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Flanked by towering entrants, the 5-foot-6-inch Owings Mills native performed fast-paced choreography with precision. The years of being a competitive gymnast and cheerleader paid off; so had trying out for the Miss Maryland pageant three times before being crowned in June.
"Losing Miss Maryland three times could be depressing," Denny, 22, said minutes before taking the stage for the closed-door rehearsal in Boardwalk Hall, site of the competition. "But I'm a driven person. It made me work even harder to meet those goals. If I was younger, I wouldn't have been ready for the title. But each year I gained maturity and became more comfortable on stage. ... I understood this organization as a whole."
That weekend, Denny, a special-education teacher and tutor for children with autism, became a top-10 finalist in the pageant. Though she ultimately lost to Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, Denny has bounced back — and recently shared with The Baltimore Sun her experiences and secrets of pageant life.
The competition "has taught me about how the world works," she said. "When I started, I was pretty naive. It has been interesting to see how people who run a business interact with each other. I learned ... how to market myself and charities that I am personally involved in."
Denny's love of modeling and the prospect of scholarship money lured her into pageants. But her family wasn't so sure at first.
"I was hesitant," said her mother, Sheryl Denny. "I went to a women's college, and the message I got was that women could excel in other ways." But eventually, she reconsidered. "The scholarships, the incentives to get very good grades — these incentives have been very valuable to her educational career. She's developed a platform that was in line with her career goals. ... It's not just about the dresses."
Preparation started months ago and included working with a personal trainer and an interview coach to ready herself for the weeklong competition that culminated with a two-hour national broadcast Sept. 15.
"It makes me feel good about all I've done to get here up to this point," Denny said backstage one evening during the competition. She was still pageant-appropriate: erect posture; straight, golden hair resting against her back; a natural smile that never faded — plus BCBG beige moto jacket paired with a red lace top by Free People and her first pair of True Religion skinny jeans (given to each contestant).
With the interview coach, "We worked on a lot of different things: mental preparation; what to expect as far as competition; making sure my answers are direct, concise and that I don't ramble" — an appropriate skill, considering some notorious pageant faux pas. "We went over my platform. It helped a lot."
All the advance work set up Denny for the competition — when she was essentially on her own. She was allowed about 30 minutes a day to meet with friends and family. Cellphones were confiscated.
Achieving the look
You would think that Denny, who was a competitive gymnast as a child and a cheerleader at the University Maryland, College Park, would naturally appear swimsuit-ready. (She was a repeat winner of the swimsuit portion of the Miss Maryland pageant.) Still, she met with a personal trainer in preparation for Atlantic City.
She drove 45 minutes to Dynamic Fitness in Frederick two to three times a week to work with Charles Dorsey Jr. Her routine included cross fit, weight lifting and "a lot" of running.
"I had been doing my own workouts," she said. "But he was able to focus on areas: Make my arms a little more toned, making my butt look bigger — trying to make me appear more curvy than I am. Making me look healthy. That was my main motivation."
Heading to the competition, Denny took only two pieces of luggage and two carry-ons (so she'd be ready for immediate travel in case she won the crown). They contained her beauty products and two competition gowns — an opulent white dress for the evening gown segment and a pink-patterned Sherri Hill gown that she wore for her talent performance, in which she sang "For Good" from the Broadway musical "Wicked."
There are rituals associated with beauty pageants. Think rubbing Vaseline on teeth so that lips and lipstick don't stick to the enamel. Or wearing padded underwear to display more curves. Denny said she doesn't do that, but others do.
The most important product in her arsenal is called "butt glue." The adhesive prevents bathing suits from bunching, she said.
"It helps your bathing suit stay in place so that you don't get a wedgie," she said with a laugh. "We want to avoid all wardrobe malfunctions while we're on stage."
Other contestants use double-sided tape and duct tape to avoid shifting garments, she said.
She maintained her bronzed complexion with "a lot" of tanning lotion.
Denny perfected her hair and makeup skills by watching video tutorials on YouTube.
As a result, she assembled an array of beauty products. Top on her list was Big Sexy Hair, a brand of hair spray and moisturizing hair serums.
Denny said a hairstyling session at Soft Images Salon in Frederick, which was Denny's official hair sponsor, was most important.
"When I go on stage, I want my hair to look perfect," she said.
Pageant life
Denny found her fellow contestants quite collegial.
"We definitely bonded," she said. "These girls are amazing. Once you talk to them and hear their story, you really start to appreciate them as people. That is something."
In particular, Denny clicked with her roommate, Miss Montana, Sheridan Pope, who Denny called "hilarious" and the "class clown" of the group.
Still, "in a competition like this you have to consider everyone a competitor. It's mostly about yourself. The most important thing was making sure I did the best I knew how to do. I had to go out there and give it my all."
That also meant sacrificing a favorite food the night of the finals.
"Because I'm a singer, I couldn't eat pizza because of the dairy and my throat," she said. "But the minute it ended, the very first thing I did was to eat a piece of pizza; I just grabbed a piece and ate it in my gown."
The night of the finals, Denny said her confidence began to increase.
"As it went on, I thought I could make [the] top five. And I could win," she said. "Of course, that did not happen. But I did get the chance to sing on national television. It was a dream come true."
In the audience, her mother stood with other parents.
"It was a good night," said Sheryl. "We're very happy with where she placed."
Denny said she could see her supporters while competing, which was a comfort. "Knowing that so many people were watching me and supporting me felt good," she said.
Behind the scenes of the live broadcast, Denny recalled a frantic pace. "We had about two to three minutes between," she said. "We had to change and go."
After Denny sang, the magnitude of her accomplishment sank in.
"I ran back in the dressing room and yelled, 'I got to sing on national TV,' " she said.
After the pageant
"I had such mixed feeling at the end," Denny said. "I was relieved that it was over. But I knew I would miss the girls after I got home."
Denny said she spent the immediate days after the pageant relaxing and "catching up on some sleep." Following that, she said she would go back to being Miss Maryland.
"I retain the title until June," she said. "That will be my primary job."
Denny said she plans to work part time as a tutor and apply to graduate schools in speech pathology.
Her top 10 finish in Atlantic City guaranteed her $7,000, which she said would go toward graduate school. Her earnings associated from the Miss Maryland title paid off her undergraduate degree.
"I'm going to get started on my grad school applications and send those out," she said. "That will be the next thing that I do. That will be the next chapter of my life."
How to look like Miss Maryland
Joey Killmeyer, the celebrity makeup artist who did Miss Maryland's makeup in Atlantic City, shares how he achieved Christina Denny's look using R.E.I.G.N., the official cosmetics of the pageant.
"I started by using R.E.I.G.N. Velvet Face Primer. Not only does it fill in pores and fine lines, it preps your skin for foundation and helps it stay on all day.
"To create her soft daytime eye, I used the Stay Put Eye Primer, which prevents creasing and gives you a full color experience from your eye shadows. For the eye, I used R.E.I.G.N.'s Bronzing duo. I used the light shade as a base all over the lid, and took the bronze shade using a fluffy teardrop-shaped blending brush and blended it into the crease. I then took R.E.I.G.N.'s Sheer Perfection Pressed Powder in light on the lid. This make her eyes look bigger and brighter and wide awake.
"With R.E.I.G.N.'s Duo Bronzer I sculpted the cheek bones using the bronze shade under the cheekbone. This will help your cheekbones pop.
