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October 5, 2010
CONTACT: DRC Bureau of Communications
Clemency Hearing Scheduled for Death Row Inmate Sidney Cornwell #340-473
(Columbus) – The Ohio Parole Board will conduct a death penalty clemency hearing for inmate Sidney Cornwell, #340-473, on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, beginning at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be held at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) Central Office location at 770 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Inmate Sidney Cornwell was convicted out of Mahoning County for the 1996 murder of Jessica Ballew. He is scheduled for execution on November 16, 2010.
Any media wishing to attend the clemency hearing should contact the DRC Bureau of Communications at (614) 752-1150, no later than Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
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From North:
Take I-71 South to exit 109A; merge onto I-670 West. Take exit 2A to merge onto OH-315 South. Take US 40/Broad Street exit, and then turn right on West Broad Street.
From South:
Take I-71 North to OH-315 North. Take the US-62/Rich Street/OH-3 exit toward Town Street. Merge onto South Sandusky Street. Turn left at West Town Street. Turn right at South Green Street. Turn right at South Davis Avenue. Turn right at West Broad Street.
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Take I-70 West to Exit 101A; merge onto I-71 North toward Cleveland. Take exit 109A on the left to merge onto I-670 West. Take exit 2A to merge onto OH-315 South. Take the US-40/Broad Street exit. Turn right on West Broad Street.
Take I-70 East, to I-670 East. Take exit 2A to US-33. Continue toward OH-315 South and merge onto OH-315 South. Take the US-40/Broad Street exit and turn right on West Broad Street.


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In order to discover potential issues with HA Cluster early, all nodes in the Cluster should be monitored on regular basis using the following techniques:
Broker log files scrapping for WARN or ERROR entries and operational log entries like:
MST-1007 : Store Passivated. It can indicate that Master virtual host has gone down.
MST-1006 : Recovery Complete. It can indicate that a former Replica virtual host is up and became the Master.
Disk space usage and system load using system tools.
Berkeley HA node status using
DbPing utility.
Example 13.4. Using
DbPing utility for monitoring HA nodes.
Current state of node: Node-5001 from group: TestClusterGroup Current state: MASTER Current master: Node-5001 Current JE version: 5.0.97 Current log version: 8 Current transaction end (abort or commit) VLSN: 165 Current master transaction end (abort or commit) VLSN: 0 Current active feeders on node: 0 Current system load average: 0.35
In the example above
DbPing utility requested status of Cluster node with name
Node-5001 from replication group TestClusterGroup running on host localhost:5001.
The state of the node was reported into a system output.
Using Qpid broker JMX interfaces.
BDBHAMessageStore can be used to request the following node information:
NodeState indicates whether node is a Master or Replica.
Durability replication durability.
DesignatedPrimary indicates whether Master node is designated primary.
GroupName replication group name.
NodeName node name.
NodeHostPort node host and port.
HelperHostPort helper host and port.
AllNodesInGroup lists of all nodes in the replication group including their names, hosts and ports.
For more details about
BDBHAMessageStore MBean please refer section Qpid JMX API for HA
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Simplifying the so-called 'gun control' issue
April 25, 2013
Congratulations! The splendid Journal letter by Thomas Fleming of Martinsburg seems to resolve the issue of American marriage once and for all. He is totally correct....
Yes, us normal citizens have as much of a right to be armed as Ranger Smith at Jellystone Park has. When one of the many suicidal WV deer ran into my car, I used a Glock to end its misery. One big reason I keep a gun with me when driving is that I don't like to see animals suffer.
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I think park rangers should be armed, because bad guys don't avoid visiting our national parks. Just like they don't avoid visiting public schools, movie theaters that are showing Batman movies, and shopping malls. And residences. If I were employed by the Park Service, I'd want to be armed. Forest rangers sometimes stumble upon a paranoid pot grower's stash, with violent results. Heck yeah I'd want to be armed.
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I see contradictions in the thinking of people who claim that gun safety training is the solution to plague of violent gun crimes that supposedly plagues the USA. Do we REALLY want the psychos to be MORE accurate & MORE proficient when they're aiming at us? I say, the less they know about guns, the better, since if they have no training, they won't be able to make the gun work when it jams, & if they DO shoot, they will miss us. If they don't know gun safety, they might even shoot themselves & solve the problem right there, Darwin-Award style. Remember the liberals' demand to ban "cheap, unreliable, inaccurate Saturday Night Special" pistols because they were "the gun of choice by criminals"? ? I replied "WHY? That'd be the kind of gun I'd WANT criminals to have, 'cause it would lessen the odds of them HITTING the good guy they're aiming at." In fact, if we must pass laws, I'd support a law REQUIRING that criminals only have unreliable, inaccu
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Is the word "community" losing its meaning? | Opensource.com
Is the word "community" losing its meaning?
Poor words. As they get more popular, as we give them more love, we also keep trying to shove in new meaning to see if they can take it.
In the technology industry, this happens over and over. Take "cloud computing," which used to mean something pretty specific and now means essentially "on the Internet" as far as I can tell. Outside the technology industry, take "news," which also used to mean something, and now is a muddy mess of news/editorial/advertising.
We've even been accused of muddying the term "open source" here on opensource.com (a debate I love to have—there are smart opinions on both sides: protect the core vs. extend the audience).
So when I read a recent post by Gartner analyst Brian Prentice entitled Defining & Defending The Meaning Of "Community" – An Open Source Imperative, I was familiar with the lens he was looking through already.
Brian's argument? According to his post, community used to mean "a collection of people whose defining characteristic is shared participation." I might add "and a common purpose or vision."
But now the word community is often being used to refer to any ol' collection of people. From the article:
"This is exactly where things are starting to get unstuck. Increasingly it is fashionable to use to the term community to represent the sum total of all relationships a company has..."
He has a point. Many companies talk about their community of customers, partners, developers, etc. But in reality, how many of these cases actually describe communities using the definition above? Do these communities really have shared participation and a common purpose?
In many cases they don't. There are two simple tests you should consider using to tell whether a group of people is a community or... well... just a group of people.
1) Do the members of the community work with each other or just with the company?
2) Do the members of the community share a common vision or purpose?
If the answer to either of these questions is no, I'm not sure I'd call it a community.
One more point: those who've been following my posts for a while know I often take issue with the idea of companies forming communities with themselves at the center (read more here, here, and here).
My view is companies doing things the open source way will become humble members of communities rather than building communities around themselves. The distinction is subtle, but important. So I become a bit skeptical any time a company talks about "their" community.
What do you think? Is the word community in danger of losing its meaning? And if so, what should we do about it? I'd love to hear your ideas.
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I think of open source communities as software-domain specific examples of "communities of practice" -- a term coined by sociologist Etienne Wenger, whom I consider to be a sort of undiscovered patron saint of community development. His work was definitely influential in the writing of The Open Source Way (https://www.theopensourceway.org/).
There's no way to reclaim the word "community", of course. We can only work to define it in specific contexts.
The Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice) is actually a great summary, and well-annotated. I wonder if Wenger wrote it himself. :)
Since the first couple of families in prehistoric time
decided to share some territory there have been
problems with groups of people.
Communities are tricky. Utopian communities,
intentional communities, Hippie communes,
religious, agrarian, software, hardware, or any
other group of people working together.
