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James "Jim" F. Maloy, 87, of Sycamore, passed away late Sunday evening, Dec. 1, 2013, at St. Francis Home, Tiffin.
He was born Feb. 8, 1926, in Tiffin, to Sidney and Marjorie (Martien) Maloy. He married Charlotte M. Dunn Oct. 4, 1977, in Anchorage, Alaska.
Survivors include his friend and wife of 50 years, Charlotte; two daughters, Linda (Edward) Wyckhouse of Windermere, Fla., and Leanne Dishong of Alabama; two stepdaughters, Cindi Kalinoski of Powell and Bonnie Landis of Burlington, Ky.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; stepson, Harold W. Factor Jr.; stepson-in-law, Tom Kalinoski; three brothers, Junior, Jack and Thomas Maloy; two sisters, Dorothy Seislove and Marjorie Ann Lewis; and his chocolate lab, Jake.
Jim worked for Hossler Construction, Tiffin, and local 341 in Anchorage, Alaska. He enjoyed watching deer, fishing, hunting, taking care of his yard and going to auctions over the years. He served his country in the U.S. Navy as a gunner's mate 3rd class during World War II, beginning in 1943, and was honorably discharged March 29, 1946.
Private graveside services will be at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, Tiffin.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Heart Association, American Cancer Association, Humane Society of Seneca County or a charity of the donor's choice.
Hoffmann-Gottfried-Mack Funeral Home & Crematory, Tiffin, is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Suri and her mom, Katie Holmes, took a trip Thursday to the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa, where Holmes is filming the movie The Giver.
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The look-alike mother-daughter team appeared unfettered by the lawsuit thousands of miles away while eating their lunch alfresco. Suri, 7½, playfully offered some of her fish-and-chips to a statue of the former SA President, F.W. de Klerk.
Back in the U.S., Tom's explanation as to why he didn't see Suri in person for more than 100 days had been made public. In his deposition from Sept. 9, he gave details about his grueling work schedule, which he claimed did not permit an in-person visit, though he spoke with his daughter on the phone nearly every night.
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A very large flamer whose only purpose in life is to annoy those around him, suck many men off, and be a mac deez in general. People such as this can be found all over the world but the worst case on record exists in Colorado. A Skinner is ofter characterized by mood swing ranging from pissy to horny for penis. Note: They have a tendancy to join gay organizations, such as fraternities dedicated to all-male gangbangs.
Damn, Skinner is such a tool.
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A person who appears weaker than they are. Many times they are short and skinny. When pushed too far they are fully capable of proving that size does not matter. Due to these circumstances "skinners" may often be easily aggitated. When in reality they are just "nipping it at the bud". This can arouse haters, to give skinners a bad connotation. Especially if they have lost a fight to someone smaller than them. They usually fight dirty, since they are easy to throw around and pin to the ground. However despite their flaws, many of them can be the most loyal of companions. Since they love people who do not judge others based on size and shape. They enjoy feeling safe and secure, espesially in the company of those who are bigger than them.
I didn't think he could do the job, but that Skinner proved me wrong
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prison slang for child molester.
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school which brings up eunuchs. These are all assexual homophobes or cheats and liars. Do not send your son there If he has penile pride.
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Wheels that just don't stop. Usually chrome, they look best on red import pick-up trucks.
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Tony Morris is a software product developer who has deployed functional programming techniques in industry for over 10 years. Tony teaches informally and at the tertiary level and aspires to observing the direct benefits of advanced programming techniques to produce a viable commercial result.
Runar Bjarnason is a software developer at Capital IQ, a global provider of data and analytics for financial professionals. Runar is a contributor to the open source Scalaz library, and co-author of "Functional Programming in Scala" (Manning, 2013).
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Ten years ago, he'd actually performed a duet with much-hyped new "X-Factor" judge Britney Spears. Now here he was on Simon Cowell's apres-"Idol" Fox show to see her again and to sing for her.
Implicit in his nervousness was a very hard decade since they last met. No details were provided, but anyone with even minimal experience of the human species could take one look at the fellow and sense a very tough road indeed behind him.
So he sang for his old partner on the new show as she sat between fellow "X-Factor" newbie Demi Lovato and the show's experienced judge, record producer L.A. Reid. Cowell, of course, occupied the corner chair on stage left, so he could bat clean-up.
The expression on Spears' face said it all while he sang. With startlingly little glamorizing, she looked as if she were undergoing a very uncomfortable and personal medical procedure. "You're voice isn't really up to the bar of the standards of 'The X-Factor' and what we want," she told him.
Someone should engrave the phrase "up to the bar of the standards of 'X-Factor'?" on a marble wall somewhere. In the meantime, you'd have to be made of brick not to know a real TV moment when you saw one: pure Parmesan as real moments go, but real nevertheless.
Earlier, Spears compared a contestant to "Alvin and the Chipmunks."
The final "X-Factor" contestant was Jillian Jensen, a self-professed bullying victim with a "Stay Strong" tattoo we'll have to take on faith. Judge Lovato - a hyped anti-bullying activist with a "Stay Strong" message - was ready to kvell.
There was nothing remotely prepossessing about Jensen's appearance. She was pretty but dressed in shorts that accentuated her chunkiness. When she lifted her arms or spread them wide while singing, you could see plainly that she hadn't yet learned the more advanced refinements of underarm grooming.
She sang Jessie J's "Who You Are." Her voice was tough and scratchy - and not in a Kim Carnes way, either. But she poured her heart into it.
Lovato was in tears at the end. Even Simon Cowell theatrically copped to a little glisten at the corner of his eye.
This season's "X-Factor," for anyone who didn't somehow know, is proof that reality TV has got it going on these days.
Some of the more ancient TV forms - sitcoms, for instance - may have hit a monstrously synthetic demographic stage where all the gagwriting talent in the world (formidable on, say, "The New Normal") is more likely to make you gag than want to watch again. Unless you're there for the pedagogic instruction on 21st century art of tolerance - and to enjoy mockery of intolerance and sex roles no one believes anymore, anyway - there's nothing to watch on the New Season's sitcoms. To me, they're unwatchable, wall to wall - blatant pleas to this demographic or that to score ratings numbers that advertisers like.
NBC, for one network, has invested enormously in new sitcoms to get itself back into business, but whatever success it has, I wasn't among the converts after seeing previews.
Give me, instead, at least a little bit of reality TV at its best, which is really no more "real" than a sitcom but is far more cannily put together, for all their sharp writing skill in occasional evidence. ("The New Normal" even tries to get away with a running "Grey Gardens" joke - a reference to a 1975 Maysles brothers film and HBO adaptation only one in every 100 people are likely to understand.)
Reality TV is so fat and sassy that two of its hits - "Dancing With the Stars" and "Survivor" - will return this fall with some favorite alumni contestants, just as "Big Brother" has done this summer. If you've got a Bristol Palin or a Kirstie Alley in house, you flaunt their significant imperfections for all they're worth.
So here, then, is a very selective and highly personal Fall Season preview, including a look at some shows I've been able to steal time to see in between other responsibilities:
The Triumph of Digital Cable and Other Advanced Forms of Television: The only way smart TV watchers will be able to survive the evening of Sept. 30 with all of its offerings sampled will be by using a pay TV service of some sort that offers "On Demand" programming. In other words, a mere DVR won't do it. Here's what will be offered on that Sunday: a monster "appointment television" pair of new season premieres on Showtime - "Dexter" and "Homeland" (the latter, many people's idea of TV's current best); season premieres of CBS' "The Good Wife" and "The Mentalist," ABC's "Revenge" and new "Rosemary's Baby" wannabe "666 Park Avenue"; not to mention HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "Treme," which will both be in full swing by then, and NBC's "Sunday Night Football."
