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A word used to describe something/someone simply coooool...
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A state of being. Usually intoxicated.
You look tomaned.
Further examples can be found at the Toman website.
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(v.)- 1. a sudden increase in testosterone 2. to lose one's female constructions and assume the appearance of a man 3. to comandeer; to take over
see also: puberty
see also: puberty
As the facial hair on my grandmother's upper lip began to flourish, it suddenly struck me that perhaps she had begun to man.
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We Dare You to Walk Across These Bridges
Sure, the Brooklyn and Golden Gate bridges are impressive, but we're equally smitten by these pedestrian-only walkways and foot bridges…
Aiguille du Midi Bridge
Acrophobics beware: Not only does this overpass sit more than 12,500 feet above sea level, but it requires a 20-minute cable car ride to climb the 9,200 vertical feet up to the access point on the mountain.
Aiola Island Bridge
While some crossings exist merely to connect points A and B, this New York City artist Vito Acconci designed this Mur River-traversing structure to serve as five different venues in one. Erected in 2003, the steel-and-glass installation houses a bar, coffee house, a sunbathing spot, a children's playground, and an alfresco theater.
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Each year, roughly 250,000 travelers carefully traverse this delicate, 98-foot-high path between the mainland and the bridge's namesake island. Visitors who brave the 66-foot-long bridge are rewarded with sweeping views of Rathin Island, Scotland, and the Irish Sea, along with at least four species of native birds.
Capilano Suspension Bridge
Perched 230 feet above the meandering Capilano River, this narrow passage stretches 450 feet through the evergreen forest of the Canadian Rockies. Technically, the bridge has been around since 1889, but its current incarnation goes beyond the original hemp rope and cedar plank construction with seven additional suspension bridges and a cantilevered walkway.
The Monkey Bridges
Nicknamed for the bent, primate-like position many locals assume when crossing, these narrow, rough-hewn passageways (cau khi in Vietnamese) typically comprise just one or two bamboo poles under foot, plus one more as a handrail on each side.
Iya Valley Vine Bridges
Tucked within remote mountain valleys, these three secluded overpasses consisted of just vine and wooden slats when they were built about 900 years ago. The 147-foot-long bridges have since been bolstered by wire reinforcements and side rails, which make the 46-foot drop to the Iya-gawa River below only slightly less harrowing.
Canopy Walk
Seven hanging rope bridges, suspended 131 feet off the rainforest floor, allow visitors to spot all manner of tropical vegetation and wildlife as they pass through portions of 86,000-plus acres of protected terrain.
Xiying Rainbow Bridge
Visitors who inspect this passage by day might walk away nonplussed, but those who stop by once the sun goes down will be treated to a spectacular technicolor reflection on the water below. Neon lights attached to the bridge's side create the shimmering ROYGBIV effect.
"Living Root" Bridges
Utilizing betel nut tree trunks as guides, the Khasi people of this northeastern state train the growing roots of rubber trees to form these ever-evolving structures, which begin sturdy and grow even stronger over time. Most estimates put the youngest fully formed bridges at 10 to 15 years old and the most mature at possibly 500 years old; exact measurements for their respective lengths are unknown, but some bridges stretch at least 100 feet.
Seonimgayo ("Seven Nymphs") Bridge
According to Korean lore, a septet of fairies descends from the heavens each night to frolic in the Cheonjeyeon waterfall below. The alabaster-white pixies, who each play a different instrument, appear on both sides of the 256-foot-tall, 420-foot-long crimson arch.
Stunning Natural Bridges and Arches
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How the media portrays the way people in Southern California dress (although often times very accurate). When someone is abiding to the Cali Dress Code, they are usually wearing shorts or boardshorts, sandals, sunglasses, and a tank top. This style can be found throughout Southern California at ANY time of year.
Yea, he needs to get on our level and switch to the Cali Dress Code.
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Exactly, Carmen is all about teh sex, so this stuff is Carmen-appropriate.
Exactly, Carmen is all about teh sex, so this stuff is Carmen-appropriate.
I better see some man-cleavage from Scott Moir! That's all I'm saying.
I must be blind 'cause I didn't really see anything explicitly sexual. I guess I have to watch it again.
for me, now we have something to think about when we hear of Carmen, groping
Are the practices still streaming live on Skatebuzz? It doesn't seem to work for me.
To me, many of these comments make little sense. Yes, Carmen includes sex but I wouldn't want to see it. It's like saying that if the Shibutanis are skating to Memoirs of a Geisha, they should be playing out a scene between a geisha and her customer. I'm sorry but I don't like Virtue putting her hand on his butt, nor her crotch in his face. I've seen the opera Carmen and the ballet Carmen and neither were overly sexual. The themes were there but Elena Obraztsova never smacked Placido Domingo's butt and neither did Svetlana Zakharova.
P.S. They are obviously more delicious than Placido or Elena but never more than Svetlana Zakharova. She's a goddess and yet I don't see crotch-grabbing from her.


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The Anglo-Saxon Church - Printable Version
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The Anglo-Saxon Church - John Mark - 10-10-2007
I would be interested to find out if within the native Church of the British Isles prior to the middle ages there were significant changes in the way of worship and Christian life following after some major events in global Church history:
Council of Chalcedon - when did the effects of this council begin to be felt in Britain if at all and was there a change in "Orthodoxy"?
Arrival of St Augustine of Canterbury in 597AD - was Britain significantly less Orthodox after this point?
1066 and the Norman invasion - How long did Orthodoxy last before being replaced by Catholicism?
On a separate issue is there a list of British saints before 451AD?
In Christ,
The Anglo-Saxon Church - John Charmley - 10-10-2007
Dear John Mark,
You ask:
Quote:Council of Chalcedon - when did the effects of this council begin to be felt in Britain if at all and was there a change in "Orthodoxy"?
I'm unsure whether this conceptualisation will help you, since to see 'Catholicism' and 'Orthodoxy' as somehow separate at this period is to read back into the contemporary record distinctions that would have made little sense to contemporaries.
Bede makes pretty clear the differences made by St. Augustine's arrival, and there is a kind if romanticism (to which I, myself, am terribly prone) which sees the 'Celtic' Christians of the old Roman dispensation as somehow more 'authentic' and 'Orthodox' than the new Roman dispensation which came with St. Augustine; of course, both were Roman dispensations, and the second one is part of the answer to your questions: Augustine brought the English Church 'up to date' with the doctrinal and Christological developments which had taken place since 410 A.D.. To see this as somehow more 'Catholic' may be to miss some essential points - tempting though it is.
England was always pretty close to Rome, and to see the Conquest as replacing Orthodoxy with Catholicism is again, I suspect, to fall for what might be called a myth that is 'wrong but romantic' in preference to the 'right but repulsive' reality, which is that Harold II was as loyal a Christian as William the [censored], but the latter managed to convince Rome that he had a better claim to the throne than Harold (he certainly had no worse a claim). The posthumous attempt to see Harold as a champion of Orthodoxy, based on the fact that one of his daughters married a Grand Duke of Kiev, is a pretty piece of myth-making, to which, again, I am rather attracted, but most serious historians would not subscribe to it. The English Church was already using the filioque clause in the creed in Bede's time - did that make Bede a Catholic?
