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- 2-1/2 cups water
- 1 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 1 ounce dried shiitake mushrooms
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1/2 pound sliced baby portobello mushrooms
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 package (6 ounces) long grain and wild rice mix
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 4 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- In a small saucepan, bring water to a boil; add dried mushrooms. Remove from heat; let stand 25-30 minutes or until softened.
- Using a slotted spoon, remove mushrooms; rinse. Trim and discard stems from shiitake mushrooms. Chop mushrooms. Strain soaking liquid through a fine-mesh strainer. Reserve mushrooms and soaking liquid.
- In a Dutch oven, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender. Add fresh and baby portobello mushrooms; cook and stir until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer.
- Stir in broth, rice mix with contents of seasoning packet, reserved dried mushrooms and soaking liquid, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 20-25 minutes or until rice is tender.
- In a small bowl, mix water and cornstarch until smooth; stir into soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in cream; heat through. Yield: 12 servings (2-1/4 quarts).
Reviews for Mushroom & Wild Rice Soup
"This soup was delicious. The only thing i did different was add some chopped rotisserie chicken and I didn't have a box of rice mix but I did have a bag of Wild rice I just added it and some garlic powder. onion powder parsley flakes and let it simmer until the rice was tender, about 30 minutes longer."
"LOVE this recipe! I had leftover cooked mushrooms -- so omitted the directions for the dried mushrooms. It was EXCELLENT! Will make again with a different variety using the dried, but definitely a good way to use leftovers up."
"Absolutely delicious!"
"Like everyone else says This is the best Mushroom soup EVER !! Next time I'm going to try a bit of sherry."
"Delicious! I've made this twice now and my only recommendation is using an all natural or organic wild rice mix such as Lundbergs. The overall taste of the soup was better and it wasn't as salty as when I made it with Uncle Bens."
"I make this same recipe! I use all fresh mushrooms and also some celery and carrot. I also have been known to add some crumbled sausage or bacon."
"YUM! This was a delicious soup recipe and will be made again in my home. I did not have access to any dried mushrooms so I omitted the whole first and second steps and just added 1/2 lb sliced fresh shiitakes with the other fresh mushrooms to the pot. It turned out with perfect consistency. My 4 year old and I each ate two bowls of this in one sitting."
"If all fresh mushrooms are used, do you need to cut back on the amount of water?"
"WOW, one of the best homemade soups I've ever made! I crave it all the time. I cut back on the broth and cream, as I think it's too runny. Only for mushroom lovers!"
"I wasn't sure how I would like an all mushroom soup, but this was yummy. Only changes I would make is using more fresh mushrooms intsead of dried because dried ones can be a bit tough even after re hydrated. I couldn't find dried porcini mushrooms so I got oyster ones and they seemed fine. Next time I will sub the dried shiitakes for 1/2 lb of fresh ones. I also used half cream half skim milk to slim it down a bit and it didn't hurt the flavor at all. I gave this recipe to a vegetarian friend and told her to just sub the chicken broth with veggie broth and it would be perfect."


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Gin - Traditional Dry
Tanqueray Imported London Dry Gin
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Proof66 Rating : 646 / 753Rabble Rating : 3.5 / 5.0Producer: Tanqueray Gordon and CompanyOwner: DiageoWebsite: http://www.tanqueraygin.comABV: 47.3% Proof: 94.6Price (USD) : $20Age: N/A
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Tanqueray was first made by Charles Tanqueray in London beginning in 1830. Eventually, WWII destroyed most of the distillery and its remnant were relocated to Scotland, where it is made today. Tanqueray was one of the first distilleries to use double-distillation methods (later, triple-distillation and today quadruple-distilled) as well as being one of the very first "premium" gins on the market. Charles Tanqueray was preceded by Alexander Gordon and his Gordon's gin from as far back as 1769 and a warrant from King George himself in 1925. The two companies were combined to Tanqueray Gordon & Company in 1898.
Tanqueray Gin is one of the iconic gins of the world and claims an unchanged recipe for 130 years. It is a classic London dry with heavy juniper flavors bottled at various proofs for different markets (typically 94.6 proof in the US). Today it is the #1 imported gin into the US.
Named Best Gin in the 2012 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Named Best Gin in the 2007 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Named Best Gin in the 2005 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Rabble Reviews
Tanqueray Gin is good but not great . Tanqueray Gin is good straight up on the rocks.The nose is juniper, cinnamon, and citrus. The entry is smooth with dominant juniper and citrus theme with hint of cinnamon.The finish is tangy juniper and bitter citrus. It makes a great gin and tonic . The Tanqueray martini starts with juniper and citrus , but changing at mid palate to ethanol and finishing with ethanol. I do not like the Tanqueray martini. I tried it 4 parts gin to 1 part vermouth and 5 parts gin to i part vermouth.Neither Tanqueray martini worked for me . The ethanol creep in both times mid palate and finish. This is not a repeat purchase for me.
Very classic London Dry. Incredibly juniper forward, but little else going on in terms of flavor. I love this gin for its combination of value, quality, and versatility. It's a steal if you want a traditional London Dry Gin that works perfectly in everything from a martini to a gin and tonic. If you're a gin fan or prefer gin-based drinks, this is going to be your workhorse.
This classic is nice and strong on the juniper. Not a ton of complexity, but it does have a tinge of citrus. I like it about the same as Beefeater- the two of these are my typical go-to for mixing due to the prominent juniper flavor that a gin should impart in a drink. But, I also tend to prefer other gins when drinking straight. The price on this stuff is a great deal.
Good standard gin
One of my favourite gins, poured over ice with a quality tonic water and a slice of lemon or lime, I prefer the juniper heavy earthy Gins and this one fits the bill perfectly.
Don't know why I'd never tried this one. Once I settled on Broker's and Beefeater as my traditional go-to's, I guess I just never saw the need to try another one in the same price range. Picked up a 375ml on a whim the other night, and man am I glad I did. Very good. Bold, clean and crisp! One word: Jew-Nip-Purr! A little sweeter than the aforementioned gins but also a little "piney-er". Made an excellent dry martini! I definitely see a full size bottle of this in my future. As close as you can get to a 5 star for me without actually being a 5 star.
Tanqueray is my Gin of choice, and come summer will be keeping a bottle on hand. Bombay comes in as 2nd choice.
My go-to gin. Perfect for mixing or drinking straight.
4,3 stars. Traditional gin. heavy juniper at front with citrus and coriander behind, strong flavor, little burn for 47%, bit sweet, works best in a G&T or fruity long drinks.
I'm a Beefeater guy but I would never turn down a Tanqueray martini. Both gins are delightful. Simply a matter of taste.
My favorite dry martini gin. Heavy juniper flavor blended nicely with citrus and coriander. Makes a great G&T and a solid negroni.
Good gin, I just don't have a lot of use for it (currently). Clean, piney flavor blended with a mild sugary sweetness. If I ever do get into gin I'm sure this will be at the top of my list. It's a good value and there's nothing offensive in the flavor profile.
My favorite martini gin by far. Reading all of the comments for this gin on this site, Im simply amazed by the variety of opinion. In fact, I was told by a liquor store clerk to stay away from it. I eventually tried it because I am adventurous, and I am always looking toward new gins for my martini. Taste is truly personal. I like this one in a dry martini. It is complex, and tasteful. It also works well in a G&T, and in a Corpse Reviver # 2.
