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For information about volunteer opportunities at Trident Medical Center, call Stephanie Parker, volunteer coordinator for Trident Health, 847-4286.
On July 16, Rogers was volunteering at Trident Medical Center in North Charleston just like he'd done almost every week for more than 20 years when he dropped to the floor from sudden cardiac death. His heart simply stopped beating.
"Things went black," said Rogers, 83, a Goose Creek resident. "I don't remember a thing after that."
Lucky for him, lifesaving help was close by. Trinka Douglas, an acute nurse practitioner, immediately turned around when she heard Rogers fall — "this boom," she called it.
"He had no pulse. He had no rhythm. He was completely asystolic — that means no heart rhythm whatsoever," Douglas said. "I felt for a pulse and there was no pulse, so I started CPR right away."
Doctors worked for hours to stabilize him. They discovered he had not had a heart attack, but had experienced sudden cardiac death, defined by the American Heart Association as an "abrupt loss of heart function" or, as Douglas explained, "a rhythm issue."
A surgeon installed a pacemaker-defibrillator to regulate his heartbeat.
"If it wasn't for the staff at this hospital, he wouldn't be here," said Maggie Rogers, Linn's wife."The odds of us being here when he was volunteering — four hours a week — and him being in the hospital and him being with (Douglas), the odds — it's the Lord's work. That's the only way you can look at it."
Since 1991, when Linn Rogers checked into Trident Medical Center for bypass surgery to clear six heart blockages, he and Maggie have volunteered every week.
Linn Rogers alone has logged more than 7,000 volunteer hours in more than 22 years.
Since July, Rogers has been on the mend. He intends to start volunteering at the hospital again as soon as he is well enough.
"I love people, the other volunteers. You become friends, close friends. It's good exercise. We walk from here to there, push patients in a wheelchair, things like that," he said. "It's just a good thing to do. It's not for everyone, I guess, but that's why I like it. And you meet some nice people."
Douglas and Rogers now share a close bond. They reconnected at a heart luncheon at the hospital on Thursday.
"God was on our side that day," Douglas said.
"The good Lord just didn't mean for me to leave," Rogers agreed. "He's got something for me to do, I guess. I hope it's a lot."
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The Mid-American Conference has announced the 2014 football schedule. Highlighting the Ball State portion of the slate will be the Oct. 11, Homecoming Game vs. Western Michigan and three weekday November games on the ESPN family of networks.
Ball State will appear on ESPN2 or ESPNU Nov. 5 vs. Northern Illinois and Nov. 12 at Massachusetts and on ESPNU or ESPN3 Nov. 28 at Bowling Green. The Cardinals' contests are three of a total of 14 MAC games on the ESPN family of networks.
"We are excited to once again feature six home games at Scheumann Stadium," Ball State head coach Pete Lembo says. "A balanced slate is one of our primary goals when formulating a schedule for each season. The Mid-American Conference opponents we face from the West Division are always a big challenge on a yearly basis. The crossover games from the MAC East promise to be equally formidable tests for our program next fall."
The Cardinals will open MAC play Sept. 20 at Toledo and end the regular season Nov. 28 at Bowling Green. In between, Ball State will host Western Michigan, Akron, Northern Illinois and Eastern Michigan.
The regular season will conclude with the 17th Marathon MAC Football Championship Game Friday, Dec. 5, at Ford Field in Detroit on ESPN2. This will mark the 11th Marathon MAC Football Championship Game at Ford Field, home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions, Super Bowl XL and the 2009 NCAA Men's Final Four.
The MAC is an NCAA Division I, 12-member conference that sponsors 23 championships and is one of 10 members of the Football Bowl Subdivison (FBS). With total enrollment of nearly 300,000 students, the league represents institutions of higher learning in Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Ohio.
Ball State's complete 2014 football schedule:
Sat., Aug. 30 - COLGATE
Sat., Sept. 6 - at Iowa
Sat., Sept. 13 - INDIANA STATE
Sat., Sept. 20 - at Toledo *
Sat., Oct. 4 - at Army
Sat., Oct. 11 - WESTERN MICHIGAN *
Sat., Oct. 18 - at Central Michigan *
Sat., Oct. 25 - AKRON *
Wed., Nov. 5 - NORTHERN ILLINOIS * (8:00) -- ESPN2/ESPNU
Wed., Nov. 12 - at Massachusetts * (8:00) -- ESPN2/ESPNU
Sat., Nov. 22 - EASTERN MICHIGAN *
Fri., Nov. 28 - at Bowling Green * -- ESPNU/ESPN3
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I haven't had one of these in years! Looks yummy.
I use yellow or lemon cake with Lime jello and then add a lemon pudding to the Dream Whipped topping together for a very light and fluffy cake. I Only use half the milk for the Dream Whip Topping and pudding combined. Makes it wonderfully thick % light
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I haven't had poke cake in such a long time! I just love the combination of flavors you can do with it! Thanks for the reminder!
Sooo cute!! I love jello cake. Never thought to do it in cupcake form! These are perfect for the 4th!
I'm raising my hand! I've had a poke cake as my birthday cake as long back as I can remember … and to this day (I'm 40), I still have my mom make me that cake each year. She uses a vanilla/chocolate marble cake mix with the strawberry Jello, so it's basically a Neopolitan. Yum!
Thank you everyone! Such a fun recipe and so many combinations! Tracey, that is a great idea!! Your Momma is so creative :o)
I have never heard of these before but want one now in the worst way. I love jello desserts and this looks delicious. Yummy!
Brandie, Thanks a bunch for the introduction. Until now, poke cakes have escaped me through the years. Not only are these fun, but they're festive. From my vantage point, convenience rocks – you know I've said it before, "Box mix takes the ache out of cake!" You-n-yours be sure to have a safe, fun-filled July 4 holiday!
What a great idea!! These looks so cute!! 🙂
Poke cake rocks! Super easy, and so awesome looking!
Sounds wonderful! Yummy! Great recipe!
Haven't had 'poke cake' in years. I think I have a recipe for a homemade cake for these. But your strawberries on top are the perfect adornment.
Oh, this reminds me of my mom! We loved this when I was growing up…and I bet my kids would, too.
Brandie, can I blame you for my tightening waistband??? LOL.
i never made Poke cupcakes, only the cake. they are so much fun to make, and eat! thanks for the memories. i might just have t try the poke cupcakes.
Have a safe and happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July Weekend! I have made the cake version many times but for the life of me have no idea why i have never done a cute little cupcake.
They look so pretty. I do a version of this with chocolate pudding used in the poke holes. One of my childrens faves.
I love poke cake but haven't had it in ages. I like your idea of using red and blue jello- that would be really cute! 🙂
I've never met poke cake before, so thank you for the introduction! These are so darn stinkin cute!
I love poke cake and how fun to make cupcakes that way. Yum! Happy Independence Day!
These are too cute! Perfect for the 4th of July…!
Great minds think alike! I made an creamsicle cake for Dudette's birthday using the poke cake with orange jello and vanilla icing. It was way delish. I love the cut strawberry on the top of yours. Turns it into instant elegance.
I just made a poke cake for a woman's group the other day. And then I wondered if I could do cupcakes. I couldn't think of how to get the jello on the cupcakes directly without making a mess. A SPOON! Duh! Thank you so much. I can't wait to try it.
These look so fun – love the white cake & strawberry combo! Stopped by from TT&J to invite you to share this post (and any other cupcake related post – old or new!) at our Month Long Cupcake Party!
Hope to see you there and happy weekend!
I love poke cake. You made them into cupcakes. What a great idea.
Brandie – you're brilliant: poke cakes. Haven't heard of them before but now you've enlightened me. Love how you've transformed them like this. Each time I'm on Facebook and "poke" will be thinking of you!
Brandie, thanks for linking this fun recipe up with Cookbook Sundays!
Your recipe looks so good. I would love it if you came over to my party "Cast Party Wednesday" today and shared some of your recipes with us.
I hope to see you there!
These cupcakes look and sound so moist and delicious! Please link your recipe up at Muffin and Cupcake Monday! Thanks!
Look at you!! Those look so cute! Very unique and definitely love the colors. There is always room for Jell-O right?
these look delicious we make poke cakes a lot and love these as well they look awesome come see what I shared at http://shopannies.blogspot.com
All your recipes always make me drool and this one is no exception! I am bookmarking this to make later! Thank you for sharing such a fun idea. I would love to have you come over and link this up to our Link Party going on this weekend- and every link counts as an entry in our giveaway!
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Those look yummy! I am going to try them.
P.S. I am having a giveaway on my blog. There are great organizational tools and charts for moms and kids. I hope you will enter.
YUM! I've seen the poke cake but never thought about turning them into cupcakes. SO cute!!
Just found you on pinterest and I can't wait to try this tomorrow!
Hi Kelli! Glad you found me :o)
Hope you like this recipe!!
Hi there I love making these and the cake form, Have you ever tried using Whip Topping for the icing?
Sooo good! Glad I found your blog!
I swear I grew up eating poke cakes. In highschool it was a favorite dessert of us kids in the lunchroom. Thanks for posting. I haven't made it in years!! Love your site.
I just came across your blog today, and I am drooling! Everything looks amazing! But I think that this needs to be the first thing I try! Now I'm your newest follower, and I'm thinking my husband is going to thank you! 🙂
Hi Melissa! Welcome! I'm glad to have you here. I hope you love everything you try! 🙂
Thanks for posting this! I remember making a "rainbow poke cake" when I was a little girl. A 9×11 pan, several color jellos and cool whip topping. I tried looking this recipe up several years ago, and could not find it. This is awesome….it is as easy as I remember!
They look delicious, I must try them thanks for sharing.
I am in the process of making these. 🙂 I am bummed though because I bought the larger sized jello since I couldn't see the picture clearly to see that it was only the 4oz size. Might want to add that to the ingredient list since there are varying sizes. Excited to dive into these later after dinner.
Have been making strawberry Jello "poke" cake since back in the day that they had "1,2,3 Jello" – anyone remember that? Anyway, I learned to make it with a can of strawberry pie filling spread over the top of the Jello and cake (once it is set up) and then top it with Cool Whip frosting. Yum!
Could you try this with pudding? I know they have poke cakes with pudding, but do you think it would work with pudding and cupcakes? Thanks
I've done this but I use strawberry frosting mixed with some thawed out cool whip for the frosting!! so awesome strait out of the fridge!
I love ur recipes and they way u present them, I used to love to cook, but for the past few years i have dreaded it, U are making it enjoyable for me again. Thank You!!!
We make these in the summer but instead of frosting we used Cool Whip and then top with slice of fruit. Get it ice cold in the fridge and serve on hot day….yummy and lite…not too heavy on the tummy.
i use the watermelon jello, also good.
I love jello cakes, my favorite is chocolate cake and orange jello. Also I use a pudding and dreamwhip icing so good!!!!
I love the jello kind…I use white cake mux..raspberry jello..and cool whip instead of frosting…a wonderful cool dessert in the summet!!!


