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Padres bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds lost his courageous and inspirational 19-month fight against pancreatic cancer Sunday morning.
Akerfelds, who turned 50 on June 12, died at the Cancer Center of America in Phoenix, Ariz.
Padres manager Bud Black notified his team of Akerfelds' death before Sunday's game at Petco Park. There was a moment of silence at Petco Park before the first pitch of the Mariners-Padres game.
"The San Diego Padres are deeply saddened by the loss of Darrel Akerfelds," said Black in a statement released as the game started.
"Ak was an invaluable member of the Padres coaching staff. He brought a tireless work ethic and compassion for baseball to the ballpark every day. He was a loyal Padre to the end.
"Players and coaches were made better by Ak. He will be sorely missed and what he brought to this organization will never be forgotten."
Members of the Padres bullpen carried the Akerfelds' camouflage No. 48 uniform to the bullpen before the game and hung it on the fence facing the field. Another uniform was placed on the seat where the popular and respected coach usually sat during games.
Meanwhile, the bullpen itself was vacant early in the game, a white towel at each pitchers' spot to the right and left of where Akerfelds routinely sat since Petco Park opened in 2004.
Akerfelds was the senior member of the Padres coaching staff. He was promoted to the Padres on June 11, 2001, after serving as the Padres Triple-A pitching coach.
Even though he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December of 2010, Akerfelds remained the club's bullpen coach throughout the 2011 season while undergoing aggressive rounds of radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
Although he received bad news regarding his cancer earlier this year, he was with the Padres throughout spring training. Akerfelds began his 11th full season with the Padres on Opening Day, but had not been with the club since April 15 in Los Angeles.
Although his health began deteriorating during spring training, Akerfelds battled to remain with the Padres.
"The game is my best therapy," Akerfelds said last February shortly after reporting to the Padres spring training camp in Peoria, Ariz. "Being around the game and our players keeps me going as much as the treatments."
The chemotherapy and radiation treatments were designed to shrink the malignant tumor growing on Akerfelds' pancreas and wrapped around an artery to the size where it could be surgically removed – an operation called the Whipple Procedure.
"If the chemotherapy and radiation treatments shrink the malignancy to the point where it can be surgically removed, my prognosis is good," said Akerfelds. "If I can't have the surgery, I'll just keep going the best I can. It's not going to beat me, not my spirit."
Whenever Akerfelds was asked how he felt, he responded in the affirmative.
But his health deteriorated last spring. He started losing weight and strength to the point where he finally decided to leave the team to pursue more treatments. He had visited the club several times during his absence.
"Ak is probably one of the most respected and beloved people in this game," Padres reliever Joe Thatcher said after Akerfelds departed the Padres in April. "He's still here. You just don't see him. Everyone who has been in the Padres bullpen with Ak is part of his family."
Akerfelds was a tireless worker when it came to preparing his pitchers.
"I've never viewed Ak as a bullpen coach," said Padres pitching coach Darren Balsley. "He's a second pitching coach. I'm proud to say we've been a team.
"Ak had so many attributes. He was smart. And he knew how to work with people. I think he would have been a great pitching coach, but he loved being a bullpen coach . . . being out there with his boys. I never saw him have a bad day at the ballpark. And that carried through to the people he coached."
Several homestands ago, Padres relievers put a "48" between the homeplates in the Padres bullpen that was visible from the grandstands down the left field line. Several starters etched "48" into the pitching mounds before starts.
Born in Denver, Colo., on June 12, 1962, Akerfelds played linebacker for the University of Arkansas after graduating from Columbine High in Littleton, Colo. After a season with the Razorbacks, Akerfelds transferred to Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., in 1982 to concentrate on baseball.
Akerfelds was the first-round pick (seventh overall) of the Seattle Mariners in 1983. He pitched for 12 professional seasons with seven major league organizations. Akerfelds made 125 major league appearances (13 starts) with Oakland, Cleveland, Texas and Philadelphia and had a 9-10 career record with a 5.08 ERA. He also spent the 1994 season pitching in Taiwan.
Akerfelds joined the Padres organization in 1997 as the pitching coach for low Single-A Clinton (Iowa) of the Midwest League.
Through the end of the 2011 season, the Padres bullpen had a 3.66 earned run average under Akerfelds' leadership. The mark was the second-best in the major leagues over the span of Akerfelds' tenure.
Said first-year Padres general manager Josh Byrnes: "In my brief over-lapping with Ak, I was amazed at the universal love and respect for him within this organization. "His passion, toughness and knowledge will leave an important legacy for the Padres. Throughout the organization, he will be missed."


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Sometimes people are important to you not for who they are, but for what they do. Michael S. Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, is one such person. While I never met him, Michael's work has definitely impacted my life: The last book I finished1, like most of my fiction reading over the past 3 years, was a public domain ebook. I love the illustrations.
In 1971, the idea of pleasure reading on screens must have been novel. The personal computer had just been invented; a KENBAK-1 would set you back $750 — equivalent to $4200 in 2011 dollars2.
Project Gutenberg's first text — the U.S. Declaration of Independence — was keyed into a mainframe, about one month after Unix was first released34. That mainframe, a Xerox Sigma V, was one of the first 15 computers on the Internet (well, technically, ARPANET)5. Project Gutenberg is an echo of the generosity of some UIUC sysadmins: The first digital library began a gift back to the world in appreciation of access to that computer.
Thanks, Michael.
Originally via @muttinmall
- The Book of Dragons, by Edith Nesbit: highly recommended, especially if you like silly explanations or fairy tales with morals. [↩]
- CPI Inflation Calculator [↩]
- Computer history timeline 1960-1980 [↩]
- Project Gutenberg Digital Library Seeks To Spur Literacy:
Library hopes to offer 1 million electronic books in 100 languages, 2007-07-20, Jeffrey Thomas [↩]
- Amazingly, this predated NCSA. You can see the building–Thomas Siebel–hosting the node thanks to a UIUC Communication Technology and Society class assignment [↩]

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POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A judge granted a $100,000 bond on Friday for the driver who took authorities on a pursuit into Orange County on Interstate 4.
Allen White, 42, was found Thursday afternoon at the Orlando Grand Hotel and taken into custody. A judge also said if White posts bond, he must be place on GPS, based on White's criminal history.
Polk County deputies said they received a call from Orange County Sheriff's Office around 4 p.m. to help with the pursuit heading westbound on I-4 in Polk County.
The fleeing vehicle eventually exited I-4 in the Lakeland area, according to officials. Deputies said two passengers, later identified as 31-year-old David Junior Lopez and 18-year-old Jennifer J. Rivera, ran out from the vehicle in the area of Sun Acres and they were both arrested. White then got back onto I-4 and fled eastbound back into Orange County.
Seminole County sheriff's deputies said the car was stolen out of Seminole County. White then stopped at the Orlando Grand Hotel on John Young Parkway, where authorities searched for him.
Jean St. Pierre, of Minneapolis, a guest at the hotel, was forced out.
"I just heard bang, bang, bang, on my door -- looked out, sheriffs with rifles," St. Pierre said.
She stood with other guests for hours, watching from the sidewalk as deputies searched every inch of the hotel for White. He was eventually found in a room on the third floor.
Deputies believe White stole the car in Seminole County and used it to pull off robberies across Central Florida.
"I hear Home Depot, a few electronic stores, basically going in and grabbing stuff," said Jeff Williamson, spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Guests were let back into the hotel just before 9 p.m.
Allen will face charges related to the stolen vehicle, along with aggravated fleeing to elude and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle on law enforcement. Lopez and Rivera face grand theft and resisting arrest charges.
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Visconti Wins First Stage of 2010 Tour of Luxembourg; Lance Armstrong Third
Lance Armstrong was third overall after two days of the Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday, satisfied that he is riding stronger before the 2010 Tour de France.
Lance Armstrong was third overall after two days of the Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday, satisfied that he is riding stronger before the 2010 Tour de France.
Giovanni Visconti of Italy won the first stage, while Armstrong stayed up front in the main pack to finish 50th in the 111.8-mile ride from Luxembourg to Hesperange.
"I can't lie, there were some guys sitting up on the final little climb there, [3 miles] from the finish and other guys riding off the front, attacking, and I made it across there relatively easily, which is a good sign," the 38-year-old Armstrong said. "It's been a very long time since I've been able to do that."
Armstrong's RadioShack team worked hard to catch three breakaway riders 9.3 miles from the finish. After the first stage and Wednesday's prologue, Armstrong trails race leader Cyril Lemoine of France by one second. Armstrong's teammate Gregory Rast of Switzerland was second with the same time as Lemoine.
Armstrong, whose season has been hampered by illness and last month's crash in the Tour of California, is using the Tour of Luxembourg as part of his preparations for the Tour de France. He will compete in the Tour of Switzerland to make up for the racing days he missed this year.
"The ambition is to be making progress, avoid problems, stay on the good way for the Tour," Armstrong said. "This race is awfully technical in terms of the amount of turns, hundreds of turns and climbs and wind. The wind is hard to predict. If you're not from here, which of course we're not, it's sometimes confusing."
