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The Music Makes You
Jamie Donafrio is an american art creator. His primary means of expression is his continued dive into music creation. Rarely do we highlight non-story based literature here at leafsalon, but we've had several requests for more hobby styled reading.
For us in New Zealand we don't have some of the musical luxuries Jamie shares in his book, but the primary message remains the same. Find what music you love, learn the basics of music engineering, and get to work. You can start by honing your skill at home.
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
A New Channel for The Arts
A new arts channel is launching on Sky on in 2004. According to Sky's press release, it will feature profiles on writers, as well as documentaries and programmes on music, the visual arts, dance, opera, theatre, design and literature.
The Arts Channel will screen on Sky's digital channel 59 from March 1, 2004. The first month is free but from April Fool's Day, it will cost $2.95 a week. On the board of the Arts Channel are David Ross, the co-founder of the Rialto Channel and the Rialto theatre chain; James Wallace, a businessman; and Lloyd Williams, a musician and manager of arts organisations.
A Special Reminder – Don't Forget World Book Day
Today World Book Day is being hosted in the UK and Ireland.
There will be an online festival featuring J K Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Hornby and Minette Walters among others, with a mixture of specially-commissioned films, online chats and discussion forums for readers of every age. If you are unable to take part today, due to our hefty time-difference, there will be access to the archive material at World Book Day.
World Book and Copyright Day was conceived by UNESCO in 1995, drawing inspiration from a Catalan tradition of street festivals and book fairs held on April 23. This is a symbolic date in world literature, marking the birth or death of writers such as William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, and Vladimir Nabokov.
A literary tradition such as this, on the auspicious date of 23 April, will be one for our calendar.
Still rosy for Pattrick
Jenny Pattrick's The Denniston Rose has returned to the top of the New Zealand Fiction for Adults chart, according to figures just released by Booksellers New Zealand. It's now spent a total of 21 weeks on the chart.
In second place is Ihimaera's Whanau II, with The Whale Rider close behind at #3. The Whale Rider has now spent an extraordinary 32 weeks on the chart.
Jenny Pattrick's sequel to The Denniston Rose, Heart Of Coal, is at #4. And the previous #1, Deborah Challinor's Blue Smoke, has dropped to #5.
The Non Fiction for Adults charts has a new face at #2: Way of the Jafa by Lee Baker and Benjamin Crellin. A Portrait of New Zealand by Warren Jacobs has reappeared at #7, and Jane Seabrook's Furry Logic has made a return visit at #9.
Michael King's Penguin History Of New Zealand is still at the top of the chart. David Slack's Bullshit, Backlash And Bleeding Hearts has slipped a place to #3 and Spiros Zavos' How To Watch A Game of Rugby is proving to be no flash in the pan at #10, a good start for new publisher AWA Press.
These figures cover the two weeks prior to 9 July 2004.
New awards for non-fiction
Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL) New Zealand, will provide two grants of $35,000 to writers of non-fiction books this year, funded by the revenue collected on behalf of authors and publishers. They are inviting proposals, planned or underway, to reach a selection committee by the 15 August.
Since the CLL Writers' Support Fund was established in 2002, awards have been granted to Sarah Quigley to write a biography of poet and patron, Charles Brasch, and Dr Paul Miller for his biography on literary scholar and cultural theorist, Bill Pearson.
The CLL is hoping to encourage all established non-fiction writers with interests beyond the literary, i.e. sciences, business, Maori and Pacific studies, the arts and beyond.
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 20 October. For a full application visit the CLL – Writers' Award or phone 09 480 2711.
Beyond punting
Wow, what a feast of literary lusciousness The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival, (aka Books and Beyond) has lined up for us this September. Hardly know where to start …
The festival (Monday 30 August to Sunday 5 September) has moved from its home at the Arts Centre; this year most events will be held at Rydges Hotel in the city centre, beside the Avon river and just along from all the bars and delectable eateries. There will also be events held at 'Our City', the historic Municipal Council Chambers.
First up, the Read Aloud schools programme, special library events and a series of workshops for aspiring writers and illustrators will be held from Monday 30 August to Thursday 2 September at the University of Canterbury's Ngaio Marsh Theatre. From the 3rd onwards, new director Reima Goldsmith has put together a serious lineup.
On Friday, for example, we have an hour with Claudia Orange and the Treaty of Waitangi; poetry for lunch with Glenn Colquhoun, Kevin Ireland, Michele Leggott et al poetry with your pie; and the evening's entertainment comes with 'a lively discussion to remember Michael King – with Geoff Walker, Gordon McLauchlan, Claudia Orange and John Tamihere.'
Saturday boasts 'a feast of women's fiction' with Fiona Farrell, Charlotte Randall, Catherine Chidgey, Jenny Pattrick and Joan London; also there's an hour with Lynne Truss, paramour de punctuation; essay writing with Glenn Colquhoun, Margaret Mahy, Vincent O'Sullivan and Lloyd Jones; and blimey, Keri Hulme, launching her short stories! Feeling quite faint but I suppose I should mention, for the thriller-hounds amongst you, that Frederick Forsyth is on that evening.
And Sunday, well, we have Vincent O'Sullivan with a formidable team of biographers; Maori writers with Keri Hulme, James George and Kelly Ana Morey; cartoonists Michael Leunig, (anyone else remember tar boy? used to make me laugh till I nearly threw up) Garrick Tremain, Tom Scott, Trace Hodgson; and there's a tribute to Janet Frame with Lawrence Jones and Owen Marshall and Cathy Downes.
This is just a taste of what's on offer, so check out the full listing at the Book Council websiteor for more information, contact Reima Goldsmith at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call the festival line on 03 358-0740.
Shelf life
If you have a peripatetic nature and a dislike of cardboard boxes, you need Books-to-go from UK design distributor Thorsten van Elten.
Books-to-go is a bookcase with a built-in clamp that locks precious volumes into place. Nice idea. It came to a young designer called Rose Cobb, who turned it into reality using plastic laminated birch plywood, stainless steel fittings and skateboard wheels. According to van Elten's web site, her brainwave is
A remedy for those who move home frequently, or those who live in open plan accommodation where the function of a room changes on a regular basis. With a few turns of the handle the books are clamped safely in the unit, which can then be wheeled to its destination.
