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Thoroughly Mod Peggy Lipton Says– Want a man? Eat meat!
The first time I became a vegetarian lasted sixteen hours. My mother had come home from work and announced that she was tired and we kids were to fend for ourselves. The meat that was in the refrigerator included two hundred Murry's Italian meatballs for 1.99, and an empty box of Steakums that someone, I suspected my mother, had finished off, which meant she ate the last two because you needed at least two of the rectangle wafers to make one good faux steak sandwich.
I instead had an OLT (onion, lettuce, tomato), and mayo sandwich. I can't remember what my brother had, probably Corn Flakes. My sister being too industrious for an eight year old and for her own good, probably bummed a meal from one of the neighbor's claiming, as she often did, that someone in our small clan was treating her with unreasonable cruelty, which was only half true, because there was always a reason. Sixteen hours later, back at school, I was standing first in a line of three, ready to wolf down two loaded half smokes from one of those "ice cream" trucks that park in front of schools expressly for teens (like the one I had been) who refuse to start the day without having a good breakfast.
Years later, in my twenties and on my own, I was playing with the idea of becoming a nonmeat eater as opposed to a strict vegetarian. I was open to taking this more moderate stance, although my good friend Kayla had become a full throttle vegetarian and seemed hell bent on getting me to do the same. I was having none of it. When and if I chose to become a vegetarian, it would be my decision, and mine alone. And, all her haranguing about chickens: what chickens ate, where chickens slept, everything I never wanted to know about the chicken life cycle, the True Untold Purdue Story, fell on profoundly deaf ears.
She even attempted to coerce me by having me over to view a bootlegged film on the tyrannical chicken industry, what she initially described as a small "get together" of friends, who she claimed could not wait to meet me. "I've been telling them all about you, and they're dying to meet you, girl," she went on. She knew that if she had been upfront, told me that these were people I should meet: forward thinking, hardcore vegetarians out to make the world a better place for every living thing, large and small, it wouldn't have worked. At 22, I was already fortunate to know all the people I ever wanted to know – all five, one of which at that time doing his part to make the world better by completing 200 hours of court ordered community service.
Ever since her conversion, when she met 6'3, 160 pounds, Steven, three years before, all her friends were vegetarian, all except for me. She also let me know as I snooped around the kitchen looking for something to nosh that there would be a short presentation. I understood. Kayla and I had been friends since high school; we met working the front (me) and drive thru (her) registers at Wendy's. I knew what she was capable of. I had seen her chow down on too many triple cheese burgers to count, and had no problem regaling her guests on the many ways she could do a triple cheese: triple cheese topped with Wendy's chili, triple cheese with fried onions, green peppers and mushrooms, and triple cheese the healthy way, with just pickles and mustard, if it came down to this, I'd tell it all.
The guests, three couples, didn't seem to know me from the nearest rice cake, which I noticed they scarfed down as if they were some great life altering treat instead of biodegradable coasters. After dinner, an au gratin medley of assorted root vegetables topped with bread crumbs and something Kayla swore was just like cheese, we adjourned to do what everyone except for me was there for: the indoctrination. Kayla did PETA proud. By the time the VCR stopped, and someone had the great idea of hitting rewind so it could be watched one more time, I was already up, coat in hand, swearing to everyone that I'd never eat another eyed creature again, and had to leave in order to wrap my mind around all I had taken in, that thoroughly disgusted, I now needed time alone to properly digest all I had seen.
I meant this too. Right up until I walked into McDonald's and hurriedly scanned the menu board for their salad selections. I meant it still as I ordered a Big Mac, and then as I opened the container and lifted the bun, and even as I picked up the beef patty to strategically center it, assuring that I'd get a mouthful of meat in each delicious bite. My one regret? I would have preferred a Whooper and wished Burger King had been the closer of the two meateries.
I did eventually go meatless a year later, but not because of any coercion that night at Kayla's. The absence of meat in my diet was due solely to economics. I was young, had a small studio apartment in Dupont Circle in D.C. and wouldn't have possibly had any money for fun if I hadn't tightened my belt. And seeing how rice and beans net so many more meals than the same amount of money spent on bacon, meatless was the way to go.
This lasted for several years. I was happy and, in my mother's opinion, dangerously thin. Then I experienced what Peggy Lipton says she went through with meeting Quincy Jones. In her autobiography "Breathing Out" Lipton recounts how Quincy cooked lamb chops for her on their first date. Lipton hadn't eaten meat for six years, and she said she knew with that first dinner that it was "going to be a truly carnivorous event," that all her dietary decisions up to that point were about to go out the door. "I fell madly in love," she said in a People magazine interview. "I saw him cooking meat and thought, 'If I'm going to be with him, I'm going to have to change.'
I remember reading this in my twenties after the demise of their marriage and thinking, 'Poor Peggy, she was Julie from the Mod Squad, the girl every guy wanted, and she had to change who she was to be with a man. How sad, so sad. Poor Peggy.' How was I to know that seven years later, I would be doing my own version of carnivorous conversion? Like Peggy, I, too, knew the first time I saw mister man. I knew he was someone I wanted to know better. I also knew a body like his wasn't maintained by eating sprouts or downing wheatgrass shots. And if it was, then those sprouts were probably topped with a 20 oz steak and the wheatgrass definitely came with a Hennessey chaser.
I was like a closet smoker who meets the nonsmoker of her dreams. At every meeting, there was the lie told for not eating meat: "Oh, I had bacon and sausage for breakfast," or "I'm so bloated, I'm eating light today." I would have said this and more not to admit the truth to him, that I didn't eat meat. Or not to have to come to terms with what was becoming very clear: If I wanted to be with this man, I was going to have to Peggy Lipton it -- I was going to have to start eating meat.
