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Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, announced on Thursday updates to its cloud migration software that add support for the SoftLayer CloudLayer platform. As part of the launch, Racemi has also announced special pricing of $99 per migration to CloudLayer for the next 30 days.
SoftLayer is the largest, privately held, cloud infrastructure provider in the world, with 13 data centers and 17 points-of-presence spanning the U.S., Asia and Europe.
The updates to Racemi's Cloud Path Software as a Service (SaaS) and DynaCenter on-premises software now support physical and virtual server migrations to CloudLayer cloud servers built on SoftLayer's automated infrastructure and Citrix XenServer. It's also possible to automatically migrate cloud instances from other cloud providers to CloudLayer. This provides customers with additional flexibility and choice when it comes to migrating existing workloads to public cloud computing resources. Additional information is available at www.racemi.com/index.php/softlayer.
"We continue to improve our cloud migration offerings to provide customers with the best possible experience when they transition server workloads to the cloud," said Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi. "SoftLayer is known for providing innovative cloud solutions and industry-leading performance. Adding SoftLayer support provides our customers with the broadest range of automated cloud migration options in the industry."
"SoftLayer is about delivering innovation, choice, and performance to our customers and we expect no less from our partners," said Duke Skarda, chief technology officer, SoftLayer. "With Cloud Path, Racemi has brought SaaS simplicity to cloud migration, providing our customers with a fast and easy way to migrate server workloads into CloudLayer."
Racemi has added support for SoftLayer CloudLayer to existing support for public clouds that include Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace (First Generation and OpenCloud) and Terremark.
Server workloads are migrated to the cloud by automatically creating new cloud server instances, comparing the configurations of the source and destination servers, and then configuring the necessary cloud tools, virtual machine components, disk, and network layout "in-flight" to help ensure that the image can be run on the new cloud platform. Unlike other technologies, Racemi's image-based provisioning software does not require modifications to the application. The solution is fully automated, providing unattended migration support that requires minimal user effort.
The company offers a self-service SaaS version of its cloud migration software called Cloud Path, which enables customers to migrate their applications into the cloud in minutes rather than days, weeks or even months. Racemi's pay-per-use pricing enables customers to use Cloud Path risk free, because they are only billed for successful migrations. There is no infrastructure to install at the customer location so there is no hardware to buy and nothing to maintain.
Racemi makes its DynaCenter software available to cloud providers, professional services teams, and ISVs (independent software vendors) to incorporate into their offerings, providing an easy way to add cloud on-boarding capabilities into their products and services. This enables cloud providers to realize monthly recurring revenues from new customers much more quickly, as well as expand their footprint in their existing accounts.
About Racemi
Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, has been named a "Cool Vendor" and has received other industry awards.
The company builds server provisioning and cloud migration technology that allows businesses to quickly migrate their existing physical and virtual servers between dissimilar physical, virtual, and cloud platforms and across geographies. For CSPs (cloud service providers), MSPs (managed service providers), and hosting providers, Racemi is the fastest and best method for on-boarding customers to their cloud or hosted offering.
Racemi also enables customers and partners to automate private data center provisioning by leveraging its market-leading server imaging technology to rapidly provision physical, virtual or private cloud servers in any automated use case.
For more information, visit www.racemi.com.
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The Nude and Shooting Fine Art – Episode 12
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After months of Rob talking about nudes, we finally get around to dedicating a show to the fine art nude. And of all times for Rob to have bronchitis. But, for the sake of the show, he powers through it with a lot of help from Rick and Tony!
Topics today include the difference between a fine art nude and a glamour nude, the kind of subjects Rob likes to work with, what's it like to have a nude model in front of your lens, trust and vulnerability for both the photographer and the model, and whether or not arousal is the intent in fine art. There's more… a lot more. After all, these are three guys talking about nudity in art.
Finding Inspiration for the Nude from Other Artists
Today's artist is Georgia O'Keefe and we discuss her floral paintings and whether or not there is an inherent eroticism in the painting. We spent a little more time today actually looking at the difference between overt sexuality/nudity and images where the nude has obviously been an inspiration. O'Keefe's work is the perfect catalyst for this kind of topic.
Our photographer for this topic is Mary Ellen Mark. We focused primarily on her portraiture and celebrity work. She has an ability to connect with her subject and pull from them a real reaction, even when the subject isn't paying attention to the camera. Check out her shot of John Belushi from the set of Blues Brothers.
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The defense was its typically stout self. And the Demons found the offense to match.
The Durango High School boys basketball team rolled in the quarterfinals of the Class 4A Southwestern League/Western Slope League District Championships in Grand Junction, topping No. 9 seed Battle Mountain 52-32 on Thursday.
Durango, the top seed, jumped out early and never looked back, holding the Huskies to two points in the first quarter and eight in the first half.
�We pressured them up,� DHS boys basketball head coach Alan Batiste said.
DHS (15-5) brought the pressure offensively, too, led by Willy Frownfelter, Ty Elliott and Isiah Mayberry, who all scored 10 points for the Demons.
�Offensively, we just pushed the ball, but we also showed some poise (Thursday) executing on offense,� Batiste said.
�A lot of scorers in the book. It was good.�
DHS now moves on to the district semifinals, where the Demons will face fourth-seeded Rifle (12-8) � a 29-28 winner over No. 5 Steamboat Springs � at 7:30 p.m. today. The winner will play No. 2 Palisade or No. 3 Eagle Valley in Saturday�s championship game. Durango�s game will be broadcast on KDGO 1240 AM.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE — There is nothing better than a perfectly ripe, juicy, drip-down-your chin, naturally sweet, summer peach. Peach season, June through September, is here and is gracing produce stands with a sunset of colors.
Originally from China, peaches quickly spread through the European continent and were later brought to the United States by the Spaniards in the early 1600s. Peach trees thrive in warm temperate climates, and today can be found growing in Georgia, California, Texas, and South Carolina.
Peaches, along with plums and apricots, belong to the rose family. They are a stone fruit due to the hard seed or pit found in the center. Peaches have a distinct rosy blush skin that is covered in a unique fuzz and contain a pinkish-white to yellow-gold flesh.
Peaches are a low-calorie food, full of vitamins and nutrients. They are an excellent source of Vitamins A and C, potassium, and a variety of vital antioxidants.
When selecting, choose peaches that are firm to the touch but whose flesh gives slightly when squeezed. Fresh peaches should have a strong aroma and be brightly colored. Avoid peaches that are bruised and blemished or overly green in color.
It is best if ripe peaches are consumed immediately, however, to store, place in refrigerator for 3-5 days. Under-ripe peaches should be stored at room temperature until ripe enough to eat, approximately 2-3 days. To freeze, wash, peel and remove the pit from ripe peaches. Place in a tightly sealed freezer safe package and freeze for 3-6 months.
A fresh flavorful peach makes a simple summer snack; but peaches can lend themselves to a variety of dishes and cooking methods. They can be eaten raw on cereal, in salads or salsa and even blended in smoothies. Bake peaches in pies, cobbles, and cakes or whip up a batch of peach jam. But use caution and remove the skin of the peach before baking as the skin will become tough.
Grilling, another marvelous cooking technique for peaches, will intensify the natural sweetness and bring out the juiciness. These kabobs, with peaches, pork, onions, and sweet potatoes; are grilled to magnificent perfection and screams summer.
— Chef Heather Hunsaker attended and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, but has been developing family friendly meals since she was 9-years-old in her mother's kitchen. She knows how to get food on the table in a pinch while sticking to a budget. Currently, Chef Heather serves as a freelance writer and recipe developer for meal planning site www.foodonthetable.com.


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In early December, the U.S. Census Bureau sent more than 4 million businesses, including 460 in Randolph County, its 2007 Economic Census forms. The forms are due back to the bureau on Feb. 1....
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A single man boob. Very awkward.
Kyle has a massive unimoob.
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A single man-boob residing on the chest of a male. Usually found on the overweight males of society.
Holy shit look at Kyle's unimoob! It is quite large and scary!
