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ROCKFORD — Jacki Neil Boss is leaving her post as executive director of The Arc of Winnebago, Boone and Ogle Counties, but that won't stop her work to advance opportunities for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Boss has led the agency for nearly 11 years and is retiring at the end of the month; she plans to spend more time with her husband, John, and to travel. John has been retired for three years, and Boss "really feels that the time is right."
"The Arc is in a very good position right now. There are some exciting, new things going forward.
"I've done my part and have a wonderful person to serve as interim director. She's going to be the ideal person to put together the right team to move forward."
The Arc attracted Boss's attention more than two decades ago. Her oldest son has multiple disabilities, and she started working for the agency as a part-time family-support employee.
She worked for several other nonprofits after that, and when The Arc's top job became vacant, she remembers thinking "this is the job for me."
"And luckily for me, they agreed," she said. "I'm so blessed to be able to earn a living for my family while doing something that was all about my heart. Part of it is an advocacy issue, a civil rights issue of recognition and integration of people with disabilities into the community as a whole. People before me helped me and my son. I wanted to help the people who came after me."
Boss's son, Alex, 44, lives in a residential home run by Milestone Inc. She called him a "treasure," saying he has a very meaningful life.
The Arc typically serves 200 to 250 people a month and employs 10 people. Boss said her proudest accomplishment had been working with staff members and volunteers to keep the agency afloat when faced with state and federal budget cuts before and after the Great Recession.
The agency got creative with community fundraisers, such as the Great Home Giveaway and the Chocoholic Frolic, to supplement the decreased funding.
The popular Great Home Giveaway even had to be adapted because of the struggling economy. When the housing market tanked, The Arc feared that people wouldn't want to win a house. So the agency decided to offer the choice of winning a house or cash.
The Arc discontinued the Great Home Giveaway last year and launched the Great Dream Machine, in which people can donate to The Arc and be entered to win large cash prizes. A drawing took place Dec. 31, and another one will occur in June.
The Arc also is involved in a partnership of agencies that work with the developmentally disabled community called Intersect for Ability.
"We are all about collaboration and working with other organizations because our focus and mission is to help people with disabilities in the community use community services and businesses, so they can fully participate and make it possible so people have choices," Boss said.
Amy Newell, who joined The Arc as marketing director in November, will take over as interim executive director when Boss leaves.
Newell, a Rockford native who lives in Winnebago, worked in human services for the city of Rockford for more than 11 years, an experience that piqued her interest in working with nonprofits. She connected with Boss and The Arc while working at the Clock Tower Resort, home to Chocoholic Frolic.
She's in the process of earning a certification in nonprofit management.
"When Jacki first approached me about the position, I was excited about being back involved with an organization making a difference in the community," Newell said. "This is a much more personal level of getting to see participants every day, how what we're doing specifically is impacting them and our ability to help them."
Newell said she's honored that Boss considers her a good fit for the interim role, and she praised Boss for her work to help the organization stay afloat amid heavy state and federal budget cuts.
She looks forward to expanding fundraising opportunities and to broadening opportunities for The Arc participants, such as art programs. Boss still plans to work with The Arc for fundraisers, and she's still very involved with The Arc of Illinois.
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Dave Chappelle stormed off a Connecticut stage Thursday night after deciding he was tired of listening to hecklers.
According to TMZ, Chappelle had been on stage for a few minutes when he became frustrated with comments from the crowd.
TMZ says Chappelle stopped his routine and lectured the crowd about heckling, which was probably not the best idea. Then he quietly sat on a stool for the next 25 minutes before finally leaving the stage.
At one point, Chappelle said "I (expletive) up when I left my show, you know why? 'Cause my show only had to be 22 minutes of television. I could've went on television, I could've read the phone book for 22 minutes and I would've got $50 million dollars. I shoulda done that (expletive), but my ego wouldn't let me. Tonight is different. Tonight my contract says 25 minutes and I have 3 minutes left. and when my 3 minutes is up, my (expletive) is gone."
When people started to boo, Chappelle said "You're booing yourself."
After the show, dozens of fans wanted refunds.
This, of course, was not the first time Chappelle has acted bizarre in public. He reportedly lay down on stage for 10 minutes during a 2010 Oakland, Calif. show. He stopped his show in Miami in 2011 to check text messages, and in 2010, he "freaked out" on a plane from New Jersey to Ohio

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Husker Sprinters Stand Out in Session Six
Minneapolis, Minn. - The Nebraska swimming and diving team completed the final preliminary session of the Big Ten Championships on Saturday morning at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. The Huskers competed in the preliminary rounds of the 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, and 200-yard butterfly.
In the morning's first event, the 200-yard backstroke preliminaries, all four competing Huskers posted career-best times. Senior Ellan Dufour led the way, finishing 21st and earning an NCAA B Cut. Dufour also qualified for this evening's C Final.
200-Yard Backstroke Preliminary Results
21st - Ellan Dufour, 1:58.17 (career best)
38th - Katie Davis, 2:01.79 (career best)
44th - Rebekah Land, 2:02.38 (career best)
52nd - Megan Ziemann, 2:04.55 (career best)
The session's second event saw Ariel Weech earn second place in the 100-yard freestyle prelims. Weech earned an NCAA B Cut and a spot in tonight's A Final. The senior's career-best time of 49.17 seconds also moved her into second on the all-time Nebraska list in the event.
Taryn Collura (49.45) and Hayley Martin (49.79) also set career-best times in the event, finishing 12th and 15th, respectively. Both Collura and Martin earned NCAA B Cuts and spots in Saturday evening's B Final.
100-yard Freestyle Preliminary Results
2nd - Ariel Weech, 49.17 (career best)
12th - Taryn Collura, 49.45 (career best)
15th - Hayley Martin, 49.79 (career best)
45th - Bria Deveaux, 51.06 (career best)
60th - Kelly Dunn, 52.05
74th - Sara Weinberg, 53.54 (career best)
In the 200-yard breaststroke preliminaries, Kelsey Larson, Ashley Reiter, and Kristin Strecker finished 26th, 27th, and 29th, respectively. Larson set a new career-best time of 2:17.96 in the event.
200-yard Breaststroke Preliminary Results
26th - Kelsey Larson, 2:17.96 (career best)
27th - Ashley Reiter, 2:18.03
29th - Kristin Strecker, 2:18.56
39th - Samantha Hardewig, 2:21.54 (career best)
Natalie Morris took 16th in the 200-yard butterfly prelims with a career-best time of 2:00.74, earning a spot in the B Final. Freshman Melisa Mexia placed 20th, posting her own career-best time of 2:01.85. Mexia will compete in Saturday evening's C Final.
200-yard Butterfly Preliminary Results
16th - Natalie Morris, 2:00.74 (career best)
20th - Melisa Mexia, 2:01.85 (career best)
33rd - Shannon Guy, 2:04.82
The Big Ten Championship's final session, including the finals of Saturday morning's events, the 1,650-yard freestyle, the platform dive, and the 400-yard freestyle relay, will take place on Saturday evening beginning at 6:30 p.m. Check back in to Huskers.com and follow @HuskerSwim on Twitter for updates.