We had a good run. Two years filled with lots of drama (the calm kind), lots of laughs, and lots of meat. After several tries at dissolution, it finally stuck. I stood in my dining room as the last two years of my life unfurled before my eyes. A simple request on my part about ponying up his share for a trip to Jamaica, a trip I had already asked him about several times, with him finally agreeing, "Yeah, we can do that," ends with him saying three weeks before departure, "Yeah, let me get back to you on it. Money's tight right now." I watched him pick up the fork to begin eating the lasagna I had prepared, packed with meat, the way he liked it.
"I can't do this."
He put down the fork, food untouched. "Can't do what, babe?"
"This." I said. And, it was over.
No, "I'll put that in some Tupperware, so you can take it with you," from me.
No, "Well, I know you're upset. Perhaps, I can get this in a container, call you tomorrow, and we can talk then," from him.
Instead, he walked to the door. This time, I held the door open.
Since parting, I've been playing with the veggy thing again, this time around with more emphasis on leading a healthier life. There's my anemia to consider. But I've been told this can be remedied just as easily with iron supplements rather than eating red meat. Then, too, there's always the economics of eating meat. Pound for pound, cost wise, beans and rice, beat steak every time. Or, I could just do what millions of people do every day: eat what I want, when I want, remembering the cardinal rule for most things in life: moderation.
It's not like being a vegetarian has to be a sociopolitical, lifestyle or entertainment choice. For me, it can simply be that thing needed to see me through, keep me moving forward.
©2010 Willett Thomas
I prefer being a vegetarian though.
Great story and I never knew that about Peggy Lipton.
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Great piece!
I liked this part. Simply stated, and it gets your point across. Nice post.
And...I grew up watching The Mod Squad and adored Lipton!
Meat. It does a body good! (R)
Brava! I loved it.
To my great delight, the options available are amazingly varied and taste-intense. We tend to favor Indian, Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Mid-Eastern and simple American fare. There are some "meat substitutes" available - veggie burgers and sausages. I have found some to be superior to their meat-offal originals.
Our strategy has developed into substituting intense and interesting taste for the hard-wired appreciation of dead animal. When I crave a steak, I can generally assuage the need with a first rate vegan Indian buffet and some a decent beer.
Am I meeting my health goals? A little bit. Ecological goals? That is a very long term proposition. Moral goals? The enourmous egg recall should shed light on the abhorent conditions hens endure in factory farms. I have already encountered cattle and pig farming operations which make me ashamed to be human.
I love the taste of meat. Pork carnitas and a prime rib are among my favorite experiences...in moderation.
So if I could procure meat, dairy and eggs which do not involve the mistreatment or premature death of living creatures, I'm there.
My farmer Aunt and Uncle used to look to their "egg money" to purchase those little things that made their life more enjoyable. And those chickens were treated like birds that laid golden eggs. They were.
Maybe we can benefit from a roll-back to simpler times - smaller, family farms, local to market systems. At first glance this may appear to cost more. But what really is the cost of the mass produced, factory farmed, highly processed food we purchase now?
My testimony is this: You don't have to betray your ethics or planet to enjoy a diet of really satisfying and nutritious foods. You can even remain overweight as a vegan. And for every factory farm that goes "belly up" because of rampant veganism, there will be a hundred family farms to fill the void and provide healthy and humane food for those of us who care.
I love the way you connect various hungers in this article: the hunger for a particular lover, the hunger for a hunk o'meat, the hunger simply to be let be. Whatever you choose to eat, bon appetit!
Peggy would have had a hard time finding meat there or fish and eggs I believe, if you don't count them in the animal category.
I understand the feeling the writer speaks of in this article. I had been a vegetarian for many years. It had created conflicts in me. When I began in college, I competed with my peers on who was eating meat and who wasn't. I couldn't excel some of the girls I knew, one of which I "loved." It was quite disappointing to not make the grade, "veggie wise" that is. I lived at home with my mother and father and mom was always making great things, i.e. Mexican Cornbread which had ground beef in it and Freshly Caught Deep Fried Bass. She also prepared a lot of liver which my father liked. It was better for him than steak and cheaper, too. So, that was where I fell behind my girlfriends whom, as far as I knew, were the perfect vegetarians. When we completely separated, not even seeing the same people anymore, I fell into eating meat again, thinking this was what was missing from life. I still lived with mom and dad and I was eating egg noodles and kidney beans while the old man was having turkey and gravy. I found the turkey and gravy was not really so hot when I broke from the veggy-ism to try dad's diet.
I returned to vegetarianism in 1991, about the same time I quit smoking and just a year before my father died. It seemed I couldn't have this very important "Intensive" that I had heard of in Siddha Yoga without quitting the meat & the smokes. I didn't drink or smoke dope for years by then. The last pot party I went to was in 1977. The end of drinking followed soon thereafter.
I needed help getting off of the meat and so I went to Hare Krsna Sunday Feasts. I loved their food. I was very happy to be off the meat. I thought it was attractive to girls/women. I did also have some spiritual leanings that had started back in the 70's. Yay, as far back as the Woodstock Festival when Swami Satchidananda gave the blessings for it and a fellow in the movie taught a group of kids how to awaken their Kundalini.
So, I went back to vegetarianism and went to many, many Intensives including the one in N.Y. for Gurumayi's birthday and somehow it kind of fell apart. I went back to school to learn computer programming and actually got in a little trouble there with a teacher who never even taught a class I had and then I went out to look for work and there was none. G.W. Bush had been elected, the towers had fallen and years of nothingness followed. I recalled how earnest I was in being a vegetarian as a college student and I thought "why was I so hard on myself? I didn't eat that much meat. Why couldn't I call myself a vegetarian anyway?" Meanwhile the newspapers were coming up with new expressions like "practically vegetarian." I wondered did that mean almost vegetarian, or vegetarian where it mattered? Vegetarian so you don't offend? Vegetarian to the extent that it kept the cholesterol down? What exactly did it mean?
