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By Jerry Portwood
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Director Steven Soderbergh has made movies about crime capers, sexual inhibitions, and revolutionaries. Along the way, he won an Academy Award for Traffic the same year he was also nominated for Erin Brockovich, the only director in the awards' history to be nominated for two films simultaneously.
Last year, he had an unexpected hit about male strippers, Magic Mike, starring Channing Tatum, and then announced that he would retire from filmmaking to focus on painting. The last film he shot was Behind the Candelabra, a passionate exploration of the relationship between pianist Liberace—known to his friends as "Lee"—and Scott Thorson, played by Oscar winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon (it premieres on HBO May 26).
"I'm not a snob," says Soderbergh. "I like a lot of different kinds of movies—that's why I've made a lot of different kinds of movies. And in some ways, Candelabra was an opportunity to make use of all those hours spent immersed in an attitude and aesthetic that I've wanted to mix up and add my own thing to."
Steven's younger brother, Charley, is gay and has a successful hair salon in Atlanta. We invited the two brothers to sit down for a free-wheeling conversation about childhood, power dynamics in relationships, and the meaning of Dr. Terwilliker.
Charley Soderbergh: Our relationship growing up was very typical of younger and older brother. There wasn't really a dramatic moment around my sexuality—I think my family knew well before I did. As Steven told me, "We were all just waiting for you to come to what we already knew."
Steven Soderbergh: I called him Charlotte.
CS: That's true, he did call me Charlotte.
SS: It was clear immediately that he was different than I was, and a five-year gap at that age is a big gap. We were sharing a room up until we moved to Baton Rouge. I don't think it was until I came back to Louisiana, until Charley got out of high school, that our relationship was sort of re-established.
CS: And during that time, Steven introduced me to two of the highest forms of gay culture: Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve. I believe they were on laserdisc?
Out: Was there a ritual of watching movies together in your family?
SS: Every Christmas we watched the same movie, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, which came out in '53 and was a gigantic flop. It's a cult film. Dad would rent it and get a projector—that's an indication of how invested he was in movies.
CS: Mom and dad went to see it on their first date, or early on. It was a big deal in our family. The lyrics to all the words and the set decorations are all by Dr. Seuss. In the beginning of the film, this young boy is being forced to practice piano by his mother—I believe she's a widow—and he falls asleep and has a dream. And in his fantasy, Dr. Terwilliker—that's Dr. T—his piano instructor in real life, is rounding up all these children for one big performance of the greatest piece of music ever produced. He stands up there in this beautiful violet robe. And I'm realizing, it's very…
Out: Liberace?
SS: He's played by Hans Conried, who is unbelievably hilarious. It's really smart and beautiful and hallucinatory. When you watch it now, you think, This was in a theater 60 years ago? It's really, really stunning.
CS: The two main actors, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, were always to us a slight representation of our parents up onscreen.
SS: When they were younger they looked similar.
CS: My mom, at 83, is still referencing the film. In the fantasy, Dr. Terwilliker has designs on the mother and puts her under his spell. At night, he puts her in the "Lock Me Tight," and he closes these ornate gates with a padlock. She goes dormant behind them and sits at her dressing table in her chiffon. To this day, when I go visit my mother in Florida and it's time to go to bed, I say, "OK, time for me to go next door and put you in your Lock Me Tight," and she follows. It's part of our blood, I think.
Out: Behind the Candelabra is set in the '80s, which is when Steven was living in Louisiana and his first big movie, sex, lies, and videotape, came out. What was that time like for you, Charley?
CS: When sex, lies came out, I was in school to do hair and makeup. Steven later invited me to do a very small movie with him in '96, Gray's Anatomy, with Spalding Gray. I was Spalding's hair, makeup, wardrobe, confidant, lunch partner, chauffeur, dream interpreter, everything. I really enjoyed the experience, but I realized the set-up of making a movie, of how you have to be available at all times, didn't gel with my work.
SS: I think Charley found the perfect thing to do. There's a technical skill that he has—which is the hair—and a social skill. I knew Spalding would like him, and they would get along. He adored Charley. But it's true: There's an enormous amount of downtime, and it takes a certain kind of personality to thrive on that.
CS: There was a scene that they were trying to light in a specific way and it took five hours. And Spalding was falling over in a chair, going, "How much longer?" And I thought, Yeah, how much longer to light a scene? It gave me a new appreciation for what Steven does and how calm and how patient he is. When I went to see him on the set of Candelabra, he was just very focused and very calm. And I was like, "OK, what are we going to do next?"
Out: You got to visit the set?
CS: Yeah, it being his last film, it felt like the right thing to do. I'm really sorry I missed Debbie Reynolds.
SS: She's a trip. Debbie knew Frances Liberace really well, so she had the voice down. She and Lee were in Vegas a lot together, performing, and they would go out afterward. She knew Scott Thorson, so she was really helpful in describing the relationship with his mother. Talking about that era, there's such an undercurrent of melancholy about the whole movie, because of what we know was going on with AIDS. The fact is, if this were happening now, they wouldn't be having a lot of these issues. They could be Elton John; they could be married. Nobody would care.


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Seattle church consignment shop closes after 53 years, $2.4M in good works
Seattle's Cloud 9 consignment shop has closed, but for the church women who ran it and featured "heavenly values" for 53 years, there's a new fundraising opportunity: They plan to sell the building and create a charitable endowment.
Seattle Times staff reporter
In the beginning there were lamps and lawn chairs, dresses and doilies and always a dream of raising money for helping others.
After 53 years selling clothing and household goods on consignment, the Roosevelt area's Cloud 9 is about to begin a new fundraising wave, as development in the area prepares to take off.
Cloud 9 closed last month, and now the church women who ran the shop are putting their building up for sale, with plans to use the proceeds for an endowment.
They've already raised $2.4 million for charity just from their consignment sales — money that has built a bridge, a classroom and wells in Africa and bought a bus for an Episcopal camp, food for Northwest food banks, a hearing service dog and housing for single mothers.