"To create the perfect nude lip, I applied R.E.I.G.N.'s chunky lip crayon in Nude Rose on the lip and applied the fabulous Lip nectar on top to give a slight shine and keep the lips moist.
"We did not want any shine due to the fact that she was being filmed in [high definition,] so we kept her skin pretty matte. Although you need a little glow, I finished up using the light shade in the Bronze duo right on the cheekbone, just to give a slight reflection when the light hit her."
Typical day at competition
5:30 a.m. Wake up, shower, and do hair and makeup.
7 a.m. Pickup from the hotel and head to Boardwalk Hall.
8 a.m. General rehearsals begin (go over all dances and vignettes as well as walking patterns).
11:45 a.m. Leave general rehearsals for media interviews.
12:15 p.m. Lunch break.
1 p.m. Talent rehearsal.
1:30 p.m. Return to general rehearsal.
4 p.m. Get ready for evening appearance.
5 p.m. Leave Boardwalk Hall for appearance.
5:30 p.m. Arrive at appearance, beginning with "photo ops" for media.
6 p.m. Sit down for dinner.
7:30 p.m. Leave for another VIP event.
10:30 p.m. Arrive back at Boardwalk Hall.
11:15 p.m. Arrive back at hotel and prep for the next day.


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Quenneville, Julien share Windsor connectionby Tal Pinchevsky / Chicago Blackhawks
Claude Julien laced up his skates as a player for the last time April 26, 1992, when he and the Moncton Hawks lost 6-5 to the St John's Maple Leafs in Game 2 of their American Hockey League playoff series. The Maple Leafs, led by veteran defenseman Joel Quenneville, went on to sweep the series on the way to the Calder Cup Final.
Julien and Quenneville both retired that summer, but they've opposed each other numerous times since then. They're now on opposing benches as each tries to lead his team to a second Stanley Cup. Quenneville's Chicago Blackhawks have a 1-0 series lead on Julien's Boston Bruins entering Game 2 of the best-of-7 Stanley Cup Final on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, RDS).
But the two men haven't always been rivals. They share a connection made more than three decades ago with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League.
Quenneville, a 16-year-old Windsor native, was a local hero on an expansion team in what was then known as the Ontario Hockey Association. As he helped turn his hometown team into a competitive club, Quenneville honed the on-ice skills that helped him earn a 12-season career in the NHL.
"I was fortunate to play at home," Quenneville said. "First year we took our lumps being an expansion team, then the next couple of years we were pretty good."
It wasn't long before Spitfires coach Wayne Maxner identified the leadership qualities in Quenneville that later would make him a strong role player and an even better coach. After just one year on the club, Maxner gave Quenneville the captain's "C."
"He was a solid leader. He was good on the ice, off the ice, in the dressing room. Right away you could tell he had leadership qualities, even at 18, 19 years of age," Maxner told NHL.com. "When I made him captain, I knew he would be the one that the players looked up to. They rallied around him.
"It's harder on a player from the city. Joel was from Windsor, so it was harder on him to be the leader. But he handled it quite well, like a real pro."
The Toronto Maple Leafs selected Quenneville in the second round of the 1978 NHL Draft, and he turned pro that fall. His departure, along with that of defenseman John Barrett, left some big holes on the Windsor blue line. After the Spitfires stumbled badly at the start of the 1978-79 season, Maxner decided to make a trade with the Oshawa Generals for a smart, solid defenseman named Claude Julien.
A little more than a year later, Maxner named Julien his new captain.
"With Joel gone, we were pretty thin back there. We had lost five of the first 10 games or so and we were struggling around fourth or fifth place in our division," Maxner said. "I went to Oshawa I think three weeks in a row to pick out a couple of players who I thought could help us. Claude was one of those players. He looked like he could play the game and he had some feistiness in him. You could tell he was a leader when he was on the ice."
While becoming the Spitfires' captain would link him directly to Quenneville, no one would mistake Julien for the man he would be coaching against in the Cup Final almost 35 years later. Quenneville had far more polish as a player, while Julien relied more on intuition, smarts and toughness on the ice. But both were respected by their teammates in Windsor.
"Claude would lead by example, Joel could really communicate well. Claude maybe wasn't as outgoing as Joel at the time, but very effective," said Dave Hannan, who suited up with both players in Windsor and even lived with Julien when he first joined the Spitfires. "He was French -- he could speak broken English. We got to know each other. A really nice guy, a very quiet personality."
In his last full season in Windsor, Julien led the Spitfires to the 1980 league final, where they were swept by a Peterborough Petes team that featured future Hall of Famer Larry Murphy and was coached by future Stanley Cup-winner Mike Keenan. From there, Julien would embark on a pro playing career that barely resembled Quenneville's.
While Quenneville played in more than 800 NHL games with five teams, Julien spent much of his career in the minor leagues -- he played in 14 NHL games, all with the Quebec Nordiques. Their paths would cross briefly in the AHL, but it would be as coaches that they truly established themselves as winners.
Even today, Julien still recalls the tall shadow Quenneville cast when he arrived in Windsor.
"I came in afterwards, but I heard a lot about him," Julien said this week. "He was viewed as a hero in that town. I got to know him a little bit throughout the years, but that is quite a few years ago. I think we were much younger then."
Going head-to-head for hockey's biggest prize is something neither Quenneville nor Julien could have imagined as teenagers. They're here now because of the coaching skills they cultivated over the years, along with some of the leadership qualities they honed with the Spitfires.
"Both guys loved the game. Both guys played as long as they could. Both guys had a passion to understand the defensive zone and how important it is," said Hannan, who played 15 seasons in the NHL, including a short stint with the Colorado Avalanche while Quenneville was an assistant coach. "You could tell by the way they handled themselves and treated people. They're very humble and I think always very appreciative. You could see that when you played junior with them."


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Edna Brewer of Woodstock was sitting in the waiting area of Mike's Service Center in Crystal Lake Tuesday.
She has been taking her cars to be serviced at Mike's for 25 years. Actually, she and her husband, Bob, have had only two cars during that time.
The first was a Pontiac Parisienne. "That poor little car, the frame rusted out," said Mike Fraser, owner of Mike's Service Center. "But it was running good."
She brought her Buick Park Avenue Tuesday. "Just for maintenance," Edna said.
"We would rather do maintenance than have a major repair," Fraser said. "We encourage our customers to get maintenance at regular intervals. Depending on their driving habits, at least twice a year. Most customers are here at least three or four times a year."
As spring comes along, Fraser encourages drivers to listen to their cars.
"Open the windows and listen for new noises," Fraser said. "It's amazing how many noises get muffled by closed windows and blower motors. You open those windows, you hear the brakes squealing, all sorts of different things."
He said he likes to hear the descriptions of the sounds the car is making. "That does help me to find out what's going on. The more information we can get, the better," he said.
He encouraged car owners to get an underwash "to wash the salt off the underside of their cars. One of the biggest problems in this area is corrosion."
Mike's Service is located about two doors down from the Illinois Air Team vehicle emissions testing station. Not surprisingly, Mike's does emission test failure repairs. Fraser said the shop is on the state's certified repair list, and has an A rating.
Fraser, 59, started his business in 1982 in the rented bay of a Crystal Lake Shell staton. He built his six-bay garage at 261 Liberty St., Crystal Lake, in 1986, and added miniwarehouse units in back in 1987.
Fraser lives in Crystal Lake with his wife, Suanne. His son, Kevin, works with him in the service center. Another son, Timothy, is president of Fraser Wealth Management Inc. in Woodstock, and daughter, Sarah, is finishing her final year of graduate school.