A true embarrassment of TV riches.
The Coolest Idea of the New TV Season: CBS's "Elementary" in a walk (premieres Sept. 27). I've seen the pilot episode, and it's about as seductive as ordinary network prime-time TV gets - an update of Sherlock Holmes with Jonny Lee Miller as ratiocinating prodigy Holmes and Lucy Liu, of all people, as a mordant and skeptical version of Holmes' partner and chronicler Watson.
Now that's clever - so much more so, in fact, than the loud, expensive, steampunk action movie Sherlocks that cost and make zillions with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law that it almost says embarrassing things about the amount of creativity Hollywood now routinely allows TV and movies.
This Sherlock can tell just by the tilt of a floor if there's a hidden panic room in a ritzy apartment. At the same time, he's happy to borrow Watson's car impulsively and T-bone the car of an escaping miscreant. The Miller/Liu chemistry is droll, very droll.
No one will ever - ever - top of the chemistry of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (my all-time favorite second banana in movie history), but so much casual creativity went into the creation of "Elementary" that it's an authentic network wonderment.
Runners-up: ABC's "The Last Resort," NBC's "Revolution," Fox's "The Mob Doctor" (with, are you ready, William Forsythe and Zeljko Ivanek, two of the reigning Hollywood character actors). Maybe "Arrow," too.
Most Predictable Solid Pleasure: "Vegas" (premieres on CBS Sept. 27). It's not to be confused with all the other TV shows called "Vegas," most notably Robert Urich's old number featuring the star's ridiculously wide shoulders, Phyllis Davis' ridiculously deep decolletages and a zippy red 1957 Ford Thunderbird.
This one does on a conventional broadcast network what the Starz Network's "Magic City" tried to do and failed at miserably.
That is, bring hot weather resort towns full of corruption back to their origins in the late '40s and early '50s. In the case of "Magic City," it was Miami, encircled by the Cuba-loving mob. In the case of Vegas, it's the mob moving in (symbolized by Michael Chiklis) and meeting up with law enforcement still redolent of Vegas' status as a sand-covered frontier town on the lookout for prowling nighttime coyotes (in the person of Dennis Quaid, always a pleasure on screens on any size).
The new sheriff carries a Winchester .30-30, wears a cowboy hat and strides into dangerous situations with his shoulders hunched and his rifle ready to do his talking for him. He could be Chuck Connors in "The Rifleman," for pity's sake.
The show's pilot wasn't great, but it was nothing if not watchable.
Bad Idea Bound to Be Pretty Good TV: "Nashville" (Oct. 10, ABC). The idea of a weekly generational catfight between Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere as country singers of different vintages has cornered half the entire season's capacity for sexism and ageism.
The good news is that Britton and Panettiere are good, so who's going to care much? It doesn't hurt that all that stereotyping was created by writer Callie Khouri, who once gave the world "Thelma and Louise," a movie that gave the world female buddies in a way pop culture had never seen before.
Khouri is married to T-Bone Burnett, who's going to be executive producer of the show's music. To anyone who knows anything at all about vernacular American music, that's all you need to say: T-Bone Burnett, producer of the music for, say, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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> Abbott continues to expand its biologics manufacturing capabilities for commercial manufacturing and clinical supply of drug substances, according to Ralph Lambalot, plant manager, biologics production, Abbott Bioresearch Center. Recent capacity expansions at its Barceloneta, Puerto Rico facility include an additional 12,000 L bioreactor for commercial supply of Humira, as well as the introduction of small-volume parenteral filling capabilities. The addition brings to the Puerto Rico facility the potential to readily expand to two trains with a combined 60,000 L capacity in the future.
In October, Abbott will bring its first fully disposable manufacturing suite online with the introduction of a 500 L cGMP manufacturing train using all single-use systems at its Worcester, MA facility. The disposable suite will enable Abbott to further accelerate clinical-development timelines with rapid changeovers for new product introductions, added Michelle Calhoun, commercial operations, marketing. The addition provides a fifth cGMP manufacturing train to the multiproduct facility's existing four trains equipped with 3,000 L and 6,000 L bioreactors.
> Jim Hamby, Ph.D., vp of business development at Ash Stevens, reported that the company is in the early phases of a multiyear expansion that will add new capacities and capabilities to the company's manufacturing plant in Riverview, MI. Upgrades will include new process-development laboratories, a high-potency drug development and manufacturing containment suite, a state-of-the-art materials-handling and storage facility, and a large-capacity reactor suite, among other enhancements.
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The company's initial offering is GA-map™, an array technology that profiles a patient's gut microbiota, providing screening of 100+ samples/day. The company currently is finalizing tests for infants and expects to move into adult screening tests later this year. Another application is to use these tests for research purposes to compare normal and diseases profiles. The company is looking for collaborators in these areas.
> iSentio also specializes in molecular diagnostics, but for mixed bacterial sequencing from clinical specimens. According to May Kristin Roen, CFO, the company's new software tool, RipSeq®, has the ability to detect and identify bacteria directly from clinical samples by broad-range PCR targeting the 16S rRNA gene and DNA sequencing (direct 16S rDNA sequencing).
With this approach, an answer can be obtained in as little as 5–8 hours in contrast to traditional culturing approaches that take 2–7 days, she pointed out, adding that advanced algorithms eliminate the need for culture and manual separation of the bacteria prior to sequencing. Roen said this makes direct sequencing relevant for a broader range of clinical specimens including those from abscesses and pleural fluids.
The company is focusing on increasing the number of bacterial strains identifiable by sequence analysis. Several laboratories are currently using or testing the software application, and iSentio already has customers in seven countries including the U.S. and Germany, continued Roen. The company expects to open the first office in Asia in 2011.
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The 5 Greatest Unscripted Disasters in Pro Wrestling
Even if you hate sports, you can still love seeing things go hilariously wrong. Well, I have good news: Pro wrestling was made for that shit. I've spoken before about how professional wrestlers are the best actors in the world, and other Cracked writers have shown us some pretty brutal scenes from when wrestling gets too real. They're so rare, but when these moments do happen, they instantly become legend for wrestling fans. So let's all appreciate the fine art of unplanned disasters like ...
#5. Jeff Hardy Shows Up to His Headline Pay-Per-View Match Completely Bombed
Jeff Hardy is widely considered to be one of the best "daredevil" type wrestlers who ever lived. For years, he was portrayed as the ultimate underdog -- a performer with immense amounts of talent, but lacking the bulk and aggression necessary to overpower his superior, Speedo-wearing title holders. And more recently, he was known as a big ol' fuckin' drug lord.
Somewhere between being a WWE superstar and having his pretty-boy ass tossed in jail on five felony charges for cocaine, opium, Vicodin, and steroids, he moved on to TNA, WWE's laughably bad "competition." He then worked his way up to a world title match with legendary wrestler and The Crow fetishist Sting, which was to be featured in their 2011 pay-per-view Victory Road. It was the match ... the headliner that people paid actual money to see, both at the event and at home. And what they got was just flat out bizarre. Even by "dudes in face paint who aren't ICP" standards.
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"Hey, if Brandon Lee objects, he can just call me up and- Oh, wait. Shit."
The match hit bottom before the introductions were even finished and just started digging down from there. Hardy's music hit and then played to an empty stage for 47 seconds. On paper, that doesn't sound like that long, but seriously, stop what you're doing and time out 47 seconds. It's an eternity -- especially on TV, where even five seconds of silence can bring a crowd to an uneasy confusion. Now watch as that amount of hanging awkwardness gets centered on clouds of dry ice, neon lights, and lasers ... and no Hardy.
