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After months of negotiations talks have stalled between the Ottawa school board and the Ottawa Education Association — which represents the district's teachers — over a final sticking point related to salaries.
The school board decided the negotiations were at an impasse during its meeting Monday night. An impasse triggers the insertion of a third-party mediator into the negotiations.
It's not unusual to begin a school year without a teachers' contract, officials said. Last year, the school board and teachers ratified the 2012-2013 contract Sept. 24.
Both parties said negotiating points related to early release Wednesdays and the revised method of conducting teacher evaluations — necessitated by the state's No Child Left Behind waiver — had been worked out as part of a tentative agreement between both sides.
Talks have hit a standstill, however, over the Ottawa Education Association's proposed 0.5 percent increase in base pay for all the district's 194 teachers, Megan Morris, president of the education association, said. Morris teaches first grade at Lincoln Elementary School, 1102 N. Milner Road, Ottawa.
Most public schools in the U.S. — including Ottawa — employ a salary grid that recognizes years of service and the amount of education as factors in determining the pay of individual teachers. The salary schedule is a grid of rows and columns, with the rows down the side being increasing years of service, called "steps," and the columns across the top being increasing education credentials, such as bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
The school board had countered with an offer of a 1-percent base pay increase — good for the 2013-2014 year only — for about 70 teachers who were at the bottom of their columns on the pay grid and were not eligible this year to make a step up in the pay scale, district officials said.
"We do not feel it is in any teacher's best interest to take a one-year stipend, which would essentially mean that we were agreeing that they would take a pay cut next year," Morris said. "We had asked the board to wait until the final enrollment numbers were turned into the state on Sept. 20 and at that point — or shortly after — we would have been able to look at more of a finalized budget."
Once those numbers were in, Morris said, she had hoped the two sides could reach an agreement on salary.
The school district, to its negotiating point, did not feel comfortable with the education association's 0.5-percent base pay increase, because the raise would become part of the teacher's base salary for the future, rather than revisiting the issue next year, Brian Kraus, assistant superintendent who has been involved in the negotiation process, said.
"The board is concerned about adding the half percent [to the base pay] because it would be fiscally irresponsible to approve that increase at this time, not knowing what funding is going to be like in the future [with regard to state aid]," Kraus said.
Kraus also pointed out the 0.5-percent increase actually would work out to be more money for some teachers who have more longevity in the district, based on the pay grid.
If the financial outlook improves in the future, Kraus said, he thought the board would feel more comfortable approving pay increases. The uncertainty of future financial resources, however, makes that proposition difficult, he said.
Morris understands the concern about future state aid and its effect on the district's budget, she said. But Morris said she did not think the 0.5-percent increase was an unreasonable request, based on discussions early on in the negotiation process.
"Impasse is not in anyone's best interest, but maybe if we bring in a mediator we can move forward," Morris said. "I don't think there is a teacher in our district who doesn't want to do what is in the best interest of the district. We love what we do, but this also is our livelihood and we have families to look out for."
Kraus expressed optimism an agreement could be worked out through the mediation process.
"I felt like the negotiations were a mutually profitable experience on a number of items," Kraus said. "Salary is the only sticking point. I'm hopeful we can reach an agreement."


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Composer Alexandre Desplat Talks THE IMITATION GAME, Coming to the Project Late, Finding Continuity in His Scores, His Love of Conducting, and More
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Six-time Academy Award Nominee Alexandre Desplat is a remarkably versatile composer with a distinct voice who has collaborated with some of the world's top filmmakers. His films this year range from Wes Anderson's The Grand Hotel Budapest, to George Clooney's The Monuments Men, the blockbuster action thriller Godzilla, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken and Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game. Desplat's compelling score for the Alan Turing biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch features lots of keyboards, clarinets, and fast arpeggios which support the pacing of the film and capture the story's thrilling intensity and the humanity of characters who are racing against time to crack the Nazi's Enigma code during WWII.
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HUDSONVILLE, Mich. — Late freezes that devastated Michigan fruit crops mostly spared the state's vegetables.
For the first time in a century, Michigan's March was warmer than its April, said Todd Miedema, marketing director and principal for Hudsonville-based Miedema Produce Inc.
While the freeze dealt a devastating blow to the Wolverine State's tree fruit crops, most vegetable crops escaped relatively unscathed and start dates should be close to normal, Miedema said.
The warm March weather didn't lure Miedema Produce into planting early.
"I don't care how hot it is in March — we are not putting celery in fields," he said. "We know a freeze is coming. You just don't take risks."
High winds this spring could pose more problems to Michigan vegetable growers than the cold, but as of mid-May Miedema hadn't heard of serious problems.
The company expects to begin shipping radishes and turnips about June 1, with leafy lettuces and zucchini following about June 20, celery by the Fourth of July and cucumbers by July 4-10.
Miedema Produce expects a similar mix of Michigan vegetables in 2012, Miedema said.