Awful, its clear why gin is the least popular spirit. Everytime I taste this I want to throw up. Overpowering botanicals and terrible after taste. What all premium liquors have in common is smoothness, zero burn, and no hangover. This fails at all of that. This product cannot hold up against the cheapest whiskeys tequilas vodkas or rums. I would be embarrassed to serve to this guests. If this is supposedly 1 of the best gins then the gin industry needs a overhauling into the 21 century I can name hundreds of different liquors that beat this senseless this truly is a terrible product. I don't care about the reviews or that's it's the number 1 imported gin Jose Cuervo is the number 1 imported tequila doesn't mean it's any good. Bottom line why would u ever buy this let alone display it as a premium gin I swear if I served this to girls, which is the ultimate test, they'd never let me pour them a drink again it's a buzzkill and makes every other liquor look like gold.
First of all: Gin is an aquired taste like your first dark beer. Secondly; No one drinks gin neat. It is a higher proof ment to be mixed with lower proof elements. Lastly: This is THE classic london dry gin, and proudly advertises that " Damn right this is your fathers gin". Start with Hendricks or something milder, and like wine your tastes will dry up!
Does everything you would want from a classic gin. There are a handful of gins that I would choose over Tanqueray, none with it's nearly universal availability.
A really good classic gin but not for the fan of modern less juniper dominated gins. This is your Grandpa's gin and I know why he liked it. Good classic gin at a good price. Not to be sipped but smooth all the same and bold enough to cut through in any drink.
Horrific on its own, but a solid mixer.
Perfectly nice; refreshing with tonic. A classic.
Good gin but saphire is a bit better (albeit a bit pricier) & a level above that is plymouth. If you are feeling like spending a little less $$ this is solid but if you're feeling frisky try the previously mentioned 2 (spoil yourself... gins are relatively cheap anyway).
This is a good gin, but some others have set the bar too high to give this more than three stars. If it were the last gin on Earth I would drink it, and enjoy it, but there just isn't any room left on my gin shelf for it.
I can't speak as to how it may be as a mixer, but for sipping this overhyped product falls well short of the mark. Nothing distinct or redeeming about it, in my opinion.
not a bad showing at the price. Mixes incredibly well in a Tom Collins or other fruity gin drinks. Preferred Bombay Sapphire in a martini. Well deserved of its reputation as a fine gin. Strong juniper flavor and burn. A benchmark.
About as big a gin name as there is. Its alright, but overall a boring sipper. Its best used in cocktails. If you want a gin experience, look elsewhere.
In a 4 tasting with North Shore#6, Magellan and Rouge Pinot Noir this held its own just fine. It lost its flavor in a gin&tonic but was best overall in a Martini and Maiden's Prayer. Little too much bite when it's neat. Throw a little vodka in it and it will smooth right out to make a great martini.
I tried Tangueray neat at first then mixed with tonic, and last as a martini. I really didn't care for Tangueray neat. Although it had a good fragrance, the taste was too sharp and acid. However, mixed with some tonic and a little lime, I was set for a real relaxer on a hot afternoon. Good for you, Tangueray! I thought it made a decent martini, but the real shine came through when I tasted it in a "Maiden's Prayer". In that drink Tanguery showed that Tanguery is still a favorite of mine.
The first whiff of this Gin and I felt like I was sitting with my mother and grandmother on the patio on a late summer day. I know Gin and Tonic, and a Gin Martini are classics, and while I strive to fit in, I just can't. Both drinks failed for me, and I couldn't muster the strength to finish. On the brighter side, mixed in a Maiden's Prayer, I felt something different. This drink reminded me of something I would have chugged and loved in college! Sorry Tanqueray, I really tried to like you
Not sure if Tanqueray has changed their recipe, but it tastes awful now. North Shore No. 11 Gin and Plymouth Gin destroy Tanqueray. Not even in the same class.
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The Midfield Board of Education held a meeting on Dec.17 last year to authorize dialogue with the city on the distribution of funding to the schools. The board has since then filed litigation with the city.
The Midfield city council held its regular meeting on Monday night to discuss some of the details of the financial issues among other business, although not all of the details of the litigation could be revealed, said mayor Gary Richardson.
The Midfield Board of Education was concerned with the use of ad valorem tax money that can be used to maintain school programs and projects. Richardson said that the money is being used to pay off the school debt, as well as to maintain the fire, police and public works departments.
The council went into executive session during pre-council before opening its doors again for regular business shortly before the meeting.
City hall was packed with a larger than usual crowd of mostly parents and their children drawn by rumors that the council would be taking money out of the schools. Richardson and the council denied this.
"We've been very supportive of the schools," Richardson told the crowd, saying that the city has serviced the schools, including debt. School debt was incurred by building projects and property taxes.
Board of education member Randy Davis spoke at the meeting and said that the real issue is distribution from the state board of education rather than distribution from the city, which was what the litigation in December concerned.
"We have got to come together on this," he urged the crowd and the council.
The lawsuit will continue as the council and board of education find a way to settle it. More details will come to light when the case is finished, said members of both the council and the board members.
In other business the council: authorized travel advance for police chief Frank Belcher, authorized an extension agreement between the city and BFI Waste Services, approved a business license for J&T Tax Service on 202 By Williams Sr. Drive and approved a bingo license for Arc Outreach Center, Inc. on 546 Bessemer Super Highway.


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WMG releases take top three slots in chart
Death Cab for Cutie secured its first No. 1 in a week that saw debuts in the top four slots on the nation's album sales chart. The top three are Warner Music Group releases — a feat the company hadn't pulled off in more than a decade and a half.
"Narrow Stairs" (Atlantic) sold 144,000 in the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Death Cab's prior album, "Plans," their major label debut after four indie releases, has sold 90,000 copies since its first week in 2005.
Death Cab will perform Thursday on the outdoor stage at "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Disc features Triple-A radio hit "I Will Possess Your Heart," which has sold more than 100,000 digital downloads.
Reprise Records' Frank Sinatra collection "Nothing but the Best," released in conjunction with the crooner's appearance on a postage stamp and the 10th anniversary of his death, sold 99,000. It's the first Sinatra release since Rhino inked a pact with the Sinatra children to represent his music and likeness.
Jason Mraz's "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things" (Atlantic) sold 73,000 copies to pop in at No. 3, his highest debut. Album is the singer-songwriter's new high-water mark on the chart; "Mr. A-Z" topped out at No. 5 in 2005.
Duffy, the Welsh soul singer, came in at No. 4, selling 71,000 copies of her A&M/Polydor debut "Rockferry." The album, prominently featured at Starbucks outlets, has been No. 1 in England and other European countries; her single "Mercy" has also been No. 1 across Europe.
"Division" (Universal Republic), by 10 Years, sold 28,000 (No. 12), and Disney's soundtrack to "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" moved 16,000 (No. 26). Selling 13,000 each were Cherish's "The Truth" (Capitol), at No. 40; Filter's "Anthems for the Damned," at No. 42; and the Hear Music compilation "The Second Wave," at No. 43.
Last week's chart-topper, Neil Diamond's "Home Before Dark," sold 53,000 copies, down 63%, and landed at No. 7.


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A sex position in which two gay men insert their phallic organs at two ends (mouth and anus) of a closeted gay man, the "chicken", at the same time.
That chicken sandwich was so fun man, too bad he's gone back to his girlfriend.
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1: the method of cleaning the buttocks with a rusty screwdriver
2: a sandwich consisting of chicken and bread
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2: a sandwich consisting of chicken and bread
3: the italian explorer, hired by spain, who discovered america in 1492
good lord! this chicken sandwich feels absolutely delightful!
this chicken sandwich is delicious!
i hate this country
by d.a.n.v April 05, 2008
When you go to a fast food restaurant and purchase a chicken sandwich and remove the chicken. Continue by getting a hand job with the buns of the sandwich. Then, release your load onto the buns, place the chicken back on the buns and have the female eat the Chicken Sandwich.