Armstrong crashed out of the Tour of California on May 20, hurting his elbow and getting cut under his left eye. He still has some lingering effects but said he surprised himself with his strong performance in the short but demanding climbs on Thursday.
"[I] just [want to] finish every race and avoid the accidents that I've had over the last two years. Just day by day," Armstrong said.
Armstrong, who broke his collarbone last year in his first comeback season, was forced to withdraw from Milan-San Remo in March, citing gastroenteritis, and pulled out from the Circuit de la Sarthe with a stomach illness.
On Thursday, early breakaway riders Anthony Charteau, Johnny Hoogerland and Morten Knudsen built up a six-minute lead before RadioShack started the chase 31 miles from the finish.
Armstrong said his team worked hard because it was important to stay upfront and avoid a potential crash.
"I think we feel like we can win the race, we have a couple of guys who can win the overall," Armstrong said.
The Tour of Luxembourg is Armstrong's first race since his former U.S. Postal teammate Floyd Landis admitted to doping throughout his career and alleged that Armstrong was also involved.
Armstrong was angered by a reporter asking him if had taken EPO during his career and if he tried to bribe an International Cycling Union official following an alleged positive test.
"How many times would I have to answer the same question?" Armstrong said. "The answer has not changed. Don't ask me another stupid question like that."
The second stage Friday is a 126-mile hilly ride between Schifflange and Differdange.


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She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Cecil Brown; two brothers, Earl and Euel Standridge; a grandson, Brad Gardner; and a great-grandchild.
Survivors include a son, Carroll Brown of Atkins; four daughters and three sons-in-law, Virginia and Rickey Smith, Mary and Wayne Faught, Christine Brown and Barbara and Terry Gardner, all of Atkins; four grandchildren, Dennis Smith, Denise Anders and her husband, James, Justin Brown and Lauren Gardner; two step-grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
The graveside service and burial will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 20, 2013, at Oakland Cemetery near Atkins, officiated by the Rev. David Bishop. Arrangements are by Shinn Funeral Service of Russellville. The visitation room will be open until 7 p.m. today for the convenience of family and friends.
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Trapped South African Miners Refuse to Be Rescued
Rescuers have reached the group of workers who were trapped while working illegally in a South African gold mine, but most of the miners are electing to stay underground for fear they will be arrested if they come out.
The workers were trapped in the mine shaft, located near Johannesburg, sometime yesterday.
Although initial reports suggested that more than 200 workers were trapped by a rockslide; according to CNN, there were only 30 people underground at the time and witnesses say a rival group intentionally blocked the shaft with rocks.
Authorities, on the lookout for illegal dumping in the area, apparently heard their cries for help.
Responders from the ER24 emergency medical service were able to rescue 11 workers, who were treated medically and then taken into custody by South African police.
The remaining miners now have to choose between dying in a mine or going to jail — although emergency crews have already departed, police and security officials from the mine company are guarding the entrance, ready to arrest whoever emerges.


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hmm...who is the translator?...must have a poor memory
hmm...much more going on here than subjective perception or sañña
[/quote]"Monks, whether or not there is the arising of Tathagatas, this property stands — this steadfastness of the Dhamma, this orderliness of the Dhamma: All processes are inconstant. All processes are stressful. All phenomena are not-self.
"The Tathagata directly awakens to that, breaks through to that. Directly awakening & breaking through to that, he declares it, teaches it, describes it, sets it forth. He reveals it, explains it, & makes it plain.
I think you're the one who needs to read a little more carefully. If you read the whole talk, then you'll see how he fits it into his thesis:
"Almost any book on Buddhism will tell you that the three characteristics—
the characteristic of inconstancy, the characteristic of stress or suffering, and the
characteristic of not-self—were one of the Buddha's most central teachings. The
strange thing, though, is that when you look in the Pali Canon, the word for
"three characteristics," ti-lakkhana, doesn't appear. If you do a search on any
computerized version of the Canon and type in, say, the characteristic of
inconstancy, anicca-lakkhana, it comes up with nothing. The word's not in the Pali
Canon at all. The same with dukkha-lakkhana and anatta-lakkhana: Those
compounds don't appear. This is not to say that the concepts of anicca, dukkha,
and anatta don't occur in the Canon; just that they're not termed characteristics.
They're not compounded with the word "characteristic." The words they are
compounded with are perception, sañña—as in the perception of inconstancy, the
perception of stress, and the perception of not-self—and the word anupassana,
which means to contemplate or to keep track of something as it occurs. For
instance, aniccanupassana, to contemplate inconstancy, means to look for
inconstancy wherever it happens.
Now, it's true that you'll frequently find in the Canon the statements that all
things compounded or fabricated are inconstant, that they're all stressful. And all
dhammas—all objects of the mind—are not-self. So if that's the way things are,
why not just say that these are characteristic features of these things? Why make
a big deal about the language? Because words are like fingers, and you want to
make sure they point in the right direction—especially when they're laying
blame, the way these three perceptions do. And in our practice, the direction
they point to is important for a number of reasons.
One is that the Buddha's concern is not with trying to give an analysis of the
ultimate nature of things outside. He's more interested in seeing how the
behavior of things affects our search for happiness. As he once said, all he taught
was suffering and the end of suffering. The suffering is essentially an issue of the
mind's searching for happiness in the wrong places, in the wrong way. We look
for a constant happiness in things that are inconstant. We look for happiness in
things that are stressful and we look for "our" happiness in things that are notself,
that lie beyond our control. The three perceptions of inconstancy, stress, and
not-self are focused on our psychology, on how we can recognize when we're
looking for happiness in the wrong way so that we can learn to look for
happiness in the right places, in the right ways. The contemplation of these three
themes, the use of these three perceptions, is aimed at finding happiness of a true
and lasting sort.
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Officials said several retailers and a city office reported getting fake money this week.
The Jonesboro Sun reported that Jonesboro's electric and water utility report that a customer used three fake $20 bills to pay a bill Tuesday. The currency was found to be fake by Liberty Bank employees. Two of the bills had the same serial number.
Police said someone passed a counterfeit $20 bill to buy food at a McDonald's restaurant and that the bill had the same serial number as one passed at City Water and Light.
Also, a counterfeit $10 bill was discovered by Integrity Bank employees.
Also, two fake $20s were passed at a Walmart store on Dec. 5.


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So, I LOVE Harry Potter! I don't know where J.K Rowling came up with up but I'm so glad she did! When I'm not riding I'm with my horse Buddy and I couldn't live without him.
I'm oddly a Draco/Hermione and Ron/Hermione shipper. I love both of them, so that's what I'll be doing because I really couldn't care less about Harry/Ginny.
So I hope you enjoy my stories which are soon to come! (Again)


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From the chief pizza maker, I learned that the pizzas made at Lombardi's use a high-gluten flour that is mixed and kneaded with municipal New York City water (which may just be the best tasting municipal water of any major city in the country), a dry yeast, and salt.
If they use 13 oz., which translates to roughly 370 grams, for a 14" pie than they use less than I do (375 - 380 gr.). I wonder how they get their outer crust so big and puffy with that amount of individual dough weight.
Mike,There have been rumors floating around for some time that Lombardi's couldn't be doing the volume of business that they do with just one oven. This has led to suspicions that Lombardi's is par-baking its crusts. Evelyne Slomon commented on this possibility, along with her calculations on this point, at Reply 29 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3399.msg28955/topicseen.html#msg28955. If you are up to the effort, you could take a look at photos of Lombardi pizzas going back several years and see if you can detect a material change in the looks of their pizzas from the standpoint of rim size. When I took a look at photos of Lombardi's pizzas, they did not all have large rims. In fact, some looked quite small or fairly normal. See, for example, http://s1.hubimg.com/u/494016_f520.jpg and http://blog.appiarius.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/pizza.jpg. Also, as you know from our own forum, there are members' pizzas whose rims are large while the rest of the crusts are thin. I believe that some of Glutenboy's pizzas fall into that category. Moreover, on any given night and depending on who is making the pizzas and the oven temperature at the time pizzas are made, there can be many variations in the outcomes of the pizzas.Peter


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Arctic Monkeys Announce N. American Tour
Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce a tour of North America in September & October 2011. Beginning at the Orpheum in Vancouver on 28th September, the band will be joined by Smith Westerns on this run of dates which wraps up at Stafe AE in Pittsburgh, PA on 18th October 2011. Full list of dates below:
28th Sept Orpheum, Vancouver, BC
29th Sept MacEwan Hall Ballroom, Calgary, AB
30th Sept The Odeon, Saskatoon, SK
1st Oct Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
3rd Oct Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN
4th Oct The Pageant, St.Louis, MO
5th Oct War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville, TN
7th Oct Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
9th Oct The Ritz, Tampa, FL
11th Oct The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
12th Oct Disco Rodeo, Raleigh, NC
14th Oct House of Blues @ Showboat Atlantic City, Atlantic City, NJ
15th Oct Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD
17th Oct The LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH
18th Oct Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday 16th July - 10am(Local Times)
jane turner
13.07.11 4:02 am
Can't wait to see them in October. Just ordered my tickets. :D
13.07.11 3:54 am
Yeah, please come to Brazil.
