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Skinfood's Peach Sake Pore Essence is one of the more popular items from the range I have read about in various places.
This contains rice sake (yes, booze), peach extract rich in vitamins A and C, and silica powder which minimizes shine and the appearance of pores.
To use, after your toner or cream (if you have drier skin) apply gently and cover face with hands, for deep absorption.
Firstly, this is a very liquid formula. Even though it is light, it does work rather effectively at removing superficial shine and the appearance of pores. It also smells divine – like the centre of a freshly cut peach – yum yum yum. Slightly more likeable than Celery, Cheese or Beer.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil-producing Mideast countries are coping with low global oil prices though more government reforms are needed, the International Monetary Fund's chief for the Mideast said as the organization issued a new report Wednesday showing weak economic growth in the region.
Masood Ahmed also told The Associated Press that Iran's economy beat expectations by growing by 4.5 percent this year and could keep up that pace if it can modernize its industries and allow in more foreign investment after its nuclear deal with world powers.
Much of the IMF's new report on the Mideast's economic outlook won't come as a surprise to those living in the region since oil prices have been halved following highs of over $100 a barrel in mid-2014.
All Gulf Arab countries have cut back on generous subsidies that kept gasoline prices low, while some have reorganized government agencies and halted construction projects.
With oil prices expected to remain low, the IMF report estimates growth across Gulf states to be around 1.7 percent this year, while regionally "little improvement" is expected in 2017. It suggests only Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates will be able to see budget surpluses by 2021, while the war against the extremist group Islamic State, Yemen's civil war and the Syrian conflict continue to weaken confidence in the region.
"Some countries — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman — start from a position where they have to make more of an adjustment to be able to balance their budget in five years," Ahmed told the AP in an interview Tuesday. "They all do have policies that they're articulating that will help them get there, but they will entail difficult choices."
Among those tough choices will be cutting public sector salaries and jobs in Saudi Arabia and Oman, he said.
Meanwhile, Iran's economy has charged ahead through boosting oil production close to levels seen before Western nations imposed economic sanctions over its contested nuclear program. Iran will have to modernize both its banking system and its manufacturing industry, as well as allow more foreign direct investment in the country, to continue that growth.
"The big challenge for Iran is can you sustain that 4-, 5-percent growth over the medium term or is it just a one-time increase you get?" Ahmed asked. "They can, but they have to move on addressing some of the other constraints in their economy."
Easing further sanctions on Iran would encourage that growth, though Ahmed acknowledged that it would be a "political process, one we don't have a view on." That also would have to come as hard-liners in Iran's security forces detain those with Western ties and its Revolutionary Guard, a powerful paramilitary organization, still holds a large stake in the economy.
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An report by Yahoo! Sports details allegations of over eight years of gifts and benefits provided to University of Miami athletes against NCAA regulations.
Claiming he paid for nightclub outings, sex parties, cars and other gifts, former Miami booster and convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro cliams to have provided extra benefits to 72 of the university's football and basketball players between 2002 and 2010.
Shapiro's claims involve several current football players and threaten to bring down a high profile program with a legacy of success, but also dotted by scandals.
Yahoo! Sports published its story Tuesday afternoon, hours after Miami coach Al Golden said he was certain that his team would "stay focused" amid an NCAA investigation into claims Shapiro first began making about a year ago.
The site said it spent 100 hours interviewing Shapiro over the span of 11 months and audited thousands of pages of financial and business records to examine his claims.
"I did it because I could," Shapiro said of his spending. "And because nobody stepped in to stop me."
Shapiro was sentenced in June to 20 years in prison for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme, plus ordered to pay more than $82 million in restitution to investors.
"We'll stay focused. I'm certain of that," Golden said. "We're disappointed but we're not discouraged. And again, there's going to be a life lesson here. We're talking about allegations from a man that's behind bars, now. If these do hold some truth, then we'll deal with them. There's no other way to do it."
Shapiro said he gave money, cars, yacht trips, jewelry, televisions and other gifts to a list of football players including Vince Wilfork, Jon Beason, Antrel Rolle, Devin Hester, Willis McGahee and the late Sean Taylor.
Shapiro also claimed he paid for restaurant meals and in one case, an abortion for a woman impregnated by a player. One former Miami running back, Tyrone Moss, told Yahoo! Sports he accepted $1,000 from Shapiro around the time he was entering college.
"Hell yeah, I recruited a lot of kids for Miami," Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports. "With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat. We're talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it happen? That was me."
Shapiro has said multiple times in the past year, including in the Yahoo! Sports story posted Tuesday, that he is angry with several of the players he claims to have helped when they were Hurricanes — only to be "abandoned" when he sought their help years later.
Miami officials began cooperating with NCAA investigators not long after Shapiro made claims about his involvement with players last year. University president Donna Shalala and athletic director Shawn Eichorst were questioned by the NCAA this week. The school reiterated Tuesday it takes the allegations seriously.
The allegations against Miami — which dealt with a massive Pell Grant scandal in the 1990s, along with other controversies — have sparked what is just the latest in a string of NCAA investigations involving some of college football's most high-profile programs.
In the past 18 months, the football teams at Southern California, Ohio State, Auburn, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia Tech and LSU all have either been investigated or sanctioned by the NCAA.
The litany of scandals has led to calls for major reforms in the way the NCAA regulates and polices big-time college athletics. Commissioners of the major conferences, including Mike Slive from the Southeastern Conference and Jim Delany from the Big Ten, have called for major changes and increased penalties for rule-breakers.
Last week, NCAA President Mark Emmert led a group of university presidents in laying out an outline for changes, including raising academic standards, streamlining the rulebook and changing the parameters of athletic scholarships.
Many current Miami players also were named by Shapiro as receiving benefits, Yahoo! Sports reported, including quarterback Jacory Harris, Ray Ray Armstrong, Travis Benjamin, Sean Spence, Marcus Forston, Vaughn Telemaque, Dyron Dye, Aldarius Johnson and Olivier Vernon. Former Miami quarterback Robert Marve, now at Purdue, also was named by Shapiro, Yahoo! Sports said.
Current Miami players were not made available to comment Tuesday, and will not be made available before Wednesday's practice, the university said.
