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8.3-3 Operation while Registration or License is Refused, Suspended or Revoked -- § 14-215 (a) and (c)
Revised to December 1, 2007 (modified November 6, 2014)
Note: Section 14-215 (a) has two parts: driving when one's license has been refused, suspended or revoked, and driving a motor vehicle for which registration has been refused, suspended or revoked. Section 14-215 (c) creates a separate offense for violating subsection (a) by driving when one's license has been suspended or revoked "on account of" a violation of § 14-227a, § 53a-56b, § 53a-60d, or § 14-227b. The first two elements are the same for both offenses. The third element applies only to a violation of § 14-215 (c).1
See Commentary for discussion of other statutes that may be implicated when a person operates a motor vehicle without a valid license.
The defendant is charged [in count __] with operating a motor vehicle while (the motor vehicle's registration / (his/her) operator's license) has been (refused / suspended / revoked). The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows: <insert as appropriate:>
no person to whom an operator's license has been refused, or whose operator's license or right to operate a motor vehicle in this state has been suspended or revoked, shall operate any motor vehicle during the period of such refusal, suspension or revocation.
no person shall operate or cause to be operated any motor vehicle, the registration of which has been refused, suspended or revoked, or any motor vehicle, the right to operate which has been suspended or revoked.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the following elements:
Element 1 - Operated a motor
The first element is that the defendant (operated / caused to be operated)2 a motor vehicle. A "motor vehicle" means all vehicles used on a public highway and include automobiles.3 <Insert as appropriate:>
A person "operates" a motor vehicle within the meaning of the statute when, while in the vehicle, such person intentionally does any act or makes use of any mechanical or electrical agency that alone, or in sequence, will set in motion the motive power of the vehicle. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to conduct when (his/her) conscious objective is to engage in such conduct. <See Intent: General, Instruction 2.3-1.>
The phrase "cause to be operated" has its ordinary meaning. It means that the defendant's conduct was a substantial factor in bringing about the operation of the vehicle. <Insert specific allegations.>
Element 2 - Without license or
The second element is that such operation occurred during a period when <insert as appropriate:>
the defendant's license was refused, or (his/her) right to operate motor vehicle in Connecticut had been suspended or revoked.
the registration for the motor vehicle had been refused, suspended or revoked, or the right to operate such motor vehicle was suspended or revoked.
Refuse, suspend and revoke have their ordinary meaning.
The law requires that the commissioner of motor vehicle provide notice of the (suspension / revocation) of the license. Notice is deemed to be sufficient if written notice of the (suspension / revocation) was forwarded by the commissioner of motor vehicles via bulk certified mail addressed to the person, whose right to operate was to be (suspended / revoked), at the last known address of the person as shown by the records of the commissioner. The law does not require that the state prove personal service of a notice of (suspension / revocation) or that the person actually received the notice or that the commissioner received a return receipt. Rather, compliance by the commissioner with the requirements of the law is all that is required to prove that the defendant was notified of the (suspension / revocation).
[<Use only if defendant is charged under § 14-215 (c):>
Element 3 - Reason for
The third element is that the defendant's license was (suspended / revoked) on account of a [second / third or subsequent] violation of (§ 14-227a / § 53a-56b / § 53a-60d / § 14-227b). <Review evidence of prior conviction.>]
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant (operated / caused to be operated) a motor vehicle, [and] 2) at the time <insert specific allegations in regard to the license or registration> [and 3) the defendant's license had been (suspended / revoked) on account of a violation of <insert specific allegation>].
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of operating a motor
vehicle while <insert specific violation alleged>, then you shall find
the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state
has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall
then find the defendant not guilty.
1 See State v. Cook, 36 Conn. App. 710, 715 (1995).
2 The phrase "caused to be operated" applies only to the operation of a motor vehicle for which the registration has been refused, suspended or revoked.
3 It also includes all-terrain vehicles. State v. Knybel, 281 Conn. 707 (2007) (applying the definition if § 14-212 (5)).
Proof that the defendant's operator's license was suspended requires proof that the commissioner complied with § 14-111 (a), which does not require personal service of a notice of suspension. "The requirements of § 14-111 (a) were satisfied by a showing of competent evidence that notice of the suspension was mailed to the defendant at his last known address as indicated by the records of the commissioner." State v. Torma, 21 Conn. App. 496, 501 (1990). Actual notice of the suspension is not required. Id., 505. The defendant's actual knowledge of the suspension is not an element. State v. Swain, 245 Conn. 442 (1998).
It does not matter whether the motor vehicle was being operated on public or private property. State v. Hackett, 72 Conn. App. 127, cert. denied, 262 Conn. 904 (2002) (court improperly charged the jury that defendant must have been operating the vehicle in a parking area for 10 or more cars). Ownership of the vehicle is also irrelevant to this offense. State v. Ragland, 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 424 (1967).
"In order to establish a violation of § 14-215 (a), the state must prove two elements: (1) that the defendant was operating a motor vehicle; and (2) that the defendant's license or operating privileges were under suspension at the time. . . . The only additional element required to prove a violation of subsection (c) is the requirement that the suspension at issue be on account of a violation of one of our statutes prohibiting the operation of motor vehicles by intoxicated operators." (Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Cook, 36 Conn. App. 710, 715 (1995).
Affirmative defense
That the defendant was operating the vehicle within the parameters of a work permit issued pursuant to § 14-37a is an affirmative defense which the defendant must prove by a preponderance of the evidence. State v. Valinski, 254 Conn. 107 (2000); see also State v. Davidson, 57 Conn. App. 541, 548 (2000) (the penalties provided in § 14-37a for operating a motor vehicle outside the scope of the permit do not preclude a conviction under § 14-215).
Subsequent offenders
General Statutes § 14-215 (b) and (c) provides for an enhanced sentence if the defendant has certain prior convictions. Pursuant to Practice Book § 36-14, the prior conviction must be charged in a Part B information so that the jury is unaware of the prior conviction during the trial on the current charge. If a guilty verdict is returned, the jury must then be instructed on the second part of the information. See Subsequent Offenders, Instruction 2.12-2.
Lesser included offenses
Section 14-215 (a) is a lesser included offense of § 14-215 (c). State v. Cook, supra, 36 Conn. App. 710; State v. Jacobsen, 31 Conn. App. 797 (1993), aff'd, 229 Conn. 824 (1994).
Other statutes
If a person's license has been suspended for a definite period of time, once that period ends, the person is required to apply for reinstatement of the license. Operating a motor vehicle after the period of suspension has ended but without applying for reinstatement is punishable under § 14-215b. See State v. Rodriguez, 151 Conn. App. 120 (2014), for a discussion distinguishing the two.
If a person's license has been suspended under § 14-140, operating
during that suspension is punishable under § 14-215a.


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Prison consultants have concluded that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro committed suicide in his prison cell and that his death was not the accidental result of auto-erotic asphyxiation, The Associated Press reported.
Released Tuesday, the consultants' report says the evidence points to suicide, according to the AP.
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Dropbox is an application that creates a special Finder folder that automatically syncs online and between your computers. It allows you to both backup files and keep them up-to-date between systems.
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Tags: backup , share , webservice , storage , file , sync , system
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works great. effortless. plain fun.
DropBox is one alternative when you need online back up. Very nice, easy to use, fair memory and CPU use. 2GB space. Nice one. One note: Will be reviewed again after several years from now.
About the updates of the dropbox-client: They do push updates, but are relatively conservative about when to do so. If you always want the latest beta client, download it in their forums. Others just wait.
Tried and tested. Works. And more than so â" it's the best quick sharing tool (not the least for use in corporate environments) I've come across so far.
I'm not sure about using this with confidential information, but for common-day reports and trivial things, it's just great.
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Sharing Folders is a wonderful tool, copying files from the Shared folder on DropBox is like one folder to another on the same Computer.
Serves my purpose..
How does this update itself? As far as I know, the "best" place of finding recent updates of DropBox is to visit iusethis. I may be blind, but I didn't find anything in the preferences nor on the getdropbox website.
I love dropbox. I use it on 3 computers:
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Love this app. It's the perfect solution for syncing my two most used apps -- Journler and Things.
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You don't have to relinquish your files to a 3rd party in order to share them.
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|35 gal.
