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Philly girl needs Boston help
I've ALWAYS wanted to go to Boston, but haven't made it there yet. However, my son and 3 friends went during their spring break. We gave them the number of my husband's cousin who lives there (of course we warned him :) and they actually met up with him. Well, not only did he tell them what not to miss, but treated them to a very expensive lunch. How nice you Bostonians are!!!!! I would love to send him something really nice in appreciation. He's single and spends much time at work, so I was thinking a muffin basket sent to work. I would appreciate any suggestions for a local bakery who does anything like this. Thanks for any suggestiions!!!!
Flour Bakery gets a lot of attention around Boston. Here is their website, showing what they might send to your husband's cousin's office. http://flourbakery.com/catering.php Unfortunately, the delivery fee may be higher than you planned for a simple thank you gift. Perhaps some other folks will have ideas for other bakeries.
Flour Bakery + Cafe
12 Farnsworth St, Boston, MA
Dancing Deer Baking Co. is another good choice. Again, the brownies rule!
I haven't tried this place yet, "7ate9 Bakery" delivers in the Boston area, and since I adore cheesecake and delivery, I'm hoping to try it sometime soon. http://winchester.patch.com/articles/...
On the muffin front, http://gingerbreadusa.com offers a fantastic variety of really delicious muffins (although they are in the cupcakes-pretending-to-be-muffins family) and they offer shipping.
I would send him something uniquely philadelphian rather than something from boston.... we don't have soft pretzels, cheesesteaks, tastycakes, strombolis, or goldenberg peanut chews, or scrapple. But don't send scrapple - if we didn't grow up with it (and we didn't) there is no chance that we will enjoy it. The rest of the stuff above would be fun to get, and should be simple for you to find and ship.
Sadly, it looks like Gingerbread Construction Co. doesn't offer delivery. They do have gift cards, though:
If you decide to go a cookie route, Geoff & Drew's are local and really good. I send them to my Dad every year for his birthday:
Gingerbread Construction Co
562 Washington St, Winchester, MA
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I think they do, but via UPS, not via a homey Gingerbread truck at your door. http://gingerbreadusa.com/shipping
Thank you all so much for the suggestions. I think I gained 5 pounds just looking at all these delicious websites! I found out today that he has a weakness for cookies, so I went with Geoff and Drews and sent them to his house so he wouldn't have to share ;). Thanks again everybody, I knew I would get the best ideas here.


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They're some of the first people you see in the morning. They literally stop traffic ... with a whistle, a "Cross!" and a wave. They're your school crossing guards.
They get the kids safely across the streets by our schools and they alert police to careless drivers. The kids are accustomed to their nuances. They know their names — but, usually only the first or the last. Sometimes — albeit rarely — neither.
They don't know much about them, just that they're part of the consistency of their daily routine. They're always there.
Not an awful lot has changed about the role of the crossing guard. There's always something memorable about this traffic-stopping person in a day glow vest that keeps them stuck in long term memory, making them stand-outs in a small town upbringing.
If you ask around, bets are that just about anyone would be able to tell you their crossing guard's name and rattle off some hallmark habit of theirs.
It was that way with Mrs. Breckenridge, who crossed kids in the 1970s with a stern look, a piercing whistle and her signature "CROOOooosss!" Yes, she's the mom of present day Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge.
I doubt anyone could tell you her first name on the spot, though, including this Fair Haven native. But, rarely will you find anyone, if at all, who does not remember Mrs. Breckenridge, that look and that "CROOOooosss!"
Now there are several guards around town in both Fair Haven and Rumson. One, in particular, was brought to everyone's attention on the Fair Haven Facebook page yesterday when native Fair Havenite, Tom Kirman, announced it was his 78th birthday — Harvey.
The page was filled with good wishes for Harvey and recounts of crossing guard tales of the past. Fair Haven native Sarah Wilson, in fact, brought up Mrs. Breckenridge, whose first name Fair Havenite Frank Leslie remembered — Dorothy.
Harvey has been crossing kids at the corner of Fair Haven and River roads for 16 years now and has been around town forever, pretty much.
Harvey's always smiling and he's very serious about keeping his kids safe. He's been known to assist police with his attention to detail when drivers break the law. And he keeps kids on their toes and mindful of obeying pedestrian rules, too.
Harvey, much like many of the crossing guards with whom true townies have had a daily relationship in their lifetimes, is an icon. But he doesn't know it.
Since Kirman posted a picture of himself and Harvey on the Fair Haven page, 39 people have hit the "like" button and the comments have been streaming in from near and very far.
So, Patch is jumping on the crosswalk and taking people a little farther down the road. First of all, wish Harvey a happy birthday. Then, tell us more about him. Tell us a Harvey story. And, what's his last name? Tilton. It's Tilton, just so you know.
Who was or is your favorite crossing guard and what do you remember most about them? What is Mrs. Breckenridge's first name? Do you know? Remember Russ from the 1990s? Tell us your stories and pay some homage to those people you see every day who get the kids across the street with care.

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Students who work hard and achieve high marks are often rewarded, whether it be with something as simple as a gold star or as valuable as a scholarship.
Accordingly, should be getting a bigger budget, in light of its recent successes. In December, the community college announced that it had, in one year, transferred 1,053 students to the University of California system—the first time that number had surpassed 1,000.
Also last year, SMC saw its accreditation reaffirmed—the best outcome a college can achieve. SMC's sports teams have been on tear, its events have been , and the school received earlier this month for its energy-reduction efforts.
Moreover, as President Dr. Chui Tsang noted at the State of the City event on Jan. 27, SMC has been serving almost the same number of students despite a sharp reduction in its budget during the 2009-2010 school year. The school didn't raise fees, either.
"Last year was a spectacular year for the college," he said.
But despite all those successes, SMC is preparing to shrink instead of grow. In an interview with Santa Monica Patch on Wednesday, Tsang mapped out a grim future.
"The faculty and staff work their butts off, and they really have performed in a remarkable manner," he said. "Yet with all this success, we've been asked by the state to downsize. So, reluctantly, we have to do that."
In Gov. Jerry Brown's , funding for community colleges would be cut by 5 percent and community-college classes would cost $36 per unit instead of $26. Although he recently proposed putting an extension of temporary tax increases on the June ballot, if that doesn't happen, the implications could be even worse for SMC, which gets most of its money from the state.
The school would be "looking at much more severe reductions," Tsang said. "It [would] have a big impact on us."
Even if Brown's budget does pass, that would mean SMC will lose $5.5 million in funding—for the 2010-11 school year alone. Combined with the 4 percent reduction in SMC's budget the previous school year, it's looking at a $11 million deficit in 2011-12.
Don't even ask about a cost of living increase. The school didn't have one last year, and won't have one this year or the next.
"Next year will be an adjustment for us," Tsang admitted. "There are a lot of difficult decisions we're facing. We've already made reductions in areas we have control over which did not affect our employee salaries and benefits."
Now, though, "we're going to have to go there."
A hiring freeze has already been in place at SMC, and last year, managers at the college agreed to shift to a different health care plan as a money-saving measure. The school is going to have to ask all its employee groups to make a similar transition, but even that would account for only $1 million to $2 million in savings.
The school also plans to freeze all current salaries, Tsang said. And, perhaps most important, SMC is going to have to reduce its course offerings.
Tsang said he's been bracing students for what lies ahead.
"One of the first things I did at the beginning of the semester was talk to the Associated Students [a student-government organization], and let them know about the impending reductions in the governor's budget and the impact it will have on the college. They understand that this is happening in the context of a larger reduction in the state."
He reiterated: "The state is imposing this on the college."
Tsang said he still wants to encourage prospective SMC students to enroll in the school. He doesn't want them to be "discouraged" and points out that students facing financial hardship can apply for the Board of Governors Fee Waiver.
