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"A great prophet has risen in our midst. God has visited his people".
Last day of Registration will be on
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Classes begin in November.
RCIA stands for Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. This special rite of the Catholic Church is the process by which adults are welcomed into the Catholic faith. If you are an adult who is seeking any of the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Communion, and or Confirmation; or if you were baptized in another Christian denomination and feel called to join the Catholic Church please contact Patricia Korac at 973-772-1116


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MARION -- Mike Absher announced his candidacy for mayor of the City of Marion late last week.
Absher presently serves as president on the Marion Unit 2 School Board. He made his mayoral announcement formal on Thursday at the Celebrations Event Center.
Absher is a lifelong resident of the community and founder and CEO of Watermark Auto Group. He was named Marion's Citizen of the Year as voted upon by the Chamber of Commerce in 2015.
"For us to be successful as a town, we need to have more of an entrepreneurial mindset to grow our economy. It's not just about being business friendly," Absher said. "There are so many challenges to this job, but I am looking forward to those challenges. I believe We need to become an oasis of opportunity for smaller companies. Getting big manufacturers like Aisin are nice, but rarely happen. We need to recruit smaller companies to Marion."
A 1989 graduate of Marion High School who also owns a business degree from SIUC, Absher said that should he get elected, he would not accept a salary from the city.
"I would prefer to see that money donated to the creation of a boys and girls club in the community," he said.

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Peter's Books
A comprehensive list of books written and contributed to by Peter Quinn
Banished Children of Eve
A Novel of Civil War New york
"Historical fiction as well made and whole as this is not common.... Convincing and intriguing… Hardly a page of this book is without some revelation."
– The New York Times Book Review
Looking For Jimmy: A Search For Irish America
A Mixture of Memoir and History that Seeks to Define the Essence of the Urban Irish Catholic Experience.
"You don't have to be Irish or Irish-American to love this book. Whoever you are, you are in it. This is the kind of book you will want to bestow on anyone with, or without, a hyphen in their history."
– Frank McCourt
Dry Bones
The celebrated THIRD installment in the Fintan Dunne trilogy.
"Quinn knows New York and its politics better than anyone. This is noir fiction at its finest."
– William Kennedy
The Man Who Never Returned
The celebrated second installment in the Fintan Dunne trilogy.
"In The Man Who Never Returned, Peter Quinn shapes a tantalizing tale around the enduring mystery of Judge Joseph Force Crater, whose disappearance remains a major mystery. Quinn knows New York and its politics better than anyone. The talk and the story are as sharp and hard-edged as they city they embody. This is noir fiction at its finest."
– William Kennedy
Hour of the Cat
A Murder Mystery Set In New York and Berlin on the Eve of World War II.
"The pacing is tight, the descriptions of New York in the 1930s rich, the characters engaging, and the dialogue pitch perfect. Only a churl could resist"
– The Boston Globe


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Who we are and what we do:
Superior to Judo and to traditional Jujutsu in both its use of leverage and its focus on using submission holds to finish fights, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is the most effective grappling art in the world. BJJ in general, and 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu in particular, employs the use of angles, leverages, and complex technical progressions to control and confuse opponents, inevitably leading to a submission. BJJ is the only martial art in existence that allows a practitioner to easily control and untrained opponent without hurting themselves or their assailant.
Jujutsu (Japanese for "the gentle art") was developed during Japan's feudal era by Samurai who found their striking attacks to be inefficient against armored opponents. Centuries later, a jujutsu practitioner named Kano Jigoro modified the art, making significant technical improvements and laying the groundwork for the sport we know as Judo. In 1904, Kano began sending his teachers around the world to promote the expansion of his system. One of these emissaries, Mitsuyo Maeda, had just concluded a demonstration in Belem, Brazil when he was approached by a local businessman whose sons wanted to learn the martial art they had just witnessed. Maeda agreed and began instructing the man's son; Carlos Gracie Sr, along with other notable students such as Luiz França. Though Carlos was the first Gracie to learn Kano Jigoro's system, it was his younger brother Helio, who was too small and weak to execute many Judo techniques, that began to modify the art into what would eventually become Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. BJJ achieved widespread popularity in the United States (and subsequently the world) when Helio's son Royce used his family's art to win the first ever Ultimate Fighting Championship 1993.
The next stage of Jiu-Jitsu's evolution came in 2003 when an unknown American brown belt named Eddie Bravo used his unique approach to submit arguably the best BJJ practitioner of the era, Royler Gracie, at the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) World Championship. Following this feat, Bravo decided to focus on developing his specifically No-Gi system of grappling to maximize its effectiveness for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and real-life combat situations. At 10th Planet Montreal we are committed to the idea that Jiu-Jitsu is a constantly evolving organism. We ensure that all of our students develop sound basics, but also that each person who trains at our gym gets the opportunity to express their individuality and to be creative in their application of the gentle art. We foster an environment that promotes fun and respectfulness, balances structure and spontaneity, and above all encourages a love for Jiu-Jitsu.