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The windshield's center panel swings open to allow access to the U-shaped bow bench seating, which also features a center insert to turn it into a comfy sun lounge.
Center of Attention
The plush helm seat swivels to face your guests, who can relax in the spacious comfort of the wraparound lounge bench that also features a removable snack table.
Perfect Power
With her 375 HP Corvette V-8 engine, the Malibu Sunscape hits a top speed of 49-mph and gets 5 miles-per-gallon at 25-mph.
Chillin' Out
A built-in ice chest will chill-out the day's beverages.
Ski Max
The V-Drive inboard power train creates minimal wake for maximum water skiing performance.
Tested by Capt. Vince Daniello
In the past, when I went snow skiing my goal was as many fast, hard runs as I could squeeze into a day. Over time I mellowed. I still ski hard, but have learned to appreciate a relaxing break between runs. Serious participation in watersports is no different. For those who enjoy their time inside the boat as much as their time behind the boat, Malibu offers the Sunscape Sport V series. It's like the summertime version of your favorite ski lodge.
The smallest of Malibu's luxurious Sport Vs, the Sunscape 21 LSV does not compromise skiability. Built with the same SV23 Diamond hull as her professional grade sisters, some would say she is the perfect size ski boat. At only 2900 pounds, slalom wakes are extremely smooth, yet the company's Wedge and MLS options quickly convert her into an aggressive wakeboard boat. (See the article for our test of the Wakesetter 21 XTi for more information about these innovative systems.) The biggest difference between the Sport V and the rest of Malibu's line, the V-drive propulsion system places the engine at the stern of the boat, rather than in the middle. This creates a spacious center seating area for warm interaction between family or friends. Malibu has (up-scaled) the interior too. Kick back and close your eyes in the hand sewn, heated driver's seat and let the forced air heater warm your toes on a cool morning. Remind you of that cozy chair by the fireplace? Other luxuries include a hand sewn upholstered dash and an optional hot water shower. Special attention is given to reducing engine noise, (for a totally relaxing experience).
The huge lounge wraps around three quarters of the cockpit, and includes a removable snack table. The rear facing section of the lounge lifts for access to a cavernous storage compartment beneath the windshield, intended to keep all wakeboards, skis, and equipment out from under foot when not in use. A cooler is concealed under starboard aft section. While the cooler is generously large, those of us in Florida might appreciate a bit more insulation at the expense of a few cubic inches. The remaining seats conceal additional storage.
The bow seating area includes a removable insert to form a cozy (lounge). The windshield hinges for access to the bow, and a Plexiglas panel closes off the section beneath the windshield on chilly mornings. There is storage beneath the forward seats, and additional ski storage under the deck in the walk-through.
To make full use of the luxurious helm seat, it swivels around to face the seating area, including the driver in conversation, or lunch. The bucket style seat can be locked forward, keeping the driver in place during high speed turns. The seat slides forward to precisely position the driver at tilt steering wheel, and includes adjustable lumbar support. As with all of Malibu's boats, switches and controls are close at hand, and the large instruments are easy to read. An large sunpad covers the engine at the stern, and creates two storage areas on either side of the engine. At the front of the sunpad, the ski pylon swivels on exceptionally smooth needle bearings and retracts when not in use.
Malibu is known for employing technology in design, construction, and manufacturing, but the company gives comfort a technological boost as well.
Hydroponic dampening system –
All Sunscapes are equipped with Malibu's silent rider mufflers for further noise reduction, and can include the Perfect Pass cruise control system, allowing the driver to dial in an exact speed or RPM and return to it at will.
The V-drive powered Sunscape I tested was not as perfectly balanced as Malibu's midship engine models, the trade off for having the engine in the stern. Otherwise she performed impeccably, with better performance and enhanced safety over what is expected from sterndrive boats. Because the rack and pinion steering controls just a rudder, not an entire out drive, steering was extremely smooth and nearly effortless, even at full throttle. The boat planned off quickly at 2.7 seconds but with the weight of the engine in the stern, her bow rose a bit more than the company's straight inboard boats I tested. Once on plane, the boat ran remarkably level. Our test boat was equipped with a 375 horsepower Corvette engine, taken right off GM's assembly line and custom built for Malibu, which propelled us to a top speed of 49.1 miles-per-hour at 5500 RPM. The boat cruised economically too. At 3500 RPM we made 34.5 miles-per-hour, burning 8.7 gallon-per-hour, making four miles per gallon of gasoline. At 25 miles-per-hour, the boat's most economical speed, it was making better than five miles per gallon.
Malibu's Sunscape 21 LSV fills an important niche quite well. Her compact size and inboard engine are well suited for aggressive skiing, while the stern engine V-drive configuration makes her a great family boat. Add in the versatility of huge wakes from the Wedge and MLS systems, and the extra poshness of the Sunscape line, and she offers something for everyone in the family.
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When you're on a fixed budget and facing numerous medical bills, losing any money from your paycheck can make an impact.
Williamstown resident Linda Lutes, 61, and her husband have felt the effects of the reset of the payroll tax deduction from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent at the start of the year.
"My husband noticed it on his first check," said Lutes, who does not work full-time because of health issues. "He says, 'Now, I'm going to have to redo the whole budget.'"
The payroll tax holiday was instituted two years ago in an effort to help the country emerge from the Great Recession. It was billed as a temporary measure and became one when the reduction wasn't renewed at the end of 2012.
"Of course, it's really not going up; it's back to where it used to be," said Angie Joy, 31, of Williams-town.
Joy and co-worker Jennifer Seckman, 50, of Vienna, W.Va., said they both received pay increases at the start of the year, so they haven't felt the pinch from the tax reverting to its previous rate.
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For 2011 and 2012, the employee's share of Social Security taxes was reduced from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent.
That reduction expired at the end of 2012.
Workers earning $50,000 a year will pay an extra $1,000 in Social Security taxes this year.
Social Security taxes are deducted on all income up to $113,700.
Source: The Associated Press.
"I just figured a raise probably offset it," Seckman said.
Lutes knows the measure was only meant to be temporary, but that doesn't make it any easier for her and her husband to adjust.
"It's hard when you're on a budget and you have all these health problems," she said. "Where's that extra money going to come from?"
Bucky Lee, owner of Food 4 Less in Marietta, said a mandatory increase of the minimum wage from $7.70 to $7.85 helped counter the deduction increase for some of his workers, but employees have felt the bite.
"Definitely with the economy the way it is, they could use that 2 percent," he said.
"I honestly think the people understand the Social Security and they want it to be there when they retire, but at the same time, they don't want to pay it ... and see the government waste it," Lee said.
Some employers, including Washington-Morgan Community Action, reminded workers in advance about the reversion, so they wouldn't be surprised when their take-home pay changed.
Although the increase may mean smaller checks, in many cases, it doesn't entitle low-income individuals to any additional benefits, said Candy Nelson, supervisor with Washington County Job and Family Services.
"Everything's gross, but there are allowable deductions, for example, for food stamps, you can look at rent," she said.
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NAPA -- The jersey color needs some work, but Raiders cornerback D.J. Hayden was happy simply to be on the field with his teammates Friday.
"If I've got to have a red jersey on, that's what it is," Hayden said after the Raiders' first practice of training camp. "I'm cool with it."
Red jerseys are worn by quarterbacks and kickers as a symbol of being off-limits in terms of contact. Coach Dennis Allen said he wasn't sure how long the Raiders' first-round draft pick would be in red.
It was a minor surprise Hayden was on the field at all, considering he was placed on the non-football injury list Thursday after signing a contract reported at four years with a $5.88 million signing bonus.
Hayden was cleared by the medical staff Friday morning, but the Raiders will take their time with a player who underwent major surgery in November for a ruptured blood vessel leading to his heart and then had a related abdominal procedure to remove scar tissue in late May.
"It's been nine, 10 months since he's actually really played football," Allen said. "We're not just going to throw him in to the fire right away."
Hayden shrugged off the May abdominal surgery, saying, "It was hurting and was something I needed to get taken care of. Stuff happens all the time. I just had to deal with it, and I'm here now."
Hayden's work in limited reps was mostly with the second team, with Tracy Porter and Mike Jenkins working with the first team.