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"No one I've spoken to is surprised," a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. "As bad as this is gonna sound, it was never a matter of 'I wonder if they'll divorce,' but more like 'I wonder WHEN they'll divorce.'"
Several sources paint a picture of a troubled marriage that started unraveling even before the couple's wedding in September 2007.
"They peaked before they even got married," a friend of Tameka tells PEOPLE. "Right after it was over, they started to drift apart. [Usher] just wasn't ready to settle down, at least not with her."
The source, who tells PEOPLE that there was no third party breaking up the marriage, says that Usher still lived like a bachelor. "He just wasn't used to calling her if he was going to be out late," says the source. "He didn't treat her bad. He just took her for granted."
As the marriage continued, friends noticed that Usher and Tameka were living separate lives. "They've been going their own way for awhile," says Tameka's friend. "They don't spend a lot of time with each other. When they were together, it was all about the boys."
The R&B star filed the petition Friday in Superior Court in Atlanta, court records show. The couple had trouble making it to the altar, with a canceled ceremony in July 2007, followed by a civil ceremony in August and a dream wedding in September. They have two sons together, Usher Raymond V, 18 months, and Naviyd, 6 months.
Meanwhile, Foster's lawyer Randall Kessler tells PEOPLE he and his client will respond to the divorce filing in a "timely manner," saying, "We were hoping this case would be resolved privately, but since Usher filed it publicly we will have to respond."
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ALEXANDRIA - Two of the premier offenses in the Mirror coverage area met Friday night in Tussey Mountain and Juniata Valley.
And just as you would expect, there were fireworks aplenty.
The Hornets were able to get the best of Tussey Mountain, 49-35, in an Inter-County Conference Silver Division battle at A.R. Simpkins Field.
"Tussey's a very, very good 3-3 team," Juniata Valley coach Mike Smith said. "They played hard. It was a great battle."
Both teams lit up the scoreboard in the first quarter, combining for 27 points. During the Hornets' first possession of the game, Brett Grissinger, a senior running back, took a pass from QB Caleb Taylor 50 yards to paydirt. Juniata Valley's second possession ended when Taylor had his pass intercepted by Stephen Carroll, who returned it 40 yards for the Titans' first score of the game. But the Hornets answered back with another score - this one a 37-yard run by Grissinger for his second score. The Titans got one more before time expired in the first quarter, thanks to a 65-yard run by Darrin Sipes. The Titans PAT failed though and the Hornets led 14-13.
The teams combined for 20 more points in the second quarter. Juniata Valley began the second with one of its best drives of the game, a 12-play drive that started on its own 18 yard line, and consumed over 6 minutes. Jesse Claar scored his first of two touchdowns, a 5-yard touchdown run.
Just like the Titans did in the first quarter, they answered with a score of their own. Daniel Taylor took the ensuing kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown. Juniata Valley responded with another nice drive. The Hornets put together a nine-play drive that chewed up 83 yards, and finished off by a 10-yard touchdown pass from Caleb Taylor to Sam Gildea.
The Hornets had another one of those long, time consuming drive to begin the third quarter, with the Hornets holding the ball for 14 plays and 77 yards. The drive was consummated by a one-yard run by Taylor. The Hornets added one more third quarter touchdown and all of a sudden the Titans trailed by a 42-19 margin with just 12 minutes remaining.
The Titans showed a lot of heart and determination by battling and battling until the absolute end of the game, outscoring the Hornets 16-7 in the final frame. But it proved to be too little, too late.
Tussey Mountain coach Joshua Smith loved the way his team battled until the game clock read zero.
"It was a good game," Smith said. "They have one of the best teams in District 6."
The Hornets gained 523 yards of total offense, gaining 364 yards on the ground and 159 through the air. Claar led the ground attack with 174 yards, while Grissinger added 100 on the button.
"They have the best offensive line I've seen this year," Joshua Smith said. "They're just a tough offensive team."
Score By Quarters
Tussey Mountain13 6 0 16 35
Juniata Valley 14 14 14 7 49
First quarter
JV Grissinger 50 pass from Taylor (Staber kick), 9:41.
TM Carroll 40 interception return (Wentz kick), 5:27.
JV Grissinger 37 run (Staber kick), 4:21.
TM Sipes 65 run (kick failed), 0:01.
Second quarter
JV Claar 5 run (Staber kick), 5:47.
TM Taylor 80 kickoff return (run failed), 5:32.
JV Gildea 10 pass from Taylor (Staber kick), 1:54.
Third quarter
JV Taylor 1 run (Staber kick), 2:47.
JV Gable 12 run (Staber kick), 1:51.
Fourth quarter
TM Sipes 35 run (T. Runk pass from E. Husick), 10:57.
TM Sipes 15 pass from E. Husick (E. Husick run), 5:42.
JV Claar 3 run (Staber kick), 1:19.
Rushing: Tussey Mountain Sipes 9-122, T. Husick 4-3, Corbin 5-26, E. Husick 2-3. Juniata Valley Taylor 9-54, Grissinger 12-100, Claar 33-174, Maysonet 3-3, Wagner 3-23, Gable 1-12, TEAM 2-(-2).
Passing: Tussey Mountain - E. Husick 2-8-2-46. Juniata Valley -Taylor 6-12-2-159.
Receiving: Tussey Mountain Barnett 1-31, Sipes 1-15. Juniata Valley Grissinger 2-57, Claar 1-29, Leri 1-12, Gardner 1-51, Gildea 1-10.
Interceptions: Tussey Mountain Sipes, Carroll. Juniata Valley Grissinger, Low.
First downs722
Passing (Comp-Att-Int)2-8-26-12-2
Passing yards46159
Total yards200523


