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Trey Lapke collected three hits and picked up the save in relief as third-seeded Sioux City East defeated seventh-seeded Clinton 6-1 Friday night at Principal Park in the final Class 4A semifinal game. The Black Raiders (32-9) will meet fourth-seeded Johnston (28-12) in the championship game Saturday night.
It will be East's third trip to the championship game. The Black Raiders lost to Ottumwa in the 1996 and 1997 title games, then went winless in trips to state in 2000 and 2003.
Clinton — after posting its first state tournament win since 1970 in the quarterfinals — ends at 26-15.
Lapke had two singles and a triple as East outhit Clinton 8-3.
East junior Hayden Godfrey (8-2) allowed just two hits and one run in five innings. Godfrey retired the first six batters he faced before allowing two baserunners — on a single and an error to start the third. He got out of the inning and retired nine straight heading into the sixth when the Kings put the first three men on base. Lapke came on in relief and got out of the bases-loaded jam with only one run scored. Lapke held off the Kings in the seventh for the save.
East took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. Lapke led off with a single and scored as Hayden Godfrey ripped a triple down the right-field line. JJ Stephens followed with a sacrifice fly.
The Black Raiders added two more runs in the third. Jake Westphal had an RBI single and Lapke slugged an RBI triple to push the margin to 4-0.
Clinton loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the sixth on a single by Alex Caldwell, an error and a walk. With two outs, Ryan Driscoll singled to center, scoring one run, but centerfielder Dom Thompson-Williams nailed the second runner at the plate trying to score on the play, keeping the margin at 4-1.
East scored twice in the top of the seventh for a 6-1 lead. An error, a single by Spencer Franco, a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly by Brandon Carlson pushed across the first run. Tyler Franko singled in the second run.
Jake Simpson (4-2) went the first three innings for the Kings and allowed five hits and four runs — all earned. Jake Faur came on in relief to start the fourth and finished the game. He allowed three hits and two runs.
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HUNDREDS of cricketers are continually drawn to Bendigo in late January each year.
Since it hit off in the mid 1930s, Bendigo Country Cricket Week has become one of the most popular carnivals across central and northern Victoria.
Generation after generation has headed to Bendigo from many pockets of the state to bat, bowl and field.
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I've known for years that African American George Washington Bush quickly moved his mixed race family north of the Columbia River upon arriving in Oregon in 1844 because of racism and hostile laws directed at blacks on the south side of the river.
But just how deep those feelings of hatred and distrust of blacks ran in the Oregon country was not clear to me until I read "Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory," by R. Gregory Nokes.
Nokes, an Oregon native and longtime journalist with The Oregonian and Associated Press, leaves no stone unturned in his pursuit of the truth about the conflicted relationships between whites and blacks in the pre-Civil War era in Oregon.
His rigorous research documents the presence of 37 slaves in the pioneer days — 36 in Oregon and young Charles Mitchell in Olympia. There were others that left no written record.
In the 10 years since Nokes retired from his newspaper career, he's been on a relentless journey to set the Oregon early history record straight, exposing stories of exploitation and violence against people of color.
His first book: "Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hell's Canyon" sheds a harsh light on the little known story of more than 30 Chinese brutally murdered in 1887 while gold-mining in Hell's Canyon. The suspects, an unruly band of white rustlers and schoolboys, were never brought to justice, protected by a veil of indifference in the rugged mountains and rural outposts of Wallowa County where the crimes occurred.
You can't read either of these books without feeling outrage and sorrow over two dark chapters in Pacific Northwest history.
"If I were in school again, I would want to understand the real history of our state, not a sanitized version that misleads us into myths and misplaced self-satisfaction," Nokes writes in the prologue to his most recent book. "We can learn from our past. We should."
The same year the Bush family's wagon train arrived in Oregon from Missouri, Oregon's provisional government — filled with many pioneers who held blacks in contempt — adopted a law excluding blacks from moving to Oregon. It included a "lash law" that called for free blacks and mulattos found guilty of not leaving the Oregon country within a set amount of time — two years for adult males, three years for females — to be whipped on their bare backs up to 39 times. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and the lash law was repealed the following year before any punishment took place. But it was replaced with a forced-labor policy for free blacks who refused to leave Oregon. The exclusion law was repealed as well. But it was reinstated in 1849 by the Oregon Territorial Legislature, only to be repealed in May of 1854.
Bush and his family received the message loud and clear: They weren't welcome in Oregon, so they moved north to a prairie near Olympia.
It's likely Bush saw the writing on the wall during the wagon train's eight-month journey from Missouri to Oregon. Along the way he probably had several icy encounters with Nathaniel Ford, the leader of another wagon train that left Missouri at the same time. Ford brought with him six slaves, including Robin and Polly Holmes and their three children.
Ford later set Robin and Polly Holmes free, but tried to keep the three children. In a landmark case Robin Holmes filed a custody lawsuit to free his children in 1852 and, remarkably, won. It was the only slave case to ever reach the Oregon courts.
Oregon voters rejected slavery by a 7,727- to 2,645-vote margin in November 1857 when they ratified a constitution for statehood, which was gained in February 1859.
But the voters were conflicted over who was welcome to live in their free state: They voted 8,640 to 1,081 to exclude blacks from moving to Oregon, the so-called exclusion clause in the state constitution.
Oregon had the dubious distinction of being the only free state with an exclusion clause.
And blacks already residing in the union's 33rd state were not eligible to vote, hold public office, serve in the militia, serve on juries or file lawsuits.
Here's another disturbing fact: While the exclusion clause was largely ignored, it wasn't officially erased from the state constitution until 1926.
Nokes spoke about his latest book Monday to a small gathering at the state Capitol Museum. Then I took him to Bush Prairie in Tumwater to see where the Bush family found a new start to life nearly 170 years ago.
He marveled at the gigantic butternut tree that Bush brought with him as a seedling on the wagon train. He saw the hop plants that have survived countless decades.
A small piece of early black history in the Pacific Northwest that Nokes has so adroitly told came to life in the mid-October afternoon sun.
For more on Nokes and his two books, visit www.gregnokes.com.
John Dodge: 360-754-5444


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I want to carry out subcontracting process.
I have done the following :
1. Maintained BOM in TCode:CS01
I have defined material. I want to use this material as recursive in BOM ie I am using name MAT1 so the BOM i am defining is with the same name as well Item component also MAT1
I have also defined the Vendor.
2. Maintained info records TCode: Me11
3. Created a Purchase order of item category of type L
Now i want to create a outbound delivery of type LB against this PO.
