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PHILADELPHIA -- Darrun Hilliard watched intently Saturday night as the Philadelphia 76ers retired Allen Iverson's number at the Wells Fargo Center.
Less than 24 hours later, in the same arena, he tried to recreate the magic of his all-time favorite player.
Hilliard scored a career-high 26 points and No. 8 Villanova set a school record for regular-season wins with a 73-56 victory over Marquette on Sunday.
"AI was the man," Hilliard said. "That was my favorite player. Seeing him go out and be the smallest guy on the court and doing what he did with everything against him, it was something I looked up to. So it's pretty cool to be in this building."
Josh Hart added 13 points and JayVaughn Pinkston had 11 points and seven rebounds for the Wildcats (26-3, 14-2 Big East), who have won four straight and 10 of 11.
The Wildcats had never won 26 regular-season games in the 95-year history of the program. Villanova won 25 games four previous times, most recently in 2008-09, a season it reached the Final Four.
Deonte Burton scored 13 points for Marquette (17-12, 9-7) and Todd Mayo finished with 11 points and five rebounds.
"I was proud of that effort," Villanova coach Jay Wright said. "I know Marquette's a good, hungry team and they play hard. It's hard to match that level."
Playing in the home of the 76ers, Hilliard almost looked like an NBA guard with the kind of show he put on for the fans. The 6-foot-6 junior guard had 18 points in first half, shot 5-for-8 from 3-point range for the game and set his career high with a dazzling drive that put the Wildcats up 66-47 with 4:58 left.
Hilliard's previous career high of 25 points came in an upset win over Syracuse last season -- also at the Wells Fargo Center.
"Darrun was on fire today," Hart said. "When you have someone who's 5-for-8 from 3s, the defense is really focusing in on him so that allowed me to get open shots."
Villanova was 12-of-29 from 3-point range.
Trying to make a late push to get into the NCAA tournament for the ninth straight year, Marquette came in having won five of six, including an important two-point victory over Georgetown on Thursday.
But the Golden Eagles never threatened to upset the Wildcats, shooting just 4-for-15 from 3-point range and 16-for-25 from the free throw line. They committed 15 turnovers.
"I would say the number one disappointment is we didn't play as hard as we have to play on the road to beat a team as good as Villanova," Marquette coach Buzz Williams said.
After falling behind by 11 points at halftime, Marquette made just one field goal through the first 5 minutes of the second half to allow Villanova to open a 48-29 lead.
Villanova led by double digits the rest of the way to move one full game ahead of No. 9 Creighton for first place in the Big East.
The Wildcats' only two conference losses have come to Creighton, which fell out of first place after losing to Xavier on Saturday.
"I don't think they're going to win our league or they're eighth in the country based on one number," Williams said. "I think they're really good in each phase of the game but I also think they play for one another. I think they play incredibly hard and I think they play with great spirit."
Hilliard and Hart combined to score Villanova's first 20 points, before Pinkston and Tony Chennault scored the next nine for the Wildcats. Daniel Ochefu then forced a steal, ran ahead of the pack and had a transition dunk to cap a 17-4 run and send Villanova to a 31-18 lead with 3:18 left in the first half.
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"I thought that series was important for us," Wright said. "We were struggling a little and they were coming back."
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Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia, and the largest city in Europe, with its metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is the country's political, economic, religious, financial, educational and transportation centre. It is located on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District, in the European part of Russia. Historically, it was the capital of the former Soviet Union and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the pre-Imperial Russian state.
Moscow is a major economic centre and is the world's billionaire capital, home to the largest number of billionaires in the world; in 2007 Moscow was named the world's most expensive city for the second year in a row.
The first Russian reference to Moscow dates from 1147 when Yuri Dolgoruki called upon the prince of the Novgorod Republic to "come to me, brother, to Moscow."
Many turbulent years followed, the Mongols burned it down, Swedish troops arrived, so did the Polish-Lithuanian army, the plague of 1654–1656 had killed half the population of Moscow. The city ceased to be Russia's capital in 1712, after the founding of St. Petersburg by Peter the Great on the Baltic coast in 1703. When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, the Muscovites burned the city and evacuated, as Napoleon's forces were approaching on 14 September.
In January 1905, the institution of the City Governor, or Mayor, was officially introduced in Moscow, and Alexander Adrianov became Moscow's first official mayor. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, on March 12, 1918, Moscow became the capital of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union less than five years later. During the Great Patriotic War the a part of World War II after German invasion in the USSR, the Soviet State Committee of Defence and the General Staff of the Red Army was located in Moscow.
In 1941, sixteen divisions of the national volunteers (more than 160,000 people), twenty-five battalions (18,500 people) and four engineering regiments were formed among the Muscovites. That November, German Army Group Centre was stopped at the outskirts of the city and then driven off in the course of the Battle of Moscow. Many factories were evacuated, together with much of the government, and from October 20 the city was declared to be under siege. Its remaining inhabitants built and manned antitank defences, while the city was bombarded from the air. It is of some note that Stalin refused to leave the city, meaning the general staff and the council of people's commissars remained in the city as well. Despite the siege and the bombings, the construction of Moscow's metro system, continued through the war and by the end of the war several new metro lines were opened.
Moscow's architecture and performing arts culture are world-renowned. Moscow is also well known as the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters. The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Moscow also hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. For a long time, the view of the city was dominated by numerous Orthodox churches. The look of the city changed drastically during Soviet times, mostly due to Joseph Stalin, who oversaw a large-scale effort to modernise the city. He introduced broad avenues and roadways, some of them over ten lanes wide, but he also destroyed a great number of historically significant architectural works. The Sukharev Tower, as well as numerous mansions and stores lining the major streets, and various works of religious architecture, such as the Kazan Cathedral and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, were all destroyed during Stalin's rule. During the 1990s, however, both the latter were rebuilt.
