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Dr Neil Roodyn and Dr Pete Stanski visited Redmond today, and dropped into my office to record a Podcast interview (see below) – I will post a link when this goes live – Interestingly, Pete recorded the interview on his Tablet PC (looked like a Toshiba M200) using Audacity).
We also captured an interview with Dr Neil (left in the photo) at MEDC – I will post the link when we've uploaded the file.
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Classic Classes and Birthsigns
Skyrim » Gameplay Effects and Changes
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Added: 09/05/2012 - 04:18PM
Updated: 21/08/2012 - 06:52PM
Last updated at 18:52, 21 Aug 2012 Uploaded at 16:18, 9 May 2012
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== Latest Version ==
Ver 2.4
- Witchhunter now has Conjuration as a Major Skill instead of Restoration. This brings it in line with skill distribution in both Morrowind and Oblivion.
- Acrobatics Secondary Skill now has 15% increased Stamina Regeneration in addition to falling damage reduction.
- Athletics Secondary Skill now has 15% increased Stamina Regeneration, and movement speed bonus has been reduced to 15% (from 25%).
- Cleaned up .esp and fixed typos and tooltip errors.
All Elder Scrolls games prior to Skyrim had character creation begin with selecting a class and choosing your character's birthsign. In Arena and Daggerfall there were 18 distinct and unique classes to choose from, and in Oblivion and Morrowind they increased that number to 21. Each with different major skills and advantages, and allowed the player to better conceptualize their character as well as provide a different starting experience for each new game played.
Characters were also said to be born under a certain sign, and choosing a birthsign at character creation allowed you to customize your starting character even further.
In Skyrim, this option was removed and all characters now start the same. The interesting and unique classes that Bethesda had created and fleshed out across four different games have been removed, and now you must spend your first hours in the game wandering to align with a standing stone to get the starsign you want. This mod changes that.
This mod is safe to use with current characters. If you load a savegame with a level 1 char it *will* bring up character selection, and run normally. For any character level 2 or higher, the current character menu will appear and give the option to add a class's Secondary Skill and Class Ability, as well as a Birthsign.
The mod should be fully compatible with:
-Alternate Start mods, such as Live Another Life
-Custom Race and racial ability adjustment mods, such as RaRe and Third Era Attributes
The mod is mostly compatible with:
- SkyRe (Skyrim Redone). This mod is compatible with SkyRe (I use it myself) which merges Pickpocket and Lockpicking into "Fingersmithing"). So, any Class which starts with Lockpicking as a Major Skill will instead have their Vampirism skill start at 25, and Fingersmithing will be determined by whether the class has Pickpocket as a Major Skill or not.
Luckily, the latest version of SkyRe allows you to choose whether or not to include Vampirism perk tree, so you can disable it if you don't want to use it. If you *do* want to use SkyRe Vampirism, and your character has Lockpicking as a Major Skill, here is a simple workaround;
Use these Console Command after starting the game:
player.setAV lockpicking 15
player.setAV pickpocket 25
This will set your character's "Vampirism" to 15, and "Fingersmithing" to 25, without leveling up your character all. Class Abilities and unaffected.
The mod will likely not be compatible with:
- Mods that alter the base skill points of the player. However, if Classic Classes is loaded AFTER the other mod in the mod order, CC will still work, but I can't guarantee the other mod will continue to work correctly.
If you find a conflict, please let me know and I will work to resolve it!
Class Selection will begin after you equip a weapon or spell for the first time.
Each of the 21 Classic Classes are based on the classes available in Oblivion and Morrowind and are broken down into three specialties: Combat, Stealth and Magic.
Major Skills
Classic Classes characters start with all skills at 5 pts (novice level). Each class has several Major Skills which start at 25 pts (apprentice level) before racial bonuses are applied. This represents your character's profession or skills learned prior to the start of the game.
Secondary Skills
Secondary skills are abilities that represent basic skills learned in previous training that cannot improve any further, nor do they contribute to your character's overall experience level. There are five Secondary Skills:
Hand to Hand | +10 Unarmed Combat Damage
Athletics | Move 15% faster, Stamina regenerates 15% faster
Acrobatics | Take 75% less falling damage, Stamina regenerates 15% faster
Unarmored | Armor rating is 50 when not wearing armor
Mysticism | Magicka regenerates 25% faster
Class Abilities
Each Classic Class starts with a Class Ability that represents the training they received prior to arriving in Skyrim and gives them an edge over those who have had to teach themselves. In some cases, this is a bonus Novice-level perk. In others, this bonus is separate, but stacks with other similar bonuses from perks, etc.
Starting Spells
Characters that start with a Major Skill in one of the magical schools will start with one novice and one apprentice spell for that school.
Default-style Characters
If you wish to play Skyrim using the default character progression, no need to uninstall! Simply select "Adventurer" from the main menu and your character will have 15 pts in every skill (before racial bonuses are applied) as well as the default spell loadout. This allows you to player a default character but still choose a birthsign.
Full class descriptions can be found under the aptly named "Class Descriptions" section of this document, as well as the in-game menus.
Custom Class Creation
To choose a custom class, select "Custom Class" from the main menu. You will be provided the opportunity to choose 7 Major Skills, as well as a +20 bonus to either Health, Stamina or Magicka.
Combat specialists focus on melee or ranged weaponry and use armor to protect themselves from harm.
The combat classes are: Archer, Barbarian, Crusader, Knight, Rogue, Scout, and Warrior.
Stealth specialists focus on avoiding detection and sneak attacks to give them the edge in combat.
The stealth classes are: Acrobat, Agent, Assassin, Bard, Monk, Pilgrim and Thief.
Magic specialists focus on the arcane arts and spellcasting, sometimes combined with martial skills, to achieve their goals.
The magic classes are: Battlemage, Healer, Mage, Nightblade, Sorcerer, Spellsword and Witchhunter.
After class selection, players are given the option of choosing which of the nineteen constellations their character was born under. As a Dragonborn, you can choose to come under the effect of the starsigns as they shone during the Third Era, or as they shine in the Fourth Era, or choose The Traveler to skip birthsign selection at character creation and continue with default play.
Default Play
If you wish to start with no birthsign, select the wandering star, The Traveler, and your character will start play with no starsign attuned - just as in default play.
Fourth Era Birthsigns
The Fourth Era birthsigns share the same powers as Skyrim's standing stones but are chosen at character creation. These powers can be exchanged at any time for another standing stone's power at any of the stones in the game. A full description of each can be found on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages
Third Era Birthsigns
The Third Era Birthsigns are unique and based upon the birthsign abilities in Oblivion and Morrowind. These are chosen at character creation and remain with your character throughout play. They cannot be changed once chosen. However, you can still come under the effects of a standing stone power by attuning yourself to the stone. Just like in Oblivion, birthsign and standing stone abilities DO stack! The Third Era Birthsign abilities are as follows:
The Warrior | Deal 20% increased damage with weapons
The Lady | Fortify Health 20 pts and Magicka regenerates 25% faster
The Lord | Restore 60 Health over 15 seconds for 100 Magicka, take 25% more damage from fire
The Steed | Move 25% faster
The Thief | 40 additional Armor Rating
The Lover | Once per day, you can paralyze a foe for 10 seconds
The Shadow | Once per day, turn invisible for 60 seconds
The Tower | 10% reflect damage
The Mage | 30 bonus Magicka
The Apprentice | 50 bonus Magicka, 50% weakness to magic
The Atronach | 100 bonus Magicka, Magicka does not regenerate, 50% chance to absorb spells
The Ritual | Once per day, heal yourself for 200 Health. Once per day, cast Mass Turn Undead
The Serpent | Once per day, potent poison on touch. Cast Cure Poison on Self.