We'll be waiting.
pigs & pearls
13.07.11 3:44 am
Does anyone know if the baltimore show is sold out? cause now it goes to the Rams Head Live website when you click find tickets
13.07.11 12:12 am
if anyone legit on this website based on fans to the arctic monkeys reviews polls, i call a show in scotland with the 'besides 2' collection plz :D
12.07.11 5:53 pm
i wont exaggerate and say i will die if i dont see them.... but it will be very close to that..... WOOT WOOT Arctic Monkeys are coming to orlando!
12.07.11 5:52 pm
Come to Toronto again!!!!!! More places in Canada ! We' re basically north america's Britain sInce we have the queen on our money, arctic monkeys should feel at home here :D
12.07.11 3:18 pm
12.07.11 2:35 pm
When "Arctic Monkeys Announce S. American Tour"???
12.07.11 2:09 pm
Come to Ottawa, ON!! PLEASE!!!!! You are THE Best
12.07.11 9:17 am
Why are they bailing on Miami this year? Do they not remember having the craziest show here last year?! I guess I'll make the drive up to Orlando. I know they'll be at the Langerado Festival down here but it's $150!! I rather drive to Orlando and watch them at the Hard Rock.


text: Hey guys, I don't post here too much, but something has been under my skin lately and I wanted your opinions on it. How would you define a real Trekkie? I know that that could be a very broad category of people, but I ask this because many people who have seen the new movie are now calling themselves Trekkies. People who didn't care about Star Trek before but are saying that they really like it now. I'm fine with people liking the movie, it's just that...there is a difference between a Star Trek fan and a Trekkie. And I think that you need to like more than one fan's movie of a TV show to say that you are now a part of that fandom. I just feel that there is so much more to the Trekkie label than they seem to think there is. I don't know. Do you think they have a right to call themselves Trekkies when they probably haven't seen more than five episodes? What do you think is the least that you would have to be/have done/know/etc. to really be considered a Trekkie by other Trekkies? (Also, I'm pretty sure this is the right forum? It's not a discussion about the movie itself...)


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At a certain point in your event filmmaking career, usually after watching a fellow filmmaker's online clip, you start dreaming of your own destination shoot. Although we have filmed a few destination weddings before, our "dream client" turned out to be a young couple from Singapore. They contacted us in September 2010. The couple was planning an engagement holiday through Europe and wanted an engagement film to show on their wedding day. It got better from there: We were asked to suggest the best city location in Europe for this December shoot. Although Paris gets more attention, if you're after a romantic European destination in December, there is really just one choice: Vienna, Austria.
Be Well-PreparedAn engagement shoot of this caliber requires something a bit more elaborate than taking a couple into a park to shoot some eye candy. After several emails and a few phone calls, it soon became clear that our customers had an artistic eye and would demand nothing less than a masterpiece. In our 9-year existence as an event film company based in the U.K., we had never come across a client who knew all about the EventDV 25, could casually name-drop some WEVA CEA-winning companies, and could discuss style, shot choices, scripts, and color grading without blinking.
Their movie preferences and limited dialogue requirement soon inspired a dreamlike sequence for which we knew Vienna would be perfect. The abundance of quaint Christmas markets, the gorgeous city architecture, and Schönbrunn Palace would be the perfect backdrop!
We wrote quite an elaborate script, including opportunities to showcase bride Elizabeth's wonderful singing voice, and gave the couple a few options depending on the budget. A few weeks later everything was agreed on, and we started planning the shoot. My wife, Sylvia Broeckx, and I know Vienna quite well and could easily visualize our shots with the help of some photographs we took there before. We contacted all the places where we would likely need shooting permission (luckily, I speak enough German to easily sort this out) and decided we would need a bag carrier (or, to use EventDV 25 All-Star Meghan Simone's terminology, a gear Sherpa) as some shots would require quite a bit of kit. We also knew that shots in public places could do with someone keeping the public out of our shot. We hired a friend whose wife is also a great photographer and figured we could get some free "behind-the-scenes" pictures and maybe even some video footage.
SnowboundIn December 2010, 10 days before the shoot, we couldn't have been more excited. We'd selected and packed our gear, we'd double-checked airline luggage rules (which seem to change every few months), and we'd found a local makeup artist who seemed to speak some English. We even heard that there was a bit of snow in Vienna, making the city a more idyllic setting. This was destined to our best shoot yet.
A few days later (just before we set off), that "bit of snow" turned into a snow blanket that enveloped the whole of Europe, the likes of which had not been seen for decades! All across Europe, airports were closed, roads were blocked, and travelers were stranded. We kept a close eye on the weather and airport reports and thought we would be fine. At 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 18-a mere 14 hours before our flight-just as we are about to leave our Sheffield studio and head for our overnight stay at a London Heathrow airport hotel, one email from British Airways changed everything: All flights were canceled; London airport would be closing and would not reopen for at least several days.Crisis ManagementOur profession is a strange one in that we all seem to care more about our customers than we do about ourselves. At no point did it cross our minds that we would just apologize and use our insurance to reimburse the client due to the freak weather. Seconds after seeing the message from British Airlines we began researching alternative ways to get there. It soon became clear that flying out of England was a no-go: Everyone was trying to reroute their flights and all the airports were closing, one after the other. Trains were out, as the German railroads (which we'd need to pass) were closed due to the weather there, and driving wasn't an option either, as most of the French and German roads were blocked.
A look at the weather maps revealed that the closest not-yet-affected area was Belgium. A trip to our birth country without flying requires a 4-hour drive, followed by a 2-hour ferry to France, and then another 2-hour drive to get into Belgium. Sylvia managed to book us two tickets on a Vienna-bound flight leaving Brussels 24 hours later. We called our gear Sherpa (who was leaving on a different flight that had not yet been canceled) and set off.
The snowstorms became worse; instead of boarding the midnight ferry, we got stuck in the snow and traffic (there were few cars, but they were not going anywhere). We boarded our ferry at 4:00 a.m. and arrived at Sylvia's parents' house just before 10:00 a.m. Exhausted and sleep deprived, we crashed for an hour. At 1:00 p.m. Sylvia's sister dropped us off at the airport. No sooner did we exit the vehicle than it started snowing again! Belgium is not a country that deals well with snow-in fact, during most winters the largest part of the country sees no snow at all. We checked in, stared at the noticeboard, and saw flight after flight being canceled. It didn't take long for our flight to be there as well. I rushed to a desk and managed to get a later flight. Delay after delay followed, but eventually, at 9:00 p.m., our flight was called for boarding. All this time, I had to stay in touch with our prebooked taxi and accommodation. The latter was an apartment that we rented rather than a hotel room. Getting the keys was going to be challenging, as there was no 24-hour reception. Luckily, there was a late-hour bar around the corner that the owner frequented, so he promised to leave the key there.
We boarded our plane. All the key camera gear was in our carry-on luggage, and I was too tired to even think about our checked bags. Worst-case scenario: We would buy some clothes and a tripod in Vienna. No sooner had the airplane doors closed than there came a captain's announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, before we can take off the plane needs to be de-iced. This airport has only one de-icer. We are currently 10th in the queue and hope to take off in about 2 hours." Great, we thought, that's 2 hours in which either the Brussels or the Vienna airport can close due to new snowfall. But luck was on our side: The flight took off around 11:00 p.m., and by 1:00 a.m. the next morning-the day before the shoot-we collapsed in our apartment. Meanwhile, our gear Sherpas were stranded in England. We were on our own, exhausted, and we had 1 day to scout all our locations in a snowed-under Vienna.
Our Clients' StoryDuring all this mayhem, I was texting and emailing our clients. I decided it would be unwise to worry them and didn't tell them about our troubles trying to get there; I just rescheduled our preshoot meeting. Little did I know what they were enduring. Our couple was stressing out too and wondering if they were going to make it. The whole of Europe was dealing with the snow, and it obviously affected their travel plans too. They got robbed in Paris; Elizabeth's wedding dress (which she had brought along for the photo shoot) got lost in transit; and she fell ill on her birthday (the day before our shoot) due to all the stress.
But all's well that ends well: We all got there (minus the gear Sherpas). Surely things would look up from here.
The Day Before the ShootOn Monday we went on a scouting mission through Vienna. We'd visited a few years before and knew the city pretty well, but as we were relying on public transport we needed to make sure of the most efficient route. That day was absolutely beautiful: clear blue skies and glistening snow all around Vienna (somehow, they can manage snow in Austria).
We met with our clients in the evening. We realized that they both were feeling under the weather and that their engagement holiday had so far consisted of two photo shoots in cities they didn't get to see properly and waiting in airports. So we decided to change the schedule and script to make sure they had a great time first and a good film afterward.
