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In commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the sisters of the Delta Sigma Theta Summerville Alumnae chapter hosted a prayer vigil and silent march Tuesday night in Hutchinson Square.
About 60 people gathered to witness the event, which included several music performances, a poetry reading, prayers, and stories of domestic violence as told by victims.
Cindy Schmidt, a board member from the local shelter for battered women and their children, My Sister's House, also spoke to the crowd and provided information on emergency resources for those affected by domestic violence.
South Carolina was ranked No. 2 in the nation for the number of women murdered by men in 2012, she said. The state has remained in the top 10 ranking for the past 15 years.
Chapter President Pamela Goodwine-Glover led a silent candlelit march around the square to honor the victims and conclude the event.
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quote BlehhhBeat w2 or b2 and you can visit N at his castle once a month:)I have no idea what it is about him but as soon as I finished the main story of the game, I was soooo disappointed that N left. I mean.... It was in a cool way that he left and everything but I just think it is really annoying that they basically took away one of the main characters. It would have been nice for him to return every now and again, or at least have access to his castle.
quote LitwickIf you didn't know if you beat white/black then play white2/black2 and do the memory link you can visit N every month at his castle after you beat the Unova League?Oh me too.
I don't even want to battle him so he doesn't disappear!
But I will eventually...
I wish there was a way of visiting him again after beating the game. Like maybe he could move to the dream world and talk to pokemon and hug trees all day. It would actually be the perfect place for him y/y?
quote baragon600you to should just do us all a favor and facepalm please stop necromancing dead threads dammit!
quote squiggle bathBut Clay and his suitcase... AND THE BEARD, SQUIGGLES, THE BEARD! D:
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One of the most prominent figures in late 20th century blues, singer/multi-instrumentalist
Taj Mahal
played an enormous role in revitalizing and preserving traditional acoustic blues. Not content to stay within that realm,
soon broadened his approach, taking a musicologist's interest in a multitude of folk and roots music from around the world -- reggae and other Caribbean folk, jazz, gospel, R&B, zydeco, various West African styles, Latin, even Hawaiian. The African-derived heritage of most of those forms allowed
to explore his own ethnicity from a global perspective and to present the blues as part of a wider musical context. Yet while he dabbled in many different genres, he never strayed too far from his laid-back country blues foundation. Blues purists naturally didn't have much use for
's music, and according to some of his other detractors, his multi-ethnic fusions sometimes came off as indulgent, or overly self-conscious and academic. Still,
's concept was vindicated in the '90s, when a cadre of young bluesmen began to follow his lead -- both acoustic revivalists (
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Taj Mahal
was born
Henry St. Clair Fredericks
in New York on May 17, 1942. His parents -- his father a jazz pianist/composer/arranger of Jamaican descent, his mother a schoolteacher from South Carolina who sang gospel -- moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, when he was quite young, and while growing up there, he often listened to music from around the world on his father's short-wave radio. He particularly loved the blues -- both acoustic and electric -- and early rock & rollers like
Chuck Berry
Bo Diddley
. While studying agriculture and animal husbandry at the University of Massachusetts, he adopted the musical alias
Taj Mahal
(an idea that came to him in a dream) and formed
Taj Mahal & the Elektras
, who played around the area during the early '60s. After graduating,
moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and, after making his name on the local folk-blues scene, formed
the Rising Sons
with guitarist
Ry Cooder
. The group signed to Columbia and released one single, but the label didn't quite know what to make of their forward-looking blend of Americana, which anticipated a number of roots rock fusions that would take shape in the next few years; as such, the album they recorded sat on the shelves, unreleased until 1992.
left the group and wound up staying with Columbia as a solo artist. His self-titled debut was released in early 1968 and its stripped-down approach to vintage blues sounds made it unlike virtually anything else on the blues scene at the time. It came to be regarded as a classic of the '60s blues revival, as did its follow-up,
Natch'l Blues
. The half-electric, half-acoustic double-LP set
Giant Step
followed in 1969, and taken together, those three records built
's reputation as an authentic yet unique modern-day bluesman, gaining wide exposure and leading to collaborations or tours with a wide variety of prominent rockers and bluesmen. During the early '70s,
's musical adventurousness began to take hold; 1971's
Happy Just to Be Like I Am
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The Real Thing
, added a New Orleans-flavored tuba section to several tunes. In 1973,
branched out into movie soundtrack work with his compositions for Sounder, and the following year he recorded his most reggae-heavy outing,
Mo' Roots
continued to record for Columbia through 1976, upon which point he switched to Warner Bros.; he recorded three albums for that label, all in 1977 (including a soundtrack for the film Brothers). Changing musical climates, however, were decreasing interest in
's work and he spent much of the '80s off record, eventually moving to Hawaii to immerse himself in another musical tradition.
returned in 1987 with
, an album issued by Gramavision that explored this new interest; the following year, he inaugurated a string of successful, well-received children's albums with
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a Grammy nomination in 1991.
The same year marked
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appeared in 2008, boasting an array of all-star guests: Diabaté, Angélique Kidjo, Ziggy Marley, Los Lobos, Jack Johnson, and Ben Harper. A holiday album with the Blind Boys of Alabama, Talkin' Christmas, appeared in time for the season in 2014.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - One of the outcomes of an automobile accident is dealing with insurance companies. The experience can be good or not so good. If your car is almost "totaled," are you entitled to be paid the replacement value in cash or may your insurance company have the car repaired?
