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"Santini should have stayed dead"
In the Great Santini,, Bull dies. In the Death of Santini he rises from the dead and I wish he had not. Listening to this book was like watching sausage being made. I didn't want to hear about the many frailties of Pat Conroy. He came across as whiny. I couldn't understand how he could have his hated father on book signing tours.
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I think Pat Conroy has mined this "dysfunctional family" about as much as possible. Move on Pat.
"Cook Don't Read"
I enjoy watching the celebrity chefs on TV and thought that I would like to hear the story of this Ethiopian, Swedish chef's story. The story is interesting if you are interested in the stories of people like Anthony Bourdain. MS can't read his own work outloud. He is awful. English is his third language which makes his pronunciation somewhat difficult but still... There is a lot of ego in this book, I expected that. I just think it would have been better served by a better reader.
The hard path of a potential chef.
No. The best parts are said.
Keep cooking Mr. Samuelsson.
"Great, unknown story"
Yes, it is a fascinating story, well told
TR is always interesting
Can't say
Liked it from start to finish, the description of the rain forest was so unexpected
I can' wait to hear her newest book
"I don't understand"
This book only had one rating and it was just 2 stars. This is an amazing book. It is sharp, funny, sad and so acute in its description of growing up poor. The author and his sibs were abused by a drunk father and an indifferent mother. He doesn't whine, he tells about his way of surviving.
"very good listen"
This was an amazing listen. I do not follow tennis closely but I wish that I had watched him play more after hearing this book. He is brutally frank about his feelings for Pete and Brook but beautifully frank about his love for his wife Steph. Graff. What a lonely life and what a happy finish.
"Triple bodice ripper"
Hated the reader, hated the story. I should say, the excuse for a story. It was a platform for three separate generations of "amazing, endless sex". A very little WWII and post 911 intrigue tossed in.
"Great voice"
The reader had a good voice but the author had a great voice. The language of New York was so rich. I really enjoyed listening to this book.
"A lesson before living"
This careless young man thinks that he can do what he wants in a foreign country. He smuggles dope into Korea. He is caught and then is sure that he will be let go because he has never had to face a consequence before-he is an American after all. Korea has other ideas and he spends time in jail. He could have left that country bitter but instead learns many valuable lessons. He grows up. He comes home a very different person.
"Not quite as thrilling"
This book isn't quite as thrilling as the Devil in White City because the bad guy wasn't bad, just hen-pecked and the good guy wasn't good. Larson always intertains with science. It is my least favorite of the three he has written but it still is fascinating reading about the beginning of wireless transmission. I can't wait to see what his next juxtaposition will be.
I loved this book. There were so many interactions to focus on but the one I liked the best was between Rosemary and the 93 or 90 year old resident of the nursing home. I have been to many nursing homes and realize how hard it is to see the people "parked" outside their rooms as anything but furniture. Rosemary was a great example of grace. Her kind attention to this one old man was a center piece of the the book. She just took time to listen and care.
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Seen at the Movies: After seeing Alan Parker's The Life of David Gale, I overheard someone saying what seems obvious if you go to movies a lot these days: The quality of acting in American films has never been higher; most are directed with a fair amount of skill; and, for the most part, they certainly look great. But the writing talent just doesn't seem to be out there. David Gale is meant by Parker to be a passionate anti-capital punishment plea, but Charles Randolph's script for the film, predictably enough, devolves into a breathless murder mystery. That's fair for a medium that calls for action, but the solution Randolph comes up with is not only far-fetched, it balls up whatever argument the movie is trying to make. There are also hoary, telescoped devices like an overheating car that should have been dumped in a second draft.
The Life of David Gale
That said, The Life of David Gale is absorbing, and yes, well acted, well directed, and well shot. Kevin Spacey plays the title character, an anti-death penalty activist about to be executed in Texas for the murder of fellow activist Laura Linney. Kate Winslet is the reporter granted his story, which we see in three lengthy flashbacks. A svelter-than-we-remember Winslet seems uncomfortable, but Spacey is good in the flashback scenes (in the present-day material, he comes off as a little too saintly), and Linney is outstanding. Parker works with longtime collaborators like DP Michael Seresin and production designer Geoffrey Kirkland, who capture outsider Winslet's perspective on the prison town of Huntsville as a backwater setting of ignorance and menace. (Amazingly, the filmmakers were able to visit and duplicate the Huntsville unit where all Texas executions take place.) The flashbacks, set in Austin, provide a much nicer advertisement for the state. Costumes are by Renee Ehrlich Kalfus.
The Life of David Gale photos: David Appleby/Universal Pictures
More disappointing in a way than The Life of David Gale is Dark Blue, directed by Ron Shelton and with a story by L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy. Based on the combination of Shelton (who directed Bull Durham and White Men Can't Jump), Ellroy, and the film's milieu—LAPD culture around the time of the 1992 riots—I was expecting a lot, but much of the movie turns out to be a standard corrupt racist cop movie with a Training Day-like setup. Kurt Russell, who is the best reason to see the movie, is the seasoned, rotten older detective, Scott Speedman his green partner who still has a bit of idealism left in him. The atmosphere is thick in DP Barry Peterson and production designer Dennis Washington's depiction of L.A.'s mean streets, but by the time the rioting happens, it simply provides snatches of background to the less compelling foregrounded story—rather like the way the Draft Riots take a back seat to the DiCaprio/Day-Lewis face-off in Gangs of New York.
