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Real Good Food envisions a future in which local economies and food systems are rich with homemade food and entrepreneurship. In this future transparency and participation enable people across the country to conveniently access food that meets their needs, desires and values.
We believe that by building communities where anyone can quickly find the best and most unique foods, made by friends and neighbors with full transparency in the origin and ingredients we will see healthier people and healthier local economies.
We believe that we are part of a movement much bigger than ourselves. We are part of the emerging Sharing Economy, which is driven by a recognition of unique and under-utilized capacities. Successful sharing economy organizations provide innovative means of access and create new markets. In our case these under utilized capacities come from the multitude of home cooks and local food entrepreneurs.
Real Good Food is developing a simple web interface that will allow users to post and search for food, join or create groups and host or participate in events. Our beta platform will be enhanced by a game-like reputation system and augmented by a mobile application that features the same capabilities. Furthermore we are committed to building communities offline and Real Good Food will work with existing groups to better facilitate in-person food events and exchanges, building trust and enthusiasm among larger communities.
We are a group of socially conscious food lovers who love to cook for others, explore new types of food and improve access to real good food.
Devin McIntire started his first food-related venture 10 years ago and has been passionate about changing our access to good food ever since. With inspiration from the beautiful smells wafting from his apartment neighbors' doors, Devin realized that no matter how well he cooked, he could never make the diversity of food he enjoyed nor could he cook as often as his neighborhood combined.
Starting in 2011 with a simple email group Devin launched Real Good Food. As word-of-mouth helped the email list grow to 130 people and all sorts of exciting food was traded Devin realized it was time to take this vision to the next level.
Justine Williams is a cultural anthropologist studying food systems and intuitively understands the potential impact that greater food sharing can have on local communities and economies. She has been working with Devin to develop Real Good Food in concept and launch a second pilot group in Durham, North Carolina.
Raffi Garabedian is a Master of Public Policy graduate and is interested in helping build communities through food sharing. Raffi is specifically interested in helping people eat better, save more, and waste less. As Real Good Food's Director of Community Outreach Raffi enjoys communicating Real Good Food's message with a variety of individuals and organizations.
Outgoing food fanatic Madhavi Rao knows the best way to bring people together is around a table of delicious, healthy, home-cooked food. As the team's Director of Strategy and Product Development, Madhavi blends exceptional analytical skills and an innovative approach to designing intuitive solutions that are simple and fun to use. A strong advocate of community building and healthy eating and lifestyle choices, Madhavi is thrilled to support this conscientious, sustainable, community-driven approach to enjoyable food.
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Well here it is…one of my favorite cookies. One of the best recipes I have yet to come up with for a cookie. A crowd pleaser! An award-winning recipe! An "eat your heart out Martha" cookie…. The Mystery Cookie
I lost my recipe. lol Ya just gotta love it when that happens!! It's not the first time this has happened to me and I am sure it won't be the last either. So, for now I will savor each morsel until they are gone. Shed a few tears as we may never meet again and cherish the memory of this amazing cookie as I look deep into it's very essence that I have caught in time through photo-imagery. Even though the genetic DNA ingredient list is gone (poof), I owed it a photo shoot. A tribute to its short time it spent on my kitchen counter and within my belly….
I do know a little bit about this cookie. It comes from a strong heritage that is greatly influenced by mint colonies, coconut clans, it has a sweet disposition that has been passed down through many generations of the agave family. I am pretty sure that it is stout with the family origin of the mighty "oat" family with a few personality traits of salt and cinnamon. The rest remains a mystery!
Good-bye….cookie love of my life…sniff sniff
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Oh, you're breaking my heart! It sounds soooo good…and I just bet you could put it together again without the recipe – you're such a great natural chef. Please for our sakes…you must try!
lol It broke my heart too…I will try making it again. Everyone seems to just love them. I have some in the freezer and pull them out when company comes and they are a hit. Oy! I shall keep you posted. :)
If you ever figure out the recipe, please post! they look absolutely delicious…
Thank you Alta. haha Trust me I am going to work at it because everyone just loves them. :)
Please find the recipe and post…I also wanted to know if you could post some of your recipes that are not RAW.
Hi Angela…what kind of cooked recipes are you looking for? amie sue
Well, I am just taken w/ your recipes. Have you tried to recreate this one yet?
Oh dear Adrienne, I haven't. haha Sort of forgot about it over time, not to mention lost in all the new recipes. But that taught me a valuable lesson. haha Have a blessed Thanksgiving, amie sue
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Zeinat Akhras, a 65-year-old pharmacist, still bears the effects of nearly two years trapped in her home, surrounded by rebel fighters during the siege of Homs
The Assad regime and jihadist rebels are undoubtedly pinning their hopes on the West's track record of abandoning Syria's moderates at the most inopportune times.
The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against rebel-held areas is resulting in genetically malformed babies, according to doctors
Syrian rebels bombed a once luxurious, historic hotel being used as a government army base in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday
Rebels choose Syrian President Bashar Assad's first outing outside the capital in a year to score a direct and deadly hit on an arms depot
A brutal and bloody civil war is raging in Syria, but you'd never know it looking at the photos posted on President Bashar al-Assad's newly created Instagram account
Government troops captured a neighbourhood Monday in the embattled city of Homs that has been a rebel stronghold since the beginning of the Syrian uprising
Three Syrian military officers were killed in Damascus on Tuesday, state media and opposition groups said, and at least three people were wounded in a car bomb blast in the capital, the latest blows to a ragged UN-monitored ceasefire
As violence in Syria continues, major powers remained divided over what action to take amid a growing clamour for foreign intervention.
Syrian forces bombarded parts of the shattered city of Homs anew on Saturday and blocked the first Red Cross aid meant for civilians stranded for weeks without food and fuel in the former rebel stronghold, activists and aid workers said.


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I'm going to be in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia this summer and was planning on renting scooters at various points along the way. I was assuming my Canadian driver's license would be fine but I just thought I'd ask to be sure an International Drivers License wouldn't be neccessary.
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Theoretically you require an international driver's license -- if it is straightforward to get one before you leave, well why not. Personally I've done some 10,000km worth of scooter trips in Thailand and have never been asked for any kind of license, likewise shops hiring bikes have never once asked me for a license -- of any kind.
If you have an accident I think that is when you'll suddenly need one.
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See where I've been in Southeast Asia!
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Thanks for the tip. That's what I figured.
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I had the same experience all over Asia, no license needed I mean. Until I got to Bali, I had the front wheel of my scoota over the white line at the traffic lights only about 4 inches, however this was enough to catch the eye of the local police who then wanted to see my international License. I had only my Australian License. To cut a long story short, it ended up with me paying a small bribe.or a giving him a a 'gift', as he said. After that he took off the hand cuffs and let me ride away on my scoota. I think he needed the money more than me and would have found a reason to get some from me what ever the case. oh well. life goes on, happy travels!
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail..............Buddha
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Saints of Varied Styles Show That Sanctity Is Attainable
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ROME, DEC. 23, 2001 (ZENIT.org-Avvenire).- The Church shows its wisdom by honoring such diverse models of holiness as Josemaría Escrivá, Padre Pio da Pietrelcina and Juan Diego. So says Alfredo Cattabiani, who has written a number of works on saints.
John Paul II has often said that the variety of saints has a specific objective: to show that holiness is not an unattainable goal but a concrete possibility for every Christian. Last week he approved decrees for miracles attributed to Opus Dei founder Escrivá, mystic Padre Pio and Guadalupe visionary Juan Diego, opening the way for their eventual canonization.
--Q: Padre Pio and Escrivá are two figures with great popular following -- but profoundly different. How do they fit into this great design intended to propose holiness as an "ordinary" goal for all the faithful?
--Cattabiani: In a certain sense, they are two canonizations preceded by great popular devotion: two saints who succeeded in attaining the same goal, an exemplary Christian life, on different paths. They have given a highly effective example, as demonstrated by the thousands upon thousands of devotees and admirers they have in the world. Of course, in speaking of Padre Pio and Escrivá, I must admit my own emotional involvement.
--Q: Like millions of others, you have also invoked the friar of Pietrelcina?
--Cattabiani: Yes, in a very painful circumstance of my life. I was in eastern Gargano in 1967 with my wife and 6-month-old son. All of a sudden, the baby developed a high fever. He was taken to the hospital of San Giovanni Rotondo, but the doctors expressed pessimism immediately.