Group efforts take a skill set that is not part of
most of our lives. The job of community is as
hard as if not harder than whatever task the
community was formed to deal with.
Because of the power a community has, it is
worth the effort, always.
Thanks for your inspiration this morning, I'm now working on my own blog to build off some of your queries at: http://communitycomposers.wordpress.com/
Maybe a community could be defined as group of social animals that "CLEARLY" understands their relationship to each other.
Can a community exist without mutual understanding of the definition?
To me 'open source' means free software. Wordpress is the best free open source software around. I tsure bears paying Microsoft for some crash prone program.


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Plus it gives a chance for the women to wear some really great 20s, Downton-esque fashion. The men, alas, will probably stick to tails. But, as they would say on Project Runway, it's "on trend"!
Were Virtue/Moir performing a few seconds of the Finnstep in this exhibition (Skate Canada 2007), starting at approx. 2:50?
(Sorry, I tried to cue up the video to the right time with the link above, but something is not working properly.)
Thank you for the correct link, Mathman.
(Next time, I hope that I will get such a link right.)
Lively footwork! Now we can have a clean interpretation of the dance unlike this seasons polka that has been misinterpreted as country and western style.
Papadakis/Cizeron are going to be competing as a senior next season, according to Papadakis' Twitter.
Will any of the younger teams(A/E, P/C and maybe, S/B) be able to get level three or four for at least one of their Finnstep keypoints? Finnstep IMO seems to be much more difficult pattern dance than Blues..
The dance, for a CD is challenging, particularly the timing. P&C will have a relatively even playing field. Only teams who were at 2009 Europeans or 20090 4cc'S OR some of the European nationals in the 2008 - 2009 season have competed this dance.
I think the Finnstep will be great fun. It is also difficult to do those toe steps and a quick stop well. Looking forward to seeing this SD next season.
I think D/W and I/K might do well in finnstep
Off to H-Town with @MaiaShibutani! See you soon, @CorkyBallas!
5:20 AM - 30 Mar 13
Hmmmm ... wonder whether the Shibs will be working on their new SD or FD or both with Ballas.
And still curious about my earlier question, for which MM provided the link that works properly. (ETA: And yes, I was/am aware that V/M also later performed a full CD of Finnstep in competition. The point of my question is: did they by choice include a bit of Finnstep in their exhibition because they liked the feel of it?)
There's a Finnstep youtube channel. D/W and V/M both performed this dance in 2008-2009. They are capable. The newer teams will be more worried since they haven't done it before.
When the Shibs previously turned to Ballas, I think the rhumba SD was a focus. Don't remember whether he has helped them with other programs too.
Partly I'm wondering about the timing of the current rendezvous with Ballas.
- Is it possible that the Shibs already have a fully choreographed program (from Zoueva) for next season so soon after London Worlds? I suppose at the very least, they still could go ahead and get pointers from Ballas on the Finnstep.
- And does Ballas have any backstage role with DWTS? If so, seems that it could be demanding a lot of time and attention from him at the moment.


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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Louie's Kids announces the list of celebrities who will play in the third annual Slim Down the South Celebrity Softball Challenge. The event, which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 9 at Joe Riley Park, raises funds for Louie's Kids, the only not-for-profit organization in the United States helping identify treatment programs for overweight and obese children. This amazing "Field of Dreams" day at the ballpark wouldn't be possible without the participation and support of these national stars.
Meet the celebrities who have committed to fighting childhood obesity one run at a time:
Bill Murray, Comedian/Actor
Mark Bryan, Hootie & the Blowfish
Dean Felber, Hootie & the Blowfish
Eric Bass, Shinedown
Zach Myers, Shinedown
Gary Valentine, Comedian/Actor, "Chelsea Lately," "King of Queens"
Terry Serpico, Actor, "Army Wives"
Bubba Bryant, Actor, "Army Wives"
Paula Trickey, Actress, "Crimes of the Mind," "The OC," "Pacific Blue"
Sylvia Jefferies, Actress, "Nashville," "Eastbound and Down"
Elise Testone, Singer, "American Idol"
Corey Miller, NFL, NY Giants, USC
Langston Moore, NFL, Bengals, USC
Gettys Glaze, CoC Hall of Fame
Michael Kohn, MLB, LA Angels
Kevin Elster, MLB, NY Yankees, LA Dodgers
Hannah Curlee – Winner, "Biggest Loser"
Steve Azar, Singer/Songwriter
Patrick Davis, Singer/Songwriter
Carolyn Murray, News 2
Brendan Clark, News 2
Dean Stephens, News 4
Tessa Spencer, News 4
Jon Bruce, News 4
Tom Crawford, News 4
Raphael James, Fox Channel 5
Kelly Golden, 9.43 WSC FM
Brian Cleary, Y102.5 FM
"We're so grateful for the support of these celebrities," said Louis Yuhasz, founder of Louie's Kids. "The entire Louie's Kids organization appreciates their willingness to take time out of their busy schedules to help raise awareness of childhood obesity. This one softball game will help children all over the south combat obesity and improve their future, families and communities."
For more information on Louie's Kids or Slim Down the South, visit LouiesKids.org or SlimDowntheSouth.com.
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8 Words the Internet Loves to Confuse With Other Words
"This! This, my friends, is what we are fighting for!"
A principle is a basic truth or a guiding belief, and a principal is a dude that runs a school. These are very different things, so you'd think we could easily tell them apart, but no.
Well, of course not. If our political system was based on principals, our top issues would be "gum control", the right to skateboard on government property, and whether you have to wear a flag pin to prove you've got "spirit". Also, criminals would only have to go to jail for an hour after work. But they would have to call their parents.
It really is the basic principals that make sense to us simple folk. All those newfangled experimenting principals with their "magnet programs" and acronyms and "cooperative classroom designs" and having Jamie Oliver come in and cook healthy lunches - they are just confusing the hell out of our average American brains.
This is just mean. No matter how much you need to have your voice heard, this isn't the right way to do it.
"Principal" has some other meanings, one of which is "a sum of money." Standing on that would be a little kinder than standing on a school principal, but I think you might send some mixed messages.
OK, so you know what a hanger is. It is, as the name implies, something to hang things on. Like so:
So here's a really confusing news story. It starts out like this:
What? Environmental approval? Why?
Well, yeah, it's just a fucking coat hanger.
OK, that is a big coat hanger.
Obviously they meant "hangar," which is something airplanes are stored in. I guess you could store an airplane on a hanger too but it would need to be reaallllly big.
What do you supposed the hangers are hanging on?
"Tact" means the ability to sense what's OK to say in a social context, like checking the racial makeup in a room before you start making minstrel jokes. A "tack" is a pin for putting posters on walls, or gear for riding horses, or - and this is where it gets mixed up with tact - a way to change direction in sailing.
A sailor who is heading straight into a kraken's mouth might try "a different tack," to steer himself toward a not-kraken's-mouth somewhere. Somehow, people everywhere keep thinking the expression is "a different tact", possibly because they think "tact" is short for "tactic," and "a different tactic" makes sense. And a lot of the time, they're trying to fix a communication problem, so the word "tact" seems like it would be connected to fixing that somehow.
And that's why you get this everywhere:
Though that's the most common mixup of these words, it's a lot more fun the other way.
I like to think this poster is asking any critics of the actress to show their manhood, and at the same time implying it will be very small.
I guess it is like some kind of secret token you have to show to be accepted on that forum.
