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Hi! We are the T-Dawgs and we're here to tell you a small amount about us. First of all are names are Jake, Josh, Marc, and Grant. We are from Van Meter Elementary, Iowa. We all love sports and to work together in teams. We are all pretty goofy and love to mess around. Marc and Jake are new to this school, but Josh and Grant have been here a while. Our teachers are pretty cool and let us do a lot. We are all in the sixth grade. Jake, Josh, and Marc's favorite subject is Science and Grant's favorite is math, he's good at it too. Josh has chickens, cats, and dogs. Marc doesn't have any pets and Grant has some cats and dogs almost exactly like Josh. Jake on the other hand has a hedgehog, guinea pig, one hermit crab, some rabbits and used to have a fish, but it died. We hope you like our Think Quest project!! See you later!!


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Mule (coin)
In numismatics, a mule is a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece. These can be intentional or produced by error. This type of error is highly sought after, and examples can fetch steep prices from collectors.
The earliest mules are found among ancient Greek and Roman coins. Opinion is divided between those who think that they are accidental, the result of an incorrect combination of a new die with one that had officially been withdrawn from use, or the work of coiners working with dies stolen from an official mint, perhaps at a time when one of them should have been destroyed.
The name derives from the mule, the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey, due to such a coin having two sides intended for different coins, much as a mule has parents of two different species.
Sacagawea Dollar with Washington State Quarter[edit]
Several prominent mule errors have been discovered in recent times. One of the most famous is the Sacagawea Dollar/Washington State Quarter mule featuring the obverse of a Statehood quarter and the reverse of a Sacagawea dollar. This coin was struck on a Sacagawea dollar planchet. Common belief was that this coin was intentionally struck by a mint employee, however the mint confirmed in July 2000 that the coin was a legitimate error, created by the accidental replacement of a cracked Sacagawea obverse die with a Washington obverse die. Several thousand of the coins were reported to have been minted before the error was discovered, and mint employees recovered and destroyed most of them. As of April, 2013, 14 are publicly known to exist and have been certified.[1] The highest sale price for one of the coins was paid for mule #12, known as the "Stacks Bowers ANA" specimen (NGC MS-67), sold at the American Numismatic Association meeting in Philadelphia in August 2012 for $155,250.[1]
Other prominent examples[edit]
In February 2009, Coin World reported that some 2007 Abigail Adams medals, from the U.S. Mint, were struck using the reverse from the 2008 Louisa Adams medal, apparently by mistake.[2] These pieces were contained within the 2007 First Spouse medal set.[2] The U.S. Mint has not released an estimate of how many mules were made. eBay prices in March 2009 were reported as high as $925.99.[3]
In 1967, a New Zealand 2 cent coin was issued, featuring the obverse of the Bahamian 5 cent coin, see Coins of the New Zealand dollar.
In June 2009 a rare dateless British 20 pence mule was reported to be in circulation, resulting from the accidental combination of old and new dies in production following a 2008 redesign of UK coinage, with an estimated 50,000 to 200,000 mules released before the error was noticed.[4][5]
The Winter Olympic coins produced in the Royal Canadian Mint Olympic coins program for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver featured several mules which entered circulation.[6]
- ^ a b "2000-P "Mule" Sacagawea Dollar Reverse w/ States Quarter Obverse Census". April 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ a b Gilkes, Paul (2009-02-16). "First Spouse medals set holds Adams mule". Coin World 50 (2549): 1. "Some collectors have begun receiving a First Spouse medal mule – a piece bearing the obverse for Abigail Adams and a reverse intended for the Louisa Adams medal. The mules surfaced in some of the 2007 First Spouse sets..."
- ^ Potter, Ken (2009-04-07). "Price of medal mule soars toward $1,000". Numismatic News. Retrieved 2009-04-10. "a sixth set with 18 bids from five bidders sold on March 22 for $925.99"
- ^ Poulter, Sean (29 June 2009). "Have you a 20p worth £50 in your pocket? Royal Mint error results in undated coins". Daily Mail. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
- ^ Bingham, John (29 June 2009). "Mix-up at Royal Mint creates dateless 20p pieces worth £50". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
- ^ "Mint's goofs send value of 2010 Olympic coins soaring". Vancouver Sun. 30 November 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
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The problem is I sell lingerie and every return I get has to then be sold as a used item at quite a loss by me as no way can I or would I sell worn items as new and this is when they can even be sold as sometimes they come back with labels removed or without packaging. As an example a customer has just emailed me to say she wants to return £200 of goods as she "doesnt like them" and I have to accept the return and then maybe sell them for £40 total meaning I have lost over £100 and thats just in one order. I understand the logic behind DSR but I cant keep doing this - due to competition I cant raise my prices to account for losses in returns otherwise I wont make a sale and Im legally bound to comply with the legislation but there really should be an exception for lingerie and other intimate items which cant be resold as new. A lot of my competitors have in their terms and conditions that they dont accept returns unless faulty in blatant disregard of the law (not to mention not clearly showing shipping prices and not showing a company address and so on) but I choose to comply and end up losing out and potentially going out of business as a direct result. Fair, huh? Sorry, rant over :(
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Heart Surgery Governance Tool Launched
NICOR, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (SCTS), and the University of Manchester, has released the SCTS Governance Tool. This new online rescource enables cardiac surgery consultants to access information about their clinical activity and outcomes, which facilitates effective monitoring of data quality and clinical practice. The tool allows selection of time periods and operative groups to generate downloadable reports 'on demand', which show analysis based on up-to-date, and 'cleaned', National Adult Cardiac Surgery Audit (NACSA) data. More...
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Buffett Passes Gates as the World's Richest Man
Forbes puts the legendary investor's net worth at $62 billion.
Move over, Bill Gates. With a whopping $62 billion in net worth, Warren Buffett is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine. Buffett's wealth increased $10 billion over the past year through February 11, Forbes notes, mostly thanks to gains in shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway.
Meanwhile, Gates—who had topped the magazine's annual list of global billionaires for the past 13 years—grew his net worth by $2 billion, to $58 billion. The Microsoft chairman fell to third on the list behind Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim Helú, who has an estimated net worth of $60 billion.
Buffett's is a self-made fortune. As a graduate student at Columbia University in the early 1950s, he studied economics under legendary value investor Benjamin Graham and later went to work for Graham's company. When Graham retired, Buffett went home to Omaha and started his own investment company. He was 25. Seven years later, in 1962, Buffett began buying shares of a textile firm, Berkshire Hathaway. He purchased a controlling stake in 1965. Today, Berkshire's A shares fetch about $137,000 each.