"Prepare yourself, because your son is dying and we cannot understand the reason," they said. I left the hospital and, looking at the basilica, I entrusted myself to Padre Pio, who at that time was still alive.
About 10 minutes later I returned to the hospital and I saw the same doctor coming toward me. "I don´t know how to explain what has happened. We haven´t done anything but the child is better, I would say he is out of danger." I had the precise feeling that Padre Pio´s supernatural intervention had been decisive.
--Q: What is your impression of Escrivá?
--Cattabiani: I think he anticipated Vatican Council II as regards his intuition on the sanctification of daily life. In this connection, his message is especially effective for us, the laity. It is very concrete but also very spiritual. He loved talking with his friends after dinner, but invariably at 10 p.m. sharp, he would bid everyone farewell, saying he had a most important appointment. It was time for evening prayer.
--Q: But next to a hero of the prodigious, such as Padre Pio, don´t you think that a figure like Escrivá, who was apparently less inclined to supernatural manifestations, confirms the thesis of the various ecclesial charisms directed toward a common objective?
--Cattabiani: Yes, Padre Pio is the answer to those who seek a totally rational faith, characterized strictly by intellectuality. Instead, by proclaiming Padre Pio´s sanctity, the Pope shows us that the dimension of mystery cannot be ruled out.
Moreover, Escrivá underlines another aspect: that of a very "lay" spirituality, very active, characterized by a style that is not just tinsel. St. Francis of Sales also affirmed that correction is the first rung of sanctity.
--Q: We have said that there is no model of sanctity that is valid for all, but who is the saint who is closest to your sensibility?
--Cattabiani: I think that examples, such as Pier Giorgio Frassati or the Beltrame Quattrocchi spouses are especially effective for us laity. Then I especially like the Piedmontese social saints, such as Don Juan Bosco, who were the only ones who really knew how to defend the poor in the liberal but profoundly unjust society of the 19th century.


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There are plenty of bars/restaurants from Mulberry to the Ironbound. The problem is you didn't bother to look around or ask. You just judged everything by the Broad St. side.
Scully's-Clinton St. 2 blocks north via Mulberry
Arena Bar-Green and Mulberry, block south of the arena
City Cafe(sports bar)-2 blocks south on Mulberry
Hell's Kitchen-Lafayette/Buren, Ironbound, 4 blocks
Market St. Bar/Grill-Gateway Center
Cafe Airlie-Commerce Street, 3 blocks north on Mulberry
As for shopping, go to Newport or Jersey Gardens.
Well Broad street looks like a war zone.
Yes I know about the Ironbound section and I agree that is a nice area and probably coming from Penn Station will be OK....but you cannot avoid the other blighted areas in such close proximity.
I want this thing to succeed as much as anyone.
I was born in Newark and I went to high school and college in Newark. Before the exodus to the suburbs and the malls...we used to shop and go to the movies in Newark...I can only hope...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has asked the Catholic and Orthodox Churches not to give up on the Church of England after its vote to ordain women as bishops, reports The Tablet.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to reassure other Churches that the Church of England is continuing on its 'quest' for unity after concern and dismay was expressed about the decision to ordain women bishops.
Archbishop Justin Welby said Churches 'need each other.' He said that the vote at General Synod last week was an 'occasion of deep rejoicing for many,' although 'a source of disappointment and concern' for others.
He acknowledged that, while some Anglican churches would welcome the result of the vote, 'we are also aware that our other ecumenical partners may find this a further difficulty on the journey towards full communion' and that dialogue now faced 'new challenges.'
But Archbishop Welby emphasised that with 'so much troubling our world today,' common witness to the Gospel was of greater importance than ever.
Catholic Archbishop Bernard Longley, chairman of the international Anglican-Catholic dialogue body Arcic, said last week that the decision 'sadly places a further obstacle' on the path to unity, but added that the bishops were still committed to ecumenical dialogue.
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UPDATE 5:05 P.M.--At around two Saturday afternoon a woman gets into an argument with her estranged boyfriend inside her South Bay Street home in Samson. She reportedly stabs him inside. The victim stumbled in the front yard where he died. The woman is taken into custody on unrelated warrant. At this time no charges filed in domestic Incident.
Samson, AL)-- Samson Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in Geneva County.
Authorities responded a to a home on Bay Street just after 1:00 PM this afternoon.
The stabbing is believed to be domestic violence related.
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've often been asked if I play Commander, and the answer is actually yes! I've had the same deck built for years now, although I modify it every couple sets.
It probably isn't a huge surprise to anyone that I'm running a blue commander, specifically Dralnu, Lich Lord (I am Dimir, after all).
My formula for this one was simple: I added in all the sweet cards I like to play with, which is just about anything that draws a card, some fun artifacts, some counterspells, and—of course—Gruesome Encore (foil and French, otherwise known as Horrible Répétition).
I also like playing a lot of lands, because Lich Lords always want to cast powerful arcane spells. Speaking of which, Dralnu isn't the safest commander around. I've definitely had to sacrifice my fair share of permanents to Dralnu getting hit by a big burn spell, so I'd advise caution when it comes to bringing him out. Once you do get Dralnu out, you get to do anything and everything, recasting all sorts of removal and card-draw spells.
I've had a lot of fun playing this deck, and if your play group frowns on counters, you can certainly cut down on the number. They are mainly to protect Dralnu, because getting Fireballed is just so painful (and usually game-ending). Still, drawing cards and playing spells out of my graveyard appeals to me, and doing silly things with Praetor's Grasp, Gruesome Encore, and Dralnu is good times.
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When he's not rocking crowds of sweat-saturated revelers, Paper Diamond is Alex B, a non-descript dude who runs a collective/label/storefront/gallery called Elm & Oak on 13th Street and Spruce —in Boulder, Colorado, not up the street in Philly. And guess what? It's also between Spruce and Walnut. For real. Google Map it. Move that field of vision around, and you'll find the University of Colorado campus, where Paper Diamond conducts classwork. Yup, universities are now totally open to the idea of multimedia DJs and electronic music producers teaching—or at least conducting learning exercises. That already fits this guy's M.O.; at Elm & Oak, he has monthly art shows and music nights, video artists hold rank, and graphic designers turn out aural assaults. And those folks constantly counsel local students about how they stay on the grind and ultimately succeed. Paper Diamond, though, is telling and showing.
His genre of choice is dance music cast widely: mumbathon, dubstep, trap, hip-hop instrumentals are all employed. For those of you (like me) who cringe at the idea of skronky, molly-friendly, bugout EDM, this guy's actually a really nice toe-dipping entrypoint. Yes, some PD tracks are a little hype, evidenced by his endorsement by Mad Decent, but it's more than possible to have a really pleasant, totally sober wile-out at Theater of the Living Arts tonight. This is a date bounce fans aren't going to want to sleep on. // BILL CHENEVERT
8pm. $20. With Loudpvck, Gent & Jawns + DJ Ruxbin. Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.2599. TLAphilly.com
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Read crime reporter Elizabeth Evans' tweets about the verdict by clicking here for by browsing the Twitter widget to the right. Check back soon for more.
Jurors needed just 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon to find Brian David Hummert guilty of the first-degree murder of wife Charlene Hummert.
That's 15 minutes longer than jurors took to reach a guilty verdict in his first trial. That 2006 verdict, however, was overturned on appeal.
"I'm just happy we got the result we were looking for and he's going back to where he belongs," said son David Hummert, 28.
"Thank God they got it right," said Wayne Meyer, one of Charlene Hummert's siblings.
"I'm so glad it's over," brother Dennis Meyer said. "Justice has finally been served. Hopefully it will stick this time."
In addition to first-degree murder, jurors also found Hummert guilty of hindering his own apprehension and prosecution, for sending fake "killer" letters to police and a newspaper reporter. Those letters claimed to be from a serial killer named "John" and stated Hummert was innocent.
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While fatally strangling his wife, Brian Hummert showed "all the remorse and emotion he showed after (her) death," chief deputy prosecutor Tim Barker told jurors during his closing argument Tuesday afternoon.
According to prosecution testimony, that was none.
"Cold. Calculated. Premeditated. Deliberate," Barker said of Charlene Hummert's slaying.