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65 year-old Melody Carson bought her very first new car, a 2008 Honda Accord, for $31,000. That in itself is interesting. She was insured by Mercury Insurance (the same folks that spent hundreds of millions on failed Proposition 33).
Not too long after she purchased the car Carson was injured in an accident caused by Guy Anderson who had minimal insurance coverage of $15,000 per person, $30,000 per accident and $10,000 for property damage. Word of advice: Always purchase more coverage than the minimum. Always.
Carson had a Mercury-approved repair facility prepare an estimate - $8,000. Mercury authorized the repairs. The pre-accident value of her car was $25,000.
Once they got into the repairs, they found more damage, and the cost to repair totaled $19,000. After the repairs, her almost-new Honda had a "diminished stigma value" of $8,000. Oops.
Carson v. Mercury Insurance
As you can imagine, Melody Carson was not pleased that Mercury chose to repair her car rather than declare it a total loss and pay her $25,000 to replace the vehicle, especially since it was instantly devalued to a third of what she paid.
Carson sued Mercury for breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing which is implicit in every contract. She claimed Mercury should have factored in that her Honda would only be worth $8,000 once repaired, i.e. Mercury had an obligation to declare the Honda "totaled" and pay full replacement value.
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Carson had collision coverage with Mercury as follows: "The Company's liability shall not exceed the lesser cost of the following options: (1) repair or replace the motor vehicle or any part thereof, using original or non-original equipment manufactured parts, with deduction for depreciation, or (2) pay the agreed or appraised value of the motor vehicle."
Per the terms of the policy, Mercury could pay to have the Honda repaired right up to its value of $25,000. In fact, it paid $19,000.
Carson argued Mercury was legally required to consider the vehicle's diminution in value after the repairs, such that the car should have been "totaled" and replaced.
Bob Dylan
Part of the case involved whether a couple of car mechanics who were not engineers and had minimal formal education were qualified to testify for Carson using simple "common sense," i.e. even a lay person could tell the car was totaled.
Her attorney quoted Bob Dylan in Subterranean Homesick Blues: "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows." (I just had to get that into this column.) She lost that argument.
The Court of Appeal ruled for Mercury finding the company was entitled to have the car repaired notwithstanding it was worth very little afterwards.
After this case, Mercury added a specific exclusion clause in its policies declining any coverage for diminution in value - further reducing its exposure.
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I grant you this column is boring under anyone's standards, but this insurance issue comes up a lot, especially in our area where there are so many snow and ice-caused collisions. Now you know the California insurance law of repair v. replace.
Jim Porter is an attorney with Porter Simon licensed in California and Nevada, with offices in Truckee and Tahoe City, California, and Reno, Nevada. He was the Governor's appointee to the California Fair Political Practices Commission and McPherson Commission, both involving election law and the Political Reform Act. Jim's practice areas include: real estate, development, construction, business, HOAs, contracts, foreclosures, mediation and other transactional matters. He may be reached at email@example.com or at the firm's website www.portersimon.com.


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Illinois Mexican War Veterans
This database indexes the names of Illinois Mexican War veterans appearing in the ninth volume of the publication, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois (1902). In 1881 U. S. War Department clerks transcribed the Illinois rosters from their records and sent copies to the Adjutant General for publication. The 1882 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois first included Mexican War veterans. The names of approximately 6,500 men, organized into the First through the Fourth Regiments and four independent companies, are found in the 1882 report and the 1902 republication. As the Fifth and Sixth Regiments did not see active service, the publications do not include rosters for these units.
The database was created and donated to the Illinois State Archives by Fred Delap of Kansas, Illinois. Delap, a volunteer with the Edgar County Genealogical Library, has also indexed the names of veterans of the War of 1812 and Black Hawk, Civil, and Spanish–American Wars.
- 1LT — First Lieutenant
- 1SGT — First Sergeant
- 2LT — Second Lieutenant
- 2SGT — Second Sergeant
- 3LT — Third Lieutenant
- 3SGT — Third Sergeant
- AACS — Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence
- AAQM — Acting Assistant Quartermaster
- AASU — Acting Assistant Surgeon
- ACS — Assistant Commissary of Subsistence
- ADJ — Adjutant
- AQM — Assistant Quartermaster
- ASUR — Assistant Surgeon
- BUG — Bugler
- COL — Colonel
- CPL — Corporal
- CPT — Captain
- DRUM — Drummer
- FAR — Farrier
- FIFE — Fife Player
- FOOT — Foot Soldier
- HQ — Headquarters
- INF — Infantry
- LT — Lieutenant
- LTC — Lieutenant Colonel
- MAJ — Major
- MUS — Musician
- PMUS — Principal Musician
- PVT — Private
- QMSG — Quartermaster Sergeant
- SGM — Sergeant Major
- SGT — Sergeant
- SURG — Surgeon
The researcher can use the regiment number and company letter or independent company name from this index to request a photocopy of the individual's entry from the published report. For each soldier, the book's entries generally include name, rank, company and regiment, places and dates of enlistment and discharge, and dated remarks concerning discharge, illness, appointment, transfer, injury and death. Unfortunately the report originates from the 1881 transcriptions which have been found to be "grossly inaccurate." The transcriptions are maintained in the Archives' record series Mexican War Records, (RS 301.008). As a matter of verification, the researcher is advised to request that the National Archives examine its indexes to Illinois veterans of this war. Their address is Washington, DC 20408. Send your request to:
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1. So far this year I am officially a vegetarian, mostly vegan. Last year I was kinda on & off.
