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"I Have Brain Cancer": 6 Amazing Non-Sex Scenes from Porn
Then it hit me:What's with all the horrible acting in porno?Nobody ever said making porno was going to be easy, but some of the things they're letting slide in the San Fernando Valley are simply too egregious to ignore. Here's a by-no-means-comprehensive list of six of the worst offenders.
No-No #1: Action Sequences (Of A Non-Sexual Nature)The Scenario:
A Hungarian "student" named Anita (who looks suspiciously like a stripper) has moved to America to learn English (from a professor who looks suspiciously like a porn star). In introducing her to the country, the "professor" warns Anita about the unbelievably dangerous "garter snakes" in the area. Naturally, Anita is attacked by one a few seconds later, prompting the "professor" to punch it in the face and save the day. He then offers to show Anita a different, less scary snake, presumably his penis, which she then (presumably) wrestles to the ground and punches in the face1.
Why It Doesn't Work:
You weren't hired for your awesome fighting skills, nor for your superb acting skills. You were hired to bang a chick on camera. You're not Sly, you're not Arnold... hell, you're barely Van Damme. Leave the action sequences to the professionals and start boning already.
Also, if you're pretending that garter snakes are venomous python-sized monsters that drop out of trees to attack poor, defenseless Hungarian porn stars, then why in the name of God would you want to WRESTLE one? Furthermore, do snake experts typically advocate the use of elbow drops when dealing with venomous python-sized monsters? I think not.
And while I'm at it, why in the name of God is this foreign exchange student from Hungary studying English by aimlessly wandering around in a Los Angeles backyard? Is this supposed to be some sort of specialized immersion program where students live with (and get boned by) their professors, and if so, where can I sign up to "teach"?
1 For the uninitiated, this clip was featured in the Daily Nooner "Nobody Ever Said Being A Porn Star Was Going To Be Easy."
No-No #2: Plots Involving Frisbees and/or LawsuitsThe Scenario:
When two young women decide to beat the summer heat by playing frisbee - makes sense already, right? - they accidentally knock a male jogger unconscious. Afraid they're going to get in trouble of some sort, they drag the unconscious man to a house and discuss how they're going to "get rid of the body." Then, to everyone's surprise, the man wakes up, one of the girls reveals that she can't go to jail because she's "only a teenager," and then they all have sex with each other.
Why It Doesn't Work:
The vast majority of of all pornos begin and end on private property. Know why? Because it's legal to have sex there. Starting a scene off in a public park might seem like a good idea on paper, but as a porn director you need to do some preparation: Can you get permits to film people fucking in the middle of a park? (No.) How are you going to get them from the park (where they can't have sex) to a couch (where they can)? If your answer is "They'll hit him in the head with a frisbee, drag his unconscious body to a house, and then fuck him to make sure he doesn't press charges," then congratulations: You have what it takes to be a porn director.
Are you familiar with Occam's Razor? Well it applies to porn, too, and the simplest plot is probably the best one. That being said, if it takes more than a sentence or two to explain why a threesome is about to happen IN A PORNOGRAPHIC FILM then, well, you're probably doing something wrong - doubly so if that explanation involves lawsuits and disposing of a corpse. (Unless you're into that sort of thing.)
No-No #3: Plots Involving "Brain Cancer"The Scenario:
An intimate moment between a young couple is spoiled... by brain cancer.
Why It Doesn't Work:
Because brain cancer is the opposite of a boner.
No-No #4: Lazy EditingThe Scenario:
Upon hearing that a (presumably male) driver is headed somewhere close to her house, a comely young lady asks for a ride home.
Why It Doesn't Work:
The scenario itself - the timeless "Can I Have A Ride" story (Stock Pornographic Plot #127) - is actually a totally serviceable one, but the delivery of this key bit of dialogue is crucial to the success of the film. If the girl can't ask for a ride in a clear and concise way, then how is the guy supposed to know what she's talking about? If the guy doesn't know what she's talking about, then how is he supposed to drive her home? And perhaps most importantly, if he doesn't drive her home, then how is she supposed to blow and/or bone him as a token of gratitude?
On another, more practical level, boners require a complex interplay between brain signals, nerve synapses and blood vessels. With an absolutely insane sentence like "would it be possible to drop me off near there, I live right near there, my roommate just dropped me off" bouncing around inside the viewer's brain, how is he supposed to get down to the task at hand? I know film is expensive and 70s pornography was shot on a shoestring budget, but somebody really should have yelled "CUT!" on this one.
No-No #5: Just Fuck AlreadyThe Scenario: A guy sets an unbelievably complicated trap to ensare his "hot" older neighbor involving a fake break-up, Visine, and some Oscar-worthy method acting skills.
Why It Doesn't Work:
Because they aren't actors. They also aren't skilled improv professionals, and yet here they are, working without a script and clumsily inching toward a boning session with no clue as to how they're actually going to get there. Who is the brunette, and why is she so mad at this guy? If she's so mad, then why is she willing to help him get laid? What's all that stuff about the bills at the beginning? What does that have to do with boning?! None of this makes sense.
The nature of pornography dictates that the people in it have to screw. That's the name of the game. And while I understand that the actors might not be boning right when the camera starts rolling, and that this will inevitably require a segue of some sort to take them from "Not Boning" to "Boning," here's an idea: Why not start the camera after they're already boning? Or, you know, just edit out all the stuff that isn't boning?
Oh - but leave in the part where he's like "I RULE!" at the end. That and the cartwheels. In fact, make all pornos end that way from now on.
Fuck it - I'm moving to the San Fernando Valley.
No-No #6: Mixing Porno And PoliticsThe Scenario: Two drunk Russians' tank breaks down in front of Sarah Palin's house. They ask to use her phone to call the Kremlin, drop a few lame pick-up lines, and then bang her silly on the couch. Todd, Trig and the gang are mysteriously absent.
Why It Doesn't Work: I have absolutely no problem with this one, actually. It's perfect.


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The phrase is Tony Blair's and I love it. I came across it last night when reading a piece that the Labour MP for Sunderland (and former journalist of Birmingham 6 fame) Chris Mullin wrote for the Guardian. You can read the article in its entirety here.
