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It was a dump. But it was our dump.
On Saturday, Mohawk Place will host one final concert, before shutting its doors, ostensibly for good.
For more than 20 years, the downtown club has been a hub of the original music scene in Western New York and a home for touring bands from the alt-country, indie rock, punk and roots music scenes. Tonight and Saturday evening, the club is presenting its "Last Waltz," with a pair of multiband bills celebrating Mohawk's legacy, featuring a plethora of the very groups that have helped construct that legacy.
And then the building will go dark, joining the ranks of such legendary live music venues as the Lafayette Tap Room, the Continental and the Cabaret as part of a Buffalo club scene that no longer exists.
Since the announcement of the club's plans to close, due to what has been described by insiders as "insurmountable financial difficulty," there has been a local outpouring of nostalgia-tinged disappointment, a feeling echoed by many of the touring artists from around the country who made Mohawk Place a regular tour stop over the years.
"To me, any venue that stays open more than five years had figured out the delicate balance between art and commerce, and it is not easy," says Buffalo native Chris Trapper, who performed at the club with the national touring group the Pushstars and as a solo artist. "I've seen many venues shut down over the years, with their idealism shot down into the reality that euro-dance club and college frat bars pay the bills without having to deal with drunken bass players, arrogant singers, stoned sound men, etc. ... but it is those magic moments when the band is grooving, the sound is blaring and the beer is flowing that stay woven in our souls, that we never really forget."
There is also the tangible feeling that we – members of the local music scene, musician and music-lover alike – are about to lose something very valuable. And there's also the very real fear that the void created by the club's departure may never be filled.
"The Mohawk was like our own version of [fabled New York City alternative music club] CBGB," says local promoter and musician Donny Kutzbach, who has helped book bands at Mohawk Place for the past several years. "That's a good analogy, really. Just like with CBGB, the success of Mohawk Place was a good barometer for what was going on in our local music scene."
What was the source of the club's allure? In the physical sense, the building at 47 E. Mohawk St. is not much to look at. It's fairly dilapidated, dark and dingy, in need of repair, and far from glamorous. It's also in a part of downtown that sees little in the way of foot traffic, particularly since Buffalo Place relocated its free summer concert series from around the corner at Lafayette Square, to the much more spacious Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf.
Mohawk Place never had the mainstream pull of the Chippewa Strip, and unlike Allen Street, could not depend on run-off from adjacent music clubs.
And yet, the club became a central headquarters of sorts for members of the area's music community, most of whom performed there regularly, and many of whom worked at the club. One such musician is Erik Roesser, whose tenure as the Mohawk Place bar manager ends when the final chord resounds from the stage Saturday night.
"I started playing there as part of the Old Sweethearts, and ended up working here partly because it felt like I was here all the time anyway," says Roesser. "This place has always felt special. Part of the reason that such a community feeling generated around the Mohawk is due to the fact that, let's say starting 10 years ago or so, everybody played with everybody else. Musically speaking, things weren't so genre-specific. You could have an alt-country band playing with an indie band or a punk band, or whatever. The bands played together because they all knew and liked each other and they all hung out together at the club whether they were playing that night or not. That seems to be going away now. And it needs to come back, whether Mohawk Place is here or not."
Marty Boratin, who handled the booking for the club from 2000 through 2005, says that courting musicians was part of the plan from the moment original owner Pete Perrone opened his doors in the early 1990s.
"Pete always wanted to establish Mohawk as the place where musicians hung out, because he knew if the musicians hung out there, a scene would develop around that," says Boratin. "By the mid-'90s, the Mohawk became a clubhouse for local musicians, a home away from home. If you'd go to one of the annual tribute shows – the Joe Strummer or Syd Barrett tributes, for example – 75 percent of the audience would be made of local musicians. This is exactly what it was like at [the long closed Buffalo punk/garage rock mainstay] McVan's in the late '70s and '80s. All the musicians hung out there, all the musicians played there and the club became a central part of the music scene."
Boratin was a major catalyst in Mohawk Place's development from a venue for local bands to hone their craft into an actively courted tour stop for national and international bands of the "cult status" or "bubbling under" variety. The "pinch me, I think I'm dreaming" moments at Mohawk Place have included shows from the White Stripes, Link Wray, Tommy Stinson of the Replacements, John Cale of Velvet Underground fame, and punk legend Mike Watt. Boratin has his own list of favorites: OK Go (pre-video fame), Drive-By Truckers, Lucero, Okkerville River, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Tegan and Sara, Ty Braxton, Rogue Wave, the Black Keys ($150 guarantee) and the White Stripes (the night before the Sunday New York Times ran a full-page feature on them). Recent years saw the likes of Hold Steady and Fleet Foxes play the 'Hawk before breaking (relatively) big.
