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Friday, Oct. 15
7 p.m. - #10 UCLA (12-4, 2-3 Pac-10) at #25 Arizona (14-4, 3-2 Pac-10)
Saturday, Oct. 16
7 p.m. - #10 UCLA (12-4, 2-3 Pac-10) at Arizona State (6-11, 1-4 Pac-10)
Gametracker at UCLABruins.com
The 10th-ranked Bruins (12-4, 2-3 Pac-10) are back on the road again this weekend, facing #25 Arizona (14-4, 3-2) on Friday and Arizona State (6-11, 1-4) on Saturday. Both matches start at 7 p.m. and Gametracker will be available at UCLABruins.com.
The Bruins open up a four-match homestand next weekend against the Oregon schools, facing Oregon State on Friday, Oct. 22 and 17th-ranked Oregon on Saturday, Oct. 23. Both matches start at 7 p.m. and Gametracker, free audio and free video will be available at UCLABruins.com.
With its upset victory over Stanford, UCLA moved into the Top 10 of the AVCA Top 25 Coaches poll for the first time this season, vaulting two spots from 12th to 10th. The Bruins gained an additional 165 points, their biggest one-week point jump of the year. UCLA moved up three spots to ninth in this week's Volleyball Magazine Top 20 poll, receiving 25 more points for its biggest one-week point jump in those rankings. UCLA was selected seventh in the Pac-10 preseason coaches poll, earning 38 points.
All remaining home contests will be broadcast live on UCLABruins.com. Gametracker and/or live stats will also be available for all home matches and most road contests.
The Bruins' match against Stanford was their first five-set contest this season ... junior Lainey Gera continues to lead all Pac-10 players in digs per set at 4.56. Juniors Katie Camp and Lauren Van Orden rank in the Pac-10 Top 10 in two categories. Camp is fifth in blocks per set (1.20) and eighth in hitting percentage (.352), while Van Orden is fifth in service aces per set (0.31) and sixth in assists per set (10.78). Senior Dicey McGraw is ninth in kills per set at 3.68 ... as a team, the Bruins, who have led the Pac-10 in dps in each of the last three seasons, are once again atop the standings with 15.32 dps ... nationally, the Bruins are 33rd in assists per set (12.95) and 38th in kps (13.84). Van Orden is 33rd in aps ... the Bruins are 11-0 when winning the opening set and just 1-4 when dropping the first ... UCLA has not lost a fourth set in four matches ... the Bruins are 11-0 when out-hitting their opponent and 8-0 when hitting .250 or better ... UCLA is 10-0 when holding its opponent under a .200 hitting percentage ... Van Orden has an ace in nine straight matches ... McGraw has double figures in kills in eight straight contests ... sophomore Rachael Kidder set back-to-back career highs in kills with 17 against California on Friday and 25 versus Stanford on Saturday ... junior Sara Sage had four aces against Cal after coming into the match with four aces in her career ... the nine aces against the Golden Bears were a season best for the Bruins.
Arizona went on the road last weekend and swept the Oregon schools, claiming five-set victories in both matches. The Wildcats were trailing 2-1 in each contest, but came back to win the last two sets to post a pair of triumphs. The Wildcats have won four in a row, including a sweep of rival Arizona State and a four-set victory at New Mexico State, since dropping their first two Pac-10 matches against the Bay Area schools. On the season, the Wildcats are hitting .271 and are averaging 13.63 kills, 1.16 aces, 13.00 digs and 2.34 blocks per set. Senior outside hitter Tiffany Owens, the reigning Pac-10 Player of the Week, is pacing Arizona with 4.00 kps and 3.03 dps, placing second with 13 aces and a .324 hitting percentage. Senior outside Whitney Dosty (3.54), junior middle blocker Cursty Jackson (2.49) and junior middle Courtney Karst (2.48) are also averaging more than 2.00 kps. Jackson also leads the team with a .387 hitting percentage and 1.22 bps. Senior Paige Weber handles the setting duties and holds a squad-best 11.33 assists per set and 19 service aces. Freshman libero Candace Nicholson is second on the team with 2.69 dps. In five Pac-10 contests, the Wildcats are swinging at a .261 percentage, averaging 13.95 kills, 0.76 aces, 14.52 digs and 2.19 blocks per set. Owens is posting 4.86 kps and 3.67 dps during conference action. Karst is second at 3.10 kps and followed by Dosty (3.00 kps) and Jackson (2.33 kps and 1.29 bps). Weber is averaging 12.10 aps in Pac-10, while Nicholson is at 3.48 dps. David Rubio is in his 19th year at Arizona and holds a record of 354-204.
The Bruins have swept the season series with the Wildcats in each of the last two years and lead the all-time series 49-17. Last season in Tucson on Sept. 26, UCLA dropped the opening set, but came back to win the final three. Dicey McGraw had a double-double with 20 kills and 15 digs, while Lainey Gera added 21 digs. The Bruins swept the Wildcats on Nov. 27 at Pauley behind nine kills from Mari Hole and 16 digs by Gera. The Bruins are 21-10 all-time in Tucson, with the Wildcats last home victory coming on Nov. 24, 2007 in four sets. The Bruins have won seven of the last eight overall against the Wildcats.
Arizona State, which hosts USC on Friday, snapped a five-match losing streak with a five-set triumph at Oregon State on Saturday. The Sun Devils had been swept by Arizona and California and lost in four to Oregon and Stanford before coming back from 2-0 down to beat the Beavers in Corvallis. Arizona State is hitting .215 as a team and is averaging 12.46 kills, 1.24 aces, 13.91 digs and 2.24 blocks per set. Senior outside hitter Sarah Reaves leads the squad with 3.96 kps to go along with 2.44 dps. Two others, sophomore outside Ashley Kastl (3.19) and freshman outside Danica Mendivil (3.02), are also averaging over 3.00 kps. Junior Cat Highmark quarterbacks the offense and is averaging 10.55 assists per set. Sophomore middle blocker Erica Wilson leads the team in both aces with 15 and bps at 0.99, while senior libero Sarah Johnson tops the squad with 4.36 dps. In conference play, the Sun Devils are hitting .228 with 12.47 kills, 1.16 aces, 14.42 digs and 2.55 blocks per set. Reaves is the leader at 4.32 kps, while Mendivil is posting 3.32 kps. Highmark is averaging 10.37 aps in Pac-10 action, Wilson is first with 1.26 bps and Johnson is tallying 3.95 dps. Jason Watson is in his third year at Arizona State and holds a record of 32-46.
The Bruins saw their 13-match winning streak against the Sun Devils snapped in Tempe last Sept. 25, but responded with a sweep at home on Nov. 28 in the regular-season finale. Despite a double-double from Dicey McGraw, who had 13 kills and 11 digs, UCLA fell in three for its first loss to Arizona State since 2002. UCLA returned the favor with a three-set win at Pauley behind 23 digs from Lainey Gera and 11 from Bojana Todorovic. UCLA leads the all-time series 61-7 and is 26-5 in Tempe. The Bruins are a perfect 54-0 when winning the first set against the Sun Devils.


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While perusing through the various helpers for MvcContrib's FluentHtml project (and loving the composability of it all), I realized that there was no option for creating anchor tags that go to actions, like that of
I can't understand why something like this wouldn't have already been implemented. I'd love to do something like this:
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I understand this is more of a discussion, which I also understand is frowned upon as SE. In light of that, could someone help me understand how something like this might be created in the FluentHtml project? If it does indeed work, I would love to spruce it up and submit it as a patch.
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As we work to learn more about the world around us, we are often amazed by others efforts. We thought we would share links to some of these efforts.
