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Muckerlab, a company that invests in and nurtures web-based upstarts, is helping the economy of 'Silicon Beach,' the nickname of L.A.'s thriving tech scene.
Muckerlab's co-founder Erik Rannala tells 'Saving the California Dream' series producer Heidi Cuda that his company is helping accelerate the debut of such companies as 'Surfair,' 'Instacanvas' and 'Lifecrowd.'
Rannala, a former exec from eBay and TripAdvisor, says despite the downturn in the macro economy, the tech sector is thriving and Los Angeles' scene is a close third behind New York and Silicon Valley in Northern California.
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It's a good thing James Bryant's parents didn't pay him more allowance. At 10, he found his $10 weekly payday unacceptable, so he started knocking on neighbors' doors to see if they'd like him to mow their lawns. The business grew as he did, and, by the time he finished high school, he felt certain that landscaping was his true passion. Since officially founding Bryant Lawn and Sprinkler in 1995, James has continued to find fulfillment in creating natural works of art out of previously lackluster yards and gardens. He and his team do this by planting flowers, mulching gardens and installing eco-conscious sprinkler systems. They also design yard lighting so that, at night, freshly pruned shrubs stand out and moths can use shadow puppets to tell their brief life stories.
Cofounded by dancing legend Fred Astaire to train new generations of rug cutters with his signature easy grace, Fred Astaire Dance Studio uses a unique curriculum to create comfort on the dance floor. Instructors start with steps and rhythms common to most social dances, steadily building toward more specialized combinations of moves for a variety of rhythm-dance styles such as cha-cha and samba and smooth-dance styles such as the foxtrot and waltz. Once they've learned to follow, lead, or just pare down unnecessary finger-snaps, students can take to the purple-walled dance floor to practice their steps and try on new partners at social parties.
For more than 60 years, Kwal Paint's team has designed colors to complement almost any décor, continually refreshing the palette of more than 1,600 shades to reflect trends and advancements in interior decorating. To wit: EnviroKote paints are made from eco-friendly, raw materials and contain no VOC. Additionally, online virtual color-visualizing applications help homeowners realize the abode of their dreams. As ever, the knowledgeable staff is on hand to guide customers through common issues such as blistering or how to revamp garden gnomes stuck in last season's styles.
Frustrated in her quest to secure toxin-free wares for her baby's nursery, Liz Johnston began to closely research the origins of products that claimed to be green or natural. Her discoveries inspired her to found The Greener Good, which compiles only eco-friendly, chemical-free goods for abodes and bodies. Johnston researches all of her suppliers' claims, and her scrutiny has earned her praise from the Star-Telegram. She'll happily relay her products' origin stories to curious customers, leaving them feeling confident in the quality of their purchases and in their purchases' ability to be licked without repercussions.
Browsing the spacious showrooms at Heritage Furniture Galleries' two locations truly ignites the imagination to start thinking about what your living room or bedroom could look like. Throughout the space, sofas, sectionals, bedroom sets, and tables crafted by brands such as Coaster, Ashley, and Broyhill sit in cozy arrangements. Shoppers can mentally place a new couch in their family room and choose which beanie-baby portraits to display on nesting coffee tables. The helpful staff can come up with decorating ideas and suggest pieces to suit any aesthetic, whether contemporary or traditional, masculine or feminine.
Blanketing more than 100 acres, Fort Worth Botanic Garden houses several disparate gardens that welcome locals and tourists whether they want quiet reflection or a social stroll amid arboreal beauty. The Fragrance Garden lives up to its name by engaging olfactory zones with a dozen uniquely scented plants. In the 7-acre Japanese Garden, visitors commune with plants and animals, including the pond's koi fish and their pet minnows.

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Oct 10, 2007 - Revenue Science VP Marla Schimke discusses trends, offers predictions for behavioral. Last in a series. Comments
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Jul 18, 2007 - Don't underestimate the power of brand advocates' endorsements. Comments
Jun 20, 2007 - A Reuters/Hyundai campaign takes online behavioral targeting in a new direction. Comments
May 23, 2007 - How to overcome irrational fears about online behavioral targeting with integrity, accountability, and education. Comments
Apr 25, 2007 - What do normal people think of behavioral targeting? Do they even know it exists? Comments
Mar 28, 2007 - Is there a role for behavioral targeting in the midst of the online video revolution? Second of a series. Comments
Feb 28, 2007 - Is there a role for behavioral targeting in midst of the online video revolution? Part one of a series. Comments
Jan 31, 2007 - How to effectively sell behavioral targeting. Comments
Jan 3, 2007 - What we've learned, and where we're going. Comments
Dec 6, 2006 - Lack of standardization, best practices, and methodologies make behavioral targeting confusing for media buyers. Comments
Nov 8, 2006 - Microsoft's group product planner gives the lowdown on the new Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. Comments
Oct 11, 2006 - There's a lot more to search and behavioral targeting than you might think. Comments
Sep 13, 2006 - When do you sever ties with your behavioral-targeted plan? Comments
Aug 16, 2006 - A one on one with Seevast's COO about the company's sponsored-link ad program. Comments
Jul 19, 2006 - Still think of Yahoo's behavioral targeting solutions in terms of Fusion and Impulse? Time you set up a meeting with your Yahoo rep. Comments
Jun 21, 2006 - The two different types of behavioral targeting: which to use, based on campaign objectives. Comments
May 24, 2006 - What's going on in behavioral marketing beyond the borders? Two of the major players in the space help us catch up. Last of a series. Comments
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Jonathan Nelson, the Lubbock man accused of embezzling $70-million from a Snyder-based oil drilling company, is on home detention. As we told you on Thursday, in addition to having his assets frozen, Nelson is facing criminal charges. NewsChannel 11's Jennifer Vogel has been following the story, and explains why the man known as Jody Nelson is not behind bars.
The U.S. Magistrate Judge agreed to let Jody Nelson be on home detention because he has agreed to assist the court in anyway. But what does home detention mean? The legal definition says Nelson would be restricted to his residence at all times except for employment, education, religious services, medical reasons, attorney visits, court appearances or anything else approved by an officer or pre-trial services.
The conditions of being released on personal recognizance are that Nelson's travel is restricted to the Northern District of Texas may not open any lines of credit, and he must provide any financial information requested by pre-trial services. Other normal conditions are no use of firearms, alcohol and he had to surrender his passport.
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Patti Stoecker is a hoarder, the rarefied kind. In the 1980s, Ms. Stoecker, then a model, used to party all night at the Mudd Club, wearing, as often as not, one of her mother's silky old slips. By the early '90s, she had begun collecting her own '40s-era variations, amassing them by the score and tie-dyeing them on her stove top in Easter-egg hues. For a time she consigned her slinky designs to local secondhand shops, but before long she was selling them from her house, against a dreamy backdrop of mottled peach-tone walls.
"I had hundreds of slips hanging here," Ms. Stoecker recalled. "It came to the point that I couldn't keep making them. I just couldn't go into my kitchen and boil up another batch of fuchsia or blue."
A self-described "natural enthusiast," she was quick to adopt a new passion, snapping up vintage fashions on her travels and scattering them throughout her house. Filmy Ossie Clark gowns, '50s Pucci jersey T-shirts, '80s Givenchy silk dresses and punchy floral-patterned '80s tunics have all found a home in Posh Vintage, her "showroom," a revamped storage space that once housed her weed whacker and little else. Other treasures, including vintage rock 'n' roll tees, Holly Harp and Biba designs, are strewn on sofas, suspended from walls or stowed in cartons on an upper floor.
A tireless researcher, Ms. Stoecker can wax encyclopedic on the romantic attributes of a '70s Jean Muir jersey dress or Thea Porter caftan. "You gain such an interest in these things that you learn everything you can about them," she said. Her eclectic enthusiasms extend as well to photographing Miami interiors (an image of Morris Lapidus's baroque-modern Miami Beach residence is framed on one wall) and to collecting gilt-embellished Florentine nesting tables and paperback novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose melancholy fiction she devours. Read more…


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Oxcarbazepine Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Warnings
Oxcarbazepine is also known as: Oxtellar XR, Trileptal
Oxcarbazepine Pregnancy Warnings
One study has reported that oxcarbazepine is metabolized into its 10 hydroxy derivative to some extent in human placenta in vitro suggesting that the placenta also participates in the metabolism of oxcarbazepine in vivo. To provide information regarding the effects of in utero exposure to oxcarbazepine, physicians are advised to recommend that pregnant patients taking oxcarbazepine enroll in the North American Antiepileptic Drug (NAAED) Pregnancy Registry. This can be done by calling the toll free number 1-888-233-2334, and must be done by patients themselves. Information on the registry can also be found at the website http://www.aedpregnancyregistry.org/.
Oxcarbazepine has been assigned to pregnancy category C by the FDA. Animal studies have revealed increased incidences of fetal structural abnormalities and other manifestations of developmental toxicity (embryolethality, growth retardation), fetal malformations (craniofacial, cardiovascular, and skeletal), embryofetal death, decreased fetal body weight, and maternal toxicity. There are no controlled data in human pregnancy. Oxcarbazepine should only be given during pregnancy when benefits outweigh risks.