I think the next step is through ME2O but when i go to this transacition and give the vendor number the screen gives me message "No Selection possible"
<b>My requirement is to carry Delivery of type LB against the PO.</b>
Please provide pointers
Thanks in advance
Amit Deshpande
There is serious problem in ur logic...why is it u r going for recursive material...
Just make another material code for that.
Hi Dipak,
Thanks for the reply
The recursive part is not important i can give new material code too. lets keep this logic aside
Main issue is creating delivery of type LB against the purchase order through Me2o.
Hi Amit
1) Check'Set up subcontract order' IMG setting in purchasing
2) Check delivery type LB settings in 0VLK; (If there is still problem, There will be other related Logistics Eecution settings for deliveries..)
3) Then you can use 'Create Delivery' in ME2O
Best regards
Thanks for the reply,
i think your pointers will help me address my problem.
I will let you know further developments


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Don't be fooled, "Year Zero" sounds nothing like previous Nine Inch Nails releases. Perhaps its because the whole album was constructed on a lap top music making program. Perhaps because Trent Reznor has evolved as a human being. Perhaps its because "Year Zero" is part of a bigger picture, a concept album that depicts a story set in a dystopian future where the government oversteps its boundries in a post apocalyptical cyberpunk world. Perhaps because the planets and stars were aligned at the perfect moment.
Whatver the case may be, "Year Zero" sounds worlds apart from all of the previous Nine Inch Nails outings, and for the better. Yes, it sounds much different from "With Teeth", a less than stellar, yet enjoyable album. "Year Zero" sounds nothing like "The Downward Spiral", even though a select few are comparing them. And it certainly sounds nothing like "The Fragile", NIN's most versatile and complete recording.
One thing that you must remember is that all previous Nine Inch Nails albums convey a vary dark world and very self-depricating lyrics, bi-polar depression rantings, sickness and healing.
Unlike all of his previous albums, "Year Zero" features lyrics that have nothing to do with Trent Reznor's problems. It is a concept album, and an awesome one at that.
Maybe its because I am in love with anything cyberpunk, to which this album directly relates, in both sound and lyrics, that I find awesome. Or maybe its because Trent is evolving as an artist and as a human, shedding the depressing and darkness allowing for a more cohesive vision to protrude through. I don't know.
That is not to say that "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile" are not amazing projects, because they are. Personally I feel that "The Fragile" is the best album Nine Inch Nails has released, with "The Downward Spiral" coming in second. But there is something about "Year Zero" and its concept that is most intriguing.
Yes, the most amazing thing about this album is that Trent is not regurgitating the same ol' thing again. "With Teeth" was the same ol' stuff we have heard him sing a thousand times. That is why its not really all that amazing, we have heard it before.
No, "Year Zero" features lyrics depicting a particular event or narration from a particular persons viewpoint within this grand story that Trent has created. And that makes "Year Zero" the best.
People are going to draw major conclusions, stating that "Year Zero" is a direct relation to the present state of our world, with President Bush and the Patriot Act, the war….on and on.
While I agree, the present state of anything is going to affect anyone creating art, it only served as a catalyst. Distopian cyberpunk stories have been around since the early 80's, maybe even before that.
I have always had a vision that Trent Reznor could conjure up a great story, and here it is. Well part of it. Rumor is, that this is part one, and there is possibly a movie too. I can only hope!
Another thing that makes this album so monumentous, and it IS monumentous, is the lengths Trent went to hype this album up. The flash drives with leaked material and pure noise containing messages, secret messages on tour t-shirts, the web sites with all the little tidbits and back stories. Its a very clever marketing scheme, and a fun way to involve all of the fans in a little game of discovery, which it did. The internet was all buzzing over the sites and flash drives and hidden messages.
OK, enough of all that, onto the album…
"Year Zero" features music entirely displaced in the Nine Inch Nails catalogue. But at the same time it fits perfectly. The reason I say that it is displaced is that there are barely any guitars or screaming involved. Much more emphasis is placed on regular singing, and the music is comprised of Trip-Hop/electronic/noise. Break beats are melded with semi-industrial beats to form an awesome and original sound.
Yes, I said Break Beats! There is a small tinge of influence from Hip-Hop/Trip Hop going on in the beats, along with Trent's passion for Industrial drums.
Ambient and other electronic sounds pervade each track. The best way I can describe it is that this is PURE lap top music in all its glory and greatness. What I would consider "futuristic" music.
There are no definable "sadness" parts or "depressing" melodies to be found on "Year Zero", a nice change. I cannot express how happy I am that Trent has decided to try something different. On the same note, Trent's signature instrument, the piano, doesn't come in until "Another Version of the Truth" (beautiful piano by the way, just beautiful), the third to the last track on the album!
It is awesome to hear a Nine Inch Nails album that doesn't overkill with guitars and screaming.
Evolution, baby.
Oh, "The Great Destroyer" probably features the most guitar work on the album. But compared to albums like "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile", the guitar work is tamer than a Sonny and Cher song.
By the way, "The Great Destroyer" features one of the finest "noise" freak outs I have ever heard.
Like I said earlier, the whole album was comprised on a lap top computer program, and you can certainly tell. Well, at least I can, being that I make music on lap top program as well, and I can spot out the sound. Igf you are familiar with computer music programs, then you will be able to discern the different sounds in each song and the type of effect and manipulation Trent used to achieve that particular effect.
Trent even stated himself that most of the songs were created out of doodling on said computer program, and all of the songs were crafted in little time.
If anyting, the great amount of noise featured on "Year Zero" takes place of the massive distorted guitars of previous albums, and it sounds perfect. The whole musical atmosphere of "Year Zero" perfectly depicts a dystopian, cyberpunk world. There are some guitars featured, but they are sparse, and they never overwhelm the album. Overall, behind the break beats, there is a deep ambient mood pervading this album, and lots of layers to peel away. Random blips and bloops, dissonance and noise creep around each corner, but they always fit within what is going on.
On to Trent's lyrics…
Very political. Very very political. But that is the essence of the story, not necessarily reflecting present day world issues, but at the same time, is.
One thing that is of note, the song "Meet Your Master" sounds like it wouldn't be out of place on an earlier Nine Inch Nails album, however it still fits within the mythos of the concept.
I haven't quite put together the whole story featured on the album yet, it seems that the album most likely takes place in America, where the government is getting out of control. Control is the word, trying to control thoughts, actions, everything. The government has put a chemical in the water that controls everyone. Basically, everything is falling apart. Themes of war play a big part as well.
There are seeds of dissent as well, groups that are trying to fight the government.
There is a mysterious being called the Presence, featured on the cover of the album, however I don't know much about this being.