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One DVD featuring two rarely-seen television comedies from the 1950s! Four episodes in all!
The Life of Riley: William Bendix delighted radio and TV audiences with his lovable but thickheaded Chester A. Riley, an aircraft riveter frequently outsmarted by his wife Peggy (Marjorie Reynolds) and their children, Babs and Junior (Lugene Saunders and Wesley Morgan). This uproarious 1953-57 series from Desilu ("I Love Lucy") is a must for any fan of vintage '50s situation comedy. This DVD includes two episodes - "Bab's School Reunion" and "Riley's Operation."
Our Miss Brooks: Eve Arden scores straight A's as the acid-tongued high school English teacher who continually clashes with her long-suffering principal (Gale Gordon) while carrying a torch for the biology instructor. Miss Connie Brooks and her comic antics kept TV audiences in stitches from 1952 until 1957 after a successful radio run that had started in 1948. This DVD includes two episodes - "The Jump" and "Home Cooked Meal."


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The same holds true for jobs that are related to drywall, such as textured ceiling installation. Many drywall pros install textured ceilings, often called popcorn ceilings, but there are some who don't. If you're looking for ceiling work, don't just assume that every drywall contractor will be able to take on that job. Find out ahead of time exactly what services a drywall pro offers so you can make sure that you hire the right person for the whole task at hand. The drywall for any home is vital to maintaining functionality and design. Despite this, however, many homeowners fail to give a drywall project the proper consideration in terms of both cost and the individual performing the installation. Rather than waiting to the last minute to hire a company or individual with minimal requirements, take the time to look around and find the right drywall contractor for your home's remodeling or renovating project.
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As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Instead of choosing your contractor solely on price, ask them what their policy is on touch-ups – are they free or do you have to pay for them? What happens if your new house settles and nails pop out of the wall? Do they fix those for free? Do they guarantee their work? Are they insured? Do they use random subcontractors or do they have a crew of workers that they have on payroll?
Any drywall contractor in Pinconning MI 48650 needs to offer some type of assurance. Their work should be fully backed up. Mistakes happen and they should be corrected if they do. It should be stated in the contract as well. Do not just assume that they offer a workmanship guarantee. They need to have it in writing and state that if you are not satisfied they will fix it.
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Finally, make sure that them that you are hiring is a skilled and experienced plaster repair guy. You need somebody who has experience and is good at his work, if you want to get a reasonable amount of plastering work in your house.
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KREMMLING -- In an effort to help seal commitments of high-achieving students considering the University of Colorado, regents this spring will make personal phone calls to applicants on behalf of the campuses.
The Board of Regents met Friday for the second and final day of a board retreat hosted at CU President Bruce Benson's mountain ranch, discussing the board's strategic plans. Among them, is the small recruitment outreach project, which comes on the heels of a 3.6 percent enrollment dip in in-state freshmen on Boulder's campus last fall.
The regents' efforts are in addition to a new merit-based scholarship program recognizing high-caliber Colorado students, and Boulder campus officials have invested $2 million into the fund.
The "CU-Boulder Esteemed Scholars Program" will be awarded to a select group of resident freshmen, with awards totaling $10,000 to $20,000 over four years and doled out based on their high-school grade point averages and test scores.
Board chairman Michael Carrigan, D-Denver, said that he will be helping call Colorado students who have applied to the university but have not yet committed, and other regents were encouraged to join in the project.
Already on the Boulder campus, faculty members, deans and associate deans are also making personal phone calls to top Colorado students who have been admitted but not yet confirmed with the school, DiStefano said.
DiStefano said the university is working on a script for regents, which, for example, would include information on how to reach the financial aid office if students ask about scholarships or loans.
Last fall, CU enrolled 3,046 in-state freshmen -- which were 115 fewer than the previous year.
Board members on Friday also decided they will revive subcommittees that meet informally with campus chancellors. The meetings will be informal and take place a few times a year. A similar structure existed more than a decade ago, but dissolved with some concerns among CU leaders.
Chancellor Phil DiStefano said in the past that the leadership meetings with regents focused too heavily on athletics. He said he'd like the gatherings with regents to center around research or campus initiatives such as international recruitment. CU regents now have an athletics subcommittee.
The decision came after a brief objection from Glen Gallegos, a Grand Junction Republican who is new to the board.
"It sounds like more government and I'm not in favor of more government," he said.
Regents will be assigned to campuses for the subcommittee after being asked their top choices.
Also discussed at the retreat was the possibility of better surveying graduates to see where they are working and if they are in fields related to their majors. CU President Bruce Benson estimated such a survey would cost $10,000 and several CU leaders agreed it would be a worthwhile investment.
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I was in Petco today picking up some ridiculously overpriced, weight-control cat food for Honey when I noticed a plethora of costumes for cats.
Initially, I scoffed at the idea and wondered who the hell would do that to their cat. (Note: This guy. Most definitely this guy.)
I mean come on, I know for a fact that cats absolutely hate having things put on 'em.
Then I remembered why it is that I know how much cats hate having things put on 'em…it's because I love putting things on cats.
My cat growing up, Tom S. Katt (RIP), was always getting fitted for bowties or tiny capes or anything else I could find to dress him up.
Honey has already endured numerous encounters of me and Grace stacking items on her or trying to make her give her mice a ride around the house like a rodeo horse.
Naturally, this made me think that I should totally get Honey a Halloween costume.
Granted, she's likely to be pretty pissed off about the whole thing and would probably cut me into a bloody mess well before I'd ever get her in the outfit, but if I could manage to get her into one of these getups for just one photo it would be totally worth it.
So I'm asking you, My Faithful Readers, should I get Honey a Halloween costume or should I let her go as a pretty orange cat for the 8th year in a row?!
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A neoclassically detailed bronze chandelier with a large holophane glass lens. From a Minneapolis-St. Paul bank building. Due to the antique nature of this fixture, there may be some nicks or imperfections in the glass.
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In the last week Ancestry.com has updated their iPad/iPhone App. In the prior release, I could never get the edits to work (i.e. to edit on the portable device) or to have the edits synch without error. I am happy to report that you can now edit on the portable device or you can edit on the Internet at the Ancestry web site. In both cases, it works and it synchs.
I did find that editing on the portable device resulted in immediate or nearly immediate synch with the web site. Edits on the web site were slower to be synched back to the portable device.
I am rather fond of the UI and find it is very usable even on the iPhone's small screen. Now I may even leave the laptop at home when I go researching as I can bring prior research with me and even collect and edit the new research into my family tree. So now like Jack's beanstalk, my family tree is in the cloud. This gives me easy access everywhere and a nice offsite disaster backup in addition to my portable freedom of bringing all my ancestors with me all of the time.
Nice job Ancestry. I next hope I can try out the Mac software, Reunion, and get their Reunion iOS device App (when I get some discretionary income) to review. After that I will compare the two products side-by-side.
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I was watching one of my clients play in a basketball tournament last weekend, and I heard a number of the players commenting about how tight they were in their lower backs. In my opinion this is a far too common occurrence, in athletes and non-athletes, and I feel it could be avoided with a little preventive stretching.
When I hear people talk about lower back stiffness I know that there are many potential contributing factors. At the same time, I've come across a lot of problematic lower backs during my career, and most of them have responded favourably to careful, progressive stretching and balancing of the associated muscles. The problem with the lower back is that there are a lot of structures involved, and many possible issues that can arise. Most of these issues are of no real concern, but once in a while I do come across someone with a serious or unstable lower back problem that has yet to be recognized. This is why I always recommend very gentle stretching at first, increasing the intensity only after the stretch has been deemed to be safe and effective.
The stretches that I'm sharing here are some of my favourites for loosening up my own lower back. They are best when performed in a controlled, static fashion, rather than as dynamic or ballistic exercises.
They are intended to be corrective stretches that actually loosen and lengthen the muscles over time, rather than being utilized as a warm-up before training or competition. Whenever you stretch, try to use regular breathing to help you progress further into the positions and get greater release from the muscles.
