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Day 1
Start the day scoring deals and perusing nearly 70 name-brand stores, including the Gap, J. Crew, Banana Republic and Coach, at the Outlets at Silverthorne. The shops are separated into three villages and offer discounts of up to 70 percent on designer goods.
Need a break from retail therapy? Grab a fly rod (and a fishing license) and head down to the water. Silverthorne's five miles of riverside trails run parallel to the outlet shops and provide easy access to the Blue River's gold-medal trout-filled waters.
Watch how far your ball flies through the thin mountain air while teeing off at one of Keystone's two 18-hole championship courses — Keystone Ranch and the Keystone River Course — complete with stretches of lodgepole pine and a nine-acre lake.
Head west to Frisco for an afternoon on Dillon Reservoir, where you can rent canoes, kayaks or paddleboats at the Dillon Marina. After exploring some the lake's 25 miles of shoreline, stop off at the Peninsula Recreation Area for a round of disc golf. The revamped park also has a baseball field, skate park, an extensive trail system and loads of picnic sites perfect for spreading out with lunch from one of Main Street's tempting delis.
Day 2
Make your way to Breckenridge for some first-class mountain biking. Hundreds of miles of former wagon routes and mining trails have been converted to well-worn singletrack, terrific for beginner bikers, as well as hard-core trail busters.
For a moderate ride (or hike), try the Baker's Tank Trail just southeast of downtown on Boreas Pass Road. Rolling hills take you through dense forest and past mining relics before looping back to the parking area. Or if you prefer pavement, jump on the family-friendly Ten Mile Recreational Pathway. Named for the adjacent mountain range, the 50-mile paved path connects the entire county and is always busy with bikers, runners and inline skaters.
For a fun afternoon activity, throw on a hard hat and head underground at the Country Boy Mine. The restored mining site leads you more than 1,000 feet into the mountain for a realistic look at what it was like to be a miner here more than a century ago. After the 45-minute tour, climb on a steam shovel, browse the gift shop and shriek down a 55-foot ore chute. Pet the wandering donkeys and pocket what you find panning in Eureka Creek.
Any gold you find will serve you well in downtown Breckenridge. Stop into locally owned boutiques and entertain cravings for everything from designer cupcakes to designer jeans. A good way to see town is by horse-drawn carriage. Or explore the 200-structure historic district on foot.
Behold the town's artsy side along the Riverwalk at dusk. A handful of sculptures live on the riverbanks — some even reside in the river. In warm weather, kids and dogs scramble over boulders and cool off in the river's mellow sections, while adults lounge on the sidelines.


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Amanda Lapierre, a third-grade student at Jackson Avenue School in the Mineola School District, recently sang a song with her aunt, recording artist Dahna Bender, for the benefit of Hurricane Sandy victims. Ms. Bender, who recorded the album "Giving of the Heart" asked her niece to sing the prelude to the track "Winter Wonderland."
"It makes me feel good to know I was actually helping others," Amanda said of her decision to do the recording. "It makes me feel very happy."
The song, which sells for 99 cents on iTunes, is part of an album that is less than $6 and benefits hurricane victims in the Rockaways. Amanda and Ms. Bender's goal is to raise $1,000 for the cause.
The Mineola School District has been selected to receive a $213,129 grant for the 2012-13 school year from the New York State Education Department, District Superintendent Michael Nagler revealed. Mineola is receiving the School District Management Efficiency Competitive Grant as a result of its application detailing the ways in which it has streamlined its costs.
Nagler mentioned that this is because the district closed two school buildings and reorganized resources while still providing educational programs for its students. He said the grant would be used on technology tools for students.
Reported first by the Mineola American on Friday, Dec. 14, the New Line Party announced its endorsements of current Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss, Trustee George Durham and 30-year Mineola resident Dennis Walsh for the March 2013 village elections. One familiar face was not on the ticket: current Trustee Larry Werther.
Werther, a founding member of the New Line Party, did not receive the party's endorsement. He feels this was in the works well before the party announced its slate for the March 19, 2013 elections.
"It's always easier to try to get rid of somebody, rather than negotiate," said Werther. "Quite frankly, I think I proved my value to the village. Just look at the stuff that Jack [Martins] and I put together when we first got it in. The village was headed to fiscal ruin. We brought back fiscal sanity."
The horror that struck Newtown, CT on Friday, Dec. 14 sent a wave of terror across the country after a 20-year-old man gunned down 20 elementary school students and seven teachers. Since then, local school officials have faced questions about safety and security.
Whether it was a coincidence or a sign of safe planning, the Mineola School District held safety and lockdown drills at two buildings just before shooting, District Superintendent Michael Nagler told the Mineola American on Monday, Dec. 17. Drills were held at Mineola High School and the Hampton Street School.
"We do lockdown drills in conjunction with Nassau County Police," he said in a phone interview.
What started out as a disagreement on two QWERTY keyboards ended in a 26-year-old woman being shot on Marcellus Road in Williston Park, police revealed at a press briefing on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Jared Gurman, 26, was charged with second-degree attempted murder after the 2:40 a.m. shooting.
Lt. Ray Cote of the Third Squad said the argument sparked during a discussion of the AMC television show The Walking Dead while the two were together on the night of Sunday, Dec. 2. According to Cote, Gurman was growing concerned over the idea that a possible real-life situation, like a military accident, could occur resulting in catastrophe.
The 18-year-old soldier sat aboard a boat clenching his rifle just 300 yards from Utah Beach, which was being bombarded by both sides of World War II. With five days of food and equipment, he and the other young men on the boat were about to make their mark on one of the most important moments in world history.
Neither he nor the other members of 359th Infantry of the 90th Division knew the true gravity of the situation as they approached the beach. He plunged into the water prepared to make his way to the beach, but there was a significant obstacle in his path: he didn't know how to swim.
Teacher retirement in the Mineola School District could affect next year's tax levy, which has a state-imposed 2 percent limit that was put into law in 2011. Finance Superintendent Jack Waters revealed that the district could have $800,000 exempt from the cap due to the estimated retirement costs that would go into effect in the 2013-14 school year.
Waters said the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) increases for next year is about $1.5 million. Mineola under state law could put out a 3.05 percent increase for the next year, with half of the estimated TRS cost spikes not included, leveling out piercing the cap, a move the district does not want to make.
Ida Zipkis, a former Mineola resident and current resident of the Bristal Assisted Living Community in Westbury celebrated her 104th birthday with her daughter Roberta and son-in-law Jay Katzeff and fellow residents of the Bristal. Zipkis' wish as she blew out the candles was, "health and happiness for everyone."
The key to longevity she says is simple, "just leave it to God."
The Mineola School District and the Mineola Teachers Association (MTA) finally ended an employee contract tussle, District Superintendent Michael Nagler revealed on Thursday, Nov. 15. The deal was ratified earlier that day.
Before the agreement was reached, the 275-member MTA had operated without a contract since June 30, 2011 but negotiations date back to 2010, Nagler said. An impasse was declared on Oct. 19, 2011 after negotiations broke down between the MTA and the district.
The Mineola High School Marching Band "Disney's Magic Music Days in Florida" trip from Feb. 15 to 22 was caught in the storm's fray and is in jeopardy of being canceled. Some parents have already put non-refundable deposits down for the journey south, with the total cost per student reaching $1,300.