The United States had 469 of the world's 1,125 billionaires, according to Forbes, followed by Russia, which overtook Germany as the No. 2 country with 87 billionaires. (Germany, which held that spot for the past six years, has 59.) Although half the world's top 20 billionaires came from the United States in 2006, only four made the list in 2007: Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands, and Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle, along with Buffett and Gates. India also had four billionaires in the top 10.


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A Syracuse shoe repairman has collected and fixed up more than 1,700 pairs of shoes for the needy this year. Ralph Rotella has been accepting shoe donations since last Christmas and plans to give them to the Rescue Mission next week. Our Brad Vivacqua has the story.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- This is really a remarkable effort put forth by Ralph Rotella, who has been a shoe repairman here in Syracuse for 36 years. We first introduced you to Ralph last year when he collected a little more than 300 pairs of shoes last October to December. Ralph started quick this year and now has collected and fixed more than 1,700 pairs of shoes. He has spent countless hours at night and on weekends fixing up shoes, boots, and slippers donated by individuals and groups.
"Sometimes in the wintertime I see some people in front of the store with real bad shoes, or ripped, their feet come out of the shoes, so I say that I need to do something about it, so that's why," said Rotella, Discount Shoe Repair owner.
Rotella collects shoes in new or fair condition on a daily basis. You can find him at Discount Shoe Repair on 114 East Washington Street in Syracuse.
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Mayor's Night In Tonight at City Hall
Macon Mayor Robert Reichert is giving you a chance to tell him what's on your mind.
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City Council's finance and budget committee meeting, scheduled for today at 1 p.m., is canceled. Councilwoman Laketa Cole chairs the committee. No reason for the cancelation was given when the council clerk's office sent out the cancelation notice Friday morning, but that's not uncommon. While Cole got out Friday of the race against Alicia Reece […]
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State Rep. Tyrone Yates, D- Walnut Hills, said Monday he supports a Hamilton County cigarette tax. That makes him the first local legislator to voice support for the tax, although several have not yet returned the Enquirer's calls.
NY Times on Ohio's statue search
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The New York Times took a look at Ohio's search for a new statue at the U.S. Capitol to replace one of a former governor who we've soured on. Cincinnati Rep. Tyrone Yates is quoted as saying he would prefer the state pick a politician, as opposed to an inventor or, say, a Red. Here's […]
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A term-limited state legislator wants Ohio voters to lift the cap of eight consecutive years for members of the Ohio General Assembly.
Yates: End gay marriage ban
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UPDATE: Here's Jon Craig's story on the resolution. Rep. Tyrone Yates wants Ohioans to vote next May 4 on repealing the state's ban on gay marriage. Yates, a Walnut Hills Democrat, introduced a resolution Tuesday to repeal the part of the constitution – added by voters in 2004 – that declared that only marriages between men […]
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State Rep. Tyrone K. Yates. a Democrat from Evanston, has introduced a proposed Constitutional Amendment to give the Ohio General Assembly oversight over gambling.
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Issue 3, the statewide ballot issue seeking to legalize casinos at Broadway Commons as well as Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland will be a forum topic Thursday at noon at The Undercroft of Christ Church Cathedral, 318 E. Fourth St. Sponsored by the Cathedral Outreach Committee, Thursday's community issues forum features Charlie Luken, former congressman, Cincinnati mayor […]
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A committee of state legislators will visit the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum Friday in search of an Ohioan to best represent the Buckeye State in the Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. Friday's attention will center on former Reds' outfielder William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy. It will be the fourth visit across the […]
Reece running for state rep
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Today at the Obama speech at Riverbend: Former Cincinnati council member Alicia Reece said she plans to run for the Ohio House seat now held by the term-limited Tyrone Yates. Reece has been working in the Strickland administration for the past three years. She ran in the Cincinnati mayoral primary in 2005 and lost. She […]


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With a high lonesome sound heavily influenced by Bill and Charlie Monroe, Red Allen quietly took his place as one of the most talented and underrated bluegrass artists of the post-World War II era. Born in Perry County, KY, he later made his mark not far from there, first landing in Dayton, OH, at the age of 19 in 1949 after a two-year stint in the Marines. In Ohio, he became acquainted with several other musicians whom he would later collaborate with, including Frank Wakefield, the Osborne Brothers and Noah Crase. In 1954, he made his recording debut on an independent Kentucky label. In March 1956, he began an incredibly fruitful partnership with the Osborne Brothers, shortly after they had signed on with the Wheeling Jamboree, a popular radio show broadcast from the Virginia Theater in Wheeling, WV. Four months after he joined the group, they made their first recording with MGM Records, and built their audience over the next year by a steady program of touring and recording. In the spring of 1958, their song, "Once More," hit number 13 on the country charts and helped earn the band a steady following. Allen left the Osborne Brothers at the end of 1958 and took a brief break from recording before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1959 and forming the Kentuckians with Wakefield. Their relationship was extremely fruitful creatively, but ultimately too tumultuous to sustain for long, and after producing a classic album in 1964 for Smithsonian Folkways simply titled Bluegrass, they parted ways.
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Ranking WWE's 10 Worst Storylines of 2012
By Drake Oz ,
The WWE had a lot of fantastic matches this year, but it had just as many terrible feuds and storylines.
Throughout the course of 2012, we were forced to watch some of the most poorly booked angles and rivalries the company has put on in quite some time.
If we're just being honest with ourselves, we could probably come up with a list of hundreds of bad booking decisions made by WWE creative this year. But that would just be too depressing.
Instead, we'll focus on some of the bigger storylines of the year and examine why they simply didn't work.
After all, plenty of 2012 angles,for whatever reason, just haven't clicked...or made sense.
Here are what are, in my view, the 10 worst WWE storylines of 2012.
After his match with John Cena at Extreme Rules, the WWE needed to find a creative way to write Brock Lesnar off of TV.
Instead, the company had Lesnar "quit" the WWE. Twice.
He left the WWE via a Paul Heyman promo back in May, and then after his SummerSlam match with Triple H, he quit the company yet again. Only, this time he did it via a terrible promo on Tout.
The WWE could have come up with a boatload of ways to write Lesnar off of TV and done so in an entertaining fashion. Instead, it used the same exact reason each time.
Not only did that show the laziness of the creative team, but it was yet another example of the WWE putting far too much emphasis on social media.
Lesnar quitting the WWE via Tout? Awful idea.
The "scandal" involving AJ Lee and John Cena was really never a scandal at all.
The basis of it has been that AJ resigned as Raw GM because she supposedly broke the rules by having an "inappropriate" relationship with Cena. Yet the WWE completely ignored the fact that Vickie Guerrero has done the same thing with both Edge and Dolph Ziggler.
As if it's not bad enough that the angle doesn't really make sense, the way it's been presented on TV has been pretty juvenile.
