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New Salem United Methodist Church is hosting a fried chicken lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, in the New Salem Lions Club building on US 52. Full meal with sides and drink. $9 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Open to all!
Milroy United Methodist Church Semi-Annual Rummage Sale
Milroy United Methodist Church will hold their Semi-Annual Rummage Sale from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 7 at the church, 114 N. Pleasant Street, Milroy. Brand names will be priced separately. Saturday fill a sack for $2.
Ray's Crossing Day
Don't miss the food and fund during the Annual Ray's Crossing Day event on Saturday, Sept. 14. They will be cooking ham and beans over an open fire in a cast iron pot, baking up cornbread, grilling up rib eyes, and preparing other delicious side dishes that will be served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be a silent auction from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a live auction to begin at 1 p.m. The little country store will be open with fresh baked goods, books, and knick knacks. Enjoy seeing the antique engines on display, as well as, booths featuring Avon, Thirty-One, Party Lite, Tastefully Simple, homemade jams and jellies, crafts, and much, much more! Come out and join The Ray's Crossing community for a day of food and fun at 2115 N 600 E, Shelbyville, IN 46176. The little white church that is the light of the community!
Third Annual Gospel Sing Sept. 7
The 2013 Third Annual Gospel Sing will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Rushville Riverside Park Amphitheater. This year's Gospel Sing is expected to run approximately two hours. At the conclusion, Holy Communion will be offered to all those that wish to partake.
Come early, bring a picnic dinner, lawn chairs and even blankets if there will be a chill in the air.
This Ecumenical service is a non-denominational program with local performers from the area. The Gospel Sing is free and the public is invited and encouraged to attend this uplifting event.
Performers include: Vicki Campbell, Scott Evans, Annie Frost, The Farley Family, Dreama Hallgarth, Harmony, The Praise Band, John Mikkiah Thompson, Carol Tressler and Scott Wildey.
Riverside Park Amphitheater is a premier outdoor venue located at 100 West Water Street in Rushville. The venue is a great destination annually hosting live music events and creating a great family-friendly environment. Parking is conveniently available in gravel lots or in surrounding business. Special handicap parking is also available.
Manna Mission Meal
The Manna Mission free meal will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27 at Main Street Christian Church. We will be serving smoked sausage, potatoes, green beans, corn bread, desserts and drinks. Carry-out and eat-in meals available.
Amped Up 2013 at Riverside Park Amphitheater
Plum Creek Christian Church (PCCC) will be hosting "Amped Up 2013" at 11 a.m. at Rushville's Riverside Park Amphitheater on Sunday, Sept. 22. This is PCCC's annual contemporary and casual community outdoor service. If you are looking to visit a church, this is a very good opportunity to see what PCCC is all about. Everyone is asked to bring a lawn chair from home and encouraged to bring a covered dish/dessert for the meal afterward. PCCC will have some chairs on hand as well. Please enter at the Morgan Street entrance where you will be greeted by volunteers who will help you get parked and will handle any other needs you may have. PCCC is excited for you to meet their new youth minister who will be handling the fun activities along with his team. The afternoon will wrap up at 3 p.m. Come get your praise on with PCCC. This year's RushFest Mayor's Breakfast will be held at the Elks Lodge followed by this Plum Creek Christian Church's Amped Up 2013 service.
St. John's - Enochsburg
St. John's, Enochsburg, church picnic is Sept. 1. Chicken and roast beef dinners served beginning at 11 a.m. Games, beer garden, raffles, silent auction.
Faith Baptist Church - Morristown
Saturday, Aug. 24 will be the Ladies Day Out luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Kopper Kettle Restaurant in Morristown. Call (317) 448-3769 or email@example.com for more information.
Sunday, Aug. 25 Sunday school will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the worship service at 10:30 a.m. with special guest speakers Russell and Debbie Raymer, missionaries to Mexico. A pitch-in lunch will be held at noon, followed by the afternoon worship service at 12:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 28 will be the monthly visitation program with teams leaving the church at 7 p.m.
A new Sunday school class will begin on Sunday, Sept. 1 called "Basics for Believers" taught by Joe Hansome, deacon, at 9:30 a.m. and continue on Sundays.
Sept. 8 will be the next small group home Bible study. The sign up sheet is on the organ bench in the sanctuary.
Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. will be the 50 & Wiser group cookout and fellowship hosted by Bill and Judy Schutt, 6147 E. CR 300S, Greenfield. Meat, dinnerware and drinks will be provided. Sign up for desserts and side dishes at the organ bench in the sanctuary.
Good News Clubs will begin at Morristown Elementary after school on Sept. 18, Sept. 25, Oct. 2, Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 13, Nov. 20 and Dec. 4. For more details, contact Dr. Wayne Scott at (765) 763-7657.
Online sermons are available at www.fbcmorristown.org.
Changing Footprints
Do you need shoes? Come to Changing Footprints Warehouse from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 310 Julian St., Rushville. If you have shoes to donate, they can be dropped off during these hours also. Contact: 317-296-3627 or email@example.com
The Gathering
The Gathering is open Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Stop by and check out the clothing and have a cup of coffee at 245 North Main St., Rushville. The first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m., we host a group called "Life Matters." We'll sing a few songs, and enjoy a discussion on relevant "life matters!" While the adults meet to get a greater understanding of what the Bible says about life matters, children ages 4 through 4th grade will enjoy an exciting time of silly songs, Bible stories and crafts at KIDS J.A.M. A staffed nursery is available birth to age three. Come as you are! Bring a friend! Questions? Contact Greg Hartwell at 765-561-1134.
Editor's note: Area churches are encouraged to share non-recurring information with the Rushville Republican for use in Church Briefs, which publishes every Friday. Just send your news to us at firstname.lastname@example.com or at Rushville Republican, 126 S. Main St., Rushville, IN 46173.


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Six teams remained in contention for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts title on Thursday morning but defending champion Amber Holland of Kronau, Sask., was facing must-win situations tonight against Saskatchewan and in any future tiebreakers.
Click here to watch. Heather Nedohin, Amber Holland, Kerry Galusha and Kelly Scott chat with media following Draw 15 of the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Here's the Video On Demand of Draw 15 – Team Alberta vs Newfoundland and Labrador – courtesy of TSN.CA
Tom Brewster was asked Thursday morning about a best-of-three scenario against Canada. "Best of three? As long as I win the last one, it'll be good," quipped the Scottish skip.


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A 40-year-old Waterford Township woman is behind bars, charged with attacking a guest in her home with a kitchen knife.
Waterford police say Angel Susan Abernathy is accused of stabbing the 47-year old Waterford man in the chest during an argument in her home in the 6000 block of Adamson Drive. The victim was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive. It's unclear what the pair had been fighting about.
Abernathy was arraigned Sunday on a charge of Felonious Assault and was given $10,000, 10 percent cash bond. She's being held inside the Oakland County Jail.
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Lost amid the coaching chaos following the Gator Bowl (*urp* mini throwup *urp*) was the fact that Michigan is finally returning some talent from one year to the next. No really! We are. Michigan Football leads the Big Ten in returning starters with 20 total returnees. 9 returning starters on offense. 9 returning starters on defense. And both specialists are returning, tho it's arguable that this isn't a good thing. At least with regard to kickoffs and field goals. Ignoring the specialists and focusing on the offense and defense, it's hard not to get excited about the jump we all expect Michigan Football to make next year. Especially when you consider the quality of defensive coordinator on board and all the experience the young players on the defense got last year.
So who's back and who's not? We chart it below.
Returning Offense:
QB: Denard Robinson
RB: Michael Shaw/Vincent Smith (count as one)
WR: Darryl Stonum/Junior Hemingway (count as one), Roy Roundtree
TE: Kevin Koger
C: David Molk
LT: Taylor Lewan
RT: Mark Huyge
RG: Patrick Omameh
Departing Offense:
RT: Perry Dorrestein
LG: Stephen Schilling
Returning Defense:
DE: Craig Roh
NT/DT: Mike Martin
DE: Ryan Van Bergen
LB: Kenny Demens
LB: Carvin Johnson
Safety: Jordan Kovacs, Cameron Gordon
Cornerback: J.T. Floyd, Troy Woolfolk
Departing Defense:
LB: Obi Ezeh
LB: Jonas Mouton
CB: James Rogers
Let me know if I'm missing something here. I didn't count Rogers as a starter because Woolfolk would've started had he not gotten injured, and besides that, everyone in the secondary started at some time or another. I suspect the numbers are actually going to reflect that there are 8 returning starters on defense because of the likely position and scheme changes, but this is what I've got. Corrections in the comments below.


