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The BBWAA has announced that Barry Larkin is the lone inductee into the Hall of Fame this year. He received 495 votes (86.4%), well above the 75% required for induction. Larkin spent his entire 19-year career with the Reds, hitting .295/.371/.444 with 198 homers, 379 stolen bases, 939 walks, and just 817 strikeouts. During his peak from 1991-2000, Larkin hit .304/.392/.478. He made a dozen All-Star Teams and won the 1995 NL MVP. Needless to say, he's very deserving of this honor, so congrats to him.
Yankees great Bernie Williams headlined the newcomers on the ballot, but he received just 55 votes (9.6%). That's enough to keep him on the ballot another year. Tim Raines received 48.7% of the vote while Jeff Bagwell received 56.0%, up from 37.5% and 41.7%, respectively. That's progress. Don Mattingly received 17.8%, up from 13.6% last year. Former Yankees Tony Womack and Ruben Sierra received zero votes. The full voting result can be found at the BBWAA's site.
Baseball America's Conor Glassey published a (free!) collection of old scouting reports for some players on this year's ballot, including one on a 22-year-old Williams from 1991. That's a worthy read.
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Bernie deserves more than that, although I don't quite think he's a Hall of Famer. His defense was simultaneously overrated and underrated.
One weird thing was how his notoriously bad arm suddenly got pretty good in his final year.
Anyway, I miss him, what a good dude.
Interesting write-up on Bernie. I know he was a good CFer and could cover a good amount of ground when he was younger, but I was surprised to read one scout say he has a good arm. That was always the weakest part of his game.
The most interesting quote was from the opposing manager who said, "I sometimes wonder if Bernie knows how good he can be." I seem to remember Joe Torre saying similar things about Bernie.
Happy to see he got 10% so he will be on the ballot again. While I view Bernie as below the line of a HOFer, the fact that he played against many of the roidsters means he probably should stay on the ballot for serious debate.
Raines was so much better than Larkin shows you how stupid the hall voting is.
At least Morris isn't in.
If Morris does not get in Schilling should not get in. I consider Morris a better pitcher than Schilling who for me was always overrated.
Morris led the league in almost nothing his entire career. I'd vote for Schilling no matter what happens to Morris, but I would never ever vote for Morris. I hope Moose gets in.
But how the FUCK is Tim Raines not in?
Morris led the league 3 times in the pitching triple crown as I heard Heyman say on MLB tv today.
What triple crown was he referring to? Morris led the league in wins twice, strikeouts once, complete games once, and shutouts once. Those all came in different seasons.
Morris' ERA+ of 105 would be among the lowest of any HOF pitcher. He was basically only slightly better than average. He never had a WAR above 5.1 in a season. Schilling has done that 6 times. Even Mariano Rivera has done it once, and he throws less than a third of the innings in a season as Morris pitched.
As easy as it is to hate Curt Schilling, Morris is not even comparable to him. Everything Jack Morris did, Curt Schilling did better, and that includes postseason pitching (Schilling was 11-2 in the postseason with an ERA over a run lower than his regular season ERA). Morris had a couple great postseason games, but overall he was only a slightly better pitcher in October than in the regular season.
My apologies for not checking the facts as you did. I must have heard the wrong data from Heyma. I don't think he would say something that is so wrong.
Ron Santo also got elected. Compare him to Bernie Williams.
much lighter
Ha. Wow. Just … ha and wow.
(Santo is a 3B, a historically un-superstarred position, in a far tougher offensive era. He was absolutely a good call.)
0% of Ruben! Not even one joke vote?
Yet one vote for Eric Young?
Ruben was docked one vote for his home run trot.
Scouting report should have included: "Switch hitter, but suffers from an unfortunate pair of glasses."
Glad to see Bernie will stay on the Ballot for another year. Its too bad he didn't have a better personality, then the writters would have considered him more strongly. But in all seriousness, its an absolute joke that Kirby Puckett is in the Hall of Fame because he had a nice smile and played grab ass with reports, and a superior player like Bernie Williams won't even get serious consideration. The Baseball Hall of Fame is a meaningless entity.
There is alot of players that in the HOF that should not.
Ergo it is a meaningless entity. Should be called "The Basball Hall of Fan and Writters Favorites".
What else should it be? The Hall is about honoring great players and celebrating the game. It's not supposed to be simply a list of top career fWAR players (or whatever metric).
Have there been players elected to the Hall that i wouldn't have voted for? Sure. Does that reduce my enjoyment of the place when I visit? Not in the least.
"The Hall is about honoring great players and celebrating the game"
Exactly, it should be about honoring great players. When it honors good players with great PR campaigns it becomes watered down and less meaningful. Its cool you enjoy Cooperstown, its a very neat place. But the voting methods for induction are so inconsistant and intellectually dishonest its hard to take the place seriously.
According to their director, they are burdened with propagating right wing politics.
I saw Bob Costas at MLB saying that Puckett was better than Bernie which is absurd. These guys then go on to talk about longevity. Bernie played 16 years with the same team. He was also one of the main cogs in us winning all those season and postseason games. It seems that when it is convenient they look at sabermetrics but not if it isn't.
Kirby Puckett received a lot of sympathy votes because his career ended so suddenly. I realize his career stats look almost identical to Mattingly's and they were about the same age, but the difference between the two is Kirby Puckett hit .300 with an OPS+ above 120 in 4 out of his final 5 seasons, then he woke up blind in one eye and his career was over. Don Mattingly hit .300 with an OPS+ above 120 in 1 out of his final 5 seasons, and his chronic injuries made it hard to believe he would have been able to stay in a major league starting lineup in 1996.
Bernie's numbers are overshadowed by the juiced up players of his era, including some of his teammates. That's not really fair to him, but it's the way things are. He's not the only one hurt by this. Bernie also doesn't play well with the writers who follow the sabermetric stats, which make him out to be not just an below average fielder, but an absolutely terrible fielder with all-time bad range. A -12.0 dWAR for a center fielder is awful. He won 4 straight Gold Gloves in seasons where he had a negative dWAR. I don't think that's a fair stat, but I'm just saying that stat exists, and some writers look at that.
Re: Puckett and Mattingly
Similar numbers from CF and 1B means players not equal. And it's not particularly close.
Re: Bernie and 1990s.
Every player benefited from the high offensive environment. Offense explodes after every expansion. The 90s had 2 expansions.
Why do you assume steroid use started in the 1990s?
Because that's when we start to see more players excelling in the latter half of their careers. A baseball player's prime has generally been around the age of 27. In the late-1990′s, we start to see guys like Mark McGwire hitting 65+ home runs a season when he's 35. Then a few years later Barry Bonds hits 73 home runs at age 36. Rafael Palmeiro had his four highest home run totals in seasons where he was 34, 36, 33, and 37 years old. That's from a player who was playing in the majors at age 21. There just aren't many players from the 1960′s, 1970′s, or early 1980′s who had that late career surge.