The secret videos, the voicemails, the kisses—it's like watching a bad soap opera, and what's even worse is that this angle has come right after TNA's infamous Claire Lynch storyline.
The WWE is looking like it has ripped off TNA, and it's doing so in a manner that isn't particularly creative or entertaining.
The one good thing about this angle is that it's led to Ziggler and AJ being paired together. Beyond that, it's been a train wreck.
No one will ever forget the never-ending feud between Sheamus and Alberto Del Rio, but for all the wrong reasons.
This World Heavyweight Championship rivalry essentially started right after WrestleMania 28 in April when ADR returned, and though it was on and off, it didn't end until Night of Champions in September.
That means that the rivalry lasted for more than five months, and here's the sad thing about it: It went absolutely nowhere.
Del Rio was never viewed as a credible threat to the strongly booked Sheamus. Yet he inexplicably kept getting title shots.
Every time Sheamus beat Del Rio on pay-per-view, which he did four times (three times in single matches), we expected the feud to end, but it simply kept going.
There was never one point that this rivalry was especially entertaining or that it did anything for either guy. ADR came away from it looking like a fool, and Sheamus' World title reign suffered big time because this feud took up about 80 percent of it.
For all the time invested in Sheamus vs. Del Rio, you'd be hard-pressed to find a worse rivalry in 2012.
When we asked for the return of stables, perhaps we should have been a little clearer.
We got a stable, but it's not what anyone ever would have imagined. It's the 3MB, babbbyyyy!
For some odd reason, the WWE pulled the trigger on this trio back in September, putting Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre together as a "band" of wannabe rock stars.
Although the group is, perhaps unintentionally, hilarious, it's probably one of the worst stables ever. Yes, ever.
Even if the trio can be pretty funny at times, it is nothing more than a group of jobbers who were randomly thrown together because they have nothing else to do.
Mahal might be the most terrible fake rock star in history, and he doesn't really fit in well with Slater and McIntyre, who can actually pull off the rock star gimmick pretty well.
Although the 3MB is used primarily for comedic purposes these days, it's hard not to question the sanity of whoever came up with the idea to form this group.
It was doomed from the start.
John Cena's rivalry with John Laurinaitis and The Big Show over the summer led to some of the lowest points of 2012.
This angle resulted in a number of terrible moments, including Cena vs. Laurinaitis at Over the Limit in what was easily one of the worst PPV main events in WWE history.
Before that happened, though, we were forced to watch Big Show beg Laurinaitis to save his job in what was an incredibly awkward segment on Monday Night Raw. That, of course, led to Show's super predictable heel turn and yet another feud with Cena.
How many times have Cena and Big Show feuded now? About 25?
Following Big Show's turn, he faced Cena in a steel cage match at No Way Out, a bout that was probably even worse than you would expect it to be.
Big Show and Cena have never really clicked when in the ring together, and that didn't change here.
Their No Way Out match was awful, and it was the culmination of a horrible angle that I'm not sure anyone had any genuine interest in.
Natalya is arguably the most talented Diva in the WWE, but no one's talking about the great matches she had in 2012.
Instead, they're talking about how horrible she was used this year. More specifically, they're talking about her infamous "farting" gimmick.
Earlier this year, Natalya was saddled with a gimmick in which she couldn't control her flatulence.
We would see her appear in random skits, segments and even matches where she uncontrollably passed gas and then acted embarrassed about it.
Is this real life?
Especially with the Divas division in shambles like it has been this year, Natalya should have been the main focus of the division as the WWE tried to rebuild it.
But nope, she was forced to have farting problems and be paired with The Great Khali instead.
This angle only played out over one Raw episode, but it was just too stupid to ignore.
We've all wondered for years now who the infamous anonymous Raw general manager was, and back in July, the WWE decided to finally reveal the identity of the person behind the laptop computer.
Santino Marella went on a Sherlock Holmes-like quest to find the anonymous Raw GM (who was guest hosting the show), and he was finally able to.
The big reveal? Hornswoggle.
After years of speculation, we finally found out who the GM was, but it seemed like we would have been better off never knowing. After all, revealing Hornswoggle as the anonymous GM was a big slap in the face of the fans.
It was basically the WWE's way of saying, "We never really knew who the anonymous GM was going to be in the first place, so we'll say it's Hornswoggle just to piss you off."
Thanks, WWE. You made my day.
At Night of Champions, Kaitlyn was supposed to challenge Layla for the Divas Championship, but she was replaced by Eve Torres after she was attacked and suffered an ankle injury.
This led to perhaps one of the least intriguing "who done it?" mysteries in WWE history: Who attacked Kaitlyn?
In what was a terribly written and horribly acted angle, Kaitlyn went on a quest to find out who attacked her. It would ultimately be revealed that Eve got Aksana to wear a wig and attack Kaitlyn so that she could win the Divas title at Night of Champions.
By this point, I had lost any and all interest in this storyline, mainly because it was, simply put, brutal to watch an angle that was atrocious in every aspect.
There was never a point that this Kaitlyn/Eve cellphone/iPad drama was even remotely interesting, but guess what?
The rivalry between Eve and Kaitlyn is still going on, which just goes to show you how far the Divas division truly has fallen.
One of the WWE's biggest problems is that it devotes far too much TV time to authority figures.
The prime example: The feud between Teddy Long and John Laurinaitis.
On the road to WrestleMania, the WWE ignited a feud between the company's two GMs.
The heels threw their support behind Laurinaitis, the faces threw their support behind Long and this ultimately led to a match between Team Teddy and Team Johnny at WrestleMania 29. The GM of the winning team would control both shows.
The WWE spent months building up this rivalry between two non-wrestlers when the GM position ultimately means absolutely nothing, and it could have used all that wasted TV time for a feud between two actual wrestlers instead.
This angle wouldn't have been so bad if it didn't wind up being completely pointless, but that's exactly what happened.
Laurinaitis only lasted a couple months as the GM of both shows, and Long never left TV. In fact, he's still got a big presence on SmackDown to this day.
Essentially, the WWE spent several months building a rivalry between two non-wrestlers that served no purpose whatsoever.
Couldn't the 10 wrestlers in the Team Teddy vs. Team Johnny match just have had a Money in the Bank match instead?
When Kane returned under his mask in December 2011, it was supposed to reinvigorate "The Big Red Monster."
But his initial feud with John Cena turned out to be a complete and utter mess.
At the core of this rivalry was Kane's desire to get Cena to "embrace the hate" from the fans or, in other words, turn heel. To do so, Kane targeted Cena's buddy, Zack Ryder, and Ryder's crush, Eve Torres.
What started off as excitement surrounding Kane's return, however, quickly transformed into dread over the most poorly booked WWE storyline of 2012.