As the No. 12 pick in the draft, and a player general manager Reggie McKenzie said he would have taken at No. 3 had the Raiders not traded down, the reasonable expectation would be for Hayden to be an immediate starter.
The recovery from two surgeries could change that, and the former University of Houston star said he'll do whatever is asked of him.
"Whatever the coaches decide is best for the team, then I'm cool with it," Hayden said. "I just want to go out there and just be me."
With Flynn working with the first team, Terrelle Pryor with the second and rookie Tyler Wilson with the third team, the three quarterbacks got an equal amount of snaps.
"I think Matt made some nice reads and made some really nice throws," Allen said.
Pryor was hit and miss, while Wilson had one horrendous sequence with three interceptions in four throws.
"It feels great. I feel like I'm a downhill runner, and that's something the coaches see also," McFadden said.
"When I look at the way we move around, I think we're going to be a fast-flowing defense," Woodson said. "I think that if you can have that on any team -- a team that's willing to sell out every play and get to the ball -- you're going to be in ballgames."
Allen had no timetable for their return.
The Raiders opened camp with Lucas Nix as the starting left guard, with Tony Bergstrom running with the second team. Mike Brisiel is currently the starter on the right side.
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on Twitter at Twitter.com/Jerrymcd.


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How to upgrade your Solaris 11 with the latest available SRUs ?
By jim on Sep 28, 2012
How to upgrade quickly your Solaris 11 to the latest SRUs ? (Support Repository Update)
Requirement: Make sure you have access to the support repository https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support.
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What began in the basement of his dad's home with a household oven and an Eastwood HoatCoat gun has evolved into a growing business in Echo.
C&L Powder Coating, which is owned and operated by Chris and Lisa Borning of Echo, recently took a big step in opening a storefront in the small community.
"We officially opened in July," said Chris, adding the building they purchased was known for many years as the Varpness Equipment building. "There is a lot of room to expand and grow our business here."
What does the new Echo business include?
Primarily what is done is the process known as powder coating, which Chris explained is the use of a ground up polymer that goes onto an item electrostatically. He added if the item being power coated is prepared correctly it can really prolong the life of that item.
Borning powder coats metal and uses two recently acquired ovens, which have 12- and 20-foot capacity respectively, which allows him to do much larger items than he could when he first started doing powder coating as a hobby.
Borning, a Yellow Medicine East high school graduate, attended Minnesota West Community and Tech-nical College in Granite Falls and was certified to do machine tooling, but after a few years working for someone else, Borning opted to venture out on his own.
Having done a lot of powder coating for friends and for his own racing interests, Borning had gained a reputation as one who could do the job and do it well.
The fact he is gaining customers across the region and as far away as Illinois is certainly evidence of that.
In order to grow the operation, a business plan was developed, and loans were secured from the Southwest Initiative Foundation and the Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission. Those loans allowed him ot purchase the ovens, a forklift and other equipment used in the powder coating process.
Borning has gained some consistent business from customers and has gotten to the point where he is planning to add on another employee, and he said he is planning to grow the business even more by doing some of his own metal fabrication at the site.
Borning said he has four times as much business now as he did when he first went out on his own in 2010.
Borning is at the store five days a week form about 7 a.m. until 6 p.m.
One can find out more about the business and what it offers by giving Borning a call at (507) 828-1233 or by visiting the C&L Powder Coating Web site at www.clpowdercoating.com.
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StuffIt Expander
Stuffit Expander is a compression and decompression tool with support for a lot of formats.
An industry leader, only StuffIt offers newly-patented technology that provides 100% pixel-perfect compression of 24-bit images, including TIFFs, PNGs, BMPs and GIFs. In addition to its award-winning compression technology, StuffIt's fantastic workflow features enable you to work faster and smarter, whether you're using StuffIt to backup important files or send documents over the Internet. Simply click, drag and drop; StuffIt will take care of the rest.
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i would use this but i found rucksack is nicer
Free is always a good price
stuffit is great, dont knock it !
"only StuffIt offers newly-patented technology that provides 100% pixel-perfect compression of 24-bit images, including TIFFs, PNGs, BMPs and GIFs."
What are they talking about? Aside from the 256 color palette limit of GIF, all of those formats are already "100% pixel-perfect," and all of them support compression⦠TIFF can use ZIP or LZW, PNG uses DEFLATE, BMP can use RLE, and GIF uses LZW.
Not to mention, any normal file compressor can handle any type of file⦠I can throw a BMP into a ZIP archive with no ill effects, or a TIFF into a 7Z. They just make up more and more nonsense as they try to stay relevant.
Can we please rid the internet of SITs?
Update- get expander here: http://my.smithmicro.com/downloads/trials/expander_mac.html
all this is useful for is .sit which i havent seen in ages. BetterZip is by far a much greater program for handling compressed files.
Another way to avoid annoyances: Don't use the installer. Ctrl-click, choose "Show Package Contents", navigate to Contents/Resources/Payload/Stuffit. The Expander.app is in here, just drag it to your Applications folder.
It's my alternative to .zip in Mac
Why do so many people insist they need Stuffit? What's wrong with zip? It's free and built-in to the OS. I rarely even see anything in .sit format anymore. The sooner Stuffit dies a tragic death the better.
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As much as I despise MS-Windows, I live in a world that requires at least a working knowledge of the Worst OS In The Universe (tm). From my earliest experiences with MS-Windows 3.0, I looked for ways to make my life bearable: from the Workplace Shell demonstrations to the registry hacks of today, I try to make MS-Windows very unlike MS-Windows.
We make many sacrifices in the name of employment. Giving up our soul to MS-Windows should not be among them. It should bow to our will, not the other way 'round.
I gave up on MS-Windows a long, long time ago. After I discovered GNU/Linux, and OS/2, and other operating systems (VMS, for instance), I learned what an operating system should be: strong and pliable, adaptable and reliable. MS-Windows was none of these things. In fact, after exposure to other operating systems, MS-Windows was downright insufferable. This wasn't helped by the release of MS-Windows 95, nor MS-Windows 2000 or XP. In fact, every release lead down the same boring, stultifying path: do things the MS-Windows way, or don't do them at all. The latest release of MS-Windows Vista indicates the future is just as terrible as the past.
So I appreciate every little thing that makes MS-Windows more palatable. Particularly, if that means anything that makes it a little less restrictive, a little more free.
And that brings me to TheOpenCD, a collection of superb free software. all on a single CD, with an easy-to-use installation program, thirty-three packages of free software goodness. Here's the list:
- Blender
- GNU Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP)
- Inkscape
- Scribus
- Tux Paint
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Enigma
- Neverball
- Sokoban YASC
- Azureus
- FileZilla
- Firefox
- Gaim (now Pidgin IM)
- HTTrack
- RSSOwl
- Thunderbird
- TightVNC
- WinSCP
- Audacity
- Celestia
- Really Slick Screensavers
- Stellarium
- MoinMoin
- OpenOffice.org
- PDFCreator
- Notepad2
- 7-zip
- Abakt
- Clamwin
- HealthMonitor
- Workrave
This is quite an impressive list of software, representing the creme de la creme of free software available for MS-Windows. It is certainly an indispensable CD, and worthy of handing out to family, if not strangers on the street. No, it doesn't make MS-Windows a decent operating system, by any stretch of the imagination. But it does make MS-Windows more bearable.
And that is an accomplishment worth celebrating.
What about if you need more then the OpenCD?
While the OpenCD comes with some great software for windows, I have found that there is still room for more then what the OpenCD has on it. I've started keeping a 'repository' of Open Source windows programs on my USB HDD. I have most of the programs on the OpenCD, plus few more 'necessary' programs. When my family calls and needs a quick computer fix, it always comes with me and I just add a bit of "Foss" to their lives.
The best part is, I can add to the 'repository' when ever I want. If a new version of a program, I just download the new version. No need for a new cd. If my family really wants a CD/DVD, I can easily burn it for them.
The OpenCD project is a great project and is what led to my idea of keeping my own 'repository'. But if you find yourself always helping your Windows friends, you may need to keep your own so you can always have it up to date.
Italian Edition of TheOpenCD
There is also an Italian localized version of TheOpenCD, you can find it here:
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Portable Apps
The other obvious one is Portable Apps
A portable app runs without installing so people do not have to install them to try them out. It also means you can carry apps round on a pendrive ready to use when you need them on a windows PC.