Mussey-based Mike Pirrone Produce Inc. also didn't take any risks and plant early this season, said Butch DeBlouw, the company's president.
Even with on-time plantings, however, by late May crops are running ahead of schedule, DeBlouw said.
"It's as dry this year as it was wet last year, and everybody's a couple of weeks ahead," he said. "We feel better this year. Everyone was scrambling last year."
Pirrone Produce was scheduled to begin harvesting greens, radishes and cilantro the week of May 28, zucchini and yellow squash June 10-12, cabbage June 12-15 and cucumbers June 20-22.
Hart-based Todd Greiner Farms expects to begin its sweet corn season earlier than usual this year, said Tyler Hodges, the company's sales manager.
It's the company's, not Mother Nature's, decision, Hodges said.
"We usually start in mid- to late August, but we're starting on Aug. 1 this year to extend the season," he said.
While it's pushing up the start date of its Michigan corn deal, Greiner Farms also will have plenty for Labor Day, even if it means having product left over after the holiday, Hodges said.
In addition to shipping more sweet corn this season, Greiner Farms also has plans to boost its zucchini volumes, Hodges said. The company's acreage climbed from 50 to 60 acres in 2011 to 80 to 90 acres this season.


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Date: 04/09/12
AUGUSTA - Flanked by members of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Governor LePage today signed into law a measure that could bring insurance relief to farmers, beekeepers, sugar house operators and others who open their property for "agritourism" activities.
The bill, LD 1605, provides limited liability protection for landowners who post signs stating that visitors accept the "inherent risks" of the activity. Maine already has similar statutes for such activities as skiing and horseback riding.
"This new law will help reduce the burden of insurance on local farmers," said State Rep. Aaron Libby (R-Waterboro), who sponsored the legislation. "In the short term, the farmer will be provided with assurance that they have some protection from a major lawsuit due to a farm-related accident. In the long term, with fewer claims filed, premiums should decrease, there will be less chance of a policy denial and more options will be made available."
Rep. Libby, whose family runs a pick-your-own fruit farm, said at least 23 states have enacted laws to address agritourism. These statutes vary from liability protection for farm operators to tax credits to zoning requirements.
Agritourism has grown rapidly across the state. Some of the most common examples include choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms, maple syrup sugar house tours, pick-your-own fruits and vegetables, animal parks, corn mazes and cider-making operations. All these activities sell locally produced goods while educating the public about the inner workings of a farm.
Rep. Libby said since agritourism has become popular so quickly, few insurers are familiar with or seem willing to underwrite the operations because the trend is relatively new and demand is still low. "Farmers may not know they need additional insurance," he noted. "Most farm and ranch insurance policies are intended to cover risks associated with everyday farming exposure."
The new law won't eliminate the need for farm insurance. "This bill will not stop someone from filing a suit against a farmer if they are injured," Rep. Libby explained. "But it does require them to prove their injury was caused by something other than an inherent risk of the activity to be able to recover damages." ###
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Vena Announces Positive Metallurgical Test Results From The Esquilache Silver Project
TORONTO, Jan. 7, 2013 /CNW/ - Vena Resources Inc. (the "Company" or "Vena") (TSX: VEM, Peru: VEM, Germany: V1RA, USA: VNARF) announces positive results on the preliminary metallurgical testing of outcropping veins and mine dumps as part of the recently initiated program to evaluate near surface resources on its 100% owned Esquilache project located in southern Peru. The metallurgical tests have been conducted on composite representative samples from the Sepulveda and Elvira veins as well as the principal dumps confirming that the Esquilache project can produce commercially viable concentrates of silver-lead (Ag-Pb) and zinc (Zn) and that the mineralization is processable by standard metallurgical methods.
The head grade of the composite sample from the Sepulveda vein (8 to 10 metre width) ran 6.36 opt (ounces per tonne) Ag. The results from the initial conventional flotation test were very positive with an Ag recovery of 64% and a concentrate grade of 168 opt Ag. A subsequent test that included cyanidation of the tailings increased the Ag recovery by an additional 20%. From this initial work it is possible to predict that the Sepulveda vein will have Ag recoveries in excess of 80%. Additional work is in progress to maximize the recovery.
A composite sample of the principal mine dumps was prepared and assayed 2.95 opt Ag, 0.24% Cu, 1.67% Pb and 3.47% Zn. The initial conventional flotation test was very successful in producing commercial grade concentrates. These included a bulk concentrate grading 58 opt Ag, 52% Pb, 6.5% Cu and a zinc concentrate that graded 60%. Recoveries were 73% Ag, 93% Pb, 88% Cu and 83% Zn. Current testing is focusing on separating the bulk concentrate into individual Ag-Pb and Ag-Cu concentrates.
