you're going to have it, allow players to dump experience into the class to acquire the skills, at the expense of their primary class.
9) Assassin: This is a fantastic prestige class. It has an entry requirement of killing someone for money. It gives basic thieving skills after a level or two along with the ability to use disguises and poisons. It lacks the ability to disarm magical traps and locks. Also allows the character to raise money by committing murder for hire in their free time. Class abilities can be lost if anyone discovers your true nature.
8) Paladin: Real holy power in exchange for a little tiny moral leeway. This prestige class is a bit more stringent then the others, replacing fighter classes only and preventing improvement in the original class. It also comes with a number of moral imperatives depending on the god along with an annoying vow of poverty, but the holy powers of laying on hands, detection of evil, protection from evil, being able to use holy swords and mounts provide power to make up for the restrictions.
7) Mystic Theruge: A spell caster who's interested in magic from all sources, not just wizard or cleric spells. Possibly available from rare temples or places in the wilderness. Each level taken in this grants new spells from a variety of magical traditions, such as druidic, wizardly, clerical or even stranger magical traditions. Working with such arcane energies is very physically taxing and often will cause strange deformations in those who break such natural boundaries that way
6) Necromancer: Because all the spells for death shouldn't be assigned to different classes. Of course your close association with the dead brings attention you would rather not have. Also odd smells. Also bargains with the dead tend to imperil your soul. On the plus side, undead servants don't complain when you use them to set off traps.
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create history, and add skills, and still allow the character to advance normally. Time spent among a pirate ship can give a basic proficiency at all ship related tasks, bonuses on ship to ship combat, skill at fighting on rigging and moving across vertical surfaces quickly, mastery of mounted shipboard weaponry (such as cannon), and an increase armor class and breath weapon/wand saves in light or no armor based on their level. Surprisingly useful when your ship suddenly takes off into space.
4) Magical or Martial Speciality: This prestige class takes a specific magical or martial style, like gladiator, elementalist, pyromancer, or Cavalier and provides additional abilities. Sometimes players want to have a specific focus, and using prestige classes in this way allow the DM and the player to work out how that happens mechanically. This is useful for when the natural customization options of flavor and class don't provide abilities the character seeks. Some sacrifices, limitations, experience point expenditure and in game effort later and they can give up normal advancement for some of these abilities.
3) Beastmaster/Rider: Fiction abounds with the bond between characters and their pets and mounts. Adding a little mechanical benefit. Spider-rider, Dragon-friend, Worm-rider.
2) Cultist: Because if the party is going to be fighting them, shouldn't they have some unique abilities? And then you're more prepared for when the party eventually wants to join them.
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Wow, right? This explains so much. This is why it's so heartbreaking to spend time with someone you know who has Alzheimer's or dementia. They look like themselves. Their genetics trick us into believing they are still the same person. After all, people who lose their memories do not lose their physical identity. But without these memories, they're only half themselves.
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A. Write a team contract in one page, naming the team, describing your talents and resources, deciding processes like meeting times, and saying how each member commits to behave.
B. Identify five or more value ecosystems that may represent an opportunity for innovation.
In a 15-minute team presentation, illustrate the value systems by value graphs showing value flows. For important flows, identify a persona who has a need or supplies a resource. Justify the opportunity in each by explaining
· where there are imbalances,
· why the timing is right,
· where the money is, and
· when the system last changed.
You can present more than five if desired. I don't want you to focus on a specific innovation in any of these systems, although you can certainly have some in mind. For now, we are just studying the world as it is.
Grading Criteria
Team Contract: 10%
Completeness and quality of presentation: five systems, personas, and justifications: 50%
Possibility and originality of any of the systems presented: 20%
Style of presentation: 20%
Process hints
· You should spend some time simply getting to know each other—maybe while eating or drinking.
· It would be natural for each person to create one or two value ecosystems, but the entire team should select and improve them.
· You are not required to base your thoughts on the reading or lectures, but they should give you an idea of how I grade when it's subjective.
· Any number of you can make the presentation, but rehearse multiple times so that you are consistent and not redundant.
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This flower is so gorgeous with several layers of vintage lace dress detailing, tulle, burlap and muslin fabric die-cut flowers grunged up with Ranger Ink Adirondack Paint Daubers and Antique Linen Distress Stain. I added just a touch of steampunk flair by attaching a cast vintage bezel using Amazing Casting Resin colored with Alumilite Pearlescent and Silver Metallic Powders. The lace detailing was a bright pink, which is why the flower has a slight pink tone also - all inked to match with a little paint to tone down the pink and a little ink to add some pink to the layers. For an "all things purple" girl... I really LOVE this! I get so many compliments when I wear this, people are surprised to hear that I made it.