I assume steroids started showing up in baseball locker rooms in the mid-1980′s. Early users included Jose Canseco (of course) and probably several others. A decade later, they were everywhere. If admitted users like Canseco knew about steroid users before them, they would have talked about it. Canseco has shown he's not above throwing someone under the bus, and the guys from the generation before him put themselves on a pedestal for playing "before the steroid era". If Canseco could have knocked them off that pedestal, he would have done it by now.
You brought up Canseco. He was the whistle blower on the entire steroids in baseball saga. There were massive and universal denials from every avenue of baseball when he first released his book. The truth eventually got out and Canseco was vindicated. Even though he was telling the truth, he's still a pariah. He only told of the steroids that he knows about which was at the beginning of his career. If he had come up to the majors 5 years later, "the steroid era" would have started 5 years later.
I got to see Larkin play AA ball here in Vermont (yeah, I'm old). He was obviously a standout player at that time. I'm very happy to see him getting into the Hall.
All the guys on MLBN are saying that Schilling is a HOFer.If he goes in Moose needs to go in as well.
I'd have no problem with Schilling being elected. The dude was pretty damn good. Mussina had a better career (with just as many big time post season moments) and should be in as well.
I don't go crazy over the guys who get in. I tend to get more upset at the guys that don't.
Morris? Fine. Schilling? I don't like the dude, but fine.
I'd love to see Bernie in, but I'd rather see the rest of the dynasty core in before him.
I agree that Mussina should get in, and I think he will, but he wasn't nearly as good as Schilling in the postseason (7-8 with a 3.42 ERA vs. 11-2 and 2.23 ERA for Schilling). Mussina never won a ring despite playing almost all of his career on the team with the highest payroll (those late 90′s Orioles teams were stacked but underperformed). As much as I enjoyed some of Mussina's great postseason moments, it's not really fair to say he had as many as Schilling. But I do agree that they are both HOFers.
Moose unquestionably should be elected.
Really not lookin' forward to Jack Morris making the HOF next year after 13 years on the ballot, you guys.
Morris went up to 67%. He has two more years on the ballot. He's in.
He had more wins than any other pitcher in the 80s. He was very good in the postseason and I liked him and wish the Yankees had obtained him sometime after he left Detroit. He should get in next year.
If wins had any more than a passing connection to how good or valuable a pitcher is, then yes, Morris should be in.
But since it doesn't, then no.
You are very wrong, sir.
Bonds, Sosa and Clemens next year…
Who gets in first?
Who even gets in, at this point?
Unless a special pavilion for PED users is constructed, I do not expect any of these three to get in.
Why do baseball writers, sports editors, and Jane Forbes Clark get to make that decision?
If Jack Morris gets in, which it appear that he likely will, you absolutely have to put in Andy Pettite and especially Mike Mussina, who were both superior pitchers to Morris.
There are probably 50 pitchers who need to get in if the standard becomes "more valuable than Jack Morris".
Who wants a stat? There are five pitchers who retired after 1980, have fallen off the HoF ballot who have more innings pitched than Jack Morris. Every single motherfucking one of them has a better ERA+.
Tommy John
Jim Kaat
Frank Tanana
Dennis Martinez
Jerry Koosman
That's Jack Morris' company. Maybe one Hall of Famer in there, and its not Jack Morris, its the guy with almost 900 more innings and the 111 ERA+ to Morris' 105.
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Twelve games in a football season are enough to make most coaches happy.
The majority of teams in the state settle for 10, falling short of postseason play that would give them a chance at showing their ability against the very best in the state. And maybe Marion County coach Mike Swaney is happy his team has played 12 times in each of the past three seasons, winning one playoff game in each, but that doesnt mean he and the rest of the Eagles arent searching for more.
In only seven years as a varsity program, Marion County has compiled just one losing record, improving its win total in every season until it dropped to nine from 11 in 2012.
A team that has displayed such consistent success expects that level of success to continue. But Swaney knows there are issues to be addressed to make that a reality this season.
The unit returns only four starters from a year ago. It must replace a two-year starter at quarterback, three key offensive linemen and a key running back. Not an easy task, to say the least.
Still, Swaney said those who have needed to step up have so far in practice.
Johnny Royal has stepped up at running back, he said. Dustin Eckert is a junior at quarterback, and hes come along really well. Trae Swanson and Lorenzo Smothers have looked good, also.
Those last two play wide receiver, giving the Eagles a solid foundation at the skill positions. Jomar Arce and A.J. Martinez will also play receiver, and Swaney said that unit has been one of the real bright spots so far.
Theyve caught the ball well, Swaney said of the receivers. They havent had many drops. Theyve been concentrating, working hard. We feel like we can throw the ball just for the fact that if they get their hands on it, theyre going to catch it.
Daryl Ragland will play tight end and will also get opportunities in the passing game.
The biggest area of concern following last season was the offensive line and how the Eagles would be able to replace three starters.
The unit will be comprised of tackles Thomas Hadley and Tre Smith, guards Lonnie Taylor and Michael Tyler and center Dustin Pickren.
Swaney said the players have learned and progressed well, the unit just simply doesnt have the same depth it had in the past. One player will even play both ways this year, something the team hasnt had to do for three years.
While the defense lost a couple of key guys, including an all-state defensive tackle in DeQueszman Kelley, Swaney still put its progress ahead of the offense.
He singled out the linebacker corps as an area of strength. It will be filled by three seniors, Brandon Green, Terrance Riley and Jaquie Gorman. Daryl Ragland, Quantez Freeman, Cameron Cox and Roderick Bishop will play up front. Three of the four, with the exception of Cox, are seniors.
Corey Johnson and Jacob Dixon will play safety, and Shavon Harris and Smothers will play cornerback. Of those four, all but Smothers are seniors, also.
The unit allowed just 16.8 points per game last year, most of which came in losses to Brookstone and Wilcox County.
Marion Countys success could come down to how quickly the offensive line adjusts with its new starters. The defense appears to be solid once again, and the skill positions are positions of strength, according to Swaney.
On paper, 12 games, a trip to the state quarterfinals, should be an expectation. More than that is a possibility if the new starters on offense learn and adjust quickly on the fly.
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Toulon coach Bernard Laporte has confirmed that they will not release Wales prop Gethin Jenkins for the Test match with Australia on December 1.
Toulon are playing Grenoble the same day and as the Wales Test match falls outside of the official international window, the French side are under no obligation to release the prop for Test duty. Laporte and Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal met Lions boss Warren Gatland and interim Wales coach Rob Howley yesterday to discuss the release of their players for Test duty.