The composite sample from the Elvira vein ran 4.79 opt Ag. The vein is more oxidized at surface than the Sepulveda vein. The initial conventional flotation test produced a concentrate grading 253 opt Ag with a recovery of 43.3% Ag. Bottle cyanide leaching tests of this material have resulted in recoveries of up to 49% Ag. Tests are underway that will combine flotation followed by cyanidation of the tailings.
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Mettler won the race in 8 minutes, 51.99 seconds, which broke the previous record of 8:54.50 he set at the Texas Relays on March 28. Mettler leads the Summit League in that event by 19 seconds and now ranks 11th in the West Region and 17th in the nation in the event.
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- The field features 63 boys and 21 girls from 14 states and five countries.
- The event is one of 13 IMG Academy Preseason Series events in 2014.
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The Palio delle Contrade
No other festival in Italy is as colourful, as intense, or as spectacular as Siena's Palio. Twice a year, Siena packs the Piazza del Campo with dirt, and runs a no-holds-barred bareback horse race around it. These races are the highlight of a full week of trial runs, feasts, parades, spectacles of skill, and solemn ceremonies. The tradition goes back to at least 1310.
The Palios rally start on June 29 and August 13. Although both races are technically equal in importance, the August Palio gets the most attention, partly because it is older, but mainly because it is a sort of rematch, the last chance to win for the year.
You can try to buy a ticket for a seat in the grandstands or at a window of one of the buildings surrounding the piazza. These are controlled by the building owners and the shops in front of which the stands are set up, and cost anywhere from 348 $400 for a single seat. Palio Viaggi (Piazza Gramsci 7. Tel: 0577/280-828), can help you score a few.
Aside from the two annual Palio races, Siena throws a pottery fair in honour of the Festa di Santa Lucia on December 13. The prestigious Accademia Musicale Chigiana music center ( Via di Citta 89. Tel: 0577/22-091), sponsors concerts and opera year-round. Culminating in the week of the Settimana Musicale Senese (in July or August), St. Cecilia is celebrated on November 22, with church concerts.
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Casa di Santa Caterina
The remarkable Caterina Benincasa, took a nun's veil in 1355, at the age of 8 (after her first of many visions of Christ). In 1375, a Crucifix in Pisa cinched her holiness by giving her the stigmata of Christ's wounds. Her name and reputation for devout wisdom and saintly life spread, and in 1939, she was declared patron saint of Italy. The house where she was born was converted into a sanctuary in 1466, and it remains a peaceful, reflective spot. The entrance is a small brick-lined courtyard, and beyond this is a small loggia built in 1533. Under the loggia, the stairs lead down past Catherine's cell, frescoed in 1896. The old family kitchen was transformed into an oratory and decorated in the 16th and 19th centuries. The church opposite the oratory was built in 1623 over Catherine's orchard, to house the 12th-century Pisan-school Crucifixion, in front of which the saint received the stigmata.
Admission to this site is free and it is situated between Via della Sapienza and Via Santa Caterina. Costa di San Antonio. Tel: 0577/247-393.
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Osteria le Logge
The best choice for a special night out, offering excellent cooking in a sedate atmosphere. The taglierini al tartufo has a light butter sauce that does not mask the delicate flavour of the black truffles. Heavier primi include malfatti all'Osteria (spinach-and-ricotta balls in a creamy tomato sauce) and ravioli ripieni di pecorino e menta (ravioli stuffed with sheep's-milk cheese and mint, in a sauce flavoured with port).
Meatier palates can enjoy the bistecche di vitello (tender veal steaks) or delicate carpaccio di pesce spada affumicato (smoked swordfish sliced and pounded into thin disks). The staff are friendly and very accommodating. Expect prices of: 7-10 (primi), 14-18 (secondi), tasting menu 40. Reservations are recommended. Located Via del Porrione 33. Tel: 0577/48-013.
Sightseeing in Terza di Camollia
Siena's northern third spreads off either side of the palace-lined Via Banchi di Sopra. Two blocks up on the left is the oldest Gothic palace in the city, the Palazzo Tolomei, begun in 1208 and now home to the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze bank. The piazza out front is where the city council met from the 11th century until the Palazzo Pubblico was built. Two blocks further is the piazza formed by the Gothic Palazzo Salimbeni and its tributary palaces. It is linked to form the seat of the Monte di Paschi di Siena, Siena's powerhouse bank, founded in 1472, and still a strong player in Italian finance (and the city's largest employer).
Enoteca Italiana
The 16th-century Fortezza Medicea has been turned into a public park. Its courtyard is an open-air theater, and it is a good place for a stroll and a view. Its vaults are filled with Italy's National Wine Museum. Seated at small tables in the tunnel-like brick halls or out on the terraces in summer, you can sample a choice selection of Tuscan and Italian wines by the glass, or go all out on an entire bottle from their extensive cantine (more than 1200 labels available). It has been Italy's official state-mandated Museo Del Vino since 1950. Admission to the venue is free. A glass of wine will cost you 2 - 5, and a cold plate of typical regional foods 7.50 - 12. Located on Fortezza Medicea. Tel: 0577/288-497.
