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|Memorial Stadium
|Key for 2014
Fans attending University of Oklahoma Football home contests should begin planning now to ensure they are fully prepared for stadium policies implemented.
Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium has adopted several "best practices" that have been implemented at many major collegiate, professional and entertainment venues nationwide. Providing a safe environment for our guests remains an ongoing priority at the University of Oklahoma, along with increasing the comfort and efficiency of all individuals entering the facility.
• Women's purses (smaller than 10"x10")
• Clear merchandise bags that meet the bag specifications
• Seat cushions and chair backs
• EMPTY, clear personal water bottle (for drinking water)
• Approved medical devices
• Approved family care items (diapers, formula, etc. in bag 10"x10" or smaller)
Non-Allowable Items – Revised
• Any and all types of bags and backpacks (conventional or string-type cinch bags)
• Chair backs with armrests and/or wider than 16"
Fans not bringing a women's purse or another allowable item into the stadium are strongly encouraged to utilize Express Lanes. Chair back seats are available at Sooner Seat Customer Service booths.
|Express Lane Locations
|Sooner Seat Customer Service Locations
|Gates 1-7, 9, 11, 12
|Gates 1, 5, 7, 11-12 and Upper West Concourse
Fans that purchase merchandise outside the stadium or have items not adhering to these standard should plan to return it to their vehicles before entering the stadium. Advance planning will help our team serve you better on game day and alleviate potential frustration at stadium gates.
All carried items and entrants are subject to search. Prohibited items must be returned to the owner's car or discarded. Any unlawful items are subject to confiscation, and the person in possession of such items is subject to arrest. Items left at gate will be discarded.
We look forward to hosting all University of Oklahoma Football fans at Stadium this season. We anticipate that the current modernization project on the I-35 corridor will lead to an improved game day traffic flow and safety when completed. In addition, revised the above policies have been enacted to help maintain Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium as one of the nation's top venues in terms of both security and overall fan experience.
|Home of the Sooners
Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium is one of America's most recognized college football cathedrals. Situated on the east side of the Norman campus, this historical facility is the largest sports arena in the state and ranks among the 15 largest on-campus facilities in the nation. | Stadium History
Memorial Stadium's rich heritage has not hindered its evolution, a never-ending growth fueled by the football program's overwhelming popularity. Almost since its inception, the stadium has been a work in progress.
|Parking Information
More than 100,000 Sooner fans are inside the stadium and surrounding area during Sooner football games. The city of Norman, the University and the OU Athletics Department work hard to ensure the parking situation is optimally managed during the festivities and revelry of game day.
Traffic Flow
These streets near the stadium are closed beginning four hours prior to kickoff:
(1) Lindsey St., which runs east and west along the southern edge of the stadium will close at Elm (west of the stadium) to just east of Jenkins Ave. Only those patrons with parking credentials for the Asp Avenue Parking Facility or the MP12 lot will be able to access Lindsey. They must approach from the west.
(2) Jenkins Ave. will be closed south of Page to all traffic except for those with a Field House parking pass and south to Farmers Street.
(3) Brooks will be closed from Jenkins to Trout to all traffic but those with a parking pass for the Brooks Lot, Monnett Lot, Duck Pond Lot or East Side Stadium Suites Lot. No traffic except emergency vehicles and authorized support vehicles will be allowed west of Monnett on Brooks or south of the entrance of parking lot A-10 on Jenkins (Field House Lot). The Norman Police Department will no longer permit parking on Brooks Street between Jenkins Ave. and Classen Blvd. on game days. This area will remain clear to help ease postgame traffic congestion. Any vehicles parked in this location on game day will be towed.
Free Gameday Parking
Free parking is available at the Lloyd Noble Center, located approximately one mile south of the stadium. There is a shuttle that unloads one block south of the stadium on First Street. The shuttle provides return trips for one hour after the conclusion of the game.
Shuttle Service
The Gameday Shuttle transports people from the Lloyd Noble Center to Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium every home game. The shuttle runs continually, starting three hours prior to game time until one hour after the game. For the homecoming game the shuttle starts four hours prior to kickoff. Cost to ride the shuttle is $3 per round trip. Cost for round trip shuttle from Westheimer and return will be $7.50.
Asp Avenue Parking Facility
Patrons parking in the new Asp Avenue Parking facility may be subject to vehicle searches. Photo identification matching the name of the person to whom the parking pass is issued is required. The parking facility closes on 6 p.m. each Friday of a home game and re-opens five hours prior to kickoff on Saturday for those with the appropriate parking credentials to that facility. Patrons parking in the Asp Avenue Parking Facility will need to arrive before halftime in order to reserve their spot
Reserved Lots
OU Parking Services offers reserved parking spaces for football season.Availability is limited so please call (405) 325-3311 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to see if applications are being accepted.
Pay-to-Park Lots
OU Parking Services also sells many campus spaces, as lots not reserved are $20 per vehicle in the pay-to-park lots. Parking is on a first-come, first-served basis. Vehicles displaying a valid OU parking permit will be admitted to any pay lot without charge as long as space is available. OU parking permits are not authorized for the reserved lots.
Disability Parking
Reserved physical disability parking is available for a fee and is located in the Asp Avenue Parking Facility connected to the west side of the stadium. For more information on physical disability parking, please call the parking office at (405) 325-3311. Free game day parking is available at the Lloyd Noble Center (located approximately one mile south of the stadium).
Patrons with a disability may ride the disability shuttle for a $3 per round trip fee. The disability shuttle originates at the Lloyd Noble Center and unloads on Asp Avenue, immediately west of the stadium by Gates 1 through 4. Because of the high demand for the shuttle service, the service is restricted to those patrons who have a disability and one (1) caretaker for riders needing additional assistance. For more information about physical disability parking services, please call the CART Office at (405) 325-2278.
City Streets Parking
The City of Norman will be enforcing parking restrictions on all streets on game days. The primary area of enforcement will be No Parking areas that are not exempted on game days. Please take the time to read the signs before parking on a city street.
Parking Near Railroads
Please be courteous and avoid parking on BNSF Railway-owned land. BNSF has 50-foot right of way on either side of the track. Parking near the railroad is potentially dangerous, and vehicles parked in this zone may be towed.