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Dude, We went to Wendy's and like, I totally got a chicken sandwich!!
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used to replace any word because you're confused
person 1: you know what..fuck you!
person 2: chicken sandwich? o_O
person 2: chicken sandwich? o_O
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Increasing graduation rates a start to improvement
November 4, 2013
Most West Virginia counties have improved high school graduation rates substantially during the past few years. Some have made extremely impressive progress....
Last time I looked, WV had the third worst graduation rate in the country. Only Mississippi and one other state were worse.
The editors should look the stats up to see how we stack up against the other states now. Are we really getting better?
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"Now who could disagree with that."
I didn't see anyone disagree with it. Oh wait, you posted this before anyone else had even commented. Are you trying to create an arguement where there is none to be had?
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Are private schools better than public schools? New book says 'no'
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"Much more needs to be done to ensure that when young West Virginians leave high school, they are realistically prepared for jobs or higher education."
There are few jobs. Teachers have a tough job and this doesn't make the job any easier. (I live in the real world, not the world of politically motivated economic statistics.)
Within the past 10 years I applied for a job and there were 2 candidates. Five years later the job was open again and there were over 50 applicants. This is the real world.
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Where are the 2013 WesTest2 results, Journal? Do your part to illuminate the horror that is education in this state. As I've said before, failure has become institutionalized, so much so that the state now considers it a good thing if a school fails at a slightly lesser rate than the previous year. And congratulations. Again, you managed to dish up the empty platitudes regarding teachers and give them a pass. Did it ever occur to you that a large part of the problem is theirs, that failure IS their work product?
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Some 20% of SENIORS did not graduate. That's horrible but, again, there is trickery afoot. A student who dropped out of school in 10th or 11th grade is not counted. Wht? Because this is the graduate rate for those who were enrolled in a school as of day one of their senior year.
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For the second year in a row, a Boehler for Calvert will run in four events at state.
And as any sibling rivalry goes, someone always ups the ante.
Shane Boehler took that role Friday, racing to state in two individual races and anchoring the Senecas there in two relays at the Division III regional at Frost-Kalnow to nudge his way past brother Ren's accomplishment of making it to state last year in four relays.
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But it's not like there's any official lines being drawn in the sand.
"To compare those two is like comparing ...," said coach Stewart Behm, struggling to find the right description. "I don't know. You can't compare them, because they're so much alike. They both work hard, they both put in a tremendous amount of time in the offseason ... ."
And in the postseason, especially Shane in the regional.
The junior captured second in the 100 in 11.09 and ran fourth in the 200 in 22.56.
In between, he anchored the Senecas to second in the 4x200 in 1:31.4 before helping them bring home the title in the 4x100 in 43.87 to become just the third Seneca since 1999 to reach state in four events in one year.
"I'm excited for it," Shane Boehler said. "It's going to be a little tiring, but it's what I wanted to do all year so I'm glad I did it."
Austin Ball, Tyler Long and Ren Boehler filled out both relays, and Boehler the anchor said the foursome had hoped to capture both relays after ending the prelims two days earlier with the fastest times in each.
"We wanted to win because we won the 4x2 last year. We came in with the best time. I know it was hot for prelims day, so everyone ran well [then]. It was cool [Friday] so I don't know if we all got warmed up real well, but I'm still glad with our time," he said. "We ran real well."
The Boehler boys are veterans when it comes to the regional, Behm said, but the team's overall inexperience might have played a role in the runner-up finish in the 4x200.
"I think a little of that, and I talked to them afterward, was nerves in a couple new guys. Ren and Shane have been here before," he said. "Austin and Tyler, I think nerves got to them a little bit. Austin admitted to me he didn't feel 100 percent today, but he still ran good; proud of what he did and we got another week to work on it. We're going to do great."
Another area boy with another week to go is Old Fort's Marcus Meyers, who finished third in the 1,600.
The senior ran fifth for most of race until final 300 meters, when he moved up two spots to end in 4:28.75, following a plan in which he had confidence.
"I'm pretty confident with my kick. I feel like I had a better mental game today than I did physically; didn't feel very good, 'but just stay mentally tough, keep going,' and it got me to Columbus," he said. "That's all I was thinking about.
"I didn't feel as good as I did at districts, but I came through, I guess, and that's all that matters," he said.


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Some moron named David Dziurzynski was kicked out of the game after his first shift.
The puck was dumped in behind Grant, where he was hit with a check from behind. No reason for this.
"Beast Mode" Keven Veilleux steps in and tries to fight him, but he hides behind the zebras.
Grant remained motionless on the ice for a while, and eventually was carted off on a stretcher. Scary stuff.
Ottawa fans are whining and claiming that the contact was mutual.
Bobby Butler was able to get past Carl Sneep and score five-hole against Thiessen to give the Sens an early lead.
Nice move kid, real nice.
A lot of jobbing back and forth continued until there was about 4 minutes left in the period.
Ryan Schnell and Sill somehow get a 2-on-1. Sill recieves the pass and snaps one over the blocker.
Schnell had 6 total points last year. In the ECHL.
With three seconds left in the first, Tangradi runs a D-man into his own goalie, who does his best Osgood impression.
Cowen makes his way in to avenge his teammate but the refs won't allow it.
The Pens took a penalty right off the bat, but Dustin Jeffrey doesn't care.
He makes a pick at the red line, and power moves his way to the net on a breakaway.
His initial move was saved, but he kicks the puck to his own stick.
Minutes later, Tom Kuehnhackl gets a puck back to Reid McNeill at the point.
He fires it on net where it's tipped in front by Beast Mode.
As soon as the puck is dropped, Schnell and Tim Spencer go buckets off at center ice.
Nice fight to start the season off. Schnell doesn't even have a contract at this point.
The Pens started to dominate play at this point.
Strait creates a nice break-out to Sill, which is one area he was focusing on improving this year.
Sill drops it to Tangradi, who pulls off the NHL 11 kick fake before throwing the puck on net.
Somehow Sill puts it in, for his second of the game. He had 5 AHL goals last season.
Simon Despres logged a ton of minutes and played a solid game today.
With this exception half-way through the third, when he got caught flat-footed at his own blue line.
Bob the Butler got past him and popped in his second of the game.
The Big Horse took a slashing minor even after the goal was counted.
Thiessen was basically outstanding today. He is rarely caught out of position.
This kid will make some noise in Wilkes-Barre this year. Watch him in camp next week.
The hitting started to pick up and the game was pretty much over.
Until Eric Gryba sniped Thiessen on one-leg with a minute left in regulation. The Sens weren't quitting.
Ottawa pulls their goalie and Kaspars Daugavins rings a shot off the post with 0:34 left.
Unrattled, the Pens play on until Tangradi finds the puck and clears it down the ice.
Jeffrey flies all the way down the length of the ice and buries the empty netter. Two goals for him as well.


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After tipping our cap to a true gentleman of the game and The Sweetest Swing You'll Ever See, we Mets fans will inevitably spend another moment wondering how this Hall of Fame career may have reached its conclusion in Flushing instead. We'll always wonder what might have been if Griffey had chosen the Mets over the Reds in 1999.
Back in the winter of 1999, the Mets sought a marquee player to complement Mike Piazza and lift the team past its NLCS appearance while Griffey acknowledged that the Mariners could not make a long-term commitment to both him and a young Alex Rodriguez. Griffey requested a trade closer to his Orlando home after the deaths of football great Walter Payton and pro golfer Payne Stewart. He would exercise his 10-5 rights to limit the Mariners trade partners to 4 teams, of which one would become the 1999 NLCS Runner Ups.