Yahoo! Sports also said Shapiro paid Wilfork $50,000 as a recruiting tool to sign with sports agency Axcess Sports & Entertainment, a firm Shapiro claimed he co-owned for much of the time he was involved with the Hurricanes. Yahoo! Sports reported players got cash and benefits through Shapiro's partner, former NFL agent and current UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue.
Reached Tuesday by The Associated Press, Huyghue denied that story.
"It's just fantasy," Huyghue said. "He never had any role in my company. ... He didn't have the acumen to represent players," Huyghue said.
Also reported by Yahoo! Sports:
—Shapiro said he paid basketball recruit DeQuan Jones $10,000 to secure his commitment. Jones, a part-time starter last year, is now a senior with the Hurricanes.
—At least six coaches and as many as 10 athletic department employees overall were allegedly aware of Shapiro's illicit activity, including former basketball coach Frank Haith, now at Missouri. All the coaches named by Shapiro have since left Miami. Haith lashed out at the story in a statement released through Missouri late Tuesday.
"I am more than happy to cooperate with the national office on this issue and look forward to a quick resolution," Haith said. "The NCAA has instructed me not to comment further at this time in order to protect the integrity of their review, so I appreciate your understanding in this matter. The reports questioning my personal interactions with Mr. Shapiro are not an accurate portrayal of my character."
—Shapiro said he paid for 39 different players to receive sex from prostitutes. He also claimed to have offered a $5,000 bounty to any player who could knock Florida State quarterback Chris Rix out of a game, provided players access to his multimillion-dollar home and yacht, and even alleges he bought rims for Hester's sport-utility vehicle.
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I'd stuffed many a turkey before I really understood Thanksgiving. Oh, sure, I knew we were supposed to be thankful, and once I became a Christian I knew who we were thanking. But it wasn't until I taught my children at home that I really got the whole story.
Unfortunately, these days that story keeps getting harder to find.
For years, many public schools have left God out of Thanksgiving, teaching instead that the Pilgrims gave a party to thank the Native Americans or Mother Earth. Even more current are claims that the first Thanksgiving was a copy of European harvest festivals or a stolen Native American custom, or just a repeat of thanksgivings by other explorers.
But the Pilgrims' own writings and the historical events leading to the first Thanksgiving show the traditional accounts (available in pre-1960 books and encyclopedias) to be authentic. Thanksgiving was not as an isolated event, or an imitation, but a uniquely inspired Christian celebration -- the culmination of a long journey of faith in which the Pilgrims had relied on God and trusted him through many adversities.
If the story is not to be forgotten, it is today's Christian parents who must pass it on.
This year, make sure your celebration of Thanksgiving includes this portrait of God's hand in history bringing people together to accomplish specific purposes -- as well as the lesson of 1 Thessalonians 5:18:
Be joyful always, pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances.
Tell It
In the early 1600s, the Wampanoag (Wam-pa-NO-ag) Indians covered the coast of what we now call New England. They raised crops, living close to the ocean in summer for seafood, moving inland in winter to set up hunting camps. Their encounters with Europeans over the years were mostly friendly.
One exception: In 1614 Captain Thomas Hunt captured several Wampanoag, along with a Patuxet named Squanto, to be sold into slavery in Spain. A Spanish monk purchased Squanto's freedom, taught him English, and introduced him to Jesus Christ. In 1619, Squanto returned to his native land, only to find his tribe wiped out by an epidemic. Thereafter he made his home with the Wampanoag.
Meanwhile, in 1608, a British group called the Separatists fled to Leyden, Holland. There they found religious freedom, but also poverty, grueling work hours and a secular culture that threatened to undo the values they had carefully instilled into their children. In 1620, they sold everything and indentured themselves for seven years to finance their journey to America.
On the Mayflower, the Separatists were joined by those seeking the new land for other reasons; these they called the Strangers. The two groups, 102 altogether, were called the Pilgrims.
Their journey lasted nine weeks. In one of those "accidents" which change the course of history, the ship lost its course and landed far north of its destination at what we now call Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Once outside the territory covered by the King's Charter, the Pilgrims became responsible for their own government, and so they wrote a set of laws called The Mayflower Compact.
On December 21, 1620, they began their new life at the place they named Plymouth.
It was a devastating winter -- whipped with wind and sleet and snow. Half the Pilgrims died. Still the Separatists clung to their faith; not one chose to return to England with the Mayflower that spring.
But spring brought unexpected relief w the help of a noble and generous Christian brother -- Squanto. He taught them how to grow corn, use fertilizer, stalk deer and catch fish. William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth, wrote of Squanto that he was "a special instrument sent of God for good beyond their expectations."
And so their first harvest was good. Governor Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving to God and the Pilgrims invited their Indian friends. Chief Massasoit and 90 members of his tribe came, along with Squanto, bearing venison and wild turkeys for all to share. Together in harmony, the Pilgrims and the Indians feasted, played games, ran races and showed their prowess with bow and arrow and musket.
How thankful were the Pilgrims? The first Thanksgiving took three whole days!
Read It
Pass on the whole story -- so your children can tell their children:
Pilgrim Boy, Matilda Nordtvedt, A Beka Books, 114 pages, ages 7-12:
Life in Leyden, the Mayflower passage, first year hardships and the first Thanksgiving feast -- from the point of view of a young boy. Sparkling dialogue, expressive feelings make this a wonderfully readable, historically rich and faith-filled account.
Voyage to Freedom, David Gay, Banner of Truth Trust, 149 pages, ages 9-12:
An historical narrative of the Atlantic Crossing, through the eyes of one family. Their encounters with the actual historical figures provide a satisfying, adventuresome view of the Mayflower voyage, from their first steps aboard to their first steps on Plymouth.
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, Eric Metaxas, Tommy Nelson, 32 pages, ages 4-8:
Among many wonderful books about Squanto, this one stands out, showing clearly that the primary player in the Thanksgiving story was not a Native American or Pilgrim, but God.
The Light and the Glory for Children, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, Revell, 174 pages, ages 9-12:
A simplified version of the adult original, this thoughtful text details God's plan for America revealed in its history from Christopher Columbus through George Washington. Questions at the end of each chapter for family discussion.
