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The on-screen "fight scene" has been an important part of movies since they first began. For the actor, delivering a punch or getting punched means no bruised knuckles, no bloody nose, and no searching for lost teeth. He or she gets to look tough while the audience vicariously enjoys the completely staged donnybrook. Below is a far from comprehensive top-ten list of particularly creative, and occasionally very funny, on-screen punches.
Convict 13: Buster Keaton's double backward somersault
As this scene from the silent 1920 classic Convict 13 shows, Buster Keaton was one of the great physical comedians of our time. In this early scene, a single punch from a huge Bluto-like man dressed in convict stripes sends Keaton staggering and then somersaulting backwards twice the length of two rooms.
Rocky III: Mr. T knocks out Sylvester Stallone
Forget Rockys I, II, and IV, Rocky III (1982) is the one film even Stallone-haters can love. Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester Stallone of course), a boxer drunk on fame and losing his edge, is knocked out in round two of an ill-advised match with James "Clubber" Lang. Lang's slow motion punch and look of utter and complete sadism is a shot predestined for the rewind/replay button. And then there's the film's classic recurring song.
It's a Wonderful Life: Jimmy Stewart prays for guidance and gets a sock in the jaw
You've seen this movie before, right? George Bailey (played by the great Jimmy Stewart) is on a downward spiral to financial ruin. Sitting at what is apparently the only bar in Bedford Falls, George says a desperate prayer asking for guidance as his world is crumbling around him. A few minutes later, the husband of a schoolteacher George angrily reprimanded hears his name, connects the dots, and punches George to the ground. The guardian angel-assisted transformation to a time where George Bailey never existed is evoked initially through a few simple filmic devices, including the sudden healing of George's bloody fat lip. Sadly, they never filmed a scene where George punches out slumlord Henry F. Potter. However, when he was at Saturday Night Live, Dana Carvey did…
Blazing Saddles: Mongo knocks out a horse
Of course, it's incredibly uncool to hurt an animal, but this is Mel Brooks, and in a Mel Brooks film, there are no sacred cows … or horses. In this famous scene from Brooks' 1974 satirical Western Blazing Saddles, the somewhat slow, scarily strong Mongo either swings and fails to connect or just really doesn't like horses.
48 Hours: Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy beat the crap out of each other
You might not even recognize boozy but handsome Nolte or a very young Murphy in director Walter Hill's 1982 anti-buddy crime and comedy film. Nolte plays cop Jack Cates who gives a weekend pass to Murphy's convict Reggie Hammond so that they can team up track down a pair of vicious killers from Reggie's past who have escaped from prison. Both Cates and Hammond lack a degree of interpersonal skills and decide to address their differences in the only way two macho bruisers would know how: by having an extended fistfight. Cates' final sucker punch to Hammond, delivered with a believable degree of exhaustion and after taking a hit out of a flask, is hilarious. But in the real world, these two would have each ended up with permanent brain damage.
Kill Bill: Volume 2: Uma Thurman punches her way out of a coffin
Under the cruel tutelage of Master Pai Mei, the assassin known as "The Bride" (Thurman) is instructed to repeatedly attempt, from just a foot away, to punch a hole in a piece of wood. Try after bloody try, she is still unable to deliver the killer blow. However, when she really, REALLY needs to punch a hole through solid wood — for instance, after being buried alive in a coffin in a shallow grave — she indeed finds her Chi and gets the job done.
Barfly: Frank Stallone clobbers Mickey Rourke
Loosely based on the life of writer and poet Charles Bukowski (who wrote the screenplay), the 1987 film Barfly opens with a thoroughly drunk Henry Chinaski (played by pre-plastic surgery Mickey Rourke) getting the snot beat out of him in an alley by his nemesis, a bartender named Eddie (played by Sylvester Stallone's younger brother Frank). Henry's reply to Eddie when asked if he's ready to give up is poetic as it is profane: "Giving in to you would be like swallowing piss for eternity!" Later on, they really go at it:
Popeye vs Bluto
And you thought cartoons today were violent? Check out the classic cartoon "Let's You and Him Fight." Everyone, even farm animals, gets punched in this slugfest. In the climatic boxing match, Popeye takes a serious beating until 4:44 when Olive Oil arrives with a much-needed can of spinach.
Jackie Chan five-finger crotch-level death punch
If you like comedy with your martial arts, then nobody does it better than Jackie Chan. Please, please, PLEASE don't try this at home…
Batman punches the Joker, the Riddler, and the Penguin and saves Catwoman's cat
Urrk! Swooosh! Ouch! Batman circa 1966 ain't nothing like The Dark Night. In this extended fight from the creatively titled Batman: The Movie, Adam West wipes the proverbial floor with most of the freaky villains of the franchise that refuses to die. In the end, however, the incredibly sexy Catwoman serves Batman his comeuppance. "Bon voyage, pussy," indeed!


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These locals did a nice concert on Centre Street this afternoon featuring songs from their new cd "She's Gone". I enjoyed it very much. If you'd like to take a listen or buy their cd (I am), here's their website where you can hear the first four tunes. Pretty catchy.