Still, students and faculty should prepare for tough times ahead.
Amid "all this success, we ... have to downsize," he said.


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Kashi Serves Up Tasty New All Natural Four Cheese PizzaJanuary 25th, 2012New Flavor Combines Traditional and Unique Cheeses for a Classic Addition to Stone-Fired Frozen Pizza Family
Kashi, the premier natural food and lifestyle company, today introduced its new Kashi Four Cheese Pizza, a tasty and naturally nutritious addition to its family of frozen pizzas.
Top OTC Secrets From Your PharmacistJanuary 25th, 2012National Survey Shows Pharmacists are an Underutilized Vitamin Resource, Even With Immense OTC Knowledge
A new nationwide survey finds that on average, pharmacists are significantly less likely to face questions from customers about vitamins and supplements as they are about other over-the-counter (OTC) products and prescription medications. The study also reveals pharmacists' top OTC secrets for a variety of common health topics customers do ask about.
Dr. Bob Sears Demystifies Colic for "Less Crying Time, More We Time"January 25th, 2012New campaign seeks to educate parents on colic vs. reflux and lactose intolerance
Crosscare Inc, the makers of Colief Infant Drops, have today announced a partnership with nationally recognized, board-certified pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears in a campaign aiming to educate parents and pediatricians about an emerging theory in the diagnosis and treatment of colic. Affecting up to 40 percent of all infants, colic is the No. 1 condition pediatricians are asked about by parents.
CLIF Kid Releases New Snack Option for Healthier LunchboxesJanuary 25th, 2012CLIF Kid Zbar's New Iced Oatmeal Cookie Satisfies Cookie Craving with Nutrition Kids Need
CLIF Kid, maker of organic snacks for active kids, today announced nationwide availability of the new Zbar flavor, Iced Oatmeal Cookie.
Hyland's, Inc. Honors Action Hero MomsJanuary 24th, 2012
Every mom is an Action Hero. Bestowed with the super powers to hug away hurt, find lost socks and solve complex algebra problems, she is an unstoppable force of energy, empathy and inspiration. To celebrate the Action Heroes in everyone's life, Hyland's Inc. has launched a free, interactive e-card application that transforms moms into the caped crusaders they truly are.
Top 6 Policy Issues Affecting Seniors in 2012January 24th, 2012Election Year Politics and Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act Will Play Key Role in the Lives of Older Adults this Year
With Congress back in session and the presidential election year in full swing, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) encourages older adults and their caregivers to advocate for key issues that could greatly affect their lives, and their livelihoods.
Lifeway Foods Celebrates New Year with National Challenge: 12 Days to a Better 2012January 24th, 2012Inspiring Online Campaign Features Tips, Recipes and Ideas for Feeling Better This Year
Lifeway Foods, Inc., is kicking off 2012 with a new campaign that challenges folks to resolve to feel better this year. The inspirational initiative, titled "12 Days to a Better 2012", launches today, and features 12 days of online posts, original recipes, and guest bloggers all focused on getting people to incorporate healthy living and body-positive thinking into their lives.
National Peanut Butter Day; Educate Our Kids About Food AllergiesJanuary 24th, 2012With over six million children in the US now facing peanut and other food allergies, food allergy education in schools is a must.
Happy National Peanut Butter Day! Before you run out with your PB&J, peanut butter smoothie, and Nutter Butter cookies to celebrate, consider the following food for thought: It takes over 540 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of America's most loved sandwich spread.
Watch for Signs of Stroke-Related DementiaJanuary 24th, 2012
Approximately 20 percent of all stroke survivors will develop cognitive problems later in life, including vascular dementia. Experts with the Methodist Neurological Institute in Houston say recent research showing a possible link between vascular lesions and Alzheimer's disease is yet another reason to be more vigilant in our efforts to prevent a stroke.
New Power Rangers Power Blast Juices Save the Day with Nutritious, Great Tasting Juice BoxesJanuary 23rd, 2012A Healthy Kids' Juice Available at an Affordable Price
Parents looking for an alternative to sugary drinks finally have a healthy option - Go Go Samurai! Saban's Power Rangers Samurai, the No.


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KENYATTA BERRY (Genealogist)
Kenyatta D. Berry is a genealogist, businesswoman and lawyer with more than fifteen years experience in genealogical research and writing. A native of Detroit, Ms. Berry graduated from Bates Academy, Cass Technical High School, Michigan State University and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She began her genealogical journey while in law school and studying at the State Library of Michigan in Lansing. Ms. Berry has deep roots in Detroit; her ancestors have lived in Detroit since the late 1920's.
She is the President of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and on the Council of the Corporation for the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston. A frequent lecturer and writer, her area of focus is African American and Slave Ancestral research. Ms. Berry is an avid Detroit sports fan and loves to watch the Lions, Tigers and Red Wings from her home in Santa Monica.
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JOSHUA TAYLOR (Genealogist)
D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS is nationally known and recognized genealogical author, lecturer, and researcher. Active in the genealogical community, Joshua is the current President for the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS). Joshua is the former Director of Education and Programs at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Joshua is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Federation of Genealogical Societies Award of Merit, and the Rubincam Youth Award from the National Genealogical Society. He holds an MLS (Archival Management) and an MA (History) from Simmons College and has been a featured genealogist on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are?. Currently, Joshua is the Lead Genealogist and Business Development Manager for findmypast.com.
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cookbooks for my mom -- help please!
My mom is an excellent cook who whips up lots of great Italian, uses many family recipes, but also loves to try new dishes, lots of vegetarian but some meat now and then. I would love to get her several new cook books for Christmas with lots of recipes that she'll actually make. Sometimes I get her books that just sit on the shelves. Looking for nothing outrageously complicated - intermediate difficulty but creative. We currently use lots of recipes from Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Silver Palatte, Moosewood.
Here are my ideas. Suggestions/recommendations, especially if you have/use these books, would be most welcome.
Top choices:
How to Eat - Nigella Lawson - fun reading and fun dishes, right?
Pasta Verde, Judith Barrett - looks delicious and lots of fresh veggies with pasta, creative too.
and then maybe also-- (feedback on these please)
*Everyday Greens - Annie Somerville
*San Francisco Farmers Market Cookbook - a guide to impeccable produce and seasonal recipes --- fond memories at that market, but is the book any good? I found a couple of good reviews
*one of Barbara Kafka's books - I was thinking Vegetable Love
*Zuni Cafe
I've never used Pasta Verde but I do have another of Judith Barrett's cookbooks, Saved by Soup. I like that book a lot. A wide variety of soups, from easy to complex. And, there are also many seasonal soups. I've used it for years.
EDITED: to make the forgotten point (I got hungry and made myself a snack ;-)), that if her Pasta book is similar to the soup book, it should be a very nice gift indeed.
If she likes to cook with Bon Appetit or Gourmet, maybe look into the big yellow Gourmet book. I've enjoyed cooking from it this past year. I convinced a friend of mine to also purchase it and neither of us has hit a recipe that hasn't worked. It's become my go-to cookbook for basic dinners.
I do like the Zuni Cafe cookbook. But, it isn't something that I cook from on a regular basis. Mostly, because most of the recipes requires of lot of forethought as many of the items need to be brined or prepped days in advance. There is no throwing together a dinner from it. I haven't looked at it in a while, but other than the desserts, I've only really looked at their meat recipes. Not sure how much vegetarian recipes are in the book.
Vegetable Love is excellent, I gave it to a veggie friend last year. You might also want to consider one of Deborah Madsen's books, she has a vegetable one that is beautiful. Also the Barbara Kafka "Roasting" is a family favorite.
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I have Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and use it often. The book dips into a large variety of cuisines and provides notes in the margin for most recipes (go withs, options and so on). I can vouch for the authenticity of the Indian recipes in there, in case you care about that. It is also good for information of the "how to select and store" variety for vegetables as well as other staples. The information is well indexed and easy to find.
