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I am one of those people who almost wants to weep thinking of all the time I have to wait between May season finales and September premieres for all my fave TV. I am already making my game plan on how to keep plenty of space on my DVR come fall. It is because of this I was so excited to stumble upon a new show to help get me through the summer!
The Picker Sisters, is a show on Lifetime about two best friends who are both interior designers. The besties (Tracy Hutson & Tanya McQueen) travel the states, looking through others "junk" for pieces they can turn into modern, chic home decor! Both the girls were on the ABC hit, Extreme Home Makeover, and got the idea after traveling and seeing all the things people held on to.
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13 comments:
- Shari said...
Oh Karen! He is so adorable! His little voice is so sweet! Thank you for sharing this. I admit, I do have a few tears!
- January 22, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Oh My God! Too cute for words!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this video! He is precious!
Debbie S. CT
- January 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Karen, That is so sweet. I love to hear his sweet little voice. You are an amazing MOM! Thanks for sharing.
- January 23, 2009 at 3:27 AM
Awe! It not only made me smile, but made me cry! He is so adorable!
have a blessed day! ~Marilyn
- January 23, 2009 at 4:39 AM
Karen, He brought tears to eyes. He is sooo cute and his little voice just melts my heart. Thank you for posting this:)LOL and prayers
- January 23, 2009 at 4:41 AM
- Stephanie from Portland said...
OMG! That was the cutest thing I've ever seen! What an adorable little guy. Thank you so much for sharing this special moment with us. :)
- January 23, 2009 at 5:19 AM
- Angela said...
I hope that Gavin learns more words and letters and I hope that he feels better. I felt great that you learned all of those letters and I'll pray to God that you feel better.
Jacob Fava
- January 23, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Lisa and Michael said...
Awww!!! Gavi- way to go on your ABCs!! His little voice is SO sweet! Thanks for sharing! We are so happy you are home and having fun :) Love, the Walk fam
- January 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Oh my gosh I just LOVE his voice, it's just what I thought it might sound like! He's irresistible!
- January 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM
- Heather said...
Boy did that ever make me smile and man did my day need it!Prayers and love to you all.
- January 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM
- Reesha said...
so very sweet and what a calming voice you have!!
- January 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- Kaitlyn said...
What a sweet adorable child. His voice is music to my ears. Thank you for sharing.
- January 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM
- Missy said...
What a precious little boy! Thank you for sharing this video. A friend of mine pointed me to your blog today and I am so excited. My son also has a presumed mitochondrial disease (waiting on a the muscle biopsy results). In so many ways, he is like Gavin. I am so glad that I found your blog.
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YWCA and Broadway Area Community Grants to Bolster Garys Economic Revitalization
Miami, Fla. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has extended its grant to the YWCA of Northwest Indiana and added a grant to the Broadway Area Community Development Corporation with the goal of spurring Garys economic and community revitalization. This Indiana community is rebounding and it needs new industries and young working professionals as the steel industry becomes smaller.
Knight Foundation plans to give the YWCA of Northwest Indiana, which has already taken a lead in bringing the Gary community together, $700,000 over three years to implement projects that would help young people prepare for the future. Currently, many students are failing in school and not continuing to high education. YWCAs projects, such as the Trading Game, Negotiation Game and the Creativity Factor, are meant to lever 450 participants to focus on an idea, develop it and take it to market while developing business and leadership skills.
Through these initiatives, Knight Foundation and the YWCA hope to simultaneously improve academics and develop entrepreneurial spirit among Garys youth. The YWCA also plans to incorporate local business leaders as mentors to these students. These grants provide an opportunity for Gary to continue its efforts around rebuilding the community and retaining talent. We are really training and retaining the talent with both of these programs, said Brenda Price, Knight program director for Gary.
The Broadway Area Community Development Corporation will use a $630,000 grant to aid economic development through funding residential construction projects in downtown Gary and training women in construction trades. It plans to launch a ten year Community Neighborhood Workforce Development program to map community for blight, vacant properties, dumping and illegal drug activities, rehabilitate houses and start new construction.
Price adds, The impact of these programs would be limited if not for the outstanding leadership of Mary Cossey, executive director of the Gary YWCA, Vernita Leslie, executive director of Broadway Area Community Development, and all the board members. These leaders are truly dedicated to revitalizing Garys economy.
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Upendra-Prem starrer Director to kick start on 18th September
The movie Director is a remake of Mohanlal-Meena starrer Malayalam film Udayanu Tharam, which is all about two friends, who aspire to become a great actor and a director. Earlier, Munirathna had planned to start this film on 9th February, but Prem was busy at the moment. So he had to postpone the movie launch.
Prem is currently giving finishing touch to Shivaraj Kumar's 100th film Jogayya, which is slated to release on 12th August. Prem is ready to give his call sheet for the film Director in September. Meanwhile, Upendra is also working on K Manju's next Godfather. He is expected to finish his portions before September 18 and join the team of Director.


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The last month and a half has been more mentally and physically demanding than the entire rest of the deployment for a group of men and women here on COB Basra. In contending in the first bodybuilding competition on base, the group followed a strict diet and training regimen to get in top physical shape in time for the show.
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DOHA: As the three-day World GTL Congress wrapped up here yesterday, more than a dozen students from various universities across Qatar seized the opportunity to enable them for roles in the oil and gas industry on the final day.
Empowering the university-level engineering students for the prospective environment was a day-long case study challenge organised by Qatar Shell.
"It was a great opportunity to participate in a real life simulation such as Shell's case study challenge. We read about these things in the books but to actually be out here and get involved in some of the processes was a truly enlightening experience," said Abdullah Al Anzi, a Chemical Engineering student from College of North Atlantic in Qatar.
Wael Sawan, Managing Director and Chairman of Qatar Shell, said: "We are very pleased to be able to organise the students' day on the sidelines of the first World GTL Congress. We engaged with university students through this Shell case study enabling them to take crucial decisions to salvage a failing refinery."
"This engagement is part of our continued commitment to support Qatar's national vision of developing human resources. This engagement also allows us to tap into the pool of talented resources in Qatar with the potential of attracting and recruiting the brightest talent into Qatar Shell."
The Shell's case study complemented the last day of the inaugural World GTL Congress which, following two days of stimulating debate around the entire gamut of GTL from processing to promotion, featured a series of technical and educational forums, as well as an open public exhibition at St. Regis Doha, the event venue.
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Organised by IQPC (the International Quality & Productivity Centre), the event welcomed more than 500 delegates from around the world to Doha — the global GTL capital — where a range of topical discussions ensued around this new oil and gas industry.
