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Life's better when we're connected
Locally and globally, we are making the connections that help improve lives, businesses and communities.
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) leader Andrew Plepler describes the role CSR plays in helping us deliver on our purpose.
Hi, I am Andrew I run corporate social responsibility for Bank of America.
Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR, as we call it, are the ideals and the values by which we run the company. It's an important part rebuilding trust. It's an important part of managing risk, it's an import and part of creating healthier communities in which to do business, all of which are in the long term best interest of our shareholders.
Writing a check is the easy part of CSR. The hard part and the part that people are understandably skeptical about, is making sure you're running your business in a way where their interests come first and our success flows from that.
That's why corporate social responsibility leads with your business practices. Your products have to be safe, people have to understand what you're offering, they have to think you're being fair, and they have to understand what we are doing is in their best interest rather than our best interest.
I have one of the greatest jobs that someone can have. I truly believe that, because you have enormous capabilities, financial resources, human capital. When you are able to harness all that you're able to see real impact. To make a loan to a woman entrepreneur who's starting a new business and creating 10 or 15 jobs in a community... to provide a student an opportunity to go to Washington D.C. and learn about leadership and public service...Every day we wake up thinking about a potential solution to a problem that is relevant in our society. Today we may be supporting our troops, addressing hunger, tomorrow we may be facing the issue of global health. We will always be thinking of creative ways to be as productive a partner as we can be.
The corporate mission of Bank of America is to make the financial lives of customers, communities and clients better. That's why our CEO Brian Moynihan tells is this all the time. CSR can be a great contributor to that goal --to that mission -- when it's done right and when it's done by leveraging all of the assets of a company with the size and scale and capabilities of Bank of America.
- Ours is a bank of the people.
- Committed to connecting with them
- understanding them
- and doing whatever we can
- to help make their lives better.
- Every employee, customer and client
- is valued as a unique individual.
- Supporting diversity
- makes us a stronger
- and more connected company.
- Better able to improve lives
- strengthen communities
- and achieve our goals.
- We value people's differences
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- in thought
- style
- sexual orientation
- gender identity
- ethnicity
- culture
- and experience.
- We believe in a culture of inclusion
- through global recruitment
- development
- and employee networks
- numbering 65,000 strong.
- Plus we support businesses
- that support minorities
- people with disabilities
- veterans
- and the LGBT community.
- And the results speak for themselves:
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- Best places to work for LGBT Equality
- 8 years straight, Human Rights Campaign
- 100 Best Companies
- 25 years straight, Working Mother Magazine
- Top 50 Companies for Latinas
- Latina Style Magazine
- Freedom Award for supporting those who serve
- Secretary of Defense
- Happiest Company for Young Professionals
- Forbes.com
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- It's nice to be recognized as a company
- for celebrating our differences as people.
- And it's proof
- that when you commit
- to creating a better work environment
- you make things better
- for employees, customers, clients
- and communities around the world.
- Life's better when we're connected.
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JERRY MAJETICH: When the IED went off, it basically evaporated the rear half of my vehicle. Before they were able to evacuate me, I was shot three additional times in the right leg.
SHELBY HATCH: I did get hurt down range. An IDF went off a little ways from us and I just got the percussion from it but it threw me back on my back.
JAMES RIVERA: We got hit on August 22, 2004. Three of us were wounded, everything was quiet until then. And then every mission, we would engage in a firefight somewhere somehow. Rockets. Mortars. Everything.
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AL GIORDANO: I think the Bank of America Express Your Thanks campaign has had a tremendous impact on the morale of these young men and women who are over there fighting.
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VO (person at event): This is an opportunity for the public to say thank you to the troops that are serving and for everyone that does that, Bank of America will generously donate one dollar.
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The Portland Trail Blazers waived Greg Oden on Thursday, according to Ken Berger at CBS. The move was made in order for the Blazers to clear roster space for players added at the trade deadline.
Oden, the first overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft, has spent the better part of his career dealing with injuries. He is out for this season after having microfracture surgery on his left knee back in February. Oden has not played in a game since Dec. 5, 2009.
The Blazers sent Gerald Wallace to the New Jersey Nets on Thursday in exchange for Mehmet Okur, Shawne Williams and a top-three-protected first-round draft pick in 2012. A trade with the Houston Rockets netted Portland Jonny Flynn, Hasheem Thabeet and a second-round pick in 2012.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
My Mantel and the Cherry Blossoms
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- blhitchcock901 said...
I so love your style! What a precious family. The candlesticks tied in pink are my favorites! Is that just pick ribbon wrapped around them? Love it! I must bring in my crock from the shop and place in my favorite place to display. My favorite thing about Spring is change and a new beginning. Spring represents newness of life, all that is dead bursting forth to new life!
- March 19, 2012
- Kelly @ Eclectically Vintage said...
You're so lucky to have blooms already! Waiting for the forsynthia to bloom (hey, it's technically on the neighbors lawn but he won't mind if I snip off a few sprigs)!
Love the mossy dragonfly too!
- March 19, 2012
- Meg said...
No blooms here either. Just inches of fresh snow. *sigh*
Love the dragonflies. Your mantle is very pretty!
- March 19, 2012
- Cassie @ Primitive & Proper said...
so cute! i really love those mossy dragonflies!
- March 19, 2012
- Linda @ it all started with paint said...
So pretty. I adore those moss dragonflies!
- March 19, 2012
- The Rooster and The Hen said...
Daffodils and apple blossoms...ahhhh And finding easter eggs in late May that the kids somehow missed...
- March 19, 2012
- Laura from Top This Top That said...
.... with melted chocolate inside!
- March 19, 2012
- Becca said...
What a beautiful mantel, Laura! The elements you've chosen work perfectly together ... love your mossy butterfly ... chunky candlesticks ... your cute bunny and, of course, your precious fur babies. And, the portrait of your beautiful family serves as a wonderful background! *Becca* (new follower by way of Grits and Glamour)
- March 20, 2012
- Heidi @ Decor & More said...
Love your moss dragonfly!! And those cherry blossoms are gorgeous ~ you're all set for spring!!
xo Heidi
- March 20, 2012
- karen@somewhatquirky said...
Hi Laura, Can't believe your cherry trees are blooming - I need to move wherever you are! Love the dragonflies! Sorry about your dog. Enjoy spring!
- March 20, 2012
- Mrs. Sutton said...