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Bjorn Lomborg is the author of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. Though I haven't read the book, I'm familiar with some of Lomberg's shorter pieces, which have always struck me as the most sensible writings I've seen on the subject of global warming.
In an article for today's Washington Post, Lomborg makes the case against (a) the alarmist view of global warming and (b) the left's program for dealing with the problem — drastic cuts in carbon emissions. Lomborg doesn't deny that the earth is warming or that man is causing this. His thesis, though, is that reducing carbon emissions along the lines of the Kyoto Protocol would cost much and achieve little. He notes that past promises by wealthy nations to cut emissions have been ignored and that, even if they were followed, the impact on global warming would be slight.
Thus, Lomborg advocates a series of more targeted measures to deal with the effects of global warming, coupled with increased spending on the reserach and development of low-carbon energy. This research and development, he argues, would decrease the cost of cutting carbon emissions. Currently, according to Lomborg, that cost is $20 per ton, while the damage from that same ton is about $2. Only by changing this equation will it become realistic to expect large emitters like China and India to buy into reducing emissions. And only then can real progress be expected.
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Stardrift Empires drifts far into the depths of boredom
Like clicking on stuff? Oh goodie – you're going to love this heaping helping of Facebook minutiae. Stardrift Empires is a strategy game of the most boring breed, and unless you have a fetish for watching numbers change, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
For full disclosure, I personally have no aversion to repetition so long as it's fun. I'm a huge fan of Musou games (Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, etc.), and I've invested hours of my gaming life grinding in RPGs as well. Stardrift Empires, however, takes tedium to a new low, presenting players with little more than a few still images and demanding they build an empire by way of clicking a "start" button over and over and over again.
Upon setting out on your journey with Stardrift Empires, the game presents players with a quick and dirty explanation of why you need to stake your claim on the galaxy. Story elements are almost nonexistent here, and the game takes its sweet time getting underway.
It's perhaps best to think of Stardrift Empires as a menu system rather than an actual game, with two main elements to guide you through your adventure: quests and missions. Quests lead the player by the nose with respect to what needs to get done; missions are essentially maintenance tasks (haul cargo, raid ore, etc.) required to complete quests. You'll literally spend days working on these errands – again by clicking "start," "upgrade," or "build" repeatedly – and if you manage to stick with the game long enough to get to the "good stuff," you'll be rewarded with essentially more of the same.
Though you can set off on multiple missions at once, you can only upgrade/build one structure at a time, as well as have only a single research active. Considering the time it takes to complete these portions of a given quest, Stardrift Empires consists of a lot of clicking, leaving the game to do something else for a while, and returning for more clicking. There's simply no way to sugarcoat it – this is one of the absolute most boring experiences available on the Facebook platform.
It doesn't help that the interface is borderline broken. Rather than present players with a game all on one screen, the menu system in Stardrift Empires scrolls up and down. It's difficult to navigate, messy, and outside of a mild sense of accomplishment when a quest reaches completion, there's almost no impetus to push on.
Visually, static artwork is all players can look forward to in terms of production values, and Stardrift Empires is all but devoid of sound. Occasionally, menu screens will fail to fully load, and though the only actual animation in the game consists of simply designed progress bars, Stardrift Empires still eats up CPU resources like a hog at a trough.
Stardrift Empires makes a poor first impression, and it all goes downhill from there. This isn't so much a game as it is an exercise in futility – click a few times, leave the game alone for a while, and come back to see a few numbers have changed. Most folks frequent Facebook to escape this type of work, not to be subjected to it.


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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Truth and Consequences
Appropriate standards of verifiablity are a hot topic in discussions of memoir writing these days, but it's not my subject here. Instead, I want to look at the readership's preference for fact over fiction, and how this bears on presumably autobiographical writing in poetry.
Everyone in contemporary publishing knows that non-fiction books far outsell fiction. Why does fiction interest readers less? A couple of theories: In a competitive society, fact is an equivalent to money; it is "hard" and negotiable, and may help you acquire the real thing. Fiction is seen as "soft," little more than somebody's dream world—an entertainment, perhaps, but not especially helpful as you struggle to outdistance your fellow citizens. Or: Modern science has raised the prestige of proven fact by turning scientific discoveries into a pragmatic technology that can improve our health and our living standard. What comparable thing can fiction do for us?
