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Members: Sabine Heusler-Schick & Kenny Schick
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I know I havn't written for a while... so much going on too... We just did a little show that was so much fun at the Blue Rock Shoot and the response was so good that it filled me with happy so we'll try to fit in some more shows before the end of the year. Halloween is coming up - our favorite time and there are a few things happening then that still need to be confirmed...
I've been writing new songs which we will release as we go along once they are finished... see what you think of them, make some videos that kinda thing... then the new album will be worked on and we're thinking of releasing it with a little book of ghost stories... IF anyone is interested.
I still have T'shirts available too...(different from the ones listed here on Reverbnation site) in all sizes and men's and women's styles... the text is silver (cool right) and they are black (dah) okay we also have some white men's ones because they made a mistake and we got them for free so you can also have those for free if ya want them :) Let me check on the sizes there... if you write you are interested send me a note! :)
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- I find so many lovely images and stories there... (yes I've become obsessed - well its like looking through magazines so much fun). Look at this photo and tell me you don't see the song 'Shipwreck' eh.... spooky right!
We LOVE that you've been spreading the love to your friends and family about
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and LIKING IT is super great! Going to our webpage and signing up on our email is super great! and certainly getting our CDs is super super great! - our goal is to tour europe soon so anyone you know there would be greater than great. We want to do this all on our own too... no signups to recording companies, no management, just us and YOU!!!
Meanwhile we'll keep ghost catching and playing music - we pretty much rehearse everyday and its been so fun - and working hard at our business. Kenny is producing so much good music right now its crazy... he's on some kind of roll. There is some magic coming out of his studio for sure!
and I've been pretty busy working on graphics for all kinds of bands but also the
California Nature Center
- some amazingly cool people that build sustainable and passive solar houses and protect native flora and fauna! So proud to be working with them on all they do.
Kenny Schick and ArtemesiaBlack has been getting a lot of airplay all over the world now actually so thats been just wonderful that the kids are out there on their own :)
(spain) AND KWTF - USA / California AND 88.1 FM, KWTF Bodega Bay,
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Kenny Schick is currently at #1 on the Reverbnation charts AND his songs have been on
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AND his song 'Black and Blue' will be on the CD they are producing which will go on the road and be available to college students which is sooooo awesome!
Now remember no matter what happens in your day - YOU are awesome... and ... we love you long time!
Sabine & Kenny
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two kinds of people who get into Paradise Falls. Slaves and Slavers "— GrouseSlavers play a fairly large role in Fallout 3. Paradise Falls is a slaver compound, and several quests feature slavery as either major or minor elements, most notably Head of State and its association to slavery and Abraham Lincoln's role as the 'Great Emancipator.' Additionally, the Lone Wanderer can capture people to sell them to slavers. The Lone Wanderer can even buy a slave, Clover, who will then serve the player as a bodyguard. The player does not have the option of activating the explosive collar of Clover. The number of slaves present compared to the number of slavers is remarkably low, meaning that the slaves are being shipped off somewhere. It is revealed by Wernher that many of these slaves are being shipped off to work at The Pitt in the DLC of the same name.
If you start bringing slaves to Paradise Falls you may trigger a random encounter with a group of slavers that can't keep up with the number of slaves they have to bring to Eulogy Jones, so they try to kill you to eliminate the competition.
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Slavers are generally not hostile to the player as long as you don't harm them or provoke them with hostile dialogue responses, however attacking them can make the Paradise Falls slavers permanently turn against the player's character. The exception to this is that a few jealous slavers may randomly attack the Lone Wanderer for making them look bad. In this case the Paradise Falls slavers will not act as if they ever heard of the slavers being killed.
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Alehouse: see Behind The Wall.
The Argyll
Bar featured some bands in 1977, and was known as Silk's
Lounge in 1984 - 1985. Davy Waugh ran The Happening Club here between 1989
and 1995, with two / three bands every Friday night. After this it changed it's
name to Finn MacCools (1997 - 1998), with bands booking
themselves, and then Fat Chewsdays in 2000 - 2001.
In 2001 bands were promoted by Eskimo Promotions under the name of "Huskies".
In the 2000's, under the name of Jack's Bar, there
was a bit of regular activity on the live front, however it seems to have died
down now. The pub has reverted to the name Argyll's.
had bands between 1996 and 1997.
It then re-opened as the Phoenix Bar, and
had some live music in 2006.
The Barrelhouse:
see the 1066 Lounge.
Bar saw the occasional
band play in 1987 promoted by Eddie McKenzie, and again in 1996 as Smith's,
promoted by Davy Waugh. As Smith's, it now hosts the Falkirk Folk Club on a Thursday night.
The Wall was never really interested in live bands until
they opened their upstairs extension / sports bar, Eglesbrech
in 1994. Since then they have had a couple of bands every week, usually doing
cover versions to a packed (and often indifferent) pub.
& Ben's: see Fitches.
The Burlington
was a venue from the early 1960`s, and was directly across the road from where
Brian Findlay`s Record shop was, above what is now Remnant Kings. It was a slightly
dodgy place and was a place where girls of ill repute were to be had.
It was still open in 1969.
Burns Bar was initially a venue for folk acts to play in the late 1970's
and early 1980's. Davy Waugh started promoting blues bands here in 1982, and then
started a local "alternative" night in 1987. The Burns Bar turned into Firkins in 1988 and put on very occasional bands
between 1997 and 2005. During this time, the pub very much became the focus of
the local punk scene. In 2009 the pub began putting on bands again.
Cabbie saw bands play on a weekly basis between 1987 and 1988.
It later became the
Tavern and saw some bands play live in 2003 - 2004.
Noir had bands play in it's echoing interior between 1990 and 1994. It is now known as The Lane.
Callander Arms has live music every Saturday night, usually cabaret based.
had live music in 1994.
Central Park: see Fitches.
in Bainsford put on the odd band in the 2000's.
The Clubhouse:
see Falkirk
Ice Rink.
Coasters: see Falkirk Ice Rink.
Den: Coffee bar who run an acoustic open mic night, as well
as elling CD's by local bands.
Ballroom was situated at the bus station,
and back in the 1950's / 1960's was the place to go for dancing (to a live band,
of course). However, it
was a fairly "square" venue then, and dancers were thrown out if they
"smooched". In 1972
it became The Maniqui, and saw many touring punk
& new wave bands playing between 1977 and 1978. It was meant to start live
acts again in 1981, however being steered into a cattlemarket type nightclub called Oil Can Harry's during the 1980's put paid to that.
By then it was owned by Doak's grandson, Mr Johnstone. Some local bands did play
there during the decade, but mostly at private parties and charity benefits. The
management were notoriously unfriendly to bands, allowing only 20 minutes to get
all gear into the venue, set up, and soundcheck. Then when the band was finished
they had to clear the floor within 20 minutes. Occasionally bands would play at
the upstairs room, called The Penthouse, in the late
1980's. Recently the nightclub
has changed it's name back to The Maniqui, and then Storm,
however the future is uncertain as the venue has apparently been offered up for
The Drookit Duck: see the 1066 Lounge.
The Edge: see the 1066 Lounge.
see Behind The Wall.
Elliots: see the Graeme
The Elpidos
was a place in Bainsford during the 1960's, up the street at the side of The Bluebell
Engine Room: see Pennies.
Arts Theatre was a moveable venue run by Stuart Cuthell & Charlie Penn
back in the 1970's. It started off by taking over La Bamba in 1971, putting events
and bands on every weekend, and for a while was held at the Oddfellow's Hall in
Grahams Road, Falkirk. At that time Stewart and Charlie tried to run it on Fridays
and Saturdays. Fridays were nominally acoustic / folky, whilst Saturdays were
the rock nights. The venue
continued into 1975.
College saw regular gigs in 1991.