The Day of the ShootOn Tuesday we woke up, opened the curtains, and saw ... nothing. Vienna was covered in fog, mist, and more fog. This was going to be fun! We picked up our couple and went to our first location: the Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn. As we entered the park, Sylvia said, "You'll soon see this amazing palace." Well, they didn't-not until they got really close to it-which made it a nice surprise. But we had to revise our schedule as we had planned to do shoots at certain locations in the park that required a view of the palace.
Another location was now out of reach (a walk up a hill that was closed off due to safety reasons). And without anyone else to help carry our gear, our time schedule was slipping: Everything was taking a lot longer than we expected. We also found that we could seldom shoot with two cameras at once (as planned), as one of us needed to fill the role of our absent help. The carefully planned script was now just a piece of paper. We were thinking on our feet and changing the storyline as we tried to find new shots. The highlight was no doubt the snowball fight. Our couple had almost never seen snow before they came on this trip and knew only that it made travel a nightmare. We explained the concept of a snowball fight: "Make a ball of snow and throw it at each other. Why? It's fun; trust me." They did trust us and were soon playing in the snow like little kids, which meant one thing to us: great shots!
Filming in SnowFilming in snow—a lot of snow—is tricky. I have the utmost respect for anyone who deals with this on a regular basis. It soon became clear to me that I lack the skills to make this a nonissue. I decided to film the snowball fight on a Glidecam to accentuate the energy. Check out the engagement film below to see this shot. I'd love to say the strong camera movement is deliberate and fits the sequence perfectly. I still think it works well, but the reality is that I was desperately trying to not fall over and hurt myself. What you don't see in the clip is how I planted my body in the snow while falling over at the end of that shot. Luckily, snow makes for a soft landing.
Things I did worry about turned out fine: Although it was extremely cold, the batteries in our Panasonic GH2 cameras lasted longer than feared in that weather. Likewise, the temperature difference between inside and outside shots did not fog up the camera or lenses. Using our DP Slider was interesting: I put it down to get a shot and saw it disappear into 12" of snow.
FlexibilityIt soon became clear there would be no way to fit everything we needed into 1 day of shooting. So we had to take the couple out the next morning too. It was a very tiring day. We took them to all the most important sites in Vienna. In the meantime, we also served as their tour guides for the day. Sylvia has been obsessed with Austrian history since she was a little girl and studied art history. And with me being a musicologist who's able to talk about all things Mozart, we could babble on about Vienna for ages.
Luckily, this turned out to be something our couple really appreciated. Even though they'd traveled to Paris and Prague earlier in the trip, they didn't manage to see much of the cities. Our shoot was designed to help them make the most out of their short stay in Vienna. When we heard Elizabeth say, "I like Vienna better than Paris," we knew we'd accomplished our mission. The Engagement FilmWe had a few extra days in Vienna, which we enjoyed and used for some b-roll. The less I'm reminded about our journey back, the better. Rather than being home for Christmas Eve as planned, suffice it to say we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning stuck in airports without food or drink. We finally had our Christmas Eve dinner on Dec. 27.
Meanwhile, we created a save-the-date trailer for our clients, and it was a success. Likewise they enjoyed their full engagement film, which premiered at their wedding. To quote our groom (who hired a more local company, EventDV 25 studio Mayad, for their wedding in Bali), "We even showed it to Mayad before the shooting, so they're challenged to deliver the final product even better." To me, that's one happy client.
EpilogueWould we do it all again? Of course! This shoot was challenging beyond our imagination (which, if you know us, is quite a statement). The process was interesting, the little film we created is something we're proud of, and our clients love their engagement film and think back on their Vienna time as the highlight of their trip.
For us there was an unexpected bonus as well. A few days before I wrote this article, Sylvia noticed that the Vienna Tourist Board Facebook page had announced a competition: Tell us a romantic story of something you did in Vienna and you can win a three-course gourmet meal in the Swarovski cabin of the Riesenrad (this is the 19th-century Ferris wheel that you can see in the clip embedded above).
It was 10:00 p.m. the day before the competition closed when she saw the announcement. I sent them an email with our story and a link to our little engagement film. The next day I received an email informing me that we won. We'll have to find our own way to Vienna, but after filming that Ferris wheel from the outside in the freezing cold, while Sylvia was trying to get her shots inside, I can't wait to be the couple that gets to enjoy this magical experience.
Niels Puttemans (niels at everafter videos.co.uk) runs Ever After Video Productions of Sheffield, U.K., with his wife, Sylvia Broeckx. 2009 EventDV 25 Finalists and winners of IOV Ltd. (Institute of Videography) and WEVA CEA awards for their wedding-day films, Niels and Sylvia were presenters at WEVA Expo 2010.


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Senate gives preliminary approval of court diversion, risk assessment bill
The Senate Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a broad bill aimed at diverting people from the criminal justice system and into drug treatment and other services.
The bill, S.295, also contains a section intended to help reduce the amount of Suboxone, an opiate treatment drug that is frequently diverted onto the street.
S.295 was the prime focus of the Senate Judiciary Committee this session. It also passed through the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, which tweaked the Suboxone section after extensive testimony from doctors and pharmacists. Judiciary Chairman Dick Sears, D-Bennington, presented the legislation to his fellow senators Wednesday afternoon.
"What I'm proud of is Vermont is admitting it has a problem and now it's trying to come up with solutions to that problem," Sears said.
The bill encourages state's attorneys to set up pre-trial programs that reach alleged criminals at a time when they are amenable to examining the underlying cause of their action and receiving services.
"There's nothing like a flashing blue light and handcuffs to get your attention that you might have a problem," said Sen. Ann Cummings, as she introduced the Health and Welfare Committee's amendments. Gov. Peter Shumlin supports the bill and asked for $760,000 in next year's budget to roll out pre-charge programs, as well as another tool: Risk assessment.
In a statement released on Thursday, he praised Sears and the Judiciary Committee for its work on the bill."Moving addicts into treatment rather a jail cell when appropriate is not only the right thing to do for individuals and families, but for taxpayers, as well," he said in a statement.
"At the same time, the bill will give our law enforcement better tools to fight drug dealers and the violent crime that too often accompanies the drug trade, helping to keep Vermonters safer while we also provide better treatment to those who are addicted," Shumlin said. "I look forward to working with the House as the legislation now moves to that chamber for consideration."
Separate from diversion, the bill establishes a risk assessment program so judges and prosecutors will have more information about a person when they decide how to set bail.
The assessment is intended to determine whether the person is dangerous or a risk of flight and provide a standardized tool across all counties.
The bill has many other sections, including stricter penalties for home invasion, something Sears said his constituents fear because of a purported increase in property crimes committed to fuel drug habits.
It also clarifies the so-called Good Samaritan law that was passed last year. That law protects someone who calls for medical help after a drug overdose from criminal prosecution. Legislators said there was a case in Addison County where that law was misinterpreted.
Another section stiffens the penalties for heroin trafficking. The bill must be passed a final time before it heads to the House.
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if interested I have an EQ7, I attempted to use it and did not like it. All the parts re there and book looks like new.
let me know.
Cleveland, TN
gini:great news from branson today. the guy that embezzled all the money from the hotel is now in jail.
Is that part of why Sam had to make so many trips to Branson? Did he have to testify?
On the banks of the Mississippi River in north central Minnesota (Brainerd lakes area)
The Branson news is great news. Maybe Sam will be able to relax some now.
Vinton, Virginia
he had to testify once before the grand jury and once today for the bond hearing. he's been in branson running two hotels. it is a huge job, trying to keep them full, trying to keep the workers happy and motivated, catching up on deferred maintainence, paying off bills that should have been paid with the embezzled moneys, collecting money that hasn't been paid. he had a church that tried to not pay him over $5000 dollars it owed. he made a sign on a piece of cardboard, went and sat on their front steps on a sunday morning holding up his sign, "your church owes me money" . they paid him that day. you've met sam he never shuts up and he's very resourceful. people pay their overdue bills to get him off their door steps.
gini in north idaho
OMG , Gini ,I can just see Sam doing this . Good for him. I'm so gald he is getting these isuues taken care of maybe then he will not to spend so much time there.
gini, that is great news.
Life is like a quilt...bits & pieces, joy & sorrow, stitched with love
Oh Gini that is so funny. And I can see Sam setting on those steps with his sign.
gini:sat on their front steps on a sunday morning holding up his sign, "your church owes me money" . they paid him that day. you've met sam he never shuts up and he's very resourceful. people pay their overdue bills to get him off their door steps.
What a character!
gini:people pay their overdue bills to get him off their door steps.
Good for him Gini! I'm going to remember this in case I need his services to resolve a money problem. Where was he when I had problems with the I.R.S. My tax man resolved that problem for me but it took a long time and many sleepless nights. I had a zero balance when he was through, so turned out well. Talk about frozen in time though! Didn't accomplish much during that stretch.
Millbury, MA
The 'weather' has arrived here. They said we'd have heavy snowfall and temp drops late last night but it only just started snowing. It looks like November all of a sudden! It's a good day to curl up on the sofa with a big bowl of popcorn, a mug of hot cocoa and James Bond!
