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Tanner Kendall, of Taylorsville, harvested his first turkey May 8 on a friend's farm in Marion County. The bird weighed 23 lbs. and sported a nine-inch beard. Photo submitted to The Spencer Magnet.
David Cross, a middle linebacker for Spencer County High School, recently signed his letter of intent to play football for Lindsey Wilson College this fall.
Cross received both academic and athletic scholarships from the college totaling $21,000.
Seated with Cross are SCHS Head Football Coach Wes Napper (far left); Donna Tate, Cross's mother; Cross; and Cary Tate (at right), Cross's step father.
JOLIET, Ill. – Craig Edwards, a sophomore third baseman from Taylorsville, was recognized May 17 as a NAIA Champion of Character for Campbellsville University during the kickoff banquet for the NAIA Baseball Tournament Opening Round. Edwards also received the Champions of Character award for CU baseball on April 28 at the school's Champions of Character annual breakfast.
Students from the Shaolin Kempo School of Martial Arts in Taylorsville recently traveled to Georgetown to compete in a Shaolin Kempo School sponsored tournament.
Many of the Spencer County students are pictured here with their trophies.
The Spencer County Lady Bears split two games in southern Kentucky over the weekend to move their record to 9-12 on the season as they look ahead to district play next week.
The girls started the week with an 8-3 victory over Jeffersontown at home last Monday before stumbling on the road at South Oldham for a 4-1 loss on Friday.
Over the weekend, the girls traveled to Somerset for a tournament. They suffered a 3-1 loss to the Somerset Lady Briarjumpers on Saturday during the Jamie Halcomb Classic, but bounced back that same day to defeat host Southwestern, 8-3.
The Spencer County Middle School Grizzlies 2010 season came to an end Friday night in the Semi-Final Game of the MKAC tournament at St. Catherine College.
The Grizzles faced a tough St. Dominic team who shut down the Grizzlies' offense and made some key defensive outs.
The Grizzles beat Bloomfield earlier in the week to advance to the semi-final with an outstanding offensive and defensive display.
Brodye Manning harvested this turkey on a farm in Spencer County, April 30, with his dad, Johnny Manning and Uncle Dan Acker. Photo submitted.
The Spencer County Footie Chicklets, a U10 girl's team with the Spencer County Soccer Association, are JCYSL tournament champs for the second season in a row.
The Jefferson County Youth Soccer Tournament is a recreational soccer tournament for U8-U16 teams playing in the Jefferson County league and is held each season.
The Footie Chicklets outplayed, outshot, and outscored teams from Fern Creek, Okolona, and J-Town. They really played the game well with excellent passing and lots of heart.
Kenneth Faried stepped back from the NBA black hole last week for precisely the right reason. Said he will return for a senior season at Morehead State because he wants "... to fulfill the promise to my Mom to graduate so she can see me walk across the stage and get my degree next May," he said in a press release.
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Northern California gem, The Stanford Inn, located in Mendocino, recently announced its re-launch as a premier sustainable destination and the nations only completely Vegan resort.
The Inn's decision to make sustainability a priority wasn't a move to jump on the green bandwagon. In fact, founders Jeff and Joan Stanford have been incorporating environmentally cognizant practices into the Stanford Inn for more than three decades.
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Police investigators believe a 75-year-old man was stabbed Wednesday morning during an ambush behind a North Charleston convenience store, they said.
The incident unfolded around 10:55 a.m. in the parking lot of the Jo Jo Quick Stop at 3312 Rivers Ave., which is near the Charleston Heights community.
North Charleston police officers responded and found the man with a stab wound in his abdomen, Deputy Chief Scott Deckard said.
Paramedics took him to Medical University Hospital, where Deckard said he underwent treatment.
The victim was not identified, and his condition wasn't immediately available. He managed to communicate with the officers despite his injury.
It appears that the assailant had waited for the man behind the store and stabbed him with a knife as he walked into the parking lot, Deckard said.
The man told detectives that he didn't know who had attacked him, Deckard said.
Witnesses saw the attacker running toward Reynolds Avenue, but police made no immediate arrests.
The witnesses described the suspect as a muscular black man who is 35 to 40 years old, about 6 feet tall and 210 pounds. His hair was worn in short dreadlocks pulled into a ponytail, and he was wearing khaki pants, a police statement added.
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When Mike Beltz was ordered to do community service for a traffic violation, his first thought was to get the 36 hours over and done with as quickly as possible.
Eight hundred hours later, the Weld Food Bank can't get enough of Beltz, 51.
"I really, really, enjoy helping," Beltz said. "When (they) call, I'm here. I liked the people here so much and what they do for the community, I was like, 'Oh yeah.' "
Beltz is one of several hundred volunteers who have spent hundreds of hours the past few days thinking of others.
While most people spent the week shopping and planning for their own Thanksgiving dinners, Beltz and others prepared packages of turkeys, dressing, cranberries, yams, potatoes, mushroom soup, green beans and pie filling to send out to 1,500 families in Weld County who don't have the resources — more than double the need from last year, said Stephanie Gausch, development manager for the organization.
The work doesn't stop with the Weld Food Bank.
After all the hours are put in assembling the baskets, those baskets still have to be distributed. That's where the food bank's 102 Weld County partner-agencies come into play, Gausch said.
Agencies such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of Weld County, A Woman's Place, the Guadalupe Shelter and more than 50 area churches reach out to those whom the baskets benefit.
Rob Thomas, pastor at New Horizons Christian Church, said he first started giving back at Thanksgiving by volunteering for longtime Denver legend Daddy Bruce Randolph, who owned Daddy Bruce's Bar-B-Q and fed the needy at Thanksgiving for nearly three decades before he died in 1994.
"I used to see what Daddy Bruce did," Thomas said. "We really experienced the joy of being able to give after so many years just receiving."
Beltz, who served in the Army from 1982-90, said he doesn't do it because he feels like he needs to give back but to be part of the bigger picture.
"It's about doing my fair share," he said. "If it wasn't for the community and places like this, imagine what this community would be like."
The 1,500 baskets also are above what other agencies around Greeley and Weld do on their own. Last week, Greeley Wesleyan Church collected Thanksgiving meals for 300 families. Volunteers from the church spent two days delivering the boxes to families who were recommended by church members, United Way, Greeley-Evans School District 6 and others.
Pat Fleming, a retired Poudre R-1 School District teacher who has lived in Greeley for more than three decades, said being thankful for the life she has is what drives her to volunteer for those how can't. She added that volunteering is one way everyone can pay it forward.
"We can't always give financially," Fleming said. "But we can volunteer. The people who need these services are so grateful. And there are so many people who need these services."
Thomas said this time of year just seems to bring out the best in people.
"It is about giving," he said. "And if you can give, you will receive the hand of God."
Gausch agreed, adding all the help and donations is what Thanksgiving is all about.
"It is the tradition for some," Gausch said. "It's difficult for some to spend that time with family and be thankful while thinking about these folks."


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So both the Kinect and Move have been out for a while now, and many people have been wondering the same thing. What actual use in major games can these be put to use in? While the move so far has been put to sufficient use in games like Killzone 3, and the new SOCOM game, but is that just a shallow attempt to use the technology, or is it the start of something big?
It seemed to me, especially for the Kinect, that though the technology was potentially revolutionary, it wasn't really being put to much of a good use other than mini-games and a few training games. I bought one when they first came out, and after about two months with no sufficient games that had come out for it, I sold it.
Now that E3 has happened this year, we learned that both Microsoft and Sony have planned on putting the motion controls that they had so heavily hyped to actual use. With the demos of the new Ghost Recon: Future Soldier using both the voice recognition and motion controls. Mass Effect 3 being used with the Kinect's voice recognition software, as well as the introduction of a Star Wars game and a new Fable game that uses the Kinect. Then at Sony's conference Ken Levine came out and talked about how he used to feel about the move (lets just say he didn't care for it) and how Sony changed his mind, leading him to announce the Move's integration into Bioshock Infinite.