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fate. Within days, French fur trapper Jacques
Ducharme, out scavenging nearby abandoned houses,
rescues the girl from the brink of death and nurses
her back to health. Soon, Annie learns to love this
strong, brooding man and resolves to live out her
life as his River Wife. Together they build a new
community called "Jacques' Landing."
More than a
century later, in 1930, Hedie Rails comes to
Jacques' Landing to marry Clement Ducharme, a direct
descendent of the fur trapper and river pirate. The
young couple begins their life together in the very
house Jacques built for Annie so long ago. When,
night after late night, mysterious phone calls take
Clement from their home, a pregnant Hedie finds
comfort in Annie's old leather bound journals. But
when the pages tell of sinister dealings and
horrendous misunderstandings that spelled out
tragedy for the rescued bride, Hedie fears that her
own life is paralleling Annie's, and that history is
repeating itself with Jacques' kin. But the journal
entries do not end with Annie. Emerging from the
pages are three other women who helped to shape
Jacques Ducharme's life — Omah, the freed slave who
joins his side as a river raider; his second wife,
Laura; and their daughter, Maddie. Each relay the
haunting tale of this enigmatic, industrious, and
ultimately dangerous man, their stories weaving
together with Hedie's, as the journals serve not
only as a guide to the newest River Wife at Jacques'
Landing, but also, perhaps, a warning.
Jonis Agee vividly
portrays a lineage of love and heartbreak, passion
and deceit against the backdrop of the
nineteenth-century South. The five women of The
River Wife come to discover that blind devotion
cannot keep the truth at bay, nor the past from
flowing into the present.
Chapter 1
Hedie Rails Ducharme
The trees were so
vertical—that's the first thing I noticed, even
before the river. And the land that rolled carpet
flat away from the eye. As I stepped from the
Packard in front of the court house in Jacques'
Landing, Missouri, just above New Madrid, the only
shiver I felt was the slight vertigo. I held onto
the door of the coupe for a moment, and Clement
Ducharme must have thought I was reconsidering,
because he put his hand under my free arm and lifted
me away. I was taller than him by a good two inches,
and it seemed to make him proud. He insisted I wear
my high heels whenever we were in public. Over the
next few years, he would buy me pair after pair of
shoes, all high heels, open toed, many with tiny
straps and coy little rhinestone buttons. I was too
young in love to question then.
In the street,
tired farmers came and went, worrying about taxes,
foreclosures, money they didn't have. It was 1930,
the Great Depression, and everybody was poor but us,
and nobody stopped to talk.
Cotton fibers
floated in the air, rising and settling again, as if
on an invisible tide rinsing over the town. They
caught in the screens of doors and windows, settled
over uncovered dishes of beans and cornbread and
fresh tomatoes, and clung to your tongue when you
tried to talk, so you constantly found yourself
licking every syllable as if it were part of a
filthy word as you scraped your tongue against your
front teeth and swallowed.
We climbed the worn
flagstones, each small trough from eighty some years
of feet, up the cupped grey granite steps, and into
the round green marble atrium. He pointed up at the
green stained glass rose that domed the roof three
stories above us, and made me squint to see the
repaired glass on the right side.
"Cannon fire from
the Yankee bombardment," he said.
In fact, I would
discover later that it was Billy Shut, the
Confederate raider, whose rifle went off during a
brief skirmish not long after the town was taken.
The light from the
dome was green and slightly milky, and I wondered if
I needed to slip on my glasses for a moment. It was
the only secret I kept from him in the beginning--my
weak eyes that wouldn't let me decipher words and
details up close.
But I saw the
drifts of dust in the shafts of green light, saw the
cotton lint on the shoulder of his grey suit jacket.
Harvest was early, the yield poor in the relentless
heat, and he'd left a puny, half-full wagon in the
farmyard to take me to town. There was still a slice
on his chin where he'd cut himself shaving at the
last minute. Do I have to explain everything? My
mother had made me leave. I was seventeen. My
sisters had stood aside. I would not be welcome back
in the family for ten more years, but by then it
would be too late.
My soon-to-be
husband stood patient, red faced and freckled from
the sun, his orange red hair slicked down with oil,
with a part along the right side that looked like it
was made with a razor, the scalp bright red in the
groove. Somehow he had managed to get a hair cut
that did not rise so far above the ears that you
could see a rind of moon white where his lobe ended.
Even farming, he was a neat man, clean, almost
prissy about his nails and teeth that he cleaned
nightly with salt and a slick of river willow bark
he would slide between each of the small pegged
points. You have child's teeth, I would tell him a
few weeks after the wedding.
Although I would
later return to the courthouse to retrace my path
into the peculiar destiny I had chosen, family
history wasn't what I was thinking about that day as
I followed the path of Billie Shut's horse up the
steps and felt the places where the iron shoes
scored the marble floor as he began to collapse. The
soles of my shoes were the thinnest leather, and in
the other part of my mind, I would be registering
the gouges with my toes as we stood there in the
atrium waiting for Clement's Uncle Keaton to come
witness for us.
"Is your Uncle
coming?" I finally asked. He looked at the clock
over the entrance to the courtroom, then at his
wrist where he had on a gold Hamilton watch with a
brown alligator band that stank a little when he
sweated too much.
"Did you tell him
we had to do it before the Courthouse closes?" I
asked. It wasn't only that—and he knew it. I
couldn't go back home. I'd spent all my money on the
bus ticket down here and a present for him—a cat's
eye ring for his little finger. It was the only size
they had at Johnson's Jewelry in Resurrection when I
left that morning, and I couldn't come empty-handed,
nothing but a cardboard suitcase my mother begrudged
My feet began to
ache after a while, and when I shifted my weight so
I could lean against one of the columns, my heel
caught in a chip from the horse shoe, and I started
to go down. He caught me, though, and held me
briefly, his ear against my chest, as if he could
hear the double heartbeat through the good linen of
my white suit. It was the last white suit I ever
"Do you think—" I
started to say it again, but he put his fingers to
my lips. His hands smelled of tobacco and the soft
lavender scent he ordered from the barbershop twice
a year. As much as anything, it was the scent of him
that made my stomach pull hard with want, and made
me want to open my blouse to him there. I was so
young and there was a mystery unraveling, a door
opening to the other side where the whole business
you watch as a child suddenly becomes your own.
You're grown up and now the world throbs with
something bright the color of blood.
At 4:00, Clement
turned to me and nodded, his jaw clamped shut, lips
thinned. It wasn't a face I wanted to see on my
wedding day, but it was all I had, so I took his arm
and we walked in a straight line through the atrium
to the judge's chambers. When it came time to slip
the ring on my finger, he pulled out a platinum band
with a large round yellow diamond embedded in the
middle. It was so big I had to squeeze my other
fingers around it to keep it from sliding off.
When it came time
to kiss, he whispered in my ear, "Get that ring
fixed so it don't ever come off, hear?"
I was thrilled that
he wanted to so thoroughly claim me, and after he
paid the judge, we walked proudly arm and arm
through the hot milky green light out into the late
That was my wedding
day. His Uncle Keaton Shut waited three months to
come to visit and by then the damage had been done.
We didn't care though, we were happy. And almost
nothing can dent that kind of joy. We were going to
have the baby at home, where children of his family
had always been born. I wasn't even afraid. And he
was a good husband to me, bringing me flowers,
feeding me ice cream, a spoonful at a time in the
panting heat after dark when the river swished
against the banks and the bullfrogs' deep bass rode
the low notes below the peepers high throbbing.
Afterwards, he would make love to me, sucking my
swollen nipples until I felt an urgency, a burning
so shrill I wanted him to tear me open, empty me and
refill me with himself. I tore at his skin, and my
own, trying to put us closer and closer still, as if
the blood mingling could do that. We spent our days
napping in the cool of the fan blowing over a cake
of ice, and our nights loving, as we waited for the
baby. I didn't care if another soul ever came to the
door in those days. In fact, I didn't want them to—
This is love, I
kept saying to myself as he sponged cool water over
my shoulders and face while I lay in the tub, this
is love, the yellow diamond ring wedged so tightly
on my swollen finger that it sat between two ridges
of flesh. And this is love as the light in the room
darkened with an afternoon storm, and we stood out
on the second story porch, naked in the green rain,
watching the tree limbs along the river flatten and
spread horizontal in the wind while the phone in the
hallway behind us rang and rang and rang.
"Clement," I said,
looking out across the flat land shimmering in the
heat, "this isn't a land to love, is it?"
He shook his head.
"The bootheel is a different kind of country
Jacques' Landing
sits west of New Madrid, above the water in the
table flat bottom land spread between the foothills
of the Ozarks, a distant shadow to the west, and the
Mississippi to the east. St. Louis is only 165 miles
north. Hanging between Kentucky and Tennessee to the
east and Arkansas to the west, it's as if the whole
state of Missouri has been trying to shake it off
for years, like a vestigial tail.
I miss the
Ozarks—the deep hollows and iron colored streams of
the woods, the crying birds running from tree to
tree overhead as my sisters and I plunged through
the underbrush, looking for purple pawpaws and ripe
persimmons, then rested on the granite outcropping
of the natural bridge we thought only our family
knew about while we peeled and sucked the sloppy
sweet juice of the fruit we'd found. I missed the
dense scent of moist bark and pine needles, that
heavy spice that filled your head like smoke until
you were dizzy and falling into the wet leaves and
wild grass. When you stood still and listened, the
woods ticked and rustled around you, always it
seemed wet there, just after rain, just before rain,
even in the fall—something primordial and damp, dirt
being made beneath your feet, the slick silver
trails of snails across the dead branches and dried
leaves, the moist undersides of rocks soaking the
air of the woods. I was never afraid as a girl. It
took Clement to teach me fear.
"You're just tired
with waiting," Clement said. "Come lie down now." He
led me from the second story porch where I'd been
lying in a white wicker lounge with a pillow tucked
in the small of my back which ached so I couldn't
ever sleep for long. The baby rolled and kicked
inside me every time I tried to turn until I felt
oddly battered and could not stand to be touched
anymore, as if Clement's hands would bruise me.
I read magazines,
Harpers and National Geographic and
Scribner's, anything old because I could not
stand the present or the future anymore. It was all
I could do to last through another hot day, I did
not want to imagine all that living outside this
house. I began to stay up all night, holding my
belly like a water filled melon between my legs,
panting in the heat on the balcony, wetting towels
to lay across my chest while Clement slept on until
the telephone rang.
"Who is calling
here every night?" I asked him.
"Just sleep," he
said. "I'll be back before morning."
I watched the
lights of his car bob against the willows across the
road, then slash from one side to the other as the
driveway turned into the road, pocked with holes and
ruts after the recent rain, and the purr of the big
Packard engine was soaked up by the wet air and
replaced by the high grating rasp of the cicadas. If
I had a torch, I'd set fire to every living thing
tonight, I thought. A barge chugged up the river,
its lanterns lit so I could see the men on deck,
passing a jug of moonshine and laughing, even their
curses oddly clear. Someone began to play a fiddle
and another joined in with harmonica, and two of the
men stood and began to dance side by side, the
clogging style so familiar in the hills. I tried to
let it soothe me. I tried to think of the warm brown
water slopping in its big basin, but I was seventeen
and the doctor would only promise that I wouldn't
remember a thing when the baby came. They'd give me
a shot and I'd wake up a new mama.
I went downstairs
to the library with the dark forest green walls,
heavy mahogany furniture, and brightly colored
Tiffany lamps and sank naked into the cool whisper
of the Moroccan leather chair, lifting my feet to
the footstool and finding relief from the heat at
last. Determined to wait up for Clement, I gazed at
the walls of books around me, thinking to find a
title that would take me through the night. When I
got to the bottom shelf on the wall to my right, I
noticed a row of identical brown leather bound books
without titles on their spines, the sort of thing
people used as diaries or journals or sketchbooks. I
got up and awkwardly knelt down, pulling out the
first. It had been there a long time apparently for
at first it appeared stuck to its neighbor, then the
leather let go with a sticky tearing sound and the
book eased into my hand. Inside the water-spotted
cover was written:
Annie Lark Ducharme,
181l-1821, Volume I.
The roses so red
And the lilies so
The myrtle so
With the emerald
He taught me to
love him
And called me his
That was blooming
to cheer him
Through life's
dreary hour—
"A Wildwood Flower"
Was this his great
grandmother? Clement had never mentioned her. And
what an odd name. I thumbed the pages, noting the
drawings of insects, birds, butterflies, and
flowers. It was probably one of those naturalist
field books that would prove boringly exact, but it
looked varied enough with narrative passages in the
neat penmanship of a previous age, that I thought it
might keep me awake.
Actually, it began
with a curious passage, noting that what followed
was a true account, a witness of death and
resurrection, following "the great New Madrid
Shaking." My first impulse was to put the book away.
I was in no mood for a religious tract of some sort,
having heard of the "earthquake Christians,"
fanatics and Holy Rollers who abounded here in the
bootheel since the disaster. But her next sentences
caught me—seeming almost familiar ...
And so it was that
the women of the old house on Jacques' Landing began
to tell me their stories over the years I've lived
here. Sometimes I read the words they had written,
sometimes they visited me in dreams, and on many
occasions they spoke outright, out loud to me, and
I've never told a soul—until now. What follows is a
true account, in their words and mine, the only
wonder that we are so separate when the years are as
a veil of dust put to dancing when one of us moves
through the rooms of the house One-armed Jacques Ducharme built.
2007 by Jonis Agee
Reprinted with
Random House
2007 by Jonis Agee
Reprinted with
Random House
Click here to
see the Ducharme Family Tree


