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gOS Gadgets, from the company Good OS, has been upgraded to Version 3. gOS Gadgets utilizes the diminutive and open-source Google Gadgets for the Linux platform to help PC OEMs make more affordable, consumer-friendly Netbooks and Nettops. New in the upgraded gOS Gadgets is an expanded, more stable release of Google Gadgets for Linux that offers users access to more than 100,000 Google and iGoogle Gadgets that decorate the desktop with live, personalized Internet content. It also features a unique user interface with big icons that launch Google applications in Mozilla Prism, a browser that makes Web applications feel more like desktop applications. gOS Gadgets is available for free download from Good OS's Web site.
Promise Technology stresses comprehensive Linux support on its new 16-Port RAID Controller, the SuperTrak EX16650. The EX16650 and the rest of the SuperTrak EX RAID controller family now officially supports more than 15 different Linux kernel distributions in addition to the company's open-source Linux drivers. The devices also now have native "inbox" driver support in all major Linux distributions. The EX16650 provides 16 ports of SAS/SATA connectivity, eliminating the requirement for a separate expander in most applications. Promise says the controllers are ideal for enterprise data solutions, such as enterprise storage servers, network backup, disk-to-disk backup, security and surveillance, video editing and digital content creation.
The open-source Java clustering solution Terracotta has added a tick to the tenths column, landing at Version 2.7. The makers of Terracotta claim their application lowers costs and simplifies Web application deployment by reducing development effort and easing the load on application servers and databases, making it a solution well suited for scaling critical applications. Because Terracotta offers "the performance of local memory with the high availability of a database", it eliminates the "unyielding performance and reliability trade-offs that constrain many Java applications today". Version 2.7 also extends support of the Spring framework and the Glassfish application server, plus features that enhance scalability, performance and operational visibility.
In telecom news, Fonality recently announced it will provide its HUD 3.0 unified communications software to the open-source trixbox Community Edition (CE) platform. Trixbox is the world's largest free and open-source telephony project. As a result, trixbox CE users will enjoy presence management and detection in a single interface for all types of office communications, including SMS, instant message, land-line calling, mobile calling, chat, voice mail, e-mail, conferencing, recording and barging. They also will have a "secure and affordable way to support remote and home-based workers", says Fonality. Fonality adds that its contributions will "bring the polish of the HUD 3.0 unified communications platform, which is in use by more than 100,000 paid users, to the trixbox community".
Apress is venturing into the under-published topic of geospatial data management with its new book Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, by authors Ravi Kothuri and Albert Godfrind. The book is targeted at software developers who want to develop applications using Oracle's extensive built-in support for working with spatial, or geocoded, data. The book addresses issues such as the special nature of spatial data and its role in professional and consumer applications; the modeling, storing, accessing and analyzing of spatial data; the Oracle Spatial solution and the integration of spatial data into enterprise databases; and how spatial information is used to understand business and support decisions. Other topics include the SDO_GEOMETRY data type, geocoding of data, map creation, network modeling and optimizing analysis of spatial data.
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Marc Lamber and James Goodnow, directors in the firms Phoenix office, have been hired as consultants by Italian cyclist, Paola Gianotti, who was involved in a serious auto accident in Arizona last month.
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Fennemore Craig, a leading Mountain West regional law firm, announced Marc Lamber and James Goodnow, directors in the firms Phoenix office, have been hired as consultants by Italian cyclist, Paola Gianotti, who was involved in a serious auto accident in Arizona last month.
Gianotti, an avid cyclist, was endeavoring to set the world record for biking around the world in less than three months but her dream was interrupted due to recent events. She sought Lamber and Goodnows assistance to secure an extension from Guinness World Records. With this extension Gianotti will now be able to continue with her world record attempt once she is fully recovered and cleared by doctors to continue cycling. Lamber and Goodnow have also met with State Representative Victoria Steele, to gather information regarding Steeles proposed distracted driving legislation, a possible cause of Gianottis car accident. Lamber and Goodnow strive to implement changes and improvements to Arizonas inadequate texting and distracted driving laws.
We are proud to work with Gianotti, said Goodnow, Texting and distracted driving is an epidemic in Arizona. We see it first-hand every day. Something has to change -- and soon.
Marc Lamber, handles only plaintiffs' catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation in Arizona and across the country. He formed and currently chairs Fennemore Craigs Plaintiff Personal Injury (PPI) Practice.
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Thieves are stealing personal checks and information out of mailboxes in southeast Sedgwick County.
"I really feel violated because we should be able to be safe out here," said Margaret Toombs.
Last month, Toombs' daughter fell victim to mail theft.
"We never had a problem. My dad always said, 'Don't steal two things, and that's a mailbox or a stop sign, 'cause they're federal,'" said Toombs.
Sedgwick County Sheriff's investigators have seen a rise in mail thefts concentrated in the southeast part of the county. The large area affected is from the Wichita city limits to the Butler County line, between 13th St. N. and 95th St. S.
Last week, investigators found a pile of mail on the side of a residential road. No arrests were made.
In March, 33-year-old Shanna Menne and 31-year-old Raymond Jones were arrested for having stolen checks and mail in their car.
"We believe that when they're targeting mailboxes, they're looking for financial information or information that might assist them in identity theft and assuming somebody else's identity," said Capt. Greg Pollock, Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office.
Residents in rural areas of the county are becoming more alert.
"I get my mail every day. I don't let it sit in the box overnight and that's when they were getting them, when people weren't getting their mail every day," said Toombs.
This month, the Sheriff's Office will be sending an informational flyer with mail theft prevention tips to help residents in the affected area.
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Linux Groupware Roundup
For the vast majority of its users, the Internet represents e-mail and instant messaging. However, even if it is considered to be a mission-critical service that should perform at an optimal level, e-mail doesn't solve every communication problem. Scheduling a meeting with a few coworkers, for example, can be a tedious task when you don't know the availability of others or the room where the meeting might take place.
Groupware is software that facilitates communication and collaboration through e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, notes, contacts and task management. Good groupware solutions offer not only a Web interface for accessibility from everywhere but also compatibility with native clients on major platforms such as Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Usually, the more features a groupware solution offers, the less scalable it is. Groupware solutions providing many features generally are suitable for groups composed of no more than a few hundred users. Those that offer basic groupware functionalities, such as e-mail, contact and calendaring, are likely to satisfy the requirements of large deployments, up to thousands of users.