"Kevin was 6 months old when I started my business, now he's got three children, and has been working here for 10 years. Some day when I retire, Kevin will take over," Fraser said.
Fraser said because of the economy, people are holding onto their cars a lot longer. "We help our customers prioritize repairs," Fraser said. "We tell them what has to be done, what should be done so they prioritize and get repairs done as they can afford it. We understand that. We've all been struggling through the bad economy," Fraser said.
"We're going to be honest with you. Our customers are family to us. I've worked on cars of parents, children, and now their grandchildren are driving. It's fun to watch that progression of time."
A car was inside each of the shop's six bays Tuesday, keeping mechanics Al Adams and Dan Carzoli busy.
Kevin Fraser was working on brakes for a 1998 Chevrolet Express Van with 220,000 miles – and counting.
"They're on their way to Colorado this weekend," Fraser said.


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The Crawfordsville Community Chorus will present a concert of sacred music at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 27, in Wabash College's Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center, 510 S. Grant Street, Crawfordsville.
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I am pleased to spread the rumor that an application for a Beer/Wine lic has reportedly been requested for 893 Dean St.
It was applied for under the name of Global Square.
893 Dean Street is located between Grand and Classon, and is quite a large site, that is presently functioning as an indoor parking garage and -um- outdoor junk/parking lot.
This site makes me believe that all of the lots were listed for sale in 2012, by Corcoran for $3.5M
6 contiguous lots available for development in Prospect Heights Lot size is 194x110, approximately 21340 sq. ft. Zoned M1-1http://www.blocksy.com/nyc/townhouse/83666-893-dean-street
The validity of this rumor will be confirmed on Monday, April 1, 2013 at 6:00 PM at CNR-Center Light Health Care Center, which is located at 727 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (between Park and Prospect Places). ...when the CB8 Liquor Lic subcommittee meets.
Hmm a Liquor subcommittee meeting on April Fools Day, on a Monday no less,seems like a bad omen. But I really hope we get a new beer garden.
The mtg seems to always occur on the first Monday of the month. It just so happens that the first Monday of April is the 1st.
Chairperson: Mr. Alton Pierce
Meeting Day: 1st Monday of the Month
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: CNR-Centerlight Healthcare Center in the ATRIUM
727 Classon Avenue (bet.Park Place and Prospect Place)
Responsibilities include the following:
Review and discuss both new and renewal applications for establishments seeking liquor licenses from New York State Liquor Authority for clubs, bars, restaurants, local grocery stores, and other establishments in the District
Review and discuss applications for Dept. of Consumer Affairs Sidewalk Cafe permits and Dept. of City Planning Enclosed Sidewalk Cafe permits.
If anyone is actually planning to attend, they should note that it is unclear whether this mtg begins at 6 or 7 PM.
Can we talk about the scariest house in Brooklyn - 883 Dean Street? The middle of the three row houses in the second picture above?
The one whose entire front yard is surrounded by a 16 ft tall corrugated steel fence -- topped with barbed wire?!
I've always wondered what the hell they're hiding/protecting behind that wall...
Anything to bring street life to those blocks is great, they're sketchy as all hell. One of my first times visiting Crown Heights was biking over one night to a friend's place near Bedford via the Dean/Bergen bike lanes-- the blocks around Classon made me feel like I'd get tackled off my bike or something.
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A big part of the problem is that the area is not zoned for residential, and manufacturing isn't something that NYC still excels at.
Many of the car repair and storage businesses are holdovers from the 1960s, when Bedford Ave and the surrounding area used to be one of THE PLACES in Brooklyn to buy a new car, or get work done on your broken car.
As a result, no one is supposed to be living in the zone. So, if it makes you feel any better, 883 Dean is hopefully the home of some guy's construction or welding business ...not his actual home.
This link states this it is the home of Laredo Construction. http://www.superpages.com/bp/Brooklyn-NY/Laredo-Construction-L0002594876.htm
As the surronding area become wealthier, the definition of "manufacturing use" is likely to become fluid.
For example, the new owner of 893 Dean is reportedly proposing that s/he be allowed to manufacture jobs, taxes, profit and mildly intoxicated people ...and is confident enough that s/he will be able to do it that they paid a lot of money for the lots.
It seems we are going to have to wait a bit longer re: confirmation of this rumor.
Basically, as I understand the process, an entity must notify the local Community Board of its intention to request a liq permit of the SLA .
Then, the entity presents in front of the CB, which decides whether to support the application. The Liq Authority doesn't have to listen to the CB.
In this case, the entity is not yet ready to go before the CB. So, we will learn more about this in May.
Update: The folks who have filed this application also have two other establishments with liquor licenses:
The General Green, located at 299 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn
Heritage Wines, 237 Dekalb, Brooklyn
...a wine store
Folks interested in learning more about their ideas for 893 Dean can attend:
The SLA & Sidewalk Café Review Committee.
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM.
CNR-Center Light Health Care Center, which is located at 727 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (between Park and Prospect Places).
After several delays, the folks who are planning this project will described it on June 3rd, at the CB8 SLA committee mtg.
...this project continues to be in the works!
The owners didn't present at the June 3rd mtg EITHER.
April- No show.
May - No Show
June - No Show
So, it would not surprise me if this dream does not take place.
As a result of the process described above, they received a beer and wine lic.
They are now beginning the process of requesting a full liquor lic.
The SLA & Sidewalk Café Review Committee will meet on Monday, June 2, 2014 at 6:00 PM at CNR-Center Light Health Care Center, which is located at 727 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (between Park and Prospect Places).
As a final sign of its demise:
The site is now for sale. Asking price is $7.2M. Zoned commercial (for now?)
Block 1133 Lots 71, 72, 74, 75 and 76
" Developable Parcels Total 115.5' Frontage on Dean Street
" Current Zoning Classification is M1-1; Max. FAR 2.4
" Proposed Zoning Approved by Community Board 8
" Proposed Zoning to be upgraded to R7D; Max FAR 5.6
" M1-1 Zone; Floor Area Ratio range from 1.0 to 2.4
" Maximum R7D; Floor Area Ratio range from 4.2 to 5.6
" Total size 115.50' x 110' = 12,705 SF
" 115.5 Feet of Frontage on Dean Street between Grand & Classon Avenues
" No Condition, Appraisal or Mortgage Financing Contingency
" Please Do Not Disturb any Tenants
" Please Do Not Conduct any Unauthorized Inspections!!!
Northwest Crown Heights.
Dean Street between Grand and Classon Avenues
Meanwhile, I assume/hope that the principal behind Global Square (Charles M McMickens) has had to pay back the money he received from city government to help develop the space.
The space seems to have had several hundred thousands of dollars spent on renovations; all of which seems destined to be demolished unless a deep pocketed performance operator can be found.
aerial view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/893+Dean+St,+Brooklyn,+firstname.lastname@example.com,-73.9601681,71m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25ba212865459:0xf1f603ac4f8eff1d?hl=en
Despite investing lots of $ into a space that named came to fruition, this artist/owner may have made a killing.
In 2012, these lots were offered for $3.5M and are now seeking a buyer at $7.2M


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Robert Morgan was working the cash register at the family's seafood business on Plymouth Avenue, filling in for his dad and making change for a customer, when a man walked quickly toward him, waving a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum handgun.
It was Jan. 17, 1991.