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The CB's crowd during a Vision set, Photo: Ken Salerno
As we move well into our two-year mark here at DCXX, we're gonna try to hit you with all sorts of content on a daily basis. Be on the lookout for weekend posts from now on, and if you haven't been following us on Facebook, get on board. We've been busting out photos, videos, and polls there for you to check out between our nightly entries here on the site. It's also cool to see who is digging what we are up to and getting some feedback.
With the content we've piled up over the last couple years, there's tons of stuff in the archives that's worth a look if you are newly on board or missed it the first time around. Check out the full list of archives on the right side of the page, or search for whatever you are after using the function at the top of the page.
Lastly, if you have anything you want to send over or have any good ideas, fire away. We are always down to get people involved and keep this train a rollin'.
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Danzig's first show at City Gardens, Photo: Ken Salerno
Richie lends a hand during an Underdog set at City Gardens, Photo: Ken Salerno
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Double Cross on Facebook
By DOUBLE CROSS - April 08, 2010
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I LOVE UNDERDOG and that photo certainly brings me back to the old days! I love the skaterat hardcore vibe of underdog and I love Intoanother! What ever happened Birkinhead? Out of all the "reunion shows" going on....it would be so Ill to see Into another again.
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
We're Never Content — We've got something new and cool in the works and I'm excited to be able to tell you a little bit about it today! — Before the end of the year we are planning to release a new service for content delivery. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide …
Discussion: VentureBeat, Podcasting News and webmonkey
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Amazon barges into the content delivery network business
James Lewin / Podcasting News: Amazon Wants To Speed Up Your Website
Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey: Amazon Hopes to Speed Up Your Downloads With New Web Service
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud — For many the "Cloud" in Cloud Computing signifies the notion of location independence; that somewhere in the internet services are provided and that to access them you do not need any specific knowledge of where they are located. Many applications have already …
Discussion: Between the Lines, Negative Approach, TechCrunch, Data Center Knowledge, fierceonlinevideo.com … and The Next Web
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach: Amazon launches Content Delivery Network based on S3
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch: Amazon Gets In On the Content Delivery Business
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Amazon to Launch Content Delivery Network
Pete Wylie / fierceonlinevideo.com/news/frontpage: Amazon to launch CDN
Patrick de Laive / The Next Web: Amazon launches its own CDN
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon Launches Content Delivery Network. Rivals, Watch Out! — It was a matter of when, not if, that Amazon would launch a content delivery business in addition to its current suite of web services that include S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing.
Discussion: eWeek, CNET News and paidContent.org
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: Amazon to Launch Content Delivery Service
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News: Amazon tees up content delivery service
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Amazon Launching New Content Delivery Network: No Threat To Major CDNs, Yet
Amazon Launching New Content Delivery Network: No Threat To Major CDNs, Yet
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Echoing the Campaign of a Rival, Microsoft Aims to Redefine 'I'm a PC' — RELAX, computer users, after only two weeks Microsoft will stop teasing you as the company begins the next phase of an ambitious — and risky — $300 million campaign intended to make over its tarnished image.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Today @ PC World, Screenwerk, All about Microsoft, Valleywag, The Apple Blog, Gizmodo, CyberNet, Hardware 2.0, Microsoft Pri0, Microsoft Subnet's blog, MarketingShift, iPhone Savior, ClickZ, Techdirt, Technology Live, AppScout, BloggingStocks, Todd Watson, MacUser, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AdFreak, Boy Genius Report, Gawker, Apple Gazette, Computerworld Blogs blogs, Technology blog, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Adrants, Insanely Great Mac, I4U News, TechCrunch, The Tech Report, Electronista, LiveSide, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Cult of Mac, Switched, Microsoft Watch and CrunchGear
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines: Has IBM Figured Out The Art Of The Sale Better Than Bill & Jerry?
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Dueling Mac-PC Campaigns Mirror Election
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Bring on the fake John Hodgman!
Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog: Microsoft's New Marketing Tactic: Let People Know That You Are "The PC Guy"
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld ads
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0: Next Microsoft ad takes aim at Apple's "I'm a PC" stereotype
Microsoft Subnet / Microsoft Subnet's blog: Bye-bye Jerry: Microsoft cancels Seinfeld ad campaign
Mr. Besilly / iPhone Savior: Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Are Not Fired?
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ: New Microsoft Ads Seek to Undercut Apple's Bite, Minus the Jerry
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Microsoft Gives In To Online Critics: Fires Seinfeld
Jess Zielinski / Technology Live: Goodbye, Jerry: Microsoft moves away from Seinfeld-Gates ads
Melly Alazraki / BloggingStocks: Before the bell: Stocks to climb; MS, WB, WM, WFC, FDX, LYG, ORCL, GOOG, MSFT ...
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Microsoft Decides Sharks Have a Better Personality than Jerry Seinfeld
Tim Nudd / AdFreak: Seinfeld, Gates make way for regular folks
Marc Flores / Boy Genius Report: Microsoft tries to take their image back
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: Microsoft: Seinfeld Out, Deepak Chopra In
Charles Arthur / Technology blog: Microsoft dumps Seinfeld advertising campaign
Angela Natividad / Adrants: Crispin Exchanges MSFT/Seinfeld Ads for Potentially Worse Idea
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: New Vista Ads directly tackle Apple Get a Mac Ads
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Phase two of Microsoft campaign to parody Apple ads
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide: Wave 3: So much news, so little time
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Say Goodbye, Bill and Jerry
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: Microsoft Confronts Apple's Mockery Head On
Joshua Topolsky / Switched: Microsoft's New Ads: Seinfeld and Gates Out, Hodgman Lookalike In
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch: Canceled: The Bill and Jerry Show
Jack Schofield / Technology blog:
Seinfeld is over as Microsoft moves to planned "phase two" — Microsoft plans to follow up its Seinfeld teasers with something more serious that finally, riskily, takes on Apple — Microsoft will move to the second phase of its advertising campaign tomorrow with adverts that respond …
Emma Hughes / Inquirer: Seinfeld ads canned... no laughter
John C Abell / Epicenter: It's Not Gold, Jerry!
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Eva Longoria, John Hodgman clone lead Seinfeld replacements at Microsoft
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Over For Seinfeld, But Crispin Porter Keeps Microsoft Business
It's Over For Seinfeld, But Crispin Porter Keeps Microsoft Business
Discussion: TG Daily, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, The Apple Blog and Storage Station
Rick C. Hodgin / TG Daily: Microsoft life outside the walls of Apple
Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog: Microsoft to Give Seinfeld the Axe
Tapan Bhat / Yodel Anecdotal:
Testing, testing...a new Yahoo.com — Ever since Jerry and David began categorizing the Web back in 1994, people have visited our homepage to find out what's happening. That's 100 million of you in the US and 314 million of you globally starting your day on a Yahoo! homepage, so we must be doing something right.
Discussion: Download Squad, BoomTown, paidContent.org, WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Engine Journal
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Yahoo! starts to roll out new homepage
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: Yahoo Starts Limited Beta Of New Front Page
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Yahoo.com Makeover Begins
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: The 90's Called Yahoo & Asked for its Homepage Back - New Design Coming!
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: Yahoo Preps Up a "More Open" Homepage
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's All New Home Page A Mix Of Old And New
Yahoo's All New Home Page A Mix Of Old And New
Discussion: Search Engine Land, CNET News, VentureBeat and TECH.BLORGE.com
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Yahoo Tests New Home Page
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Yahoo testing livelier, more open home page
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Yahoo testing new home page for faster access
Palin's e-mail account plundered — Anonymous hackers have gained access to the personal e-mail account of US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. — Those behind the hack put screenshots of messages in Ms Palin's Yahoo inbox on the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.
Discussion: The Open Road
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Alleged 1st-person tale of Palin e-mail hack comes and goes
Alleged 1st-person tale of Palin e-mail hack comes and goes
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, ZDNet Government, Christopher Null, Portfolio and AppScout
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government: Who hacked Sarah's email? And who is rubicon10?
Laura Rich / Portfolio: Palin Email Hackers May Have Left "Prints"
Brian Heater / AppScout: Hacking Sarah Palin: What We Can All Learn
Pareene / Gawker:
Sarah Palin's Personal Emails
Sarah Palin's Personal Emails
Discussion: ZDNet Government, The Register, Zero in a bit, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, SC Magazine US News and Pulse 2.0
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government: Palin conducted state business from Yahoo email
Chris Eng / Zero in a bit: Speculation on Palin E-mail Hack
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica: Hack of Palin e-mail makes case for sticking with .gov account
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Search for music on Yahoo!, play songs on search results page — Companies like SeeqPod and Skreemr have made a business model out of letting you search for a song or musician by name and then streaming the MP3s found on the web. The sites don't actually host any of the music - just the tools to locate and play it.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Yodel Anecdotal and Mashable!
Michael Spiegelman / Yodel Anecdotal: Instant music gratification
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Hear the Music on Yahoo! Search
Hear the Music on Yahoo! Search
Discussion: Webware.com, Google Blogoscoped and Valleywag
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Yahoo adds full-length music tracks to search results
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Play Music Right From Yahoo Results
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: The ad Yahoo ought to air
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo's New Music Business: Other People's Music Businesses (YHOO)
Yahoo's New Music Business: Other People's Music Businesses (YHOO)
Discussion: Coolfer
Glenn / Coolfer: Yahoo Search Adds Free Streaming
David Bowie / Joost:
Notice anything different? … One of the great things about working at a startup is the ability to be flexible and make changes when our users, trends or data suggest a new direction. For much of the past year, we've listened to the feedback we've received from many of the people who use Joost …
Discussion: paidContent.org, webmonkey and ReadWriteWeb
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org: Joost Web Version Goes Live - More Community, More Crashing
Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey: Joost Streams Your Favorite TV Shows With New Web-Based Tools
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Finally: Joost Now Available on the Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Joost Launches Now. And Next Month Joost Will Be 100% Flash.
New Joost Launches Now. And Next Month Joost Will Be 100% Flash.
Discussion: Download Squad, Portfolio, Mashable!, NewTeeVee and Lifehacker
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Joost take 2: This time it's in-browser video
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Joost Re-Arranges the Deck Chairs on the Titanic; Launches Web-Based Version
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee: No Download Required: Joost to Go Flash
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker: Joost Now Offers Online TV with Only a Browser
David Kravets / Threat Level:
RIAA Decries Attorney-Blogger as 'Vexatious' Litigator — The Recording Industry Association of America is declaring attorney-blogger Ray Beckerman a "vexatious" litigator. The association is seeking unspecified monetary sanctions to punish him in his defense of a New York woman accused …
Discussion: DSLreports and Electronista
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA Goes After Ray Beckerman, Demands Monetary Sanctions
RIAA Goes After Ray Beckerman, Demands Monetary Sanctions
Discussion: Ars Technica
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: RIAA pot calls kettle black over "vexatious" legal tactics
Tony Smith / The Register:
Toshiba takes wraps off netbook — Updated It's official: Toshiba today formally launched its entry into the Small, Cheap Computer arena, following Dell's lead and equipping the Linux version with Ubuntu 8.04. — The NB100 is an 8.9in model - the display resolution is 1024 x 600 - and powered by Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270.
Discussion: Liliputing, Electronista and Gadget Lab
Brad Linder / Liliputing: Toshiba netbook gets official(er)
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: Fashionably Late, Toshiba Unveils First Netbook
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Beacon Makes a Comeback, With More Choices and Options … A message appeared from a top poster on the Facebook Developer Forums today which seems to indicate that beacon may be making a comeback. Facebook Developer, Tom Kincaid, noticed an interesting message when signing up for CBS Sportsline on Tuesday.
Discussion: All Facebook, WebProNews and Mashable!
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: Beacon Never Disappeared
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Facebook Brings Home the Beacon
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Facebook Serves Up Leftover Bac'n
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch: Beacon Is Baaaaack! — Tom Kincaid, a top Facebook developer …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T launch updates: HTC Fuze, Samsung Mirage, Bold moved to November? — Bear with us folks. We've just got ahold of an AT&T product sheet dated September 17th. Also known as "the most up to date doc you've seen". Before we get into the BlackBerry Bold nonsense, here's a break down on what the sheet says:
Discussion: Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, wmpoweruser.com, BlackBerry Cool, CrackBerry.com blogs, IntoMobile and Mobility Site
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo: AT&T Document Reveals Several Launch Dates: BlackBerry Bold Pushed to November
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch: AT&T's October product sheet leaked, BlackBerry Bold slips to November?
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs: AT&T Handset Updates: Bold in November?!
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: AT&T BlackBerry Bold delayed until November?
Chris Leckness / Mobility Site: AT&T Launch Dates Revealed
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Earthscape iPhone App Now Free For Limited Time, Grab It Now — Earthscape (iTunes link), the incredible iPhone application that brings Google-earth to the iPhone, just discounted its $10 pricetag to...free. For a "limited time." — The app, which we first wrote about in May …
Discussion: Mobile Industry Review and Cartoon Barry Blog
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
'Android' Cellphone to Showcase Google Brand — The first mobile device powered by Google Inc.'s "Android" mobile phone software is expected to sell for $199 and will showcase the Google brand, people familiar with the matter say, a departure from the standard practice of listing only the manufacturer and wireless carrier on handsets.
Karl Bode / DSLreports: T-Mobile HTC Dream: $199, New Data Plans …
Richard Brandt / Entrepreneur Watch: Google phone at $199 — The Wall Street Journal online …
Darren Murph / Engadget: Android-powered HTC Dream to sell for $199 on T-Mobile
Jason Ankeny / FierceMobileContent: First Android phone to showcase Google brand
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Google Android Phone T-Mobile G1 to be priced at $199
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts: The Android-powered HTC Dream is to sell for $199 on T-Mobile
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily: Google phone will be priced at $199
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Google's Schmidt: Full steam ahead Yahoo ad deal
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg Becomes 321st Richest American — Today Mark Zuckerberg reached a new milestone: he became the 321st richest American, being included in the Forbes 400 list. The list placed Zuckerberg's valuation at a solid 1.5 billion dollars. Not a bad list to be on at 24 years old.
Discussion: The Social Web and Valleywag
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web: Facebook's Zuckerberg makes Forbes' rich list
Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses — Stanford University has launched a series of 10 free, online computer science (CS) and electrical engineering courses. The courses span an introduction to computer science and an introduction to artificial intelligence and robotics, among other topics.