He told jurors the "avalanche" of evidence proves Brian Hummert is guilty of first-degree murder.
"This is as simple as a game of Clue," Barker said. "It's Mr. Hummert, on Boeing Road, with the dog cable. It's beyond any doubt."
Barker scoffed at letters sent to police and a reporter after Charlene's death that supposedly were written by the killer, and which exonerated Hummert.
He told jurors the letters reminded him of an episode of the 1970s television show "Welcome Back, Kotter" in which student Epstein hands over a note that reads, "Please excuse Epstein from school today. Signed, Epstein's Mother."
Barker recounted for jurors in detail the testimony of both forensic experts and those who knew the Hummerts:
Unique soil found in drag marks on Charlene's sweatpants match soil from the Hummert driveway. Abrasions on Charlene's neck match a clasp and other features on a red plastic-coated cable that was part of a dog-leash contraption, and which was seized from the Hummert home. Carpet fibers tangled in a clump of the victim's hair and found on the driveway are consistent with carpet in the Hummert home. A "stalker" letter was found on the Hummert computer.
"No ifs, no ands and no buts," Barker said. "And that is what the science shows."
The Hummerts' marriage was over, the prosecutor told jurors.
"It's done," he said. "A basic old motive. ... (and) only one person could have done it."
Accused wife-killer Brian David Hummert spent about an hour and 40 minutes on the witness stand Tuesday morning, during which he denied killing Charlene Hummert and denied writing both the "stalker" letters sent to her in 2001-02 and the "killer" letters sent to police and a reporter after her slaying.
He admitted they were having marital trouble at the time of her death, which police said happened the night of March 19, 2004, or into the early-morning hours of March 20, 2004.
"It was rocky," he said. "We were trying to make it work. ... I loved her. I cared very much for her."
Prosecutors are trying to prove Hummert, 55, ambushed his wife of 22 years from behind in their former Boeing Road home in Fairview Township and fatally strangled her with a red plastic-coated cable that was part of a homemade dog-leash contraption.
Prosecutors allege Hummert then dragged his wife's body outside to her Land Rover, stuffed it into the cargo area and drove the SUV about a mile to the Giant Food Store parking lot it Fairview Township, where it was found by police the night of March 21, 2004.
Yelling: Prompted by questions from defense attorney Vincent Quinn, Hummert said that on the night in question he and his wife had a verbal argument because Charlene was upset about finances, the lack of housework being done and other things.
"It wasn't an argument per se," he told jurors. "It was more her yelling at me and I stayed quiet."
Afterward, she called someone on the phone and a car later showed up and picked her up, he said. Her Land Rover was still in their driveway about 4 a.m. when their adult son David came home, but was gone by about 7 a.m.
Under cross-examination, chief deputy prosecutor Tim Barker reminded Hummert that one of the letters from the purported killer states he killed Charlene Hummert in her kitchen, dragged her outside, loaded her into the Land Rover and drove off.
'Dead to the world': Barker asked Hummert if he'd heard any noise from any of this, and Hummert said he didn't.
"I was exhausted, so I probably was dead to the world," the defendant said. "Things can be going on in the kitchen that you can't readily hear (in other parts of the house)."
Barker showed Hummert the homemade cable dog-leash contraption believed to be the murder weapon -- which was seized from the Hummert home -- and asked him if he recognized it.
"(It's) similar to the one I had made," Hummert said, but slightly different.
Cable at issue: He said he doesn't know what happened to the contraption he'd made, which also was red. He also said the cable in Barker's hand came from "a security cable that came with a bike rack."
That's when Barker asked if someone had come in and taken the cable Hummert had made.
"It's a possibility, sir," Hummert said.
Hummert denied being the man caught on Giant security video entering the store at 6:17 that morning.
Barker showed him a photo of the man in the dark coat, red gloves, knit hat and work boots walking into the supermarket. He then rooted through boxes of evidence and retrieved the dark coat, red gloves, knit hat and work boots seized directly from Hummert by police.
"It looks like one of my coats," Hummert said. "I don't know if these are my boots."
DNA: As for why his DNA in the form of semen was found on his wife's body and underpants, Hummert said they had sex the night before she went missing.
Barker then asked whether Hummert's co-workers, Charlene's co-workers and police had lied when they testified the Hummerts told them they hadn't had sex in months.
"Not lying, but mistaken," Hummert said, adding some testimony was "misremembered, misheard (and) there's bias. ... People want to see a certain outcome."
He also denied asking out his Lowe's co-worker, Patti Hurley, both before and after Charlene's homicide, which Hurley testified to last week.
Personal info: Barker asked why, then, did Hummert print out Hurley's state driver license information while at his primary job as a state police computer technician. Hummert replied he was trying to solve a computer problem and plugging in her name somehow helped him fix that problem.
Barker then asked why the printout was found in Hummert's home. The defendant replied he took work home with him.
Hummert said that like police and a reporter, he also received a letter from the purported killer.
"I can't remember specifics (of it)," he testified.
That letter was never entered into evidence and it's unclear whether it was ever turned over to police.
'Not enough': Shortly before lunchtime, defense attorney Quinn gave jurors his closing argument, telling them "there isn't enough" evidence to convict Hummert.
But, he said, if the jury disagrees, then there's certainly not enough evidence to prove it was a premeditated first-degree murder. Hummert also is charged with third-degree murder and lesser offenses.
Quinn urged jurors to question expert testimony linking Hummert to the homicide.
Quinn also admitted that after the slaying, "Brian said some stupid things to people."
Barker is expected to give an hour-long closing argument starting after lunch, at 1:15 p.m.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case against accused wife-killer Brian David Hummert Monday afternoon with expert testimony linking him to "stalker" letters victim Charlene Hummert received in 2001 and 2002 and to letters sent after her slaying that claimed to be from the killer and exonerated her husband.
Hummert, 55, formerly of Boeing Road in Fairview Township, is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses for allegedly killing Charlene Hummert, his wife of 22 years, in their home the night of March 19, 2004.
This is his second trial. The first ended in a conviction and life sentence, but was overturned on appeal.
Prosecutors allege Brian Hummert ambushed his wife from behind and fatally strangled her with a metal cable that was part of a homemade dog leash contraption.
He then dragged her body outside, stuffed it into the cargo area of her Land Rover and drove it to the Giant Food Store parking lot in Fairview Township, prosecutors maintain.
Testifying Monday was Michele Zeiders, a state police handwriting-analysis expert who retired in 2010.
'No other conclusion': Zeiders told jurors she examined the two handwritten "killer" letters -- one sent to the lead detective in the Hummert case, the other to a local reporter -- and determined they were written by Brian Hummert. She compared the letters to numerous known samples of his writing, she said.
"I could come to no other conclusion," Zeiders said. "Only one writer, and that would be Mr. Hummert, wrote those documents."
Also testifying was Robert Leonard, director, chairman and professor of Hofstra University's graduate program in forensic linguistics.
Leonard compared the "stalker" and "killer" letters to known samples of Brian Hummert's writing and determined the letters and Hummert's writings shared similar dialect, education level, complex structures and time shifts.
Cruel humor: Also, he said, the writers of all the letters used "cruel humor, sardonic humor and irony."
An example of that is from one of the "killer" letters, in which the author claimed to have had an affair with Charlene Hummert and wrote, "She wanted to break it off. So I broke her neck."
Moreover, Leonard told jurors, the letters share something else with Hummert's own writing -- a peculiar habit of sometimes using negative contractions, but never using positive contractions. (For example, "I am" was never contracted to "I'm.")
"I have never seen this precise ... pattern before," Leonard testified.
Jurors didn't hear that Leonard was a founding member of doo-wop group Sha-Na-Na, or that he sang with the group at Woodstock.
Man on video: Peter J. Smith, a forensic examiner with the FBI, testified he reviewed security videos from Giant around the time the Land Rover was believed to have been parked in the lot there, between 4 and 7 a.m. March 20, 2004.
The videos show a man wearing a coat, knit hat and red gloves walking into the Giant at 6:17 a.m.
Smith testified he determined the man in the video was 5-feet-5, plus or minus an inch and a half. Jurors heard last week that Brian Hummert is 5-feet-4.
Also testifying Monday morning was Braden Cook, a forensic examiner with the state attorney general's office. He previously worked for the state police computer crime unit.
