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Miriam managed to find several pieces that she really loved and she sent us a lovely email after the show to say how much she loved the "Lisa" wrap dresses. Thank you for the kind words.
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The Credit One Bank Visa Platinum Card isn't the worst credit card aimed at people with poor credit - that distinction probably belongs to the First Premier Bank Gold MasterCard - but it's one of the most expensive.
Depending on the credit limit you get - which will range from $300 to as much as $1,500 - your annual fee will vary from $75 to $99, billable to you in monthly installments starting in the second year. Interest rates range from 23.9% to 26.9%, depending on your credit history.
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In addition, it charges an 8% fee for cash advances, waived the first year. Most cards I've seen only charge 3%, even cards designed for people with poor credit. That said, you should NEVER use your credit card to get a cash advance, especially at that price.
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Waste of taxpayer money.
So rather than admit that you people keep electing a guy who is a catalyst for controversy through hate and propaganda, you instead blame the people who raise issue with his behavior and instead, play the victim, through quotes such as "Right now they are severely punishing the residents of Sterling by denying us the same fully-staffed services afforded every other district." You elected the guy; you gotta live with him.
Fedupdude, I understand why the grand jury felt they could not indict. My point is that Supervisor Delgaudio neither had the opportunity to present his case, nor face his accusor. That's not the way the grand jury is set up.
Unless the Board of Supervisors wants to conduct an investigation of their own, and I'm not sure they want to subject themselves to all that entails, they should reconsider the sanctions. Right now they are severely punishing the residents of Sterling by denying us the same fully-staffed services afforded every other district.
As I've written before, I find it telling that the loudest anti-Delgaudio voices live far from Sterling and have root issues dealing with the supervisor's social views, which have nothing to do with day-to-day Sterling life.
Chris N. He got out of a criminal charge on a technicality, avoiding jail and having to step down, that does not mean the board was not within their rights to punish him.
Did he create the one with the pool of rainbow blood in the doorway?
"First the sentence, then the trial."
The Queen Of Hearts
It appears that the Board of Supervisors has been reading too much Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.
They voted some pretty severe sanctions on Supervisor Delguadio, despite the fact that not a single charge warrented an indictment, or that Delguadio has yet to present his case or face his accusor(s).
My gut tells me that these supervisors would be better off accepting Delgaudio's apology, restoring his budget and staff, and deferring to the voters' better (or worse) judgement in the next local election.
This is a glass house where a stone fight would get pretty ugly pretty fast.
Did Ferguson create the ad for which Delgaudio is being sued?
York was not available for comment? He was at the meeting last night. Why didn't this dumb reporter ask him then?
Tax money going to degaudio cronies. Wonderful. Just wonderful.
A pity. I was looking forward to a year without the newsletter with its loaded wording, polls, and petitions. I'd rather have my share of the $6,000 back. I'd be better off with the fraction of a penny.
$3700? I do that kind of work for a living and that is a massive rip off. Crony capitalism kick back is what that is.
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Women's Guild takes runway
Date: May 11, 2009
by: Sandy Simmons | Contributing Writer
Saint Clare of Assisi Women's Guild, Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Community, held its Second Annual Spring Fundraiser Fashion Show April 25 at Palm Aire Country Club.
A'Tu International Jewelry & Gift Outlet presented the lovely fashions and jewelry. A wonderful spring afternoon was enjoyed by 159 women from the guild and their guests.
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Adult Autism
Autism, once thought to affect fewer than five of every 10,000 children, is now diagnosed in one child in 150. New books and articles on the topic appear almost daily. But amid this torrent of coverage, one aspect is curiously absent: What happens to autistic children when they grow up? Nearly all of the funds currently allocated for autism go either to research or services for children, and federal mandates for assistance do not extend to anyone over 21.
"To draw attention to a health cause, you need a poster child," laments Ruth Christ Sullivan, PhD, the first president of the Autism Society of America (ASA) and the mother of Joseph Sullivan, one of the real-life models for Dustin Hoffman's character in 1988's Rain Man. After a lifetime of advocacy for autistic children, 84-year-old Sullivan is now battling to ensure that all adults with autism receive proper care. Two top priorities: providing online classes for those who want to work with autistic people (for more go to www.narpaa.org) and ensuring that autistic adults continue to receive their Medicaid benefits when they move from one state to another.
Sullivan's activism began in 1963, when she was told that Joseph, then 3 and the fifth of her seven children, was autistic. Doctors warned her not to read anything on the topic because it would "only confuse" her. Sullivan ignored that advice, soon discovering why they'd discouraged her: Medical wisdom at the time held that autism was a mental illness caused by "refrigerator mothers," cold, unaffectionate women who failed to bond with their children. Sullivan, along with her English professor husband, rejected this theory. "It made no sense -- I was not a different mother to Joseph than I was to my other six children." So she set about changing those perceptions, founding ASA and eventually becoming the first autism activist to lobby Congress, an effort that culminated in the passage of the landmark Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975, which guaranteed a free public education to all U.S. children, even those with disabilities.
Ironically, Sullivan's most important work began when Joseph was nearly grown. He was 15 when it began to worry her that he depended solely on her for his care. Indeed, most autistic adults live with elderly or otherwise overwhelmed parents. So in 1979 Sullivan founded Autism Services Center (ASC); its aim was to provide comfortable group homes for autistic adults where they could be reasonably content and engaged in life. Today ASC operates 13 such homes in Sullivan's town of Huntington, West Virginia, and it is helping to replicate those facilities in other communities.