I developed diabetes type 2 in the late 90's. I think maybe eating so much. Not only did I eat at the Sunday Feast but I had a special dish that Siddha Yoga offered and whose recipe I obtained called at the time Sour Cereal. Nowadays it is called Savory Cereal. It is made of oatmeal, tomatoes, onions, jalapena peppers, cayenne, coconut, fenugreek, cumin seed and ginger. I hope I didn't leave anything out I'm planning on making it this weekend.
Although oatmeal is know to lower the cholesterol my doctor actually advised me against eating sour cereal because oatmeal would put weight on me.
I developed heart problems later. I had a heart attack in 2004.
I'm trying very hard to stay with the vegetarianism but I sometimes do wonder as important people in my life are meat eaters, just like Quincy Jones and Peggy Liption. I read that Jesus was a vegetarian but that he would eat meat if the house he was staying at only had that to offer him. Of course Jesus and fish is a famous connection.
So, I have wondered into tuna fish and then into my big brother's turkey at Thanksgiving and on to some cold cuts. When mom was alive I even delved into hot dogs. We loved to watch Yankee baseball.
Mom who also participated in vegetarianism, died in 2007 of a stroke. I pray it wasn't those hot dogs that caused the blood clot that went to her brain.


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THE FIFTH-LARGEST international association of accountancy firms, IGAF Polaris, has rebranded to PrimeGlobal following a recent burst of merger activity.
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UK accountancy firms that work in the PrimeGlobal association include Top 40 firms Cooper Parry, Buzzacott and Littlejohn, as well as Top 100 firms Simmons Gainsford, Creaseys, Hurst and Thomas Westcott, according to the Accountancy Age Top 50+50 survey.
"We believe our new name and website set PrimeGlobal apart in the same way that our member firms' expertise, relationships, and global connectivity set us apart from many other associations in our market space," said Kevin Mead, (pictured) CEO of PrimeGlobal.
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Baseball City, USA
By Samantha Carr
The new book "Silver Seasons and a New Frontier: The Story of the Rochester Red Wings" set out to show that Rochester, N.Y., has the deepest, longest and richest baseball tradition of any minor league city.
Since 22 Hall of Famers have a connection to Rochester, the book makes a pretty good case.
Authors Jim Mandelaro and Scott Pitoniak were in Cooperstown Friday for an Authors' Series event at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and participated in a book signing following their talk. Mandelaro has covered the Red Wings for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle since 1991, and Pitoniak is the author of 10 books.
"We've known each other for a quarter of a century, and what keeps our friendship going is our love for baseball," said Pitoniak.
The authors set out to compile a definitive history of the Red Wings, retrace the careers of the players and managers who called Rochester home. Rochester has been named "Baseball City, USA" by Baseball America magazine. Among the many great ballplayers who have been a part of the Red Wings are Hall of Famers Stan Musial, Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray, George Sisler, Billy Southworth, Jocko Conlan, Bob Gibson, Earl Weaver and Frank Robinson.
Each has a different connection with Rochester. Sisler came down to Rochester to play after his career in the big leagues. It was the only time the Hall of Famer spent time in the minors and was also the only team he was on which won a pennant. Hall of Fame umpire Jocko Conlan took the field as a player in Rochester, and Cal Ripken Jr. first came to Rochester as a boy in 1969 because his father managed the Red Wings for two seasons.
Cal and Billy Ripken would move to Rochester from their permanent home in Maryland for the summer and play ball in a lot near their rented home.
"The year Cal was inducted (into the Hall of Fame, 2007), I tracked down a few people who were neighbors during that time and they said the Ripken boys always played in their perfect full Oriole uniforms," Pitoniak said.
Cal Ripken Jr. returned to the Red Wings as a player, earning International League Rookie of the Year honors and placing second in MVP voting in 1981. He also took part in the longest game in the history of professional baseball that season – a 33-inning affair against the Pawtucket Red Sox.
"How fitting that the man who symbolizes the Iron Man, Ripken played in all 114 Red Wings games (he was eligible for) that season and also played 33 innings in one game – of all the people who could have played in that game," said Mandelaro.
Samantha Carr is the manager of web and digital media at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
A pitch for Cooperstown
By Bill Francis
During a May 29 visit to Syracuse to catch a Syracuse Chiefs home game at Alliance Bank Stadium, I ran into former big league pitcher Steve Grilli. Though fireballing phenom Stephen Strasburg was pitching that night, Grilli seemed more excited about the news he had recently received.
"I just got my invitation to play in this year's Hall of Fame Classic," a smiling Grilli said. "If I didn't, I was going to beg to go back because I had such a wonderful time with my family there last year. It's a great weekend. I just think Cooperstown is a Norman Rockwell city. You can't help but have a good time over there."
Grilli, who calls Syracuse home now, pitched for the Chiefs for four seasons (1978-81) and broadcasts their games on TV and radio. A frequent visitor to Cooperstown over the years, he pitched a scoreless fifth inning to help Team Wagner to a 5-4 win over Team Collins in last year's Hall of Fame Classic at historic Doubleday Field.
"I can always say I relieved Bob Feller, which I did last year," said Grilli, referring to the Hall of Fame hurler. "I was on the same team with Bob and I was one of the relievers that relieved him, so I can always say I pitched with Bob Feller."
Grilli admits to enjoying the change in format from the previous Hall of Fame Game, in which two big league teams played.
"I think this new way of doing it is exciting because you're getting to see the Hall of Famers, and the guys that I played with that are in the Hall of Fame had a ball, as well as some of us serviceable players like myself," said Grilli, the father of major league pitcher Jason Grilli. "I got to ride in the parade with my grandson and rub shoulders with some of the better players who have ever come through the game."
