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The Story of Tutor/Mentor Connection
I recently interviewed Dan Bassill, president and founder of Tutor/Mentor Connection, a well-respected organization in Chicago that provides extensive mentorship-related resources as well as an online community for tutor/mentor program educators, facilitators, fundraisers, policymakers, and other interested parties. Dan has long been a supporter of the use of GIS and online mapping in a nonprofit/community context, and T/MC was providing interactive online maps years before the "Mashup Explosion" of this decade.
What is your role at T/MC?
Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is part of a larger organization called Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, which was created in 1992 by me, and six other volunteers. I am President, CEO and chief innovation officer.
The Cabrini Connections program (http://www.cabriniconnections.net) is a site-based tutor/mentor program that connects 75-80 teens from the Cabrini-Green area of Chicago each year, with one-on-one volunteers and a variety of enrichment and learning activities.
The T/MC was born from knowledge I had accumulated to help our own programs from 1973 to 1992. In 1993, we formalized this into a knowledge library, with a database of all tutor/mentor programs in Chicago, and a marketing strategy intended to help every program get more of the operating resources they need on a more consistent basis.
How did you become involved with T/MC?
How did T/MC begin?
Who was involved with founding T/MC?
The roots of the T/MC go back to 1965 when employees of the Montgomery Ward corporate headquarters in Chicago responded to a call-to-involvement from the Chicago Housing Authority, following race riots in Chicago. These volunteers began meeting with 2nd to 6th grade kids in one of the Cabrini Green buildings on Chicago Avenue, directly across the street from the Wards HQ complex. By 1970 the program had grown to close to 100 volunteers and it began operating from the employee cafeteria in the Wards Merchandise building.
I joined Wards as an advertising copywriter in the summer of 1973, after graduating from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1968 and spending three years in Army Intelligence. I was recruited to be a tutor that fall.
At the end of the first year of tutoring, I was recruited to join a committee of volunteer program leaders, and at the end of the second year I was recruited to be the leader. From that point forward, Ive spent every fall recruiting youth and volunteers, and spent the next 11 months of each year trying to keep them involved.
Wards began to downsize in 1980, and as that happened those of us who were left took on more responsibility. To handle the extra workload, I began using computers. I was one of the first using an Apple Lisa, and this progressed to PCs and Macs over the next 10 years. As we found ways to use the computer for ad planning, I also found ways to use computers to manage the growing number of volunteers and students in our tutor/mentor program.
When I became the leader of the program at Wards I had no previous experience in leading a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program. Someone at Wards suggested that I find others who were leading programs and invite them to lunch so I could learn from them. I reached out to programs operating in Cabrini Green and at some area companies and we begin to meet monthly to learn from each other. From this, we began to build supportive relationships, and we begin to collaborate on volunteer training events.
From 1975 to 1990, I learned a few things from these experiences that still guide me today.
a)The only one who can invite people to come together, or speak with knowledge about the state of tutoring/mentoring in Chicago is the one with the database of contact information. No one else was collecting that type of information.
b)From time to time media stories would tell of kids being killed, or poor schools, poverty, or gangs. Sometimes the level of indignation would reach the front page, with editorial writers saying something like, 7-Year-Olds Death at Cabrini Requires Action (which was the front page of the Chicago Sun Times on Oct. 15, 1992).
c)When media did these stories, they only pointed to some of the programs in Chicago working with kids, not all of them. They only pointed to some of the neighborhoods where there was high poverty and poor schools, not all of them.
d)After a few days, the media would move on to another story.
Thus, the media and leadership in Chicago did not work the same way as the advertising departments at Wards and other businesses that need to have their message in front of the public every day, and to a growing number of people, if they are going to attract attention, and draw those customers to their stores.
Furthermore, while companies like Wards had teams of people working to make sure we had stores all over the country in places where there were potential customers, there was no leadership in Chicago taking this role. In addition, while Wards had other teams making sure each store was stocked with merchandise wanted by customers, and with well-trained people, no leader in Chicago (or the country) was taking this role to make sure tutor/mentor programs were in all places where kids needed them, or that programs had the consistent funding and other resources they needed to attractive kids and volunteers and keep them involved for many years.
In 1990 I was given the opportunity to leave Wards. I converted the original volunteer program to a non profit, so we could continue to improve what we were doing with the 2nd to 6th grade kids, while launching new programs for older kids, and creating a strategy to help similar programs grow in more places. By June 1992, that program involved more than 550 volunteers from more than 100 Chicago area companies, and 440 2nd to 8th grade teens.
However, the strategies of the program were not fully supported by the Board of Directors that I had recruited in 1990, so in the fall of 1992, I and six other volunteers separated from that program and created Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection to pursue our goals.
What is the strategic goal of T/MC?
The mission of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is to provide an organized framework that empowers and encourages adult volunteers to contribute their time, effort, ideas and advocacy toward creating life-changing solutions for children in educationally and economically disadvantaged areas.
This mission is accomplished through a four part strategy:
1) Collect knowledge from key stakeholders about volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs. This knowledge includes: How programs succeed, where programs are located, and where more programs and resources are needed.
2) Aggressively share this knowledge through marketing and public awareness campaigns, capitalizing on the Internet as a chief vehicle of communication.
