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Lincoln, Neb. - The Nebraska Huskers women's tennis team (9-1, 1-0 Big Ten) toppled the Colorado State Rams (0-3, 0-0 MWC) on Sunday at the Nebraska Tennis Center 7-0. This marks the 16th time the two teams have ever met and concluding the match, the Huskers remain unbeaten by the Rams in a 16-0 record on the series. Nebraska entered the match with confident doubles play before commanding the singles courts to send the Rams home with a loss.
Starting with doubles, the Huskers grabbed the early lead with victories at the No. 1 then No. 2 positions. Nebraska's Stefanie Weinstein and Janine Weinreich swept Colorado State's Kendall Heitzner and Maddie Buxton 8-0 at the No. 1 before Huskers Patricia Veresova and Maggy Lehmicke ousted Rams Natalie Heffron and Adriana Wojakowska 8-1 at the No. 2. Point in hand, the No. 3 doubles match played through resulting in a victory for Colorado State's Mollie Cooper and Abby Stevens over Nebraska's Lauren Wagner and Maike Zeppernick 8-7 (7-4).
The Huskers quickly extended the lead to 3-0 at the No. 4 and No. 5 positions. The No. 4 finished first with Janine Weinreich only dropping one game in the first set en route to defeating the Rams' Mollie Cooper 6-1, 6-0 before Maike Zeppernick only dropped one game in both sets to out Colorado State's Lauren Pick 6-1, 6-1 at the No. 5 spot.
The match-deciding point came at the No. 2 position where Nebraska's Stefanie Weinstein defeated the Rams' Abby Stevens 6-2, 6-1 to put the score up to 4-0. With the match in hand, the Huskers grabbed two more quick points at the No. 1 and 3 spots. At the No. 1, Patricia Veresova beat Colorado State's Natalie Heffron 6-2, 6-1 before Maggy Lehmicke knocked out Colorado State's Adriana Wojakowska 6-3, 6-0 at the No. 3 to push the score to 6-0.
The No. 6 position was the final match going to a tie breaker for the third set. Nebraska's Lauren Wagner emerged the victor against Colorado State's Maddie Buxton in a shootout ending at 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (12-10).
The Huskers Host UALR and Wyoming next weekend at home. Nebraska faces UALR Friday, Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. before going against Wyoming Sunday, Feb. 24 at 11 a.m.
No. 15 Nebraska - 7
Colorado State - 0
Lincoln, Neb.
1. Patricia Veresova (NU) def. Natalie Heffron (CSU) 6-2, 6-1.
2. Stefanie Weinstein (NU) def. Abby Stevens (CSU) 6-2, 6-1.
3. Maggy Lehmicke (NU) def. Adriana Wojakowska (CSU) 6-3, 6-0.
4. Janine Weinreich (NU) def. Mollie Cooper (CSU) 6-1, 6-0.
5. Maike Zeppernick (NU) def. Lauren Pick (CSU) 6-1, 6-1.
6. Lauren Wagner (NU) def. Maddie Buxton (CSU) 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (12-10).
Order of finish (4, 5, 2, 1, 3, 6)
1. Stefanie Weinstein/Janine Weinreich (NU) def. Kendall Heitzner/Maddie Buxton (CSU) 8-0.
2. Patricia Veresova/Maggy Lehmicke (NU) def. Natalie Heffron/Adriana Wojakowska (CSU) 8-1.
3. Mollie Cooper/Abby Stevens (CSU) def. Lauren Wagner/Maike Zeppernick (NU) 8-7 (7-4).
Order of finish (1, 2, 3)


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HARRISBURG-Central Boiler was in attendance at the 2013 Pennsylvania Farm Show telling consumers about E-Classic outdoor wood gasification furnace that the company offers.
HARRISBURG-Central Boiler was in attendance at the 2013 Pennsylvania Farm Show telling consumers about E-Classic outdoor wood gasification furnace that the company offers.
"It's specifically designed for cold weather," said Mike Gilbertson, sales/marketing for Central Boiler. "It's EPA certified and is a totally renewable heat source."
Central Boiler is located in Greenbush, Minn., but there are dealers around the country. The company has been around since 1984.
The E-Classic is usually kept about 30-50 feet away from your home or business, but can go as far as 500 feet away. It also works with any existing heating system.
A water jacket surrounds the furnace firebox and heat exchanger. Heated water is then circulated to the building through insulated underground pipes. The heat is conveyed into the structure's heating system by means of water-to-air or water-to-water heat exchanges, or direct circulation.
"There's cleaner burning and it saves wood consumption," said Ryan Kezar, salesman for Central Boiler. "The amount of emission is also reduced. For the most part you only see steam, then it dissipates."
"The E-Classic almost eliminates heating costs," said Gilbertson. "It's over 90 percent efficient."
The E-Classic is meant to heat an entire home while saving you money; provide a safer alternative, eliminating dangers and mess associated with traditional indoor wood stoves; burn less wood; eliminate the negative effects of burning wood indoors and increases the advantages of wood heat; and reduce your carbon footprint with a renewable heat source.
Gilbertson and Kezar also talked about how you can monitor the furnace anywhere you go. There is a Fire Star II electronic controller and there is a Fire Star XP wi-fi module.
The wi-fi module allows you to view the water temperature and make changes to the controller from the "comfort of your house or garage;" view performance and history including local temperature, real-time status, charts and graphs and choose to have texts or emails sent to a web-enabled device with a data plan.
"You connect to MyFireStar.com through your home wi-fi network and stay in touch with your outdoor furnace from anywhere," said Gilbertson.
Visit the website, www.centralboiler.com for more information. Enter your zip code and you can find dealers near you.

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Hatha Yoga at Wave Hill
Sunday, October 13, 2013
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Find refuge from city life by practicing seasonal yoga. Decrease stress and increase your energy by focusing on your posture, your breath and your mind/body/spirit. Classes are led by Neem Dewji, certified in Hatha and Therapeutic Yoga from The Yoga for Health Foundation, England, and The Integral Yoga Institute, NYC. All levels welcome. Registration opens onsite at 9:30 a.m.
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New Candlelight Theatre presents the fun, high energy musical, "Legally Blonde" on April 5.
New Candlelight Theatre presents the fun, high energy musical, "Legally Blonde" on April 5.
The story tells of Elle Woods, a recently dumped, perky blonde girl who won't take "no" for an answer. Elle follows her ex-boyfriend all the way to Harvard Law School, determined to prove she is more than just a ditsy fashionista. Along the way, she finds that being yourself never goes out of style.
Leading the cast and making her NCT debut is Taylor Elise Rector as Elle Woods. A graduate of the University of Florida, Rector is now pursuing a career in musical theater in New York City. The remaining cast of 25 includes: Emily Kleimo as Margo, Lauren Parsons as Serena, Maria Konstantinidis as Pilar, Caleb Whipple as Emmett, Jennie Knackstedt as Paulette, Fernando Gonzalez as Callahan, Will Connell as Warner, Stephanie Woodring as Vivienne, Kelly Boeckle as Brooke, Janine Merolla as Enid, Jonathan Elliott Coursey as Kyle and thirteen ensemble members.
The production staff includes director and choreographer Dann Dunn, musical director Trevor Pierce, set designer Jeff Reim, lighting designer Brian Froonjian and costume designer Timothy Lamont Cannon.
One of the few remaining dinner theaters on the East Coast, NCT has been thrilling audiences for over 40 years. "Legally Blonde" will show Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons beginning April 5 and will run through May 19. A Thursday evening performance is available on May 9th. All tickets include dinner and show and are $56 for adults, $33 for children between 4 and 12. Under 4 not permitted.
Special Pricing: Friday evenings enjoy a special wine and cheese or wine and dessert price of $37 as a non-dinner option. Group rates are also available. Call or visit online at NCTstage.org for more details.