Bede would have been shocked at the question. His history is a triumphant account of how Catholic Orthodoxy came to dominate these islands - he would have been baffled at the distinction we would seek to draw between those two words; and perhaps he would not have been wrong?
I don't know of a comprehensive list of pre Chalcedon British saints, and like you, would be interested to hear of one.
In Christ,
- John Mark - 11-10-2007
Dear John,
I suppose what I am really struggling to get my (Catholic) head around is the notion of a much more fluid concept of terms to describe Christians in Britain.
My question with regards to pre-Chalcedonian saints does link in somewhat as well given that there are a huge number of saints in the Calendar in the Fellowship Book who are at least to my investigation thus far not Orthodox in the sense that we might understand it today e.g. St Alphege of Canterbury or St Augustine.
I think I need to reappraise my way of looking at this topic and realise that Orthodoxy has always existed but is called by many different names?
For example is it possible that the liturgy in use in so called "Catholic" Britain post-1066 could in fact be very much more Orthodox than I give it credit for?
With regards to Harold and William I found this rather interesting web site about the flag in use in Saxon England. http://www.whitedragonflagofengland.com The history section of the site includes this quote from William:
Quote:The Death Bed Confessions of William the [censored] of Normandy as recorded by Orderic Vitalis:
And as much as I don't like to get into 'what if?' history the concept of still being ruled by a Saxon monarch is quite intriguing to contemplate!
Thank you for your reply,
In Christ,
Anglo-Saxon Church - John Charmley - 11-10-2007
Dear John Mark,
Quote:I suppose what I am really struggling to get my (Catholic) head around is the notion of a much more fluid concept of terms to describe Christians in Britain.
Indeed; but this points up one of the problems with applying our contemporary usages to the past. When Bede writes about the triumph of the Catholic Church he is quite clearly referring to Chalcedonian Orthodoxy - which is both Catholic and Orthodox; that is it is believed everywhere by everyone and is right belief. Now, naturally, the non-Chalcedonians might have something to say here by way of qualification on the first part of that sentence - although it might not be quite what some folk think, in so far as we might want to say that since our Christology was always Cyrilline, we do not dissent from Orthodoxy at all - we were simply pilloried and persecuted for our refusal to agree to a definition which itself ended up needing to be qualified (but that's one for another thread!).
Be that as it may, the words Orthodox and Catholic apply to the whole Church; only later do these become terms of use which implicitly define one's own Church as THE Church. They may be appropriated in a polemical way to trace one's own favoured lineage back to Apostolic times, and those who do this may deny they are doing so; but this convinces only those in their own Church and is ultimately a self-referential act which, whether it means to or not, excludes the claims of others. It is what human beings have always done with the Christian Faith, but at least until 451 and its aftermath, without dividing the Church; after that, according to taste, either one part of the division remained THE Church and the other fell into heresy, or there was an actual division in which, in a way we are unwilling to explore, the Church was broken but not divided.
It is not only entirely probable that the liturgy in use in post 1066 England was more 'Orthodox' than you may have supposed, it is also the case that the liturgy (the same one remember) used pre-1066 was more 'Catholic' than the Romantic story may have it. Although we use 1054 as a dividing point, Sir Stephen Runciman's The Great Schism has the usual great common sense of a great historian, and shows how the process was lengthy, incremental, and neither new in 1054 nor complete in 1055.
To see Harold II as Orthodox and William I as Catholic is to import into the past distinctions which they would not have understood and which distort what is being described.
Harold was a cosmopolitan figure, able to deal with the Normans, Danes and anyone else he was required to be in contact with; Edward the Confessor's court was full of Normans, many of whom came over with him when he returned from exile. To see the Anglo-Saxons as somehow apart from the Continent is to subscribe to a myth of English exceptionalism which played well to a Victorian English audience, but which most historians would now want to modify, if not abandon.
What is certainly true, and you pick it up well with the Orderic quotation, is the violence and rapacity of William's conquest; it was ruthless, and the most extreme example I can think of from that period of the extirpation and expropriation of one ruling elite by another; however, since the ancestors of the Saxons had done something not dissimilar to the Britons, one may wish to qualify one's sympathy!
A Saxon Godwinsson dynasty would certainly have avoided the experience of being a Norman colony, as it would the experience of being part of a trans-Channel 'empire' where English resources were used to fuel the ambitions of Norman and Angevin war-lords. That, in turn, would probably have led to a less harshly defined class system here; it might also have led to a situation where Scotland, Wales and Ireland were not subjected to the ravages of the Normans.
This, of course, reveals my sympathies, I fear, since it might equally have led to England being rent by a long series of raids which a less competent king than Harold would have struggled to deal with - in fact a return to the days of Ethelred the Unready. But since my bias towards Harold is so clear, I discount that one!
(I ought, in a spirit of full disclosure, to reveal that I have never backed a winning cause: one of my colleagues once enumerated my preferences thus: 'What you'd really like would be a return to a monarchical form of government, with a powerful Church, no democracy, rule by the aristocracy presiding over a merry peasantry, and the abolition of the motor-car; you are anti every form of progress known to modern liberalism!') I thought this last jibe a trifle unfair, since I am a firm supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and I firmly approve of the penny post!
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|LA Market by Kerry Simon
Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen was a show I followed fairly closely in its earlier seasons. Even though I haven't been keeping track of the show these days, when I was invited to try the new menu at LA Market, whose new Executive Chef is Chef Nona Sivley, winner of Hell's Kitchen Season 8, I was definitely intrigued. Along with Cathy, one of my favorite dining partners, we ventured to the spacious LA Market, located inside the JW Marriot in Downtown Los Angeles.
|The Ox
A meal is always better with a nice cocktail. I ordered "The Ox," which is a mix of grapefruit juice and vodka. Nice and refreshing!
|Bread Basket
The bread basket was the usual fare, though the breadsticks were quite delicious.
|Seared Shishito Peppers - sea salt, chili, lime
This was something I'm pretty familiar with. It's tasty, and fairly mild. Personally, you can't go wrong with a plate of shishito peppers, though I've seen this offered quite often in menus around Los Angeles.
|Tuna Dynamite
Of the two appetizers, I liked this one the most. I enjoyed the sweet crab and sushi rice. Although this is considered "Asian Fusion," I can dig this anyday!
|Veal and Ricotta Meatballs - polenta
Who here doesn't like meatballs? The combination of veal and ricotta served onto a bed of creamy polenta, although unspectacular, it was tasty nevertheless. I think I ate at least 3 of those balls.
|Gnocchi in Cream Sauce with Lump Crab and Lemon Zest
A recent addition by Chef Sivley, this was one of my favorites of the night. The pillowy gnocchi meshed quite well with the sweet lump crab meat. The lemon zest added a nice flavor to the dish.
|Handmade Papperdelle with Tomatoes, Artichokes, and Fresh Basil
Another new dish on Chef Sivley's menu was the papperdelle pasta. It was light and quite delicious. I think I had to battle Cathy for seconds and thirds with this one. A definite winner for the evening.
|"The Meatloaf"
Since we were at Chef Simon's restaurant, we figured it was appropriate to order some of his staples. Recommended by the server of his meatloaf, we went with her recommendation. The meatloaf itself was tasty, but it was a bit too dense for my liking. That said, I can see why it's one the staples on the menu. The flavors were definitely quite good and it's hard to turn down the homey goodness of a meatloaf.
