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Separation Lawyers and Law Firms in Chicago, IL
Separation Lawyers
The Taradash Group, P.C.
Chicago, IL Family Law and Divorce Attorney(312) 775-1020
The Taradash Group P.C. in Chicago helps those who are dealing with family disputes. The firm can handle any type of family law issue, including divorce, child custody, paternal rights, legal separations, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and orders of protection. The firm has a...
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Women's Divorce & Family Law Group by Haid & Teich
Chicago Family Law Firm(312) 445-8830
Women's Divorce and Family Law Group by Haid and Teich, LLP in Chicago, Illinois specializes in helping women resolve family disputes. As the first law firm in the Chicago area to focus on the legal rights of women and mothers, the firm handles matters involving divorce, family law,...
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Lisa A. Copland, PC
Divorce & Criminal Attorneys in Chicago, Illinois(312) 882-4429
Lisa A. Copland, PC is located in Chicago, Illinois. The law firm proudly serves Cook County and its surrounding areas. For over 30 years, Attorney Copland has provided excellent legal representation for a variety of cases. She has experience in several practice areas including criminal...
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Stephen A. Glickman, PC
Chicago, Illinois Employment Attorney(312) 960-9550
The Law Office of Stephen A. Glickman, P.C. is an Employment Law Firm located in downtown Chicago, Illinois that represents employers, executives and other highly compensated employees in all areas of Employment Law.
The firm offers effective and highly responsive legal services,...
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Anderson & Associates, PC
Illinois Divorce and Family Attorneys(312) 345-9999
Anderson & Associates, PC is located in Schaumburg, Illinois. The firm specializes in family law including divorce, child custody, visitation, and support. The attorneys can also handle other related matters like parentage and paternity issues, grandparents' rights, guardianship,...
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Weiss, Kunz & Oliver, LLC
Divorce & Family Lawyers in Chicago, Illinois(312) 605-4041
Weiss, Kunz & Oliver, LLC in Chicago, IL, helps clients who are having trouble with family disputes. The firm is dedicated to their clients and always responsive. The firm can handle any type of family law issues clients might have, including high-net worth divorces.
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Outten & Golden LLP
Employment Law Firm in Chicago, IL(312) 809-7010
Outten & Golden LLP is located in New York, New York. The law firm specializes in employment law including employment, severance, and stock option agreements along with compensation and benefits issues like bonuses and commissions. The attorneys will gladly advise you of your...
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Law Offices of George M. Sanders, PC
Chicago, Illinois Divorce Attorneys(312) 462-0324 or (866) 720-0051
The Law Offices of George M. Sanders, P.C., in Chicago, Illinois, focuses on providing legal advice and representation for people with divorce and family law needs. Attorney Sanders has more than 18 years of legal experience that he is ready to put to work for you. From complex property...
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Mark Battaglia, PC
Criminal Defense and Family Law Attorney in Hickory Hills, Illinois(708) 330-4074
Mark Battaglia P.C. in Hickory Hills, IL, concentrates on family law and criminal defense. The firm takes cases relating to felonies, misdemeanors, traffic violations and immigration. The firm also can represent clients with any type of family law matter they need resolved.
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Bellas & Wachowski
Illinois Business & Commercial Litigation Attorneys(847) 823-9039 or (800) 825-9260
Bellas & Wachowski is located in Park Ridge, Illinois. The law firm specializes in business law, commercial litigation, and real estate matters. The trusted advisors have over 40 years of legal experience. They have devoted their careers to helping clients solve legal problems...
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Kathryn L. Harry & Associates, PC
Illinois Divorce Attorneys(630) 472-9700
Kathryn L. Harry & Associates, PC is an Oak Brook, Illinois divorce and child custody law firm that assists clients throughout the state. The firm's dedicated team guides clients patiently through every step of the legal process, listens to their concerns, and examines every...
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Berger Schatz
Illinois Divorce and Family Attorneys(312) 782-3456
Berger Schatz is one of the largest and most highly regarded firms in the nation dedicated solely to the practice of matrimonial and family law. Our clients come to us from virtually every industry and profession, because they know we have the legal acumen, resources, and sensitivity...
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Boyle & Feinberg, PC
Chicago, Illinois Divorce Lawyers(312) 376-8860
Boyle & Feinberg, P.C. is a Chicago-based legal firm representing clients in divorce and family law cases. From our offices in the Chicago Loop and Arlington Heights, we provide legal guidance to families and individuals facing the issues of divorce, child support and custody,...
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Downs Law Offices, PC
Chicago, Illinois Family Attorneys(312) 620-1960
Downs Law Offices PC is based in Chicago, Illinois and specializes in divorce and family law. Our firm has extensive experience in all areas of family law, whether you need help with the custody of a child, have been the victim of domestic abuse, are contemplating divorce or need...
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Jenner & Block
Business, Corporate and Litigation Law Firm(312) 222-9350
Jenner & Block is an experienced law firm founded in 1914. We consistently deliver outstanding results in corporate transactions and secures major litigation victories for clients from the trial level through the United States Supreme Court. Our approximately 470 attorneys located...
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Kalita Law Group, P.C.
Immigration & Family Lawyer in Chicago, Illinois(312) 829-2465
Kalita Law Group, P.C., a Chicago family immigration law firm, represents clients in naturalization, criminal court proceedings, and divorce cases.
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Lake Toback Attorneys
Chicago Divorce and Family Attorneys(312) 288-8985 or (800) 896-9860
Lake Toback is a Chicago, IL based law firm offering family law related legal services and representation to clients throughout Illinois, as well as nationally. The firm is well-recognized as being one of the top family law firms in the state, and its attorneys have had the privilege...
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Law Offices of Elliot Heidelberger
Family Law Firm in Illinois(312) 443-8003
At the Law Offices of Elliot Heidelberger, the attorneys have become one of the leading family law and divorce law firms in Chicago and its northwest suburbs. Our lawyers have more than 50 years of experience helping people deal with the complex emotional, legal, and financial issues...
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Law Offices of Todd A. Heller and Associates
Illinois Personal Injury Attorneys(847) 886-4769
At the law firm of Todd A. Heller & Associates, we have more than 32 years' experience handling a wide range of personal injury cases. Our attorneys possess the highest academic credentials, maintain strong community ties, and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.
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Levin & Brend, PC
Chicago, Illinois Divorce & Family Attorneys(312) 726-4440
Levin and Brend, P.C. is a trusted, versatile law firm located in Chicago, Illinois. Our attorneys practice in the following areas: family law; forensic accounting; business valuation; business transactions; tax law and commodities. Our firm is one of the select few matrimonial law...
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M. Scott Gordon & Associates
Divorce & Family Lawyers in Chicago, Illinois(312) 360-0250 or (847) 329-0101
M. Scott Gordon & Associates is a family law firm based in Skokie, Illinois providing legal services and representation to clients throughout the surrounding areas as well as in the greater Chicagoland area through their office in Chicago. Founding attorney M. Scott Gordon has...
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Newland & Newland, LLP
Chicago, Illinois Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation, and Bankruptcy Lawyers(847) 797-8000
Newland and Newland LLP is a law practice dedicated to personal injury, bankruptcy, workers' compensation, estate planning, real estate and immigration cases in Illinois. The attorneys rely on their more than 20 years of experience to help clients resolve their issues and prevent...
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Rozman Legal Group PC
Chicago, Illinois Business, Immigration & Family Law Firm(773) 529-0349 or (800) 473-5709
Rozman Legal Group PC has been providing clients with unparalleled legal representation for each of their business, family & immigration law related matters. Our New York City & Chicago lawyers are our clients' unyielding advocates. We never settle for mediocre outcomes....
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The Law Office of Jeffrey R. Esser
Chicago Divorce and Family Attorney(312) 564-5743
The Law Office of Jeffrey Esser is a downtown Chicago law firm specializing in divorce and family law. I handle cases involving uncontested and contested divorce, prenuptial agreements, child support, child custody and visitation, parenting, adoption and domestic orders of protection.
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The Law Offices of Azita M. Mojarad, P.C.
Immigration and Naturalization Lawyer in Chicago(312) 641-0771
Since the firm's establishment in 2000 in Chicago, Illinois, they have successfully represented businesses and individuals in Immigration and Naturalization matters. As this area of practice often impacts other areas of a client's life, they also provide a full range of business...
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FRANKFORT - The Kentucky State Police Academy presented diplomas to 63 new troopers at ceremonies held Friday in Frankfort. Their addition to the force brings KSP's strength to a total of 917 troopers.