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The Silver Spoon - it's the cooking bible of Italy just recently translated into English. It's the Italian Joy of Cooking. I can't put it down. In fact I sit and read it on weekends ; ) Authentic, simple, wonderful Italian recipes for every ingredient imaginable. Which is what I love, it's sorted by main ingredient (vegetable, meats, fishes, etc.) so is easy to use.
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thanks! Silver Spoon is another on the list, but I had heard that it might be a little too intricate for everyday use. But your rave reviews definitely sounds like it would be something my mom would use a LOT. I like the ingredient-based organization too :) great for seasonally inspired cooking!
San Francisco Chronicle cookbook might appeal to her. Not glossy, but lots of top of the class selections from the newspaper column. Whenever I open it I find lots to inspire.
re: NYchowcook
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San Francisco Chronicle cookbook's recipes are simple food w/ a creative twist. (weaned to 350 recipes out of 13,000 or so published in the newspaper column)
I've made lots of easy and quick recipes; some are longer. It's for the home cook -- not restaurant multi-level techniques. Draws on some of the top chefs of SF. I like it alot, and your mom might too.
The Zuni Cafe Cookbook is great. I find Nigella Lawson's books to be - um not very interesting. I liked Vegetable Love. The San Francisco Farmers Market Cookbook (unlike the market itself) I thought was so, so. For everyday use I have given a number of friend a book called "The Way we Cook" by Sheryl Julian and Julie Rivera. Another favorite of mine that she might really like - I think you can still get it is "The Mediteranean Kitchen" by Joyce Goldstein (most of her books are interesting).
Annie Sommerville & Deborah Madison sound like great possibilities. I love Fields of Greends by Anne Sommerville & Greens by Deborah Madison. Both are creative, fresh more gourmet style vegetarian. Madison's Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone is also good but has a lot more basics. I have the Zuni Cafe cookbook and have used it a little and its good but more time-consuming than the others I mention. Good luck!


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EDITOR'S NOTE: Nominations are now closed. Stay tuned for the polling.
It never fails, you either forgot the milk for your kid's cereal or the rice to accompany the chicken meal you sweated over cooking for dinner.
When you need a quart of milk, a loaf of bread, or a specialty item to create an award-wining dish even Chef Gordon Ramsay would love, what grocery store do you frequent?
San Juan Capistrano has its two big supermarkets, and . But we also have mercados, a more health-oriented store in and an upscale grocery in . And let's not forget our roadside vegetable stand, . Which is your go-to grocery?
Tell us your favorite spots in the comments section below.
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The Naples Players will hold auditions for drama "Our Town" at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7. No appointment is necessary. Michael Scanlan, who helmed one of this spring's best shows "The Clean House," will direct.
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The Naples Players will raise the single ticket price for main-stage musicals from $35 to $40 this season, an internal newsletter reveals.
The Naples Players will hold auditions for "The Mystery of Irma Vep" at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 31. No appointments are necessary.
The final piece of the 2013-14 theater season fell into place Monday as the Naples Players announced A.R. Gurney's "Black Tie" will complete their season.
The Naples Players will hold auditions for "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" starting at noon Saturday, Aug. 3.
The Naples Players ETC...Readers' Theatre has extended the deadline for the 10th annual "Evening of New Plays" contest until June 30. Submit two copies to: New Plays 2013, The Naples Players, 701 5th Ave. S., Naples 34102. Up to four $100 cash prizes available, with plays presented Dec. 6-7. naplesplayers.com for more.
This is the cast for the Naples Players production of "Les Miserables." I have some thoughts on how theaters might turn the all-too-routine cast lists into an opportunity for publicity. That will be Monday's column.
Here's the press release and an early press photo for the Naples Players production of "The Producers."
Here's the latest on the Naples Players ETC... new play contest. Deadline is May 31. Playwrights interested in a larger prize ($500), might want to also check out a similar competition at the Firehouse Community Theatre in LaBelle.
The Naples Players plan an ambitious, artistically challenging season in 2013-14, documents mailed to season ticket holders revealed Wednesday. Renewal packages sent this week to longtime season ticket holders and provided to the Naples Daily News by a theater patron detail the Blackburn Hall and Tobye Studio seasons. No summer musical was announced.
The Naples Players' ETC...Readers' Theatre has cast the players for its on-stage readings of three short comedies, themed "Futile Attraction," at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in the Tobye Studio of Sugden Community Theatre.
Here's the press release for the upcoming Naples Players production of "Ghost-Writer." Very intriguing show this. Very. Victoria Diebler, Maria Lane and Charles Kolmann star in the show about a typist (Diebler) for a writer (Kolmann) who continues to receive the man's manuscript after his death.
Information obtained from the websites of two major theatrical licensing agencies offers an early glimpse inside the next season for the Naples Players, Collier County's largest and most established amateur theatrical group. Notably, the group has secured amateur theatrical rights to produce epic musical "Les Miserables" this summer.
Here are the reviews for the Naples Players production of "Barefoot in the Park." Nancy Stetson was much more positive on the show than I was.
Got a press release for the Naples Players production of "The Producers." Here's the cast:
The Naples Players will hold auditions for Sarah Ruhl play "The Clean House" at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 12. "The Clean House" will be at least the third Sarah Ruhl play on local stages in the past few years.
KidzAct youth theatre of The Naples Players will present "Nutcracker Goes Pop!" Friday, through Sunday, December 7 - 9 at Golden Gate High School, 2925 Titan Way, Naples.
Here's the cast for the Naples Players production of "Ghost-Writer."
KidzAct youth theatre of The Naples Players will present "Nutcracker Goes Pop!" Friday, through Sunday, December 7 - 9 at Golden Gate High School, 2925 Titan Way, Naples.
The Naples Players will hold auditions for spring musical "The Producers" starting at noon on Saturday, Dec. 8. Appointments are required by calling 239-434-7340 X10. Call backs will be held Sunday, December 9, starting at 10 a.m. Details are below.


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Meadville Tribune
The economy, job growth and 'smarter government' were the main focuses of local legislators following President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Obama urged a deeply divided Congress to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation's middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit "even worse" than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first term and conceded economic revival is an "unfinished task" while claiming clear progress.
Statements were issued by Republican U.S. Rep Glenn "GT" Thompson, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, Democratic Pa. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican Pa. Sen. Toomey.
Thompson, whose Fifth congressional district includes the southeastern corner of Crawford County:
"With the unemployment rate hovering at close to the same rate it was in February of 2009 and the economy all but stalled during the last three months of 2012, the president made the right decision to pivot his focus back to jobs and the economy. Stunted economic growth has not only had a negative impact on job creation, it also undermines America's ability to adequately invest in many of the priorities the president mentioned, including our shared goal of fostering and retaining a qualified and trained workforce.
"The president's call for 'not a bigger government' but a 'smarter government' is welcome news. In my view this is the only approach that will permit the nation to invest in shared priorities and grow the economy, but without leaving a legacy of debt for future generations.
"I had hoped to hear from the president a pro-growth plan that will expand opportunity for all Americans and generate revenues needed to get Washington back to fiscal solvency. Unfortunately, the president merely acknowledged the nation's escalating spending path and combed over a record of persistently high national unemployment, while once again failing to offer concrete solutions to achieve fiscal balance and sustained growth.
"I will continue to work with both parties to find solutions to the nation's challenges, but tonight I'm left unfulfilled by the lack detail and direction put forward by the president."
Kelly, whose Third congressional district includes most of Crawford County:
"The president says we don't need a bigger government, we need a smarter one. I couldn't agree more. But his rhetoric does not match his record and one need not look further than the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act to see this administration's aggressive effort to grow the size and scope of government. Additionally, his administration has pursued an aggressive regulatory agenda that is strangling job growth across our nation.