Dark Blue photo: Robert Zuckerman/United Artists Films
Did I say American movies usually look good? Old School, a wacky comedy from the gang who brought us the funnier Road Trip is definitely the exception that proves the rule. It's indifferently photographed by Mark Irwin, who in better days worked with David Cronenberg. Will Ferrell provides a few laughs. . . . Much more enjoyable is British hit Lawless Heart, in which the aftermath of a small-town gay man's drowning is looked at from three different points of view, brother-in-law Bill Nighy's being the most eccentric and entertaining. Writer-directors Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter have a real command of Rashomon storytelling style. DP Sean Bobbitt and production designer Lynne Whiteread make the most of the film's unusual, overcast Isle of Man location. —John Calhoun
Seen Off Broadway: Far and Wide is Jonathan Bank's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Das Weite Land, a play best-known in English in a Tom Stoppard adaptation titled Another Country. This 1911 play provides a rather complete study of the etiquette of adultery in upper-middle-class Vienna. Those rules may look remarkably flexible—a husband and wife may even discuss each others' lovers in civilized fashion—but, underneath the flirting, the tennis games, and moonlit assignations, death is lurking. Even in a slimmed-down production (Banks has eliminated several minor characters) the Mint Theatre Company production is only just good enough to suggest the play's power, its mixture of humor, melancholy, and quietly expressed outrage. Still, Lisa Bostnar is good as the charming wife who learns, to her horror, that fidelity to her husband causes another man's death, and Hans Tester is both convincingly self-satisfied and self-loathing as her predatory spouse. There's good work from Ezra Barnes as a decent physician who can't stop tragedy when he recognizes it, and from Lee Bryant as a middle-aged divorcee who holds no illusions about romantic or parental love. The design, however, is a little odd: Charged with suggesting several locations, set designer Vicki R. Davis has deployed an arrangement of chain link fences as the main scenic feature; the look is closer to West Side Story than anything Schnitzler ever wrote. On the other hand, Theresa Squire's costumes are a game attempt at using contemporary clothing to suggest period wear and Josh Bradford's lighting is simple and clean. Stefan Jacobs' sound design consists of very few cues, reasonably executed. Far and Wide is far from sensational, but you don't see Schnitzler's work every day, which makes it worth a look. —David Barbour
Far and Wide photo: Richard Termine
Seen in Brooklyn: BAM has done it again with a double bill of fantastic classic theatre from England! This time the work comes from the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse in London, a small theatre near Covent Garden that turns out consistently good work. And no wonder, as for the past decade—1992 to 2002—the Donmar was helmed by director Sam Mendes, director of the current production of Cabaret on Broadway, as well as the two wonderful productions currently at BAM: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night. In fact, Mendes just won three Olivier Awards (the UK equivalent of the Tonys) including one for best revival of these two plays and one for best director. The plays shared one cast as well as one design team, with sets by Anthony Ward, costumes by Mark Thompson, lighting by Hugh Vanstone recreated for BAM by David Holmes, and sound by Paul Arditti.
Ward's sets are simple but beautiful. In Uncle Vanya, the action takes place in one room, signified by an extremely long dining room table. As is typical of Chekhovian theatre, the room is as stifling as the lives of the characters, all of whom are yearning for something they cannot have, from Vanya's dreams of environmental conservation to Sonya's unrequited love for Mikhail Astrov, a doctor from a neighboring estate. The exterior of the estate appears as a field of uncut wheat, whose reaping is jeopardized by the ongoing rain. Vanstone's lighting follows the seasons as well as the times of day as life continues drearily on this dreary estate (one wonders why Chekhov's characters simply don't go on strike and get themselves into different plays). The light seems to dance on the wheat as if something more interesting might happen outside.
Uncle Vanya
The costumes evoke the Russian upper classes, with Helen McCrory as Yelena appearing in sumptuous outfits, from a confectionary cotton candy white lace dress with hat and parasol in the summer to earthy-toned ruffles in the fall. The beauty of Emily Watson is underplayed as Sonya, who wears unbecoming school-marmish outfits. However, she is a knockout in Twelfth Night, where, as Viola, dressed as Cesario, her beauty is allowed to shine. And this time she gets her man: Actor Mark Strong, seen as the doctor, also appears as Orsino, the Duke who is refused by the sultry brunette beauty of McCrory as Olivia (dressed in sexy black undergarments and a fur coat) yet succumbs to the charms of Viola, once her twin Sebastian shows up to clear the air. Gyuri Sarossy's Sebastian and Watson's Cesario look enough alike, dressed in black riding boots, gray trousers, and a long gray coat, to make the twinning believable.
Twelfth Night
Simon Russell Beale, one of the UK's leading actors of the moment, doubles as Vanya and Malvolio, two characters who are unlucky in love. In Uncle Vanya, he longs after Yelana to no avail, and in Twelfth Night, it is still McCrory he fancies as Olivia. His best comic moment comes in the famous yellow stocking cross gartered scene, in which Malvolio throws aside his conservative garb and persona to don a flowing white shirt and black robe over black pants and the infamous socks. This folly leads to a very sad scene where he is bound in a straitjacket; a warning to those who seek love in all the wrong places.
The intimate stage at BAM's Harvey Theatre adapted itself very well to the simple yet beautifully effective staging of these plays, both performed with live music. The set for Twelfth Night was atwinkle with dozens of small lanterns with candles suspended in the air and a sea of candles on the floor, with one oversized picture frame standing center stage, as if to mirror the emotional impact of the play. Both this Uncle Vanya and this Twelfth Night made quite an impact in Brooklyn and are in fact some of the hottest tickets in town. See one or both (they run through March 8). Design-wise they represent the kind of top-notch work that one sees on a regular basis in the UK, and one is thankful that BAM brings to the US. —Ellen Lampert-Gréaux


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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Make a Bunny Cake for Easter!
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Monday with Hayley Mills: Pollyanna Soundtrack
As Disney has never released an entire Pollyanna OST listen to it while it lasts!
