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- 478 East Tremont Ave
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- Bronx, NY 10457
The Grand Slam Banquet Hall offers a spectacular setting for the most exquisite gatherings of up to 250 people. Contemporary decor, spacious venues and lavish amenities, we are a 100% family owned and operated business, that will deliver you a special memory that you will savor for a Lifetime.
Located in the heart of Bronx New York, our Banquet Hall offers a stunning setting for the most delicate gatherings and social occasions. Whether you are hosting a casual brunch for a small group of friends or a grand celebration for 250 guests, you can count on our experienced team to help you create an unrivaled affair. Our venue is great for Kid's parties, as well.We can assist you with a large selection of decorations, ideas and inspiration to have the event of your dreams. Together we can create event decor that's true to your style, imagination and budget. We will work closely with you to portray your unique style on your event, and our passion for design, love for art an eye for details, will exceed your expectation.
Our Basic Packages includes  Seating Amodations for up to 250 Guest, Spacious Dance Floor, Large Full Capacity Bar / Ice Machine, Two Security Officers, Tables, and Chairs. Our VIP Package includes a Six Hour Event from 8pm -2am, Open bar all night long with premium liquor, Food Tasting, Catering service, Dinner ware, Flatware, Napkins, Champagne Glasses, Wine Glasses, Choice of colored linens from our stock inventory, Full staff - waiters, bus boys, security, bartender and coat check, Hostess Service, and Decorations set up.  Friday evening events must guarantee a minimum of 120 guests. Saturday evening events must guarantee a minimum of 150 guests. Sunday evening events must guarantee a minimum of 100 guests.
With our round table linens we offer a beautiful array of rich colors, designed toplement nearly any color scheme. These tablecloths are seamless and fully draping. Pair one with a table runner, napkins, or chair covers and you're all set. We can offer you cotton candy, popcorn, or snow cone machines, champagne glasses,   flameless candles, sleek & Modern dinnerware, 27 glass vases, a Pergola, and arches. We offer plenty of rentals for you to choose from.
We are a full-service, Custom-to-the-client caterer that Personalizes every party reception and can provide appetizers from a Shrimp Scampi Bread display, Fruit platter, or Crab cakes to Chicken wings, Empanadas, and cheese display. Main Courses from Pepper Steak, BBQ Pork Chops or Chicken Parmigianino to Roasted chicken, Southern style fried chicken, or Scaloppini of Veal Milanese, Francese or Piccata. Side Dishes offer anything from Fresh veggies or baked potato to cole slaw or white rice. Salads range anywhere from baby spring mixed greens to macaroni salad. Also we can provide Seafood, from  Salmon or  Tilapia Fillet Marinara or Scampi Sauce or Flounder fillet to   Shrimp cocktail or stuffed clams.
Please visit us at  478 East Tremont Ave., Bronx, NY 10457Monday-Friday from 12pm-10pm, or Saturday & Sunday from 9am-8pm.
Among other cities, Grand Slam Club may serve the following areas: New York, New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Flushing, Bronx, Jamaica, Staten Island, Yonkers, Long Island City, Astoria, White Plains, Far Rockaway, New Rochelle, Bayside, Chestnut Ridge, East Elmhurst, Mount Vernon, Queens Village, Boulevard, Douglaston, Eastchester, Floral Park, Fresh Meadows, Kew Gardens, Little Neck, Middletown, Newburgh, Ozone Park, Riverdale, South Ozone Park
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Reading the Article published Jan. 9, "Price Hill is a stepchild," I felt overwhelmed to comment that, "although the 'stepchild' concept didn't really hit home with me" I can see a trend that Mr. Schmolt mentioned that seems to be a great idea, that Price Hill has overlooked. My thoughts - bring back the old neighborhood names like Cedar Grove and the village of Warsaw among others.
Price Hill is the largest neighborhood in Cincinnati I believe, and with so much diversity, there is a loss of that "sense of belonging." When you say you live in a small area, people automatically think, that's sounds like a nice little community. And that feeling gives that resident the same admiration to his home and a bond with his neighbors.
Mr. Scmolt also mention a a five-year battle within the city to restore the name of an unmentioned neighborhood, if I am correct, that same neighborhood, has done exactly what I mentioned above and when they get their recognition back, there are already four sub communities outlined in the overall plan.
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The Country is Fundamentally Sound; 'Don't Panic, Stocks are Safe!'
Economist Professor Irving Fischer explains that the stock market crashed due to high expectations- not high stock prices. Too many speculators were playing the stocks with borrowed money, resulting in a run on the banks. 80 years later, the banks are speculating with borrowed money and investors are running away from them.
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Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, warns of the risks both to country and to capitalism posed by government regulators in the form of the the National Securities Exchange Act. This almost four full years before he was sent to Sing Sing Prison for embezzlement
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Well, if you were long, anyway. Those of you who were defensive, or in cash, or God-love-ya, short, had a pretty good week. (Feel free to hit the wish list anytime and buy yourself something nice!) This is a headline you probably have never seen before: Dow's Worst Week Comes to an End > I…Read More
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The Sunday New York Times has a very interesting article on Fannie Mae and the current financial crisis. They do a decent job at delving into the complexities of the GSEs, and the many factors that went into the decision making at the senior level of the company. This includes pressure from clients such as Coutrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, pressure from Congress, and the demands from investors for the company to be more aggressive. Most of all, it looks at the ongoing competitive demands of the market place that Fanny was in.
The key to understanding the GSE story is grasping their role within the bigger picture of the economy and housing sector. While there are some pundits who prefer talking points over reality (Charlies Gasparino, Lawrence Kudlow, James Pethoukoukis, and Jeff Saut all toed the GOP line) I prefer to keep all of my analyses based on the data and facts. Rather than creating historical revisions for partisan reasons, I prefer to keep it reality based. (I'm an independant, and that's how I roll).