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Health Services
Health Services are services provided for students to assess, protect, and promote health. Research shows that children learn better and experience school success more readily if their health needs are addressed. Comprehensive, high quality health services on-site at the school or through an effective referral system to the community leads to student achievement, improved test scores, increased attendance, and engagement in learning.
Health Services Professionals
Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel provide these health services to:.
Health Services Requirements
The health services that are provided in RI schools are guided by the RI Rules and Regulations for School Health Programs. These regulations apply to both public and non-public schools. Required services include screenings, records review, acute care, chronic disease management, and health risk prevention. Student health and dental cards with instructions are available at the following links:
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Raise your voice for afterschool programs on 3/26
This Weds., 3/26, raise awareness about the value of afterschool programs and support the Afterschool for America's Children Act: S. 326!
Every afternoon between the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. children nationwide should have the opportunity to participate in engaging afterschool programs that support their learning and development and spark their passions and creativity. In recognition of the afterschool hours of opportunity from 3 to 6 p.m., on 3/26 use your own social media network to promote afterschool and build support for Senate Bill 326—the Afterschool for America's Children Act.
The bipartisan Afterschool for America's Children Act, S. 326 and HR 4086—led by Sens. Boxer, Murkowski and Murray in the Senate and by Reps. Kildee and DeLauro in the House—would reauthorize and strengthen the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) initiative—the nation's chief federal funding stream for afterschool and summer learning programs—by supporting innovative advances that support student success.
Quick ways you can take action!
learn more about: 21st CCLC Advocacy Afterschool Voices Congress Legislation Media Outreach Sustainability
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First lady announces two new commitments to healthy eating and physical activity afterschool
Yesterday at a Miami-area afterschool program, first lady Michelle Obama and the Partnership for a Healthier America announced that two more of the largest afterschool program providers have committed to create more healthful environments for five million kids in their programs through adoption of the Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) standards.
Over the next five years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) have committed to encouraging a combined 5,400 sites and clubs nationwide to adopt strong standards for nutrition and physical activity.
In remarks at the event, the first lady applauded the announcement, "Between today's announcement and our work to serve better food and get more activity into our schools, we're now ensuring that more and more of our kids will be staying healthy throughout the entire arc of their day." She added, students "… are getting active through the day, whether that's during recess, or PE class, or during an exercise break between lessons. And when the school day ends, they'll head to an afterschool program like this one, and they'll get even more nutritious food and even more opportunities to get active."
learn more about: Events and Briefings Health and Wellness Media Outreach Nutrition Obama
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Moms inspire their daughters in STEM
We loved the message of this recent GE ad, "Childlike Imagination." Already, it has more than 1.2 million views on YouTube. Earlier this month we blogged about the importance of mentors for inspiring girls and other populations underrepresented in STEM. Working moms in STEM surely inspire their own daughters, and we hope they seek opportunities to inspire more girls in their community!
learn more about: Media Outreach Science Working Families
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Updated: Need ideas to advocate for afterschool? Check out these webinars
As afterschool professionals, we understand the importance of raising awareness of our programs and afterschool in general. With local and state budgets including sharp cuts to education and youth development programs and major federal policy challenges threatening the integrity of afterschool programs, advocacy is more important than ever. While we can speak about the work afterschool programs do to provide children with opportunities to participate in hands-on, interactive learning, it's important to include other voices in our advocacy efforts.
This year, through the generous support of the Robert Bowne Foundation, the Afterschool Alliance is hosting a series of webinars on how we can engage parents, students and communities in advocacy. Last Tuesday, we held our first webinar in this occasional series. The first installment focused on engaging parents in afterschool advocacy. Esther Grant-Walker, director of School Age and Family Engagement Services at the Isaacs Center Afterschool Program in New York City, shared how she engages parents and prepares them to be effective afterschool advocates through hands-on training and other initiatives. Student engagement was the focus of our second webinar on Feb. 18. Alberto Cruz, Senior Director of Youth and Family at the YMCA of Greater New York, along with Patrick Pinchinat and Marlena Starace of the Queens Community House discussed how they involve students in advocating for afterschool.
Using social media to advocate will be the subject of the final webinar of this series on March 27. Deepmalya Ghosh, Director of Youth Development at the Child Center of New York, Inc. will share how he engages the public in afterschool advocacy through social media. Visit our webinars page to register.
learn more about: Advocacy Afterschool Voices Events and Briefings Media Outreach
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From surveys to stories: afterschool making the difference for working families
On Valentine's Day, a number of working moms sent an open-letter Valentine to their afterschool programs, thanking them for keeping their kids safe after school, inspiring them to learn, and providing an engaging and academically enriching learning environment. Their heartfelt letters echo what polls and research have shown for years—afterschool programs are providing the essential support working families need.
Our 2011 issue brief "Afterschool and Working Families in the Wake of the Great Recession" not only explores the variety of ways afterschool programs are helping kids learn and grow, but discusses the peace of mind they bring to parents while they are at work. For example, a study by Catalyst and Brandeis University found that as many as 2.5 million parents are overly stressed by what their children are doing after school. One aspect that leads to an even higher risk for stress is when their children are unsupervised during the hours after school. Afterschool programs give working parents the reassurance they need that their children are in a safe and supportive environment during the gap in time between when the school day ends and when they get home from work. A survey last fall of working parents in New York reported that 95 percent said that they rely on child care and afterschool programs to keep their jobs.
learn more about: Media Outreach Working Families
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A valentine for afterschool
By Jodi Grant
Read the original post at momsrising.org.
Valentine's Day is all about showing the people you love how much they mean to you. It's about expressing how you feel to those who make your life richer and more meaningful.
This year, moms around the country are sending Valentines to their afterschool programs.
It's no wonder that afterschool programs hold a special place in the hearts of many busy parents. As a mom myself, I know how important it is to be sure that when they are not with me, my children are safe, supervised, learning and engaged. Afterschool programs do all that—they provide a space for children to expand their horizons, learn new skills, have new experiences, and explore their potential—all in a safe environment with adults who care about their success in school and in life. For moms in the workforce in particular, they are a life-saver.
Every day at the Afterschool Alliance, we hear from mothers who tell us how important afterschool programs are to them. They are impressed with the dedication and commitment of afterschool staff and volunteers, who work so hard to create opportunities for their kids to explore their interests. They say their children enjoy the programs, talk about what they learned there, and participate in exciting activities – from judo to robotics to dance to creative writing.
learn more about: Afterschool Voices Media Outreach Working Families
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A conversation about the Common Core that's 'a breath of fresh air'
Patrick Riccards, co-host of the #CommonCore radio podcast on BAM Radio Network, described the episode that included our own Vice President of Policy and Research Jen Rinehart as a "breath of fresh air." Riccards was impressed that the interview—which also included Jennifer Davis, co-founder and president of the National Center on Time & Learning—focused on learning, rather than testing. He also pointed out the value of conversations centered on what learning means for students, and how can we best ensure that our students succeed not just under the Common Core, but in school, career and life.
Jen spoke about the integral role afterschool programs can play in supporting students and teachers around the Common Core State Standards:
" We know that afterschool programs are working to provide very engaging learning environments for kids where they have the opportunities to be active learners, to collaborate and communicate with peers in a low-stakes type of setting where they can feel free to try things out and not be concerned about failing…and that sort of environment aligns very nicely with the habits of mind that underpin the Common Core—the kind of thinking skills that you want kids to develop to be able to succeed under the Common Core."
learn more about: Afterschool Voices Education Reform Inside the Afterschool Alliance Media Outreach State Policy
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The Hill op-ed: After-school activities empower kids
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama called for preschool programs for every 4-year-old—an idea that 30 states are funding. Providing early education for youngsters who haven't started school is an idea whose time has come. So is supporting after-school programs for elementary school students. Researcher Deborah Vandell explains why.
Read the full op-ed published by The Hill.
Vandell, founding dean of the School of Education at the University of California-Irvine, is a distinguished education researcher focusing on issues of P-20 education and longitudinal studies of development.
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Gretz is not happy with loss of Carr
"Sorry, Clark and Scott, but this one doesn't make sense. In four seasons of moves at the top of the Chiefs, this one may be the worst. The Chiefs allowed CB Brandon Carr to reach free agency and it took all of 24 hours for Carr to get scooped up by the Dallas Cowboys for a 5-year, $50.1 million contact." Panties. In. A. Bunch.