So with all of this new software finally coming out, the question remains, can this new technology finally take off after a slow start, or is it just another gimmick doomed to fail? What do you think? feel free to let me know in the comments.


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They don't give Emmys for the stock bios that network publicity departments crank out ad nauseam. But they should: All that heavy breathing over boilerplate prose ought not go unrewarded. So here, to fill the gap, are my Alan Awards: The Have-I-Gotten-To-The-End-Yet? Citation for Longest Bio to Dan Rather. His CBS bio, mostly a recitation of every trouble spot he has ever covered, drones on for five pages (one page longer than the file on 88-year-old CBS founder William S. Paley). Funniest Bio Award goes to Alf, who was for three years "the co-captain of his bouillabaisseball team." Brevity Award (hooray!) goes to Ken Wahl of Wiseguy, whose bio consumes six lines. Wahl also wins the Modesty Award for what he didn't say. I mean, Ken, if I were married to Corinne Alphen, a former Penthouse Pet, it would certainly be in my bio!
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THE short message service (SMS) or text message, is turning 20 years old this week. This communication service has helped the mobile revolution and has paved the way for a wide range of value added services. Billions of text messages are transmitted via mobile networks every day, and until recent years, the SMS has been the bedrock of revenue and profit for telecommunications companies across the globe.
The convenience of the SMS is that it does not need internet connection and is accessible through any cellphone device. The SMS has enabled other services such as mobile banking, payments and airtime transfer.
Companies and service providers are using the SMS to communicate with clients, and also to enable people to among other things enter competitions.
The first SMS was reportedly sent in 1992 by Brit Neil Papworth who texted 'Happy Christmas' to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis at a staff Christmas party.
Arthur Goldstuck, the managing director of World Wide Worx, said in its early days, the SMS was a revolution for the mobile networks because it provided a universal service with a potential for high revenues at almost no cost. Because it was in effect an unused channel built into the network infrastructure, it was the communications equivalent of "turning lead into gold", he said.
"It was nothing less than enabling them to materialise money out of thin air", says Mr Goldstuck.
Spiwe Chireka, programme manager for telecoms at global firm International Data Corporation, says the SMS has been an enabler of revolutionary services such as mobile payments and mobile money.
Although the SMS hardly changed over the past two decades, it is being threatened by other forms of instant messaging such as Mxit, WhatsApp and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).
"For the very reason that networks have tried to maintain the pricing structure of the SMS, it is now in danger of being killed off by data services that allow instant messaging at negligible cost," says Mr Goldstuck.
The only reasons consumers that still need the SMS, according to Mr Goldstuck, are those that communicate with those who do not have data-capable phones or do not have instant messaging apps on their phones; and to participate in interactive events in mass media, like TV voting lines and competitions.
Ms Chireka says the key selling point for service providers is internet connections and not the SMS. Operators are likely to make money through smart data services than the SMS because of services such as WhatsApp and BBM.
Research by global firm Ovum predicts that by 2016 mobile operators will have lost $54bn in revenues from the SMS due to the increasing popularity of social messaging services on smartphones. They are expected to have lost $23bn by the end of this year alone, Ovum said.
Ovum said that the trend in users adopting app-based social messaging services over using the SMS was accelerating. Social messaging players include mobile apps, mobile social networks, and even some mobile instant messaging platforms.
Ovum highlights the rapid increase in the number of over the top (OTT) players and services like WhatsApp and demonstrates that social messaging is not a short-term trend, but a shift in communication patterns. Operators in Europe and Asia-Pacific will be affected the most, and should be vigilant with respect to OTT messaging activity, Ovum stated.
OTT refers to internet based services such as Skype and WhatsApp.
"OTT players are changing consumers' messaging preferences, and the pressure they are exerting on operators' messaging services is forcing them to offer increased SMS bundles and to experiment with messaging pricing models, further dampening revenue growth," says Ovum consumer telecoms analyst, Neha Dharia.
Ms Chireka says there is still room for the SMS. While data connectivity has gone off the roof, in the context of Africa, there still remains a very large proportion that cannot access these connections nor afford them.
"It is likely that the SMS will move to a value add free service to drive other money making mobile services such as mobile money," she says.
Steven Ambrose, CEO of Strategy Worx, says the SMS will still remain relevant for most users, as it is still the only text messaging system that works on all mobiles across all platforms and is supported by all operators globally. "The fall off of SMS revenues will not be driven by decline in the number of SMSs sent but by competitive forces led by alternative platforms such as BBM and WhatsApp. As next generation devices, that run on 4G IP based (fourth generation Internet Protocol) and better networks come to dominate the landscape in the next five years, actual use of the SMS will decline and gradually fade away," he says.


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AS A PART of a study of immunity in parapertussis, a survey of the serum agglutinin titers in a representative sample of infants and children was made. Previous observations by Miller,1 in San Francisco, and by Flosdorf,2 in Philadelphia, suggested that the finding of a significant number of persons with agglutinins against Hemophilus parapertussis indicated that the disease caused by this organism had occurred fairly frequently.
The present paper reports the titers of agglutinins for H. parapertussis and for H. pertussis in the serums of 531 patients, from birth through 14 years of age, admitted to the pediatric service of the Strong Memorial-Rochester Municipal Hospitals during the period from Jan. 1, 1951, to July 1, 1952. During this 18-month period, approximately 3,000 admissions occurred. No plan prevailed for the selection of serums to be tested, and they represent a random distribution in relationship to age and time of
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016PSW Staff 04/05/16 01:32 PM,At the Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt, L-Acoustics announced the launch of the KS28, a new reference subwoofer that adds 3 dB of SPL (versus the SB28) and is exclusively driven by the new LA12X amplified controller. The KS28 provides extended bandwidth down to 25 Hz. Weighing 174 pounds (79 kg), the sub is rapid to deploy, with all rigging integrated into the box. Like its predecessor, the KS28 is designed for performances from classical or contemporary music through… View this story
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Monday, January 25, 2016PSW Staff 01/25/16 09:41 AM,At NAMM 2016, JBL Professional by Harman debuted a new lineup of monitor system controllers designed to enhance the workflow in music recording, post production and broadcast control rooms. Two models and one bundle provide essential level and source selection controls needed in modern computer-based production systems. The new controllers can be used with JBL's 3 Series studio monitors as well as other monitors. The new Nano Patch+ serves as the volume control between the output of the production system… View this story
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Saturday, June 21, 2014PSW Staff 06/21/14 12:21 PM,Harman's BSS Audio introduced the Soundweb Contrio networked control and audio distribution platform at InfoComm 2014. The Soundweb Contrio platform and its two initial products, the Contrio server and Contrio wall controller range, are the first within the Soundweb Contrio family that will ultimately provide enhanced system control capability and audio routing flexibility for a variety of applications. These and all future Soundweb Contrio products will be backward compatible with existing BSS Audio Soundweb London devices, providing a comprehensive choice… View this story
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Wednesday, September 04, 2013PSW Staff 09/04/13 11:58 AM,Novation has announced the new Launch Control: a robust, compact controller with 16 assignable knobs, eight 3-color launch pads, and four function keys that's designed to be a partner to Launchpad. Launch Control's knobs provide fluid control of filters, levels, and effects while using launch pads for muting, effects activation, or launching clips and scenes. Eight factory and eight user templates provide instant control of multiple instruments and effects without remapping. Launch Control comes with Ableton Live Lite in the… View this story
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Friday, January 27, 2012PSW Staff 01/27/12 09:42 AM,At the NAMM 2012 Show, Dangerous Music announced its newest monitor controller, the "Dangerous Source" - a portable and desktop unit designed for portable applications or to fit a limited space on the desktop, a complement to any DAW for its centralized control of loudspeakers, headphones, and more. Dangerous Source fits beneath a 13-inch laptop computer, and it can also sit unobtrusively on the desktop within arms reach to provide easy control of volume, input selection, loudspeaker switching, and headphone… View this story
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Yesterday we dipped, dyed, plunked, and cracked our eggs. Luke's ended up the most cracked, but there is no surprise there. We let him pick his eggs, throw them in the cup and all. I think he loved it juuust a little. I mean, the chance to put hands in things otherwise denoted as "yucky" and "no-no" off limits? That is the jackpot for the busiest of one-year olds.
