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Williamson was discharged from LSU Health Sciences Center-Monroe after suffering a collapsed lung recently, and passed away on Thursday morning.
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As pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report on Monday I thought it was a good time to take a look at the 2012-2013 off-season. Despite the Mets being the last team in the league to sign a major league deal, and in all only giving out two of those deals, they did alright. The rotation is the strength of the club and Shaun Marcum is a solid addition, sure they'll miss Dickey if Dickey is what he was last season. Within a matter of days the pen has been completely revamped and there are some solid relievers coming to camp. I would have pick-up a super utility guy like Ryan Theriot but the infield and there back-ups isn't the issue. I thought they should have brought in a back-up catcher but clearly they are comfortable with Recker until d"Arnaud is called up. The real misstep this off-season was the outfield, I have a hard time believing that the plan was to pursue Bourn all along and really if they do land Bourn, then they had a solid off-season taking into consideration they're still building this organization. I think they misread the market and Bourn is now their scramble to recover. Either they thought players prices would come back to them or they thought they could land a trade that never materialized. Without Bourn it was a disappointing off-season but if they land him I believe it's a big step toward changing the perception about the Mets...Subtractions R.A. Dickey Mike Pelfrey Chris Young Mike Pelfrey Jon Rauch Ramon Ramirez Manny Acosta Kelly Shoppach Josh Thole Rob JohnsonMike NickeasRonny CedenoScott HairstonAndres Torres Jason BayAdditions Shaun Marcum Noah Syndergaard Brandon LyonLaTroy Hawkins Pedro Feliciano Greg Burke Scott Atchinson Carlos TorresScott RiceAaron Laffey John Buck Landon Powell Anthony ReckerTravis d'ArnaudJamie HoffmanOmar QuintanillaBrian BixlerBrandon HicksMarlin ByrdColin CowgillAndrew BrownWulmer BecerraCorey PattersonMike Wilson
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Thanks for the yawn fest, K-Mart. Just in case you hadn't noticed I have, on numerous occasions, tried to engage Brian_G in discussion to expand upon his bumpet sticker slogans. No response of any substance has been made, just more bumper stickers. On top of this we get your two cents worth, which has depreciated to minimal fractional value. He was speaking of differences, religious differences are magnificant. Not small and unimportant. Only an idiot like Brian, and apparently you, would think this to be true. Religion may appear to be a choice, but if you start digging you'll find for many that it really isn't, they've got no choice in the matter as they're drawn to it without thought or reason, just handed down to them generation after generation, hence the strong feelings that lead to such differences. That isn't to say some won't jump ship, making a "choice." One of my brothers married a Pentecostal woman. Now he's Pentecostal and speaks in tongues. I suppose he really didn't have a choice though, just got picked up and carried on into it. If you had one ounce of character you'd slink quietly into the ether never to be heard from again. I do not think this will come to pass.Brian_G wrote:
<quoted text>Religious and racial differences are small and unimportant while gender differences are great and mean the continuation of the human race. If Quest wants to stand for gender segregated marriage, that's her problem.
Same sex marriage means more wasteful government spending on entitlements for a new class of same sex dependent beneficiaries and the higher taxes to pay for that and litigation.
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50% ad homoan attack, 50% self aggrandizing defense of an idiotic assertion while totally ignoring the key distinction equals 100% BS.
First the part you ignored; Religion and race do not procreate. Men and women do. That fact ALONE sets gender in a league alone. Duh.
Second, religion is a choice. Race and gender are not. Religion is a choice, race and gender are not. Another huge distinction.
Race is a merely a difference in skin color. You assert that overrides gender differences by lying, minimizing and ignoring distinctions that affect virtually every aspect of males and females.
Do you know why you make these idiotic characterless troll attacks?
Because you are in denial, and full of hate and bigotry. Oh, you are smart enough to know you have no logical, valid reply, but you hope your troll attack will intimidate. Silly stupid.
One more thing. You weren't kicked repeatedly in the head by a mule, a near senile old man just kicked the bully on the playground repeatedly in the head. Do you know what that means? If an old senile man can school you, there is absolutely no chance you will EVER match the reasoning of Brian G. If you have one ounce of character, you will beg his forgiveness!
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#181074 Feb 24, 2013
Gee..... am I supposed to be impressed or something? He can say whatever he wants. Neither Justin, nor Polyamorous NYC means anything to me.
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#181075 Feb 24, 2013
Dang Frankie, did you enjoy getting yer azz beat by Godsmacked?? It was a beautiful thing. Watch out boy she will chew you up.
#181078 Feb 24, 2013
This is exactly why you are considered to be a wretched excuse for a person. Because you dismiss any who disagree with you. Denial of the facts. Go play with some more mascara and leave the discussions to the adults.
