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Head football coaches are often referred to figuratively as CEOs of a program or franchise. Virginia's fledgling United Football League franchise took the unusual step of hiring a CEO as its first head coach.
Joe Moglia, who gave up a promsing coaching career nearly three decades ago and became a financial sector star, was introduced Wednesday as head coach of the new Virginia Destroyers.
"I always thought my experience as a coach helped me in business, and I think my experience in business will help me in coaching," Moglia said at a press conference in downtown Norfolk.
Moglia's introduction was the signature announcement on a day when UFL officials also revealed the team nickname, venue and logo. The team will begin play in the fall of 2011.
The Destroyers will play home games at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex, though officials were quick to point out that tryouts and other team functions will be spread throughout Hampton Roads.
But much of the buzz Wednesday goes back to the decision to hire a man whose last paid coaching position was in 1983 and who has never been a head coach beyond the high school level.
UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue referred to Moglia as "an interesting hire" and said that he believes that Moglia provides Hampton Roads with "an extraordinary chance for this to be the flagship franchise for the league."
Moglia, 60, is a multi-millionaire who was CEO of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and before that a high-level executive at Merrill Lynch.
After leaving daily operations at TD Ameritrade in 2008, he has spent the past year-and-a-half as an unpaid assistant coach and advisor on Bo Pellini's staff at the University of Nebraska. He works 70-hour weeks and spends four nights a week at a hotel in Lincoln, an hour away from his home in Omaha.
As Moglia transitioned away from business, he said that the coaching bug bit him again.
"I still think there are things I can be good at," he said, "but the thing I can be the best at is a head football coach."
Moglia announced that longtime NFL assistant Tom Olivadatti, a colleague from his previous coaching days, will be the defensive coordinator. He hasn't settled on an offensive coordinator or on the remainder of the staff yet.
Moglia knows that there are skeptics who will question his ability, particularly compared to fellow UFL head coaches such as Jim Fassell, Dennis Green and Chris Palmer — men with NFL head coaching experience. He dismissed the idea that he is a public relations curiosity designed to attract attention for a start-up football league.
"If I'm a publicity stunt, then frankly, the entire UFL's going to go down the tubes," he said, only partly in jest. "At the end of the day, there are two critical pieces here, with a tremendous amount of risk involved. And we take those risks because we think there's a tremendous opportunity and incredible upside."
"Number one, Michael Huyghue has got the responsibility to put a phenomenal product on the field. There is no way, in my opinion, that he would risk the future of the United Football League and make what looks like a laughable p.r. type of decision, with regards to any one of his franchises. He's put too much of his life into this. There's too much at stake. He's got to make the right decision."
Moglia is a Horatio Alger story with a coaching jones. He grew up poor in a tough, north Manhattan neighborhood, living in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with his immigrant parents and four younger siblings.
He attended Fordham and worked his way through the high school and small college coaching ranks, eventually becoming defensive coordinator at Dartmouth in the early 1980s. But his career path was derailed by divorce and the obligations of providing for four young children on an assistant coach's salary.
Moglia enrolled in a training program at Merrill Lynch and succeeded spectacularly, eventually running the firm's investment products, insurance and 401(k) businesses.
In seven years on his watch at TD Ameritrade, the firm increased its market capitalization from $700 million to $10 billion, and its clients' assets from $24 billion to $280 billion.
According to Forbes Magazine, Moglia earned $21 million in compensation his final year as CEO and has beneficial ownership of $144 million in company stock.
Financial freedom allowed him to pursue coaching again. He interviewed for the head coach's position at Massachusetts and then talked his way into informal interviews with various college athletic directors, including East Carolina's Terry Holland and Duke's Kevin White, and several conference commissioners.
He approached Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne, who he knew from business and social circles within the state, and asked about serving an internship with the football program. He and Pelini agreed to permit him to work with the football program as an unpaid assistant and in the athletic department as a life skills consultant.
Moglia's aim was to get up to speed with today's game and programs and eventually become a head coach.
When the UFL announced that it was expanding to Omaha, Moglia wanted to get involved. He had meetings with Huyghue and later with Virginia team president Ed Reynolds and general manager Doug Williams, selling all with his passion, his knowledge and his organizational skills.
"I think the reality is that this guy was the best choice," Huyghue said. "He has so many qualities that I don't think people would see right away. Somebody was going to get him. I just think that we were innovative and creative enough to get him ahead of the curve."


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Tonight, in the fourth and final preseason game, we will see little or maybe nothing from the front-line Steelers. The first-team offense and defense will play a series and call it a night. There's a chance some starters might not even play. No sense taking a chance for more injuries to strike a team already dealing with so many health issues.
But that doesn�t mean the annual preseason finale against Carolina is meaningless. Let�s allow coach Mike Tomlin to explain.
�This game presents a significant opportunity for guys to make a final statement in their charge to etch out a role for themselves within this group, or simply be a part of the group,� he said. �We looked at the recent history of the series to reiterate to some men that this is a legitimate opportunity, the last opportunity to make a strong push to put them on the right side of the ledger.
�I talked openly about the recent history of the game and what it provided to certain men. (Linebacker) Stevenson Sylvester and (running back) Jonathan Dwyer represented themselves well in the past games, and they staked their claim on their position. I want the guys to know that this is a very tangible thing.�
With that in mind, Times pro football writer Mike Bires takes a look at three rookies trying to secure spots on the final 53-man roster.
He may be an undrafted free agent who didn�t earn any postseason honors when he played at the University of Arizona but Robert Golden is playing so well at free safety that it�s going to be hard for the Steelers to cut him.
Golden, who returned an interception 47 yards in Saturday's win at Buffalo, is listed in the Steelers� depth chart as the third-team free safety. But when the Steelers open the regular season Sept. 9 in Denver, they won�t have starting FS Ryan Clark, who has a medical condition that doesn�t allow him to play in the high altitudes of Colorado. It's almost a given that the Steelers will take four safeties with them when they play the Broncos.
Even though he never made any of the Pac-12 all-star teams, Golden was good enough to make 38 straights at Arizona including some at cornerback. And if he hasn�t already wrapped up a roster spot -- he's certainly out-played wannabe safety Damon Cromartie-Smith up to this point -- Golden may do so tonight with a strong performance against the Panthers.
The Steelers have just four tight ends on their roster: starter Heath Miller; backup Leonard; third-stringer Wes Saunders; and David Paulson, a rookie taken in the seventh round of this year�s draft.
While playing college football at Oregon, Paulson flourished in the Ducks� wide-open offense. He caught 31 passes including six for touchdowns as a senior and 24 balls including four for TDs as a junior.
Admittedly, he�s a guy whose forte is catching the ball, and not blocking. At 6-foot-4 and 241 pounds, he�s more of a finesse player. But with Saunders on suspension for the first four weeks of the season for violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing drugs, there may be a roster spot for Paulson.
The Steelers could go with just Miller and Pope and have fullback Will Johnson move to tight end in three tight end sets. But if Paulson plays well tonight, he may secure a roster spot when the Steelers make their final cuts on Friday.
Judging by the way Jeremy Kapinos hangs out with kicker Shaun Suisham and long snapper Greg Warren, it seems as though he will be back as the Steelers� punter. Kapinos� stall in the locker room is in a corner near Suisham�s and Warren�s. Those three veterans are always together during practice periods that don�t involve special teams.
The only problem with Kapinos is that he has a mysterious back injury that�s kept him sidelined for most of the preseason.
Meanwhile, Butler, a rookie out of Georgia, dresses in another part of the room and almost seems as if he�s a loner when it comes to the specialists. But for the most part, he�s held his own. Granted, he hasn�t boomed all of his 19 punts but among NFL punters with at least 10 preseason kicks, Butler ranks seventh with a 48.2 yard average.
Last year when Kapinos took over for injured Daniel Sepulveda (knee), he averaged 45.0 yards per kick.
So it appears Butler has an adequate leg, and perhaps most importantly, he�s injury free. Maybe he can sew up the job tonight if he punts well against the Panthers.


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ZHUHAI, China - China on Tuesday showed off a new military drone and a model of a next-generation fighter plane as it builds up its own defence capabilities and seeks customers for its hardware.
Industry giant China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) displayed its "Yi Long" drone, called Wing Loong in English, at the opening of China's premier airshow in the southern city of Zhuhai, state media said.
The show comes as China's Communist Party holds a meeting to select the country's new leaders - including for the party's Central Military Commission, which controls the armed forces.
The new leaders are expected to be announced Thursday.
AVIC, which makes both military and civil aircraft, also showed a model of a new generation fighter jet that Chinese media said was the J-31, a stealth plane whose existence was only recently known to the public.