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl;
Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy;
Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times. Kate Waters, Scholastic Incorporated, 32 pages, ages 4-8:
Authentically designed photos follow each child through a typical day, with a first-person narrative describing daily activities, family life, as well as hopes and fears.
Three Young Pilgrims, Cheryl Harness, Alladin Paperbacks, 40 pages, ages 4-8:
Richly detailed, engaging illustrations of the Mayflower voyage, the first wedding at Plymouth, the Indians, the harvest. Language-rich, child-friendly format.
Hear It
The Legend of Squanto, Paul McCusker, Focus on the Family Radio Theater, 2 CDs or audiocassettes:
Focus says: "More than a story about an honest man who triumphed over tragedy. It is also a tribute to forgiveness, integrity and the ability to look beyond the color of a man's skin."
Sing It
Traditional Thanksgiving Hymns To Teach Your Family
- Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
- Now Thank We All Our God
- We Gather Together
- We Plow the Seeds and Scatter
Hear the tunes, find all the verses, and learn the origins of these and other hymns at Cyberhymnal.
See It In Your Own Lives
Five Kernels of Corn
The year following the first Thanksgiving brought greater hardship than the first. During the Starving Time, according to tradition, the Pilgrims had only a daily ration of five kernels of corn apiece. Still, they did not give in to bitterness, but trusted their Lord.
Many families now practice this tradition: Beside each place at the Thanksgiving table are five kernels of dried corn. During the meal, a special cup is passed to each member of the family. Each drops a kernel into the cup while sharing something for which he is grateful.
Our family loves this tradition, as even the youngest can participate!
Thanksgiving Every Day
The first Thanksgiving was a joyful celebration -- but so much more. For though the Pilgrims had much to be thankful for -- the shelters they had built, the successful harvest, their good relations with the Native Americans -- all were still grieving the loss of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters.
So it's about more than giving thanks. It is about giving thanks in all circumstances. That's something uniquely Christian. What scriptures were the Pilgrims thinking of? Perhaps Nehemiah 8:10: This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
The Pilgrims' lives -- their courage, perseverance, and joy -- show them to be not just hearers of the Word but doers as well. Remembering each Thanksgiving how they chose to celebrate God's goodness and continue to trust him with their own lives challenges us to do the same each day.
Barbara Curtis has 12 children -- including three adopted sons with Down syndrome -- and 10 grandchildren so far. She is also an award-winning author with nine books and 800+ articles in print publications including Focus on the Family, Guideposts, Christian Parenting Today and The Washington Times. Barbara is a popular speaker at MOPS and women's events, as well as writers' conferences. Online you can find her at MommyLife and Mommy, Teach Me!
Publication date: November 17, 2008
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The FCPA is emblematic of the serious problem of overcriminalization. While it seeks to prevent and redress serious misconduct, its language and application have led to unintended consequences. Many organizations, from both the left and the right, are now calling for some much-needed commonsense reform of the statute, particularly reforms that will strengthen its mens rea requirements and bring clarity, uniformity, and fairness to its enforcement.
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The newest version of Roche Fusion used to crash for me, and then I noticed that this was due to my switchable graphics.
This may be a bit stupid (I myself thought so, because I didn't notice it sooner) but you could add this also as a solution on the troubleshooting page.
Now, what you do is the following:
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2/ click on AMD switchable graphics (something like that, I expect that users can figure it out themselves)
3/ next you look at the bottom of the new AMD window where you see something similair to this:
you probably want AMD to tell you which applications are running in which mode (energy saving = standard graphics, high-performance= radeon or whatever you have), so you select the option that says something like this: "give a warning for programs that are not assigned".
what you also can do is search for the program yourself, well this you can't see on the screenshot right now, but it's in the bottom right. click "search" or something similar and look for Roche Fusion. (you run it in high-performance mode of course)
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Containing poems written by Edwin Morgan during the past six years, this collection looks at human life from a variety of perspectives, encompassing a range of themes, the foremost of which is history. This new work displays the author'sĀcharacteristic willingness to experimentĀwith a variety of subjects, from the history of cancer to the new Scottish parliament.
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JamVM no claim to notability?
I have tried to show that neither of these claims are true. For example, JamVM is the default VM on Ubuntu/ARM 11.10. I think this is both notable and recent! However, this doesn't seem to count, the debate being fixated on a claim on the page regarding Dalvik from a blog.
To be honest, I'm so disgusted with the process that I no longer care if the page is deleted. But if anybody else cares, please put a word in for JamVM.
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The deletionists always spoil things. They killed Everything2, and they make Wikipedia less than it cold be. Buncha punks.
- 30 December 2011 at 03:34
- Phillip Lougher said...
From my point of view wikipedia seems to be using an extremely specious definition of notability, which is in complete contradiction to their web page on the subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability.
Their assertion (quoting from the deletion page) that "Only claim to notability is based on an allegation from a blog that Google copied it", seems to be a strange stance to take given that there is ample secondary sources which reference JamVM, and AFAIK no-one has ever claimed the allegation referred to above makes JamVM notable. In other words their rationale for deleting JamVM seems to have no basis in fact whatsoever.
So what is going on here? One cannot help but being reminded of Displacement. In other words they seem to be so scared of (to quote from the deletion page) "potentially making a serious allegation" they want to remove the page on JamVM, but rather than admit to this, they're pretending the issue is one of notability.
I leave it to others to draw their own conclusions as to what this means for the credibility of wikipedia's deletion process.
- 30 December 2011 at 04:44
- Unknown said...
Hi Robert, I'm actually quite surprised that noone has bothered to do the same to CACAO yet. The deletion is idiotic, but it seems to be almost impossible to stop that process.
- 30 December 2011 at 07:21
- Mark Wielaard said...
Sadly once a Wikipedia deletionist gets hold of an article it seems doomed :{ There is a strange bureaucratic process around deletions of articles.
I added some comments to the talk page, but adding those now might actually make things worse :{ They might seen as vandalism by sock or meat puppets.
Really, they call "outside experts" that way if they add something to an article after it is marked for deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion#Sockpuppeting_is_not_to_be_tolerated
- 30 December 2011 at 10:00
- Mark Wielaard said...