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When the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 2008, researchers around the world were already using GFP (and the many other variants) in a wide range of cell-based assays.
One of the most important uses for GFP is monitoring a variety of cellular processes in real-time. The many applications that use fluorescent proteins include: intracellular transport, protein signaling, receptor desensitization, cell movement, migration, division, apoptosis, metabolism, differentiation, chemotaxis, transcription, translation, and many more.
As with any new, popular, Nobel Prize-winning research advancement, a correlative advancement usually occurs in analytical instrumentation. One instrument that all life science laboratories have access to because of the GFP discovery is the confocal microscope. Live, real-time pictures (and movies) of cellular processes, highlighted by different fluorescent proteins, are easily recorded using a confocal microscope.
Confocal microscopes have allowed researchers to obtain fantastic snapshots of biological processes using fluorescent proteins. One drawback of confocal microscopy, though, is that patience and time are needed to obtain reliable, reproducible data since only one cell or cell cluster is viewed at a time.
Another instrument that has increased in utility due to the GFP discovery is the flow cytometer. More specifically, specialized types of flow cytometers can perform Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS®), which is often used in high-throughput screening (HTS) and high-content screening (HCS) labs. FACS provides a way to sort heterogeneous cell populations into homogeneous subgroups, thereby counting and separating the cells that have a fluorescent protein from those that do not.
FACS lack one of the limitations of confocal microscopy in that it provides an automated method that counts one specific activated cell type. But like the confocal microscope, flow cytometers that perform FACS are still limited by the time it can take to obtain data from an experiment with many testable parameters. Hours can pass during a FACS experiment, which means that assay conditions may not be uniform across the entire test.
The fluorescent microplate reader is another instrument that has seen an expanded role in life science laboratories after the discovery of GFP. Used mainly in life science or HTS laboratories to study simple, homogeneous absorbance, luminescence, or fluorescence based experiments, microplate readers have evolved into multifunction instruments that can perform complex, heterogeneous cell-based assays. Being able to measure mL to nL volumes, and up to thousands of samples at once, microplate readers allow for all types of reproducible, cell-based assays to be measured in only minutes.
Until recently, though, there was a limitation to cell-based experiments performed in a microplate reader in that the same sensitivity obtained on a confocal microscope or a FACS could not be matched by a microplate reader. For live, real-time cell-based experiments, it is preferable to read from the bottom of the microplate.
Reading from the bottom allows for a cover or lid to be placed on top of the microplate to prevent cell contamination and liquid evaporation. One main reason for poorer sensitivity in microplate readers is that they use longer, more flexible fiber optics to reach the microplate bottom. Since fiber optics lose light, more signal (and thus sensitivity) is lost when measuring fluorescent proteins in a microplate reader.
To improve microplate cell-based assays, BMG LABTECH has advanced microplate reader technology by eliminating the need for fiber optics for bottom reading. Using a system analogous to the microscope, the PHERAstar FS incorporates a series of software-controlled, motor-driven mirrors to focus light through a free air optical path directly onto either the top or bottom of the microplate. Moreover, when switching between top and bottom reading modes a simple click in the software is all that is needed, there is no changing or installation of any additional hardware (i.e., optics, apertures, dichroics, filters, or mirrors). Thus direct-optic bottom reading is fully integrated into the PHERAstar FS optical system and it completely eliminates the need for fiber optics.
To demonstrate the overall improvement of direct-optic bottom reading on the PHERAstar FS as compared to a fiber-optic bottom-reading instrument, a fluorescein dilution series was measured from the bottom of a 1,536-well microplate. As shown in Figure 1, direct-optic bottom reading gives at least an 11-fold higher signal-to-blank ratio than fiber-optic bottom reading.
Furthermore, at lower concentrations of fluorescein, the difference increased to more than 12-fold higher. This will allow for more than 10 times less reagent to be used on the PHERAstar FS in noncell-based bottom reading assays, significantly saving on reagent costs.
To further demonstrate the overall improvement of direct-optic bottom reading on the PHERAstar FS, GFP-labeled BAE cells (37,500 cells/mL) were measured in a 384-well microplate. As shown in Figure 2, direct-optic bottom reading gives a threefold higher signal-to-blank ratio than fiber-optic bottom reading. This will allow for detection of fluorescent proteins at concentrations not possible on any other microplate reader.
With cellular fluorescent protein assays depending sometimes on only a 25% change in signal, a 300% higher signal to blank ratio will make experiments possible on a microplate reader that were not possible before. This also means that for secondary cell-based screening assays, fewer cells can be used and thus further miniaturization is possible on the PHERAstar FS than on other fiber-optic bottom-reading instruments.
In addition to an improved signal-to-blank ratio in fluorescent protein assays due to direct-optic bottom reading, the PHERAstar FS has a well-scanning mode that can create a high-resolution image of fluorescently labeled cells in each well. Figure 3 shows GFP-tagged HEK293 cells in a 384-well microplate, as visualized using a 20x20 well scanning matrix for each well. This feature enables a digital image to be created from an analog signal, which is complimentary to a microscope or CCD camera that creates analog numbers from a digital picture.
E.J. Dell, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is the int'l marketing director for BMG LABTECH.
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text: Celebrate the Arts in Little Rock The wealth of arts facilities in Little Rock can keep you busy for days. Here is a pick-and-choose selection that allows you to see as much or as little as you like. Day: 1, 2 Day 1 Downtown Galleries Begin your day at the Arkansas Arts Center, located in historic MacArthur Park in downtown Little Rock. Acclaimed for its outstanding collection of works on paper, the center also has a first-class selection of oils, watercolors, acrylics and sculpture.Nationally prominent traveling exhibits such as "World of The Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed, "Andy Warhol: 15 Weeks of Fame," the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, The Impressionists, and an exhibition by Dale Chihuly, appear regularly. Then make your way to Best Impressions and enjoy a culinary delight. The one-of-a-kind menu features tempting salads, an eclectic array of sandwiches, plus enticing entrees and a daily special. A variety of teas, soft drinks, wines and beers make up the beverage list with unique desserts rounding out the meal. After lunch, stop in at the Museum Shop and browse the variety of gifts offered for people of all ages. Then it's onto the River Market District where the Cox Creative Center houses a gallery, a café and gift shop. Don't miss the gift shops at the Historic Arkansas Museum and the Old State House. You'll find even more Arkansas made items. Hop aboard the River Rail Trolley and head across the Arkansas River to the Argenta Arts District in downtown North Little Rock. Here you'll find visual and performing arts venues including Greg Thompson Fine Art, the THEA Foundation Center for the Arts Gallery, and the Argenta Community Theatre. Dinner at one of the many restaurants downtown rounds out the day. Day 2 Today spend the day in the Hillcrest and Heights Historic Districts. Begin in Hillcrest which is located along the lower portion of Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock. In the Hillcrest District you'll find Gallery 26 which features emerging local and regional artists with galleries updated on a regular basis. At the Hillcrest Gallery Custom Framing and Fine Art you can find a piece of art then have it framed. A short block detour off Kavanaugh brings you to the nearby Shoppes on Woodlawn, you'll find original art along with other gift and décor items. If you're ready for lunch, grab a bite to eat at any of the many fine restaurants in the district, ranging from U.S. Pizza, Canon Grill, Damgoode Pies (pizza) to Café Bossa Nova and Leo's Greek Castle. After lunch, continue west on Kavanaugh and you'll come to The Heights. Here you can visit Chroma Gallery where you'll find original contemporary art at Stephano's Fine Art Gallery, and the Heights Gallery, a local favorite for over 20 years.


