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The Swedish band "Shout Out Louds" have released a record in collaboration with TBWA Stockholm, made entirely of ice to promote their single, "Blue Ice." In collaboration with ad agency they have produced 10 limited edition kits that can produce a functional album out of frozen water. And it actually works — albeit with some warble and a bit of crackle.
The record can be made by pouring water into a negative imprint of the master cut and left in the freezer for no longer than six hours. The frozen disk is then removed and placed on a standard record player. Aside from a bit of crackle and static, the album sounds surprisingly good, with clear beats and resonating vocals. TBWA experimented with a number of molds and liquids in order to achieve the right sound, trying to find how to minimize air pockets and how to get the needle to move smoothly over the tracks. They settled on distilled water and silicone cast.
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Cliffhangers Adventures
The Approaching Swarm
By Eric Cagle
Episode Five: The Hive Mind
Adventure Background
The adventurers have located the secret lair of Aleretheral, an insane half-orc druid with mastery over vermin. He has been breeding and training monstrous vermin to defend his territory. With the adventurers invading his home, he will do anything he can to protect it.
Inside the Lair (EL 14)
It is up to the DM to decide how Aleretheral fights the adventurers. Despite the size of the dwelling, there is relatively little inside. (Aleretheral killed off the elf that lived there before and disposed of most of his possessions aside from what treasure is listed below.) Given a choice, Aleretheral retreats to the Upper Quarters for his last stand.
Aletheral has several monstrous insects inside his lair that he has been using for experiments. He releases them to fight the characters if hard pressed. (The DM can adjust the number of vermin, depending on how injured the PCs are.)
Large Monstrous Centipede (2): hp 9, 8; see Monster Manual page 208.
Small Monstrous Scorpions (4): hp 7, 6, 6, 5; see Monster Manual page 208.
Giant Bombardier Beetle (2): hp 13, 12, 11; see Monster Manual page 206.
Aleretheral prefers to use his vermin to fight for him and remains invisible (via his potions) until they are defeated. He makes extensive use of his staff of swarming insects, and he casts magic fang on any vermin that are involved in combat.
Aleretheral: Male half-orc Drd13; CR 13; Medium-size humanoid; HD 13d8; hp 58; Init 1; Spd AC 14, touch 10, flat-footed 14; Atk +12/+7 melee (1d6+4, staff of swarming insects); or +9/+4 ranged (1d6, masterwork sling); SQ a thousand faces, animal companion (none), darkvision 60 ft., nature sense, resist nature's lure, trackless step, venom immunity, wild shape (Tiny, Small, Medium-size, Large, or dire animal 4/day), woodland stride; AL NE; SV Fort +9, Ref +4, Will +14; Str 16, Dex 9, Con 11, Int 9, Wis 17, Cha 11.
Skills and Feats: Concentration +5, Handle Animal +9, Heal +6, Intuit Direction +7, Knowledge (nature) +6, Move Silently +0, Profession (herbalist) +8, Ride (horse) +1, Sense Motive +4, Swim +8, Wilderness Lore +11; Brew Potion, Iron Will, Track, Vermin Control*, Vermin Defiance*
A Thousand Faces (Su): Aleretheral can change his appearance at will, as if using the spell alter self.
Animal Companion: Aleretheral may have one or more animal companions. These animals are ones that he has befriended with the spell animal friendship. The total Hit Dice of all animal companions at a time may not exceed 13.
Nature Sense: Aleretheral can identify plants and animals (their species and special traits) with perfect accuracy. He can determine whether water is safe to drink or dangerous.
Resist Nature's Lure: Aleretheral gains a +4 bonus on saving throws against the spell-like abilities of feys (such as dryads, nymphs, and sprites).
Trackless Step: Aleretheral leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked.
Venom Immunity: Aleretheral gains immunity to all organic poisons, including monster poisons but not mineral poisons or poison gas.
Wild Shape (Sp): Aleretheral can change into a Tiny, Small, Medium-size, Large, or dire animal and back again 4/day. He may adopt only one form per use of this ability. When he adopts an animal form, Aleretheral regains hit points as if he has rested for a day. He does not risk the standard penalty for being disoriented while in his wild shape. He gains all the creature's special abilities when he does so.
Woodland Stride: Aleretheral may move through natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain at his normal speed and without suffering damage or other impairment. However, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that are enchanted or magically manipulated to impede motion still affect him.
Druid Spells Prepared (6/6/6/5/4/3/2/1; base DC 13 + spell level): 0 -- cure minor wounds, detect poison, guidance, know direction, light, resistance; 1st -- cure light wounds, detect animals or plants, invisibility to animals, magic fang, summon nature's ally I, vermin friendship**; 2nd -- speak with animals, speak with vermin**, summon swarm (3), warp wood; 3rd -- cure moderate wounds, greater magic fang (2), poison, water breathing; 4th -- giant vermin (3), repel vermin; 5th -- insect plague (3); 6th -- antilife shell, summon nature's ally VI; 7th -- creeping doom.
Possessions: Staff of swarming insects, cloak of resistance +1, leather armor, amulet of natural armor +2, ring of protection +1, wand of cure light wounds, potion of blur, 2 potions of cure serious wounds, 2 potions of hiding, 2 potions of invisibility, 3 scrolls of summon swarm.
New feat; see below
New Feats
Vermin Control [General]
You can channel the power of nature to gain mastery over vermin creatures.
Prerequisites: Vermin Defiance, ability to cast speak with vermin and vermin friendship.
Benefit: You can rebuke or command vermin as an evil cleric rebukes undead. To command an animal, you must be able to speak with it via a speak with vermin spell or effect, though you can issue your commands mentally if desired. The number of times per day that you can use this ability is equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. Your highest divine caster level is the level at which you rebuke animals.
Special: Vermin you command through this ability count against the HD limit of animals you can befriend through vermin friendship.
Vermin Defiance [General]
You can channel the power of nature to drive off vermin.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast detect animals or plants.
Benefit: You can turn (but not destroy) vermin as a good cleric turns undead. The number of times per day that you can use this ability is equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. Your highest divine caster level is the level at which you turn vermin.
New Spells
with Vermin
As per speak with animals, but it applies only to vermin. This spell does not work on animals, beasts, or magical beasts.
As animal friendship, but the spell applies only to vermin.
Continuing the Adventure
Once Aleretheral has been defeated, the characters can mop up any remaining insects and claim the tree fortress for themselves. If they search, they can discover a hidden stash that contains the following items: +3 mighty composite longbow, +1 ghost touch longsword, banded mail (Medium-size), 2 flasks of alchemist's fire, 3 flasks of holy water, ring of swimming, and 160 gp. In addition, the rest of the swamp remains unexplored and the map that they have used to find the tree hints to other mysterious places. . . .
About the Author
Eric Cagle splits his time evenly as the administrative assistant and part-time designer for the R&D department of Wizards of the Coast. In addition to numerous web articles, he has written several articles for Dragon Magazine, contributed to two Star Wars RPG products, and contributed to the Arms and Equipment Guide for D&D. A lunch hour rarely goes by where he isn't writing for, playing, or thinking about a game.


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Argus-Mark Reporter-Kath 13-09-12 Abergavenny Food Festival Hanging the decorations that take on the theme of Leaping Hares and Gorgeous Game Birds and are the festival's largest art work. (1370067)
FANCY owning a one-of-a-kind piece or artwork that hung from the Market Hall at the 2012 Abergavenny Food Festival?
The organisers of the annual event, which attracts 35,000 to the town over two days each year, are auctioning off the giant animal decorations and believe this is a unique opportunity for owners of restaurants, theatres, festivals and art collectors to acquire a specially-commissioned sculpture.
The hares have already sold but there is still a pheasant, turkey, mandarin duck and a French partridge up for grabs with no reserve price. However, the specially-commissioned artwork cost £500 to make and could fetch double this amount.
