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James J. Landis, Thomas V. Franco, Paul "Jeff" Amon and Joseph P. Amon were named in the indictment. Landis, owner of Mum's the Word Florist in Boardman, is accused of conspiring with the Amon brothers, owners of M and J Properties Group Inc., a Canfield construction business.
The indictment alleges that Landis told Joseph Amon about financial difficulties at the florist shop. About a week later, Paul Amon returned with Franco to Landis' shop, and the three agreed that Franco would drive a truck into the shop, pretending it was an accident, according to the indictment.
Franco drove the vehicle into the florist shop Jan. 27, 2010. Landis would later receive $73,423.57 from Travelers Insurance, and Franco would receive $11,925.27 for the damaged vehicle from Grange Insurance. Westford Insurance sustained a loss of $9,056.33 from claims related to the crash, records state.
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Landis was charged with possessing a firearm while being prohibited from doing so under a protection order in August 2010 as part of the Violence, Gun Reduction Interdiction Program (V-GRIP). He had been the subject of a protection order through the common pleas court prohibiting him from harassing, stalking or threatening an intimate partner, according to Vindicator and court records.
All four of these "low-lifes" have been in trouble with the law for years, the police and insurance investigators did a good job uncovering this plot! Send them to prison so they can associate with their own "kind" and finally answer to consequences long overdue!
They were just generating a cash flow subculture style . . . ..
Jam Landis is one of the biggest scum buckets I have ever come across...he is low life womanizing trash and I wish nothing but the worst for him...


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Dan Kaercher finds a great place along the Missouri river to dine on everything from country fried steak to lamb wellington to pork osso bucco. It's Bev's on the River in Sioux City.
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Our day begins near our previous stop in Akron with breakfast at Akron Jo's. What is it about Iowa breakfast places like this? I observe several tables of farmers in overalls and seed-corn caps, solving the world's problems over coffee and gooey cinnamon rolls. I wonder what they think of the strangers in town (that would be us)? Before we can get acquainted, it's time to head south to Sioux City to begin setting up for our next Simple Pleasures video shoot. On the highway, we nose between the Big Sioux River on one side and the northernmost remnants of Iowa's Loess Hills on the other. It's a short but pretty drive.
We're a bit early so, what the heck, we grab another bite downtown, this time at a local legend: Milwaukee Weiner House No. 1. My chili dog (actually, I had two) reminds me of the slightly cinnamony chili they famously serve over spaghetti in Cincinnati, Ohio. It makes sense when the owners introduce themselves and tell me about, among other things, their Greek heritage. Cincinnati's chili parlor owners are descended from Greeks as well. I'm told the Weiner House is just one of several long-standing and much-loved eateries in town; I make a mental note to return and sample the others.
Time to get back to work ... and more eating! Bev's is located right on the Missouri River, almost in the shadow of the arching bridge that connects Sioux City and South Sioux City, Nebraska. Not far away is the fascinating Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center that I've visited before. A busy marina with a riverside bar called Jolly Rogers, and a Hilton Garden Inn flank either side of the restaurant. It's quite a complex, and one that gives me a fresh image of the impressively revitalized Sioux City waterfront.
As I check out the bike trail between Bev's and the riverbank, I'm told that the Missouri is one of America's fastest-flowing major rivers. It's apparent when you really study the current rushing past. Still, the river is popular with recreational boaters as well as grain barges. Some folks have even boated from as far as St. Louis and the Omaha area, mooring their craft at the marina before enjoying an evening at Bev's.
It's clear one of the co-owners, Larry Miller (who owns the business with his wife and a brother), is proud-as-can-be of his restaurant and the adjoining hotel, both of which are just a couple years old. Larry had a long career in the restaurant business, among other enterprises, and he tells me that his mother, Bev Miller, was known by many in Sioux City as a waitress years ago. Hence, the restaurant's name Photos of Larry's mother and father grace the fireplace just inside the main entry.
All the food photography and sampling we're doing remind me of my 2005 Taste of the Midwest tour, when I was still editor-in-chief of Midwest Living magazine. I put on 10 ½ pounds in 40-odd days on the road! Oh well, I'll eat anything for a good cause, like this show. And it won't take much convincing to bring me back here for the dishes I sample, compliments of talented, Sioux City native chef Rick Beaulieu. Rick studied under Emeril Lagasse in New Orleans. Among the dishes I sampled were pork osso bucco, smoked chicken pizza, chicken potpie, and a fish creation, capped off with a bread pudding drizzled with a creamy bourbon sauce. Rick characterizes the cuisine here as casual American and to me it is all as satisfying as comfort food ... yet very creatively prepared and artfully presented. I'm certainly not alone here: The place seats 200, with adjoining banquet facilities for up to 400.
We wrap up our evening on the outside terrace by the river, treated to a live performance by a Sioux City singer and musician Mike Langley who says he's returned here after years spent in Europe. It's more evidence of the surprising talent awaiting in this Missouri River metropolis. Whether it's food or music, or both, Sioux City leaves me very impressed.
Off to the south side of town, where I rest my contented head not far from the obelisk-shaped Sergeant Floyd monument, recalling this area's ties to the Lewis and Clark Expedition that passed through here more than 200 years ago. What changes two centuries have brought!
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If you're looking to get silly, you'd better go back to from where you came
Posted on 08:47, July 20th, 2011 by Lew
Dear Martin Warriner,
In objecting to the addition of macrons to Māori place names on the Kāpiti coast, you are quoted as saying that you "emigrated to New Zealand, not to "Māoriland"." For your information, this is New Zealand, this is how we do. I understand you feel as if your colonial superiority is under siege, but how's this: we won't tell you how to represent your culture, and you don't tell us how to do ours. Fair enough?
If not, it isn't too late to piss off back home if you don't like it. Perhaps you could take John Ansell with you.
Posted in cultural difference, identity, Language, Take Māori | 20 Comments | Read More »
Katerina Mataira, moe mai ra
Posted on 23:05, July 17th, 2011 by Lew
Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira has died. Dame Katerina's contribution to the survival of te reo Māori was enormous. She was one of the driving forces behind the renewal of the reo following generations during which its use in the education system was officially punished, causing matua and kaumatua to become reluctant to teach it to their tamariki mokopuna. She did this largely by what are essentially traditional methods; by promulgating the Te Ataarangi immersion-teaching method. Most simply and perhaps most crucially, she used the reo, illustrating that it is a living language, coining terms in reo which previously existed only as loanwords or bare transliterations; the most famous is probably 'rorohiko' (literally 'lightning brain'; computer). She was also one of few authors to write prose novels in te reo, among her other works.
