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Bill Marsh and d**k Bostick were previously employed at Bill's Glass Shack in Fairborn, OH. When the owner of Bill's Glass Shack decided to close his business, these two men decided to open BMS Glass. They were afforded an open account with Net 15 terms. They are operating as what we term a "buy and burn" business. They go from one supplier to the next maxing their credit limit and then not paying. Suppliers beware!
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Game 150 Recap: Cubs 2, Brewers 6
- Hah. Just as the game starts, my computer crashes. Maybe it's an omen that tonight isn't the night for my return...
- While it's rebooting, Cameron lines a 2-2 pitch into the left center gap. Edmonds cuts it off, keeps him to a single
- 2-0 on Durham, Soto goes out for a chat.
- Cameron steals second. Replay shows that Soto's absolutely perfect throw just did get Cameron at second, but he's called safe
- and Durham walks.
- as does Braun. This is not good. Missing with the fastball. The walk comes after a very, very generous strike call by Joe West on a 3-1 count.
- Fielder then lines a double down the left field line, all three runs come around to score. 3-0 Brewers with no outs.
- Hardy grounds out to third
- and Hart K's swinging. With that, I'm back up to speed. phew. stupid computer.
- and Counsell K's swinging. 31 pitch first inning. Yeah, I think it was an omen.
- Soriano bounces out to Counsell at third on the first pitch.
- ESPN observes that Cameron has some sort of defensive positioning guide in his back pocket that he's consulting. Their crew hasn't seen that before, neither have I.
- Fontenot K's looking.
- as does Lee. easy first for Sheets, 14 pitches.
- Kendall grounds to Theriot.
- As does Sheets. trots down to first on what might have been a bit of a tough charging play for Theriot.
- Cameron lines a fastball on the outside corner right to Fontenot. Decent recovery inning for Marquis, only 11 pitches.
- Ramirez with a really funky home run. Wails at the first pitch, an inside fastball that looks like it tied him up, and lines it on a frozen rope into the first couple rows of the bleachers, just to the right of the left-field well. Dave O'Brien is three types of astonished at how fast it left the park, says Braun didn't even get his head around before it was out of the park. That's only a slight exaggeration. 3-1Brewers
- DeRosa lines to Braun.
- Sut thinks Soto is a top 10 MVP candidate
- as Braun did, Soto begins trotting to first on ball four, only for Joe West to call it a strike
- lines a drive to the right field warning track, Hart catches it.
- Durham taps one up the first base line. Marquis fields, tags Durham out.
- Braun fists one inside-out to the right-side hole. Goes over Lee, but Fontenot makes a great diving catch on the shallow outfield grass
- and wow, some no-name is warming up in the Brewers pen. Must be something wrong with Sheets?
- Fielder walks
- Hardy lines one through Fielder's legs, as he leaps up to avoid it. Single to right, Fielder to second.
- Hart grounds into a 6-4 force.
- Sheets appears to be leaving the game.
- Mark DiFelice in to pitch. Sheet on the bench looking on.
- Theriot K's looking on what was also a check swing. K-zone suggests, yet again, that Joe West missed the call.
- Marquis lines a bouncer off Fielder's glove. Recovers, takes it to the bag.
- Soriano lines one to the warning track just left of center. Cameron is there for the out.
- Report is tightness of right forearm for Sheets.
- Counsell K's swinging
- Kendall floats one to shallow right, Fontenot races out and to his left, makes a great diving effort, but it's just out of his reach. A single.
- DiFelice bunts Kendall over.
- Cameron lines a sharp grounder to Fontenot's right, picks it easily, out at first.
- Fontenot bounces out to Durham.
- Lee K's on a low and away slider
- Ramirez walks
- Edmonds had been 0-21 against Sheets, now lines one up the middle
for a single. Ramirez to third. Durham had shaded him way around
towards first to pull.
- DeRosa rolls into a 6-4 force out
- Durham flies out to the wall, just short of the ivy in right.
- Braun also flies to DeRosa.
- Fielder smokes one off the top of the ivy just right of center. Hit very hard, Edmonds might have a shot at getting Fielder at second. Makes a slight bobble in glove-to-hand, Fielder makes it in easily.
- Hardy with a sharp liner into right, Fielder has to hold as DeRosa charges it well.
- Hart with a lazy fly to right, Marquis escapes with no damage
- Todd Coffee in.
- Full count, Soto walks.
- Theriot with a shallow chop to third. Counsell goes to second, can't get much on the throw, Theriot safe at first.
- Sutcliffe mentions Z left the game today due to some concern with a grandparent. Best wishes, Z.
- Marquis with a nice bunt to third, Theriot to second.
- Called strike to Soriano, who becomes the latest to lok back at Joe West's call.
- swinging at a slider in the dirt, 0-2
- and K's swinging at another bouncing slider. Boo.
- Counsell with a sharp grounder to Lee's right. Nice pick, throws to Marquis for the out, nicely executed.
- Kendall walks. Gyeh.
- Joe Nelson in to pinch hit for Coffee, 2-0 count to start him out.
- Kendall runs, Marquis with a wild pitch, and Kendall to third. Infield comes in, 2-2 count on Nelson
- and Nelson walks. End of the game for Marquis, Angel Guzman in.
- Sutcliffe compares Guzman to Mariano Rivera.
- Cameron K's swinging at a high 96 mph fastball.
- Durham pops out just behind home place. Another threat avoided. Cubs really ought to pull this one out.
- Carlos Villanueva in to pitch.
- Fontenot K's looking, insider fastball.
- Annnnnnnnnnnd we have our first Bartman reference of the night. Everyone take a drink.
- Cameron makes a nice running, shoe-string catch on a sinking line-drive by Lee.
- Ramirez rips one past Counsell for a single.
- Mitch Stetter in, a lefty to fast edmonds
- Correction, a side-arming lefty.
- Edmonds rolls out to second, inning over.
- Guzman hits Braun with a fastball, looks like it caught a forearm.
- Fielder lines one into center, Braun to third. Runners at corners, no outs.
- Hardy hits one into the right field gap, Braun scores, Fielder to third, double for Hardy. 4-1 Brewers, nuts.
- Kevin Hart warming up. A sign LouPa is willing to treat this one as kind of over?
- It might be. Corey Hart lines a single to left, Fielder and Hardy in, 6-1
- Kevin Hart in.
- Corey Hart runs, Counsell is HBP, but it sure doesn't look like it on the replay.
- Kendal drops down a bunt, runners to 2 and 3.
- Lamb hits for Mitch Stetter
- Lamb flies to shallow-mid left, Soriano throws, Hart is called out. It's just another in a long line of calls that Joe West missed tonight.