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It's true—amazing solar tech innovations just keep coming. Some advances come in the form of new handheld devices and applications. Others promise to elevate solar into a mainstream energy source that may one day replace greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels. Here are five recent innovations that have left both solar experts and newbies in a daze.


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Paul Perry's mission: Give his listeners a glimpse of Heaven during free mini-concerts this month in Grass Valley, marking the pre-Christmas season of Advent.
The concerts, offered each Wednesday through Dec. 19 as a respite from the Christmas rush, have become a tradition at Peace Lutheran Church, where Perry is organist.
And, they are among a broad range of musical expressions of faith and festivity at the church during the Christmas season, which extends into early January.
"Peace Lutheran Church is the sound of music in our community," said congregation President Gerry Mitchelmore, a Lake Wildwood resident.
In the large sanctuary near downtown, Perry – the founder of Nevada City-based Music in the Mountains – commands a digital Allen organ with three upper keyboards, 41 buttons and 56 stops on the upper console. With his stocking feet, Perry simultaneously operates a fourth keyboard and three more rows of stops at the organ's base.
Perry calls the organ "a beast," but he makes it purr and alternately roar with soul-moving interpretations of Bach's "Christmas Oratorio," Handel's "Messiah" and traditional Christmas carols.
He chooses music for the mini-concerts that is "recognized throughout the world as a great piece for organ," Perry said. "I also look for new arrangements of traditional carols."
And he especially enjoys playing "unadorned" arrangements, "the way we learned them when we were children," Perry said. "That speaks to us…
"I'm trying to give (my listeners) concert music that they won't hear elsewhere," Perry added.
Each half-hour concert of seasonal music will be followed by a half-hour of prayer and meditation. They start at 4:45 p.m. every Wednesday through Dec. 19 at the church at 828 W. Main St., near downtown.
'Coming into being'
More than a decade ago, Perry teamed up with the church pastor, the Rev. Richard Johnson, to offer the free midweek concerts.
They are drawing on a tradition that goes back to fifth-century France: The observance of Advent, or the four weeks before Christmas, is a time for prayer and reflection to prepare for the coming of the Christ child, said Johnson, who has a doctoral degree in church history.
Advent stems from the Latin for "coming into being."
Even older is the tradition of evening prayers – called vespers from the Latin word for "evening" – which harks to the Jewish practice of praying at the start and end of the day, Johnson added. Such prayers acknowledge the limits of human control over our lives.
"These two themes – Advent and vespers – really go together in so many ways, especially as we move to physical darkness with the winter solstice," Johnson said. "They teach us to look beyond the present."
And both these practices are even more relevant today in a time of holiday frenzy and consumption, Johnson said.
"It's a season that trains us to slow down, be quiet, listen and watch," Johnson said. "We don't have to be always doing, doing, doing."
Faithful music for Advent vespers
From Perry's earliest musical days, Advent music drawing from the great European composers was a yearly ritual.
Perry started playing organ when he was about 12 and landed his first professional gig at 15 as the back-up organist for an Episcopal church in Miami, where he grew up in the 1940s, he said. Perry studied with a woman who was the organist for "the big Methodist church downtown," Perry added. "She was a recital organist, and she did Lenten and Advent recitals."
Following that same path, Perry left a dream job as a rehearsal pianist with the San Francisco Opera more than three decades ago to move to Nevada City and start Music in the Mountains. His goal then was to bring "high-level music-making" to a rural area, he said.
That impulse continues to fuel his now-annual concert series in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Perry is known for his raise-the-rafters crescendos when he plays the organ for the church's two traditional Sunday services (he also plays piano for a more casual Sunday service). Those attending the mini-concerts can expect to hear some of that, he said.
"I had one woman tell me (after a Sunday worship service), 'When you played that last hymn, I felt like the heavens had opened up, and I was swallowed up!'" Perry recalled with a chuckle. "For one half-hour period, I want to take (my listeners) to Heaven, and still somehow get the mystical side of the season, and that's more contemplative."
Space for music
It's a natural for Peace Lutheran Church in Grass Valley to express members' faith through music.
Martin Luther saw music as "a gift from God" and "essential" to a life of faith; Luther also composed music and wrote lyrics, said Peace's Rev. Richard Johnson.
Peace hosts secular community musical groups and events in addition to its own 30-member choir, its Bells of Peace handbell choir and other in-house musical programs:
— Music in the Mountains Chorale rehearsals (several church members also sing in the chorale)
— Music in the Mountains Young Musicians Competition venue (church members Liesel and Rebekah Shuholm have been finalists)
— Foothill Children's Chorus office, rehearsals and venue
— Grass Valley Male Voice Choir rehearsals
— In addition to the midweek concerts, Peace will observe Advent during traditional Sunday worship services at 8 and 11 a.m.; they include Perry's organ music and singing by the Peace Choir. A more casual service blending traditional format and modern music and language is offered at 9:30 a.m.
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I see that two days ago a long standing senior democrat WI senator had recall papers filed against him with the GAB. The group filing the papers cited a single vote of record as the reason for recall. Recalls are going to destroy this State. I fear now that there has been a few stones cast into the recall puddle its going turn into a turbulent ocean.
What's going to happen if the govenor loses in the "recall" election.....are people going to try to recall the recall sucessor?
No reason is needed to force a new election by recall. The only thing required is enough signatures. Infact "recall" isn't even an accurate term - we dont recall anyone - what we do is call a "mulligan" and have a do-over election.
What if the Senate swings majority, are we going to automatically file recall papers in an attempt get an election "do-over" to try to swing it back? I think that would happen.
There needs to be a bipartisan agreement to get this fixed or we will be doomed to an everpresent politcal stalemate. The govenorship will become a 12 month term, constantly under limbo. That's a bad deal no matter what your politcal tendincies are.


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The Buffalo show was the last for the Get Motivated seminar series.
The Florida company that hired celebrities including Rudy Giuliani and Colin Powell for motivational events that filled arenas around the U.S. has closed, leaving lawsuits complaining of unpaid bills.
The closing came after the seminar failed to draw a door-buster crowd in Buffalo in June.
The seminars has drawn as many as 400,000 people a year, selling tickets starting at $1.95 for daylong pageants featuring fireworks and confetti. The seminars were actually vehicles for investment firms to sell courses in stock options and other trading tactics from the same stage where luminaries held forth, according to a Bloomberg News report.