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Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, tells us what she's been reading in a feature that Morning Edition likes to call "Word of Mouth." This month, Brown selects two recent pieces of news commentary and a memoir on political resistors.
A Son's Plea For A Dissident Father
First up is the Financial Times article "My Father's Message to Putin from a Prison Camp" by Pavel Khodorkovsky, the son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of the massive Russian oil company Yukos.
Starting in 2002, the Russian government pursued Yukos with fraud allegations and high tax demands that couldn't be met by the company, whose assets were eventually frozen by the government.
President Vladimir Putin says Khodorkovsky, who was arrested on fraud charges, was jailed because he was a criminal. Khodorkovsky's supporters, however, say he was prosecuted because he funded opposition political groups and Putin wanted to make an example of him. The human-rights group Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience.
Pavel Khodorkovsky, who has not seen his father since he left for college in the United States in 2003, begins his piece with an image of his father in prison:
"His hands numb after queuing in the bitter cold outside, my father squeezes into a phone booth and dials my number. Thousands of miles away in the U.S., I hear his dear voice, still husky from the frosty Karelian air. His tone has its usual calm; his mood is upbeat."
Brown says with this article, Pavel Khodorkovsky is trying to get his father back on the public's radar.
"He has been incredibly brave and has just refused to recant his opposition to Putin," Brown tells Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep. "The son is really reminding us how incredibly important it is not to forget these people."
A Chess Grand Master's Political Activism
Imprisonment may sometimes work as a move to silence dissidents. But in a Newsweek article on world-famous Russian chess player Garry Kasparov, Putin biographer Masha Gessen suggests that in Russia, there are more subtle ways of marginalizing the opposition.
Gessen describes how in 2005, Kasparov — encouraged by the protest movements against Putin and demanding fair elections — formed the pro-democracy organization the United Civil Front. At the same time, Kasparov renounced chess and took to campaigning against the Putin regime.
Gessen explains that Putin believed he could not imprison a world celebrity like Kasparov. Instead he took a different approach.
"He did something almost more sinister," Brown says. "He simply reduced him to a nonperson. What Kasparov found is that drivers who took him to any engagements that he was doing, political engagements, would suddenly get lost. Hecklers would be there mysteriously planted to pelt him with eggs and ketchup. His rallies were incorrectly publicized, [and] recorded broadcasts that he made weren't transmitted."
But Kasparov has remained determined, Brown says, and the wave of Moscow protests in the wake of recent presidential elections are in some ways the fruit of Kasparov's activism.
"He helped to create these networks, many of them," Brown says. "He actually had begun six years ago now in trying to get groups together, outlying groups and so on, and it's that agenda ... that has helped to fuel the recent protest movement."
Madeleine Albright On The Soul Of The Resister
Brown says the common theme to each of her recommendations is the idea that one chooses whom they want to be morally — something that Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state, writes about in her memoir Prague Winter.
Albright, who in the 1990s discovered that she had Jewish ancestry, traces the history of her relatives who survived the Holocaust, and charts the painful experiences of those who died in concentration camps.
Albright constantly asks the question, Brown says, of what makes a person a resister rather than a collaborator. In one passage, Albright writes:
"Why do some people become stronger in the face of adversity, while others quickly lose heart? What separates the bully from the protector? Is it education, spiritual belief, our parents, our friends, the circumstances of our birth, traumatic events, or more likely some combination that spells the difference?"
Brown recounts one story from the book, about a pair of heroic parachuters among a group sent from Britain to occupied Czechoslovakia. Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis were sent to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's emissary to Prague.
"As [Heydrich] rounded the hairpin bend in his open Mercedes, Gabcik fired a shot," Brown says. "Unfortunately his gun jammed, and Kubis therefore lobbed a hand grenade. The car blew up but didn't kill Heydrich. He was terribly wounded; he was rushed to hospital."
Albright goes on to describe the sacrifice of Marie Moravcova, who helped Gabcik and Kubis to reunite with the rest of their group. When Moravcova was discovered, she took a cyanide pill before the Nazis could question her.
Albright says she feels disdain for the outright traitors — and unrestrained admiration for the heroes who chose bravery. But between those extremes, there's a less easily defined emotional territory.
"For the many who kept their eyes averted and their mouths shut, doing all they could to avoid involvement, I feel neither respect nor any sense of superiority," Albright writes. "But placed in the same circumstances, would I have shown the courage of a Madame Moravcova? As much as I would like to think so, I can make no such claim."
Tina Brown is with us once again. She's the editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and she brings us a regular feature we call Word of Mouth. We hear what Tina's reading. We get reading recommendations for ourselves. And this time around she's sent us some recommendations on the theme of resistance. Hi, Tina.
TINA BROWN: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: And when we say resistance, here's this first one from the Financial Times. The article is called "My Father's Message to Putin From a Prison Camp." Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, once again.
BROWN: Yes, what a scary, brutal guy he is. I mean, this is a piece by Pavel Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky, as you say, he is the son of the former CEO of Yukos, once Russia's largest company, the oil company, which was seized by Putin, and largely because Khodorkovsky had been funding oppositional politics.
And the piece begins by his son writing: His hands numb after queuing in the bitter cold outside, my father squeezes into a phone booth and dials my number. Thousands of miles away in the U.S., I hear his dear voice, still husky from the frosty Karelian air. His tone has its usual calm.
It's just unbelievable that this guy has been in a penal colony.
INSKEEP: It's really incredible. I mean, this guy - was he not the richest man in Russia or one of the richest men in Russia? He went from the absolute top to the absolute bottom here.
BROWN: He did. And he has been incredibly brave, and he has just refused to sort of recant his opposition to Putin. And he's - this son has not seen him since 2003, when he went to college in the U.S., and the son is really reminding us how incredibly important it is not to forget these people.
And as we saw this past week when we were all mesmerized by the incredible courage of the blind lawyer, Chen Guangcheng in China, who escaped the house arrest and crawled blind, you know, through the undergrowth and then met this fellow dissident who drove him to Beijing to the American embassy, these people are so incredibly brave. And it really is important for us not to forget them when they're off the radar, which of course most of them are.
INSKEEP: So Mikhail Khodorkovsky's son is trying to keep him on the radar, get him back on the radar.
BROWN: He's trying to get him back on the radar, and we must remember him. Actually, we have in Newsweek now a piece this week, which is kind of a companion in a sense to this one, by Putin's terrific biographer Masha Gessen, about Garry Kasparov.
She describes how the world-famous chess player in 2005, encouraged by the protest movements at the time against - you know, demanding fair elections - formed an organization called the United Civil Front, and renounced chess and took on the road to campaign against Putin.
But what she described is how basically Putin understood that he could not imprison Kasparov. He's just too much of a world celebrity, just could not do that. But instead he did something kind of almost more sinister. He simply reduced him really to a non-person.
What Kasparov found is that drivers who took him to any engagements that he was doing, his political engagements, would suddenly mysteriously get lost. Hecklers would be there mysteriously planted to pelt him with eggs and ketchup. You know, his rallies were incorrectly publicized, or you know, recorded broadcasts that he made weren't transmitted.
And so basically he was turned into this marginal person. But he stayed on in Russia. He's determined, and of course the recent protest movements have really been in a sense helped to be seeded by Kasparov's bravery in a sense, because had to create these networks, many of them.
He actually had begun six years ago now in trying to get groups together, and outlying groups and so on. And they have actually proven, it's that agenda in a sense, that has helped to fuel the recent protest movement. So he's done a good job in that sense.
INSKEEP: Your third recommended reading on resistance takes us back into history.
BROWN: Well, it does. And again, it is this theme, much of it in Madeleine Albright's wonderful memoir, "Prague Winter," that, you know, that you choose who you want to be morally. You really do.
All the way through these stories, whether it's Khodorkovsky, whether it's Kasparov, or whether indeed it is the Czechs in - who were in a sense forced to collaborate with Hitler because there was no help for the Czechs, and so when Hitler marched into the Sudetenland, they really were forced to just simply give up without a fight.
But nonetheless there were people who decided that they were going to simply collaborate and others who really tried to resist. And...
INSKEEP: Let's remind people of Madeleine Albright's connection to all of this. First female secretary of state, and around the time that she was becoming secretary of state, in the 1990s, she found out that she had Jewish ancestry and that she had relatives who had gone through the Holocaust. And now in this book she's listed even more of them.
BROWN: She has. And she used her family papers at this time to go back into this sort of unexplored story of her past where she discovered that relatives had died horribly in the camps at Terezin and shot in the woods as well. And it's a very - for her it was a very painful memoir, I think, to write.
And she describes a lot about her father, Josef Korbel, who, of course, had to go into exile in the U.K. where he worked for the BBC. He was a very distinguished academic. And he did what he could at the BBC to help to rally support for the Czechs and the outlawed Czech government in London. And you know, I was thinking that, you know, people either have the soul of collaborators or the soul of resisters.
And this is very much a theme in a sense of Albright's book, because she constantly asks the question: What kind of choices do we decide to make?
You know, she has an interesting passage where she says: Why do some people become stronger in the face of adversity while others quickly lose heart? What separates the bully from the protector? Is it education, spiritual belief, our parents? More succinctly, do our hopes for the future hinge on a desirable unfolding of external events or some mysterious process within?
This is really her obsessive theme in the book, which is who has the stuff and why do you have it to become a resister rather than a collaborator.
INSKEEP: And your eye was turned to one particular story of heroism there.
BROWN: Yeah, she tells her most amazing story about how these two heroes - in May 1942, a group of parachuters was sent from the U.K. to drop into occupied Czechoslovakia with the goal of assassinating the really brutal Reinhard Heydrich, who was Hitler's emissary to Prague to crush the Czechs. These two incredibly brave heroes, Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, waited for Heydrich.
As he rounded the hairpin bend in his open Mercedes, Gabcik fired a shot. Unfortunately his gun jammed, and Kubis therefore lobbed a hand grenade. The car blew up but didn't kill Heydrich. He was terribly wounded; he was rushed to hospital. But these two incredible heroes after an amazingly exciting kind of flight wind up being greatly helped in their flight by an incredibly woman called Marie Moravcova, who finally got them to this crypt underneath Prague with the rest of the parachuters, where they hid.
But tragically, one of their gang who wasn't in the crypt, decided to go for the reward, and he was the collaborator. He actually told the Nazis where Marie Moravcova was. They went to her apartment, stormed in, that while they were searching the apartment she takes a cyanide pill and of course the Nazis go and blow up the crypt. And the assassins then very bravely commit suicide with their last shots.
But this is the most amazing story, and of course Madeleine Albright is so full of admiration for these heroes. And she says: My own reaction is to feel distain for the outright traitors and unrestrained admiration for the heroes who chose bravely. As for the many who kept their eyes averted and their mouths shut, doing all they could to avoid involvement, I feel neither respect nor any sense of superiority. But placed in the same circumstances, would I have shown the courage of a Madame Moravcova? As much as I would like to think so, I can make no such claim.
INSKEEP: A question we can all ask of ourselves. Word of Mouth from Tina Brown. Tina, thanks very much.
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"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" – Will Rogers.Want to grow your business but not sure how to do it? Or, is your business growing so fast you can't keep up with it?If creating or managing growth is a challenge for you and your business, then the Jefferson City Small Business Academy is for you. A partnership between the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce and Extension's Small Business Technology & Development Center (SBTDC), the Academy provides you the opportunity to work on your business rather than working in your business. What is in it for you?The academy focuses on growth and preparing for that growth through a structured curriculum that provides practical advice, real-world techniques, & opportunities for coaching and access to new resources. The Small Business Academy uses a world-class curriculum developed by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City. The 32 hour curriculum is provided in easy to digest 10 3-hour events plus a 2-hour introductory session. You will be with fellow entrepreneurs facing the same challenges. The curriculum is a mix of lecture, exercises, guest speakers and networking. At the conclusion of the Academy you will have created a growth plan for your business. You will also have access to the full range of SBTDC services, which includes market research, business plan assistance, financial reviews, access to government contracting help to name a few.Fee is for all 11 sessions.
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Sizing Up Your Business is the first session. You will analyze your strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities as part of creating a three year vision. You will set some goals and be introduced to strategic tools to determine your path to success.
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My village is in turmoil. There has been a murder in the family.
Whenever violence visits, facts get a bit muddled. There are plenty of rumors, but this much is generally accepted as being factual.
Robin Wood was a 67-year old Canadian from Salt Spring Island – one of the spots my sailing buddies and I visit during our summer excursions to British Columbia. He came south to vacation with a Canadian realtor.
Two young men came over the roof of the realtor's home in Villa Obregon. They appeared to be intent on robbery, other than mere burglary, because one arrived armed with a pistol.
One robber grabbed a bag. Mr. Wood resisted. The armed robber shot him. Mr. Wood died before his host could get him to the hospital in Cihuatlán – about 15 minutes away.
A very sad tale (undoubtedly, where we know little of what actually happened). And one that could – and does – happen in large and small towns around the world.
I have been monitoring the reaction of the tourist and expatriate communities on the Melaque electronic message board – TomZap. And I am a bit surprised at what I have been reading.
There are the usual (and appropriate) sympathy wishes for Mr. Wood's family. But those entries are dwarfed by the number of people who say they are evacuating Melaque because of the incident.
At times like these, logic is not a sought handmaiden. As far as I know, very few people talked about shunning Melaque when three young men died during the past three years in allegedly drug-related assassinations. Or when any of the local love triangle murders happened.
The difference, of course, is the unstated. Those deaths involved locals. This death was one of us.
And I am not talking about skin color. I will leave that topic for someone who wants to beat the tom-tom of tribalism that lurks in some of the TomZap posts.
For too long, visitors to Melaque have idealized it as a paradise. It isn't. If it is Eden, the serpent of reality has long been coiled there.
Part of that reality is that a small portion of the local community, just like any community, is composed of thieves. The bars on our windows and doors are not merely quaint architectural artifacts of the Spanish occupation.
To our neighbors, we are part of the world's wealthy ruling class. With our bottomless ATM accounts, fancy computers, and café lifestyles. To the thieves, we are targets as lucrative as any Mexican CEO.
Does that make this murder is our fault? Of course, not. We will undoubtedly eventually discover some fact that results in an aha moment. There is simply a risk that comes along with our worship of material goods.
Unfortunately, for Robin Wood, he evidenced that love far too clearly when he reflexively (but not reflectively) grabbed for a bag that was no longer his. And paid for it with his life.
I hope the murderers are caught. I hope justice is done. But leaving Melaque will not accomplish any of those ends.
I am not leaving. In fact, I will soon be flying back home to Melaque in a few days. And I intend to bring as many people as I can.