The first edition of the World GTL Congress was supported by leading Qatar and global organisations, including QP, Shell, ORYX GTL, Tasweeq, CCC, Sasol, Veolia Water Solutions, Gasal & Air Liquide, Gulf Warehousing Company and Qatar University.
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Last week we looked at some fresh and fantastic girls' names beginning with O, and now we see that they have nothing on the boys. And it's not only the high-ranking Oliver (Number 19), Owen (36), Oscar (181), and Omar (217)–here are ten more wonderful, less frequently used names starting with this most open and optimistic of vowels:
Since Nameberry has done its Christmas post, I thought it would be nice to do one to represent Yule and all the pagans on this site.
Yule, or The Winter Solstice, marks the death and rebirth of the Sun-god. It also marks the vanquishing of the Holly King, the god of the Waning Year, by the Oak King, the God of the Waxing Year. The Goddess, who was Death-in-Life at Midsummer, now shows her Life-in-Death aspect. Modern Christmas celebrations are full of pagan symbology. Santa Claus is the Holly King, the sleigh is the solar chariot, the eight reindeer are the eight Sabbats– their horns representing the Horned God– the North Pole symbolizes the Land of Shadows and the dying solar year, and the gifts are meant both to welcome the Oak King as the sun reborn and as a reminder of the gift of the Holly King, who must depart for the Oak King to rule.
There are several herbs that are used to decorate the Pagan household at this time of year. We adorn doorways and mantles with evergreen boughs and bunches of dried summer herbs. Our ancient ancestors brought an evergreen tree inside to ensure that there would be light all year round. The evergreen retains sunlight, staying green all year, and reminds us that life is forever present and renewable.
As Thor thundered onto multiplex movie screens last week, Appellation Mountain's Abby Sandel was inspired to check out the other gods in the Norse mythology pantheon.
Even if you haven't hit the multiplex lately, you've probably heard that the hammer-wielding Thor is winning critical acclaim and drawing in crowds. Could the movie inspire parents to look north to Norse mythology names for baby name inspiration?
After all, we've borrowed from Greek and Roman mythology for generations. From classics like Diana to current favorites like Luna, there's no shortage of appealing options. Pierce Brosnan has a son called Paris, and Chris Noth named his firstborn Orion.
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Megan Elizabeth Petty and Phillip Michael Ludwig were united in marriage on June 23 in an outdoor wedding at Souls Harbor Baptist Church in Marietta. The double-ring ceremony was performed by Pastor Robert Hughes.
The bride is the daughter of Richard and Linda Petty of Marietta and the granddaughter of Russ and Norma Richardson of Williamstown and Becky and the late Gene Petty of Williamstown.
The groom is the son of Ronda and the late Michael Ludwig of Marietta and the grandson of Roy and Freda Stephens of Marietta and Alvin and Jean Ludwig of Devola.
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Stephen Ludwig, brother of the groom, of Reno, served as best man. The groomsman was Nathan Hill of Lowell, friend of the groom.
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The pianist was Sloane Matics, piano teacher and friend of the bride.
The reception immediately followed the ceremony outside at Souls Harbor Baptist Church.
The cake was made by Sloane Matics. It was a 3-tiered cake, two layers with white cake and white buttercream icing and one layer with chocolate cake with chocolate icing. The cake was decorated with raffia, blue hydrangeas and white daisies and had a handmade twine cake topper.
The bride is a graduate of Williamstown High School and of West Virginia University at Parkersburg with a certificate in surgical technology.
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Bucket List Bandit suspect faces federal detention
A man nicknamed the Bucket List Bandit by the FBI is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate, who must decide whether he'll remain in jail until he can be tried on a charge that he robbed a northwestern Pennsylvania bank last month.
Fifty-four-year-old Michael Eugene Brewster is charged only in the Sept. 10 robbery of the Huntingdon National Bank branch in Erie.
But based on surveillance photos, FBI agents believe he's responsible for nine other robberies in eight other states since June 21 - including a July robbery in Utah in which he told a teller he was terminally ill.
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Brewster is also accused of robbing the Bank of America on Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem on July 21.
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Evidence of my book buying problem
- A.E. Van Vogt
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Besher
- Andrei Codrescu
- Anne Tyler
- Carl G. Jung
- Chriostpher Priest
- Clifford D. Simak
- Clive Barker
- Damien Broderick
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- Linda & Fred Griffith
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- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Sten Nadolny
- Stephen A. Donaldson
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- Walter John Williams
- William Barton, Michael Capobianco
- William T. Vollman
These are authors by whom I own more than one book, yet I have never read a book they've written. This is mostly for my own reminder that I need to read some of these soon.
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Kristin, this is actually a dilemma that I have as well. Do you own at least two books by these authors or just one? Out of all of these I'd say the one you've got to read is John Varley. He is a great writer.
I'd be interested in knowing what you have by Barker, Besher, Delany, Donaldson, Gardner, Knight, Nylund, Shirley, Swanwick, Varley, Williams and Womack. Also I think Walter Jon Williams's middle name is spelled with one N.
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These are ones that I own at least 2 by.
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Ok, so I was being blind when I responded originally. I answered your first question but not your second ;)
(http://www.kbuxton.com/books/lib/ has the full list actually)
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So you finally read some Eric Nylund?
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yes, Dry Water
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Cool, he's a favorite of mine. I can vouch for every one of his books except for A Signal Shattered (which I read and didn't care for, the first book, Signal to Noise, was so much better) and that Halo gaming tie-in book which I haven't read. Signal to Noise, Pawn's Dream and A Game of Universe are all good. I like him better when he's doing sci-fi rather than fantasy. I don't know why he's doing this gaming tie-in stuff. He's so much better than that.
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And Michael Swanwick and John Shirley! What books do you have by those two blokes?
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Shirley: Eclipse
The Exploded Heart
Really, Really, Really, Really, Weird Stories
Swanwick: Jack Faust
Stations of the Tide
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Stations of the Tide I liked a lot.
The Shirley stuff you haven't I would consider essential. Unfortunately the stuff of his that's hard to come by is the really good stuff. He has so much stuff that's out of print. I would recommend Transmaniacon, City Come a'Walking and In Darkness Waiting. His novella Demons which was passed out to novel length was also a recent treat.
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My method of picking new books to read at this point is pretty random, so I'm not sure when I'll get around to any of it. but one of these days ;)
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Some of that stuff is pretty heavy - Tolstoy, Jung, Ibsen . . . if you want to start with something lighter, I woudl recommend the Joan Vinge Snow Queen/Summer Queen books. Talk about the expansion of a fairy tale!