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Idea Book (1965)
Monday, March 10, 2014
Monday with Hayley Mills: Biking
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Countdown to New Year: Day 5
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Countdown to New Year: Day 4
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Countdown to New Year: Day 3
Two and a bit New Year's-themed stories from Big Shot #9 (January 1941).
New Year's resolution be durned! Mike the Mascot. Feature is uncredited.
Reprinted newspaper strip The Bungle Family by H. J. Tuthill. The Little Brother header strip is uncredited.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Countdown to New Year: Day 2
Eagerly waiting for 2013 to be done. The New Year of 2014 is an arbitrary change but like the phenomenon where a person walks through a door and forgets what they are doing maybe the simple change in the date will cause a psychological re-think in people.
Until the Obama election sent a clear message that the old ways of oppression were dying the bigots remained for the most part under their nasty dank rocks. When exposed outside of their little circle of like-minded creatures they scurried away and erased their tracks.
Their bold and increasingly horrible behavior since 2009 is made most publicly evident in the hero worship of bigoted faux-hillbilly Duck Dynasty matriarch and the crocodile piety and exploitative hucksterism of George Zimmerman. For every Phil Robertson that manages to stick around there is a Justine Sacco and Christine Neese that has to flee, deleting every aspect of social media as they run and cower. George Zimmerman is the bloated poster boy of an America so racist they will rally around a figure that a relatively short time ago they would have ridiculed and ostracized as a representative of the very people they target for discrimination. George may be their public face of the moment but he is also considered "one of those" and will undoubtedly be discarded as soon as some other more attractive figure is thrust into the national spotlight by circumstance.
2014 has to be better, even as it appears 2013 was the nadir of recent years. This public parade of hate disguised by religion and freedom is the reflexive twitching of a loathsome and mortally wounded beast too stupid to know it is dead, limbs flailing long after the body is deceased.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Countdown to New Year: Day 1
Arts and Craters, Do It Yourselfers and paper doll enthusiasts can get ready for the New Year by assembling this vintage animated paper doll set of Father Time unpacking the baby New Year!
From Child Life (December 1928). Art by Dukes McKee.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Christmas: Day 26
Christmas is done for another year. In America that means it is back to work for most people but in quite a few countries the day after Christmas is something called Boxing Day. For those places that recognize Boxing Day it is basically an extra holiday. There are parades, parties and an extravaganza of retail sales similar to those of the day after Thanksgiving sales of Black Friday in the United States.
I'm actually jealous of Boxing Day. It would be great as Christmas becomes less mystical and more secular that the US would graft an extra day off onto the holiday. More parades and shopping seems like a great idea to me.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The expected boom in natural gas drilling could extend to the Wilds, an outdoor exotic animal preserve established by a consortium of zoos in eastern Ohio.
And that prospect has sparked some concern from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium that operates the nearly 10,000-acre preserve.
Columbus-based American Electric Power leased mineral rights below the preserve to Anadarko Petroleum last year as part of an agreement that gave the Texas-based company access to 150,000 acres of AEP-owned mineral rights in eastern Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch reported Wednesday (http://bit.ly/zcbqAd).
The preserve on reclaimed mine land has some traditional gas wells, but none that use the much-debated process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, where chemical-laced water is blasted into shale to release natural gas. Environmental advocates have argued that spills and poorly designed wells can poison streams, groundwater and wildlife, while industry officials say they take safety measures to ensure that won't happen.
The Columbus Zoo knew talks were going on between the utility and the company, but was not aware the lease had been signed, said zoo CEO Dale Schmidt.
"Any time there is anything that goes on around the animals, we have concerns," he said.
Schmidt said that lights or noise from a 24-hour-a-day operation would need to be monitored as well as environmental concerns because the preserve is a breeding facility that needs a normal light sequence.
Jack Hanna, a former Columbus Zoo director who has given animal demonstrations on national television, has been involved with the Wilds for decades. He told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he shares in the concerns, but hopes they can be resolved by everyone working together.
Hanna said fuel sources are necessary and that if the company can get what it needs without endangering the animals, "it could be a tremendous model for everybody."
AEP and Anadarko have said that precautions will be taken to protect animals and visitors when any drilling begins. Anadarko also says that it has put up sound and light barriers around drill sites and reduced operating hours at rigs in some cases.
"We certainly recognize the unique environment and considerations that must be made in that area," said Anadarko spokesman John Christiansen.
The power company retains the right to approve all well locations, and "would not do anything that would be detrimental" to the Wilds, said AEP spokesman Pat Hemlepp.
Interest in Ohio's Utica shale has surged as drilling companies offer bonuses of $2,000 to $5,000 per acre to get landowners to sign leases and offer them annual royalty payments for any oil and gas the wells produce.
The lease terms for the area below the preserve were not disclosed, but financial statements AEP filed this year show it will receive about $15 million over the next seven years for leasing the mineral rights. The utility also will receive an unspecified amount in royalties.
The Wilds sits atop reclaimed strip-mine land that AEP donated for use as a wildlife park and research center.
None of the 127 shale-drilling permits the state has issued since 2009 is located within the Wilds, but records show the company has drilled one well and is drilling two more, all east of the Wilds.
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com


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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Construction work on a 2.4-mile stretch of the northbound San Diego (405) Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass will prompt a 55-hour lane reduction beginning tonight, and all northbound lanes will be closed for five hours each morning through Monday, officials said.
The work is part of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project. It will reduce the northbound side of the freeway from five lanes to two between the Montana Avenue and Getty Center offramps beginning at 10 p.m., according to Metro's Dave Sotero.
All northbound lanes will be closed between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday, between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. Sunday and from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, he said.
The lane reductions and full freeway closures will allow crews to realign lanes and pave the future carpool lane, Sotero said.
Crews will be shifting K-rails, grinding existing pavement, placing and compacting new pavement and striping lanes, he said.