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The person in the sunshine suit was what triggered the whole thought process. It was hot enough that even my continually cold body was heated up, and the car air was on high. Standing on the hot pavement waving at cars was Mr. - or maybe Miss - Sunshine, in full costume. Sweltering, I am sure.
My heart went out to him/her. And so did my admiration. This, I thought, is a person who needs to work, who took a job not caring what the job was, who is looking for a way to pay the bills. I have no idea whether those bills are gas to get to school or milk for the baby or something less noble. It doesn't matter. In a day where so many just wait for a handout or don't care one minute if they walk out on their obligations, this person stood waving to cars in a sunshine suit to collect a paycheck.
I wished I could do something for Mr. Sunshine. I tried smiling and a slight wave, but it was hard to tell whether this registered or not. If money were no object, I thought, I would park in the lot behind Sunshine and hand him $1,000.
And so the game began.
Even before Tennessee had a lottery, we liked to play the "If you won the lottery" game. Often it was on the way to the beach, where we passed through states that had lotteries and bought our tickets for the week. We would quiz the children and each other with the parlor-game questions: What's the first thing you would buy? Would you go to work the next morning? Who or what good cause would you champion? Would you continue to go to college?
It was a combination of just plain fun, a little bit of dreaming and an insight into where our minds and hearts were at the time.
The answers changed over the years, obviously for the children, but even with my husband and me. Our heart's desires for "things" got smaller, and, as we got older and set in our ways, we realized there were just some things we wouldn't do no matter how much money we had. Like wear a watch that cost more than my house payment. Or vacation on the French Riviera.
It also became even more evident to us that the things that we really craved didn't come with price tags. Good health. More time with friends and family. One more day with loved ones lost. Worry-free mornings, when you don't have to listen to soldiers' names on the casualty reports or read in the local paper how another business has failed or anything else negative about the housing market.
But Mr. Sunshine got me thinking again. If someone just handed me a whole wad of cash, and I had to just pass it around to strangers, what would I do? What would really make me feel good? What anonymous acts would charge up my day?
I chewed on a bagel the next morning and jotted down my Top 10 list:
1. Drive around and give $1,000 to every costumed character or person standing on the side of the road waving a sign.
2. Visit every fundraiser car wash and donate $1,000 to each one to wash just the outside of my car.
3. Find family-owned, country restaurants, order a glass of sweet tea and leave $1,000.
4. Buy a block of UT football tickets and give them to the Boys & Girls Club. Hire the bus to take them to the game.
5. Hire Pistol Creek Catch of the Day, a Blount County band that champions many good causes with free performances, to play for a party and pay them 10 times their fee.
6. Buy a full-page ad in Blount Today for 52 weeks at the open rate. Run one of my son's beach or mountain photos every week with the message: A friend hopes you have a really good week.
7. At my favorite Starbucks drive-through, give the guy who always remembers what I want before I order it $1,000 for my tab and the tab of the four cars behind me, with instructions that he keep the change.
8. Purchase 50 tickets to the newest animated movie and pass them out to families in front of the movie theater.
9. Send the staff at the 9-1-1 centers $1,000 gift cards to the Alcoa Wal-Mart, the most community-minded corporate store I have ever seen.
10. Go to three church services on Sunday morning and leave $1,000 in the offering plate with a note praising the church organist and pianist.
Would the list change if untold wealth suddenly came my way? Oh, probably. But on that day, with Mr. Sunshine sweltering in the heat and waving, waving, waving to every car, this was my list.
What would you do?
Sherri Gardner Howell


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A little while ago, I attended a Marin County Council of Mayors and Councilmembers meeting to listen to a presentation given by Ken Kirkey, ABAG Director of Planning. Kirkey gave an update on the One Bay Area plan and the latest Regional Housing Needs Allocation.
He was supposed to answer questions that councilmembers had submitted prior to the meeting but neglected to answer many of them. Residents were also given the opportunity to ask questions. In response, Kirkey oftentimes gave rote answers that had little to do with the actual questions, stated that the question(s) were outside ABAG's purview, or simply stated that regardless of why a community would have difficulties complying with the RHNA numbers, they would have to plan for those numbers anyway.
The presentation was another display of ABAG's disconnect with the counties, cities and people it is supposed to represent.
The One Bay Area Plan (a state-required regional plan led by the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission) along with the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (determined by the state Housing & Community Development Agency and ABAG) use unrealistic jobs and population growth projections to mandate unsustainable housing development.
Moreover, with insufficient infrastructure and public services, Marin County and its cities cannot properly provide for the current population, much less additional population. Hence, they most definitely should not be creating housing elements, development codes and zoning that encourage additional growth and that undermine local control, long standing development standards, environmental protections and public health and safety.
Marin County Supervisors, mayors and councilmembers are finally acknowledging that the RHNA housing quotas are untenable and based on unrealistic jobs and population growth projections. Some are questioning the validity of the One Bay Area Plan. But acknowledgement is not enough. Action must be taken.
It is time for city/town council members and county supervisors to join together to truly represent Marin residents and strongly push back against the One Bay Area Plan and the RHNA numbers. The cities and county must work together to lower the total allocation to Marin, not just shift the allocation numbers from one Marin jurisdiction to another. We are all connected. It makes no sense for one city in Marin to lower its allocation number, only for another city's number to be raised.
ABAG was created to represent the counties and cities of the Bay Area, yet it has not properly represented Marin for many years. If ABAG does not push back against the state and lower the overall RHNA for the Bay Area and subsequently, substantially lower the RHNA for Marin, then why should Marin cities and the county remain affiliated with the organization?
And if our elected Marin officials do not stand up to ABAG and the HCD and take decisive action — both politically and legally — to drive realistic local plans, that preserve and enhance Marin's environment, public health & safety, neighborhood character, and quality of life, then why should they remain in office?


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Hiragana Alphabet: "yu"
Topics : Kindergarten, Phonics, Japanese Foreign Language
Start learning the basics of Japanese with a fun series of Hiragana alphabet sheets! Hiragana is easy to learn, so you and your child can work through them together. He'll get to trace letters and practice phonics, and you'll both get to learn some new words in Japanese.
Follow the link to see the whole Hiragana Alphabet Chart.
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> When you pass through Balbriggan and Skerries,
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> At Swords, leave the motorway for the N1.
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The Skins released WR Lance Lewis to make room on their 53 man active roster. Walton was RGIII's C for 2 seasons at Baylor.
Forgot who it was, but somebody called it...that he would get picked up by the Redskins...good call.
Therefore it's officially time to move on.
Manny's been a pleasant surprise overall, so this just adds to the intrigue of probably very busy upcoming offseason, with little cap room and a lot of short deals and contracts expiring...


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3D Reconstruction
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PFA general meeting with Kathie Masarie, M.D.
Thu, 01/21/2010 - 8:15am - 10:00am
Raising our Daughters and Sons: It Really Does Take a Village
a talk by Kathy Masarie, M.D., author of Raising our Daughters and Raising our Sons
"We live in a culture that pulls families in different directions, sometimes towards influences we do not value. Plus family alone isn't enough. Kids need to feel like their community cares about and values them, have connections to other adults, be empowered by volunteer opportunities, be inspired to learn, make good choices in friendships… all of these are built outside the family. In this seminar, learn about the evidence-based programs on how parents can create a thriving family. You'll learn how all of us can build the connections within our neighborhoods, schools, and families to create a healthy network of support for our kids to become strong, resilient, capable, responsible, and caring young adults."


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Be transported to Santa's authentic Workshop at the North Pole, where all the magic happens! Tour the entire workshop, build toys with the elves, visit the toy factory and enjoy special one-on-one time with Santa!
The fun and fantasy are closer than you think, conveniently located in Flagstaff, Arizona. Tickets for this year are going fast, so don't wait — book your North Pole Experience today!


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September 29, 2006
Valdosta - For more than five years, Moody Air Force Base has been the only active duty Search and Rescue Wing in operation. But in a realignment ceremony the Rescue Wing became the historic 23rd Wing, adding close air support and security force protection to their list of missions.
These changes now make the 23rd Wing at Moody one of the largest active duty wing in the Air Force. "And to be the largest part of that Air Force says a lot for the wing," says Col. Joe Callahan, 23rd Wing Commander.
Although Moody has officially taken the name of the 23rd Wing, personnel and the A-10 "Flying Tigers" won't begin their move until next year.
In preparation for this transition, Moody airmen have begun painting the shark's teeth on their aircrafts that will stay through the realignment next year. "We had all the aircraft painted with teeth on them and we're even joking about putting some teeth on our Humvees used by security force personnel. So everybody is definitely attaching themselves to that legacy in order to carry it on," Col. Callahan adds.
Moody also unveiled its official shield and patch. Based off the original "Flying Tigers" logo, two Moody airmen spent four weeks designing, painting and perfecting it.
Seeing the finished product made all the hard work worth while. "It's actually nice to see a piece of my work be put up somewhere and I know it will stay there for quite some time," says Staff Sgt. Nicholas Hall.
Senior Airmen and fellow artist Craig Rasmussen agrees. "I can't even explain. It's totally different then I'm use to. My doodles usually stay in my closet."
Moody airmen will now replace their old 347th Rescue Wing patches with those of the 23rd Wing.
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---- — The Oldenburg Academy boys varsity basketball team celebrated homecoming with an 82-53 victory over Southwestern (Hanover) on Friday night.
Offense came easy for the Twisters from the start. Oldenburg scored 25 points in the first quarter against the winless Rebels.
The offensive surge led to a nine point lead at the first break.
The Rebels did not let the Twisters get too far in front with a better effort in the second period. Oldenburg still outscored the Rebels, but by only two points to take a 39-28 advantage into halftime.
Coach Gary Moorman's crew regained their momentum at the offensive end in the second half. This time the Rebels did not have much of an answer.
Oldenburg tallied 22 points in the third quarter to help stretch the margin to 19 points. They outscored the Rebels 21-11 over the final eight minutes to put the game well out of reach.
Four different OA players scored in double figures. Drew Kloepfer led the way with 16 points, including a trio of 3-pointers. Ted Geis was second on the team with 14 points, while Matt Moorman and Jaeger Rose added 11 and 10, respectively.