Cobb developed the unit because
… it seemed odd that furniture becomes a hindrance when moving home. This deters people who move frequently from buying and enjoying their own furniture, which, for furniture designers, seemed like a missed opportunity.
Another bookworm-ish offering from van Elten is Sam Johnson's Light Reading.
This is a light that looks like a black book until it is switched on. The perspex 'book' then turns white, casts a soft glow over your
bookshelf, and reveals the words 'Light Reading' on its spine.
Van Elten is an agent and distributor for emergent UK designers, and his web site lists around 80 products. Although he's effectively a wholesaler, he will sell direct to the public via mail order.
Take the weather with you
This just in from the University of Otago Press: Under Flagstaff: An Anthology of Dunedin Poetry selected by Robin Law and Heather. The collection sounds great, with luminous inclusions from James K. Baxter, Ruth Dallas, Janet Frame, Cilla McQueen, JC Sturm and Hone Tuwhare, as well as some relative newcomers. The poems, interestingly, are ordered geographically, with 'poems spiralling outwards from the heart of the Octagon with its Robbie Burns statue, to pubs, student flats, the university, beaches, hill-tops, the harbour and beyond.'Murray, was launched last Friday. It's a collection that celebrates Dunedin in all its craggy, dour magnificence, with the landscape and other natural glories featuring strongly – 'especially the weather'…
The collection sounds great, with luminous inclusions from James K. Baxter, Ruth Dallas, Janet Frame, Cilla McQueen, JC Sturm and Hone Tuwhare, as well as some relative newcomers. The poems, interestingly, are ordered geographically, with 'poems spiralling outwards from the heart of the Octagon with its Robbie Burns statue, to pubs, student flats, the university, beaches, hill-tops, the harbour and beyond.'
Under Flagstaff should be in most bookshops by the end of next week. Further information from Amanda Smith, at firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 03-479 9094.
Hardcore prawn
The English Department at San Jose State University runs the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a competition that challenges writers to compose the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.
This year's winner comes from Dave Zobel, a Manhattan Beach software development director:
She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight … summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail.
So bad, it's good.
Man ahoy
English journo and bestselling author Tony Parsons is visiting Auckland and Wellington in two month's time.
In England, Parsons is a household name: he writes an acerbic column in the UK tabloid The Mirror, and was married to fellow journalist and author Julie Burchill.
Over here, Parsons is probably best known for his 1991 novel Man and Boy. In the 70s he wrote for the music paperNME, interviewing bands such as The Clash, the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. In the 80s he grew up and became a reporter for magazines such as GQ and Elle. And in the 90s he became a regular face on British TV, on shows such as the BBC's Late Review.
You can catch the great man at Whitcoulls' Auckland store on Queen Street on Monday 20 September from 6.30pm. He's got a new book to promote, The Family Way, a 'realistic, contemporary story about procreation and new life'. It's a free event, and you can get more information by phoning Teri on (09) 356 5442.
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Fifteen years behind bars under Rockefeller drug laws
This week, we're launching our Prison Time Media Project, exploring the legacy of the Rockefeller drug laws.
The controversial sentencing rules created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller 40 years ago sent tens of thousands of men and women to prison, with many serving 15 to 25 years behind bars.
George Prendes was one of those people.
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It's a Sunday night, and George Prendes is just getting home from work. He looks tired, like permanently tired. His wife Yvonne brings in a bowl of chicken and rice and fried plantains, and sets it on the table.
George is a big guy, heavy set and bald. He hangs up his suit coat and squeezes behind the dining room table. He works long hours as a telemarketer and selling low-end real estate, and is clearly exhausted: "It's just the drudgery…I mean at my age, I shouldn't be struggling like this."
George and Yvonne are first generation immigrants to the United States — he was born in Cuba, she's Puerto Rican. Like a lot of people in their neighborhood in the Bronx, they're struggling to make rent, to keep their oldest boy in college.
Yvonne says the thing holding her husband back isn't the sour economy.
It's the fifteen years George spent in some of New York's toughest maximum security prisons.
"His experience damaged a part of him, has hurt him. You know, wanting to recuperate the time lost. And you just can't do that…you can't get those fifteen years back."
At 59, George is part of a generation of men in America, most of them black and Hispanic, shaped by one very big change in the way we think about crime and punishment.
George says back then, he had no idea the laws were changing. He was a young guy living on New York's Upper West Side. What he cared about most were women and dancing.
"When I would get on the dance floor everybody would get off. Just to watch."
It was 1977. Disco was king. Every night George was making his entrance at clubs like Forbidden Fruit and Footsteps.
"Back then we were wearing seven and eight inch heels, and platforms. I had a huge afro. I mean a huge afro. Shirts that opened down to my belly button. Pink and blue and green and red and it was just beautiful!"
"The party was all around me, all the time. And everyone was doing cocaine...I met a lot of affluent people, I met doctors, lawyers, and everybody was doing it and to me that was a sign of affluence. So I did a little coke here and there."
The drug epidemic that the politicians were talking about – to George that was just life. It was people having fun.
One weekend that summer George drove up to Rochester, NY, with a girlfriend, for a dance contest. The party went on for three days.
"In her house there were two spiral staircases. And we started dancing at the height of the party, and I took her up and down the spiral staircases; everybody went crazy."
You get the sense that George Prendes would like to freeze his life at the top of that staircase. But this is when things started to go wrong.
When he got back to the city, a guy George knew from the clubs heard about his trip to Rochester, and he started pressuring George to help him put together a drug deal.
"I said 'Bro, that's too heavy for me. I don't want to get involved in that.' And he kept coming everyday, 'Come on man, we can make some good money with this, this is big money."
George was broke. He was about to be evicted from his apartment and didn't want to go back to living with his mom. The dealer said he could clear $5,000 in cash. So George said yes.
The next thing George knew, he was flying to Rochester with three other guys. One of them had a pound of cocaine taped under his clothes.
"I don't know, it just felt weird. It was almost like an out of body experience, I was in a weird place, doing something crazy."