It went on for so long that it started to feel like he had abandoned the show altogether, and just as the audience was about to give up, Hardy stumbled out of the fog and got all '60s flower child with the camera.
"Whoa, man. What if like what I see as red, you see as ... like ... corn ... what was I talking about? Am I real?"
Now, keep in mind that the TNA officials knew that he was fucked up at this point, but they didn't know it was this bad until minutes before he was due to walk out and perform. So while Hardy was stumbling down the ramp and trying to absorb the pretty colors, TNA's management was rushing around backstage, trying to figure out how to avoid the inevitable lawsuit that forces them to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds. Remember, this was the match that they had built up for weeks as the reason for you to give them money for a show that's normally free.
When they finally got around to the actual introductions, the crowd booed Hardy, and he returned the sentiment by flipping them off:
And no, this isn't his normal wrestling hand sign. You're thinking of Stone Cold Steve Austin.
After introducing Sting, a new song started up and general manager Eric Bischoff came out, giving the "time out" hand signal. He proceeded to the ring and shook Jeff Hardy's hand, leaning in to wish him luck. Or at least that's what he was pretending to do. In reality, he was relaying new instructions for the match, which were something along the lines of "Lay your stupid fucking ass down and end this quick. You're in no condition to be out here, you goddamn drug addict." Something like that -- we can only speculate. He then walked over to Sting and passed the info to him as well, again, under the guise of "I'm just here to wish you luck."
There was a small mock scuffle to give Bischoff his exit cue, and then the match began. For the first full minute, Hardy walked around the ring, doing that thing you do with a ball to get your dog all wound up, where you hold it up (his T-shirt, in this case) and pretend that you're about to throw it, but then decide against it at the last second because you're a horrible, manipulative dick. Meanwhile, Sting sat back and just smoldered with anger because, remember, he's just been told by management that he has to somehow quickly end a highly promoted match that every potential rioter and arsonist in those seats paid to see.
The actual meat of the match lasted 20 seconds. There was some hair pulling and a punch or two thrown. And then out of the blue, Sting just bends Hardy over backward into his finishing maneuver, the Scorpion Death Drop, and plants him hard onto the mat. Now, check out the three count here:
Notice how Hardy tries to kick out at the end, but it looks all awkward, like he's being forcefully pinned to the mat so he can't get up and continue the match? Yeah, that's because he is. Sting knew Hardy would try to put on a full performance, so the only way to end it was to pin him for real. Then, like an extremely pissed-off father who just caught his son tattooing his infant sister in her crib, Sting stared a hole through Hardy and walked away. As he neared the top of the ramp, the crowd was chanting "bullshit," to which Sting turned around and offered a sympathetic "I agree."
#4. JBL Beats the Fuck Out of Blue Meanie ... for Real
There are so many stories about why this took place that it's impossible to give an accurate account. Some people say that it started with an Internet cat fight. Others say that JBL (the big guy with the cowboy hat in the above video) walked into the arena knowing that he was going to attack the Blue Meanie (an out of shape fat dude who already had staples in his head from an injury the night before).
What we do know for sure is that there was a staged brawl that went down in the ring, and both men were a part of it. A few seconds into it, JBL found Meanie and fist-tagged his suckhole. A whole bunch. And when it all settled down, the Blue Meanie looked like whale afterbirth.
Oh yeah, don't eat while you're reading this article.
Once the WWE got wind of the incident, they put an immediate stop to it, because you can't have your talent fighting for real like that. You're risking major injuries, lawsuits, and lost TV time when one of them has to take time off to heal up.
Oh, no, wait -- that's what a normal company would do. The WWE actually worked the very real incident into a storyline and pitted these two men against each other. These men who clearly hated each other and were not afraid to break the cardinal rule of wrestling and legitimately throw down.
Meanie finally got some proxy payback in a "no disqualification" match that -- wait for it -- also became real. In that match, JBL was supposed to be hit in the head with a chair by another wrestler named Stevie Richards. However, in the world of wrestling, you obviously don't take a full-on shot to the head with a large hunk of metal. That shit would literally fucking kill you. There are techniques to giving and receiving those shots that maximize the amount of noise made by the impact while at the same time reducing the amount of force put across the performer's skull.
At 5:25 in the above video, you'll notice that Richards follows none of those safety techniques. He just rears back and cracks JBL with a shot so hard, I'm genuinely surprised he survived, let alone remained conscious. Yes, that chair shot was scripted as part of the match. No, it was not supposed to be delivered in that very real, very purposeful manner. By the way, if you don't like blood, stop watching after that, because it gets pretty bad.
That's their "let's get the fuck out of here before he wakes up" walk.
When asked about it, Richards said, "JBL had it coming. It's that simple." And then he told WWE that they could fire him if they wanted because he didn't give a shit. He did what was right.
#3. Andre the Giant Shows Up Drunk and Decides to Be a Dick
Here's the problem with hiring a guy as big as Andre the Giant: He can do whatever he wants, and there isn't a goddamn thing you can do about it. If he decides he wants to take a shit on your chest, you just have to quickly come to terms with the fact that you're about to get shit-chested. All you can do is try to craft a thank you speech that touches him enough to not move on to other bodily expulsions.
In the above video, Andre is wrestling Akira Maeda in the highly respected New Japan Pro Wrestling. The thing is, Akira was kind of a douchebag piece of shit who thought he was much, much better than he actually was. He was known for legitimately attacking other wrestlers in the ring, JBL style, so the company's booker supposedly asked Andre to teach him a lesson in humility. Andre evidently took this to mean "Get drunk and flop on top of the guy a few times. Then walk around for 30 minutes while he kicks the fuck out of your leg fat."
"This is for all those future Princess Bride jokes."
And that's exactly what happened. Akira attempted to work a legitimate match a few times, but Andre wasn't having it. Growing more frustrated by the minute, Akira just started taking the giant down and putting him in legitimate cross arm breakers and ankle locks -- maneuvers that if applied correctly on non-gigantic men would give them a nice case of surgery after the match.
In response, Andre started full force kicking him in the face. He didn't just not give a fuck. He had no fucks in the first place. One cannot give fucks that one does not have.
Finally, 25 minutes into the bout, the founder of the company came down to ringside and attempted to talk to both wrestlers, but he might as well have been talking to the goddamn ring itself. Akira continued to kick the shit out of Andre's legs, and Andre continued to stumble around drunkenly until he was finally taken down one last time, at which point he straight up told Akira, "Pin me." When Akira refused, the Giant repositioned himself in the ring, spread his arms, and offered the free pin again.
Which is a lot like being offered free room and board by Sarlacc. Sometimes it's just safer to pass.
Eventually, everyone from both sides of the booking got offended enough that they entered the ring, and the match ended in a unanimous clusterfuck. Akira later went on to kick a man so hard in the face, it broke his fucking orbital bone. He was fired after that one.


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We had an unusual mix of requests a couple of weeks ago and now, some interesting responses and recipes have followed.
Gwendolynne Y. Frazier of Moncks Corner was looking for two old cake recipes: one for a pound cake that appeared in this newspaper circa 1976, that she thinks had "Peggy" in the name. Secondly she asked for a "poor man's butter cake."
I'm not sure we hit the bullseye, but we did get some older recipes to share.
First, allow me to wax about pound cake, a longtime favorite in the South. Named for its ratios - traditionally 1 pound each of flour, butter, eggs and sugar - it's simply delicious. Rich but not heavy, sweet but not overly so, accommodating to flavorings, a fine stage for fresh fruits and whipped cream or custard sauces, yet it can stand just fine on its own, thank you very much. There are iced and glazed versions but in my view, no gilding is needed.