Oxcarbazepine Breastfeeding Warnings
Oxcarbazepine and its active 10-monohydroxy metabolite are excreted into human breast milk. Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions to oxcarbazepine in nursing infants, a decision should be made whether to discontinue nursing or to discontinue the drug in nursing women, taking into account the importance of the drug to the mother.
In previous studies, the milk to plasma ratio has been estimated to be 0.5 for oxcarbazepine and 0.5 to 0.8 for 10-hydroxycarbazepine. A recent case report has noted milk to plasma ratios of oxcarbazepine at 9 and 5, and 10-hydroxycarbazepine at 0.77 and 0.92, at 8 days postpartum and 23 days postpartum respectively.
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During the Victorian Era, people sent messages of friendship, love, and good health with tussie-mussies. They were most often made with herbs. You can convey welcome by tying a small arrangement to the back of each guest's chair. These bunches are Stephanotis and Forsythia clumped together with florist's tape. Insert the bunches into cones made from heavy art paper. Pretty buttons glued along the seams of the cones match the buttons on the napkins.Silverware Seed Packets
Decorate the holders to match
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Corral silverware with paper folded and decorated like fanciful seed packets. Real ones would work, too, but these are more fun. Torn tissue paper forms the flowers.


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Every bit as stunning as it is eye catching from the road. Classic old school desert climbing in an amazing chimney with stellar views. space tower on steroids. this thing is WILD! chimney up the right side of the "tower" protecting the OW in back. drop in for some steep and varied climbing, then out and around the center block to a two bolt belay. more chimney/OW work protected by bolts leads up into an open chimney under a big roof. climb out right to the summit. two bomber bolt anchor. single 70 rope stretcher gets you to a ledge. use caution. easy six foot down climb to the deck. or with shorter line, rap to the top of pitch one and then down. note 1; FA was ground up. note 2; huge potential for an awesome route up the left side of the formation.
very obvious from the road. approach as for sandy's toe. from the flats below the toe continue down river on easy ground and up to the base of the climb. to exit, retrace back to the wash below sandy's toe and follow the old mining road into the wash. one rap back to the tracks.
standard desert rack plus all the fatties you own and can borrow. i used four #5 camalots, two #6s and a set of tubes. bolt belay and a #3 camalot (optional) if your doing it in two pitches. second pitch takes six quick draws, a couple of #.75 camalots and an optional #3 camalot. bomber bolt anchors on top. bring replacement webbing.


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We had to bail off the second pitch of Greatest Route at Greyrock. We left a #1 Camalot and a stopper as an anchor, and another stopper up higher on pitch 2. It would be greatly appreciated if it could come back to me, but this is life. Give me a call if you grab it and are willing to return it for some climber karma. Thanks! Alex 303-827-4079
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Letter: Inconsistency in garbage changes
Original post made on May 22, 2009
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on May 22, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Garbage companies are monopolies. The only thing that can be done is start a new one…impossible. Force the PG to split into two competing companies, and police collusion. Buy a trailer and dump your garbage in Livermore or even at PG and see if that's cheaper…nope.
So an old story for new to Pleasanton folks. (Abbreviated story). The gov. said reduce trash or be forced to not get a large sum of money. PG decided to run trash over a conveyor and pull recyclables to meet the demanded reduction. Why not have us recycle or encourage it in any way? They receive the money for the recyclables for virtually free for what they pay the conveyor workers. Win/win for them. Now they want us to separate it for them and raise cost? Recycling cans should be included with a price reduction. They have turned this old story into a Win/Win/Win again.
on May 22, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Thieving bunch the whole lot of them. I have also had bad experiences recently when I've called them up, they are so rude. The management need to train their staff in customer relations.
on May 29, 2009 at 8:03 am
Yes, there is something we can do about it. You don't have to start a new company from scratch--there are already plenty out there that would love to serve Pleasanton. Other cities periodically allow competitive firms to bid on garbage service. That's why Dublin and Livermore's rates are half of ours.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal appeals court has
granted Hobby Lobby's request for the entire court to hear its challenge
of a requirement that it provide insurance coverage for the
morning-after pill and similar emergency contraceptive pills.
The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court handed
down the ruling on Friday. Ordinarily, appeals filed with the court are
decided by a three-judge panel, but a total of 9 judges will hear Hobby
Lobby's appeal.
The court also ruled it will hear Hobby Lobby's appeal on an expedited basis, with oral arguments expected this spring.
Hobby Lobby is challenging a requirement of the new
federal health care law to provide and pay for emergency
contraceptives. The Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts company says
that requirement violates its Christian owners' beliefs.
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Fresh off opening for Keyshia Cole and Chrisette Michele on the "Woman to Woman" tour, Mateo debuts the video for his new single "How Good Is Your Love."
While working a mundane office job, the Cincinnati singer can't stop thinking about his co-worker. He daydreams about making love to her, but snaps back to reality when his boss, played by producer Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, tells him to get back to work.
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After perking up in March, Mississippi tax collections have fallen short of expectations once again for the month of April.
Governor Haley Barbour said last month's revenue was 8.5% below estimates.
That's a $45.1 million shortfall.
However, Governor Barbour says there will not be a need for additional budget cuts.
He has already trimmed spending five times since the fiscal year began last July.
The state's tax collections have missed the mark 19 out of the last 20 months.
March was the exception.
Governor Barbour says the April numbers confirm the economic recovery could be slow during a global downturn.
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Best Shoes of 2013: #15 – Nike Free Flyknit
What were your favorite shoes that came out in 2013? We asked all of our Sneak Geeks the same question. Based off each of their rankings, Finish Line has equated an official Best Shoes of 2013 countdown. Stay tuned throughout the month of December as we get closer to the #1 spot.
#15 – Nike Free Flyknit
"This shoe may have been the highlight of the summer for me simply based on the technology it offers, the implications of its uses in future Nike models and the coloring options of the upper." – @krvanch
"The Nike Free Flyknit conjoined all that is holy for hipsters in NYC, EVERYONE has frees…EVERYONE has Flyknits. So what's better than a next to nothing "sock" essentially for either daily errands or track ready?" – @DeadstockNYC
#16 - ASICS x Ronnie Fieg Gel Lyte III "East Coast Project"
#17 - Nike Zoom Flight Glove
#18 - Air Jordan I "Black Toe"
#19 - Ronnie Fieg x New Balance 1600 "Daytona"
#20 - Nike Inneva Woven
#21 - atmos x Nike Air Max 1
#22 - Air Jordan III "Fire Red"
#23 - ASICS Gel Lyte III "Urban Camo"
#24 - Nike Kobe VIII "Area 72″
#25 - Air Jordan 5 "Fear"
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24/7: Nebraskans for Health Care Reform
by Ryan Anderson, Tue May 26, 2009 at 05:01:08 AM EDT
You hear it in the fields and the factories, from farmers and students and small business owners. It runs all the way from one end of our state to the other, and cuts across all party lines. Nebraskans want real health care reform, and they're ready to demand action now.
This is an issue that truly affects us all, and everyone has their own story to tell. Today, our organization joins a broad coalition of statewide partners to present just a few of those stories.


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A federal judge in California ordered another court to pay the health insurance costs of an employee's same sex spouse, in a finding that called denial of equal benefits to the couple discriminatory.
It's still not clear whether the ruling will actually result in payments for the court employee's spouse, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts will still have to weigh the apparent conflict between anti-discrimination laws and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which excludes same sex couples from the special rights and privileges granted by marriage.
Still, the judge's order represents a landmark bit of progress in the fight to secure equal rights for the LGBT community by explicitly including that community in anti-discrimination laws and ordering a court to pay for medical benefits.
The case, heard Wednesday by U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Francisco, was filed after a the spouse of Christopher Nathan, a law clerk in California, was denied federal benefits by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which cited DOMA as a reason.
The judge said that Nathan's spouse, Thomas Alexander, was entitled to equal benefits by the court's own non-discrimination policies, but that he could not order the court to provide health insurance directly due to federal law codified in DOMA.
Thus, the order required Nathan's employer to compensate Alexander for health insurance costs, but Judge Ware noted that the administrative office would have to investigate the issue further and come to its own conclusions on whether DOMA and anti-discrimination laws can be simultaneously enforced.
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Clinton County Property Transactions: Oct. 21 through Nov. 1, 2013
PLATTSBURGH — Here's a list of land transactions in Clinton County from Oct. 21 through Nov. 1, 2013.
The buyer, the seller, the community where the property is located and the sale price (listed in that order) were culled from documents in the Clinton County Clerk's Office:
To Elizabeth N. Brokos and Robert M. Tibbetts from Vito A. Prisciandaro, Peru, $40,000.
To Richard H. Fifield and Susan A. Fifield from Richard H. Fifield and Susan A. Fifield, Schuyler Falls, zero dollars.
To Todd Blondo and Catherine Blondo from Darlene Parmeter and Austin J. Jubert, Plattsburgh, $90,000.
To Mary K. Sutphen from Mary K. Sutphen, Lita Kelly Paczak and Sara Kelly Johns, Schuyler Falls, zero dollars.