Your mantel is so pretty and romantic - it must make you smile every time you enter the room - how lovely!
- March 20, 2012
- thistlewoodfarm said...
You need to link this up over at The Lettered Cottage. Absolutely beautiful :) Where did you get that dragonfly? I have to have one!
- March 20, 2012
- Laura from Top This Top That said...
girl- these things are so old, i can't remember where I got them. Tell you what, when I think they have done there time in this household - there yours!
- March 20, 2012
- Laura from Top This Top That said...
your sweet to visit and to have such kind words. laura
- March 20, 2012
- Laura from Top This Top That said...
Karen- a pack of coyotes. With the weather has warm as it has been ( 80's) all of Spring blooms are actually getting spent already. I cut these branches about a week ago.
thanks for stopping over!
- March 20, 2012
- Laura from Top This Top That said...
thanks Meg! somehow my mantel would not look the same with fresh powder on the ground outside! You must live in the north west - the only cold place in the country right now.
- March 20, 2012
- chateau chic said...
You have definitely created a happy mantel for spring. Those dragonflies are amazing.
Happy to be a new follower and hope you'll stop by.
Mary Alice
- March 20, 2012
- Craftberry Bush said...
Love the blossoms....so pretty..:)
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- Sarah @ Home, Sweet... said...
I especially love the dragonfly and window - very cool idea! I also love spring! Everything is so full of promise :)
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- Tisha said...
I love the dragonflies too! Your whole mantel is so nice - lots of color and texture. Thanks for linking up!
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Tampa Bay Lightning Coach Jon Cooper was not pleased after his team lost to the Boston Bruins.
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ORLANDO, FL -- It's late Sunday night, and after 48 hours of NBA All-Star Weekend, I'm borderline catatonic, so we'll go ahead and keep this pretty disorganized. For a look at Friday night and Saturday night, click here and here. For a more coherent recap of Sunday's All-Star Game, click here.
Now, then. Let's do this.
Well, the photo above -- with Lil Wayne and Kevin Durant -- pretty much nails the colliding worlds at All-Star Weekend. All that's missing is some aging NBA icon in the foreground, and like 800 groupies in the background. All-Star Weekend is the greatest.
I've never been to Super Bowl Week, but I think All-Star Weekend probably wins that battle. With the Super Bowl, everyone's so serious about the whole thing. There's parties and chaos, sure, but at the end of the day, you're still having a thousand conversations about the same game. The one that everyone's already sick of, in a city that's overrun by media and functionally paralyzed, all leading up to a night where most will be on the outside of the stadium looking in.
As far as All-Star Weekend's concerned ... If you're going to have a city become functionally paralyzed, it might as well be because it's overrun with rappers and groupies and star athletes. Right? Nobody even cares about the game. All-Star Weekend IS the game. People on the outside looking in don't even care; the spectacle's on the outside, anyway. Maybe it's not a trip you make every year, but if you love basketball, seeing All-Star Weekend in all its batshit glory is definitely something that's on your bucket list. Speaking of which ...
With the help of some friends, I got into Carmelo Anthony's party on Saturday night. I feel obligated to provide a recap. And ... yeah, it was pretty fantastic. Not because it was ornate or even that impressive -- that would've been Dwight Howard's Adidas party on Friday, which was apparently held in an executive airplane hangar -- but because it felt like a more authentic glimpse of the All-Star social scene than anything you'd find in an executive airplane hangar.
We walked in through a smoky entrance to a club that was already pretty much at capacity, a full hour before any celebrity would show up. And until they did show up, the scene was grim in the most entertaining way possible. You had throngs of women squeezed into dresses that don't fit wobbling around on heels that make no sense, guys who were taking all this way too seriously, and then upstairs at the club, I guess blunts were just, like, legal?
You don't realize quite how white you are until you're in a club where pretty much every woman on the dance floor is singing along to "9 Piece" by Rick Ross. The most awkward moment of the night was probably when a friend and I walked up to two guys in matching jump suits, dreadlocks and gold teeth, and mistook them for the Ying Yang Twins. In our defense, we weren't the only ones who made that mistake. And on All-Star Weekend, isn't there at least a 50-50 chance you're gonna run into the Ying Yang Twins at some point?
The celebrities arrived a few minutes after our Ying Yang mistake. Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo, Fabolous, Andrew Bynum and Andre Iguodala were all "Definitely in the building!" as the DJ said, and they were all definitely wearing those illuminati glasses we discussed on Saturday. The DJ also claimed Kobe was there, but I never saw him, and more importantly, I refuse to believe that Kobe does anything on All-Star Weekend besides sit in his hotel room and think about his legacy.
All the basketball players were on a platform in the middle of the crowd, which basically meant that other clubgoers were grabbing at them the entire time. Which leads the most important takeaway of the evening: All-Star parties are entertaining for people like me, but for actual superstars they just seem MISERABLE. I hope all those guys got paid to be there Saturday. All in all, though, on my end, it was definitely worth the trip downtown. As I tried to make my way through the crowd toward the exit at about 2:30, I accidentally stepped into a non-celebrity's $500 VIP Area, and was immediately shoved out HARD and given a pretty intense death glare. All-Star Weekend!
I don't know whether the water above was actually man-made, but think of Orlando this way: a man-made lake isn't bad. There's no real reason for it exist, but it's not a BAD thing. It's actually pretty great compared to most alternatives. Especially in Central Florida.
At the same time ... compared to all-natural, authentic alternatives (L.A., New Orleans, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Vegas), the man-made lake doesn't stand a chance. There's just that extra little character that certain cities have and others don't, and it can't be faked. Orlando was cool, but it doesn't have that character. It's as spread out and painful to navigate as Los Angeles, but it's NOT Los Angeles. So yeah, it'll never happen, but I still say the All-Star Game should rotate exclusively among the cities above. Or, if they insist on moving it every year, why not add someplace like London to the mix? TRANS-CONTINENTAL GROUPIES, Y'ALL.
However ... Idris Elba should never be allowed to speak with his British accent in public. Stringer Bell is too indelible a character to jeopardize with Idris Elba out here speaking like a golf announcer. That TNT video was great (they played it in the stadium too), but it stands in clear violation of the rules here. Then again ...
Any intro in the entire world is better than a Nicki Minaj-themed intro. One of the only actual, reporter-ish notes I took at Sunday night's game said simply: "Nicki Minaj is the f***ing worst."