Her passing made me think of what is probably the greatest recent achievement of Māori — the Kōhanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa Māori immersion schooling systems, which have probably done more for Māori cultural wellbeing than any other set of initiatives. Beyond a simple mode of communication, a language represents a store of knowledge which cannot be losslessly translated; it has encoded within it māori (in the pre-Williams sense of 'normal' or 'ordinary' rather than referring to a race) cultural and historical meaning; and its use enables its users to tap into that baseline culture, granting them access to a resource they cannot find elsewhere. Sir James Henare described te reo as "the core of our Māori culture and mana" and asked, "if the language dies, as some predict, what do we have left to us?" and further, "the language is like a cloak which clothes, envelopes, and adorns the myriad of one's thoughts." Sir Mason Durie, who quoted Henare, also argues that the struggle for te reo "typifies Māori determination to assert a positive cultural identity in a contemporary world" (in Te Mana, Te Kawanatanga, p59). Many others have described the importance of te reo to Māori; these are just examples close to hand.
Dame Katerina's death brought kōhanga and kura to my mind not only for these reasons, but because they are exemplars of effective public policy delivered through and mostly by the communities they target. They are what, if we are very fortunate and work very hard, Whānau Ora could be like. Looking at their success and looking at the potential for similar achievements in other fields, it is disappointing that the left so dogmatically opposes more initiatives along these lines, deriding them as "privatisation of welfare", or as "pork and puha politics for Tariana's mates" before they've even gotten started.
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The r and the e: Lobby if you want 'em
Posted on 12:35, August 5th, 2010 by Lew
I agree with DPF, that for the sake of historical correctness, Wellington's Majoribanks Street should probably be changed to Marjoribanks, and Nairn Street should probably be changed to Nairne, since that's how the names are properly spelt. This is precisely the argument I made with regard to Whanganui, and as DPF says it's no different. But as is so often the case, the idiots of the KBR are reflexively shrieking "racism" because Wellington City Council aren't recommending a change to the NZ Geographic Board.
The lack of a change is not racism: it's that nobody seems to care. Whanganui Māori got their name change after decades of concerted and organised lobbying, public demonstration, private petition, backroom negotiation, research and campaigning on the topic. What would be racist is to expect that these changes in Wellington — trivial though they are — should go through as of right just because one historian thinks they should. The decision to change an entrenched name is and must remain a matter of civil society deliberation: those who favour the change lobby for it; those who oppose it lobby against it, both bring whatever evidence and principled arguments they can to the discourse, and those authorities empowered to decide the matter do so in accordance with appropriate legislation and customs. So, to those who want the names of Stewart Marjoribanks and Alexander Nairne properly recognised, I say: start lobbying!
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I write like…
Posted on 13:36, July 16th, 2010 by Lew
Via PC, a nifty tool: feed it some text and it tells you who you write like.
From a more-or-less random sample of my writing on this site, more than 50% comes back telling me I write like David Foster Wallace. I'd never heard about him until now, but wikipedia lists his form as "postmodern literature" and "hysterical realism". I can see how that cap would fit. But Wallace hanged himself in 2008. That's not so good.
Outliers include the post from the other day about tits and teeth news presenter selection, which is like Stephen King, possibly confirming Pablo's dim view of it. The dam breaks, my only real attempt at satire, apparently reads like James Joyce. My epic and furious response to Chris Trotter from a while back is in the style of H P Lovecraft, which I think is rather fitting.
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Of Llamas and Lamas
Posted on 14:35, July 1st, 2010 by Lew
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And to bring the post back around to the topic of Chinese authoritarianism and responses thereto, with a bonus llama connection: The Song of the Grass-Mud Horse made a splash a year or so ago, as a protest against the Chinese government's internet "harmony" policy. The video is below (and contains necessary obscenity):
This graphically illustrates a point that shouldn't need to be mentioned, but often does, and of which I was not fully conscious until I spent some time in China: for all that they are propagandised as such in the West, the Chinese are not simply mute automata struggling under the heel of their dictators. The public sphere, however constrained it might be by our standards, exists — and the diversity of views aired in it is increasing, not decreasing.
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The dam breaks
Posted on 09:33, June 30th, 2010 by Lew
"Where does the political correctness end?"
That's the question from Michael Laws in response to the shocking news that local Māori are calling for "Rimutaka" to be changed to "Remutaka". His dire predictions are coming to pass. The savage, foreign spelling of Whanganui has been coercively imposed by the forces of craven self-hating white PC liberality upon the good burghers of Wanganui — sorry, I mean Wonganewy — and now every Māori place-name in the country is going to be similarly stripped of the light patina of civilisation bestowed upon it by the linguistic touch of the God-fearing right-thinking settler.
As local councillor John Tenquist — or should that be Tinquist? — says, it's always been that way for more than his 76 years, so that's how it should always be:
Of course. Those old people knew what they were doing back then when they changed the name. Wouldn't have done it without a reason. Back in those days, they knew that eating at the dining table was the final bulwark against the collapse of Western civilisation, betokened nowadays by so much more than the creeping advance of Hori-fied place names. We are losing our grip, little by little. We even have to sing the national anthem in Māori — and the Māori version first, even though they didn't write it! Our country's most-trusted citizen and most-decorated war hero is a Māori. We've got a Māori flag, a Māori All Black team, and half our goals at the World Cup were scored by a Māori! I fully expect that by the time of the 2014 World Cup we'll be fielding a team called the All Browns. In the unlikely event that we can qualify, given the well-known lack of footballing skill possessed by those not of European extraction.
And would you look at that: Mayor Michael was right all along. Once again, spearheading this frontal assault on all that is right and proper are those bloody river Māoris and their unpronounceable names:
The Mairist Republic of Whanganuistan draws ever closer. And we're supposed to call the highest peak in the Wellington region after something some savage once sat his arse on?
It's past time for New Zealand's downtrodden, powerless, disenfranchised white majority to rise up, and let the clarion cry be heard: "Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, we're being repressed!"
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Summary of joke news coverage
Posted on 08:26, May 14th, 2010 by Lew
"John Key has made a meal out of ongoing Treaty negotiations with Ngāi Tūhoe, remarking at dinner with representatives from neighbouring iwi Ngāti Porou that if he were in Tūhoe country, it would be him on the menu. Tūhoe have found his comments hard to swallow, with lead negotiator Tamati Kruger saying the remark was in "poor taste." Others believe the gag should be taken with a grain of salt, as a self-deprecating reference to the roasting Key has received since ruling out the return of Te Urewera National Park. The decision has soured iwi relations with the government, and effectively put negotiations on the back burner."
