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17Happy Belated Thanksgiving from LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, Too
Blah blah blah happy marriage blah blah blah creepy mustache blah blah blah Eddie Cibrian must really love Burt Reynolds:
The photo was captioned "Happy Thanksgiving from the Cibrian's", and naturally, I have to ask: Happy Thanksgiving from what, exactly, of the Cibrian's? Their turkey? Their dog? Their spurned exes? Because I know that if the Cibrians were wishing us a happy Thanksgiving from them, themselves, they would have specified otherwise.
November 23, 2012 at 9:30 am by Sarah
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Knowing Leann she probably has Eddie's last name trademarked or copyrighted.
If this was from the "Cibrian's" how come "EVEIE Blanket Cibrian" wasn't included in the photo with Leann and Eddie? She took a seperate photo of the dog in her bed talking about how the dog was taking over. She probably excluded the dog from the photo because Eddie was showing the dog more attention than her. How can anyone(aka The Dailyamil) look at this photo and tell people that it's a photo of a happy couple not having problems in their marriage? Wasn't Leann doing the head thing with Dean and the entire time she was cheating? Leann needs to stop surrounding herself with "yes" people. Why does Eddie look so OLD? How is it possible for him to age so quickly? It also looks like Eddie is saying "Help Me" or "I'm doing this because I have to, and not because I want to".
Leann made a special point to alert the paps of where and when to find her today. Maybe she will do the right thing and not hire her pap friends to get photos of her and Eddie holding hands while in a parking lot today. If Leann learned anything from rehab like she claims in her recent interview to the Portland Tribune, why is she still doing the very same destructive patterns that we witnessed last year?
I was thinking the same thing. He really looks like he's saying "Help!" with his eyes. Wow. Scary.
I think Eddie's creepy eyes say: "Watch out – closet pervert here".
"Blah blah blah happy marriage blah blah blah creepy mustache blah blah blah Eddie Cibrian must really love Burt Reynolds:"
It's Movember, asshole!
Looks like her dinner napkin is still around her neck.
Not everybody gives a shit about Movember, asshole!
You need to take your head out of your asshole. Is about prostate awarenes. What would you say if ppl slagged Breast cancer awareness month
Grammar. The lost art. It took me a minute to catch the error. Duh on my part.
Her: "Boom I got yo boyfriend! I got yo man!"
Him: "Help me!!!"
Being smothered is the WORST. I was involved with a smotherer, it was a nightmare. The jealousy, clingyness, questioning, constant texts & calls… Aaaaahhhh!!! Get a LIFE! (Other than MINE!) And this man prefers a long leash or none at all. He must be dying! Cut bait Eddie! It's not worth it!
Eddie needs to get himself and his children away from this disturbed, unstable woman. He'd be better off with very little money and a very humble home than trying to survive the LeAnn circus with two innocent kids in tow. "But she LOVES them!" Really? Say that after she & Eddie have one, and she doesn't need them to bind her to Eddie anymore. Then they'll just be Eddie's remaining tie to Brandi and competition with her own child. Not gonna be pretty!
LOLz @ that Burt pic. Gnarly facelift!!
The Burt Reynolds photo is going to give me nightmares. Oh my fucking God he looks like a latex doll.
Burt looks like a wax museum piece! Wow.
This is Leann's latest "Eddie isn't cheating because I am chained to his hip" tweet: "Just finished doing something EXTREMELY exciting with my husband. #funsecrets "
I'm guessing she forced People magazine to do an exclusive interview with her and Eddie to make up for putting Miranda and Blake on their cover, instead of Eddie and Leann.
For someone who is always whining about how mean people are on twitter and facebook, why did Leann make a post on a public forum saying something she had no business writing in the first place? She is telling her fans that she can't tell them the secret about what she and Eddie did just yet, so why mention it if she had no intention of telling them anyway? That's right. Leann's marriage to Eddie is over and Leann is doing some major damage control and spin. Poor Leann, she is still desperately trying to debunk Radaronline's story, which now consist of tweets giving Eddie an alibi and gushing over how Eddie is such a good husband because he washes dishes all the time. Right, the same Eddie who allows her to tweet and blog about his kids after trying to sue his ex-wife if the boys made cameos on her show washes dishes all the time? In order to wash dishes all the time, wouldn't Eddie remove his wedding ring and according to Leann, Eddie never takes off his wedding ring.
Leann is still trying to debunk Radaronline's story. This is her lastest "Eddie isn't cheating because I am chained to his hip" tweet: "We have decorated our two trees, cooked lunch together…. we're having the best quiet day at home. "
She already tweeted two days ago that she and her hubby had decorated their tree. Poor Leann, she has to give her hubby an alibi to cover up for his cheating. If they were having the best quiet day, why is she tweeting? So how many "happy family" photos will she post of her and Eddie standhing in front of the tree with Brandi's kids?
Why is Leann SO predictable? Just as predicted, she posted photos of the two trees that she, Eddie, and "their kids" decorated. Fluffpiece fromThe Dailymail in …3, 2, 1. Leann is also trying to create headlines for herself by once again using a dog. How desperate for attention is Leann when she has to use a dog and Brandi's kids to get headlines?
Now she is trying to convince everyone that Eddie is a good dad because he took his kids to the movies. Eddie took his kids to the movies WITHOUT Leann(she tweeted that Eddie took the kids, not that she and Eddie took the kids)? And he took his kids to the movies WITHOUT being papped? So Eddie knows exactly how to get around LA without being photographed by the paps, which explains why he hasn't been photographed with his other mistresses.
Leann just needs to admit that her marriage to Eddie is nothing more than a business deal. So now that Leann has pulled some strings and gotten Eddie a part in another movie that Tyler Perry is producing, Leann can now release all those staged photo-ops of her, Eddie, and "their kids" out and about LA. Eddie sells out his kids for roles in movies. It's funny that it takes an article from ROL to make Eddie get a job, even though it was a favor from one of Leann's BFFs!
Leann has finally succeeded in getting that staged "happy family" photo-op with Brandi's kids and Eddie. She called x17 today so that they could get photos of her and Eddie at the airport with his kids. What a great stepmother, right? She See, there is absolutely no way that Eddie is cheating on Leann because they are smiling at LAX as they prepare to go on a "family tour" vacation! The worse part of this is the fact that Leann had to make 3 tweets about how she and Eddie were at the airport with the kids. You know that Leann's marriage to Eddie is over when she thinks that a staged photo-op at an airport(while she is dressed up like a hooker)with Eddie and his kids will once and for all convince people that all is well in her marriage. And then Leann just can't figure out why she gets so much backlash.