It certainly seems like whoever makes the music choices for the NBA is a 13-year-old girl, and for a league that has a legitimate claim to being the coolest, most culturally literate sport in America, it's sort of mind-boggling that they can screw up this badly with such consistency. Sunday night we had the Gym Class Heroes at the pre-game concert, Nicki Minaj during the intros, PITBULL AND CHRIS BROWN at halftime, and then, just to top things off, they brought something called "Pentatronix" to butcher a Marvin Gaye song. We were somehow spared this year, but I refuse to believe that the NBA didn't ask LMFAO and the Black Eyed Peas, too. Someone needs to take the 13-year-old girl's iPod away.
A few more notes on the basketball side...
Especially amid a sea of superstars dressed up in hipster glasses, it's pretty great that Kevin Love and Kevin Love's spectacular lumberjack beard have emerged as dominant this year. He'd always been good in Minnesota, but now he's just tearing people apart. He didn't quite have his "moment" at All-Star Weekend -- where he destroys everyone so memorably that there's no question he's one of the best players in basketball -- but he more than held his own Sunday night, he walked away with the three-point title Saturday, and if there were any doubt among the mainstream about whether he's overhyped as a franchise player, it seems like he put all that to rest this weekend.
The Eastern Conference All-Stars had four legitimate MVP candidates in the starting lineup, but good GOD the drop-off was painful once you got to the second unit. Paul Pierce is a Hall-of-Famer and one of my favorite players of the past 15 years, but only The Truth in an iso could make an All-Star offense look labored and overmatched, and Rajon Rondo was nearly as bad in his own right, only he didn't even have an excuse. Good rule of thumb for the next few years: Until they all retire, just avert your eyes when the Celtics take the court.
(It's just an All-Star Game and Scott Brooks was coaching so things were probably skewed in their favor from the start, but didn't Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant kinda look like the most explosive players on the entire West roster? It's like we've talked about them as "budding" superstars for the past few years now, and this year when they've both taken it up another level at the same time. It's too early to anoint them and we don't want to jinx anything, but if they somehow have another level to jump in the next few years, then the rest of the NBA is so totally screwed.)
(If we gave KD and Russ the nickname above, Russ would definitely be thunder, right? He dunks so ANGRY. Like he's trying to physically assault the rim every time he goes to the hoop.)
(Oh, speaking of the Thunder.)
The NBA is pretty great about getting press releases out to the media each day, and most of them are pretty basic. Either you're getting rosters, press conference transcripts or some promotional numbers for whatever event is coming up later that night. But amid the blur of propaganda, there was also this magnificent press release for Kevin Durant's new movie Thunderstruck.
Here's the synopsis they gave us:
A fun and energetic family basketball movie starring KEVIN DURANT AS HIMSELF, a basketball star who switches talent with a klutzy 16-year-old fan. When Brian, a hopeless uncoordinated young fan, magically switches basketball skills with his hero, Kevin Durant, he becomes the star of his high school team ... while Kevin Durant suddenly can't make a shot to save his life. But with the playoffs approaching, Brian learns that being a true hero winner involves working hard at your own game, and he tries to make things right in time to prevent a catastrophic end to his hero's season. "Thunderstuck" stars the Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant as himself, Taylor Gray (Nickelodeon's "Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures"), James Belushi ("According to Jim"), Brandon T. Jackson ("Tropic Thunder"), Doc Shaw ("Pair of Kings") and Tristan Mays ("Victorious").
"Thunderstuck" is directed by John Whitesell ("Malibu's Most Wanted", "Big Momma's House 2") from a teleplay by Eric Champanella ("Mr. 3000") ... Mike Karz ("New Year's Eve" and "Valentine's Day") produced the film.
HOLY S**T. This is like a 30 Rock spoof brought to life, right down to the Holiday Movie Guy producing and some C-list celebrity (Belushi!!!!) there to lend a hand. How badly must have Belushi mismanaged his money over the years?
Anyway, let's all go see this opening night.
Derrick Rose is either trying to meditate, or he's fantastically disgusted with LeBron James.
Maybe you side on TEAM ROSE here and think LeBron's kind of a horse's ass. There's so much evidence to support your case it's actually just redundant at this point.
On the other hand, if you side with TEAM BRON and think Derrick Rose's whole "there's a time and a place for dancing" explanation was totally lame, that's fair, too. There IS a time and a place for dancing, and it's OBVIOUSLY at the NBA All-Star Game, Derrick. Were you worried about disgracing the integrity of the game where the announcers basically treat Kevin Hart as a sixth player?
EITHER WAY: It's pretty great that the last two MVPs appear to genuinely hate each other. Or at least, D-Rose genuinely hates LeBron. Nobody's really sure if LeBron's paying attention.
A Chocolate Thunder sighting!
As ridiculous as the NBA All-Star experience seems (and is), it's also something like a family reunion for thousands of people who've been living through pro basketball for decades. I'm not part of that club and neither are you, but it's pretty cool that the All-Star Game gives us an annual excuse to join in anyway. 'Til next year ...


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Russell A. Buzby, 46, of Newfane, and James D. Nestor Jr., 45, of Bennington, are scheduled to be arraigned in Windham criminal court on March 26 on charges of grand larceny, unlawful trespass and unlawful mischief, Hudson said in a press release.
On Sept. 20, the Vermont State Police were notified of a copper wire theft from the VELCO substation in Newfane on Route 30.
After an investigation, aided by surveillance video from the substation, police determined that Nestor and Buzby stole several hundred pounds of copper ground wire from the VELCO substation around 8 p.m. Sept. 16, causing damage in the process.
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A new bike trail has been announced for Elkhart County.
The Bonnyville Mill County Park will be the site of the new trail for mountain biking.
The trail will be over 5 miles when it is completed in about 18 months.
Organizers say Elkhart County is long overdue for a good mountain bike trail.
"We've had several of our members say hey you know we'd like to be able to ride closer to Elkhart County, and this is a great opportunity for us to have one here, because there really is not a good trail, there is a small trail one mile over in Goshen, but beyond that, you have to leave the county," says John Marquardt an organizer.
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Tameka Foster to Usher: I Will F--k You Up!by Free Britney at . Comments
Tameka Foster denies threatening to kill ex-husband Usher ... but she did make several comments that she can understand being taken that way.