2. Nine times out of ten when I leave the house I have to come right back in for something I've forgotten. Usually it's my keys or cell phone. I've never forgotten a child.
3. One of my favorite ways to relax is to put my iPod on shuffle while I knit.
4. My current favorite album to listen to right now is Band of Horses' Everything All The Time
5. In the next 7 days I have only one night that I won't be going out and doing something. Normally I like to hang out at home but I'm really looking forward to all the nightlife!
6. I just found out that I will be mentioned in the March issue of Parents magazine's "Best Family Cars 2008" article talking about my Rondo. Love my Rondo!
7. I suffer from blogger guilt- not having the time to read as many blogs as I'd like and leave comments... I seriously wish I could stay updated with every single one. Maybe someday I'll acquire super-bloggy-powers and be on top of things for once.
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Jan. 2
A Lewiston-Porter school bus aide said she was threatened by a female student from Niagara Academy.
Niagara County sheriff's deputies said a case has been filed in Cambria Town Court against the unidentified female student and an order of protection will be sought. No arrest was reported.
The bus aide told deputies that in the incident, which occurred Dec. 18, the girl was disciplined on the bus and was told by the principal to move to the front of the bus. The girl then swore at the bus aide, refusing to sit near her and then as she left the bus she threatened the bus aide and her children.
The bus aide told deputies that she was fearful because the girl had verbally attacked her son last year, to the point that another person had to intervene.
Jan. 3
A woman who admitted intending to sell cocaine in Niagara Falls March 5 was admitted to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.
Shemika L. Woods, 31, of Eighth Street, said she didn't start using drugs until age 29.
"I was stressed out after my last baby," the mother of two explained.
She pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. She faces up to nine years in state prison if she fails in the treatment program, but if she succeeds, Woods could be placed on three years' probation with her charges being reduced to a misdemeanor.
Jan. 6
A Lockport man is accused of grabbing an unattended envelope containing $143 in cash from a Robinson Road store over the weekend.
Timothy S. Reinard, 44, of Dysinger Road was charged Monday with petit larceny. He was caught when he returned to the store a few days after the theft, police said.
A manager at Kenyon's Store, 6550 Robinson Road, told deputies that an unknown man came in and grabbed an unattended red envelope containing cash, then left the store at 9 p.m. Saturday. After reviewing security tape the manager spotted the suspect returning to the store on Monday and contacted deputies. Patrol located the suspect, identified as Reinard, and told him there was security tape of the theft.
Reinard admitted to the theft and led police to where he threw the envelope, according to patrol.
• A catalytic convertor was cut off a van owned by M&M Electric while it was parked in the 4800 block of Henry Avenue in Niagara Falls sometime between 12:30 a.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday.
The catalytic convertor was valued at $600 and the exhaust pipe $350, police reported.
Jan. 7
More than $14,000 worth of construction supplies, tools, furniture and appliances were reported stolen from a storage room and detached garage in the 2200 block of LaSalle Avenue, Niagara Falls.
The home's landlord said that sometime in the previous week, someone entered the basement and kicked open a locked storage room and also entered a detached garage. He said $3,500 worth of hand and power tools, a dryer, and a mattress and two box springs were taken from the storage room.
Taken from the garage were construction supplies, including an electrical panel, a shower enclosure, hand rails and two furnaces, as well as a stove, refrigerator and a snowblower, police reported. Total loss and damage $14,200.
A first floor tenant said she gave a man a key to the garage to so he could get a shovel to clear the sidewalk, but couldn't remember if he returned it. She also said she often leaves the house unlocked.
• A Rochester property owner reported extensive damage to his vacant property in the 6700 block of Bear Ridge Road, Pendleton, after a water meter and copper and steel pipes were stolen from the basement.
The 68-year-old owner told Niagara County sheriff's deputies that he first noticed an increase in the gas bill and when he went to investigate found that a south door had been forced open and there was water running from the basement. He said the entry happened sometime since Nov. 1.
Town Water Superintendent James Argo told deputies that a $300 water meter was taken, causing extensive damage to dry wall in the basement.
• Eight guns, including shotguns, rifles and a muzzle loader, that had been left unsecured in a bedroom closet at a home in the 2000 block of 72nd Street, Niagara Falls, were reported stolen.
The 53-year-old victim said that sometime in the past week a brown/camouflage, 12 gauge Remington shotgun, two black 20 gauge Remington shotguns, an Electra camouflage muzzle loader, two Marlin 22 caliber rifles and a Remington 22 caliber rifle and one unknown make 10 gauge camouflage shotgun were stolen.
He said one shotgun belonged to his niece who was storing it at his house for safekeeping because it had been stolen in the past. He told police there was no sign of forced entry and said a suspect must have known where the guns were hidden and also put the empty gun cases back in the closet.
Jan. 9
Men from Lockport and Niagara Falls pleaded guilty to cocaine possession charges in separate cases in County Court.
Gary Kelly, 42, of John Street, Lockport, admitted to a reduced charge of attempted third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Kelly was arrested March 6 when police raided his home and seized a reported 2.05 ounces of cocaine and $1,731 in cash, which Kelly agreed to forfeit.
Cordaro T. Walker, 21, of Hyde Park Boulevard, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance for having ,46 ounces of cocaine when he was arrested April 11 in a traffic stop on West Avenue in Lockport. He forfeited $50.