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Wanna Know What I've been up to? Trying to catch up on my 15 minutes of violin I haven't been doing every week....OK....that's not the reason. I am playing my violin for the Handle's Messiah that will be sung by my school (I went to...and will be working at).
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Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
What Is Community Justice?
Hard Bread
Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly
A Circle of Sisters
Practical Law Enforcement Management
Round the Bend and Over the Hill From My Desk at Skips Place
by Jennifer Delton, Assistant Professor of History
University of Minnesota Press, 2002
This book began as an inquiry into why Minnesotaa state with an overwhelmingly white population, a state where blacks made up less than half a percent of the populationbecame a leader in civil rights in the 1940s. Why were so many of the most important congressional leaders in civil rights legislationpeople like Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondalefrom Minnesota? In answering that question, the author recounts the creation of Minnesotas Farmer-Labor Party, its merger with the Democrats, and the acrimonious battle for control of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party just after World War II. Delton argues that the Humphrey liberals won this battle in part because antiracism activities enabled previously antagonistic groups, divided by ethnicity, religion, and class, to unify around a common cause.
by David Karp, Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Todd R. Clear
Sage Publications, 2002
The standard model for probation and parole relies on caseworkers who monitor their clients as best they can. However, increasing numbers of clients threaten the traditional model, making new ideas worthy of consideration. Community justice seeks to explicitly integrate the community and the criminal justice process in probation programs. David Karp and Todd Clear recommend building partnerships between the community and its supervision agencies and urge preventing problems rather than reacting to them. They suggest expanding the definition of client to include crime victims, the family of the offender, and the community itself. They also suggest that agencies take into account important local differences in neighborhoods. Through six case studies, Karp and Clear explain how to achieve these goals in a new approach to the issues of probation and parole.
by Peg O'Higgins Boyers 75,Executive Editor of Salmagundi
University of Chicago Press, 2002
This, the authors first book, is a collection of poems spoken in the imagined voice of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg. Part of the book is based on Ginzburgs lifeher upbringing in Turin, her brief marriage to the resistance activist Leone Ginzburg, her experience of fascism and war, her work as a novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnistand some of it is invented. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky praises Boyerss originality, saying, Within a few pages its clear that this is true poetry, giving voice with unforgettable specificity to the woe, comedy, and heroism of a 20th-century life.
by Marc Woodworth 84, Lecturer in English and Associate Editor of Salmagundi
Grove Press Poetry Series, 2002
This debut collection contains writing that is both narrative and lyric, love poem and elegy. The opening sequence, titled The City, is set in an unnamed, continental metropolis between the world wars. (Early poems in the sequence were featured in The Paris Reviews new writers issue.) In other poems, Woodworth enters the mind of Sophia Tolstoy as she mourns at her husbands grave, and depicts the mythical German filmmaker Herr Somas strangely generative breakdown before the making of his best film. In his foreword, former New York State Poet Laureate Richard Howard cites Woodworths eloquence, noting, For him
the significance of an event is not to be found within it, as within a nutshell, but without, enveloping the language which has generated it, as a light generates a vapor.
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Joan I. Roberts
Indiana University Press, 2001
Thetis Group and Joan Roberts trace the historyfrom the early 1900sof efforts by physicians to dominate the health-care system, often by subordinating nurses. The authors illustrate how attempts by nurses to reform many aspects of health-care have been repeatedly opposed by physicians, often to the detriment of patients health and safety. Their review of the activities of early women healers and nurses as well as nurse-physician relations argues that the sexist domination of nursing by medicine was not accidental, but rather an institutionalized phenomenon. The growing unease in nurse-physician relations escalated into the 1960s and 70s, but stereotyped gender roles in nursing and medicine remained in place into the 1990s. In examining the results of the medical monopoly, the book addresses the impact on patients health and safety, the development of HMOs, and the fragmentation of the current health-care system.
Thetis Group is professor emerita at Syracuse University, where she was dean of the college of nursing for ten years. She and Joan Roberts also co-authored Feminism and Nursing.
by Judith Flanders 80
Viking, 2001
From their humble beginnings as children of a poor, Methodist minister in Victorian England, the four Macdonald sisters went on to spend much of their lives in the company of aristocrats, politicians, and viceroys. Each had either offspring or husbands who were among the most influential men of their time. Alice, Georgie, Agnes, and Louisa were, respectively, the mother of writer Rudyard Kipling, the wife of baronet and painter Edward Burne-Jones, the mother of prime minister Stanley Baldwin, and the wife of painter Edward Poynter. In her debut biography, Judith Flanders not only tells the story of the Macdonald sisters, but also provides a social and domestic history of women in the nineteenth century. The book illuminates the public, private, and artistic realities of Victorian and Edwardian society, using the sisters lives to illustrate how that world was changing at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Flanders is a freelance journalist and writer in London.
by Roger Fulton, UWW 81
Gould Publications, 2002
A compilation of more than fifty articles divided into five major topic areas Supervision, Management, Administration, Leadership, and Your Career this manual is designed to assist police supervisors, managers, and administrators in better understanding their duties and responsibilities. It balances the practical aspects of police management with the necessity of the underlying theories of police supervision, management, and leadership. According to the author, the book is geared toward helping police sergeants, lieutenants, and captains face the practical realities of today's demands on police managers. We cut to the chase and give police supervisors the practical guidance they need to be successful.
Roger Fulton is a retired captain for the New York State Police.
by Patricia Claire Peters 65
Edwin Mellen Press, 2001
These are the latest books of poetry by Patricia Peters. Critics have previously said of her poems, Peters make us see and feel the ordinary and extraordinary happenings and emotions we all share (Shelby Stephenson in The Pilot). An edge of raw feeling gives some of [her] poems real power. Now and again Peters shows an unexpected sense of humor (Fred Chappell in The Georgia Review). Kathryn Stripling Byer of the Asheville Citizen-Times writes, [Her] voice can sing of the most heart-breaking experiences without losing its deeper music, which springs from its faith in the healing power of language and human connectedness. Peters has her own poetic sources and influencesHart Crane, John Donne, Theodore Roethke
. She is a poet capable of
verbal and visionary playfulness. [Her poems] have wit and zaniness. And through it all, we have Peterss linguistic verve animating these characters. Her rhythms dance a poetic ballet, with a grand jeté now and then leaping from the pages. MTS
In the headline citing the book Au Pairing Up!, the summer 2001 Scope misspelled the authors last name. She is Ruth Kawecki Liebermann 72.
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(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.)
"Story is the way we remember, the way we make judgments – and perhaps, because they touch the heart – stories point the way to forgiveness and understanding. By means of story, we can experience the terrible and noble dimensions of what happened, we can put names to faces, meaning to places and events, gain a sense of the humanity of the victims and the victimizers, relive the events of history in their fearsome detail."
– "The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule", Edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, Leigh A. Payne
When we act we always plant seeds that will grow into future events. I think it is the greatest privilege of an artist to be able to recognize the connection between an act and that which grows from it, sometimes only years later. A few years ago Leonard Cohen, one of the greatest singer/story-tellers of our times, played a concert in Belgrade. As a birthday present, I bought a ticket for Maja Vujović, the actress who had been with me from the beginning of DAH Teatar, and we went to the concert together. It was in an enormous hall, with an audience of about 7000 people. I have never been to any such event, with so many people present, yet no incident happened – even the guys from security had smiles on their faces. After the concert seven thousand people left with incredible calm. The evening light floated above, and for a moment the world had become a magical place. Listening to this amazing artist in his late seventies, with his harsh, deep voice was more like a ritual than a concert. I had the powerful sensation that our life is so short. I turned to Maja and said: 'People should live much longer, at least a few hundred years. In this short life we just start doing something, and then we die.'
Last year, several years after that concert, we started talking about the new performance of DAH Theater. Maja suddenly said that she wanted to work with the character of a woman that is a couple of centuries old, who had seen and experienced everything. This reminded me of what I had said to her at that concert. The seed of our new performance had been sown, yet when I said these words I was not really aware of what I was saying.
The performance "Presence of Absence" deals with missing people, those missing within our region and also all around the world. Listening to the accounts of those incredibly brave women from Bosnia, Serbia or Kosovo who have lost loved ones in their families, I realized that their lives are inhabited with a constant presence. The presence of absence; the presence of the absent ones.
Reading about men and women from all over the world who live with that devastating experience, I was intrigued that often they use identical words to explain what happened and to describe their feelings. Reading testimonies from women in Argentina, I thought about women from Kosovo, listening to testimonies of women from Bosnia, I thought about women from Chile, and so on. Their experiences erased all boundaries. 'The absent child requires our full attention' is a sentence I heard so many times, in different contexts and from different people living with this experience. The question that kept tormenting me was "What can I do for these women through this performance?" The realization that by sheer chance I was spared this tragic experience is always present. The cards of destiny are simply dealt out. That I am lucky enough not to live with such pain has nothing to do with any virtue of mine, and is not something I have achieved in any way. It is just chance. And that chance gives me and my colleagues from DAH Theater a tremendous responsibility: to speak out from our relatively comfortable existences, to give voice to the pain and the feeling of constant absence in these people's lives.
History tells us that the only way of healing a society after atrocities have taken place, is to go through the painful process of truth telling. This is still on-going within our region. Our performance is a contribution to that effort.
"People cannot just disappear, they can die of illness, or they can be killed in wars or be murdered, but they cannot just disappear." These words are said by the 'Centuries Old Woman Who Saw it All' during the performance. These words were also spoken by mothers from Argentina; and we heard them from women from Đulići in Bosnia. These words demand that responsibility be taken. Where are the missing? Who took them? Are they alive? In whose name were they abducted? What are our own and other governments doing about it? When will families get answers? Who is responsible? When will those responsible be punished? These questions inhabit our lives, whether we are aware of them or not. These questions demand answers.
At the end of the performance, while leaving, the audience will see roses beside the painted silhouettes of disappeared people on the sacks that were brought in at the beginning of the performance by the 'Centuries Old Woman Who Saw it All'. Roses were carried by mothers from Plaza del Mayo in Argentina, in their ongoing circling, searching for the truth about their missing. The Saturday mothers from Turkey carried roses and put them in front of the main state institutions, seeking for truth about their missing. Hundreds of roses were carried by families of the disappeared from Đulići, Bosnia, who left them on the sites of the concentration camps where their dearest had been taken and all trace of them had disappeared. Also the families of kidnapped Serbs from Kosovo carry roses when they mark the anniversary of their disappearance. In her text Of Beauty and Justice the Argentinian artist Claudia Bernardi writes about families of missing children from Guatemala. During the trial of a massacre where children had been abducted and killed, the families, as a sign of protest to the verdict of 'not guilty', held up the roses that they had brought. Bernardi finishes with these words: "I imagine the movement of the roses, undulating gently, like a hug, like a lullaby, without words or sounds. A lament dressed in deep red for the children who perished…"
The old Peruvian Quechua people do not think of the past as something that we leave behind, but instead they see it as always being in front of us. To be able to construct the future we have to constantly gaze at the past, they believe. This is very true in relation to our own country.
This performance is a reaching out towards the future, in which the last text heard is the Utopian shout of the philosopher Emil Cioran:
"I am simultaneously happy and unhappy, exalted and depressed, overcome by both pleasure and despair in the most contradictory harmonies. I am so cheerful and yet so sad that my tears reflect at once both heaven and earth. If only for the joy of my sadness, I wish there were no death on this earth".
– On the Heights of Despair" by E. Cioran
Dijana Milosevic is an award winning theatre director, writer and lecturer. She co-founded Dah Theatre Research Center in Belgrade, Serbia and has been its leading director for over twenty years.
She has developed an extended theatrical network throughout her work. She was a program director for theatre festivals: Art saves life and Festival of New and Alternative Theatre, Novi Sad, Serbia, and she was the president of the Association of the Independent Theatres, the first one in former Yugoslavia Region. She is a board member of national ITI(International Theatre Institute) and president of the board of BITEF Theatre , Belgrade..
Miss Milosevic has directed theatre shows with her company and toured them nationally and internationally.. She also directed the work with other companies all over the world (Spain, USA, Sweden, Canada etc). She is a well-known lecturer and has taught at prestigious universities (Berlin, Germany, Bern, Switzerland; Californian Institute for the Arts , Aberyswyth , Wales, University of San Francisco, USA- to mention few).
She writes articles and essays about theatre that are published in various theatre / cultural magazines and books in the country and abroad.