The "embrace the hate" storyline was far too cheesy (remember when Ryder and Eve were changing the tire?), the matches between Kane and Cena sucked and the rivalry changed Ryder from an upper midcarder and breakout star to an absolute joke of a jobber.
There was never any payoff to this rivalry as Ryder never got his revenge on Kane, and the feud between Kane and Cena was nothing more than a placeholder feud to keep Cena busy until his WrestleMania match with The Rock.
Although the idea behind the "embrace the hate" storyline was likely to get more fans to cheer for Cena, the only positive out of it was Eve's heel turn.
Other than that, the "embrace the hate" angle was like watching a bad horror flick every Monday night for a few months.
Drake Oz is a WWE Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter!


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When Mary Lou Quinlan's beloved mother, Mary Finlayson, dies, her family is bereft—until Mary Lou searches for her mother's "God Box," her private cache of notes to God on behalf of family, friends and strangers. To Mary Lou's amazement, she finds not one but ten boxes stuffed with hundreds of tiny petitions that spanned the last twenty years of her mother's life.
Note by note, Mary Lou unearths a treasure of her mother's wishes and worries and insight. Mary asked God for ...
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When Mary Lou Quinlan's beloved mother, Mary Finlayson, dies, her family is bereft—until Mary Lou searches for her mother's "God Box," her private cache of notes to God on behalf of family, friends and strangers. To Mary Lou's amazement, she finds not one but ten boxes stuffed with hundreds of tiny petitions that spanned the last twenty years of her mother's life.
Note by note, Mary Lou unearths a treasure of her mother's wishes and worries and insight. Mary asked God for everything from the right flooring for her daughter's home to a cure for her own blood cancer. Her requests, penned on scraps of paper, were presented without expectation—the ultimate expression of letting go.
Follow Mary Lou's emotional journey as she uncovers her mother's innermost thoughts—nostalgic, surprising and even a bit shocking. As she recalls life with the woman who was her best friend, Mary Lou also discovers her own more empathetic, engaged self—the woman her mother had believed in all along.
Poignantly written and beautifully designed, The God Box is a gift for every mother, every daughter, every person who, regardless of beliefs, trusts in the permanence of love and the power of family.
My mother's name was Mary. I am her namesake and her soul mate.
I lost her on May 29, 2006, as the Memorial Day fireworks kissed the sky good night. It was just Mom and me. I believe she planned it that way. Tough she lay in a coma from a terrible stroke, I still felt I could read her mind.
I knew she couldn't bear to look one last time into the eyes of her beloved husband–my father, Ray–or hug my brother, Jack, good-bye. But me? She knew I could take it. I was her best friend.
When she breathed her last breath, her hand in mine, I swear I could feel her spirit lift into that firecracking sky. She took a part of me with her.
* * *
I was Daddy's girl but my mother's daughter. I never had any children of my own so I was never the mother. Instead, I spent my life trying to get an A, even an A+, in daughter. I know that not everyone loves their mother this way, but I did, and there's nothing I wouldn't give to hear Mom's full-throated laugh again or to feel her hug that squeezed right through the phone to me.
Perhaps it's inevitable that we become our mothers, but I was my mother from the start. We both loved sexy shoes and scary movies. We both worked in advertising, disliked braggarts and beat ourselves up if we hurt anyone's feelings. My hips are uneven, just like hers, but unfortunately, she gave her beautiful curly red hair to Jack instead of me. (From time to time, I've colored some red into my hair because it makes me feel closer to her.)
Mom and I had secret names for each other. I called her "Mare," short for Mary, just to be fresh, or "Marmie," the name of the kind mother in Little Women. She called me "Anna Banana." I never knew why.
We shared bad habits too. She taught me how to eavesdrop. If, when we were out for one of our girls-only lunches she'd spot upset faces on the couple in the booth behind me, she'd say under her breath, "Don't look!" We'd pretend to eat our salads while we rolled our eyes at an overheard break-up.
We both were magnets for people who wanted to divulge their deepest secrets. (And, thanks to our amazing intuitive powers, we assumed we knew what they were going to say next. We were wrong more often than not, but that didn't stop us from finishing other people's sentences, a quirk of mine that my patient husband, Joe, finds particularly exasperating.)
For years, Mom and I shared a code for our closeness: "Hands on." We ended every nightly phone call by pressing our palms to our receivers and saying "Hands on," which meant that we were always together, even when living far apart. She had retired to Florida with Dad twenty years before her death, and whenever I left her at the airport, I would drop my luggage on the curb and press my hand to her car window. She would place her palm on the inside glass, her fingers lined up against mine, and we'd both mouth the words "Hands on."
I whispered it to her that last sad night we had together.
* * *
I miss so much about Mom, especially the way she could make me feel that everything would be okay. She could solve any situation, from a scraped knee to a broken heart, with a prayer. She prayed for every need, hurt or hiccup that hit Dad, Jack and me, and our spouses and kids, as well as friends and neighbors. Mom was so naturally empathetic that even strangers poured out their troubles to her. She always promised to keep everyone in her prayers, no matter what their religion or beliefs.
She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer. Truth be told, Mom was holier than the rest of our family, but she wasn't a holy roller, if you know what I mean. Deep inside, she just believed. During our family's early years in Philadelphia, Mom relied on a pretty standard Catholic repertoire of novenas and rosaries and Mass for whatever ailed Dad or Jack or me. Every once in a while she would call the Sisters of St. Joseph to ask them to put in a good word Upstairs if one of us was sick or a big exam was coming up.
But by the time Mom and Dad had settled in Florida in the mid-'80s, there was more to ask for. Jack and I had grown up and started families of our own. I married Joe Quinlan and moved to New York City. Jack and his wife, Sandy, had two little girls, Kelley and Meghan. We had busy, challenging careers and lives up north, and Mom was separated from us by so many miles. The passing years brought new health problems for both of my parents. And, once Mom had more free time in Florida, her empathetic nature attracted an ever-expanding list of people who adopted her as their personal counselor as soon as they met her. Their concerns became hers.
Mom needed a better way to cope with the growing list of worries weighing on her shoulders and her mind. That's when the God Box was born. She started writing down her petitions on random scraps of paper that she addressed to God and then placed into her God Box for resolution and relief.
Whenever we had a hope or a concern, Mom would cheerfully offer, "I'll put it in the God Box." Just hearing that made me feel like my issue of the moment was somehow worthy. If it was important to me, it was important to Mom. And if it was important to Mom, into the God Box it went.
It wasn't odd that Mom took to this very simple solution. She was a fixer and a doer with a practical bent. She was an early adopter of convenience foods, instant messaging, and automatic bill paying. The God Box was an easy way to make good on her promises to help.