#181079 Feb 24, 2013
This hasn't yet happened, Poindexter, you'll claim anything to be a victory, won't you ? Danth's Law. You are a fine example of the SSM crowd, you will use anything you can to trumpet some propaganda. Except that we know bullshit when we find it...
#181080 Feb 24, 2013
Homophobia? Gay joke?
#181081 Feb 24, 2013
Some homosexual activists also see the link between same-sex marriage and polygamy. Justin Michael, founder of the group "Polyamorous NYC," says that efforts by homosexual activists to deny the link with polyamory is false and cowardly.
"I'd encourage people to keep an open mind," he asserted, "it wasn't too long ago that gay relationships were completely ostracized. All movements have a tendency to build on the movements that have come before them."
He added: "It's hypocritical for us as gays and lesbians to pretend we're the only people who are treated differently because our relationships are not mainstream. Both communities are concerned with love, and forming lasting relationships, and with our own liberation."
#181082 Feb 24, 2013
I am much more impressed by what he says than by what a hypocrite like you says.
#181083 Feb 24, 2013
Danth's Law by proxy.
You're declaring victory for someone else! Priceless.
#181084 Feb 24, 2013
Join us and start thinkin straight. We can get things back the way they was by doing the what we are told is the right thing and arming everybody right now and stopping all but total immersion baptisms. God loved all cept for farm animals which is gonna be popped and plucked for freezing.
#181085 Feb 24, 2013
Did you say something, sugar ?
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#181088 Feb 24, 2013
I want to start a sect of RuPaul's Witnesses that goes door-to-door, promoting my own twisted sense of morality. I want to bother people in their homes, shoving graphic literature into their hands, threatening them if they don't conform to my way of thinking because the object of my worship is going to cast them into hellfire until their flesh is seared from their bones and their teeth shatter. More than that, I want to judge them harshly when they send me away, and then stand on my soap box and claim that I've just been victimized because someone pointed out a flaw in my beliefs and is now shaming my set of morals. I want that person to be excommunicated from town, other citizens to vandalize the property of my enemies, I want police officers to start ignoring their reports and making backhanded threats because we're a wholesome gay town and anyone who's different better move out of town before they're relocated to the hospital or mortuary.
I also want the government to give me money to do so, and not pay rent for my apartment because I welcome others to join me while I watch Mean Girls. I want to run a business under the guise of a charity that turns straight people away at the door while still receiving the benefit of their tax money.
Most of all, I want to have a single-digit basic television station that broadcasts across the country as the default channel for factory settings, that invites a bunch of like-minded individuals to take up air time dehumanizing anyone still attempting to live a heterosexual lifestyle, and spinning absurd stories to demonize even the most innocent things.
#181089 Feb 24, 2013
When we show controversial heterosexuals, I want to be able to Photoshop their teeth yellow and enlarge their noses and ears, and redden their eyes, without it being libel. I want to invent a new swear word (or convert a currently acceptable word) that sounds harsh, and I want people across the country to sneer it so that anyone it could possibly describe feels a stabbing in their chest. "Well, the breeding media today is trying to get your children to have sex with animals, just because their parts interconnect and it's 'fun'. Earlier, a well-known breeder was quoted as saying 'I loved my dog when I was a child, I think every family should have a pet'. Now, aside from the breeders trying to impose their personal definition of a family on honest, hard-working, tax-paying Americans, now they're trying to turn us into animal rapists and zoophiliacs. It's bad enough that they're trying to normalize the act of having children - which as you all know is a dangerous, expensive, and long process involving surgery and health complications on otherwise healthy Americans. And thanks to immigrants, "
And I want half the country to cheer for me when I do it.
If you think pride parades are more in-your-face and preachy than missionaries, churches, or Faux News, well, I don't know what to tell you. Except that the number of Christians assaulted or bullied into suicide by homosexuals specifically because of their faith is far different than the inverse. The number of times we've been allowed to vote on their civil liberties, or legally (and without repercussion) expel them from their homes or jobs due to their faith is approximately zero.
But that's the thing about civil injustices. When they shift, it's not a pendulum. This won't arc around and place homosexuals as a ruling caste of media and politics. We'll never have our day in the sun. We won't be allowed to shackle them and beat them through the streets while their friends and neighbors spit on them.
We'll just eventually enjoy similar rights, and try not to resent them for the hell they've put us through. We'll try our hardest not to hold every one like them personally responsible for whatever plight we've survived. We'll be the bigger man, and be honorable, and decent. And it will have cost us our troubled youth who couldn't make it to the other side. Our homes, our jobs, our parents and their love.