To Install, simply copy to to your ~/skyrim/data folder and activate the ClassicClasses.esp
To Uninstall, remove the following files:
- The speed boost granted by the Third Era Steed birthsign saves to the character. If you uninstall the mod and want to remove the speed boost from that character, type this into the console: player.setav speedmult 100
- If the menu does not appear when you first equip a weapon, it is likely your using an older version of the game. I am not sure why this is required, probably has to do with script processing, but please make sure your game is fully up-to-date if you are having this issue.
- Please report any bugs and I will work to squash them!


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Okay, that's a stretch. But the point is, those and other, more valuable insights will become increasingly available if Andrew Fox has his way. The CEO and co-founder of one of the Internet's most popular nightlife Websites, Clubplanet.com, aims to expand the brand in Miami and create an accessible forum for party people of both the intermittent and 24-hour variety. His target demographic is the oft-neglected "middle echelon of clubgoers," whom he hopes will benefit from the guest list access and special promotions Clubplanet is planning for this market.
Last week I took a field trip with Fox, a self-described outsider who started the New York-based Website in 1995 as a way to get himself and those like him into all the places that kept them out. I had expected the man behind a venture like Clubplanet to wear his nose pointed high toward the sky, but surprisingly, Fox was more of a cross between laid-back drinking buddy and busy bee power broker. His mission: reach out to the SoBe tastemakers. So he packed me into the back of his rented Range Rover along with A3-TV's Buster, the adorable gadfly Cubby, and marketing guru Renee Rosen.
First stop was at China Grill's new Wednesday-night dinner party hosted by Tommy Pooch, Ingrid Casares, and Alan Roth, where exotic performers paraded through the upscale restaurant to the beat of retro tunes. Pooch, who was playing air guitar to a Rolling Stones track, told me he was happy to be in the good graces of New Times since we usually "rip people a new asshole." Moments later, I had the pleasure of shaking the hand of the only woman I'm intimidated by, Casares, as Michele Pommier talent rep Ali Kavoussi pinched my nipples. It was a threesome I'd like to re-create someday.
As for the crew I ran with, they were much more mature and responsible than many would think. For one thing, party poster boy Buster didn't have a drink the entire night, and was the first to go home. It should be noted, however, that he didn't need anything other than sushi to be his usual animated self. Afterward it was on to the reinvigorated Wednesday-night party at B.E.D., where Rosen, a beautiful blonde with college-girl looks, was repeatedly carded, thanks to Miami Beach Police's recent crackdown on nightclubs and underage drinking.
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A Messy Transition: Practical Problems With 32bit Addressing In Windowsby Ryan Smith on July 12, 2007 12:00 PM EST
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Now that we've seen what can happen when we reach the 2GB barrier and how easy it can be to pass it, let's talk about what it took to remove it in the first place for Supreme Command. Supreme Commander is unfortunately not compiled as being large address aware and must be modified so that Windows thinks that it is. Microsoft supplies a tool as part of the Visual Studio suite, Editbin, that can do just this by rewriting the file header to report to Windows that it is in fact large address aware.
To the best of our knowledge Supreme Commander was programmed using proper programming practices and can handle the larger address space, and this is merely an issue of turning it on. However on a more pragmatic note this can break future patches, and disturbingly it doesn't set off any sort of multiplayer cheat detection in the game in spite of the fact that we have modified the executable in a very visible way. Out of the changes we need to make to deal with the 2GB barrier though, this is the safer of the two.
Update: Gas Powered Games contacted us and let us know that the modified executable not setting off any cheat detection is intentional. The game code is all in a DLL, and the executable is just a launcher; it's left unchecked because of the various Digital Rights Management systems used change the exectuable.
Changing Windows on the other hand to allocate more of the virtual address space to applications is in practice just as dangerous as we theorized earlier. We initially set our copy of Windows Vista to adjust the split to 1GB kernel mode, 3GB user mode, only for Vista to encounter a BSOD while booting. We had to settle for a 1.4GB/2.6GB split before Vista would boot, and even then Vista still periodically encounters a BSOD upon booting at that allocation or any other allocation other than 2GB/2GB. While what problems may occur and with what values is highly variable from system to system, this is why trying to move the barrier at all can be dangerous.
Having made the above changes, we also used the chance to take a look at system performance both in and outside of Supreme Commander, taking interest in to the effect of allocating more user mode space. As we theorized before, taking space away from the kernel may impact performance, and this is something that needs to be tested. For this we ran a cut-down version of our normal system test suite, with allocations of 1.4GB/2.6GB, 1.7GB/2.3GB, and the default 2GB/2GB.
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Going down the list of benchmarks, we find that there is no notable change in performance in any of our benchmarks. Since none of these benchmarks are capable of using more user space we weren't expecting an increase, but this puts to rest the idea of a performance decrease. There does not appear to be a performance decrease in adjusting the user space size; if it boots it'll perform well.
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BabyBear - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - link
This also happens with Flight Simulator X by the way.
Over on Phil Taylor's blog he makes mention of it awhile back
http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2007/06/15/f...">Microsoft's Phil Taylors Blog
There was also some talk that the June 07 DirectX Redist. seemed to 'help' with Out of Memory problems when using the /3gb switch. Reply
joetron2030 - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkOn "Page 4: A Case Study: Supreme Commander", in the paragraph discussing the first screen shot from Sysinternals' Process Explorer, you refer to the "Virtual Size" column as the "Private Size" column (which doesn't exist in the screen shot).
Had me briefly confused. Reply
quanta - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkAlthough Windows 2000/2003/Vista server versions aren't exactly designed for gaming, did anyone tested game titles on these server OS to see if these large address aware titles will use the Physical Address Extension feature? Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkThe short answer is no.
The longer answer is that due to a combination of chipset support, software support, performance, and driver support, it's not really usable outside of a server environment and shouldn't be used on a consumer system. Reply
brink - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkWouldn't matter, WinXP SP2 uses PAE, why would you want to install it on a server OS? Only 2003 is a server OS of the ones you mentioned, and I think only Windows 2003 Enterprise is the only 32-bit OS that has the ability to use more than 4GB of memory (8GB seems to be the limit for what modules/mobos are available right now) Reply
TA152H - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkI'm just reading the remarks about the 386 pushing the memory from 1 MB, to 4 GB. It's patently untrue, unless you think the 386 succeeded the 8086, and not the 286. The 286 had 24 bit addressing (in 64K segments) for 16 MB of memory. This is not only what OS/2 used, but extended memory as well. So, it's not academic. Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkJust hearing the words "segmented memory" gives me flashbacks - and they're not the good kind. For this article we're talking strictly about flat addressing since I could write a small book on just segmented addressing, but I've updated the article to make this clear. Reply
TA152H - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkEither way, you're using the wrong values. Even on the 8086 the memory was segmented. Actually, so was the 386, but it could handle segments up to 4 GB, so it wasn't important. So, using 1 MB and saying you're not referring to segmentation is inaccurate; that is segmented memory.