I also put down white printing paper as our discard paper so I could save and frame the one Luke specifically worked on. It's a beautiful, sentimental piece of art of our first egg dying experience together.
I am so grateful for this holiday which provides hope and a deeper love for the Savior and celebrates His resurrection. Wishing a happy and fun Easter to everyone!


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According to a recent study, women are best at picking out a picture with a snake during the days immediately before their period. You might think this would be a surprise, given the general idea of premenstrual compromise in women. Mind you, there isn't much data to support poorer thinking or performance for women during the premenstrual period.
However, the authors were able to salvage the idea of premenstrual compromise here. They argue that about 30% of women have premenstrual syndrome, and most of the rest of us show some kind of cyclicity. And so they attribute the 200 millisecond (1/5 of a second) faster response to anxiety and fear. Either that, or it is maternal instinct, protecting the small cluster of cells that might possibly be an impending pregnancy.
Media has picked this up, with headlines about PMS being good for something after all.
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text: Auckland - Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has warned their Rugby World Cup quarter-final opponents Australia to be prepared for some serious scrums. WIN a pair of the new adidas rugby bootsWIN a Rugby World Cup ball"It will be a challenge for them in the scrums, our scrum is exceptionally good at the moment," he said on Sunday. "We use it as a good platform to play from and a guy like Pierre (Spies) gets enough time to go off the back of it. "Our lineouts aren't bad either, but if they get their team selection right against us, we will be challenged." Obvious threats in the Wallaby team include their halfback pair of Quade Cooper and Will Genia, while close tabs will have to be kept on the versatile Kurtley Beale. De Villiers said his men will have to be careful of allowing those players to attack from broken play. "They're dangerous in turnover play and in space," said De Villiers. "We know that and we saw how Ireland cut off their space and how Samoa cut off their space. "This is one area we want to look at - we want to cut off their space and force them to play deeper." The Bok mentor said this week's challenge will be an entirely different one to the physical onslaught his men had to endure against Samoa. "Australia won't be easy, but they will be easier," he said. "Firstly they won't be as physical as Samoa, but they will try to be. It is just Samoa who can be as physical as that because it's part of their nature. Secondly, we understand Australia and we know what they do. "We've been playing them for years, and they're not likely to change anything this coming week. For them it will be easier and for us it will be easier." It will be the first time South Africa and Australia face each other in a World Cup quarter-final. Australia secured victory over South Africa the last time they met, in Durban, before going on to win the 2011 edition of the Tri-Nations. De Villiers was nonetheless confident his men have what it takes to set the record straight. "If you look how we were a year ago, and how we needed to play catch-up rugby, to where we are now, then you can see a big difference. We begin by playing in our structures and we do it well. "The first and especially our last game, we played total rugby." The fact that his charges have missed an average of 26 tackles per match is not a major concern either. "There were linebreaks against us, but if there weren't when would we be able to practice our scramble defence? Overall though, if you compare last year and this year there was a big difference."* Click HERE for the latest RWC odds on BET.CO.ZA


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Animals - 32 pairs - line the hallways of First Baptist Church's preschool wing.
The church commissioned muralist Kathy Holland to paint a Noah's Ark scene, complete with animals, on the hallway walls of the preschool wing. Noah with the ark is on one wall. Animals throughout the different hallways appear to be going toward the ark.
"The animals are going to the Ark 'cause God said there's going to be a flood," said Trey Glenn, age 5. "Water covered the whole world!"
The animals, from the tiniest pair of mice to the large elephants, are all lifelike.
"We didn't want the animals to look like cartoons - that's why we chose Kathy as the muralist. She paints realistically," said the Rev. Howard Batson, church pastor.
He said he wanted the children to understand that this was a real event that took place, not make-believe.
The pastor pointed out there is a storm cloud painted over the ark, which represents God's judgment, and the ark represents God's forgiveness.
"This makes the Bible real," Batson said.
The church will hold a preschool open house from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Sunday to show off the murals. The theme will be "Two By Two Come See What's New."
Batson said the church wanted to make the children's wing appeal to the younger children.
"Sometimes we forget who our audience is," he said.
"I think it gets kids more interested and involved," said Brandi Alarcon, a mother of preschool children. "It's the preschool ministry at this church that's kept us involved. They have a lot to offer."
Batson said the response to the new murals have been positive from all ages.
"The senior adults have really enjoyed the murals," Batson said. "We've had many positive comments from them."
Batson saw Holland's work in a church in Dallas several years ago. It took her 10 days to complete the murals in Amarillo.
Holland said she paints murals for churches, homes, schools and commercial businesses. She has been painting for the past 15 years.
"I didn't discover I could paint until I was in my 30s," said Holland, who lives near Dallas.
Before that, she was taught school and was the mother of two young children. Her sons are now both in college.
Holland is proud that Thomas Moran, who painted in the late 1800s and early 1900s, is her great-great-uncle.
"He's one of America's foremost wilderness painters," she said.
Holland plans to continue painting murals "as long as I can climb up on a scaffold," she said. She stays booked up to six months in advance.
"I so enjoyed my visit to Amarillo," she said, "because of the people in that church. They were wonderful."
Pictures of Holland's work can be viewed on her Web site, www.holland-house.com
In addition to the murals, carpeting in the hallway ties the theme together. In front of the zebra mural, for example, the carpet is black and white zebra print.
Mary Stephens, an Amarillo interior designer, donated her time by choosing the carpeting and animals to be painted.
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What old people, generally your grandparents, call "youngsters". The word is derived from the term "snapping your whip" which means getting a b0n3r. So basically your granddad is calling you a whipper snapper because you can get it up and he can't. The term has been used less frequently since the development of viagra
"You young whipper snappers!! Always sticking your business in places were it doesn't belong!"
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A term generally used by old persons, to insult the younger generation.
Get off my damn lawn you whippersnappers!
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A disrespectful and rude child. Used by older people to refer to much younger.
The whippersnapper ran right by me and almost knocked me over.
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most often used by old people (see geezer) to describe an arrogant young person.
"why, did you just hear that young whippersnapper talk to me?"
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General derogatory term used by old people to refer to children as way too carefree and chaotic compared to their own childhood. The name comes from the famous painting 'Snap the Whip', depicting children running through a grassy field.
"Back in my day, kids got the newspaper themselves, now they're all just mean and rude, like you, ya' whippersnapper!"
"Apperantly, his grandfather just called him a 'whippersnapper'. What an mean old hobo."
"Apperantly, his grandfather just called him a 'whippersnapper'. What an mean old hobo."
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a young person that is caught by an elder, either vandalizing or being a punk
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someone under 15 years of age who doesn't take life too seriously, wants to have fun, chill out, be a kid - maybe play harmless pranks
Forget being an adult, I want to be a carefree whipper-snapper again.