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Enjoyed a virtual tour of Moscow. Excellent pics and tips. My favorite photo is the giant church bell. Cheers, SL :)
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Hi, Michael, thanx for your nice page! It was a good trip I see.
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The Washington Huskies would have had a hard time defending a loss to the Portland Pilots, who came to Edmundson Pavilion on Saturday as...
The Washington Huskies would have had a hard time defending a loss to the Portland Pilots, who came to Edmundson Pavilion on Saturday as 17-point underdogs.
That the Huskies defended when it counted most, however, seemed to make it all worthwhile for UW players and coaches. They pointed to the process more than the end result — an unexpectedly close 67-63 nonconference victory over the Pilots — as a reason for optimism.
"We're going to take the fact that we played a lot better defense today," said Huskies forward Jon Brockman of a game that wasn't decided until Ryan Appleby made a 6-foot running bank shot with seven seconds left. "That was our focus for the week, for the game. We struggled on offense. We just weren't clicking. But the fact that we won an ugly game where we didn't play good offense at all is reassuring."
Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar admitted that, for now, he's willing to sacrifice a little offense to make the point that defense has to come first for the Huskies. He said last week that the lesson has been slower to take hold than he had hoped.
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Washington started its fourth different lineup, with Romar again saying he went with the five who showed the most commitment this week during practice. The Huskies ended up starting one of their most experienced lineups — two seniors and three juniors.
Romar then showed a quick hook, with players moving in and out of the lineup liberally based on how they were playing defense.
"Defensive errors I think you can control most of the time," Romar said. "So when guys are going in and out for these errors, it can be hard to get an offensive rhythm going."
Romar thinks it's worth it, saying the payoff will come later when the defensive emphasis kicks in for good — he estimated UW spent five or six hours of practice last week on defense compared to 90 minutes on offense. The coach said offense "can be fixed in one or two days of practice," but that's not the case with defense.
But Romar also thought UW was simply off its game offensively, which showed as the Huskies shot 10 for 30 in the first half in falling behind 30-26 at the break.
Washington had a long halftime meeting, not coming out until about 90 seconds before the second half.
"We played such a bad first half, there was a lot of stuff to go over," Appleby said.
The Huskies started the second half fast. Appleby made three three-pointers in the first two minutes of the second half. That put UW ahead as the Huskies made 14 of 19 shots (73.7 percent) after the break.
Still, the gritty Pilots from the West Coast Conference never went away. Portland cut a six-point lead to 65-63 with 1:33 left on a shot by Luke Sikma, the son of Sonics legend Jack Sikma. Portland got the ball back when Brockman fouled out on a charging call with 1:05 left. Luke Sikma finished with six points and seven rebounds.
An open three-pointer by Portland point guard Taishi Ito missed with 44 seconds left, and Washington rebounded.
Portland coach Eric Reveno decided not to foul even though Washington was 15 of 27 at the line, and Appleby milked the shot clock before driving into the lane for a runner with seven seconds left.
Appleby said he was surprised the Pilots didn't foul, and Reveno admitted he might have made a mistake.
"I was worried about fouling the wrong guy, and we've got good confidence with our defense and we were not scoring at will at the other end," Reveno said. "If Appleby doesn't make that tough shot, then all of a sudden we are down two with eight seconds left and we'll see what we've got."
What the Huskies had at the end was a win that made them 5-4. In the eyes of Romar, Washington took a step forward defensively, which is what he says matters most. The Pilots (3-7) shot 40 percent, 32 in the second half.
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Jen and Greg, dear friends of mine, live in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Shore. I spent the day with them and their two young daughters, Sarah Jane and Mia.
The book is a record of the day---playing with the kids, strolling on the Boardwalk, ending up at the Pier Village development, the hottest new shopping and dining attraction on the Shore.
By day I am deputy editor/dining editor of New Jersey Monthly. (In a previous life I was editor of special projects at People Magazine for 11 years.) By night and during the cracks in the day, I am a photographer. I have exhibited in numerous group shows and had a solo exhibition at Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ, in January, 2006 and a much larger solo show, Unscheduled Stops, at the McGraw.Gallery on the campus of Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ, in 2014. In December, 2015 I launched a New Jersey Monthly dining podcast on iTunes called Eating With Eric. No eating involved. It's conversations with all sorts of people doing interesting things in New Jersey's dynamic food scene. My blurb books include several created for family. For my personal work, in addition to Unscheduled Stops, see Souls Have Shapes; I'll Be Right Back: The Bathroom Pictures; Still Life Never Sleeps; and Edible Complex.
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Fifty-eight years old and I just found out I've been doing something wrong my entire life.
Turns out I didn't know how to properly peel a banana.
I read about it on the Weird Wide Web, where everything is true, and found out that by peeling bananas the customary way — that is, grabbing the stem and pulling it downward to zip the skin away from the fruit — results in a less-than-optimal banana experience. Which pointed me to something else I didn't know — namely, that a banana could be an experience and that it could be optimized.
Anyway, here's the deal: By using the old stem-grab-and-pull method you run the risk of mashing the top of the banana. True enough. I always figured that the occasional mashed banana top was part of the deal (or, as we now call it, experience) and that if it was really that much of a problem, you could always cut a little notch in the banana skin to help you get the thing started.
But wait, said the Weird Wide Web. There's a better way.
All we have to do is follow the example of our fellow higher primates, the great apes, to see how a banana should be peeled: from the bottom.
It works like this: Hold the banana upside down. Go to the blossom end and separate the sections of peel. It should open quite easily if the banana is ripe. Pull off the peel and, presto, there's your banana, 100 percent intact, no mushy end to mar its wholesome banananess.