It's also important to warm up effectively before stretching by performing at least five to 10 minutes of full-body activity. Always consult your health care professional before beginning or modifying your fitness program.
Kneeling Hip Flexor Stretch
Your hip flexor muscles have a tendency to shorten and tighten with too much sitting. Because of their position and how they're connected to your spine and pelvis, they exert a lot of influence over your movement patterns and the health of your lower back.
To stretch them properly, start by dropping down on your left knee, trying to keep both knees bent to roughly 90-degree angles. Your body should be upright, with your head held high and your shoulders back.
Be certain to activate your core muscles to stabilize your pelvis against the pull from the tight hip flexor and quadriceps muscles.
Most people feel a good stretch by the time they get their bodies into this neutral position. If you don't, simply press your pelvis forward slightly using your lower abdominal musculature, making sure not to arch your back or lean backward.
You should feel a strong stretch in the front of your left hip and down your left thigh. Remember to breathe comfortably as you stretch each leg for about 45 to 60 seconds.
Lateral Flexion
Rather than isolating a single muscle group, a global stretch like this one will loosen a variety of muscles down the side of your body, including your lats, lower back and IT band.
Start by standing a short distance from a wall or column and reach your inside hand to rest on the wall. Keeping your feet together and your legs straight, reach overhead with the outside arm and lean toward the wall. Be careful not to let your body bend forward or twist. To progress
the stretch, begin to slide your hips out from under your rib cage, further away from the wall, while reaching further over with the top hand. Remember to breathe comfortably as you stretch each side for approximately 45 to 60 seconds.
Lying Rotation
Because many of our daily activities require rotation, it's important to make sure that we don't lose this essential movement pattern through lack of flexibility.
A safe and effective stretch can be performed by lying on your back on the floor, with your legs bent and feet flat on the floor. From this starting position reach your left arm out on the floor at about a 45-degree angle from your shoulder, with your palm facing up. Keep this arm on the floor as you let both knees lower together to your right side.
Make sure your feet remain stacked together as the knees lower and keep your neck and shoulders relaxed. You should begin to feel a stretch in your left side, below your rib cage, and possibly in your left chest and shoulder. As always, breathe comfortably as you hold this stretch for 45 to 60 seconds on each side, allowing your lower back to lengthen and release.
When changing sides, be careful to come out of the stretch gently, lifting the top leg first, then following with the lower leg.
To decrease the risk of excessive forces and injury to the spine, never bounce or pull to increase this stretch.
Rob Williams is a kinesiologist and posture specialist in downtown Vancouver. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Fans of the first two �Expendables� films will be happy to know that while most of the series� formula � insane action sequences, tight camaraderie, and wiseguy humor � is intact in �The Expendables 3,� things have also gotten more personal. Sly Stallone again stars as Barney Ross, the leader of a rather crusty team of government-backed mercenaries. The twist is that this story has Ross bringing in a batch of young blood � new youthful recruits to replace the aging crew. The film also introduces a big-time adversary: Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), a former cohort of Ross who has turned into his bitter enemy. Stallone and Gibson sat next to each other in a Los Angeles hotel earlier this week to talk about their roles in the film, and hint at their future career moves.
There�s a great scene in �The Expendables 3� where Stonebanks tells his back story, and reveals why he�s become Ross� adversary. Sly, did you write out that whole scene, and Mel, did you stay on script?
Stallone: I just wrote a guideline, and then Mel came up with some ideas.
Gibson: I worked on the script a little bit at night, then I came in and handed the pages to Sly and [director] Patrick Hughes, and they said, �Yeah, that�s cool.� It was a theme of somebody who�s subcontracted by his government, and then thrown under the bus.
Stallone: I think what gave it some heart is that he was saying something that had some truth, and it was valid, and I don�t believe he saw himself as the bad guy. But then you bring in the aspect of Cain and Abel, and two best friends becoming the worst of enemies, because usually when you love something that much, you can also hate it even more, because of that schism, that breakup. Mel just killed it. In that scene, I had some dialogue back and forth with him, but the more he did the scene, the more I realized that I shouldn�t speak. So I just let him roll.
Everyone watching is waiting for the two characters to finally go at it mano a mano, and you guys don�t disappoint.
Stallone: It�s a good fight. You know, there are situations in sports where two rivalries get together, two teams that have done very well in their own world. Then you wonder how they would do against each other. When that finally happens, it becomes an event.
Gibson: King Kong vs. Godzilla.
Stallone: That�s right. Contact is made, and you do get hurt, and it�s freezing, and you don�t want to do [the scene] again but you have to do it again. But Mel is very fast and he�s very strong and it was great being punched by him.
Gibson: There was no actual contact.
Stallone (interrupting): That�s a bald-faced lie.
Gibson (laughing): It was kind of like movie sex. You don�t actually do it. And of course, you�re battling arthritis. But it was fun.
If each of you could take one of your earlier characters and make him an Expendable, who would it be?
Gibson: The obvious one is the crazy cop from the �Lethal Weapon� series. But maybe that whack job from �Conspiracy Theory.�
Stallone: I think Rambo, but then he would turn around and kill them all. That�s the down side of working with him.
Sly, your character in the film is talking about retirement. What are your own thoughts about retirement?
Stallone: I�m not ready to sit at home and play with Pomeranians for 12 hours a day. Actors don�t want to retire; they�re usually forced to retire. And that�s sad, because you really get better as you get older. You may not remember as much dialogue, but with the dialogue you DO remember, you�re better at it. We�re just adult children; we�re there to perform. I�ve always said that an artist dies twice. The first death is the hardest, which is the career death, or the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability. So I think that everyone should just keep going, and I think that�s happening. The genre is opening up, and television is providing more alternate careers or second acts in adult actors� careers.
Mel, are your plans leaning toward more acting or more directing?
Gibson: I think the most fun you can have standing up is directing a film. I think my gift is directing, and I�m going to pursue that. I�ve got a few irons in the fire, but it doesn�t pay to talk too much about it because industrial espionage is rife. The minute you say anything, somebody swipes the idea, and it ends up on TV. But that�s OK, too. I�ll direct TV. TV is getting amazing. I definitely have my sights set on more directing, and I will do it.
There�s already talk of an �Expendables 4.� How long do you think this series can continue?
Stallone: After the fifth �Expendables,� you start wearing Dependables.
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The IWV Burros junior football team beat Cal City 14-6 to win the High Desert championship Saturday at Antelope Valley High School.
The Burros' defense was on the field for 17 of the first 20 minutes of the game, but allowed only six points.
The IWV Burros junior football team beat Cal City 14-6 to win the High Desert championship Saturday at Antelope Valley High School.
The Burros' defense was on the field for 17 of the first 20 minutes of the game, but allowed only six points.
The Burros scored their first touchdown on the defensive side of the football as well when safety Dietrick James came up with a huge interception. James brought the interception back 90 yards for a touchdown.
The IWV team watched game film and knew what routes the Ravens liked to run. The film work paid off as the teams went into halftime with the score tied at 6-all.
The Burros owned the second half by pounding the ball at the Ravens' defense and getting one crucial call to go their way.
The Burros had the ball deep in their own territory on fourth and 12 in the middle of the third quarter. The Burros long snapper was hurt, so IWV ended up calling back-to-back timeouts. Cal City's coach got an unsportsman-like conduct penalty and was kicked out of the game after arguing that the Burros shouldn't have been allowed back-to-back timeouts.
That penalty gave the Burros a first down and moved the ball to the 35-yard line where they then had space to work.
With 8 minutes remaining in the ball game, the Burros scored the go-ahead touchdown on a power play with Lucas Lusher carrying the football. The Burros added the extra point, which was kicked by Nicholas Farris. The extra point was worth two in pushing the score to 14-6.
The Burros then went for an onside kick after the go-ahead touchdown. Farris kicked it perfectly and Grant Vigneault recovered.
The IWV team never let Cal City touch the ball again in going to powers, wedges and the occasional counter to push down the field, and keep the clock and chains moving.
The offensive line of Nick Farris, Brock Mather, Leyton Sater, Antonio Ramirez and Vigneault made sure the backs had holes to run through in finishing the season with a championship and an undefeated 11-0 record.
The Burros could have added another score late in the game, but took a knee at the 2-yard line to finish the game.
Note: The Burros' coach, Jason Griffin, was named Coach of the Year for the junior division in addition to being the winning coach of the championship game.