RV Parking
Online Information | The OU Athletics Department is pleased to offer 130 RV hookup spots with both 50 (208 Volt) and 30 (120 volt) amp options in the southwest parking lot of Lloyd Noble Center and non-electric spots in the northwest parking lot of the Lloyd Noble Center. The Lloyd Noble Center is located approximately one mile south of the Gaylord Family Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. After parking, there is a shuttle service available. Passes may be purchased at the shuttle pick up area. For prices and registration information, please view online or call (405) 325-4666.
Bus Parking
Bus parking is available on a first come, first- served basis at the Lloyd Noble Center. Please refer to the football map for the exact location. There is no charge for bus parking and space cannot be reserved.
|Tailgating Policies
Tailgating on football game days is a wonderful and long-standing tradition at The University of Oklahoma. The University's tailgating policy is designed to ensure:
The comfort and enjoyment of game day patrons,
The safety, security, and well-being of all people associated with gameday activities, and
The safeguarding and preservation of all public property under the management of the University.
Tents, Awnings, Etc.
The setting up of tents, awnings, and similar equipment may commence at 12 noon on the day immediately preceding the game, most typically on Friday for a Saturday game. Space may be occupied between 8 a.m. and noon, but stakes may NOT go into the ground until 12 noon. Space may NOT be occupied or reserved before 8 a.m. All items must be taken down and removed by 12 noon on the day immediately following the game, typically Sunday. Abandoned tents may be at risk of damage or theft.
Tents, awnings, and similar equipment must be securely anchored. Stakes may not be longer than 12 inches in order not to interfere with underground utilities. Tents larger than 400 square feet require a permit, contact email@example.com.
Any such items that are set up outside of this timeframe or that collapse or are blown off their sites will be removed by the University. The University Administration and Finance Office, (405) 325-5161, may be contacted for information about how items may be recovered. Items not claimed within a reasonable time may be disposed of by the University at its discretion.
Prohibited Areas
Tents, awnings, similar items, and tailgating activities of any kind are prohibited on several locations including, but not limited to, the North and South Ovals, Jacobson Hall and Carpenter Hall lawns, Heisman Park, Oliver Walk, Brooks Mall and areas adjacent to Brooks Mall including lawn north of the stadium and lawn south of Wagner Hall, and student residential areas. (Student groups permitted by the Office of Student Life will be allowed near residential areas.)
Tailgating activity that takes up vacant parking spaces or otherwise interferes with vehicle movement within a parking lot is prohibited. In order to protect parking lot surfaces, tents, awnings, and similar items that require ground stakes are prohibited. The University will provide and locate portable toilets at convenient locations around the grounds. Individuals, groups or businesses are prohibited from bringing or arranging the delivery of their own toilets.
Generators may be used so long as they do not damage University property; if a generator is placed on a grassy area it must rest on a board or other hard material to protect the grass and soil beneath. The hooking into, connecting to, or similar use of University utilities and/or television or communication cable services is prohibited.
Grilling, Fires
Gas and charcoal grills with covers are permitted. Open flames are prohibited. All fires must be contained within grills or other containers listed and approved specifically for cooking or heating. Uncontained bonfires or campfires are prohibited. All fires must be constantly attended. Grills, smokers or other open flame and heat producing devices are not allowed inside buildings or parking garages. Grills, smokers or other open flame and heat producing devices shall be located a minimum of 25 feet away from combustible structures or 10 feet away from non-combustible structures and shall not obstruct the ingress or egress from any building.
Extinguish charcoal fires thoroughly with water before leaving them unattended. Please extinguish charcoal in designated containers or remove it from campus for disposal. Do not dump charcoal on the ground, in trash cans or in dumpsters. The maximum size propane gas cylinder allowed is 20 lbs. (5 gallon water capacity). A maximum of one spare cylinder is allowed at any cooking location and shall be located a minimum of 10 feet from the cooking or heating operation. While in use and in storage, propane gas cylinders shall be secured in the upright position or positioned so that the pressure relief valve is in direct communication with the vapor space of the cylinder.
If tents are being used, the tent shall be UL approved and have a Fire Resistive Rating Label. Tents/canopies used for grilling shall be completely open on all sides. Cooking and heating shall not be conducted in enclosed tents. A means to properly extinguish or turn off cooking or heating devices shall be provided (i.e. fire extinguisher, gas control valve, etc.).
Food and beverages shall be for personal consumption only. Sales are prohibited.
Corporate Tailgates
Corporate or commercially sponsored tailgates are prohibited except in designated locations. Those who wish to organize and provide such sites should contact Sooner Sports Properties at (405) 325-2148. Companies are prohibited from issuing free or sample products without being properly licensed by the University. The University Real Estate Operations Office, (405) 325-6041, may be contacted for information.
Small non-University vehicles such as golf carts, all-terrain vehicles and the like are prohibited on campus, and are subject to impound. Trailers and vehicles are prohibited from parking on the grass. Trailer parking is allowed at any paid lot (a permit is not required). In permit lots, a permit is required for the vehicle with an additional permit required for the trailer. Bicycles must be parked at bike racks. Except as may be specifically authorized by University Administration, the operation of drones/unmanned aircraft systems on University property is prohibited on home football game days.
The use of any tobacco product is strictly prohibited on all University property.
|Accessing the Stadium
Pedestrians coming to the stadium from the north can walk south down Asp Avenue, then follow sidewalks to the east of Oklahoma Memorial Union and Price College of Business. Fans can also go west on sidewalks south of the Union that run through an area between the Library and the College of Business to a sidewalk on the north end of Van Fleet Oval. Sidewalks are also available down Jenkins Avenue (one block east of Asp).
General Public
Gates for general public entry are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12. An Access Management System is used for entry at all gates. The bar code on each ticket will be scanned by the gate attendant. Each individual is encouraged to hold their own ticket to assist in expediting the scanning process. As fans enter the stadium, they should make sure that the ticket-taker has scanned the ticket(s) to ensure that your attendance is counted towards priority points. If a ticket is damaged and cannot be scanned, fans should visit one of the ticket resolution centers at Ticket Office near Gate 1 and gates 5, 7, 10 and 12.