The deal went down at a Holiday Inn. George says the buyer started acting strange, throwing wads of money at him, and then he pulled out a gun.
"And he says, 'POLICE! don't move!'" It was a sting. The Rochester police had set up the whole deal.
"They bust down the door and there's like twenty cops in the other room. They came in I remember the guy walked right up to me I was stunned. And the guy punched me right in the face."
The way George tells it, he couldn't make sense of what was happening. He came from a rough neighborhood, but he had never been arrested, never seen the inside of a jail cell.
"I would only get a few minutes to talk, so I would just call and say 'Oh, I'm okay, everything is fine, I'm up here you know I'm acting', and they would cut me off. You know the guards would cut you off. They only gave you a few minutes. So I told her 'Mom, it's curtain time! I gotta go back, my next performance.' And I kept telling her that for six months.
At first, George had no idea how much trouble he was in. A few years earlier, a drug possession charge like the one he was facing would have drawn probation or maybe a short prison sentence.
"I was twenty three years old. I was very naïve to the law I had never dealt with law. So I had no concept of what the consequences were. I remember hearing about the Rockefeller Drug laws when I was younger, but that didn't apply to me."
Robert King did understand the consequences. He would later go on to be Chancellor of New York State's University System and a prominent Republican politician, but in 1979, he was a young assistant district attorney in Rochester, assigned to prosecute George Prendes.
"The rules in regard to narcotics cases were very rigid, because there was so little discretion." King says people were scared by the drugs showing up on their streets. And he says, a pound of cocaine seemed like a lot in those days.
"I felt very comfortable, first with the conviction, the evidence in the case clearly supported his conviction. The sentencing rules were what they were, so it was kind of out of my hands, really."
George was sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years in prison, with no chance for parole.
The judge, Andrew Celli, was troubled by the case. Celli wrote later that George had a clean record before the bust. He called the punishment "too harsh." But none of that mattered. The Rockefeller laws had stripped judges of that kind of discretion.
The day the sentence was handed down, two marshals drove George from the courthouse to Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY.
"And I remember I had this mental thing happen, where I almost split into two people. And I saw myself, I stood in front of myself like I was my best friend. And I was giving myself advice. And I remember saying, 'I promise you, I promise you, we're going to get through this. We're going to survive this experience. This is not the end of us.'"
George learned he'd be doing time with some of the most dangerous criminals in America. He says on his first night in Attica, the guy wheeling a supply cart down his cell block was the serial killer who had terrified New York City just a couple years earlier.
"I was shocked when I turned around. My mind was completely blown. The guy that was handing out the supplies was David Berkowitz, son of Sam, handing me supplies. He's giving ME supplies!"
George says he watched the other inmates, picking up the tricks and customs that would keep him alive.
"There was an etiquette that people followed. If you sat at a table and you were going to turn around and talk to the guy behind you? You had to say to the guy in front of you excuse my back. You never reached over another man's tray while he was eating, 'cause they would kill you for that."
"Fifteen years is a funny thing. You do five you gotta do ten. You do ten you still got another five. So you break it up as best you can. And then when you do seven and a half, you're at the halfway point."
George got one shot at clemency. He had a stellar record as an inmate – no serious violations, no evidence that he would commit new crimes if released. So after seven years, Governor Mario Cuomo agreed to review George's case. George was convinced that he was going home.
But the answer, which came on Christmas day, was no.
"Oh my god I thought somebody had stabbed me in my heart. I'll never forget that and I went back to my cell, and I just went into a fetal position and I cried."
Those last seven years behind bars, George kept it together. He made some friends and took college classes. He taught himself to cook, using a hospital urinal as a makeshift frying pan.
He'd trade inmates a pack of cigarettes for a bottle of soy sauce, and create meals he says his friends thought were "unbelievable".
"I would tell them where do you guys want to go tonight? You know it was a form of entertainment. I would concoct, you know, you guys want to go to Chinatown, you want Chinese food?"
George was released in 1993.
On a gray, drizzly night, he drives the streets of his old neighborhood on the Upper West Side. All the old dance clubs are gone. George says nothing looks the same.
He has all kinds of stories about what it was like getting out. He says the music had changed. Everything was expensive. He had to remember how to cross the street.
One memory he cherishes actually happened a couple of months before he was released. He was on a prison work detail at Brighton Beach.
One of the guards cut him some slack, and let him go swimming in the ocean.
"I just ran into the water and dived in and when I came up I swam a little bit and when I came up he said, you look twenty years younger."
But life doesn't work like that. You can't wash off a decade and a half of hard time.
George stops in to see his sister Mercedes. She's fifty now, but was just a teenager when George went away.
George hugs her and puts his wool cap on her head. Crying, Mercedes says a sentence like the one George received "takes away not only from a person but from a family."
Mercedes says the Rockefeller laws wrecked her family. In those fifteen years, their mother put all her energy into writing petitions and organizing fundraisers and making long bus trips to visit George.
"It just really was like a bomb! It had profound effect. That you don't come back from. And it broke George…I am really angry sometimes, because I feel that George is still incarcerated."
George and his sister don't like to talk about his time in prison, or all the ways she thinks it still holds him back. But in a way, this conversation is happening all over the country.
A few years ago, New York and other states started reforming sentencing laws, eliminating some types and of mandatory minimums, giving judges more discretion.
Even some former prosecutors like Robert King say they have second thoughts now about the Rockefeller laws – and about their impact on people like George.
"I had a discussion with my kids the other day. I have a son who's thirty. He's a journalist and we were talking about this case, and he was enraged by the sentence. He said 'that's ridiculous.' And I think by today's standards…most people would look at this, and I think I would look at it, and say that sentence was disproportionate. And so by these standards I would say the fifteen years he spent in prison is probably disproportionate to what he did."
Under the Rockefeller laws, New York state's inmate population grew from 13,000 to more than 72,000. Many, like George, were low-level drug offenders, most were black or Hispanic.
King says he's still conflicted about the justice of the sentencing rules. But he thinks one thing is clear – the policy was too expensive and putting all those people behind bars just didn't work.