"That tack is much too big! You're an impostor!"
This bear is bare.
I would never dream of insulting you by explaining the difference between bare and bear. Third graders know this. Nevertheless, people mix them up all the damn time.
Take this story on an elementary school:
That just seems really inappropriate.
That seems like a subtle threat that employees who don't strip for their bosses might get fired. That is also inappropriate.
Clearly these three athletes are so well-endowed that if they were to strip at the same time, the world's eyes would explode.
Vanity Fair
Even the top halves of soccer players are pretty dangerous.
Yeah, it's hard enough to get a regular passenger to agree to a strip search, so I'm pretty sure a terrorist carrying an actual bomb would be hanging onto his clothes like a madman.
This mixup goes the other way and seems to imply that Ireland requires a certain number of bears in its government at all times.
I can understand not letting women show breasts in public, but not letting them even carry them out of the house, I mean, how would that even work? He knows they are not detachable, right?
So yeah, type safe out there, kids, or next thing you know you'll be trying to remove women's boobs or follow a regiment back to base, and that never turns out well.
For more from Chrstina, check out The 6 Biggest Badasses Who Lived As The Opposite Sex and The 6 Most Statistically Full of Shit Professions.


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Tennis Match against LaGrange Panthers
Ragland Tennis Courts
Sat Apr 6th, 2013
01:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Come watch the Pacers serve it up against the LaGrange Panthers!
- The game of tennis comes from Great Britain.
- Wimbledon is the only major tennis tournament still played on grass.
- A wooden racket was last used at Wimbledon in 1987.
- A tennis ball weighs 2 ounces or 56.69 grams
The longest match in Professional Tennis History took 11 hours and 5 minutes and lasted three days!


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Any sexual act involving one's hand and a man's genitalia. First heard (possibly) on the American translation of the Japanese children's show "Shin Chan," where two detectives need to feign homosexuality in order to keep their cover.
Hey, at least I wasn't the one giving an adult handshake to a male gigolo!
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This course validated the need for further education and tools for all heath care providers. Many populations have still not grasped the idea of integrated health and yet are searching for alternative methods for prevention and intervention treatments.
The course was well balanced and organized.
I enjoyed the information provided, it was very useful. I think online was the only way to cover so many topics.
Having a better understanding of alternative practices, gives me a broader selection in customizing suggestions for clients.
Excellent course, very informative and helpful.
I took this for personal growth and enlightenment. I learned a lot and hope to implement a lot of what I learned into my daily life.
I will be more aware of the different approaches to going about making patients more at ease through such things as light, sound, atmosphere, humor and make sure they are comfortable mentally, physically, emotionally, and at the soul level. Thanks for the course!
I found this course very informative. I will be able to work more effectively in the integrative health field area.
As a result of this course, I have a better understanding of how settings, routines, and practices can affect an individual's needs. I also have a broader understanding of alternative therapies which i can recommend.
The course has helped broaden my knowledge. There are many more ways to care for a patient than simply Western medicine. It is good to look at an individual as a whole - mind, body, spirit.


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Google Docs uses a concept called "collections" to easily share a variety of files with the same person or group. To create a collection, first select collection from the Create new drop-down menu.
Enter a name for your collection and click Ok.
To add items to your shared collections, drag each doc from your Documents List to the collection. Sharing a collection with someone isthe fastest way to give someone access to the items on your collection. Just click My collections in the navigation pane on the left of your document list, select the collection you'd like to share, click Share from the drop-down menu, and select Sharing settings....
At the bottom of the 'Sharing settings' window, under 'Add people,' enter the email addresses of the people with whom you need to share the collection.
Note: When you share a collection, the new permissions are pushed to all collections and documents within the main collection.
Collections others share with you will appear in the main pane of your Documents List. Only collections shared directly to your email will appear here. If a collection was shared with you through a mailing list, you will need to click the link in the email first.


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A man accused of killing a woman and her granddaughter during a botched kidnapping attempt in Montgomery County last month will stand trial.
"This is an incredible, heinous killing," said Kevin Steele, first asst. district attorney.
The crime was perpetrated, police said, by Raghunandan Yandamuri.
"Our goal is to spare him the death penalty, to get the most appropriate sentence for what, if anything, he did," said defense attorney Stephen Heckman.
What Yandamuri, 26, did, prosecutors said, was kill 10-month-old Saanvi Venna and her 61-year-old grandmother inside their Upper Merion Township apartment on October 26.
"Kidnapped a child and left a ransom note," Steele said.
Yandamuri, a neighbor and family friend, demanded $50,000 from the family or the baby would be cut into pieces, investigators said.
In a 20-minute taped interview confession played in court, Yandamuri, who admitted to a gambling problem, said he never meant to kill anyone and thought the family had the money to pay.
After panicking, Yandamuri said he killed the grandmother and then stuffed a handkerchief in Saanvi's mouth, wrapped a towel around her head and stuffed her in a suitcase.
The grandmother died of stab wounds to the neck and chest, according to the autopsy report. Saanvi's family heard details of her killing first hand in court.
The kidnapping resulted in a massive search for the little girl, which Yandamuri took part in. He even attended the little girl's vigil.
The girl was found several days later wearing a white dress and lying next to trash on the floor of the apartment complex's gym sauna, police said.
During his confession, Yandamuri said he returned to the sauna with a glass of milk, but Saanvi, he said, was already dead.
The prosecution is considering the death penalty.


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Jack Off Hair. When a girl has long silky hair....
Hey Keith, that girl has some serious JOH...
por CCW II 20 de Fevereiro de 2009
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A greeting. Similar to "Yo!" Can also be used to agree to something.
Often used in context with juh
Often used in context with juh
Person: "This exam is going to be the worst thing I have ever written"
You: "Joh"
Friend walks in the room
You: "JOH!" or "Whats up joh!"
You: "Joh"
Friend walks in the room
You: "JOH!" or "Whats up joh!"
por Bex and Sky 20 de Abril de 2008
is very book smart but has no common sense nor direction, prideful, hard-headed, will lie to please you...basically a bullshitter
Don't be Joh and pull out you GPS
por mj2se 07 de Fevereiro de 2010
JJ's. Used to be a common room. Now it's a common bar. Not like Boobah.
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on December 9, 2012 - 1:25 AM
, updated December 9, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Nostalgia is one thing, history quite another.
Nostalgia calls up a past for comfort's sake; history remembers it to clarify a confusing present and an even more confusing future. Comfort, or even terror, follows as indicated, but that's not the point.
So it's local history – not nostalgia – that conjures up visions of Buffalo Bookstores Past at holiday time: stacks of Charles Addams cartoon books and Eloise books as high as your waist at the old Ulbrich's on Main and Court Streets in the 1950s. Or, a half-century later, buzzing lines of gift buyers at the once-wonderful Borders on Walden Avenue in Cheektowaga, lining up 15-deep at the cash registers.
History to remember.
The printed word has a different place in a digital world. Information can always be crammed on the fly onto cellphones or iPads or laptops. On the other hand, the printed word in newspapers, magazines and books is the province of those for whom reading will always be one of life's luxurious and necessary nourishments and pleasures.
