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AKRON, Ohio – Ray Lewis was not convicted of the two murders with which he was charged 13 years ago. He agreed to plead guilty to obstruction, a misdemeanor, and testified against two members of his entourage.
Lewis' testimony didn't help the prosecution much. His associates, Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting, were acquitted.
Nobody has been convicted of the violent stabbing deaths that occurred with multiple witnesses, Lewis included, outside an Atlanta nightclub hours after the Super Bowl.
That was a long time ago for many of us. The details of the melee were gauzy at the trial and have faded more with time.
Lewis, meanwhile, became an NFL demigod.
He will conclude a brilliant football career Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII. The Baltimore Ravens linebacker has been selected for 13 Pro Bowls and likely will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer when he becomes eligible in five years.
Lewis perfectly fits the narrative of the transcendent sports hero – an overtly religious man who has conquered his past, an inspirational leader of men – with the chance to galvanize his celebrated legacy by winning the world championship in his final game.
What a story line. Over the next seven days, Lewis will be a dominant character in the throbbing buildup toward kickoff. Among the superstar Ravens and San Francisco 49ers on the field, Lewis will stand apart. He will be a focal point.
"I'm in awe of the work that God can do in one man's life. To me, Ray's the epitome of that," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said last Sunday after the Ravens beat the New England Patriots to reach the Super Bowl.
"Ray's a guy that has turned everything over. He's surrendered everything, and he's become the man that he is to this day. He's a different man than he was when he was at 22 or 15 or whatever. I think everybody sees that right now. I think it's a great thing for kids to see. It's a great thing for fathers to see."
Reminders of what happened in Atlanta 13 years ago will be inconvenient for Lewis' ride-into-the-sunset script.
Wouldn't it be more pleasant if everybody just forgot about those deaths and let Lewis bask in the klieg lights one last time?
The families of Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker can't forget.
While Lewis sermonizes at Super Bowl media day about being guided by the Lord, delivers his fiery pregame speech, wraps up a career that earned him about $100 million in football salaries and millions more in sponsorship money, perhaps raises the Lombardi Trophy and then heads off to an ESPN broadcasting career, two men lie beneath modest placards in Akron cemetery plots about 20 miles away from where Lewis' bronze Hall of Fame bust will be visited by generations of football fans in Canton.
"It's sickening to see him," Baker's uncle, Greg Wilson, told The Buffalo News this week. "It's sickening to see his face. It's sickening to see his name and everybody glorifying him. It's disgusting to see America grasp him like this.
"People who are saying 'Let it go,' I'll tell you what: Let it be your child, your nephew. Then tell somebody to let it go. You can't let it go.
"When somebody can stand in our shoes, they would see you can't let it go. ... We won't let it die. We're not going to stop."
Until four days ago, Priscilla Lollar refused to acknowledge the oldest of her nine children was dead. She spoke about him in the present tense. She refused to attend his funeral. She couldn't bear to see his grave. She didn't even know where it was.
Priscilla Lollar saw his plot at Glendale Cemetery for the first time Wednesday. She crunched up a snowy knoll on a bone-chilling, gray afternoon and found Richard Lollar's name in Section 19, Lot 1, Grave 3.
"It's still hard for me to accept that he's gone," she said. "I see his name there. Maybe that's the only way I know to deal with it. Maybe if I thought about never being able to see him no more I wouldn't want to live. I would've just gave up."
Priscilla Lollar stared at the headstone for a few silent moments and began to sniffle. An ambulance wailed along the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway. She broke down in tears, removed the mitten tops from her half-finger gloves and vigorously wrung her hands before bringing them to her trembling cheeks.
"Right now, I just want to see what's up under there," she sobbed. "I want to see if he's in there, something. I don't know. I don't know. I wonder if he's in there. I don't know.
"I never seen him in no casket or anything. So I don't know. Now I want to see what's up under here. I want to see if he's in there or anything."
She began to howl.
"I want him to come on back home! I just want him to come home!"
Lollar's brother grieves
Richard Lollar, 24, and Jacinth Baker, 21, were buddies who wanted to escape Akron's bleak, industrial landscape. They'd had their interactions with police over minor drug offenses, but they dreamed big and were drawn to cosmopolitan Atlanta.
Richard was a barber with plans to open his own shop. He began cutting hair when he was in grade school and eventually won local hairstyling contests.
He was imaginative and talented. When he was 12, he asked his mother to bring home some wire hangers for an art project. He twisted them into a monkey sculpture that wouldn't look out of place in an art gallery. It proudly hangs in the living room of the family's Hartford Avenue home.
"He was a good dude," said Master Lollar, 8 at the time his big brother was killed. Master Lollar considered Richard the guiding force in his life.
Now Master imagines the conversations they should be having and tries to guess what advice Richard would give him. Master dropped out of Buchtel High in 2007, but those metaphysical discussions with Richard compelled him to get his diploma recently and apply to barber college, too.
"He's still a good dude," Master Lollar said. "I just pray and talk to him and hope that he gives me the guidance. He talks to me back. Every day I wish he was here. Every day it hurts."
Richard Lollar's fiancee, Kellye Smith, was pregnant when he was killed. Their daughter is 12 years old now and lives near Atlanta. Smith's family sued Lewis for $13 million in damages.
Baker's grandmother, Gladys Robinson, sued Lewis for $10 million.
Lewis avoided civil trials by settling both lawsuits out of court.
Baker also was the oldest child in his family and wanted to make a living as an artist.
"He had a God-given gift," Greg Wilson, his uncle, said. "He could draw things from memory or out of the clear blue sky. It was something else. That's gone now."
Baker's parents died about a year before he did. His father had a heart attack. His mother had a brain tumor.
In a way, Wilson considers them fortunate. They didn't have to bury their son.
"This family is hurting," Wilson said. "This family is hurting bad. My mom and dad [Baker's grandparents] went to their graves knowing that nobody went to jail for Jacinth's murder. That boy's murder took a toll on this family like you wouldn't believe."
Reporters in New Orleans this week likely will ask Lewis about the murders. He and his teammates have bristled about those questions, but they won't go away.
"That was a sad, sad tragedy and we all have sympathy for the families who lost their loved ones," Lewis said in a statement sent by the Ravens to The News. "I hope the families eventually find peace."
Witnesses not credible
Members of the Baker and Lollar families still refer to Lewis as "a murderer," although they know that he isn't – not in legal terms or reality.
In practical terms, however, they believe he was critical to helping the killers get away with repeatedly stabbing Baker and Lollar in the chest outside the upscale Cobalt Lounge on Jan. 31, 2000.
"How can somebody help commit a murder and people praise him for playing a game?" said Faye Lollar, Richard's aunt, who attended the trial in Atlanta. "They're chanting and giving him the glory. For what? I believe he was involved with it just as much as everybody else."
Lewis admitted that he lied to police officers when they originally questioned him. He refused to give up the names of those at the grisly scene, hindering the investigation from the start.
The cream-colored suit Lewis described wearing that night – not white as commonly reported – never has been found. He claimed to have forgotten what happened to it. Baker's blood was found in the Lincoln Navigator limousine Lewis had rented to drive from Baltimore to Atlanta, and investigators believed they would have found more blood on Lewis' clothes.
As for the street fight, Lewis insisted he was a peacemaker who tried to usher his friends into the limousine so they could drive away.
Witnesses gave police statements that incriminated Lewis, but during the trial, their testimonies became vague.
Limousine driver Duane Fassett told police he saw Lewis punch one of the victims, but testified Lewis only drew a fist and didn't actually strike anyone.
Jeff Gwen, an aspiring rapper friend of Baker and Lollar, told police he saw Lewis remove an expensive necklace before joining the fray and throwing punches. But at the trial, Gwen stated that Lewis merely held onto somebody to help quell the scene.
Chester Anderson, a convict who claimed to be a witness, testified that he saw Lewis kick a man who was on the ground. The jury didn't find Anderson credible.
The jury returned not-guilty verdicts after five hours of deliberating. Five jurors spoke to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after the trial and revealed their frustrations about the case.
Multiple jurors said they wanted to convict, but the way the indictment was written limited their ability to find guilt and District Attorney Paul Howard didn't deliver evidence promised in his opening remarks.
"Everybody walked," Wilson said. "But you know what we did? We brought Jacinth home, and we buried him.
"Jacinth never received justice. The family's not happy. The family is still in turmoil. It'll be 13 years and everybody's still angry and getting older, and the justice system still fails us."
Wilson will concede that Lewis probably didn't wield a knife in the killings, but he's convinced the All-Pro linebacker knows more than he has divulged and backed the Oakley and Sweeting defense teams.
