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Many are familiar with the Libraries collection of exciting art from the Caribbean. From now until Friday, September 27, you can see some of this beautiful collection displayed on campus.
The University of Central Florida Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition featuring Caribbean art from the Bryant Collection, the Shoemaker Collection and the General Library Collection, all on loan from UCF Libraries Special Collections, as well as works from the private collection of renowned artist, Edouard Duval Carrié.
Celebrated artists such as Wilson Bigaud, Préfète Duffaut, Prospere Pierre-Louis, Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Everald Brown and Wifredo Lam will be showcased through paintings, sculpture, and prints. The vibrant spirit of the Caribbean is on view through a combination of festive colors and bold figures. The show has been curated with a multicultural focus that seeks to link the diverse population in Florida with that of the Caribbean.
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At least one Republican U.S. senator is ready to try to tackle the politically controversial problem of immigration reform. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said this month that, with the poor showing his party made among Hispanic voters in the presidential election, other Republicans should be eager to join him.
It is not surprising that Graham would be among the first to step forward in favor of comprehensive changes to the nations immigration laws. He was among the most vocal champions of the reform plan proposed by President George W. Bush in 2006.
That bill included a provision to legalize an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, most from Latin America, and to create a temporary worker program sought by business groups. But it also featured tougher border security and workplace enforcement measures, including an extra $4.4 billion for more border enforcement.
In the end, though, the bill fell short in the Senate with 37 Republicans opposing it.
While unemployment is high now, as more and more baby-boomers retire, the nation is likely to suffer a shortage of workers in key jobs. We will need more immigrant workers, not fewer.
The nation also needs to find ways to encourage the best foreign students attending U.S. colleges and universities to stay in this country and use their skills here.
The hard anti-immigrant stance taken by many Republicans might have appealed to some in the partys base, but it was not a winning formula at the polling booths. Graham thinks Republicans can remain true to their values but also embrace immigration reform and attract Hispanic voters to the GOP in the process.
We hope more of those from his side of the aisle will join like-minded Democrats to find a lasting fix to the problem of illegal immigration. It would be both good for the nation and smart politics.
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Apple, WiTricity, and wireless charging
With rumors of Apple exploring new ways to charge iPhones and iPads, MacRumors pulls together threads from a company called WiTricity, which is based wireless charging research from MIT, and puts it together with an Apple patent application that surfaced earlier this year.
Apple describes a scenario where your iMac could be the source of this resonance power to provide a virtual charging area in front of your computer. Keyboards, mice and even mobile electronic devices like the iPhone or iPad could be charged simply be being in a 1 meter proximity to your computer. In typical Apple fashion, they describe that "by doing away with clumsy and annoying cables and eliminating the need to replace batteries, an easy to use and efficient local computing environment can be provided to the user."
So unlike <a href="http://www.precentral.net/"tags/touchstone">HP/Palm's TouchStone, it wouldn't require direct contact, just proximity. Whether or not Apple is or will work with WiTricity, or does anything with wireless charging any time soon, it's interesting to see what's being explored in the labs.
I've used inductive charging with the Pre Plus and with PowerMat, and while it feels like the future, it feels like a very close future. Like a novelty and not that far removed from the tether (trading the socket for a surface). True wireless charging, the ability to put your iPhone or iPad down pretty much where you want, and pick it up again fully charged? Way closer to Star Trek.
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People are getting so comfortable with electromagnetic fields. Too comfortable perhaps. Electromagnetic fields at any frequency at high enough power levels can damage cells. Let's just turn our homes into microwaves and cook ourselves SLOOWWLY. :) I wish he would have stated how many dBm the power amplifier is putting out. I'd wager quite a bit to deliver enough watts to power the TV. For reference, cell phone PAs put out around 2W (33dBm) at max power.
I wonder if this addiction to electromagnetics (aka. wireless) may come back to haunt us someday.
I think just plugging it into a cable is a lot more straightforward than all of this special equipment that creates a lot of electrical interference in the immediate environment. Is this a solution searching for a problem?
I believe this is where the future is headed. I just think we ought to be careful about how much exposure we let ourselves have to higher power electromagnetic fields. We are always being bombarded by fields and rays it's true, but adding more sources in our very home -- we need to be careful.
Yes, I airplane mode my iphone at night since it charges on my nightstand.