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It made me wonder: Is pleasantness the most underrated human trait?
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The girls are taught dances from "Glee," then perform for the public.
The annual Treasurette Dance Clinic took place Saturday at Crookston High School, with the Treasurette dancers teaching younger girls some dance moves, which culminated in a performance for the public.
Nearly 40 girls in grades K-6 particpated in the clinic. Each group learned two routines choreographed by the Treasurettes. The theme was the television show "Glee," so all dances were chosen from the show.


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SimCity's launch has been a mess, nay, a disaster. With server problems plaguing the always-online simulation game, many fans are rightfully pissed.
Well, EA is trying to offer an olive branch following the game's troubled launch. No, you won't be able to get a refund. Instead, EA is offering a free game.
Maxis GM Lucy Bradshaw offered the closest thing to an apology from EA so far, admitting that not foreseeing the game's demand was "dumb" and that "we feel bad about what happened." See? Almost an apology! Stating the obvious, Bradshaw added that "if you can't get a stable connection, you're NOT having a good experience."
According to Bradshaw, SimCity players who have activated their game will receive an email describing how to get a free PC download game from EA's catalog on March 18th. There's no detail on what games you'll be able to choose from, but at least it's better than nothing. "I know that's a little contrived," she said. "Kind of like buying a present for a friend after you did something crummy."


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These are all well crafted solutions to a problem which *never should have existed in the first place*.
The greatest irony is that we have feed necks because paintball started with tube feeds to begin with. In the days of stick feeds, it made sense. Tube goes into tube, fine. But then someone decided to stick a motor oil can or something on the feed neck, and *POW* feed necks as structural components. And we still haven't managed to ditch this completely legacy contraption. It's a vestigial holdover from the bad old days. And now to get a tube feed back onto the gun, you've got to go through 4 different parts.
The curious design matter here is the fact that someone took a look at what CCM was doing, and decided to replicate… the feed neck threads!?
Why not replicate the two-hole body mounting system, or something similar to that?! The bodies probably won't be the same diameter, but that's a minor issue.
You already solved the same exact problem on the BOTTOM of the body, where it is mounted to the rail/grip frame. Just solve it again on the top around the feed hole. Just like CCM did. Just like Spyder did. Just like BT did.
The customer can still have a retarded feedneck if that's his desire (and it will likely be lower profile). If not, it's nearly completely removable. And far easier to make other feed accessories for. Like, say, a direct spring feed housing that doesn't literally require 3 other pieces to attach and still sits more than an inch higher than necessary anyways.
Instead, what you now have is a weld job that you can't even bear to look at, so you cover it up with plastic, and a non-removable feedneck stump that sits like 1" above the body by itself? When did high-rise bodies come back in style?
I like the fact that someone is trying to do an affordable aluminum mag body.
But they clearly didn't clean-slate this one. "Let's just do one like the others, but cheaper."


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Details surrounding the next PlayStation, codenamed Orbis, have reportedly leaked. The technically minded and reputable Digital Foundry claims that the "PS4" will have an eight-core AMD CPU, running at 1.6GHz, and a custom Radeon GPU, with 18 compute units at 800MHz. This matches with earlier rumors that Sony was partnering with AMD for its next-gen system, thereby losing backwards-compatibility with PS3.
According to the report, the processor architecture is based on new "Jaguar" technology that's primarily designed for low power consumption. Jaguar products for PC are set to ship later this year with 4 cores, but Orbis will double that count at launch.
The GPU is likely to be based on yet another mobile product from AMD, with the Radeon 7970M providing a "strong basis" for what to expect in terms of power consumption. Theoretically, the GPU will offer 1.84 teraflops of power, a figure that Digital Foundry hasn't been able to confirm for itself. And before opening up your PC rig to do a comparison, be mindful that an apples-to-apples comparison isn't entirely effective. "Freed from Windows and incorporated into a fixed console design, this GPU will really have room to show us what it's truly capable of," Digital Foundry notes.
In addition to the CPU and GPU, Orbis supposedly has other hardware that should give it a boost in performance. "Paired up with the eight AMD cores, we find a bespoke GPU-like 'Compute' module, designed to ease the burden on certain operations." This could be similar to dedicated PPUs found in many gaming rigs.
Orbis will only sport 4GB of RAM, however it will be GDDR5, an "ultra-fast" RAM that will undoubtedly best the DDR3 RAM rumored to be used by Durango (the next Xbox). According to Digital Foundry, the next Xbox will have 8GB of RAM, but could have up to 3GB reserved for the OS. Orbis, on the other hand, will have less RAM, but a smaller OS footprint as well--only 512MB.
While these specs are unconfirmed (Sony has not formerly announced its next-gen plans), they are certainly impressive--albeit in not the same way that PS3 was when it was first introduced. "Orbis has a singular focus on delivering high-end performance without breaking the bank--our take on the specs is that this is a machine built to last with a huge amount of potential," Digital Foundry says. The report also adds that the new PlayStation "may power past the new Xbox simply because it focuses its resources on out-and-out games power."


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No two people will sort books into categories in exactly the same way. Somebody has to step in and say "This Goes There" so we can at least try for consistency. Perfect consistency is not possible, of course, even in this best of all possible worlds. Some books fit just as well in this category as that. And some authors deliberately make it hard: Whitney Otto with How To Make an American Quilt and Marina Lewycka with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. (Both novels, if you haven't been keeping track.)
And to make life more interesting for YOU, some signs mean more than they say. the sign says "Science Fiction". What we mean by it is "Science Fiction, fantasy, Horror, and All Speculative Fiction in General, along with new Age, Occult, Ufology, and Whatever Else We Thought You Guys Would Like". That won't fit on the sign. Clumping Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Bernhardt J. Hurwood together with all adult novels on caveman and King Arthur keeps our sorters from puzzling about where to put the novel about vampires on a starship, and whether this new book on the Grail is fiction, nonfiction, or something inbetween.
Similarly, books on mythology have a section under Reference because the people who argued that tjhese should go into Religion, Athrolpology, Short Stories, or Children's Books were stared down by our Curator in 1986. And books on Illinois will be found under the Chicago sign, because we thought Chicago would attract more customers than the wimpy "Local Interest". And Erotica….
Look, I tried. Once they even made me a sign for an Eerotica section and then wouldn't let me use it. So erotic books still go all over everywhere: Photography, Literature, Romance, what have you. Just as well, really. I already have enough to do, deciding what's fiction and what's nonfiction without also having to decide what's erotic. After all, one person's red hot fetish is another person's cold mashed potatoes. (No, your Ex did NOT call and tell me about your potatoes. I was just using that as an example.) I expect some customers find their naughty thrills in the transmission section of the Chilton Volkswagen manual.
The aim, as you might have guessed, is not perfect classification. I keep telling people, "We're the Book Fair. The library's upstairs." (So stop coming to me and explaining why you think Pearl Buck doesn't belong in Literature.) I'm just trying to lay out some boundaries so Terry Southern's Candy doesn't end up in Cookbooks, and Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog isn't found in Nature. With people dropping off quilts and Picasso prints and $15,000 leaf books, I can't spend my time worrying about the implications of putting the Anglo-Saxon editions of Beowulf in Foreign Language. ("But Mr. Manager! Anglo-Saxon is a form of English, and how can English be a Foreign Language?" "Look, Kid, why don't you run over there and see if there are any Chilton manuals left. I hear some of those car books are pretty racy.")