To Sara Kelly Johns from Mary K. Sutphen, Lita Kelly Paczak and Sara Kelly Johns, Schuyler Falls, zero dollars.
To Lita Kelly Paczak and David E. Paczak from Mary K. Sutphen, Lita Kelly Paczak and Sara Kelly Johns, Schuyler Falls, zero dollars.
To Charissa N. Provost from Joseph Basto, Champlain, zero dollars.
To Ricky Gadbois from Keri Gadbois, Altona, zero dollars.
To Grey Gables Stables LTD from Deborah A. Faillace, Champlain, zero dollars.
To Ernest Coons and Helene Coons from Gary W. Bertrand and Shelley L. Bertrand, Plattsburgh, $35,000.
To Corey S. Boire from Jeffrey D. Twigg, Ausable, zero dollars.
To Corey Steven Boire from Brian Snell and Jeffrey D. Twigg, Ausable, $69,000.
To Town of Plattsburgh from County of Clinton on behalf of Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Stanley R. Rock and Barbara S. Rock from Dames Boire, Beekmantown, $5,000.
To Celine R. Paquette, trustee of the Celine Racine Paquette Revocable Living Trust from Celine R. Paquette, Champlain, zero dollars.
To Jeremy M. Lowther and Jacqueline D. Coolidge from Brian H. Strange and Kelley D. Richecky-Strange, Ausable, $155,200.
To Sara J. Matthews-Knight and James C. Knight Jr. from Sara J. Matthews-Knight, Altona, zero dollars.
To Citifinancial Services Inc. from Larry Edward Marnes, Mooers, zero dollars.
To Tobias M. Trombley from Elizabeth A. Radojcic, Plattsburgh, $95,000.
To the Estate of Roger Strong by Laurie Strong as administrator of the Estate of Roger Strong, from Alan E. Strong, as administrator of the Estate of Hazel A. Strong and as administrator of the Estate of Kenneth C. Strong, Black Brook, zero dollars.
To 156 Sunnywood LLC from Ralph Peters Hubbell Jr., William Snyder Hubbell, Geoffrey Lowles Hubbell, Jane Beckwith Hubbell and Patricia Ballard Hubbell, Chazy, zero dollars.
To Reginald H. Facteau from Ricky Lyman, Plattsburgh, $7,500.
To M&C Haley LLC from Michael S. Haley, Ausable, zero dollars.
To Steven M. Brunelle and Carolyn T. Brunelle from Anthony Seale and Connie Seale, Altona, $45,000.
To Beverly A. Broe and Adam Baker from LTS Homes Inc., Plattsburgh, $32,900.
To Stormy L. Taylor and Henry G. Lafountain Jr. from Stormy L. Taylor, Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Robert N. Brunell and Rita B. Brunell from Robert N.Brunell and Rita B. Brunell, Peru, zero dollars.
To Joseph P. Casey and Heather E. Casey from Gary L. Babbie and Gary A. Babbie, champlain, $1,550.
To Robert E. Stocum and Catherine Ann Stocum from Robert E. Stocum, Schuyler Falls, zero dollars.
To Daniel W. Rillahan from Lonnie P. Fredette and Patti-Jo Collins-Fredette, City of Plattsburgh, $200,000.
To Edward P. Jermusyk and Susan Jermusyk from Doreen R. Giltz, Plattsburgh, $250,000.
To Craig E. Deloria from Haig K. Basmajian,Champlain, $182,000.
To Ross W. Mroczek and Devon K. Brynn from Charles Goff and Rebecca Goff, City of Plattsburgh, $192,000.
To Joanne T. Fessette from Lawrence Bulris and Phylis Bulris, Beekmantown, zero dollars.
To Claudia A. Nelson and Duane E. Smart from Claudia A. Smart (now Nelson), Saranac, zero dollars.
To Kye A. Ford and Kim L. Mousseau from KLM Development LLC, Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Claude Boucher and Joan Boucher from Michael D. Duquette, Kathleen Duquette, Joan M. Boucher and Jane M. Kowalski, Champlain, $80,000.
To The Jane S. Gore Real Estate Trust from Jane S. Gore, Chazy, zero dollars.
To Michael Grogan and John Harrington from Brian Poupore, Dannemora, zero dollars.
To Anthony Tyler from Casella Waste Management of NY Inc., Plattsburgh, $77,500.
To Justin Rock from David A. Daley and Rhonda J. Daley, Dannemora, $8,000.
To Amber Duprey from Bryan Duprey and Amber Duprey, Peru, zero dollars.
To Brandon Lee Lapier from Jeremy Collins, Dannemora, $3,000.
To Adirondack Farms LLC from Ronald W. Mallernee and Rena R. Mallernee, Ausable, zero dollars.
To Stephen J. Racette and Roseanne D. Racette from Daniel T. McGinley, Plattsburgh, $105,000.
To Robert Guay from Federal National Mortgage Association, Chazy, $32,900.
To Kevin R. Soucia and Sarah A. Soucia from David R. Brown, Beekmantown, $41,000.
To Catherine E. Beckwith from Beatrice E. Parks, City of Plattsburgh, $140,000.
To Mark Sauter and Jean Lynne Sauter from Dale B. Brockway and Maureen S. Brockway, Black Brook, $54,900.
To Gerald Rabideau and Nancy Rabideau from Richard D. McGrath, Mooers, $60,000.
To Brian A. Dragon and Carla J. Dragon from Vera N. Dragon, Chazy, zero dollars.
To David R. Hislop and Candace S. Hislop from Fred R. Atkinson Sr. and Marian J. Atkinson, Saranac, $12,000.
To Richard M. Parrotte Sr. and Arvice A. Parrotte from Fred Atkinson Sr. and Marian J. Atkinson, Saranac, $6,500.
To Hermon D. Brunell and Dennis L. Brunell from Rita M. Brunell, City of Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Edward J. Horgan III from Gerald J. Rabideau and Nancy D. Rabideau, Mooers, $140,000.
To Todd M. Nelson and Heidi A. Rowe from Todd M. Nelson, Champlain, zero dollars.
To Robert F. Besaw from Faye Derosia, Plattsburgh, $58,000.
To Stanley Ingison from Barbara K. Klein Crowe and Daniel F. Crowe, Peru, $90,000.
To 21st Mortgage Corp. from Michelle Rowe and Greg Rowe, Ausable, $114,303.40.
To Todd A. Griffin and Jennifer A. Ladieu from Jennifer A. Ladiue formerly known as Jennifer A. Ladieu-Reiblein, Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Courtney Q. Miller from Steven Bruso and Dawn S. Bruso, Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Rodney J. Parrott Jr. from Rodney R. Parrott, City of Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To James M. Latinville from Jeffrey T. Latinville, Plattsburgh, $220,000.
To Stephen MacNerland and Jessica MacNerland from Roberta M. Wiggins, Champlain,$78,000.
To Samuel J.F. Seney from Shari L. Seney, Chazy, zero dollars.
To Bryan J. Marsha and Leona Marsha from Julie Lattrell and Bryan J. Marsha, Ausable, zero dollars.
To Julie Lattrell from Julie Lattrell and Brian J. Marsha, Ausable, zero dollars.
To Michael J. McGivney and Janet M. McGivney from Janet McGivney, Ellenburg, zero dollars.
To Joyce Rabideau from Gerald Arthur Rabideau, Donna Duval and Penny Lynn Rabideau, Saranac, $2,000.
To Carl Lashway from Claude Lashway, Saranac, zero dollars.
To Greg J. Caron from Harold R. Couture, Altona, $18,000.
To Julie A. Evoy from Jeff A. Wood and Julie A. Evoy, Schuyler Falls, zero dollars.
To Christopher A. Chagnon and Alanna Lautenschuetz from Robert A. Stiles, Saranac, $84,500.
To Randy S. Fredette and Orville G. Fredette from Randy S. Fredette and Stacy N. Fredette, City of Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Nordic Sun Enterprises LLC from Colin Archer, Black Brook, $6,500.
To Karen A. Bouvier from Neil Bouvier and Karen A. Bouvier, Champlain, zero dollars.
To Leon A. Dussault and Nordick Sun Enterprises LLC from Colin J. Archer and Cynthia D. Reich, Black Brook, $21,000.
To Harry E. Decker II from Gerald A. Bushey, Plattsburgh, zero dollars.
To Stephen M. Bowes III and Arlene D. Bowes from Susan Massie, Dannemora, $110,000.
To William J. Duprey and Diana L. Duprey, Mooers, $20,561.
To Glendon R. Rafferty and Joyce L. Rafferty from Jane C. Hamilton and Jane C. Stafford, Beekmantown, $262,450.
To Oval Development LLC from TRB Development LLC, City of Plattsburgh, $65,000.


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Two candlelight vigils are planned for 23-year-old Eastern Michigan University student Julia Niswender.
Police discovered the Monroe High School graduate's body in her apartment Tuesday night. Officers say there are no obvious signs of trauma, but they are treating the death as a homicide.
There will be two candlelight vigils for Niswender on Friday evening. The first at 6:30 p.m. in Munson Park on Custer Road in Monroe. A second will be held at Big Bob's Lakehouse on the EMU Campus at 8:30 p.m.