Sprout saw absolutely no reason to sleep last night. He was happy as a clam, as long as he was being held, but if I set him down and tried to get some sleep of my own, his objections were heard all over town. I think the wind must have been bothering him. At anyrate, I crawled back into bed after I got the big kids off to school and slept for about an hour - feel a lot better after getting some sleep. That's one of the big perks to not having to go in to the office!
Quilters are people who strip so they won't go topless.
Gini, Your husband's sign thing sounds hilarious and awesome. Good for him.
CC, hope you're enjoying the snow. :)
Gini - good for Sam - he shamed them into paying - very good advertising he did - bet those members laid the law down to the officials of that church...
Oh what a day! There is a weather system heading my way - my body has told me so today! I did for the last 2 days get tons done - between getting my kitchen floor sparkling clean for a day and then yesterday working hard on SS#1. I almost got it done last night - I have the bat border to do and then I am done... I did lots of quilting too and my body told me all about it when I woke this morning...
I couldn't even crawl out of bed - and my pain meds are kept in the living room - not next to my bed... and I was in tons of pain... the lower back nerves are pinched so it meant I needed my anti inflammatory and my pain meds... and that meant somehow I had to get to the living room and the kitchen.... Oh - if you could have heard me - telling my legs to move - left - then right - then left and right... they did not want to listen to me - nope they were telling me in no uncertain terms that they were very very upset with me... but I made it - 30 minutes later I had both meds in my grubby hands and about 90 minutes later I was able to get up and move...
it feels like someone drills a hole into my left hip and puts a burning poker in there which sends a lightning bolt of pain every 10 seconds down my leg... today was I think the worst it has been in a long long time...
When the pain receded so that I could do something - did I give my body a break today - heck no - teehee - I had been in my bedroom for so long this morning I noted all the things that needed to be done... so the floor got vacuumed and then steam cleaned and all the quilts that had been piled on the antique sewing machine got put away and the dirty clothes got moved to the laundry room along with a change of sheets and quilts for the bed... all the old dirty stuff has now been washed and put away...
I will not put up with this body of mine misbehaving in this manner... and tonight I will make sure that I have a couple pain pills next to the bed.
I do not think though that I will be finishing that border on SS#1 today -hopefully tomorrow before the mail man gets here with the thread... I think I will give the lower back that much of a break...
Quilty hugz to all!
What am I up to today? ...resolving credit card problems. I was at the small local grocery store yesterday when my credit card was rejected. I called Wells Fargo when I got home, and the card had been stopped due to suspicious activity. Someone had been attempting to use our number, but they didn't have the expiration date or security code correct, so that triggered the alarm. Wells Fargo was really good about it and had our new cards to us in 24 hours, but now I have to figure out which companies have been doing automatic billing to the old card (Amazon Kindle, for one) and get them notified of the change.
Gee, with us being fairly new to this small town, I hope the credit card rejection news doesn't make its way to everyone around... ;-)
MNnancy:Gee, with us being fairly new to this small town, I hope the credit card rejection news doesn't make its way to everyone around... ;-)
Since it is a small town Nancy, I'm guessing this statement was rhetorical LOL Seriously, I'm sorry about your card, that happened to us a couple of years ago and it is a royal pain.
Spudgrandma:I'm guessing this statement was rhetorical LOL
Yep. Did you see the wink in the smiley?


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A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough
by Wayne Muller
From the moment we are born, we are seekers. Our culture obsessively promotes the pursuit of money, success and self-improvement. At the end of each activity-jammed day, though, we collapse into bed discouraged by everything we have not checked off on our to-do lists, in despair that whatever we have accomplished is never enough. Worse still, when our dreams become derailed by the inherent tragedies of life—job loss, financial peril, sickness, or the death of a loved one—we feel devastated by the pain and injustice of it all.
A Life of Enough
We have forgotten what enough feels like.
We live in a world seduced by its own unlimited potential. We are driven by a presumptive grandiosity that any economic, social, or political limitations can seemingly be over come with more speed or technology. But for us, as human beings, our limitations remain constant, eternal, fully intact. Rather than feeling large and omnipotent, our own very limited, human days are likely to feel more cramped, overgrown, and choked by impossible responsibilities. At worst, we feel powerless; no matter how strong our hearts, or how good or kind our intentions, each day the finish line seems farther away, the bar keeps rising, nothing is ever finished, nothing ever good enough. So we work and add and never stop, never back away, never feel complete, and we despair of ever finding comfort, relief, or sanctuary.
So many good-hearted people I know are exhausted. For the past fifteen years, I have spoken with many rich, diverse groups of loving, caring people. Wherever I go, I find myself so deeply saddened by how the world is placing increasingly impossible pressures and responsibilities on ordinary people who are simply doing what they can to help make their families, their communities, or their world somehow better, more beautiful, more whole.
I am privileged to meet with groups both large and small. Whether they are parents or teachers, business people or community volunteers, doctors, clergy, nurses, or civil servants, they each in their own way feel victim to a relentless assault of increasing expectations, activities, demands, and accomplishments that overwhelms any spaciousness or ease in their daily lives.
They confess they feel overwhelmed, and what is required of them transcends any realistic human scale or possibility. However sweet or nourishing the fruits of their work may be for themselves or others, nothing they do ever feels like enough. Even worse, the sheer pace and volume of their lives seems to corrode whatever joy, wonder, nourishment, or delight they may find in simply doing their best. It has become so much more difficult to make peace with any job well done or any day well spent.
What has so changed us? What has so radically transformed our world that we so easily surrender our hope of any reliable, trustworthy permission to pause, gently put aside our day's work, take our nourishment, or find peace or sufficiency in enough for today? What deep and poignant confusion has so infected our hearts that we feel incapable of remembering this most essential, human offering: to do what we can and have mercy?
What if we have been sent spinning by the loss of some deeply elemental knowing, some reliable inner compass, some way of sensing the moment of inherent ufficiency in things, forgotten what enough of anything feels like— enough work, enough success, enough love, enough security, enough wealth, enough care for our children, enough generosity, enough clothing, shelter, enough daily bread?
In the Genesis story, the Creator works for six days, shaping the green, fluid beauty of the earth with life everywhere: birds and fish and beasts of the fields, verdant trees, flowers, fragrances wafting gently on breezes that circle this fresh, fertile orb of life. On the seventh day, the Creator rests. For now, this is enough. In the Hebrew Bible, the word for this rest can literally be read, "And God exhaled."
God exhaled. When do we exhale? Perhaps, like God, we exhale when we feel certain that our good and necessary work is done. What then is our work on the earth? In a world gone mad with speed, potential, and choice, we continually overestimate what we can do, build, fix, care for, or make happen in one day. We overload our expectations on ourselves and others, inflate our real and imaginary responsibilities, until our fierce and tender human hearts finally collapse under the relentless pressure of impossible demands.
No living organism can sustain this kind of violent overwork before it breaks, or dies. In addition to numerous, well-documented benefits of a more gently restful life on our overall health — increased longevity, reduction in stress, a stronger immune system, increased happiness and well-being, among many others— there are religious precepts and commandments, like the Sabbath commandment in the Hebrew Bible, that prescribe days of rest, prayer, nourishment and renewal as essential to a life well lived. Why, then, are we so reluctant to ever stop, be still, or allow our work to feel sufficient for this day?
In spite of any compelling physical or spiritual benefits, we fear we have no authentic, trustworthy permission to stop. If we do stop to rest without some very good reason or some verifiable catastrophe, we feel guilty, we worry about getting in trouble, we feel we are just lazy, not carrying our weight, not a team player, or will be left behind. If we just put our nose to the grindstone, give it our all, do our best, give 110 percent, really put our mind to it, never give up, and work more efficiently, then we can, and should, be able to get absolutely everything on our desk, on our to- do list, on our calendars, finished, on deadline, without any mistakes, perfectly, every time.
Then, we can rest.
But this ridiculously impossible moment never arrives; and we cannot take that first step back. So we keep going. And going. Without permission from our culture, workplace, community, or even our own inner, grinding work ethic, how can we know it is time to stop— for now, for today— and know that what we have done, and who we have been, is absolutely enough? It is time to put it down, let it be, go home, and call it a day.
How do we start on this path, holding who we are and what we have with peace and contentment? How do we reclaim a life of deep sufficiency?
We begin within ourselves. The world around us will be unrelenting, saturating us with a multitude of offers of peace, contentment, and well- being through this or that purchase, event, affiliation, or experience. But our most reliable experience of enough begins within our own visceral experience; it is a sufficiency tasted first through intimate conversation between our own fully incarnated spirit and flesh. We feel this sacramental sufficiency most reliably in the body — in the heart, chest, and belly.
In other words, enough is ultimately an inside job. However passionately we may argue or define or discern with any precision what is enough of anything, it is in the undeniable yes of our body — the unmistakable balance of spirit and life, in agreeable harmony with the world around us — that we feel either the cramping fear of scarcity, the bloated saturation of overabundance, or the gentle, effortless release of easy sufficiency.