Grilli finished his four-year big league career (1975-77, 1979), spent mostly with the Detroit Tigers, with a record of 4-3. His claim to fame is as the losing pitcher in the longest game in professional baseball history, a 33-inning International League contest in 1981 that saw Pawtucket come away with a 3-2 win over Rochester.
When asked about Strasburg, the Syracuse pitcher we were both waiting to see this night, Grilli had only high praise.
"What I'm most impressed with is his breaking stuff. There are guys in the big leagues that throw 96, 97, 98, this kid was two other really well developed pitches to go along with that 98 mile per hour fastball," Grilli said. "He pitches at 96, 97, he'll touch 98, 99, 100 when he has to, but his breaking ball is devastating. I was comparing it to Kerry Wood breaking ball when he struck out the 20 or the Nolan Ryan type of curveball. It's hard and it's sharp."
Grilli referred to a former teammate when asked what it had been like to witness in person all of Strasburg's Syracuse starts.
"It's something I can only compare to one thing and that was Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych. I was part of that club when Mark broke in with Detroit when he went 19-9 in his rookie season (1976)," Grilli said. "This kid's got that same kind of electricity. And the attention he's drawn in this town is something I've never seen."
With Cooperstown only 60 miles from Syracuse, could Grilli see Strasburg with his own plaque in the National Baseball Hall of Fame one day?
"He has the stuff to be a Hall of Famer some day if he continues to throw as he has."
Bill Francis is a library associate for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Cooperstown stirs Hall of Fame memories
By Bill Franics
On Sunday, Cooperstown's historic Doubleday Field played host to a pair of Triple-A minor league teams – whose players are one step away from the majors. The game came exactly six weeks to the day before Joe Gordon, Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice are inducted into the Hall of Fame as the Class of 2009.
Cooperstown Classic II saw the International League's Pawtucket Red Sox come away with a 15-5 win over the Syracuse Chiefs. With the game's greatest enshrined down the street in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the two squads' off-field personnel who had played with and against Rice and Henderson shared their thoughts on the duo.
"I think I still have a bruise from a line drive hit off my arm on my first pitch of a spring training game in 1982 by Rickey," joked Syracuse pitching coach Rich Gale, a 6-foot-7 righty who pitched in the big leagues from 1978-84. "I was saying on the way over here that I should go visit the Hall of Fame because there's a lot of guys I helped get in there."
Actually, Rice had only a .147 batting average (5-for-34) against Gale.
"I happened to have good success against Jim Rice. But boy, I'll tell you what, I was never overconfident," Gale said. "Every time he was in the box you knew that every swing could be a home run. You could make a nasty, nasty pitch and he'd rifle the ball to right, right-center or he'd launch one on to the Mass. Pike at Fenway."
Gale spent his final big league season in 1984 as Rice's teammate with the Boston Red Sox. "The first time he saw me in spring training he joked, 'I hope you make our club. Don't get traded to somebody.' He remembered that I had some success against him."
As for Henderson, Gale said, "I'm sure he saw me pitching out there and when he got on base he licked his chops because I had a big, long, slow delivery. My catchers weren't too happy about that.
"He's a guy you could throw one pitch to to lead off a game and be behind 1-0 after he hit a home run. Or you could throw one pitch and he'd be on first base, the next thing it's second, and the next thing it's third. And then you get an out from the second guy and you're still behind 1-0. It was a tremendous, tremendous package."
Pawtucket batting coach Russ Morman, who spent most of his nine-year major league playing career at first base, remembered the pressure Henderson could put on a pitcher.
"Every time he got on base he was a threat to go and cause havoc on the base paths," Morman said. "Rickey never stayed at first very long."
Syracuse batting coach Darnell Coles was another contemporary, spending 14 years in the majors (1983-95, 1997), including one as a teammate of Henderson's with the World Series-winning 1993 Toronto Blue Jays.
"Rickey is Rickey," Coles said with a smile. "He's the catalyst of your team, he gets on base, he sets things in motion on the bases that not a whole lot of people have done."
Coles spent most of time as a third baseman, always alert when Henderson was on base.
"I think it was more of a matter of when he wanted to steal bases. He could steal them pretty much anytime he wanted because he could see things other guys couldn't," Coles said. "And he just continued to do that over the course of his career. Then with all the leadoff home runs, he was just a special player."
Coles recalled Rice as one of the most prolific right-handed hitters that he'd ever played against.
"Rice was just a guy that you want up with the game on the line," Coles said. "He's also one of those guys you wanted on your team if there was a brawl. He was somebody who had a clubhouse presence. He was a guy with a certain stature who'd go out and play the game the right way, break up double plays, do the things it takes to play on championship caliber team."
Tom Foli, the Syracuse manager, was a 16-year veteran at second base who saw a little too much of Henderson.
"He was ridiculous," Foli said. "He'd dive head first into second base. He's probably the only guy that ever actually hurt me when he dove in. Everybody else you could kind of stop, but he was so strong he could actually take you out diving. That's how fast and how hard he slid."
Rice was just an RBI machine, according to Foli.
"A great hitter you like that you had to go right at them because if you pitch around them you're going to make more mistakes," Foli said. "If you make good pitches you have a chance to get them out seven out of 10 times. You don't make good pitches they're going to make you pay."
The 2009 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring Rice and Henderson as well as Joe Gordon, will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 26. Admission is free.
Bill Francis is a library associate for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.


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What plans are offered on Maryland's health insurance exchange?
Marylanders who need insurance under health reform because they don't have it through their employer or a federal plan will be able to get it from a state exchange. Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese M. Goldsmith discusses the kinds of plans that are offered on the exchange, called Maryland Health Connection, which opened Tuesday. People shopping for health insurance can compare the specific plans at marylandhealthconnection.gov. Coverage starts in January.
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Under the health reform law, everyone who files a federal income tax form is required to have insurance. Most employers also have to offer it. The idea is that for reform to work, everyone needs to enroll so that there is a good mix of healthy and sick people paying into and using the system. People can choose not to have insurance and companies can choose not to offer plans. But it will cost them. Analysts with The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County explain the penalties for those who choose not to participate in reform.