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Vishawn Mills, 24, made her first appearance in Woodford Country court Monday.
Mills was believed to be living with Oakley Mitchell at a home in rural Secor in early August when authorities say Mitchell was shot and killed and his body was partially burned. He was then dismembered and his body parts dumped in the river.
Mills faces four felony charges, including two counts of first degree murder, concealment of a homicidal death and dismemberment of a human body.
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Following a seven-win showing a year ago, things were surely looking up for the WVU Tech women this season as they gained confidence weekly and compiled a 15-13 regular season record.
And the turnaround got even sweeter Sunday when the No. 2 Golden Bears trimmed No. 1 seed Robert Morris (Ill.) College 74-71 to capture the championship of the Association of Independent Institutions and secure the accompanying automatic berth in the NAIA Division I National Tournament at the Frankfort (Ky.) Convention Center March 13-19.
The Tech women's program last advanced to the NAIA tournament in the 2006-07 season after coach Reggie Carrick's squad won the Mid-South Conference's automatic bid by capturing the postseason tournament.
"All the credit to Robert Morris," said winning coach Jenna Everhart. "They have a great team and a great staff.
"Beating them is a great achievement for us."
Tech sophomore guard Nia Nolan, named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, said her team felt like it had something to prove yesterday.
"We were the underdogs," said Nolan, who scored 14 points and passed out five assists Sunday. "They took us lightly. They didn't even come and scout us until the end of our game (Saturday).
"I want to cry, I want to jump, I'm just so happy."
Senior Amy Gardner buried a long 3-point goal from the right wing to hand the Bears a 73-68 margin with 38.8 seconds to go, then Robert Morris got a deuce off a drive by Celeste Jones to pull to within 73-70 with 30 seconds remaining. After a Tech turnover, the Eagles got a foul shot from Ashley Segers to creep to within two, 73-71, but the Eagles then missed a chance to tie on a putback with 10 seconds left.
That's when Tech reserve Dee Hawkins stepped in and made 1 of 2 free throws to put Tech up 74-71. Robert Morris missed a shot at the buzzer and Tech walked away with the win.
"This is unreal," said Tech senior Amber Tully, who scored 18 points on the strength of 5-of-11 shooting from beyond the arc, with three of the treys occurring in the game's final 12:57 as the Bears maintained control. "I can't breathe." She credited "our intensity" as the key to victory. "I think we wanted it more."
With Tech up 60-56, Tully buried a 3-pointer and Tracee Mitchel got a free throw and a deuce in the lane to push the margin to 66-56 with 6:01 left. Robert Morris later whittled the deficit to one, 66-65, on a deuce by Mary Colon on an inbound play.
The 3-point shooting in the game's latter stages was preceded by Nolan and senior Courtney Sturdivant helping the Bears crank up their transition game, which, in turn, opened up the outside for the shooters.
"Tonight I was more of a scoring threat and that made things more open (on the wings)," said Nolan.
"We're not one-dimensional," said Everhart. On a good night, the outside game, the transition game and play on the interior come together and makes Tech "difficult to guard," the coach said.
Former Westside standout Cheyanna Lusk, one of Tech's top reserves as a freshman, scored four points and grabbed seven rebounds to help the winning cause.
"Tonight we all wanted it so bad," said Lusk, an integral part of Westside's 2012 state championship team. "We left it all out on the floor."
Lusk made both ends of a one-and-one situation with 1:22 to play to give Tech some breathing room at 70-65.
"It was too close for my liking," said a relieved Gardner, who missed her first six 3-pointers before making the crucial one in the closing seconds. "Last year, we didn't pull (games) out in the end; this year we can do that."
Sturdivant, the A.I.I. women's player of the year, led her team with 21 points and six assists, despite having to miss stretches of time due to back spasms.
Jones scored 15 and Uniqua Hampton 14 for Robert Morris (19-13).
Tech used a 9-0 spurt in the closing stages of the first half to move into a 37-25 lead, and the margin ballooned to 40-26 on a Sturdivant free throw with 1:03 left.
"It was two good teams playing each other," said RM coach John Natanek. "West Virginia Tech built an early lead and we got ourselves in a hole." He said the home-court advantage may have given Tech "a little extra" and pushed them over the edge.
The all-tournament team consisted of Tully, Yolanda De La Torre of Robert Morris, Arielle McPhee of Allen University, Sarah Jackson of Cal State-San Marcos, Tykeria Green of Morris College and Kierra Patterson of Voorhees.
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WVU Tech (17-13)
Nia Nolan 5-8 2-3 14, Amber Tully 5-17 3-4 18, Courtney Sturdivant 8-15 4-5 21, Amy Gardner 1-10 0-0 3, Roche Wimberly 1-5 0-0 2, Dee Hawkins 0-0 1-2 1, Cheyanna Lusk 1-4 2-2 4, Tracee Mitchel 2-2 3-4 7, Mashya White 2-3 0-0 4. Totals: 25-64 15-20 74.
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3-point goals — WVT: 9-24 (Nolan 2-3, Tully 5-11, Sturdivant 1-2, Gardner 1-7, Lusk 0-1) RM: 6-25 (Jones 1-9, Segers 0-1, Collins 0-1, Hampton 2-4, Cole 0-2, Sparrey 1-2, Colon 2-4, Reed 0-2). Fouled out — WVT: None. RM: None.


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1:00pm Wednesday 22nd January 2014 in Sport By Steve Carley
THE departure of Alan Richardson from Worcestershire should have the alarm bells ringing at New Road.
For without the star bowler, who has joined Warwickshire as a bowling coach, next season looks like being a struggle.
That's not being negative, just realistic. The County have relied heavily, perhaps almost exclusively, on Richardson's wickets. He took 254 wickets in four years, first helping to keep them in LV= County Championship Division One and, more recently, stay competitive in Division Two.
It is a huge void to fill, but the club, with what little money they have, must try.
Saying such situations give the young seamers chance to flourish is all well and good but all that does is further heap pressure on potentially fragile shoulders.
Unless they are world-beaters - and if they were, they would be playing for higher-ranked counties and possibly England - they are going to need help at some point.
It should also be pointed out that at 25 and 24 respectively, Jack Shantry and Chris Russell are not youngsters, they are at the age most players are firmly established.
They have already had opportunities, with mixed success, but in Richardson both, not to mention Charlie Morris and Nick Harrison, had someone to look to for inspiration and guidance on the pitch.
Now they don't have anyone of that stature. Gareth Andrew is 30 but doesn't have Richardson's experience, while Graeme Cessford, also 30, is a novice in county cricket terms. Bowling coach Matt Mason is going to have to earn his corn.