Students (Gates 7 & 12) and suite and club seat holders and Santee Lounge guests (Gates 3, 10 and Asp Parking Garage Level 5) may enter the stadium two hours prior to kickoff. All others may enter 90 minutes before kickoff. Student ticket upgrades will be addressed at Gate 7.
Suite & Club Seat Holders
East side suite and club seat holders may enter through gate 10 or any other gate. An interior entrance for club and suite holders also exists inside the stadium at gate 10 for patrons who may have entered the stadium at another location.
Re-Entry Policy
No public re-entry is permitted with medical/emergency situations being only exception. Fans may exit and return to the stadium at any time during the game for medical or other emergency situations. Extraordinary circumstances may permit emergency exit at any gate. Fans departing for medical/emergency situations will be allowed to exit and re-enter throughout the game with pass out check and ticket through the same gate they exited the stadium.
|Special Seating Requirements
OU Athletics Accessibility Information | Oklahoma offers ADA seating the day of the game. OU will trade two (2) of your current tickets for two (2) ADA seats: one (1) for the person in need of assistance and one (1) for a companion. It is on a first-come, first-served basis. Those interested will need to come to the OU Athletics Ticket Office located in the Asp Ave. Parking Facility immediately west of the stadium in order to exchange tickets for ADA seating on the day of the game.
Elevator Passes
The season ticket holder must provide a doctor's note stating that an elevator is required due to a medical condition. This letter must be presented to the ticket office prior to the day of the event. Please contact the OU Athletics Ticket Office.
|Restricted Items & Searches
Except for items pertaining to medical conditions or child care, all bags, backpacks, fanny packs, cases for binoculars, cameras or other items, and purses larger than 10" by 10" are prohibited. Only items required for medical or family needs plus empty, clear personal-sized containers suitable for drinking water are permitted.
All purses allowed into the stadium will be searched. Containers measuring 10" x 10" will be placed at each entry to Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Purses that do not fit into the container will not be permitted inside the stadium.
Prohibited items must be returned to the owner's car or discarded. Any unlawful items are subject to confiscation, and the person in possession is subject to arrest.
Prohibited items include:
Alcoholic beverages
Baby seats
Baby strollers
Bags, backpacks, fanny packs and hard binocular cases
Banners, Signs
Beach Balls
Cameras (professional equipment or cameras with long telephoto lenses)
Coolers or containers
Folding chairs or stools
Food and beverages
Ice chests
Laser pointers
Noisemakers of any type (i.e. air horn, plastic horn, whistles, etc.)
Pets (with the exception of service animals used by disabled guests)
Personal heaters
Purses larger than 10"x 10"
Chair backs with armrests and/or wider than 16"
Umbrellas (per Big 12 Conference)
Video cameras
|Stadium Regulations
Unauthorized solicitation inside or outside the stadium is prohibited. Throwing objects onto the playing field is prohibited and punishable by state and local law. Violators are subject to immediate arrest, prosecution, and revocation of this license.
Any person who enters the field area without the appropriate University-issued credential is trespassing and is subject to immediate arrest, prosecution, and revocation of this license. All signs, banners, placards and leaflets are prohibited inside the stadium except as authorized in advance by the OU Athletics Department.
Management reserves the right to eject, and revoke any ticket to future events without refund, any person who violates any of the terms of the license (refer to back of ticket) or any state, local, or federal laws. Violators are subject to immediate arrest, prosecution, and permanent revocation of this license.
|Evacuation Procedures
Your cooperation and assistance are major factors in our security and emergency/weather procedures. In the unlikely event of an emergency or severe weather condition, please follow these procedures:
Remain calm at all times.
Listen to and follow all instructions that will be provided to you promptly over the public address system (PA).
Remain in your seat until you are promptly instructed to the safest exit. Please note that the exit nearest you may not be the safest exit.
You may be directed to exit onto the field and out the field gates in each corner of the field.
Assist each other and exit in a controlled and calm manner as instructed.
Specific instructions are provided for the suites and other enclosed areas. Patrons at those locations should read and be familiar with those instructions.
If you see or become aware of any activity that is unusual, suspicious, or causes you concern, please reports that activity to the nearest uniformed officer or security personnel. The normal exit locations are listed below. In case of an emergency or severe weather, please wait for and listen to instructions from the Public Address Announcements.
Fans seated in sections 1-10 and west upper decks, please use west exits - Gates 1-4
Fans seated in sections 11-19, please use northwest exit - Gate 5
Fans seated in sections 20-29, please use northeast exit - Gate 7
Fans seated in sections 30-37, please use southeast exit - Gate 11-12
Fans seated in sections 38-40, please use southwest exit - Gate 1
Fans seated in sections 226-235, please use the ramp exits to Gate 9
Fans seated in sections 124-135 club seats and east side suites, please use East exit - Gate 9 -10
|Miscellaneous Items
Alcoholic Beverages: Alcoholic beverages of any kind are prohibited in public areas at OU athletic events.
Animals: No pets or animals of any kind are allowed in the facilities, with the exception of service animals used by disabled guests.
ATM Machines: Near Sections 2 (Gate 2) & 32 (Gate 10).
Band Route: This season, the Pride of Oklahoma's pre-game activities will include a concert on the lawn area just north of Jacobsen Hall, directly across from Campus Corner. The concert will begin one hour and thirty minutes prior to kick off. Additionally, on all home game dates, the Pride will parade to the stadium and will pass through Campus Corner, with the exception of the Homecoming game.
Banners & Signs: Only banners approved by game management may be displayed in designated areas.
Camera Policy: Point-and-shoot cameras are permissible. No video cameras, professional camera equipment or long telephoto lenses allowed.
Campaigning: No picketing, leafletting, sign, displays or peddling is permitted within 300 of the stadium on gameday. View OU's complete policy on political campaigning and other non-University events on gamedays.
Chair Back Rental: Sooner Seats are available on a season lease for $42 prior to August 1st. After August 1st, a season lease will be $49. Sooner Seat Customer Service Booths are conveniently located at Gate 1, 5, 7 and 12 as well as the Upper West Concourse. Single game rentals are also available for $5 at any Sooner Seat Customer Service Booth. For more information on Sooner Seats, visit SoonerSeats.com.