This means Open Office on any Windows PC to access your documents. Gaim & Thunderbird already set up with your accounts. Firefox with your preferences, extensions & bookmarks in place.
The Comparison
Windows at work/ Linux at home. I cannot convince the large company I work for to uproot Windows and go for Linux. Yes, I can show them how fast it is, or how much less disk space it uses, meaning that we do not need to replace our boxes each year. I can show how spreadsheets are just as nice and how the gimp is so superior to paint and any number of things. But, Mr. gates has his hooks in this business too. So, I propose Windows at work/ Linux at home. Perhaps, in the near future someone here will realize we beta test his junk. Oh well.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google+, which has struggled to gain traction against social networking behemoth Facebook, has lost its leader and co-founder, leaving industry analysts to wonder about the future of Google's foray into social media.
On his Google+ account Thursday, Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president for social, offered no explanation for his departure after eight years and gave no indication where he will end up next.
Google CEO Larry Page later wrote that Gundotra "built Google+ from nothing. ... In the meantime we'll continue working hard to build great new experiences for the ever-increasing number of Google+ fans."
Last year, Google+ reported that it had 540 million monthly active users, compared with Facebook's more than 1 billion active users.
"It's just not getting any social networking momentum," said analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. "There's nothing wrong with the tool. It's adequate. But Google has a history of not giving the things they start up the resources they need. And that appears to be what's happening here."
Like Enderle, Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, believes that Google is not ready to pull the plug on Google+. But it's not succeeding in its current incarnation, Bajarin said.
"Google+ clearly has not taken off anyway near what Google expected," Bajarin said. "But I don't get the impression that Google's ready to discontinue it. Google+ as a social media tool didn't work. But it's been moving more and more toward a Google tool used as a hangout for video conferencing for business. I wouldn't be surprised if it's de-emphasized as social media and fine-tuned as a business communications tool."
In his Google+ post announcing his departure, Gundotra thanked Page and the Google+ staff "who built social at Google against the skepticism of so many. The growth of active users is staggering, and speaks to the work of this team. But it doesn't tell you what kind of people they are. They are invincible dreamers. I love them. And I will miss them dearly."
Finally, he thanked the millions of Google+ users.
"Without you, this social network wouldn't exist," Gundotra said. "Your support for Google+, and for me personally, is something I will never forget."
Contact Dan Nakaso at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/dannakaso.


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Flood-fighting volunteers are encouraged to register with the city of Moorhead to learn when they may be needed to place sandbags.
Moorhead has enough sandbags on hand for a Red River crest of up to 41 feet. While there are no immediate volunteer needs in Moorhead, volunteers will be needed when it's time to place sandbags.
Groups and organizations are encouraged to register to be notified about future volunteer needs by calling (218) 299-5107 or emailing mhdvol(at)cityofmoorhead.com.
While volunteers are not needed in Moorhead right now, the neighboring city of Fargo, N.D., and Cass County are looking for volunteers to fill sandbags this week.
New information will be posted to http://www.cityofmoorhead.com/flood
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What Is Cub Scouts?
In 1930 the Boy Scouts of America launched a home- and neighborhood-centered program for boys 9 to 11 years of age. A key element of the program is an emphasis on caring, nurturing relationships between boys and their parents, adult leaders, and friends. Currently, Cub Scouting is the largest of the BSA's three membership divisions. (The others are Boy Scouting and Venturing.)
Cub Scouting has program components for boys in the first through fifth grades (or ages 7, 8, 9, or 10). Members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys. First-grade boys (Tiger Cubs) meet twice a month, while Wolf Cub Scouts (second graders), Bear Cub Scouts (third graders), and Webelos (fourth and fifth graders) meet weekly.
Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee. The committee includes parents of boys in the pack and members of the chartered organization.
The Purposes of Cub Scouting
Cub Scouting has nine purposes, to:
- Positively influence character development and encourage spiritual growth
- Help boys develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship
- Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body
- Improve understanding within the family
- Strengthen boys' ability to get along with other boys and respect other people
- Foster a sense of personal achievement by helping boys develop new interests and skills
- Show how to be helpful and do one's best
- Provide fun and exciting new things to do
- Prepare boys to become Boy Scouts
The Cub Scout Promise
I, (name), promise to do my best
To do my duty to God and my country,
To help other people, and
To obey the Law of the Pack.
The Cub Scout Motto
Do Your Best.
The Law of the Pack
The Cub Scout follows Akela.
The Cub Scout helps the pack go.
The pack helps the Cub Scout grow.
The Cub Scout gives goodwill.
Cub Scout Colors
The Cub Scout colors are blue and gold. The blue stands for truth and spirituality, steadfast loyalty, and the sky above. The gold stands for warm sunlight, good cheer, and happiness. Together, they symbolize what Cub Scouting is all about.


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Location: Water Management and Systems Research
Project Number: 3012-13660-008-00
Start Date: Feb 09, 2012
End Date: Feb 08, 2017
As population increases and climate changes, we face global crises of conserving and managing water quantity and quality for agricultural and urban demands. Distributed agro-hydrologic modeling tools are needed to address complex system interactions in space and time for different soils and climates. Impacts of water and nutrient management and of targeted conservation practices within and adjacent to fields must be assessed in terms of water quantity and quality at designated watershed outlets. This project focuses on developing simulation tools for evaluating and proposing solutions to critical emerging problems in diverse agricultural systems over scales ranging from approximately 50 to 50,000 ha under current and future conditions. The component-based AgroEcoSystem-Watershed (AgES-W) model, developed in the Object Modeling System (OMS) framework, explicitly simulates the hydrologic and agronomic responses from spatially distributed land use, management, and weather conditions across inter-connected ecosystem response units (ERUs). AgES-W will be enhanced for: 1) routing water and nutrients across a watershed, 2) diverse cropping system responses to water deficits, 3) model uncertainty analyses and scaling, and 4) plant responses to atmospheric CO2. New OMS tools will include ERU delineation, sensitivity analysis, spatial visualization, statistical analyses of outputs, and web-based cloud computing. Selected conservation practices will be evaluated under existing and projected climates in the semi-arid West (Colorado), and spatially targeted conservation will focus on the sub-humid Midwest (Iowa), resulting in new agricultural adaptation strategies. These case studies address agricultural water and nutrient management issues in the American West and Midwest, while providing component-based modeling tools globally.


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Novato's newest resident made quite an entrance Saturday, coming into the world with the help of his father on the Highway 101 landfill offramp thanks to Marin's notorious traffic congestion.
Jesse Renteria, 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the fourth child of Lucia and Luis, was born at 12:06 p.m. in the front seat of the family's Volkswagen Jetta five minutes after Luis called 911.
"Daddy did the delivery. He did a great job," said Lucia "Lucy" Renteria, 25, who came through the delivery in fine shape and was resting at her Novato home Monday. Marin General Hospital kept mom and baby Saturday through Sunday night, and they were pronounced healthy and released Monday morning.
The saga began around 7:30 a.m. Saturday when the pains started, Lucy said as she relaxed in her living room with baby Jesse, husband Luis, 29, son Luis, 10, daughter Valery, 6, and son Michael, who is 18 months.
"We said a quick prayer and got in the car," said Luis, who is a contractor. "We prayed as we left the house. We said, 'God, it's in your hands.' "
When they got on 101 northbound for the birth center in Santa Rosa, traffic was barely moving.
The two decided to turn around and drive to a closer facility. But Jesse had different ideas.
Though Lucy had to have her water broken in her previous three births, all of which took place in medical facilities, "we made it to the top of the offramp and my water broke," Lucy said.
Luis parked the car, and, while on the phone with 911 dispatch, grabbed a blanket from the back seat and ran to his wife's side.
"As soon as he opened the (passenger) door, the baby came out," Lucy said.
Jenny Ellis, the dispatcher with the Marin County Communications Center, coached Luis over the phone in how to take care of Jesse, clean off his nose and face and wrap him in the blanket.
Minutes later, a Novato Fire District engine and ambulance arrived and firefighter/paramedics, who had faced the same traffic jam, checked out the mom and baby.
While this is standard procedure in such a birth, it doesn't mean anything is wrong, according to Jennifer Voss, a doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at Marin General.