Christopher Martin, of Taylorsville, was among the troopers receiving diplomas. Martin is a former Spencer County Sheriff's deputy.
The new troopers started a 23-week training cycle on April 11, in a class that consisted of 90 cadets.
"Freedom is not free," is a statement we have heard since Glenn Beck started his program several years ago. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the "8/28 Restoring Honor" event that Beck sponsored at the Lincoln memorial. The focus of the event was faith, hope and charity – the foundations of our country. As a Christian, it became a pilgrimage and a challenge to attend.
On Thursday August 26, a friend and I headed to Frederick, Maryland on our motorcycles. The ride was good and the weather was excellent.
Letter to the Editor of a newspaper, but I was so shocked to see the article concerning the local school board last week, that I feel I need to express my opinion.
First of all, I do not believe Robin Bass has any idea about the amount of monies which are needed to run the public schools in Spencer County. If she had taken the time to look up the information of expenditures provided, by county, on the State of Kentucky's Board of Education website, she would have seen that the information the local board provided is the facts.
It hasn't mattered if the opposition is a 6A or a 1A team, Spencer County has yet to bring their A-game to the field so far this year and the Bears have fallen to 0-5 on the season after a 42-28 loss to Bethlehem Friday night in Bardstown.
The loss was mostly the product of a very slow start that saw the host Eagles build a 21-0 lead before the Bears rallied to keep it close until the final minutes.
The slow start surprised Bears Coach Wes Napper, who said his players seemed to be ready at kickoff.
Everyday faith sounds so simple. Just have faith every day, but what does that mean? For believers in Jesus Christ, it means taking our faith seriously every day. It means applying our faith to our everyday lives.
On a recent mission trip with our church, I met some young people who stopped me in my tracks. They came up after a service was over just to talk for a few minutes. Over the next 30 minutes, I got a lesson in the reality of Christian living in the modern world.
Anne Patton Schubert, Taylorsville, has been elected as a delegate to the 127th Annual American Angus Association® Convention of Delegates, November 15 in Louisville, reports Bryce Schumann, CEO of the American Angus Association.
Schubert is one of 354 Angus breeders who have been elected by fellow members in their state to serve as a representative at the annual meeting.
Representing 43 states and Canada, the delegates will participate in the business meeting and elect new officers and five directors.
In response to the letter to the editor in last week's paper, I would like to correct some of the statements made that I have a conflict of interest in seeking to serve on the city commission.
First, Kentucky Revised Statute allows two firefighters to serve on a fire protection district board of trustees which are elected by the firefighters. I am proud to have our firefighters support to serve on the board. This is the same make up of all fire protection district boards across the state.
No conflict.
Twenty-foot tall umbrellas will soon be popping up at county parks thanks to the health department, said Spencer County Judge Executive David Jenkins.
Known as Funbrellas, the structures will each provide a five-foot circle of shade. Two are planned for Waterford Park, while three more will be installed at Ray Jewell Park.
"It's great that we can partner with other agencies in the community to get what we need," said Jenkins. "I think they will be enjoyed a lot by people."
Brenda Hagan found her recipe for green tomato bread in the fall issue of the magazine Acres USA: A Voice for Eco-Agriculture. Her husband subscribes to the magazine. She wanted something different to bring to the September meeting of the Bluegrass Basket Guild in Taylorsville, and thought green tomato bread fit the bill.
"It's unusual, different and fairly easy to make," said Hagan, who lives in Bloomfield.
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The Fuel-Cell Car—for Kids
The H-racer toy car from China's Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is just the thing for children who want to play "green"
The low-slung, aerodynamic toy car runs fast. Inside its silver and transparent body is a small blue balloon and a blue chip. What makes the toy called the H-racer special is that it isn't powered by your usual alkaline batteries, but by an emerging green technology: the fuel cell. While fuel-cell-powered vehicles may be years or even decades away on a mass scale, a mini-version is about to arrive at your kids' playground. And perhaps not surprisingly, given the mainland's massive toy industry, it hails from China.
While 1.5 million Thomas & Friends wooden train sets are being recalled because of dangerous lead paint and "Made in China" is becoming synonymous with peril and disaster, at least in the eyes of some Westerners, China is also at the forefront of bringing cutting-edge fuel-cell technology to mainstream toy markets.
The H-racer toy car is developed by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a technology startup headquartered in Singapore but with its base of operations in Shanghai. Recently, Horizon teamed up with Wah Shing Toys, a leading toy manufacturer with five factories in southern China, to bring the H-racer and other fuel-cell-powered toys to children who want to play "green." "This is the first time that a fuel-cell-powered product is being brought into the mainstream market," says Taras Wankewycz, a Shanghai entrepreneur who co-founded Horizon with a handful of entrepreneurs from China and Germany in 2003 and serves as vice-president.
From Plastic Toys to Fuel Cells
Backed by European, U.S., and Asian investors, Horizon aims to bring fuel-cell technology out of the lab and into consumer-product markets. Wah Shing is a Hong Kong subsidiary of South China Industries Limited. Last year, its five factories in mainland China made 60 million toys, including robots, dolls, and electronic toys for companies such as Hasbro (HAS) and WowWee.
This is "a high-risk venture: We're looking at whether a former plastic-toy manufacturer can make the jump to hydrogen-based fuel technology," says Jing Ulrich, Hong Kong-based chairman of China equities at JPMorgan Securities. "However, they appear to have made some initial success."
Horizon introduced the H-racer in the U.S., Japan, and European countries including Germany, Italy, and Britain in June, 2006. Since then, tens of thousands of units have been sold in the U.S. alone. The alliance with Wah Shing aims to scale up the production of the H-racer, and apply the technology to a wider array of toys, including more sophisticated, remote-controlled toy cars. The companies are also in talks with major international toy companies, whose names they would not disclose, to apply the technology to branded toys. Ultimately, the companies hope to roll out millions of fuel-cell-powered toys to children worldwide at the beginning of next year.
"It may be two or three types of cars, robots, talking dolls, depending on the progress of our negotiations," says Richard Ellert, Hong Kong-based managing director of Wah Shing. "But it could affect every kid who wants to experience toys that are environmentally friendly."
Expanding Market for Fuel-Cell Tech
Compared with battery-powered toys, which can cost as little as $24, H-racer is not cheap, with a price tag of $110 to $120. But Horizon estimates the price will drop in one or two years as volumes increase.
Horizon also aims to bring to market fuel-cell batteries that can be used just like the usual dry-cell batteries for powering consumer electronics, which could have a big environmental payoff. Americans purchase nearly 3 billion dry-cell batteries every year to power radios, toys, cellular phones, watches, laptop computers, and portable power tools. On average, each American discards eight dry-cell batteries per year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Toys are a small step away from consumer products, where we could see fuel-cell technology used in flashlights, mobile phones, laptops, just to name a few," says Wankewycz. And in the long term, Horizon is even interested in developing fuel-cell power systems for automobiles, he says.
In recent years, China has become a leader in utilizing sophisticated, high-tech renewable energy. In 2004, China set up one of the largest solar photovoltaic power stations in southern China's Shenzhen, and the country is the third-largest biofuel and third-largest ethanol producer, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a research laboratory under the U.S. Energy Dept. China also plans to invest $184 billion to boost renewable-energy consumption to 15% of total energy consumption by 2020, according to China Daily, the nation's leading English newspaper.
As renewable energy in China becomes big business, many technology companies smell opportunity. Horizon chose to base its business in Shanghai because it sees China as its largest market in the future. For the short term, China's status as the world's largest manufacturing base provides convenient access to everything from technology to supply chains. "If we were based in the U.S. or Europe, our market would usually be local," says Wankewycz. "But based in China, we can reach the global market."


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What goes into a good bar? Quality cocktails, seasoned bartenders and a lively crowd certainly contribute to many a fine bar. In New York City, however, there's always something a little extra special about a bar with a view. The new multi-level Midtown cocktail lounge, The Skylark, which opened recently in Times Square, certainly has the view department covered with an expansive vista looking out onto the Empire State Building, the Hudson River, and all of Midtown –and by the looks of its cocktail menu that asset is covered too.
The Story: The industry team of David Rabin (The Lambs Club, Jimmy, et al.), Jim Kirsch and Alison Awerbuch (catering company Allison Kirsch) opened this spacious 30th-floor lounge just off of Times Square.