Joseph has lived, with two housemates, in one of the Huntington homes for the last 19 years. He holds two part-time jobs and in his spare time exercises at the local YMCA and takes art classes. At 48, he still exhibits the savant-like mathematical abilities dramatized by Hoffman in the film, but struggles with appropriate social behavior. He has few friends outside of staff members, but Sullivan believes he is content. "Not many parents can say that their child is as happy as he or she can possibly be," she says. "I can, and it's a gift."
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Spain's two largest banks have always been fiercely competitive -- both within the country's borders and beyond. The battleground today is the United States. But, Santander and BBVA are following radically different strategies to crack this giant market.
It's too soon to tell who will come out on top, and neither lender has covered itself in glory so far. But, if Santander's talks with Buffalo-based M&T Bank lead to a deal, it will be much closer than BBVA to clinching its American dream.
BBVA's U.S. adventure began in 2004 with the takeover of Laredo National for $850 million, or nearly three-times book value. The idea was to exploit trade flows between BBVA's strong Mexican franchise and Hispanics across the border.
Since then, BBVA has added four more banks. That includes spending $9.6bn, or 3.5-times book, for Alabama's Compass Bancshares in 2007, only to see the market tank. BBVA wrote-off 704 million euros in goodwill on its U.S. franchise at the end of 2009.
By contrast, Santander has targeted the more affluent northeast coast. Its U.S. foray began badly in 2006, after it controversially bought a pricey 20 percent stake in Sovereign Bancorp. A $1.08 billion (737 million euros) charge followed when recession hit. True, Santander bagged the rest of the bank for a knock-down price, but only after it had injected another $347 million in 2008 in Sovereign's last-ditch capital hike.


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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking dish.
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir squash and onion until tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Add water and simmer to soften squash, 2 to 4 minutes. Stir cream of chicken soup, sour cream, and Cheddar cheese into squash mixture; mix well.
- Transfer squash mixture to the prepared baking dish; top with stuffing mix.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is bubbling and stuffing is browned, about 30 minutes.
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A delicious dish that I modified slightly. As I steamed cooked my squash, I made a mixture of the other ingredients by omitting the cheese and adding shredded fresh carrots and sweet, succulent pimentos. I put a cup of the cornbread stuffing on the bottom of my 9x13 dish, added my squash mixture and then put another cup of the cornbread stuffing on top. Baked in the oven at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. Whoooooooo, Buddy! Boy howdy, did this turn out great! My cat and I highly recommend that you use the cornbread stuffing over any other type of stuffing. I think I need to hit up my brother for some more fresh squash so I can make it again.
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Excellent and easy! I, too, added the about 4 oz of the 6 oz pouch of stuffing mix to the squash/onion mixture and it came out creamy good! The 2 oz of stuffing mixed with the cheddar cheese gave it a wonderful crunchy topping. Highly recommended as a great alternative to potatoes for a side dish!
Very good recipe. I have made it several times since finding it on AllRecipe. The only thing I change is I mix half of the stuffing mix into the squash mixture and sprinkle the other half along with some shredded cheese on top of the casserole. The stuffing mix gives the casserole a nice flavor. I use cornbread or chicken stuffing.
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Amount Per Serving (8 total)
- Calories
- 191 cal
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- 12.2 g
- 19%
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- 5.5 g
- 11%
- Cholesterol
- 23 mg
- 8%
- Sodium
- 479 mg
- 19%
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Teenagers and police officers are not the most likely pair when you think of conquering some of Louisville Metro's toughest problems. However, there's a brand new Youth Police Advisory Council that is doing just that.
LMPD Chief Steve Conrad said it is all about keeping an open dialogue. It was his idea to meet with teenagers from all over Louisville on a regular basis, knowing both sides of this group has a lot to gain.
"Now I get to see why sometimes they are under stress or under pressure because I've heard of their side of story and I get to see how they have to act," said Frank Bencomo, an Atherton High School student part of the youth council.
Conrad said his side is getting just as much out of the Youth Police Advisory Council as the students are.
"I find myself on a regular basis getting advice from a lot of people, but this is a really important demographic that I think I was missing," said Conrad.
Conrad said some of the best ideas come from the youngest minds.
"You know we talked a bit about the anonymous tip line that we have and they kind of came back with you know we need to repackage that and message that so it is focused in on youth," said Conrad.
Bencomo sees on a regular basis how drugs and violence impact his peers.
"I think a big pressure is on rap music and movies, they tend to portray the police almost as the bad guy in the situation because they try to stop them and that's carried over as to how they think of police officers," said Bencomo.
If positive relationships can be built through what may seem like an unlikely pairing, Conrad hopes that can only lead to positive change.
"Having more insight through the council has given me a lot more trust, I would say that there are more good cops than dirty ones," said Naomi Adams of Atherton High School.
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I spotted this monk parrot this morning on the south side of the Museum of Science and Industry. There were about eight of them hanging out and eating berries off the tree.
Hyde Park residents have grown accustomed to seeing and hearing these birds. But on first encounter, they can be quite startling. Years ago, I drove by a tree that was full of them when my windows were rolled down. Their telltale squawk stopped me in my tracks. I simply had to pull over and identify where the sound was coming from.