(Some artistic license employed, but I've seen each of these puns in bona fide media coverage over the past 24 hours.)
Update: It seems nobody other than ak and I have the stomach for a pun-fest. Oh well.
Still, better to remain silent than engage in the shrieking, confused and exploitative orgy of idiotude on display at The Standard. Its only meaningful distinction from the response of the KBR seems to be the lack of ginga jokes. And the comments are a bit shorter. A shame, because there was some reasonable sense from both posters and commentariat on this topic yesterday.
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Current events
Posted on 13:53, April 27th, 2010 by Lew
I was reluctant to post while I had the chance on ANZAC day, since there was such a good debate going on, and now I've (temporarily) run out of time again. So just a few quick observations.
Ok, so not so brief after all. Discuss. I'll dive back in as I can. You can treat this as an open thread as well: post what you want to talk about.
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A little sanity from Laws
Posted on 10:50, January 27th, 2010 by Lew
I often find myself thinking of a saying which I've seen variously described as Arabian, African and Chinese, but which I'm pretty sure every culture has in its own version:
Michael Laws and the formerly-divided Wanganui District Council have unanimously condemned the adoption by media (TVNZ, Radio NZ and other outsiders) of the standard Māori pronunciation of "Fonganui", while quietly endorsing the new "Whanganui" spelling as an official alternative. In an expression of the last phrase of the proverb above, the council also resolved to "work with local Māori leaders to draw up a guideline for national media and organisations as to how the city should be pronounced."
Quite apart from being an almost unprecedented — and very welcome — indication of goodwill from Laws and his settler-majority council toward tangata whenua, this also marks a subtle shift away from the bombastic demagoguery of the h debate to a sort of diplomacy, perhaps a realisation that civil society solutions to complex political identity problems come about by education and negotiation; they require change by consent. This was the fundamental difference between the pro-h and anti-h arguments in the great h debate of oh-nine: the anti-h position was presriptive, insisting that it had to be a "Wanganui" for everyone with no tolerance for dissent. The pro-h position was about recognition, insisting that "Whanganui" be acknowledged as having preeminence, but not enforcing this usage in an absolute fashion.
But ultimately (although Laws and the council may not have gotten this point) pronunciation is a different question. Pronunciation and dialect in Māori remains an expression of a speaker's rangatiratanga. Māori was, and to a large extent remains a dialectic language where howyou say something provides important context about who you are and what you're saying — a concept somewhat unfamiliar to many Pākehā New Zealanders who are used to a reasonably homogeneous accent, but one which will be very familiar to anyone familiar with the USA or the UK. This is why you'll hear Māori from elsewhere in the country pronouncing it "Fonganui" without much objection from Whanganui Māori, and why you'll hear Whanganui Māori pronouncing "Whakatane" as "Wakatane", as well as "wānau" or "ware" or "wakarongo mai", and while it may draw sniggers from speakers of other dialects, it is generally recognised as a manifestation of Whanganuitanga to speak this way. For their part the Whanganui (and Taranaki*) Māori are proud of their dialect much as Texans or Geordies are. Tariana Turia, in speeches, has described just such situations, such as when visiting relatives from the Tongariro region, the children teased her for poor pronunciation. Far from being ashamed by this, it was a small source of pride for her and a matter of her own mana and Whanganuitanga, a recognition of the small differences between relations which throw the much more important commonalities into sharp relief.
All this is a somewhat roundabout way of saying that, while it's wonderful that Laws and the council have seen the need to ally with their cousins and neighbours against the world, and moreover have (apparently) seen the need to do so in a diplomatic and non-coercive manner, this is a battle they simply may not win because there is an important distinction between standing on your own mana and trying to force others to adopt your ways, requiring them to sacrifice their own mana in doing so.
* Māori Language Commissioner Ruakere Hond is leading the campaign to promote the Taranaki dialect.
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Conservatives speak a different language
Posted on 21:47, September 29th, 2009 by Pascals Bookie
… and often I don't understand it.
Pretty much every time I see the term 'Social Engineering' used I think the writer has got it backwards.
Mark Krikorian writes in a short post at NRO's corner blog:
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Leaving aside the merits of the US immigration debate and other aspects of Krikorian's post*, I find the use of 'social engineering' here to be fascinating. I understand his point well enough, (and I'd rather not dwell on it), but what grabs me is that social engineering here can only mean the actions of his opponents, it could never be applied to his own policy. It's a code of some sort, it no longer means just what the words say.
Obviously much of what governments do is social engineering of one sort or another. The criminal justice system is in place largely to deter and punish behaviours. Taxes are used to encourage some activities over others and so on. These sorts of things are never termed social engineering though. SE is almost always a bad thing. This much I can understand and be quite comfortable with. Whatever 'social engineering' is, it's something that goes against freedom, and we are all liberals now pretty much, with the arguments being about how best to maximise (and define) liberty.
What I don't understand is that whenever the term is actually used nowadays, it seems to be aimed at policies that remove some aspect of State control over the shape of society. In the example above, Krikorian seems to be saying that open borders would be an extreme example of social engineering. To me that is precisely wrong. A strict immigration policy, aimed at keeping a nations demographics in some sort of racial or cultural stasis would be a far better fit for the label 'social engineering'. Given what the words mean.
If the US government was forcibly dragging non-white immigrants to the US in order to deliberately alter the demograhic mix, or refusing white applicants entry, then he'd have a point. That would meet the natural definition for SE. But they aren't doing anything like that.
The same applies to arguments around gay marriage and state recognition of de-facto relationships. Surely when the state is recognising the relationships that people have, and not discriminating between them, then that is the opposite of what the words 'social engineering' actually mean.
And on the contrary, when the state did discriminate on those grounds and deliberately favoured some relationships over others, (and even made some relationships illegal), in order to foster a particular style of domestic arrangement that was felt to be most beneficial for society, then that is, quite precisely, 'social engineering'.
So is all this just projection on the part of conservatives, or are they adding (or subtracting) some meaning to the term that I'm not seeing?
* I'll just say that his links are interesting, as are the uses he puts them to.
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Good morning. A big number this morning with the Q1 GDP report, as concern grows that the world's biggest economy is heading for a spring slump. Consensus estimates put growth in the year's first three months at 2.5%, down from 3% in the fourth quarter.
Growth likely cooled from the previous quarter as replenishing of inventories by businesses slowed, though stronger demand for automobiles and a lift to homebuilding from warm weather blunted the blow, says Reuters. "Details of the report are expected to offer a picture of underlying strength, with even home construction poised to rise at its fastest pace since the second quarter of 2010 thanks to the unusually warm winter."