3) Strengthen involvement of community and industry leaders to increase essential resources to tutor/mentor programs.
4) Facilitate understanding and collaboration among stakeholders to develop the long-term, integrated actions needed to help youths move from birth in poverty, to a job or career by age 25.
What other organizations, if any, work on T/MC?
The T/MC is a de-centralized organization, meaning there are no formal partnerships with other organizations. We attempt to unite programs based on a common vision, and common needs.
In January 1994 we launched a survey to learn what organizations in Chicago were providing volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring in non-school hours. 120 programs responded, telling us what age group they served, and what type of tutoring and/or mentoring they provided. 54% told us they had little or no contact with people in other programs, and over 70% said they would like more contact. 90% said they would come to a conference if it were at little or no cost and fit their schedule.
This list of programs was the beginning of a database than now includes more than 200 organizations. Based on the survey comments, we organized the first Tutor/Mentor Conference in May 1994, inviting programs from the database to set up displays and offer workshops to share what they do. 70 people attended, and attendee feedback was so positive, we did it again in November 1994. 200 people attended the November Tutor/Mentor Conference that first year.
Weve been hosting this conference every six months since then (http://www.tutormentorconference.org), and more than 1000 organizations have attended at least one time. At each conference, more than 30 workshops are offered and speakers are all volunteers.
In 1995 we began to work with Chicago Access TV to put tutor/mentor program listings on CANTV42 in August (to coincide with the start of the school year). At the same time, we recruited programs to work with us to organize volunteer recruitment fairs in multiple locations. This was the beginning of an annual Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. At its peak in 2002, more than 165 organizations were involved. Now we use the Internet to mobilize volunteers and point them to the database of programs which is at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net.
Thus, there are many people from many programs involved in helping the T/MC. Some are involved for many years, while others only help us for only a short time. Since 1993 there have been many others who have helped as well. For instance, a researcher from Illinois Wesleyan University and one from Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC) helped us draft the tutor/mentor survey that we launched in 1994. MCIC helped us with our mapping in 1993 and 1994 and graduate students from Northern Illinois University helped us move the map system to our offices in 1995. Public Communications, Inc. was our PR partner from 1993 to 2002, helping us generate dozens of stories about tutoring/mentoring in Chicago media. I was one of 10 people to represent Chicago at the 1997 Presidents Summit for Americas Future.
A volunteer from the University of Kansas helped us create an on-line documentation system in 2000, called OHATS (Organizational History and Accomplishments Tracking System). Were still using OHATS to document actions and show who were connecting with. You can see this at http://www.vattsystems.com/ohats/Home.aspx (best viewed in Internet Explorer). Log in using user name GUEST and password VISITOR to see how this works. A volunteer from Baltimore improved and modernized OHATS for us in 2007 with work done by his company in India.
One of our volunteers created our first web site in 1998, and in 2005 the technology department of Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) rebuilt the site at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org. A team of volunteers at a Chicago tech company is now rebuilding the site again.
We started working with lawyers at the Chicago Bar Foundation in June 1994, with the goal of raising new money for tutor/mentor programs. In 1995 they began to give small grants to 15-20 programs during the T/MC conferences. In 2001 this became the SunTimes, Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend A Hand to Youth program, and it has awarded grants totaling $240,000 in 2007 and $217,000 in 2008.
The list of people who have helped us in this way grows on and on. This gives you an idea of its range.
How is mapping used in T/MC?
Where does the data for T/MC come from?
Did you build the mapping aspects of T/MC in-house or contract it or rely on volunteers or...?
In November 1992, when I was just beginning to build a database of tutor/mentor programs, the librarian at the United Way of Chicago asked me how do I plan to display the information? I said I did not know. She pulled out a geography magazine and showed me how information could be displayed on maps. I was immediately hooked.
When people say pictures are worth 1000 words, Im a believer. A map can convey more information about the availability and distribution of public service than a telephone directory.
Without a map we could have a list of thousand of programs and still not be reaching all of the places where these programs are most needed.
The T/MC began to research Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology in late 1992 and early 1993. In March 2003 we connected with Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC), and they offered to do our maps for us. A couple of years later we realized that map making was a work of art that helped attract attention to our story, and that we needed to have more direct control in order to create maps as quickly as we needed them. We also needed to be able to ensure that the stories we wanted to tell were being clearly conveyed.
We received generous computer donations from IBM, software from GIS software leader ESRI, and help from the geography department of NIU. With this assistance, we launched our own in-house mapping, and weve been creating maps every year since.
Today, T/MC uses GIS mapping technology to show distribution of volunteer-based tutor and/or mentor programs, as well as areas of need (based on poverty, poorly performing schools, and violence). While other groups may have basic lists of tutor/mentor programs in their data, T/MC is unique in its ability to query program data by type (pure mentor, pure tutor, mixed), age group served (k-6, 6-8, 9-12), and time of day service is provided. Thus, users can not only find program locations, they can build a neighborhood or citywide understanding of programs availability for each age group in all poverty areas of the city.
However, creating the maps is just one part of the T/MC mapping strategy. Finding ways to increase the number of people who actually use these maps to build better understandings of issues and broader collaborations among community assets (business, faith groups, colleges, hospitals, political, etc.) is a bit more challenging.