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You've seen her in The Buffalo News. You've even seen her on local and network television news shows.
Starting today, visitors to the Buffalo Zoo will be able to get an in-person look at the polar bear cub that was born in November.
Visitors will be able to view the now-famous cub, nicknamed Luna, during limited viewing hours every day from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the exotic domestic animals exhibit near the main entrance.
The cub's keepers have determined that she is now big enough to be outside on exhibit for a short time. They will continue to observe her progress and extend her time outside as she develops.
Zoo staff expects plenty of interest in Luna's debut.
"Since we announced her on the first [of March], we've heard from people via our Facebook page and in phone calls wanting to know when she's going to be out in public for people to see," said zoo spokeswoman Rachel Gottlieb.
To get Luna acclimated to the outdoors, zookeepers have been spending time with the cub each morning in the exhibit space prior to the zoo's opening, Gottlieb said.
The cuddly cub, born last November, has helped spur contributions to the campaign for a new polar bear exhibit at the zoo, which is seeking $4 million in donations for the $14 million project.
The zoo will continue to display a live video feed of the cub on a closed-circuit television in the M&T Bank Rainforest Falls exhibit from 1 until 3 p.m. until further notice.
The cub's schedule is subject to change, so any visitors who are interested in seeing her should call the zoo at 837-3900 to confirm when she will be on exhibit or on view via video feed.
The zoo also will continue to post regular updates on its Facebook page, Facebook.com/BuffaloZoo.
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"Now I'm in it and I don't want to stop," Teresa told PEOPLE of her five-year run on the reality series. "This is my job and I want to keep going."
Despite an extremely rough year that left the family mourning the death of Joe Giudice's father, Frank, while preparing to be sentenced on fraud charges, Teresa is staying strong.
"We are mourning, and it's just been devastating," she says. "I feel bad for my husband and I'm just trying to be there for him and my kids. He was so close to us, and it happened at our house, so it's just a lot to handle."
While Teresa and Joe's legal drama will play out on the show, premiering on Bravo Sunday at 8 p.m., returning castmate Dina Manzo says that even if Teresa wanted to walk away from the show, it wouldn't be easy.
"She would be in it no matter what," says Manzo, who was in seasons one and two. "It's like me. I left but I was always part of it, so whether you are there or not, you are going to be talked about and scrutinized."
As Teresa prepares to be sentenced alongside her husband in September, the mom of four is doing her best to focus on her family.
"Waking up every morning looking at my beautiful daughters, I am always grateful," she says. "That's what keeps me going and gives me my strength. I have a wonderful husband and that's why I am the rock that I am."