And I've never read any other book by A.S. Byatt, but I thoroughly enjoyed Possession.
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I started Possession once and really couldn't get into it. I'll probably try again sometime, but I've stalled out on the writing style every time I've tried reading Byatt.
The Vinge is definitely higher up on the stack than some of the others here. I have a tendency to buy books when I run across them cheap or whatever if they look at all interesting regardless of whether I'm likely to want to read them soon. This is bad for my shelf space/budget, but good for that brief period between books when you have to decide what to read next. My current method is pretty random though.
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Hermann Hesse and Robert Silverberg are two of my favourites authors.
I have a few by Hesse, and my favourites were Gertrude and Rosshalde - both are beautiful books - so I can recommend these if they are amongst your possessions. I have also read; The Prodigy (excellent), Peter Camezind (very good), Siddhartha (OK), Steppenwolfe (OK), Narziss and Goldmunde (excellent), The Glass Bead Game (very good), Demian (good), Strange News from Another Star - short stories (Hard Passage, Faldum and Dream Sequence are excellent). I also have Wandering on my bookshelf but it remains unread so far.
Robert Silverberg: Dying Inside (the best), Up The Line (excellent), Nightwings (OK), Those Who Watch (a favourite), The Time Hoppers (very good), The World Inside (good), Hawksbill Station (very good), A Time of Changes (good), The Masks of Time (good), Gilgamesh the King (OK), plus a couple of books of his short stories (Songs of Summer - good, Needle In A Timestack - OK). I have also during the last few weeks bought a further batch from Silverberg (ordered on the internet) to be read in the future: Lord Valentine's Castle, The Majipoor Chronicles, Tom O'Bedlam, At Winter's End.
I have read a couple by A.E. Van Vogt; Slan (excellent), and The Worlds of Null-A (good)).
I hope this helps.
Back to your original point, I have two books from Martin Amis on my shelf unread, never having read him before. I shall check to see if there are any more authors - I am certain there will be.
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Actually I just finished Steppenwolf very recently but had forgotten to take him off the list. I'm glad to hear that there are better books by him though since while I thought it was OK, I didn't think it explained all of the hype.
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Same problem for me. Here they are:
Martin Amis (Money, Dead Babies).
Richard Adams (Watership Down, Plaque Dogs).
Robert Graves (I Claudius/Claudius the God (2 books in 1), The Greek Myths volumes I and II (2 books)).
Thomas Kennealy (Schindlers Ark (re-named Schindlers List after the film was released), Conderates).
James Clavell (Shogun, King Rat).
Plus some Readers Digest 'World's Best Reading':
R.L.Stevenson (Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae).
Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude The Obscure).
Jules Verne (Around The World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea).
Rudyard Kipling (Captains Courageous, Kim).
The Greek Myths (volumes I and II) I have BOTH a paperback set AND a hardback set - that's four books.
More of a problem than I had recognised - is there an organisation 'Bookaholics Anonymous'.
What prompted me ? I just love material possessions, and books in particular.
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Thomas Kennealy - should read 'Confederates'
- not 'Conderates'.
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Will I never learn ?
Recent acquisitions include more doubling (tripling) up on authors not yet read:
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (this is the English version of The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass.
Allan Massie - Augustus, Tiberius, Caesar, Arthur the King (all novels).
R.L.Stevenson - Treasure Island, to add to Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae from the Readers Digest 'World's Best Reading'.
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hi there, are you still looking for these books? I have
R.L.Stevenson (Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae).
Jules Verne (Around The World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea).
if you still want it, please contact me, by firstname.lastname@example.com. thanks
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I have recently finished reading The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg, also excellent.
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From where I'm sitting, it doesn't look like you have any problem buying books!
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Well, everyone else seems to think it's a problem :) I just think my bank account thinks it's a problem.
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R. Buckminster Fuller? So what prompted you to pick up two (or more) of his books?
Interesting feller, he.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
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Curiousity and finding them cheap I guess. One I might have "borrowed" from my dad several years ago.
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There are only two authors on this list by whom I have already read one or two books:
Albert Camus: I have read The Outsider and The Fall. I'd recommend the first one, because it is much more complex, and somehow easier to read.
Franz Kafka: Oh, Kafka! I think he has been a fascinating, though VERY difficult author. I have read several texts by him and one book: The Transformation (BTW, I'm not really sure if that's the correct English title). You will probably have to read this book more than once. Interesting nevertheless.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.–There haven't been many Catholic nuns at Democratic Conventions, but one of them took the stage on Wednesday night.
"I'm one of the Nuns on the Bus," Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Roman Catholic group that serves in poor communities, introduced herself. "We have nuns on the bus and a nun on the podium!"
In June, Sister Simone traveled with other Catholic sisters on a 2,700-mile journey, she said, "to tell Americans about the budget Paul Ryan wrote and Gov. [Mitt] Romney endorsed."
Mr. Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, a determined cost cutter and himself a Catholic, had drawn a lot of negative reactions from Catholic religious with his budget plan. Mr. Romney chose Mr. Ryan as his running mate last month.
In April, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an unusually strong letter opposing many of his proposals. They "stated that the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test," said Sister Simone, saying that the cuts would harm families living in poverty.
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This spring the Vatican released a report on a group that represents 80% of U.S. nuns, questioning the sisters' loyalty to Catholic doctrine. It said that the U.S. sisters had spent too much time publicly talking about social justice issues and not enough time speaking against such issues as abortion. It specifically cited Sister Simone's organization. The bus trip was partly a protest against the Ryan budget and partly a show of defiance against the Vatican and Catholic hierarchy.
"Our faith strongly affirms that we are all responsible for one another," she said. "I AM my sister's keeper. I am my brother's keeper," she said as the Democratic delegates continued to cheer.
"This is part of my pro-life stance, and the right thing to do," she said, by which time the audience was standing and shouting.
"'I urge you, join us on the bus," she said.
Unlike other convention speakers, Sister Simone did not directly endorse President Barack Obama. In an interview before her speech, Sister Simone said she was shocked to be invited to speak, she wasn't sure how the U.S. bishops would react.
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So intones Javier Bardem over music by Andy Quin in the trailer for To the Wonder (out now in select theaters and On Demand). But critics don't exactly agree with the sentiment - at least, not when it comes to Terrence Malick's films. Many didn't love The Tree of Life; some thought it was downright awful. (We couldn't disagree more.) Others who found the phenomenological lens and philosophical whispers of that last film only slightly offputting are now lambasting his less ambitious, more ambiguous follow-up. (One person at the premiere even said that To the Wonder "makes The Tree of Life look like Transformers"...the star, Ben Affleck.) Both films were booed at film festivals. There's little love lost between Malick and his critics. Whether they like it or not.