I couldn't believe wild parrots could survive in a city setting as harsh as ours, but there they were. At least a dozen of them were perched in a tree near nests that looked like bird equivalents of giant winter parkas. It's really quite astonishing to see them living here. I had that same feeling this morning.
The parrots, which are also known as monk parakeets and Quaker parakeets, originated in South America and do prefer a temperate climate. However, they've survived quite beautifully on the South Side (and elsewhere in the state) despite some very harsh winters. They were first documented in Hyde Park in 1973. Now, more than 200 parrots are believed to live there.
How to See the Hyde Park Parrots
If you'd like to try to catch a glimpse of the parrots, here's where I recommend you go.
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- November 28, 2008 at 3:23 pm(1) Ingrid says:
We have our own long-standing parrot friends here in SF — and I've seen flocks in Los Angeles. I didn't realize these guys could sustain in a Chicago winter. How beautiful . . . and adaptable.
- November 29, 2008 at 5:36 am(2) Jennifer says:
They are beautiful and adaptable, although they do seem a bit more likely naturals for California than here.
- January 17, 2009 at 3:43 pm(3) charlie says:
Hey Jennifer, we have a pretty good size flock
of these birds living in the Oak Lawn area.
I have seen them flying around the trees all
winter long. I first seen one two summers ago
trying to drink water from our swimming pool.
Then at the end of this summer there were about six of them. now there must be about 20 of them flying from tree to tree. do you have any idea what to feed them.
- January 18, 2009 at 10:44 am(4) chicago says:
Glad to hear Oak Park gets to enjoy the parrots, too. I don't know what they eat, but I'm hopeful someone knowledgeable will stumble across this post and let us nkow.
- January 25, 2009 at 8:46 am(5) Cockatoo says:
Nice birds!
Could I use the photo on my site?
- March 16, 2009 at 12:08 pm(6) Richard says:
I too have seem the parrots on the south east side near St. Francis De Sales (I think I spelled that wrong). I also heard they were in Calumet Park on the lake front near highway 41.
- May 21, 2009 at 5:15 pm(7) Caitlin says:
I saw 3 of these Monk Parrots on May 20th 2009 at McKinley Park on the West side near Archer around 4:30 pm.
- May 28, 2009 at 8:51 pm(8) tyner white says:
1. Halsted and 119th
Monk Parrots now have a four-foot-wide nest on an electric tower within twenty feet of the intersection, with birds visible at all times on warm days hanging on or around the nest like urban humans do on their front porch.
The nest is only twenty feet or so above the ground, and conveniently near the sidewalk so it is easy to spend time there watching the birds. The City of Chicago, in honor of Harold Washington, could have some benches built to sit on while watching.
In a back yard over a hundred feet northeast of the corner is a tall telephone tower with at least six nests in it. I haven't been over close to it to try to see if those nests are still used.
13531 S. Indiana Avenue
As of May 2009 a nest has been constructed 100 feet up in a tower located in a locked fenced enclosure used by ATT on the grounds of the 135th Pl. facility of the
Resource Center, overlooking the Great Calumet River and Indiana Av. bridge. (Reached by PACE bus 353. A good time to visit the Center, where many aspects of recycling and reuse can be viewed, is Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and one can see the birds on the same trip; or just stand on the south end of the bridge.)
Pending the assistant of experts on video photography, maybe a camera with a long distance lens (100 feet up, remember) can be trained on this nest, and footage collected of the birds' behavior which could be edited down to create an instructive video.
- June 16, 2009 at 8:24 am(9) Sme says:
Hyde Park (in London this time) also has it's own colonies of parrots: I saw a few by the Albert Memorial the other day.
- June 16, 2009 at 9:02 am(10) chicago says:
Sme – Were they rattling their jewelry?
- August 10, 2009 at 12:08 am(11) Annette says:
Today, I seen about 20 parrots on the Westside of Chicago (4900 block of Gladys), needless to say, I was shocked to see so many of them. It kinda reminded me of the movie "The Birds". They were making so much noise, which drew my attention to them in the first place. They are beautiful
- August 25, 2009 at 9:39 am(12) Jeff says:
I just saw a dozen of them in Elk Grove Village at the intersection of Pratt and Tonne at about 7:30 this morning. I've seen them down in the city before but never this far west, pretty cool!!!
- August 26, 2009 at 7:38 pm(13) Jeff says:
It seems that the parrots may be taking up permanent residence somewhere in the industrial park in Elk Grove Village as I saw a significant group of about 25-30 near the intersection of Greenleaf and Lively. Or they may be in the Busse forrest preserve nearby and going into the industrial area to search for food, quite interesting.
- August 26, 2009 at 11:59 pm(14) chicago says:
Hey Jeff, it is pretty cool to see them, isn't it? Thanks for sharing your sightings. Wonder what the population in Illinois is now. . .


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Date: April 23, 2009
by: The Observer Staff
The scent of hairspray and pre-pageant jitters come to the stage at Sarasota Players Theatre in "Smile, The Beauty Pageant Musical," a play about a 1980s beauty pageant set in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Krista Hunsicker, a junior at Lakewood Ranch High School, stars as Shawn Christianson, a fierce, competitive contestant anxious to get the crown.