In Wilson's mind, they're all guilty of torturing Baker's family. Wilson reasoned that perhaps God has forgiven Lewis for what happened in Atlanta, but he suggested that Lewis continues to sin by denying justice.
"Not one of them has a conscience," Wilson said of Lewis' entourage. "I hope that every one of them in that limousine are being haunted mentally to the day they die about what happened that night to Jacinth and Richard.
"They're going to answer to God. They're going to burn in hell."
Many endorsements
Is it appropriate to revisit Lewis' role in the 2000 double-murder case when he's about to finish an incandescent career?
Lawrence Wenner, professor of communications and ethics and director of Loyola Marymount University's Forum on Media Ethics and Social Responsibility, perceives a near 50-50 split in public opinion.
"Fans are of two minds about this particular issue," Wenner said. "Some fans are saying 'Let it go. It's over. He's apologized. He's paid his price. He's great on the field.'
"Other people are amazed that ESPN would hire this guy with this tainted background, a guy who's strategically cultivating an image of crying and being patriotic and using his Christianity forwardly and very visibly and take this to be quite a charade."
Lewis is an NFL icon despite – and some could argue partly because of – what happened 13 years ago. Many assert Lewis was victimized by the system and emerged triumphant, furthering his mystique.
His No. 52 Ravens jersey has been one of the NFL's best sellers over the years. His sponsorship deals include Visa, Reebok, Under Armour, SoBe Lifewater and Old Spice.
Electronic Arts, manufacturers of the wildly popular Madden video-game franchise, have used Lewis as a prominent pitchman. He was chosen for the cover of Madden 2005, delivers a fiery motivational speech in the opening credits of Madden 13 and appears in television commercials with actor Paul Rudd.
Hip-hop artist Nelly references Lewis in his arena anthem "Heart of a Champion."
"We want to believe the hero story," said Krystal Beamon, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas Arlington. Beamon, a former All-American sprinter at Oklahoma State, teaches a class called sociology of race, class and sport in the media.
"The reality is this guy was charged with two murders that he likely was involved in," Beamon said. "But we see him as such a super human in an institution we value so much that we then begin to want to see him as a good man."
At a time when myth-making has proven dangerous in sports – Joe Paterno, Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o, to name a few – cynicism can be worthwhile when analyzing the full measure of a man.
"We adopt this narrative that he's reformed and he loves the Lord and he's a better man," Beamon said. "We want to believe that. That's how important sports are in our society and how much we want heroes.
"If I'm Ray Lewis and I want to change my image and get into sportscasting and all the goodies that come when you retire, I'm going to follow that model. America is a Christian nation, and we can identify with washing the slate clean and wanting to be a better man."
'Satan in human form'
Wilson refuses to buy into Lewis' outwardly Christian persona, saying Lewis is "hiding behind his Bible" to bolster a marketable image.
"Step up and be the man you claim you are," Wilson said. "Step up and tell the truth and quit portraying yourself to the children of America like you're a hero.
"You ain't no hero. You ain't s---. Tell the truth, and take it like a man."
Master Lollar doesn't view Lewis with cynicism as much as he senses a sinister element at work. Master Lollar admits the slayings trigger dark thoughts about humanity and that he has contemplated suicide over the loss of his big brother.
Master Lollar said when he sees Lewis on television, whether during a game or in a commercial, memories of Richard's death return in an instant.
"He's Satan in human form, a person that is so evil," Master Lollar said of Lewis. "I can barely see a person wearing his jersey.
"You know what I wish? One time in my life, me and him would have a talk. I want to ask him how it feels. I never helped somebody get away with murder. How does that feel? Do you care? Or did you do it just to protect your fame?"
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Ernie's Restaurant, a beloved soul food joint that daily drew 200 customers with its turkey necks and lima beans, has apparently reached the end of its 36-year run on Spring Street.
Owner Ernie Kinloch last month closed the restaurant for renovations; according to Kinloch, plans to reopen were derailed when his sister, Essie Bryan, became seriously ill.
"My sister who's been running it is sick in the hospital," Kinloch says. "Right now, I hope she pulls through her sickness."
In addition to managing the restaurant, Bryan handled its finances. Charleston County tax records show Bryan last year sold the 64 Spring St. parcel to a Kiawah Island real estate developer for $30,000. Property owner Al Roberds didn't return calls seeking comment, so the future of the address is unclear.
Kinloch reports he's not currently paying rent on the building, but deferred questions about unpaid tax bills to Bryan.
"She was handling all of that," says Kinloch, adding the family may consider looking at other locations for the restaurant if Bryan's condition improves in coming weeks.
Ernie's was the last bastion of Lowcountry cooking on a street that's gentrifying rapidly: A few weeks before Ernie's closed, a gluten-free bakeshop opened down the block.
Although Ernie's kept a weekday-only schedule, Kinloch earlier this year told The Post and Courier's Shirley Greene that he wanted the restaurant to have a Sunday dinner feel: Home-style cooking and freewheeling conversation were the restaurant's hallmarks.
Roadfood's Michael Stern described Ernie's as purveyor of "one of the most satisfying low-cost dinners in all of Charleston," praising its okra soup and white rice.
One of the participants in a 2012 Charleston Wine + Food Festival soul food tour that stopped at Ernie's was so impressed by the restaurant that she later returned to celebrate her birthday with a helping of bread pudding.
Help for those who seek a gluten-free holiday
Home cooks who may typically have the luxury of ignoring assorted dietary restrictions are frequently tested at the holidays, when guests come bearing all sorts of firmly held food preferences.
Caviar & Bananas is wagering hosts may want to buy their way out of the situation: The downtown cafe has listed 11 gluten-free dishes on its Thanksgiving/Christmas take-out menu, including butternut squash soup, braised collard greens and mashed potatoes.
It's also offering vegetarian stuffing and vegan succotash. Caviar & Bananas is asking customers to place entree orders four days in advance of pick-up; accompaniments may show up in the store's display case, but customers who want to avoid disappointment should call in their choices at least two days before pick-up.
None of Caviar & Bananas' holiday pies are classified as gluten-free, but Sweet Radish Bake Shop is offering a full roster of pies, cakes, tortes and muffins, including a vegan pumpkin pie. The complete ordering guide is online at sweetradishbakeshop.com.
Gullah Cuisine adds sports bar
Taking advantage of the remaining football season, Gullah Cuisine this week inaugurated its new sports bar.
The Mount Pleasant restaurant already had a bar, but recently remade it to emphasize spectating: According to staffer Terry Baxter, a new 40-inch television was recently installed behind the bar and another two screens are planned for the back wall.
Available bar snacks include wings and boiled shrimp.
Figuring out fermentation
Chefs Collaborative, the national network of food professionals that last week brought its annual conference to Charleston, is primarily concerned with nurturing a more sustainable food system. So it made sense that the conference agenda included workshops on bycatch, hog farming and genetically modified crops. But in reviewing the schedule, I was immediately struck by how much meeting time was devoted to fermentation.
Conference attendees were herded into the Francis Marion Hotel's ballroom for two fermentation talks, and had the option of signing up for additional workshops exploring microbial fermentation and creative ways of fermenting vegetables. Fermentation became a kind of catchphrase for eventgoers, who seized upon the bubbling-up process as a symbol of their grassroots energy.
Fermentation certainly has a countercultural appeal. But is it a critical component of sustainability? While fermentation is easy on the earth, it doesn't appear to directly solve any of the problems with which responsible chefs wrestle: To the contrary, it has the potential to create new hassles with health departments, which don't always look kindly on controlled rot, and customers, whose palates might not be tuned to the funky flavors that emerge when food ages.
Since I was stumped by the fermentation emphasis, I asked the group's executive director, Melissa Kogut, to explain the programming. Here's what she told me:
"From a chef perspective, fermentation is a new frontier for exploring food preservation, eating food beyond seasonal availability and exploring intensified flavors," she said.
Although there are other ways to preserve food, such as canning and drying, Kogut suggested fermentation's long history makes it an especially attractive topic for progressive chefs in the post-molecular gastronomy era. "We see fermentation as the perfect symbol of looking back and cooking forward," Kogut says. "It's both an ancient idea and revolutionary direction for the future of food."
Fermentation hasn't yet swept Charleston, but it's a favorite technique of Sean Brock's: The menu at McCrady's has featured fermented buttermilk, fermented corn, fermented walnuts, fermented red peppers and fermented tomatoes. He returned from a recent trip to Senegal, chronicled in this month's Food & Wine, thinking about fermented oysters. Stay tuned.
Magnolia offers discounts in food drive
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens is again offering discounted admission to visitors who contribute nonperishable food to the Lowcountry Food Bank.
Between now and Dec. 31, donors are eligible for a "buy one, get one free" deal on garden tickets.
The site is attempting to collect more than 2,000 pounds of food, bettering last year's tally.