The current housing and credit crises has many, many underlying sources. Its my opinion there were two primary causes leading to the boom and bust in Housing: A nonfeasant Fed, that ignored lending standards, and ultra-low rates.
This nonfeasance under Greenspan allowed banks, thrifts, and mortgage originators to engage in all manner of lending standard abrogations. We have detailed many times the I/O, 2/28, Piggy back, and Ninja type loans here. These never should have been permitted to proliferate the way they did.
The most significant element were the 2/28 APRs, and their put back provision. Just about all of these gave the securitizer/repackager the right to return the loans within 6 (or 12) months if they went into default. Hence, our proposition that the 2002-07 period was unique in the history of finance. If any of these mortgages went bad within 6 months, the undewriter was on the hook.
In a rising price environment, 99% of the mortgages were not returned by the securitizers to the originator. From 2001 to 2005, the mortgage firms thrived. However, once prices peaked and reversed, things changed. From 2006-08, Wal Street began putting back mortgages to originators in greater numbers. This led to nearly 300 mortgage firms imploding.
We can blame the lenders, the securitizers, the borrowers, and Fannie/Freddie, but it doesn't matter much. By the time Fannie and Freddie began changing their mortgage buying rules, the Housing boom was already in full gear, and the crash was all but inevitable.
Some people (especially the political hacks) are focusing their energies in the wrong places. According to a recent investigation by Barron's, Fannie's biggest problem was not the subprime mortgages they bought — it was the better quality Alt A mortgages that caused their demise:
"As Freddie Mac Chairman and CEO Richard Syron recently put it, the GSEs have been hit by a "100-year storm" in the housing market, accentuated by some higher-risk mortgages that they were forced to buy to meet government affordable-housing targets.
The latter contention is more than disingenuous. A substantial portion of Fannie's and Freddie's credit losses comes from $337 billion and $237 billion, respectively, of Alt-A mortgages that the agencies imprudently bought or guaranteed in recent years to boost their market share. These are mortgages for which little or no attempt was made to verify the borrowers' income or net worth. The principal balances were much higher than those of mortgages typically made to low-income borrowers.
In short, Alt-A mortgages were a hallmark of real-estate speculation in the ex-urbs of Las Vegas or Los Angeles, not predatory lending to low-income folks in the inner cities."
Only pure partisans take as gospel the statements of an embattled CEO whose own words are belied by the firm's balance sheet and P&L statements.
What about the ultra low rates? Consider that the Greenspan Fed maintained a 1.75% Fed fund for 33 months (December 2001 to September 2004), a 1.25% for 21 months (November 2002 to August 2004), and lastly, a 1% Fed funds rate for 12+ months, (June 2003 to June 2004). That was fuel for the fire, and fed the boom even more, sending prices skyward.
And not just here . . . As the central bank for the largest economy in the world, the Fed's rate action had repercussions in Housing markets everywhere. Rate cuts here richocheted around the world, sending home prices upwards globally.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
PKR inside job?
They usually do it on purpose and for one good reason - an excuse to blame the injury on the Palestinians, thus granting them permission to launch a large scale counter-attack on its neighbor. Such attacks normally will claim many Palestinian lives.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, the US soldiers had done better. They killed any of their 'lousy' marine to gain the passport to kill scores of civilian.
In Rim, Melaka on September 8, Anwar Ibrahim's PKR bus was attacked and splashed with red paint, its windscreen cracked.
The local folks said they didnt even know who did it, let alone identifying the cars and other vehicles used by the 'attackers'. Some told me, the cars didn't bear Melaka registration number but carries the initial 'W' and 'B' - Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur and Selangor respectively.
"They are not locals, they are outsiders. We know almost each and every people here. Rim is not a big place," they said.
So, could similar tactic used by Israel and US been applied here? That those who 'sabotaged' the bus were together with Anwar's convoy. They traveled in cars and motorbikes, ahead or behind the bus. On approaching Rim, they followed the script already prepared before departure.
The agenda was to find a good reason to blame it on the local folks and the ruling government. Its all about politics, dirty politics.
It could incite peoples' hatred towards the government, towards Barisan Nasional. They will accuse BN of engaging gangsters and thugs to disrupt Anwar's road tour in the state and other places. It works, sometimes.
We are not sure but there is such a possibility...
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could be la bro.
when u are so determine to achieve what u dream of, u will do anything to shoot down at your opponent.
yes, there is a possibility that PKR had prepared the script before the tour began.
- September 14, 2012 at 2:12 AM
i dont know. could be, could be not but i dont like our politics of late. so dirty and filthy, be it on the ruling or the opposition party!
- September 14, 2012 at 2:13 AM
- penangan said...
salam tn,
polis masih menjalankan siasatan dalam kes ini.
apa pun, jika pkr sendiri yang merancangnya, ia mencerminkan betapa kotornya cara ini.
jika bn yang berbuat demikian, maka bn juga mengotorkan tangan sendiri.
tetapi saya turut tidak menolak kemungkinan yang tuan sebut.
- September 14, 2012 at 2:14 AM
takkanlah orang pkr sendiri nak rosakkan bas tu. windsreen tu pun dah dekat 10ribu harganya.
jangan mengarutlah!
- September 14, 2012 at 2:15 AM
hello mr sherlock holmes - your theory sucks but contains some logic at the same time.
fist, this is malaysia and it doesnt apply here.
but on the contrary, the possibility is very, very slim...
- September 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM
dah anwar suka sangat kat israel dan amerika. tu la pasal!
- September 14, 2012 at 8:41 AM
what's your motive here, mr?
stop playing detective and concentrate on your umno!
- September 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM
if the cars bear non-melaka plate numbers, means they were planted and well-organised.
they must had planned it much earlier before the trip, strategising what to do and when to carry out the assault.
all this is to blame najib and the government.
what a bad 'new regime!'
- September 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM
what a spin, hahahahaha!!!
but its possible, bro!