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How will Medicaid expand in Maryland?
Medicaid will undergo a major expansion under health reform. Charles Milligan, the state's deputy secretary for health care financing, explains who will qualify.
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Much of the attention over what changes federal health reform will bring has focused on doctor visits and hospital stays. But what about dental care?
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As the state health insurance marketplaces, also called exchanges, get set to launch in October, many people have questions about the coverage that will be offered. Here are a few that were posed to me recently:
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Date of Birth: September 20,1930
Date of Death: April 16, 2014
Ardis "Dee" Murray, 83, formerly of Estes Park, made her final journey in life on Wednesday April 16, 2014, at the 9th Street Chautauqua Guest Home in Charles City, IA.
A memorial service for Dee Murray was held on Saturday April 19, 2014 at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City, IA. Pastor Forest Cornelius of First Congregational Church officiated.
Ardis Ann Carter Murray was born September 20, 1930, in Sloan, IA, the daughter of Dewey and Ila (Stephens) Carter. She graduated from high school in Sioux City, IA in 1948. On December 18, 1958, she was united in marriage to Ned Murray, in Lincoln, NE. They spent most of their lives in Estes Park, CO, where they owned and operated Heidi House and the Olympus Lodge. Dee worked at Hidden Valley Ski Resort, in the kitchen, and Dee also worked at First National Bank. She was a member of the First Congregational Church and Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, as a proud member, as well. Dee liked to sew, knit, bake, read, and have lunch out/dinner theater dates with her "girlfriends." Family was always very important to Dee, and she looked forward to sharing life with them, especially her grand daughter, Harlie.
Living family members include four children, Cindy (Gene) LaBounty of Charles City, IA, Mike (Kathy) Murray of Erie, CO, Pat (Nicki) Murray of Estes Park, CO and Sean (Theresa) Murray also of Estes Park, CO; four grandchildren, Lori Estlund of Charles City, IA, Kim Swanstrom of Charles City, IA, Bryan Murray of Erie, CO, and Harlie Murray of Estes Park, CO; and two great grandchildren, Bryant Estlund and Mandy Swanstrom, both of Charles City, IA.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ned Murray on November 18, 1998, and two grandsons, Brent and Eric Murray.
A family service is scheduled for a later date.
Memorials may be sent to Hospice of North Iowa, 232 2nd Street SE, Mason City, IA 50401.


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Its return has sparked both celebration and pessimism among fans and music-industry types. It seems that for every person thrilled to have the chance to experience the sights and sounds of Lollapalooza again or for the first time, there's a skeptic insisting that the magical vibe of the first go-around can't possibly be duplicated (while invariably pointing to Woodstock '99) or complaining that it's all just about filling the Jane's frontman's coffers once more.
Farrell may be esoteric, but he's not oblivious. He's heard all the negative voices yet declares he's brought back the festival for all the right reasons, and he won't allow the naysayers to get the best of him. "The way you rise above it is that you just gotta know in your heart that what you're doing is wonderful," Farrell says. "We got some spectacular live talent, and we're doing all kinds of amazing groundbreaking things. You just go forward, because the people that will try to mess it up can't."
You have to admire his indomitable spirit, but on paper, it's hard to look past the narrow scope of this year's bill: It's primarily heavy-duty rock acts and, as such, not distinct enough from Ozzfest, Warped, or even Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour. Only hip-hoppers Jurassic 5 deviate from that norm on the main stage, and there's nary an electronic act to be found.
"That's the one thing that was so hard to do right," Farrell admits. "This year, the tour promoters did not have a good feeling about electronic music. [Moby's] Area:One and Area:Two didn't do well. So I just couldn't get any money from the promoters for those kind of artists."
Still, Lollapaloozas don't happen on paper -- only when the crowd has gathered and the music's pouring from the speakers can anyone know if it's a success or a dud. And from top to bottom, tour virgins to tour veterans, all the musicians on the bill seem genuinely psyched to be a part of the revived festival, which bodes well for the quality of the day's performances.
"I used to mow my parents' lawn listening to Ritual de lo Habitual in, like, ninth grade, so now it's pretty unreal to me to be on tour with Jane's Addiction," laughs new Distillers guitarist Tony Bevilacqua, who hopes to generate the same excitement for this year's fans that he experienced seeing the first Lollapalooza 12 years ago. "I grew up in the woods of Rhode Island, and I didn't have a cool older sister to get me into college music or whatever. So it was awesome seeing all those bands and just having this crazy fun time."
"I don't really think too much about what people are saying about it either way -- I've always thought the idea was cool," says Queens of the Stone Age's Mark Lanegan, who appeared on the 1996 edition of Lollapalooza with his former band, Screaming Trees. "It's a great day of music, and I definitely enjoy playing it."
That despite one memorable incident from seven years ago.
"At one show, I got hit in the head with a sandwich," he deadpans. "It was a big one. I'm not sure what was in it, but it was a foot-long, and luckily it was wrapped. Josh [Homme], who was playing with the Trees at the time, actually got roughed up by the bouncers -- he went out in the crowd after whoever threw it, and apparently they mistook him for a troublemaker. This time should be a little different."
Then again, maybe not -- prankster Steve-O from Jackass is on the tour, and he's prowling for targets.
"Oh great," Lanegan snorts. "Maybe I'll get my balls stapled to something."