But at least one critic showered To the Wonder with affection, after including The Tree of Life in his list of the ten greatest films ever made: Roger Ebert. And it was the last film he would ever review.
To the Wonder follows Neil (Ben Affleck) and Mariana (Olga Kurylenko), although I'm not quite sure we ever hear their names, or need to. In typical Malick fashion, the aim of To the Wonder is not so much to tell us a conventional story, but to capture lives in transit. It plumbs the depth of each moment, with elegant cinematography and poetic voice-overs bouncing from French to English to Spanish to Italian.
But there is enough to grab on to: we open on the two in Paris, madly in love; and anyone who has been madly in love will immediately connect with the rapturous and careless joy we see in these scenes, as the two cavort around downtown Paris and wander the Mont St. Michel monastery hand-in-hand.
But the honeymoon ends; Neil goes back to his native Oklahoma, and invites Mariana and her daughter Tatiana to live with him. What follows is a tug-of-war of human love between very distinct archetypes. Neil, stoic and silent, becomes increasingly glum, indecisive, faithless; Mariana, on the other hand, remains playful, impulsive, and ever-hopeful. The two separate, re-connect, and separate again; fight, make love, and fight again.
In the midst of their tumultuous relationship, Neil re-connects with Jane (Rachel McAdams), who has seen her own share of suffering in life. She and Neil have a brief but less electric romance, and it's clear that Neil's heart isn't in it in quite the same way.
Even as a Malick fan, I found myself occasionally groaning with his critics here, who wail and gnash their teeth at all the hay wandering and buffalo roaming. But my impatience passed; the slow-down ceases as McAdams exits, whispering a profound line: "I thought I knew you. Now I don't think you ever were. What we had was nothing. You made it into nothing. Pleasure. Lust."
What makes To the Wonder especially unique is its embedding of these stories in a broader world of spiritual wisdom and searching. Javier Bardem plays a local Catholic priest, Father Quintana, in the grip of a kind of dark night of the soul, much like the lead in Bresson's classic Diary of a Country Priest. He ministers to the sick, the imprisoned, the disabled, the drug-addicted, the abandoned, the lonely; he dispenses the sacraments; he counsels his married parishioners - including, at different times, Neil and Mariana. But all the while he feels the absence of God in his life. One elderly lady prays that he feels "the gift of joy," saying he seems "so unhappy." But his state is worse than unhappy. He laments, internally: "Everywhere you're present, and still I can't see you. You're within me. Around me, and I have no experience of you. Not as I once did. Why don't I hold on to what I've found? My heart is cold. Hard."
Still, Quintana persists, trusting in the slow work of God, and passing profound theological truths to his parishioners:
Man is in a revolt against God. The prophet Isaiah saw in the breakdown of his marriage the spiritual infidelity of his people. In that broken marriage, we see the pattern of our world. We wish to live within the safety of the laws. We fear to choose. Jesus insists on choice. The one thing he condemns utterly is avoiding the choice. To choose is to commit yourself, and to commit yourself is to run the risk of failure, the risk of sin, the risk of betrayal. But Jesus can deal with all of those. Forgiveness he never denies us. The man who makes a mistake can repent. But the man who hesitates, who does nothing, who buries his talent in the earth, with him he can do nothing.
Quintana also lays out St. Paul's description of Christian marriage in Ephesians, which contrasts sharply with the above description of inaction and infidelity. "The husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church, and give his life to her. He does not find her lovely, he makes her lovely. But there is a grace that comes in such a marriage." The fullest expression of this idea comes in a sermon from which the trailer was pieced together:
You shall love, whether you like it or not. Love is not only a feeling, love is a duty. 'You shall love.' Love is a command. And you say, 'I can't command my emotions; they come and go like clouds.' To that Christ says, 'You shall love, whether you like it or not.' You say, 'Christ said that'—what do you say? And what you say, does it come from God within? Answer that which is of God. To commit yourself is to run the risk of failure, the risk of betrayal. But a man who makes a mistake can repent. You fear your love has died; it perhaps is waiting to be transformed into something higher. Awaken the love, the divine presence, which sleeps in each man, each woman. Know each other in that love that never changes, which is not like a cloud in the sky, gone by afternoon.
Rarely do we see a faith so raw and believable in movies; a faith that's not comically easy and pliable, but filled with struggle, passion, darkness, and hope. But how does it connect to the story of Neil and Mariana? Why is it here?
Critics have found a lot to hate in To the Wonder, but Quintana and his story have, without a doubt, drawn the most ire. Dana Stevens at Slate calls it "the movie's weakest element." NPR critic David Edelstein writes: "I have a confession, Father: I laughed every time Bardem appeared." Kurt Loder at Reason.com laments: "As Quintana shlumps around town muttering to himself, we begin to wish he would join Jane and just get out of the way...well before the movie dribbles to its conclusion, we have joined Father Quintana in asking, 'Where are you leading us.' God has little to offer him in reply, and the director has nothing for us." David Denby of the New Yorker is even more sardonic: "The film is nominally about the failure of marriage, a state of being blessed by a depressed priest (Javier Bardem), as one of Christ's great gifts." With Quintana, Malick's critics see the worst of the auteur they love to hate: whispering, wheat-wandering, and twirling, brought to a fever pitch in that mortal sin of sentimentality: religious faith.
One critic, at least, wasn't so negative. Roger Ebert's review of To the Wonder - the last review he penned before his death - is worth quoting at length:
As the film opened, I wondered if I was missing something. As it continued, I realized many films could miss a great deal. Although he uses established stars, Malick employs them in the sense that the French director Robert Bresson intended when he called actors "models." Ben Affleck here isn't the star of "Argo" but a man, often silent, intoxicated by love and then by loss. Bardem, as a priest far from home, made me realize as never before the loneliness of the unmarried clergy. Wandering in his empty church in the middle of the day, he is a forlorn figure, crying out in prayer and need to commune with his Jesus.
A more conventional film would have assigned a plot to these characters and made their motivations more clear. Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth of his vision.
"Well," I asked myself, "why not?" Why must a film explain everything? Why must every motivation be spelled out? Aren't many films fundamentally the same film, with only the specifics changed? Aren't many of them telling the same story? Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. We realize they come as a gift through no power of our own, and if we lose them, isn't that almost worse than never having had them in the first place?