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Interesting things to eat, read, and read about eating.
A nine year old in Scotland shamed school officials into making school lunches better by writing about them on her blog via Grist.
What should I eat for breakfast today? is a pretty new Tumblr I'm enjoying.
"Anyone that takes pride in what they grew up on and fights to tell that story is a hero to me." A fascinating conversation between two immigrant chefs about appropriation, immigration, eating and America via GiltTaste
Why do we write recipes? via Four Pounds Flour.
My friend Mike Meginnis is the writer-in-residence for June over at Necessary Fiction.
I'm pretty obsessed with this poem by Mark Neely.
The Hairpin books editor Nicole Cliffe on food and feminism via The Equals Record.
Erin Fitzgerald's awesome essay about being pissed off at Paula Deen and diabetes via The Rumpus .


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FARMERVILLE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A Farmerville woman is facing a simple burglary charge after an ongoing investigation.
The Union Parish Sheriff's Office says the accused thief even tried to get a job them.
Deputies say 18-year-old Laken Smith was taken to jail over the weekend. Laken is accused of breaking into a mobile home and stealing about $200 in coins.
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Date of News Release:10/16/2010
(Henderson, Ky.) -- Tony Gonzalez-Parral was operating a 2000 Ford F-150. Leeanne Rodrigues was operating a 1997 Dodge Dakota. Melanie Ford was operating a 1998 Mazda 626. All three vehicles were southbound on US-231 in Beaver Dam. Ford was stopped at a red light and Rodrigues was slowing to a stop for the same red light. Gonzalez-Parral failed to realize vehicles were stopping. Gonzalez-Parral struck the rear of Rodrigues' vehicle forcing it into Ford's vehicle. All three vehicles suffered severe damage and were unable to be driven from the scene. After the collision Gonzalez-Parral fled the scene on foot. A witness to the accident followed Gonzalez-Parral and detained him in a near-by parking lot until police could arrive and take him into custody. Gonzalez-Parral was arrested and charged with No Operator's License, Failure to Wear Seatbelt, DUI 1st (aggravating circumstance), Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Assault 2nd Degree. Gonzalez-Parral was lodged in the Ohio County Jail.


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In a case of adding arrest to injury, an Iowa City man faces drug charges after he collided with a car while riding his bike.
North Liberty police officers were called to the intersection of Highway 965 and 240th Street at 8:35 p.m. Jan. 5 for a report of a car-bicycle crash. Responding officers found the bike rider, 57-year-old Robert H. Wickham, lying on the ground near his bike. Police said they could smell fresh marijuana near Wickham, who was taken to the hospital via ambulance.
Police said an open bag containing a green, leafy substance that smelled like pot was attached to Wickham's bike. A dugout and a one-hitter were also found near the bicycle, police said. The bike was taken to the police department for safe keeping after the collision, and the green, leafy substance tested positive for marijuana. Police said Wickham had more than two ounces of marijuana in the bag.
Wickham has been arrested and faces one count of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, a class D felony.


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I found this article while just kind of surfing the web, and got really intrigued. Its a short read, but it is a really interesting perspective on how the more "suburban," young, black athletes are changing the urban basketball culture. The article is really interesting on a sort of political level, and doesn't assess Kyrie's skills so much as how he was raised.
Disclaimer: its not so much a basketball article as it is a cultural article about basketball. Some people here might enjoy it, so here ya go.