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Koekies Cookies/
I was informed by my lovely friend Ask Leah Renee that a NEW must-try, Klean-Slate approved cookie was making its way through the clutter and shinning superior above the rest; I knew this Cookie Monster had to try them.
Was my friend correct? Were they superior? Did they make me question all prior cookie consumption choices?
I'll tell you this, Chef Kelly has her own vegan twist on an old Dutch classic and it's downright crave-able.
Light, flavorful, gluten-free, five ingredients, plant-based, sweetened only with maple syrup and made with cashews!!!
I don't know if you noticed, but I did profess my love for cashews in my profile; it seemed fitting.
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Sleek, elegant, and surprising in form, the SOHO pitcher is a functional work of art that holds a gallon of your favorite beverage.
This heirloom quality pitcher will not tarnish or lose its shine. It can be used to heat, chill and safely serve food and beverages.
This product is applicable for home and hospitality industry use.
Care Instructions
- Heat up to 350 degrees
- Hand-wash with gentle detergent and towel dry immediately
- Do not store food or leave in standing water
- Do not cut directly on surface or clean with abrasive materials
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The cleaning was completely painless." — Suni, an ecstatic Sacramento Dentistry Group patient
Officially called dental prophylaxis, we believe that our hygienists provide you with the finest dental cleaning in Sacramento dentistry.
During your dental cleaning, we remove any accumulated tartar or calculus, the hardened deposits of plaque caused by oral bacteria. This material, along with plaque itself, is one of the primary causes of gum disease. Removing both substances, regularly and professionally, is essential to your dental health.
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The Ventura County Star, West County Edition
Sunday September 2, 2001
By Andrea Cavanaugh, Staff Writer
Actor Mike Farrell joined more than 300 people who
marched through Ventura on Saturday to show support for Pictsweet mushroom
farm workers.
"We need a major victory for immigrant workers," United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez told the crowd. "They pay taxes like everybody else. They work hard like everybody else.
"They don't even have enough to feed their families."
Farrell, who starred in the television series "M*A*S*H*" from 1975 to 1983 and now plays Dr. Jim Hansen on NBC's "Providence," said he has been a supporter of the UFW for more than 30 years.
"I think we're talking about fundamental fairness. I've always believed that the American people are fair," Farrell said during the march. "I think the public knows that they can show their support by buying a brand other than Pictsweet."
Pictsweet officials did not return phone calls Saturday.
Many of the marchers waved red flags embossed with a black eagle, the symbol of the United Farm Workers Union, and chanted "Si se puede (it can be done)."
"I've given them my whole life," said Javier Luna, 39, who has worked at Pictsweet for more than 20 years. "They make a lot of promises but none of it is true."
Luna said he has seen his standard of living fall steadily during the years he has worked for Pictsweet.
"I made more money in 1980 than I do today," he said. "And now everything costs more."
"They don't care about the workers," said mushroom picker Carlos Plasencia, 40. "All they care about is making money and themselves."
The state Agricultural Labor Relations Board found earlier this year that company supervisors encouraged workers to sign a decertification election petition against the union, promoted a worker who signed the petition and committed other unfair labor practices. Pictsweet has denied the ALRB's findings.
Pictsweet officials have also said in the past that the majority of the company's workers don't support the UFW.
Luna estimated that only about 20 percent of Pictsweet workers are against the union.
The workers, who are paid by the basket and make the equivalent of about $7 per hour, are asking for a pay increase of four cents per basket, or about 60 cents per hour, as well as dental and vision insurance and a pension program.
"They're not asking for something extravagant," said Jaime Casillas, a dean at Oxnard College who joined the march. "The economy of Ventura County was born on the backs of farm workers -- we need to treat them with respect and dignity."