Employed at the time at New World Record, Boratin acted on the potential synergies between retail and live music.
"That made a big difference, because I was already talking to labels and even agents on a regular basis at the record store," Boratin recalls. "We'd set up an in-store performance for a band, and then have them play at Mohawk that night. The record store was a great way to reach the community, because the community would inevitably gather there. That's lost now. There's no face-to-face interaction, no human contact.
"But at the time, we were able to help put Buffalo on the map as a destination point for bands to stop and play in Buffalo, instead of just passing through on their way between Toronto and New York, or Cleveland and Boston, or Chicago and Portland, Maine. Booking agents finally started paying attention to Buffalo. They took chances with acts that normally wouldn't have played here, and its because Mohawk developed a reputation as a place that was more than just a room, but a venue that actually cared about the acts that were playing there."
Kutzbach and Roesser are eager to give Boratin credit for developing Mohawk Place on both the touring band and local artist levels.
"None of this would've happened without Marty," says Kutzbach.
"He's the reason that we're even having this discussion," offers Roesser. "So many times, if we didn't draw enough people to cover the band's guarantee, he'd pull money out of his own pocket to cover the difference. He'd put the bands up at his own house, and cook these elaborate gourmet meals for them. The word got around that coming to Buffalo meant playing a good gig at the Mohawk and being treated like family by the people involved with the club. That is so much more of a rare thing in this business than most people realize."
Plus, absolutely no one was getting rich in the process.
"Um, no, there was no money in it," laughs Boratin. "Listen, at the peak of my time at Mohawk, my old journals and calendars show as many as 88 different bands playing the club during a given month. I would be doing press, making fliers, printing and hanging posters, talking to agents on the phone, following up with the bands themselves, talking to the local bands and getting them on the bills – all while working a 40-hour 'day job.' A lot of touring bands would be getting a $100 guarantee, and if we didn't make that on the door – which we always tried to keep at $5 or less – I'd come up with the difference, feed the bands, give them a comfortable place to stay, and stay up all night at my house listening to records with the band members after the shows. It was all so much fun, but it was also an incredible amount of work. And a difficult pace to sustain."
Susan Tanner – who spent years working for Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records, helping transform the label into one of the most successful independent entities of the past 20 years, and is now married to Boratin – sees the Mohawk's success in non-financial terms.
"That's what you do when you love music," she says. "You get involved in any and every way you can, because you're motivated by that love. It's never about the money. It's more about the fact that you could see a band like the White Stripes or the Black Keys, and all of these incredible regional bands, in such an amazing, intimate space. That's a rare and beautiful thing to be a part of."
There's no telling what will become of the strong independent music scene that has developed around Mohawk Place after the club closes its doors most likely in the early morning hours of Sunday.
Will someone step in at the 11th hour and take over the club?
More significantly, where will the music, and the artists who perform it, move? Will those involved be able to find a new venue of a similar size to host concerts with indie bands that consider a draw of 200 people to be a successful night?
We have no way of knowing from this vantage point, but for some, it's time to move on.
"Mohawk was a place for its time, and it was absolutely the best," says Kutzbach. "But its time has come and gone."
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Whether it gets built will depend on how many stomachs it turns as well.
Give Clemson credit: Its proposed Spaulding Paolozzi Center, done by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture and Charleston architect E.E. Fava, could be a thoughtful and intriguing addition to a great city whose recent architecture often has played it safe.
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The design for the 30,000-square-foot center at the northeast corner of George and Meeting streets includes three rectangular masses, not unlike grand three-story single houses in their approximate size.
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The design also features a recessed central entry court on Meeting Street, a highly transparent facade of glass and screens, and perforated, curved walls along George Street and the northern facade.
Cleopfil says he studied the citys texture, scale and details its gardens and walls, its light and its tradition of craft all to create a work of architecture excruciatingly specific to its site.
Also to its credit, Clemson has done much to address neighborhood concerns that helped derail its earlier architecture center plan one done several years ago by architects Kennedy & Violich of Boston.
This new corner site is closer to Charlestons busy Meeting Street, farther away from Ansonboroughs homes. The school has no plans for any parking on the site, and Cloepfil notes that he wants as much garden as we can get in the design, including a green roof and fig vines along the George Street base.
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DVT; Blood clot in the legs; Thromboembolism; Post-phlebitic syndrome; Post-thrombotic syndrome
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Collins shouldn't feel too good about victory
During Chris Collins' county executive concession speech in 2011, he expressed surprise at his loss. I had quite a chuckle hearing his "victory" speech on Tuesday night, as he was elated that the people voted "him" back into office, and again was surprised at the closeness of the race.