Shuttering the shop at 6516 Roosevelt Way N.E. was not without a twinge of regret for people like Agnes Stipp, 91. She volunteered at the store for 50 years, along with other women from St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Laurelhurst.
The historic building with the black and maroon tile, purchased decades ago by the church women, is for sale for $1.4 million. Located near a future light-rail stop and across the street from a six-story residential and retail development, the property — which, for tax purposes, is appraised by King County at $743,600 — is attracting a number of potential developers, says real-estate agent Tom Perkins.
Cloud 9 started in 1959 when St. Stephen's Ellen Koogle suggested the women turn their annual bazaar into a year-round shop.
Koogle had been successful starting two others — one on the East Coast and another in Texas. So the women found a pink house at the corner of 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 65th Street, called it Cloud 9 — a site of "heavenly values." The purchases were wrapped in pink paper and the volunteers called angels.
The women rented out an apartment in the house for $90 a month to help defray the cost of renting space for the shop.
Three years later, Cloud 9 moved into the old Hollywood Theater on Roosevelt Way, and eventually, with families from the parish donating $1,000 each for a down payment, the women bought the building for $169,000. It was paid for with proceeds from Cloud 9.
The other day, managers Sharon Sack and Marilyn Beringer sorted through the skeletons of racks and shelves left at the shop, hoping to sell the fixtures and eke out the last donation possible.
One-third of all proceeds went to the parish, one-third to the community and one-third to the world, Sack said.
"In this little corner of Seattle, they have truly been able to make a profound impact not just in the community but in the world," said the Rev. Stephanie Parker of St. Stephen's. "This is what the message of Jesus is all about."
Said Stipp, "As I told my children, it's not enough to just be in the world, you must do something for the world."
Cloud 9 used to acquire clothing from Nordstrom because family members belonged to the parish.
Eventually, the shop became so popular there were lines outside the door waiting for it to open, Sack said.
The annual fashion show, where church women modeled clothing from Cloud 9, was an event not to be missed.
Sometimes the latest designer fashions, scarcely worn, were on the Cloud 9 runway.
Women's Wear Daily and Vogue wrote about the shop. And the society pages always carried news of the Cloud 9 benefit teas and lunches.
Over the years, the consignment trends kept changing: prom dresses hot then not. China in and china out. Silver — plate, no; sterling, yes.
Household goods, rather than clothing, have been the mainstay of the shop for years now, Sack said. Customers like Babs Rodieck have been regulars. Rodieck completely decorated her historic Roosevelt-area home from Cloud 9 — from the squashy footstools and antique photos to the rugs and pottery.
"It's because I'm frugal,"she said.
Other lifestyle trends affected Cloud 9 as well.
While the first volunteers at Cloud 9 were mainly the wives of doctors and lawyers who didn't work outside their Laurelhurst homes, today's young women — wealthy or otherwise — usually have careers and less time for volunteering, Sack said.
With the core group of volunteers 60 and older, it was time to sell the shop and use the investment for a new kind of fundraising — one not involving pots, pans or pictures.
"Don't cry because it's over," says a sign in the window. "Smile because it happened."
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With 22 Grand Slam titles to her name, tennis legend Steffi Graf is widely regarded as one of the greatest females to ever play the game. In fact, many of her records and stats trump both male and female players. She was ranked as the World No. 1 player for a total of 377 weeks overall, spending more time at the top than any other player. Graf also holds the distinction of being the only player of either gender to win all four Grand Slam tournaments at least four times, which is a testament to her versatility and ability to adapt to any court surface.
Graf's most successful year on the courts was 1988, where she won all four Grand Slam titles in a single year and also took home and Olympic Gold Medal. From there, Graf showed no signs of slowing down, tearing her way through opponents and dominating Grand Slams for years to come. During this period, she was especially successful on the grass courts of Wimbledon, taking home the women's title again in '89 and then winning three in a row in '91, '92, and '93. Graf suffered and injury in 1994 but came back strong with Wimbledon wins again in '95 and '96 for a total of seven women's singles championships on London's grass.
On July 4, 1992, while fireworks were being set off across the pond, Steffi Graf faced Monica Seles in the finals, hoping to repeat as champion. As two of the top performers of the era in women's tennis, the two had already developed quite a heated rivalry. They'd previously faced off in a number of Grand Slam finals, trading wins back and forth. But at Wimbledon '92, it was all Steffi, as she ousted Seles with a score of 6-2, 6-1.
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Larry David, creator of the successful sitcom "Seinfeld," now stars in the Sunday night show "Curb Your Enthusiasm," a fictional comedy about his life.
In the most recent episode, the elderly David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a painting of Jesus without cleaning it up. A Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the liquid on the picture and believes that Jesus is crying. She calls to her mother, who joins her. They both kneel in prayer.
Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, criticized the episode in a statement.
"Was Larry David always this crude? Would he think it's comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother?" Donohue said, accusing HBO of only liking to "dump on Catholics."
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We hope you have a happy, safe holiday!
If you visit the library's website, you'll find a new feature available - the A to Z Title List. It will tell you what periodicals are available in the library and which databases carry them.
The Thrift Library's new A-Z list also:
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Replacing the shaft on an iron is relatively straightforward. There will be a pin through the neck of the hosel; drive it out with a straight one-eighth-inch pin punch. A soft block of lead makes a nice cushion when you hammer down on a recalcitrant pin. After the pin is removed, and if the head is already loose, you may be able to twist it off. Otherwise you can persuade it with a rubber mallet.
Your rat-tail and flat bastard pay for themselves now. With the former you clean the old glue out of the cavity in the hosel. With the latter you shape the tip of the replacement shaft to fit the cavity. Before you glue it in, align the grain perpendicular to the clubface. "If the grain is parallel to the face," Livingston says, "the shaft can break."