Falkirk Ice Rink used to have big bands in the 1950's,
which I believe were dancebands like Joe Loss & Sid Lawrence. It was known
as one of the coldest venues in the country as the stage was on top of the ice!
In the late 1970's it opened as a skateboard arena, and then changed to a rollerskating
rink, called Coasters in 1982. At that time it was
also used as a basketball arena for Team Solripe. A couple of bands did play there
in the 1980's, but the size of the venue did kind of make it hard. (Pastis 51
recall playing at half-time during the basketball!). Despite potential as a national
touring venue, nothing ever came of this, with bands prefering to play the attached
Clubhouse. This
was a disco space above Coasters Arena which played host to the
odd band between 1984 and 1987.
In 1988 John McLellan tried to launch it as a touring venue for small bands, but
this was short lived. Now it's used as a bingo hall and indoor market.
Town Hall has mostly been used for larger Council run gigs, however over
the last couple of years three band bills of local / smaller bands have played
the Lesser Town Hall.
Chewsdays: see
The Argyll Bar.
Finn MacCools: see
The Argyll Bar.
Firkins: see The Burns Bar.
Bar was a Manor Street basement bar (1982 - 1985), which became Central
Park (1985 - 1986). In 1991 it was operating as Bill
& Ben's, and has since had several names, including Jinty
McGinty's in 1994 - 1995.
Throughout all this, it has put on the occasional band. In 2008 it was called The Metro and put on live acts, but this seems to have stopped.
Munky's: see Pennies.
Glenfinnan Suit took over from The Metropolitan Hotel as Davy Waugh's choice
of venue in 1988, and had a couple of bands every week until he moved to the
Argyll Bar. Nowadays it is better known as the venue for Studio
Hotel was a regular haunt of Lieutenant Stardust, and has had some bands
since 1997. Some people know the place as Elliots.
Jack's Bar: see
The Argyll Bar.
Jinty McGinty's: see Fitches.
Bamba was a venue during the 1960's (from at least 1964), opened by David
Dillon, Ian Rule & Ian Stirling, and was originally at the Callander Park
end of the High Street, before moving to a distribution depot owned by John Menzies,
roughly where Beehar Carpets now is (next to Grahamston Station). It was one of
the most respected venues in Scotland, and was home and regular haunt to many
bands, including quite a few who later found fame. Manager in the mid-1960's was
Jim Drysdale. John Leishman used to DJ there for a while in the 1970`s, using one Garrard SP25 record deck,
on which he used to play 1960`s Psychedelic and west coast rock, like the Doors,
Captain Beefheart, Buffalo Springfield and The Mothers Of Invention. In 1971 it became the Falkirk Arts Theatre, and may then have been called Boobs
Nightclub! It re-opened as Springfield's Nightclub in 1973 by Jim Douglas.
Cafe Noir was the Tudor House across the road from Rosie's
Nightclub, and put bands on in 1986.
Maddox had bands playing from 1977 until 1986 when it closed and was demolished,
often booked by owner Alan Tierney. The venue stood above the Charioteer Bar,
roughly where the back door of B.H.S. is now.
Magpie saw three acts a week play from 1977 until 1981, mostly local and
Scottish bands. Live music could be found on Thursday night, Friday night and
Saturday "double", lunchtime (very surreal being deafened in a dark
smoke filled room to then walk out at 2pm into bright sunshine !) and evening
by the same band. Apparently, "there used to be a lot of herbal products
smoked in the Magpie, and the manager Ron hadn't a clue". In 1982 the Falkirk
Folk Club moved here from the Burns Bar. Some bands played here in 2000, however
that was short lived. Recently the bar has gone from three rooms to just the one.
The Maniqui: see Doak's Ballroom.
Martell was initially a snooker club, but started putting
on bands in 1991. They continued until at least 2003, with often three bands a
week on a Thursday night, usually local, as well as touring national acts with
a local support. Every couple of years the venue would run a mammoth "Battle
Of The Bands".
Nowadays, there is the occasional band, but nothing regular.
The Metro: see Fitches.
Metropolitan Hotel saw bands play there in 1970, and was
then briefly host to Davy Waugh's regular night in 1987 before he moved it to
The Glenfinnan Suite. Downstairs was The Roxy, which
saw a few bands play in 1986.
This then became a 1970's theme bar, and is now a restaurant, just like upstairs.
Newmarket Bar has had a couple of spates of bands, in 1992 and in 1997.
It is now called the Goose
On Newmarket.
Can Harry's: see Doak's Ballroom.
Orchard Hotel had acoustic gigs between 1998 and 1999.
had some live music in 1992, but then really took off as the venue for the Engine
Room from 1997 - 1999. The Engine Room briefly moved to Pharaohs
Climbing Wall in 2000 before returning to the venue until 2001. In 2002 The
Room took over, at the re-named Funky Munkys,
but this was short lived. 2007 saw an all day gig arranged here, so the venue
may not be dead yet.
The Penthouse: see Doak's Ballroom.
Pharaohs: see Pennies.
Bar: see Austin's.
Club was home to the Falkirk Folk Club between 2002 and 2008. The pub has now closed.
Railway Tavern: see the Cabbie.
Nightclub was in Kemper Avenue and put on some bands in the early 1980's.
It is now housing.
has had residencies from Mr Nice and On The Fly during the
2000's. This venue has in recent years become a favourite hanging out place for many bands, and hosts live music at least once a month.
Nightclub used to be Youngs, which everyone of a certain age remembers
as the best toy shop in town. However, your mum would always take you in from
the other side via the china department where everything would rattle as if it
was about to fall. It became a bar, Rosie O'Gradies, in the early 1990's, before
becoming a nightclub. There is some debate if bands ever played here. Arab Strap
were meant to, but were thrown out by the bouncers from their own gig, however
some people have claimed that they did play.
The Roxy: see the Metropolitan Hotel.
Silk's Lounge: see The Argyll Bar.
Bar: see Baxter's Bar.
Storm: see
Doak's Ballroom.
Studio 4: see the Glenfinnan
Swiss Lounge had live music in the late 1970's.
Lounge : was the backroom at what is now The Edge, and put on bands now
and then bewteen 1969 and 1984. As
Barrelhouse the frontroom saw some bands play between 1988 and 1989, and
then again in 1992. It changed
it's name to The Drookit Duck and had regular
bands between 1992 and 1996, and re-opened as The Edge
in 2002, with live music. In 2007 an alternative metal night called Ex was started.
The Union Halls were situated in Dalderse Avenue, and featured bands in the 1950's.
was a small dancehall in the late 1950's / early 1960's
in the Cow Wynd.
The International Hotel saw the Grangemouth
Folk Club running gigs here in 1977. Between 1979 and 1981 Brian Guthrie ran gigs
here, attracting local acts and touring national bands as well. The venue eventually
stopped putting bands on, leaving Guthrie to find somewhere new, which he did,
initially at the Maharatta, and then at the Bon
Accord in 1982.
Grangemouth Town Hall
saw Brian Guthrie promoting larger touring bands in the early 1980's.
Oxgang Hotel was host to two Grangemouth Rock Festivals
in the late 1980's, as well as the occasional self-promoted live act, as well
as a couple of acts in 2001.
The Leapark Hotel was
a large hall where future ITV anchorman Nicky Docherty was DJ and promoter in
the early 1980's. It was later the scene of the first Grangemouth Rock Festival,
in 1986, but did tend to be too large for a single band to play.
Grant's Orient Express was a basement bar which hosted regular self-promoted
bands between 1987 and 1990.