"The HOV lane now under construction will ultimately extend 10 miles between the I-10 and U.S. 101 and complete the last remaining gap in the I-405 HOV lane network," he said.
All northbound lanes and ramps will reopen by 5 a.m. Monday, he said.
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A group of high school girls woke up Thursday morning from a campout for a cause.
About 30 students at all-girls Catholic school Notre Dame de Sion spent the night in a simulated homeless camp outside the school at West 106th Street and Wornall Road.
Student council president Moira Quinn began the night breaking wood across her knee, trying to start a campfire, while her classmates taped together cardboard boxes for shelter.
"I'm not sure if this is exactly how you build fires," Quinn admitted. "But I've seen it in movies, and my brother has done it."
The campfire is just one luxury those students had that many people without a home do not.
They had safety, with adults watching over them. They had the option of going inside if the temperature dropped below 20 degrees. They knew that when they woke up, their experiment would be over.
"It's always like a thing students look forward to and the (student council) members look forward to," senior Sarah Allen said. "Which is kind of ironic since homeless people obviously don't look forward to sleeping outside in boxes and stuff."
Indeed, there was a good deal of giggling.
The girls were well aware that the annual exercise won't make them fully understand what it means to be homeless, but it creates an interactive moment to think about it, discuss it and send a message.
"We are lucky enough to go to a school where we can go home to warm beds every night," Quinn said.
"This is just to show, hey, not everyone gets to go home after a long day and sleep in their warm beds with their family," senior Neda Awad said.
"The point is for the girls to think about it and then the people that come and visit us and bring us cans. It's just to, like, raise awareness really," Allen said.
The canned goods were at the heart of the bigger effort represented by the campout. The night out is the kickoff for a monthlong food drive for Redemptorist Social Services.
Redemptorist has partnered with Notre Dame de Sion for more than 10 years. The food collected will help more than just those without a roof over their heads.
"I know some of the food we have goes to pack backpacks for children who, over the long weekend, they don't have meals in their homes, so they school to get food," Quinn said.
The eventual goal is to collect 30 tons of non-perishable food. Last year the students collected 28 tons.
The next food raising event in the monthlong campaign will be a Halloween event where the girls collect cans instead of candy.
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It didn't take long for the 1-year-old orange and white tabby to find his forever family.
Less than two hours after being placed on the adoption floor at the Arizona Humane Society's Sunnyslope Center, Prickly Pete met his new owner, Jean Mann from Sun City.
About a week ago, an emergency medical technician with the Arizona Humane Society responded to a call about a cat stuck to a cactus. Bretta Nelson, public relations manager, said when the EMT arrived, the car had freed itself, but then got stuck in a fence.
"He was put under anesthesia and for the next two hours about four vet techs took spine after spine after spine out of him," she said. "He's doing remarkable."
Nelson said nearly 90 cats are available for adoption.
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The former Hooks, TX police officer accused of stabbing his wife with a syringe full of powerful sedatives made a plea deal Thursday in return for a fraction of the prison time he faced if he had been convicted.
David Horn, 44, was charged with aggravated assault serious bodily injury and family violence in connection with the October 2012 incident in which his wife was stabbed with a syringe that was later determined to be loaded with drugs commonly used to euthanize animals.
Deputies found Misty Horn inside their Moss Lane home after a call from a male family member who was also in the house that day, who told deputies that Horn had assaulted his wife and pointed a gun at his head and threatened to shoot him.
Misty Horn was airlifted to a Texarkana hospital, where she spent several days in a coma. She has since recovered.
The 15-year veteran of the Hooks Police Department was fired from his job following his arrest. He was set to stand trial in September. If convicted, his attorney says he would have faced as many as 100 years in prison.
Instead, David Horn will serve 10 years, with 6 months for time served. He could be eligible for parole in about 4 and a half years.
Misty Horn, who was not present in court Thursday, agreed to the deal.
David Horn's attorney says his client's actions were all the result of the misuse of drugs. "This is a lesson for everybody about how dangerous drugs can be," Danny Cook said in court, explaining that Horn had become addicted to pain medications, including the kinds of tranquilizers used in the attack on his wife. Cook says Horn was having a reaction to coming off the drugs that day.
Having walked into the courtroom Thursday free on bail, David Horn was immediately taken into custody following the plea hearing to begin serving his sentence.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Despite an eight-run rally in the sixth inning, the FGCU softball team came up short against Big Ten foe Iowa, 11-9, in its opening game of the Moe's Blue and Green Invite at the FGCU Softball Complex on Friday night.
With the loss, FGCU falls to 3-8 on the season while Iowa improves to 5-4.
FGCU had a season-high 12 hits, led by freshman Kirsten Bembnowski (Palm Harbor, Fla./East Lake), who was 4-for-4 with one RBI, and home runs from freshmen Jessica Barnes (Winter Park, Fla./Haines City) and Emily Lanier (St. Cloud, Fla./Harmony). Sophomore Mariah Fernández (Cape Coral, Fla./North Fort Myers), freshman Brittney Garabedian (Miami, Fla./Gulliver Prep), and redshirt sophomore Lindsey Green (Bowling Green, Ky./Greenwood) had multi-hit evenings to add to the total.
Iowa struck first, plating five runs on five hits in the top of the first. All five Hawkeye hits were singles as Iowa batted around the order in the opening frame.
The Blue and Green got on the scoreboard in the home half of the fifth inning. Barnes stepped into the batter's box and after battling off a couple of pitches, blasted a towering home run over the left field fence to make it 5-1.
In a repeat of the first inning, the Hawkeyes tacked on five more runs off five hits in the sixth to lead 10-1 heading into the bottom half of the inning.