- Colleagues
- Photos
- Ecosystem Network Analysis
- Systems Thinking and Complexity
- www
- Wilmington and SE NC
- Reading List
Scientists with whom we work include:
The Systems Ecology and Engineering Group at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Brian Fath at Towson University
The Ocean Biogeochemistry Laboratory at Stanford University
The Computational Learning Laboratory at Stanford University and the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise in Palo Alto, CA.
Dr. Albert Meier at Western Kentucky University
Dr. Robert Christian, Dr. Joe Luczkovich, and Dr. Jeff Johnson at Eastern Carolina University
Santanu Ray at Visva-Bharati University in India
The Department of Biology and Marine Biology at UNCW is a remarkably collaborative place to work. We are actively devleping research collaborations with several laboratories in the department and on campus, as well as at the Center for Marine Science. While these collaborations develop, you might be interested in learning more about the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory and the Benthic Ecology Laboratory.
|Network Ecology is the study of ecological systems using network models and analysis to charcterize their structure, function, and evolution (Borrett et al. 2012), which we showed recently has been rapidly increasing (Borrett et al. 2014; right).
Ecosystem Network Analysis (ENA) is a subset of Network Ecology. More specifically, it is a family of Input-Output methods derived from economics that we use to investigate the organization of ecosystems. Historically, there appear to be two schools of network analysis (Sharler and Fath 2009). The Ulanowicz School is based on Dr. Ulanowicz's work at the University of Maryland, while the Patten School is based on the work of Dr. Patten and colleagues, primarily from the University of Georgia. Network Environ Analysis (NEA) is a term often used for the Patten School of ENA. It is used in the holistic study of ecological systems to describe and quantify species-specific environments within the system. NEA methods include analyses of system structure, flow, storage, utility, and control. In addition, several indicators have been developed to characterize the whole system. For more information about NEA, I recommend the following papers listed in chronological order.
- Patten, B.C., Bosserman, R.W., Finn, J.T., and Cale, W.G., 1976. Propagation of cause in ecosystems. In: B.C. Patten (Editor), Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology, Vol. IV, Academic Press, New York, pp 457-579.
- Patten, B.C., 1978. Systems approach to the concept of environment. Ohio J. of Sci., 78:206-222.
- Patten, B.C., 1981. Environs: The superniches of ecosystems. Am. Zool., 21:845-852.
- Patten, B.C., 1982. Environs: Relativistic elementary particles for ecology. Am. Nat., 119:179-219.
- Patten, B.C., 1985. Energy cycling in the ecosystem. Ecol. Model., 28:1-71.
- Higashi, M., and Burns, T.P., 1991. Theoretical Studies of Ecosystems: The Network Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Higashi, M., and Patten, B.C., 1989. Dominance of indirect causality in ecosystems. Am. Nat., 133:288-302.
- Fath, B.D., and Patten, B.C., 1999. Review of the foundations of network environ analysis. Ecosystems, 2:167-179. doi:10.1007/s100219900067
- Fath, B.D. and S.R. Borrett. 2006. A MATLAB® function for network environ analysis. Environmental Modelling & Software 21:375-405. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.11.007 [pdf] The matlab software is available from here.
Paper #8 provides a useful overview and synthesis of recent work and is a good starting point.
There is a movement afoot to develop our ability to understand and analyze complex systems. Check out these links to learn more.
- Society for Mathematical Biology
- Ecological Society of America
- International Society for Ecological Modelling
- Creative Learning Exchange
- Systems Dynamics Society
- Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
- New England Complex Systems Institute
- Santa Fe Institute
- Foodwebs.org
- Ecoinformatics.org
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
- NIMBioS
- Mathematical Biology Institute
- International Journal on Ecological Modelling and Systems Ecology
- Environmental Modelling & Software
- Ecological Complexity
- BioSystems
- Ecology Letters
- American Natrualist
- Oikos
The following are links to other ideas we have enjoyed.
www.ted.com, New York Times, NASA Images, Wired Magazine, The Mannahatta Project
There are a number of things that make SE North Carolina an incredible place to work and play. Here are links to a few of them.
- Airlie Gardens -- especially the summer concert series
- Cape Fear Museum of Science and History
- check out their new exhibit on the land of the longleaf pine forest to better understand the connection between the people of this region and their natural environment.
- Historic Downtown Wilmington
- Wilmington's Children's Museum
- Wilminton Rail Road Museum
- I am not sure it is possible to understand Wilmington without understanding the local history of the railroad and the Atlantic Coastal Line.
- Writghtsville Beach
- Cape Fear Economic Development Council
- here is a group that understands that we have a choice about how to develop teh city, county, and region.
- Cape Fear Arch
- This organization is raising the awarness of the region's natural history
- Wilmington is at the heart of the endemic range of the Venus Fly Trap. Learn more through this interesting article in the Smithsonian Magazine.
- Here is an excellent website for learning more about the Cape Fear estuary: from river to sea.
- Cape Fear River Basin information (PDF)
For the curious, this is a log of some of the books and things that Dr. Borrett has been reading.
Rilke, R.M. The Man Watching.
Harmon, K. 2004. You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination. Princeton Architectural Press. (thanks CTE!)
Gleick, J. 2012. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. Vintage. (thanks CTE!)
Robinson, K. 2011. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. (2nd edition, revised and expanded). Capstone Publishing. (thanks CTE!)
Christensen, C.M. and Eyring, H.J. 2011. The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out. John Wiley & Sons. (thanks CTE!)
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2009. A third window: natural life beyond Newton and Darwin. Templeton Foundation Press.
Thorp, H. Goldstein, B. 2010. Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century. The University of North Carolina Press (thanks CTE!)
Atwood, M. 2004. Oryx and Crake. and 2009. The Year of the Flood. Anchor Books. (thanks Mitch!)
Bellow, Alex. 2010. Here's Looking at Euclid. Free Press. (thanks M. Durako!)


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Captain Lou Grover, head of the Honolulu SWAT team, is in big trouble. The Season 4 finale of "Hawaii Five-0" on Friday featured Grover's daughter being kidnapped. Nick Jonas reprised his role from a previous episode earlier in the season as Ian Wright.
The teenager computer hacker is in desperate need for money and chummies up with Samantha Grover. She has to break her lunch date with her dad to study. Things turn ugly when her fellow classmate wants to talk to her dad. Ian demands a kidnap ransom of $100 million. Sure just walk into any bank on the island and request it.
Opening the finale is Wo Fat who hasn't made an appearance all season, except in the season premiere many moons ago. He's still in the super maximum prison in Colorado. He does accumulate enough meds to make a bomb, which is how he makes his unbelievable escape with its intense explosion.
Meanwhile you see the usual tourist shots of Honolulu and Waikiki. There's one of those "Rent Me" three-wheeler vehicles roaming around. This time it's in hot pursuit of an automobile. Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams are involved in one of the most unusual and memorable car chase scenes. Danny is complaining of his partner's driving, and he doesn't want to die in a clown car. It so good seeing them back to their carguments. This is one of a few comic relief moments.
Grover cannot inform his fellow Five-0 teammates of his situation or his daughter dies. He has to literally break the law by providing gear and credentials to Ian's thugs to rob an armor car that's about to arrive at the airport. Grover and Five-0 collide in a deadly standoff. Strangely enough the $100 million that's to be further transported isn't there.
Naturally Grover is absolutely devastated, because the money has vanished based on a lead. He breaks down emotionally when Danno empathizes with him when his daughter Grace was also kidnapped. In a strange twist of fate Ian makes a bold appearance at the H50 headquarters.