- September 14, 2012 at 8:49 AM
It worked before, anwar's sympathy cards, when he was jailed for sodomy1, zizah sepat kering and izzah papa hebat went on tours to garner sympathy for a family bereft of its sole bread winner with a string of young children
many Malaysians fell for it - the "mahafiraun" must jail his deputy to hold on to power
leaving his helpless wife and many many young kids fatherless
- September 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM
photoshopped photos have been around since anwar got sacked
demos after demos all for one aging PM wannabe
scandals of Najib and Rosmah
Ummi with her credible personal accounts
RPK also revealed juicy stories
Nalla with his videotapes
Noordin with his sworn statement
Chandra Muzaffar bolted out with premonitions if anwar becomes PM
highly possible - all these mind games perfected by the zionists
- September 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM
you've insinuated that israelis and american injure and kill their own. I really hope catches you by your tiny balls in your mouth. 3rd class, or rather classless umno asshole.
- September 14, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Ask Zulkifli Noordin, the X-PKR lawyer. He confessed he was asked to do dirty tricks during his time in PKR. He will telll you who the mastermind behind all these dirty tricks to blame UMNO.
- September 14, 2012 at 11:03 PM
What rubbish conspiracies is this?
It reflects not intelligence but your manipulative mindset towards shifting bllame away from goons and thugs.
Grow up man. Your readers are smarter than what you think.
- September 14, 2012 at 11:37 PM
when one is desperate, he can do anything, including cutting his own tongue!
so, there are a lot of possibilities!
- September 15, 2012 at 2:18 AM
anons @ September 14, 2012 8:01 PM and September 14, 2012 11:37 PM
it's no longer fairytales but documented evidence that such betrayals did occur for retention of power
- September 15, 2012 at 4:32 AM
"An American Betrayal," by Daniel Blake Smith
By DALE L. WALKER Special Contributor
Published: 25 November 2011 09:53 PM
The opening pages of this powerful, haunting book tell of the assassinations of three Cherokee statesmen in Tahlequah, Indian Territory, on June 22, 1839. The victims had been denounced as traitors for defending the treaty by which the Cherokee Nation gave up its ancestral lands and submitted to "removal" to a place later called Oklahoma.
The title and subtitle of the book are laden with bitter irony as is the entire saga of the Trail of Tears. The murdered Cherokee leaders considered themselves patriots, as did the Cherokee assassins.
But in truth the real treachery did not occur among the Cherokees. The Trail of Tears was a true American betrayal, the exclusive property of the federal government and its politicians.
The forced emigration of the Cherokees and other tribes of the southeastern states had its source in the simple land greed propelled by George Washington's declaration in 1789 that Indian lands were fundamentally up for grabs.
The president wanted his "red citizens" to be "civilized," to raise crops and livestock and to abandon their hunting grounds. Beneath this lofty-sounding ambition lay an ugly truth: that Indian lands were COVETED by monied white men, both in government and out.
So bumis beware! Blessed Tanah Melayu is up for grabs especially in Penang.
- September 15, 2012 at 4:36 AM
(1) They have come to fear Jewish power so much that they nearly always do exactly as the Jews tell them to do – which means, "what's good for the Jews" as opposed to "what's good for America" (the two very seldom coincide).
- September 15, 2012 at 4:50 AM
(1) Failure to legislate a solution to our massive mestizo illegal alien problem, which involves all kinds of lawbreaking and huge costs to local, State, and Federal governments (not to mention their virtual take-over – their "reconquista," – of many parts of our country).
(2) Failure to investigate the "9/11" attacks and the official 9/11 Commission Report which clearly was a farce; a cover-up. Credible evidence of Israeli/Mossad/Jewish involvement abounds – perhaps the most telling being the controlled demolition of Building #7, which as I understand it wasn't even mentioned in the Commission report.
(3) Going along with President Bush's illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression in the Middle East, initiated and conducted based on outright lies and deceptions, and to large extent for and at the behest of the Jews (particularly noteworthy in this regard being the predominately Jewish "neocon" role leading up to the start of hostilities) (the question now being – will Congress let the same thing happen all over again, in Iran?).
(4) Congress' confirmation of Obama's socialistic and radical-feminist-inclined if not anti-White-American appointments to the Supreme Court (Sotomayor and Kagan).
(5) Failure to put a stop to the Justice Department's (AG Eric Holder's, President Obama's) openly and blatantly anti-White discrimination. Examples include such things as the Philadelphia "New Black Panther" intimidation of White voters in 2008; other refusals to prosecute Negro civil-rights crimes committed against Whites; suing States (Arizona and Florida for example) for trying to control illegal immigration; initiating legal action against Maricopa County Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for doing his job (illegal and unconstitutional intimidation of the good sheriff?); and more.
(6) Refusing to investigate President Obama's apparent criminality (treason?) ("birther" issues including whether or not he is, and knows he is, legally ineligible to serve as president; apparently illicit social security registration; falsified selective service registration; a smorgasbord of deliberately hidden records of his past). Again, credible evidence of wrongdoing abounds – his fake birth certificate released early in 2011 in an attempt to squelch growing analysis and discussion; his refusal to release his true birth certificate and other records; his expenditure of exhaustive efforts and large amounts of money to hide evidence (records) of his past; findings to date of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio's "cold case posse" investigations; and more.
(7) Not recognizing and taking action in connection with the obvious need for the U.S. government to do something to prevent the genocide (contrived extinction) of American White people, who are clearly becoming an endangered subspecies in their own country.
- September 15, 2012 at 4:53 AM
better let the police investigate.
dont interfere lar...
- September 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM
again and again i wonder...why didnt they splashed the paint on his face at the side of the bus? inside job no doubt.
- September 15, 2012 at 10:34 PM
sian den tengok kau ni.banyak boto lombu dalam amno ni. dulu cakap Nuar tumbok mato sendiri sampai lobam. ni lah bodo tak buleh nak diajar, cordik tak buleh nak di ikut. lamo2 jadi macam lombu cucuk hidung.