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Two moobs that have morphed together. Usually on the left side.
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Rock critics, on a quest for ever greater snobbery, are seldom satisfied describing bands as "rock 'n' roll" anymore. The splintered genre has bred so many incestuous subgenres that its family tree is more like a million-knotted Venn diagram. Journalists are left to desperately grasp the air at such terms as "sleaze rock," "cowpunk," "southern metal," "speed metal," "psychobilly" — all designations swimming inadequately around bands that are perfectly content being referred to as rock 'n' roll — bands such as Atlanta's Nashville Pussy, which blew the ceiling off Billy O's last week.
When adjectives like raunchy and nasty so immediately come to mind and seem to envelope the entire band like the whiskey vapor it radiates, I suppose it's natural to want to give it a name reflecting that overpowering aroma. But upon seeing Nashville Pussy on that Wednesday night, it was clear that any of the aforementioned subgenres that could be pinned to the band would obscure the straightforward simplicity of the sounds emanating from its Marshall amplifiers. It was also clear that any generic term loosely tethered to some singular aspect of the performance such as lyrical content (sex, booze and driving fast; or the southern flair — Levi's and trucker hats) or the risqué women on lead guitar and bass, would distract from the fact that the band hasn't really invented a new genre at all; it just plays loud rock 'n' roll so incredibly well, and with such genuine badassery that the real raunchy, nasty personalities of the members shine through the music. How about "badass rock"?
As I wandered the sea of Pabst tall cans, clutched happily by indigenous rockers, the show opened quietly, with local metal band Power of Cronos punctuating the silence of the bar's first rounds with some thrash- and British heavy metal-influenced scorchers about the usual metal subjects: vikings, decapitation and something called "womping," which evidently has to do with off-roading.
As the crowd filled out and the irreverent reverends in Ventura comedic bluegrass ensemble Big Jugs took the stage, it was beginning to feel more like an inebriated barn dance, as they stomped and strummed their brand of hillbilly country-folk about fellatio, crack cocaine, lesbians and the preferred number of shots to take (answer: three). Both opening acts, while worlds apart musically, together stood as a surprisingly appropriate prelude to what was to come.
They entered the stage as though they were entering an arena, emerging single file from backstage (Billy O's kitchen) after a period of private pre-partying with Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman (seriously, he was there) and seizing the stage with almost zero dicking around.
While influences can be inferred immediately — Motorhead, Guns N' Roses, Ted Nugent, all forms of outlaw country — the result is a unique brand of hard rock mayhem. Wild-haired lead guitarist Ruyter Suys, wearing a Harley Davidson T-shirt cut down the middle and barely held together by safety pins, solos like she's summoning a demon. Lead singer/guitarist Blaine Cartwright, balding while proudly sporting a halo of long black hair, snarled and sang into the microphone as if in a moonshine induced trance.
Nashville Pussy, a band that gave us an hour and 15 minutes of nonstop rock 'n' roll, ended the set ceremoniously with Suys spitting a triple of bourbon in the air to shower the crowd. "Was that Jim Beam?" I asked her afterwards "I don't fuckin' . . .." she replied, and flicked a guitar pick (or perhaps a booger) at me. Well done.


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there seems to be a very good anime missing from this website... that anime would be clannad and the clannad after story... its a shame that such a good anime is not on the biggest and best anime and manga site known to man and it should be put on here at once! it happens to be one of my favorite anime of all time and i would appreciate it if it was put on here. that is all i gotta say.
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The Mirror sports staff once again has been recognized in the Associated Press Sports Editors annual nationwide contest.
Sports writer Cory Giger won Top 10 recognition for column writing on various local topics such as Penn State football and the Altoona Curve, as well as explanatory writing for his story on the challenges and stereotypes facing black and white quarterbacks.
Sports Editor Buck Frank won Top 10 recognition in the project reporting category for his "Big Shots" series recognizing and ranking the biggest 20 shots in Blair County high school basketball history.
The Mirror's "Inside Pitch,'' the annual preseason primer to the Curve season designed by Giger, Frank and graphic artist Tom Worthington II with photography by J.D. Cavrich, was judged as one of the 10 best special sections.
This marks the seventh straight year the Mirror has been recognized by APSE.
"We're very proud of our entire sports department, and we're especially pleased for Cory and Buck, two extremely hard-working and talented sports journalists," Mirror Managing Editor Neil Rudel said. "This is a great area for sports, and we appreciate that our coverage has been judged at a high level."
Giger has now won four APSE national writing awards in the past two years, and "Inside Pitch'' has earned four Top 10 recognitions in the past five years, including three in a row.
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PITTSBURGH � It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural-gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the government subsidies that solar and wind power demand.
�The free market has worked its magic,� the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, an industry group, claimed over the summer.
The boom happened �away from the greedy grasp of Washington,� the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, wrote in an essay this year.
If bureaucrats �had known this was going on,� the essay went on, �surely Washington would have done something to slow it down, tax it more, or stop it altogether.�
But those who helped pioneer the technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, recall a different path. Over three decades, from the shale fields of Texas and Wyoming to the Marcellus in the Northeast, the federal government contributed more than $100 million in research to develop fracking, and billions more in tax breaks.
Now, those industry pioneers say their own effort shows that the government should back research into future sources of energy � for decades, if need be � to promote breakthroughs. For all its success now, many people in the natural-gas and oil industry itself once thought shale gas was a waste of time.
�There�s no point in mincing words. Some people thought it was stupid,� said Dan Steward, a geologist who began working with the Texas natural-gas firm Mitchell Energy in 1981. Steward estimated that in the early years, �probably 90 percent of the people� in the firm didn�t believe shale gas would be profitable.
�Did I know it was going to work? Hell no,� Steward said.
Shale is a rock formation thousands of feet underground. Among its largest U.S. deposits are the Marcellus Shale, under parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia, and the Barnett Shale is in north Texas. Geologists knew shale contained gas, but for more than 100 years the industry focused on shallower reserves. With fracking, large volumes of water, along with sand and chemicals, are injected underground to break rock apart and free the gas.
In 1975, the Department of Energy began funding research into fracking and horizontal drilling, where wells go down and then sideways for thousands of feet. But it took more than 20 years to perfect the process.
Alex Crawley, a former Department of Energy employee, recalled that some early tests were spectacular � in a bad way.
A test of fracking explosives in Morgantown, W.Va., �blew the pipe out of the well about 600 feet high� in the 1970s, Crawley said. Luckily, no one was killed. He added that a 1975 test well in Wyoming �produced a lot of water.�
Steward recalled that Mitchell Energy didn�t even cover the cost of fracking on shale tests until the 36th well was drilled.
�There�s not a lot of companies that would stay with something this long. Most companies would have given up,� he said, crediting founder George Mitchell as a visionary who also got support from the government at key points.
�The government has to be involved, to some degree, with new technologies,� Steward said.
The first federal energy subsidies began in 1916, and until the 1970s they �focused almost exclusively on increasing the production of domestic oil and natural gas,� according to the Congressional Budget Office.
More recently, the natural-gas and petroleum industries altogether accounted for about $2.8 billion in federal energy subsidies in the 2010 fiscal year and about $14.7 billion went to renewable energies, the Department of Energy found. The figures include both direct expenditures and tax credits.


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MACON, Ga. – Stetson men's soccer seniors Andreas Schnabl and Evan Jimmo were named to the Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference Team for their accomplishments on the field and in the classroom, as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon.
This marks the second straight season that Stetson has placed a pair of student-athletes on the Academic All-Conference squad. Last year Kai Eckenrode and Luis Ocejo earned the accolades for the Hatters.
Schnabl, who earned Capital One Academic All-District honors earlier this season, holds a 3.73 cumulative GPA while majoring in international business at Stetson. He finished his career as the all-time leader in Stetson history with 15 shutouts and a 1.27 goals-against-average. He recorded three shutouts and a 1.51 GAA during his senior season.