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Oratorio di San Bernardino e Museo Diocesano
The church of San Francesco was built in the late 15th century. It houses the Oratory of San Bernardino, which marks the exact spot where St Bernardino prayed and began preaching. The lower level of the oratory was frescoed by the best 17th-century Sienese artists, including Francesco Vanni, Rutilio and Domenico Manetti, and Ventura Salimbeni. It also houses a little Madonna by Sano di Pietro. The upper level has higher-quality frescoes by 16th-century artists Sodoma, Domenico Beccafumi, and Girolamo del Pacchia. The rooms that make up the Diocesian Museum contain paintings and churchly artifacts. Just outside the gate you will find the 1262 Fonte Ovile, one of the city's most picturesque public fountains. The museum is open daily from 10:30am to 1:30pm, and 3 to 5:30pm (March 15 to October). Admission is 2.50. Located Piazza San Francesco 18. Tel: 0577/283-048.
Visit: www.operaduomo.siena.it
Palazzo Piccolomini
This 1469 palace was designed by Bernardo Rossellino in the Florentine Renaissance style. It is now home to the Archivio di Stato (head down the corridor off the left of the courtyard to grab the elevator to the 4th floor). The state archives preserve, among other notable documents, Boccaccio's will and Jacopo della Quercia's contract for the Fonte Gaia. The main thing to see is a remarkable set of wooden covers made for the city's account books, called the Tavolette di Biccerna, painted from the 13th to 17th centuries with religious scenes and important events in Siena's history. Open Monday through Saturday from 9am to 1pm, and admission is free. Located Via Banchi di Sotto 52. Tel: 0577/247-145.
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Park Hotel
The Park Hotel is your 16th century villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside. All of the public rooms were totally renovated in 1991. In the reception rooms, bar, restaurant you will see splendid stone door surrounds, antique terra cotta floors and antique furnishings matching the style of the Villa. Although restored, the hotel maintains its original charm with authentic antique furniture. The hotels panoramic restaurant offers Tuscan cuisine. There is also an American bar. Sport facilities at the hotel include a large swimming pool and a tennis court. A short-game, executive golf course with 6 par 3 holes, is available in the park of the Hotel. Expect to pay from 151.00 to 163.00 (single), and from 163.00 (double). The hotel is located only 3 km from the heart of Siena, on Via Marciano 18. Tel: 0577/44803.
The best place for fabrics and linens, both as raw materials and made into sheets, curtains, or embroidered hand-towels, is the Antiche Dimore, located on Via di Citta 115. Tel: 0577/45-337.
Antichita Monna Agnese - The best antiques shop in town, with a main branch at Via di Citta 60. Tel: 0577/282-288. Another across the street, at no. 45, specializes in jewelry.
There are lots of ceramics shops to be found on Via di Citta, and they are mainly of souvenir quality. For outstanding quality ceramic wares and articles, visit Ceramiche Artistiche Santa Caterina, with showrooms at Via di Citta 51, 74, and 76. Tel: 0577/283-098. Maestro Marcello Neri trained at Siena's art school, Tuscany's foremost ceramics center. Look especially for their wares painted in "Sienese style" using only black, white, and terra di Siena reddish brown, with designs inspired by the oldest pavement panels in the Duomo.
Antica Drogheria Manganelli - Siena's classiest stop for food. This glass-and-wood shelved shop has been making its own panforte and delicious soft ricciarelli almond cookies since 1879. It also carries the tops in Tuscan products, like vinegar from Castello di Volpaia and cured meats from Greve in Chianti's Falorni butchers. Located on Via di Citta 71-73. Tel: 0577/280-002.
The Duomo's baptistery was built in the 14th century, beneath the cathedral's choir, and supports a Gothic facade left unfinished by Domenico di Agostino (1355). What you are here to see, is the baptismal font (1417-30). The frames are basically Gothic, but the gilded brass panels were cast by the foremost Sienese and Florentine sculptors of the early Renaissance.
The final panel is perhaps the greatest, Donatello's masterful early study of precise perspective and profound depth in the Feast of Herod
The baptistery is open daily 9am to 7:30pm (March 15 - September); 9am to 6pm (October); and 10am to 5pm (November - March 14).
Admission is 2. Located on Piazza San Giovanni. Tel: 0577/283-048.
Go to www.operaduomo.it for details
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Peermont announces entry into hotel management services to the hospitality industry
05 May 2011
Peermont Hotels Casino and Resorts, a leading South African hospitality and gaming company has announced its entry into the hotel and other accommodation management contracts sector.
As one of South Africa's most empowered hospitality and gaming companies, Peermont owns and operates all of its 14 properties - and will now leverage its considerable resources and expertise in operations, marketing, reservations, sales, financial and revenue management, as well as its massive development capabilities in themed but highly functional resorts and hotels.