As an independent voter, I feel I need to introduce Collins to a concept that his arrogance does not allow him to accept. There is a reason the honorable Kathy Hochul came so close to defeating him, against insurmountable odds in a heavily Republican district. I will allow him to do the math himself, as I should not have to elaborate further.
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Hoping to speed traffic through an increasingly congested Internet, several big Web companies including Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. MSFT 0.35 % and Facebook Inc. FB 0.14 % are paying major broadband providers for connections to get faster and smoother access to their networks, say people familiar with the matter.
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Sensitivity aside, paying for these direct connections is legal. The practice doesn't breach the Federal Communications Commission's "open Internet" rules—enforcing the concept popularly known as "net neutrality"—which forbids landline broadband providers from favoring certain Internet traffic on their networks. The rules address traffic traveling over a providers' "last mile" pipeline into consumer homes. But these payments are for a direct connection between content companies' networks and the edge of broadband access networks. The rules are more ambiguous about such payments.
Nevertheless, they have raised concerns among Internet executives that smaller startups could be put at a disadvantage.
If broadband access providers require payment from Web publishers, the FCC warned in a court filing last fall, it will "increase barriers to entry of new services and would make it more difficult to attract the necessary financing for startup Internet ventures. The next Google or Facebook might never begin," the commission said in the filing, responding to a pending Verizon lawsuit that challenges the regulator's "open Internet" rules.
Some Web companies feel they have little choice, people close to the companies say. If Microsoft stopped paying Comcast "tomorrow," said a person familiar with the matter, its Web performance would "go downhill and the pages wouldn't load as fast." Google's decision came down to whether the Internet giant would put advertising revenue amounting to "tens of billions at risk" for the "millions" Google would have to pay Comcast, some of the people said.
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People close to Web content companies caution that free traffic swapping agreements for them are still more common than these paid arrangements with broadband access providers. A Microsoft spokeswoman said "the majority of our traffic occurs through free peering arrangements" and that it pays for such connections "on a limited basis…where options are limited."
The volume of Internet video content is expected to more than double by 2017, according to network-gear giant Cisco Systems Inc., CSCO 1.05 % adding more stress to broadband providers' networks extending to consumers' homes, which are costly to upgrade.
Comcast's Internet traffic is growing at a compounded annual rate of 55%, according to its chief network officer, John Schanz. That means the company is having to double its network's capacity every 18 to 24 months.
This has prompted broadband providers to start charging some middlemen in exchange for taking their traffic, according to several people familiar with their negotiations. In 2010, for instance, Level 3 Communications LVLT -0.11 % revealed a dispute with Comcast over data-heavy Netflix traffic that forced the company to buy backbone Internet service from Comcast, which Level 3 said it did "not need or want to purchase." More than two years later, a Level 3 spokesman said the two sides haven't yet resolved that dispute.
Meanwhile, big Web companies like Google and Facebook in recent years have invested heavily in building their own specially-designed infrastructure, extending to the edge of broadband providers' networks, to speed the passage of their content across the Internet. By paying Internet access providers, they can establish a direct connection into the providers' networks.
Once inside the broadband providers' networks, however, all content faces the same traffic travails along the last miles of pipe connected to homes.
Network executives on both sides say that the continuing presence of middlemen acts as a check on big cable and phone companies' ability to raise prices too aggressively.
The executives also say that the access providers are offering reasonable rates, sometimes cheaper than the rates they would get from a third-party transit provider.
There's a "tremendous" opportunity today for any Internet startup to find different ways to send its traffic, said Comcast's Mr. Schanz.
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Broadband provider executives said the bottom line is that if a network wants to dump a lot of traffic into their networks, it needs to start paying—whether it's a content company or a middleman. "Some content senders have been known to fabricate crises to try to shift costs of their business models to others," one executive said.
"There is no win and it makes no sense for us to ever deliberately congest our network when we are in the business to provide Internet service to our customers," said Comcast's Mr. Schanz.
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So, i was listening to some themes of my favorite anime on youtube. On TV, you wouldn't really see what the song means, but when i was reading the song's meaning, i felt touched by it (ok,if u think im a girl, fairy an emo, i dont know what to say but forget u!) I really liked it. The 1 i liked the most was the Opening Theme 4 Bleach on the 3rd season. so blog what song u like, and express y, and dont be a wimp to show your feeling. Remember, girls dig sensitivity. When Evil Walks, Bullshit Talks.