Segmentation was not a bad thing, particularly back then. It saved memory space, and back in 1978 that was a big thing. Addresses were given in 16 bits, you didn't have to specify the rest, and the net result was you had shorter code. You would have to change the registers to point to the next segment from time to time, but overall it saved a lot of memory. You also could protect apps from each other, but that wasn't really used.
I was an OS/2 developer, and it was a pain sometimes for sure. By the time the 286 came out, which I think was the best processor Intel ever made considering the timing, and the incredible capabilities it had over it's predecessor (the 8086, not the 80186 which was made in parallel with the 286), the extra memory saving was not worth the nuisance of having to deal with, at most, 64K segments. But it really wasn't possible for Intel to do it any other way, as I'll explain below.
Motorola even added some external memory management unit that added segmentation, which today seems strange. It's widely viewed now as just a bad thing, but back then, it wasn't. Motorola really had a choice though, since the 68K was part 32-bit, and part 16-bit, and part 24-bit (addressing). Although the 286 was a more powerful processor than the 68000, it was pure 16-bit, except for the oddity of the 24-bit addressing. Consequently, allowing flat 24-bit addressing would not have been feasible. So, they dealt with it by just adding more segments. Considering the absolutely incredible improvement in this processor in just about every way, it was not such a bad tradeoff.
BitJunkie - Friday, July 13, 2007 - linkHiya Bill. Reply
jay401 - Thursday, July 12, 2007 - linkJust FYI, SupCom has already exhibited this problem and crashes once it breaks the 2GB barrier, which can happen easily in longer games with a high unit limit.
This is mostly due to the poor efficiency in their code and models, something GPG (the developer, Gas Powered Games) reported could not easily be fixed in a patch because they basically have to re-render every unit in the game so they take up less memory. Due to this, it's likely to remain unfixed until the expansion pack (now a standalone game) Forged Alliance comes out in November, if it is fixed at all
One forum member developed a way to increase the addressable memory to around 3GB on 32bit WinXP and Vista, so if you're running 4GB, this provides a sort of band-aid solution in the meantime. Reply


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RICHMOND (WRIC)—In the wake of Tuesday's snowfall, classes have been cancelled for the third day in a row for many Central Virginia schools.
By Thursday afternoon, students will have missed 24 hours of class time this week. Two weeks ago, a polar vortex caused many schools to open late. A lot of instructional hours have been missed due to inclement weather this month; the question is, does that time need to be made up?
"I wish it was no school all week," said a young sledder enjoying the time off.
Her wish just might come true. Most students haven't been to school since Friday, Jan. 17. Students had Monday off in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and have had snow days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
In Northern Virginia, Loudoun County Public Schools announced Wednesday evening that classes would be cancelled for the remainder of the week. Many students here in Central Virginia are hoping for the same.
"It wasn't like that when I went to school," said Tharrin Akers, who lives in Henrico County.
Henrico resident Katelyn Akers said, "I told my sister earlier, 'Y'all are gonna be going [to school] in July with all these cancellations and the two-hour delay[s].'"
Virginia state law requires that students receive 990 instructional hours each year. Up in Fairfax County, the school district's three allotted snow days have already been used up this year, and students must attend classes on President's Day as a make-up. But even with this week's three snow days, school districts in the Richmond area still have snow days to spare.
"Our instructional day, every day, is longer than what the state requires, and that extra time accumulates," said Andy Jenks, director of communications and public relations for Henrico County Public Schools. "We'd have to be off school for another two weeks before that even becomes an issue; we'd have to lose many more days before we'd start to consider that."
Should an excess of snow days become an issue in Chesterfield County, school days may be extended to make up for missed time. In Henrico County and the City of Richmond, Monday, Feb. 17, President's Day, has been built in as a make-up day.
With no make-up days scheduled yet, local students are happy and others are left wondering why.
When asked if he thought area children should have to make up this week's snow days, Tharrin Akers said, "When I went to school we had to."
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"Returning to his alma mater as faculty member and ethnographer, Khan offers an incisive study of the formation of a new, meritocratic elite. . . . Of utility and wide appeal to a range of academics, Khan's study is consistently engaging and of potentially enduring value."--Choice
"Essential reading for understanding today's elite. Not since Christopher Lasch's Revolt of the Elites has the meritocracy been so effectively skewered."--Austin Bramwell, American Conservative
"There are few ethnographic accounts of life in exclusive American boarding schools and Khan's book is far and away the most sophisticated among them. But the contribution of Privilege goes beyond this narrow field. Those interested in the sociology of culture, stratification, everyday life, education, race, and gender will find much to appreciate. . . . Khan is a versatile and earnest ethnographer with a sharp eye for gesture and a keen ear for dialogue."--Victoria Bonnell, Contemporary Sociology
"Privilege is a welcome addition to the sociological literature on elite prep schools. . . . This readable book provides a vivid, often elucidating, and not always pretty look at life at St. Paul's as of the 2004-05 school year."--Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Social Forces
"[Shamus Rahman Khan's] book [is an] excellent, engaging, well written, and carefully researched study of the ways culture works in and through schools."--Lisa M. Stulberg, Contexts
"Privilege is a welcome addition to the sociological literature on elite prep schools. . . . [Khan] is the narrator of this ethnography, and he is often a participant in the events he observes and analyzes. We get to know him, and he is an enjoyable and informative companion, one who is honest about the challenges he has faced."--Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Oxford Journals
"Privilege is superb. Khan skillfully narrates from the perspective of both teacher and researcher, and the personal portraits are very well-rounded. This important book is a masterly look at a disturbing current in the formation of elite American society."--Richard Sennett, author of The Corrosion of Character
"This is a terrific book. Khan's strong authorial voice and wonderful personality shine through and it is a pleasure to follow his life and travails at St. Paul's."--Michèle Lamont, Harvard University
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Metal News for May 20, 2007
Last updated on September 25, 2017 at 12:38 AM ET
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20 news articles posted on this day.
Sheavy Issue New Album Update
Canadian stoner rockers SHEAVY check in with the following update:
"The new album entitled The Machine That Won The War is nearing the final stages of completion. It looks as though it should be back from manufacturing by mid June and available shortly thereafter. To the left is a preview of of the cover art courtesy of Eliran Kantor. Right now it looks as though there will be two versions. One will contain a bonus DVD consisting of a live performance we did in St. Johns in March. The other version will be CD only and will contain the following new tracks: 'One Of Us Must Be Dead', 'Aboard The Mothership', 'Rings Of Saturn', 'Demon Soldiers', 'Dawn Of The Black Orchid', 'Humanoid', 'The Dark Carnival', 'Lords Of Radiation', 'Here Falls The Shadow', 'The Sleeping Assassin', 'Where Earth Meets Sky', 'The Gunfighters'. That's about it from here. We can't wait to get this done!! Peace!"