Based on his immaculate computer hacking skills he found the location of the needed ransom. After Lou breaks into a drug kingpin's compound, they're able to get the money and take it to a certain location. It's there Grover gets a phone call with the most miraculous news. His daughter walked into the H50 headquarters all by herself. She said Ian was shot and killed.
After the reunion between father and daughter, she tells them all the details of her escape. Ian was about to leave to get the ransom money when the doorbell rings. A man with a horribly burned face, Wo Fat, was at the door and shot Ian point blank in the chest. He approached the animal-like cage where Samantha was held hostage. Wo Fat fires the gun at the padlock and gently opens the caged door for her to leave.
She said she had a message from Wo Fat to McGarrett. He wants to meet up with him. Meanwhile Grover has to meet with the Governor. Later on he's playing golf now that he's retired from the SWAT team. All of the Five-0 members pay him a visit. Since he's completely fired for his unforgivable stunt, McGarrett hands him a Five-0 badge. Lou Grover is now the fifth man on the team starting in Season 5.
Suggested Links
- Catherine Rollins fate to be determined on 'Hawaii Five-0' penultimate finale
- Fans get to build an episode on 'Hawaii Five-0'
- 'Hawaii Five-0' pays tribute in special Pearl Harbor episode
- Carol Burnett guest stars on 'Hawaii Five-0' Happy Thanksgiving episode
- 'Hawaii Five-0' Season 4 premiere: Now on Friday nights


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Thousands of mourners attended memorial services San Bernardino County Sheriff Deputy Jeremiah MacKay at the San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore February 21, 2013. The event began with a 13-mile long procession from Mt. view Mortuary in San Bernardino. Hundreds of deputies and officers from all over Southern California participated in the motorcade that spanned from San Bernardino, to Fontana, to Devore. MacKay was killed in the final gun battle with ex-LAPD officer and fugitive Christopher Dorner February 12. Mackay was remembered as a devoted family man, deputy and friend. Read full story here. GABRIEL LUIS ACOSTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER.


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Music Events
Fine Arts Festival
October 9, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Performances by Music, Dance, Theatre & Alumni
General Admission- $5.00
Winter Music Festival
Friday, November 20, 2015 at 8:00PM: Eastern Winds, Jazz Band, Flute Ensemble, Angels of Harmony
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 8:00PM: Turning Point & University Choir
Performances by Eastern's Instrumental & Choral ensembles
Gospel Explosion
February 14, 2016 at 6:00 PM
A night of music and worship featuring Angels of Harmony
Amadeus Concert
February 19, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Performances by Eastern's Music Faculty
Eastern University Piano Festival 2016- Full Details
Friday February 19- Saturday February 20, 2016
13th Annual Music Gala Benefit Concert- Full Details
Date: April 1, 2016
Church of the Saviour, Wayne PA
Performances by the Eastern University Piano Quartet and other faculty and student ensembles. All proceeds of this concert go to benefit Eastern's new Fine Arts Building.
For more information, please call 610.341.4397
Spring Music Festival
Friday April 22, 2016 at 8pm: Eastern Winds, Flute Ensemble, Jazz Band, Angels of Harmony
Saturday April 23, 2016 at 8pm: Percussion Ensemble, Turning Point, University Choir
All performances will be in McInnis Auditorium, except where noted.
Ticket Prices:
$10.00 General Admission
$8.00 Children/Seniors
Free with current EU I.D.
For ticket reservations, go to easternarts.ticketleap.com or call the Box Office at 610.225.5545
Discover the joy of music on a Sunday afternoon by professional emerging artists, and meet the artists at a post-concert reception.
Fall 2015 concerts will begin at 3:00 PM in McInnis Auditorium
Dates for the 2015-2016 Emerging Artist Series at Eastern University:
September 27, 2015: Yoonie Han, piano
October 25, 2015: Alexi Kenney, violin
Additional Dates for the 2015-2016 Emerging Artist Series:
February 21, 2016: Formosa Quartet (Location to be announced)
April 10, 2016 at 7:00pm: 75th Anniversary Benefit Concert, Rotwitt Theater at Rosemont College. Performances by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano; The Peabody Trio; Mimi Stillman, flute. All Tickets for Benefit Concert: $30.00
Tickets available at door, General Admission: $20.00, Seniors: $15.00, Students: FREE through Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Memorial Fund. For more information and reservations, go to www.tricountyconcerts.org or call 610.649.2517.


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Raymond Francis of Beyond Health says Vaccines are dangerous, citing a hundred and forty-nine different kinds of adverse reactions to vaccines which have been reported to the government Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). These include seizures, anaphylaxis, onset of autoimmune illness, and death.
In News NewsRx.com 11/10/2011 When a nurse with 30 years experience was asked if she gets a flu shot, Deborah Braun laughed and said, "Every year!" Yet Ms. Braun is the exception according to ABC News "According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a significant chunk of health care professionals declined to get vaccinated against the influenza virus during the 2006-07 flu season, (only about 40 percent)." That article also stated that According to the CDC, One in five Americans get the flu every year, and of these about 36,000 die. But the British Medical Journal British Medical Journal http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7529/1412 stated that the much publicized figure of 36,000 is not an estimate of yearly flu deaths, as widely reported in both the lay and scientific press, but an estimate - generated by a model - of flu-associated death, creatingsignificant statistical incompatibilities between official CDC estimates and national vital statistics data. The article concludes "CDC is already working in manufacturers' interest by conducting campaigns to increase flu vaccination withthe marketing of fear - a CDC communications strategy in which medical experts "predict dire outcomes" during flu seasons, and US data on influenza death may be more PR than science.
Could they know the ingredients include
- Heavy metals like mercury and aluminum
- Pus from sores of diseased animals
- Horse Serum
- Calf Serum
- Fecal Matter
- Urine
- Macerated Cancer Cells
- Sweepings from diseased children
Other vaccine ingredients
- Formaldehyde (a carcinogen) - used in embalming fluids
- Phenol (also a carcinogen) - may cause paralysis, convulsions, coma, and necrosis and gangrene
- Lactalbumin hydrolysate - emulsifier
- Aluminum phosphate - aluminum salt which is corrosive to tissues
- Retro-virus (SV-40) - contaminant virus of some polio vaccines
- Antibiotics - (i.e., neomycin tm) for infection
- Chick Embryo - growth medium for virus
- Sodium Phosphate - a buffering salt
- Foreign animal tissues containing genetic material (DNA/RNA) - from growth medium
http://www.naturalnews.com/Vaccines_Get_the_Full_Story.html has a free report from the International Medical Council on Vaccination including
- Why vaccines have NEVER been proven safe or effective.
- A list of some of the serious health side effects caused by vaccines.
- Why autism is associated with vaccines.
- The profit motivation behind the pharmaceutical industry's big vaccine push.
- A list of which institutions and organizations profit from your sickness.
- The shocking truth about what's IN vaccines (aborted fetal tissue, 59 different chemicals, DNA from diseased animals and more)
- The truth about conflicts of interest in the vaccine community and why doctors profit from vaccination policies
- Why vaccinated children have far worse health outcomes than unvaccinated children
There's a lot of conflicting information out there about flu shots. To answer the question
Do you really want a flu shot? The announcer in this video whips up a batch of flu vaccine in a home blender. http://creatingpowerfulhealth.com/blog/pharmaceuticals/do-you-really-want-a-flu-vaccine/
It's funny, but it's thought provoking too.


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22oz drafts of Nosferatu Imperial Red Ale for a mere 6 bucks! This week only (ends 9.11) at all Mad Mex locations.
If you haven't yet had the pleasure of trying this legendary strong ale from Great Lakes Brewing Company, we recommend it for sipping. The medium-bodied malty sweetness is balanced with a well-hopped finish & clocking in at an 8% ABV, it's not for beginners.