Several years ago I published a novel titled Part of His Story, written in the first-person by a male narrator roughly my age, who had lived in New York and London. He, too, was a writer, but a playwright, and theater is the one form I've never worked in. Resemblance between author and narrator pretty much stopped there, and his name was different from mine. In the months after publication, when I gave bookstore readings, time and again people would come up after and ask me, "Is it an autobiographical novel?" When I said it wasn't, I could always see they were disappointed. Fiction isn't as highly prized as fact. The ability to invent, imagine, and make events seem real doesn't make a strong impression. Only what has actually happened interests the broad public.
Beginning around 1959, many American poets began emphasizing the autobiographical aspect of their art, tapping into a long tradition of autobiographical writing that includes Ovid, Dante, Villon, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Whitman, Dickinson, Hardy, Frost, Crane, Auden, Rukeyser, and others. More specifically, authors like W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Adrienne Rich began writing about taboo subjects—sex, divorce, drunkenness, pills, insanity, suicide, what have you. The critic M.L. Rosenthal named this trend the "Confessional School," even though it really had nothing to do with Christianity or the sacrament of confession. It was hailed as bringing a new honesty and authenticity onto the scene, taking poetry out of the mythological groves of academe and putting it squarely in the center of American life as actually lived. Eliot's ideal of "impersonality" was scrapped. The period coincides with the rise of public interest in non-fiction, as opposed to fiction. And clearly some of the appeal of the "Confessional School" resides in the perceived notion that the authors are telling the truth, the real dirt about their experience. This was stuff that readers could use as they tried to negotiate their way through the labyrinth of American life in an era of turbulent change.
At least one of these poets (Lowell) admitted in interviews that his so-called confessions were partly made up. The extent to which other purportedly truth-telling poets were inventing is moot. And the problem is still with us. I can think of an instance of a well-known contemporary poet (Sharon Olds) who has written many poems about being abused by an alcoholic father. In an interview she was asked to give the actual details and declined to do so in order to "protect the poems," as she said. Which is a way of indicating that some of the accounts are at least partly fictional. Why not just say that? I speculate that she realized most readers experienced the poems as being factual; and that their participation in the poems, their identification, would be marred if they knew what they were reading was fiction. When we read texts portraying the sufferings of an author, we almost automatically feel sympathy for what they have undergone. The more piercing their agony, the more we want to alleviate it, and praise is one way to do that. Which remains true even when the presentation of agony is deficient in artistic quality. Actually, we can view clumsiness as one more sign of authenticity, as though the author were in so much pain she or he couldn't be bothered with niceties like economy, taut syntax, vivid metaphor, freshness of expression, or rhythmically alert lines.
Poets who make it all up may not be aware that they can find justification in the tradition if they look for it. Consider Sidney's "But the poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination, to conjure you to believe for true what he writeth." (The Defense of Poetry). And so it was for centuries, where fiction interested readers as much or more than fact. But of course the situation has now changed.
I took an informal survey among my poet friends in this topic, and found that they all reserved the right to invent; and I don't mean invent poems in dramatic voice, where a character with a name not the author's tells a story that differs from that author's biography. All my poet friends felt authorized to invent lyric narratives and present them in the first-person singular, in the present day, and composed of situations that sounded generally plausible. Myself, I don't feel comfortable casting fictions in the first-person singular unless they're presented as belonging to a character designated as someone not myself. In this, I'm a small minority; the only other poet I know of who shares this view (or so I've read) is Ted Kooser.
Maybe this anecdote will explain the scruple. I attended a poetry reading once where the featured poet read a poem about the death of his little girl. People came up afterwards, and I happened to be in earshot when a middle-aged woman with a tragic expression spoke to the poet and said, "I was so moved by your poem about your daughter dying. You see, I'm in the same situation." He looked at her and shook his head. "I never had a daughter. That was a poem. Poems are fictions." She turned away and I could see that she was furious, that she felt betrayed. That seemed justified to me.