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ADRIAN — Beefing up the power of Lenawee County Administrator Martin Marshall will be the charge of a special committee being assembled by county commission chairman John Tuckerman, R-Blissfield.
County government reform was put on the commission's agenda last year when the OneLenawee citizens' group proposed an elected county executive, similar to Oakland and Wayne counties.
Tuckerman asked the commission Thursday to authorize him to appoint a seven-member committee that will instead explore adding muscle to the current administrator form of government.
"Ultimately, it's going to be the nine commissioners who make the decisions," Tuckerman said.
A committee that includes members who are not commissioners will broaden the perspective, he said.
He plans to appoint four commissioners, two elected county officials and a representative from the general public, possibly a member of OneLenawee.
A report is expected from the committee as early as April 1.
Tuckerman said commissioners decided last year that an independent elected executive would add too much cost to Lenawee County government. But the goals of streamlining government and providing a central authority to deal with economic development and other issues can be accomplished with the current administrator system, he said.
"The idea is to get the biggest bang for the buck with taxpayers' money," Tuckerman said.
Marshall is already working on a current job description, detailing his duties and authority as administrator, said Tuckerman. The committee will go over that job description and come up with recommendations for improving the administrator's role, he said.
"This is just a subcommittee to bring a fresh perspective," Tuckerman said.
The committee's report, he said, is to put issues on the table for commissioners to discuss and decide.
Committee to look at increasing county administrator's authority
ADRIAN — Beefing up the power of Lenawee County Administrator Martin Marshall will be the charge of a special committee being assembled by county commission chairman John Tuckerman, R-Blissfield.