"There are probably several hundred deliveries every year in the US that are precipitous," meaning that labor lasts three hours or less, the doctor said. "Generally, the outcomes of these deliveries are good."
Voss said women who have had a baby before "have a higher likelihood of quick labor. The muscles of the pelvic floor are more relaxed and it takes less time to dilate and expel the baby."
Voss said of the birth, "It's pretty exciting."
Novato Mayor Eric Lucan agreed.
"I understand the family was on their way to Santa Rosa for the delivery, but it sounds like baby Jesse was insistent on having his official place of birth be Novato, California," Lucan said.


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BAGHDAD (AP) " After months of sluggish progress, stalled advances and outright failures, Iraqi troops and militias backed by U.S.-led airstrikes have surrounded the key city of Ramadi and appear poised to launch a new attempt to wrest it from the Islamic State group.
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WASHINGTON (AP) " The U.S. will deploy a new special operations force to the Middle East to help fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday.
MEXICO CITY (AP) " A Mexican archaeologist said his team has found a tunnel-like passageway that apparently leads to two sealed chambers, the latest chapter in the search for the as-yet undiscovered tomb of an Aztec ruler.
WASHINGTON (AP) " Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley appealed to House Democrats on Tuesday to keep him in their consideration as he runs for president.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) " A second city on Tuesday withdrew its invitation for Rhode Island's "Dancing Cop" to direct holiday traffic because of his activism against the Black Lives Matter movement. The retired officer responded by blasting the head...
WASHINGTON (AP) " Investigators would need a search warrant to get people's old emails under a bill considered Tuesday by a House panel looking to update a nearly 30-year-old federal law to reflect today's communications.
PARIS (AP) " Imam Ibrahim Saidy brought his symposiums and his monthly fasting to the Paris climate talks, hoping to call attention to the problems and injustice of global warming.
CHICAGO (AP) " Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city's police superintendent Tuesday, a week after the release of a dash-cam video that showed a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) " A pet tortoise stolen during a home invasion got to ride shotgun when Albuquerque police returned the reptile to its owner.
BALTIMORE (AP) " The latest on the trial of a police officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a spinal injury in the back of a transport van (all times local):
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- Today A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
- Tonight Occasional showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Low around 59. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
- Thursday Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
- Thursday Night Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. West wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- Friday A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 67. North wind 7 to 9 mph.
- Friday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.
- Saturday Partly sunny, with a high near 68.
- Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 41.
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7-piece Set of Swirly Crystal RPG Dice (Green)$9.75A complete set of 7 swirled crystal dice: 1D4, 1D6, 1D8, 2D10, 1D12, and 1D20. Like the mists of an ancient and forgotten power, these crystal-shaped dice will add a mystical element to your role-playing game. Green and black with gold numerals. Learn More


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Medicines in Development for Older Americans
Medicines in Development for Older Americans
America's biopharmaceutical research companies currently are developing 435 innovative new medicines to target 15 leading chronic conditions affecting the Medicare population. These medicines in development – all either in clinical trials or under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – include 110 for diabetes, 62 for rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, 67 for Alzheimer's disease, 61 for heart disease and 40 for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new report by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
With the aging population and life expectancy climbing, higher rates of chronic diseases remain a major challenge for our health care system. Tremendous advances in medical science, combined with the benefits of lifestyle changes, have allowed more individuals to continue living their lives with one or more chronic illnesses. Today nearly 92 percent of older adults have at least one chronic condition, and 77 percent have at least two, according to the National Council on Aging (NCOA).
What they're saying about the report
"Treatment advances have led to significant progress against many chronic diseases, but challenges remain. The 435 medicines in the pipeline today offer incredible hope for aging patients and the sustainability of our health care system."
– PhRMA President and CEO John J. Castellani
"While there is still much to learn about the aging process and effect on people's health, there are proven methods to help prevent harms, encourage wellness and mitigate the effects of chronic disease on people's ability to live independently. Our Aging Network, in fact, has helped in this pioneering work on the testing and delivery side. Area Agencies on Aging around the country offer medication management programs for seniors, lead evidence-based falls prevention programs to prevent costly injuries, create support groups for people managing multiple chronic conditions so that they can better self-advocate and maintain their health, and much more. It's never too late for prevention and it's clear that these interventions targeted to the most at-risk consumers drive up health outcomes and drive down long-term costs."
– National Association of Area Agencies on Aging CEO Sandy Markwood
"The effects age-related chronic disease are immense both to the person experiencing them and society. Diseases like Alzheimer's disease, frailty, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke contribute to a decrease in quality of life, a precipitous increase in health care expenses and growing burdens on caregivers. Faced with these challenges, we need to find interventions for these chronic diseases so people not only enjoy longer lifespans, but longer healthspans as well."
– Alliance for Aging Research Vice President of Public Policy Cynthia A. Bens
Read what others are saying about the Medicines in Development for Older Americans report and join the conversation here.
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We the people and ERS. We the people and IRS.
They both need more revenue, they will always need more revenue. They need more because they can't manage what there is or was.
Look at the Eagle Police Department. They have over 10 cop units (Jeeps and cars). We have the sheriff's department to the east and the state patrol to the west. But the public sector needs more revenue. Look at the money spent on the jail. Look at the mill levy on your tax bill for the fire department, and across the board pay raises to the town employees. That would not have been done if the money had come directly out of the three stooges pockets.
We the people: Notice the sewer and water prices have gone up. More revenue. We don't need more infrastructure built if there is no ERS.
Have you ever asked why Eagle did not annex the airport and Gateway? Gypsum said "Thank you, town of Eagle." Revenue right out the window by impudent town management. They don't know good when it is a gift. The revenue from ERS will mostly go to the developers' pocket, so the developer can get all its money back.
We the people: Vote no and we will begin to stop this stealing. More money will not help a failing system, both local or federal


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Engineers Suspect Diesel Fuel in Collapse of 7 World Trade Center
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: November 29, 2001
Almost lost in the chaos of the collapse of the World Trade Center is a mystery that under normal circumstances would probably have captured the attention of the city and the world. That mystery is the collapse of a nearby 47-story, two-million-square-foot building seven hours after flaming debris from the towers rained down on it, igniting what became an out-of-control fire.
Engineers and other experts, who quickly came to understand how hurtling airplanes and burning jet fuel had helped bring down the main towers, were for weeks still stunned by what had happened to 7 World Trade Center. That building had housed, among other things, the mayor's emergency command bunker. It tumbled to its knees shortly after 5:20 on the ugly evening of Sept. 11.
The building had suffered mightily from the fire that raged in it, and it had been wounded by the flying beams falling off the towers. But experts said no building like it, a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire, and engineers have been trying to figure out exactly what happened and whether they should be worried about other buildings like it around the country.
As engineers and scientists struggle to explain the collapse of 7 World Trade Center, they have begun considering whether a type of fuel that was inside the building all along created intensely hot fires like those in the towers: diesel fuel, thousands of gallons of it, intended to run electricity generators in a power failure.
One tank holding 6,000 gallons of fuel was in the building to provide power to the command bunker on the 23rd floor. Another set of four tanks holding as much as 36,000 gallons were just below ground on the building's southwest side for generators that served some of the other tenants.
Engineers and other experts have already uncovered evidence at the collapse site suggesting that some type of fuel played a significant role in the building's demise, but they expect to spend months piecing together the picture of what remains a disturbing puzzle.
"Even though Building 7 didn't get much attention in the media immediately, within the structural engineering community, it's considered to be much more important to understand," said William F. Baker, a partner in charge of structural engineering at the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "They say, `We know what happened at 1 and 2, but why did 7 come down?' "
Engineers said that here and across the country, diesel-powered generators are used in buildings like hospitals and trading houses, where avoiding power outages is crucial. Partly for that reason, Jonathan Barnett said, a definitive answer to the question of what happened in 7 World Trade Center is perhaps the most important question facing investigators.
"It's just like when you investigate a plane crash," said Dr. Barnett, a professor of fire protection engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. "If we find a weakness in the building or a deficiency in the building that causes that collapse, we then want to find that weakness in other buildings and fix it."