- September 18, 2012 at 1:17 PM
The opposition are opportunist, they are willing to do anything to achieve their agenda. Take the perak tin distribution center incidence, PR approved the center but still PROTEST and condemn the BN state for approving the center. It was until the MB show the approval letter signed by the PR ex MB, did PR then SHUT UP.
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what? we have to mount Left 4 dead? it would have been nice if you told us this before, It's not a big deal for me, I have the game, just rather annoying since I never actually play it.
Lambda Wars (formerly Half-Life 2: Wars) brings the struggle between the human resistance and their Combine overlords to a multiplayer real-time strategy setting. The Lambda Wars beta only requires Alien Swarm installed to play. It features 3 multiplayer game modes: Sandbox, Annihilation and Overrun, showcasing the Rebels and Combine playable factions and a full-fledged RTS interface and HUD. There is also a singleplayer tutorial and a handful of singleplayer missions.
Beta 2.0.1 introduces several gameplay balance changes, lots of bugfixes, new music tracks and fixes matchmaking.
Posted by Ennui on Oct 8th, 2012
After getting some feedback since Beta 2.0.0 was released a few weeks ago, we have released a patch to Beta 2.0.1. 2.0.1 features some gameplay balance changes, several new music tracks, and a lot of bugfixes. Searching for games (matchmaking) has been fixed and now searches for games worldwide instead of by region, so it should be easier to find games to join.
For those of you who installed with Desura, simply launch Desura and update HL2:Wars automatically that way (remember, Desura is only needed to install/patch HL2:Wars but does not need to be running to play - once it is installed and updated you can launch through Steam like any other mod). For those of you who installed with the ZIP archive, we have also released a patch ZIP file that weighs in at 242mb. You can download the Beta 2.0.1 patch zip on ModDB.
Full changelog for Wars 2.0.1:
* Increased floor turret health from 150 to 300
* Increased floor turret damage from 6 to 12
* Increased health mountable turret from 150 to 400
* Increased damage mountable turret from 12 to 20
* Increased cooldown deploying manhacks from 15 to 35 seconds
* Increased damage rebel rpg unit from 60 to 120
* New track: Atmospheric Disturbances
* New track: Now is the Hour
* New track: Uprising
* Improved navigation mesh hlw_synth
* Public games matchmaking now searches for games world wide, instead of the default Alien Swarm region based behavior
* Default number of slots in matchmaking is now 16 (instead of 4)
* Public games panel now shows the map name instead of "Unknown Mission"
* Cannot build mounted turret as rebels in Overrun
* Rebel soldier with AR2 weapon is missing the running animation while shooting (T-Pose)
* Overrun offers the infected option as enemy, which should only be shown if Left 4 Dead 1 is mounted
* Unable to move using the arrow keys in spectator mode
* Broken "Cancel" ability buildings while constructing
* Fixed empty rts key config resulting in a broken game
* Combine energy ball now does a fixed amount of damage against buildings
* Combine elite soldier not attacking after executing the combine energy ball ability
* Cloaked units can no longer capture control points
* Manhacks no longer emit sparks when bumping into friendly or neutral units
* Initial prepare time is now much shorter and keeps increasing until wave 7, at which it starts decreasing again
what? we have to mount Left 4 dead? it would have been nice if you told us this before, It's not a big deal for me, I have the game, just rather annoying since I never actually play it.
No, you don't have to)) it's just an option.
You need to install HL2 Ep2 and Alien Swarm only, the latter is free))
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Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses by Ron Koertge
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This was heavily cliched and trite. Really terrible writing at points. I'm disappointed.
Koertge simultaneously updates some of our beloved fairy tales while bringing them back to the darker tones they had in the Grimms versions. These twenty-three tales are short poems in free verse that twist a tale and turn a phrase. There is humor as well. A former beast tells us "there's not much to do in Ever After. It's always sunny and 78." There are some that may feel this work is darkness for darkness sake and wish for a little more meat to these tales. For them, Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue might be a better fit (and more appropriate for a teen audience. Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses is for mature teens and adults). However, for those that like their fairy tales to have teeth or like to see things from the villain or side character's point of view, this is a welcome addition to the dearth of fairy-tales retold. The cut paper art added by Andrea Dezso is amazing and perfectly matches the tone of the work.
An updated version of some of the popular fairy tales are written in verse. A little on the bloody side and a few sexual suggestions, but otherwise not too bad. It will bring a chuckle to your lips.
A quick read, and definitely a dark one!
Koeterge tells familiar fairy tales from different characters' points of view, and things get a bit gruesome. Hand this to teens who loved A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
I picked this book up at the library because the cover caught my eye. This is a darkly fun and twisted set of poems covering a number of fairy and folktales. I enjoyed it and thought it was a quick and fun read.
This was an interesting, disturbing, and darkly humorous collection of poetry retellings of fairy/folk tales. Everything from Red Riding Hood to the Little Match Girl is covered in this mix.
The artwork throughout this book is stark black and white cut-outs which match the twisted and blunt style of the poetry well. Many of the poems are full of irony and unexpected twists. Some of the poems also have a bit of a modern twist to them; for example the Little Match girl sells CDs not matches on the street.
I found this in the young adult section of the library, which kind of surprised me. There is implied rape, incest, cannibalism, and all other types of violent and somewhat questionable content in here. None of it is explicit, but it's there. So I would recommend for older young adults only.
Surprisingly this poetry does an excellent job of echoing the dark and grisly nature of the original Grimm fairy tales. The poetry also adds some humor and irony to the mix which makes it even more fun to read.
I love fairy tale retellings and ended up enjoying this collection a lot. It was a quick and amusing read and echoes the original Grimm Fairy Tales well.