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I've enjoyed sharing my picture book reads over the past four weeks, so I think I'll keep it going. We're always reading with toddler boy. Maybe something I share will end up one of your new favorites, too! Check out my reading records on Shelfari. Here are the last of my #SummerThrowdown reading highlights.
It's a book about a book about the things the narrator can do, simple as that. But the level of detail in the collage work Mack employs in order to convince the reader that this meta book was actually handmade by the narrator is quite a treat.
Little Owl's orange scarf is not so little and Little Owl likes his scarf, well... not so much. Too long. Too orange. And too itchy. The story is all in Little Owl's expressions. There are words, mind you, but the tri-color illustrations do their work wonderfully. Perfect for anyone who has every received a well-intentioned gift from someone they love.
Pancho Rabbit journeys with coyote across the border to rescue his father, all the while surrendering various packed foods to coyote for his troubles. I admire Tonatiuh's story for the way in which he retells the migrant journey experience in the form of a fable, never shying from the danger or bravery many migrants must possess.
Spike and Ike do indeed take a hike. While they do, they comment on their surroundings in speech bubbles. Meanwhile, expanding and tongue-twister-esque text reflects each new situation, my favorite being the soggy froggy buggy bog.
Hands-down the funniest book I have read in a long while. I can't imagine a better book to read aloud to children. Though the title suggests that it's time to count the monkeys, a cast of unexpected and ridiculous groupings follow, each sending the one before on its way. King cobras, mongooses (or is in mongeese?), sweet old beekeepers. The text beckons readers to interact in different ways each time, hoping to rid the book of it's unwanted guests so that the reader can finally count the monkeys.


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STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- A 2,200-acre fire in the Pinelands in the next month will be no accident.
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is planning a controlled burn in the Stafford Forge Wildlife Management area in Stafford Township in the next month.
Exactly when it's conducted depends on the weather in a corner of the Pinelands not far from Long Beach Island.
The idea is that by clearing underbrush and fallen pine needles, there would be less fuel for a major fire.
The area to be burned is near where 17,000 acres burned last May after a military jet dropped a practice flare in the area during training exercises.


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Comprehensive Description
Bignonia capreolata L.
Margins of wet pine savannas (WLPS) and adjacent swamps.
Infrequent. Apr–May ; Jul–Aug . Thornhill 1148 (NCSC). Specimens seen in the vicinity: Sandy Run [Patterson]: Taggart SARU 323 (WNC!). [= Anisostichus capreolata (L.) Bureau sensu RAB; = Weakley]
General: Bignonia family (Bignoniaceae). Crossvine is a perennial, woody, semi-evergreen vine that can grow to be 17 m long. Tubers can grow to 10 cm in diameter. The stem is squarish and reddish-purple. Leaves are opposite, pinnately compound, and reduced to two basal leaflets and a branched tendril between them. Leaflets are 6-15 cm long, 2-7 cm wide and have smooth edges (entire), narrowly tapered tips (acuminate), and a notch at the base that makes them heart-shaped (cordate). The foliage turns from a lustrous green in the growing season to a reddish purple in the winter. Buds are reddish-purple and less than 1 cm long. Flowers are bell-shaped with orange on the outside and yellow inside, have 5 irregular lobes, and are 4-5 cm long. The fruit is a multi-seeded, flat capsule that is up to 15 cm long. Crossvine blooms from mid-March to mid-June and sets fruit in late summer.
Crossvine gets its name from the cross-shaped pith, as seen from a transverse section of the stem. Other key characteristics of crossvine include its opposite compound leaves with two leaflets and branched tendrils.
Distribution: Crossvine is native to the United States in the northeastern, north central, south central, and southeastern regions. It is found from southern Ontario, south to Florida, west to Texas and Illinois. For current distribution, please consult the Plant Profile page for this species on the PLANTS Web site (http://plants.usda.gov).
Habitat: Crossvine is found in rich forests and swamps and along roadsides and fencerows.
Alternative names
Anisostichus capreolata, Anisostichus crucigera, Bignonia capreolata forma lutea, Bignonia capreolata var. atrosanguinea, Doxantha capreolata, quartervine, trumpet flower.
National Distribution
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
The USDA hardiness zones for crossvine are 5-9. Although it is semi-evergreen, it may lose its leaves during especially harsh winters in zones 5 and 6.
Crossvine prefers full sun and moist, acidic, well-drained soils for best flowering. It is adaptable to other soil conditions, including poorly drained soils, once established and it can do well in low light levels. It is drought tolerant.
Conservation Status
National NatureServe Conservation Status
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Please consult the PLANTS Web site and your State Department of Natural Resources for this plant's current status (e.g. threatened or endangered species, state noxious status, and wetland indicator values).
Cultivars, improved and selected materials (and area of origin)
The NRCS Plant Materials Program has not released any cultivars of crossvine for conservation use. Contact your local Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly Soil Conservation Service) office for more information. Look in the phone book under "United States Government". The Natural Resources Conservation Service will be listed under the subheading "Department of Agriculture."
Ornamental cultivars of Bignonia capreolata include 'Atrosanguinea,' 'Dragon Lady,' 'Helen Fredel,' 'Jekyll,' 'Shalimar Red,' and 'Tangerine Beauty.' These cultivars have been bred for flower color, flower and leaf size, and winter hardiness.
Seed production
Crossvine can be propagated by seeds or cuttings. Pretreatment of seeds is not necessary. Although a 90% germination rate can be expected, seedling survival and growth may be low. Seedlings may need to harden in winter temperatures before outplanting.
The species can be rooted at any time of the year but June or July cuttings are generally recommended. Crossvine cuttings root easily, but may take six to eight weeks.
If not properly managed, crossvine can spread quickly by root suckers and become problematic. Pruning will reduce aggressive growth if spread is not desired.
Crossvine can spread aggressively. This plant may become weedy or invasive in some regions or habitats and may displace desirable vegetation if not properly managed. Please consult with your local NRCS Field Office, Cooperative Extension Service office, or state natural resource or agriculture department regarding its status and use.
Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems
Ethnobotanic: Native Americans used crossvine as a remedy for numerous health ailments. An infusion of leaves was used to purify blood. Decoctions of leaves were used for rheumatism. Decoctions of mashed bark were used to alleviate edema and headaches. Individuals with diphtheria gargled a mashed root infusion.
Ornamental: The showy, fragrant flowers and unique leaves of crossvine make this plant appropriate for some gardening and landscaping needs. It is often used as a cover for fences, arbors, walls, pillars or large trellises and as a groundcover. It is often recommended as a native ornamental alternative to non-native climbing vines.
Wildlife: The tubular flowers and large quantities of nectar produced by crossvine are attractants for hummingbirds and butterflies.
Bignonia capreolata
Bignonia capreolata is a vine commonly referred to as crossvine.[1] The common name refers to the cross-shaped pattern revealed when the stem is cut; this pattern results from four radial wedges of phloem embedded within the stem's xylem.[2] It is native to the central and southern United States.[3] The vine climbs without twining but does produce tendrils. It produces long tubular flowers which are red and yellow and frequently have a mocha fragrance.[4] The leaves are dark green to almost purple and produced as opposite pairs with terminal tendrils. The vine often climbs very high, with leaves only remaining on the uppermost portion of the plant. Crossvine can spread aggressively through stolons and become invasive unless properly managed.[5]
There was for some time confusion surrounding the name of this plant, which was apparently sometimes referred to as "Bignonia Crucigera," a name more properly referring
to a different plant altogether. See Alwyn H. Gentry, Bignonia Crucigera: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Taxon 24(1): 121-123 (Feb. 1975), a relevant portion of which may be previewed here.