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As a toddler in Manizales, Colombia, Juan Agudelo's first word was "Gol." Olga Rostron remembers her son was referring to a soccer ball, not the act of scoring it. But in Juan's young mind, there was no difference between the two — just as there hasn't been in the 18 years since.
Agudelo's sublime ability to put a soccer ball in the back of the goal, and his opportunistic knack for doing so in pivotal moments, have catapulted the Colombian-born, New Jersey-raised 18-year-old to exalted status in American soccer. If Agudelo fulfills his lofty potential, he could help transform the U.S. soccer team, considered very good on the international stage, to an echelon never previously reached, and in the process partially reshape the athletic landscape in this country.
His future impact, though, is merely conjecture at this point, a postscript when the preamble's ink is still fresh. Agudelo is just seven months removed from relative anonymity, still a debutant who has nonetheless become the most heralded American player since Freddy Adu was coronated as the sport's messiah eight years ago, at age 13.
Adu's is a cautionary tale that has cycled through reincarnations over the past generation, as a sport and fan base hungry for star power continue their search for their own American idol.
As it pertains to soccer, that quixotic sentiment had elevated Adu, and to a lesser extent, Jozy Altidore, Eddie Johnson and Charlie Davies. And when the second cleat dropped, reality revealed a collection of players at one time considered the answer to the sport's dire and perplexing question: Who will score goals for the United States? Those players instead went missing.
So, naturally, there are significant expectations already heaped on Agudelo. Just 17 last November, he became the youngest player in modern era to score a goal for the senior national team and the first player to rise through U.S. soccer's youth academy system to play for the national team. Questions followed as to whether his broad shoulders can handle the weight.
"Every time I step on the field, I know it's my chance to prove myself," said Agudelo, who will lead the U.S. into the Gold Cup this week. "It's something I've been doing my whole life and I feel comfortable. … I feel like I'm going to be alive after the game, so I just go out there and relax."
Those closest to him feel he can succeed, and it has less to do with what he does on the field than the kind of person he already has become.
"He's very young, but he's very mature and humble and just wants to have fun with what he loves most, which is soccer," his mother said. "Sometimes, I think he's teaching me to be a better human being, rather than me teaching him."
You Can Call Me John
Those who know Juan Agudelo best call him John, an Americanized nickname that stuck soon after he arrived in the United States, with his mother, at age 7.
Olga, who separated from Agudelo's father shortly before Juan started school, had met James Rostrun at a dental conference in 1999. They were married in February 2000, and Olga and Juan moved in May to live with Rostron and his four children in Toms River and, later, Barnegat.
Agudelo's half-siblings, all older, agreed to call him John after attempts to call him Juan ended up sounding instead like "One." Olga Rostron remembers walking into her son's room one day and seeing words scrawled on the door of his closet. "John," it read, "A professional soccer player if God helps me. It's all up to God and me."
At 12, in search of better competition, he joined the Pasco travel team based in Wayne, a two-hour drive from Barnegat. With practices three nights a week and games on the weekend, Juan moved to Kinnelon and lived with the Gallego family, friends of Rostron who treated Juan like a son. Agudelo fell into the Gallego family seamlessly.
"At the age of 8, he behaved like 12. When he was 11 he was like a 14-, 15-year-old," said Fernando Gallego, who became like a surrogate father to Juan and coached him at Pasco. "And the way he behaves now, he behaves like a 22- or 23-year-old. He has always been humble, quiet, mature."
Discipline seemed to permeate his life, not just his soccer. Agudelo enrolled at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark with Bryan Gallego, the friend he refers to as his brother, and was an "A" student. It was a condition he had to maintain in order to keep playing soccer, his mother said.
In 2007, Agudelo and a bunch of his Pasco teammates joined the Red Bulls Academy, and the road to becoming a professional seemed straight.
"He was a very unselfish player," said Bob Montgomery, the Red Bulls director of youth development. "He could dominate if he wanted to but was a team player. He stood out technically and athletically. He was a quiet guy but a guy who would accept the challenge to step up and get things done."
Bryan Gallego remembers in an Academy game at age 16 when Agudelo scored on a bicycle kick on a cross-field lob. His mother recalled a game in which Agudelo's teammate told him if he scored, his father had promised to quit smoking cigarettes. Late in the game, Agudelo was bearing down on goal alone, he drew the goalkeeper then passed to his overjoyed teammate to put the ball in the net.
By August 2008, Agudelo had been accepted into the U.S. national team's elite under-17 residency program in Bradenton, Fla., which allowed Agudelo to practice against the best players in the country twice daily, a serious shift in exposure to the sport. It accelerated his development and solidified his commitment to the U.S. national team.
Agudelo could have played for the Colombian national team, but they showed no interest in him until he had already capped for the United States. Still, it seems the choice would not have been difficult.
Agudelo has embraced his Colombian heritage — he used to wear a bracelet marked with the Colombian flag — but has spent little time there since leaving with his mother. At 9, he went back for about a month to spend time with his father, but he has no relatives his age or friends there, his mother said.
Agudelo's heritage is evident in his tan complexion and ease in handling interviews in Spanish as well as English. But it also demonstrates itself on the field, where Agudelo plays with a mix of the idiosyncratic flair from Latin America with the technical prowess drilled in America.
"Colombians play with a more creative style, a relaxed style," said Fernando Gallego, who lived in Santa Rosa, about a half hour from Agudelo's hometown, until he was 19. "They play with more freedom. Americans have more influence from Europe, which is less about freedom, a little bit more mechanical. I'm not knocking it, but it's a different type of soccer."
"The refreshing thing about Juan is he looks like he wants to take risks," said John Harkes, a Kearny native who was a former captain of the U.S. and is now a commentator for ESPN. "He wants to penetrate the heart of the defense. And, of course, he needs to earn that right from his coaches, but we should embrace that."
Agudelo's unique style and tireless work ethic became the foundation of his reputation.
"He's playing soccer from when he wakes up, dribbling the ball around the house, to when he goes to bed," Bryan Gallego said . "He would be passing the ball in his room between these squares working on his accuracy. I always knew, from when we were little, he was gonna be big. … We never imagined he'd already be doing so well."
Career Moves
Juan Agudelo had barely cracked the Red Bulls lineup last November when he received a phone call he thought was a prank. Sitting in the locker room at the Red Bulls training complex, a woman on his cell phone told him she needed to gather his passport information because he was headed to South Africa with the U.S. senior national team. His first thought was to call his mother.
"She screamed so loud, I thought she broke my phone," Agudelo said.
Agudelo's family — his mother, the Rostrons, the Gallegos — have cushioned him through his ascent, providing advice, relief, an outlet for frustration or just a home-cooked meal. In early 2010, Agudelo trained with Millonarios, a club team in Colombia, but chose to sign a professional contract with the Red Bulls to stay close to home.
"That's the biggest thing that has made me successful in my life so far — my family," Agudelo said. "That's mostly why I feel like I'm modest. They keep my feet on the ground. … The way I think about playing soccer, I don't think about things off the field. They don't affect me or give me a big head. I haven't accomplished what I want to accomplish so far."
Agudelo's personal goals are a reminder that in some ways he's still a boy. He said he hopes to become one of the top 100 players in the world according to FourFourTwo magazine, which puts out an annual list that Agudelo has followed for years. That aim would be considered another bit of modesty from those who have seen him play.
"I'm adamant that in a few years he'll be having a very good career after having one here," said Erik Soler, the Red Bulls' sporting director who signed Agudelo last March.
Having first seen Agudelo play 18 months ago, Soler has witnessed the player's steady progression from a Red Bulls reserve last year (Agudelo would go practice at night with Gallego and others in the Academy after practicing with the first team during the day) to MLS goal scorer (Agudelo won the Red Bulls' season opener in March with his first MLS goal, shouldering aside a Seattle defender before slicing the ball into the net with his right foot) to national team sensation. Agudelo scored the game-winning goal against South Africa in his senior team debut.
"The first emotion that comes to mind is excitement," said Harkes. "For a long period of time we're hoping we can develop some kind of players in our system that have the skill, ability to open up a game by going one-on-one with players — and he seems to have that."
After his goal tied Argentina, 1-1, in March at New Meadowlands Stadium, Agudelo's youthful hubris postgame took him to midfield, where he greeted the world's best player, Lionel Messi. "I just wanted to introduce myself: Juan Agudelo," he said.
Soler, like others, sees Agudelo's future in Europe, where the world's best club soccer is played.
"He is a very hard worker, very disciplined," Fernando Gallego said. "And he's willing to work with any coach, no matter what. When you have the skills and soccer knowledge, all you need then is the will. And he has that."
Soler and Red Bulls coach Hans Backe have acted as an extension of the familial cocoon that supports Agudelo. The club has been stern in refusing offers for Agudelo from clubs outside the U.S. which call "all the time," Soler said, proffering sums in the millions.
"We could make very good money on Agudelo now, but we won't because it's not interesting for us," Soler said. "Because we have the belief he will become better, even more mature and it will be better for him. We feel he needs to play and he needs to play for us."
"It's hard to develop and play through things and find out what you're made up if you're not playing," Harkes said. "He needs a platform to learn those things."
Soler has been working in MLS and the United States since the end of 2009, but he seems to have an intimate understanding of the now mythical mistakes that have turned Americans formerly anointed the next international star into the next Icarus.
"One of the biggest mistakes for many young U.S. players is they travel too early," Soler said, contrasting Bolton's Stuart Holden with former Red Bulls striker Altidore. "You have a guy like Stuart Holden, who goes directly in and plays Premier League, which is great. And then you have another example from this club, a guy who goes out very early and is struggling. Because he goes to a level he should not be at, at that moment.
"It's too high, it's too early, the pressure is too much. The smart kids stay here."
And by every account, Agudelo will be one of the smart ones. His focus on the field is not undercut by distractions off of it. And as the U.S. looks to reclaim the Gold Cup, Agudelo will once again be in the spotlight, where he has demonstrated an uncanny knack for rising to the occasion has become a hallmark of his game.
"It doesn't bother me when people say I'm young," Agudelo said. "It bothers me when people say I don't have experience, when they say, 'He doesn't have experience to play in big-time games.' … I feel like I've done something in my life so far.
"I feel like I've been fortunate, at the right spot at the right time. I think against Argentina I was fortunate to be in the right spot. Those little goals can change a lot of things for your life."
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Results for Best Rivalry 2013
Dover, N.H.
Rochester, N.H.
Dover leads the all-time series 65-45-8 and has won 11 of the last 14 meetings. Spaulding came away with a close 29-26 victory this season. The teams first met in 1906, playing to a 0-0 tie.
Lebanon, N.H.
Hanover, N.H.
Division IV powerhouses, the Marauders and Raiders have a rivalry that dates back decades. As of late, the winner claims the coveted Principals Cup, an old maple sap bucket with maroon and white (colors both schools represent) chrysanthemum...
Nashua, N.H.
Nashua, N.H.
The Gate City rivals meet every year to battle for the Edward L. Lecius trophy in one of the state's biggest games. Nashaua South came away with the victory this season, topping North 35-27.
Derry, N.H.
Londonderry, N.H.
The annual meeting between these two schools serves as the finale to a two-day competition in eight sports for the Mack Plaque. Pinkerton has won the Mack Plaque every year since 2000.
Hampton, N.H.
Exeter, N.H.
Two of the elite programs in the state (they've combined for nine state titles since 1997) the Blue Devils and Warriors have been at each other's throats since 1924. So too have the prank-happy student bodies. In September, Exeter avenged a...