"This is a store at 4:30 in the afternoon with probably 30 people in the store," says Morgan, now CEO of Morgan Management Inc., which has 1,500 employees. "It's only 1,500 square feet. My mother happened to be at the store. My father wasn't there. I was relieving him. She tried to open the register and it jammed up. This guy is pointing a gun at her. He's pointing a gun at me."
"When you're 33 years old with a wife and two young children ages 5 and 2, a lot of questions come to mind. The first is whether you'll see tomorrow."
The man walked up to Morgan, planted the gun in his back and pulled the trigger. The bullet penetrated Morgan's body and came out the other side, missing his heart by a quarter-inch.
"I didn't know what hit me," he says. "It felt like a grenade went off in my stomach.
"I turned my head to the left and saw this person in my face. I said to myself, 'Oh, no.' I fell on the ground. This person pointed a gun at me and said, 'Get up.'"
The man left soon after, with nothing from the register.
Morgan was rushed to the trauma center at Strong Memorial Hospital. Doctors were not sure he would survive the night.
The shooter?
"They caught him two hours later, on Genesee Street," Morgan says. "He was putting a gun to somebody else's head."
Morgan underwent surgery and was sedated for six days.
"I wake up," he says, "and the first thing I see is a doctor looking me in the eyes and telling me I'm going to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life."
The bullet damaged Morgan's spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
"A lot of things are racing through your mind," he says. "I was wondering how I was going to make a living when I get out of the hospital. I had just built a new house."
Morgan has found a way and then some.
He has grown Morgan Management-a company he founded in 1976 after graduating from high school, 15 years before he was shot-into a multimillion-dollar real estate ownership firm with residential and commercial properties stretching from New York to Texas.
"Each one of us looks for inspiration in the world," says Benjamin Kendig, a Rochester developer and a friend of Morgan.
"Sometimes you find it in the media or in stories of ancestors or whatever. But most often, when you're lucky, you find it in people that you know. Bob's life has inspired me a great deal as his friend."
Morgan, 52, heads the Perinton-based firm. Of his company's 1,500 employees, 500 are in the Rochester area, including 52 at the headquarters on Route 96, just north of the Ontario County line. In addition to residential and commercial lines, the portfolio includes manufactured housing and a recreational vehicle division.
Morgan's wife of 26 years, Robyn, is the company's director of human resources.
"I feel so many different emotions," she says of her husband. "First, it brings tears to my eyes; I'm so proud to be associated with him. He's just such an incredible person. He has such a drive and work ethic. He's so inspiring to so many people every day. He leads our family. He leads our company. He's just an amazing person."
Morgan declines to provide specific financial information about his company but says apartments account for half of the revenue.
Morgan RV Resorts, which includes the Indiana Beach Resort amusement park in northwest Indiana, is considered the largest privately owned RV park corporation in the country. It accounts for 30 percent of company earnings. Commercial properties and manufactured housing account for 20 percent.
Morgan Management includes more than 200 properties or businesses as separate limited liability companies.
But Morgan could not imagine any of that as he lay on the floor of the Morgan Fish Co., pain searing through him.
Getting started
Morgan had dabbled in real estate for 15 years after founding Morgan Management and buying a two-family house on Overdale Park near Monroe Avenue for $18,000. He flipped it a year later for $42,000.
"The person I flipped it to two years later flipped it for $90,000," Morgan says. "I thought I did real well, but this other person actually did better."
He bought a few more two-family homes, then expanded with the purchase of small neighborhood shopping centers, the first of which was the North Park Plaza at Portland Avenue and Norton Street in the early 1980s.
Then he cut franchise deals for a CVS Caremark Inc. pharmacy, a Convenient Market & Deli at Portland Avenue and Norton Street, and some Pizza Hut restaurants and Family Dollar stores.
But real estate was his second job.
"This (seafood) business was how I was making a living," Morgan says. "I wasn't taking a dime out of the real estate. I was using that money to expand more into real estate."
All that changed after the shooting.
"I'm the kind of person that was working 70 or 80 hours a week, six to seven days a week," he says. "When I wasn't working for the seafood company, I was taking care of real estate and doing other things. I was a hands-on guy.
"I was going 100 miles an hour and hit a wall, and everything stopped. It just blew my mind. It was very difficult to comprehend. But I was in so much pain I just thought, well, I'll deal with that in a minute. I just wanted to get through the pain."
Morgan spent three months in rehabilitation at the University of Rochester Medical Center, followed by two months of rehab at a facility in Scranton, Pa. And more rehab at his home in Pittsford.
"I was just so happy that he survived that morning after," Robyn says. "I didn't even know what a spinal cord injury was. We had two small children, so my first focus was that he was alive and still with us.
"After we realized what the impact the gunshot wound had on him physically, we just focused on rehab and moving forward with our lives, and just keeping our children's lives as normal as possible. We felt we were in turmoil. But we just said this is going to be our new life. We were just going to make the best of it."
The family sold Morgan Fish, which does business as the King Fish Market, 13 weeks after the shooting. Morgan had worked there for 18 years, starting as a 15-year-old.
"We had to sell the company because my parents were a lot older than me," Morgan says. "I kind of ran the company. We had a wholesale division and a retail division. We just decided we couldn't operate it anymore."
Focus on real estate
Real estate would become his primary source of income.
"There was money coming in from real estate, but not enough to basically support my parents and myself," Morgan says.
In 1992, he entered the mobile home park business after researching it and deciding there was a lack of competition.
"I bought my first two mobile home parks, in Binghamton," he says. "That was a $2.5 million transaction. It was a big deal for me back then, and a big deal today."
It was a big deal, he says, because it set the course for his professional future.
Morgan bought 8,000 manufactured housing units and mobile home parks from 1992 to 1998. Then he decided to get into the RV business.
"We just decided there weren't a lot of great deals out there in the mobile home industry because of all the competition that came in," he says. "We're always trying to find businesses that we can jump into that have a lot of upside."
Morgan Management bought some 40 RV parks in 1998 and 1999.
The company bought 5,000 apartment units from 1999 to 2004, Morgan says, and now has 14,000 units in five states.
"Instead of the myriad of attitudes that he could choose to deal with his life, he maintains a very upbeat comportment," Kendig says of Morgan. "He works, and he works at stuff that he can work at. It doesn't cloud his future.
"To get to know that about him, and watch him in action, is very inspirational. We all have hard times in our lives. It's not what happens to you; it's how you deal with it. That attitude has made him quite successful."
Morgan's company manages 7,000 apartments in the Rochester market, some in partnership with Frontier Management of New York Inc. and its owner, Richard Chiarenza.
Locally, Morgan Management and two partners paid Home Properties Inc. $252 million in 2006 for its Upstate New York portfolio of 18 properties, divvying up 4,500 units. It bought 800 apartments from Natapow Realty Corp. and 1,000 from Costanza Enterprises Inc.
"We look for 200 units or more, garden-style apartments," Morgan says. "Most of the stuff we buy are C-plus to B apartments. We like to buy C-plus apartments and fix them up into Bs. We create more value doing that."
Morgan Management also is building some 1,000 units in the Victor-Farmington area of Ontario County, Morgan says.
"We're trying to grow at between 10 and 15 percent a year," he says. "It depends on the acquisitions that come up. New construction is probably 10 percent of the apartment portfolio. … We build a few projects every year."