Enough, then, emerges within our body. As with all living things, it is always moving and changing. Whenever we try to achieve lasting, constant, predictable sufficiency in any area of our lives, we are swiftly disappointed and discouraged. The flaw inherent in capturing, predicting, or even planning for enough is that it is never a fixed quantity or stable measure or consistent state of being.
There is no guarantee we will ever find enough of anything in the same place, or in the same way, twice. As we grow and change, our experience of sufficiency grows and changes with us. Our needs and wants at fifteen years old are nearly unrecognizable to those we experience in our fifties. Our sense of sufficiency when born in a wealthy nation bears little resemblance to the forcibly constricted sufficiency of a poor one. Because our lives are ever-shifting, dynamic relationships between our mercurial wants and needs for company or solitude, busyness or stillness, giving or receiving, scarcity or abundance, love or fear, each moment we are engaged in impassioned conversation between whatever we seek and whatever we are given.
Enough is not only a relationship; it is played out in this moment, and the next, and the next. We can only experience a sense of enough when we are fully present and awake in this moment. The only moment we can feel and know with any fervent clarity or certainty is the moment we experience right now. The farther we get from this moment— the more we project outward into next week, next month, next year — the less and less we can truly know about who we will become or how the world may have completely reshaped itself around us.
What, then, can we do? We begin by listening, paying attention, gradually uncovering our own clarity and wisdom. If we are to learn to trust that inner knowing and rely upon the authority of our deepest heart's intuition, this is where we must begin. For the voices of the world are loud, they are legion, and they are growing exponentially. These outer voices each have their most decidedly necessary prescription for our lives. Each screams louder than the next, insisting we listen to what they say, what we should need, want, buy, and do, to have a life of enough.
But when we can name with unwavering certainty the truth of who we are, what we need, and what we know to be true about ourselves in this moment, the closer we come to a more deeply accurate path to a life made of days, a life of perfect sufficiency. Enough, then, is a visceral experience, forged in relationship, most reliably born in this moment when we are passionately present and awake.
Human beings have an innate capacity to discern what is necessary or true; we have our own authentic, most reliable inner compass, a visceral knowing, an unmistakable sense in our hearts and bodies that indicates what is the next right thing o do, to make, to become. This inner wholeness has been given many names— our spirit, our true nature, our spark of divinity, our subconscious, our intuition, our inner light. What lives and breathes in us is a knowing of what cannot be easily seen by appearance or named by language. This compass, this still, small voice, this absolutely trustworthy capacity to listen for what is right and true — it is from this place that we come to know, without doubt or hesitation, an undeniable certainty that who we are, and what we do, in this moment, embedded in a gentle peace beyond understanding, is wholly sufficient, simply and completely enough.
If we began our journey with this fierce affirmation of our own intrinsic wisdom, how, then, could we have so easily lost our way? And how do we learn to assert the authority of our own clarity and reclaim an unshakable trust in our own wholeness and deep inner sufficiency?
Excerpted from A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough by Wayne Muller Copyright © 2010 by Wayne Muller.
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ROCKLEDGE, Fla. - Police continue to investigate after a baby was found dead Monday afternoon in a vehicle outside a central Florida business.
Rocklege police said Steven Lillie, the 9-month-old girl's father, found his daughter unresponsive in his truck outside his workplace at 566 Barton Blvd.
Police said the girl had been left inside the closed truck for about four hours during the hottest time of the day.
"The temperature would have been brutal," said Rockledge police Lt. Donna Seyferth.
Police believe Lillie arrived at work sometime after 1 p.m. Monday. They found the child in her car seat in the backseat of the truck, and although the windows were tinted, they were rolled up.
Police on Tuesday said Lillie left for work intending to drop his daughter off with a caregiver. Some type of disruption in Lillie's normal routine, however, caused him to forget that he had not dropped off the baby, police said. About four hours later, a family member asking about the girl prompted Lillie to run outside, where he found his daughter inside the truck, police said.
A co-worker called 911 when Lillie was heard screaming. Witnesses told Local 6 that Lillie was so distraught he collapsed.
"She's been in the car for hours and I, I absolutely forgot about her -- she's not alive," said the father in the 911 call.
Paramedics rushed the girl to Wuesthoff Hospital, where she died.
Police spent the evening speaking with Lillie at the hospital, but no arrests have been made.
"It's a fine line allowing them to grieve and conducting a criminal investigation at the same time," said Seyferth, who said it appears the girl's death was just a horrible accident.
"I got goosebumps. I'm ready to cry for these parents. It's hard," said Darlene Decker, who came with her family to lay balloons and Teddy bears in support of the family in mourning.
At this time Lillie is not facing criminal charges.
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The City Corp. Board of Directors will convene a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. today at the City Corp. offices, 205 W. Third St. in Russellville. The Board will adjourn into executive session to discuss personnel matters. For more information, call Renae Taylor at 968-2080, ext. 115.
Pancake, sausage breakfast to be Saturday
Boy Scout Troop 221 of Dardanelle will host its annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m. Saturday at the Yell County Wildlife Federation Building on State Highway 22. Menu includes biscuits with gravy, pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee for a donation of $5. Children age 4 and under eat free. Proceeds help support local the Scouting program.
For more information, call Lyle Hawkins at (479) 229-2660. For tickets, call Misty at (479) 223-7004.
Pope County Clean Up is Saturday
The Pope County Fall Clean Up will be from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday. Dumpsters will be at the Pope County Road Department, No. 5 County Complex off of Weir Road.
Acceptable items include trash (in bags), metals, tires, appliances, batteries, paints, household hazardous materials, etc. Recycle bins will be available for paper, cardboard, aluminum and plastics.
Persons wanting to pick up trash on a county road may pick up trash bags at the Pope County Judge's office.
All yard waste and brush must be taken to Russellville Yard Waste Facility at 3115 S. Mobile Ave. No burn barrels, businesses or contractors allowed.
Help Network to sell tickets
Help Network will conduct a giveaway for several items on Oct. 27 at the Downtown Fall Fest. Tickets will be available Monday. Prices are one for $1, six for $5, 12 for $10, 18 for $15, and 24 for $20. To purchase or help sell tickets, call 967-7890.
Informational meeting at ATU
The Arkansas Tech University Center for Preparedness and Recovery will host an informational meeting to discuss the ATU pre-hazard mitigation planning efforts at 6 p.m. Monday in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center room 325. For more information, call (479) 356-2092 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bartlett family reunion
The Bartlett family reunion will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Appleton Cumberland Presbyterian Church fellowship hall. A potluck lunch will be served at noon. Friends and relatives are invited.
Keener, Partain reunion
The Keener and Partain families will host a reunion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 6 at Petit Jean State Park, pavilion B. A potluck meal will be served. Bring lawn chairs and any old pictures. All family and friends are invited. For more information, call Junior Smith (Partain) at (501) 255-7999.
Eubanks family reunion to be Oct. 7
The 32nd R.W. Eubanks family reunion will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 7 at Old Post Park Lock and Dam picnic shelter No. 8. For more information, visit eubanksreunion.org.


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I have it set to Mate-Faenza-Icons but they just don't want to change they just remain frozen on the GNOME icons. I want to change them any help.
Make sure xfsettingsd is running.
@Nick I do have xfsettingsd running, yet they are still unable to change , is this related to me having nautilus as my default filemanager maybe as a consequence of this I am unable to change my icons, maybe I need to install the entire gnome environment and then change the icons via gnome ????? any suggestions .
I just figured it out since I had my Xfce theme on oxygen-gtk cuz since I like the feel, my icon set just went back to getto gnome icons for some unknown reason, now that I changed it to xfce-kde2 they went back to Faenza but why is that???? Is oxygen-gtk just to cool for Faenza icons or what?
Hi, fresh install of xfce4.10 and i'm having the same problem with all icons that I install. The settings manager can see the icons theme but it not change properly all the icons. For example, the theme elemetary-xfce from shimmerproject, I can see that only few of them change( 1 or 2). Faenza not change at all.
PS: I don't speak very well english, so if I made some errors, please excuse me.
Ok, problem solved: I'didn't install librsvg. So installed it and restarted X, now all the icons changed.
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Vernon man accused of wire fraud and identity theft in Florida
BRATTLEBORO -- A Vernon resident stands accused of identity theft and using those identities to fraudulently collect unemployment compensation.
According to court documents filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Florida, Denny Ray Hughes, 40, has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft.
According to documents filed with the federal court in Florida, Hughes created a corporation in 2008, Mortgage Relief America, and then obtained personal information of 21 people, classifying them as employees.
Later, Hughes classified the 21 individuals as being laid off and filed with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Unemployment Compensation Program over the Internet or by phone, stating the 21 people had previously worked for his corporation.
According to the documents, Hughes then fraudulently applied for unemployment compensation funds and had the money deposited in an account he created for that purpose. Court documents do not state how much money he allegedly stole from the state of Florida.