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AU leadership spent more than a decade defining and translating its core purpose and values into a set of 12 training objectives for each student. We call this The Cloud of Well-being: 12 Dimensions of Well-being and Whole-Person Success.
This is particularly important because we believe that by embodying and habituating these intentions and skills, you will experience ever higher levels of well-being and whole-person success.
It's also important because the core of our curriculum is built upon these 12 Dimensions.
Using The Cloud below, in which areas would you MOST like to develop sustainable skill habits?
The Eight Habits of Well-being
After developing the 12 Dimensions of Well-being and Whole Person Success, we broke it down into the key habit areas needed to embody these dimensions sustainably.
In which areas would you most like to develop sustainable habits?
Core Course Content
We also took the 12 Dimensions of Well-being and Whole Person Success and distributed them into 18 basic subjects in our core curriculum. This content is integrated and spread throughout our whole curriculum.
Which ones make your heart sing?
The Cloud CURRICULUM MAP
The following curriculum map describes in which courses the curriculum for each of the 12 Dimensions of Well-being and Whole Person Success are distributed.
Important: What you don't see here are all the other line items on our curriculum map that show the research we draw from in creating the AU curriculum; approximately 80 learning topics with many having multiple subsets for each topic!
Who's open to earning a degree developed with this level of commitment to academics and well-being and whole-person success?


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"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."
- Terence McKenna
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
- Rumi
"Music has always been my fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
- Hunter S. Thompson


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Dabbling in CSR is the path to mediocre performance, according to new research. So go all in.
Your company's environmental track record will strongly influence whether or not people blame you when things go wrong.
Companies want to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Caroline Flammer's work shows how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can help.


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Everest base Camp Trekking
Everest Base Camp Trekking – The highest mountain in world
Trip Grade: Moderate & Adventurous
Season: Except June to August
Highest Elevation: 5,555 m
Cost: US$ 1130/- Min.2 Pax
Everest base camp trekking is so popular because of the highest mountain Everest. Kalapathar is the best view point for the highest mountain Everest. Everest Base Camp & Kalapathar is the second most popular trekking destination after Annapurna region. The total trip 16 days and reaches a maximum height of 5545m. at Kalapathar. Everest base camp trekking is surrounded by awesome high peaks, amazing landscapes and rich biodiversity. The attractions include spectacular scenery and the outgoing Sherpa people of the Solu Khumbu, the khumbu region where Mt. Everest (8,848m / 29, 028ft) and its attendant lesser peaks are located. We can see Lhotse (8,516 m-24,940 ft), Nuptse (7,855m-25,772 ft) and Lho – La or Khumbutse peak (6,036 m – 19,992ft) Mt. Lingtren (6,749 m / 22,142 ft) Chnagtse ( 7,583 m / 25,230 ft) Mt. Pumori (7,161 m / 25,772 ft) Ama Dablam ( 6,812 m / 22,480 ft) Kangtenga (6,782 m / 22, 380 ft) Tharmarserku ( 6,623 m / 21, 855 ft) Kwangde (6,011 m / 19,837 f t) Kusum Khanguru (6,373 m / 21,030 ft) holy peak of Khumbi-la (5,761 m / 19,012 ft) and as far world's 5th highest Mt. Makalu (8,463 m / 27, 766 ft) with trekking peaks Island Peak / Imjatse (6,160 m / 20,328ft) Lobuche Peak (6,119 m / 20,192 ft) Pokhalde ( 5,806 m / 19,159 ft) and many other smaller unnamed peaks.
The Everest trekking starts from Lukla (2840m.) and passes through Namche Bazaar. Namche Bazaar is beautiful Sherpa village but now it looks like an alpine resort than a Sherpa village, because trekkers are increasing. Tengboche is popular place because of big monastery and view point.
We find many types of trees and wild life in this region. We can see Chir pine, Blue pine, Junipar, different types of rhododendron and many kinds of herbs and flowers. Probably we can see that birds are Impheyan Pheasant (national bird of Nepal), Crimson-horned Pheasant, Snow pigeon, Golden Eagle, Snow Cocks etc. and animals are Musk Deer (rare animal in the world) and Himalayan Thar etc. It is believed that Yeti lives in this region.
Day 01: Arrival in Kathmandu, Transfer to your hotel.
Day 02: Preparation for trekking, half day sightseeing (one or two heritage site visit in Kathmandu).
Day 03- Fly to Lukla (2840 meters) trek to Phakding (2610 meters) 3 hours.
An early morning start takes us to International Airport in Kathmandu for the 30 minute scenic flight to Lukla at 2840 meters. We meet our porter/s in Lukla and easy trek to Phakding at 2610 meters.
Day 04- Trek to Namche Bazaar (3440 meters) 6 hours.
We trek along the Dudh Kosi River, crossing this river five times by suspension bridges laden with prayer flags. Namche Bazaar known as the Gateway to Everest which is home to many quality restaurants, hotels, lodges, shops, Money exchange, internet café, bank, laundry service and bakery. Namche is one of the biggest villages along the whole Everest trail.
Day 05-Namche Bazaar Acclimatization day.
We will spend a day here in order to acclimatize and adjust to the thinning of the air. Today we hike up the Syangboche Airport, and around Everest View Hotel. From this point, we can see the Everest, Lhotse, Amadablam, Thamserku, Taboche and many others.
Day 06- Trek to Tengboche (3860meters) 5 hours.
The trail climbs to the Tengboche at the ridge, through rhododendron forest, juniper. There is a popular monastery. We can visit that monastery with the Everest and other mountain view.
Day 07-Trek to Dingboche (4440 meters). 5 hours.
We hike down to Diboche and after crossing the river the trail gradually take up to Dingboche valley. We see the breathtaking view of Amadablam Mountain in the right side.
Day 08 – Acclimatization day in Dingboche.
We will spend another day here in order to acclimatize and adjust with the altitude. Today we hike up to Nagarjung hill for good view and acclimatization.
Day 09-Trek to Lobuche (4910 meters) 5 hours.
The first 2 and half hour is easier way to Thugla. After Thughla way is steep up to the small ridge, called Thugla pass. That ridge is memorial place for those who lost their life in Mountain. After the memorial place way is easier to Lobuche in one more hour.
Day 10- Trek to Everest Base Camp (5365 meters) then trek back to Gorak Shep (5180 meters). 7 hours.
After an early morning start leaving Lobuche, we head up to Everest Base camp (5365meters) you will have unobstructed views of many mountain giants like Nuptse, Pumori, Chagatse and Lhotse looming directly ahead and on all sides. Then we make our return to Ghorakshep at elevation of 5180 meters.
Day 11- Trek to Kalapathar (5555 meters) then trek to Pheriche(4200 meters) 7 hours.
After reaching Base camp of Everest our aim today is to trek Kalapattar (5555 meters). We start early to reach the viewpoint that offers some of the best views of Mount Everest as well as other panoramas of the surrounding mountains. And then We trek to Pheriche at elevation of 4230 meters.
Day 12- Trek to Tengboche (3860 meters). 4 hours..
We trek to Tengboche.
Day 13- Trek to Monju (2830 meters) 6.5 hours.
We trek to Monju.
Day 14-Trek to Lukla (2840 meters). 7 hours.
Finally we return to Lukla which was our trekking starting point.
Day 15- Morning flight to Kathmandu from Lukla.
We fly early in the morning enjoying the scenic Nepali landscape and the glimpse of mountains, hill, valley and rivers.
Day 16- Free day in Kathmandu.
Day 17 – Transfer to International Airport.
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During the latest presidential campaign, John McCain's team sarcastically called now President-Elect Barack Obama as "The One," referring to Keanu Reeves' Neo character in The Matrix. Like Neo, Obama was the savior the world was waiting for, the superhuman who could do no wrong, the candidate with a seemingly bulletproof – or was it bullet-dodging? – reputation.
Well, Obama's ability to positively affect the markets seems to only add to that mystique. While there was a late-day sell-off, Cramer credited Obama for the strength we saw through much of Wednesday's trading session. Just look at the performance of the sectors that Obama's blessed.
Infrastructure names like Jacobs Engineering, AECOM , Nucor and U.S. Steel were all up, as were Joy Global, Freeport-McMoRan and Caterpillar, on anticipation of an Obama stimulus plan.