Along with dominant and established products such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise, excellent proprietary and commercial alternatives are available for Linux: Kerio MailServer, Scalix and Samsung Contact among others. Over the past few years, the Open Source community also has demonstrated a growing interest in messaging, calendaring and scheduling solutions. This article focuses on the status of these open-source efforts. It presents an overview of the various standards related to groupware software and examines the most promising projects being developed by the community.
Today, the most supported and implemented standard in calendaring and scheduling is iCalendar, which defines a common format for openly exchanging calendaring and scheduling information across the Internet. Along with iCalendar, two additional standards were proposed, iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) and iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP). RFC 3283, titled "Guide to Internet Calendaring", summarizes the relationship between the three standards: "iCalendar is the language used to describe calendar objects. iTIP describes a way to use the iCalendar language to do scheduling. iMIP describes how to do iTIP scheduling via e-mail."
iMIP has seen some success but is not used commonly today. A real-time Calendar Access Protocol (CAP) also was proposed, but it eventually expired after only a few implementations of it were put in place. Because it is universally considered to be not a good concept, CAP is being abandoned.
Although a trend of using WebDAV to share and edit iCalendar data emerged from various calendaring software vendors—Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird and Novell Evolution—the Internet Task Force published the CalDAV specification. The draft proposes a standard to model calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format. Commitments to support CalDAV have been made by various open-source groupware solutions, but the majority of commercial products still has to adopt the upcoming standard.
More recently, GroupDAV emerged as an effort to create a simple protocol to connect open-source groupware clients to open-source groupware servers. More precisely, GroupDAV focuses on three popular clients: KDE Kontact, Novell Evolution and Mozilla Sunbird. Similar to CalDAV, the proposed model uses HTTP and WebDAV to store groupware data, such as events and tasks, using the iCalendar standard, but it also stores contacts using the vCard standard.
E-mail service probably is the most solicited service in any groupware solution. Most organizations have a solid e-mail system and are interested in adding groupware-type functionalities on top of the existing infrastructure. To this end, the development version of Kolab2 makes heavy use of Cyrus IMAP Server's capabilities, including access control lists, annotations and shared folders. It stores every single object, such as a contact, event, note or task, in an e-mail message in the appropriate object's type folder. Kolab2 provides all groupware features and uses solid open-source server components, including Postfix, Cyrus IMAP Server, OpenLDAP and ProFTPd.
Kolab2 does not include a Web interface beside its administration interface, but connectivity is being added to most of Horde's excellent modules. The Horde Project combines a powerful PHP-based application framework with modules such as the Webmail program IMP, the calendar manager Kronolith and the contact manager Turba.
Installing Kolab2 is relatively easy to do, thanks to OpenPKG, a component that also makes the project deployable on many distributions. Kolab2 does not support CalDAV nor GroupDAV, and adding support for one of these protocols is hard, due to the nature of how objects are stored in Kolab2. In addition, you cannot update a message in IMAP; whenever a modification is done, identity is lost.
Formerly SKYRiX groupware server, OpenGroupware (OGo) is a feature-full groupware solution that sits side by side with an existing e-mail infrastructure. OGo provides group calendars, contacts, tasks, resources, projects and documents management and a Webmail client. OGo also provides GroupDAV support. Built on top of the SOPE application server, OGo has a well-structured architecture. Installation is relatively easy, as binary packages are offered for most distributions.
Formerly SUSE OpenExchange, OPEN-XCHANGE (OX) provides the same kind of functionalities that OGo offers, and it also sits on top of an existing e-mail infrastructure. Built around mainly Java-oriented components, OX provides a rich Web interface to its groupware features. Although a little behind other projects with regard to client interoperability, OX might be a natural choice for those comfortable with Java technologies.
If you don't have a robust e-mail infrastructure or if you are not particularly tied to it, the Hula and Citadel Projects are interesting groupware solutions. The new Hula Server Project, formerly the proprietary Novell NetMail product, is a complete mail and calendar server. It provides SMTP, POP3, IMAP and calendar services as well as a simple and efficient Web interface. The Hula Server features CalDAV support, and GroupDAV support is being added by Martijn van Beers. The installation and configuration of the Hula Server is easy to do, as packages are available for many distributions and the software offers a rich Web interface for managing all components of the system.
Citadel is a multithreaded groupware server implementing all mail standard protocols, although it can integrate with an existing mail transfer agent. Standard groupware functionalities such as mail, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks are supported. It offers a Web interface through WebCit in addition to a text interface. Citadel also joined the GroupDAV effort and already provides a working implementation.
Moving to a different sector, universities aggressively are integrating portal engines in their infrastructures, especially uPortal. Offering groupware functionalities in the portal is appealing. Projects such as University of British Columbia (UBC) Webmail and UBC Address Book have matured and are well integrated in uPortal. For calendaring services, the University of Washington (UW) Calendar Project can be integrated as a portlet in the portal engine, although the support is preliminary. Support for native clients, such as Novell Evolution or MeetingMaker, also is planned.
Additional projects are worth mentioning but should still be considered experimental: exchange4linux, OpenOffice.org Groupware and its Glow client and Chandler. Well funded by the Mellon Foundation, Chandler eventually could become a key player. Development activity also is dissipated among a cluster of overlapping projects based on PHP, such as eGroupWare, phpGroupWare and more.groupware. Despite their impressive number of features, these projects lack maturity and cannot be scaled for enterprise-wide deployments. In addition, most of them don't support clients other than a Web browser.
Table 1 presents the groupware servers described above and lists their respective functionalities. Some of those functionalities currently are in development.
Think Secret article: OS X Server: Improved mail, calendar. . .
Hula is mentioned in thinksecret.com's article OS X Server: Improved mail, calendar services forthcoming?.
A new recipe or old stuff again?
Yeah i don't think there is much of an improvement over OSX in Hula. Some small things, but really not much. For me, it doesn't bring anything new on the table. (but that my opinion, some may have improvements they like).
Matt, ramen chef.
Well, this article is pretty dubios, isn't it? OSX server already includes 95% of what Hula has and then Hula just provides some half-working web interface and has no properly working IMAP4 support. Don't even ask for Outlook support.