"Obviously the strategies we've been using in this country to discourage drug use and drug sale have not been terribly successful. Maybe it's a behavior that it doesn't matter how many laws you have, people are going to do what people do. But I think the intentions were good; whether or not they've achieved the results I'd say that they have not."
Questions like these – about justice, about his own choices and mistakes, weigh on George Prendes. His last stop tonight is his old apartment. He hasn't been back here since he went to prison.
"This was my little bachelor apartment where I lived – my very first apartment. It looks very different. I don't remember it looking like this."
He takes cover from the rain on the stoop. "As time goes and I'm getting older, there are things that I you know when I think back in hindsight, I tend to be a little upset about. The fact that I lost some very good years, and there's a lot of things that I could have done and didn't do. I mean I was 23 years old when I got arrested. I got out of prison when I was 37. That's a big chunk of my life."
George says people still pass him over for good jobs. He says it's just not fair that one mistake, one stupid move, still haunts him after so many decades.
"You try to be the best you can be; you try not to be bitter. You have to take life according to the way it comes. I get mad sometimes because I think I'm smarter than the situation I'm in and I think I should be in a better place. But life is not always like that and everything isn't always the way you want it to be."
In recent years, New York's inmate population has declined sharply – thanks in part to the Rockefeller reforms. Far more people like George are being sent for drug counseling, or job training, not for long prison sentences.
So far, state officials say that change in policy hasn't meant a resurgence in crime or drug use.
Support for the Prison Time Media Project is provided by the Prospect Hill Foundation, the David Rockefeller Fund, and the NY Council for the Humanities. Special assistance provided by the Adirondack Community Trust. Hear more from the series at prisontime.org.

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Walmart or not
Original post made by Regina on Aug 1, 2012
Are they putting in a Walmart grocery or not?
The one is San Ramon is due to open next month I hear.
Anyone know the status of the one here?
on Aug 1, 2012 at 8:07 am
Walmart has hit a few speed bumps recently -- charges of bribing political officials, mistreating employees, using rotten meat from its subcontractors, and using/abusing its child labor force in China. But pay no heed. They deal with this stuff all the time. With what they pay their workers, they can afford to! Smile, be happy. Those extra extra big sized bags of potato chips, frozen White Castles and jars of pickled eggs are coming to your neighborhood soon.
on Aug 1, 2012 at 8:44 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Nice try, Jim, with your old, conflated stories. Face it, you lost in your battle to further expand union control of local retailers. Move on.............
on Aug 1, 2012 at 8:59 am
Hmmmm, conflated? Can you help me out with that good buddy?


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During his time in Congress he has focused his ongoing listening tour on small businesses throughout Maryland's Third District. He has visited more than 100 businesses on the Main Streets of Maryland. Through these visits he has learned a tremendous amount about his District and the local economy and has applied this knowledge to the work he's doing in Congress.
One theme the Congressman heard over and over again from small business owners was that access to capital remains a challenge for them. He was troubled to hear that loan programs established at the Small Business Administration (SBA) were virtually inaccessible to local businesses in need. For example, the microloan program, which was designed to help mitigate the credit freeze by providing small loans to small businesses, had not gotten off the ground because no community-based micro lenders have been established in Central Maryland
In response, he pressed the SBA to find a lender for this area and they have now certified a non-profit micro lender to offer these loans products to small businesses in our region. He has been working with the SBA and the City of Baltimore to establish additional local non-profit lenders in our region to grow the micro lending program so these businesses have access to capital as intended.
Congress has approved the HIRE Act, a law giving businesses payroll tax relief for hiring new workers— immediately exempting businesses and other employers from paying the employer's share of the Social Security tax on newly-hired workers and offering an additional $1000 tax credit to employers that retain these new hires for at least 52 weeks.
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In response, I've written to SBA Administrator Karen Mills asking her to move quickly to establish lenders in our region to provide these businesses access to capital as intended under ARRA. My staff is working with SBA officials and local government officials in Baltimore to establish a non-profit intermediary to get this initiative back on track in Maryland.
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Food safety is at the heart of a crackdown by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on what it's calling unnecessary antibiotic use in livestock.
The FDA's goal is to help reduce the creation and spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that could infect livestock or humans.
Most antibiotics livestock producers use are to stop the spread of disease in their herds and flocks. However, some antibiotics farmers use as a growth-promoter, to get more meat from each animal or reduce the amount of feed needed.
It's that use of antibiotics as a growth-promoter the FDA is trying to curb.
Dubuque County hog and cattle farmer Wayne Demmer said he only uses antibiotics on his animals when one is sick.
"We always follow the label," he said Thursday on his farm. "We do it to the veterinarian's recommendations and...not any more than we have to. We try to, like always, we do not want to overuse."
He said he's aware other farmers use antibiotics as a growth-promoter and said banning that practice may have an impact on meat prices, since the cost of corn to feed the animals has been so high the last few years.
"If we want to regulate growth promotion, it's going to have to go up because if a farmer is going to feed more expensive feed and not get the efficiency-- I mean, and that's what growth-promoting has done. It's an efficiency," Demmer said.
Currently, many farmers can get antibiotics at their local feed store. However, the FDA's new plan would require a veterinarian's prescription to access the medicine, ensuring a farmer would only be using antibiotics when medically necessary for an animal.
Demmer said he believes if American farmers are going to be held to high standards, the meat should be labeled accordingly.
"If you go into a store, you know it's American-grown, American-raised by whatever rules and regulations the FDA's set," Demmer said. "We do not watch what comes in from other countries. A lot of these products have been taken away from us, still used in foreign countries in their crops and their livestock, and that comes back to this country."
Craig Recker is a Dubuque County cattle farmer, who said he hasn't seen widespread use of antibiotics as a growth promoter in some 20 years, though there are other, non-antibiotic growth promoters that are more commonly used. When it comes to antibiotic use, he said, cattle farmers these days are relying on preventative medicine, vaccinating the calves to avoid costly antibiotics later.