The Look: The multi-level Skylark has ample space both indoors and out, with an open-air terrace and indoor booths and tables — but you may not really notice the decor, as your eyes will be on the view the whole time. (The actual roof deck is closed for the season, so expect to be indoors until spring.)
The Drinks: Johnny Swet (of Jimmy) designed the list of likable cocktails. For fall, we're inclined toward the New York State of Mind (Laird's Bonded apple brandy, Pama, lime, ginger beer) or The Harvest (Brugal Añejo rum, Xante pear liqueur, pear puree, and charred rosemary), but The Coco, made with five botanical and floral liquors, Champagne and strawberry pearls seems a good pick in any season.
The Scene: Given its Midtown digs and top-floor appeal, expect an after-work crowd here, whether mingling in the main lounge or booking private parties in the Pool Room (yep, with a billiards table) or the Living Room.
The Skylark
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My Take: But you have a deal, right?
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My Take: the quote is in regards to a customer waiting for a redemption card. If you read carefully this unlocks one of the reasons why cards take so long to be redeemed from Topps. They will print your card when it fits into their time schedule and budget. Topps will tell customers that their card has "yet to be constructed", thus the delay. Topps will wait until it becomes cost effective to print cards waiting to be signed by an athlete. There are times when they have a scheduled signing session with a player, but fail to have the cards printed in time to get signed.
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A Soul in a Bottle
|Trade Edition
|Limited Edition
|Lettered Edition
A note about the lettered edition: It is identical to the signed, limited edition. More than half the copies were sent to the author for his personal use. We've finally unearthed ours, and decided to offer them for sale. One to a customer, please.
Tim Powers graces us with another original tale, this one roughly twice the length of his sold-out-on-publication chapbook, The Bible Repairman.
A first edition of a 1968 book of poems, with a sonnet that appears in no other copy—a mysterious girl with a special fountain-pen, who needs a special favor—and an old woman who warns used-book dealer George Sydney that helping the girl he's fallen in love with will mean that he will never have fallen in love.
Hollywood Boulevard, with its bars and used-book stores and the legendary Chinese Theater, is the psychic killing ground where Sydney must learn the rules of an old supernatural rivalry—and choose to save either the woman he loves, or his soul.
Soul will be a heavily illustrated small form hardcover, available in two unique states:
Trade: fully cloth bound hardcover, in dust jacket
Limited: 474 signed leatherbound hardcovers, with a different dust jacket than the Trade Hardcover
Special Note: We've just unearthed three unpublished sonnets by Cheyenne Fleming, the haunted poet at the center of Tim Powers' new illustrated tale, A Soul in a Bottle. These lost poems were discovered too late to be included in the book proper, so we're arranging to have copies made, which will be laid into the limited edition.
From Publishers Weekly:
"In this taut, eerie novella from Powers (Three Days to Never), used-book hunter George Sydney finds he can summon a beautiful poet when he discovers a signed volume containing a previously unknown variant on one sonnet… There are no thin, hairy specters lurking in this tale, and no cold grue to chill one's bones. Its impact is more moral than visceral, evoking the pity and fear that are hallmarks of tragedy. Exquisitely illustrated by J. K. Potter, this slender volume is sure to appeal to epicures of the terrible."
Charles de Lint, in F&SF
"Powers is responsible for many of my favorite novels and stories, but I particularly loved this book. Not least because it reminded me why I love reading—more, that I do love reading. I haven't lost that joy; I'm just not finding enough books that do it for me.
"But here was a book that utterly absorbed me. I wasn't distracted by showy writing (though the prose, in retrospect, is lovely) or the author parading his cleverness. Instead, I was given a lovely tale that wasn't afraid to tell a small, simple story with freshness and a great deal of heart."
From Rambles.net
"Powers serves a subtle and memorable brew."
A Soul in a Bottle
by Tim Powers
The forecourt of the Chinese Theater smelled of rain-wet stone and car-exhaust, but a faint aroma like pears and cumin seemed to cling to his shirt-collar as he stepped around the clustered tourists, who all appeared to be blinking up at the copper towers above the forecourt wall or smiling into cameras as they knelt to press their hands into the puddled hand-prints in the cement paving blocks.
George Sydney gripped his shopping bag under his arm and dug three pennies from his pants pocket.
For the third of fourth time this morning he found himself glancing sharply over his left shoulder, but again there was no one within yards of him. The morning sun was bright on the Roosevelt Hotel across the boulevard, and the clouds were breaking up in the blue sky.
He crouched beside Jean Harlow's square and carefully laid one penny in each of the three round indentations below her incised signature, then wiped his wet fingers on his jacket. The coins wouldn't stay there long, but Sydney always put three fresh ones down whenever he walked past this block of Hollywood Boulevard.
He straightened up and again caught a whiff of pears and cumin, and when he glanced over his left shoulder there was a girl standing right behind him.
At first glance he thought she was a teenager—she was a head shorter than him, and her tangled red hair framed a narrow, freckled face with squinting eyes and a wide, amused mouth.
"Three pennies?" she asked, and her voice was deeper than he would have expected.
She was standing so close to him that his elbow had brushed her breasts when he'd turned around.
"That's right," said Sydney, stepping back from her, awkwardly so as not to scuff the coins loose.
"Uh ..." He waved at the cement square and then barely caught his shopping bag. "People pried up the original three," he said. "For souvenirs. That she put there. Jean Harlow, when she put her hand-prints and shoe-prints in the wet cement, in 1933."
The girl raised her faint eyebrows and blinked down at the stone. "I never knew that. How did you know that?"
"I looked her up one time. Uh, on Google."
The girl laughed quietly, and in that moment she seemed to be the only figure in the forecourt, including himself, that had color. He realized dizzily that the scent he'd been catching all morning was hers.
"Google?" she said. "Sounds like a Chinaman trying to say something. Are you always so nice to dead people?"
Her black linen jacket and skirt were visibly damp, as if she had slept outside, and seemed to be incongruously formal. He wondered if somebody had donated the suit to the Salvation Army place down the boulevard by Pep Boys, and if this girl was one of the young people he sometimes saw in sleeping bags under the marquee of a closed theater down there.
"Respectful, at least," he said, "I suppose."
She nodded. "'Lo,'" she said, "'some we loved, the loveliest and the best ...'"
Surprised by the quote, he mentally recited the next two lines of the Rubaiyat quatrain—That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,/ Have drunk their cup a round or two before—and found himself saying the last line out loud: "'And one by one crept silently to Rest.'"
She was looking at him intently, so he cleared his throat and said, "Are you local? You've been here before, I gather." Probably that odd scent was popular right now, he thought, the way patchouli oil had apparently been in the '60s. Probably he had brushed past someone who had been wearing it too, earlier in the day.
"I'm staying at the Heroic," she said, then went on quickly, "Do you live near here?"
He could see her bra through her damp white blouse, and he looked away—though he had noticed that it seemed to be embroidered with vines.
"I have an apartment up on Franklin," he said, belatedly.
She had noticed his glance, and arched her back for a moment before pulling her jacket closed and buttoning it. "'And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapped,'" she said merrily, "'So bury me by some sweet Gardenside.'"
Embarrassed, he muttered the first line of that quatrain: "'Ah, with the grape my fading life provide ...'"
"Good idea!" she said—then she frowned, and her face was older. "No, dammit, I've got to go—but I'll see you again, right? I like you." She leaned forward and tipped her face up—and then she had briefly kissed him on the lips, and he did drop his shopping bag.
When he had crouched to pick it up and brushed the clinging drops of cold wanter off on his pants, and looked around, she was gone. He took a couple of steps toward the theater entrance, but the dozens of colorfully dressed strangers blocked his view, and he couldn't tell if she had hurried inside; and he didn't see her among the people by the photo booths or on the shiny black sidewalk.
Her lips had been hot—perhaps she had a fever.
He opened the plastic bag and peered inside, but the book didn't seem to have got wet or landed on a corner. A first edition of Colleen Moore's Silent Star, with a TLS, a typed letter, signed, tipped in on the front flyleaf. The Larry Edmunds Bookstore a few blocks east was going to give him fifty dollars for it.
And he thought he'd probably stop at Boardner's afterward and have a couple of beers before walking back to his apartment. Or maybe a shot of Wild Turkey, though it wasn't yet noon. He knew he'd be coming back here again, soon, frequently—peering around, lingering, almost certainly uselessly.
Still, I'll see you again, she had said. I like you.
Well, he thought with a nervous smile as he started east down the black sidewalk, stepping around the inset brass-rimmed pink stars with names on them, I like you too. Maybe, after all, it's a rain-damp little hippie-chick that I can fall in love with.