One 18th century report describes a medicinal use for cross-vine by the Cherokee people:
"The vines or climbing stems of the climber (Bigonia Crucigera) are equally divided longitudinally into four parts by the same number of their membranes somewhat resembling a piece of white tape by which means, when the vine is cut through and divided traversely, it presents to view the likeness of a cross. This membrane is of a sweet, pleasant taste. The country people of Carolina crop these vines to pieces, together with china brier ands sassafras roots, and boil them in their beer in the spring, for diet drink, in order to attenuate and purify the blood and juices, it is a principal ingredient in Howards famous infusion for curing the yaws, etc., the virtues and use of which he obtained from Indian Doctors."
William Bartram, Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians food traditions, in Transaction of the American Ethnological Society Vol. 3 Pt. 1. Extracts (1789).
- ^ Dirr, Michael. 1997. Dirr's Hardy trees and shrubs: an illustrated encyclopedia. Timber Press. 493 pages.
- ^ Metcalfe, C.R. and L. Chalk. 1950. Anatomy of the dicotyledons. Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (see page 1009).
- ^ USDA plant profile
- ^ Ask Melinda: Crossvine
- ^ USDA NRCS. Plant Guide. Crossvine: Bignonia capreolata L.
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Oh, man, Hardwarehank, I've been there too. Whole grains seem to be a sticking point for a lot of people. "Ok, ok, I can understand how saturated fat may be benign, and I can even accept that beans aren't all that great for you...but surely whole grains are healthy, right? Right? They've got folic acid! And vitamin E!"
I see that you're up in Eagan, too! I'm going to college in Mankato, though I'm going elsewhere after this semester wraps up.


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From the kitchen table enjoy the garden and a view of Red mountain. The built in china cabinet with leaded glass doors add old style feel to the kitchen. The fully equipped kitchen includes a dishes, silverware, stove, refrigerator, microwave, coffee pot and toaster. The cozy living room offers windows out to the garden and the historic library lawn. . A twin trundle bed neatly arranged in the living room provides extra seating as well as a comfortable sleeping arrangement. The twin mattresses are over-sized and comfortable for adults. The bedroom is decorated in simple yet elegant fashion, a queen-size bed warmed with floral spread, red bedside tables with reading lamps, and a print on the pale yellow walls. The large bathroom has two entrances, one from the bedroom and one from the kitchen. The pedestal sink has a large white mirror hanging above, the claw-foot tub has a rainfall shower make up this bright bathroom; the old walnut vanity lends an area for personal bath items. This garden level cottage is a wonderful Colorado vacation retreat.


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Guest Voice: Keep government out of religion
In a letter to the editor, Ann M. Filutze related an incident about a presumably Muslim group gathered in prayer at a highway rest stop ("Are religious freedoms unequal?" Erie Times-News, May 31).
She made two points: First, how could a group such as this gather to pray on state property without a permit; and second, how can they pray in this manner when Christians are prevented from exercising their religious rights.
She wrote: "Why are certain groups targeted while others are permitted to pray where they please, when they please and how they please?" She also makes the point that chaplains in the military cannot mention the word "Jesus." Unfortunately, her letter represents several common misunderstandings about the religious freedoms we enjoy under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
There are no restrictions on people's right to privately exercise their religious beliefs "where they please, when they please and how they please," no matter what their beliefs happen to be.
Federal court decisions have made it clear that high school students can pray at the flagpole in the morning before classes, have sectarian Christian clubs on school property, pray in small informal groups and have Bible classes.
Students cannot, however, in a tax-supported school, pray over the intercom or at graduation.
Military chaplains, as government agents, are required to respect the fact that not everyone in their charge shares their particular sectarian viewpoint about religion. Whether the word "Jesus" is appropriate depends on the context. What the courts have ruled is that one particular religious group cannot use taxpayer funds to promote their sectarian beliefs in a publicly supported setting since it includes different because and religions as well as nonbelievers.
This letter to the editor reflects an oft-repeated fiction that somehow our freedom to exercise our religious beliefs has been diminished in recent years, or that there is somehow a "war" on Christians. This line of thought is usually based on the mistaken belief that the United States is a Christian nation. While it is true that most Americans are Christian, our legal tradition is that government should not endorse any particular religion.
The latest Pew Survey of religions found that 20 percent of Americans, i.e., one of five or approximately 43 million people, self-identify as nonreligious.
This number does not include Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist followers, adding still greater diversity to our religious landscape.
Why should any sectarian Christian assume he or she has a right to use tax-based institutions to express his or her specific brand of beliefs?
The "free exercise clause" of the First Amendment guarantees that government cannot tell you what to believe or not believe.
Do we really want government deciding which version of the Bible should be preferred, or which denomination should be in charge of religious ceremonies in schools, city councils or public commissions? In the most famous cases regarding the "free exercise clause," the Supreme Court has emphasized that keeping government out of religion is one of the best ways to preserve religious freedom.
In sum, in matters of faith, the U.S. Constitution does not take the side of any religion. In Wallace v Jaffree in 1981, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the idea that government is to be neutral when it comes to supporting religious activities and practices.
As the brilliant Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, a native of Jamestown, N.Y., eloquently stated in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943): "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."
Contrary to the fiction commonly broadcast among some religious communities, rather than limiting religious freedom, the court has expanded religious liberty to all and prohibited government interference in matters of religious endorsement.
The United States has evolved into a rich and very diverse society with many kinds of religious believers and nonbelievers. The best way to respect everyone's right to believe as he/her chooses is to leave the government out of the religion business altogether.
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Trout season here in our area, along with most of Pennsylvania, opens at 8 a.m. on April 16, while the special regional opening day for 18 counties in the southeastern part of the state will be April 2. In preparation for this annual rite of spring, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission plans to stock 3.2 million trout in 744 streams and 122 lakes throughout the state. Rainbow trout will comprise more than half of the total trout stocked, with an estimated 1.8 million of this species scheduled to be released for the 2011 trout season, along with about 859,000 brown trout and 536,000 brook trout.
Many waterways will also receive a few of some 9,000 so-called trophy golden rainbows, which are expected to average 1.5 pounds in weight and 14 inches in length. Bred to display a bright yellow coloration because of a genetic mutation, goldens are garish and grotesque compared to the natural beauty of a real trout. Some folks incorrectly refer to them as "palominos," which was another genetically engineered freak fish that was even uglier. Palominos haven't been stocked for many years, but for some reason, that ridiculous name lingers on. Other than the obvious novelty factor, I've never understood what the attraction to these disgusting faux trout, much less why our Fish and Boat Commission goes to the time and expense of raising them.
This year, the co-op nursery program is expected to produce more than 730,000 additional trout that will be stocked around the state in waters open to public fishing. This joint venture between local sportsmen's clubs and the Fish and Boat Commission began in 1952 and continues to be a worthwhile and successful effort, with about 150 clubs and organizations currently participating in the program. Co-op nurseries are largely a volunteer effort for the clubs and organizations involved. The Fish and Boat Commission supplies the club with fingerling trout and technical expertise, and the club supplies the manpower, food and other necessities to raise the fish to adult size. Almost every county in our region has one or more clubs that operate a co-op trout nursery, and they provide thousands of trout for area waters in addition to the regular state allotments. Many of the co-ops supply trout for special youth fishing events throughout the spring.
So far this month in Blair County, Blair Gap Run, Canoe Creek and Clover Creek have already been stocked. Last Wednesday, I spent a few hours helping to stock some trout in Canoe Creek. In spite of cold weather and persistent snow flurries, a small group of folks was on hand to carry buckets of trout to the stream. Blair County waterways conservation officer, Craig Garman, told me he is grateful to have a handful of regulars that he calls the "Blair County Stocking Crew." These stalwarts show up for almost every trout stocking regardless of the weather to help with the stocking chores. Of course, all volunteers are welcome to help carry fish to the streams during any scheduled stocking.