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archival and spy feature footage to narrate the exceptional career of a man who was born to lie.</p>(2004)
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Based on Al Purdy's 1968 poem, this vibrant, kinetic riff has the poet waxing lyrical about beer and blooms in a small-town basement tavern. ... --- ... D Bruce Alcock P Tina Ovellette WS Global Mechanic TD 35mm/col/ 2005/4mins ... Read more
This blackly comic look at taxidermy leads us to think about our own relationships with our families, our pets and death. ---D/S Samantha Reynolds P Nora Donaghy WS Nora Donaghy TD video/col/ 2005/27mins ... Read more
The funny and wonderfully animated Badgered tells the tale of a badger who just wants to be left alone to sleep!---D/S Sharon Colman P Jamie Wolpert WS National Film & Television School TD video/col/2005/7mins ... Read more
Proposed by Bahman Ghobadi for MIFF 05, this programme is an eclectic selection of short films from one of the least-known filmmaking cultures in the world. Diverse and stylistically adventurous, these films broaden our understanding of Kurdish cinema and culture, and also provide a context for ... Read more
The dancers of the Ballets Russes were Russians who never performed in their homeland. Ballets Russes is a tribute to those remarkable individuals and the revolutionary dance company - more accurately, companies - that launched and buoyed their careers. You don't need to be an aficionado of dance ... Read more
A quirky scientist in a sperm bank is in love with the nurse at the fertility clinic, but she doesn't even know he exists. In this tale of unrequited love, he takes some crazy steps just to prove his heart. The Banker is ex-pat Hattie Dalton's BAFTA-Award winning first short. --- D/S Hattie Dalton ... Read more
On a hot August afternoon in 1972, John Wojtowicz rushed into a Brooklyn bank, demanding money in a desperate effort to finance his lover's sex-change operation. So began a chain of events that became the basis for Sidney Lumet's 1972 film, Dog Day Afternoon. What had begun as a quick robbery soon ... Read more
To satisfy his curiosity, a teenaged Townes Van Zandt leaned back over a balcony, falling four floors to the ground below. This is the man who was declared a songwriting genius by the likes of Steve Earle, and it signals the nihilism and psychic pain that shaped his life and his music. Born to ... Read more
Before dawn, the wheat gently undulates on the hillside. Before dawn, people will rise and others will take away their hope. Bálint Kenyeres' poignant reminder of the state of the world and its borders was screened in Competition in Cannes, 2005. ... --- ... D/S Bálint Kenyeres P András Muhi WS ... Read more
"Four actors, 10 dialogues. It looks easy on paper but let me tell you I will be extremely rigorous." Thus begins Torbjorn Ehrnvall's window onto the back lot of Saraband, which Bergman claims will be his final cinematic opus. He is indeed rigorous, distractingly fastidious in his perfectionism ... Read more
Behind the Scenes of Turtles Can Fly was made by a Kurdish filmmaker, Abdin Aliveisi, who stayed with the crew for six months of the gruelling shoot, with the aim of showing the conditions under which the film was made. A remarkable document of the production of a remarkable film, it explains the ... Read more
A snapshot of the lives of three teenagers (encompassing past, present and future), this seductively dreamy film explores their longing for love, played out under Mediterranean skies. This poetic film by Laurence Coriat (writer of Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland) premiered at Sundance, 2005. ... Read more
MIFF will present a selection of the best of this year's bumper short-film crop. Following the announcement of the winners of the International Short Film Competition will be a screening of some of the highlights of the competition. ... Read more
Ken (Daniel Wu) has been romancing teacher Chan Wai-Ching (Gillian Chung), until he unceremoniously ditches her for karaoke waitress Shirley (Tao Hung). Chan goes knocking on Shirley's door when she finds that the rapscallion Ken has posted naked images of her on the Internet, leading to her losing ... Read more
It's been 60 years since Enid and Clarry were married and today they plan to renew their wedding vows. There's only one small hitch, they're having trouble remembering them. The Big Day is a romantic comedy by renowned filmmaker Christine Olsen, scriptwriter of Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002). --- D/P/WS ... Read more
Riding a crowded bus, a man spies a white box, but while opening it he dies. The woman sitting in front of him steals the cursed box, linking her fate to its contents. This frantically charged short is emblematic of contemporary Argentinean cinema and is not to be missed.---D/S Venditti+Hofman ... Read more
Choi Dong-hoon's directorial debut, The Big Swindle, proves that South Korea's golden age of filmmaking is set to continue for a while yet. Carrying on the recent tradition of films that deliver on every front, it's a heist film par excellence: suspenseful, slick and, as a bonus, extremely funny. A ... Read more
This unforgettable musical animation stars a young man afraid to come out... of the locker. Set on the beach in the 1960s, this is a rocking spin on an old favourite tune.---D/P/S Lasse Persson WS Post Scriptum & Media TD 35mm/col/ 2004/7mins ... Read more
A cinephile's fantasy: a rare meeting between legendary filmmaker Billy Wilder and one of his biggest fans, German director and cinephile Volker Schloendorff ([The Tin Drum], see also [The Ninth Day]). [Billy, How Did You Do It'] takes the form of an extended conversation conducted over a few days ... Read more
For 40 years the cantankerous Esfandiar has prepared corpses for the journey to their final resting places. He works with a dignified widow named Delbar, who washes the bodies of deceased women, and a flighty lad, who incinerates the clothes of the dead. While Esfandiar's mean-spiritedness works ... Read more
Love can be difficult at the best of times, and the remarkable Blacktown is a disarmingly honest tale of love-against-the-odds. Office secretary Nikki (Niki Owen) is disillusioned with her fraught, 'sometime' relationship with married boyfriend, Peter. Emotionally scarred by the dysfunctional ... Read more
Blood and Bones centres on Kim Sun-pei, a Korean migrant attempting to build a fortune in Japan. Contrary to his hopes, the Japan he encounters is a brutal world of discrimination and hard labour. Responding with all the violence, selfishness and severity imaginable, he becomes hated and abandoned ... Read more
MIFF has brought together the amazing and imaginative works by Image Forum, Japan. Exclusive to MIFF, these short films are at the epicentre of experimental filmmaking in a range of styles. [The Trains] (Hirata Takahiro, 8 mins) is a rhythmic rendition of [Kaerunoouta] (Frog song), created by the ... Read more
David Lynch meets Jane Campion. On the fringes of a housing estate a girl seduces a boy with a secret she will only reveal in exchange for his love. When the boy fails to honor the pact, that which he holds closest is threatened by the girl's desire for revenge. Blue Tongue screened in Critics' ... Read more


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Timeline: Goal 2
Timeline: Goal 2
Cultivate and strengthen the educational, economic, and cultural well-being of our region.
Year 1: 2006-07
Action Step 1
Fall 2013 Update -- The Fairmont State University Wiki was transferred from the previous software into a web format software. Users can still find all of the information by using the search box located in the left column.
Making Changes -- To make changes to the site, login using your UCA/Password. Users can then edit existing pages, create new pages, and comment on pages.
Category List -- This is built by the categories attached to each page. This allows similar pages to be grouped together and users can find all of the pages easier. Pages can have multiple categories associated to it. For example, a page can have categories "Science" and "Chemistry" in order to be listed under both categories.
Cultivate and strengthen the educational, economic, and cultural well-being of our region.