- Wow, was Hart safe.
- Gagne relieves Stetter
- DeRosa flies out to Braun.
- Soto looks at a curveball on the outside corner, strike three
- Theriot grounds to short
- Sean Marshall in.
- Cameron with a sharp liner to Edmonds
- Durham hits a sharp one hopper at Ramirez that eats him up. Generously ruled a base hit, although it was a tough play
- Braun lines out to third
- Fielder pops foul to third
- Mota in for Gagne, Hoffpauir hits for Marshall
- and K's swinging
- Soriano walks.
- Fontenot flies to Braun
- Lee with a nice single, Soriano to second.
- and on the first pitch, Ramirez rolls right to hardy, 6-4
- Randy Wells in.
- Hardy K's swinging, Hart grounds to Theriot
- Pujols tells us that we're getting bored with Pujols. Speak for yourself.
- Counsell grounds to Fontenot, very quick inning.
- Salomon Torres in, seventh reliever in seventh inning for the Brewers.
- Edmonds rolls out to second
- DeRosa singles sharply right up the middle.
- Soto rolls one up the middle, first and third.
- Theriot rolls into an easy 6-4-3, but Fielder drops the ball at first - it was a low throw, but didn't bounce, just sort of missed it off the tip of the glove. Run scores, 6-2 game.
- Ward hits for Wells
- and weakly bounces out to Weeks. Game over.
- How do we know it's really me?
- Mockery ensues.
- Palin
- Mockery ensues
- How do we know it's really Carlos?
- Mockery fails to ensue. What gives?
- The Z/Fontenot routine.
- huh?
- How's the economy treating you?
- poorly.
- That last pitch Wood threw to Fielder last night
- The home run.
- Proper uses of ~thunder~
- Carlos claims to have seen a black neo-nazi.
- RBI opportunity stats
- Fontenot's nice catch.
- I am introduced to cakefarts. No good comes of it.
- Crunch helps the terrorists.
- Conspiracies of cartographers.
- Brewers future
- Super-sized Romo's relations with Jessica Simpson
- Beer
- Cheese.
- With my cooking skills, someone will be lucky to have me for a wife. - Brick
- Trans in love.
- Punctuality.
- "Wrigley rotated a bit when Fielder put on the brakes." - brick.
- Bad moments to be caught putting in your contacts in a restroom.
- Likelihood of a Soriano homer.
- Faux Cubs Pessimism from Whip.
- Rediscovering Angel Guzman
- Does Marquis make the post-season roster? (no.)
- Parachat makes fun of my antiquated vocabulary.
- The American League is the league of cutters. They need help. Brick is on fire, tonight.
- Bonnie Tyler
- Bonnie Rait
- Steven Tyler
- 80s female pop singers
- Whip explains to us, once more, what good music is. :)
- Air Supply, evidently.
- Domo Aryagato, Mr. Fontenot. And Aramis Morisette.
- Yoko Ono
- Seth McClung
- Oddest Parachat pairing ever: Ono and McClung?
- Rob's fantasy league.
- Porno Dave compliments me, and Rob shoots me down. Now I'm sad.
- how dumb was it to send the runner on Lamb's fly ball?
- I fight Whip.
- Things that have happened since I last did anything at TCR
- oh god, not this cakefarts thing, again
- The Mike C of Music?!?!! ROFL. God, the things I missed.
- Trying to persuade me not to post this recap.
- Who should rule TCR?
- My Future.
- Reality TV
- Carlos is a dirty terrorist with an ape's penis.
Cubs record in games recapped falls to 11-6 on the season. How pathetic, I've only done 17...
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Thank God you are back!
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Oh Sheet(s)!
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Oh Sheet(s), I probably cost myself $5 million with that injury last night!
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"Inning 1
That's how I imagine Z with Fontenot.
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"Inning 1
That's how I imagine Z with Fontenot.
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Crappy game. Below average parachat. Let's do better today.
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Behold the power of Bristol Palin!
Sheets injury actually in his elbow....
Sounds like this is something that may not go away for awhile...
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Ever since Trans came back, I was inspired to make a comeback too...
Well NO. Actually it was Big Z who inspired it:
Recent comments
video of Maddon.
always nice that he actually tries to honestly answer questions. Does mention that he wanted to give Zastr? a chance in a meaningful spot rather than a mop-up role.
from Muskat:
#Cubs Maddon: "I'm not going to make up an excuse for why I did what I did. It has nothing to do with lack of confidence" ... "It was the right thing to do today based on what I saw, what their lineup looked like and Rob Z.'s availability." #Cubs
Hammel not particularly understanding of getting pulled out...as he should. Be curious what Maddon had to say. All I can think of is is keeping arms fresh and maybe wanting to see if Zastr? is worth considering for the playoffs and how he'd do against the Dodgers.
great defense
Heyward, Russell, Baez, Bryant, Ross in particular...although Bryant's a bit hard to judge with all the positions.
Fowler and Rizzo in the top half of the NL for their positions as well (per fangraphs)...Zobrist right at the halfway cutoff for 2b in the NL.
I'm sure some luck is involved too, but the Cubs and Maddon knew what they were doing.
If all the starters have FIP > ERA, is that luck or good defense?
#Cubs plummet to 19-5 in August.
Fun with FIP
- J. Hammel 3.07 ERA/4.27 FIP (3.68 FIP last year)
- J. Arrieta 2.62 ERA/3.05 FIP (2.35 FIP last year)
- J. Lester 2.81 ERA/3.67 FIP (2.92 FIP last year)
- K. Hendricks 2.19 ERA/3.37 FIP (3.36 FIP last year)
- J. Lackey 3.41 ERA/3.72 FIP (3.57 FIP last year with Cards)
zastyryzryzryzny put in 3.2ip 1h 0bb 3k
he's great when his control is "on"...problem is it's rarely "on" consistently. he could vault up the cubs prospect list if he ever gets better with that aspect of his game.
JD's take was just trying to get in a lefty to better deal with mostly lefty Dodgers lineup.
My second thought was what you came up with. My first thought was he was trying to light a fire under Hammel.
Maybe he was trying to spare him another brutal road start? NY, Colorado...
joe got a pitcher up for hammel at nearly the 1st sign of trouble in the 3rd...pulled after 2.1
not injured and though it wasn't his day so far he wasn't looking like a pure disaster.
really short leash on him. zastryznzryzryny in.
Russell and Soler can attest that Urias has a pretty good curve/slider - two big strikeouts looking to get out of that jam in the first.
Classic Scully - great stuff.