Any Kindle, Nook or other tablet can show you a painting by René Magritte, a poem by Louise Glück or the contents of graphic novel. An entirely different pleasure is the experience of seeing Magritte in a beautiful art book (a "gallery without walls"), or holding 500 pages of Louise Glück's poems in your lap, or encountering pieces of a graphic novel housed in a book package as large as the average Airedale.
Lest anyone think that the Age of Information and its concomitant digital explosion have rendered bookstores ghost communities, we're providing as many reasons to celebrate them between covers as we can. Yes, it's true they're also online for those of us who know exactly what we want and enjoy shopping in our robes while sipping breakfast coffee.
We've bifurcated the word into digital and non-digital worlds. But The Book – and the places that sell it – still offers things available nowhere else. There is no greater pleasure than offering you a seasonal selection for those who know how luxuriant they are.
Here, for instance, in a wonderful anthology from Ronald Rice called "My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read and Shop" (Black Dog and Levinthal, 373 pages, $23.95) is Buffalo novelist and Canisius College professor Mick Cochrane writing about Jonathan Welch's two Talking Leaves bookstores in Buffalo: "There's not a single copy of anything by Ann Coulter, but there are more volumes of poetry than I have seen anywhere else – Buffalo has always been a tremendous poetry town – a great wall of contemporary poets, Addonizio to Zagajewski. The self-stated goal of Talking Leaves is to make available life-changing books, books that 'open us up to new worlds, or illuminate more clearly our own,' books that 'stretch and deepen our vision and our comprehension of the universe and its creatures, cultures and ways.'"
Here are books seasonally guaranteed to please the right recipients, available in many places (always online as a last resort) that do some or all of that. Or, at least, amuse more than adequately.
"René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works, Catalogue Raisonne VI," edited by Sarah Whitfield (Menil Foundation/Yale University Press, 162 pages, $65). The works of René Magritte, more than any other surrealist (including Dali), are so matter-of-factly original that they've come to stand for surrealism and often modern art itself in the public mind. Some of the imagery is almost as familiar, in an entirely opposite way, as an advertising image (the Beatles loved Magritte's apples). Here is a treasure trove of remarkable and previously unknown works that a committee of scholars has authenticated as Magrittes – the leaning tower of Pisa leaning against a giant spoon, for instance, and giant apples wearing masks as if going to a masquerade.
About the sponsoring Menil family from Texas: "Perhaps only they could have orchestrated a photograph – by their daughter Adelaide – of this famous painter watching a Texas rodeo while wearing a cowboy hat."
"Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," by Mark Rosenthal et. al. (Metropolitan Museum, 304 pages, $60). The exhibit at the Met in New York ends Dec. 31. It was "the first full-scale exploration of his tremendous reach across several generations of artists who in key ways, respond to his ground-breaking work." It includes artists from John Baldessari to Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman and others.
Julian Schnabel: "I had this nine-by-ten piece of velvet and he basically stood in front of me as I painted it, just like that. He kind of looked like Peter O'Toole in 'The Ruling Class.' His skin looked like it was almost sculpted, like a mask of what was underneath it."
"Building Stories" by Chris Ware (Pantheon, unpaginated, $50). There are 14 separate stories in this marvelous box of narrative – some in folded pieces no larger than a small DMV pamphlet or scurrilous eight-page comic book of days gone by, some as large as newspaper broadsheets. Utterly unlike anything else out there.
From the book: "Woman Seeking Men: Before Winter Starts, 27, 5'7", 142 lbs., reasonably attractive. Not a moviestar lookalike but few amputees are. Yes I've got one leg – well, one and a half. I live in a third floor walkup."
"I Say, I Say … Son!: A Tribute to Animators Bob, Chuck and Tom McKimson" by Robert McKimson Jr. (Santa Monica Press, 231 pages, $45). For those of us who love Foghorn Leghorn, who could resist three brothers who helped give us Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil and the original Speedy Gonzalez in the hallowed "Termite Terrace" of Warner Brothers' cartoon studio?
He was designed as "A tall mouthy Leghorn rooster with a Southern Drawl…[who] was initially featured with Henry Hawk and Barnyard Dawg, who is Foghorn's constant target. One of the rooster's ongoing gags was provoking Barnyard Dawg until he chased him which ended up choking the poor pooch when his leash reached his limit."
"Clint Eastwood: Master Filmmaker at Work" by Michael Goldman (Abrams, 231 pages, $40). I like to think this would have been published even if they knew Clint's empty chair routine at the Republican Convention was on the way.
Oscar-winner Sean Penn, whom Eastwood directed in "Mystic River": "Clint will do as many takes as you want, but you [arrive on the set] knowing that he is ready to go, and knowing everyone will bring their 'A' game on the day."
"American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s," edited by Gary K. Wolfe (Library of America, two-volume box, 1,672 pages, $70). Everything from Richard Matheson's "The Shrinking Man" (famous from Jack Arnold's film adaptation) to lesser-known beauties like Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination" which Neil Gaiman has called "the perfect cyberpunk novel." Other authors represented include Fritz Leiber ("The Big Time"), Robert Heinlein ("Double Star"), Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth ("The Space Merchants"), Theodore Sturgeon ("More Than Human") and Leigh Brackett ("The Long Tomorrow").
"The spider rushed at him across the shadowed parks, scrobbling visibly on its stalklike legs. Its body was a giant, glossy egg that trembled blackly as it charged across the windless mounds."
"The Onion Book of Common Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopedia of Existing Information," (Little Brown, 244 pages, $29.99). The definitive celebration of the highly advanced modern practice of knowing things while remaining totally ignorant, as in its description of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" as "a brilliant, ground-breaking work of artistic genius that has unfortunately been completely invalidated because the man who made it later gained weight."
"Electoral College. A flawed system that everyone agrees is obsolete but is thankfully only used to elect the President of the United States."
"Rock Chronicles," edited by David Roberts (Firefly, 576 pages, $29.95 paperback). Visually lavish rock encyclopedia from AC/DC to ZZ Top.
"Few bands polarize opinion like The Doors. For some, the six studio albums they released between 1967 and 1971 burn with a seductive fire of hallucinatory imagery, paeans to sexual incitements to riot. For others, they represented an over-rated grab-bag of proto-prog rock pretension."
"The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music from Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop," by Dylan Jones (Picador, 882 pages, $25 paperback original). Personal and idiosyncratic – sometimes to the point of absurdity – it's from the editor of British GQ magazine and weekly columnist for the Daily Mail.
Crosby, Stills and Nash are like "a varnished log cabin." Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are like "a varnished log cabin with an unvarnished door." On Kurt Cobain: "In a nutshell, Kurt Cobain killed grunge."
"More Than Human" by Tim Flach (Abrams, 312 pages, $65). These are some of the most amazing photographs of animals you'll ever see. Flach's previous books have concentrated on horses and dogs, but you'll find hallucinatorily clear photographs of a whole zoo here – owls, pandas, bats, armadillos, lions, orangutans, cobras, elephants, porcupines, bullfrogs, chimpanzees, wolves, cobras, tigers.
"Jellyfish are perfectly adapted to our planet. In all the oceans (which is to say the majority of the earth's surface) in waters ranging from the shallows to the depths, and back through time as far as 700 million years, medusae have glided and pulsed. They were here before us and they may well be here after us. In fact, as they are now thought to be in the ascendant, thanks to the warming seas and the disappearance of many natural predators due to overfishing, it looks like we might have to develop a taste for eating them, too. Large blooms of jellyfish have disabled power plant cooling systems and damaged desalication units and yet most of them manage to do this to us without the benefit of a brain."