"I was also disappointed that a plan was not outlined to get our nation's debt and deficit reduction under control. Our reckless fiscal policy is perhaps the biggest challenge this country faces and despite what the president has said, his administration has failed to show any leadership. We cannot continue to tax and spend our way back to prosperity. If our spending problem is not fixed, we will bankrupt our country for our children and grandchildren.
"One part of the president's speech I was glad to hear is the administration's commitment to early childhood education and the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math). While I want to see specifics before commenting further, there should be bipartisan agreement to develop an aggressive policy to pursue both of these goals.
"My new assignment on the Committee on Ways and Means will give me the opportunity to work with members of both parties toward long-term solutions that are facing America today — including tax and spending reform that can provide this country with a true turnaround plan."
"I was gratified that the president made jobs the focus of his address. While the economy has made good progress, there is no doubt that more needs to be done. I was particularly grateful that he recognized the need for investments in the manufacturing sector. I have fought to level the playing field for Pennsylvania manufacturers and have called for investments in manufacturing initiatives like the Workforce Investment Act programs, Research and Development Tax Credit, the National Export Initiative and the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership. It is imperative that Republicans and Democrats work together on a balanced approach to reduce the deficit while making smart investments in manufacturing, education, small business and R&D that will continue to create jobs."
"I was glad the president tonight addressed both the need to bring our out-of-control spending and deficits under control and that he spent a lot of time focusing on the need for economic growth and job creation. I disagree about the idea that we ought to raise taxes yet again. But if the president is willing to look at some of the areas where we can curb spending, I'd be delighted to work with him to help put us on a sustainable fiscal path. The president talked about the opportunity for tax reform — I couldn't agree more that there's a chance to really generate economic growth and job creation through tax reform.
"We could start with repeal of the medical device tax, an idea that has broad bipartisan support in the House and the Senate. The medical device tax is job-crushing and costing us thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania. Repealing it would be very pro-growth.
"And finally on the energy front, the president spent a lot of time talking about energy. Energy is really, in many ways, the key to strong economic growth. We could start — really kick-starting — our energy profile by improving the Keystone Pipeline, creating the thousands and thousands of jobs — including many in Pennsylvania — that would go toward the development of that pipeline and helping North American oil to flow.
"So there are many areas where we can work together and help to restore fiscal discipline, put us on a path to a balanced budget and get this economy moving again. And I look forward to working with anyone in either party to help us achieve those goals."


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I was fascinated by the relationship between robots and humans. Droids seem to be second-class citizens, as Threepio is quick to point out from time to time. But on the other hand, there is a very warm bond between droids and humans.
Well, the droids were there to serve. Obviously droids are servants of man. They do as they are commanded and all that kind of stuff but at the same time I love droids, they're my favorite people. I didn't want them to be cold robots. Even the robots in THX are very friendly. They're not malevolent. In Star Wars I really wanted to get into the robots and their problems in life; a little equal time for robots, who have taken a lot of shit over the years and have never really had a chance to prove themselves.
Threepio has obvious affection for Artoo.
Right. They were designed as a sort of Laurel and Hardy team. They were the comic aspects of the film, the real comic aspects, the ones who were supposed to tell the jokes. I didn't want the whole thing to be a comedy but I wanted to have a lot of fun. I didn't want the human characters to crack jokes all the time so I let the robots do it, because I wanted to see if I could make robots be like humans.
Is it true that you considered not using Anthony Daniels' real voice for Threepio?
Yes. It was primarily because of the fact that it was a British voice, and I really wanted to keep the whole thing American.
Some wag on the set in London said that the movie was going to come out sounding like the British versus the Americans.
I tried very carefully to balance the British and American voices so that some of the good guys had the British voices and some of the bad guys had British voices. I also wanted to keep the accents very neutral. Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing have sort of mid-Atlantic neutral accents, I mean they are not really strongly British. Tony [Daniels] had the most British accent of them all, so I said, no, I want to make him American because he is one of the lead characters. I wanted Threepio's voice to be slightly more used-car dealerish, a little more oily. I had an idea of more of a con man, which is the way it was written, and not really a sort of fussy British robot butler. So I tried and I tried but because Tony was Threepio inside, he really got into the role. We went through 30 people that I actually tested, but none of the voices were as good as Tony's, so we kept him.
Whose voice belongs to Darth Vader?
That's James Earl Jones. He was the best actor I could possibly find. He has a deep, commanding voice.
Was the other Darth Vader angry that his voice was knocked out?
No, he sort of knew when we hired him. He is an actor, David Prowse, and he has a very strong brogue. He played the weight lifter in A Clockwork Orange. He owns a chain of weight-lifting gyms, is very rich and does movies for fun.
Why does Darth Vader breathe so heavily?
I had wanted to do that and tie it in with the dialogue.
It was a nice touch, because it adds to the bogyman quality of the character.
Ben had a lot of work in that too. He did about 18 different kinds of breathing, through aqualungs and through tubes, trying to find the one that had the right sort of mechanical sound, and then decide whether it would be totally rhythmical and like an iron lung. That's the idea. It was a whole part of the plot that essentially got cut out. It may be in one of the sequels.
What's the story?
It's about Ben and Luke's father and Vader when they are young Jedi knights. But Vader kills Luke's father, then Ben and Vader have a confrontation, just like they have in Star Wars, and Ben almost kills Vader. As a matter of fact, he falls into a volcanic pit and gets fried and is one destroyed being. That's why he has to wear the suit with a mask, because it's a breathing mask. It's like a walking iron lung. His face is all horrible inside. I was going to shoot a close-up of Vader where you could see the inside of his face, but then we said, no, no, it would destroy the mystique of the whole thing.
I was quite happy to see Vader spinning off into deep space at the end, but not dying. The only thing missing was a title on the screen saying, "To be continued soon at a theater near you".
Right, the idea was doing the film on a practical level and leaving room for sequels. When I did THX I realized that I put in an enormous amount of effort that I will never be able to use again. I know the world of THX. I could make movies about THX forever but it took me so much time and so much energy to develop all that stuff, and then it got touched upon in one movie. Normally in a movie it's maybe a book or a piece of history or a piece of my life. I sat down and wrote Graffiti in three weeks, it was easy. With something like Star Wars, you have to invent everything. You have to think of the cultures and what kind of coffee cups they are going to have, and where is the realm between technology and mankind and where does ESP play a part of this.... And you go and sort of find the levels that you want to deal with. How far out do you want to go? Will the people relate to that?
It will be interesting to see how Star Wars does overseas.
Yeah. Star Wars is designed with the international market in mind. The French are very much into this genre. They understand it more than Americans do, and it is the same with the Japanese. I own a comic gallery, an art gallery in New York that sells comic art and stuff; the guy that runs the art gallery also runs a comic store and we do a lot of business in France. They understand Alex Raymond, they understand that he was a great artist, they understand Hal Foster and they understand comic art as a real art and not as a sort of interesting, goofy thing. And I am very much into comic art, and its place in society as a real art, because it is something that expresses the culture as strongly as any other art. What Uncle Scrooge McDuck says about America, about me when I was a kid, is phenomenal. It is one of the greatest explorations of capitalism in the American mystique that has ever been written or done anywhere. Uncle Scrooge swimming around in that money bin is a key to our culture. [Laughs] Hal Foster was a huge influence in comic art and, I think, art in general. Some of the Prince Valiants are as beautiful and expressive as anything you are going to find anywhere. It is a form of narrative art but because it is in comic it has never been looked at as art. I look at art, all of art, as graffiti. That's how the Italians describe the hieroglyphics on the Egyptian tombs, they were just pictures of a past culture. That is all art is, a way of expressing emotions that come out of a certain culture at a certain time. That's what cartoons are, and that's what comics are. They are expressing a certain cultural manifestation on a vaguely adolescent level but because of it, it is much more pure because it is dealing with real basic human drives that more sophisticated art sometimes obscures.