Imperial hosted gigs organised by Bruce Tait & Alan Shields. Bruce
says of the venue: "It grew out of the prolific band scene from Grangemouth
High School, and ran for about 2 years, from 1982 - 1984. I stumbled across Marillion
one night at the Tamdhu in Bannockburn and hung about with them in the summer
of 1982 on their "Saliva Tears" Tour - organising their gig at the International
(The Nash!) in August 1982. This was about a year before they signed with EMI
and went on to big things. I met some other of the Prog bands that were around
at the time and started putting them on at the Imperial, as well as the bands
we were all in from high school, plus various other local bands. The first gig
was Mikifin, and the second was Stealer. The Prog bands who played were all fairly
big on the UK circuit at the time, but none really made it like Marillion did.
They included Pendragon, Solstice and Quasar. The local bands were mostly rock
- White Dwarf, Blackout, Brahnseer etc. but one fateful night we double booked
Brahnseer and
Dead Neighbours which ended in a big punchup - David (Rocky)
Roxburgh of Brahnseer and Grant McDowell (of Dead Neighbours) ended up spending
the night in Grangemouth nick (ironic as Grant went on to be a Policeman himself).
The "Impy" as it was known ended suddenly when we booked a fairly big
rock band called Chevy for a big fee and only got about 15 punters. To my shame
I did a runner and left my partner Alan Shields to deal with 5 massive, hairy
rockers wanting their money (well it was Al who booked
Montgomery's saw regular bands between 1989 and 1991.
The Ellwyn saw occasional acts in the 1980's and 1990's.
The Coachouse put on bands in 1995.
Bowhouse Hotel saw a couple of bands playing in 2000 - 2001.
saw a couple of bands in 2000.
Lafferty's Bar
had bands between 2001 and 2003.
The Tavern
has ran bands since 2002.
The Maharatta
has put on the very occasional gig over the years.
The Bond Club was run by Denis
back in the 1960's.
Sloopy's was a live venue in the late 1960's.
La Fabrique was a club / cabaret venue in the 1970's.
McTavish's had bands playing in 1981.
Kinneil Bar put on bands between 1983 and 1984.
Wynd had bands playing in 1992.
Girsey Nicols
put on bands between 1996 and 1998, and then sometimes since then.
Jubilee put on bands in 1996.
The 00 Bar
has put on gigs in 2006.
Grubowski's put regular bands on from
1999 until the present day, promoting new / young / unsigned bands on a Wednesday
night, a jam session on Thursdays (started by the Raw Elvis guys
in 2003), and usually covers bands on a Friday. The venue is owned and run by
Ronnie Jenkins, who also promotes at the Dobbie Hall. The venue was to close in
May 2007.
The Plough Hotel has had jazz
bands since 2002, and was host to the Falkirk Jazz Festival from 2005 - 2007.
The Dobbie Hall saw regular dances (with live
music) throughout the 1960's (Gene Vincent once played there!) and still hosts
the occasional larger concert. In 2005 Grubowski's owner Ronnie Jenkins (along
with his son-in-law, David Walker) promoted a couple of gigs.
The Pines, Denny
hosted self-promoted bands in 1987.
The Anchor Inn, Dunipace
hosted bands between 1989 and 1990.
Chequers Bar ran some cabaret type gigs in the
early 1980's.
The Henry Begg Disco had the
some live acts in 1969.
The Crossbow ran gigs between 1977
and 1979, and then again in 1999.
Club Tomay, Brightons had
many a big band playing in the 1960's.
The Claremont Inn, Polmont
had regular bands between 1994 and 1995, then again in 2000.
Beat Route, Laurieston was a live venue in the
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ULM collaborates with YMCA to open natatorium
Leadership at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and the YMCA have entered into an agreement that will benefit the Lake C. Oxford Natatorium and the community in which it serves.
Effective Jan. 17, the YMCA and its aquatic staff will assume operational control over the natatorium for an initial term of up to 18 months, pending approval of the University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors.
The YMCA will be responsible for establishing community membership rates, hours of operation, programming schedules and special events. ULM will retain ownership of the natatorium and assist with preventive maintenance, insurance and utility costs.
Discover more about ULM's collaboration with the YMCA . . .
Miss Louisiana honored at Miss America
Miss Louisiana 2011 Hope Anderson, a ULM mass communications graduate and Monroe native, was honored as one of three national Miracle Maker Award Winners at the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas, Nev.
Each year Miss America and the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals awards the contestant who raises the most money for CMN.
Discover more about Miss Louisiana . . .
Monroe mayor shares life advice with ULM graduates
A former graduate himself, Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo ('79) found yet another way to give back to his alma mater when he delivered the keynote address to graduates during ULM's 2011 Fall Commencement, held at 10 a.m., Dec.17, in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
A total of 480 degrees were awarded to fall 2011 graduates. A total of 201 degrees were also awarded to summer 2011 graduates participating in the ceremony.
Mayo began by praising ULM President Nick J. Bruno, Ph.D., and his administration. "The City of Monroe is proud to have multiple partnerships in education with ULM. And, we look forward to many years of continuing our strong relationship."
The mayor recalled his four years at ULM as filled with "hard work, fun, athletic activities, and newfound independence. I want to share pieces of advice. First, never stop learning. Second, you must have focus and balance in your life. And third, it's not how you start…it's how you finish that matters!"
Discover more about Jamie Mayo's advice to ULM graduates . . .
For more Good News about ULM, visit the ULM News Center!
Have you submitted your info to ULM's 2012 Directory project?
The ULM Alumni Association has again partnered with Harris Connect for our next ULM Directory, "ULM Alumni Today," scheduled to be published in mid-April 2012.
The last day to submit info for the "ULM Alumni Today" is January 30, 2012.
For complete information, please visit our "ULM Alumni Today" Web page at www.ulm.edu/alumni/directory.html.
Liberty Mutual provides "5 Tips to Prevent Home Heating Fires"
When it's time to turn up the heat in your home this winter to battle the icy cold, follow these simple tips to prevent the chance of fire:
- Hire a professional to inspect and clean your furnace. Maintaining your furnace and ensuring that it's operating properly and efficiently will save you money and keep you free from worry.
- Open your windows when you first turn on your furnace. Choose a warm day to let your furnace burn off the dust and dirt that have collected on its heating element. A residual odor is not harmful, but if the furnace rumbles or produces black smoke, call 911 and evacuate the premises.
- Clean your chimney. Before you cozy up to the fireplace, open the flue and check for obstructions that can cause a build-up of harmful carbon monoxide. Hire a chimney sweep to inspect for creosote, a substance that gradually builds up as wood burns and can ignite in the chimney flue.
- Use electric heaters sparingly. Don't let a space heater run for hours on end. Turn it off at night or when you vacate a room. Move bedding, clothing and other flammable items at least three feet away from the heater. And never leave children and pets unattended near a space heater.
- Handle propane-powered equipment carefully. Follow the manufacturer's instructions, store cylinders outside, and call 911 if you smell a strong odor of gas.
For more information on home fire safety, go to BeFireSmart.com.
Liberty Mutual is a responsible company that delivers expert advice and caring service. For more information, please call 800-524-9400 or visit www.libertymutual.com/enews-ulmaa.
"Discover ULM" Magazine now available
The Fall 2011 edition of the newly renamed "Discover ULM" magazine is now available.
Inside you'll find in-depth stories on ULM's 8th President Nick J. Bruno, you can rediscover ULM's traditions, and explore a tradition of excellence in ULM's faculty and staff, as well as read a tribute to ULM President Emeritus George T. Walker.
There's much more about ULM, your fellow alums and maybe even you in the Fall 2011 interactive online edition!
Read The Hawkeye online!
Be sure to read the latest edition of the Hawkeye, the official student newspaper of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, at www.ulmhawkeyeonline.com.
There you'll find the latest breaking news, sports, photos, polls and in-depth features you can't find anywhere else.
If a story grabs your attention, you can also leave a comment in our "talk back" section online. Then check the next week's edition to see if your comment made it in print.
Of course, you can follow The Hawkeye on Facebook and Twitter, too. Thanks for your support, and keep reading the Hawkeye!
Have you ordered your ULM class ring yet?