Thank God we'll still have Hawk next season. (cricket cricket cricket)
Here's Scully's call on Bryant's 10th-inning homer:
"And it's a long fly ball, a mean fly ball, and a gone fly ball."
When the Cubs were the old, hundred-year Cubs, one bad hop did not undo their opponents.
If only he was clutcher. More clutcher.
cubs win...bryant with 7HR in his last 8 games.


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Dr. Coker performed two surgeries on my hand â one failed and the other, as I found out too late, completely wrong and unnecessary for my condition. Afterwards, when I followed up with him about my continued pain and symptoms, he told me he was "done with [my] hand" and expressed zero empathy. My hand is now in worse condition than it was prior to surgery. I'm suffering daily from the painful consequences of these procedures and have even been encouraged by several people to take legal action. I would recommend patients really do their homework about their doctor and condition or risk finding themselves in the unfortunate position I find myself in now â get more opinions, don't be afraid to ask questions and speak up for yourself . . . it's your body, health and life!
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Dr. Coker is very clinical and knows his stuff. He is professional and courteous. He appears to be focused on the task at hand. If you are looking for a physician who will make you feel all warm and fuzzy, he is not the one. However, results are what count here and I believe he delivers that. I would recommend him to anyone and would definitely go back to him should the need arise.
Patient on crutches for long term disability with arthritis in thumb. Dr. Coker didn't recommend different style crutch handles as the referring family doctor and physical therapist had. When asked for the name of an over the counter thumb brace that might help, he couldn't come up with a the specific name of a single model or a single manufacturer. This is a hand specialist?
Famous last words. 3 people said for over an HOUR the doctor would "be right in", even after I came out and said my child had an appointment soon and I couldnt keep waiting.. "he's coming in right now!" UhThe doctor is great, but so far after correcting my name on paperwork more than once plus spending over am hour at my appointment is sad.
Excellent physician, really seemed to care


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Community Grants
Do you have an idea for a public humanities project? Does it bring Illinois audiences together to explore and share ideas? Does your project involve collaborating with others?
Program Description
Note: The next application deadline is September 15, 2016 for Illinois Speaks micro-grants.
The next application deadline is September 15, 2016 for Vision, Action, and Multiplier grants.
We fund projects throughout the state that bring people together for inquiry and conversation – discussing and learning about the digital humanities, targeting and engaging new audiences, making public humanities programming more engaging and interactive, and increasing strategic planning and sustainable collaboration. These changes reflect our evolving commitment to exploring and supporting the public humanities – we'd like your organization to join us in this journey.
One exciting part of this commitment is our goal of hosting or funding conversations in each of our state's 102 counties in the lead-up to Illinois' 2018 bicentennial. We need you to help us make this goal a reality by participating in our Illinois Speaks micro-grants.
Over the coming year, we hope to work with our grantee partners to better understand where the public humanities are headed. It's been said over and over that the old model was the professor at the lectern, speaking to a quiet public, and that the new model engages audiences and takes their expertise seriously. But what does this really look like? What are creative models for this new direction in the public humanities? How can we assess the quality and impact of high-quality and engaging programming? How can high-quality programming help build or strengthen community engagement?
Illinois Humanities cares that public events are as inclusive as possible. Because of this, grant applicants may check a box to request an additional $100 to provide accessibility services (e.g., ASL translation).
Below are our grantmaking guidelines and more information to help guide you. The deadlines for each grant can be found in the section below. Please reach out for advice on the process or on a project you are considering. Simply email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 312.374.1555 for more information. We are here to help, and look forward to getting to know your work.
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Grant Categories
Vision Grants
Vision Grants are ($2,000) grants to Illinois nonprofit organizations to carry out planning projects related to their work in the humanities. These grants are intended for smaller organizations and applicants must have an annual budget of $1 million or less.
We believe that planning plays a critical role in smaller groups' ability to successfully carry out humanities initiatives. Especially for groups that wish to delve into more interactive public humanities programming or target new audiences, planning grants can help develop a series, explore collaborations, or look into harnessing digital technology or other tools. We believe that better planning leads to stronger programming, and that stronger programmatic initiatives can lead to stronger organizational vitality.
Working with consultants to conduct research, provide training, and help develop evaluation tools is entirely acceptable. Projects can include convening scholars, bringing together or surveying audience members, traveling around the state to research an initiative, and other activities that will help groups conduct planning.
Through this grants area, we hope to learn more about the following questions along with grantees:
- What is the role of planning in delivering high-quality humanities programming?
- What does this planning actually look like?
- Does effective planning help smaller humanities groups increase their sustainability?
Deadlines: January 15th, May 15th, and September 15th
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Action Grants
Action Grants are project grants (up to $4,000) to nonprofit organizations located in Illinois or doing work impacting Illinois audiences. Action Grants are meant to provide support to groups that want to try out innovative approaches to public humanities programming. Applicants must be nonprofit organizations, and can include churches, libraries, colleges or universities, and others.
Action Grants cover projects or initiatives that explore the digital humanities, apply new techniques in audience engagement, and build new and diverse audiences. Our hope is that these grants will help spark more risk-taking and experimental and/or engaging public humanities work on the part of Illinois nonprofits. Project budgets can cover project expenses as well as engagement activities. Projects must have a humanities angle. Media projects such as oral history, filmmaking, journalism, and other story telling are very much a part of this portfolio.
Through this grants area, we hope to learn more about the following questions along with grantees:
- What are models for building creative interactivity and growing audiences?
- Can creative programming help to grow audiences?
- How can this experimentation bolster organizations' longterm viability?
Deadlines: January 15th, May 15th, and September 15th
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Multiplier Grants
Multiplier Grants are our largest grant category (maximum $15,000). They are meant to support collaborative projects in the public humanities.
We believe that collaboration is essential for groups to successfully carry out their missions, can help build up the capacity of organizations to better serve the needs of their audiences.
Examples of Multiplier Grants might include a number of groups coming together in a given city or town to form a working group trying to attract young families, the development of a citywide plan for nurturing the humanities, or a group of libraries or historical societies working collectively to bolster their public engagement in creative ways.
Through this grants area, we hope to learn more about the following questions along with grantees:
- What are models for successful partnering to further engagement with the humanities?
- What are ways that multiple groups in a given sector can learn and share with one another findings to spark innovation more broadly?
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Illinois Speaks micro-grants
Illinois Speaks micro-grants are $250 grants to individuals and organizations to host public discussions about contemporary issues. These grants allow more people to act as trained facilitators or moderators of public discussion across the state of Illinois. The money goes toward:
- compensation for moderators
- support for the host organization or venue
- refreshments
- outreach
- recording an event
Illinois Humanities cares that public events are as inclusive as possible; Illinois Speaks applicants can check a box to request an additional $100 to provide accessibility services (e.g., American Sign Language translation).