One way we have found to create enthusiasm for tutoring/mentoring as a part of a comprehensive solution to poverty, has been to supplement negative media stories with our maps. For instance, when the SunTimes devotes a full page to a story about poverty, gangs, poor schools, or violence they often spend in excess of $250,000 to draw readers to their papers. T/MC can create relatively cheap map supplements that capitalize on the buzz created by the media, and take the story a step further helping to explain the demographics of why these issues might be occurring. What is The Rest of the Story? What is causing the problem? The first step in any solution is understanding the problem.
With T/MC maps in hand, community leaders, and individuals can then start looking for solutions. With a birds-eye view, they can visualize where tutor/mentor programs already operate in relation to poverty, crime, community assets, and poorly-performing schools. They can then analyze where community resources might come together to help students onto career paths, ultimately bringing money back into the impoverished community. In this way, our agenda offers a potential solution for people concerned about the news they see.
What mapping/GIS technologies are utilized in T/MC?
We use ESRI software for our in-house GIS development. These high resolution, colorful, and provocative maps make fine demonstration pieces when blown up for conferences or galleries, or distributed in meetings with community, political, and media leadership. Often the artistic map layouts we produce are framed and hung in local community-minded businesses such as the Hyde Park Hair Salon (President Obamas barber) and Webster Wine Bar, in order to raise visibility and grassroots support from customers who frequent these neighborhood meeting places. The in-house maps are widely circulated on social networks, in emails, and on blogs to raise support and awareness for tutor/mentor programs.
However, we are also developing and hosting a unique online Google-based interactive Program Locator, which mirrors the data in our desk-top GIS, but enables users to customize T/MC program and community data collected over the past two years, for their specific neighborhoods and needs. With this service (which we currently provide to the community for free), anyone from student to business/media leader can create a unique map to supplement their story, paste the map into their letter or online story, and help people understand the problems from their perspective, and on their schedule. A beta version of the Program Locator was launched in March, 2009, and we continue to improve and debug this unique and powerful technology.
What are your immediate and long-term goals for T/MC?
Our immediate goals are to find funding and stay in business, to continue serving the students who rely on our being here, and to continue building on the buzz we have created, and our existing capacity for map-making and other strategies that boost support for tutoring/mentoring.
Our long term goal is to increase the number of leaders in industry, faith groups, hospitals, colleges, etc. who adopt the T/MC strategy as their own. As described in the book, The Spider and the Starfish, there is strength in decentralized organizations with many leaders. We want to create and build a strong virtual network of many leaders who share the same goals. In the same book, the role of blended organizations that provide technology platforms that can be used by many people (such as eBay) is also described. The T/MC is trying to create something similar. Anyone can use the T/MC maps and other information hosted on our web sites, to innovate their own ideas and actions to support tutor/mentor programs in Chicago or beyond. Our data is easily accessible and available. Our maps are customizable, with increasingly useful data for anyones needs. Our model is reproducible in other cities.
I would like to draw your attention to another strategic web site hosted by the T/MC, called Tutor/Mentor Institute, http://www.tutormentorexchange.net.
On this site we host short illustrated essays which share our ideas. Many of these start with the question, What are all of the things we need to do to assure that every child born in poverty is starting a job and career by age 25?
To answer that question we need to collect and organize the things people are already doing in various parts of the world. With new visualization technologies, we can sequence ideas the same way architects create blueprints that show the sequence of steps needed to build a building. Every blueprint starts with a foundation, and then grows floor to floor until a structure is finished. Without a blueprint we have people investing in different floors of child-raising, without a clear blueprint of what they are each trying to accomplish, and how they collaborate with others to make the structure come together efficiently and successfully.
These aforementioned visualization technologies include our in-house and interactive maps of course. Additionally, T/MC also makes use of concept maps. At the link below you can see an example of a concept map and how they can be used to show the range of influences and support kids need at different age levels. (Notice that the individual nodes on the concept map connect to our links library and information specific to each node.) http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=12387276201...
We now have more than 1600 links in our links library, which you can view on this interactive map: http://www.tutormentorexchange.net//images/flash/resourcesmap.swf
This blueprint of ideas is just a first step. We have more work to do. There are many more ideas that can be added, based on the coming together of experiences of people working with kids, volunteers and donors in all parts of the world.
As we collect this information, and host the maps, we need people to form learning circles of friends, family, co-workers, classmates, etc. who review and discuss sections of the information each week the same way people review scripture each week, or review class assignments in a school or university.
As more people take ownership of these roles, in business, colleges, hospitals, politics, etc. the information will be better, and more people will be using the knowledge of others to innovate constantly improving ways to help kids to careers. These ways will not only influence kids, but will influence people who dont live in poverty and who control private wealth, public policy, and business workforce development and marketing strategies.
We dont need everyone to take these roles. We only need a few leaders in each sector. The combined efforts of such a small group of people can change the world for kids in poverty, and for non profits trying to help them. On a small scale, this is already happening, as we have more than 100,000 visitors and record more than 1 million page views each year on our web sites. However, our vision of the future is that more and more people will use this information to benefit more and more kids and communities.
How can people learn more about T/MC?