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Legislation has cleared a House committee which would prohibit enacting further unfunded education mandates.
Legislation that would end the practice of forcing unfunded education mandates on local schools recently passed unanimously out of the House Appropriations and Budget Common Education Committee.
House Bill 1100, by state Rep. Arthur Hulbert, would prohibit the legislature from enacting any mandate on local education boards unless sufficient funding was provided to cover the costs associated with the law.
"When I was running for office, one of the most common complaints I heard was that our schools were being overwhelmed by unfunded mandates," said Rep. Hulbert, R-Ft. Gibson.
"In my opinion, we need to promote local control of our schools and decrease the number of government mandates. I am very pleased this legislation has cleared the first hurdle toward protecting our schools, though I am certain the fight will intensify as the bill moves forward."
HB 1100 passed the committee on a bipartisan 8-0 vote. It now proceeds to the House Calendar Committee, which will determine if the measure will be heard by the full body of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.


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The Hudson County Board of Freeholders was a regular love-fest at its first meeting of the year, during which they voted to name Hoboken Freeholder Anthony Romano as the new chairman, West New York Freeholder Jose Munoz as vice chair, and North Bergen/Secaucus Freeholder Thomas Liggio as pro tempore.
The freeholder board votes on the county budget (which affects county taxes), as well as policy related to county institutions such as the county jail.
Although it's not set in stone, the nine freeholders have over the last few years rotated leadership yearly.
This year's elections were uncontested and full of high hopes for the upcoming year, even though some alluded to past differences of issues.
"First I want to thank God that a boy from 10th and Willow in Hoboken and schooled in Jersey City rose to such a distinguished position," Romano said after being sworn in as chairman.
Romano paid tribute to outgoing chairman Jersey City Freeholder Eliu Rivera, who not only had to deal with sometimes cantankerous conflicts between freeholders, but also issues of ill health. For a time he had been hospitalized and was frequently forced to carry an oxygen tank to meetings.
"I want to thank my predecessor Eliu Rivera," Romano said. "A lot of people don't like the adversity he went through to make sure he attended all the functions as a chair, which he did in a fantastic way. The man has a heart of gold and I think we owe him a debt for his leadership."
Romano, however, said that he will depend upon other freeholders and county directors to get things done in 2013.
Paying tribute to his fellow freeholders with nicknames such as "the four wise men," "the poet laureate and watchdog," "my running mates," and "my sister Doreen," Romano said he hoped 2013 would evoke a spirit of cooperation on the board.
"My old uncle used to say about a chair, that a chair is only as good as the legs it stands on," Romano said. "I think we do need to remember that we need to function as a team."
The swearing-in ceremony was conducted in a room filled with elected officials throughout the county, including Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, with whom Romano worked closely during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy; Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith; Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell; Anthony Vainieri Jr., who was representing State Senator Nicholas Sacco; Assemblywoman Angelica M. Jimenez; and numerous other county and local officials.
"We look forward to working with everyone in the county. We work in conjunction with our mayors and state officials, and federal officials," Romano said. "We have obviously seen with all the tension that's going on in Washington that there is a need and what people want is for public officials to work together. This county has great directors and workers from top to the bottom. We appreciate all of them."
"Every city is important. We have to do what's right for the people of this county," he said. "We have to get things done."
"My old uncle used to say about a chair, that a chair is only as good as the legs it stands on." – Freeholder chairman Anthony Romano
Munoz won't take his role lightly
Freeholder Munoz, who is often outspoken at freeholder meetings, quoted poet John Dunne and President John F. Kennedy as he gratefully accepted the post of vice chairman of the freeholders, and also honored outgoing chairman Rivera.
He called it a great honor to be appointed vice chair, and an appointment that he does not take lightly.
Quoting Dunne, he said, no man is an island, that what he does is with the support of his constituents and the cooperation of his colleagues.
"2012 was a very difficult year for all of us," Munoz said, "with a storm that left destruction in its wake, and an economic crisis that left many people fearful of their future."
He said recognizing these and other issues, he felt he has made the right decisions that reflected the needs of the people in his district. "We have a balanced budget. We cut spending to make government more efficient, but we still have more to accomplish, and more challenges to overcome."
He challenged the freeholders to do better than the board has done in the past.
"I ask that we respect the differences in each other," he said. "But this board cannot accomplish what needs to be accomplished alone. We rely on our employees and individual citizens."
Liggio hopes to serve as elder statesman
Liggio said this was his second time appointed to the position as pro tempore
"The first time I had the position, I was fairly new on the board but now, coming back to this position, I see myself in two roles," he said. "The first role is to fill in with the absence of the chair and the vice chair, which is very rare. And my second role is, being one elder statesman on the board now, to give advice and counsel to the chair and vice chair if they should need it."
Rivera rose to the task in 2012
Outgoing chairman Rivera said it had been a tough year, but that he believes the freeholders did good things during his tenure as chairman.
"Although we had our ups and downs in 2012, we know that with the help of God, 2013 will be a better year for all of us," he said. "I want to thank my entire community to supporting me I did the job as best as I could, but this did not happened without that support."
Freeholder Bill O'Dea predicted that budget issues are going to be more difficult in the upcoming year as well as other issues, in light of Hurricane Sandy, and how to better prepare the county for the future.
"Even when we disagree, we have proven that as a board over the last seven years we have been able to come to a consensus through debate and discussion and help shape very good changes in policy that have affected the direction of the county in a positive way," O'Dea said.
Union City Freeholder Tilo Rivas also said 2012 was a tough year but celebrated Rivera. "He did great job as chairman," he said.
Jersey City Freeholder Jeff Dublin said Rivera had a lot of obstacles over the course of year, but served as an inspiration for Dublin.
"He is a fighter and a tough guy," said Dublin, who was also reappointed the county's representative to the New Jersey Association of County, to which he is expected to be as president this year. Bayonne Freeholder Doreen DiDomenico was named the alternate representative.