Action Step 1
Lidea's group John (speaking to audience, scene is frozen): So who should it be? Maybe him? (points to shoplifter) Just a kid, nobody would rememberhim in a few years. Besides, I saw him stealing some candy and junk a few minutesago. Nobody would care about a theif. Bitch: So, anyway, I was like, oh my gosh, why would he want to be with her? Is she better than me? No way.
SHARON: (on the phone) That's right. Take a left turn on Maple Street and we're the third house on the left. Yes, a chocolate cake, with the number 28 on it in white icing. Okay, thanks! (She hangs up the phone and turns to Jake) Well, everything's ready for the party! Can you think of anything else?
JAKE: No. ...I really wish we weren't even having it.
SHARON: What? Why?
Mitch's Group
(Mom, Laura, sits reading on the couch. There is a knock at the door.)
(She answers the door. It is her adopted son, Sebastion, accompanied by a police officer.)
Cop 1: Your son was caught trespassing ma'am. We're giving him a warning this time, but if it happens again he'll have to go to juvenile court.
Mom: Get your ass in here! You were supposed to be home to mow the lawn after school! I'm sorry officer, it won't happen again. Thank you for bringing him home.
[[Cheslea's group Okay, here it is feel free to change it. :)
Character A- Drew Character B- Bradley Character C-Emma (names came from no where any better ideas?)
Char B: It has been a year since we met, and I know you can't give up your past, but I really want this to be more.
Char C: You know what I've been through and you have been so understanding, I am so grateful you have waited a year for me to be ready.
Kirsti's group
(Class is going on when Kelley walks in about 15 minutes late for class.)
Professor: "Are you a privelged character Miss Ansar?"
Kelley: "I guess so..." (takes seat next to Aurora)
Aurora: " He's such an asshole. Did you get your paper finished last night?"
Kelley: "Uh that's due today?!"
Aurora: "Yeah... What made you forget?"
Kayla's Group
Joe:Can we wrap this up please? I have to get back to the office.
Jane: back to the office, or back to your mistress?
Joe: that's none of your business now is it?
Jane: How is that none of my business? I am your wife.
Joe: soon to be EX WIFE
Jane:How can you treat me like this? Have you forgotten how much I gave up for you?
Joe: I didn't force you into anything. You chose me over your family, it's not my fault they won't speak to you.
Mark's Group
(The lights come up on a psychiatrist's waiting room. Stage down-left, there is a collection of toys—just the sort of blocks on wires and such that you see in doctors' waiting rooms. There's a girl sitting next to them, pushing a block back and forth on its wire. She looks too old to be playing with them—12 or 13. This is Kiko. In a chair on the right, an older boy, probably 16, is sitting, looking bored. This is Aden.)
Brandon's Group
Scene: Inside a funeral home lounge area. Two young men sit on an uncomfortable, posh looking sofa. Neither looks particularly happy. The two young men are the unnamed charachter, Chace, from monologue, and the deceased friend's older brother, MIKE. The scene opens with an argument between Mike and his father.
FATHER: Your Brother is dead because of you...This is all your fault!
MIKE: Get the hell away from me dad!
FATHER: I'll never forgive you for this!


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Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism takes the win!
Stay tuned for the article , "Bat Country," coming very, VERY soon :)
-Terran Rae
Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism takes the win!
Stay tuned for the article , "Bat Country," coming very, VERY soon :)
-Terran Rae
IMPORTANT NOTE: I have nothing against the hunting of animals as long it is legal. I support the Second Amendment. I am a proud Republican and advocacy journalist. This letter, and any other related, future information, serves to expose corruption surrounding and/or within non-profit organization(s).
(This is a well-supported presentation of my outlook on Texan student Kendall Jones' actions. Will she respond? Or will she continue to ignore me and try to get this taken off of Facebook? I would hope the former, but my mind tells me the latter will probably occur.)Dearest Kendall, I don't understand why you blocked me, but I would like to apologize. I understand I was a bit harsh, so I'd like to start over because I really would like to see your perspective and, as a journalism student, I'd like you to see mine as well. I hope that's not asking too much from you.So, you recently posted 10 very valid reasons for and examples of conservation. The act of conservation hunting HAS DEFINITELY helped a lot of species to thrive….but the keywords here are: IN. NORTH. AMERICA! In the same post you also mentioned the specific animals in which conservation hunting has helped including: ducks, turkeys, pronghorns, elk and whitetails.
As you seem to have the facts down about North American conservation hunting, allow me to enlighten you about the facts of legal and moral conservation hunting in Africa. First of all, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) announced in April that the import of elephants from both Tanzania and Zimbabwe will be suspended for the remainder of 2014. The decision was propelled by the fact that in these two countries, according to FWS, "additional killing of elephants…even if legal, is not sustainable." THUS, your elephant trophies of conservation were actually adding to the endangerment of the species. Big, "Oops!" Huh?Moreover, you're claiming to support a cause, and you, (or your father), rather, paid of dollars to help that cause. Well, let's just see about how much money your dad invested in your selfless act to spread awareness, and what exactly it was you had to pay for, shall we?
We all know your favorite spot to hunt is Zimbabwe, as your father introduced you to the beauty of its plains at the sprite age of nine. African Sky Hunting, affiliated with Dallas, TX, (so I'm sure you're familiar), offers all sorts of all-inclusive packages for hunts just like the ones you go on!
According to said well-known hunting operator in Zimbabwe, a 21-day lion, elephant & buffalo hunt costs $1,100 a day per person. A total upwards of $80,000. BUT that's not including the price you pay for all of your fuzzy trophies! For each leopard, $15,000. Each lion, $22,000. Each elephant, $35,000. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Not including equipment, air fare, travel fare, transportation of trophy fees, and your ungodly amounts of bronzer, that's a bit under $200,000.
Now, I understand that as a conservation hunter you are obligated to pay to hunt, and a portion of said payment goes to helping your cause. You recently posted about the lack of the "trickle-down effect" of money from national to local non-profit organizations…
If you support the idea that national non-profits should give back more locally, then how do you justify less than 1% of the money conservation hunters pay to kill these animals actually going to said cause? You simply cannot justify this because the two ideas completely contradict one another.
So, if your previous statements are truthful, then you undoubtedly know that it would make a more significant impact and help more animals if you directly donated money instead of hoping that one cent for every dollar spent will hopefully go to the cause you claim to believe in.
A donation of $200,000 directly to the cause would have made much more of an impact on this platform you "care so much" about. How many trips have you taken like this before? How many has your father taken? I guarantee the total cost of the animal deaths from all of the hunts combined is at least one million. But even with the $200,000, you could have actually made a long-term, positive change in the world for a species.
As I mentioned, (before you decided to block me for no reason), I am both a journalism student and the owner/manager of a website SPECIFICALLY dedicated to providing our community with news and information about non-profit organizations and advocacy in general.
For over two years now I have put my heart and soul into said website and into the overall spreading of non-profit awareness. I absolutely refuse to back down on this issue and your idiotic promotion of it. What's more, I will not stop until a voice is heard for these animals who couldn't speak for themselves.
Kendall Jones, I refuse to allow your success to be gained through exploitation of this cause, or any other for that matter.
Advocacy and awareness are vital to the future of our beautiful world. Manipulating causes for your own pleasure DOES NOT fall under the umbrella of advocacy or awareness. As a true proponent of this and other causes, and as a journalist, it is my ethical responsibility to inform the community of events and their surrounding facts.