Who is going to spearhead the bowling attack in 2014? Who is going to pick up the mantle?
All questions that need answers.
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Not only that but the management have been able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory too many times ..... nothing surprises me now.
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However I expect there will be the same old excuses from New Road, flooding and lack of money.
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- The Library of Congress is open to you. It's very big and has a lot, but you have to go there to use materials-- Library of Congress basic facts.
- You can read [not borrow] books from academic libraries in the DC area, including Howard University, American University, Georgetown University and George Washington University.
- To find books in these and other DC libraries, use Melvyl. How-to video
Find eBooks
Since you are away from your library, electronic books become even more convenient for your research. All campuses purchase ebooks, and there are various ways you can find them, but these differ by campus.
A basic approach is to use your library's catalog. Limit your search results to online resources-- this usually requires an advanced search. Here's an example, using the Santa Barbara catalog [quick video]
You can also use Melvyl and limit the results to your own campus.
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No one meeting Charlie Weasley for the first time could doubt that his profession is not without its risks. Both his forearms and his hands are seared with the shiny telltale patches where he has been burnt by his ferocious charges. He is not a tall man, but strong and athletically built as befits the physical demands of his profession. He offers a calloused hand in greeting when we meet at The Leaky Cauldron, a broad smile spreads across his face, and his red hair falls in vivid strands across his freckled forehead. Though now considered one of the world's leading experts in the study of dragons, his life may well have taken a quite different turn.
Charlie: Yes, it is true. I did at one point consider a professional career in Quidditch after I graduated from Hogwarts.
(Charlie was the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain while attending Hogwarts and was considered, alongside his brother-in-law, Harry Potter, as one of the most brilliant players in the school's history. Before the birth of Charlie's nephew, James, his sister, Ginny, played for the Holyhead Harpies.)
But then, a sportsman's career is such a short one and can be cut even shorter by the ever-present possibility of injury…
He grins even more broadly in anticipation of my next question.
Esmeralda: So the study of dragons seemed a safer option?
Charlie: Safer, well, what do you think? But it is a career for life. I was never the scholar as was my elder brother Bill. However, the one subject I excelled in was Care of Magical Creatures. With no disrespect intended to Professor Kettleburn (who taught that subject when I was at school), my real inspiration was the then gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid. It wasn't just his knowledge of creatures that so impressed me, but rather the deep respect he had for all living things, even giant spiders! But above all, Hagrid loved dragons. Of course, we didn't have any at Hogwarts, but I think some of his fascination for them must have rubbed off on me. As a part of our N.E.W.T studies we would often accompany him on his rounds through the Forbidden Forest; and it was then he would tell me all he knew and his longing to have one for a pet…
Esmeralda: But surely you have never shared Hagrid's desire for a pet dragon?
Charlie: Merlin's beard, no! I wouldn't like to think how my mother would react if I'd brought one home to The Burrow. Worse than anything the twins ever did and that's saying something.
Charlie pauses for a moment and his face clouds over in memory of his brother Fred, who was killed fighting valiantly alongside the rest of his family in the last war against the Dark Lord.
I know Hagrid has often been ridiculed for his sentimental attitudes to such creatures and we do differ in that respect. Make no mistake, a dragon is no hippogriff! A hippogriff can also be dangerous but with patience you can earn his trust. No amount of kindness or coddling with teddy bears can placate a dragon.
Charlie laughs as he tells me of his youngest brother's account of the time when Hagrid attempted to raise a baby dragon.
When Hagrid presented a teddy to his beloved Norbert – Norberta as it turned out – the baby dragon promptly ripped his head off!1 They are wild and dangerous animals and anyone working in the field is wise to remember it.
Esmeralda: And the consequences should they not heed this…?
Charlie: Fatal, obviously! But just because they are dangerous does not mean they have no right to exist. It is now more critical than ever that we do everything in our power to ensure the preservation of those species that have graced our legends and stories for centuries. It would be a tragedy if one day we must look into the disappointed faces of our children and tell them that these fabulous beasts no longer walk the earth.
Esmeralda: Speaking of legends, Romania, where you are based, or more precisely the Carpathian Mountains, are well known for other legendary beings.
Charlie: You mean vampires? Well, they know better than to mess with us. But they do give the Muggle tourists a hard time. A few wits among them fancy themselves as being in the entertainment industry – "giving the tourists their money's worth" as they put it. They find it amusing to hint at their presence in subtle ways so the poor tourists come to doubt their own senses. It is rare they will do any real harm though. Like us, they really don't wish to risk exposure.
Esmeralda: And as for romance, has any fetching young Romanian caught your eye? (Charlie grimaces slightly) I'm sorry, I had to ask, but an attractive and celebrated man such as yourself is bound to have a contingent of female admirers among our readership.
Charlie: (a little embarrassed) Well, I don't know about that. My brother, Bill, was always the one who had the girls around him – before he was married, I hasten to add. As to romancing a vampire, I have to say I'd prefer someone a bit more down to earth.
Esmeralda: It wasn't the allure of the vampires, I was thinking of…
Charlie: I know. Avoiding the question. Something my mother often complains about. She'd love to see me settle down. But the truth is dracologists work in such remote places and there aren't too many witches in our profession. Perhaps one day, who knows? But right now my focus is elsewhere.
Esmeralda: Yes, as I understand you have returned briefly to England before taking an extended trip to Australia.
Charlie: Yes, it's all very exciting. Only recently an Australian colleague of mine discovered the fossilized remains of a species of dragon thought only to have existed in myth – draco marsupialia, the marsupial dragon. But even more exciting is the possibility that living ones may still be found in the rugged mountain terrain of Tasmania. From the earliest days of colonization there had been reported sightings but no one took them seriously. However, now we know that they really did exist once, who can tell? In fact, the legends of the indigenous wizards have long had it that they are the cause of the numerous bushfires in that part of the country.
Esmeralda: A marsupial dragon ... how can an egg laying reptile be marsupial?
Charlie: It does seem odd, but then we all know Australia's creatures are somewhat odd – even the so-called "Muggle" ones. It would seem that, like any other dragon, the babies hatch from eggs. And after the mother has laid her eggs she then places them in her pouch to incubate. The babies when they hatch are far less developed than is normal and so the mother carries them around in her pouch for up to six months.
Esmeralda: Seems like a rather dangerous prospect for the mother. What if one of them were to breathe fire from within the pouch?