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AMHERST -- The University of Massachusetts-Amherst is hosting the 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference today at the university's Lincoln Campus Center.
Over 830 students from Massachusetts colleges and universities are giving presentations on a range of topics.
Here are 7 highlights from the full list of presentation abstracts, which is available online [pdf].
Biodiversity of Birds on Prospect Hill
Gina Mannarino | Department of Biology, Westfield State University
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This study focuses on a small section of a forested area called Prospect Hill located in Westfield, MA. This zone was tract and mapped out in 1910, the land there is still clear and mobile for sky observations. In 1993, Richard Lent spent a short term studying the biodiversity of birds within the Harvard Forest, (Lent, R. 2003). Lents work is used in comparison to this study's findings. This study shows the observed bird species of Prospect Hill and compares them to the previous findings by Lent from the Harvard Forest. The data collected in 1993 shows a large gap for species to change migration patterns due to inclement weather, human influences and predation. What new species have been introduced? What species have not returned? What are the possible reasons?
Fear in the Media and the Precipitants of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Michael Alves | Department of History, Holyoke Community College
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The etiology and symptomatology of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is presented and associations drawn between the observed effects of exposure to fearful content present in the media and the precipitants and etiology observed in studies of GAD. The data presented will define and identify the prevalence of fear as it appears in the media. The specific results of this exposure will be identified and then compared to the known precipitants and etiology of GAD. The implications of the parallels identified will serve as evidence suggesting the probability that the long term consumption of nonfiction media may have a significant effect in the development of pervasive anxiety that is characteristic of GAD.
Brook Trout distribution in the Manhan River below the Tighe Carmody Reservoir in Southampton, MA
Steven Rejniak | Department of Biology, Westfield State University
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Since 2005, investigations of a 3-mile segment of the Manhan River below the Tighe Carmody Reservoir in Southampton, MA have shown a reduction in downstream native trout populations. Data shows an increase in thermal pollution, sediment load and bank erosion. [...] The reduction in flow during the critical growth season has led to a significant reduction in the population of the native brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Other considerations such as reduction in spawning habitat, increase competition of existing populations, increase temperatures and decreased dissolved oxygen will most likely result in a complete destruction of the native populations of trout species in this portion of the Manhan River.
Astronomy for the Deaf and Blind
Victoria Barton | Department of English, Bristol Community College
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The project addresses challenges of learning astronomy for the hearing and visually-impaired. For example, it is difficult for deaf students to follow the narration and class participation in dark environments such as the planetarium and stargazing at night. Are there ways to adapt to these situations and plan to expand the repertoire of astronomy resources available to hearing-impaired students? An astronomy resource toolkit will serve the needs of visually- and hearing-impaired students in the future.
Impact of paclitaxel accumulation on population balance equation model of Taxus cell cultures
Alec Gramann | Department of Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst
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Paclitaxel is a known anti-cancer agent that has proven to be effective in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancers, as well as other forms of cancer. Current production of paclitaxel relies on an inefficient large-scale fermentation process, where suspension cultures of cells derived from the Taxus plant are grown and harvested for paclitaxel. The inefficiencies of this process are largely due to a lack of understanding of how fermentation parameters interact and impact the overall production rate of paclitaxel. This lack of understanding has led to the limited availability and high cost of treatment. Previous fermentation systems of similar cell types have been modeled using population balance equations, which can then be optimized, increasing production by up to 50%. [...] Previously developed systems with known product inhibition have adopted alternative operating processes, such as fed-batch and semi-continuous operations. We hypothesize that an analysis of the model with these additional parameters will help determine if alternative operating procedures will improve the levels of paclitaxel on production.
Effects of Avoidable Emergency Room Visits on Rising Health Care Costs
Maria DeGenova | Department of Economics, UMass Amherst
Abstract excerpt: Avoidable emergency room visits are just one of many issues that exacerbate the rising costs health care in the United States. This paper focuses on the different reasons why patients turn to emergency departments for treatment on
issues that could have been treated elsewhere or that could have been avoided all together. It looks at patients who frequent the emergency room for non-emergent and/or other reasons that may be treated through primary care. [...] The misuse of the emergency room not only drives the costs of health care, it also creates burdens for the economy and puts patient care at risk. The goal of this paper is to analyze the fundamental causes of avoidable emergency room visits, discuss public policy implications, and present solutions to limiting the number of avoidable emergency room visits.
Landlord-Tenant Law Changes Have Been Favoring the Tenants in Mass
Helene Tran | Department of Biology, Bunker Hill Community College
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Massachusetts is one of the states that have the strictest landlord-tenant laws. For many years, tenants had very few rights and were at the mercy of the landlords. Presently, the laws have shifted towards the tenants who are much better protected from abusive landlords, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the laws may have swung too far in favor of the tenants. This project investigates claims the landlord tenant laws in Massachusetts are now abused by tenants and leave landlords at a strong disadvantage. [...] Results showed that tenants, who thoroughly know their legal rights may attempt to obtain multiple months of free rent, and in some cases, even acquire compensation from the landlords. These results suggest that law changes have gone beyond justice and are now biased against the landlords. In conclusion the study proposed possible changes to landlord-tenant laws that could facilitate a balance so both the landlords and tenants have a fair and equal rights.


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|Key Info
A modern fully fitted 2 bedroom apartment in the International Bulgarian ski and mountain resort of Bansko, Bulgaria sleeping up to 6 people. Consists of one double bedroom, one twin bedroom and sofa bed in lounge. Bathroom with bath/shower and additional shower room. Balcony off lounge and double bedroom. Combined kitchen/lounge/diner. Fully fitted kitchen with electric ceramic hotplate, oven, microwave, kettle and refrigerator. Additional facilities include central heating, log fireplace, television, DVD player, bed linen, towels, crockery, utensils - everything needed to provide a relaxing and pleasant break after an exhausting day out on the slopes or just touring the local countryside.
Full central heating and instantaneous hot water facilities. Car parking space is available close to the main entrance to the apartment block.
There are frequent flights from the UK to the International airport at Sofia. Although public transport facilities are available to travel to Bansko, transfer is generally by personal hire car with pick up/drop off at the airport or by using one of the courtesy services available.
There is an ice skating rink near the gondola station. Golf, horse riding facilities exist in and around Bansko as well as go-cart driving in Blagoevgrad.
As an alternative to the fast pace of skiing or snowboarding try a snowshoeing trek in the Pirin, Vitosha or Rila mountains. Exploring the beauty of nature amidst the magic of winter. Experiencing the serenity of the spectacular winter backcountry in three of the most appreciated mountains ranges in Bulgaria. Tours can be arranged that introduce you to snowshoeing – enjoyable activity that anyone who can walk will quickly master. A variety of 'mixed' packages involving skiing and snowshoeing and pricing for 1 – 6 persons are available.
For non winter sport visitors there are a variety of interesting activities available. Golf at the nearby Pirin golf and Country Club. A course designed by Ian Woosnam. This is open from 1st April to 31st October each year and offers various 'packages' for training and playing. Horse riding, hill walking, sightseeing (Rila Monastary for example), relaxing in the old town atmosphere, or even a trip south into Greece.
Local contact in complex should there be a problem.
|Sleeps up to 6, 2 bedrooms
|2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 family bathroom
|Car advised
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Sofia International Airport 160 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated)
|Air conditioning
|Double Beds (1), Sofa Beds (1), Single Beds (2), Dining seats for 6, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ
|Parking, Not suitable for wheelchair users
Bansko is the best ski resort in Bulgaria with the longest ski runs, excellent facilities and the richest cultural history. The town of Bansko is situated at the foot of the Pirin mountain in south-western Bulgaria, 160 km from Sofia and 6 km from the town of Razlog. It lies on the banks of the Glazne river at the foot of the Pirin mountains, right below the highest and most beautiful part of it. The Pirin mountains have a predominantly Alpine character. The highest peak is Vihren (2914 m). The town is situated at an altitude of 925 m and ski area at 2000 - 2600m.
The resort offers excellent ski and snowboard conditions and infrastructure.
The Bansko mountain resort is an excellent choice for a ski or snowboard holiday in Bulgaria offering something for all age groups and abilities and hosted the 2012 world downhill ski championships.
Bansko has the best snow record and the longest ski season (15 December - 15 May) of all Bulgarian ski resorts. It has had large investment programmes over recent years to improve resort infrastructure and local facilities. With further developments planned.