"Storyteller," by Tim Walker (Abrams, 256 pages, $75). Prudes, pedants and other P-word malefactors would probably consign Tim Walker to the world of fashion photography and leave it at that. On the other hand, it doesn't fit Walker anymore than it fits David LaChapelle now or used to fit Cecil Beaton, whether the major source of his income. See the disembodied head of model Christina Carey amid apples fallen from trees. Or Rollo Hesketh-Harvey ready to take off in a biplane made out of giant baguettes. Or a vintage Cadillac convertible erupting with peacock feathers in Mongolia.
"I'm always walking a fine line. You are playing with motifs that are perilously close to being bad and you're walking on that edge and trying to bring them back to being beautiful and real."
"A Question Mark Above the Sun" by Kent Johnson (Starcherone Books, 266 pages, $16 paper). It's a novel, really. But in this "thought experiment" of "Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem 'By' Frank O'Hara" (dedicated, no less, to the memory of Vladimir Mayakovsky), Kent Johnson "proposed the following possibility: that 'A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island' may in fact have been authored … by Kenneth Koch, not Frank O'Hara." The next step after Nabokov's "Pale Fire."
"And let me say too against the grain as it may be, that I strongly suspect Frank O'Hara would have been perfectly delighted that true questions remain."
"Poems: 1962-2012," by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Ecco, 635 pages, $40). A much-honored, much-praised and marvelous poet (with Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen, National Book Critics Circle and all the prizes any poet could want – or stand), Glück hereby collects and celebrates a half-century of often stark poetry with the directness and clarity of prose but the continuing echo of great poetry.
"First Snow – Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,
or so the story goes
But I'm not tired, it says.
And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired –
You can see it in her, everyone can
So the snow has to fall, sleep has to come.
Because the mother's sick to death of her life
and needs silence."
"The Poems of Octavio Paz," edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger (New Directions, 606 pages, $39.95). No 20th century poet in Spanish – certainly not a Nobel Prize- winner still much-revered after his death 14 years ago – could ask for a better English translator in 2012 than Eliot Weinberger, who is himself one of the most original essayists and writers we have. "This is an overview of an extraordinary life in poetry," says Weinberger, "almost 70 years of recurrent themes and continual stylistic innovation, a poetry about nearly everything."
From Paz:
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light from this lamp, real
the writing hand, are they
real, the eyes looking at what I write?
From one word to the other
what I say vanishes
I know that I am alive
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Left to right: Student Assistant Celyn Salow and Curator Anne Marie Lane.
About Toppan Library
The library is home to the University of Wyoming's rare books collection, consisting of over 50,000 items and is sponsored by the Clara Toppan endowment (click to view images of Mrs. Toppan who lived from 1910-2001). The majority of the materials are printed books, although there are newspapers, magazines, broadsides, illuminated manuscripts, and other materials. Collecting subjects include the American West, British and American Literature, Exploration and Travel, Religion, Hunting and Fishing, historic children's books, and examples of the book arts.
Some books are currently available through an online catalog search, while other books are available through a traditional card catalog located in the Toppan Library. A cataloging project is underway to put more records online.
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FAQ for Transfers
Are there scholarships?
Of course! The scholarships and grants range in amount from $7,000 to $12,000 per year (as long as you are attending full time and maintain a 3.0 GPA). The merit-based awards are based on academics, and every undergraduate, degree-seeking student who applies is automatically considered for a scholarship.
How can I visit the campus?
We offer campus visits, which include a meeting with an admissions counselor, a meeting with a financial aid counselor, and a tour of our campus. You can also stay for lunch or meet with a faculty member. To arrange a visit, call the Admissions Office (801.832.2200 or 1.800.748.4753) or just stop by and we'll meet with you on the spot. We also encourge you to attend an open house.
Which of my classes will transfer?
The best thing you can do in order to find out what classes will transfer is to come in and meet with an Admissions Counselor. We are more than happy to do an unofficial evaluation of your transcripts. We'll even evaluate your transcripts before you apply to Westminster.
How many students are on campus?
There are 2,500 students at Westminster. Approximately 600 are graduate students and 1900 are undergraduates. There are about 500 students who live on campus and the average class size is 17 students per class.
How many years will it take me to graduate?
Every student is teamed up with an academic advisor, so you can get registered for the right classes right away.
How many credits can I transfer to Westminster?
A maximum of 72 semester hours of credit completed with a grade of C- or better from two-year schools can be accepted for academic course work. A maximum of 88 credit hours transferred from all collegiate institutions (two-year and four-year) attended may be applied toward meeting the total number of hours required for graduation.
What kind of transfer credit will you accept?
Westminster College will award transfer credit for course work that meets the following criteria (for more information, see the Catalog)
- The transfer institution is regionally accredited
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"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail," says Oprah.
I've had a crush on actor Denis Leary ever since I met him backstage one night at Carnegie Hall.
This excellent performer who played the conflicted firefighter in television's "Rescue Me" has been on top of my list ever since.
Now I've developed a crush on his writer wife, Ann Leary. She refers to herself like this: "I'm a celebrity wife, for God's sake. I wouldn't want to read the novel of a celebrity wife!"
But I did want to read Ann's new novel – "The Good House," from St. Martin's Press – and sure enough, it landed on the best-seller list and, in my opinion, is the "must-read" of the month.
Writer Leary has a heroine you'll never forget. Hildy is a 50-ish, semi-successful realtor in a small New England town. And Hildy is a "secret" alcoholic. At least her love of a glass or two of wine, or a whole bottle from a stash in the basement, keeps her thinking of herself and her "problem" as secret. I hate giving too much away in writing about a new work of fiction and suffice it to say, Hildy is descended from a line of Salem witches. She has a gift for self-analysis that borders on the hysterical – her description of her divorced and gay ex-husband and her two daughters making an "intervention" in her life is priceless.
Ann Leary's fascinating inner dialogue demands attention and you never know where Hildy's thoughts will take you. "The Good House" offers a number of fascinating characters and smart plot moves that continually surprise.
The author already gave a big interview to the New York Times Fashion and Style section, conducted by Judith Newman, on Feb. 1, and I can't improve on that.
I was struck by this quote from Tribeca Productions' Jane Rosenthal, who has already optioned the book for a movie. "Oh, Meryl [Streep] should be Hildy, of course!" But, of course. Still, don't wait for the movie. You need to read this novel about a woman operating at full speed, drinking – usually alone but sometimes with others, insisting she doesn't have "a problem" but knowing she does.
It was refreshing to read a description of Ann Leary by another writer, Julie Klam, who calls her "pathologically modest."
The humor in this serious fiction is quite outstanding and I don't want you to miss it.
I am still recovering from my shared Feb. 2 birthday dinner with the great actress Elaine Stritch. I was drinking; she wasn't. But Elaine, now 88, was really on a tear and she seems determined to go live in Birmingham, Mich., when she isn't acting and singing – against all my expert advice.
In the New York Port Authority, they were giving out cards and chocolates the other morning that signaled a new novel titled "Secret." (Promoters say that this is the new "50 Shades of Grey.") The card urged us to go right to SecretNovels.com and enter a New Orleans Girls Weekend Sweepstakes that would take you free to the French Quarter where you could take part in FestiGals.