Overall I enjoyed this. It is a great collection of humorous, twisted, and dark fairy tale retellings. The artwork is stark and matches the tone of the fairy tales well. I would recommend this to those who like fairy tales retellings that are dark, slightly disturbing, and a bit humorous.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0763644064, Hardcover)Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales.
Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escaped King Daddy's clutches to jiggle and cavort and wear out their shoes. A fickle Thumbelina searched for a tiny husband, leaving bodies in her wake. And Little Red Riding Hood confessed that she kind of wanted to know what it's like to be swallowed whole. From bloodied and blinded stepsisters (they were duped) to a chopped-off finger flying into a heroine's cleavage, this is fairy tale world turned upside down. Ron Koertge knows what really happened to all those wolves and maidens, ogres and orphans, kings and piglets, and he knows about the Ever After. So come closer
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Police said the bus was in the left lane and the car was in the middle lane when the car tried to make an improper left turn into the school bus' lane, causing the bus to hit the car on its driver's side.
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Harold graduated from Elkhart High School in 1961. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and then attended the University of Hawaii. He was director of sales for Tom Naquin Co. in Elkhart then owned Harry's Humidor also in Elkhart. He was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ and a former member of the Elkhart Breakfast Optimist Club.
A memorial service will be at 11 am Monday at Stemm-Lawson-Peterson Funeral Home, Elkhart where family and friends may gather an hour prior. Pastor Mike Fisher will officiate. Military honors will be rendered by the U.S. Marine Corps and the DAV #19 at the conclusion of the service.
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His hard work and hustle paid off this week. The hard-working and hard-playing Pugnash Humanslurper was rewarded with the Mordor Conference Player of the Week honors.
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I had a goal of going sub-22:00 for a 5K this year. I was doing some speed training over the winter and into the early spring. I ran 2 5Ks this spring and both were 22:30.
Following those races, I essentially stopped doing any speed work. I've just been going out and running whatever distance I felt at whatever pace I felt. Plus, I had thought I would be able to break 22:00 in both of those and it didn't happen. I did run them both without a watch and neither gave me a time split at the miles so I didn't know my time until I saw the clock at the end. I don't know if that helped or hurt my overall pace.
3 weeks ago, I started doing just a LITTLE speedwork. I ran a half-mile at sub-7:00 in the middle of a 5 mile run. The following week, I ran .75 mile at that pace and yesterday I ran a full mile in the middle of a 5-mile run at 6:56. I managed to do it each time, but all 3 times I was thinking there was no way I could keep that up for a full 3 miles.
I'm targeting a 5K at the end of September, so I have 2 months to get there. My goal is to unofficially run a sub-22:00 on my own before the race so I'll have confidence I can do it.
That may be one of my last 5Ks, though. They are just painful. I enjoy running longer at a more comfortable pace than the pain that comes from running as fast as I can for 22 minutes. I've only done one 10K and never a Half, so I'll probably structure some goals around those next year.
I think if you keep up that speed work, you'll get that sub 22:00. I also like the "practice" race time idea.
Life's a little better when we run.
Best wishes to you.
Rock on and keep on running.....
You will Rock that sub 22! Good luck and keep up the hard work! Long May You Run!!
The reasons you are going to walk away from the 5k is the reasons I stay with it. Embrace the suck. If it were easy, everyone could do it.
As far as speedwork, try starting with something more manageable like 6x3 min at 5k race pace. Do it once a week for 2 weeks. Then go up to 8x3 min. The fourth week cut back to 6x3min (always make the 4th week a cut back to the starting workout). Then if you get brave so 3x4 min and then 4x4 min at 5k pace. Always warm up and cool down. Oh, and make the recoveries long walking ones for about3 to 4 minutes.
If you do that....youre welcome.
You can get that goal, Dans suggestion is a good place to start, now get ready!
Running a really good 5k is really hard which is why they can be as rewarding as the longer distances. 5k are tough because you don't have much of an opportunity recover from a mental error, you have to run all three miles consistently. Luckily the recovery time from a 5k is short enough that you can quickly schedule a redemption race too.
The intervals that runDANrun describes will certainly get you ready for a fast 5k; you may also find that training for a 10k or half will improve your fitness enough to smash your 5k goal too.
Thanks for the suggestion. One thing I've wondered when doing speed sessions like you describe is what the rest period looks like between the faster increments. Do you keep a slow jog? Do you walk? Or do you just stand around? I always prefer to keep jogging, but I'm not sure that's best.
its a great question with a not so simple answer. The workout isnt easy, and obviously jogging (to keep the blood from pooling in your legs) is best, but depending on how quickly you recover from each rep is what will ultimately decide what type of recovery you will be doing.
I say when the rep is done just stop to catch your breath, if you have time you can either walk or slow jog until the next, but dont do too much so that you cant complete the real part of the workout.
Best of luck and keep me posted!!
I think the key to a good 5K is one long run each week and one speed work session each week. Give it 6 weeks of consistent training and you'll do great.
You can totally go sub 22 with Dan's plan.
I hope so. I was doing similar training to what he described most of the winter and didn't get any faster.


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Staaten als Täter: Ministerialbürokratie und "Judenpolitik" in NS-Deutschland und Vichy-Frankreich, ein Vergleich, by Michael Mayer. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2010. 479 pp. €64.80, $77.25.
Michael Mayer's ambitious archive-based book compares the role of Nazi Germany's ministerial bureaucracy to that of Vichy France in the persecutions of their Jewish populations during the 1930s and 1940s, a persecution that began in both cases with segregationist legislation and ultimately led to the death camps in Eastern Europe. He selects two periods for comparison. What happened in Germany between 1933–1935, and 1938–1945, he argues, has its counterpart to what ensued in Vichy France during the years 1940/41 and 1942–1944.