The more forward-looking Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers is seen slipping to 75.7 this month from 76.2 in March.
Earnings: Chevron, Ford, Goodyear, International Paper, KKR, Merck, Procter & Gamble
Markets flash: Asian markets slumped and European stocks yo-yoed as investors digested Spain's downgrade. DJIA futures rose 10 points.
S&P dividend on pace for record. Aggregate dividend payouts among Standard & Poor's 500 index members are on pace to hit a record this year, Maxwell Murphy reports. The anticipated payout among all of the companies is $279 billion, according to S&P senior index analyst Howard Silverblatt, a number he says may be revised higher. But this trend could soon reverse if dividend taxes soar next year, a possibility under current legislative proposals. In that case, companies may seek to return value to shareholders through buybacks instead.
Pernod Ricard tweaks its debt again. French spirits maker Pernod Ricard extended its debt maturities by entering into a new, multi-currency, revolving credit facility, Murphy reports. The facility is for about $3.3 billion and matures in five years, and replaces three separate revolvers that were set to mature next year. CFO Gilles Bogaert told CFO Journal in the fall that dealing with debt was the company's top priority.
GM CFO's pay hit by government ownership. The pay of GM CFO Daniel Amman, who was promoted from treasurer a year ago, is being significantly constrained by the U.S. Treasury's 30% stake in the auto maker. Amman's compensation last year was valued at $3.5 million, which GM said in a filing, "was limited by the [TARP appointed] Special Master, and it remains below median, including his total cash compensation, which is below a competitive level." Comparatively, Lewis Booth, Ford's recently retired CFO, received compensation valued at $7.7 million last year.
Wal-Mart not alone running afoul of FCPA. Wal-Mart may be getting all the attention for allegedly bribing Mexican officials but it's certainly not alone, Fortune's Stephen Gandel writes. Two more examples came this week as the SEC charged former Morgan Stanley executive Garth Peterson with bribing an official of a state-owned Chinese company in order to win business for the investment firm, and media conglomerate News Corp. confirmed that it too was the subject of a U.S. bribery investigation. At least 81 public companies are under investigation by the SEC or the Justice Department for running afoul of the FCPA, according to the FCPA Blog.
CFOs getting riskier with cash — slightly. Corporate treasurers frustrated by sometimes negative returns holding ultra-safe government debt are beginning to take on more risk with their cash holdings, for example by moving into longer-dated bonds, according to CFO.com. CFOs and treasurers "are in the most difficult place they have been in their careers," says Paul Montaquila, vice president of fixed income at Bank of the West. "With Treasury bills trading at 20 basis points, a 50 basis point to 60 basis point return [on a term CD] is absolutely worth it."
Cooling China casting pall over U.S., Europe firms. Some big U.S. and European companies are at risk of losing one of their surest of growth bets as the Chinese economy slows to a three-year low, according to Reuters. Caterpillar, 3M, United Technologies and ABB are among manufacturers reporting weak performances in China in the first quarter. That's making investors nervous even as Western CEOs predict rapid growth from the government's easing monetary policy and expansion into faster-growing cities inland.
U.S. companies keep slashing IT. Corporate executives are continuing to cut budgets and delay information technology investments despite coffers full of cash, the Journal reports. The pullback is being seen in sluggish dollar-denominated sales for India's biggest IT companies. "They are asking us to do more and more and more with less," says Ricardo Bartra, chief information officer for the Americas for courier company DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post.
Why the jobs data aren't improving. More signs of a spring slump in economic growth emerged yesterday in the jobless claims data, but an analysis by the Journal's Scott Thurm shows the problem isn't that companies aren't hiring, they're just not hiring enough in the U.S. While 35 big U.S.-based multinational companies added jobs much faster than other employers in the past two years, nearly three-fourths of the slots were overseas, he writes. Companies including Wal-Mart, International Paper and Honeywell boosted their overseas staff by more than 333,000 from 2009 to 2011, triple the amount hired in the U.S.
Goldman pulled deeper into Galleon probe. Investigations are deepening into the potential involvement of Goldman Sachs employees in the Galleon insider-trading ring, the WSJ's Michael Rothfeld and Reed Albergotti write. Prosecutors and securities regulators are looking into whether a senior Goldman investment banker gave Galleon hedge-fund traders advance word of pending healthcare deals, they write, citing people familiar with the matter.
FTC hires top-gun to take on Google. The Federal Trade Commission said it enlisted a seasoned lawyer to help lead its antitrust investigation into whether Google abused its dominance in Web-search advertising, the Journal reports. While the commission hasn't decided whether to file a lawsuit against the Internet giant, the hiring of Beth Wilkinson — a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and former Justice Department prosecutor — signals that the commission is prepared to take its case to court, if necessary.
Europe's slow death by a thousand cuts. Standard & Poor's slashed Spain's credit rating for the second time this year — two steps to BBB+ — on concern the government will have to provide more support to banks as the economy contracts, while Greece gears up for a May 6 vote that may decide the future of the euro, according to Bloomberg. The first country to take an international bailout is entering the final stretch of its first election campaign since becoming a "global financial pariah," with polls showing no party gaining a mandate to enforce the austerity policies needed to stay in the euro, Maria Petrakis writes. Adding to the uncertainty surrounding Europe's future, France's François Holland, who has promised to renegotiate the stability treaty, is poised to win the May run-off vote to become the next president.
Murdoch expresses 'regret,' spreads blame. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch called phone hacking at the News of the World "totally wrong, and I regret it," while accusing a senior lawyer at the shuttered paper of being behind a "culture of cover-up," the FT reports. "The News of the World, I'll be quite honest, was an aberration and it's my fault," he said at the Leveson inquiry. "The senior executives were all . . . misinformed and shielded from anything that was going on there."
China's yuan sets new record. The Chinese central bank guided the yuan to a fresh record high for the second straight day after renewed pressure from Washington, the Journal's Shen Hong and Wynne Wang report. The People's Bank of China set the dollar/yuan central parity rate at 6.2787, the lowest level since China depegged its currency from the dollar in 2005. The move came despite consensus among investors that the days of fast yuan appreciation are over.
Every Friday we select a handful of in-depth articles we think are worth a bit of your valuable weekend time, either because they peel back the layers on a compelling business story, or somehow make us look at business in a different light.