The sculptures were made by volunteers under the watchful eye of artist Bettina Reeves at Arts Alive in Crickhowell, and hung from the rafters for a year until they were replaced with new creations for this year's festival.
Among the sculptures on offer is a Turkey that measures two-and-a-half metres high and one-and-a-half metres in length and weighs no more than 50kg.
The description from the organiser suggests potential buyers could use them as a decoration for a restaurant, as a prop in a theatre, for other festivals or for any home or office with high ceilings and may also be of interest to art collectors.
Bettina Reeves, is a senior lecturer in theatre design at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
All proceeds from the sale go towards next year's decorations and other arts provisions
Bids can be placed on the site until October 16.
For details and a link to the internet auction site visit abergavennyfoodfestival.com
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The Purves Environmental Fund is a major sponsor of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and the Wentworth Science Program. The Wentworth Group is the leading independent group of Australian environmental scientists and economists. It was incorporated in December 2007. The Group is overseen by Peter Cosier, who acts as the Executive Director. The Wentworth Group relies on the personal commitment and time of the individual members of the group and a small secretariat to drive the Group's activities. The Group aims to shift the management of Australia's land and water resources to a sustainable level.
As at 17 September 2012, The Members of the Group are:
The late Professor Peter Cullen AO FTSE was a member of the Wentworth Group until his death in 2008.
The Group makes substantial contributions in the area of water reform. Because of their long association with water reform, the Wentworth Group is seen as a truly independent voice for the Murray Darling Basin.
Since April 2008, the issue of water reform has once again risen to the front of the broader political debate - with the ongoing decline in water availability in the southern Murray system, the risk of a catastrophic acidification of the Lower Lakes, and ongoing failure to accelerate reforms through COAG. The crisis in the Coorong and Lower Lakes has become the potent physical symbol of the failure of not only water reform, but the sustainable management of the Murray Darling Basin more generally. With climate change, a climate shift, water extraction and the raft of other issues confronting this ecosystem, the long term solution to protecting this internationally significant wetland is to recognise it as the Murray River estuary and to manage it accordingly.
Public debates on population, water reform, climate change, and food security are taking place in a vacuum because we have no accounting system that can measure the impact these pressures are having on the Australian environment.
As a consequence, those charged with managing the environment, making investments, or developing land use policy do not have the information available to quantify environmental trade-offs, impacts, or improvements.
If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.
The Wentworth Group's Accounting for Nature model, which was developed with other scientists and economists, creates a common set of accounts - a common environmental currency. The Group works with Australian regional natural resource management bodies to design and implement a trial of regional environmental accounts, using the accounting concepts described in Accounting for Nature.
The Wentworth Group is also contributing to international efforts to develop an internationally accredited system of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts.
A price on carbon could bring substantial opportunities to address some of the great environmental challenges confronting Australia: repairing degraded landscapes, restoring river corridors, improving the condition of our agricultural soils, conserving Australia's biodiversity and adapting to climate change.
The Wentworth Group recommended that to take advantage of these potential opportunities, Australia's governments need to ensure that future policies to reduce carbon emissions also incentivise storage of carbon in the landscape. The Group has argued for regional natural resource management planning and land use planning that guide landscape carbon into areas of high environmental benefit and away from areas of high risk, for complementary economic incentives to leverage multiple public benefit outcomes, and for linking offset credits created under the Carbon Farming Initiative to the carbon pricing mechanism.
All of these recommendations have been adopted in the Australian Government's Carbon Farming Initiative, and are included in the Clean Energy Future.
The Wentworth Group has developed a framework for their next blueprint, Managing Australia, that sets out the fundamental institutional, economic and cultural reforms required to secure the long term health of Australian landscapes. To this end, it addresses three major challenges:
The Wentworth Group launched its scholarship program in February 2007. The program aims to invest in and build the capacity of the next generation of natural resource scientists and economists to shape policy for Australia's land, water and marine resources. Participants in the program, the Wentworth Scholars, attend a three day master class and receive support and mentoring from individual members of Wentworth Group in the relevance of their research to public policy over the course of a year. In turn, the members learn about the cutting edge research being undertaken by the Scholars.
Informal mentoring of the scholars from previous years continues with members of Wentworth Group and staff. Prof Bruce Thom as created a framework for contact with members of the Group and ongoing mentoring. It is this contact that makes the Scholarship so sought after and special.
The Terrestrial Carbon Groups was established by the Purves Environmental Fund through the Wentworth Group in 2007. It released a model for How to Include Terrestrial Carbon in Developing Nations in the Overall Climate Change Solution in 2008. This work provided a robust and practical framework for the conservation and restoration of carbon in the world's tropical rainforests to contribute to the global climate change solution. The Group is now based at Columbia University in USA. Members of the Wentworth Group, Peter Cosier, Tim Flannery and Hugh Possingham, continue to be members of the Terrestrial Carbon Group.


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March 14, 2012 at 09:00 AM EDT
Merriman Capital Initiates Coverage on Microvision
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Merriman Capital, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: MERR), initiated equity research coverage on Microvision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS) ($3.05) last week with a Buy rating.
Microvision is a technology company and a world leader in the design, development and commercialization of miniature, laser-based, scanned projection displays it calls PicoProjectors, or PicoP for short. The Company was established in 1993 and is currently headquartered in Redmond, Wash.
Research analyst, Joel Achramowicz, summarized in his initiation report:
Microvision, Inc. has plowed more than $400 million into developing the most dynamic and productive miniature projection device in the world. With the PicoP® Gen2 projection technology finally close to production with real direct green lasers, it's our contention that the stock is grossly undervalued with regard to its true intrinsic value today.
Members of the media can obtain a copy of this Merriman Capital research report by e-mailing email@example.com.
About Merriman Capital, Inc.
Merriman Capital, Inc. is an investment banking firm providing equity and options execution services, market making, and differentiated research for high growth companies. The firm also provides capital raising, advisory, and M&A services. Merriman Capital, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: MERR) and is the leading investment banking firm for OTCQX companies. For more information, please go to http://www.merrimanco.com/.
Merriman Capital, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer and member of The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) http://www.finra.org/ and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) http://www.sipc.org.
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LOGANSPORT — Barbara Naugle Russell, 92, formerly of Wabash, died at 1:30 a.m. Friday, July 20, 2012, at Logansport Memorial Hospital.
She was born July 13, 1920, in Wabash to Rex and Clara Bryant Sims.
She is survived by three daughters, Nancy (James) O'Connor, Greenwood, Jan Gebhart, Lukens Lake, and Barbara (Mark) Hildebrandt, Logansport; seven grandchildren, Sean O'Connor, Kimberly Snow, Michael Gebhart, Benjamin Gebhart, Susan Mattern, Megan Hildebrandt, and Andrew Hildebrandt; and several great-grandchildren.
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The first morning of the Winter Meetings brings with it a lot of in-settling, bearings-getting and lobby-wandering. You reacquaint yourself with a lot of faces that you generally see once or twice a year, there are a lot of waved hellos and a lot of "damnit, I know that guy" thoughts.
And there's also a lot of "what are your guys doing? What are you hearing?"
On my first few trips through the lobby here at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, I had a nice conversation with one of the members of the Blue Jays' travelling party, who opened by telling me they'd signed Albert Pujols to a five-year deal at $2 million per. I'm pretty sure he was joking.
The biggest piece of information that I've been able to glean so far is that the field at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium in Dunedin has been completely redone. There will be a brand-spanking new grass surface on which the Blue Jays will play this spring, and the D-Jays will follow in April. Generally, a grass field is redone every eight years or so, but this is the first time Dunedin Stadium/Knology Park/the FAES has been redone since 1983.
As far as the baseballicness goes, there are more rumours that involve the Blue Jays, like potential interest in Braves' second baseman Martin Prado and that great and completely B.S. rumour out of Cleveland that the Jays are the front-runners to land Prince Fielder.
