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The 2014 JBF Awards: Highlight Reel
A final bit of housekeeping for the 2014 James Beard Awards:
We want to thank everyone, from our staff and event planners to reception chefs and sponsors, who helped to make last week's festivities such a huge success. And, of course, a huge congrats to all of the winners and nominees!
Here's a highlight reel from the amazing team at Linton Media. You can see more of their work on our YouTube channel.
Watch a complete rebroadcast of last Monday's ceremony here.
2014 JBF Publication of the Year: Civil Eats
What began as a blog for a San Francisco–based event called Slow Food Nation has grown into a highly respected source of news and commentary about the state of our food system. Civil Eats was founded in early 2009 by publishing professionals Naomi Starkman and Paula Crossfield as a digital publication with a stable of more than 100 contributors and a mission to cover the evolving food landscape. And cover it they have: Civil Eats reports from the industrial tomato fields of Immokalee, Florida, to the kitchen garden at San Quentin prison; from mobile slaughterhouses to the manure lagoons of factory farms.
Among food journalists, Civil Eats has become a trusted primary source for complicated and timely food policy news, such as evaluating the recent Farm Bill and the nonessential use of antibiotics in livestock.
For more than four years, everyone involved with Civil Eats worked without pay—a model that, although admirable, was hardly sustainable. Last... Read more >
The 2014 James Beard Award Winners!
Congratulations to all the 2014 James Beard Award winners! See the complete list.
Winner Recap!
Outstanding Restaurateur: Barbara Lynch, Barbara Lynch Gruppo (No. 9 Park, Menton, B&G Oysters, and others), Boston
Outstanding Service: The Restaurant at Meadwood , St. Helena, CA
Outstanding Restaurant: The Slanted Door, San Francisco
Outstanding Chef: Nancy Silverton, Pizzeria Mozza, Los Angeles
Winner Recap!
America's Classic: Nick's Italian Café, McMinnville, OR
Outstanding Restaurant Design (75 seats and under): Lawton Stanley Architects for Grace, Chicago
Outstanding Restaurant Design (76 seats and over): Jensen Architects for Shed, Healdsburg, CA
Humanitarian of the Year: Matt Haley, Philanthropist and Restaurateur, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Best New Restaurant: Pêche Seafood Grill, New Orleans
America's Classic: Hansen's Sno-Bliz, New Orleans
Outstanding Pastry Chef: Dominique Ansel, Dominique Ansel Bakery, NYC
2014 America's Classics: Hansen's Sno-Bliz
Hansen's Sno-bliz
4801 Tchoipitoulas Street, New Orleans
Owner: Ashley Hansen
The snowball, one of the city's iconic desserts, was practically invented at Hansen's. Made of shaved-to-order ice, a Hansen's snowball—which the family calls a Sno-Bliz—comes doused in housemade syrups that run an extraordinary gamut of flavors.
Ernest Hansen built one of the first electric ice-shaving machines, receiving a patent from the U.S. government for his creation in 1934. Along with his wife, Mary Hansen, he opened a small shop in 1939. Their granddaughter, Ashley Hansen, runs that shop today and carefully crafts the family syrup recipes, which include blueberry, satsuma, root beer, and the mysterious "cream of nectar."
Like her forebears, Ashley Hansen opens her doors only during the summer. When Hansen's is open, a queue forever spills out its door and snakes back through the stand's small interior, following a... Read more >
2014 Humanitarian of the Year: Matt Haley
This award is given to an individual or organization working in the realm of food who has given selflessly and worked tirelessly to better the lives of others and society at large.
Twenty years ago, a chef at an Alexandria, Virginia, catering company took a chance and hired Matt Haley—an ex-con, recently out of rehab, and a survivor of childhood abuse. "He probably shouldn't have hired me," recalls Haley, "but he was loving, kind, and compassionate and took the time to work with me and teach me. There are so many people along the way, people who didn't turn their back on me. If they had, where would I be today?"
Now the owner of seven restaurants in Delaware Beach resort towns as well as of Plate Catering and a foodservice management company (all under the Matt Haley Companies umbrella brand), chef and restaurateur Haley credits his success to his 23 years of sobriety plus countless helping hands.
As for his JBF Humanitarian Award—in recognition of his local and... Read more >
Winner Recap!
Best Chef: Great Lake: Dave Beran, Next, Chicago
Best Chef: Midwest: Justin Aprahamian, Sanford, Milwaukee
Best Chef: Southeast: Ashley Christensen, Poole's Downtown Diner, Raleigh, NC
Best Chef: South: [TIE] Ryan Prewitt, Pêche Seafood Grill, New Orleans; and Sue Zemanick, Gautreau's, New Orleans
Who's Who Inductees (Part 2 of 2): Barry Estabrook, Paul Kahan, and Sherry Yard
America's Classic: Olneyville New York System, Providence, RI
Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic: Vikram Sunderam, Rasika, Washington, D.C.
Best Chef: New York City: April Bloomfield, The Spotted Pig
2014 America's Classics: Nick's Italian Café
Nick's Italian Café
521 NE 3rd Street, McMinnville, OR
Owners: Nick Peirano, Carmen Peirano, and Eric Ferguson
When Nick Peirano, a third-generation Italian-American, opened a serious Italian restaurant in the farming town of McMinnville in 1977, he had no previous restaurant experience. No matter. His restaurant soon became the place Oregon winemakers hung when there were just a dozen or so. Now there are hundreds, and Nick's is still their clubhouse.
Nick's daughter, Carmen Peirano, and her husband, Eric Ferguson, took over day-to-day operations in 2007. They updated the menu to include wood-fired pizzas and housemade charcuterie. But Nick's Dungeness crab and pine nut lasagna and his pesto-garnished minestrone remain favorites. And you'll find Nick himself shooting pool most nights in the Backroom Bar.