You can enjoy a slice for dessert after dinner and even for breakfast the next morning - toasting is recommended. Goes especially well with a fresh cup of coffee or tea.
One older recipe comes from Joyce Davis of Charleston. She writes, "This was my grandmother's and my mother's favorite recipe. It is not as large as most current recipes and is baked in the tube pan that is solid (not with removable tube insert). Of course they did not have Baker's Joy!"
Pound Cake
2 cups sugar (sifted)
1/2 pound butter
2 cups plain flour, sifted 3 times
5 eggs
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray pan with Baker's Joy.
Cream together sugar and butter. Add flour and eggs alternately to sugar mixture and beat together as quickly as possible.
Pour batter into pan. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Do not peek.
Terri Whiteman of Summerville shares an old family recipe for pound cake with walnuts. "My mother made this cake every Christmas from the late '50s on. Today my sister has taken on the duty. As she lives in California, the cake now arrives by mail. Over the years we have experimented with other ingredients such as coconut with good success."
125-Year-Old Walnut Pound Cake
1/2 pound butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour, divided use
1 cup black walnuts, chopped fine
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup cream
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar, beat well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add flavoring and beat.
Mix 1/4 cup flour with the nuts.
Mix baking powder into the remaining flour and add to the wet mixture alternately with cream, starting and ending with flour. Fold in nuts.
Bake in a large greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Do not open oven during the first hour of baking.
Peggy Cooper was another reader who responded to Gwendolyn's requests. "Attached is a copy of the Poor Man Cake recipe you asked for. I am pleased to share this real life, much-used recipe. ... My mother-in-law, Lura Cooper, clipped this recipe from the Johnson City, Tenn., Press Chronicle in the early 1930s. My husband and I included this recipe in a family cookbook we compiled in 1994. So, it is an old tried-and-true favorite. For my modern taste, I use a bit more milk and a smaller pan for a thicker cake."
Poor Man's Cake
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon extract
12/3 cups self-rising flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar and egg. Add the milk and extract. Stir in flour until it is well-blended. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan. Pat the mixture in the pan and bake for 30 minutes or until light brown. This may be eaten hot or cold. Serve with any fruit preferably peaches or any kind of berries.
Carol Dotterer of James Island also sends a version of butter cake that she got out of "Quaker Flavors."
Butter Cake
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups sifted unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
2/3 cup milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well, until light in color. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour. Mix well but on lowest speed of mixer, just until all is mixed. Bake in two 8-inch round pans greased and lined with waxed paper.
Meanwhile, Sharon Cook of Charleston asked about non-tomato-based pasta toppings for different kinds of pasta, both hot and cold.
Marne Rummler answered her call with this recipe from "Gourmet's In Short Order" cookbook. "This is great in the summer or winter, but in the summer, I have lots of mint in my garden. I have doctored the recipe a little."
Fusilli with Carrots, Peas and Mint
Serves 2, can be multiplied easily
3/4 cup fresh bread crumbs (whirl a piece of bread in your food processor)
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided use
1 large chopped clove of garlic or 1/2 cup chopped shallot
11/4 cups grated or julienned carrots
3/4 cup chicken broth
1 cup frozen peas
1/4 cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 pound cooked fusilli or other pasta
1/4 cup fresh mint, chopped
In a skillet cook the bread crumbs in 1 tablespoon of the oil until they are golden brown and crisp. Transfer them to a bowl.
In the skillet cook the garlic or shallot in the remaining oil over medium heat until soft; add carrots and broth and simmer for 3 minutes. Add the peas and cream and cook for another couple of minutes, adding salt and pepper to taste. Simmer until the liquid is reduced by about a fourth. Stir in the mint. Pour over the drained pasta and top with the crunchy bread crumbs.
Note: The peas can be substituted with chopped zucchini or broccoli.
Another request came in a phone call from Patsy Richards of Jedburg. She remembers making a "real easy" ice cream while growing up in an Air Force family and moving around. She recalls it having lemon juice, orange juice and vanilla.
Carol Ann Smalley of James Island emailed, saying "This recipe was given to me by a friend at least 40 years ago and was a favorite of my family, back in our ice cream churning days in Tennessee."
Six Three's
Mix together:
3 cups sugar
3 cups cream (part half and half)
3 cups milk
Churn the above until almost frozen.
Blend, then add:
Juice of 3 lemons
Juice of 3 oranges
3 bananas
Churn until frozen. Enjoy!
Who's got the recipe?
From Tracie Collins: "I was just having a serious craving for the Shrimp Savannah that Garibaldi's (restaurant) used to serve. Any chance someone has the recipe?"
Elsie Clees of James Island writes, "I really enjoy the Cracker Barrel, especially on Saturdays when they have their chicken tenders over rice ... and I wonder if any of your readers can come up with this recipe. They usually make it over wild rice now, but they have had it over white rice and both are good. I would even like a similar recipe for this, maybe made with canned soup, which would make it easier to prepare."
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The completion date later was moved to this spring, and then to the end of this year. Now the finish line is up in the air.
Construction could soon skid to a halt – pushing the completion date into 2014 – due to a rift between the general contractor and a state agency overseeing waterfront development.
Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. earlier this month notified the contractor for the $20 million project that it intends to remove the company from the job because of delays. Thomas Dee, the agency's president, in a letter accused DiPizio Construction Co. of failing to maintain the project schedule, provide required materials as necessary and coordinate work by subcontractors.
"ECHDC and its consultants have repeatedly advised your firm of its deficient work and taken all reasonable steps to ensure the work can be completed in a timely and efficient manner. ... Despite these efforts, DiPizio has failed to demonstrate any significant improvement in its performance, necessitating the actions taken here," Dee wrote.
DiPizio Construction countered in court documents that it was being made a scapegoat to deflect attention from the agency's shortcomings. The company is hoping to stay on the job, and it says it can finish by Nov. 1 – nearly a year later than the waterfront agency envisioned. The contractor has also launched a lawsuit to recoup losses in the event it is dismissed.
Both sides will appear June 5 before Judge Timothy J. Walker in State Supreme Court, where the construction company – which for now remains on the job – will seek a preliminary injunction to halt the agency's effort to remove it from the site.
If the injunction is not granted and the waterfront agency doesn't change its mind, the company will be given a three-day notice to vacate the site, and the construction project will grind to a halt.
In his letter to DiPizio, Dee cited a Jan. 24 report compiled by Liro Engineering that reviewed DiPizio's work and offered ways to reduce delays and make improvements. The recommendations, he wrote, still failed to "demonstrate any significant improvement in its performance."
But none of the delays could be laid on the company's doorstep, DiPizio countered through attorney Michael E. Ferdman. It called the reasons for termination "vague and easily disputed."
"The Notice of Termination is a political document, issued to cover up the real truth about this project: the bad faith administration of the construction agreement by the defendant respondent, needlessly forcing long delays and driving up not just DiPizio Construction Co.'s costs, but taxpayers' costs," Ferdman wrote.
He warned that the company – which he said has an excellent reputation within the industry and a 35-year history of working on state projects, in which nothing like this has occurred before – could "suffer irreparable damage" if terminated. He said termination could also result in pink slips for 60 construction workers.
DiPizio Construction was supposed to begin work in February 2012, but work was held up until May because of delays in state funding. The 300-day timetable to complete the project was interrupted due to winter weather between Dec. 1 and March 1, when the ground thawed and the air was warm enough to pour concrete.
The company maintains that delays beyond its control – delays for which it blames the waterfront agency – have now pushed the timetable to late fall.
It's not clear how long it will take the waterfront agency to get the project back on track if DiPizio Construction is off the job.
Pete Gallivan, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, declined to comment, with the project in litigation.