During the early days of each regime's Jewish policies (1933–35 for Nazi Germany; 1940/41 for Vichy France) it was the traditional ministerial bureaucracies (foreign ministries, ministries of interior, justice, economics, etc.) led by traditional bureaucratic elites who were implementing measures reflective of a traditional form of antisemitism. In Germany these measures culminated in the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935 and in France, their German counterpart on which it was modeled, in the Jewish Statute of October 1940. These were the product of what Mayer calls in German, and which requires no translation, "Segregationsantisemitismus." In essence these measures robbed Jews of their status as equal citizens, removed them from positions of influence in public life, encouraged their emigration, and, in the case of Germany, though significantly not of France, prohibited their marriage to persons outside their own religious/racial circle. In the eyes of the traditional elite, Mayer asserts, the Nuremberg Laws in Germany and the Jewish Statute in France represented a satisfactory solution to the Jewish Question.
In the case of Germany, of course, the Nazis were anything but satisfied with such a solution. The German prohibition on marriage was a clear signal that in Germany at least, the tenets of traditional antisemitism did not at all square with Nazi intentions. Theirs was a far more extreme antisemitism rooted in fanciful understandings of German racial superiority under constant assault by the racial inferiority of Jews. Hence their frustration in September 1935 with what they considered the laxity of the definition of the Jew imposed by the Nuremberg legislation. By restricting the definition of the Jew to persons with three or four Jewish grandparents, it allowed someone with two Jewish grandparents to escape the classification with the designation of Mischling, presumably leaving them free, in however diluted form, to continue their polluting of the German blood stream. This was a compromise with the traditional elite that the radical antisemites (Mayer speaks of it as NS-Antisemitismus) were never willing to countenance.
One of Mayer's major points is that the German Nuremberg Laws and the French Jewish Statute were both products, independently, of an antisemitism rooted in the European historical tradition, meaning that even in defeat the traditional elites of Vichy required no pressure from their German overlords to initiate, quite autonomously, a segregationist antisemitism of their own. This conclusion merely buttresses the consensus among historians of France initially formulated initially by Robert Paxton and Michael Marrus. In fact, Mayer points out, this form of antisemitism was at the time a transnational phenomenon implemented not only in Germany and France, but likewise in Italy, Rumania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
The next phase of Mayer's analysis compares the transition from this more moderate antisemitism to the radical, racist NS-Antisemitism, a transition in Germany he dates from 1938 to 1945 and in France from 1942 to 1944—the era of the deportation of Jews to the death camps of Eastern Europe. This time for France, it was clearly pressure from its German occupiers that forced the Vichy regime to cooperate with the Nazi extremists who had gained control of Jewish policy in Germany. It would be "fully absurd," Mayer claims, to believe that the Vichy regime had the potential within itself to perpetrate an Auschwitz.
It is the transition in Germany to the radical antisemitism of the Nazis that occupies the second half of Mayer's book and offers its unique and not always convincing analysis of how that transition came to be effected. That Goering's appointment in late 1938 as coordinator of Jewish policy marks the eclipse of the role of the traditional bureaucratic elites and the full ascendency of Nazi racial radicals over Jewish policy is undisputed. What Mayer disputes is how that transition came about. It was not, as is so often suggested, by a process of "cumulative radicalization" or by way of a "twisted road," both constructs, he argues, that posit the existence of a linear progression "that began with the Machtergreifung and led directly [geradewegs] to the destruction of European Jewry." Such a line of continuity, Mayers says, did not exist. The segregationist antisemitism and the racial-biological antisemitism of the Nazis were two separate forms of that phenomenon. Rather than a cumulative radicalization, Mayer sees the radicalization of the persecutions as a consequence of the inability of the traditional elite, the ministerial bureaucracies, to go beyond, in effect, the Nuremberg Laws—which in fact were a product of a compromise negotiated between the bureaucrats and the party apparatus.
The heuristic challenge Mayer presents is to be welcomed, though not entirely convincing. The transition he describes from one discrete form of antisemtism to another does not seem, to this reviewer at least, antithetical to the notion of cumulative radicalization. Contrary to his claim, moreover, cumulative radicalization does not suggest a direct linear (gradewegs) progression from the Machtergreifung to Auschwitz. In fact, its coinage by Hans Mommsen was aimed at countering any such idea. The book is, nonetheless, an important contribution to the understanding of a very important problem.
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Greetings once again folks. Raiding at this point in Cataclysm is hitting a bit of a lag. While there still aren't tons and tons of guilds that have cleared all of the heroic content, guilds have been working on the initial raids for quite some time now. Completed or not, players are starting to get ready for something new. Lucky for all of us, Blizzard does provide.
Soon, and hopefully not in the Blizzard sense of the word, patch 4.2 will be hitting live servers. The patch will bring with it the epic Firelands raid where players will once again be able to face off against Ragnaros the Fire Lord. This time, however, it won't merely be a weakened version that was summoned too soon. No, now we'll be marching right into the plane of fire itself to confront the burning master on his own throne. The raid promises to be both challenging and entertaining.
Is your raid ready to take the heat?
Taking your first steps into the heart of fire
Gaining access to the Firelands isn't a complicated affair. Long gone are the days of complicated attunements. As we all know, and you don't even have to have cleared the Regrowth for this one. Contrary to the popular saying, one does simply walk into Firelands. Well, portal into Firelands, but you walk through the portal, so that has to count for something, right?
The question that you really need to be asking yourself, do you want to merely walk into Firelands?
On the matter of gearing
The gear from normal Firelands boss encounters is slightly better in terms of ilevel than the heroic gear that you can force out of most heroic tier 11 content. That doesn't mean that you need to have cleared heroic tier 11 content in order to begin raiding, however. While having the gear and experience will certainly help, the bosses in normal are tuned in such a way that your raid should be able to complete them only using normal tier 11 itemization.
Keep in mind, however, that this content is going to roughly on par with the heroic content from the previous raids. Mechanically it will be easier, but for incoming damage, you're looking at pretty much the same variables. If your raid is struggling with some of the easier heroic bosses now, then Firelands certainly isn't going to be a walk in the park for you.