Nick's has forged a marriage of Oregon wine country and Northern Italian cooking that's as... Read more >
2014 America's Classics: Olneyville New York System
Olneyville New York System
20 Plainfield Street, Providence, RI
Owners: Stephanie Stevens Turini and Greg Stevens
Olneyville New York System, despite its name, serves food that is distinctive to Rhode Island. Slathered with mustard, topped with meat sauce, sprinkled with celery salt and onions, and served in a steamed bun, the hot wiener is signature, as are the salt-and-vinegar French fries. The preferred drink is coffee milk, made in Rhode Island by flavoring milk with a sweetened coffee concentrate called coffee syrup.
Olneyville has been a family affair since Anthony Stavrianakos, a Greek immigrant, opened the diner in 1946 with his son, Nicholas. (Nicholas later anglicized the family name to Stevens.) Nicholas's son Peter took over from him. Peter's son Greg started as a dishwasher at age 13. Now he and his sister Stephanie are fourth-generation owners.
Olneyville was once the... Read more >
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April 10, 1999
TEMPE, Ariz. - The No. 15 ranked Arizona State Sun Devil baseball team scored 11 runs in the first three innings en route to a 16-5 victory over the Washington State Cougars in a Pacific-10 Conference game played Saturday afternoon at Packard Stadium in front of 2,489 fans.
The Sun Devils improved its season mark to 31-12 and are off to a 7-4 start in league play. The Cougars have lost nine of its last 11 games and are 17-14 overall, 1-7 in the Pac-10.
The Sun Devils came out of the gates hot scorching WSU for three runs in each of the first two innings. Third baseman Andrew Beinbrink provided the big blow in the first inning with a three-run home run off WSU starter Jamaal Gaines.
In the second Northwest product Willie Bloomquist (Port Orchard, Wash.) added three more runs with his sixth homer of the year giving ASU the 6-0 advantage. Bloomquist, who played for Team USA last summer, finished the day 2-for-5 with five RBIs. ASU extended its lead to 11-0 with a five-run third with each run a result of a Sun Devil extra base hit.
The top three in the ASU lineup (Bloomquist, Jay Sitzman, and Beinbrink) combined to go 6-for-12 with nine RBIs. Catcher Todd Pratt also had an outstanding day at the plate going 3-for-4 with four RBIs.
Despite reaching double digits in hits with 11, the Cougar bats were for the most part silenced by ASU starter Chuck Crumpton. Crumpton improved his season mark to a near-perfect 6-1 giving up nine hits and five runs over six innings. He struck out seven and walked six. Reliever Drew Friedberg pitched three shutout innings to close the game.
Ray Hattenburg (Spokane, Wash.) led the Cougars at the plate notching his 15th multiple-hit game with a 4-for-5 day. The junior utility player connected on two doubles and plated four of WSU's five runs. Hattenburg is now hitting at a .391 (52-133) clip while starting all of WSU's 31 games. Freshman two-way player Tyson Thompson (Bothell, Wash.) pinch hit in the fifth inning and recorded a run-scoring single in his first collegiate at-bat. Steve Gleason (Spokane, Wash.) recorded his second 2-for-4 game of the series.
Gaines (2-3) took the loss for WSU giving up eight earned runs in two and a third innings of work. Matt O'Brien, Les McTavish, Reggie Rivard, and Zach Fisher all saw duty out of the bullpen. Fisher, a freshman from Port Orchard, Wash., pitched impressively giving up one hit in two innings.
An interesting note in the eighth inning, Fisher got his former high school teammate Bloomquist to ground into a double play, with another South Kitsap High School product in WSU catcher Ryan Smith behind the plate.
WSU will try to salvage the final game of the three-game Pac-10 series Sunday with a 1 p.m. game against the Sun Devils. WSU ace Wade Parrish (4-3, 3.29) will square off against ASU's Chad Pennington (6-4,4.64).
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Class 4A-3A regional playoff games dates and times announced
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Class 4A regional playoff game
No. 7 Vandebilt at No. 23 Lessville, Monday at 6 p.m.
Class 3A regional playoff game
No. 9 West Feliciana at No. 8 E.D. White Catholic, Tuesday at 4 p.m.
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The kids and I were driving home from QT (Yes, Todd, i returned the movie!) and we had the following discussion: Rollie: "Mom, what are you going to do when you're dead?" Me: "Um. . what?" Rollie: "Like, are you going to go under a tombstone in the ground. Or are you going to let your family burn your skin,… Read more →
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Bedtime Cheer: Discussions of Aging and Death
I tucked Tiller in the other night, then went into tuck Rollie in. He was reading a book, with it propped on his legs, and with a pillow behind his head. "Night baby," i said. "Night, mama." I kissed him on the head and got a little choked up, thinking about putting him down as a baby, and how much… Read more →
Don't Puppydog It
I have been putting this off. Every day since Pop died, I have thought about the fact that I haven't written about it, and I have put it off another day. It has kept me up at night. Some nights it has almost made me sick. I know that it is normal to have some kind of delayed reaction to… Read more →
Dead Men I Crush On
I've always had a bit of a crush on Lord Byron. (I think this is pretty normal for literature lovers, male AND female,) and so I really enjoyed this short NPR piece on his letters to a friend in the clergy. Who wouldn't be drawn like moth to a flame to a man whom a lover referred to as "Mad,… Read more →
For Roswell, and for Spanky. RIP.
A friend of mine is being buried today. I could not make the funeral and I am sad about that. I know that there are others who couldn't make it either, but that we are all there in thought and, some of us, in prayer. Charles (we all called him "Spanky") was not a close friend, but he was a… Read more →
Best Month EVER!