If we're living in an age where memoir writers are being criticized for passing off fiction as truth, maybe it's time to examine purportedly autobiographical poetry as well. How close is it to what actually happened? I can think of another instance where a poet involved in a messy divorce wrote nasty poems about the estranged partner—poems that were highly fictionalized. They weren't Confessional poems, really, because they didn't stick to the facts; or you could say that to the extent they were Confessional poems, they confessed the sins of someone else. Sympathy based on these inventions was forthcoming, in fact, it resulted in career advancement for the fictional poet. Is this an abuse? I think so. And I recall something Dr. Johnson said (the citation may not be perfect) in his comments on Lycidas: "He who has the leisure for fiction feels no true grief." All right, he doesn't have to. But let's not feel so sorry for him then.
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- David Graham said...
Very interesting post, and right up my alley. In case you haven't seen it, allow me to plug the essay anthology I co-edited with Kate Sontag, *After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography* (Graywolf). It contains a whole section on the ethics of autobiographical poetry, including a piece by Ted Kooser. Read more about it here: http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/v4n1.html
(Home page: http://web.mac.com/drjazz/)
- March 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM
- Ron Slate said...
About the coincidence of the poet with his poem, of his one identity with his one subject, I follow Louise Gluck: "The truth, on the page, need not have been lived. It is, instead, all that can be envisioned." She in turn follows RP Blackmur: "The life we live is not enough of a subject for the serious artist; it must be a life with a leaning, life with a tendency to shape itself only in certain forms, to afford its most lucid revelations only in certain lights." Thanks for posting on this subject. I can vouch for the value of David Graham's Graywolf collection on the topic (mentioned in his comment).
- March 6, 2008 at 5:02 PM
- Alfred Corn said...
Thanks, Ron. I wasn't aware of the Blackmur quote and am glad to have it. Obviously no real poet would ever write autobiographical poems solely. Poems in characterized voice, nature poems, philosophical poems, poems about other works of art, poems about justice, riddles, comedy, dreams, anecdotes, jars, jazz, words--you'd need all of that to qualify as important. But: If you do write autobio-poems AND you misrepresent the words and deeds of people close to you, is that fair and just and permissible?
- March 6, 2008 at 9:03 PM
- David Graham said...
(Sorry for the length of this comment, but it's a big elephant we're circling around here.)
Whenever the topic of the ethics of autobiographical poems arises, it's striking how inerringly the discussion turns not on the poems themselves, but on how they are labeled and presented.
There really isn't much serious debate about whether or not a poem can be fictive. Of course it can. Some insist that it always is, even or especially when presenting autobiographical material. Yes, of course poets from Chaucer through Browning and beyond have felt free to invent characters, write in persona, meld fantasy, dream, and desire with tangible fact, and so forth. No one is misled by the slant of Dickinson's truth, or confused by Whitman's claim to have entered the bed of the bride and bridegroom.
Furthermore, sorting out the true from the shaded or otherwise fictive, even if you cared to, can be a daunting task, and in many cases (dead poets especially) essentially impossible.
So all we really have to go on, much of the time, is what the poet says about the poem, or how it is presented to the public.
I do think it's true that there has been a sea-change of sorts in attitudes toward the personal lyric since the first "confessional" work of Sexton, Snodgrass, and Lowell. (Plath I've never seen as confessional in the same way; and of course all the main players have vigorously rejected the label.)
For instance, it was once S.O.P. to indicate the use of a persona, even if the body of the poem made it clear enough, with the title or epigraph: "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," "My Last Duchess." And plenty of lyrics understood to be more or less in the voice of the poet also employed the convention of third-person titles: e.g. Jonson's "An Ode: To Himself," Bradstreet's "A Letter to Her Husband. . . ."
When did these conventions fall away, and why? No doubt it has something to do with the Romantic revolution, with new rhetorical emphasis upon sincerity, "a man speaking to men (sic)," and all that. When Whitman writes "I was the man, I suffered, I was there," surely no one was *fooled* or offended.
What seems new in the past half century is a fairly deliberate blurring of such matters, which makes possible current controversies about what poets are entitled to do with regard to truth-telling, appropriation of others' voices, and so forth. In some respects this is a debate that would have baffled earlier eras, isn't it?
The poet Ai strikes me as an intriguing case in point. She has some poems that, if I were not already primed to *expect* personae from her, would be practically impossible to tell apart from autobiography. I'd agree that this whole discussion needs to be framed in terms of rhetorical convention and expectation; and it seems the matter remains far from settled, even a half century after Life Studies.