A shaft can be spliced to the neck of a wooden clubhead by making two long flat diagonal cuts and matching the surfaces exactly. Flat bastard is your man here. Then apply Elmer's, fasten the two sides together with strapping tape and tighten hose clamps over the tape. While it dries, grab an iron, break out the steel wool and turn on a ball game.
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Grips are a gray area. Some of the earliest clubs had bare handles. In the eighteenth century, strips of wool were fastened with cord and nails. Late-nineteenth-century grips were sheepskin wound over a listing of wool. After 1900, the fashion was for hard-tanned leather or suedelike gusset leather, with friction tape as the listing, though crepe paper and linen were also used for listing.
Since grips can be expected to wear out faster than any other club component, it's not unusual for a grip to have been replaced on a hickory club that is otherwise original. Hobbyists can generally live with that, if the replacement is faithful to the materials of the time. Those materials are not always easy to come by. Livingston says that most leather skins today are polycoated for use in furniture and clothing and make for slippery grips. He buys "deer-tanned" calfskin, which is processed with oil and comes out slightly tacky.
Livingston spreads the skin over mat board and cuts "across the width, from the back to the belly" with a razor knife and a four-foot steel ruler. If he does it right he gets a twenty-nine-inch strip that steadily tapers from one and five-eighth inches to one and one-fourth inches. Of course, he's a pro. For the rest of us, precut strips from golfforallages.com will suffice.
They do not necessarily have to be brown. Livingston has a 1920s catalog from something called the St. Andrews Golf Co., in which precut calfskin, pigskin and rubber grip strips are offered in red, violet and green in addition to black and brown. When he unwraps old grips that have darkened with age, Livingston often finds similar colors lurking underneath. In that way his work with old hickories' handles is a microcosm of the subtleties of club restoration: You can't judge a grip by its cover.


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You Don't Know Bo: The Legend of Bo Jackson is the final film in the latest burst of ESPN's 30-for-30 project. The documentary debuts Saturday December 8th at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPNHD, immediately following the conclusion of the Heisman Trophy Presentation.
Director Michael Bonfiglio's You Don't Know Bo: The Legend of Bo Jackson makes no bones about perpetuating the mythos of its subject. This is kind of the point, though. Bo Jackson was far from a perfect baseball player; he struck out a tonne and couldn't draw a walk to save his life… but man, could he hammer the ball and make nice plays in the outfield. Bo Jackson spurned professional football when he was selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1986, only to partake in an NFL career as "a hobby" when the Los Angeles Raiders came knocking in 1987. A hobby, "like fishing and hunting" Jackson told a gathering of reporters. Bonfiglio presents Jackson as a super hero, which is an embodiment reinforced by the countless former teammates, coaches, and media members interviewed throughout the film.
The film opens with a quote from the 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and it couldn't encapsulate Bo Jackson's brief athletic career more fittingly: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend". This is the theme that carries the film, as if director Michael Bonfiglio is asking "Why delve into what reams of data say about Jackson as a baseball player? Why dwell on the fact that his NFL career was just 38 games? If our memories portray him as something bigger than the games, is that such a bad thing?"
Bo jumped over a Volkswagon. Bo did a standing back flip in waist deep water. Bo dunked a stick on an outdoor court in eighth grade. Bo killed boars by throwing rocks. Bo leaped over a 40-foot ditch. Bo battled a dozen kids in crab apple fights. Bo jumped 13-feet high. Bo turned down $250,000 from George Steinbrenner. Bo turned down Bear Bryant at Alabama. Bo went over-the-top to lift Auburn over Alabama in the 1982 Iron Bowl. Bo ran the fastest 40 at the NFL combine. Bo told the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to "shove it". Bo hit the longest home run in Kauffman Stadium history. Bo rushed for 221 yards on Monday Night Football. Bo ran over Brian Bosworth on the goal-line. Bo was the most dominant video game character ever created. Bo ran out a grounder to second base in his first MLB at-bat. Bo led off the MLB All-Star Game with a home run. And like that, poof. He's gone.
To me, Bo Jackson was a Sports Illustrated cover from December of 1987. He was an unstoppable playable Nintendo character from Tecmo Bowl; he was baseball and football cards; he was an endless marketing campaign. Bo Knows. To be honest, I didn't see Bo Jackson do anything with my own eyes until I watched him take Rick Reuschel deep to lead off the 1989 MLB All-Star Game. That was all the validation I required. Bo Jackson was the greatest athlete alive.
Of course, Jackson's football career came to a screeching halt during the 1990 playoffs on what appeared to be a routine tackle by Kevin Walker of the Cincinnati Bengals. Jackson, in his own words, popped his dislocated hip back into place while lying on the field in pain. That was it for the former Heisman Trophy winner, his football career was finished. Jackson had suffered avascular necrosis, which led to hip replacement surgery at the age of 28. Jackson returned to baseball briefly in 1991 with the Chicago White Sox, and played parts of two more seasons before retiring.
It's as though the 30-for-30 series was created for the purpose of presenting Bo Jackson's brief run of two-sport superstardom. You Don't Know Bo is a highly polished product. A lot of the shots of empty stadiums and other vestiges of Jackson's greatness almost look Instagrammed. The soundtrack accompanying his great runs with Auburn and the Raiders, his mammoth home runs, and his diving catches is as overbearing as it is enthralling. I wouldn't change any of it. This is how I want to remember Bo Jackson.


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Minorities' next move in politics
University of Washington political science-professor Luis Fraga says there are risks in communities of color feeling too good about providing the margin of victory in elections.
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The demographic changes so prominent in postelection analyses have been Luis Fraga's business for more than two decades.
After the election, I asked the University of Washington political-science professor for his take on election demographics and his sense of where the country might be heading.
He pointed to young politicians who are making the motto e pluribus unum work. The most productive policy conversations ahead, Fraga said, will be about our linked fate and common destiny.
Fraga knows the territory well. He is the director of the Diversity Research Institute. And outside the UW he's vice president of the American Political Science Association, and active in a number of Latino-American organizations. He was appointed to the president's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics last year.