Commercial presenters promoted annual returns of as much as 25 percent. A Michigan pastor said he lost $11,500 trading options after paying $12,000 for classes advertised at a Get Motivated seminar.
After the sparsely attended event in Buffalo, starring former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, comedian Bill Cosby and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, Get Motivated canceled seminars scheduled for Michigan and Kentucky. The Tampa-based company shut down July 2, said Rick Nash, a spokesman. A sister firm that sold financial courses, WealthRock LLC of Draper, Utah, also terminated most of its staff, Nash said. The companies employed more than 250.
"It's a hard business to make a profit," said John LaRosa, research director at Marketdata Enterprises Inc. in Tampa. "We really haven't seen anybody else doing this kind of format, where you have six or more big-name people that require large speaking fees."
The Washington Speakers Bureau was owed $1.7 million for speeches made between November 2011 and February 2012, according to claims in legal documents. The bureau represents well-known people who spoke at the events, including Giuliani, a former New York mayor; Powell, a former U.S. secretary of state; and former first lady Laura Bush, who made their last Get Motivated appearances on Feb. 16. Michael Menchel, the bureau's senior vice president, declined to comment.
Speakers were supposed to earn $35,000 to $125,000 an appearance, according to the documents. Most speeches lasted 20 minutes. Giuliani netted $1.8 million from January 2006 to February 2007 for more than 20 Get Motivated events, according to disclosures he filed while running for president in 2008.
At Get Motivated's last stop in Buffalo on June 12, the 18,690-seat First Niagara Center was less than half full. Cosby, in a blue University at Buffalo sweatshirt and sweatpants, mixed one-liners with an appeal for seminargoers to listen to the speakers selling financial instruction.
"All these millionaires are coming up and telling you how to make it," he said. "Come on, understand what they're saying. Get up."
Until February, Get Motivated had a partnership with Investools, a unit of discount broker TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. that offered options training costing as much as $20,000. The Buffalo courses were to be taught by WealthRock, which is owned by Joseph Johnson, a resident of Apollo Beach, Fla., who bought Get Motivated in January.
Buffalo ticket holders were entered in a raffle, and Jerry Petrotto won the $10,000 grand prize. He said he hasn't received a check and the company hasn't returned calls or emails. A Get Motivated Facebook page still promotes him as the winner.
"It's just disappointing they disappear right after my moment," said Petrotto, 53, a design engineer from Williamsville.
Johnson is named in a lawsuit in Hillsborough County, Fla., alleging he defaulted on a $12 million loan from an investor that he used to buy and operate Get Motivated. Laurence Pino, a lawyer representing the investor, said he couldn't comment on the case. Companies that handled advertising, Web design and other services for the Tampa company have filed suits for allegedly unpaid bills.
Johnson is working with Get Motivated's founder, Peter Lowe, to raise money to "relaunch" the seminars, Nash said. He said debts incurred since Johnson took control will be repaid once funding is secured and events resume. Johnson is in negotiations to resolve the lawsuit, according to Nash.
"Joe's a really good guy and his intentions were the best," Nash said. Johnson didn't return telephone calls.
Peter Lowe, the son of a missionary, started Get Motivated 10 years ago, after the collapse of another celebrity seminar series he ran, called Success. Get Motivated also featured his wife, Tamara, a self-help book author who performed a rap about Jesus at the events. The Lowes divorced in April.


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quote VirtueThere's a good chance that's the reason why. I just never understood the addition of characters that do basically nothing. I never saw the point in the "dry" versions of enemies either.
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Two Clarence men have been charged in the theft of copper wire and pipes from a vacant Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority building in Cheektowaga on Thanksgiving Day, the authority reported Wednesday.
William H. Bartlebaugh Jr., 23, and David D. Cummings, 41, were arrested on multiple charges, including felony counts of burglary and grand larceny.
Three additional suspects remain at large.
Bartlebaugh and Cummings were caught early last Thursday in a building scheduled for demolition, according to C. Douglas Hartmayer, an NFTA spokesman.
That site, at 195 Holtz Drive, is part of a parking lot expansion project at Buffalo Niagara International Airport that will add 1,000 parking spaces to the Long Term B Lot on Holtz.
NFTA Police Lt. John Heritage and Officers David Jaworek, Mario Capozzi, Louis Loubert, Charles Loubert, Michael Dau, Michael Bielanin and David Drozdiel, along with K-9 Officer Mark Martinelli, made the arrests. They were assisted by Erie County sheriff's deputies and Cheektowaga police.
Following arraignment in Cheektowaga Town Court, Bartlebaugh and Cummings were sent to the Erie County Holding Center pending further court action.
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Reincarnation and Apocatastasis - Mark Fletcher - 22-03-2007
The idea of reincarnation is a seductive one for many.
I know somebody who sincerely believes (claiming to know for certain) that reincarnation is a reality, on the basis of their own subjective experience.
Is someone who believes in reincarnation outside of the British Orthodox Church?
Surely the person who sincerely believes in reincarnation is being just as "honest" as those British Orthodox Church members who have posted items on British Orthodox Fellowship Forums regarding Apocatastasis?
Both Reincarnation and Apocatastasis are viewed as heretical by some sincere but hard-line Orthodox people. What matters is the Truth, not swallowing second-hand dogma uncritically.
Reincarnation - John Charmley - 23-03-2007
Dear Mark,
The idea of universal salvation is neither approved of nor condemned by the Church; some Christians take a firm view that it is heresy, but it is unclear that they are correct; the Church pronounces neither way, and one can call Patristic witnesses both ways.
Reincarnation on the other hand is not a Christian belief, and is hard to reconcile with our idea of the resurrection of the body; pretty confusing if we have had many bodies.
I, too, know people who believe they have had other lives, and I know they are sincere; but sincerity does not equate with truth, and one can very sincerely believe the wrong thing.
As with some of the other very interesting topics you are raising, this really needs a longer answer, but that will have to come on the morrow, since the hour grows late - but I wanted to post the outlines of what I take the Orthodox position to be.
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Thanks - Mark Fletcher - 23-03-2007
Thanks for your posting. But...
Is someone who believes in reincarnation outside of the British Orthodox Church?