Usher and Tameka are in a legal fight over custody of their two young kids, a bitter showdown that played out in a Georgia courtroom this week.
Accused of making death threats toward her ex, Foster did admit under oath to saying "I will f**k you up" ... which one can interpret as a threat.
Tameka was questioned by Usher's attorney about her verbal and abusive threats towards the singer, whom she wed in 2007 and divorced in 2009.
She allegedly said "I will kill you both," referring to Usher and his current GF.
Foster went back and forth with her answer before making a half-admission, saying she didn't threaten to "kill" him ... but admitting, "I probably have said, out of anger, say 'I will f**k you up' and that is not acceptable."
Tameka Foster went on to explain that the menacing statement(s) happened as a result of Usher gallivanting in and out of town with his new girlfriend, behavior that was "embarrassing" for her in such a tight knit community.
More importantly ... anyone know who this new girlfriend of Usher is?
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bitchy rage. She 'z jst greedy
As not only a Usher fan but a single mother it makes me sick to see a mother act this way all you ever hear about is dudes tht want nothing to do with their children and here Usher is tryin to be a wonderful father and look what he get nothing but bullshit SMH what's wrong with this chick
Tameka Foster reminds me of a few people that I know here and there over the years. In that...whenever Tameka doesn't get her way, she resorts to throwing temper tantrums and resorts to threats. Usher needs to continue to stand his ground against that NUTSO Tameka. And, Usher...STAY STRONG DAWG !!!!!
i remember how very very upset usher's fans were that he was marrying this "older woman" she had no morals and values why else would she get with usher? she was his mother's hairdresser and had been for years i feel that she literally molested usher... that's why his mom was so upset and did not want him to marry her she felt betrayed by this woman. clearly everyone can see she took advantage of usher and maybe put some "voodoo on him " just saying maybe not but something was definitely not right about usher during that time it took him two years for him to come to his senses and by that time she had two babies back to back to seal the deal....i am feeling for usher . she should be ashamed of herself for causing all this pain for him the bitch betta remember she has sons and what goes around comes around ...but she probably does not even care that this will come back to her .
I am convinced no matter what they say men are attracted to the drama filled, ghetto women. These are the ones they marry and have children with. In the end the men get slammed as in this case. Why are people so critical of Tameka? She is just being who she really is and who she has always been! I bet Usher's mother is not surprised at all. This chick did not just turn crazy she has always been crazy!! Why would Usher even think it was rational to take his girlfriend to his crazy ex-wife's house?
I wanted to fight her every since she got with him that gold digging bitch his mother did not even like her
He should've kept a good woman
CHILE from T.L.C.
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@ the person who posted bitter
No his mom didn't like her on behinfmd the music she didn't wanna talk about the old bitch
Usher....why did u get with that cougar bag of bones?we c u like older chicks....but damn.....shes old and unattractive....gold digger....ish.....i bet his mom didnt like her old ass....who is she?


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Yes, a wool cardigan in June, because English summers are fickle!! I absolutely love this pattern from the March Burda magazine, and it sewed up beautifully be be aware that THIS PATTERN RUNS VERY SMALL! I was warned by other reviewers so I added width to both of the side seams which was enough, or you could otherwise go up a size.
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Italian brown merino wool jersey I bought off etsy (now sold out). It's so thin and fine, but robust enough to not stretch all over the place, and takes a pressing really well. I used a mix of the sewing machine, overlocker/serger, and coverstitch here and the merino took to all of them beautifully.
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It looks really great! I`ve made this one in a black stretchy lace( i review it also on patternreview) , but I love yours as it is easier to wear , i find. ( i love mine too as it is such a nice pattern :) It is good that you did read those reviews, I was just lucky enough to choose a very stretch fabric, the next one I will follow your tips. PS I love ( and read ) your blog. x
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thanks so much! you were so lucky your fabric was stretchy enough! I normally assume Burda fits fine since it does 95% of the time so I'm glad I saw this on PR first. and thanks so much, I'm glad you like my site!
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Very cute! I love the gathers on it. Too bad I don't have that issue.
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its lovely and you've finished it perfectly with the contrasting green buttons. this would look fab with a pencil skirt as well squirrellypo. lovely work and photos x
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard is already working on the 2013 schedule, with a stop in Houston likely to be added to the schedule.
Bernard met Saturday with officials from Houston about running on a temporary street course there next season. He says a contract was not signed, and adding Houston to the schedule would not preclude IndyCar from returning to Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth.
Team owner Roger Penske said Saturday he wants to see IndyCar focus on North American markets going forward. The series will race this year in China and Brazil.
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From the spaciousness of the living room and multiple dining tables to the excitement of the game room and convenience of the laundry facilities, Seaclusion B is designed for large groups who prefer the finer things in life.
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CLOVER — Clover High School has been selected for the 2013 South Carolina Sports Turf Managers Association Softball Field of the Year.
Field caretakers include Lee Clinton, Will Rogers, Tony McCarter, Frank Falls and softball coaches Shea Hall, Doug Collins and Allison Knapp.
Representatives from Clover High School have been invited to the association's annual business meeting Dec. 10 in Columbia to accept the award.
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Collier County Sheriffs arrested a woman Thursday after she allegedly attacked a First Class Auto employee when her car was repossessed.
Deputies arrested Shannon Brown, 27, for Battery.
Deputies were called to the First Class Auto on Avondale Street in Naples in reference to a battery.
Brown told deputies her mother's car was repossessed and she was taking her to the dealership to get some belongings that were inside.
Brown says Gina Del Valle, an employee, told her she was unable to go into the car unless she paid $150 to the dealership.
According to reports, Brown told deputies when she tried to go into the car with her key, Valle began chasing her around the car and attacking her.
Brown stated that Valle struck her in the face and she began striking Valle in order to defend herself.
Valle told deputies the dealership had repossessed the car earlier that day because they had not received payment on the car in over five months.
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UPDATE: Fear in the streets of Deane as knife-wielding robbers strike five times in four days (From This Is Lancashire)
UPDATE: Fear in the streets of Deane as knife-wielding robbers strike five times in four days
Updated 2:46pm Tuesday 21st January 2014 in News Exclusive By Jeremy Culley, reporter
KNIFE-WIELDING robbers have carried out five attacks in four days, spreading fear among shopkeepers in Deane.
Staff at KC Top Shop newsagents in Deane Church Lane were the latest victims when it was raided at about 8.15pm on Sunday.