Equally attractive in all four seasons, Bansko provides an interesting combination of natural beauty mixed with the unique architecture, and atmosphere of an ancient historic Bulgarian town.
Apres ski - the resort offers hundreds of bars and traditional restaurants called 'mehana'.


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Dave King Of The Bad Plus: Honesty Rocks
Dave King: Honesty Rocks
By Andrew Lentz Originally Published In DRUM! Magazine's December 2010 Issue
Oh, brother, we thought just before getting on the horn with Bad Plus drummer Dave King. Time to swim in deep waters with an improvisational trio – you know, the kind that plays dinner theatres for polite audiences. Can't we name-check the Kind Of Blue box set and call it a day?
It's precisely this line of thinking that got us into trouble with the native Minnesotan. Ordinarily he's as nice as shoofly pie, but when it comes to modern crossover jazz, dude gave us a piece of his mind.
"We believe there are a lot of people out there that want to be challenged by music," he practically yells. "It's not just a vehicle for blowing chops, it's actual songs!"
Easy, Dave. Deep breaths …
"There's a lot of music out there to be digested and not in a way like, 'Oh, I like hip-hop so we're going to go out and get a DJ to sit in with us.' It's not like that. We're rooted in traditional acoustic instruments and we're rooted in the piano-trio format, but being more modern, we're very interested in the texts underneath all of these things."
Did he just say texts?
Scholarly rant aside, The Bad Plus' pop sensibilities stretch the gray matter without feeling like Ayurvedic yoga on new disc Never Stop. Stravinsky. Ornette Coleman. Black Sabbath. A host of major music memes are deconstructed and built back up into head bob—able instrumental jams. "We're interested in taking from the life experience we've had of being exposed to a lot of different music, not just jazz," he says. "It's not an honest position if you don't feel you've been affected by all this stuff."
In order to pull off the kitchen-sink experiment, The Bad Plus is basically reverse-engineered so that the group's structure flowed from the musical ideas, not the other way around. "It's a refugee camp for the wayward sideman: There's no lead piano. There's no polite comping going on. There's no 'role' being played."
The band's split personality is evident in the way King approaches the beats. For every feathering of the bass drum, there's a stomping quarter-note; each cha-ching-ching ride cymbal pattern finds its straight-eighth counterpart on the hats. But this is less schizophrenia than it is the spirit of improvisational music, where King is every bit the composer that upright bassist Reid Anderson and pianist Ethan Iverson are. "I'm very interested in the idea of the drums having a personality within the band," he says. "Coltrane would not have been the same without Elvin Jones. Stewart Copeland is a major part of the sound of the Police, there's no denying it. John Bonham in Zeppelin … I still think there's a huge part of Bonham in my playing. So I kind of wanted to do that within whatever music I was into."
The notion of musical drums extends to King's setup, a standard 4-piece bebop kit with an 18" kick tuned exceptionally high, higher even than his floor tom. "So what happens is my bass drum kind of plays almost melodic accents," he explains. "Then my floor tom will come in kind of like earth shattering, and it has more of an effect that way, especially if I'm doing fills because I've got this giant tonal difference between my rack tom and my floor tom."
Needless to say, Never Stop was recorded live, mostly in one take – two at the absolute max. It's not so much a hard-and-fast rule as it is a belief that any more takes than that and the music starts to lose its urgency. "Then you really start to get diminished returns," he says. "That's another old jazz policy of some sort."
Though The Bad Plus members all grew up together and played in bands back in Minneapolis, they went separate ways for almost a decade. While Iverson and Anderson plunged into Manhattan's ill-defined Downtown scene that encompasses everything from Village Vanguard icons to Medeski Martin And Wood to enfant terribles of new-music John Zorn, King opted for the sunshine of Los Angeles where he did session work, played in crap bar bands, and even had his own project, Happy Apple. Gradually, the three friends noticed what the other was doing. Iverson would hit the West Coast for the weekend to do a show with Happy Apple; King would jet to New York for a handful of shows with Iverson and Anderson.
Around 2001 or so and in their early thirties, the newly mature musicians reunited as The Bad Plus. Their first record was on a tiny label in Spain followed by what King calls a "ghetto Euro tour." After a few years and as many releases, they unexpectedly found themselves on a New York Times top ten list. "There was kind of a vibe that we came out of nowhere," King says. "I'm like, what happened to the 14 years when I was eating macaroni and cheese every day?"
King doesn't just love beats; he's a rhythm renaissance man, a fact that's obvious on recent solo release Indelicate, a project that "consumed two years of my life."
The steadily intensifying plink of piano keys on "Homage: Young People" has a hypnotic effect; "Arts High Boogie" has an almost krautrock throb; by the time you get to "Bees," featuring sampled beats played more like a keyboard than drums, all bets are off. At times it makes Never Stop seem pedestrian.
None of this should come as a surprise from the drummer who recorded Aphex Twin's drum 'n' bass blitzkrieg on a cover of the British DJ's "Flim" track … on an acoustic kit. "We grew up listening to The Rockford Files theme at the same time as we were listening to The Cars," King says. "I can't pretend there's some sort of purity in my jazz background. It's not going to come out in the playing and it's not going to come out in what we're trying to do."


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Destiny USA construction update
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:19 PM
Several anticipated tenants of Destiny USA are under construction. World of Beer will open soon. Project superintendent Vincent Iavarone with St. Clair Construction shows off the large walk-in cooler for the 500 beers World of Beer will carry. Ellen M. Blalock / email@example.com
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Amid a growing national uproar, Gov. John Kitzhaber's office on Friday defended his decision to sidestep food stamp cuts.
"We're following the program guidelines," spokeswoman Rachel Wray said. "We're completely confident in the legality of that, and we're definitely confident that it's the right thing to do."
Her comments came a day after U.S. House Speaker John Boehner accused states of "cheating" by reallocating federal energy-assistance money to avoid the food stamp cuts contained in the farm bill.
At least five states have agreed to meet new rules in the bill to avoid cuts that were supposed shave $8 billion from the federal food stamp program over 10 years.
The farm bill, signed into law Feb. 7, took aim at a program called "Heat and Eat" in which households that receive federal energy assistance qualify for higher food stamp benefits. The bill raised the minimum energy aid from at least $1 to at least $20.
But officials in Oregon and other states quickly figured out that they could reallocate a relatively small amount of energy aid to keep millions of dollars in food stamps. Oregon, for example, will allocate $2 million in federal energy aid to keep $56 million in food stamps, according to Christy Sinatra, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services.
Because all the money is federal, the decision doesn't affect state spending -- though Oregon officials acknowledged that diverting energy money means 5,000 fewer households here will get heating help next winter.
House Republicans, who sought deep cuts in food stamps last year, are crying foul. Boehner, R-Ohio, threatened congressional action.
"Since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat, once again, on signing up people for food stamps," Boehner told reporters Thursday, according to National Public Radio. "And so I would hope that the House would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing."
In Oregon about 100,000 households stood to lose an average of $58 a month in food stamps benefits under the farm bill.
"The governor recognizes that hunger, housing and utilities are connected," Wray said. "This effort is an investment in Oregonians' health and well-being."
Oregon received $30.4 million this year in federal low-income energy assistance that provides about 69,000 households with an average of $325 each winter. Those households are in addition to the 100,000 in "Heat and Eat."
"The hard truth is that, overall, we'll serve fewer people," said Margaret Van Vliet, director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, which administers the program. "We all know that there's not enough to go around for people who are experiencing poverty."
The department doesn't expect the state to find other money for the program, Van Vliet said, and it's unlikely that Oregon will get more federal money for it.
Anti-hunger advocates, however, praised Kitzhaber's decision on food stamps, formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. They pledged to try to find ways to reduce the impact on the energy program.
"SNAP is the cornerstone of our country's nutrition safety net," Patti Whitney-Wise, executive director of Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon, said in an emailed statement. "In joining a bipartisan movement of governors across the country who are leveraging state funds to receive federal nutrition dollars through SNAP, Gov. Kitzhaber took a step toward securing Oregon's future."-- Yuxing Zheng


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HOUGHTON - The scene at the Michigan Tech Trails, with bruised and bloodied children being carried out of an overturned school bus, was something local emergency personnel had never seen, in reality or simulation.
And that was the whole point.
Nearly 40 local firefighters and first responders participated Sunday in a mock disaster drill.
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Hubbell and Tamarack City firefighters work to cut open the roof of a school bus during a disaster drill Sunday. About 40 local firefighters and first responders took part in the drill.