Fraga said it has been apparent for some time that the growth in Asian-American and Latino populations, their political leanings and the loyalty of African-American Democrats were going to converge and transform national politics.
"The person who first understood that was George W. Bush in his 2000 campaign in which he positioned himself as a compassionate conservative," Fraga said. Bush didn't just ask for Latino votes, he made his relationship to the Hispanic community part of his identity.
"The Democrats didn't get that until (Barack) Obama," Fraga said. John Kerry and then Al Gore went about business as usual — I'm a Democrat. Vote for me.
Obama's message, delivered by local supporters, was that your votes are important, but so are your policy needs. Obama, like other modern Democratic presidential candidates, relied on a coalition of voters, the majority of whom are white progressives. The importance of minority voters to that coalition has grown with the numbers.
Fraga said there are risks in communities of color feeling too good about providing the margin of victory.
He worries Latinos may feel so comfortable in their role that they'll become captives of one party and be taken for granted. As has happened often with black people, their issues would be on the Democrats' agenda but not addressed in any systemic way. And Republicans who don't see any chance of capturing their votes wouldn't be interested in Latino issues.
Second is the complacency that could come from having someone in office you identify with. The symbolism could trump the urge to push for action.
Third, empowered Latinos might become even more a focus of attacks by reactionaries.
The remaking of the electorate will continue, but the question of what that will mean in actual policy remains. Immigration reform will be a test of that meaning, Fraga said.
And here's the kicker. "The next stage of the game is entirely in the hands of the leadership of the Republican Party," Fraga said. "That's the irony. The folks most able to allow that shift to have policy influence have virtually no incentive to do it." Republicans who might change would put themselves at risk of losing their base to a more conservative challenger.
But leaders of African-American, Latino, Asian-American and progressive communities can make compromise more acceptable.
Fraga suggested a shift in framing from seeking rights to building community. "In helping those communities with tremendous challenges advance, we are building a stronger country," he said.
"How critical is it to employers to have an educated community to bring their companies into? How important is it for schools to have students coming in with better nutrition and health?"
Fraga points to two of his former students who get it. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and his twin brother, U.S. Rep.-elect Joaquin Castro, both took Fraga's urban-politics class when they were students at Stanford University.
As mayor, Castro put an initiative on the ballot to add one-eighth of a cent to the sales tax to pay for prekindergarten for all children in the city. He got broad support, and it passed Tuesday. It was a policy targeted at the poorest children, but Castro's arguments for it were based on the benefit to the whole city.
Fraga hopes that just as a party as diverse as the Democrats can work together to get votes, a diverse country can unite to make policies that benefit the whole.
There is precedent for that in 13 very different colonies coming together for the common good.
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Features By Christopher Campbell on December 1, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThis week was the third anniversary of Leslie Nielsen's death, which also marked the definite end of the most brilliant eras in movie spoof history. The period didn't begin with his induction into the genre, and he certainly helped usher in a wave of weak entries (he even starred in the first movie written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer), but he is still the actor most associated with these kinds of comedies, mainly due to his collaborations with the trio of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. Following his scene-stealing work in their classic Airplane!, they cast him as the lead on a short-lived TV series called Police Squad!. After it was quickly canceled, Nielsen spent time with serious parts in films and TV series before being brought back for the movie spin-off, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!. Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the movie's theatrical release, when it opened at #1 before going on to be among the top-ten grossers that debuted in 1988 (about half its take came following the new year). The success of this action movie parody led to sequels of diminishing quality, but the brand is in its entirety still one of the more celebrated comedy franchises. And this initial installment is still considered one of the top three favorite spoof movies of all time. To adequately honor all its hilarity would be difficult here, as the gags and jokes in The Naked Gun are so abundant, not […]
Comparing The Indie Movies of Summer 2013 to Criterion Favorites
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on August 8, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThere are many reasons to compare and contrast current films with historical ones. One is to attempt to explain why some films have been spotlighted in place of a possible litany similar films. Another is to show the machinations of cinematic influence, or explore the persistence of repeated narratives throughout film history. And yet another is because it's damn fun. Here at Criterion Files, we have (on a not-at-all-regular basis) compared recent films with relevant counterparts canonized in the cinephilic annals of the Criterion collection, including two Lincoln biopics, two iconic exercises of the close-up, and the overwhelming similarities between Pierrot le Fou and a certain beloved Wes Anderson film. But rarely has a crop of films released in a single season echoed the specific work of classic counterparts than the summer of 2013.
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Features By FSR Staff on September 10, 2012 | Be the First To CommentLooking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius are using the Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the greatest movies of all time. Every week, they'll discuss another entry in the list, dissecting old favorites from odd angles, discovering movies they haven't seen before and asking you to join in on the conversation. Of course it helps if you've seen the movie because there will be plenty of spoilers. This week, they celebrate the anti-war film that came right before war and successfully caused a riot with satire alone. What rules for life can we learn from Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game?
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If you're tired of performing menial computer tasks over and over again, WinAutomation can help cure your RSI blues. Create editable macros that perform common computer jobs on your PC.
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Once you get the feel of creating new jobs and defining parameters through the drag-and-drop interface of the job editor, it's easy to create basic processes, but there's still a steep learning curve before you'll be able to perform advanced automation tricks. One simple example of how WinAutomation can work--we created a job to track all of the file information about applicant resumes in a WinAutomation data table, then rename those files, and move them to a new folder. We were even able to display that file information in a pop-up window when the job runs.
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Like I posted in the other thread, if it doesn't support the HR's RF codes, then its useless to me.
EDIT: could Harmony come out with an adapter "dongle", like the PS3, to plug into the USB port on the back of the HR's in order to take advantage of RF and IR at the same time, like I described above?
why are you assuming that it does not? Harmony has always supported those devices in the past...if it adds RF to the remote, why would it exclude the HRs?