|Bricked Organic Chicken
The last savory course was the bricked organic chicken. After reading about it on Diana's post, I knew I had to try it. The chicken arrived juicy and flavorful. The crispy skin was a definite plus. Though, it wasn't the best chicken I've had, it was definitely an entrée worth ordering.
|Junk Food Platter
Onward to dessert. We went with two of Chef Simon's selections on the menu. The first dessert was the one I've seen that was being tweeted and posted, LA Market's Junk Food Platter. I'll have to say I was a bit disappointed with the dessert. Of the selections, I only enjoyed the cotton candy and the snowball. Everything else on the platter was sadly, quite unspectacular.
|Homemade S'mores with Chocolate Sauce and Caramel Ice Cream
Maybe we ordered the dessert, but this one didn't work for me either. It's rare for me to dislike dessert, but this wasn't something I'd want to eat seconds of. The ice cream was a bit melted even before I start snapping pictures, the chocolate sauce was congealed. Frankly, the best S'mores are the ones found at a campfire. This one just wasn't it.
|Chef Nona Sivley (Photo Courtesy of Gastronomyblog)
Although there were a few misses during the course of the meal, I think LA Market has a lot of potential with Chef Sivley at the helm. The favorites of the night were new items that she's added over the course of the past few months and hopefully she'll do more of the same in the future. While Chef Simon's staple items were solid, the infusion of these new dishes was definitely a wise move. I hope to hear more about Chef Sivley and LA Market in the coming months. What am I going to do for the time being? I think I'll be following Hell's Kitchen Season 9.
LA Market by Kerry Simon @ JW Marriott
900 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90015
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Letter details planned development
February 25, 2013
SALEM — The NRP Group outlined details about the planned Salem Pointe apartment development in a recent letter sent to Mayor John Berlin, with the number of units to be built reduced from 120 down t......
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NotSocialist - you forgot the ones on Southeast Blvd.
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You asked for it and you got it.
Anybody not seeing this from the very beginning !!!!!!!
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Hey maybe we could get the record as the city with the most projects with the best looking downtown area. Now there is a goal to strive for. : )
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Good point, nonSocialist! Maybe we can apply for the Guinness Book of Records for a city with the most "projects"!
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If memnory serves me correctly was not this project billed in the begining as a development with "Young Executive" type housing? I guess those "young executive" type housing units are just not going to be occupied by young executives, but rather by welfare type people. Is this the kind of growth that Salem needs? I wondered at the time, where they were going to find that many young executives to fill up those units. I guess we know now how they are going to do that. I wonder what that area will look like in say 5 years? Will they be well kept units or will we need to have a police officer assigned sepcifically to that area? I am thinking the latter.
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Just remember the council members who support this when election time comes.
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A few years ago, Walmart or another big store wanted to go into this area. Too bad that certain groups stalled that from happening.Would have been better to have put the proposed "project" where Walmart is and have kept the commercial area on the West side of the "hill".Finishing off Pershing St. was to be for business. Here we go again!Stay tuned!
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Gimme, Youre so right. Welcome to Northeast Liverpool. 90 apartments for dirty mothers and their dealer, no job baby daddy's.......
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Well, it appears that the housing development that was supposed to NOT be all low income housing will become the "Salem Projects". Council should not change the Commercial zoned property to include even MORE of the same. Leave it for commercial development or let it remain empty.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Where one sits in a car or on the bus has long been an issue. Some people want to sit in the front seat, some people want the back seat and some middle school kids have claimed stake to certain seats on their school bus. In fact, according to a police report, one girl got extremely mad at another student for "sitting in her seat." Now there are no assigned seats on this but, and at the end of the day, who cares where you sit? But the girls got into an argument because one wouldn't move.
Then on the way home from school, the seating arrangement repeated itself. But this time, the girl who staked claim to the special seat originally, jumped over the girl in question and tried to shove her out of the seat entirely. This led to a shoving match. Both girls then had to go to see the principal and were punished for poor behavior.
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An 86-year-old La Pine-area man was sentenced to life in prison and at least 25 years before parole Wednesday for fatally shooting his 83-year-old wife.
Deschutes County Circuit Judge Michael Adler imposed the sentence upon Lawrence Loeffler, less than a day after a jury deliberated for about an hour, then returned a guilty verdict on the murder charge in the January killing of his wife, Betty Jane Loeffler.
Loeffler admitted shooting his wife of 39 years twice but claimed to police she and her daughter were conspiring to kill him.
Adler told Loeffler he did not believe his wife was ever going to kill him -- and even if she was, his actions were not justified.
The judge also told Loeffler he'd never seen a case like this.
"You executed your wife," Adler told Loeffler.
Loeffler used a wheelchair and oxygen concentrator during the week-long trial, during which his defense lawyers offered no witnesses or evidence. He would not be able to seek parole until he was 111.
At Wednesday's sentencing hearing, the victim's daughter and granddaughter addressed the courtroom, sharing memories of their mother and grandmother and playing a voice mail left by Betty.
NewsChannel 21's Brittany Weiner talked with the victim's daughter and granddaughter after the sentencing. Hear from them tonight on NewsChannel 21 at 5 & 6.
The eight-woman, four-man jury heard closing statements Tuesday, then reached its unanimous verdict in just an hour.
"We're relieved. We're happy that justice was done," said Deputy District Attorney Matthew Nelson. "Ms. Loeffler was brutally taken from this world. She didn't deserve what happened to her, and again we're just happy that the victim's family has some closure and we can all move on."
District Attorney Patrick Flaherty said, "We are very grateful for the service of the 12 jurors (who) ended up deliberating on the case, and returning the verdict, and two alternates that sat through some really difficult evidence. And I'm extremely proud of the great work that my staff did to accomplish justice in this case."
Both sides' final remarks to the jury focused on Loeffler's mental state before the shooting.
Prosecutors again used photos to make their case, saying the jury needed to remember the victim was a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. They also noted that witnesses testified Loeffler had mental clarity at the time of the shooting -- and has no mental illness.
But defense lawyers disagreed, arguing that Loeffler acted out of extreme emotional disturbance, which they said means even the defendant doesn't know what happened that fateful day.
"He believed in his disturbed mind that if he didn't kill her, she would kill him," said defense attorney Matthew Matrisiciano.
During the trial, Matrisiciano said Loeffler was overreacting to simple problems such his wife screwing the lid on the ketchup bottle too tight and then believing she was plotting to kill him.
But Deputy DA Matthew Nelson told the jury: "That's what Lawrence Loeffler is. He is a murderer -- a murderer. And he murdered his wife of 39 years, in cold blood."
The jury had to decide unanimously to find Loeffler guilty of murder. If they decided on the lesser charge of manslaughter, only 10 of the 12 would have needed to vote for conviction.
Last Friday's third day of testimony began with doctors speaking to his mental health and later turned to friends and family who spoke about the victim.
The family and friends who took the stand described her as a loyal wife who did everything for her ailing husband -- and said he wanted to control everything she said.
Loeffler's daughter told the jury of a phone call shortly before the January shooting in which she recalled him saying he "could not live with her any more -- that no one could live with her."
That prompted a brief outburst from Loeffler, who called her a "pathalogical liar."