With a run-rule loss in sight, FGCU's offense erupted for eight runs on seven hits in the bottom of the frame. The Eagles began the inning with back-to-back singles by Green and Bembnowski, who then scored off an Iowa miscue. Sophomore Tiffani Upchurch (Lake Wales, Fla./Lake Wales) reached on another Iowa error and then Lanier hit a two-run shot over the left center wall to bring the Eagles to within five, at 10-5.
With one out and the bases loaded, Fernández doubled to left center field to score two and bring the Eagles to within three, 10-7. Garabedian then followed with a single to bring in Fernandez. Back-to-back singles scored another run for the Eagles bringing the score to, 10-9, before Kayla Massey, who entered in relief midway through the inning, retired the final batter.
Iowa added an insurance run in the top of the seventh inning. Ashley Akers reached base on a bunt single, stole second and advanced to third base on a ground out. Jenny Schuelke brought Akers home on a single to right center to give the Hawkeyes the final 11-9 lead.
Redshirt senior Cat McDaniel (Melbourne, Fla./State College of Florida) (1-4) picked up the loss, giving up nine hits, four runs and two walks, while fanning two in four innings of work.
The Eagles take the field again on Saturday, Feb. 26 when they host Southern Illinois on day two of the Moe's Blue and Green Invite. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.
Live stats, box scores and recaps for every FGCU contest as well as the other tournament games are available at www.FGCUAthletics.com. Live updates of FGCU's games can also be followed on www.twitter.com/FGCUEagles.
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Friday, Feb. 25
Southern Illinois 4, St. Francis 2
Eastern Michigan 6, UMBC 1
Southern Illinois 5, UMBC 1
Iowa 2, Albany 1
Iowa 11, FGCU 9
Albany 5, Eastern Michigan 4 (10)
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Iowa vs. Eastern Michigan, 11:15 a.m.
St. Francis vs. UMBC, 1:30 p.m.
Southern Illinois vs. Albany, 3:45 p.m.
FGCU vs. Southern Illinois, 6:00 p.m.
Albany vs. St. Francis, 8:15 p.m.
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Iowa vs. Southern Illinois, 11:15 a.m.
FGCU vs. Albany, 1:30 p.m.
St. Francis vs. Eastern Michigan, 3:45 p.m.
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Kevin Carr is the only incumbent city councilor who has not pulled papers for re-election. The remaining 10 councilors intend to run again in November.
Candidates have until July 30 to take out nomination papers, collect signatures and return the paperwork to the city clerk's office.
Carr, one of four at-large councilors, could not be reached for comment yesterday. He is serving his first term on the City Council; he was elected in November 2011 after serving six years on the School Committee.
Three School Committee seats will be on the November ballot, and the three incumbents, Janet Crane, Lisa Lavoie and Brendan Walsh, have all taken out papers to run for re-election. They'll be joined by Patrick Schultz, owner of Howling Wolf Taqueria on Lafayette Street and a former Salem High School teacher.
Mayor Kim Driscoll is running for re-election, but so far has no major opposition. Four political outsiders have pulled papers to run against her: Kenneth Sawicki, Cedric Ashley Jr., Elvis Alvarez and Scott Herwig.
Driscoll, who was elected to her first term in 2006, had $52,863 in her campaign finance account in December 2012, the most recent filing with the state.
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- 2 pounds whole fresh mushrooms
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- 4 ounces imitation crabmeat, chopped
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 dash pepper
- Remove stems from mushrooms and finely chop 1/4 cup (discard remaining stems or save for another use); set caps aside.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Stir in the chopped mushroom stems, crab, 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Spoon about 2 teaspoons into each mushroom cap.
- Place on a foil-lined baking sheet; sprinkle with remaining cheddar cheese. Bake at 350° for 15-18 minutes or until mushrooms are tender. Yield: about 4 dozen appetizers.
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After several failed attempts at land exchanges, Utah is giving the idea another try. In early May, Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, reintroduced the Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act. The bill would give the federal government 46,000 acres of land in southeastern and northeastern Utah, while the state would receive 40,000 acres in the northeast.
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Management stands to gain popular recreation areas, including bike
trails near Moab and land along a rafting route through Westwater
Canyon. It would also receive potential wilderness areas near
Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument. For its part,
the Utah Trust Lands Administration would get land in the oil-rich
Uintah Basin, which it plans to lease to generate revenue for
public schools. The swap would be the state's first major
land exchange since a deal on the San Rafael Swell was halted in
2002, after a BLM whistleblower alleged that the appraisal process
had overvalued state lands (HCN, 11/25/02: Report slams BLM's
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transparent than in 2002," says Dave Hebertson, spokesman for the
Utah Trust Lands Administration. But critics say the process is
still flawed: It overvalues the conservation and recreation
potential of the state's land in comparison with the federal
land, which has oil and gas potential. "The state is getting
special treatment," says Chris Krupp, staff attorney for the
Western Land Exchange Project.
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already slated for oil and gas development," says Laura Kamala of
the nonprofit Grand Canyon Trust. "It's a good, common-sense
solution for consolidating a lot of land along the Colorado River
that would otherwise be subject to privatization and development."
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BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Turnovers once again proved to be the achillies heal for the FGCU men's basketball team as they suffered their fourth consecutive loss at the hands of the Campbell Camels by a score of 61-45, Thursday night at the Pope Convocation Center.
With the loss, the Eagles fall to 5-11 (2-5 A-Sun) as the Camels keep pace atop the A-Sun standing at 10-5 (5-1 A-Sun).
The Camels got back-to-back three-pointers from Jonathan Rodriquez and Lorne Merthie in the opening minute of the first half to build an early 6-0 lead before Kyle Marks (West Palm Beach, Fla.) got the Eagles on the board with a lay-up.