I'll bet OSX server is going to include SOGo: integrates nicely with Cyrus and OpenDirectory (aka the existing infrastructure) and is written in the systems language, ObjC.
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JEFFERSONVILLE — Kicking the can down the road
I am happy the government has reopened. Many innocent were hurt by this shutdown, and I hope this brings them the opportunity to move on.
I am sad that it came to this point. What angers me is that we haven't fixed anything.
We just kicked the can down the road. Both houses and both parties seem to love going to the brink and then taking action. We have a $17 trillion debt that has to be managed and reduced. Time is money, and its our money your playing with.
We have a divided nation. The way that our government was founded means that you negotiate in doing the work of the people. Get on it.
No more vacations, no more coming in and doing half days and no more waiting until the last minute. You have three months to deal with a budget and appropriations reforms. Do what the rest of us have to do at our jobs.
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I am a person who doesn't like to be around people who are like me, but instead different. I have always sought out friendships and experiences that expand my understanding and love for people, and I'm often marveled at how our heavenly Father beautifully crafted us together. So when I first began Loyola University's career development class, I felt like a fawn frolicking amongst a meadow of diversity. My class represented a variety of religious beliefs, nationalities, sex, ethnicity, professions and talents. But as the class came to an end, I found myself less amazed by our differences, and more in tune with our commonalities – our personhood – the very life, breath, and heart of God's creation.
Our final assignment was a demonstration from each student expressing his/her personal life path and addressing the question of identity, "Who am I?" Sharing of the "self" is not easy or comfortable for many. However, each student was given the creative liberty to demonstrate meaningful moments, persons, or experiences that have helped shape their identity. In my personal journey, for example, I've come to realize that my life isn't really about "who am I?" For me it's about, "knowing who He is – knowing Jesus." Instead of what I know or do, it's about Who I know and what He does. It has especially been through my struggles and weaknesses that God has proven faithful and strong.
My peers expressed themselves through drama, sand art, music, poetry, pottery, film, media, and scrapbooks. It was a beautiful moment of how sharing of the "self" causes all other differences to become less definitive of "who we are." As my classmates grew increasingly comfortable sharing their stories with one another, I witnessed a group of people become "one" — I believe just as God describes in 1 Cor. 12:12-14. It wasn't our stories of success, achievement, or credentials that united us, but it was our openness about life's failures, hurts, and mistakes. To be open and allow others to see "you" — each one a masterpiece, yet also so human, fragile, and dependent on Christ — unveils all differences. We are what I like to call, "commonly different."
It was as though God intentionally pulled pieces from his human fabric – my peers — from across the globe to weave together one majestic tapestry. Each thread so unique and exquisite, yet when hidden or separated, unable to fulfill God's common purpose and good.
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Well, adolescents -- and adults, for that matter -- shouldn't have to change to fit the expectations of others. It's not right for a person not to be allowed to be him or herself. They shouldn't be penalized for being different.
If we want to get rid of bullying and help prevent it, we need to stop persecuting people and start supporting them. Instead of putting others down for what they do, support them in who they are and what they do well. If you let people be themselves, they will be happier. If a person isn't constantly bringing others down, there wouldn't be as much bullying around schools and communities.
Another way to help prevent bullying would be to create an anti-bullying group in your school or area. It's easy and creates a safer environment for your peers, young or old. An anti-bullying group or club can bring the dangers of bullying to the attention of others and help make the area a better place for everyone.
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"The opening of the first BlackBerry Tech Center in Brazil reaffirms RIM's commitment to the country. We are looking to tap into the large talent in Brazil and invite them to come innovate with us to create the future of mobile computing," said Joao Stricker, Managing Director for Brazil at RIM. "By offering training and tools, a unique combination of startup culture and product excellence, we are supporting the innovation of the mobile developer ecosystem in Brazil."
As part of the BlackBerry Academic Program, the new tech center will give students access to create and test mobile applications for BlackBerry as well as help generate business opportunities. Keep reading for the full press release.
The first BlackBerry Tech Center in Brazil is designed to help students and developers take dvantage of the growing global mobile ecosystem
São Paulo, Brazil - December 11, 2012 - As part of the BlackBerry® Academic Program, a global outreach and support program aimed at students and mobile application developers, BlackBerry® maker Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) is opening the doors of its first BlackBerry Tech Center in Brazil today. The program will serve a dual purpose: to provide ongoing training and the space and resources necessary to help students and developers create and test new mobile applications, and to nurture their entrepreneurship by helping to generate business opportunities for them.
"This is an important milestone in the global Tech Center program that started several months ago. Brazil has one of the most active and passionate developer communities and the first BlackBerry Tech Center will give students and professors the opportunity to become specialists on the BlackBerry 10 platform. The center will be able to provide support to developers around the country and help generate new business opportunities focused on app development," said Demian Borba, BlackBerry Developer Evangelist for Brazil at RIM.
Maceió - Alagoas will be home to the new BlackBerry Tech Center, the first such center in Brazil, providing students and the developer community in the country with access to equipment, test applications, expert developer and technical support, and training. Developers will also be able to participate in a variety of activities and get familiar with cutting-edge wireless technology and the tools to help them develop applications and start their own business.
"The opening of the first BlackBerry Tech Center in Brazil reaffirms RIM's commitment to the country. We are looking to tap into the large talent in Brazil and invite them to come innovate with us to create the future of mobile computing," said Joao Stricker, Managing Director for Brazil at RIM. "By offering training and tools, a unique combination of startup culture and product excellence, we are supporting the innovation of the mobile developer ecosystem in Brazil."
Through the BlackBerry Academic Program, RIM is committed to strengthening the information technology industry in Brazil, broadening and empowering the local developer community, and fostering the skills and competitiveness of local providers. The project is intended to drive innovation, increase the number of local BlackBerry platform developers, and nurture local businesses growth and entrepreneurship.
The BlackBerry Tech Center will be located at Federal University of Alagoas. It will be open weekdays, has complete office facilities, and staffed by specialized technicians who can provide support to developers working on the BlackBerry platform.
RedRangerReid Dec 12, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Yayyyy RIMM
Kicking a$$.
sk8er_tor Dec 12, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Good for you RIM.
cylaer Dec 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm
I was there!!!