County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas scheduled sentencing in both cases for March 27. She agreed to cap Kelly's prison time at three years but made no promises to Walker, who could receive up to 5½ years behind bars.


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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Keith Urban
- 1971
Kiwi to Aussie
Urban and his family move from Whangarei, New Zealand, to the Australian farming town of Caboolture, which he will later refer to as his hometown. As a kid, he develops a passion for music and at 15, drops out of school to pursue his career.
- 1992
G'Bye, Mate
After scoring four No. 1 country singles in Australia in 1991, Urban moves to Nashville, Tenn. "I know I would be a little fish in a big sea, but that's the appeal," he tells Australia's Sunday Mail. While there, Urban struggles for years and develops a cocaine addiction. "I remember crawling around on my hands and knees, looking for these little rocks at 5 in the morning, and I was drenched in sweat. It was the worst," he tells USA Weekend. In 1998, he checks into Cumberland Heights, a treatment center in Nashville.
- 1999
Urban Development
Finally getting himself together, Urban releases his first U.S. solo album, the self-titled Keith Urban. He writes three and cowrites six of the album's 12 songs, including "But for the Grace of God," which hits No. 1 on the American country charts in early 2001.
- 2001
Hey, Cowboy
Urban bares it all for Playgirl magazine, posing nude with only a strategically placed guitar over his crotch. The Today show calls him a "country hottie," and reporter Jill Rappaport tells him he's the "male version of Faith Hill." Urban responds, "I hope my girlfriend doesn't look like [Hill's husband] Tim McGraw."
Decent Proposal
Eating dinner with girlfriend Laura Sigler at Nashville's Café OneTwoThree, Urban has a man stand outside with a sign reading "Will you marry me?" She accepts, but the pair never makes it to the altar, splitting the following year.
- 2002
Paving His Path to Stardom
With the release of his second album, Golden Road, Urban establishes himself as a bona fide star in Nashville. The record hits No. 11 on the overall Billboard charts and gives him three No. 1 country singles ("Somebody Like You," "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me?" and "You'll Think of Me").
- 2004
Here and Now
Urban crosses over to mainstream audiences with Be Here, which peaks at No. 3 on the Billboard albums chart. Twelve years after landing in Nashville, Urban launches his first headlining tour. Of the tour, he tells PEOPLE, "We're on buses versus crammed into a van, and people are showing up versus not showing up. And they know your songs!"
Top Honors
Minutes after performing his chart-topping single "Days Go By," Urban wins Male Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Awards in Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House. "I am so dumbfounded, I don't know what to say," he tells the crowd. "I am so glad my mom and dad are here tonight. I thank Nashville for letting me come and make music because it's all I ever wanted to do." He'll win the award for the next two years as well as Entertainer of the Year in 2005.
- 2005
Eyes Wide Open
In L.A. for a dinner honoring famous Australians, Urban meets actress Nicole Kidman. The pair are first spotted spending time together in July, and Kidman becomes a mainstay on his Urban's Alive in '05 tour. By November Kidman is spotted wearing a sparkling ring on her finger as the two – who won't comment on the relationship – prepare to host Thanksgiving at his Nashville home with both sets of parents in attendance.
- 2006
Winner's Circle
Sitting in the front row with Kidman at the Grammy Awards – their first major event as a couple – Urban wins the Grammy for Best Male Vocal Country Performance for "You'll Think of Me."
Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Splash news; John Elliot/Getty; SPLASH NEWS; Splash News; amazon.com; jason moore/Zuma/corbis; Andrew Gombert/EPA/Landov; dennett/StClair/spash news; Kevin Mazur/WireImage
- Name
- Keith Urban
- Date of Birth
- October 26, 1967
- Birth Place
- Whangarei, New Zealand
- Relationships
Nicole Kidman, wife (2005 to present)
Niki Taylor, ex-girlfriend (2002 to 2004)
Laura Sigler, ex-girlfriend (1992 to 2002, engaged)
- Children
Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, daughter (7/7/2008)
Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, daughter (12/28/10)


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BELLEVILLE - "Touch Me" is a book six years in the making through one local woman's calling from God.
Jenny Hagemeyer, founder of Promise Land Ministries, recently published her first book, more than six years after being called by God to write it.
"I'm not a writer, and I don't have a college degree," Hagemeyer said. "I write under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It's not me."
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Jenny Hagemeyer, a Belleville ministry organizer, holds her recently published book 'Touch Me.'
On Jan. 19, 2003, Hagemeyer said she had a dream where people were gathered around a table, excitedly reading a book. She said her curiosity itched to know the title of the book, and when she final saw it, she read, "Touch Me" by Jenny Hagemeyer.
"I woke up at 4 a.m. and began to write," Hagemeyer said.
As the years flew by, Hagemeyer said she continued to scribble things down in her journal.
Some of her inspiration came from day to day living, but other writings came at unexpected times.
"I know this sounds different," Hagemeyer said, laughing. "But I would write while I was sleeping."
When she woke up, Hagemeyer said she would put the words on paper.
One day years after her initial dream, Hagemeyer remembered asking God, "When am I going to write that book? And God said, 'You're writing it.'"
In 2008, while planning for one of the ministry's renewals, Hagemeyer said God gave her the word "abundant" as an acronym: A Bold Undefeated New Daring Abnormal Non-resistant Tapestry.
"After the renewal, (God) said, 'This is the outline for your book,'" she said.