Upcoming preseason stockings in Blair County include the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River on March 15; meeting place for this stocking will be the Claysburg post office 10:30 a.m. Poplar Run and South Poplar Run will be stocked on March 17; meeting place is the Newry post office at 10:30 a.m. Bald Eagle Creek will be stocked on March 18; meeting place is village of Bald Eagle 9:30 a.m. Canoe Lake will be stocked on April 1; meeting place is the Canoe Creek State Park office at 10:30 a.m. The final preseason stocking for Blair County will include Bells Gap Run, Riggles Gap Run and Vanscoyoc Run on April 12; meeting place is the Sheetz store off the Bellwood exit of I-99 at 10 a.m.
n One other worthwhile reminder I would like to pass on this weeks is the Blair County Game, Fish and Forestry Association will hold its annual Landowner/Sportsman Banquet on Thursday, March 24 at 6 p.m. in the main lodge at 301 Riggles Gap Sportsmen Road, Altoona. This traditional roast beef dinner is held each spring to thank landowners who open their property to hunting and fishing. Following dinner, representatives of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission a program will present a special program. Space is limited, however, and tickets are required. Sportsmen can obtain free tickets for a landowner guest. For more information or to obtain tickets, contact Sharon Merritts at 946-9315.


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Dan Rosen at NHL.com takes a look at six players who have been first half revelations including Brandon Dubinsky…
"Dubinsky, with 17 goals and 38 points, was and will again be the Rangers' glue guy; the forward that because he can do so many things (power play, penalty kill, etc.) coach John Tortorella leans on in so many situations. When he went out, Tortorella admitted the Rangers would have no choice but to change some of what they were doing."
…Dubi was on his way to a breakout season before the injury. Hopefully, when he gets back he can pick up where he left off as the Rangers will need, along with his scoring, his toughness and leadership down the stretch and hopefully in the playoffs.
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And Baby Makes Two
The politics of single motherhood.
The New York Times is at it again, making poor Katie Roiphe feel bad about herself. Over the weekend the Times published a piece by Jason DeParle making the entirely obvious, yet frequently denied, observation that children are a lot better off when they are reared by both parents than when a single mother has to make do on her own. They could've headlined the story "Dan Quayle Was Right," if The Atlantic hadn't beaten them to it 19 years ago.
"It is disheartening to see that the New York Times has run yet another puritanical and alarmist rumination on the decline of the American family disguised as a straight-news story," rails Roiphe, herself a single mother, in response. You'd be excused for thinking Slate has gone into summer reruns, as she said more or less the same thing about another Times piece last February (and we wrote about it at the time).
Roiphe wants feel-good puff pieces about single motherhood: "It's time to run a story about the resourcefulness, energy, and intensity of these homes, a fair, open-minded exploration of these new family structures and the independent, tough women who run them." As in February, she accuses the paper of an ideological betrayal: "In the guise of writing a well-intentioned liberal piece . . . the New York Times is recycling truly retrograde and ugly moral judgements."
She does manage one good criticism of the Times piece:
One of the most laughable elements of the story is that it hinges on the idea that the single mother's children are suffering because of a lack of extracurricular activities: It lingers on the idea that the swimming class, and Boy Scouts meetings, and trips to Disney that the children of the single mother are deprived of will somehow turn them into dropouts and teenage parents. . . . What makes this particular bourgeois focus especially ironic is that it occurs alongside a contemporaneous cultural discussion of whether college-educated parents are spoiling their children, or over hovering.
This is partly, as Roiphe observes, an appeal to "the smug sense that the average college-educated New York Times reader is enriching their [sic] children." But there's also an element of political correctness in the emphasis on the logistical or material advantages of traditional households.
DeParle's argument essentially is that two parents are better than one. That is true as far as it goes, but the difference between a single mother and a married couple is qualitative as well as quantitative. Children who grow up without a father are deprived of--you'll pardon the cliché--a "male role model." A close relationship with both parents helps children understand the differences between the sexes, the better that a boy can learn to be masculine and a girl to be feminine. Such an idea defies feminist dogma. Good luck getting it past the editors of the New York Times.
There is a political as well as an ideological aspect to the left's disparagement of marriage and celebration of single motherhood. As pollster John Zogby notes in a Forbes.com column, the "marriage gap" between Democrats and Republicans is "even more dramatic" than the so-called gender gap:
In an analysis provide [sic] by my colleagues at Gallup after the 2008 election, all married voters supported Senator John McCain over his Senate counterpart Barack Obama by a 12 point margin--56% to 44%. Single voters favored Obama overwhelmingly by 30 points--65% to 35%. . . .
We see every indication thus far that married voters will turn out and we see pretty much the same patterns as in 2008 in our 2012 polling. Thus, [Mitt] Romney leads Obama among married voters by 13 points--50% to 37%--which is about the same as McCain's margin in 2008. But Obama's 18 point lead among all single voters--52% to 34%--is far short of his performance four years ago.
If these numbers hold up in November, it will be good news for Republicans. But if the marriage gap persists, then it will be in the Democratic Party's long-term interests to undermine the institution of marriage.
With that in mind, consider this assertion from a recent Obama-bylined piece in Newsweek:
Today, thanks in no small part to the confidence and determination they developed through competitive sports and the work ethic they learned with their teammates, girls who play sports are more likely to excel in school. In fact, more women as a whole now graduate from college than men. This is a great accomplishment--not just for one sport or one college or even just for women but for America. And this is what Title IX is all about.
The flip side of Obama's "great accomplishment" is that fewer men finish college than women.
As we noted in March, marriage rates have remained high among college-educated Americans, who tend to marry each other, even as they have dropped precipitously among the less-educated. Low sex ratios among college graduates today are likely to result in lower marriage rates among educated Americans in the coming decades.
If marriage is the most important factor leading people to vote Republican, then, no wonder Obama is cheering the decline of men.
By Any Other Name
As in 2008, Barack Obama plans to deliver his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at a football stadium. But Politico reports there's some controversy over what to call this year's venue:
National Democrats have repeatedly touted their stand against taking corporate money for their convention in September, and so it was striking to see two emails from the DNC host committee referring to the Charlotte [N.C.] venue where President Obama will speak as "Panthers Stadium."
It's the place where the [Carolina] Panthers play, but it's actually called Bank of America stadium.
It used to be called Carolinas Stadium and Ericsson Stadium but has never been known officially as Panthers Stadium, though "a host committee spokeswoman" tells Politico "that the stadium is referred to locally that way." It's odd, though, that the Obama campaign would choose a name that is reminiscent of the Black Panthers.
Meanwhile, Agence France-Presse reports that "Italy's new finance minister said the government could raise up to 20 billion euros [about $24.5 billion] a year in public asset sales." Maybe Obama could give his acceptance speech at the Pantheon.
You Heard It Here First
- "It seems to us Obama needs a better narrative than "Obama needs a better narrative.' "--Best of the Web Today, July 13
- " 'The nature of this office," he said, "is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.' That's a spot-on description of one of the key elements missing from the last three-and-a-half years: storytelling. But while Obama has accurately diagnosed the ailment, he hasn't delivered on his own prescription. Where is the narrative that will give us that sense of unity and purpose and optimism?"--Arianna Huffington, Puffington Host, July 16
Why Won't MoveOn Move On?
- "Hillary Clinton in Egypt, Pelted With Tomatoes and Taunts of 'Monica!' "--headline, Washington Post website, July 16
- "Stand With the People of Egypt"--petition title, MoveOn.org
That's Some Distraction!