Don't tell me I can't learn new tricks at my age. I may be an old dog, but I know an improvement when I see one.
Which is really the point. Study after study has shown that human brains respond well to teaching in the so-called middle and old ages. I say so-called because you can't know what your middle age was until you get to the end of your life and because old age is a state of mind. I know people half my age whose closed minds are making them old (and cranky) before their time.
I've seen this as a university professor. My mature students routinely outperform their younger classmates. I've given this a lot of thought, and I think it has to do with objectives.
Many of the students coming right out of high school and into college do so as if they are knocking down a task, checking something off a to-do list. That seems to be the primary motivation: This is something I have to get done if I want to be a success — and that's fine, because it's true, as far as it goes.
Most of my older students, though, have something different in mind. They are there to learn something and have no problem telling you to get with it if you're not meeting their expectations. They are far more receptive to ideas than conventional wisdom — which is usually nothing of the sort — would have us believe.
Which gets us back to the proper way to open a banana. I think the real fun isn't so much to be found in a perfectly peeled banana; it's in learning a new and better way to do something so prosaic. Which is good, because truth is, I'm not going to eat them. I'm really not all that fond of bananas.
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I've always wanted to visit Portugal's island chains in the Atlantic and laid-back Porto Moniz looks like the perfect spot! I'm too far away from the oceans out here in the Prairies!
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Personally I'm very glad there are no gigantic hotels with jacuzzis. Looks like a town I would love. Watching the ocean and crashing surf for hours....
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Lucky you could visit this place! I would likt to go there one day as I really like Portugal.
A place where I would like to be now. Great info and pics.
amazing photos!!! the beauty of natural pools give the idea to be there. can't see it very clear... is this you on the picture? :)) You really enjoyed there, weren't you?
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WaH: One thing that really came up for me during the film was the whole idea of documentation. How difficult was it to collect and gather these things? I'm assuming you have a pretty big personal archive.
KH: A kind of serendipitous thing happened. My friend who used to be my roommate back in Olympia was very much present for the whole Riot Grrrl thing. She took one of the photo sets that's in the movie of me and Tobi [Vail] and Kathi [Wilcox], right when we are talking about the band breaking up. Lisa Darms, who is the archivist who now does the Riot Grrrl archive at NYU has been a close friend of mine for years and years and years. We went to a panel at the NYU archive, the Fales Archive, where now the archive is located, together. They were talking about the downtown archive and Richard Heil and stuff. I was like, I need a place to put my filing cabinet. I've been dragging that thing around for fucking ever. I wish somebody would start the Riot Grrrl archive. At the time, she wasn't working at NYU, she had a different job. She got a call a couple of weeks later where they were like, "Do you wanna come work here?" The first thing she said was that "I want to do a Riot Grrrl archive." It was almost a joke and then it started happening.
I got interns who helped me decide what was going to go in and what wasn't--those were all really almost political decisions. Decisions that ended up being in this film of "how much do you share" and "how much do you hold back." You want to share enough of your stuff that isn't necessarily attractive, that people see themselves in it because we're not all perfect. But, you also don't want to be somebody with no boundaries who doesn't protect yourself. I think that kind of negotiation, I learned from doing the archive stuff. The serendipitous part besides that was that I got to give them all the videotapes I had and I got to ask other people for videotapes. They started putting them all onto DVDs and digitized them all. The film really benefitted from that. There's just a stack of things that have already been digitized instead of having to get VHS players.
SA: It would have been another year at least without that work being done.
TD: It was just amazing that that access was there and you just had already so much on DVD.
SA: Kathleen was a pre-production demon.
TD: I was looking through my files and I saw this footage and it was all this great footage of Bikini Kill live, but it was also of her and Adam.
KH: It was us falling in love on her camera because we were all on tour together.
TD: It's another one of these tapes hidden in my basement. And I was sitting in the editing room looking at it with this weird feeling that Kathleen mentions, where she is looking at herself and it's like a seeing a different person. Looking at it, it's like Kathleen, Adam and I--and I don't even remember any of that. And, here is all of this beautiful, beautiful footage. So, I just can't even imagine. Are there other people out there that have this footage somewhere lying around?
KH: They definitely don't have that kind of footage because they weren't backstage.
TD: But, the archive is just so amazing. It was so exciting that she had done so much of that work.
WaH: I remember that you put something on your blog or Twitter, calling people to submit stuff. Did a lot of people reach out to you?
KH: It really ended up being friends. Also, I wrote to a lot of people on YouTube. I just would find a clip on YouTube and a lot of times I couldn't even watch it, but I know that that show was big. It was a turning point for us or a really messed up show. I would email that person and be like, "Hey!" Some people actually didn't believe it was me. I would do the, this is horrible, the kidnap victim thing of holding up a newspaper and taking a picture of myself and sending it. It's hilarious.
WaH: One thing that I think is really important with women and women's careers is having mentors, idols or people who've helped you in your careers. I was just wondering if all of you could talk about that.
SA: I think it's really really important. One of the things when I was making the film, when I was starting out, I thought over and over again was who are the women in the industry, in telling Kathleen's story--who are the smartest feminists that I want to see this film to give me honest feedback about what I'm missing? Who are the smartest women in music that I want to watch this film before it's finished and let me know musically what is missing? Tamra is who I thought of for film. I really wanted to talk with Tamra Davis.
So, I had a conversation with Tamra before we ever started production. She was open to that and had me over to her place and talked to me about it. She said you should try this and try this, and just gave me great advice. It was something that was on the forefront of my mind because I'm not an expert. It was really amazing to have Tamra come back and finish the project when she was the person I went to when I started it.