With 4:55 remaining in the first half, Reed Baker (Naples, Fla.) drained the first three-pointer for the Eagles in just over two and a half games, cutting the lead to 30-17. The Blue and Green shot just 8-28 (28.6-percent) from the field compared to the Camels who went 11-25 (44-percent), including four made three-pointers as the Eagles never got within four points of the Camels in the first half.
Hunter Miller (Nashville, Tenn.) and Baker led the Eagles with five points apiece in the opening frame as FGCU turned the ball over 13 times. For the Camels, Merthie led all scorers with eight points in the first half.
Though the Eagles were down by as many as 20 points in the second half, they continued to battle and cut the lead to 49-35 as Miller hit another three-pointer and senior Derrick O'Neil (Moreno Valley, Calif.) cleaned up a rebound for a dunk. But a dry spell from the field doomed the Eagles as they hit just two shots from the field over the final 10:55 of the second half.
Rodriquez led all scorers with 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting, while Merthie finished with 11 for Campbell. Baker and Miller led the way throughout for the Eagles with eight points apiece, as no Eagles scored in double figures for the first time all year.
For the game, FGCU shot just 27.1-percent from the field (13-of-48). Campbell shot 39 percent (16-of-41), and scored 20 points off the Eagles 23 turnovers.
The Eagles will be back in action this Saturday afternoon as they battle the ETSU Bucs in Johnson City, Tenn. Tip-off is set for 4:00 p.m. E.T. FGCU returns home to battle Kennesaw State on January 22nd. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. from Alico Arena.


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Are there any missing person reports from before 1958 in the Fort Wayne, Ind area? We have a body of a probable hunter who really needs to be laid to rest. I think 49 years is way to long not to have been found!
Remains found near Bedford in 1958 to remain unburied
Sunday, February 18, 2007
BEDFORD, Pa. - Unidentified skeletal remains found almost a half-century ago — nicknamed "Mr. Bones" by police — won't be buried anytime soon because Bedford County prosecutors still contend that they contain evidence of an unsolved crime.
"It's really an unusual case," District Attorney William Higgins said. "But the bottom line is that you really have to preserve any evidence you have, just in case someone would come forward."
The remains were to be buried in 2001 after Sheriff Gordon Diehl and his employees found a donated cemetery plot, gravestone and casket. Even a preacher had been lined up.
But then-District Attorney Dwight Diehl got a court order to stop the burial and the remains were handed over to the state police. Police released an FBI composite sketch three years ago showing a 6-foot-4, 200-pound man with brown hair between the ages of 30 and 35.
Crews installing a natural gas line found the body in October 1958 in a marshy area near a turnpike plaza in Bedford Township, about 85 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Authorities believe the man was shot in the head in 1956. They found a book of classic literature, a book of poetry, a shaving kit, a camp stove, a rifle and ammunition in the vicinity of the body.
The rifle was traced to a gun shop in Fort Wayne, Ind. Police also found a large sum of cash with the body, leading authorities to believe robbery was not a motive for the killing.
"We received calls from all over the country and everything we received we have checked out," said Trooper Joseph Kovel. "But we still have not been able to identify him."[move]"Our day WILL come!! I just hope I LIVE long enough to see it!"[/move]
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in the wind......prosecutors...I hate em!
the ultimate political pukes.....they are only doing that to make it look like they:
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Look like they are better than the police.
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Yeah thats pretty crazy.
I wonder what happened.
I am sure there are a million stories out there that haven't been solved.
This one is interesting.
Can they just bury the poor guy.....
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Audit Partner _ Northern California NFP Practice Leader _ 2001 _ 2010
Audit Senior _ 1977-1978
As practice leader for Northern California, I created a practice for the firm that did not exist prior to my rejoining in 2001. This required developing the brand name for the firm in the not-for-profit community, identifying and training staff in NFP accounting and auditing, and building a coalition within the entire firm. Provided high quality audit and consulting services to a large variety of NFP clients. I have also presented on a variety of topics (accounting and auditing) to a wide variety of organizations. A sampling of my client projects and presentations include:
The firm employed me in the late 1970s as an audit senior. My decision to return to the firm was based entirely on the opportunity to build a practice devoted to not for profits located in the greater Bay Area.
BERTORELLI & COMPANY _ San Francisco, California
Audit Partner _ Director of Quality Control _ 1991 _ 2000
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Someone named Nick sent me an e-mail the other day that I think poses a good enough question to answer it publicly:
I am a 21 year old university student and have realized in the past 2 years that self-education is the foundation personal growth. As such, I've started devouring books; 2 or 3 a week on a probably too broad range of subjects. But I know that I'm missing a lot.
What should I do to improve my education outside of just "read a lot?" Where should I start?
Here are some of my thoughts:
- School tends to restrict our definition of what education is. In particular, scholastic education is a one way street. Information is fed to you, absorbed, and only applied enough to prove that it was properly absorbed. There are a lot of exceptions to this, but they're still exceptions. Self education is almost always more interactive than that, because we naturally learn best by engaging ourselves. Reading is great, but as you suspect, is only part of the picture.
- With that in mind. Do something! I wrote about my phone system earlier. If I had read a book about Asterisk, PBX phone systems, or VOIP, I would have almost no real ability to set up a phone system. Instead I dove in head first and learned by doing it. The same thing goes for accounting. if you're interested enough to jump in head first, that's probably a good sign that you'll learn very quickly.
- Travel. Traveling is a good way to passively learn a lot. You learn languages, you learn about the culture and history of the place you're visiting, and you even learn some geography. The minutes in between actual activities becomes learning time. Beyond that, the level of self reliance will help you learn a lot about yourself. Sounds cheesy, but it's true. Nick is a student, so I'd suggest he spend a semester abroad or travel during the summer.