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How does Illinois Speaks work?
Anyone over the age of 15 can apply for an Illinois Speaks micro-grant. They simply need to fill out an Illinois Humanities grant proposal form, which asks
- who they are
- the topic they would like to discuss
- their experience hosting or moderating discussion
- how they plan to get 10 or more people to attend
- who their partner host institution is
- how they would use the Illinois Speaks micro-grant
The grants will be paid not to individuals but to the host nonprofit, school, library, church, university or college, or other nonprofit civic institution with which they partner.
Proposals should be sent before one of our six deadlines: January 15, March 15, May 15, July 15, September 15, and November 15. If a group has already hosted an Illinois Speaks dialogue or is particularly experienced in facilitating such public conversations, it can apply to host a series of four meetings for a grant of $1,000. We will try to respond to applicants within 2 weeks.
What does Illinois Humanities bring to the table?
Illinois Humanities will provide resources for moderators. In year one, the topics we have chosen are: "Water and the Common Good," "The Future of Public Education," and "The Aftermath of Ferguson, Mo." In addition, we will entertain proposals for the topic of your choice. Illinois Humanities, in some cases, will know of speakers who may help bring your topic to life.
Illinois Humanities will provide training in moderating public discussions. Some of these will be in person, some in the form of a webinar. They will be conducted by Illinois Humanities staff.
Illinois Humanities is working with Danielle Allen and her team at the Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment Lab (HULA) to provide evaluation consulting to help us learn from the Illinois Speaks initiative. HULA will provide an evaluation tool and assistance to groups that choose to take advantage, to help us all better understand creative ways of using texts or other resources in program design, how to attract diverse audiences, and how to engage people in civil discussion.
Illinois Humanities will provide communications back up for your event. We will help get the word out to a broad public in our e-newsletter and via social media. We ask that Illinois Speaks awardees send photos and a description of the event afterwards.
What is your responsibility?
Your obligations are simple:
- To go through a training to help hone your moderating skills
- To show commitment to a dialogue that allows people of diverging views to speak up and engage in a civil way
- To help us document and evaluate your event.
We want to know who attended your event and want you to take and share photos, perhaps a video, and a description of how it unfolded. We'll use all of this to show what a great job you did and encourage others to apply.
A Note About Students:
We believe that high school students can act as great moderators of public discussion. And if you are a student and want to work with a teacher, or an after-school group that you participate in, we'd like to encourage this. Participating in this program may be a way to take what you are learning outside of the classroom. Your public event can also take place within school too, but we definitely want to hear from you.
Deadlines: January 15th, March 15th, May 15th, July 15th, September 15th, and November 15th
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More Information
The deadlines for Vision, Action, and Multiplier Grants are January 15, May 15, and September 15.
The deadlines for Illinois Speaks Micro-Grants are January 15, March 15, May 15, July 15, September 15, and November 15.
In the case of all Grants categories, we make ourselves available to review grant applications or a list of project ideas, before proposals are submitted. We request that you send in drafts, or a menu of ideas, at least a full month before the deadline. Do so by emailing Mark Hallett at email@example.com.
How to Apply
For Vision, Action, and Multiplier Grants, apply by submitting a Letter of Inquiry by one of the three deadline dates (January 15, May 15, or September 15). We meet shortly after the LOI deadline date and will get back to a select few groups to request a full proposal. If your organization is asked for a full proposal, you will have just 3 weeks to supply one. A single group may apply for two separate Grants categories at one time, but must fill out two separate LOI's to do so. (Remember that we have a form for submitting LOI's, here, as well as an applications manual to help guide you through the process, here.)
In the case of Illinois Speaks Micro-Grants, simply submit a proposal for support by one of the six deadlines indicated. We will meet shortly after each of the six deadlines, and in the case your proposal is approved we will ask you for a signed grant agreement. Shortly thereafter, we will arrange an in-person or digital webinar in how to moderate public dialogues. Remember that a public dialogue does not have to be a townhall with 350 people – it might be 10 people in a church basement. If you have questions about the process, don't hesitate to ask. Remember that we've created a form for you to apply for an Illinois Speaks Micro-grant, here.)
We ask all Grant recipients to document their initiatives or events by shooting photos, recording audio, or video, and writing up a brief blog post on how the project went. We want to share with others the great work that grantees are carrying out.
Evaluation is important to us, and we are eager to see how grant applicants define success and plan to measure progress toward it. We ask grant applicants to describe in precise terms the desired outcome of a project, how they will know if it was successful, and how it will serve their organization. Illinois Humanities is working with humanities scholar Danielle Allen at Harvard's Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment Lab on evaluation and assessment with grantees. This opportunity means that grantees that are interested will be eligible for consulting on their evaluation work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does Illinois Humanities have a grantmaking program?
Illinois Humanities has been making grants since its inception in 1974. In the past 30 years, Illinois Humanities has made nearly 2,000 grants for a total of $10.5 million. We are proud to have helped support dozens of documentary films, conferences, exhibits, training programs, oral history projects, and scores of other activities. We are firm believers in the many organizations and individuals throughout the state of Illinois that value the humanities, culture, and dialogue as community-building activities, and wish to help them to fulfill their missions, carry out high-quality programming, and grow their organizations. We are indebted to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Illinois General Assembly for the support that allows this grantmaking program to exist.
What is your definition of the humanities?
The humanities are the examination of what it means to be human through the interpretation and discussion of all forms of thought, interest and expression.
We value traditional humanities disciplines, such as art history, literature, history, and philosophy. However, our emphasis on the public humanities means that we look at the humanities as more than an academic discipline. For us, the public humanities are a mode of inquiry and conversation that aims to engage, support, or challenge the ideals, beliefs, tensions, and prejudices of the communities in which we live. We believe that important thought can happen outside of the academy – in neighborhood institutions, schools, churches, and at kitchen tables across the country.
We are especially interested in instances of the public humanities that promote civic engagement – in raising critical issues facing everyday people and conducted with the hope of increasing their thirst for staying engaged. Take a look at our focus areas, for instance – Arts, Business, Media & Journalism, and Public Policy – where the disciplines at the heart of programming may or may not fall under the traditional humanities categories. Rather than being defined by rigid disciplinary boundaries, it is the humanistic lens, which emphasizes curiosity, questioning, and dialogue, that matters.
Does your organization have a working definition of the public humanities? Share it with us – we're eager to explore how others are addressing this complex question.