The Lions play the Barbarians on June 1- the same day as the Top 14 final - and despite Gatland's wishes to have a full squad present for that match, he may well have to make a difficult call on Jenkins if Toulon reaches the final.
"The chat was very friendly," Laporte told L'Equipe. "We discussed the availability of Gethin Jenkins. We said again that we would not release him to leave with the Lions on May 27 if we are in the final.
"He understood. I think he already knew when he came to the meeting. We did not talk so much about the Lions. It was more about Gethin's availability for the November and the Six Nations.
"On December 1, the Welsh play a Test against Australia outside of the window and we told them that the position of principle was the same as for the Lions tour: 'No'. Toulon play Grenoble on the same day in the Top 14.
"As far as freeing up Gethin (to fly out with the Lions if Toulon reach the Top 14 final), it's a no. You don't pay a player to be playing with the Lions at the most important moment of the season."
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Peabody — Carlos Alberto Amaral, 51, of Peabody, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was the beloved son of Maria O. (Amaral) Vitorino and the late Alexandre S. Vitorino, and the beloved father of Lucas Andre Amaral.
Born on September 15, 1962, in Angola, in 1975, he moved with his family to Sao Jorge, Azores, Portugal. He was also educated in that area. In 1979, the family moved to the United States, making their home in Lowell.
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A family in the Czech Republic was left stunned after watching in horror as a kestrel flew in through their open window and tore their pet guinea pig to pieces in front of them.
The family from Usti nad Labem in the north of the Czech Republic had been playing with the pet when the bird of prey suddenly swooped, flying straight it and attacking it in its cage.
"It began pecking at the terrified guinea pig and dragging its body through the bars of the cage before we had even got up from the sofa," said Jaroslav Ferenc, 39. He was sitting watching TV with daughter Sabina, eight, when the winged killer flew in.
He went on: "Poly the guinea pig was screeching in fear and pain and I told Sabina to leave the room. By the time I got to the cage Poly was dead, its insides hanging out and the kestrel feasting on her, entrails hanging down from its beak.
"After failing to get all the mutilated remains out of the cage, the kestrel flew off and tried to escape but it hit a closed window and was making a real fuss - so we called police. I know nature is red in tooth and claw but I never thought I would witness such a feral act in my own front room. I felt quite sick afterwards and we are having a devil of a time explaining what happened to Poly to Sabina. She is heartbroken."
Bird expert, ornithologist Roman Rehak, said: "Kestrels have adapted to life in cities, although it does surprise me that it chose to go for such a large animal as a guinea pig as they normally prefer smaller rodents such as mice. It may be connected with the fact that she had young to feed and when pressed, such creatures will go to any lengths to get food."
Police spokesman Jan Novotny said: "We found the bird still trapped in the house. Unfortunately, the guinea pig was dead, but we checked the bird to make sure she hadn't been injured in the attack before releasing her back to her family."
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The 9-year-old special needs boy who was injured when he fell from a second-floor window of his home on Eden Way Court in Cranberry is in stable conditon.
Sgt. Chuck Mascellino, of Cranberry police, said the boy was alone in his bedroom when he fell from the window at about 7 a.m. Friday and landed in the home's driveway. Both parents were home at the time.
When emergency responders arrived at the home, the boy was semi-conscious, Mascellino said.
The child was rushed to before being flown by medical helicopter to a hospital in Pittsburgh.
"The child is considered stable, but being closely monitored," Mascellino said.
There is no further information on the boy's injuries as of Friday afternoon, Mascellino said.
Police will investigate the incident, but there appears to be nothing suspicious, he said.
Police are not releasing the boy's name.
Neighbor Jane Olson, who has lived two doors down from the family for about a decade, said the boy's mother always keeps a close eye on her son. Another neighbor said he often sees the boy's mom walking around the neighborhood with him.
"It's a horrible shame," Olson said. "They're a wonderful family."
Olson said the boy also has an older brother.
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Hey everyone! So let me just warn you there are no pics today, just a verbose post of things that probably don't really matter but I'm curious about As you know I'm about to embark on a raw journey. My goal is to start over the next week or two. My plan is to be as low maintenance as possible with this since raw diets are SO time consuming and SO labor intensive. I'm thinking I'll start the day with a giant serving of green juice, midday meal will be a big green salad, an afternoon snack with healthy fats and dinner will involve some sort of effort, ha! We'll see how that works out though. My first question for you, my friends: What is your favorite raw salad? What dressings do you enjoy (no vinegar except apple cider vinegar and no sweeteners)? What are some of your favorite raw recipes and snacks (light on fruit and no added sweeteners)?
So last night I indulged my inner uber nerd and figured out my blood type using a home blood typing kit. It was actually really fun and it brought me back to high school science lab My trainer and I were curious about it because there are theories of blood types contributing to certain health problems so that was the main goal behind figuring it out (and no, my Drs didn't know or want to tell me). So now I know and I guess we'll see what the next step is. As a side note on this whole topic, have you guys heard of eating for your blood type? I've heard of it and haven't put too much thought into it but decided to take a look because I finally know what my type is and UGH! If I follow this stupid diet I'd have to get rid of tons of my staples/favorites like avocados, tomatoes, corn, lentils, peanuts, sesame seeds, beans and legumes, grains and starches, coconut, cinnamon, and pepper. I feel like if I got rid of this stuff there would be nothing left, certainly none of my higher calorie powerhouse foods! Well I'll be getting rid of some of these foods for the raw cleanse I'll be doing so I guess I'll see how it works. Never getting rid of my avocados though! Have you heard of eating for your blood type? Any thoughts or do you know anyone that does it?
I may not be around for the weekend because my mom and I are babysitting Delilah and the animals while my bro and sister in law are in New Orleans for her birthday. I'm going to try and pop in but she is definitely a two person job, ha!
Hope you all have a great night! Tonight is the mid-season finale of Impractical Jokers and of course I'll be watching. Then I'll have to impatiently wait for the new episodes later this year


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I know that a lot of non-UNC fans are upset about the overwhelming coverage of the men's basketball team's recent championship. I actually am not a UNC fan, but I feel that this coverage is justified for a local team winning a title. It is a great news story for this area and our state. Just because UNC isn't your favorite team does not mean that you should not give them credit for the 34-win season they just accomplished.
My only request is that in the event of one of the other local universities winning a title the same amount of coverage be given to them, so we can put this "UNC news bias" to rest.