I'll say this – the only way the Jays get Fielder is if he can be convinced to sign a short-term deal at massive money (3 years, $80 million?) and then head back out on the free agent market one more time when he's 30 to get another huge deal. Given the fact that he can get twice the term, if not twice the cash, it's not likely. And don't forget that the Blue Jays have made a serious move towards increasing the all-around athleticism of the team, which makes Fielder even less of a fit.
Evidently the Braves want a thumper to play left field, which would make some suggest that Travis Snider or Eric Thames could be a fit in a trade for Prado. Thames I would do (and so would the Blue Jays), Snider not so much. But if we're talking about big-hitting outfielders in a trade with Atlanta, I'd love to see things expanded to the point where Jason Heyward can be moved into the conversation. Evidently the Braves' patience with him is wearing thin.
A couple of names floating out in the rumour mill that I find interesting are Ervin Santana of the Angels and Kansas City's Greg Holland.
Santana is a more-than-solid starter who could fit in as a 2 or 3 (more a 3) and L.A. of A. is apparently looking to clear out his $11.2 million ticket. That's a guy in whom the Blue Jays should be interested, and they have the money.
They should also be interested in Holland, an undersized 26 year-old righty who had an incredible rookie season for the Royals in 2011, posting a 0.933 WHIP in 60 relief innings with over 11 K/9. He held opponents to a .175/.246/.275 mark, split almost exactly evenly between lefties and righties. With the Royals' signing of Jonathan Broxton, Holland moves even farther down the depth chart in a bullpen that already includes Joakim Soria and Aaron Crow. Can anyone say Blue Jays' next closer?
Keep it here for updates throughout the course of the Winter Meetings!
Also keep an eye on my Twitter feed @wilnerness590.
Rational, reasonable comments are always welcome!
12 Responses to "A Word Before Lunch"
Interesting comments, Mike. I agree on all the guys you mentioned. Heyward would be a GREAT add. Wow, we can only hope.- Craig M
I think Prado would be a great fit. I know this will drive Wilner crazy but he's a fantastic player in MLB 2K11 (easy, Wilner… be nice). Plus, he gets on base and hits for average, and can play 2B or LF. But he's coming off a down year.
As for the Prince rumours, I could see the Jays passing on him and landing Votto in a trade. Seems more Anthopolousy to surprise everyone and get the guy he really wants. I think we would all prefer Votto over Prince, given the circumstances. But I think it would probably take something like D'Arneaud, Hech and Drabek to land him. Then again, that makes make think that Prince would only cost dollars…
MW: Prado would be a solid fit, but would give the Jays six right-handed hitters, and his strong OBPs have been driven by an unusually high BABIP during his big years. It's all about what the Braves would need to have coming back.- Arm Chair GM
"don't forget that the Blue Jays have made a serious move towards increasing the all-around athleticism of the team, which makes Fielder even less of a fit."
Mike W, master of wit.- mattyp
You may want to let the sportsnet people know that rumour is false, it's all i heard this morning on the Fan.
Aaron Crow is likely going to battle for a rotation spot in the spring. He'll likely get it too.
MW: He may indeed.- Jeff
Hi Mike,
I am one of those who has bought into AA's long-term goal of putting a contender on the field year after year. That said, I would hate to see AA depart from this and sell the farm just to be competitive next year, especially since it is harder to exploit the draft. Do you feel that AA will stick to his overall objective, or is there pressure for him to depart and take a more short-term view of things due to the extra wild card and Toronto media pressure to make a splash?
MW: Anthopoulos doesn't react to media or fan pressure at all.- Mike's Sense on AA
Two thoughts on this:
1. Why would the Jays prefer to deal Thames over Snider? If they deal Thames, and Travis Snider ends up playing like Travis Snider, they don't have any other options to take over in LF.
2. You only peg Ervin Santana as #3 in the Jays starting rotation? Surely, you jest.
MW: 1 – Snider is younger, is a much better defender and baserunner and has a higher ceiling. I know this is difficult for many Blue Jays fans to accept. 2 – I peg Santana as a #3 in a global sense, not a team-specific sense.- JaysFan
Why do you keep saying Prince Fielder isn't athletic? He actually runs pretty well and he can also dunk a basketball, which is all the more impressive considering he's under six feet tall. He's as athletic if not more than Adam Lind, Lyle Overbay, Edwin Encarnacion and I haven't heard management complaining about their athleticism. In fact, who would you consider an athletic first baseman in the league?
MW: Prince Fielder's body type doesn't lend itself to aging well. To deny this is simply to be contrarian for its own sake.- Superflycool
Wilner whats with the Angry Bird logo at the top of your blog?
MW: Someday it will change.- JD
I know Fielder is basically fat (to be blunt) but he has hardly missed any games in his career, so I think he should get some "athletic" credit for that. And he's quite young.
If the Jays would take him for 3/80, why not offer 6/120 like the Brewers apparently have and front load it so he makes 80 the first 3 years. Then in the final 3 years he only costs 3/40. If the Jays don't want him past 3 years, don't you think someone would give up ome good talent to grab him at 3 years for 40M?
I think we have a great DH in platooning Lind and EE (great for the money and I think both will have solid years coming up). Putting Fielder at 1B (with Lind to back-up once in a while) would just be such an upgrade vs just Lind at 1B and EE at DH, every day, with utility guys for backup.- sons
Wouldn't Travis Snider have more of a market value then Eric Thames? What about doing something along the lines of sending Lind + Snider for a #1 or #2 starter? it couldn't hurt us to get another good starting pitcher and we have options in the outfield. What do you think?
MW: There's not a chance the Blue Jays can get a starter that good for that package. Well, not a reasonable chance, but Alex is a ninja, after all.- Jarrod Sidloski
MW: Prince Fielder's body type doesn't lend itself to aging well. To deny this is simply to be contrarian for its own sake.
And how would his knees react to carrying all that weight on turf? Especially since he seems to put a lot of stress on them.- Anonymous
You also didn't mention that one of SB's negotiating ploys is to stir up the rumor mill to bid his client's price higher, and The Blue Jays have been victimized by this before (aka Rickey Henderson)
I think Fielder would be a great fit but i wouldnt give more than 6 years so fat chance he comes. what about putting a package together for a garza type or i heard the braves might want to give up jurgins?- A Wilson


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After Bibb County election officials shot down a challenge to Al Tillmans candidacy for the Macon-Bibb County Commission last week, Macon City Councilman Henry Gibson vowed to appeal.
He made good on that promise Thursday, filing for an injunction in Bibb County Superior Court.
Gibson filed a complaint earlier this month claiming that Tillman isnt a legal resident of District 9, the seat Tillman is vying for against Council President James Timley.
Gibson, whos supporting Timley, contends that since Tillman filed for a homestead tax exemption on property in District 8, thats the district Tillman legally lives in, thus nullifying his candidacy for District 9.
The Bibb County Board of Elections sided with Tillman last week in a 4-0 vote.
Gibson called the hearing a joke.
Board of elections members said that the law, including a 2008 Georgia Supreme Court case, made it clear that the homestead exemption alone could not determine Tillmans place of residency.
Tillman also supplied the board with a car registration, power bills, bank statements and a lease agreement showing that he lived at an apartment complex in District 9.
A portion of Gibsons letter, dated Aug. 27, read: I hearby appeal the decision of the Board of Elections on my challenge of determining residence and qualification of candidate Al Tillman for the Macon-Bibb Commission. He gave a copy of the letter to the elections board and delivered a copy to the court Thursday afternoon.
Tillman said he didnt think Gibson would prevail.
They dont have a chance and they know they dont have a chance, Tillman said. Theyre still trying to disqualify me from running. ... The Justice Department already said you can move in a district a day before qualifying.
They have not been this energized to fight crime, poverty as they are fighting against me, Tillman added.
Gibson said the law stating that a resident need only live in a district for a day was added by Republicans so they can unseat candidates in the upcoming election.
That law was done by (state Rep.) Allen Peake for Al Tillman, Gibson said. The law previously said homestead exemption is where your residence is.
A majority of people in District 9 dont like whats going on, he added. I want my day in court before voters go to the polls.