But let's say 18 or so ounces in, you decide this is the beer for you…bonus! You can enter to win a private tour of GLBC in exotic Cleveland, complete with overnight accommodations & a $100 Great Lakes gift card. Giddyup.


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The 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley were magical. Crowds of nearly 50,000 packed the small valley near Lake Tahoe as Walt Disney enraptured them with pageantry. Just five years earlier, entrepreneur Alex Cushing defied all odds as unknown Squaw Valley upended Austria to get the Games.
At the opening ceremony, Andrea Mead Lawrence skied the torch down the mountain to kickoff the Olympics in America. After dominating women's alpine skiing in 1948 and 1952, the Americans were shut out at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy in 1956. But a pair of young New England women were about to change that.
As teens in the mid-50s, New Hampshire's Penny Pitou and Vermont's Betsy Snite Riley rose to the top of their sport, winning major European titles and creating a potent one-two punch that the Austrian press called unbeatable.
Coming into America's first Winter Olympics since Lake Placid in 1932, the two became media darlings especially Pitou, who carried a huge burden of expectations on her shoulders. A New Hampshire native, Pitou ignored the no-girls rules for the high school ski team, eventually making the 1956 Olympic Team as a 17-year-old under the watchful eye of double gold medalist Mead Lawrence.
Going into the Squaw Valley Olympics, Pitou and Snite were on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which described Snite as: "Poised, sophisticated and - on occasion ruthless."
The two didn't disappoint. In the women's downhill an event added four years earlier in Cortina Pitou became the first American to earn a speed event medal, taking silver.
The women's downhill on Squaw's now infamous KT-22 was terrifying, pitching wildly down what has become one of skiing's most famous pitches. Just 15 seconds from the finish, the women had to negotiate the 90-degree Airplane Turn which claimed over a dozen victims in the race including three of the four American women.
Pitou, who started number one, survived a near crash herself, losing what she felt was two seconds and costing her the gold. Her silver medal put her in the record books as the first in a long line of American women who would medal in downhill including Susie Corrock, Cindy Nelson, Hilary Lindh, Picabo Street, Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Vonn.
They were American heroes capturing the hearts of the nation, which watched them live on CBS including famed commentator Walter Cronkite. An entire generation of skiers was created as they watched the snowflakes blanket the towering peaks around Lake Tahoe in quintessential Walt Disney fashion.
Pitou and Snite, meanwhile, went on to become icons in the sport both enshrined in the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. Sadly, Snite Riley died in 1984, while her fellow Olympic medalist Pitou remains active in her travel business in New Hampshire, having been a lifelong, passionate ambassador of skiing.
I consider myself one of the many who were motivated by Penny Pitou's silver medal run. As an 8-year-old in Madison, Wis., who had never heard of skiing, I was glued to the television home from school sick. Mom thought I would enjoy the Olympics. It impacted me so much that I decided as an 8-year-old that it was the sport I wanted to pursue in my career.
And here we are over 50 years later!
One of the most experienced communications professionals in skiing, Tom Kelly is a veteran of eight Olympics and serves as vice president, Communications, for the Park City-based U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. A Wisconsin native, he and his wife Carole Duh have lived in Park City since 1988 when he's not traveling the world with the team.


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Robert Johnson enters his first season as the Bruin women's and men's jumps coach. In addition to coaching the women's long and triple jumps, Johnson will also coach the men's long, triple and high jumps, as well as, the women's team strength and conditioning program. He also heads the men's jumpers' strength and conditioning program.
Johnson began his coaching career in 1997 as a volunteer assistant at Appalachian State. In 1999, he became the Mountaineers' men's and women's jumps coach. He has coached 28 individual Southern Conference champions. Seven of those champions have gone on to gain 14 NCAA Championship qualifying marks in the long jump, triple jump, 100m and 55m. He coached Appalachian State's first jumps All-American, Ronda White, who earned All-America honors in the triple jump at the Outdoor Championships in 2003. Johnson has also coached two Southern Conference Freshman of the Year and two Southern Conference Athletes of the Year.
During his tenure at Appalachian State, Johnson also served as recruiting coordinator. The Mountaineers' recruiting class of 2000 is considered to be the best recruiting class in Appalachian State school history.
He is a member of the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association.
As an athlete, Johnson was a three-time NJCAA All-American in the triple jump at Brevard College. While competing at Appalachian State (NCAA Div. I), he was a two-time All-American in the triple jump (1995, 1996) and a NCAA qualifier in the high jump (1996). The Appalachian State school record holder in the high jump, 7-1.75 (2.18m), Johnson received All-Southern Conference honors in the long jump, triple jump, high jump, 200m and 4x100m in 1996. He was the 1996 Southern Conference triple and high jumps champion, and was named the Southern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Johnson competed professionally for five years, placing fifth in the triple jump at the 1998 USA Senior Nationals in New Orleans. In 1999, he was ranked sixth in the nation in the indoor triple jump with a season best mark of 54-00 (16.46m). Johnson qualified for the 2000 Olympic Trials, where he placed 10th in the triple jump with a jump of 53-3.50 (16.24m).
Johnson received his Associate of Fine Arts degree from Brevard College in 1993 and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Appalachian State in 1996.


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This resource guide introduces some of the best literature on the causes, characteristics and impact of state fragility and the challenge of aid effectiveness and lessons learned from international engagement in these contexts. It highlights the major critical debates that are ongoing within the international development and academic community in relation to understanding and responding to fragile situations. It is intended primarily as a reference guide for policymakers. New publications and emerging issues are incorporated on a quarterly basis.
Supplements to this guide
Two supplements explore the links between statebuilding and peacebuilding:
- Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility looks at the links (and tensions) between statebuilding and peacebuilding, how these activities interact, and how they can be approached in practice.
- State-Society Relations and Citizenship in Situations of Conflict and Fragility looks at concepts of state-society relations, civic trust, citizenship and socio-political cohesion in relation to statebuilding and peacebuilding.
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In part two of his interview, Michael Bailey talks about leaving home against his will at age fifteen, why he believes To Train Up a Child resonates with his uncle's "cult-like" followers, and what his feelings towards his family are now.
You left home at an early age. Why did you leave?
It depends on who you ask. It certainly wasn't voluntary. It's kind of a long story though. My biological father, whom my sisters and I would still visit over the summer, had given me a Super Nintendo for Christmas one year, but my mother and stepfather never allowed its use. My stepfather kept it in a home office on the second floor that stayed locked. When they were out of the house though, I would climb in through a window via the roof and get the Nintendo. I would hook it up to the television and my siblings and I would play video games all day. One of these days, we ended up getting into a big fight, which typically entailed a bunch of threats to one another over who would tell on whom for what. It was our form of mutually assured destruction, and it usually kept the peace. This time though, word got to my parents that I had been sneaking in and getting the Nintendo. To teach me a lesson, my mother called me downstairs to see the Nintendo on a cutting board, which she then used a hammer to destroy to the best of her ability. It was on that day that I stopped talking to her – for about the next four years. In a way, they had finally broken me. I was going to do precisely what was demanded of me until I could leave for college and never go back.