The FDA is working with animal pharmaceutical companies to take growth promotion and feed efficiency off the list of "medically important" reasons for antibiotic use. The drug manufacturers have three months to tell the FDA whether they'll make the recommended changes and then three years to make the changes. The FDA stresses the antibiotic plan is voluntary.
Strange formation at bottom of Utah irrigation pond baffles farmers and scientists. John Hollenhorst reports.


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Doris Hill
Doris Hill, 91, was taken from this life into the presence of her heavenly Father on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, at her home in Iola.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.
Burial will be at Kincaid Cemetery, Kincaid.
Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.
Donald Buckner
Donald L. Buckner, 80, Agency, Mo., died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 at Heartland Regional Medical Center.He was born May 12, 1934 to Glenn and Alice (Laderer) Buckner in Mound City. He married Meryldee Sparks on May 1, 1954. She survives of the home.Donald was an avid painter and... [More]
Kyle Swope
Kyle Christopher Swope, 23, Iola, died Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, at Allen County Regional Hospital. He was born Aug. 19, 1991, in Chanute, the son of Kevin Conrad and Janna Lee (Johnson) Swope.He graduated from Iola High School in 2010. Kyle worked as a yardman for S.E.K. Stockyards... [More]
Jean Capell
Marjorie Jean Capell, 89, Iola, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola.She was born Aug. 12, 1925, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of John R. and Ollie O. (Forward) Capell, Sr. She graduated from Wyandotte High School and Kansas City Kansas Junior... [More]
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Grain not so golden
Brian Specht has a pragmatic view of farming."It's either feast of famine," Specht said on a sweltering afternoon this week when he took a break while cutting corn northwest of Iola. Specht referred not only to crop yields but also prices that newly harvested... [More]
New facilities a boon for Chanute, former admin says
CHANUTE — It's been eight years since voters in Chanute approved a $42 million construction project to build new elementary and high schools for USD 413.Steve Parsons, Chanute's former superintendent of schools, remembers it well. Parsons now works in the central... [More]
Local band still going strong after 9 years
The mirrored walls gave the impression of more men on the stage than there actually were. Twin drums rolled out rhythms while doppelgangers mimed the guitarist's moves and the bass player's singing. On the floor, women danced to the music and watched some otherworldly... [More]
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Fillies tennis has first match of the season
CHANUTE — Iola High's girl's varsity tennis team had its first match of the season against Neodesha, Labette, Columbus and Chanute Thursday afternoon.No. 1 singles player Bobbi Sinclair lost to Neodesha's Emily Depew, 8-0, and Chanute's Abby Liudahl,... [More]
Red Devils lose 3-2 heartbreaker to Labette
Allen Community College's women's volleyball team lost for the first time in a heartbreaking five-set match to the Labette Community College Cardinals Wednesday. The match was also ACC's first league loss on the young season. The Red Devils are 1-1 overall... [More]


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The Command Design Pattern, Not Completely in Fashion
In particular, the notion of "Undo" was one of the major features in the command pattern's cap. Today, that is almost never the case. Sure, if you are building an application such as an editor. Something like Photoshop or a text editor would find the notion of commands with the ability to have an undo stack very compelling. Other than that, however, that is a very rare need.
In most business scenarios, there really is no good way to undo things. How would you implement SendEmailCommand.Undo(), for example? But even something like PlaceOrder.Undo() is a lot more complex and hard to do than you would think. The mere notion of undoing the operation assumes that this isn't going to have any side affects. But cancelling an order may result in cancellation fees, require you to ship back things you got back, end. It is not "Undoing PlaceOrder", rather that is a whole different and distinct business process, usually represented by another command: CancelOrder.
Another common issue that people have is the degeneration of the entire architecture to something like:
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This popped up in the mailing list, and I really dislike it. The notion of Composite Command. A command that can execute multiple commands. Now, from a programming point of view, I can easily see why you would want to do that. The PlaceOrderCommand operation is composed of a lot of smaller commands. But, and this is important, the notion of Composite Commands basically mean that you get the same thing as the PlaceOrderCommand, but you just lost the name. And naming is important. Almost as important, error handling is quite different between different business scenarios, and you sometimes end up with something like:
var placeOrderCommand = new CompositeCommand( new RegisterOrderCommand(), new ReserveStockCommand(), new ChargeCardCommand(), new ShipOrderCommand() ) { Sequential = true, StopOnError = true }
And this is simple, how do you handle an error in the ShipOrderCommand after you already charged the card, for example?
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How about a composite command where the class is called OrderCompletionCommand, which consists of different steps, depending upon the sales channel (web, mobile, business partner). The name isn't lost, but depending upon how the command is composed, it functions differently as a whole.
Btw, charging a card is typically a non-transactional command. So regardless of whether something fails after it, you need to handle cases where you get no response (a timeout for example), where your payment partner may have charged the card and you don't know. One solution is to first reserve the money, then complete the sale including a transaction commit on your side, and if that's successful, confirm the reservation with the payment partner to complete payment. That confirmation is retried multiple times if it fails, asynchronously, after the fact. If anything fails before your commit, or indeed your commit fails, you'll need compensation to free the reservation fairly quickly before the customer goes shopping and can't purchase anything coz their card is blocked.
So, cases where you use composite commands tend to be very complex and you need to design and test your error handling really well.


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There was a winter storm last week. You know how I know that? I checked my newsfeed on Facebook.
Some friends talked about the extent of the storm: "Wow! There's at least an inch of ice on everything."
Some friends tried to be helpful: "Be careful out there. It's really slick."
And some friends opted to just state the obvious: "It's snowing."
There was even one friend complaining about other friends talking about the storm on Facebook.
Regardless of how they did it, it seemed as if everyone was talking about the weather on Facebook.
When there's a gap in a conversation, most people will go to the weather to fill the silent air.
It's the most generic topic you can discuss with someone. It's the lowest common denominator of conversations.
The difference is there's no awkward dead air to fill when the conversation is happening online. It's not as if you have to say something or it's awkwardly silent.
Is empty space in our newsfeed the same as empty air in a conversation? All this made me wonder: Are we incapable of silence in any capacity?