If you read Dogwood Girl very often, you know my summer has sucked ass, pretty much from the end of May (Dad had heart surgery), into June (Pop went downhill fast and was in hospice), into a fucking awful July (Pop died), and then in August, I had a little cancer scare, which I haven't talked about, but will now.… Read more →
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I cannot believe how fast this summer has gone. It has been a rough one, with Daddy having surgery, and Pop passing away, and Todd working a ton (a good thing) and me worrying about all my family. And now it is almost over. I feel like I got nothing accomplished. I vacillated between worry, and exhaustion from travel, and… Read more →
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I tossed my hat in his face. He spit. I jumped him. Then I killed him for getting away on me. I skinned him and got his hide.
I've seen the mother rattler when she was scared somebody was coming for her young. She opened her mouth and the little ones ran into her mouth. That's the way she protected them. I let her alone.
Another time I came on a nest of thirty-eight rattlers. A guard we called Scarepants, he took out his pistol and killed them out.
Whenever a snake came into the prison they just matter-of-fact called on me and said, "Hey, Snake Eye, one of your friends under the table there. Take him out."
WARDEN FRANK KELLY called me into his office one day and asked, "Who do you get mail from, white or colored?"
"To tell you the truth, Warden, I get mail from both sides, white and colored."
"That's what I thought. We got a letter from a white gal here. Says her name is Millie Almund. There's her picture. She's in a swimming suit. She's in a goddamned pair of shorts and she sends you a picture of herself that way!"
"I can't help that, boss, if she takes a picture of herself and sends it to me."
"No, you can't help it, but goddamnit, we can help it. You ain't getting no more mail, nigger. We cutting out your mail. Any time a white gal sending you mail like that you ain't getting it. We find you writing to white women, you catch it from us too. Hear?"
"I hear."
I was lucky not to get lynched then and there, I guess. Down there, the way they figured, a black man and a white woman fifteen hundred miles away was still too close. Millie Almund was a New York girl who wrote to me very often.
With a few I had been talking back and forth for years by letter. A Catholic woman, Mrs. Lillian McCracken, she lived at Lake


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The Justice Bang by lordmesaWatch
©2012-2016 lordmesa
Thought it would be fun to do the Big Bang as their costumed counterparts!!!
Ooh, nice! I especially love Penny as Wonder Woman.
Lol, a teeny tiny Dark Night, A lactose and tolerant Green Lantern, A Blond Wonder Woman, an (I Think) Asian Aquaman, and a Skinny Flash
Raj: Aquaman sucks
b-but.. wh-where is superman? where is ZACH
wow this would be sooo cool
Too bad Zack couldn't be in the picture, I think he would be a kind of a nice recurring character for the show
I saw that episode a few nights ago!
This is great
This is great
just finish watching that episode, XDD awesome job.
thats so cool and you did a great job with all of them.
aquaman sucks...
lol this is well good!!!!
Justice league! GO!
loved this episode x3
loved this episode x3
Great tribute to a great show
I just re-watched this episode today!
No Zach as Superman? I love the picture regardless.
Thanks folks for the kind words... I'm glad you enjoy the piece... Of all the characters, Bat-Wolowitz cracks me up the most every time I look at him...
The only Justice League with a real girl.
I think Howard and Raj need to be switched, especially since Raj is the filthy rich one.
Exllcent work
I really love how you draw the characters.


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By Jordan Cohen
State Sen. Capri Cafaro of Liberty, D-32nd, has introduced a bill requiring school superintendents and children services agencies to access a child-abuse database and possibly intervene before permitting a student to be either homeschooled or enrolled in a community Internet school.
Cafaro said she drafted the legislation in the wake of the beating death last January of 14-year-old Teddy Foltz of Struthers.
"It's called Teddy's Law, a joint effort to ensure we improve the system to protect children," Cafaro said during a Monday news conference.
The child died after a beating suffered at the hands of Zaryl Bush, who was living with the child's mother, Shain Widdersheim. Authorities said the boy supposedly was being schooled at home to cover up the incidents of abuse. The couple later was convicted and sentenced to long prison terms.
"[Teddy] may have been pulled out [of public school] to enhance his isolation," Cafaro said. "My objective is to create reasonable regulations to protect these children."
Cafaro said her legislation would establish links between children services agencies and the educational system and would require both to determine if a parent, caregiver or guardian's name appears on a statewide child abuse database when a homeschool application is made.
If it does, the senator's bill would require children services to launch an intervention program including home visitation before granting approval, and would authorize superintendents to delay admission until the investigation is completed.
"The superintendent [can] deny admission if those involved refuse to participate in an intervention program," Cafaro said.
The child's father, Shawn Tedesco of Sharon, Pa., and grandparents Sara and Paul Foltz of Youngstown appeared with Cafaro to support her legislation. Tedesco wore a blue T-shirt with "Fight for Teddy's Law" on the front.
"The ongoing abuse, torture and murder of my son and the murders of other innocent children from abuse is horrific," Tedesco said. "We at Teddy's Law are their voices."
Cafaro said she is not trying to be "punitive" against parents or guardians wishing to educate their children outside the public school system and said she is "sensitive" to their concerns.
"They deserve to be heard, [but] if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be concerned about this," Cafaro said.
The legislator declined to speculate about opposition to her bill, which is in the early stages of legislation and is assigned to a committee. Tedesco and the Foltz family said they plan to keep speaking out while the bill moves through the legislative process.
"Child abuse is the lowest example of human ... behavior," Tedesco said.
Perhaps she should have all parents screened by children's services. Teddy was in the public school system and the abuse was reported. It wasn't until after the abuse was reported by teachers that the children were removed from school. This is just blatant discrimination against home-schoolers.