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A year or so ago I was asked to investigate a call-screening system for our four FM radio stations. At that time we spent many hundreds of dollars on what then was the top-of-the-line call-screening software. After many frustrations with installation, reliability and complex user interfaces, the idea of electronic call screening appeared to be more trouble than it was worth for our staff. What we really needed was a simple, user-friendly piece of software. It was at this time that we discovered Condron Broadcast Engineering's Call Screener for Windows.
The Call Screener software consists of two self-installing executables. One executable runs on the computer in the air studio for the show host, the other executable runs on the computer for the call screener. The two computers communicate with one another over TCP/IP. The air studio computer connects to a telephone hybrid via a serial port. With an existing infrastructure, setup can take as little as 10 minutes.
As phone calls are received the software tracks the status of each phone line. After calls are screened, short descriptions can be typed into corresponding fields next to each phone line. These descriptions, as well as a timer will stay attached with the caller until the call is dropped. The person screening the calls and the host can communicate immediately with an instant messaging text box at the bottom of each screen. This screen flashes brightly in the middle of the screen to get the other person's attention. Other features include customizable fonts and text sizes to make caller information easy to read, next and busy buttons that mimic the controls on the hybrid's control surface, as well as a total calls received counter.
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In a world of sitting on hold for hours for technical support, it was a nice surprise to find out that the author of Call Screener for Windows, Chuck Condron, handles all technical support himself. The times I've had questions, Condron has been more than gracious with his time and help. He is eager to hear suggestions. Some suggestions have appeared as new features in software updates. One feature I currently hope to see emerge is the ability for more than one remote computer to connect to the host at a time.
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Just because your parents walk around wearing pants that go up past their bellybuttons, have a one-drink limit, and go to bed at 10pm doesn't mean they weren't cool once. My dad, who is now balding and has a white beard, was a hardcore hippie back in the day, with red hair that was so long it touched the tops of his tight bellbottoms. This blog, "My Parents Were Awesome," shows pics of people's parents looking young, hip and, dare I say, trendy! It reminds us that yeah, the 'rents were young once, too. A few of our fave pics, after the jump. Keep reading »
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Gary Oldman hilariously dramatizes the autobiography of R. Kelly in this Jimmy Kimmel 'Soulacoaster' skit. Though viral videos such as this one are becoming a commonality on the web, nobody seems to do them as well the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The late night host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel seems to be the king of parody, and rightfully so.
In this sketch, renowned English actor Gary Oldman reads out 'Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me' from legendary musician R. Kelly knowns for infamous songs such as 'Bump N' Grind' and 'Feelin' On Your Booty.' Oldman is filled with a bone-chilling intensity and, as he proclaims lines such as "just wanted to holler at you" or "you feel me," it is hard not to burst out into laughter. If Oldman were hired to be the narrator on the audiobook, there would no stopping the autobiography from becoming a top seller.


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ISFAHAN iii. POPULATION (2) Isfahan Province
Habibollah Zanjani
In terms of population distribution, the sub-provinces of Isfahan (with more than 1.6 million), Kāšān, and Najafabād (with more than 300,000) were the most populated, while the sub-provinces of Naṭanz, Fereydunšahr, and Ardestān were the least populated with populations of less than 50,000 persons.
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ISFAHAN iii. POPULATION (3) Isfahan City
Habibollah Zanjani
The city of Isfahan, as the capital of Isfahan Province, accounted, in 1996, for about 32.2 percent of the total population of the province and 43.4 percent of its urban population. Isfahan is also the third most populated city in the country, behind Tehran and Mashad.
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ISFAHAN iv. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD
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The Arab geographers report that the Sasanian city of Isfahan comprised two adjoining towns: Jayy, the fortified town and province center and, two miles (mil) away, Yahudiya, a Jewish settlement.
ISFAHAN v. LOCAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
Isfahan is exceptional in the number and variety of works of local historiography; no other Persian city has attracted nearly as many such works.
ISFAHAN vi. MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Hossein Kamaly
The history of Isfahan prior to the city's efflorescence in the 17th century often traced alternating cycles of urbanization and de-urbanization.
ISFAHAN vii. SAFAVID PERIOD
Masashi Haneda and Rudi Matthee
Isfahan came under Safavid rule in 1503 following Shah Esmāʿil's defeat of Solṭān Morād, the Āq Qoyunlu ruler of Erāq-e ʿAjam, near Hamadān.
ISFAHAN viii. QAJAR PERIOD
Heidi Walcher
The historical changes affecting the Isfahan of this period included loss of its status as the royal capital and its transformation into a major provincial city.
Isfahan ix. THE PAHLAVI PERIOD AND THE POST-REVOLUTION ERA
Habib Borjian
In the process of consolidating his power in Isfahan, Reza Shah managed to constrain two powerful social groups: the Shiʿite clergy and the Baḵtiāri tribesmen.
ISFAHAN x. MONUMENTS
Sussan Babaie with Robert Haug
According to the French traveler Jean Chardin, in the late 17th century Isfahan housed some 162 mosques, 48 theological colleges (madrasa), 1,802 caravansaries, and 273 bathhouses.
Isfahan x. MONUMENTS (1) A Historical Survey
Sussan Babaie with Robert Haug
Isfahan's monuments developed, in the Islamic era: first, in the early medieval period under the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate and Buyid patronage. Many of the extant monuments of Isfahan, however, date to two periods in history when the city served as the capital of the ruling dynasties of the Great Saljuqs (1040-1194) and the Safavids (1501-1722).
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We have a townhouse for sale that was rented out for 10 years to the same elderly couple. We are finding that we can't seem to get rid of the old cooking odors. Replacing the carpeting, padding, and repainting the entire place seemed to help: but there is still a lingering odor of spices or maybe it's grease. The husband was a smoker but it really doesn't smell like smoke (anymore).