As for voters who have already hit the polls, Gibson said, thats the (election) boards problem. A judge can throw that out.
To contact writer Harold Goodridge, call 744-4382.


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Miss Mowcher is a dwarf hairdresser and manicurist. When Dickens first introduced her he intended her to be an accomplice in David's friend Steerforth's plot to elope with Little Em'ly. Dickens had modeled Miss Mowcher after his wife's chiropodist, or foot doctor.
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Wizards center Brendan Haywood watched the team's game against Phoenix from the bench and what appeared to be in uniform. I exchaned a few texts messages with B-Wood this afternoon and he said that the only reason he was in uniform and "on the bench because I didn't have a suit jacket and I still wanted to support the guys."
I asked Haywood if there was any chance that he would make a return some time this week and he replied that there was "no chance" because the Wizards still haven't had a real practice since he was cleared to resume full contact activity a week ago.
The Wizards, who played two back-to-backs out West only did shoot-arounds last week and had today off before playing tomorrow night at home against Chicago. The team won't have an actual practice until Tuesday.
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8/26/2013 (Updated 8:03:03 PM)Police need your help finding a missing elderly man. The Broome County Sheriff's Office is currently conducting a missing persons investigation in the Town of Binghamton and Town of Conklin areas.
They're looking for 73-year-old William E. Bryan. Police say Bryan left his residence on foot from Hawleyton Road Sunday and has not yet returned.
He was last seen on Brady Hill Road in the Town of Conklin Sunday evening.
He is described as 6'3 tall and approximately 167 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red plaid shirt, blue jeans, cowboy boots and a camo-colored baseball cap.
He has an ulcer on the left side of his face. A photo taken of Bryan more than ten years ago has been released to the public.
Anyone who has any information or who may have seen him is urged to call the Broome County Sheriff's Office at (607)-778-1911.
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I have used this recipe for a couple years now and love it everytime! I have friends that have asked me for it as well. The only problem I have is using only a 1/4 cup of beer and then the rest gets wasted because I always start the marinade in the a.m. So, I have learned to make a large batch of the marinade. I freeze it with my chix breasts and also bags of cut-up peppers for my future fajitas. I just pull it out in the a.m. to thaw and it's ready to grill by the time I get home.
I thought this marinade was really good. I added a little more of all the spices and a couple more cloves of garlic, marinated 2 chicken breasts (cut up) in the fridge for about an hour. Then I cooked the chicken, some onion and red pepper IN the marinade. I didn't give it 5 stars because I've had better, but all in all a good recipe and I would probably make again. Thanks!!
My husband and son thought it was good. I think it would be a good marinade for chicken, then I would have given it 5/5, actually I wanted to give it 4 1/2 out of 5. It was tangy with the citrus flavors. As for a fajita, I'm used to having fajita's for beef, chicken and shrimp with the usual fajita flavor(like my favorite resturant). It would be better in a category for just citrus marinade for chicken.
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"Christopher Scott Childers Jr., 6 months." A blue balloon floated up toward the sky.
"Baby Boy Fouts, 1 day." Another blue balloon rose.
As workers with Wake County Human Services released light blue and pink balloons, WRAL reporter Leyla Santiago read the names of the 28 victims of child abuse in 2012.
Gathered in the sunshine at Pullen Park on Saturday, about 130 people participated in the second annual Child Abuse Prevention Walk put on by the department.
"April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and this is what Wake County does to memorialize the children who died," said organizer Denise Billman, human service program manager with the department.
The walk was to raise awareness about how to prevent child abuse. Participants strolled up the steps over the bridge by the lake, around the water, and made their way back to the stage. Each walker had a story.
Durenda Johnson Ward walked with other members of Poplar Springs Christian Church. As a counselor for Wake County Public Schools, she sees signs of abuse.
"I see this. I call CPS (Child Protective Services) a lot," said Ward, the mother of two boys.
"No one ever asks to be born. It's a parent choice. If you make that choice, you need to take the responsibility," she said.
Ward tries to give polite advice at school, at church and even in line at the grocery store. She said strangers notice the cheerfulness of her two sons, 7 and 2. The secret, she says, is to "treat them with love and respect."
Annette Williams, who works for Wake County Human Services, knows abuse because her parents were alcoholics. When she was a teenager, she fled from her parents in the Bronx and traveled with her three children to North Carolina.
She walked on Saturday because "it's a great cause," she said. "It just pulls at your heartstrings."
'Still too many'
Keynote speaker Ramon Rojano, director of the department, told the audience that between 1991 and 2011, the rate of child deaths per 100,000 fell from 107 to 57.
"That means all our work and all your work and all the work of medicine, it cuts the rate in half," Rojano said. "But it is still too many. How many children do you think is OK to die because of child abuse?"
"Zero!" people in the crowd yelled.
"That's why we have these walks. You will make a difference," Rojano said.
Carmen Willis with Wake County Child Protective Services told participants to call law enforcement or her office right away if they see signs of abuse.
"Today, we are trying to make you aware that it is everyone's business to prevent child abuse," Willis said.
Before, during and after the walk, activities abounded. Rosa Vazquez-Cherry, a staff member of the Wake County government, wore black stretch capris, a black tank top and sunglasses to lead an invigorating Zumba session. About a dozen people stepped, waved arms and shook hips in time with her movements.
Some distance away, children played with hula hoops provided by Billman. Volunteer Michelle McCullough gathered the children for a group photo and laughed as she hula-hooped with them.
"I love kids. It's all about the kids," McCullough said.
Billman said she chose Zumba and hula hoops for health and happiness.
"I thought, 'Kids just love hula hoops, and Zumba is for everybody,' " Billman said.
Ignorance to blame
Informational tables from organizations such as the Family and Community Network, which connects parents with resources within the Department of Human Services, gave participants a chance to find out about how to prevent child abuse.
Marrika Lewis, a counselor, stood by the table for Wake County Human Services pregnancy care management.
"I've had some clients lose their child to violence from their partners, and I'm here for them," Lewis said. She also works part time on the pediatric floor of WakeMed. "I see a lot of children there as a result of care-provider incidences of violence."
One baby, she said, was there because of abuse by the father.
"Luckily, the baby got to go home, but sometimes, they don't," she said.
Education is essential, Lewis said, and she tries to help parents learn how to better care for their children. "I think it's a lack of knowledge. As adults I think we don't know what we're capable of. That's why we're here, to raise awareness and prevent it from happening in the future."
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Don't Be STUPID: Vote all school levies down, and VOTE YES on ISSUE 2
Darryl Parks of 700 WLW had a marvelous show on Saturday, November 5, 2011 just before the election where he covered all the different aspects involved in passing school levies and whether or not the funding is actually needed at the levels public education is demanding. When talking about school funding it becomes quickly evident that school districts all over America, particularly in Ohio have no idea what they are doing and are not functioning from any laws of business sense that the rest of society lives under. In public education the tail wags the dog and the dog reacts to that movement. And that behavior reminds me of the kind of man Al Gore is, an out-of-touch, big government liberal. So Darryl ahead of the election was discussing all the reasons people are stupid if they vote for a school levy. I came on with Darryl at 21:30. In fact this segment is so good you should listen to the entire broadcast which is 1 hour 19 minutes, so grab a snack and prepare to listen to the whole thing.
In the very contentious year of 2000 when George W. Bush ran against Al Gore for the presidency and liberals for the next 8 years could not forget about how close the election actually was and accused Bush of "STEALING" the election, a more startling statistic jumps out at us. Al Gore had 84% of the nation's college professors cast a vote for him as president. Only 9% voted for Bush. So if the nation was evenly split between Bush and Gore pretty much 50/50, then what segment of society are producing members of the "education class?"