While this sounds awesome, I'm still just a bit cautious about the whole "wireless energy flowing through my junk" part. I kinda feel like my swimmers are like bees, and WiTricity might be some really high-tension, high-capacity power lines. I'm cool with bees, and cool with power lines, but the two just don't mix. I'm NOT cool with that.
Haha, people are always gonna be afraid of new technology; they always have. When microwave ovens were first released, it was commonly believed that it would make your food radioactive and kill you. When trains and cars were first around, people thought that if you went over 40MPH, your head would implode. Now, thanks to the internet, people think cellphones can pop popcorn. The electromagnetic resonance of water is extremely different to the magnetic resonance they're using to translate an electric signal between two magnetically prepared devices.
@jhembach: how about physics as something to back it up. Your type of response is the type of thinking that is ruining our world, making it less and less sustainable and safe. You have no idea what an EM field is do you? Data-based decision making?! What a load of fluffy bullcrap. Data can be fudged but a first-principles approach to understanding cannot. How can you make decisions based on data if you don't even know what the data is telling you? The world is really going to end soon because it's ruled by business majors that trust this thing called 'data' but really it's just a set of numbers another person gives (and often interprets) for them.
First, I'd like to apologize for sounding rude. I simply didn't agree with how you belittled another person reading this blog and sharing his opinion. I'll admit that my post was broad and uninformative. Since you sound like you care about knowing real facts: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones.
The article is written fairly well where it explains why there is concern for daily use of radiation, even at 'safe' frequencies.
To be honest, I just hit I'm feeling lucky on Google and it gave me that site. You mention frequency as a reason why cell phones are safe, but if you understand why frequency matters, you'll see that there is really no way to make the claim that cell phome radiation doesn't affect the body. Actually, the opposite is true because the power of the signal decreases significantly (relative to through air) as it passes through the body. Also, knowing a little bit about engineering, you'll know that signal generators that produce a single frequency without noise doesn't exist.
As for the comment that data can be fudged, it's central to what I wanted to say because if you look at modern research, there are many bad papers that present the data is a way that suggests their interest or point. These papers are accepted into journals bcause journals are largely self-regulated and many professors don't take the time to closely read when they review (they generally just look for gross errors in calculation by doing magnitude and unit checks). Large corporations that make billions on this radio technology have a stake in its public acceptace. It would be foolish to think that WHO doesn't have interest in the global economy. Even the article I presented, which quotes many other papers, has motivation to 'raise awareness' and may bias the perspective with which it is written. My point is that everyone should always think critically about what they are told is 'true' and use knowledge from first-principles to verify if what they are told makes sense. With that said, I enciurage you to pick up an elementary book to modern physics (an actual text book with problems and solutions, not a book where someone is commenting on what the subject is about). I would suggest one but I'm afraid i forgot the title of mine at home and it's written in the 70's so you'll probably be able to find a better book anyways.
Cheers to understanding-based decision making and a of better understand of our world.
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Small Business Person of the Year
Mr. Alan Razzaghi
Freshlunches, Inc. – Northridge, CA.
Freshlunches was co-founded in 2007 by Alan Razzaghi and his wife, who wanted bridge to the gap between what families want their children to eat at school and what is available through the school lunch program. With a vision of providing healthy school lunches to families and schools, the company began with the Razzaghis preparing and packaging lunches at a small rental kitchen. Initially service was just 35 lunches daily, but grew to a few hundred within weeks. After outgrowing two smaller kitchens, Razzaghi remodeled and relocated to an older commissary in 2009, which has enabled the company's continued growth. A strong believer in building a family atmosphere within Freshlunches, Razzaghi offers career growth opportunities for employees and hosts bi-monthly company-wide discussions covering a range of topics including the company, business management, innovation, entrepreneurship or personal finance and growth. Razzaghi has also initiated programs to identify, train and mentor the next generation of leaders from within Freshlunches.
Innovation Through Technology Business of the Year
FPA Technology Services, Inc. – Calabasas, CA.
Mr. Craig Pollack
FPA Technology Services, Inc. has provided outsourced IT services to growing businesses in the Los Angeles area since 1991. With its "business first" approach, FPA prides itself on being a trusted technology advisor helping clients leverage technology to achieve their business objectives. As a single source for all the technology services an organization may need, FPA offers three areas of service: managed IT services and general network implementation and support; information systems management; and application/web design and development. By providing a "one stop-shop" of IT services to organizations and with a "business before technology" approach, FPA is able to effectively handle all of a company's IT needs, allowing client management to focus on achieving their business objectives.