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Dear Mark
I hesitate to answer too firmly because I rather have the sense that the question I want to answer is whether or not re-incarnation is part of the Christian Faith, rather than whether or not someone who holds to that idea is in or out. If membership of the Church were such a simple matter of being in or out then I would imagine that I would be out because we would have to move from the simple ticking of boxes to ensure right doctrine, to the simple ticking of boxes to ensure holy living. And since I am not a holy person and sin often I would be cast out.
But the Church is not like that, and Christ is not like that, even while it is an historical fact that re-incarnation is not and has never been accepted as being part of the Christian faith.
In Christianity, certainly that of the British Orthodox Church, re-incarnation is not accepted as compatible with the Gospel because it denies the unique value of each person made especially by God to be in relationship with Him. It also denies the unique work of the incarnate Word in salvation because it denies that faith in Christ brings us to life with God in eternity, on the contrary it teaches us that we need to go round again and again, hopefully getting better as we do.
Christianity teaches us that we cannot ever get better enough!
It is a different Gospel than the one we so thankfully embrace. The Good News for us is that despite our weakness, our sinfulness, our regular failings, Christ chooses to make His home in our hearts, to unite us with God and to transform our unique being so that as far as is humanly possible we can share in the divine life.
There is no scope for re-incarnation in such an understanding because our unique personhood is of etrenal value to God, such that He became incarnate, suffered, died and rose again for ME - this ME typing here. And even though I live a weak life that brings Him no glory, and even though given a million lives I would not improve, nevertheless He calls ME - this ME - brother and son and friend.
I am of such value to Him, and you are, and each one of us is. He made us ONCE to be in relationship with Him. It is just not part of the Christian hope that having failed in this life we start again as some other person. Because it denies that the incarnate Christ has saved us at all.
We would have to posit that after coming into relationship with me and offering me eternal life with Him as a gift and not based on any merit of my own, and after starting to see some growth in my life with Him, this is all swept away and some other person linked to me in some way starts all over again.
This denies the unique value of each one of us in God's eyes, and makes the salvation offered by Christ to be meaningless. So it is incompatible with Christianity.
I would suggest, and others, especially clergy should correct me, that you not worry so much about what might make someone in or out of the British Orthodox Church. They let me stay! But of course there are boundaries to the faith that are there for our spiritual health. The catechumenate is the place to work through some of these issues, that is entirely what it is there for. As folk have said elsewhere, just as we are not expected to be perfect when beginning, or ending, the catechumenate, so, especially at the beginning of the catechumenate, we are not expected to have dealt with every doubt, qualm and obstacle to faith.
Today as I was driving to work I was moved by the readings in Our Daily Life, as I often am. The short verse said..
Quote:Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and he will direct thy paths.
I am myself struggling with various issues, not least, badly behaved children, moody colleagues at work, and an exhausted spouse. All of which leave me frustrated if not angry. And this morning I was asking God what He was doing when I was trying to serve Him, and then I read this verse.
Does this mean I should switch my brain off? I don't think so. But it does teach me not to expect to understand everything that is taking place at a particular time in my life, nor to expect to have all the answers to every question.
This would be my counsel to you. Park this issue, and others which you raise, keep them somewhere in your mind where they can be discussed as appropriate, and they will need to be discussed and considered. But do not let them stand in the way of trusting God. He promises to make things clear, in the end, and even if the path is difficult, but He will make things as clear as we need. And in the end, when it is still unclear, we have faith. Not blind faith, but faith in a person, our heavenly Father, whom we grow to trust more and more as a reasonable response to our existence, and as we experience His loving care in and through our lives and the lives of others.
Likewise in the passage we read today in ODL from Abba Nestoros, he teaches us that we do not find life in Christ through miracles, and I will add through knowledge and human understanding, but through humble love, of God and of others and of ourselves.
You, yourself, Mark Fletcher, are precious to God, and to many of us here who see God at work in you. That being so it is our constant prayer and desire that you, yourself, in this life and no other, find Him and are transformed by Him into the unique person He has made you to be.
All of your questions are completely fair and valid and necessary. But in the end God is a unique person as you are a unique person, and the Christian life is lived in that meeting of the human with the Divine. So trust Him and He will work things out.
Sorry to ramble on, and I will try to read up a bit more on the topics you raise.
Best wishes and continuing prayers
Marian Munt - Mark Fletcher - 23-03-2007
My reason for asking the question is that this issue concerns my friend Marian Munt. She believes in reincarnation.
For the record, I have no belief in any sort of continuity of consciousness after death. I believe that "when you're dead, you're dead."
As she has no intention whatsoever of changing her mind on this issue, perhaps you could advise me on whether she is welcome at St. Alban's, Chatham or not. If not, then she will not attend again.
Reincarnation - John Charmley - 23-03-2007
Dear Mark,
Only Fr. Michael and Peter can answer as to whether Marian would be welcome; but I would be utterly astonished if she were not.
As Peter has so rightly said, we all fall short. My own wife, Rachael, is inclined to believe in reincarnation, and still highly disinclined to believe in One God; Fr. Tony makes her welcome whenever she wishes to come to St. Felix with me.
One of the many things that I have found attractive about the BOC is its spirit of welcome to any one who is searching; I have yet to come across anyone who is not happy to discuss things with those who have questions; and we all recognize that sometime, our answers are not those which the questioner wants; and even if we think they may be what is needful, we keep quiet and respect the views of others.
In the end, His will is done, and He does not need our advice; which is as well, as we'd not be much use; and yet He loves us still.
In Christ,
- admin - 23-03-2007
Dear Mark
As I hope is clear to you from what you know of us, Marian would always be welcome to worship with us, or visit, or whatever she feels comfortable calling being with us at Chatham.
When we make any of our visitors welcome it is not with the thought that they might be potential converts, but with the thought that they are already and always precious to God, our Father, and therefore should be precious to us.
Were Marian a Buddhist, or a Hindu, an Atheist or as she in fact is, a person who has been on her own spiritual journey which leads her to where she is now, she could not be more welcome.
Best wishes and continuing prayers
Thanks - Mark Fletcher - 23-03-2007
Many thanks for your encouraging and loving postings. I have passed the glad tidings on to Her Muntiness, and she is pleased that this is so. She very much wants to continue attending regularly as she found the last occasion a very positive and blessed one. Thanks again.