It may seem like an odd call, but if you find your raid seriously struggling in Firelands, then I would highly suggest going back and attempting some of the earlier heroic encounters from the previous tier. While the loot won't be quite as high in terms of quality, some of the encounters are actually easier from the perspective of the amount of damage that your tank will take and the damage that your raid is expected to produce.
While that has never been a favorable position to take, I've done it for every new raid that has come out. Unless every single member of your raid has their BiS from the prior raid, then you have something to gain by going back and clearing "old" content. Pushing new content is great, and you should focus on Firelands, but there's a difference between progression and throwing yourselves against a wall.
Don't let yourself get burned out too quickly by constantly wiping on the new content. Fun, exciting, and rewarding though it may be, it does come with stress. If the encounters are proving to be too challenging, then just take a short side-track to clear older content, get some better gear, then come back fresh, new, and full of confidence.
A new gearing alternative
Fortunately, raiding isn't the only way that you have to gain new gear in this expansion. On top of the Firelands raid, there is also going to be a new daily quest hub opened to all players. To gain access, though, you do need to have done some questing out in Hyjal first. The requirement here is that you have fought back the forces from the elemental plane of fire enough that the Regrowth is, well, the Regrowth. If your Hyjal map isn't all green and bright when patch 4.2 launches, you need to get to questing.
The daily quests won't hold an initial solution to any present gearing troubles that you may be facing, however. From the new daily quests, you can get ilevel 365 gear, which is just between what you would get out of normal Tier 11 raids and heroic Tier 11 raids. While they will certainly be upgrades for a lot of players, they aren't going to be all that spectacular. Moreso, they are useful in filling in a few slots here and there, which might just be all that you need.
For those that have been delving deep into heroic raiding content this time around, the daily quests won't offer you too much in terms of gear rewards. They can be useful in filling out a few slots where you simply couldn't find anything that would drop, but it is unlikely that they will prove all that useful to you.
Players that already have heroic raiding gear shouldn't have much trouble downing most normal Firelands content. It will take some learning and certainly won't be an loljoke that you should expect to clear in your first night there, but it won't be quite the same experience as throwing yourself against heroic Cho'gall or Nefarian.
Not entirely what you think
The unfortunate flaw that players looking to raid Firelands now will find with the new daily quests is that they won't be getting any rewards any time soon. Blizzard was great in having the new rewards only cost gold instead of grinded-out currency, but the cost of that boon is that you have to grind out currency in order to unlock your rewards.
It will take approximately 26 days of doing the new dailies every single day until you get your first vendor unlocked. It will take another 10 days after that in order to unlock the rest of the vendors. That's a total of 36 days, over a month from the patch release, before you can actually get your hands on some loot that is only slightly better than normal Tier 11 gear.
These items are not for those who are currently raiding and looking to raid the new content once patch 4.2 hits. They are far more geared towards alts and new players that haven't really raided any of the current content. By the time that you unlock the rewards, your raiding guild will have likely progressed through the new content to the point that you have better options.
Building new relationships
The good news is that there is a new raid reputation which offers it's own rewards geared more towards actual raiders. The new-for-4.2 Avengers of Hyjal are the new guys you have to impress by taking out their arch-nemesis. We see one of these in every new raiding tier.
This time around, the faction has their own vendor with different rewards that are unlocked at each reputation level. The initial three levels of reputation -- friendly, honored, and revered -- offer loot that is on par with items you would get from raiding in normal Firelands. You will gain access to cloaks, belts, and trinkets based upon your reputation, respectively.
At exalted, you will be able to purchase rings that are on par with those that you would get from raiding at the heroic level. Once again, these don't require any special tokens or grinded-out items, merely gold. And quite a bit of it -- the cloaks will cost you 250g; the belts increase by 50g, costing you 300g; and the two items after that have an increasing 100g cost, with the rings putting you out a full 500g. It certainly isn't a Kirin Tor ring in terms of cost, but they aren't entirely cheap.
Reputation for the faction is gained, as mentioned, by clearing out trash and bosses in the Firelands. How much each gives out is still a little bit up in the air at this point. While the bosses on the PTR have been giving some reputation, it isn't entirely confirmed if it's accurate. There is also reports that trash stops granting rep after a certain point. We also do not know if Ragnaros himself, whom rewards better items than the rest of the boss encounters in the instance, will reward additional rep as well, nor if completely an encounter on heroic difficulty will similarly provide additional rep.
Maximizing reputation gains
On the subject of reputation, should your goal be to maximize the amount of reputation that you wish your guild to earn, then it should be noted that a majority of the trash located in the initial foray into the Firelands is tied to Shannox. The first four bosses -- Beth'tilac, Lord Rhyolith, Alysrazor, and Shannox -- can be completed in any order.
If you are looking to get the most trash possible -- and who doesn't want more trash -- then save Shannox for last. Conversely, if you want to avoid as many respawns as possible, then do that encounter first. Should you be clearing all four bosses within a single raid night, then order doesn't quite matter as much. You may get some respawns if you choose to save Shannox for last depending on how long you take, but for the most part it won't make much of a difference.
Again, however, there have been some reports that trash stops giving rep after a certain point, so you may or may not gain much of a benefit by "trash farming" as it were. There is, though, always the opportunity for additional trash BOE drops, which can be worth the trouble.
Starting to become legendary
Every caster wants to own a legendary staff for themselves, right? Don't kid yourselves, we all know that you want it. Fortunately for those raiding now, the requirement to have cleared all current raiding content has been removed. Instead, you are now tasked with defeating a Molten Lord, which can be found in the Firelands raid instance itself.
Upon killing one, you can go and pick up the quest to start creating your staff from your respective faction's capital city -- Orgrimmar or Stormwind. After a short trip the the Caverns of Time, you will then be given the first collection quest in forging the staff.