Peermont also has a successful track record and reputation for achieving above market occupancies and returns by providing a superior service and leveraging its extensive database of casino and hotel customers from across Southern Africa.
"Over the years, we have built up a strong portfolio of well-known and well-loved hotel and resort brands for the local and international market. This continues to reinforce the Peermont reputation of quality accommodation at affordable prices. We look forward to drawing on our expertise and a flexible approach for hotel management contracting services in order to deliver benefits for other owners of properties in Southern Africa. By remaining flexible on services, costs and contracting terms, we are confident in our value proposition to the industry," says Anthony Puttergill, Group CEO of Peermont.
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Happy New Year to everyone!
I am starting this off with a wonderful word from our Lord Jesus, Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope."
Clearly this is telling us that it is only the Lord that gives us a new beginning, hope and a future. There is nothing we can do individually that can replace this awesome promise to us! And a resolution that we half heartedly make as a traditional celebratory event will surely not come close to a replacement. So why do we do this over and over each year?
|My Hope is in the Lord
This is the time of year when everyone has a sigh of relief that the year has ended and a new one begins. They fantasize about things that could have been, should have been and would have been had they just done something differently. They rehash the failures and mistakes of the past year, while making resolutions to usher in the new year. They know full well they won't keep the resolutions but year after year, they keep making them! We all have done this more often than not. This sets us up for even more failure and maybe that's what our adversary really wants us to do....fail. Maybe he wants us to continue to focus on our past because that will surely help us to continue to fail by bringing up all of those incompetent feelings we harbor. While I've stopped this practice many years ago, I know others who have continued this tradition, passing it along to others coming up behind them. There is no harm in traditional celebratory events and something being shared between loved ones and family. What is harmful is the amount of planning and thoughts that go into those practices that become a barrier and a hindrance.
|The Comfort of God
The more we look back at our past mistakes, mishaps and failures, the more we miss out on our successes, joys and our blessings! This is not how the Lord wants us to live our lives, always looking at our past. That's what the devil wants us to do because if he can get us to concentrate on what is wrong with us, what we've failed at and what mistakes we've made, then he succeeds at taking our eyes, thoughts and hearts off of the very one who has given us this life to live in His name! Satan wants us to miss our blessings and to feel totally unworthy of God's unconditional, agape love! The lies of the enemy has killed many of souls and shattered many hopes and dreams! The Lord God loves each of His creations and remember what He said in Genesis 1:27-28, "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (v28) Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." See what God does? He BLESSES us because He loves us that much!
The very reason I've stopped making resolutions is because my future is in God's hands and His alone! He alone will lead me where He wants me to go and He alone will give me all the hope I need for the coming year! I want to be in His will, walking in His light and living for His glory! There was a time, many years ago, when I stayed focused on all the things I needed to change, how I was going to go about those changes and focusing on what a failure I felt like when I rehashed those moments...although fleeting, they felt like they were happening daily. I began listening to those lies and I began to feel like the failure the devil was convincing me I was! Until I heard the voice, the still small voice, of the Lord telling me in Matthew 19:26, "But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." and again in Philippians 4:13, "I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me." I couldn't do anything to change myself. I couldn't do anything to change the way I felt inside and I surely couldn't change my failures. But I could change what I focused on! And so I began to put the focus back on the Lord, on His promises and on His Word and He began to change me, change my feelings of inadequacies and replaced all the lies with His TRUTHS! That's when the Lord spoke to my heart clearly. I had to let all of those failures go, or what I imagined were failures, and lay them at the foot of the cross for Him to handle.
I did look back at this past year, but I wasn't focused on me or my life. Sure, I had a lot of trials and tribulations and am still going through the wilderness! But, my heart was aching for all the tragic events that took place all over the world, from weather related tragedies to wars, to crimes, to the grieving hearts of those who's lost loved ones in those tragedies! I was not focused on what happened to me....I already know those things. It was through the love of God that flows through my heart and in my spirit that I unselfishly set aside the "me" and felt the sorrows of those who have went through much more than I. There were unimaginable horrors, loss, sorrows and unspeakable pain that I could only try to understand. I knew God was there in each event though. He was comforting the brokenhearted. He protected the weak. He sent His angels to give relief. He sent food and clothing. He sent volunteers and money. He laid burdens on the hearts of many to pray for the lost, down trodden, homeless and lonely. I shed many tears through the images that came across the television or the newspapers. The eyes of many sorrows burned into my memory! We all share the same emotions.....we all have the same feelings. We are all human and we were made in God's image! It's imperative to focus on what's important in life because it is LIFE itself that gives meaning to each day we awaken! It means so much that God gave His only begotten Son to die on the cross for all of our sins, so that we may have eternal life! Jesus gave His life for ours!!
- Rom 12:2: "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
- Phil 4:6: "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."