Do the inevitable comparisons between Star Wars and '2001' bother you?
No, I expected actually a lot more than it got. In fact, I am fairly pleased that they haven't compared it that much to 2001. Actually it is being compared more to westerns than 2001, which is really what it should be. On a technical level it can be compared, but personally I think that 2001 is far superior. You know it had ten times more money and time and obviously it came out better. In special effects one of the key elements is time and money. Most of those special effects in Star Wars were first-time special effects – we shot them, we composited them and they're in the movie. We had to go back and reshoot some, but in order to get special effects right, you really should shoot them two or three times before you figure out exactly how it should work, which is why it costs so much money. But most of our stuff we had to do as a one-shot deal. We did a lot of work but there is nothing that I would like to do more than go back and redo all the special effects, have a little more time.
Which takes us back to this period of the last few months before release. The editorial thing that you were mentioning earlier, pulling things together by sleight of hand. What was it like leading up to the actual opening night? I heard that you were looping and cutting up to the last minute.
The whole picture was very difficult because it was made on a very short schedule – about 70 days on the sets and locations. In England we couldn't shoot past 5:30 so we worked eight-hour days. Whereas I visited Steve [Spielberg] and Marty [Scorsese] after I finished shooting and they were filming 12 – 14 hours a day. So they were actually getting another day's work every day. They would have, like, a 120-day schedule, but if you counted the hours, they really had 200 days to shoot. While I had 70 real days to shoot, and it was very short for something that was that complex. It was the same in the finishing. The studio wanted to finish it for the summer, I wanted to finish it for the summer, and so we were up against the wall. When I came back from England, we were supposed to have half of the special effects done and actually they had about three shots finished and they were not up to what I felt were the standards of the film. Industrial Light and Magic had spent most of the early part of that year and a million dollars – which was about the whole budget in the whole time they had to shoot – building cameras and developing electronic computer systems and stuff. They didn't really concentrate that much on actually making shots.
Were the cameras that shot the miniatures built from scratch?
Yes, everything was built from scratch. We built optical cameras, moviolas, a whole system based on VistaVision. John Dykstra built it and he really is a very talented guy who worked as a camerman for Doug Trumbull. He is very, very knowledgeable in building sophisticated camera-motion systems. He developed systems along with several of the people who worked with him in electronic and mechanical designs. It was quite extraordinary; we built a whole operation.
But you and Dykstra were at odds a lot, weren't you?
Well, we weren't so much at odds as much as I was more interested in the shots. I didn't care how we got the shots, I just wanted the composition and the lighting to be good, and I wanted them to get it done on time. On a real production you have no time and you are doing the impossible every day, at a very hectic, accelerated place. Special-effects people have a tendency to think that if they get one shot a day, they are really quite pleased. They don't work on the same pace that the regular production unit works. I believe that you can do special effects with the same intensity and in the same schedule that you shoot a regular movie, so there was a little bit of conflict there. And at the same time, I wanted the shots to look a certain way and be designed a certain way and we had difficulty with what was actually technically possible with the time laid out to accomplish it. It was purely a working problem and being at odds with John was no greater than being at odds with everybody else. I had just as many problems with the robots and the special-effects people in England as with the special-effects people in California.
Was that one of your key administrative problems then, the wedding of the location footage with special-effects footage?
No, I was just trying to get the special effects up to a quality that I wanted. I was happy with a lot of the special effects toward the end. The operation got very good. In the beginning the cameraman was still learning how to fly the airplanes, because it was a very complex animation thing, where you're moving cameras and rolling, doing little motor things. When you watch it happen you are not working in real time; it is very difficult to plot out the way one of those planes move in non-real time, using tilting cameras and motors. It's easy to take your hand and say, I want the plane to go this way, and it is very difficult to actually translate that onto paper and then film so that you actually get the ship to do that, and it took a long time just to figure out how to fly. There are problems that have never really been coped with before. In 2001 the ships run a straight line, they just go away from you or they cross the screen, they never turn or dive.
What about the final battle sequence, the dogfight?
The dogfight sequence was extremely hard to cut and edit. We had storyboards that we had taken from old movies and we used the black and white footage of old World War II movies intercut with pilots talking and stuff, so you could edit the whole sequence in real time. My wife, Marcia, can normally cut a whole reel – all ten minutes of the film – in one week. I think it took her eight weeks to cut that battle. It was extremely complex and we had 40,000 feet of dialogue footage of pilots saying this and that. And she had to cull through all that, and put in all the fighting as well. Nobody really has ever tried to interweave an actual plot story into a dogfight, and we were trying to do that, however successful or unsuccessful we were.
How about the John Williams score? Pretty stirring stuff.
I was very, very pleased with the score. We wanted a very sort of Max Steiner-type, old-fashioned, romantic movie score.
It's very much like a serial – like, of course, Flash Gordon – you hear it throughout the film.
There are 90 minutes of music in a 110-minute film. I wanted to use some of Liszt, Dvořák, some of the Flash Gordon stuff and Johnny said no. He wanted to make some strong theme, fairly reminiscent in a few places but at the same time very original. The whole thing was really designed like Peter and the Wolf. We did it so that each character has their own theme and whenever that character is on the screen that theme is played.
A space opera.
Well, they used to do it all the time, writing music for movies was closer to writing for opera or symphony. One interesting thing about the music – which is sort of like the movie itself – is that I really expected to get devastated in terms of people saying, "Oh, my God, what a stupid, old-fashioned thing and how corny can you get?" I am amazed that people just said, "Gee, that's fine". I really expected to get trounced very badly about the whole thing. And Johnny did too, a little bit. A lot of the lines in the movie are sort of... I wince every time I hear them.
You mean you expected to get trounced on everything? I thought we were just talking about the score.
I expected to get trounced on everything. Especially in the end when it came down to the score, which was romantic and dramatic. Not only a slightly corny dialogue here and a very simplistic, sort of corny plot...
Some of Mark Hamill's lines are pretty corny.
There is some very strong stuff in there. In the end, when you know better, it sort of takes a lot of guts to do it because it's the same thing with the whole movie – doing a children's film. I didn't want to play it down and make it a camp movie, I wanted to make it a very good movie. And it wasn't camp, it was not making fun of itself. I wanted it to be real.
Even though Harrison Ford's character, Han Solo, is right up to the edge of camp, very John Wayne-ish.
He goes as far as I let anybody go.
"I been from one end of this galaxy to the other, kid.." But he did pull it off.
[Laughs] It fits in his character. Harrison is an extremely intelligent actor and we balanced on a lot of thin threads when we went through this movie. And when you're doing it you never know when you are going to jump off the other side, which is one of the things like with the score. There were a lot of little discussions about if this or that would make it go too far, would it be too much. I decided just to do it all the way down the line, one end to the other, complete. Everything is on that same level, which is sort of old-fashioned and fun but going for the most dramatic and emotional elements that I can get.
The Peter Cushing character, Grand Moff Tarkin, certainly applies to that formula. He got off some great lines. Especially right near the end, "Abandon the station, now at the hour of my greatest triumph?"
The stuff in that is very strong. Peter Cushing, like Alec Guinness, is a very good actor. He got an image that is in a way quite beneath him, but he's also idolized and adored by young people and people who go to see a certain kind of movie. I think he will be remembered fondly for the next 350 years at least. And so you say, is that worth anything? Maybe it's not Shakespeare but certainly equally as important in the world. Good actors really bring you something, and that is especially true with Alec Guinness, who I thought was a good actor like everyone else, but after working with him I was staggered that he was such a creative and disciplined person. In the original script Ben Kenobi doesn't get killed in the fight with Vader. About halfway through production, I took Alec aside and said I was going to kill him off halfway through the picture. It is quite a shock to an actor when you say, "I know you have a big part and you are going to the end and be a hero and everything and all of a sudden I have decided to kill you," but he took it very well and he began to build on it and helped and developed the character accordingly.