Environmental "Green" Conservator of the Year
Ms. Jaime Nack
Three Squares Inc. – Santa Monica, CA.
Established in 2008 by Jaime Nack, Three Squares Inc. (TSI) is a cutting-edge sustainability consulting firm specializing in developing comprehensive sustainability plans for corporate entities, government agencies and academic institutions. The company, which is 100 percent women-owned, has consistently added employees and increased revenues annually. In 2012, TSI ventured into the technology solution arena with the development of the Three Squares Corporate Sustainability Program, and has since worked with a wide range of companies to develop custom sustainability plans and roll them out across their organizations. With the aid of cloud-based technology, TSI has developed a corporate sustainability portal that allows sustainability directors or HR managers to roll out online training across their organization with the click of a button. This new program will serve as a one-stop-shop for sustainability education linked to real-time data collection and will offer interactive training modules for corporate entities.
Small Business Exporter of the Year
Mr. Travis Smith and Joe Notaro
Reflex Sales Group – Encino, CA.
Started by two recent Cal State Northridge graduates and based out of Encino, CA, Reflex assists companies by taking control of their excess inventory and redistributing it internationally to avoid harming the brands U.S. market, as well as saving them from losing their cost. Working in virtually every category – including home décor, housewares, health and beauty, electronics, automotive, toys, stationary and gifts – Reflex provides redistribution to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Panamá, Central America, South America, Japan and more. The distribution channels include off-price retail chains, daily deal web sites, closeout boutiques and casino promotions.
8 (a) Graduate of the Year
Mr. Sanjay Kucheria – Glendale, CA.
Trinus Corporation
Sanjay Kucheria, CEO of Trinus Corporation, is the 8(a) Graduate of the Year. Established in 1995, Trinus Corporation is a full-service professional services firm focused exclusively on data integration, data warehouse, ERP, CRM, internet service and business intelligence solutions. Trinus entered the SBA's 8(a) Business Development Program in 2003 and graduated in 2012. During the program Sanjay received management and technical assistance along with business development assistance. Sanjay also attended many procurement fairs throughout the region and is the recipient of various agency awards for service excellence. During Trinus's participation in the 8(a) Program, they tripled their gross revenues by helping their clients assess, plan, develop and maintain cost-effective, scalable data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Trinus successfully operates in a variety of sectors, including life sciences, local and state government, automotive, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, entertainment, retail, technology and energy.
Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year
Ms. Sandy Schneeberger
Los Angeles Chapter Elite SDVOB Network – Los Angeles, CA.
Sandy Schneeberger, President of The Sandberg Group - is a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army. Not only is Sandy a veteran business owner and proud scientist who started her business during her military career but she is also the President of Elite Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business Network – Los Angeles Chapter. Her advocacy for veteran business owners is unequaled and through Elite SDVOB thousands of veteran business owners have received business education and mentorship, as well as a voice in state and national policies affecting the use of Service Disabled and Veteran Owned businesses in government contracting. In assisting other veterans, she draws on her own firm's experiences, which focuses on environmental consulting and provides a variety of services, including hazardous materials, geology/hydrogeology, cultural resources management, construction contracting, demolition and renovation. The firm has grown to include offices in Los Angeles, San Diego and Henderson, Nevada, and has national reach with projects throughout the U.S.
Financial Service Champion of the Year
Mr. Roberto Barragan
Valley Economic Development Corporation – Van Nuys, CA
As the President of Valley Economic Development Center (VEDC), Roberto Barragan manages the largest small business development non-profit organization in Los Angeles, with 50 employees in seven offices serving more than 6,000 businesses yearly with financing, training and direct business assistance. Barragan is also the founder and president of the San Fernando Valley Financial Development Corporation, a state guaranteed small business loan program since 2001 and an SBA 504 lender headquartered in Los Angeles County. In 2005, Barragan founded the Pacoima Development Federal Credit Union, which now has 900 members and $4.0 million in assets, and is a licensed SBA 7(a) lender. Over the last 10 years, Barragan has raised more than $75 million in federal, state and local as well as private resources for small and medium sized business development. Barragan has more than 26 years of experience managing non-profit organizations, including the last 20 involved in community economic development, technical assistance to for-profit and non-profit entities and financial resource development.