Your journey began when you took your first steps onto the ULM campus.
Each step along they way, from student involvement to enjoying athletic and cultural events on campus, to your pursuit of academic excellence, has been filled with enough memories to last a lifetime.
Your journey now brings you to this moment in your ULM life — your eligibility to purchase and wear the official ULM class ring. ULM undergraduates with at least 90 hours towards graduation are eligible to wear the ULM class ring.
Wear it with pride as you begin the next great journey in your life.
Order your Official ULM Class Ring today!
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Keep up with all the "scoop" on ULM Athletics
Visit these Warhawk Fan Web sites to keep up with all the "scoop" on ULM Athletics.
Warhawk Report - The Warhawkreport.com is a part of the Rivals.com network that covers ULM Athletics and Recruiting. This alumni ran site is a way for fans to keep up with the latest news on the Warhawks and interact with other Warhawk fans on its message boards.
Subscriptions are $9.99 a month or $99.95 for an entire year which grants access to all sites on the Rivals Network so you can follow competing schools also.
For more information contact ULM alum Dusty Thibodeaux (BGS '06) at firstname.lastname@example.com.
WarhawkNation - www.warhawknation.com or http://ulm.scout.com is operated by Matt Wilson. Matt writes stories and features covering all of ULM's sports and regularly publishes interviews with current and former ULM athletes, coaches, and student athletes who are considering offers from ULM.
WarhawkNation is a member of the scout.com Internet publishing network which syndicates more than 1,100 pieces of content daily to more than 2.1 million subscribers. For more information contact Matt Wilson at email@example.com.
ULM's Career Connections offer employment services
The Office of Career Connections & Experiential Education at ULM (formerly Career Services) has an online job posting service serving ULM students and alumni.
The Web site, www.ulm.edu/careerconnections allows employers to post part-time and full-time positions as well as internship opportunities.
Anyone may browse the jobs, however, an active Campus Wide Identification number (CWID) will be needed to apply online. Alumni that graduated more than five (5) years ago should call Career Connections at 318-342-5338 to apply for positions.
Log onto www.ulm.edu/careerconnections and click on "Students: Browse & Apply for Jobs & Internships".
Employers will also find on the Career Connections Web site the link "Employers Submit Job or Internship" in order to post any job openings or internship opportunities at their organization. The Web site currently has over 800 positions available.
Visit www.ulm.edu/careerconnections for tips about resume preparation and interviewing skills. Please call 318-342-5338 for an appointment.
ULM's Spring Career Fair is set for February 15, 9 am - 2 pm, SUB Ballroom.
For more information, please contact Kyle O'Neal at 318-342-1144 or email@example.com.
Help Fund ULM Scholarships with a Warhawk Plate!
When you purchase a Warhawk license plate, part of the proceeds help fund scholarships for future Warhawks.
And if you have an older NLU plate, you can even retain that plate number with your new ULM Warhawks plate!
For more information and to order your new Warhawk license plate, visit ulm.edu/alumni/licenseplate.
For more information about your Alumni Association, visit ulm.edu/alumni!
All About You! spotlights the many accomplishments of our great alumni. Send your accomplishments and successes to firstname.lastname@example.com, and please include a photo!
Sylvia (Poole) Norris (B.A. '78, M.Ed. '90) retired at the end of 2011 after serving the LaSalle Parish education system for over 33 years.
Norris, served as a Secondary Supervisor since 2006 in the the LaSalle Parish School System. She was first appointed as middle school supervisor in August of 2005.
Sylvia served as principal at Jena Junior High School from 1998 to 2004 and assistant principal at JJHS from 1997-1998.
From 1991 to 1997, she was guidance counselor at Jena High School, after serving JHS as a classroom teacher from 1978 to 1991.
A graduate of Jena High School and the University of Louisana at Monroe, Norris also received a certification in administration and supervision from ULM in 1997.
Professional organizations which Norris has been associated with include the Louisiana Principals Association, National Association of Secondary School Principals.
She also trained as District Assistance Team member; trained in the Louisiana Teacher Assessment Program, member of Educational Leadership Institute; member of Pupil Progression Committee, served as member of the Schoolbased Health Clinic; served on the consolidated planning team for the parish, member of Home Economics Advisory Committee for the parish; member of the LaSalle Parish Coalition for Families and Children; member of textbook adoption committee; and served as a member of the LaSalle Parish Adult Education Advisory Council and planning committee.
Ann (Crawford) Goade, (B.S. '92 ) created Big Church Bingo©, a phone app to encourage children to listen to what is being said during a church service by listening for key words used in the game.
Keeping children occupied during a church service has always been a challenge for parents. Ann questioned whether coloring sheets were the best way to teach her children to actually listen and participate in the service. That's when she created Big Church Bingo©.
To play, a grid of words you might hear in a worship service will appear randomly each game. As you hear a word, tap on it. The icon will darken (tap again to bring it back, if mistaken). Once you have five darkened icons in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) you get a bingo. You may continue listening for the words to gain a blackout or choose a new game and start again.
Big Church Bingo© keeps track of points. Each bingo equals one point. Parents may choose to implement a reward system for points. For example, 1 point may earn a piece of gum or candy, 5 points may earn the privilege of choosing what's for dinner and 10 points may earn a date night with mom or dad. Families can be creative and have fun personalizing their reward system.
The word bank and icons can be customized. Add additional words you might hear that are not listed. Take pics and use for each word's icon. Searching for the right item to represent a word can be a fun, family activity. Children will be so excited to see their own smiling face representing the word children.
Big Church Bingo© is currently available in the iTunes store for use on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. For more information, please visit www.bigchurchbingo.com.
Ann lives in Anna, Tex. with her husband, William, and their three children, Lawrence, Rachel and Gracie.
John W. Vineyard (B.A. '85) was named to a judgeship by California Governor Jerry Brown to fill one of three vacancies in Riverside (Calif.) County's 76 judicial offices.
Vineyard, 50, of Riverside, was hired by Riverside County judges to serve as a commissioner in 2008. He was a sole practitioner for three years before that, and was at three law firms from 1989 through 2005.
Vineyard earned his law degree from UC Davis School of Law. Vineyard, a Democrat, fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge W. Charles Morgan. In 2008 Vineyard ran for a Riverside County judicial seat that went to John D. Molloy.
Regina Jaquess (PharmD '09) set the waterskiing Overall World Record at the Pan American games in October 2011, but while training and competing, she also opened her own compounding pharmacy.
After earning her degree from ULM, Regina returned to Walton (Fla.) County to work as junior pharmacist at the Santa Rosa Pharmacy.
But she decided it was time South Walton had a compounding pharmacy. Her Emerald Coast Compounding Pharmacy opened in July 2011 at Santa Rosa Beach's Gulf Place.
A compounding pharmacy creates tailor-made medicine based on an individual's body chemistry and dosage needs, minimizing side effects. The pharmacist can also make medicine that has been discontinued, and Regina specializes in bio-identical hormones, which, apparently, the women of South Walton love.
For a complete story about Regina's success in the sport of waterskiing and in her compounding pharmacy venture, visit www.waltonsun.com/news/pharmacy-8181-world-record.html
Upcoming Athletic Events
Baseball Season Tickets on sale now!
More Info: ULMWarhawks.com
Men's Basketball Schedule
Women's Basketball Schedule
2012 Baseball Schedule
2012 Softball Schedule
Football signing luncheon set for Feb. 1
ULM will host its annual football signing luncheon on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 11:30 am in the University Conference Center, located on the 7th floor of the ULM Library.
The cost is $25.00 per person and seating is limited.
For reservations contact Caitlin Herrock at 318-342-5360 or email@example.com by Monday, Jan. 30.
For more information, visit www.ULMWarhawks.com.
Hawk Talk returned to the air last Monday at noon when men's basketball coach Keith Richard and women's basketball coach Mona Martin sat down for the first installment of their weekly talk show in 2012.