"When I'm not at rehearsal, I'm singing songs from the show because they are stuck in my head," Krista says.
Being in the show has also offered some new experiences.
"Walking and dancing in heels is a challenge," she says.
This headlining musical of the season is a satire that examines the true personalities of both the contestants and those who run the pageant and reveals their true personalities under the big hair and blue eye shadow. In addition to Krista, the play features several other East County residents, including Jillian Smith (Braden River Middle), Victoria Najmy (Haile Middle), Kristina Greco (Haile Middle), Channing Weir (Manatee School for the Arts) and adult Kat Walton of Lakewood Ranch. The Players will perform "Smile, The Beauty Pageant Musical" at 8 p.m., April 23-25, and 2 p.m., April 25 and 26, at the theater, 838 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Tickets are $23 for adults and $12 for students. For more information, call the box office at 365-2494.
Everlasting Faith Fellowship will be hold Christian worship services at 10:30 a.m., Sundays, at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall, 8175 Lakewood Ranch Blvd.
Everlasting Faith Fellowship is a Christian Church that has a vision to bring Biblically based teaching and preaching to the families in the area along with creating a family atmosphere of love and acceptance for all who come, said Senior Pastor James Gerace. The services are open to everyone in the Sarasota and Manatee counties.
For more information, call 870-3994 or visit www.EFFChurch.org.
Rosedale's Head Professional and PGA Master Professional Mike Clayton has announced that Rosedale will be offering Women On Course, Golf Instruction for Women. The 11-week course will be held at 5:30 p.m., Wednesdays, beginning May 13, at the club, 5100 87th St. E. An Introduction Clinic will be held from 9 a.m. to noon, May 9.
The cost for the 11-week program is $195 per person and will be limited to the first 24 ladies to sign up. There is no charge for the Introduction Clinic.
For more information, call Rosedale's Golf Shop at 756-0004.
Palm-Aire Country Club will host a tennis clinic featuring Luke Jensen and area tennis pros from 10 a.m. to noon and 3-5 p.m., April 24, at the club, 5601 Country Club Way.
Luke Jensen is an ESPN Sports commentator and former Grand-Slam Men's Doubles Champion. An exhibition by Jansen and area pros will be held at 1:30 p.m. Junior players are welcome to participate.
The event is open to the public. To sign up, call 351-4117.
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Yesterday was a busy Enterprise (EA) Architecture day – I was presenting with a colleague from Visa Europe at the Open Group conference, and then was off to the Gartner EA Summit for the evening networking event, where Smart421 was a sponsor and had a stand. Due to a rare piece of good fortune the two events were within walking distance of each other near Westminster, and so I could race from one to the other. I even walked past Vince Cable along the way – despite last week's hammering at the polls he was looking quite chipper. More about the Gartner EA summit in another post – maybe I'll even mention Basil Fawlty…
The presentation was about the maturing of Visa Europe's Architecture practice, and was jointly presented with Mark Pettit (on the left in the picture) who is head of EA for Visa Europe. Smart421 and Visa Europe have worked closely on this ongoing continual improvement process since mid-2009, and so it was nice to be able to shout about our joint success. The EA world certainly needs to celebrate successes whenever it has one, because they don't seem to be that common :). We got good interest from the audience which was flattering, including some interest in using the presentation material as a case study for an EA under-graduate university course in the US (see below).
The attendance at the Open Group event was a little disappointing I felt – maybe about 120 delegates or so, but as always I picked up some useful snippets and a few gems during the day. Your impression of an event is always skewed by which streams you chose to attend, but there seemed to be a strong focus on business strategy (measured via balanced scored card from Kaplan-Norton) and it's relationship to EA which was interesting – I detected a shift from the historical "is business architecture really part of EA?" wrangle towards general acceptance.
There was a stronger representation from the Middle East than I've ever seen before at these conferences, and clearly the Open Group see this as a key growth area. I attended two very credible presentations from speakers from this region.
The final presentation of the day that I attended was related to the teaching of EA in universities, specifically Penn State in the US. Dr Brian Cameron is clearly getting a lot of traction with industry bodies and companies – with really encouraging student employment and starting salary rates. I was surprised in a recent interaction with a university in the UK that architecture in general was so poorly represented in their Computer Science degree curriculum, and so Penn State's advances in this area show the way forward. Tomorrow's graduates are going to be assembling solutions from cloud-based components, not writing pages and pages of Java (although this "nuts and bolts" knowledge is still necessary, I accept) – so the EA discipline is going to become an even more relevant skill over time.


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After a week of voting, Alpharetta-Milton Patch readers chose where to get the Best Sweet Tea, and the winner was restaurant.
The restaurant is known especially for its barbecue, fried pickles and use of "Southern" vegetables. But that attention to the area's roots may be why its sweet tea got the nod from Patch visitors.
Owner Dave Filipowitz opened the restaurant in downtown Alpharetta when the first proposal for a downtown revitalization was just getting going. It's been many long years and now, three plans later, he's finally seeing some action downtown. The rerouting of Haynes Bridge Road to make way for the downtown City Center construction has begun, thanks to voters approving a $29 million bond referendum last November.
He splits his time between this restaurant, his Post Road Smokejack restaurant–and his family. Stop by and say hello if you can catch him, and try some fried pickles with your sweet tea.