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Seniors get active in Silver Sneakers class at Glen Cove YMCA
Senior citizens in Glen Cove are combining fitness and fun through a dance class at their local YMCA.
The Silver Sneakers class features upbeat music and moves that offer an emphasis on muscular endurance.
Instructor Kate Hayes is a former dancer who loves to exercise. She says that participants use a range of motions to get their heart rate up and build strength.
Gerrie Nuccio says she's been attending for years. "I was sitting at home vegetating," she recalls. "A neighbor said, 'Why don't you try silver sneakers?' I said, 'That's for old people.' That was three years ago, and we haven't missed a day unless we were traveling."
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Gareth Bale tipped to join Manchester United if Jose Mourinho takes charge at Old Trafford
The odds on Gareth Bale joining Manchester United this summer have been slashed amid talk that Jose Mourinho could replace Louis van Gaal at Old Trafford.
The Red Devils have attempted to sign the 26-year-old in each of the last three seasons but he opted for the Bernabeu when he left Spurs in 2013 and rejected moves back to the Premier League in the following two summers.
Louis van Gaal looks certain to lose his job if the Red Devils fail to make the top four and Mourinho is the club's number one target should the Dutchman end his stay at the Theatre of Dreams.
Mourinho may have been sacked by Chelsea in December but his stock remains high in world football and bookmakers Betway have responded to talk of the Portuguese boss taking over by slashing the odds of Bale moving to the club to 5/4.
'The Theatre of Dreams looks set to be the stage for Jose Mourinho's next act and he'll likely bring along some old friends to play along with him,' said Betway's Alan Alger.
'It was said that Gareth Bale turned down a move to Manchester United due to the uncertainty surrounding Louis van Gaal's future at the club.
'Once LVG's shown the door, it could be all systems go for Bale.'
MORE: Manchester United players split over potential Jose Mourinho arrival


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There's good news and bad news to be found in the latest research regarding the effect of foreclosed homes on neighborhood property values.
The upside is the financial dents that distressed properties make on nearby home sales aren't nearly as deep as thought in some previous studies. In fact, they are "economically small," according to the working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.


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During a videotaped interrogation session last summer, detectives bluffed, cajoled and threatened until 16-year-old Christopher Dority confessed to murdering an elderly West Palm Beach woman, an investigator testified Monday.
At a hearing to have the validity of that confession determined, Palm Beach County Sheriff`s Office detective John Strenges admitted investigators had no evidence to link the young man to the murder when the questioning began.
``This was just a shot in the dark?`` Palm Beach Circuit Judge Carl Harper asked Strenges.
``In a manner of speaking, yes,`` the detective answered.
The detective called the investigative technique he and others used while trying to elicit a confession from Dority a ``bluff.`` Strenges said they told Dority another young man had implicated him in the murder of Meriam Bruno, knowing that the other young man had not even mentioned Dority`s name.
The detectives also told Dority they had fingerprints, hair, semen and saliva samples to link him to the murder on Skees Road, when in fact they had no evidence.
``Did you tell him, `When you die and meet your maker, God, you`re going to be on trial at that point,` `` defense lawyer Douglas Duncan asked the detective. ``Did you say, `We`re not playing games here, what we`re doing is directly related to your living or dying?` ``
Strenges said he did make those statements, in an effort to convince Dority to tell them what he knew.
Strenges told the judge the only way he could solve the murder was to get a confession.
Detectives received confessions from Dority, Clyde Woods, 15, and Timothy Gibson, 20, after many hours of questioning the men individually.
Harper ruled in December that Woods` confession was taken illegally after the detectives coerced him with threats and used ``brainwashing`` techniques on the youth. The state has appealed that ruling.