Also I am surprised that people question that early versions of Android were based on JamVM. I thought that was common knowledge. Early documentation explicitly mentioned JamVM as the runtime used. See for example: http://web.archive.org/web/20091027081958/http://pdk.android.com/online-pdk/guide/debugging_native.html
- 30 December 2011 at 22:01
- Unknown said...
As it turns out, I was not aware of the JamVM→dalvik heritage, and I *should* know… ;)
PS Why am I presented as "Unknown"? I'm Stefan Ring from CACAO.
- 3 January 2012 at 20:23
same happened to several software projects. the wikipedia deleters are a bunch of morons.
- 25 January 2012 at 09:20
- Pierre said...
Wikipedia is simply a corporate blog that pretends to be a (public) encyclopedia.
Once you understand that (usually the first-hand hard way) everything is clear:
- the systematic (plain) lies,
- you have to reply to 6-10 "accounts",
- the censorship of your arguments,
- etc.
This explains why technically inferior solutions (promoted by BigCos or their 'partners' or even ex-employees which are then 'independent' consultants) are allowed to be listed while others (the only ones really deserving "notability") are eradicated.
"NOTABILITY: the quality that makes something worth considering".
(English Dictionary)
- 14 February 2012 at 09:35
With all the hubub about raspberry pi, I've been looking for a suitable jvm that I could compile on it. Just curious if development is still going on for jamvm, it'd be really neat to see a 1.6 release. I don't want to sound like a free loading praise happy freetard, but you've done great work... Do you accept free (as in beer) donations????
- 15 March 2012 at 04:20
- Solerman Kaplon said...
The problem is that if you search for JamVM on google, you get to jamvm.sourceforge.net which lists a 2010 version with no link to any updated page/moved site/anything
- 19 October 2012 at 18:21
I only just saw this blog, so too late to vote in JamVM's favour, but I have to concur that the cretinous behaviour of their deleters baffles me. They are happy to remove pages on software projects with well-established multi-year public development cycles, yet keep intricate details about obscure X Factor contestants. Anyway...
There is a little irony in your comment in that you complain about them not picking up on work on JamVM because there aren't new releases, but then completely miss that work on GNU Classpath is ongoing and there has been a release much more recently than your quote: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7156 (2012-03-16) and I'm planning a 0.99.1 soon.
I admit the main GNU Classpath web pages are up-to-date with this, but that's mainly because it uses some obscure wml tool to update, which, as it's now unmaintained, means I basically need to get round to maintaining and building that before I can update them. The page is easy enough to find via Google.
Speaking as both GNU Classpath & IcedTea maintainer, I'd prefer we had JamVM releases (we did FINALLY get a CACAO one). The current situation has evolved not through planning, but through need. We needed something newer with both CACAO & JamVM to work with OpenJDK so we built against snapshots in releases as we do in development.
This is fine for when IcedTea is in development, but for a release, I'd prefer we had an equivalent release on the CACAO/JamVM side as once a release is out there, the version used is not going to change. So you should expect users to be testing against what was in a release, not the latest and greatest hg/git snapshot as in http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1266
It would be good to work together to achieve this.
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(Reuters) - Republican former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has parted ways with Fox News Channel after working for three years as a paid commentator, the cable TV network said on Friday.
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Gridiron officials released this year's schedule and Coach Mike Drury was immediately deluged by a flood of voice mail and text messages. Opening day always brings excitement, but nothing like this.
Last year, the Blue Knights spoiled Glastonbury's bid for a perfect season with a miracle comeback in week six. The Tomahawks returned the favor with a first round upset over Southington in the first round of the Class LL tournament.
Officials scheduled the rematch for opening day so both teams can pick up where they left off.
"They're all fired up," Drury said about the opening day match-up. "I talked to Coach Scott Daniels at Glastonbury, and we know that it's going to be a battle. We couldn't have asked for a better way to start the season."
That won't be the last challenge for the Knights this fall as teams try to even the score after Southington's 10-0 season in 2012. Manchester fans have already circled week two after Southington's buzzer beater in 2012. After that, Simsbury, New Britain, Hall, Conard, and Newington will line up to take their shot.
"We just have to get ready week after week," said Drury. "Every week of our schedule is a very tough game with a good, well-coached opponent. We've just got to prepare well each week and that's our focus."
The good news is that Southington returns a strong core of veterans from last year's playoff squad. Stephen Barmore returns for his fourth season at the helm, and the future Yale quarterback is battle-tested and ready to go. He'll be surrounded by co-captains Tyler Hyde, Zach Maxwell, and Jim Nardi. All four have been central figures over the past seasons on both sides of the ball.
"I said it when they were elected captains by their peers. This is a really good bunch of kids," said Drury. "They're hard workers, and they understand this program. They've all been invested in the program and have shown themselves to be good leaders."
It will be business as usual for the Knights as the offense tries to out-gun opponents with a balanced offense, and it starts with their veteran quarterback. In his fourth season as the opening day starter, Barmore brings experience and talent to the center of Southington's attack.
As a junior, Barmore completed 142 of his 245 attempts (58%) for 2,010 yards passing and 18 scores. He ran for 424 yards and 13 touchdowns. That kept defenses scrambling.
"You don't get many kids with more experience than he has," said Drury. "He's a tremendous competitor. He's a great kid to have on the team. He's really stepped up to be a big part of our program, and he's a tremendous leader and an excellent teammate."
Hyde returns to share the load in the backfield. Last year, he developed into the team's go-to runner by year's end with 342 yards for the season. Hyde led all rushers with 6.2 yards per carry.
"When you have an experienced backfield like that, it really helps," said Drury. "He already knows our expectations, and we're looking for him to have a great season."
Hyde will be instrumental at the start of the season as Barmore grooms a whole new crop of receivers. Alex Jamele caught 18 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns last season, and he will try to lead a strong group of newcomers. Senior Joe Daigle has proven effective in the preseason. Junior Kyle Borawski is expected to step right in at wide receiver, while sophomore Jasen Rose anchors the short passing game at tight end. Hyde and Maxwell will both fill in when needed, and Drury expects the passing game to pick up where it left off.