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I like Bleach opening 2 technolife-d, Inuyasha's 1&2 endings My Will and Fukai Mori. <--Sesshomaru rocks!!
i like the bleach 2nd opening because it really caught my attention and it has great visuals. i heard the song then watched episode 49 and i was hooked (that is my fav episode). the fukai mori ending i like because of the ocarina or flute parts of the song.
I like bleach opening 7 - After Dark by Asian Kung Fu Generation because its confodent and yet shy in a way after watching the music video I loved how they express how you cant let anyone make fun of you for who or in this case what you are and except it and it could bring you great aprishiation and praise The Greatest Clan In Death and Universe... The Zombaukto Clan


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MARTINSBURG - Alexander Stuart Waugh, 23, of Stewart Avenue, pleaded guilty Thursday in Berkeley County Circuit Court to one count charging him with cultivation of marijuana.
Waugh was arrested for growing marijuana in his home after police found his girlfriend dead from a heroin overdose.
Waugh was sentenced by West Virginia 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge John Yoder to one to five years in prison, which was suspended for five years of probation as part of a binding plea agreement.
According to court records, on May 23, the West Virginia State Police responded to Waugh's residence for a report of a deceased woman. Emergency medical services personnel told police that the 25-year-old woman had overdosed on heroin, records show.
Police found numerous jars containing marijuana inside the residence, as well as marijuana shavings, leaves, stems, grinders and empty plastic baggies containing suspected heroin residue, records show.
Officers also found marijuana-growing paraphernalia, large plastic tubs containing harvested marijuana buds, two marijuana plants and two large piles of drying marijuana inside a bedroom. Waugh later led officers to 24 marijuana plants growing in a bathroom.
Man sentenced for attempted burglary
MARTINSBURG - Matthew D.E. Barton, 28, of Marwin Avenue, Bunker Hill, pleaded guilty under Alford circumstances Thursday to charges of felony attempted burglary, misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor breaking and entering of an automobile.
Barton was sentenced by West Virginia 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge John Yoder to one to three years in prison on the attempted burglary charge, one year in jail on the misdemeanor breaking and entering charge and six months in jail on the misdemeanor assault charge.
Yoder ordered the sentences to be served concurrently as part of the binding plea agreement.
Three arrested on drug charges
MARTINSBURG - Three people were arraigned Thursday on outstanding drug warrants in connection with controlled drug buys conducted by the Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force earlier this year.
Dallas Walter Cook, 35, of Wilson Street, Martinsburg, was charged with two counts of distribution of heroin and one count of conspiracy. Robert Cook, 60, who resides at the same address, was charged with one count of distribution of heroin and conspiracy. Megan Francis Teets, 23, of Apple Harvest Drive, Hedgesville, was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
As of Thursday, Dallas Cook was being held at the Eastern Regional Jail on $150,000 bail. Teets remained in custody on $50,000 bail. Robert Cook was later released on $25,000 bail.
Three plead guilty in casino scheme
MARTINSBURG - Three people from North Carolina and New York have pleaded guilty to using counterfeit credit cards to obtain thousands of dollars in cash advances in 2010 at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.
Tericka Grady, 35, of Castle Hayne, N.C., pleaded guilty Thursday before a federal magistrate in Martinsburg to use of a counterfeit access device.
Two co-defendants, 38-year-old Carlo Gause, of Wilmington, N.C., and 38-year-old Dwayne Fleming, of Brooklyn, N.Y., entered similar pleas Wednesday.
Under plea agreements, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld said Gause will pay $155,300 in restitution to the casino. Fleming will pay $34,000 in restitution and Grady will pay $10,000.
Fugitive arrested in Martinsburg
MARTINSBURG - Police arrested Daniel Aparicio-Martinez, of East Race Street, Thursday, who was wanted in Virginia for a probation violation.
Aparicio-Martinez was wanted in Fairfax County, Va., for a probation violation and was on probation for a felony conviction for maiming, police said. He also had a bench warrant through Martinsburg Municipal Court for several misdemeanor charges.
Man charged with stealing fridge
MARTINSBURG - Kenneth Joseph Cook, 43, of Dodson Lane, who was wanted for stealing a refrigerator in September from a home in Hedgesville, was arraigned Thursday on an outstanding warrant charging him with burglary.
He was later released after posting $15,000 bail.
According to court records, on Sept. 18, the West Virginia State Police responded to a report of a burglary at a residence on Conservation Drive.
A realtor told police a potential buyer had discovered the home's refrigerator had been stolen and the back door had been removed from its hinges. Latent fingerprints matched to Cook were found on various soda cans that had been removed from the refrigerator, according to police.
Cook told police he sold the refrigerator for scrap for his neighbor, but the neighbor denied the allegation.