- Limit mindless activities. Be aware of how much time you're spending watching TV, movies, and playing video games. Consider cutting them out completely. Timesinks like these eat up your time and teach you next to nothing. If you make your lifestyle conducive to learning, it happens automatically.
- Before you read a (non-fiction) book, commit to making at least one concrete change before you read it. Then when you read it you will pay more attention to how you can apply your knowledge, which is the whole point of getting it in the first place.
- Start a business. If you have any interest in business, start one. It's a practical pursuit and involves so many different skills that you will be overwhelmed with new and useful things to learn.
- Do something different. The beaten path is pretty much all figured out. Blaze your own trail and learn as you discover new things.
- Write a blog. Writing helps you focus and clarify your thoughts. Even if no one reads it, it's worth doing.
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Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Justin Faulk has heard all the preliminary horror stories about Sochi: surveillance cameras in hotel bathrooms, stray dogs, manholes with no covers, stuck elevators, dual toilets.
There's also a much more menacing threat -- concerns about potential terrorism at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
But Faulk headed to Russia on Sunday for his first Olympics with just one thing in mind, playing good hockey and winning an Olympic gold medal for the U.S.
Team USA begins preliminary-round play Thursday against Slovakia. For Faulk, that will mean looking across the ice and see his Hurricanes teammate, defenseman Andrej Sekera, as a Slovak opponent.
The two have been defensive partners all season for the Canes. For a few weeks in Sochi, they will play for their countries on a bigger stage.
"I have buddies in the NHL I play against but this will be different," Faulk said. "The stakes are higher."
Faulk, at 21 the youngest player on Team USA, smiled Friday when asked if the two had been chirping about the game.
"Not too much," Faulk said. "But if he sits next to me on the flight over, I'll probably have to hear it the whole flight."
Four years ago, the Winter Olympics were in Vancouver and the pressure enormous on the Canadians to win the gold medal. They did, barely, topping the U.S. in an overtime thriller on Sidney Crosby's goal.
Many believe the pressure shifts to the Russians in Sochi, in their homeland. But Crosby doesn't buy it.
"I think the pressure is always going to be there, wherever we play," the Pittsburgh Penguins star said. "I don't know if you necessarily will feel it quite the same when you're not in your home country. It was there every day in Vancouver. When you're in Russia it's a little different. But if anything teams will want to beat us even more since we did win in 2010."
Alexander Semin of the Canes again will be playing for Russia and Tuomo Ruutu for Finland. Both forwards were in Vancouver in 2010, Ruutu leaving with a bronze medal.
The U.S. has not medaled in men's hockey in an Olympics held outside North America since 1972 and was a disappointing eighth in 2006 when the Games were held in Turin, Italy. Canes defenseman John-Michael Liles was on Team USA -- guided by then-Hurricanes coach Peter Laviolette -- in 2006 and said the larger ice surface of the Olympic rink was a problem, as was getting adjusted to the six-hour time difference.
"For me, the time change and jet lag was the biggest thing," Liles said.
Another problem, he said, proved to be Finland, which topped the U.S. 4-3 in the quarterfinals and ended the American hopes of a medal.
"It was a good Finnish team and they took it to us pretty good," Liles said.
That's the nature of the Olympic medal round. It can be one-and-done. Run into a hot goaltender or hot team and it can be over quickly.
"I think there are a lot of favorites," Ruutu said. "Russia, Sweden, Canada. The U.S. will have a good team. I think teamwork will be the strength of our (Finnish) team. But in any tournament like the Olympics, where one game can decide it, you never know."
Ruutu said he will not dwell on the security issues, trusting that a Russian security force of more 40,000 will keep things safe in Sochi.
"I look at it as I had one decision to make: to go or not to go. I decided to go," he said. "I will try to let the other people worry about the security concerns. They're the professionals. That's the way I look at it."
It has been four years. It's almost time to drop the puck again. The Olympic gold medal will be decided Feb. 23.
Crosby said that in the days and weeks after Vancouver, he almost had to pinch himself. Did he really score the "Golden Goal" to win it all for Canada, in overtime? Even for someone who has known little but success in his sport, Crosby said it can be a bit overwhelming.
"It's pretty cool to be a part of that and have that moment," he said. "I think every Canadian kid dreams of having that opportunity. But for the last little while I've been thinking about Russia and trying to do our best there."
They all will try to do that but only one team wins. Here's a look at the top five favorites in Sochi:
United States
When Zach Parise scored late in regulation to tie the score in the gold-medal game against Canada in Vancouver, the Americans were convinced they would win in overtime.
"We felt like the ice was tilted in our direction and we had a lot of good momentum," Parise said. "Unfortunately we all know what happened."
Crosby's goal won it for Canada and Team USA had to settle for silver. But the U.S. made its mark in Vancouver.
"Obviously the U.S. team is not going to sneak up on anyone this time around," said defenseman Jack Johnson of the Columbus Blue Jackets, a member of the 2010 team. "But the U.S. should have as good chance as anyone and will go into it expecting to win the gold medal. That's the bar now that's been set."
Parise, of the Minnesota Wild, is the U.S. captain and there's offensive firepower with Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks, Phil Kessel of Toronto and others. The goaltending should be solid with Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings, Ryan Miller of Buffalo and Jimmy Howard of Detroit.
There are questions about the strength at center. There also are some young faces on the back end -- Faulk, John Carlson of the Washington Capitals, Kevin Shattenkirk of the St. Louis Blues.
"I think we'll be a hard-working team with great goaltending," Parise said. "That's going to be our strength -- goaltending, and just being a tough team to play against."
Just look at the names on the roster: Sidney Crosby, Ryan Getzlaf, Jonathan Toews, Shea Weber, Duncan Keith, Corey Perry it's like an NHL All-Star team.