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RealD plans to lay off one in five workers
Last Updated: 16:33 November 4, 2013
RealD (NYSE: RLD), a maker of 3-D movie and video monitors, is based in Beverly Hills, California, but it has a significant manufacturing and research and development presence in Boulder.
Last winter, the city of Boulder rewarded RealD with an $80,000 rebate package for keeping its research and development center in town at a 55,700-square-foot space at 5700 Flatirons Parkway.
A company statement said the 20 percent cuts amount to about 35 positions being eliminated, impacting all departments in Beverly Hills and Boulder. A RealD spokesman said the company will have about 140 employees after the cuts, although information about how many of the cuts will come in Boulder was not disclosed.
The SEC filing stated that the cuts would amount to about a $6 million reduction in annual operating expenses. RealD expects to recognize a restructuring charge of $3.8 million to $4.1 million for the remaining two quarters of fiscal year 2014.
The reduction is a result of industry trends and RealD's business maturing in countries such as the United States, where equipment installations have slowed. That is despite the fact, the statement said, that the company continues to expand its platform in markets such as China and Russia.
RealD shares were trading at $7.09 as of mid afternoon Monday, although they've been as high as $16.05 over the past year. RealD has not yet reported revenue for the most recent quarter. But its revenue for the quarter ending June 30 was $59.2 million, with a net loss of about $1.5 million.
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New in Perfect Photo Suite 8:
• Perfect Enhance module – Perfect Enhance provides essential tools for basic enhancements. Use it to adjust brightness and contrast, remove a color cast, remove dust spots and power lines, and add sharpening and vignettes. It is an ideal module to start with when using Perfect Photo Suite 8 as a standalone application or when quick corrections are needed.
• Perfect Eraser – Using content-aware fill technology and simple brush strokes, the Perfect Eraser removes objects and automatically reconstructs the image with realistic results.
• Twice as Many Filters – The Effects module now includes new adjustable filters including: HDR Look, Dynamic Contrast for tonal clarity, Vintage, Grunge, Antique, and more.
• Customizable Presets – All built-in presets included in Perfect Photo Suite 8 may be deconstructed by their filter settings and personally customized.
• FocalPoint is now in the Effects Module – The best parts of FocalPoint technology to create bokeh, tilt-shift, and selective focus effects after the shot, are now in the Effects module as the
Lens Blur filter.
• New Browse module – Images can be browsed and directly accessed from Perfect Photo Suite wherever they are stored—on the computer, an external drive, a connected network, and even on a cloud-based storage service like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Apple's photo stream.
• Perfect Batch Utility – Powerful batch processing of actions from one or multiple modules, including the insertion of a watermark.
• Multiple File Handling: As a photo editor, you can now open and work with more than one image at a time. Move between images to edit or copy layers from one file to the next.
• Improved Masking Bug: Redesigned Masking Bug in the Effects and Layers modules make mask creation easier and more intuitive.
• Higher Quality Effects: Performance enhancements improve effects by minimizing artifacts without sacrificing processing speed.
• Improved RAW file handling: Open and process RAW files faster and with better quality. Support for new cameras also added.
I don't know about you, but as a long time user of onOne Software I am excited to see so many fantastic new modules and enhancements added to my image workflow.
Those that know me know that I am a Lightroom® and Photoshop® user. They also know that Lightroom® is the cornerstone for my image management and the beginning of my image processing workflow. Many ask me why I use onOne's Perfect Photo Suite with all that image enhancement power inside the two most popular Adobe products, my answer is simple. Seamless integration, flexibility, speed, simplicity, and, enhancement/effects options. The images above and below are just two examples of the creative flexibility and capabilities of Perfect Photo Suite. In both images I was able to go from the original out of the camera raw image to my finished vision in a short time. Yes I did start my work flow on both images inside Lightroom® with a few small adjustments including the removal of those annoying dust bunnies, but from there, it was all Perfect Photo Suite.
At some point in our creative adventure we find ourselves trying to crawl over the wall that stands between our cluttered reality and our creative imagination. We begin to believe that it is impossible to photograph something original, pieces of our creative work that will standout as an original creation. We fail to realize that we have shifted our mind from seeing to thinking.
What happens to our perception, the freshness of what we see when we begin facing life's challenges and responsibilities with camera in hand? When we were young in age we looked at the world through the eyes of innocence, virgin in perception, not applying labels to what we saw . Our experiences were simple and what we saw were fresh experiences without definition or preconception, not diluted by thoughts of definition. Is it the responsibilities of life, or the burdens we pile on ourselves that immunize us from experiencing life on a simple plane of energy, without labels or preconceptions. Is it possible to look at a mailbox, or a stop sign, or any familiar object, and not immediately label it through your conception of it? Instead of seeing a stop sign, see the color, shape, letters, light, see it without what you already know to be true.
How can we change this evil curse that awaits? Simple, yes simple. See it simple and begin to see it in a freshness. Remove those conceptual thoughts, worthiness, beauty, correctness, and more. It's all about perception and conception. It is how we process what we see, unadulterated and absolute in originality. We have to train our eyes to talk to our brain and our soul, so they see and feel a perceptional vision on the same plane. For many years I have told those that attend my workshops, "don't photograph what you are looking at, instead photograph what you see". My intention is for each to learn to see beyond the entire picture, seeing their perception of shapes, colors, textures and or light, and photograph only that. When we instantly and maybe only for a brief moment see, this it is called Flash Perception. That and only that is what we want to photograph. When you bring your camera up to your eye capture only what brought your eye, mind and soul together for that instant.
Seeing fresh is not about creating a photograph with the correct composition in the proper format. It's about our flash perception of what we see, feel and interpret as our eye, mind and soul connect. An experience that only you are experiencing, not requiring composing, forethought or evaluation. Through this fresh perception we expand our visual perception and we begin seeing what is in front of us and capture it as we are experiencing it. If we envision a scene conceptually before we photograph it, we apply constraints to the composition based on our preconceived ideas that form in our mind. Thus, upon returning home to view our days adventure we discover that we have closely duplicated what others have already captured, or fallen short of our own expectations.
The Art of Contemplative Photography is not new. It's not about the proper choice of photographic equipment, using special effect lenses or creating that beautiful moment through software. It's about capturing your perceptual vision, that flash perception, as your eye, mind and soul experienced it in a natural realistic photograph.
There is much study to be done in this expression of photography and for some it will be a paradigm shift of great magnitude. To start, all you need is a fresh pair of eyes, a mind free of labels and conceptions and your camera. When our eyes, mind and soul become one we will then begin seeing and not just looking. We will begin to recognize that flash perception that caught our eye, and we then can record it with our camera. As for equipment, you be your own judge of what works best to bring your visual perceptions to life.
• Miksang Life with Julie DuBose
• Seeing Fresh, The Practice of Contemplative Photography
Both of these books are included in my library and I highly recommend both to those seeking knowledge in The Art of Contemplative Photography.
I am posting this as my first impression of Perfect Photo Suite 7.5, to read about all the latest enhancements including the new Clone Brush check out the latest at ononesoftware.com/blog/.
Spring is over and you are kicking yourself for not taking time to visit your local foothills to photograph the wildflowers.
You can not guess how many times this spring I heard myself saying, "I have things to do today…maybe we do a road trip tomorrow". Then poof, the wildflowers are but a spring memory and all your photo friends have beautiful imagery of this years spring wildflowers and you have, well…………….. The chapter is not always written with this ending. This years spring in our region was less than prolific when it came to wildflowers and few of my fellow photo friends boasted beautiful spring wildflower imagery. Let's stop for a minute and refocus on what is important, photography, right? Have you ever thought about visiting your local botanic gardens, or visiting a botanic gardens during your travels.
For us, botanic or botanical gardens are always on our list of places to visit during our travels. We have enjoyed many botanic gardens throughout California and a few in other states. We have found all to be accessible to both wheelchairs and scooters.
Many botanic gardens exhibit plant life from regions around the world and you may find flowers blooming during your visit any time of the year. Interesting enough the Agapanthus bloom to the right was taken at our local botanic garden in late August long after you would expect to see these.
Even the most common of blooms can be creatively developed into a special piece of art as can be seen in this image. This was a single image taken with a Canon 300mm f/4 with a 25 mm extension tube. In CS5 I used the zoom effect to create the blur movement and then copying the original layer with a hide all mask, then brushed in the two flowers in sharp focus.
During a recent family visit to the San Diego area we spent a morning at the San Diego Botanic Gardens. This was the largest gardens we have visited at nearly 37 acres. It boasts several different regions of plant species, a waterfall and a pond covered in pond lilies. The entire gardens, even though built on a hillside, was accessible with my electric wheelchair.
Photographing inside a botanic gardens is no different than setting up for any photographic opportunity. Light is everything. We don't always have time in our schedule to re-visit a photo-opportunity, but if we do the rewards can be worth it. This Pond Lily image was taken during our return visit in the late afternoon. During our morning visit of the gardens we found the pond blanketed in Pond Lilies overwhelmed in sunlight. In the late afternoon foliage surrounding the pond provided filtered light that kept changing as the sun was setting. I watched and cycled the shutter as sunlight illuminated the pond lilies. I was too close with my 300mm f/4L lens to achieve a depth of field sufficient to capture the grandeur of the pair of lilies so I decided to focus stack the composition. I set up my Promote Control to focus stack 15 images at ISO 200, 1/250, f/5.6. With only 2 inches depth of field the 15 shots would provide me with more than enough depth of field to cover the framed composition. After loading all my images into Lightroom I could quickly see that this image belonged as a black & white that would set the lilies center stage in the composition. I used Helicon Focus by Helicon Soft, to stack the series of 15 images and then loaded the final image into onOne Software's Perfect Black & White, to transformed this into a soft high contrast black & white showcasing the beautiful lilies being illuminated by the late afternoon sunlight.
As you can tell botanic gardens have a sweet spot in our hearts and we rarely miss an opportunity to photograph the beauties they hold. My equipment varies little. I use my 300mm f/4L Canon lens and a 25 mm extension tube, even adding an additional 12 mm tube attached to whatever body I happen to have at the time. I do however carry my 45mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift lens and using a 25mm extension tube can get me near 1:1 for those insect closeups.
So in your travels, take a few minutes to research local botanic gardens for an extra slice of opportunity to photograph and enjoy natures beauty.
onOne Software, producers of award-winning software for photographers will be hitting yet another home run with their new release of Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad. Releasing in the very near future Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad will change the way you create black & white images on your iPhone or iPad. With Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad you can set the mood, the mystery, the drama, the elegance or the romance to your favorite image taking it from color to a stunning black and white with strong brights and rich shadows. With the advance controls you can add your unique styling and then save your adjustments as a personal preset to use on your future photos. Or, if you prefer to snap and share, you can choose from the collection of one-tap presets for a quick stylization before sharing. Don't wait for this to hit the app store go directly to onOne Software Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad and register to become one of the first-to-hear when Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad becomes available in the app store. Submitting your email address also will add your name to the drawing to win a free copy of the app.]]>
If you are not a Photoshop user then PERFECT PHOTO SUITE 7, Lightroom & Aperture Edition will be just right for you. With this edition you can seamlessly go from Lightroom or Aperture into any of the modules, save, and return to Lightroom or Aperture as if you never left. With the Lightroom & Aperture Edition you can also open any of 200 camera RAW files. With the power of 9 modules of creative effects, retouching, textures, masking, layering and resizing, your creativity is endless.
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If you are not sure you need the whole Perfect Photo Suite, then check out the savings on the individual Products. Do you like exploring the Black & White side of your images, then Perfect B&W loaded with 97 effects each with adjustment sliders, adds endless control to meet your vision. During this special Spring Savings promotion you can save from $40-$50 on the individual products, but it won't take but a few to meet the Spring Savings price of even the SUITE 7 Lightroom & Aperture Edition at $99.95.
Here are just a few examples of the flexibility and capabilities of onOne's Perfect Photo Suite. These images were processed using an earlier version of Perfect Photo Suite standalone version. All layers, textures, focus control, stylization and color enhancements were applied using the different modules inside Perfect Photo Suite. However, you will need to add those special star bursts in Photoshop or your favorite sunburst plug-in.
In this first image of the Charcoal Kilns in Death Valley National Park, I used a 2.5K candlepower flashlight with an orange gel to simulate fire light emitting from each kiln. Using the 2.5K light my wife went into each of the kilns lighting up the inside as I exposed each shot. After we had exposed each of the kilns I turned my concentration to setting my exposure for the star trails. I chose a 120 second exposure at ISO 200 and an aperture of f/8. Even though I was using my TS-E 24mm tilt-shift lens on my Canon 5D MkII I knew I needed depth-of-field to insure that my main elements of this composition would be in sharp focus from front to back, including the distant mountains. This is one of those shots that enforces the old saying, "be prepared". When we travel we take not only what we know we need, we take a bunch of gear we might use, easy to pack and carry when you travel by car. I did not include Polaris in the frame as I composed and framed this shot mainly because I did not want Polaris to become a driving element in the composition. Not always do my compositions point towards Polaris, and not always is it a welcome element to be included in my compositions. It depends on the strength of the foreground elements and if the circular pattern of the stars around Polaris add to, compliment, or add to the diagonal of the frame. In post production my first step was to handle my sequence images and combine them into the finished star trails. I accomplished this first by opening my first image in Lightroom 4 adding 70% clarity, you can go 100% on the clarity slider but in this image it produced too many stars for me, I then adjust white balance and exposure to my liking. I then sync all the images, including my light painted images and export them as Tiff's. Dr. Brown's Stack-A-Matic is my stacking program of choice of which I load the Tif images from Adobe Bridge and Stack-A-Matic stacks the sequence into CS6 extended. Now all that needs to be done is opening the light painted images as layers into the star trail image, add a black mask to each layer and paint-in the orange fire from each of the kilns. I did spend some time cloning out the air traffic footprints, fortunately in this shot we were out of main air routes. The final step in my workflow is a trip through Perfect Effects 4 from onOne Software to bring out colors, textures and detail. For me, I rarely skip using onOne Software's Perfect Effects 4 to enhance the tonality, contrast, colors and special effects that always boast the appearance of the final image. If you don't have the option of layer building look at onOne's Perfect Photo Suite 7, it is a great solution to layering with Perfect Layers, Mask, Effects and more, and will expand your Lightroom image processing workflow. If you use the standard version of Photoshop Dr. Brown's Stack-A-Matic script will not work, however if you use "Load Files into Photoshop Layers" from Bridge you can us the "Lighten" blend mode once in Photoshop.
In this image of the old steam tractor at Furnace Creek Ranch I positioned myself facing northward and decided to include Polaris in the composition. I used the large tractor wheel and the circular starts around Polaris in juxtaposition including adding a diagonal element to the composition. This shot was also taken during the full moon cycle and provided ample light providing detail and texture to the old steel of the tractor. A red gel on my flashlight was used to light paint different areas of the tractor just in case I decided to add a stronger mood to the composition. My wife and I often spend time before or after the main shoot light painting the different elements just in case I want to change the mood during post production. In the development of this image a fellow photographer did the light painting working between several photographers in our group.
My post production workflow on this image was almost identical to the above, including the trip through onOne Software Perfect Effects 4 for a boost.
Shooting the stars during a bright moon can be challenging but the rewards are well worth the challenge. By understanding a few principles of moonlight you can ensure a successful night of shooting. The difference in exposure between just a quarter moon and a full moon is 3 1/2 stops of exposure. Add the bright moon during the months of May and June and you can add another 1/3 stop of light. A slight cast of whispy clouds covering the moon can cost you a half to a whole stop of light. Additionally, as the moon rises above the horizon and it's brightness is effected by the earths atmosphere the intensity of the moon's brightness may differ up to 5 stops or more until it rises in the sky. I have had an occasion where I wanted to start my sequencing as the moon rose making it difficult to set an exposure that I could live with throughout the sequence. In this situation I will shift my exposure towards the brighter moon and handle the exposure variance in post production. If I have any don't do's it would be not to change exposures after you start your sequencing as this will brighten or dim the stars depending on your exposure adjustment and will eventually show the preceding sequence of stars as brighter or dimmer than the continuing sequence. Another important principle is to make sure your exposures are long enough to expose the stars as they trail. What I mean by this is by using the 600 rule insure that your focal length and exposure will result in a star streak. Personally, I use 500 to divide my focal length into as I have found 600 to be a tad liberal in the results. As an example, I used a 24mm lens, therefore 500/24= 21, that's a 21 second exposure before the stars begin to show movement. If we were shooting the Milky way during a dark sky we would be able to have a shutter speed of 21 seconds and still retain sharp stars. In our case we need to make sure our exposure is greater so we can create streaking stars. My rule of thumb starts at twice the maximum exposure and goes up from there to achieve my desired results. The lesson here is don't wait for the new moon or a dark sky to shoot your favorite subjects in the shadows, unless that's your flavor. Shoot them in the moonlight and see how moon light brings life into your compositions.
When I approached this second mural I had to chuckle at the artists' philosophy of life, or maybe where he or she interpreted there position in life. Many of the murals carry compositional elements reflecting social and political interaction, ethnicity, community and people. As you walk the alley you will notice that the artists' canvas could be the garage door or even the entire side of the building. Nearing the half way point a local woman approached with her four pugs in leash. In my usual way I always take time to greet mans best friend and exchange greetings with the person holding the leash. To our surprise she was a local resident returning from her noonday walk and was happy to share the affection of her pugs. To really immerse yourself in the cultural experience of the Mission District, and we do this wherever we go, is to eat where the locals eat. She was most eager to offer several of the popular local hangouts including directions and best time of day to go.
At the end of Balmy Alley you will find yourself on 24th Street, the main street of the Mission District. This is where the excitement and fun begins. For most of my street photography I shoot with a Canon 5D MkII, which is a full frame and a 14mm lens. I like to shoot close and wide, including as much of the moment as I can. I usually shoot three exposures at either 1 stop or at times 1 1/2 stops in order to capture as much tonality as possible. On the streets you can be totally in the shade, all sun, or 50-50 so bracketing multiple shots will give you the assurance you will have what you need when it comes time for production of your images. Most if not all my street scenes will include people. Why, because for me people make the moment, people are telling the story without me having to. I usually try to keep myself in the background as I casually cruse the sidewalk, although at times it is hard to do when you and your wheelchair standout like a neon sign. Don't be afraid to introduce yourself as a tourist just checking things out and taking pictures of the wonderful elements of their town. We have met more interesting people in our travels after engaging in conversation. People are willing to have their picture taken and felt comfortable that we were not trying to invade their privacy.
When shooting wide I get as close as I can and try to include a strong foreground element that will play into the scene. In this shot I was able to rest my camera on a wooden planter and wait for the opportunity to shoot three exposures that would capture the feeling of friends enjoying an afternoon coffee on a sidewalk bench. When shooting close and wide make sure you have plenty of depth-of-field to encompass the entire scene. There's nothing worse than finding out your focus point caused the foreground element to be soft or the main character in the scene is be too soft to contribute to the composition.
As we approached this sidewalk market I really felt the sense of community. I positioned myself at the best point of view I could and we sat there for the longest time watching as people came and went. The interestingness of the people as they shopped the market became my focus. I waited, I shot and I feel this image represents the mood in the air at this sidewalk market.
A fun aspect of street photography for me is the flexibility the digital darkroom provides. Often times as I begin processing my street scenes I tend to let my wild side peek out and influence my results, but that's the fun part of the digital darkroom. Everything is open to impression and nothing is permanent. My hope is that you enjoyed reading my experiences and that you will expand your personal visions beyond your present boundaries.