I will not stop spreading awareness about yourself and your anti-advocacy actions until you stop feeding the flame for your infamy and your hopes for a stupid reality show.
I'd like to think that your father's beliefs have simply been engrained in you deeply from a young age, but another part of me thinks that you truly know what you're doing is wrong… But, with repetition of manipulated statistical facts, I'm sure you can sleep better at night.
I would truly enjoy a response from you, although I'm sure your publicist (ha!) had you block me BECAUSE I am a journalist. Specifically, an advocacy journalist. Your exploitation of organizations represents the non-profit corruption I fight to eliminate every, single day.
I may not be on Fox News or NBC. Hell, I still have a year before I graduate from the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU. But, that is the very reason I will not stop pursuing your response. I'm not any more educated, accredited or qualified than you are, Kendall. There's less than two years between us. If you've been looking for a fair match in the media to defend your cause and respond to all of the backlash: you've found it.
I hope to hear from you soon. Until we speak again, happy shooting!
Be the change you wish to see in the world,
Terran Rae SmithIMPORTANT NOTE: I have nothing against the hunting of animals as long it is legal. I support the Second Amendment. I am a proud Republican and advocacy journalist. This letter, and any other related, future information, serves to expose corruption surrounding and/or within non-profit organization(s).
Former smoker and vape enthusiast, Robby Swonger, has two main concerns in life: family, and helping others. He discovered electronic cigarettes are a successful alternative to quitting smoking, and realized a way to change the lives of his family members, and countless others in the community forever.
This is the story of three generations working together under one roof to become closer as a family while aiding others in the journey to put down cigarettes, and pick up a vape. This is more than just a story about Lawrence's latest local business.
After spending the past semester with the Swonger family at The Vapor's Edge E-Cig shop, it's become apparent; this is a story about family. These, are the Swongers.
I was lucky enough to document the Swonger family and their business for the first 15 weeks of this semester. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to include all of the information I had originally intended. So, I've put together a couple of infographics I believe will be helpful to those interested in learning more about this topic.
This graphic is one of the more inspiring and less 'shame on you' sources of information I've found about cigarettes and quitting the detrimental addiction. As you can see from the first bullet on the timeline below, it only takes 20 minutes after one's last cigarette before positive changes in the body begin occurring.
The timeline goes on to explain the benefits and regeneration of your body for the next fifteen years after not smoking.
[Infographic courtesy of http://www.cancer.org
We all know that cigarettes are addictive, bad for our health and a waste of money. However, this infographic not only includes some of the most valid points about the literal and figurative costs of cigarettes, but it also includes information on what an individual saves in the long-run after switching to electronic cigarettes.
[Infographic courtesy of http://www.VaporXpress.com
Two months from now, this site will have been up and consistently active for two years! Looking back on my earliest posts makes me proud of the difference that I'm able to make in any and every person's life, and also gives me a few laughs as I look at how far I've come towards truly being a professional broadcast journalist.
No matter how much effort I put into a project, all of YOU are the true key to unlocking the dreams in my life. To my consistent followers, I am so thankful to know that there are members of my audience who keep up with every piece of work I make. It makes me tear up just typing this. And to those who find me on accident, visit every once in a while or even just have clicked on my website once–thank you so much to each and every one of you as well.
Just before I began typing this, LawrenceNonProfits officially reached 2,900 views. I am so moved and humbled by this accomplishment. I promise to continue to maintain this website as long as you all want me here to read/view/listen to it :)
I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes:
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Our beneficiaries for the show were Ga-Du-Gi Safe Center and The Willow Domestic Violence Shelter. We were able to raise over $700 in proceeds to go to the local shelters and to the national V-Day Campaign.
I hope you enjoy my rendition of this hilarious and empowering monologue!
Mary Metz, 61, is a retired CPA who now lends her accounting services to the local non-profit called The Willow Domestic Violence Center. Along with working in the administration office as a volunteer accountant, Mary also shares her experiences with training volunteers during Survivor Story education sessions. For the first 18 years of Mary's adult life, she fell victim to the cycle of abuse, (view graphic at bottom for further information), after marrying her high school sweetheart.
Mary's situation only grew in complexity when her son, Roy, came into the picture three years into her increasingly abusive marriage. Fueled by his strong addiction to cocaine and a relentless urge to maintain a constant sense of control over his wife, Mary and her son were victim to physical, emotional and numerous other forms of abuse.
Although the struggle to escape seemed endless, Mary found her way out of the torment in 1989, and her drug dealing ex husband was imprisoned for his involvement with cocaine. He later died of esophageal cancer while incarcerated. The cancer was caused by his extensive drug abuse.
The same year she divorced she moved to Lawrence. After a long road to recovery and empowerment, Metz remarried in 2006, began to find her identity again and, in 2011, decided to use her negative experiences for the betterment of other women in similar situations.
Mary Metz had been leading the Survivor Story training sessions for new volunteers at the shelter since summer of 2011. Sharing her powerful story of survival with others helped Mary to heal and help others at the same time. When Becca Burns, The Willow's Director of Volunteer Services, approached Mary about sharing her story on-camera with local journalist Sara Patterson from Channel 6 News; however, her feelings about reliving the situation became bittersweet.
As the volunteer coordinator, Becca Burn's responsibilities at The Willow are to recruit, retain and recognize volunteer and intern advocates. She is the main supervisor and trainer for new advocates of the shelter. Becca began working at The Willow in 2011, and met Mary in her first advocate training class.
They built a relationship in and out of meetings, had general discussions about the dynamics of power and control in domestic violence and conversed about how training connected Mary with her own experience.
As media involvement is not solicited by The Willow, media relations often come into contact with Becca when first proposing coverage. All media relations at The Willow need to be approved by Joan Schultz, the executive director, before any further action can be taken.
After Sara approached Becca, the volunteer coordinator immediately contacted Joan and the rest of the agency's management team. This team is comprised of the Willow's Executive director, director of survivor services, director of community engagement, and Becca as the director of volunteer services.
At the following team meeting, the members discussed the potential role the journalist would play at the Willow, the training (if any) the journalist had, Mary's interest in pursuing this coverage and the potential benefits to the organization.
Mary's first priority when it comes to sharing her powerful story is always to ensure she has full support from her son, Roy Herman. Herman, 40, said that he didn't care about his name or other information being used. Furthermore, her husband Bill Metz encouraged her to share the story because he felt it was an emotionally healthy thing to do.
For the safety of Mary and her family, even though her abuser doesn't have access to her, that doesn't mean that other people in the community couldn't have access to her or her family—so it could put them at risk potentially.
Although it was Mary's decision to have her story published, putting information about The Willow in the article raises another slew of issues at hand including: potential for women at the shelter to feel exploited, furthered stereotyping victims of domestic violence and an overall misrepresentation of Mary and, consequently, The Willow.
Becca is always a conduit for anything involving the media or public relations. After hearing Metz's Survivor Story training sessions, Becca asked if she would be interested in speaking with Sara Patterson from Channel 6. Mary took some time to think about it. "[Becca] is always very clear about the decision being my own," Mary said. "There is no pressure from the Willow to get any stories out there for publicity reasons."
As many times as she'd been asked to tell her story in the past, Mary found herself in the same predicament, at odds with herself, each time. "How much do I care about this movement versus how much am I willing to put myself out there–whether or not it brings back that pain?" Metz said. "The more I share, the more I remember."