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Let's meet at the Monument
If a Corkman says that he has a 'jag with a lasher', that is, a date with a pretty girl, a very likely place for their meeting is by 'THE Monument' or 'THE Statue' in St Patrick's Street in the city centre. This does not mean that Cork has only one monument but for the Corkonians this particular monument to Father Theobald Mathew seems to have a special significance.
So who was Father Mathew? A Capuchin priest ordained in 1814, Father Mathew was an Apostle of Temperance who spent most of his life in Cork and enjoyed enormous popularity with its citizens. His temperance crusade in the late 1830s and 1840s covered not only Ireland but also England and even spread as far as the United States. Father Mathew believed in the role of one's free will in overcoming the addiction and that taking what he called the Pledge could cure a person of it for life. The Pledge was taken by hundreds of thousands of people in many countries and I have heard that it is still being taken by many young people nowadays.
This and his courage and compassion shown first during the cholera epidemic in 1832 and then during the Great Famine won him the everlasting affection and gratitude of the Corkonians. Over 150 years later in the year 2000 a proposal to move his monument to another less prominent place met with so many protests from the public that the project was given up.
If you are ever asked about the qualities that make a hero, think of Father Mathew.


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Bespoke suits, a helicopter and diamonds made Tom Morrison and Neil Richard Piper's wedding one fit for royalty.
Tom and I met through mutual friends, ones that we had both had for a long time but somehow, we had never managed to bump into each other before.
Our first date wasn't exactly romantic, we went for a drink at our local pub but when we got to the bar Tom was just staring over my shoulder laughing.
I turned around to find out that his sisters were in the same pub. Apparently it was an accident and they hadn't just come to give me the once over. It was that evening that Tom's little sister declared me to be 'alright' and it was her who gave the big speech on the wedding day.
After that night everything moved quickly, we moved in together and Tom sacrificed his life in the Midlands to relocate to Brighton with me. It was 18 months after our first date that I proposed. It was a surprise, but not completely unexpected, I knew If I didn't do it then he would beat me to it.
I racked my brains trying to think of some elaborate proposal but I know Tom thinks that it is the little things that count, so on a Friday night, I cooked a three course meal, filled the house with red roses and bought him lots of silly gifts. When I asked him to marry me, Tom just started laughing and said yes.
It was March when I proposed and we set the date for August 18, so we had to sort everything out quickly. The organising was Tom's bag really, he is generally more organised and he had a good idea of what he wanted. I was left in charge of the budget, and because I'm a bit of a foodie, the food!
Tom's family were based in the Midlands so we decided to have the wedding there but that made everything more complicated because we were planning a Staffordshire wedding from Brighton – it was hard work.
We chose Sandon Hall as the venue for both the ceremony and the reception. We decided to have six grooms — all girls and we asked Tom's little sister to be the best man. When it came to choosing our suits, we went down to Saville Row in London but we got scared away by the prices and decided to look somewhere else. We discovered an online company called Suitopia which is based in Singapore. You can design a suit from scratch, you then follow a video guide of how to make the measurements and then they post them to you, it was brilliant.
We chose midnight blue for the colour because it was the favourite colour of Tom's late mother. For our groom girls we decided to buy actual wedding dresses from a boutique in Brighton because we wanted them to look a bit theatrical but they were in a dark, royal blue so they didn't look too bridal.
Our flowers were from the Flower Barn in Milford, we had bright pink tiger lilies for our buttonholes and used cream orchids and lilies to fill giant martini glasses as our centre pieces, and to decorate the stairs and banisters.
The food was done by Sandon's own caterers, Jenkinson, and they were really great. We started with lime glazed salmon and asparagus followed by chicken wrapped in mozzarella and pancetta with marshmallow cupcakes for desert – they were really sexy!
The actual day went quite smoothly but not without any problems. We had decided to fly to the ceremony in a helicopter from Nottingham Helicopters, but while the weather was OK in Stafford, it was too poor in Nottingham for the helicopter to fly and we ended up driving there in Tom's convertible.
The ceremony was really smooth, we had invited 90 guests and it was lovely. We both used rings that we already had, mine was one that I had found in a little shop in Brighton, and Tom's was a huge ring full of diamonds – really any excuse for him to wear it!
When we finished, the weather had cleared up and I was determined to go up in the helicopter so they came to pick us up and we took our photographer, Ray Walker, up with us and got some great shots.
We invited another 40 guests to our reception and Tom and I changed into different suits, his was baby pink and mine, a matching baby blue. Tom chose all of the music and the DJ, Ade Wood, was happy to go along with it. The whole evening was just an amazing party.
It was such a brilliant day, even though organising the wedding was really stressful and we spent weeks stressing about the weather, it really was the best day ever.


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Carrie Stambaugh
The Independent
Mother Nature had her own trick-or-treat fun this year.
For just the third time in my lifetime, there was snow on the ground before Halloween.
I had been predicting an October snow since early this spring, but I never imagined it would be hurricane snow!
According to my meteorologist friends at the National Weather Service, Tuesday was just the second time in 87 years that there has been a measurable snowfall before November in Ashland. The official recorded snowfall was 2 inches on Tuesday.
Before then, the last time snow blanketed our little river valley this early was in 1993. I was 10, and lived down river where the same storm dropped 6.5 inches on my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, the night before Halloween. Ashland got 1.5 inches that day, marking the first time since 1925 a measurable snow fell here in October.
Snowfall in October isn't as rare in Cincinnati. Just four years earlier in 1989 another storm also dumped 6-plus inches of snow on Cincinnati 10 days before Halloween. I remember it too because it froze pumpkins to the ground, ruining a trip to pick the perfect jack-o-lantern.
It was the October snow storm of 1993 though that is most vividly seared into my memory. I remember the fear Mother Nature's little trick instilled into us children.
Would Halloween be canceled? Would we still get to dress up and get free candy? Oh, how disappointing it would be to miss Halloween!
We still had to go to school that day, so trick- or-treating wasn't canceled either. But costumes had to be re-thought and winterized.
My inseparable best friend at the time was Laura Jones and we had planned to go as "supermodels" that year. We had picked out short skirts and glittery tops to be worn with big tall shoes and fishnet tights with lots of big crimped hair and makeup. I don't know why we thought that was supermodel-esque at the time, but "whatever."
We both ended up in heavy sweaters, snowsuits and boots. Our exaggerated blue eye makeup and bright red lipstick was the only evidence we were dressed up.
At least one of my little sisters wasn't too happy about the costume modifictions either. Katie, known affectionately as our "angel," had just turned six. She let her dissatisfaction with having her angel wings on over her coat known with a cocophany of screams and shrieks. In the end, I think she opted not to wear them.
After getting the mom stamp of winter-ready approval, we were released to trick-or-treat. Trudging through the dark in deep snow wasn't much fun. The pillowcases we used to collect our haul got wet and made our fingers sting with cold.