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Obviously, Pure.....the little pathetic liberals in here think that we should tolerate child molesters and murderes. After all---they ARE the ones holding candles and feeling sorry for the MURDERER instead of helping the VICTIMS!!
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Babcock wants to keep scoring depth and size in the top 6. If not size then strength atleast. Most of the good teams in the league have a lot bigger top 6 it's an obvious weakness of ours. What Tatar and Andersson is doing on the 3rd line is good for their development and for the team. Abdelkader has absolutely no offensive ability but he's strong enough to hang with most teams top 6. We're keeping the puck out of our net this way and I think that's what Babcock wants. Flip will replace Abdelkader. Babcock doesn't think Abdelkader is a legitimate top 6 but he is filling in for our injuries he will go back down to the bottom 6 soon enough
And honestly I don't have a huge problem with Cleary up there. He's good in our own end and can knock people off the puck and a good cycler. I'd rather be sound defensively with structure throughout the lineup and I'm seeing it these last three games
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Man found dead in back yard Friday
Dramatic phone calls were released Wednesday related to a Flagler County woman making a gruesome discovery.
That woman called 911 after finding the body of a middle-aged man behind a home in Palm Coast last week.
The dramatic calls tell the story of a homeowner making the most shocking discovery of her life.
"Oh, my God. Oh, my God," the 911 caller said. "I just found a dead body in my back yard."
The woman said she smelled an unusual odor emitting from the property and went outside to investigate.
"The neighbor who went missing and the vultures who have been around for a while. We decided we're not going out there, but something's been bugging me to just go and check it out, so I did just now and I--," said the 911 caller.
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The scene turns green
Green days near. Do you know where your derby is?
Starting today, the Irish inclined can party six ways till Sunday, which is St. Patrick's Day. Events abound, including a don't-miss concert by renowned Chicago-based Celtic band the Tossers tonight at the Crooked I (page 20) and a night with Irish storyteller and writer Malachy McCourt on Friday in Fredonia, N.Y., (page 27).
On Sunday, you can party from sunup as bars open early to serve bangers and mash, green eggs and ham and -- if you're game that early -- green beer.
Jay Eggleston has green game. For St. Patrick's Day in 2012, he sported a green Mohawk wig, painted his face the colors of the Irish flag and rode on Sherlock's float in the St. Patrick's Day parade. He's gearing up for another round of fun.
"I'll probably go with a couple of friends and do it Saturday and Sunday. I try to do most of the Irish pubs and then the local watering holes," said Eggleston, 23, who prefers Irish beer, such as Guinness and Smithwick's. "There's just a lot of heritage to (the day). A lot of Irish people and a lot of Irish music."
For some, the fun will begin with Saturday's parade at 2 p.m., which kicks off at 11th and State streets and winds up in front of St. Patrick Catholic Church.
"I know a lot of the establishments around State (Street) use it as their kickoff," said Michele Wheaton, the parade organizer. "No matter what the weather is, the Saturday before is a good day for it because things start to wind up for St. Patrick's Day."
Wheaton expects more than 60 units, including Irish wolfhounds, a green pony, a half-dozen floats, fire trucks, the Erepa Grotto Pipes & Drums, candy tossers, Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott, former Bishop Donald Trautman and the newest St. Patrick knights and ladies, among others.
The weather forecast isn't like 2012's, when Erie enjoyed a rare crazy-warm St. Patrick's Day. Still, with help from reliable sponsors (including Erie Insurance, Sullivan's, Sherlock's/Park Place and the Erie Times-News) and volunteers, the parade will draw its usual green-clad crowd.
So will downtown bars, including Sherlock's, which celebrates St. Patrick's Day especially hard because it's also the bar's birthday. The downtown staple opened in 1977, and Park Place followed suit by debuting on St. Patrick's Day several years later. They tag-team this holiday.
"We're planning for a big party again this year, as we do every year," said the club's Bev Walker. "Hopefully, the weather cooperates, but I've been in years with snowstorms and it's always good. But I don't think anything could be like last year. That was insanity."
Sherlock's will celebrate its first Guinness toast of the weekend just before Paddy Whacked plays Saturday at 6 p.m., then continue them hourly. Geek Army (2 p.m.) and I-90s (10 p.m.) also play Saturday, and the party rolls onward Sunday with a DJ at 7 a.m., followed by the Vendettas, Geek Army, more Paddy Whacked, Money Shot and I-90s.
Molly Brannigans is always a green hot spot, though new general manager Michael O'Connor has yet to experience it. "Everybody says that people in Erie schedule their vacation days around St. Patrick's Day," he said.
Get ready, bub. It'll be shamrocking with music, Rince na Tiarna dancers, Irish fare and more. Like many places, Molly's will open at 7 a.m. on Sunday; it'll serve up kegs and eggs, rashers of bacon, bangers (sausages) and more. Breakfast is at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Of course, it also has Irish beers and whiskey, especially whiskey.
"We have the largest Irish whiskey selection anywhere in the region. I brag about that," O'Connor said. "The company (Pernod Ricard) that brings Irish spirits into the U.S. photographed our bar and uses it on the home page of their website. So, we're doing it right, I think."
Practically every downtown bar -- including Irish staples Sullivan's and Scully's Pub -- will do it up. But you needn't make State Street your home. Irish Cousins in Lawrence Park will also beat the bodhran and pass out beads. Look for Hammersmith on Friday, DJ Josh Walters on Saturday, and Irish breakfast and DJ Brian Waller on Sunday.
"This is my favorite day of the year," said Joe Steiner, the Cousins' general manager. "We get the tour buses here, and it gets crazy. We're pretty good-sized, but we're going to be packed throughout the day. We've seen some characters on St. Patrick's Day. The people here, they're just good spirited."
Crowley's in Cranesville also goes gonzo; it'll have live music all weekend; see page 15. Oasis Pub serves up pints of green beer, Irish games and music and breakfast (9 a.m.) on Sunday.
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5 Signs the New 'RoboCop' Movie Might Be Terrible
RoboCop was the finest movie, where the title was also the entire concept, the script, and all the advertising you'd ever need. Anyone who isn't excited by that concept isn't going to be motivated by posters, trailers, or 10,000 volts through their dead joyless heart. RoboCop is such a classic of science fiction, it proves that Isaac Asimov got the three laws of robotics wrong.
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Three lines of code responsible for more ass-kicking than the Halo engine.
RoboCop is the story of a noble hero destroyed by scumbag villains and resurrected with the power of modern technology, where the villains are the people behind RoboCop 3 and the technology is Hollywood remakes. This is the first reboot I've been fully behind, as any attempt to create a universe where RoboCop 3 never happened has my full support. But the recent trailer has given me cause to worry.
And any world where a human has to worry about RoboCop has gone badly wrong.
#5. The Human Hand
When leaked on-set shots showed RoboCop with a human right hand last year, I convinced myself that there was a special effect missing. Putting a human hand on the end of a robot arm is like putting one of the gunners outside a tank: After the first fight, they're going to need to hose that pink smear off the bulletproof armor.
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Even random civilians are horrified by the terrible design decision.
A hand on RoboCop is more doomed than a Hand in King's Landing. Unless it came from Chow Yun-Fat, it can't be as accurate as a machine, and it can't come from Chow Yun-Fat because he'll never die in the line of duty. Worse, turning his primary weapon holder into a weak point means that the only action hero who can actually survive concentrated machine gun fire still needs enemies stupid enough to miss at point-blank range.
People made jokes about shooting the original RoboCop in the face, but when he removes his helmet, you can see that they've replaced his entire skull with metal and hardened plastic, pinning his face back over it. (This is also implied in the scene where they screw down the LED display behind his eyes before he wears a helmet.) They're not going to replace only the back of his skull. That would be a titanium ice-cream scoop holding his brains as a weak point.