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It can be spectacular:
a nation in revolution—
its people waving orange
flags in the breeze
of gunpowder and casseroles.
It can be simple:
a couple rowing a boat
on a lake, the man pointing
to a mansion on the mountainside,
saying "This will be ours,
darling, one of these days."
A couple rowing a boat—
and my contribution to motion
consisting of heating a dish
in the microwave, setting a place
at the table, calmly but with vigor
tearing a paper towel off the roll.
Tim Suermondt is the author of two full-length collections: Trying to Help the Elephant Man Dance ( The Backwaters Press, 2007 ) and Just Beautiful from New York Quarterly Books, 2010. He has poems forthcoming in december magazine, Plume Poetry Journal, North Dakota Quarterly and Ploughshares. He lives in Cambridge.


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Family Disappointment Proud to Call Herself a Wildcat
After attending three days of Ivy League graduation torture for her siblings, Weinberg Sophomore and family disappointment Nicole Bowman decided that she is finally OK with being part of the Northwestern community. "Maybe it was all the conversations where everyone wanted to 'unpack' unrelated social issues or the people sitting behind me who were comparing their houses on the Cape, but I finally knew this elitist circle-jerk wasn't for me."
After "seemingly endless" hours of traditional ceremonies and longwinded speeches, Bowman realized that despite her bitter East Coast attitude, she belongs at NU. However, no one, not even Bowman could've predicted this emotional transformation. Having gone into the weekend's events expecting an existential crisis that would cause her to question every decision she had ever made, she was reassured to know that though she missed out on enjoying a campus so beautiful it could make a grown man cry, she also dodged the bullet of having to walking up a giant hill to go to class.
"It was a draining weekend that reminded me that the CollegeBoard online quiz was right, I am a 'pretty good' match for Northwestern. Also, nothing beats that flat Midwestern terrain. Hills do a lot damage to the body. Not just the knees, but also to the psyche."
Coming from a family of Ivy League graduates, the family disappointment never thought she would come to terms with her college decision. But, two years and one graduation weekend later, she found the Northwestern love she never thought she'd know. Commenting her newfound Purple Pride, Bowman added, "I mean sure, I won't leave college with a real liberal arts education but at least I'll know a catchy fight song."


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CONCORD, NC - When the 2015 version of the RLV Tuned Exhaust Products Gold Cup season started back in March at 103rd Street Sports Complex in Jacksonville, Florida, many should have known then that the 4 victories snared by Aiden Baker Crouse would be just a small taste of the top shelf of the podium for the young Sportsman driver. In fact, it served as just one-fourth of the national event and Friday Night Shootout wins the North Carolina driver would attain in the 2015 season, as Crouse totalled16 victories in all for the year. Crouse's path of multiple wins spread like fire throughout the pit area to other camps, as Senior driver Paul Headley, carrying the banner for the Animal ranks in 2015, notched 9 wins, while Junior Class competitors Jason Alder and Matthew Miller would take 8 and 6 wins respectively, with Alder matching Crouse at the season opener in Jacksonville with 4 wins.
The end result of all the success for Crouse led to titles in 3 classes, including the Razor Chassis Sportsman Pro Gas Lite and Heavy classes, as well as the Miller Welders Sportsman LO206 Class. In the LO206 class, Crouse topped Tanner Carter, a 3- time winner in his own right on the final weekend of racing alone in Barnesville, Georgia. Riley Kelley, who began to catch steam in Kershaw, South Carolina at the series second stop, and exploded for 4 wins in Camden, Ohio, finished third in the LO206 standings, with Cale Hall and Mark Steube completing the top 5. In the Sportsman Pro Gas Lite class, Kelley, Carter, Hall, and Macon Moore were the top 5 for the season, while Kelley, Moore, Steube, and Andrew Willis, a 2-time winner on opening day, completed the top 5.
While Crouse cleaned house in the Sportsman ranks, the battle between Jason Alder and Matt Miller kept fans on their toes. After Alder swept the Van K Wheels Junior Pro Gas Lite, as well as the Brads Heating and Cooling Junior Pro Gas Animal classes at Jacksonville, victories became a little tougher to come by with David Kalb Jr ripping off 3 wins in Kershaw, including the Friday night shootout win, while Miller and Hunter Johnson claimed the other wins that weekend. 2 more wins by Johnson in the season finale, coupled with wins by Alex Vrabel and Cody Hall kept things a little tighter than Alder wanted. But in the end, the Maryland driver took the Junior Pro Gas Lite title over Miller, with Joshua Stark, another most consistent finisher this year, taking third in the standings, while Hall and Brian Van Cleve completed the top 5.
Miller claimed the Junior Pro Gas Heavy title, as well as that of the Thor Oil Junior LO206 class, racking up six wins, and the Gas title over Vrabel, with Alder, Stark, and Jimmy Cole Jackson completing the top 5.
In the LO206 category, Miller topped Hall, Jackson, Alder, and Talia Moffett, one of the many up and coming top females in 4 Cycle Sprint competition.
The battle in the Tyler Sandmeyer LO206 Kid Kart Class turned out to be most competitive, despite Brently Millers sweep of the action in race 1 at Jacksonville. Owen Lloyd turned 2 runnerup finishes at his home track in Race #1 into a victory at Kershaw, while Bryce Sanders also began to gain some momentum with the other Kershaw win. But then the Jax Walker Show came to town, with the defending champion gaining 3 wins in the next 2 stops in Camden, Ohio, as well as Barnesville, Georgia. And despite issues early on the final day of competition, Walker was able to snare yet another title, as Peyton Bridges triumphed in the series finale, giving the young driver a huge lift going into next year, making it 5 national winners in 8 races for 2015. With the 3 wins, Walker claimed the title over Lloyd, with a very consistent Blake Boon, as well as Caleb Gafrarar, who also runs Kids Karts in the Bridgestone Manufacturers Cup Series, and 2 time winner Brently Miller completing the top 5.
While it would be hard for the Senior contingent of the Gold Cup Series to top the exploits of the Junior ranks, the return of strong fields in both the Briggs and Stratton Racing Senior LO206 class, as well as the Coyote Motorsports Senior Pro Gas Series, kept the fans on the fence.
For the LO206 Class, 6 winners in 8 races made for some great competition, with Eric Fagan and Tyler Smith the only 2 time winners. Other winners included Evan Cowen, Gary Lawson, Ben Wagenhals, and Dustin Demattia. But in the end, consistency won out, as Austin Queen laid claim to the championship over Wagenhals, with Haley Kummer, another top female runner placing third in the final standings, while Demattia and Fagan completed the top 5.
For Three Quarters of the season, it appeared the Coyote Motorsports Senior Pro Gas Animal crown would travel back to Maryland, with 4 victories by Jacob Heavlow, 1 by his brother Jimmy, and another by fellow Marylander Chris Wells. But again, consistency, coupled with a sweep of the season ending events in Georgia led to Sean Meier taking the top honor in 2015. Jacob Heavlow ended up a solid second with Zachary Linsell, Tyler Smith, and Dustin Demattia completing the top 5.
While the stats didn't show a title for Zachary Linsell on the national points side, Linsell more than made up for it on Friday night, taking 3 of the 4 Senior Shootout races in 2015, a pretty tough feat, considering the level of competition each race for that class. The only win that eluded Linsell was Camden, Ohio where Jacob Heavlow added to his impressive 2015 win total. Linsell also did quite a bit of racing on the WKA VEGA/TSRacing National Road Race Series this past year as well, spreading him pretty thin.
2015 marked a bittersweet season for Paul Headley. With the ever-changing landscape of karting, the run for the Animal Methanol classes came to an end this year, as the LO206 and Pro Gas Classes enjoy their time in the spotlight.
Headley reeled off an impressive 9 wins between the Animal Medium and Animal Heavy Mix classes, fending off the efforts most weekends of Jim Lipari, Cayla Chapman, and Josh Stiefel. Taking 3 of 4 wins at Jacksonville, Headley also scored wins at every other track on the tour this season, thus placing his name in the record books as the last Animal Methanol winner in the Gold Cup, as well as 2 titles. Headley topped Lipari, Chapman, Stevie Roberts, and Jacob Heavlow in Animal Medium, while besting Stiefel, Case Hall, Joey Miller, and Connor Tebbe in the Animal Heavy Mix class.
And with that, the 2015 season for the RLV Tuned Exhaust Products Gold Cup Series is in the books. Our thanks to Art and Rod Verliengre of RLV for their wonderful title sponsorship.
Special thanks to Kyle Luttrell and Ionic Edge Chassis for their sponsorship of the Jacksonville event, Rob Smith and Kart City Performance for sponsoring the June Kershaw nationals, Jerry Cole and Michigan Kart Supply for the top billing of the Camden event, and to Dave and Sue Koehler of GT Machine for once again sponsoring the Grand National event in Barnesville, Georgia.
Special thanks also to the entire North Florida Kart Club, David Watkins and the crew at Carolina Motorsports Park, Gary and Elaine Gregg at G and J Kartway in Camden, Ohio, and Bob Barthelemy and the entire GSKA crew at Lamar County Speedway in Barnesville, Georgia for their hospitality.
Thanks to Tyler Sandmeyer Racing, Razor Chassis, Coyote Motorsports, Van K Wheels, Miller Welders, Thor Oil, Briggs and Stratton Racing, and Brads Heating and Cooling for their Class Sponsorships this season. Thanks to Steve Baker of Baker Racing Engines for the Contingency Program for all the competitors this season, and to Brad Farmer of Brads Heating and Cooling for extending his sponsorship dollars out and funding the Friday Night Shootout Races for the Sportsman and Junior Pro Gas drivers, making it a great start to the weekend.
And congrats once again to Tommy Triplett and Bandit Racing Chassis for winning one of the tightest battle in Manufacturers Championship competition, edging Razor Chassis by 4 wins 26-22, for the winningest chassis in the Gold Cup this season. The balance of the standings were:
Arrow: 21
Coyote: 8
Ionic Edge: 5
Tommy, along with the rest of the champions, top ten drivers, and many other special recipients of awards will be honored for their 2015 efforts at the annual awards presentation, which is currently being finalized at this moment.
While the awards and merchandise package is currently being assembled, one of the many special offers comes from Kyle Luttrell and Ionic Edge Chassis, as any and all class champions, no matter what chassis they were on this season, will receive a $500 certificate towards a new Ionic Edge Chassis.
As part of the Contingency program this past season, Ionic Edge offered a $250 certificate for the purchase of a new Ionic Edge Chassis, or $75 for the race winners this year, as well as a $150 certificate to the 2nd place finisher, or $50, provided they displayed 3 sponsor stickers on their karts this year.
Plans for the 2016 season are shaping up nicely, with the first 2 events slated for April and June respectively at 103rd Street Sports Complex in Florida and Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, South Carolina. The third date is getting the finishing touches placed on it, with the fourth and final venue and date right behind it. Announcements on the complete 2016 Schedule will be out soon.
On behalf of the World Karting Association, our sincerest thanks to everyone for an incredibly enjoyable and successful season. We wish you all the safest and happiest of holiday seasons!!!!