Here's a look at this year's lineup:
JANE'S ADDICTION: They've "relapsed," only this time Perry and company insist it's for good and have offered up a new album, Strays, as proof of their collectively recharged engine. They've also got a new bassist --onetime Alanis Morissette low-end rider Chris Chaney -- in tow. (Original Jane's bassist Eric Avery now plays with Ms. Morissette. Ironic, don'tcha think?) Of course, purists and cynics will scoff, saying that the real band died in 1991 and that this is a sad attempt to recapture past glories after watching their solo careers fall upon deaf ears. Granted, these types of reunions usually reek of greed and mediocrity ('sup, Axl?), but Strays is actually surprisingly good, with at least a handful of songs that will hold their own in the quartet's classics-laden set. Jane's might not be the mysterious and dangerously depraved juggernaut of old, but they're still more than able to conjure up the epic, arty, hard-rock bombast that's cemented their icon status.


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A new update to 'Democracy in a Federalised Europe' updated 17.02.2015
Here is the latest update of the ebook. It has a new, additional chapter 8 entitled 'Our Armed forces are being deliberately Neutered'. I hope you find it interesting.
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Denmark may put EU banking union membership to referendum
Friday, 23 January 2015 17:28
Denmark's government may need to put the question of whether the country should join the EU's banking union to a referendum, its economy minister said on Friday. Danish institutions and voters are divided over whether to seek membership of the union, launched in November with the European Central Bank as lead supervisor of the sector. Morten Ostergaard said the government had not yet decided whether to recommend joining and would call a referendum if a constitutional need for one arose. "We will stick to the rules of the Danish constitution meaning we would need one only if we were to give away further sovereignty," he told a parliamentary committee. Last Updated (Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:32) City Eye: Facts on a plate: our population is at least 77 million
Monday, 08 December 2014 16:50
It is the statistic that dare not speak its name, though eventually it must. It has huge ramifications for the civil and political life of this country, the health of the equity markets and, most immediately, the residential property market. So don't forget you read it here first: the population of the UK is presently somewhere between 77 and 80 million. The euro is heading for disaster - what luck for David Cameron!
Thursday, 11 December 2014 11:10
The final unwinding of the disastrous single currency could give Britain everything it wants from Europe As Karl Marx was one of the earliest to point out, economics (though so much less interesting) is far more important than politics. Marx considered all political events as epiphenomena. He viewed great men as blind instruments of irresistible forces which they themselves could hardly comprehend. I'd welcome Turkey into the EU, says PM: Cameron says it remains 'long-standing goal' for country to join despite his drive to reduce net migration
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Huff – A poet in Colombia wants to go to Europe so much that he's willing to fund the trip in a very ballsy way: selling his testicles.Rafael Medina Brochero, 52, is selling the matching set of semen-producing genitalia for the lump sum of $20,000 to fund a European tour in which he'll participate in "Poetry for Peace in Colombia," according to ColombiaReports.com. Brochero did not say whether the surgery would be covered in the $20,000, but he said the presumedly used testes might be able to be transplanted into a sterile person or used to make soup, Yahoo! Australia reported. It might be a desperate way to raise money, but Brochero sees it as addition by subtraction. The poet simply doesn't want to repeat an experience he had while touring Bolivia last year when he ran out of cash and had to pawn his wedding ring, TheNewAge.co.za reported. Journalist Scott Carney, author of "The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers" (Harper Collins), said Brochero's ballsy sale must be considered an art project because there is no real market for testicles. "There is no real value for any body part," Carney told The Huffington Post. "It's what gets negotiated, like a used car."
Jesus christ, this guy fucking LOVES vacations huh? Like nothing is sacred in his pursuit of traveling. Pawned his wedding ring to fund his last trip, and now he's gonna go ahead and chop off his balls to get to Europe. Just castrate the shit out of himself for airfare and lodging to get to some Poetry and Peace thing. I mean between poems, peace talks, and having no balls in your sack, that has to be the gayest vacation in history.
Look bro, I'm sure you think it's gonna be a cool time and all, but here's what I promise you. It's not gonna be "slice out your balls and auction them to the highest bidder" cool. Not even the pasta in Italy is worth that price of admission. I'd recommend keeping your sack at full capacity and just having them Skype you into the conference. Way more practical.
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Google's doodles: Who's behind them?
The occasional artistic "doodles" that replace the Google logo are seen by hundreds of millions of people. But who are the brains behind them?
A playable Les Paul guitar, a Pac-Man game and a keyboard in celebration of Robert Moog. These are just some of the many doodles that Google has displayed on its home page.
What started in 1998 as a stick figure drawing behind the letter "o" to show the team were out of the office, has now developed into intricate designs, games and artistic representations of famous figures and events.
There have been more than 1,000 doodles. They depict both the famous and the less well-known, they feature anniversaries and some more idiosyncratic tributes, and are increasingly becoming interactive and shareable.
How else would hundreds of millions of people been reminded of Amelia Earhart's 115th birthday or that Gideon Sundback was the inventor of the zip? On his 132nd birthday, Google placed a giant zip down their home page.
On every day of the 2012 Olympics, a new sport-themed doodle has lived above the search bar. One day it was synchronised swimming, another day users could practise shooting hoops against the clock.
With every new doodle comes a raft of online news articles. The choice of doodle is always a noteworthy event, not least among bored office workers for whom the sketches offer a welcome splash of variety into their daily routine.
Whether one treats the doodles as art or design, they are among the most viewed examples in the world.
Despite the attention, there is little focus on the creators.
Watch the Charlie Chaplin doodle and you will get a glimpse, although in costume, of the team who call themselves "doodlers".
They are seen by hundreds of millions of people. Some are put together in a few hours - others, like the Freddie Mercury tribute, take several months to complete. All are created by the handful of "doodlers" who sit in a small office in California.
The team's "creative lead", Ryan Germick, says he doesn't dwell on the idea of his work being viewed by such a mindboggling number of people.
"Human brains are not built to understand how hundreds of millions of people interpret something. For me it's more about seeing if I can make my colleagues laugh, or learn a new technique. Then I've done my job.
"We just make sure we are representing art and technology in the best possible way."
He says they don't categorise themselves as artists or designers.