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No mystery, here.
Larry Beaupre and Jaren Landen revealed election intentions early.
Each will seek re-election in 2013 to three-year terms on the Swampscott School Committee.
Both the chairman, Beaupre, and the vice chairman, Landen, said on Wednesday that a consistent and stable School Committee contributes to students' academic performance.
The incumbents' seats are the only ones up for re-election on the five-member board.
Marianne Hartmann's and Richard Kraft's terms end in 2014.
And Ted Delano's term ends in 2015.
Candidates for town and school races must pull nomination papers to qualify for the ballot.
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February 22, 2008
Leesburg -- 911 Center officials say they will request more personnel because of the unprecedented increase in the number of emergency calls every day.
One of the biggest challenges is finding all the new streets that pop up almost weekly.
Ambulances and fire trucks are rolling more often in Lee County, and emergency responders say sometimes it's to new locations they are not familiar with.
Lee County Emergency Medical Services Director Bobby Watkins said "Lee County is growing so fast, it's hard to keep up with new construction going on. Subdivisions going in, roads being cut."
For example Wisteria Estates on Lover's Lane Road, with dozens of homes springing up on a number of streets, none of them named or on county maps.
"It does present a problem, especially when we get a new name that we are not familiar with. Hasn't reached our map book with," Watkins said.
So Emergency responders have to rely heavily on 911 center operators to get good directions to those new locations. But those 9--1 Center operators are being pushed to their limits at the same time.
"Just the fact that there are more and more people living in Lee County. More and more people passing through Lee County puts a great stress on the number of calls," said 911 Center Coordinator Larry Hill.
Lee County 911 operators handled more than 60,000 calls in the last six months of 2007, but there are only two operators on duty at most times. One emergency can often generate dozens of cell phone calls from witnesses, which can slow operators directing emergency crews.
Hill said "For them to get ambulance, fire truck, law enforcement in route to that while the phones are still ringing."
So emergency responders will ask for more people to operate newer cell phone tracking equipment to go in use in the next few months, even though the county budget is stretched. Because growth in Lee County is stressing emergency response, to all the new areas in South Georgia's fastest growing county.
Some Lee County paramedics and first responders are buying their own personal G.P.S. navigation devices to help them find streets.Feedback: email@example.com?subject=Lee-911-JW
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Pleasure Island Dance Company preparing for Island Days
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Attitude, balance, cabriole do you know what these words relate to? Well, if you are a member of Pleasure Island Dance Company you do, they are terms used in dance. Marie Whitley and her staff are here to teach them to anyone interested in dance.
The dance company will be performing for Island Days on Sept. 29 with the dance team. They are working hard getting ready for Make A Wish in December. In addition to those, they are preparing for the competition season that will begin in January at Jump DC Dance Convention Jan. 10 through 12 in Washington, DC.
She offers classes to all ages, beginning with the Little Mermaids who are from 5 to 7 years old, in addition to this group, she offers three different niches. The dance team, which when fall baseball season begins they will dance during the seven inning stretch. They will also be passing raffles and helping with announcements during the games. Pleasure Island Dance Company is at 1918 N. Lake Park Blvd. Unit 27, Carolina Beach. For information on classes and costs visit www.pleasureislanddance.com, email pleasureislanddance@ gmail.com or call 910-512-6607 or follow them on Facebook. If you are interested in the dance team program contact the company or drop by the studio at any time after 3 p.m. They also offered are drop-in classes, for those who are visiting and need to maintain status for your dance troupe back home.


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Sirius XM Channel 91
College Football Today with Mark Packer and Eddie George
Tubs gets an interview since we are the Tosttios National Team of the Week
He said a few things that I really like: All items paraphrased ofcourse
Like kind of sort of admitting that scoring is necessary to win in "this league", some games you have to score fifty to even think about winning !
A league like this is great for college football, I mean after X years of coaching in the SEC, this league is really entertaining
...........and Maybe most interesting is that he took a look at Oklahoma and modeled what he wanted after the Sooners, they can score, via pass and have a running game and they have a good defenseAlso mentioned that the "league" is way more even than it was last year and the winner will have one or probably two losses and of course it will come down to who survives the injury battle
I love the Sirius XM, and get caught up in all the "national" chatter, good to see we have re-entered the picture. A solid win at TCU and the game vs Kansas State will be a big one ! Charles Davis already mentioned this morning they will be covering that one in Manhattan.
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For the third consecutive week, the Detroit Red Wings sit atop Radio Sports Center's NHL Power Rankings thanks to a six-game winning streak and some hockey history. The Wings also became the first unanimous #1 in our rankings since the Bruins in week thirteen. The Kings fell the farthest (five spots) and three teams (the Senators, Jets and Ducks) rose four to complete the biggest moves on the week.
By Bob Mand and Rob Elbaz
1. Detroit Red Wings (Last Week: 1) – Five first-place votes. The Wings added to their NHL-record winning streak at the Joe with three more home-ice victories this week to push their remarkable mark to 23. Even without Jimmy Howard, they've cruised through some of the best teams in the League holding the opposition to just four goals in their past three games.
2. New York Rangers (LW: 2) – The best team in the East gave themselves some breathing room this past week. The Rangers blanked the Bruins 3-0 on Tuesday and now hold a nine point lead in the Conference. The shutout was a league high seventh for Henrik Lundqvist and the performance helped improve his save percentage to an unfathomable .940 on the season. For now, the conversations as to whether Hank will win the Vezina trophy have been put on hold and discussions as to whether or not he'll win the Hart have taken their place.
3. Vancouver Canucks (LW: 4) – The 'Nucks were ranked as the League's 'most overrated team' in a recent CBC/NHLPA poll but it's hard to argue with their resume to date. Last year's Western Conference champs have taken points in each of their last twelve games (9-0-3) and without any real threats within their division, should cruise to a top seed come April.
4. St. Louis Blues (LW: 3) – Splitting four games this week, the Blues took a step backward with losses to the Jackets (yuk!) and Hawks. Still, they actually have more points at home than any team – even the vaunted Red Wings. Unfortunately, they play 13 of their next 17 away from the Scottrade Center. The key for the Blues seems to be their offense: The squad is undefeated this season (27-0-0) when scoring at least three times in any game.
5. Boston Bruins (LW: 5) – The Black and Gold struggled again this week, dropping three of four with their lone victory coming by way of the shootout. The Bruins are getting the puck on net with regularity despite getting shut out in four of their nine games in February: The B's averaged over 43 shots per game in their shutout losses this month.
6. Nashville Predators (LW: 8 ) – Pekka Rinne gave up two goals in each of the Preds' three games on the week and twice (against Chicago and Dallas) got just enough offensive support to earn the victory. Despite a record that would have them leading in three of the League's six divisions, their spot in the Central has earned them the West's fifth seed (for now).
7. New Jersey Devils (LW: 9) – Once the dust cleared and Hockey Day in America came to an end, the Devils stood alone as the second place team in the Atlantic Division after a 3-1 victory over the Habs. The win capped off a 3-0-0 week for New Jersey as they continue to be one of the hottest teams since the All-Star break with a 7-1-2 record in that time.
8. Pittsburgh Penguins (LW: 6) – The Pens have had trouble stringing together wins since the All-Star break, but they were able to win their most important game last week, Saturday's match in Philadelphia. The Penguins took advantage of a pair of shorthanded goals, including one scored 3-on-5 to beat Philly 6-4. The Pens also resigned James Neal to a long term contract last week, probably a smart move considering the 24 year old already has 30 goals and 27 assists this season.
9. San Jose Sharks (LW: 7) – The Sharks are one of the League's several struggling titans, losers of six of eight including three of four this week. On the brighter side, Joe Thornton has thirteen points in his last ten (4-9-13) and is working towards overcoming what was a very mediocre start to the season for the former Hart Trophy winner.
10. Philadelphia Flyers (LW: 10) – With just two wins in their last eight games coming into the week, Philly needed a boost to help them get going for the final stretch. Thursday's massive 7-2 win over the Sabres should have fit the bill nicely, but the Flyers were unable to keep the momentum going Saturday against the Pens. Claude Giroux's managed five assists against Buffalo and is up to 68 points (22g, 46a) on the season.
11. Phoenix Coyotes (LW: 14) – How good have the 'Yotes been in February? For starters, they're 7-0-1. But even more to the point: They have only allowed eight goals on the month. Radim Vrbata quietly set a career-mark for goals on Saturday with his 28th of the season and could eclipse 40 with a strong final few weeks – who saw that coming from a 30 year-old with one career 50-point season and no career 30-goal seasons?
12. Chicago Blackhawks (LW: 13) – After dropping their ninth straight against the Predators on Tuesday, the Blackhawks bounced back for three huge victories including one over the East-leading Rangers and one over the Blues. The Hawks haven't scored a powerplay goal in almost a month – amazing considering the talent in their lineup.
13. Ottawa Senators (LW: 17) – When the Senators get on a roll they know how to keep it going, for better or worse. After losing seven straight and picking up just a single point in the span, the Sens have now picked up points in their last four and have once again found some solid footing in the Eastern playoff picture. Jason Spezza has been leading the charge for Ottawa; he has 12 points (5g, 7a) in the last four games.