Where was the father when his son was being beaten to death?
Maybe they should require legislation for children that have adults other than their biological parents living with them.
There are plenty of ways to throw blame around but pinning it all on homeschooling is ridiculous.
This ridiculous piece of legislation does nothing but violate our parental rights.
Instead of introducing a bill that tramples the rights of homeschoolers, state Senator Cafaro should put her efforts into determining why the current laws already on the books were not followed. Hubbard reported the abuse. Why was no further action taken?
Hopefully this misguided bill will die a quick death.
YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT? A family intent on hiding abuse can do so multiple ways! Move to a new district w/o withdrawing their child from the old district and never enroll them in the new district. MovE into the country and become basically, invisible. Put a new address, within the child's home school district (so they continue to attend the same school) with the school on their child's records. (The address can exist or not...the school isn't going to check because the child isn't moving out if the district or even changing home schools.)
This new law wouldn't protect more children than the existing laws, appropriately enforced, should protect. I have to question whether that is even the intent. Is this a backdoor attempt to run roughshod over the rights of parents? Or possibly a way of looking like a knight in shining armour/defender of children to constituents at election time.
I have to hope this bill, regardless of intent, never makes it out of committee.
I really don't know what the rage is about. Obviously this poor kid fell through the cracks and the system failed. There were some signs that were reported, and checked on, but the evidence apparently wasn't enough and the kid was too afraid to speak up when police investigated. I think the more safeguards in place to prevent something like this from happening again, the better. Don't take it as an attack on homeschoolers. I'm sure that 99% of homeschoolers are loving, respectable people. Like the artical read, if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't worry about it. I don't know much about how home schooling works, maybe one of you guys can answer me this. What does a parent need to do to home school? Is there an application process, background check, does anyone check to see if the home is a suitable place to learn, etc....? I don't want nasty responses, I just think that those of you who home school are taking it too personal. I believe that the intention of this bill is for the best interest of kids.
The "rage" is due to the fact that this bill infringes upon our parental rights. A government agency should not have the right to dictate how I choose to educate my children.
The current homeschooling laws in Ohio require us to submit documentation to the officials at the public school on a yearly basis. However, homeschooling parents are not asking the public school to grant us permission to homeschool. By law, homeschooling parents are notifying the public school that are children will be homeschooled.
This bill would give the state the power to determine whether a family could homeschool.
I am all for protecting children from abuse. However, nothing in this bill will prevent children from being abused.
Rather than rewriting the homeschooling laws, which are working very well in this state, Senator Cafaro should devote her time to launching a full scale investigation into determining which government agency failed to follow the child abuse laws that are already on the books in Ohio.
What happened to Teddy was an awful thing and those who perpetrated it are being punished as the law allows.
Should we do what we can to prevent such things from happening again? Absolutely. However, let's be clear: When enacting legislation, good intentions do NOT matter - the implications do.
This article is misleading. The bill does NOT conduct a search of a statewide child abuse database AND THEN require children services to launch an intervention program including home visitation before granting approval if it turns something up. It requires FIRST an interview with child services for the parent AND the child, THEN a database search. IT REQUIRES BOTH.
People object to this bill because it views those who want to either teach their children or have them participate in online school as though they are guilty of child abuse. They are guilty until proven innocent.
The bill actually states:
"Not later than five business days after a public children services agency receives a notification under section 3314.063 or 3321.042 of the Revised Code, the agency shall do the following:
(A) Conduct an in-person meeting with the person who submitted an application for a child's admission to an internet- or computer-based community school or who made the request for a child to be excused from attendance at school for instruction at home;
(B) Conduct an in-person meeting with the child for whom an application for admission to an internet- or computer-based community school was submitted or with the child for whom the request to be excused was made, separate from the meeting required under division (A) of this section;
(C) Access or enter the statewide automated child welfare information system, established and maintained under section 5101.13 of the Revised Code, to determine whether any of the following are the subject of an investigation that has been documented in the system:
(1) The person who submitted an application for a child's admission to an internet- or computer-based community school or who made the request for a child to be excused from attendance at school;
(2) The child for whom an application for admission to an internet- or computer-based community school was submitted or the child for whom the request to be excused from attendance at school was made;
(3) Any other person who resides with the child for whom an application was made for admission to an internet- or computer-based community school or with the child for whom the request to be excused from attendance at school was made."
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@ shuttlebus, nobody is dictating how you are educating your children. You can still homeschool if you choose to, as long as you aren't registered as an abuser. What if the parents live in a house with a meth lab in it, or deplorable conditions? I see it as a good idea to make sure that if the child is going to be homeschooled, then at least the environment in which they are being taught is a safe one.
Dontbeafool, have you read the proposed bill? The media is not presenting this bill accurately. Please take the time to read the actual bill. This bill violates the 4th amendment.
Nobody is dictating how I am educating my children today, but if this bill passes, the state will have the power to dictate how I educate my kids.
If a child lives in a house with a meth lab or deplorable conditions, there are laws on the books to address these parenting issues.
Ironically, Teddy was not even homeschooled. The state of Ohio already regulates its homeschooling population. It is a crime that homeschoolers are even being dragged into this debate.
reading from post 8, you notify the proper people that you are inrolling your child in a computer based school, or home school. Within 5 days the agency would meet with the person who applied, and the child. And then they run you, the child, and anyone else who resides at the home through the database to make sure their were no prior abuse problems. Then you educate your child as you want. It doesn't seem all that intrusive or inconvenient. In fact what if a single mom has her new boyfriend move in? She thinks she knows him, but do you really know somebody? What if a check on the boyfriend reveals some secrets in his past that could put the child in danger. To me, this is just one more screening process that could help a kid out. Nothing will totally prevent a child from being abused, but the more safeguards in place the better.
dontbeafool, Let's look at this a different way. You have a child who is not involved in any activities, and comes straight home after school. In order for your child to be in the same house as you, under your authority, the government must run a background check on you and make sure your home is safe. Kids spend time in their own homes with their families every day, no matter where they go to school. Why should only home-schooled kids be afforded these greater safeguards?
