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The Riverside Fire Department's history is firmly entwined with the history of our entire community. Most of the people associated with the early development of the Fire Department were also responsible for the shaping of the community. Notable among these early leaders was Frank Miller, founder of the Mission Inn.
This is a proud history with a colorful past. The present members of the department recognize it as such, and strive to preserve this reputable past and add to it in the finest tradition established over these many years.
The Riverside Fire Department has participated in thousands of history-making activities throughout the last century and beyond. One of which was the famous elephant stampede of 1909 caused by a fire. It began when two Riverside men, William Hayt and Frank Miller, recognized the potential that an uncontrolled fire would have in this small 1880's village. In April of 1882, Frank Miller was able to raise $500, subscribed by local businessmen, to purchase a wagon with fire buckets and a hose reel. In that same year, William Hayt began a drive to develop a full-fledged fire department. This effort was hampered by lack of funds and a perceived lack of need on the part of the City Board of Trustees. On February 10, 1883, Hayt's worst fears were realized. The first major fire in Riverside destroyed the building and press of the local newspaper, the Press Horticulturist.
Five years of unprecedented local growth added people, buildings, and a greater need for fire protection. On July 7, 1887, William Hayt, continuing his drive for a fire department, bargained with the City. He offered to provide all of the money necessary, half through donations and half from his personal account, to buy new and better equipment. The Board of Trustees agreed, and Hayt set to work. He raised $527 through donations, and being a man of conviction, later put up his portion of $515.68. On October 7, 1887, Riverside's Fire Department was officially created. The first Chief, Cavalry Captain James N. Keith, was commissioned along with 1st Assistant D.L. Brant, 2nd Assistant S. J. Filkins, and Clerk G.F. Ward (later to become one of Riverside's chiefs). They were paid $12.00 per month.
With the arrival of the new fire equipment, a shed on the northeast corner of Eighth (now University) and Main Streets became Fire Station #1. The Fire Department consisted of a Chief, two assistants, a clerk, a bucket wagon, a horse cart, a hose reel, a hook and ladder and approximately fifty volunteers. All equipment was designed to be pulled with manpower. During this same period, the City began development of its water main system, making feasible the installation of fire hydrants in the downtown area.
On April 21, 1888, the fledging fire department met with its first major test. A fire in the lamp closet at the Citrus Pavilion, a large building near the corner of Seventh/Mission Inn Ave and Main Street, raged through the wooden building, engulfing it and the whole block. Unfortunately, the City had shut its water system down for repairs, but with tenacity and newly acquired training, the Riverside Fire Department saved a large portion of the city's wood-framed downtown.
In 1890, the first horse drawn apparatus was purchased and the headquarters station was moved to the Findley & Knight Livery stable on Main St. between Seventh (now Mission Inn) and Eight (now University) Streets. In 1891, Station #2 opened in a small shed at Sixth and Pachappa Streets. By 1900, Station #2 was relocated and became known as the Arlington Station.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The so-called Hollywood Hacker faces a new complaint about online stalking, but his lawyer calls the allegations baseless.
According to a previously unsealed search warrant, Christopher Chaney, of Jacksonville, who is accused of breaking into e-mail accounts of stars like Scarlett Johansson and sending out their private images, is accused of stalking a woman in Connecticut.
The woman said Chaney broke into her online accounts and sent other people private and embarrassing images. She said Chaney posted some of the images on pornography websites.
"He summarily denies these allegations, and I think he's demonstrated before that, if he felt he was wrong, he would say he was wrong, because he's done it before on TV," said Chaney's lawyer, Chris Chestnutt.
Chestnutt said his client may have admitted on camera for being sorry about the hacking of Hollywood stars, but that doesn't mean he is ready to plead guilty and go to jail.
"It's not that we're retreating from this, but we can't wholly embrace it either because the case is becoming more and more convoluted," said Chestnutt.
The lawyer added that the broader implications of the case could have a huge impact on America. He said it should promote a discussion about laws, internet passwords and the appropriate punishment when someone breaks into an account.
Chaney is scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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The Worst Ghosts of 2011
It's that time of the year again where we cast an eye back over 2011 and depress ourselves by re-reading web and newspaper coverage of potential-but-not-quite ghost stories. We did the same last year. It's been tricky, but we've managed to cut the worst stories out there down to just five and they are outlined below. Enjoy!
The Worst Ghosts of 2011
#5 – The Braunstone ghost
The Braunstone ghost haunted a family home, causing the family to live in fear as it allegedly started fires and punched family members. This spook and it's antics made the newspapers, and even saw the investigators involved, G.S.I Paranormal, interviewed live on national television, so you're probably thinking that is must have been a quality story, but you're wrong. This 'ghost' and the 'evidence' that came with it was mediocre nonsense that we've seen numerous times before.
This case needed proper investigation – not only because of the nature of the reported phenomena, but also because of the potentially vulnerable people involved. What this case got instead were ghost hunters who are carbon copies of paranormal investigators from television shows. With an array of gadgets that don't actually do anything useful and a lead investigator who claims ghosts talk directly to him, their investigation provided nothing we haven't seen before, and nothing substantial.
The evidence they provided on 'This Morning' – a national television show aired in the UK, consisted of videos of orbs that the investigators refused to believe could be dust or insects. There was also an alleged 'spirit vortex' caught on camera by the this team too which, in all honestly, appears to be a piece of wire (like a mobile phone charger wire, perhaps) hanging in front of the camera. Nothing impressive or groundbreaking.
Orb video one
Orb Video two
The Spirit Vortex/Portal video
Then there was the most amazing evidence ever. Footage of a ghost changing the temperature on command… or, a ghost hunter unaware of how a laser thermometer works. As you will see in the video below, Don Philip believes that a spirit is changing the temperature as he asks it to, when in all reality, it is his misuse of the thermometer that causes such an effect.
Watch from the 03:00 mark
The saddest thing about this ghost isn't the eye-witness reports from the family in residence, or the rubbish 'evidence' provided by the ghost hunters, but in fact the closed-minded and outdated way in which they investigated the case. They let down the people who live in the house greatly, and that's why their temperature changing spook made it into our 'worst ghosts of 2011' list.
More from Don Philip further & GSI down the list…
#4 – The Coventry poltergeist
A Coventry council house played host to a ghost that allegedly pushed two pet dogs down the stairs – one of which sadly died through its injuries. This ghost story first broke on The Sun website where it was explained that the single mother and two children witnessed an array of odd occurrences ranging from chairs flying across rooms to doors being wedged shut from the other side, trapping the family.
Although unlikely to be paranormal in nature, the things witnessed by the family were interesting and worthy of research. Yet, their story was let down with the accompaniment of a rather dodgy video documenting questionable poltergeist activity.
See our recreation (enacted by Hayley with the help of Sharon) below:
The initial experiences may have been genuine, but the poltergeist video certainly isn't.
It's okay though, because The Sun got Derek Acorah in to sort things out…
#3 – The Thorpe Park Monk
The investigation took place in November 2010, but the ghost alleged to haunt Thorpe Park didn't make headlines until February 2011. According to South West London Paranormal Group who were called in by 'Thorpe Park bosses', oddities witnessed by workmen building a new ride at the theme park were caused by the spirit of a headless monk, buried in the ground that the ride was being built upon. The team report of the investigation shows a clearly biased approach to their investigations, with several members claiming to be sensetive to ghosts/spirits. Not only that but their conclusions were questionable, with team founder Jim Arnold saying:
'We carry out these kinds of investigations quite regularly, with medium to weak results being reported on a weekly basis. 'Thorpe Park, however, was more striking as results were picked up immediately, with orbs, ghostly images in photography and ouija reaction results being strongest around the site where they were proposing to build Storm Surge.