Was the studio upset when you told them Kenobi would die?
Everybody was upset. I was struggling with the problem that I had this sort of climactic scene that had no climax about two-thirds of the way through the film. I had another problem in the fact that there was no real threat in the Death Star. The villains were like tenpins; you get into a gunfight with them and they just get knocked over. As I originally wrote it, Ben Kenobi and Vader had a sword fight and Ben hits a door and the door slams closed and they all run away and Vader is left standing there with egg on his face. This was dumb; they run into the Death Star and they sort of take over everything and they run back. It totally diminished any impact the Death Star had.
It was like the old Bob Steele westerns where they all had about 50 shots in their six-shooters.
Right, but those kind of things dissipate without having a lot of real cruel torture scenes and real unpleasant scenes with the bad guys in order to create them as being bad or make them a threat. I was walking that thin line between making something that I thought was vaguely a nonviolent kind of movie but at the same time I was having all the fun of people getting shot. And I was very careful that most of the people that are shot in the film were the monsters or those storm-troopers in armored suits. Anyway, I was rewriting, I was struggling with that plot problem when my wife suggested that I kill off Ben, which she thought was a pretty outrageous idea, and I said, "Well, that is an interesting idea, and I had been thinking about it". Her first idea was to have Threepio get shot, and I said impossible because I wanted to start and end the film with the robots, I wanted the film to really be about the robots and have them be the framework for the rest of the movie. But then the more I thought about Ben getting killed the more I liked the idea because, one, it made the threat of Vader greater and that tied in with The Force and the fact that he could use the dark side. Both Alec Guinness and I came up with the thing of having Ben go on afterward as part of The Force. There was a thematic idea that was even stronger about. The Force in one of the earliest scripts. It was really all about The Force, a Castaneda Tales of Power thing.
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"I thought we'd find just a few, and that they'd all be problem animals, but a whole new world opened up," says Stan Gehrt, an Ohio State University biologist and the lead researcher in a 10-year-old ongoing study in Chicago. The native coyotes withdrew from the rapidly growing metropolis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But within decades they were back -- and not just in Chicago. Once concentrated in the High Plains and the Southwest, coyotes have spent the last century moving east even as wolves and cougar populations were being decimated. Coyotes are now found in all 49 mainland states. It's an expansion that has been called "unparalleled by any other species of terrestrial mammal in recent history."
"We've had easily hundreds -- but more likely thousands -- of coyotes in the Chicago metro area, along with 9 million people," said Gehrt. Coyotes comprehend traffic patterns, for example. "They look in the right direction before they cross the road. I had totally underestimated them. I still underestimate them."
The number of nuisance coyotes trapped in the Chicago area increased sharply between 1990 and 2002, but Gehrt says in the last decade there has been "at the most, possibly one bite" to a human.
Southern California, where coyotes are also native, is another story. Perhaps because Los Angeles is surrounded by -- and interspersed with -- so much wild country, coyotes thrived even as the city ballooned. In 1937-'38, Los Angeles County offered a $1 bounty on coyotes. By 1961, they were seen along the edges of movie stars' estates, living "lives of ease and luxury beyond the wildest dreams of their hardscrabble ancestors," according to Robert Froman, author of The Nerve of Some Animals.
Some 136 Californians reported being injured by coyotes between 1961 and 2007, according to Robert Timm and Rex Baker in their 2007 paper, A History of Urban Coyote Problems. The most tragic of these was the case of toddler Kelly Keen, who was bitten in her driveway in Glendale in 1981 and dragged across the street before her parents rescued her and rushed her to the hospital, to no avail. Her death spurred L.A. county officials to trap and shoot 55 coyotes within a half-mile radius of the attack site in 80 days.
Glendale still kills problem coyotes, but the local government also provides education on its website, advising people not to put out their trash the night before pickup, for example, but to wait until the morning.
The only other recorded North American fatality involving coyotes occurred last October, when a 19-year-old woman was killed in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton National Highlands Park. Some theorize that the animals involved were wolf-coyote hybrids.
Despite tragedies like these, statistics don't show coyotes as a significant public safety threat. The only recorded coyote bite in the history of Aurora occurred in 2009, the same year that Aurorans were bitten by domestic dogs 207 times. To add further perspective, Bonnell points out that across the nation, an average of 2.18 people are killed by vending machines every year.
And after the upswing in coyote bites in the Denver area during 2008-'09, things have calmed down again, with only one reported bite so far this year (the 12-year-old Golden boy). "I'd hope the decline is because of our awareness," says Churchill, noting that the year isn't over yet. She adds that a report of a rabid coyote in the Southwestern Colorado town of Cortez in November "at this point is not a cause for undue concern" to Front Rangers.
Unlike wolves, coyotes evolved to eat animals smaller than themselves -- a fact that endears them to some suburbanites. Bonnell recently got two phone calls "lamenting the fact that the coyotes are gone, because now there are raccoons and skunks. People don't realize the ecosystem services that coyotes provide. They do a terrific job of managing economically damaging species. They're the middle-management predators."
That's fine if you're trying to rid your yard of skunks, but not so good if your Bichon Frise gets mauled. Which brings us back to Greenwood Village, where animal control specialist Jay Stewart has snared, trapped or shot close to 200 coyotes since 1993 -- mostly on behalf of private residents. In 2007, under contract for the city of Greenwood Village, Stewart placed rubber-padded leg-hold traps in the Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve. Although he'd posted warning signs, he caught two off-leash dogs, raising the ire of local residents.
He was hired again early in 2009, after the incident with the 14-year-old boy. Stewart shot the coyote he believed was responsible. Following other coyote complaints, he showed up at the crack of dawn in local parks and other open areas to dispatch the culprits, only to have his efforts sabotaged by hazers, who scared the coyotes away.
Stewart professes respect for coyotes -- "They're going to be here long after we're gone" -- and says he followed the instructions of the Greenwood Village City Council and focused only on problem animals.
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Tempers ran so high in Greenwood Village that Stewart was asked to step down a couple of months after he began. The municipal police took over coyote control, shooting eight between mid-November 2009 and Jan. 27, 2010. (No coyotes have been killed since then.) Lt. Joe Harvey says "things have quieted down a lot," adding that the police have done more and more hazing. Still, for coyotes that appear aggressive, lethal control remains an option.
"When it comes down to it, we're going to err on the side of reducing the fear of the citizens," says Harvey. Some residents speculate that the city is also trying to avoid the litigious impulses likely to surface if a Villager were to get hurt by a coyote. "People look for the deep pockets," says one, "and Greenwood Village has the deep pockets."
Says Jay Tutchton, a lawyer for WildEarth Guardians, resident of adjoining Centennial, and a member of a vocal group of critics of the city's coyote policy, "Greenwood Village's fear of coyotes is so delusional. ... I think the city would like to preserve the pretty scenery without any of the inconvenient residents."


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Former Terre Haute North teammates Ross Sponsler and Matt O'Leary made their college basketball debuts last week and had outstanding initial performances.
Sponsler started at guard for Wabash, a Division III team playing up two levels of competition at Western Illinois. He finished the game with a team-high 14 points, shooting 5 of 12 from the field (1 for 6 from 3-point range) and hitting all three of his free throws.
Sponsler added two assists and two rebounds in Wabash's 71-39 loss.
O'Leary played 21 minutes off the bench for Loyola (Chicago) in a 62-50 win over Toledo, finishing with eight points and seven rebounds. He was 3 of 8 from the field (0 for 3 from 3-point range) and added two assists.