With the story approved by the agency's management team, and a deadline for Channel 6 approaching rapidly, Sara's story rested in the outcome of Mary's pondering. From the obvious issue of being portrayed as a stereotype to the underlying factor of her son's feelings towards his mother tearing apart the name of his father, Mary had a lot of factors to weigh.
"Do I want to go through this?" Mary asked herself. "Because every time I tell my story I have to relive it."
Every opportunity Mary has to share her story she takes, unless she knows the request is out of her comfort zone. "There are times when I have given a presentation and I have gone home and would sometimes just sob because it was just another whole layer," Mary said. "It pisses me off that the memories of the abuse still hurt."
By deciding to share this story, even though it was painful, it definitely brought on a sense of freedom in Mary's life. "The more I tell it the easier it is," Mary said. It has become less emotional and more factual the more she has shared her story.
"The only reason I decided to volunteer with The Willow was to help other women in whatever small way that I could," Mary said. When it comes to the media, as long as she knows that her story, herself, and The Willow are not going to be exploited, then she is happy to share to her story. "I don't want one more woman to have to go through that, and if there's anything I can say to help them to make a decision to leave; I'd say it was worth it," Mary said.
Aristotle's philosophy of the golden mean represents the balance between extremes. While an obvious paradigm at hand for Mary was self versus community, the two extremes at hand are also similar: complete privatization versus utter self-exposure.
Had I been asked for advice in the matter, an explanation of the two extremes and a plan for finding middle ground would have been provided to her. The first extreme of absolute privacy would indeed secure any potential misrepresentations, but would also be a step backwards in the way of personal progress for Mary.
As sharing her story has been a large part of her healing process, completely hiding it from the world again would only be an act of regression. The ladder extreme of complete exposure is undoubtedly how Mary feels any time her story is available to the public.
However, this exposure represents the potential for Mary to spill her every memory, feeling and thought with the public. In finding balance between these two extremes, I would advise Mary to be self-aware of what she is comfortable with the public knowing versus what she isn't.
I would also strain the importance of being clear with the journalist about what is and is not on-the-record. Most importantly, because it is her story, and hers alone, I would encourage her to share whatever information in whatever way best helps her heal and represent both herself and all women struggling with domestic violence.
Mary and The Willow did allow the news station to do a story about her experiences. However, for this case study the actual name of the local station, journalist and article were desired confidential, and have consequently been changed. Any reference to Channel 6 or the fictitious name 'Sara Patterson' is for the purpose of telling the story, and has no actual affiliation with the news station or any persons who may share this 'character's' name.
The final outcome of the feature footage was quite voyeuristic. "The journalist's questions focused mostly on what he physically did to me, which presents an uneducated perspective," Mary said. On top of a slightly stereotypical portrayal, the length of the interview wasn't extensive enough for the topic at hand.
"It took a situation which is very personal and meaningful and tried to make it something much more broad and vast." Although Mary was not delighted with the outcomes of this particular coverage, she has since and will continue to do other interviews, proceeding with caution and head held high.
Clogged drains, mold and cracked floors compromise more than disease control for the animals and staff at the Lawrence Humane Society. Lack of funding is both the cause and effect of health hazards at the non-profit organization. Dori Villalon, Executive Director of LHS, says the health hazards result in increased risk of illness, extra work for employees, slows adoption processes and costs the facility money.
The building, parts of which are more than 50 years old, runs a 24-hour emergency rescue service and currently houses nearly 300 animals. The facility hopes for help from the county to repair the aged flooring.
"They are cracked, old and are a hazard primarily because viruses and bacteria live in the cracks and it's very hard to clean," Villalon said. "When [disease control is compromised], if a dog comes in and gets sick, they have to stay in our TLC unit for medical care, which causes more expenses," Villalon said.
Lawrence Humane Society receives funding from three sources: a contract with the city and county to provide service, adopt and surrender animal fees, and contributions to the facility.
"Despite what many think, we don't get any funding from the National Humane Society. We raise all of our money locally," Villalon said. "The shelter needs to raise $700,000 through donations and adoption fees in order to meet our $1.1 million budget," Villalon said.
The LHS asked for a $15,000 grant from the county for multiple reasons. "I'm asking the government to pay for that because it's part of the law to have stray animals taken in for at least three days," Villalon said.
According to the Code of the City of Lawrence 2011 Edition, "The officer shall make a record of all dogs or cats so impounded with their description, date of impoundment and rabies vaccination number. If, within seventy-two (72) hours from the date any dog or cat is impounded and the owner of such dog or cat shall appear and claim his or her dog or cat, said dog or cat may be released upon payment…"
The second reason LHS reached out to the county is focused on the purpose of the facility itself.
"Our ultimate goal is to save as many lives as we can by moving animals quickly from the shelter to homes," Villalon said. "If the $15,000 isn't funded the facility will go to its donor base to raise the money, and I'd rather spend money raised to do things that could directly save animal lives than fixing the floors," Villalon said.
The volunteer work includes walking, playing with, and taking animals to adoption events. Volunteers are not allowed to clean cages or handle sick animals.
"The fact that we can't help with certain aspects does impact the staff because if enough volunteers aren't here, they not only have to take care of cleaning, adoptions and sick animals, but also the work that we do," volunteer Samara Rehfeld, 18, said.
The LHS staff is affected but not defeated by the extra work from ongoing hazards.
"It's definitely made my job more difficult with animals getting upper respiratory infections and kennel cough," Amelia Mallett-Kass Lead Animal Care Associate said. "The more sick animals we have, the more likely the germs are to spread. We have to keep on top of hazardous areas so bacteria doesn't come into contact with animals," Mallett-Kass said.
Employees continue work with the facility despite tedious tasks the hazards create.
"Considering that the facility is not ideal, we're doing really amazing work inside of it," Villalon said. "We have a 76% live release rate, which is up from 52% this time last year," Villalon said.
The LHS relies on help from the community to make ends meet. The facility uses donations of basic necessities such as laundry detergent, bleach and soap.
"Without help from the government, the hazards cannot currently be eliminated," Villalon Said.
"We work really hard to keep our animals happy and healthy, but there's only so much that we can do. This issue is a big project, and we are going to need help from the public to fix it," Mallett-Kass said.


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I decided to look through these exams to see how these sad excuses for ninjas passed my exam...
"Naruto Uzumaki, huh?" I read outloud at the name on top of the paper. My mind automatically flashed to the loud blonde boy.
"Wonder how he did," I flinched at the voice of Anko, she was insane-so many mood swings and she's so unpredictable! She smiled to me, "he seems interesting!" She licked her lips with this. I swear she's like a vampire or something, preying on young men.
We glance at the paper.......
and fell over.
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU PASS A KID WHO DIDN'T ANSWER A SINGLE QUESTION?!?!?!" Anko yelled.
"They all weren't like that!" I defended myself and scrambled through the stack to find a paper almost black with answers, "see-" I looked at the name, "Kyoko! She answered like a maniac, SEE!" I shoved the paper in her face.
She squinted her eyes.
"ALL SHE DID WAS DRAW TURTLES ON IT!!!" she screamed and I quickly looked back to see...
a turtle...
"A TURTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled throwing the papers.
/Note: this was the first time Ibiki lost his temper during his ninja career./
--->Naruto's POV<--------------
"Kyoko is dead," the words frozen in my mind, silencing all thoughts and destorying all guards. It was eeery, as if the world had stopped moving or as if all of life was on pause. I couldn't feel my mouth that was still wide open from gaping at the words that hung still in the air.