Checked Items: If a guest has items that cannot be brought into the facility, those items are not to be left at the gate for pickup after the game.
Concessions: Concession stands are located throughout the stadium. See stadium map for locations. No outside food or beverages are permitted.
Disability Seating: For information on disability seating call the Athletic Ticket Office at 800-456-GoOU or visit their office located on the plaza level of the Asp Avenue Parking Facility immediately west of Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
Evacuation: In case of evacuation, instructions will be relayed via the public address system. Gate personnel and ushers will assist you in exiting the stadium.
Exiting After Games: Guests will leave the facilities via the main gates. No guests are permitted on the field.
First Aid: Norman Regional Gomer Jones Medical Facility is located at the north end of the stadium near Section 19 on the ground level.
Gates Open: Student gates 7 & 12 and suite/club seat holder gates 3 & 10 open two hours prior to kickoff. All other gates open one and one-half hours prior to kickoff.
Guest Service Kiosk: Guest services kiosks to address questions or concerns are located in the four corners of the stadium at gates 1, 5, 7 and 11/12 as well as on the upper east and west concourses.
Inclement Weather: In the event of inclement weather, guests will be advised to seek shelter immediately.
Lost Children: Parents/Guardians with a lost child should contact the nearest police officer or event staff member. If a child gets separated, he/she should notify the nearest police officer or event staff member. Pick up a Tag-A-Kid wristband at the OUPD booth at Fan Fest or at any guest services kiosk. The wristband allows a parent or guardian to fill out section, row, and seat number in case the child becomes separated from his/her party.
Lost & Found: Lost items recovered during the game will be delivered to the Norman Regional Gomer Jones Medical Facility office on the north side of the stadium. After the game, all unclaimed items are turned over to OU Facilities Management (405) 325-6953.
Merchandise & Game Programs: Merchandise stands are located along the concourse on each side of the stadium (see stadium map for locations). Official game programs are on sale outside the stadium and at select locations inside the stadium.
Pedicabs: Pedicabs must abide by all traffic laws, including observance of one-way traffic. They should extend courtesy and yield to pedestrians. Gameday Pedicab Policy | Pedicab Perimeter Map
Radios/Televisions: Single speaker radios and hand-held televisions are allowed in the stadium only if they do not interfere with others' enjoyment of the game. Ipads are allowed inside the stadium, but laptops are not allowed.
Re-Entry: Re-entry to the stadium is only permissible for those patrons departing for medical/emergency purposes and only with a pass out check and ticket stub.
Smoking: Effective July 1, 2012, the Tobacco-Free policy prohibits the use of all tobacco products (cigarettes -traditional and electronic, chewing tobacco, pipes, cigars, snuff, snus, hookah, bidis, clover cigarettes or water pipe smoking) on the entire OU Campus and all University owned, operated, leased, and/or controlled properties.
Throwing Items: Throwing items will not be tolerated. The offender will be removed from the stadium and is subject to arrest. A police officer does not have to see this activity to have the person removed.
Tickets: For ticket information call (800) 456-GoOU or order online at SoonerSports.com. The OU Athletic Ticket Office is located on the plaza level of the Asp Avenue Parking Facility immediately west of Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The OU Athletic Ticket Office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Ticket Office is open at least 3 hours prior to kickoff on game days. The OU Athletic Ticket Office is not responsible for and cannot guarantee the authenticity of any tickets purchased from someone other than the Ticket Office. Will Call is located in the Ticket Office. Photo identification must be presented in order to receive tickets.
Tobacco Use: Tobacco-Free policy prohibits the use of all tobacco products (cigarettes, traditional and electronic, chewing tobacco, pipes, cigars, snuff, snus, hookah, bidis, clover cigarettes or water pipe smoking) on the entire OU Campus and all University owned, operated, leased, and/or controlled properties.
Video Cameras: Video cameras are prohibited inside of the stadium.


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Washington County schools closed Tuesday
Washington County Schools will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Wednesday, will be determined. READ MORE
Students from JCMS make All-County Band
Middle and high school band students in Gaston County traveled to Ashbrook High School for All-County Band auditions Jan. 8. The following students from John Chavis Middle School in Cherryville ... READ MORE
Washington County road closings — UPDATE 3:30 p.m.
Several roads are closed in Washington County due to flooding, according to Washington County Emergency Management officials. READ MORE
Youth Fair returns to Washington County
CHIPLEY — The annual Washington County Youth Fair comes back to town this weekend at the county Agricultural Center in Chipley. READ MORE
Holmes County road closings: UPDATE 10:35 a.m. 2/26
Numerous roads are closed this morning, Feb. 25, in Holmes County due to flooding, according to the Holmes County Emergency Management office. READ MORE
Holmes County Schools open on Wednesday
All Holmes County Schools will be open Wednesday, Feb. 27. Buses will run on all open roads. For additional information on road closures, please contact the Holmes County Emergency Management Office at 850-547-1112. READ MORE
Halifax Media Group announces regrouping
The Halifax Media Group has announced a regrouping of its Eastern North Carolina newspapers that more closely aligns The Daily News of Jacksonville and the Star-News of Wilmington. READ MORE
Campbellton man arrested on drug charges
CHIPLEY — A Campbellton man was arrested on drug charges on Feb. 26 following a traffic stop by Chipley Police officers, according to a Chipley Police Department news release. READ MORE
Washington County Youth Fair returns
CHIPLEY — The annual Washington County Youth Fair comes back to town this weekend at the county Agricultural Center in Chipley. READ MORE
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For the laughs and pleasure he's brought into my reading life for almost 20 years now...? for short nights throughout those years and incredibly long toilet breaks...for writing stuff that is so unbelieveble enjoyable that i've read my collection at least 3 times already..
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'Mayhem' Miller walks out on The MMA Hour after bizarre behavior on set
Jason "Mayhem" Miller flew from Southern California to New York City to make an appearance on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour.
The planned one-hour segment was Miller's first interview in months, but it turned into something entirely different than anyone expected.