I haven't been able to delve too deep into the lyrics yet to grasp the story, but from what I have heard, I am very pleased.
Just the fact that this album isn't another depressing outing is good enough for me.
As far as structure wise, everything falls within a linear fashion, save the crazy noise orgasms that frequent this album. Verse, chorus, verse, aside from short instrumental passages, of which "Another Version of the Truth" is one of these. Each song has little moments that make each track stand out. There is no song that is forgettable, or skippable, not yet at least.
The last song on the album, "Zero-Sum" I(which I think is the only other song to feature piano, besides "Another Version of the Truth") is kind of funny, because it has the whole "moral" thing to it, the NIN way of course. Just listen to the chorus. Its tongue-in cheek
I was very disappointed in "With Teeth", and I thought that the end was around the corner for Nine Inch Nails. I figured "washed-up", "has been" applied. And then Trent does something that totally redeems himself!
That is not to say that critics won't bash this album. Oh, yes this album will be the target of haters galore. Why? Because the general concept of the story has been done before. Because people with write this off as Trent Reznor's attempt at a politically charged album. I also know that many will attack this album on the basis that it was totally created on a computer. Many people consider music made on a computer NOT music. There is actually a lot of hatred toward non-traditional music( by tradtional I mean music made with guitars, bass, drums..etc..).
Do yourself a favor, don't pass this album up. Give it a few good listens, it is well worth it. The beats alone are "tight", in a way that Nine Inch Nails beats have never been before. The production is very "tight" as well.
Trent totally satisfied exactly what I wanted to hear from him, a wonderful concept album with heavy futuristic overtones.
All in all, "Year Zero" is a great album, that may not break the boundries of amazing musicianship, but does exactly what it is supposed to. It conveys a story. And a darn good one too.


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IRON RIVER— Friends of Camp Batawagama will present "Always . Patsy Cline" on Wednesday, July 18, at the Windsor Center at 7 p.m. Patsy Cline fans who "Fall To Pieces" over her music and even those not as familiar with the iconic singer, will be "Crazy" about "Always…Patsy Cline," on July 15th at the Windsor center in Iron River.
The musical is based on a true story of the friendship between Patsy, played by Maggy Norden, who sang some of the most recognizable songs in American music history, and her devoted fans. After a successful off-Broadway run, "Always…Patsy Cline" has been performed throughout the U.S. and the world, becoming one of this country's most produced musicals. Gail Westerfield, who also directs the play, narrates as Louise Seger, a Texas housewife who meets her idol at a honky tonk in 1961, just two years before Patsy's tragic death I a plane crash at age 30. The show spotlights the songs that made Patsy made famous, as well as the personal story behind the songs. Norden sings 25 songs, from "I Fall to Pieces," "Walkin' After Midnight," "Sweet Dreams," and "Crazy" to her lesser-known recordings, all to the accompaniment of a live band. Not only does Norden look and sound remarkably similar to Patsy in the play, they had some interesting things in common in real life.`"I learned in my research for the role that neither of us can read music or even know what key we sing in! Patsy started singing when she was four years old and had no formal training, and I haven't either. But I've always been a singer: My mother told me I was humming when I was just nine months old." Though she doesn't consider herself "a strict country music fan," Norden said she has "always loved Patsy's voice, and like Louise's character says in the play, Patsy sang the way I've always wanted to sing." Tickets are $15, and all proceeds will go to support the traditional programs at Camp Batawagama. For tickets and additional information, call Margee Brennan 906-265-3691 or Louisa Kniivila 906-265-1097. Tickets will be available on June 1 at the Iron County Chamber of Commerce as well as local businesses.


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"I love Celebrity Apprentice...we're going to continue making lots and lots of money for charity," Trump said.
During his brief flirtation with running for the White House, Trump was a Celebrity Candidate...getting way more attention than he deserved. And he reveled in it:
"I think Obama's doing an absolutely disgraceful job as president. The country's at an all time low and it's a very sad situation."
For a while, this could have been his campaign slogan:
"Have a good time everybody."
VIEWER VOICES: What do you think of Donald Trump's decision not to run for president in 2012?
But now that he's officially out of the race he never got into, let's give him the last word:
"Bye everybody."
Trump has now not run as a Republican, after not running in 1988 as a Democrat.
The next time he even talks about it, a reasonable voter could ask him, "deal or no deal?"
But that would be the wrong show.
I'm Andy Hiller, and that's my instinct.
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The company responsible for a chemical spill that has shut
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received a threat this afternoon.
According to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, Freedom
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ROGEN: Of course not. But that's not my problem. I'm not offended as a pot smoker; I'm offended as a comedian.
PLAYBOY: You think MTV was trying to create controversy?
ROGEN: I think they were being hypocritical. They have shows like The Real World, which is all about drinking and fucking. If that's their idea of entertainment, then our goofy little joke about smoking a fake joint should be harmless. They're documenting the lives of promiscuous young people without any of the repercussions. Not that I care. I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to show that. I'm just saying if that's your idea of acceptable behavior, don't give us a fucking hard time about one stupid joint.
PLAYBOY: Was it surprising when MTV turned against you?
ROGEN: Not at all. MTV has always fucked us. It was a nightmare doing interviews with them for Pineapple Express. We were on TRL, which thank God is over. I never have to go on that fucking show again.
PLAYBOY: You didn't care for it?
ROGEN: I did not. It wasn't even live. It was all a big lie. It was painful because Franco and I went on to promote Pineapple, and the producers told us, "Okay, you can't mention weed at all." That just stunned me. The movie's about weed! How would we even describe it? Why are we here if we can't talk about weed? That's just so silly and absurd to me. It's like bringing on the cast from Transformers and telling them, "You can't talk about robots."
PLAYBOY: How will you evolve as you get older? You can't keep playing the scruffy stoner type forever, can you?
ROGEN: I have no idea. I don't think about that, to be honest.
PLAYBOY: You don't wonder what your career will look like in another five, 10, 20 years?
ROGEN: I really don't. I have no overall career plan. I take it on a movie-by-movie basis. It's all I can do.
PLAYBOY: A lot of comic actors yearn for credibility, hoping to cross over into dramatic roles. Do you have ambitions beyond comedy?
ROGEN: Somebody recently said to me, "Man, if Green Hornet does well, you guys will be able to make whatever movies you want." No, we've always made the movies we want. Every movie we've made has been the movie we wanted. We didn't make Superbad to get somewhere else. We didn't make Pineapple Express to get somewhere else. Those were it. If Pineapple Express is the last movie I ever make, I won't say, "I never got a chance to make the big one!" That's the exact movie I wanted to make.