It is unclear what his connection to Vernon is.
Vernon Police Chief Mary Beth Hebert said she could not comment on the case.
Marc Anton, assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Florida said he could not comment on any ongoing investigation being conducted by his office.
A phone call to an agent from the U.S. Department of Labor, which conducted the search of Hughes' home in Vernon, was not returned.
According to his blog at dennyhughesblogspot.com, Hughes grew up in Fort Lauderdale but spent a couple of years in Boston working for a dot.com. Hughes wrote that he moved back to Fort Lauderdale and began rehabbing homes before obtaining his real estate and mortgage broker's licenses.
Mortgage Relief America specialized in negotiating with lenders to lower monthly mortgage payments for homes by restructuring loans with lenders to give borrowers lower interest rates, according to Dmitry Rashnitsov, writing for Examiner.com.
MRA charged about $2,000 for the service, according to Rashnitsov, who also noted records from the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, indicate Hughes had registered 26 different companies relating to mortgages or real estate.
Hughes has also been charged with a number of felonies in Broward County, Florida, including one count of organized fraud, six counts of second degree grand theft and three counts of third degree grand theft.
Those charges are related to a 2009 arrest after law enforcement investigated a complaint against Hughes in which he was accused of stealing more than $50,000 from a former client.
Hughes, then of Wilton Manors, Florida, received payments through his company, Hughes Group Real Estate Services, to help his client purchase a house. According to court documents, the client paid Hughes $50,000 with the understanding that the money was to be held in an escrow account and presented at the time of closing. But Hughes never showed up for the closing and after repeated attempts by the client to recoup his funds, a police complaint was filed.
According to documents obtained through the Broward County State's Attorney's Office, eight other people were also victimized by Hughes.
Hughes engaged in "a systematic ongoing course of conduct with the intent to defraud (his victims). Defendant did this by representing the victims in their attempt to purchase real estate and in doing so obtained from each various amounts of money ... Eventually those accounts were depleted of all funds by the defendant without any of the money being used towards the victims' purchase of homes and without any of the money being returned to the victims; thus appropriating the money for his own use ..."
All told, Hughes stole $234,780 from his nine victims, according to the documents.
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Bon Jovi Featured on STAND UP GUYS Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Coming 12/4
Lakeshore Records will release the STAND UP GUYS – Original Soundtrack digitally on Tuesday, December 4th and in stores on January 8, 2013. The soundtrack features two new original songs by Jon Bon Jovi ("Not Running Anymore" and "Old Habits Die Hard"), the first songs he has written and performed as a solo artist for a film since Young Guns II, which earned him the Golden Globe™ for Best Original Song and an Academy Award™ nomination and #1 single, with "Blaze of Glory", almost twenty-two years ago.
Also included on the soundtrack are classic and modern soul songs by Baby Huey, Gary Clark, Jr., Charles Bradley feat. Menahan Street Band, ShaRon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Sam and Dave, and Muddy Waters. These tracks were hand selected, chosen because of their narrative relationship and the depth they add in understanding the motives and motivations of each character.
Stand Up Guys looks at the relationship between old friends, who just happen to be life-long criminals. "I was really just taken by the idea of the loyalty, the trust, the friendship, the brotherhood, of these two guys. These are underlying themes of a lot of my songs," said Jon Bon Jovi.
"The inspiration for writing the songs comes from the page," he continued. "I had to put myself into the characters' voice and utilize dialogue from the script to help tell these stories.
Val (Al Pacino) is released from prison after serving twenty-eight years for refusing to give up one of his close criminal associates. His best friend Doc (Christopher Walken) is there to pick him up, and the two soon re-team with another old pal, Hirsch (Alan Arkin). Their bond is as strong as ever, and the three reflect on freedom lost and gained, loyalties ebbed and flowed, and days of glory gone by. But one of the friends is keeping a dangerous secret- he's been put in an impossible quandary by a former mob boss, and his time to find an acceptable alternative is running out. As the sun rises on the guys' legendary reunion, their position becomes more and more desperate and they finally confront their past once and for all.
"Whenever you're writing a song like 'Not Running Anymore'," Jon Bon Jovi explained, "You have to identify and express the emotions the characters are experiencing." In this case Al Pacino's character, "Valentine has for twenty-eight years, not said a word. He is the quintessential stand up guy, didn't betray his friends. They went on and lived a life without him, but he was always not far away from their hearts. In turn, Chris Walken's character job is to end the life of his best friend and he too, has to come to terms with a lot of compromise and loss and Al goes into a confessional booth and he wants to be absolved of his sins or at least, he's seeking absolution."
"Having the opportunity to write for film again has been a great experience," Jon Bon Jovi added. "The minute I read the script I was excited to get started and it's been an honor to work with actors of this caliber."
Lionsgate, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment present Stand Up Guys, in theaters February 1, 2013. The Stand Up Guys – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from Lakeshore Records will be available digitally on December 4th and in stores on January 8, 2013.
About Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi has set the bar for nearly three decades as the lead singer of one the world's most successful rock bands, Bon Jovi. Globally, the Grammy Award winning band has sold over 130 million albums; consistently delivered #1 albums and Top Ten hits; performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for upwards of 34 million fans and is gearing up to hit the road in early 2013 to fill stadiums and arenas worldwide on their "Because We Can - The Tour". In 1990, Jon Bon Jovi wrote and performed a collection of songs for the motion picture Young Guns II. The Soundtrack was released as Blaze of Glory, with the Number One title track being nominated for a Grammy and Oscar, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.
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About the Songs -- Stand Up Guys Soundtrack
01. Hard Times - Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters
Sampled by a multitude of artists, even covered by John Legend and The Roots in 2010, the psychedelic soul sound of the Curtis Mayfield–penned "Hard Times" is a sad reminder of what could have been -- Baby Huey passed away during the recording of his one and only album The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend.
02. Old Habits Die Hard - Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi: "The inspiration for "Old Habits Die Hard" comes directly from the dialog, page 1 scene 1… There's a line in the dialog that would not be typically a song lyric: 'you look like shit, so do you my brother.' That immediately sets the tone for who these guys are, will be, and throughout the process of this movie you see what will happen to them."
03. Bright Lights - Gary Clark Jr.
Rolling Stone magazine named Gary Clark Jr. it's 'Best Young Gun' in 2011 and named his Bright Lights EP, featuring this cover of the Jimmy Reed song, to its top 50 albums of 2011.
04. Not Running Anymore - Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi: "I had to get into the confessional booth. Here's a guy Valentine [played by Al Pacino] that's hoping that there is absolution somewhere before that final breath is taken and when he realizes there isn't going to be he says 'ok no Hail Mary's will save me, you learn to live with the memories.' I had to put myself in that confessional be that Catholic school boy one more time and try to find that voice."
05. Get Down With It- Wayne Cochran
Sporting a white pompadour and heavily influenced by JAmes Brown, the outlandish Wayne Cochran brought soul music where few were able to – all white clubs in the Midwest and South, usually home to crooners like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. In spite of never having a chart hit, Cochran achieved national recognition through TV appearances.
06. How Long - Charles Bradley featuring Menahan Street Band
Brooklyn's Daptone Records fashions itself after legendary soul labels Stax and Motown. Their musicians are like a family and regularly perform with each other in various incarnations. A not-quite-so-overnight-succeess, at age 51 Charles Bradley returned home to Brooklyn after 20 years on the west coast working as a chef. He was put together with the Menahan Street Band (featuring Daptones recording artists and members of ShaRon Jones and The Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, Antibalas, and the Budos Band) and soul magic has been made.
07. Fooled Around and Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
We see another side of Doc as he takes Valentine to Miss D's. In the film the song embraces a simpler time of their youth of these characters. A bit of trivia – it features Mickey Thomas on lead vocals and Donny Baldwin on drums, both of whom would soon leave Bishop to join Jefferson Starship.
08. Stand Up Guys – Lyle Workman
Lyle Workman is a seasoned guitarist who has played with Sting, Beck, Michael Buble, Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette, Shakira and Sheryl Crow. As a composer he wrote the music for Superbad, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Lyle Workman: "This is the first score piece of music and features the melodic theme we hear throughout the film."
09. Give It Back - ShaRon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Daptone recording artist ShaRon Jones and the Dap-Kings are part of the Daptones movement -- eschewing modern techniques in favor of analog recording methods to capture a 1960s/70s soul sound. The Dap-Kings backed up Amy Winehouse on her breakthrough album Back to Black and subsequent tour.
10. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
Performed by the Legendary Muddy Waters, this song was originally penned by Willie Dixon, and recorded by Waters in 1954 and would forever be known as the Hoochie Coochie Man. The song was named one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
11. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Sam and Dave
From when 'music was music' Val meets Doc for a drink after being released from a 28 year stint in jail and bribes the DJ to play this classic track. This track was the only ballad of Sam and Dave's to be released as a single.
12. I Was Painting You – Lyle Workman
Lyle Workman: "We wanted the songs and score to stand side by side in unity, to feel cohesive and all live in the world the characters occupy…With music, over thinking can be the death of inspired expression."