The memories flooding, my last time with her alive-what had I missed? I forcefully moved my eyes to the others. My team, my family-had I taken them so blindly? Had I kept my eyes closed at the signs?
I remember when she pushed Sasuke off the branch, as if she wanted far away from her future murderer as possible. She knew something. She knew something! SHE KNEW SOMETHING!!!!
I felt my anger rising, and she chose to do this alone! I should of known. She was training harder and more. She ran around more and busied herself. I closed my mouth in an attempt to control myself.
I felt the metallic taste of blood rising in my mouth, but I didn't care about the pain in my mouth. I lost a friend.
"I SHOULD OF BEEN THERE!" I hissed. Sakura and Sasuke's heads snapped up at me. I broke the silence, but my anger covered the air, making it harder to breathe. I punched the ground again and again, trying to feed the uncontrollable anger to the air instead of letting it fester inside me.
I felt myself grow tired and looked up to the sound of sobbing. Sakura was crying...
--->Sakura's POV<-----------
How could this had happened?
I took an oath that I wasn't going to stand behind everyone as they grew stronger and protected me, but... I sniffed and felt the first tear fall. I fail before I started.
My mind couldn't stop thinking to how she pushed us away from her, how...she worried about us.
I watched her swallow those pills over and over in my head...she was already weakened before the battle, but...
I remembered seeing my death with that man and how he was hunting as down as if we were baby birds and he was a hungry snake.
She had no chance to begin with...and...
we let this happen....
I couldn't control my trembling body as tear poured out of my eyes. I felt like I was self destructing.
----->???'s POV<-----------
'Come closer,' the voice coaxed. I followed, but tripped and stumbled with every step.
'Stay Away!' a different voice warned. I looked in the opposite direction on my original path.
'No this way!' the first voice cooed. I continued looking towards the opposite direction of my original path, seeing a light.
People always warned about going to the light. They always wanted you to go opposite of it. I looked towards my original path.
'No!' the other voice growled, but I continued to look and again saw a light at the end. I felt tears stinging my eyes.
"WHERE DO I GO?!?" I screamed into the absolute nothing-ness of the black background.
'This way!' both voices yelled for me. I fell down covering my ears. Their voices draining my patience and my sanity.
"GO AWAY!" I screamed, hearing the voices fighting through my hands to my ears, and growing louder and louder.
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Yes, Eastern Europe is indeed a hotspot for cybercrime. On this week's Patch Monday podcast, former police officer Stephen McCombie explains why.
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Stilgherrian is a freelance journalist, commentator and podcaster interested in big-picture internet issues, especially security, cybercrime and hoovering up bulldust. He studied computing science and linguistics before a wide-ranging media career and a stint at running an IT business. He can write iptables firewall rules, set a rabbit trap, clear a jam in an IBM model 026 card punch and mix a mean whiskey sour.
Yes, Eastern Europe is indeed a hotspot for cybercrime. On this week's Patch Monday podcast, former police officer Stephen McCombie explains why.
NICTA researchers are learning how to protect their bionic eye circuitry with nanodiamonds, designing radiation detectors for ports and airports, and updating 40-year-old traffic control algorithms.
Analysts Frost & Sullivan reckon that mobile-revenue growth is about to flatline in Australia. Will 4G be the telcos' saviour? How will things change?
Not only is global cybercrime so well organised that malware toolkits are sold with technical support, there's now a clear toolkit of choice: Blackhole.
With two billion people now online, we should probably start thinking about the kind of world we want to create. Enter the Society 5 project.
If IT managers skip security basics like patching applications and operating systems, it might not be apathy, but instead the result of the formula V = EC2.
"There really is a war on the internet and, like all wars, this war is about power," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a recorded message on Saturday to the War on the Internet forum held in Melbourne on the weekend.
When a Sydney financial-services business was hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, they learned the hard way that not all internet-hosting providers can deliver when it really counts.
So far, the coverage of Anonymous' hack of American intelligence firm Stratfor has focused on the stolen credit cards and subscriber lists. But the real target was their email archives.
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I hear all this talk about Michigan State landing a number one seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. I'm not sure that's all good-- whoever is a number one seed gets a big target on the back. To me what's more important is geographic location. And the Spartans, by winning the Big Ten title decisively, would be helped greatly with sites at Dayton, then Indianapolis for two games apiece. The chances of winning, no matter who they play, I believe is enhanced more by the closeness to home for a variety of different reasons.
Being a number one seed and sent to a West regional isn't the Spartans' best scenario let alone for any other team who has to travel a ways. When MSU won the NCAA title in 2000 it traveled to Cleveland, then the Palace and then to Indianapolis to polish off the title. Close games with plenty of fans on hand. If it's close fans find a way to get tickets. And MSU needed its fans in the Palace for close wins over Syracuse and then Iowa State.
It's not the sole factor, of course, in a team's success. But I've always believed ACC teams like Duke and North Carolina got terrific breaks by playing early tournament games in their home state. So even if the Spartans aren't a number one seed, staying close to home is the key-- and Minneapolis is better than nothing because the next site would be indianapolis. But Dayton would be better, right fans?
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It's no secret that I hope to do a Season 2 of my "pet project" Awkward Money Chat. Still, I need to take a moment and reflect on just how awesome doing the first season was. Filming/editing took place over nearly 4 months (we filmed the first set of four on 2/28/2014 with the final shoot happening on 6/12/14!) and it couldn't have happened without our awesome guests willing to come on and be a part of the show. Talking about your personal finances is never easy and I appreciate your willingness to open up.
I'm glad I managed to snag more than a few photos to help me remember this special time in my life. I also love how Murray is in a lot of these photos. That's just how he was, always in the lap of whoever came by to visit.
Many thanks to: Kaylee King, Jessica Laurain, Matt Hobbs, Kathrine Magruder, James Johns, Kyle Bumpus, Paula Pant, Octavia Warren, Chris Gilmore, Pat Davis, LaTisha Styles and Robin Thornett. You guys ROCK
We also had a spectacular crew headed by my brother, Kevyn. Without whom the series wouldn't have been possible.
You can catch up on all the episodes here. I can't comment on when exactly we'll get around to season 2, so for now I'll just say…Until NEXT TIME!
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You know I love awkward money chat! Very rarely but occasionally I go to Atlanta on business. If I ever go again, I'm going to try to get on it. This will take a miracle, because (1) the likelihood of going is low (2) would need to coordinate with you and all your lovely support techies! Oh well, if it's meant to be, it's meant to be! Oh, wait! That would mean I need to out myself!!! Oh well. It would definitely be a sign then. Lovely Murray in the shots… sniff!


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When I said last season that I didn't cook, I wasn't joking. Obviously.
Here's the thing – there are approximately 9000 other things that I'd rather do than cook. Getting dental work ranks up there, as does cleaning dog poop out of Paul's closet. I'd rather return my favorite shoes, and give up my handbag collection. Cooking is not therapeutic for me. I have been told that for some people, the satisfaction of presenting a meal to their family can be fulfilling.
Great. I'm all for presenting a meal to my family. As a matter of fact I can present Chinese and Indian and sushi and Italian to them all in one night. Welcome to Takeout Taxi, loves. That little menu catalog they send around about all their restaurants is the best cookbook I know.