'The results were so strong, we felt the only explanation could be that an ancient burial ground or settlement was being disturbed, prompting the extra paranormal activity.'
Not only was the methodology used psuedo-scientific and dodgy, but so was the evidence provided. Our favourite is below.
It's more likely that the evidence collected by SWLPG was the product of suggestion and confirmation bias, and Thorpe Park saw the chance to grab headlines off of the back of this. Readers may remember that they did something similar around the time they opened the Saw Rollercoaster. Spooky,
#2 – The Walton ghost horse
I first discovered the Walton ghost horse one day when visiting Professor Chris French's Facebook profile to leave a message. There was a video posted on there by Don Philip, the lead investigator for G.S.I Paranormal UK.
Of the video and recording, Don says:
its enclosed 4 walls no windows, in the middle of nowhere with no passing traffic, people or neibours[sic],that store room was a stable in the 1800s and its approx 2.45 am in the morning. The video camera caught it, the video camera then shows the digital recorder playing the evp and finally the evp from the recorder played at the end, now that would take some debunking or a hell of an alternative explanation considering the sound is obviously in the room with us and so clear and loud.
It is clear from the video that the people present believe it to be a horse, referred to as 'Bubbles' by one of the women present. Apparently this is because they found a grave marker close by for a horse called 'Bubbles'. That's a claim that requires evidence, but all we have is this odd noise that Don and his friends are claiming IS evidence. The problem here is that there are so many possible alternative causes for such strange noises (often referred to as 'Electronic Voice Phenomena') that before anyone can say 'this is supernatural' they have to be able to cross off every possible natural cause.
The G.S.I team cannot do this, and as they're the ones who are making the claims about this recording, the burden of proof sits squarely with them. Also, Strangely, when I asked them to elaborate what they were claiming the noise was in our conversation on Facebook they all seemed to be very evasive and vague about it. Despite the fact that they identify it as a horse in the actual video (as you have hopefully just seen or heard above).
Professor French had posted in response to the video on his Facebook wall that he was busy but would be interested to hear my opinion on the video, so I had a good listen numerous times and came to the following conclusion:
To me it sounds like nothing more than something being dragged along a rough surface, such as a floor or worktop – the sound being interpreted as a horse braying or snorting is the sound of friction between the object and the surface.
I believe the link you are making with the sound being a horse is because you've accidentally primed yourself with the reputed haunting of the building – you call the horse by it's name suggesting there is rumour the place is haunted, or associated with a dead horse called Bubbles. If you were to take away that association and listen to the sound I do not believe it would be linked to a horse by anyone present.
Electronic Voice Phenomena isn't a sturdy method of paranormal investigation due to the lack of data involved, and the influencing factors at play beyond the control of the person conducting the EVP session.
I also played the recording to a friend of mine who keeps horses without telling her what the noise was thought to be. She didn't recognise the noise, and when I suggested it was a horse she didn't agree. The same happened when Chris French played it to his daughter who also rides horses. Take away the priming information – that it is a horse, or that a horse is buried there – and people don't make the link.
In fact, this is something that happened time and time again. I downloaded the noise, you see, and played it at several 'skeptics in the pub' events that I spoke at. I played it at Edinburgh, Bristol and Westminster and nobody was able to identify the noise as a horse. That's hundreds of people who listened to the recording who, without being prompted that it might be a horse, were unable to identify it as such.
Verdit: Not a horse ghost. Neigh.
1 – the ghost of 'Nigger'
A team of paranormal investigators, Paranormal Lincs, claimed in November that they had made contact with the "spirit" of the dog owned by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, the heroic pilot who led the Dambusters raids during the Second World War.
Wing Commander Gibson led the Dambusters raid in 1943 from his base at RAF Scampton, near Lincoln, just hours after his black labrador, called 'Nigger'*, was run over and killed.
The first sighting of the ghost dog was reported in 1952, so what, you might ask, prompted a paranormal group to undertake such an investigation?
It was the photo below.
It was taken in the 80's and shows shows a Labrador among a school group at a memorial to the Dambusters, close to where Gibson's dog was buried. The photographer is said to have claimed the dog appeared from nowhere just as the photo was being taken, refusing to be shooed away and, as soon as the photo was taken, the dog disappeared, never to be seen again.
Of course, there is no proof that this happened – we only have the word of one person to go on, but that's never stopped ghost hunters before. Not to mention the fact that those from the 'Paranormal Lincs' team didn't even speak to the photographer directly. This is just a recycled story with no verification.
The paranormal team conducted their investigation and are convinced they not only detected the ghost dog, but also that they spoke to Guy Gibson himself.
After staking out the base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, now the home of the Red Arrows, ghost hunters are convinced it is haunted by a ghostly Labrador. The lead investigator, Paul Drake, said:
'There is definitely paranormal activity there. One of our investigators felt a cold spot and when we measured it, it was eighteen inches, which is about the height of a dog. The curator of the museum has told us that he has felt for years that he has had a presence following him and he definitely feels that it is that of a dog.'
One investigator who stayed overnight at the base last month even claimed she heard a dog growling when she entered Gibson's former office.
'I definitely heard the growl of a dog', said Michelle Clements, 45. 'Three of us heard it and we all agreed it was a dog. It was a really low growl. It wasn't a happy yap at all. It sounded sounded like he was warning us to stay away.'
After scouring the base with infra-red lights, proximity sensors and video cameras, the team say they picked up activity which suggests the pilot was trying to speak to them.
'I do believe we spoke with Guy Gibson,' Miss Clements, a school dinner lady from Leicester, said. 'We asked him if he was with his girlfriend Margaret and he said yes. We also played some old music from the 40s and there was a response to that as well.'
It isn't specified what activity they picked up, but a quick look at this BBC article shows that the team used K2 meters to talk to the 'spirits' which is quite ignorant.
A quick look on the teams website forum sheds light on the sort of evidence we are dealing with.
'…we got loads of orbs and one that looks like a face and an arm. The Atmosphere felt strange as if their was people in there watching us.'
'…the K2 meters were going crazy. I played some vera lynn to get things started. it looked like he was singing along to the song which was sweet of him :).. he also just wanted us women in their we found out as he didnt like the men.'
'…about 9pm we got all the equipment set up in both guy Gibson office and the hanger ( museum ). we had alot of orbs in the hanger.'
'…we went into the next room to his, his agented ( personal secretary). ha ha i dont think he was impressed by us because the k2's were going mad as we werent standing to attention.'
'It was wierd that i took pics showing an orb above the reporters head as well as other strange things considering we were not doing a full investigation.'
To summarise once again, this investigation took place because of a ghost story associated with a photo that is decades old. The investigators used ghost hunting gadgets that don't do as claimed, and accepted things such as orbs and cold spots as evidence that a ghost was present. They presumed these 'ghosts' they were communicating with, or detecting with their gadgets were that of Guy Gibson and his dog simply because of the ghost story they were chasing.
Worst. Ghost. Ever.
There you have it. The worst ghosts of 2011. If you think we missed a story why not post it in the comments below? You can also follow us Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
*we used the name of the dog in context and mean no offense.
Glass Divination Challenge
Glass divination is a technique used by many paranormal research teams at supposedly haunted locations. The aim is to communicate with the spirits of the deceased, who push the glass around a surface (usually a table top) in response to questions. People sit in a circle and focus their 'energy' on the glass to help the spirit move it.
Think 'ouija board without the board' and you have glass divination.