On November 19 and 20 well host another conference in Chicago and one of the speakers will be Valdas Krebs, who is an expert on Social Network Analysis. Well post links to this information on our http://tutormentor.blogspot.com.
If readers can come to the conference just to learn about how to map your network and train it to become the sales force for your organization, this will be a worthwhile investment of time. If you cannot attend, please read about these ideas on our web sites and blogs. Every day we can write articles and post them on Twitter, blogs, Facebook and our email newsletter channels. When other people pass this information on to the people in their networks, we will reach people all over the world with the same frequency that Walmart, Search, ATT and President Obama are reaching their own communities of interest.


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Not all monsters come from Transylvania.
Some monsters come from New Jersey. In fact, no monster called the Toxic Avenger could really come from anywhere else.
"I like to think of this as an offbeat valentine to New Jersey," says Joe DiPietro, the Oradell-born playwright who has collaborated with Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan on the unlikeliest musical comedy premise since the man-eating plant from "Little Shop of Horrors" sang for his supper. That's right – an all-singing, all- dancing, all-toxic musical version of the 1985 cult-movie classic "The Toxic Avenger."
"Monsters and mutants just make for a very theatrical experience," says DiPietro, who wrote the book and lyrics for the world-premiere show, directed by John Rando (Broadway's "Urinetown") and running at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick starting Tuesday and running through Nov. 2.
Fans of the original B-movie horror spoof, or of Troma Entertainment, which produced it and other quirky entertainments ("The Class of Nuke 'Em High,""Tromeo and Juliet" and "Cannibal! The Musical"), won't need to be reminded that "The Toxic Avenger" is the story of nerdy Melvin, a health-club janitor who acquires superpowers when he accidentally falls into a drum of toxic waste. As the muscle-bound, mucous-faced Toxic Avenger (Nick Cordero in this production), he battles the baddies of Tromaville, N.J., and romances a blind librarian (Audra Blaser) who cannot see his festering features.
"What I especially love about 'The Toxic Avenger' is the love story at the core, which is essentially 'Beauty and the Beast,' " DiPietro says. "This is a fun musical, but it also has a heart to it."
DiPietro, a 1980 graduate of River Dell High School, was barely out of his teens when he saw the first "Toxic Avenger" movie (there were several sequels and a children's TV cartoon).
"It's kind of a movie for young guys," he says. "Having a few beers — or something else — in you probably helps with that movie. But I remember it having its charms and its fun."
In the years since, DiPietro has become a highly successful writer, associated for many years with the now-defunct American Stage Company in Teaneck, for which he became the de facto house playwright. Several of the shows he created for the company went on to New York, notably "Over the River and Through the Woods," and "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" (reportedly the longest- running off-Broadway musical revue ever, with 4,500 performances).
But his career took a fateful turn in 2002, when he came up with the book and lyrics for a musical, "Memphis," about the 1950s origins of rock-and-roll. For this project, clearly, a standard Broadway-style composer would not do.
"I said, 'God, I know a lot of theatrical composers, but I want to do this with a rock-and-roll guy,' " he recalls. "What happened is, my agent sent out the script, and a few months later I got a call: 'I'm David Bryan, I'm the keyboardist for Bon Jovi, and I just read your script, and I want to know how I can write the score for 'Memphis.' "
Stunned, but retaining his professional poise, DiPietro told him to take one of the lyrics from the script, turn it into a song, and they would chat.
"Two days later there was a CD at my doorstep," DiPietro says. "I listened to it once, and said, 'This is the guy.' "
"Memphis" (still playing at California's La Jolla Playhouse) naturally has a 1950s sound. For "Toxic Avenger," their second collaboration, DiPietro and Bryan struck out in a new musical direction. The show, scored for a four-piece ensemble, has a 1980s Jersey hair band sound that resembles, more than anything – what else? – Bon Jovi.
Among the prospective hits: "Hot Toxic Love,""Thank God She's Blind" and "A Brand New Day in New Jersey":
"It's a brand new day in New Jersey
There is new air in the sky
You can breathe now in New Jersey
So you won't get cancer and die …"
It should be explained that, in this 21st-century redux of the movie, "green" issues of pollution and global warming are out front. "We don't hit you over the head with it, but that's part of it," DiPietro says. "One of his [the Toxic Avenger's] missions is to end global warming."
In other ways, too, the five-actor show takes liberties with the film, DiPietro says. But in the end, both come down to the same thing — a big, campy, lovable Jersey joke. And why not?
"When I started writing this show, I started asking friends who lived in Europe and in other parts of the U.S., what's your image of New Jersey? And they all said, 'Pollution and "The Sopranos." ' So I said, 'Let's send that up a bit.' "
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This spring, U of MN Opera's David Walsh is taking on religion, culture, and art in our society. Partnering not only with surrounding U departments such as the Center for Jewish Studies and Classical and Near Eastern Studies, he is also working with the surrounding public schools and community organizations including the American Composer's Forum and the Confederation of Somali Community to foster significant artistic and community dialog. The Parables oratorio will be work-shopped with our students and in performance and field visits, it will be book-ended by the music of diverse religious cultures.