We open the windows every time we are over there working but can't leave them open all the time due to rain. We bought some gel air freshener in a jar but it did not seem to have any effect. I thought of liberally sprinkling the whole kitchen with baking soda, inside cabinets, floor, behind the stove, etc., then vacuuming it up after a few days, not sure if that would be effective. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. |
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I doubt that the baking soda is going to help - won't hurt, but probably won't help. If it is a grease smell, have you checked to see whether there is a grease trap or filter around the stove that needs to be cleaned or changed? If you have cleaned everything there is to clean, maybe you just need to replace the odor with something more pleasant. Find a plug in scent that you like - like the Glade plug-ins - and put one in each room. Leave them there for a couple days, remove them, and see what you are left with. Or have you tried spraying Ozium throughout the townhouse? |
There are several natural deodorizers you could try-place one or more of these things in bowls and place near the source of the odor 1.dry coffee grounds 2. vinegar 3. sliced lemons and limes 4. activated charcoal (available in pet stores). Then again, fresh air and sunshine are my favorite deodorizers. |
you really need to find the source of the lingering odor. If he was a smoker, take down the curtains and draperies. Cleaning the carpet should help. If it's grease, -- anything and everything in the kitchen should be cleaned. If it's "spices" -- air it out -- open the windows! Unless it's buried beneath the floor (just kidding), fresh air and removal will work for you. Odor cover-ups will not. |
You may want to try Odaban. You can find it Wal-Mart, usually on the same isle as Frebreeze. It works great at knocking out odors and it kills lots of germs too. |
Here is a link that might be useful: odaban
What about inside the closets? A neighboring house was owned by smokers and the smell is still in the closets, they weren't painted. Have you cleaned the entire kitchen really well? |
You may want to bring in an air purifier. Also, change the filter on the furnace. Clean with products that don't have any scents and you will see if you are getting rid of the smell. Fresh ground coffee beans should be put in bowls around the house to help remove the odors. Check the filter in the kitchen vent. Also, vacuum the coils on the fridge because that air gets blown back in the home. You may also consider getting your ducts cleaned. Good luck! |
I use bowls of vinegar to deodorize. If you would like you can add some essential oil for a pleasant smell. It took the stink out of my teenage son's room (you don't even want to know!) and the cigarette smoke odor out of the car. It should help with your problem also. |
Thanks for the ideas! There are no window treatments: no fabric anything. It has now been fully painted including the ceiling and inside the closets. The painter used Kilz on everything first. He also commented on the smell so we cleaned out all the ducts. The carpeting was replaced last week. Under the new padding the floor is concrete, so at least it's not a wood subfloor. But it still smells! It doesn't smell specifically like smoke anymore, it's an odor that you can't quite identify, maybe part grease/part spices/part smoke. We have now scrubbed everything we can find including inside and outside all cabinets. The kitchen is now the least smelly. We replaced the range hood. It's now strongest in the living room and main bedroom. It is supposed to be sunny the next few days so we will try leaving all the windows open plus the other suggestions. It was rainy and damp the whole time we were working on this so maybe the odors were just lingering. |
- Posted by sheilajoyce (My Page) on Tue, May 19, 09 at 17:22
Open the windows and turn on the furnace fan without heat and be sure the filter is a new one. Then maybe change it again when you are done. That should help get the air circulating and blown outside. Or bring some fans to pull the air out the widows. Sounds like you have done a lot to get rid of that odor. |
- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Tue, May 26, 09 at 16:53
sometimes, it's just a matter of wearing it out... newspaper crumpled in the drawers and changed ever day or two, activated charcoal, and the 'odor magnet' bags of pumice... spraying the whole place down with a solution of water, oxyclean (or nature's miracle, which breaks down more than just pet odors), and an 'astringent' essential oil (rosemary is my favorite, tea tree, fir, balsam, and thyme also work) - you'd be amazed what funk a concrete slab can hold! we actually sprinkled ground clove all over the place when we first bought our house - it smelled like its old people moved away a year ago, which they had... whatever you do? avoid the temptation to use air fresheners, or artificial scents... the last thing you want is 'powder-fresh funk' - not to mention that the last thing we need is more junk in our lungs. |
I think we finally have it conquered. (knock on wood!) We had a period of warm sunny weather and kept the windows open for 5 days and nights running. I put fans in all the windows. We sprayed Odo-Ban behind all appliances we could not pull out and every crevice we could find. I put a bowl of white vinegar in every room, 2 in some rooms, with a few drops of lavender oil in each. I would not have thought that you could smell the oil, but I guess as the vinegar evaporated, it volatilized the oil. It was subtle, but pleasant. I think the vinegar was what finally did it. (Thanks, ebear 1271!) I've got to remember that! When workers came in I mentioned the bowls of vinegar so they would know what they were, and was surprised they all knew about it. Expecting a few more days of rain now, we had to close the windows again. I am hoping the odor does not reappear! Thanks for all the suggestions! I have learned a lot. |
You mentioned the appliances but did you clean the kitchen range, taking it apart as far as you could? Underneath the stove top can harbor some pretty bad stuff as far as grease. So can the oven if things had baked over. |
I was wondering how steam could be useful…when there is no furniture or carpets! Seemed fishy to me! H'mmm: How do you remove a fishy odor from a post??? One if the last things we did was to remove/unscrew everything possible from the stove and clean them again: I took them all home and "Easy-offed" them several times. That did help. At this point we have done all we can. It's now on the market: a few people have seen it but it's early days yet to hope for a sale. When the windows are closed again there is still a whiff of something, but you stop noticing after a minute inside. It seems more stake than anything else. We hope people will just think it is the odor from being closed up. |
- Posted by florabelle1 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 24, 09 at 6:55