Successful glass divination is a product of two things; either somebody around the table is intentionally moving the glass, or the people around the table are unconsciously moving the glass. The first is called cheating, the second the ideomotor response.
Scientific tests by American psychologist William James, French chemist Michel Chevreul, English scientist Michael Faraday (Zusne and Jones 1989: 111), and American psychologist Ray Hyman have demonstrated that many phenomena attributed to spiritual or paranormal forces, or to mysterious "energies," are actually due to ideomotor action.
Furthermore, these tests demonstrate that "honest, intelligent people can unconsciously engage in muscular activity that is consistent with their expectations" (Hyman 1999).
They also show suggestions that guide behavior can be given by subtle cues (Hyman 1977).
The above mentioned 'suggestions that guide behaviour' include folklore tales attached to a building, or the stories told to the investigator about what has happened or been witnessed at the location, by the owner of the location owner/staff/residents. If you are aware of the fact that a woman who was murdered is said to haunt a corridor in the building looking for her unmarked grave, it's likely that that knowledge will influence the way in which the glass moves.
There is a simple yet effective way to test whether the glass is being moved by the people resting one finger upon it. You need to be able to visually see the movement, and I have found that the best way to do this is by covering the glass with putty. Any intentional or unintentional movement of the glass by those touching it will show in the soft putty.
Here's a demonstration:
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ZeroTurnaround has gone public on JRebel for MyEclipse, a specialized plug-in enabling developers to see the effects of code changes during development without the need to build or redeploy their application.
According to ZeroTurnaround's annual Java EE Productivity Report 2011, this process consumes an average of 10.5 minutes of every coding hour for the median Java EE developer (which is over 5 full weeks per year).
ZeroTurnaround's CTO Jevgeni Kabanov states that the JRebel plug-in brings JRebel functionality and specialized integration to Genuitec's MyEclipse IDE. This plug-in provides a configuration wizard that lets users enable JRebel integration with MyEclipse and the application server of choice, such as IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, GlassFish, and Jetty.
MyEclipse itself is the Eclipse plug-in based solution for all UML, Ajax, web, web services, J2EE, JSP, XML, Struts, JSF, Java Persistence, EJB, extended database support, profiling, and application server integration developer needs.
"We're proud to have prevented over 35 million redeploys for tens of thousands of Java developers worldwide," remarked David Booth, ZeroTurnaround's CEO. "It's a great development to have the industry's most-used 'redeploy killer' join forces with Genuitec to eliminate restarts and redeploys in Java for a growing population of MyEclipse fans."


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Britney Spears + Jason Trawick Broke Up Because Babysitting Your Girlfriend Gets Old
Britney Spears' recent split from fiance Jason Trawick wasn't wholly unexpected -- and now reports indicate that for months before, they were indeed headed for Splitsville (population: them) because he just grew tired of having such an emotionally delicate flower for a girlfriend.
"It has really been in motion awhile. Jason has been very stressed and concerned for Britney and what she might do if he left," a source claims.
"He is worried about her and really loved her, but it started to take a real toll on him," the tattletale continued. "The burden of taking care instead of a partnership where she also takes care."
Basically, rather than a mutually strong relationship, Spears needed a lot of babysitting -- and despite her fully-stocked fridge, Trawick finally had enough.
So what this means is that Spears was too crazy for Jason but not crazy enough for Simon Cowell. Damn. Girl just can't win for losing.
Britney and Jason confirmed their split on Jan. 11, after which she returned her engagement ring to him. Trawick, meanwhile, will most likely fade into obscurity.
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Fast-food fate for former 'Farmer'?
Proposal not final plan, agent says
Despite the wording in a public notice that was on the building until a few days ago, the old Hungry Farmer at 575 W. Garden of
the Gods Road is not absolutely destined for demolition to make room for two fast-food outlets.
The notice from Colorado Springs Planning asked for public comment (through May 28) on a "proposed development (to) remove the existing restaurant building and replace it with two fast food pad sites."
However, according to Mark Useman of Sierra Commercial Real Estate in Colorado Springs (which is trying to sell the property), "it's too premature to say" what will happen at the site. He said his agency is even open to keeping the building if an entrepreneur comes forward who is willing to make use of its 11,000 square feet of space - although he observed that it would take a "unique concept" because the buildings in most modern national restaurant chains are only about half that size.
City Planner Larry Larsen, whose name appeared on the public no-tice, e-mailed the Westside Pioneer that he had posted the notice after talking with "a group of folks desiring to remove the Hungry Farmer and replace it with two fast food pad sites." No formal application has been filed, he said.
He noted that the property is zoned C-6, in which "all types of restaurants are permitted uses."
The Hungry Farmer, an independent local restaurant since about 1969, went out of business late last year.
"Obviously, it has some history," said Useman, a 1977 graduate of Manitou Springs High School who later went to Colorado College. "I went there when I was in college."
Nevertheless, he added, the building "has gotten to the point were it's a little obsolete in size and with the improvements it would need, it might make more sense to tear it down, although a lot of people wouldn't like to see this happen."
Even if it gets torn down, there's no certainty that two fast-food outlets would replace it. "It could be fast food and a bank," Useman said.
On that side of the street, the 600 block now has a Quizno's fast food and the 700 block has a Wendy's.
Useman said it would take two to three months before any definite plans take shape for the property.
According to the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's Office, the property is owned by Colorado Springs Hungry Farmer Inc. A notice on the front door, evidently from the owners, states that the business is "closed - gone out of business" and that a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition was filed Nov. 19, 2003.
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Beer Poster
Beer Posters is a collaborative piece with artist Robert Wechsler. They first observed the drip poster as a happy accident resulting from a careless liquor store that left its advertisements out in the rain. The posters were extremely inexpensive digital prints and were highly susceptible to water. After collecting the already dripped posters from the outdoor signs the artists proceeded to purchase all the beer posters we could from inside the store. They then recreated these drippings by mounting these posters in a gallery and spraying them with water. In effect they were corrupting the images in a way that enhanced its aesthetic significance. The posters base messages were blurred out while the brilliant colors and patterns were enhanced by the organic flow of the water over the vulnerable ink.


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On Friday, Turner introduced the Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2012, which aims to provide a tax credit of up to $5,000 per year to families.
"Every parent knows that one of the most important and most expensive responsibilities of parenthood is educating their children," Turner said as he stood at the entrance of St. Margaret's School in Middle Village. "But the best education is not always in the public school system; one size does not fit all. People have their own choices and beliefs."
Turner said that the TEACH Act will effectively eliminate or minimize the effects of what he calls a double taxation, which parents who choose to send their children to private schools face.
"When a parent chooses to send their child to a non-public school, they no longer use resources of the public school system, but are still responsible for paying taxes that go toward the public school," he said. "And on top of that they have to pay for the tuition of the non-public school – in essence, double taxation."
If passed, the TEACH Act will provide parents who send their children to non-public schools a tax credit of up to $5,000 per year, per family.
"It will not pay for this education, but will go a long way in helping the parents, relieving a tremendous burden," Turner said.
The bill is already receiving praise from parents and school administrators.
"There are so many parents I meet with on a regular basis who would very much like to either keep their children in private school or send their children to private school but cannot afford to do that," said Philip Franco, principal of St. Margaret's School. "It would be a wonderful opportunity for all faith-based or even private schools to benefit the parents especially during these times that are very difficult."
Kelly Redmond, a Middle Village resident and parent of a first-grader at St. Margaret's, is behind the bill.
"Wanting to send our child to St. Margaret's, we've made many sacrifices," she said. "I think it would be foolish to not take a really good look at this. I think it's a long time coming."