Every fucking day is straight pride. Every day is Christian pride. And in the meantime, every night in Uganda is hell. Every day in the high school locker room is a powder keg. Every second is a silent prayer that our parents don't find out, that our friends will still love us, that our employers don't exercise their ability to ruin our careers and our landlords don't throw us out in the streets in twenty-nine states.
While the government still believes our blood is poison, and our souls are damned, while our currency reminds us that we trust in one who wishes us hellfire, while our brothers are executed because one book has made it around the world and tried to turn every eager man, woman, and child against us, I will never quit.
They tell us to get over it, but they won't stop putting it in our way. They tell us that we're just as bad as they are. Just as preachy or full of ourselves. Every time we speak out against their cruelty, it's shaming them. Every time we dodge their stones, we're oppressing them. Every time we remind them of our humanity, we're asking for special treatment.
Fuck them, and fuck you for falling for their shit.
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#181094 Feb 24, 2013
Denial of what facts? That some dude name Justin belongs to an organization called Polyamorous NYC? I guess you think he's the second coming of Jesus Christ, eh? Who cares what Justin thinks? He's entitled to his opinion. If Justin is such a genius, why isn't polygamy legal in New York?
#181095 Feb 24, 2013
I bet you're easily impressed by shiny things, too.
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#181097 Feb 24, 2013
Where did Mr. Hudson say that he was a genius? Where did he say he was the second coming of Christ?"
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Jan 23, 2013, 4:41 PM EDT
On Wednesday, Edmonton Oilers head coach Ralph Kruger announced that forward Ben Eager has been diagnosed with a concussion.
Eager, 29, suffered the injury during a third period fight with Zack Kassian in Edmonton's season-opening victory over Vancouver.
Eager didn't return to the contest following his tilt with Kassian and was held out of the Oilers' 6-3 loss to San Jose on Tuesday night.
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It should be noted that Eager does have a history with concussions.
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- davebabychreturns - Jan 23, 2013 at 4:50 PM
Shouldn't be out too long, I have a feeling that Ben Eager's baseline testing is probably not too challenging to achieve.
- tbbolts91 - Jan 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM
He is concussion Aladeen
- dasportsninja - Jan 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM
It was a classless move when KAssian Celebrated his "Victory". Mr., Kassian will soon learn they payback is a Biach.
- elvispocomo - Jan 23, 2013 at 6:24 PM
Haha, nice try. He wasn't pulling an Asham, washing his hands like he'd just cleaned up, but rather telling the crowd to get excited – particularly since Hemsky had scored shortly before to make it 2-2 and they had the momentum.
- hockeyflow33 - Jan 23, 2013 at 6:36 PM
If you don't like it, win the fight.
- aquatechnex - Jan 23, 2013 at 5:36 PM
was there that night, play started, Eager stabbed him in back of leg with Kassian's back to him, Eager has history of blindside hits. This was an even fight started by Eager, guess he just didn't get in the best shot.
- nothanksimdriving123 - Jan 23, 2013 at 5:41 PM
Sure glad fighting is harmless and is desperately needed to police the game and make sure nobody ever gets injured.
- hockeyflow33 - Jan 23, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Go watch soccer
- stakex - Jan 23, 2013 at 9:17 PM
Or tennis… soccer might be too rough for nothanksimdriving123.
- nothanksimdriving123 - Jan 24, 2013 at 2:22 AM
Actually, I've been loving hockey since Bobby Orr played for Oshawa, you know, back when players, including superstars, fought for real because they were seriously pissed at each other as they met 14 times in a season, and not like today because the designated fighters would otherwise have to go work flipping burgers. Yeah, I'm so freekin old I remember Toronto winning the Stanley Cup 3 years in a row! Ever seen a fight in an NHL penalty box? I have.
- dmfc1112 - Jan 23, 2013 at 8:24 PM
Fighting itself may be risky for the combatants but if the NHL eliminated the instigator rule they would make the game safER for other players. I am talking purposeful fights. Make the enforcer relevant again.
Gretzky was neither a big man nor a fast skater yet he was pretty healthy during his career. Was he just lucky?? It has to be luck. NO way enforcers played any role.
- valoisjoeybfeld69 - Jan 23, 2013 at 5:43 PM
Maybe it's time they talk about whether or not eliminating fights will keep the players healthy.
- hockeyflow33 - Jan 23, 2013 at 6:38 PM
I've never seen a guy forced to square up
- nothanksimdriving123 - Jan 23, 2013 at 7:51 PM
Then you haven't been paying attention hockeyflow33. Pretty much every NHL team has at least one player whose job requires him to engage in fights. Minus much actual hockey ability, he fights or loses his job. And it's clear that some of those players will develop serious health problems because of those fights. But you and most other hockey fans simply do not care because you enjoy watching the fights, which is the only honest argument in favor of not banning them. You enjoy them.