The world is becoming so loud. So loud, in fact, that we make noise to muffle noise. We put on headphones connected to our iPod so as to not hear the sounds of the world around us. We use self-created sounds to avoid distractions and be able to focus on what we want. Regardless, noise is noise. Even if it's white noise.
Is this why we can't handle silence?
We have our radios in the car. Our TVs in the house. Our many consoles for video games. Our smartphones so we're never without YouTube.
Is this why we can't handle silence?
I don't know what caused the problem, but there's definitely a problem, even if I'm speaking for myself.
I went through a weekend retreat a few years back. There was a silence segment where no one was allowed to talk and all were asked to make as little noise as possible for the last few years before bed on the first evening.
The purpose, they told us, was to close our mouth and ears and open up our hearts and minds. At first it sounded like mumbo jumbo, but it turned out to be an educational evening. I found I don't do well in silence — and I wasn't alone. My fellow retreaters shared in my struggle with silence.
So is the problem getting worse as the world gets louder? Or does it just seem worse because it's now permeating Facebook?
I don't actually know. I'm just asking.
Heck, I don't even know what we did before Facebook.
But in the case of the weather, I'm pretty sure we just looked out a window.
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United Kingdom (England)
3.33/5 rDev -8.3%
Cask conditioned ABIA 2003: This time a cask conditioned Oatmeal stout. Quite sweet, caramel toffee flavours, balanced by some roastiness at the end. Soft, light and sweet, perhaps a little too sweet for my tastes, but not bad at all. I think this is my first cask-conditioned stout, and i can't belive i had it in Australia!!
06-04-2003 17:05:49 | More by rastaman
3.58/5 rDev -1.4%
Pitch black pour, good persistent tan head.
Big rich malty aroma, with lots of milk chocolate, vanilla and nutty notes. I think there's some cinnamon in there? Damn good anyway.
Roasted malt is big upon tasting, with hints of coffee and smoke.
Thick rich body, creamy carbonation is slightly too lively.
09-29-2009 10:27:06 | More by CrazyDavros
3.33/5 rDev -8.3%
Black, opaque when held to light. Produces a giant biege head with excellent retention, although little lacing. Smell of chocolate and coffee, but with a sweet confectionary smell that mars it somewhat. To taste, strong pleasant roasted malt of choc and coffee. Finishes bitter, a touch of burnt flavour. Good level of carbonation. Overall, quite a good stout, especially by Australian standards. I'll have this again.
11-08-2006 10:45:24 | More by norwichboy
2/5 rDev -44.9%
08-15-2012 02:56:23 | More by pin
3.58/5 rDev -1.4%
Black it is, alright. If I had a quill handy I could dip it in my glass and write the review.
On second thought, maybe Ill just drink it instead. A pretty thick tan head at the start of the pour leaves you with a thin skim with the die-hards clinging onto the sides of the glass. Smell is dry, roasted barley, bakers chocolate and alcohol. The taste is better than it smells. Earthy, a little sweet, chocolaty, but in my opinion its over-ran a little too much by the roasted barley. Id either back off that a bit or throw a couple handfuls of dextrose in to counterbalance the smokyness just a tad. Or exchange the roasted barley for a little more chocolate malt. Regardless, this is a big, bold beer that doesnt make apologies. You wont confuse this brew with Tooheys Old or Carlton Black anytime soon. This thing is a mouthful of flavours but still finishes clean. You wont drink a 6-pack of these in a night, but itd be a nice treat every now and then.
02-13-2006 21:40:53 | More by DaveFL1976
3.95/5 rDev +8.8%
Nice black liquid poured with a finger of tan head. Retention was average but lacing was good and lasted until the end.
The scent was very rich. Big chocolate and coffee notes with roast malt smell underneath. A very apetising smell.
Taste doesn't really match the smell for me. Had the burnt coffee and bitter chocolate flavours you'd expect but they weren't as intense as the smell suggests. Wasn't really sweet at all, and for me just a touch of sweetness would have really worked. A decent hops bite rounds things out and the roast flavours linger on when the other flavours fade out.
Nice and smooth mouthfeel though a little on the light side as far as how I like my stouts. Carbonation is good, definitely there but not in your face. Overall on the lighter side of carbonation which is what I want from a stout.
Definitely does the job. A very nice sipping beer and will probably be sipping quite a few of these during the winter months.
06-06-2009 10:47:50 | More by Stavage
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
Black as pitch and tastes like it too with creosote and tar aromas that extend into the flavour. There's a heap of bitterness like high cocoa chocolate and espresso. It's smokey and industrial with burnt roast beef all through it. I enjoyed hating it for its blokeyness but it would be a much better beer with a little more malty sweetness for balance. I think this is a beer that needs a good food match for optimal performance.
08-21-2008 22:22:07 | More by rjimlad
3.38/5 rDev -6.9%
This pours as black as you could hope with a good sized caramel head.
Nose of roasted malts - maybe a bit too much so. Also some milk chocolate notes.
There is a nice roasted element to the palate but I thought it was tainted with smoke. Any chance this could have happened when they were brewing the Dark? This ruined it for me.
Retasting Enjoyed it much more this time around. Choc and coffee coming through nicely.
02-09-2010 11:05:06 | More by Macca
4.25/5 rDev +17.1%
05-10-2013 08:24:45 | More by Mendicant
3.85/5 rDev +6.1%
Thanks to Dim for the opportunity to try this one.
Bottle poured into a DFH snifter produced a finger worth of coco colored head that when off to a thin lace. The body of the brew was a typical black stout color.
Aromas from the brew were what I expected typical roasted malts. Coffee and chocolate were right up front. It had a nice bitter coffee flavor with enough malt sweetness to keep it real drinkable. It was a tad light for me in the mouthfeel department but had good carbonation.