TD: For me, when I started out, I wanted to direct in the 80s and there were so few females making films, and not all of them were very approachable. You have so many questions and you need somebody to look at your work and help you. It's an incredibly valuable thing and there should be more women as role models and also as mentors. It helps inspire a whole new generation. We have to build that next generation because those stories are so important. Sini put such energy into making this film because the story had to be told. I was just really excited to be involved with it. So, hopefully, it inspires other women to mentor in whatever field and hopefully other directors too.
KH: So, in a way, I'm going to speak for you, I think what Tamra is trying to say is that maybe you looked for a mentor that wasn't there. Then, you became the mentor that you wish that you would have had.
WaH: Kathleen, what about you?
KH: What? I did it all myself! I don't need any mentors! President of Riot Grrrl! Created feminism! Created punk rock as a genre! No, I mean, Simone de Beauvoir, and a ton of writers just totally changed my life. She was a real early one for me. I was like, "Whoah! I'm oppressed? What!"
Other feminist thinkers and writers likeKathy Acker, Julia Kristeva, a lot of the French feminists were really influential to me and artists that were in the film and others who weren't, like Karen Finley, Leslie Gore. bell hooks, obviously. I totally ripped off her whole thing, turned her whole thing into songs. But in general for me it was just feminism. These were my people. This is my life raft and I want to get on this life raft because I'm sick of feeling like sexism is my own personal affliction because it's not. It's something that different people are experiencing at the same time and we need to help each other out instead of internalizing it to the point of externalizing it onto each other.
SA: And on that note, I would like to say that I think that we are at a place where we can have these mentors, and we can also find them. They are more accessible than we really believe. I think it's really important that young women know that. Go after the people that you really want to be your mentors, but also look at your best friend. There is a lot in there.
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What Gwyneth Ate in Spain; Chodorow No Stranger to Irony
Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't a food snob in Spain, what sells best at Kobe Club, Michael Pollan says people should spend more money on food, and more in our morning roundup of food news and gossip.
• Despite her reputation as a macrobiotic-food snob, Gwyneth Paltrow eats things like fried churros on the travel show she filmed with Mario Batali. [Ad Age]
• Michael Pollan thinks everyone needs to spend more money and time on food. [Serious Eats]
• Artisanal bakers strangely call a certain yeast-alternative leavening agent a "mother," because it "gives birth every day." [NYDN]
• Irony alert: The biggest seller at Jeffrey Chodorow's Kobe Club is wild salmon. [Insatiable Critic]
• Michael Perlman, the man who saved the Cheyenne and Moondance Diners, is planning to save a recently closed theater in Queens. [Lost City]
• The prices of major food crops are down for the first time in a while, but they could easily shoot up again. [NYT]
• The winking-chef statues that can be found at various establishments around the city can be found in much stranger incarnations around the world. [City Room/NYT]


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Belle & Sebastian have announced the release of 'The Third Eye Centre' – a collection of rarities, collectibles and non-LP tracks from the last decade – on 26th August on Rough Trade Records/Remote Control in Australia. The album will be available to buy on CD, download and as a double heavyweight vinyl in deluxe heavy gatefold packaging.
All tracks on the album are B-sides and offcuts taken from the period when the band recorded their last three albums – 2003's 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress', 2006's 'The Life Pursuit' and 2010's 'Write About Love'.
The album includes one brand new track 'Your Cover's Blown (Miaoux Miaoux Remix)', which is available to listen to online now:
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'I'm A Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix)'
'Suicide Girl'
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Interview with Joep Drummen, co-founder of The Big Internet Museum
"Do you know that the Internet has its own museum? Aptly named "The Big Internet Museum", the digital spot was founded by Netherlanders Dani Polak, Joep Drummen and Joeri Bakker, and launched in December 2012.
Today, Drummen, a copywriter at advertising agency TBWA\NEBOKO, is giving us a "guided tour" of the website in this exclusive interview.
Cendrine Marrouat: Hello Joep, thank you for answering my questions. What gave you the idea to create The Big Internet Museum?
Joep Drummen: The idea came up while we were stuck in traffic (that's quite normal in the Netherlands). We had a philosophical conversation about the exponential growth of technology nowadays and how rapidly everything changes. Actually, we were having a discussion about a preloader. Will our children still have a clue what it is? Due to the increasing speed of the Internet, they probably don't.
So, how can we preserve this and everything that made the Web what it is today? That's when we came up with the idea of an Internet museum. And – luckily – no one ever had the idea before. This was in July 2012. Half a year later we opened the Big Internet Museum."
Interview with Joep Drummen, co-founder of The Big Internet Museum – Canada Social Media | Examiner.com.
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First "See, I told you so" post of 2009!
I launched the Newspaper Bailout Countdown Clock on Nov. 11, reported on Connecticut's move to prop up ailing dead-tree dailies on Dec. 1, and followed up with a column on the coming government rescues for the MSM on Dec. 3.
And now, here comes Reuters, heralding the new year with this: Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate.
Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press.
Nicastro represents Connecticut's 79th assembly district, which includes Bristol, a city of about 61,000 people outside Hartford, the state capital. Its paper, The Bristol Press, may fold within days, along with The Herald in nearby New Britain.
That is because publisher Journal Register, in danger of being crushed under hundreds of millions of dollars of debt, says it cannot afford to keep them open anymore.
Nicastro and fellow legislators want the papers to survive, and petitioned the state government to do something about it. "The media is a vitally important part of America," he said, particularly local papers that cover news ignored by big papers and television and radio stations.
To some experts, that sounds like a bailout, a word that resurfaced this year after the U.S. government agreed to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the automobile and financial sectors.
Won't be long before a dying newspaper puts in a bid for some of the trillion-dollar stimulus package about to be rammed through Congress.