Nick Symmonds is one of the hottest runners in the world. He is the five-time U.S. champion and two-time Olympian in the 800-meters. Last summer, Nick attempted to court Paris Hilton. (He even sent a note asking her father's "permission.") Things didn't get too far – lucky for Nick. Recently, he's been in New York to run in the Millrose Games track meet – he is aiming for his sixth U.S. title. He is also aiming to connect with supermodel Michelle Vawer. Nick has also recorded a strong pro-gay message, one of the few sports stars to take this step.
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How could someone steal helmets from 911 tribute?
Honoring those who have lost their lives so others can live means tipping your hat out of respect - not stealing it!
John Taskay Sr. can't comprehend or even utter the words that convey the hurt he felt Friday morning when he noticed someone had taken the helmets that sat atop the symbolic cross/flag memorial he recreated on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
A veteran and retired firefighter, Taskay first developed the visual memorial in front of Tomahawk Community Bank as a personal and public symbol of respect on last year's first anniversary observance of the attacks that killed thousands at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania.
His tribute tied together the sacrifices of firefighters, law enforcement and the military. Atop this year's flag-adorned crosses sat an older Tomahawk Fire Department helmet, a Korean War vintage combat helmet, sprayed black and painted with the letters MIA (Missing In Action), and a police hat. When he arrived at work about 7 a.m. Friday morning two of the symbols, which hold sentimental and historic value, had vanished. Muddy tracks led him down the street but disappeared.
Taskay, who served in the military from 1952-56 and as a medic with the Lockport Fire Department in Illinois for 32 years, knows first-hand about "lost brothers" in the line of duty. Now living in Tomahawk and working in maintenance at the local bank, his employer has given him permission to resurrect the 9-11 tribute each Sept. 11 and keep it standing for 11 days and 11 nights. The display draws a lot of attention and photographs, he says.
Taskay promises to continue the tradition of honoring those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, despite the heart-wrenching theft this year. Although it's something he'll never understand, he's willing to let the incident pass.
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Passing the hat because the van has a flat, crashing on couches, making enough money with merchandise to break even — these clichés, fit for any Bob Seger song, fall into a broader category of what musicians and other artists consider "paying their dues." There is one element that is often overlooked when people book gigs, and that is the notion of "pay-to-play" or "advance ticket sales" for musicians and "juried exhibitions" for fine artists where, in order to gain some exposure, money changes hands between artists and promoters before the event. For a long time, the notion of "pay-to-play" had a slightly sleazy ring to it, mainly due to dubious outcomes for emerging artists despite profits for promoters and venues. RAW Ventura looks to change this model by fostering bands, fine artists and other talent through a highly organized network of interns and local directors with this year's first RAW season, culminating in the RAWards semifinals.
The idea for RAW began in 2005 in Los Angeles when Heidi Luerra put together a multimedia showcase that drew more than 750 people, bringing exposure to new artists in a variety of fields. In 2009, collaborating with web developer Matthew Klahorst, Luerra found the opportunity to promote and market her growing stable of talent online, generating interest for individual artists and promoting RAW as a brand. From there, RAW took shape in Los Angeles and surrounding cities, slightly defying curating "rules" by combining traditional arts such as film, fine art and photography with cosmetic design, fashion and accessory design, as well as performing art. RAW, also known as RAW: Natural Born Artists, came to Ventura in April, spearheaded by Newbury Park native and RAW Ventura Showcase Director Sara Vausbinder.
"When I was a kid, Ventura was always the big city where my parents would allow me to drive, so I found it fitting that this could be a great place for RAW, as I feel such a great sense of community in Ventura County," says Vausbinder. Indeed, there is no shortage of artistic acumen in Ventura County, but not everyone immediately finds a place to showcase his or her given talent. This is where RAW fills a particular niche and where the idea of advance ticket sales comes into play.
Participating in a RAW event requires a $200 payment, and while that might run anathema to Ventura's "vibe," the payment is usually covered by advance ticket sales ($10-$15) and the artists do experience a tangible return on their investment, mainly in the forms of web exposure, promotion and a team of supportive staffers. As Vausbinder notes, "What I'm hoping to accomplish with RAW in Ventura County is offer artists of all kinds a chance to be seen and heard where they might not otherwise have the opportunity. We're hoping to make the art and artists of Ventura and its surrounding cities more accessible to a larger audience. Ventura has such a budding artistic community, and we're hoping to not only bring the artists to light, but also give the overall arts community in Ventura attention on a national level through our unique platform."
With an average of 20 artists per gig fronting $200, plus a slightly elevated cover charge for patrons, it is easy to write off the RAW franchise as a profitable marketing gimmick, capitalizing on young artists' desire for industry exposure. Many of the artists, however, find that the perks associated with the organization and structure of RAW far outweigh the initial monetary cost.
Kapeesh Hayes, a hip-hop/spoken word artist, understands RAW's business model and appreciates the amount of time and effort RAW staffers allot to his performances. "The folks at RAW really put themselves out there to promote for you and communicate with you. They did the Facebook page, they made the event flier, they took the event photos, they took event footage, leaving me with more time to focus on my set and its shenanigans," he says. "Pay-to-play is pay-to-play, I don't care how much glitter you put on it, but RAW [takes] an organized, fair, yet left-field approach to local events, and the outcome was an opportunity to perform for people who might not have ever been be exposed to my work."
Marc Timmons, member of RAWards semifinalist Cirque Noir, agrees and adds, "As a musician, I've seen a substantial increase in the web traffic and fan turnouts to show since the last show we did for RAW in July . . . With merch sales, everything works out."
Artist Jon Blackburn says that while he feels the participation fee is a bit high, he hopes that with time RAW will find a way to lower it. "Showcasing with RAW Ventura has been extremely beneficial in propelling my art form and its visibility tenfold," he said. Blackburn explained that once ticket sales are satisfied, participating artists receive an unlimited guest list which increases turnout, and benefits everyone including the venue and the artists. He also said that the "once a RAW artist, forever a RAW artist" policy is a real bonus, allowing artists to showcase in any other state/city one time free without ticket sales and with an unlimited guest list. Not only have sales of Blackburn's work increased since his involvement with RAW, but he's also been picked up by several galleries. "That in itself is worth its weight in gold."
While RAW seems to be hitting its stride in Ventura, it is not without some opposition. Christina Diaz, who formed the Pistol Artist Collective/Pistol Productions, which produces regular group shows in Ventura and hosts a monthly artists happy hour at The Tavern, does not believe an artist needs to pay for exposure or that awards for art are necessary, especially given Ventura's rich history of being a "hidden art haven."
"Pistol Productions has been around since 2009 and is stronger than ever, and it is straight-up D.I.Y. grass roots from the love of this local community," says Diaz. "I've never charged a cover for an art show and never will. I have never taken a percentage and never will."
The upcoming RAWards were culled by online voting and then narrowed down to a group of five by Vausbinder. On Nov. 16, that group will be voted upon by both an audience tally (with stickers) and a group of judges she handpicked. They are David J. Holman, music producer; Holly Hughes, makeup artist instructor at Lu Ross Academy; and Dr. Gwendolyn Huddleston, dean of art at Ventura College. With winners in place, the competition moves to a national level (RAW has more than 65 locations nationwide, according to its website), and the winners will be announced in January at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles.