- Inside Silicon Valley's farm system. Railroad robber baron Leland Stanford had a dream of turning farmland south of San Francisco into a new sort of university that would qualify students for "direct usefulness in life." Traipsing around Stanford's "startlingly paradisial" campus, the New Yorker's Ken Auletta finds the dream realized. Ties to the nearby tech industry have made Stanford the "intellectual nexus of the information economy." Silicon Valley alpha dogs are a constant presence on campus–teaching, recruiting, offering millions to various buildings, drinking lattes, etc. The school has generated $1.3 billion in royalties from campus-inspired tech inventions alone. Meanwhile every student in flip-flops aspires to build the next Instagram. But some wonder whether Stanford—and its president–are a bit too cozy with Silicon Valley to the detriment of a more well-rounded education.
- The two faces of Ben Bernanke. First there was Professor Bernanke, a man not yet chairman of the Federal Reserve, who carefully studied the Great Depression as well as modern Japan, and said the policy responses in both cases had been far too timid. But then, writes Paul Krugman for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, there was Chairman Bernanke, a man who followed his own advice when it came to rescuing the financial system, but then avoided taking the steps available to him to address a lingering malaise of the Great Recession: unemployment. Among the policies that pre-Fed Bernanke suggested, but has yet to try, is to raise the inflation target above its current 2%, so as to discourage companies from sitting on all of their cash. "The Fed under Bernanke is by no means the worst sinner in this failure of intellect and will, and you can argue that Ben Bernanke has done a better job than anyone else who might have held his position," Krugman writes. "Yet the fact is, he has not done remotely enough."
- Leaders, change thyself. Change comes easier to those companies that make leadership development part of any company-wide improvement effort, says McKinsey Quarterly. "Far too often, leaders ask everyone else to change, but in reality this usually isn't possible until they first change themselves," the authors write. These development efforts should include a focus on what the authors call "softer" skills, from keeping employees inspired by getting out of the office and visiting the trenches, to building a network of leaders who "got your back," so to speak. The authors argue that companies can see real returns on investment from these basic changes in leadership style.
- U.K.-based drug maker AstraZeneca named Chief Financial Officer Simon Lowth as interim chief executive. He succeeds David Brennan, who resigned amid questions about the company's drug pipeline. Chairman Louis Schweitzer said in a press release, "I know we can count on Simon's leadership, supported by a strong and experienced Senior Executive Team, to maintain focus and momentum as the Board seeks a smooth transition to a new chief executive over the coming months."
- Republic Services, a waste disposal company based in Phoenix, said that Chief Financial Officer Tod C. Holmes plans to retire next year on May 1, 2013. Holmes received compensation in 2011 valued at $11.6 million, according to a proxy filing.
- Allscripts, based in Chicago, said that Chief Financial Officer William J. Davis will resign May 18. He will be succeeded in an interim capacity by W. David Morgan, currently senior vice president of finance, according to an 8-K. Davis received compensation in fiscal 2010 valued at $1.7 million, according to a proxy filing.
- Ingram Micro, a technology logistics company based in Santa Ana, Calif., promoted Chief Financial Officer William D. Humes to chief operating officer. His base salary is being increased to $650,000, and his target bonus will be 90% of his base, according to an 8-K. Humes will retain the CFO title. He received compensation in 2011 valued at $2 million, according to a proxy filing.


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Ramsey Lewis: Song of India
Song of India
Ramsey Lewis Trio
Consider the Source (Chess GRD-806)
Ramsey Lewis (piano), Eldee Young (bass), Red Holt (drums).
Composed by Rimsky-Korsakov; arranged by Lewis/Young/Holt.
Recorded: Chicago, April 22, 1959
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
By the mid-'50s, Ahmad Jamal's open stylings had convinced Miles Davis that his keyboardist, Red Garland, should emulate Jamal some. Meanwhile, another pianist (like Jamal, based in Chicago) was listening to all of them, already persuaded of the efficacy in funky, percussive playing leaving lots of space. Before Ramsey Lewis's spacious, churchified threesome became one for the history books (pop-master Lewis actually revealing himself to be more limited than his breakaway cohorts Young-Holt Unlimited), his fledgling trio cut some fine post-bop piano albums full of expansive interplay—ą la the later, much-vaunted Bill Evans/Scott La Faro/Paul Motian three. The best of these albums was An Hour with The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo LP 645), which truly was nearly an hour long and richer for it.
The available CD (reissuing a paltry part only) includes shorter, boppier tracks rather than the exotic ballads from that splendid 5-hour, single-takes session, during which Lewis struck lone notes and tremulous chords, Young essayed arco strings and gently arching solos, and Holt was all-over percussive, finger bells to cymbals to hand-drumming, for tunes as diverse as "Angel Eyes," a misterioso "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" and "The Ruby and the Pearl." Fortunately, the brief "Song of India" did make the reissue cut, so listeners can get a taste of the trio's moody changes and beautiful exotica-funk—and maybe lament the too-soon demise of some rich possibilities. All three musicians enjoyed later success, but they may have been at their jazzy best when together in 1959.
Reviewer: Ed Leimbacher
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Emergency contraceptive.
My toes have just been really weird for a few months and got much worse recently. Some red patches on a few toes of each foot, that are sometimes itchy, usually just sensitive and painful. The whole toe feels stiff and achy a lot of the time. Seems very temperature sensitive. Always feels AWFUL after a shower (cleaned the shower floor well just in case it was a fungal thing, didn't help). Tea tree oil doesn't seem to help, so I'm trying to make a regular regimen of care to see if I can fix whatever it is. I should really just go to a doctor though =\. It's kind of scary waking up to toes you can barely move.


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Taboo - talon-clipping charm - Tarantallegra - Tergeo - Thief's Curse - Thief's Downfall - Tickling Charm - time travel - toenail-growing hex - Tongue-Tying Curse - Trace, the - Transmogrifian Torture - Trip Jinx - Twitchy Ears Hex
no incantation given
"taboo", Eng. forbidden, particularly when forbidden by social custom
When put on a word, anyone who then says that word becomes trackable by the caster; saying the word breaks protective enchantments and causes some kind of magical disturbance.
The Death Eaters placed a Taboo on the word "Voldemort", reasoning that only serious opposition such as the Order of the Phoenix would use it (DH20)
Harry accidentally broke the magical protections around the campsite where he was staying by slipping and saying the name as he had been used to doing for years, forgetting that it was Taboo (DH22).
The choice of name for this effect is neat; there was already a social taboo on saying the name before the spell was ever cast.
talon-clipping charm
no incantation given
A charm used for dragon care.
Harry found this spell in a book in the Hogwarts library when researching ways to overcome the Hungarian Horntail in the first task (GF20).
Tarantallegra (TAIR-an-tuh-LEG-ruh)
"tarantella" It. dance associated with the tarantula, from Taranto, a city in Italy + "allegro" It. fast
Forces the victim's legs to do a crazy dance.