Exactly one week after this incident, my rebellion now explicitly clear, my mother called me into the kitchen and asked me if my attitude was going to improve. I vaguely recall presenting some argument along the lines of stating that I was doing what was asked of me, and that I had not done anything wrong, but she insisted that my attitude, not my actions, was the problem. I asked if she meant that I had to pretend to love her. She said no, and I asked her what exactly she meant. I was looking for a set of rules that I could follow to the letter. She said that if I didn't know, then that was my problem. I said Ok and walked away. A couple hours later, my stepfather got home from work and called me back into the kitchen. They asked if I wanted to go live with my biological father (who at this point was a 70 year old drunk), and I said no – that I didn't think living with him would be good for me. I had always been an excellent student in school, and I really just wanted to finish out my last couple years of high school, get some college scholarships, and get out of there. There must have been some additional discussion regarding my attitude, because the final word was to go pack up my clothes. I remember not being allowed to take my bed's comforter because my stepfather had paid for it, and it was theirs. He drove me 3 hours to Memphis, TN that night and dropped me off at my father's apartment.
What are your feelings about your uncle's teachings about parenting now that you're grown?
For the most part, my beliefs didn't change much over the next few years. I had still been brought up to believe in the Bible, God, and everything that comes from that. My uncle's teachings on parenting had always been presented as simply an extrapolation of what the Bible taught, so it wasn't even something to question. In my late teens and early 20s though, I spent a great deal of time studying Biblical scriptures, religious history, and a wide spectrum of philosophers, and this taught me to question pretty much everything. Child training still wasn't prominent at this point though, since I neither had children of my own nor planned to in the near future. I don't know if I had read his entire book at this point, or just bits and pieces – but I was very familiar with his teachings. It wasn't until a couple years ago when my girlfriend (raised in Denmark) and I started discussing child training that I was forced to re-evaluate my feelings/beliefs pertaining to the subject. This was also about the time that I first became aware of some of the controversy concerning his teachings and abusive parents.
Frankly, I ardently defended my uncle and his teachings. Over the years, I have developed a very naturalistic worldview and have a tendency to see human beings as only slightly more developed primates. My uncle compares child training to horse training quite often, and this comparison didn't seem too off the mark to me. Everything is about conditioning, and anyone who has trained any animal knows that the sooner you start conditioning them, the easier it is. There's even the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks". This is the message conveyed in Proverbs 22:6, from which Michael Pearl derived the title of his book: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Much of the condemnation he has received has been targeted to his message towards toddlers and infants; I believe though that this is coming from people who cannot distinguish between shock at what they've grown to believe and the logical thought that has gone into his teachings. I remember seeing a former follower of his (Elizabeth Esther) speaking on Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show refer to it as cold and calculating. For many, there is a distinct dissonance between feelings and rationality, and my uncle's teachings eschew feelings in favor of what he sees as rational application of Biblical scripture.
This however is also where my own beliefs have diverged. Ultimately, Michael Pearl's worldview on child training seems to arise from two Biblical verses, coupled with his own childhood and the results of a lifetime of raising children. The first verse we've already discussed; the second of course is Proverbs 13:24 – "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." I know that a lot of people (particularly my uncle's opponents) will simply recoil here and speak with disdain regarding the validity of Old Testament scripture in modern times, but those people aren't his target audience. Doing so would only further polarize two sides, and I believe that this polarization is what insulates his followers in their cult-like adherence to his teachings. I don't think it is difficult for believers or non-believers to recognize that throughout history there are different bits and pieces of language that carry specific meaning in the context of their time. Today, we commonly talk about 'texting' one another, when in reality we may be communicating over any number of different platforms – very few of which are actually texting. 50 years ago, communicating with someone through written language was referred to as writing a letter. It shouldn't be a stretch to understand Proverbs to be teaching discipline – the only form of which at the time would have been beating with a rod. Even my uncle doesn't teach that. He goes into great detail over the different implements that can be used. So, ultimately, I believe in disciplining one's children, but I don't believe that it has to be corporal punishment in order to be in alignment with the Bible.
What is your relationship with your parents and your uncle like now?
I never harbored anger towards my uncle, though I cannot say that a relationship of love ever developed either. I respect him and his motives. I believe that he truly believes he is spreading God's Word – though I suspect there is plenty of ego driving him as well, and like a rebellious teen is only fueled by the attacks against him. I'd love to spend time debating him, to test what I'm writing about in my book against his own teachings. Other than that though, he lives in a world that has become rather foreign to me.
My mother and stepfather have since divorced, and she lives in the community alongside another one of their siblings – my stepfather moved about 3 hours away to Nashville, TN. During my studies of religion and philosophy, I got past my anger and hatred. I'd like to think I simply grew up. But I don't have a relationship with them. For better or for worse, I don't think I really understand what it's like to have parents. My ex-wife used to jokingly ask if I was raised by wolves, and then follow that up with "Oh wait, you were."


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The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, located in the Sunset district, has officially announced the formation of the Sunset Music | Arts concert series. The Program Director for this effort is Mathew Chacko, who is also the church's Music Director. The church offers both a grand piano and a full pipe organ situated in a beautiful space with highly conducive acoustics. Three events have been announced to inaugurate the program:
- August 16, 6 p.m.: This will be a preview chamber music recital of British and American composers. British composer Ian Venables will be the featured guest; and his canzonetta for clarinet quintet will received its first performance in the United States. The clarinetist will be Natalie Parker, joined by violinists Sarah Wood and David Ryther, violist Omid Assadi, and cellist David Wishnia. There will also be songs performed by mezzo Sally Porter, accompanied by pianist Bryan Baker. Other composers on the program will be Thomas Dunhill, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, and Robert Muczynski.
- September 20, 5 p.m.: This will be the celebration of the church's 100th anniversary. Music will be provided by members of the San Francisco Opera Chorus: soprano Elisabeth Rom Lucio, mezzo Sally Porter Munro, tenor Norman DeVol, and baritone Frederick Matthews. Baker will again provide piano accompaniment. The program will include selections from both operas and Broadway musicals.
- September 26, 7:30 p.m.: This will be the first "official" recital, given by the members of the Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet, violinists Mikhail Bondarev and Ekaterina Belisova, violist Alexei Popov, and cellist Anton Andreev, all graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The concert will mark the beginning of their 2014 tour of the United States. The program has not yet been announced, but their repertoire includes contemporary works as well as the more traditional classics.
The preview event this Saturday will take place at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church. This is located at 101 Gold Mine Drive, also in the Sunset district. Tickets will not be sold, but there will be a suggested donation of $15. There will also be a reception for both the composer and the artists, to which all are invited, following the concert.
The other two events will take place at Incarnation, which is located at 1750 29th Avenue. Tickets for the Gala are $35. They may be purchased in advance through an Eventbrite event page. Tickets will not be required for the recital by the Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet.


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So, what's the answer? Salerno suggests the following:
Cut out the junk food. You don't see guys like Martin living on burgers and fries. They eat a balanced diet with low fat and high protein. Salerno says that eating small, frequent meals kicks in a body's metabolism and encourages it to lose weight. The trick is to always have the system working on something healthy, so it is always burning calories. The 88 pit crew eats six small meals a day.
Get in shape. Lift weights to build up stamina. But don't get involved in a program aimed at building muscle mass. You want to be muscular, not muscle-bound. "It's far better to lift less weight and do more repetitions," Salerno says. Lift slowly. Lift for five seconds and then release for five seconds. "You need to lift smoothly," he says. "There's no need to throw a lot of weight around, because big muscles are not what you are after."
And to build up stamina, go from exercise to exercise without stopping. "You shouldn't be standing around in the gym," he says. "If it takes you more than 35 minutes to lift weights, you are wasting time."
Combine weights with aerobic workouts. Run or use a treadmill to get your heart rate up for at least 20 minutes each workout.
Drink lots of water. Salerno suggests a half-ounce of water for each pound of body mass. In other words, if you weigh 200 pounds, drink 100 ounces of water each day.
Drivers should schedule their training to be at their best on race day. For most short-track drivers, that means training early in the week, on a schedule similar to what Salerno uses for the UPS crew.