Running through the deep drifts of snow on lawns was hard work, so instead we navigated the shoveled sidewalks. This wasted precious time though and cost us in candy.
In addition to jack-o-lanterns, I remember, there were snow ghosts and snow devils decorating people's lawns. The boys' changed their "tricks" to pelting unsuspecting trick-or-treaters with snowballs instead of jumping out of the bushes with masks on.
For a while we traded our bags of candy for sleds before heading inside to warm up with hot chocolate before bed.
It was perhaps the memorable Halloween of my childhood, a precious timeless treat.
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A new video posted on Bob Seger's official website seems to confirm long-standing rumors that the Detroit rocker is gearing up for a rare tour. The 40-second video shows grainy, old photos of Seger while playing segments of "Night Moves," "Against The Wind" and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets." Midway through a map of the U.S.A appears with Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and New York highlighted. After a countdown from 10 to one there's a giant explosion and the words "Stay Tuned To Bobseger.com" appear.
So it seems to be a safe bet that Seger is planning to announce concerts in St. Louis, New York, Cleveland (or Columbus or Cincinnati) and his hometown of Detroit — with more dates likely to follow.
Fricke's Picks: Bob Seger's Detroit Rock City
Last March Seger announced that he was contemplating another tour. "We're looking at some dates and trying to get some buildings, maybe October to November," he said. "We just started three days ago and we'll see what's available, and of course we'll play here [Detroit]... See you at the Palace [of Auburn Hills]." Seger is also rumored to be working on a new album.
In 2006 Seger released Face The Promise, his first album of original material in over a decade. He toured arenas the following year, but has largely been out of the public eye since it wrapped. His catalog isn't available on iTunes, and his late Sixties/early Seventies albums aren't even in print. In 2009 he released a compilation of that material entitled Early Seger Vol 1., but he sold it exclusively at the Michigan-based chain retailer Meijer and it just contained 10 songs.
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Halcyon Theatre concludes its Fifth Season with The Alcyone Festival 2011: Remixed, featuring new works from five of the country's top emerging female playwrights
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
Halcyon Theatre concludes its Fifth Season with The Alcyone Festival 2011: Remixed, featuring new works from five of the country's top emerging female playwrights
CHICAGO, IL (March 31, 2011) Halcyon Theatre concludes its Fifth Season with The Alcyone Festival 2011: Remixed, featuring new works from five of the country's top emerging female playwrights, four of which were written exclusively for this year's festival. The Alcyone Festival 2011: Remixed will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
The theme for The Alcyone Festival 2011 will be Remixed; new works based off of classical texts by women. It is pretty common to rework the dead men of the cannon. No one is really re-imagining Charlotte Mary Stanford Barnes or Anna Cora Mowatt (At least not that we're aware of.) We're producing works adapting/inspired by/sampling/ remixing plays written by women from Hrosvita (c. 935 to c. 1002) through 1870. Our hope is to celebrate both new and (really) old writers and see how the lineage of female playwrights over the past thousand years can inspire and inform contemporary audiences and artists.
Says Artistic Director Tony Adams, "Instead of picking scripts that have already been written, we're picking writers and taking off the brakes. While we can't afford to commission, we can commit to producing. And that's what we did. Amidst all the talk of development hell, etc, we're putting some of our favorite writers in the driver's seat, and seeing what happens. The only rules the writers had were: it has to be based in some way off a work by a female playwright written before 1870 and it has to be ready to go into rehearsal in April. No holds barred."
Performances will be Thursdays at 7:30, Fridays at 7:30, Saturdays at 2:30 and 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep, from June 9 through July 10, 2011. Tickets are $10-25, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336. Festival passes are available for $50.
Members of the media are invited to attend any performance.
This year's festival features:
J. Nicole Brooks' Shotgun Harriet
inspired by Pauline Hopkins' Peculiar Sam
directed by Carla Stillwell
Jennifer Fawcett's The Invaders
inspired by The Forest Princess by Charlotte Mary Stanford Barnes
directed by Associate Artistic Director Jennifer Adams
EM Lewis's Strong Voice
inspired by works of Hrosvitha
directed by Margo Gray
Coya Paz's FA$HION
adapted from Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion
directed by Coya Paz
Caridad Svich's A Little Betrayal among Friends
freely adapted Maria de Zaya y Sotomayor's La Traicion en la Amistad
directed by Artistic Associate Lavina Jadhwani
About the Writers:
J. Nicole Brooks is an actor, playwright, director, blogger and demigod. In 2007 her debut play Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten (2007 Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination) was
commissioned & produced by the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago to critical acclaim. Other productions include Kamala, Masterclass (2007) for The Siddhartha Project commissioned & produced by Collaboraction Theatre, and Fedra Queen of Haiti (2009 Black Theatre Alliance Award) commissioned & produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company. She was recipient of the Black Theatre Alliance Award Best Actress 2010, LA Ovation Award Best Featured Actress 2008, and is a TCG Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship (Round 4). She is an ensemble member with Lookingglass Theatre and an associate with Collaboraction. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she acts, writes and tosses grenades at those who block her path. For more Tom Foolery visit www.doctaslick.blogspot.com
Jennifer Fawcett's work has been developed and produced in theatres across the US and Canada including Halcyon Theatre (Chicago), the Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY), the Kennedy Center, Curious Theatre Company (Denver), Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland Stage Co, ME), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), the New Bridges Festival (Palm Beach Dramaworks, FL/Theatre Masters, Aspen) and the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, among others. She is the recipient of the National Science Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center for Atlas of Mud, and a Creation Fund Award from the National Performance Network. A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, she was the NNPN Emerging-Playwright-In-Residence at Curious Theatre Company in 2008-09. This summer she's traveling to Rwanda with the International Theatre and Literacy Project to help students create a play for the Center x Center Festival in Kigali. In the fall, she'll be co-writing and directing the Midwest premiere of Telling: Iowa City, a play created with veterans about their experiences in the military. Jennifer is a founding member of Working Group Theatre. www.workinggrouptheatre.org.
EM Lewis won the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for her play Song of Extinction and the 2008 Francesca Primus Prize for an emerging woman theater artist for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She is currently working on a new play called Magellanica: A New and Accurate Map of the World at Princeton University, where she is the 2010-2011 Hodder Fellow in Playwriting. For more information, visit her website at www.dramatistsguildweb.com/members/emlewis.