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The story takes place in the very near future. Gamers play a rookie member of the Global Assault Team, a commando squad created by international powers to take on a dangerous group of freelance terrorist factions better known as The Syndicate. Made from of a collective of real bad guys – former Spetznaz, ex-KGB, corrupt CIA, deserted special forces and all kinds of mercenaries, "The Syndicate," make and break their own rules. They take hostages, sabotage and destroy vital installations to get the results they want and earn big bucks. The GAT has the mandate to operate on a global level, prevent terrorist actions and dispose of The Syndicate any way they see fit
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Consider a conducting wire of 1M and 1000KM. Now if we connect a battery and a bulb to both these wires. Bulb glows instantaneously its because (my guess:) electric filed travels from positive terminal of battery to negative terminal through wire almost instantaneously.
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By Jonathan Saul TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon narrowly won a vote of his ruling Likud on Monday against rival Benjamin Netanyahu trying to oust him as party leader as punishment for Israel's Gaza pullout, an exit poll showed.
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LINCOLN, R.I., Feb. 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A.T. Cross Company (Nasdaq:ATX) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 29, 2012.
David G. Whalen, President and Chief Executive Officer of A.T. Cross said, "In 2012, we grew revenue and leveraged it to even greater profit growth. Driving performance in 2012 continued to be the Cross Optical Group (COG). In 2012 COG grew revenue by 14.9% to $83.3 million and grew its operating income by 24% to $13.4 million. Importantly, in what is often an uneventful quarter, COG had its strongest fourth quarter to date, growing revenue by 27% and operating income by 126%. The COG business entered 2013 with significant momentum."
Mr. Whalen continued, "The Cross Accessory Division's (CAD) revenue declined by 4.8% in 2012. As discussed last year, we had originally expected flat year-over-year performance based upon stable economic conditions in Europe. As European economic conditions worsened, sales in that region declined 17% and were only partially offset by 3% increases in both the Americas and Asia regions. For 2013 we expect increasingly positive revenue performance in all three regions and success in extending the Cross brand into adjacent categories."Fourth Quarter 2012 Results Net sales for the fourth quarter of 2012 increased by 7.1% to $46.4 million compared to $43.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. The Cross Optical Group (COG) reported fourth quarter sales of $16.3 million, a 27.3% increase compared to last year. COG's operating income grew 126% from $0.8 million to $1.9 million. The Cross Accessory Division (CAD) recorded sales of $30.0 million, a 1% decline from 2011.


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Trust keeps sweethearts from rival stations together
Iya Villania says Drew Arellano does not try to control her
"I think he's ready. Maybe he's waiting for me," said Iya Villania when asked what was keeping her and TV host Drew Arellano, her boyfriend of eight years, from finally tying the knot.
"We're happy where we are right now. Drew is in his 30s … He's really patient with me. When the time is right, we'll know it," Iya said during a recent media gathering to launch her and singer-actress Nikki Gil as the newest endorsers of Bioessence's Skin and Slimming Spa.
"It's a happy relationship," Iya added. "We're glad that unlike other showbiz couples, we're not bombarded with intrigues. We get off easy compared to Oyo [Sotto] and Kristine [Hermosa], or Rayver [Cruz] and Cristine [Reyes]."
Iya said she gets to spend quality time with Drew at the gym. "We do core kinesis and circuit training together. We also run whenever we get the chance," said the Kapamilya network star.
"Drew and I seldom go to bars because we don't drink. We keep to ourselves, although we also have fun. We enjoy trying out new restaurants."
During her chat with Inquirer Entertainment, Iya gamely shared her secret to a lasting relationship, how she copes with having a boyfriend working at a rival station and her plans to revive her singing career.
Relationships in showbiz are fleeting. How do you and Drew manage to stay together?
The secret is trust. We believe in what we have. You also need patience and a lot of understanding. We hardly fight anymore. I used to hate it that he gets grumpy when he's tired or hungry, but I've learned how to deal with it. It's no longer a problem for me.
Is he strict with you?
Drew lets me do what I want. That's what I love about him. He lets me be my own person.
How do you cope with the fact that you work in two different TV stations?
It's never been a problem. Even if we were in one station, we'd still have different shows and different schedules. I can always go to his studio when I have the time. Drew comes to visit me on the set of my morning show ["Umagang Kay Ganda"] every so often.
Didn't you ever consider moving to GMA 7 so you and Drew could be together?
I used to be with GMA 7. I also went through the dilemma of whether to stay or transfer to ABS-CBN. On my end, I never forced Drew to follow me to my current network. I always tell him to go wherever he sees more opportunities.
Have you had offers from other stations?
There was one two years ago, when my contract at ABS-CBN was up for renewal. But my Kapamilya bosses gave me a good reason to stay, and that was my incentive. Just when I thought hindi na ako kailangan, they made me feel really wanted.
Are you really quitting singing to concentrate on hosting and acting?
Singing is something I still want to pursue. It's my first love. I released my debut album, "Finally," in 2009. However, I wasn't very hands-on when I recorded it. Everything was dictated by the record company. With my next album, I'd like to be in control. I'm considering producing it on my own—if that's what it takes to make my dream come true.
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Tips on the Gamma X-2 Stringer
Hello professionals,
I need some advice or tips on stringing with the Gamma X-2. I've followed every youtube out there on stringing the mains. However, when I do it, it's different. Let me explain. Below are my steps that I followed.