There will be many who find "To the Wonder" elusive and too effervescent. They'll be dissatisfied by a film that would rather evoke than supply. I understand that, and I think Terrence Malick does, too. But here he has attempted to reach more deeply than that: to reach beneath the surface, and find the soul in need.
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Ebert reviewed. He gave 3.5/4 stars.
The notoriously cloistered Malick released a public statement, acknowledging the review and calling Ebert "a man of kindness and generosity." Affleck, too, was shocked and honored, saying: "To have this be the last movie that he reviewed and to have it viewed through this sort of transcendental lens of a man at the end of his life is as important as anything that's ever happened around movies in my career."
What Affleck says is interesting, and raises the question: do scales of cynicism, which fall from the eyes of the dying, blind our best critics? Why do they, and the little cynical voice within us, want to hate To the Wonder so much?
Faced with something that smells of sweetness or simplicity, our reaction is to scoff. We're too impatient, ironic, acerbic, and petulant to be bothered with it. But could it be because it's uncomfortable? Because it's too in our face, too human?
Stanley Fish wrote a fantastic article on Les Misérables that argues just this point. In it, he quotes David Foster Wallace on sincerity, irony, and rebellion:
The next real literary 'rebels' in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point. Maybe that's why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today's risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "Oh how banal." To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness.
Does this not sound like a Malick review? Outdated, naive, quaint, sentimental, melodramatic, soft. Malick risks these criticisms, and I'm sure he knows it (though we'd never know that he knows it). But there is something rebellious now in that risk, and I hope moviegoers sense it and are attracted to it.
But this brings us back to the ire for the Quintana character. Is Malick so loathed by critics because his films are schmaltzy, or because they are bordering on prayer? Something tells me it's the latter that really drives them up the wall, and - on Wallace's reading - makes them yawn and snicker exaggeratedly. Even critics who praise the film - like Richard Brody in The New Yorker - argue that Malick's worldview comes "not from the doctrine of the Catholic Church but from its aesthetic." "Outdated," "naive," and "sentimental" pale in comparison to the ultimate criticism: "religious."
But Brody's right: the film isn't doctrinal or "religious" in a conventional sense. Malick isn't thoughtlessly proselytizing, and Quintana is just one character's voice. But he's also wrong: Malick is not merely concerned with religious aesthetics or a sort of pantheistic frolic. Instead, like Bergman and Bresson before him, he is pointedly and poignantly underscoring those theological questions that haunt us, especially after tragedies like the one in Boston this week: "Why do you turn your back? All I see is destruction. Failure." Films like To the Wonder tap into fears, hopes, desires that transcend our own capability to master them. They are not just aesthetically beautiful, but philosophical. But does it end there?
Thomas Merton's lecture on St. Bernard of Clairveaux provides insight into this human need:
Man's nature is to love...no matter how man loves, from the moment that he loves - whether he's loving rightly or wrongly - he's doing that thing for which he was created. And if he's doing it wrong, well that's just too bad, because it means that his whole creation becomes meaningless. But if he's doing it right, then the whole reason for his creation is fulfilled. But whether he loves rightly or wrongly, he's got to love, because he's made for love, and he has to love. The only thing that there is a choice between - it's not whether he should love or not love - it's whether he should love rightly or wrongly, cause he can't help loving.
This is the crux of To the Wonder that connects the characters and grounds the story: that love is real, and we were made for it. But Neil and Mariana, who aim at loving what's below, are doomed to failure, infidelity, self-absorption, isolation - a bleak and frustrated existence. Mariana (who's often waving at the sky) tries but fails to draw heavenly moments down to earth; Neil (who's often trudging through the mud) tries but fails to pull earth up to heaven. "You have to struggle with yourself," Quintana tells Neil. "You have to struggle with your own..." Doubt? Pain? Darkness? No - he sees the spiritual chasm between them, and the false love that Neil pursues. "Strength." It's Neil's strength that misleads him, that keeps his love from becoming "something higher."
Quintana, on the other hand, has offered his life as a gift - and when he is weak, then he is strong. We see in his final monologue (a partial recitation of St. Patrick's Breastplate prayer) the voice of joy, which knows its goal is infinite; which knows that the "love that loves us" is our only path to a love which fulfills us.
Where are you leading me? Teach us where to seek you.
Christ, be with me.
Christ before me.
Christ behind me.
Christ in me.
Christ beneath me.
Christ above me.
Christ on my right.
Christ on my left.
Christ in the heart.
Thirsting. We thirst.
Malick's great downfall, his inability to connect with many moviegoers and critics, might stem from overindulgence and overediting: at times, To the Wonder does feel a bit too "elusive and effervescent," as Ebert put it. (Too "French" about sums it up.) His decisions about what to tell us and what not to tell us can leave us in a state of stagnation or starvation, especially at the ambiguous ending.
But his undeniable virtue as a filmmaker is the depth of his vision. It's not horizontal, like a problem to solve or a plot to unfold, but vertical, like a moment to experience, a mystery to dwell in. In an age flooded with cheap, easy tricks, Malick is multivalent, especially with regard to the infinitely expanding realm of faith and prayer. He resurrects what Faulkner called "problems of the spirit," "problems of the human heart in conflict with itself." Ebert was right: in To the Wonder, we see souls like ours: souls in need. The characters seem to be adrift, thirsting for love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. They get them, then lose them again; just like us. They dwell in the mundane, but constantly see and want to see something more; just like us.
Such a vision is moving, perplexing, inspiring. It brilliantly captures what is especially human about us; but that's not necessarily easy to watch, or fun. It won't be a hit. Thomas Merton, in Raids on the Unspeakable, might as well have been writing a letter to Malick when he wrote: "Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. You agree? Good. Then go with my blessing. But I warn you, do not expect to make many friends."


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nuts, she's got no knickersThe dancing went on for a few minutes. The young lady swayed her hips from side to side, while rubbing her hands up her thighs and through her fiery hair. But what really had every man's attention was the fact that she had no underwear on whilst dancing on such an elevated stage.
Of course, I don't have to tell you that, as men, we were doing our holy duty of saluting, whistling and howling at the beauty. Yes I know, some people might say that we acted like dogs or pigs. But I don't know what's worse: the howling men, or the half-naked woman on stage taunting them?
So here's the part where things got a little ugly. The young redhead snapped out of her dance trance and shouted down at me, "Hey pervert, what are you looking at?"