The Detroit Free Press has a hilarious quote from Robert Dindoffer, a spokesman for Kerry Bentivolio, a candidate in the Republican primary for the congressional seat recently vacated by Thad McCotter:
"It's clear that the write-in candidate (Nancy Cassis) was being defined as the architect of the Michigan Business Tax, and she needed to throw something out there to distract from that," he added.
Now here's what Dindoffer is referring to:
Bentivolio, a Milford teacher, had a prominent role in a low-budget Michigan-made film--"The President Goes to Heaven"--released last year that pokes fun at a fictional character based on Republican former President George W. Bush.
In the 85-minute satire, Bentivolio is the chief physician at a place called the North Oakland Medical Center, where the fictional president has had a stroke and lies in a coma but is able to hear and understand those around him.
The film is an indictment of the president after a terrorist attack in which planes fly into two buildings in New York on 1-11.
Sound familiar?
The nurses berate the comatose president for ordering the planes to be flown into the towers, killing their loved ones. A conspiracy theorist on a TV screen details the urban myths about "our allies" being responsible for the attack.
And the comatose president, whom the viewers can hear but the actors can't, says he knew something was in the works, but "only Dick knew all the details." (An apparent reference to former Vice President Dick Cheney.)
Wow, that is one heck of a distraction.
Homer Nods
An item yesterday stated that 31/32nds of Elizabeth Warren's ancestors had stolen the land of the other 1/32nd. The correct proportions are 32/32nds and 0/32nd, respectively. We regret the error.
Out on a Limb
- "Letters: Penn State's Image Tarnished"--headline, USA Today, July 16
- "Generation X on Climate Change: Meh"--headline, DailyClimate.org, July 17
Rejected Titles for 'Dreams From My Father'
- "Obama's Fantasy World"--headline, The Weekly Standard, July 23 issue
- "The Professor, the Ballerina, and the Public Enemy"--headline, PJMedia.com, July 16
- "Meet the Reborns: Incredible Life-Like Dolls That Cost Hundreds of Dollars and Even Come With 'Birth Certificates and HUMAN Hair' "--headline, Daily Mail (London), July 17
Good News, Bangor!
" 'US Bolsters ME Missile Defense to Counter Iran' "--headline, Jerusalem Post, July 17
They're Favored to Win the Gold in Synchronized Groping
"US Security Agents 'at Heathrow for Olympics' "--headline, SkyNews website, July 17
That's the News. Goodnight and Have a Pleasant Tomorrow
"Fox Bites Man, Dog in Chevy Chase"--headline, WTOP-FM website (Washington), July 12
Just Google 'Helen Thomas'
"South Africa: Scientists to Unearth Fossils Live Online"--headline, AllAfrica.com, July 16
Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
"Mercosur Reduced to a Group 'of Bear-Hugging and Kissing Compañeros' "--headline, MercoPress.com, July 16
It's Duck Season!
"Daffy's, a Discounter, Succumbs to Its Rivals"--headline, The Wall Street Journal, July 17
You'd Think That Would Cheer Him Up
"Cross Man Wins $100k From Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket"--headline, WCSC-TV website (Charleston, S.C.), July 16
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Could Chocolate Replace Sunscreen?"--headline, Yahoo.com, July 16
- "Why Does Getting Hit in the Testicles Hurt So Much?"--headline, MentalFloss.com, July 12
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Elton John Reveals Why He Waited So Long to Come Out"--headline, MSNBC.com, July 17
- "Why [Backward R] Is the Last Letter in the Russian Alphabet"--headline, Moscow Times, July 16
Question and Answer
- "Could the Obamas' Hair Actually Impact the Election?"--headline, Puffington Host, July 17
- "President's Roots Are Cited Often in Speeches"--headline, The Wall Street Journal, July 16
It's Always in the Last Place You Look
"Why D.C.'s Bicycle Groper Must Be Found"--headline, Washington Post, July 17
News of the Tautological
"Coca-Cola's Revenue Up--but Costs Eat Into Profit"--headline, Associated Press, July 17
Breaking News From 1901
"Ford Lays Off 440 Victorian Workers From Geelong and Broadmeadows Plants"--headline, Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia), July 17
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Absence Goes Unnoticed in DC"--headline, Associated Press, July 16
- "Employees of NY Times, HuffPo, Other News Outlets Dish Out Money to Re-Elect Obama"--headline, DailyCaller.com, July 15
- "Sage Stallone Death: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Actor's Funeral"--headline, Puffington Host, July 16
Whoever These Guys Are, They're Beyond Parody
An article on the New York Times editorial page denounces Republicans for opposing "a disclosure bill":
The measure was immediately filibustered to death by Republicans, like other versions.
Still, the vote was a chance for the public to see who stands for and against such basic transparency in political spending. The answer: not one Republican showed the courage to break ranks and speak up for disclosure.
The title of the article is "The Power of Anonymity." Who wrote it? Beats us. It's an unsigned editorial.
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Cowlishaw: Source says New York Jets' Darrelle Revis will sign this week
On Sunday, I had no column scheduled to write for The Dallas Morning News. I didn't need to overdose on sports in order to get ready for a week of Around the Horn on ESPN because the show is on vacation all week.
Other than Skype-ing my daughter for her 19th birthday and taking my son to the driving range, I didn't have any grand plans. The only thing I was going to "tweet" about was how much I liked the first 75-80 pages of a novel called Shadow of the Wind.
My quiet day ended when I obtained some information early in the afternoon about Darrelle Revis, the Jets' fabulous cornerback who has been holding out from camp in order to get a new contract.
The source of information was good, someone I have used before. Beyond that, I won't go into further details.
Originally I was told the signing would be "probably Wednesday or Saturday." That seemed strange that there would be a possible range of three days in the situation.
But when I found out one other aspect of the story that made me believe it had to be true, Wednesday made a lot more sense than Saturday. Since the 140-character nature of Twitter doesn't lend itself to expanding on one's thoughts, I just typed "probably Wednesday."
Even limiting myself to that, "probably Wednesday" sounded weird, like I was hedging my bets. I wasn't trying to suggest there's a deal-breaker involved, but who knows? Things of that nature happen all the time. Still, I felt like "probably Wednesday" was the most accurate information I could provide at the time.
Once that one tweet was out there, my chances of getting much of the day off were shot (although I did manage to squeeze in three games at Top Golf with Ben and I didn't forget to skype Rachel).
It didn't surprise me that my information was getting shot down right and left by those covering the Jets. As a beat writer covering the Cowboys for six years, I did a lot of "shooting down" and this was in the early days of ESPN and long before the world was wired and Twitter came along.
I talked to ESPN's Chris Mortensen and the New York Daily News' Gary Myers on the phone, a couple of guys I have known for 20 years or more. I exchanged texts or, in some cases, tweets with others I have had long relationships with.
They were supportive if curious as to how this information was coming from a Dallas-based general columnist. Understandably curious.
As for those who said I was making it up to get more followers: Does that sound like a good thing to do? I've worked for The Dallas Morning News for more than 20 years, ESPN for another seven. Is just making stuff up and having no clue about it a big part of my history?
Getting predictions wrong, yeah, I've done that two or three times. Two or three thousand times, I mean.
Throwing stuff against the wall with no idea whether or not it might stick? Not a real good way to maintain any shred of credibility.
The messages coming in from Jets' fans were pretty much non-stop and the only surprising thing about any of that was how many of them seemed to suggest they didn't think Revis would sign until well into the season, if at all.
How often does that happen? How often does that work?
Emmitt Smith got extra guaranteed money by sitting two games in 1993. But that was the league MVP-to-be and he had to get somewhat lucky in rolling the dice that the Cowboys would go 0-2 to Washington and Buffalo and that Coach Jimmy Johnson would go so crazy about it that Jerry Jones would have no choice but to cave in.
As great a player as Revis is, that's a big gamble to take.