String pattern: 18X20
Steps for main:
1. Weave the string starting at the middle of the head. (checked)
2. Using the flying clamp, clamp the two strings. (checked)
3. Starting with the left main, weave the string to the first hole from the throat. (checked)
4. This step is where I'm a bit confused. After performing step 3, I tension it using the drop weight. However, the drop weight would not move or it's hard to drop it for tension. In order to tension the string smoothly, I would have to weave the second hole and then I can tension the string easily. I just don't understand how everyone can tension the first hole so easily and I cannot.
Hopefully, this wasn't confusing. Also, what's the advantage of having a starting clamp?
My guess is you are using a low stretch string like poly. Start with you weight down and left it slowly in small increments and let it down slowly.
But then how do you clamp a single string with flying clamps. if you had a starting clamp you could clamp the right main outside the frame with the SC and tension the left main then you have two strings to clamp.
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By Will Nations
When Dason Thomas moved from Starkville to West Point and began attending the West Point Junior High School in the seventh-grade, Josh Ewing honestly was not the biggest fan.
"In the seventh-grade, it was kind of rocky," West Point junior quarterback Ewing said. "He was from Starkville and I am from West Point, you know how the rivalry typically goes."
By Donna Summerall
The West Point Civitan Luncheon Club got down to business at Wednesday's meeting. President Margaret Shelton wasted no time assigning members upcoming projects to head.
A few years alone can present wear and tear to just about any object or building. As time passes, the corrosion persists and entropy is unavoidable.
Since its inception 75 years ago, the Gospel Lighthouse Church in West Point has endured that many years worth of decay. However, the dilemma is far from insoluble, and with the help of the Columbus chapter of the Christian Motorcycle Association, the GLC church hopes to add validity to this fact.
The West Point Green Wave (3-4; 1-2 District 1-5A) was looking to pick up a win after two consecutive district losses.
Behind Aeris Williams' career effort of 252 yards on 26 carries and four touchdowns, West Point was able to outscore the Center Hill Mustangs in a shoot-out, 69-41.
Victor Chism, 72, passed away, on Friday, October 11, 2013 at OCH Regional Medical Center,
in Starkville. He was born June 10, 1941 in Monroe County Mississippi to the late Miriam Roberts Chism and Albert
Doyle Chism. Mr. Chism was a Dye Setter for Blazon Flexible Flyer for 35 years and was of the Penetecostal faith. Victor
Chism married Eunice Oswalt Chism on June 5, 1965, in West Point.
Visitation with a gathering of family and friends will be Sunday, from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at Calvert Funeral Home.
Raymond Andrew Winters, age 68, of Ethelsville, AL passed away at the residence of his sister on Oct 10, 2013, surrounded by family, after a hard fought bout with prostate cancer.
Gordon "Smokey" Pettit, 73, passed away, on Monday, October 14, 2013 at his home, in West
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The Clay County chapter of the United Way is set to host its Campaign Kickoff Luncheon noon Oct. 24 at the Civic.
Bobby Cole, local author of The Dummy Line and Moon Underfoot, will be the keynote speaker at the luncheon.
United Way raises and allocates funds for 14 human service organizations serving the residents of Clay County. Stacy Hays, executive director of United Way of Clay County, explained that these agencies touch the lives of thousands of people each year.
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Those are bike helmets, and there's not a single price tag on the lot of them.
Children with bikes but no helmet are the focus of a cooperative effort by both the city and WPPD.
The Golden Triangle Development LINK has hit a crossroads in light of a recent vacancy of the Vice President of Economic Development position in Clay County.
Previous occupant of the position, Ron Maloney, was part of the collective which assisted in bringing about the Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Plant to boost West Point's industrial presence on the national stage. However, Maloney recently accepted a position in his hometown of Pennsylvania.
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IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ — SunCal Companies — developer of Ritter Ranch, the highly anticipated master-planned community in Palmdale — was recently honored by the San Fernando Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/SFV) with its 2007 Best Community Development Award. The award citing the Ritter Ranch Community Master Plan was presented at the AIA/SFV Annual Design Awards on January 13 in Burbank.
Russell E. Myers, Chairman of the 2007 AIA/SFV Awards, said, "The Best Community Development Awards are designed as recognition of the fact that outstanding architectural design can have a tremendous positive impact on the local community, making it a place where people can be proud to live and work."
"SunCal is honored that Ritter Ranch has been recognized as one of the region's top master-planned communities," said SunCal Companies' Bob Barjam, president of the Antelope Valley Division. "Our team has worked hard to design a community that is functional, inviting and carefully planned, and this award acknowledges those efforts."
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Ritter Ranch is set in Palmdale at the western edge of the Antelope Valley near scenic Leona Valley. Plans for its estimated 18 square miles encompass: approximately 7,000 homes, about 73 acres of commercial development (including a town center), an 18-hole Greg Norman Signature Golf Course with clubhouse, public schools, an equestrian center, community facilities including library and fire station, swim center, amphitheater, recreation center, a lake, an expansive park and playground system, and over 80 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian paths linking to trails in the planned 7,000 acres of permanently protected natural open space.
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The Hazel Gates Woodruff Cottage, an historical landmark on the CU-Boulder campus, is open this fall after a renovation that restores the buildings place in time.