Fishwrap has its privileges…
Sound familiar? Democrats blame people who made a video for horrific acts of others
July 22, 2015 10:06 PM by Doug Powers
MSM Awakenings: Hey, maybe problems like Greece have something to do with spending money they don't have
June 30, 2015 09:01 AM by Doug Powers
Come on, Hillary, answer the NY Times' questions or else they'll endorse the Republican! (pause for laughter)
May 8, 2015 12:57 PM by Doug Powers
Proof that Scott Walker's lack of college degree harms him? He couldn't even conform to this NYT columnist's 'fact'
February 15, 2015 11:41 AM by Doug Powers
Nothing on Terry Bean
December 3, 2014 07:27 AM by Michelle Malkin
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Skip to comments.Sean Hannity said, Barbara Olson (Wife of Ted Olson) Was On One Of Those Hijacked Airplanes
Posted on 09/11/2001 12:14:32 PM PDT by KLT
OMG, the airplane that went into the Pentagon, had Barbara Olsen on board....I think I'm going to be sick...
My prayers are with Ted Olsen.
RIP Barbara Olsen. You were a valiant warrior for our cause and your contribution shall never be forgotten.
RIP - Barbara Olsen.
I feel so sick - just as I know many of you do, too.
It should have been Hitlary!!!!!
She was also a friend. My wife and I cried upon hearing the news.
Somehow, when you put a face to this horrible event, it humanizes it.
We must continue to lift up all the people who are now suffering loss. Pray for our leader's like never before. I know American's will all band together...today will go down in infamy like never before. Another reminder that every day counts. Another chance to do the right thing. God ...bless our land.
WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon took a direct, devastating hit from an aircraft and the enduring symbols of American power were evacuated Tuesday as an apparent terrorist attack quickly spread fear and chaos in the nation's capital.
President Bush ordered the nation's military to ''high-alert status,'' and vowed to ''hunt down and punish those responsible'' for parallel attacks in Washington and New York, where the World Trade Center collapsed into rubble with a heavy loss of life.
The president was in Florida at the time of the attacks, and was flown at midday to the safety of a military installation, Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The top leaders of Congress were led to the safety of an undisclosed location, guards armed with automatic weapons patrolled the White House grounds and military aircraft secured the skies above the capital.
The nerve center of the nation's military burst into flames and a portion of one side of the five-sided structure collapsed when the plane reported hijacked and carrying a number of passengers struck in midmorning. Secondary explosions were reported in the aftermath of the attack and great billows of smoke drifted skyward toward the Potomac River and the city beyond.
''The fire was intense,'' Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, the Pentagon spokesman, told reporters in a makeshift briefing at a service station across the street from the building. At midday, local hospitals reported receiving 40 victims of the attack, with seven patients in critical condition admitted to one facility for treatment of burns.
''The whole building shook'' with the impact, said Terry Yonkers, an Air Force civilian employee at work inside the Pentagon at the time of the attack. ''There was screaming and pandemonium,'' he said, but the evacuation ordered shortly afterward was carried out smoothly.
Law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the plane that struck the Pentagon was an American Airlines jetliner that had taken off from Dulles International Airport on a scheduled flight to Los Angeles.
Officials said one of the passengers was Barbara Olson, the wife of Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who argues President Bush's cases before the Supreme Court.
Vice President Dick Cheney was in Washington and he and first lady Laura Bush were taken to an undisclosed secure location, officials said. Congressional leaders were hustled away from the Capitol to safety.
''The leadership of the Defense Department is OK. The secretary (Donald H. Rumsfeld) is OK,'' Pentagon spokesman Glenn Flood told reporters.
Authorities immediately began deploying troops, including a regiment of light infantry, in response to an attack for which they said there had been no advance warning.
The departments of Justice, State, Treasury and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency were evacuated an estimated 20,000 at the Pentagon alone. Agents with automatic weapons patrolled the White House grounds.
And the FAA ordered the entire nationwide air traffic system shut down for the first time in history.
Officials said two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and one lawmaker, Rep. James Moran, D-Va., said after a Marine Corps briefing that ''it was apparently intended to Camp David,'' the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland.
Armed personnel secured the runway at Barksdale Air Force Base when Bush's plane touched down there. After a short stay on the ground, Bush's plane prepared to take off once again, to an undisclosed destination.
Bush and others spoke freely about terrorism being the cause, and already there was speculation about those responsible.
One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there were unspecified indications that Osama bin Laden's organization was responsible.
But finally assessing responsibility was likely months if not years down the road, and in the meantime, there was no attempt to minimize the impact.
The military was ordered to ''Threat Level Delta,'' the highest level, at least in the Washington area, according to Air Force Capt. Tatiana Stead at Andrews Air Force Base.
''This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don't think that I overstate it,'' said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., referring to the attack 60 years ago that surprised the nation's intelligence apparatus and propelled the country into World War II.
''In my view, this has been an intelligence failure,'' said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., adding that the Senate Intelligence Committee had no indication the attacks were coming.
With Bush away from the capital, his advisers were preparing a list of options, including closing the nation's borders, according to a senior U.S. official.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was premature to discuss military options because investigators were still trying to determine who was responsible for the attacks.
Away from the Pentagon, unexplained explosions were reported in the vicinity of the State Department and the Capitol. They apparently were no more than sonic booms.
A torrent of people rushed from their office buildings throughout the nation's capital, eager to leave a city under siege. The cell phone networks were overloaded, clusters of people sprayed on the sidewalks and at least one suburban school district announced plans to close early.
The Pentagon was hit a short while after the World Trade Center was struck. a plane, described by witnesses as a jetliner, made impact in the portion of the building on side opposite from where Rumsfeld's office are located.
I'm afraid there will be many more well known public figures who were killed by these terrorist attacks on America.
Lone, Mrs.Lone, & family
Laura Ingraham being interviewed now.