Chinese President Hu Jintao last week called for China to step up the military's technological abilities, saying its most important task was to be able to "win a local war in an information age".
AVIC had previously shown only a model of the nine-metre (30-foot) long drone, which can carry two missiles, at previous Zhuhai airshows, an analyst said.
"The Chinese have spent a lot of money to develop a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)," said Andrei Chang, a Hong Kong-based military expert.
"They know that in future wars unmanned warfare will be very important," Chang, editor of Kanwa Defence Monthly, told AFP.
He added China was aware of the US experience using drones in Afghanistan and earlier military conflicts, while the worry that the United States might one day intervene to defend Taiwan had prompted development.
China considers Taiwan part of its sovereign territory and has threatened to use military force should the island move towards independence, though tensions have cooled in recent years.
The Chinese drone resembles the Predator manufactured by US-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, used by the US military, but is likely priced far more cheaply, Chang said, adding the Wing Loong had already been exported.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper put the price of the Chinese drone at around US$1.0 million (S$1.2 million).
At the air show, the grey-coloured drone was tucked away at the corner of the exhibition, surrounded by journalists and officers of a foreign military, who declined to comment.
The website of the People's Daily newspaper said AVIC also displayed a fourth-generation fighter, which it identified as the J-31, a stealth plane that had its first test flight last month.
But an AVIC official was quoted as saying by the Sina website that the model was only a "concept" plane that was still under development.
China's first stealth fighter, the J-20, was unveiled in early 2011 but is not expected to enter service until 2018.


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Residents in a Lincoln Court neighborhood say a dumpster that three local businesses use is causing a rat infestation in the area that has caused upwards of $100,000 of damage to local homes.
"The smell in the yard is so horrendous you can�t even spend a minute out on the deck," Lincoln Court resident Donna Doherty told the Advertiser last week. "I can�t open up the windows of my house without the stench coming in. I can�t let my two grandchildren out in the yard � it�s devastating."
Doherty has been pulling dead rats from her property for weeks, and said hundreds of them have been spotted in her yard so far.
"One of the rats I saw was almost the size of my cat," she said. "The other day coming home from Boston for a doctor�s appointment I thought they were in my car. I just can�t take it anymore."
The dumpster where the rats are allegedly coming from sits on the property of the Banana Splitz ice cream parlor around the corner on Lincoln Avenue, which is also shared by a nearby Subway and a Dunkin� Donuts.
A lawyer who represents two homeowners sent a letter to the three businesses and asked them to move the dumpster and reimburse the residents for damage caused by the rat infestation.
Attorney Marc Chapdelaine told the Advertiser�s news partner WCVB Channel 5 that the stench of dead rats poses a health risk, but that�s only part of the problem � it�s causing damage to the homes. The rats have made their way under a pool and whirlpool spa, and under decks.
According to the WCVB report, Chapdelaine said in the letter that the damage to filter pipes requires the removal of the pool and whirlpool spa, as well as the removal of the decks to get rid of the decaying rats.
"I�m scared to live in my home," Doherty said. "I�m afraid they�re going to come into my house. I can�t sleep."
Saugus Public Health Director Frank Giacalone said he is aware of the problem and plans to meet with the business owners this week to try to find a solution.
"We�re going to work toward improving the situation, but it�s complicated," Giacalone said. "Without closely examining the property it�s hard to say exactly what the cause is."
Giacalone said that as of press time he had not been on the Doherty�s property, but questioned whether a dumpster such as the one on the Banana Splitz property could cause such a large-scale infestation.
"There have been cases of businesses not maintaining dumpsters, and that can lead to rodents, but not as bad as the extent we have here," he said. "In a case like this we urge the residents to take responsibility and properly maintain their homes as well, but without examining the property we can�t say for sure."
Giacalone said he did watch the WCVB report that aired last week, and that some red flags were seen on homeowners� property.
"There was a part of the broadcast where you could see a large piece of plywood being lifted off the ground, and you have to question why that plywood is there, as that�s also the type of thing that could lead to a nesting ground for rodents," Giacalone said, adding that he wasn�t even sure which property the plywood footage was taken from. "I�m not saying where the problem is coming from, but we have to look at everything before we make a decision. It can get complicated."
No matter the outcome of Giacalone�s meeting with business owners this week, he said he will do whatever is necessary to make sure the problem gets resolved.
"We�re actively working on a solution and we are most certainly not taking this situation lightly," he said.
A manager with Banana Splitz who wished to remain anonymous said the business is also hoping the situation can be resolved quickly.
"We�ve been working very closely with town officials and have been told that the problem may not be on our end," the manager said. "We truly don�t believe that we are the source. I�ve lived in Saugus for 20 years and have worked here for the past eight, and I take great pride in this business."
Saugus residents aghast at rat infestation
Residents in a Lincoln Court neighborhood say a dumpster that three local businesses use is causing a rat infestation in the area that has caused upwards of $100,000 of damage to local homes.


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When it comes to dealing with the issue of gambling, North Carolina usually ends up playing a game of 52-card pickup. In other words, the state�s approach leads to little more than a bungled mess, offering neither logic nor conviction.
When it comes to dealing with the issue of gambling, North Carolina usually ends up playing a game of 52-card pickup. In other words, the state�s approach leads to little more than a bungled mess, offering neither logic nor conviction.
The latest debacle involves sweepstakes gaming, which has spread like kudzu across the Tar Heel State in recent years as a replacement to previously banned video poker. The sweepstakes industry has said that its form of video games offering prizes is legal because the winners are predetermined, and customers only purchase computer time that allows them to participate.
The state legislature in 2010 passed a law banning sweepstakes games, and the state Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of that ban. The industry asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay enforcement while businesses pursued an appeal to the nation�s high court, but that request was denied.
Law-enforcement agencies across the state have begun enforcing the law, but with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
A potential loophole, which regulates how results can be displayed, may be enough to keep sweepstakes businesses that alter their machines in operation, at least in some jurisdictions.
Expect more court dates, more confusion, more inconsistent law enforcement � and the inevitable rise of new varieties of video-gaming enterprises as this legal whack-a-mole adventure continues.
New Gov. Pat McCrory has said he believes the law needs more work, and he plans to talk with legislative leaders about revisiting the issue of sweepstakes. Whether those discussions would extend to other forms of video gaming is not clear. But what the state really needs to examine is the way it has dealt with gambling in general, including what public interests are served by the current state of affairs.
By allowing � in fact, sponsoring � certain forms of gambling such as lottery and bingo parlors, the legislature seems to have taken sides on the morality issues.
So the central question remaining seems to be how gambling should be regulated and taxed. Current limitations do nothing to eliminate the possible abuses of gambling because it is already prevalent; instead, the state only seems to be limiting the revenue that could be raised through a well-regulated gambling industry. It is also preventing other sorely needed economic benefits � casino jobs, hotel construction, related entertainment forms � that could be derived.
Across the nation, states are realizing that prohibiting certain forms of gambling while allowing others is inconsistent in terms of morality and counter-productive in terms of raising revenues that could help close serious budget gaps. North Carolina needs to step up to the table.


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - What 's your hobby??? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What 's your hobby??? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message iswritingJoined: 11 Apr 2006Posts: 491Location: Japan Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: What 's your hobby??? What's your hobby?? I love making sweets !! Sometimes, I make some of sweets, for example cookies, cheese cake, applepie...and I give to my friends. I'm very happy because they are pleased. I will try to make ice cream this summer!!! Back to top tomo0214Joined: 24 Apr 2006Posts: 6 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: music My hobbie is sing a song!!! I belong to vocal group,and it is very fun I like KARAOKE,but now I can't go usually. My another hobbie is talk to friends,so I want to make many friends!! Back to top ☆mary☆Joined: 24 Apr 2006Posts: 22 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: Hello!!! Hi!!! I'm japanese girl My hobby is human observation. If only spare time it is, the chestnut it puts out throughout the city, observes the many people. But the person who does not know as for that person that it probably will go somewhere, it does what kind of work and so on, it is funny enormously from now to imagine, is. Back to top cath-y★Joined: 24 Apr 2006Posts: 40 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: Hi!!! I'm japanese girl My hobby is Cooking. When you cook, because it is accustomed to happy feeling . Back to top iswritingJoined: 11 Apr 2006Posts: 491Location: Japan Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: i think your hobby is so cute i make sweets really occasionally too! my hobby is go to my friend's live. i wreak stress on live Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Carroll tops E. Noble in NHC bouts; Braves 4th
AUBURN — Carroll took four championships and five runner-up slots, and all 14 wrestlers scored Saturday as the Chargers held off East Noble 262-248.5 to add the 2013 Northeast Hoosier Conference Wrestling Tournament crown to their dual-meet season title.