• Ex-Rex star finds home — Nick Blount, a key member of the Terre Haute Rex baseball team last summer, has joined the team at Southern Polytechnic State University in his home state of Georgia for his last year of college competition.
Blount played his first three seasons at Tennessee, but was dismissed from the team last spring.
After his outstanding summer in Terre Haute, Blount was one of just 30 players named to the Prospect League Top Prospects list by Perfect Game USA.
"With everything we've heard about Nick, he can definitely either start or close for us," first-year Southern Poly coach Marty Lovrich said. "The good thing about him is that we're going to have the ability to find out if we've got starters and can use him at the end or if we need him at the front to go six, seven or eight innings. We feel like he's got a chance to be one of the better pitchers in the Southern States Athletic Conference."
This past summer, the 6-6, 220-pounder went 2-1 with 12 saves and a 1.38 ERA, striking out 39 and walking only nine over 32 2/3 innings. Blount was chosen as the Prospect League's Co-Prospect of the Year and Fireman of the Year after pitching in 29 contests with one start.
A graduate of South Gwinnett (Ga.) High School, Blount made 61 career appearances with 12 starting assignments at Tennessee. As a junior in 2012, he took over as the Volunteers' closer, collecting a team-high 10 saves in his first 10 opportunities. Blount saw action in 23 games last spring, making five starts before moving to the bullpen.
• Panthers win OVC, earn tourney bid — Eastern Illinois returned to the FCS Top 25 polls this week as the Panthers are ranked in both the Sports Network Top 25 and FCS Coaches Top 25 heading into the regular season finale at Central Arkansas. EIU is ranked No. 24 by Sports Network and No. 25 by the FCS Coaches.
The Panthers are 7-3 on the season having locked up the Ohio Valley Conference regular season title with a 39-20 win over Southeast Missouri. EIU was 6-1 in the league and will be making its 14th FCS playoff appearance when the pairings are announced Sunday.
It marks the first time EIU has been ranked since the second week of the 2010 season when the Panthers fell out of the polls following a 37-7 loss to Central Arkansas. The Bears come into this weekend's non-conference game at Central Arkansas ranked 10th in both polls having already clinched an FCS playoff berth by winning the Southland Conference.
Taylor Duncan, a redshirt sophomore running back from Marshall, is third on the team in total offense with 440 yards rushing. He has scored eight touchdowns to rank him fifth on the team in scoring.
Punter Scott Weatherford of Terre Haute North has kicked 38 times for 1,452 yards (38.2) average for the Panthers with a long of 55, one for a touchback, eight for fair catches, seven downed inside the 20 and four of more than 50 yards.
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Many couples are choosing to have a theme that touches on different aspects of their wedding. One popular trend is a roaring '20s- and Great Gatsby-theme affair. Lavish gold accents, '20s-style invitations and even music of the era can all be tied together. Bohemian glamour is another popular theme for 2014 weddings and can be a simple one to incorporate by using floral garland, wooded elements and relaxed, flowing dresses for the bridesmaids.
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Their Oct. 4, 2014, wedding will be featured in an upcoming issue of Monthly. The couple was engaged on Feb. 3, 2014. Thanks to all that voted!
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Last August, Laren and Daniel Moskowitz celebrated a beautiful, eightyear romance when each finally got the rare privilege of marrying their best friend.
The couple's story began when a gentleman came into Laren Moskowitz's (then Laren Brown's) real estate office to pick up the keys to a property. Moskowitz, working from her office in the back, was called to the front by the office's receptionist who later revealed she thought the handsome, darkhaired visitor seemed like someone Moskowitz would immediately hit it off with. She guessed accurately.
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JUNEAU (AP) — Sealaska Heritage Institute says a southeast Alaska radio station has donated hundreds of audio recordings to the institute.
The archival donation from Wrangell radio station KSTK consists of hundreds of hours of recordings made from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Institute officials say the recordings document some topics of interest to Alaska Natives as well as the wider community.
According to officials, about 200 reels of recordings must first be digitized before they can be used at the institute's archives center at Juneau's Sealaska Plaza. The archive center is open to the public on weekdays.
Sealaska Heritage Institute is the nonprofit cultural and educational arm of Juneau-based Sealaska Corp., a regional Native corporation.
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Kitchen dance parties occupy most of our winter nights, probably because the lack of sunlight keeps us indoors. Last week the children's grandmother and great aunt came to visit for a night and we cranked the tunes. I made a new playlist full of grown-up music that my kids love (with a few children's songs thrown in). Personally, I've found that nothing gets an under-6-year-old party started like "Hey, Soul Sister", even T knows all the words. And of course "everyday we're shuffling." Throw in some Avett Brothers, War On Drugs, and Josh Ritter for good taste (and sanity). Anyways, if you want to check out our mix, click here for a listen (you'll need a spotify account, which are free and easy to set up) and turn up the volume a little. okay? Don't forget the running man, which will REALLY amuse your children, I promise.
Here's the song list:
Hey, Soul Sister - Train
Kick Drum Heart - The Avett Brothers
To the Dogs or Whoever - Josh Ritter
Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
Pink! - Rocknoceros
Horchata - Vampire Weekend
Pretty in Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
Dynamite - Taio Cruz
I'm Gonna Catch You - Laurie Berkner
Taking the Farm - The War on Drugs
United States of America - Rocknoceros
A Million Years - Alexander
Octopus's Garden - Ringo Starr
(I Wish We Used) The Metric System - Rocknoceros
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Lawrence Agbemabiese currently serves as Programme Officer at the Energy Branch, Division of Technology Industry and Economics at the United Nations Environment Programme, where he is coordinating the GEF-funded Global Technology Needs Assessment Project. He was manager of UNEP's rural energy enterprise development programs in Africa and China from 2004 through 2009. As a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware in the 1990s, he coordinated research on photovoltaic systems installed on residential, commercial and public buildings in several cities within and outside the United States. Lawrence has authored and co-authored several articles on sustainable energy and development topics, and is a lead analyst on Energy Policy: Rationale and Instruments, of the Global Energy Assessment. He is interested in productive applications of renewable energy and energy efficiency, with a focus on transferability of best practices in developing countries. Lawrence began his multidisciplinary career in 1989 as Community Development Lecturer at the Training Network Center, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Science and Technology in Ghana.


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Our nation has arrived at the fork in the road and we have lost our way toward the American Dream. The November 2012 election is coming very soon and we as a country have serious choices to consider: 1) Continue on our current path of high unemployment, massively high debt and out of control spending or 2) Change course to a different direction with positive results.
The economy is in a total chaotic mess because of the liberal socialist policies of the Democrats and they still don't get it!!! Raising taxes and out of control spending in a bad economy is a horrible idea that will ruin the economy!!! The best example is Obamacare, which is the largest TAX INCREASE on the middle class; this bad legislation will further ruin the chances for job creation.
Currently, the national unemployment rate is at 7.8 percent and about 8.1 percent here in Massachusetts. The administrations of President Obama and Gov. Patrick have continued to tell the voters that the economy is improving. However, this is a fallacy because even though the unemployment rate may have fallen, the numbers that you don't see—the U6 unemployment numbers—tell a vastly different story. The reality is the true unemployment rate is closer to 16 percent and the reason for this atrocious rate is that people have given up looking for work because of the lack of good-paying private sector jobs.
According to the supply side economics theory, tax increases prevent people from keeping more of what they earn and prevents a person from spending on goods and services, which in turn reduces revenue for the producers of those goods. Guess what happens next ... those producers are forced to cut jobs and force people out of work and as a result, the tax base is reduced, which means less revenue for cities, towns, state and our U.S. Government.
Taxing business is not the answer; neither is taxing the rich, middle class and working poor. The answer is not overregulation that hurts job creation or over-spending. The solution is to reduce taxes for individual taxpayers across the board, reduce corporate taxes and reduce job-killing regulations that are hurting the chances for businesses to provide real private sector job growth and good paying jobs or careers. The other part of the solution is to control government spending.