Man indicted for illegally selling firearms
MARTINSBURG - Wilbur Slick, 60, of Sharpsburg, Md., has been named in a six-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg charging him with selling firearms without a license and selling firearms to a convicted felon.
Slick has been charged with one count of engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a license and five counts of sale of a firearm to a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II announced Thursday.
Slick appeared before Magistrate Judge David J. Joel on Wednesday for an arraignment hearing and has since been released on bond. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each count.
Man accepts plea agreement in escape case
MARTINSBURG - Christopher Samuel Moore, 25, of Berkeley Springs, who managed to escape from the State Police detachment in Martinsburg after his arrest in June on credit card forgery charges, accepted the terms of a proposed plea agreement Thursday in Berkeley County Circuit Court.
Moore agreed to plead guilty to one count of forgery of a credit card and count of escape.
Under the terms of the agreement, Moore will receive a concurrent sentence on the charges with credit for time already served and will be ordered to pay restitution.
West Virginia 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge John Yoder scheduled a plea and sentencing hearing for Jan. 17.


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In the hostel you will find many friendly guests which you can quickly get to know when you play some pool in the bar, chill-out on the pillows in the pillow area; relax in the smoking area or when you are cooking yourself a meal. Our bar is also a great place to make friends. We have a DJ to keep you entertained and get you up dancing and the bar is open until 4am every night, serving cheap beer. We also have an area where you can sit back and watch some movies for free. We also have a book exchange.
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#1. Being Slutty Is Empowering
Although it might upset some commenters, I still believe it's harder to be a woman than a man, and, even today, women are legitimately oppressed in many ways. So enter feminism to address those inequities. The dictionary will tell you that feminism is a doctrine advocating social, political and all other rights of women equal to those of men. Women will tell you feminism is ... well, it depends on the decade, because like all important things, feminism is always evolving. But with all of feminism's changes, there seems to be two constants: 1) it confuses the hell out of women who don't have a strong sense of themselves, and 2) it pisses off asshole men.
I went to college in the '90s. That was the height of Naomi Wolf Beauty Myth feminism. My peers were women who liked Ani DiFranco and wanted to run with the wolves. The '90s were fun, but they were filled with lots and lots of awful sex. I can't tell you how many women I met whose idea of whether or not they were empowered was all tied up in how they liked to screw. And "tied up" could not be a more inappropriate phrase, because restraining a woman in bed only happened on liberal arts campuses in the '90s during an exorcism.
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It saddened me, because I thought feminism was the freedom to have sex any dirty, filthy way you wanted without worrying about the psycho-sociological ramifications of being on your knees or having "property of Gladstone" written on your ass in lipstick. Personally, I never felt like any less of a man because of any particular kind of sex I was having, so why should a woman? Regardless of the sexual act, I was still a man, fully capable of driving a stick, hitting a baseball or getting into a fistfight. (Unless I was wearing that thing that did the thing to my thing, but that was just physics.) I thought women should have the same freedom and the same right to degrade and be degraded in any way that got them hot without having Naomi Wolf's babble filling their heads, ruining their orgasms.
In time, however, the 21st century happened, and a new era of Sex and the City feminism entered. Suddenly, women were saying, yeah, we can be slutty, just like guys. After all, guys go out and try to get laid and brag about it, and society encourages them to do so. I'm going to do that too! Suddenly, you had college girls tweeting about blowjobs and wearing their sexuality on their sleeves, thinking that they were supposed to go out and ride the world for the sisters or they were somehow being oppressed. And though I would imagine this brand of feminism is a lot better for guys looking to get laid, it still makes me sad. It's still putting a pressure on women that shouldn't be there.
Aww, you're better than this, ma'am. Also, what bar?
The whole premise is wrong. Yes, men are jealous of guys who get a lot of women, but women are wrong to think it's a trait that garners much respect. No one says, "We need to calm corporate unrest -- be sure to tell the shareholders how much tang our new CEO is getting." It might surprise women, but do you know what we call guys who go out and try to screw everything? Whores. Know what we call the guy who's always going on and on about all the women he's landed? An asshole. And in my experience, even guys who are legitimately good at having a bunch of promiscuous sex wouldn't make a big show of it.
It's a subtle distinction. Yes, feminism is about women having the same right as men to be irresponsible, brash and slutty, I'll agree. But being brash, irresponsible and slutty doesn't make you a feminist. It doesn't make you empowered. It just makes you as irresponsible, brash and slutty as some of the dudes we don't like. Think of it this way: It was completely unjust to deny black citizens the right to vote, but having gained that right, would a black man be empowering his race by voting for a segregationist?