Commenting on Post 11: You simply are not understanding this bill. The government worker would meet with you and then your child and then this government worker would get to decide if homeschooling was in the best interest of the child. I don't want the government worker having the final say in how I educate my kids. This bill does exactly that.
It is not even determining how you can educate them, but if you are even permitted to educate them. Public education is a service provided by the government, not a requirement.


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well, were on a roll this year with pool tables. this is our third one in the last four months. as you can see in photo 7, we actually had two going in the shop at the same time. our son will, (the banjo maker), pretty much built and installed this one on his own. i helped carry in the slates, but in most of this installation, since he had done all the work on it, i was the helper, not the guy in charge. it was a smooth installation, at a new house about two hours from the shop, and the floor was precisely and completely, 100% level. i don't believe i have ever had that happen before. bolt the frame together, add the slate support frame, put the straightedge and four foot level on it and bingo, perfect in all directions. on a polished concrete floor no less. master concrete folks, or 'win the lottery' type coincidence. again, we used the fine woodworking article by paul bowman from 1989 as our guide. i really should call that guy and thank him. for more photos and comments about the table in process, there are two posts on my dorset custom furniture blog. you can get to the first post from a link in that post. rack 'em up.
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- Col. Donald E. Gentry relinquished command of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy in ceremonies June 29.
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When Col. Donald E. Gentry came to the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy in July 2007 to become the 18th commandant, he had no earthly idea as to what the academy was all about, nor did he know what his job would entail. He initially thought to himself, "how nice it would be to hand out diplomas to senior noncommissioned officers." He said it was an honor to be selected to come to the academy and command the pinnacle of the Noncommissioned Officer Education System; to give back to the Corps which had given him so much over the years.
"I wouldn't have made 28 years [in the Army] without great NCOs. There is no doubt that NCOs had shaped me; from [Soldiers like] my first platoon sergeant and my first section chief - Staff Sgt. Lick, 1st Sgt. Romero - who brought me in, trained me and showed me what an officer should do and what they needed an officer to do for them so that they could accomplish their mission," Gentry said. "Then to be able to give back - I was very excited about getting to come to do this."
Once here, Gentry quickly realized the relevancy and importance of the Academy to the Army and began establishing his vision and mission, one that would not only cement USASMA in the minds and hearts of those who would listen, but would also start a path of transformation from a an institution focused on training to one focused on education.
"I really didn't have a mission coming here. I was told you are going to be the sergeants major academy commandant. The only guidance I received at the time was make sure we maintain our international student program, and make sure the sergeant major course stays nine months," Gentry said. "So the first thing I wanted to do was make sure more people knew about USASMA; that it is important that people understand everything that goes on here. So I worked very hard to make it visible to the Army, to make the academy, its role in NCOES, visible."
Besides getting USASMA out front in the hearts and minds of the Army, Gentry also set his sights on transforming the academy from an institution focused on training doctrine, to one that educates Soldiers to become adaptive, creative and agile thinkers.
"We looked very hard at what we were teaching and how we were educating our NCOs and we came to the agreement that we just weren't on the cutting edge; we had not changed with the Army; that much of what we were still teaching was dated; our doctrine was dated," he said. "So we were still teaching doctrine and as FM 3-0 came out, our doctrine changed, and as we looked at how the Army was progressing and understanding what NCOs are doing in combat today, we realized that we needed to transform from a military organization to an academic institution. We needed to begin the process of educating NCOs from sergeant to sergeant major and help them learn how to become critical thinkers, creative thinkers, adaptive and agile leaders and teach them how to think not what to think."
In that realization came a redesign of the Sergeants Major Course, increasing the seats and frequency of the Nonresident Sergeants Major Course, taking BNCOC common core and making it a distance learning objective, developing and implementing structured self development courses, reorganizing the staff and faculty of USASMA to reflect an academic institution, improving technology based instruction and more.
"We began the reorganization of the academy to an academic institution, and we have reset every one of our programs of instruction to include education," he said. "What I feel is our biggest accomplishment at the academy, is bringing about a sense of change; understanding that change is necessary to remain relevant in the world; and the ownership, of this, the true internalization of what we do by the staff and faculty of the academy. That it is more than just teaching these courses; what we do expands beyond that."
During his tenure as the commandant, Gentry helped to establish the International Military Student hall of Fame, dedicated the Sergeants Major Chapel, and kicked off the first International Strength in Diversity Expo. He also saw 769 Soldiers frocked to sergeant major and command sergeant major, 1,310 Sergeants Major Course, 1,219 Sergeants Major Nonresident Course, 706 Battlestaff NCO Course, 1,686 SNCOC VTT, 538 First Sergeant Course, 1,754 FSC VTT, 17,349 Basic NCO Course VTT, and 209 Senior Leader Development Course students graduate.
His last official business, to hand over the command of the academy to the first enlisted Soldier to be awarded that post - Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Chandler.