Like many poets these days I write first-person lyrics that are essentially "true" and others which depart substantially from the facts of my life. I don't always feel the need to label, on the page, which is which. (For that matter, it can be tricky even for an author to make such distinctions accurately.) Where I would draw an ethical line would be in presenting the poem at a reading. I would never allow an audience to believe I had a dead daughter, for instance, if I did not. In that sense I agree with Ted Kooser and Alfred and others who are uncomfortable with such sins of omission.
- March 7, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- Ryan said...
I think the preference for fact over fiction has to do with the culture's overall confusing of fact and truth. Truth can be and is often separate from and contrary to fact. Still, empiricist-rooted thought has confused these entities and has, since mid-century, given privilege to 'authenticity' in art.
Authenticity is a trope. What is being praised should be the illusion of authenticity. Because objective perception is impossible, there is no writing that can represent 'fact'; all writing is metaphor, all reductive, all previously perceived and transformed and transformed again into language, all, in short, fiction.
I agree that people should not mis-represent themselves, should not manipulate audiences for personal gain by presenting fictional writing as autobiographical. However, I feel it's important to point out the obvious: that there is not a memoir or a poem that isn't fiction. Furthermore, the tendency of non-fiction to outsell fiction indicates, at least to my mind, a culture's seeking refuge in reduction.
Thanks for this post. I really enjoyed it and the discussion it's begun.
- March 7, 2008 at 5:40 PM
- Jonathan Trejo-Mathys said...
I believe that whether or not a particular lyric poem's use of "I" is misleading in a morally or ethically objectionable way depends upon what kind of utterance the poem itself is. What kind of 'speech-act', to use a philosophical term, is it? Leaving aside worries about the 'textuality' of texts, about the fact that they are physical objects, and so on -- so are the vibrating particles that carry sound waves in speech -- it seems clear that the publication of a book or a poem is an act, beginning with a poet and ending with a public. This extended, highly complex act is mediated by an ungodly number of intermediate actors & institutions of course. Nevertheless, it is a form of utterance whose communication or conveyance is made possible by print media. The signals embedded in titles that were mentioned by some of the other commenters, signals highlighting the fictionality of the speaker in the poem, are examples of guides concerning what kind of a speech-act the poem is meant to be (how the author intends it to be understood by its public). The trouble is that in many cases insufficient guidance is given by titles or other devices, and -- of course! -- many times this lack of guidance is itself fully intended by the author.
This may seem inconvenient, but I don't think it's different in kind -- and here I think I am defending an unfashionable position -- from our general understanding of human action and its problems. I mean to say that it is (distressingly) often the case that it is unclear how a certain action was meant, or what meaning it has, whether a gesture, a deed or an utterance. Sometimes we can just ask, "What do you mean by that?" Sometimes we can't (e.g., the author is dead). Even worse, many times we simply disagree about what was done and why -- often in the most intimate of contexts too.
Speaking of context, it is this that also often helps to determine or at least constrain the interpretation given to an utterance or an action. The signals in poem titles are examples of this. It's for this reason that I would caution against attempting to articulate any general rules about what uses of "I", what kinds of personae, and so on, are permissible in poems, lyric or otherwise. I don't think anyone doubts that intentional deception is in general flatly wrong and hurtful -- in poems or otherwise. But under what conditions does the writing and publishing of a piece of 'creative' writing or fiction constitute intentional deception? (Back to wrestling with Plato.)
The cases of faked memoirs are easier. The case of the poet reading a lyric poem about dealing with the death of a daughter in front of human beings among whom there could be someone who has lost a daughter is harder, but fairly clear: sensitive judgment and thoughtfulness lead us to make sure we do not mislead people here.
It seems to me that Olds does her own readers a disservice, however, if she refuses to clarify in an interview where her poems about abuse come from and what relation they bear to her life in order to protect the poems, or, as Alfred suggests, her readers' capacity to identify with them. Maybe every poem and every act of reading poetry is an occasion for learning to read poetry (learning to read oneself and learning to read human life). If that's the case, I think it may be unconscionably condescending to suppose that readers cannot learn to appreciate a poem unless certain truths are not disclosed. But perhaps this is simply the prejudice of a philosopher.
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Sioux City native, former arena football player, Pfizer pharmaceutical sales rep, head coach of the Sioux City Bandits, husband, father: These are all hats that Erv Strohbeen wears on a daily basis. Although if you ask him, he's most proud of his Midwest roots.
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