This week's voting wasn't as popular as the past two on preschools and St. Patrick's Day. Smokejack won with 35 percent of the vote, while came in second with 17 percent of the votes. was next in voting at 11 percent, but added in a review.
Next week we'll be asking you what's the Best Place to Prepare Your Taxes At the Last Minute. You have until 5 p.m. today to nominate a tax preparer so it will be included on Monday's poll. Add your nominee to the comments.


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When we were developing the new Eureka commercial area, which included the grocery store and U.S. Post Office, we needed a name for the new street. We gave the community the opportunity to suggest names for consideration. Among the many who gave ideas was a Mrs. Kendall, whose family owned the land on Highway 109, which later became Elk Trails.
She suggested the name be in honor of men of the USS Thresher, which sunk 4-10-1963 with the loss of all 129 men of the crew. I use this as the topic for this memory, not only of the Thresher, but the hundreds of submariners who used to come into port with brooms waving to indicate a clean sweep.
In this I will recall the USS Squalus, which sank off New Hampshire in May 1939 in 243 feet of water and the Navy, using a new rescue bell was able to rescue 33 crew members that were alive. Later the ship was raised and rebuilt, and named the Sailfish.
While serving in Oahu late in World War II, I would at times visit the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel, which was used for R & R (Rest and Rehabilitation) for submariners in the Pacific. I enjoyed being with those guys, and they really needed the R and R enjoyed there.
Then in 1963, the big news was the sinking of the USS Thresher as she tried to test dive to 1,400 feet, and something happened at that level that caused her to now rest at 8,400 feet wih her crew of 129 men.
So these were some of the discussions carried on during the naming of the new Eureka Street.
I guess the reason for my writing today is the Second Vice-Commander of O'Brien Post 177, Joseph Olsen, who served as a submariner and he is one of the best liked legion members as he provides the entertainment and goodies after the Post meetings. At the April meeting, he suggested that a new Vice Commander be nominated this year to take his place, as he has had some mobility problems.
So this is my attempt to salute all the great submariners of the past, especially Joe Olsen!


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The 24-year-old woman was leaving work around 1 a.m. Saturday when the 27-year-old man approached her and demanded her keys and phone. After that he removed her shoes.
Police say the woman was not hurt.
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Field Hockey Knocks Off Ursinus
October 16, 2005
10/16/05 - Just one day after defeating #15 Williams, #11 Middlebury knocked off the number one team in the nation, as they defeated Ursinus 2-1 on Kohn Field. The Panthers return to action at <?xml:namespace prefix = "st1" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Amherst on Wednesday.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Middlebury took a 1-0 lead late in the first half as Allison Smith redirected a ball down low. The Panthers doubled their lead early in the second half when Channing Weymouth scored after a scramble in front. Ursinus battled back to cut the lead in half with 21:53 remaining, as Karen Wendler scored with an assist from Ashley Effinger after a penalty corner. Both teams would have chances to scored down the stretch, but neither could find the back of the cage, leaving Middlebury with a 2-1 win.
The Panthers held a 35-16 shots advantage in the game, while Ursinus held a 12-5 advantage in penalty corners. Meghan McGillen made fives saves in goal for Middlebury, while Jessica Lamina made 16 stops for Ursinus. The loss breaks a 10-game wining streak for the Bears.
Date: October 16, 2005
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Site: Middlebury, Vt.
Ursinus (10-2) 0 1 - 1
Middlebury (7-2) 1 1 - 2
M-1st (3:04) - Allison Smith
M-2nd (32:10) - Channing Weymouth
U-2nd (21:53) - Karen Wendler (Ashley Effinger)
Meghan McGillen-M (70 min., 5 saves, 1 GA)
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A precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Britain and the USSR. For decades, Britain's warlocks have been all that stands between the British Empire and the Soviet Union—a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel. Now each wizard's death is another blow to Britain's national security.
Meanwhile, a brother and sister escape from a top secret facility deep behind the Iron Curtain. Once subjects of a twisted Nazi experiment to imbue ordinary people with superhuman abilities, then prisoners of war in the immense Soviet research effort to reverse-engineer the Nazi technology, they head for England.
Because that's where former spy Raybould Marsh lives. And Gretel, the mad seer, has plans for him.
As Marsh is once again drawn into the world of Milkweed, he discovers that Britain's darkest acts didn't end with the war. And while he strives to protect queen and country, he is forced to confront his own willingness to accept victory at any cost. The Coldest War is the brilliant second installment in Ian Tregillis' Milkweed Trilogy.
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The city of Oakdale is making a holiday request: Please shop local.
For the first time, the City Council, the Economic Development Commission and the Oakdale Business and Professional Association (OBPA) are putting out a joint letter that stresses the importance of shopping locally this holiday season.
The letter asks residents to visit Oakdale businesses for all "shopping, dining and professional service needs." By doing so, residents will help "boister" Oakdale's "vitality and quality of life."
Mayor Carmen Sarrack said the three groups hope the letter will help residents keep Oakdale businesses in mind during their shopping experiences.
"We want our businesses to succeed in the city and it'd be nice if our citizens shopped in our own city," Sarrack said. "We're trying to promote the businesses and try to keep people shopping locally."
Residents interested in checking out Oakdale businesses can find a list of local companies at the OBPA website or through Oakdale Patch's business directory.