Bellmont, the defending champ in the tourney, finished fourth with 172.5 to the 186 of New Haven and coach Barry Humble. This marked the first year since 1990, the initial year of the NHC, that Bellmont has been shut out of both the wrestling tourney and dual-meet season title combination.
Bellmont senior Brad Busse earned the 195-pound championship, scoring three first-period falls, and was the only Bellmont winner. Frosh heavyweight Cody Fields had a big day, scoring a pair of close decisions to get to the finals before falling in 3:04 to two-time champ Drake DeMuyt of East Noble.
DeMuyt was one of six East Noble champions. The Knights added two seconds and four thirds. It wasn't enough.
"How often do you get six champs and don't win the conference tournament? Amazing!" commented Bellmont coach Brent Faurote on the 500 total points scored by the top two teams for 2013.
The Braves lost seven wrestlers in the critical first round, then five of those seven winners in the semi-finals. "We came back and did all right, but we were hoping for a few more third places. Instead, we got fourths and fifths," noted the BHS coach.
The Braves placed 13 of 14, but had four fourths and four fifths. "I felt we had our best week of practice. We were well prepared, it just didn't carry over," said Faurote.
"We didn't click as a whole unit by any means. If we're going to be in the hunt this Saturday (Jay Sectional), everyone has to contribute.
"Busse did a nice job. In the final, he took (Corey) Rickman of Carroll down, hit a nice quarter-Nelson, puts him on his back on goes up 5-0, then pins him. He made pretty quick work of it," said the coach, noting the 48-second fall. Busse pinned Ross Thompson of DeKalb in 1:10, then Matt Robinson of New Haven in 1:15 en route to maximum points.
It was Busse's second straight NHC wrestling title.


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For meeting minutes, meeting schedule, and current Senate members, please visit our new Faculty Senate community in My NWACC.


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Bad Santa Wooden Pickle IPA5 gallon12 lbs Carapils 3 lbs Crystal 401.9 ounces Maris OtterMash in 8 gallons 160° over nightSparge with two gallons of apple cider vinegar at 180°60 min covered boil2 ounces summit at 60 min2 ounces dill seed at 30 min2 ounces cumin seeds at 20 min2 large whole cukes at flame out20 min cuke stand before chill Wyeast 2206 fermented at 90°F for six weeks Rack onto twelve crushed elephant garlic in secondary, rest for three hours and twelve minutes on garlic Bottle as is, no carbonation It already sprays out your nose and mouth immediately upon tasting without carbonation. Adding carbonation would just be dangerous. BTW, anyone have a good liver and onions mead recipe?
I've tried some rather good, albeit odd, beers made with cucumber. Adding some dill shouldn't be that tough.
I actually heard that the Cigar City Cucumber Saison is pretty good. That's as close as I would go.
Quote from: HoosierBrew on September 12, 2013, 12:33:09 AMI actually heard that the Cigar City Cucumber Saison is pretty good. That's as close as I would go.It is, but I still don't want a second pint.
Now, you guys are just being mean. Guess I'll just eat my pickles WiTH my beer. But I will let my wife know that you talked me out of it. So she knows I just didn't give up without a fight.
Why not fill a gallon jug and add a fresh dill sprig and garlic and give it a shot. Real dill pickles are not "vinegary". They are brined with spices such as garlic, dill, black pepper, bay leaves, etc.
Here's my real recipe. Ice, 6 oz snappy tom, 3 oz Absolute, dash Worcestershire, pepper, one spear dill pickle.


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'Living Legend' John Jakes '53 Reflects
October 11, 2013
Learning that he was being honored as a Florida Living Legend was "a big surprise when it first came up," says John Jakes, the bestselling author and 1953 graduate of DePauw University. He jokes, "I thought that to be a legend meant you had to be dead." Jakes received the award September 27 at the Florida Heritage Book Festival and Writers Conference. (photo at right: Elaine Litherland/Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Jakes has been called America's "godfather of the historical novel" by the Los Angeles Times. He has sold more than 50 million books, including 18 consecutive New York Times bestsellers and became the first author to have three books on the Times' list of top-selling books in a single year with The Kent Family Chronicles.
An article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune notes that Jakes is "not sure he'll ever finish his half-written current project, a historical novel about actors in London and the United States that starts in the early 19th century, and less sure that his publisher will take it to print. He's working on his memoirs, a 'tell all' that chronicles his life toiling away in advertising and public relations in the 1950s and '60s in Ohio, where the scene was decidedly unlike Mad Men, while writing fiction madly in the evenings and on weekends."
Susan Rife's feature points out that Jakes met his wife, the former Rachel Payne '51, at DePauw, where she was an instructor in the zoology lab. He recalls, "I got in the first day and there was a sign that said 'do not use "I cannot draw a frog" as an excuse,' and I couldn't. I didn't do well that first year. At the end of that year we decided to get married and she said, 'Well, I'll marry you, but I'm not going to give you a passing grade.' So I had to go to summer school to take the course over. I was lucky I got through."
He calls his wife his "stable rudder," stating, "You know, writers get up and down. You go through personnel changes with the publisher, as you always do; one book doesn't sell at all, one book sells better than the one before, so there are a lot of emotional ups and downs. She's kept me from sinking too low many times."
The newspaper adds, "They've been married 63 years. They spend their time going to the movies and the theater -- a big theater fan, Jakes has written the book for musicals and a number of unproduced stage plays – swimming in the pool and 'frequently taking naps.' "
You'll find the complete article at the Herald-Tribune's website.
An English major as an undergraduate and a former member of the University's Board of Trustees, John Jakes delivered the commencement address to DePauw's Class of 1995. Video of the speech is embedded below.Back


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Whitmore Pool is a dump
In the frantic effort to keep the Whitmore Pool open for next summer, it has been easy to ignore the fact that the pool itself is a dump.
The best thing it has going for it is the 360-degree view, but that really doesn't have anything to do with the pool itself. The view will stay there, and might even be improved once the unsightly tangle of the antiquated pool is removed.
The concrete decks at the pool are on constant danger of collapse. The infrastructure of the thing is so old that replacement parts (heaters, pumps, etc.) are hard to come by, if not impossible. The showers are useless, and as cold as a banker's heart.
The hot spring waters that used to flow under the pool are no longer hot—the result of the earthquake swarms way back in the long ago.
What's more, it is a crummy lap pool, only 25 meters when most decent pools are 50 meters.
It is going to have to be replaced, and soon. The town's parks superintendent, the ever-imaginative Dennis Rottner, says the pool might last another year or two, or maybe 10, depending on how much baling wire and chewing gum his crew can gather.
That's why the debate over the pool for next year is something of a chimera. The real debate, the one that matters, has hardly been discussed at all.
The town's Recreation Commission opened the subject this past week at its regular meeting. The Town Council then took over, as in a relay race.
Recreation Commissioner Sean Turner opened the discussion with a forceful point of attack. He wants to know how much it will cost to build a new pool, and where it would be.
So would we.
Rich Boccia, the schools superintendent, says he has an answer, at least in concept. The center's construction cost would come in at about $29 million, with a total cost, once amenities are added, of about $35 million.
Various funding sources, such as bonding Measure R monies, shifting transient occupancy tax funds and so on, all are on the table.
The center would be situated in the education complex on Lower Meridian Boulevard, on land owned by the school district, Mono County, and Cerro Coso College. Imagine a swimming pool within the town limits, hey?
Boccia's argument is that the town at some point must stop "nickel-and-diming" its way through Measure R funds—that Mammoth needs to build a big-ticket item that makes sense.
That big-ticket item is an aquatics center, and much of the planning for that already is done.
Boccia, working with the South Gateway Partners, has drawn up a "Recreation Action Plan" that includes, front and center, an aquatics center.
It would be a 38,000 square-foot indoor venue with a six-lane pool and 6,000 feet of recreation space.
It might seem borderline insane to start planning a major project in the midst of the town's fiscal crisis and during a national recession.
But it would be even more insane to think that Whitmore Pool will last forever.
Its lease with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power expired in 2007. The town is negotiating a new, five-year lease on that property.
That would give the town just (barely) enough time to figure out what it wants to do with aquatic sport.
In the meantime, let's just face the facts, can't we?
Whitmore Pool is a dump and needs to be replaced. Currently, the only thing it has going for it is a load of sentiment, and a couple dozen lap swimmers.


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I'm obviously not doing very well on the writing front at the moment.
I understand entirely what Simon was trying to say but I have pointed out in the article, that this is only suitable for some sites, it's up to the site owner to make that call. It's entirely possible to send the user to an iPhone specific page of a 'Contact us' page if they landed on the 'Contact us' page of the full site, but yes, in the case of blog posts links, this creates a whole new problem and I can appreciate that.