Some administrators are also saying that the bill is a win-win because it will help non-public schools increase their enrollment by making tuition more affordable, while reducing class sizes in public schools.
The bill also has support from the Diocese of Brooklyn. "We hope that other representatives in Congress will also choose to support the TEACH Act and the many families that it will undoubtedly assist," said Stefanie Gutierrez, spokesperson for the diocese.
Turner believes the bill will gain support in Congress.
"I have some confidence that with hard work it will be able to get through the House this year," he said. "We need a lot of support to get this moving."
He said he expects some opposition to the bill but is ready to start a dialogue.
If passed, the bill would qualify and help parents of over 75 private schools within Turner's ninth Congressional District, which covers parts of Queens and Brooklyn.


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2010: Had four catches for 74 yards two touchdowns in the season opener against Holy Cross ... Suffered a season-ening knee injury following the second game of the season.
2009: Earned a spot on the Ivy League second team ... Led the league in yards per catch at 18.2 - a figure that was nearly three yards better than the second-best figure ... All told, Lorditch hauled in 30 passes for 545 yards and three TDs ... Named to the Ivy League weekly Honor Roll on Sept 21. ... Caught nine passes for 89 yards including a 46-yard TD pass in the opener against then-No. 23 Holy Cross ... Caught five passes for 75 yards in a win over Brown on Sept. 25 ... Had four catches for 100 yards and a touchdown against Lafayette ... Caught a 77-yard TD pass in a win over Princeton for the fifth-longest scoring pass in school history ... Caught a 45-yard touchdown pass against Penn ... Caught five passes for 104 yards and the game-winning 32-yard touchdown with just over a minite to play in a 14-10 win at Yale.
2008: Started seven of the nine games he appeared in ... Second on team with 31 catches for 425 yards and three touchdowns ... Averaged 13.7 yards per catch ... Made his first start at wide receiver in the opener against Holy Cross and caught nine passes for 85 yards ... Caught four passes for 106 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown for his first career TD in a win at Lafayette ... Missed two games with an ankle injury but returned to make four catches for 40 yards in a win at Princeton ... Caught a 76-yard touchdown pass in a win over Columbia.
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Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi is an international women's fraternity promoting friendship for a lifetime, inspiring academic excellence and lifelong learning, and developing leadership skills through service to the fraternity and community.
Inspire Ambition.
Alpha Omicron Pi is full of many strong, intellectual, creative, athletic, fun, and unique individuals. Together, we have a special bond with one another, making our sisterhood one of a kind. At Washington College, we encourage one another to strive to be our best, while always being each other's support.
AOII's philanthropy is arthritis research for which the sisters have spent much effort in raising money through various activities. After their participation in Greek Games in the fall, AOII sisters volunteered at a Halloween festival in cooperation with Kent County Parks and Recreation. The spring plans include the annual Rose Ball, Sweethearts Party, and Founders' Day celebration.
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University Park, Pa. -- In conjunction with the largest private gift in the history of Penn State to fund a state-of-the-art, multi-purpose arena, Penn State will establish NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey programs. The two teams are slated to begin competition in the 2012-13 season.
The addition of men's and women's ice hockey at Penn State will increase the number of sports that Intercollegiate Athletics offers to 31, which will tie it for third among the 120 institutions in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. Within that category, only Stanford (35) and Ohio State (34) field more sports, while Boston College also has 31. The last varsity athletic team that Penn State added was women's soccer in 1994.
"This is the fulfillment of a dream for many that have been long-time advocates and supporters of Penn State hockey," said Athletic Director Tim Curley. "As with all of our programs, we will expect both the men's and women's teams to compete for championships and achieve at a high level."
Penn State's current club hockey programs have experienced success throughout their respective histories. Established as a club team in 1971-72 after fielding a varsity squad from 1939-40 to 1945-46, the Icers have won seven ACHA National Championships. The Lady Icers began as a club program in 1996-97 and have made appearances in the 2000-01 ACHA Final Four, six National Tournaments (including the 2009-10 tournament), and were the 1999 Mid-Atlantic Women's Collegiate Hockey Association (MAWCHA) champions after an undefeated season.
"We are excited to add ice hockey as a varsity sport for women at Penn State," said Susan Delaney-Scheetz, associate athletic director and senior woman administrator. "The sport is growing in popularity, and the new facility will help showcase our women's programs and allow us to grow our tradition of recruiting top student-athletes to Penn State. We have great expectations for the future success of both the men's and women's programs."
Terry and Kim Pegula's $88 million gift to fund the state-of-the-art arena, as well as help establish the men's ice hockey team, made the addition of ice hockey as a varsity sport at Penn State possible (see the related story at http://live.psu.edu/story/48449 online).
"The Pegulas' unparalleled generosity will make it possible for Penn State to serve our region and our student-athletes in exciting new ways," said Penn State President Graham Spanier. "This arena will be an invaluable year-round asset for members of the University community, as well as for children, youth and families throughout central Pennsylvania, and it will be an engine for economic growth and development. The Pegulas' support also will help build a program that extends our rich tradition of preparing student-athletes for success in competition and in life."
"The construction of the new arena will be entirely funded by private gifts," said Rod Kirsch, senior vice president of development and alumni relations. "Penn State will now be launching an ambitious campaign to ask other donors to join Terry and Kim in supporting this facility and the creation of other endowments to support the hockey and skating programs. Our goal is to make this arena, and the vast array of activities to be held in it, the national model by which all other programs are measured."


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When I began my genealogy research in the mid-70's, I seemed to focus on my maternal grandmother's Kolberg line. It wasn't that I chose that line over the other lines but it seemed like I continued to have the most success with that family. This was surprising in that my Kolberg ancestors originated from a small village in what was once Pomerania and what became Poland. The chance of getting records from this small area seemed a bigger challenge than focusing on my West German ancestors. That proved to be untrue.
As the years progressed I had continuing success in my research on this family. My information at the outset was that my 2nd great grandparents, Friedrich-Wilhelm Colberg, Sr. & Henriette Amalie Kautz had 12 children (11 sons and 1 daughter) with 4 of the sons and the 1 daughter dying in infancy or childhood. The seven remaining sons lived to adulthood and my goal was to trace these 7 sons down to the present generation.
Five of the sons immigrated to the United States between 1880-1910 and all settled in Berrien County, Michigan where I live. Over the years I was successful in achieving my research goals with these 5 sons and successfully amassed a database of near 2,400 individuals descended from these 5 Colberg/Kolberg brothers - August, Heinrich, Otto, Paul and Ferdinand.
My research then turned to finding descendants for the other two brothers (Johann and Friedrich-Wilhelm, Jr.) who had remained in Germany. During this research I received the most stupendous gift that any genealogist would love to have - I discovered a German cousin, from the family of brother #6 - Johann Colberg, who lived in Berlin and who not only was happy to hear from me but who also shared my passion for genealogy.
This cousin, Gerhard Kolberg, and I have had 13 wonderful years of collaborative connection. We not only shared our mutual files and managed to each achieve in the process data on 6 of the 7 Colberg/Kolberg brothers but we also visited each other on more than one occasion, met and mingled with family on both sides of the ocean and developed a real kinship. I have come to consider Gerhard a very special Uncle though in reality he is my mother's 3rd cousin. Over these years our e-mails have burned up cyberspace and I have 5 three ring binders full of the correspondence that Gerhard shared with me.
Together we continued to work on attempting to find information on the remaining elusive Kolberg brother, Friedrich-Wilhelm, Jr. but were unsuccessful. Gerhard's health began to decline and our correspondence became mainly familial topics and general interests.