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Cory Monteith Was 'In Great Spirits' Two Days Before Death
"He looked so good, so healthy," Webb, the co-founder of Project Limelight Society, a Vancouver charity close to the actor's heart, tells PEOPLE. "I hadn't seen him look that good in a long time."
Joined by Monteith's manager Elena Kirschner, the trio dined at East of Main, a restaurant that supports the organization. "We ate a lot of food," recalls Webb, noting no one drank alcohol. "We drank the rhubarb lemonade."
Monteith initiated the dinner, telling Webb he wanted to get more involved the non-profit arts program for children that he had supported since its 2011 launch.
"I told him, 'I remember everything we talked about when we first talked about this project. Now it's happening.' His face just lit up. He was in great spirits."
Two days later, on Saturday, the 31-year-old Glee star's body was discovered in his hotel room. No cause of death has been determined but police have ruled out foul play.
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quote: No, exactly. And that was really my point. The image I have of conservatives (This image may very well be a wrong one, I'm not denying that.) is that many of them seem to put for instance their religious beliefs, or what they themselves find "morally right" (what does that even mean?) over other people's freedom to live their life the way they want and find right and just.
quote: "I don't like it/my religion doesn't allow it, therefore it should be prohibited for everyone." It's a matter of trying to prevent anyone with opposing views from exercising their rights, which is, amusingly, the exact thing many self proclaimed conservatives in here seem to want to pin on liberals. :)
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Former Durango resident Carol Louise (Scrivner) Kern died Sunday, June 10, 2012, in Nampa, Idaho. She was 79.
Mrs. Kern was born to Lloyd and Buelah Scrivner on Nov. 28, 1932, in Meridian, Idaho. She graduated from Meridian High School in 1951.
On Sept. 17, 1951, she married Dwight Kern in Kuna, Idaho.
�When Carol and Dwight began their life together, little did she know the adventurous life she would live,� her family said. �Dwight was a dreamer and always saw new opportunities to pursue.�
The Kerns owned and operated a small restaurant in Meridian before Mr. Kern�s work in the food-service industry led to frequent moves that included Pocatello, Idaho; Durango; Billings Mont.; Renton, Wash.; Boise, Idaho; and Ogden, Utah, before the couple retired in Nampa.
�Carol�s best times of her life were her two favorite jobs: managing the safe-deposit area for the First National Bank of Durango and working as a medical office receptionist in Ogden, Utah,� her family said. �Carol had a special gift in making a new home for her family. With every move, it seemed like it was only days that our new home felt like home: warm, cozy and safe.�
The Kerns moved to Durango in February 1971 and lived here on and off until 1986.
In 1997, Mrs. Kern suffered from kidney disease. Because she was not a good candidate for going on the national kidney transplant list, her family was tested for a transplant match. Her younger brother Melvin was a match, and he donated one of his kidneys to his sister. The transplant was performed in December 1997, giving Mrs. Kern 14 more years of life.
Mrs. Kern was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Dwight Kern, who died in 2008.
She is survived by her children, former Hillcrest Golf Course head groundskeeper Rick Kern of Grapevine, Texas, Randy Kern of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Ren� Homer of Nampa and Rob Kern of Meridian; sisters Bobbie Reynolds of Wenatchee, Wash., IlaDean King of Nampa and Donnie Radford of Pinehurst, Idaho; brothers Elvin Scrivner and Melvin Scrivner, both of Meridian, and Wes Scrivner of Boise; 16 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life will be held later this month.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Boys and Girls Club of Nampa, 316 Stampede Drive, Nampa, ID 83687.
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I dont get why the Wings cant dress one tough guy. Its not like their bottom 6 is some elite scoring squad or something. Fricking Tomas Holmstrom.
Should Kronwall have to answer the bell for his hits?
Posted 19 August 2012 - 10:25 PM
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 10:52 PM
you're right I am arguing the mental aspect of the position enforcers are in causes more mental harm. I'm not discussing the injuries hitting verse fighting causes, I'm discussing deaths.
How many of these hits have caused suicides? I understand that it's not clear cut scientific data, but just from my personal experience and viewpoint it make sense to me that the enforcing position in hockey is very unhealthy much more-so than hitting, as evidenced by the death's of Terrence Tootoo, Trevor Ettinger, Don Sanderson, Boogard, Rypien, and Belak.
Who has died from a hit on the ice? I guess we can use heart illness that triggers from hits, if we do that we have one Markus Wächter, that died due to complications stemming from a bodycheck, but was later announced he had a heart illness. So over the same period of time it's a 6 to 1 ratio on deaths of fighters to non fighters.
So the NHL has been around since 1917....almost 100 years.....and thousands of fighters have taken to NHL ice in that time, and you have a list of 6 players???? I know there have been a couple of unusual tough guy deaths recently....but those deaths are just that....NOT USUAL. And most of those suicide deaths were guys who struggled with addiction, not to mention you have no idea what other problems besides addiction that they were dealing with in their personal lives as well....yet you wanna pin the whole suicide on the fact that hockey allowed him to get hit in the head a lot? Sorry but even if I was anti-fighting I would still call this a very poor argument.
The enforcer system was the best system out there. It was run and facilitated by the players and coaches themselves and worked better than the system in place today. Enforcers made sure dirty crap didn't happen and if it did you got punished for it. Then the enforcers also had their own little side game...which was the heavy weight bouts that were just as much for the fans as they were for themselves...You had big name fighters like Probie and Domi who would square up just to see who would win that round and prove that they are the bigger, tougher, better fighter....you would have thought they hated each other but they actually had huge respect for each other....these were big, tough, nasty.....yet honorable men
Nowadays guys are running everyone, slamming heads into boards, hitting to the head, flopping, the list goes on and on. And the NHL keeps trying to make more and more and more rules to stop it....but you can't stop it. Let the players handle it, they did a better job at handling it than the NHL has, despite their best efforts. Let them handle it, they know best... instead we have baby-proofing do-gooders stepping in and telling them how to play their own sport. In the players poll last year it was something like 99% of NHL players said fighting should not be removed from hockey....they want fighting just as much as the fans do. It has a place....even in this post-lockout league.
And don't get me started on your fighting versus hitting argument....by your logic we would have to remove hitting as well....anddd just as many if not more health concerns arise from hitting, just not as many to the head.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:50 PM
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:58 PM
as long as he keeps them clean, he should not have to fight over it, though plenty of times the opposition has felt he ought to anyway
Yup. You bang someone, you fight if challenged.
Posted 21 August 2012 - 09:52 PM
If the opposition even touched Yzerman in the '80s, Probert, Kocur, and Gallant beat 'em into the ice. If the opposition even touched Gretzky in the '80s, Semenko and McSorley beat 'em into the ice. Didn't matter whether the hits were clean or not. Eventually, players were forced to answer the bell.
I think it is annoying that a mugging ensues after every clean hard hit, though. Take a hit and play the game. In essence, what that kind of stuff does is it deters clean, hard hitting.
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RIP Bob Probert
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 12:22 PM
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 05:17 PM
i completely disagree with eliminating fighting in the sense that it would cause more harm. it would give everyone a free pass to go play dirty, go throw a hard ass hit folding a top 3 skater. then what? we just scream, "hey! stop that please!" fighting has a place and time in hockey, unfortunately thats what's changed over the generations. everyone looks to fight when its not needed.
This is a perfect post. You sir, are correct.