Both women and men are free to watch new episodes of HATE BY NUMBERS. Also follow Gladstone on Twitter and stay up-to-date on the latest regarding Notes from the Internet Apocalypse. And then there's his website and Tumblr, too.
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Jessica Simpson joined Instagram Tuesday, and she's already using it to spread some sisterly love.
Jessica, 33, posted a snuggly snapshot with sister Ashlee Simpson, 29, and her fiancé Evan Ross on Wednesday.
"Family moment," she captioned the picture, which shows Ashlee's one-of-a-kind engagement ring, a five-carat sparkler custom-designed by jeweler Neil Lane.
Ross, 25, popped the question while the two vacationed in Hawaii, sharing the news with his own celebratory Instagram. From Jessica's photo, it seems Diana Ross's son has earned the Simpson family's approval.
It's unclear which sister will take their second trip down the aisle first – both Simpsons were also previously married, Jessica to Nick Lachey and Ashlee to rocker Pete Wentz, the father of her 5-year-old son, Bronx Mowgli.
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USA Network announced today the ten honorees for the second annual Character Approved Awards, including Green Day and playwright Nora Ephrron. The Character Approved Awards are a multimedia campaign honoring individuals who are changing the face of American culture. Inspired by USA's Characters Welcome brand, the initiative is dedicated to celebrating the true trailblazers across a variety of disciplines such as art, philanthropy, new media and film.
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Supreme Court upholds decision on "praying" parents
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a mother and father who prayed for their dying daughter instead of taking her to a doctor were properly convicted of homicide.
The state's highest court issued the ruling Wednesday.
Eleven-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann died in 2008 in her parents' Weston home from undiagnosed diabetes. Separate juries convicted her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, of second-degree reckless homicide.
The couple's attorneys noted that state law protects parents from being charged with child abuse if they choose prayer healing for an ailing child instead of medical assistance. They argued that it's difficult to know where that protection ends.
State attorneys said that immunity ends when a child is nearing death. They said the couple had a duty to seek medical help.


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Watson Pharmaceuticals is reportedly in talks to acquire Actavis in a deal worth up to €5.5 billion (about $7.3 billion). While the companies have declined comment since the first stories were published yesterday afternoon, Reuters cited "three sources familiar with the matter" in reporting that Watson plans to pay between €5 billion ($6.6 billion) and €5.5 billion for Actavis, though Dow Jones reported the size at just €4.5 billion ($5.9 billion).
Whatever the number, the deal would give Watson the presence in eastern and central Europe that it has long sought for itself. The size of the deal is significantly larger than Watson's M&A activity of recent years, which included its $562 million purchase of Specifar Pharmaceuticals last year, its $1.9 billion acquisition of Arrow Group in 2009, and its $1.75 billion acquisition of Andrx.
Then again, Watson CEO Paul Bisaro disclosed his company's big-deal direction in January during the JPMorgan healthcare conference in San Francisco, saying Watson was looking to buy either a generic or brand-name drugmaker: "Our appetite for a larger transaction, it's there."
Two analysts quoted by Reuters said the deal made sense because Watson's future lies in growing larger so it can compete better with generic drugmaking rivals Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Mylan, and Novartis' Sandoz unit. "If Watson wants to be competitive with those bigger players, it's probably a move in the right direction," Michael Waterhouse of Morningstar said. Agreed Gabelli & Co. analyst Kevin Kedra: "It's a consolidating industry and it's an industry that is basically winding down to just a few Goliaths and most of the Davids are getting scooped up."
Bloomberg quoted analyst Chris Schott of JPMorgan as concluding that the Watson-Actavis combo would generate "significant synergies" in the U.S. as well as raise Watson's profile in Europe. "While we need additional financial details of the potential transaction, we believe this combination has a strong strategic rationale and would give Watson the scale it needs to compete globally," Schott wrote. An unnamed analyst offered Reuters a figure, predicting around €200 million ($263 million) in synergies in the deal's second year.
If any of the companies involved can use savings, it is Actavis, whose chief backer Deutsche Bank posted an impairment of €407 million ($535 million) related to Actavis in Q4. That's down from the €5 billion in debt that the bank was left with after Actavis' billionaire owner Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson lost money in the 2008–09 financial crisis, people familiar with the company told Bloomberg in 2009.
Actavis CEO Claudio Albrecht told Reuters late last year that sales for his privately held company were expected to grow to €2.1 billion (about $2.8 billion), compared with €1.75 billion ($2.3 billion) in 2010. In June, Albrecht told Bloomberg he was considering an IPO or merger for the company within three years, with the goal of growing Actavis to about three times its current size.