I'm sorry that my attitude toward media queries has come across as defensive, as I say in the article, I love media queries and they definitely have great uses, but in my opinion, there is a better way to create iPhone specific sites.
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by Frag » Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:32 pm
It's fact though.
It's like people don't learn their lesson. I personally don't understand how people would give MS the benefit of the doubt after going through 3-4 systems.
What happened with the 360 was a disaster yet people still defended that system to the death.
I had both. Got rid of my 360 though because I stopped playing it.
by holtom2000 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:15 pmPfft Intellivision still beats them all. It was a 16 bit system folks!!!
I'm off to play some Lock ' N' Chase, Night Ranger, Astrosmash and my favourite, Shark Shark
by bkthomson » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:50 pm
My uncle had an intellivision I always played poker and baseball. . .
by Strict31 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:12 pm
Tell me more...
by holtom2000 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:41 pm
basically you eat smaller fish and bite the shark's tail!
by holtom2000 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:44 pmAnd here's baseball - which if you think it looks lame, consider how crappy the Atari version was at the time... this, hockey, football, tennis, horse racing, etc., were freakin awesome.
by holtom2000 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:47 pmDandD and Poker and Blackjack!
Dealer looks decidedly NON trusthworthy
by avengingtitan » Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:31 pmI reserved my X-Box One yesterday at work. I got the last one. I was told that all 10 that our store got 8 were reserved by employees. I just wish I got a discount on new electronics. Thank god for all the store credit I have built up from selling off pieces of my comic collection. It shouldn't cost me more then 200$. Can't wait.
by GiveWarAChance » Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:39 pmI cancelled my pre-order for the Xbox One. I'll wait until next year to pick one up. I was just planning on getting Battlefield 4 and Lego Marvel anyways. I can play both of those on my 360 right now.
by SuperginraiX » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:49 pm
Man, I loved my Intellevision.
When my cousins would come over, we would all play Advanced D&D together. I don't even know how that worked anymore since it was a one player game but I remember that it was one guy's responsibility to count arrow clicks.
I also remember playing Poker and Blackjack with my parents. And skiing. And baseball. Hell, a lot of games. My parents actually played games. I still think that's amazing since they never touched the NES or SNES when I bought them.
by SuperginraiX » Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:03 am
I would have hated the 360 if it had red ringed. The reason I didn't buy the PS3 is because I had two separate PS2's that both gave constant disc read errors and would simply not work. If I had gotten a red ring with the XBox, it would have been enough for me to skip a generation. I don't forgive that stuff lightly.
But I bought mine after the problem was fixed. Still, it's something I remembered and one of the reasons I hate early adopting of new consoles. You never know what glitches are going to show up until everyone's already bought the system.
by sdsichero » Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:20 am
It won't have the infinite power of the cloud (tm)
by Strict31 » Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:41 am
This is madness! A game about a shark, and the shark isn't the main "character"?
No wonder I never heard of this game! The designer was clearly never punched enough as a child. I will build a time machine to remedy this oversight.
by Strict31 » Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:01 am
I've never cared one way or the other for either company. I stopped giving a shit about Playstation way back when Resident Evil: Code veronica left that system to become exclusive to Dreamcast. Sony finally got RE:CV back eventually, but it was too late for me to give a shit. I got out of console gaming entirely until Knights of the Old Republic dropped exclusive to PC and Xbox. That's the only reason I picked the system up. I ended up liking Halo, which was also exclusive, and I suddenly realized, the system itself mattered less than the games that interested me.
Microsoft had the titles and as long as they did, they had my loyalty. I never suffered the RRoD, so that was never an issue for me. I liked the fact that PS3 had a built-in blu-ray, and that it was generally a more powerful system than the 360, but the price point was a major obstacle. And the exclusive titles it had just never appealed to me.
Nowadays, the games I give a shit about are multi-platform. Mass Effect, Skyrim, The Witcher series. And I just don't care much for all this extra shit XBox One has. And shit, I just can't separate rumor from reality at this point.
Right now, the only franchise that really appeals to me is the Witcher. I'm done with Halo, and Mass Effect 4 is also likely to be multi-platform. If I'm gonna spend the bones for another console, at this point, it's probably gonna be PS4. I just don't give a shit about console snobbery. From what I've heard, it seems like the price point will be slightly more digestible with PS4, and it will have the games I care about.
But let's be real; both companies have had their scandals. With MS, it was RRoD. With Sony, it was that major security issue that plagued the company for months. We can't castigate the one without at least acknowledging the other.
by Frag » Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:53 amThe PS4 security issue was a big deal, but it happened late in the system's life. The RRoD started on Day 1 and continued for something like 3 years.
I don't understand why anyone would buy an XBone on Day 1 after that, especially with the things you mentioned like price.
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We're at 9 weeks and going strong. Feeding about 8 times a day for 10-20 minutes (depending on her fickle mood ) and feeding 3 times a day plus 5, 3-oz bottles when off at daycare (ah the life of a mama when FMLA does not apply to your company). Growing like a champ, maybe even a little too fast (all those cute little outfits sure don't last long, do they?)
My LO goes to sleep at 8 or 9pm, wakes up about 5 hours later to eat, then back down for another 3 hours before eating again, then back to sleep until about 7am when it's up and at it for the day. We're getting a couple of good naps in during the day too. It's been a long hard battle to get to having a 5-6 hour stretch, but thank goodness for that one long stretch. That said, I'm back at work squishing 40 hours in 4 and would LOVE to get one long night in just once in a while.
Anyone have any thoughts about taking one night to let Dad wake up and give a bottle for one of the two night feedings? Can I go for one long stretch of sleep without risking my supply bottoming out? I'm thinking just once would help me get through the next three weeks or so until that 5 hour stretch becomes more like 7 hours. I know I should pump whenever she would normally feed, but if just once I could sleep on, it sure would help.
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by kaiwai on Wed 9th May 2007 21:41 UTC in reply to "Best way vs .net"
Now with .net updgraded along with vista this is the ideal way to compete. As its GPLv2 it means every 'everything must be free free' distro can also include it!
my only hope is the gplv2 doesnt inspire a million forks
my only hope is the gplv2 doesnt inspire a million forks
As long as they don't procrastinate in regards to merging contributors contributions to the project - I don't see any forks happening. But that is my one fear; if they make access and contributions difficult, a group will simply peal off, and develop a project without layers upon layers of bureaucracy - and both projects will be weaker.
Hence the reason I'm not particular excited about the idea of having multiple versions of OpenSolaris - you're just asking for trouble in the long run as each diverge off in different directions resulting in incompatibilities.


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Well, as if all the trolls/stupid picks I've had to dodge lately weren't bad enough, a bunch of K-ON fans have now trolled me. Mio picking Katarina vs Ahri and Azusa picking Draven after I went soft support...At least Tsumugi had the decency to pick Cho'Gath...That hurts more than the number of screens I hit where people say 'We're IRL friends and taking the same lane. Find something else.'
I'd love to be able to play more games than I dodge...
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|2012-09-04, 23:08
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Of all the characters they could have chosen to make their first Pool Party skin...they give it to Ziggs...what a waste...
In better news, Maokai and Caitlyn reduced to 4800IP. Garen down to 450IP but not sure that means much.
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Does anyone know how matchmaking works for each game type? I actually lost my A.I. match of the day because of smurf trolls (AP Caitlyn) and <LV5 noobs (jungle Ashe)...
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In the case of bot matches, I think it takes whoever is around.
Just now, I had to dodge a match because some clown on our side did what would have to be the most troll bans possible - Twitch, Heimerdinger and Karma...and letting Shen, Malphite, Blitzcrank and Morgana through. Really don't need a stronger indicator than that to leg it...
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|2012-09-06, 11:01
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Miss Fortune permanently shooting off Teemo's 'prick' with Double Up will always be the most amusing thing I'll have ever come across in LoL fan material. You know you'd do it too if you were in her position.
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So I finally got a surge of luck today! Lost a couple of games but at least it wasn't as horrible as usual...and I learned an important lesson, never go bot lane in solo Q. In any game that I've played jungle or AP mid, everything has worked out well, especially @ mid.
Funniest game so far: Zyra mid, all missing. Hit LV3 till they came out of jungle, so I had the luxury of warding with seeds and keeping a couple on me. Morgana misses root, panth jumps me, I plant 2 seeds, burst and run back...and they both follow up for first blood, a kill and a second blood with passive shot. THEN Morgana buys an elixir of brilliance, practically sealing my dominance on the lane^^ Fed Zyra really is no joke, she can hold 1v2 with less than 40% damage :O
It was a quite unusual game in that Pantheon stayed in jungle for the entire duration of the game, only attempting to gank once early on and another two times after, like, 20 minutes. Is that...normal?