Love - John Charmley - 23-03-2007
Dear Mark,
I am glad to read the last two posts.
Can I add this from the first letter of St. Clement to the Corinthians (late 1st century A.D.):
Quote:Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who
There is much love here for you both.
In Christ,
- Paul Harrison - 12-04-2007
Originally posted by Fr Gregory:
Quote: Thus, if I teach that all will be saved, I teach heresy. If I say that I hope that, in the fullness of time and the infinite love and mercy of God, all may be saved, my teaching is Orthodox.
As a former universalist, I have come to agree that the Orthodox doctrine on this matter must be right. In his book "The Orthodox Church", +Kallistos Ware expresses it the same way. A complete universalism both denies human free will and God's right to judge. Yet in keeping with what Fr Gregory writes, none of us would, in my opinion, be much as Christians, if we didn't hold that "pious hope" that all may be saved.
Reincarnation is a much more difficult matter for a potential Christian in that it is in no way compatible with Christian teaching. Apart from the teachings of the Eastern religions, Jewish kabbalists affirm a belief in it. Yet mainstream Rabbinic Judaism shares with Christianity a belief in the resurrection of the dead in a glorified version of the earthly body. There's no room for reincarnation within Christianity.
In Christ


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Professional Baby
Fire department lieutenant Skip Panettiere and wife Lesley, a former soap actress, start their 8-month-old daughter Hayden in modeling. Three months later, she lands her first acting gig in a Playskool toy train commercial. Panettiere appears in dozens of commercials, pitching everything from McDonald's to Hershey's to Nix Lice Shampoo.
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Led by her manager-mom Lesley, a 4-year-old Panettiere gets her feet wet in soaps. She appears in ABC's One Life to Live until 1997 (pictured with costar Tyler Noyes), then plays Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light until 2000. During that time, she also voices the characters of Dot in the animated film A Bug's Life and Suri in Dinosaur.
- 2000
The Go-To Daughter
Panettiere plays the enthusiastic daughter of a football coach in Disney's Remember the Titans, starring Denzel Washington and she takes home the Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Supporting Young Actress. The following year, she plays Tim Allen's daughter in Joe Somebody and Calista Flockhart's daughter in Fox's Ally McBeal.
- 2003
Staying in South Africa
After completing the eighth grade, Panettiere opts for home-schooling and spends five months in South Africa shooting – and riding zebras – for her latest role as a young jockey in the Babe-esque Racing Stripes. After shooting, Panettiere decides to spend the rest of her freshman year in Africa. "It was definitely eye-opening, seeing shantytowns," she tells USA Today. "It makes you thankful for what you have, but at the same time you admire how simple life is in other places."
- 2004
Raising Hayden
Panettiere, 14, nabs her first teen role as Kate Hudson's rebellious niece, Audrey, in Raising Helen. Panettiere's character smokes, drinks and dates a "bad boy" after her parents' death. That same year, she plays a figure skater opposite Michelle Trachtenberg in Disney's Ice Princess. "My mom used to be an actress; she's my coach," she tells the L.A. Times. "She didn't think it would go this far. Now I am at the point where nobody is making me do what I am doing. And I couldn't imagine doing something else."
- 2005
Too Young for Paris
After signing on as the latest face of cosmetics and skin care brand Neutrogena, Panettiere, 16, is photographed partying and dancing with celebutante Paris Hilton, 24. She rebuffs predictions that she'll become the next hard-partying Hollywood ingénue. "Paparazzi will take pictures of me coming out of a club, and they'll say I'm partying, that I'm drinking underage at a place I'm not supposed to be," she tells USA Today in 2007. "But they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about."
- 2006
Her MTV Romance
Panettiere, 17, begins dating Laguna Beach alum and MTV VJ Stephen Colletti, 20, but refuses to comment on their relationship. "We try to keep our personal lives separate because when you put something like that out there, it allows people to form their own opinions about it or rip it apart," she tells teen magazine Girls' Life.
Save the Cheerleader…
Panettiere is cast as an indestructible high school cheerleader in the new NBC sci-fi series, Heroes. "[The show] just sort of plopped in my lap," Panettiere tells Vanity Fair. "I was walking out of a general meeting with NBC, and they were like, 'Oh, hey, by the way, read this [script]'...And I read it, and it was amazing." In 2007, her performance as the all-American, self-healing Claire Bennet earns her a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series by a Supporting Young Actress.
- 2007
Hero Worship
After the mega success of Heroes' first season (the show averages more than 14 million viewers each week), Panettiere becomes TV's latest "It" girl. The young star is also named one of PEOPLE's 100 Most Beautiful, listed as Entertainment Weekly's No.1 "Stars We Love," and makes her debut on Forbes' Celebrity 100 power list at No. 98.
Panettiere's Marine Life Activism
A video captures Panettiere and six other activists from the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd paddling on surfboards out into a cove in the town of Taiji in southwestern Japan, in an attempt to interfere with a dolphin hunt. "I feel the need to be a voice of worthy and important causes whose efforts impact the lives of every person on Earth," the 18-year-old actress says. Despite the fact that an arrest warrant is issued in Japan for Panettiere, she continues her activism in January when she speaks out at a Washington, D.C., demonstration that called for a stop to whale hunting.
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BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): ABC; Everett Collection; Touchtone Beacon; Chris Wolf/Flynet; Ramey; NBC; Splash News Online
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- Hayden Panettiere
- Date of Birth
- August 21, 1989
- Birth Place
- Palisades, N.Y.
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Wladimir Klitschko, fiancé (2010 to present; off and on)
Scotty McKnight (ex-boyfriend, 2011 to 2012)
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Commissioners voted at this week's meeting to hire The Fedeli Group of Independence near Cleveland to replace the Morris Financial Group of Salem, which had served as the county's insurance broker for the past nine years.
Fedeli will be paid the same as Morris - $25,000 per year - and 15 percent of any savings. Commissioner Jim Hoppel said the decision to switch was recommended by the county's insurance committee, which consists of department heads and employees. Four companies were interviewed, including Morris.
"They felt they just wanted to change and see what was possible with the new group," Hoppel said.
Fedeli will stick with the county's insurance carrier - Anthem - when shopping around for new coverage.