In many ways, 7 World Trade Center, built and owned by Silverstein Properties, was structurally similar to its towering cousins across Vesey Street to the south. The weight of the building was supported by a relatively tight cluster of steel columns around the center of each floor and a palisade of columns around the outside, in the building's facade.
Sprayed on the steel, almost like imitation snow in holiday decorations, was a layer of fireproofing material, generally less than an inch thick. Although the fireproofing was intended to withstand ordinary fires for at least two hours, experts said buildings the size of 7 World Trade Center that are treated with such coatings have never collapsed in a fire of any duration.
Most of three other buildings in the complex, 4, 5 and 6 World Trade, stood despite suffering damage of all kinds, including fire.
Still, experts concede, in a hellish day, 7 World Trade might have sustained structural injuries never envisioned in fire codes. That day began with flaming pieces of steel and aluminum and, horribly, human bodies raining around the building.
With the collapse of both towers by 10:30 a.m., larger pieces of the twin towers had smashed parts of 7 World Trade and set whole clusters of floors ablaze. An hour later, the Fire Department was forced to abandon its last efforts to save the building as it burned like a giant torch. It fell in the late afternoon, hampering rescue efforts and hurling its beams into the ground like red-hot spears.
Within the building, the diesel tanks were surrounded by fireproofed enclosures. But some experts said that like the jet fuel in the twin towers, the diesel fuel could have played a role in the collapse of 7 World Trade.
"If the enclosures were damaged, then yes, this would be enough fuel to explain why the building collapsed," Dr. Barnett said.
Dr. Barnett and Mr. Baker are part of an assessment team organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to examine the performance of several buildings during the attacks. If further studies of the debris confirm the findings of extremely high temperature, Dr. Barnett said, "the smoking gun would be the fuel."
Others experts agreed that the diesel fuel could have speeded the collapse, but said the building might have met the same fate simply because of how long it burned.


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Foodfacts.com commonly receives questions regarding the nutritional status of margarine. As most may know, margarine was seen as the healthy alternative to butter for a few decades due to its lack of saturated fat. However, science eventually caught up and realized margarine maybe the problem rather than the solution. The state of Wisconsin took this news and ran with it, eliminating this butter-like product from restaurants since the 1960s. But now, lawmakers are trying to lift this ban and bring margarine back to the public.
Margarine is primarily composed of partially hydrogenated oils, which was seen as a healthier alternative for a very long time. However, more and more studies began to show that these partially hydrogenated fats are actually trans fatty acids; ones that play a major role in causing cardiovascular disease, arterial plaque buildup, and more likely to cause heart attacks.
Sen. Gordon Roseleip introduced the ban to Wisconsin in the mid 1960s. An advocate for the dairy industry, Roseleip proposed that margarine does not only have an unfavorable taste in comparison to butter, but it also more likely to cause unhealthy results. Which, is true. Whether or not Roseleip did it just to support the dairy council, no one can be too sure, but it was a bold move regardless. The ban has been in place for almost 45 years, and now lawmakers are planning to repeal the anti-margarine bill.
Rep. Dale Kooyenga calls the bill "silly, antiquated and anti-free market." He's hoping to have the ban lifted to not only reduce state regulations, but to also save taxpayer money.
What do you think? Is the margarine ban a good thing? Or should people have free choice to use this buttery alternative?


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NO WOMEN OR MINORITIES-This June 3, 1992 photo shows Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, right, playing the saxophone with the band during the musical opening of "The Arsenio Hall Show." (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file) by Lynn Elber LOS ANGELES (AP) — The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two — Arsenio Hall — to do the same for minorities.


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mull 1
verb[with object]
Think about (something) deeply and at length: she began to mull over the various possibilities
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- That evening, in Downings, the team mulled things over, and finally Dan came up with a suggestion.
- Well, I sat through this entire trial except for a few weeks, and I think that the jury did an excellent job of evaluating the case and mulling it over.
- Autumn, with its cool evenings and time to sit with feet propped on a trusty hamper, is an excellent time to mull ideas and review notes.
ponder, consider, think over/about, reflect on, contemplate, deliberate, turn over in one's mind, chew over, weigh up, consider the pros and cons of, cogitate on, meditate on, muse on, ruminate over/on, brood on, have one's mind on, give some thought to, evaluate, examine, study, review, revolve
archaic pore on
rare cerebrate
Mid 19th century: of uncertain origin.
Words that rhyme with mullannul, cull, dull, gull, hull, lull, null, scull, skull, Solihull, trull, Tull
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mull 2
verb[with object] (usually as adjective mulled)
Warm (an alcoholic drink, especially wine or beer) and add sugar and spices to it: a glass of mulled wine
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- We drank some beer, mulled some wine, ate some mince pies, and managed to repair several cigarettes.
- Eight people are huddled around the stove, drinking freshly mulled wine to keep out the chill.
- Saturday 20th December: I will be watching The Muppets' Christmas Carol and drinking mulled wine. It'll be all festive and everything.
Early 17th century: of unknown origin.
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mull 3
noun[mass noun]
Humus formed under non-acid conditions.
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- Humus should be of the mull type - ranging from acidic to calcareous, or moder in podsol.
- Those woods with brown forest soils maintained mull humus, probably by virtue of their mixed floristic composition.
1920s: from Danish muld 'soil'.
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noun[in place names] Scottish
A promontory: the Mull of Kintyre
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- The Mull of Galloway is Scotlands most southerly point and is one of its least known parts.
- The Mull of Kintyre proper is the lump of the peninsula south of Campbeltown, with the lighthouse at Machrihanish on its north west.
Middle English: compare with Scottish Gaelic maol and Icelandic múli.
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noun[mass noun]
Thin, soft, plain muslin, used in bookbinding for joining the spine of a book to its cover.
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- The point of the needle darts back and forth, teasing the weave of the fine muslin, mull or cotton.
- It is made of a fine mull that is not imported to this country in the piece, and there is a satisfaction in wearing only hand-made garments.
- Connecting cover boards to the mull, rather than directly to the signatures themselves, allows for a strong but flexible backbone.
Late 17th century: abbreviation, from Hindi malmal.
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A large island of the Inner Hebrides; chief town, Tobermory. It is separated from the coast of Scotland near Oban by the Sound of Mull.
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The Raiders already found their starting quarterback for next season in Matt Schaub. The search for a long-term solution continued in earnest Thursday, with coach Dennis Allen among a Raiders contingent at the pro day of top quarterback prospect Johnny Manziel.
Allen was one of eight head coaches at Manziel's high-profile workout at College Station, Texas, where Manziel played his collegiate ball for Texas A&M. Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson and quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo also made the trek.
In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Allen said there's no question about Manziel's arm strength, calling it "well above average." There are concerns, though.
"The biggest thing you have to look at with Johnny, it's really not as much what you see on the field, but all the other things surrounding him — the media attention, the 'celebrity' of Johnny Manziel," Allen said.
"Those are all things, as he continues to mature, that he'll be able to handle. And if he's able to handle those things and keep them under control, he's going to have a successful career."
Manziel is considered one of the most talented players overall in this draft class. Some also view him as the best quarterback among an impressive group that includes Blake Bortles, Teddy Bridgewater and Derek Carr.
The Raiders hold the rights to the No. 5 pick in the NFL draft in May. Trading for Schaub last week addressed the glaring need of finding a starting quarterback for 2014.
Just the same, general manager Reggie McKenzie and Allen said that acquiring Schaub doesn't necessarily preclude the Raiders from drafting a quarterback in the first round of this year's draft.
Manziel won the Heisman Trophy in 2012 as a freshman. He backed it up with a solid season in 2013. On Thursday, Manziel dazzled general managers, coaches and other NFL employees with an array of throws from a scripted workout that lasted almost an hour.
Making the trip to Texas A&M also provided Allen with an opportunity to meet with Aggies wide receiver Mike Evans and offensive tackle Jake Matthews, both projected as sure-fire first-round picks.
Earlier this month, McKenzie or Allen attended the pro day workouts of quarterbacks Bortles, Bridgewater, Carr and San Jose State's David Fales.
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FEARING TOWNSHIP - No people or animals were injured when two barns and several pieces of farm equipment were destroyed by fire on a farm at 640 Stanleyville Narrows Road around 8:15 p.m. Saturday.