Depends on where the odor is coming from, as to what cleaning method/products you should use. If there are "soft" furnishings still in there, such as curtains and/or drapes, carepting, rugs, they will have captured all the odors. If carpet, then steam-cleaning is the only answer. I do not and never will use any solutions for cleaning carpeting that are not enzyme-based. The enzymes break down all the odors and organic materials (like body wastes, food), pet stains, and also degrease. I swear by Simple Solution. I have been using it for 20 years or so. I mix it 1:1 with a steam-cleaner solution that is found at Sears under their own brand. Both are low-sudsing and virtually odorless. You can also mix in some white vinegar. It is excellent at taking out odors. Just add them altogther to the solution tank of a steam cleaner. I have a Bissell ProHeat and all togther they work miracles. You can read about Simple Solution here: http://www.redhotcarpetcleaning.com/en-us/p_13.html You can buy Simple Solution at Petco and probably PetSmart. I order online by the gallon. It's not expensive. I've bred & raised large dogs for all that time and I would not use anything else for my carpeting and upholstered furniture. |
As I have said several times before, there are NO soft furnishings of any kind left in the townhouse. All were removed. We cannot trace any of the odor to its source. Our former tenant was a heavy smoker. It is smoke, not pets. Maybe a touch of cooking odor (curry). All I can think is that it penetrated the walls and is now seeping out. The painter scrubbed all surfaces, walls and trim, used both Kilz and an odor killing paint. It has not been enough. Even the kitchen cabinets were stripped. The kitchen has no cooking odor at all now: but it must have traveled out to the hall walls and sunk in there. After all we did, with the windows open every day for 4 weeks while we were working there, we thought it was better. We did almost everything suggested in the first 10 posts. Vinegar, essential oils, etc. We have bought every odor killer and air freshener there is in the stores. But as soon as the windows were closed the smell came back. The front door opens into a kind of bottleneck that seems to be the smelliest. There is no air circulation there at all. Of course that is the first impression any prospective buyer has who walks in. Once you walk in and are there for a few minutes you can't smell anything anymore. But first impressions matter and buyers can afford to be very picky right now. The agent has brought a few people in and has said that everyone comments on the stink. If the windows are open again for a while the smell gets better, but since we don't live there, we can't come over and close the windows every time it rains. Since the unit is vacant and totally bare, putting a fan in that dead air zone would be very obvious. I made some flower "arrangements" with eucalyptus and we put them in there. Hopefully that will look just like we are trying to make it look less bare, not covering up odors. I would never have dreamed that the stench from smoking would be so impossible to remove. |
- Posted by florabelle1 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 24, 09 at 13:17
Once nicotine gets into the walls & ceilings it's impossible to get the odor and even the nicotine itself out. I bought a house that is now nearly 60 years old. It had had only one owner before I bought it and the entire immediate family smoked (2 adults and one grown kid) for the whole time they lived here. The nicotine would actually "bleed" from the walls and ceilings if there was any steam at all in the house. Which there was - in the bathroom, the laundry room and when I would steam clean the carpets. Brown nicotine would leach out of the walls and seep down them, leaving stains. The ceiling in the bathroom would ooze yellow-brown nicotine. And then of course there was the smell. I washed the walls repeatedly with bleach water. Then I washed with TSP. I did this over the course of years. I did not use Kilz but I should have, but I have bad shoulder joints and I just couldn't do that physically all over the house. I painted the living room & hall, soon after washing the walls with TSP. I painted the kitchen and laundry room. The living room ceiling had to be replaced due to water damage from the attic, so that took care of one ceiling. The horrendous, c. 1960s bathroom was gutted completely back to the studs and remodeled this past winter. So that took care of the source of the smell & drippage in the bathroom. I wish I had encouraging news for you but the only thing I can think of is for you to wash all the walls and ceilings with bleach water, apply Kilz II again, and repaint everywhere. You won't get all the nicotine out but you will have it as deodorized as you can get it and new paint will "seal" what's left behind, keeping the smell and the seepage from beeding through. I would never live in another house that has been smoked in, or buy a used car from a smoker. |
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A third-generation printer, Dustin LeFebvre delivers his vision for Specialty Print Communications as EVP, Marketing through strategy, planning and new product development. With a rich background ranging from sales and marketing to operations, quality control and procurement, Dustin takes a wide-angle approach to SPC
Go to a Whole Foods and try to get through the parking lot without encountering a hybrid car.
I dare you.
Hybrid comes from the Latin hybrida, or cross-bred animal. It was first used around the turn of the 17th century in connection with breakthroughs in biology. The use of the word has since pushed into electrical power generation, electronics, and so much more.
Today, hybrid is understood to be the mashup of almost anything. It reflects the nature of the world today—multitasking, multipurpose, multifaceted. Mashups such as Web apps combine data and functionality from multiple sources to deliver new services. We use them every day and recognize them as GPS devices, news aggregators, and Augmented Reality. They represent new products, but not necessarily new technology.
There are very few genuinely new ideas, but the lateral application of existing concepts applied differently can lead to breakthrough innovations. In 2003, Phil Kotler, the "father" of modern marketing, along with Fernando Trias de Bes formalized this process with the release of "Lateral Marketing: New Techniques for Finding Breakthrough Ideas." They established a framework "that offers a high chance of creating new categories or markets."
In case you're not a reader, Lateral Marketing focuses on leveraging existing customers to identify and satisfy additional needs, or adding functionality to existing products to generate new applications. In the latter version, new products can be derived from current products.
Have you heard of many new categories or markets developed for print lately? Truly innovative thinking may not be commonplace in our industry, but there have been a few examples.
A couple of years ago, Kodak released the Prosper S10 imaging heads. The new, 600 dpi resolution enabled high-quality reproduction of halftones and images, far beyond the reach of previous 240 dpi technology. At SPC, the new imaging heads were not an option, as a chorus of existing clients insisted on the higher resolution.
What came next at SPC, and at a number of other in-line direct mail printers, is a lateral application that resulted in a genuinely fresh and valuable combination of technologies that contribute more efficient and effective direct marketing programs for the marketers who are forward-thinking enough to take advantage of them.
Four-color hybrid imaging delivers the much-anticipated, long-awaited combination of data-driven, variable imagery on an affordable, scalable platform. It achieves this by combining the operational efficiencies and functionality of complex, in-line web printing with the variability of full-color digital printing. So, when someone asks you what kind of new thinking categories or technologies have been developed for print lately, you can answer "four-color hybrid imaging."