- hockeyflow33 - Jan 24, 2013 at 2:57 AM
I will. I'm also curious how these guys are forced into fighting. I must have missed the part where one roster spot is reserved for an indentured servant.
- woodstakes - Jan 24, 2013 at 1:14 AM
Wow nothanksimdriving123!
These guys get paid, HANDSOMELY mind you, to do it! Period!
Boxers, UFC guys they all do it KNOWING full well that taking a punch to the face is not good for you, yet they all seem to line up to do it. Why do you think that is? Pretty easy answer, they want to make $750K+ a year rather than $40K working construction somewhere. If I could get paid to do it, I sure would. $750K+ a year for 10 years gets you some pretty nice medical coverage and buys a pretty nice future for your kids and their kids.
Also, if you believe that having fights in hockey does not have it's place then you KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about hockey. The ability to police the game and protect the stars is a very necessary thing, you think the ref's are going to do it? The commish? Shanny? Your statement only proves your ignorance! As someone stated go watch tennis or golf!
- nothanksimdriving123 - Jan 24, 2013 at 2:37 AM
I doubt woodstakes will understand this but I'll try: your "policing" argument might make a tiny amount of sense if the mythical policing worked. But the long list of stars missing major playing time in recent years due to serious injuries, such as Pronger, Crosby, Briere, and on and on, suggests that an appointment fight at the start of the game does nothing to keep anyone from being hurt. Such fights have one purpose: to energize the fans who enjoy seeing a fight. If you disagree, refrain from personal insults and explain both how the policing actually works and how so many guys still get clobbered despite the policing.
- hockeyflow33 - Jan 24, 2013 at 3:00 AM
He's right, you are an idiot. It's the same reason there are fights in beer leagues, it does police the game.
Much like how a fire department can't prevent all fires or a police department doesn't stop all crime, having fights doesn't prevent all injuries but it certainly does reduce the amount.
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To a remarkable degree, stock prices worldwide this summer have been driven by political formulations that seemingly change by the hour.
Normally, asset prices are somewhat insulated from political machinations. In the case of stocks, factors such as earnings, liquidity, valuation, sentiment and technicals usually override what's happening in Washington, Brussels or Berlin, at least over the short term.
That's not to say that investing is ever completely divorced from politics. Fiscal and monetary policy affect the economy, which in turn affects the price investors are willing to pay for financial assets.
But the recent vulnerability of risky assets to sovereign debt issues on both sides of the Atlantic is virtually unprecedented. The potential of those crises to wreak havoc on a still-vulnerable world economy cannot be overstated.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke tried to convey the urgency of the situation when he said a failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in a timely manner would be a "huge financial calamity."
After German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy achieved a temporary fix to eurozone insolvency last week, the U.S. debt is the last hurdle remaining before investors can focus on traditional fundamental factors.
A majority of Americans want deficit reduction through spending cuts and tax increases. The ambitious $3.7 trillion plan proposed by a bipartisan group of senators - the so-called Gang of Six - accomplishes that objective, with 73% of the savings coming from spending cuts. Revenue increases would be confined to closing corporate tax loopholes and eliminating some deductions.
Yet House Republicans still object, claiming that any tax increase would harm the economy's "job creators," i.e., corporations and small businesses. It might be noted that those same intrepid "job creators" haven't been doing such a good job of creating jobs of late despite federal tax revenues that have fallen to the lowest percentage of Gross Domestic Product since 1950.
14.9% of GDP
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, federal taxes will represent 14.9% of GDP this year, down from the post-World War II average of 18.5% and from 18.2% during the Reagan administration.
Bruce Bartlett, whose impeccable Republican credentials include stints as a policy analyst to President Ronald Reagan and staff positions under the libertarian Ron Paul and the supply-side champion Jack Kemp, recently wrote in The New York Times that "by the broadest measure of the tax rate, the current level is unusually low and has been for some time. . . . Yet if one listens to Republicans, one would think that taxes have never been higher, that an excessive tax burden is the most important constraint holding back economic growth and that a big tax cut is exactly what the economy needs to get growing again."
Before shedding any tears for those supposedly overtaxed corporate job creators, consider that taxes on U.S. corporate income as a percentage of GDP, at 1.8%, are the lowest among the 34 nations composing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
When Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton imposed modest tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, conservatives warned that it would wreck the economy. What followed was the longest economic expansion in history. The knee-jerk warnings from politicians protecting the rich and powerful were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
If the United States is still a democracy and not an oligarchy, something resembling the Gang of Six plan should pass with bipartisan support.