This isn't a question of Republican against Democrats, because to me there wasn't much difference between Bush and Gore regarding political philosophy. Both were big government advocates, which drew the split of the country's opinion. But it is the perception of what Gore stands for that put him over the top among the very liberal-minded members of the "Education Class." And in the year 2000 those college professors were providing bachelor and master's degrees to the teachers who are in our schools today. Some of those teachers have become administrators and even superintendents, and show the footprint of that learned liberalism in virtually everything they do.
When I first started looking in to the whole school funding problem a year ago and applied the same rules I have used on myself when dealing with budget issues the very first thing that jumped out at me were the wages. They were just too high for the amount and skill level of those employees. Lakota, my school system was trying to maintain a wage structure that had no regulation. The school board meets twice a month to manage a $250 million dollar budget and they are the only guard against excessive spending. When the superintendent of the school makes more than the governor of Ohio, you have a major problem in importance perception, and that distortion permeates all the ranks of the administration. To see how much superintendents make, read and watch the videos at these two articles.
If after listening to Darryl's broadcast and watching the I-Team investigations on those two links, and reading all the information I've put down here for your convenience, and you still vote for a school levy, then you can't be helped. I would simply write you off as a contributing member of society by classifying you as a derelict of thought. You were obviously instructed by the same kind of people who voted for Al Gore and you left your brain in college where it was offered to the Al Gore quest to rid the world of Man-Bear-Pig and his "super cereal" efforts to save us all portrayed wonderfully by the cartoon South Park.
Because only people who have fried all their brain cells in some hippie diatribe of drug induced infestation would vote for a school levy. Only a brain-dead, tie die, pot smoking, pony tail wearing, over-weight, thin-skinned, overly sensitive, pimple popping, Marxist, tweed jacketed, Greenpeace loving, fool would vote for a school levy. Only an Al Gore voting, Clinton apologist who looks at Barack Obama as the second coming, and could name all the contestants of Dancing with the Stars but would fall short of naming a single one of their state reps would vote for a school levy. Only a person who completely sucks as a parent, and tries to cover up that suckiness with money would vote for a school levy. Only a person who believes in Man-Bear-Pig would vote for a school levy. In short, if you vote for a school levy………….AT ALL………………………you are STUPID!!!!! STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why? Because as Darryl and I discussed, in the real world costs are regulated daily. I could never sit down in front of the owners who hire me and tell them that their payroll would just increase in an uncontrolled fashion infinitely, without any control. If I told an owner of a business, "You must increase your sales, (REVENUE) to meet your payroll, " my life as a manager would be over in about 1/10th of a second. What the owner hires a manager for is to maintain the profit margin while driving down the costs. I would personally use the 10-80-10 rule.
I talk about that rule in this article in case you don't know what it is:
Public schools do nothing close to this. What happens is the union lobby pushes to get school board members elected who work against a sleepy public not paying attention. Those school board members provide almost no management of community resources. The union negotiates great benefits for their members which lowers the resistance to paying union dues so that money can be used to purchase political lobby power. And when the district needs more money, they simple pass another levy. And there are a whole set of manipulations that the union lobby has embedded in the community from their radical teachings provided by groups like the NEA which instructs them. TO SEE THE RECOMMENDED READING LIST OF THE NEA CLICK THIS LINK:
Some of those radical tactics are to cut busing, even though it's a small cost of the whole budget. Cut electives because parents want those for their children. Cut sports, because many parents hope to obtain a scholarship to help pay for college. The union knows that by taking away what parents want, they can control the behavior of the parent. It's done for the same reason that a parent might take away the favorite toy of their own child to control the behavior of the child. And for the residents of a community who don't have kids in the district, the union lobby attacks them with guilt. "Can't you pay the tax? Someone paid for your education, now you need to pay that back," or sometimes outright vandalism. SEE SOME EXAMPLES HERE:
In fact with all the evidence provided here for your benefit, if you have not made use of it, and learned the game and how it's played and you still vote for a levy, to feed this insane system that is out-of-control, then I would go so far to say that you are not only STUPID, but are in fact a DUMB ASS!
Sorry, I don't mean to hurt your feelings. But you are. Anyone who votes to get rid of Issue 2, is also a DUMB ASS. It makes me weary to know that some of the air I have breathed into my lungs may have been exhaled from yours. It makes me weary because the same disease that has eaten your brain may enter my blood stream and infect me with the same slow-growing illness. I feel sorry for the children of these stupid people because they will also grow up and become stupid, and that is unfortunate. And when these stupid people are senior citizens, God forbid the imposition they will become on society. Can you imagine a stupid person who doesn't even have the intelligence to care for themselves when they've lost their physical characteristics and muscle mass is a thing of the past? Will they just sit on a couch and hope Man-Bear-Pig will drop food in their mouths? Will they hope their children will care for them, because they won't have the ability, because they too will be too stupid to move?
This election is about a lot more than just votes cast. It's a measure against how stupid we have really become as a society, and the results will show us if we've already went beyond the point of no-return.
I know I've put the information out there, so I feel OK about it. But I worry as I look at some of my friends and neighbors who appear to be no different from a Zombie from some horror film, as the drool falls out of the corner of their mouth, as they say they will support a school levy. Such people are a menace to society and are ills to the future of the human race, and that in its essence is what this election in Ohio represents.
So, one last time, DON'T BE STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote every single school levy down. Every ONE!!!! And vote to keep Issue 2. And teachers, firefighters and police who have less than 5 years on the job, you better Vote YES on ISSUE 2. Don't listen to your union buddies on the force. Because when the layoffs come, you'll be the first to go. If Issue 2 holds and we can engage in merit based pay, management will be able to keep you, the young employee, and let go of that fat-ass superior of yours who is just milking the system. YEAH, you know who they are, and so do I. So for your own protection, make sure you VOTE YES on ISSUE 2. Once you get in the voting booth, those slugs will never know, so you'll be safe. If you don't do that and you find yourself on the unemployment line in February it can be for only one reason YOU ARE…………………………….Well, you know the rest!
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DOC'S LAW in OHIO: "Boogity boogity boogity, Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(Do yourself a favor and watch every video on this article and try to do it as you read. While this post may appear to take a break from politics, it really is just a different way of looking at the situation in the face of incredible opposition. So strap in and hold on! I'm letting you into my world a bit more than usual.) Remember that song? I do! If there was one song in my life that most uttered my inner consciousness it is Sammy Hagar's I Can't Drive 55. That song is my life, except miraculously I never did jail time. I never had a drunk driving incident, or a terrible crash that I caused, but I had many reckless operations for burning rubber, eluding police officers, and EXCESSIVE speed. My very first ticket was 85 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. Some of my tickets were so excessive that the police mailed them to me because they couldn't catch up. They had managed to get my license plate number but the speed was just too much to attempt to overtake from a dead stop. I have been pulled over by every vehicle the police department has, even helicopters.
Thankfully, when the speed limits finally went up to 65 here in Ohio and 70 all through the south, it gave me the needed margin to stay out of trouble and I finally stopped getting so many tickets. But I had lost my driver's license till I was 26 years old from so many point accumulations. I had to drive illegally to bring my wife and children home from the hospital, because my license was suspended for the next 8 years!
I promised my publisher that I'd have the first edit of my new project to them by Election Day, so I was sitting at my desk listening to my buddy Doc Thompson on 700 WLW when he announced his new initiative called Doc's Law. The manuscript I was working on involved much of my love of speed and cars in general so my mind was already geared into it, so I called up Doc to lend my support of his new, bold program. (My Part is at the 17:50 mark. But you'll want to hear the Sean segment who is the first caller.)
People ask me often how I have so much time to write at this site, and work on these school levy fights, well, it's because I'm in between projects at the moment. Well sort of. My new book, which I have been editing with my publisher, is due out next year, so I have a little time on my hands. I wrote the book last year before the first levy attempt at Lakota. It took about 9 months to bounce around between all the publishers and their readers, then about a month and a half of contract finalizations when one finally decided they wanted to do it. We are now in the "post production" phase of things and my time requirements will soon change. Right now we are trying to figure out what this new book is all about. Is it philosophy? Yes. Is it action-adventure? Yes. Is it a romance? Yes. Is it a political thriller? Yes. "But what do we put on the spine of the book?" I don't know. At this post production phase all I can say at the moment is that the book is about a presidential race for the United States mixed with this video.