Thursday's testimony featured a recorded police interview with Loeffler, who said she would have killed him if he didn't kill her first.
The jury also heard from an Oregon State Police forensics expert about the two shots from a .25-caliber Beretta handgun that killed his wife.
The case's lead detective, sheriff's Det. Scott Beard, took the stand and spoke about Loeffler's behavior, after which jurors of audio and video interviews.
They listened as Loeffler described waking up at 2 a.m., getting dressed and knowing that if he didn't kill his wife first, she would kill him.
"The door was open," he was heard saying.
"Then what?" he was asked.
"I had the gun in my hand – it was me or her."
"Did she see the gun?" the interviewer asked.
"She saw the gun," Loeffler answered.
"What did she think about it?" he was asked.
"She didn't get much of a chance, so I shot her in the back of the neck – that's when I pushed her outside. She fell down, and I heard her moan, and put it on the top of her head, and I killed her before she could kill me."
Lawrence Loeffler called 911 on Jan. 28 to say he'd shot his wife in the head at their home on Old Mill Road near La Pine. Breaking down many times throughout the call, he said he couldn't remember a lot of things that just happened.
As a result, opening arguments focused on Loeffler's mental state leading up to the shooting.
Deputy District Attorney Mary Anderson said in her opening statement that Loeffler said his stepdaughter didn't wish him a happy birthday, and he was convinced his wife and stepdaughter were going to kill him. Anderson said that's why he killed first.
Anderson also brought up the changing statements he made to police. She said Loeffler kept giving a "laundry list" of reasons to why he killed her.
As Loeffler sat at the defense table with a blank expression, using an oxygen tank to breathe, his lawyers said Loeffler is very confused and did not consciously commit murder.
Defense attorney Jacques DeKalb said shortly before the killing, Loeffler became fixated with death, after having his gallbladder removed and being placed on hospice care.


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Donald K. Chilcote, 86, Hollidaysburg, formerly of Garden Heights, Altoona, died at noon Thursday at his residence.
He was born in Altoona, son of the late Joseph Emory and Mapha (Coy) Chilcote. He married Marian J. Weber on Aug. 28, 1947, at Hicks Memorial United Methodist Church, Duncansville.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters: Donna C. Quatrara and husband, Jacob, of Altoona, Diane L. Chilcote of Hollidaysburg and Debra A. Tongel and husband, Rick, of Pittsburgh; seven grandchildren: James D. Vaughn and wife, Donna, Cristine Huffine and husband, Jonathan, R. Michael Gaus and wife, Susan, Kimberly Gaus, Kelly Kelly, Breanna Tongel and Ricky Tongel; two great-granddaughters; and a sister, Jane Showalter of Pittsburgh.
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He was preceded in death by a brother, Lynn.
Donald was a graduate of Altoona High School. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of WWII, serving as an electrician's mate second class. He retired as a manager from Bridgestone/Firestone Auto Center in Washington, Pa., previously the J.C. Penney Auto Center.
Donald was a member of Puzzletown Road Bible Church and was a member of the former Garden Heights United Methodist Church. He also belonged to the Lakemont Lions Club for more than 50 years. He enjoyed gardening and baseball, especially the Pittsburgh Pirates and Atlanta Braves.
Friends will be received from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at Gilden Barton Funeral Home, 1401 Ninth Ave., Altoona, where a service will be held at 5:30 p.m. by the Lakemont Lions Club. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, at the funeral home by Pastors Lynn F. Johnston and Jon Gross. Interment with military honors will be held at Alto-Reste Park Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Lakemont Lions Club in Don's memory.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Actor Lou Myers, best known for his role as ornery restaurant owner Mr. Gaines on the television series "A Different World," has died.
Tonia McDonald of Myers' nonprofit, Global Business Incubation Inc., said Myers died Tuesday night in Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. She said he was 77. McDonald said Wednesday that Myers had been in and out of the hospital since before Christmas and collapsed recently. An autopsy was planned.
A native of Chesapeake, W.Va., Myers had returned to the state and lived in the Charleston area.
His TV credits included "NYPD Blue," "E.R.," "The Cosby Show," and "Touched by an Angel."
He also appeared in a number of films, including "Tin Cup," "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," and "Wedding Planner."
"A Different World" ran from 1987 to 1993 and originally starred Lisa Bonet from "Cosby" fame. Myers said he owed his introduction to Hollywood to Bill Cosby.
Myers also appeared on Broadway including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" African American Style and "Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple."
In 2005, the Appalachian Education Initiative listed Myers as one of 50 "Outstanding Creative Artists" from the state of West Virginia and featured him in their coffee table book "Art & Soul."
He began singing jazz and blues with the touring company of "Negro Music in Vogue," according to a biography provided by McDonald.
His Cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, as well as Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel.


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Kennesaw State University Professor Teaches Chemistry in Puerto Vallarta
Published Mar 21, 2012, 1:03pm
This winter, Professor Laurence Peterson has been teaching high school chemistry at the American School in Puerto Vallarta (ASPV) while on a leave of absence from his full-time teaching at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta, GA). Under the auspices of the Science Coaches program sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS), Peterson has been teaching one day each week along side ASPV's chemistry teacher, Adam Kilner.
Peterson has brought into the classroom some of his practical experience in the chemical industry to enable the 24 junior level students taking chemistry to understand how chemistry impacts their everyday life.
The students at ASPV have learned about the use of bromine compounds to fire-retard plastics, the production of fuel-grade ethanol from corn, the availability of "green" polyesters to make plastic beverage bottles based upon poly lactic acid that readily biodegrade in the environment as well as the adverse implications from the human consumption of ethanol-containing beverages. The latter subject was taught using an online, freely-available case study from Chemcases.com developed by funding from the National Science Foundation and designed to teach both the chemistry of alcohols as well as their physiological effects.
The Science Coaches program sponsored by the ACS is designed to bring experienced teachers from academia and industry into the high school classroom to help make chemistry more interesting and relevant as well as attract more students into STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers. The ACS provides grants for equipment and supplies to participating schools while teachers like Peterson donate their time to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in science education that are worldwide concerns.