Hagemeyer said she began to copy all her writings since 2003, a foot-high stack of papers, and sort them into the acronym categories.
In the midst of sorting, Hagemeyer said God still was teaching her things to put in the book.
"This book is about my personal journey through brokenness that led me to not only discover God's love for me but begin to experience the abundant life that he has called us to have," Hagemeyer said.
The book includes her struggles through divorce, severe back pain, depression and devastating illness of a child, she said.
All these things can block individuals from listening to God, she said.
"Have you ever tried to be angry and love at the same time? You can't do it," she said. "That's what this book is about - the healing process."
"For years, I only knew him as a Bible God," Hagemeyer said, noting that she accepted Christ into her heart at age 6.
When she was an adult, God revealed the darkness of fear, rejection, selfishness, anger and unforgiveness that Hagemeyer said was hidden in her heart.
"When I gave those pieces of my heart to him, I began to experience his blessings of joy, peace and love."
Through the new book, Hagemeyer said she hopes God will touch others' lives as he touched hers. In the future, she plans to develop a study guide to use with the book.
Hagemeyer will have a book signing from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 21 at the Friendship Bookstore, Lewistown.
Her book also is available online at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, BooksAMillion.com and iUniverse.com.
The author thanked the Rev. Bernard Carpenter, who wrote the book forward; her husband Fred, who painted the cover for the book; and Amy Franklin and Regina Jack who helped with editing and technology.


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Two Buffalo men were accused early Monday of passing bogus $20 bills at a pair of Main Street taverns.
Charles Ozigboh, 19, and Brean Den Inkumsah, 24, both of Englewood Avenue, were charged with first-degree forgery and criminal possession of forged instruments.
The pair allegedly using eight forged $20 bills at the Steer restaurant and Broadway Bill's.
After their arrest about 1:30 a.m., Ozigboh was in possession of a forged $20 bill and a real $20 bill, both bearing the same serial numbers, according to a police report.


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RIM is hoping
that the newest version of the Blackberry OS will help grab back some of the
users that have been defecting
to other smartphones. RIM has announced three new Blackberry devices today
and each of them are running the Blackberry OS 7 operating system. The new
smartphones are also all in the Curve family.
The new
phones include the Curve 9350, 9360, and 9370 smartphones. The three
new devices will land in Canada this month and will hit carriers around the
world starting in September. The three phones were designed with a similar look
and feel and all promise a balance of ergonomics and style. The all use the
Waterfall design similar to that of the new Torch smartphone according to RIM.
The curved designs also have a soft-touch band to make them more comfortable to
hold in the hand.
RIM also notes that the three new Curve smartphones are among the lightest
smartphones ever in the Blackberry line at 99 grams each with the battery.
All three devices have the same 480x360 HVGA+ resolution screen and voice
activated universal search. The voice search can also be used to search the web
and with 3rd part apps. NFC is integrated into all three new Curve devices
allowing the user to tap to connect to devices or authentic Blackberry
The phones also integrate social networking tightly with support for Twitter
for Blackberry and Facebook right out of the box. The phones also have Social
Feeds 2.0 to integrate social networks in one place. RIM also gave the new
Curves the latest version of Blackberry Messenger called BBM6.
details are unknown at this time.
quote: Your Torch is an old model from 2010, so who cares? I'm talking about new one from August 2011. Please stop mentioning your old Torch everywhere, no one here is interested in old tech.
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Laguna Phuket Golf Club's "Beat the Pros" charity challenge series began with a victory that upset the form book, with the Club's pro pairing of Paul Wilson and Andy Combe defeated by "Italian Stallions" amateurs Giovanni Palazzoli and Marco Fragola.
The charity challenge, sponsored by Titleist, sees Assistant Director of Golf Paul and PGA teaching professional Andy challenging amateur players each Friday afternoon in 18-hole matchplay contests.
Challenging golfers receive complimentary Titleist caps and the amateur pairing which has defeated the pros by the biggest margin at the end of the year will each win a Titleist golf bag.
Entry fees go towards the Club's 2013 charity initiative to support the special needs children of Phuket Panyanukul School, with each match raising at least THB 5,000.
In the first match, accomplished amateurs Giovanni and Marco received three quarter handicap allowances of just 2 and 5 shots respectively.
Despite losing the first hole, Paul and Andy raced to a two hole lead as both teams traded several birdies through the first eight holes.
The turning point came when Giovanni made a solid par at the ninth hole, followed by Marco with a par on the 10th and impressive birdies at both the 11th and 13th par three holes.
The pros were unable to counter this impressive play and the match finished with Giovanni and Marco three holes up after the full round.
Victorious Giovanni said: "It was a pleasure to play with such gentlemen as pros Paul and Andy. There is a lovely atmosphere to Laguna Phuket Golf Club and we had a great afternoon of golf."
Andy, ever gracious in defeat, commented: "We'd like to thank Giovanni and Marco for supporting our charity initiative today – they played some great golf and thoroughly deserved the win."
Paul and Andy are available every Friday afternoon to accept challenges to "Beat the Pros." Entry fees are THB 2,500 per Club members and THB 4,500 per guest, excluding caddy fee/tip.
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On the surface, the BioWare of 2011 is barely recognisable as the BioWare that released Baldur's Gate in 1998. Sitting confidently inside EA's gargantuan business area at gamescom 2011, Dr Muzyka is in charge of some of the most valuable IP in the world today.