Zzzip. Stop the music. I could not believe my ears. Can you believe this girl? Climbing atop the bar and dancing with a miniskirt and no panties in order to feed her ego by getting every single male eyeball to roll in her direction, and then have the nerve to call me a pervert???
hold it girlfriend!There was no way I was going to stand there and swallow my pride, so I replied right back, "Hey, don't flatter yourself. I was just wondering why your panties sneaked out from in between your legs without you noticing. Was it the smell or the moss that scared them away?"
At this point, her eyes opened wide from shock and she humbly responded, "That's so disrespectful. How can you say such nasty words to a lady?"
Without making the lady wait more than a second for an answer to her question, I said, "You know very well what you're up to. I don't think you were doing the rain dance. If you don't appreciate all this attention, then you might think twice before you jump onto a bar with a miniskirt and no underwear. Then maybe you might get the respect that you're asking for."
I don't think that she was expecting such an honest response from a man: men are usually very intimidated by beautiful women. The young woman's face became as red as her hair, and she jumped down from the bar, grabbed her bag, and left the bar humiliated, with a broken ego to boot.
a proud manOkay, so maybe I was a little too harsh. But I'm just so fed up with women who treat men like sheep, and take advantage of their sweet disposition and naivety in order to ridicule them. Well guess what? This dog was not going to sit back and take the taunting abuse.
Now don't get me wrong; I respect women and can appreciate a sensual dance in good fun. But I can't stand when a woman will treat men like sheep by tempting them with a piece of meat and then whacking them over the head for biting.
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I wonder if William Shakespeare had the economy and its effect on the food-distribution industry in mind when he wrote, "The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion." Well, perhaps not, but it's beginning to seem as though the hope of late last year and of early this year that a better economy would buoy the fortunes of the industry during the second half has turned to dust. You'll find at least three news articles in this week's SN that unfortunately ...
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Calling it a "misunderstanding," the advisor of Manny Pacquiao addressed an alleged assault on Getty Images photographer Al Bello during the chaotic aftermath of the Filipino's sixth-round knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"There was a misunderstanding," said Pacquiao's advisor Michael Koncz, who would not comment on the details of the situation. "And if it was construed any other way, then he has my sincerest apology."
According to a report by Yahoo! Sports, Bello was taking photos of Pacquiao, who was knocked cold and in a prone position, when he was allegedly attacked by Koncz, as well as Pacquiao's longtime friend Restituto "BuBoy" Fernandez, an assistant to head trainer Freddie Roach.
Bello jumped off the apron to avoid the confrontation with the men, according to Yahoo! Sports.
"Had I not gotten off the ring," said Bello, "I have no doubt the two of them would have beaten the [expletive] out of me and I might have been seriously hurt."
Bello did not contact police, according to the Yahoo! Sports story, and simply wanted an apology from Koncz and Fernandez.
Later, Koncz added to his earlier statement.
"I think that in the heat of concern for Manny's health and safety at that moment, there was a misunderstanding between the cameraman, myself and BuBoy," said Koncz.
"So on behalf of BuBoy and myself, we apologize for any inconvenience that it may have caused to the cameraman."
Reached by RingTV.com, Bello referred questions to Getty Images publicist Jodi Einhorn.
"Getty Images takes the safety of our photographers and the important work that they do very seriously," read an e-mail from Einhorn to RingTV.com in reaction to Koncz's comments.
"Al Bello is an award winning photojournalist who was doing his job capturing the Pacquiao vs. Marquez fight. The attack on him was in violation of the NSAC rules and in a manner inconsistent with the conduct of boxing professionals and their entourages photographed by Al for years."
Keith Kizer, director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, informed RingTV.com that he is expecting a letter of explanation from Bello and Getty Photos, confirmed that his organization is looking into the matter, and that Koncz and Fernandez could face disciplinary action.
Marquez (55-6-1, 40 knockouts), who turned 39 in August, had battled to a draw and lost by split- and majority decisions to Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KOs) before Saturday.
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by William Shakespeare
Coriolanus Act 1, Scene 4 Summary
- Cut to the city of Corioles, where Caius Martius and Titus Lartius take a little break from battering the city.
- A group of Volscian Senators show up on the city's walls and start talking trash about how their military leader, Tullus Aufidius, is going to show up any minute and make the Romans wish they had never come here.
- Next, the Senators send out their Volscian army to throw down with the Roman soldiers.
- Game on.
- Caius Martius leads the charge against the Volscians but the Romans are beaten back to their trenches outside the city walls.
- Martius then gives the Roman troops a little pep talk. And by "pep talk" we mean he curses them out and threatens to kill them himself if they don't start kicking some Volscian butt ASAP. You know, a little Coach Taylor style.
- Martius chases the Volscian soldiers inside the city gates and disappears while the rest of the soldiers hang back where it's nice and safe.
- Just as everyone is thinking Caius Martius is a total goner, he shows up at the city gates...covered in blood and sporting some new battle wounds. (His mom is going to be so proud!)
- Now the other Roman soldiers rush through the gates and ravage the city.
- Brain Snack: In Ralph Fiennes' 2011 film version of Coriolanus, this battle scene takes place in a contemporary, urban setting that looks more like war-torn Serbia in the 1990's than ancient Rome.


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SAN JOSE -- Returning to the road, the Sharks are entitled to feel good about life after a 5-0 homestand featuring three straight wins over Western Conference powers -- the Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues and Anaheim Ducks.
"They weren't Picassos, but show me one that anybody wins against the top teams in the league," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said before his team's plane left for Toronto on Monday. "I don't think you'll find it."
But enough about the past.
Because right now, McLellan and his players say, their attention needs to be on the future. And that starts with a four-game trip that begins Tuesday against the Maple Leafs and continues with stops in Pittsburgh, Carolina and Minnesota.
"Where we don't know as much about the Eastern Conference, we do know we're facing some pretty darn good teams, and the schedule isn't easy," said McLellan, whose team sits atop the Pacific Division. "The task doesn't get any simpler."
The trip includes another three-games-in-four nights stretch with the added burden of travel.
"Everybody," the coach added, "has to continue to pull on the rope."
One thing the Sharks can improve is their ability to preserve a lead, as failure to do so ended up with the Kings and Ducks each picking up a point San Jose could have denied them.
But McLellan did not sound overly concerned.
"Leads are hard to keep in the league," he said. "I really believe that's because there's so much parity. In the past, you'd be able to get a lead and kind of just cruise along."
The trip's marquee matchup comes Thursday against the Pittsburgh Penguins, who are running away with the Metropolitan Division. That night, the Sharks face the NHL's two leading scorers, Sidney Crosby with 36 points and Evgeni Malkin with 35.