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Hollyoaks: Martha's a rubbish mum!
If there were ever an award for soap's worst mum then Hollyoaks' Martha Kane would be a sure-fire contender. Immature, irresponsible, alcoholic… The list just goes on and on.
Look, don't get us wrong, we realise Martha must be a bit cash-strapped looking after three teenage kids (and Papa Kane isn't exactly on the scene), but stashing unpaid utility bills in the kitchen drawer is definitely not the answer to her money woes. Confront your problems, luv, instead of hiding them under your tea towels!
Martha's reckless behaviour is having a massive effect on Callum, who should be cramming for the most important exams of his life, but instead has spent most of the week stressing about whether his family is going to be left without a roof over their heads.
In last night's first-look Hollyoaks, we saw Callum adopting the role of parent as he forced his ma to write Jack a cheque for her overdue rent. Cal might be the only man chez Kane (sorry, George!) but is it really his responsibility to manage Martha's finances? Answer: no!
And just when we thought things couldn't get much worse, Martha dropped another bombshell – she's only gone and lost her job! Well, we're pretty sure Callum can kiss goodbye to his dreams of studying in New York now.
Martha's going to have to swing a few favours if she doesn't want her brood to end up on the streets, but we bet you anything it'll be left to Callum to pick up the pieces while she drowns her sorrows in another bottle of cheap plonk!


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Good morning to all the ladies and gentlemen of the Americas! Good afternoon to our European and African friends! A most excellent, very early morning to all those drunk and rosey-cheeked Korean, Russian, Indian and Aussie colleagues, and anyone else I'm forgetting!
Please, accept this heartfelt welcome to the first round of this year's Layer Tennis quarter-final matches!
Lord, I am very caffeinated at the moment!
Here backstage, it's a Layer Tennis tradition to drink beer while our competitors duel. But seeing how it's before lunch where I'm sitting, I'm going for Diet Coke. I figure if the players can bare their creative nerves in public, surely I can test my caffeine-tolerance. So, full disclosure: As of this moment, I'm weighing in with three large mugs of coffee and a can of Coke digested, and I've got 11 back-up cans in the refrigerator.
Ladies and gentlemen, cheers to the players! What mighty players! You only reach this tier of the game if you're among the best, and today's competitors, Chris Glass and Gregory Hubacek, are gold-plated.
Glass you know as a veteran athlete. He's a played to a draw in an epic match earlier in the season, and it was you, the Season Ticket Holders, who elected to bring him to the champions' table. Hubacek, on the other hand, played into the tournament through a gritty qualifying match that shaved everyone's chest, and he earned his spot – tooth and nail – by being one of only two designers voted in from a pool of 36. What odds!
So, I'm having a tough time predicting a winner. Sorry to the gamblers, because normally I'm pretty good at this. I looked through these guys' portfolios and previous matches; I spoke with their siblings; I broke bread with their pastors and went camping with their counselors—but no dice.
Then I devised a quiz.
Layer Tennis is a contest of speed and wit. Players have only 15 minutes per round, and the crowd won't tolerate a dull volley. Thus I gave the boys the following three questions, allowing them only two minutes per answer, to see if we could read the tea leaves ahead of time.
1. The name of what Nevada city can be made into the name of what California city by adding the letters S and F?
Hubacek: Reno becomes Fresno, although why on Earth would you want to live in either? (I've heard this one before, so it shouldn't count).
Glass: Oh this question is easy because every time I go to California, I make sure to visit Winnemfuccas. They have the best medicinal marijuana. Totally eats your face. I'm thinking it's time I re-sole my Birkenstocks. I hear they do that for free, forever. I've been wondering what kid I can put in my will so they can have my free sandals for life!
2. Define your approach to graphic design. Use the words "Jessica Simpson" and "Proust" in every sentence.
Glass: My approach to graphic design always considers the gestalt principles of perception (with heavy emphasis on the Law of Prägnanz), the final tome of Marcel Proust's semi-autobiographical novel, Le Temps Retrouvé, for its themes intermingling fiction with reality, and Jessica Simpson. Now you might be saying to yourself, how could Jessica Simpson and Proust have any such proximity with design, and I encourage you to appreciate the contrast—a fundamental concept of visual communication. Jessica Simpson endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2004, Marcel Proust was a homosexual, and I've always favored sans-serif typefaces with clean compositions.
Hubacek: Since I can only use one sentence, this is going to be a really long run-on sentence with odd instances of punctuation, Jessica Simpson, and Proust (though I don't really know what or who Proust is) thrown in solely to keep up the running gag of explaining my design approach which can actually be summed down into the most basic of formulas (think lather rinse repeat) due to its simplicity and methodical nature.
3. Write a brief story using the following first line: "Two armed men drive across a desert."
Hubacek: Two armed men drive across a desert. However they were armed only with bananas. After becoming increasingly dehydrated in the warm, dry desert wind, they ate their bananas for their potassium, which I'm told helps with cramps associated with dehydration. They are now completely unarmed and still thirsty.
Glass: Two armed men drive across a desert. They been living off fountain drinks and diagonally halved sandwiches. Chicken salad. Ham salad. Egg salad. Chicken salad with walnuts and grapes. Triangular cartons litter the backseat with discarded relish packets and empty cups with dots of dried syrup. Among the items stuffed in the visors is a poorly refolded map with a hi-lighted path to all the National Parks. Their pants are pleated. Neither are on Twitter.