"The farm foreman had apparently just fed the cows, but they were outside the barns when the fire broke out," said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
Farm manager Larry Landis, who lives on the property, told deputies he had been in the barn feeding the cows about an hour before the fire began, but had then driven into town on an errand.
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Fire continued to burn bales of hay and the interior of an outbuilding Sunday morning at the site of Saturday night's fire that destroyed two barns along Stanleyville Narrows Road in Fearing Township. No one was injured in the blaze, and animals were outside when the fire occurred.
When he returned the barns were ablaze.
"The large barn was fully involved when we arrived at the scene - you could see the boards inside glowing red," said Jeff Lauer, chief of the Fearing Township Volunteer Fire Department.
Lauer said firefighters concentrated on saving a second, smaller barn located nearby that suffered some damage due to radiant heat from the fully-engulfed larger barns. Silos standing next to the burning barns were also damaged.
Several other buildings, including the farm manager's house, were located not far from the blaze. Lauer said there was some concern for those facilities as high winds were blowing sparks and embers into the air from the burning barns.
Firefighters stayed on the scene through most of the night.
"There were about 360 large bales of hay, four tractors, mowers, an (all-terrain vehicle) and other farm equipment inside," Mincks said Sunday. "The fire was of undetermined origin, and the state fire marshal's office is expected to investigate by Tuesday."
He said the property is owned by local businessman John Lehman, who was out of town when the fire occurred. No official estimate of the damage was available Sunday.
Bales of hay were still smoldering and flames had rekindled in a small outbuilding near the road late Sunday morning.
Lauer said the hay - mostly rolled into round bales - could continue to smolder for a couple of days, and firefighters would continue to keep an eye out for any hot spots.


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Elevated wrote:People are scared of doubles.
fixedclaya wrote:Elevated wrote:Clay is scared of disc golf [/b].
If I recall you were playing rec in the spring? You were park of a card last year that turned in a card with only 16 holes on it. The point of random dubs is mixing new with old, good with bad. I played with twos a couples of Tuesdays ago that were both rated under 900 and we won. I won two weeks in a row last year with Shawn Hullinger( who I enjoy playing with). Now you have to start competitive disc golf somewhere and this is the perfect forum learn the rules and have fun. THE KID YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS A BAD EXAMPLE. I hope you one day will become a great ambassador of the sport and can take newbies under your wing so they can learn to love the game as you do. On to the monthly, I started last month we will be doing it again at the end on this month/first week of July.dkent130 wrote:I love singles! Random doubles has its bonuses when you get the chance to pay 5 bucks to play with pros or people you can learn from. But from last weeks experience, there are people that come that have literally played 2 rounds in their life and when you are trying to have a good round slow down play heavily and ask questions that make you want to smack your mother and compare disc golf with pool... you start to wonder if you want to come back. If you bring your own partner, your just havin a fun round with a buddy and meetin some new people and staying competitive. This is why i mainly suggested monthly, still time for random weekend tourneys/random dubs/ monthly dubs/leagues or w/e it is that fits peoples schedules. Since it would cost more, more sales for titan in am payout, and bigger prizes for winning and better competition in my opinion.
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In November 1990, the world lost Roald Dahl. He took with him a vivid imagination, a sense of humor both grisly and delightful, a healthy dose of no-nonsense, and more than his fair share of talent. Fortunately for us, he left behind pieces of his genius in the form of countless children's stories, novels, short story collections and more, to be enjoyed and delighted in by children and adults alike.
"Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well" - Roald Dahl
That Roald Dahl quote may succinctly sum up why decades of children have been delighted by Matilda, The Witches, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG and more. Dahl recognized the lack of guile and pretense in the kids for whom he wrote. Children are unapologetically honest. If a child is on the bus, and sees some unfortunate soul ranting, swearing, and hitting his head against the window, then rather than gazing out the window and feigning obliviousness, a child will stare openly and ask, in a voice that will impossibly carry to every ear on the bus, "Mommy, What is wrong with that man?" A child will be unabashedly fascinated.
Rather than quashing this, Roald Dahl relished and respected it. Which is not to say that his gift for the grotesque discounted the magic and the wonder of childhood. The worlds Dahl created were populated by friendly giants, oversized talking insects, dedicated fathers, and beloved grandmothers. And, of course, the world's most amazing chocolate factory. Dahl's books were as full of excitement and joy as any, and just enough impossible, wonderful events to satisfy any child's craving for enchantment. It's no surprise that Dahl was able to conjure the fantastical and delightful as easily as the gruesome and dark. The story of his own life often reads like an adventure by turns horrible and marvelous. He was of Norwegian descent but born and raised in Wales. A memorable passage in the non-fiction account of his childhood, Boy, tells of a very young Dahl enduring the absolute agony of having his adenoids removed, without anesthetic. Another tells of the vicious caning he received by the headmaster of his school after being caught putting a dead rat in a jar of candy.
His adult life was equally colorful, and saw Dahl working for the Shell oil company and living in East Africa, enjoying harrowing encounters with big cats and deadly snakes. With the onset of WWII, he joined the Royal Air Force and flew a fighter plane, despite very basic, brief training. Of the 20 men who participated in his session of flight training, he was one of only three who survived. However, he was not unscathed: after being issued an obsolete model of aircraft with which he was not familiar, he crash-landed in the desert in Egypt and was very badly injured, spending five months in an Egyptian hospital. He was plagued by terrible headaches for years afterwards.
He began writing in 1942, after a transfer to Washington, D.C. and enjoyed his first publication - an account of his airplane crash, which ran in the Saturday Evening Post. He married twice - once in 1953 (to actress Patricia Neal, who passed away August 2010) and then again in 1983. His writing for children began in 1943 with the publication of The Gremlins, about mean-spirited hobgoblin-like creatures said to have been behind many of the mechanical problems of day-to-day life.
What made Roald Dahl so unusual as a children's author was his apparent relish of horrid, nasty, and unpleasant things that would make one's toes curl. In The Witches, the grandmamma not only smokes filthy, black cigars and drinks alcohol, but has a missing thumb, the absence of which Dahl hints at darkly throughout the book (no word on whether the amputation was Der Struwwelpeter related). In The BFG, the giant in question is friendly, but his compatriots snatch children from their beds as snacks in the dead of night. In James and the Giant Peach, not only were James' parents eaten by a rhinoceros, but his two aunts, charged with his care, beat him, and abuse him horribly.
And in true Dahl fashion, the aunts, rather than being turned in to social services, were run over and killed by the giant peach; squashed flat in their own garden. Their demise is later suitably celebrated with a song by James' new insect friends.
During his life, Dahl did write books aimed at adults—the details of his childhood and early adulthood (in Boy: Tales of Childhood and Going Solo), and a great many short stories. As a child, I remember savoring his books and appreciating their candor so much. To this day, I still enjoy his children's books as much as, if not more than, his more adult writing. His writing for grown-ups is absolutely worth exploring, mind you - I just feel the small people need his particular brand of hilarious, gruesome candor so much more.
Dahl died at age 74, of a blood disorder known as Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Rumor has it he was interred with some of the parts of life he loved most, including some wine, some chocolate, some power tools, his favorite pencils, and his billiards cues.
People passionate about, or wanting to learn more facts about Roald Dahl, can now visit the Roald Dahl Museum, located in Dahl's hometown of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The museum was opened by Cherie Blair (wife of former UK PM Tony Blair) in 2005, to honor Dahl's life and writing and spread awareness about his literacy work).
1943Published in 1943, The Gremlins is the story of Gus, a British World War II fighter pilot, who during the Battle of Britain turned to look out on the wing of his plane only to see an amazing sight: a little man, no more than six inches tall with horns growing from his head, drilling a hole in the plane's wing. Gus was the first man to ever see a Gremlin, and what happened after that would change the war, and the world, forever. The story is famous and has been referenced in popular culture, including on The Simpsons. Prior to the book's publication, the term "gremlin" had been little known outside the Royal Air Force. The book has long been out-of-print and was faithfully reissued by Dark Horse Comics in 2006.
When four-year-old James' parents are eaten by a renegade rhinoceros, he must live with his monstrous and abusive aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Now seven, it's been a very tough few years for poor James, who beyond the torture and misery of his existence, is very lonely and needs a friend. One day, James meets a friendly wizard who gives him some magic crystals which he guarantees will brighten James' life.. James is devastated when he spills the crystals, but soon, a peach tree grows where they fell, and the peach gets bigger and bigger, until one day it's large enough that James can climb inside...