In the last month I have had the remarkable good fortune to make a huge break-through in the search for information on Friedrich-Wilhelm, Jr and his family. I was not able to share this news with Gerhard as his daughter had informed me he was very ill and had been hospitalized through the holidays.
Today I received the sad news that my special cousin, Gerhard Kolberg, had passed away. The e-mail arrived just 30 minutes following his death and I was saddened to read it. I had known he was ill but had held out hope that he could recover. This was not to be.
Even though our relationship only lasted 13 years it was a wonderful connection and one that I will cherish always. Gerhard was a remarkable man with extraordinary talent and drive, loved by his daughter and her family as well as many other family members and numerous friends. He was a graphic designer by career, an author, a poet, an exceptional photographer and creator of family history videos, an avid reader who enjoyed the outdoors and made good use of each minute of every day. He was a devoted husband during his wife's life caring for her during her final years and maintained a sunny and friendly disposition.
I will certainly miss him and our connection. Our relationship was such that I felt I had known him my entire life. This certainly speaks to his character and charm.
I will continue the research on our mutual Kolberg family in memory of Gerhard and to thank him for the part he played in my life. He was one special person and I am honored to have been a small part of his remarkable life.
Gerhard Kolberg & great-granddaughter, Milena
Christmas, 2009
Berlin, Germany
Christmas, 2009
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Above photos personal collection of Cheryl Schulte


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Canberra, Australia: Australia's government on Tuesday announced plans to regulate travel to terrorist hotbeds such as Iraq and Syria as part of a raft of counterterrorism measures aimed at addressing the domestic threat posed by war-hardened homegrown Islamic extremists.
The government announced proposed laws and 630 million Australian dollars ($590 million) in additional resources for intelligence and law enforcement agencies to help them to cope with the scores of Australians who return home after committing terrorist acts overseas.
"We don't want to subvert Australian justice," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reports. "The last thing any of us would choose to do is to defend our system by damaging our system."
"But what we are determined to do is to ensure that where people have been involved in terrorist activities, it is much more readily possible to secure convictions than it currently is, given the difficulty of getting evidence of exactly what might be happening overseas," he added.
Abbott said it was difficult to find witnesses to testify in Australian courts to atrocities in foreign war zones that are often posted on social media websites.
"We've all seen truly shocking imagery of Australians born and bred doing absolutely horrific things to surrendering Iraqi police and military personnel," he said. "What we are now acutely conscious of is the danger posed back here in Australia by people returning to this country who have been radicalized and militarized by the experience of working with terrorist organizations overseas."
Under the legislation to be introduced to Parliament in the next few weeks, it would become a criminal offense to travel to designated countries "without a valid reason."
Attorney General George Brandis said the onus would be on someone who travels to such a country to explain that the reason was humanitarian, family or for "other innocuous purposes."
The offense would be far easier to prove than the current prohibition on traveling overseas to take part in terrorism.
A suspected terrorist would be detained without charge if he or she were "suspected on reasonable grounds," a lower burden of proof than the current test of "considered on reasonable grounds."
Under the proposed laws, the foreign minister, who can currently cancel a suspected terrorist's passport, would gain additional powers to more quickly suspend a passport.
The legal definition of armed hostilities would be expanded to include a range of terrorist activities. Australian telecommunications and Internet companies would also be required to retain customers' data for a period. Spy agencies argue that retaining such metadata is necessary to uncover terrorist plots.
The Australian government estimated in June that 150 Australians have fought with radical militants in Syria and Iraq.
Australian police announced last week that they had arrest warrants for two Australians who are fighting with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria after one posted photographs of the other posing with severed heads of Syrian soldiers. They said former Sydney residents Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar would be arrested if they return to Australia.
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Olympia was made by the French impressionist painter Edouard Manet. In this painting, the painter used an angle which could be applied to show the whole body to perform the naked body. He neither fully performed the stereo feeling, nor asked for half-stereo feeling, but took a unique compression stereo feeling. Then the body was with more volume at first glance. Such idea was consistent with other bright parts in this painting-the pillow, bed sheet, colorful scarf and structure of black female slaves. These performances showed an alternating light and darkness or jumping missing in the nude images, which made the whole with a special lightness and brilliance. But their form was still like the bright relief set off in the dark background. Here, the blue lines were highlighted in white to distinguish the yellow, green and rose in the dark background. Because of no intermediate tone from the bright to the dark, so we may consider this compression relief as a color mosaic whose black and white contrast as the image itself strongly affected on the viewer's imagination.
In short, we saw the unity of the style in this painting and all the depicted object was subject to the uniform color effect. Nude was attributed to the deep color structure-although it appeared in the form of compression relief, it had been transformed into a stereo. This led to a poetic feeling which could be described by words, because this poetry was coming from the integrity, infection and vitality of the art image itself appearing in front of the viewers. This was Manet who tried to achieve the unity of shape and color he imaged instead of beauty or truth in describing the things what he saw. To achieve this goal, he determinedly abandoned the description methods favored in the upper class. Then he drew Victor Lena (the naked woman in Olympia) into a mixture of pet and doll. Beauty, truth, life-all had been swallowed by art. He showed his freedom of observation methods in Olympia. In this way, he almost imperceptibly turned his techniques into the ideal and created a road for his own imagination. In this painting, Monet put forward the principles of free observation which was later accepted and regarded as the banner by the whole contemporary art.
Olympia was about completed in 1863 and displayed in Salon (the official exhibition) in May 1865 for the first time. But it was immediately criticized by the media and even blocked. And Manet was also forced to flee Spain, though a lot of people had painted nude before. Edouard Manet died on April 30, 1883. A large number of people attended his funeral. Edouard Degas said, "Manet is much greater than we imagine." In 1890, Olympia was purchased by donation and donated to the state. And this masterpiece was displayed at the Le Louvre museum.
Manet firstly studied from academism painter Couture and then imitated and researched Titian, Velasquez, Goya, Hals's works. Influenced by Japanese paintings, he once participated in Paris Commune Revolution and created Barricade and other stone engravings. He innovated painting skills based on traditional European paintings and excelled at using the loud and clear colors, concise and accurate strokes, reducing intermediate tones, and strengthening the contrast of light and shade, which caused the discrimination of academism. Manet's achievements were mainly in the external light and portraits. After 1863, he got closer to impressionist painters like Monet and had somewhat changed his painting style. But he still drew in his own way.
In 1862, a great event occurred in Paris, France: when academism held the salon exhibition, they excluded nearly 4000 works from more than 300 painters, which had caused widespread discontent and condemned among people. Napoleon III decided to hold another exhibition called "Salon des Refuses" for these paintings being failed for election in order to quell the uproar. On May 15th of this year, "Salon des Refuses" opened. The visitors were much more than those coming for the official exhibition. The most attractive was the young painter Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass. In front of this painting, there were a great many audiences.
Soon, Manet's another pair of work Olympia caused the turmoil in the art world. The academism rebuked his paintings vulgar, and even the French progress painter leader Courbet at that time also thought his painting lacked authenticity. But his paintings had been warmly embraced by new characters, because his paintings were against school rules, and also out of the realism principles. His painting was not to achieve beauty and truth, but achieve unity in the shape and color, which was regarded by the western modern art as a free observation method and the banner of the principles. Although Manet never willingly admitted that he was the Impressionist and had never attended the Impressionist exhibition, he invisibly became the founder and leader of the impressionists. He had devoted his life to the painting techniques and reform and the impact of classical idealism and school and opened a prelude to the history of painting color revolution.