A easy to drink stout, it went down nice on this cold day. If I had another I would have drank that one too, so it is very sessionable. Thanks again Dan for the treat
01-31-2010 22:52:56 | More by joepais
3.58/5 rDev -1.4%
a) Pours a deep, dark garnet, which for all intents is black. Tan foamy head
s) Charry, oat flakes, malt syrup
f) Chocolate & toast. Soft roasted notes. Very, very subtle lacto/aceto tang giving some further interest.
m) Chewy, starting smooth anfd velvety, backing up with some subtle roasty harshness. Tingly tongue-tip
d) Approachable and warming
10-01-2008 05:56:57 | More by vancurly
3.88/5 rDev +6.9%
Pours in a lovely satin curve of brown black into the glass, promoting a frothy but large-bubbled head of tan foam. Very dark, but not opaque - there's flashes of deep red visible at the edges of the glass. Head retention is pretty good too. Looks very reasonable indeed.
Nice chocolate and dark grains on the nose, quite sweet and even a slight oaky vinous character too it. Something comfortingly earthy and organic to it. For some reason it puts me in mind of Bear Republic's Black Bear Stout, which is a fine recommendation.
Taste is very roasty, with a pronounced ashy charcoal character. Very little sweetness, which is a real shame - a nice dark chocolate note could have rounded out the palate beautifully. As it is, we're left with the earthy roasted characters, some residual oak and a very dry finish. Mouthfeel is round and light.
A very decent stout - very drinkable and with some very pleasant characters. Once again, 3 Ravens have impressed me not with their abilities or desires to push the boundaries, but with a very pleasant beer made very well.
06-26-2009 09:07:49 | More by lacqueredmouse
3.45/5 rDev -5%
Appearance - Black, 1 finger of head which reduced.
Smell - Sweet sherry odour, unusual for a stout but still pleasant.
Taste - It is hard to explain why, but this doesn't quite taste like a stout should. The malts don't seem very well balanced, and it could do with more hops to back up the sweet flavour.
Mouthfeel - Smooth with a good carbonation level.
Drinkability - Average for a stout.
Overall - I was looking forward to this after trying 3 Ravens brewery's excellent Bronze, but I was disappointed. Good, but could be much better.
05-16-2009 11:13:07 | More by Cs1987
3.8/5 rDev +4.7%
Moderate pour yields a massive four finger head. Balck n tan with coarse bubbles. Subsides slowly.
Aromas of roast malt, chocolate.
Taste is dark dark chocolate, roast malts, and some smoky elements. Quite sweet.
Mouthfeel is surprisingly highly carbonated. Medium bodied. Oddity in that up-front you are drinking Fizzy Beer, but the fizz eventually dies to a more smooth mouthfeel.
A surprising find. Tons of flavour, and not in a high ABV package. Better at start of bottle. Odd
04-20-2012 11:26:15 | More by heygeebee
4.19/5 rDev +15.4%
Bottle: standard 330mL brown bottle, stylish craft label.
Appearance: dark black with only the tiniest hints of brown highlights against the light. A big head jumps up, and settles to an impressive two-finger, rocky tan head. Looks good!
Aroma: as usual for stout, there isn't that much on the nose. Roast malts come through, the usual coffee and chocolate. A hint of spice over the top.
Taste: quite a sweet stout - almost tastes like a milk stout due to the smooth, creamy feel. Again plenty of roast malts with some earthy, herbal and spice flavours backing up. Very nice.
Aftertaste: doesn't linger as well as a stout should. Just means I need to drink more of it.
Mouth feel: medium in body, with a silky-smooth creamy quality that helps it glide down. This is a great stout.
Overall: a diamond in the rough, I would have to say. I was expecting something reasonably decent, but this is a really good-quality stout. Strong flavours, well rounded, and even the look and smell are a good dose better than your average stout. A very good stout. One of the better ones I have had, and I have had quite a few. Well worth it.
03-10-2013 05:26:37 | More by SmashPants
4.05/5 rDev +11.6%
Appearance - Opaque black body with big, beige head of average retention. Falls away quickly to leave a nice layer on top. Very nice looking stout.
Smell - Big chocolate and coffee in the nose with the characteristic oat contribution that ties it all together with a . Dominant coffee aromas behind which a subtle complexity of aromas hide. Extremely inviting... reminds me of my favorite Coffee-Oatmeal RIS (and that's a very good thing).
Taste - Excellent stout. Roasted/burnt coffee comes through with a distinct burnt cocoa bitterness. A slightly-too-strong smokiness is present which keeps the chocolate and coffee from being described as in any way sweet. Great complexity and depth for a 5.5ABV stout due no doubt to the blend of malts and the addition of oats.
Mouthfeel - Oats give this a silky mouthfeel with the ideal amount of carbonation for a stout (i.e. on the low side, not too fizzy). Slightly watery, and a little light on body.
Dinkability - I liked this beer a lot. Has many of the qualities that I love in a stout and, for the most part, in the right proportions. The main criticism would be that it has a tad too much burnt/smoky flavor from the roasted malts. However, it is a great stout for sipping on a cool day.
10-14-2007 03:54:27 | More by willjansen
3.35/5 rDev -7.7%
Massive fizzy head early; settles slowly over the next 5 minutes. Very dark brown in colour, almost black. Great bouquet of chocolate milk and roast; I can almost smell a grainy chocolate powder note if that makes any sense. Very complete and has very good depth. More chocolate in the mouth although the palate is quite tight and zingy. Quite unique structure for the style and tough to describe actually. Regardless a very drinkable interpretation of the black beer / porter style.
09-15-2011 09:39:56 | More by Stew41
3.95/5 rDev +8.8%
a: This was a very dark brown, almost opaque. It pours with a medium sized tan head that fades to moderate lace.
s: Pleasant aromas of dark, roasty chocolate with some cherry and something nutty in the backround.
t: Bitter, almost smoky chocolate roast is balanced by tart cherry flavors. The middle is sweeter, tasting of nutty milk chocolate. The very end bring some bitter char.
m: A little on the thin side with fizzy carbonation.
d: Pretty tasty stout I brought back, glad I got to try this one.
11-25-2009 10:47:49 | More by DIM
British Columbia (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev +3.3%
07-10-2013 11:31:59 | More by KalanM
3.88/5 rDev +6.9%
Black with a HUGE beige head that takes a good while to settle.
Big coffee and chocolate smell, somewhat roasty aromas are there too.
The smell continues into the taste with a bit of a bitter cocoa flavour at the back.
Quite a light mouthfeel for some full on flavours with some of that choc/coffee taste lingering.