Nickstarmaster Dec 12, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Good job RIM...
diegonei Dec 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Some love for Brasil? Noooo... Can't be!!!!
Now give us a factory so BlackBerry devices don't cost 3x the price of an Android!
mago72 Dec 12, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Maceió, in Alagoas state is a city in northeast coast from Brazil. It has many, many beaches with warm and clear waters. Winter is very "cold" 23-28 Celsius (73-82 fahrenheit) and in Summer between 31-35 Celsius (88-95 fahrenheit ). So Maceio is a eternal summer for Waterloo standards. Long life for BB.
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leandroal Dec 12, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Thanks Message
As everyone knows, yesterday we launched the BlackBerry Tech Center in Maceió-AL, located at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), coordinated by the Laboratory of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (COMPE), where I'm the director and the Computing Institute (IC), sponsored by BlackBerry/RIM.
Today, at December, 12, 2012, I would like to expressed my sincere thanks.
In October 2012, RIM launched a campaign called "10k Reasons to Believe". People should describe a reason why they believe in the success of the new BlackBerry platform, the BB10. I, Demian Borba, Rodrigo Peixoto, Márcio Ribeiro, Evandro Costa, Marcus Braga, Larry McDonough, Nicholas Fazio, Gustavo Costa and several others show precisely why we believe in this success. We easily let people know how happy we are with this historic achievement for IC/UFAL and for our state.
In informal conversations with Larry yesterday, I could tell him, "I had the opportunity to participate in the World BlackBerry 10 in April 2012 and the BlackBerry 10 Jam Americas in October 2012. I also had the opportunity to win some competitions and we know that this is very exciting. Both events were fantastic, but it's different for those who participate and those who only listen to talk about. The better is to feeling how these events are, the great energy and smart people we can interact with. Considering this, our proposal for the opening ceremony of the BlackBerry Tech Center was to make people feel what is the BlackBerry proposal, while showing the world what our institution can offer. I'm sure we reached our goal, mainly because we realized that people feel a very positive energy that will be always present in our Tech Center."
As the professor coordinating BlackBerry Tech Center, I'm very happy to be able to contribute effectively in the process of helping BlackBerry by promoting various research and development opportunities for our students and professors. To start, I can quote the exchange of students in our Tech Center BlackBerry and others around the world, starting with the Plug 'n Play, recently opened in Silicon Valley, California, USA, in addition to receiving students from other centers.
Like us, many other persons, such as the secretary of science and technology in the state of Alagoas, Eduardo Setton, and the magnificent rector of UFAL Eurico Lobo, also have 10k reasons to believe that our BlackBerry Tech Center can help people to achieve their goals and BlackBerry to become even better.
Warm regards,
Leandro Melo de Sales
Professor at the Institute of Computing - IC / UFAL
Laboratory of Pervasive and Mobile Computing - COMPE
BlackBerry Elite Member
BlackBerry Tech Center (Maceio / AL / Brazil)
Jmaxim Dec 13, 2012 at 1:26 am
Is Brazil in Europe? Just saying. And to think that the masses of Brazilians that will be buying a BlackBerry will be of the non European hue.
billbsb Dec 13, 2012 at 5:19 am
Wow! This is quite cool move from RIM betting like this on the brazilian market and on its developers. There are good chances of profit for everybody involved. I hope it works very well.
The only thing I hope it doesn't happen is that the COMPE and IC/UFAL turns into a RIM-only education institution. It would be sad if a young student joins the University to become a Bachelor in Computer Scientist but becomes a RIM Specialist instead. But this can be avoided if IC/UFAL offers a proper academic curriculum that favors the student over the enterprise.
This could bea challenge to achieve because some public brazilian universities have quite limited budget from the government to split between its faculties; so they must get external funding. And then when the companies come with the money that the faculties desperately need, they kind of become the "boss" that guides - or misguide - the institution.
Let's hope RIM doesn't become the "boss" enterprise that dictates what the institue must do in order to keep the cash flowing. But like many other out there, I believe.
Congratulations Mr. Leandro Melo de Sales. Meus parabéns.
leandroal Dec 14, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Dear Billbsb, your words are very important.
As a leader of this tech center and professor at Computing Institute and director of COMPE Lab, I really wish to make our students develop their skills learned during the computer science couse in context of our tech center. At the same time, we know that they are very excited to what is happening here and we need to use this great moment to celebrate and make them know that we can even better.
Our course is the 2nd best course in computer science of the northeast of Brazil and the 27 best computer science course of 347 courses in Brazil, based on ENADE rank. We are working very hard to improve this even more. With this in mind, we really want to make our students ready for the market, be prepared for any company and/or project context. We don't want bosses, we need partners.
This is our view for the tech center and RIM knows about this. I'm very glad to read your comments as an advice for us to keep in mind that we are an education institution so that we have to prepare our students to become better in both professional and personal aspects of life.
Thank you once again and we when possible, keep in touch and visit our laboratory.
Rootbrian Dec 14, 2012 at 11:02 pm
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— TRAVERSE CITY — There's a voice that makes Paul Hurlbert a better person.
It belongs to his wife, Kelly Ann Boyce, who changed his life the moment they met five years ago. She died July 5 when a hit-and-run driver struck and killed her as she pedaled her bicycle home, but he can still hear her. He could be angry, but it's her voice that tells him to remember to love.
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A Newport Beach man was acquitted today, while his partner, a Laguna Niguel B-movie producer was convicted of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme involving five films.
Mahmoud Karkehabadi, 55, owner of Alliance Group Entertainment, was convicted of 51 felony counts, most of which involved the fraudulent sale of securities and grand theft. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 15 and could face about 30 years in prison, said Assistant Attorney General Patricia Mary Fusco. Jurors acquitted Timothy Cho, 56, of Newport Beach, of all charges.
The scheme stemmed from the production of five independent movies that featured mixed martial arts fighter Quinton ``Rampage'' Jackson and rapper Flavor Flav, among others. Prosecutors alleged it was a $9 million Ponzi scheme, but jurors found the loss was between $500,000 to $3 million for 21 investors.
``It was such a long ordeal,'' Cho said after the verdicts were announced. ``I'm glad this is over and I'm glad the truth came out.''
Cho's attorney Michael Molfetta slammed the prosecution.