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Jungle Pantheon... does that work?
I rarely see Pantheons let alone in the Jungle.
About Zyra, Yes she is a really a amazing mid AP champion.
I can see why Riot would nerf her since pre nerf she was to simply overpowered.
But even after her nerf, a really good Zyra ulti can turn team fights into Ur favour.
Speaking about Pantheon and Fan ficts
Its about Pantheon and Leona
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Well, the last week has killed any interested I had in regularly using Janna, Taric, Soraka, Lulu and Leona. Janna's negation I like but that gradually becomes less effective and she just doesn't seem to be a contributor damage-wise in close team battles, which I can't abide by. Soraka may have big heals but they're not that hard to out-brute and that CD on Q is far too long. Taric and Leona - sure they're good IF your team backs you up after you act on what they start...IF. I can do the combos but if they just abandon you or go after the wrong target, it's utterly hellish. I'd love to be able to do Lux support...but I somehow don't see it being viable enough. Lulu...love the negation and CC, but...it doesn't have that much of a teamwide effect, it seems too one-ally focused, which is a bit lacking in team battles. Blitzcrank and Alistair are automatic bans, so no point in even mentioning them.
So my quest to find something else to support with other than Sona continues...sigh. Is there another support not so different from Sona that's capable of the CC, damage to make just enough difference in a close team battle and maybe a bit of healing? Preferably one that doesn't require you to put your balls in the hands of your team members? Or maybe Riot could finally fix Karma...
On the bright side, even if those other champs don't do it for me, at least I can still rely on Sona to give me fun times. (Yes, this was from a draft match, not blind pick.)
Spoiler for Support carry ftw!:
Opposition team couldn't help but laugh when they surrendered. My team was in shock - admittedly I was too, because that scoreboard was utterly absurd in terms of gold and the fact neither AD carry ever had a kill or death. *shrug* But it's stuff like that which Sona can do that I just can't find a second support to be in that vein. Something that fulfills the support role, has a crucial CC but allows a bit of aggression that is an essential edge in teamfights.
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Zilean is obviously a very offensive support and unlike your staple role-players, he will require creep kills. Not so much to farm gold, but to unleash the burst damage in his QWQ combo. This is best used on your own minions when they are about to get last-hit by melee champions, but if they're both ranged then aim for a weak caster creep and 2x bomb it for a very considerable amount of damage.
His speed skill is very strong, but very short, so getting it to LV3 or so before working on W is a good choice. It completely shuts down champions like Rammus, so he's a good counter for that kind. Use his ultimate as you see fit, it's best used on someone besides yourself. Despite what people say about him falling off late-game, it's exactly the opposite; with max CDR and a powerful mana supply such as grail, he can 1v2 even the hardest CC tanks, either by separating them from their team or by picking them off with chain slow and bombs.
Summoner spells: CV/flash/cleanse, I usually take CV and cleanse.
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I saw some people use Zilean as support, Once he hit lvl 6 he is a free GA if timed right.
I rather play Zilean mid then support if i say so myself.
Last Sinner, did you ever try Nunu Support?
Having the extra Attack speed and Movement speed will help your ADC early / mid / late.
And having his Ulti / Iceball / Exhaust will pretty much Secure kills early game so that you can feed your ADC quite nicely.
And having Nunu's Ability to consume a minion will give you extra sustain when ever you ADC is back to buy some stuff.
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It takes a good Soraka to properly use W though. If you use it too soon, your opponent will give up once they see the armor up and you will lose in terms of mana, because that heal costs a freakin' lot! Not to mention, it has a heavy cooldown initially, so you'll most likely be caught off-guard in another poking attempt. Soraka can support a lane but it's a matter of time until you run oom.
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Click here for IrishCentral's St. Patrick's Day section
Home shopping channel QVC begins its 25th year of Irish programming with an 18-hour broadcast starting at midnight on St. Patrick's Day, continuing until noon and resuming again at 6 p.m. until midnight.
QVC, which broadcasts to more than 230 million global households and is the world's leading home shopping network, aired its first Irish goods show back in 1989. Siobain Bain, a senior buyer for QVC, says the show has grown in popularity ever since, so much so that a second broadcast centered around the Rose of Tralee pageant was added to the line-up shortly after.
"Our two Irish events – St. Patrick's Day and Rose of Tralee in September – are popular QVC events that our customers look forward to every year. We see many comments on our community forums from customers letting us know how excited they are as these programs are approaching," Bain, who was raised in Ireland, told the Irish Voice.
Given that the two Irish broadcasts generate millions in sales, competition among vendors to earn a coveted QVC slot is intense. QVC, says Bain, mixes traditional and contemporary to ensure there's something for everyone.
"Every year we strive to bring products that are new and different while still giving our customers the Irish products [they] know and love, such as Belleek Irish porcelain, Connemara Marble and Irish sweaters," Bain says.
The Belleek range beloved by generations of Irish Americans will be expanded this year to include a line of products suitable for everyday use – a welcome addition for fans who love the delicate porcelain made in Co. Fermanagh, but are afraid to take it out of their china cabinets.
"This year, we worked with Belleek to expand the assortment to offer more everyday products that are dishwasher, oven, microwave and freezer safe so that our customers can enjoy Belleek products in their daily lives, not just on special occasions," said Bain.
The Belleek Everyday mugs will appeal to fans of the traditional basket weave and shamrock pattern, which has been made sturdier for daily use. A set of two mugs retails for $36.
Other items that QVC Irish fans can look out for include a visually striking shamrock cluster ring, made of sterling silver, from Killarney Crystal ($59.50), and sterling silver and 18 karat rose gold plated Celtic knot earrings from perennial favorite Solvar ($99.75).
Bain says the broadcast will also offer an array of interesting items for the home.
"Our Irish home products, such as our new Irish cable knit throw, allow shoppers to infuse a little bit of Irish magic into their homes while still working with their own décor," she says.
"We have many fun, whimsical items this year as well – bird baths, bird feeders, an Irish walking stick with a hidden tin whistle. We even asked Irish artist Roisin O'Shea to make puzzles based off of her paintings."
The QVC St. Patrick's broadcast also features entertainment segments filmed in Ireland, and a live performance by Keith Harkin of Celtic Thunder.
Fans of QVC's Irish broadcasts can visit the channel's website, www.qvc.com, to keep up to date with the show's retailers.
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Episodes airing Monday, April 30 - Thursday, May 3 will feature contestants pulled from a very special studio audience filled with truly inspiring Americans -- members of the U.S. military, firefighters and teachers - who will all be dressed in red, white and blue. Host Meredith Vieira will call down unsuspecting members of the specialty audience, giving them the opportunity to play the game right on the spot and possibly walk away millionaires!
"'American Pride Week' ended up being some of my favorite shows of the entire season," said Vieira. "Not only were we able to give away 'Millionaire' money to some very deserving people, but we were honored to have given these distinguished Americans some well-deserved recognition and to thank them for their contributions to this country," she added.
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Gymnast Jonathan Horton won a team bronze medal and individual silver medal (high bar) in the 2008 Olympics. For his "Millionaire" appearance, he will partner with veteran Olympian Dominique Dawes, who medaled in all three Olympic games in which she competed, including a team gold medal and individual bronze medal (floor exercise) in Atlanta in 1996.
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@eratas: Rong can't be everywhere at the same time for one thing >.>
Anyway, Rong is good in everything that revolves around combat. But that's just "good", whatever skills he has is not comparable to people who have mastered that specific form of combat.
It's like mixed martial arts. Rong takes the basics of everything and takes it one step up and mixes them all together. It's what he's done to survive for so long.
Against people who are trained in what they do and if Rong is forced into a situation where he has to fight them under their rules, he's probably going to lose.
For example, if Rong fought Ichika in IS combat and Rong was not under oath from Fillia, then the match would end in a few seconds with Ichika dead.
If it was a strict kendo match, Rong would probably end up on a hospital bed in under 2 minutes.
too-stu I know but that's just how he is. As long as Fillia is okay he's sealed.
Rong is only exceptional because of his brain and somewhat determinatorness.
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|2011-12-09, 06:49
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Box - Just make her a Bokukko then. A lot of girls are tomboys and even use the male pronouns instead of female in Japan.
Demi - You have to be careful to limit. One of the best ways is to make him good at one or two things and not above average in everything. For example:
Ichika - Raw Power and speed.
Kyuukai - Experience and Teamwork.
Irish - Intelligence and Agility.