Every Monday for the rest of the season, Richard and Martin will discuss the ULM basketball teams and preview upcoming games. The hour-long show will be hosted by the voice of ULM basketball Nick White and will air live from the ESPN 97.7 FM studios in Monroe.
Are you an active member of the ULM Athletic Foundation?
The ULM Athletic Foundation helps raise awareness and financial support for the Warhawk athletic programs, positively promote all athletic events, grow our fan and donor base, and enhance the lives of over 300 student-athletes.
There are five ways you can help ULM Athletics!
1. Become and active member of the ULM Athletic Foundation and "Give 110%" of your previous year's giving.
2. Make a gift toward scholarship endowments or facility upgrades
3. Match your gift through ULM's matching gift program. Visit ulm.edu/giftmatch for more info.
4. Recruit friends and colleagues to buy season tickets and join the ULM Athletic Foundation
5. Include ULM Athletics when preparing or revising your will or estate plan.
And don't forget several new exciting membership programs: the "Young Grads" program and the "Jr. Warhawk" program.
More information about the ULM Athletic Foundation can be found at www.gowarhawks.net.
Warhawk News
Click on a Warhawk sport below for scores, schedules, news and more.
For more Good News about Warhawk Athletics, visit ulmwarhawks.com!
ULM Water Ski Team dominates at World University Championships
The University of Louisiana at Monroe Water Ski Team decided to up the ante from their 23rd national championship and proceeded to dominate at the World University Championships held in Los Morros, Chile, Jan. 12-15.
ULM had the most competitors and the greatest number of medal winners of any university in the world, according to Treina Landrum, ULM Water Ski Team coach and director of Recreational Services.
"Overall, ULM skiers brought home 13 medals: four gold, five silver and four bronze," Landrum said. "These competitors are deeply committed to their sport and have brought great honor to ULM."
Discover more about the ULM's Water Ski team's world domination . . .
Spring Career Fair Set
ULM's Division of Career Connections has set Wednesday, Feb. 15 as the date for its Spring Career Fair, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom.
For more information, contact Kyle O'Neal at 318-342-1144 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
ULM's Lyceum Series features author Nicholas Sparks Feb. 2
Nicholas Sparks, prolific author of 17 novels, seven of which have been adapted as films, will be the speaker at the University of Louisiana at Monroe Lyceum Series Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
The 7 p.m. lecture, titled "An Evening with Nicholas Sparks," will be held in Brown Auditorium followed by a book signing.
A limited number of tickets remain and are now on sale at www.ulmtickets.com. Tickets prices are $10 for faculty and staff; $25 for general admission and $50 for Patron Party tickets.
Visit www.ulm.edu/lyceum for additional information on ULM's Lyceum Series.
"African-Americans in the Arts" concert scheduled for Feb. 3 at ULM
The University of Louisiana at Monroe Division of Music is pleased to present a concert titled "African-Americans in the Arts" the evening of Friday, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Emy-Lou Beidenharn Recital Hall.
This event will include a welcome by ULM President Dr. Nick J. Bruno and will showcase performances by ULM's music and dance faculty.
Featured artists will include Division of Music faculty members Dr. Scot Humes, Associate Professor Louis Nabors and Associate Professor Deborah McClung-Guillory, and will also include choreography by Division of Dance faculty members Robin Stephens and Tina Mullone.
Also appearing as special guest artists will be bass Leon Turner and soprano Brenda Wimberly.
Discover more about the "African-Americans in the Arts" concert . . .
For more Good News about ULM, visit the ULM News Center!
Warhawk Basketball
Come cheer the Warhawks at
Fant-Ewing this season!
Nicholas Sparks/Lyceum Series
Noted author Nicholas Sparks will speak at ULM's Lyceum Series on Thursday, Feb. 2. Ticket availability is limited.
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Warhawk Baseball is starting soon!
First home game is Tuesday, Feb. 21 vs. Tulane.
Season Tickets now on sale!
Super Warhawk Weekend
Fri- Sun March 23-25
More info soon!
Wine Over Water
Thursday, April 12, 2012
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14 The LORD your redeemer, the holy one of Israel, says, For your sake, I have sent an army to Babylon, and brought down all the bars, turning the Chaldeans' singing into a lament. | 14 This is what the LORD says-- your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians, in the ships in which they took pride. |
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[OS] CHINA/US/AUSTRALIA/INDIA/MIL - China turns frosty on US-Australia upgrades - CALENDAR
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Dec 01, 2011
China's military denounced the United States and Australia yesterday for
upgrading defence ties, warning that such moves could erode trust and fan
cold war-era antagonism.
Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng made the warning about a plan
unveiled in mid-November by US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime
Minister Julia Gillard to form a de facto base in north Australia for up
to 2,500 US Marines.
Geng's comments came on the same day Australian Foreign Minister Kevin
Rudd was reported supporting the formation of a security pact with India
and the US, another step that could fuel China's worries of being fenced
in by wary neighbours.
"Military alliances are a product of history, but we believe any
strengthening and expansion of military alliances is an expression of the
cold war mentality," Geng said at a monthly news conference.
"This is not in keeping with the tide of the era of peace, development and
cooperation, and does not help to enhance mutual trust and cooperation
between countries in the region. [It] could ultimately harm the common
interests of all concerned.
"We hope that the parties ... will do more that is beneficial to the peace
and stability of the Asia-Pacific region, and not the contrary," he said.
Despite that criticism, Geng said Chinese and US defence officials would
still meet for consultations on December 7, to be jointly chaired by
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Army, and US Defence Undersecretary Michele Flournoy.
Ma will then go to New Delhi for China-India defence and security
consultations on December 9.
Earlier this month, Obama told Asia-Pacific leaders that the US was "here
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China for trying to prevent discussion of its South China Sea territorial
disputes at regional forums.
Although falling short of full-throated condemnation of the US-Australian
move, Geng's words were tougher than an earlier reaction from China's
Foreign Ministry, which said Washington and Canberra should focus on
co-operating with Beijing.
Geng said US and Australian plans to advance "integrated air and sea
combat" amounted to "trumpeting confrontation".
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With an increasing number of the nation's cities drifting uncomfortably close to bankruptcy — and Detroit declaring it — municipal officials and students of government around the country have been looking at how the Rhode Island state government dealt with the Central Falls bankruptcy.
The latest example is "The State Role in Local Government Distress," a study released Tuesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. Pew looked at a range of approaches, focusing on seven states, from what it called "hands-off" California to "hands-on" Rhode Island.
The study didn't recommend specific actions, saying each state needed to develop policies that fit its history and political culture, but it did note that Central Falls came out of bankruptcy in 13 months, rather than the four years it took Vallejo, Calif., to emerge.
It cited early-intervention states, such as North Carolina, where a nine-member state commission monitors every municipality in the state, and can, if things get bad enough, step in and take over. The system has been in place since 1931, the report said, and the state has never had a municipal bankruptcy.
On the other end of the spectrum is California, where, since the 1800s, cities have ferociously resisted any state government control. That's led to a system where the state helps finance school districts and county governments, but when its cities become financially stressed, such as Vallejo or Stockton, the best they can hope from the state is sympathy.
"Rhode Island, by contrast, responded aggressively when Central Falls filed for bankruptcy protection in 2011," the Pew report said. It recounted the Chafee administration's appointment of state receivers who took over city government, cut budgets, raised taxes and gutted pensions while the General Assembly guaranteed investors their bonds would be paid in full.
"The state's action was a reason for Central Falls' exit from bankruptcy last year after only 13 months," the report said, "the shortest of several recent high profile municipal bankruptcies."
Kil Huh, Pew's director of state and local fiscal health project, said Rhode Island was the only state to immunize bondholders from a bankruptcy. He said it may have been done because the state is so small and the effects of bond default could have had a bigger impact on other cities' bond ratings than would have happened in a larger state.