* * *
On the night before her funeral, Dad, Jack and I felt like dishrags. Dad kept shuffling from room to room. He couldn't even look at Mom's recliner, so still next to his. Jack pretended to care about the work on his laptop. I threw myself into every detail of preparing the service because "doing" is what I do best.
My Mom, ever the planner, had left behind hints of what she wanted for her service. In her desk drawer, for instance, I found the programs from her friends' memorial services, and she had checked off the hymns she liked. On one pamphlet, she had marked "good choice!" next to "Spanish Eyes," but I nixed that in favor of "Ave Maria."
I had already written Mom's eulogy and had read it to her while she lay in a hospice room. It's not that I wanted to jinx her. I just wanted her to hear how much we loved her. When I gave it to Jack to review, his eyes filled with tears. "How am I going to read this out loud? I can't even read it to myself without crying."
If Mom had been there, she would have teased us into cheering up because she was such an effervescent, fun woman. She was always up for a good time, turning up the volume if Willie Nelson was on the radio, dressing up her khakis with a bangle belt just to go out for breakfast. Even at eighty-two, Mom was the life of our party. None of us felt as shiny without her in the room.
We were each picking at our takeout dinner on the back porch when Jack asked, "Where's Mom's God Box?" The three of us looked at each other, forks in midair. For all the times she had mentioned it, Mom had never told us where she kept her little cache of prayers.
The God Box was Mom's secret stash of notes to God. She'd grab any handy piece of paper-from a "While you were out" slip to a receipt or a Post-it note-and scribble, "Dear God, Please take care of ..." She would dash off a petition in her natural, heartfelt style, date it and sign it "Love, Mary." "en she would keep folding the paper until it was really small and place it safely in the box.
The God Box came with one caveat. If any of us ever reworried about the request, Mom would say, "If you think you can handle it better than God, it's coming out." Just the suggestion that we thought we were more powerful than God put us in our places and made us stop fretting and start believing. I don't think Mom ever made good on her threat, but her advice encouraged us to try to let go.
We loved how the God Box gave her such comfort and relief, and we were always happy to have our hopes and fears stored inside. However, no one believed in its power as deeply as Mom did.
* * *
On the night before Mom's funeral, I headed back to my parents' bedroom to search for the God Box. It was the first time I had gone in there since Mom died. I felt as if she might walk in at any second; I could even smell her fragrance. Everything was still in its place: There were the flowered bedspread and the matching curtains we had hung together. And there was the family gallery she had created, photos of each of us on the wall, the bureau and her nightstand.
I looked in her dresser where slips and nightgowns waited, unneeded. No box. Her closet was crowded with pastel skirts and floral dresses and palm tree purses, reminders of lunches together and parties gone by. I found the white leather jacket (a duplicate of mine) I had bought her for her eightieth birthday. But still no box.
I was about to give up when I glanced up to the highest shelf. Mom would have had to stand on her tiptoes to shove anything up there. I ran my hand along the edge and brushed against something rough. I pulled down a small round wicker box. I flipped open the lid and inside I could see pieces of paper covered with Mom's handwriting. "I found it!" I yelled. Then I paused. On a hunch, I reached up to the shelf again, stretching to feel further back. My hand hit another box. I grabbed a chair to stand on and found another box and another and another–wood, ceramic, glass, cardboard.
My arms filled with mismatched containers, I walked back to the dining room table and set seven God Boxes down gently in front of Dad and Jack. Dumbfounded, we each chose one and opened the lid. Every one of them was stuffed tight with tiny wedges of paper, folded over and over like origami.
We turned the boxes upside down and hundreds of notes tumbled out. We started unfolding and reading, shouting out the dates: "2003!" "1994!" "1989!" We were stunned. We were face-to-face with every molehill and mountain of our family's life dating back twenty years. Every wish and hope and worry, every decision small or big, everything Mom ever prayed for lay before us in a pile of scraps written in her hand.
Mom had left behind a diary of our family's life, her love letter to us in a thousand pieces.
* * *
Mom's notes weren't requests for world peace. She asked for help with the trials of everyday life, like this petition: "Dear God, Please make my right ankle stop hurting. Love, Mary." There were mentions of so many things we had forgotten, like office spats or real estate quandaries. We weren't the only ones in the box: we found messages about our extended family, about people we'd never met, about people who leaned on Mom for answers and hope.
The first paper was dated August 7, 1986. Though nearly all of the notes were scrawled hurriedly in Mom's hand, this one was typewritten, with perfect margins and indentations. She had typed it on the back of a sheet of office stationery–a souvenir from her last job as a secretary in an advertising agency. Maybe Mom wanted her first letter to God to look official. She summed up everything that was on her mind.
I love that message because it shows how Mom wrote to God like a pen pal would, so straightforward and friendly. Her mind ricocheted from one thought to another, as mine still does.
I'm not sure why Mom mentioned her eyes, unless that was around the time when the optometrist found a suspicious iris freckle. I remember that scared her. I have one too–something else we shared.
But Mom was right to question the wisdom of our buying a tiny farmhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As relative newlyweds and apartment dwellers, my husband, Joe, and I were clueless about old houses and could barely make the down payment. But we put in a bid, on the spot, because we were instantly charmed by the 140-year-old house despite its single bathroom and sketchy septic system.
The house turned out to be a godsend for our family. We invited my parents to live there with us every summer after they moved to Florida to get out of the heat, which gives you a sense of just how generous and mellow Joe is. Mom and Dad, never wanting to overstay their son-in-law's kind invitation, would insist on sleeping outside in their RV when we had overnight guests. I always felt embarrassed when our friends noticed the lights in the motor home parked in the driveway. "Oh, that's my parents. They don't want to interfere."
Most of the time, however, they stayed in the bedroom next to ours. When I returned to our Bucks County home after the funeral, I found three more God Boxes that Mom had stashed there, each full of notes about our summers together.
Ten God Boxes in all–a testament to Mom's commitment to her ritual.
* * *
Every summer during their visit, Mom and Dad would borrow our car, and one night they hit a deer on their way home from dinner. They were distressed that our car's fender had been smashed into the front tire, but Mom was even more upset when a stranger drove up to the accident scene and loaded the dead creature into his trunk. She felt worse when the insurance company refused to cover the back fender scraped by an aggressive tow truck driver. Mom turned to divine intervention, I discovered: "Dear God, Please take care of insurance for the Mazda. Let them know it was caused by towing. Love, Mary." (I guess God was supposed to call up State Farm and work it out.) The truth was Joe and I could handle the expense, yet Mom must have spent weeks feeling guilty. I wish she hadn't.
Another slip written during a summer sojourn read, "Please let the Pergo floor be the right choice." Dad was doing me a favor by converting a garage into an office. He and I had chosen the pale oak grain together, so she needn't have been concerned I wouldn't like it. But because the house was mine, she wanted it to be perfect for me. All I wanted was for it to be perfect for her.