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Anyone who is anyone within professional wrestling who has had the ability to talk about the CM Punk situation with WWE, that he walked out and doesn't seem to want to come back, has done so. We've read opinions from Jim Ross to Mick Foley and beyond.
Now let's see what Jim Cornette has to say about it (via BetweenTheRopes.com):
"I can totally identify with CM Punk. His body is beaten up, he's been on the road for ten years, he doesn't live big and I'm sure he's got more money than the federal government and he doesn't like what they're doing with him and he's just tired of the whole thing and he wants to go rest. And he said at a comic convention one of these days he's going to go buy a cabin in the middle of nowhere and we're never going to see him again. You know, I wish I could have been like that. I said I've made six-figure incomes most of the last 30 years but I never made a million dollars. And guys these days can make a million dollars. If I had made a million dollars in one year, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I'd be in the castle but no one would ever see me again. All in all, ****, Punk, good for you! Go home and don't come back until you want to. I love that. That is the greatest thing I've ever heard."
He had more to say during the full interview with Brian Fritz. Here are some highlights:
On his place in wrestling history:
"I would eventually like to be remembered as the second best manager ever in wrestling next to Bobby Heenan. If I could get that, I'd be happy."
On having any regrets or being too outspoken:
"I've been cranky with people in the past. I get cranky because I always place more importance on the quality of what I was doing because I was a fan and all performers are insecure I guess. I was always a wrestling fan. If I was allowed in this business, I wanted to get it right. I wanted to be noted for being a great whatever I was doing at the time and that was more valuable to me than money. It was never a job to me. So, I've probably short-changed myself but at the same time I would not have had as many of the wonderful experiences that I have had if I hadn't pissed some of the people off I've pissed off."
On why there is still typecasting in wrestling when it comes to size of wrestlers and that hasn't changed considering all of the changes in wrestling over the years:
"I don't ****ing know what the people looking for talent are looking for these days. It's almost to the point where I hate doing a wrestling school seminar because if I tell a guy 'you're great, I'd hire you in a second' that's the kiss of death. I look for drive and passion for the business and aptitude, a certain amount of look but a certain amount of potential also for a look that you might have. And a guy who is a natural performer in the ring. I don't know. As I always say for the type of people who like that type of thing, that's the type of thing those people like."
Check out the complete interview here.