Jimmo, meanwhile, received postseason honors from the conference for the first time on Monday. The senior, who played all positions on the field, including outside back, during his senior season, finished fifth on the team with four points in 2013. He scored one goal, the game-winner against UMass-Lowell in the season opener, and recorded two assists this season.
Stetson was one of just three A-Sun schools, joining Mercer and ETSU, with multiple student-athletes on the Academic All-Conference Team.


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Introduced to popular culture in a song by Sly & The Family Stone: I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER. Further popularized by Bill Murray in the movie: STRIPES.Later morphing into shorthand exclamation of an incredible play in sports (usually a slam dunk) by the sports anchors at ESPN.Currently used by men to describe women with healthy physiques.
Dude 1 at a party: What's the story with the curvy Christina Hendricks looking babe by the pool !?!
Dude #2 at a party: BOOM SHAKALAKA! I would smash.
Dude #2 at a party: BOOM SHAKALAKA! I would smash.
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the sound that is heard when someone makes an awesome slam dunk.
when tim duncan made that dunk, the announcers yelled in unison, "BOOM SHAKALAKA!!!!"
di Anonymous 22 maggio 2003
An onomatopoeic "in your face." Originally the sound of a slam-dunk in basketball -- the "boom" being the dunk, and the "shakalaka" being the rattling of the backboard.
Pippen over to Grant ... he shakes and bakes ... to the basket ... BOOMSHAKALAKA! (NBA Jam announcer)
di savetheclocktower 28 luglio 2004
A phrase that Top (member of korean group big bang) sings in the song Fantasic Baby, warning this word is catchy and when Top sings it in his deep (smexy) voice you can''t help but jizzz than scream the phrase at the top of your lungs :)
di nobodywhosthatimportant 29 febbraio 2012
Synonymous with the one word form (boomshakalaka). This is like a slap in the face when you beat somebody one on one, or when something amazing happens.
(insert any form of 1 on 1 game, where person 1 totally schools person 2)...
Person 1: "Boom shakalaka!"
Person 1: "Boom shakalaka!"
di Nitaro02 25 giugno 2006
To express a feeling of joy and dominance, while at the same time trying to show to the world who you are and where you stand in the society.
To rub your achievments in an opponent or challenger's face to let them know you are in control and they cannot stop you.
Another way to say, "Who's your daddy?!?"
An expression to show people who's the boss
To rub your achievments in an opponent or challenger's face to let them know you are in control and they cannot stop you.
Another way to say, "Who's your daddy?!?"
An expression to show people who's the boss
After an intense game of table tennis the father got into his son's face and yelled, "BOOM SHAKA LAKA!!!"
di kurkiewicz 10 luglio 2008
1. Exclamation of joy and triumph in one's own accomplishments.
Originated from NBA Jam
Originated from NBA Jam
(Your playing football with some friends, and you promptly knock some arrogant punk flat on his ass)
You: Boomshakalaka!
You: Boomshakalaka!
di Rockbot 26 agosto 2003
"wow fantastic baby. BOOMSHAKALAKA BOOMSHAKALAKA BOOMSHAKALAKA"
di kpopstar 26 marzo 2012


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March 24, 2013
Resident angry with 'slaughter of our trees' To the editor: There is an issue with the city concerning the recent slaughter of our trees....
When I was at one of the unpublicized zoning meetings that Joe Csonka had initialized to take away the freedoms we have to live without more govt. intrusion, it was quite interesting. All of the trustees were there. One topic was how the drilling leases they had would rusult in lighting their cigars with $100 dollar bills and having streets paved with gold. Why tax us more when the gold will come as soon as the pipelines are in? The zoning hasn't gone away and some of us don't forget power grabs, like doubling the right of way by decree forcing people to stop parking in their driveways.
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Former UT Southwestern vice president over hospitals set to receive $440,000, records show
UT Southwestern Medical Center will pay an ex-vice president about $440,000, plus benefits, in connection with leaving her job overseeing its hospitals.
We posted news last month about Sharon L. Riley's "decision to retire in order to give priority attention to other dimensions of her life," as described in an e-mail from President Daniel K. Podolsky.
Neither that e-mail nor records released to The News address what prompted to the move. Riley, hired in 2004, had recently helped lead planning for UT Southwestern's new $800 million hospital. The school is
other records regarding Riley.
A letter sent by Podolsky and included in the released records detailed terms of Riley's exit. Her financial package is greater than the $330,000 that Parkland Memorial, UT Southwestern's main teaching hospital, recently gave its top lawyer to quit.
Podolsky also wrote that neither UT Southwestern nor Riley would discuss "facts or opinions" concerning the other that "might tend to reflect negatively" or "disparage, degrade or harm" their reputations.
I've posted the letter and a "mutual release of claims" enclosed with it on the continuation of this post.


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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
The votes from Election Day have been counted and the results are in: the Dorchester County tax referendum did not pass and in the Summerville municipal election, Town Councilman Walter Bailey was reelected to represent District 3.
According to the unofficial results from the Dorchester County Election Commission, votes tally 3,550 in favor of the Local Option Sales Tax for property tax relief (LOST) and 7,070 voted against; and in the Summerville municipal election, Walter Bailey had 535 votes and John C. Hinson had 172 votes.
The Harleyville municipal election was also held on the ballot; of the three candidates, Susan S. Bishop and Brenda Davis won 80 and 81 votes, respectively, and won the two available seats on the Harleyville Town Council.
If passed, the LOST would have added one penny to sales taxes in the county, which would have been used for to provide a tax credit to property owners. Six out of seven members of Dorchester County Council and Mayor Bill Collins publicly supported the tax.
The referendum was originally voted on in the 1990s and was also denied.
Summerville municipal election
The full municipal election consisted of seats representing Districts 1, 3 and 5 on the Summerville Town Council and one of three Commissioner of Public Works positions. All of the incumbents – Aaron Brown, Walter Bailey, Kima Garten-Schmidt and George "Jordy" Tupper, respectively – filed for reelection, but Councilman Bailey was the only candidate to face opposition.
His opponent, Hinson, announced his candidacy on the last day of the filing period in September. He told the Journal Scene that he did not think Councilman Bailey was accessible enough to his district and was overlooking the basics. Hinson admitted to The Journal Scene that he had never attended a Town Council meeting.
It appears Councilman Bailey was the only candidate of the two to campaign for the seat, creating and posting political signs across town.
For a more complete story on the outcome of the election, see the Friday edition of The Journal Scene.
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Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Stan Gable: What are you looking at, nerd?
Booger: [to himself] I thought I was looking at my mother's old douche-bag, but that's in Ohio.
Lamar Latrell, Tri-Lam: Clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands. We're Lambda Lambda Lambda and Omega Mu. We come here on stage tonight to do our show for you. We got a rockin' rhythm and a hi-tech sound that'll make you move your body down to the ground. We got Poindexter on the violin, and Lewis and Gilbert will be joining in. We got Booger Presley on the mean guitar and a rap by little ol' me Lamar. We got Takashi beating on his gong, the boys and the Mu's are clapping along. And just when you thought, ya seen it all, along comes a Lambda four foot tall. So Wormser come on out here on the floor, so we can move our bodies, like never before. Break!
[Booger is teaching Takashi poker]
Takashi: I think I've got a frush.
Booger: What the fuck's a frush?
Takashi: [showing his royal flush] A *frush*.
Booger: [showing his cards] Oh, well I've got two sevens and two sevens beats a frush.
Takashi: Oh, thank you.
Lewis: [planning the party] Do any of you have dates, besides Gilbert?
Lamar Latrell, Tri-Lam: I do!
Booger: Yeah, but that's with a guy.
Lewis: Well, what about you, Booger?
Booger: I've been out combing the High Schools all day!
[Booger and Takeshi are trying to look at a naked girl who hides behind a large roommate]
Booger: Step aside momma, I wanna see some of that muff!
Takashi: Oh Hair pie! Hair pie!
Dean Ulich: Frankly, I'm not too wild about this next even but it has become a tradition here at Adams: The Belching Contest.