That was the nature of our mutual admiration. Sometimes during our conversations I would suddenly say "More!" which meant, "I love you more!" Then Mom would say "More!" and then I would, and we'd go faster and faster, laughing and riding over each other–"more, more, more"–until one of us gave up. It was never me.
* * *
Finding the God Boxes was like reading Mom's heart. It was incredible to see the sheer scope of her faith, so certain, so unedited. Her unconditional belief in God came alive for me, as fresh as I remembered it from all the years of growing up as her daughter and best friend. Opening the little letters was like feeling her hug all over again.
I began reading and, box by box, year by year, walked backward through my life.
Whenever I leaf through my mother's petitions, I am taken back to childhood nights when she first taught me how to pray. When I was just four or five, she would urge me to get down on my little pajama-clad knees, fold my hands and rattle off the list of names she had helped me memorize.
"Dear God, Please watch over Mommy and Daddy, Jack and me ..." and then I would move on to my grandparents, alive and gone. A hearty "Amen!" and I would climb into bed. Mom would stay for a few minutes, her hand softly stroking my eyes shut until I fell asleep.
Surely she prayed for me as I dozed off under her palm. I felt so safe with her. Believing in God was easy with Mom at my side.
* * *
I grew up proud to be Mom's good girl. Jack was the boy version. We both excelled not only in subjects like arithmetic and spelling but also in our Catholic school's moral Olympics: obedience, cooperation, self-control, courage, perseverance, cleanliness and health habits.
Each Sunday at church, I lined up with all the other little girls, wearing my lacy chapel veil or, in a pinch, a Kleenex fastened to my curls with a bobby pin. With the nuns over my shoulder and Mom as my coach, my spiritual life got off to a promising start.
My prayer list continued to grow over time to include more relatives and friends until my freshman year of high school, when I added my final name–Bobby Kennedy. I graduated from high school and then college and gradually lost my religious rhythm. After marrying and moving to New York–"Sin City" to a Philly girl–my formal practice became somewhat à la carte. I was running from meetings to airports, building a career, a new marriage and new friendships. Getting to church every week seemed to slide off my to-do list.
But some habits die hard. I still make a surreptitious sign of the cross for the victim when an ambulance races by. I always pray a silent "Hail Mary" when my plane takes off, and I send good vibes to the universe when we close yoga class with "Namaste." But using the excuse of a busy life, I downshifted my conversations with God to asking for favors on the run, like, "Please let me ace this job interview today." I became expert at pitching heavenly bargains: "If this mammogram is good, I swear I'll go to Mass more often."
Clearly my erratic style paled in comparison to my mother's steady practice of unshakable faith.
Excerpted from the GOD BOX by MARY LOU QUINLAN Copyright © 2012 by Mary Lou Quinlan. Excerpted by permission of Greenleaf Book Group Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Posted April 27, 2012
This is a beautiful and wonderfully written book for any daughter or son, and for any mother. A portrait of an incredible woman's approach to life and the gifts she gave her family. It is still resonating with me several weeks after I first picked it up. Whether your relationship with your own mother has been close, loving, distant, fraught, or all those things this is a story that speaks to each of us.
Through the eyes of her mother, Mary Finlayson, Mary Lou relives the life of her family and shares her own responses to the treasures of the God Boxes her mother kept over the course of many years. She writes with candor and love and shares a powerful lesson of both living and letting go. Immediately I found myself looking at my mother in a different light as well as wondering how I could incorporate a similar life view for my own daughters.
From my own experience i know that using a 'god' box for worries large and small is a powerful tool--that i have not used nearly often enough. What a great reminder of the things that truly matter in a life.
If you haven't already, visit Mary Lou's website under the name of thegodboxproject and view the short film book trailer. The audio and film clips of Mary Finlayson are heartbreakingly poignant. Also interesting to note is that Mary Lou is devoting the profits of The God Box to local cancer and hospice care charities.
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Posted May 7, 2012
Although a wonderful and heartwarming story, I found it distracting to read this due to the fact that it was not formatted properly for the Nook! As ebooks go, it was expensive and short, and I think I missed a lot due to improper formatting. I would like to exchange the Nookbook for the actual book.
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Posted July 28, 2012
I thought what faith she had and to belived god would answer
Posted June 1, 2012
I received this as a Mother's Day gift and enjoyed what I was able to read, but the format/layout was such that each page had just a small section of writing in it, pictures were cut off and large bold type from another page would appear over the words on the page I was trying to read, making it impossible to read. I tried to resize the font and layout several times, but it didn't make it any better. I have never had this problem with any other ebook. The story itself, from what I was able to read, was inspirational - a nice idea I wish I would have thought of years ago.
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Posted May 15, 2012
Highly recommend this book. It may open your eyes and change your life.
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Posted May 6, 2012
What a wonderful story! While I think this book will resonate very well with anyone who has suffered a loss or is facing the loss of an important loved one, particularly a parent, or anyone who has a super close family or always wishes they had one, or anyone that believes in the power of prayer...this story resonated for me on a much more fundamental level. To me, it was a story about something we can all relate to - finding whatever way works for us to "let go". All the stress and worries and cares that we all have and can relate to on a daily basis, if we find a way to let them go, tucking them in whatever sort of "box" works for us, then, not only do we have the capacity to take better care of ourselves, but it unleashes so much more potential to take better care of others as well. Greater empathy for all the worries, known and unknown, of everyone we encounter, loved ones and strangers - what a gift to be able to unburden others in that way, and how easily it can be done.
It's a GREAT gift for a book. Definitely consider for Mother's Day. It's a quick read, but such a beautiful hardback. I bought it for myself and then immediately ordered a copy for my friend, a new mom, for her birthday.
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Coming October 4th: Snow Beast
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 27th, 2011
Coming to a DVD near you on October 4th, Snow Beast (2011)! Will you be viewing this film?
Snowbeast was a television movie made in 1977. It appears that Snow Beast (2011) is a variation on or slight re-make of that earlier film.
In the Snow Beast 2011 version, Jim (John Schneider, "Dukes of Hazzard") and his research team are noted to be studying the Canadian lynx every year. This year he has to take his rebelling 16-year-old daughter, Emmy (Danielle Chuchran, You're So Cupid!), with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team–with the help of a local ranger (Jason London, Dazed and Confused)–try to find out why, something stalks them: a predator no prey can escape. SunWorld Pictures (from Archstone Distribution) has slotted the PG-13 foray into killer Yeti territory for an October 4th release date.
The 2011 Snow Beast's director is Brian Brough, the scriptwriter is Brittany Wiscombe, and the main actors are John Schneider, Jason London and Danielle Chuchran.