Too put blame on fighting as a reason of death. It's not right, most if not all players mentioned had at some point or another had alchohol and or drug problems. Prescription or not.
Posted 22 August 2012 - 06:48 PM
Posted 24 August 2012 - 11:30 PM
I guess he shouldn't have to, but he shouldn't back away from the rough stuff. When you absolutely clock the opposing team's star players, clean hit or not, guys are gonna come after you. Don't just stand there as they all beat on you. He shouldn't be afraid to fight.
If the opposition even touched Yzerman in the '80s, Probert, Kocur, and Gallant beat 'em into the ice. If the opposition even touched Gretzky in the '80s, Semenko and McSorley beat 'em into the ice. Didn't matter whether the hits were clean or not. Eventually, players were forced to answer the bell.
I think it is annoying that a mugging ensues after every clean hard hit, though. Take a hit and play the game. In essence, what that kind of stuff does is it deters clean, hard hitting.
My boss is friends with Shawn Burr and he was telling me that during a big on ice brawl one time Burr hit Gretsky.....the next time the two teams played the Wings coach sent Burr out on to the ice without Probert or Kocur..... and when Burr saw McSorley matching up with him on the puck drop he realized he didnt have Probie or Kocur with him and he tried to skate back to the bench....the Wings coach apparently stopped him from getting back on the bench and told him "You need to learn that you don't hit 99"... he then preceded to have his face pounded in by McSorley....just shows how much respect they had for stars back in the day and how well the enforcer system actually worked. I mean a coach allowed his own player to have his ass beat for being a little rough with an opposing star lol
The respect factor or fighters code has gone by the wayside. It's sad really.
gotta get rid of that instigator rule.....do-gooders think theyre helping people but they're just destroying the sport we love, the sport our parents loved, and the sport they're parents loved.....my kids won't even know what real hockey is by the time the baby-proofers get done with it
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Just because he has awesome timing for his Kronwalling doesn't mean he has to answer to the receivers buddies. Now if it was dirty hitting then I he should expect to answer.
Kronwalls hits are usually clean but not always. Thats why I think just to keep some respectability, when another teams star comes calling after you decked him with a borderline hit Kronner should throw off the mitts every now and then.
That game in Philly after the Voracek hit got out of hand and everyone was getting ran at because they were so upset about the hit, but also the fact that Kronwall wouldnt man up. I know that was a clean hit, but thats an example of when doing it wouldnt hurt you or the team and might stop Rinaldo from running at Ericcsons head
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During the past decade, average home insurance bills statewide have risen 73 percent. But this increase masks much larger rate hikes on the coast.
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Catastrophe models have a huge impact on what homeowners pay to insure their homes, yet regulators with the state Department of Insurance knew little about their calculations and whether they were fair, a Post and Courier series, "Storm of Money," revealed last year.
In the wake of the series, the Insurance Department hired experts to look under the hood of these models. The panel included a nationally recognized actuary, a meteorologist and an engineer. They submitted the report a week ago, and insurance officials were reviewing the results this week, said Ann Roberson, executive assistant with the Insurance Department. She said staff and panel members are working to address several questions about the findings, and that this process will take about a month. Once the report is done, the department will release "portions subject to disclosure under South Carolina law."
Martin Simons, the actuary who worked on the report, declined to comment about the panel's findings, saying that modeling companies provided them information only if the panel members signed confidentiality agreements. He said the report includes a summary of what the panel did.
Daryl Ferguson, a retired executive in Beaufort who spearheaded an insurance reform campaign, said the department needs to err on the side of full disclosure. "If there's confidential information, they can block it out," he said.
When other states looked at models, they found problems, he added. "But South Carolina had not done that until last fall because of The Post and Courier (series). We expect that some rates are out of line because the profits of the insurance industry in South Carolina are more than three times the national average."
The newspaper's series found that South Carolina has among the highest property insurance rates in the nation, especially when it comes to high-value homes.
Yet, because of the concave shape of the coast and other factors, the state's risk of being hit by a catastrophic hurricane is much less than other parts of the country.
Catastrophe models play a major role in how insurers calculate what you pay in premiums. Catastrophe modeling companies plug historical information about hurricane strikes, property locations and other factors into complex computer programs that the industry sometimes calls "black boxes."
These programs then spit out numbers that help insurance companies assess an area's risk of being hit by hurricanes and other catastrophes.
Insurers began using catastrophe models in the early 1990s after Hurricane Andrew caused much more damage in Florida than insurance companies had predicted. In recent years, these models have been predicting much higher potential losses, and insurance companies have been using this information to justify higher rate increases.
Insurers say the risk models helped build more stability into the market, but critics say some of these models aren't working, and that insurers are using faulty data and assumptions built into the models to boost profits. An architect of one of the first models, Karen Clark, has said recent models overestimated catastrophe losses by $53 billion.
Studies show that storms with hurricane-force winds come within 50 miles of South Carolina once every five years on average but that the likelihood of a catastrophic hurricane affecting a specific place on the coast is much lower.
For instance, an analysis last year for the newspaper by WindRisk Tech LLC, a company founded by noted meteorologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed that a catastrophic hurricane, one with at least 115 mph winds, would on average affect a spot in Charleston once every 370 years.


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The official HBO Emmy After Party, held at the Pacific Design Center Sunday night, played host to many happy nominees, including lead actress in a drama series winner Claire Danes.
The expectant Homeland star commandeered a small table late in the evening with her husband Hugh Dancy and some friends. Danes snuggled closely next to her man while her Emmy was planted prominently at the center of the table and she snapped plenty of group photos with her iPhone.
Fellow winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus spent the evening surrounded by her TV costars, including Tony Hale and Anna Chlumsky, in the Veep section of the party, always clutching her Emmy and seeming genuinely elated.
Sofia Vergara was in a similar mood after her show, Modern Family, swept several awards. After midnight, Vergara was spotted shaking (her mended) tail feather on the dance floor, beaming ear to ear, before wandering through the party once more.
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Preventive maintenance is the key to making sure heating systems will work properly the first time they are needed, said Travis Dodd, heating service manager for Caporuscio Plumbing and Heating in Altoona.
"For the most part, I suggest doing it in the spring and fall," Dodd said.
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Caporuscio Plumbing &?Heating HVAC?Manager Travis Dodd replaces the filter on a gas furnace Wednesday afternoon at a mobile home on Orangewood Drive in Altoona. Area heating and plumbing companies are helping locals prepare for cold weather.
The company does handle emergency repairs if residents are stuck without heat, but ensuring everything works properly before it's needed is usually cheaper, he said.
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Heating oil customers are expected to pay the highest heating oil prices ever. That will result in record heating bills, with an average of $2,494. That's nearly $200 more than the previous high, set in the winter of 2010-2011.
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Routinely checking carbon monoxide and smoke detectors should be a habit for residents, he said.
The company usually receives service calls when residents first switch on their heating systems and detect strange odors, Villano said. The smells can result from dirty air filters, but ensuring the system works properly is key at the start of the season, he said.
For homes with central air, Villano said placing a piece of wood or other type of cover over the outdoor unit will prevent damage during snowfall. Villano recommended only covering the top of the unit to prevent moisture buildup, which can lead to rust.
While companies have been "swamped" with calls as the temperature drops, checking residential heating systems before problems arise is beneficial in the long run.
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