"No one should be without in a city voted the best tourist destination in the country," executive director Tom Johnson is quoted as saying in a release.
Visitors are specifically requested to bring healthy food, such as dried beans and lentils, whole wheat and whole grain products, low-sugar fruit, low-salt vegetables, peanut butter and canned fish in water. For further guidelines, go to www.lowcountryfoodbank.org/hope.
New cocktail lists at local restaurants
Two local restaurants this month are rolling out new cocktail menus, and the featured drinks couldn't be more conceptually different.
At The Glass Onion, which emphasizes local, seasonal cooking, the beverage program is treated as "a natural extension of culinary practices," according to a press release.
For the drinker, that means bourbon punch made with whole milk from Edgefield, bloody marys featuring High Wire vodka and garnished with housemade pickles, and Cuba Libres built from High Wire Distilling rum and Mexican Coke (which will continue to be sweetened with sugar, despite the furor which erupted this week when online reports revealed an independent bottler was considering adding more fructose to the formula).
The West Ashley restaurant is also localizing its beer list with seasonal brews from Westbrook.
Over at The Alley, the inspiration for the cocktail menu was the restaurant's bowling alley setting. The laid-back list includes a drink made with ginger beer, rum, Kahlua and grapefruit juice, and a gin highball with fresh jalapeno. But the menu's centerpiece is the White Russian section, developed in tribute to The Big Lebowski. There are no fewer than five White Russians, each distinguished by flavored vodka or added liqueur.
The Alley premieres its first-ever cocktail list today.
Xiao Bao birthday party set Saturday
Xiao Bao Biscuit is celebrating its first birthday this Saturday, starting at 1 p.m. The acclaimed exploratory Asian restaurant at 224 Rutledge Ave. has arranged for Bev Eggelston of Eco Friendly Foods to smoke a steamship round of beef, and co-owner Joey Ryan says, "Rumors of Korean fried chicken should also be taken seriously. Beer and cocktails will most assuredly be on hand as well." The party runs until closing or the food sells out.
Wood-fired trend at Obstinate Daughter
Considering the persistent popularity of wood-fired cooking, which Nation's Restaurant News back in 2010 declared a trend, eaters might assume food cooked in ovens fueled by tinder tastes better. Not so, says a spokeswoman for one of the nation's leading manufacturers of wood-fired ovens.
"We've done taste tests, and we would say the flavor is the same," says Tamra Nelson of Wood Stone, which also produces gas-powered ovens. "But it does connect visually with the customer."
There aren't any surveys showing exactly how many local restaurants have gone the wood-fired route, but Nelson says there are seven restaurants in and around Charleston using Wood Stone equipment, including Southend Brewery and Monza.
According to Nelson, customers' perceptions of wood-fired ovens' superiority can overwhelm the reality that quality doesn't vary with fuel source.
"It almost validates the authenticity of food," Nelson says of a showpiece oven. Additionally, "it creates an atmosphere and it's beautiful."
The newest area restaurant to tout its wood-fired credentials is The Obstinate Daughter, Wild Olive Restaurant Group's new Sullivan's Island project. Underscoring the current prevalence of wood-fired cooking, an opening announcement specifically categorizes chef Jacques Larson's pizza, pasta and small plates spot as "a wood-fired oven restaurant." (The Obstinate Daughter, named for a character in a British political cartoon published after the Battle of Sullivan's Island, purchased its oven from Wood Stone.)
Cooking with wood is slightly more complicated than cooking with gas, since it requires sourcing the right wood and cleaning up a heap of ashes at night's end. Yet while Nelson suspects coal-fired cooking could soon steal some of the concept's heat, and the New York Times earlier this year forecast a rosy future for open wood-fired grills, wood-fired ovens are likely to remain fixtures in many restaurants.
"They're trying to set themselves apart," Nelson says. "They're going back to their roots."
The Obstinate Daughter is scheduled to open at 2063 Middle Street in January.
Food Network chronicler at JCC
Emeril Lagasse was integral to Food Network's success, but he wasn't the only guy who kicked the channel up a notch: Allen Salkin, who's written the first behind-the-scenes history of the cable network, tonight appears at the Charleston JCC at 1645 Raoul Wallenberg Blvd.
The Jewish Bookfest event starts at 7 p.m., but if you show up at 6:30 p.m., there's a preshow cupcake decorating contest. Salkin and I are picking the winners. Tickets to the talk are $8 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Call 571-6565 for more info.


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Mr. and Mrs. William Richardson Hearn Jr. of Summerville, South Carolina are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Brooks Elizabeth Hearn to Ben Andrew Crom of Charleston, South Carolina.
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It's all happened so fast that I haven't had the chance to really think about how I feel, I'm on auto pilot and it's helpful but also robotic and void of most senses. Except for when the exhaustion hits and I'm a weepy mess.
Tomorrow the movers carry the last of the heavy things out of here and onto Ohio. Then I'll pack the kids in the car and drive off to new beginnings.


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Friday, January 31, 2014
Trident Health announced today that Louis Caputo, CEO at Summerville Medical Center (SMC) has accepted the position of CEO at TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Under Lou's four years leadership, SMC has been transformed from a 94-bed hospital to an acute care specialty medical center. Lou was instrumental in developing and adding many new service lines, including bariatric surgery, robotic surgery, wound care, MRI Caring Suite technology and impressive pediatric emergency and inpatient departments. In addition, Lou helped the organization achieve numerous accreditations and certifications in orthopedics, chest pain, stroke and sepsis protocols.
Lou was instrumental in making tangible and accessible improvements to healthcare in the communities of Summerville and Dorchester County. Lou will assume his new role on March 3; Trident Health will be opening a national search for his replacement.
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The Stetson men's basketball team's upcoming game against USC Upstate originally scheduled for Thursday has been postponed to Monday at 7:00 p.m. due to inclement weather in the southeast region.
The Hatters were scheduled to play at USC Upstate on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and then travel to ETSU for a Saturday game at 4:00 p.m. The Saturday contest against the Buccaneers will remain on schedule from Johnson City.
Stetson is coming off of a 73-68 home victory over Jacksonville on Saturday. The Hatters improved to 5-7 during Atlantic Sun Conference play with the win, moving into seventh place in league standings.
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RAVENNA - After starting the year 0-2, Western Reserve made a season out of proving people wrong. Friday against the top-ranked, four-time state champion Mogadore Wildcats, however, the Blue Devils were short of continuing the trend. Western Reserve's nine-game winning streak was snapped in a 28-7 loss in a Div. VI, Region 21 semifinal contest at Gilcrest Field.
The Blue Devils (9-3) rebounded from a 7-0 deficit and seemingly had the momentum going into the half. But turnovers doomed Reserve the final two quarters.
"That team could win the state championship," Western Reserve head coach Andy Hake said. "I'm just proud of my guys for what they did all season."
Mogadore (12-0) took the game's opening drive 67 yards in eight plays culminating in a 31-yard touchdown pass from Anthony Ricci to Kasey Beard on a fourth-and-14.
Western Reserve responded by driving deep into Mogadore territory on a steady diet of running backs Tim Cooper and Dan Zilke. But Evan Uhalley picked off a Nick Allison pass to end the drive.
Reserve forced a Mogadore punt to open the second quarter, and Allison found both Parker Warren and Dan Rosati to tally first downs. Tim Cooper finished off the 12-play, 70-yard drive with 1-yard touchdown run. Parker Clegg's kick evened the score at 7-7.
Both defenses were solid for the remainder of the second quarter as Reserve got solid pressure on Ricci and plugged up holes quickly for standout running back Gary Strain.
Reserve held Strain to just 45 yards on seven carries in the first half.
The second half was another story.
Following a Western Reserve punt on its first possession of the third quarter, Strain broke containment at the line of scrimmage and raced 75 yards on Mogadore's first play of the second half. The point after was good and Mogadore took a 14-7 lead.
Again Reserve responded using Cooper to move the ball deep into Wildcat territory. Hunter Van Camp picked off an Allison pass and returned it 50 yards to the Reserve 30.
Strain did the rest barreling the team to the 10, then eventually in for a 20-7 advantage.
"That really took some wind out of our sails," Hake said. "They played nine guys one way and it really wore us down."
After Reserve got Mogadore to jump offsides on its next drive on a fourth down in Blue Devil territory, Dan Zilke lost the handle on a run late in the third quarter and it was recovered by the Wildcats.
One play into the fourth quarter, Strain went 22 yards for another rushing score. Austin Pierce caught the two-point conversion pass to give Mogadore a 28-7 lead.
Mogadore again picked off passes on Reserve's next two drives, both by Pierce. Mogadore drove deep in to Reserve territory late in the fourth but lost a fumble on the Reserve five. The Blue Devils drove deep into Mogadore territory but time ran out.