Many projects
Morgan Management's latest endeavor is its partnership with the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Inc. in NASCAR RV Resorts. The plan is to open 13 campgrounds in eight states in May, each having television screens 20 feet square to show that week's races.
"I think it's going to be a nice venture for us," Morgan says. "It's getting into the franchise business. It's looking to be a very substantial part of the company. It could evolve into being the biggest part of the whole company."
Morgan Management has increased its profile locally in recent years, first with its acquisition of the Canal Ponds Office Park in Greece and, most recently, with its partnership with Christa Development Corp. to tackle the rehabilitation of Midtown Tower and the development of a city-owned parking lot on East Main Street.
Its interest in Canal Ponds came about as Morgan Management searched for a location for a BJ's Wholesale Club store.
"We had BJ's on the hook that wanted to go in there," Morgan says. "They actually wanted to go on the corner of Ridgeway and Long Pond, and there were some environmental problems. We had that site tied up, about 10 acres. We ended up talking them into where they are now."
Morgan Management bought Canal Ponds' 90 acres from the town of Greece for $3.4 million after Eastman Kodak Co. donated the vacant land to the town. It eventually sold the BJ's site to a real estate division of UBS AG, which is based in Zurich, Switzerland, but it still owns the surrounding land.
"We have approvals for retail space out there," he says. "We're talking to some people for office. It's a slower market right now, but it's one of the nicest business parks in town."
Morgan Management's interest in Midtown Tower resulted from Morgan's friendship with Christa Development CEO David Christa.
"He's into construction big-time, and I'm into multifamily management," Morgan says. "We manage a lot of units and both have great teams, and we get along very well. I've known Dave for about seven or eight years. We've talked about doing things together. This is the first thing we're doing together."
The partnership has proposed commercial space on the first three floors of the 17-story building, 186 apartments on floors four through 13, and 24 condominiums on the top floors.
"Our goal is to do a lot downtown," Morgan says. "Downtown has been stagnant for a long time. We feel that doing this Midtown building will bring a lot of life back into it. We see a big future with this building.
"We're getting interest from people who are calling us and asking about condos and things like that. We're getting calls on the office space."
Morgan Management most recently thrust itself into the city's attempt to bring a new theater to the Midtown block.
"At first I thought we weren't going to be involved in it, but we are to some extent now," Morgan says. "We're basically helping the city. We're not sure what our role is yet. We're just trying to push this location towards the Midtown site because it actually helps us out. We're putting the tower up, and (a possible theater) helps develop that whole site."
The Christa-Morgan partnership also wants to develop a city-owned parking lot at 420 E. Main St. with DeWolff Partnership Architects LLP.
"We're looking at some other parcels downtown," Morgan says. "We'd like to develop that whole corridor as we get in there. There are some other things that we're going to be doing down there that will be as good as the Midtown building.
"It's that whole big block, where Midtown is and along Court Street. We think there's a lot of potential there. They have to clean some things there, but we think there's a lot of potential."
Personal efforts
Morgan's most personal endeavor, perhaps, is Morgan Management's involve-ment in Castle Office Group LLC, which partnered with the UR medical center to build the ambulatory surgery center that opened last summer.
Morgan was asked in January 2009 to join the medical center's board of directors by CEO Bradford Berk.
"I'm working with the University of Rochester now on different projects," Mor-gan says. "I said I'd love to give back to the board, because the reason I'm here is because when I got injured, I was at the trauma center 15 minutes after the shooting. That's what saved my life."
Morgan often speaks to people confined to wheelchairs about the problems they face.
"This injury puts you under an enormous amount of pressure," he says. "You're frustrated. You can't move sometimes, depending on how you're injured. You have to be able to ask for help when you need help, and I was never that type of person."
It took Morgan one year to get used to a wheelchair and its impacts.
"There was running into a door, getting caught in a step, going into a building that doesn't have an elevator," he says. "There are a lot of obstacles you have to go through.
"It's not even about somebody telling you you're going to be in a wheelchair, but all the after-effects of being a paraplegic or a quadriplegic. You have to worry about pressure sores, about infections."
The family home in Pittsford is now wheelchair-accessible throughout.
"It was a major life change, but we did not interrupt our kids' lives," Robyn says. "We also had a lot of family support, too. We equipped our home. We put a chair glide in so he could get up to the second floor.
"My kids just grew up thinking that this was normal. They knew that every father wasn't handicapped, but it was just known to them that this was their dad. And they really never knew the severity of the injury until years later, when we actually sat down and talked to them about it."
Their daughter, Lacey, 24, lives in New York City. Their son, Todd, 21, is a junior at Nazareth College of Rochester and works part-time at Morgan Management.
The gunman, Michael Ramsey, was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 13 years.
Ramsey was a third-time felon who had been released six weeks prior to shooting Morgan after serving time for armed robbery. Morgan identified the gunman in court and testified against him.
"Do I hate the guy? I don't like the guy, but you have to move on," Morgan says. "Is he paying his price 100 percent for what he's put me through? I don't think so. But there's nothing I can do about it. Hopefully, they'll keep him in jail. When his parole comes up, we'll do what we have to do to keep him in jail."
Off the job
Morgan Management's involvement with NASCAR fits with one of Morgan's interests away from work.
"I do like fast cars," he says. "I have two cars I play around with, sports cars. That's my passion. I have a Porsche turbo that I put a chip into it and a new exhaust system and different wheels. I beef it all up and make it go faster. I don't know for what. Not that I'm going racing anyplace."
He does plan to attend some NASCAR races.
"Now that we've signed this NASCAR deal, I'll probably be going to a lot of races. That'll be fun, and it's something I've always wanted to do anyway.
"I learned about NASCAR when I was in the hospital. I had a surgery and was in the hospital for a month, on my back. I had nothing to do but watch TV. I was watching the races and got hooked on it."
Morgan's other pastimes include reading, going to movies with Robyn and going to New York City every three months to visit Lacey.
"'The Art of the Deal' is one of my favorite books," he says. "I like to read things that are related to what I do every day."
All things considered, Morgan says, life has worked out for the best.
"The seafood business was a business I kind of hated because I worked so many hours that I never saw my family," he says. "I never saw my kids.
"I'm not saying this is the way I wanted to go into this business, but after I got injured and said I'm going into real estate full time, I was very excited about doing it because it's something I love."
The King Fish Market still operates on Plymouth Avenue.
"I was taken out on a stretcher, and I never looked back," Morgan says. "I've never driven down the street. I've never gone in the area. And this is a place that I've put 60 or 70 percent of my life into."
Robert Morgan
Title: CEO, Morgan Management LLC
Age: 52
Home: Pittsford
Education: B.S. in business, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1979
Family: Wife, Robyn; daughter, Lacey, 24; son, Todd, 21
Hobbies: Fast cars, movies, reading, traveling
Quote: "There was a lot of 'Why me?' But there are no answers. God had a reason for this. I was happy to be alive, because every doctor that came in said, 'You're lucky to be here.' When he said that to me, I said, 'I'll take the wheelchair.'"
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Sales 2.0: Sales Force Collaboration and Automation
The rise of sales 2.0 is fundamentally changing the ways in which sales teams interact with potential customers as well as other parts of the organization, like marketing. With tools like Salesforce, Basecamp, Hoovers, and Sales Genie teams can work together, aggregate marketing data, and manage new accounts easily. With the rise of cloud computing, software as service (Saas), and mass customization, sales force automation is the wave of the future. Businesses which sit on the sidelines while competitors take advantage of these productivity tools will be left behind.