'Stalker' letter: Cook told jurors he found a "stalker" letter on two of Brian Hummert's computers, as well as on a zip disk. In the two computers and the zip disk, the letter is prefaced by a paragraph purportedly written by Brian Hummert, explaining the letter was found at side door of his home.
Cook also said a recordable CD seized from the Hummert home contained six scanned-in glamour photos of Charlene Hummert, plus a computer "paint" version of each photo. Cook also said two other CDs seized from the Hummert home were exact copies of the first CD.
Charlene Hummert had the photos taken as a Christmas gift for her husband, according to testimony.
Several of the "stalker" letters left for the Hummert family included photocopies of Charlene's glamour shots that had been ripped up and pieced together haphazardly.
Daughter speaks: The Hummerts' daughter, Tracey Hummert, was the only defense witness to testify on Monday before trial ended for the day.
She was 18 when her mother was killed, and said the last time she spoke with her mother was when Charlene called her, angry at Tracey's choice of a boyfriend and angry that Tracey wanted a new car. That conversation happened a few hours after Charlene was last seen.
"I was terrified to go home," Tracey Hummert testified, and called her father to say she'd be spending the night at her boyfriend's house.
Closing arguments are expected to begin Tuesday after at least one more defense witness.
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Tax debate revives question of who's rich
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Fiscal cliff negotiations on tax rates hinge on an issue that has vexed the tax policy debate for years: What income level defines rich?
Viral ads grab more Internet eyeballs
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Advertising Age's top 10 viral ads show that many ad campaigns now originate on the Internet rather than as TV commercials.
Concert will rain charity on Sandy victims
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The 121212 concert in New York's Madison Square Garden has raised more than $30 million, and the show hasn't even started.
Retailers could step up freebies for shoppers
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As holiday season heads into the last stretch, retailers are gauging just how much they have to give away to get skittish shoppers to spend.
Fannie Mae, big banks halt holiday evictions
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and some big banks will halt evictions from foreclosed homes during the holidays. Is this altruism or a publicity stunt?
Bank of America backs off fees, again
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After reversing a plan last year to charge a monthly fee for debit cards, Bank of America reportedly is delaying new checking account fees.
Why fast-food workers struggle to unionize
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A walk-out by workers at several fast-food chains in New York marks latest effort to organize an industry with high worker turnover.
In insider trading cases, getting to the top of the food chain
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Insider trading charges could be coming to one of the nation's biggest hedge funds: SAC Capital Advisors. But will investigators implicate the hedge fund's owner?
If it's Monday, name that shopping day
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Branded shopping days clutter the week that starts on Thanksgiving eve. With so many gimmicks, what's the value of each one?
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporters launch pre-emptive strike
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It's easy but misleading to take a myopic view of the global auto industry by focusing on the struggles of Detroit's hometown companies, I was reminded Tuesday in Troy, where India's Mahindra Group opened its first technical center in North America.
It's a modest beginning for Mahindra in Michigan. The office near Maple and John R roads will accommodate 25 engineers at first, with space available to hire 25 more.
Mahindra has much bigger ambitions, however, such as becoming one of the world's top 10 automobile brands by the end of this decade.
A need to be here
Today, after a stalled attempt a few years ago to set up a dealer network for small trucks and SUVs in the U.S., Mahindra is not a player in the American auto market, although it does sell farm equipment here. Its global car and truck output of about 500,000 vehicles a year, sold mostly in India, places it outside the top 20 global automakers, according to Forbes magazine's 2012 rankings.
If Mahindra is to be a global top 10 automaker by 2020, it will have to outsell the likes of Chrysler, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Fiat, BMW and Renault to get there.
Perhaps, but Rajan Wadhera, Mahindra's chief executive for technology, products and sourcing in the auto and farm equipment sectors, sounded very serious Tuesday when he projected the company's automobile output will reach 1 million units by 2016 and 2 million by 2020.
"This means we have to do many, many new product development plans during the next six to eight years," he said, the upshot being lots of work for the new Troy technical center and Mahindra's engineers in India and elsewhere.
Auto culture counts
That's a tall order for an automaker from an emerging economy, but there is a recent precedent. In just two years, 2005 to 2007, Korean automaker Hyundai boosted global sales by 1.5 million units (from 2.5 to 4 million) and surpassed Fiat, Chrysler, Peugeot, Nissan and Honda.
The good news for Detroit and Michigan is that despite the ordeals of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in recent decades, the Detroit region is still viewed as a place where virtually every aspiring global automaker -- and their suppliers -- must have a presence.
Mahindra looked at Illinois, the Netherlands and other locations when scouting a spot for a technical center in the West. "And we found that Troy was the best location for engineers, for access to design and testing," said Wadhera. "Mahindra is keen to be a part of this ecosystem and culture."
Every month when U.S. car and truck sales are reported, there is much navel-gazing, boasting or hand-wringing in Detroit about whether the hometown car companies are gaining or losing market share. And that's understandable, to a point.
But what's really critical is that we continue to build on this asset -- this "ecosystem and culture," as Wadhera called it, encompassing everything from the region's tool-and-die talent to the fun of the Woodward Dream Cruise and Belle Isle Grand Prix. That way, no matter who's gaining or losing sales, all the players will feel compelled to be here, hire here and invest here.


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Some of the most pressing global issues we face today are related to energy resources, conservation, and the effects of energy production and increasing worldwide demand. As a result, professionals with knowledge in the design and development of optimal methods to produce and utilize energy in ways that are both sustainable and marketable are currently—and will continue to be—in great demand.
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Northeastern University's MS in Energy Systems ALIGN program offers students with strong quantitative and problem solving skills the opportunity to gain the knowledge and practical experience necessary to enter this high-demand field. The program integrates energy systems technology with business and financial planning principles. It will prepare you to lead efforts in the design, development, planning, and implementation of new energy generation investments, to realize energy efficiency improvements, and ultimately to have a lasting, positive impact on businesses, communities, the economy, and the global environment.
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- Mathematics for Engineers 1 and 2
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Tonight on Dateline, The Hempel family who have twin 5 year girls will be airing a story about their family and their battle with Niemann-Pick Type C. The Hempel Family has really worked hard as like other families to promote awareness and to find a suitable treatment for this devastating disease.
As you know depending upon air time and what news happens through out the day, air times could vary. This will be a great informational session and you can see first hand a family experiencing this disease.
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This is a brief interview conducted by Jeff Gothelf in preparation for Lean Day UX in NYC on March 1st. This post originally appeared on Neo.com.
Running lean teams in the enterprise can become a tangled mess of experiments, rapid iteration and changes to the customer-facing experience. As your lean organization scales up, managing the direction of each of these teams and ensuring they're communicating well and not stepping on each other's toes becomes paramount. We talked with David Panarelli, UX Manager at LivingSocial to get a sense of how they deal with this issue in their ever-growing organization.
How do you separate the different "turfs" Lean teams at LivingSocial?
We have a large (100+) person organization within LivingSocial made up of engineers, product managers, project managers, and designers that we refer to as our Build team. The Build team is subdivided into three primary audiences: merchant solutions, consumer products and internal tools. Each of those teams is then subdivided into small groups called pods that each own a product. Our pods are really the atomic element of our overall product team and they operate as start ups within our company, each with a different agenda, but aligned around common goals.
The best example of how pods distribute responsibility is probably our consumer products. The primary navigation of our site in a large market like NYC is actually a rough approximation for how we split out our consumer facing pods:
- Deals platform (our core product, local deals)
- Escapes (travel packages)
- Fun & Events (live events)
- Shop (merchandise)
- Takeout & delivery (ordering food online)
We have other teams focused on key consumer touch points like our mobile app, mobile web, and email.
Finally ,we have a team we refer to as the Unified Experience team and they're responsible for tying it all together, managing site wide experience and also contributing to a lot of our new product initiatives that can span across teams.
This setup has allowed for tight communication within their pods and given each team a chance to fall into their own operating groove.
What are some problems that can arise from running multiple lean teams at once?
In many ways, the tight structure within these teams is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that the team will fall into a groove together through regular working cycles. It's easy for the team to get on the same page on the direction of the product.
The curse is a byproduct of that same tight internal communication. As people on the team get into the habit of communicating well with each other, there's a risk that information that should be communicated to other pods might not make it. The result is one pod making a change to their product that has an impact on another product and hijinx ensue.