Let's not waste time rehashing the past or we will surely miss some of the most important moments in our own lives! We will miss some of our blessings, stunt our growth spiritually and not be able to move forward. God made us to move forward, to grow in His word, to minister to those He sets before us. The Lord doesn't want us to continue to look in our rear view mirror because the rear view mirror belongs to the devil! I've said many times that the only thing Satan can do is bring up our past, hence the rear view mirror! The Lord God creates the new, give us the hope of a better future, holds to every one of His promises! So focus on Jesus in 2013 and see what He has in store for YOU! Let Him change your heart, your habits, your life! Seek His face and He will make Himself known to you! It's never too late....I invite you to ask Jesus into your heart, repent of your sins and believe on Him as your personal Savior! He's waiting for you......


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Edwards Orchard
Open August through November, come visit our farm this fall to share in our rustic culture and enjoy a taste of the season. Many varieties of apples to taste. Also available, in season, are raspberries, pumpkins, home-made goodies, and our famous apple cider donuts. Take a horse drawn ride out to the orchard to pick your own apples too. Family tradition starts here! There's a petting zoo too.
CITY: Poplar Grove
Sandy Hollow Antique & Flea Market
Rockford's only smoke-free, indoor-outdoor flea market; 60 indoor dealers, air-conditioned/heated. Snack bar featuring all fresh meat and hand-cut fries.
CITY: Rockford
Winnebago County Fairgrounds
Home of Winnebago County Fair, considered one of the best county fairs in the Midwest, plus The Pec Thing, a huge semi-annual flea market and antiques fair with acres of vendors inside and out. Various racing organizations use the Fairgrounds track for racing events.
CITY: Pecatonica
Edgebrook offers local specialty shopping with a unique blend of eclectic boutique shops, excellent restaurants and convenient service-oriented businesses, where there is truly something for everyone. Please visit edgebrookshops.com for a list of merchants and events happening. Owned and operated by Orput Companies, Inc.
CITY: Rockford
Tom Guirl's Beaver Creek Pottery
Find skillfully handmade and kiln-fired pottery to decorate your home.
CITY: Belvidere
J.R. Kortman Center for Design
Upscale shop and gallery, in downtown Rockford.
CITY: Rockford
New Mill Antiques
Two buildings of furniture, glassware, kitchenware and old toys. Located in the town of New Milford.
CITY: Rockford
Edgebrook Farmers Market
Sample the area's best seasonal Farmer's Market. Dozens of local farmers display their highest quality vegetables, fruits, flowers and plants.
CITY: Rockford
Grampy's Antique Store
Offers affordable American and English antiques / curiosities in primitive, country, cottage, Victorian, and traditional styles. Includes furniture, architectural goods, lamps, glassware, stoneware, tools, artwork, etc. Spend a day in Hebron.
CITY: Hebron
McEachran Homestead
The McEachran Homestead is offically recognized by the State of Illinois as a sesquicentennial farm. In addition to preserves and fresh produce, the farm sells its own line of grape and fruit wines.
CITY: Caledonia
Susie's Garden Patch
Find u-pick asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes and pumpkins. Roadside produce includes sweet corn, muskmelons, peppers and pumpkins. Susie's hosts a Strawberry Festival every June.
CITY: Garden Prairie
Antiques at Hillwood Farms
Country and early New England furniture and accessories.
CITY: Pecatonica
Ghost Town Antiques
Country furniture, copper, brass, country accessories, woodenware, smalls, iron and tin. Appointment necessary.
CITY: Pecatonica
CherryVale Mall
Enclosed 2-level regional shopping mall with many external businesses on same property. Many public activities including craft and car shows, community and holiday events. Food court, children's play area, early morning walking. CherryVale Mall is also one of just a few locations with new Tesla Supercharging Stations. These stations are for the all electric-powered Tesla cars to use to charge up the vehicle.
CITY: Cherry Valley
Village Green Home & Garden West
A fascinatingly large garden center with outdoor furniture supplying customers from all over the Midwest. The center also takes care of holiday needs with trees, trims and gifts. Home center, same location, 815.637.8840. There's a Village Green East, too.
CITY: Rockford
Von Bergens Country Market
In fall enjoy farm animals, pumpkin picking, a train ride, seasonal decorations and a craft corner. An annual antique tractor show is held in September.
CITY: Hebron
More Than Delicious Orchard
This seasonal orchard offers more than 80 varieties of apples and pears.
CITY: Woodstock
Homestead Orchard
This u-pick orchard features 14 varieties of apples, plus rhubarb and raspberries. The Homestead's store is located in a century-old horse barn, stocked with homemade honey, candles, dried flowers, dried apple chips and more.
CITY: Woodstock
Lloyd and Leota's Antiques
Antiques and fine furniture, restoration, refinishing, repair, rushing, caning, spindles, and hand stripping. Complete restoration service. Eight shops and restaurants nearby. Spend a day in Hebron.
CITY: Hebron
Country Cabin Orchard and Nursery
This u-pick apple orchard (with eight varieties), also includes a petting zoo, gift shop, wagon rides, pumpkin patch, Christmas trees, donuts, pies, bakery and fall nursery. Open mid-September through December 24.