Cooper finished with 134 yards on 20 carries and 87 yards on nine receptions.
Strain ended his night with 206 yards on 20 carries.
"I've got some great kids," Hake said. "Some of the best around and some great coaches. I couldn't be more proud of them."
Mogadore advances to play Youngstown Christian next Friday.
Salem News sports writer Jon Rudder contributed to this article.


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Maybe tomorrow.
For now, the beach.
[Grayson behaving quite perfectly in the sand makes me want to bring the entire beach home with us. ]
That is too cute!! I love her reaction to the sand.
I can't wait until we can take a trip to the beach with Emma.
What fun! Looks like everyone had a wonderful time - the beach with kiddos is just divine (if you can handle the sand for the next few weeks!) I can't get enough!ReplyDelete
My mom always says that dirt, water and trampolines are the best tools for raising little boys. My son has had some of his best days ever digging in a beachful of sand. And frankly, it looks like girls like it too--I know my daughter responded a lot like Miss Ivy did. Cute photos!ReplyDelete
such a fun day I feel blessed that I am 10 mins away from a rocky beach and 30 mins from a sandy oneReplyDelete
Very sweet!ReplyDelete
Too cute! I can't wait to take Henry to the beach - it should be quite interesting.
Did Ivy eat the sand? That's the first thing I expect H to do...lol
Ivy seams to like the beach!!!!ReplyDelete
You probably brought home a good chunk of it as it is...
Nice pics.
Love the pics! What program do you use to edit them?ReplyDelete
Nothing better than summer beach pictures. It looks like everybody had a fabulous time. Happy Summer!!ReplyDelete
is that lake Michigan? I grew up in West Michigan, spitting distance of the beach. My 3 sisters and I grew up on those beaches. Seriously, like every day.
Miss it so much, but 4th of July is just around the corner!
AWwww! color me disappointed, I thought you said we were going to get to see you in your bathing suit. Rumor has it you're the thong queen. *snort*ReplyDelete
Very fun! What a great photo of Grayson, too! Little Dude loves sand, so whenever we go to the beach we have to check his pockets before going in the house-they are sure to be full of sand!ReplyDelete
That looks just delightful!ReplyDelete
Just say his shorts are from Europe...itty bitty swimming shorts are all the rage over there I hear. :-)
I can't get over her tee-shirt bubble! It is just SO cute!
Beautiful fun!ReplyDelete
Its too hot here to go to the beach! Hopefully tomorrow we can hit up the splash pad! Looks like everyone had a great time!ReplyDelete
Hopefully my kids will love the beach as much as yours! Great pics!ReplyDelete
What a cute set of pictures! I love that last one of Gray!! =)ReplyDelete
All these beach photos make me want to go to the beach! We might have to plan a beach trip sometime soon!ReplyDelete
Love it all so much. They boys look like they had so much fun. Ivy is so cute in her dress. I wish we had a beach closer to us. So lovely.ReplyDelete
Looks like you all had a wonderful day!
My son is the same way at the beach. I wish we lived nearer to one!ReplyDelete
I love the picture with both hands buried in the water!
They all look like they really enjoyed playing in the sand. Did you bring half the beach home with you?
We're considering a sandbox even though we're really not far from a beach with real sand. Seeing pictures of kids playing with sand always wants me want to bring some home...
But oh - the mess!
I miss the beaches back home, they are always more private and relaxing...looks like fun! Why no pics of the kids and their daddy though? Was he unable to join you guys for the beach day?ReplyDelete


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BOARDMAN-After a successful regular season, the Salem Quakers answered the opening bell in tournament play.
The Quakers opened Division II sectional play with a solid 69-48 win over Lakeview at Boardman High School on Tuesday night.
"Tonight we just continued doing what worked for us in the regular season," Salem senior Ryan Bush said. "We were able to get up and down the floor early, and our overall execution was very good."
Bush had 23 points to lead a balanced attack for the Quakers, who improved to 17-6. Anthony Shivers chipped in 15 points and Max Wolfgang pulled down 14 rebounds.
Brandon Bensing led Lakeview (4-19) with 17 points and 11 rebounds.
The Salem defense was stifling from the outset, leading to a flurry of transition buckets in the first quarter when the Quakers raced out to a 23-6 lead.
"We did a great job in setting the tone early at both ends of the floor," Salem coach Rich Hart said. "Max Wolfgang got everything started with his defense and rebounding and we were able to get some good open shots."
The Quakers never trailed and wound up shooting nearly 50 percent from the floor.
"I was pleased with our perimeter game," Hart said. "We didn't finish the year shooting very well, but we worked hard during the past week and the results were there tonight."
"Coming into the game we really wanted to focus on our transition defense," Lakeview coach Craig Mild said. "But we did not get back down the floor very well in the first quarter, and we let Ryan Bush have way too many open shots."
Lakeview cut the lead to 29-20 with just under two minutes left before halftime when Hart called a quick timeout.
"We had some sloppy turnovers in the second quarter and started drifiting away from what got us the lead," Hart said. "I thought we needed to wake up a little bit."
The Quakers came out of the timeout and closed the half on an 8-0 run -aided by a pair of key offensive rebounds from Shivers and Wolfgang - to restore their 17-point margin.
"I'm proud of the way our players kept fighting," Mild said. "We felt we were right there in the second quarter, but that run at the end of the half really hurt us. We went from being only down by single digits to back in a deep hole in the blink of an eye."
Lakeview got no closer than 13 in the second half, and was held to 24 percent shooting for the night.
"I give Lakeview credit for fighting as hard as they did," Hart said. "They have a young team and kept battling all through the second half, in the end we were able to do what was needed to win the game."
The Quakers advances to face Ravenna (13-9) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
"It's nice to have our first tournament win put away, but we can't make the same mistakes we did tonight and expect to win," Hart said. "Ravenna has some nice interior players and plenty of shooters to space the floor. We are going to have to be at our best."
SALEM SCORING: Ryan Bush 8-5-23, Brendan Webb 1-2-5, Zach Economus 3-2-11, Max Wolfgang 2-5-9, Anthony Shivers 7-1-15, Zack Wukotich 1-1-3, Mike Madison 0-1-1, Brooks Bezon 1-0-2 Austin Frank 0-0-0 Mike Popa 0-0-0 Ryan Hoover 0-0-0 Rocco Davanzo 0-0-0. TOTALS: 23, 17-28:69
LAKEVIEW SCORING: Justin Journey 2-0-4, Brandon Bensing 6-2-17, Ryan Pishotti 1-0-2, Tom Bell 1-2-4, Andrew Grove 1-0-3, Jake Pishotti 2-0-5, Jake Rosowicz 1-0-3, Erich Schmitt 2-0-4, Angelo Marino 2-1-6. TOTALS: 18, 5-8:48.
Three-pointerss: Salem 5 (Economus 3, Bush 2, Webb 1), Lakeview 7 (Bensing 3, Grove, Jake Pishotti, Rosowicz, Marino).


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People celebrate during the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade on Sunday, Sept 16, 2012 in Dallas. The gay pride parade coincided with a pride festival, held at Lee Park.
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In the coming months, South Carolina Democrats and their likely candidate for governor, Vince Sheheen, will remind voters that their personal data was stolen under Gov. Nikki Haley's watch.
At risk is your identity, credit rating and personal piece of mind, the message will go.
"Her department failed to follow basic security precautions, and data security positions were not even filled to protect our most sensitive information," Sheheen, a state senator from Kershaw, told The Post and Courier in summing up how the theft was allowed to happen.
Haley, meanwhile, will counter that the work her administration has done in the 10 months since the hacking will make the state alone at the top in terms of system protection.
The breach, she said, "we were all surprised about." But "if you look at where we are going to be a year from now, it will change the face of South Carolina. We will be the most secure state in the country, and we're going to keep on going until we keep it that way."
Heading into the 2014 elections, the state is on new and arguably cyber-strange ground as to whether the security breach at the Department of Revenue will play any noticeable role in a gubernatorial race.
The personal data of about 5.7 million individual current and former taxpayers (i.e., potential voters) and 700,000 businesses — including bank account and Social Security numbers — was compromised in a massive hacking first made public in October.
So far authorities say it is doubtful that any of the identity theft cases that have surfaced in the state since then are a direct result of that breach. But the culprits, believed to be from inside the former Eastern Bloc, are expected to be patient, waiting for the right opportunity to strike.
How this will play out in a governor's race is anyone's guess, given that the state already leans strongly Republican. The Haley-Sheheen race is a rehash of 2010 (Haley won 51 percent to 47 percent), and there are other seemingly more pressing matters on the table, such as health care, road needs and a looming presidential race.