"Command Sgt. Maj. Ray Chandler has run this academy. I have had the privilege of commanding it, but he has been the catalyst in most of this, and if there is anybody in this Army that can take the academy to the next level it is he. I will tell you in transition the sergeant major [whom] I have met; the Soldier, the single Soldier I have ever met that is the most capable and ready to take this mission is Command Sgt. Maj. Ray Chandler. He has the breadth of experience, broad and different assignments, great leadership style, very articulate, understands the complexities of budget, the TRADOC educational system; there is nobody I would rather turn this academy over to," Gentry said. "Handing the academy over to a command sergeant major is evident of just how far NCOs have come in the Army. My father was the commandant of an NCO academy when he was a captain at Fort Sill Oklahoma, and we changed that back some years ago where those organization that were executing training, we put command sergeants majors in charge. And now this very dynamic and diverse organization that is not only responsible for the execution of training, but for the planning, development, funding, and resourcing of all NCOES; for NCOs to be able to take that on and be fully capable to do that is just evident as to how far we have come."
As being the last of his breed, an officer commanding USASMA, Gentry said it plays no real part in history.
"I am not sure that is a place in history because the last guy is the last guy, and 10 years from now somebody will figure it out that he was the last one and then it is 'What did he do for them to decide they didn't need him anymore'' Just to be part of this is exciting. This is my fifth command and usually that event is about the command and the commander and all they accomplished. This one is not about that - it is about the command and what it has accomplished - but more importantly where it is going. This event and the future of the academy is the focus for this and it is so right to happen in the year of the NCO, and so right for it to be that way. It saddens me a little bit to be leaving but it is so exciting to see where the Academy is going. So the place in history is reserved for Ray Chandler.
Col. Gentry leaves the academy to become the Senior Advisor to the Texas National Guard Adjutant General.


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can you turn them to other colours? cause i want mines to be purple
also do you know how to put a background colour in your gallery?
For some reason I can't get it to display correctly while using a custom box bg. o: I've seen others do it, I just can't seem to do it myself.
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When I put it in the custom box, it's this short.
IT doesn't widen to the full width of the custom box.
Ofcourse it won't expand to the box width. If you want to expand it then just insert an image inside the box which has larger width than the content holder box. Please note that you cannot reduce the width..you can only increase it.
The red header bar?
I was talking about the body ones.
Oh, I was talking about the header ones. xD
The header does fills the whole width. I dunno why it's not working with yours.
Me either. I'll put it in one of my cusotm boxes so you can see.
Oh wait! Are you inserting the code inside a custom bg code? I think so. Just paste it outside the custom bg code entirely and see.
Oddly enough, it doesn't work at all. :C
Nope. It works.
Well, not for me, at least. Instead, it's blank, and leaves a space where the bar should be. I have used in in my custom widgets without a background, and it still doesn't work.
Umm.. I guess then you are one of those deviants who faced the same issue. It is not a problem in mine.
Some of them got it working by install all the widgets in their page and then using this code. Try it out, it may work!
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Is there any way to have different colors in the header?
Yes, this has happened with another deviant too. But I am not sure why this is happening!
I know if you go to the "edit page" part on your profile, and pick the "custom" thing, it won't show up. It did that to me, but when I went to my profile page, it came up fine. With the exception that it doesn't fit all the way across my custom box for some reason. It's just centered. :\
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Oh well.
Yeah, it won't stretch to the whole box as there is padding in the box. It stops it from stretching to full width.
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You have already done a great job making it this far with bf-ing.... the decision to stop is completely up to you and either choice you make is completelt fine - dont feel guilty about it,
If you have the energy, try pumping at regular intervals and giving lo a bottle? Your bm is actually full of antibodies your own body is creating to fight the virus you have - so it actually should help strengthen lo.
your supply may be starting to decrease, but it may not be too late if you start pumping every couple of hours and keep at it for the next few days until you are better?
I had bronchitis over Christmas, everything was crazy, my lo was going through a growth spurt so he just wanted to nurse, nurse, nurse. I was so exhausted! Then, I just started feeling better. Luckily my lo just for a cold from me nothing more, so he was symptom free in about a week.maybe you could drop a few feedings and just nurse morning and night? Just to get some relief.
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You are not going to hurt your baby with formula. I found this out with my second baby. She took formula from day one. And while I nursed as much as possible it wasn't nearly as easy a journey as it was with my first. While I felt guilty at first, I slowly came to realize I had to do what was best for everyone.
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The antibodies you produce to fight the infection are passed to LO to help her fight it too, so if you do want to stop I'd wait until you both are better. Make sure to drink plenty of water and eat! You can save your supply if you keep nursing /pumping, and maybe drink some Mother's Milk tea. Make sure to take extra vitamin C, and eat lots of garlic (if you can, I know some people hate it.) because it helps fight sicknesses. I hope you both feel better soon!
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It might seem bold to name your band Three Mountains. Unless of course you're a hard-rock supergroup that includes members of Pearl Jam, King's X, and the Fastbacks, in which case it makes perfect sense. It also makes perfect sense when you rock the faces off of all those who attended your first ever gig.
Led by Doug Pinnick of King's X, who resembles a palm tree more than a mountain, and featuring Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam and Richard Stuverud of the Fastbacks, the band's self-titled debut was many years in the making, but was finally unveiled Wednesday at Showbox at the Market. The album was released digitally this week (with CD and vinyl releases following later this month), and the gig also kicked off a mini-tour that will take them to SXSW and eventually the East Coast for a half-dozen shows before concluding with a March 24 appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
So what do they sound like? Pretty much what you'd get if you crossed Pearl Jam with King's X, which is to say soulful hard rock with heavy grooves and room to jam. Pinnick has always been one of the most underrated performers in rock, with a unique and powerful voice, a byproduct of his love for Motown and growing up in a Southern Baptist choir. Along with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready--Tres Mts' unofficial fourth member--the band blazed through most of their debut, which ranges from the pounding first single, "My Baby," to the mellow gospel of "God Told Me."