"One of the [most important] things is to let your body heal before race day," he says. "If you race on Saturday, then go to the gym on Tuesday and Thursday and let your body rest and repair itself on Friday. Your muscles ache after the gym because they have been damaged, but when they repair themselves they become stronger. They need a day to heal and rebuild before you race.
"So take the day off on Friday and drink lots of water-lots and lots of water. You have to hydrate yourself before the race. It isn't something that can be done while you are unloading the car.
"The real key," Salerno says, "is to think of yourself as an athlete and begin to train like an athlete and act like an athlete."
SourcesStrength Training for Performance Driving,By Mark Martin and John S. Comereski. Motorbooks International. Out of print and a bit hard to come by, but worth the effort to find a copy.
Fit for Motorsport, by R.S. Jutley. Haynes Publications. A British book with a bent toward sports car racing, but serves as a good source of information.


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I was brought up in the south and that meant lots of country cooking; gravy, biscuits, cornbread, beans and fried chicken were staples in our kitchen. That's exactly how I learned to cook, with everything creamy, fried and loaded with carbohydrates. That's also how I ended up being way overweight.
In the late 90s I finally relearned how to cook and lost tons of weight. After the weight was off, I went right back to my old eating habits and - you got it: Gained it all back plus some.
About four years ago, I decided it was time to really change my cooking and eating habits, lost tons of weight again and this time, it stuck. Now I know how to cook and how to eat. (My main advice? You can eat anything... but you can't eat everything.) And that's how I live my new healthy, active, thin life.
I changed many old habits and made substitutions, like giving up vegetable oil for olive oil, full fat milk for skim and cut way back on salt. Screeech... stop. wait. back up. Did I say cut back on salt? You bet I did, and you are right, it was one of the hardest things to cut back on, even harder than fried foods and sweets.
So, how did I do it? In a word, or three words actually, McCormick herbs & spices.
I began by trying a salt substitute and hated it, then moved on to Mrs. Dash, but somehow, all those products tasted alike to me. I began to experiment with (usually generic) herbs and spices and pretty much ruined about everything I cooked from using too many, too much and all at the same time.
But over time, and one divorce later (makes you wonder if food IS the way to a man's heart, doesn't it?), I've learned how to use herbs and spices in my cooking properly and can actually make soups and even broths salt-free, recipes that even when homemade are usually overloaded with salt. By using herbs, and tricks like adding a splash of lemon or vinegar to my recipes to mimic the taste of salt, I can give massively delicious flavor to anything and keep the sodium to a minimum.
With that little bit of history behind us, I would love to share my knowledge of spices with you in a series of articles, to help you learn to take away the salt and extra fat that may now flavor your foods, allowing you to make the switch to good, old natural McCormick herbs and spices and healthier eating.
Subscribe to this column, so you'll get an email notice each time I publish another installment.
Let's start with the quality of flavorings you want in your food. In my spicy journey, I've tried many brands of herbs and spices, including some of the very expensive online brands, but find myself always going back to McCormick's. Though the generic brands - and the often lower prices - are tempting, and take my word for it, I've tried them all, they don't come close in intensity of flavor, freshness or quality to the McCormick brand.
Also, with McCormick, you don't have to use as much product as the generic versions, which means the price evens out after all.
If you are new to cooking with herbs and spices, it's very overwhelming, so start out slowly, buying ten or less and build your herbal repertoire one herb, one spice, one dish, at a time. I would recommend that you begin with the more typically used McCormick spices like garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, cumin, oregano, sage, thyme, basil and black pepper and for sweets, cinnamon and ginger.
Don't know what herbs you like? McCormick will help you find out what flavors you love with a new online program called FlavorPrint. FlavorPrint makes the McCormick website singularly awesome, aside from the fact that the site offers recipes, products and how-tos galore.
What is it, you ask? In a nut shell, it's a wizard that takes you through questions about the foods you love, cooking methods you prefer, styles you like, equipment you have and what's in your pantry (and you don't have to complete it all at once).
This tells McCormick what flavors you prefer, allowing them to recommend recipes and products for your particular taste buds, then can suggest 30-minute meals, healthy meals and other recipes, giving you an education in where your kitchen should lead you, as you learn to cook with spices.
For Valentine's Day: Check out McCormick's Heart Shaped Painted Sugar Cookie recipe and instructions and make your sweetheart Heart you even more!
I can hear some of you thinking,"Okay, Linda, this all sounds great in theory, but what herbs can I use tonight to make Mexican or Italian?" I hear you loud and clear; sometimes you simply want to skip the learning procedure and go right to the results - a good dinner that is made by a beginner but doesn't taste like it.
McCormick has you covered there too. You can choose several different products right in your own grocery, with blends like Perfect Pinch, Recipe Inspirations or Recipe Mixes.
For basic beginners, I'd suggest you start with the Recipe Mixes, like Cheesy Taco Seasoning Mix, Chili Seasoning Mix or even Brown Gravy or Hollandaise Sauce. These mixes have all the spices, flavorings and thickeners you need for your recipe right in the package.
Feeling a bit more daring? Great! Go for Recipe Inspirations, a recipe driven product that gives you the precise herbs and seasonings you need for your recipe, all separated out in a blister package, allowing you to add them one at a time. These come packaged for specific recipes like Chicken Marsala, recipe and directions included.
Got that mastered? Then go on to the next step with Perfect Pinch, (very evolved Mrs. Dash type herb combinations) made for certain styles of food like Mexican, Caribbean, Italian and even specific flavors or methods like Rotisserie Chicken (I love using this one with my Cuisinart Chicken Rotisserie) or how about Salt Free Southwest Sweet 'n Smoky Seasoning, a new favorite I just tried yesterday in my version of McCormick's Southwest Chicken and Black Bean Salad recipe; my recipe version to come in my next McCormick article!
When you are ready to move on to single herbs, here are the ten herbs and spices McCormick suggests you start with: (Amazingly similar to those I listed - great minds/great cooks think alike)
- Black Pepper
- Rosemary
- Ground Cinnamon
- Red Pepper
- Basil
- Ground Ginger
- Chili Powder
- Cumin
- Garlic Powder
- Oregano
For homework, I'd love for you to choose at least one McCormick product, create your recipe and post it and a photo to my Culinary Divas Facebook page .
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Cocosmom says:
Well night Coco managed to cut his back leg, its not too bad, he's not lame and its not swollen just a bit sore to touch so its been cleaned and now has antiseptic cream on it so hopefully no further issue!
The cause??? He decided to walk through a fence and can only assume he caught it on a nail from one of the rails. Daft thing is the fence he has gone through was absolutely pointless as the gate is open for them to use both fields through the winter and has been for weeks now so its not like he wanted to get through and couldn't! Coco does have a mentality a bit like an equine tank though whereby if something is in his way, if he leans on it it moves and hey presto it is no longer in his way! My dad, bless his cotton socks, is down there now while I am at work, trying to fix the fence for me and Coco is watching intently, apparently looking very proud of himself!
Does anyone else horse do daft things like this?
Nov 11
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Chlopuds says:
Oh my yes! I was out fixing a fence today that my 6 year old mare decided to lean on until it snapped. I keep her, the other mare and the 18h gelding together and the two 26 year old boys in a separate field but she is in love with one of them. This is the fourth fence repair this week.
Bodie once decided to break out of his field with another horse (this was years ago when I was on DIY) and I don't know whose horse started it but they nearly ended up on the M25. I had had him for exactly 24 hours.
The 6 year old mare used to regularly jump 5ft electric fencing at the livery yard I just moved from, once ended up on a 3 foot wide footpath and rather than jump the smallish wooden fence to get back to the field she just decided to do the 5 bar metal gate instead (whilst wearing a fairly hefty 400gram turnout rug).