Dolohov used this spell on Neville during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (OP35).
Tergeo (tair-GAY-oh)
"tergeo" L. to wipe off, to wipe dry; to scour, to clean
Cleans up the target object or person.
Hermione used this spell to siphon blood off Harry's face, which had been left there after his nose had been broken by Draco Malfoy (HBP8)
Ron used this spell to siphon oven grease off his handkerchief so that he could lend it to Hermione, who had just burst into tears (DH6).
Harry used this spell to remove dust from some of the framed photographs in Bathilda Bagshot's house (DH17).
no incantation given
An unspecified bit of nastiness which can be cast on someone who steals something.
People who stand too long reading Quidditch Through the Ages in a shop without buying it might find themselves the object of this curse (QA).
no incantation given
A waterfall that can be released over the track at Gringotts that has the effect of washing away all enchantment, all magical concealment.
This was released against Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Griphook during their raid on the Lestranges' vault. It removed the effects of Polyjuice Potion from Hermione, of a number of small charms and Transfigurations from Ron, and lifted the Imperius Curse from Bogrod, whom they had compelled to accompany them. It did not, however, damage Harry's Invisibility Cloak or other magical items that they had with them (DH25).
See RICTUSEMPRA.
See TITILLANDO.
no incantation used; by magical device only
An extremely dangerous magical effect, allows a person to travel back in time. Because of the potential for catastrophe should history be altered, time travel is all but forbidden in wizarding society. Certain magical devices can be used for time travel, but access to them is strictly controlled.
Hermione once used a Time-Turner to repeat hours of the day and take more classes than would otherwise have been possible (PA21).
The Pensieve and Tom Riddle's diary allowed a form of time travel, although the person or persons traveling were not actually part of the time they entered. Instead, they became observers, unseen and unheard. This form of time travel is tied to stored memories and the traveller views the past from a vantage point near the person whose memories are used. This form of time travel might be better termed "memory travel."
Time is studied in one of the rooms of the Department of Mysteries; a Death Eater whose head fell into a huge bell jar in that room was changed from the neck up into a baby (OP35).
"Tickling Spell"
A curse which causes the victim to be tickled.
Similar to the charm Rictusempra, but nastier, apparently, since it's found in the book Curses and Counter-Curses (Pm).
no incantation given
Causes the target's toenails to grow alarmingly fast.
One of the Half-Blood Prince's self-invented spells (HBP12).
Ron recommended that Harry use it on McLaggen after the latter's antics cost them a match (HBP19)
Tongue-Tying Curse
"Mimble wimble"
Binds the target's tongue to keep him or her from talking about some specific subject.
Arthur Weasley said that Mad-Eye Moody had set up a couple of curses at number twelve, Grimmauld Place in case Snape returned there. The curses were to both "keep him out and bind his tongue if he trie[d] to talk about the place" (DH6).
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were affected by this upon their arrival at number twelve, Grimmauld Place. Something whooshed over them like cold air, causing their tongues to curl backward on themselves, making it impossible for them to speak, though their tongues soon unravelled again. It was unpleasant, and afterwards Ron made retching noises and (with Hermione) stammered for a while (DH9).
- This curse appears in the book Curses and Counter-Curses (Pm).
Trace, the
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The charm that detects magical ability around under-seventeens.
Moody said that if Harry or anyone around him cast a spell to get him out of number four, Privet Drive, Pius Thicknesse and the Death Eaters would know about it thanks to the Trace (DH4).
Discussed by Harry and Ron as the principal reason why they had to wait until after Harry's seventeenth birthday to begin hunting for Horcruxes (DH6). When the time came, Harry initially revelled in its removal (DH7).
Ron said that it's wizarding law that the Trace breaks at seventeen and that it cannot be put on an adult (DH9). When asked if Harry's Trace could still be on him, Remus Lupin said 'Impossible', then added that for one thing, if it had been the Death Eaters would have known for certain where Harry was (DH11).
Transmogrifian Torture
"trans" L. across + ?
"transmogrify" Eng. verb c.1656, from L. to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect
c.f. Calvin and Hobbes: his "duplicating machine" is called a Transmogrifier ("Calvin and Hobbes" is a very popular comic strip in the U.S.)
perhaps also related to:
"moggy" Br. slang: cat
Supposedly something which results in a cat being killed.
Lockhart pronounced with certainty that Mrs. Norris was dead, killed by the Transmogrifian Torture. Immediately thereafter, Dumbledore informed everyone that she wasn't in fact dead, rather she was Petrified, and Lockhart pointed out that he knew this all along. Knowing Lockhart, it is distinctly possible that there is no such thing as the Transmogrifian Torture (c.f. PESKIPIKSI PESTERNOMI) (CS9)
no incantation given
Trips the target.
Draco Malfoy used a Trip Jinx to catch Harry in the seventh floor corridor, running away from the Room of Requirement (OP27)
no incantation given
Causes the ears of the victim to wiggle and twitch uncontrollably.
Harry was hit with this hex as they practiced Hex-Deflection in Defence Against the Dark Arts (GF28)


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Last week I was lucky enough to be asked to help recce a route with the Endurancelife guys. We headed out at 7.30am and hit the road bound for Cornwall - a place where I'd been many times along the coast but i'd never ventured inland assuming there wasn't anything interesting out there. Wow was I wrong!
To plan the route there was 3 of us and the plan was to drive out and run the actual route and see how much marking the actual route needed. It was also a great chance to check out water stations along the way. For me it was not only the chance to get some great running done with some fast guys it was also incredibly interesting to see a bit of a behind the scenes insight into planning a race.
After the first climb this was the view we were greeted with! I can't believe how epic and barren inland Cornwall was, it was a definite shock and I know it won't be long till i'm back out on the trails there.
In the background of the image below you can just make out the hill where ^ that ^ image was taken! Having driven from Plymouth where it never snows it was pretty awesome to get to run through this snowy landscape too.
So by 10am we'd already had an epic run but it was time to move on and find the next section. After checking the section that runs along the road we came to the next offroad section. We grabbed the map and headed out again. Now this was completely different, where the first run had been baren and open with steep craggy climbs and descents this was incredible rolling single-track through the woods.
All in all it was an epic day and great to find some new routes and train with some great runners (thanks Rich and Danny!). The Endurancelife UTSW is going to be an epic race covering coastal trail, vast barren landscapes and swooping single-track through the woods. I couldn't recommend it enough and although it doesn't really fit in with my training plans for this year I think I may have to just step things up and at least give the 60mile course a go...