For a first gig, the band seemed well-rehearsed and in sync. There weren't any hiccups during the set, and all four men could hardly contain their smiles. "You're making us feel really good," Pinnick said between songs. The King's X frontman played guitar during the set, not bass like in his other band, his lanky frame topped with a trilby hat. Stuverud's enthusiasm, meanwhile, could hardly be contained, and the ex-Fastbacks drummer could barely keep his rear planted on his seat as he pounded his kit with sticks, mallets, and even maracas, somehow managing to sing lovely harmonies as well. Ament, bearded and bandana'd, and McCready, sporting a green T-shirt with Suffragette City written across it, showed off their arena-rock moves, including some incredible guitar faces from the PJ guitarist, who hammed it up for the crowd and tossed out handfuls of stickers.
For their encore, the band played a trio of covers, including Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home's a Heartache," which McCready kicked off on keyboards; ZZ Top's "La Grange"; and Jimi Hendrix's "Fire," which ended the show. With busy years planned for both Pearl Jam and King's X, it's unclear just how active Tres Mts will get to be in the coming months, but if their show at the Showbox Wednesday night was any indication of what we can expect from the band, you won't want to miss their show when it next plays in town (or comes to yours).
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With good weather, Vandalia's downtown enhancement project could be completed within a month.
At Vandalia Main Street's "Mornings on Main Street" gathering last Friday, Terry Fields of Hank's Excavating & Landscaping of Belleville said workers are making good progress on wrapping up the final two blocks of the project.
"The bricklayers should be done next week," Fields said, "and the electricians are coming in next week and by the end of March, they should be done, barring problems with the weather."
As city officials anxiously await the completion of the downtown enhancement work, they say there still a chance for local individuals, businesses and organizations to leave their mark on the project.
The city is selling benches that will be installed along Gallatin Street between Third and Seventh streets. As of Tuesday, the city had sold 15 of the 28 bench locations.
LaTisha Paslay, administration secretary for the city, said the benches are $600 each. That cost includes a plaque on which will appear information submitted by the donor.
Members of the Brownstown Board of Education told a large group of people having questions about the proposed cooperative agreement with the St. Elmo School District for extracurricular activities that they want to continue negotiations on that agreement.
One day later, the St. Elmo Board of Education made it clear that it is not interested in further negotiations. Board members said they are happy with the proposal drawn up by a committee made up of representatives of both districts.
The arrival of spring also means the start of the severe storm season.
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The Vandalia City Council last week discussed an ongoing problem, one which no one seems to have an answer to.
Alderman Jerry Swarm said he's become aware of all-terrain vehicle riders causing ruts in the campground area, and lake committee Chairman Mike Hobler said the committee is aware of the problem.
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On March 3, police handled a break-in at the Vandalia Moose Lodge, 328 S. Third St.
According to police reports, someone pried open the front door of the building, then pried open the office door, taking four money bags.
One day after the Brownstown Board of Education told a large group of that community's residents that an extracurricular cooperative agreement is essentially a work in progress, the St. Elmo School Board approved that agreement.
And in approving the document submitted by a committee made up of representatives from the two communities, the St. Elmo board said it wants the Brownstown board to vote on that document by the end of this month.
A continuation of good weather could ensure the completion of Vandalia's downtown enhancement project.
"Sometime in April we will be totally out of here," Terry Fields of Hank's Excavating and Landscaping of Belleville said during Friday's "Mornings on Main Street" meeting held by Vandalia Main Street.
Fields told city officials, some downtown merchants and representatives of Main Street that all of the concrete work has been completed, and that all brickwork should be done by the end of next week.
The Brownstown Board of Education voted unanimously on Wednesday night to continue discussions with the St. Elmo District Board on a cooperative agreement for extracurricular activities.
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The St. Elmo Board of Education is scheduled to discuss the cooperative agreement at its regular meeting on Thursday evening.
Because representatives of Motown Technology & Sports Facility Inc. continue to ignore phone calls and e-mails from Vandalia officials, one alderman believes it's time to go to a higher power.
Mike Hobler believes that the city may get some type of response from the Motown group if the sheriff in the group's home county serves them with some type of legal document.
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Have you been admitted to SPU and have an interest in studying nursing? See the information page for Admitted Student Resources.
Nursing Information Sessions:
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Prerequisite course GPA around 3.5 or higher
Excellent employer or other professional reference
Work or volunteer experience (healthcare or other)
Clear communication in written work
Strong quantitative skills (math calculations)
Non-SPU students (transfer) have completed an associate degree or a bachelor degree or will complete the degree prior to starting the nursing program.
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Students typically apply to the nursing major during the sophomore year and begin the clinical nursing program in the fall of the junior year. However, students may apply at a later point, even after completing a degree in another major. For printable application instructions, click here.
In order to be considered for admission, you must be available for an on-campus interview in late February. Nursing applications are reviewed by the School of Health Sciences Nursing Admission Committee. Completeness of the application packet is the responsibility of the applicant. Only complete applications will be reviewed. All application materials may be submitted together in one envelope. All documents must be received no later than January 15, 2017 by 4:30pm. If the application due date falls on a weekend, your application must be submitted by 4:30 pm the Friday prior to the 15th. Acceptance is contingent upon completion of the prerequisite courses by the end of spring quarter, June 2017. All applicants will be notified of acceptance status in writing. Further information about orientation and enrollment into the nursing program will follow full acceptance into the program before the school year begins. Attainment of the required prerequisite GPA does not guarantee admission to the major, as the total number of admissions are limited by capacity.
Nursing is an exciting profession that affords practitioners many opportunities. Nursing at SPU is challenging, rewarding, and fun. We look forward to receiving your application.
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Transfer and postbacc nursing applications will be submitted in paper form to the SPU Admissions Department along with your online application to the university and supplemental materials. Supplemental materials can be sent with the nursing application. You will be notified of your application status by early April after the nursing admissions committee has reviewed your application.