I honestly am very happy to have them at home now (and a dad and boyfriend that are handy with tools) so that I don't have to worry where they'll end up next time one of them does something stupid. I am also considering plugging in the electric tape that was left here by the previous owners!
I hope Coco feels better!
Aug 10
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kevinhiatt says:
Tonka walked through a 6ft wood fence taking concrete posts and gravel bords with him, then Sabrina took out a 6ft wood fence and a stable door, the stable door was when she jumed into the stable, Sabrina trashed completely a 3.5 ton Horse Box because she freaked when putting her hind hoof through the drivers partition which was not reinforced. Anyone for firewood could start a firewood round. Also I had a cat which when sharpening his claws completely destroyed the top of the trellis archway wood flying everywhere.
Gypsy Gold does not chink & glitter.It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.Tonka &
Lara my beautiful horses RIP, Nelson,Chloe & Kitty the cats.
Oh, I forgot the 7.5 tonne Iveco Peanut trashed (thank God for insurance) and the fact that Bodie managed to completely (and I do mean completely) destroy a Monarch internal partition (twice)!
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Oops, thank goodness he did'nt do himself any serious damage and well done to your dad for the repair job ! We were coming down our little narrow lane towards home after a hack out when we saw a hugh gas tanker blocking the way complete with a thick rubber hose running across the road, Tilly obviously was'nt worried and did'nt bat an eyelid she just promptly stood on the hose ! Oh well, i hope he did'nt find a leak later on lol.
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A couple that worked at Great Neck Country Club in Waterford are accused of embezzling more than $40,000 from the private club.
Tracy Lane-Emmons and Eric Emmons were arrested by Waterford police last month and were each charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny.
Lane-Emmons, 34, of New London appeared in New London Superior Court on Tuesday, where she was served with a violation of probation warrant.
According to an arrest warrant prepared by Waterford Detective John A. Davis on Oct. 7, he received a complaint from club owner Ann Mortimer.
Mortimer told police that Lane-Emmons, who at the time of her employment was not married, worked as a part-time bookkeeper at the country club while Emmons worked as a groundskeeper.
Mortimer told police that Great Neck Country Club is comprised of two separate businesses for accounting purposes — the Great Neck Country Club and Langley's Restaurant.
She told police that Lane-Emmons and Emmons were paid every Friday from the Great Neck Country Club payroll and were never on the restaurant's payroll.
Lane-Emmons was hired in May and was in charge of reconciling the two businesses' various bank accounts. She also had access to the computerized checkbooks and paper check stock, but was not authorized to create checks or sign them, the warrant says.
Emmons was hired in June but was fired two months later for attendance issues. His last payroll check was issued on Aug. 16.
Mortimer told police that she had to hire a local accountant because Lane-Emmons failed to complete her office duties. The accountant found numerous discrepancies in the checking accounts. The accountant compared the images of the canceled bank checks to those that appeared within the business' computerized check book register. The actual canceled bank checks were made payable to either Lane-Emmons or Emmons, but appeared in the computer system to have been made out to various vendors, the warrant states.
During the course of the investigation, it was discovered that 101 business checks were fraudulently created and were either cashed at Liberty Bank or Charter Oak Federal Credit Union branches. The checks totaled $43,049.99.
The warrant says that a total of 56 forged checks were made to Lane-Emmons. Forty-eight were from the Country Club account and eight from Langley's account. The warrant states that 54 of those checks were endorsed by Lane-Emmons, which she had no authority to do. Her driver's license was taken as identification for 47 of the 56 checks.
A total of 45 checks were made to Emmons — 44 from the country club account and one from the restaurant. Police said 39 checks were written to him after he received his last official payroll check.
The warrant says that Mortimer was contacted by Lane-Emmons' probation officer, who said that Lane-Emmons admitted to the larceny.
Probation Officer John Watts was interviewed by police on Oct. 29. Watts said that on Oct. 15, Lane-Emmons freely admitted to stealing about $60,000. Watts told police, "The offender blamed the business for leaving blank business checks inside an unlocked safe."
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Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore has made several movies since his second feature, Cinema Paradiso, which won an Oscar for best foreign film in 1990 - but that's undoubtedly the one that he's most strongly identified with.
And in his English-language debut, The Best Offer - a handsome yet austere mystery about the relationship between art and life - there's a scene that's reminiscent of Cinema Paradiso. It relates to the film's central character, Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), an art auctioneer who keeps himself carefully protected from human contact and emotions.
Virgil has many secrets, one of which is revealed early in the film: it's caught up with the ideal of beauty, and has intriguing links with the last scene of Cinema Paradiso, a covertly compiled selection of great romantic moments from the movies.
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The Best Offer is the story of a man drawn out of his solitude with consequences he cannot foresee. Rush gives a finely calibrated performance that establishes the sympathetic aspects of his character, as well as the disturbed ones.
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Cult Filmmakers You Should Know: David DeCoteau
Devil-worshippers and arcane voodoo cults are pretty commonplace in the world of horror cinema. From ancient orders to modern-practitioners of the occult lurking in suburbia, audiences have pretty much seen it all when it comes to indentured service to the forces of darkness. However, if said servants just so happen to be muscular, college-aged men clad only in their underwear…there's more than a passing chance that they've been brought to sinister life by B-movie icon David DeCoteau.
Through a lens of Abercrombie model villainy, the work of this prolific filmmaker has long reigned over the world of home video homoerotic horror. Yet, for all the gratuitous boxer brief butchers that DeCoteau has made flesh, there exists a more important element at play in his presentation than mere ogling of Adonis actors. Like any truly good exploitation filmmaker, DeCoteau has found a subject to exploit for the audience's voyeuristic pleasure, often executing his intent with gleeful aplomb. That said, rarely does DeCoteau ever truly cross the line into the true subtext, merely teasing the audience with the implication and using it as a crux for the horror inherent in the story.
…and really, why not?
All DeCoteau has truly done is inverse the formula. For far too long audiences have gathered to see the bodies of the latest "scream queen" flaunted across the screen, women being objectified and exposed for the pleasure of flesh hungry audiences. DeCoteau has merely taken this formula and applied it to the boys for a change, observing the fact that if many horror films were made to take advantage of the female form, why couldn't he do the opposite?
From this notion has sprung a line of successful movies, mostly produced for the direct-to-video market, featuring a slew of scream kings taking on the oft exploited roles once held by their sisters. One of DeCoteau's most popular titles, The Brotherhood (about a Fraternity of boys who become blood-sucking vampires), has been so well-received that it has spawned no less than five sequels.
DeCoteau's explorations into this genre of sin cinema he almost single-handedly created have been numerous. From attacking well-meaning dudes with sinister wildlife in his animal swarm movie Leeches to giving a fresh spin on the works of Edgar Allan Poe in a slew of flicks that apply the DeCoteau formula, the man has created a veritable empire for himself in the world of horror.
Yet, for all these films that carry his remarkable hallmark, to assume that DeCoteau is simply a niche director or one-trick pony would be a most grievous error. You see, long before he established himself as the man who wrangled the muscle, DeCoteau was already a force to be reckoned with during the boom of 80s horror.
Having already directed nearly a dozen films in the mid-80s, DeCoteau first rose to cult prominence with 1987's camp masterpiece, Nightmare Sisters. Proving that he knew how to play with the girls long before he brought the boys to the yard, Nightmare Sisters is an exercise in everything that makes a legitimately fun 80s horror flick. Featuring stand-out performances from three of the genre's reigning women in horror- Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, and Michelle Bauer- the film tells the story of a trio of geekified college girls who turn to the forces of darkness to help get a date. Possessed by demons and insatiably sex starved, Nightmare Sisters is the kind of horror movie that late night cable was made for and a perfect example of a master of the craft just getting started.