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The Indiana Department of Resources will be dedicating the state's first ever nature preserve at a shipwreck site 11 a.m. Monday, September 30th at the Indiana Dunes State Park. Ginger Murphy, Director for Stewardship, Indiana State Parks and Reservoirs says, "We're going to talk a little about the history of theJ.D. Marshall, we will have some comments from our Department of natural Resources Director Stan Clark. and then we are also going to honor the men who dies as a result of the shipwreck."
Murphy says a program illustrating the shipwrecks on Lake Michigan will also be given by the park's Interpreaive Naturalist, Brad Bumgarder. She adds that refreshments will also be served. The dedication ceremony will be held at the historic beach pavilion at the Indiana Dunes State Park.
According to a press release from the DNR, the J.D. Marshall Nature Preserve in Porter County is 100 acres in Lake Michigan, 600 yards offshore from the park. The J.D. Marshall, a 154-foot long, steam-powered sand barge built in 1891, sank in a storm on June 11, 1911. Four crew members died and seven survived.
Nature preserve status aims at help promote public understanding and appreciation of the J.D. Marshall and Indiana shipwrecks in general. The status also offers new protections to the site in addition to existing protections offered under Indiana's archaeological laws.
Fishing is permitted in the preserve by canoe, kayak or any boat with a draft less than 8 feet. Anchoring in the preserve is prohibited. Mooring buoys will be provided for dive and fishing boats to tie off.
Preserve boundaries will be identified by seasonally placed buoys. NOAA nautical charts will be updated to show the preserve.
J.D. Marshall information and artifacts are available at the Indiana Dunes State Park Nature Center. The park also offers regular educational programs on shipwrecks in Lake Michigan.
The whereabouts of 14 shipwreck sites in Indiana's portion of Lake Michigan are known and have been documented by archaeologists. Many more ships sank in Indiana's 241 square miles, but most underwater wreckage has been swallowed by sand or flattened by waves and ice.
(J.D. Marshall: photo courtesy of DNR Division of Historic Preservation)
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Carnival Cruise Line Specialty Dining Guide: What is Included vs. AdditionalBy
In the not so distant past, Carnival Cruise Line presented their guests with a handful of dining venues to choose from. Albeit a delicious handful, one simply did not have many choices.
However, with the addition of two new ships into the Dream-class and their FunShip 2.0 refurbishment program, Carnival has had the opportunity to expand their guests' expectations of dining at sea.
Your taste buds' horizons are now broadened on a Carnival cruise — from sushi bars to family-style Italian, specialty steakhouses to hot dog carts – the problem now will be deciding which to try first!
With this culinary explosion, it can be hard to follow which dining venues on Carnival are complimentary as opposed to which require a fee.
We've put together your go-to Carnival dining guide below — detailing what restaurants are an extra charge (not many!) and what is included in the cruise fare.
Get ready for your stomach to growl…
Specialty Dining on Carnival Cruise Line (Additional Charge)
Carnival's classic Steakhouse is an elegant specialty dining venue available on select FunShips. Elevate your culinary experience at sea with a delicious, exclusive New York steakhouse featuring mouthwatering beef cooked to your exact specifications, as well as a fantastic selection of seafood, entrées, gourmet appetizers and an extensive wine list. The intimate atmosphere is ideal for a romantic dinner or special occasion.
Open daily from 5:30pm-9:30pm. To ensure your desired dining time, we strongly recommend making your table request online at least two weeks prior to your sail date. Please allow 2 ½ hours for your dining experience. Make your reservation here.
The $35 fee includes an appetizer, entrée, dessert and the wait staff's gratuity; additional gratuities are optional and may be extended in cash or to the guest's Sail & Sign Account at your discretion.
*Please note: Steakhouses are available on Conquest-class, Spirit-class, Splendor-class and Dream-class ships.
View Carnival Steakhouse menu.
The Chef's Table is a one-of-a-kind culinary experience that offers you an exquisite multi-course dinner hosted by one of the line's master chefs along with a private reception and a personalized tour of the galley.
With The Chef's Table, up to 12 guests can enjoy champagne and hors d'ouevres hosted by the ship's chef de cuisine. The chef then takes your group on a personalized tour to see the galley in operation, providing participants with a unique perspective on Carnival's extensive food and beverage operations. The evening ends with a sumptuous full-service dinner with delicious appetizers, entrees and desserts created by the line's master chefs.
This experience is available on all Carnival ships. Depending on the vessel, the meal takes place in non-traditional dining venues throughout the ship – the galley, library, conference center, etc. The program can be booked on board at the Guest Service Desk. The cost is $75 per person. Note: Very limited number of guests may participate!
Bonsai Sushi is a beautiful new full-service sushi restaurant debuting on the Carnival Breeze. Select from a wide variety of Asian-inspired delicacies, including sushi, sashimi and rolls along with bento boxes and a sushi boat!
Prices range from $1 for an appetizer-sized portion to $15 for a full sushi ship for two.
Another fresh Carnival eatery is Cucina del Capitano, serving up Italian-American dishes inspired by the recipes from Carnival's Italian captains' and officers' childhood. This comfy dinner-time option offers made-to-order Italian favorites using only the finest ingredients like vine-ripened tomatoes, fragrant herbs and extra virgin olive oil.
Dinner at Cucina del Capitano costs $12 per adult and $5 per child, ages 11 and under. The restaurant is also open for lunch with a complimentary made-to-order pasta bar.
Available on the Carnival Magic, Carnival Breeze and Carnival Sunshine (April 2013).
View Cucina del Capitano menu.
Complimentary Dining on Carnival Cruise Line
In addition to three specialty dining experiences and the main dining rooms onboard, Carnival offers an abundance of exciting and unique complimentary dining options.
Guy's Burger Joint is modeled after a road-side burger joint and an absolutely delicious result of the partnership between Carnival and Food Network star Guy Fieri. Cooking up the best burgers at sea, Guy's Burger Joint is free of charge — but the best part is the yummy fresh-off-the-grill burgers designed by Fieri. Add as many tasty toppings as you'd like at the condiment bar.
Open for lunch, snack or early dinner. Yummy burgers are available on the Carnival Conquest, Carnival Glory, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Breeze , Carnival Sunshine , and Carnival Triumph.
The all-new BlueIguana Cantina is one of the more popular additions to Carnival's dining alternatives. This eatery features three kinds of freshly made tacos and burritos that you can fill to the brim with an assortment of toppings. Pair them with homemade tortillas (you can actually watch the tortilla maker at work), chips and salsa and you have met your 'mmmm' match.
Open for breakfast (check out the breakfast burritos and huevos rancheros) and lunch, the BlueIguana Cantina is free of charge.
Located poolside on the Carnival Conquest, Carnival Glory, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Breeze and Carnival Sunshine (April 2013).
Reminiscent of a backyard barbecue, Fat Jimmy's C-Side BBQ is an open-air dining venue located at the Lanai on the Promenade Deck. Choose from a mouth-watering array of grilled favorites, including barbecued chicken breast, kielbasa, Italian sausage and Fat Jimmy's signature item, pulled pork sandwiches, along with traditional sides like baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw and mini-corn muffins.
Fat Jimmy's C-Side BBQ does not cost a thing, food is complimentary. However, the BBQ shack is only open on sea days.
Available on the Carnival Breeze.
An alternative breakfast venue is the The Punchliner Comedy Brunch, presented by George Lopez, this brunch offers up heaping servings of laughter along with a new twist on the traditional culinary feast. Taking place on sea days in the main dining room, The Punchliner Comedy Brunch is a free dining option that features five-to six-minute performances each hour by hilarious comedians who entertain guests as they enjoy a variety of delicious mid-morning favorites prepared by Carnival's master chefs.
Many items are inspired by Lopez's Mexican heritage, including Carne y Huevos – filet mignon topped with two eggs and béarnaise sauce; Hen Alla Diavola, grilled chicken with lemon and pepper and Mexican-style churros. Two special 'George's Recipes' dishes created by the comedian himself – his own take on Huevos Rancheros that features a chicken quesadilla topped with fried eggs and manchego cheese, and a breakfast burrito filled with scrambled eggs, beans and chorizo are also offered.
Brunch will be served on sea days, 9:00am-1:30pm in the Aft Dining Room. The traditional breakfast and lunch menus will not be offered.
Available on Carnival Breeze, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Dream, Carnival Glory, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Magic, Carnival Miracle, Carnival Splendor (December 2012), Carnival Fantasy (January 2013), Carnival Fascination (January 2013), and Carnival Sunshine (April 2013).
View Punchliner Comedy Brunch menu.
The Taste Bar, located on the Promenade Deck is open nightly on sea days and some port days, offering complimentary bite-sized appetizers giving you a taste of the flavors that await at dining venues across the Carnival fleet. A different delicacy each day!
Available on the Carnival Breeze, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Dream, Carnival Glory, Carnival Imagination, Carnival Inspiration, Carnival Legend, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Magic, Carnival Miracle, Carnival Sensation, Carnival Triumph, Carnival Fantasy (January 2013), Carnival Fascination (January 2013) and Carnival Sunshine (April 2013).
Sea Dogs is a fun hot dog-shaped cart ready to curb your hunger pains within the SportSquare outdoor recreation area. Grab an all-beef frank and choose from traditional toppings like ketchup, mustard, onions, relish and sauerkraut.
Open daily from 11:00am-3:00pm, Sea Dogs is free of charge.
Available on the Carnival Magic, Carnival Breeze and Carnival Sunshine (April 2013).
You're on vacation; please don't forget about room service! Room Service is available 24 hours a day with a selection of sandwiches, salads, desserts and beverages; a continental breakfast is available during the morning hours.
Hungry? Ready to taste test? Give one of our iCruise.com cruise specialists today for more information on a Carnival cruise: 800-i-CRUISE or 800-427-8473. You may also email us directly!