Charlie: (grinning) The poor mother would have one hell of a hole in her pocket! But seriously, it is believed that while the young are in the pouch they are too underdeveloped to breathe fire, though they may smoke a bit. As yet, so little is understood about them that really it is too early to speculate much. First, we must find out whether or not they have become extinct. And if they are still living it will take a number of years of careful field study before we can fully understand their life cycle.
Esmeralda: So am I to understand you will be in Australia for a long time?
Charlie: A few months, perhaps. My Australian colleagues will carry out the longer field studies. Most are more generally trained in the study of magical creatures rather than specifically in dracology. Until this recent finding there was not much call for it. I'm going out there in an advisory capacity, to head up the initial research.
Esmeralda: And should you find one, what will you name it? I know you all name your dragons just for identification purposes at least.
Charlie: Why "Rubeus," of course, if it's a boy. And if it's a girl - then maybe "Rubia." For Hagrid, having a rare species of dragon named after him would no doubt be the next best thing to having one as a pet.
Esmeralda: And a good deal safer. Thank you Charlie, and I wish you all the best in your search.
Esmeralda Marchbanks
Figure 1: Artist's impression of draco marsupialia
1. Rowling, Philosopher's Stone, 175.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997.
———. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
———. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.
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At Northeastern, many students have or are already implementing innovative business ideas. But as almost every young venture will eventually find out, there comes a point when the only way to keep moving forward is with some sort of investment. Many will ask, 'How, and when, should I approach investors?' or 'What makes a startup investment ready?' These questions and more were all addressed at IDEA's first biannual Investment Forum.
The forum, dubbed IIF, featured a panel of experienced investors, including David Verrill, Hub Investment Group; Jeffrey Beir, Between Novels; Jo Tango, Kepha Partners; Bill McCullen, LaunchCapital, LLC; and Marcia Hooper, HooperLewis, LLC.
With over 150 students, faculty and others in attendance, moderators Ashkan Afkhami, IDEA Founder, and Genna Scisci, IDEA Communications Officer, opened the floor by asking the panel how an entrepreneur should approach investors.
Bill McCullen's advice: get a warm introduction and have your pitch down. He told the crowd of entrepreneurs to put themselves out there, go to networking events and meet people. The entrepreneurial community – especially Boston's – is a vibrant and welcoming one. Chances are if you meet enough people and pitch them your idea, you'll stumble across the perfect investor-match for you, or at least someone who can put you in touch with the right people. Remember: investors want to help you.
While it is necessary to network and meet the people who are involved in the entrepreneurial community, this is not the only step needed to get the first meeting. Marcia Hooper told the crowd of entrepreneurs they must "do their homework" – research nearby investment firms to find a good fit for a startup. If you are a social entrepreneur, don't go to a high-tech investment firm! Find someone who knows your business and wants to spend time with you on it.
When you land your first meeting, investors will be straightforward. According to Jo Tango, if they're not planning on investing, they won't waste your time. He also provided some insight to what goes on in an investor's head when meeting with an entrepreneur. "Is this someone who listens? Follows up? Takes suggestions?" He looks for entrepreneurs who not only have a great idea and lots of passion, but are ready and willing to learn from others along the way.
When looking for the right investor, it's important to be open, as Tango said. It's also vital that an entrepreneur finds someone who's not just willing to give money, but is willing to give time. "You want an active investor," Marcia Hooper told the crowd. "Someone who helps you recognize good and bad opportunities, and guides you along the way." An entrepreneur and his investor are going to spend a lot of time together, so it's essential that that there is chemistry. All panelists agreed: the entrepreneur-investor relationship is a huge factor in whether or not a startup will be a success.
After an hour and a half of questions from the attendees and discussions between the crowd and panel, one thing, among many, was clear: the key to any successful startup is passion – complete and total belief in the venture being pursued. Tango puts it quite simply: "Entrepreneurs see the world differently. It's a gift – you either have it or you don't. And you find out fairly quickly if you have it."
About IIF
The IDEA Investment Forum, held biannually during the fall and spring semesters, is an opportunity for students to receive valuable feedback on early stage venture funding from a panel of experienced investors. Student moderators lead the discussion, asking the panelists a variety of questions. Through this discussion, the panel provides the audience with useful and candid information to help them determine steps they need to take to move a venture forward.
IDEA's mission is to help ventures become sustainable and investment-ready. The IDEA Investment Forum's goal is to introduce emerging entrepreneurs and their ventures to angels and venture capital firms. The next will be held in spring 2011.


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The purpose of the trip is to promote Quad City projects as well as to gain more funding.
Last month the chamber led a trip to Des Moines to talk with legislators about the federal sequester.
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3 ints so far, looks awful, guy killed his draft stock this year. System QB, reminds me of a Clausen, that might be a bit extreme.
Not a good QB class.
3 ints so far, looks awful, guy killed his draft stock this year. System QB, reminds me of a Clausen, that might be a bit extreme.
Not a good QB class.
He is garbage, I have been saying from the beginning he is trash over on the Bills site forum and everyone would always bash me for it, wonder if they still will be all over Barkley's jock
I don't think he's a system QB.
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He'll be and interesting prospect this spring. The production is insane, and he is coached up well. I still like him though. It'll be interesting to see how he plays against ND in two weeks. It would be great staple win for him (if ND is still undefeated).
He sucks
i wish johnny football manziel was the next bills qb
I heard USC deflated the balls because he has small hands like Fitzy.
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I'd suffer with him at QB.
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He will put on an amazing show at the combine or his pro day.
Some team will make him a top 3 pick no matter what he does the rest of the year.
I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.
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Actual Bills Record 6-10
Prognostication Record 7-9
You know what really sucks? We're now approaching a level of sustained craptitude not seen in the NFL since the pre-Plumber Cardinals or pre-Sanders Lions. Yeah... being a Bills fan really sucks right now.
I'm still waiting for the inevitable recruiting scandal to hit them again
Tim Couch 2.0. Just say no to Barkley
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2013 College of Business Management Undergraduate Honoree Jared Funkhouser
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The College of Business congratulates and extends best wishes to each of the ten undergraduate honorees of the graduating Class of 2013.
Each year the department's top performers are selected by the college's academic departments from its graduating seniors.
2013 College of Business Management Undergraduate Honoree
Jared Funkhouser
Jared Funkhouser didn't plan to go to college at all.
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, he graduated from high school and felt he'd taken all the flack he needed to for being one of the bright kids. But after Jared moved to California, a friend of his took sign language courses at a community college, and that sounded like fun.
That initial discovery led Jared from classes in art history, to business and an associate's degree.
When he arrived at San Francisco State, the management concentration appealed to him because of its focus on leadership. That turned out to be a great fit, as several of his professors remember watching Jared lead project teams with quiet strength, and noted that he was one of the top academic performers in their classes.