Disco people, I think we've got an even match ahead of us. Glass won the coin flip, but, for the first time in Layer Tennis history, he's passed the honor of opening to his opponent. Gentleman at court, or crafty tactician? We'll see. Until then, may the best designer win.
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With so many parks in Stratford, and so little free time, the decision on where to plan a day of leisure can be overwhelming.
This week's hunt took Stratford Patch around town to four different parks in hopes of shedding some light on some of the best places to relax and enjoy the variety of natural escapes one can find without even having to leave town.
I hit the beach first, making my first stop at Long Beach. Long Beach is the ideal spot to feel like you've really left Stratford. After traveling through the long stretch of marshes off of Access Road, it feels more like Cape Cod.
Long Beach is technically an "unimproved" beach due to the lack of amenities available. This means that for those totting toddlers around or those seeking bathrooms and other necessities, this might not be the ideal location. While kids are welcome, it seems just right for someone looking to engage in quiet activities such as reading or fishing. There are even two rock walls extending into the Sound to climb on.
At Long Beach West, you can see a 35-acre stretch of land that received $909,000 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The funding is going toward the removal of cottages and the restoration of habitat along the stretch of waterfront property. It is one of the longest stretches of barrier beach in Connecticut and contains sand dunes, tidal wetlands and salt flats.
In addition, it has been designated by the National Audubon Society as an Important Bird Area. Restoration will also improve public access to this natural area.
I climbed along the rock wall and spent a good long while enjoying the Sound as the waves lapped around the disappearing rocks before heading over to another one of Stratford's beaches.
Arguably the most popular destination in town for park-goers, Short Beach has everything that Long Beach does not -- making it an ideal trip for families looking to socialize, exercise or just enjoy the water.
Short Beach features a playground, a skate park, bathrooms, picnic tables, six volleyball nets (including a league that meets every Wednesday night), ball fields and basketball courts. A golf course sits along the perimeter, and the recreation department is located just to the right of the entrance for those looking to sign up for organized competition. For non-residents like myself, it's a little pricey -- 15 dollars -- to get in. But for residents, tax dollars cover the cost. Just bring your beach sticker and you won't have to pay.
My next destination took me further inland to a small park located a short distance off of Main street.
Wooster Pond and Park is a very quaint little area located right next to David Wooster Middle School on Freeman Avenue. This manmade pond, originally dug to save local basements from flooding, has become quite a harbor of wildlife.
"I've seen woodpeckers, sparrows, lots of robins," said Stratford resident Kathleen M. Clark, who was having a walk with her dog Olive.
Clark also mentioned the abundance of ducks, geese, swans and snapping turtles as well as an egret, a heron and a muskrat who can be seen from time to time. The pond is also home to red winged blackbirds.
"They like the water," said Clark.
There is no cost to enter the humble park. A playground is situated underneath a grotto of trees but there are no bathrooms or concession stands. A path extends around the pond for those looking for a walk through the woods. It is a very scenic, cheap and convenient escape perfect for a short walk or a stress relieving venture after work.
Boothe Memorial Park
The fourth park I visited was undoubtedly my favorite of the day.
Boothe Memorial Park is a 32-acre parcel of land in the North End of Stratford. The park includes the Boothe Homestead, which is apparently the "oldest homestead in America," according to its website.
I knew I was in for a strange treat when I parked my car right below a tree of chattering wild parakeets. I then made my way over to an original tollbooth on display that was taken from the Merritt Parkway. And while it seems strange to have a tollbooth right in the middle of a park, it made sense when I read that the Parkway was "designed to bring the weary city driver into a restful, park-like setting." How fitting, then, to include it in Stratford's own little oasis.
Boothe Memorial Park offers lush gardens, rolling lawns and two playgrounds (as well as a small rock-climbing wall). Sheep and chicken are available to observe. Additional attractions include a clock tower museum, a trolley station, a blacksmith shop and a windmill. But my favorite spot was the Rose Garden, where I sat to enjoy the dwindling daylight.
Boothe Memorial Park is open for special events, weddings, picnics and group functions, and there are several sites that are free to the public or reservable for a fee. The park grounds are open and free of charge year-round.
There are about 40 parks in Stratford, ranging drastically in terms of what each one offers.
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The game will be played on June 22 at Bentley College and features the top senior high school football players from all over Eastern Mass.
Bauer will have the services of two of his best seniors from the unbeaten Panthers in lineman Mike Dooling and running back Brendan Flaherty, who was an Mass. High School Football Coaches Association All-State Super 26 selection and also broke Beverly's all-time scoring record.
Flaherty is playing at Holy Cross next season.
Fellow Northeastern Conference all-stars Ty Bates and Ian Maag will also represent the North in the Shriner's Classic. Bates was one of the best linebackers on the North Shore this past fall and Maag threw for 1,500 yards and accounted for 22 touchdowns (14 passing, eight rushing).
Division 1 Super Bowl champion St. John's Prep will have three players suiting up for the North all-stars. Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year Alex Moore, a Penn commit from Boxford, earned a spot in the game after scoring 18 total touchdowns. Fearsome linebacker Lucas Bavaro, who will continue his career at Dartmouth College next year, will follow in the footsteps of his father, Mark, by playing in the game. The former All-Pro tight end of the New York Giants played in the Shriner's Classic out of Danvers High in 1981.