PLAYBOY: Do you ever worry you might be lured by a huge paycheck to make some bloated blockbuster like Cat in the Hat or The Grinch and all your comedy credibility will disappear?
ROGEN: Oh yeah, all the time. Jonah Hill and I were having that exact conversation the other day, about how easy it would be to sell out without even realizing it. It's not just about the money. Sometimes you do a movie and you think it'll be great, but then you see it and it turns out to be terrible.
PLAYBOY: How can you protect yourself from making a dud?
ROGEN: You can't. My only barometer is to ask myself, Is this something I'd want to go see as an audience member? Otherwise, you have to accept that the rest of it is out of your control.
PLAYBOY: Is it true you talked Hill out of doing a Transformers sequel?
ROGEN: I wouldn't say I talked him out of it. I was a voice against it. It's not just about the final product for me anymore. It's also about the experience. This isn't just a career anymore. It's my life. My life isn't being in these movies, it's making these movies. You have to make sure that aspect of it is as enjoyable as possible. I want to go to work and think, I'm making a movie I'm excited about, I like the people I work with, and I'm having a good time. It wouldn't be worth it if I were making the best movie ever and had to come to work and think, I hate these fucking people!
PLAYBOY: Do you care what your fans think about you?
ROGEN: You mean, do I read the Internet? My girlfriend reads the comments section on my IMDb profile all the time, and sometimes she tells me, "You have to look at what this jerk said about you." People fucking hate me on the Internet. The tide has definitely turned.
PLAYBOY: Why do you think that is?
ROGEN: It's completely arbitrary. When Superbad and The 40-Year-Old Virgin came out, I was the raddest guy on Ain't It Cool News. But now, for no reason, I am the fucking worst, most despicable Antichrist of comedy. All I did was make two more movies that were both pretty good, in my opinion. It's become almost obligatory to say how much you fucking hate me. It's like, "He's doing all the stuff that makes us laugh, and I hate that about him."
PLAYBOY: What was your favorite experience meeting a fan?
ROGEN: I was at a bookstore last week, and this 20-year-old guy was standing next to me in line. He noticed me and got a funny look on his face, then he finally said, "Oh my God, man, you're my hero. Look what I'm buying." He had a book on screenplay writing and an encyclopedia of marijuana. [laughs] I was like, "Yeah, I guess I really am your hero."
PLAYBOY: How do you spoil yourself? You don't seem like the kind of guy who would spend his paycheck on a fancy car or a Malibu mansion.
ROGEN: I buy a lot of Japanese pop-art toys on eBay. I have a massive collection in my house. I've always been obsessed with comic books. Both Evan and I have read tons of them. If any of our movies suck, it's because we were reading comic books instead of writing.
PLAYBOY: It's probably no surprise that you and Goldberg wrote an episode for The Simpsons about the Comic Book Guy.
ROGEN: That's the coolest thing we've done. Of everything we've accomplished, which is not much on the grand scale of things, writing for The Simpsons is the apex.
PLAYBOY: Do you identify with the Comic Book Guy?
ROGEN: As a very anal collector of things, I can definitely relate.
PLAYBOY: If your movie career hadn't worked out quite so well, could you imagine yourself with his life, running a little comic-book store in Vancouver?
ROGEN: Yeah! I sometimes think about that. What would I be doing if I weren't an actor? Working in a video store or a comic-book store is the only thing I could possibly enjoy as much. I'd be one of those guys you look at and say, "What the fuck is wrong with him? Why is he working at this fucking store? Why doesn't he get out and do something with his life?" I would definitely be that guy. Maybe I'd do a combo: a video-game-and-comic-book store. Yeah, that would be cool. That's definitely what I should do if I crap out in movies. You know, that sounds so good it's almost worth quitting for.


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South suburbanites led the jackpot in objections raised to conceal and carry gun applications among Cook County suburban areas, clocking in with 54.
The Cook County Sheriff's Office released its summary of applications for the first month of Illinois's concealed-carry law, objecting to a total of 240 individuals.
Among the 240 applicants, five have already been denied by the Illinois State Police.
The Illinois Concealed Carry Licensing Board will review and decide the merits of the remaining 234, Dart said in a written statement.
Objections have been raised to 118 individuals residing in Chicago, while 97 reside in suburban Cook County, including:
South suburbs - 54
Central suburbs - 24
North suburbs - 19
Twenty-five applicants currently reside outside of Cook County, but the law stipulates that the sheriff's office review conceal-carry applications of individuals that resided in Cook at some point within the past 10 years.
Justifications for the objections, with many applicants falling into multiple categories, include:
Domestic Violence – 88
Gun Crimes – 77
Battery/Assault – 52
Orders of Protection – 29
Aggravated Battery/Assault – 27
Gang Activity – 12
Burglary/Theft – 10
Sex Crimes – 4
False Impersonation – 4
Drugs – 4
Mental Illness – 1
Other – 16
The number includes 14 individuals certified as concealed-carry training instructors by the Illinois State Police.
Other objections were raised based on applicants' criminal arrests and convictions for gun offenses, gang activities, battery and a host of others.
- One applicant has been arrested 20 times and twice convicted, including 12 arrests for theft, three for battery--including two domestic batteries and two for resisting a peace officer.
- Another applicant has been arrested 12 times, with one conviction, including gun-related offenses such as aggravated battery with a firearm, failure to keep a record of firearm transfer and defacing firearm markings. The applicant has also been arrested for assault and battery.
- An additional applicant has been arrested nine times, with one conviction, including a criminal history of gun crimes such as unlawful use of a weapon and two aggravated assaults with a firearm. The applicant has also been arrested twice for battery – including domestic battery – as well as resisting a peace officer.
Twelve applicants were also flagged for gang ties, including four who are affiliated with Latin Kings, and the rest claiming affiliation with the Gangster Disciples, Satan Disciples, the Insane Unknowns, and the New Breeds. The remaining four objections were based on documented gang activity or arrests, such as gang loitering.
Since Illinois's conceal-carry law took effect Jan. 1, the Sheriff's Office has devoted in excess of 2,000 combined staff hours on concealed carry applications.
The process has been split among 25 employees, several of whom are full-time, In some instances, individuals have been pulled away from their usual responsibilities, such as criminal intelligence and police patrol.


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You're walking in downtown Savannah after dinner, and a 20-something in dark, tattered clothes hits you up for your doggie bag. Turns out, there's a word for that.
"White boxing," explained Caroline Cornwell, a 25-year-old Massachusetts native who came to Savannah for St. Patrick's Day. "It's when you ask a stranger for their leftovers."