Ichika's the strongest while Irish is the hacker and strategist. It balances them all out. If you want to make a character like Rong, why not just crossover with another anime that has a character like him and use that?
|2011-12-09, 06:52
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
(Or at least that's what listed in Trope page , as I said I'm quite afraid I'm a little inconsistent with Madoka's characterization).
|2011-12-09, 07:02
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Senior Member
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@ Senpai - Why does Ran like Ichika in Sacred Twins? She had to have known that he was a delinquent considering the fact that her brother probably came home with injuries sometimes and most likely Ichika was the one dragging him home.
Why is Dan scared of Ran as well? If he's the guy who can take on guys with knivesm I doubt he'd be scared of a tempremental 14 year old.
Irish's condition is played for laughs in Shadow too....till he finds out Allen is dead. His doormat behavior is deconstructed after that and he shows exactly why he acts that way when he finds out. Things get even worse when he gets his memory back and starts to resent himself for acting like that/starts wangsting.
How would Madoka react if someone else manages to snatch Ichika? Accept it and move on or show signs of being in pain?
@ Box - Not really. I have friends who look girly but act like one of the guys (up to watching "adult video's" without flinching). Then again, how does she look anyway?
|2011-12-09, 07:15
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Even now, she still fears that Dan and Ichika will somehow revert to their bloodhound sides again (so Ran is a stepford smiler in this case).
|2011-12-09, 07:16
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
But they are still amatuers.
Maya takes down Erika and Gin, then holds off Karon, Riz and Celeste.
Chifuyu stomps on all of them during a class vs class match.
Browning routinely flattens them every time they cause a ruckus.
And let's not get into how the Mysterious Lady is sometimes needed to bail Karon out...
Things even out when Louise joins, but then again she's almost a Graduate, so her skills are almost at the level of her teachers.
The ST@RS can handle Golems, and lovestruck yanderes () but throw them a Boss character, they struggle to even survive.
Louise has the abilities of her appearance in that other fanon. She was created as an OC for Assassin's Creed. Its explained by Louise herself (in my fic) as "I come from a line of assassins, this is nothing!!" which isn't out of place alongside Tatenashi and Ren.
In a sense, I took your Louise and modified her to fit my fanon.
|2011-12-09, 07:20
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Some say I'm the Reverse
Join Date: Jul 2006
Sound of Louise's pants falling down in public.
<Ren> : "Try harder."
|2011-12-09, 07:30
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Senior Member
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@ Senpai - Her opinion of Ichika never changed even if he saw her and Dan fighting thugs? Also, when did she try to stop the fight? She couldn't have been more than 13, and most thugs tend not to attack Pre-teens (even evil has standards).
So Dan lets her act like that since he thinks it calms her down? It makes sense, but I'm wondering about something: Dan doesn't support the Ichika/Ran ship in canon and this shows a lot, does he act the same in Sacred Twins?
Is this wangsty enough?
Irish: Tears are only for people who're scared to die or have something left to lose. I'm neither of those.
Irish: I can't believe I acted like that. I guess there are some things that are hard to let go off, even if you have to.
Well, it's a Wincest story so she has nothing to worry about in regards to losing. Does she have clingy jealous girl moments though? I can imagine some when either Tatenashi or Cecilia tease him.
@ Meistah - What bloodline is her heritage from? Desmond's is from the middle east originally.
|2011-12-09, 07:34
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
She's the descendent of a traitor who helped the Knights Templar.
Max: *4 Gaijin RAWRface*
|2011-12-09, 07:41
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Senior Member
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@ Meistah - Why does she call Maximillian "Honey"? Does she like him or something?
Side note - What? Are you going to tell me that other Assassins are after her and that she's going to have to fight them off? That's absurd..............right?
|2011-12-09, 07:41
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
|2011-12-09, 07:41
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
On 2nd thought, maybe PS2 and PS3s are Veritech Cyclones.
@Eras: Yes, but that's for another story, not this one. The ST@RS will be the ones hunting her once she betrays them, and I will be milking it for all the dramas worth.
|2011-12-09, 07:43
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@ Demi - Nevermind then, I'm not one to judge. Just learn to limit his skillset or you're going to be getting flack. Most Fandoms don't mind characters like him. unfortunately, this fandom hate's Male OC's for some reason.
|2011-12-09, 07:43
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
Some stupid realization on my part:
Edit: It is very difficult for a male pilot to go unnoticed. Especially if he is piloting special machine
2nd gen IS uses soup-up version of conventional military weapon (such as guns, missile....probably more guns and old-school cannon. From example of Uchigane(Normal Katana), Raphael (too many to list), missiles included.)
3rd Gen IS use energy weapon and unconventional weapon (Most obvious: Silver-Gospel and Blue Tears), Shenglong(the cannon), Schwarzer Regen(the railgun is debatable though, but the energy blade place it firmly in 3rd gen)
4th Gen IS has various form, variable output for its weapon. Can reconfigure/transform itself (which means any IS that transform are either 4th or 3rd gen with 4th gen technology).
Somewhere in between: Byakushiki (4th gen equipment but don't have that many variation: Solid Sword to Energy Sword, Claw to Shield to Cannon).
The rationale on why the world don't have transformable 3rd gen yet is probably because unit that transform is impractical (due to weaker joint that most likely will break off in the middle of the battle or even high-speed flight) while true transformable IS(AKA 4th gen) don't have that problem.
On unrelated Note: I decide to change the theme of Harbinger to "Aseop gone Wrong"
Work-in-progress character: "Be true to yourself" (A child solider who is adopted into a normal family but realized that he is a sadistic war-addict (He enjoy the taste of killing people, victory and superiority over the loser, the humiliation of the loser, those things give him the high), killed his foster parents and is currently a hired gun waiting to wage war. Since he is an expy of that Gauron.... he has difficult dying and is insanely good at fighting and planning.
Pigsy: "Beauty came from within...." He got discriminated by his look so much that he decide to be the mask.....
Ubau: "Always Do good things to others" and "Be faithful to god". His definition of good and being faithful to god is different from others....
White bow Dragon: Out of sheer Irony (thank you, Avatar) "Save the earth, go Green" Most environmental friendly way to save the earth is to turn its enemies(Humans) into fertilizer.
Mumeishi (Red sword Dragon): "Always be optimistic." Joined Harbinger in hope to change the world into a better place. Obviously he joined the wrong Organization. (more side-note: He is the most badass normal member of the Four Elite Pilots, his unit has only a katana and his only experience in fighting came from Kendo (you know....fighting with a bamboo sword does not make you good in sword fighting)
Beelzebub (Black Scale Dragon): "Be Diligent"..... Which is probably one of the thing which you don't want to be in a villain. Rape, slaughter, arson,robbery...etc he make sure he does his job thoroughly and leave no witness unharmed.
(Lich) Green Lich Dragon: "Never Give up". Which is a bad thing considering that he is the bad guy...... with a machine that regenerate endlessly.
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The Town of Hilton Head Island today announced the acquisition of 3.61 acres of land including a 23,500 square foot building from CRM Mid-Atlantic Properties, LLC for a total expenditure of $2.15 million.
The building will become the new headquarters for the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) Southern Enforcement Branch. The BCSO has outgrown its current, rented office space and this new site has the added benefits of being able to withstand winds up to 135 MPH. The building is floodproofed and has significantly more parking.
The town anticipates issuing a General Revenue bond for the acquisition. The funds the Town and Beaufort County currently pay in rent will be utilized to pay back the bond. The property is located at 58 Shelter Cove Lane (formerly known as the Lifespan building) and currently houses several tenants in separate suites.
"There are several existing tenants and the Town will be in contact with each of them. The primary tenant, of course, will be the BCSO but they will not occupy all of the available space," said Town Manager Steve Riley. "As leases expire, we will look at other uses for the remaining space, including possibly the SHARE Senior Center."
"We are happy that we are able to find the BCSO a home that will meet the Sheriff's needs for space and location," Mayor Drew Laughlin said. "We have been seeking a suitable location for the BCSO for many years. Prior negotiations have always stalled so we are particularly happy that we have brought this to a successful conclusion."
Sheriff P.J. Tanner added, "We are all excited at the BCSO that we will have a home on Hilton Head Island that we own and not rent. Since the town's incorporation in 1983, the BCSO has always been located in a rental property on the island. We are all looking forward to moving our law enforcement center into a professional building in a centralized location on the island."


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Ted Cruz's Father Suggested His Son Is 'Anointed' to Bring About 'End Time Transfer of Wealth'
"The pastor [Huch] referred to Proverbs 13:22, a little while ago, which says that the wealth of the wicked is stored for the righteous. And it is through the kings, anointed to take dominion, that that transfer of wealth is going to occur." - Rafael Cruz, August 26, 2012
In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, Cruz' father Rafael Cruz indicated that his son was among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as "kings" to take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the "Seven Mountains" mandate, and "bring the spoils of war to the priests", thus helping to bring about a prophesied "great transfer of wealth", from the "wicked" to righteous gentile believers. link to video of Rafael Cruz describing the "great transfer of wealth" and the role of anointed "kings" in various sectors of society, including government, who are to "bring the spoils of war to the priests".