However the sovereign debt problems are resolved, the jobs picture will remain problematic for years. Big cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid leave less money for consumers, whose spending represents the real "job creators" in the economy. Yet doing nothing in the face of demographic-related fiscal imbalances risks a different kind of disaster.
Such are the lose-lose political choices of the post-crisis era. No wonder investors can't help but notice.
Tom Saler is an author and freelance financial journalist in Madison. He can be reached at www.tomsaler.com.


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- Runs Oct. 1-31 (Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 p.m.) at the Public House Theatre in Chicago, IL.
- Auditions: Aug 1, 3 in Chicago, IL
Casting "Babysitter Massacre '78" a new musical from the creators of "A Nightmare on Backstreet" and "Bates: An 80's Musical Psycho Parody."Thursday
- Rehearses for three weeks prior to the show (Weeks 1 & 2: Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Week 3 (Tech week): Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) and performs in Northbrook, IL.
- Auditions: Jul 13 in Northbrook, IL
Seeking three Equity actors for the Northbrook Theatre's 2015-2016 season. Season includes "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day" (Runs Saturdays Oct. 10-31 and Nov. 7-21 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.) and "Junie B. Jones, The Musical" (Saturdays Jan. 23, 30 and Feb. 6-27 at 10 ...Thursday
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- Auditions: Aug 8, 9 in Grand Rapids, MI
Casting "Heathers: The Musical," the rock musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on the 1988 cult film "Heathers." Seeking 18 men and women, ages 17-50, of all ethnicities.Thursday
Confidential Musical Theatre Project
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- Seeking submissions from: Chicago, IL
Seeking participants for a Confidential Musical Theatre Project. We choose a show that doesn't get done very often, but should. Actors submit online, and we cast the show with the best performers possible (regardless of age, race, body type or gender). We ask the actors not to reveal the title ...Wednesday
- Rehearsals TBD based on actors' availability in Mt. Pleasant, MI; performances TBD.
- Auditions: Jul 16, 17, 18 in Mt. Pleasant, MI
Casting "Runagate," a medley of narrative, movement, and music, based on a poem about the Underground RailroadWednesday
'Estrella Cruz (The Junkyard Queen)'
- Rehearsals begin Nov. 21; runs Jan. 8-Feb. 14, 2016 in Chicago, IL.
- Auditions: Jul 9 in Chicago, IL
Casting "Estrella Cruz (The Junkyard Queen)."Tuesday
- Show will rehearse one week before the performance; performs Aug. 7, 21, and 28 at Chicago dramatists.
- Auditions: Jul 15 in Chicago, IL
Seeking union male and female actors of all types and ages for roles in three staged reading of new plays.Monday
- Performances run October 18-December 7, in Evanston, IL.
- Auditions: Jul 8 in Chicago, IL
Casting "A Life of Galileo," a play. Project description: "Brecht's powerful play about a scientific discovery that changed the world and the society that was not ready to accept that change. The production will reduce the play to its essential components, using a small group of actors: one to play ...Monday
- Rehearsals begin in August. Performances run October 10-31, in Chicago, IL.
- Seeking submissions from: Chicago, IL
Casting "Zombie Seinfeld," a play.Sunday
- October 3-31st Saturdays, Sundays and Columbus Day at 3PM Fridays, October 16 & 23 @ 8PM Saturdays, October 17 & 24 @ 10AM
- Auditions: Jul 11 in Chicago, IL
Casting "In This Final Century," a new work based on HG Wells novel "War of the Worlds" taking place in Chicagoland. Project description: "An interactive performance depicting a present day alien attack on the Chicago suburbs and Chicago. Kayla, records everything on her phone as she tries to reconnect with ...Sunday
- Runs November 1-December 20, in Chicago, IL.
- Seeking submissions from: Chicago, IL
Casting "Chapter Two," a play. Project description: "When spy novelist George Schneider lost his wife, he thought he would never date again. After his pushy younger brother set up him with a few duds, he knew he would never date again. Enter Jennie, a soap opera actress with a sensitive ...Sunday
- Runs September 18-October 18, in Lake Forest, IL (where the 1980 Oscar-winning film of the same name was shot).
- Auditions: Jul 25 in Lake Forest, IL
Casting "Ordinary People," a play. Project description: "The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son."Sunday
'Ladies Night of the Living Dead'
- Rehearsals begin early August. Performances run late August to September 13, in Chicago, IL.
- Auditions: Jul 15, 19 in Chicago, IL
Casting "Ladies Night of the Living Dead," a play. Project description: "A cheap hotel room with a bathtub full of booze ensures that Sarah's bachelorette party will be a prenuptial night to remember - but when a zombie outbreak plagues Chicago, she and her five friends find themselves battling challenges ...Sunday
- Rehearsals begin November 2015. Runs in January, 2016 in Chicago, IL.