VideoGamer.com spoke to Muzyka about the company's focus on telling stories, on how BioWare is looking ahead to the future, and whether or not Garrus will die at the end of Mass Effect 3. Okay, we didn't ask the last one. But we wanted to.
Q: BioWare is famed for its storytelling. How do you think that's developing in terms of how games are telling stories as technology advances?
Ray Muzyka: I would extend that broader. Our vision is to create, deliver, and evolve some of the most emotionally engaging games in the world. And story, for us, is one of the ways to achieve that - but it's not the only way.
Historically, yeah, I think a lot of what we've done actually has been driven by story, narrative, and character interactions and we still have those in our games. Typically, we see that as a really important mechanism and tool, and a very relatable concept to players. It's similar to real life, where you talk to people and form a relationship, and then you form an emotional bond - so I think we're going to continue that as one of the pillars for how we approach our games.
But I think, more broadly, you can look at narrative as almost any of the activities you engage in with a game - the way you approach them, the choices you make, and how your character's journey, as it were, forms your personal narrative - so your exploration choices, where you go first in the game, second, third, the choices you make in the story arc - that's a narrative, obviously. The choices you make in a battle, your tactical choices, what abilities you have to deploy and how you deploy them - that's a narrative. It's a narrative of combat, but it's still a narrative.
Then there's social narrative, like an online game with connectivity where you're talking to other players, and even user generated content - you know, you could have a narrative decided by the creator. And the reason we find these very powerful is because they all lead to increased emotional engagement, and that's what we're striving for - we're not striving just to convey story, we're striving to convey story that emotionally engages you and captures your imagination; makes you feel like the barriers are removed and you're at one with this character in the world in the possibility space - it feels real, like you're actually there, so that you care about the outcomes, and feel compelled to continue, whether those outcomes are in combat or exploration or progression of your story.
Q: BioWare, as a studio, is rapidly expanding. There are so many products being delivered in so many ways...
RM: Yeah, we have seven studios worldwide in Edmonton, Montreal, Austen, Virginia, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Ireland, and they're all doing different things, and they're all really important to our future - and they're all collaborating as well, so, for me, it's a big honour to be able to work with all these people worldwide - they're all very talented, very passionate about creating this emotional engagement.
Q: Yesterday you said, on stage, that Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to have a smooth launch. How will you achieve this?
RM: With every aspect we can possibly anticipate, we try and make sure it's stable, scalable, secure, high-quality - those are the attributes that we're striving for. And it's hard, you know. Honesty, building an MMO is really hard. I have great respect for the teams that do it - Blizzard and all the great developers that have done MMO launches successfully. It's not easy to do. We're lucky, because we have a lot of talent in the BioWare label - the Mythic team, a lot of people in the Austin studio built other MMOs and launched them, so we have a lot of great experience, but we know it's not an easy thing.
Q: You're doing a staggered launch, a few people at a time, to build up stability, I suppose?
RM: Well, we're doing beta testing - we're scaling up the beta testing, and that's pretty typical, and we've been doing it for many, many months now...
The only way we can really make it successful is to scale and try to pump the rivets off every aspect of your beta testing program, and that's what we're doing right now - that's what we've been doing for months and months.
Q: The pre-orders on Origins get to play first, and that helps to ease the pressure if you will?
RM: Yeah, it does.
Not everyone is going to be in the same area to start with - there will be some people that have played a bit longer. Based on the pre-orders, it's been crazy. It's been the fasted-selling game in EA's history. And that's a really great thing, because it means a lots of fans are ready to play our game, and we have to make sure they all have a great experience when they come on - it's scalable, it's secure, it's stable, high-quality content, and a service aspect post-launch that if they have issues we can address those.
So it's really fun; it's a really interesting challenge, especially when we're adding all this innovation and storytelling into the traditional MMO feature-set, and enabling it in the Star Wars universe, where the expectations are "It's Star Wars" and people approach that with a pre-conceived notion what that means as well - so we have to satisfy that to players too. But it's a challenge that we're up for.
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PERGOLA - Attic under the skyscrapers
Size55 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Air conditioning
- Indoor fireplace
- Elevator in building
|Via Angelo della Pergola, 20159 Milano, Italy
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|Property ID
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Beautiful loft in "Old Milan" context of late nineteenth century. We are in one of the most vibrant and dynamic historic districts in Milan "l'Isola" (the Island). The district is one of the poles of the nightlife of Milan with the highest concentration of restaurants, pubs, happy hours and clubs in the city. We are also very close to Brera for turists looking for a more chic scene. A short walk take you to the Garibaldi Rail Station and only 5 minutes by taxi or 2 stops by subway to the Central Station.
In 10 minutes you can walk to Corso Como, just below the skyscrapers of the new business center where aperitifs are served in the most exlusive bars.
The apartment is on the top floor with elevator and consists of a large open space of 55 square meters with a sleeping area and double sofa bed, kitchen and a bathroom. The apartment is equipped with air conditioning and wifi for free
The metro station is just 100 meters for direct connection to all major points of the city
The propery is provided with an extra inflable matress to accomodate up to 5
check-out before 11.00
in case of difference need we can arrange other check-in check-out times
in case of one-night reservation requests do contact previously the host
For check-in later than 8.00pm an extra 10 euros fee will be charged
CHECK-IN: pick up of the keys by our office at the Central Station (where trains and buses from every Milan airport arrive)
CHECK-OUT: very easy, just leave the keys inside the apartment (no need to come back to our office)
We remind our guests the need to pay the city tax upon arrival: 2 euros per guest per night
per check-in oltre le ore 20.00 verrà richiesto un contributo di 10 euro
CHECK-IN: il ritiro delle chiavi presso il nostro ufficio in Stazione Centrale
CHECK-OUT: molto semplice: potrete lasciare le chiavi all'interno dell'appartamento
Ricordiamo ai nostri ospiti l'obbligo del pagamento della trassa di soggiorno da versare direttamente all'arrivo pari a 2 euro per persona per notte
|Price for > 2 guests
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sweet apartment, great area, everything available, nice communication, VERY HAPPY AGAIN!
süße Wohnung, tolle Gegend, alles vorhanden, nette Kommunikation, SEHR GERN WIEDER!