What three tips do you have for other orgs trying to run multiple concurrent Lean initiatives?
Well, I think it goes without saying that communication is key, but that's always easier said than done.
First, it's critical to have a shared set of goals. In much the same way that individual members of a pod need to be on the same page around their product direction, the larger team as a whole needs to be on the same page on their organizational goals. There should be clear, measurable KPIs that provide a definition for both success and for failure. Pods must identify how their work ties directly to that KPI.
Secondly, it is just as important that the progress against those goals be communicated throughout the organization on a regular basis. For example, a monthly report consisting of a rundown of work accomplished, the results of subsequent tests, and outlining how the work impacts the live product is a great tool. This not only communicates the progress of a given pod, but provides a window for other pods to look for potential conflicts in product direction and user experience. For extra credit, I'd also recommend highlighting other things as they happen, For instance, a pod can announce what kind of problems it's taking on, or relay the output of sketching sessions over time. Be careful with this though—there is such a thing as over communication, especially while a project is only partially complete.
Finally, it's been very useful for us to have shared resources like CSS style guides. A little digging in on livingsocial.com's front end will easily reveal that we're using a CSS framework that we call LSUI. It allows our designers to work through prototypes with production-level code while serving as the canonical resource for what should and shouldn't be on our site. But this kind of resource is more than just more efficient. Our team is full of ambitious, talented people. A resource like this helps us provide a playing field for our team, without micromanaging, and that goes a long way.
David will be one of the amazing speakers we've lined up for Lean Day: UX – March 1st in NYC. Tickets on sale now.


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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns is coming soon. The movie is sequel of Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, which was liked by audience and reviewers. The movie was meant for adult audience and had pretty good roles of Jimmy Shergil, Hooda and Mahie Gill.
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns will release on March 8, 2013 across India. The shooting has been done in Gujarat. Lets see what first reviews of the movie will be like.
The star cast of Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns includes Jimmy Shergill as Aditya Partap Singh and Mahie Gill as Madhavi.
Irrfan Khan as Indrajeet Singh aka Raja Bhaiyya and Soha Ali Khan as Raja Bhaiyya's wife.
Pravesh Rana and Deepraj Rana
Raj Babbar will also be there in the movie. Raj Babbar will play the role of Soha Ali Khan's father.
Mugdha Godse will feature in an item number, so we can expect hot moves from her.
Director Tigmanshu Dhulia will do justice to this one as well. Tigmanshu Dhulia and Rahul Mittra are producers.
Budget for the movie is Rs 7 crore on production. Lets see how much they will spend on promotion. I am sure that they will make good money.


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Tyra Banks Still Wrongly Taking Credit For That Whole "Meat Dress" Thing
Tyra Banks told New York that Lady Gaga having worn a meat dress to last year's Video Music Awards "doesn't make me upset." Banks continued, "Lady Gaga is such an artist that I doubt that she was looking at Top Model or her stylist was looking at Top Model and saying we should do it. I think they just did it and we… »


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Hi All,
I am currently in the market for an e46 m3 and was hoping to get some info regarding running costs and servicing.
I am currently looking at a 04 with approx 66k miles on the clock.
Just wondering if anyone has price information for various services, extending the warranty, your avg mpg etc.
I rang Frank Keane BMW and was given an estimate for a basic service €300 + VAT and for inspection 2 which is due after 60k: €1300 + VAT.
This car was just serviced so i presume inspection 2 was already done. I'll check the service history to confirm.
They couldn't check the warranty as they need the chassis number, which i don't have but i'm sure the garage i would be potentially buying from would have the warranty info. Otherwise i can just get the chassis number. Also said you can only renew if it is currently under warranty??
No idea if those prices are expensive or not but have been told to expect the services to be expensive on an M3.
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I have a better idea: Come out with a website that gathers 1 million people, they all put in $1, and one person wins a week.
That way, you get more than a million for producing a service, and not just asking for $1.
There's your website idea, courtesy of me. Not only and idea, a million dollar idea. No thanks needed.
Originally posted by LargeFries
PS: the fund-raiser industry is lucrative and profitable. merchandising to groups involved with fund-raising is not difficult or dirty work. I think the hardest part is coming up with something new & unusual to blow some fresh air into the same old - same old.
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without a doubt I will help that project...
I'm just going to need help making my video go viral.


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Democrat Chris Coons, left, leads Republican Christine O'Donnell by a margin of 21 percentage points, according to an independent poll released today.
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Democrat Chris Coons' lead over Republican Christine O'Donnell has grown to a commanding 21 percent in the widely watched and hotly contested U.S. Senate race, according to a new independent poll released today.
The survey, the second conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson (N.J.) University's PublicMind research group in the last month, found that Coons has increased his advantage by 4 points over his GOP foe. O'Donnell stunned pundits and the party establishment Sept. 14 by defeating nine-term U.S. Rep. Mike Castle in the primary.
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The Purdue Research Foundation will host an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday for the Purdue Foundry. The event will be on the second floor of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.
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You sound similar to me, minus the mouth ulcers and gallbladder issuses.
Mine is mainly psychological though, with some immune issues.
My parents don't believe in modern day medicine, and thus I've grown up to fear it or feel it isn't necessary.
I used to be able to handle anything but then I got sick in 2011 and since then I have been a fragil flower that is always sick or cold. I get headaches frequently, fever, colds, I've lost about 70lbs.. but I believe that is due to the fact my parents said I was "chubby" for a straight year so I began to kind of skip meals and not eat very well. I'd exercise my buns off, so I looked great but felt like crap.
I found that making sure I eat right has really helped.
I feel if you find a diet (not a diet as in weight loss but what you eat and what you don't) that adequately gives you your basic necessities then whatever else you experience will indicate what needs attention. Such as if you still experince frequent issues like fever or headache then you know there is something influencing those symptoms.


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How To Buy An Office Suite
Microsoft Web Apps Microsoft's 1.0 software often underwhelms, even if it's destined for greatness, and Office Web Apps is no exception. At least here, you'll never have to pay for the upgrade. If you're looking for an easy way to share your Office apps, or an easy way to revise your documents from any browser, then the cloud-based Office Web Apps definitely gets the job done.
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Canadian animation company Nelvana is considering buying the assets of troubled family entertainment producer Cinar Corp, estimated to be worth anywhere between $235m and $765m.
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World of Goo Android App Review
The World of Goo Android App by 2D Boy is a puzzle game where the object is to drag and drop living balls of goo to build all kinds of structures to reach the end point of each level. This can be very challenging since you only have a certain amount of balls of goo you can use in each level. As you progress in the game and get to the higher levels new balls of goo with different abilities and different obstacles add to the challenge.
There are 4 chapters and an epilogue that each contain quite a few levels to play. This game really takes the puzzle game to the next level. It's unique design and art work really sets it apart from other puzzle games and gives it that indie feel. This game has won lots of awards on all kinds of platforms from console to PC to mobile.
Overall, this is one of the best, unique puzzle games to hit the mobile gaming industry that is definately worth checking out. At the time of this review the World of Goo Android App is $4.99.
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Here are a couple of Google items that we spotted on two of of my favorite blogs that focus most of their efforts on tracking Google.
+ Dirson, posts about another successful recruitment of progammer by Google. It appears that Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, is now a Google employee.
+ Dirson also reports that Miguel de la Reina (the manager of Google Spain) has launched a blog (in Spanish, of course) titled: Googelizados.
And speaking of Googlers...
+ Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped, posts about a new compilation of blogs by Googlers. It comes from the editor of The Google Planet which is a digest of blog posts by Google employees.
Btw, one of my favorite non-search sites of 2005 also comes from Philipp. If you've never visited his highly addictive, Games for the Brain site, it's more than worth a look and some time.
Also, my previous post about email services, includes a link to another favorite Google blog, Nathan Weinberg's Inside Google.


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Blackheath's most famous view is from the Govetts Leap Lookout, with its striking panorama of the Grose Valley and Bridal Veil Falls. Govett was a surveyor who mapped this region extensively in the 1830s. This lookout is the start or finish of several excellent bushwalks. Brochures are available at the Heritage Centre.