With the changes in your grantmaking guidelines, are there things you used to fund that you are no longer funding?
More than anything, we have added several categories. We've kept the planning grants (now called Vision) and the Project grants (now called Action) and added the two new categories of Multiplier Grants (our biggest grant category, for collaborations) and Illinois Speaks Micro-Grants (to help spark public dialogue at the community level throughout the state).
The two categories we have dropped are General Operating grants and Media Projects. We believe our budget is too small to make much of a difference from the standpoint of general operating support – though we may revisit this later. Media projects continue to be a primary focus of our work and our grantmaking program. Documentary film, storytelling, oral history, journalism, and other forms of media are the lifeblood of much humanities work. We've taken away 'media' as a category, but hope to continue to see great media initiatives in other categories. We just aren't treating them with their own category at this time.
How has the process changed?
Plenty has changed. We've gone digital. We've reduced the number of deadlines from four to three. We're paying out all grant awards in a single payment. Also, we're requesting Letters of Inquiry (LOI's) first, and then with a select group of applicants moving on to a Full Proposal. It is worth noting that if we ask for a Full Proposal, the turnaround time will be very short.
Can an organization have more than one active grant with Illinois Humanities at a time?
In general, Illinois Humanities will have one open grant with any single entity at a given time. There are two exceptions to this rule: If your organization acts as fiscal agent for another, you can still have a project grant that is funded by Illinois Humanities. The other exception is that a single group can have a Vision, Action, or Multiplier Grant but also receive support to host Illinois Speaks conversations.
Who can apply?
Nonprofit organizations can apply for Illinois Humanities grants. This includes 501c3 organizations and nonprofits under state law, as well as libraries, schools, faith-based organizations and universities. We do not accept grant applications from individuals or for-profit companies. If you are unsure about whether you can apply, reach out to us.
2015 Funded Grants
Enhancing social media marketing
Hektoen Institute Nurses and Humanities Group
Funding to support social media outreach for an initiative using the humanities to foster healing.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $2,000
RiverStages Education Series
River Action
Funding to integrate more participatory arts and humanities content into an established education series.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Passing The Bronze Torch
Community TV Network
Funding to support a youth documentary and walking tour exploring 100 years of black migration to the Bronzeville neighborhood.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
We Want Harold!
Media Process Educational
Funding for a documentary examining the election, political career and legacy of Harold Washington.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Enhancing the museum visitor's experience
Effingham County Museum
Funding for production of videos on artifacts in the permanent collection to enhance the visitor experience.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $3,171
General Support
Illinois State Historical Society
Funding to create lesson plans around the Illinois bicentennial, develop an Illinois history page on the society's website, producing a "This Day In History" program for media outlets and collaborating with the Illinois History Fair.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
The Orange Story: A Cinematic Digital History Project
Full Spectrum Features
Funding for a documentary and digital history project telling the history and legacy of Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Real Chi Youth Community Based Reporting
Free Spirit Media
Funding for Free Spirit Media's advanced civic journalism program on Chicago's South and West sides.
Award Date: 12/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Midwest Women Artists, 1940-1960
Bradley University
Funding to support an October, 2015, symposium on Midwestern women artists, to take place in Peoria.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $3,395
Vietnam War Film Project: Fire for Effect
Macon County Historical Society (fiscal sponsor for History Factory)
Funding to support a film exploring Decatur, Ill., and its relationship to the Vietnam war.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Chicago Dance History Project
Fractured Atlas (fiscal sponsor)
Funding to support a digital humanities project that preserves and presents the history of dance in Chicago.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $4,950
Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project
Northeastern Illinois University
Funding to support an initiative that connects teaching scholars, artists and writers to men at Stateville Prison.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Pilsen, Presente
ElevArte Community Studio
Funding to support a community-wide oral history and photography project.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
100 Hauntings
Free Street Theater
Funding to support a community-driven performance project based on archival research, interviews and workshops around ghost stories from across the city.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
General Support
Western Illinois Museum
Funding to support the Macomb, Ill., museum that is dedicated to preserving, interpreting and exhibiting the history of Western Illinois.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $850
Northlight Theater
Funding to support a play based on the real-life work of Mama Gloria, a transgender woman running a charm school for LGBTQ youth out of the Center on Halsted.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $3,500
Making Chances Exhibit
Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Funding to support a multi-venue series of events and exhibits featuring artwork and performances celebrating 10 years of Chances Dances.
Award Date: 9/15/2015
Award Amount: $2,000
Dance Me a Story
Ballet Quad Cities
Funding to support "Dance Me A Story," a series of interactive educational programs based on dance adaptations of literary work.
Hosted by Ballet Quad Cities, a Rock Island-based professional ballet company established in 1996, this series will feature programs primarily for children. The series will include "Mysteries," from Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys; "Fairy Tales," from the Russian story; "The Firebird," and others. Each program will be produced multiple times, for a total of about 110 events, beginning in July.
Programs will take place at Boys & Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts facilities, and public libraries in and near the Quad Cities. Ballet Quad Cities aims to reach at least 3,000 children and 300 adults.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 613 17th St, Rock Island, IL 61201-8132, USA
2015 Chautauqua
Bishop Hill Heritage Association
Funding to support the 2015 Bishop Hill Chautauqua, the third such annual event to be hosted by the Bishop Hill Heritage Association.
This year's theme will be "Lincoln and the Civil War," recognizing the sesquicentennial of that national upheaval. Hosted by BHHA, which conserves and presents the history of this quasi-Utopian community in northwestern Illinois founded in 1846, this theatrical presentation involves elements of historical reenactment.
Taking place on August 29th and 30th, the 2015 Chautauqua will include portrayals of Lincoln's law partner; the youngest person to enlist in the Civil War; a former slave who became a successful seamstress and author; Walt Whitman; and Abe Lincoln himself.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $1,700
Recipient Location: 103 Bishop Hill Rd, Bishop Hill, IL 61419
Black Alphabet Film Festival
Black Alphabet, NFP
Funding to support the 2015 Black Alphabet Film Festival (BAFF), a festival in its third season that celebrates the experiences of Black Same Gender Loving (SGL) communities.
This year Black Alphabet will grow to four days from two, allowing for the screening of a larger number of feature-length and short films. Films will be screened at the Center on Halsted and the DuSable Museum of African American Art.