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The problem became so acute that commissioners were forced to take money out of the county budget several times a year to shore up the insurance fund. Commissioners provided an additional $512,977 to the insurance fund in 2010 and $658,157 last year.
The situation has improved significantly this year, with commissioners only providing $94,473 in additional funding for the insurance fund through September. The average monthly cost has dropped from $482,072 last year to $345,418 in 2012 - a decline of 29 percent.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - A man convicted in the 1987 murder of a local resident will spend at least another nine years in prison after being denied release by the Ohio Parole Board.
Robert A. Carpenter, now 49, is serving a term of 15 years to life on murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges in the death of Kevin Burks, 24, who was lured from his grandmother's house in the city by Carpenter and his co-defendants David Lee Hudson, Peter Martin and Billy Wayne Smith.
They drove him to a remote location in Brush Creek Township in Jefferson County, where he was tortured, stabbed and shot then finally killed by having his throat slashed.
Carpenter, also 24 at the time, maintained during the subsequent arrest and trials that he had not taken part in Burks' torture or murder but that he was too afraid of his cohorts to stop them or tell anyone later about what had happened.
He later turned state's evidence against his co-defendants, resulting in a lesser sentence for Carpenter than the others received.
During a parole hearing Feb. 21, Burks' sisters, Jackie Hicks and Jennifer Hicks presented their reasons for why their brother's killer should not be set free after serving 25 years.
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EAST LIVERPOOL While the family of Kevin Burks is pleased with the Ohio Parole Board's decision to keep one of his killers in prison, defendant Robert Carpenter's step-daughter said he is haunted every day by the crime that has kept him behind bars long enough.
Burks' sisters Jennifer and Jacqueline Hicks testified before the parole board Feb. 21, as did Carpenter's step-daughter Crystal Horan, who participated from Florida via video conference.
His sisters had launched a petition drive to convince the board that Carpenter should remain locked up at the Southern Correctional Institution in Mansfield following his conviction in 1987 for murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery.
Horan, on the other hand, spoke to the board about her father's failing health since he's been incarcerated and also about his attempt to become a productive citizen during those 25 years.
This week, the Hicks twins said they were grateful to the parole board and especially to those people who signed petitions on their brother's behalf.
"We are extremely happy and relieved with the parole board's decision. Our grateful appreciation to the board," Jennifer said.
Throughout the trials of the four defendants, Burks' murder was described as racially motivated, with testimony given that the four white men set out to find a black person the night of the killing. Failing to find that specific man, they set their sites on Burks.
However, Horan said the crime was never racially-motivated, that her step-father is not a racist and, in fact, accepted bi-racial dating and children in the family.
"I know that, at first, the 'n' word was used (the night of the murder), but I know that would never come out of my dad's mouth," Horan said in a phone conversation with the paper this week.
Jennifer Hicks disagreed, saying, "Our family never made this a racial issue. Peter Martin, David Hudson, Billy Wayne Smith and Robert Carpenter did when they murdered a man for the color of his skin."
Horan said her father is not like his co-defendants, against whom he testified.
"I don't know why they keep saying he's like the other three. Even the plea agreement said he wasn't the perpetrator. Even the letter Sheriff (Fred) Abdalla gave to the parole board said he wasn't the perpetrator but just that he didn't do anything to help," Horan said, adding, "He would have been body number two for them if he had tried to make them stop. He did tell them to stop, it had gone too far. He lives every single day with the haunting thought of not helping Kevin Burks. Every day, he's probably thought about what he could have done differently."
But Burks' sisters don't agree, with Jennifer saying, "It was a self-serving act (for Carpenter to offer evidence against the others). He didn't do anything to save my brother's life. He gave my brother a life sentence without a trial, per se, and he should get the same."
Jacqueline agreed, saying, "This person knew my brother's life was going to end, and for that I am glad he will never see freedom. Kevin has no voice, so ... I will speak for him and make sure justice will always be served in his name."
Horan said her father signed a plea bargain giving him 15 years to life, but that his lack of education - and the ability to read and write well - may have led him to believe it said something else.
She maintained that, though the written agreement does state that, he was told verbally if he testified against the others, he would serve only eight years and nine months.
"Abdalla told my mom my dad did the right thing. I remember him saying, 'Your daddy will be out before you're in high school,'" Horan recalled.
In tears, she said, "He really thought this was the time he'd be released. He was afraid to call home (after the board denied his parole), thinking we'd given up on him."
Carpenter suffered a heart attack in 2004 and two more the week of the parole hearing, according to Horan.
"He's not in the best of health," she said.
During his incarceration, her father has earned his GED, completed anger management classes, attended Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous and learned different trades, according to Horan.
Although the Hicks sisters said previously that, unlike his co-defendant David Hudson, Carpenter had never written a letter of apology for his deeds, Horan said it came out during the parole hearing that he had, in fact, written such a letter as part of one of his classes in prison.
She could not explain why Burks' sisters had never seen the letter, saying perhaps it went to his mother, who is now deceased.
"It was a hard letter to write for him," Horan said.
Asked if she thinks her step-father regrets his part in the crime, she said without hesitation, "Absolutely. He's haunted by it every day," saying he has "totally changed" since his incarceration, going from a 24-year-old partier who liked to drink and do drugs into a 49-year-old man who attends church and reads the Bible.
"He's not this young punk now who thinks about drugs every day. He's gotten into trouble once in 25 years, for having a lighter," Horan said.
And, while Burks' sisters and his late mother have often talked about the loss of their brother and son, Horan said, "Kevin Burks' family wasn't the only one who lost someone that night. I feel I'm losing mine, too."
She also took issue with current prosecutor Jane Hanlin testifying against her father at the parole hearing, saying, "She was 17 when this happened; she had nothing to do with this case."
A phone call to Hanlin for comment was not returned.
Jennifer and Jacqueline will speak about the impact their brother's death had on their family during a Black History Month presentation at 6 p.m. Saturday at the United Brethren Church in Pleasant Heights.
Through his step-daughter, Carpenter was invited to call with comments for this article, but Horan said his attorney advised against it.
Carpenter had reportedly been recommended for release, but the parole board can stop that release any time up to and including the day of release if "significant new information" is received.