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Factory farmed chickens have it bad, but in Christopher Leonard's new meat industry expose The Meat Racket, it's the farmers who get plucked. Leonard, a former agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press and now a fellow at the New American Foundation, subtitled his book The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business, and he's not kidding about the "secret" part. When Leonard set out to investigate how four huge companies came to more or less dictate the state of our meat supply, he ran into balky bureaucrats and fearful farmers.
Leonard dug in and earned the trust of enough willing folks (including Don Tyson, the late CEO of Tyson Foods) to give him a thorough account of a poultry power-grab that eventually spread to pork and beef.
Meat Racket focuses mainly on Tyson because they pioneered the breakthroughs that largely drove this transformation.
Meat Racket reveals, these efficiencies of scale have often come at the expense of farmers and consumers. But the dubious business practices that Leonard documents have largely escaped scrutiny until now, because this extraordinary consolidation of power took place in off-the-radar places like Waldron, Arkansas, a small town with a big Tyson plant.
We spoke with Leonard recently about vertical integration, Don Tyson's laser-like approach to business, and the meat industry's reaction to his book.
Making a Racket: Christopher Leonard Goes behind the Scenes in the American Meat Industry
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Formed in 1982, Skinny Puppy (due tonight, February 24, at the Ogden Theatre) is a pioneer of electronic industrial music. The band's dark aesthetic and its visionary amalgamation of rhythm, texture and tone cast an indelible shadow on virtually all industrial music that followed in its wake. Throug ... More >>
Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel formed the Helio Sequence in Beaverton, Oregon, in 1999. On their first few releases, the duo created vividly realized, playfully psychedelic songs that made a languid, rockist format seem expansive and upbeat, particularly 2001's Young Effectuals, which was like ... More >>
Neil Halstead was one of the guitarists and singers in pioneering shoegaze and ambient band Slowdive in the late '80s and early '90s. Taking guitar sounds and often blurring the sonic signature with synths through creative use of delay pedals and loops, Slowdive was more of a dream-pop band through ... More >>
Xiu Xiu got its start in 2002 when Jamie Stewart and his friend and longtime musical collaborator Cory McCulloch started writing songs in a more experimental vein, making extensive use of non-Western percussion and tones. The group's debut album, 2002's Knife Play, anticipated more widespread use of ... More >>
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Neon Indian (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) got a boost early in its career by online media, and by the time of the act's first album, Psychic Chasms was released, there was a pretty big buzz around his blend of synth-driven, R&B inflected pop songs. Alan Palomo and company went on to tour wit ... More >>
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Don't miss this! The Palmer Center for Business Development will be hosting a series of presentations titled the "Chiropractic Vendor Showcase Series". They will be held on Fridays from 9:20 to 10:05 a.m. in the Business Center classroom on 4th floor of Campus Center.
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"The F.A.B. (Features, Advantages, & Benefits) of the Lloyd 402 Flexion Table"
Please join Lloyd Table Company for an informal presentation on the Features, Advantages, & Benefits of one of their most popular adjusting tables;The Lloyd 402 Flexion Table. In addition, you will be able to participate in a drawing for:1 x Lloyd C105 Portable adjusting table…retail value of $440.00The presentation will be a brief overview of flexion-distraction, decompression, and also segmental drops and how these may be incorporated in your chiropractic practice.
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Pivotal Health Solutions was formed in 2007 with the mission of becoming the leading manufacturer and supplier of quality products to the health and wellness industry. In this journey Pivotal Health Solutions has brought together some of the industries finest brands. With multiple manufacturing sites supporting products in the chiropractic, physical therapy, massage, spa, athletics and medical markets, Pivotal Health Solutions has one of the highest quality and most comprehensive product lines in the market today.
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The Colorado Senate met for 12 hours Friday, approving five gun control bills and withdrawing two of the most controversial bills.
A final-hour surprise was when Senate President John Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat, withdrew a bill he sponsored that called for makers and sellers of certain guns to be held liable for violent acts committed with those weapons. Republicans celebrated, saying Democrats lacked strong support for the bill.
The other bill withdrawn was a ban on concealed weapons on college campuses. That bill also was killed by its sponsor, Sen. Rollie Heath, a Democrat from Boulder. Failing support among fellow Democrats was cited as the reason for the withdrawal.
Of the five bills that passed, the most controversial was limiting gun ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. After a six-hour debate, the bill gained initial approval and requires a final floor vote on Monday.
Also passing on Friday were bills requiring background checks for most gun purchases; banning guns for people convicted of certain domestic violence crimes; mandating in-person training courses for people seeking concealed carry permits and reinstating fees for gun buyers who need background checks.
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- bamagirl30 Feb 29, 2012 01:52 PM
I am happy to have helped convert my DH into almost as big a foodie as me. While he still loves fast food more than I, he will spend as much time menu planning and restaurant hunting as I will for trips and special occasions. Before we met, he had never really eaten anything but burgers and Taco Bell, now he LOVES duck, creme brulee, Bok Choy (unless I cook it!), even curries! I am so glad because I don't think I could have lived without those things.
So my question is, have any of you converted a non foodie friend or family member into someone who really embraces good eating? Better yet, do you have a dish you cooked or took them out to eat that did the trick and changed their life? I would love to know.
One of my in-laws wasn't much of a Chinese or Asian food fan. We went to a Hong Kong-style restaurant, and he ordered BBQ pork fried rice because that's what he always ordered. I put down my menu and told him straight out that while I wasn't going to let him order BBQ pork fried rice. I ordered Singapore-style stir fried noodles for him, and he has since become quite adventurous with his choices in restaurants, including Asian ones.
One of my friends was a huge fan of AYCE Asian Buffets (Todai if you have been to one) with bad sushi. We had several vendors who would offer to take us out to lunch and he always picked one of these places because the sushi was AYCE. I always wanted to go to my neighborhood sushi bar, which was very good and where I was known. I finally pointed out to him that when the vendor takes us out to lunch, whether it is $20 at Todai or $40 at the sushi bar for lunch, it is still all you can eat. He saw the light and has steered clear of the buffet ever since.
He has also come back to me for various recommendations for places like the office Xmas party (we no longer work together) or for a nice but not too pricey place for date night with his wife. I am glad to report I have opened his eyes to some of the better value high end places in out area.
Around two years ago I converted my cousin, who is in his 40's to ethnic foods. He grew up in Iowa, lived in Alabama, and now Denver. He never really ate anything except typical Mid America foods, fast food, and a little Americanized ethnic, and drank beer. In a long week in NYC I took him to a dozen different types of Asian and Latin foods, and he loved them. Also took him to several cocktail bars and he loves them now as well. Now he seeks out whatever ethnic food is available in and around Denver.
Sadly, for years I have been trying to get my nieces and nephew to try any type of ethnic or fine food, but they won't try anything new. They eat a combination of Americanized Italian, and simple foods. Preferably processed crap like kraft mac n cheese, tater tots, etc.
My husband… when I met him he wouldn't eat lots of different things, and thought that Olive Garden was where you went for "Italian" food, and he'd cook a pot of "spaghetti" and throw a jar of Ragu on top and call it dinner (bleh)
I "introduced" him to foods from different ethnicities, raw fish, oysters, foie gras.