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text: "More seriously though, the 'free market' is as much a government invention as a corporation is since he's not a random farmer offering me a bin of apples for my bin of cabbage. Not to mention the corporation is the end result of the fact the market *wanted *corporations as they have distinct economic benefits. If corporations were bad, people wouldn't be buying shares in them. Free market at work But really, how does he expect global economics to function in 2013 without the entity we call corporations." Not mine On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Chad Smith <chad78 at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't believe in "Intellectual property" - so steal all the ideas you > want. > > And vomit back all the Reddit pro-Telsa arguments you want - Thomas Edison > **DID** foster invention. There were a lot of things invented in Menlow > Park, regardless of who did the inventing. Innovation occurred. Just like > they did in Bell Labs. Trying to use Edison as an example of stiffling > innovation? Are you mad? He is LITERALLY the poster boy for invention. > When someone has an idea, it's not a pointless Tesla Coil above their > heads, it's a damn Edison Brand Incandescent Light Bulb ™®©. > > Seriously, the internet has really fried some people's brains. > > *- Chad W. Smith* > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Chad Smith <chad78 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> You are mission the point. A corporation is an invention of the >> government, not of the free market. Yes, in a free market people can work >> together. But in a truly free market, they couldn't hide behind some "I >> didn't do that, the corporation did that!" bs. A human being built the car >> that had glue under the gas pedal. A human being designed it that way. A >> human being safety inspected it (alledgely) and a human being sold it. >> Those human beings should be held responsible for the results of their >> actions. Not hide behind some fictional "Entity" called a corporation. >> >> The BP oil spill? That was a human who did that. A human being is >> resposible for that - NOT a "Corporation". Corporations are a fiction that >> we all (or most of us) just willingly accept as truth. >> >> If there was a Free Market - along with Personal Responsibility (the >> other side of the "Yes, Mr. Obama, I really DID 'build that'." coin) - then >> you wouldn't need government interference. Standard laws that apply to any >> human being (don't kill, don't steal, don't harm, etc.) would still be >> around and enforcable. In fact, they'd be far more enforcable than they >> are today, because - as the law currently recognizes it - so much harm is >> done by "Corporations" who cannot be jailed, or killed, or punished in any >> way other than fines. >> >> *- Chad W. Smith* >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Well you are right about one thing at least: Money's intrensic value is >>> not a physical item, its set by consumer and producer demand. >>> >>> Which is ironically why Bitcoin will never be a MAJOR currency or a >>> replacement for the Dollar. >>> >>> I never said it couldn't be a currency, see my previous reference to >>> trading sea shells for cash and giving them a value, technically that makes >>> them a currency, but the value of my sea shell currency is still hard set >>> on how many USD I can get for the value of my sea shell, which might >>> fluctuate depending on how many sea shells I have. >>> >>> Its therefore a currency. Not a good one, but a currency. >>> >>> Chad: >>> >>> They WERE a corporation. Competing in a market. By driving every other >>> competitor out of the market via either hostile buyouts or threats. >>> >>> In a free market, as you suggest, who is to tell these guys that they >>> cannot do such thing? How do we keep a large, extremely profitable business >>> from simply destroying all other businesses that compete with them? We >>> can't regulate them, that would defeat the whole point of a free market. >>> >>> Innovation? They could just steal an innovative idea. See Thomas Edison >>> for a good example of a man who basically bought peoples ideas, paid them >>> nearly nothing for them, claimed them as his own, and then drove them out >>> of the market. >>> >>> There is no such thing as a free market, its like saying having a game >>> of chess, but everything is fair game. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Tyler Mittan < >>> flashbatmanquestion at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> There has a lot been said since I last checked so I haven't been >>>> keeping up, but I do think that this nonsense about REAL, PHYSICAL things >>>> is nonsense. Money is not all real, physical things.. Not unless you think >>>> a credit card swipe is somehow valuable. All credit is a transfer of, not >>>> funds, but credit it. It's really just a mark in a ledger. It is only when >>>> the bank goes to the other bank that it is fulfilled. It's virtually a >>>> credit. >>>> >>>> It strikes me as odd for someone who is so anti-gold standard to make >>>> claims like this which are so pro-gold standard it hurts. >>>> >>>> Second, value is subjective (you can think Menger and the Austrians who >>>> found this concept in which all modern day economics is built on except >>>> socialists). NOTHING IS INTRINSICALLY VALUABLE. It seems like this is >>>> something we all agree on. Given that money is not necessarily a physical >>>> thing, and that value is subjective, we can see how bitcoin could be >>>> considered money if valued by enough people. >>>> >>>> Now that we've established that, we should look at why bitcoin is not >>>> widely accepted which I mentioned before: >>>> 1. People don't know about it. Economists and computer geeks, but if >>>> you were to ask the average, say, psychology student whom has not interest >>>> in politics whatsoever (and there are plenty) or virtually anyone else, >>>> they most likely wouldn't know about it.. this begs the question: even if >>>> they did know about it, would they want it? >>>> 2. They might. The underlying point of me posting this was to show that >>>> competing currencies could be a thing. They could be a thing that work very >>>> well (as they have historically.. look up Richard Timberlake, Lawrence >>>> White, and George Selgin). We can't say for sure if bitcoins would be a >>>> very valuable thing, but we do know that it's getting very popular.. this >>>> begs the question, if it's so popular, why aren't businesses buying it? >>>> 3. This can be answered mostly by the fact that the legality of it is >>>> iffy at best. It can also be answered that people trust the backing of a >>>> government (whom obviously have a pretty poor track record, but people >>>> don't know better). >>>> >>>> So, there's no reason to think that bitcoins can't be money. I am not >>>> saying they are widely accepted. I am not saying if they were legal that >>>> they even would be widely accepted. I am saying that competing currencies >>>> can, and should, be a thing to keep the dollar honest. >>>> On Aug 22, 2013 5:05 PM, "Stephen Kraus" <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> John...that is called the exchange rate. It really doesn't make >>>>> bitcoins any more legitimate as a REPLACEMENT for the USD or as even a >>>>> strong competitor. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:53 PM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich at yahoo.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Quoting Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>: >>>>>> >>>>>> Its funny that, Aaron a good comparison. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Because if I sell something on Ebay, I set a price in USD. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And if paypal doesn't give my bank my USD, I get cross >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes, that's true, Stephen... but if someone in, say, Germany, wants >>>>>> to buy what you're selling, they will pay you via PayPal in DeutschMarks, >>>>>> which Paypal will CONVERT to $USD. Or if you want to buy something for your >>>>>> VW from someone in Germa ny, they are likely selling in DM, and you will >>>>>> pay in $USD, but THEY will receive DM from PayPal. 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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so pink will be a prime color on local athletic fields as teams work to raise awareness and funds to fight the disease.
But on the volleyball court in Everett, the annual pink game has taken on added significance this year, as the special night will be another opportunity to honor a very special teacher, Linda Dodson.
"Lindy" passed away in August at the age of 51, following a hard-fought battle against breast cancer, just days before she was to begin her 30th year of teaching math at Everett Area High School.
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Members of the Everett volleyball team raise an "L" to honor their late teacher.
Appropriately, the Lady Warriors, coached by Susan Connor, has dedicated their season to Dodson, who was perhaps herself the truest of "Lady Warriors." Her courageous effort to defeat cancer inspires her students, athletes, faculty and friends in the classroom and now on the court.
"Enthusiasm," said Coach Connor, "that's the one word I'd use to describe Lindy. She was always smiling."
Connor remembers Lindy's interest in her students going far beyond their knowledge of numbers. She would attend sporting events and other school functions, showing concern for the teenagers as individuals outside of the classroom.
"Whether she was feeling good or not, she loved teaching," Connor said, "she loved the kids, loved life."
It is that spirit that encourages the Lady Warriors to "Live Life Like Lindy." The eight varsity players routinely raise their huddled hands making "L" signs in her memory; the phrase will also be featured on the official t-shirts associated with their pink game. The Everett volleyball team is off to an impressive 10-1 start, their fighting spirit a tribute to the memory of their teacher.
"We try to stay upbeat and focused," Connor said. "When things get bad, we are reminded that it's never really that bad. I can hear Lindy in my mind saying 'suck it up.' She fought through to the end."