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Floyd Mayweather implied that Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach for his May 3 foe Marcos Maidana, is something of a miracle worker, whose methods might not be so kosher. On a Wednesday conference call, Floyd said that Manny Pacquiao looked like a different man when he worked with Ariza handling strength and conditioning. Sans Ariza, Floyd said, Manny isn't the same caliber of boxer. He referenced a story from a few months ago, when Freddie Roach took a shot at Ariza, for feeding Manny drinks of dubious provenance, but backed off going all in with an outright j'accuse blast.
I reached out to Ariza, to allow him to respond, maybe throw a counterpunch or two if he so chose.
Alex, did you hear that Floyd implied you have dabbled in monkey business?
"I'll take it as a compliment," the fitness advisor answered.
That was it. No sneaky counter-swipe, or veiled poke, delivered with a candied coating of false respect.
Theater of the the unexpected. Sometimes they do indeed turn the other cheek...
Lol look at EM instigatin' and agitatin'!
I see it, too, though. It is what it is.
Whatever was in that MannyPak he would always talk about, it worked.
Then again, the boxing workouts haven't really evolved at all, which is unparalleled.
Maybe his regimen is that damn good. Some scribe should reach out to him, try it and give it a review...
I don't think it's Ariza's knowledge of strength and conditioning that's lacking, it was more of a case of Ariza grandstanding and trying to take all the credit for Manny's success that cast him in the negative light. It seems Ariza has learned from that lesson and will let the results of his training and nutrition techniques speak on his behalf in the ring instead.
Ariza does surprise me... Just when it appears he's nothing more than a crude egotistical, glory hound he shows another side. I don't think he's as one dimensional as the media portrays him to be.
Both Ariza and Floyd are clowns
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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Liverpool's Academy players took time out from their busy schedule in Qatar to pay a visit to the Shafallah Center, a foundation for excellence caring for children with disabilities.
The club's U18s starlets are currently over in Asia competing in the prestigious Al Kass Cup against the likes of Real Madrid and Inter Milan.
And on Tuesday they witnessed first-hand the fine work being carried out at the centre, which works in partnership with Liverpool's main sponsor Standard Chartered.
Liverpool Academy director Frank McParland said: "Our boys don't clean the boots and baths of the first-team players anymore. Instead they learn about responsibility through working with the community.
"Standard Chartered are the club's main sponsor and they work very closely with the Shafallah Center, so we wanted to meet the staff and young people and see first-hand the great work of the centre."
The Shafallah Center was established in 1999 to provide comprehensive services to children with disabilities and was the first facility of its kind in world.
The centre offers state-of-the-art technologies including an on-site Genetic Research Centre, cutting-edge therapies and first-class faculty and counsellors.
A non-profit, private institution, it serves as a model for the provision of special education, therapeutic and health care support services for children with disabilities, aiding them from birth to adulthood.
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First Names Comparison
Top Names for Boys and Girls
USA vs. Germany 2004 & 2003
Comparing First Names in the USA and Germany
The following list shows the ten most popular names for boys and girls (baby names) in the United States and Germany for 2004 and 2003. The list reflects German first names compiled by the German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V. - GfdS) and American first names from the US Social Security Administration. Also see: German First Names: 1997-2004 and our article on German First Names.
|Names for Boys
2004 - USA and GERMANY
|1. Jacob
|1. Maximilian
|2. Michael
|2. Alexander*
|3. Joshua
|3. Paul
|4. Matthew
|4. Leon
|5. Ethan
|5. Lukas/Lucas***
|6. Andrew
|6. Luca
|7. Daniel
|7. Felix
|8. William
|8. Jonas
|9. Joseph
|9. Tim
|10. Christopher
|10. David**
| *Alexander was ranked 15th in the US (2004).
**David was ranked 14th in the US.
***Luke was ranked 42nd in the US.
|Names for Girls
2004 - USA and GERMANY
|1. Emily
|1. Marie
|2. Emma
|2. Sophie*
|3. Madison
|3. Maria+
|4. Olivia
|4. Anna/Anne**
|5. Hannah
|5. Leonie
|6. Abigail
|6. Lea(h)
|7. Isabella
|7. Laura++
|8. Ashley
|8. Lena
|9. Samantha
|9. Katharina
|10. Elizabeth
|10. Johanna
| *Sophia was ranked 15th in the US (2004).
**Anna was ranked 20th in the US.
+Maria was ranked 45th in the US.
++Lauren was ranked 16th in the US.
The comparative American and German name rankings for boys and girls in 2003 were...
|Names for Boys
2003 - USA and GERMANY
|1. Jacob
|1. Maximilian
|2. Michael
|2. Alexander*
|3. Joshua
|3. Leon
|4. Matthew
|4. Paul
|5. Andrew
|5. Lukas/Lucas***
|6. Joseph
|6. Felix
|7. Ethan
|7. Luca
|8. Daniel
|8. David**
|9. Christopher
|9. Tim
|10. Anthony
|10. Jonas
| *Alexander was ranked 16th in the US.
**David was ranked 14th in the US.
***Luke was ranked 47th in the US.
|Names for Girls
2003 - USA and GERMANY
|1. Emily
|1. Marie
|2. Emma
|2. Sophie*
|3. Madison
|3. Maria++
|4. Hannah
|4. Anna/Anne+
|5. Olivia
|5. Lea/Leah
|6. Abigail
|6. Laura**
|7. Alexis
|7. Lena
|8. Ashley
|8. Leonie
|9. Elizabeth
|9. Julia+++
|10. Samantha
|10. Sara/Sarah***
| *Sophia was ranked 20th in the US (2003).
**Lauren was ranked 15th in the US.
***Sarah was ranked 12th in the US.
+Anna was ranked 21st in the US.
++Maria was ranked 40th in the US.
+++Julia was ranked 33rd in the US.
| MORE > Top German First Names: 1997-2004
Sources: US Social Security Administration (SSA), Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V. (GfdS)
German Names (1)
Part One of our name series: German first names (Vornamen).
German Names (2)
Part Two of our name series: German surnames (Nachnamen).
German Names (3)
Part Three of our name series: Place Names (Ortsnamen).
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Glossary of German First Names
An annotated German-English glossary with English meanings for German names.
Die heilige Barbara
About the origins of the name and the interesting traditions and legends connected with it.
What's in a Name - Ludwig
About the origins and history of the name Ludwig (Louis). It's one of those Germanic names that have fallen out of favor, but it has a long and interesting history.
Germanic Genealogy - Contents/Inhalt
Our genealogy starting page. Lists all the articles, glossaries and link pages for tracing your Germanic roots.
German and Genealogy
A beginner's genealogy guide with hints for tracing your Austrian, German, or Swiss roots.