What do you see as the trends in sales 2.0? How is sales 2.0 changing your organization? What sales 2.0 tools are you using to enhance collaboration and productivity of your organization?


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Six-week measurement campaign completed successfully
From on board the Falcon D-CMET research aircraft of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), atmospheric researchers have explored the typhoons Sinlaku and Jangmi at very close quarters as they swept across Taiwan and China. The goal of their data-gathering flights is improved forecasting of tropical cyclones. The six-week international measurement campaign was completed successfully on 1 October 2008.
Measuring probes transmitted data from inside the typhoon
"These flights were quite stressful for us because the strong updraughts that kept developing in the vicinity of the storm forced us to make last-minute adjustments to the flight plans. We were able to avoid all thunderstorm cells and all situations which could endanger the aircraft, however", says Dr Martin Weissman of the DLR Institute for Atmospheric Physics (DLR-Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre), speaking about the measurement campaign. In addition to the Falcon, between 23 August and 1 October 2008 a Taiwanese and two American research aircraft took off from the American military base US Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan on over 80 data-gathering flights in the context of the THORPEX project (The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment).
For the first time, the life cycle of a typhoon was documented over a period of almost two weeks by airborne observations. The researchers tracked the typhoon Sinlaku from the early stages in the tropics until the moment it came under the influence of the atmosphere in the mid-latitudes. One of the methods used by the researchers was to release measuring probes while flying over the typhoon. These probes were capable of measuring wind speed, water vapour, temperature and humidity directly inside the typhoon, transmitting the data in real time to all weather services via a satellite telephone connection. The measurement campaign, which brought together North American, Asian and European researchers, offered a unique opportunity to gain a better understanding of typhoons and to considerably improve typhoon forecasts.
Laser measurement of wind and water vapour profiles
In addition to this, the researchers used so-called lidar instruments (Light Detection and Ranging) developed at the DLR Institute for Atmospheric Physics and unique in the world. These instruments use lasers to measure high-resolution wind and water vapour profiles in the atmosphere. Based on the data obtained in this measurement campaign, decisions will be made with regard to the application of future operational instruments in satellites or airliners. Atmospheric researchers expect that such measurements will turn out to be significantly more useful for numerical weather prediction than conventional measurements.
Sinlaku, the typhoon observed in this project, reached a peak intensity of Category 4, shortly before landfall in Taiwan where it caused severe flooding in the capital Taipei. The typhoon proceeded to brush past the eastern coast of Japan, passing over the Falcon which was stationed near Tokyo at the time, before its transition to an extratropical low-pressure system east of Japan. Typhoon Jangmi even reached super typhoon status. Taiwan was hard hit by this storm as well. After sweeping across Taiwan, Jangmi proceeded to brush past the Chinese coast, weakening considerably in the process. By the time it reached Japan, it had evolved into a relative weak storm.
International cooperation spanning three continents
During the measurement campaign, 14 scientists and engineers as well as aircrew personnel of the DLR Institute for Atmospheric Physics and DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen flight facility were based in Japan for six weeks. It was the largest flight campaign to be organised by the institute in several years. It was hardly a straightforward one for the research teams: The fact that civilian research aircraft were taking off from an American military base made the approval procedures required by the Asian authorities very complex.
The research was conducted in the context of the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign, which itself forms part of a ten-year research programme of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The deployment of the Falcon was funded by DLR and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, as well as other institutions from the US, Canada, Japan, Korea and Europe.


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The wait is over, DC fans no longer have to contend with a Marvel-only Dice Masters universe! Yes, the DC Dice Masters starter and boosters dropped last week, providing materials for players to incorporate DC characters like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and more into their Dice Masters games.
Set in the world of Evil Hat's Spirit of the Century, Zeppelin Attack! allows players to control villainous masterminds bent on world domination. Deploy your zeppelins, command your minions, and do whatever it takes to destroy your rivals. Perfect for two to four players, Zeppelin Attack! will plays for forty-five to sixty minutes.
Demonslayer: The Siege of Mt. Kunlun is a deck-building game based on the story of the "Warriors of Magic Mountain." Each player takes control of one Sect of the Kunlun Immortals, and they must compete with each other in defeating the dread forces of the Heart-Eaters. At the end of the game, once all the Heart-Eaters are defeated, the player with the most Cultivation is the winner. An English translation of a previously released foreign edition, this version includes one of the game's expansions, The Alchemist's Fortune.
Xenoshyft is a game for one to four players, with each player controlling one of the divisions of the Nortec Military. Each of these divisions represents one part of the overall Nortec Base, and it is your job as commander of these divisions to protect the base while its field operations are completed. A cooperative game, Xenoshyft asks players to outlast a horde of aliens over the course of nine rounds.
The third My Little Pony set released from Enterplay, Absolute Discord sees the arrival of Discord to the Pony-verse, throwing the spirit of chaos at players as a means to turn the game upside down. Cards and actions now can perform the opposite of what they are labeled as doing. With over two hundred cards in Absolute Discord, players have plenty of new options to add to their decks!
Bring video gaming to your board game table with Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King! An entirely original base game set for this popular series of games, Forgotten King includes nearly sixty new miniature figures to battle through and with in the automated dungeon setting! Inspired by 16-Bit video gaming, Super Dungeon Explore can be played in either Classic or Arcade mode, allowing for cooperative play or to be pitted against a GM. Also out this week is the first Upgrade Kit for this version of the game.
The Bahamut D&D Attack Wing premium figure features powerful upgrades, abilities, and tokens to bring your adventures to epic proportions! This powerful dragon sits upon a six inch by six inch base and utilize his cold breath attacks to any enemy in his path.
The newest Data Pack for the Netrunner Deck Building Game, Breaker Bay contains sixty new cards designed to augment Corp and Runner decks. These sixty cards are numbers twenty-one through forty of the SanSan Cycle, all able to be incorporated into the base Netrunner game.
Another expansion for the short film inspired Eight-Minute Empire: Legends, Lost Lands incorporates new factions and leaders, materials for for a fifth and sixth player, a double-sized island on a folded board, and allows for faster gameplay, as players can now select cards simultaneously.
A new release in the popular D&D dungeon crawl cooperative board games, Temple of Elemental Evil puts players in control of a heroic adventurer exploring a treacherous dungeon full of monsters, hazards, and treasures. Anywhere from one to five players can take part in the adventure, cooperatively navigating the dungeon in no more than an hour.


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FF Benleux Fieldbus Live seminar
On May 19, the first Benelux seminar was held at the 'Acta' premises in Kalmthout (Belgium), on which Electromach was also present. More information about the subjects and speakers can be found on the website of Fieldbus Foundation.
The next Fieldbus seminar has been planned on November 10.
Events which Electromach will attend
Offshore Europe, Aberdeen, UK
Elektrotechniek 2011, Jaarbeurs Utrecht, NL
Offshore Energy 2011, RAI Amsterdam, NL
Fieldbus seminar
Elektro Vakbeurs, Evenementenhal Hardenberg
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Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers – http://www.handsworthsworddancers.org.uk/
Handsworth is a suburb of Sheffield, in recent history a mining village. In this area there developed, some unknown time in the past, a sword dance for eight men, which is still performed today to the traditional pattern. The dancers wear dragoon-type uniforms and carry long-swords of inflexible steel about one metre in length. Shortly after the beginning of the ten-minute dance, they join to form a complete ring, and perform a series of complex 'figures', ending with a 'lock' of enmeshed swords, which can be carried aloft by one man. Traditionally performances take place at Christmas in the locality, and at functions and events by invitation at other places throughout the year.