Coya Paz is a poet, director, and lip gloss connoisseur who was raised in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before moving permanently to the United States in 1987. Coya is a proud co-founder of Proyecto Latina and the director in residence for the Poetry Performance Incubator at the Guild Complex. She cofounded Teatro Luna in 2000, and served as co-Artistic Director until 2009. Recent projects include: Nation of Cowards, a multi-sited performance piece about interracial dialogue; Tour Guides; and Machos, which won the 2008 Non-Equity Jeff Awards for Best New Work and Outstanding Ensemble. She is at work on a new play called The Americans, based on interviews with people in 10 states across the USA. Coya teaches in The Theater Department at Columbia College, and holds a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is a regular commentator on race, media and pop culture for Vocalo.org (89.5) and has published several articles on Latina performance, Latina/o identities, and public violence. Coya's artistic work has been profiled in The New York Times, American Theater Magazine, Theater Journal, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. She has been a featured reader at dozens of poetry events including: Proyecto Latina, Paper Machete, Palabra Pura, and Revolving Door. Coya was named one of UR Magazine's 30 Under 30 (when she was under 30!), a GO-NYC Magazine 100 Women We Love, and received a Trailblazer Award for her service to LGBTQ communities. Most recently, she has been awarded 3Arts Residency at Ragdale. Above all, she believes in the power of performance and poetry to build community towards social change.
Caridad Svich is a US Latina -translator-lyricist and editor of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian descent whose works have been staged across the US and abroad at diverse venues including DenverTheatre Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Artheater-Cologne and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. In Chicago, she's worked with the Latino Theatre Festival at the Goodman, TUTA, Caffeine Theatre, Latino Chicago, Teatro Vista, Northwestern University. Most recently, her play Iphigenia...a rave fable, was produced by Halycon. Among her key works: 12 Ophelias, Any Place But Here, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues, Magnificent Waste and The House of the Spirits (based on the novel by Isabel Allende). She's alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, contributing editor of TheatreForum, and associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review. She holds an MFA from UCSD. Visit her website: www.caridadsvich.com
About Halcyon:
Mission- We are fiercely committed to making the stage as diverse as the city of Chicago; presenting new voices from inadequately represented communities, as well as recasting classic works to showcase their contemporary relevance.
About- Halcyon Theatre was formed to connect people, transform our borders and ascend towards a more just union. We strive to make incredible theatre from stories around the world, to help show our world in new ways, and rediscover the individual beauty of people from our global community. Our artistic philosophy is driven by our continuing belief that at every point of human history where there has been an explosion of artistic creativity, it has happened when different cultures and traditions have intersected and informed each other. If every artist working with an organization looks and thinks the same, it is difficult for them to grow. A homogeneous group produces homogeneous art. Striving for artistic excellence with artists of varied cultural backgrounds and training is at the forefront of everything we do.
WHAT: Halcyon Theatre concludes its Fifth Season with The Alcyone Festival 2011: Remixed, featuring
new works from five of the country's top emerging female playwrights.
WHERE: The Alcyone Festival 2011 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N.
Lincoln Ave.
WHEN: The Alcyone Festival 2011 will play Thursdays at 7:30, Fridays at 7:30, Saturdays at 2:30 and 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep
ADMISSION: $10-25 for single tickets. Festival Passes are available for $50.
BOX OFFICE: Tickets are $10-25, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at
greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336.
FEATURING NEW WORKS BY: J. Nicole Brooks, Jennifer Fawcett, EM Lewis, Coya Paz, Caridad
WEBSITE: halcyontheatre.org ; halcyontheatre.org/alcyone11
CONTACT: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre


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Pending the outcome of several state and federal medical marijuana lawsuits, including a case of its own, the Murrieta City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to extend a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries.
Murrieta has had a ban in place since 2005, but enacted a 45-day moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries on Oct. 18. That has now been extended to Dec. 2, 2012.
The city plans to use the time to revise its permanent ordinance in order to provide clear guidance to the public "in light of new state and federal legal developments," according to the approved resolution.
On Nov. 9, a state appellate court upheld Riverside's citywide ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. The Fourth District Court ruled that nothing in the 1996 Compassionate Use Act or the Medical Marijuana Program Act preempts cities from banning the facilities.
In Riverside County, only the city of Palm Springs allows medical marijuana dispensaries to operate.
A was announced Oct. 7, with the lone Murrieta dispensary, Cooperative Medical Group, or CMG Outreach, among those said to be targeted.
The federal crackdown is being challenged. to read about it.
The City Council's decision followed another vote to revoke a business license held by the owners of CMG Outreach, which is currently
The business license was obtained under the auspices of a property management company, MCCMG Investments, LLC.
Deputy City Attorney Bob Mahlowitz said, however, that CMG co-owner Beth Burns "admitted to city police that there has never been a property management business at the location."
Mahlowitz claimed that CMG committed perjury when applying for the business license, checking "no" when asked whether drugs would be sold at the location.
In a statement, Murrieta police Sgt. Markellus Reid said he was in the dispensary and witnessed $20 changing hands during a transaction.
Further, Mahlowitz said daily citations issued to the business while it was in operation during July and then again in October are "proof that a dispensary was being operated."
More than $44,000 in fines were accrued, he said.
Dispensary owners Beth Burns and Charles Thompson were not present at Tuesday's meeting, during which a public hearing was held about the revocation of their property management business license.
Mahlowitz said they were given notice of the hearing via overnight delivery and U.S. mail, sent on Oct. 25.
On Monday, Burns referred any further questions about the dispensary and its ongoing litigation with the city of Murrieta to attorney Nick David, who was also not present at the hearing Tuesday.
Murrieta police Chief Mike Baray said the extended moratorium is needed in spite of the recent rulings in favor of Riverside and Upland.
"Those cases have been in favor of cities banning medical marijuana dispensaries, however it is likely the two cases that are of significance to us, the Upland or the Riverside, will petition the Supreme Court, so at this time we are still in a position [of needing this time] to allow us to review and monitor the court decisions," Baray said.
Council members were in agreement.
"It is simply a matter of maintaining status quo until the legal wrangling [is over] and the dust can settle around this case," said Councilwoman Kelly Bennett.
One member of the public spoke against the city's ban on dispensaries.
"When you ban, that drives up the price of it in the region..." said Donald Lambert, an 82-year-old Murrieta resident who admitted he never used marijuana, or any other drug.
He said it could result in increased distribution of more dangerous drugs, and urged the city to apply reasonable zoning.
"Your definition of dispensary is far too broad, it obliterates the rights of patients by state law," Lambert said. "It denies rights given to the them by the Compassionate Use Act of 1996...and the Medical Marijuana Program of 2003..."
The program, signed by Gov. Gray Davis, gives medical marijuana cardholders access to the drug and protection from arrest.
This, however, is in contrast to the federal Controlled Substances Use Act, which prohibits all marijuana possession, even for medical purposes, wrote Murrieta police Capt. Dennis Vrooman, in a staff report.