Black Alphabet's mission is to offer opportunities that enrich Black LGBTQ / SGL communities through exposure to images, narratives, and media that resonate with people within these communities.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $4,352
Recipient Location: 3712 N. Broadway, Suite 288. Chicago, IL 60613
The Air We Breathe
Carl Sandburg Literacy Coalition
Funding to support The Carl Sandburg College Literacy Coalition's proposed collection of free multimedia exhibits, "The Air We Breathe: A Glimpse into Galesburg's Immigrant Community."
This project, which aims to create programming that will engage the immigrant communities of Galesburg in the area's museums and galleries by showcasing stories from the lives of Galesburg immigrants. In addition to these exhibits, the Coalition will create a website featuring multimedia documentation of the participants' stories.
Founded in 1986, the Coalition helps learners become actively engaged in their communities and enrich their learning through arts and humanities.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $4,304
Recipient Location: 1150 W Carl Sandburg Dr. Galesburg, IL 61401
Senior Reminiscence Program
McLean County Museum of History
Funding to support the McLean County Museum of History's "Senior Reminiscence Program," designed for seniors to stimulate their cognition, communication, social interaction, and memory.
Created for residents in senior centers, assisted living facilities, and adult day service programs, educators in this program present historical artifacts and photographs, which prompts the seniors to share stories from their lives. The program reduces social isolation, facilitates greater memory recall, and reinforces a sense of community and shared pasts.
Located in historic downtown Bloomington, the Museum is operated by the McLean County Historical Society and has operated in the Old McLean County Courthouse since 1991.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 200 N Main St, Bloomington, IL 61701
Go Penguins!
Northern Illinois University
Funding to support NIU's "Go Penguins!", a feature-length video documentary following the efforts of young artists with developmental disabilities.
The documentary takes audiences behind the scenes of the making of a musical produced by the DeKalb chapter of the Penguin Project, an organization dedicated to enriching the lives of developmentally disabled youth by providing them opportunities to participate in theatrical performances.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $2,500
Recipient Location: 1425 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115
The Examined Life Project
The Point Magazine
Funding to support The Point Magazine's "Examined Life Project," which consists of a combination of print and public dialogues aimed at bringing the humanities to bear on issues of vital public interest.
The Point, founded in 2009 by three graduate students at the University of Chicago, aims to challenge general readers to reflect on the philosophical questions that are central to their everyday lives in a thoughtful and accessible way. Topics will be inspired by questions that reflect the relevance of philosophy and humanistic scholarship to everyday debates about policy, and include questions such as "What is privacy for?" and "What is protest for?"
The first online symposium and public dialogue take place in August 2015.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 2 N. LaSalle St., Suite #2300 Chicago, IL 60602
General Support Grant
Trickster Art Gallery
Funding to support the Trickster Art Gallery's 2015 two-day gathering of American Indian veterans and the premiere screening of a documentary by the same name.
The Trickster Gallery, the only Native American-owned and operated art institution in the state of Illinois, will host the first National Gathering of American Indian Veterans in August 2015. White House Chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Marty Castro and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey are slated to attend. TAG plans to create a searchable database of American Indian Veterans as part of this initiative.
The Trickster Gallery works to combat the colonial perspective of indigenous culture by creating first-voice educational opportunities, events and exhibitions.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 190 S Roselle Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60193
MARCH: The Struggle for Racial Equality
University of Illinois at Springfield
Funding to support a free, public lecture, and discussion with Congressman John Lewis and authors Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell as the culminating event in the 2015 "One Book, One UIS" community reading program.
The 2015 book, "March," is a powerful and moving account of life on the front lines of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, focusing on civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis. Congressman Lewis will present the keynote address "The Struggle for Racial Equality and Social Justice from Selma to Ferguson." Aydin and Powell also will be offering a clinic to UIS students and local high school students on how to write and illustrate a memoir.
The University of Illinois, Springfield, is one of the three campuses of the University of Illinois and enrolls 5,500 students.
Award Date: 6/9/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: One William Maxwell Ln, Springfield, IL 62703
Technical Assistance Grant
Apple River Fort State Historic Site
Funding to revise Apple River Fort State Historic Site's living history program. The Apple River Fort State Historic Site, located in Jo Daviess County in Northern Illinois, will substantially revise its living history program, focusing on historical accuracy and visitor engagement. It will draw on recent scholarship about the material culture and folklife of both Native Americans and white settlers, and modify the ways in which visitors engage with the program to make it a more positive learning experience.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $1,760
Recipient Location: 311 E Myrtle St Elizabeth IL, 61028-0206
Chicago Home Theater Festival
Funding for the 2015 Chicago Home Theater Festival (CHTF), taking place May 2015. The 2015 Chicago Home Theater Festival will consist of live performances, discussions and meals in various homes and neighborhoods throughout Chicago. This grant will provide direct support to Chicago artists involved with CHTF through innovative, grassroots audience development.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 1213 E 53rd St Apt 3W Chicago IL, 60615-4007
Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, CIMMfest
Funding for multidisciplinary programming at the 2015 CIMMfest festival in Chicago. CIMMfest, a festival that attracts more than 12,000 people to celebrate music through the lens of movies, live performance and innovative combinations of the two, plans to present screenings, experiences and discussions around several films. The works to be highlighted include "Que Viva Mexico," in conjunction with Sones de Mexico; "Muddy Waters Live from the Checkerboard Lounge," with filmmaker and musicologist Robert Gordon; and an Immersive Music Cinema, an installation piece to appear in conjunction with a discussion of experimental media presentations.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 1658 N Milwaukee Ave #270 Chicago IL, 60647-5412
Selma at 50 Still Marching
Chicago Theological Seminary
Funding to support Selma at 50: Still Marching, a conference to trace a thread through the legacy of civil rights activism to contemporary movements. Hosted by Chicago Theological Seminary, a seminary of the United Church of Christ founded 150 years ago, this two-day conference , taking place April 24-25, 2015, will focus on critical social issues such as police brutality against African American men, violence, the prison system, and their effects on society. The conference will include two keynotes, practical workshops to create solutions to the issues, social time for dialogue and a closing plenary session.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 1407 E 60th St Chicago IL, 60637-2902
Latin@Authors Book Fair
El Beisman
Funding to support a Latina/o authors book fair and additional events. El Beisman, a cultural organization and digital magazine based in Chicago comprised of a collective of journalists, will host a Latina/o book fair including a series of lectures, workshops, readings and panels. To be held at multiple venues throughout the Chicago area, events will feature local and national Latina/o authors as well as scholars from Chicago-area universities.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location:1647 S Blue Island Ave Chicago IL, 60608-2133
Caught in the Sweep of History: Egypt and the Civil War
General John A Logan Museum