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(Still writing these, which even to me is strange. Gwendolyn Brooks and Ann Carson are in the dock. Still working on The Brotherhood of the Eye, and also about to dive into third draft of The Taunting Light. I'm aflame!)
Oh, Richard.
Little Richard.
Not-so-Richie Rich.
Ye of the counter-culture.
Silly, be-knighted Richard.
So much fun to read.
Full of wonk.
Full of spice.
Full of honky-tonk.
A fabulous first-rate poet.
Complex but fun to read.
Small but also big.
Just goddamn . . . great.
A very fine novelist, too, only of a very specific sort.
(Think Kenneth Patchen with a narrative through-line.)
Clever, but not just clever.
Funny, but not just funny.
Pithy but not just pithy.
Weird but not just weird.
Subtle melancholic erotic punchy muscular
Fabulous eye-opening stunning wondrous
Trout Fishing one of the best novels of its kind.
Yet, Richard, you lost faith in the creative world
You betrayed your own imagination
You plummeted
You misplaced your talent.
Or was it vacuumed up?
Did that peculiar dustbin of American celebrity sweep up your dreams?
So you plummeted.
You fell.
You banged your shins and dirtied your face.
You knew you had lost something special.
You drank too much.
You cared about the things you hated.
You could have ended up like most
kind of sort of washed up and past your prime
Beer-bellied and discontented
A John Cheever type.
retreating shrinking diminishing
boozing commiserating recriminating
bitter bitter bitter
But, Richard, a suicide?
Such a commonplace metaphor for loss of faith?
We expected better.
More subtlety.
Less cruelty.
More rapacious belief.
Something rhapsodic.
Something beautiful.
Something more than Hemingway.
Jesus, Richard.
You and the rest:
Don Carpenter
Kurt Cobain
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf
Primo Levi
Cesare Pavese
Stefan Zweig
Hunter Thompson
(the last I sort of forgive as his makes a kind of culminating sense
even though with suicide I have something like contempt)
the list goes on and on and on and on
magnum temple trigger, yuck.
I won't spend too much time on his suicide.
His words are too grand for that.
There are comets, he writes, that laugh at us
from behind our teeth, wearing our clothes of fish and birds.
We try.
And those machines of loving grace,
he saw the world we were moving towards
animal machine cybernetic reality
Richard Brautigan.
Big Sur.
West Coast, Buddhist thinking.
Hippie, left-right inclinations.
Big-country-don't-read-on-me libertarianism.
Free(ish) love!
Brautigan's life a cross-section of 1960s counter-culture.
(before it became trendy)
He offers simple pleasures.
fishing walking hiking driving
he revels in the unorthodox
the paradox
the lovingly weird
Watermelons and trout and glorious sex
Weird ruins, small meals
rough housing with babies
screwing in a warm stream
light refracted through rain
There's something lost about his work.
There's something desperate in his silliness.
He belongs to a rarified group of writers—
Vonnegut, Carroll, perhaps Angela Carter—
comic and serious at the same exact time.
Their best work timeless and ageless.
Richard—trout fishing in babylon
and roaming the west with a confederate coward—
we have so very little in common.
But I sort of love you.