It followed two robberies at hair salons, Talking Heads in Deane Church Lane, on January 16, and Cabello for Hair in Wigan Road, on Saturday.
Police have stepped up patrols and are linking the raids to two street robberies last week.
Shop owners have spoken about concerns for their staff's safety after the wave of attacks.
One shop, Cake Delight in Deane Church Lane, is closing temporarily to have extra security installed.
Insp Andy Sidebotham, of Bolton Central Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "Officers in uniform and plain clothes are trying to identify people.
"We are carefully examining the crimes and going through the evidence. I am appealing to anyone with information related to these crimes to let us know."
Police believe the culprits are local. He added: "Businesses should take sensible precautions, these robberies are happening at all times of the day.
"People should be aware of their surroundings particularly when they are going to get cash.
"Hopefully the public will know we are doing everything we can to find these offenders and bring them to justice."
In the latest raid, the robber was wearing a Call of Duty skull mask and threatened staff with a knife.
He fled on foot with about £50 from the till, was chased from the store and is thought to have dropped his keys in an alleyway. No one was injured.
One of the men who chased him did not want to be named, but said: "I came out of my house because I heard a load of noise.
"The guy was running down the alley at the side of my house and he dropped his keys down there. He was dressed all in black, about six feet tall and he had a Call of Duty skull mask."
At about 7.30am on Thursday, a man had £200 stolen from him and was punched to the ground in Dorris Street.
On Saturday night, at about 10.15pm, Craig Greenhalgh, aged 23, was attacked on his way home from the pub, where he had been celebrating the birth of his daughter with friends.
The attackers did not steal anything but Mr Greenhalgh was punched in the jaw during the struggle in Back Deane Church Lane.
Staff at Talking Heads were threatened with an eight-inch kitchen knife and handed over about £200 in the raid at 3pm on Thursday. On Saturday, the thugs stole about £350 from Cabello for Hair at noon.
One robber is described as being in his early 20s, six feet tall with a dark-coloured scarf over his face. The second man is said to be about 5ft 9ins tall, gaunt, with a dark hooded top.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
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11:25am Mon 20 Jan 14
soup153 says...
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danssoncabaret says...
Crazy 38 your remark was stupid and totally unhelpful when there are victims suffering trauma.
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Reebok Rhythm says...
2:16pm Mon 20 Jan 14
Jim271 says...
So there was no crime under Labour then????
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Jim271 says...
Isn't it sad that the only thing he can do to contribute to society will be to top himself and save the taxpayer thousands.
2:24pm Tue 21 Jan 14
Reebok Rhythm says...
Jim271 wrote:Unrelated to this particular article, Jim, but I have to agree with you. There is no deterrent whatsoever and lengthy custodial sentences only hinder the plight of our economic defecit. Some people do not deserve to draw breath from this planet.
Michael Cope has been sentenced to 27 years for murder.
Isn't it sad that the only thing he can do to contribute to society will be to top himself and save the taxpayer thousands.
It won't be too long until there is some kind of New World Order/ Multi-national control, just read between the lines.
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Reebok Rhythm says...
FreedomOfSpeech1945 wrote:Thomas, is that you? lol! A pseudonym? :-)
I think that BWFC71 will know who is behind the robberies as after all, he does know everything!
9:06am Wed 22 Jan 14
Reebok Rhythm says...
FreedomOfSpeech1945 wrote:Thomas, is that you? lol! A pseudonym? :-)
I think that BWFC71 will know who is behind the robberies as after all, he does know everything!
9:42am Wed 22 Jan 14
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Jim271 says...
He bloke said hes not been robbed for ten years,
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By Mac Cerullo
Staff Writer
---- — GROVELAND — Harriett Stanley, waiting for her plate of meatloaf and french fries, looked out the window of the Groveland Diner at the Bates Bridge and thought back to the day 18 years ago when she stood on the restaurant's steps and launched her first campaign for public office.
The view has changed a bit since the summer of 1994; back then, the diner was still called Sheehan's Restaurant and the warm summer sun reflecting off the Merrimack River helped make the 81-year-old truss bridge look a little less dilapidated than it really was.
Today, a replacement bridge is rising from the water next to the aging structure, a point of considerable pride for the Democratic state legislator from West Newbury, but the view is foggier, and not just because of the cold wintry mix that coated the landscape one recent day.
"Everybody has a time, and I think you need to know when it is," she said. "I've been bipartisan since the day I got there, and I haven't changed, but there is no room in politics for someone who calls it down the middle. You have to be so extreme, and that's why we can't get anything done."
On Jan. 2, Stanley, 62, will step down as state representative after 18 years on Beacon Hill. When she does, she will leave behind an ideologically divided house where power is consolidated within the leadership and legislators are discouraged from being independent thinkers.
"They're expected to go along with what they're told to do," Stanley said. "But that's not me. It never was me."
Back when Stanley was first elected as 2nd Essex District representative, the political climate was much different. She arrived on Beacon Hill with 30 other freshmen, many of them Republicans, and despite the typical split between liberals and conservatives, the freshmen bonded and frequently voted together, becoming a powerful force on the Statehouse floor.
But now, Stanley is among the last of a dying breed of moderates in an increasingly polarized political jungle. Over the course of her career, the nature of political discourse began to change and people began to take sides. Before long, the middle ground virtually disappeared, and common sense disappeared along with it, she said.
"Politics has been said to be the art of compromise, but I would say it's not an art, but a battle, and it's a battle to be able to get things done," Stanley said. "There are times now when we'd rather be ideologically pure than to say, 'we've got to get this done.'"
Mastering the rules
Stanley spoke about the hierarchy that exists within the Statehouse and how in order to be an effective legislator, one has to learn the rules of the game quickly and play by those rules in order to get things done on their district's behalf.
On Beacon Hill, the hierarchy is anything but subtle, Stanley said, and she found herself on every rung of the ladder at some point during her career.
At the height of her tenure, Stanley had an extravagant office on the third floor of the Statehouse, complete with mahogany bookshelves, a couch, a "fabulous" writing desk and even a chandelier. Her office was so big that guests would have to walk 30 or 40 feet from the door just to reach her desk.
The message was clear; if you had a third-floor office, you were powerful.
But as Stanley fell out of favor with her party's leadership, she was bumped to a more mundane office on the second floor, and eventually she was banished all the way to the basement, where she remains to this day.