They call themselves rail kids or travelers. Some use a harsher word: "gutter punks." But most Savannahians know them as "dog people" for the leashed canines typically by their sides.
"We're road dogs pretty much," Cornwell said.
Standing with her two fellow travelers on Chippewa Square, Cornwell quickly changed gears. "See we're going to white box that guy right now. Sir are you going to eat that? We're hungry."
"Can we have your leftovers?" Richard Reichstadter, a 30-year-old from Jacksonville chimed in.
"We are hungry," said Cornwall.
"We're starving."
The passerby did not give up his sandwich. Not everyone is open to the freewheeling lifestyle.
"You know, 50 percent of the people are pretty cool, nice," another traveler, Tacoma native Tony Jackson, said Tuesday on Broughton Street. "There's the other percent that don't really like us, that look at us like we're aliens or something."
The young travelers WTOC interviewed for this story were open about drinking and drug use. The group on Chippewa square described "research chemicals," new hallucinogens they'd just tried at a Rainbow Family gathering in the Florida woods. Jackson and his friend, Cory Fanson, had hands that visibly were shaking. They were looking for cheap beer and said their DTs, or detox tremors, were kicking in. Fanson said that lately, these young travelers have to keep moving, that Savannah-Chatham police are putting pressure on them for panhandling.
"We're pretty much ran out of everywhere we hang out in around here."
Despite relative homelessness, no one WTOC spoke with for this story described being forced into this lifestyle.
"I went to school for seven years, psychology. I have a master's degree in research psychology," Cornwall said.
"I have a double in psychology and math," Reichstader added.
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The play above is a microcosm of what Vince does for the running game. It appears to be a zone read, though to be completely honest, it's possible this could just be a designed run for Chris Johnson. Either way, it's not especially important.
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By Jim Wallace - bio | emailAugust 7, 2008
LEESBURG, GA (WALB) -- As the Olympic Games take center stage in Beijing, China, one of the United States athletes in a lesser known sport has South Georgia ties.
Eli Bremer, one of America's medal hopefuls in modern pentathlon, is married to a Lee County native, and his South Georgia family is ready to head to China to root him on.
Eli Bremer hopes to become the first man on the United States Modern Pentathlon team to medal in 48 years. The 30-year-old Air Force Captain is married to Lee County native Cami Grebel Bremer. They met when Cami interned at the Olympic training center in 2001. Now five members of her family head to China next week to see the culmination of his career, the Olympic Games.
Bremer's mother in law, Coni Grebel said "I've always loved the Olympics, we all always have. But it is kind of different to have a personal touch in it. "
Modern Pentathlon Olympians compete in five sports, all in one day, shooting, fencing, swimming, horse back riding, and running. The sport is a combination of early century soldier skills, that really tests an athlete.
Eli Bremer said " When you are out shooting, you need to be calm, and your body need to believe you are calm. When you are fencing, regardless of whether you feel great that day or bad, you need to be excited and spontaneous. "
Bremer qualified for the 2004 Olympics, but a broken foot kept him from competing. NBC used him as a color commentator for modern pentathlon and shooting, but now he is ready to take his shot at the gold.
Bremer said, "It will be my team, those will be my Olympics. And I think that is going to be a special feeling to look up from the floor and say I've made it. I've been pursuing this for 20 years, and I've made it. "
As soon as he won the Pan Am Games and locked down his spot on the Olympic team, his South Georgia family made plans to be in Beijing.
Grebel said "My prayer or hope for him is that he hits his career best in all five disciplines. And then I think he can leave this or continue it happily. ".
In all, 25 of Bremer's family members will be in Beijing. The Modern Pentathlon competition is August 20th, and a lot of South Georgians will be cheering on Eli Bremer.
America's most famous modern pentathlon Olympian was George Patton, who finished fifth in the 1912 Stockholm Games. You can see all the Olympic action here on WALB-TV.
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GHC Core is well behind monads and burritos in the list of most documented topics. You can gather some knowledge from a few blog posts by Haskell gurus, some from StackOverflow or haskell-cafe and some from the GHC commentary or GHC's code itself. I will try from time to time to publish a simple case-study to see how your usual Haskell code gets translated to GHC Core, learning some bits of Core along the way. Sounds good? Then read on.
What's GHC Core
As some of you may know, before generating native code for your platform (through the NCG or LLVM, with
-fllvm), GHC compiles your Haskell code to several intermediate languages, as witnessed by the following diagram (courtesy of the authors of the Haskell course at Stanford, most likely David Terei).
In this series we will focus on Core, which is at a high enough level to see the correspondance with our Haskell code, but happens late enough in the compilation process to reflect what transformations took place, how lazy or strict some functions will be, etc. Hopefully this will help you (and myself, by trying to decently explain things I will surely learn a lot) gain a better understanding of how GHC understands your Haskell code.
By the way, if other people feel like writing such blog posts, please do so! Obviously there's a lot to say, a lot of situations to cover, etc. So feel free to write (and let me know about, if possible) your own GHC Core by example posts.
Hello world in Core
Let's consider this simple Haskell module, in a file named, say
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To see the GHC Core code generated for the above Haskell code, simply run the following:
ghc -O2 -ddump-simpl -dsuppress-idinfo -dsuppress-coercions -dsuppress-type-applications -dsuppress-uniques -dsuppress-module-prefixes Hello.hs.
-ddump-simpl flag asks GHC to print the generated Core after the transformation engine optimising Core programs has run on it. That engine is called the simplifier, thus the "-simpl". The other options I give
ghc make the Core output more readable by stripping out a bunch of things while still retaining enough interesting information. You can try just
ghc -O2 -ddump-simpl hello-core.hs. You're of course not forced to use
-O2 but that turns on quite a lot of transformations that we will be interested in, sooner or later.
You should get an output similar to the following.
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Followed by the actual Core code:
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The first part gives statistics about the generated core code, and the second part is the code itself. Core is quite similar to Haskell. We'll see quite a few differences, but it's nonetheless close to Haskell syntax. The
I# there is just the name of the constructor for
Ints, defined in GHC as (at least something equivalent to)
data Int = I# Int#, where
Int# is a machine integer, without any laziness on top.
How does a list get translated to Core? Let's find out by adding the following code to
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We get, stripping out the statistics and the Core for
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So it creates an
Int for each number of that list, and one call to
(:) for each tail in that list. Let's see how a simple function gets translated now.
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Ok, nothing scary so far. The only differences are that it puts the argument on the right, thus rewriting the function as equal to a lambda, explicitly, and it annotates the argument with a type in the code itself, not just using the type signature. Let's try two arguments now.