CITY: Woodstock
Oney's Tree Farm
Enjoy a horse-drawn carriage ride to find your perfect Christmas tree and browse the gift shop.
CITY: Woodstock
Enders Flowers at Edgebrook Shopping Center
Fresh and exotic flowers plus garden gifts.
CITY: Rockford
Gensler Gardens
Gensler Gardens is a family owned operation specilizing in greenhouses and locally grown vegetables.
CITY: Loves Park
Book Stall of Rockford
Book Stall has 12,000 books on history, local history, military, cooking, art, antiques, poetry, fiction, technology, natural history, along with first editions, hard-to-find and antiquarian books. Find larger holdings in military, technology and religion. Book Stall also has a large booth in the East State Antique Mall.
CITY: Rockford


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There are films (usually directed by David Lynch) in which absolutely nothing happens. Nothing. There is no story, no characters, no development. Still, the power of the vision is so strong and has such an artistic imprint that they become masterpieces nonetheless.
Documentaries, as anyone who got a chance to stay for a Q&A here at the IDFA knows, don't work like that. Apart from a few filmmakers and hi-tech nerds who ask which type of camera was used to shoot a movie, questions are never about the process of filmmaking, or about the director and his/her work. The better the documentary, the more curiosity there will be about its what it portrays, or even better about what has happened afterwards - what is happing right now, during the Q&A, to the protagonist of the film.
The problem with reality, indeed, is not only that the control of a director over it is extremely limited, but that it will always and inevitably be more interesting than the director him/herself. And it goes on, far beyond what a documentary can capture. Documentaries are a tricky art, if we want to consider them an art, and one of the branches of the cinematic universe. They are an even trickier form of journalism, if we want to consider them primarily as a source of information - a way of knowing what's going on in the world outside. On one hand, they don't have a tenth of the control that artists and fiction directors have over their work. On the other hand, although they can dig deep into the causes, the background of something, they cannot stay and follow a story forever. They are not journalists who write for a newspaper for 20 years, they are limited in time.
On the plus side, they don't have to cope with the scariest thing directors face in life: writer's block. There are so many stories out there, and reality is so incredible, that no documentarist will ever be able to tell all the stories he/she wants to tackle. And if in the end stories get all the attention to the detriment of the documentarist's work, no big deal: it just means that it's so well told that the stylistic devices disappear behind the strength of the content.
Editorial Nisimazine IDFA 2010 #4
By Marta Musso (Italy), Tuesday 23 November 2010 | Editorials | | [en]


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Book Review: The Last Undercover
By Sandy Amazeen Oct 10, 2008, 6:41 GMT
Bob Hamer is a 26-year veteran of the FBI. In undercover operations Hamer posed as everything from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile. His last undercover assignment-and his hardest-was infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Now, looking back on a career rich in the kind of action that makes for great cinema, Bob tells us of the challenges he endured and overcame as he stared the dark ...more
With twenty-six years as an FBI agent and numerous undercover assignments under his belt, Hamer provides a compelling narrative into the seedy, sleazy world of drugs, stolen goods, gunrunners and more. The focus of the book revolves around Hamers last undercover assignment that extended over four years as he infiltrated and built upon his place in NAMBLA, North American Man Boy Love Association. It was an assignment that called upon all his reserves as Hamer had to feign interest in something (young boys) that was totally abhorrent to his nature. His anchor was the knowledge that someone had to get these sexual predators off the streets.
Threaded throughout accounts of NAMBLA contacts and activities are recollections of other undercover operations starting as a raw, untrained agent attempting to collar a stolen goods trafficker. With the assistance of an understanding and supportive wife, Hamer pulls off a series of successful operations that unfortunately for law enforcement, dont conclude with prison sentences. As interesting and varied as these recounts are, NAMBLA is by far, the most insidious with its carefully protected network of predators, cover stories and hunting grounds.
After reading this account you will never look at a Toys R Us store quite the same way again, most likely you will find yourself watching for chicken hawks. Hamers clean, crisp writing style brings these true crime tales to life in a way only someone who has actually lived them can. This is recommended reading for mystery and true crime fans.
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After the Army, he moved back to South Florida in 2009 with his fiancée, Kim, and their two young kids, so he could take college classes with GI Bill money. In March, Major League Eating held the Corned Beef Sandwich Eating Championship in Palm Beach Gardens. The winner got $5,000. His large-scale swilling skills no longer an occupational preclusion, Wrecking Ball was inspired.
He entered the raffle to be one of the amateur contestants, but he wasn't picked. He attended the St. Patrick's Day event anyway, watching from the bleachers. There, in front of cameras and lights and a crowd of drunken spectators, were the vaunted professional eaters Wrecking Ball had read about and seen on TV. There were Deep Dish and Notorious B-O-B and the Black Widow and Joey Chestnut, the only man to defeat Kobayashi on the Fourth of July.