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text: Man Thinks He Solved Ringo Starr Photo Mystery Kenneth Kolpan says they were classmates, but none have come forward By Arden Dier, Newser Staff Posted Oct 25, 2013 6:24 AM CDT STORY COMMENTS (5) (Newser) – With the search on for five kids immortalized in a photo snapped by Ringo Starr in 1964, one man has come forward to say the Beatle may have just mixed up his cities: Kenneth Kolpan believes the photo was taken in New York City, not Miami. Kolpan tells the Miami Herald that he recognizes the crew as his former classmates from New Jersey's Fair Lawn Senior High School; he recalls them cutting class in order to greet the Fab Four when they touched down at LaGuardia. Kolpan wasn't there, but he says he recalls their story: "On the way from LaGuardia they saw four limos and thought it was a funeral, but each limo carried a Beatle." Kolpan says the car was driven by the late Gary Van Dursen, Robert Toth sat shotgun, and Charles Schwartz leaned out the window as the late Matty Blender (left) and Arlen Norbe Ressler (right) looked on. Two problems, though: None of those identified has come forward to confirm Kolpan's assertion, and the Herald notes they "were not immediately found in the school's 1964 yearbook." If the story is true, there's a perk for those who step forward: Starr is hoping to meet them. Ringo Starr talks in front of a photograph he took of five teens, unveiled in his new book. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Ringo Starr talks in front of a photograph he took of five teens, unveiled in his new book. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Miami Herald (Source Grid ») Entertainment New York City • Miami • Beatles • Ringo Starr CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 12% 66% 3% 7% 2% 9% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) - An Army soldier from Kentucky had just been married months before he was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb.
Pfc. Theodore West, 23, of Richmond, was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. He was killed on Wednesday in Baghdad.
His family, who called West "Coty," said in a statement that he loved serving in the military.
"Coty volunteered for military service because he wanted to make a difference in the world and keep those he loved safe," the statement said. "In his letters, he continually said that he believed in his job, that he was good at his job, and that he would not let those he loved or the fellow soldiers in his company down on his watch."
West joined the Army in August 2005, and left for Iraq less than a month ago, after marrying Jennifer Gregory on July 8, the family said. He was an outdoorsman who liked hunting and fishing and also enjoyed working on trucks and cars, family members said.
"We wish everyone to know that he was very important and special to us all. ... His life and time made a difference," the family statement said.
His death shocked a friend of West's who went to school with him at Estill County High School.
Christy Abrams said she found out as she was getting up early to drive from Irvine to visit a car dealership because she was a finalist with a chance at winning a new Ford F-150 truck through a radio station promotion.
Abrams said she decided to donate the truck - if she won - to help Kentucky families who have lost a relative or had a relative injured in Iraq.
Abrams won the truck, which is worth almost $20,000.
"My jaw just dropped," she said. "I just kinda looked around like, 'You got to be kidding me."'
West said she was excited about winning but knew she had to stick to her decision.
"The truck is really cool," she said. "But it means a lot more to us to be able to help this many families. And it's a lot bigger thing than somebody owning a truck with signatures on it. When it comes down to it, it's just a truck."
Plans haven't been made for a truck auction. The car dealership, Paul Miller Ford, has offered to pay all sales tax on the truck after learning about Abram's intentions.
Funeral arrangements for West are pending.
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I am writing to The Star instead of C.W. Gusewelle, because I want my writing read and not thrown into the trash "at warp speed" (12/14, Local, "New litter preserves the Rufus pedigree").
My parents bred, raised, showed and sold Pomeranians. My sister bred, raised, showed and sold pups. But that was long ago. Today we fight and speak for those who cannot fight and speak for themselves — the strays, the neglected and abused, the hungry and the sick ones.
To help control the pet population, all cats and dogs should be spayed or neutered. And then, just maybe then, we can begin to rid the world of animal cruelty and abuse.
Too many cats and dogs are born, and there are not enough good homes to care for them. Millions of cats and dogs are euthanized every year. Visit any city's animal control shelter or, better yet, volunteer there for a few days. You will see all breeds of purebred animals waiting to be adopted or euthanized. There are even beagles and Brittanys waiting.
And yes, C.W. Gusewelle, I do have better things to do than talk about your dogs. .
C.G. Spielbusch
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Buckeyes Claim Two Wins in Day One of 2012 OCCC
Sept. 29, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio - On a sunny Saturday fall afternoon in front of a large crowd at Fred Beekman Park, the Ohio State softball team claimed two wins at the 12th-annual Ohio Collegiate Charity Classic. The Buckeyes defeated Akron, 5-3, in game one before downing Dayton, 2-1, in game two. Ohio State fell, 4-2, in game three against Ohio.
The Ohio Collegiate Charity Classic is an event that has grown into one of the biggest fundraisers for Breast Cancer Awareness in Central Ohio, raising more than $161,000 in the past 11 years.
"A special thank you to all the high school coaches, officials and teams that donated their time and efforts to make today possible," said Kelly Kovach Schoenly, who served as the event's host for the first time as head coach of the Buckeyes. "We could not do it without everyone's help."
"I was pleasantly surprised with the performance of Alex DiDomenico," Schoenly said. "She was a much needed spark and showed solid composure in our second game. Our offensive lineup showed signs of speed and power. Playing three games in one day gave us opportunities to see different combinations. We are not quite where we want to be, but the energy and commitment is there and we will get there."
Game One: Akron 3, Ohio State 5
Down 3-0, the Ohio State offense notched a four-run second inning on four unearned runs vs. the Zips. After sophomore Olivia O'Reilly reached base following an Akron fielding error, senior right fielder Brittany Mills posted the team's first run on a fielder's choice, allowing pinch runner Amanda Abbruzzese to cross the plate. Picket then blasted a line drive to right field to cut the deficit to, 3-2, scoring sophomore Caitlin Conrad, who reached base on a single down the left field line. Watkins then gave the squad a 4-3 lead after she rocketed a double down the right field line, plating Mills and Pickett.
Ohio State plated its fifth and final run in the bottom of the fourth when Mills sent a sacrifice fly to right field to score Prantl from third base, who lead off the inning with a triple to deep center field.
O'Reilly, a native of Sylvania, Ohio, struck out nine Akron batters, while stranding 10 base runners in five innings of work.
The Buckeye defense held strong in the late innings of the contest. In the top of the fifth after Akron got their lead-off hitter to third base, sophomore shortstop Maddy McIntyre came up firing to home plate on a groundball to claim the second out of the inning and keep the score 5-3 in favor of the Buckeyes. Junior catcher Melissa Rennie was able to get the tag down before the runner could touch home for the putout.
Redshirt junior pitcher Melanie Nichols claimed the save, throwing the final two innings and allowing no runs and no hits. Overall, the Buckeyes posted nine hits vs. the Zips.
Game Two: Ohio State 2, Dayton 1
The Buckeyes jumped out to a 1-0 lead after junior Evelyn Carrillo crushed a single to right center, scoring Pickett in the top of the first. Watkins put Pickett in scoring position after putting down an infield bunt single.
In the bottom half, the Flyers rebounded to tie it, 1-1, following an RBI single to left field. However, DiDomenico stayed focus in the circle and ended the Dayton rally with back-to-back strikeouts. DiDomenico was strong from the beginning of the exhibition, claiming eight strikeouts against 11 batters faced.
After the next two innings went scoreless, the Buckeyes took a 2-1 lead after some timely hitting by the OSU bats. Junior Leesa Gresham lead-off the inning with a double to deep left field and was then pinch ran for by senior Alyson Mott. After the Flyers claimed back-to-back outs, junior Melaina Saalfeld came through in the clutch with a two-out RBI single up the middle, scoring Mott, to make it 2-1.
DiDomenico continued to keep the Dayton hitters off balance as the game went on, allowing no hits with two strikeouts in the final three innings in the circle. She finished off her great performance with 11 strikeouts, limiting the Flyers to one hit and one run.
Ohio State claimed the victory on a nice 5-4-3 double-play turn by Gresham and Pickett.


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Brutus Buckeye Timeline
November 13 - Because of weight and size, the original model, only two weeks old at this point, was replaced by a 22 lb. fiberglass shell that included big furry eyebrows. The rest of the features remained the same. This new nut made its debut at the OSU vs. Iowa game, which was also Dad's Day at Ohio State.
November 18 - The Ohio State mascot finally receives a name! A campus wide contest to determine the name for the new born nut was held and judges announced that the winning entry was "Brutus Buckeye," submitted by Kerry Reed.