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Special Needs Kids and Their Families
Here are some blogs that may help parents of children with special needs.
If you are the parent of a child with learning delays or other special needs including autism, cerebral palsy (CP), Down's syndrome, agenesis of the corpus collosum (ACC), or any other conditions that impede movement or development, I hope that these resources can be helpful.
The Anat Baniel Method for Children(sm) is a gentle and powerful method that helps children learn by using cutting edge techniques to stimulate neurological connections through the whole self. Movement is not done for them or to them except to set the context for learning. Rather, I help them do small volitional movements and build on those while teaching easy use of their skeleton in gravity.
Here is a little more information about this method:
The Anat Baniel Method for ChildrenSM helps children perceive differences as they are guided to move within a small and comfortable range in many variations that are available to them. To begin with, the brain thrives on random movement.
These movements begin to fill in the brain map in a similar way that healthy children do with random exploratory movements. Having a variety of movement options not connected at first to a goal gives the brain a message of possibility rather than limitation. The child can begin to happily explore their world within their own range of comfort. As they continue, this range can enlarge naturally and intentional movement becomes easier.
Intentional movement does not occur in any healthy child by doing things the right way, they have a rich base of information that allows them to hone in on the approximate. They "do it wrong" many times in many ways before they become proficient. Children with special needs need this rich base of information. Given this base, the brain can take off. When the pressure is off, learning happens in an optimum way. The child learns their possibilities rather than their limitations.
Parents report new learning right away with ABM
New learning includes: new movements, vocalizing, bonding, exploring, improved sleep and rest, improvements in cognition, improvements in mood. The Anat Baniel Method for ChildrenSM is derived from the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and developed by Anat Baniel and colleagues for more than 30 years. I have worked with children in Gainesville, Florida, USA since 1998.
Children who have neurological disabilities learn to:
Let go of unnecessary holding and contractions
Explore many variations of movement
Use their skeleton in more and more efficient ways to make movement possible and to move with greater ease
Staying within their range of easy volitional movement – children learn through success.
Through this safe and playful exploration, children learn – not the "right way" to move – but their own variety of ways to utilize gravity and interact with their surroundings.
Reaching to Learn
For over 30 years Anat Baniel and her colleagues have proven that children with disabilities can learn to move far beyond expected diagnostic limitations when given the information that the brain needs for learning. Before placing a child in a sitting or standing position when they don't yet have the neurological information, we try to help them put the pieces together. We make sure that children have enough information to move in and out of each new position with minimum effort.
Given the conditions for learning, the brain can form more than a million new connections per second.
Conditions that hinder learning are:
Feeling overwhelmed
Being expected to learn one set way
Feeling powerless or not capable of the task
Feeling unsafe due to past trauma
Learning can be optimized by first looking at what the child can currently do and helping the child build on that. By staying with the child's current understanding of movement and helping them to feel the success of each step, we build on those successes.
Children with learning delays may initially reach learning goals later than other children, and without the foundation of their own experience they stay behind. However, given small initial successes in learning, their development can later move exponentially to the point that they not only "catch up" but can be free to excel and develop their own talents.
ABM helps children perceive differences
I help children learn various combinations of movement such as using the levers of the skeleton efficiently. I help them compare difficult and easy vectors of movement. Given these possibilities in an atmosphere of gentle and playful exploration, their nervous system is free to learn and choose movement combinations from an informed self image rather than by conforming to an outside demand for the "right" way to move.
Parents report new learning right away with ABM.
When a child does something on their own for the first time, I am careful about not making them self conscious. The new learning is fragile and can be inhibited easily. Rather, I give the child the space to continue inventing combinations of movement so they can feel what works for themselves. Parents and teachers are asked to give children plenty of "floor time" so they can explore and build on their new learning.
Questions and Answers
Who Can Benefit?
All children can benefit from this method. Some of the diagnoses are listed here:
• Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (ACC)
• Autism
• Brachial Plexus Injury
• Cerebellar Atrophy
• Cerebral Palsy (CP)
• Down's Syndrome
• Failure to Thrive
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Partial brain loss
• Premature Birth (Preemies)
• Stroke
What changes are seen when children receive lessons from a practitioner trained in the Anat Baniel Method for ChildrenSM?
This method provides children with experiences that give them an opportunity to upgrade their nervous systems. Anat Baniel Method for Children practitioners seek to wake up children's awareness of feeling what they are doing so that they can do what they want.