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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 & The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on DVD.
The MGM dvd was great picture wise even when upscaled on my blu ray player but this blu-ray sounds totally worth it. All hail Shout Factory!
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20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
20th Century Boys: The Last Hope
20th Century Boys: Redemption
"I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. That's a promise...!" --Kurama
"To me, the memories of my friends are an eternal treasure." --Yami Yugi
"So, good people defend stupid people? Then good people become Batman."--Leo Holt
decided to replace some of my Disney VHS with DVDs so I picked up
Robin Hood (Special Edition)
The Tigger Movie (Special Edition)
Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
I even used the points I collected from Robin Hood and Tigger (along with the few points I had remaining) and just used the Disney Reward scheme to order Alice in Wonderland (Special Edition)
5 new Disney dvds...not bad for £20 ($30)
Skyfall on Blu-Ray
Most Wanted MOTU Classics:
*200X ~ WMD Roboto/Sorceress *Filmation ~ Teela' Na/Hawke *Play-Sets ~ Eternia/Crystal Castle *Vehicles ~ Land Shark/Roton *Beasts ~ Stridor/Dragoon
Fire and Ice: 2-disc Limited Edition
"I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. That's a promise...!" --Kurama
"To me, the memories of my friends are an eternal treasure." --Yami Yugi
"So, good people defend stupid people? Then good people become Batman."--Leo Holt
Get Shorty
In The Line Of Fire
Les Miserables
Parental Guidance
Raising Arizona
The Gauntlet
The Secret World of Arrietty
The Waterboy
The Wedding Singer
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"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, but freedom isn't free."
Its MINE...
Pre-ordered The Walking Dead ssn. 3 collectors edition!!!! If u have not seen it...get it!! Its the govenors head tank. It lights up and u can add water! It comes with 5 heads too...oh yeah and the bluray lol
Friday The 13th ssn. 1 TV show!!! So freaking happy!
FYE has the preorder for 20 & price matches amazon!
An unexpected DVD week as I added to my library...
BBC's Merlin Season 5
Sanctuary Season 4 (my original purchase from Amazon I received a bootleg and returned it)
Blu Ray:
Torchwood: Miracle Day
Flash Gordon
B**** Slap ( Sorry it is the title )
and FINALLY...
Masters of the Universe!!!
'Tis the wind and nothing more.....
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D Blu-ray
Picked up Vol. 3 and 4 of Classic TMNT. Blew through them in a weekend. Vol. 5 and 6 are on the way.
"A Person Who Is Willing To Die For Someone Else, Has Nothing To Live For Themselves!"
~ Me ~
John Dies at the End, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, and Django Unchained all on Blu-ray.
WANTED: Comic From SDCC Vykron!
Mini Comic want list:
Terror Claws Strike
Skeletor's Journey
And any and all PoP mini's.
Finally picked up Dark Knight Rises.
"These are the days of high adventure"
It's a vhs but I now own the "rocky horror picture show" so let's all do the "time warp" tonght! lol!
Starchild's #1 fan!!
Django Unchained.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Mad monster party
Alien: resurrection
Alien vs predator
Alien vs predator requiem
Predator 2
Twilight breaking dawn pt. 2
Twilight eclipse
Naked Lunch criterion blu-ray.
Repo Man Criterion special edition blu-ray.
Django Unchained blu-ray.
Iron Man Rise of Technovore blu-ray.
John Dies in the End blu-ray.
"You killed Captain Clown, YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN"-Joker.
Maybe a better question -- with NetFlix and Hulu and Vudu and all the other options out there -- is "Why would anyone buy a DVD?" I get the concept of wanting to get a newer film on DVD fast and not wanting to wait for the other delivery systems. But for anything older than six months I'm not sure I get it. I do understand the idea of wanting to build a library and I'm a guy that used to have a complete movie theater room a few houses ago. But nowadays it seems like compiling a lot of DVDs is just clutter in a life I'm trying to unclutter.
Maybe it's just me...
EDIT: On the other hand, apparently it's not just me. http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/05/dvd...scriptions-up/
As an addendum, don't shed any tears for the entertainment industry. All these new options are simply evolutionary developments in the delivery system and studios get their take from them. After all, remember when everything was on Beta? Wait! No, most of you don't!
I'm far from an earthy/crunchy type, but I will point out that subscription systems are good for our environment as they're electronically delivering entertainment. Try to imagine the landfill mound made up of thirty years of tossed out Beta, VHS, DVD movies and all the packaging that went with them.
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I prefer having a physical copy of everything I own. And in that situation, the blu-ray offers the best quality for viewing. I've noticed that the show quality of Netflix and Hulu are sub-par, particularly when watching things like Star Trek or Transformers: Prime.
And yes, I remember Beta, my grandfather used that thing for years to tape things off TV, at least until he upgraded to VHS. LOL
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The Simpsons: The Fifteenth Season
The Best of WCW: Clash of the Champions
"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade
"It is not by reasoning or by our understanding that we have received our religion; it is by external authority and command."-Michel De Montaigne
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Hobbit: an unexpected journey
Unico: magical adventures
I understand how you feel. I feel exactly the same way when it comes to books. I like to physically hold a book in my hands rather than read it on Kindle or Nook. That said, I'm guessing subscription is the way of the future.
Absolutely right about Beta. Back in the day I had one of the first Betamax VCRs in Chicago. The thing was the size of a card table top. But at the time it was state of the art and considered pretty cool. Used to play (OMG!) PONG on it.