Miller showed up as his character Lucky Patrick from the upcoming movie "Here Comes the Boom," and never dropped the schtick. In a poorly acted farce, Miller stayed in character, was belligerent to host Ariel Helwani, and refused several attempts to change the subject before finally leaving the set less than 20 minutes into the show.The show switched to a pre-taped Pat Barry video, then went off the air for several minutes, before Helwani returned and addressed the situation.
"That was interesting, and also a little bit frightening, and a little bit sad." Helwani said.
The incident was the latest in a string of bizarre behavior exhibited by the Orange County, Calif. resident since being cut by the UFC after his December loss to Michael Bisping.Jason 'Mayhem' Miller walks out on The MMA Hour after bizarre behavior on set - MMA FightingHelwani saw Miller's actions as a missed opportunity to explain his recent behavior.
"I thought he was going come and use that platform to discuss what was going on over the past couple months," Helwani said. "I didn't think he'd come all the way from California to do that. And that's unfortunate because I think this could have been a good platform for him."


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As much as I love a good hard hitting American action film like Expendables, Batman, Spiderman and do on....... I still in love with English TV, Films and books. Like Faulty Towers, Dads Army, Bottom, Young Ones, The League of Gentlemen, Only fouls and Horses, books from Tom Sharpe and specially Sir Terry Pratchett... But when I heard the other day on Facebook off an old friend that they are bring out Red Dwarf season 10 I was and still am very excited! I seen its out in October for all you Smeg Heads out there!!!! Apart from my wedding this year and coming up to leaving the Army soon this has to be the BEST news on par with them!!!!!!!!!
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Doc Rivers met with GM Danny Ainge on Wednesday but only wants to coach next season if he can compete for a championship, sources told ESPN.
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New Okaloosa County Administrator Ernie Padgett has logged some long days in the last two weeks.
He's written down the names and phone numbers of countless residents and community leaders. He's shaken hundreds of hands and has the drive between Crestview and Fort Walton Beach down pat.
"I think it's going really well," he said. "There have been a lot of meetings from day one."
Padgett will deliver his first report to county commissioners at their meeting Tuesday in Crestview.
As a former Jackson County commissioner, he said he respects the job commissioners have before them.
"Setting policy … it's a hard job," Padgett said. "You can't be all things to all people."
Padgett has taken the helm at one of the busiest times in county government: the two months leading up to budget deliberations.
"You've just got to make a real effort to prioritize the things where the wolf is at the door," he said.
For Okaloosa County, this pre-budget phase is busier than normal because the state Auditor General's Office has begun the countywide audit ordered by the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee in February. The audit, which includes the Clerk of Court's office, is a direct response to the county's handling of the Tourist Development Council fraud discovered last year.
"It's just something we have to do," Padgett said. "The instruction to all the department heads is to give them everything they're asking for and ASAP."
He said the audit is using "considerable" time and manpower across county departments.
"They will find deficiencies for sure," Padgett said. "(Audits) always have findings, and they are a great management tool."
When he's not working on the audit, Padgett has been meeting with department heads and examining previous budgets.
"You have to hit it running and you've got to get history," he said.
Padgett is working closely with Finance Director Gary Stanford to get a sense of what the county has faced over the past five to six years.
Dwindling revenue has begun to take a toll on Okaloosa's ability to maintain basic services, he noted.
"There comes a time when you're cutting and cutting and cutting, that the level of service will go below what the public is willing to accept," Padgett said. "The board has done what it's had to do over the past few years. Now, I think, revenue sources and revenue enhancements have to be on the table."
Padgett said he's a fiscal conservative but also "entrenched in the reality that government has to have enough money to operate."
He said he's particularly concerned about keeping county employees who are going on about five years without raises.
"You'll start losing your better people," he said. "In my mind, we're at the point where we'll start seeing that."
Padgett will present commissioners with a proposed budget in June. He said he will offer a package "that's balanced with existing revenues" and alternatives for generating other pots of money.
County commissioners are considering raising the gasoline tax and enacting franchise fees. A local option sales tax has received limited attention.
"I don't think anything is closed down now," Padgett said.
He said tax increases, while never popular, can pass successfully if county leaders "take time to explain why you're doing what you're doing."
Padgett said he plans to approach his post with an emphasis on being available to residents and organizations. He said he believes in making time for supporters as well as detractors with complaints.
"At that time, that problem is the center of the universe for that person," he added. "You have to be accessible."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari C. Barlow at 850-315-4438 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.


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I'm waiting till it comes out next month to order it.
It's a bit cheaper if a I get a slightly preused copy.
*doesn't want to pay (internet)retail*
I thought this thread had died and disappeared. d:
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Jane wrote:Yep, way before Ptolemy. I think it's 900 BC. Ptolemy was 125 BC, and Nathaniel was AD 2005(ish, depending on book).
I liked the return of Faquarl; he and Bartimaeus make an awesome duo, even though they don't like each other. Yeah, Asmira was a bit annoying - I'm happy she stopped being so "ILOVEMYQUEEN!" in the end.
Jane wrote:Was Solomon a puppet?
He was a pretty awesome guy; the only thing he wasn't really honest about was using a glamour style illusion to make himself look younger.
And guess what?
They've reprinted new editions of the Bartimaeus Trilogy to match the layout of The Ring of Solomon. They now have gargoyle/impy looking Bartimaeus on EVERY COVER (even though he wasn't in gargoyle form in pictured scenes) with the swirly looking header and pentacle decoration. They're smaller than the old books, and Solomon too.
What's with that? 0_o
Jane wrote:Which Artemis Fowl covers are you talking about? The ones that look like diaries, or the ones with silhouette figures? Or the new ones with the digitally painted covers and a fancy new AF logo? There are so many variations that I've learned to just live with it.
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The effect of Gothic fiction depends on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of essentially Romantic literacy pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole. Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere. The ruins of gothic buildings gave rise to multiple linked emotions by representing the inevitable decay and collapse of human creations— thus the urge to add fake ruins as eyecatchers in English landscape parks. English Protestants often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, characterized by harsh laws enforced by torture, and with mysterious, fantastic and superstitious rituals. In literature such Anti-Catholicism had a European dimension featuring Roman Catholic excesses such as the Inquisition (in southern European countries such as Italy and Spain).