Parents report:
• Improved sleep
• Better mood
• Longer attention span
• New movement choices
• Improved balance
• Improved problem solving
• More vocal sounds


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I was excited to receive my first Diamonelle product, and this ring did not come up short. The sparkle is to die for, the sizing is great and the under gallery is a pretty detail. The only drawback is the elegance of the ring. You can't really wear it everyday because it looks too much like an engagement ring. Fantastic for special events, though! PS- You can't beat the price!
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beautiful ring , unfortunatly it cuts into my other fingers because of the design .... it is sharp and will catch on clothing .... too bad have to send it back
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ring is beautiful , however .... it is cutting into my 2 surrounding fingers.... not comfortable !! shame because it does look lovely .... just can not wear it !!
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I love this ring ! Very blingy ! It attracts attention, that is for sure. Not sure if it looks like real diamonds or not, as I have never seen real diamonds that big...lol. It sparkles and catches the light, and looks very classy. I do find the sides touch each finger and it is just a wee bit uncomfortable, but I only wear it once in a while, and can put up with that.
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Flawless appearance, and so much sparkle! I've been in several jewellery stores and had the experts admiring it. One salesperson examined it quite thoroughly and was very impressed ! I have several Tycoon pieces and will buy more as they are so beautifully crafted, and perfect to take along for travelling.
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Sinton for Youth shopping spree runs like clockwork for 20th year
CORPUS CHRISTI - PORTLAND — Pink was popular with San Patricio County girls Saturday, while most boys went for kooky T-shirts at the 20th Sinton for Youth shopping spree in Portland's Kmart.
Despite loading her cart with pink clothes, like many other girls, Mathis kindergarten student Jacklynn Del Bosque, 5, tossed aside a pink Strawberry Shortcake toy in favor of a blue stuffed Brainy Smurf.
"Blue is her favorite color," said Jasmine Acuna, 16, who volunteered to help Jacklynn spend $40 on shoes, clothes and a toy. "But a little girl can't be seen wearing blue clothes."
Readers of the Caller-Times, who donate to Caller-Times Children's Christmas Appeal program, fund the shopping spree. This year about $10,000 was divvied among 250 needy youngsters — 50 are recommended by faculty at each of the county's five school districts.
More than that was spent.
"This year many of the older students, teachers and adult volunteers offered to pay extra if they went over their $40," said Gene Kasprzyk, a program board member and Sinton High School teacher.
Ronnie Molina, the athletic director at Mathis High School, joined the volunteer ranks for the first time, alongside about 80 students.
"All my athletes wanted to come, so we're double teaming the little ones," Molina said. "Four eyes are better anyway. Most of the students brought some of their own money in case they went over a few bucks, and this is so awesome I told them 'Don't worry, I'll take care of it if we need more money.'"
Like clockwork — on the hour from 7 a.m. to noon — student chaperones from Sinton, Taft, Mathis, Gregory-Portland and Odem-Edroy independent school districts led clusters of kids onto their district's bus with bags of shopping spoils as the next group guided kids into aisles alongside empty carts.
Odem third-grader Brandon Cantu, 8, bolted straight to the shoes.
In his excitement, Brandon bumped a box of lady's boots from an aisle end cap onto the floor. The dimples in his cheeks from his grin vanished as he looked around before quickly placing the boots back on the shelf.
His wide smile returned as Brandon plopped onto a bench and yanked off a worn left running shoe to try on a new black and white Protege basketball shoe, chosen by his chaperone Wes Zimmerman, 17, an Odem High School football player.
Zimmerman's teammate Aaron Moore, 16, peeked inside the back of 9-year-old Franky Hernandez's collar to see his size.
"Does your mom let you wear funny shirts?" Aaron asked Franky.
They sifted through a few before Aaron held one against the boy's chest.
"This one's cool," the teen assured. It had an outer-space cartoon character with the phrase: An Alien took my homework.
Franky agreed with an affirmative nod.
"Sorry we can't get you a lot man," Aaron said. "We only have a certain amount of money."
The boy's reply: "It's OK.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- DeMar DeRozan and Rudy Gay scored 21 points apiece and the Toronto Raptors ended a five-game skid with a 99-82 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night. The Raptors led 46-45 at the break and took control by outscoring Detroit 23-5 in the first eight minutes of the third period. Gay, who had just two points at halftime, scored 19 points during the third. Amir Johnson added 20 points and Jonas Valanciunas had 14 points and 13 rebounds. Jonas Jerebko scored 20 points to lead the Pistons, who also got 17 from rookie Andre Drummond in their eighth straight home loss. Drummond, who missed 22 games with a stress fracture in his lower back, made his first career start. NOTES: Pistons guard Brandon Knight left the game less than a minute in after a collision with Toronto's DeRozan left him with a bloody nose. He returned a few minutes later wearing a protective mask and limped off the floor after being fouled midway through the fourth quart...