Don't worry; we'll get it worked out. These kinds of talks are a normal part of the process. But these were the kind of problems we are trying to work out on the publication end of things. As to the intensity of that video, that is a trip into my mind. So welcome!
As to speed limits, like most things, I never liked the word "LIMIT." That is such a confining term. Limits are usually set by small-minded people with fat little fingers that can barely get their hands around their steering wheels. On the highway, I think in such a rapid fashion that 55 MPH was simply a mind numbing pace, barbaric in its mediocrity. 65 is a little better, and 70 is almost ideal. I almost always travel between 75 and 85 MPH. I think the way Doc does, my time is valuable and I want to get where I'm going. I don't want to waste my time with some bureaucratic speed limit!
When my family recently traveled to Florida over the summer my average speed was 88 MPH. Sometimes it was 105 MPH and sometimes as low as 77 MPH. I wanted to get there. Two years ago when my wife and I took a massive motorcycle trip to Key West on our Boulevard motorcycle my average speed was 91 MPH. When we left for home we departed Orlando at 6 AM and pulled into our driveway at 9 PM with an hour and a half of dining at the Chattanooga Outback Steakhouse. Much of the time in the mountains our speed was 115 MPH. At a rest stop down in Key Largo a fellow from the seat of his over-the-road Harley Davidson asked me why I had a Suzuki and not an American made bike. I said, "Because a Harley doesn't have a drive shaft, and these big tires. I like to drive fast."
He looked my big bike over. "It is impressive, but you are supposed to enjoy the ride."
"I do," I replied to him. "I enjoy it fast."
About a month later my wife and I left our home to participate on a motorcycle membership run since I was the Vice-President of the Suzuki Club of North America in Ohio. I met the other riders at a McDonalds just outside of Cleveland at 7 AM as we left our house at 4:30 AM. From there our little motorcycle gang rode to the Freemont Dealership close to Sandusky, Ohio across the northern part of the state. We had our membership drive there with our motorcycles on display from 10 AM till 2 PM. As rest of the motorcycle club left to go back to Cleveland my wife and I went on over to Cedar Point for the rest of the day and rode Top Thrill Dragster.
We left Cedar Point at 8 PM and were home showered and in bed by 11 PM to watch Family Guy on the Cartoon Network. The only bad part of a trip like that was always watching out for police. I don't get to enjoy all the nice sites along the way, because I'm always scanning ahead for cops. We did 500 miles of riding that day and we did it at speeds much of the time over 100 MPH and in the blackness of night, and we still had plenty of time to spend the day in northern Ohio to have fun without being rushed around due to time constraints.
One thing you notice when you do a lot of traveling is that the speed culture changes dramatically the further north you get. I think this has something to do with the map seen on the Right-to-Work states. Have a look.
People in the south still embrace a frontier spirit of a sort. They are different from the progressive politics of the north with all those stubby fingered bureaucrats who want to control every part of our lives. You can see the tremendous difference of these two groups when you attend a NASCAR event. Upon seeing this video, it must be remembered that it was the south that first opened up the speed limit to 70 MPH. Because in the south, they love SPEED, and their smokin' hot wives! Thank God for people like Paster Joe Nelms!
When Paster Joe said that I thought of the White House and I imagine that Obama and his wife probably had their faces melting off in horror. In fact, all the beltway types in Washington lobbying on K-Street and other places probably had the same reaction. Because culturally, we are not the same type of people, Progressives are a timid folk, and they drive SLOW! They think SLOW! They learn SLOW! And they expect the rest of us to be just as slow as they are. It's not fair to those of us who can think fast, and drive fast to be hindered by the weak links of society!
I love the SPEEDCHANNEL! What a great American TV station. It's not for those timid types, those people who drive 40 MPH when the speed is supposed to be 65! When I come up on such people at 110 I see the whites of their eyes in their rearview mirror. They smile in triumph, because they believe they are making the world safer! They believe just as the stupid school levy people believe that just by tossing money at a school their kids will get a good education. The same holds for the pretentious fool who blocks traffic in the speed lane. I met such a pompous lump of human excrement on I-71 south as he sat in the speed lane at 56 MPH blocked up next to a tractor-trailer. There was nowhere to pass as those two idiots stayed like that for about 15 miles. I came on him at 105 and almost had to screech my tires to a stop to avoid placing my car into his back seat. I was so angry that I had to leave the highway at Carrolton. My wife and I sat down at McDonalds, had a meal which lasted approximately 20 minutes until I could calm down. We hit the road again and I passed the guy at more than twice his speed about 20 miles outside of Louisville. That's how slow he was going, and how much precious time of life was wasted. My wife and I had an entire meal in the time we would have wasted sitting behind that sluggish fool.
So needless to say, I am a HUGE supporter of Doc's Law. Because if you have business in Columbus, like I often do, or Cleveland, like I do sometimes, the time spent in the car is wasted. Why should I waste moments of my life to compensate for the timid, for the unskilled? For those who are afraid of their own shadows!!!!! Why? Explain to me why my life is worth sacrificing a moment for because the timid are afraid of the speed. If Ohio were to abolish its speed limit altogether, as I hope Doc's Law will pave the way to, I could purchase a Bugatti Veyron Supersport and be in downtown Cleveland in approximately 53 minutes from downtown Cincinnati. Now that is efficiency! I could be in Downtown Columbus and parked in the garage in less than 30 minutes. I could be in Orlando, Florida in less than 6 hours, (I'd have to stop for gas). So why can't I do it? Because of the slow minded progressives who want to regulate everything, including the time it takes us to get from one place to another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, sure they sell it to us in the guise of safety like they always do. But who really wants to be safe? I see people participating in risky behavior all the time, particularly when it comes to their sex lives. Isn't unprotected sex while on that road trip far riskier than the speed of a moving vehicle? Maybe if there weren't any speed limits your husband would drive home from Chicago instead of waiting till the next day to fly out of O'Hara and seek the young women infected with herpes in the hotel lobby. Or the politician who slides the dirty prostitute a $20 for her to pretend his private parts are a corn dog, only for that same politician to bring home God knows what to his loving trusting wife who has bare-knuckled her perilous drive to the school soccer field to drop off the kids for practice.
I've been in several accidents at over 100 miles an hour. And I think that there would be fewer accidents if people drove faster because the mind works better at high speeds. Sure, the highway patrol will give you all kinds of safety statistics about death tolls. But they exaggerate things the same way they did with the Issue 2 campaign. "Issue 2 makes it ILLEGAL to negotiate for staffing sizes." Hey, cops, yeah you guys sitting on the side of the road, if you have more than two hours to sit and do nothing but clock speeders, your department is over staffed. If there isn't enough crime to justify you doing something else, you aren't needed. It's that simple. Most of the car wrecks are caused by the timid, which panic when catastrophe strikes. The speeder who thinks fast reacts better most of the time. And a wreck at 55 looks about the same as one at 100. The reason there aren't more stats of people living in car wrecks at 100 MPH or more is because not that many people do it. Statistically most people linger along at the mind numbing pace of 65 MPH!!!!!!!!!!!! So the crash statistics are skewed to the masses of travelers who crash at less than 100 MPH.
I have news for you progressives in America. The majority of the population doesn't want what you're offering. My editor understood why I included the titles to certain songs in my manuscript. She told me to insert the lyrics into the action instead of naming them in the exposition. One of those songs was I Can't Drive 55. But the one I was working on during Doc's show on November 4, 2011 was Kickstart My Heart shown in the video at the beginning. Well here it is again but shown in a way that deep down inside every American craves, men and women alike. Believe me, I've been married over 20 years and raised two daughters, and I have told them what I'm telling you now. Drop the progressive crap and be what you were meant to be.