13. Love From Above - Leroy Reynolds
Taken from the album SOULTOWN: The Lost Sound of Shelbyville this song by Leroy Reynolds is a rare R&B gem that has found a wonderful home in the film as Hirsh makes his visit to Miss D's with Val and Doc.
14. Sock It To 'Em JB (Pt. 1) - Rex Garvin And The Mighty Cravers
A lyrical nod to James Bond in the style of JAmes Brown the song was later covered by The Specials. Rex Garvin formed Rex Garvin And the Mighty Cravers after achieving some success with Marie Knight on the duet "I Can't Sit Down" (as Marie and Rex).
Lyle Workman on the music of Stand Up Guys: "[Director] Fisher [Stevens] wanted the music to feel like it was central to the main characters; music they would listen to, music that would score their lives, so to speak. Blues, R&B, soul and early rock and roll fit that template. We talked about it being gritty and soulful, but also playful and lending a subtext of history."<


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Coral Reef (Miami, Fla.) wide receiver Jacob McCrary had a strong idea that Florida State might be his final destination when he attended the Jimbo Fisher Football Camp back in June. This week, the 6-foot, 182-pound receiver returned to Tallahassee to make sure FSU was a good fit. Following the two visits McCrary had seen enough and made the call.
The rising high school junior wideout pulled the trigger by informing FSU assistant coach James Coley of his decision.
"I just committed to Florida State. That's just the place I felt the most at home at and the players were great," he said. "It was a combination of a lot of things but even more so it was the fact that FSU is a team that will challenge for National Championships. Another big part of my decision was Rodney Smith, who is on the team. We are close and he actually lived right down the road from me growing up."
The commitment had some interesting twists before it become official. McCrary posted on twitter that he had committed to the Seminoles after discussing the decision with his parents. However, what he didn't count on was not being able to immediately reach Coach Coley. However, he eventually reached FSU's offensive coordinator and his commitment became official.
"It was funny but I actually told Coach Coley after the camp to expect a commitment today as I might be doing something," explained McCrary. "When I told him he was very excited and said can you please repeat that again because that sounds so good."
McCrary plans to take at least one more visit to FSU later summer with his family.
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BOTHELL — Police here are investigating an assault that left a 4-month-old girl on life support.
Staff at a Seattle hospital called Child Protective Services on May 29 after the baby was brought in with serious injuries, Bothell police Sgt. Ken Seuberlich said.
"Our investigation is based off what medical personnel told us," he said. "The injuries appeared to be the result of an assault."
The baby was transported from Harborview Medical Center to the intensive care unit at Seattle Children's Hospital.
She remains hospitalized, Seuberlich said.
No arrests have been made.
"Anyone who had contact with that child before May 29 is a person of interest to us," Seuberlich said.
The baby's family lives in a small neighborhood in the north end of Bothell, he said. She was brought to Harborview about 10 p.m.
Detectives on Wednesday declined to release additional information pending the ongoing investigation.
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Africa's Savannas May Become Forests
A new study published today in Nature by authors from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and the Goethe University Frankfurt suggests that large parts of Africa's savannas may well be forests by 2100. The study suggests that fertilization by atmospheric carbon dioxide is forcing increases in tree cover throughout Africa. A switch from savanna to forest occurs once a critical threshold of CO2 concentration is exceeded, yet each site has its own critical threshold. The implication is that each savanna will switch at different points in time, thereby reducing the risk that a synchronous shock to the earth system will emanate from savannas.
Tropical grasslands, savannas and forests, areas the authors call the savanna complex, are expected to respond sensitively to climate and atmospheric changes. This is because the main players, grasses and trees, differ fundamentally in their response to temperature, carbon dioxide supply and fire and are in an unrelenting struggle for the dominance of the savanna complex. The outcome of this struggle determines whether vast portions of the globe's tropical and sub-tropical regions are covered with grasslands, savannas or forests. In the past such shifts in dominance have played out in slow motion, but the current wave of atmospheric changes has accelerated the potential rate of change.
Experimental studies have generally shown that plants do not show a large response to CO2 fertilization. "However, most of these studies were conducted in northern ecosystems or on commercially important species" explains Steven Higgins, lead author of the study from the Biodiodversity and Climate Reseach Centre and Goethe-University. "In fact, only one experimental study has investigated how savanna plants will respond to changing CO2 concentrations and this study showed that savanna trees were essentially CO2 starved under pre-industrial CO2 concentrations, and that their growth really starts taking off at the CO2 concentrations we are currently experiencing."
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5 Things
you can do right now as part of your wellness routine
(1) Breathe, Long and Deep
Practice long, deep breaths — at home, in your car, at work or anytime. The increased oxygen and slower pace will benefit your body and your mind.
(2) Find a New Recipe
Surprise your family and your taste buds — find a new healthy recipe to make for dinner
(3) Visit Your Local Library
Plan to spend a couple of hours exploring your favorite book aisles or consider choosing a topic you've never read!
(4) Walk Daily, Walk Briskly
Don sturdy shoes, grab a friend and walk, walk, walk. Spend at least 30 minutes a day walking with a jaunty stride.
(5) Schedule a Colonoscopy
If you're 50 or older, schedule a colonoscopy as part of your wellness screenings. It could save your life.
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Turkey and Cucumber Salad Wraps
These turkey wraps are a light and easy on-the-go lunch.
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Yield: 4 main-dish servings
- ¼ c. mayonnaise
- ¼ c. mango chutney
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- 2 c. cantaloupe
- ½ small seedless (English) cucumber
- ½ c. packed fresh cilantro leaves
- 4 flour tortillas or wraps
- 1 lb. reduced-sodium deli smoked turkey
- 2 c. mixed greens
- In large bowl, stir together mayonnaise, chutney, and 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper. Add cantaloupe, cucumber, and cilantro; toss to combine.
- Working with 1 tortilla at a time, place about 3/4 cup cantaloupe mixture, 1/2 cup greens, and 1/4 pound turkey in center of tortilla. Fold in sides and roll tightly around filling. Serve immediately or wrap tightly in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerate up to 3 hours.
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The Mancos track and field team competed last Friday and Saturday in Aztec, N.M., at the B & B Invitational.
For the Lady Bluejays, Kristin Adams ran to a 15th-place finish in the 800-meter run at 2 minutes, 50 seconds. Kia Baikie was 14th in the 3,200 in a time of 14:56.20.
Adams, Taylor Goff, Brandi Bundy and Hanna Wallace raced to eighth-place in the girls 4x100-meter relay at a finish of 57.92.
The Bluejays were led by distance specialist Ro Paschal, who placed sixth in the 800 at 2:13.45. He was just ahead of teammate Brandon McKie (2:16.52), who came in 11th. Paschal also took ninth in the 1,600 in 4:57.68.
Justin Burton was sixth in the 3,200, finishing 11:12.13.
Mancos will travel to Bayfield on Saturday morning to compete in the annual Abel Velasquez Invitational, which is hosted by Ignacio High School.


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The Department of Pathology sponsors two one-year post-sophomore fellowships for medical students who have successfully completed their basic sciences or students who are in their clinical training period. Students actively participate, under faculty supervision, in the surgical pathology and autopsy rotations, and are also given two months of elective time to actively pursue personal areas of interest and/or research. During the elective time, student fellows may have an opportunity to participate in other anatomic pathology subspecialties and in some clinical pathology (laboratory medicine) rotations. Student fellows function as junior residents, participating in all regular anatomic pathology service activities and teaching conferences. Each student is assigned a faculty member to be his/her professional and personal advisor during the year. Post-Sophomore Fellows currently receive a stipend approximately equivalent to one half the salary of a PGY1 resident.
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Mary-Louise Parker is set to star in the world premiere of The Snow Geese, a new Broadway play from writer Sharr White.
Set in the time of World War I, The Snow Geese follows a widow and her two sons, who set off on their annual hunting trip only to realize that their pre-war life is over, as their days are now clouded with harsh realities of battle and debt.
Premiering for a limited 11-week engagement, The Snow Geese is directed by Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan, who previously directed the Tony Award-nominated Parker in Proof. Previews begin Oct. 1, and the play will then open at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Oct. 24. The show is a co-production between the Manhattan Theatre Club and the MCC Theater.
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Daisy Roberson, 100 a 10-year resident of Pleasanton died January 24, 2012. She moved to the Bay Area from Kansas City Missouri in the mid 1900's and lived in Fremont for over 40 years until moving to Pleasanton. Daisy was a homemaker and married to Sturgeon Roberson for nearly 50 years before he passed away in 1987. Daisy was most known for her love of sewing and baking. She was one of 11 children, 3rd to the oldest and helped the family raise the younger kids, cook and work on the farm in Kansas City in her youth. She was a giving, loving woman and welcomed friends and family into her home at anytime of day or night. Prior to her passing, we were a 5-generation group including her daughter, grand daughters, great grandchildren and great, great grand daughter, nearly 2 years old.