He said Vallejo, Calif., honored its pension agreements and found cuts in other places.
If an intervention is called for, the Pew report said the lessons across the country are for states to try to make the effort as collaborative as possible and "to be transparent with financial information and to return control to local officials quickly."
Despite the fiscal success of the Central Falls bankruptcy, R.I. Director of Revenue Rosemary Booth Gallogly told Pew that the best strategy was don't do it.
"I don't view bankruptcy as a tool in the toolbox," Booth Gallogly said. "It's a last resort and should only be utilized if there are no other options for the community."


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How would the Golden Eagles deal with losing key players? Which current player would start where? How about the new Big East?
All good questions. All important ones. And, in a possible sign of progress for Marquette, not one query regarding offseason job offers or where Williams would coach next.
And yet, I couldn't help being curious about something entirely tangential.
What the heck was Buzz Williams doing on Twitter?
This, I'll grant you, is not exactly pertinent to Marquette's NCAA tournament chances, so I wasn't going to bring it up in the press conference. It wouldn't be fair to others in attendance, nor to the coach whose brief opening statement ended with the words "I don't want to be inefficient with our time."
Yes, if there's one thing you notice in five years of watching Buzz Williams, it's that he despises distractions. Focus isn't just a trait, but a mantra. Surely, Twitter doesn't fit into that type of puzzle.
He's not a media member who needs to stay up on breaking news. He's not a pundit. He's certainly not frivolous. And he's certainly not a pop star. (The world's top 3 Twitter accounts belong to Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. This does not strike me as Buzz's kind of crowd.)
Still, there it is: @TeamCoachBuzz, with some 15,000 followers in about four months of life.
So after the press conference, and after talking to some Marquette players, I noticed Williams sitting and chatting with a few other media members. So I headed over to join the crowd. And promptly discovered that he was already discussing his social media adventure.
Perhaps I'd underestimated the pertinence.
"It was talked about for a long time," Williams said of joining the Twitterati. "A lot of people had been asking me to do it, to say all the cornball stuff I say, and I liked that part of it."
And yet…
"I was unsure if I was willing to give away any time to it. And then I was fearful of saying things that I would regret."
For public figures, Twitter is basically a 24-hour open microphone, and at times, a particularly hot one. Say one controversial thing, and stuff happens. Viral happens.
So maybe it won't surprise you to learn that Williams mulled over the Twitter question for about a year and a half. "I resisted it for a long time, because I think it can be dangerous," he said.
That's part of the reason he shares the account with his wife, Corey, who also sends out tweets. "I didn't want it to be about me all the time," he said. "And I thought by including Corey and letting her join, that probably took a little pressure off me, probably held me more accountable because I knew she was looking at it."
Together, they've evolved the account into a mix of tweets about the team, words of motivation and inspiration, pictures of the Williams kids decked out in Marquette gear, pictures of Williams and his players decked out in suits.
It's the type of thing that could make for a good recruiting tool, though Williams says he wants it to be more than that. "I just want to keep the slant of it more toward helping others instead of being an infomercial," he said. "There are coaches paying [other] guys to do it. I don't want that. I want it to be authentic. I don't want it to be an infomercial. I don't want the [sports information director] doing it. I don't want to pay a guy on the side to do it. I don't want to send him texts of, 'Tweet this.' That seems cumbersome."
So far, he says, so good.
"I think it can be a positive and I think you can help people," Williams explained. "There are people saying, like, heartfelt things to me, and I appreciate that."
Of course, the season hasn't started yet. Marquette hasn't lost a game yet. Fans have had very few reasons to be angry with Williams yet. And once they do, some won't be shy in letting him hear about it.
"I've been praying about how to handle that," he said. "Because, I mean, I get some people saying some really strange things to me now. That was Corey's objection to it: 'You're gonna attack those people that say something about one of your guys.' And I'm like, 'No I won't.' She's like, 'Yes you will.'
"You can't lose your job because some idiot said something. So I'm not sure."
Williams said another coach told him that he just doesn't look at his Twitter mentions during the season. At this, I told Williams how Aaron Rodgers just walks away from his Twitter account entirely during Packers season, just doesn't tweet again to his million-plus followers until the season is over. This was news to Williams.
"I wonder if that's what I should do," Williams mused.
But as of now, the account's still active, and it will probably stay that way. Because once he focuses on something…
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Welcome to the National League of Young Men!
Mission Statement National League of Young Men (NLYM) is a non-profit organization for young men in grades 9-12; this structured program for mothers and their sons promotes the development of young men into community leaders through leadership involvement, charitable and community service, cultural experiences and protocol education.
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All grade levels of Young Men participated in a small act of kindness when they purchased brand new school supplies and brought them to their respective fall grade level meetings. These items were then sorted and packed into pencil boxes readied for delivery to local kids in the community who would otherwise go without school essentials. The delivery was scheduled to take place near the Holidays and made for a festive occasion which included sharing a snack, helping with homework, being a positive male role model, and most importantly, the hands on experience of helping other children.
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A group of NLYM 11th Graders dressed up to deliver invitations to their annual 11th grade Protocol and Etiquette Dinner with the young women at National Charity League. Hosted in a NLYM patroness' home, the young men and women receive an etiquette lesson in dining and dating and then all sit down for a fabulous 3-course dinner. This wonderful event is a definite League highlight for our young men as well as for the young ladies of NCL.
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[1800] Napsin A Expression in Sclerosing Hemangiomas of the Lung.
Lindsay Schmidt, Jeffrey Myers, Jonathan McHugh. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Background: Sclerosing hemangiomas (SH) are lung tumors with two distinct cell types: surface cuboidal cells resembling type II pneumocytes, and round stromal cells. SH is now thought to be of primitive respiratory epithelial origin due to its immunohistochemical (IHC) and electron microscopic features. Napsin A, a human aspartic proteinase expressed primarily in type II pneumocytes and alveolar macrophages, is emerging as a helpful IHC marker in characterizing lung neoplasms. We sought to evaluate napsin A staining in SH to help further characterize this unusual tumor.
Design: H&E stained slides from lung resections for SH performed at our institution between 1997-2010 and cases from the authors' consultation files (n=6) were reviewed. IHC was performed using an avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method on an automated immunostainer (Ventana-Biotech, Tucson, AZ). IHC stains were evaluated for presence of staining, localization of positivity if present, and strength of staining.
Results: Napsin A staining was available for all cases; TTF-1 for 5 cases; cytokeratin (CK) cocktail (CAM 5.2 and AE1/AE3) for 2, CK7 for 1, and CK AE1/AE3 for 1. TTF-1 demonstrated nuclear positivity in both surface and round cells in all 5 cases. CK was positive in surface cells and negative in round cells in all 5 cases. Round cells had focal napsin A staining in 1 case (17%) and surface cells showed positive staining in all 6 cases. In one, surface cell staining was limited to the tumor edge. In one case, most surface cells showed strong granular cytoplasmic staining. In the remaining 4 cases, there were both areas of strong granular staining in surface cells and areas where surface cells were completely negative; negative staining corresponded to weaker keratin expression in these cases.
Conclusions: Similar to others, we observed TTF-1 positivity in both surface and round cells in all SH and CK staining only in surface cells, suggesting primitive respiratory epithelium as the possible cell of origin of SH. Previous reports of surfactant staining in surface, but not in round cells, suggest surface cells are more differentiated than round cells. Our napsin A findings support this, with positivity in surface cells of all tumors (100%), and round cell staining in only one (17%). This suggests that surface cells are type II pneumocytes, which normally express napsin A in a similar granular cytoplasmic pattern. The presence of focal staining in one tumor suggests that round cells may derive from a common progenitor cell. Additional IHC studies on napsin A staining in primitive lung tissue may be of use in further elucidating the origin of SH.