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Im working with Autocad 2013 and a HVAC application called MagiCad, the developers of MagiCad have removed toolbars and have these disgusting ribbons as their only option in their latest version. They claim they did this because Autocad will remove toolbars anyway so there wasn't any point in keeping them.
Sure classic may look like a mess to someone new to Autocad with hundreds of buttons to press, but i have had the toolbars in the same place since 15 years and this is the only way i can work. If there is no option to work in Autocad classic it would be a huge drawback and it would take years to get the productivity back up again.
I dislike ribbons with a passion and have despite many tries always gone back to Autocad classic, is it true that Autodesk is planning to remove toolbars? Please tell me the developer of MagiCad lied to me!
Best regards Wolfgang Rachbauer
Solved! Go to Solution.
It's easier to develop an add-on for one menu type, not two, in AutoCAD: fact.
Their business decision unless all their customers rebel and force them to change: fact.
Autodesk only offers the Ribbon in all AutoCAD versions except plain AutoCAD and LT: fact.
Autodesk is putting more efforts and features in the Ribbon and not the classic menu: fact.
What does Autodesk plan for the future of plain AutoCAD and LT? Anyone that says one thing or another don't know for sure, and those that do know for sure can't speak or they will lose their jobs or get sued by Autodesk for violating their signed non-disclosure agreement. FACT.
if you want to find out for yourself about at least the next version, sign up and join the beta testing team and get the scoop and participate in the product development: http://beta.autodesk.com
Or make the switch: OOTB the Ribbon is horrible but like toolbars and pulldown menus it can shine with personal customization (the reason your bought and stick with AutoCAD in the first place).
I've been using AutoCAD for a lot longer than 15 years and I have no problem with the ribbon.
Over the years I have used 36x24 digitizer menus with 16 button pucks. Then migrated to using toolbars with a 3 button mouse and will now adapt to the ribbon.
You have two choices in life. You adapt and overcome or you become a greeter at Walmart. I'm too anti-social to be a greeter at Walmart.
Thanks for your answers, im afraid there are few options but to learn about customizing the ribbons. It looks like there are some fixes that makes the ribbons a little more like im used to.
If others are conservative like me and get bothered by this ribbon mumbo jumbo please share how you overcame this. What im looking for is to get as many buttons as possible in the view, the preosedure as it is now is to look for the correct tab, and then the correct section of that tab only to find a button that has a roll down list of commands.
What used to be one click taking 1 seconds is now at least 5 clicks and takes approximately 7 seconds assuming i know exactly where to find the commands, which in it self will take a lot of time.
This looks like a good start but im happy if other conservative CAD users would share their solutions to the ribbon problem. I guess i can do all toolbars and buttons from scratch to get exaclty what i like but if they remove it completely that is time wasted when next release comes, all tips are welcome.
You could always create your own ribbon tab that contains the commands you use the most.
When I used a digitizer menu. I grouped together my most commonly used commands.
When toolbars came along I created my own toolbar and called it Handy Stuff and have moved it along with each release of AutoCAD since I created it.
Because toolbars do still exist I continue to use it but when the time comes and it is no longer available to me. I will convert it to a Ribbon Tab called Handy Stuff and keep on trucking along.
Look into workspaces - these control your UI, where things are located and what is shown, what is hidden. Create a workspace (or several) with the layouts that suit your work process. Don't forget you can drag those Ribbon panels off to make super-toolbars too.
I started with AutoCad in 1989; version 9 with a 286. I brought my modified toolbars all along the way. In 2005, when the recession hit and Tool and Die shops closed, I had 5 different jobs in as many years, most having their own toolbars without allowing modifications.
So you learn flexibility.
With the advance of solids and 2013, I made the plunge to Inventor. No toolbars at all, just the ribbon. a learning curve to be sure, but I'm glad for the short period of pain to advance my skills..
When I do go back to AutoCAD, I look to the ribbon for my tools.
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
If you think about the ribbon's panels as toolbars, this tip can be helpful especially if you have two monitors.
Drag the panels into place and save a workspace.
Sorry the developer doesn't offer toolbars...
Hope this helps
I've been using AutoCAD since 1997. I guess that's... 16 years. Started with version 12 (barely) and went on with 13, 14, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2013, and since Friday, 2014.
I was a combo command/toolbar guy until I got a job where they had 2009 and first saw the ribbon. I like the ribbon on Word & Excel, and since I like toolbars, I decided to give it the ol' "Tech School Try". Without any training, it took, me a long time (and long nights staying after work) to learn the customization all the way to the nitty gritty Like another poster said above, the best way to use the ribbon is to make your own panels & place the buttons you want in them.
This is my ribbon. It's 100% custom. Even made a different CUIX file containing all of my customizations so it's easy to add to another computer or update after a new release (which just happened to us on Friday.)
I do understand the possibly painful process for this especially if you're used to something for so many years, but I found that with the customization of the ribbon, I'm faster & even more efficient than I was with my previous toolbar setup (that I used for many many years too.) Just learn the customization and it'll be better.
I have been using AutoCad since release 10. I started out typing commands.
I switched to a digitizing tablet and 4button puck for a few years... but now I've since gone back to typing.
I only ever use maybe 5 toolbar buttons, so the kaleidoscopic, fractal like permutation of the GUI over the years has never really bothered me that much.


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Reporter: Lauren Compton l Videographer: Jemon Haskins
Lynchburg, VA-The triple digit forecast has a lot of people trying to find ways to stay cool. Some people plan to head to the pool or the lake this weekend. Emergency officials say this hot forecast can be dangerous, and it's important to prepare ahead of time.
If you plan to be out in the heat this weekend, emergency officials recommend drinking plenty of water and using sunscreen. A lot of people are already preparing by stocking up early and looking for cool water to get some relief.
A lot of kids are beating the heat by splashing, dancing at and soaking up all the cool water at the spray ground.
"It's just a great place to come, enjoy, stay as long as we like, then go home. It's great," said Nancy Leathers, who was out at the spray ground with her grandchildren.
With so many people expected to take part in outdoor activities, the Lynchburg Fire Department is expecting a long weekend.
During sweltering heat, their call volume jumps with people needing help for heat related illnesses like heat exhaustion, and dehydration.
"Watch how much you are in the sun, try to stay in the shade. Make sure you have air conditioners, fans on, check on the elderly make sure they are going to be safe," said a public education specialist with the Lynchburg Fire Department.
People already seem to be taking the advice to stock up on fans, and things to keep their air conditioners running. John Butler bought several filters for his A. C. units.
Well the wife gave me my 'honey to-do list' of coming to the hardware store this morning to get these filters to change those. I usually do it every month," said Butler.
"We're expecting demand of fans to continue to increase, and be strong as long as this heat spell is taking an effect," said Chuck Overstreet, owner of TrueValue in Lynchburg.
TrueValue is close to selling out of water bottle fans. That's not all that's selling fast; water hoses and sprinklers are also in high demand.
"I just planted new shrubbery this year and I'm trying to keep it alive," said Dan Callaway, a customer at TrueValue.
Emergency officials also suggest limiting how much time you spend outside this weekend. And, another tip for staying cool, don't wear black. You'll stay cool if you wear loose fitting, light colored clothes.


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How To Receive Feedback And Criticism
How can you take the sting out of feedback, and use it grow and get closer to achieving your full potential?
Constructive criticism is an important ingredient for personal and professional development and for strengthening relationships. Whether it's from your boss, a mentor, an executive coach, or even from anonymous surveys, being read »


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Riding school - Honda World Motocross lesson 3: Riding a hardpack track
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Honda World Motocross presents a number of short videos with Grand Prix racers Rui Gonçalves and Evgeny Bobryshev to improve your riding technique on different motocross obstacles and terrain. Whether you're riding a CRF50 or a CRF 450R you can learn some tips and tricks from the very best in the World competing in the MX1 World Championship at the highest level. This video was filmed at Thoresway Motoparc in Lincolnshire, UK.
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Jeanne Copper was everything on Young & The Restless. R.I.P.
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Daytime-TV grand dame Jeanne Cooper, who played The Young and the Restless' Katherine, passed away on Wednesday morning after being hospitalized, off and on since April, for an undisclosed illness.
Cooper's elder son, actor Corbin Bernsen, shared the sad news on Twitter, saying, "She was in peace and without fear. You all have been incredible in your love. In her name, share it today with others."
Mom passed this morning. She was in peace and without fear. U all have been incredible in your love. In her name share it 2 day with others.—
Corbin Bernsen (@corbinbernsen) May 08, 2013
Bernsen just last week updated his mother's fans via Facebook, upon her latest return to the hospital: "I said goodbye to her [Friday], and even then not fully meaning it or expecting that would be the last time I saw her. But now it will have to…
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