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Backstab is a passive ability that triggers when Shaco attacks or uses an ability on a unit that is facing away from him.
Additional Information:
- Backstab's bonus damage applies to Shaco's autoattacks and abilities, except for Jack In The Box.
- Backstab does not increase the damage from summoner spells or items.
- Backstab also applies after a critical strike is achieved. If you were to critically strike for 500 damage, the same critical strike would do 600 damage from behind (500 × 120% = 600 damage).
Ability Details
Deceive is a ground targeted blink ability.
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- Deceive's casting animation (an orange puff of smoke) can be seen by both teams through the Fog of War.
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Jack in the Box is a ground targeted ability that places a pet at the target location.
- Does not apply spell effects.
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- Spell shields will block the flee, but not the attacks.
Additional Information:
- Box attacks apply as a summoned minion effect (20% slow for 1 second).
- Casting Jack In The Box creates a puff of smoke that is visible even through brush and the fog of war, and makes a distinctive sound that can be heard by enemies.
- Boxes are immune to ability damage and displacement effects while in stealth. As such, they can be used to block skill shots.
- Boxes will not be triggered by enemies that Shaco does not have sight of. As boxes grant sight, this is only true against stealthed enemies, or while Shaco is affected by Paranoia and Smokescreen).
- Stealthed boxes will be revealed and disabled by .
- The flee can affect stealthed enemy champions, but it will not reveal them unless the target's stealth state depends on their location or movement (e.g. Teemo's Camouflage or Akali's Twilight Shroud).
Ability Details
Two-Shiv Poison's passive grants an on-hit effect.
When activated, Two-Shiv Poison becomes a targeted ability that applies the on-hit effect.
- Applies spell effects as a single target ability.
- Spell vamp is fully applied.
- slow for 1.5 seconds. will apply a 40%
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- Spell shields will block Two-Shiv Poison's active.
- This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall.
Ability Details
Hallucinate is a self-targeted ability.
- Leash Radius: 1125
- Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability.
- Spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness.
- slow for 1 second. will apply a 40%
- The clone will apply on hit-effects just a Shaco would.
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- Spell shields will block the clone's explosion.
Additional Information:
- Shaco briefly becomes untargetable when casting Hallucinate.
- With proper timing, Hallucinate can be used to avoid projectiles before they hit him (e.g. Caitlyn's Ace in the Hole or Karthus' Requiem). However, it cannot be used to avoid ticks of or Zilean's Time Bomb. The duration timer will pause and continue once Shaco is targetable again.
- Hallucinate can be cast during Deceive's stealth without breaking it.
- As Shaco's enemy, you can no longer recognise the clone by looking at the buff icons as of preseason v5.22. This is also true for LeBlanc.
Ability Details
Jack In The Box is a static, autonomous minion that attacks nearby units and structures.
- Is not affected by Counter Strike, Riposte, Aegis Protection and Blind.
- Classified as a minion for targeting purposes.
- Boxes will prioritize the nearest enemy champion that has damaged Shaco or that Shaco has damaged, preferring to attack that champion whenever it is in range, even if they have moved too far away before walking back into range.
- Does not benefit from .
- Boxes can attack 9 times in their lifespan.
Ability Details
Hallucination is a clone of Shaco.
- The clone deals 75% of Shaco's damage, reduced to 37.5% against structures, and receives 50% extra damage.
- The clone can be controlled by Alt + Right-Click (default Hotkeys) or by casting Hallucinate again at no additional cost.
- The clone can be commanded to move or attack (and it will automatically move to follow its attack target).
- While Shaco is unable to activate his abilities, he cannot command his clone.
- The clone gains most of Shaco's bonuses upon spawning, with a few differences:
- The clone gains 100% of Shaco's stats, including bonus stats from items but not from runes and masteries.
- Despite this, the clone deals 75% damage (32.5% damage against structures) and takes 50% additional damage.
- The clone can critically strike and apply on-hit effects, but cannot apply life steal.
- The clone will not apply spell effects with its attacks, just its explosion.
- The clone will receive its own , and other item buffs if the original Shaco possesses them. However, no longer revives the clone.
- The clone will not benefit from on-attack and active item effects, such as Spellblade and active.
- The clone cannot be the source of aura buffs, but it can still be affected by nearby auras.
- Does not benefit from or .
- The clone will not benefit from monster-related buffs and will thus not display them, even if the original Shaco possesses them.
- The clone displays its real stats.
- The clone faces towards the top of the screen upon spawning.
- Shaco's clone is also capable of picking up Health Relics on Dominion and Howling Abyss.
- PENDING FOR TEST The clone will have the last level the enemy team know of.


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Look at the team Bouwmeester plays on, and who his D partners have been over the years while a Flame.
I would love to move Franzen, but only if the return is worth-while. Bouwmeester is not worth-while. He defense leaves a lot to be desired, and his offense has dropped off to insignificant totals.
Compare him to a bigger Ian White, with a much bigger price tag, in this case in both cap and assets.
Bouwmeester (.397PPG): 717GP 65G 220A 285P
White (.366PPG)
By no means he's a Norris Trophy candidate, but he does possess the overall skill needed to play in our system (prime example - look how ineffective Commodore was for us last season).
Right now we have massive holes on defense; what's left via UFA are more or less players who are getting up there in years, or guys who are often on IR...Outta the UFA's - only Colaiacovo, and Rozsival interest me, and chances are 1 of those 2 will get signed by Philly.


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From Kearneysville:
Mr. Mitt said he would be in the White House on Wednesday, but something happened and he landed in the outhouse.
From Martinsburg:
After reading the Journal Junction today, I have only one thing to say about all those who are crying about President Obama's victory: Get over it! If you don't like the way we vote in a president, I welcome you to move elsewhere!
From Martinsburg:
To all the sore losers who called in after the election: I am not gay, an abortionist or a radical Muslim. I work hard and pay my taxes. I voted for Obama, so did a majority of Americans. This country will be a better place with him as president. Please stop the hatred.
From Ranson:
Fox News is now all warm and huggy with the illegals. They are calling for amnesty for these dirty criminals. We must never compromise. Our principles are sacred! They just want power but we have anger and can yell.
From Martinsburg:
I am an ex-Marylander living in West Virginia and being so proud because they have open their eyes and feel sorry, very sorry for those who didn't so.
From Harpers Ferry:
Once you put a comment of any type out in cyberspace or on the web, it's there, even if removed from the original source, it can cross countries and continents in minutes. Be careful what you type.
From Hedgesville:
Grandson laid off the day after the election, stock market down, supplemental insurance went up and gas prices the same. At least West Virginia got it right again.
From Martinsburg:
I find it hard to believe that West Virginia voters have twice been offered a legislative candidate as attractive, competent and moderate as Donn Marshall, yet they have opted for the lesser candidates. Must be a lot of folks mindlessly pulling the "straight ticket" lever, rather than evaluating the candidates on an individual basis.
From Martinsburg:
I guess all the Obama haters are all rich people, let the poor and middle class people live too. What is wrong with the rich? They want it all, don't worry about the poor and middle class.
From Hedgesville:
"Is this real or just math that you do as a Republican to make you feel better?" Megyn Kelly. People who reject reality in favor of their politics are not the people to put in responsible positions or manage large quantities of money.
From Inwood:
Mr. Frederick, We may have a sheriff without a gun but we do not have same-sex marriage! I guess the laugh is on you!
From Martinsburg:
To the person pouting about Bobby Shirley getting reelected for sheriff: Get a life. It would have been all the same if the nut they were chasing would have hit and killed a family member of yours. Not saying he did it, you were not there so you have no clue. He won it, so get over it.
From Shepherdstown:
I am a Jefferson County teacher in support of the balanced calendar. To the Hedgesville caller who "done forgot" what was learned after the summer break, perhaps a balanced calendar would have proven beneficial in helping to improve your grammar. It is the same number of school days-I do not understand the fuss! Retention is what is most important, isn't it?
From Opequon Hill:
As I get older I can recall things that I had previously forgotten from long ago. Like typing class 40+ years past. I remember the first sentence I was taught to type for speed drills, "Now is the time for all young men to come to the aid of their country." Now, my wife sends me to the store for milk and I bring home bread instead!
From Charles Town Road:
After draining the cow of its milk, they returned now to eat it.
From Hedgesville:
Not counting Obama, as West Virginia did not support him, when you keep voting in the same people you get the same results!
From Martinsburg:
To the reader in Martinsburg, Obama is not the anti-Christ. He may be the forerunner as John was to Jesus. Think about it! Road to socialism, no longer a major power in time. Yeah, the Book of Revelations seems like tomorrow's front-page news. Ummm...
From Inwood:
My neighbor asked me Tuesday if I didn't think it was strange that West Virginia was a "Republican" state... as numbers were coming in. After the comment from Hedgesville about gays and Muslims, I say we aren't Republican at all... just racist.
From Inwood:
To Charles Town: There is enough room in the US for 531 million lemmings, and 1 loud-mouthed fool! We choose you! Welcome to the USA!
From Martinsburg:
To all the Obama haters: Guess what? The man won, get over it. We need the best in there.
From Inwood:
What a great time to be alive. The GOP has lost touch with the American people, we have an African-American president, our next president could very well be Mexican-American , and we have 20 women senators. America, you gotta love it.
From Harpers Ferry:
With regard to Sheriff Shirley, in the United States, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Do not pass judgment until all the facts come out.
From Charles Town:
Dear sir in the white Toyota Sienna mini-van: your overly aggressive driving puts us and the kids in your vehicle in danger. It is a mini-van, not a sports car.