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Families often celebrate October's crisp days and cooler nights by visiting pumpkin patches and sipping apple cider. But fall also brings on awareness, and it's nice to see that pink is in the air. In addition to pink lighting up the buildings that dot Chicago's skyline, stores are selling pink ribbon water bottles and pins. And if you're anywhere near a television on Sundays, you'll see that the NFL players are proudly wearing pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Chicago Bears Defensive End Corey Wooton spoke out about the importance of early detection along with breast cancer survivor and National Breast Cancer Foundation Founder Janelle Hail at an event held at Halas Hall sponsored by the Procter & Gamble Company.
The Best Defense Day of Action really shined a bright light on breast cancer. The purpose was to talk about how early detection is so important and how entire families come together and each person plays a different roll on the 'family team' to battle cancer.
"When one player is down, the rest of the team is impacted," says Mr. Wooton, who lost his grandmother and two great aunts. And he remembers one of his aunts fondly, saying, "I was 16 years old and she always said I was a great athlete. She was struggling with cancer and unfortunately lost her battle but I am so grateful to have her in my life."
The pro football star says his mother-in-law is also a survivor, and he and his wife are experiencing her survivorship as a family. "Now, women have a 98 percent survival rate in a 5 year period," explains Mr. Wooten. "A lot has changed since my own family members experienced cancer."
The Chicago Bear is also proud to wear pink as part of his uniform with the Bears for the month of October. "It's amazing what the NFL has been able to do with awareness, and a lot of players wives, mothers, sisters and friends have in some way been touched by the disease," he shares.
Janelle Hail – who lives in Frisco, Texas, and came to Chicago for this special awareness event – was diagnosed in 1980. Her husband and three sons each took a different roll while she was fighting her battle. "My sons were 3, 10 and 13 years old at the time and each of them handled it differently," she says. "I had to learn how to get them involved at their own level."
"My oldest was quiet and didn't want to talk about it much but I knew he was scared, while my 10 year old was doing little tasks around the house that I would ask him to do to help him feel helpful. My youngest son was just three years old, and now my husband and three sons are all active in the foundation we started in their own way."
Ms. Hail says early detection saved her life and she and her family are helping other women with the foundation. Some of the suggestions are to encourage women to schedule routine breast self-exams, clinical breast exams and mammograms.
"We founded the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), INC and partner with over 90 medical facilities in all 50 states to provide free mammograms and diagnostic breast care services to underserved women," she says. "We also help with early detection plans and have an online support community. Since 2008, P&G has donated more than 2.1 million to the NBCF, which helps provide all of these services. We are now in our sixth year partnering with the P&G and we are so grateful for all of the help and services they have been able to provide to deserving women."
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Vermilion Bay Sweet Takes Third Place In Delcambre Shrimp Festival Cook-Off
The Delcambre Shrimp Festival may have come and gone, but the community of Delcambre is still talking about the amazing pallet-pleasing entries in this year's annual Shrimp Cook-Off. And with Delcambre's own local brand of Vermilion Bay Sweet's fresh, wild-caught shrimp being utilized in one of the top three winning dishes, marketing for the brand keeps getting bigger and more recognized by both local residents and visitors alike. Read More
Delcambre Represented at 2014 NACo Conference and Exposition
The National Association of Counties (NACo) holds its annual conference in July, and this year New Orleans was proud to have been selected as its official host city. For those unfamiliar with the organization, NACo helps promote public policies, fosters county solutions and innovation, promotes intergovernmental and public-private collaboration, and provides value-added services to local communities. NACo has encouraged counties across the country to actively promote county government programs and services and help raise public awareness and understanding about the roles and responsibilities of county government.
As people depend on their local communities to provide services that build, maintain and protect their homes, schools and neighborhoods, NACo assists in supporting this mission by providing county leaders and staff with an opportunity to vote on its policies related to federal legislation and regulation, network with colleagues, learn about innovative county programs, find out about issues impacting counties across the country, and view products and services from participating companies and exhibitors.
This year, Delcambre's own Tammy Gordon, Twin Parish Port Commission, Community Relations Director, is representing the Delcambre community to promote Delcambre Direct Seafood, Vermilion Bay Sweet and the Port's redevelopment projects. Furthermore, during this year's conference, Vermilion Bay Shrimp will be served to attendees and exhibitors alike, with the intent to promote the brand and bring more recognition to our wonderful community. The successes of the Port's redevelopment projects and seafood industry are in large part due to marketing and promotional events, so attending conferences such as NACo are an important benefit to our community. We are appreciative of Tammy's work with the Port and would like to thank her for her contribution to this year's NACo event and wish her success in disseminating information about our local community and seafood industry.
Ongoing Projects
Below is a list of planned, ongoing or completed economic development projects in the communities of Delcambre and Erath, Louisiana:
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Seafood and Farmers Market
The Delcambre Seafood & Farmers Market offers local, just-picked produce, wild-caught Delcambre Direct seafood, and homemade food and farm products. With food, music and special events, the Delcambre Market is a funand healthy!shopping experience.
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Welcome to Delcambre!
We are Shrimp! Whether you want to buy a few pounds of fresh gulf shrimp for a family meal, or whether you want to come out and catch your own. You can do that and a lot more in Delcambre! (pronounced del-come.) Mostly, we want you to experience our hospitality, our culture, and our heritage. After all, even our name says Welcome!
What the Port of Delcambre is All About
The Twin Parish Port District ("the Port") is the governing authority administering the Port of Delcambre. Together with the Town of Delcambre and many other partners, the Port is implementing a vision for Delcambre's future, a vision that seeks to revitalize the seafood industry devastated by two hurricanes, redevelop the Delcambre waterfront, and expand its industrial park. Read More
Development for the Future
New Concepts Were Introduced. Shortly after Hurricane Rita delivered a 7 to 8 foot tidal surge that inundated the region with flood water, the communities of Delcambre and Erath began the planning process to rebuild. The planning process as it relates to Delcambre focused on the unrealized potential of the waterfront assets along the Delcambre Canal and focused on the marketing possibilities of the Delcambre community. Below is an outline of the architectural concepts and the marketing analysis that is guiding the redevelopment of Delcambre. A New Architectural Design Was Explored. Several ideas are incorporated into the drawings and renderings provided by the University of Louisiana (UL) Community Workgroup Design. The ideas include the following: Read More


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Jan 14, 2013Disappointing. In the rush to get a script out, Mark Boal and the producers never found a strong, coherent story to tell. Instead, there's a torture act, an intelligence-procedural act, and an action act that do not cohere.
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Jan 6, 2013Zero Dark Thirty is a step down in almost every way from the Hurt Locker. Almost no suspense, a main character that has no depth, and a somewhat slow and sluggish first half. I was hoping the first 2 hours were more like the last 30 minutes.
Dec 19, 2012A Cinematic masterpiece with the technical and emotional skill of a cubist painting, Zero Dark Thirty is a genre-creating film that is touchstone of modern cinema.
Jan 5, 2013This film bolsters the false impression that the US's engaging in torture, though distasteful, is necessary by painting a false linkage between torture of "terror suspects" and the locating of Osama bin Laden. No information leading to the location of bin Laden was obtained via torture.
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Jan 9, 2013God, punishing me for what ? I would like to look at it as an ordinary film, but unfortunately it is filmed to order the Pentagon and intelligence services, and that it is hell to feel. This is not a movie, but propaganda. From Mrs. perhaps you do not want to see anything .
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Jan 9, 2013Excellent movie! hands down the best movie of 2012. full of suspense with a great performance from Jessica Chastain and wonderful direction from kathryn bigelow
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Dec 21, 2012Amazing . This is not a triumphant story in their telling, but it is one uncommonly freighted with the weight of history.Like the fictional Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs,'' Maya is a consummate professional who brilliantly performs her job in an often hostile work environment.