Toni McAllister contributed to this report.


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Joshua Jackson - 2012
Since 2008, Jackson has played jack-of-all-trades Peter Bishop on the FOX hit Fringe. His character later became romantically involved with Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv). He'll next appear on the big screen in Lay the Favorite alongside Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vince Vaughn and Laura Prepon.
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A production of Hasbro (in collaboration with Universal Studios), "Battleship" is a $200 million military-hardware science-fiction action epic inspired by a board game played with tiny plastic pegs and miniature toy boats. Can "Frisbee," in which flying discs from outer space vaporize Manhattan, and "Operation," a horror movie in which a mad scientist tortures his victim's "funny bone" and "breadbasket," be far behind?
Let's hope so.
Hasbro's follow-up to the similarly wacko (if not Wham-O) "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe" movies, "Battleship" is torpedoed by cliches, illogic and idiocy. A forgiving viewer, however, may wonder if there's method in its moronity: Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic 1969 anti-war song, "Fortunate Son," blares over the end credits, as if in veiled insult to the audience members who cheered the movie's Hollywoodized warmongering.
With its reference to "star-spangled eyes," "Fortunate Son" -- like Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." -- is frequently misunderstood, and is sometimes played at patriotic rallies by clueless event organizers. Could "Battleship" be similarly sly? Has director Peter Berg (whose "Hancock" tweaked and twisted the superhero genre) pulled a fast one on his employers, delivering a satirical critique of U.S. militarism disguised as a chest-thumping celebration of American firepower?
That might explain the incompetence of the nominal hero, longhaired ne'er-do-well-turned-buzz-cut sailor Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch, no more distinctive here than in "John Carter"), introduced during a numbing "comic" opening sequence that finds him being Tasered after breaking into a convenience store to steal a chicken burrito for a tight-shirted blond physical therapist (Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker), who happens to be the daughter of the admiral (Liam Neeson) "who runs the whole damn fleet."
Commanding a small excursion boat with a crew that includes the singer Rihanna (as a Navy petty officer), Hopper precipitates what threatens to become "an extinction-level event" for Earth when he interferes with an alien spacecraft floating in the Pacific, not far from the site of a previous disaster, Pearl Harbor.
Part of an apparent invasion flotilla that arrived on our planet in response to a NASA signal hoping to make "first contact" with extraterrestrials, the spaceship is menacing but mysterious until Hopper boards its bobbing otherworldly surface and pushes what might be a literal panic button. Not that Earth has any reason to welcome the visitors: Part of the alien armada crashed on arrival, taking out a hunk of Hong Kong. (The "Transformers"-like special effects -- which bring to mechanical life such marvels as giant spinning robot "tires" with chain-saw treads that chew through steel and concrete -- are as accomplished and spectacular as one expects for a 2012 blockbuster.)
If "Battleship" is a joke, which seems unlikely, given its expense and the Cuisinart messiness of its visual and storytelling strategies, it's at the expense of the World War II veterans and the legless amputee (Gregory D. Gadson) in its cast. Playing a stubborn therapy patient, Gadson is this largely computer-generated movie's most impressive and cost-effective visual. Balancing his barrel-like torso on two springy prosthetic legs (at one point, a scaredy-cat geek scientist asks if he's a "cyborg"), Gadson is a real-life Iraq War veteran who lost his legs in 2007, to a roadside bomb in Baghdad. A role in "Battleship" may be small recompense, but audiences are certain to howl with delight when the non-actor goes Joe Frazier on an armored alien, literally knocking the teeth from an extraterrestrial mouth situated between a spiny beard and a pair of vertical-slitted cat's eyes.
The hypocrisy of the enterprise is distressing, however. When Hopper derides the 70-year-old USS Missouri as "a dinosaur," you know he's going to have to pull the battleship-turned-museum from the mothballs so it can save the day and prove that even old-school Yankee know-how trumps extraterrestrial high-tech aggression; yet the movie itself utterly eschews the narrative and esthetic values of classic American cinema for computer- generated sensationalism. (The Pearl Harbor setting is no accident: To demonstrate that times have changed, the Japanese navy -- including an officer played by Tadanobu Asano -- joins the effort to KO the ETs.) The theoretically comforting but cynical conceit of the movie's Defense Department triumphalism makes "Battleship" a perfect election-year movie; there's a whistling-in-the-graveyard desperation to its booming soundtrack, which echoes with explosions and gunfire. Maybe we can't figure out how to fight terrorism or neighborhood crime or poverty, but -- onscreen, at least -- we sure know how to put the boot to alien butt.
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language.
(John Beifuss writes for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. His movie blog is www.TheBloodshotEye.com. Email beifuss(at)commercialappeal.com.)
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MINNEAPOLIS - The Owatonna football team defeated St. Thomas Academy 30-27 to advance to the Class 5A state final.
St. Thomas Academy took the lead with their defense when Jeremiah Kraker intercepted a pass and returned the pick for a touchdown to give the Cadets the lead. The game changed in the fourth quarter when the Cadets lost a costly fumble deep in their own territory. Owatonna took advantage and scored on a short touchdown run by Luke Wanous. Owatonna completed the comeback and advanced to the state final.


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To sign up for any of these volunteer opportunities or to learn more about volunteering, check out the United Way Volunteer Center. The following volunteer opportunities are available through the United Way of Waukesha County:
Youth Sports Volunteer, Waukesha Parks, Recreation And Forestry
The Waukesha Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department needs volunteer coaches for a variety of youth sports leagues throughout the year. Training and coaching information is provided by WPRF.
- Soccer- Girls and Boys. K through 9th grade. Spring, April -June. Fall, Sept.-October
- T-Ball- Girls and Boys, K-1st grade. Summer season. June-July
- Softball- Girls, 2nd-10th grade. Friendly Pitch, Slo-Pitch, Fast-Pitch. Summer season, June-July
- Baseball-Boys, 2nd-10th grade. Friendly Pitch, Baseball
Volunteers should be 18 years or older, have a basic sports knowledge and desire to make a positive difference in a child's life. A volunteer form will be required along with a background check.
Help Seniors with Fall Yard Clean Up - Great Youth Opportunity; Interfaith Senior Programs, Waukesha
You, your family, congregation, youth group, community group, or businesses are needed for outdoor yard clean up this fall for seniors and adults with disabilities throughout Waukesha County. Duties include: raking leaves, cleaning gutters, washing windows, weeding, installing storm windows, trimming bushes, and storing lawn furniture in yard.
Volunteers can arrange a time and date to do the work directly with the client. Work should be completed between Oct. 20 - Nov. 18. Requirements: Volunteers under 17 must be accompanied by an adult. Application forms must be returned by Oct. 3. Volunteers are asked to bring extra tools and supplies.