After hearing all the information presented, which included testimony from Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin and a letter from Sheriff Fred Abdalla, the board denied Carpenter's parole.
According to information obtained by the media from the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, the board reached a majority decision to detain Carpenter until Sept. 1, 2022, when he will again be eligible for parole.
"The board finds that, given the significant impact to the victim's family and the details surrounding the offense, including the crime's callousness and senselessness, release at this time would not further the interest of justice and would demean the seriousness of the offense," the board wrote in its decision.
Members based their decision on two criteria: That there is substantial reason to believe Carpenter will engage in further criminal conduct if released or will not conform to the conditions of release and that there is substantial reason to believe that, due to the serious nature of the crime, releasing Carpenter into society would create "undue risk to public safety" or would not further the interest of justice or be consistent with the welfare and security of society.


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The 71-year-old actor and longtime partner Brad Altman, 54, received a marriage license from the City of West Hollywood on Tuesday morning, becoming one of the first gay Californians to obtain a license since the state Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriages last month.
"We are first and foremost beyond delighted!" an ecstatic Takei told PEOPLE minutes after he obtained the license. "It's a landmark day."
Just days after the California ruling, Takei announced his plans to marry Altman, his partner of 21 years. The couple plan to wed on September 14 in front of family and friends, including some of Takei's Star Trek cast mates.
Immediately after obtaining their marriage license, "I started singing 'One Singular Sensation,'" Takei said. "(Brad) said 'I love you' and I looked at him and said, 'I love you.'"
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ASP.NET MVC is an alternative framework to build web applications which focuses on testability, flexibility and separation of concerns. Watch how the person behind the actual implementation of ASP.NET MVC give you a tour of the features both in the first release and upcoming version 2.0.
Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, and manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development.
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I can really see the "Areas" really being used on large-scale projects. To quickly authorize an entire controller say for an Admin side of a site is really cool as well. Also, <%= Html.EnableClientValidation() %> I can see coming in handling and editing content in either a CMS or for forms (social website registration).
I am truly loving this framework. Keep up the good work at MS.
I always enjoy it when Scott Guthrie presents something. Now if anyone could help me persuade my bosses to redo their site with MVC, I'd appreciate it
It's a shame that none of the video downloads work.
I would have loved to watch this on the commute home.
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What a great presentation. Scott Guthrie is a genious. Now I know how MVC works. Thank you.
Very good presentation!!
I have been using ASP.NET MVC from its very first Preview. It has improved a lot from then.
Specially the templates. I like the new ways to generate controllers and views.
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A British band who, in the 80s and then the 90s, helped to start and then define grindcore music. They are still generally regarded as the genres primogenitors. Grind is basically short and fast, with very sludgy guitars and bass and shouty/growly vocals. Short in the extreme sense - Napalm Death's best known record, 1987's Scum, contained 28 tracks in 33 minutes, the longest being just over 2 minutes, and the shortest being 4 seconds. Because of these aspects, grind has obviously never really gotten through to the mainstream. Napalm Death are still going today (Feb 2004).
Napalm Death? Yeah, I've heard them...they're fucking strange. Bloody heavy though!
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amazing grindcore band, they are the actual invetors of grincore since the drummer on both sides of the scum album was the first to use the word.
they don't have really brutal lyrics but the sound they create is brutal.
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they don't have really brutal lyrics but the sound they create is brutal.
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i was listening to napalm death and thought i was being hit with a hammer!
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Amazing grindcore band. One of the first of the kind. Have influenced many other bands.
death metal has brutal/sick lyrics. napalm death might not have brutal lyrics, but, like my friend says... Listening to them is like getting smashed in the face with a sledgehammer!
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The best, most awesome band on the face of the earth.
Napalm Death Rules!
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You could've chosen better words than "awesome". It makes you sound like a pansy.
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1.1 This specification covers nickel-coated, soft or annealed, round copper wire for use in electrical equipment.
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Very interesting subject ! Where can I get a video or/ and white paper of this session?
Thank you very much for your support
Was also wondering if there is going to be support for native mobile Silverlight/WPF applications that run outside of the web-browser or will support be added through an embedded WebBrowser control?
Would be nice to see mobile OEM's supporting hardware acceleration of both Silverlight and DirectX mobile to enable a very rich interactive user experience.
How about a little background on how this will run on the Symbian Phone? How are you getting round the use of the compact framework?
It's already the end of January 09. Where's the CTP? A word of advice... invest less on pro-Vista ads and more on the developers who can convince their employers that solutions like Silverlight are cost-effective to create, deploy and support. For the past 4 years, I've passed on using WM because it has been missing something like Silverlight 2. Primarily for finger-touch applications. And now, my users (thousands) all use other mobile OSes. I am puzzled at the fact that MS doesn't understand that developers have a huge influence on the market, albeit one organization at a time. Wake up... release the CTP ASAP!
Now it's June and I still cannot find the Silverlight for Windows Mobile CTP.... where can I find it ?
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Sometimes you just need a little help. And sometimes you simply don't know where to turn.
For Summerville residents this summer, the answer came in the form of a team of teenagers from across the state, each of whom chose to spend part of their summer vacation giving back.
The teens are the Salkehatchie Youth and their mission is to serve the people of South Carolina. And serve them they do.
The Salkehatchie Summer Service sends South Carolina youth – high school and college – across the state to help others. In fact, you can't stay in your own community, you must choose another community.
The United Methodist Church sponsors this outreach and has done so for years.
This summer, about 10 families in the Summerville area benefited from their largesse.
On a bright sunny morning last week, the sound of hammers drifted through the neighborhood on Wassamassaw Street.
At one house, 10 young people and their two adult leaders, were busy completing work on Harriet Simmons' home.
The youngsters had already replaced rotted floor joists in two bedrooms, painted the outside of the house and were busy finishing off the floors in the bedrooms. One of the bedrooms belongs to Antwanasia, Simmons' granddaughter, who is seven. With a shy smile, Antwanasia shows off her new bedroom floor.
Simmons sits quietly in the living room with a smile on her face as activity bustles around her.
"They are a blessing," said Simmons. "I don't get around much, and don't get to talk with them much but they are beautiful kids, and very well-mannered."
"Aaron Brown told us about the camp and we applied," explained Simmons. "And, they are building me a ramp in the back!"