The Mets pursued Griffey as well as the Indians' Manny Ramirez in the winter of 1999, knowing full well that the Mariners would not permit any team to negotiate an extension with Griffey before acquiring him via trade. Pursuing Griffey represented a gamble in that he could exercise his 10-5 rights at any time and end the Mets' pursuit. With only a vague belief that Griffey might want to play for the Mets, it was a gamble that Mets GM Steve Phillips prepared to make with a wager of Armando Benitez, Octavio Dotel, Roger Cedeno, and possibly Darryl Hamilton. It was a move so welcome by the Mets that Phillips had to actively discourage his players from openly recruiting Griffey for fear of incurring tampering charges from MLB. The Mets signed Todd Zeile instead of bringing back John Olerud to save the few extra bucks it would've cost to coerce Olerud back to NY.
After the Winter Meetings and hesitance on the part of the Mariners and Mets, the Mets agreed in principle to a trade that would bring Ken Griffey Jr to New York on or around December 14, 1999. They just needed to know Junior's intentions about whether they should expect to rent or buy.
Then, Griffey blocked it. The trade talks died within 24 hours.
Why? The popular story goes that Griffey couldn't resist the urge to play for the Cincinnati Reds, the team he grew up watching. That he would go on to sign an extension at a hometown discount instead of taking as much as $20 million per season from the Mets reaffirmed that sentiment. It wasn't anywhere near his Orlando home, but it wasn't as crazy an explanation as choosing Cincy over the Mets for the local school system.
Some say it's because the Mets didn't move on Griffey fast enough, since Griffey forced his way to Cincinnati only after expressing frustration over Seattle's negotiating tactics. Others think Mets co-owner Fred Wilpon was really more interested in Alex Rodriguez than Griffey all along. A few think Griffey entertained the Mets solely to turn the screws on the Yankees brass for banning him from the clubhouse when his father played there.
Darryl Hamilton. Jay Payton. Timo Perez. Roger Cedeno. Mike Cameron. These are the best the Mets mustered up in the absence of Ken Griffey Jr. These are the players who bridged the gap between the first to get away after The Worst Team Money Could Buy and Carlos Beltran. These are the players the Mets took to the World Series in 2000, and chose to go to war with in the early '00s. How was Griffey not a better option for protecting Piazza in the lineup and the pitching staff with his sterling defense in center field?
Then again, you can't help but wonder whether Griffey would know the same scorn Beltran now endures from Mets fans these days. Griffey would play over 140 games for only 3 seasons after 1999, with 2 1/2 of those seasons serving as the beginning and end of his Reds tenure. When he was healthy, no one questioned Griffey's ability. They just questioned whether he could stay healthy. Sound familiar?
On an episode of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser posed his following hypothesis after one of Griffey's many season-ending injuries: "If the baseball gods do exist, they have indeed cursed Ken Griffey Jr." I can't help but wonder if his decision to leave the Mets at the altar created the karmic retribution he would endure for the rest of his career, or at least explain the collateral damage the Mets experienced from that '99 offseason. They missed out on Manny Ramirez, Barry Larkin, Ken Griffey Jr., Brad Radke, Bobby Higginson, and a bunch of other players we were told would lift this team to another level. Steve Phillips never really got there. We never got there.
Ken Griffey Jr. will never be considered the best to ever play the game because he didn't stay healthy enough to catch Hank Aaron. He saved baseball in Seattle, teased Cincy with his potential, and returned for a victory lap before hanging it up on Wednesday night. He never won a World Series, and would only return to the playoffs for a brief cameo with the Chicago White Sox in 2008. He's a lock for the Hall of Fame in 5 years, but today, Ken Griffey Jr. is the ripe age of 40 and just one year younger than the retirement age for his dad. The Kid is too old, and he should've retired at the end of last season. His time has come.
And we'll never know how that fateful decision in the winter of 1999 would've changed the way this story ends for the Sweetest Swing You'll Ever See.


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READINGTON TWP. — Work is underway on a steeple reconstruction project that could cost $150,000 at Readington Reformed Church, of which $105,375 will be paid by using a county Historic Preservation Grant.
The money is from the county's dedicated open space tax, a portion of which can also be used for historic preservation. The tax is part of the property taxes paid by those who own property in Hunterdon.
Freeholder Director Rob Walton said today that the "structure is every bit as deserving of historic funds as a secular structure" and he is "not troubled by this institution getting money for non-religious activities."
He said the tax dollars weren't awarded to "preach the Gospel," but were given to "maintain a historic structure."
He said today that the "First Amendment doesn't guarantee freedom from religion."
The church is in the Reading Town-Readington Village Historic District on Readington Road.
Ken Iselin, chairman of the church's Buildings and Grounds Committee, said this is the "oldest continuous congregation in Readington and one of the oldest in the United States."
The county Cultural and Heritage Commission and the county Open Space Advisory Committee endorsed the grant, which was formally approved, along with three others for sites in Hunterdon, by the Freeholders in July 2011.
The church was established in North Branch in 1719, according to Iselin, and its Dutch congregation moved to Readington village in 1738.
He said that one of its Colonial ministers was Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, "progenitor of one of New Jersey's most famous families."
Dr. Jacob Hardenbergh, who went on to become the first president of Queen's College — today's Rutgers University — served the congregation, said Iselin, "all through the Revolutionary War, when his inflammatory patriotic sermons caused the British to put a fine of 100 pounds on his head."
Iselin said that the steeple reconstruction is expected to take six-to-eight weeks and the work is being done by a local company, Tippett & Sons Roofing & Coppersmith in Frenchtown. The public, and local and county officials, are invited to a dedication on March 8 at 10 a.m.
Walton created controversy in the fall when he opposed using Planned Parenthood as a medical services provider for needy residents, feeling that payment by the county for medical needs frees up other money for the organization to use on abortions.
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McGehee School's Little Gate early childhood program in New Orleans will hold a ribbon cutting for its new butterfly garden Sept. 20 at 10:30 a.m. at the site on St. Charles Avenue. The garden was completed over the summer.
The Mary Alice Quinn '54 Butterfly Garden serves as a site for hands-on, inquiry- based learning for the school's youngest students as well as an inspirational and meditative space for older students.
The finished product took three years of consultation, planning and execution with landscape architect Alan Mumford. Entomologist Zachary Lemann of the Audubon Institute also consulted on the project and spent an afternoon training faculty on the life cycle of the butterfly as well as the flora, fauna and other insects that cohabit the space.
Thanks to Louise S. McGehee School alumna Mary Alice Quinn '54, this one-time vision is now a reality. Quinn has a great affection and strong love for young children as well as a fascination with butterflies, school officials said. As a McGehee student in the 1950's, Quinn said she fell in love with New Orleans and her school. When her parents moved away, she insisted on boarding at McGehee, saying those times represented the happiest ever in her education.
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Yoko's Plea to Parole Board
Mark David Chapman, 45, who shot and killed John Lennon 20 years ago, was denied parole yesterday after a 50-minute hearing at New York's Attica state prison. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, made a personal plea in writing to the New York State Parole Board, requesting that her husband's assassin be kept behind bars. She said that she and Lennon's children would live in fear if he were set free and that the killer might also be in danger if released. "Myself and John's two sons would not feel safe for the rest of our lives," she wrote. A Parole Board spokeswoman told The New York Times that none of Chapman's or Lennon's relatives were allowed to attend the hearing -- which was Chapman's first bid for parole -- though Ono was permitted to state her position. Ono was in Japan yesterday for the opening of a John Lennon Museum, but her spokesman told The Times after Chapman's hearing, "She respects the board's decision."