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Charlie Bucket is poor. Not can't-have-a-brand-new-bicycle poor, but sleep-on-the-floor-with-your-parents-while-grandparents-share-the-bed poor. After his father loses his job, things look bleak indeed. Charlie has heard many stories about the batty and reclusive candymaker Willy Wonka, and when he hears the factory will be opened for a tour to a few lucky winners, he is beside himself. But little does he imagine he might actually win! Charlie is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime - and he might get more than he bargained for.
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To the Gregg family, hunting is fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's terrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them, shrinking them and giving them birds' wings. After a series of funny, calamitous spells in which the Greggs must endure various tastes of their own medicine, they see the error of their ways and vow never to hunt again. Seeing their sincerity, the girl takes mercy on the wretched clan and turns them back into people. And they keep their promise. But will all the neighbors?
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"Boggis, Bunce, and Bean: one fat, one short, one lean. Those horrible crooks, so different in looks, are nonetheless equally mean. " When three greedy farmers decide they want to shoot a fox for trophy, and make it their business to starve the animals who live in the hillside, what is a fantastic fox to do, but fight back as craftily as possible? Badger, Rabbit, Mole and even Rat - the gang is all here in this satisfying, cider-soaked tale of cunning, creativity, revenge and redemption.
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Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket is back for another adventure, this time with his parents and all four grandparents. When the elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world's first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.
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Nine-year-old Danny's father William has a secret, and Danny has discovered it. They live together in an old caravan, and at night, William goes hunting - more specifically, poaching - pheasants from a nearby wealthy but unkind landowner. In fact, William has perfected pheasant poaching with his patented system, involving a raisin, a paper hat and a horse hair. One of Dahl's most suspenseful and exciting tales, Danny, the Champion of the World is full of tense moments and triumph.
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An enormous crocodile trudges through the jungle, bragging to the other animals that he's going to eat all the children possible. The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other animals in the jungle join together to put an end to his nasty schemes, the Enormous Crocodile learns a lesson he won't soon forget.
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How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, most hateful people in the world, as rotten as the thoughts in their heads. They're foul and loathsome and hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge. Even a lovely monkey has his breaking point.
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George has a rotten grandmother. She's beastly and foul and mean and delights in nothing more than the misery and suffering of those around her. When George's parents are away for the day, he's tempted to do something about his tyrannical grandmother. "Something" means going round the house collecting all kinds of horrible ingredients that will make up a magic potion to make her disappear. But instead of disappearing, she gets bigger. And bigger. And then, you won't believe what happens.
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Sophie is a little girl who discovers that not only do giants exist, but they are fairly plentiful, and also, in the vast majority of cases, extremely nasty. With names like The Bonecruncher and The Childchewer, these fearsome beasts like nothing better than to gallop through towns snatching children and devouring them. Except for one giant, the BFG, whose acquaintance Sophie is lucky enough to make. The BFG and Sophie develop a close friendship, and together with help from a surprising source, they'll stop the vicious giants for good.
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A young boy's parents die in a car accident, and he goes to live with his beloved, cigar-smoking, wise Norwegian grandmother. He can talk to her about anything (except her missing thumb), and they get along famously. One day, she earnestly tells him about witches, and insists it is not make-believe. The boy scoffs, but as his grandmother reveals more of her tale, he soon believes her, and then begins to see the real evidence himself. Together, the two vow to take on the witches and eradicate them - first England, then the world!
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Young Billy has always longed to be the proprietor of his own sweet shop. Then he, along with the help of an unlikely band of do-gooders consisting of a monkey, a pelican and a giraffe, form a window-cleaning company. They receive a request from the Duke of Hampshire himself for the tremendous task of cleaning all 377 windows in Hampshire House. But when the quartet arrive to get the job done, a most unexpected plot twist occurs, resulting in a perforated pelican beak, a long overdue arrest, and dream-come-true endings for the giraffe, the pelican, the monkey - and Billy himself!
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There is nothing ordinary about Matilda Wormwood. Except, perhaps, for her beastly and ill-mannered parents. Matilda herself is bright as a button, precocious and unusual. Her parents are disinterested and unkind, so the little girl finds a kindred spirit in her teacher, Miss Honey, who takes Matilda under her wing. Together, the twosome take on Matilda's parents, the administration and more in an effort to get Matilda the support she needs. But no one, not Miss Honey nor Matilda herself, is prepared for the extent of Matilda's talents and abilities.
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Perhaps the weirdest tale of admiration from afar and courtship that the literary world has even seen, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot is definitely a memorable story. A man fancies his downstairs neighbor, but is too shy to ask her out. She confides to him that she is concerned that her pet tortoise, Alfie, is still quite small and seems stunted in growth. So Mr. Hoppy (our upstairs hero) concocts a bizarre plan, including purchasing several tortoises of ever increasing size, to get her attention and win her heart. What follows is endearing, funny and surprising.
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Published posthumously, Dahl's The Vicar of Nibbleswicke is the fantastic story of Reverend Robert Lee, the new vicar in the village of Nibbleswicke. The poor vicar is plagued by a bad case of back-to-front dyslexia, which causes him to pronounce words backwards, out loud. He isn't aware he's doing it, but frequently says nonsensical and even scandalous things, much to the shock and amusement of his parishioners. Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake donated proceds from the book to The Dyslexia Institute in London.
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Fans of earlier Dahl works may find some familiar terrors lurking within the pages of The Minpins - mentions of Vermicious knids, Hornswogglers and more will have kids groaning with dread. These creatures and worse live in the Forest of Sin behind Little Billy's house, and as a result, Billy is forbidden to go into the forest. But Little Billy doesn't believe, and his curiosity overtakes his fear of punishment, and off he goes. One thing is for certain - Billy will never forget what he finds living in the forest.
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Revolting Rhymes is a short and very funny collection of poetry by Roald Dahl. The poems are written as Dahl's dark, funny and often gross answer to traditional folk and fairy tales, and are a parody thereof. Tales like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Jack and the Beanstalk take on unexpected twist endings for a hilarious surprise for any kid.
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Dirty Beasts is all about animals. It's poetry again, and sets the scene with a cast of colorful characters ranging from an anteater (who falls sadly prey to the whims of a spoiled little boy, and becomes is pet, to eventual disastrous results), a toad, a snake, a scorpion and more. The oddest offering in the book is perhaps the tale of the Tummy Beast, who lives in a boy's stomach, creating horrible voices and eruptions (you can imagine).
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This is another book of poetry and parody by Roald Dahl, some being further examples of his twists on classic fairytales, and some offerings entirely of his own devising. However, unlike Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, Rhyme Stew comes with a disclaimer that the book is not intended for children, as there are many instances of risque or sexual humor throughout.
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The Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus concerts usually revolve around a theme--"Too Darn Hot" or "Showtune Showstoppers," for instance. The presentation is straightforward: members stand together on risers and belt out a dozen or so songs that fit the given theme.
The group's next production, however, takes a new and slightly different path.
Longtime SVGMC accompanist Doug McGrath says that for at least a couple of years he's wanted to integrate a story line that ties all the music together. The result is Tell Him, a musical drama about "how one person can inspire, motivate and influence so many people in one lifetime." In addition to the chorus, there will be a script and actors.
Tell Him will be presented at 8 p.m. June 20 and 21, and 3 p.m. June 22 at Recital Hall at Santa Clara University, at the corners of Franklin and Lafayette streets in Santa Clara.
The plot revolves around three friends, Kurt, Christopher and Corey, brought together by an older man named Jeremy--a character not seen but definitely felt. His determination to exist on his own terms, generously, thoughtfully yet purposefully, changes the trio the audience does see.
The title Tell Him is based on the hit song by '60s pop group The Exciters, a tune that is one of 14 (plus two reprises) in the show. Other songs include "That's How You Know" from the film Enchanted, "I See the Light" from Tangled and "I Believe in You" from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
The 30-member chorus is led by artistic director Shawn Reifschneider. This is the group's 30th anniversary year.
Tickets are $20 general, $15 student at svgmc.org.