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I'm getting oodles of press releases from Gov. Pat Quinn touting all the jobs he is bringing to — or "keeping" in — Illinois. One thing politicians such as Quinn won't tell you — unless you ask — is how much such endeavors are costing you, the taxpayer.
I'm getting oodles of press releases from Gov. Pat Quinn touting all the jobs he is bringing to — or "keeping" in — Illinois.
One thing politicians such as Quinn won't tell you — unless you ask — is how much such endeavors are costing you, the taxpayer.
You see, the state of Illinois is paying companies to be here.
It's a rather unseemly affair.
If Illinois isn't attractive enough for businesses in its own right, the state has serious problems that need to be addressed.
Don't get me wrong — there is nothing wrong with the Land of Lincoln putting its best foot forward and showing prospective suitors the advantages it has to offer: a central location, excellent transportation and a top-notch work force.
But paying companies to locate here?
No way.
What we are talking about, folks, is the difference between courtship and — paid companionship.
Taxpayers are paying for the continued corporate friendship of the likes of Sears, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Continental Tire, Motorola, Ford Motor Co. and many more.
Some of these deals happened under Quinn, others under past governors.
I don't care if it was a Republican or Democrat who presided over these forays in cronyism — they are just plain wrong.
Government should create a level playing field in which all businesses can compete.
But it shouldn't be picking what businesses are winners and which ones will be losers.
One of the primary ways Illinois doles out incentives is through the EDGE tax credit, which funnels the income taxes paid by employees into their employer's accounts rather than state coffers.
It's a pretty sweet deal for the companies.
"Why do big corporations do things like this? Because they can," said Greg LeRoy, executive director of the liberal Washington, D.C., think tank Good Jobs First.
"Companies like Archer Daniels Midland, Motorola or some foreign auto manufacturer are trophy companies that politicians like to point to and say they 'brought' to the state," LeRoy said.
In fact, Archer Daniels Midland, or ADM, is reportedly looking to move its corporate headquarters out of downstate Decatur to a larger city.
The Fortune 30 company is being wooed by Quinn's administration to relocate to the Chicago area. Other states may be in play as well.
ADM, a food-processing and commodities-trading corporation that which calls itself "The Supermarket to the World," is shopping for the best corporate handout.
Last year, ADM's revenues exceeded $80 billion.
By comparison, last year Illinois state government had total revenues of $68 billion.
So the state is looking at giving a handout to a company taking in more money than all of Illinois state government.
That's an embarrassment.
ADM is a private corporation and can locate its top-100 executives wherever it pleases.
What Quinn — or any other state's governor — does or doesn't do will likely have very little influence on what ADM ultimately decides.
Instead of cutting sweetheart deals for big companies, Illinois would be better off working for a better climate for all businesses — not just a select few.
Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Readers can subscribe to his free political newsletter by going to ilnews.org or follow his work on Twitter @ScottReeder.


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I'm really excited about this frame.Originally Posted by luke
I'm really excited about this frame.Originally Posted by luke
+ 1...Originally Posted by mpsd
i am pumped to see how this turns out... i might have to sell my chimera to buy one of these
could you get a blurry picture of what you have so far. maybe walking in the woods of Louisiana?Originally Posted by mpsd
To leave feedback: Click seller/buyers name, Click feedback score, Click leave feedback
Form follows function, so this stage is very boring; it's currently all about mathematics and not about looks.
Can anyone help with out with where I can get trigger bearings and Emag size magnets in bulk? (I'll admit that I'm being lazy and have not looked myself, just looking for a short cut)
Little up date, it looks like 45 grip compatibility is out. Having to design around them puts unnecessary limits on the frame and forces me to make it longer than I really want. I think I will just machine panels with a single screw mount and a small recess to maintain location. There was mention of making it compatible with the CCM grip panels. Myself, I don't really care enough to purchase a pair to design around. So if you guys want that option I will need a donor pair (That I will return) to look at, we need them sent in ASAP.
The Micro Rock is out too as far as the sleeper configuration goes; it too is severely limiting design and space. I again was forced into making the frame longer in order to make space for it. If everyone really needs a sleeper setup I can do a foregrip to hide the LPR or perhaps those working on the LPR Foregrip will complete them to fill that gap. Plus I'm not willing to sacrifice the design parameters I have in mind in order to hide a regulator inside the grip especially when it is not necessary. At any rate that will just have to be a different project.
The detachable trigger guard is looking promising and at this point it is becoming to main drive of the project. It will allow me to design a trigger for the Pneu/EP Mag setups to aid in building those. In addition you should still be able to use your favorite Intelli trigger for mechanical mode. I don't really know much about the single triggers that are out there so I will manufacture one for purchase with your frame. If AGD single triggers use the same geometry parameters as the Intelli they should work on this frame.
My only concern at this point is on the single trigger pneu-mag setup, there would be a lack of leverage on the trigger to trip the MSV-2 or the SMAV-3, it may be a tad snug. The single trigger EP Mag (Micro switch) should not be an issue…
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My first pneu setup had the trigger rod just above center of my bottom finger. The lack of leverage on the top finger wasn't so noticeable, but the difference between the top and bottom was. That was with less than 1/2 of the msv-2 lever. With one finger you should be good, especially if you use a full MSV lever.Originally Posted by luke
Just out of curiosity, would this single trigger have a ball bearing?
Are you planning to mill the pockets for the trigger switch and MPA-3 as well so that one can easily assemble it with no need to do extra modifications?
MPA3 will be available fully machined ready for install.Originally Posted by mpsd
Frame will be ready for:
MPA with Palmer 90
D2F (or any micro switch)
The frame will not need a "rod" to activate the switches, the trigger will be designed for that.
I don't have concrete answers on the bearings yet, but it is my plan to use a bearing in both the double and single trigger.
do we have a ballpark price yet?
lol, surely you jest…Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
i did say ballbark
Originally Posted by luke
Sorry I don't have a single clue, I am no where near being able to even consider that.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag
While reading this I had a thought that crossed my mind, I am not sure how possible it would be or how economical, im just throwing out there. I also realize that simpler is usually better and im sure it is in this situation, but I figured id throw this out there anyway.Originally Posted by luke
The original Dangerous Power Fusion has screw in LPR that also alows higher pressure to pass through it. The part of the LPR that screws into the body of the fusion is 1 1/2" long and 5/8 dia, the part that sticks outside the body is 7/16" deep and 3/4" dia. What I was thinking was a gas through foregrip design that could accept one of these lpr's in the bottom. I got a new program for the sign shop and needed the practice so below is a picture of roughly what I was thinking. Since a new regulator came in the parts kit and in their "hyper color kit" I know there has to be lots of unused LPR out there for it, I have 3 full working extras and a couple without any parts in them.
The top piece was an afterthought, it is a vertical asa that would go with it. The red is for HP, the yellow LP, green are orings, blue are fittings, brown is the foregrip and grey is the asa. Everything on the bottom is a recreation of the fusion lpr.
... I think I have to much time on my hands...
Are we there yet?
With what free time?
Have not even had a free second to even think about this project with the fund raiser stuff going on.
Fair enough. But if you come up with this after the first week of October, you will have to hold one for me up to February so I can bring it with me next time I'll go to the US next year. I was really hoping to take one on this next trip...Originally Posted by luke
do you have free time now?Originally Posted by luke
Got my brain back into this project finally, gotta make some changes in the original design and concept just to get this out, more info as it progresses.
I'm looking probably about a week and a half to get back to designing.
w00t, still trying to save up
count me in...im itchin to build me a new pump..
Looks like I came back at just the right time. Looking forward to your work, count me in.Originally Posted by luke
I went through and re-read this thread.... (i rhymed ) and every time i get a sense of where its going I loose myself again...
So what I have gathered:
-It will be switchable from single to 2x trigger
-It will be a pneu-frame. can it be used as a mech?
-It will not be compatable with 45 grips. will it be a 45 frame? do we get panels with it?
-I am becoming very annoying.
did I miss anything? what do we have set in stone as of yet?
Originally Posted by luke
so the only thing set in stone is me being annoying
First step in recovery is admitting you have a problem.Originally Posted by BTAutoMag


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Before I got into paintball, I enjoyed looking at old firearms and would sometimes go to the range with my dad or go to the local show. Before I ever knew about AGD, I knew about the Automag. I am not talking about the AGD Automag. In the Mid 1970s, a small company came out with the first( I think it was the first) production .50 cal semi auto pistol, and named it the Automag. This was the stuff of legends...57 oz. of stainless steel, it was sucha massive weapon...if I was to compare it to all other pistols being cars, it would be a semi-truck...it was so powerful, it was used mostly for metallic silhouette shooting. I got the pleasure to see one of these weapons at a local firearm shop and it was a thing of beauty...lemme see if I can dig up an old picture of it...
Interesting history lesson...this is how I came to my knowledge of the AGD...I was looking in an old paintball magazine...then I saw the name Automag, and though "thats gotta be a good gun!" Then a few years later, my friends get me interested in paintballing...and it seems natural that I remember that name....Automag...then I get on this forum, and the rest is history.
Tom...did this design in any way inspire you? If you look at the picture, the basic design is almost identical to the Automag paintball gun.
If any of the moderators feel that this post is out of place on the main forum, since it talks about firearms, please feel free to move it to the friendly corner.