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4 kids, 2 adults dead in Pa. fire on Mother's Day
POTTSVILLE -- Fire tore through a family's eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother's Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend's house.
The blaze broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at the single-family home in Pottsville. Firefighters later found all of the bodies on the third floor of the building, which sits on a steep hillside not far from the D.G. Yuengling & Son brewery in Pennsylvania's coal country, about 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The fire was declared under control shortly before 1 a.m. State police fire marshals were sifting through the debris later Monday morning and authorities were searching for the cause of the blaze, which investigators say began in the kitchen.
Fire Chief Todd March said it was the deadliest blaze in Pottsville, a city of about 14,000, in his 37-year career.
"It's hard to take, and there was nothing we could do," he said.
The Schuylkill County Coroner's office identified the victims as the father, Eric Brown, 30; and his children, Elijah Brown, 2; Emily Brown, 3; Jeremiah Brown, 7; and Joy Brown, 8. Another adult, Kristina Thomas, 26, also died in the fire.
Thomas is the sister of 28-year-old Kelly Brown, the mother and wife who was across the street.
Kelly Brown had been doing laundry at a neighbor's house nearby at the time of the blaze because her washing machine was broken, according to the neighbor, Jennifer Purcell. Purcell said they had smelled smoke, and Purcell went outside and saw the flames, telling Brown, "Oh my God, your house is on fire!"
They both ran up the street to the house, but weren't able to get inside, Purcell said.
Kelly Brown started screaming to emergency personnel keeping her back, "What do you mean I can't go in? My kids are in there, my husband is in there, my sister is in there. I've got to get them," according to Purcell. Brown got weak after that and had to be walked down the street because she couldn't stand, Purcell said.
Kelly Brown is now staying at her husband's relatives' house elsewhere in Pottsville, Purcell said, adding that they later spoke on the phone and her friend was devastated.
"She's a wreck," Purcell said. "Not only did she lose, as she said, her best friend, her husband, her kids, but it also happened on Mother's Day."


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Hamon drives in four runs, Harding tops Tornadoes
It was a big day for Marion Harding's Roger Hamon.
The Presidents' No. 5 hitter drove in four runs Tuesday, as Marion Harding handed Columbian a season-opening 9-4 loss.
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Columbian's Kyler Cook flys under the radar of Marion Harding second baseman Tieran Mason as he steals the base during Tuesday's game in Tiffin.
Columbian shortstop Christian?Magill tracks down a ground ball during Tuesday's game against?Marion Harding.
Wes Gherman added to the fireworks, driving in a pair of runs and tripling to help Harding hold off a late Tornadoes' rally.
Russ Yeast and Nathaniel Gilmer each drove in a run for the Tornadoes in the loss.
Harding's Ty Endsley picked up the win. He pitched 5 2/3 innings and allowed four runs on just one hit. Only two of the runs were earned. He struck out 11 and walked six. Hamon finished the game with an inning and a third of scoreless relief.
Jack Burkes started on the mound for Columbian, but lasted just two innings, giving up five runs on four hits.
None of the runs were earned.
Jeffrey Crawford threw 1 2/3 scoreless innings for TC.
Oak Harbor holds down the Fort
OAK HARBOR - Oak Harbor sent Old Fort home early Tuesday evening in a dominating 15-2 victory after five innings. The Rockets lived up to their name, blasting off to a 9-1 lead after just two innings. The Stockaders got one back in the third, but the Rockets plated six more in the fourth inning to seal the game.
Brad Heilman and Marc Harris each had singles, while Harris and Brandon Tittle each collected an RBI for the Stockaders. Heilman and Tittle accounted for Old Fort's two runs.
Oak Harbor's Andy Rathburn picked up a double, while Rathburn, Michael Osbourne, Logan Winke, Ben Genzman, Garrett Harvey and David Tooman all recorded singles.
New Riegel gets Rammed
UPPER SANDUSKY - Upper Sandusky picked up four runs in the first inning on its way to a 12-2 home-opener win against New Riegel. Holding a 5-2 lead, the Rams blew the game wide open finding six runs in the fifth inning. Upper Sandusky's Cody Gabriel had two singles and a double, Alex Kenner had one single and a double, Carson Mittermaier had two singles, while Ross Dible, Sam Plott, Cameron Binau and Andre Myers all singled.
Aaron Reinhart had two singles, and Jake Dryfuse picked up two singles and a double while Austin Mathias singled for New Riegel.
Mittermaier picked up the win allowing two runs while striking out four batters over five innings. Mathias took the loss allowing five runs while striking out four batters in four innings.
Caudill, offensive outburst carry SE
ATTICA - In Monday's season opener, Seneca East showed it had pitching.
Tuesday against Crestline, the Tigers showed they were capable of a little offense, too.
Using a steady offensive assault, Seneca East scored two runs in the third, then scored three runs each in the final four innings to devour the Bulldogs, 14-2.
The Tigers, who got a no-hitter from Mason McWilliams in a 1-0 win over Buckeye Central Monday, went off for 16 hits.
Braden Nagel doubled, scored three times and drove in three runs for the Tigers. Joe Roth had a four-hit day, driving in two runs, while Carson Pipher also drove in a pair. Nate Snavely added three hits and two runs scored.
Ethan Caudill doubled, scored three times and drove in a run, but his biggest contribution came on the mound, where he struck out 14 and allowed one run on just four hits.
The Tigers improved to 2-0, while the game was Crestline's season opener.


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Dr Shamsuddin graduated Dhaka Medical College, University of Dhaka in 1972. Following Internship in Massachusetts and Residency training in pathology in Maryland, he was certified by the American Board of Pathology in 1977. In 1980, he received Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland for his work on colon carcinogenesis. He joined the faculty of the University of Maryland as an Instructor in 1977, and rose through the ranks of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor to become a full Professor in 1988. For his excellence in teaching he received the Best Teacher award from the medical students many times, including the coveted "Golden Apple Award" by the American Medical Students' Association in 1999.
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Dr. Shamsuddin has been studying the process of cancer formation and the prevention of cancer since 1975. His research in the steps of colon cancer formation resulted in the development of a very simple and accurate screening test for colon cancer. This rather inexpensive test detects cancers at a very early stage, and even before they have formed; in other words, it can also detect precancerous polyps and other precancerous lesions and conditions. The test has been in use in China since the early 1990's often referred to as "Shams' Test." He further discovered that the colon cancer marker Gal-GalNAc is a common cancer marker expressed through a similar "field-effect" phenomenon; thus forming the basis for a general cancer screening test such as for cancer of the lungs and breast, and possibly prostate and uterine cervix. His book on the subject "Diagnostic Assays for Colon Cancer" by CRC Press (1991) was written for health-care professionals.
In mid 1985, Dr. Shamsuddin started his pioneering experiments on the anti-cancer property of inositol and inositol hexaphosphate (IP-6) - natural constituents of cereals and legumes such as rice, corn, beans etc. For the next two decades, he has reconfirmed and expanded his groundbreaking studies to show the efficacy of IP-6 and inositol against different cancers in various experimental models. Realizing the enormous potential for health benefits of IP-6 and inositol for humans and the general lack of this knowledge, he became most instrumental in organizing the First International Symposium of Disease Prevention by IP-6 and Other Rice Components in Kyoto, Japan (June 8-9, 1998). Dr. Shamsuddin's book on this "IP6: Nature's Revolutionary Cancer Fighter" by Kensington Publishing Corporation, New York, 1998, is written for the general public. Aside from these Dr. Shamsuddin has contributed numerous book-chapters and published over 200 scientific papers.