The Cottage, formerly known as the Womens Studies Cottage No. 1, was built in 1885 to house the first womens dormitory on campus. It originally provided dining facilities for 100, sleeping rooms for 12, a bath and an office for the chaperone on the first floor.


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Don't know if this is a new thread elsewhere, but how do we see this one going??? I don't know much about Congo - except he's a standup fighter...
Is this a no-brainer?? Should CC monster this dude?
Don't know if this is a new thread elsewhere, but how do we see this one going??? I don't know much about Congo - except he's a standup fighter...
Is this a no-brainer?? Should CC monster this dude?
yah CC should win hands down imo (and no one bring up the "thats what everyone said before the GG fight" argument, becuase these fights are 100 percent different)
im gonna go with cro cop on this one.kongo likes stand up which is perfect for cro cop's style.so i bet we will see a lhk ko.
I hope CroCop wins, but after those last 2 KOs I don't think his chin has recovered.
And your right, Kongo is just a stand up fighter from what I've seen.
Both are stand up fighters and CroCop is levels ahead of Kongo not to mention he is training with Bonjasky and 2 other strikers. Taking CroCop by devastating knockout.
He got KOed by Randleman in the beginning of 2004. Went on to beat a bunch of top 10 fighters who strike and win the OWGP in 2006. I don't think we can really mention the Randleman KO in any sort of recovering process. Just stating my opinion is all.Originally Posted by harlemhustla145
Its not like he just bounced back against the best of the best. Pride spoon fed him a couple of MW's, cans at that, after the Randleman KO to get his confidence back before he fought any top 10 fighters.Originally Posted by Ramma
I think CC should win, but if Kongo can win a few exchanges early, I wouldn't be suprised to see Mirko start fighting scared like he did against Hunt. Thats just my opinion though.
Kongo is also a wrestler yeah i don't understand how he can have such shit take down d but he does.
This will be a stand up fight and i am picking Kongo to win.
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My two cents: discussion of the actor's body in context of a film does not equate to sexism. I've read the past few pages and the only concerns are about two actors in the film-Evans and Johansson-looking malnourished. That is not sexism, but part of a discussion of the components of a film: the image that the actors crafted and how it will operate in context of the film.
Sexism exists in all mediums and sites. One of the reasons I have not logged into my Tumblr account for months is because I became quite tired of the misandry and resultant hypocrisy: memes such as the Hawkeye Initiative fed the huge fire of male hate, yet posters who contributed to it also reblogged nude photographs or the Marvel Studios actors, close-ups of their genitals or ass, or .GIF sets, such as the amusing one at the top of this page.
The problem of sexism is a two way street. While the majority of it is male-created (due to the power they have in society,) the remaining element is considerably potent, considering it feeds into misandry, most of the time.
In context of these boards, it's everywhere: one cannot go to the Thor boards without encountering Hiddleston's female fan base. Conversely, there are discussions about the female's sexual image on these boards (such as the size of Emma Stone's breasts, back during the ASM days. ) Both sides are guilty of sexualizing performers, to some degree.
Everyone needs to chill out. Between this and the perceived Im3 debacle, I am surprised the forum has not exploded.
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|"My name is Ashley Williams. And i am a slave...to my destiny. I used to have a normal, boring job. And a normal, boring life. Just like you. Used to work at S-mart. Housewares department. It was going to be the next Wal-mart. Never really took off though." He sipped the tepid drink in front of him and swallowed with a grimmest. "Gotta hand it to ya, you really know how to break a man."
|"Sorry it's not up to your refined tastes Mr Williams." Detective Rachel Katz replied sarcastically. "But getting back to your story if you don't mind..."
|"Sure doll. Maybe after this we get some real coffee? Or maybe we don't?" He grinned in a way that would be charming under other circumstances. Just oozing with confidence and male egotism.
|"This is a very serious matter Mr Williams." She replied unruffled. She was used to being hit on, and had more then ample experience with idiot men.
|"I get it, playing hard to get." He winked. "Anyway, I worked at S-mart, where I was loved and respected by customers and fellow employees alike--"
|"This was before you shot an old woman to death?" She looked up from the file to catch his reaction.
|"That was self-defense. She was possessed by a Deadite." He met her gaze unwavering.
'My God. He actually believes that.'
|"Yes let's talk about these Deadites Mr Williams.
|"I'm getting to that. So one day I take my girlfriend Linda out to this little cabin in the woods I heard about. I found an dusty book in the cellar with an old tape recorder. Thought there might be some tunes on the tape. The Book was written in some foreign mumbo jumbo, but i wasn't planning on doing any reading anyway. The tape was the recorded translations of the Book, The Necronomicon. The words from the Book awoke something evil in the woods, and that is when the supernatural sh!t hit the cosmic fan."
|He leaned back in his chair and stretched. "Seriously, is this the best you can do as far as coffee?"
|Detective Katz blinks. Then realizes she is leaning forward, unconsciously drawn in by his story. She steps to the wall and presses the intercom button. "Bring in a cup of coffee. From the break room, not the lobby." She turned back to him, her arms crossed. "And then?"