For years, color inkjet has provided the buzz in our industry, and technology providers have long been working to improve quality and lower price points to yield commercially viable products. Applications such as proofing and wide-format signage were faster to come, but high-speed, high-volume applications such as direct mail have posed a more challenging hurdle.
If you've received an e-mail from someone at Kodak lately, you may recognize the tag line being used at the bottom of their e-mails. It asks, "Did you know we can make your offset press DIGITAL?" Kodak didn't develop the application, but adapted their communications to printers' innovative mashup of their technology.
Four-color hybrid imaging isn't going to save printing, but it represents the requisite forward-thinking that will create new applications and keep print relevant as most markets shrink. During the last 40 years, print consumption per capita in real dollars has fallen by 50 percent. In order to compete with electronic media and new channels, we're going to have to think laterally and mash things up to drive new markets and applications.
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Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine and released in March 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360.[3] In March 2006, 4A Games announced a partnership with Glukhovsky to collaborate on the game.[4] The game was announced at the 2009 Games Convention in Leipzig;[5] a first trailer came along with the announcement.[6] A sequel was announced, currently titled Metro: Last Light.
This is another really intensive game and while we do fall short of the 60 FPS number we want at both resolutions for solid gameplay, you can see we're not too far away at 1680 x 1050. If we're able to see similar OC success on this model we should get the boost we need to break that 60 FPS barrier with ease.


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Saturday, March 17:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
ICBA is encouraging all members to help empower those in need by spending the day with Honolulu Habitat for Humanity. Founded on the concept of partnership housing, the concept centers on people in need of adequate shelter working directly with volunteers to build simple, decent homes. Habitat for Humanity Honolulu's mission is to eliminate poverty housing in O'ahu by building decent, affordable homes for working families in their community. Each year hundreds of volunteers help to build homes.
We invite all ICBA members and non-members to join together in partnership with local families to help construct homes for families in need.
The homes built are sold to families in need at no-profit with no-interest loans. The families complete a "sweat equity" requirement in addition to paying for their homes, working side-by-side with sponsors and volunteers to help build their own home and other Honolulu Habitat homes. Additionally, the families complete 60 hours of classroom work, plus homework, training to be good homeowners and learning financial management skills. At the end of the day, ICBA volunteers will present a check to Honolulu Habitat representatives.
Space is limited so please sign up early to be part of this important and impactful project. Breakfast, lunch and transportation will be provided. Please note that volunteers must be at least 18 years old and must wear closed toe shoes. No construction skills are necessary since on-site training is provided.
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Baptist Health Paducah addiction symposium features KASPER director
Nationally-known experts on addiction and compulsive behaviors, including the KASPER manager of Kentucky's drug reporting system, will speak at a symposium for healthcare professionals and educators Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Baptist Heart Center Auditorium.
The event will be from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., with registration at 7:30 a.m. The fee is $30, including lunch. Space is limited, so register by Oct. 25 by phoning (270) 575-2723.
Invited are physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, licensed professional counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, substance abuse counselors, licensed social workers, pharmacists and clergy. Teachers and school counselors also are encouraged to attend. Continuing Medical Education credit hours are available for several professions.
This is the sixth year for the symposium, moderated by Patrick Withrow, M.D., retired cardiologist and former chief medical officer of Baptist Health Paducah.
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- "KASPER," by David R. Hopkins, program manager of KASPER (Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting) system within the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. He is responsible for KASPER training, managing the federal Prescription Drug Monitoring grants that support the program and for analysis and research of KASPER data.
- "Chemical Dependency in the Older Adult Patient," by Terry L. Alley, M.D., medical director of the Health Care Professionals Program at Cumberland Heights in Nashville. He has limited his practice to addiction medicine since 1985.
- "Families…Enablers or Supporters" by Tennie McCarty, founder and CEO of Shades of Hope, a treatment center for multiple addictions, including eating disorders, alcoholism, chemical dependency, sexual addiction, self-injury histories and co-dependency, in Buffalo Gap, Texas. She was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network's program, "Addicted to Food."
- "The Adolescent Brain: Alcohol, Tobacco and OTC Drug Use," by Brian Fingerson, Pharm.D., adjunct assistant professor at the University of Kentucky Colleges of Pharmacy and Dentistry, Sullivan University College of Pharmacy and others. He is president of Kentucky Professional Recovery Network, a company formed to educate health care professionals about chemical dependency.
- "Experiential Somatic Therapy: A Model of Treating Process Addiction and Related Trauma," by Kent D. Fisher and Michelle Rappaport. Fisher holds a master's degree in substance abuse counseling from the University of Louisiana and has more than 20 years' experience in treating addiction, trauma, codependency and related disorders. Rappaport holds a master's degree in substance abuse counseling from University of Louisiana at Monroe and has more than 20 years' experience in the addiction/mental health field.


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Silbaugh, Joseph K. "Joe" Age 93, a resident of Naperville, IL since 2012, formerly of Dayton, OH, passed away Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL. He was born October 14, 1919 in Delavan, WI. Beloved husband of Ruth (nee Blackburn) Silbaugh, whom he married June 19, 1943; loving father of Bonnie (Thomas) Grossman of Bolingbrook, IL, Donna (Craig) Smith of Xenia, OH, Sandra (Edward) Picardi of Sturgis, SD and Cindy (John) Nixdorf of Naperville; adored grandfather of Joseph Grossman, Ann (Pastor Chet) Evans and Jennifer (Jeremy) Witte, April (Devin) Sadowski, Kirk Smith and Derek Smith, John George (Beth) Nixdorf, Sarah Nixdorf, Abigail (Nathan) Moore, Samuel Nixdorf and Joshua Nixdorf; cherished great-grandfather of Josiah, Matthew, Luke, Jason, Nathaniel and Mira; devoted son of the late Asher and Mollie Silbaugh; fond uncle of many. Joseph served with the U.S. Army Air Force in North Africa and Italy during
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