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On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle's sentence to natural life.
The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. A future. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Dr. Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book.
Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle's life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle's unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption.
As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., Survived by One sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. However, Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world.
Dr. Robert Hanlon is a clinical neuropsychologist with a specialization in the psychological assessment of violent criminal offenders. An associate professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, he has evaluated hundreds of murder defendants and death row inmates.
Thomas V. Odle is an inmate at the Dixon Correctional Center, Illinois Department of Corrections, serving a life sentence for murder.
"Dr. Hanlon has done a masterful job presenting the case of Tom Odle, a male adolescent who was sentenced to death after killing his parents and three younger siblings. This fascinating work covers Tom's childhood history, the legal proceedings, and perspectives of the mental health professionals who examined the youth after the killings. It also beautifully weaves in changes in the death penalty in Illinois that resulted in Odle's sentence being commuted to life. Most important, this book presents Odle's reflections two decades after the crime. The breadth of this work and its careful presentation virtually ensure that it will become a classic in the field of familicide."—Kathleen M. Heide, professor of criminology, University of South Florida, and author of Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents
"Survived by One is a profound experience. While demonstrating the moral courage of Governor George Ryan and the wisdom of Governor Pat Quinn, this book makes two critical points Americans need to learn: no matter how battered, reviled, or deeply buried, the divine spark of the human spirit can never be completely extinguished and there is always a reason for human behavior."—Mike Farrell, president of Death Penalty Focus, author of Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist and Of Mule and Man


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Alternative Marketing for Alternative Investments
Yan Lu
University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration
Debanjan Mitra
University of Florida
David K. Musto
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Sugata Ray
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration
January 2015
Until recently, hedge funds could advertise only indirectly, because direct solicitation was banned. We analyze the causes and effects of indirect advertising by relating the ads for hedge funds' parent institutions and sibling mutual funds back to the hedge funds' circumstances, and forward to their flows and performance. We find that abnormally low net inflows predicts the ads, which in turn leads to increased future net inflows, indicating that ads boost sagging flows. We also find that the incidence of large losses increases after ads. Thus, we conclude that indirect advertising is effective but poses some risk to consumers.
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These death quotes and words of sympathy can offer some comfort and compassion to people who are grieving. If you know of someone who has lost a loved one, take a look through and find the words that you will be intuitively drawn to, then add them to a bereavement card. Or if it is you who is grieving, read through these words and know that your love for and from that special person will never die.
The description of dying I prefer is...
To make a Peaceful Transition into the Flow of Eternal Life.
The quote on this page are all short - there are also
DEATH SAYINGS from Unknown Sources
for longer Verse & Readings for Funerals
SYMPATHY VERSE/READINGS from known people
SYMPATHY VERSE/READINGS from unknown sources
Comforting death quotes are listed alphabetically on authors surname
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
If you follow Abraham-Hicks or are interested in viewing death from a different perspective take a look at Abraham Hicks quotes about death and grief.
A Course In Miracles
Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams gone. Let truth correct them all.
No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish and nothing is omitted that you choose.
The Holy Spirit guides you into life eternal, but you must relinquish your investment in death, or you will not see life, though it is all around you.
There is no death because what God created shares His Life.
There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist.
Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the Light are merely covering their eyes. The Light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.
Louisa May Alcott 1832 - 1888
I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.
Sri Aurobindo 1872 - 1950
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved.
St Teresa of Avila 1515 - 1582
The hour I have long wished for is now come.
(her final words)
Richard Bach 1936
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
It is as natural to die - as to be born.
James Matthew Barrie 1860 - 1937
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827
I shall hear in heaven.
(his final words)
Irving Berlin 1888 - 1989
The song is ended...
but the melody lingers on.
Bhagavad Gita
As a man leaves an old garment and puts on one that is new, the Spirit leaves his mortal body and wanders on to one that is new.
For beyond time he dwells in these bodies, though these bodies have an end in their time; but he remains immeasurable immortal.
He is never born, and he never dies.
He is in Eternity: he is evermore.
Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come,
he does not die when the body dies.
Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again.
They are seen between two unseens, why in this truth find sorrow?
Invisible is he to mortal eyes, beyond thought and beyond change.
Know that he is and cease to sorrow.
The Spirit is beyond destruction.
No one can bring to an end the Spirit which is everlasting.
Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.
Lord, when doubts fill my mind, when my heart is in turmoil, quiet me and give me renewed hope.
Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a ring upon your arm.
For love is as strong as death, It's flashes are flashes of fire.
A flame of the Eternal.
The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
William Blake 1770 - 1850
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.
(his final words)
Erma Bombeck 1927 - 1996
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Robert Brault
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose...
the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Lorna Byrne 1953
The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister, can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer. It can help bring shared memories to light, and be a reminder of love that was shared in the past.
Lord Byron 1788 - 1824
The dew of compassion is... a tear.
Death, so called is a thing which makes men weep.
And yet, a third of life is passed in sleep.
Anna Carey
I loved my mother too, I said. I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.
Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.
Kristine Carlson
Love is truly eternal and lasts forever.
It is the core of our connection and expression of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC - 43BC
Friends, though absent, are still present.
Anna Cummins
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead.
Do not write them on their tombstones.
Speak them rather now instead.
Matt Damon 1970
If I had a bucket list...
I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886
Unable are the loved to die...
For love is immortality.
Wayne Dyer 1940 - 2015
Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.
Don't die with your music still in you.
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.
I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last I wear won't need any pockets.
Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
Thomas Edison 1847 - 1931
It is very beautiful over there.
(his final words)
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short. But when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say, we have had our day.
Euripides 480BC - 406BC
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 - 1944
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay more present than the living man.
Jean de la Fontaine 1621 - 1695
Death never takes the wise man by surprise,
he is always ready to go.
Charles Frohman 1860 - 1915
Why fear death?
It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
John Gay 1685 - 1732
We only part to meet again.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 - 1931
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Thich Nhat Hanh 1926
Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.
Jimi Hendrix 1942 - 1970
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Cardinal Basil Hume 1923 - 1999
Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.
Carl Jung 1875 - 1961
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
Jack Kornfield 1945
At the end of life, our questions are very simple...
Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Philip Larkin 1922 - 1985
What will survive of us is... Love.
D.H. Lawrence 1885 - 1930
The dead don't die.
They look on and help.
John Lennon 1940 - 1980
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car and into another.
C.S. Lewis 1898 - 1963
There are far, far better things ahead, than any we leave behind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Rosamund Lupton
Grief is...
Love turned into an eternal missing.
Time stops making any sense, when someone you love has died.
Gobind Singh Mansukhani
Death is nothing but a gateway to Divinity and Eternity.
Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.
John McCreery 1835 - 1906
There is no death, the stars go down
To rise upon some other shore
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forever more
St Thomas More 1478 - 1535
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Pray for me, as I will for thee, that we may merrily meet in heaven.
Movie - What Dreams May Come
A whole human life is just a heartbeat here in heaven. Then we'll all be together forever.
Max Muller 1823 - 1900
I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.
Native American
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Mary Oliver 1935
Maybe death isn't darkness after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us.
When it's over, I want to say...
"All my life I was a bride married to Amazement."
Frederic Ozanam 1813 - 1853
Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy.
With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.
George S. Patton 1885 - 1945
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the man who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Norman Vincent Peale 1898 - 1993
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death - this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are eternal now.