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The Osage Beach Board of Aldermen will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the city hall.
The Osage Beach Board of Aldermen will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the city hall.
Agenda items will include:
•Second reading of a bill establishing a collective bargaining process.
•Certification of election results and oaths of office
•Election of president of the board of aldermen
•First reading of a bill authorizing mayor to execute Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission Global Navigation Satellite Real Time Network for Continuously Operating Reference Stations User's Responsibility and Agreement for the Use and Access of Data. First Reading
•Preliminary Plat of Bella Harbor Subdivision
•First and second reading of a bill accepting the Final Plat of Bella Harbor Subdivision. First and Second Readings
•A bill authorizing the mayor to execute a construction contract for the application of slurry seal to city streets.
•A bill amending the 2013 budget.
•A bill authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with Shafer, Kline & Warren, Inc. to provide professional design services for sidewalks.
•Authorization to provide engineering and contract administration services to the Osage Beach Special Road District for the reconstruction of Coral Lane
•City-paid lease of billboards – one at each end of the city limits, or electronic signs on the Grand Glaize Bridge
•Proposal by Flying Dragon Disc Golf Club to construct an 18-hole disc golf course in the Osage Beach City Park
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BROOMFIELD — The therapist, who turned Mitchell Kusick in to authorities after he threatened to kill the president and children at Standley Lake High School, says he did it to protect his community.
Kusick, 20, was a patient of Dr. Corey Candelaria's. Candelaria said patient confidentiality has to be overlooked when there's a threat to any individuals.
"It is the responsibility to warn proper authorities if either the client or community is in credible threat of harm," Dr. Candelaria said. "That's how I handled those situations, and I will notify proper authorities in those situations."
Candelaria wouldn't comment on the case because it's still considered an open investigation. He also wouldn't comment on Kusick, since he was a patient of his.
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The Way of the Master
The Way of the Master is an evangelical ministry created by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron to train Christians in the art of apologetics and open-air evangelism. This ministry, in cooperation with Comfort's Living Waters Publications, produces a number of training courses, radio and television programs.
Basically the series teaches that people must practise Christianity exactly as Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron tell them and must interpret the Bible exactly as Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron tell them in order to avoid eternal damnation.
The television portion of this ministry airs on 15 Christian networks and has received numerous awards from Christian organizations. While popular among evangelicals, the real "break out" moment for the series was the banana argument from Season 1, Episode 7. A number of internet humor sites carried the clip of Ray declaring that the banana was "the atheist's nightmare", as he considers it an obvious testament to Intelligent Design.
The Logo
The Way of the Master logo contains the letters WDJD. The letters stand for "What Did Jesus Do". They also serve as a reminder to the four questions:
- "Would you consider yourself to be a good person?"
- "Do you think you have kept the 10 Commandments?" followed by asking specifically if the person has broken the commandments, with questions like "Have you ever told a lie?"
- Judgment: "If God judges you by the 10 Commandments on the Day of Judgment, will you be innocent or guilty?"
- Destiny: "Would you go to heaven or hell?"
Mark 16:15 is a reference to the Bible which reads:
- He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." The bad news is that we are in danger of judgement and hell, the good news is that Jesus died for our sins.
Street interviews
Street interviews are a regular feature of the series online though it is unclear to Iron Chariots what criteria the Comfort team use to decide which videos to broadcast or whether those shown on the videos consent to the broadcast.
Christian approach
Even some Christians disagree with Comfort's system of telling eveybody including decent people that they have violated the Ten Commandments. Then Comfort makes decent people feel guilty and makes decent people fear that they are in danger of Hell. [1]
Arguments used in the series
|The Way of the Master
| Season One Episodes:
1. The Firefighter 2. The Mirror of the Ten Commandments 3. The Motive of the Sinner 4. The Summary of Salvation 5. Practice What You Preach 6. Idolatry—The Darling Sin of Humanity 7. The Beauty of a Broken Spirit—Atheism 8. WDJD? 9. Blasphemy, Sabbath, Parents 10. Murder 11. Adultery 12. Theft 13. Lie and Covet
| Season Two Episodes:
1. God's Wonderful Plan 2. Conscience 3. Alcatraz, Al Capone, Alcohol 4. True and False Conversion 5. When Things Go Wrong 6. The Satanic Influence 7. How to Witness to Someone Who's Homosexual/Gay 8. Evolution 9. How to Witness to a Loved One 10. The Fear of God 11. Ice Breakers—Gospel Tracts 12. The Greatest Gamble 13. How to Get on Fire for God
| Season Three Episodes:
1. Islam 2. Mormonism 3. Witchcraft 4. Buddhism 5. Roman Catholicism 6. What Hollywood Believes 7. New Age 8. Humanism 9. What America Believes 10. Jehovah's Witness 11. Judaism 12. Spiritual Battle 13. Hinduism
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A few years ago as my birthday was approaching, my wife got a call from a couple of friends suggesting we go for sushi to celebrate. It included checking out their newest acquisition, a new 20 something foot Bay Cruiser.
We had gone for a couple of cruises on their smaller boat in the past and it almost always involved a dark and scary "Saki fueled" ride back to their marina in unfamiliar waters (to me anyway). The evening was great fun for everyone except me. I was the default DD. I marveled at how my friend could so easily get himself trashed and then expect I would be okay with his "bringin'er home" in the dark. Being that I was a long time mariner and the only one with any kind of license, I knew I had to avoid exceeding the legal alcohol limit if I was to be aboard for any trip. Of course I had no choice but to convince him to let me act as his helmsman, I was always on the edge of my seat and paying close attention to where we were headed to and from. It was exhausting.
Expecting more of the same, the evening's plans were quickly brought to a halt when I mentioned to my cute, well-meaning but apparently oblivious wife that it was my birthday. Two beats later she got it. It was my birthday and spending it on any boat was not my idea of a great time.
I hate boats…..let me repeat that, I hate boats.
Especially a boat that I don't own but would still be held accountable for any reckless or dangerous behavior.
I wouldn't own a boat if you bought it for me. I spend half my life on one, the other half is my time, boat free.
When crew change day arrives I forget about the boat as soon as I clear the gate. I usually decompress enough on the ride home to the point of walking in the house, kissing the wife and taking a shower. I put my head on my pillow and disappear for 2 or 3 blissful hours of silent uninterrupted sleep. Thereafter it's dinner with my wife and an early bedtime.
My father, brother and many friends owned boats and found them endlessly relaxing, I just see the work. I also see that for every competent and careful boat owner, there are many more who think a six-pack and a set of keys are all that's required for a good time. No consideration given to the fact they are venturing into a environment that has little patience for the careless.
Ask any professional mariner and they will affirm what I'm talking about. We are surrounded during the summer boating season with any number of small vessels. Sailboats, motor boats, jet skis and kayaks in and among commercial traffic. More than a few tend to be oblivious to the rules or common sense.
Everything recreational about boats is a mystery to me. I only see the work. Prep, painting, storage, maintenance and repair. All for a few hours of use during a season.
A captain I worked with many years ago was talking about his 36′ cruiser and I asked him what kind of money it took for him to store, maintain and finally run his boat for one season. The amount he came up with staggered me. I could have taken a Hawaiian vacation for two weeks at the Waikiki Hilton with what he expended for less than 40 hours of blissful boating.
I did a quick benefit analysis of cost vs. usage (out loud) and was summarily thrown out of the pilothouse.
As it is, you'd be hard-pressed to find me on a boat on my time off. Unless it's a ferry or Dive boat, I have little use for them. And I can state categorically and without any doubt that I will never own one.
I'm sorry if I've offended any recreational boat owners with my opinions, but it is what it is. I'm not interested in your vintage sailboat, cabin cruiser, your new Jet Ski or for Christ's sake your new fucking kayak. I'm on my time, please leave boats out of the conversation.