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Baskin Robbins' new "faceful of tortured loss" flavor proved unpopular and expensive.
The symbolism of a human hand pulling the trigger for a robotic drone (after being killed by a terrorist-style car bomb) is painfully obvious, but not as painful as that hand getting shredded by machine gun fire. RoboCop's human hand is even more vulnerable than a regular cop's human hand because most human torsos don't create ricochets. The symbolism is also destroyed when they show him firing from his artificial hand anyway.
I'm all for new themes. It's 20 years later, the movie should be about something else. RoboCop is the perfect vehicle to explore the morality of drone pilots, literally turning the pilot into something less than human in order to make him better at killing on command. It reduces the person to just another expendable, mass-produced link in the chain, distancing those who order the deaths from their actions.
If I thought the new movie were capable of subtlety, I'd think they were deliberately taking the piss out of the original. The right hand is the first thing Alex Murphy loses when he's shotgun-crucified by Clarence Boddicker, and his resulting right robo-hand has a data spike that's essential to every pivotal scene in the movie: recognizing his own murderers, defeating Boddicker, even facing down the final villain in the OCP boardroom.
#4. Popup Visor Shades
The original RoboCop was such a cool design that he acted as a mobile morgue, preserving the criminal bodies he was constantly creating until forensics could get there. With a metal body and human lower face, he was made entirely of pieces that either looked or sounded badass. His helmet was so cool, he could stare down Judge Dredd without flinching about stealing the idea.
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The only RoboCop head shot that doesn't reduce the crime rate by one.
It was the most awesomely armor-plated symbol in modern cinema: the faceless mask of machinery and corporate law, cracked by his struggle for justice and betrayal by big business, then removed entirely as he recovered his remaining humanity. It required a near death experience and a power drill to remove the unfeeling bolts that had been driven through his living brain to hide the man who had died.
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The original Alex's face was pinned over the machinery, a human face stretched over the corporate machine to make it more acceptable. The new face looks like someone wearing a face-forming helmet, because Iron Man really made a lot of money and Hollywood really is that blatant.
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"Did those idiots leave me with a fleshy hand?"
The new RoboCop flicks his visor down over his eyes whenever he wants to look tough. The reason is obvious: Hollywood treats the audience as a 3-month-old infant, unable to recognize emotions unless they can constantly see the entire face. Peter Weller could convey more emotion with his lower jaw than most people could with an entire opera. The new guy shouts and screams, and the result is a generic tough guy with a convertible head, a cover he can flick down to try to look badass. Well done, Strike Entertainment, you've turned the symbol of faceless authority into douchebro shades.
#3. Tough Dude RoBroCop
RoboCop was an electric Frankenstein, a victim butchered by the collision between morality and megacorporations, justice and greed. His memory erased, he worked to do the right thing while struggling to deal with what he was. He wasn't some badass Bourne, in full control of his faculties and a chiseled body, whining about whether the awesome life he was leading had his "real" name on the passports he used to adventure around the world. RoboCop didn't even ask for his own memories: they returned on their own, tormenting him, bringing pain to someone built to be immune to it.
There's the masterful scene where he struggles with static-laden memories in his old house, a ghost of his own life stalking the empty hallways of a happy home being sold by an unfeeling, artificially cheerful machine businessman -- another layer of unexpected analogy in the "tough guy shoots less-tough guys" movie. RoboCop is so awesome that he can turn a house-hunting visit into something I'd want to do, and to this day it's the only estate agency event I can sit through without trying to escape.
The reboot gets rid of all that. The instant he's booted up, he has full memory, personality, and freedom, and the very first thing he does with all three is physically assault his creator. Who's also an unarmed civilian and a doctor.
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"Hey, nerd, gimme your lunch money, I'm gonna paint this shit black and buy a sweet bike."
He even flicks down his digitized douchebro shades to menace the pencil-neck nerd (who saved his life). He's not a tortured cyborg, he's RoBroCop, an armored jock with shades and a sweet motorbike, and he will probably have his armored gorget hammered up into a popped titanium-Kevlar collar the first chance he gets.
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If a personalized license plate makes you a douche, what does personalizing your entire bike after your face do?
The result is Generic Badass Tough White Guy Number 10,000,000. But the original Alex Murphy's struggle for humanity was essential. Without it, the movie becomes Unkillable White Male Against the Masses Again. It's hard to create tension with that even when the hero's indestructibility isn't built right into the plot and his body. RoBroCop is whining about becoming the baddest ass in existence.
Although he does have one reason to be pissed. After all, as Tough White Guy in a Movie, he was effectively immune to bullets already. Bruce Willis' vest has absorbed more machine gun fire than the Ardennes, which means RoBroCop had his dick cut off for no reason at all. The unspoken truth of RoboCop is that he's the toughest eunuch in existence. The original RoboCop didn't worry about it because he was more machine than man, and suffering was his entire deal. When RoBroCop realizes he got two new guns but lost his happycannon, he's going to go on a rampage that needs the Justice League to stop.


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She is one week old today. How can it be? It seems as though we were waiting forever and preparing and rushing for Ivy to arrive and now she's here and teaching me to slow down.
Because I had her right here at home I never had to regain my sea legs. I never lost them in the first place. It's surreal to replay it in my mind as I do over and over.
We went from a family of five to a family of six without ever leaving my bedroom. And time, for a while, seemed to stop in the warmth of our happiness and love and life.
And when time started up again, it took a slower pace.
A fly tapped against the window early this morning before the sun came up. Would I have noticed it before? I bring Ivy to my chest and breathe in the quiet. The breeze through the screen tells early tales of autumn. Soft sighs chirp from this bundle of sleepy baby in my arms.
I've called on God's guidance in these calm moments more than ever. Lord, let me mother my daughter according to Your will. His whispers are heard so clearly when I let go of the busy.
She may be new, but she brings with her presence old stories and songs with a lazy rhythm. Appreciate the silence, Mama. This stillness is for you and me.
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First of its kind design competition visioned Nolen's Gateway to city
LITTLE ROCK – The winners of the Envision Little Rock design competition were announced Friday at City Hall during the centennial celebration of John Nolen's master park plan. Leaders from The City of Little Rock, Keep Little Rock Beautiful, StudioMAIN, Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects participated in the event.
The first of its kind design competition, Envision Little Rock invited architects and planners to envision an iconic Gateway for Little Rock. This Gateway is centered on the intersection of Capitol Avenue and Interstate 30 and is an ode to a Gateway envisioned by John Nolen, one of the nation's premier landscape architects and city planners in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, who created a park master plan for Little Rock in 1913.
"John Nolen's master plan for the Little Rock park system was imaginative and contemporary," said Truman Tolefree, Director of Little Rock Parks and Recreation Department. "Today we celebrate 100 years and counting of Mr. Nolen's vision."
Nolen's Report on a Park System for Little Rock Arkansas (available for download here) offers a unique look at Little Rock existing parks system in 1913 and presents a vision for the future. Nolen's vision can be seen in the Arkansas River Trail, Fourche Creek land acquisition, Main Street low impact development, Riverfront Park, John Barrow and Wright Avenue Streetscapes, and many other projects that are part of Little Rock current day development.
The Envision Little Rock design competition, which is planned to be an ongoing annual or semi-annual endeavor, sought to bring at least part of Nolen's vision to the 21st Century.
"Both professional and student entrants created unique designs for the intersection of Capital Avenue and Interstate 30," said Bob Callans, a Little Rock landscape architect and historian of John Nolen who helped establish Envision Little Rock. "Many incorporated the existing Hangar Hill neighborhood, Clinton Library and Heifer International as well as imagined grand public structures, transportation depots and parks. All entrants should be commended for their creativity."