14. Florida Panthers (LW: 11) – The Panthers may hold the number three seed in the East, but another week like their last one could easily land them in ninth or tenth place. The Panthers were 0-3-0 and losing an important game Friday to the Capitals along the way. Finding offense has been a problem for the Cats, at 141 goals for only the Islanders are less productive than Florida in the East, and the Panthers are -18 in the spread.
15. Calgary Flames (LW: 18) – The Flames have taken a point in every game this month, moving them into eighth position in the playoff race. Part of the impetus behind their resurgence has been the excellent play of leading scorers Jarome Iginla and Olli Jokinen, who have a combined eleven goals in the team's nine games in February.
16. Toronto Maple Leafs (LW: 15) – The Leafs were out West this week to visit the Flames, Oilers and Canucks, and return home with just two points. In their last seven games the Leafs have just two wins, both coming against the 29th placed Oilers, which doesn't bode well for Toronto down the stretch as they try to make the playoffs for a first time since the lockout.
17. Los Angeles Kings (LW: 12) – Sometimes it feels like the Kings couldn't score to save their lives, a sentiment echoed undoubtedly by LA's fans this week after a pair of agonizing 1-0 shutout losses at the hands of Phoenix and Calgary. The Kings are averaging 2.03 goals per game, which would be the lowest mark in ten years and have a real shot of being the first NHL team to average less than two per match since the 1997-98 Tampa Bay Lightning.
18. Washington Capitals (LW: 16) – It's not hard to tell which games the Caps get geared up for. In the last two weeks the team has only beaten their division leading Panthers, losing the other five games. Mike Green returned to action last week for the Caps but Nicklas Backstrom is still sidelined with a concussion. If Backstrom can't return, Washington will have a hard time reaching the postseason.
19. Winnipeg Jets (LW: 23) – Winnpeg has won three in a row and have another six games remaining in their current homestand. The Jets are now tied with Toronto for eighth in the East but if they expect to make the playoffs this next stretch will be crucial. Winnipeg is an impressive 18-9-2 at home, but just 11-17-4 away from their adoring fans.
20. Tampa Bay Lightning (LW: 20) – The Lightning may not be out of the playoff race yet, but with the trade deadline fast approaching this team looks to be solidly in the sellers group. Thursday, the Lightning sent Dominic Moore to San Jose, Saturday, Pavel Kubina was sent to Philly. In return the Lightning got back prospect Jon Kalinski and some second round draft picks. Meanwhile, Steven Stamkos continues to run away with the Rocket Richard Trophy race, he notched his 40th goal of the season in Saturday's 2-1 win over Washington.
21. Dallas Stars (LW: 19) – Dallas has managed to 'hang around' in the Western Conference playoff race, but with only one win in their last six (Thursday against the Flames) those hopes are fading. The Stars just aren't good enough in any facet of the game to warrant optimism at this point.
22. Colorado Avalanche (LW: 21) – It's hard to tell whether the Avs are coming or going at this point. They dropped two of three this week and hurt their already slim chances of late-April action. Rookie Gabriel Landeskog has had a solid season (15-18-33) and is Colorado's plus-minus leader (+14) by a whopping eleven over his nearest teammates.
23. Anaheim Ducks (LW: 27) – No longer cellar-dwellers in the RSC power-rankings, the Waterfowl have had a fair month-plus to say the least: They've only failed to grab points in three games since New Year's. But fans of the Quackers should be wary of excessive optimism – they still sit five points out of postseason position and haven't been running away with many emphatic victories.
24. New York Islanders (LW: 26) – John Tavares picked up two goals and an assist Saturday as the Islanders beat the Hurricanes 4-3. The top line of Tavares, Matt Moulson and PA Parenteau continues to do the majority of the scoring for the Isles, they account for 61 of the team's 135 goals. 21 year old Kevin Poulin got the call in net for Saturday's game, earning his second victory this year, both against Carolina.
25. Montreal Canadiens (LW: 22) – With the season not going the way the Canadiens had hoped, the team may be big time sellers this year at the deadline. Friday they unloaded Hal Gill, formerly an important part of the team's top-ranked penalty kill. In return for the veteran defenseman the Habs got a second round pick and Blake Geoffrion. Geoffrion has deep ties to the Canadiens; he is the grandson of Habs legend Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion and great-grandson to the equally legendary Howie Morenz.
26. Buffalo Sabres (LW: 24) – After losing four straight, the Sabres pulled off a solid 6-2 Sunday afternoon against the Penguins. Derek Roy picked up two goals and an assist in the victory, but with 32 points (13g, 19a) in 57 games, it's still been a disappointing for Roy and many other Sabres. Offseason acquisition Ville Leino has three points in his last two games, bringing his grand total for the season up to a whopping 18 points (4g, 14a).27. Minnesota Wild (LW: 25) – With only one active player with more than 30 points, Minny is another attack-starved lineup in need of an offensive injection – especially considering how close they are to the precipice of non-contention. Still, their victory over the Bruins was impressive in spite of the B's recent floundering and Nik Backstrom's 48-save shutout was an absolute gem.
28. Carolina Hurricanes (LW: 29) – The Hurricanes are still dead last in the East, but there are some signs that things may be turning around in Carolina. Eric Staal is on pace for his worst season since his rookie year but has four goals and four assists in his last five games. The Canes lost a close game against the Islanders Saturday, but were 4-0-2 in their previous six games.
29. Edmonton Oilers (LW: 28) – The Oil grabbed three losses and only one point in their three matches this week and it's no wonder that talk of trades and futures permeates the discourse in Alberta's capital. The fact that Edmonton has a shot at a third straight first overall pick is borderline disgusting but somehow the Copper and Blue's fans soldier on hoping for a Cup in the near future. Unfortunately, the Cake is a Lie.
30. Columbus Blue Jackets (LW: 30) – The Jackets have owned the bottom of our power-rankings for ten weeks now and we're running out of amusing/depressing anecdotes to discuss in their section. Hopefully the Rick Nash/Jeff Carter situations will be solved shortly to the benefit of all and Scott Howson and Ohio hockey fans can move on.


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Lucky Me!
By Susie Ekberg
Staff Writer
Q: Do you believe in luck? Or in other words, do you think four leaf clovers are lucky, and would you ever kiss the Blarney Stone?
A: Sort of, maybe, and I already have. Great – that was a short column! Lucky me!
Okay, seriously though, we make our own luck, through hard work and tenacity and being in the right place at the right time. If we just sit at home, we certainly aren't going to meet anyone or see anything or DO anything that would move us toward our dreams, unless the doorbell rings and we get presented a check for $10,000,000, but I don't think that's going to happen to any of us any time soon, do you?
The theory of luck was created to help us feel some sense of control over our lives, that seem at times uncontrollable. Such as, "if I wear this lucky rabbit's foot on this journey, no ill will befall me." (I guess I'm in the Middle Ages now), or "if I don't let this black cat cross my path, my sick mother will get better." Most of us like to believe in luck, or magic, because otherwise life is just so… random. Things can't just happen, can they? Events have to be due to outside circumstances, such as everyone on the Saints team wearing their lucky underwear—THAT'S why the Vikings lost! Then it all can make sense to us.
So we invent things that are lucky, based on past events, usually. In college, a friend of mine on our basketball team used to wear her lucky socks each important game because she was wearing them when we won one time earlier in the year. Each game, yup, out came the increasingly unwashed socks, and we were surrounded with the magic of her Lucky Socks (or maybe just the smell emanating from them). Either way, maybe we made our own magic, as we remained undefeated after Christmas that year, and went on to win the National Championship. Luck? Maybe. Or maybe it was the hundreds of hours of practice and a lot of really talented players and great coaching.
I love four leaf clovers. I've been looking for them my whole life, and could never seem to find any, until my eldest son came along. Those darned four leaf clovers just flock to him. I think they even pluck themselves out of the ground and throw themselves into his path, because he finds them everywhere he goes. Is he lucky? Well, yes, now that I think about it, he really IS lucky, having gone through some pretty heavy stuff and come out smelling like, well, a freshly washed athletic sock.
I happen to think that some people are born luckier than others, but maybe that's just because that's part of their path to experience that. Why does one whole block get leveled when the tornado passes through, but that one house on the end is left perfectly intact? Luck? I don't know. Sure seems to look that way. Fate? That gets a little scarier, because we like to think that we can DO something about keeping the bad away from us, and drawing the good to us. Ah, NOW we're getting somewhere.
I call it attraction, how we view the world, or what we call to us with our energy and mindset. I once had a neighbor that was always complaining about how awful and unfriendly people in Fargo were. I had just come back from Hornbacher's Express, and had had a lovely exchange with Doris, the checkout clerk there. That same day my neighbor had also gone to Hornbacher's Express and told me about the rude clerk named Doris. What? I thought, are we talking about the same Doris? Yes, we were, but I believe that since my neighbor and I had such different outlooks on life (I love people and I don't think my neighbor does), we got the experiences we were looking for, expecting, and seeing.