And perhaps even more in Haley's favor now than a year ago is that reports of people being either victimized — having their bank accounts cleaned out or dealing with identity theft issues — have not materialized in noticeable numbers.
In that vein, the mess may not nearly equate to the Hurricane Floyd evacuation debacle that left thousands of drivers stranded on Interstate 26 in 1999, pinning the fiasco label on then-Gov. Jim Hodges.
"If there aren't any personal tragedies as a result of this, then it's not really that interesting," said College of Charleston political scientist Kendra Stewart. Without a relatable victim, the impact also may be too hard to turn into a campaign theme, she said, "especially when it comes to issues that are somewhat technical and not easy to understand, and that's what category this falls into. In some ways it's a story that was handled well. People can handle a crisis if it's handled well."
Democratic hopes that the hacking will be a game-changer should be viewed skeptically, another expert in Southern politics said. The matter is more likely to be drowned out in the media mud that goes with an election rather than take a place front and center on voters' minds, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said.
"Let's face it: South Carolina voters are used to problems and scandals by now," Sabato said.
Hacking, he said, doesn't have the easily digestible elements of sex and money that have influenced other political races in recent years.
"This one is manageable since it isn't personal," Sabato said.
But Sabato said the issue remains legitimate campaign fodder and could play a role if things get close.
"Of course, she can say, 'It's happened to the NSA and the Pentagon, too.' But a governor is responsible for everything that happens on her watch," he said. "Those are the rules."
Doug Pardue contributed to this report. Reach Schuyler Kropf at 937-5551.
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Numbers may lie at times but this one is pretty glaring: The Buffalo Sabres are 30th in the NHL – as in dead-last – in faceoff percentage through four games. Tyler Ennis lost a draw in his own zone with less than five minutes left Friday and it turned into a game-deciding goal.
"It's tough. It's a learning curve," Ennis said after the 3-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in First Niagara Center. "It's 10 times as tough when you lose one and it goes in [the net] and you end up losing the game. We have to keep working on it. Maybe my linemates will take a few. I just have to work at it and try my best to improve."
Ennis was beaten on the draw by Carolina captain Eric Staal, and Jay Harrison's floater from the point beat Ryan Miller at 15:10 to snap a 1-1 tie.
The Sabres have won just 40.6 percent of their faceoffs thus far (by comparison sake, the top 17 in the NHL are all over 50 percent). They have been overall losers on draws in all four games, including major beatings Friday against the Canes (42-23) and Monday in Toronto (45-19).
"Little things are going to start showing up if we don't pay attention to them," Miller said. "We won the draw right before that, and we iced it. Miscommunication on that, then they get a redo. They found a way to get it through some bodies."
Ennis went just 2-10 Friday and is 22-35 for the season. Cody Hodgson (30-51) had one of his better games by going 10-11. Jochen Hecht (4-11) fell to 13-28 for the season. The only regular draw takers who have a winning percentage are Steve Ott (13-8) and rookie Mikhail Grigorenko (12-11).
Coach Lindy Ruff spent a few minutes Friday morning talking about faceoffs and how his team could improve. Some of it is simple inexperience down the middle, he said. Other parts of the issue are physical, with better leverage needed from the centers and better puck pursuit needed even after a draw may have been lost.
Ruff even went so far as to say the defensive zone draws haven't become a major issue of turning into goals. But that's exactly what ended up happening Friday night.
Ennis lost all seven of his draws against Carolina's Jordan Staal and Jussi Jokinen. He went just 1-3 against Eric Staal, including the loss on the one that produced the game-winning goal.
"I tried to spin on him, create as much space as I could around the puck and squeak through him," said Ennis, who was cleanly beaten and landed on his knees. "I just have to look at some tape and get better."
Winger Ville Leino missed his fourth straight game Friday and doesn't appear any closer to a return. What the team is simply calling a lower-body injury is actually lingering trouble with Leino's right hip.
Leino had surgery on his left hip following the 2009-10 season that saw him play in the Stanley Cup final with the Philadelphia Flyers, and a report Thursday on CSNPhilly.com said the former Flyer now needs a procedure on the other side.
Both Leino and coach Lindy Ruff denied that's a possibility at this point, although it's clear that another offseason surgery might be on the docket.
"There's no talk about surgery right now. We might as well just squash that," Ruff said following the Sabres' optional morning skate. "Maybe down the road it happens. I don't know. But right now there's some other treatment options that are possible. We had an MRI on it and it looked OK."
Leino said in the fall he was in excellent shape after being largely a flop last season, his first of the six-year, $27 million free agent deal he signed in July, 2011. But he left practice early last Friday and has not returned.
"It was weird because we were going hard [at the Northtown Center] with Andrew Peters and skating fine," Leino said of players-only workouts when the lockout ended. "After the first day, it was a little sore. Next day it was a little sore. Then it got worse and worse. Sometimes it's tough to tell what it is.
"We've been doing rehab trying to get the discomfort away. Today it felt a lot better. Hopefully it will feel better in the long run too. I felt really good today for 20-25 minutes. Then it got a little tired and it's the best so far."
Thomas Vanek's third-period goal allowed him to tie San Jose's Joe Thornton for the NHL scoring lead with nine points.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Vanek entered the game as the first player in Sabres history with eight points in the first three games of a season and joined Brian Campbell (2007) as the only ones to collect nine points in the first four games.
"Thomas is off to one helluva start," Ruff said. "He's played awesome."
Vanek missed some time in the second period after landing hard on his tailbone and back in the Carolina zone. Ruff said he has a mild muscle strain and will probably sit out practice today.
The Sabres had the same scratches as they did Thursday in Carolina – defensemen Mike Weber and T.J. Brennan were healthy, as was forward Matt Ellis.
Leino and winger Cody McCormick remain on injured reserve.
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The Founders
Singularity University was jointly founded by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis and Dr. Ray Kurzweil. The concept of Singularity University was proposed by Diamandis to Kurzweil and to International Space University colleagues Dr. Robert D. Richards and Michael Simpson, who became Founding Trustees in mid-2007. Susan Fonseca played a strong role as a founding architect.
Associate Founders
- Moses Znaimer
- Keith and Mariela Kleiner
- Barney Pell
- Klee Irwin
- Sonia Arrison Senkut
- Dan Stoicescu
- Reese Jones
- David S. Rose
- Peter L. Bloom
- Geoffrey Shmigelsky
- Georges Harik
- Rob Nail
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Following the inception of the idea, Susan Fonseca was recruited to assemble support for the proposed University. Susan was instrumental in organizing and executing the Founding Conference in September 2008 and finding initial donors. At the first meeting of the Board of Trustees, Salim Ismail was appointed as the founding Executive Director.
Along with curriculum guidance and important support from Christopher Boshuizen, William Marshall, Amara Angelica, Kathryn Myronuk, and Emeline Paat-Dahstrom, the first iteration of Singularity University was established with inspiration from the interdisciplinary, international and inter-cultural principles originally pioneered by ISU. With the leadership of Dr. Pete Worden and his colleagues, Singularity University established a partnership with NASA to host their Executive and Global Solutions Programs on the NASA Research Park in Moffett Field.


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So, why did I join? Oh, by the way, I'm Clodial, an college kid and an Indie Dev with big hopes and dreams aiming for the IGF's XD.
Okay, so back to the subject. I joined, because I joined. I don't know. Because I like the discussions on a lot of the animes I like? That and because I wanted to say stuff, too.
More about me, I guess. Obviously, I play video games. Yes, I like anime. I also consider myself a little bit of a music composer and an 8-bit artist.
I haven't released any games yet but that'll change soon as I'm developing some stuff right now.
Expect to hear more from me XD
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Howdy, a new pair of combat boots in town. I came here seeking knowledge since, alas, my list of good anime has run dry and I need new material but it's proven tricky finding some since there's so much anime out there and not much really matches my taste. Ergo... here I am.
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Hi y'all, how's it going. i'm Snow Wolf, the one and only, wise and noble Snow Wolf.
I'm going to take a look around and see how things are one here, and chat for a bit. hoping to make new friends and have fun.
my fav's anime?
Spice and Wolf
black lagoon
Initial D
Full Metal Panic!
Angel Beats!
Air Gear
my music?
country, rock, and metal. but i really listen to all types.
i like to goof off, freestyle roleplay. having fun, i love working on my cars, love racing.
well i hope i like is here.
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hi im a noob, i havent been part of alot of fourms since the old janime fourms got hacked one too many times dor my taste. im an artist for hobby, amd i liked anime, manga and non anime stuff. im also. torrent buff so ill probably stalk about there for a bit
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Hi, I have been watching animation before there were subtitle to many them. I use to rent them on VHS in Japantown. I used to take Japanese, a talent long lost. Now I can't stay subtitles, but know the original Japanese is almost always going to put the English dub to same.