Several years of working in the hospitality industry led him to his current position as a manager in an upscale pub he describes as a "beer geek's paradise."
Describing his work, Jared says he discovered that he is "a fixer." When there's an issue at work, he says, "I always like to identify the underlying problem and fix it, instead of just bashing away at it."
Now that an MBA program is in his future, Jared describes his management philosophy in simple terms. "I want to learn how to turn a business idea into something that works for everyone involved."
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The Chadwick offers Studio, one and two bedroom apartments with A/C, ceiling fan, spacious closets, fully equipped kitchen, dishwasher and private patio/balcony. Our pet friendly community provides a fitness center, pool and spa and onsite laundry facilities. We are minutes away from many shopping and dining options, as well as nearby parks and schools. Easy access to the 101 freeway.
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Walkout Luxury 2BR/BA Lakefront Condo: $79/n in Branson
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
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- pets allowed yes
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- community Emerald Pointe
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You've found the perfect place, at Branson Vacation Rentals!
Luxurious 2 bedrooms and baths with amazing views on the shore of Table Rock Lake!
What an amazing condo! You'll never forget this amazing sunset view!! Walkout to the lake, over to the marina where your boat is or to rent a boat or a jetski. Walk out to the back patio to lounge in the hammock with a great book or sit by the firepit with a special someone. Walk out front to the heated 3 season pool and relax. Everything you need is right here!
Everyone has their own private space with a bathroom for each bedroom. Play games or watch a dvd in the open living room with sleeper sofa. Amazing 180 degree lake views from walls of windows in the living room, dining room and kitchen. To get even closer to nature, sit in the covered outdoor patio to feel the breezes and listen to the waves lapping the shore. Contemporary modern decor and original artwork make this a one of a kind stay.
Comfortable bedrooms for all:
This 2 BR/BA lakefront condo can sleep up to 6+. Guests rave about our pillowtop mattresses and soft high thread count linens! Many even ask where they can buy their own just like it! A TV for each bedroom, of course, as well as a dresser and closet. Each condo has one master suite with a king bed and one queen master suite. The living areas have a queen sofa sleeper. One pack n play per condo is also available for little ones.
Fully equipped kitchens:
Cooking a meal from scratch with your fresh catch will be a treat with the fantastic lake views and luxurious stainless appliances and granite counters. Even better, use the grill on the walk out patio. We've provided everything you need, even table service and food storage for leftovers! Each kitchen has full size appliances and is fully equipped with all the small appliances and tools you need for any meal, such as: toaster, coffee maker, crock pot and more. The elegant dining area is sided on two sides by large windows with views of the lake and open to the kitchen and living room on the others. There is more seating at the breakfast bar at the granite counter with several stools and a table in the outdoor area as well.
Luxury bathrooms:
Granite and tile surround you in the spacious bathroom, the perfect place to start and end your day. There are 2 bathrooms, one attached to each private bedroom. The king master bedroom has a double whirlpool tub and walk in shower. The queen bedroom has a tub/shower combo bathroom.
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Great Gathering Spaces indoors and out:
The comfortable open living area has ample seating and TV. It is open to the kitchen and dining room so everyone is a part of the conversation. There is table seating in the elegant main dining rooms and also additional table seating in the outdoor patio. The ceiling fan over the outdoor table keeps the breezes coming. When you're ready to stay in, we've also stocked a wide selection of games, toys and books for the kids as well as dvd's for all ages. Original artwork by Yakov Smirnoff lends a fun atmosphere to each contemporary modern condo.
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Enjoy walking your small dog 25 lbs or less along the lakeshore trail.
The marina is 200 yards from the building where you can dock your boat or rent one and a jetski or tubes! Easy entry makes for more lake time. Fishing license and groceries available on-site.
Enjoy a swim in the heated outdoor pool just out front of the building. The private condo complex pool is open from May to October.
The lake shore trail is just behind the building, walk right to it off the patio. The perfect place to walk dogs, play with the kids or walk with your sweetheart.
Secure parking at this gated private community.
activities and attractions in Branson Missouri
Table Rock Lake offers most any lake activity: boats of all types, jetski, parasail, windsurf, swim, tube, fish and more. The nearby Table Rock Dam is where the fish hatchery for many lakes in MO is, a great place to learn about state species and see them.
There are 3 main area lakes all with different attractions. Hiking, spelunking, birdwatching, ziplining in forest canopies, biking, championship golf and more await.
A quick 10 minutes to the famous Branson strip and the Branson Landing. Restaurants, shopping and over 100 live theatre and music shows are just 10 minutes away in Branson, MO. Several outlet malls offer budget shopping. Unique gifts and pieces can be found at many craftsman and craft shopping opportunities. Silver Dollar City has many major events through the year and offers large amusement rides and coasters. White Water Park offers lots of water rides. Mini golf, cars, museums abound in town. Truly something for everyone. Branson Landing has water fountains and fireworks with outdoor concerts, dining and shopping galore.
5 miles to the Branson, MO airport with direct flights to many US cities.
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Jan 1st to Mar 9th 2 night min stay
$75/ni, 4th night FREE
Spring Break:
Mar 10th to Mar 24th 3 night min stay
$125/night Sun - Thursday, $150/night Fri - Sat
March 25th - May 16th 3 night min stay
$110/ni Sun-Th, $130/ni Fri-Sat 5th night FREE
May 17th - Aug 11th 4 night min stay
$225/ni, $1350/week
Aug 11th - Nov 3rd 3 night min stay
$130/ni Sun-Th, $160/ni Fri-Sat 5th night FREE
Late Fall/Winter:
Nov 4th - Jan 2nd 3 night min stay
$110/ni Sun-Th, $130/ni Fri-Sat 5th night FREE
Thanksgiving week: 5 night min stay
Christmas/New Years Week: 3 night min stay
$130/ni Sun-Th, $160/ni Fri-Sat
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Pets One pet 25lbs or less per unit.
$10 per night
- Recognized holidays not listed above are additional $50 charge per night, this applies to the week/end of the holiday.
- Recognized holidays: Labor Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day.
- Free night offers not available during holidays, Christmas & New Year's.
- Some holidays have longer minimum stays.
- No check-ins or check-outs on a holiday (includes Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day).
- There is a credit card required for your damage waiver.
- 50% of fees are due at booking to hold your dates, balance at 3 weeks prior to stay.
- We take checks, money orders, Mastercard, Visa and American Express.
- Rates are subject to change without notice.
- No discounts for multiple units.