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Whether taking classes in school, college or university, or in a corporate training setting, it is likely that learners will be expected to do at least part of their studies via the computer. This book provides realistic guidelines to ensure their success in the virtual learning environment.
From detailing tools such as WebCT and Blackboard, to overcoming personal barriers to success in distance learning, this handy text deals with issues that readers of any age, stage or situation are likely to encounter by:
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The author offers serious and humorous anecdotes to help readers avoid the pitfalls and capitalize on opportunities that will help them become a successful online student.
Current and prospective online learners will greatly benefit from this practical book filled with clear, detailed assistance for learning online.
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Cardistry-Con Awards
The Cardistry-Con Awards, or "Sybils", is an international competition that recognizes the skill, creativity and showmanship of cardists from all over the world. Five unique awards are presented each year for the following categories: Deck of the Year, Flourish of the Year, Cardistry Video of the Year, Breakout Cardist of the Year, and Cardistry Champion of the Year. The purpose of these awards is to advance the art by pushing the limits of skill and creativity of cardists and recognizing their achievements and contributions.
Anyone could be eligible for the first four categories. A public vote is gathered near the conference date narrowing it down to the five most nominated. From these five, our organizing body and headlining cardists of the year vote for the winner.
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In 3-4 sentences, please share a bit about yourself, including your length of residency in Bartholomew County.
I work at Cummins, in the Distribution Business, as Program Director for the Next Gen program, a major business transformation program that will implement new business processes and supporting computer systems in Cummins distributors around the world. I've been in this role for 4 years and have worked at Cummins for 24 years in a variety of IT and management roles. My wife, Mary Johnston, and I have lived in Bartholomew County since 1998, except for a two year period (2007 - 2009) when we lived in Indianapolis. Mary and I have been married for 37 years and have three grown children.
Why did you become a member of the Columbus Co-op and why are you interested in serving on the Board of Directors?
Mary and I joined the Co-op early in the first year, and later became investors. We are excited about having an alternative source of locally grown, organic and sustainably grown food. I believe that the Co-op can also serve as an important focal point and catalyst for improving the quality of life in Bartholomew County. I am interested in serving on the Board of Directors to help the Co-op advance from vision to reality.
Please share any personal, professional or volunteer affiliations that will help your service on the Board.
For the past four years I have served on the Board of the local Red Cross chapter. This experience has provided me with a broader understanding of our community. I am also the co-owner, with Mary, of Second Act Farm in Columbus. We are a small operation, just finishing our second year, focused on growing organic produce. We recently received "Certified Naturally Grown" certification (http://www.naturallygrown.org/) – an alternative to USDA Certified Organic that follows the same procedures and protocols of the National Organic Program, without the expense of third party certification companies. We are one of a handful of CNG farms in Indiana, and I believe the only one in Bartholomew County. This is a peer review program, and we look forward to collaborating with other small growers who seek this same certification and want to promote healthy local food.
What specific talents, skills, expertise, and experience do you believe you can share with the Co-op?
I have over 30 years of business management experience, including launching two successful startup companies. I have recent experience as a small farmer which will inform my decisions about how to interact with similar producers.
Feel free to share anything else you think would be valuable for the membership to know about you.
I consistently look for new experiences and challenges that broaden my outlook on life. In recent years I have gone skydiving and completed a half marathon. I enjoy traveling with Mary, particularly to warm climates in mid-winter, where we can explore new locations and seek out unique local food and good wine.


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Deviled Crab
1 pound crab meat
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/8 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
1 tablespoon green pepper, minced
1 tablespoon onion, minced
Combine all ingredients except crab meat in a medium bowl.
Mix well and gently stir in crab meat. Place mixture in a
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Daniel Levy has launched a staunch defence of Spurs' transfer dealings this summer, accusing West Brom of 'disrespecting' Saido Berahino.
Tottenham have been left with just one recognised striker after failing to make any signings on transfer deadline day, with Harry Kane – goalless in Spurs' opening four fixtures – to be relied upon once again.
Heung-min Son and Clinton N'Jie both arrived earlier in the summer, but both are considered more wingers than strikers.
Spurs' pursuit of West Brom striker Berahino was well-documented on Tuesday, with the club making two final bids for the Englishman. The final one was widely-reported to have included an initial £5million offer, with further payments staggered over the coming months.
West Brom rejected Spurs' overtures, while a move for Southampton midfielder Victor Wanyama also failed, with chairman Levy defending the club's business after the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust called for an explanation.
"We have never, as a Club, spoken about another team's players and I am not about to do so now. However, I do want to make a few general points regarding transfers," Levy said on www.tottenhamhotspur.com.
"Firstly, there is hardly a transfer concluded across Europe which doesn't include staged payments. This is particularly so when significant amounts such as £20m-£30m are involved – players don't come cheaply these days.
"Secondly, we do not make anything personal. None of the proposals, discussions or negotiations we undertake involve any personal elements or ego – everything we do is in the interest of what is best for our Club.
"Thirdly, we never make anything public, particularly in the best interests of the players involved. Making aspects such as transfer requests public is wholly disrespectful to a player.
"Our pragmatic player trading has been important in the way we have run the business of the Club and in getting us to the position where we have now been able to start work on a new stadium – the one thing that has the ability to take this Club to the next level of competitiveness.
"I make no apologies for being ambitious for our Club and looking to deliver future success for our fans."


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"Sportsmen and women can look forward to 60 days of duck hunting with a regular daily bag of four ducks and two additional teal," said division Director Bob McDowell. "The increased season length, a total of 17 extra days, and other management changes are the result of extensive research on population numbers, banding information and harvest analysis conducted by waterfowl biologists throughout the country."
The increase in hunting days is the direct result of newly developed basic duck hunting regulation packages. Each year, waterfowl biologists would carefully examine all of the information regarding duck populations currently available and depending upon the status of each duck population, recommend that regulations be restrictive, moderate or liberal. The resulting duck seasons would then be 30, 40 or 50 days long, respectively. For many years these basic hunting regulation packages remained the same. However, after several years of cooperative work between state and federal waterfowl biologists throughout the country, new packages were developed to allow for 20 (very restrictive), 30 (restrictive), 45 (moderate), and 60 (liberal) day seasons.
The second major change involves the use of Eastern mallard populations for research in determining future hunting regulations within the Atlantic Flyway. The Atlantic Flyway is one of four major waterfowl migration corridors in North America and is comprised of the eastern states and Canadian provinces along the Atlantic Seaboard. Traditionally, hunting regulations in all four flyways were determined based on the status of more heavily researched mid-continent mallard populations. However, the new ability to evaluate eastern mallard populations is the result of an extensive eastern survey of breeding waterfowl initiated in 1989, as well as increased banding efforts in the region.
"The use of information based on mid-continent mallard populations to generate waterfowl seasons in the Atlantic Flyway was frustrating to Garden State waterfowl biologists and hunters, since few of these birds winter in New Jersey or the Atlantic Flyway," said Paul Castelli, principal wildlife biologist and leader of the Division's Waterfowl Ecology and Management Program. "The new system places an emphasis on eastern mallard populations, but still considers mid-continent mallard populations as a secondary factor."
The third major change focuses on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) elimination of counting Sundays, which are closed to hunting by state law in New Jersey, as hunting days. Since federal laws have no Sunday hunting restrictions, the USFWS traditionally counted these days as hunting days. This meant that when states were offered a 50-day duck season, as in 1996, there were only 43 hunting days available. As a result of the change, states like New Jersey will now get a prescribed number of hunting days instead of having to count and ultimately lose, Sundays as hunting days.
In 1997, examination of all available Eastern mallard population information lead Atlantic Flyway waterfowl biologists to conclude that a liberal hunting regulation package would be appropriate.
Coupling the liberal hunting package with credit for days lost to Sundays will increase hunting opportunity by 40 percent," McDowell said. "In fact, this year New Jersey hunters will enjoy the longest duck season in over 40 years."
Studies suggest that with a four duck bag limit, the additional harvest resulting from this increased opportunity will not be a problem for most duck species. In fact, both blue-winged and green-winged teal are so abundant and yet so lightly harvested that two additional teal will be offered in addition to the regular daily bag limit of four ducks.
The daily bag limit of four ducks may not include more than two wood ducks, two hen mallards, two pintails, two redheads, one canvasback and one black duck.
Black ducks continue to be a concern and waterfowl biologists believe that their population will not sustain a full 60-day harvest. As a result, there will be no hunting of black ducks during the first two weeks of the south zone season (Oct. 11 - 25), nor during the last two weeks (Dec. 28 - Jan. 10) of the coastal zone season. The north zone will not have a black duck closure, since relatively few black ducks are harvested there.
According to Castelli, this action ensures that black duck populations will be protected even though there will be more days to hunt this species than last year, in all zones. Each year, Division biologists will review harvest data to ensure that the black duck closure remains appropriate.
The migrant Canada goose breeding population increased 37 percent over last year, however, the population is still 45 percent below their 1988 population level. The regular Canada goose season will remain closed this year. However, a statewide September season and a limited winter season, both targeting resident geese, will be available to hunters who obtain the necessary $2 permit from the Division.
Atlantic brant are expected to have good production this summer. The season will be extended to 50 days this year. Last year, the season was 30 days long. The bag limit will remain at two brant per day.
Snow geese are also expected to have excellent production this summer. Their season length is already 107 days, the longest allowed under the Migratory Bird Treaty. The bag limit will increase this year to 10 geese per day and the possession limit will be three times the daily bag.
Tentative New Jersey 1997-98 waterfowl season dates can be seen by clicking here. Although they are not expected to change, these dates are tentative until approved by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in early September. The 1997-98 New Jersey Migratory Bird Supplement will be available statewide in mid-September containing complete information regarding all migratory bird hunting regulations.