Breaking branding rules
I love the doodles because from a branding perspective they break all the rules. One branding convention is to keep logos consistent. Because the Google brand is so pervasive and has a constant presence, the brand could become like wallpaper. The doodle is something surprising to keep things fresh and interesting.
Tim Hill - The Brand Union
Other companies would quickly lose their customers trust and familiarity if they changed their logo so often. Google can afford to change it because you are already where they want you to be - at their search page. A logo is only one part of a brand's identity. Google's identity is conveyed as much by its streamlined page design as anything else. You don't need to see the Google logo to know you are on their home page.
Lisa Downey Merriam - Brand consultant
"We are the line between entertainment, arts, technology and graphic design. Those lines are very blurry."
The team, he says, are trying to deliver a maximum amount of joy with the limited resources available. Once designer Dennis Hwang was responsible for most of the doodles, but he has since moved on to other things. Individuals on the team don't usually take credit for their work.
"It's not about us as individuals, it's about Google as a culture," says Germick.
Most of those working on the technical side of the doodles do so under Google's 20% principle - where their day job is something else but a fifth of their time can be dedicated to a project.
Kris Hom, a technical engineer who used to be one of the 20% and only recently joined the doodle team full time, says the pinnacle for him was when his mother shared her score from one of the Olympic playable doodles.
The doodles are a way to "humanise the home page", says Hom.
The decision on what's featured, says Germick, is a "fairly democratic process" and is more about the element of surprise and finding a memory or person that's "a good fit", than celebrating common anniversaries. If they had to wait for Earhart's 150th birthday, for example, it would be a very long wait.
Suggestions from the public as well as ideas from Google offices in other countries play a big role. A lot of work is done using digital drawing tools, but sometimes a doodle originates as a physical painting. Doodler Jennifer Hom, painted the Gustav Klimt birthday doodle using faux gold leaf and oil paint, on canvas.
"I wanted to pay homage to Klimt with his most famous painting, The Kiss. I hope that our humble doodle does his brilliant legacy some justice," she wrote.
Continue reading the main storySo are the doodles art?
"The point about art is that it is free of function," says Deyan Sudjic, director of London's Design Museum. "Design - which used to be called commercial art - is tied down by a functional obligation.
I see them as a playful way of commenting on what's going on but not as art. They are interesting because they start a conversation.
I don't sit down as a fellow designer and critique and analyse them. They are disposable. Just because the audience are heavily exposed to them doesn't make them good or the most recognised pieces of design work.
Many things are put in front of our nose, and while we may engage with them briefly, we also forget about them quickly. People go to Google for a purpose and the doodles may interrupt that journey.
Paul Bailey
Graphic designer and lecturer
"Andy Warhol began as an illustrator and made himself into an artist. The drawings he did as an illustrator sell for a lot, but not as much as his art does."
But graphic designer Si Scott - whose work includes corporate clients but also features in exhibitions - believes that these days design, including the doodles, is the new modern art.
Jasmine Montgomery, chief executive of marketing company Seven Brands, disagrees.
"Once you are being paid to harness your creativity to branding or advertising, it's not strictly art because it's serving a commercial master and not a purely creative master.
"The doodles are part of a well-designed customer experience. They are the equivalent of a hotel designing a nice lobby or a product coming in beautiful packaging," she argues.
It's hard to get away from the underlying corporate purpose of the doodles. They help Google play with its image - an image that occasionally comes under attack either because of privacy or accusations of tax avoidance.
The quirkier facts behind the doodles create "water cooler conversation", says branding consultant Lisa Downey Merriam, of Merriam Associates.
"The doodles are fun charming, playful and engaging, most of all they are relevant and sometimes even surprising - all this portrays some of the Google's personality."
And as long as the company retains its dominance, those sketches and scribbles - whether you see them as art, design, entertainment or hard-headed branding - will be a ubiquitous part of everyday browsing.


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Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton have maintained a close bond since the Royal wedding, regularly calling each other and meeting up.
Now, the handsome Prince is said to have offered Pip a shoulder to cry on following her split from broker Alex Loudon.
A source told Now magazine: "Harry and Pippa have always had a close relationship and when he heard about the break-up he told her he'd be a shoulder to cry on if she needed it." What a kind chap.
Harry is said to think highly of Pip, reportedly joking at the end of his Best Man's speech, at Kate and William's wedding, that Miss Middleton should call him.
The cheeky Prince also hit the headlines on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's big day when he mouthed something to bridesmaid Pippa on the balcony, believed to have been ""you do look very beautiful today, seriously."
Well, who could blame him? Pippa did capture the hearts of the nation when she stepped out in the now infamous Alexander McQueen figure hugging dress.
While we're sure Pip is very grateful for Harry's support, she seems to be getting along just fine with the help of her close network of family and friends.
George Percy, her former University flatmate, whisked her away for the weekend to his family's grand castle, while big sister Kate has been on hand to offer Pippa words of wisdom.
Heartbreak looked like the furthest thing from Pippa's mind on Monday night when she headed along to the ice rink at Somerset House. The sporty madam smiled as she confidently skated alongside a blonde friend. Pippa certainly won't be lonely this Christmas.


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A new model for automated examination timetabling
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Automated examination timetabling has been addressed by a wide variety of methodologies and techniques over the last ten years or so. Many of the methods in this broad range of approaches have been evaluated on a collection of benchmark instances provided at the University of Toronto in 1996. Whilst the existence of these datasets has provided an invaluable resource for research into examination timetabling, the instances have significant limitations in terms of their relevance to real-world examination timetabling in modern universities. This paper presents a detailed model which draws upon experiences of implementing examination timetabling systems in universities in Europe, Australasia and America.