The 1977 Snowbeast's lead actors were Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux and Robert Logan.
The teleplay was written by Joseph Stefano, who wrote the script for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 thriller Psycho. Stefano reportedly used a book by Roger Patterson (famed for his encounter with a Bigfoot in 1967) as his primary inspiration, though no credit is given.
Snowbeast was directed by Herb Wallerstein, a veteran of many television shows such as I Dream of Jeannie, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, and The Six Million Dollar Man.
The plot is straightforward enough. A ski resort in the Colorado Rockies has its annual winter carnival spoiled by a series of vacationers that are being brutally murdered by an unknown animal. The local sheriff (Clint Walker) believes that the culprit is a legendary creature, a ravenous white Yeti or Snowman. The owner of the ski resort says there is no such being because she doesn't want to lose her business. Either way, the creature must be stopped as it is continuing its attacks.
1977′s Snowbeast (Photo credit)
In the film's climax, the Yeti attacks Gar Seberg (Bo Svenson) who shoots it with a revolver. However, the Yeti survives the shots, and, out of ammunition, Gar picks up a ski pole and impales the beast, causing it to fall off a mountain, killing it. Gar and his wife, Ellen Seberg (Yvette Mimieux) embrace happily, while the rest of the group looks on.
Ah, just another Hollywood happy ending, except for the Yetis, I suppose, a la' 1970s' jumpsuit-style. I wonder how the 2011 Snow Beast will end?
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On my recent trip to the Midwest, I focused on three diverse attractions. The first attraction often overlooked by groups headed towards the nearby Ho-Chunk Casino and Wisconsin Dells to the north, or to the House on the Rock to the southwest, is the site of the one-time winter quarters of the storied Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Today, on the banks of the Baraboo River, the Circus World Museum preserves the history and traditions of the circus in America. The Museum, all buildings and exhibits are open annually from mid-April until late October, while live shows featuring a wide variety of circus performers are offered from the week before Memorial Day through the Labor Day weekend. I didn't make my visit until late November, when they Museum itself was open, but the staff was also kind enough to allow me to wander the grounds by myself on a cold but sunny day.
Within the complex are historic elephant, horse and animal barns, the Hippodrome (venue for the live performances), classic circus train cars, a carousel, sideshow facilities, and both the W.W Deppe Circus Wagon Pavilion and the C.P. Fox Wagon Restoration Center. The Museum building itself houses what is billed, in typical circus fashion, as "the largest collection of restored parade wagons, antique advertising posters and big top memorabilia in the world."
Here also is a theatre for regular showings of a circus movie, and displays that I found particularly interesting which tell the story of the Ringling Brothers themselves, as well as their extensive schedules of annual circus tours, performance and amusement innovations, plus the promotional efforts that they perfected. Groups with an interest in exploring a widespread form of public entertainment that was extremely popular before the days of movies, television and "virtual reality" are sure to enjoy their visits.
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Three snapshots of the Midwest
In East Troy, a preserved electic railroad gives visitors a passage into some of the area's hidden treasures.
A short drive from Lake Geneva, East Troy is a small southeast Wisconsin town that has a 100-year railroad history. In 1907, the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company brought the first electric railway through town, connecting the area to Milwaukee for freight and passenger shipping. Though rail is no longer the primary means of transportation, and much of the electric railroad in the area no longer exists, a stretch of electified rail extending from East Troy makes for great group excursions.
We began with a visit to the depot, which is now a museum detailing the history of the electric railroad. After a short introduction, our hosts helped us board a 1927 trolley car, restored to its original look and outfitted with vintage advertising. The car started on the ten mile journey, and our hosts told us more about their family history on the railroad as we passed through forests, corn fields and small villages along the way.
We stepped off at The Elegant Farmer, an orchard and bakery operation that sits right on the train tracks. This group of farmers has created an outlet store that sells area favorites such as Door County cherry products, cider-cured ham and traditional Wisconsin cheese curds. The Elegant Farmer's most famous product, though, is an apple pie baked in a brown paper bag. Owner Keith Schimdit walked my group through the store, and up to the production facility, where we saw workers kneading pie dough, coating carmel apples and preparing other fall products.
We had a great lunch at the Elegant Farmer, tasting a number of their products. The cider-cured ham was delicious, along with the bottle of fresh apple cider that came with lunch. A generous portion of fresh apple pie made the perfect end to a morning spent exploring these travel treasures of southeast Wisconsin.
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Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
After spending a day on Wisconsin's Geneva Lake (in the town of Lake Genvea), it's easy to understand what made this area such a popular getaway for wealthy Chicagoans of the 19th century. With crystal clear water and beautiful foliage on 20 miles of shoreline, this lake is one of the natural treasures of the Midwest.
Throughout the late 19th and eary 20th centuries, wealthy residents of Chicago bought land along the lake and built "summer cottages" of varying sizes. The most modest are the size of typical American homes; the most oppulent are extraordinary mansions that showcase brilliant architecture and uncommon wealth. Unlike most houses, these homes don't face the road, which can be a quarter mile or more away. Instead, they face out onto the water.
Today, private owners still use most of these mansions as their summer homes. Many of them take advantage of the mail boat service that began in 1916. Each morning in the summer, a private boat contracted by the Postal Service carries mail to the houses along the lakefront. The large boats pull up to each pier along the way, slowing down just enough for young "mail jumpers" to leap onto the dock, deliver the mail, retrieve outgoing pieces, and jump back onto the boat, clinging to its exterior railing. Since the boat never stops moving (for fear of colliding with the pier), the mail run is an impressive display of bravery and athleticism on the part of its delivery crew.
The mail boat has become such a beloved tradition in the area that it is among the most popular Lake Geneva activities for visitors. Groups can come aboard the mail boat for morning runs, where they'll get an up-close view of the impressive dock jumping, as well as great narration about the history of some of the magnificent homes that they pass along the way.
In October, official mail boat delivery has ended for the season, but the sightseeing cruises continue. The jumpers did a few demonstration deliviers so that the group of journalists I was traveling with could see how it worked. The bursts of excitement perfectly punctuated a day spent reveling in clear skies, sunshine and the splashes of autumn color in the trees around Geneva Lake.
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Return jump onto the side of the mail boat
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MIDDLEBURGH, N.Y. - The streets, once covered in mud were cleared Saturday, but flood recovery efforts continued for some residents affected by the previous day's downpour.
Middleburgh residents are trying to cope with damage from yet another flooding in the area, but the hardships for residents attempting to mend the damage have only just begun.
"Please help us," begged Bill Laraway, a town resident.
The community pulled together, cleaning up debris, filling in damaged driveways, and even cooking food for volunteers, but many residents still felt distraught at the damage left behind and cried out for help.