And so the Lady Warriors continue their own fight through their regular season schedule with an eye on a conference crown and district playoffs. But on Oct. 17, they'll dress in pink and share their inner inspiration with the community, donating the proceeds from shirt sales, concessions and raffles to local cancer patients and the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. The pink night volleyball game has raised around $1,000 in each the last few years, and donations are expected to increase in 2013. The team then plans to join in the Bedford Making Strides Walk on Oct. 19.
Living "Like Lindy," the volleyball team takes a never-give-up attitude into each competition, and now also into their fundraising efforts, reminded every day of how truly precious life is.
"Lindy always felt blessed," said Connor, "and we were blessed to have her."
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Round Hills Elementary School soon will close its doors, but the memories are sure to remain alive for many of its former students, teachers and administrators.
Kristie Barner-Miller and Cheryl Oldt-Riley, both of Williamsport, met at the school as kindergarten students and became best friends.
"It's sad to see it close," Riley said.
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Anna Radspinner, center, and her daughters, Megan, a first-grader, left, and Libby, 4, look through old photos in the library during an open house Saturday at Round Hill Elementary School. The building will close at the end of this school year. View additional photos at cu.sungazette.com.
As the two women walked the school's halls during Saturday's special open house, they had a wonderful time recalling their times at Round Hills.
"I remember clapping erasers," Miller said. "It was a good day when you got picked to do that."
They noted the many physical changes at the school since they attended in the 1980s.
"This was the library," said Miller, pointing to a tiny room.
Students who went to the library,were required clip clothespins to their pants.
"There was no carpeting," added Oldt as they continued down a hallway.
Riley recalled learning multiplication tables and learning about the states by forming their physical shapes out of dough.
Miller said she was not the first of her family to attend Round Hills.
Her mother, she said, was in the school's initial first grade class in 1960, and her kids now attend Round Hills.
Steve Rolley recalled teaching at the school starting in 1968.
"It's very sentimental," he said, while standing in the school library. "I just hate to see it closed."
He noted how the school became bigger over the years.
When he began teaching, many of the students were "country kids." But over the years, as the residential area around the school developed, more suburban kids attended Round Hills.
"All nice kids," he added.
Joyce Morgan taught kindergarten at the school for about a half dozen years beginning in the early 1960s.
"We didn't have any of this," she said, marveling at how much larger the school has become since her teaching days.
Morgan said she enjoyed her time at Round Hills because the school was small.
"The parents were extremely supportive," she recalled.
In those days, most mothers didn't work and were free to attend school functions and go on field trips.
"I started the kindergarten class here," she said. "We only had one class of each grade level."
Most of the students, she said, were bused.
She said the principal in those days was David Penman.
"It's a wonderful school," she said. "I'm sorry to see it go."
Some of the students are sad to see it close as well.
"I don't think it should close because most of my family members went here, and I think it's a really nice school," said Kharlee Farrington, a fifth-grade student.
Fifth-grade student Jessica Harvey agreed.
"I don't think it should close," she said.
Round Hills Elementary Principal Cindy Schuyler said the open house was a kind of bittersweet day for everyone.
"But I'm glad people get to come back and see things," she said.
The halls of the school were decorated with art of students. There were old photos displayed in the library for visitors to look at as well as just a lot of old landmarks all around the school that brought back memories for people.
Schuyler said with its location in a residential area, Round Hills is a very community-oriented school.
She thought it was great that so many people attended the open house.
"I am pleasantly surprised at the number of people," she said. "But it speaks to what the people think of Round Hills and what it means to them."


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Silly game of skill for family game night fun:
A funny game of skill that is sure to provide plenty of silly family pictures to post on Facebook! Players wear plastic elephant masks and scoop up rings using only the trunk. The trick is picking up all three rings without losing any. For two-four players. Ages 4 yeas and up.
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Ibizan hounds play together at the Westminster Kennel Club 137th Annual Dog Show at Piers 92/94 in New York, Feb. 11, 2013. The show was held at both Madison Square Garden and Piers 92/94.
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on February 4, 2013 - 1:00 AM
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Cuomo's proposal for fewer tax sweeteners runs risk of hampering downtown renewal.
By David Robinson
News Business Reporter
A proposal tucked in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's budget proposal would almost cut in half the value of sales tax incentives that industrial development agencies could dole out to often-controversial retail projects, from doughnut shops to car dealerships and restaurants.
But the change also could reduce the incentives available for other, less controversial projects to renovate vacant buildings, especially in struggling areas such as downtown Buffalo.
"For all of the talk about small-business development and downtown redevelopment and smart growth, this proposal flies in the face of that rhetoric," said James J. Allen, executive director of the Amherst Industrial Development Agency, which has been one of the Buffalo Niagara region's most aggressive supporters of tax incentives for retail and redevelopment projects. "Hopefully, we can get this removed from the budget."
The governor's budget proposal would significantly reduce the value of the incentives available to retail and redevelopment projects, along with a wide range of other developments, by limiting the ability of IDAs to provide tax incentives that include the state's 4 percent share of the sales tax. IDAs still could grant incentives involving the local portion of the sales tax, which in Erie County is 4.75 percent.
The proposal also would limit the ability of IDAs across New York to provide exemptions from the state's portion of the sales tax to projects in seven "key" business categories, and prevent the agencies from extending that incentive to retailers or "adaptive reuse" projects that would bring new uses to buildings that have been vacant for several years. Those tax breaks have been a source of controversy in Buffalo Niagara, as projects such as car dealerships, wine stores and doughnut shops have been granted tax incentives.
The financial impact of the change would vary widely, depending on the scope and nature of the project.
For instance, Paula's Doughnuts' controversial project to open a store in Clarence received $8,000 in sales tax breaks from the Clarence IDA. Had the Cuomo proposal been in effect, the value of those incentives would have reduced to about $4,350. Because it was a retail project, the Clarence IDA did not grant Paula's Doughnuts any property tax breaks, which typically are much more lucrative than the sales and mortgage tax incentives that retail developments often receive.
At the same time, developer Rocco R. Termini's $34 million renovation of the Hotel Lafayette that resulted in the Hotel @ the Lafayette received $2 million in sales tax incentives, playing a key role in shaping the project's economic viability. "That can make or break a project," Termini said.
Supporters said the proposal would greatly reduce the value of the incentives available to projects that often bring little new wealth to the region, while opponents said Cuomo's plan would stifle economic-development efforts, especially in distressed or dilapidated areas.
"It's a huge change," said Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan, D-Buffalo, who has been unsuccessfully been pushing his own legislation in Albany that would allow suburban IDAs to grant tax breaks that involve only revenues from their own communities. "It certainly reduces the amount of money they can give away."
Allen said the Cuomo proposal would gut an important economic-development mechanism that has helped towns such as Amherst support projects that have breathed new life into long-vacant buildings and spurred new development in targeted neighborhoods. By placing the proposal within the budget as a way to raise revenue – an estimated $7 million during the upcoming fiscal year and $13 million annually after that – Ryan and others said Cuomo is framing the debate as a money issue that is part of budget negotiations. They said that could increase the initiative's chances of gaining approval.
"What troubles me is this is a backdoor way of getting at it, approaching it as a budgetary matter as opposed to a policy matter," said Andrew J. Rudnick, president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership and an Erie County IDA board member.
The proposal would still allow IDAs to provide exemptions for the local portion of the sales tax, which in Erie County is 4.75 percent.