I've always been lucky in some ways, like when the Oprah Show called me and my whole family appeared on the last three minutes of one of their shows. Or the time I ran into Phil Collins down in Arizona. Lucky? Well, if I hadn't gone to Debbie Ford's workshop out in California, she never would've recommended me to Oprah, and if I hadn't gone down to Arizona I never would've run into Phil. I also seem to win contests a lot, but come to think of it again, my oldest son wins a lot of scratch tickets and contests. Maybe he IS just lucky!
I don't go out of my way to avoid black cats (I love all cats), I don't NOT walk under ladders (unless they look rickety and I think they might fall on me), I don't throw salt over my shoulder if I spill some, or worry if I break a mirror (I'm so clumsy I've probably accumulated three lifetimes of bad luck by now if that superstition were true)...
But the Blarney Stone? Been there, done that, and experienced a creepy old man grabbing me a little too high on my waist to lower me backwards over the edge of this crumbling castle wall, out in the middle of nowhere, only to look upside down at the ground 100 feet below me, trying to avoid the pink lipstick marks, to kiss a plain brown brick. Whoopee. Did it bring me luck? Well, it probably was pretty fun for that creepy guy, but not very impressive to me, so no, I wouldn't recommend kissing the Blarney Stone. I personally think it's just a bunch of blarney.
But hey, if you have your little rituals, and they make you happy, I don't think there's any harm in it, as long as you don't go overboard.
Sometimes those routines can paralyze you. If you NEED on any of those "lucky" things to get you through your day, such as "I can't find my stuffed armadillo so I can't go to my business meeting," then you may be in trouble.
Create your own luck, have fun with lucky rituals you adopt from others, or make up your own. The world IS full of magic and unexplainable things, and yes, 'bad' things DO happen, and if they're meant to happen, it doesn't seem like there's anything we can do to prevent them, but for me, that's a comfort. Then I know that I'm not responsible for everything that happens. Some things just HAPPEN. But in the midst of all of that, I DO still think there's a greater Blueprint for our lives, something that keeps us on our Paths, doing what we need to do, and that brings me the most comfort of all. It's not all up to me OR my lucky little blue binky.
Happy St. Paddy's Day, everybody, and be sure to drink your green beer responsibly.
Susie's note: Today would have been my mom's 88th birthday – Happy Birthday, Mom—I love you. I'll drink a toast down here for you, and you drink one out there for the rest of us, okay?
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After fielding questions from the media after being drafted, Phoenix Coyotes 20th overall pick Connor Murphy stated that, "I trust in everyone's opinion in Phoenix and I would do what they want." Murphy, has had many college offers but has committed to the Miami(OH) Hockey team in the CCHA.
Looking at it I havn't had a chance to talk to Connor myself yet as they are just getting back from the twin cities as we speak. If it was up to me I would encourage him to go to Miami to develop as well as fill out on his 6'3 frame. At this point, more time for him the better.
UPDATE(7/28): Connor Murphy decides to join the Sarnia Sting of the OHL. Ruling Out Miami(OH) hockey program.


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For most MTSU students, the challenges of college fall into categories like studying for exams, picking a major and finding friends.
But for some, it comes to down to finding the most basic things: food.
"It may not look like it, but I think a lot of people do have that issue, trying to get themselves through school," said Caroline Darnell, an MTSU student.
There's now an MTSU student food pantry for people who may need help.
"A lot of our students have the financial means to come to campus and to be a student, they just don't have the means to support themselves," said Becca Seul, an MTSU academic advisor who opened the pantry about a month ago in the McFarland building on campus.
Right now, the pantry is housed in a closet at the end of a hallway.
Seul said the idea started when Seul says she heard from students struggling.
"I actually had a student come in and he had moved in early this summer, so he was here by himself," Seul told Nashville's News 2, "He was one of our foster care students who was hungry and needed food."
Officially, 67 MTSU students are classified as homeless and about 80 more come from the foster care system, according to Seul.
Seul said for a student to be considered homeless, she personally verifies where they are living and gets references and letters of support.
"A lot of our students are sleeping on friends' couches," explained Seul, "Some of them are living in their cars, we try to avoid that. Most are staying with friends or non family members temporarily, until they can get back on their feet."
In an effort to keep the pantry stocked, the Student Government Association (SGA) on campus is organizing a food drive until the end of October and Seul said she hopes other groups get involved so eventually, the pantry can expand.
"Going into the holidays we know it's going to be a larger need that we keep the pantry stocked with as much as we can," said Seul.
You can send Seul an email if you'd like to help at firstname.lastname@example.com.
You can also visit the MTSU Student Food Pantry Web site.
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A great teacher who is very eager about his job. He takes his time to explain the course work and sometimes runs out of time but he is awesome. He lets students interact and learn from each other. He does not make exams difficult. As a matter of fact this is one of the easiest classes I ever had. TAKE HIM. You wont regret it
Very Nice guy. Absolutely Horrible teacher. He makes no sense when he talks, he backtracks constantly which makes him hard to follow. Shows up 10 minutes late regularly.He does not use his time in class well. He uses up the whole time & asks if the class can stay over time b/c he didn't get through everything.Horrible, horrible teacher.DO NOT TAKE!
A very nice, smart guy, but he was a bad teacher. He tries to be helpful, though. Taking notes in his class is impossible since he'll drift from one place to another place, backtrack, then on to a random tangent. Unorganized, postpones tests unexpectedly, has games at inopportune times (cutting into final exam time, for instance).
Stay away from learning stats with Rosen if you did not do well with it in high school. He's nice and postpones tests, but does activities at the worst times! He showed up 15 mins late to the final and still did one. He doesn't teach clearly, but will go the extra mile to help. He says words like "oopsy" and "boo boo." I feel like I'm in preschool.
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Most disorganized teacher i have ever had. he is a nice guy but I didn't learn anything in the class. I had to read the book b/c he was hard to follow as he jumps from one topic to another. attendance was required and told us he would add 1or2% to our grade if we attended regularly, well that didn't happen. doesn't keep his words! avoid if you can.
he's a really good guy. hes very nice in person and his class is not bad. just gives a lot of hw thats the only thing I didnt like. he's really sweet and to everyone complaining about postponing exams, he only suggests that and confirms that its okay with all the students which is awesome. he's just being flexible and giving more time to study.
Had us proofread the textbook he was writing and read his thesis, unprofessional. Insisted on taking attendance at the end of class, but was so disorganized it took him 15 minutes to do it. I was constantly late to the class I had after and as a normally prompt person this infuriated me. Do not take a class within 20 minutes of the end of this one!
Mr. Rosen is a wonderfully kind and energetic man. He says hello to every student in the class room individually every morning. Unfortunately, he's also horribly disorganized which prevents his teaching from being effective. Book is useless and for hwk only. As much as I enjoy him as a person I would not recommend taking this class.
I really enjoyed this professor. I took this class as a repeat. The last prof I had never did any examples or took questions, all he did wa lecture from the book. Prof Rosen gives plenty of examples, workshops and practice exams. If you review these you will ace his class. Yes he does go off on tangents but overall he knows what he's talking about.
This man is all over the place. He has no lesson plans and teaches subject matter off the top of his head. Sometimes he teaches and sometimes he doesn't. HE DOESN'T TEACH WITH THE BOOK ~_~ He will teach you something completely different from your homework! I would strongly advise you not to take this class!
I graduate this semester, worst prof ive had in four years. Disorganized and confusing.
Mr Rosen is brilliant but can be hard to follow alot but if you role with his flipping around topics you can learn alot from him. Test are based off in class group worksheets and multiple choice questions do these and ask questions and homework due on test day you will be fine...really
Mr Rosen is brilliant but can be hard to follow alot but if you role with his flipping around topics you can learn alot from him. Test are based off in class group worksheets and multiple choice questions do these and ask questions and homework due on test day you will be fine...really
He is ok. His made his own exam. Exams are hard. Change exam and quiz date a lot. Have to work hard. Always Talk about your grade with him. After all I got hard working A
Worst Professor I've ever came encountered in my entire college career. Please do not take this course with him. I Agree with the other comments before mine. He's so unhelpful VERY VERY VERY disorganized and unfair.
Consistently unorganized, unprofessional. Changes exam dates and grading on a whim. Don't expect feedback in a timely manner. What should be relatively easy concepts are complicated with convoluted examples.
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Obama Forward!
For only $25.00 you too can have from the official Obama campaign store a portrait of Fearless Leader with his campaign slogan Forward! Sheesh! If the Obama campaign must steal a Nazi slogan, the least they could do is come up with an updated version of the old Hitler Jugend Vorwarts! Vorwarts!