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With a simple YouTube search you can find hundreds of North Korean karaoke videos featuring catchy pop tunes. Some show scenes of young couples on dates eating ice cream. Others highlight hydroelectric dams. Oddly, some mix both in the same video. The most popular of these videos is "Pangapsumnida." It displays scenes of naval and air prowess spliced with images of families reuniting under North Korean flags. The bizarre imagery plays out as a sort of Northern fantasy in which Korea is once again reunited -- as a socialist Korea, of course. Watching "Pangapsumnida" is both fascinating and eerie. Who knew a song sponsored by a brutal dictatorship could be so catchy? It's eerie because the video allows the viewer to temporarily forget the horror that is modern North Korea.
That suspension of reality is perhaps North Korea's biggest export. Desperate to sugarcoat the bleak reality of successive famines and international scorn, North Korea's propaganda machine pumps out some of the most elaborate deceptions on earth. Consider for example, the Arirang Mass Games. Imagine an Olympic opening ceremony in which every reference to sport is replaced with odes to the Great Leader and scenes of the industrial and technological wonders possible under socialism. Regardless of the contrived message, Arirang is quite possibly the most spectacular show on earth. It features up to 100,000 gymnasts and performers moving with razor-sharp precision.
North Korea's deception machine doesn't stop at catchy songs and gymnastics routines. It extends all the way to its own Potemkin village, Gijeong-dong. Gijeong-dong is the only urban area in North Korea visible from the South Korean border. It features a small assembly of concrete buildings and the world's largest flagpole. What it apparently does not include are actual residents. Although no one can be entirely sure what happens at Gijeong-dong (commonly called Propaganda Village), many believe the village is actually unlivable and that the buildings are hollow. Electric lights turn on in unison as if by a flip of a switch, and few people walk around during the day.
Luckily, very few outside of North Korea are fooled by the deception. North Korea's belligerent behavior and abysmal human rights record continue to earn it well deserved scorn from around the globe. While it's difficult for a westerner to swallow any of the outlandish propaganda North Korea feeds us, it might amaze us that we too might be influenced by more subtle propaganda every day, whether by advertisements or our own societies. Propaganda can be powerful. Images and sounds stick to the mind easier than words do, regardless of how odious we find the message. If you don't believe me, try watching "Pangapsumnida" a few times. I guarantee you'll start humming it when you least expect it.


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The Dothan Police Department is taking steps to make the city safer. The department now has a new, state-of-the-art command vehicle.
Officers are still putting the finishing touches on the command vehicle, but it's already been put to work to protect residents. It was used at the Peanut Festival and shopping areas for Black Friday and if anything disastrous were to happen like deadly tornadoes, or a hostage situation like in Midland City, it's ready to go.
"This is just one more thing the citizens should be proud of about their police department," said Dothan Police Chief Greg Benton.
The vehicle was originally a diabetes clinic, but with a little work, it's now ready for the department. Officers used every inch of space of the vehicle to make it as functional as possible.
On the outside is a work bench, a light for indicating when people can come inside and even a television so officials can see what is on the computers inside without taking a step in the door. In the vehicle there are four loaded work stations, radios, computers, television, a meeting room and every wall is a white board.
Typically a vehicle like this would start around $400,000. However, the police department bought the command vehicle for $50,000, put in $4,000 dollars worth of equipment and not a dime was tax payers money. Every cent came from seizure money.
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The chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an unflinching account of her search for meaning and purpose in the food-central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour and the opening of a first restaurant.
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Hamilton, the chef/owner of the Manhattan bistro Prune, hasn't become a household name, but if she does, it might just be for her writing, not her cooking. Hamilton moves easily from rich metaphor to dark humor, from dreamy abstraction to the vivid and precise descriptions of anything from a maggot-infested rat to a plate of beautiful ravioli. Her backstage expose of the chef's life includes plenty of swagger, swearing and drama on the brunch shift. But the book is even more interesting when
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Gabrielle Hamilton's stunning Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef is a gorgeous, nervy portrait of the "artist" as a young woman. Hamilton, owner and chef of Prune restaurant, just won the James Beard Best New York City Chef Award. She began working in food service haphazardly at age 13, when she was effectively abandoned by her parents. Blood, Bones & Butter details the heartaches, family conflicts, world travel and little epiphanies
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Chapter 1
We threw a party. The same party, every year, when I was a kid. It was a spring lamb roast, and we roasted four or five whole little guys who each weighed only about forty pounds over an open fire and invited more than a hundred people. Our house was in a rural part of Pennsylvania and was not really a house at all but a wild castle built into the burnt-out ruins of a nineteenth-century silk mill, and our backyard was not a regular yard but a meandering meadow, with a creek running through it and wild geese living in it and a Death Slide cable that ran from high on an oak to the bank of the stream and deposited you, shrieking, into the shallow water. Our town shared a border so closely with New Jersey that we could and did walk back and forth between the two states several times in a day by crossing the Delaware River. On weekend mornings we had breakfast at Smutzie's in Lambertville, on the Jersey side, but then we got gas for the car at Sam Williams's Mobil on the New Hope side. In the afternoons after school on the Pennsylvania side, I walked over to the Jersey side and got guitar lessons at Les Parson's guitar shop.
That part of the world, heavily touristed as it was, was an important location of many events in the American Revolutionary War. George Washington crossed the Delaware here, to victory at the Battle of Trenton, trudging through the snowy woods and surprising the British in spite of some of his troops missing proper shoes, their feet instead wrapped in newspaper and burlap. But now my hometown has become, mostly, a sprawl of developments and subdivisions, gated communities of small mansions that look somewhat like movie sets that will be taken down at the end of the shoot. Each housing development has a "country" name-Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle Crossing, Deer Path-which has an unkind way of invoking and recalling the very things demolished when building them. There is now a McDonalds and a Kmart- but when I was growing up, you had to ride your bike about a mile down a very dark country road thick with night insects stinging your face to even find a plugged-in Coke machine where you could buy a vended soda for thirty-five cents. Outside Cal's Collision Repair in the middle of the night that machine glowed like something almost religious. You can now buy a Coke twenty-four hours a day at half a dozen places.
But when I was young, where I lived was mostly farmland, rolling fields, rushing creeks when it rained, thick woods, and hundred-year- old stone barns. It was a beautiful, rough, but lush setting for the backyard party my parents threw with jug wine and spit-roasted lambs and glow-in-the-dark Frisbees. The creek dividing the meadow meandered and, at its deepest bend, was lined with small weeping willows that grew as we grew and bent their long, willowy, tearful branches down over the water. We would braid a bunch of the branches together to make a Tarzan kind of vine rope that we could swing on, out over the stream in our laceless sneakers and bathing suits, and land in the creek. That is where we chilled all of the wines and beers and sodas for the party.