Rafael Cruz' dominionist sermon given August 26, 2012, at the New Beginnings Church of pastor Larry Huch, in Irving, Texas has already received considerable scrutiny due to an excellent Huffington Post commentary by Methodist Associate Pastor Morgan Guyton, who noted the explicitly dominionist nature of pastor Cruz' sermon, which concerned the divine mandate for believers, with anointing of "kings" in their respective spheres, to take control over all sectors of society.
Cruz spoke of "Kings who are anointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests."
Discussion of the now-notorious speech by Rafael Cruz has missed the fact that Ted Cruz was subsequently blessed and anointed by prominent dominionist pastors, in effect as a "king" in the political/governmental sphere, at a special blessing ceremony at the Marriott Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, at a July 19th-20th 2013 rally designed to draw pastors into politics.
But in a very real, mundane sense Ted Cruz has already helped deliver hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, to the evangelical right. Cruz' past service - as a "king" who brought "spoils to the priests" - is a matter of established record; as I revealed in a prior story, no less than a top adviser to President George W. Bush has stated that in 1999 Ted Cruz played a major role in helping the Bush for President campaign lock down the conservative evangelical vote in the 2000 election.
One can interpret the "great transfer of wealth" -- predicted by Ted Cruz' father Rafael Cruz, and by Pastor Larry Huch, who threw his Texas megachurch's considerable heft behind the 2012 Cruz for Senate campaign -- in magical terms, sure.
But Ted Cruz' apparently notable role in getting George W. Bush into the presidency led in turn to Bush's "Faith Based Initiative" - that continues to this day under two successive Obama administrations and which, during the Bush years, funneled billions of dollars to churches and institutions associated with the religious right.
In other words, the "great transfer of wealth" is about more than wishful thinking. It's about an ongoing effort, by leaders and institutions of the evangelical right, to gradually gobble up the secular sphere of government.
Thus, for example, fast growing Christian schools such as the late Moral Majority co-founder Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, which now vacuums up hundreds of millions of dollars in federal student aid money each year. Or the hundreds of millions of diverted tax dollars now flowing, in a least 12 U.S. states, under so-called "neo-voucher" schemes, to private schools - many of which, as explored in a new Rolling Stone story, have virulently anti-LGBT policies. Under Bush, too, several billion dollars per year in USAID funding were shifted from secular aid nonprofits to religious ones, some them holding anti-gay and reactionary, even theocratic, underlying ideology.
I could go on at length about this dreary subject, which involves major shifts in government social service funding streams. But instead, let's turn now to the "kings for dominion":
In his August 26th, 2012 guest sermon at Larry Huch's Irving, TX megachurch, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz' father Rafael Cruz, in what was not the first of his guest appearances at the church, explained,
"The pastor [Huch] referred to Proverbs 13:22, a little while ago, which says that the wealth of the wicked is stored for the righteous. And it is through the kings, anointed to take dominion, that that transfer of wealth is going to occur. God, even though he's sovereign, even though he's omnipotent, he doesn't let it rain out of the sky - he's going to use people to do it."
Introducing pastor Cruz, in the context that it would soon be Rosh Hashanah, which would ring in the Jewish New Year of 2012, Larry Huch had stated, invoking dominionist numerology,
"The number 12 means 'divine government', that God begins to rule and reign. Not Wall Street, not Washington - God's people and his kingdom will begin to rule and reign"
As Huch spoke, Rafael Cruz could be seen in the audience, standing next to Huch's wife Tiz, hand upraised to receive and magnify Huch's prophetic blessing. Huch continued,
"I know that's why God got Rafael's son elected - Ted Cruz, the next Senator. But here's the exciting thing - and that's why I know it's timely for him to teach this, and bring this anointing. The rabbinical teaching is, especially amongst gentiles, who God opens their eyes, that in a few weeks begins that year 2012, and that this will begin what we call the "End Time Transfer of Wealth.
And that when these gentiles begin to receive this blessing, they will never go back financially through the valley again. They will grown and grow and grow. It's said this way - that God is looking at the church, and everyone in it, and deciding, in the next 3 and 1/2 years, who will be his bankers. And the ones that say, "Here am I, Lord, you can trust me", we will become so blessed that we will usher in the coming of the Messiah. This message if for you. Would you welcome our good friend Rafael Cruz ? What a tremendous man of God."
Pastor Cruz could not have made himself more clear:
"There are some of you, as a matter of fact I will dare to say the majority of you, that your anointing is not an anointing as priest. It's an anointing as king. And God has given you an anointing to go to the battlefield. And what's the battlefield ? The battlefield is the marketplace. To go to the marketplace and occupy the land. To go to the marketplace and take dominion. If you remember the last time I was in this pulpit, I talked to you about Genesis chapter 1, verse 28, where God says unto Adam and Eve, "Go forth, multiply, TAKE DOMINION over all creation." And if you recall, we talked about the fact that that dominion is not just in the church. That dominion is over every area - society, education, government, economics...
Describing the anointing of kings, pastor Cruz spoke of,
"Kings who are anointed for a totally different reason than priests. Kings who are anointed to take dominion. Kings who are anointed to go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war to the priests. So the work of the kingdom of God could be accomplished. And I'll tell you - the king needed the blessing of the priest in order to be successful in battle... [in Deuteronomy] Before the king went to battle, the priest came and blessed the king and blessed the warriors. And the king needed the blessing of the priest in order to be successful in battle... Now, the priest also needed for the king to be successful in battle, because the priest needed the spoils of war in order to repair the temple, in order to carry out the ministry that God had entrusted him. So the king and the priest complimented each other, and they were both very, very interested in blessing one another.
Concluding the service, the two men, Huch and Cruz, met onstage and pastor Huch conveyed a "word", a prophetic message from God relayed through one of his believers, from Rafael Cruz to his New Beginnings Church audience,
"God laid this on Rafael's heart, for right now - listen to me - In the next 3 and 1/2 years, and we're not waiting 3 and 1/2 years, it's the End Time Transfer of Wealth... You know, during the elections - and it just hit me, Rafael was up there and he was saying, "this is the anointed by God" - when I got a phone call, would I come to a meeting to meet Rafael Cruz and Ted Cruz, Tiz and I had already received about ten phone calls asking if we would get behind a candidate - 'could we come and speak at your church ? Can we come ?" I mean one after another.
And when we were asked by some friends to come to this house. They said we would not only meet Ted but we would meet Rafael. Before I ever met Ted, I met Rafael. And I knew that if the son was like the dad we could trust him to be our Senator. Amen ?
But here's what, here's when it came to me - Ted will be our next Senator, and I gave Rafael a word the other day... this is just the beginning. It's going to be much, much, much higher. But here's the deal - Ted Cruz is the real thing. But he hasn't become the real thing now that he's going to be Senator. He was the real thing when he was working as a clerk, he was the real thing when he was going through college, he didn't become faithful now that he's Senator. He's going to become Senator - and I believe some day either Supreme Court justice of Vice President - but he was faithful back when he was his [Rafael Cruz'] boy and God took that faithfulness."
As a final note, consider what's implicitly packed into Rafael Cruz' and Larry Huch's "great transfer of wealth" - According to Huch and Cruz, this is a transfer of wealth, "from the wicked", to "righteous" gentiles.
In the generally accepted English meaning of the term, "gentile" refers simply to non-Jews. And because "righteous Jews" were not included among those predicted to benefit from the "great wealth transfer", the logical import is that those Christians anointed as "kings" would plunder - remember, Huch and Cruz spoke of this specifically in terms of war, and combat - the fortunes of non-righteous gentiles and, you guessed it, Jews.
Given the noisily Christian Zionist milieu in which the "great wealth transfer" service was given - Larry Huch opened Rafael Cruz' sermon with a blast from a shofar, there was a huge Menorah looming over the stage, the main pulpit featured a cross superimposed on a Star of David, and some of the men in the audience wore yarmulkes - it's more than a little creepy.
Adding to the creepiness, this isn't the first time in recent political history we've heard Proverbs 13:22 from a stage.
In September 2008, with the election looming and John McCain and Barack Obama readying their final battle plans, a strange video surfaced, from an August 2005 ceremony held at the most significant Alaska church of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
In the video, which became briefly notorious and unsettled many uncommitted moderate voters, Sarah Palin, who would soon run for and win the Alaska governor's seat, was shown being blessed and anointed by a Kenyan pastor with a croaking, raspy voice who called upon God to bless candidate Palin and protect her against witchcraft.