[the crowd cheers]
Dean Ulich: First up, Frederick Palowakski.
Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta: [grunting] It's "Ogre" you asshole!
Dean Ulich: "Ogre, you asshole.", uh "Ogre".
Booger: This is bullshit! I want bush, pan down
Gibert: I just wanted to say that I'm a nerd, and I'm here tonight to stand up for the rights of other nerds. I mean uh, all our lives we've been laughed at and made to feel inferior. And tonight, those bastards, they trashed our house. Why? Cause we're smart? Cause we look different? Well, we're not. I'm a nerd, and uh, I'm pretty proud of it.
Lewis: Hi, Gilbert. I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us than there are of you. I know there's alumni here tonight. When you went to Adams you might've been called a spazz, or a dork, or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put down, whether you think you're a nerd or not, why don't you just come down here and join us. Okay? Come on.
Gibert: Just join us cos uh, no-one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.
Booger: I say we blow the fuckers up.
Arnold Poindexter, Tri-Lam: Wait - would you rather live in the ascendancy of a civilization or during its decline?
Omega Mu: Poindexter, do you wanna fuck, or not?
Arnold Poindexter, Tri-Lam: OK.
[she jumps all over him]
Booger: We've got bush!
Danny Burke, Alpha Beta: Well, let's get those nerds!
Stan Gable: [screams] Nerds!
Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta: [screaming] Nerds!
Stan Gable: What are we *waiting* for?
[the angry Alpha Beta mob storms out of the locker room towards the Tri-Lams house]
Coach Harris: Shit! We forgot to practice.
[after the Alpha's treachery is revealed at the pep rally]
Dean Ulich: You know, Coach. I'm going to let the Lambdas live over at the Alpha Beta house while you and your boys rebuild theirs!
Danny Burke, Alpha Beta: Where are *we* supposed to live?
Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta: Yeah. What about *us*?
Dean Ulich: You're *jocks*! Go live in the gym!
[Lewis and Gilbert are discussing Gilbert's girlfriend, innocently]
Booger: Big deal! Did you get in her pants?
Gibert: She's not that kind of girl, Booger.
Booger: Why? Does she have a penis?
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: [blissfully] Oh, Stan. You were wonderful. You did things to me you've never done before.
[Lewis takes off his mask]
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: [gasps] Ahhh! You're that NERD!
Lewis: Yeah.
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: [blissfully] Oh, you were wonderful.
[gasps in ecstacy]
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: Are all nerds as good as you?
Lewis: Yes.
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: How come?
Lewis: 'Cause all Jocks ever think about is sports, all we ever think about is sex.
Stan Gable: Those nerds are a threat to our way of life.
Coach Harris: You know, when you were a baby in your crib, your father looked down at you, he had but one hope - some day my son will grow to be a man. Well look at you now. You just got your asses whipped by a bunch of goddamn nerds.
Coach Harris: *Nerds*! Well, if I was you, I'd do something about it. I would get up and redeem myself in the eyes of my father, my maker, and my *coach*!
Takashi: Maybe we could have robster craws.
Booger: [adjusting his shirt] What the fuck are robster craws?
[Alpha Beta has been beaten by Lambda Lambda Lambda and Omega Mu]
Coach Harris: Stan.
Stan Gable: Yes, Coach.
Coach Harris: I want to see you, and the other girls, in the locker room, now!
Booger: [on Booger's T-shirt] "Gimme' Head Till I'm Dead"
Lewis: [in line at the Kissing Booth at the Homecoming Carnival] Hi, Betty.
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: A nerd? I'm not kissing a nerd.
Lewis: You have to. I paid my money.
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: [Lewis tries to kiss Betty] It's time for my break.
Stan Gable: [Stan brings a short, fat, ugly woman, instead] Kiss this, nerd.
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: [in the Pi's bathroom] Listen, if Stan calls tell him I'll call him back, okay?
Suzy: Okay.
Lewis: [Betty opens the shower curtain and finds a peeping-tom Lewis; gasps] Panty Raid!
[Betty screaming; Lewis laughs, chasing her]
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: [in joy, after kissing Lewis] I'm in love with a nerd!
[Orge snatches a pie from a nerd customer]
Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski, Alpha Beta: Thanks wimp, get yourself one!
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: Nerds saw me naked!
Sergeant: See that man over there, we arrested him for mopery.
Booger: What's mopery?
Sergeant: Mopery is exposing yourself to a blind person.
Judy: Maybe we should eat?
Harold Wormser: Maybe we should watch TV?
Booger: Hey guys...
[opens his leather jacket to reveal some Marijuana cigarettes]
Booger: ... wonder joints.
[rings door buzzer]
Mail Slot Man: [mail flap opens, revealing a pair of crazed eyes] Who's there?
Booger: [pauses] Ahhh, is...
Mail Slot Man: What do you want?
Booger: Is this the Stewart residence?
Mail Slot Man: Why are you here?
Booger: Ahh, I've come about the roo...
Mail Slot Man: WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Booger: I've come about the roo...
Mail Slot Man: Don't have, no way!
Booger: I - I, uh, do you have a room for rent?
Mail Slot Man: Not for rent!
Booger: I thought it was for rent!
Mail Slot Man: Fuck off!
[mail flap closes]
[Lewis shows the nerds their new home. An abandoned and dilapidated house]
Lewis: Isn't she beautiful?
[the nerds give him confused and angry looks, Lewis smiles at them]
Gibert: We're college men now, right?
Mr. Skolnick: Right!
[Mr. Skolnick lighty punches Gilbert]
Gibert: [laughs] Ow...
Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi: I want to do it. All this kissing has made me horny.
Stan Gable: God, Betty, you're like a goat.


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quote: Think McFly....and not just from your point of view.
quote: BUT, I am also VERY, VERY, VERY confident that YOU and most of the commenters here have absolutely no idea what each/any police officer experiences daily/hourly while at thier job.
quote: I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. The police are tasked with enforcing our laws with whatever rules or restrictions we place on them.
quote: You obviously believe police are sub-human adn are only here to do your bidding as you see fit.


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Viewers got to see a different side of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi on this season of Dancing with the Stars. The Jersey Shore alum demonstrated a work ethic and a sharp sense of humor that came as a shock to many viewers and competitors (including Bill Engvall) who were only familiar with her hard-partying MTV persona.
Though her run on Dancing came to an end when she and partner Sasha Farber were unexpectedly sent home on last week's show, Polizzi says she has no regrets. TVGuide.com caught up with the reality star to get her thoughts on her shocking elimination, the judges' feedback, and her new nickname, courtesy of Tom Bergeron.
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William F. Clark, 61, of Sherrard, formerly of Kewanee, died at 2:05 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the home of his daughter, Amy, in Viola.
Cremation has been accorded and a memorial visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Rux Funeral Home, Kewanee. Memorials can be directed to the Pancreatic Cancer Research Foundation.
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RouteAltdorf – Klausenpass – Glarus – Klöntaler See – Pragelpass – Muotathal – Brunnen – Vitznau – Küssnacht a. R. – Luzern – Sempach – Hochdorf – Mosen – Schongau – Fahrwangen – Seon – Gränichen – Unterkulm – Schöftland - Zofingen – Balsthal – Welschenrohr – Balmber – Solothurn – Weissenstein – Moutier – Souboz – Soulce – Courfaivre – Delémont – Laufen – Basel
- Length: 375km
- Duration (50km/h): 7.5h
Highest Elevations
- Klausen Pass, 1948m
- Pragel Pass, 1550m
- Weissenstein, 1284m
- Bööler Pass, 648 m
(Closed to vehicular traffic on weekends)
Not far from Glarus is the Klöntal Valley with Lake Klöntal (Klöntalersee). The ride continues over the Pragel Pass to the Muota Valley in Canton Schwyz. From here General Suworow's Army fled to Glarus in 1799. The Muota Valley is famous for its weather frogs – indigenous, sensitive weather prognosticators – and for the 200-km-long karst cave system of the Hölloch.