My youngest daughter who is 20 gave me some strange looks recently when we were on one of those trips to Florida and my wife and I thought she had went down to the pool, but was in fact still in the bathroom. She stayed in the there too long, about a half hour too long, let's put it that way. As we finished up still thinking we were alone and were getting ready to head to the pool to join our kids there my wife asked me which bathing suit I wanted her to wear and I told her the American Flag bikini. So she put it on. My daughter then stepped out of the bathroom. It was an awkward moment.
"Have you been in there the whole time," My wife asked.
"Yes!" she said trying to look upset. She looked at me as if I should feel guilty.
Instead, I asked her "What do you think of mom's new bathing suit?"
"That is cheesy. I wouldn't be caught dead in it."
I looked at my wife, "See, now you know why I fight all these stupid school levies. Kids these days are learning all the wrong things."
There is no shame in proclaiming what you like; there is only shame in being restricted by inferior minds who create social restrictions that are unnatural, processed, and terribly mundane. And the speed should not be set by the weakest of our society, but by the strongest, so that the weaker learn to be better. By catering to the handicaps of the slow-minded we do not provide ourselves any service of merit, but only collectively weaken what it is that makes America great in the first place.
So I ask you to join me in supporting Doc's Law. It's of epic importance and is a piece of legislation that is needed for the economic vitality of Ohio. And the only reason the police won't get behind it is because they want a speed limit so they can use the citation revenue generated to fund the bloated public sector workers. Having a speed limit is all about having the ability to tax us in yet another way. It has NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING to do with safety.
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Commented versions go from 1.0 to .4!
Although a bit non-intuitive as far as usability, just a little bit of time spent with what Oxidizer can do is incredibly astounding! There are online tutorials that make it easier to use than you would expect - and I am thrilled with the results I had. I have used Oxidizer to create graphics that I could process with RGB MusicLab for some rather interesting results: http://mysite.verizon.net/~corlexis/animation/ Thank you for such a wonderful software - this application creates quite spectacular graphics! And as far as it being free - you definitely get more than you pay for if you spend some time exploring what it can do.
I found Oxidizer totally unusable. There are no instructions. Attempting to get this thing going caused the app to freeze again and again. Had to Force Quit it each time.
Why the developer chooses to put Oxidizer out here before it's ready to even preview is a mystery.
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Well, it's almost to impossible to figure out how to use Oxidizer and there's no instruction manual. I fumbled around for a bit and was able to get it to "breed" images but I couldn't find a way to save them nor to get the "breeding" process to stop, so it just continued to "breed" images, placing them over the previous images.
I tried to click on various tabs but the app just suddenly became unresponsive to my input, it,in effect, froze....and then crashed.
Tried again, but just ran into problem after problem. Flummoxed and exasperated, I gave up and trashed it.
This app looks quite interesting, but why the developer has chosen not to include user instructions is a mystery. Oxidizer is anything but intuitive to use.
I had the same experience as you. Click render, select file format and destination, POFF!!!
But then after clicking around a bit I got it running :-D
This app is in serious need of a manual/read me file... ;-P
Quits whenever I try and generate/render anything. Tried a few times and still the same.
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By Evelyn Nathan
---- — KINGSTON - In 2008, I received a kayak as a Christmas gift. Until that kayak hit the water the next spring, I was obsessed with changing my latitude as often as was humanly possible – in short – getting the heck out of New England. I had lived in Jamaica in my 20's and since that time had existed for the annual tropical trip. I'd seen a great decline in the quality of the Caribbean reefs, however, and in the sheer number of fish in the sea. I thought someday I might like to some kind of contribution to help protect the ailing oceans of the world. Meanwhile, I was stuck in New England, but my early morning paddles took me deep into marshes where it seemed no one had ever been. The only sounds were wind in reeds and the skraaks of great blue herons annoyed by my presence. Reflections of the ripples shimmered on foliage. Water lilies, pickerelweed and arrowheads closed in around me like an Amazonian jungle. Clouds of dragonflies, flocks of birds and rafts of sunning turtles were all around. Frilled weeds grew up from the golden lake beds like seaweed, and there were freshwater sponges called bryozoans. Within a 10 minute driving radius I could put-in on a different river, stream or pond every day of the week, and it occurred to me then that the appropriate place to begin saving the oceans was in Kingston. That revelation inspired me to join the Conservation Commission to see what could be done. This June, three biology teachers at Sanborn High School, several members of the Powwow Pond Council and the Kingston Conservation Commission will lead 180 students in surveying some of the problems affecting our Powwow Pond, and hopefully, work out few organic solutions together. We will plant some rain gardens, enhance some shoreline buffers, and try to slow down the flow of detrimental "non-point source pollution" into the pond. Powwow pond runs into Tuxbury Pond and Lake Gardener. Lake Gardener runs into the Merrimack River. The Merrimack River runs into the sea. Planting a rain garden on Powwow Pond may be a proverbial drop in the bucket, and a very long shot from saving the ailing oceans of the world, but it's here, in our town – and so are we.


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Finding Summer Jobs and Internships
Finding temporary work in the live event production industry is a great way to get through college. If you're already in college and you're looking for a summer job or an internship, then start by talking to as many production companies and manufacturers as humanly possible. Busy production companies can almost always use a hand in the shop and they often like to employ college students. Many manufacturing companies do the same. ETC in Madison, Wisconsin is one such manufacturer who is known for their internship program.
Some industry trade shows also hire college students to help staff their events. In the United States, Lighting Dimensions International (LDI) is one such trade show that hires college students for a couple of weeks each October or November, depending on which month the show falls. And there is no better place to prospect for internships and summer jobs than on the exhibition floor where virtually all of the production industry comes together. If you can't make it to the show, you can still find a list of production companies and manufacturers by geographical location in the Event Production Directory. The annual publication can be found at your local library or it can be purchased at www.plsnbookshelf.com and it is a great place to start searching for internships.
The School of Hard Knocks
Maybe you don't have the resources to go to college or technical school or perhaps you aren't cut out for the college environment. That doesn't preclude you from working in the industry. There are other avenues for pursuing the career you want, though it may be a longer, harder road.
One way to break into the industry is to start at the bottom, coiling cables in a production company, and work your way up. Every metropolitan area has at least one or two production companies and if you knock on the right doors and say the right words, you could go to work without the benefit of formal training. The right words are something like, "I'm willing to work for little pay for a year or two while I learn, I am eager to learn, and I am a quick learner." And if you follow through, toil under the tutelage of a mentor or two, and work hard to prove yourself, you could parlay a job in the shop to one on the road where you will gain valuable experience and contacts.
In some ways, working your way up through the industry is harder than it used to be, and in others, it's easier. It's harder because the concert production industry is much more mature than it was when some of the icons of the industry, like U2's lighting designer Willie Williams, started out. Williams began his career by "running away with a punk band" (in his own words) before hooking up with Bono and the boys for a long, prosperous ride on the tour bus.
On the flip side, it's easier work your way up in the industry than it used to be because there are so many more resources available today to the self-motivated individual. Today there are books on lighting design, programming, rigging, stage management, lighting technology, audio engineering, and just about any subject in the industry that you can think of. Also, the Internet is a great resource for the aspiring designer or technician. Simply by reading user manuals, which are available online, you can get a feel for the gear. There are also computer programs that simulate lighting consoles, many of which are available as a free download. There are also other software packages that simulate lighting rigs and allow you to practice programming in the virtual world using the same syntax as on the actual console.
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The key to moving up the career ladder without a formal education is to get your foot in the door, be likeable, work hard, soak up information like a sponge, and realize that everyone you meet on the road is a potential source of work. When the next tour is getting ready to go out, chances are that the production manager will call people with whom he or she has worked and whom they like.
Marc Janowitz, who is currently touring with My Morning Jacket as the lighting designer and director, is one of the warriors of the road who has worked his way up through the industry. Although he did graduate from college, his degree is not in theatre tech, but in philosophy. Like many touring LDs, he started his professional lighting career running lights in a nightclub, honing his programming chops and playback skills. That led to meeting touring bands and other LDs, and soon he was working for Jewel and Morning Jacket, among others, on the road. The concert touring industry is typically less concerned about your college degree and more concerned about whether or not you are reliable, responsible, and skillful.