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A Woman's Friend Pregnancy Resource Clinic
961 Live Oak Blvd. • Yuba City, CA 95991
The ministry of A Woman's Friend is a team effort comprised of many partners throughout the entire Body of Christ. As Peter states, "Whatever gift each of you may have received, use it in service to one another, like good stewards dispensing the grace of God in its varied forms." (1 Peter 4:20)
Prayer is essential for the day to day functions of the Center. Prayer is essential for our clients who have a great need to experience the love and the grace of their heavenly Father. Prayer is essential for the leading and guiding of our staff and volunteers to remain pliable in the hands of God.
The church can motivate Christians to give of their time, talent and treasure. Many local churches include A Woman's Friend in their missions budget.
Because AWF does not receive any government funds, or generate any funds from the clients we serve, we depend solely on donations from individuals, businesses and churches who are passionate about life for the support of the ministry.
Monthly giving is the foundation of our financial support, allowing us to plan our budget and be good stewards of your investment.
Become a Legacy Partner by donating $1,000 a year—the estimated amount needed to save a baby's life through AWF.
Other ways to support A Woman's Friend financially are through:
The successes of our three annual fundraising events are essential for the continued operation and outreach of A Woman's Friend. These events include a Walk for Life, Baby Bottle Boomerang Campaign, and Benefit Banquet. To find out more about upcoming events and how you can be involved check out our News/Events page.
A Woman's Friend Pregnancy Resource Clinic
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) --The sandy shores in Long Beach remained closed Wednesday after a massive sewage spill sent the contaminants into the Los Angeles River and ocean waters.
Health officials continue to test the waters to see how bad the contamination may be. The leak happened Monday afternoon after a pipe burst in downtown Los Angeles, with an estimation of only 100,000 gallons leaking out.
But by Tuesday, officials estimated about 2.4 million gallons had spewed out of the pipe. Crews were able to capture about 750,000 gallons of the sewage, but the rest flowed into the river and most likely ended up in the ocean.
Flags and warning signs lined the beaches to warn visitors of possible contamination. Officials grabbed samples early Tuesday morning and those samples yielded no significant signs of contamination.
But officials said they want to wait for the results on samples grabbed Wednesday morning in order to be sure there is no significant amount of sewage. Those results will not be available until Thursday.
If the samples show contamination in the ocean, the beaches will remain closed and officials will continually test until they get two consecutive days of clean samples.


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Sunday September 23rd
10:00am - 4:00pm
$85.00 per Class
We welcome you to the garden to learn about its care, keeping, and bounty from the Garden Manager and Medicine Maker.
Garden: We invite you to join us as we begin to prepare the garden for the winter. Discuss fall seed sowing and saving, soil building techniques, and ways to honor the garden as it wanes. In a cyclical mirroring of "Spring cleanup", learn the importance of autumn clean up, and of preserving ecosystems by leaving plants uncut and not raking leaves out.
Harvesting: In the fall plant energy retreats into the earth. This is the time to harvest root medicine! Learn the etiquette of this harvest and connect with Earth energy. Explore the ways roots can be dried and stored for optimal potency. A variety of roots will be harvested for making your medicine for the day.
Lunch: What can we still munch on? Herbs and wild weeds are hardy and can be found in full splendor even as the first frost bites the earth. We will harvest and forage for plants to make a tasty fall soup.
Medicine Making: As we connect with the deeply nourishing properties of the roots you will learn how they can be utilized in delicious medicine. Create a flavorful mineral tonic perfect for the table or the medicine chest. This traditional preparation is used to aid in maintaining robust health through the winter.
Note: Each class students will receive handouts and the products made that day. Although there are lunch activities we encourage all students to bring supplemental food, so they can feel energetic and nourished throughout the day. All classes are weather contingent and subject to cancellation in the event of severe weather, participants will be notified upon assessment.