"I have the office that's the farthest from the chamber," she said. "We have fans going 24 hours a day because it's either way too hot or way too cold. I can't have any plants because there is no light."
Stanley's successor doesn't figure to have it much better, at least not right off the bat. The basement is usually reserved for freshman members of the minority party, usually Republicans, and Lenny Mirra, a Republican from West Newbury who won the election to fill Stanley's seat, will be the only freshman Republican in the House for this upcoming session.
Stanley said Mirra won't even get her old office, because she did get one perk that other basement dwellers didn't have.
"I had my own door," she said. "Freshmen won't get that."
Stanley said she wouldn't recommend the path she chose to everyone, and that even if there has to come a point in a legislative career when you have to tell the party leadership "no can do," it would be best to play along if you can't deal with the consequences.
"If you can't take that, don't go there," she said. "I think you should play the game for as long as you can and you should do very well for your district."
Stanley said she is proud of the things she was able to accomplish while in office, particularly getting the Bates Bridge replacement project funded and helping abolish Essex County as a government entity, which she said has saved the state more than $1 billion.
She also defended her position on earmarks, which she acknowledged can be controversial, but said she believed they are a good thing when there is money available.
"Over the 18 years, I've brought just over $100 million, and those are earmarked funds that would not have been here in any other way," she said. "That's about $2,500 for every person that lives here. I'm really proud of that."
Stanley said the people of the 2nd Essex District were always her top priority, and she loved walking around the district, dropping into local shops and hearing from her constituents, who would always tell her exactly how they thought she was doing, good or bad.
Case in point: One time she was visiting a senior center in Methuen when an elderly lady stormed in and demanded to know who the lady doing the state budget was.
At the time, Stanley was heavily involved in the state budgeting process, so everyone pointed at her. The lady immediately walked over, got right in her face and shouted, "You're killing me!"
The room immediately fell quiet, and everyone watched as the lady pulled out her purse and opened it up.
"This is how much medicine I take," she said. "I need help paying for it and if you don't give me a way to do it, you're killing me!'"
You don't get that kind of feedback from a line item on a spreadsheet, Stanley said. Even though Massachusetts had the best prescription drug program in the country at the time, she decided to fund the program in large part because of that encounter.
"That's pretty high impact," Stanley said.
However, there were plenty of times when Stanley had to stand her ground against the views of her constituents, too.
On one occasion, she was at the Groveland Diner holding office hours when a couple came in and explained that the husband had just lost his job and had to retire early, all of their kids were divorced, one of them had just gotten in trouble with the law, and because of all that, Stanley had to vote against gay marriage or their lives would be ruined.
"Life had not dealt them a series of good things, but gay marriage wasn't one of them," said Stanley, who has been a strong advocate of gay rights. "I sat right here listening to him for about an hour, and I said, 'Well, I understand all of your problems, and if we can help you, we will, but I am voting for it.'"
Whether it was having a conversation like this during her district hours, a 6 a.m. phone call at home or a random encounter on the street, Stanley said she would really miss working with her constituents and trying her best to do right by them.
As for the things she won't miss?
After a long pause, Stanley said, "I will not miss the pomp and circumstance," adding that all of the formalities associated with the Legislature were cool at first, but became tiresome after a while.
"At one particular event, we were encouraged to stand up and give a standing ovation to our speaker, who's now in jail. I won't miss that," she said.
The view ahead
Despite her eventual banishment to the Statehouse basement, Stanley said she feels her legacy is strong and that she will be leaving satisfied with her work.
"I won nine straight elections, what does that tell you," she said. "I've probably gotten 400 to 500 cards and emails from people saying, 'Good for you for calling them like you saw them.' So I feel good."
Once her term officially ends next week, Stanley said she plans on getting away someplace warm for a bit. She added that she won't be globalizing her phone, saying she thinks it would be best if she falls off the grid for a while so Mirra can settle in on his own.
But until Jan. 2, Stanley said she would be there for her constituents, like they always have been for her.
"These guys took a chance on me in 1994," Stanley said. "And I think I proved to be a good investment for them."


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Have you been watching your Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows channel lately? Yes, that's right, for among the things launched today with the Scholastic "There Will Soon Be 7" campaign and revamped Harry Potter website the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels also revealed their official "Deathly Hallows" You Tube video page. Via this link, you can see the video question asked today, as well as a video with a cover shot of the book from Scholastic. One new question will be revealed every two weeks leading up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21, 2007. No word yet if Dudley has subscribed to the channel. ;-)
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PHOTO CALL: Jay Armstrong Johnson, Alysha Umphress, Alex Brightman, Elly Noble, Corey Mach and More Sing Not At This Performance
By Joseph Marzullo
A host of Broadway understudies, who never had the opportunity to go on in the roles they were covering, got their chance to stand in the spotlight Jan. 20 at 54 Below in an evening titled Not At This Performance.
The concert featured the talents of Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hands on a Hard Body, Catch Me If You Can), Alysha Umphress (American Idiot, On a Clear Day), Alex Brightman (Wicked, Glory Days), Jake Boyd (Carrie, Rock of Ages), Eric Michael Krop (Godspell), Corey Mach (Hands on a Hard Body, Godspell), Elly Noble (Carrie), Justin Patterson (A Little Night Music, Memphis) and Constantine Rousouli (Ghost, Wicked). Show time is 9:30 PM.
Attendees heard songs from A Little Night Music, Carrie, Catch Me If You Can, Ghost, Glory Days, Godspell and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
The concert was produced by Shoshana Feinstein with music direction by Benjamin M. Rauhala.
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- individual and group work
- group work: should describe the contributions of each person
- assign students to review two or three programs
- see all the people who have acknowledged your help
- monitor student activity
- peer pressure =)
On Monday, I'll give a short questionnaire to the students who did not
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News: Boxing Legend Passes, Jadakiss, J. Cole, Floyd Mayweather & More React
Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011 12:00AM
The boxing world lost a renowned former champion in 67 year-old Joe Frazier who passed away Monday (November 7) from cancer resulting in a streamline of hip-hop reactions.
The LOX's Jadakiss took to his Twitter page to pay homage.
"One Love! #smoking JOE," he tweeted November 7th. (Jadakiss' Twitter)
Roc Nation protege J. Cole also used the social networking platform to give his respect to Frazier's memory.