Will Haven Reveal 'Hierophant' Track Listing
Sacramento metalcore heroes WILL HAVEN have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Hierophant", due on June 19 in the United States through Bieler Bros. Records (one day earlier internationally). It is as follows:
01. Helena
02. The Hierophant
03. Speaking In Solidarity
04. Fire Dealer
05. Kings Cross
06. Handlebars To Freedom
07. Caviar With Maths
08. Skinner
09. By The Teeth
10. Murder For Hire
11. Landing On Ice
12. Sammy Davis's One Good Eye More...
Clawfinger Reveal New Album Track Listing
Swedish rap/metal combo CLAWFINGER has set the track listing for its new album, "Life Will Kill You", due on July 27 via Nuclear Blast Records. It is as follows:
01. The Price You Pay
02. Life Will Kill You
03. Prisoners
04. Final Stand
05. None The Wiser
06. Little Baby
07. The Cure & The Poison
08. Where Can We Go From Here
09. It's Your Life
10. Falling
11. Carnivore More...
Scum of the Earth Reveal New Album Cover Art
Scum of the Earth (featuring former Rob Zombie guitarist RIGGS) have revealed the cover art for their upcoming Sleaze Freak album to be released by Eclipse Records, this Summer. The cover image is one of seventeen original acrylic works done by renowned horror-caricature artist Paul Garner, exclusively for Scum of the Earth's follow-up album to their 2004 debut "Blah...Blah...Blah...Love Songs for The New Millennium". Each of the different images illustrate the album's "Red Light District" concept, with the booklet featuring one image for each song, plus a few extras.
The new cover art can be viewed at the following location.
When asked where the ideas for the art came from, Garner replied "As I recall, Riggs and I started with a kind of freakshow idea which mutated into the sleazy Amsterdam red light district concept which worked out much better. With the booklet art we've created a mini Sleaze Freak arcade... I love how the girls on display in the windows have turned out. They're a really cool 'n' trashy cast of characters. Riggs and Brandon make appearances as the creepy clients skulking around the arcade looking for action.". Riggs also chimed in, "For the cover art specifically, there were a lot of revisions we had to go through. I remember a few times where we'd come up with a version, then our label would run it by their distributor and come back to us saying it was too explicit, or the chick didn't have enough clothes on, whatever... stupid censorship crap but finally we got to a point where the label and distro were happy. You know, some stores don't want the right-wing religious folks organizing protests and all that shit."
The band is currently finishing up the Sleaze Freak album at Studio 2100 in Springfield, MO and they expect to be finished mixing by June 1st.
The Roman Holiday Signs To Disgorge Media
Independence, MO metal act The Roman Holiday has signed with Disgorge Media. The group is currently in the process of recording their debut EP, "The Apocalyptic Genocide of the Human Race," at Low Key Productions with Scott Koelzer (Eyes of the Betrayer). The recording should be completed within the next week and is due out before the group hits the road in June with AngelsAmongUs. You can check out a track on the band's MySpace.
The Warriors Prepare To Release New Album
Southern California hardcore group The Warriors will headline the "Borderline Insanity Tour" with support from First Blood, Too Pure To Die, and Since The Flood beginning June 8th. The trek will serve as a preview to their Victory Records debut, "Genuine Sense Of Outrage."
"Genuine Sense of Outrage" was produced by Cameron Webb (Social Distortion, Motorhead) and features guest vocals by Motorhead's Lemmy Kilminster and Comeback Kid's Andrew Neufeld. "'Genuine Sense Of Outrage' touches base on many concepts including truths that reflect directly on our human condition as a whole," Warriors vocalist Marshall Lichtenwaldt says. "It's about stepping outside of ourselves and realizing that we are all the same. We are all enraged. This record is dedicated to those who truly embrace this culture and realize that these are more than words on a page." The album will hit streets in August, and the track listing is as follows: More...
Coctopus, Ramming Speed Sign To TDB Records
Teenage Disco Bloodbath Records have signed two new bands, Coctopus and Ramming Speed.
Boston's Coctopus features former members of Bones Brigade and Shanghai Valentine. The band plays "balls-out" rock inspired by classic rockers Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Motorhead and Jimi Hendrix. Their debut album is due out this summer. You can check out a few songs here.
Also hailing from Boston, Ramming Speed will be releasing a brand new 7" this summer followed by a full US tour. This five-piece thrash outfit features former members of Backstabbers Inc. and Cyanide Breed. The band has posted a handful of tracks here.
Ramming Speed has a number of tour dates lined up for this summer, the latter portion paired with with Coctopus on a number of them. Here are the Ramming Speed "Top of the Dude Chain" Tour '07 dates: More...
Enthroned Issue Italian Mini-Tour Report
Nornagest, guitarist/vocalist of Belgian black metallers ENTHRONED has issued the following tour report on the band's official forum:
"We are back from the Italian tour! It was a blow and a huge success! We first landed in Milano, where the promoter and the guys of SINISTER were waiting for us. We had a trip of six hours till the first venue and got prepared for our first show in a year and the first one with the new line-up! We played a 60 minutes set even tho the venue was filled with about 150 people (Thursday night) the place was in the mood! After the show and some drinks with the fans we headed to the hotel and took the plane the next day in Rome's airport, direction Palermo (Sicily). The place looked like a semi-open-air disco quite bizarre but top notch indeed. I perform a banishing ritual just before entering the stage and invoked Kali-Ma. The concert went on filled with Hatred (one of the most infernal presence on stage I ever had!) and despise some little problems with the sound engineer everything went on like a fist in the face! Sinister invaded the stage for an excellent old-school DM show, these guys are back with a vengeance for sure! As the owner of the venue allowed us free drinks for the whole night we spent a white night and took back the plane to Valencia direction Este. The venue was one of the hottest ever, the gig went fine but in the middle of the set, I piece of string slashed my pinky and I lost a piece of flesh and I spent the rest of the gig playing with my "d" string slashing inside the wound, well shit happens... Another success, but a very quite audience. More...
Venom Gear Up For Scandinavian Tour
UK black metal legends VENOM are preparing for their Scandinavian Tour later this month.
The opening acts will definitely be Scandinavian bands says frontman Cronos: "I asked our agents in Scandinavia to select some local talent to open the shows. There's certainly no shortage of metal bands over there, so I've chosen a few that I thought would be ideal, but I've left the final decision to the agency."
In other live news, Venom and their management are also discussing other live plans with their agents for later this year. An American tour and some dates in Australia are in the cards, there's also talks of some shows in Japan and across Europe.
In new album news, the recording schedule for the new Venom album is well underway. The band have already laid the majority of the backing tracks and reports so far are that everyone is very excited by the results. According to a band update, "it's a very dark sounding album following on in the footsteps of last years release, Metal Black." More...
Iced Earth Announces New Guitarist
ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer has posted the following update at the official Iced Earth website:
"Our new guitar player's name is Troy Seele. Troy did a few solos on the new record and will be touring with us. He's been a friend of mine for about ten years and is from the Indianapolis (Indy) area. He's by far the best guitar player in Indy and will be bringing some cool vibes to the table."
As previously reported, Iced Earth's new EP, Overture Of The Wicked, is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com This title will be released on June 5th, 2007.