The tour continues via Brunnen and alongside Lake Lucerne to Küssnacht and Lucerne.
Among the architectural highlights is the futuristic Culture and Congress Center designed by the renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. Among the outstanding characteristics of the city is the covered medieval Chapel Bridge with its gable paintings. It is one of Europe's oldest covered wooden bridges. The tour then travels from Lake Lucerne to the historic town of Sempach, located on Lake Sempach, and further on to Seetal, along the lakes Baldeggersee and Hallwilersee, passing the little known villages of Hochdorf, Schongau and Fahrwangen. From Seon the motorbikers roll over the Breitenberg to Gränichen into the Wynental Valley, and from Unterkulm over the Bööler Pass to Schöftland in the Suhren Valley.
The next stop on this tour is the medieval Old Town of Zofingen. Subsequently, the tour continues via Balsthal, Welschenrohr and across the Balmberg to Solothurn. Its Old Town is one of Switzerland's most compact, featuring many Baroque highlights and French influences. The tour then travels via Moutier to Courfaivre, Delémont and to its final destination, Basel, located at the three-country-corner, where Switzerland, Germany and France meet.
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The careful planning of a tour will ensure that you also derive the maximum pleasure and enjoyment from it. Please take the time to contact the local information centre and enquire about route and weather conditions before setting off. Your intended trail may be fully or partially closed, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.


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The bodies were scattered over the dunes and scrub, contorted in unnatural positions, their faces frozen by the onset of rigor mortis.
As the sun rose over Morris Island on July 19, 1863, the Confederate defenders of Battery Wagner surveyed these ghastly remains of the previous night's battle. There were hundreds of bodies spread out over the sand, most of them Union soldiers.
Many of them had fallen in the moat protecting the fort, others were lying on the very edge of the battery. It had been a particularly vicious battle -- perhaps the bloodiest in Charleston history.
Suddenly, the Confederate sentries spotted a white flag in the distance. The Yankees, it seemed, wanted a word.
The Union soldiers had been sent to request a cease-fire long enough for them to bury their dead. Battery Wagner officers did not consider the request for long before denying it. They assumed it was a trick, a ploy to allow Union officers to get a better look at the fort's defenses.
For that reason, the task of interment fell to Southern troops, who spent the entire day toiling in the Lowcountry sun. By nightfall, The Charleston Mercury reported -- erroneously -- the Confederates had buried 600 men. The newspaper claimed the Yankees had buried another 200.
"Including those still unburied, and the wounded who have since died, the enemy's loss in killed alone must have been nearly or quite one thousand," the paper reported.
"The number of prisoners taken by our troops (including wounded) was 276. Judging from these figures, and remembering the well-known habit which the Yankees have of carrying off their wounded, it seems quite reasonable to believe that their total loss in killed, wounded and prisoners could not have been less than two thousand."
The official estimate for Union casualties in the battle was 1,500 -- less than The Mercury predicted, but high enough. Confederate casualties numbered about 174. Some of those bodies would remain unburied when the fighting began again.
On Monday, July 20, Union gunboats including the New Ironsides opened fire on Battery Wagner around 11 a.m., joined by land batteries the Northern troops had constructed in the middle of the island.
The firing continued unabated for more than an hour and a half, Wagner and Fort Sumter responding "slowly," The Mercury would report.
"Fort Sumter got the range of the Ironsides, and little before four o'clock she withdrew," the paper reported the next morning. "The Monitors also hauled off, and for the remainder of the evening the firing was at long and irregular intervals, coming chiefly from the enemy's land batteries. Some shots were fired at Fort Johnson, and at the Shell Point battery."
At Battery Wagner, four were killed and 11 were wounded.
The shelling resumed on Tuesday and continued intermittently through Wednesday. On Friday morning, a "cannonade far heavier than any that has been heard since Saturday last, was opened from the enemy's fleet and Morris Island batteries, against Battery Wagner," The Mercury reported.
Battery Wagner had held out "gallantly," the paper noted, but that was scarcely any comfort to the residents of Charleston. It was clear that, this time, the Yankees would not retreat.
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The summer fell into a predictable pattern. Union gunships and batteries on Morris Island would shell Battery Wagner for a few days, followed by days of quiet before resuming their barrage.
On July 30, U.S. guns briefly turned their attention to Battery Gregg and the sand dunes around Cumming's Point. Fort Sumter and Battery Gregg managed to each hit the New Ironsides once before the day's shelling ended.
The Union's goal, of course, was to take Battery Wagner and use it against Sumter, but the Yankees may have had other purposes for their erratic bombardments. It seemed they were trying to keep the Confederates distracted.
Less than a week after taking the southern part of Morris Island, Northern commanders had brought in engineers to scout a location for their own battery. They needed to find some high ground on the notoriously low island, enough real estate to hold a tremendous weight.
The engineers walked the island until they found a satisfactory spot less than a mile from the highest ground on Morris. It was a small but sturdy spit of land that lay between three creeks. It would become the Union's latest battery, and it would be a particularly troublesome one.
At the same time, Charleston troops were working furiously to improve the city's defenses. On July 30, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard himself was out inspecting the works on James Island, and he must have been disturbed by what he found.
The defenses were apparently shabby, not up to the general's standards. At Beauregard's command, Confederate officials asked local planters to provide additional slaves to help reinforce local batteries.
Most plantation owners refused, claiming the military had already taken "as much negro labor as is requisite for the proper and energetic prosecution of the work upon our defences, and that, therefore, no more slaves are needed," The Mercury reported.
Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr., the paper's editor, took the planters to task, calling their refusal to help the cause "a grave mistake."
"A vast amount of work, of a very important character, remains to be accomplished, and there is still urgent need of as many negroes as the people of the state can supply for the emergency," The Mercury editor opined. "The greater the number of hands furnished, the sooner will the necessary defences be completed and the negroes returned to their owners."
For the next few days The Mercury would publish pleas for locals to provide sand bags "for the protection of our harbor defences." The appeal was expanded to anyone who could "spare servants, either to fill the bags or to pull the boats as oarsmen."
"Besides this resource, the free colored men of Charleston might render important aid to the defence of the city by coming forward freely now and reporting themselves to the above-named gentlemen, to work either on the wharf or in the harbor," Rhett suggested.
"They have always constituted a very respectable and orderly class in this community. Let them do their part now."
Charlestonians were clearly worried. Every day brought more news of Union movement in the area -- more boats spotted in the Stono, U.S. troops sneaking onto James Island, the growing ranks of the blockading squadron. Clearly, the Union was pushing hard to take the city.
On Aug. 4, Confederate troops ambushed a Yankee barge attempting to land more troops in the area. For several nights the Southerners had been aware of Yankee picket boats in Schooner Creek between James and Morris islands.
These boats had lingered around the wreck of the old steamer Manigault, and it was assumed that these men were spying on Confederate movements around Cumming's Point, or so The Mercury reported.
Finally, on Tuesday night, the Confederates decided to act. Around 8:30, 30 men set out from Fort Johnson in rowboats while, at the same time, the ironclads Chicora and Palmetto State snuck into the creek.
Capt. Sellers and the men of the 25th South Carolina Volunteers opted for stealth. They slid out of their boats and crept through the marsh, knee-deep in the muck. Before long, they came face to face with the Yankees.
The Union troops, take by surprise, tried to escape by rushing for their two boats. One barge got away, but not without several casualties. The other boat was captured by Capt. Warley's men.
The next day the prisoners were paraded through the city. One Confederate soldier used the occasion to show off the captured field glasses of Gen. Gillmore.
The spectacle may have been intended as a morale booster for the locals, and it might have worked if not for the sound of Union shells hurled at Morris Island, a noise that was becoming all too common in Charleston.
The siege
Confederate President Jefferson Davis designated Friday, Aug. 21, a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer across the South.
In Charleston, The Mercury began its front-page editorial with a litany of the Book of Common Prayer: "In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our prosperity, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, good Lord deliver us."