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BRUNSWICK, Maine — An exhibit of Edward Hopper's paintings of Maine is breaking attendance records at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, but it's just one of three top-notch shows at museums around Maine this summer and fall.
Combine a trip to see all three — the others are an Andrew Wyeth show at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland and a 1930s photography exhibit at Colby College in Waterville — with shopping in Freeport, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, leaf-peeping, dining and maybe a trip to a spa, and you've got an ideal itinerary for a September getaway.
In Maine and many other places, leisure travel takes on a more grown-up flavor after the kids are back to school. The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens not surprisingly gets more visitors age 55 and up after Labor Day, especially on weekdays, but September is also a lush time of year to see the garden. Perennials have had the whole season to grow, flowers stay in bloom through early fall, and the trees start to take on color. Follow a visit to the garden with a lobster lunch in Boothbay Harbor for a perfect day.
Brunswick is having a busy season with crowds coming in for "Edward Hopper's Maine," on view at the Bowdoin museum through Oct. 16. "It has indeed broken our records many times over, with total attendance in the first month of the show being open (July 15 to Aug. 15) reaching just under 15,000, plus a one-day high of almost 1,200 people on Aug. 16," said Diana Tuite, co-curator of the exhibit, which was organized in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The show includes 30 small oil paintings of Monhegan Island, a popular tourist destination in Maine, as well as larger canvases and watercolors of classic New England scenes like lighthouses and the rocky coast. Why is the exhibit proving so popular?
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: 9400 College Station, Brunswick; 207-725-3275. "Edward Hopper's Maine" through Oct. 16. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Thursday to 8:30 p.m.); Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Free admission.
COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS: Boothbay; 207-633-4333. Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $12.
COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: 5600 Mayflower Hill, Waterville; 207-859-5600. "American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White" through Oct. 2. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Free admission.
FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM: 16 Museum St., Rockland; 207-596-6457. "Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World and the Olson House" through Oct. 30. Daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Wednesdays, until 8 p.m.), $12. (Combination ticket with tour of nearby Olson House, $17; location, hours, details on website.)
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"People love seeing work that they are not familiar with by an artist that they think they know," Tuite said. "So many of the works in the show, particularly the 30 small Monhegan oils from 1916 through 1919, were not exhibited in Hopper's lifetime, and continue to exist outside the standard narrative of his career. This is the first time that they are being shown as a nearly complete series. And the color and paint handling really astonishes people. I also think people who are in Maine right now, or are passing through, are responding to the same things outdoors that Hopper was, particularly the light."
The museum exterior is also worth a look. The building is an 1894 architectural treasure designed by McKim, Mead and White. And tip your hat to the statue of Joshua Chamberlain, a Bowdoin president who commanded Union troops when the South surrendered in the Civil War; it's located at the corner of campus, Maine Street and Bath Road. Finally, don't miss Brunswick's Gelato Fiasco at 74 Maine St., with flavors like baklava, blueberries and cream, gingersnap and dark chocolate noir.
At the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, "American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White" is on view through Oct. 2. The show of 117 photographs from the 1930s by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White and Walker Evans comes to Maine after a run at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The documentary-style images range from portraits of poor families surviving the Great Depression, documented for the Works Progress Administration, to shots of gleaming skyscrapers and nascent symbols of corporate America, commissioned by private companies and magazines. The images provide a thought-provoking contrast to the photos in "Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled," also on display at Colby, capturing Detroit's recent industrial decline.
A third outstanding museum show in Maine this summer and fall is "Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World and the Olson House" at the Farnsworth Art Museum's Wyeth Center in Rockland, through Oct. 30. You'll have to go to the Museum of Modern Art in New York to see Wyeth's original "Christina's World," which shows Christina Olson, a crippled woman who lived in the nearby town of Cushing, dragging herself across a field toward her family farmhouse. But the exhibit in Rockland offers a rare opportunity to see 50 other paintings and drawings Wyeth produced over 30 years depicting the Olsons and their home.
The farmhouse was declared a National Historic Landmark in July, and a tour of the home offers insight into the artist's relationship with the Olsons and the choices he made in creating his paintings.
Rockland is also home to many fine restaurants, including Primo at 2 S. Main St., expensive but highly regarded. Reservations for the dining room go fast, but you can order off a small plates menu upstairs at the bar.
Other tourism news coming out of Maine this season includes a new way to enjoy spa treatments — from a treehouse at Hidden Pond, part of the Kennebunkport Resort Collection. The three climate-controlled spa treatment rooms in a treehouse setting opened in June and offer a view of paper birch, red oak, pine, maple and juniper trees. "It has a really neat feel," said Debbie Lennon, operating partner of the properties. "If you're looking out that picture window, you're looking into the forest."
Lennon said September and October are a "perfect time for couples" to visit Maine, adding that tourist demographics change once kids are back in school, not only with fewer families, but also with a wider geographic spread: "Summer is New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, but as you move into September, it'll widen to Florida, Texas, the Midwest. We even enjoy an influx of couples from Europe." Hidden Pond guests get first crack at spa appointments, with guests at other Kennebunkport Resort properties next, followed by members of the public.
Lennon said it's warm enough in southern Maine in September to allow for "quite a bit of beach activity" (though heated pools are also an option).
Peak foliage in Kennebunkport is generally the third week of September to mid-October, but those looking to chase leaf color earlier would do well to head inland. Route 201 North, also called the Old Canada Road, between Skowhegan and Quebec, is a lovely if somewhat remote fall drive. Watch out for moose!
Finally, don't forget shopping. Freeport is home to L.L. Bean and over 200 outlets, boutiques, hotels and restaurants. The Harraseeket Inn, 162 Main St., offers a popular daily buffet lunch Monday-Saturday, $18.14 with tax (the inn also offers lodging and dinner), or head to South Freeport to the Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster, 36 Main St., for a more informal meal on the waterfront, open to Oct. 15.
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Can you believe it's February already? In the world of interiors PR, that means that 'gardens' and 'outdoor entertaining' are the subjects du jour. We're delighted to have been chosen as the agency to help launch Canadian fire pit and water feature specialists, Solus Decor, into the UK market.
By way of introduction, we asked Solus CEO, Brad Carpenter, the reason for the UK launch and the few tips on what to look out for when choosing a fire pit. Take it away, Brad.
"Fire features and the explosion (no pun intended) of their popularity in North America is a burgeoning trend that started on the west coast of North America and has spread from Miami to Montreal and all points in between. The UK and Europe are not far behind in this move to bring stylish and contemporary heat, light and furniture to their patio decks and gardens. According to the ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) fire features are the number one feature in garden design today.
A trend to expand the outdoor space in the UK is nothing new. One of the most exciting trends in the last number of years in the UK has been to open up the kitchen or reception with extendable bi fold doors to allow the outdoors in and extend your lifestyle out. Although fire feature fans in the UK have had limited options in the past couple of years relative to North America; but that is all set to change with the introduction of Solus UK fire pits. Solus UK is pleased to be on the leading edge of this outdoor lifestyle and design wave coming to the UK and to Europe.
In both continents there has been a trend to live outside whenever possible as long as possible. Incredible advances in outdoor fabrics and furniture have allowed for al fresco dining – it is not just simply reserved for hot and sunny vacations anymore. In Canada and the northern United States, fire simply extends your spring and fall in addition to your summer evenings. It is an ideal way to maximize your time outside and provide a focal point for your family and friends.
Modern fire pits have some big advantages – the absence of wood smoke and upset neighbours being probably the principal one. The convenience of either bio fuel which is the most environmentally friendly fuel, natural gas or propane are all options you can now consider in your garden firepit design; each with its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on your situation. Bio fuel and propane are portable if necessary, whereas natural gas needs to be affixed and plumbed in to a set location. Running costs of gas are generally less, although depending on location, lines can add up. With propane, you'll be faced with finding clever ways to hide the unsightly white bottle. All fuels provide heat, ambiance, a place to tell stories or share a glass wine and all of this cannot be anything other than positive."
If the thought of expanding your al-frestivities from March to November tickles your fancy, or you're simply curious to see what Solus have to offer, please feel free to visit them at solusdecor.com – or in real life at the Grand Designs or Chelsea Flower Shows this spring.


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Authorities were able to find Thomas Ritchie Stone, who they said robbed a bank, because of his poor choice of a getaway vehicle -- a taxi, reports
The cabbie told cops where he had dropped off the man and when cops searched the area they found Stone, who matched the description of the bandito.
Cops found cash in his backpack along with a hat and a pair of sunglasses that Stone reportedly wore during the robbery.
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Mogadishu, Somalia
A Somali police officer says three car bombs exploded outside a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the blasts appeared to be suicide bombs that were detonated near the perimeter wall of the Sahafi Hotel, which is located across the street from the Somali Police Force's Criminal Investigations Department.
He said there could be significant casualties, without giving further details. Witnesses said there are many bodies in the street.


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With the first weekend of Coachella 2012 come and gone, more videos are surfacing of fantastic performances from various artists. We've already seen the likes of Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Radiohead, and more tear up the Coachella stages, and now you can watch full sets from The Black Keys, The Weeknd (his U.S. debut), Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg (featuring guest appearances from Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, and a holographic recreation of Tupac), as well as New Jersey indie rock trio Real Estate. Check out all of the full performances after the jump.
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