"Up goes Frazier.. RIP," J. Cole tweeted November 7th. (J. Cole's Twitter)
Rap veteran Chuck D reflected on Frazier and what the ex-boxer's death meant to him.
"R.I.P. Smokin Joe Frazier."
"Always wanted to meet JoeFrazier,never did.Which makes me appreciate more doing positive work wit another of my heroes Mr KareemAbdulJabbar" (Chuck D's Twitter)
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. paid his respect to the Frazier family.
"RIP Smokin Joe. My thoughts and prayers go out to to the Frazier family. We lost an all time great tonight.," Mayweather tweeted.
"My Condolences go out to the family of the late great Joe Frazier. #TheMoneyTeam will pay for his Funeral services." (Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s Twitter)
Frazier passed away at the age of 67 from liver cancer.
Joe Frazier, a tough, underrated heavyweight boxer from Philadelphia and one of the sport's fiercest competitors who spent a lifetime playing second fiddle to his nemesis, Muhammad Ali, died Monday night from liver cancer. Frazier was 67. Frazier was diagnosed with cancer in late September, said his personal and business manager, Leslie Wolff. He had made several personal appearances since then. (USA Today)


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Volleyball puts conference win streak on the line Thursday
Sept. 27, 2005
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- - When Belmont picked up a 3-1 win over the Jacksonville volleyball team on Oct. 1, 2004, little did they know they were waking a sleeping giant.
Now, almost a year later, the Dolphins (5-10, 1-0 A-Sun) haven't lost a match in Atlantic Sun Conference play and put their 11-match winning streak on the line Thursday night against archrival and A-Sun newcomer North Florida.
"Honestly the streak hasn't even been talked about with our team," said head coach Kevin Paul said. "I'm not even sure the girls know about it. Putting it on the line with UNF is no different than any other conference team, we don't want to lose. UNF will be a very good test for us early in conference, that program is used to winning and when you go against a team with a history of winning it makes it that much harder regardless of talent. I feel very good about where we are right now as a team and things are coming along as planned, we are confident and hungry to prove ourselves that last year's finish was for real."
The 2005 season is eerily similar to the 2004 campaign's beginning. Compare these facts:
- The Dolphins opened 2004 by going 0-7. In 2005, JU opened 1-9.
- Jacksonville got hot in conference play in 2004, winning eight of 10 matches, including seven in a row to end the regular season. This year, the Dolphins opened their A-Sun schedule with a dominating 3-0 win over Stetson.
- Both teams were able to beat in-state rival UCF, 3-0.
"It's a great thing to have going simply because that means we are playing well when we need to and we know what matches are most important to us," Paul said.
Jacksonville's 11-match winning streak will be put to the test by North Florida, which beat JU 3-0 a year ago at home and 3-0 at UNF in 2003.
"There are numerous reasons we want to beat UNF," Paul said. "Obviously the fact they are now in the Atlantic Sun and it's another step to the title, which is our main goal. Outside of that, it's a huge match in terms of bragging rights in the city. There are a lot of people paying attention to this particular match around town and it's very important we come away with this win. UNF has beaten us the last two meetings and we are aware of that. The team's attitude is a little more intense because they want this win and they know what they have to do to get it. As of now, UNF is the biggest match ever to them."
Last year's dream run to the A-Sun tournament championship began with a couple of easy wins and turned into a run for the ages.
The streak began with 3-0 wins over Troy and Lipscomb and was followed by a hard fought 3-2 win over Campbell at home.
Jacksonville kept rolling, sweeping Gardner-Webb and Stetson to set up a matchup against Florida Atlantic.
The Dolphins pulled out a 3-2 win on the road and followed with a 3-0 whitewash of UCF to enter the conference tournament with seven straight wins in A-Sun play.
And Jacksonville kept that momentum going, knocking off UCF 3-0 and following it up with a 3-2 upset of Florida Atlantic in the semifinals and avenged that loss to Belmont with a 3-2 win in the title game.
The Dolphins' 11-match winning streak goes on the line Thursday night at 7 p.m. at Swisher Gymnasium.


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Head coach Brandon Roe said his team played a solid offensive game, led by Kaycee Franklin's 17 points. Megan Droll added 11.
Florence improved its record to 7-10 overall and an even .500 in T-PL games (5-5).
The Huskies' next game will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Buena Vista in another key T-PL game. The Demons entered their game against Colorado Springs Christian School on Tuesday with an 8-8 overall record and were 3-6 in T-PL play.
If the Huskies beat the Demons, they'll have a stranglehold on fourth place in the T-PL West, which means they'll host a crossover game against a T-PL East opponent. If the Huskies do finish fourth and win the crossover game, they'll qualify for the state tournament. If they lose the crossover game, their season is over.
Florence boys wallop Danes
The Florence Huskies boys basketball team picked up a 60-35 Tri-Peaks League win against the Fountain Valley Danes on the road Tuesday.
Ryan Wilson led all scorers with 22 points, including six 3-pointers. Ethan Bombardier added 10.
Huskies coach Mark Marquez said his team played well defensively.
Florence improved to 6-10 overall and now is 4-6 in league play. The win also locks up the fifth-place spot in the T-PL West standings, although the Huskies could still move up to fourth. The difference between fourth and fifth is whether the Huskies would host the crossover game with a T-PL East foe or if they'd travel. That game will have win-or-be-done implications. A win would put the Huskies in the state tournament, while a loss would end the season.
Florence's next game will be at 7 p.m. Friday in Buena Vista following the girls game. The Demons (5-11, 4-5) are the team the Huskies are chasing for fourth place, so a win would go a long ways in the standings.
Coaches are asked to phone in results as soon as their events conclude. Reported results that don't appear in the newspaper will be published at canoncitydailyrecord.com. For updates on games, "like" our page at Facebook.com/CCDRsports.
The remainder of the schedule for the Florence Huskies girls basketball team.
Friday: Florence at Buena Vista, 5:30 p.m.*
Feb. 20: Florence vs. Colorado Springs Christian School, 5:30 p.m.*
* Tri-Peaks League West game
What's on Deck
The remainder of the schedule for the Florence Huskies boys basketball team.
Friday: Florence at Buena Vista, 7 p.m.*
Tuesday: Florence vs. Colorado Springs Christian School, 7 p.m.*
Feb. 21: Florence at Bishop Machebeuf, 7 p.m.