Before that, though, they face a Maple Leafs team that started the season with six wins in its first seven games but has struggled lately with only one victory in its last six.
Toronto, of course, is considered the center of the English-speaking hockey universe. The Sharks have seven players with roots in Ontario, and each is likely to have a delegation of family and friends on hand.
"I'm excited to go back there," said Logan Couture, who grew up in London, Ontario, about 105 miles west. "I've only played there once."
As a Shark, that is true -- San Jose's last visit, a 2-1 win on Feb. 23, 2012. But Couture also won a skills competition at the Air Canada Center at age 10, winning the opportunity to sit on the Leafs bench during an intrasquad game.
The only Shark who grew up in Toronto is forward Matt Pelech. With Toronto carrying two heavyweight enforcers on its roster -- Colton Orr and former Shark Frazer McLaren -- it's a better than average chance Pelech could be in the lineup.
"That'd be awesome," Pelech said. "But that's not my decision, and I've just got to be ready to go when called on. I'm more excited to see my family. I haven't seen my family in a while, and I think that'll be nice."
Even Sharks born in the United States can find extra incentive for games in Toronto.
"You play for the guys that are from there," defenseman Justin Braun said. "They're going to have family there, and you don't want to let them down."
The Ontario players can return the favor at the end of the trip Sunday when the Sharks face the Minnesota Wild in St. Paul, Braun's hometown.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
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The Fort Gordon Spouses' & Civilians' Club invites all to unleash their creativity during Art Night Out on Feb. 12 at Artsy Me. Members and new friends can decorate beautiful clay art pieces, fellowship and learn more about the club.
"From mugs to bowls to wall art, Artsy Me has a wide selection of pottery to choose from," said Angela Kennedy, FGSCC president. "You can decorate them any way you like for your home or to give as gifts."
Those attending Art Night Out are asked to pay $5 to Artsy Me plus the cost of their chosen pottery. Some items available at Artsy Me run for as little as $5 a piece. Attendees also can enjoy a meal courtesy of FGSCC for $8.
Those looking for unique collectibles and gifts, a representative from FGSCC Ways & Means will be selling customized coasters, jewelry and decorative signs as well as Fort Gordon-themed memorabilia and the FGSCC cookbook, Magnolia Munchies.
"Artsy Me handles all of the details—paint, brushes and making the pottery," said Kennedy. "You just have to bring your creative spirit and a willingness to have fun."
Those attending the event are encouraged to bring pet food as well as old towels and T-shirts as part of the FGSCC President's Service Drive. The items will be donated to Heartsong Spay Neuter Clinic and Fort Gordon Veterinary Treatment Facility on behalf of the club.
Fort Gordon Spouses' & Civilians' Club is an active part of the Fort Gordon community, leading community service projects, operating the Thrift Shop and providing volunteer opportunities, special events and activities.
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FFA CDEs are very important to FFA members, they help improve skills and give members more experience in different fields of agriculture. Many members do specific CDEs (Career Development Events) to help them for future careers and others do them because they are fun. Recently, the FFA Chapter has had 14 FFA members participate in CDEs. These CDEs consist of District Foods, Agronomy, Floriculture, and Horse judging.
Foods took place at Hawkeye Community College on May 6th and four FFA members -Ethan Henry, Ben Eden, Drew Wiley, and Conner Miracle- participated in this event. These boys received 4th place as a team, with Drew Wiley in 7th place individual.
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GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (WRDW) -- Traffic is moving again in Graniteville after a crash on Bettis Academy Road on Tuesday morning.
The accident happened near Whaley Pond Road just before 7 a.m.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — A 52-year-old San Jose, Calif., woman died last week after a skiing accident at Northstar California, according to resort officials.
At approximately 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, Northstar ski patrol responded to a report of an injury on the Castle Peak trail located on "The Backside" section of the resort, according to a Northstar press release, where Cindy Tucker Mulcahy, 52, was found lying unconscious.
Mulcahy was transported via CareFlight helicopter to Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, where she later died, according to Northstar. She was wearing a helmet at the time of her injury, according to the resort.
"Northstar management and staff and the Vail Resorts family extend their deepest sympathy and support to the family and friends of the skier," the resort said in a statement Thursday. "The resort would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Northstar Fire Department and CareFlight staff in the rescue efforts."
In a Tuesday afternoon interview, Paul Schmidt, chief deputy coroner for Nevada County, said the cause of death was a ruptured aorta, although it's unclear exactly what transpired last Thursday.
"(The resort) said she went over a rise and yelled out and hit the ground," Schmidt said. "It may have happened on impact, or it may just have been the strenuous act of skiing."
According to an obituary published in various Bay Area newspapers, Mulcahy was described as a "loving and faithful wife, a devoted mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and cherished friend."
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After months of voice problems and throat pain, Trick Pony's Heidi Newfield took a drastic step: She agreed to undergo surgery.
"I was stressed about having surgery on my vocal chords," says Heidi. "My voice is my instrument -- my living!"
Doctors at Nashville's Vanderbilt Voice Center assured her that the procedure to remove a polyp from her vocal chord was relatively safe, but still she had fears.
"I'm usually pretty gung-ho," confides Heidi. "Heck, I'll jump out of an airplane. But I've never had surgery before so I was really, really nervous."
The surgery in January went well -- but feisty Heidi faced another challenge in her recovery. "I had to be completely silent for two weeks!" she explains. "Everybody said there's no way I could do it. But I didn't even whisper a word!"
Heidi couldn't be more excited to be back touring with bandmates Ira Dean and Keith Burns. "I'm singing again!" she exclaims. "It still sounds like me, I don't think anyone will know the difference. But I can tell the tone is better and it's much more effortless."
Keith Urban has also suffered voice troubles and was forced to halt touring earlier this year when a vocal chord hemorrhaged. "I've had a polyp on my right vocal chord for years and it finally caught up with me," he explains. Fortunately, Keith was able to avoid surgery with a regimen of complete vocal rest for six weeks. Most recently, Sara Evans had a small blister, probably related to her last pregnancy, removed from her vocal chord.
Heidi, Keith and Sara are hardly the only stars to be plagued by voice woes. Others include Rosanne Cash, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Faith Hill and Ronnie Dunn.
"It's always a concern for singers," says Heidi. "We push too hard. And country artists tour most of the year while rock stars tend to take part of the year off. Plus we have close relationships with our fans so it requires us to do a lot more talking."
How will Heidi keep her voice healthy in the future?