What actions can you take to achieve the American Dream? Elect people who understand how our economy works and understand how to achieve the American Dream of low unemployment, low debt and more money in your pockets.
The American Dream starts by electing people who are fiscally responsible, such as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for president and vice president, Scott Brown for U.S. Senate and Sean Bielat for Congress. And it continues by electing people such as Richard Ross and Jeff Bailey for state Senate as well as George Ross, Betty Poirier, Jay Barrows, Steve Howitt, Daniel Winslow, Kieko Orrall and Shaunna O'Connell for state representative.
Please join me in going to the polls and voting for fiscally responsible people. The road back to the American Dream starts on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.


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Sunset in the Namib
This photo was taken at sunset in the NamibRand Nature Reserve which is a part of the Namib Naukluft National Park and the Namib Desert (worlds oldest desert).
Himba Bracelets
These are bracelets designed by the Himba which is one of the last remaining traditional tribes in Namibia. The bracelets are made from recycled PVC pipe and feature traditional designs of the Himba.
A species of grasshopper found in Namibia. The colors of their shells are brilliant and the photo really does not do their size justice. This one I found hiding in a shrub and it was gracious enough to allow me to get close enough to photograph it.
This photo was taken at a lodge near Otavi. The Kudu's horns were placed against the wall of a building with a simple mortar and stone foundation and thatched wall and roof.
Young Meets Old
The National Immunization Days (NID) campaign is held every year in Namibia. One of my responsibilities during the campaign was to document the campaign in my town through photos which would then be included in the official report. After taking all of the photos, I went back through to pick out the best and discovered this gem. The old woman is a volunteer who was administering our Vitamin A Supplement, the little girl was now on to her second oral vaccine (first being Polio) and clearly ha...
Captive Audience
We were conducting an outreach program in the Oshiwambo Location under a tree. We set up chairs and made posterboards we could strap around our necks to present our information. Today's session was about alcohol and drug abuse and its effects on the community. I was taking pictures of the event when I spotted this little guy staring up at me while his mother listened on.
Pretending to be Preggo!
I've titled this photo Pretending to be Preggo as my counterpart at the health clinic where I help out as a Health Volunteer asked me to pretend to be pregnant for a Women's Day parade they were going to have. The theme of the float was to encourage women to come to the health clinic for pre-natal consultations, why I had to pretend to be pregnant for the float I don't know. But it's a great pic!
The Art of Making Nacatamales
My host-grandmother teaching me how to make nacatamales, a traditional Honduran food, in her kitchen hut. These delicious tamales are made with a corn-based dough, seasoned meat, garlic paste, potatoes and wrapped up in banana leaves, then cooked in a large pot over an open fire for several hours. DELICIOUS!
Painting the the church
To celebrate San Juan the community painted the church a bright yellow. This picture was taken at a morning terere break.
Leaving for America
What an incredible 24 hours of my life. Probably one of the most surreal 24 hours ever. Yesterday I went down to Miguel's house ready to leave for San Salvador. I never gave it any thought about how it was going to be…and I'm glad I didn't.Adriana wailed and cried as Miguel prepared to leave. Just like any other day Miguel was up early to milk the cows-one last time. He brought his big bag out and hugged his mom. She cried and so did he. Adelmo continued on with the days chores. Get the milk ...


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When I meet all three to discuss the new album, it doesn't feel like much has changed since we met in 2007, other than a couple new haircuts. They riff off each other, moving from inside joke to inside joke—only Wolf Tuton answers my questions with any seriousness. Keating lapses into wild fake accents and elliptical trains of thought punctuated by unpredictable hand gestures that are not dissimilar to his stage spasms. But in reality, everything is different now. Since Cymbals, and after its extensive global touring, Yeasayer disappeared to work on solo stuff, linked up for some interesting collaborations (Wilder produced an EP for Suckers and wrote a musical; Keating and Wolf Tuton guested on Bat for Lashes' Two Suns) and spent time upstate in a home studio owned by a dude who used to play with Phil Collins. While they were gone, a million little Brooklyn bands abandoned pristine sheen and buried their pop hooks under layers of lo-fi grime and fuzz; shows shifted to abandoned hotels and dicey yards under subway tracks where it seemed like everyone was playing their first shows ever.
Not only is Yeasayer's music the complete opposite of the prevailing style, its members lead more subdued lifestyles. No one goes out like they used to. Keating is married. Wolf Tuton lives with his girlfriend and has a garden. Wilder seems content to hang out until his girlfriend gets off work so they can spend as much time together as possible before the band hits the road again. They're not rich, but they're certainly not struggling either, and all three live in relatively sedate neighborhoods. They treat Yeasayer as both an incredibly important personal project and a very serious job. They're always on time, and they know their own schedules without having to ask a publicist or manager. Where many bands can barely get it together enough to practice, Yeasayer will spend all day every day refining its live show.
When I meet Wolf Tuton at his new house, it's in Vinegar Hill—a neighborhood located in a historic pocket between the abandoned Navy Yards and upscaled DUMBO near the Brooklyn Bridge. It's a fitting place, sparsely populated and filled with odd character, but hardly a mecca for youth. "None of us are 18-year-olds trying to get a fast check," says Wolf Tuton. "I know what it is to be a frustrated artist and I know when I see something that's working. We're so fortunate to have what we have and it's up to everyone else to figure out whether they want us to have a career or not. So far so good. The goal now is to get the live show bigger and bigger. Reinvest in that. I want to make that more entertaining." Then he pauses and looks around the room that will soon become his personal studio. "I'd also like to get a bookshelf."


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Lennys charging $1 delivery fee
It's true....at least the location at 43rd and 9th beginning January 1. They are attaching a note to all deliveries stating that due to high insurance costs they are forced to add a $1 delivery fee to all orders. As someone who orders in every day in Manhattan I find this shocking. I wonder how this will effect their delivery business as some people out of principle will not pay a delivery fee. Are there other restaurants/delis out there that already do this? What are the Chwhounds opinions?
if you don't like it, order from some place else....my lennys is decent, quick and usuallt gets the order correct. given their popularity, they could easily just raise prices, its commendable that they don't...
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Cpalms, there is no bigger fan of Lennys than me, the food is good, delivery excellent and I will continue to order from them based on that. I am however interested in hearing opinions on this and finding out if others charge a delivery fee for standard orders in the normal delivery area.
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you don't think a good fresh made salad hand delivered to you for $10.50 does not provide a good value proposition but at $9.50 it does? Perhaps they are trying to discourage people from ordering one salad at at time. Lenny (whoever that is) is actually trying to run a profitable business in a very difficult enviroment.
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Brilliant response, for that matter they should charge a $2 fee as in a difficult environment what's the difference beteween $9.50 and $11.50
You are completely missing the point, NYC restaurants/delis don't charge a delivery fee. That's why I posted in the first place, not to debate whether $1 changes the value proposition. The fact that Lennys is starting this will most likely hurt the delivery person as many people will tip less which keeps the total price the same. In thinking about it further, for Lennys it makes sense...if they deliver 1,000 orders per day from all locations...which is probably light.they will ean $365,000 more in 2009.
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"Brilliant response, for that matter they should charge a $2 fee as in a difficult environment what's the difference beteween $9.50 and $11.50"
That's precisely correct. Supply and demand.
Like it or not, a business's first concern is not how many people tip their deliverymen, nor how much, but what their bottom line is. Whoever doesn't want to order from a place that charges for delivery always has the option of not patronizing them.
I can't address delivery charges in that neighborhood specifically, though, because I don't live or work there.
Focusing a little more on the chow--Lennys just replaced Two Boots on the Rock Center concourse which is a frequent lunch spot for me (limited option). What's good at Lennys and what should I avoid?


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