Said Barbara E-Mailed her last night, new book coming out soon (Barbara's).
I expect Hillary will come out in NY today and hug Mrs. Arafat in public again for the world to see.
Hillary has to find some way to play this up to her political advantage.
I'll have the vomit bag ready for that moment.
I haven't posted in quite some time because of heavy work schedule. Being involved with lots of Gov contracts, it all came to a halt today.
If Barbara was a personal friend, my condolences.
She was a great Lady, Patriot, Advocate of the Truth and Warrior for Freedom. May she now rest in peace in the bossom of the Lord who can wipe away all tears and comfort the weary.
For my part, I pray that her family and friends find comfort in knowing that her greatness in life will never be forgotten by those of us who loved her.
This is so sad. I'll miss seeing her.
Nothing like this in my life.
Not JFK...
nothing.....nothing... compares to this day.
She was also a friend. My wife and I cried upon hearing the news.
Thank you CL for the info...I knew she was on these threads, we are all going to miss her terribly....it's a tremendous loss....I miss her already.
Here's mine. The tears that have refused to flow all day are finally here.
What an unspeakable loss of life.
Barbara was a wonderful woman, and such a patriot.
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Secrecy still breeds stupidity
WASHINGTON - At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there never were commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging there, sipping champagne after a New Year's Eve party, when a commercial aircraft flew low over his house. He surmised that dictator Fulgencio Batista was fleeing because Fidel Castro was arriving. He was right. Soon he, and many others, would be spectacularly wrong about Cuba.
According to Jim Rasenberger's history of the Bay of Pigs invasion, "The Brilliant Disaster," Phillips was "a handsome 37-year-old former stage actor" who "had been something of a dilettante before joining the CIA."
There, however, he was an expert. And in April 1960, he assured Richard Bissell, the CIA's invasion mastermind, that radio propaganda would produce "the proper psychological climate" for the invasion to trigger a mass Cuban uprising against Castro.
The invasion brigade had only about 1,400 members. Castro's 32,000-man army was supplemented by 200,000 militia members. U.S. intelligence was ignorant of everything from Castro's capabilities to Cubans' psychology.
The invasion still fascinates as, in historian Theodore Draper's description, "one of those rare events in history - a perfect failure." It had a perverse fecundity.
It led to President John Kennedy's decision to demonstrate toughness by deepening U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Rasenberger writes that Kennedy sent Vice President Lyndon Johnson to Saigon: "Johnson's assignment was to deliver a message to [President Ngo Dinh] Diem that the United States intended to fully support the South Vietnamese effort to beat the Communists." (Thirty months later, the U.S. was complicit in the coup in which Diem was murdered.)
The Bay of Pigs led to Khrushchev's disdainful treatment of Kennedy in Vienna, and to his putting missiles in Cuba.
The Watergate shambles involved some Cubans and Americans active in the invasion. On the "smoking gun" Oval Office tape, Richard Nixon directs his aide H.R. Haldeman to urge the CIA to tell the FBI to back off from investigating the burglary by saying, "Look, the problem is that this will open the whole Bay of Pigs thing."
Surely this "thing" should be studied. Unfortunately, the CIA, which you might think had made every mistake possible regarding the invasion, is making another. It is resisting attempts to force the release of the fifth and final volume of its history of it.
A federal appeals court is expected to hear arguments about disclosing the document written in 1981 by CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer, who retired in 1984 and died in 1997. The National Security Archive, a private research institution, is arguing that no important government interest is served by the suppression of a 32-year-old report about a 52-year-old event.
The CIA argues that it should be covered by the "deliberative process privilege" that makes it exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act.
In his 1998 book "Secrecy: The American Experience," Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that secrecy makes government stupid by keeping secrets from itself. Information is property and agencies hoard it. In the 1940s, military code breakers read 2,900 communications between Moscow and its agents in America. So, while the nation was torn by bitter disagreements about whether Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs committed espionage, the military knew they had. But it kept the proof from other parts of the government, including President Harry Truman.
America needs all the caution its history of misadventures should encourage. Since the Bay of Pigs, caution has been scarcer than information justifying it.
GEORGE WILL writes for The Washington Post. firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The current population of Maysville Metro is 17,959 with the median age of 40. Maysville Metro's median household income is $48,483, and the average household net worth is $397,852.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Maysville Metro by age group. In Maysville Metro, the male-to-female ratio is 8,653:9,306, which is 4% lower than the ratio of Kentucky, which is 2,177,254:2,247,987. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Kentucky, has 20% less property crime than the national average, and has 43% less personal crime than the national average
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Maysville Metro that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Maysville Metro, 73% of people are married and 27% of people are single. The percent of people married is 0% lower than the ratio of Kentucky, which is 74%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of Maysville Metro income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Maysville Metro is $48,483, which is 11% higher than that of Kentucky ($43,607). Income data for Maysville Metro is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Maysville Metro. In Maysville Metro, 30% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 18% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 7% lower than that of Kentucky. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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Is Latin America Heading for an Arms Race?
Downie, Andrew, The Christian Science Monitor
Increased defense spending by Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador, coupled with significant arms purchases by Chile and Colombia, may mark the start of an arms race in South America - a region that hasn't seen a major war between nations in decades.
"There is a real risk of it escalating and it could become very dangerous," says Michael Shifter, the vice president of policy at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.
Concern has grown in the wake of recent purchases by Venezuela and Brazil. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, flush with oil money, has spent freely on attack and transport helicopters, Russian fighter planes, and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles.
In neighboring Brazil, which, with half of Latin America's landmass and population, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recently asked Congress to allocate 10.13 billion reais ($5.6 billion) - a 53 percent increase - for its 2008 military budget.