Women in Business Champion of the Year
Ms. Claudia Porter Viek
California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity – San Francisco, CA.
The CEO of the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO), Claudia Viek has built a statewide network of 140 organizations and individuals committed to promoting economic opportunity and community well-being through entrepreneurial training programs and microloans. CAMEO's members served 21,000 businesses in 2011 with training, business assistance and microloans. With more than 25 years of experience in business incubation, entrepreneurial training and microfinance, Viek is a pioneer in both the micro enterprise and business incubation movement in California. She founded the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center in San Francisco in 1987 and served for 14 years as its executive director. She also founded the Pacific Incubation Network of business incubators from Baja to Alaska to facilitate the growth of a robust micro-business economy along the West Coast.
Minority Small Business Champion of the Year
Ms. Beverly Kuykendall
Federal and Commercial Contracts, Inc. – Long Beach, CA.
The President/CEO of Federal and Commercials Contracts, Inc. (FCCi), Beverly Kuykendall works with large businesses to develop small business programs that meet public sector requirements. FCCi facilitates the development of small business programs that accomplish three strategic objectives: return on investment by working with small businesses in all categories 8(a), HUB Zone, SDVOSB and WOSB; incremental increase in market share; and strategic market advantage. Under Kuykendall's leadership, FCCi has successfully helped organizations gain maximum benefit from the well of diversity for more than 20 years. A strong advocate of small business, Kuykendall has experience in logistics, distribution, sales and marketing management with such firms as Procter and Gamble, American Hospitals Supply, Herman Miller and Xerox Corporation and from leading her own public sector consulting firm.
Small Business Development Center Service Excellence & Innovation Award
Small Business Development Center at Long Beach City College
For the second year in a row, the winner of the Small Business Development Center – Service Excellence and Innovation Award is the Small Business Development Center at Long Beach City College, under the direction of Center Director Michael Daniel. The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Long Beach City College comprises of a team of experienced current business owners who provide one-on-one advising services to fellow business owners at no cost. The goal of the SBDC is to partner with clients and teach them the technical skills necessary to succeed in their business. The SBDC at LBCC served 1,059 clients in 2012 and assisted with 69 business startups, which created 359 jobs. The SBDC at LBCC assists business owners in building websites (at no cost) and teaches them how to maintain and update the site on their own. The SBDC at LBCC also helps clients by packaging loans and then shopping that loan for the client (again, at no cost). The SBDC at LBCC also hosts regular workshops at a low cost on various topics such as business planning, finance, legal, marketing, international trade, operations, social media, website build/design, and government procurement/ certification.
Women's Business Center of Excellence Award
Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment – Los Angeles, CA.
PACE's Women's Business Center is dedicated to advancing the economic wealth of women through delivering quality programs that build successful businesses and promote asset accumulation. PACE WBC serves women who live throughout Los Angeles County, but targets a sub-market that mirrors PACE's primary service area which encompasses 102 zip code areas in Central Los Angeles, the South Bay and the San Gabriel Valley. PACE's target community includes ethnic enclaves such as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Filipino Town and Thai Town. For the past seven years, PACE WBC has built a reputation for superior business consulting services and has provided individual counseling to more than 4,837 clients—2,602 women entrepreneurs and small business owners; helped to start 2,143 businesses; and packaged more than 811 loans totaling more than $19 million. In conjunction with their Business Development Center (BDC), PACE WBC offers a wide variety of services including credit/ financial counseling, homebuyer counseling, business development training, mentoring, and technical assistance programs with trained, experienced business counselors for both start up and emerging businesses. Their comprehensive courses focus on numerous topics such as marketing, financial management, and business plan creation. Through the BDC, PACE WBC also offers access to capital via our loan packaging and micro-loan programs, including our Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) PACE Finance Corporation and our SBA Microloan Intermediary Loan Fund.
SCORE Chapter of the Year Award
SCORE – Ventura Chapter 255 – Ventura, CA.
Dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals through education and mentorship provided by our volunteer members, SCORE Ventura's targets the entire small business community, and those who desire to join that community by starting a business in Ventura County and neighboring cities. SCORE Ventura offers mentoring, free or low cost workshops and seminars, business plan completion training, business loan information and referrals, team counseling to resolve business issues and Spanish language programs focused on Hispanic Small Business issues. In the last year, SCORE Venture has counseled more than 500 small business clients, organized and hosted the annual Small Business Week Expo, held 145 workshops and seminars and performed more than 12,000 hours of volunteer services for the Ventura County small business community – all while maintaining a client feedback rating of 95 percent satisfaction and in increasing chapter membership from 44 to 65 members.