There will be no team in Sochi that can match the talent level of the Canadians, even without the injured Steven Stamkos. The question for Team Canada is whether the goaltending can hold up.
Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks held up in net in 2010, and Carey Price and Mike Smith make for a nice-looking threesome of goalies. But Olympic pressure is like no other.
Hurricanes captain Eric Staal played for Canada in 2010, returning with a gold medal. He wasn't chosen this time, but believes Canada is the team to beat in Sochi.
"They're definitely favored," he said. "In a short tournament like that, you've got to come together at the right time and you've got to play a team game. If (the Canadians) do that, they have enough skill and talent to get the job done."
Gold, or else. That pretty much sums it up for Team Russia.
Spend $50 billion to hold a Winter Olympics and the home country is expecting golden results. And probably no more so than in men's hockey.
Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, the NHL's goal leading scorer, has been pointing to Sochi for four years. When the NHL at first balked about allowing its players to continue competing in the Olympics, Ovechkin said he would be going, with or without permission.
The Russians fell flat in Vancouver, losing 7-3 to Canada in the quarterfinals. But with Ovechkin, Pavel Datsyk, Evgeni Malkin, Ilya Kovalchuk and others from both the NHL and KHL, with the home-ice fan support and under the gaze of president Vladimir Putin, they could be hard to beat in Sochi.
It didn't help that Finland had to make last-minute replacements for Mikko Koivu (Minnesota Wild) and Valterri Filppula (Tampa Bay) because of injuries.
But there's much to like about the Finnish team, and not just that ageless Teemu Selanne is making his sixth Olympic appearance. Goalie Tuukka Rask (Boston) has won a Stanley Cup and can steal games. There's good depth at forward and the defensive corps has a nice blend of experience and youth.
The Canes' Ruutu competed for Finland in 2010 and will be joined in Sochi by a former Canes teammate, forward Jussi Jokinen.
The Finns were bounced from the Vancouver Games by Team USA, losing 6-1 in the semifinals, but topped Slovakia to take the bronze medal.
The Swedes will have Henrik Lundqvist in goal. That's a good start toward gold.
The New York Rangers goalie loves the limelight and should be able to handle the pressure. Around him will be such NHL standouts as Henrik Zetterberg (Detroit), Erik Karlsson (Ottawa), Alex Steen (St. Louis), Nicklas Backstrom (Washington) and Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Phoenix).
Sweden, the Olympic champion in 2006, expected to have the Sedin twins -- Henrik and Daniel -- in the lineup in Sochi. But Henrik, the captain of the Vancouver Canucks, had to pull out because of a rib injury.
Sweden was upset by Slovakia in the quarterfinals in 2010. That stung. It won't be a surprise if the Swedes are playing for gold this time.
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... said. According to findings compiled by WWF from various sources, the Yangtze river dolphin population crashed by 99.4 per cent from 1980 to 2006, while that of the Chinese alligator fell by 97 ...http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1103635/china-development-threatens-wildlife-wwf
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... Lo Wei firstname.lastname@example.com Ten-year-old stray will bring ecological benefits, WWF study finds; more will be added later Mai Po gets third buffalo to attract birds to wetland The newest ... Long. The global conservation body WWF introduced him- the third water buffalo at Mai Po- to the wetland last week. His humble labours, they say, will bring ecological benefits to the area. ...http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1036117/wwf-adds-third-water-buffalo-mai-po-nature-reserve
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China faces largest ecological deficit ever, WWF report finds
Posted Dec 13th 2012, 12:00am by Shi Jiangtao
... the WWF, also warned that the country's soaring carbon emissions have not only contributed to an avalanche of environmental woes, but also pose grave threats to about a dozen endangered ... when insatiable human demands for resources and widespread degradation exceed the nation's ecological capacity. According to the report, which was jointly compiled by the WWF and other ...http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1103921/china-faces-largest-ecological-deficit-ever-wwf-report-finds
News - Hong Kong - ART
It's panda-monium! 1,600 bears win the hearts of Hongkongers at city's landmarks
Posted Jun 17th 2014, 11:36am by Staff Reporter
... They are the creation of French sculptor Paulo Grangeon, who says the aim of the "flash mob" events is to raise awareness of conservation and how people can support WWF, the conservation charity that organised ... conservation], and 5 per cent become new [WWF] members." Watch: 1600 paper pandas begin their tour in Hong Kong Made from recycled paper, rice and environment-friendly paint, Grangeon's 1600 Pandas has ...http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1534566/pop-pandas-big-hit-hongkongers
News - Hong Kong - CONSERVATION
New-town plans may affect rare fish's habitat, WWF-Hong Kong warns
Posted Jul 23rd 2013, 12:00am by Andrea Chen
... Andrea Chen firstname.lastname@example.com New town set to land on wetland habitat of the rare rose bitterling, warns WWF-Hong Kong as its calls on government to protect their home The little fish ... North preserve its habitat. Last week, the WWF conservation group found the fish in wetlands along the Ng Tung River, one of only four known habitats in Hong Kong. The fish grows up to only 8cm ...http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1288626/new-town-plans-may-affect-rare-fishs-habitat-wwf-hong-kong-warns
News - Hong Kong - ENVIRONMENT
WWF nonprofit ends union with wetland developer Cheung Kong
Posted May 15th 2013, 12:00am by Joyce Ng
... Joyce Ng firstname.lastname@example.com Green group pulls out of Cheung Kong partnership as it is 'not confident' plans for project match its conservation objectives WWF ends union ... project pulled out. WWF Hong Kong announced yesterday its immediate withdrawal from the Fung Lok Wai project near the Mai Po wetlands, saying it was not confident the form of the proposals would ...http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1237807/wwf-ends-union-wetland-developer
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