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Same as before, and it explicitly shows that the
y argument isn't used by replacing it by
_ in the argument list of the lambda. Let's go polymorphic now, and actually give the definition for
id, not an
Int version.
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Now it becomes interesting! We see that the type hasn't changed much, except that there's an explicit
forall that
introduces the type variable
a. What may be more surprising though, is that the type itself explicitly becomes an argument to the function, with some special syntax though, getting a "@" prefix. The argument is then type-annotated using that "type argument". How about looking at the Core for a function equivalent to
flip (,)?
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This time, we have two polymorphic arguments, not necessarily of the same type, and both of these type variables are (type-)arguments to that function and used when annotating the type of the actual arguments.
How about taking functions as arguments?
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Nothing really fun here, just what you would expect considering everything we've seen so far. Let's move on to something more interesting.
You may have noticed that no typeclass has been involved so far, in any way. That's deliberate: the Core gets a bit hairy when typeclasses are involved. Let's see what I mean by first looking at what the Core is for a simple call to a typeclass method (
(*) in this case) with a specific type, not with the general
Num a => a -> a type.
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$fNumInt_$c*, really?! Yes, but don't worry, you get used to this pretty quickly. So this is what the call to
(*) gets translated to. If you remove
-dsuppress-module-prefixes from the
ghc command, you'll get
GHC.Num.$fNumInt_$c*. That means the definition of
(*) for
Ints is
in the
GHC.Num module, as a function that gets a weird name in Core. We see that it contains the name of the class (
Num), the name of the type (that has an instance for that class -
Int here), and the name of the typeclass method (here it's
*, without the parens – in Core, even operators appear in prefix position, just like any function).
What if we define our own typeclass and write an instance for some type?
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There are some weirds things going on now. First, we see two mysterious calls to some
cast function here. We'll get back to it later. The two
Chars just define
'f' and
't' in terms of the internal representation of
Char, just like we had with
I# earlier. Even these auxiliary values are prefixed with where they come from (
Bool instance of the
Foo typeclass).
fFooBool_$cfoo is the Core name of the implementation of
foo from the
Foo typeclass for the
Bool instance, and the content of the function is pretty straightforward, except for the weird way the
case line looks.
But hey, what's that:
$fFooBool :: Foo Bool?
Foo is a typeclass, so how can
Foo Bool be a type? Well, typeclass instances happen to be implemented as records of values (may they be functions or just simple values), and a typeclass defines that data type (we call these dictionaries). Then each instance is just a value of that type. So you can picture our
Foo class as generating a type
Foo a equivalent to
data Foo a = Foo { foo :: a -> Char }. And then the
Bool instance is just a value of that type, with the
foo field set to
$fFooBool, in some way. Note that this generalizes to several methods/values in your typeclass, you just extend the data type with more fields.
But what are these
casts? Let's remove
-dsuppress-coercions to figure out what's happening.
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- The first one, without the
Sym, takes a dictionary and kind of projects it to get the foo function, and it does so generically by taking as arguments both the
atype and the
tplargument, which is the dictionary (or typeclass instance/implementation, if you prefer) for the given type
a. That's the actual function you call when you write a call to
fooin your Haskell code, initially. You can note here that
forall a. Foo a => ...gets desugared to having as arguments the type and the dictionary.
- The second one kind of does the inverse of the first: it creates a dictionary
$fFooBoolfrom the definition of
foofor our
So typeclass constraints on values/functions are just translated to passing some dictionary arguments in Core! Let's see how that's processed when we actually write a typeclass constraint in our code, stripping away coercions again this time (since we now have seen how the casts look like).
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We can witness that this type class constraint -> dictionary argument translation has been done again, for
f. Note that these calls to
cast on
$dFoo are just this GHC Core's
foo (we mentionned it above, it has a
cast call) calls in
f being inlined. So
$dFoo ... here really just means the
foo implementation for the given
a type. You can also see that GHC created a rule that specifies that any call to
f on a
Foo Bool dictionary (meaning: whenever we use the
Foo instance for
Bool), should be rewritten as a call to (the GHC-generated)
f_$sf function, which, as you can see, has accomplished quite some inlining without us asking.
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That's going to be all for now. Next time we'll see how some more useful code gets translated to Core.


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Calorie Defecit Question
If it is a scientific fact that you absolutely MUST take in less calories than you use to lose weight, how is it possible that I was able to lose 40 lbs and even become underweight eating up to 3000 calories per day on Atkins? Granted, this was 10 years ago and that WOE doesn't work for me anymore, but how did I become rail thin eating 3000 cals per day and not exercising? It flies in the face of calorie Defecit science. I've always been curious about this. Any JUDDDers have a theory?
Honestly, unless you have your metabolism professionally profiled, it would be hard to say what your actual calorie usage per day would be, I'd think.
Not a clue. Metabolism is fascinating! If science can figure this out, someone will make a fortune.
Why can two people of the same size eat the same number of calories, and the one will become obese and the other will lose weight?
Why are there skinny men and women out there who are desperate to gain some weight and stuffing thousands of calories into their mouths daily in a vain effort to gain some pounds, and their metabolisms burn up the calories as fast as they can eat them?
Why are there fat people out there who can eat 3000 low carb calories per day, and more, and lose weight on it, while the identical fat person standing next to them can eat 1500 low carb calories a day and remain in a stall forever?
The thing about calories is.. they work.. but you have to start at each individual's metabolic level, and that's the part that varies so greatly between people. So you can only put people on the same level field for weight loss when you have the correct handle on their current rate of calorie burn. Because of the difference in metabolic rates among us, the playing field is not remotely level for all of us, and that means the calorie numbers to make weight loss work are also not level. Not that they don't work. Just that the numbers aren't at the same starting point for everyone.
That's why we also have to take the numbers these calorie calculators give us for our UD calorie numbers with a big grain of salt. We use that number as our baseline for all of our JUDDDing, and if it's actually too high for us, because we have a much slower metabolism that the calculator couldn't factor in, we will be basing our JUDDD diet on a calorie figure that is too high for us. And that will probably mean either really, really slow weight loss, or even no weight loss. :sad:
That's why we tell folks they just have to start in somewhere, and then adjust their UD calorie number downward a bit if they aren't losing. Eventually they will find the place where their rate of metabolic burn is more than their caloric intake, and here comes weight loss.
What makes it even more confusing is that metabolism changes from time to time or even day to day depending on countless factors and reasons, so it's never an exact science.
Interesting. And it was so very very frustrating... until I found JUDD. :)
see Gary Taubes' books.