Of course, that will all depend upon the offensive line. Seniors Jim Nardi, Carlos Gil, Sal Conti, Jon Rauch, Joe D'Agostino, and junior lineman Noah MacDonald will carry the load. Drury said that their off-season workouts were incredible, and they excelled during the off-season at regional lineman challenges.
"We've made some adjustments in our scheme this year for the coming season. We've gone from wristbands to total signalling our offense, and they've really picked it up well. They're invested in the program," said Drury. "Scoring points is never easy, but they know that. It's those little things like positive yardage on each play, successful third down conversions, and scoring in the red zone. They are aware of all those goals, and they're ready to go."
The biggest questions going into the off-season was Southington's defense. Last year, the Knights held opponents under 100 points in the regular season. Few teams scored in the second half as the Knights shifted into aggressive adjustments that rattled even the most potent offenses, but Southington graduated three captains from last year's defense and seven of their top 10 tacklers.
As a junior, Maxwell was third in tackles (82). Jamele (76) and Hyde (38) scored in the top 10. The Knights return just two lineman and one starting linebacker with an almost entirely different look in the secondary, but Drury said that they're up to the challenge.
"They're coming together, but we have some big shoes to fill," said the coach, "but these guys have been really committed in the off-season. They've put the time in to get their minds and bodies prepared to go out there and take over the reigns of a very successful defense. They're excited. They play with passion. They play physical. They fly around to the football, and that's the stuff we preach."
Maxwell, Nardi, and Gill will anchor the line, along with D'Agostino and a host of juniors. Jamele returns as the middle linebacker, and he'll be flanked by juniors Matt Thomson and Steven Hamel. Maxwell could shift back and forth between the first and second lines of defense as Southington tries a few different looks to keep offenses off-balanced.
Cornerback Mike Lange will anchor the secondary with Hyde and Barmore splitting time at safety. Junior cornerbacks Peter Majchrzak and Zac Bylykbashi will join Lange at cornerback. Matt Maxwell, Chris Kelly, and Jamele will fill the role of 'bandits,' a sort of hybrid between cornerback and safety as the Knights blitz, swarm, and defend as a tight unit.
"That's our philosophy as a defense. We want to pressure. We want to play attack football," said Drury. "They understand that, and they're ready to go."
In tight games, Southington may have the edge with kicker Kyle Smick returning for his senior season. Last year, Smick kicked 48 extra point conversions and a field goal. He'll be joined on special teams by seniors Jason LeBlanc and Matthew Pellet. In the battle for early field position, Smick might tip the scales in Southington's direction.
"He's a tremendous kicker, and he'll be punting for us, too," said Drury. "He's got a great leg, and he's been in a bunch of kicking camps during the off-season. He's really a converted soccer player. Last year was his first year as a kicker, and he really did well. He's got the leg to kick it from all over the field, and he's really going to be a big weapon for us."
So buckle in and get ready for some action this fall as Southington tries to return to postseason glory. Drury has laid down the gauntlet for this year's seniors. It's their team now, and Southington's in good hands.
"I think this is a good group of kids," said the coach. "They aren't just good players, and I really take pride in that. We have kids that really have their heads on straight. I think they're going to be a fun team to follow. It's going to be exciting, and we're really looking to go out there and battle each and every week. They're respectful, young men, and they're also good football players."
Bring on the band. The Blue Knights are ready to play.
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One of the greatest benefits of attending Fisher College of Business is the chance to join a culture rooted in the entrepreneurial spirit. As an entrepreneur and start-up junkie this was a critical factor in my decision to continue my education at Ohio State. Columbus and OSU offer unprecedented resources and opportunities for budding "starters" such as the business builders club, start-up weekend, TechColumbus, and the Deloitte Entrepreneurship Competition. Moreover, Fisher's Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization course was named one of the 10 best entrepreneurship courses in the nation by Inc. magazine. The course builds business around emerging technologies developed at The Ohio State University and other research institutions that have not found commercial uses." And so, for this blog post, I thought I would share one of my current start-up projects and how Fisher College of Business and Ohio State have helped me along the way.
It all started during my internship with PricewaterhouseCoopers this past summer in Columbus. Believe it or not, I met the lead recruiter for our region on my first day at Ohio State – a bond that ultimately led to my internship and eventual job offer in Chicago. Anyways, one of my co-interns from Indiana University participated in Project Belize, a week long experience offered by PwC to teach underprivileged children in Belize basic financial literacy skills. When he told me about the program I was impassioned and began to seek out state-side opportunities that were similar. What I found was a financial literacy education landscape dominated by conflicting programming and mediocre performance. In fact, one study by the Jump$tart Coalition suggested that current efforts had made essentially no impact in student financial literacy over the past 10 years. That was when I realized I had to do something – to use my creative nature and knowledge from business school to make an impact. The result was the founding of Centsay, a start-up non-profit focused on providing universal access to financial literacy education.
Our journey – from that first brainstorming session to implementing our business model – has been an amazing adventure (and we're still right in the thick of it), but I can with certainty say that we couldn't have possibly accomplished everything that we have in the past 5 months without the support network and resources available via Ohio State and Columbus. To highlight a few:
- Being enrolled in a business school with integrating programming has allowed me to meet MAcc, MBA, MHR, SMF, and undergraduate students. These different student bodies offer unique perspectives and strengths and weaknesses. Being able to connect with all of them facilitated the construction of our core team and ability to quickly locate short-term specialists to help us overcome short-term obstacles.
- Professors in Fisher have been an invaluable resource for vetting ideas, strategies, and plans. They have been able to provide our team with advice about areas where we lack expertise and guidance when we encounter issues that we have no experience with.
- University leadership and staff have had an open door policy with regards to making our venture a success. Whether we are looking for space to work on projects or introductions to potential partners or donors Ohio State has always gone above and beyond what any of our team members expected.
Ohio State has the unique attribute of giving its students not only the skills, but also the confidence to succeed. While our venture is still in-process, we know we can count on our school for continued support!


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Both Teams 1-2 In Ivy Play
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's soccer team hosts Cornell on Saturday. Kickoff on Youth Day at Reese Stadium is slated for 6:30 p.m., following the Yale-Cornell men's game which starts at 3:30 p.m.