He will now go out with people from work for Indian or Vietnamese for lunch and actually ENJOY it…
Bamagirl30, I'm with you, because I just love so many different kinds of food, that it would have been really difficult for me to have settled into a relationship if he had kept his narrow mind when it came to eating
I would say I converted my husband... in that, he loves my cooking, which includes just about every ethnicity out there. He loves lots of 'weird fruits and vegetables'. He knows cooking terms that most good ole country boys do not. He just wowed a brazilian coworker with his knowledge of ceviche. ;)
However, he doesn't read about cooking or seek out ingredients himself. He does garden some. If I was no longer around I really do not know what he would do. I doubt he could go back to the crap food we grew up with.... and I know my kids couldn't.
Yeppers. Mrs W hates when I remind her that I "broadened her horizons," but she knows it's true. Her parents didn't even go out for Chinese food.
I had an Ex once who, when asked if she liked garlic, replied as follows. "Um.. I'm not sure I've ever had garlic." I can't take credit for a single-handed conversion, but that was a pretty bleak start. The first "scary" thing she tried and liked was tekka maki.
Her family was very much of the Food=Fuel mindset. It wasn't that she didn't like good food. She'd just never had anyone encourage her to try it.
My gf for sure. She just was never really exposed to all the good chowhound type stuff and now I'm pretty sure she's more obsessed with it than me! I can say it definitely makes for a fun vacation when BOTH people really enjoy trying new food experiences rather than one person feeling like they have to drag the other or be dragged by the other to go eat somewhere.
My niece. She's always hated the kitchen - everything about it. Since I am her favourite auntie, she hangs around with me when I see her. Two visits ago I was in the kitchen, of course. When I visit family I do all the cooking. Anyway, I had her help with risotto whilst I was preparing other dishes. Well, she began asking questions about the type of rice to use and when to ladle in more broth. It turned out to be an instructional lesson and she hung onto every single word. She thought risotto was only made in what she called fancy schmancy restaurants and was thrilled to find out she could make it herself at home. So, I told her family when serving dinner that she made the risotto and there were oohs and aahhs and much encouragement. She was tickled. On my last visit there, guess what she made? Risotto Milanese! She asked me to show her how to make a pan sauce which was a revelation to her. That evening she had her choice of what to watch on TV and she chose Iron Chef which we enjoyed together. Her mind was far more open than the previous visit, just weeks before, and she absorbed everything I said like a sponge. We pored over my "Salt", "NOMA" and "Alinea" books as I had taken them along (when I visit I need reading material!). Next visit will be at my house where I can show her my cookbook collection as she is now interested.
My niece has never been to a good restaurant (she lives in the middle of nowhere on a farm and the nearest city is a few hours away which she will visit with me once she has her driver's license). She only knows McDonalds despite her mother's and my endless prodding. Now things will change. She informs me by email what she has cooked that day! It has been an amazing transformation in such a short time. She actually requested truffle salt from Croatia for her birthday!
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Risotto is a big coverter. It sounds "fancy" and unapproachable to many of my in-law family, but I converted my brother in law and he requests it everytime he is in town! I think it is a great starter food because you can slip it in unnoticed, but it is so tasty someone will ask what it is and then be surprised they ate something so "cosmopolitan". I mean, my Bro-n-law is a straight biscuits & gravy, burger with ketchup only, fried chicken fingers kind of guy. Atleast he will try things at my house now!
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An awesome story.
Oh what a fun Post!!
When I met my soon-to-be-ex husband, he always took me out for dinner because, as he so gallantly put it, "The last thing I want is for you to be cooking when you do it for a job." He really didn't understand that it was totally okay with me to go home and pull something together because it's my happy place and I Love To Cook, end of story. However, I totally appreciated the sentiment. He always had a place in mind and I hadn't been "out and about" in awhile, so it wasn't an issue, and the places he chose always served very decent plain American food. Well, I happen to really like American food, so again no issue. BUT. I am a card-carrying Chowhound. A Foodie from Hell. A woman who loves Char Siu as much as Chopped Salad; Dim Sum as much as Mickey Dee's. And I was getting tired of steakandroastchickenandplainfishandsteakandroastchickenandplainfish. At least several nights a week. So I decided to educate him, first by finding out about and then suggesting a local Korean BBQ, figuring that I could deconstruct anything that scairt him. And to my wonder, it worked!! They brought out the banchan, and I walked him through the different kimchis and pickles and everything else, which he loved. When he looked sideways at one kimchi, I explained that it was "just cabbage" and that the red stuff was "just chiles." And he could deal with that. His entree was Galbi, which I explained was just short ribs, marinated and sliced a special way and then grilled. Again, Big Instant Love. The next time he went out, he casually asked me if I knew any other places "like that," and I explained that I did have something in mind, but it was a differen culture's food, and we went on a nice long drive to go to a fake taverna that serves absolutely outstanding Greek food. OMG, you should've seen that guy eat. And this time he was deconstructing himself. Spanakopeta? He took a good long look and smell and knew instanter that there was spinach and onion and "some sort of cheese or something" in there. He ate everything joyfully and happily, and since then not only has become a bonafide foodie but until not long ago was quite accomplished in the kitchen himself. Why? He asked me to teach him to cook "anything."
I had dinner with a friend at a Thai restaurant. His standard order? You guessed it, Phad Thai. Might as well be the cheese burger of Asian food. So I persuaded him to try 2 appetizers, ones he had never tasted before. And for the entree, I ordered a green curry to split. No, not the most adventurous dishes, but it sure shook up his routine.
One of my sisters! She came with my husband and I to Croatia in November and she went from an Olive Garden junkie to eating shark, uni, steak tartare, and so on. We made a point of introducing her to at least one new food or ingredient per day. By the end of the trip she tried over 30 things she had not before. There was not one single thing she did not try - she was very open (that comes with travel). Now she tries to replicate dishes at her home. She has told me over and over that these revelations completely changed her life. When I used to talk to her about these foods my husband and I adore her eyes glazed over. Now they sparkle with excitement! And that makes me excited. It has opened up an entirely new world of conversation.


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Gary Barlow has landed a lead role performing on a revamp of the celebrated album of musical The War Of The Worlds.
The Take That star is taking on two of the most famous songs from the production, both of which were originally sung by Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward.
Gary will tackle Forever Autumn and The Eve Of The War on the new CD.
Based on the HG Wells book, the CD will include artists Joss Stone, Maverick Sabre and Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson, who is also appearing in a stage version of the musical.
The album was a huge hit in the late 1970s when it was originally released, spending more than 330 weeks on the chart and spawning hit singles.
Original composer and creator Jeff Wayne has given it a complete overhaul 34 years after it first came out.
Gary said: "I've been a huge fan of The War of The Worlds score since I was a kid, so to be asked to work with the legend that is Jeff Wayne was a real privilege."
The album will be released on November 12 on CD and vinyl.
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Dane Co. Sheriff's officials say a 19-year-old man jumped into a pond and saved a father and daughter from a submerged car.
Deputies say a dump truck forced the family's car off the road Thursday night shortly before 10:00. It rolled and landed upside down in a pond off State Highway 19 near I-39 in the town of Burke.
15-year-old Alissa Gundrum was driving the car, with her 43-year-old father Ronald Gundrum as the passenger. They are from Waunakee.
The dump truck left the scene. The 19-year-old witness jumped into the pond and pulled the Gundrums from the car. The father and daughter were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Deputies found the dump truck and the driver, 28-year-old Mark Klitzman of Madison, at a nearby quarry. He was cited for hit and run causing injury and unsafe lane deviation.
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