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Plink Floyd wrote:OH BOY A BIG ECL PSE IS COMIN!!
August 21, if you haven't heard yet. Me, CR & Midinaut will have pretty good seats. & all of us are within a few hours drive of TOTAL DARKULARITY!
Crap. I've been moving this week (new house, yay). So I missed this, booo.


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The film won't hit theaters until March of 2013, but the trailer for the remake of Carrie — based on the 1974 novel by Stephen King — has arrived. Like the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma, this new version — starring Chloë Grace Moretz — features Carrie covered in blood. But that's all we get to see, for now. There aren't very many details in this trailer: A town is on fire and Carrie is pissed; someone in a voice over laments: "She wasn't some monster… She was just a girl." Can't wait to see what else director Kimberly Peirce (who helmed the award-winning film Boy's Don't Cry) has up her sleeve.
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It is sad irony that Mubarak used the Islamists as bogeyman to scare people from democracy , now the Islamists use Mubarak and his regime as bogeyman to justify their practices.
The Constituent assembly will finish the draft constitution by Wednesday night and tomorrow its members will vote for it. The assembly will present the final draft to Morsi on Saturday I think so he would hold a referendum in the matter of two weeks !! It is worth to mention that the supreme constitutional court will issue its decree regarding the constituent assembly by December 2,2012. Many people expect that the court will disband the assembly thus it is better now to finish the bloody constitution now.


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One last thought about change: generally people don't like it. As humans, we are creatures of habit. We have our routine. We know where things are. We like things the way we like them. End of story. Well, not exactly. A recent experience at my local club made me realize how reluctant people are to change, even when it's for their own darn good.
Setting: A clean, independent, bare-bones club. There aren't many amenities at this club, just cardio equipment, free weights, selectorized equipment, a small locker room and a couple of tanning beds.
Cast: Some of the cardio equipment is pretty outdated and the décor is basic, so the facility mainly attracts diehards who will work out just about anywhere. You know the type. Every gym has a few and some gyms have a bunch — this is one of those gyms.
Plot: Almost all of the club's 10 wall-mounted televisions are set at maximum volume to drown out the noisy hum of the 5-year-old-plus treadmills. Each TV is tuned to a different channel, depending on the viewing preferences of the diehards stationed closest to it. But here's where the problem comes in — sometimes more than one diehard is stationed by the same TV and their viewing preferences differ. This can lead to a channel war that often begins as one person touches the dial and the other person screams, "I am watching that!" To deter further conflicts and to prevent the entire membership from going deaf or insane from the blaring audio chaos, the owner of the club invests in a wireless FM audio system for the TVs and no longer allows members to change channels. The club posts signs informing members that they can now program their personal portable music devices to the frequency that corresponds with the channel offered on the TV in front of them. Other signs taped over the channel up and down buttons read, "Do NOT change the channel. To listen, please tune to 107.7."
Climax: Rather than producing the desired effect (quieting the floor to just the steady hum of the treadmills), the signs frustrate members. Their frustration leads some members to tear off the signs. The next day, the signs return, now secured with two layers of tape.
Ending: As the weeks pass by, the battle continues — signs go up, signs get ripped down. TVs blare. Members shout, "I was watching that!" The staff spends a fortune on masking tape until things slowly begin to settle. Members begin to acclimate to the change (or the troublemakers get so frustrated that they don't return). They begin bringing in their personal radios and asking for help if they have a problem. As everything quiets down, the club once again allows members to change the channel on a few televisions without the presence of a staff member. However, those TVs remain on mute with the close captioning on. Except for conversations between now friendlier diehards and the slight mumble of sound escaping from a pair of headphones that are turned up too loud (some habits just don't go away), the gym is darn near peaceful.
Moral: The blaring television wars were a bit — okay, incredibly — annoying. The club was correct to seek a resolution to the problem. However, the amiable compromise eventually reached could have occurred sooner — and with a lot less tape — if management had first consulted its members and convinced members about the benefits of the change. Change is never easy, but with a little involvement from your members — maybe even a roundtable discussion or an open forum on your Web site — the drama (and noise!) in your club can be kept at a minimum.


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"You may get eaten," he said with a wink.
His little joke: Cannibalism has not been practiced in Fiji for nearly 200 years.
My friend Amy Lindsay and I were among the 30-odd passengers on a four-day cruise last April through the remote Yasawa Islands of Fiji. At the suggestion of some well-traveled acquaintances, I decided to take a Blue Lagoon cruise on a South Seas stopover for a much-needed break after a business trip to Australia.
An article in the Feb. 23 Travel section about a cruise through Fiji incorrectly named Nadi as Fiji's second-largest city. Nadi trails Lautoka, which is the second-largest city.
Fiji airline -- The information box accompanying "Casting Away in the South Pacific," Feb. 23, incorrectly listed Fiji Airlines as flying nonstop to Nadi, Fiji. Air Pacific flies nonstop to Nadi.
Blue Lagoon Cruises, started by an Australian and a New Zealander, has been navigating these waters for more than 50 years. The two businessmen had planned to develop a tuna fishing operation but ended up launching a small cruise company, named "Blue Lagoon" for the 1949 movie starring Jean Simmons. At the time, tourism was uncharted territory in Fiji. The company's first ship had only six passenger cabins.
Tourism now is Fiji's largest industry, and the company has four ships. Its flagship, the Mystique Princess, has 36 cabins and holds 72 passengers.
Though the Mystique Princess was only half-full on my sailing, the passengers were an international group ranging from 16 to 76 years old. Five couples were honeymooners from the United States, Australia and New Zealand. An extended family from Australia was on board for a reunion, and a group of Italian physicians and their spouses had just attended a convention in Sydney.
We had met up at the international airport in Nadi, Fiji's second-largest city, on the island of Viti Levu, and took a shuttle bus a short distance north to Blue Lagoon's home port in Lautoka. A downpour dampened our welcome aboard the Mystique Princess, but we remained dry as we boarded because the crew held umbrellas over the gangway. It was the last rain of any significance on our cruise.
Once underway, the Mystique Princess zigzagged northwest to the Yasawa island group through a maze of coral heads into a channel called Bligh Water. Capt. William Bligh passed this way in his longboat after being thrown off the Bounty by mutineers. But he was chased by Fijians in canoes, so he didn't linger.
But lingering was the pastime of choice for most of the Mystique Princess' passengers. With short distances between the islands, no "must-do" tourist attractions and a competent, friendly all-Fijian crew taking care of us, we relaxed, lounging on deck in jeans or shorts, reading or chatting. Dressing up was an option, though, and at our first night's anchorage at Vaikiki Bay, some passengers brought out flashy sequined evening dresses for the elegant captain's dinner of a shrimp salad and prime rib.
The welcome-aboard tropical cocktail and the delicious meal sent me drifting into the Australians' "no worries" mode, and in that relaxed state, Amy and I found the way to our cabin.
It had a picture window, twin beds and enough drawer and closet space for the contents of our two suitcases. It also had comforts like air conditioning, a bathroom equipped with a hair dryer, and room to move without bumping into the walls or beds.
Nothing went bump in the night, either, and no engine drone or pitching waves disturbed our sleep. Unlike larger cruise ships, which often travel great distances at night, the Mystique Princess sailed during the day.
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The next morning we cruised northward under overcast skies, and I got a better look at the Yasawas. These ancient volcanic islands were the setting for Tom Hanks' 2000 movie "Cast Away." For good reason. The islands are remote, reached only by boat or private seaplane. They have few resorts, telephones, banks or roadways. The terrain is hilly and covered with shrubs; coconut palms line the shores. The ship stopped at Yasawa, the northernmost island in the group, and a tender took us to a soft, deserted beach. Then the more intrepid among us followed Albert through a tangle of green vines and across fields with grass as high as my eyes. Our destination, a World War II American lookout station -- now a Japanese weather station -- sat atop a hill, giving us inviting views of our ship anchored in a cove.