The appartment was as great as discribed on Wimdu's website. I definitely recommand Filiberto's appartment
The apartment is in a good location. By tram you go directly to the center and according to the "Duomo". In the apartment, everything was neat and even though we had arrived an hour earlier than planned, we did not have to wait long and the colleague of Filiberto was already there and gave us the keys. Plus it's very comfortable, find it perfectly four people place! :)
Die Wohnung befindet sich in einer guten Lage. Mit der Tram fährt man direkt ins Zentrum und entsprechend zum "Duomo". In der Wohnung war alles ordentlich und obwohl wir eine Stunde früher als geplant angereist waren, mussten wir nicht lange warten und der Kollege von Filiberto war schon zur Stelle und gab uns die Schlüssel. Außerdem ist alles sehr komfortabel ausgestattet, es finden perfekt vier Leute Platz! :)
Very nice apartment, good location with a very good restaurant at only 100m ("la Vigne") and it's very close to the metro station "Porta di Genova". The tenant was really friendly. Definitely a good address if you plan to stay in Milan.
The appartment is very tiny but nice, fully equiped and located in a walk distance to Piazza Duomo (the very center of Milan). Metro station Missori is also very close. This is a direct metro line to the central railway station Milano Centrale. This is a good choice of accomodation for those who plan to stay in Milan for several days, to travel to some other cities (for example, I traveled to Genoa for one day) and for those who like to cook breakfast or dinner themselves (pans, pots, cups, plates are available).
Everything was super geklappt.Gute communication. Apartment is close to the Metro.Nur 2 stops from the cathedral. Restaurant and supermarket all within walking distance.
Hat Alles super geklappt.Gute Kommunikation .Wohnung liegt nahe an der Metro.Nur 2 Stationen vom Dom. Restaurant und Supermarkt alles in Laufnähe.
The apartment was good value for money. We stayed in Milan for 3 days with 4 boys in the age of 24-27. The apartment was large enough, the beds were quite good. The location of the apartment is a few kilometres from the centre. There's a tram stop right in front of the apartment so everytime we decided to go to the centre we took the tram. It took about 15 minutes to reach the city centre and we didn't had to pay at all. Compared to the high prices of the hotels in Milan, I think this apartment is a very reasonable offer. You shouldn't expect too much luxury but the beds, TV, fridge and the bathroom were all good and that is what a man need, isn't it?
Our main goal of the trip to Milan was Il Derby della Madonnina. Although I have been a lot of matches through whole Europe, this was a special derby. So much passion from both sets of fans, really impressive!
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Blair won the Beast of the East by 152 points, 309-157, over Wyoming Seminary, a prep school in northeastern Pennsylvania. Blair also won the Walsh Ironman by 84.5 points, 240.5-156, over Wyoming Seminary.
Central Dauphin placed fifth in the Beast with 120.5 points, and defending Class AA champion Bethlehem Catholic was 11th with 87.
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Freshman second baseman Taylor Cox (Garden Grove, Calif./Pacifica) opened the inning with a single, and advanced to second on a groundout. Gilbert then grounded to the second baseman who misplayed the ball allowing the speedy Cox to score from second.
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With its lead cut to one, singles from Cox and freshman designated player Hanne Stuedemann (Mattawan, Mich./Mattawan) put runners at second and third with one out after a heads up advance by Stuedemann on the throw. Unfortunately, BSU would ground into an inning-ending double play to end the threat.
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It was too late to drive home and get a carrier, but I remembered that the teacher had some big scarves in the toy area, so I decided I would try that. I spent art class with Mica wrapped up in a big rainbow silk cloth. It was pretty, but not very comfy, and he wouldn't fall asleep.
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The weird thing about art is that you never notice the really important stuff. When you learn poetry in school, all the focus is on the technique, but when you actually hear a poem that really speaks to you, your first thought isn't "Wow, what a great use of metric irregularity!" It's "Yeah, man ... fuckin' plums. Right? That's what it's all about." Then you get laid, because understanding poetry gets you laid.
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Gravity winning the visual effects Oscar is one of the few totally uncontroversial Oscar wins in history. The only people surprised by that name getting announced were the people who thought the movie was actually filmed in space.
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Frankly, they can be forgiven.
But what does "incredible CGI" mean on an "actual work getting done" level? First of all, it meant that everything had to be meticulously planned from the beginning, so much so that they fully illustrated every scene before they started shooting. Director Alfonso Cuaron said that they could have released an animated version years before the movie was ever released, so just be thankful we never got our Treasure Planet version of Gravity. Second, it meant throwing the actors around on wires for really long takes, because that's Cuaron's jam. Sandra Bullock trained for five months to hang upside down without conveying the tension of the wires, and if that doesn't sound incredible to you, go hang upside down from a jungle gym for several hours while pretending to be weightless and let me know how your abs feel.