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Warm Bodies
The zombie apocalypse teen romance Warm Bodies has a couple of things going for it: It's unlike any other zombie movie in recent memory, and the lead character is soulful, clever, and cute. Even as a zombie.
Like with many post-apocalyptic stories, we don't know why things are the way they are (some mystery virus, presumably), but the dead have risen to eat the living. Slacker hipster R. (Nicholas Hoult), as he's known, has taken refuge in an abandoned airport along with the other undead, but there's still a spark of life in him (for one thing, he's "conflicted" about eating people). He can't remember his name, just his first initial, and can't remember who he was. But he seeks connection.
The problem is the other zombies are mindless, and, conflicted or not, they feed on humans.
When R. falls for a living girl, Julie (Teresa Palmer), however, he curbs his appetite long enough to forge a bond, and thus begins what could be called "Romeo & Juliet & Zombies" as it attempts to answer the age-old question: Can you make peace with people who want to eat you?
Based on the novel by Isaac Marion (which began as a seven-page short story called "I Am a Zombie Filled with Love"!), the film takes a seemingly unique viewpoint: that of the undead rather than the dead. And poignantly, as the zombies are unable to recall their past lives, they are able to find some solace in the memories of their victims-which they process when eating their brains. This being a PG-13 teen romance (for the most part), this isn't a gore fest. It's more sweet than scary.
Director Jonathan Levine ("50/50," "The Wackness") is deft with the comedic aspects of the story, though the dramatic aspects end up paling in comparison. When Julie loses her boyfriend early on, she doesn't mourn him. Not even for a second. Sure, she's fighting for her life on a daily basis, but there is plenty of time for her to feel SOMETHING. And it's never clear why she goes off with a zombie (as cute as he is) when he's just killed her boyfriend. Wouldn't any sensible girl run? Even a teenage girl in the throes of hormones?
The Australia-born Palmer ("I Am Number Four," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") is spunky, but, as in her other films, is also largely forgettable. Gorgeous Hoult (of the BBC's "Skins," "X-Men: First Class," and "A Single Man," as Colin Firth's flirty student), however, imbues R. with an awkward earnestness, a "humanity," you might say. He's soulful even when he only grunts. And some of his observations are both clever and laugh-out-loud amusing.
Yet while R. is an engaging, amusing protagonist, the story flails both by the pedestrian retelling of "Romeo and Juliet." John Malkovich as Julie's militant leader father is mostly wasted, though he throws himself into the role with verve; and the dissolution of the B story of the Boneys, zombies who are too far gone for there to be any hope of rehabilitation. The Boneys look like stop-motion effects circa 1981. That might have worked in the original "Clash of the Titans," but with the technological advances of the past 30 years, effects this cheap looking are laughable at best. And once the romance is wrapped up, the Boneys' storyline is concluded in a matter of seconds. They don't seem to have ever had a point other than to chase our heroes from one set piece to the next. Unfortunately, social commentary, the hallmark of zombie movies (aside from the flesh eating, of course), is largely missing, though at one point R. does read an "Us Weekly" story on Kim Kardashian, clearly intimating the mindlessness of humanity doesn't end when we die.
"Warm Bodies" is cheeky, sometimes smart, often fun, but it never really plays beyond the tween audience it's meant for, which is unfortunate, because there's a lot of unplumbed promise in the premise.


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If you've looked at the March/April issue of Paper Crafts, you may have already seen my winning card on page 82.
For today's card I decided to take the basic idea from my winning card and create a new one with a few small changes. This one goes a bit more toward the trendy navy color, but still uses fabulous papers from Authentique Paper (these are from the Free Bird Series) and that wonderful Itty Bitty from Unity Stamp company.
I did one of my favorite inking techniques to get a fun gradient on the stamped image. I love this look! It is a fabulous way to give your stamped image a little bit of spunk!
I was having fun stamping while I created this card, so I decided to create a coordinating bookmark:
Bookmarks are a great way to use up those scraps you've trimmed from your papers to create your card. It makes for a quick coordinating gift set.
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The Prizes:
I've decided to share a little bit of what came in my WCMD prize package with one lucky winner.
Here's what you can win:
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ROCKFORD — Special Olympics Illinois and the Rockford Police Department will partner to host the Torch Run Benefit Lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 25 at Texas Roadhouse, 7240 Walton St.
The meals, served by RPD officers and volunteers, will feature a pulled pork sandwich, corn, bread and a nonalcoholic beverage.
Attendees are asked to leave a tax-deductible donation for their meal. One-hundred percent of proceeds benefit Special Olympics Illinois.
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We may well be seeing a lot of whisky this festive season, whether it's underneath the Christmas tree or in our glasses. France is the world's largest consumer of Scotch whisky,...
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Adults are showing a growing interest in playing games, all manner of games, and there are new establishments where they can go to play them and let their imagination run wild.
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Designers are teaming up with carpenters and craftsmen to revisit woodwork, using simple designs to bring out the beauty of this ancestral material.
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Cheese culture is changing, bringing new levels of sophistication to the cheese board. New eateries, stores and concepts could well change consumer habits, with people seeing...