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A special collection of Web links related to names.
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Dec. 13, 2011
Moving the Northern Illinois Huskies' football team and coaches' families, the marching band and buses full of students and fans to Mobile, Alabama for the 2012 GoDaddy.com Bowl this January requires a lot of planning. This is more than an ordinary road trip, which usually lasts approximately 36 hours and involves just 66 players. After all, the Huskies will "move" their entire football operation south for nearly five days and that's before you talk about a caravan of buses and NIU fans that will descend on the gulf south city.
That's why Monday's official site visit in Mobile was so important for NIU staff, who were able to see the hotel, the practice field, the stadium and the locations of several bowl week events, in person. Northern Illinois sent a crew of three athletic department administrators, plus Director of Football Operations Matt Lipman and Alumni Association Director Joe Matty to meet with bowl officials, bus companies, hotel personnel and more to work out details of the trip.
Meanwhile, NIU Associate AD and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher, Northern Illinois head coach Dave Doeren, quarterback Chandler Harnish and safety Jimmie Ward represented NIU at a press conference with local media, and made an appearance at the city's "First and 10 Club" dinner that night. The press conference and dinner also featured the Huskies' counterparts from Arkansas State.
Usually, Harnish is the Northern Illinois player the media flocks to, but on Monday in Mobile, the tables were turned. Ward, a sophomore who is NIU's second-leading tackler on the year, is a native of Mobile who played at Davidson High School and HE was the name the media knew. Ward was the first player requested at the press conference and he got all the attention at the dinner. And no one enjoyed playing "second fiddle" more than Chandler Harnish.
The day also featured a great lunch at a local restaurant "institution" Wintzell's, where Harnish, Doeren and all enjoyed a variety of seafood specialties. For Huskie fans that enjoy eating seafood, this is going to be the bowl for you!
Hope you all have your tickets - as of Dec. 13, bus and ground packages are still available by calling the NIU Athletics External Office at 815-753-1923. However, the Huskies' student bus trip has sold out.
NIU fans are encouraged to buy tickets through Northern Illinois - the priority deadline to order is December 16 - by calling the number above, or online through this link.


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Today, we are featuring the talented Jacquie from Tallgrass Prairie Studio.
FQ: Tell us a little bit about your creative journey?
Jacquie: 'I?ve always been a creative person and for many years my home and my children were my creative outlet. Most of the rooms in my house have been painted, decorated and painted again and maybe a few more times after that.
I love art and music and I?ve felt for most of my life that there was an artist in me waiting to emerge. My boys are both talented artists and musicians. They are my primary inspiration and motivators.
At the beginning of 2008 I stepped back from a very demanding job and with a little more time on my hands decided to pull out my sewing machine. At that time I didn?t know that quilting would become my thing, but after a visit to the Gee?s Bend exhibit, I was struck by the ?feeling? of those quilts and I sat down at the sewing machine to see what I could create. After my first couple of quilts I gave improvisation a try and I?ve now embraced improvisational quilt making for all of my quilts.'
FQ: Which part of the quilt making process is your favourite and why?
Jacquie: 'That?s a tough question, there are times when I get in the groove and it?s the actual sewing that I love, seeing things come together. What excites the artist in me is the design process. I feed off the frustrations of false starts and the exhilaration of when a design comes together. I think that?s why I have trouble repeating a design. I feel a bit like been there, done that. Time to move on and try something new.'
FQ: Do you have a favorite fabric designer?
Jacquie: 'I guess it?s easiest to say I have many. I?m constantly searching for fabric that inspires me. I?m not much for buying a whole line and using it it in a quilt. I look for individual fabrics that speak to me. I think Yoshiko Jinzenji has some amazing fabric. Heather Ross is the queen of whimsy in her fabric and I love finding indie designers who put out unique fabric like Lauren Hunt of Kansas City.'
FQ: Where do you draw inspiration for your quilts?
Jacquie: 'Inspiration seems to be everywhere for me. I?m inspired by people, stories, experiences, patterns in walls, fabric, artists, words, and shapes. I see quilts all around me.'
FQ: Do you have a favourite quilt?
Jacquie: 'My favorite quilt is probably the one I?m currently in the process of making. It?s what?s on my mind and in my head. Of the quilts I?ve made I?m pretty proud of the ?Urban Garden? quilt. It was a personal scrap challenge. I love the ?Not Lost in the Woods? quilt too. The lines and shapes that are created and simplicity and boldness are very appealing to me. The ?Selvage quilt? is pretty special to me as well. It?s like a memory book of all the fabric I?ve used and the quilts I?ve made over the last 2 ? years.'
FQ: Are there any new creative skills that you would like to try in the future?
Jacquie: 'For sure! I want every new quilt to be a new creative adventure for me. I want to push myself to go more modern. My traditional side has a pretty strong influence in my work, and I want to move in a new direction. I?m excited to start teaching quilting classes in my studio this summer. Teaching has been my profession for 30 years, but this is definitely a new direction for my educational career!'


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Barack Obama arrived in Denver on Wednesday afternoon, and though he isn't scheduled to appear until Thursday night, his campaign hinted that there was a good chance he would make an appearance at the Pepsi Center tonight.
Obama landed and was whisked away to his hotel, just blocks away from the Pepsi Center, as delegates were beginning the roll call vote that ended with Hillary Clinton suspending the vote and calling for his nomination by acclamation. Obama was at his hotel with his wife, Michele, and daughters, Sasha and Malia, as well as extended family when he learned that he was officially the nominee.
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High School: A four-year letterwinner at Whittier Christian High School in Wittier, Calif., under Head Coach Dale Van Duyne ... Awarded league MVP all four years ... Cited as the OC Register Player of the Year for small schools her senior year ... Named team captain and team MVP during senior and junior campaigns ... Selected all-conference, -city and -district all four years while being included on the all-state team her sophomore, junior and senior seasons ... Posted an unconscious .783 batting average while slugging 1.261 with an on-base percentage of .821 and tallied 30 RBI and 25 stolen bases while striking out just once all season.
Personal: Born Amanda Jessie Perez in June of 1994 in Whittier, Calif., to Michael and Lucee Perez ... Has one brother Brody Kai (4) ... Father Michael was a wrestler at Penn State and a member of the Olympic and National Teams ... In her free time, enjoys taking groundballs and hanging out with family ... Plans to major in psychology to become a sports psychologist ... Chose Arizona over UCLA, California and Tennessee because, "As soon as I stepped on campus, I knew this was the place for me. I felt it in my heart that it is an honor to be a part of such a strong tradition and to put on the Wildcat uniform and to play for Coach Candrea."


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