It is part of the fifth annual Western U.P. Trauma and Critical Care Conference, which is put on by the University of Michigan Survival Flight Team.
"This is the first time we've had an event like this in the Copper Country," said Brad Uren, a doctor with the Survival Flight Team.
Jon Stone, emergency response specialist with Michigan Technological University Department of Public Safety and Police Services, said Tech tries to host a training event on campus each year. Past crises have included a bomb incident at graduation and a fire at the Hillside Restaurant.
"It was a very good showing, considering it's a Sunday afternoon on a beautiful fall day," he said.
First, responders took out the front windshield of the bus, which was turned on its side. Responders then ferried out the children, 14 local volunteers, on baseboards. On the grass outside, emergency personnel treated the children in separate areas, depending on the severity of their wounds.
Abbi Stone, 9, still had smears of fake blood and a splattered shirt as she watched the rest of the proceedings. It was the second accident demonstration she had done, and the first with make-up.
"It was kind of fun, but then kind of ... I don't know how to put it," she said, looking for help to some fellow re-enactors, who did not provide it.
The simulation concluded with firefighters cutting into the top of the bus. For better or worse, it was a tricky proposition, requiring cutting through two layers.
It was good training to have, Tommy Crouch of the Hubbell Fire Department said afterward.
"Every incident's never the same as the last," he said. "And there's things you learn to prepare for, too. ... Too much training isn't enough training."


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A visiting judge in Lucas County Common Pleas Court has denied a motion for early release submitted in January by former attorney Karyn McConnell Hancock, who had spent about one year of her four-year sentence behind bars.
Convicted in November, 2008, of aggravated theft, McConnell Hancock admitted to stealing more than $624,000 from 22 clients over six years. She was sentenced Jan. 15, 2009.
On Jan. 21, she requested early release, saying she had no previous adult felony convictions nor had she served time in prison. The prosecutor's office said early release "would demean the seriousness of the offense and its impact on the numerous victims who suffered from her conduct."
Judge David Faulkner, a retired judge from Hardin County, denied the request last week.


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Mount Carmel Academy recently announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2012-13 school year. St. Bernard Parish residents named to the honor roll are:
Principal's honor roll
Eighth grade: Chloe Reaney.
Freshmen: Alyssa Ashby and Victoria Fernandez.
Juniors: Kailyn Kitto and Carlie Lehrmann.
Seniors: Hannah Lafrance and Dru Lezina.
Honor roll
Eighth grade: Jena Lafrance.
Freshmen: Brooke Fourcade.
Seniors: Kristin Delise, Lindsey Devitt, Stephanie Perez and Bailey Schwab.


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Phoenixville isn't as small as some would believe, and of course, I am referring to our non-Town Dish audience. Whenever people envision Phoenixville, their mind gravitates toward Bridge Street. They tend to forget the scope stretches much further than just downtown. But regardless of that frame of mind, Phoenixville is still being compared to the likes of Manayunk and West Chester, PA. I've even heard Bridge Street referred to as "the strip" not just once, but on several occasions. After hearing that, I have to tell you, being a resident of Phoenixville for over 28 years, I found myself in a bit of a chuckle. Then again, who can blame them? Phoenixville has become quite popular the last few years and for being solely recognized for that one street, that's rather impressive.
Now if you've ever been to Bridge Street, you know it's filled with an exorbitant number of restaurants, coffee houses and a fairly impressive bar scene. These spots vary in menu price, space, age demographic, but most of all, diversity. Cultural diversity.
Phoenixville's restaurant scene, and I'm not limiting it to Bridge Street, covers everything from authentic Italian dishes to Thai cuisine. And with that authenticity, these establishments offer a unique atmosphere related to their very culture. You can't walk into Molly Maguire's Pub without experiencing that nostalgic feeling of an Irish pub in Dublin or visit Daddy Mim's Creole without thinking about being whisked away to New Orleans. What some might see as being hip and trendy, others may see as culturally significant. I'll leave that impression up to you.
So in light of the newest addition on the block, Hacienda La Michoacana, I've decided to take it upon myself and explore Phoenixville's diversity in a column I'd like to call, Around the World with Phoenixville Dishes. Think Epcot in Disney World, but in our own backyard! And not just Bridge Street, Foodie Fans. I am going to feature the whole scope of Phoenixville from the Mexican flavor at 101 Bridge Street to the Japanese Restaurant off of Schuylkill Road. No passport necessary!
Tag along as I enjoy a pint of Guinness paired with some Fish and Chips, a fine glass of red wine with some of the finest Italian cuisine or a fairly sized Margarita during my time at Hacienda La Michoacana. I intend on soaking in the diverse flavors Phoenixville has to offer. Next time you're in town, I suggest you do the same!
Until then, Salute, Sláinte, Salud and Cheers!


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|Minority women are in a situation where it is difficult for them to raise their voices for reform. Firstly, there is a vicious and violent communal polarization threatening the security of minority communities, particularly women. Secondly there are important reformist sections within the communities including women, whose opinions and voices have always been ignored by the establishment. Also, the communal propaganda of Hindutva forces further marginalizes the reformist.
|AIDWA affirms its commitment to equal rights for women of all communities in every sphere; economic, social, political & legal. We strongly oppose the divisive attempts, whether by the state, certain political parties or fundamentalists of different communities to circumscribe those rights in the name of religion and tradition.
|Finally, the issue of rights of minority women has to be understood in the context
Of the rights of women in society, rights of minorities per se and rights of women within the community.


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MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State University has named James Whitford, the associate head coach at University of Arizona, as its new men's head coach. Whitford will be introduced as the 19 th head coach in program history Wednesday with a press conference in Muncie.
Whitford has served four years on the staff at Arizona, including the past two as the associate head coach. He has been with Arizona head coach Sean Miller for eight seasons, dating back to Miller's days guiding the Xavier program.
The 41-year-old Whitford also has more than a decade of experience with the Mid American Conference, having served on the staff at Miami University under Charlie Coles for 11 seasons before joining Miller at Xavier.
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"The Republican Party equals 'conservatism' in people's minds. So when the Republican Party waters it down and it's just a bunch of quivering Jell-O moderation that is called 'conservatism,' that's not attractive to anybody."
"Lawful, legitimate tax deductions have all now been called 'loopholes.' I mean, we're losing the language debate every day. A legitimate tax deduction is not a 'loophole.' But as far as these low-information voters are concerned, it is."
"If you sell your $400,000 house, you're gonna have to pay $15,200 in new taxes because of Obamacare. The Obamacare surtax is 3.8% on capital gains. It's gonna hit you in ways you haven't even considered."
"What happened to Bob Costas was not his fault. A microphone can inflict amazing damage, particularly emotional and psychological damage. Only highly trained specialists should be permitted to use them, and there should be a federal agency on this. Yes, I know we've got the First Amendment. But, look, the Founders never intended for microphones to exist. They didn't even know about microphones."
"A microphone can inflict amazing damage, particularly emotional and psychological damage. Only highly trained specialists should be permitted to use them, and there should be a federal agency on this."
"I have demonstrated over the years extraordinary responsibility behind a microphone. I mean, I am one of only people -- well, I am the only person -- with an actual gold microphone. You can't get any greater microphone permission or honor than that."
"If we go over the cliff, everybody's taxes are going up, including the middle class. The first paycheck everybody gets in January will feature massive income tax increases. The take-home pay is going to be smaller, and people are gonna be shocked."
"Going over the fiscal cliff is exactly what Obama wants, and it's all made possible by the fact that the media is Obama. We go over the fiscal cliff. That means that every deal reached is part of the debt limit increase."
"If Obama could turn this into a one party country, you don't think he would? FDR tried. I think FDR is one of his role models. So going over the cliff is entirely amenable to him."
"Anybody who thinks that Obama has a debt reduction policy has another thing coming. By the time he leaves office in four more years, we're gonna have a national debt in excess of $20 trillion."
"Obama doesn't want anybody in the opposition to even be on the field, whether it's a level field or not. His modus operandi is to eliminate opposition, not just defeat it. Once you eliminate it, you don't have to worry about defeating it. It's not there in the first place."
"The Democrat Party has wanted to destroy the Republican Party, not just beat us. They've wanted to destroy us for a long time. We don't have that view about them. We're comfortable beating them, but nobody's running around trying to conceive of ways to annihilate them, to wipe 'em out."