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This "who is doing what" and "who is interested in what" social-networking page is for *anyone* (including newbies and organizations) doing *anything significant* (including commercial) regarding Perl 6. Intructions about how to expand are at the end. Not all links lead to articles in this wiki. To get all of them click on the "People" tag on the right side or "on this link"<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?action=category_display;category=People;tag=/People>.
^^ Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters
This important section expanded enough to get its own page (Yea!): [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].
^^ The Language Design Team
Also known as "@Larry", and led by [Larry Wall], our hero and leader, the inventor of Perl. We think he deserves a "MacArthur prize"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program>.
* [chromatic]: The project secretary, a Parrot developer, and the one who argued for roles for a couple of years until Allison pointed to the traits paper. Read "chromatic's journal"<http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/>.
* Nicholas Clark: Pumking of the Perl 5.8 series. Also see ""People of Perl: Nicholas Clark"<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/people_of_perl_nicholas_clark.html>".
* [Will Coleda]: VP of the Parrot Foundation. Has worked on a variety of languages targeting parrot.
* [Damian Conway]: He wrote the "Exegeses"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/exegesis/>, and tries hard to find any error in Larry's ideas.
* Richard Dice: The president of "The Perl Foundation"<http://perlfoundation.org/>.
* Jerry Gay: Hacks on [Parrot], [Rakudo] Perl 6 and the Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT). Read "Jerry's journal"<http://use.perl.org/~particle/journal/>.
* [Patrick Michaud]: lead developer of [Rakudo] and [PCT]
* [Allison Randal]: The [Parrot] architect and president of the "Parrot foundation"<http://parrot.org>.
* "Hugo van der Sanden"<http://crypt.org/hv/>: Knows more about Perl 5 internals than any one person should, which helps to make better decisions for Perl 6.
* [Audrey Tang]: The primary force behind [Pugs], ended the long "Dark Ages" of compiler-side Perl 6 development, spread "-Ofun" and commit bits to the masses. Also deserving of a MacArthur prize.
^^ Software Developers
^^^ Contributors to [Implementations]
* [Flávio Soibelmann Glock]: author of several smaller implementations
* "Jeff Horwitz"<http://www.smashing.org/jeff/node/2>: mod_perl6. "Jeff's blog"<http://www.smashing.org/jeff/blog/1>.
* [Jonathan Leto]: versatile and busy Parrot developer
* [Pawel Murias]: codeveloper of [Mildew]
* "Ovid"<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2574> (Curtis Poe): Also see ""People of Perl: Ovid"<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/people_of_perl_ovid.html>".
* [Stephen Weeks]: versatile Parrot developer
* Matthew Wilson: author of [sprixel]
* [Jonathan Worthington]: a major driving force behind Rakudo; previously worked on Parrot.
^^^ Developers using Perl 6 (and Parrot)
* Darren Duncan: DB-related stuff.
* Stevan Little: "Moose is the new Perl" Moose meta-object system. "Stevan's journal"<http://use.perl.org/~Stevan/journal>.
* "Bernhard Schmalhofer"<http://use.perl.org/~bernhard/journal>: Working on Pipp, PHP on Parrot, and Eclectus, Scheme on Parrot.
* [Carl Mäsak]: frenetic Rakudo user, November author and our number one bug finder
* [Mark Stosberg]: I'm working on porting CGI::Application to Perl 6 and having fun along the way.
^^ Documentation Authors
^^^ Books
* The [Open source Perl 6 book] is written by: Patrick Michaud, Jonathan Worthington, [Carl Mäsak], [Moritz Lenz], Jonathan Scott Duff (wrote the initial preface)
** They are also open to contributions from others.
* See [Perl 6 Books and Media] historical info and future prospects.
^^^ Wiki Contributors
* [John Beppu]:
* [Martin Berends]
* [Herbert Breunung]: author of [Perl 6 Tutorial] and [Perl 6 Tablets], writes articles and tutorials for wikis and print magazines with its own editor.
* Samuel Harrington:
* Brian Julin: author of [WITCH]
* "Andy Lester"<http://petdance.com/>: Set up the official Perl 6, Parrot, and then Perl 5 wikis. Also runs "rakudo.org"<http://www.rakudo.org/> and "perlbuzz.com"<http://www.perlbuzz.com/>. "Andy's journal"<http://use.perl.org/%7Epetdance/journal/>.
* [Conrad Schneiker]: original instigator and major contributor of this wiki. His donation led to [November].
* Aaron Trevena:
^^^ Article Authors
* [Adriano Ferreira]: [Perl 6 microarticles]
^^ Others
* Ask Bjørn Hansen: Set up Perl 6 newsgroups ("http://www.nntp.perl.org/group"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group>)
* Andy Lester: Started and maintains "Perlbuzz"<http://perlbuzz.com>, which reports frequently about Perl 6 related events.
* Ileen Gutrerrez: representative of "Low Cost Health Insurance"<http://reallycheaphealthinsurance.com>
* [Gabor Szabo]: gives talks and organizes a lot of different things in the community
* Juerd Waalboer: Runs [feather], a Perl 6 development machine, and used to be active in several areas of Perl 6/Pugs.
^^ The Old Guard
These individuals contributed a great deal, but are no longer serving in their former capacities:
* "Piers Cawley"<http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Cawley_Piers>: Former parrot/perl6 summarizer.
* "Simon Cozens"<http://www.simon-cozens.org/>: Former parrot pumpking (versions 0.0.1 through 0.0.4), Parrot' name is based on his joke.
* "Matt Fowles"<http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Fowles_Matt>: Former parrot/perl6 summarizer.
* Ann Barcomb: Former parrot/perl6 summarizer.
* "Steve Fink"<http://use.perl.org/~sfink>: Former parrot pumpking (versions 0.0.9 through 0.0.12).
* "Jeff Goff"<http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Goff_Jeffrey>: Former parrot pumpking (versions 0.0.5 to 0.0.8).
* "Luke Palmer"<http://www.luqui.org/>: Former Perl 6 language list monitor and co-author of the retroactive Synopses.
* "Chip Salzenberg"<http://use.perl.org/~chip/>: Former parrot pumpking and the parrot architect, and a large contributor.
* "Dan Sugalski"<http://www.vogelein.com/~dan/>: Former and initial parrot architect and developer.
* "Leopold Tötsch"<http://www.toetsch.at/>: Leo was the pumpking for releases 0.0.13 - 0.4.5, and for some time was a larger contributor. Also see ""People of Perl: Leopold Toetsch"<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/people_of_perl_leopold_toetsch.html>".
* "Nathan Torkington"<http://www.frii.com/~gnat/>: Former project manager emeritus.
* [Jesse Vincent]: The former Perl 6 project manager. An expert at the "stick and carrot" approach to open source development. ("Blog"<<http://use.perl.org/~jesse>)
* "Bryan Warnock"<http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Warnock_Bryan>: Used to compile the Perl 6 Digest with Simon Cozens. _Yes, "that"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnocked> Warnock._
^^ How to add yourself to this page:
* Add your (or their) name below, in alphabetical order (by last name or organization), in the *most relevant* section (or sections). Create a new section if a suitable section doesn't exist.
* Link the name to a suitable home page, blog, or whatever, or you can create a new personal page on this wiki to link to (use the same name for the page name).
* Add a few sentences relevant activities, interests, and so on.


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Last weekend, a friend and I visited the Barry County Museum in Cassville.
Last weekend, a friend and I visited the Barry County Museum in Cassville.
I was impressed.
It is exactly what I have always envisioned for the Newton County Museum. Except that we have more to offer. That is, we could.
The Newton County Historical Society's main museum building, at 121 N. Washington St., in Neosho, was built in 1887 as the sheriff's home. Whoever happened to be elected sheriff lived in the house, rent free, as long as he held that office. His family resided there as well. In total, 13 sheriffs lived in the house that is now the county museum. This arrangement lasted until 1937, when the jail was moved to the third story of the then-new Newton County Courthouse, built the year before in the center of the Neosho Square.
Of course, living in the sheriff's home had its drawbacks. The biggest was residing next to the county prisoners. The brick county jail was attached on the back side of the house. It was torn down in 1956 on the orders of a county commission who felt it was blight.
The parlor — today the only room in the museum that has kept its original use — was located next to the small room inside the back door where prisoners were first brought after their arrest. I suppose it might be considered a very primitive booking area of the day. There the prisoners were deloused (only sometimes, would be my guess), and taken into the main jail through another door that has now been sealed shut because there is no longer a jail building. The room is now office storage space.
The sheriff's wife doubled as cook for the inmates, at least during certain time periods of the jail's history. The "bean slot," on the other side of which the prisoners would line up to receive their plates of hot grub, is still present in what was the kitchen. Today, the room is the museum office.
The sheriff and his family lived even more closely to the female prisoners, in the same home in fact. The women's cell is upstairs in the museum, though it is now the antique tool room. At one time there were two cells there, but the dividing bars are long gone and one of the doors has been sealed shut. It is now a single room, used to display antique tools.
Just outside the women's cell, in the hallway, is a little window that the sheriff could open to check in on the prisoners from time to time (or tell them to quiet it down). The little window, with a single bar in the middle, remains today but now opens to a blank wall. The jail is gone.
Although we no longer have the old jail, the sheriff's home in itself holds many possibilities. From the earliest time of my short five-year-involvement with the Newton County Historical Society I have seen the need for a separate facility, with about the same square footage of storage space, for county history displays that could conveniently be rotated out every few months. This is exactly what our neighbors at the Barry County Museum have. Actually, they change out displays every six weeks, the staff there proudly told me.
The old sheriff's home that we have used as a county history museum since 1958 has its own story to tell. It should be allowed to tell it, in my opinion. What is now an office should again be a kitchen. What is now the tool room should again be a women's jail cell. Those rooms and all others would be straight out of the late 1800s / early 1900s. Can you envision it?
The office and artifacts not a part of the story of the sheriff's home would be located in a separate building (there is space in the current boundaries of the county historical park). There would also be adequate storage space so we wouldn't have to try to display everything all at once. Space has been a problem for the Newton County Museum since the beginning, is my guess. And, over a period of 55 years, that problem has only enlarged.
I have personally wanted to see our Newton County Historical Museum go in this direction for a long time. Well, for five years anyway. My visit last weekend to the Barry County Museum reawakened that desire.
I don't know if these things will ever happen or not. But, at one time, man probably wondered if we would ever reach the moon.
Wes Franklin serves on the Newton County Historical Society Board of Directors. He is also public relations director and events coordinator for the City of Neosho. Contact him at 658-8443.