``The government decided through a series of really unfortunate, nonsensical decisions to try to tarnish his reputation,'' Molfetta said. ``This case was tantamount to taking the taxpayers' money and lighting it on fire...It was a complete waste of time.''
Fusco said she was ``a little surprised'' by the jury's verdicts.
``But I'm pleased the jury agreed that Mr. Karkehabadi was guilty of almost everything,'' Fusco said.
She defended the prosecution of Cho.
``I follow the ethical rules of the court and I charge those I believe are responsible for criminal conduct, but it's always up to a jury,'' Fusco said.
Co-defendant Deanna Ray Salazar pleaded guilty June 27 of last year and was sentenced to a two-year prison term. Salazar testified during the trial and her state prison commitment ran concurrent with a federal sentence she is serving for an unrelated Ponzi scheme, Molfetta said.
``She got a freebie on this one,'' Molfetta said.
Karkehabadi's attorney, Robert Weinberg, said his client intends to appeal.
``The essential argument of the attorney general was my client stole $10 million and the jury rejected her theory and found to the contrary,'' Weinberg said, noting that his client faces substantially less time in prison than if he were convicted on all counts.
Prosecutors argued that more than 150 investors from across the country made loans to Alliance Group Entertainment to produce B-movies since 2005, including ``Confessions of a Pit Fighter,'' which starred rapper Flavor Flav, and ``Hotel California.''
Molfetta said ``Hotel California'' had an offer of $15 million for distribution that fell apart when the economy imploded in 2008. Karkehabadi promised investors they would get their money back in a year no matter how well the movie did with audiences, prosecutors said. The promised returns were between 18 to 35 percent.
Karkehabadi convinced investors to roll their ``loans'' over into another project after a year or agree to extensions on repayment of the loans, according to the prosecution.
Bank records showed most of the money in Alliance's accounts was from investors, and their money was used to pay principal and interest to earlier investors, prosecutors said. Records showed deposits of more than $11 million from the investors and only $535,000 in revenue from the movies, prosecutors said.
The attorney general's office began its investigation in 2008 after receiving a referral from the Department of Corporations, which was prompted to look into the accounts when investors complained.
The attorney general in 2003 won a $5 million judgment against Karkehabadi for deceptive marketing of credit cards that couldn't be used in stores and for violating California's false advertising and unfair business practices laws. Karkehabadi declared bankruptcy after that, but did not tell his investors, prosecutors said.
Cho wasn't told either, Molfetta said. Salazar testified that Cho was surprised when he found out the producer's name was not Mike Karkeh, but was Mahmoud Karkehabadi.
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Original recipe yields 12 servings
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Place chicken in the pot, season with salt and pepper, and cook 5 minutes, until juices run clear. Remove chicken, and set aside. Reduce heat to medium-low. Melt butter in the pot. Stir in onion and garlic and cook 5 minutes. Stir in flour, and cook until lightly browned.
- With a piece of kitchen twine, tie together the parsley sprigs, thyme sprigs, and bay leaf. Pour stock and milk into the pot, and stir in the cooked chicken. Place herb bundle into soup. Simmer 25 minutes.
- Bring the water to a boil in a separate pot, and stir in instant rice. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 5 minutes.
- Remove and discard herb bundle from soup. Stir in cooked rice and season with Old Bay before serving.
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With a few adjustments to suit my cooking habits and family's tastes this was easily a five-star recipe. I doubled both the onion and garlic; omited the herb bundle; and added 1 cup of water into the soup, using non-instant rice which I also simply added into the pot THEN simmered for the 25 minutes. Perfect! My husband thought it was the best!
This is a good, easy recipe. I added some heavy cream and little more flour to the broth for a creamier texture. Good stuff!
A perfect soup for a cold day! I omitted the thyme simply because I'm not a fan of it. I chopped 1 TBSP of fresh parsley and added it to the soup; as opposed to making an herb bundle. I had leftover chicken breasts from the night before. I chopped up the chicken and added to the soup and simmered as called for. I also had leftover rice, which I added to the soup once I turned the heat off. The Old Bay Seasoning adds a delightful flavor and browning the flour beforehand makes for a wonderfully creamy soup without the floury taste. The best recipe for cream of chicken soup I've yet to find, and sooooo… simple! The recipe states that it serves 12. I halved the recipe and it was only enough for one meal for my husband and me. If you're using this for a main course, as I did; you may want to increase the amount.
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Amount Per Serving (12 total)
- Calories
- 137 cal
- 7%
- Fat
- 5.5 g
- 9%
- Carbs
- 13.6 g
- 4%
- Protein
- 8.2 g
- 16%
- Cholesterol
- 20 mg
- 7%
- Sodium
- 306 mg
- 12%
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love a good ghost story despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that they're so effective on me. To this day, I have a hard time watching a movie when the tension starts to rise, and I've never even dared watch The Exorcist, The Descent, or dozens more quality horror movies due to sheer terror. When I do end up catching a horror movie (I'm thinking specifically of Paranormal Activity), I'm instantly transformed back into the same little kid I was after I'd had an ill-advised viewing of Poltergeist. That movie permanently damaged my fragile psyche.
Of course, being scared is what makes ghost stories so much fun. No wonder every culture has, and cherishes, its own ghost stories.
While I was traveling through New Orleans this summer (a haunted a city if ever there was), our guide told us about burials that took place just before massive rains; the high water table would then push the coffins back up against the gravestones, causing a loud "knock knock knocking" from below. Also, premature burials have always made good fodder for stories. It's horribly fascinating to see old coffins rigged with bells that signal those holding vigil -- such was the fear of being left for dead.
This fall, I also visited London (another great haunted city). I walked the streets of the financial district, where the city was rebuilt following the Great Fire of 1666 (but structures were placed according to its old medieval footprint). That made for one spooky evening. Here were the narrows streets, alleys, and mews where plague victims were buried hastily, body snatchers plucked corpses to sell, and Jack the Ripper later prowled. Naturally my favorite part of the trip was taking part in a ghost tour of the city.
So, what's all this to the D&D game?
With Halloween fast approaching, it's appropriate for a brief look at the game's ghoulies and ghosties. We have no shortage of contenders. In fact, the undead category alone extends from allips to zombies; plus, witches return in Heroes of the Feywild, and we have demons and devils aplenty.