It is important to take note of this. The first collection quest for forging the legendary requires a drop from bosses in Firelands. This means that you want to have any casters interested in getting said staff on this quest before you actually start killing things in there, otherwise you will be missing out on drops and it'll just take that much longer in order to craft your first staff.
For this reason, you may want to toss together a 10-man group -- or more if you happen to have enough players -- prior to your actual raid time for the sole purpose of going in and killing a Molten Lord. They're an early trash mob, so it won't interfere with your lockouts. This way, you don't need to hold up the raid while everyone runs out to get their quest.
At this point in time it is unknown how the looting for the first quest item is going to work. The item itself will not appear unless someone in the raid is on the quest, and like other quest items, it cannot be master looted to the player -- they have to pick up for themselves. It could very well be that this item behaves like other quest items in which everyone currently on the quest can loot one or it could be that only one person can loot one. The best thing to do is to have your "first" person loot theirs and then check if other people can loot as well.
Ready Check shares all the strategies and inside information you need to take your raiding to the next level. Be sure to look up our strategy guides to Cataclysm's 5-man instances, and for more healer-centric advice, visit Raid Rx.


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A Better Bug for Biofuels
Scientists are optimizing a lipid-producing microbe to make biofuels.
While most attempts to engineer biofuel-producing microbes have focused on well-known organisms such as yeasts and E. coli, scientists also hope to co-opt the unique metabolic functions of some of the microbial world's less-studied creatures. Anthony Sinskey and his team at MIT have been cataloguing the genomic secrets of Rhodococcus bacteria, soil-dwelling microbes known to eat a variety of toxic compounds. The goal is to make a biodiesel-producing organism that can use a variety of sources as fuel. "We have done a lot of the basic chemistry and biology," says Sinskey. "Now we need to figure out how to maximize yields."
The strain of bacteria that Sinskey is working on, Rhodococcus opacus, is related to the type that causes tuberculosis, but it has two particularly appealing qualities. The bacteria have a flexible appetite, with the ability to eat a number of sugars and toxic compounds–in fact, the microbes were originally isolated from contaminated soil, where they were breaking down petroleum waste products. In addition, R. opacus are one of just a few types of bacteria that naturally produce a type of lipid called tryacylglycerols, which can be chemically converted into biodiesel. "Its life is focused around lipid metabolism, eating weird lipids and making more of them," says Jason Holder, a postdoctoral researcher in Sinskey's lab. "The trick is to engineer them to make it more efficiently, using waste streams of carbon."
The research is part of a larger effort to develop biofuels that, unlike ethanol made from corn or sugarcane, do not rely on food sources or agricultural land. Some companies, such as Synthetic Genomics, Amyris, LS9, and Joule Biotechnologies, are using synthetic biology techniques to engineer bacteria to more efficiently produce desirable metabolic products that can be used for biofuels.
Sinskey's team has recently sequenced R. opacus's genome and mapped its 9,000 genes into various metabolic pathways. Understanding these pathways allows scientists to boost or inhibit specific reactions, which can in turn increase the microbe's efficiency at creating a particular fuel or end product. The researchers have also developed a microarray for Rhodococcus–a genomics tool that allows scientists to quickly assess patterns of gene expression–and are using it to study these metabolicnetworks. "It will allow us to predict other bacteria that might do the same thing," says Sinskey, "and it will help us identify genes important in the assembly process." They plan to publish the genome soon.


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On Sunday, Christians worldwide will mourn and celebrate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most holy of days. Yet, its significance might well be upstaged by colored eggs and the Easter Bunny.
How does a secular bunny fit into Christianity's most defining beliefs? Our Easter observance of Jesus of Nazareth's resurrection actually has as its namesake the pagan goddess "Eastre."
Easter appears to have begun as a pagan festival co-opted by Christian missionaries, this time in the second century. ...


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Bethel Park athletic director set for new leadership role
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In a field dominated by men, Bethel Park athletic director Amy Scheuneman has broken many barriers.
She cracked another recently by being voted the first female president-elect of the WPIAL Athletic Directors Association.
Scheuneman, 32, will serve as vice president for two years before becoming president for two starting in 2015-16, said Scott Heinauer, the current head of the 140-member association.
As president-elect, she will serve on the WPIAL Board of Control, a governing body that includes officials, parents and school administrators.
The athletic directors association has had a seat on the board since 1978, said WPIAL spokesman Jim Collins.
"I'm not nervous at all," Scheuneman said. "I plan to be open-minded and am really looking forward to representing (my colleagues)."
Heinauer, the athletic director at Mars, said the association likes rotating the presidency according to geographic location.
From the southern suburbs, Scheuneman was an ideal candidate.
"She's been a very successful athletic director at a Quad-A school," Heinauer said. "As a member of the Board of Control, she'll spend a couple years learning how everything works, which shouldn't be a problem for her."
A 1999 graduate of Plum High School, Scheuneman studied sports management at Robert Morris University, where she competed in soccer and track.
A former athletic director at Avonworth, she is in her seventh year at Bethel Park.
Supporters at Bethel Park applauded her election, including Bill Kennedy, a longtime girls swimming coach who had some reservations after she was hired.
"I wondered who this kid was," Kennedy said. "But in minutes of talking with her, she had my respect. You could tell she knew what she was doing.
"Whether you agree or disagree with her, she's extremely fair."
"She puts kids first," said Bob McCall, president of the Bethel Park baseball boosters. "As parents, you like that."
Taylor Zimmer, head of the girls basketball boosters, finds Scheuneman a superb role model for his daughters.
"I tell interns they can learn a lot from her," agreed Lynn Sivetz, an athletic department secretary. "She's quiet, but confident."
Scheuneman also has earned the respect of head football coach Jeff Metheny, who admires her loyalty and work ethic.
"I've worked with several athletic directors and she's as good as any," said Metheny, in his 19th year at Bethel Park.
Married for five years, Scheuneman lives in Robinson with her husband, Paul, an outside sales representative.
Karen Kadilak is a freelance writer.
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