Funeral Procession Warn Against Bootleg Of Demo
German black metallers FUNERAL PROCESSION have issued the following update:
"It has come to the band's knowledge that bootleg copies of the very first demo are spread via eBay and different mail-orders. The releases are claimed to be originals, but they are certainly not. An easy way to check your copy against those bootlegs is to make sure that the numbers inside the tape are written with red ink (the bootlegs have them in blue) and that both cover plus band picture are distinguishable (due to the bootleg being a xerox of a xerox one cannot recognize anything). The tape was released more than eight years ago and limited to 300, so it is of course very unlikely that a whole pile of tapes suddenly appears out of nowhere. Count Gothmog (vocals/bass) is currently trying to find out the source of this bootlegging and as soon as it is clear where they stem from, names will be made public."
Therion Announce Moscow Live Show Changes
Swedish metallers THERION have issued the following update regarding tonight's show (May 20th) at B1 Maximum in Moscow, Russia:
"Due to technical reasons the two support acts in Moscow will be cancelled. There will be a very long change over between Therion and BLIND GUARDIAN, so Therion will be on stage earlier. Therion will be the first band.
Update: Therion will also play a heavily reduced set due to the promotor not delivering the stage as agreed. One of the main problems could have been fixed, but Blind Guardian would not allow Therion to use the drum riser. Therion now have to set up the drums in front, leaving only a 1.5m stage left in front of the drums. The reason for Blind Guardian not allowing Therion to use the drum riser? It MIGHT make the drums sound a bit different in the monitors from the sound check, something that the audience would not notice.
Because this will release some time PAIN might be performing after all."
Watch Ozzy Osbourne's 'I Don't Wanna Stop' Video
The video for OZZY OSBOURNE's first single, 'I Don't Wanna Stop', has been unleashed to the net. The track, which is taken from his new Black Rain album, out May 22, can be found online at The Headbangers Blog.
Stone Sour Cancel Set of European Dates in July
STONE SOUR have been forced to cancel a series of dates in early July due to "family obligations". The affected dates are below:
June 30 - Goteborg, Sweden @ Metaltown
July 1 - Leipzig, Germany @ With Full Force
July 3 - Athens, Greece @ Rockwave Festival
July 6 - Turku, Finland @ Ruisrock
Evile Issue Second Update From the Studio
EVILE have checked in from the studio for the second time, offering an update with former METALLICA producer Flemming Rasmussen (METALLICA) from their Huddersfield, UK rehearsal space over the past weekend. Drum tracks are officially complete, with rhythm guitars next up for recording. You can read the full update, as well as see some candid pictures here.
Dark New Day To Release New Demos
DARK NEW DAY has hit out in an attempt to quell fears that they are breaking up. Guitarist Clint Lowery has issued the following calming update:
"Dear dark new day friends. As you may of heard Will and Troy are going out with Evanesance. And you've heard I'm going out with Korn this year. I'm here to say DnD will live on. We recorded some great material recently with David Bendeth (Breaking Beanjamin, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Clutch) and I just met with my A&R guy at our label, Warner Bros. All of us are gonna be off in Sept after family values and we will record our record them. The great thing is I'll be out there with Troy and Will and we can continue writing with them for the new record. It's been a hard year for us as being out of the scene soo long. But I promise all of you we will make a slamming record and it should be out in March of next year. It's a great opprtunity for Troy, will and myself to be out there playing and taking care of our familys. Music is all we know and sitting home until Sept would be hard. Brett is busy producing and Coreys writing songs and producing alot of bands. We have to survive and to I was really sad but excited to have to be the only one leaving to tour with Korn but now it's gonna be better cuz we can be on the rode together and write and Brett and Corey will be writing so we can keep trying to top what I already feel is a strong record. Ya'll been so patient and supportive but we will make this record. I'm just glad we'll all be off at the same time. WE LOVE YOU and we'll post songs that we've demoed to give you new music. "Fist from the Sky" was just a demo we did. We'll try to put at least 5 on there over the next few weeks."
Watch Mastodon Perform 'Sleeping Giant' At MTV
Video footage of MASTODON performing the song "Sleeping Giant" on MTV's "24 Hours of Human Giant" has been posted at MTV.com. MASTODON played the track live at noon on Friday (May 18) at MTV's Times Square studios in New York City. The performance, which kicked off a special 24-hour stunt on MTV hosted by the two comedians from their show "Human Giant", was reportedly shown live on large screens in Times Square.
A 23-minute video interview with MASTODON, conducted recently by David Farrier of New Zealand's of TV3, has been posted online at this location.
MASTODON and AGAINST ME! kicked off their tour on May 1 at Los Angeles' Wiltern LG. Each night on the trek, there will be a raffle to give away an Epiphone guitar signed by both bands at the end of the show. Just fill out the raffle form that will be in the merch area of the venue — make sure to fill it out completely — and the winner will be announced immediately after MASTODON's set. Must be present to win.
MASTODON is touring behind its critically acclaimed current album "Blood Mountain", which includes the No. 1 metal and Grammy-nominated single "Colony of Birchmen". The band was recently tapped as a "Discover & Download" artist on MTV.
Outworld Post 'War Cry' Video Online
Houston, Texas-based metallers OUTWORLD have posted their video for the song 'War Cry' at this location.
Outworld, whose debut CD was released last fall on Replica Records, is currently writing for the follow-up CD. The band is scheduled to do their first performance since being joined by frontman, Carlos Zema at Texas Madfest on July 13th.
Outworld's lineup includes guitarist Rusty Cooley, who is known for his various intensive guitar instruction on DVD/CD-ROM and his signature Dean Guitar unveiled earlier this year. You can hear clips on their MySpace page.
Helix Add More Canadian Dates To Upcoming Tour
Canuck rock legends HELIX have added a number of new live dates (here *) to their upcoming tour schedule. Dates are as follows:
24 - Brandon, MB - Trails West Inn
25 - Winnipeg, MB - Silverados
26 - Creighton, SK - Creighton Sportex
7 - Calgary, Alberta - Silver Dollar Casino *
8/9 - Grande Cache, AB - Grande Cache Hotel
12 - Fort St. John, B.C. - The North Peace Cultural Centre *
13 - Strathmore, AB - The Old Mill *
14 - Lethbridge, AB - Average Joe's Sports Bar *
15/16 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Casino
22 - Hanover, ON - The Forum Sports Bar & Grill
23 - Lucknow, ON - Lucknow Arena (with KIM MITCHELL)
12 - Bracebridge, ON - The Concrete Monkey *
13 - Ottawa, ON - Greenfield's Pub *
21 - Vancouver, B.C. - Langley Casino *
25 - Sudbury, ON - Summerfest *
9 - Whitby, ON - Johnny B's * More...
Blood Duster Post New Album Samples Online
Australian act BLOOD DUSTER — which is described as blending lethal grindcore with traditional '70s-style Southern rock and rockabilly rhythms spiced up with a large dose of grossed-out humor — released its new album, "Lyden Na", on April 28 via Goat Sounds. According to a press release from Shock Records, the album title, when translated from Norwegian, means "The Now Sound" — a name which is supposed to pay "homage to the great Norwegian 'black metal' bands from past and present."