But Cuomo's proposal would impose several new restrictions on the types of projects that IDAs can provide with sales tax incentives, and change it from being a tax break that companies receive upfront to one that they would be refunded only after certifying that they met investment and job guidelines.
Rudnick said the proposal could make it harder for all projects to receive financing because the rebate provision would mean that a developer's upfront costs would not be reduced. That could make tight cash-flow projections on borderline projects less viable in the eyes of bankers.
To be eligible for state sales tax incentives, a project must fall within one of seven "key sectors," ranging from scientific research and development and software development to agriculture, back office operations and distribution centers. Projects involving financial services data centers and manufacturing also would be eligible, provided they also qualify for tax credits through the state's Excelsior program. Those Excelsior guidelines impose job-creation standards that range from 10 new jobs for scientific research and software projects to 150 net new jobs for back office and distribution center projects.
The New York State Economic Development Council, which represents IDAs, said the Cuomo proposal would hit distressed areas such as Buffalo especially hard by limiting the incentives available for community redevelopment projects, which often are not economically feasible without a robust incentive package.
Brian T. McMahon, the council's executive director, would not venture a guess as to whether the proposal would pass. "The fact that it is in budget is a concern to us," he said.
McMahon said limitations on incentives for adaptive reuse would hurt cities such as Buffalo that have made concerted efforts to revitalize downtown properties. And the restrictions could hinder economic development overall, he said.
"As a result, some of the projects won't get done," McMahon said. "Some of the projects will be smaller than they would have been."
The Cuomo administration, in its budget message, said IDAs need reform because they "are allowed to use state resources for economic development purposes without consulting the state." The governor's proposal would require IDA projects receiving state sales tax incentives be approved by the local Regional Economic Development Council such as Western New York's.
That stipulation, Allen said, "adds a layer of bureaucracy and delay that could very negatively impact projects and cause them to look elsewhere for a site."
News Business Reporter Matt Glynn contributed to this report. email: email@example.com


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|We watched the Little Mermaid for the first time together and when it was over
|she put on her mermaid skirt and grabbed her pail
|We watched the Little Mermaid for the first time together and when it was over
|she put on her mermaid skirt and grabbed her pail
|and we walked down to the ocean.
Because we could
because she wants to be a mermaid and a teenager and thinks someday she will be both
and she wishes it was now
so I tell her she can be a mermaid when she closes her eyes,
you can dream you are anything, anyplace
I always will.
Awe, Precious!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous as always. So glad you have the ocean to visit and Ivy has big dreams.ReplyDelete
love love love the imagination both in the the post and what you are living in real life... left imagination flow and living it out! I love it!ReplyDelete
Avi has been obsessed with mermaids too and loves her swimming lessons because of that.
So amazing and beautiful, living vicariously through you from central indiana (and I know you know the central indiana landscape, gah)ReplyDelete
This? This is why I need a baby girl someday.ReplyDelete
I love that she has a mermaid skirt and such a great imagination!ReplyDelete
kids have such beautiful imagination.. and you are such a sweet mother for encouraging her to dream!:)ReplyDelete
Beautifully written.
You'll always be one of my favorite bloggers. Just so you know. :)
I hope she always stays that way! My Little Mermaid girl is all grown up now, but that was one of her favorite movies when she was young.ReplyDelete
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on October 26, 2012 - 7:40 PM
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Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul continues to dominate the dash for cash in the tightly fought race for Congress in New York's 27th District, pulling in an additional $347,534 in the first 17 days of October – more than twice as much as her Republican opponent, former Erie County Executive Chris Collins.
While Collins continues to benefit from huge amounts of spending from outside political groups, reports filed late this week with the Federal Election Commission show Hochul, D-Hamburg, has the financial edge in several ways.
She's raised $2.86 million overall, far more than twice the amount reported by Collins, whose $650,000 personal loan to his campaign amounted to 56 percent of his campaign funds.
And while Hochul had $651,251 to fund the last three weeks of her campaign, Collins had only $179,329.
The Hochul-Collins figures highlighted the pre-election reports filed by local congressional candidates, which also showed challengers with the cash to compete against incumbent Reps. Tom Reed, R-Corning, and Louise M. Slaughter, D-Fairport.
As it has since the start of the 27th District race, the Collins camp downplayed the financial disparity in the contest. "Chris has always had more than enough resources to get his message out," said campaign adviser Christopher M. Grant.
The campaign continued to raise money and buy television advertising time beyond the Oct. 17 campaign finance reporting deadline, Grant said.
Asked if that meant that Collins, a successful businessman before entering politics, would be lending more money to his campaign, Grant said: "We're going to make these decisions on a case-by-case basis."
Grant also indicated that Hochul's superior fundraising was not necessarily something for her to be proud of.
"Kathy Hochul is a career politician who spends significant if not inordinate amounts of time raising money," he said.
Hochul's campaign manager, Frank Thomas, dismissed that charge.
"These numbers are a reflection of Kathy's popularity and [Collins'] lack of it," Thomas said, adding: "No one has ever doubted that she works incredibly hard doing what she loves most, spending as much time as possible meeting voters."
Thomas said the bulk of Hochul's money came from thousands of individual voters. About a quarter of her money came from political action committees, which is far less than the other three incumbent House members from Western New York got from PACs.
Reed raised more than half his $1.99 million from such political action committees, prompting a sharp rebuke from his Democratic opponent, Nate Shinagawa.
"With almost 60 percent of his contributions coming from corporate PACs, compared to over 80 percent of my contributions coming from individuals, who do you think will best represent working families and the middle class in this district?" asked Shinagawa, vice chairman of the Tompkins County Legislature.
In response, Reed campaign spokesman Tim Kolpien said: "We are proud of the deep support we have from individual contributors. We have raised more money from individuals than our opponent has raised from individuals, PACs and Act Blue combined."
Act Blue is a Democratic fundraising group that has helped many Democrats become financially viable, which is just what Shinagawa has become, raising $709,727 for the campaign as of Oct. 17.
Shinagawa also noted that an AFL-CIO poll this week that showed him within five points of Reed.
While the fundraising documents showed Republican Mike Madigan far behind Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, they reveal a competitive race between Slaughter and the Monroe County executive, Republican Maggie Brooks.
Slaughter – who has represented sections of Buffalo for the past decade – had raised $1.97 million for her re-election bid as of Oct. 17, and Brooks raised $1.32 million.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates have agreed to terms on a two-year, $14 million contract with pitcher Francisco Liriano, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on Friday.
The Pirates haven't confirmed the transaction. A source with knowledge of the situation told MLB.com that the deal was close to being final, pending a physical that would likely be taken after Christmas.
Liriano figures to slot in the Pittsburgh rotation behind A.J. Burnett, Wandy Rodriguez and James McDonald.
Liriano, 29, was 6-12 with a 5.34 ERA in 34 games, including 28 starts, for the Twins and White Sox last season. He spent most of his career with Minnesota and had his best year during an All-Star 2006 season when he was 12-3 with a 2.16 ERA.
That season was shortened by a torn elbow ligament and Liriano missed all of 2007. In 2010, Liriano was named the American League's Comeback Player of the Year winner.
On May 3, 2011, vs. the White Sox, he threw a no-hitter during a 1-0 victory. On July 28 of last season, the Twins traded Liriano to the White Sox for two Minor Leaguers. In a 168 career games, Liriano is 53-54 with a 4.40 ERA.