While that part of the video received considerable mockery from mainstream media, few seemed to notice a short speech by Muthee, which preceded the blessing and anointing of Palin. In the nakedly dominionist speech, Thomas Muthee - a close colleague of New Apostolic Reformation kingpin C. Peter Wagner - called upon believers to "invade" and "infiltrate" seven leading sectors of society:
"In a moment, I'll be asking you that we pray for Sarah, and I'll tell you the reason why. When we talk about transformation of a community, we are talking about God invading seven areas in our society. Let me repeat that one more time. When we talk about transformation of a society, a community, it's where we see God's Kingdom infiltrate, influence seven areas in our society.
Number one is the spiritual aspect of our society...
...the second area whereby God wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It is high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity, running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the Israelites, you know, that's how they won. And that's how they are, even today....
So we go to the third area, it's in the area of politics... There are people who are wired to politics because God wants to take the political, you know, dimension of our societies. And those people should be prayed for. That's why I was, you know, I was so glad to see Sarah here. We should pray for her, we should back her up. And, you know, come the day of voting, we should be there, not just praying, we should be there. And I'm saying this because that's what I'm telling our church. I'm telling them that we need this in Parliament. In here is what you call Congressmen, you know, you know, the, the Governors, we need the brethren right inside there. Is anybody hearing me?
You know, because who will change the laws of the lands? The problem is do we just pray, but we do nothing about it. If the believers had not done something in this country, your president would not be in office today. Yes or no? Am I right?
Number three, or number four, it's the area of education. We need believers who are educationists. If we had them, today we would not be talking about the Ten Commandments being kicked out of the church, I mean out of our schools. They would still be there. One of the things that you, you know, I would love you to know, I'm a child of revival of the Seventies, and that revival swept through the schools. They are open to preaching, you know, open. Open. Wide open. You go to any school, there is what we call Christian Union. Christian Union is nothing more but a bunch of kids that are born again, spirit-filled, tongue-talking, devil-casting. Is anybody hearing me? All over the country! Is anybody hearing me?
We need God taking over our education system! Otherwise, we, if we have God in our schools, we will not have kids being taught, you know, how to worship Buddha, how to worship Mohammed, we will not have in the curriculum witchcraft and sorcery. Is anybody hearing me?
The other area is in the area of media. We need believers in the media. We need God taking over the media in our lands. Otherwise we will not have all the junk coming out of, you know, coming out of the media... Why can't we have our living church in Hollywood? Guess what will happen. If we have a living church right in Hollywood, we would not have all the kind of pornography that we are having. Is anybody hearing me?
And the last area is in the area of government. Hello? We need believers there. We need men and women of integrity. You know, as the Secretaries of State. We need them right there. People that are born again, spirit filled, people who know God, and people who are serious with God.
So in a moment if you do not mind, I'll ask, you know, even before I go to do this thing, you know, I'll ask Sarah, would you mind to come please? Would you mind? Come, please. Let's all stand up, and let's hold hands all over this house. Come, Pastor, come.
[Sarah Palin joins Muthee and two Alaska pastors onstage]
Thank you, Jesus. Let's all pray. Let's pray for Sarah. Hallelujah! Come on, hold your hands up and raise them. Hold them and raise them up here! Come on, talk to God about this woman! Come on, talk to God about this woman we declare favor from today. We say favor, favor, favor! We say praise my God! We say grace to be rained upon her in the name of Jesus. My God, you make your judgement, you make room. You make ways in the desert, and I'm asking you today, we are asking you as the body of Christ in this valley, make a way for Sarah, even in the [inaudible]. Make her way my God. Bring finances her way, even in the campaign in the name of Jesus, and above all give her the personnel, give her men and women that will back her up in the name of Jesus. We want righteousness in this state. We want righteousness in this nation. Because you say [inaudible] in the name of Jesus. Our Father, use her to turn this nation the other way around. Use her to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers so that the curse that has been there long can be broken. In the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you today. We come in the hindrance of the enemy, standing in her way to there. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus! Every form of witchcraft, it will be rebuked in the name of Jesus. Father, make her way now. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Let's all be seated."
Sarah Palin, as I helped document in 2008 and 2009, was extensively tied to the unabashedly dominionist New Apostolic Reformation, whose seminal theorist and organizer C. Peter Wagner has called, in a December 2012 op-ed in Charisma magazine, for his followers to "take over everything".
Last Sunday at a rally against Obamacare, both anointed politicians Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz could be found side-by-side, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
[note: for some additional perspective, see my story The Tea Party Plan To Shatter the American Republic, The Far-Right Christian Movement Driving the Debt Default by Deborah Caldwell and my story Ted Cruz Worked With Religious Right Founder Paul Weyrich, To Elect George W. Bush]


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Jeffrey Scott Marshall Sr., 53
Jeffrey Scott Marshall Sr., 53, Punxsutawney, died Friday, March 11, 2011.
He was born Oct. 17, 1957, in Inglewood, Calif., a son of Gloria Jean West, who survives, and the late John Homer Marshall Jr.
Mr. Marshall was a graduate of LaQuinta High School in Fountain Valley, Calif. He then attended Golden West College and Cypress Junior College.
He worked as a creative director, most recently with IUP, teaching the Art Masters Program, specifically for art and theatre. He had previously taught art to elementary and high school Punxsutawney Christian School students.
Mr. Marshall had also previously worked at Walt Disney as an "Imagineer," Warner Brothers, Paramount Studios and at Chevron, as a graphic artist.
He touched many lives by his own love of art, and the willingness to share his knowledge and talents with others. His creative mind and hands will be deeply missed.
In addition to his mother, surviving relatives include his fiancée, Frances Robinson of Kentucky; two children, Jeffrey Scott Marshall Jr. and fiancée Melissa A. Ramsey of Dana Point, Calif., and Mandy Henderson and husband Dude of Round Rock, Texas; a brother, Ted Marshall and wife Sharry of Berkley, Calif.; two sisters, Marilyn Clements and Nancy Marshall of Orange, Calif.; two step-brothers, Scott McBean of Orange, and Kelly McBean of Mission Viejo, Calif.; 10 grandchildren, Dylan, Big D, Dustin, Tammi, Tyler, Dalton, Trinity, Devon, Rylee and Reagan; several nieces and nephews; and he also leaves behind four "Phantastic Phils," Ms. Liberty, Fireman Phil, McPhil and Coalminer Phil.
A memorial service officiated by Butch White will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Punxsutawney Christian School gymnasium.
Memorial donations may be made in Mr. Marshall's memory to an organization for children diagnosed with cancer that are given the opportunity to express themselves creatively through art and theatre. Donations should be sent to Nancy Marshall, Discovery Arts, 700 East Lake, Suite 95, Orange, Calif. 92866 or www.discoveryarts.org.
Online condolences may be sent to www.shumakerfh.com.


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A lawyer has been suspended after admitting to an affair with a client - and billing her for time they spent having sex, it was revealed last week. Attorney Thomas Lowe had a six-month relationship with the woman he was representing in a divorce case. The 58-year-old, who is married, began an affair with his client after complimenting on her appearance and talking about her sex life. The pair embarked on an affair and met up on numerous occasions to have sex. Documents obtained from Lowe's office in Burnsville, Minnesota revealed that on the dates he was having sex he billed the women for his time and coded their liaisons as 'meetings' or 'drafting memos'. Lowe, from Eagan, Minnesota, eventually broke off the affair after several arguments with the woman in a bid to save his own marriage.
Illicit affair: Minnesota attorney Thomas Lowe, 58, has been suspended from practising law after he had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable client... and billed her for the time
He also withdrew as her attorney leading to the woman, who had past abuse and mental health issues, to try and kill herself. While she recovered in hospital she told authorities about the affair. Lowe initially denied having the affair, but later 'unconditionally admitted the allegations' to the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on January 10 that he be suspended indefinitely and lose his license to practice law.
Coining it in: Billing documents from the lawyer's office in Burnsville, Minnesota coded the times he was having sex with his client as 'drafting memos'
Documents obtained by the Pioneer Press revealed that Lowe first met with the woman in August 2011 to discuss her possibility of representing her in a divorce. After agreeing to represent her during a phone call days later, Lowe asked about her sexual relationship with her husband, commented on her appearance and asked if she was interested in sex with him. Their affair began the following month and lasted until March 2012 when Lowe ended the relationship. It is not the first time Lowe has been in trouble, according to the Pioneer Press. In 1997, he was placed on probation for buying cocaine from a client. Lowe will be able to apply for his license to practice law after a minimum of 15 months.
Source: Daily Mail UK