The ramp will enable Simmons to get in and out of her home easily.
Down the street, a handful of teens are busy putting a new roof on Sylena Hill's home. Hill lives there with two of her children, BJ, 8, and Byaijah, 10.
Byaijah is sound asleep, exhausted, said Hill, from helping out.
BJ is bopping around helping and grinning.
"I just love it," said Hill. "I spent yesterday crying. I have had problems for a long time and couldn't get anyone to help me."
Hill is walking gingerly, using a cane, while her knee heals from recent surgery. Hill tells how her heat/AC broke a couple of years ago and how she and her children live without either.
"In the winter we share a bedroom to stay warm."
"For someone to come and do this for me," she said, her eyes filling, "is a blessing."
Unfortunately, repair of the heat/AC is not on the list this summer, but Hill is getting a new roof. One look at the roof and it is clear it is sorely needed. The particleboard that lies under the shingles is rotted through. So Hill will get a new roof, which will eliminate the need for "all those buckets" she said. She is also getting a new floor in a bedroom and new plumbing.
"I thank God every day," she said, "I am so glad they came into my life."
Hill said she is also thankful that the teens are teaching her kids. "They make my kids feel so comfortable."
"They talk about school, and BJ is up early every morning waiting for them to get here. He is so happy.
"It's fun!" said BJ.
"They came in like they were family, and I am so happy, so thankful," added Hill.
So what do the teens get out of all this?
"It's a lot of fun," said Austin Poole, 16, of Duncan. "We get to connect with the homeowners, get to know them and a lot will help with the work."
Sixteen-year-old Austin Carver, of Greenwood, said "Helping the homeowners is a good feeling," and Katelyn Miller, 19, of Greenwood quickly added "We are spreading God's word."
"Salkehatchie Summer Service is a pioneering servant ministry at selected sites in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia involving high school- and college-age youth, adult community leaders and persons of different cultures in upgrading housing, motivating community cooperative efforts by helping persons to help themselves and providing all participants with opportunities for personal growth and service."
So reads the Salkehatchie application form which is long, involved and requires references.
Yet many of these young people come back year after year. Miller is back for her fifth year. This is Poole's third year.
The Summerville program is run by Marty Gunter, of North Charleston, and sponsored by the Bethany United Methodist Church in Summerville. Other area churches feed the group during the week they are here. They sleep on the floor at Bethany Church. This is the 10th year that Summerville has had the program.
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Sally Northcroft, who lettered in field hockey at Ball State from 1996-1999, was inducted into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame as part of Tuesday night's MAC Honors Dinner at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel.
Along with Northcroft, the 2014 induction class included Charlie Coles (Miami/Central Michigan, men's basketball), Judy Devine (Kent State, administration), Harry Houska (Ohio, wrestling), Jim Lessig (MAC/Bowling Green, administration), Caroline Mullen-Kearney (Western Michigan, women's track and cross country) and Joe Novak (Northern Illinois, football).
Northcroft finished her career as the school and MAC leader in career goals (126) and career points (270), while ranking third among NCAA all-time leaders in both categories. During her career, Northcroft helped Ball State to a 64-21 overall record and a 42-4 Conference record.
Northcroft was named first-team All-America (1998-1999), MAC Player of the Year (1998-1999), All-Midwest/West Regional First Team (1998-1999), first-team All-MAC (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999), GTE Fall/Winter All-District (1998). She won the NCAA Today's Top VIII Award (1999-2000) and the Honda Award (1999-2000).
Northcroft led the nation in goals scored (52), total points (107) and scoring average (5.09) as a senior in 1999. She set the NCAA Division I record for goals in a single season with 52 goals in 1999 and during that season registered multiple goals in 15 of 21 contests.
Northcroft was President of the Ball State's Student-Athlete Advisory Board, represented the school at the NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference and was a volunteer for Habitat For Humanity, Big Brother/Big Sister, Meals on Wheels and various literacy programs in local elementary schools.
During her collegiate career, she also garnered multiple academic accomplishments, including being named to the GTE Academic All-America Fall/Winter Team (1999-2000), Academic All-MAC First Team (1997-1998) and the National Academic Team (1996-98).
Northcroft graduated with a 3.58 GPA with a degree in physical education in 1999 and was also inducted to the Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010.
Ball State's previous inductees into the MAC Hall of Fame include Ray McCallum (basketball, inducted 1988), Shafer Sugs (football, inducted 1989), Ken Kremer (football, inducted 1991), Maurice Harvey (football, inducted 1992), John Pruis (President, inducted 1994), Karen Fitzpatrick (field hockey, inducted 2012) and Brad Maynard (football, inducted 2013).
The MAC Hall of Fame was approved by the MAC Council of Presidents in 1987. The charter class was inducted in 1988 and subsequent classes were added in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994. After six induction classes, the MAC Hall of Fame maintained 52 members until it was reinstated in May of 2012. This year's class brings the number of MAC Hall of Fame inductees to 72 individuals from nine classes.


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Newly regenerated Doctor's scar?
Sorry if I'm behind everyone else in noticing this (& I am on the U.S. schedule btw) but during VOV I noticed for the 1st time a very visible scar along Matt Smith's hairline. I wonder if that' s a reason that his hair usually covers that spot? How does a newly regenerated Doctor have a scar?;)


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Barbequed meat on the carcass, typically pork, as with a pig roast. Roast beast is usually slow cooked on a spit over an open flame.
The bikers constructed a fire pit, what with to cook the roast beast.
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Creature known from the Dr. Seuss story "How the Grinch stole Christmas", where it's purpose is pretty much the same as the (poor) Christmas turkey - to be eaten.
In the motion-picture by Ron Howard and with Jim Carrey as the Grinch, it seems to have eight legs.
In the motion-picture by Ron Howard and with Jim Carrey as the Grinch, it seems to have eight legs.
And he... ...HE HIMSELF...! The Grinch carved the roast beast!
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what i write down in my book when people order roast beef at work.
that dude at table 313 wants the fancy fixins roast beast dinner.
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An incredibly disgusting vagina. Beyond repulsive. It may break your cock off.
Don't fuck with that roast beast.
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same as roast beef.
describing loose vagina lips.
her cooter was like roast beast
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