Winners of the Envision Little Rock design competition will receive a combined $3750 in awards determined by public voting as well as a professional jury. The winners are:
Public Vote "Establishing Connections" – Chris Sheppard's Urban Greenway (found here)
Public Vote "Envisioning an Icon" – John Krug's Gateway Twin Towers (found here)
Public Vote "Wildcard" – Maury Mitchel's Agri-City (found here and here)
Overall Student Winner – Mary Nell Patterson's Silver Spire (found here and here)
Jurors said, "The 250-foot spire itself provides a stunning and modern counterpoint to the State Capitol," and "The silver ribbon that unravels leading visitors on a tour of main attractions in Little Rock would be a magnificent navigation system for tourists."
Overall Professional Winner – John Krug's Gateway Twin Towers (found here)
Jurors said, "The Gateway design is relatively simple, but elegant," and "The phased redevelopment of the east side of the freeway, well connected by pedestrian ways, public transit and roadways, is well thought out and completely within reason. The final product is significant."
"We are excited to see that the Envision Little Rock design competition sparked so much interest and creativity within the community," said Jordan Rogers with StudioMAIN. "All the submissions really show what can become a reality for Little Rock."
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Cherry Valley's Ringland-Johnson Construction is the construction manager for Woodward Inc.'s 440,000-square-foot, $300 million manufacturing and office campus in Loves Park.
"Woodward's CEO and board of directors commitment to build in the Rockford area is a 100-year decision," Ringland-Johnson President Brent Johnson said. "It will forever change our area's landscape and gives us all renewed confidence in our collective future."
The project will do more than just benefit Ringland-Johnson. More than 1,000 local tradesmen will have worked on the project when it is completed and nearly two dozen local companies will have done at least some portion of the project.
Here are the companies from Boone, Ogle, Stephenson and Winnebago counties that have won contracts for the Woodward project.
Construction manager: Ringland-Johnson Construction, Cherry Valley
Civil engineer: Arc Design Resources Inc., Loves Park
Civil road engineer: Fehr Graham, Rochelle
Landscape architect: Thomas Graceffa and Associates Inc., Rockford
Architectural Metals, Loves Park
Ceroni Piping, Belvidere
City Wide Insulation, Rockford
Gerdau Ameristeel, Belvidere
Hoss Steel Solutions Inc., Loves Park
Mechanical Inc., Freeport
Morse Electric, Freeport
N. Trak Group, Roscoe
Northern Illinois Services, Rockford
Quick Cuts Concrete Cutting Services, Belvidere
Rock Valley Fence, Loves Park
Rock Valley Glass, Cherry Valley
Rockford Concrete Paving, Rockford
Rogers Ready Mix & Materials Inc., Rockford
Scandroli Construction Co., Rockford
Testing Service Corp., Rockford
The Rockwell Group, Freeport
William Charles Construction, Loves Park
William Charles Electric, Rockford
LOVES PARK - On Aug. 23, 2012, the Rock River Valley let out a collective sigh of relief when Woodward Inc. CEO Tom Gendron stepped to a microphone and announced the Colorado-based company had chosen to build a $200 million manufacturing campus in the Rock River Valley.
A 70-acre stretch of land bordered by Forest Hills, Harlem and North Perryville roads in Loves Park was chosen over Beloit, Wis., and South Carolina. The hotly contested economic battle featured clandestine visits from governors of all three states and millions upon millions in public incentives.
Workers broke ground on the campus Oct. 12, 2013, and by then the expansion already had expanded. After assessing what the company would really need, Woodward officials increased the size of the project to 460,000 square feet - twice the size of the Woodman's grocery store on Perryville Road - and the cost to nearly $300 million.
The company employs 1,400 now and is expected to double that within 10 years, which would then make it Winnebago County's largest manufacturing employer.
"We've talked about all the reasons this is a great thing," said Glen Turpoff, head of the Northern Illinois Building Contractors Association. "It's going to create demand in the housing market. It may restart new home construction. It's going to draw more retail business. It's going to create long-term good jobs not just at Woodward but also at the companies that supply Woodward."
On the day Gendron made the announcement the unemployment rate of the Rock River Valley stood at 11.7 percent. If Woodward, the world leader in making fuel systems for aircraft, had chosen another location the reality was the region's second largest aerospace employer likely would have moved the vast majority of its local work force out of the area.
"Perhaps the most important factor here was the psychological boost it gave us," said Turpoff, who published a book, "They, Too, Cast Shadows" detailing the Rockford area construction history.
"It means our aerospace cluster is real. It's demonstrable," Turpoff said. "It gives our visitors bureau and economic development council a story to tell when they are networking.
"Iconic projects always move the needle."
So the announcement was beyond a "win" as economic development types like to call expansions or new businesses coming to town. It was perhaps the biggest win for this area since Chrysler chose Belvidere for an assembly plant.
Ironically, that long ago project is nearing an anniversary. The Chrysler plant was under construction 50 years ago and officially opened for production Sept. 13, 1965.
Here's a look at the iconic projects that have moved the needle in the Rock River Valley in the past 50 years:
Chrysler assembly plant, Belvidere, 1964-65
Page 2 of 4 - "The auto industry is the all-American industry, and the plant brought an iconic industry to town," Turpoff said. "It's had its ups and downs, and there was some real worry in 2009 over whether the plant would survive. But generations of families have grown up on very good paying jobs."
The plant now employs about 4,500 people making it the largest employer in Boone, Ogle, Stephenson and Winnebago counties.
When the plant was announced in 1963, the company estimated it would cost $50 million to build a 1.9-million-square-foot plant on 280 acres. Ragnar Benson, now owned by William Charles Construction of Loves Park, was the general contractor. William Charles, then known as Rockford Blacktop, did the grading for the plant and the rail lines, and Sjostrom & Sons won the foundations contract.
In today's dollars, that $50 million plant would cost $375.7 million, according to usinflationcalculator.com.
And it was just the beginning. Chrysler's various owners have pumped billions more into the plant when they've changed car lines or built expansions. In 2012, thousands of contractors completed the latest makeover, a 500,000-square-foot new body shop that cost nearly $700 million. The new space allowed the plant, now a part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, to be able to produce the Dodge Dart along with the Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot.
The expansion brought the plant and stamping facility to nearly 5 million square feet.
CherryVale Mall, 1972-73
"CherryVale solidified us as a major metropolitan market," Turpoff said. "Malls were going where the people were, and the fact that we were selected showed that we were considered to be a wealthy, upwardly mobile community."
Situated just off Interstate 90, CherryVale created a regional shopping attraction that some say hastened the demise of the downtown Rockford shopping district. But it also created a new economic engine that kept purring even at the depths of the major recessions in 1981-82 and 2007-09.
Interestingly, no one knows how much it cost to build in 1972 and 1973. The Register Star quoted speculations of $14 million to $15 million, which would be nearly $78 million in today's dollars, but no final cost was ever published.
"Each of the anchor stores hired their own contractors, and the mall had its own general contractor. It was impossible to add up," Turpoff said.
Scandroli Construction of Rockford got the largest piece of the project. The company served as the mason contractor for the mall and the general contractor for the Sears anchor store.
Today, the 1.3-million-square-foot shopping center, including its anchor stores and the District at CherryVale, features more than 130 stores. It's attracted significant development around it - including Magic Waters water park, a Schnuck's grocery store and Menards hardware store. And, perhaps most importantly, between 2,500 and 3,000 people work there at various times during the year, according to mall General Manager Mark Peterson.