In late 2006 the group started recording what is to be a three-CD set — two discs to be sold in one package, with the third to be downloaded from the band's website. The download comes with exclusive demos from the album and a special fan video only available via a password on the band's "Hippie Kill Team" members' site. More...
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Independent Living
Meramec Bluffs is filled with endless opportunities for fun and friendship. Our spacious, comfortable senior living apartments and patio homes offer a full range of life-enriching amenities. Surrounded by warm, friendly neighbors and a caring, professional staff, you're sure to feel right at home.
REACH Short Stay
Need short-term care following a qualifying hospital stay? You can find it through our REACH Short Stay Rehabilitation program. Here, our interdisciplinary team can help you work hard toward achieving your goals in a comfortable, homelike setting.
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In our private assisted living apartments, residents benefit from 24-hour staffing, help with personal care, medication assistance, weekly housekeeping, linen service, and three daily meals. We're here to help you maintain your independence by offering the help you need, when you need it.
Memory Care Assisted Living
Our controlled-access memory care neighborhood supports ambulatory residents who have early to mid-stage Alzheimer's disease or other memory impairments. Offering all the amenities of our assisted senior living apartments, this inviting, homelike setting helps residents find comfort in the company of friendly neighbors and caring staff members.
Skilled Nursing
For residents who need 24-hour nursing care, we offer private rooms, companion rooms, and companion suites to help seniors continue to live life to the fullest. Far from the sterile image of the traditional nursing home, our care center is a warm, welcoming environment featuring on-call nursing assistance, licensed medication management, an incontinence care program, and medical director oversight.
The Lutheran Senior Services Difference
As a Lutheran Senior Services (LSS) retirement community, Meramec Bluffs is part of a 157-year tradition of compassionate service. At the heart of our philosophy of care is LSS' Christian mission: Older Adults Living Life to the Fullest.
Serving with heart is at the core of all we do. We cherish people of all beliefs and strive to meet the complete needs of each person we serve — body, mind, and spirit. To that end, we are dedicated to a comprehensive approach to senior care and services, from our skilled team of caregivers to our full time chaplains who provide spiritual support for residents and their families.
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Here are a small sample of the rooms and amenities available at Meramec Bluffs. Clicking on the images below will launch the virtual tour in a new window.
Community Amenities
Independent Living
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The Lifestyle at
Meramec Bluffs
What does an active lifestyle look like at Meramec Bluffs? What do you want it to look like?
When you choose a maintenance-free lifestyle at Meramec Bluffs, you get to leave the hassles and headaches of maintaining property to us. That leaves you free to pursue all the things you love.
Just think — what would you do if you didn't have to spend all your time keeping the house in order? Spend more time with family and friends? Volunteer at your church? Work on your hobbies? Kick back and relax? Here, all your options are open.
Recreation at "The Bluffs"
Our recreation team designs a unique and varied calendar of events each month, with an eye toward helping you expand your horizons socially, culturally, spiritually, and educationally.
There's always something happening at Meramec Bluffs, from exercise classes in the pool to discussion groups in the Chapel, from movie nights in the media room to shopping trips off campus. And if there's ever something you want to do that's not on the calendar, let us know! We're always looking for new ideas.
- Current Activities Calendar (Independent Living)
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- Current Activities Calendar (Memory Care Skilled Nursing)
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Dining at "The Bluffs"
One of the most popular features of life at Meramec Bluffs is our fabulous on-site dining. Our attentive dining services staff is always ready to assist you! Residents in our independent living apartments and patio homes can enjoy meals in our dining room or packaged to go, with meal plans included in their monthly service fee. Meanwhile, our REACH Short Stay, assisted living, memory care, and care center dining areas provide table service for three meals a day.
Plenty of Fun Just Around the Corner
Located in the heart of Ballwin, Missouri, Meramec Bluffs is just a short drive from everywhere. Ballwin and its neighboring communities offer a wealth of cultural attractions, dining, shopping, golf, and medical facilities. Click below to see what Ballwin and its sister cities have to offer.
Welcome to Meramec Bluffs
Bill and Jackie Lindhorst
"We wanted to find a place like this while we were still young enough to be able to enjoy it." And now that they're both retired, Bill and Jackie are making the most of their new-found time together.
"We looked at some other places but nothing compared to this," Jackie says. "Our kids call this a resort. They spend as much time here as we do. We even have dinner with them in the dining room some evenings."
"We ended up selling our house faster than we expected," Jackie says, "and even before we moved in the staff was helping us. They took care of everything 100 percent. Things like storage, turning off the utilities, finding a moving company, the whole thing."
Today, Bill and Jackie Lindhorst are starting their second year in their new patio home, and they couldn't be more pleased. "There are so many nice people here," Bill says. "We've made a lot of new friends in here, more than we've ever had before."
But, the person Jackie most enjoys seeing each day is Bill. "Bill was working so hard for so long, this has been the first time in a very long time that we have been able to do things together," Jackie says, "and I intend to enjoy that for a long time to come!"
The Best Move We Ever Made
Dick Vreeland
"I'm a missionary for the United Methodist Church," Dick Vreeland says. "My field is accounting. And the first assignment I had was to create an internal audit system for a 600-bed hospital in Vellore, India." From 1960 to 1964, Dick trained internal auditors and helped establish modern finance standards for the facility. Quite a first job, right?
Dick's duties also took him around the United States before he and his wife Peg settled down back in St. Louis. Through family friends, the Vreelands learned about Meramec Bluffs, which was just being built at the time.
Tragically, Peg passed away soon after they made the move into their new apartment. Dick had made many transitions in his life, from moving to India, to readjusting to rural life after living in a city of several million…but this transition could have been his toughest.
"In retrospect," he says, "living here made transition quite a bit easier. The staff was extremely helpful. The community was very supportive, and my transition to being a bachelor was made as easy as it could've been. I continued doing many of the things Peg and I used to do as a family. My family just grew to include everyone in the building. It made a bad, bad experience one I could get through."
Today, Dick is grateful for his new family at Meramec Bluffs. "When you open your life up," he says, "it's amazing what might happen."
Shirley's Story
The Clinic at
Meramec Bluffs
Tired of traveling across town to see your doctor? For Meramec Bluffs residents, the addition of our new Primary Care Clinic means they only have to travel down the hall to see a physician!
From Monday through Friday, medical professionals from St. Luke's Hospital are available on-site to meet with residents to discuss their health needs. Services offered include:
- Regular checkups
- Care for minor illnesses and injuries
- Coumadin monitoring
- Blood work (with a physician's order)
- Free blood pressure checks
- Wellness evaluations
- Podiatry (Dr. Thomas Kirisits & Dr. Raymond Brickhouse)
- Dentistry: (Dr. Anne Delaplain)
- Audiology: (Dr. Carol Bergmann)
- Walk-ins welcome
The Primary Care Clinic's Staff Includes…
Primary Care Physician
Dr. Usry sees patients on Wednesday mornings from 8 a.m. to Noon in the Primary Care Clinic at Meramec Bluffs. He is board certified in family medicine and is a member of TriCounty Family Practice at WingHaven®. He completed his residency training in 2007 at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he also served as chief resident for the department of family medicine. His special interests include geriatric and family medicine.