"People's home values have been plummeting, unemployment's been skyrocketing, income has been falling, for four years, where is the evidence he cares about any of that? In a traditional political way, he doesn't. Why all of a sudden is he gonna start caring now? It's gonna only get worse."
"Obama is the only president in this country who's never been vetted by the media. To this day, there's nothing known about this guy. Other than the cult-like figure characteristics that have been associated with him."
"We don't have a revenue problem. This fiscal mess we're in not because people aren't taxed enough. It's not because businesses aren't taxed enough. It's because there's just way, way, way too much spending. We simply cannot afford everything that we're attempting to pay for. We just don't have the money."
"Barack Obama is not gonna be president of a country where the private sector is seen as reviving itself. It ain't gonna happen."


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Widmer Brothers will be releasing a commemorative 25th Anniversary limited-edition brew, a double alt dubbed 84/09. Though inspired by the brothers' very first offering, Widmer Alt, 84/09 will provide drinkers with a whole new beer experience at a whopping 9.8% ABV. The 25th Anniversary 22 oz bottle will be available in 12 select West Coast markets* in May, with a suggested price of $5.99.
...also: on the Thursday, April 2nd, the official anniversary, the Widmer Gasthaus will roll back beer prices 25 years to $1.50/pint...
On April 2, two ordinary brothers from Portland, Ore. who set out in 1984 to brew beers that people loved as much as they did will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their dream - Widmer Brothers Brewing - which has become an established and revered name in the world of craft beer. The company's humble founders, Kurt and Rob, have been instrumental in shaping the American craft brewing industry and earning Portland the well-deserved nickname "Beervana." Here are just a few of the contributions they have made over the past quarter-century:
Widmer Hefeweizen: In 1986, Kurt and Rob took a risk and created the first unfiltered beer in the US, creating a new beer style - American Hefeweizen - and introducing what would become the company's signature brew. Today, Widmer Hefeweizen remains one of the best selling wheat beers in the country and the standard by which all other American-style Hefeweizens are judged.
Seasonals: Widmer Brothers was one of the first US brewers to launch a seasonal offering when Festbier was introduced in the winter of 1985. Building upon its success, Widmer became the first US brewer to produce a year-round line up of seasonal beers, a practice which is now commonplace.
Oregon Brew Fest: In 1988 the Oregon Brewer's Guild, of which Kurt and Rob were founding members, launched the Oregon Brewer's Festival. Today, the event is the largest outdoor craft beer festival in the country, drawing more than 70,000 attendees.
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In February 2007, editor-in-chief Michael Horton interviewed Roger Olson, a professor at Truett Seminary at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) and author of several books, including The Mosaic of Christian Beliefs: Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity (InterVarsity Press, 2002) and The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform (InterVarsity, 1999). His most recent book is Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities (InterVarsity Press, 2006).
First of all, what provoked you to write a book titled Arminian Theology?
Well, the subtitle is important, too, and that is "Myths and Realities." The idea for the book goes back a long way. I grew up Pentacostal and we were always Arminian, of course. I first encountered the term in college from one of my teachers. When I went to a Baptist Evangelical seminary, a couple of my professors spoke to me about Arminianism in fairly disparaging ways. And yet they didn't seem to be Calvinists, really, and so I was kind of confused. One of them said to me, "Arminianism always leads to liberal theology," and that provoked some thoughts in my mind because I knew that we Pentecostals weren't liberal, and I knew Nazarenes and other Holiness people who were Arminians that weren't liberal theologically, so I began the journey of trying to understand what would cause someone to say that. Years later I picked up an issue of Modern Reformation and read it, and it was the issue on Arminianism. And I read right through it, all the way, and said to myself, "No, this isn't Arminianism as I know it," so the book began to formulate in my mind right then. I don't know if it's ironic or serendipitous or providential, probably, that I'm being interviewed by this magazine.
[laughter] Well, first of all, Roger, if you could give us a historical sketch of Arminius. Who was the Arminius behind Arminianism?
In the late 1500's, Jacob Arminius grew up in Holland. He was away at school when his whole family was slaughtered by the Spanish who were occupying Holland at that time, or what was called United Provinces, Holland being one of them. When Spain was occupying the United Provinces, there was a great deal of fear of Roman Catholicism there. Jacob came back to the Netherlands and pastored for a while and soon received an appointment as professor of theology at the University of Leiden, and there he was a colleague of Franciscus Gomarus, who was a Calvinist of a particular sort, I would say, not just a garden variety Calvinist, but a supra-lapsarian, and they came into conflict with each other. The story is that Arminius was asked to refute the teachings of another theologian-I think his name was Dirck Coornhert, who had rejected some of the major tenets of Calvinism, and in that process, Arminius came to believe that Calvinism was incorrect. Actually, that's probably a myth. He studied under Theodore Beza at Geneva and probably never did fully agree with some of the Calvinist tenets that he learned there and that he knew from growing up in the Netherlands. And so when he began teaching theology at the University of Leiden, he began to object to some of the more stringent (he thought), beliefs of Calvinism there and argued for a view of people having free will given to them by God through prevenient grace and so forth. Arminianism then became launched and he died in the middle of the heat of the discussion over it and his followers called the Remonstrants picked up from when he died and continued it. Often the two terms are equated, Arminianism and the Remonstrants.
Is it true, Roger, that one of the things that began to draw controversial fire was Arminius' interpretation of Romans 7 as not referring to the life of a believer?
Right. One of his earliest writings, a commentary of Romans 7, argued that this is the testimony of someone who is not yet saved, and that when Paul is talking about the struggle between the flesh and the Spirit and so forth in Romans 7, he means before he became a Christian. Most people in that time, and many people today, interpret it otherwise, that it describes the Christian condition of the typical believer, the struggle between flesh and Spirit, the "always righteous and sinner at the same time." In that essay, and I've read it very carefully, Arminius argues what John Wesley later argued. In fact, if I could just insert here that I have been unable to find any significant disagreements between Arminius and Wesley theologically. Arminius was a Wesleyan before Wesley-he believed in Christian perfection; he did believe it was possible by the grace of God, not by our own effort, to live a sinlessly perfect life in the sense of not sinning presumptuously. He didn't claim that for himself, he didn't name anyone he knew who did that, he just thought it was a possibility. Yes, that provoked a lot of controversy.
Arminianism-as you point out, a lot of debate swirls around what Arminius himself taught, but don't things get even more dicey when you talk about Arminian-ism, since there seem to be so many descriptions not only by non-Arminians, but so many different versions of Arminianism professed by people who call themselves Arminians?
Exactly. And that does create a problem, and it's complex trying to describe Arminianism. You have to wade through a lot of that, but I don't see it as any different, really, from Reformed theology which has many branches to it and many interpretations of it from outside and from inside. And so what I do in the book is just go back to Arminius in every chapter and ask, "What did Arminius say about this?" and then go to the Remonstrants-the leading ones, like Simon Episcopius, who was Arminius' successor and founded the Remonstrant Seminary in Holland, and then go to Philipp van Limborch, who was a little more left-wing I would say. My main distinction throughout the history of Arminianism is borrowed from Alan P. R. Sell who was the theological secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches for years and is still an active theologian. He distinguishes between "Arminianism of the head," which I trace back to Philipp van Limborch, a Remonstrant in the 1600's, and "Arminianism of the heart," which was typified by both Arminius and Wesley. I call Arminianism of the heart "evangelical Arminianism."
Yes, one of the things you point out that I thought was interesting was that the kind of Arminianism that leads to liberalism pretty easily is the "Arminianism of the head" rather than the "Arminianism of the heart." Could you explain that a little?
Yes. Well I think the story there begins with Philipp van Limborch, although I've read some Reformed critics who want to trace it back to Simon Episcopius, but I've been unable to find this "Arminianism of the head" in him. I believe Philipp Limborch taught at the Remonstrant Seminary and with him we see the beginnings of something new in the stream of Arminian thought, and that is what I would consider a semi-Pelagian tendency, a more optimistic view with regard to human nature, minimizing the necessity of grace, elevation of reason as the main thing people need in order to become converted and live a Christian life. And it isn't a total shift, but you see the beginning of a shift leftward that did, I think, lead to deism, perhaps Unitarianism, but strangely enough to Finney. And when I read Limborch and Finney, who lived a couple hundred years apart, they were saying the same thing.
I thought that was fascinating in your book. It's always nice to be able to quote an Arminian pointing out how heterodox Charles Finney was. He was definitely not your garden-variety Arminian, was he?