Our walk left us ready to cool off in the warm sea, and again we followed Albert -- this time to a reef. Some passengers had never snorkeled, so he gave them a quick lesson. But Dashini, a 16-year-old from New Zealand, kept getting water in her mouth and came up sputtering. Albert went underwater to diagnose the problem.
"You're grinning too much," he told her. "That's breaking the seal around the mouthpiece."
"I can't help it," Dashini said. "It's too beautiful."
But she learned to contain her pleasure underwater and to save the grins for the open air.
We floated over a wonderland of coral in many shades: yellow, dusky blues, black "trees" that grew from the ocean floor like a forest that had lost its leaves.
The fish were even more colorful than the coral. I snorkeled among blue starfish, white- and black-striped angelfish, iridescent parrotfish and elongated brown fish with orange stripes. Close to shore I spotted orange- and white-striped clownfish darting through the fingers of blue sea anemones, picking off minute morsels of plankton.
Snorkeling whetted my appetite for lunch, and we reboarded the ship to find a buffet spread with rolls, cold cuts and cheese for sandwiches, along with vegetables and fruit. Papaya, bananas, pineapple and watermelon were offered at every meal.
As we lunched, the ship cruised south to Malakati, a village on Naviti Island. At a small stone church, we sat on narrow wood benches as Albert described the yaqona, or kava-drinking, ceremony we were about to see. Yaqona (pronounced ya-cone-ah) is a mildly tranquilizing, nonalcoholic drink that numbs the tongue and lips. The herb has an honored place in Fijian culture, and its use was once restricted to high priests and chiefs. These days yaqona has become part of the tourist scene.
The village chief and other men, dressed in long grass skirts over shorts but with no shirts, mixed the kava with water in a large wood bowl using what looked like a very used sock that was wrung out several times.
This was one of those times when you have to choose between local custom and hygiene. Maybe it was peer pressure; maybe it was the knowledge that previous Westerners had survived this ceremony. Hey, I figured, rationalizing my fears, it could be a sterile sock. I tried the drink.
It tasted like ground twigs, and though it numbed my tongue for a short time, I noticed no further effects.
But the music was intoxicating. At first the village women and men sang hymn-like tunes, but those gave way to a livelier beat as the lead singer, a ringer for Harry Belafonte, played bongos and belted out reggae-like songs. Other men played larger drums or banged bamboo sticks in rhythm. Soon everyone, including passengers, was dancing. With little ventilation in the hut, we broke into a sweat almost instantly, and the resulting aroma of warm bodies mixed with flowers was intense.
Thinking the ceremony must get tedious for villagers if they have to stage it every week, I asked Albert how often the ship comes to this settlement. Only three times a year, he told me, because the line varies its stops among other islands and villages. He said a part of the cruise fees -- almost $400,000 annually -- supports children's education and medical clinics in the islands.
Outside, the village women had set up shop on mats, carefully arranging their wares of wooden carvings, shells and jewelry made from seeds and shells. There was no pressure to buy, but I purchased necklaces for relatives with money borrowed from Albert because I had not carried any money ashore.
We came back aboard ship to a seafood smorgasbord of prawns, oysters, lobster Thermidor and a light vegetable tempura while the ship sailed on to the next day's destination.
An ideal ending
Our final day was dedicated to water and beach play. The Princess was tied to a palm tree on Nanuya Lailai, an island owned by Blue Lagoon, and I gleefully jumped off the deck into the water. I tried nearly every activity offered -- kayaking, rides in a glass-bottom boat, snorkeling, swimming and sleeping in hammocks -- and felt wonderfully exhausted.
While the passengers played, the crew worked, preparing a lovo feast. The lovo is a Fijian version of a clambake. The crew first dug a hole in the sand, filled it with wood and stones, and lighted a fire to heat the stones. Then it was leveled to make a platform for the food -- a leg of pork, fish, lamb, cassava, yam, taro and spinach, some items wrapped in foil and others in hand-woven palm fronds. Banana leaves and damp sacks were stacked on top, and then the pile was covered with sand and left to bake for several hours.
Don't expect much from the lovo, a Blue Lagoon alumnus had told me. But he was wrong: I relished the food.
Maybe it was the meat's smoky flavor. Maybe it was the warm glow cast by the torchlight on the beach. Maybe it was the Yasawa Sunset, the bartender's mix of rum, Kahlúa, coconut cream and pineapple juice. Whatever the reason, I enjoyed every mouthful -- as I had every moment of the cruise.


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Some were big, some were tall, some evenly colored orange all the way around, others had green shading through the ridges, and many of the pumpkins in front of Dale's Supermarket in Hillsboro on Thursday had thick and healthy looking green stems.
Lisa Schafer of Durham said she was looking for a pumpkin that was just perfect, big, but not so tall that it would fall over. There were all different sizes and shapes to choose from at Dale's grocery store.
"We always have to have a pumpkin or two for Halloween," Schafer said. "I don't get into all the decorating with ghosts and witches, but I do get a pumpkin each year."
Dale Franz at Dale's Supermarket said he gets two or three large pallets of pumpkins every year, and this year they are looking very nice.
"They come from Jirak Brothers over by Lincolnville," Franz said. "I would guess they weigh an average of 15 to 20 pounds each, and there are more than 40 in each pallet."
Franz said Thursday that he put the pumpkins out in front of his store two weeks ago and they definitely put people in the mood for fall.
"It's not fall until you put out the pumpkins," he said.
Caleb Schafer, teenage son of Lisa Schafer, said he was not as particular what kind of pumpkin he wanted.
"I just want an extra one that I can blow up with my shotgun," he said.
Franz said there were plenty to go around. It did not look like the drought had affected pumpkin growth too much in the area.


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I once had a good day.
I once had a good day
my thoughts were clear
and nothing hurt.
I once had a good day
my thoughts were clear
and nothing hurt.
You know that phrase, 'she's cut from a different fabric'.
Well, yes.
From polyester.
Someone called me a pervert the other day for drawing boobs so I started drawing cunts too.
This illustration is for my best friend Laura. xxx
Miu Miu shoes from the Spring/Summer 2013 collection and a bad taste joke. Probably I should have that engraved on my tomb stone.
Perhaps the best and worst thing I've seen. 9 months and I still don't know if I love them or hate them.
I love them.
Not really.
I took some stills of one of my favourite music videos, Red Hot Chili Peppers's 'The Zephyr Song', directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (who had also directed videos for R.E.M, Oasis and Beastie Boys).
A new tumblr find. Nicole Bell, better known by her artistic name Nicole Dollanganger, makes the most disturbing music I have ever heard. Songs like 'Coma Baby', 'Blood Brothers' and 'Dog Teeth' are tragic lullabies, obscure stories sang with the softest voice. Raw, cruel, but beautiful and delicate. Brutally honest. And a great alternative if you are already done with cool people repeating the word 'swag' or 'pussy' in their lyrics until your ears bleed. Grab a box of tissues and enjoy her first album, Curdled Milk, that you can either listen for free or buy from her bandcamp (http://nicoledollanganger.bandcamp.com/).