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.
The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.
His declared aim was to combine elements of the medieval romance, which he deemed too fanciful, and the modern novel, which he considered to be too confined to strict realism. The basic plot created many other gothic staples, including a threatening mystery and an ancestral curse, as well as countless trappings such as hidden passages and oft-fainting heroines. The first edition was published disguised as an actual medieval romance from Italy discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. When Walpole admitted to his authorship in the second edition, its originally favourable reception by literary reviewers changed into rejection. The romance, usually held in contempt by the educated as a tawdry and debased kind of writing, had only recently been made respectable by the works of Richardson and Fielding. A romance with superstitious elements, and moreover void of didactical intention, was considered a setback and not acceptable as a modern production. Walpole's forgery, together with the blend of history and fiction that was contravening the principles of the Enlightenment, brought about the Gothic novel's association with fake documentation.
Clara Reeve, best known for her work The Old English Baron, set out to take Walpole's plot and adapt it to the demands of the time by balancing fantastic elements with 18th century realism. The question now arose whether supernatural events that were not as evidently absurd as Walpole's would not lead the simpler minds to believe them possible. It was Ann Radcliffe's technique of the explained supernatural, in which every seemingly supernatural intrusion is eventually traced back to natural causes, and the impeccable conduct of her heroines that finally met with the approval of the reviewers. Radcliffe made the gothic novel socially acceptable, ironically followed by an abrupt degradation of its renown. Her success attracted many imitators, mostly of low quality, which soon led to a general perception of the genre as inferior, formulaic and stereotypical. Among other elements, Radcliffe introduced the brooding figure of the gothic villain, which developed into the Byronic hero. Radcliffe's novels, above all The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), were best-sellers, although along with all novels they were looked down upon by well-educated people as sensationalist women's entertainment (despite some men's enjoyment of them).
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again; I remember finishing it in two days – my hair standing on end the whole time." [said Henry]
"I am very glad to hear it indeed, and now I shall never be ashamed of liking Udolpho myself. " [replied Catherine]
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (written 1798)
Radcliffe also provided an aesthetic for the burgeoning genre courtesy of her influential article "On the Supernatural in Poetry" in The New Monthly Magazine 7, 1826, pp 145-52, examining the distinction and correlation between horror and terror in Gothic fiction.
Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir ("black novel") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d'Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman ("shudder novel") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer (1789) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen (1791/92). These works were often more horrific and violent than the English gothic novel.
The fruit of this harvest of continental horrors was Matthew Gregory Lewis's lurid tale of monastic debauchery, black magic and diabolism The Monk (1796). Though Lewis' novel could be read as a sly, tongue-in-cheek spoof of the emerging genre, self-parody was a constituent part of the Gothic from the time of the genre's inception with Walpole's Otranto.
Lewis' tale appalled some contemporary readers; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Ann Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian (1797). In this book the hapless protagonists are ensnared in a web of deceit by a malignant monk called Schedoni and eventually dragged before the tribunals of the Inquisition in Rome, leading one contemporary to remark that if Radcliffe wished to transcend the horror of these scenes she would have to visit hell itself (Birkhead 1921).
The Marquis de Sade used a gothic framework for some of his fiction, notably The Misfortunes of Virtue and Eugenie de Franval, though the marquis himself never thought of his work as such. Sade critiqued the genre in the preface of his Reflections on the novel (1800) which is widely accepted today, stating that the gothic is "the inevitable product of the revolutionary shock with which the whole of Europe resounded". This correlation between the French revolutionary Terror and the "terrorist school" of writing represented by Radcliffe and Lewis was noted by contemporary critics of the genre (Wright 2007: 57-73). Sade considered The Monk to be superior to the work of Ann Radcliffe.
Other notable writers in the continental tradition include Jan Potocki (1761-1815) and E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822).
The excesses, stereotypes and frequent absurdities of the traditional Gothic made it rich territory for satire. The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey (1818) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic. Jane Austen's novel is valuable for including a list of early Gothic works since known as the Northanger Horrid Novels:
These books, with their lurid titles, were once thought to be the creations of Jane Austen's imagination, though later research by Michael Sadleir and Montague Summers confirmed that they did actually exist and stimulated renewed interest in the Gothic. They are currently all being reprinted by Valancourt Press (Wright 2007: 29-32).
Another example of Gothic parody in a similar vein is The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett (1813). Cherry Wilkinson, a fatuous female protagonist with a history of novel-reading, fancies herself as the heroine of a Gothic romance. She perceives and models reality according to the stereotypes and typical plot structures of the Gothic novel, leading to a series of absurd events culminating in catastrophe. After her downfall, her affectations and excessive imaginations become eventually subdued by the voice of reason in the form of Stuart, a paternal figure, under whose guidance the protagonist receives a sound education and correction of her misguided taste.
The poetry, romantic adventures and character of Lord Byron, characterised by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' was another inspiration for the Gothic, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero. Byron features, under the codename of 'Lord Ruthven', in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel: Glenarvon (1816). Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816. This occasion was productive of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Polidori's The Vampyre (1819). This latter story revives Lamb's Byronic 'Lord Ruthven', but this time as a vampire. The Vampyre has been accounted by cultural critic Christopher Frayling as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written and spawned a craze for vampire fiction and theatre (and latterly film) which has not ceased to this day. Mary Shelley's novel, though clearly influenced by the gothic tradition, is often considered the first science fiction novel, despite the omission in the novel of any scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.
A late example of traditional Gothic is Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin which combines themes of Anti-Catholicism with an outcast Byronic hero.
An important and innovative re-interpreter of the Gothic in this period was Edgar Allan Poe who believed 'that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul'. His story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) explores these 'terrors of the soul' whilst revisiting classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death and madness. The legendary villainy of the Spanish Inquisition, previously explored by Gothicists Radcliffe, Lewis and Maturin, is revisited in "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842). The influence of Ann Radcliffe is also detectable in Poe's "The Oval Portrait" (1842), including an honorary mention of her name in the text of the story.