We were five kids in my family, and I am the youngest. We ran in a pack-to school, home from school, and after dinner at dusk-like wild dogs. If the Mellman kids were allowed out and the Bentley boys, the Drevers, and the Shanks across the street as well, our pack numbered fifteen. We spent all of our time out of doors in mud suits, snowsuits, or bare feet, depending on the weather. Even in "nature," running around in the benign woods and hedges and streams, diving in and out of tall grasses and brambles, playing a nighttime game that involved dodging the oncoming headlights of an approaching occasional car, bombing the red shale rocks down into the stream from the narrow bridge near our driveway to watch them shatter-we found rough and not innocent pastimes. We trespassed, drag raced, smoked, burgled, and vandalized. We got ringworm, broken bones, tetanus, concussions, stitches, and ivy poisoning.
My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then. I could not have boasted of them more or said my name, first and last together, more proudly, to show how it directly linked me to them. I loved that our mother was French and that she had given me that heritage in my very name. I loved telling people that she had been a ballet dancer at the Met in New York City when she married my father. I loved being able to spell her long French name, M-A-D-E-L-E- I-N-E, which had exactly as many letters in it as my own. My mother wore the sexy black cat-eye eyeliner of the era, like Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren, and I remember the smell of the sulphur every morning as she lit a match to warm the tip of her black wax pencil. She pinned her dark hair back into a tight, neat twist every morning and then spent the day in a good skirt, high heels, and an apron that I have never seen her without in forty years. She lived in our kitchen, ruled the house with an oily wooden spoon in her hand, and forced us all to eat dark, briny, wrinkled olives, small birds we would have liked as pets, and cheeses that looked like they might well bear Legionnaire's Disease.
Her kitchen, over thirty years ago, long before it was common, had a two-bin stainless steel restaurant sink and a six-burner Garland stove. Her burnt orange Le Creuset pots and casseroles, scuffed and blackened, were constantly at work on the back three burners cooking things with tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones-whatever was budgeted from our dad's sporadic and mercurial artist's income-that she was stewing and braising and simmering to feed our family of seven. Our kitchen table was a big round piece of butcher block where we both ate and prepared casual meals.
My mother knew how to get everything comestible from a shin or neck of some animal; how to use a knife, how to cure a cast-iron pan. She taught us to articulate the "s" in salade nicoise and the soup vichyssoise, so that we wouldn't sound like other Americans who didn't know that the vowel "e" after the consonant "s" in French means that you say the "s" out loud.
And yet I remember the lamb roast as my father's party. I recall it was really his gig. With an art degree from Rhode Island School of Design on his office wall, two union cards-stagehands and scenic artists-in his wallet, five able-bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party-a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary school.
My dad could not cook at all. He was then a set designer for theatrical and trade shows and he had a "design and build" studio in Lambertville-the town where he himself had grown up, the town where his own father had been the local country doctor. We kids were forever running into people who'd say, "Your granddaddy delivered all three of my sons!" Or, "Your granddaddy drove a Cadillac! One of the very few cars at the time in Lambertville!"
After growing up in that small rural town, my dad, the youngest son, went away to college and then to art school. He came back with a mustache, a green Mustang, and a charcoal gray suit and installed himself there, in his hometown. In 1964, he bought the old skating rink at the dead end of South Union Street with its enormous domed ceiling and colossal wooden floor. In that building he started his studio, an open work space where scenery as big as the prow of a ship could be built, erected, painted, and then broken down and shipped off to the city for load-in. Every year when he got the job to build the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus there, we would go after school and zip around on the dollies, crashing into the legs of the chain-smoking union carpenters and scenic artists who were busy with band saws and canvas and paint. We would run up and down mountains of rolled black and blue velour, laid out like in a carpet store, and dip our hands into oil drums full of glitter. Prying back the lid on a fifty-gallon barrel of silver glitter-the kind of barrel that took two men and a hand truck to wheel into the paint supply room of the shop-and then shoving your hands down into it up to your elbows is an experience that will secure the idea in your heart for the rest of your life that your dad is, himself, the greatest show on earth.
We made our Halloween costumes out of lighting gels, backstage black velour curtaining, scrim, and Mylar. When we went with our father to see the actual circus at Madison Square Garden, we spent almost the whole show backstage where we met Mishu: The Smallest Man in the World, and petted the long velvety truncks of the elephants in jeweled headdresses. We met Gunther, the lion tamer, and marveled at his blond blond hair and his deep deep tan and, giggling like the children we were, his amazing ass-high and round and firm, like two Easter hams-in electric blue tights.
I associate my dad almost exclusively with that lamb roast because he could dream it up and create the scenery of it. My dad has an eye for things. He can look at the stone rubble covered in scaffolding that is the Acropolis, for example, and without effort, complete the picture in its entirety, right down to what people are wearing, doing, and saying. In his mind's eye, out of one crumbling Doric column, he can visualize the entire city, its denizens and smells, the assembly's agenda and the potted shrubs. Where the rest of us saw only the empty overgrown meadow behind our house, riddled with gopher holes, with a shallow, muddy stream running through it and a splintering wooden wagon that I had almost outgrown, he saw his friends: artists and teachers and butchers, scenic painters and Russian lighting designers, ship captains and hardware merchants all with a glass in hand, their laughter rising high above our heads and then evaporating into the canopy of maple leaves; the weeping willows shedding their leaf tears down the banks of the stream; fireflies and bagpipers arriving through the low clinging humidity of summer; a giant pit with four spring lambs roasting over apple-wood coals; the smell of wood smoke hanging in the moist summer nighttime air. I mean it. He sees it all romantic like that.
He says, about all of his work, "Everybody else does the bones and makes sure the thing doesn't fall down. I do the romance."
It must have been my mother, the cook, who was in the kitchen with the six burners and the two-bin sink making the lima bean salad and the asparagus vinaigrette and the all-butter shortcakes, counting out the stacks of paper plates with the help of my older sister-the two of them doing "the bones" as my father called it. But it was from him- with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, his packet of unfiltered Camels, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck)-from him we learned how to create beauty where none exists, how to be generous beyond our means, how to change a small corner of the world just by making a little dinner for a few friends. From him we learned how to make and give luminous parties.