This marks the second significant free agent signing by the Pirates this offseason. Earlier, the team signed catcher Russell Martin to a two-year contract worth $17 million. He only batted .211 for the Yankees, but did hit 21 home runs.


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The ex who pops back into the picture has been a common storyline in recent seasons of The Bachelor. And this season is no exception.
In this exclusive preview of Monday night's episode, Sean Lowe meets more of Desiree Hartsock's loved ones than he bargained for.
"As Des and I are getting dinner ready for her parents, I feel like we're a couple," says Sean. "And I'm excited for her family to get here because I want to meet these people."
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Bee Loveable honey stall because we seem to go through a lot of honey lately. As soon as I heard the woman say to E that the Black Forest Honey had a treacly flavour, I knew he was a gonna. As soon as I saw that there were icy pole sticks to dip in the tasting jar of honey, I was concerned about Sylvia walking away covered from head to toe in honey. Well we took a jar of the Black Forest and Sylvia managed to restrain herself in tasting the honey.
Hildebrand Grove Olive Oil lady was lovely. She smiled at Sylvia who was very partial to her pieces of bread and crackers for dipping in oil and pickles (not together). We tasted quite a few of her olive oils. E quite liked the chilli and blood orange. He was also rather fond of the wild lime and blood orange. It was hard to choose just one.
Flinders Sourdough.
Maybe next time I will return to the walnut stall for cake or the bread stall for a bun. As it was, we weighed up the sweet options before us. It was too cold for the orange juice icy poles so we decided to share a plate of pancakes. We queued while E wandered off in search of a coffee. I gather it was mothers from the school who were cooking the tiny pancakes (similar to poffertjes) and dousing them in either jam ("made with plums from Carla's tree") or lemon juice and sugar ("made with lemons from local trees").
One patron flung his plate of pancakes back onto the table and they went flying. I think he thought they weren't cooked properly though I could be wrong as ours were lovely and fluffy. I wouldn't be surprised to find that he had just discovered that they were having a bad day with mathematics. (Pancakes for $3.50 and lemonade for $1.50 makes $5 not $6.)
Fortunately we paid the correct price and loved our pancakes with lemon and sugar. I was not so keen on the lemonade which was a tad sweet for me but Sylvia loved it. The Autmnal sun shone on us and Sylvia enjoyed playing on the climbing frames. A playground is one of the benefits of the farmers market being held in school grounds.
Goldfields Barbara's blue cheese, coloured carrots, parsnips, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, beetroot, leeks, kale and sorrel. I had enjoyed experimenting with some exciting ingredients over the rest of the weekend. It is great to see that the market had a good crowd. We hope it will be a great success and look forward to returning.
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1st the signing of Franzen over Hossa whoch now looks worse and worse.
Weiss signing over Filppula. Yes there was time where Filppula looked lost but let's face it at half the player he is better then Weiss. Those 25 goals and 33 assists would have looked nice on the roster last year.
He used his last buyout on Tootoo who was to make a little over 1 million this year on the last year of his deal...why?
This season its sitting back and watching other teams pick up players. I know the Red Wings aren't really a destination anymore but I wouldn't have bitched even if the Red Wings took a 1 year flyer on Heatley. Which he ended up signing for 1 million with Anaheim.
Hell they should have just bit the bullet and brought legwand back.
Now there is no promise that even Alfredsson will come back. Also with the talks of trading Tatar for Green I just don't know anymore.
I've tried soo hard to support Holland but I just can't anymore.


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In the 1982 Fiesta Bowl, Penn State held USC Heisman Trophy-winnning tailback Marcus Allen, who had already become the first player n NCAA history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, to 85 yards on 30 carries in a 26-10 victory.
Allen apparently figured if he couldn't beat the Nittany Lions, he'd join them when he gave Penn State a verbal commitment earlier this month.
OK, it's not "that" Marcus Allen. But the junior star from Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., gets stuff like that all the time, and he doesn't mind sharing his name with a player who went on to be elected to the halls of fame for both college and pro football.
"I hear about my name a lot," Allen said. "I know he was a very tough player and a great runner."
The latest incarnation of Marcus Allen is off to a good start to being a big-time player at the next level, too. At 6-foot-2, 190 pounds, he's already almost as big as his namesake was when he was winning Super Bowls with the Raiders, but this Allen is making a name for himself as a big hitter on defense instead of a home run hitter on offense.
"He's a hitter," said Wise coach DeLawn Parrish, a safety at Wake Forest in his playing days. "He's tall, long. He's athletic. He has great agility. He has good hips. He can play a lot of positions. He can play safety, corner. He can come down and play linebacker. He's still growing into his body. He's a student of the game. He's a student of the game. He's always working to get better. Academically, he makes good decisions. He's never been in trouble.
"It's a no-brainer [for a college to offer him a scholarship]."
Parrish doesn't seem to be dealing in hyperbole, either. The colleges seem to agree. Allen chose Penn State from a list of more than 30 Division I scholarship offers after making 69 tackles, breaking up nine passes, picking off two others and forcing two fumbles for a team than went 14-0 and won a state title.
Georgia Tech, Clemson, Maryland, Pitt and Rutgers were the colleges over which Allen eventually picked Penn State.
"Penn State has a rich tradition," Allen, who gave Penn State his pledge on May 10, said. "The 15-scholarship limit caused me to speed up my decision."
It probably didn't hurt either that Allen already has plenty of friends in the Lion program. He's one of the latest products to land in University Park from the Prime Xample DB Academy, where he was coached by Roman Morris, father of former Lion cornerback Stephon Morris, and Troy Vincent Sr., whose son is rumored to be close to joining Penn State's 2014 recruiting class in the coming weeks.
If there wasn't enough of a name game going on already, Allen also counts Lion running back recruit Mark Allen among his friends.
"Richy Anderson and Jordan Smith are current players I spent time with and consider friends, also," Allen said.
Allen already has ties within the state, some of them with a big-time running back who doesn't have the same name.
"Curtis Martin is my godfather. My father is from Pittsburgh, and I have always been a Steeler fan," Allen said.
In fact, one of his favorite players is a pretty famous former Steeler of the past.
"I love hard hitting pros like Donnie Shell and Jack Tatum and Sean Taylor," Allen said.
Allen began playing football when he was 6 but he quit the game for four years after getting hit in the face with the ball. That's when he came back and has been dishing out the hits, instead, ever since.
"This is going to be his third year [starting varsity]. As a freshman, he was a linebacker on our junior varsity. But he was like 5-8. Then, all of a sudden, he came back that summer, and he was 6-1," Parrish said. "He was always confident. He was used to playing so close to the box. That summer, we got him out of that. We had him do nothing but defensive back drills. He got comfortable playing away from the football. His first game on varsity, he had an interception."
Family is a big inspiration to Allen. He's dedicating his senior high school season to Sherrie Allen, the mother of his brother, Shawn, and his sister, Nadia.
"She recently passed away, and she was also like a mother to me. Her passing was hard on my family and will serve as motivation to me to go forward in a strong way," Allen said. "I'm also thankful for my mother, Latonya Allen, and father, Shawn Allen. They mean everything to me, along with my sister Mariah Allen, who attends Towson University."