The Confederate States, Rhett wrote, "are now in trouble, and today has been set apart for the people to pray for deliverance from it as our Litany prescribes."
At least in Charleston, those prayers would go unanswered.
The Union army, having spent the week bombing Fort Sumter and Battery Wagner, did not recognize Davis' holiday. Heavy fire was directed at Sumter all day, but the harshest blow did not come until later that night. Just before 11 p.m., a Union messenger delivered a letter to Battery Wagner.
The dispatch, addressed to Gen. Beauregard, was as chilling as it was blunt.
"I have the honor to demand of you the immediate evacuation of Morris Island and Fort Sumter, by Confederate forces," the note from Union Brig. Gen. Q.A. Gillmore said. "The present condition of Fort Sumter, and the rapid and progressive destruction which it is undergoing from my Batteries, seem to render its complete demolition, within a few hours, a matter of certainty. All my heaviest guns have not yet opened.
"Should you refuse compliance with this demand, or should I receive no reply thereto, within four hours after it is delivered into the hands of your subordinate at Fort Wagner, for transmission, I shall open fire on the city of Charleston from batteries already established, within easy and effective (range) of the heart of the city."
Beauregard was nowhere to be found that evening. The general was inspecting batteries in the countryside, and there was no way to reach him. His staff was nearly in a panic, because it did not seem that Gillmore was bluffing. Thomas Jordan, chief of staff, attempted to stall the Yankees.
Jordan sent a terse note back with the original letter. It said: "This paper is returned for the signature of the writer."
Gillmore saw through the ruse, of course, and would waste no time following through on his threat. At 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, the first shell soared over the harbor and landed inside the city.
Charleston was under attack.
The shells were fired from the new battery, an earthworks fort in which Northern engineers had built a platform suitable to hold the massive, 8-inch Parrott gun that Yankees called the Swamp Angel.
The gun was capable of firing a 150-pound projectile 7,900 yards over the harbor and into the streets of the lower peninsula. If the Union couldn't take Fort Sumter, they would simply bypass it.
Before dawn, the Swamp Angel had fired at least 15 shots into the city. The Mercury, feigning outrage that the Yankees would fire on a city filled with innocent children and women, noted that the big gun did "no damage."
"It is unnecessary to make any comments upon this act," The Mercury editors wrote.
For the rest of the weekend, the North and South would trade fire. Confederate sharpshooters tried to take out the Northern crew firing at the forts. Union troops shot down the flag at Fort Sumter eight times, The Mercury claimed.
The New Ironsides and six other ironclads bombarded Forts Sumter and Wagner mercilessly for hours on end. Sumter and Moultrie fired back, allegedly hitting the Ironsides once again.
And all the while the Union's mystery battery bombed Charleston. On Sunday, the firing began near midnight and lasted three hours.
"The firing continued for three hours, the shells being thrown at intervals of fifteen minutes," the paper reported.
"There seems to be some mystery in regard to the location of this battery, which is bombarding a town at a distance of five miles," the paper said.
"It has been asserted, upon good authority, that the shells proceed from a mud fort lately built in the marsh adjoining Morris Island. And there are yet others who declared that the obnoxious battery is a floating one, which the Yankees run up nightly under cover of darkness into one of the numerous creeks which intersect the neighboring islands.
"It is to be hoped that the mystery will soon be solved and the battery silenced," Rhett wrote.
What no one in Charleston knew for sure at the time was that the Swamp Angel was already out of commission. On Sunday evening, the gun's breech had blown, an explosion that injured four men and sent the big gun flying off its carriage and into the parapet. In its brief career the gun had fired only 36 shots at the city.
The loss was merely an inconvenience; the Union had other guns. The siege of Charleston had begun, and it would be a long time before the city had any peace.
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The new trailer for Anchorman 2 – The Legend Continues was released Wednesday, showing the twisted and hapless Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell, now under intense news pressure, working for a 24-7 cable news network in New York City, far from his comfort zone and the '70s wild life of his home base in San Diego.
Co-anchor Veronica Corningstone, now his wife, makes a return with Christina Applegate once again in the supporting role. Other journalists join Burgundy on his Big Apple adventure. Playing reporters are Steve Carell, David Koechner and Paul Rudd.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
This year's S.C. Junior Duck Stamp Contest brought in hundreds of entrees submitted by students from around the state, The art competition is a partnership between the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State Department of Natural Resources and S.C. Ducks Unlimited (which sponsored the contest).
Emily Knudson, 14, of Mount Pleasant took top honors with a superb mixed media portrait of a redhead duck. Hanna Massar, also 14 years old and of Mount Pleasant, took first runner up with an incredible close-up of a common merganser. Both artists attend Thomas Cario Middle School and receive instruction from art teacher Stefani Timmerman.
Second runner up was Elizabeth Chandler, 15, of Sumter; third runner up was Ashley Bazzle, 17, of Summerville and Cane Bay High School; fourth Runner Up was Erin Signori, 13, of Mount Pleasant and - again - Thomas Cario Middle School.
Judges were College of Charleston professor and Ducks Unlimited East Cooper Chairman Mark Hartley, local artist Christina Hewson, DNR's Dean Harrigal and Don Winslow and Post and Courier/Tidelines reporter Matt Winter. The top entries will be displayed at the Charleston County Public Library on Calhoun Street during this year's SEWE, Feb. 15-17.
Those winners too will be honored at the annual East Cooper Ducks Unlimited Oyster Roast on Friday, Feb. 15 at the Charleston Visitor Center bus shed from 6 to 11 p.m.
East Cooper Ducks Unlimited (DU) for the 16th year in a row will host the DU/SEWE Oyster Roast and Lowcountry Cookout. East Cooper DU has been a Top One Percent Net Fundraising Chapter since 2003, and this is the most attended DU event of the year in North America. Tickets are on sale now at the early bird rate of $60 each at www.ducks.org/south-carolina, at any Charleston area Visitor Center, or at the DU ticket hotline 843-513-7387. Your ticket includes the legendary all-you-can-eat oyster roast and Lowcountry cookout featuring all types of Southern delicacies, along with an open bar, your 2013 DU membership, and the opportunity to participate in the finest auctions and raffles of any DU event in the country.
In 2012, the SEWE and DU teamed up to ensure South Carolina's continued participation in the Junior Federal Duck Stamp Program, which introduces more than 700,000 students in the Palmetto State to wildlife art and wetlands conservation.
The East Cooper chapter has been the number one chapter in South Carolina since 2006 and a member of the President's Top 100 from the beginning. Area Chairmen Dr. Mark Hartley has led the chapter for more than 10 years and attributes much of the committee's success to its devoted volunteers and partnership with the SEWE.
"From fundraising to education, our partnership with the SEWE has had a profound impact on wetlands conservation and the youth that will be the future of both organizations," Hartley said.
As one of the judges of this duck stamp art competition, Hartley said they had no way of knowing who the artists were or anything about them.
The judges chose finalists in each age division and those finalists were placed into a final pool. The best of the best were then picked from that bunch.
Mount Pleasant art teacher Stefani Timmerman had three of her advance placement middle school art students placed in the top five.
All of her student winners were eighth grade students competing against high school students from all over the state, Hartley explained.
"She really has motivated those kids. Hers is such a great program at Cario Middle School, that's for sure," he said. "We were really proud of them."
Hartley said that two years ago the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources was going to have to discontinue the art competition due to funding. By partnering with SEWE and ECDU the program was saved.
The state Ducks Unlimited board donated $10,000 to keep the contest running. SEWE administers the contest and DU funds it. Last year there were 400 entries and this year almost 500 entries. Hartley said.
New this year was an incentive to teachers to get their students involved. Winning teachers earned a cash prize to fund their classroom art activities. Winning students also win cash prizes and a chance to go to the national competition with their piece.
Stefani Timmerman has been teaching for more than 20 years and has seen tremendous talent come through her classroom.
She noticed through the years that some students were requesting more art instruction and wanted to provide more advanced training for them. She created the advanced art class at Cario Middle School where students must apply to be accepted and attend the class year round.