I think any time you radically shift your carbs/fats/proteins, it throws your body for a loop and you may lose more weight than calories in and out says you should.
And again, if you've been on the same ratios or diet for a long time, you may start losing less than calories in/out says.
Our bodies are simply not calories in / out calculators. Although a group of people overall may lose what those calculators say, as individuals we just don't work that way. Only in fits and starts.
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In years past, the plunge has been in the icy waters of Lake Monona, but this year the location has moved to Willow Island on the Alliant Energy Center Grounds. Plunging goes from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday.
If you're too "chicken" to plunge, you can still raise donations and join a team. "Chickens" will get their own T-shirt proclaiming, "I was Too Chicken to Plunge".
WKOW is a proud sponsor. WKOW anchors Greg Jeschke and Amber Noggle will emcee the event.
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Courthouses across the state were filled with both Chris McDaniel and Thad Cochran volunteers Tuesday. A review of affidavit and absentee ballots was on the agenda.
"It is very grueling," admitted McDaniel supporter Bill Billingsley. "It is very time consuming. But it's very important for us to have all the data that's out there. So the campaign can decide what to do next."
The McDaniel campaign attorney says they've got to collect evidence from every county before giving the legal challenge a green light.
McDaniel volunteers checked poll books for signs of crossover votes in the days immediately following the runoff. Now, they're looking for basics like whether the affidavit ballots were properly accepted or rejected.
Cochran's campaign is doing the same thing so they'll know the full story first hand.
"I think that what we're going to find here is what we're finding in every other county around the state," said campaign communications director Jordan Russell. "The number of ballots that are questionable is very low, a tiny fraction of what they're alleging."
McDaniel's campaign hasn't provided updated numbers since last week. The last count they released was nearly 5,000 questionable votes statewide.
"Every new day brings a new number," said Russell. "And they won't back it up with any proof. So I think the specifics is really what we're looking for from the McDaniel campaign."
Cochran's camp released this list of county-by-county results Monday night. It shows many of those with less than double digit questioned votes.
Last week, McDaniel's campaign made donation requests to supporters to help fund a legal challenge. They're also offering $1,000 rewards for information about alleged vote buying from the Cochran campaign.
As far as the challenge, the spokesman will only say it could come "any day now".
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We've added a new "Friends" tab to make it easier to invite friends and colleagues to use DNASIS SmartNote. There are two options:
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2 – Invite and Share Notebook with Friends – This lets you not just invite friends to get their own account, but also to share their notebook and sequences with you. If they agree, you'll be able to collaborate in cool new ways. First, you'll be able to see read-only views of each other's notebooks, which will appear below your own notebook navigator in DNASIS SmartNote's left pane. Second, you'll also be able to easily view or import each other's sequences. You can then run your own analyses on your friend's sequences. How cool is that?
On a separate "note", we've added a new option under the "Sequences" tab for importing SNP sequences from NCBI. You can either search by keyword or by accession number. Enjoy!
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Remember to tell us what you think about DNASIS SmartNote and what new features you'd like to see. We've been making changes weekly, so as long as your request is reasonable, we'll most likely be able to add it.
By default, DNASIS SmartNote will track PubMed articles related to up to 10 of your most recently imported sequences. You can view these regularly updated articles by clicking on the "Articles" tab. From here, you can also clip individual articles into your notebook, as well as print and email them.
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Since PCR primer design is one of the most widely used features of DNASIS SmartNote, we did some research and put together a list of the top 10 tips for designing PCR primers that work. When designing oligonucleotide primers for PCR, it is helpful to keep some considerations in mind to optimize the output and specificity of your experiment. Here are some tips gathered from experts to get you started:
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5. The GC content of each primer should be in the range of 40-60% for optimum PCR efficiency.
6. Try to have uniform distribution of G and C nucleotides, as clusters of G's or C's can cause non-specific priming.
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8. Check that primers are not self-complementary or complementary to the other primer in the reaction mixture, as this will encourage formation of hairpins and primer dimers and will compete with the template for the use of primer and reagent.
9. If you can, make the 3′ end terminate in C or A, as the 3′ is the end which extends and neither the C or A nucleotide wobbles. This will increases the specificity.
10. You can avoid mispriming by making the 3′ end slightly AT rich.
11. Use the right software. OK, so it's 11 tips. Using the right software is a great way to automate these steps and minimize errors, especially when you have to design primers for many sequences. DNASIS SmartNote includes several primer design tools and is also a lab notebook that automatically keeps a record of your analysis results. You should definitely give it a try. Click here to sign up a free account.
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Congratulations to Boris Zinshteyn for winning the Top Feedback prize of a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate! We still have plenty of gift certificates available, so please take a couple of minutes to tell us what you think about DNASIS SmartNote and especially how we can improve it for you.
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New this week:
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The Top Feedback contest is still going so please take a minute or two and tell us about your experience with SmartNote.
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
Springville Brickyard
I have a photocopy of an article from a 1981 Appleton Post Crescent about the brickyard at Springville – just east of Kaukauna across from where the Marina Bar stands today. Any memories, information or pictures? CAL
More updates from TD: An article from the Kaukauna Sun, "New Industry for Kaukauna" and "A Promising Industry." Thanks, Tom!
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On a recent trip to Williamsburg, VA we observed the firing of the bricks used for repair at Williamsburg historic village. The bricks are made by mixing clay with sand and water and forming the brick in a rectangular wooden form. These wet bricks are left to dry in an open covered area for several months. The dry bricks are then stacked so that there are openings between each brick in a shape that results looking like a 10 foot high oven with several open fire arches. The wood fire is started with a low fire and increased in temperature over a 1 week period 24 hours a day. The heat circulates through the entire stack of bricks resulting in a "Fired Brick". When we were there at night the bricks near the fire arch openings were glowing a dull red. The stack is left to cool for a week and then disassembled. The bricks are sorted by color and any blemishes and are ready to use. The Blue tinged bricks (Very brittle) are ones that were very close to the extremely hot fire and other red or beige bricks are nearer the top of the kiln. The interpreters said that brick making like this was common throughout the country. Later permanent kilns were used but the process was very similar.