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TRAINING: I go to Starbucks and have a cappuccino and a cig. Then I head over to AKA and walk at 3.0 on the tread for a half hour listening to my headphones. Then I go to Burger King for lunch, get a value meal, then I go home and sleep and recover. Then I drink a Xyience energy drink and I ride my bike to the gym and do some bench curls and situps. Then I ride all the way back home. I'm usually exhausted, so I have a Syntha 6 protein shake and a Bud Light and snooze.
When and why did you start training for fighting? 1999. I can't sing or dance and it beats working every day.
Do you have any heroes? None
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Ok, Stanczyk does not think you can make heads or tails out of the SNA diagram (even though at full size / resolution it should be readable).
I started this experiment to see if I could convince myself if some people living contemporaneously with my great-grandfather were siblings or not. I did NOT have the marriage or birth records for four ELIJASZOW (Franciszek, Ludwik, Petronella, and Tekla). SO I lacked the conclusive proof. In fact, before I started this study, I did not even have Tekla.
I have used a previous analysis of Affiliated Families and surveying all records of these "Afffiliated" families. What I did was to check these families on birth records or death records where they record the woman's maiden name to see if I could find female relatives whose married names I did not know. That worked moderately well with my limited set of data/microfilm to look at. So it occurred to this jester that I could apply a technique called Social Network Analysis to the field of genealogy — by using Church Records where they list witnesses and God Parents. This technique is similar to what police use when examining mobsters and their network. You may have seen it on TV police shows or movies that try to break up a crime ring. The idea is that the same names (i.e. people) will show up repeatedly in the list of witnesses (where I have ages) and in the list of God Parents (where I do not have ages). My theory is that I can PREDICT if any of these four ELIASZ ancestors are related to my lineal descent line by examining all of the affiliated families and plotting all people involved in a diagram with Node (the circle) and lines connecting the nodes (denoting a familial relationship). By seeing many connections between groups I could determine/PREDICT nuclear families.
I think it works. I will now need to get access to Polish Archives or Parish books to confirm my work. But here is what I found. My conclusion is this:
Franciszek does not appear to be a sibling of my grandfather (or his other presently known siblings). Why, he does not share the same connections to critical people that Ludwik, Petronella, or the newly found Tekla do.
I do believe this technique predicts that Ludwik, Petronella and Tekla are my great-grandfather's siblings. Their birth years do fit the gaps in between the other existing siblings without conflict — another possible confirmation. To be honest even Franciszek fits the gaps too (even with adding Ludiwk, Tekla, and Petronella). So he is still possibly a sibling but the technique says 'NOT' because he does not hang with the same network of people.
Now here are some observations. I chose ZASUCHA and ODOMSKI as affiliated families for this survey (and not in the prior survey). I did not choose them previously because they occur so little in my family tree — usually just a female who marries a male ELIASZ and her just her parents (or in the case of ZASUCHA, just the woman who married my great-great-grandfather). The WOJTYS family name was added too. Now I know this name was affiliated, but only to a remote branch of ELIASZ/HELIASZ that I have not been to connect to the lineal descent line. So again they have NOT been used in any other analysis but as I went along, I added this name to the study (particularly after I found TEKLA ELIASZ WOJTYS).
What I found was that ODOMSKI and WOJTYS are the 'glue' in the ELIASZ social network. Also true for ZASUCHA and a bit less to ZWOLSKI and PALUCH or MAJOR still less and just a tiny bit to Lewinski and Piotrowski (these two families will need a further follow-up analysis by themselves). What I found to a large degree was that a handful of individuals in these "glue" families showed up over and over in the network. Now I call these families and indeed these handful of people the glue, because they glued the disjoint groups together into one cohesive group.
If you remember the Kevin Bacon movie, '6 Degrees of Separation" then you get the premise that we are all connected. What these handful of 'glue people' did was to show that my hypothetical siblings were two degrees apart (or their children).
So I will proceed on my assumptions. But beyond giving me a set of assumptions that have become more than just little hunches, I have other new "findings". I believe the ELIASZ-HELIASZ family connection is so strong that I think I could convince my distant cousins to give up their notion, 'They (the HELIASZ) are not related to us'. Now I have written about Elzbieta HELIASZ Kapusta who has kindly aided my genealogy so graciously of her own accord. She too did not think we were related. But I thought otherwise, even though I could not prove it, I still cannot "prove" in any sense that a professional genealogist would accept — it juts goes against the common "Standard of Proof". However, the study has shown that even the HELIASZ are in the Social Network and strongly in it. So much so, that this Michal HELIASZ I think is a brother to my great-great-grandfather. I truly believe that at most he is a first cousin to great-great-grandfather, Martin Elijasz. If that is true then Elzbieta HELIASZ Kapusta and I are 5th cousins (or 6th cousins if Michal HELIASZ is 1st cousin to Martin Elijasz).
The HELIASZ family (of Elzbieta's line) have connections to the same Wojtys and Zwolski. Both Elijasz and Heliasz have SIWIEC too. Indeed, the Wojtys, Zwolski and Siwiec have intermarried into both Elijasz and Heliasz. I will need Michal Heliasz's marriage record to Anna ?uknown-maiden-name and Martin Elijasz's marriage record to Anna Zasucha to see if they share the same parents or if their parents share the same parents.
I also believe this new TEKLA is a sibling of my great-grandfather and not the TEKLA, daughter of GASPAR ELIASZ. Earlier in the study I was considering both possibilities equal. But the social network says differently. Indeed TEKLA and PETRONELLA are clearly sisters and it looks by their birth years that they were probably consecutive born siblings of their father, my 2g-grandfather, Martin Elijasz.
I would recommend this technique to people where they are missing information/records. I do not propose this to be an end around of the"Genealogical Standard of Proof". It is not that. It is a method to predict further research. This is helpful if you need to write to a Polish Archive (or a Polsih Parish) because it allows you to ask the correct question. For example in my case, I should write to Poland and ask the authoritative source(s): …
Does TEKLA ELIASZ have a birth record from about 1853 in Pacanow or a marriage record to Franciszek Wojtys from the 1870's in Pacanow. I am looking for a TEKLA Elijasz wife of Franciszek Wojtys(born about 1843) and whose parents are Marcin Elijasz and Anna Zasucha. Likewise, I would also ask similarly for Ludwik Eliasz (born about 1844) and for Petronella Eliasz (born about 1856). I could just ask the local Polish Archivist for all children born to the marriage of Marcin Elijasz and Anna Zasucha of Pacanow [whose children should all be born in the range 1847-1866], (their birth records and their marriage records). Then I would expect to see in the results: Ludwik, Tekla, and Petronella right along with my: Jozef, Martin, Katarzyna and Jan Elijasz.
If I get the answers I expect (that Ludwik, Tekla and Petronella are siblings of my great-grandfather Jozef Elijasz), then I also get confirmation that my new theory and indeed the application of Social Network Analysis is useful in predicting nuclear family members.
This is a tedious study technique and requires some bookkeeping and compact notation to carry out effectively. I finally stopped my data collection with 1-2 years of data still left because I had too much data and too little space. Fortunately, the trends were obvious. I would also recommend using one village (or if you use other adjoining parishes) that you just indicate with a non-circle symbol ONLY for those records that are not a part of the "default" parish — you can just assume the rest are from the default parish and not clutter your diagram further than is necessary.