That type of instruction paid off for her students. Seventeen of them placed in the Duck Stamp competition and three were named to the top five. Seven out of nine of the seventeen swept the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place spots for the Level Three 12-14 year old division in the same competition.
Student Emily Knudson took top honors, and students Hannah Masser and Erin Signori placed at the top of the list as well.
Timmerman takes only 12 to 18 students per grade level in advanced art each year. They must submit a portfolio and go through a selective application process to be admitted. Each student is required to compete in the selected competitions, at least 8-10 per year.
Timmerman admitted that her students in addition to their academic work load and advanced art classroom work, also excel in other extra curricular activities. Her students also have a history of success.
Consistently her students have taken top honors at the Coastal Carolina Fair Charleston Artist Guild Competition. This year nine entered and eight placed. Emma Smith won Best in Show K-12 for two years in a row in this show. Cario entered many other works in the Decorative Painters Guild Show and the Creative Arts Show at the fair. Overall, fifty top honors were earned by Cario Advanced and quarterly art students at the fair for 2012. For the last five years her students have placed in the Festival of Lights through the Charleston County Parks and Recreation.
SCDNR hosts a Reel Art Competition and this year her students took eight of the 16 award spots in 2012. Five students and eight of their works were accepted at the 2013 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards at Lander University. Emma Lang received a state silver key, second highest honor.
Timmerman said her advanced students show great discipline, determination and a focus on time management. "They have deadlines and work overtime to meet them," she said. "And their craftsmanship and quality really shine through. I have been asked many times if I teach high school age students. The maturity level and focus in their work is evident."
Caitlyn Brunson, a local illustrator and graphic designer is the student's tutor and often volunteers her time after school to assist with getting students ready for competition with Timmerman.
"I helped mentor Caitlyn a bit through high school and college. I greatly appreciate the time she has spent helping with molding these young artists," said Timmerman.
Her focus revolves greatly around science and biology. She incorporates the South Carolina environment, wildlige, habitat, ocean and salt marsh into her assignments to not only the advanced students but also her quarterly students who also strive for excellence during their time in class.
Other accolades go to Conor Craddock for being selected to help St. Peter's Catholic Church design the wrap for their mobile art bus. The bus goes to Title I schools to help infuse art into the community and student learning programs.
"All of my students work so hard I try to find ways to celebrate them," said Timmerman.
The deadline for students to apply for the Advanced Art classes is Feb. 19. Get more information at http://carioarts.weebly.com/index.html.
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They don't call it the "upset" sale for nothing.
It's the event every September at which Blair County tries to sell properties that are two years tax-delinquent, with all liens still attached.
Dan Stehley of Altoona remains the legal owner of one of those properties exposed to the sale Sept. 20, and last week he was plenty upset when he allegedly heard that someone connected with the successful bidder on his property had removed $10,000 worth of uninstalled materials, equipment and tools inside the building, and when police threatened to arrest him if he tried to retrieve the stuff.
A couple days later, police relented, admitting their error, and the bidder proved that at least most of the stuff was still in the house on the 100 block of East Walnut Avenue.
The story can serve as a "cautionary tale," Stehley's lawyer, Andy Blattenberger said.
Stehley hadn't been paying taxes on the property because of a dispute with a company that had bought the mortgage and was collecting the same payments - but without paying his taxes, like the previous mortgage firm.
He knew the property was going to the upset sale, but figured no one would buy it, because the $53,000 mortgage lien was outstanding, and the house - which he'd gutted in preparation for remodeling - was worth only about $10,000.
He didn't even know there had been a successful bid until a neighbor told him several days after the sale that someone had cut a tree down in the yard and were on the roof of the house.
So he went to the property, met Ed Reilly, a neighbor and the father of the bidder, Christine Reilly, and called police.
When police arrived, they saw that Reilly had a receipt for the purchase.
At that point, things were still amicable.
Stehley said he needed to get his stuff out, and Reilly agreed to that.
Stehley then said that when Reilly needed to get inside, he would give him his keys.
That's when Stehley found out Reilly had changed the locks, he said.
That bothered Stehley.
Nevertheless, he arranged to borrow a trailer the next day to retrieve his possessions.
But when he came the next day, Reilly told him he would need to contact his daughter, Stehley said.
So the following day, he went again, and Reilly said he'd talked to his daughter and learned that a friend of hers had taken out all the stuff.
"I sulked for a day," Stehley said.
But then he got over it, contacted the tax claims office, and learned he still had a right to go on the property, he said.
So he called police, hoping for their support.
But when they arrived, they told him he wasn't allowed in.
On Monday, he was at the police station to argue his case.
While waiting for officers to meet him in the lobby, he encountered a reporter there on other business, and began telling his story.
When police came out, they told him they'd spoken with Blair County Judge Tim Sullivan and that Stehley couldn't go on the property.
He'd be charged with trespassing and harassment if he went on and breaking and entering if he tried to go in, according to Blattenberger's petition.
So Stehley left.
As he went, one of the officers said, "He's in this predicament because his taxes are not paid."
In the upset sale, successful bidders don't have ownership rights until a county judge's "final decree" ratifying the sales, said county solicitor Nathan Karn, who didn't comment on Stehley's case specifically.
That decree can't happen until at least 30 days after the county files a consolidated return with the court listing all the successful bids, Karn said. That 30 days is the waiting period for objections to sales, he said.
Karn filed the return Oct. 2.
Until the final decree, "there's not any change" with respect to ownership, he said. Moreover, personal property left behind by the owner is not part of the sale - although if it's ultimately left behind, the new owner would be entitled to it, he said.
Even after the final decree, the new owners don't get their deeds until the county produces them, which can take 30 days, he said.
The county explains the process to the assembled potential bidders before the sale, Karn said.
Blattenberger got the case turned around - for now - in Stehley's favor with a preliminary injunction signed by Judge Dan Milliron ordering Reilly to stay off the premises - although Milliron refused to grant explicit permission for Stehley to enter.
There's a hearing at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Blair County Court.
Stehley went into the house mid-week with the help of Christine Reilly and found an air conditioner laying on the floor of an upstairs room, indicating the Reillys had gotten in by pushing it out of a nearby window, he said.
Ninety-five percent of his stuff was there, including uninstalled siding, windows, doors, a furnace and a hot tub, he said.
But there were tools missing, including a miter saw, circular saw, impact wrenches and accessories for an air compressor, he said.
Christine Reilly said nothing was removed from the house.
Police Chief Janice Freehling blamed the police error on a misunderstanding.
"At the time it was going in, we didn't have any information," Freehling said. "Other than that, the successful bidder had a receipt."
Sullivan said he told police to encourage the parties to work something out, and that if they couldn't work something out, they should speak with their respective attorneys. He didn't know the underlying circumstances of the case at the time, he added.
Christine Reilly said there's a history between the families.
She blamed Stehley.
"When he knew he was going to lose this place, he should have gotten all his stuff out," she said. "Instead of waiting and causing all this chaos."
She blamed conflicting messages between agencies - the tax claims office, which told Stehley he could go on the property, and the police, which told him otherwise.
And she blamed the tax sale process itself.
"Nothing is made clear to these bidders," Reilly said. "You pay for it, then they tell you it's still not yours."
The process is "a mess," she said.
Reilly's father changed the locks on the doors only because the house was unsecured, kids had been seen going in, the Reillys didn't have keys to the existing locks and didn't know how to get hold of Stehley for the keys, Reilly said.
"As for the belongings in the house, there was no plan," she said. "We were waiting for the deed to be transferred over to me before we took any further action."
The house was locked, Stehley said.
But "right now, I just want my stuff," he said.
"People need to be very careful when they buy things at upset sales," Blattenberger said. "You're not the rightful owner until you have the recorded deed."


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Dreams can be funny things. Hard to know what prompts them, even harder to figure out what they mean.
Twice in the last three months, I've dreamt that I've misplaced my golf clubs at a tournament. I wake up in a cold sweat and realize it was just a dream and first thing in the morning, I check my office to make sure my clubs are safe.