|"Linda became possessed. Became a Deadite. then she tried to kill me. I wish i could have saved her" He looked away for a moment, all the smart a$$ attitude gone. "Once a person becomes a Deadite you have few options other then to kill and dismember. Then the evil tried to take me, it got in my hand and it went bad. So i cut it off before it could spread. I burned the Book and thought everything was over. But it was just beginning. The daughter of the professor who translated the Book, arrived with the missing pages and stirred everything up again. She used an incarnation from the Book that was meant to trap the Evil. Unfortunately me and my car were pulled in as well and spit me out in the middle ages. After showing those primitive screw-heads that i was an evolved, superior being, I was asked to go on a quest to retrieve the Necronomicon from a haunted graveyard. And maybe there were some magic words I was supposed to say, and maybe I didn't say every single little syllable, but I basically said the words--"
|"Mr Williams, would you mind skipping to the events that lead to your arrest?"
|"I'm getting to it doll, anyways, once i returned to this time i tried to resume my old life. That's when the thing with the old lady happened. No matter how far i go, or how hard i try, the Book always finds me and ruins things. That's when i realized that the Book would never leave me alone. So i stopped trying to run and began hunting..."
|One day ago...
|Ash rolled into town in his beat up Delta 88. He's achy from sleeping in the car and still a little queasy from a hamburger he'd eaten the day before. It had tasted fine, but his stomach had rejected the meal with extreme prejudice. In other words he was in a foul mood. Ahead of him he sees two teenagers standing on the srteet corner wasting space. The tall one wears a 'Pumpkin Dead' T-shirt and the ragged, trash heap jeans that are so popular. His friend is wearing a t-shirt with a cartoon zombie and cut off shorts.
|Ask rolled down his window. "Excuse me, I'm looking for--"
|"The old age home?" The tall one asks and high-fived his friend.
|"Now that is funny. Ha Ha. Now listen, i'm late to the--"
|"Mortuary?" The tall one interrupts. Another high-five
|"Ya know, if i wasn't so busy i'd teach you punks a lesson."
|"A history lesson?" The short one asks. They high-five again and disappear around the corner.
|"Damn punks need to learn some respect." Ash grumbled, sounding old to his own ears. He checked himself in the mirror and sees circles under his eyes, Two days beard growth, and the first touches of grey in his hair. "It's not the years, it's the miles" He tells himself. "Now it shouldn't be too hard to find a university in this town, i'll just look for the biggest barn."
|He resumes driving and does not notice his reflection starring at him with a sneer.
@wildvine: "My name is Ash Williams" I wonder if you emailed Bruce Campbell, would he do a voice-over for this (try him at http://www.bruce-campbell.com/ you never know)
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@4donkeyjohnson: It was already in Bruce's voice in my head anyway. @wildvine: great job
I love the little refs to Army of Darkness (a certain "Gimme some sugah baby" comes to mind lol)
Because of this I'm so tempted to write my own AOD Horror mini thing....just as soon as I get to that darned Frankenstein. DX
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I love the little refs to Army of Darkness (a certain "Gimme some sugah baby" comes to mind lol)
Because of this I'm so tempted to write my own AOD Horror mini thing....just as soon as I get to that darned Frankenstein. DX
No, no! Get to that darned Frankenstein first ! We can't have a Horror Inc without a Frankenstein!! ;P
@wildvine Oh, if they only knew the fun yet to come! X)
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@wildvine GREAT as you said it would be :P
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I love the little refs to Army of Darkness (a certain "Gimme some sugah baby" comes to mind lol)
Because of this I'm so tempted to write my own AOD Horror mini thing....just as soon as I get to that darned Frankenstein. DX
Thanks for the comments. Maybe we can collaborate on a future Army of Darkness story. Btw, can't wait to read Frankenstein.
I'll try my bestest to make it a riveting story (it won't be long though, just to warn you ahead of time.)
A Army of Darkness collab? Hmmm.....I definitely am interested (as long as I can write Evil Ash. I freaking love that zombie :P)
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Nice ^_^ liked the idea of starting it off with Ash speaking to the cops and just running through any basic info to ground the story before going on. Some grammar things (ash Williams as opposed to Ash Williams) but other than that an interesting start!
Eagerly awaiting part 2
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Nice ^_^ liked the idea of starting it off with Ash speaking to the cops and just running through any basic info to ground the story before going on. Some grammar things (ash Williams as opposed to Ash Williams) but other than that an interesting start!
Thanks, i wanted to due a brief history for people not familiar with the story. Always knew i wanted to start with him under arrest. @4donkeyjohnson said:
Eagerly awaiting part 2
Real soon. I promise.
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Edit: Added the original chapter ending.
Really nice,can't wait to see the next ones.
I really want to write as well as you do someday
No! Not the dreaded bump! D:
(P.S. say the word and I can start writing Evil Ash :P)
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haha the two teenagers where great
Great job wild. Got alot of really nice dialogue going on.
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Pretty great! I loved all the call-outs and little references and line-drops to the other movies (some of the most quotable movies ever). Pretty solid, but I just have one question....
...Are all men of the future such loud-mouthed braggarts?
Lol. Yes. Thanks for the comments. Everyone seems to like the references, but it was hard to figure how much to add. Not enough for new readers vs too much for old fans.
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Nicely written
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Not bad, love the quote references to the original Army of Darkness.
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