The influence of Byronic Romanticism evident in Poe is also apparent in the work of the Brontë sisters. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic anti-hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff whilst Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) adds the madwoman in the attic (Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979) to the cast of gothic fiction. The Brontës' fiction is seen by some feminist critics as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction. Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Cathy are both examples of female protagonists in such a role (Jackson 1981: 123-29). Louisa May Alcott's gothic potboiler, A Long Fatal Love Chase (written in 1866, but published in 1995) is also an interesting specimen of this subgenre.
Elizabeth Gaskell's tales "The Doom of the Griffiths" (1858) "Lois the Witch" and "The Grey Woman" all employ one of the most common themes of Gothic fiction, the power of ancestral sins to curse future generations, or the fear that they will.
The gloomy villain, forbidding mansion and persecuted heroine of Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas (1864) shows the direct influence of both Walpole's Otranto and Radcliffe's Udolpho. Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly (1872) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy (Eagleton 1995).
The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting. His most explicitly Gothic work is his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). The mood and themes of the gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their morbid obsession with mourning rituals, Mementos, and mortality in general.
The 1880s, saw the revival of the Gothic as a powerful literary form allied to "fin de siecle" decadence. Classic works of this period include Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), George du Maurier's Trilby (1894), Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) and the stories of Arthur Machen. The most famous gothic villain ever, Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula (1897). Stoker's book also established Transylvania and Eastern Europe as the locus classicus of the Gothic.
In America, two notable writers of the end of the 19th century, in the Gothic tradition, were Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers. Bierce's short stories were in the horrific and pessimistic tradition of Poe. Chambers, though, indulged in the decadent style of Wilde and Machen (even to the extent of having a character named 'Wilde' in his The King in Yellow ).
The Victorian Gothic fictionalized contemporary fears like ethical degeneration and questioned the social structures of the time.
Gothic Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, with authors such as Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Dorothy Fletcher, Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart and Jill Tattersall. Many featured covers depicting a terror-stricken woman in diaphanous attire in front of a gloomy castle. Many were published under the Paperback Library Gothic imprint and were marketed to a female audience. Though the authors were mostly women, some men wrote gothic romances under female pseudonyms. For instance the prolific Clarissa Ross and Marilyn Ross were pseudonyms for the male writer Dan Ross. Outside of companies like Lovespell, who carry Colleen Shannon, very few books seem to be published using the term today.
The genre also influenced American writing to create the Southern Gothic genre, which combines some Gothic sensibilities (such as the Grotesque) with the setting and style of the Southern United States. Examples include William Faulkner, Harper Lee, and Flannery O'Connor. Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur, A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito. The Southern Ontario Gothic applies a similar sensibility to a Canadian cultural context. Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy and Margaret Atwood have all produced works that are notable exemplars of this form.
Another writer in this gothic tradition was Henry Farrell whose best-known work was the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960). Farrel's novels spawned a sub-genre of 'Grande Dame Guignol' in the cinema, dubbed the 'Psycho-biddy' genre. Notable contemporary British writers in the Gothic tradition are Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black (1983), and Patrick McGrath, author of The Grotesque (1989).
The themes of the literary Gothic have been translated into other media such as the theatre and had a notable revival in twentieth century gothic horror films such the classic Universal horror films of the 1930s, Hammer Horror and Roger Corman's Poe cycle. Twentieth century Rock and Roll music also had its gothic side. Black Sabbath created a dark sound different at the time. Themes from gothic writers such as H. P. Lovecraft were also used among Gothic rock and heavy metal bands, especially in black metal, thrash metal (Metallica's The Call of Ktulu), death metal and Gothic metal. For example, heavy metal musician King Diamond delights in telling stories full of horror, theatricality, satanism and anti-Catholicism in his compositions.


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Yankee Classic: 40,000 Christmas Lights in Killingly, CT
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The numbers involved in Whipple's Winter Wonderland in Killingly, Connecticut, are staggering — 40,600 lights, 350 animated displays, more than 50,000 visitors every Christmas. But numbers don't explain why it exists.
The cars are bumper-to-bumper in a cold December sleet on a country road in the town of Killingly, Connecticut. Drivers grow impatient. They are caught in the heart of a small village called Ballouville, and most of their cars are loaded with children. Small silhouettes bob up and down like figures on carousels. Every few minutes a car gives up in frustration. The driver pulls out of line, turns awkwardly around, and heads back toward the highway against nearly two miles of one-way traffic.
The minutes, like the cars, move slowly. But as the line rounds a corner, the starless sky brightens, as with the glow of an immense fire. One by one, cars pull off the road and park. Families walk single file toward the light. Infants and toddlers get to ride on their parents' shoulders. Older youngsters are admonished to wait up. Grandparents move along gingerly. And invariably, as the travelers reach their destination, eyes widen, jaws drop, and the cries go up.
"Wow! Look at that!"
"Wicked awesome!"
Before them lies Christmas, courtesy of Mervin R. Whipple, creator and proprietor of Whipple's Winter Wonderland, a disarmingly grand, glitzy, and unique holiday shrine of lights, tableaux, and animated figures that has been drawing visitors from throughout the region for more than two decades. He has terraced his hillside and filled his place of business, Everlasting Memorials — he sells gravestones or, as he prefers to describe them, monuments — with 350 lighted displays and animated figures: reindeer, sheep, Victorian carolers, angels, stars of every size and description, wreaths, a large Nativity scene with animals, a tall tree of lights.
Please Note: This information was accurate at the time of publication. When planning a trip, please confirm details by directly contacting any company or establishment you intend to visit.


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Donald W. Bussmann, M.D., 1920- 2011
Former Medical School Associate Dean of Admissions Passes Away
ST. LOUIS - Donald W. Bussmann, M.D., a cardiologist and medical school administrator from 1965 to 1980, died Jan. 17 after a brief illness. He was 90.
|Donald Bussmann, M.D.
Bussmann joined Saint Louis University as a volunteer member of the cardiology faculty in 1951, and became a full-time faculty member in 1955. An associate professor of internal medicine, Bussmann helped to found the division of cardiology at SLU.
He specialized in the study of heart sounds and murmurs, educating generations of medical students and residents, said Raymond Slavin, M.D., professor of internal medicine, who had worked with Bussmann.