"I've learned some great new voice techniques," says Heidi. "The best thing in the world to do is to sip warm water -- and I have to talk less!"
That's a tough task for a fun-loving woman from the band known as the life of the party. "I have to be more disciplined," says Heidi. "Some nights when the guys want to go out after a show I'll just have to be odd man out. I've got to take care of myself."


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The Del Mar Union School District will hold its eighth annual Blood Drive on Monday, Jan. 31, from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Del Mar Hills Academy, Performing Arts Center, Room 101, 14085 Mango Drive, Del Mar, CA 92014.
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Sikeston's Jordan Kimball is tagged after attempting to steal home in the bottom of the first inning Tuesday night against Union City at VFW Memorial Stadium. Looking on is Sikeston's Joe Meggs (9).
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SIKESTON -- The Sikeston Bulls are beginning to really like their home games at VFW Memorial Stadium.
For the second straight night the Bulls pulled off a dramatic comeback win in the ninth inning against the Union City Greyhounds. Scott Droddy was yet again part of the late inning heroics but it was Brian Gose, a native of California, who ended up with the walk-off hit.
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The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and Practice
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Maine congresswoman backs assault-benefits bill
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Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine introduced a bill to help survivors of sexual assault in the military get benefits.
Pingree and fellow Democrat Sen. Jon Tester of Montana announced their bill Wednesday in Washington.
Also appearing at a news conference was Ruth Moore, a U.S. Navy veteran and survivor of military sexual trauma who battled post-traumatic stress disorder and homelessness after her assault and subsequent discharge from the Navy.
Pingree said service members who are raped or sexually assaulted face obstacles to receiving care and benefits.
Tester and Pingree's legislation would make it easier for survivors of military sexual trauma to get benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Southern California–based Burger Lounge is introducing limited-time seasonal game burgers, dubbed the "Game Changer Burger Series." Grass-fed bison, wild boar, and grass-fed elk will rotate through in 60-day increments over the next six months at all 11 locations throughout San Diego and Los Angeles.
"Bison, boar, and elk are all lean proteins with great taste profiles," says J. Dean Loring, CEO and president. "It's a natural extension of our small menu, which focuses on thoughtfully procured mostly organic and sustainable ingredients."
The Game Changer Burger series includes:
· Grass-fed bison from October 2013 through November 2013: Served on the signature Lounge Bun with blue cheese, pickled onion, and roasted garlic aioli. Gluten-free bun or lettuce wrap optional.
· Wild boar from December 2013 through January 2014: Served on the signature Lounge Bun with crispy onion rings, smoked Mozzarella, and house-made barbecue sauce. Gluten-free bun or lettuce wrap optional.
· Grass-fed elk from February 2013 through March 2014:Served on the signature Lounge Bun with jicama slaw, crispy pork belly, and chipotle aioli. Gluten-free bun or lettuce wrap optional.
In addition to these limited-time offerings, Burger Lounge recently added a seared Wild Albacore Sandwich to the permanent menu. The Wild Albacore is seared to order and served with roasted tomato relish, baby watercress, and lemon-basil aioli.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sacramento State senior Holly Hopkins earned first team all-West Region honors, it was announced today by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA). Hopkins was also the recipient of CRCA National Scholar-Athlete accolades along with her sister Heather Hopkins and teammates Emily Airoldi and Jessa Carlson.
Holly Hopkins was one of just 12 student-athletes selected first team all-West Region, and the only non Pacific-10 Conference rower to receive first team accolades. She becomes the fourth Sacramento State rower to be selected to the first team since the program gained intercollegiate status in 1995, and first since 2005 (Laura Harder). The Davis, Calif., native was selected to the second team last year and is one of four Hornets to be selected all-region (first or second team) multiple time during their careers.
All-region awards recognize the outstanding performances of rowers and coxswains from each of the five regions, organized into first and second-team selections. Nominated student-athletes are evaluated on the strength of their team's regional finish, coaches recommendations and 2,000-meter ergometer scores.
Hopkins, who has never missed a raced with the Hornets' varsity eight during her four-year career, competed in the stroke seat with the team's top boat in every race this season. A first team all-Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association (WIRA) selection for the second straight year, she helped lead the team's varsity eight to its first WIRA title since 2006, and first Dad Vail Regatta championship since 2006. The National Scholar-Athlete award marks the third consecutive year Hopkins has received the honor, becoming the fourth Hornet to earn the award three times during their career.
The National Scholar-Athlete award recognizes rowing student-athletes with a 3.5 or higher cumulative grade point average, are at least a sophomore athletically, and have competed in 75 percent of the team's spring races. Heather Hopkins, Airoldi and Carlson each received the honors for the first time. All three competed with the varsity eight this season and helped lead the boat to WIRA and Dad Vail titles.
Heather Hopkins, who is a junior, and a first team all-WIRA selection this season, competed with the varsity eight in the seven seat in every race. In her two seasons with the team, the Davis, Calif., native has competed with the team's top boat in every spring regatta.
Airoldi, a junior from Vacaville, Calif., competed in the six seat with the varsity eight in every spring race despite coming to Sacramento State with no rowing experience just two years ago.
Carlson, a junior from Fair Oaks, Calif., was coxswain of the varsity eight in all but two races, including each of the last six regattas of the spring. In her second season with the Hornets after transferring from Syracuse, Carlson coxed five different boats in at least one race during the 2009 season prior to primarily rowing with the varsity eight this year.


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FLAW's video for their latest single, "Whole", has been added into regular rotation on MTV2. The clip will air several times a day beginning May 20th.As with many of the tracks off of the band's Republic/Universal Records debut, Through the Eyes, "Whole" was inspired by real-life personal turmoil—in this case, the suicide of singer Chris Volz's adoptive mother, which occurred when he was twelve. "A recurring theme in my lyrics has to do with childhood and life as a healing process. Going through (my mom's) suicide sucked and I wouldn't wish it on anybody, ever, but in a weird way I wouldn't change it either, because I learned so much about myself and other people," says Volz. The harrowing clip, lensed by Dean Karr (i.e. OZZY OSBOURNE, 3 DOORS DOWN, MARILYN MANSON) challenges the viewer with vivid depictions of despair and loneliness, inter-cut with stunning performance footage. "While the lyrics of the song were written about my mom, the overall focus of the video is geared towards general loss, abandonment or abuse. We wanted anyone who has endured anything traumatic to be able to relate to it," offers Volz. FLAW will be touring throughout Europe from May 20 until June 7th and will join Ozzfest 2002 on July 6th.
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