Funding to support the General John A. Logan Museum's final year of a three-part series on the history of Southern Illinois and the Civil War. This media grant will allow the Museum, whose mission is to offer educational programming on the lives of Logan and his family in order to better understand the Civil War, technological growth and cultural changes in American life during the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum will host "Egypt's Warriors and the Siege of Vicksburg Mississippi" and premiere the documentary.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $2,610
Recipient Location:1613 Edith St Murphysboro IL, 62966-2542
General Support Grant
Haitian American Museum of Chicago
Funding for the Haitian American Museum of Chicago's 2015 exhibits. The Haitian American Museum will host an exhibit on Haitian Vodou Flags, an important set of artifacts in Vodou religion and Haitian culture. This exhibit, to be the largest initiative the Museum will host in 2015, will feature 16 Vodou flags.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $2,500
Recipient Location:4654 N Racine Ave Chicago IL, 60640-4906
The S-word
Kindling Group
Funding to continue the Kindling Group's production of The S-word, a feature-length documentary film that studies the history and evolution of American Socialism and that casts a spotlight on its presence in today's society. Along with the documentary, the organization proposes to create an interactive website containing historical accounts, speeches, character profiles and rich media content, primarily for educators and high school students.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 4021 N Broadway St Chicago IL, 60613-2110
Explore the River Summer Education Series
River Action, Inc
Funding for the annual Explore the River Education Series produced in the Quad Cities by River Action. The annual Explore the River Education Series consists of presentations about various Mississippi River-related topics in conjunction with water taxi excursions and walking tours of the riverfront. There will be 11 "Channel Cat Talk" programs and 13 "Riverine Walk" programs, resulting in 45 events between early June and late August 2015.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: 822 E River Dr Davenport IN, 52803-5735
Prairie Humanities Series
The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Coalition
Funding to continue the Kindling Group's production of The S-word, a feature-length documentary film that studies the history and evolution of American Socialism and that casts a spotlight on its presence in today's society. Along with the documentary, the organization proposes to create an interactive website containing historical accounts, speeches, character profiles and rich media content, primarily for educators and high school students.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $3,600
Recipient Location: 1337 Wabash Ave Ste 45 Springfield IL, 62704-4903
General Support Grant
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
Funding to support The Hemingway Foundation's efforts to digitize the artifacts and archives in the collection including letters, poems, photographs and more in partnership with the Oak Park Library and the Illinois State Library System. The Foundation will continue to foster understanding of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, with emphasis on his Oak Park origins and influence on world literature. The Foundation also will host a community-wide celebration of Hemingway's birthday (July 21), explore how World War I affected those in combat, and host online and in-person memoir writing workshops.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $5,000
Recipient Location: PO Box 2222 Oak Park IL, 60303-2222
General Support Grant
The New Colony
Funding for The New Colony, an improvisational theater in Chicago that emphasizes collaborative story-building between performers and audiences. This improvisational theater organization, based in Chicago, emphasizes collaborative story-building between performers and audiences. The New Colony will develop a series of community-oriented initiatives, such as The Open House Initiatives, in which audience "talkbacks" take place after free, public staged readings.
Award Date: 3/12/2015
Award Amount: $3,000
Recipient Location: 4740 N Western Ave Fl 2 Chicago IL, 60625-2013


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The Orange County Arts Council is now one step closer to establishing a county-wide film office.
The Orange County Industrial Development Agency agreed to award $45,000 to the Arts Council for the development of a film office, according to an announcement made Monday. The Arts Council aims to attract film and television projects to Orange County through this office.
"Our objective is to create a film-ready infrastructure throughout Orange County by helping our municipalities to adopt local laws addressing film and video production, as well as the paperwork necessary to create a smooth and easy process for film-makers," said Dawn Ansbro, executive director of the Orange County Arts Council. "We have already begun meeting with municipal leaders and the initial response to this has been extremely positive."
This news comes on the heels of the opening of a film office in Newburgh. The space, donated by Ted Doering of the Motorcyclepedia Museum, is part of an ongoing renaissance of film production in Newburgh and the Hudson Valley.
Recently the 30 percent tax credit for productions taking place in New York State has been extended through 2019; that incentive program has generated $6.9 billion in economic spending and $4.2 billion in personal income to the state, according to a 2012 report by the Motion Picture Association of America.
For more information about the office, visit www.orangecountynyfilm.org.
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COR graduate students can take advantage of all the resources the College has to offer.
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Issue No.06 - November (1981 vol.7)
pp: 574-582
K.P. Eswaran , IBM Research Laboratory
This paper considers access control for local area computer communication networks. We propose two distributed access control schemes for a bus network. The schemes are simple and asynchronous, and provide for collision-free communication among ports. In addition, one of the schemes provides a bounded, guaranteed time to transmisidon for each port. We also show that this scheme is efficient in the use of the bus bandwidth, in the sense that there is only a small fraction of time during which the bus is idle when there is at least one packet available for transmission.
local area networks, Access protocols, asynchronous distributed control, broadcast bus, collision avoidance, guaranteed time to transmission
K.P. Eswaran, V.C. Hamacher, G.S. Shedler, "Collision-Free Access Control for Computer Communication Bus Networks", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.7, no. 6, pp. 574-582, November 1981, doi:10.1109/TSE.1981.226468


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A Jewish synagogue will be allowed to continue holding services at a home in Dallas, after a district court judge ruled Thursday against a temporary injunction that would have shut them down.
The Congregation Toras Chaim has been meeting at a home on Mumford Court since August and in the Highlands of McKamy neighborhood since 2011. A neighbor across the street filed suit in December, saying that the synagogue's activities were disruptive and violated the deed restrictions for the homeowners association.
District Judge Jill Willis said she was denying the temporary injunction based on the law and the brief evidence heard Thursday. The lawsuit in Collin County will proceed.
"I'm overfilled with appreciation to the judge," Rabbi Yakkov Rich said after the hearing, citing the congregation's need to have a place to meet for Passover, which begins Monday.
The congregation of 30-plus families meets daily at the home, which was purchased last year. The suit is filed against the home's owners, Judith Gothelf and her son, Mark Gothelf, who allow the congregation to operate out of the home.
David Schneider, who filed the suit, declined to comment after the hearing.
The homeowners association filed as an intervenor in the case. Attorney David A. Surratt, who represents the nonprofit group, said the HOA had been evaluating the situation when Schneider filed suit, so they decided to join in.
"There's no opposition to people having prayer meetings or things like that, as any homeowner would," he said. "The issue is the level activity for the property that was purchased primarily for the purpose of operation as a synagogue."
Among the issues are the number of people coming and going from the house as well as parking issues.
Homes in the neighborhood are priced between $250,000 and $500,000.