Nurse Practitioner
Working with Dr. Usry, Nurse Practitioner, Jenna Sanders is on-site to treat you Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to Noon (Dr. Usry sees patients on Wednesday mornings). Visit the Clinic if you have a minor illness or injury, such as a sore throat, earache, sprain, strain or any other medical concern. She has been with St. Luke's Hospital since 2013 as a nurse practitioner and previously worked as a cardiac nurse in a hospital step-down unit for 6 years.
To Learn More…
Call Meramec Bluffs at 636.923.2334 or visit StLukes-STL.com to find out more about St. Luke's Hospital.
Our Staff
Thank you for your interest in Meramec Bluffs! At Meramec Bluffs we really do redefine "Retirement Living"!
From the minute you walk through our front door you will experience all the great things Meramec Bluffs has to offer. Whether it is our spacious patio homes and apartments, our variety of dining options, our indoor pool and exercise facilities, or the many fun activities offered on a daily basis – you will find something that makes Meramec Bluffs the perfect choice for you to call home! In addition to our many independent living options we also offer access to a continuum of care should you need Assisted Living or Skilled Nursing care. All of our services are provided in a manner that truly makes Meramec Bluffs home! The best part is the great people who live and work at Meramec Bluffs. Please stop by and visit our community to see for yourself how you can "redefine your retirement!"
Terry Etling
Executive Director
Members of our Team
Meramec Bluffs Executive Director
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The Executive Director of Meramec Bluffs, Terry Etling has worked at LSS for 20 years, starting as Community Administrator of the Breeze Park community in St. Charles. A Certified Aging Services Professional, she has worked in long-term care for over 30 years. Terry earned her master's degree from Webster University in management with an emphasis in Health Care.
Administrator of Care Center
ph 636.923.2386
Maryann returned to Meramec Bluffs as the Care Center Administrator in November of 2014. Prior to that she had been the Director of Nursing at Meramec Bluffs for two years. Maryann has over twenty five years of experience as a RN in a variety of settings. She worked for fifteen years as a Director of Nursing in skilled nursing and three years as a Manager in the Acute Care field. She received her RN degree from Missouri Baptist School of Nursing and was awarded the Missouri Baptist Doctor's Scholarship for academic excellence.
Director of Nursing (RN)
Senior Living Counselor
ph 636.923.2308
Mimi Linhares has been with Meramec Bluffs for the past eleven years. Her prior sales and marketing experience were in the executive suite field, where she leased and managed commercial office space, and in the Communications Department at St. Luke's Hospital. Mimi has been married for 38 years to her husband, George, and they have five children and four grandchildren.
Director of Community Sales & Marketing
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Mary grew up in Lake of the Ozarks and graduated from Florida Southern College with a degree in Elementary Education. She has made St. Louis her home for 16 years. After staying home to raise her children, she started a career in Real Estate as a Community Sales Manager for a national home builder. When the housing market crashed, Mary transitioned to sales and marketing in the Senior Housing Industry where she has worked at both the community and regional level bringing 12 years of experience to her role as Director of Community Sales and Marketing for Meramec Bluffs.
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Mark Cromley attended Northwest Missouri State University, earning a Bachelors in Science in Restaurant and Food Service Management with a Business Minor. He then spent 26 years at Aramark Corporation in their Business Services and Higher Education divisions including accounts at UMSL, Wichita State, Southwest Illinois College, Maritz, Boeing, Citi Mortgage, Federal Reserve, Washington University, and Saint Louis University. In September 2015, Mark joined Lutheran Senior Services as the Director of Dining for Meramec Bluffs.
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Deaconess Gayle has been a chaplain at Meramec Bluffs for ten years. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with degrees in psychology and sociology, and from Concordia Seminary with a master's degree in Deaconess Studies in 2006. She joined the staff at Meramec Bluffs shortly thereafter. Deaconess Gayle is married and has seven children and five grandchildren.
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At Meramec Bluffs, service-minded individuals find many opportunities to give of their time and talents. We match each volunteer with residents and their families depending upon skills, interests, and availability.
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Our parent organization, Lutheran Senior Services, is a not-for-profit organization built on financial stability and sound stewardship. We invite you to support us in our mission of service by making a gift through the LSS Living Foundation.
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Maggy Spencer has been with LSS since 2003. Hired as Director of Marketing, she moved into Stewardship after several years. Her background includes twelve years in funeral service, specializing in prearranged and estate funeral plans. Prior to this she worked in the hospitality area, representing Kraft Foodservice, and later Angelica Uniform. Maggy's focus has always been on exemplary customer service. She has a master's degree from Webster University and a bachelor's degree from Washington University. She is a licensed funeral director as well as licensed in insurance for health and life. She serves as Director of Stewardship for Meramec Bluffs.
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Making the move to a senior living community is an investment in your own peace of mind. Here, you can enjoy an active, maintenance-free lifestyle. And, as a resident of Meramec Bluffs, you gain priority access to higher levels of care should your needs change.
Pricing for Independent Living
When you move into one of our independent living apartment homes or patio homes, you pay a one-time refundable Entrance Fee. Investing in our 95% or 50% refundable entrance fee options is a wise financial strategy that reduces your monthly service fees and keeps your money working for you while preserving your assets.
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Lutheran Senior Services offers a host of resources to make the move to Meramec Bluffs as smooth and carefree as possible. Through the LSS Move-In Resources service, you can find help to organize, rightsize, move, and enjoy!
Our Move-In Resources service can provide…
- Help with managing the home sale process.
- Assistance with transforming a new space so it becomes home.
- Advice on what to take, sell, or give away.
- Preapproved resources to help make the transition easy.
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CHARITY sailing races took place at Flushing Sailing Club on Tuesday with £250 raised for Cornwall Air Ambulance, writes Chris Jelliss.
A southerly breeze turned into a northerly, but race officer Len Cheshire decided as it was the charity race, everyone would start.
He set race officer's choice for the faster boats round Pendennis mark and finish, and Governor and finish for the slower boats.
Per Elisa took off like a long dog in Q class and won the race IRC rating. Encore won on handicap and David Cunliffe took the prizes belatedly at the club.
Jon Peters took Rita to a win in B class, though Victory had line honours. John Fox took Excelle, a Sigma 33, to victory in E classes, both IRC and on handicap.
Sue Grigg sailed Katy to a good win in G class showing her skills in light airs.
Mayfly sailed by Ray Steadman won the Sunbeam class. Nigel Glanville's 'new' Sunbeam Ivy makes a welcome addition to the fleet, and surely once he gets to grips with her he will be as competitive as he was in Morwennel. Amneris sailed by Mike Robson romped home in W class.
Jennie Jelliss sailing Outsider had a brilliant start hoisting the kite on starboard pole and leading the fleet all the way to the Governor buoy and then a beat to the club line.
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Thank you to all who came out to support of the 34th Annual Varsity Club Golf Outing on Friday, June 6, 2014 at Cog Hill Golf Club. The event took place on courses 1 and 3. Learn more about Cog Hill here. In addition to a superior round of golf at one of the most beautiful courses in the area, participants supported the Lewis Athletics Endowment Fund which will benefit athletic projects and initiatives. Check us out Facebook to tag yourself in photos!