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Perry and Romney Seek Iowa Paper's Endorsement
Before The Des Moines Register editorial board, Rick Perry misstated the number of justices on the Supreme Court, and Mitt Romney hammered away at Newt Gingrich.
December 09, 2011, FridayJustices Rebuke a New Orleans Prosecutor
The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, accused of withholding evidence from a criminal defendant, endures incredulity and scorn from the Supreme Court.
November 9, 2011, WednesdayThe Supreme Court's Painful Season
The next few years of Supreme Court rulings could be brutal for liberals.
August 07, 2011, SundayCommon Sense and Sensibility
The Supreme Court's decision distinguishing between child and adult suspects is common sense. So why was the court divided?
June 29, 2011, WednesdaySotomayor Got $1.175 Million for Memoir, Forms Reveal
On financial disclosure forms, Justice Clarence Thomas also said his wife, Virginia, received "salary and benefits" from a conservative group she founded with ties to the Tea Party movement.
May 28, 2011, SaturdayKeep Courts Out of Climate Policy, G.O.P. Lawmakers Say
A petition from three Republican lawmakers is novel: all three lawmakers have expressed skepticism about the reality of human-caused global warming, yet in their brief they say that the political system, not the courts, should deal with the problem.
February 08, 2011, TuesdaySotomayor Reflects on First Years on Court
In her most candid and extensive public remarks since joining the Supreme Court in 2009, Justice Sonia Sotomayor answered questions at the University of Chicago Law School.
February 01, 2011, TuesdaySotomayor Guides Supreme Court's Liberal Wing
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has shown an alertness to the humanity of people in her cases, but don't call it empathy.
December 28, 2010, TuesdaySupreme Court to Review Arizona Campaign Finance Law
The court may find problematic a provision that provides candidates with matching funds based on the amounts spent by privately financed opponents and by independent groups.
November 30, 2010, TuesdaySonia Sotomayor's Last Laugh
The leaking of an unflattering letter about a justice-to-be who is used to surpassing the expectations of her doubters.
November 04, 2010, ThursdayThe Movie That Made a Supreme Court Justice
Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor told an audience on Sunday that "12 Angry Men," from 1957, persuaded her that she was on the right path in life.
October 18, 2010, MondayFirst Monday
The cases the Supreme Court has chosen for review suggest that it will continue its trend of championing corporations.
October 04, 2010, MondaySenate Confirms Kagan as Justice In Partisan Vote
WASHINGTON -- The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to a seat on the Supreme Court on Thursday, giving President Obama his second appointment to the court in a year and a victory over Republicans who sharply challenged her credentials and record. Ms. Kagan, who is set to be sworn in Saturday as the...
August 06, 2010, FridayA Labor Market Punishing to Mothers
Our economy exacts a terribly steep price for any time away from work, in both pay and promotions.
August 04, 2010, WednesdayVoting Behind Bars
In taking up the issue of voting rights for felons, the Supreme Court is forcing a public conversation about race on the Obama administration.
July 29, 2010, ThursdayCourt Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades
The court's center of gravity under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has edged to the right, based on an analysis of four sets of political science data.
July 25, 2010, SundayKnopf To Publish Sotomayor Memoir
Sonia Sotomayor, right, the Supreme Court justice, will write a memoir to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher announced Monday. The book does not yet have a publication date or a title, but it was described by Knopf as a ''coming-of-age memoir by an American daughter of Puerto Rican...
July 13, 2010, TuesdayConfirmation Is Likely, But Not G.O.P. Support
WASHINGTON -- There is only one question left in the debate over the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan: How many Republican votes will she get? Or, more precisely, will as many Republicans vote for Ms. Kagan as the nine who backed Justice Sonia Sotomayor? As her confirmation hearings...
July 02, 2010, FridaySupreme Court Upholds Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The ruling changes only the way members can be removed from an accounting oversight board created by the law, enacted in response to Enron and other corporate scandals.
June 28, 2010, MondaySupreme Court Runs Financial Gamut
WASHINGTON -- When President Obama announced he was nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court last year, he said ''an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live'' was a necessary trait for a justice. As it turns out, according to financial disclosures for 2009...
June 12, 2010, SaturdaySotomayor Making Good on a Commitment to a Scrappy College With a Family Tie
When Sonia Sotomayor agreed to deliver last year's commencement speech at Hostos Community College, the school was thrilled. Her mother, Celina, had graduated from the college's nursing program in 1973, and Ms. Sotomayor was an exemplary role model, having traversed an invisible canyon -- from a...
June 04, 2010, FridaySpeaking Up to Stay Silent
The Supreme Court ruled that suspects must speak up to invoke their right to remain silent. But, frustratingly so, the court left many questions unanswered.
June 02, 2010, WednesdayMere Silence Doesn't Invoke Miranda, Justices Say
Criminal suspects seeking to protect their right to remain silent must speak up, the Supreme Court ruled.
June 02, 2010, WednesdayJudging Women
If Elena Kagan is confirmed by the Senate, there will be three women on the Supreme Court for the first time. This is a measure of how far women have come. Two will be single and childless. This may be a measure of something else entirely. There certainly won't be a shortage of parents on the...
May 23, 2010, SundayHousing Project To Be Named For Sotomayor
Tenants of a public housing development in the Bronx have successfully lobbied to rename their buildings after one of their brightest homegrown stars. As of next month, Bronxdale Houses, in the Bruckner neighborhood, will be renamed in honor of the Supreme Court's Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who...
May 22, 2010, SaturdayThen Comes the Marriage Question
Legal experts and scholars weigh in on President Obama's Supreme Court pick.
May 16, 2010, SundayA New York Bloc on the Supreme Court
If Elena Kagan is confirmed, the court will have four justices from New York City, the most in its history.
May 12, 2010, WednesdayObama Weighs Supreme Court Nominees, and Each Potential Battle
White House officials and political activists are focusing on the vulnerabilities conservatives could exploit to portray Supreme Court nominees unfavorably.
April 17, 2010, SaturdayThe Rage Is Not About Health Care
THERE were times when last Sunday's great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC's ''This Week,'' a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe. A few hours later, the perennially...
March 28, 2010, SundayWith New Member, Supreme Court Takes New Look at Crime Lab Ruling
The justices are trying to assess what effect an earlier decision is having on criminal trials and whether it needs to be refined or rejected.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor is revising the role of the detached, cloistered Supreme Court judge as she tours the country with her new memoir, "My Beloved World."
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If Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will join some die-hard baseball fans.
Introducing Justice Sonia Sotomayor
President Obama hosted a reception at the White House Wednesday morning for newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (Video: msnbc.com)
Sonia Sotomayor Takes Judicial Oath
Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is the first Latina and third woman to take oath into the justice courts.
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CNBC video of President Obama's comments following the Senate confirmation vote of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
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