Surratt said the temporary injunction was a harsh remedy at this early stage in the suit. "Although we're disappointed, we understand why the judge may not want to rule at this time until she's heard all of the evidence at trial and the law," he said.
"This is just the beginning," said Justin Butterfield, senior counsel at the Liberty Institute who is helping to defend the Gothelfs and the synagogue.
"The evidence showed that the congregation really does fit into the community, and it is a good benefit to the surrounding area," Butterfield said, citing the religious liberty rights to allow the congregation to meet.


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Afni, Inc QWest Communications telephone bill dated August 13, 2004 Bloomington, Illinois
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Replied with two letters detailing the wrong address, wrong telephone numbers and the wrong cities that were charged. Afni has not replied, but only keeps sending billing statements to pay the total amount as stated above.
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The Consumer Division of the Attorney Generals Office for the State of Illinois should investigate Afni, Inc and their business practices.
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This site is no longer active. All my blogging and consulting activities have moved to my RobertBohle.com web site.
If you are interested in newspaper design, that web site and my old YouTube channel will remain available for the time being.
Thanks for visiting.
Well, it's clear to me now…By · Comments
… that unless I push the hell out of this blog, it's not going to be read. So I am giving up — at least for the time being. Again. What is this, the third time? I just can't leave it here, lying fallow, though. I have to own up to not being able to write. I will try to post to the Twitter account (@newsdesign) for awhile and see if I can muster 140 characters. Facebook page? Nah. Social media and I are not the best of buds.
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I have been busy with the start of classes and getting ready for my Son, The Younger, to wed his girlfriend in few weeks. So I haven't been posting. I get the ideas, but I never manage to get around to doing the work of writing. To assuage my guilt, here is the link to a post from Jan. 11, probably 2008 or 09, about how a linotype machine works. Not many of them still in operation, I would assume. I can remember two rows of about 5 or 6 these things in the Composing Room at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, my first newspaper. Watching an experienced operator was like watching ballet with the hands. Here is the link.
The Muse wears darkened swim gogglesBy · Comments
When I walked through the front door of my condo one morning last week, I was greeted by….no one. It was weird and hard to believe that The Muse had finally gotten rid of that scrofulous mutt, Homer, her purported service dog.
I had thought The Muse was gone as well – be still my beating heart – but, no, that was not to be.
I had thought The Muse was gone as well – be still my beating heart – but, no, that was not to be. But the condo was quiet, too quiet. I put down the many bags of groceries I had just purchased – mostly to meet her copious caloric needs — and hauled up three flights of stairs and began looking for her.
I found her in the den, with the drapes drawn, the white noise machine on low, sitting at my computer with darkened swim goggles covering her eyes. She was removing the keys on the keyboard one by one.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?" I shouted.
She winced as if I had slapped her. "C'mon, Elwood, easy now," she moaned. "I have a yourgrain headache."
"That's migraine," I said.
"That's what I said," she said, while popping off another key, "Yourgrain. Ya going deef or somethin?'
"Anyway, just what the hell do you think you are doing?"
"These keys make too much noise during those few times when you aren't deep into the throes of writer's block," she explained while taking a break to rub her temples. "I can't take the din."
"But how will I know which keys produce which letters?"
"Hey, man, you type doncha? What, you don't have the keys memorized yet? Who was your typing teacher?"
"Hell, I am a journalist!" I said with clenched teeth. I was quickly getting a migraine, too. "I have to look at the keys. Now what am I going to write with? I'll have to get a new keyboard."
"What? With your phthisic hands? You think they write well enough to deserve a new keyboard? I bet your writing will actually improve were I to put the keys back randomly."
"Wait just a minute now, I…"
"I know, I know, you represent that," she said, with a look on her face like a triumphant teenager's. "Big deal. Listen to me. You want to write better? Don't wait for me to be nice to you. I think it was Harper Lee who said 'I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.'
"You came up a little short in the thick hide department," she added, with obvious satisfaction. "Thick head maybe. But thick hide?"
I was steamed, but I suspected she was probably right, though I would never admit it. Certainly not to her.
She was still pulling off keyboard keys as I grabbed the iPad and headed for the living room. "Let's see her get the keys off a touch screen," I said aloud to no one.
Then I sat on the couch and tried to mentally thicken my hide. I tried texting Muse International Headquarters in hopes of receiving inspiration in return. Instead I got a come-on from AT&T. Ugh.
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Dear Dr. Design:
My wife and I are having an argument that I hope you can settle. I say that you pronounce "sans serif" so it rhymes with "mans sheriff"; she insists that knowledgeable typophiles pronounce it so it rhymes with "sahn sa'riff," which you say while pinching your nose. Who's is right? (And there's a bet between us. I can't tell you what it is, but I REALLY, REALLY want to win….). — Kent Wynn
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First, Kent, having spent some time in the throes of unholy matrimony, I can tell you the answer before I even hear the question. Your wife is right. She is always right, right? That's part of the Divine Right of All Wives. It's like it is given to them during the wedding ceremony somehow, through some sort of secret signal or incantation that the minister slips in during the mumbo-jumbo part that nobody ever listens to.
It's a good thing there's no annual test on what you agreed to during the ceremony. The wedding routine is kind of like those 55-page site policy statements that we agree to on web sites without even reading the first paragraph. Most men are standing there thinking, "OK, yada, yada, yada, let's have those drinks and get to the honeymoon!"
One more thing before I get to your question. I think it is incredibly unfair to accuse all typography mavens of liking children a tad too much. It's one thing to freak out about all-CAPS in long blocks of body type, and quite another to be interested in….(Editor steps in)….what? Oh, that's a pedophile! I thought a pedophile was a person with a foot fetish. Oops! My mistake. Move along, nothing to see here.
At any rate, the pronunciation depends on who you are with while discussing typography and what part of the country you are from. For instance, if you are from the South, the correct way to say it is, "tahpe without those funny little thingies on the ends."
If you are from the Northeast, your response would be, "Yeah, so what? Who's askin'?
If you are from Colorado, you are too whacked out on medical marijuana you got from your hangnail physician (left hand specialist) to really give a damn. I mean, like…who cares?
So Kent, the answer is that, unless you are French or French-Canadian, trying to say it right will just bring on more acrimony and disdain from the Francophiles (don't ask) in the crowd. Speaking French is kind of like being married: you will never please the other person, so give up trying.
If you would like to ask Dr. Design a question, send it to Dr. Design, in care of bobnewsdesignschoolcom. He will get to your question in the order they came in or he will forget about it totally and you won't get a response for years, if ever.