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Cleveland Browns Fire Head Coach Rob Chudzinski After One Season
Browns top brass say when they hired Rob Chudzinski, they expected him to improve the team over the course of the season. Instead, they said, the team got worse.
Early in the season, the Browns won three games in a row, but soon lapsed into loss after loss – with just one more win to show after that.
At a press conference, CEO Joe Banner told a packed room of reporters that the final decision to show Chudzinski the door came on Saturday.
"As you go through a season, you see teams get better," Banner said. "Sometimes they're not very good teams and they get better. Sometimes they're the best teams in the league. It was concerning to us that that wasn't happening."
In a written statement sent out through the team, Chudzinski said he was "shocked and disappointed" to learn of his firing.
"I am a Cleveland Brown to the core, and always will be," the statement read. "It was an honor to lead our players and coaches, and I appreciate their dedication and sacrifice."
Reporters peppered Banner and team owner Jimmy Haslam with questions about the future.
Several asked: will another candidate want to work on a team prone to firing its head coach after just one year?
Haslam says he's confident he'll be able to fill the job, because the Browns are a great franchise.
"We're not naïve to the fact that we just let a first-year head coach go, but we think we can attract the right candidate here," Haslam said.
Reporters also asked if the FBI investigation into Haslam's company, Pilot Flying J, for allegedly cheating customers out of rebates would be a factor.
Haslam conceded it's been a distraction, but thinks it will ultimately work out.
"The company has done everything we said we'd do," he said. "We've paid everybody back with interest, we've dealt with the individuals who made some very poor decisions. We've resolved the majority of lawsuits. We're working closely with the government to work through these issues, so we're confident we'll have a successful long-term outcome."
Before the press conference, reporters swarmed the locker room at the team training facility in Berea, asking how the players felt.
Browns' first-round draft pick Barkevious Mingo described an air of unease.
"The uncertainty is everywhere in this locker room," Mingo said. "Guys not knowing if they're going to be back next year. Not knowing if any coaches are going to stay or be back. So it's just a lot of not knowing."
So did Chudzinski get a raw deal? reporters wanted to know. Was too great a burden placed on his back?
A number of players indicated weighing in on that question was maybe above their pay grade.
Shawn Lauvao says team ownership expects results.
"This is the NFL," Lauvao said. "It is a production-based league. It is a Janet Jackson world, you know. 'What have you done for me lately?' … I mean, at the end of the day, you know, the powers that be, it's their decision, we've just got to stick by it."
Jimmy Haslam says he wants a winning team with a winning coach -- and if his word isn't convincing enough, his money should be.
"These are expensive moves, OK?" Haslam said. "So we're not only just saying it. We're talking with our pocketbook OK? So these are not cheap moves to make. And I'm not saying that should be the guiding factor, but we're doing everything we can to get this right."
Haslam's not the only one putting down cash on the Browns' uncertain future.
The city of Cleveland has agreed to shell out $2 million a year for 15 years to help pay for new scoreboards and stadium upgrades.
It's possible that next year, voters will be asked to renew a tax on alcohol and cigarettes that helps pay for stadium repairs.
And then there are the fans who pay admission, which the city taxes at 8 percent.
One of them, Jeff Mazie, was sitting in a folding chair on the sidewalk across the street from the training facility in Berea.
He held a big posterboard covered in old Browns tickets, and wore a paper bag over his head.
"I'm just sick of losing and want to win," Mazie said.
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T-Birds downed Lady Rustlers in V-ball action Thursday night in Riverton
Jordan Leyba (2) sets for Kiara Skinner (14) during the Lady Rustlers match Thursday night with Casper. (CWC Intern photo by Kassidy Bowman)
(Riverton, Wyo.) – The Central Wyoming College Volleyball team lost in four sets to Casper College Thursday night at Rustler Gym: 26-24, 17-25, 22-25, 15-25. The Lady Rustlers are now 10-14 on the season. CWC is on the road for their next three matches, Oct. 5th at Western Wyoming, Rock Springs; Oct. 11th at Eastern Wyoming, Torrington; and Oct. 12th at Laramie County CC, Cheyenne.
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Dove is awesomeTotally awesome makes my hair shiny and silk would highly reccomend! Cheap price all dove products I have tried I reccomend. — 9 years, 4 months agoalisha01 | 20 reviews
Thank you Dove for the SampleI first learned about Dove Pro·Age Shampoo through a magazine ad. It sounded so positive that I went online and found that there were offerings of samples of the shampoo and conditioner. Now, while I am less than enthusiastic about admitting my age, I am thrilled that my hair now supports my mascarade. My hair is thicker looking and it feels as soft and silky as it did when I was in my teens. I am so happy with this product and you will find many of the Pro-Age products in my shower. — 9 years, 5 months agoBumberella | 5 reviews
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Works fine, needs better smell, more conditionersThis product seems to deliver exactly what it promises but I found it kind of boring. Sure, I got clean hair but I wanted it to smell good too. I also found it a little drying. I would like something with more conditioning for older hair. — 9 years, 7 months agoEllycat13 | 8 reviews
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This is nice.I notice one person said she had bumps after using this product. Any product can cause you to break out & it's probably a good idea to try something new on a small area first if you are sensitive to new things. I love these new Pro-Age products as they seem to be focused on women (& I suppose men as well) my age. They leave my hair wonderfully clean, very managable, more shiny & smell ...read moreincredible. Those other products use models that have beautiful, shiny hair to begin with & probably don't even use the product anyway. I really use all the Pro-Age products now & am a real convert. I use every single one of them: the skin products, hair products, soaps, etc. They are exactly as they say they are & do exactly what they say they will do. I love them. It's nice to have something for a woman who is getting older but doesn't want to look like I'm getting older. I think you'll be nicely surprised by these products. — 9 years, 7 months agogenabug | 7 reviews
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Oh, Please....Please tell me how after one use, my head is broken out in bumps?? Not good. — 9 years, 8 months agosanssouci | 18 reviews
left my hair feeling greasyI have fine hair and after about 8 hours it started looking greasy. I don't recommend it for fine hair. — 9 years, 8 months agoKRDRN1 | 15 reviews
wowI love this bodywash it is awesome and it makes my skin feel great as does all dove products. — 9 years, 9 months agorockangel | 171 reviews
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Intuit Reports 11 Percent Growth in TurboTax Units Through April 16
Company Reiterates Third-Quarter and Full-year Revenue Guidance
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif – Apr. 20, 2009 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) today released the final season-to-date update for its fiscal year 2009 consumer tax products. Through April 16, total TurboTax federal units increased 11 percent over the same period last year. Intuit also reiterated its third-quarter and fiscal year 2009 revenue guidance. The company now expects full-year Consumer Tax segment revenue to be slightly below its previous guidance range.
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Keesha and her 4 sisters were dumped at a shelter in TX. They skin and bones when they were brought to the shelter, and clearly sick and terrified. Our rescue spoke up for them right away to get them to the vet and the love and attention they needed. Our vet figured out that they had intestinal parasites and needed to be on medicine so they could start getting the nutrition from their food instead of the parasites. It has now been almost a month and they are happy, healthy puppies!!
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