My favourite aussie stout right now. Not a session beer by any means but now its finally starting to get cold I find myself enjoying this as a nightcap more & more.
I've finally reviewed this without any tainting but I've had this a few times before & recently had it as a Stout Float which seems to be popular at many brewpubs in the US. Highly recommended with the coffee or cinnamon from Fritz Geleato. Vanilla of course would also be good I think.
05-16-2007 10:54:04 | More by brendan13
3.63/5 rDev 0%
Dark, fairly opaque brown with a moderate, but short lasted, tan head.
Moderate roast and chocolate aroma. Slightly smoky. Not bad.
Smoky, earthy and chocolatey. A touch of coffee and roast come through. The smoke is too high though and doesn't fit in.
Medium body with moderately-high carbonation. A touch less carbonation would be great.
A decent beer but the smoky malt profile is out of whack for me.
04-08-2011 09:25:51 | More by dgilks
3.68/5 rDev +1.4%
Appearance - 4.0
Pours a massive head of dense, chocolate milk coloured head over an opaque black body. The large head is almost annoyingly long lasting, I had to wait several minutes to be able to get to the liquid!
Smell - 3.5
A lot of dark chocolate on the nose and a little roasted malt. It's a pleasant aroma, though very simple.
Taste - 3.5
Very complex malt profile, roasted bitterness and burnt flavour are there but balanced by substantial sweetness. Lots of dark chocolate flavour as well as caramel and a little fruity hop character.
Mouthfeel - 4.0
Carbonation is quite lively for a stout, lightening an otherwise full body.
Drinkability - 4.0
No session beer, but certainly something I would drink again.
Overall I'd say this is something between an American Stout and an Oatmeal Stout - a little hoppy, roasty, and malty sweet. Not a favourite style of mine, but a nice drop overall.
05-06-2010 12:15:13 | More by LittleCreature
3 Ravens Black from 3 Ravens Brewing
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Oceanfront condo with beautiful unobstructed views of the Atlantic, as condo occupies levels 2 and 3 of building. Townhouse floorplan with kitchen, living area, half bath, and w/d on main. Two BRs and 1 bath upstairs. Beds include 1 king, 2 twins, and queen-size sleeper sofa. Covered porch off living area with only dunes separating resident and ocean. Triple windows in Master BR open to ocean side for another beautiful view. Renovated kitchen and bath. Free parking. Boat parking subject to availability. Unit is in middle of a 10 building complex with easy access to both pools and two private walkovers to beach. This complex is conveniently located to I-95 and near St. Augustine, FL.
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Fully equipped kitchen. Full-size washer and dryer. Linens & towels included. Internet, phone, TVs, and DVD player. Two pools, heated seasonally. Basketball court, tennis, and shuffleboard are on the property. The beach is a very short walk from this unit! Publix Supermarkets are 10 minutes in either direction.
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Close-quarters combat, a woodland battle, or an urban-village scuffle. At Battlefield Airsoft, you might find yourself face-to-face with enemies on any of these inventive terrain options. During games, players fire soft plastic BBs to tag enemy opposition. It's similar to paintball, except it's less messy and doesn't require you to hold a BFA in abstract art to play. Players can engage scrimmages with their own gear or rent or buy airsoft equipment at the onsite shop.
BCFC Bounce Parties infuses birthday parties with fun with its collection of bouncy castles available for rent at home or in its own party center. Its inventory boasts all shapes and sizes, ranging from bounce houses suitable for use inside rooms or garages to huge backyard-filling castles. Aside from bounce rooms, its party center also features pony rides and a carnival teacup ride.
For more than 70 years, jewels used to fill the African mahogany cases lining Sapphire's walls. The dark wooden cabinets remain, although they now brim with more than 40 kinds of vodka, Tennessee and Kentucky whiskeys, and rums from Central and South America. Sapphire may no longer drape its customers in precious gemstones, but it does aim to preserve the sense of elegant refinement that characterized the historic building for decades.
This commitment is readily apparent in the menu of upscale southern cuisine, which includes Tennessee cheeses from Sweetwater Farms, bacon and ham from nearby Benton's, and seasonal produce from local farms. These ingredients appear throughout the selection of regionally inspired dishes. Some dishes, such as the Louisiana-crawfish-stuffed hushpuppies with cajun remoulade, assertively announce their southern roots, whereas others show a bit more restraint, such as beef-tenderloin medallions, which arrive with a simple southern succotash.
On Thursday through Saturday evenings, the elegant environment in the long, narrow room becomes livelier as the night progresses and DJs begin their sets. Upbeat rhythms echo off the high ceilings and the vintage mahogany woodwork while patrons enjoy one of the martinis that earned Sapphire a spot on Metro Pulse's Best of Knoxville 2012 list.
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Larry Gene and Betty McConnell O'Neal Woods will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary from 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Rushville American Legion, First and Morgan streets. They invite family and friends to help celebrate their special day. No gifts please.
They married Sept. 30, 1961 at First Baptist parsonage with Rev. Ray Crawl officiating and Jesse (Ike) and Mary Ellen Smith attendants.
They combined his three children, Sandy, Rick and David Lee with her two children, Donald and Debbie O'Neal and how have 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Sandra Woods Shores lives in Gainsville, Fl., has two sons, Kenneth and Michael Bronn and five grandchildren. Rick lives in Palm Harbor, Fl., and has one daughter, Krista Creney, and one grandson. David Lee (deceased) of Evansville had one son, David E. Woods, with two grandsons and one daughter, Heather Brown, with one grandson. Donald O'Neal lives in Indianapolis and has two daughters, Abby and Kelly. Debbie O'Neal of Rushville has four children with seven grandchildren. Debbie's children are Nikki Revercomb of Indianapolis, Amy Johnson of Rushville with two daughters, Matthew Groover of Richmond Hill, Ga., and Jamie Glandon of Rushville with five grandchildren.
Larry and Betty met and retired from Connersville Rex/Ford Electronics and now both enjoy driving cars for Rushville car dealers.
They are members of Main Street Christian Church of Rushville and have been at home on Spencer Street for 49 years.