Those increases came after Chile invested significant sums earlier in the decade. Colombia has received hundreds of millions of dollars in US drug-war aid for military purchases. And now Ecuador is also spending more on weapons.
"I think that it is done in different places for different motivations," says Mr. Shifter, who testified before the US Congress last year on the implications of Venezuela's increased military spending. "[Mr.] Chavez is using this as part of mobilizing the country and thinking of a possible attack from the US. In Chile, it is much more about giving the armed forces what they want. Colombia spends because a lot of the [US] aid comes in the form of military equipment."
The problem, continues Shifter, is that "there is tremendous mistrust between countries ... if you don't know what your neighbors' intentions are, then it is natural is to build up as much as you can to prepare for any contingency."
Some South American nations worry about Chavez's ambitions and do not want him to gain a significant military edge.
"Brazil won't say it, but Chavez's build up is what has made it invest in its military," says Reserve Col. Geraldo Lesbat Cavagnari, coordinator of the Strategic Studies Group at Unicamp university in Sao Paulo.
Brazil and Venezuela already vie for political supremacy in South America with Chavez bringing together the radical leftists under his socialist banner and President Lula leading a more measured coalition of social democrats. At this point, the two leaders are friends and the two nations have no border quarrels or historical feuds that could flare up. But there are tensions between Venezuela and Colombia over gas-rich territorial waters and border areas where Colombia's FARC guerrillas are active. …


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Battlefield 4 To See DICE Adopting Multiplayer Elements for Single-Player
Written Friday, June 28, 2013 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
DICE is apparently bringing multiplayer elements into Battlefield 4's single-player campaign, presumably to make it less linear like Battlefield 3's set-piece laden single-player story, while adopting a more open, Bad Company-style approach with loads of vehicles.
"There are signature multiplayer elements that we want to bring into single-player," said DICE General Manager Karl-Magnus Troedsson. "We want to give the player a choice. Do they want to go for the sneaky approach with a sniper rifle and a silenced pistol, or do they want to take a jeep and have the entire squad shoot at everything they see?"
Decisions, decisions. In Battlefield 4, you'll also be able to issue commands to your AI buddies, meaning they can provide covering fire while you flank the enemy, for instance. Environments will also be wide-open spaces that'll feature plenty of vehicles like jetskis, jeeps, helicopters and attack boats to utilise.
You can find out more about Battlefield 4 in the new EA YouTube videos below. The first offers a single-player and multiplayer overview, while the second talks about Levolution, Commander Mode and Battlelog. Battlefield 4 is out on October 29th in North America and November 1st in Europe. Keep your eyes peeled for a hands-on preview this evening.
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Gary Schiff wants city of Minneapolis to send Cruz home police bill to PNC Bank
Schiff doesn't think taxpayers should have to foot the bill for arresting protesters working to keep a family in their home.
Yesterday, the MPD disclosed that the taxpayer cost of all the police work done on and around the now-foreclosed Cruz family last month amounted to $42,429, or nearly the cost of one city employee's salary.
But if City Council member Gary Schiff had his way, Minneapolis taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook for that bill.
Speaking of the $42,429 police expense, Schiff told the Uptake he hopes "we send that off as an invoice to PNC [Bank] and ask them to pay for it."
Occupy Homes activists claim that a computer glitch resulted in a mortgage payment submitted to PNC Bank by the Cruz family not being properly processed. Just days before police's third attempt to evict protestors at the 4044 Cedar Ave. S. property proved successful, activists claimed PNC Executive Vice President Dan Taylor had signaled a willingness to renegotiate the Cruzes' mortgage. The negotiations presumably either broke down or were broken off in advance of the MPD's May 29 raid. Numerous protesters were arrested during the course of three raids orchestrated by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the MPD.
The city seemed lukewarm about doing Freddic Mac's bidding. After the May 29 eviction raid, officials released a statement saying, "[we] reached out to Freddie Mac to say that the City is not in the foreclosure business."
Said Schiff: "There's no way Minneapolis property taxpayers should be footing the bill for [activists] who are trying to keep a family in their home... Arresting every protestor is not a sustainable solution to the foreclosure crisis."
The home is now owned by mortgage lender Freddie Mac. Pittsburgh-based PNC serviced the loan.
Schiff would like to see the city take a more "upstream" role in fending off foreclosures before they happen by encouraging homeowners and banks to renegotiate problematic mortgages before families are evicted.
The city doesn't "necessarily make contact with every family that has started the foreclosure process," Schiff said. "I think we could be more aggressive."
Schiff also pointed out that direct pressure on banks can help keep beleaguered families in their homes. The tale of Colleen McKeen Espinosa and her son Nick is a prime example of that strategy paying dividends. Colleen received a foreclosure notice this winter, but after pressure was exerted on Citibank via social media, a petition drive, and calls to the CEO's office, Citibank contacted Colleen earlier this week to let her know they're willing to renegotiate her mortgage.
"Whether it's Citibank or US Bank, direct pressure on the banks results in significant bad publicity and encourages the banks to renegotiate," Schiff said.
Related coverage:
-- Police efforts at now-foreclosed Cruz family home cost taxpayers $42,429
-- Occupy Homes activist Nick Espinosa helps save his mom's Mpls home from foreclosure
-- Occupy Homes can't defend Cruz family home from third eviction attempt
-- Occupy Homes successfully defends foreclosed Mpls home against 4 a.m. eviction raid [PHOTOS]
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Unfortunately, it looks like the Kincor kit I mention below is no longer available- Kwikee changed the motor enough that it is not possible to take it apart- the unit is not sealed.
An alternate repair method using an Auto Parts store motor is discussed in this RV.NET forum posting.