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Another option for breaking into the industry in the United States is to visit the local International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) union and find out what it takes to become a member and get your "yellow card." There are local branches in every metropolitan area, but some are easier to get into than others. If you happen to live in Chicago or New York City, it's harder to join than if you live in Austin or Albany.
If you are lucky enough to get on the call list at the IATSE Local, you will more than likely start by loading or unloading trucks, pushing heavy road cases, running cables, and doing whatever needs to be done on a variety of shows. As you develop certain skills, such as programming a lighting console, rigging, or electrical skills, then you will not only get more calls for work but you will also be able to negotiate better pay. These skills come with experience, training, and mentoring.


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The new trend in recruiting seems to be bad news in the 2012 class (Greg McMullen commits to Nebraska, Kyle Kalis de-commits and visits Michigan) balanced by exciting news in the 2013 class (Jalin Marshall impresses at camp and earns an offer, Derrick Green earns an offer and vows to "bring #27 out of retirement").
In a lot of ways, this trend makes perfect sense. Many of the players in the 2012 class are being scared off by the current uncertainty at Ohio State and are deciding to commit elsewhere.
The players that wait until the end of the recruiting process will have plenty of time to see some stability return to Columbus (whether it be a new head coach or Fickell with a long term contract) and the NCAA storm that's currently brewing will be cleared… the trick is getting enough players in 2012 to be patient enough to wait it out.
In contrast, the 2013 players know that by the time it's their turn to sign on the dotted line, the current storm and uncertainty will be long gone.
While a lot of the weekend camp buzz involved 2013 players, there are some encouraging stories in the 2012 class as well.
The commitment of Devan Bogard is obviously item #1 in the good news department, but there are several other encouraging signs as well.
First, as of right now, Kyle Kalis remains undecided after his trip north, so crisis averted on that front for the time being. Second, once wavering Buckeye commitment Brionte Dunn appears to be solidifying on his decision to attend Ohio State.
Recruiting tends to be a series of ups and downs for fans that follow it closely enough. I can't remember another time where there have been so many positive and negative stories simultaneously.
It is easy to get caught up in the positives just as much as the negatives, creating some major optimistic and pessimistic mood swings these days. Attempting to stay calm and in the middle is obviously the best policy, which isn't always the easiest thing to do.
Things are certainly not boring in the recruiting world these days, but the bottom line is that there are some things to get excited about in the midst of the negatives, and at the end of the day, optimism and excitement for the future is what following recruiting is all about.
As always, check out the 2012 Big Board and 2013 Big Board for a comprehensive list of players with offers and other potential targets, along with links to all of the latest news.
Read on for new offers in the 2012 and 2013 class as well as players dropped from the big board.
6'2″ 200 lbs.
Erie (PA) McDowell HS
Highlights: Video #1
Offers: Ohio State, Florida State, Michigan, Penn State, West Virginia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kent State, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Rutgers, Syracuse, Vanderbilt
Greg Garmon is a dynamic athlete that could play anywhere from running back or wide receiver on offense to in the secondary on defense. He camped in Columbus over the weekend (where he worked out with the DBs), which makes this a highly coveted "camp offer".
There's no telling how seriously he is considering Ohio State at the moment, but this will be a recruitment worth tracking.
6'0″ 185 lbs.
Miramar (FL) HS
Highlights: Video #1
Offers: Ohio State, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Kentucky, Wake Forrest, West Virginia
Malcolm Lewis is the longest of long shots who is extremely unlikely to leave the south.
6'0″ 218 lbs.
Richmond (VA) Hermitage HS
Highlights: Video #1, Video #2
Offers: Ohio State
Derrick Green came to camp in Columbus this weekend with a specific goal in mind: to earn an offer from Ohio State. Obviously, he achieved that goal, which is a notable accomplishment in its own right (he won RB MVP at the camp to boot). His goal and accomplishment are only half the story that make Derrick Green one of the most likable and exciting offers in recent memory.
Where to begin.
First, Green grew up an Ohio State fan and Eddie George was his favorite player. He says he wears #27 for a reason, and that when he received an offer from Ohio State (he said it at the beginning of camp), he would bring #27 out of retirement. So yeah, it's hard not to love his attitude and the fact that he seems like just as big of a fan as you and I are.
It is important not to get too excited about players before they step foot on the field (much less on campus), just like it is important not to get too depressed when Ohio State misses out on prospects, but it is tough not to love where this recruitment seems to be going.
One final note, Green attends the same high school as 2011 LB Curtis Grant (who has also become a resounding fan favorite over the past several months) and they are good friends. Sometimes when things were meant to be, they were meant to be.
Alright, with that out of my system, there are 20 months between now and signing day for this class, so I reserve the right to say, "recruiting, what a strange game" at some point in the future.
Until then, hooray for some good/exciting recruiting news!
6'0″ 190 lbs.
Middletown (OH) HS
Highlights: Video #1
Offers: Ohio State, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
An extremely talented and versatile athlete, Jalin Marshall was offered at camp in Columbus over the weekend (hooray for camp offers!). He plays quarterback for his high school but he could end up at any number of positions in college… or he could be the heir apparent to Braxton Miller at QB.
2013 is a long ways away, but this is definitely an offer worth keeping an eye on.
Jalin was excited by Ohio State's offer and they are his early leader. Hooray for more good/exciting recruiting news!
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Voorhees (NJ) Eastern HS
Highlights: Video #1
Offers: Ohio State, Notre Dame, Purdue
Eli Woodard is another camp offer from over the weekend. He reportedly ran a 4.48 forty at camp and obviously impressed the coaches.
His top three are Ohio State, Notre Dame, and Purdue, who not coincidentally are his three offers at the moment. He will camp at several other places over the rest of the summer.
Woodard is an Ohio State fan, and the last DB Ohio State pulled from New Jersey was named Malcolm Jenkins, so there are some things already trending the Buckeyes way in this recruitment.
6'0″ 175 lbs.
Hilliard (OH) Darby HS
Highlights: Video #1
Offers: Ohio State
Caleb Day may or may not have an offer at this point, but either way, the Buckeyes are clearly interested after watching him at camp and Day has Ohio State as his early favorite.
6'3″ 175 lbs.
Fort Lauderdale (FL) University School
Highlights: Video #1
Offers: Ohio State, Florida, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Texas Tech, Wake Forrest, Western Michigan
Another long shot Florida WR that should probably be put on the back burner of expectations unless he indicates a serious interest in the Buckeyes at some point in the future. It doesn't hurt to get in with an early offer and Stan Drayton's connections to the sunshine state don't hurt either.
OH DL Greg McMullen committed to Nebraska.
MD ATH Deontay McManus committed to West Virginia.
OH TE Sam Grant committed to Boston College (no Ohio State offer).
OH K Ross Martin committed to Duke (no Ohio State offer).
Also worth noting is the buzz around 2012 CO OL Alex Kozan. He won OL MVP at camp over the weekend and could be in line for an offer very soon. He is another player that grew up an Ohio State fan and the staff is reportedly "very interested" in him.
#27 shouldn't be a wearable jersey number without the expressed written consent of one Mr. Eddie George
June 27th, 2011 at 11:33 am
I'm pretty sure that's the way it works.
IIRC, Katzenmoyer asked Archie if he could wear #45 and Archie said yes. I don't see why Eddie wouldn't do the same thing if it came to that.
A LOT of new offers have been added on the 2013 Big Board in addition to the ones listed above.
Check them out now if you would like and we will go over them in more detail in next week's recruiting update.
Is Fickell already putting his stamp on the program as a more aggressive recruiter? We will have to wait and see but it seems like we may be heading in that direction.
June 27th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
We need more OL in the offer list, particularly tackles.
That is all.