…it is certainly one of the best and most inspiriting of the dances that still survive in Yorkshire
Cecil J. Sharp, The Sword Dances of Northern England, 3 pt. (London: Novello, 1911-13), III, page 37
The Flamborough Sword Dancers circa 1908. Since the early 1900's the Flamborough sword dancing team's costume comprises fisherman's ganseys (the pattern unique to Flamborough), 'white 'ducks' and flat caps. Photo by Richard Traves – http://www.flamboroughheadsac.org.uk/storyboards/history/iframe.php?StoryID=18
Scottish sword dancers – http://pinterest.com/pin/146718900332500121/
Fenestrelle Sword Dancers – http://starofswords.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/mystery-photos-of-fenestrelle-sword-dancers/
Flamborough Sword Dance – http://www.friendsreunited.com/flamborough-sword-dance-the-lock-margaret-charlotte-fagan-christine-muir-grace/Memory/bbe0ed0e-f8b2-4c2e-910c-1a1b1a1023da


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|2012-12-24, 11:22
|Link #41
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 34
Shinji, with Baal at large in the multi-verse, Asakim having one unknown sphere still unused, and at least 5 more spheres to revealed, Z3 is for sure going to happen.
And just a quick rundown on the 12 spheres again
Aries: Aim Liard(Dead) -> Asakim
Taurus: ???
Gemini: ???
Cancer: ???
Leo: Gunleon
Virgo: Virgola Glory
Libra: Li-Brasta
Scorpio: ???
Sagittarius: ???
Capricorn: Xine Espio(Dead?) -> Asakim
Aquarius: Uther(Dead) -> Asakim/Crowe(Normal/IF route)[I think? Somebody check the IF route convo for that]
Pisces: ???
And honestly, that's also not counting the possibility of them using the 13th constellation as a backup for Taiji/Origin Law.
|2012-12-24, 13:38
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Elpis Colony, Jaburo, The hanger, Texas, Alkard
Age: 28
|2012-12-25, 08:09
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: "Sacrifice one to appease the few."
When Z3 does hit they better give Esther her Mecha upgrade! Make it like Excellen's, I don't care. Esther is still part DM, use it! Give her the Super she deserves!
Awakim will also return since he has escaped before even if he didn't want to. Gaioh also reveals at the end of z2.2 that the Ba-al are coming and we already know that not all of the images from Aaakim's final attack have been revealed yet. Mainly those two girls who may very well be the next Main Characters. Perhaps even 2 Sphere Users in the same mecha or they'll both share the same sphere(like Gemini).
So yeah, they had a lot of foreshadowing in z2.2 which means that Z3 is a reality we just don't know whether it'll remain on the PSP or move to the PS3 or PSVita.
Crowe doesn't get Uther's Sphere, Asakim Ninja's it before he's sealed which means Asakim has 3 spheres I believe.
I wouldn't be surprised if some sphere users never appear and Asakim returns with a few more extra spheres. That way they can have a "huge reveal" for sphere holders when Z cast gets into OG series.
|2013-01-10, 03:42
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The Sword of Darkness
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Langran, La Gias
New Scans
Partner Unit:
+ Adaptable to terrain changes
+ Easy to activate offensive and defensive supports
- fixed Support partner
Single Unit:
+ Can activate support from any unit 8-squares beside it (aka Diagonal supports!)
+ Can do All Attacks and Continuous Action (!!!)
- Unable to activate supports if no unit around attacker
Just by this they almost made Pairs obsolete again...aside from the fact that they're using partners as stat increases (similar to L) as compared to parts.
Courtesy of JL LEE
|2013-02-13, 01:37
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The Sword of Darkness
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Langran, La Gias
The Originals
From 4chan (Thanks to Valsione at SRWG for posting)
Protagonist: Agnès Berge (CV: Suzuki Chihiro)
Unit: Riot B
Classification: Earth Forces' Next Generation Mainstay Weapon
Power: Photon Generator
Heroine: Saya Krueger (CV: Kobayashi Ai)
Affiliation: Illegal Militant Organization "Unknown Extrikers (UX)
Unit: Lylas
Heroine's Dad: Richard Krueger (CV: Kosugi Juurota) oh hell yeah
Unit: Unidentified Mobile Weapon "Orphes"
Power: Lepton Vectorer
- The B stands for Battler, and unsurprisingly, is equipped for close combat including a pair of Proton Sabers.
- The Orphes has become the "flagship" for the UX organization. The Lepton Vectorer is a power source with the same principles as the Photon Generator.
- Saya is a mercenary along with her father.
HQ screens
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A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 32
While I'm thrilled at the line cast (I mean, Demonbane, although it's not the VN one, and Linebarrel the manga), I'm not too impressed with the animation. Guess I'm spoiled after Z/Z2 and OG2nd. Gotta pass on this one.
Still glad seeing the new cast, and the original look interesting.
|2013-03-11, 17:16
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Shinn and Luna get a combination attack
And loved the music here, though the animation still look cheap
|2013-03-12, 06:38
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Join Date: Jul 2010
"SEIZON SENRYA- " *Is Shot*
She really does look like her... (Final boss mech is a robot or human, it does seem like human is abit hard to imagine due to the size between her and the mech...)
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Carl Sagan
For more information, see the Wikipedia article:
Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was a popular scientist, skeptic, astronomer, and media personality. He is perhaps best known for the PBS television series, Cosmos. Sagan saw no reason to believe in a personal God or anything beyond physical reality and the laws that govern the universe. He did not consider himself an atheist because he could not disprove god.
Sagan feared the reason why humans have not found evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations could be that technologically advanced extraterrestrial communities destroyed themselves. He was concerned that humanity should not destroy itself.
Sagan was founder of The Planetary Society.
- The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence ISBN 0-345-34629-7
- Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, ISBN 0-345-33689-5
- Cosmos, ISBN 0-375-50832-5
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, ISBN 0-345-40946-9
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The 2012-13 Hope College women's and men's basketball teams are being lauded nationally for their academic achievements. The women's team is part of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25, while the men's team has received the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team Academic Excellence Award.
The Flying Dutch, coached by Brian Morehouse, earned the WBCA honor for the fourth time in five years. They posted the seventh-highest GPA at 3.546.
Hope is among nine NCAA Division III Tournament qualifiers to make the honor roll. The Flying Dutch were one of three MIAA schools on it, joining Calvin College and Olivet College.
The WBCA honor roll annually recognizes women's basketball teams across the nation in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, the NAIA, and junior/community colleges that carry the highest combined grade point averages inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season.
The Flying Dutch also claimed the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Team GPA award for those teams with a 3.300 or better GPA.
"We are grateful to the WBCA for the recognition of this team's academic achievements," Morehouse said. "The credit goes to the hard work of our student-athletes and the outstanding teaching provided by our faculty. A faculty that wants to push our student-athletes while supporting their learning fits right into the culture we seek to establish. Our motto of "W.E." which stands for win everything (academic, athletic, on and off the court) is evident in our success in the classroom and on the basketball court. Just as importantly, all four of our seniors already have jobs."
The NABC program recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better for the 2012-13 season. In order to earn a NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, an institution must count the grade point averages of all men's student-athletes competing during the 2012-13 season in NCAA Division I, II, III, and NAIA Division I and II.