December - The responsibility of caring for Brutus was turned over to "Block O," a student spirit organization.
Spring - The cheerleaders select a member of their squad to perform as Brutus.
September - A new version of the mascot costume appeared first at an away game vs. Michigan State, and then at a home match against Penn State. Students, alumni, and fans did not like the small head that rested on the shoulders of a human. The size was not the problem, however. Due to the squinting eye and vicious sneer that replaced the once-friendly appearing nut, the university banished the new persona, and Ohio State's huge fiberglass friend was resurrected.
September - The first female performer, Sandy Foreman, dons the Brutus gear in one of the most difficult seasons ever: she was the first to bear the burden of the new 80 lb. costume!
September - Brutus starts this season in a new costume. The large head resting on the shoulders of a person had a friendly appearance, and was generally welcomed at Ohio Stadium. The change was needed because the older version was too heavy for the performing person.
October 30 - Now old enough to drive a car, Brutus looked back on a fun, but not always easy sixteen years of life. Nut-napped or lost a half a dozen times, left our hero thankful he still looked so good!


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Originally a religious holiday to honor St. Patrick, who introduced Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century, St. Patrick's Day has evolved into a celebration for all things Irish. The world's first St. Patrick's Day parade occurred on March 17, 1762, in New York City, featuring Irish soldiers serving in the English military. This parade became an annual event, with President Truman attending in 1948. Congress proclaimed March as Irish-American Heritage Month in 1995, and the President issues a proclamation commemorating the occasion each year.
Population Distribution
34.7 million
Number of U.S. residents who claimed Irish ancestry in 2010. This number was more than seven times the population of Ireland itself (4.58 million). Irish was the nation's second most frequently reported ancestry, trailing only German.
Sources: 2010 American Community Survey
Ireland Central Statistics Office
Number of Irish-born naturalized U.S. residents in 2010.
Source: 2010 American Community Survey
Percent of New York state residents who were of Irish ancestry in 2010. This compares with a rate of 11.2 percent for the nation as a whole.
Source: 2010 American Community Survey
39.2 years old
Median age of those who claim Irish ancestry is higher than U.S. residents as a whole
(37.2 years).
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Escobar Has Power Surge In AFL
Diminutive shortstop Eduardo Escobar is no longer a blip on the fringes of the White Sox's radar.
Diminutive shortstop Eduardo Escobar is no longer a blip on the fringes of the White Sox's radar.
White Sox lefthander Charlie Leesman is learning all about highs and lows in his second full season as a pro.
Anthony Carter made an impression at the Pan Am Qualifying Tournament, where the White Sox righthander shut down Cuba's best hitters.
Brent Morel is trying not to get too far ahead of himself. But his September audition with the White Sox could lead to a spot on the 2011 team. Morel, a third baseman from Cal Poly taken in the third round of the 2008 draft, figures to receive strong consideration from the White Sox for a position that rotated between Mark Teahen, Omar Vizquel and Dayan Viciedo before Morel arrived in September.
Phil Rogers selects end-of-season award winners for the White Sox system, selecting the Best Player, Best Pitcher and a player to keep an eye on.
Lefthander Chris Sale didn't face a lot of big-reputation hitters at Florida Gulf Coast, where the Atlantic Sun Conference opponents included Mercer, East Tennessee State, Stetson and Lipscomb.
The trade of Daniel Hudson leaves 2010 first-round lefthander Chris Sale, 25-year-old righthander Lucas Harrell and 27-year-old righthander Carlos Torres as the top pitching options in the White Sox farm system at or near the big league level.
It shouldn't be surprising that Eduardo Escobar is advancing quickly through the White Sox system. It is encouraging, however, as it demonstrates that he has made some improvements at the plate.
Daniel Hudson named best player, Brandon Short earns biggest leap forward and C.J. Retherford tabbed biggest disappointment.
The White Sox believe lefthander Chris Sale, whom they selected at No. 13, can advance quickly through the system.
Second baseman Drew Garcia must know that it won't be easy to get to the big leagues. He's a third-generation player, working to complete a climb that his father and grandfather couldn't quite finish as players.
White Sox outfielders Brandon Short and Justin Greene have been early standouts for high Class A Winston-Salem.
Righthander Daniel Hudson, a mystery man as he hurtled upward through the White Sox farm system a year ago, has become a security blanket for Ozzie Guillen.
Donny Lucy got a taste of big league baseball in 2007 but must have wondered if he would make it back. He did in an unexpected way, getting the call to open 2010 in Chicago when veteran Ramon Castro was placed on the disabled list.
After showcasing promising raw talent in big league camp, Jared Mitchell's season ended when he made a diving catch.
Righthander Jeff Marquez knew something wasn't quite right with his elbow last year.
As a headliner in a major offseason trade, Tyler Flowers generated a lot of headlines before his first trip to White Sox camp. He returns as more of a known quantity in 2010, with the Sox intent on polishing a few rough edges before considering him for Ozzie Guillen's roster.
While Chris Marrero made a name for himself as a first-round pick for the Nationals, older brother Christian is emerging as an intriguing prospect for the White Sox.
Will too much winter ball keep Ozzie Guillen from seeing all that Clevelan Santeliz has to offer this spring?
Tyler Flowers is in line to take over at catcher when A.J. Pierzynski is no longer a member of the White Sox. But he can't settle. Flowers will have competition in the near future.


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It's where the Dairy Maid was and now the building has a mast on it.
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NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah — Lewis Bus Group has opened a new facility that is three times larger than its previous location.
The full-service Thomas Built Buses dealer held a grand opening with customers and staff on Thursday.
The new facility, located at 1009 Recreation Way in North Salt Lake, offers expanded services to customers in Wyoming and Utah. It includes six service bays, a wash bay, a parts sales and storage department, sales and administrative offices, and a training/conference room that is available for use by customers and their staff.
"This new location is a testament to the strength and success of Thomas Built Buses and Lewis Bus Group," said Kelley Platt, president and CEO of Thomas Built Buses. "Lewis Bus Group's new facility will be instrumental to our combined growth, as it will help us to better serve our customers in Wyoming and Utah with added services and offerings."
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WANTED: One highly motivated, business-savvy, environmentally minded, entrepreneurial self-starter, looking to have a potentially worldchanging impact on how business gets done from a sustainability perspective. Must be willing to move to a small town in northwestern Arkansas. Inquire within.
That's my take on a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity (PDF) for the right person: Working with one of the leading environmental groups to transform the way Wal-Mart does business, from how it sources its products to how it runs its stores -- and just about everything else.
Rob Katz wrote about this opportunity a few months back when Wal-Mart's door first opened. Problem is, finding that "right person" has turned out to be more than a little challenging, according to Environmental Defense, the group seeking to fill the position. It's not that there aren't business-savvy environmentalists or environmentally-savvy business types out there. And there are boatloads of nimble, entrepreneurial souls. And maybe even a few folks interested in moving to Bentonville, Arkansas (population: 28,621), where Wal-Mart is based.
It's just that there hasn't yet been a candidate who fits all of those criteria.
Maybe you?
The job, formally titled "Corporate Partnerships Project Manager - Wal-Mart," symbolizes a sea change in environmental activism. Environmental Defense is positioning someone in Bentonville -- not to confront or watchdog Wal-Mart, but to work with the company as a kind of sustainability consultant.
Suffice to say, this represents a sea change for Wal-Mart, too. For years, the retail giant stonewalled and fought its critics on a wide range of issues. It's still doing that in some instances, but it also has invited dozens of activists, academics, and advisors inside to help the company forge a more sustainable path.
Wal-Mart engaged Environmental Defense about a year ago, when the company embarked on a new environmental initiative. Lee Scott, Wal-Mart's CEO, had just given a speech on "twenty-first century leadership" (download - PDF), where he acknowledged that "As one of the largest companies in the world, with an expanding global presence, environmental problems are OUR problems." He set forth three ambitious environmental goals: that Wal-Mart be supplied 100% by renewable energy, that it create "zero waste," and that it sell products "that sustain our resources and environment."