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LISBON - A Salem man accused of molesting a girl at the church they attended will be evaluated to determine his mental competency to stand trial.
Roger L. Gonda, 65, of Franklin Street, is charged in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court with two counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of sexual importuning.
According to court record, Gonda molested the 5-year-old girl on or about the months of June and July 2012 and on July 29, 2012. This resulted in the gross sexual imposition charges. The sexual importuning charge has to do with Gonda allegedly telling the girl in crude and explicit terms how he wanted to molest her. This occurred on July 29, while she was reportedly sitting on his lap.
Assistant County Prosecutor Tim McNicol reported that at the times of the alleged crimes Gonda attended Southeast Friends Church in Salem, serving as a volunteer for the junior church services held for children during regular services. McNicol said the crimes occurred during the junior church portion of the service.
Gonda was scheduled to go on trial this week, but the county public defender representing him filed a motion asking he be evaluated to determine his mental competency to stand trial. A new hearing date will be scheduled once the evaluation is performed and the report becomes available.


text: I've had some memorable St. Patrick's Days. The earliest I can remember is from when I was in kindergarten at Emerson Elementary in Warren, and the teachers did the old leprechaun-in-the-classroom trick. We came back from gym to find our backpacks ransacked, our coats strewn asunder. Our teacher, in what we later deduced was mock surprise, exclaimed that the culprit was escaping out of the window, and ran across the room to catch him. A (fake) struggle ensued, and she returned with A TINY BLACK BUCKLED SHOE. Irrefutable evidence of leprechauns. They just can't resist messing with kids' backpacks. Or being badly portrayed in movies.


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'The Words' Opens Today!
By Ben Silverio
This weekend, the new movie from the hometown writing/directing team Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, 'The Words', opens in theaters everywhere. Featuring fellow Philly boy Bradley Cooper, as well as Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Ben Barnes, and J.K. Simmons, the film tells the story of Rory Jansen, a struggling writer who finds fame after passing off a lost manuscript as his own novel and then deals with the consequences of stealing another man's words.


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The frosting is the star of these cookies, and it's a nice change from the cream cheese frosting that often accompanies pumpkin desserts (I love that version too, though). Really, they're more like little pumpkin cakes. They're so moist, I've left them out on the counter overnight and they were still fantastic the next day.
These don't flatten much during baking, and the dough is a bit sticky to flatten it before baking. I flatten mine slightly with the bottom of a glass just as they come out of the oven. Once they're frosted, no one knows!
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- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- Pinch of salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugars Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Stir in pumpkin.
- In a medium bowl, sift together the baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, salt and flour. Add to pumpkin mixture and mix well.
- Drop by heaping tablespoons onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- To make frosting: In a medium saucepan, combine butter, cream, and brown sugar over medium heat.
- Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture just begins to boil; remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Cool then stir in confectioner's sugar. Spread frosting over cooled cookies.


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Feed price worries abound at Arizona meeting
Feed price worries abound at Arizona meeting
Milk producers hoping for an optimistic feed outlook in 2011 got just the opposite at the Arizona Dairy Production Conference October 21. Instead of lower prices, speakers said there is a great risk of them going higher.
Coupled with the already-eroding Class III futures price trend at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, it means 2011 is starting to look like a smaller version of the financial crisis that ruined dairy balance sheets in 2009.
One reason why is the rebound in economies around the world that is increasing feed demand and driving prices higher. The prolonged weak value of the dollar that makes U.S. corn and feed grains look cheap is another. Added to this is an unforeseen factor they said will magnify both effects if it happens: a drop in corn yields.
Joel Karlin, a feed market analyst and merchandiser for Western Milling in Goshen, Calif., (pictured) and Monte Hemenover, a dairy industry trends consultant in St. Louis, Mo., left little doubt they expect that to happen.
"You can't underestimate the impact of dollar currency value changes on commodity prices, because this is a world market today not just a domestic one," said Karlin, adding "We haven't had a really bad down year for corn yields in eight years, and if it happens now we're in trouble."
Hemenover said that is exactly what he is already seeing and hearing in the Midwest.
Karlin noted that, "Earlier this month USDA made a huge reduction in projected corn yields from the September estimate. The last six times they did that the projection was also lowered on November. I see great potential for even greater volatility in corn prices during 2011 than we've seen in 2010."