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EFA Foundation
Monday, 29 February 2016 at 10:30 - Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 15:00 (GMT)
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Under Aspire Institute of Community Education, Qualified and Experienced Staff, EFA Foundation is offering English Classes - suitable for UKBA Visa Extensions (ILR/Nationality). These classes are held to generate funds for charity, so learn English and earn a reward,please join.
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Voters are almost evenly divided over the framework deal the Obama administration has cut with Iran to slow the latter's nuclear weapons program. But most doubt that Iran will abide by its terms or that its compliance can be verified by the United States.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the agreement the United States has reached with Iran that ends some economic sanctions on that country in exchange for verifiable cutbacks in Iran's nuclear weapons program. But slightly more (41%) oppose that deal
Echoing concerns raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many congressional Republicans, a plurality (44%) of voters believes the treaty the administration has negotiated with Iran puts Israel more at risk
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4BD/2BA - Home: 1,450 S/F - Lot: 7,455 S/F
Spacious 4-bedroom home in San Jose's lovely tree-lined Willow Glen neighborhood. The kitchen features dark granite countertops and island, gorgeous wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and an eat-in dining room with china display cabinet, wine cooler and bonus counter space, perfect as a serving station. A pass-through window looks from the kitchen into the bright and inviting living room, which features a fireplace, recessed lighting, an abundance of natural light, and sliding glass doors leading to the backyard. The master suite boasts a luxurious updated bathroom with pristine tile flooring, a walk-in shower, and separate bath tub. With 4 bedrooms, the home provides flexibility to accommodate a myriad of lifestyles, with the option of converting a room into a home office, playroom, or whatever else suits your needs. The backyard is the ideal setting to take advantage of the warm San Jose weather, complete with a swimming pool and expansive patio area great for entertaining friends and family. 2353 La Mirada presents a model of curb appeal, with lush landscaping and a beautiful combination brick/wood facade, fitting of the endearing Willow Glen neighborhood. The home enjoys plenty of nearby shopping and dining, and is served by the highly rated Booksin Elementary.
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With a population of nearly 1 million, San Jose is the largest Bay Area city and the third-largest city in California. Founded in 1777, San Jose was California's first civilian settlement and one of the first incorporated cities in the state. It also served as California's first state capital. The countless activities available and the proximity to some of the region's largest technology companies are two of the main reasons people live in San Jose. San Jose offers great access to public transit, with service from Amtrak, Caltrain, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, and other agencies. The city has its own airport, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport. Museums include the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, the San Jose Museum of Art, The Tech Museum of Innovation, and the San Jose Steam Railroad Museum. Sports fans have several teams to follow, include the San Jose Sharks, the San Jose Earthquakes, the San Jose Giants minor-league baseball club, and the San Francisco 49ers, who recently relocated to neighborhing Santa Clara. Santana Row remains a popular dining and shopping destination. San Jose's median household income is $82,000, and its median home value is $560,000, according to 2013 United States Census Bureau data. Of the city's 314,038 housing units, 58 percent are owner occupied.
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Councilmember Huizar works with Planning Department to implement new city policy that guarantees pedestrian access during construction on all new projects requiring discretionary review – part of Councilmember's DTLA Forward Initiative
Responding to a motion introduced by Councilmember José Huizar, The City's Planning Department has implemented a new standard for development projects in the City of Los Angeles, which require developers to maintain safe adjacent pedestrian access alongside project construction sites at all times.
The action is part of DTLA Forward, a downtown transportation and planning initiative launched by Councilmember José Huizar. Councilmember Huizar issued legislation last summer to address the problem of a lack of safe, pedestrian access for residents, workers and visitors in Downtown around some construction projects. The new Planning policy is already in effect and being used to implement safe pedestrian access around a number of new construction areas.
"While we encourage new development and the economic development, jobs and increased tax base it provides the City of Los Angeles, we also need to provide safe pedestrian access at all times," said Councilmember Huizar. "This new policy allows us to do that and embrace Complete Streets planning that increases pedestrian and bicycle use in downtown and pushes DTLA Forward. I thank Planning for working with my office to protect and encourage more pedestrian activity in DTLA and the City of Los Angeles."
Under the new guidelines, if the Planning Department determines a project may potentially block or close sidewalk access during project construction, Planning will impose their new requirement in the environmental clearance documents. This is now part of the City's standard mitigation measures, and will be imposed on new development projects moving forward.
"The high rate of construction activity Downtown is exciting," said Planning Director Michael LoGrande. "With all the construction and improvements, it is important that residents, visitors, and workers who call Downtown home can walk in a safe and inviting manner. Thanks to the leadership of Councilmember Huizar, the City will now make sure that pedestrian safety comes first."
There is more than $12 billion in active development happening in Downtown Los Angeles, an important driver for our regional economy. More than 500,000 people work in DTLA. Currently there are more than 53,000 residents, up from approximately 10,000 just a decade ago. That figure is expected to continue to rise in the coming years.
The new policy guarantees pedestrian access during construction on all new projects requiring discretionary review.
Several other motions related to Huizar's DTLA Forward initiative were recently heard in the Transportation Committee and will be heard jointly with Huizar's Planning & Land Use Management Committee in the coming months.
Read Planning's new language that its Environmental Staff Advisory Committee implemented:
Applicant shall plan construction and construction staging as to maintain pedestrian access on adjacent sidewalks throughout all construction phases. This requires the applicant to maintain adequate and safe pedestrian protection, including physical separation (including utilization of barriers such as K-Rails or scaffolding, etc.) from work space and vehicular traffic, and overhead protection, due to sidewalk closure or blockage, at all times.
Temporary pedestrian facilities should be adjacent to the project site and provide safe, accessible routes that replicate as nearly as practical the most desirable characteristics of the existing facility.
Covered walkways should be provided where pedestrians are exposed to potential injury from falling objects.
Applicant shall keep sidewalk open during construction until only when it is absolutely required to close or block sidewalk for construction and/or construction staging. Sidewalk shall be reopened as soon as reasonably feasible taking construction and construction staging into account.


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Permission to enter the United States will depend on the type of crime and how long ago it was, but most minor issues, such as one driving under the influence charge, will likely not impact someone looking to come to the country. The more severe the crime or in the case of a repeat offender, entry may be denied.Continue Reading
It is possible for someone to check with the local American Embassy where they live and see if they can get a waiver or permission to enter the country. This is not a guarantee, however, and no matter how minor, all past criminal records must be declared to avoid travel issues if someone is permitted into the country.Learn more about Immigration


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BaltimoreLacrosseNews.com, Posted 3/12/13
From Press Release
The No. 15 Navy women's lacrosse team (6-1) battled hard with No. 4 Northwestern (6-1), the defending national champions, but fell 15-12 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Monday. The game was televised by CBS Sports Network.
"I'm proud of the effort Navy had today and it was a reflection of how hard we have been working," said head coach Cindy Timchal. "We played them tough. We were trading goals and then they got that little bit of a gap on us offensively. They are a very good team though. There is a reason why they have won seven of the last eight national championships."
The game featured seven ties with the last coming at 10-10 with under 15 minutes to go before Northwestern went on a 5-0 run to take a 15-10 advantage. Navy senior attacker Jasmine DePompeo (Sayville, N.Y.) keyed a late rally with back-to-back goals in a 40-second span but the Mids could not regain possession and Northwestern closed out the game with the three-goal victory.
DePompeo, the nation's second leading scorer after Monday's game with a 6.71 average, scored a season-high eight points against the Wildcats on five goals and three assists. DePompeo has 47 points this season on 26 goals and 21 assists. She has scored at least seven points in six of seven games.
"Obviously a loss is never our goal, but I think we did play hard and I am proud of our effort," said DePompeo, a co-captain. "We came in to the game with confidence and we felt we were ready to play. Everyone on their team is high-caliber though and they capitalized on our mistakes."
Other than No. 3 North Carolina's 11-8 win over Northwestern on February 22, no team this season has played the Wildcats closer than the three-goal deficit that the Mids turned in on Monday.
Navy had a strong start to the contest as junior attacker Aimee Gennaro (Havertown, Pa.) scored back-to-back goals to give the Mids an early 2-0 lead. She scored her first goal off an assist from senior Kathy Young (Berywn, Pa.) at 27:07. Then just 20 seconds later, sophomore Loren Generi (Bayport, N.Y.) made a long pass out of a restart to DePompeo on a fast break who then made the extra pass to Gennaro who finished the play.
Northwestern answered with back-to-back goals by Christina Esposito and Taylor Thornton for the game's first tie at 2-2. Young then scored off an assist from DePompeo before Northwestern's Alyssa Leonard scored 19 seconds later. The two teams would then trade goals again as DePompeo sent a low shot trickling underneath Northwestern goalie Bridget Bianco followed by a goal from Kelly Rich.
Navy then took a 5-4 lead with 14:19 remaining in the first half when Gennaro scored her third of the half off an assist from DePompeo. Northwestern then went on a 3-0 run to close the first half. The run began with an Amanda Macaluso free-position goal, followed by back-to-back goals by Northwestern's top-scorer Erin Fitzgerald for the 7-5 halftime lead.
The momentum that Northwestern had from its first half-ending run was quickly erased as DePompeo scored a man-up goal curling around the crease just 33 seconds into the second half. Leonard then controlled the ensuing draw and went right down the field to score in just nine seconds to keep the margin at two.
However, Navy showed its resiliency by fighting right back. First, Young found junior midfielder Jill Coughlin (Annapolis, Md.) cutting towards goal to cut the lead to 8-7 and then Gennaro sent a long pass to DePompeo behind the cage who came around the far side of the circle to beat Bianco to even the game once again at 8-8.
Thornton put the Wildcats up one as the defending national player of the year converted an eight-meter opportunity, but Navy tied the game again just 33 seconds later. The scoring play was keyed by senior Brijet Mall (Cumming, Ga.) off a restart, who sent a long pass to Gennaro, who then passed to Coughlin who scored at 21:24 to knot the game at 9-9.
Fitzgerald scored her third of the game two minutes later but Navy was able to capitalize on a man-up opportunity as Young scored an eight-meter goal at 17:05 to tie the game for the seventh time at 10-10. That's when Northwestern went on its game-clinching 5-0 run before DePompeo's two late goals. Northwestern's run spanned nine minutes and was led by two goals from Fitzgerald and a goal and an assist by Leonard.
In addition to DePompeo's eight points, Navy's offense was boasted by Gennaro's five-point game on three goals and two assists and Young's two-goal, two-assist effort. Coughlin also tallied two goals.
Foky made 11 saves for the third time this season and also had two ground balls, but took the first loss of her career. On the season, Foky (4-1) has a 6.84 goals-against average and a .532 save percentage, ranking in the top-10 nationally in both categories.
Generi had a team-high five draw controls, but Northwestern held the overall advantage at 17-12 and had three straight draw controls during the critical 5-0 run.
Northwestern held a 31-23 shot advantage on Navy and a 17-13 edge in ground balls.
Northwestern's Fitzgerald scored five goals and Leonard had three goals, one assist, two caused turnovers and seven draw controls. Gabriella Flibotte had a strong all-around game with one goal, five ground balls, four draw controls and three caused turnovers.
Northwestern head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller played for Timchal at Maryland and the duo won a pair of national titles together in 1995 and '96. Amonte Hiller and Timchal have won 15 of the last 21 national championships and were both inducted to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2012.
The loss snapped Navy's program-record 17-game home winning streak.
Navy will play its third game in five days when the team hosts first-time opponent New Hampshire on Wednesday at 4:00 PM.
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There will be a lot of things on Joey Meyer`s mind Wednesday night when De Paul plays Dayton in the Horizon. Revenge will not be one of them.
Meyer will not soon forget the basket at or beyond the final buzzer that beat his Blue Demons in Dayton 11 days ago.