"Seeing everybody up there on the stage," he says, "I knew I could do it."
In April, he entered the corn-on-the-cob competition in West Palm Beach as an amateur — "We call them table-enders," says Antolini. "But everybody's gotta start somewhere." Though it was his first eating contest, Wrecking Ball took third, buzzing through 28 ears of sweet corn in 12 minutes. Joe LaRue, from Hollywood, won the event, setting a world record with 46 ears.
It was a turning point in Wrecking Ball's life: "I knew this is what I was meant to do."
Consider the pickle. The warped, slimy exterior, often emitting an eye-opening stench. The soft, lighter insides — more than 85 percent liquid, just like humans. Pickles possess a comedic quality. Just saying the word pickle aloud often gets a snicker or a giggle. A pickle is an innuendo, an awkward, difficult situation.
But the pickle endures. Mesopotamians pickled cucumbers more than 4,000 years ago. They're mentioned twice in the Old Testament. Pickle fans include Aristotle, Cleopatra, Napoleon, and George Washington. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
What we call a pickle is generally a cucumber, plucked from the vine, dropped in a vinegar brine, usually involving dill and garlic and a lot of salt, and left to marinate for a few months. It's separated, saturated, and left alone for a long time, not unlike how a lot of competitive eaters are made.
There are three key skills speed eaters must master. There's jaw strength, swallowing capability, and stomach capacity. And certain foods use certain areas more than others. For example, the hot-dog-eating contest — "The Super Bowl of competitive eating," as Antolini calls it — requires a mastery of all three. That's why top-ranked eater Joey Chestnut (who wasn't at the pickle championship) can down 68 dogs and buns in 12 minutes but Hoover struggles to top 40. "I just can't swallow as fast as those guys," Hoover says.
But he can chew really, really hard. And that's what a lot of people figure will factor most in the pickle contest. The previous record for sour pickles is 2.99 pounds in six minutes.
For the pros, Hoover says, capacity won't be an issue. Most of his training has been in jaw strength. Starting eight weeks before an event, Hoover will throw ten or 12 sticks of gum in his mouth and work it into something the size of a racquetball. Then he chews it as fast and hard as possible for a minute. The next day he'll do three or four minutes. Then an easier day, back to one. Then back up to five or six. He models his regimen on marathon preparation.
Wrecking Ball, the vet from Palm Beach Gardens, got his training advice straight from the Black Widow during a brief conversation before an event earlier this year. "She told me to drink a lot of water and eat a lot of lettuce to stretch my stomach," he says. "And a lot of cardio. You need to make your body need those calories." In preparation for this event, Wrecking Ball also ate a jar of about 12 pickles a day for the week leading up to the contest to "get totally used to the taste," he says. "If the taste is gonna stop anybody, it'll be one of my opponents." Before the jalapeño pepper contest in San Antonio, he practiced with the wrong pickled jalapeños for several days and says that's the main reason he ate only 45.
For safety reasons, Major League Eating has a policy discouraging competitors from practicing. "Someone could choke or... who knows what," Wrecking Ball says. Aside from the standard sore jaw, stained teeth, rather unpleasant digestion, and temporary fatigue — "like the feeling you get right after a huge Thanksgiving dinner," Hoover says — the competitors all say there aren't any short-term effects from such gorging — a testament to the durability of the human body, they say.
Competitive eating has, thus far, evaded serious scientific scrutiny, but there are definitely risks. Swallowing pickles that haven't been chewed can inflame the esophagus. Several pounds of them ingested quickly could cause a stomach to rupture. Each pickle contains 750 milligrams of sodium, about half of the daily recommendation — and beating the record would mean the winner will ingest about eight times the daily intake.
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Summer Days: Matt Schwartz makes us miss Polaroid all over again. [Refinery29]
It's in the Air: Smellable chocolate…somehow we don't see this catching on. [NotCot]
Going Grey: In anticipation of HBO's Grey Gardens miniseries, New York Magazine just posted their brilliant 70s piece on the East Hampton estate. It's some of the best stuff they've ever published. [NYMag]
Red, White and Denim: George Will thinks blue jeans are weakening our national resolve. That's funny; we thought it was bowties.[Wonkette]
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Now that Flickr is overtaking the gallery as the primary residence of photography, party photographers may be ready for their moment in the spotlight. Of course, if you're going to be shooting parties, they might as well be the best parties, so New York's scene photographers are first in line.
New York Magazine just introduced us to four up-and-comers currently on the nightlife circuit. Our favorite is Hanuk, who arranged this outright hilarious snap, but between the four of them, there's something for everyone.
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We don't like picking on fellow legitimate journalists—especially when they don't work for the Times—but if you've walked past a newsstand in New York in the past few days, you might have seen this cover about the secret lives of married men. Or, more accurately, THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED MEN!!!
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