To narrow things down just a bit, let's look at some of the classic movie monsters in the game. What makes for a classic movie monster? Using extremely scientific and rigorous criteria, we'll go with those monsters that have appeared in cereal form (thinking specifically of Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, Fruity Yummy Mummy, and Fruit Brute).
We can narrow this down more by looking at past projects, too. Let's revisit a few choice oddities from the early days of these creatures. Now, vampires we've covered in our look back at Ravenloft, and golems have been discussed in past blogs. Frankenstein's monster we'll classify as the quintessential flesh golem, although over on the Magic: The Gathering site, they're discussing whether the monster is more of a flesh golem or a zombie.
That leaves us with our hairy friend, the werewolf.
Let's start with the wolfman -- that is, lycanthropes in general (a topic brought up in our hybrid article). In the original edition, this category included the werewolf, bear, boar, and tiger. Wererats had to wait until the Greyhawk supplement, but they gained the benefit of having greater intelligence (holding persons for ransom), employing weapons while in hybrid form (while other lycanthropes could not), and controlling normal rats as a vampire does bats.
In popular culture, werewolves are arguably the most widely known lycanthropes. In Greek mythology, Zeus transformed Lycaon into a wolf (where the term lycanthropy might have originated; granted, Zeus was often transforming himself or others into various forms). Other cultures have their own tales of people turning into wolves as well as other creatures: jaguars, foxes, lions, the cannibalistic wendigo, to name a few. Over the years, the D&D game has expanded its own category of lycanthropes, so that by 3rd Edition we also had werecats, crocodiles, serpents, and sharks -- not to mention the jackalwere and the drow werebat (from Lost Empires of Faerûn).
In the original edition of the game and beyond, anyone seriously wounded (say, 50% hit point loss) by a werecreature could suffer the curse of lycanthropy. The Blackmoor supplement and early Dragon magazines devoted further material on the subject, in some cases adding truly bizarre details concerning the werestriken.
For example, Dragon 14 ("Lycanthropy -- The Progression of the Disease") states: "Lycanthropes of all sorts will tend to become more hairy when in their human forms. Note that this will be human hair, growing in the ordinary human patterns. A man's beard, for example, would become more thick and heavy, brows grow together, and body hair become more evident. Women, however, will not grow beards unless they are already disposed to do so."
And in Blackmoor, the following mystery was added: "Another aspect of lycanthropy is that men who are bitten by an animal will assume that animal's form, but retain human direction and intelligence. The reverse is true if an animal is the victim."
Blackmoor also stipulated that lycanthropes gained additional hit points, Armor Class, and ability bonuses, making the curse more of a potential boon. So much so that the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide devoted several pages to the issue, noting that "there have been many different approaches to the disease of lycanthropy. Many are too complicated to understand or are structured so poorly that the werecreature dominates the game."
The Dungeon Master's Guide also provided further descriptions of each type of lycanthrope, noting that weretigers occasionally keep normal cats for companions, wererats always volunteer to be in the rear of a party's marching order, and wereboars "are the most foul-tempered of the lycanthropes. Their temperament is such that they will not join a party unless they can be the leader. If they do join one and are not its leader, they will argue bitterly with anyone who disagrees with them. This action may cause them to change into their wereform from the stress involved in the argument." Additional tables also presented the chance of a transformation depending on the phase of the moon, and the damage taken from bursting out of one's armor while doing so. (If it's embarrassing to be scratched to death by a house cat -- a theoretical possibility for magic-users with low hit points -- imagine the shame of a lycanthrope dying because he failed to break free from his own armor.)
I tell this story only to transition to our next creature. Never a fan of elaborate Halloween costumes, I wrapped myself in toilet paper and went dressed as a mummy one year. Lame, I know. It gets worse. At the party I went to, I ended up standing too close to a candle (the rooms were themed to the elements, and I ended up in the "fire" room). My costume went up pretty quickly, and my quick-thinking friends had to douse me in beer to put out the flames. I lost both my costume and an eyebrow.
Moving on. The 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide provided elaborate charts for the types of diseases a given character might contract. These charts included everything from disorders of the nose and throat, connective tissue, and urinary system to parasitic infestations of the skin and hair. DMs were encouraged to check each month for every character, accelerated to each week if conditions were particularly favorable (and when weren't characters operating in conditions favorable to contract some strange disease?). Yet, for all these chances, I'd wager that most characters never caught a random parasitic infection, and that most cure disease spells, as the only known cure, instead went to staving off mummy rot.
In the original edition, spectres, wights, and wraiths (described as higher-level wights) inflicted damage in the form of level drain. Mummies inflicted their damage as mummy rot, which caused wounds to heal ten times slower than normal. (This at a time when characters regained 1 hit point per full day of rest, though it was stipulated that "regardless of the number of hit points a character has, 4 weeks of continuous rest will restore any character to full strength.") By the 1st Edition Monster Manual, their disease further negated all cure wound spells and proved fatal after 1-6 months, with characters also losing 2 points of Charisma per month of affliction (leprosy tending to cause unsightly lesions). Being slain by a mummy also caused problems, with a character's body forever rotting away unless the right spells were cast quickly after his or her demise.
As discussed in the past, monsters from all manner of sources have populated the D&D game. With mummies, they clearly were pulled from their Hollywood incarnations rather than actual Egyptology. Liches, for instance, have their souls preserved in phylacteries, which makes for a wonderful story element (just ask Lord Voldemort and his horcruxes). Mummies, similarly, had their organs preserved in canopic jars in the belief that they would need them again in the afterlife. Yet, I don't believe this element has ever been made part of their published adventures. (I'd love to be proven wrong. Just let me know in the comments field.) Likewise, mummies were buried with any number of shabtis, or figurines, who would toil as their servants in the afterlife. This is another element absent from their tombs in published adventures (where deactivated golems could play the same role).
When it comes to published adventures, I3-5 Desert of Desolation is the series most commonly associated with the game's mummies -- or at least, with their setting. Taking place around the desert wilderness, these adventures concerned finding and conquering the tombs of the Amun-re, the Efreeti Pasha, and the Cryptknights of Martek. (These adventures also contained the wonderfully obscure warning, "Woe to anyone hit by a flying mummy!") Later appearances by these creatures would be made, appropriately enough, in Ravenloft (particularly Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead), as well as the creation of further variations (Anhktepot's Children, the spellcasting greater mummy, and more recently Monster Vault's scroll mummy) and templates (with Savage Species allowing for a huge new variety of mummified creatures).