I like most of Hayao Miyazaki's movies, Dragon -all even the internet only version, Baki, Fighting Spirit, Akira, Guyver-all versions. My favorite is martial types (I like it better is the creators actually know something about martial arts, like Baki and Ippo/ Tenchi good but the fight scene are horrid if your a martial artist...opps too much, then powers, then mecha.
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In my endless hunt for an active but friendly (and well moderated) anime forum, I landed up here. I keep landing on forums which are full of trolling and bullying, barely active, or don't necessarily encourage discussion. This forum seems like it could be what I'm looking for! I just like to be part of a little community so that I can discuss things I enjoy without worrying about nasties.
Anyway, I have a tendency to babble, I dip in an out of anime but when I dip in I have a tendency to marathon entire series. I tend to prefer to sci-fi/fantasy side of anime but I'll try (almost) anything at least once. And I adore Ghibli. I'm also into blogging, fantasy books, Western TV and gaming. I'm a pretty big MMO gamer but I also dip in and out of RPGs and Sim type games. o/
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Wow beginning posts start in 2003..I feel like I've missed out by not finding this site until today. But I am new here. This isn't my first time on an anime forum, but it has been a few years, so I will follow the rules as much as possible lol. Anyways...I'm rambling on so I'll introduce myself now.
I'm ryanosuke, a lone wolf spirit of sorts. I can go by ryano or Shou. Either is okay. I love anime and singing. I currently have graduated high school and will be turning 20 in two weeks. Hip hip hooray lol *glares* What I can't throw myself a little cheer? Dang... *pouts* lol Hope to enjoy it here
|2013-03-16, 11:24
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Hi! so im new here! As I said, this is my first time to join an anime forum. but i really love anime so i thought that i must join one. to gain more informations and updates about new anime as well. hehe. that's all. so i hope you guys can help me finding a great anime. BTW.. i like anime that are in the genre of ROMANCE, COMEDY, ACTION, SLICE OF LIFE, SCHOOL LIFE, SHOUJO, and SUPERNATURAL. any of them will do. But i like anime that has lots of comedy and romance
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I was actually on this forum once before in 2011 - 2012 but I wasn't active or that talkative so that doesn't matter! Hi, nice to meet you, my name is Erirr but you can call me Er or anything creative you can come up with. Nothing much to come up with since my name isn't that long or fancy tancy. I hope to enjoy the community and maybe spark up my graphic making again, though I won't share until I can get better, haven't done so for such a long time!
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Heya. Technically registered a while ago, but more used the account to just float around and read threads I found interesting than anything, but I decided to become slightly more active. Pleasure to meet you, hypothetical people reading this.
|2013-03-25, 08:47
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well im jketh and i came to this community for my interests which are to find other people that like light novels, manga and anime.
the things that i like are mostly comedy, ecchi with some action like high school dxd (light novel) and infinite stratos.
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Spiderman. When hes angry.
Spiderman gets kicked in the balls, and flies through the air saying "Fuckoooooffff!!!!!" alot like cartman in south park. he then shoots web from his penis in a messy fashion and wraps his enemy up in spider-spunk. this is an "angry Fuckoff!!!!!"
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This Sunday marks your last chance to see the small installation of Kuba Textiles on view in our modern art galleries. The varied patterns are beautiful, and installed in the modern galleries it's easy to draw connections from these textiles to the twentieth-century European art which they influenced.
Ceremonial Textile Panel, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Kuba Culture, Shoowa People, late 19th–early 20th century, gift of the 2009 Collectors Committee
The critics are weighing in on David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy and they like what they see. It's on view along with a bevy of other exhibitions.
On Saturday and Sunday we have a pair of free lectures, so drop in on the Brown Auditorium while you're here for some stimulating talks. Saturday, author April Dammann will discuss her new book, Exhibitionist, a biography of Earl Stendahl, founder of the now 100-year-old Stendahl Galleries. Damman will talk about this colorful impresario and his impact on art collecting in Los Angeles. The talk will be followed by a book signing.
Sunday, UC Santa Barbara professor Miriam Wattles will talk about the legendary Japanese painter Hanabusa Itcho (1652–1724). Itcho was banished from Edo for more than a decade and became a symbol for the "artist-rebel."
Hanabusa Itcho, Otafuku, late 17th–early 18th century, purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William Coberly, Jr., and Neil R. Applegate Bequest
Later that evening the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra will perform music of the Italian Baroque for our free Sundays Live concert series.
Finally, a heads up for a special event happening on Monday: Lari Pittman and MOCA curator Paul Schimmel will be in the Art Catalogues bookstore to discuss Pittman's art and career on the occasion of his new monograph.
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Audrina Patridge
- 2005
Pitching Reality
After graduating from El Dorado High School in Placentia, Calif., Patridge, an aspiring model and actress, is approached by MTV producers of Laguna Beach spin-off, The Hills, starring good-girl Lauren Conrad. "The executive producer came up and started talking to me about a new show. He said it was kind of like Sex and the City and he really liked what I had going on," Patridge tells Sydney's MX newspaper. "They had me go in and meet the other directors and they all loved me. It just fell in my lap, but it was good timing. It was fate."
- 2006
The Hills Are Alive!
The Hills premieres with Conrad's roommate and BFF Heidi Montag introducing Conrad to Patridge – who happens to live in the same apartment complex as the girls. While working as a receptionist at Quixote Studios, where Conrad and fellow Teen Vogue intern Whitney Port occasionally visit for photo shoots, the show's stars become good friends.
- 2007
Heidi's Out...Audrina's In
After Montag begins dating Spencer Pratt (who trashes Conrad in the press and hits on Patridge behind Montag's back), Patridge becomes Conrad's closest confidant and roommate. In the third season premiere, Conrad confronts Montag. In the onscreen spat, Patridge sticks up for Conrad, calling Montag "brainwashed" by Pratt – who claims Conrad made a sex tape with her ex Jason Wahler.
Hello, Justin Bobby
The sugary-sweet Patridge, who now works as a receptionist for Epic Records, gives her on-again, off-again man, Justin Bobby Brescia – who she stopped seeing after he abandoned her in Vegas – a second shot at love. With his long greasy hair and bad manners, Justin becomes the beautiful bad boy of The Hills. After catching him kissing another girl at Opera in L.A, they call it quits. In 2008, they reunite, and Patridge claims the editing process is a bit unfair to Justin. "Whenever there's no cameras around, it's different," she says, adding that a mean Justin Bobby "makes better TV."
- 2008
Befriending Heidi: An L.C. Betrayal?
Patridge is befriended by Conrad's archrival Montag. "I feel bad for Heidi," Patridge tells PEOPLE. "Everyone talks so much s--- on her and I just try to stay away from all of that, it's not my business anymore." After the Internet buzzes that Patridge and Conrad are fighting because of her friendliness with Montag, Patridge clears the air on MySpace. "I am not ditching Lauren for Heidi," she writes. "It is none of my business with what is going on between them and I stay out of it!"
Lo's In...Audrina's Out
With the return of Conrad's fiercely loyal Laguna Beach pal Lauren "Lo" Bosworth, Patridge steadily slips out of L.C.'s focus. When Conrad and Lo decide to move in together, Patridge lives in the girls' guesthouse. In the third season finale, Conrad tells Audrina she wants things to go back to the way they were. "Everything was fine when it was just me and you," Patridge says. "When Lo's in the picture, you're just distant from me." In the end, Conrad leaves in tears.
The Scandalous Life
Nude photos of Patridge surface online. "I took these photos years ago when I was just out of high school and beginning to model," Patridge, 22, says. "I was young and very trusting of others and I didn't know to protect myself." More popular than ever, the show's stars reunite for a May Rolling Stone cover, which calls The Hills "a maddeningly addictive TV show in which nothing ever really happens."
Audrina Heads to the Movies
Patridge lands her first film role in Into the Blue 2, the sequel to the bikini-clad Jessica Alba movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patridge, who shoots scenes in Hawaii in a green bikini, plays a "no-nonsense woman whose boyfriend caters to her every command." On May 17, with Conrad noticeably absent, Patridge celebrates her 23rd birthday at LAX Nightclub in Las Vegas.
Audrina's Beach Body
Patridge appears on the cover of TV Guide with PEOPLE's Hottest Bachelor Mario Lopez as "The Bod Squad." "When I'm sitting in front of the TV, I lift 5-pound weights or do squats," Patridge says of staying in shape for her bikini. "And I wear heels when I vacuum because it works my calves and my butt."