Pericles 495BC - 429BC
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Raoul Plus 1882 - 1958
Death is only a level crossing from one life to another, from life in its beginnings to life in full achievements. From this incomplete life to that transformed one.
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 - 1849
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins.
Osho Rajneesh 1931 - 1990
Death is the greatest illusion of all.
Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you.
And it is not in some other time, after death...
It is in you right now.
Jean Paul Richter 1763 - 1825
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926 - 2004
It is when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 - 1273
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes, because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
What strikes the oyster does not damage the pearl.
Betty Shine 1929 - 2002
There is no such thing as death.
We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894
If this is death, it is easier than life.
(his final words)
Tom Stoppard 1937
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941
Death is not extinguishing the light,
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Mother Teresa 1910 - 1997
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?" Rather He will ask, "How much love did you put into what you did?"
Lao Tzu 600
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Toots Venables
Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
As well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well-spent brings happy death.
William Ross Wallace 1819 - 1881
Every man dies... not every man really lives.
J. Neville Ward
Death does not kill love; in some ways it deepens it.
Alan Watts 1915 - 1973
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Anthony Douglas Williams
There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.
Robin Williams 1951 - 2014
May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, sweet prince.
(talking about Christopher Reeve)
Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917 - 2008
The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow. No one is exempt. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character and increase our compassion for others.
William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850
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Frank Moore executed Wednesday for San Antonio double killing 15 years ago
Frank Moore insisted until the very end that he fatally shot two men 15 years ago in self-defense.
"Self-defense is not capital murder," the 47-year-old said from the death chamber gurney, the Associated Press reported.
At 6:21 p.m. Wednesday, Moore became the second prisoner executed this year in Texas.
Moore was convicted of fatally shooting Samuel Boyd, 23, and Patrick Clark, 15, outside a bar following an altercation. He claimed the men tried to run him down in their car.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals that sought a reprieve about an hour before the scheduled execution, the AP reported.
The third execution of the year is scheduled for today and three more are schedule for next week.
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Lawrenceville School's tennis lineup could stand up against the best, and Tuesday's 5-0 romp over Princeton Day School was another indication of just how good they are. The Big Red plays a strong schedule and lost two matches to out-of-state competitors.
Princeton Day, which came in third at the recent Mercer County Tournament, suffered its first dual-match loss of the season but put up a good fight.
"It's a gift," said Lawrenceville coach Dave Cantlay, about having freshman Michael Zhao, sophomore David Zhang, and senior Dave Laub in singles, all of whom won yesterday. "One of the best I've had."
Laub played first singles last season for Lawrenceville and, with the addition of the two newcomers, was moved to third. Tuesday, he fought an intense battle with Scott Altmeyer before claiming a 7-6, 7-5 victory. In the first set tiebreak, Laub saved a couple set points before winning it by two. In the second set, Altmeyer went ahead 4-1 and Laub staged a comeback to squeak out that set 7-5.
"I've known Scott for a while. I used to go to PDS, so it was a bittersweet match," Laub said. "I started out slow, but I was serving well. I love playing tiebreakers. I usually step up the intensity."
Both players were consistent, and Laub stepped it up even more when he was down in the second set because he didn't want to play the required full third set.
"He was playing great. He got to shots that usually would be winners," Laub said. "I haven't seen him play this well in a while. I was surprised to see how good he's gotten."
Going from first to third singles was a tough transition for the Big Red player.
"I'm used to a faster pace. Third singles hasn't been as easy as I expected. They try and wear you down."
At first singles, Michael Zhao has settled in and continues to wear his opponents down with superb skills and shotmaking. The freshman has a top 50 national ranking and is well known in high school tennis circles, particularly after last year's situation when he played high school tennis, ironically for PDS, as an eighth grader. It was challenged and he had to step aside. Zhao understood the decision, though, and has moved on.
Zhao started playing seriously at 8 and, when he was 11, had a breakthrough national tournament that motivated him to play better and work harder. The hard work is paying dividends for Zhao, who considers his forehand and his ability to stay calm as his strengths. Yesterday, he gave up just three games in a victory over Anupreeth Coramutla, but the Panther freshman made Zhao work for the win.
"We're friends; I know him pretty well. Usually, I try to focus on my own game, and if that doesn't work, I'll adjust to their game," said Zhao. "I think he definitely started playing better in the second set. He was more consistent and used his backhand up the line very well."
In another close court, DJ Modzelewski and Josiah Meekins of PDS won the first set at first doubles, but then fell in the next two sets to Chris Hui and Lane Whitman. Dennis Duan and Larry Cummings were the Big Red victors at second doubles.
"It was a tough match. They're a wonderful team," Cantlay said. "We only lost one set but it could have been different. I'm happy. It's good for my kids to come up against a team this good."
Lawrenceville (6-2) 5, Princeton Day (7-1) 0
Singles: Michael Zhao d. Anupreeth Coramutla, 6-0, 6-3; David Zhang d. Neeraj Devullapalli, 6-3, 6-0; Dave Laub d. Scott Altmeyer, 7-6, 7-5.
Doubles: Chris Hui/Lane Whitman d. DJ Modzelewski/Josiah Meekins, 5-7, 6-0, 6-1; Larry Cummings/Dennis Duan d Hari Rajogopolan/Andy Erickson, 6-1, 6-3.
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Witnesses in the Ray Nagin corruption trial on Monday described a caper of ambitious redevelopment plans at some of the city's most vexingly dormant landmarks and scrambles to move payoff money, ship free granite and waive a movie theater's fees to the city, all of it playing into the former New Orleans mayor's allegedly too-close dealings with outside vendors.
Prosecutors displayed an email from city contractor-turned-convict Frank Fradella, who continued testimony he started last week, talking about a plan to turn the abandoned Six Flags amusement park in eastern New Orleans into a NASCAR racetrack.
"There are so many ways to make money on this it's silly," Fradella wrote to Michael McGrath, an investor in Fradella's Home Solutions of America company who became chairman of the board and followed Fradella on the witness stand Monday. "Just the flip on the land could yield $3 million to $5 million. The construction budget alone is $250 million."
McGrath, escorted to the stand in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit because he is serving time in Florida for unrelated criminal charges, said Home Solutions, headed by Fradella, was falling apart and growing desperate for revenue. Its earnings reports appeared to be falsified. A major line of credit was in default. It was running out of cash. Shareholders were filing lawsuits, McGrath said.
He was initially attracted as an investor - putting in about $5 million - because of an upbeat article he read on the company's potential in rebuilding work after Hurricane Katrina. He jumped in with Fradella in trying to save the firm.
They placed their hopes on New Orleans and Nagin, he said.
In addition to the high-dollar NASCAR plan, the company joined another potentially lucrative - maybe $600 million - project to remake the vacant Market Street power plant, with the prominent smokestacks near the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, into a mixed development including a big box retail store. McGrath said it might have given Home Solutions salvation in the form of an income stream for five years.
Asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Coman how Fradella could help the efforts, McGrath said, "The only value he was bringing to these projects was Ray Nagin."
"Ray Nagin was always viewed as Frank's guy," he said. He said Nagin even attended out-of-state meetings to endorse the projects.
Fradella, McGrath said, "basically explained to me that politics is a way of doing business in New Orleans."
The way the prosecution outlines it, Nagin wanted payment for his support of the projects.
And Fradella and McGrath provided that in the form of a $50,000 check and free granite shipments to the Nagin family's Stone Age LLC countertop company. But both payoffs experienced complications.
McGrath had to go through contortions to deliver the check. Hoping to create some separation in the exchange, he used his daughter's trust account, but it didn't have any money in it, so he wrote a $51,000 check from his joint account with his wife to the trust, which was controlled by his sister-in-law. He said he had to mislead his sister-in-law to approve a check to Stone Age, calling it an investment when it truly was a bribe.