Soon thereafter, Wal-Mart began gathering activists and others in Bentonville for a series of meetings that led to formation of more than a dozen "sustainable value networks," each headed by a Wal-Mart manager and consisting of company associates, environmentalists, suppliers, and some outside consultants. There are now fifteen networks focusing on everything from climate to cotton to toxics to toys. Out of those sustainable value networks have come some of Wal-Mart's first wave of green commitments: a no-idle policy for trucks at its distribution centers, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 100,000 tons a year; a commitment to, within the next five years, purchase 100% of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish for the North American market from Marine Stewardship Council certified fisheries; a plan announced in September to measure its 60,000 worldwide suppliers on their ability to develop packaging and conserve natural resources; and last week's pledge to sell 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs by the end of 2007.
"Wal-Mart has the potential to create market value in the form of new consumer products and new markets for suppliers that are willing to innovate," says Gwen Ruta, director of corporate partnerships for Environmental Defense. "Its long-term goals are very aggressive."
The new hire will be planted in Bentonville, near the belly of the beast, better able to interact with what Ruta describes as the company's frenetic pace of change. "To work effectively with Wal-Mart, you've got to be able to keep up with them," she told me. "And you've got to be able to be creative along with them. There's almost nothing they won't explore, but you also have to be able to challenge them with aggressive goals."
The trick, she says, is to help Wal-Mart develop solutions that create both environmental and business benefits. "They're smart and creative, so when you start talking with them about, say, how to create carbon offsets in their supply chain, they get really excited about that. So there's a huge amount of opportunity."
But finding someone who can play effectively in that rarefied air has turned out to be more challenging than Ruta and her team ever expected. The right person, she says, will need two key skill sets: "They will need to have a fairly broad understanding of a range of environmental issues -- not necessarily deep expertise, but be more of an environmental generalist. But also be able to operate in a corporate environment. And they've got to be able to put things in terms that make sense to Wal-Mart as a company -- to translate environmental goals into good business strategy."
The ideal candidate, she adds, is someone who would never have imagined moving to Arkansas, but who understands the potential for this job to influence a $315 billion retail behemoth and its 60,000 suppliers -- arguably, to have as much direct environmental impact as any activist or consultant ever could.
Perhaps it will be someone like Andy Ruben, who moved to Bentonville from Chicago in 2000 to become Wal-Mart's vice president for corporate strategy and sustainability. "If you had asked me or my wife six years ago, 'List the 50 most likely cities you can see yourself in,' Northwest Arkansas would not have made the list," Ruben told me last week. But now that he's rooted in Bentonville, he has no plans of leaving. "Life here has been, in one word, easy. What makes it a no-brainier for me these days is the opportunity around sustainability for Wal-Mart. The opportunities are meaningful and absolutely endless."
Although I consider myself a pragmatic environmentalist, transforming Wal-Mart is indeed a challenging idea. In my fondest dreams I can perhaps envision a future Wal-Mart selling 100% green products and having a large positive impact in getting the world to create them. I can imagine them showing other corporations how to reduce their footprints, too. I can imagine enormous good coming from their ability to get green products into the hands of consumers. If they can do all that and still make money, fine. But even if they succeed at that, the whole rest of their business model will still have to go.
That model includes, obviously, importing their goods via fossil fuel from far across the earth (70% from China, according to Worlchanging). It includes placing their stores outside of--even purposely between--small towns, thereby increasing car use, and creating retail ghost towns all across America where real (and efficient) towns used to be. It includes stretching the sprawl ever further into prime farmland, thereby encouraging more sprawl and subdivision in between. (I'll skip the cultural and corporate imperialism stuff for now.) Even from a fairly narrowly green perspective, that entire side of the business model will have to go. Period. Even with everyone driving electric cars in some happy renewable future that part will still a problem, one that no green manager will ever solve. Or am I missing something?


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I was getting in the car to head over to Ryan's house. Ryan is my boyfriend of 5 months. We met at a football game. I tried and as the usual gentleman, he helped me up and we hit it off. We are a risky couple. Ryan is a jock and I'm....... well... I'm kind of an outsider. Or atleast to the populars. Since I'm dating the quarterback though, all the preps try and talk to me. I ignore them. Ryan is nice and sweet, but he's a partier and a football player. He is the cute type that shops at aeropostale and abercrombie and hollister, wears khaki beachy shorts, flat short hair, and loves to party. Me? I'm more of the outsider who wears darker colors, skinny jeans, straight hair, and doesn't drink or smoke. He has this silky, short, dark ash blonde hair that he cuts regularly. My hair on the other hand is soft, layered, half way down my arms, and dark (practically black) brown hair. So yeah. You could consider me a scene kid or an emo kid. But, I'm more of the preppy type of scene kids. Not those crazy ones with eyeliner practically packaged over their whole face. I'm the one that loves Never Shout Never and hates wearing all black, but doesn't mind the darkness. The only thing that I hate about this relationship is Ryan doesn't act like a boyfriend.
My best friend in the whole wide world, Jared Gallaway, acts more like a boyfriend than Ryan does. But I'd never date Jared. I mean, hello, he's Jared. Jared and I are practically twins. He is basically a more preppy scene boy. He's almost like a more scene kid/emo kid version of Christofer Drew Ingle, lead singer of Never Shout Never. He shops at hot topic, wears, skinny jeans alot (not the super tight gay ones that posers wear), and also doesn't drink or smoke. Without Jared, life would have no meaning. Life would suck. My life would be over. If we hadn't met that one day at the concert venue, I don't where I'd be.
I started the car and drove to Ryan's.
When I got there, I sat outside for 20 minutes waiting for him to get out of the freakin' shower. Like what the heck, keep your girlfriend outside waiting for you to finish ? This was stupid. I got back into my little black vintage mustang convertible right when Ryan came out.
"Where are you going? I thought you wanted to hang." He said.
"Whatever. You took too long. I told Jared I'd go to the beach with him later." I replied.
"Can't my girlfriend spend time with her boyfriend? Please?" He pleaded.
"Fine. Let's watch a scary movie." I said with a smile. I got out of the car and went inside with him.
As we were watching Saw, Ryan tried to make a move and make out with me.
"Stop, Ryan. I'm trying to watch this." I said pushing him away. He tried kissing my neck. As usual, Ryan was in the mood while I was not.
I looked down at my cellphone. I had a text from Jared that said: Almost ready to go? Where are you?
"I have to leave, Ry." I said getting up.
"Why? You just got here." He said.
"I've been here for an hour and half and I have plans." I replied, walking out the door. Sometimes I felt as if I put too much pressure on Ryan. Like he was trying to make it work, but I wasn't letting him because I was being stingy. He followed me to my car door.
"Will you come back later?" He asked sincerely in the cutest voice.
I couldn't help, but smile, "Come through my window tonight. My aunt won't be home all summer."
"Okay. I love you." He said giving me a hug and a kiss on the mouth. I wrapped my arms around his strong neck and held on.
"I love you too." I got in my car and drove to Jared's. Or as I like to call it, God's palace. Not only is Jared uh-mazing, but he has everything at his house. It was summer so I felt the nice breeze as I drove off. The sun was close to sunset. I had to race to Jared's so we could have time to play in the ocean like five year olds. One thing that was going to make this summer epic was the fact that my aunt wouldn't be here. She is basically my legal guardian, but she always travels so I basically live alone. I live with my aunt because my parents died. When I was about 12, they died in a car crash. It was everywhere on the news. I could see it now:
Gary and Lillian Rosoe were pronounced dead on the scene this morning at the intersection of Jack Road and Lathern Boulevard. 25 fatally injured, yet only two dead. There will be a memorium at the intersection tonight at 6 for the Rosoe couple.
Just thinking about the little segment in the boring, blank newspaper gave me a tear. My aunt picked up a journalist job when I was 15. So I've been alone in that white beach house for 2 years. Though she visits every month for two or three weeks, I still feel alone 24/7. But I met Jared, so I haven't felt so alone. Ever since the accident, its like the world became colder. Darker. More real. Like nobody had a heart anymore. So, I started cutting myself. Jared helped me stop that, too. We actually met in a recovery center when we were only 13. We stayed connected for two years and then, he moved because of family issues and turns out he moved to my neighborhood. Bestest of friends ever since. Now that it was summer, we'd have a real blast. Even if that meant leaving this dump. We lived where all these rich folk live. Both him and I do have more money than the average American, but not like these rich, fancy snobs in this town. The only good thing about California was the beach and the food. Those are the only reasons Jared and I stayed.
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