Audrina Moves Out
The suspense comes to an end, as paparazzi catch Patridge exiting the home she shared with Conrad and Bosworth carrying boxes and personal items. "I just wanted my own place," Patridge tells Maxim of her decision to leave. "If anything, I feel like it will help out all our friendships." Of course, all of the drama is captured by MTV cameras for their hit show.
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- Los Angeles, Calif.
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Corey Bohan, boyfriend (2008 to present; off and on)
Ryan Cabrera, ex-boyfriend (2010)
Chris Pine (dated briefly in 2009)
Justin "Bobby" Brescia, ex-boyfriend (2005 to 2008; off and on)
Tal Cooperman (dated briefly in 2008)
Bernard Steimann (dated briefly in 2008)
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The couple invited Architectural Digest into the three-acre compound for this month's issue, and there's certainly plenty to see – a large painting by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat and loads of other artworks; tables, chairs, blankets and rugs from various continents and centuries; shoe shelves filled with sneakers and stilettos; and a luxurious pool out back with sweeping views of Los Angeles.
DeGeneres is like a kid in a candy store when it comes to real estate and interior design.
Roger Davies for Architectural Digest
"We never had a house when I was growing up," she tells the magazine. "We always rented. But my father would dream, and we used to look at houses all the time. I'd pick out which bedroom would be mine and get all excited."
She adds: "The first thing I did when I made money was buy a house. And then..."
"Another one," De Rossi says. "And another one and another one and another one."
Like the look of the mansion? It could be yours. The Los Angeles Times reports that the couple just put it on the market for $49 million.
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I want him. Bouwmeester would really take some pressure off our other defenseman.
Yandle doesn't interest me as much. He's better offensively, but makes a ton more mistakes. We have enough offensively first defenseman, Quincey, Smith, Kronwall, White, Kindl... We need a guy that can eat minutes and upgrade us defensively. Bouwmeester may not be the best defeneman, but he may be the best option.
There just aren't that many good defenseman moving, Burns, and Suter are the main ones I can think of. I'm glad we stayed away from Carle.
I don't know, I think Bouwmeester may have a bigger effect then we realize, he's really wanting to make the playoffs, and I think the potential is there for him to really break out.
Who knows though, I completely understand the hesitant people, but if the price was right I don't see the reasons why we shouldn't. He would improve this team.
That's exactly it, Yandle doesn't "make a ton of mistakes". It's the same absurd hearsay as Semin's "too lazy" for his money stuff. People repeat it just to repeat it. When Yandle first entered the league he was a 20 y/o offensive defenseman who was undersized. Of course his defense wasn't up to par, and then the reputation just stuck. Since then his complete game has rounded out and he's a top flight NHL talent across the board.
Also, Quincey is not an offensive defenseman...at least not a good one, and neither is White. Smith might be one day, but he's not scoring OR playing defense all that well. And Kindl surprisingly has been good on each side of the ice. Any way you cut it, as far as puck movers go our team looks better with...
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When we think of alone time, we often picture ourselves shopping without chasing children, having a quiet pedicure, or simply lying in the bathtub uninterrupted. For some truly quality alone time, you don't have to go much further than inside your own mind. Meditation is a contemplative state where by you silently remove yourself from the physical and the present to reflect, increase clarity, and find a more serene or deeper state of consciousness.
It's an ancient practice, often associated with yoga, that's becoming increasingly popular in our scattered, harried, pressure-cooked society. Business professionals use it to decompress after a tough meeting or even find their center before heading in to the bull pen. Men and women alike use meditation to strengthen their minds, reduce stress, and even attain that "me time" that is so necessary.
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For instance, Richard Gere says a meditation practice helps him to stay grounded amongst the excess of Hollywood life. Eva Mendes credits meditation for helping her mine her best creativity, according to Well and Good. And Gisele Bundchen, who delivered her second child at home this month, has called meditation the source for her post-baby weight loss.
"A regular meditation practice creates mindfulness. Being mindful helps keep us from feeling distracted and impatient with life when things don't go our way," said Jill Lawson, our resident yogi expert. "When we are fully aware of our feelings through the practice of meditation, we can move toward being more proactive, instead of reactive. Taking action versus being frustrated is the first step in living a joyful life."
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Abs like Lady Gaga. Arms like Katy Perry. Amanda Seyfried's butt. We all want to look like the celebrities, but most of us don't have access to the trainers or the time. Let's face it, it mainly comes down to not having the money that stars have for fitness.
In a recent online article for That's Fit, trainer to the stars Harley Pasternak shared some of the secrets. The author of "5-Factor Fitness: The Diet and Fitness Secret of Hollywood's A-List," Pasternak is known for training some of the best-known bodies in the biz, like Miley Cyrus, Halle Berry, and Jessica Simpson. His premise of "less is more" definitely has merit.


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Played in 27 games, averaging 4.3 minutes per game in his first season in DeLand. Was tied for third on the team with nine blocks on the season. Grabbed a season-best three rebounds at Northern Kentucky (2/16). Tallied two blocks in a single game three times.
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Only one year at Marquette Catholic High School in Valparaiso, Indiana. Averaged 7.3 rebounds per game. Impressed recruiters with his athleticism and ability to learn quickly. Has a measured vertical leap of 40 inches.
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Dairyland Seed Introduces HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 Hybrid Alfalfa
Dairyland Seed Introduces HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 Hybrid Alfalfa
The company that brought the first hybrid alfalfa to the industry in 2001 and announced its second generation in 2009, today announced the launch of the next generation: HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 which will be available from Dairyland Seed beginning this summer. The HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 hybrid alfalfa offers even greater yield performance across all types of cutting management programs, while still providing the increased uniformity and palatability producers have experienced with the first and second generations.
"At Dairyland Seed, we have a unique passion for alfalfa. It's the fourth largest crop by acreage in the U.S., yet no company has the track record of improving alfalfa genetics and technology as Dairyland," says Tom Strachota, general manager of Dairyland Seed, now a seed affiliate of Dow AgroSciences. "Our role is to provide growers with the best alfalfa products in the marketplace, and we take that responsibility very seriously."
The Proven HybriForce Yield Advantage
According to Tim Clark, forage product manager for Dairyland Seed, HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 is entering the marketplace more extensively tested than any other alfalfa variety in history, and the results confirm HybriForce-3400 outyields the competition.
Clark says GEN-3 has been tested in 21 university state trials in seven states, showing a 12.3 percent yield advantage against competitive alfalfas in head-to-head comparisons. Additionally, GEN-3 has been tested against hundreds of varieties in Dairyland Seed's proprietary testing program. These data show HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 provides a 5 percent bump in yield over GEN-2, and Dairyland Seed HybriForce alfalfas have won 90 percent of trials against competitor varieties.
Predecessors of HybriForce-3400 proved their worth in a unique alfalfa strip trial program. In 2000 Dairyland established the industry's only on-farm alfalfa strip plot testing network, identified as Hybrid Alfalfa Yield (HAY) strip trials. Since then more than 200 locations across nine states have generated thousand of data points supporting the strong performance of HybriForce hybrid alfalfas.
"Before the HAY strip trial program was initiated in 2000, there was no accurate and convenient way to harvest alfalfa strip plots on farms across the country," says Clark. "The extensive on-farm data for the first and second generation hybrids prove the HybriForce yield advantage is real where it counts, in on-farm head-to-head comparisons. It also shows that Dairyland's hybrid breeding investment continues to make genuine progress in improving alfalfa productivity."
The HAY strip trial program also allows for yield performance to be compared across three-, four- and five-cut cutting regimes, and the yield increase is realized regardless of when or how often the stand is cut, adds Clark.
Backed by Sound Research
Developed with the same patented msSunstra™ hybrid alfalfa technology as HybriForce-400 and -2400, HybriForce-3400 maintains the hybrid yield of those elite lines all the way through to commercialization by controlling pollination. This is in comparison to traditional approaches to alfalfa breeding, which suffer from random pollination and inbreeding with each stage of commercial seed increase.
"Growers can feel confident when choosing HybriForce-3400 GEN-3, as it is very closely related to GEN-2, but with a significant parental change that provides the 5 percent boost in yield," says Steve Wagner, alfalfa plant breeder for Dairyland. "It is a real racehorse with top end yields and has a strong defensive disease package which gives 3400 the ability to perform well in a variety of conditions."
Research has shown that HybriForce-3400 hybrid alfalfa performs well in both wet and dry years, through extreme winter conditions and in multiple cutting regimens. GEN-3 maintains the uniformity, palatability, and outstanding leaf-to-stem ratio dairy producers have come to expect from HybriForce products.
"Even when cutting was delayed, HybriForce-3400 showed similar relative feed value and relative forage quality, with higher yields resulting in improved milk per acre compared to other commercial varieties," says Clark. "With its uniformly fine stems, GEN-3 should also pack and store better in silos, resulting in better forage quality at feeding time, more palatability and less feed waste in the bunk."