This model represents the problem that was presented in the 2nd International Timetabling Competition (ITC2007). In presenting this detailed new model, this paper describes the examination timetabling track introduced as part of the competition. In addition to the model, the datasets used in the competition are also based on current real-world instances introduced by EventMAP Limited. It is hoped that the interest generated as part of the competition will lead to the development, investigation and application of a host of novel and exciting techniques to address this important real-world search domain. Moreover, the motivating goal of this paper is to close the currently existing gap between theory and practice in examination timetabling by presenting the research community with a rigorous model which represents the complexity of the real-world situation. In this paper we describe the model and its motivations, followed by a full formal definition.
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- Al-Yakoob, S., Sherali, H., & Al-Jazzaf, M. (2010). A mixed-integer mathematical modeling approach to exam timetabling. Computational Management Science, 7, 19–46. doi:10.1007/s10287-007-0066-8. CrossRef
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- 2012-04-01
- 10.1007/s10479-011-0997-x
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- Barry McCollum (1)
- Paul McMullan (1)
- Andrew J. Parkes (2)
- Edmund K. Burke (2)
- Rong Qu (2)
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- 1. School of Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, N. Ireland, BT7 1NN, UK
- 2. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK


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excellent consitancy with Toro tube. Taste and draw are outstanding.
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Lying in my bed completely sick, I wonder what to do. I also wonder: How on earth did I get through an entire semester at Butler without being sick? That's right, I didn't fall ill once this fall. I'm not saying that Butler is unsanitary, just that when you bring thousands of students together from around the country, you're going to be exposed to more varieties of sickness.
So while I lay in bed, guzzling throat lozenges, and hydrate the crap out of myself, I'll take a moment to reflect on the upcoming semester, my last semester. The semester to end all semesters. It's going to be busy. I've got applications to fill out for my post-grad plans, 17 credit hours finishing up my major, my work in the honors program, and my core classes (bit of advice: don't leave your science class till the last semester!)
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In addition, the Facebook main page includes a chat feature, which carries over to other pages. It allows the user to essentially IM with friends, thus replacing the once popular AOL Instant Messenger.
Facebook clearly gives friends the opportunity to stay connected and continue to garner relationships. However, with all of the great things that Facebook brings to the table, Facebook has its' downsides. First, Facebook is a place where information gets posted, whether it is pictures or wall posts. Therefore, this information can be viewed by everyone. While there are security settings, this information is still visible by certain people. So, it is necessary to make sure you do a good job cleaning up your Facebook and keeping some of the more personal and controversial aspects of your life off of the Web.
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Visitation was Monday, June 16, from 9:00 a.m. until service time, at Lee Funeral Home.
Mrs. Long, 97, died of heart failure at Winona Manor on Friday, June 13. She was born in Itta Bena on February 7, 1917, to Moss and Ruby Durham Harvey. She was a retired bookkeeper for Winona Stockyard and a longtime faithful member of Moore Memorial United Methodist Church in Winona. She enjoyed quilting, flower gardening, reading, and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ford Long; and two daughters, Gail Long and Anita Long Blaylock.
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Anyway, thank the Lord, my nodule was benign, but it did necessitate the removal of the right lobe of my thyroid. And that's the treatment of choice, really, because it can be darn difficult to tell what kind of structure you're dealing with, just from an ultrasound, or even from an FNA.
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Name: Kiya Status: student Grade: 9-12 Country: Canada Date: Winter 2009-2010
Why are airplane de-icers soluble in water?
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The short answer to your question is that any deicer has to be soluble in water to work. In a way, your question is rather like asking if it is possible to make coffee, if the coffee did not dissolve in water!
When a deicer such as ethylene glycol is sprayed on ice, the ice begins to "dissolve" into the deicer. As more and more ice dissolves in the deicer, the volume of the deicer-water mixture become larger, thus there is more and more liquid water and deicer mixture, and the dissolving of the remaining ice goes progressively faster. It is important to understand that the liquid mixture of water (from melted ice) and deicer, cannot freeze any more because the deicer dissolved or mixed with the water lowers the freezing point of the mixture (just as adding antifreeze to the water in a car's cooling system, lowers its freezing point, and keeps the mixture from freezing).
If deicer did not dissolve in water, none of the above would work. The deicer would just sit there and not interact with either ice or water. Any water that somehow was still liquid, would be just pure water (since the deicer would not mix with it), and would instantly freeze.
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In order to "de-ice" the de-icer must be soluble in water. Otherwise it could not affect the equilibrium temperature of the solid water ice and the liquid water. To a first approximation, it is the number of particles (ions and/or non-ionic particles) that dissolves in the water that changes the efficiency of the de-icer. This is why de-icers tend to be mixtures of ionic compounds -- for example, Ca(Cl)2 + urea CO(NH2)2. The former produces three ions per mol; the latter produces only one particle per mol, but is very water soluble. This is a bit over-simplified because corrosion, and other factors must also be taken into account.
Vince Calder
Hi Kiya,
Aircraft deicers work on the same principle as the salt we put on our roads or walkways during winter or the antifreeze we put in car radiators. They salt used on roads is usually NaCl, CaCl2, or MgCl2. They work by slowly dissolving into the snow and ice and the combination of the heat of solution and freezing point depression helps melt the snow and keep it from refreezing. The antifreeze in cars is usually ethylene glycol and it works by lowering the freezing point of water so that it will remain liquid at lower temperatures. Aircraft deicers are usually formulations that include ethylene glycol or propylene glycol. Chloride salts are not allowed because they can speed up the corrosion of metals. In order for the deicer to work, it must dissolve into any water that is formed or present and lower the temperature of freezing for that solution - preventing it from forming ice once it has become a liquid solution. So, in answer to your question, the deicer must first dissolve into water before it can act to lower the freezing point and prevent ice reformation.
Look up "colligative properties" and "freezing point depression" in this site if you want to know more about the principles behind the lowering of the freezing point.
Greg (Roberto Gregorius)
Canisius College
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