A Perfect Description of Modern Socialism
Hattip to Neo-neo Con who suggested the connection to me with this post. Dostoevsky in his The Brothers Karamazov has a striking tale of the Grand Inquisitor. In that tale Christ comes back to earth in Sixteenth Century Seville and is arrested by the Inquisition. The Grand Inquisitor explains to Christ why He is going to be burned the next day. At first glance this all appears to be a fairly psychotic anti-Catholic diatribe, but I think it aptly describes not the Church, but modern socialism. We see it most clearly in this passage:
"'Receiving bread from us, they will see clearly that we take the bread made by their hands from them, to give it to them, without any miracle. They will see that we do not change the stones to bread, but in truth they will be more thankful for taking it from our hands than for the bread itself! For they will remember only too well that in old days, without our help, even the bread they made turned to stones in their hands, while since they have come back to us, the very stones have turned to bread in their hands. Too, too well will they know the value of complete submission! And until men know that, they will be unhappy. Who is most to blame for their not knowing it?-speak! Who scattered the flock and sent it astray on unknown paths? But the flock will come together again and will submit once more, and then it will be once for all. Then we shall give them the quiet humble happiness of weak creatures such as they are by nature. Oh, we shall persuade them at last not to be proud, for Thou didst lift them up and thereby taught them to be proud. We shall show them that they are weak, that they are only pitiful children, but that childlike happiness is the sweetest of all. They will become timid and will look to us and huddle close to us in fear, as chicks to the hen. They will marvel at us and will be awe-stricken before us, and will be proud at our being so powerful and clever that we have been able to subdue such a turbulent flock of thousands of millions. They will tremble impotently before our wrath, their minds will grow fearful, they will be quick to shed tears like women and children, but they will be just as ready at a sign from us to pass to laughter and rejoicing, to happy mirth and childish song. Yes, we shall set them to work, but in their leisure hours we shall make their life-like a child's game, with children's songs and innocent dance. Oh, we shall allow them even sin, they are weak and helpless, and they will love us like children because we allow them to sin. We shall tell them that every sin will be expiated, if it is done with our permission, that we allow them to sin because we love them, and the punishment for these sins we take upon ourselves. And we shall take it upon ourselves, and they will adore us as their saviours who have taken on themselves their sins before God. And they will have no secrets from us. We shall allow or forbid them to live with their wives and mistresses, to have or not to have children according to whether they have been obedient or disobedient- and they will submit to us gladly and cheerfully. The most painful secrets of their conscience, all, all they will bring to us, and we shall have an answer for all. And they will be glad to believe our answer, for it will save them from the great anxiety and terrible agony they endure at present in making a free decision for themselves. And all will be happy, all the millions of creatures except the hundred thousand who rule over them. For only we, we who guard the mystery, shall be unhappy. There will be thousands of millions of happy babes, and a hundred thousand sufferers who have taken upon themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil. Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. Though if there were anything in the other world, it certainly would not be for such as they." Continue reading
The Delaware Legislature Needs a Good Spanking
By now, most are aware that the State of Delaware has passed a piece of child welfare legislation that, in effect, criminalizes the act of spanking a child. The language is subtle, but is general enough to be disastrous for a parents' right to raise and discipline their children. The key passage in question is actually a definition:
"Physical injury" to a child shall mean any impairment of physical condition or pain.
The synopsis provided by the legislature near the bottom of the bill reads:
This bill establishes the offense of Child Abuse. These new statutes combine current statutes and redefine physical injury and serious physical injury to reflect the medical realities of pain and impairment suffered by children. A new section provides special protection to infants, toddlers and children who have disabilities. The statute also expands the state of mind necessary for certain offenses against children allowing for more effective prosecution of parents who subject their children to abuse by others and fail to protect their children. The bill also re-numbers the definitional section making clear that the definitions apply to all crimes in the subchapter.
What are the implications of beating one's children? Well, that depends on their age. According to the Home School Legal Defense Association:
Under the new law, a parent causing "physical injury" (e.g., pain) to a child under age 18 would be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and subject to one year in prison. A parent causing pain to a child who was 3 years of age or younger would be guilty of a class G felony and subject to two years in prison.
Of course many a blogger will be up in arms, and rightfully so, over the passage of this bill. I will let those who have more of a aptitude for jurisprudence to dismantle the constitutionality of the legislation. Actually, I would love for someone skilled in this area to address the possibility of "pain" eventually being interpreted in a general enough manner to include psychological pain, something we often deal with in the fight against abortion and clauses to include "the health of the mother."
For my own part, I have only two things to offer.
First, this language is so ridiculous as to be entirely unenforcible. Any time I cause my children pain I am guilt of a class A misdemeanor? Do you have any idea how many times I violate this statue during a sixty-minute Mass? A pinch here, a squeeze there, and yes, even the occasional smack upside the head. In the course of a single Mass, under Delaware State Law, I could probably be issued somewhere between three years and three centuries of prison time depending on the weekend and sitting arrangement of my six kids. And it gets worse for my three-year-old, in which the misdemeanor is elevated to a felony. Good Lord, I wouldn't stand a chance! The weekend when I found the little booger dropping my keys behind the radiator, squeezing an entire bottle of hand sanitizer on his sister's school work, microwaving his plastic blocks, and standing on the sink so her could see in the mirror … let's just say that I wouldn't get out of prison until somewhere between hell freezing over and the day the Browns win a Super Bowl.
Second, I thought the dialog with my nine-year-old daughter was entertaining:
Daughter: What are you guys taking about?
Dad: The State of Delaware has passed a law saying that parents can't spank their kids.
Daughter: That's silly.
Dad: Why?
Daughter: Parents need to spank so their kids will behave.
Dad: What do you think will happen if parents can't spank their kids?
Daughter: The kids will probably end up voting for Obama.
Fanfare for the Common Soldier
Something for the weekend. Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland. Composed seventy years ago, it was Copland's reaction to the US entering World War II. Watching the video above, a salute to the soldiers of World War II, brought back memories from 36 years ago for me.
Back in the summer of 1976 I was on vacation between my freshman and sophomore years at the University of Illinois. My father ran the steel shears at a truck body plant in Paris, Illinois. They were hiring summer help and I got a job working on the factory floor. Although I liked the idea of earning money, I was less than enthused by the job. The factory floor was not air-conditioned, and the summer was hot. Additionally I had never worked in a factory before, had no experience with heavy machinery and did not know what to expect.
I was placed under the supervision of a regular worker at the plant. He looked like he was a thousand years old to me at the time, but I realize now that he was younger than than I am now at age 55. I would assist him at a press in which we would manhandle heavy sheets of steel and use the press to bend them into various shapes. Before we began he pointed to a little box and said that if I lost a finger or a part of a finger as a result of the press, I should toss it in the box and proceed with the job. Thus I was introduced to his macabre sense of humor.
I didn't appreciate it at the time, but he was engaged in a rough and ready form of instruction. He had to take a completely green kid, and teach me various tasks, all the while keeping up with the jobs the press was assigned. He did it pretty skillfully, and I learned. I never got to like the job, but I learned how to do it. I also learned to grudgingly respect my mentor. He obviously wasn't well read, but he was handy with machinery, and under his tutelage I learned how to operate the press without losing one of my digits, or costing him one of his. He kept me out of trouble at the factory, and included me in his conversations with his fellow veteran workers. All in all I probably learned more that summer of future value for me in life, than I learned from any of my courses in college.
One day during the half hour we had for lunch, I asked him if he had served in World War II. I was in Army ROTC at the University, and I had a keen interest in military history. He told me that he had been an infantryman in the Army and that he had participated in Operation Torch. Continue reading
Obama And Romney Camps Debate The Debate
(AoftheAP) As the first presidential debate of the 2012 election nears, scheduled for Wednesday October 3 at the University of Denver, each campaign continues to lower their candidate's performance expectations, issuing counter statements that oddly seem to flatter their opponent while downplaying any notion that their own candidate will do well.
"If these expectations get lowered any further," an unnamed pollster said, speaking on condition of anonymity to AoftheA News, "any minute now, they're going to look up and see the Great Wall of China."
Members of President Obama's campaign began the narrative in mid-September, explaining that "the structured — and time-limited — nature of the debates isn't a natural fit for Obama, who often is long-winded when answering questions during news conferences or town hall-style meetings." In addition, the Obama camp admitted that Romney's recent participation in the Republican primary debates could give him an edge heading into the presidential debates.
These statements prompted a reply the Romney campaign, where senior adviser Beth Myers issued a letter stating, in part, that "President Obama is a uniquely gifted speaker, and is widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history." Thus, Romney's expectations in doing well against the president are fairly low.
Not long after seeing the letter, members of the Obama campaign responded by saying that while they appreciate Governor Romney's kind words, their expectations were still lower, because the president has not had the sort of time to prepare that his contender has enjoyed. Jen Paski, a White House spokesperson, told reporters on Air Force One: "I will just take this opportunity to say that Mitt Romney on the other hand has been preparing earlier and with more focus than any presidential candidate in modern history: Not John F. Kennedy, not President Bill Clinton, not President George Bush, not Ronald Reagan has prepared as much as he has." She went on to cite that "the president has 'been doing some studying' but cited his travel schedule, unfolding events in the Middle East, and 'just the constraints of governing' as preventing Obama from focusing more time on it." Continue reading
A Fundamental Threat to American Democracy
Jimmy Carter's pollster Pat Caddell calls out the Mainstream Media covering up the Obama administration's lies on Libya as a fundamental threat to American Democracy:
PAT CADDELL: Thank you. Glad to be with you. This could take a long time, but we don't have that, so let me just get right to this. I think we're at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy or not. You know, when I first started in politics – and for a long time before that – everyone on both sides, Democrats and Republicans, despised the press commonly, because they were SOBs to everybody. Which is exactly what they should be. They were unrelenting. Whatever the biases were, they were essentially equal-opportunity people. That changed in 1980. There's a lot of reasons for it. It changed—an important point in the Dukakis-Bush election, when the press literally was trying to get Dukakis elected by ignoring what was happening in Massachusetts, with a candidate who was running on the platform of "He will do for America what he did for Massachusetts"—while they were on the verge of bankruptcy.