"How do you ask someone to bribe someone, you know, that's not related to the transaction?" McGrath asked. "It was hard to find someone to write that check."
The conspirators created bogus paperwork describing an ownership stake in Stone Age, he said. Later, McGrath said, Nagin patted him on the back and thanked him for the check.
McGrath, in turn, paid himself back through some creative money shifting. He bought $1 million in Home Solutions stock, but only paid $950,000. The remaining $50,000 was described in company documentation as payment for an "advisory fee."
Then there was the fiasco with the granite. Larry Laseter, former vice president of Home Depot who later worked for Home Solutions, processed the granite order at the behest of his boss Fradella. When a shipment reached Stone Age, however, Nagin son Jeremy Nagin responded with an angry email that all but 27 of 78 slabs were damaged beyond use. (The Nagin sons are not charged in the case and have not been named as witnesses.)
Fradella wrote in a message, "What they shipped to stone age is sinful. More than half of it is damaged and it really made me look like I have no idea what the operations are doing."
Still, Laseter testified, the usable portion was worth about $20,000. The Nagins never sent any back, he said.
And Home Solutions sent another - intact - shipment. The prosecution suggests all the free granite adds up to at least $50,000 in value. Laseter said he tried to press Fradella on how much to charge Stone Age but never got a response and ended up writing an invoice showing a zero charge.
Beyond $50,000 and granite, which the feds say was in exchange for Nagin touting the development projects, the prosecution sought to show that Nagin got yet another perk.
A developer involved with the power plant project, Michael Samuel, led Green Energy Management Services, Inc., which Nagin supported in a project to install energy efficient street lights, helping arrange for the company to avoid a bidding process for the work, Fradella said on the stand.
When the New Orleans Saints were playing in the Super Bowl in Miami in 2010, Fradella said Nagin traveled there and met Samuel so he could arrange a deal to work as a consultant for that company after leaving office later in the year.
"It would be using his position that he had as mayor because he was well known throughout the country, in fact internationally," to help the firm land more municipal business, Fradella said.
As prosecutors detailed in bank statements, Nagin went on to make $12,500 a month in the consulting job, totaling $112,500 over nine months. Fradella said he paid Nagin's first check from one of his corporate entities when the former mayor told him he needed money to support himself or he would have to move on to other jobs. Over the time of the consultancy, however, Nagin never attracted any business to the lighting company, he said.
Through all this, Nagin's defense attorney Robert Jenkins sought to re-characterize the links implied by the prosecution between the transactions and the motivations behind them.
Jenkins asked Fradella if Nagin talking up the Six Flags and power plant plans was part of the mayor's efforts to encourage rebuilding after Katrina.
"His purpose is to bring the city back quickly, correct, to your knowledge?" Jenkins asked. Fradella agreed Nagin had that purpose.
Jenkins pressed the point that the two projects never came to fruition, anyway.
He attacked the idea that the $50,000 check was a bribe.
"You never had any contact with the mayor and he never had any contact with you regarding this alleged $50,000 check, correct?" Jenkins asked McGrath.
Jenkins also went after the credibility of witnesses with their own tangle of criminal backgrounds and incentives to cooperate with the government to reduce their sentences.
McGrath said he separately committed $140 million on mortgage fraud. Fradella already has pleaded guilty in this City Hall corruption case, and he has separately pleaded guilty to insider trading in Dallas.
In one exchange, Fradella told Jenkins, "I dealt with the mayor myself."
Jenkins said, "Eventually you dealt with the government as well. And I understand you were trying to please them."
Fradella responded, "I'm not here to please the government. I'm here to tell the truth."
The prosecution punched back with staccato lines of closing questions.
Coman: "Did you deliver for Ray Nagin?"
McGrath: "Yes."
Coman: "Did he deliver to you?"
McGrath: "Yes."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Pickens to Fradella: "Who signed off on your contracts?"
Fradella: "The mayor."
Pickens: "Who helped keep your company afloat?"
Fradella: "The mayor."
Pickens: "Who got the consulting contract?"
Fradella: "The mayor."
Pickens: "Who got the free granite?"
Fradella: "The mayor."
Pickens: "Who got the free trip to Chicago?"
Fradella: "The mayor."
Pickens: "Who got the $50,000 payoff?"
Fradella: "The mayor."
Pickens: "No more questions."
The day wrapped up with still another conflict by Nagin involving The Grand of the East movie theater in eastern New Orleans. The city helped build it using a grant from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Former Deputy City Attorney Paul Ramoni described for prosecutors how Katrina damaged the property and the owners, led by George Solomon, needed the city to sign off on delinquent loans and liens for $234,000 in back property taxes and penalties. To finish covering the amounts, Solomon asked the city to waive about $55,000 that the theater owed.
"The mayor does technically have the ability to waive penalties, but it's very, very rare," Ramoni said. "I'd never seen it done."
Other officials, such as former economic development director Don Hutchinson, who also testified Monday that Nagin ultimately told him to waive the theater's penalties, appeared dubious of the waiver in emails.
Solomon ultimately got his waiver. As shown in emails and testimony from a financial firm employee with access to a private jet, he also underwrote a $23,500 trip for the mayor to New York. And around the same time, the two discussed campaign contributions in text messages presented by prosecutors.
In one line Solomon said, "Thanks. I am pulling and voting for you."
The trial continues on Tuesday.


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Javier Hernandez is yet to score with Manchester United as the transfer rumours continue to grow.
The last time Hernandez found the back of the net was in October, when the Red Devils faced Norwich in a Capital One Cup match, which marks his longest scoring drought since he joined the team in 2010.
The Mexico international has been linked to Roma, Inter Milan, Arsenal and Tottenham over the past month.
Let's take a look at the hottest buzz around him.
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Forty Career Center seniors turned their friends and family into models with looks that ranged from prom queens to country stars to compete against students from Battle Creek Salon Spa Academy.
The theme of the night was "To Each Their Own," with an anything goes attitude that gave the students an opportunity express themselves without limit.
Nikki Black, a senior at Western Options High School, took full advantage of the creative freedom and spent long hours creating a dress out of hair extensions for her model Kaylynn Gardella's vampire costume.
"It's my life," said Black of her passion for cosmetology. "It's my whole world."
Other students from the Career Center got a chance to participate in the event as well. Agriscience students created flower arrangements, JROTC students escorted models, print technology students created invitations and programs and the digital media class photographed the event.
Juniors in the cosmetology program competed in their own competition with elaborate fantasy hairstyles that were displayed on mannequins.
The Jackson Area Career Center took home the top three spots in the senior competition with the da Vinci Institute's Brooklin Wade in second and Northwest's Brooke Loomis in third.
Western High School's Sam Bregg took home the gold medal in the senior competition with her "Shine Bright Like A Diamond" look that her model Cassidy Kenyon wore.
"I feel amazing," said Bregg after the results were announced. "I don't even believe it's true."


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CORVALLIS -- A Muslim leader who worked to improve understanding of his religion in the Corvallis area has been killed in a traffic accident.
Awad Mohamed Elgarguri was heading home early Friday morning after a prayer session at a Corvallis mosque when a pickup truck crossed the center line and struck his car.
Oregon State Police say the 49-year-old Elgaguri died at the scene of the crash on Highway 99W. His 16-year-old son was recovering at a hospital and the pickup driver suffered nonlife-threatening injuries.
A longtime friend said Elgaguri was the imam for the mosque for the past 15 years and had worked to build bridges between people of different faiths.