Regardless, it does not appear that he is going to roll those dice. All signs indicate that the Revis saga, a major storyline for HBO's "Hard Knocks'' special on the Jets, ends this week.
And then I can tweet more about "Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ... even if it doesn't quite reach the same audience that Darrelle Revis does.


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My wiimote works correctly (3 different one) until MOHH2 loads then you can not point right with the target . If you do the sight bounces all over the screen . It worked correctly the very first time I played the game. (which was Friday) but has not worked correctly since. Should I return the game for a new one? What else could I do to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
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This isn't about assessing blame. It's not about who did what, or why it happened or which camera angle shows a different view of evidence you've never seen before.
This is about who you are as a man, as a player and a coach. And where you are as a program.
It's just that simple.
"We should understand our actions have consequences," LSU coach Les Miles said Saturday.
The big question: Where does Miles stand today after four of his LSU players—including starting quarterback Jordan Jefferson—were interviewed Tuesday by Baton Rouge police for their role in a bar fight last week?
No charges were brought against the players, but the investigation remains open and charges still could be filed. Yet here is where it gets dicey, where who you are runs directly into who you want to be.
Want to make a statement? Suspend Jefferson and the other three players for a game.
Want to make a mess? Ignore it and hope the collateral damage to team chemistry goes away.
The day Miles brought Jefferson into his office last spring and told him he was the team's starting quarterback; told him he was entrusting him with leadership and the innate responsibilities that come with it, was the day all this foolish behavior had to end.
From that point on—from Jefferson's impassioned speech to his teammates in one spring practice, to yet another sketchy performance in a spring game, to leading summer workouts—Jefferson had a job to do. Around 2 a.m. last Thursday, he failed miserably.
He failed by staying out late with an underage teammate at a bar.
He failed by putting himself in position to find trouble.
He failed by not walking away when any fifth-year senior worth his weight in easy grad school classes wouldn't have been there in the first place.
He failed by bringing drama and distraction to a team set up for a big season.
And how did Miles initially react? He made them run extra as a team.
A quick pause here to shake your head in disgust.
In this day when athletes are enabled at every turn, when the NCAA president and conference commissioners are peacocking about full-cost scholarships, multiyear scholarships and pandering to the public perception that athletes are being exploited, we're getting further away from the undeniable truth: The ills of the game can be traced to individual decisions.
When there's no accountability, there's no responsibility, and when there's no responsibility, the captain of a football team leads three of his teammates into what can only be described as an untenable situation.
Why wouldn't players hold out hands for cash? Why wouldn't they hang out with a sleazy booster paying for lap dances? Why wouldn't they accept "limited immunity" from the NCAA in the Miami investigation, a get out of jail free card that stinks to high heaven of running stadium steps?
I've got some breaking news for everyone: Players are just as culpable as the next dirty, scheming coach/street agent/booster that comes along. The more we ignore it, the more it metastasizes onto anything and everything connected to the sport.
How could one coach with everything to lose hide the behavior of players to keep them eligible? The same way one quarterback with everything to lose puts himself in position to fail.
This isn't about who's guilty or who's innocent. Or who can be cleared by what evidence.
And it most certainly isn't about running stadium steps.
Last month during SEC Media Days, Jefferson spoke about his newfound confidence, about how Miles' faith in him gives him inner strength and peace. It's almost eerie now to read the words he spoke.
"We trust each other," Jefferson said. "That makes us stronger as a team."
Sit him, Les. You can't lose.
Beat Oregon in next week's season-opening showdown without Jefferson, and prove one player isn't bigger than one team. Lose to the Ducks, and show what happens when that trust is violated.
It's just that simple.
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So this is what Pink Floyd's stadium show last summer looked like. Unless you were daring enough to shove your way into the rabid throng right in front of the stage, the band looked like a flea circus at the bottom of a well, and its elaborate laser show resembled a fireworks display two counties off. This video makes it clear that most of us missed some show. Not that anyone got cheated. The sound quality was unimaginably clear and loud however many leagues you were from the action. The music still sounds good, especially David Gilmour's lacerating guitar, and now you can enjoy the whole package, including the visual imagery that is a Pink Floyd hallmark. This 17-song tape, compiled in five nights at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, is a superb concert video. Director Wayne Isham blends slow motion, dreamlike footage, animation and superimposed shots of the band, the crowd and the bombastic effects in a way that enhances such songs as "The Dogs of War" and "Comfortably Numb." The 100-minute length will test those who don't think Pink, but fans won't mind. Even if you were one of the 5 million who saw this tour live, it's worth revisiting—with a front row seat. (CMV, $24.98)
Picks and Pans Review: Music on Video
updated 07/17/1989 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 07/17/1989 AT 01:00 AM EDT


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Is The Book Barn in Niantic, Connecticut, the most unusual bookstore in New England?
All photos/art by Julie Bidwell
Nestled in a wooded corner of Niantic, Connecticut, is a playground like no other. Little girls pick through garden paths searching for big, apathetic cats to cuddle; boys chase one another around a wooden fort; and an energetic dog pleads for someone to play ball with him.
And all around this fantastic scene, filling every nook and cranny of a barn, two houses, a couple of tents, several sheds, and an outhouse, are books — more than 350,000 books. One baffled kid on his first visit turned to his father to say, "This is a fun place!"
Randi White and his wife, Maureen (a.k.a. "Mo"), have been shattering children's prejudices about used bookstores for 20 years. What started as a room with a couch and three bookcases has grown into a sprawling complex of themed buildings. They never had a plan for the literary wonderland they created — just a jolly disposition and a pack rat mentality. Quirky jokes and kitschy junk have a way of finding permanent homes at The Book Barn in Niantic. Pointing to a pen holding two pygmy goats (the store's most popular residents), Randi explains, "One day some friends just showed up with some goats in the back of their truck … That's just the way things work here."
This whimsical store attracts some serious book lovers, too. It's become a pilgrimage site for bibliophiles across the region — including anyone looking to purge their old collections and stock up on cheap paperbacks. Many even make a day of it, spreading out on the lawn for a lunchtime picnic. Randi estimates that he buys at least a thousand books a day and sells about a quarter-million a year.
Financial success has given Randi and Mo the freedom to transform their store into a tool to get kids excited about reading. They espouse a hook-'em-while-they're-young approach. It doesn't matter whether the kids are there primarily for the playground or the animals, Randi asserts: "Deep down inside, they're associating that good time with being at a bookstore."
Is it working? If you ask Randi, he'll proudly show you a sign given to him by one exasperated mother. Its childish scrawl reads: "Can we go to Randi's soon?" It had been left around the house so often she'd taken it away. Days later she returned to The Book Barn and gave the sign to Randi. Her child, already working on a new sign, tugged on Randi's pant leg and asked the correct spelling of "desperate."
The Book Barn, 41 West Main St., Niantic, CT. 860-739-5715; bookbarnniantic.com
Second location: The Book Barn Downtown, 269 Main St., Niantic, CT. 860-691-8078
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Willie Nelson & Ray Price
Two of country music's most durable good old boys are not nearly as old (Nelson is 47, Price 54) as they are good. This, their first LP as a duo, includes a cross section of standards: Bob Wills' San Antonio Rose and Faded Love, Nelson's Night Life and Funny How Time Slips A way, Price's old hit Crazy Arms, and the Humperdinck standby Release Me. The combination, however, is not a match made in heaven, hillbilly or otherwise. Since Willie's and Ray's talents are more parallel than complementary, the result is a musical equivalent of a novel co-written by John Updike and Norman Mailer; the solos are fine, the collaboration muddy.
Picks and Pans Review: San Antonio Rose
updated 07/14/1980 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 07/14/1980 AT 01:00 AM EDT