Here are storylines for the game:
• The Bulldogs (6-5, 1-2 Ivy) are coming off an impressive 4-0 victory over Marist on Monday. The four goals matched Yale's season high and came on only eight shots.
• Melissa Gavin scored twice in Monday's victory and has regained the Ivy League lead with nine goals.
• The Bulldogs continue to get outstanding play from their two goalkeepers. Elise Wilcox tied her career high with 10 saves in Monday's shutout of Marist. Both Wilcox and Rachel Ames rank in the top five in the Ivy League in saves. Ames is second with 43, while Wilcox is fourth with 33.
• One of the keys for the Bulldogs in Monday's win was getting off to a strong start. Juliann Jeffrey scored 11 minutes in and Shannon Conneely added a goal with just seven second left in the first half. Despite those two goals, Yale has still been outscored 12-5 in the first half of games this season.
• Yale and Cornell have played a number of close games in recent years. The last four meetings have each been decided by one goal. Last year in Ithaca, the Bulldogs escaped with a 1-0 win when Frannie Coxe sent a corner kick into the box that deflected off a Cornell defender and just inside the near post. Two years ago, Enma Mullo's goal off a free kick 7:40 into overtime lifted Yale to a 2-1 win. Overall, the Bulldogs lead the all-time series 17-15.
• Cornell (7-4-1, 1-2 Ivy) is off to its best start through 12 games since 2003, when it was 7-3-2. The Big Red has won six of its last nine games, but dropped a 7-2 decision to Ivy League-leading Harvard last Saturday at Berman Field.
• Cornell has four players with at least 10 points for the first time since 1995. Caroline Growney leads the team with five goals.
• Freshman Kelsey Tierney has started seven of the last eight games in goal, sporting a 4-3 record with a 1.29 goals-against average and .762 save percentage.
• Yale All-Access Video of the game is available through the Ivy League Digital Network. Fans can also follow live stats.
Report filed by Tim Bennety, Yale Sports Publicity


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Yesterday we hit you with footage of the re-opening of the Apple Store - Bellevue Square location, highlighting the excitement of Apple's customers in the Bellevue area, as well as its employees. Today we bring you a bunch of images from the event. We must say, we've been in line at Apple launches for 12 different Apple products at some of the biggest stores in the US, but the combined customer and associate excitement we witness for the Bellevue Square grand re-opening was unparalleled. Take a peek at our Apple Store - Bellevue Square Grand Re-opening gallery, and stay tuned for our next video, which features a tour of the new location right before the doors are opened for the first time.
Forgotten Comics: Quincy by Ted Shearer
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,
My local newspaper never carried Quincy by Ted Shearer, but I would occasionally see the strip in The Baltimore Sun when visiting family. I liked its "urban Peanuts" vibe, and I really liked Shearer's artwork.
I recently snagged - thank you library book sale - a long-out-print copy of Quincy's World, one of the type of once-ubiquitous reprint paperbacks that used to pop up in drug stores and newsstands back in the day. I read through it in one sitting and it was just as good, perhaps even better, than I remembered.
Quincy is a sort of "everykid" in the tradition of other comic strip archetypes like Skippy, Charlie Brown and Tiger. What makes him unique is his optimism, and his light-hearted outlook on his downscale urban setting. Quincy, the strip, is set in a city environment, in a low rent neighborhood populated by rundown buildings, broken fences, and abandoned lots.
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OmniFocus for iPhone 1.12 feature list, now available
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Productivity, App Updates, Above $10,
OmniFocus for iPhone has just been updated to version 1.12. While that number may give it the appearance of being a minor update, there are actually plenty of additions, changes, and fixes, and we've got them all for you after the break. There are quite a few new iOS 5 features integrated into the new release.
Of course, you'll find OmniFocus for iPhone in the App Store, and the 1.12 update is available now.
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Mac OS X Lion: Has the OS become just another app?
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Editorial, Features, Software,
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Apple OS X Lion in a lunch hour. Okay, it wasn't a lunch hour—I couldn't wait that long—but even more astonishing than the expediency (30 minutes to download and 35 to upgrade) was the effortlessness of the process.
At 9am yesterday morning, I opened the Mac App Store, clicked purchase, and let the installer work its magic. When I returned to my machine, it donned a fresh new log-in screen and a new OS. As tech journalist, this ought to have delighted me. Instead, I was left hungering for more.
It's not that Lion isn't a graceful creature; Apple's latest OS adds poise to an already agile predecessor. The 250 new features—Mission Control has already changed how I work—touch every corner of the OS and surpass the 150 additions of the refinement-focused Snow Leopard. Yet I can't help feel that something important is happening—has already happened—to very concept of the OS.
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Will you buy the Verizon iPhone?
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Features, Handhelds,
Verizon Wireless has finally scored the iPhone! The iPhone 4 will be available from Verizon on February 10th, and we wanted to know how the news affects you. Are you a Verizon customer who's been waiting for the iPhone to come to your network? Are you a fed up AT&T customer who is looking to switch ASAP? Maybe you're glad to see the announcement, but don't plan on buying until iPhone 5. Whatever it may be, hit up our poll and let us know.
Do More With Less: We're giving away an HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features, Handhelds, Microsoft,
We're giving away an HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 device to one of you guys here in our "Doing More with Less" giveaway! Not too familiar with WP7? Be sure to check out our Windows Phone 7 review, and read on for the details on how to enter.
Over the past three years, we've seen smartphones shrink in size while gaining a ton of functionality. In fact, it's hard to imagine ever using the bulky QWERTY sliders that were just about as thick as the original Game Boy. With the iPhone, Android devices, thinner BlackBerrys, and now WIndows Phone 7 devices jumping into the fray, we've truly got a situation where we are able to do way more than we'd ever dreamed we could do with a mobile phone, in a device that is so small that it comfortably fits in our pocket while the manufacturers tout how thin they are. Speaking of doing more with less, did you know that the smartphone in your pocket has more technology in it than the first rocket that went to outer space?