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It's like printed, bound, and library-shelved blogging.
David Sedaris tells the story of his life in four- or five-page vignettes that had me chuckling. Of how he was sentenced to speech therapy as a child, therapy that was forced down the lisping throats of all the budding homosexuals his elementary school had to offer. Of how his father was suddenly consumed with a the idea of a Von Trapp-style family jazz band, and so subjected his son to guitar lessons with a midget. Of deciding that he wanted to go to France, not because he felt any sort of affinity for the French, but because he felt like it would be an adventure in helplessness, and so set about winning the heart of a young man he happened to know who happened to have a small cottage in Normandy. Of how he then refused to learn any of the language except the most obscure, useless nouns.
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Follow the infamous story of the Soviet penal battalions, formed of court-martialed officers given a chance to redeem themselves in Men of War: Condemned Heroes.
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Live the horrifying tale of the infamous Soviet penal battalions during World War II, forced to fight for redemption for prior court-martialed offenses in Men of War: Condemned Heroes.
Men of War: Vietnam 'Dev diary #2' TrailerPosted Sep 09, 2011 10:43am PDT - 13,238 views
The second Men of War: Vietnam developer diary showcases both sides of the conflict, from Soviet involvement to American special forces.
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The very first developer diary for Men of War: Vietnam discusses the development and renewed interest in the tactical strategy genre.


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Reader response to our second annual Readers' Choice awards is gratifying. We asked you to let us know which products and services merit your confidence and support. In response, nearly 7800 readers—almost quadruple the number of readers who responded to last year's Readers' Choice survey— voted on products in 16 general categories: storage, training and certification, utilities, Web-based services, security, systems management, messaging, network infrastructure, network management, remote computing, telephony, business applications, client hardware, development tools, disaster-recovery tools, and Internet and intranet solutions.
Within these 16 categories, you chose 84 of the best products among hundreds of products and services. In addition, you voted for five special awards: Best Hardware, Best Software, Most Innovative Product, Best Service/Support, and Rookie of the Year.
Your votes gave HP's ProLiant servers the award for Best Hardware; ScriptLogic 4.0 earned the award for Best Software; and you said Dell provides the best service and support. VERITAS Software's VERITAS Global Cluster Manager and Sunbelt Software's I Hate Spam Server Edition (SE) captured awards in two new categories—Most Innovative Product and Rookie of the Year, respectively.
Thirty-three vendors won this year's Readers' Choice awards for 89 products or services. Of those 33 winners, 18 won multiple awards. The winners of multiple awards are ACCPAC International, BMC Software, CheckPoint Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, Dell, Executive Software, HP, Intense School, Microsoft, NetIQ, Remedy, RSA Security, ScriptLogic, Sunbelt Systems, Symantec, VERITAS, VMware, and Winternals Software.
The big winners—those vendors that captured five or more awards—were Cisco, HP, Symantec, Microsoft, and VERITAS. VERITAS and Cisco dominated the categories of disaster-recovery tools and network infrastructure tools, respectively.
Many of you took the time to share your thoughts about some of the products you voted for. We have found your comments interesting and instructive and have included as many of them as we can throughout this issue.
By voting for your favorite products and services in our 2003 Readers' Choice awards, you provide valuable feedback from the trenches, and you let your peers know which products you believe deserve recognition in the Windows market. We thank you for your votes, and we look forward to another successful Readers' Choice issue in 2004.
Products We Missed
Because of an error in ballot preparation, we inadvertently left two vendors and five products out of the voting for the 2003 Readers' Choice awards.
Auscomp submitted four products to this year's competition. Auscomp Fort Knox and Auscomp Smart Login software were intended candidates for Best Password-Auditing Software in the Best Security Products category. Auscomp Fort Knox uses 448-bit Blowfish encryption to securely encrypt and protect sensitive files and information with one master password. Auscomp Smart Login also uses 448-bit Blowfish encryption to let you securely manage your Web site passwords and logon IDs with one master password.
Auscomp IT Commander was an intended candidate for Best Help Desk Software in the Best Business Applications category. Auscomp IT Commander, a Help desk application for intranet systems, includes a fully searchable knowledge base, a comprehensive cost- management system, and an application/system version tracker.
Auscomp eNavigator Suite was an intended candidate for Best Web Site Development Tools in the Best Development Tools category. Auscomp eNavigator Suite lets you control your Web and intranet development and includes instantaneous ActiveX technology.
To learn more about Auscomp's products, visit Auscomp on its Web site at http://www.auscomp.com.
HelpSTAR.com submitted one product to this year's Readers' Choice competition. HelpSTAR was an intended candidate for Best Help Desk Software in the Best Business Applications category. HelpSTAR lets you automate workflow processes, enables multi- user access from anywhere in the world, and scales to keep pace with your growing business. To learn more about HelpSTAR, visit the HelpSTAR.com Web site at http://www.helpstar.com.
We apologize for any inconvenience these errors might have caused.