That said, although it was problematic to be slain by a mummy, it was outright devastating to be killed by our next creature. In an extremely oddly worded statement from the Monster Manual, "Any human -- including dwarves, elves, gnomes, and halflings -- killed by a ghost is forever dead."
Finally we come back around to ghosts, which are described as "the spirits of evil humans who were so awful in their badness that they have been rewarded (or perhaps cursed) by being given undead status." These do not sound like the Patrick Swayze version, but more of the angry, vengeful spirits in Paranormal Activity.
Although mentioned in the original edition (listed in Eldritch Wizardry's undead category, along with will-o'-wisps), ghosts were fully detailed in the 1st Edition Monster Manual and they made for decidedly difficult opponents. While remaining ethereal, ghosts could possess their victims through use of magic jar (a spell that allowed for domination; magic-users needed to first place their life essence in an intermediary vessel to do so, while ghosts apparently did not). They could also materialize, with their attacks not inflicting physical damage but instead aging their victims 10-40 years. Even the mere sight of a ghost would cause you to age 10 years and flee in panic (while the mere sight of a mummy caused you to become paralyzed with fright).
As with mummy rot, aging a character made for a fiendishly devastating attack. Death and dying might have been commonplace in the game, but so too were the means of resuscitation. As the Dungeon Master's Guide stated, "the character faces death in many forms. The most common, death due to combat, is no great matter in most cases, for the character can often be brought back by means of a clerical spell, or an alter reality or wish." However, once a character reached her maximum age, there was little hope. Once dead, you stayed dead. Potions of longevity could postpone the inevitable, but the Dungeon Master's Guide provided tables that showed the effects of aging on a character's abilities: Wisdom and Intelligence were gained as one grew older, but at the cost of Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution.
After that, a character's only option was to start researching lichdom.
And with that, we bid you a Happy Halloween! We'll published the results of last month's poll in our upcoming In the Works column. This month, we want to ask about favorite horror movies. Since that's an extremely broad category, let's look at horror movies (broadly defined) that can best be referenced for material in your games.


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Sunday, February 29, 2004CHICAGO STATE (8-18, 3-12 Mid-Con) at VALPARAISO (16-11, 10-5 Mid-Con)
WHEN: Monday, March 1, 2004, 7:05 p.m. CST.
WHERE: Athletics-Recreation Center (5,000), Valparaiso, Ind.
RADIO: WVUR (95.1-FM), Valparaiso, Ind. Ed Schillinger will handle the play-by-play with Jesse Shale providing the color commentary.
TV: Comcast Cablevision Ch. 43-tape delay. Dick Harlan will handle the play-by-play, while Paul Curtis will provide color commentary. The game will air on Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m.
THE COACHES: Valparaiso is led by Keith Freeman, who is in his 16th season of coaching, and 10th with the Crusaders. He is 300-164 overall and 171-117 at Valpo. Chicago State is led by Angela Jackson, who is 8-18 in her 1st season overall and with the Cougars.
SERIES RECORD: Valparaiso leads the all-time series with Chicago State 29-2.
LAST MEETING: Valpo defeated the Cougars 63-58 back on Feb. 9 in Chicago. Kathryn Knoester led four Crusaders in double-figures with 13 points, while Suzie Hammel added 12. Kafayat Davies, Loretta Ellul, and Tina Hill scored 12 points each for Chicago State.
Valparaiso will conclude the 2003-2004 regular season on Monday night as the Crusaders host Chicago State. Valpo has won five of its last six games, and still has a chance to finish in a second place tie in the Mid-Continent Conference standings.
FREEMAN WIN 300: Valpo head coach Keith Freeman recorded the 300th victory of his career on Saturday afternoon against IPFW. In his 16th season of coaching, Freeman has posted a 300-164 record overall. Of that win total, 171 have come at Valpo, 85 at St. Joseph's (Ind.), and 44 at Huntington, Freeman's first school.
VALPO AMONG NATION'S BEST: The Crusaders currently rank 22nd in the nation in turnovers per game according to the February 24 NCAA rankings. Valpo has turned the ball over just 14.7 times per game. The Crusaders have also committed the 32nd fewest number of personal fouls of any team in the country (15.2/game). Individually, Suzie Hammel is 36th in the country in three-point percentage (38.8%).
A WINNING TRADITION: Valpo has assured itself of its 13th winning season in the last 14 years. The only time the Crusaders have not finished over .500 during that time was in 2000-2001. Valpo's 16 wins thus far this season are currently tied for the seventh most victories in a season in Crusader history.
DEFENSE: Valpo's defense has allowed just 56.0 points per game during league play, and allowed just one opponent, UMKC, to reach 70 points in a game. In fact, just four conference foes have even reached the 60-point mark.
KNOESTER SHINES ON SENIOR DAY: Kathryn Knoester made the most of Senior Day on Saturday against the Mastodons. She scored a career high 21 points, making 8-of-8 free throws. The senior also starred defensively, recording a career-best six steals.
CHICAGO STATE NOTES: Chicago State visits the ARC this evening looking to hold on to the eighth and final spot in the Mid-Continent Conference standings and qualify for the league tournament. The Cougars moved into that position on Saturday following a 74-72 victory over Centenary at home.
The Cougars are paced by Kafayat Davies, who enters play tonight eighth in the Mid-Con in scoring tallying 13.8 points per contest. The senior registered her second double-double of the year against the Ladies on Saturday, scoring 18 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.
Loretta Ellul is the team's top shooter, connecting on 46.3% of her shots from beyond the three-point arc. She is second on the team in scoring, having posted 11.4 points per game this year following her 21 point outburst against Centenary.
Tina Hill is the third Cougar scoring in double-figures, chipping in 11.3 points per game. She dished out eight assists against the Ladies.
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Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. Rex Welshon introduces many of the current neuroscientific proposals about consciousness and discusses them from a philosophical point of view. Welshon's engagement with recent cognitive science and neurophysiology sets this book apart from other philosophical introductions. In his discussion, Welshon shows that although the advances made in the last twenty years in the scientific study of consciousness have been extraordinary, the philosophical and empirical difficulties researchers continue to face are huge. Indeed, for every promising empirical and philosophical theory of consciousness that Welshon examines, devastating empirical and philosophical objections are shown to exist. Simple and incontrovertible features of consciousness are shown to entail massive peculiarity, which the best scientific theories of consciousness need to respect.
Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness will be welcomed by philosophers of mind looking for an introduction to recent scientific work on consciousness as well as by cognitive scientists keen to understand the philosophical implications of their researches.
"Who should read this book? Anyone with an interest in learning about the metaphysics of mind – what minds are and how they are related to brains (dualism, identity, non-identity, supervenience, anomalously related but causally related, non-causally related and perhaps epiphenomenal, explanatory gap, origin of phenomenal properties of conscious states); anyone interested in the evolution of the brain and how that may be related to the origin of consciousness and cognition or language; anyone interested in reaping the benefits of Welshon's very extensive and thorough literature search on the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience on the subject of consciousness and related topics … Welshon may have done what many would say cannot be done, produce a one-stop shopping account of the gist of what has taken place in philosophy of mind over the past 30 years. There is scarcely a topic that he doesn't cover in some way and taxonomize in a very helpful way for someone new to the subject." – Analysis Reviews
"Welshon investigates consciousness and its relation to the brain, covering both philosophical and neuroscientific literature in great depth. This combination of philosophy with a detailed review and analysis of relevant neuroscience is very welcome. Several leading philosophers draw heavily on developments in neuroscience without providing ordinary readers with the background they need to understand those developments for themselves. This book provides both means and motivation for philosophers to incorporate significant knowledge of neuroscience into their reflections. A valuable contribution to the literature." – Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick
Rex Welshon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Part I Philosophy and Consciousness
1. Consciousness and Conscious Properties
2. Identity, Supervenience, Reduction and Emergence
3. Reductive and Non-reductive Physicalism
4. Representationalist Theories of Consciousness
Part II Neuroscience and Consciousness
5. Cortical Evolution and Modularity
6. Arousal, Perception and Affect
7. Attention, Working Memory, Language and Executive Function
8. Neural Models of Conscious Properties
Part III Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness
9. Measurement, Localization, Models and Dissociation
10. Correlates, Realizers and Multiple Realization
11. Microphysical Reduction, Overdetermination and Coupling
12. Embodied and Embedded Consciousness
Concluding Semi-scientific Postscript
Appendix: Basic Functional Neuroanatomy
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This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of my father's passing. It is hard to believe that 10 years have elapsed already; it seems like only yesterday. Other times it seems like decades. Dad was taken from his family before dawn that Sunday morning, unexpectedly and silently.
The grief and shock were equally numbing; it did not seem real. We had no time to prepare for Dad's passing, but we took consolation that Dad did not suffer a prolonged, pain-filled illness. Like many, Dad suffered pain through illness or injury at various times during his life, but never acknowledged it.
Mom discovered Dad that morning, and very quickly the paramedics and my two younger brothers arrived at our home. Living in Atlanta, I was not there with my mom and two brothers as Dad was taken from his home, never to return. It was the house that Dad helped build during the 1950s; it was the center of our universe.
My brothers called me early that morning. I called Aunt Alice to let her know; she contacted the rest of our Atlanta family. The rest of the day was filled with contacting work and airlines. My brother and nephew picked me up at Pittsburgh's airport later that day, arriving home that evening. We were all devastated; Mom and Dad had just celebrated their 50th anniversary earlier that year. Now we were planning Dad's funeral.
Harris Funeral Home was wonderful; I cannot speak highly enough of them. Relatives from Atlanta and my parents' hometown of Pittsburgh paid their respects, as did many family and friends. A moving ceremony by local Elks lodge members honored Dad as a member and past exalted ruler. The funeral Mass at
St. Benedict's in Geistown was beautiful and moving as well, in the church that was so much a part of my dad's life. The church choir graced the service, evoking memories of Dad in the men's choir 40 years earlier.
Mom asked me to deliver the eulogy, which I agreed to do. Writing the eulogy was not difficult; delivering it was. My main concern was doing justice to my father and his life in my eulogy; mourners at the service said I did. I was grateful in getting through the eulogy in one piece. The one thing I am most proud of in my life was that eulogy for Dad.
I spoke of Dad as a father, husband, grandfather, uncle, neighbor and co-worker. Dad had many memorable traits, with a personality to match. He was really a force of nature. Depending on the situation, Dad could be gentle one moment, or forceful the next. As said of those with red hair, Dad came by his temper honestly. Once you saw that temper, you never forgot it. But the same could be said of his kindness. Dad was a complex individual to be sure, but always had the best of intentions.
And so our family presses on, without Dad to turn to for the last 10 years. It has been toughest on Mom; she had known Dad since they were children. For myself, the world seems colder, harsher, darker, since Dad's passing. For me, every victory rings hollow; every defeat inconsolable since that dark day.
When Dad was alive, he would greet my defeats with the question: "Well, did you learn anything from this experience?" I never wanted to disappoint Dad. My mind would race to think of an answer. That was Dad's mindset: If life handed you lemons, you made lemonade. It was no sin to make a mistake, as long as you learned from it. Dad was always looking for that glimmer of hope to snatch from the jaws of defeat.
And so on this 10th anniversary, I will once again visit Grandview Cemetery. I will remember the man who was so much a part of my life, and continues to be in memory. Writing about Dad helps keep his memory alive for me. I keep hoping that Dad is somehow able to read my comments, that he knows how much I appreciate all he did for me. I guess I will find out when I see him again somewhere down the road.
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Clowney was signed by the Bills right after last season ended, on Jan. 5. in He has 22 catches for 341 yards in three NFL seasons, mostly with the Jets. He's a speedster, and he's bidding to earn playing time among a group of contenders for the outside receiver position opposite Stevie Johnson. Clowney also has used twitter to promote his foundation. He's running a youth football camp and charity weekend in Delray, Fla., June 7-10.---Mark Gaughan


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For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these storieswaves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planets waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Seaincluding several that approached 100 feet.
As scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the oceans most destructive monsters. The pioneer of extreme surfing is the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 feet. Casey follows this unique tribe of people as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100-foot wave.
In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of wavesfrom the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740-foot-wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast.
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