Jan 8, 2013TL;DR Brainless propaganda that will have you clapping to the national anthem with a hard-on for Merica and freedom.
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Jan 6, 2013This movie is pure propaganda and celebrates the assassination of an unarmed man without a chance of trail. Due process is what America was built on and this film tries to undermine this by getting the American citizenry to accept that sacrificing this moral foundation is okay. This film is nothing but propaganda and is as far from a good movie as possible.
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Jan 5, 2013Great film, but I wouldn't put it past Hollywood to have had its screenplay exaggerated and all--it's events don't match up to the ones that occurred in real life. It is effective as entertainment though.
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Jan 12, 2013This movie is perfect example of **** american propaganda. The movie is completely overrated by critics and should have never been nominated for best picture. its a generic action movie about american propaganda.
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Jan 12, 2013Yet another blatant exploitation of our nation's defense and security tactics. Everyone involved in this film should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Clearly too much information was leaked and everyone should boycott this kind of movie. Anything that provides this kind of insight into our military tactics carries the risk of putting our soldiers into harm's way.
Jan 6, 2013A perfect movie. Tension is built thorough the entire movie so that by the time the last 30 minutes is left, your heart will be pounding.Great acting all around, Chastain is wonderful, best actor win for sure, wait and see.
Jan 15, 2013This movie is a plot hole mess from start to finish. Is it trying to justify torture? Is it trying to tell me the US Government didn't know where Bin Laden was all the while? Propaganda horse **** This is the land of the free right? Not communist Russia. FFS.
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Dec 23, 2012This movie is great. Deals with the real life issue that happened just over a year ago and the result is a very well-done thriller. Jessica Chastain is amazing in this, glad to see what's to come for her.
Jan 9, 2013I wonder what happens.... This movie isn't historically accurate at all. I was almost turned off instantly when the trailer showed Seal Team 6 slowly approaching Osama's house. As if Osama and his guards wouldn't have heard the helicopter approach in the first place...
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Dec 28, 2012Zero Dark Thirty is a masterwork film. It's the shortest 2 hour 40 minute film I've ever seen. Director Kathryn Bigelow films have an inexplicable, almost unholy ability to grip you, from start to finish.
Jan 10, 2013it's no hurt locker. the timeline gaps water down the story. the 95 critic rating is BS. i don't see it. there are many better pictures in theaters right now. It is watchable but not powerful or memorable like hurt locker was. prepare for disappointment and you may come out ok.
Jan 15, 2013Zero Dark Thirty only proves the ability of Hollywood to conflate its own pompous self importance. The hype around this film is totally unwarranted. The narrative comes off like a flat reading of a history book. Zero Dark Thirty chokes under its own self-importance, and the obvious ego of its sub-par director.
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Jan 13, 2013Incredibly over-rated. It was like an episode of Homeland without the talented cast or surprises. The lead actress even reminds me of Claire Daines during some parts of the film. Interesting because of the "how it happened" aspect of the story but mostly disappointing. I think a documentary would have been just as effective.
Jan 25, 2013A very disappointing movie. I have no idea what the critics are on about. The only acting with any depth was the bit part by Fares Fares, the rest were quiet, gentle, dimensionless drones representing the CIA and army personnel calmly going about their business (right).
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Jan 18, 2013I think this movie is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. When you see a big gap between critic reviews and user reviews, the critics are trying to get you to buy a ticket so they can at least break even on the cost of this B rated movie. I want my money back.
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Jan 26, 2013Over-hyped United States rubbish. Even if you see past the jingoistic propaganda you're left with a poorly executed tedious B-movie. Yawn. Avoid at all costs.
Jan 31, 2013This movie didnt really need to be two and a half hours long and i think it got released to quickly. They could have done a much better job on on the actual raid because the soldiers that acted in that scene are no way even close to how soldiers act. In fact it was a disgrace to soldiers in reality.
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Jan 13, 2013You know that feeling you get after you take a **** that kind of just falls out of you, and you don't really feel refreshed afterwards? That's how this movie made me feel.
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May 19, 2013horrible film that shows senseless perverted violence and doesn't even bother to make a point
as a documentary it fails to answer or even stab at the real question WHY? Why did the US with all the resources of richest country could not locate a single man and/or destroy organization which he stood behind.
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Feb 6, 2013i heard one of the terrorist shot was named garfield
Mar 20, 2013I expected much more. Torture yeah yeah we know it's nessecary but not really enjoyable to watch. Someone said "Just because a women directed it doesn't mean its bad' what she got to do with this its still bad I have scene female directed films that wer 8 stars.
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Mar 21, 2013Well...truly amazing how bad a movie can be. Truly amazing how bad a script can be. Truly amazing how bad actors can act, I turned off the sound after a few minutes. This is worse than a home video of your dog catching a frisbee. Chastain is a complete miscast. Easily the worst movie of 2013, and the year has just started.
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Sep 17, 2013Worst movie I have ever wasted money on. I lost all faith in humanity when this garbage won awards and was given positive reviews. I hope no one actually thinks this is close to being realistic.
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Jan 11, 2013As a film, I really enjoyed it. It is engaging from beginning to end. This is not an action film, it's an attempt at a slightly dramatized re-enactment.
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Jan 11, 2013I was a huge fan of Bigelow's previous film, The Hurt Locker. That being said this movie fell short of my expectation. Overall it was too long and moved way to slow to keep my interest. I thought the acting was great and the direction had its moments (The last 30 minutes in particular). Unfortunately, I fail to see why this movie is receiving the critical praise that it is.
Jan 11, 2013this movie is the example of how a good movie have to be. Is incredibly emotional and beastly. You feel stressed in the final part of the movie but is a good stress. fantastic and highly recommended
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Feb 18, 2013Why are there bad reviews? THE MOVIE IS AWESOME, by far the best movie of 2012. It makes the Dark Knight Rises look like Garbage for little Kids.
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Feb 18, 2013I've been complaining about the lack of the ultimate movie about the 9/11 for quite a long time. I don't complain anymore, the tragic event finally has its masterpiece.
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Jan 16, 2013Fantastic film. And if you don't believe it, my friend, this is how it's gonna go down. I'm going to hold you down, stuff a rag down your throat and pour water up your nose. You will like this film sooner or later. How soon is up to you.
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Feb 1, 2013Strongly overhyped by the critics. Like Hurtlockers the Hunt-for-Bin-Laden lacks the thrill if would expect in ssuch topic and over long periods felt dull and boring. Bigelow is dissapointing and does not deserve an Oscar in my eyes. Why Hollywood critics try to hype her so much,,, no idea... perhaps because she is female....^^
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Jan 21, 2013The direction, cinematography, and editing are above reproach, and the film is riveting. But there is little for the mind here and less for the heart. Rather than a story about terrorism, it's a story about an obsessed female agent, and Ms. Chastain, however effective, is no Claire Danes.
Jan 5, 2013Excellent movie that is likely closer to the real truth than the goverment and CIA would like you to believe. More thriller and less Expendables....but a must see nonetheless. An important movie.
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Jan 21, 2013I'll start off by saying that this movie should be considered an action documentary and nothing more. There is no character development, the plot randomly jumps forward in time, there is constantly new information being added, and the movie is rather long. That being said, it was highly entertaining.
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Zero Dark Thirty is precise, definitive filmmaking, yet Bigelow refuses to hand over easy answers. Some people call that evasion. I call it the ultimate despair.
Gripping throughout, with an impressive central performance, this is like a Dogme 95 redo of a Chuck Norris film - by heroic effort, the good guys find and kill a bad guy. How you feel about that is something Bigelow leaves you to decide.
It's a mistake to confuse Zero Dark Thirty for "truth" – that would be a disservice to the high level of craftsmanship, from first-billed actors to below-the-line production crew, at work in this movie fiction – but there is admirably little fat on its bones.