While working as a cardiologist in 1962, Bussmann was approached by then-School of Medicine Dean Goronwy Broun Sr., to serve on the medical school's admissions committee, which awakened in him a passion for student development.
Bussmann went on to become chair of the committee on admissions from 1964 to 1980. He was assistant dean for student affairs from 1965 to 1972, associate dean for admissions and student affairs from 1972 to 1975 and associate dean for admissions from 1975 to 1980.
Upon his retirement, members of the medical school class of 1983 presented Bussmann with a special citation at commencement, calling him "the venerable gatekeeper" of SLU School of Medicine.
"He always tried to save a couple of positions in the medical school class for people he thought would raise the consciousness level of the class," Slavin said. "I don't know of one who failed."
Bussmann admitted a 35-year-old woman who stood with Cesar Chavez against hunger, a nun and an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Slavin remembered.
While Bussmann noted that grades, a student's premedical college and MCAT scores were important, he also paid close attention to references and evaluations to gauge the personal qualities that make a great physician.
During interviews, he would ask himself questions such as whether the applicant would be willing to get up in the middle of the night to help someone, he said in a 1980 magazine article about his retirement .
"He was a gentle soul," Slavin said.
Bussmann was the husband of the late Elsie Drummond Bussmann; father of the late Donald (Yvonne) Bussmann Jr., M.D., Carl (Patty) Bussmann, M.D., Patsy (Tom) Cecil, Suzie (Michael) Ramey, and the late Mark (Mary) Bussmann. He was the grandfather of 14 and great-grandfather of 16.
Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Kriegshauser West Mortuary, 9450 Olive Blvd. in Olivette. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Anselm Parish, 530 S. Mason Road, with a reception to follow immediately. Interment at Calvary Cemetery, 5238 W. Florissant Ave., will follow the reception.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the St. Louis Priory School.


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Inside the locker room: Rashard MendenhallPosted by on December 19, 2012 – 4:00 pm
Running back Rashard Mendenhall was back on the practice field on Wednesday after serving a one-game suspension. Mendenhall spoke to the media following practice.
Is it nice to be back at practice?
Have you talked to your teammates about what happened?
No, not really. I talk to these guys every day.
Why didn't you show up for the Chargers game?
I'm really not trying to get back into that.
How do you feel about being back?
It's good to be back.
You weren't dressed the last few games, do you feel you will this week?
I don't know what is going to happen, I just take it day by day.
Have your teammates been supportive?
Yeah, they are my friends. They are my teammates. I talk to them all of the time so nothing has changed.
How do you feel physically and if they ask you to carry the ball on Sunday how is it going to go?
I have felt great this whole time. I have worked this whole time. I am ready for whatever I am called to do.
Do you feel as good as you have been? Are you over the Achilles stuff and feel like you did when you played against the Eagles?
I felt like I have gotten better every week since then and I am just continuing to do that.
Has this been a nightmare season for you?
No, not at all. I can see why it appears to be that on the outside, but no, not at all. Nothing has changed this year for me the way I work, the way that I prepare and the way that I grow. It's been that same thing. Outside circumstances have been different, but for me it hasn't been that at all.
Coach (Mike) Tomlin said you would have a chance to redeem yourself. Do you think that is still the case?
I don't know the decisions up there and how they are made. For me, from the day I got here I just continue to work as hard as I can and do everything I can. With that I am okay and happy. I can look at that and be pleased with that. I will just continue to work and whatever happens, whatever opportunities are in front of me, they will show themselves.
Coach Tomlin said there was some frustration on your part. Is that with the injuries, the inactives or what?
I wouldn't use that word. There is a lot of thought that goes into anything I do. For me, I am just back and taking it a day at a time.
Do you look forward to a chance to redeem yourself and help this team make the playoffs?
I don't know what chances or opportunities I will get, but I just want to continue to work every day and offer whatever I can.
What was the reason you didn't show up?
I am not really going into that. I am just continuing to work every day like I always have been and continuing to grow.
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La Bohème
A group of friends are living a bohemian life in Paris and trying to make their livings creating art. Rodolfo, the writer, falls in love with the seamstress, Mimi, while Marcello, the painter, and Musetta, the singer, are the on-and-off-again couple by their sides. When the four are happy, they... read more
Aida (Opera)
A tragic tale of forbidden love, Aida follows the struggle of the Ethiopian princess, Aida, and the young Egyptian warrior, Radamès, to decide between love or loyalty to their countries. Aida has been captured by the Egyptians, who do not know her true identity, and is being held as a slave. She... read more
Così fan tutte
A hilarious farce, Così fan tutte revolved around a bet made among three men; Don Alfonso, the older and more cynical of the bunch, bets Ferrando and Guglielmo that he can prove that their girlfriends, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, are unfaithful like all women. Don Alfonso, with the help of Despina,... read more
Based on the famous play by Shakespeare, Verdi's Otello follows the story of the happy couple, Otello, the governor of Cyprus and Venetian general, and Desdemona as they are dragged through an evil plot constructed by Iago. Iago is the slighted ensign of Otello, who has been passed over for a pro... read more
The Turn of the Screw
Written in 1954, The Turn of the Screw is the last of Benjamin Britten's chamber operas, based on the gothic horror novella of the same title. A sheltered young governess is sent to care for two children in a country house called Bly. At first, her new post seems perfect--the children, Miles an... read more
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Deeply in debt to Omar, a moneylender, Abu Hassan and his wife come up with a scheme to fake their deaths in order to extract funeral money from the Caliph. Meanwhile, Omar tries to woo Hassan's wife, Fatime, in exchange for canceling the debts. She gives him a noncommittal answer to evade his ad... read more
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Inspired by the fairy tale, Cendrillon, Cenerentola follows the story of a young woman who is forced to act as a servant to her mean stepfather and ungrateful stepsisters. Prince Ramiro is going house to house to find the most beautiful woman for his wife. Prince Ramiro disguises himself as his v... read more
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Outdoor Christmas displays bring animation to the yard. Secure motifs in your lawn and walkway, as Santa, snowflakes, and Seasons Greetings light up and move with bright rope lights. Use with our outdoor timers to ensure your display shines bright at the desired time of night.
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