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GS: Where are you from?
HN: Kingsport, TN
GS: What degree will you receive and when?
I will graduate in May with a Masters in Forensic Science
GS: How long have you been at UAB?
I've been here almost two years. I came to UAB after getting my bachelor's at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
GS: What is your research?
My research is on using the microcrystal test to identify an adulterant that's mixed with cocaine.
GS: Why did you choose UAB for your graduate studies?
I chose UAB because of the number of classes offered in different areas of forensic science. I also did an internship with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences lab in town and I learned about the program from my co-workers there.
GS: Have you received any awards or honors?
I am currently a graduate assistant for the department.
GS: What has been your most rewarding experience at UAB?
The most rewarding part of being at UAB is the variety of classes in the areas of forensic science that the department offers. I wasn't sure what area I wanted to work in so being exposed to many areas has helped me make career decisions. I was also able to pursue an area of interest through my research.
GS: Who was your greatest influence here at UAB and why?
My greatest influence would be Dr. Elizabeth Gardner. I have been working as her graduate assistant the whole time I have been here and she gave me the opportunity to make my research the best it could be. She has helped me anytime I had a problem or question I couldn't answer while collecting data and motivated me to send an article to a journal for publication.
GS: What is your motivation in your academics/research?
The technique I am using in my research is an older technique, but I hope to be able to use it to identify crystal characteristics to link them to an adulterant, without using any other instrumentation and shed new light on an old method. I am a detail-oriented person and my research requires attention to detail so that motivates me to put forth my best effort.
GS: What are your plans after graduating and for the future?
I would like to pursue a career in drug chemistry and work for a state or federal lab analyzing drug evidence. I am currently on the job search and have interviewed at a few agencies.
Hannah's advice for other graduate students:
Don't sell yourself short. Graduate school allows you a lot of freedom to explore your areas of interest. You learn you can do things you never thought you would.


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BlackRock Inc., the world's largest money manager, and MarketAxess Holdings Inc. are creating a unified bond-trading platform.
BlackRock's Aladdin Trading Network, which the investment firm said last year it planned to start to allow investors to bypass investment banks, will route trades through MarketAxess, the owner of an electronic bond and derivatives-trading system, the companies said in an e-mailed statement today.
"Our two firms have a long-standing relationship, complementary strengths and a shared belief that the gradual shift towards more open trading in fixed income will require broad participation from the buy side and behavioral change among investors," Richard Prager, head of BlackRock's trading and liquidity strategies group, said in the statement.
BlackRock Solutions' Aladdin investment-management system, which offers access to its trading network, hosts $14 trillion in BlackRock and Aladdin client assets, and more than 1,000 asset managers, insurance companies, other investment firms and broker-dealers are active users of the MarketAxess platform, according to the statement.
"This partnership enables Aladdin clients to tap into a deeper liquidity pool without ever having to leave Aladdin, while maintaining their existing trade workflow," Ryan Stork, global head of BlackRock's Aladdin business, said in the statement.
'Liquidity Pool'
Wall Street dealers traditionally act as middlemen by warehousing bonds until customers seek to buy them. That model is changing as U.S. and international rules meant to make the banking system safer have prompted dealers to cut the amount of debt they hold, reducing liquidity in the market.
BlackRock, which manages about $3.9 trillion in assets, had said last year that its bond-trading system would match clients' orders using its own platform, rather than relying on Wall Street firms or other electronic networks to trade their bonds.
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Attendance strong at town hall meetings
To the Grinnell campus community,
We needed to talk… and listen. So we did!
Following is a brief summary of the first campus Town Halls of the year, held this Tuesday, September 24. The meetings were a big success. Attendance was strong: 150+ at noon, about 110 at night. Your support and participation is truly appreciated.
- Our main topics were Harm Reduction (alcohol / drug use); Sexual Assault (Title IX); and Diversity. Thank you to all three speakers, President Kington, and the College staff and faculty who helped answer many good and thoughtful questions.
- Discussions were overwhelmingly respectful and revealed a number of concerns, even anxieties, about campus issues, including:
- the College's commitment to racial, ethnic, religious, political, and socioeconomic diversity;
- the potential effect of changes in Grinnell's enrollment policies on students of various backgrounds and levels of need;
- the role of the Black Cultural Center within the present-day context of a diverse campus;
- implications of Title IX for students engaging in sexual activity under the influence of alcohol or drugs;
- the need to help students manage the stress of being involved in campus conduct hearings;
- perceived racial and gender biases in the conduct process; and
- the right of the police to enforce laws on campus, including in campus buildings.
The next Town Halls will be on Wednesday, November 13, at noon and 7:30. Please save the date!
We also want to make future Town Halls even better: We'll look for ways to respond more effectively to people using the Twitter hashtag #gctownhall. And we'll roll out a Town Hall section of the new grinnell.edu after it launches, where additional questions and comments can be posted publicly. In a future message you'll also be invited to suggest topics for upcoming sessions, including our planned session focused entirely on diversity.
We on the planning committee felt very proud of the community we saw in action Tuesday. There are few schools that can hold such challenging discussions in a thoughtful and respectful manner. Now we urge you to take the next step: Contact the speakers (Jen Jacobsen on alcohol and wellness; Angela Voos on Title IX; Poonam Arora on diversity). Join a committee. Volunteer. Get involved. We have important work to do together.
Hey, Grinnellians! We need to talk. And listen. And then act.
From your colleagues on the Grinnell Town Hall planning committee,
Opeyemi Awe '15, SGA Vice President for Student Affairs
W. Houston Dougharty, Vice President for Student Affairs
Jim Reische, Vice President for Communications
Carlie Van Willigen, Staff Council Chair
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Angela Stanton Calls Deion Sanders a Pervert For Talking To Her 19 Year Old Daughter
Ms. Stanton's daughter is Aleea Lee real name Aleea Stanton (you can check out a few photos above).
If you recall it was Deion's alleged affair (which Prime has denied) with Lee that started the train rolling toward Deion and Pilar's divorce. It was an odd tell that included Twitter, Plane Tickets, Secret Photos and Pacman Jones. You can read the whole story here.
No one had heard much from Aleea since she compared herself to Angelina Jolie and Pilar to Jennifer Anniston.
That was until her mom Angela Stanton randomly went on this mini Twitter Rant.
Does she not know that the young lady @deionsanders was caught w/ was my daughter? 2 you he is a Pro Athlete, 2 me he's a womanizing pervert
— Angela Stanton (@authorangie) October 10, 2012
@dreaalston Aleea Stanton?! Yes Mam! They better watch their mouth when they are talking to me…
— Angela Stanton (@authorangie) October 10, 2012
When it comes to me & mine, I speak FACTS!!! Lets get it right… just in case
— Angela Stanton (@authorangie) October 10, 2012
That Deion Sanders stuff is old news tho, these pll are not who you think the are! I just had to check a Troll right quick…
— Angela Stanton (@authorangie) October 10, 2012
@girl0nFlRE @DeionSanders found someones child on the internet & promised her the world! BOY!!! U need a good ol fashin ass whoopin..
— Angela Stanton (@authorangie) October 10, 2012
I have no clue who she is, but apparently she has a book out exposing a Real Housewife of Atlanta, Bossip have more info on that.
The whole thing seems a bit crazy, but the entire situation has been a bit crazy.