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Abs are in your thighs, right? I have no idea what I'm talking about.
The most amazing part of that is, again, something you probably didn't even think about: Whenever you see one of the actors' faces inside their suits as they float through space, you probably assumed that they just "stuck the actors' face on their in post," because that's what they say all the time. In reality, getting that to work was such a complicated endeavor that they had to invent entirely new technology to create it. They called it "the light box," it involved a two-ton robot, and it killed a test dummy the day before they started shooting.
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And the poor bastard didn't even get a dedication at the end.
#5. Wreck-It Ralph References Every Video Game Ever
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Look, I know my audience: You guys aren't going to be surprised to learn that Wreck-It Ralph references video games. Hell, that was half the fun.
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Even Zangief's presence at the "Bad Anon" meeting has an awesomely nerdy explanation.
But the jokes are so deeply ingrained that you just know that half of them were thrown in simply because they made the illustrators giggle. For example, when King Candy hacks the game Sugar Rush so he can keep Vannelope from racing (because Ralph wants to win a medal, but he accidentally releases a Cy-Bug after he goes "turbo" and ... look, there's no way to describe this plot in a way that'll make sense to people who haven't seen it), a quick glance at his notes reveals that the game-breaking cheat he uses is none other than the famous Konami Code:
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The most unrealistic part is that he'd have to write that down.
Too obvious, you say? Fine! What about the references to Final Fantasy VII and Zero Wing on the walls of Game Central Station?
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"Game Central Station" references, of course, the existence of trains.
Oh, you caught those too, eh? Well, how about this one, smart guy? "Sheng Long Was Here":
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That's a reference to a mistranslation of the term "Dragon Punch" in the Street Fighter II instruction manual, which was later exploited by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 1992 as an April Fool's joke that convinced everyone that Sheng Long was a hidden character that could only be unlocked by playing through the game without taking any damage 10 times in a row, then dodging the final boss' attacks (but not actually hitting him) until the timer ran out. Because back in 1992, video game magazines had only two goals: breaking hearts and ruining kids' psychosocial development by planting the idea that they could grow up to write about video games.
Adherence to proper form (as listed in the AP Style Guide: Internet Listicle Edition) would dictate that I end this entry with the best reference in the movie -- but there are just so many (the Sugar Rush game references Mario Kart by including a Rainbow Road-style track and making the karts spin out in the exact same way; the wall in Tapper's Bar is covered with photographs of iconic video game characters), and "best" with this kind of thing just means "the one that references the game you like most," so I'm going to end with my favorite, because I'm in charge here: a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of Sonic the Hedgehog getting smacked down and vomiting gold rings all over everything, just like he did in Sonic the Hedgehog.
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I recognize that! Yay!
#4. They Painted a Whole Set Sepia for The Wizard of Oz
There's a reason "We're not in Kansas anymore" is the most cliche way to announce that things have gotten freaky, and that's because the transition from sepia Kansas to Technicolor Oz in The Wizard of Oz is one of the raddest moments in movie history. I know it's weird for a straight 20-something guy to publicly ramble about the infectious wonder of a 1930s musical, but I don't care. It's still a great bit of cinema, a transition that wouldn't be possible in any other medium, simultaneously celebrating the magic of youthful imagination and cinema's constant technological march toward telling bigger and better stories.
"Also, the act of crushing people with houses and stealing their shit."
But ironically, the transition itself didn't use any kind of fancy technology at all: Instead of using clever editing techniques, the Wizard of Oz crew just painted an entire set sepia. Bobbie Koshay, Judy Garland's body double, stood in for Garland (again, completely covered in sepia paint) and allowed Garland to take her place after the camera moved into Oz by stepping out of frame for just a fraction of a second.
That's the thing about these old movies: They don't have that "How did they do that?" element -- we know that the Cowardly Lion is just an actor in a costume, the Tin Man and Wicked Witch are just actors covered in toxic paint, and the Scarecrow is just a guy trying to figure out his sexuality.
"Some people go "both ways!". We got you, Scarecrow.
And when I say "toxic paint," I'm not being cute: The first actor to play the Tin Man was replaced when he inhaled too much aluminum dust and almost died, and Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch, almost burned to death, but couldn't be treated until the copper-based paint was removed because it, quote, "would've killed the ever-loving shit out of her," unquote (that's not an actual quote). You think of filmmakers as working to figure out ways to use camera tricks to convince the audience things are happening, but back then we didn't have those tricks, so they just had to do it for real. Even if it meant people would almost die.
Thankfully, that kind of thing doesn't happen anymore.


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National Dairy Shrine honors industry leaders and students
Submitted by World Dairy Expo on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 13:06
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National Dairy Shrine honors industry leaders and students
Date:Thu, 10/04/2012
Tonight, National Dairy Shrine will honor Industry Pioneers, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Guest of Honor, as well as award over $40,000 in scholarships to college students. If you cannot attend the banquet, we hope you enjoy the video of the 2012 honorees.
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A game where kegs of beer are thrown down a set of stairs while pledges attempt to run up them. The use of a handrail and the national hazing hotline are prohibited.
Too bad we lost our charter from killing all of those pledges during pledgey kong.
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to contend in combat using only a belt and buckle as a weapon, usually to settle disputes involving two rednecks and a fat woman in a bar parking lot.
travis took his eye out belt fightin' outside the brown anchor bar last night.
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