By contrast, publicly traded Watson expects GAAP net income in 2012 to range between $340 million and $380 million, up from $260.9 million last year. Also last year, Watson launched 189 generic products globally, including U.S. launches of generic versions of the ADHD medication Concerta, the birth control tablet Seasonique, the pain drug Kadian, and the cholesterol lowering Lipitor.
In its results for 2011, Watson said the May launch of generic Concerta and the November launch of Lipitor accounted for an 81% jump in fourth-quarter net revenue of the company's global generics unit to $1.2 billion. The company filed 30 new ANDAs in the U.S. and more than 130 such applications globally.
All the talk about a Watson-Actavis deal has helped boost the price of Watson shares to their highest level since October 2008, up 8.8% to $63.69 at the close of trading yesterday, after rising just above 10%, and to $66.85 as of 10:25 a.m. today.
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Olympic Silver Medalist Kelsey Serwa poster Signing at Big White
Over 1000 Mom's, Dad's and kids lined up for hours to get a signed poster from Olympic Silver Medalist Kelsey Serwa.
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Hundreds of Kelsey's friends, family and fans gathered at the Kelowna International Airport on Thursday afternoon (February 27th) to welcome home our hometown Olympic Silver Medalist as she flew in from her Olympic adventures in Sochi, Russia. Speeches were done by the city of Kelowna and by Kelsey Serwa herself. She was emotional as she was greeted by adoring fans and family in the crowd. Big White Ski Resort was so proud to be part of the event and we send our warm wishes and congratulations to Kelsey, well done!
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Mind over matter - on the road with Kelsey
I am currently on the plane heading to Zurich via Frankfurt for the next two World Cup Ski Cross races - Val Thorens, France and San Candido, Italy. This is the first time I have been unable to sleep on a flight over the Atlantic. I am short on space so I can't imagine how the boys must be feeling right about now. To get away from the claustrophobic atmosphere a couple of us found relief at the back of the plane but unfortunately got ushered back to our seats shortly after.
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The previous stop on our World Cup tour was in Blue Mountain, Ontario. Last year, this event was amazing with tons of eager spectators cheering on their Canadian team. This year was much of the same story. There were over 1500 young students lined up along the fences hootin' and hollering at the finish line, along with some 3000 other spectators. Blue Mountain is an amazing venue and I enjoy racing here. The Canadian cheering team is one of the biggest crowds we see on all of our World Cup events.
Kelsey Serwa races at the Rockstar Grand Prix at Blue Mountain
Big White's very own Kelsey Serwa delivers another star performance at the Rockstar Grand Prix Ski Cross in Blue Mountain in Collingwood, Ontario. Kelsey qualified first in the quarter finals, and then the whole mountain held its breath when she took a spill in the semi finals placing 4th. She finished the day winning the small final which placed her 5th overall for the event. Stay tuned as Kelsey will race again on March 3rd in Switzerland in a World Cup race.
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1. NEWS Eli Lilly and Company announces market withdrawal of Xigris
2. NEWS CDC reports decline in HAIs
3. CALL TO ACTION Submit AACN grant applications by Nov. 1
4. CALL TO ACTION Submit nominations for 2012 AACN Chapter Awards
5. EVIDENCE One fifth of young adults with CHD needed surgery, study finds
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8. CALL TO ACTION Comment on revised 'ANA Principles for Nurse Staffing'
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1. NEWS Eli Lilly and Company announces market withdrawal of Xigris
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is informing healthcare professionals and the public that on Oct. 25, 2011, Eli Lilly and Company announced a worldwide voluntary market withdrawal of Xigris [drotrecogin alfa (activated)]. In a recent study, Xigris failed to show a survival benefit for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock.
2. NEWS CDC reports decline in HAIs
Four common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) declined in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta. As reported at a policy summit held Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C., central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, surgical site infections and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections decreased.
3. CALL TO ACTION Submit AACN grant applications by Nov. 1
AACN invites clinicians and researchers to apply for AACN research grants, which range from $1,500 to $50,000 in awards. These grants fund priority projects that address gaps in clinical research and support the translation of these findings to bedside nurses. Apply by Tuesday, Nov. 1.
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Nominate chapters for the 2012 AACN Chapter Awards, which recognize exemplary efforts to make a difference in the healthcare profession and further AACN's mission, vision and values. These awards recognize excellence in a number of categories: chapter collaboration, community education & public service, educational programming, leadership development and promoting the value of certification. There is also an AACN President's Award for Chapters for which nominations close Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. All other nominations close Tuesday, Nov. 1. Learn more and nominate.