I don't call him an Arminian at all. In fact, in the book I quote Finney himself about Jonathan Edwards. Of Jonathan Edwards Finney said, "The man I adore, his mistakes I deplore." And I say that of Finney: "The man as an evangelist I adore, but his theological mistakes I deplore." And I do not consider him an Arminian.
You point out in your book that you think most of American evangelicalism tends toward Finney's brand of semi-Pelagianism more than Arminianism.
Right. In fact in the book, near the beginning I say, with my Reformed friends, that garden variety evangelicalism in the pews-and too often in the pulpits-is semi-Pelagian, not Arminian. And yet it gets called Arminian by many people. The whole point of my book is to distinguish between those, between semi-Pelagianism and Arminianism, and I agree with critics who say that American evangelical Christianity is by and large semi-Pelagian-in the sense that they believe we take the initiative. I call it the theology of "Touched by an Angel." In that TV show, many times the angels would say to people, "All you have to do is reach out toward God, and then he'll come down and reach out to you." And there are songs, of course, that say much the same thing. And that's not Arminianism. Arminianism has always stressed and emphasized the initiative of God by prevenient grace.
You've nicely spelled out the difference between Arminianism and semi-Pelagianism. As we get to the differences between Reformation Christianity and Arminianism, would you say that the most basic difference is monergism versus synergism-in other words, God alone saving versus our cooperating, enabled by grace, even willing, by God's grace?
In other words, enabling our cooperation with his grace by his grace.
You and I have had these talks before, of course, and I don't know that we'll ever totally agree on what Reformation theology was. Luther was a monergist-I certainly agree with that-Calvin was, of course... But if you look at Melanchthon, Luther's right hand man and real successor theologically, after Luther died, Melanchthon came out very publicly as a synergist and creates a controversy and Lutherans divided over that and have ever since.
But it was rejected in the Book of Concord.
Right. I agree with you.
One of the things that I thought was very interesting, Roger-and this will come as no surprise to you-was, first of all, how eager you were in the book to make the case that Arminianism is in the mainstream of evangelical Reformation Christianity. And I guess it depends again on what our definitions are of "evangelical" here. If we're talking about the broad evangelical movement, then certainly we would all agree that Arminianism has had a very long lineage in the evangelical movement. But if it's defined in terms of its relation to the Reformation, justification is clearly at the heart of that. And one of the points you make, the last chapter of the book, is that you think there is a myth that Arminians don't believe in justification. Can you explain that?
Yes, it's the ninth chapter. The tenth chapter is about the atonement, and so it's the penultimate chapter. There I say that Arminian theology does not deny justification by grace through faith alone. The chapter subtitle is "Classical Arminian theology is a Reformation theology." It embraces divine imputation of righteousness by God's grace through faith alone and preserves the distinction between justification and sanctification. And I give quote after quote after quote from Arminian theologians-the main voices of Arminianism have all said as much. Now, it's possible for someone to argue that they're inconsistent in that, and that they're not logically allowed to say the things they say, but of course we Arminians feel the same way about Reformed theology, that there are inconsistencies there. So what I'm arguing in the chapter is not so much that they were entirely logically consistent in everything, but that they did at least affirm that salvation is totally by God's grace through faith alone.
Okay, I have to tell you, Roger, the thing that really threw me off in that chapter, which I read with great interest, was that the main point in the chapter was to say: Arminians believe in justification, we may dot the I's differently and cross the T's differently, but no one can say that Arminians hold a view of justification that is different in its main points from the view that was held by the reformers in the Reformation.
Wesley himself said that.
Right. But what I found so striking was that every Wesleyan and Arminian theologian you mentioned of the nineteenth-century, you yourself quoted sections of them where they denied the imputation of Christ's active and passive obedience. And so I scratched my head and I thought, how could we say that Arminians hold exactly the same doctrine of justification as the Reformation when the very thing the whole Reformation was over, justification as the imputation of Christ's righteousness, was the very thing that was denied by the people you mentioned?
We're getting into very fine points here, and it would take a long time to parse things out, but my argument in the chapter is that all of them-Richard Watson, all those nineteenth-century Methodist theologians-did affirm the imputation of Christ's righteousness. What they didn't necessarily affirm, and sometimes quibbled among themselves, was whether Christ's active righteousness was imputed to us, or whether it was his passive righteousness in the atonement and suffering on the cross that was imputed to us.
But didn't you say in some of those instances that it was a question of whether any righteousness of Christ was imputed?
No, I think that is a misreading of the chapter. If I wasn't clear, I apologize. My intention in the chapter was to argue, based on quotations from them, that they did believe that Christ's righteousness is imputed to us, though they sometimes falter in the way they said it. And that's a crucial thing because a lot of critics have said that the imputation of faith, of righteousness for faith, is actually making faith a work. But if you read them carefully, they deny that. The language is unfortunate-I admit that-but when you look at it carefully, what they're really saying is it's Christ's righteousness that is imputed to us on account of our faith. And that's what I believe, and I'm an Arminian.
Okay, but then it can be construed that their formulation of justification would be that faith itself is the ground of justification.
But they all deny that in the sense of... they all argue that faith is the instrumental cause, but not the effectual cause of justification.
Okay, how about the atonement? That was your last chapter and you point out that there is an emphasis on other theories of the atonement, but substitution is certainly there.
Yes. I can't find the governmental theory-even a hint of it-in Arminius. He clearly affirmed the satisfaction theory. When you move on from him to the Remonstrants, Simon Episcopius, you see the beginnings of the governmental theory influenced by Hugo Grotius, who was a statesman and theologian of the time, who influenced Arminianism. So Grotius, as I argued, really developed the governmental theory, but it was never picked up by all Arminians. Wesley didn't believe in the governmental theory, and in the nineteenth-century, two of the four leading Methodist theologians that I discussed rejected the governmental theory in favor of the substitution theory.
But for some, at least, the governmental theory was-and certainly for Finney-the preferred view of the atonement.
Yes, and it remains so for some Arminians. My only argument is it's not the Arminian doctrine of the atonement because many Arminians have rejected it, and are quite critical of it, in fact-some of those nineteenth-century Methodist theologians are extremely critical of the governmental theory.
Roger, when push comes to shove on our respective interpretations of God's saving work, would you say that monergism is the real obstacle between Calvinists and Arminians?
That's a difficult question to answer...At first blush I guess I would say so, but then as I argue in the book, there is a monergistic impulse in classical Arminianism that's often missed by readers of Arminius. In other words, one cannot resist the initial coming of grace to a person's life. It comes. There's nothing you can do about it. It comes through the hearing of the Word, for example, according to Arminius. And this is another difference among Arminians-just as Calvinist, Reformed people disagree-Arminians disagree about just exactly how prevenient grace comes. I find in Arminius an emphasis on the hearing and the preaching of the Word, so when the Word is proclaimed or read, prevenient grace begins to change a person by liberating them from the bondage of the will and sin and enabling them to make a free choice to accept that grace unto salvation-or to remain in their sins, rejecting it. There's a monergistic element in that.
However, at the end of the day, why is it that some people are saved and others are not?
That's an unanswerable question, just like Reformed theology can't answer why some people are elect and others are not.
We can answer that as Reformed Christians by saying, "Because we have only ourselves to blame if we don't. We have only God to thank if we do." It's not just because I resisted less than this person over here, but because God granted me the life.
Yeah, of course perspectives intrude here. You and other Reformed people are looking at Arminianism through Calvinist eyes; Arminians looking at Calvinism are looking at it through Arminian eyes. To us, the whole idea that God passes over some people when he could save everyone because salvation is always unconditional, makes God look arbitrary and, perhaps, capricious, and perhaps even that he has an evil side. So we know that Calvinists don't say any of that, but our thought is that if we were to become Calvinists, that's what we'd have to believe, and we can't believe that. And then when Calvinists look at us, they say, "Well, if we were going to be Arminians, we'd have to believe that the human person has a meritorious role in salvation." But we don't believe that.
Roger, we really appreciate you taking the time to give us a thumbnail sketch of your book, and even though I don't necessarily agree with all of the characterizations of Calvinist interpretations of Arminianism that you point out, and we have our remaining differences over the material content of God's work in Jesus Christ, I am very thankful that you took the time to be with us and to help explain Arminianism in the light of some of the misrepresentations.
Yes, well thank you for giving me that opportunity. I appreciate it.
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Issue: "Grace: How Strange the Sound" July/August 2007 Vol. 16 No. 4 Page number(s): 38-41
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