Also the change from evening news emphasis to morning news by the networks is another factor that's been pointed out to me. Most recently, what I call the nepotism that exists, where people get jobs—they're married to people who are in the administration, or in politics, whatever. But the overwhelming bias has become very real and very dangerous. We have a First Amendment for one reason. We have a First Amendment not because the Founding Fathers liked the press—they hated the press—but they believed, as [Thomas] Jefferson said, that in order to have a free country, in order to be a free people, we needed a free press. That was the job—so there was an implicit bargain in the First Amendment, the press being the only institution, at that time, which was in our process of which there was no checks and balances. We designed a constitutional system with many checks and balances. The one that had no checks and balances was the press, and that was done under an implicit understanding that, somehow, the press would protect the people from the government and the power by telling—somehow allowing—people to have the truth. That is being abrogated as we speak, and has been for some time. It is now creating the danger that I spoke to.
This morning, just this morning, Gallup released their latest poll on the trust, how much trust—the Congressman [Lamar Smith] made reference to an earlier poll—when it comes to reporting the news accurately, fairly, and fully, and it's the highest in history. For the first time, 60% of the people said they had "Not very much" or "None at all." Of course there was a partisan break: There were 40% who believed it did, Democrats, 58% believed that it was fair and accurate, Republicans were 26%, Independents were 31%. So there is this contempt for the media – or this belief—and there are many other polls that show it as well. I want to just use a few examples, because I think we crossed the line the last few weeks that is terrifying. Continue reading
Now This is Bare Knuckles
Hey Mitt, perhaps your ad men might want to take a look at the ads put out by my personal hero Allen West. One of two black Republican Congressmen, he was redistricted into a much less Republican district and was thought to be easy pickings for his Democrat opponent. Instead, West is clobbering Patrick Murphy, and is now leading by eleven points. How did he do it? Because he knows what he believes in and he fights for his beliefs. Conviction and honest emotion go a long way in politics, along with a verbal hard right to the kidneys every now and then:
The Selfishness of Homeschooling
I spent several days last week with my husband's high school teacher cousin and her husband who works for the teachers' union in California. To say they are Liberal would be to undersell their political stances in the same way that calling me a Conservative wouldn't begin to cover it. As they are nice people, it was an enjoyable weekend of back-and-forth political banter. They support the President. We don't. We both knew that going in which made any mention of politics more play than work. Neither one was going to be persuaded which made it about the intellectual exercise.
No one offered any new arguments to me until we began to discuss education. They seemed very interested in our decision to homeschool, the book I'm writing about it, and the children we're raising. They both conceded that we appear to be succeeding in raising and educating children who are both well-informed and socially normal. It was then that she shook her head slightly and stated, "I think you're doing a great job at it and you obviously have a love and a passion for teaching, which is what makes it even more selfish. Not only are you keeping money out of the schools by not putting your children in them, depriving other children of the resources which could be purchased with that money, but you're depriving those children of the opportunity to have you as a teacher."
It's not a new argument, to be sure. I've been told many times that public schools are funded on a per-capita basis which means that our homeschooling keeps funds out of the public schools. Our local school district would receive around $11,000 for each of my children per year, so by teaching them at home, I'm keeping $77,000 out of the local budget. That money could be spent on computers, library books, or teacher salaries…or so the story goes. In reality, I've never seen a government bureaucracy spend money that efficiently and I suspect that that $77,000 would not make much of a difference at all.
What is new to me is the idea that my teaching of my own children deprives other children of my brilliance. The social obligation which she assumed I should feel is based in her deep belief in the notion of Collectivism, the idea that what we are and what we can do somehow belongs as much to each other as it does to ourselves. It's a sort of communism of man. It is also an ideal which is central to Liberal ideology. It requires a moral and cultural conformity which are the antithesis of the American experiment.
In choosing to educate my children at home, I'm not making a selfish statement but an Individualist one. It is a decision which springs from my belief that the people in my household are my primary responsibility. It comes from the idea that God has entrusted these children to me to raise, and that while I must be concerned with the well-being of my fellow men it should not come at the expense of these children.
I have heard it argued that the Christian position should be a Collectivist one. It is the justification many Catholics make for voting for the Democrat Party. There is a beauty in the ideal of the Brotherhood of Man, and just enough truth in it to make it almost right. If only it didn't require the subjugation of the family or the ownership of the individual by the group, but it does. Their ideal would necessitate that I should turn away from the raising of my own children in favor of the need to educate the children of everyone else. My ability to teach would be owned… and not by me.
So is it a selfish decision that I made to homeschool? There may have been an element of that in my wanting to keep my babies at home and with me for as long as I possibly can. On the other hand, while it may not be true for all children, this is the best choice for educating ours. They are thriving and doing quite well as they learn at our kitchen table, much better than they would do elsewhere. Our brief foray into traditional schooling showed us that quite clearly. So for these children, the selfish thing would be to send them elsewhere, because giving my life over to teaching them is the task which God has given me to do.
Solidarity Health Share: Discussion Starter
Yesterday The Motley Monk wrote and excellent article informing us about the National Catholic Bioethics Center's (NCBC) advice, "Dropping All Insurance Coverage…" Speaking as a concerned Catholic, mother and citizen, I would love to see a lot more discussions like this about our options. Catholics have an opportunity, possibly, to lead the way in our nation.
Some commenters suggested an "offer and ignore" approach, and I've noticed some other Catholics talking about that approach as well, though only in early stages. More on that toward the end. It's something dear hubby and I have discussed extensively in the kitchen. Our motivation? We have a large, young family, and since he's made his career in the insurance business, he's aware of better possible options. Admittedly, it's the auto insurance business, but the fundamental purpose of insurance is still the same. A conscientious insurance businessman seeks to:
1) Offer a product that truly adds value to the customer's life.
2) Build a business that employs people oriented around that principle too.
As a quick aside, the people who see insurance as some big, greedy, capitalist monster have to base that premise (in this country anyway) on the assumption that customers are unable to chose wisely when it comes to the planning of their family's future. The Trasancos family, obviously, rejects that premise. We don't need the government to tell us what is good for us. Thank you, but no thanks, Obama et al.
As another quicker aside, it is common knowledge in the insurance industry that the more government regulation there is in any state, the more costs increase in a general linear fashion. Some regulation is necessary. Too much regulation only employs government workers and adds cost to customers. If oppressive regulation is enforced at the federal level, the government is basically ruling us and treating us like idiots.
Consider this question. Feedback or input, including correction, is welcome. It's a good conversation to have.
How much do you already pay for health insurance? If you get health insurance through your employer (the situation for many Americans), you most likely pay more than you realize for it. Why? Most employee benefit plans pay 75-80% of the cost of coverage, and the employee pays the rest.


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Any solutions to my nokia 6303 classic? With mp4 files,it plays the sound but the video is blank.
Tried changing the bitrates,fps,screen resolution but still the same.
But there is one mp4 file that it played well. Don't know why or how.
Phone firmware is 10.10 (10.12 is the latest,wikipedia based) 10.12 is still unavailable in the philippines.


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'56 Up', the lives documented on camera
The latest instalment of ITV's landmark documentary series returns to visit the people whose lives have been followed since they were just seven-years-old.
The original '7 Up' was broadcast in 1964 as a one-off World in Action Special featuring children chosen from different backgrounds to talk about their hopes and dreams for the future.
The series was inspired by World in Action founder editor Tim Hewat's interest in both the saying: "Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man," and the rigid class system of 1960s Britain
7 Up set out to discover whether or not the children's lives were pre-determined by their background.
Director Michael Apted, who has since moved to Hollywood to direct films including 'The World Is Not Enough', 'The Chronicles of Narnia' and 'Gorillas in the Mist', has returned every seven years to chart the children's progress through life.
– Michael Apted, Director
Researching 7 Up was my first job, 56 Up is currently my latest, so this project has spanned my working life. It has been a unique and fulfilling experience, the one I treasure most in my career.
Over the past six decades, the series has documented the group as they have become adults and entered middle-age, dealing with everything life has thrown at them in between.
Now, called '56 Up', the series is back to discover what has happened to the group over the last seven years.
Among them is Tony.
- He is the London cabbie who at the age of seven dreamed of being a jockey.
- At 42 Up, Tony confessed that he had been cheating on his wife, Debbie, but she said she would stand by her husband
- At 49 Up the couple revealed that their marriage had survived, they had become grandparents and the proud owners of a home in Spain
ITV London has more about '56 Up'. The programme is on ITV1, on Monday May 14th at 9pm.