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- Project Name: University School
- Type of Space: Atrium
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- Location: Hunting Valley, OH
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- Photography: Nicole Stark
Pathway Lighting's designers and engineers, in close collaboration with Centerbrook Architects, developed this custom 9' x 3' LED chandelier for University School — a K-12 preparatory school — just outside of Cleveland, OH. The Architect and Lighting Designer had envisioned a custom fixture that captures and honors the region's manufacturing heritage. The final product is a unique cylindrical chandelier that provides efficient general illumination and a striking focal point for students and faculty.
"...Pathway's design suggestions and engineering were invaluable; I don't know how we would have done it so well without them."
-Mark Simon, Partner, FAIA
Centerbrook Architects


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In this show case I would like to introduce David Allen who has been writing books for a few years now but recently published his first kindle book.
You might think that having written some books already it would be straight forward to create the kindle version!
Well, it is and it isn't!
I'm really chuffed that my kindle book template helped David to publish his kindle version. There were a few little 'gremlins' that needed sorting out but after a few emails back and forth we soon fixed those!
Now that he knows what to do there is no stopping him and as you all know I love that attitude of taking action, which is why I wanted him to star in my show case.
So let's hear some more about him!
When did you write your very first book?
I started out, roughly in 2009, editing metaphysical books for myself. I then made a decision to edit and compile some metaphysical books to offer for free in 2010 and uploaded them online to share with others, since there were so many shared with me.
My first published paperback, The Power of I AM, was first published in 2014. My first Kindle book 2015!
What inspired you to start?
I wouldn't be doing what I am doing if I didn't read "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. That was my first introduction to the LOA and metaphysics (LOA stands for Law of Attraction – Kay).
From there I fell in love with anything to do with the LOA and wanted to know as much as I could. Editing books, compiling things that interested me just seemed like the next natural step for me to do.
Did you stumble upon your niche through trial and error or was it already a passion of yours?
I suppose you could say I stumbled on it. I was on a YouTube video and while looking at someones profile, their favorite book was "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. I asked them a few questions and I bought my copy about a week later and became obsessed with learning as much as I could.
What is one of the most surprising things you have learned about product creation/writing books?
Maybe that I am actually having books published. Now it seems almost natural to me but before I discovered metaphysics, it never even crossed my mind to publish a book.
What has been the most rewarding part?
To connect with people worldwide that have as much an interest in this field as I do.
Do you have a project you are working on at the moment? Please tell us about it!
I am always working on something new. I can't give any specifics but I do have ideas for at least 3 other books right now that I have been working on for the last several months. I can say this, they are all LOA/Metaphysics related.
Thank you for sharing your story with us
If you would like to find out more about David or you are interested in the Law of Attraction then please visit his Amazon author page:
Check Out All of His Published Books Below…
Would YOU like to feature on my website? If so, then contact me and I shall get things moving!


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Samsung Galaxy S5 (Case Friendly) Screen is rated out of 5 by 23.Rated 5 out of 5 by GrumpyOldGoat from I purchased a ZAGG screen protector a few years ago for my old phone. IT WAS AWESOME I tend to be a bit rough and clumsy with my toys and screen protected performed beyond my expectationsDate published: 2016-07-22Rated 5 out of 5 by BballforEva from Replacement It was easy to order my replacement under the warranty. Hopefully my old one is received in the envelope they provided so I don't get charged for the product! I used YouTube videos to watch correct application of screen protector and that really made it easy.Date published: 2016-06-21
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How to get a replacementGo to www.zagg.com/register and either login or create an account. If you purchased the shield off zagg.com, you're product will already be registered and then you'll just have to click warranty replacement and follow the instructions.Date published: 2016-01-18
My original screen protect is bubbling up and needs to be replaced. Can I upgrade the replacement to glass protector?Yes! The best way of going about this is to call customer service at (800)700-9244 and they can get the upgrade processed.Date published: 2016-05-17
How do I register my Invisible Shield Glass premium glass scratch protection ?Please visit https://www.zagg.com/us/en_us/customer/account/login/ to register your shield.Date published: 2016-01-07
How do I get the bubbles out Simply lift up the corner where the bubbles are, and reapply the screen protection. If you need additional help, visit a franchise to get it reinstalled. However, a fee will apply.Date published: 2015-05-27
I bought a plastic screen protector from best buy. It needs to be replaced. What do I do?
There is a clear plastic on both sides of the heavy plastic and both have the phone's cut-outs ... are they BOTH shields and if not which one do I use?
Does the S5 cover also do the S5 neo which is new out?
What is the difference between the case friendly screen and the standard screen?


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Get IU's 'Pretty Man' style
As we wait impatiently for IU and Jang Geun Suk's new Kdrama, Pretty Man, why not appreciate some of their style. However, suits are boring so we will be focusing on IU's colorful fashion in the recently released promotional posters for Pretty Man.
The Lacoste L!ve sweater is reasonably priced at $76.99, buy here. Notice the white spots are actually hearts which makes this a perfect sweater for the fall season.
Since it is not too expensive, there isn't really a need for a cheaper version.
The yellow sweater is a trademark for IU's dramas now, well at least for KBS dramas that stars IU. This particular one is by J. W. Anderson and is available for $805 here. The highlight of the sweater is that there are tie up parts on the right side. As you can see on IU, you can create a cute bow with the loose fabric. Get a similar one here or here in a similar color at a much lower price without the tie ups.
The skirt is also by J. W. Anderson and for $770, you can purchase it here. However, if you you feel the price is too steep, similar ones can be found here and here. They retain the theme of comic book print.
This fabulous dress is by the Korean brand Fleamadonna. It is available for 288,000 Won here. However, you can only purchase it if you live in Korea and can read Korean.
Similar ones are hard to find. But in the general sense, really cheap rose patterned dresses can be found here and here.
Please be aware, most of the clothes are expensive. For more affordable fashion Hallyu stars has worn, visit here. Also, I may provide links to similar fashion for a much lesser price.
Maria (K-world Style)


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Detroit's Mayor-elect Mike Duggan appeared at his first press conference yesterday to discuss his plans for the bankrupt city. During his remarks, he expressed his frustration at the discussion of his skin color during the mayoral race.
"I resent it. I've resented it from the beginning," Duggan said. "People in this city got past it almost a year ago, as people got to know me and we started to relate as individuals." Duggan, a former Detroit Medical Center executive commanded a 10 point lead over his opponent, Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napolean. Napolean is black.
The outgoing Mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing decided not to run for re-election after expressing his anger that state officials did not give him enough time to solve the city's financial problems. Bing was elected in 2009 to replace felon Kwame Kilpatrick.
During Bing's own term, government bailed-out General Motors cancelled their plans to leave Detroit and move to Warren, Michigan where they could reduce operating costs. A 2010 Auto Week story indicates the decision to stay in Detroit was designed to help Bing and came straight from the Obama administration.
…senior White House officials rejected the proposal–saying it would be devastating to Detroit, even if the automaker donated the RenCen to the city.
"It's over for Detroit if you do this," Michigan native Gene Sperling, a U.S. Treasury Department official, yelled in a meeting, the book says. "Don't do this to (Detroit Mayor) Dave Bing…. He's a good man trying to do a good thing."
"The White House eventually determined 'the move would be a bridge too far,' according to the book [Overhaul by Steven Rattner]. 'Fortunately, this unique intervention into a specific GM matter was never leaked to the press, saving us from having to explain how it comported with our policy of letting GM and Chrysler manage their own affairs.' "
General Motors denied the move was at the behest of the White House to help Bing, instead claiming "It came down purely to a business decision. The move was going to cost tens of millions of dollars and the decision was made that right now the best thing to do was spend that money on product and on efforts to support our dealers and reach customers," said GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson.
The move angered the Mayor of Warren, MI who fired off an angry letter to the White House "I'm disappointed in President Obama because President Obama, I've always thought, is a strong believe in transparency and open government. In this case, it was really a back room pressure deal that prevented General Motors from coming to Warren. They wanted to come to Warren."
Despite the GM's decision to stay in Detroit, the city is burdened with $18 billion of debt and is awaiting a judges ruling on their bankruptcy filing.