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Our hero is caveman and hunter D'Leh (pronounced 'delay'), played by Steven Strait, who looks like a cross between Josh Hartnett and Billy Zane (contain yourself girls) and is kitted out in a loincloth and natty Jack Sparrow-esque dreadlocks. When D'Leh slays a mighty mammoth, he's fingered by the village elder as a chosen one, conveniently just before his tribe and his best girl Evolet (Belle) are dragged off to lands unknown by vaguely foreign invaders on horseback. Flanked by village elder Tic-Tic (Curtis) and a token annoying kid who's just begging to be kidnapped, D'Leh sets off on an epic journey to find his people and fulfil some prophecy or other, meeting several expensive special effects along the way.
Now, you'll understand that this is a fantasy adventure movie (you knew man and mammoth didn't co-exist, right?) and therefore some liberties are going to be taken in the name of fun. But 10,000 B.C. has so many anachronisms it'll make your head spin: it's a history lesson as scrawled in crayon by an excitable 8 year-old kid. Pyramids built by cavemen? Gah... so... much... wrong... Emmerich's understanding of geography isn't much better: at one point, D'Leh and his team descend from a snowy mountain and walk straight into a dense tropical jungle, before exiting into a vast, arid desert. Just where the hell are they supposed to be? Narnia? Honestly, The Flintstones was more down to earth.
If realism has been thrown out the window, why not throw some trusty dinosaurs into the mix? It'd certainly make proceedings a little more interesting, as 10,000 B.C.'s creatures leave a lot to be desired. The posters and trailers boast of a badass sabretooth tiger, but in actuality, kitty only gets around sixty seconds of screen-time, disappearing just as quickly as it arrived (and it doesn't even get to eat anyone). A mammoth stampede flexes some CG muscle but is too reminiscent of the Brontosaurus chase in King Kong, while an early scene with some giant ostrich-like killer birds (don't ask) is basically the 'long grass' Raptor sequence from The Lost World, with added feathers and beaks. Uninspiring stuff indeed.
With no CG stand-outs to goggle at, you're left struggling to empathise with the human characters, none of which are worth a damn. Strait's humdrum hero is simply going through the motions, while Belle's romantic interest just looks ridiculous caked in mud and plonked in a fur shawl. At one point, she's trussed up in a low-cut dress with mascara on, and sports impeccably white teeth throughout - aren't cave-chicks supposed to have... I don't know, more knuckles on their face than this? Stripped of CG fancy and orchestrated chaos, 10,000 B.C. is a dull, predictable chore.
The movie, at least, looks impressive; Emmerich swoops over and above plenty of Middle-Earth-esque New Zealand locations, creating some lush looking shots that rival even those of Peter Jackson. One last-reel reveal, centred around the building of a pyramid, will take your breath away - the scale is simply audacious. But it's all for nought - what's the point of creating a huge universe if you've got nothing big to put in it? A lousier adventure movie you won't find this year: 10,000 B.C. belongs, if not back in the stone age, then at least back in the mid '90s, where this sort of mindless, effects-driven drivel is best left. Ali
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The literary debut of an electrifying talent that gives the historical novel an exhilarating dose of originality, style, and visionary energy.
Gob's Grief recounts the lives of Gob and Tomo Woodhull, fictional twin sons of the real Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth-century proto-feminist. In August of 1863, Tomo, who is eleven years old, runs off to the Civil War and dies in his first battle. Gob grows up in a profound state of grief, and by the time that he's an adult studying to be a doctor in New York City, he has begun to make real a dream to build a machine that might bring Tomo - indeed, all the war dead - back to life.
As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead. These disparate lives come together in support of Gob's endeavor, but the abolition of death and the success of his machine may come at a price more hideous and awful than any of them can know.
Both convincing in its portrayal of the collective madness America went through after the carnage of the Civil War, and otherworldly in its contemplation of obsessive grief and longing, Gob's Grief is at once an announcement of a major talent, and an extraordinary achievement in literary art.
Walt dreamed his brother's death at Fredericksburg. General Burnside, appearing as an angel at the foot of his bed, announced the tragedy: "The army regrets to inform you that your brother, George Washington Whitman, was shot in the head by a lewd fellow from Charleston." The general alit on the bedpost and drew his dark wings close about him, as if to console himself. Moonlight limned his strange whiskers and his hair. Burnside's voice shook as he went on. "Such a beautiful boy. I held him in my arms while his life bled out. See? His blood made this spot." He pointed at his breast, where a dark stain in the shape of a bird lay on the blue wool. "I am so very sorry," the General said, choking and weeping. Tears fell in streams from his eyes, ran over the bed and out the window, where they joined the Rappahannock, which had somehow come north to flow through Brooklyn, bearing the bodies of all the late battle's dead.
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Despite the high demand for environment and natural resources information, many existing maps and digital databases are not specifically developed to meet the various user requirements. One of the main causes, though generally underestimated, is the type of classification or legend used to describe basic information such as land cover and land use. Many of the existing classifications are generally not comparable with one another and are very often single project oriented or taking a sectoral approach. Though many classification systems exist throughout the world, there is no single internationally accepted land cover or land use classification system.
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