Now we want to hear from you--hit the comments and give us some examples where you can do more with less. It can be technology-related, or not. We will be picking a random winner based on the comments received. Here are the official rules:
- How to enter: Just leave a comment on this article, focusing on "Doing More with Less". You can leave one comment per day until the giveaway's close. Each comment must be substantially different than the previous.
- Timeframe: The contest ends on November 29th, 2010. At this time comments will be closed on this post and a winner chosen with Random.org.
- Eligibility: The contest is open to US residents only who are at least 18 years old at the time of entry.
- Prize: The one winner will receive the HTC HD7, a T-Mobile Windows Phone 7 device that's an approximate retail value of $500.
This giveaway is brought to you by the new Windows Phone 7. Learn more about Windows Phone online and see it in person at local T-Mobile stores today.
The 5 Most Memorable Video Game Experiences
Posted by John Kilhefner Categories: Action, Adventure, Bungie, Culture, Editorial, Features, Fighting, First Person Shooters, Microsoft, Nintendo, Xbox,
Once in awhile there comes along an experience that shapes the way that we look at things. A video game experience that makes something in your brain tingle. A game where simply a mere melody from its title screen sends nostalgia crawling up your spine. There are a few video games with these kinds of experience that stick out in our minds; not just for being great games, but for their "wow" factors. Sometimes these experiences are shaped by our personal interpretations; i.e. revolving around what was going on in our lives at the time. Therefore, you may have a different top five list, but we can all agree that the following five games helped to shape the way video games are made even to this day.
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White iPhone 4 vs. black iPhone 4 comparison
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Design, Features, Handhelds,
A few days ago we hit you with our white iPhone 4 hands-on gallery, giving you an up-close look at the device as it stands on its own. Today we've put together a gallery showing the yet-to-be-released white iPhone 4 next to the currently available black model. Go ahead and look through the images to see not just the obvious differences (you know…the white front and back of the device,) but also the more subtle ones. Things like the dock connector and headphone jack are also white, unlike what you'd find on the black model.
If you want to get your hands on a white iPhone 4, we'll be sharing details soon on how you can get your hands on one, or get your black model converted with white parts. If you're interested, let us know in the comments!
iPod touch 2010 unboxing
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When Apple announced the Retina display packing, FaceTime rocking iPod touch 2010 model, we knew this thing was gonna be a hit. We're currently hard at work on our iPod touch review, but in the meantime we've snapped a bunch of pics of what's gotta be the best looking iPod touch to date. Seriously, this thing is thin to the point of ridiculousness. Obviously with the Retina display, the screen looks sharp, and you also gain camera on both the front and back of the unit. Take a gander at the gallery.
You can pick up an iPod touch from Apple.
Apple Battery Charger makes wireless devices less annoying?
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Apple, Editorial, Features, Wireless / WiFi,
I was thinking about why Apple would want to release their Apple Battery Charger product, since you can pretty much get batteries anywhere, and I think it comes down to Apple wanting to do their part in eliminating the annoyance that many have with changing batteries when a device runs out of juice. With the introduction of the Magic Trackpad, Apple now has three devices that are powered by AA batteries, with the other two being their wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse. According to Apple, they were able to come into the battery market with a few key advances. One such feature is an intelligent power management system so that once the batteries are charged fully, it goes into a low power state, using about 90% less power than your average charger. That's nice. The batteries also have a long service life, which Apple says is up to 10 years. Also nice. Still though, this isn't really a market that Apple needed to be in.
In our opinion, Apple's goal here was to innovate a bit for the benefit of their own products. They sell you six batteries so you can have two in a wireless keyboard, and two in a Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse, and then you can also have two always in the charger, ready to be swapped. It pretty much eliminates worry of running out of juice, which gives you all of the benefits of having wireless devices with none of the drawbacks since you always have two fresh batteries ready for you (unless you somehow have both the wireless keyboard and the pointing device run out at the same time.)
We like the strategy. You can pick up the Apple Battery Charger for $29 from Apple.
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It was just 4 days ago that Rovio updated Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars for Windows Phone 8. Both games jumped to version 1.1 and at the time, we did not notice any changes in the games nor new features.
And on this Thanksgiving day, version 1.2 has rolled out for both games--hey, at least they're keeping them consistent! Once again to our untrained eye (we're not hardcore 'bird players around here) we don't see anything new--no new levels and they're still Windows Phone 8 only. But we suppose there are some important "fixes" that are necessary for the updates.
But there's also a potential problem...
Warning on that Angry Birds Star Wars update...
We have experienced one interesting error with Angry Birds Star Wars and we have a few reports coming in too from readers of the site experiencing the same.
Right after Star Wars updated we tapped to play it but we were greeted with the above error message. In short, we cannot play the game anymore as we just keep getting that error message. Trying to re-purchase the game is also unsuccessful as the Store recognizes that you previously bought it.
Oddly enough, our Richard Edmonds did not have that problem and when I tried to download 'Star Wars to my Lumia 810 for the first time, it went off without a hitch. The good news is there seems to be an easy way to fix it, but you may not like it if you have made substantial progress: Uninstall the game, reboot your phone and then reinstall it. The downside of this technique should be obvious: you'll lose your game history and any progress, which could be devastating.
So, our advice for you is a tough medicine: If you have been playing the game and don't want to potentially lose your progress, we recommend you skip the version 1.2 update. If on the other hand you are feeling a little risky, then go right a head as this is not a guaranteed bug that will happen--there's just a chance and we don't know the variables at play.
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Hawkeye wrote:Great pics, Jasper. The video's fine - evidence that it was dry before lunch.
Thanks for posting.
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Kung Fu is at risk of being gone forever! In an original story, players are plunged into the video game at the climatic end-of-movie battle between master Shen and Po. Players must help Po, the furious five with the council of respected masters, Shifu, Croc, and Ox defeat looting wolves, powerful gorillas and clans of barbaric Komodo dragons lead by Xaio Dan to save Gongman City, restore balance, and of course...save Kung Fu!
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Paperback)
Ecco, 9780061579028, 240pp.
Publication Date: March 31, 2009
April 2009 Indie Next List
— Christopher Chadwick, ASUN Bookstore, Reno, NV
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Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.
Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
About the Author
Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels The Family Fang, a New York Times bestseller and a best book of the year in Time, People, Salon, and Esquire; and Perfect Little World. His story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association as well as the Shirley Jackson Award. He teaches fiction at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Praise For Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories…
— Washington Post
"Geniously surreal but affecting short stories about spontaneous combustion, Scrabble and angst at all ages. RIYL (Read if you love): George Saunders."
— Louisville Courier Journal
"Turns the genre of Southern fiction on its head…Wilson's fully realized characters keep the stories grounded."
— Bomb Magazine
"A Southern writer with a bent sense of humor offers a fine debut collection of stories, some unlike anything you've read before. Wilson displays a marvelous sense of narrative ingenuity…Weird and wonderful stories from a writer who has that most elusive of gifts: new ideas."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Acute and uniformly unsettling, these fictions explore themes of loss and loneliness with fresh young insight, and occasionally with a faint rainbow at the end."
— Boston Globe
"Kevin Wilson is the unholy child of George Saunders and Carson McCullers.... Jesus Christ is this guy good."
— Owen King
"Kevin Wilson's stories show us a world that is both real and full of illusion…He forces us to look at our own lives in a new and slightly off-kilter way."
— Ann Patchett, bestselling author of BEL CANTO
"I'm drawn to particular authors, folks like George Saunders and Stacey Richter and Kevin Wilson…who I know are going to kick my ass."
— Steve Almond, author of CANDYFREAK
"Has some of the best writing I've seen in a long, long time. Kevin Wilson's stories not only tunnel to the center of the earth—they tunnel through the intricacies of family, love and the dark places of the human soul."
— Hannah Tinti, author of THE GOOD THIEF
"His work shimmers…Wilson offers fabulous twists and somersaults of the imagination… As Wilson continues to dig into the texture and mystery of the world, his fiction should grow, like his best characters, in strange and remarkable ways."
— New York Times Book Review
"To write such masterful stories takes a graceful eye, and, even more, a compassionate heart. Wilson has both. His disturbing, moving tales burrow their way under our skin and stay there."
— Time Out New York
"Kevin Wilson writes fiction that moves so quickly from twisted hilarity to strange, delicate beauty that you might not notice—until it's too late—that your heart is good and broken. This collection is like the spontaneous combustion one story in it describes: urgent, amazing, and on fire."
— Alix Ohlin, author of THE MISSING PERSON and BABYLON AND OTHER STORIES
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— Brock Clarke, bestselling author of AN ARSONIST'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOMES IN NEW ENGLAND
These superb, often audacious stories rework the ordinary into surreal yet hauntingly plausible worlds, and we emerge seeing ourselves with fresh, if somewhat nervous, clarity."
— Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
"There are 11 troubling, strange, offbeat tales in this collection… It's those sharp insights that keep you reading Wilson's unusual stories."
— The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
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Sherry Cottle Graham Releases BLOOD BROTHERS
Author Sherry Cottle Graham takes readers back to a time when the spiritual leaders held the ability to move through the various realms of the Spirit World that are currently discredited by societies in Blood Brothers. Readers will travel into many different worlds with these young healers. They will experience a wide variety of emotions while they are on this amazing journey with these blood brothers as they spy on these ancient giants and learn the secrets of the universe and discover who these giants were that carved their initials into their country, and who have ultimately been lost and forgotten over time.
This book is a historical/fiction/fantasy novel about the three different races of people who lived on the North American continent over two and a half thousand years ago. It is centered on these giant Allewegi (Adena), Choctaw (American Indian), and the Wakie Wisag (Hopewell) tribes and their powerful shamans that ruled over them.
Laurel is a gifted old medicine woman who is training Pontiac, and the three blood brothers: Coahoma, Moki, and Fala to be her successors. Pontiac is much older than the three younger boys and he has learned many powerful rituals. One morning, he performs a ritual on a dying wolf and invites its spirit to unite with his. After this is complete, Laurel discovers that Pontiac is possessed by a giant white sorcerer named: Lugh. She quickly sees that Lugh's spirit is too strong for Pontiac to control. She also learns that Morrigan, Lugh's wife, has taken possession of a young girl named Tiponi. She knows that Morrigan is using this child to watch her husband, and to plot her revenge against them.
Dahey, Lugh's son, seeks the assistance of Prince Sangann, who is betrothed to his sister Ethane'. Prince Sangann gathers a band of his elite warriors to travel to this remote village to find this Choctaw medicine man who houses Lugh's spirit.
In the meantime, to learn the secrets of these fair haired witches, the blood brothers slide into the Spirit World and astro travel into their village to spy on Morrigan. When Coahoma sees her daughter, Ethane', he falls in love with her.
Blood Brothers reminds readers that there are powerful spiritual forces around that they can tap into for healing and for their spiritual growth. It challenges the current views of the people who existed in North America approximately two and a half thousand years ago - approximately 300 BC. It is a controversial subject but the latest evidence supports that these early inhabitants were a combination of Kelts (Celts) and Japanese. Even though this volume appears to be fantasy, it is in fact based in truth.
For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to http://www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Sherry Cottle Graham is a freelance writer, journalist, and technical writer. Her first historical fiction novel is, Blood Brothers - The Forgotten Children of the Mound Builders. She is working on the on its sequel, Land of the Nahullo, which she hopes to publish in 2014. In 1989, Graham co-authored a text book for the business division of Rhodes State Community College in Lima, Ohio that taught word processing to the Ohio State University and Rhodes State students. When she joined the professional staff at Honda of America, Mfg. in 1990, she continued her writing career by writing various types of technical documentation for the Information Systems Department. When she retired from Honda, she moved to Guam in 2008. Graham wrote weekly articles for the Stars and Stripes, Guam's supplemental newspaper for the next two years. In 2010, she moved back to Ohio and started researching the ancient mound builders, shamanism, herbal and stone healing, and wrote her first novel, Blood Brothers. She is a member of the Writers Guild of Ohio and The Practicing Writer. She has a website called SherryCottleGraham.Com where she posts information from her research and writing projects. Graham lives in Lima, Ohio and is a substitute for the Allen County Public Schools and she is the Recording Secretary and Historian for the Lima Astronomy Society.
Blood Brothers* by Sherry Cottle Graham
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Publication Date: October 14, 2013
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