Pen Pals/Got mail?;Retired And Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Menomonee Falls
Do you love to write and receive "real" letters? Do you enjoy getting to know someone new? Are you interested in sharing your life's stories with a student? If you answered "YES!" to any of these questions, we invite you to join the Seniors and Students Pen Pal program – a partnership between Riverside Elementary School/Menomonee Falls School District and Interfaith Senior Programs/RSVP of Waukesha County. You will be matched with a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade student throughout the school year. You will exchange letters with the student, sharing your stories and wisdom. At the end of the school year, the school hosts a party where pen pals are able to meet face to face. This is a great opportunity to connect with a student from the comfort of your own home. You don't have to go out in the cold winter months!
Cake Pops and Gum Drops Girl Scout Event, Girl Scouts Of Wisconsin Southeast, Waukesha
Be a Girl Scout Event Volunteer and share your passion, have fun, and positively impact girls' lives. Activities are already created and materials provided. Assist or lead a group of 15-20 girls in second and third grade. Have a deliciously good time as guide girls in decorating cake pops, making gumdrops, and creating a fancy and fun candy dish. Choose one or more of the following event sessions:
- Thursday, Oct. 25, 4:30-7 p.m., Chinook
- Saturday, Oct. 27, 9-11:30 a.m., Chinook
- Saturday, Oct. 27, 12:30-3 p.m., Chinook
*Events may require additional set up and clean up time, beyond the scheduled event. Staff will provide a detailed confirmation prior to the event. Requirements: Volunteers must be a minimum age of 18 years old. All volunteers must complete a brief application and background check.


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If you tell me that the colours are unfixable, that's fine by me, too. Should have shot RAW and at different settings/correct exposure, but didn't. Too bad. If you think the picture is fine as is, that's welcome feedback also.Nothing is unfixable as long as the raw data to work with is there, its just a matter of workload. My advice: Upgrade to LR4 and its more intuitive "Process Version 2012", edit the picture globally, and finally you can use brushes to modify almost all aspects certain areas.
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RUMFORD – Greater Rumford Community Center Chairman Gary Dolloff said Thursday afternoon that the increase in the Rumford Senior Center's rent at the building was "not personal," but a result of the town rejecting the GRCC's operating budget.
At the annual town meeting in June, voters rejected the GRCC's operating budget and summer programs budget.
The GRCC's operating budget of $138,100 was defeated 829-657, and its summer programs funding request of $22,720 was rejected, 845-607. There was no recourse due to a previous charter change.
Dolloff said the GRCC has had to lay off all its employees and resort to a series of fundraisers to reach its goal of $60,000, which is "the bottom-line for keeping the GRCC open on a volunteer basis."
Due to the lack of an operating budget, Dolloff said the the Board of Directors realized they had to "try and make every inch of our building profitable," which resulted in an increase in rent for GRCC tenants.
Among the tenants is the nonprofit Rumford Senior Center, which announced Tuesday it is searching for a building to move into by Oct. 1. The rent at the GRCC increased to $1,000.
The GRCC and the Rumford Senior Center "have been working with each other forever," Dolloff said.
"My intent isn't to send the seniors out into the street," he said. "The thing is, for the past 10 years or so, we've had an agreement with the Senior Center that allows them to pay us minimal rent. I'm not sure what the numbers are exactly, but it was a lower amount. We would let them pay us whatever they could afford to stay in the building.
"After these votes went through, we, as a board, decided that we had to make every inch of our building profitable, and that meant raising the rent for our tenants," Dolloff continued. "The place where the Senior Center resides is a huge piece of our building. I told them I was sorry, but it's the only way to try and keep the GRCC running."
Dolloff said there were times over the years when "the board would suggest raising the Senior Center's rent," but he would suggest allowing them to continue operating the way they always had.
"It was something we did because we felt like it was the right thing to do," Dolloff said. "If things weren't the way they are in town right now, we wouldn't be in this situation. We offered to move them into a different part of our building and offered them the value that the previous tenant was receiving."
Dolloff said he's talked to some of the seniors who visit the Senior Center and "they understood our plight."
"I've offered to help them find a new place, and to help them move if they find one," he said. "I'm trying to help out to the best of my ability. I would love for them to be able to stay, but the truth is, there are certain factions in this town that are making things difficult, and we're doing everything we can to stay open."


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Dry frying is a great way to prepare tofu – it removes the moisture from the tofu, enabling it to soak up the flavors of a marinade or sauce. The two main tricks to dry frying tofu are to make sure the tofu is well drained (also called pressing tofu) and to use a non-stick pan.
Here are easy instructions showing how to dry fry tofu.
Here are easy instructions showing how to dry fry tofu.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: I found it took about 10 minutes to dry fry 3/4 pound of extra-firm tofu cut into 16 triangles
Here's How:
- Drain (press) 3/4 - 1 pound of firm or extra firm tofu (I prefer to use extra-firm tofu).
- While the tofu is draining, prepare a marinade or sauce.
- Cut the tofu into triangular pieces about 1/2 inch thick. (You can also cut the tofu into cubes but I find triangles easiest to work with).
- Place the tofu triangles in a non-stick frying pan on medium heat, making sure they are laid out flat.
- Cook the tofu until it is golden brown, pressing down firmly on the tofu triangles with a spatula during cooking. You will hear hissing and see the water coming out of the tofu as it cooks.
- Turn the tofu triangles over and dry fry the other side, pressing down with the spatula and cooking until golden brown.(I found it took about 10 minutes total to dry fry 3/4 pound of extra-firm tofu cut into 16 triangular pieces).
- Remove from the pan. Add the dry fried tofu to a sauce or to a marinade.


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But even Jerry has a few rules that you must follow when tailgating at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas -- for your own safety as well as the safety and enjoyment for all guests. If you don't abide by the rules, you might lose your tailgating privileges and get ejected from the parking lot. Tickets are too expensive these days -- so be sure to follow the rules and have a great time. It's ok to dress like a cowboy but leave your guns at home. And your political banners, cajun turkey fryers and fireworks too.
Parking 101
There should be plenty of parking at Jerry World. You just may have to walk a little so wear comfortable shoes. There's about 12,000 parking spaces in 15 numbered lots at Cowboys Stadium. In addition, there are almost 12,000 parking spaces in lettered lots around the Texas Rangers Ballpark that may be used on an event day.
How Early Can I Arrive?
Parking areas are generally open five hours prior to Cowboys games. That should allow a sufficient amount of time to barbecue and get ready for some football.
Jerry World Tailgating Rules
The following items/activities are Prohibited:
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