5. EVIDENCE One fifth of young adults with CHD needed surgery, study finds
"Surgery in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease" finds that one fifth of young adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) required cardiovascular surgery during a 15-year period. Men with CHD are more likely than women to undergo surgery as an adult and have "worse long-term survival after reoperations," concludes the study of 10,300 patients in the Oct. 18 Circulation.
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9. EVIDENCE Study associates delirium after cardiac surgery with higher mortality
"Consequences of Delirium After Cardiac Operations," published online Oct. 10 by Annals of Thoracic Surgery, associates delirium after cardiac surgery with higher mortality, more hospital readmissions and reduced quality of life.
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You are invited to participate in an online survey about RNs who manage both work and family responsibilities. Doctoral student Leanne Clark-Shirley from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, requests your answers to questions about your job, co-workers and whether you help to care for older family members or friends. You must be an RN and a current member of AACN to participate. This important, confidential survey will help AACN and other nursing organizations better understand how RNs find a balance between work and family needs. Everyone who participates is eligible for a drawing for one of three $50 Amazon.com e-gift cards. Take the survey.
11. NEWS Housing now open for NTI 2012
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On Oct. 18, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., released Sentinel Event Statistics Data updated through Sept. 30. Data include type of sentinel events, settings, outcomes and self-reported events by year.
"Neglect of Quality-of-life Considerations in Intensive Care Unit Family Meetings for Long-stay Intensive Care Unit Patients" found quality of life was discussed in fewer than half of initial meetings with families of ICU patients at high risk for mortality and morbidity. "Continued efforts to assist clinicians in routinely including discussions of quality-of-life outcomes is needed," concludes the study published online Sept. 29 by Critical Care Medicine.
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John and Leona Mogle of Tiffin are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
They were married Nov. 24, 1962, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, by the Rev. James Say.
John retired as a roofer from Charles Ranker Sons Inc., Tiffin, and as a custodian at Tiffin Eagles.
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Leona retired from Mercy Tiffin Hospital as a dietary aide.
They are parents of three daughters and a son, Jeanne (Jay) Hoy of Bloomville, Beverly (Paul) Mier of West Branch, Mich., Jason (Melissa) Mogle of Hamilton and the late Cynthia Mogle. Eight grandchildren complete their family.
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The Stetson University Athletics Ticket Office will begin taking new orders for Hatters football season tickets on Monday morning, June 2.
Season tickets for the Hatters' second campaign start at as little as $90 per season ticket for six home games. Season ticket holders save an average of 22 percent off the single-game ticket price. Depending on the seating area, season tickets sell for as much as 50 percent off the single-game price.
The Hatters are scheduled to play six games this fall at Spec Martin Memorial Stadium. The home opener at "The Best Little Stadium in College Football" is scheduled for September 6 against in-state rival Florida Tech. Kickoff for that game is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Stetson will also host Mercer (Sept. 13), Butler (Oct. 4), Jacksonville (Oct. 18), Marist (Nov. 8) and Drake (Nov. 22). Kickoff times have been set for all six home games, with each of the first four games of the season slated for evening starts.
Homecoming is scheduled for Nov. 8, with a 3 p.m. start time against defending Pioneer Football League co-champion Marist. The season finale against Drake on Nov. 22 is set for a 1 p.m. start.
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SIERRAVILLE, Calif. - The Sierraville Community Church recently welcomed Rev. Jim and Jeannie Knight from Dallas, Ore. as Associate Village Missionaries to serve for a few months until a full-time Village Missions family arrives. Rev. Jim is a graduate of Montana Institute of the Bible in Lewistown, Mont. He retired in 2007 after 27 years as a Village Missionary pastor in the Western and Mid-western United States. The Knights have been Associate Village Missionaries since retirement at six different churches in four states, including Arizona, Alaska, Nebraska, Oregon, and now California.The Sierraville Community Church became associated with Village Missions in October of this year and the Knights arrived on the day before Halloween. They are living in the church-owned parsonage in Calpine, and Rev. Jim said that they lost track of how many kids came to their door asking for "trick or treats" on Halloween evening. "It was great!" Jeannie said. Both Rev. Jim and Jeannie agree Sierra Valley is a "great place to live!"Village Missions is an interdenominational home mission board, meaning it is an organization that provides spiritual leadership to rural churches in the USA and Canada who request leadership from Village Missions. Their slogan is "Keeping Country Churches Alive," and they have been instructing their missionaries to "Preach the Word," and "Love the People" for more than 60 years.Sierraville Community Church is located at 424 S. Lincoln in Sierraville. Call 530-994-3708 for information.For Christmas services, visit http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20121219/COMMUNITY/121219876/1038&parentprofile=1056
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