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Name and Title: Prof. Dr. Samah Khaled Abd El Kawy Zahran. Social psychologist at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Birth Date: September/7/1972. Education and degrees : Degrees, YearsBSc in Education (with excellent and honor degree). 1994Diploma in Education 1996Master Degree 1998Ph.D. in Psychology: Social Psychology: Social Perception. (With recommend for publication). 2001
Work ( position and promotion) :
Position and promotion YearsDemonstrator 1995University Teacher Assistant 1998University Teacher 2001Associate Professor 2007Professor 2013
SOME OF THE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES A- Books: (Authorized) 1- Social Perception: How to understand yourself and others for better human society.Dar El Fekr El Arabi, Cairo, Egypt: 2004.2- The Psychometry of pre-school child Psycho characteristics. Dar El Fekr El Arabi, Cairo, Egypt: 2005.3- Science for a better human society. Dar El Fekr El Arabi, Cairo, Egypt: 2006.
4- A Delinquent Victim Child. A Social Psychology Study, as an attempt to understand a criminal behavior in the society. Dar El Fekr El Arabi, Cairo, Egypt: 2010.
B- Books: Translated From English to Arabic: 1- Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experience In Quantum Reality, by Dean Radin, PH.D. National Center For Translation, Cairo, Egypt: 2012. (First Translation in Arabic Language).2- Global Shift: How a new world view is transforming humanity, by Edmund J. Bourne, PH.D. First Translation all over the world. National Center For Translation, Cairo, Egypt (Still in print).
C- Researches:1- A factor analysis study suggests general factor that connects between social perception dimensions and some mental components. Science for a better human society (book) 2002. (Published in 2006).2- The Psychometry of Psychological aspects for the pre-school child. The First National Conference in Child Education at Ain Shams University. 2003, (Published at this conference in 2004).3- The Relationship between Interpersonal Attraction and Resilience. A comparative Study. (Between: Adults and Children). The Second National Conference in Child Education at Ain Shams University. 2004, (Published at this conference in Feb. 2005).4- The Relationship Between Perception of Environmental Components and Self- Perception. A Dimensional Comparative Study. (Between: Adults and Children). The Fifteenth International Conference: Environment Protection, in Alex. City, Egypt, May 2005.5-Human Aspiration (Ambition): Its Nature and a Study of Some Variables that affect it. The Third National Conference in Child Education at Ain Shams University. 2006.
6- Toward A New Concept for the Leadership. Published in a book: Science for a better human society (2006).7- Six Grade Level Students ConceptionsOf the Gifted Child in the Light of Self-concept Level and Gender. Egyptian Journal of PsychologicalStudies, Vol.17, N.55, April 2007.8- Individual Differences among Grade Three Students in both Attitude toward school and Math achievement As a Function of Gender and Numerical Ability Level. Faculty of Education Journal, Cairo, Egypt, N.31, Part1, 2007.9- Society Responsibility Towards Violence Against Children – A Subject Analysis Study. The Sixteen National Conference At National Centre for Social and Criminal Research (Egypt): May 2009.10- Juvenile Delinquency: A factor Analysis study in Egyptian Society. Psychological Journal- Egypt: published in June 2010.11- The perceived Type of the Egyptian Personality among Sample of Parents and its Effect on Educating Children. Psychological Journal- Egypt: published in June 2012.12- Some Personal and social variables that affect Extra Sensory Perception (Sixth Sense.) Psychology Vol.2, No.4, Pp. 388-392www.scirp.org13-Type of Parental Socialization across Cultures. A Psychoanalysis Review. Psychology Vol.2, No.5, Pp. 526-534www.scirp.org14- The Affect of Feeling Oppress and Persecution on Achievement among Children and Adults.Arab Studies Journal for education and psychology. No.20 Part1, 2011. Egypt.15- Scientific Research Obstacles in Arabic Region: A Case Study with a Questionnaire on Childhood Researchers.Arab Studies Journal for education and psychology. No.21 Part2, 2012, Egypt.16- A Comparative Study for the Impact of Some Variables in Forming Identity of Kindergarten's Belonging Country in Globalization Era.Childhood Studies Journal, Vol.15. No. 55, Egypt.17- The Educational Role in Facing Early Childhood's Problems at the Arab Home in the Light of Child's Rights Agreement and Reports. (An Analytic Study)Arab Childhood Journal, Kuwait. Published in June 2013.18- Role of the Extra Sensory Perception in Decision Making and Interpersonal Relationships- A Comparative Study among Pre-school Children and Adolescences.International Journal of Business and Social Science. Vol. 3 No. 9; May 2012.Pp.91-99. www.cpinet.info.
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Association membership Since,1-Egyptian Association of the friends of Bibliotheca Alexandria. 20032- Alexandria Bibliotheca member. 20033- El Sway's Culture Wheel. 20064- Egyptian Association of the Psychological studies. 2007
B- International: Associations and Institutes membership Since,1-American Psychological Association. 2002 .2- APA Division 40, 52. 2003 – 2010.3- APA Division 10. 2010-2011.4- Para psychological Association (PA). 2008 -2012, affiliate member, 2013 professional.5- GCI (global coherence initiative) from the Institute of HeartMath.2008 .6- Institute of Heart Math (IHM). 2009 .7- Institute of Noetic Science (IONS). A free membership, 2011.
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Warren Mills takes great pleasure in shaving off his mustache.
Every time he does, his Lakers are state champions.
"Every year we've won, I've shaved it off," said the longtime North Tahoe cross-country coach, clean-shaven after adding a Nevada-record 23rd state championship to his collection Saturday - 16 boys titles and seven girls.
Few of Mills' championship teams dominated like his boys of 2012.
After cleaning up at regionals a week prior, the Laker boys ran away with the Division III state championship in Boulder City, posting the second-best score in NIAA history.
The Lakers recorded a low team score of just 19 points, which was four away from the boys state record of 15 - a perfect score - which North Tahoe (1996) holds along with Lowry (2005). Their 19 points Saturday ties the 1985 Laker boys as the second-lowest total in the NIAA.
Every one of the North Tahoe runners stepped up to make it happen. They captured four of the top six spots, including 1-2 finishes by Noah McDermott and Patrick McElravey, and placed all five of their scoring runners in the top eight.
"The key for us was, they ran tight from the start of the season. They just saw each other," Mills said. "Noah might have won all the races, but Patrick was just as important - they were all just as important."
McDermott was not going be defeated. The junior crossed the finish line of the 5-kilomter course in a time of 16 minutes, 56.8 seconds to claim the individual state title. He won every race he entered from the start of the season.
McElravey, a senior, finished runner-up in 17:12, while junior Shane Christian finished fifth in 17:34.2, senior Sean McDermott was sixth in 17:42.2 and junior Peter Holmes was eighth in 17:43.9.
Sean McDermott hadn't raced in a month after suffering a stress fracture in his foot. But he returned to action just in time to help lead the Lakers in their championship performance.
"We decided to save him for last race, and it worked out perfect," Mills said.
Zachary Hunt of Excel Christian was third in 17:16 and Levi Dodge of Incline, which finished second to North Tahoe with a team score of 50 points, was fourth in 17:20.8. North Tahoe freshman Julien Bordes finished 13th in 18:10.3 and junior Brandon Hackett was 19th in 18:33.4.
Sage Ridge was third as a team, with 91 points, and was followed by Sierra Lutheran (106), West Wendover (131) and Lincoln County (142). A total of 47 boys raced.
Reflecting on his latest state championship, Mills conceded that his Lakers exceeded his expectations.
"I didn't expect it, but we knew we had some horses coming back, obviously," he said. "With Shane and Peter coming out, that was a big plus. They just fit right in perfectly."
Noah McDermott, McElravey, Christian and Sean McDermott all made the All-State first team, which are awarded to the top seven finishers, while Holmes and Bordes made the second team.
The North Tahoe girls, meanwhile, found themselves in a race with Incline for the state championship.
Regional champion Tara Gallant led the charge, as the North Tahoe sophomore held off Incline freshman Stephanie Homola to earn the individual state title in a time of 21:04 to Homola's 21:20.8.
Incline claimed the team championship, however, posting a low score of 32 points to the Lakers' 58. The Meadows was third with 86.
"They have a good program," Mills said of the Incline girls, who have now won the last four state consecutive state championships. "They have a great coach and a good feeder program. Bill (Devine) lost some kids last year and he reloaded this year and is just as strong. So we've got our work cut out for us (in the future)."
North Tahoe freshman Sophia Tallarigo finished fifth in 21:55.4, while senior Emily Nall was 14th in 23:12.3, sophomore Ingrid Roske was 20th in 24:44.6 and freshman Holly Lewis was 26th in 25:49.2.
Jeneke Heerema of The Meadows was third in 21:28.3 and Hannah Laurie of Incline was fourth in 21:54.1. There were 43 girls in the race.
"The girls are really a good story too," Mills said of his young squad. "For Tara to come through and run as she did was huge. And then Emily Nall showed up as a first-year senior and was incredible. And Sophia as a freshman, she runs a very relaxed first half-mile and then she starts going after it."
Gallant and Tallarigo made the All-State first team and Nall the second team.
While the Highlanders edged the Lakers on the course, the North Tahoe girls aced their neighboring rivals in the classroom, as they were awarded the academic state championship for earning the highest collective GPA in the state.
"In the Division III, all the hardware came back to the lake, and you can't complain about that," Mills said.


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Hello! I'm the Founder and Creative Director of Nattypat Crochet. At Nattypat you'll find Crochet to Collect & Cuddle. I specialise in patterns that are quick to make, realistically shaped, and ...
Hello! I'm the Founder and Creative Director of Nattypat Crochet. At Nattypat you'll find Crochet to Collect & Cuddle. I specialise in patterns that are quick to make, realistically shaped, and lovingly designed to mimic nature's cutest critters.
I founded Nattypat in 2010 when a slightly obsessive urge to make cute things became unbearable. In all honesty, if I didn't share my creations with the world I think I'd currently be buried under a massive pile of yarn and crochet hooks.
You can contact me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'd love to hear from you for anything yarn/crochet related, or for any graphic design opportunities. Until then, happy crocheting!
Ricki is a Nattypat Forest creature that you can crochet. He is crocheted in rounds in a continuous spiral and his legs rotate so you can position him standing, sitting or sleeping. The pattern comes with visual aids and links to video tutorials for all required stitches and techniques to complete the project. You can preview the tutorials on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/NattypatCrochet/videos.
Red Heart Soft and Super Saver, Caron Simply Soft & Bernat Satin.
All Nattypat Crochet patterns are for personal, non-commercial use only. Patterns are not licensed for resale or for distribution beyond the purchaser via any distribution methods.
Plastic eyes and embellishments may pose a choking risk to small children. Do not use plastic eyes and embellishments in items intended for small children. For items intended for small children, substitute plastic eyes and embellishments with child-safe decoration such as embroidery. Nattypat Crochet assumes no liability for any loss or injury resulting from Nattypat Crochet patterns.
Not critical for this project.
To make Ricki smaller or larger, select a different weight yarn and adjust hook size to ensure tight stitches. No stuffing should be visible through the stitches.
200 yards of Worsted weight


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