Investing in Advancements
Introduced in 2001, HybriForce-400 was the first significant advancement in alfalfa genetics in the previous 20 years. In 2009, the release of HybriForce-2400 was announced, and now the dedicated and determined Dairyland Seed research team has advanced its world-class breeding program once again.
"We have been investing in alfalfa breeding and technology since 1977. Thanks to our patented msSunstra™ technology, beyond showing advantages over competitors, our breeding investment continues to show genuine progress in improving alfalfa productivity. As a result, our customers benefit," says Strachota.
About Dairyland Seed
Dairyland Seed began its seed business in 1907 and has built an established dealer network throughout the Upper Midwest, with international sales in more than 20 countries. The business experienced great success under the leadership of Orville and Marie Strachota, entering the field of plant breeding in 1977. Now part of Dow AgroSciences, the family leadership continues through their son Tom and grandson TJ. Dairyland Seed is headquartered in West Bend, Wis.


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Making decisions and carrying out plans to further your standing both socially and financially.
"I moved to the city and bought an apartment and increased my portfolio"
"Damn, you been making power moves!"
"Damn, you been making power moves!"
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When one pulls a stunt that shows he has outdone others and retains complete control of the situation, and dares anyone to challenge this.
I made eye contact with my father in law as I picked up the tab for entire famlty at dinner.--Powermove
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when a guy pushes his girlfriend's head down towards his own crotch as a subtle hint for a bj
You try the power move on her yet?
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n. an aggressive driving maneuver designed to gain an advantage in traffic, often enraging the other drivers.
The most classic of all powermoves is turning left at a traffic light, as soon as the light turns green, just before oncoming traffic has a chance to begin moving.
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Power moves are moves relying on speed, momentum, and acrobatic elements in b-boying.
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Kate's New Starring Role – Video for Charity
Speaking to mark the Together for Short Lives' Children's Hospice Week, the expectant princess talks of the "remarkable work" that one of her key charities, East Anglia's Children's Hospices [EACH], does for children and their families.
"Children's hospices provide lifelines to families at a time of unimaginable pain," she says in the two-minute video that was recorded at Clarence House, London.
Urging help, she adds, "It does not bear thinking about what these families would do without this."
Children's Hospice Week is organized by Together for Short Lives, a UK charity for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and for those who love and care for them. Kate plans to visit a hospice in Hampshire, England, on Monday.
It comes amid an intensive period activity for her.
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After working for Costa Rica Expeditions for three years, Douglas left the company in 2000, due in part to the long commute to his hometown, Atenas. It was understandable that he sought a job closer to home - according to National Geographic, Atenas has "the best climate in the world." Still, a new work schedule and faster transportation lured Douglas back in Nov. 2004. Today Douglas manages upscale and special interest and affinity group vacations. He also plans natural history and nature photography trips. read more...
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Born Aug. 21, 1963, Nadya first started working for Costa Rica Expeditions as a bilingual secretary in 1991. In 1994 we reluctantly let her go due to a restructuring. Nadya was quickly hired by one of our competitors. Hoping to get her back, we kept an eye on her and in Aug. 2003, were able to offer her a position in the trip planning department. We haven't been sorry. Today Nadya handles some of our most upscale trips as well as family, honeymoon and other special occasions vacations. Her five children, Kevin, Jason, Ruji, Alexsha and Jared, more than take up her free time. read more...
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Priscilla started working for us in Nov. 1997, when she first came to CRE as an intern from a local university. We were so impressed with her ability to learn quickly, her dedication to Legendary Service and Unforgettable Memories, and her ability to get things done, that we offered her a position as sales assistant. In 1998 she became a Travel Planner. Today Priscilla is a Senior Travel Planner handling the most upscale of our clientele. read more...
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While her lovely name means Maria from the sea, to us in the office she will always be "Mary". Joining Costa Rica Expeditions in 2006, she has been an integral part of our mission in several different ways. She spent a year as an assistant, then a year helping manage reservations, before refocusing on Travel Planning in 2009. read more...
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After working several years as a geographer, Luis has an intimate knowledge of Costa Ricas most remote areas from the central mountain ranges to the coastal lowlands. This knowledge gives him a unique perspective when designing trips for guests. Geographers are travelers by nature, he says. We like to explore places and cultures and we are lovers of the outdoors. As a travel planner Im in contact with people from around the world who share my interest in learning about and exploring this marvelous country. read more...
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Born in San Jose, Costa Rica on July 9, 1974, Gustavo grew up in the suburb of Guadalupe. He has 2 brothers and 4 sisters. Although Gustavo has only been with Costa Rica Expeditions since 2010, he is not new to Travel Planning, he has been in the business for the last 15 years. He especially enjoys designing vacations for families with children of all ages and honeymoons. Gustavo's passion for travel planning stems from the satisfaction that it gives him when a guest tells him of the wonderful memories that they have of their experience in Costa Rica. read more...
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Born July 13, 1975, Elena is from San Marcos de Tarrazu, a mountainous region in the Costa Rica central highlands that is renowned for its award winning coffee.
As a child, Elena spent most of her summers working with her family on their coffee plantation. To this day, she says that she is passionate about all things coffee and one of the things she most enjoys is spending her summer weekends with her Dad, brother, nieces and nephews picking coffee.
It was in the coffee fields that Elena learned to interact from people of all walks of life, from the hard working labors to buyers.
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Born December 20, 1979, Sofía was raised in Heredia, Costa Rica. From the ages of 6 to 10 she lived in England, which accounts for her very good command of the English language. Both her love for nature and her country, comes from memories of her childhood when her parents took her to the many of the National Parks of Costa Rica. These trips were a major factor in her decision to study Biology at the University of Costa Rica. read more...
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Born on May 5, 1985, in the rural community of San Carlos, Yorleny grew up on her parents dairy farm with her two brothers and sister. She remembers coming home from school and sitting at the table with her siblings where they would do their homework as fast as they could. The reason was that they wanted to go help their dad with the dairy cows. What we really wanted was fresh milk she laughs. read more...
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LOCKPORT – Eddie L. Smith Jr., who had 1.17 grams of cocaine with him when police raided his home May 17, pleaded guilty to a felony Friday in Niagara County Court.
County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas scheduled sentencing May 3 for Smith, 29, now of Greenview Terrace, Wheatfield, who pleaded guilty to fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Smith was living on 18th Street in the Falls when he was arrested. He agreed to forfeit $233 in cash he had on him at the time.
Another man picked up in the raid, Eric A. Nelson, 24, of Woodlawn Avenue, pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to the same charge as Smith and is to be sentenced May 1.


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Transylvanian Saxon houses. Located mainly in southern Transylvania, the historical Saxon districts are the best preserved medieval architectural province of Europe. The remarkable architecture of these old buildings represents a gathering of local and eastern influences grafted on what is quintessentially a western type of domestic and religious design. These properties are similar in terms of style and structure with examples of traditional houses from the regions such as Luxembourg, and adjacent areas from France and Germany and require similar renovation-restoration techniques.
Neo-Romanian style buildings. It is a magnificent style peculiar to Romania developed at the end of 19th century and had its heydays in the inter-war period. A neo-Romanian style house is a valuable piece of property and a restoration project would be an extremely interesting and challenging, but rewarding endeavour.
Traditional peasant farmhouses. The picturesque old peasant farmhouses that dot the pristine landscape of the Romanian Carpathian mountains and piedmonts represent some of the most affordable period property examples and renovation projects to undertake anywhere in Europe.
Conacs. That is how the magnificent manor houses of the Victorian era and early 20th century Romanian aristocracy and bourgeoisie are named. A number of these properties are on the market, waiting for to be restored to their former glory.
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- Give the kit or use it to make homemade gifts
- Choice of 4" x 4" or 8" x 12" size
Simply place natural materials and found objects on the photosensitive Sunprint paper and expose it to the sun. Rinse in water and dry, and you have a unique piece of art that's ready for framing, scrapbooking or making into note cards. The Sunprint Kit is ideal for making your own unique, handcrafted note cards or framed prints. Or, give the kit as a gift! Kit includes sheets of photosensitive paper and an acrylic overlay sheet that holds materials in place during sun exposure.
- 4" x 4" kit includes 12 sheets of photosensitive paper
- 8" x 12" kit includes 15 sheets of photosensitive paper
- Both kits include 1 acrylic overlay sheet
- For ages 6 and up
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We're proud of the fact that this item is shipped to you directly from our warehouse in Vermont, by one of our 250 employee-owners. In-stock items are packed with care and shipped within the next business day to ensure prompt delivery to your home and garden!