The same year as Nightmare Sisters, DeCoteau unleashed another soon to be cult masterpiece in the form of Creepazoids, a tale of alien survival featuring a returning Linnea Quigley. Becoming a popular rental choice in the VHS horror-era, Creepazoids served to cement a budding fan base for the emerging filmmaker, and remains an enduring classic at horror conventions and in the hearts of B-movie aficionados.
In the year following Creepazoids, DeCoteau released what remains my favorite of his early works, the suburban bowling terror flick breathtakingly titled Sorority Babes in the Slime Bowl-O-Rama. Reuniting his three iconic leads from Nightmare Sisters, DeCoteau utilized Sorority Babes to unleash an impossibly fun tale of blood and gore in a bowling alley, throwing into the mix a devilish troll demon and ample screen nudity for the audience member who demands more for their schlock buck. Occasionally forgotten in the pantheon of modern mainstream horror, Sorority Babes in the Slime Bowl-O-Rama remains a heavy influence on a bevy of indie flicks, ranging from the works of Troma to former cult filmmaker Mike Watt's own tale of bowling alley shenanigans, Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation.
Further lending to DeCoteau's cult credibility is the fact that the maestro of fleshy exploitation has directed no less than four of the iconic Puppet Master films (one of which, Retro Puppet Master, stars All About Evil's own Jack Donner). Collaborating with franchise creator Charles Band (a cult filmmaker in his own right), DeCoteau's involvement has been instrumental in keeping the franchise alive in the hearts of its fans, delivering some of the most beloved installments in the series' long run.
From killer babes, bodacious boys, evil puppets, and all that's between, David DeCoteau is one genre master who has truly done it all. But time and achievement show no sign of slowing the always busy filmmaker. Having directed over 80 feature films, DeCoteau continues to forge ahead, his production company, Rapid Heart Pictures, creating new fright flicks on a near consistent basis. These days DeCoteau has seized control of his fan base, crafting many horror films for direct play on the here! TV network. Movies such as the The Invisible Chronicles (DeCoteau's take on the H.G. Wells' classic, featuring a scantily clad invisible boy) and the savage killer flick The Beastly Boys ensure that a whole new generation of genre fans will have no problem discovering and accessing DeCoteau's work for years to come.
As of this writing, DeCoteau's latest feature, 1313: Nightmare Mansion is poised for release in little over a month's time. Though the tagline declares it to be "A Supernatural Thriller for Girls," one look at the poster indicates that the film will stick to the tried and true DeCoteau formula and please all audience members…
…provided that they like their scares with a side of beefcake.
Of course, that doesn't bother us here at Peaches Christ HQ, because whether that's your thing or not, we have always respected filmmakers with a style and substance all their own. For all of his contributions to horror, let alone for creating his own veritable sub-genre, David DeCoteau has all that and more…
…and is truly a Cult Filmmaker You Should Know.
So, grab some popcorn, a DVD, and BVDs…and have yourself a DeCoteau night.
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Tyler Trafford has revamped my GreaseMonkey script that will take any list from Lists of Bests and will automatically replace the contents of that web page with a simple numerical list, of all the items in that given list.
His improvement in the new version of the script, is to automatically add in Amazon links for each item. I should also mention my original code has been cleaned up and simplified and the new script looks much nicer (thanks).
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It's official. The biggest attraction in boxing and without a doubt the most bankable athlete in the world known to mankind Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO's) announced via Twitter that his next opponent will be Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO's). This fight is scheduled for May 3rd and will be televised on Showtime PPV.
The location for this event is yet to be determined, even though more times than not Mayweather have always showcased his talent at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This time The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. is also rumored to be in the running. It really does not matter where the fight is housed, when Mayweather's name is on the ballot that usually means a sellout crowd. The Mayweather brand has become accustomed to record breaking numbers in the box office.
Why did Floyd Mayweather Jr. choose Marcos Maidana instead of Amir Khan?
What most boxing fans have come to realize about Mayweather is he generally gets what he want in the world of boxing. He put himself in that position some time ago. With the combination of a good solid team including trainers, managers and body guards, he has enjoyed riding at the top of the sport for quite a while now. Not to mention his work ethics. He trains like no other. And he usually stays in fighting shape year around.
Okay. Why Maidana? Mayweather has always been cleaver when it comes to picking his opponents. With the help of his right-hand man Leonard Ellerbe and his very witty advisor Al Haymon, making mistakes is something they just haven't done much of throughout his career. It must be a 'foreign' word to them. They just haven't made many—if any. It seems that everything in that camp is always carefully calculated. Mayweather could have easily followed through with Amir Khan for this May 3rd event, but instead he picked the more dangerous of the two, which is Marcos Maidana. Mayweather felt a victory over Khan would have been obscure.
Since the 'heavy hitting' Argentina based Marcos Maidana decided to change trainers, he's watched his boxing career elevate to new heights. A few fights ago, Maidana moved to the Los Angeles, CA area and started training at a gym in Oxnard. His trainer is the popular Robert Garcia who owns the gym. Maidana said, "Bringing Garcia to his corner was the smartest thing he could have ever done to rejuvenate his career."
"Garcia didn't completely re-invent a fighter, but instead he's helped him sharpen his boxing skills," said Maidana. He taught him how important conditioning is to a fighter. That was something Maidana lacked. He's always been a brawler with one punch knockout power in both hands. Garcia has taken a brawler in Maidana and turned him into somewhat of a boxer; he's teaching him patience. Stamina issues were always a problem going down the stretch during any fight for Maidana. "His new trainer has concentrated on this issue and it's being resolved," said Maidana.
Maidana's first fight in the United States was against Mexican-American Victor Ortiz that took place in June 2009. Maidana was knocked down three times within the first two rounds, but he got back up and rallied back to beat Ortiz for the interim WBA super lightweight title with a six-round TKO victory. It was that fight that put him on the radar. After what seemed to be a rough start for Maidana quickly changed, when he started to trade heavy blows with Ortiz and hurt him badly in that fight. After that brutal comeback by Maidana, Ortiz was in question whether he should continue his fighting career during the post fight interview with HBO Boxing analyst Max Kellerman.
There have been a few bumps in the road since his meeting with Ortiz, but he has won four straight fights with the most recent being a unanimous decision win over the young popular undefeated welterweight champion Adrien Broner. Maidana shocked the boxing world with how easily he handled Broner. He's unquestionably known as a 'heavy hitter' with power in both hands. He dropped Broner twice in that fight—who had never tasted the canvas before. Broner is also known as Mayweather's lil' protege` and this fight could set the record straight in more ways than one.
When it comes to the fight game, Mayweather is as crafty as a fighter gets. He has a way of making it really hard for fighters who rush in throwing bombs. Mayweather has been known to make a fighter pay with that type of fight plan. Some feel that neither fighter Marcos Maidana or Amir Khan is on Mayweather's level. That this event will just be a lottery payout for Maidana and this fight only helps Mayweather to continue to fulfill his 6-fight mega-million dollar contract obligation to Showtime and CBS.
If Floyd Mayweather Jr., comes out victorious in this fight by a wide margin or wipeout, he will once again be targeted by his critics. If Manny Pacquiao gets past Timothy Bradley in April, no matter how close their fight is—a win is a win. Once again look to hear Mayweather vs. Pacquiao echoing loudly throughout the media and press. This event will be right back on the forefront of boxing. They both just need to get past their next opponent. Then, the echoes get louder. Maybe this coming fall a bolt of lightning will strike.


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