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Sat., Feb. 21
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Chicago holds fourth in the West Division with 59 points through 57 games (28-26-2-1), and sits just three points behind second-place Rockford; the Wolves will square off against West Division foes in 19 of their remaining 23 tilts.
--- Jeff Hamilton: Leads the team and shares 11th in the AHL with 34 assists, shares first in the AHL with 29 power-play points and paces the team and shares 14th in the league with 49 points in 44 games ... Shares second on the squad with 15 goals and holds second with nine power-play tallies ... Notched five points (3G, 2A) in four games last week and has tallied at least one point in 30 of his 44 outings this season
--- Spencer Machacek: Ranks first among team rookies and shares second on the Wolves with 15 markers in 54 contests this year ... Paces Chicago rookies and ranks third on the club with 31 points and shares third on the squad with a +12 plus/minus rating ... Posted nine points (4G, 5A) during a current season-high six-game point streak
--- Brett Skinner: Tallied 17 points (G, 16A) in 16 games with the Wolves since being acquired in a trade on Jan. 13 ... Ranks first among team blueliners and fourth on the Wolves with 29 points, which includes 12 points (G, 11A) in 24 contests with the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers ... Ranks second on the club and shares sixth among league blueliners with 27 assists
--- Joe Motzko: Ranks first on the team and shares fourth in the AHL with 24 goals in 50 games this season ... Paces the Wolves with 10 power-play markers and holds second on the team with 45 points ... Dished out two assists in three games since being reassigned by Atlanta on Feb. 12
--- Twenty-one of the Wolves 28 victories this season have come when the club is leading after the second period; Chicago has posted a 21-2-1-0 mark when holding the advantage entering the final frame.
--- Friday marked the Wolves' sixth shootout win this season, tied for most in the AHL; the squad has racked up a .864 winning percentage after regulation, which ranks fifth in the AHL.
--- The Wolves have outgunned the opposition in four of the last six games, after being outshot in five of the previous six outings; Chicago has posted a 17-10-2-1 mark when outshooting its foes this season.
--- Beginning Wednesday, Chicago will play four games in five nights for the third consecutive week, with three of the games to be played at Allstate Arena; the Wolves have amassed a 15-10-0-1 record at home this season, and are outscoring opponents 86-71 along the way.
--- Chicago has bagged five power-play markers in the last five games (five of 27); the Wolves rank 25th in the league with a 14.9 efficiency rating on the man-advantage (47 of 316).
--- Twenty-seven different players have lit the lamp for Chicago this season, which includes 21 of the 26 on the current roster, excluding goaltenders.
--- The Wolves wives will be selling autographed Valentine's Day pucks during home games on Wed., Feb. 18; Fri., Feb. 20 and Sun., Feb. 22. The specially wrapped pucks, which contain candy and the autograph of a surprise Wolves player, can be purchased for $10 in the East, North and South concourses of the Allstate Arena. Fans who buy a puck that has a player's name signed in gold will have the chance to meet that player after the game.
Sun., Feb. 15
(at) Houston 4, Chicago 2
--- The Wolves pulled within one twice but could not find the equalizer, dropping a 4-2 decision to the Houston Aeros at the Toyota Center Sunday night
--- Right wing Spencer Machacek and center Matt Anderson scored for Chicago
--- Netminder Ondrej Pavelec thwarted 29 of 33 shots
Sat., Feb. 14
Chicago 4, (at) Peoria 1
--- Chicago scored in each period on the way to a 4-1 victory over the Peoria Rivermen at Carver Arena on Saturday night
--- Forwards Justin Taylor, Riley Holzapfel, Jeff Hamilton and Spencer Machacek dented the net for Chicago
--- Goaltender Robert Gherson stopped 20 of 21 shots, which includes holding the Rivermen scoreless for the first 59:21
Fri., Feb. 13
Chicago 3, (at) Milwaukee 2 (SO)
--- Chicago earned a 3-2 shootout win over the Milwaukee Admirals at the Bradley Center Friday night
--- Forwards Jeff Hamilton and Spencer Machacek lit the lamp in regulation, while Joey Crabb, Joe Motzko and Brett Skinner tallied in the shootout
--- Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec stopped 25 of 27 shots in regulation and overtime, and thwarted three of five tries in the shootout
Wed., Feb. 11
Rochester 4, (at) Chicago 3
--- The Wolves watched three one-goal leads slip away before giving up two straight markers to drop a 4-3 decision to the Rochester Americans at the Allstate Arena Wednesday night
--- Forwards Jeff Hamilton, Riley Holzapfel and defenseman Clay Wilson tallied for Chicago
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James Charles Hancock was born March 4, 1951 in Miller to Leslie P. Hancock and Floy Holder. He passed from this life on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 in Oklahoma City at the age of 60. James had lived in the Antlers area all of his life. He married Margery McCort (Pearson) in 1994.