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Pádraic Ó Máille
Pádraic Ó Máille (23 February 1878 – 19 January 1946) was an Irish politician. He was a founder member of Sinn Féin and of the Gaelic League in Galway. He was a member of the Irish Volunteers from 1917 to 1921.
He was born in Kilmilkin, in Maam Valley in County Galway and was a farmer. He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Galway Connemara at the 1918 general election.[1] In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann.[2] He was re-elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway constituency at the 1921 elections. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He was re-elected as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TD for Galway at the 1922 general election, and was elected as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD for Galway at the 1923 general election. In the subsequent Irish Civil War, he was targeted for assassination by anti-Treaty forces and was shot and badly wounded in Dublin in December 1922. His fellow TD, Sean Hales was killed in the incident.
He was critical of the proposed Irish Boundary Commission and resigned from Cumann na nGaedheal and founded a new political party called Clann Éireann in 1926. He lost his seat at the June 1927 general election and was unsuccessful at the September 1927 general election. He later joined Fianna Fáil (the party which had emerged from the anti-Treaty side in the civil war) and contested the 1932 general election for that party in the Dublin County constituency but was not elected.[3] On each of these occasions he was subjected to a smear campaign by his former party colleagues who used his pro-Treaty stance during the civil war against him. It was alleged that he had personally selected his fellow county man Liam Mellows for execution. These smears persisted despite denials from the Mellows family and from Ó Máille himself. In fact, Mellows was executed in reprisal for the attack on Ó Máille and Sean Hales in 1922. Mellows was shot the following day while Ó Máille himself was gravely wounded and in hospital.
He served as a Fianna Fáil Senator in Seanad Éireann from 1934 to 1936. He was re-elected to the new Seanad in 1938 on the Agricultural Panel. From 1939 until his death in 1946 he was re-appointed to the Seanad as a nominee of the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. He was Leas-Chathaoirleach (Deputy chairman) of the Seanad from 1938 to 1942.
- Richard Dunphy (1995), The Making of Fianna Fáil Power in Ireland: 1923–48
- Michael O'Cuinneagáin (1996), On the Arm of Time
- ^ "Mr. Pádraic Ó Máille". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
- ^ "Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil". Dáil Éireann Historical Debates (in Irish). 21 January 1919. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
- ^ "Pádraic Ó Máille". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
- 1878 births
- 1946 deaths
- People of the Irish Civil War (Pro-Treaty side)
- Early Sinn Féin politicians
- Cumann na nGaedheal politicians
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- Members of the 1st Dáil
- Members of the 2nd Dáil
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- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Irish constituencies (1801–1922)
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A toy camera is one that costs less than the roll of film with which it is loaded.
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A toy camera is one that costs less than the roll of film with which it is loaded.
Plastic body and lens, no settable focus, aperture, shutter or film speed, just shutter release and film advance. Pure and simple.
By that definition, the Holga is not a toy camera.
Anything originally produced to sell at a very inexpensive price point. Intended for beginners, and uncomplicated ease of use. Something you can hand to a kid and not worry about and expect viewable images back. Designed for fun, and have looser tolerances in all aspects of use and build.
It is any camera you are using when you are not being paid!
The creative part of a Krappy Kam is its Krappy Lens - invariably a plano-convex with the aperture mounted too close to the lens. The problem is the rest of the Kam is so unreliable, and usually the worse [better] the lens the more unreliable the shutter/winding mechanism/door latch/etc.. The Empire Baby is probably the worst/best example. It was also my first camera, purchased at the age of 7 for 2s/6d [make it 50 cents] at Woolworths. It cost a lot less than the film and processing that I had to wheedle out of parents and relatives.
Reliable almost-a-toy cameras from Kodak, Herbert George ('Imperial'), Ansco and others had meniscus lenses and correctly placed apertures and produced results that were uninteresting.
'Lens Baby' was supposed to be the answer - a crappy lens for your Nikanoltax - but the prices got out of hand and the lenses never had the right amount of optical charm. I have found a good lens is a Spiratone Portagon coupled to a 2x extender - without the extender there is too much peripheral blur.
A Petzval portrait lens for 35mm would be intriguing.
A toy is something to play with. Leicas, Wistas, Speed Graphics are all things that can be played with. For collectors who do not use them, they are indeed nothing but toys.
My BMW is a toy, and so is my very fast crotch rocket motorcycle. They are objects of play.
They become tools when used. A plastic box with a hole, a Mickey Mouse camera to get an image onto film, a Holga used to expose film or grafted onto a digital camera, is a tool.


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