While Tumblr now seems to be packed with misinterpreted quotations, skinny girls and cats, if you are careful enough you will be able to find one or two things that make all the time spent online worth every second. This is how I met Peter De Potter, from Antwerp, whose work comprises a different range of photography, both found imaginary and self-made, divided in series, each with its own tumblr page. So far De Potter has created http://angelic-starts.tumblr.com (2010), http://routine-routine.tumblr.com (2011), http://i-am-an-image-machine.tumblr.com(2011) and most recently http://badges-for-honorable-lovers.tumblr.com. By using these sites all his work has been transported into a digital platform, with an occasional physical twin of the online pieces aside from a few minor alterations regarding its printed format. Apart from these series, last year, the Belgium artist participated with an entry at the Avant/Garde diaries in Berlin, curated by Raf Simons, with whom he has collaborated since 2001.
PdP's art has caught my eye in a very powerful way. Firstly because the obvious magnificence of his work; his ability to conjoin ideas to create a greater concept in just one collage is remarkable and definitely one of a kind, even if it almost every tumblr blogger would state they do the same thing, De Potter sensibility is transmitted by each piece into a larger vision that might not be perceived by some.
While some individuals would aim their criticism to his way of re-using other artist's work, De Potter defends his pieces noting where the importance of his art lies: "The question of lifting images from their original sources is not new in the art world yet there has never been a definite answer or definition about it. To me, my work is very much about the questions 'what is an image', 'what is a collage', 'why do we fall in love - in the physical sense - with an image', 'why are we touched by an image' than anything else." Even more than that, there is something so romantic in his vision, and that is his use of both found imaginary and his own to create something new. Sort of bringing back to life forgotten thoughts one once had- shared and then disappeared. De Potter transforms images, a process which feels almost like recycling, and comes up with collages that feel fresh and honest.
The Internet has been for a while the strongest way of diffusing art and the fastest way ever to receive a real feedback from the viewers. And yet there is people who still reject platforms like Tumblr or Instagram, regarding them as an 'irrelevant' form of entertainment. Now Peter De Potter proves otherwise and reaches his public in the most exciting and modern way and possibly, the highest number of audience. If it seems like everything has been done before, why not trying something new?
I recently discovered the artist Shinichi Maruyama (b. 1968 Nagano, Japan. Now based in New York). What I loved about his work is, given the ephemeral nature of his sculptures, they can only exist through a photographic or film media support. Check out his 'Water Sculpture', just brilliant.


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Tales of Water - A Child's View tells the exciting story of the many challenges facing water management through the eyes of children. This multimedia project is coordinated and managed by The World Conservation Union and undertaken by the Tales of Water Foundation. It focuses on rural children living in river basins in Jordan, Tanzania, the Mekong Basin, the Niger Basin, and Mexico/Guatemala.
The project lets children from all over the world tell their stories and experiences with water. The various 'Tales of Water' illustrate in concrete terms children's relations to water. It records their observations, adventures and feelings and shows that water is the basis for all life and that everyone deals with water on a daily basis. Water has a function, is a means, a product, a life condition.
The Zarqa River Basin in Jordan is one of the five locations that were identified as hot spots for water resource management. A team from the Tales of Water Foundation has been in Jordan for 2 weeks visiting different parts of the Zarqa basin and interacting with children who have talked about their surroundings and the place of water in their life and imaginations. They have showed that water is central for the life surrounding them and this has been captured on film, by photography (including photographs made by the children themselves) and in words (as written up by a local Jordanian writer).
The team has been supported by the IUCN Regional Office based in Amman and by the Ministry of Environment and partners such as The Queen Zein Al Sharaf Institute for Development (ZENID), the Jordan Aqua Conservation Association (JACA), and the IUCN National Committee in Jordan. IUCN, through this project, wishes to contribute to increasing awareness of the subject matter of water within key target groups. The main target group is youth. For them, one short television show and a web-based education program will be developed.
From the field work in Jordan and the other locations, four products are being developed:
- A Tales of Water photo-book in two editions, including a CD-ROM or DVD. One chapter of the book will focus on the Jordan/Zarqa River Basin
- Five television documentaries (one on the Zarqa River Basin in Jordan)
- A 'Tales of Water' website
- A presentation (the presentation aims to focus attention to the Foundation and its objectives, on a national and international level).
The 'Tales of Water' will play a prominent role at the forthcoming World Water Forum in Mexico (2006). There, Ministers will receive the photo book and the multimedia pack will be presented to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan.
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Author Notes: Although I love my oysters raw, sometimes a grilled oyster is a nice change. The oysters are topped with a yummy spicy citrus butter that still allows the flavor of the oysters to come through. The butter is also great as a dipping sauce for crab legs and lobster. - melissav —melissav
Food52 Review: We wish more people would grill or broil oysters -- it's so easy and the quick blast of heat concentrates the oysters' brine and browns their tips without drying them out. Here you mash up butter with Sriracha, shallots, lime juice and cilantro and as the oysters cook -- we broiled them -- the flavorful butter melts and poaches the plump little bivalves. We think the butter would also be pretty great on clams, fish, shrimp, crab and even corn. One detail to keep in mind: the lime juice just will not mash into the butter, so just spoon the juices over the oysters after dabbing them with the butter. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: at least 2 dozen oysters
cup butter, softened
teaspoon Sriracha
teaspoons shallots, finely minced
tablespoon lime juice
teaspoon kosher salt
teaspoons cilantro, minced
oysters on the half shell
- Mix the butter with the shallots, sriracha, lime, salt, and cilantro. Let set up in the fridge. It doesn't have to set up completely but it should be more solid than liquid
- Meanwhile, heat the grill (or broiler) until very hot.
- Toss each oyster with a dollop of butter.
- Grill (or broil) for 3-4 minutes.
- Enjoy! But be careful as the shells will be very hot.
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The blogosphere is full of challenges this year.
One of the ones that struck a chord in me was Julie Hedlund's 12 x 12 in 2012. Julie is a talented writer, inspired blogger and generous spirit. I've never met her, but if you visit her blog, you'll see what I mean.
When my children were little, I always had a pad of paper and pencil and pack of crayons wherever we went. Bored children? Write a story! Cranky children? Write a story! Happy children? Write a story!
You get the picture!
Sad to say, many of those stories were tossed during different moves we made over the years. Others languished in taped-up boxes, forgotten in the shadowy corners of a closet.
My children are grown now, with families of their own…but my passion for picture books remains fresh!
Of course, I am fortunate in that I get to read picture books with a new generation of children when I present the Show Me How Story-time with Miss Vivian programs to library groups, kindergartens and Pre-K's. And I do have the opportunity to read to my grandchildren when I visit them.
But one of my dreams is to write a picture book story that children love and want to hear over and over and over again.
And that's why, when I saw Julie's 12 x 12 Challenge, I knew I had to participate. Write twelve picture book drafts in a year…one each month.
January has come to a close…and I'm proud to say that I've completed my January assignment!
I know it needs a LOT of work…it's just a rough first draft.
The tentative title:
Caroline's Hat…or Caroline's Flower-Sprigged Hat.
The story:
Little Caroline is out in the garden. She forgets her hat when her mother calls her in for lunch. While she is gone, several garden animals help themselves to parts of her hat so that when she returns, it is not where she left it. As Caroline searches the garden, she discovers her hat is being used by the animals for their own purposes.
The opening lines:
"The soft summer breeze tousled Caroline's' curls,
As she lay in the tall green grass.
On a blueberry bush, the red ribbons waved,
From the brim of her flower-sprigged hat."
I think we all have secret dreams…would you like to share yours?
Today is the last day of the month, so our 2012 PPP "Read to your Child Everyday" Challenge ends for January. In the next few days, I'll be posting the name of the January winner of a picture book.