Floyd Thomas Ansley was born October 7, 1927 in Randlett to James Thomas and Ruth Bell (Smith) Ansley. He passed from this life on Monday, July 25, 2011 in Antlers at the age of 83. Floyd had lived in this area all of his life and was a member of the Church of Christ in Boswell and Hugo. He served his country in the United States Navy, on the U.S.S. Saratoga, during WWII from 1944 to 1946. He married Betty Zane Walker on September 16, 1948 in Denison, TX. Floyd worked and retired from the Kiamichi Railroad. After retiring, he owned and operated a Pulpwood business in Antlers.
Claudia Ellen VanVoast Boyd passed from this life on July 14, 2011 at her home in Combine, TX. She lost a well fought battle with cancer at the age of 62. Claudia is survived by her husband of 34 years, Wallace Boyd, her mother Vivan VanVoast, daughter Amy Hurst and son Loren Boyd. The memorial service was held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 18, 2011 at Our Merciful Savior Episcopal Church in Kaufman, TX. In liew of flowers, donations should be made to the Crandall Library in memory of Claudia Boyd. She was greatly loved. A memorial service will also be held at 2:00 p.m.
Jerry Herbert LaMothe was born March 19, 1936 in Newberry, MI., to George and Fern Ann (St. John) LaMothe. He passed from this life July 17, 2011, at the age of 75. Jerry served his country in the United States Army, 82nd Airborne Division during the Korean Conflict. He married Lenora Stephens in California and together, they raised two children. Jerry worked as a foreman and supervisor on numerous construction jobs. When Jerry wasn't working, he was enjoying his favorite sport of hunting. He also loved spending time with his family & friends.
Bob Parsons was born August 8, 1985 in Idabel to B.J. Parsons and Yonna Parsons. He passed from this life on July 3, 2011 in Idabel at the age of 25. A Carpenter, Bob had lived in McCurtain County all of his life and was of the Baptist faith. He enjoyed working and fixing things, taking his kids fishing, going mudding and spending time with his family and friends.
Bobby Joe Bridges was born November 12, 1929 in Kiowa to William Leo and Vera (Youngblood) Bridges. He passed from this life July 5, 2011 in Tulsa at the age of 81. Bobby served his county in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict. He married Melissa Storey September 9, 1953 in Oklahoma City. Bobby was a lifetime member of the VFW. He enjoyed race cars, especially drag racing and going to the bar to have a few drinks and visits with his friends and grandkids. He loved spending time with his family and friends.
Georgia May Self was born October 21, 1904 in Antlers to David and Carrie (Fowler) Roebuck. She passed from this life on June 27, 2011 in Antlers at the age of 106. Georgia lived and worked her entire life in the Antlers area. She married Chester Self on January 17, 1948. She enjoyed spending time with family and the many friends she made during her lifetime. Georgia also enjoyed traveling thoughout the United States. She was very proud of her Choctaw heritage and proud of being one of the original enrollees into the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Jerry Eugene Brown was born November 10, 1947 in Atoka to Jerry McKinley and Carrie Cordelia (Johnson) Brown. He passed from this life June 26, 2011 in Tulsa at the age of 63. Jerry had lived in the Antlers area for his entire life. He married Donna Clay in Sobol on December 21, 1967. Jerry retired from Antlers Public School in 2006. He had been in public education for 30 years as a teacher, coach & School Administrator. He enjoyed his dogs & working, but Jerry especially loved spending time with his grandchildren, family, & friends.
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I read "the husband". Didn't care for it much. For me, I could almost see Koontz looking at his typewriter, thinking.... well, damn, I've painted myself in a corner here... I guess I could just have the bad guy drop his gun or something, that'll be easy! lol. I can't remember exactly what happened in that book but I do remember thinking that it was really unrealistic and the happy ending tacked on at the end seemed more than cheesy.