- March 21, 2007 at 4:45 AM
19th Century brick making
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The brickyard mentioned in the left newspaper article as being owned by Brothers and Childs is my gggUncle Seth and his wife Lavina Church Childs. The Childs family moved from New York in 1846 to Joliet, IL and left there during an epidemic for Milwaukee where the Childs family Alexander and sons, John, Sam (my ggGranfather), Seth and Nelson opened a brickyard in downtown Milwaukee. They left there and moved to Neenah about 1849 where they open another yard and made most of the bricks for many of the buildings on Lake Winnebago. They were located near the Toll Bridge. All sons except for Seth turned to farming and Seth and his wife Lavina, daugther of Ebenezer and Mary Clough Church continued making bricks. This is near Mud Turtle Creek along the railroad tracks near HWY J and Hwy OO on the north side of Kaukauan. You can see this in the 1889 Plat Map. Anyone interested in contacting me may at firstname.lastname@example.com
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--- Quote from: Redsoil on June 04, 2013, 10:49:28 AM ---A couple of people thought one of our wedding songs in the church was a bit strange:
Plaisir D'amour
The joy of love is but a moment long;
The pain of love endures a whole life long.
Your eyes kissed mine; I saw the love in them shine;
You brought me heaven right then when your eyes kissed mine.
My love loves me, and all the wonders I see;
A rainbow shines in my window; my love loves me.
But now he's gone, like a dream that fades into dawn,
But the words stay locked in my heartstrings, "My love loves me."
The joy of love is but a moment long,
The pain of love endures a whole life long.
...and I suppose to some it would be a bit maudlin. However, it was an acknowledgement that love isn't just sunshine and roses, that marriage was about the pain of love, and enduring, as well. Plus, we'd had a long-distance relationship for the first year, so knew the pain of missing someone when they were away.
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Well, "Plaisir d'amour" is also a French song which is about a man singing about his ungrateful love, Sylvia, because she took another lover. I could understand why people might be confused for that reason, but I think that the song you used is lovely. I'm glad you could find something you both loved.
When we got married in a British regisrty office, we were told we could have any song not normally played in a religious setting as our tune and I so wanted to play "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath..
Fortunatly good taste got the better of me.
Worst aisle entrance song I ever heard: "Lady Marmalade". It's basically about a man who is successfully solicited by, well, a lady of the first profession. There are some pretty explicit lyrics but they're in French.
I kind of sat there with my eyes bugging out, thinking: "sweet cherry tomatoes! Please let me be the only person in this hall who understands French!" If I wasn't, nobody else let on.
Oh sweet heavens! I would be so trying not to burst into hysterical laughter!
Nothing like walking down the aisle to music boldly soliciting.
My cousin and his wife chose 'Baby Got Back' for their first dance because, to use their words, it was a song that followed them throughout their relationship - it was playing the first time they met, when my cousin asked her out, in the car on their first date. It was fun watching them try to slow dance to it!
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One of my biggest concerns coming into the season was whether the Panthers had upgraded their pass rush. After the first 6 games the jury was still out as honestly the Panther pass rush was anemic at best. Though the Panthers sported an impressive pass defense it was more attributable to the defensive back field then it was to the front four.
More recently though the Panthers have done a better job of getting pressure on the QB. Most recently the Panthers logged 5 sacks against the Raiders in easily their best pass rush performance of the season. The reason for the improvement can be attributed to the Panthers increased creativity in bringing pressure. The Panthers have experimented with a number of different line-ups that feature Julius Peppers lining up in various positions.
Consider this 3rd down and long front four the Panthers put out there at one point in the Raiders game:
LDE: Charles Johnson
DT: Peppers
DT: Damione Lewis
RDE: Hilee Taylor
You know when the Raiders RG lined up and saw Peppers across from him he had to be thinking WTF? He subsequently gave up one of Peppers sacks as he wasn't prepared for Peppers speed. I don't know about you but I'm ecstatic to finally see the Panther brass running these different line-ups out there designed to confuse the opponent and more importantly...take advantage of specific mismatches. The line-up I've listed above has to be the fastest front four the Panthers could put out there and I hope to see more of it. I also want to see more blitzes from LB Thomas Davis and FS Charles Godfrey. Bring that speed baby and force the QB to throw the ball sooner than they want to.
The Panthers no longer have a static front four that they can line up and get pressure on the QB on a consistent basis. They need to find those mismatches to exploit and they need to continue to bring the heat in the form of new line-ups and disguised blitzes. If the Panther defense continues to rack up the sacks (tied for #14 now) then this defense could carry this team all the way.


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I just felt like this was awesome, and horrible at the same time, to listen too. Found it on NFL.com and most people will probably find it somewhere today as well, but wanted to share. A good look, or listen actually, to what these bounties were all about. Greg Williams is an idiot. At the same time, if you take out the intent to injur parts, it got me fired up for my day for sure. Find out more after the break.
Warning - pretty bad language - which I am not at all a fan of.
"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on victory" <- best quote ever, actually stolen from Arthur Golden though.
Stuff like this I am sure is why he has not even made a peep about an appeal. What are your thoughts? Would you care if your D cord said stuff like this?


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The Charlottesville Ballet is showing off its new facility Saturday night at a Hard Hat Fundraising Gala.
Friday, dancers practiced for their gala performance, which will be a toast to their new home in Charlottesville.
The gala will be catered by Little Red Hen with drinks from the Whiskey Jar. They will also have a silent auction.
"You'll see a sneak peak of the entire space. It is about 70 percent complete of the phase one project, it's a 30 by 50 foot studio, which is actually the exact size of PVCC, which is where the company performs so you'll get to see the sneak peek, see what we've done, see what we still need to do, really see the opportunity to create a great dance space here in Charlottesville," said Emily Mott, a ballet co-director.
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor is all set to launch this month its all-new new premium luxury car "Camry" in the country and it would be assembled at the company's Bangalore facility.
"We are going to launch Camry on the 24th of this month in New Delhi…", TKM Deputy Managing Director (Marketing) Sandeep Singh told PTI here.
Declining to give out details on the features of the new Camry, he said the components of the car would be imported and assembled at Bangalore plant. "We have enough space there to produce the car," he said.
TKM, a joint venture between Japan's Toyota Motor Corp and the Kirloskar Group, had introduced Camry in India as a completely built unit from Japan. The Camry is one of the largest selling cars for Toyota globally.
The company currently offers its popular multi-utility vehicle 'Innova', hatchback and sedan 'Etios Liva' and 'Etios', 'Corolla Altis' and Sports Utility Vehicle 'Fortuner'
TKM has two manufacturing facilities in India with a total capacity of three lakh units. The first plant manufactures Innova and Fortuner and the second plant Etios, Etios Liva and Corolla Altis.
To a query on the market remaining sluggish, Singh said Toyota did quite well in terms of sales. "We are doing quite well in terms of sales. We are targeting to sell 1,70,000 units this year, compared to 1,31,000 units (last year)..", he said.
TKM has reported a seven per cent increase in sales at 14,574 units during July 2012.It had sold 13,592 units in July last year.