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Electric steps are one of those luxuries that are a near necessity- in a Motor Home, you often need a step to enter, and yet once you are in, you cannot push a manual step in, and when you are in the rig, pulling the step out is impossible.
The vast majority of electric steps are manufactured by the Kwikee Company. These steps are pretty darn reliable, if the maintenance is performed as required, which is easy- simply lubricate the hinge points with a good quality lubricant. Kwikee sells a very good "Kwik-Lube", which is a kind of "penetrating grease" that starts out thin, but thickens after a few minutes. Others have recommended motorcycle chain lube- I've never tried it, but it sounds like it would be good- a good quality lube which does not attract dirt.
But… even with the best maintenance there are a couple of problems that can crop up. I dealt with the most common today. The step was stuck in the retracted position, so… first I check the voltage to the unit. Next, check the grounds and connections (older models have a 4 way connector which has a tendency to corrode- Kwikee changed that a few years ago- the new ones are much more reliable.
So, I remove the motor assembly from the step frame- 4 bolts and the pin which attaches the arm to the step- the 4 way connector, and the connector between the electronics and the motor. Once the motor is off, it still will not run- even hooked directly to a battery. So, I next remove the actual motor from the gear case (3 screws)- as soon as I pull the screws, the motor case rotates at least 20 degrees, indicating it was in a major bind.
This bind comes from the way the motor is designed. The motors are actually power window motors, and they have a small worm gear on the motor output shaft which engages in a large gear (#2), which in turn is coupled to an output gear(#3). This coupling is made by a triangular cutout in gear #2 which contains three small round plastic inserts that a triangular part on gear #3 fit in to.
The round plastic parts are there to absorb the shock when the step hits the end, so that the other gears don't simply shatter. This works well- until the step gets some age on it, and these small plastic parts get oval, rather than round. This allows the motor to bind up, and because the step electronics sense current draw, and the step motor is drawing a lot of current trying to get out of the bind, the steps get stuck.
Luckily, a company named Kincor has made a gear replacement kit, which includes gear #2, the round plastic parts and a supply of high quality grease. The kit part number is BD52, and it retails for around $30 (a fraction of what a new motor assembly costs).
A quick Google for more information yielded an FMCA Magazine writeup on this kit- along with a picture and company contact information.
Kwikee Step Repair by Chris Bryant is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


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A couple dozen Clark County residents learned about some of the obscure elements and more common components of federal health care reform at a presentation Monday night.
Among the obscure: a new tax on indoor tanning, pumping breast milk at the workplace becoming a federally protected right, and tax credits for people who adopt children.
Among the more well-known: young adults can stay on their parents' insurance plan until age 26, children and adults cannot be denied health insurance due to pre-existing conditions, and tax credits for small businesses offering health insurance to their employees.
Bianca Stoner, an analyst and consumer advocate at the Office of the Washington State Insurance Commissioner, provided those tidbits during a 90-minute presentation on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as health care reform. Clark County Public Health hosted the event.
Stoner explained the components of health care reform that have already gone into effect and what changes are still to come.
Some insurance plans have been "grandfathered" and won't be required to implement all of the changes until full reform goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014. But for the plans that are not grandfathered, here are some changes that have already been made:
• As of October 2010, insurance companies cannot deny children coverage due to pre-existing conditions. As a result, some insurance companies said they wouldn't insure kids at all. The state insurance commissioner, however, prohibited the action, Stoner said.
• As of Sept. 23, 2010, children can remain on their parents' insurance plan until age 26. Parents can add their adult child at the time of their plan renewal so long as the child doesn't have an offer for insurance through their own employer, Stoner said. In 2014, adult children can remain on the plan even if they have another offer for insurance, she said.
• Adults with serious pre-existing conditions can join the state's Pre-Existing Insurance Pool. Most of the plan's current 500 members have serious conditions such as cancer or are pregnant, Stoner said.
• As of Oct. 23, 2010, insurance companies cannot impose lifetime limits on essential coverage. Also, annual limits on essential coverage will increase each year, Stoner said. The only glitch: the federal government has yet to define "essential coverage," but that definition will come, Stoner said.
• Insurance plans and Medicare have to offer preventive care such as immunizations, well-baby and annual check-ups at no cost to the patient, Stoner said.
Here are some additional changes to expect when full reform goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014:
• Insurance companies cannot deny adults coverage or impose lengthy waiting periods for acceptance due to pre-existing conditions.
• Small businesses with 25 or more employees can get a tax credit for providing insurance coverage to employees.
• Washington state will have its own insurance exchange that requires certain categories of health plans to all offer the same elements. This will make it easier for consumers to compare plans apples-to-apples, Stoner said. "Navigators" will help guide consumers through the exchange, she said.
• Subsidies will be available to help people purchase individual insurance coverage. People earning up to 400 percent of the poverty level (a single person making $42,000 per year) will be eligible, Stoner said.
• Businesses with 50 or more employees that don't provide insurance coverage will be penalized if even one employee purchases coverage through the exchange, Stoner said.
For more information about health care reform, visit Clark County Public Health at http://www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/insurance/health_reform.html or the Office of the Insurance Commissioner at http://www.insurance.wa.gov.
Marissa Harshman: 360-735-4546; http://twitter.com/col_health; http://facebook.com/reporterharshman; firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mark Wahlberg popping up around New MexicoUPDATED 12:41 PM MDT Oct 11, 2012
Movie star Mark Wahlberg has been seen all around the Land of Enchantment while filming a pair of projects.
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Cartersville, GA | 40 yrs old | 5 years experience | full-time <$10-15/hr
Meet Patches
I was a caregiver for my brother's children for 5 years. The kids' ages were 6 months and 5 years. I also have 5 children of my own. My schedule is very flexible.
Has transportation
Willing to travel
30 miles
Comfortable with pets
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