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Dark carnival: Insane Clown Posse brings JCW wrestling to ToledoWritten by Jeff McGinnis | | email@example.com
Before almost anything else, their bond was through wrestling.
When young Joseph Bruce first began hanging out with Joseph Utsler in the 1980s in Metro Detroit, their first common passion wasn't the bombastic, controversial hip-hop that would make them — or, rather, their face-painted alter egos the Insane Clown Posse — famous.
Before beginning their famous dark carnival, what united Bruce and Utsler was the classic mat wars of the 1980s. Before they painted their faces to take the stage as musicians, they wrestled each other in their backyards. Before they commanded the loyalty of thousands of "Juggalos" — the fervent fans who fill venues and attend ICP's annual Gathering of the Juggalos every summer — the pair were enthralled by the battles of Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and, especially, the Ultimate Warrior.
"Wrestling influenced our hip-hop," said Bruce — now much better known as Violent J — in an interview with Toledo Free Press. "That's why we wear the face paint. The Ultimate Warrior influenced us our entire life."
Jim Hellwig — the late wrestler who legally changed his name to "Warrior" following his famous run in the then-WWF World Wrestling Federation now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)— had a monumental influence on what ICP became, Violent J said. Not just in performance, but in real life.
"He said something in his [WWE] Hall of Fame speech. People wondered why he named himself 'Warrior.' Hellwig said, 'If a big company can use the Ultimate Warrior image to sell T-shirts, and to put people in seats, and all that stuff, why can't he use it in his personal life to achieve greatness?'
"And that sort of made sense to me, because that's what me and my brother did," Violent J said. "Whenever there was a feat that we had to do, when we didn't feel like doing it, when we were tired and burnt out or whatever, my brother would always say to me, 'Ultimate Warrior!' You know what I mean? Like, you know, man up and get through it. … And we grew up doing that, we grew up using that term."
Thumbtacks and barbed wire
Even as ICP marks nearly a quarter century of hip-hop mayhem, they have never left their passion for the grappling game behind. J and Utsler — now known as Shaggy 2 Dope — have sporadically run their own wrestling promotion, Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW), for the past 15 years. The latest JCW tour will make a stop in the Glass City on May 4 at Headliners.
"We're into storyline wrestling, you know?" Violent J said, describing JCW's approach to the sport. "It's sort of old-school, back to the day when everyone had a character. When you had a Kamala, you had a bunch of guys who were hillbillies and you had a bunch of guys who were this and that. And that's what our wrestling is like — it's character-driven.
"It's not so much like [what] today's locker rooms look like, which is like a bunch of male underwear models. … It's more or less old-school wrestling, [that] is what JCW is. And that's pretty much — you can expect to see some blood, too, some brutalness, some thumbtacks, some barbed wire, things like that."
ICP has never cared that much about what the "mainstream" thinks about them, whether that be mainstream music fans or hardcore WWE devotees. Their local collaborators, though, say ICP is good to work with.
"We've never had any problems with them. It's always been great," said Broc Curry, president and founder of Innovation Concerts, promoters of the May 4 event. "The last time we had ICP perform live was, I'm going to say, two years ago, probably three years ago now. And it was a great, sold-out show. And the crowd that came out were just happy that they were in town. We heard for weeks leading up to the event, 'Can the clowns even perform in Toledo? They're banned from Toledo!' So that was interesting.
"But literally, as long as you can control the Faygo in the parking lot, they're just excited that everybody can be there as a group."
Passion project
J and Shaggy will not perform — either as musicians or wrestlers — at the May 4 show. Their role, fittingly, will be as ringmasters, hosting the event, announcing the matches and introducing others from their label Psychopathic Records. But working on JCW always feels like a return to home for ICP. In fact, that's usually where work on a new installment of their crazy wrestling roadshow begins — back in their home state of Michigan.
"When we're going to be home, when we're home for eight months in a row, that's when we bring it back. And we start doing shows around Detroit, or we bring it out on tour, or we do it every two weeks — we run like a TV thing on the Internet, a little Internet show," J said.
Wrestling is always a passion project for ICP. In their primary/main realm, two platinum records, over 6 million albums sold and thousands of devotees, J makes it clear that JCW must always come second to their musical career, and their devotion to hip-hop helps contribute to the unique structure of their wrestling product.