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Cherokee County officers are continuing their investigation at the courthouse Wednesday afternoon after a phone call was made about a potential bomb threat.
Cherokee County Undersheriff Jason Chennault told KTUL.com that officers were made aware of the bomb threat at the courthouse around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The courthouse is located in Tahlequah.
Chennault said that following the phone call Tahlequah Fire and Police responded to the courthouse where they evacuated a total of 240 people. Oklahoma Highway Patrol and their bomb squad were called to assist the emergency crews during the response.
Around noon, officials announced no evidence of a bomb but continued to sweep the building. Two suspects are currently being questioned for their involvement and police are attempting to trace the phone that called in the threat
Chennault said that the courthouse will remained closed through 1 p.m. No other information was available at the time.
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River of Life Christian Church would like to thank all of those who helped make our 43rd annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner an overwhelming success. We served 633 meals, a new record.
Without the help of so many people we could not do this project year after year.
First, the members of our congregation deserve a big "pat on the back." Their generous contributions, help, unfailing support and prayers make it all possible.
Several other members of our community have stepped up to help, too. The Roosters have provided the green beans and the sweet potatoes for several years. This year Martin's Supermarket, Walmart and Main Street Market on Broadway donated several of the 28 turkeys that were used. Extra refrigerators were provided by Aaron's, Direct Maytag, and Rent-a-Center.
Several businesses and organizations in town allowed us to place flyers in their stores and offices. The Pharos-Tribune and the radio stations supported our efforts, too.
Many community members just "show up" to help in whatever way they can. Lastly, our pastor, Frank Hibbard, provided an inspiring message before the meal.
All of these pieces fit together to make our dinner memorable.
Marsha Iles and Connie Kiesling, co-chairpersons, River of Life Christian Church


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Flash Lite 3.0 supports 2 new features for Flash stub developers. This is only applicable to the Nokia version of Flash Lite.
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SWF in the stub application can refer to library SWF. FlashUIConfig defined in flash_ui.h has to be used to pass the precompiled SWF file to the stub application. This precompiled SWF has to be in the private data caged area to protect it from accidental deletion or replacing by malicious SWFs. FlashUIConfig.iReserved1 is used to set the ActionScript library. If Flash stub applications do not use the precompiled ActionScript library, they should set FlashUIConfig.iReserved1 to NULL.
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We would like to use this caption for this picture: "This right here is America!" Truly, when you close your eyes and try to resurrect in your mind the country in which you spent four months, you imagine not Washington with its gardens, columns, and ... memorials; not New York with its skyscrapers, with its poverty and riches; not San Francisco with its steep streets and ... bridges; ... but this intersection of two roads and a gas station. [3]This right here is America! I'm not sure that's how Wim Wenders felt while motoring through the back roads and small towns of Texas — the mood in Paris, Texas is more alienated and elegiac than enthusiastic or exclamatory — but that's just how I feel when I'm on that westbound drive from Louisiana, heading for Houston. So as I watch the film, I re-experience my personal geography, tracking the highways and roads and streets of my own journeys back to Houston, the first city I called home.
Only a very few of these pictures have no trace of people. In most of them there is something or other that will no longer be there one day, something that may already have disappeared as we talk. Or in ten years, or a hundred. Take Houston: everything is so new, so very artificial. The buildings are like toys, like a Lego city, as if the architecture were a game. Inevitably you feel that it can't last. [6]No wonder the Houston of Wenders's movie (shot by his frequent collaborator Robby Müller) seems so dream-like — a sanitized assemblage of concrete and limestone car parks; of banks and hotels veiled in shiny reflective glass; of neon-lit interiors that shimmer as if otherworldly. The streets are empty. We hear only the occasional whoosh of a passing car. In Wenders's vision of the American metropolis, Houston is utopia and uchronia, a city that defies place and time.


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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Jurors have found Joseph Banis guilty of the murder of Jamie Carroll. He was also found guilty of robbery, forgery, tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of a forged instrument and possession of meth.
Carroll's body was found in June 2010 buried in a plastic container in the basement of the Old Louisville home Banis shared with his then-boyfriend, co-defendant Jeffrey Mundt. Prosecutors say Carroll was shot and stabbed to death in December 2009.
Mundt spent nearly two days on the stand telling jurors it was Banis who killed Carroll. During closing arguments on Thursday, defense attorney Darren Wolff called Mundt's credibility into question while showing jurors a picture of Mundt crying during his initial interview with police.
In a surprise move on Wednesday, Banis' defense rested without calling Banis to the stand. Defense attorney Justin Brown had told jurors during opening statements on February 26 that Banis definitely would testify.
Over the course of a week, jurors heard testimony that was often salacious and sexually explicit. It centered on the nature of Banis and Mundt's relationship and their relationship with Jamie Carroll.
Mundt's trial is scheduled for this summer. Because he agreed to testify against Banis, the death penalty will not be sought in his case.
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Family pay tribute to "well-known and respected" Penrith man
The family of a pedestrian who died following a road traffic collision in Penrith on Wednesday morning have paid tribute to a "well-known and respected" member of his community.
77-year-old Thomas Christopher Thompson, from Lazonby, died after he was involved in a collision in the car park at Penrith hospital.
He had been on a routine errand at the hospital and was hit by a Suzuki Swift. which was being driven by a 74 year old woman from the Penrith area.
Mr Thompson died at the scene. He leaves behind a wife Shirley, daughters Carolyn and Christine and son Dave. He also leaves behind his sons-in-law Joe, Dennis and daughter-in-law Gail.
"He was a well-known and respected fell pony breeder and retired local farmer. "We are devastated by our loss. Chris Thompson farmed at High Drybarrows, Bampton, prior to retiring with his wife to Lazonby."
- Mr Thompson's family
Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact Cumbria Constabulary's Headquarters road Policing Unit on telephone 101.


text: We are in traditional ballad country the second Auden writes "As I Walked Out One Evening" (see "The Streets of Laredo"). He is not mocking the structure or form of the ballad (except perhaps the way a lover would tease his beloved); he is reveling in the cliche. He trusts his own ability to have fun with cliché (something Ashbery also trusts).


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BATON ROUGE - Shavon Coleman poured in 14 of his game-high 18 points during the second half to propel the LSU men's basketball team to a 72-67 comeback victory over Seton Hall as part of the SEC/BIG EAST Challenge Thursday at the Maravich Center.
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