To be considered a post-baccalaureate student, you must have a bechelor degree from a college or university. Foreign transcripts must be reviewed and approved by the SPU Admissions Department. You will apply to SPU using the Common Application. Follow the instructions for post-baccalaureate students and indicate your academic interest in nursing on the application.
If you are a transfer student, it is important to have either a direct transfer AA degree, or 90 transferrable credits by June 2017. You will apply to SPU using the Common Application. Follow the instructions fo transfer applicants and indicate your academic interest in nursing. If you have questions about transferring credits, please contact a transfer admissions counselor to assist you. It is strongly recommended that all other general education course work necessary to complete the BS degree be completed prior to beginning the nursing program. Transfer students planning to complete an associate degree must complete the degree prior to starting the nursing program.
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You will need to apply to Seattle Pacific University and the Lydia Green Nursing Program. For a preview of a typical SPU nursing course sequence, take a look at the curriculum plan on our Program of Study web page. All transfer work must be directly transferable to the equivalent SPU course or listed in the Transfer Course Equivalency Guide as acceptable for Nursing. If you have questions about transferring credits, please contact an SPU transfer admissions counselor to assist you. If you have coursework from UW, WSU, Eastern or Greater Seatlle Community Colleges, you can find a list of nursing prerequisite transferrable courses here. After applying to the nursing program, if you complete coursework at institutions other than SPU, please send official transcripts to both the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the School of Health Sciences Undergraduate Nursing Program. Transfer students (including post-bacc) must have a GPA of 3.5 or above in the combined prerequisites. Four prerequisite courses must be successfully completed (with a 2.0 minimum in any one prerequisite course) by the application due date, and all 9 must be successfully completed by the end of spring quarter 2017.
In order to be considered for entry into the nursing major, completed application materials are submitted to the School of Health Sciences (SPU students) or the Office of Admissions (transfer students) and must include:
- An application to the SHS Lydia Green Nursing Program
- A professional recommendation (sealed)
- Official transcripts (sealed) for prerequisite coursework other than SPU's
- Course descriptions for each prerequisite course taken other than at SPU (if not listed on Transfer Equivalency Guide)
- Prerequisite calculator page printed and submitted with SHS application (see Prerequisite Courses and Calculator below)
- Background Disclosure form (must be completed and signed)
- Work and volunteer hours
- Non-SPU transfer and post-baccalaureate transfer students must also submit an SPU application to Undergraduate Admissions.
SPU applicants: Read the Application Instructions above in addition to this information.
Current SPU students (having completed a course at SPU in the last four quarters) must apply online in BANNER. We will access your coursework through the Banner system. However, there are additional documents to submit between November 1 and the January 15 deadline, available here:
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- SPU Student Nursing Application Supplemental Documents
- Here is a preview of the online nursing application so you can plan your answers ahead of time.
- Step by Step instructions for the BANNER Nursing Major Application
You must have completed coursework at SPU Autumn 2016 or during the 2015-16 school year in order to be considered a current SPU student. However, SPU degree holders will be reviewed with a GPA of 2.75 or above rather than the 3.5 GPA requirement of transfer students. SPU degree holders must re-apply to the university and use the Nursing Application for Transfer and Post-baccalaureate applicants. You will not need to submit an SPU transript, but be sure to indicate your SPU coursework on the first page of the application.
SPU Students will be notified of admission, waitlist or denied in writing from the School of Health Sciences.
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Coursework for the nursing major begins Autumn Quarter of the junior year. It is strongly recommended that all other general education coursework necessary for the bachelor of science degree be completed prior to beginning the nursing program. In order to begin the program, the following prerequisite college-level courses must be completed (all science courses must include a lab):
- General (Inorganic) Chemistry (CHM 1310 or 1211)
- Biological (Organic) Chemistry (CHM 1360 or 1330)
- Anatomy (BIO 2129)
- Physiology (BIO 2130)
- General Microbiology (BIO 3351)
- General Psychology (PSY 1180)
- Developmental Psychology (PSY 2470)
- Human Nutrition (FCS 3340)
- Statistics (MAT 1360)
At least four prerequisite courses must be completed at the time of application and all prerequisite courses must be completed by the end of Spring Quarter of the year prior to beginning nursing courses.
Applicants must submit the Prerequisite GPA Calculator with the Nursing Application. Here is an Excel version of the calculator if you are having trouble with the PDF.
SPU students The minimum cumulative GPA in these prerequisite courses for SPU students is 2.75 with no course less than a "C" grade (anything less than 2.0 is not acceptable). Attainment of the minimum GPA does not guarantee admission to a major, as the total number of admissions is limited by capacity.
Transfer students (no coursework at SPU) must have a minimum of 3.5 cumulative GPA in the prerequisite courseswith no course less than a "C" grade (anything less than 2.0 is not acceptable) at the time you apply and when all prerequisite courses are complete. Attainment of the minimum GPA does not guarantee admission to a major, as the total number of admissions is limited by capacity.
Mid-program Nursing:
If you have recently completed at least one quarter or semester of clinical nursing coursework (not just prerequisites) at another institution (baccalaureate level), you may be eligible for Mid-Program entry if we have space available in the nursing program. Complete the Mid-program Nursing Application along with your application to the university as a transfer student. If you have not completed a quarter or more of nursing coursework, you should complete the Application for Undergraduate Nursing.
Mid-program entry will be conditional upon space available, in addition to SPU application and admission requirements. Mid-nursing program transfer students may wish to contact the SHS office for an appointment with a nursing faculty member/advisor at 206-281-2233 or 1-800-899-1769.


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This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 13 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Feb 16, 2012
- Listed
- Mar 3, 2012
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Feb 15, 2013


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