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Check out the player below to watch one song each by 39 of the best acts at this year's Glastonbury Festival, as filmed by the BBC. Click the black bar at the bottom of the player to scroll through the songs on offer, or just press play and watch the lot.
Also, if you're in the UK you can watch an hour of highlights of U2's set on BBC4 tonight (Friday) at 21.00 and 00.30. Plus, you can see Elbow's set at 22.00 and 01.30.


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"Do people really just take animals out in the middle of nowhere and leave them?" Sara asked.
"Do people really just take animals out in the middle of nowhere and leave them?" Sara asked.
I was a little surprised at her question, but then remembered that Sara and her fiancé live in Massachusetts. They saw Merlin's smile and story on Petfinder and were smitten. As I visited with Sara, she wanted to know how Merlin came to be part of Faithful Friends, so I explained that we thought he was an abandoned stray that was picked up by authorities after committing the crime of "herding" children. That prompted her question. I told her that we receive calls almost every day reporting abandoned dogs, puppies, cats and kittens. She was astonished.
We really do live in a unique area. When I moved to Neosho six years ago I quickly became aware that "animal abandonment" is a common occurrence in our area and that most people are not even surprised, but view it as commonplace or normal.
Why is it so common here? The only reason I can come up with is the fact that we have such a concentrated "supply." People do not value something that is easily attained, disposed of and replaced. There are areas of our country where low-cost spay and neuter programs have been implemented and laws enforced to such a degree that people are standing in line or have placed their names on waiting lists to adopt dogs, puppies, cats and kittens. With a decrease in availability comes an increase in their value.
Every week rescued animals are placed on transports here in Missouri and taken to other parts of the country where there are more homes waiting than animals to fill them. Most of us are as equally astonished to hear that fact, as Sara was to discover that people here actually just leave them on the side of the road.
Sara and her fiancé have an Australian Shepherd and would like to have another. They were not a bit deterred by the fact that they are in Massachusetts and Merlin is in southern Missouri. In fact, Sara's sister had adopted a dog that came to the northeast on a transport from just south of us in Arkansas. We agreed that Merlin wouldn't be a good candidate for a truck transport but we will explore other options if we decide Merlin is a perfect "match" for them.
I sometimes allow myself to imagine the day when Faithful Friends have a "waiting list." It is possible! With our new adoption center facility, we will offer even more animal care education to all ages, as well as a low-cost spay and neuter to this community.
Today we rescued an abandoned emaciated little Chihuahua who had been frantically running around an area in north Neosho for several days, starving, freezing and being chased by larger dogs. He had no identification and no one has been looking for him. The people who took pity on him and called us felt sure he'd been abandoned. They said it was a regular occurrence in their neighborhood. We just deposited little Rico into the safe and warm arms of some wonderful foster caregivers, where he will get the care he needs and a forever home where he'll be treasured. I promised the trembling little guy that far, far better days are ahead.
A couple of weeks ago a landlord called us to say that two Border Collies, a mama and her puppy, had been abandoned at his rural rental property. Brooklyn is a traditional black and white Border and Jasmine is a gorgeous red and white. Jasmine, being the resilient puppy that she is, has recovered quickly. Brooklyn on the other hand, being older and much more bonded, is broken hearted at the loss of her family. She is still feeling lost and depressed after watching her beloved pack up the truck and drive away without her.
Each and every time we do a rescue, I ask the "abandonment" question. How do people do such a cruel thing to such loyal, loving, selfless creatures? Answer: they obviously don't allow themselves to take a last look in their rear view mirror as they drive away — or their hearts are made of stone.
Leanne Williams is president of Faithful Friends.


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Justice Defends Story On Callahan Resignation Request
KMTV-3 Sports Director Travis Justice reported Thursday that two separate sources close to the Nebraska football program say Nebraska football Coach Bill Callahan told his team before Thursday's practice that he was asked to resign.
"Both of the sources tell Action 3 News that coach Callahan told the team to play for themselves as the coaching staff will more than likely not be around next season," read a story posted on the station's website.
Justice defended his report Friday, which has resulted in a flurry of Internet message board postings and several spin-off stories by other media outlets.
"I got tipped off late last night, checked it out this morning, verified it and ran with it," Justice said on the "The Big Show" on KXSP (590 AM).
"People are really upset about me that I didn't say who asked him (Callahan) to resign," Justice said. "It may have been Tom Osborne. I don't know. I reported what was said at practice yesterday.
"To me, the big part of the story is that this is the first time that he has taken time with his players to say 'we're in dire straights right now.'"
The Associated Press' Eric Olson first asked Callahan during Monday's Big 12 coaches teleconference whether he had been asked to submit his resignation. The question drew a nine-second pause before Callahan sidestepped the question.
If Callahan is fired at the end of the season, his contract calls for Nebraska to pay him more than $3 million.


text: The Northland Players have been busy rehearsing for the upcoming presentation of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" at the Cheboygan Opera House, 403 North Huron Street, beginning Nov. 15, and continuing Nov. 16, 22, and 23 at 7:30 p.m., with a special matinee Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. The musical, based on the film, features 17 Irvin Berlin songs, and follows veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, who have a successful song and dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge which happens to be owned by Bob and Phils former army commander. The score features well known standards including "Blue Skies," "I love a Piano," "How Deep is the Ocean," and the perennial favorite, "White Christmas." The performance is directed by Jill Kwiatkowski and assistant director Diane Schryer. The musical director is George Krawczyk, and the choreographer is Joni Reed. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for students, and the matinee is $10 (Sunday only) for seniors. For tickets call (231) 627-5841.


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Cool what game? Wouldn't happen to be like punisher or hitman:contracts would it?Originally posted by gibby
As for us going gold...we still have a lot to accomplish and time is running out. I believe our release date is mid-June?! Not a whole lot of time left with so much work that still needs to be done. I'm afraid it's not going to get enough time to polish the game. Granted, it'll still sell like hotcakes...but I doubt it'll be a game that will push any boundaries.


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I was wrong.
Earlier this evening, I proclaimed Tommy Lee Jones' epic "grumpy cat face" as the ultimate screenshot of tonight's Golden Globes awards.
It seemed like one of those "slam dunk, no-doubt-about-it" kind of declarations wherein there was absolutely no way that anyone was going to be able to usurp Jones' scowl in terms of sheer entertainment value.
…and then Amy Poehler decided to lay the smack down when it came time for her cutaway during the nominations for Best Actress In A Comedy Series.
Poehler brought the ultimate a-game (as pictured above with George Clooney) and is obviously the new leader for screenshot of the night.
Good luck to anyone hoping to top that little diddy.


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Suddenly the entrance signs at Clement Park are purple and teal, and The Edge Ice Arena's east wall has been adorned with 30-inch lettering.
The signage is all part of a re-branding effort at some of Foothills Park and Recreation District's more notable parks and facilities. It's a project designed to increase the district's visibility and help the public find their way to district facilities.
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