"We're unlike any other company in the sense that we go away for a while, and then when we do come back, we start all over again. Like, all the storylines are different and everything. But it's the same maybe six or seven key characters and then new characters every time we come back.
"It would be different if we had nationwide TV, but we don't. Music is our No. 1, you know what I mean?"
Road to the Gathering
Despite their commitment to music, Violent J is more than just an enthusiastic amateur in the wrestling game. He actually toured with independent companies for a while in the early 1990s before Insane Clown Posse was born. After achieving international fame with Shaggy 2 Dope — and making appearances on numerous national wrestling shows — the pair decided to put their own footprint on the business they loved.
The early days of the promotion were marked by the group's cheerful vulgarity. The initial name was "Juggalo Champions*** Wrestling." J and Shaggy would headline shows as a tag team, do their own ironic commentary and book former national talents and make fun of them. Nowadays, the shows are more structured, with storylines building to a big event — the eighth annual Bloodymania event taking place July 23-26 Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, Ohio.
"It's the night for all of our JCW stars to really shine, because we either put them in big matches, or they wrestle big stars from the outside. And so it's cool, you know? Bloodymania is a really good time. And a lot of our stars don't get to be on Bloodymania, because we fill Bloodymania up with a lot of stars, a lot of big names come in for Bloodymania, and that means a lot of our guys don't get to make the card."
Every show on this tour is built on the idea of talents "earning" a spot on Bloodymania, including the Headliners stop. Toledo has always had a strong connection to the ICP movement — the city was actually home to the second Gathering of the Juggalos in 2001, though the event had to be cut short when hundreds of fans rushed the stage during ICP's performance.
"Since ICP started, they were playing shows here in Toledo — playing at the Main Event back in the day, and then the Asylum when that came," Curry said. "And as the group built a following, Toledo was kind of ground zero for the whole Juggalo and Psychopathic movement."
"We did a JCW show in Toledo a few years ago, and to be totally honest with you, the crowd wasn't that hot. It wasn't a very good draw. So we'll have to see what's going to happen," Violent J said. "When it's just JCW and not ICP performing a concert, it's different. It's just wrestling.
"In the early days, JCW used to do really good — a lot of people used to come out because they didn't know what to expect, you know? But now people know that if it's JCW, if it's booked as JCW, it's just going to be JCW. So the only people that come out are the fans of JCW. So we'll have to see. Because we go to other cities, it's really hot. We'll have to see what happens."
"The guys just really love wrestling. This is like a labor of love for them," Curry said. "It costs them a lot of money to bring the show to town. And when we were originally talking about it, I was saying, you know, I was trying to discuss ticket prices. And I was saying, 'Eh, maybe we should go a little higher.' And they were very adamant in keeping the ticket at $12 advance, $15 for the [day of the] show — just super-cheap, considering all the expense that goes into it for those guys."
Whether JCW sells out Headliners or not, it's clear that Violent J has no intention of giving up on his devotion to the mat game any time soon. You can sense the joy of the little kid who grew up on wrestling in every word as he speaks of his little promotion that could. And no matter how much success he has found in the hip-hop game, it's plain that JCW scratches an itch that music simply can't.
"It just is my home plate, man. It's my home, it's my safety — my safety blanket, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's been there my whole life, it's been there since I was a little, little kid," J said. "It's what me and Shaggy always loved, and what everyone here always loved. My brother, Billy, all the people who run Psychopathic Records — we all love wrestling.
"It's the only thing that we really, really still love that never changes. It's like, we come home and just gravitate back toward it, you know what I mean? It's always in your blood, too. You can say, 'Oh, today's wresting ain't nothing like the old days.' Well, that may not be, but it's still awesome, man."
Tags: Asylum, Bloodymania, Broc Curry, dark carnival, Faygo, Gathering of the Juggalos, Hip-Hop, Hulk Hogan, ICP, Innovation Concerts, Insane Clown Posse, JCW, Jim Hellwig, Joseph Bruce, Joseph Utsler, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, Juggalos, Kamala, Main Event, mat wars, Metro Detroit, Psychopathic movement, Psychopathic Records, Randy Savage, Shaggy 2 Dope, Thornville, Ultimate Warrior, Violent J, World Wrestling Entertainment, World Wrestling Federation, Wrestling, WWE