Hope, coached by Matt Neil, is one of three MIAA schools to be recognized, along with Alma College and Kalamazoo College.
"Our team is made up of individuals who all learn differently," Neil said. "Achieving the NABC's Team Excellence award indicates our players' dedication to learning at a high level. Our program is so much more than what happens on the court and our players have shown their commitment to excellence in the classroom. We are very proud of each young man in this program."
Earlier, three players from the Flying Dutchmen team made the NABC Honors Court for their efforts in the classroom — seniors Josh Holwerda of Gallup, N.M. (Rehoboth Christian HS), Chris Ray of Fort Wayne, Ind., (Homestead HS) and Billy Seiler of Chillicotte, Ill., (Valley Central HS). Holwerda, Ray and Seiler were named to the NABC Honors Court as juniors as well.


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MoH-snippet Two: The Solies start to realize how far behind they are on the technology curb.
Mission of Honor is a long awaited Honor Harrington novel the 12th in an extremely popular series. This is one of my absolute favorite series, I love everything by David Weber [profile], he is the master of military science fiction in my humble opinion.
MoH-snippet One Chapter 1:
December, 1921, Post Diaspora
"To understand Solly foreign policy, we'd have to be Sollies
. . . and nothing would be worth that!"
– Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore
Arsenovich Kolokoltsov, the Solarian League's Permanent Senior Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs is struck speechless by disbelief and shock by the report from New Tuscany. Then he calls a conference with Permanent Senior Undersecretary of the Treasury Wodoslawski, Abruzzi, MacArtney, , Permanent Senior Undersecretary of Commerce Quartermain and Fleet Admiral Rajampet Kaushal Rajan and start to raise hell.
Source: www.ericflint.net
Mission of Honor will be available in June 29 2010
Description: The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. The millions who have already died may have been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the horizon, and Honor sees it coming.
She's prepared to do anything, risk anything, to stop it, and she has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are things not even Honor knows about. There are forces in play, hidden enemies in motion, all converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out of it, and Honor's worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming reality.
But Manticore's enemies may not have thought of everything after all. Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction, it won't be going alone.
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The model teases her creepy costume, which she'll wear to her Las Vegas bash this weekend
Courtesy Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum is letting us look deep into her soul with her 2011 Halloween costume, an anatomically-correct — and potentially creepy — bodysuit.
The outfit, called "Visible Woman," was hand-painted by designer Martin Izquierdo and is what Klum will wear this weekend when she hosts a Halloween party at TAO Nightclub at the Venetian in Las Vegas. She'll also sport custom prosthetic teeth created by her dentist, Dr. Gregg Lituchy. (The
Project Runway
host will celebrate again Monday during a HobNob Wines-sponsored bash at PH-D Rooftop Lounge in New York's Dream Downtown hotel.)
"It's kind of like a dead body with the first layer of skin ripped off," she tells PEOPLE of her costume. "It's basically like me naked." In fact, every vein and muscle was painted on to replicate her own body structure. "All my veins and blood will all be visible," she says with a laugh. "You don't feel quite naked with it because it is so colorful." As for her husband Seal, she says, "He liked it!"
Klum, this year's UNICEF Trick-or-Treat Ambassador, admits that Halloween is her favorite holiday, and it shows: In the past several years, the party hostess has dressed up as an apple from the Garden of Eden, Lady Godiva and, in 2010, a larger-than-life superhero. So she suggests going all out when creating your own disguise.
"The amazing thing about creating your own costume," she explains, "is that you can be sure no one else has the same." Some of her favorites? "One guy came as a mattress one year," she says of a past party. "It was annoying but it was an awesome costume."
But beware: Creativity is key for getting into a Klum-hosted Halloween bash. "I always put on my invitation, 'Costume required,' because if you're not dressing up, you're not getting in," she warns.
One year, she recalls, Prince Andrew showed up — but she thought it was someone dressed as the royal. "I said to him, 'Who are you coming as, Prince Andrew?'" recalls Klum. "He wasn't dressed up at all and I was like, 'How did they let you in?'" At first he looked a bit perplexed until she realized he was the real thing. Then, she says, "I had bright red lips so I smooched his face and he had kisses all over." Tell us: What are you wearing for Halloween this year?
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Barry Stark is a character who can be heard on Chatterbox FM in Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City Public Radio (VCPR) in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Barry is a nudist and goes onto VCPR to preach the virtues of nudism. Barry is also campaigning for the founding of more nudist-only establishments in Vice City, including a casino. Stark is married and lives on a nudist commune, but confesses that the residents 'share wives'.
Stark admits that he has personal issues and that he lies a lot. This is evidenced when he states that he first stopped wearing clothes while on holiday in Halle, Germany in 1982. Later on, he says that he told his mother he wanted to go to school naked and his mother was okay with it. He later says that he was taken away by social services. He also shows his confusion when stating that he would not be able to tell if a person was black or white if they were naked.
Stark also claims that nudity would lead to peace, reduction in crime, closer family bonds, and that clothes 'lead to immorality'. Stark is the author of As Nature Intended and the editor of the Naturist News. At the end of the show, he is brutally shot in the genitals by the power-crazed Pastor Richards. Stark survives and tells Maurice he needs a proctologist.
By 2001, he appears to have recovered and moved to Liberty City, and is still a nudist. He calls Lazlow to discuss this, urging him to be a nudist as well, claiming he could be a figurehead for Liberty City naturists.
His name could be derived from the term "starkers", a British slang term for being naked.
Barry Stark was voiced by Renaud Sebbane, who voiced the White Rabbit in Manhunt, in both appearances.


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Perhaps the only thing more annoying than the the "dry clean only" label on your clothes is the "hand wash only" label. How exactly should you wash those delicates? Are you supposed to use soap? How much? Hand washing delicates is actually pretty straightforward, once you have the instructions:
- Use a clean sink or other large basin filled with lukewarm water.
- Put in a few drops of mild detergent such as Woolite (Textere Silk also recommends Ivory Liquid soap or baby shampoo).
- Gently swirl the clothing in the sink or knead it (like you're kneading bread) for a minute or two just enough that they get soaped up.
- For silks you could add a few drops of hair conditioner to the final rinse to add extra silkiness.
- Rinse thoroughly then gently squeeze out the water.
- Lay flat to dry.
Here's a (somewhat bizarre) video demonstrating how to hand wash clothes, just in case you want some more visual information.
Of course, if the clothing doesn't say "hand wash only" specifically, but is delicate, you can safely wash it in the gentle cycle, as Woolite says:
Use the gentle cycle when washing better garments. It's often as gentle and effective as hand washing while the agitation of a regular washing cycle may be damaging. What goes in the gentle Cycle? Your favorite washable silk blouse, cotton knit (unconstructed) dress, spandex bike shorts - all the clothes you don't want to take a chance on. What doesn't go in the gentle cycle? Ordinary detergents, which may work great on grass-stained jeans but may be too harsh on your finer clothes.
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The First Annual Taylorsville Kentucky Heritage Festival will be taking place this weekend along Historic Main Street.
With all the events planned, there is sure to be something for everyone. Folks attending can count on enjoying music, arts and crafts, history, a civil war camp, food and, of course, gourds.
Coordinator John Shircliffe is hoping this will be the first of many Kentucky Heritage Fesitvals to come.
"We are planting seeds," said Shircliffe in regards to the event becoming a tradition for Taylorsville.
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