Anyway, let me tell you about another recent dream.
I'm at home sitting down with The InterMountain, and my heart skips a beat. A headline screams, "Manchin a Republican." Here's the "story," as I recall:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Manchin has switched parties.
The West Virginia Democrat announced Friday that he can no longer support his party's agenda and that he has changed his affiliation to "Republican."
He said the Obama administration's recent decision to launch a war on coal pushed him over the edge and into the GOP camp. West Virginia is the nation's second-largest coal producing state. (Wyoming is first.)
The "story" continued:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., declined to comment.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he welcomes Manchin to his side of the aisle. "I know Joe and like him. He's smart and made of great stuff. And best of all, he has integrity, a character trait that's common in West Virginia."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who is retiring at the end of his term, said he was "shocked" by his colleague's decision. He added, "Gee, I wish I'd thought of that."
West Virginia Democrat Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, who followed Manchin into the governor's mansion in Charleston, said, "Wherever Joe goes, I go." He refused to elaborate.
The "story" continued:
Manchin, reading from a prepared statement, said he has been "uneasy" with the Obama presidency for "quite some time" and is switching parties because Obama "has crossed the line once too often, using independent administrative agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency to frustrate the will of the people.
"When the president recently announced that he's telling the EPA to target coal producers and coal users, I decided enough is enough."
Manchin added, "Our Founding Fathers devised a system of checks and balances, and the president is using trickery to once again short-circuit the system. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution, but the president ignores it and seeks to dismantle this once great nation."
Obamacare was the first "red flag" of the Obama presidency, Manchin said. "It's turning into a nightmare that nobody, and I mean nobody, wants."
Other presidential initiatives causing concern, he said, include the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which had an eventual price tag of $831 billion. The act was passed before Manchin took office.
"The president said the money would go to 'shovel-ready jobs.' As it turns out, the act was blatant corporate cronyism. And later, when called to account, the president joked, 'Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected.'"
Manchin said, "There's absolutely nothing funny about misleading the public on how tax dollars are going to be spent. His 'joke' shows how much disdain he has for the American people."
The senator also said he's shocked by the administration scandals. "The Benghazi cover-up, the IRS abuses, the war on the press, the violations of citizen privacy. What's next?"
He added, "I've tried to be a good team player. When the majority leader (Reid) told me to vote for the immigration bill, I held my nose and voted for it, knowing full well that immigrants could wind up replacing lower-skilled West Virginia workers."
Manchin said, "This is not the nation of our fathers. This is not my nation. This president's vision of America is something I don't recognize and can't support. It saddens me. And so I'm joining the loyal oppositi ."
Just then, my wife's right elbow caught my lower rib cage. "You're dreaming again."


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MARTINSBURG - Life has never been easy for Army veteran Tyrone Harlan, who left the hustle-and-bustle of his hometown, Washington, D.C., when he was drafted in 1968 and sent to Vietnam the next year.
In many ways, that was the beginning of his real difficulties - antisocial problems that plagued him as he returned home as well as continuing war-related health problems that are now life-threatening.
Even now, Harlan, 65, is in the fight of his life but determined not to give up.
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Vietnam veteran Tyrone Harlan is fighting for his life after Agent Orange exposure.
"I was just 19 when I was drafted - and believe me, I was drafted because I never joined nothing in my life -and was used to having fun partying. But that sure did change pretty fast in the military. It was a night-and-day difference compared to what I was used to," said Harlan, who also got married before heading off for his initial training in Baltimore and then Fort Bragg, N.C.
Although it's been a long time, Harlan still vividly remembers details associated with his arrival in Vietnam and those early weeks in the southern part of that country.
"I went to Vietnam on Jan. 16, 1969, and that was a hard time. I came in at a bad time because that February was when what they call the Tet Offensive was going on and the North Vietnamese were really trying to come on through," he said.
During early 1968, the North Vietnamese Army coordinated with the Viet Cong to attack towns and cities - as well as American forces - in South Vietnam, an event which has been termed the Tet Offensive.
"It was a real surprise, because that's when they were usually celebrating the holiday of Tet - the lunar new year. And it was also hard, hard fighting - very violent," Harlan said.
At that time, he was in Long Binh, an area that was hit with heavy mortar and rocket attacks during the Tet Offensive in late January. "It was bad, but to make things a little more funny we called it Long Binh Jail and then nicknamed it LBJ since President Johnson was in office then," he said with a faint smile.
While he was trained to cook and bake, Harlan said he "never saw the inside of an Army kitchen yet." Instead, he rode shotgun on tankers containing fuel for other vehicles such as helicopters.
"It was kind of like guard duty because if they were going to deliver it, I would ride along shotgun to help protect them. The whole thing could make you a little nervous because you never knew how it was going to play out," Harlan said.
"Coming in with all this action, I learned quick because you couldn't even trust what you saw. One time, we thought it was some farmers digging, but that turned out to be the enemy and they were doing this only about two football fields away from us and our camp. It was especially scary when they came over and we saw what they had under there," he said.
Years later, after returning home, Harlan said he'd met some other soldiers who were in a tank unit at the same location.
"That was kind of beautiful then to meet them. They were here in Martinsburg at the VA hospital getting help for their post-traumatic stress disorder problems. But it surely wasn't beautiful at that time in Vietnam," he said.
PTSD also became a problem for Harlan, who said he never really got used to the loud noises associated with war.
"After a while, you do learn little things about survival. Say we were getting attacked, maybe a rocket mortar attack at night, I could tell when to move or not to move just by the sound of how it was moving. If you hear that zooming, you're all right and can stay where you're at. But when you hear that whistling, you got to get somewhere, because that whistling meant it was getting ready to blow up," Harlan said, recalling times when mattresses were used as shields.
"And I learned a lot of this during the first two weeks since I came in on the Tet. It really does something to you," he said, recalling fellow soldiers who would photograph the dead, including gruesome scenes where the corpses were strung out on fence lines. In other cases, it was possible to see the earth through dead bodies due to the massive holes in them, Harlan said.
Harlan said he also experienced more racial prejudice while moving south, but it paled in comparison to how others were treated.
"The Cambodians were about the same color as some of the black people, but they had that real straight hair and they were treated so bad - just because of being different. They were like second-class citizens, or maybe even third- or fourth-class. And even our own people used to treat them bad, just because they had the chance to finally take their own frustrations out on someone else," he said, shaking his head at the memory.
While his year in Vietnam still haunts Harlan, it has also resulted in both mental and physical problems, he said. He's been homeless for months at a time, had problems with authority figures like bosses and just generally couldn't adjust back into society after coming home. But now, other problems, are even larger, he said.
"I have lung cancer and it actually came from Agent Orange, which was a chemical they used over there to knock the trees down and whatever. But the government denied it for so long and also saying we weren't in the part of the country where it had been used, so here it is 40 years later and I got it. But I didn't even know what was going on until last year when they finally agreed to give me a full checkup at the VA," said Harlan, who recalls seeing chemicals being sprayed from aircraft but was never told they might be toxic to humans.
"That was upsetting to be treated like that, all that denial, especially since I also have prostate cancer, leukemia and diabetes in addition to my PTSD. But now I have to focus on my life and taking every day one at a time," he said, pausing to catch his breath after a brief coughing spell.
Time is not on his side, especially since doctors give him just a few months to live, Harlan said.
"I'm basically a hostage, because I'm going to die from this cancer, but if you look at what the government is paying me - if you do the math - it sure doesn't add up. And that's just not fair since they decided I would go to Vietnam, not me, but I only got about $300 more a month for this deadly disease," he said.
Life is becoming increasingly difficult now - he said others can identify him by his loud, raspy breathing -and there's also more physical pain, but Harlan stays as active as possible and also supports the recently established Martinsburg chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
"Sadly, feeling like this has gotten to the point where I'm almost used to it. But I didn't give up back then in the jungle, and I'm not going to give up now," Harlan said.
Staff writer Jenni Vincent can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 131.


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