There was a Russian Winter Ball, I remember, for which my dad got refrigerator-sized cartons of artificial snow shipped in from Texas and a dry ice machine to fog up the rooms and make the setting feel like a scene from Dr. Zhivago. And there was a Valentine's Day Lovers' Dinner, at which my father had hundreds of choux paste éclair swans with little pastry wings and necks and slivered almond beaks that, when toasted, became their signature black. He set them out swimming in pairs on a Plexiglas mirror "pond" the size of a king's matrimonial bed with confectioner's sugar snow drifts on the banks.
"Swans," he pointed out, "mate for life."
For a kind of Moroccan-themed party that my parents threw, my dad built low couches from sheets of plywood and covered them with huge fur blankets and orange velour brought home from the studio. By the time the candles were lit and the electric lights extinguished, the whole house looked like a place where the estimable harem of a great pasha might assemble to offer their man pomegranates, pistachios, and maybe more carnal treasures. There were tapestries and kilims stacked as tall as me, where adults stoned on spiced wine and pigeon pies could lounge. By the time that party really got rolling, I remember walking from room to dimly lit room feeling acutely the ethos of the era-the early 1970s-as if it, too, were sprawled out on the "scene shop" couch wearing long hair and a macramé dress, barely noticing how late it was and that I was still up.
But the lamb roast was not a heavily themed and elaborately staged one- off. It was, as parties in our family went, a simple party, thrown every year, produced with just a fire and a sheet of plywood set over sawhorses for the carving of the lambs. We built a fire in our shallow pit, about eight feet long and six feet wide. It's possible that my dad dug it alone, but if there was an available sixteen-year-old around, like his son, my oldest brother Jeffrey, it's very likely that they dug it together. At each end of the pit they set up a short wall of cinder blocks with a heavy wooden plank on top, looking like the head and baseboards of a giant bed, where the long wooden poles onto which the baby lambs had been lashed would rest. The baby lambs, with their little crooked sets of teeth and milky eyes, were slaughtered and dressed up at Maresca's Butchers, then tied onto ten-foot poles made of ash because the branches of an ash tree grow so straight that you can skewer a baby lamb with them easily.
Jeffrey had a driver's license and a 1957 Chevy truck with a wooden bed and a big blue mushroom painted on its heavily Bondoed cab. It had big dangling side-view mirrors and torn upholstery over which we threw a mover's blanket, but it ran. So on this bluish early summer weekend, Jeffrey drove his new jalopy out the winding country roads, past Black's Christmas tree farm, and past the Larue bottle works. I rode in the bed of the truck, in a cotton dress and boy's shoes with no socks, hanging on as tight as I could to the railings and letting the wind blast my face so hard that I could barely keep my eyes open. Even with my eyes closed, I could tell by the wind and the little patches of bracing coolness and the sudden bright sunshine and the smell of manure when we were passing a hay field, a long thick stand of trees, a stretch of clover, or a horse farm. We passed brand-new deer emerging from the woods and standing in herds of forty in the wide open cornfields. Finally we got to Johnson's Apple Orchard where we picked up our wood for the fire.
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Whether you are a kid or a grown up, you will always be your mom's little one. I remember watching the movie, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, and thinking to myself that I would never become such an overprotective mom. But here I am, a mother of two, forever paranoid about my kids' welfare. When I read these mom quotes, I know that I am not an...
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An ode to mothers! Here is a special collection of Mother's Day Quotes for our boldest and gentlest mothers. If you can't say it with words, say it with these quotes.
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Motherhood is all about loving, sharing, sacrificing, and struggling. Have you seen a hen take care of its brood? Nature has provided each creature with the instinct of motherhood. What does it take to be a 'good' mother? Learn more about motherhood from these quotes.
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Ever wondered what are the opinions of great people like Abraham Lincoln or Washington Irving about mothers? What were their mothers like? What makes these mothers special? Read these quotes and find out.
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For mothers, it can be an endless routine task. Parenting can be quite a trying job, especially if you have a handful of boisterous bundles of destructive energy. It takes more than your mettle to deal with the minute-to-minute parenting. If you are in need to perk yourself up for the job, grab a mug of coffee and read these inspiring quotes...
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I admit that mother is overly glorified by our society. Reams of paper and reels of films have expressed the love of a mother. But as Oprah Winfrey says: "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." To be a mother, one needs to feel the love of a mother.
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Your mother is God's greatest gift to you. You knew her before you knew anybody else. Nature has blessed each creature with a loving mother; perhaps the secret behind the very existence of life on this planet. Feel the surge of emotion as you read these mother quotes.
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The mother-child bond is too strong to be dulled by distance. Even if you are miles away from your dear mother, reach out to her with a thoughtful message. Send her short Mother's Day quotes in a text message, or on a Mother's Day card. She will be immensely pleased to hear from you, especially on this special day.
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Mothers love cute things -- cute kids, cute clothes, and even cute words. Cuteness often reminds mothers of their own child; especially the first few years. Win your mother's heart with tender words of love. Share these cute Mother's Day quotes with her and make her feel special. These funny and cute Mother's Day quotes will bring her memories...
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They may not know it, but young daughters often emulate their mothers. Deep in her heart, every girl is like her mother. A mother understands this well. So she tries to protect her daughter from the setbacks that she faced in her youth. This is why a mother is a daughter's best friend. Here are Mother's Day quotes from daughters who have...
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Does your mother like jokes and funny movies? If humor is her thing, give her the joy of laughter on Mother's Day. Use these funny Mother's Day quotes in cards and on presents. A touch of humor will make the occasion memorable. Your witticisms and sparkling humor will not go to waste.
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Ring in Mother's Day with a grand celebration. The woman who carried you in her womb, nurtured you, and raised you deserves your love and attention. Here are some touching Mother's Day quotes you can use to express your love.
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Exactly five months since her life-saving bone marrow transplant, "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts on Wednesday returned to the anchor desk, to cheers and applause from co-workers.
"I have been waiting 174 days to say this: 'Good Morning America,'" Roberts said at the start of the program.
"I keep pinching myself, and I realize this is real," she said. "This is actually happening."
Her sister and bone marrow donor, Channel 4 anchor Sally-Ann Roberts, was in New York for the special broadcast.
ABC aired footage of ABC News employees cheering and welcoming Robin into work Wednesday morning. At the start of the two-hour program, she thanked those who made her recovery possible.
"Faith, family and friends have brought me to this moment and I am so full of gratitude," Roberts said.
The program began with a videotaped message from President and Mrs. Obama, who congratulated Roberts on her return.
She has been off of the "GMA" desk since August 30, when she left to begin treatment for MDS, the rare bone marrow disease that she contracted as a result of her successful bout with breast cancer.
She went on to receive a bone marrow transplant, in which Sally-Ann donated stem cells and bone marrow to help kickstart her recovery.
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