Page 3 of 4 - Byron Nuclear Generating Station, 1975-87
It's likely no local project will ever equal the size and scope of Exelon's nuclear power plant in Byron. The two 495-foot-tall cooling towers and other assorted buildings cost $4.5 billion over 12 years. That would be $9.2 billion in today's dollars.
"The 1970s were a boom time for construction workers," Turpoff said. "Our local companies had to guarantee workers 40-hour workweeks just to keep them from going to work at Byron."
Today, about 850 people work at the plant, which produces enough electricity to power 2 million homes. Each tower periodically needs refueling and maintenance, which draws in hundreds of contractors, pumping millions more into the economy.
"It truly is the gift that keeps on giving," Turpoff said.
The MetroCentre, 1980-81
When the MetroCentre - now BMO Harris Bank Center - opened in January 1981, it capped off a 15-year campaign to get a downtown arena for Rockford.
Sjostrom & Sons was the general contractor, Orput Associates was the engineer and Larson & Darby was the architect of the $15.3 million project, most of which came from state funds. That would cost $38.1 million today.
"The MetroCentre held downtown together," Turpoff said. "It was the anchor in a lot of years when there was no other reason to go downtown."
In its first month, the arena showcased its diversity, hosting a Cheap Trick concert, the Harlem Globetrotters and the OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center Pink Ball. Over the years, the arena has showcased such diverse talents as Frank Sinatra and Cher to Metallica and Toby Keith. For more than a decade it was home to the Rockford Lightning, a minor league professional basketball franchise. Today, it draws thousands downtown to watch the publicly-owned Rockford IceHogs, the top minor league hockey affiliate to the Chicago Blackhawks.
"The IceHogs are a tremendous economic engine for downtown and that deal doesn't happen unless we have the (BMO Harris Bank Center)," Turpoff said.
UPS shipping hub, 1994
United Parcel Service spent $69 million - or $108.5 million in today's dollars - building a 600,000-square-feet freight handling terminal at the Chicago Rockford International Airport.
The deal was contingent on the airport using state and matching funds to spend $69 million to extend runways and make other improvements.
Ever since, UPS has been a part-time worker haven for Rockford. The company employs up to 1,200 during the holiday shopping season. Most work there to make ends meet at other jobs and for the insurance. UPS is one of the rare employers that extends health insurance to part-time workers.
"When UPS came here it created an alignment with an airport that absolutely needed victories to ensure its status as a destination," Turpoff said. "Passenger traffic at the airport has gone up and down over the years. The UPS hub solidified the airport as a base of operations, and it helped bring other businesses to the airport."
Page 4 of 4 - Union Pacific truck/train cargo hub, 2002-03
The Global III truck/train cargo hub in Rochelle cost $181 million to build and - along with the Rock River, Interstate 90 and the Chicago Rockford International Airport - it completed a grand slam of economic development assets for the Rock River Valley.
It was Union Pacific's first Midwestern intermodal hub outside of the congested Chicago rail lines. The hub allows trucks and trains to quickly exchange cargo from the Midwest, West and international ports. It was the fastest-growing segment of Union Pacific's business.
The hub took six years from conception to opening and analysts estimated it would generate $2.8 billion for the area's economy within 10 years.
"It hasn't quite created the economic boom that was originally anticipated," Turpoff said. "But that doesn't mean it won't over time. It's another important piece to the economic puzzle. You have to have readiness when opportunities come along and this area has readiness because of the rail hub."
Lowe's distribution center, 2006-07
The 1.45-million-square-foot Lowe's distribution center is another project that perhaps will grow in significance.
When it opened in 2007 it was deemed significant. The project, built by William Charles Construction's Ragnar Benson for about $145 million, was only made possible when Winnebago County extended Springfield Avenue over the objection of several local landowners. When that was completed Lowe's committed to locating a distribution center there.
Today, the center is home to more than 700 employees. But it sits by itself on South Springfield Avenue.
"When Lowe's decided to build here it was at a time (when) Rockford was starting to be seen as not the best place to build anything," Turpoff said. "It was a big shot in the arm, and they built it an area (southwest Rockford) that needs more industry. It hasn't attracted anything yet, but the area is road ready."
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A few days ago I wrote about how we got a new dog and all the new dog expenses. One of the more regular expenses will be Frontline and I couldn't resist a little bit of rhyming. 🙂 Frontline is a product we'll need to buy regularly for Toby and so the best option typically will be to buy it online.
What is Frontline? Frontline is a product that helps protect your dog or cat against external parasites like fleas and ticks. It comes in a "pipette" package and you simply apply the liquid inside directly to the skin. They recommend that you put it between the shoulder blades because then your dog or cat can't lick it off. They claim that Frontline will kill adult fleas in 24 hours and ticks within 48 hours. Got lice? It's supposedly effective on those guys too, stamping them out in 48 hours.
Frontline is officially classified as a NFA-VPS medicine (Non Food Animal medicine – that can be dispensed by a Veterinarian, Pharmacist, Suitably Qualified Person). These medicines need neither a clinical assessment of a pet nor a prescription.
How does it work? The active ingredient in Frontline is fipronil, a chemical that dissolves into the skin and coat of your pet. Within 24 hours it'll disperse over your pet's body surface and then concentrates in the skin's oil glands. Over the course of weeks, the fipronil is secreted into the skin and hair, which protects your pet against external pests.
The animal rescue recommended that we put on Frontline every 6 weeks, rather than every month, which would make a 12 month supply last 18 months. She wasn't too keen on the idea of using chemicals, so she spread out the regimen.
Frontline Top Spot vs. Frontline Plus: There are three versions of Frontline: Frontline Spray, Frontline Top Spot, and Frontline Plus. The Spray version is for a severe flea and tick infestation and used by vets in a clinic for a quick treatment. The Frontline Top Spot and Frontline Plus are more preventative measure applied every four weeks to provide protection against an infestation. It also kills existing infestation, but it appears to be designed to prevent. Frontline Plus includes an extra ingredient, (S)-methoprene, that kills flea eggs and larvae as well.
For now we'll be using Frontline Plus because it only costs about a dollar more per dose.
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Buying Frontline is very straight forward. All you need to know is how much your pet weighs and you can order the proper dosage online. Tobey is a stout 31 pounds and so he'll need FRONTLINE Plus for Dogs – Blue For Pets 23-44 lbs.
Here were the prices I found online for a 12 month supply:
- PetCareRX – $166.98
- Petco – $154.99 + tax ($164.29 total, 6% MD tax)
- 1800 Pet Meds/Drugstore.com – $135.56
- Amazon.com – $135.99 + shipping (EntirelyPets)
- MAAK for Pets – $103.95
- ThriftyVet.com – $82.99 (+$6 Shipping)
Hold the phones, my friend Nick told me that 1800PetMeds pricematches and I found their policy here – looks like we have a winner.
As you can see, the prices can vary by a significant amount. In fact the cheapest I found, ThriftyVet, is almost half the price of the most expensive one I found, PetCareRX! That's a staggering difference considering this is an OTC product. It's like seeing the price of Tylenol vary significantly from store to store. Fortunately I kept looking because the big brands were still charging far too much for the stuff.
Reader Harold did some digging and found that for ThriftyVet, the domain registration, PO Box, and about us pages don't match up. I haven't ordered from ThriftyVet but that seems a bit fishy, so consider yourself warned. Remember to do your due diligence whenever you're ordering products online.
Before I buy, does anyone have any recommendations for a store I missed or perhaps a recommendation on whether I should use Top Spot or Plus? We still have a dose from the rescue and we're still several weeks from using it so we have quite a bit of time before we need to buy any ourselves.{ 146 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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