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who had the best year, blah, blah, blah.
Those guys who rank recruits assess a 40 time, a height weight, and a couple of video tapes and think that they know everything about a recruit. Well that is not all there is to it.
First and foremost a new recruit needs to be a coachable team player. Alot of these kids talent their way through high school. That is not going to cut it in big time division I football. Talent will only get you so far.
Attitude is every bit as important. There are some players, a certain one that will be facing armed robbery charges in the immediate future comes to mind, that will never quite help the team as much as they should. Emmanuel Moody comes to mind. He is the best thing ever to happen to football, just ask him... he'll tell you. As far as I am concerned USC can have him. Hopefully Los Angeles is large enough to handle his ego.
And finally, it doesnt matter how much raw talent you bring in, if you can't develop it and build a game plan around it you will be mediocre at best. i offer Lloyd Carr and Larry Coker in recent years as evidence. The hallmark of a Jim Tressel club is that it gets better as the year goes on. You can say all you want about his constipated approach to offense (last year as the exception), but one thing you have got to give Jim Tressel is that his teams improve every season as the year progresses. I don't think there was one team in the nation that would have wanted to play OSU in a bowl this year.
So as you are reading that this guy is a five star this and a four star that, keep in mind that it is based on a very narrow view. Furthermore, the ranking of a school's recruiting class has very little to do with a teams future success.

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Lentil Quinoa Salad
- 1/2 cup quinoa
- 1 1/4 cups water, plus 2 cups
- 1/2 cup lentils
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 lime, zested
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro leaves
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Put the quinoa in a sieve and rinse in cold water. In a large microwave-proof bowl with a cover, add the rinsed quinoa and 1 1/4 cups water. Cover and microwave on high for 9 minutes. Let it sit for 2 minutes then stir. Quinoa should be tender enough to eat, but with a little "pop" upon biting.
Put the lentils in a sieve and rinse in cold water. In a saucepan, simmer the lentils in 2 cups water until the lentils are tender, but not mushy, about 30 minutes. Drain and cool.
In a small bowl, whisk the mustard and vinegar together, and drizzle in the oil to make an emulsion. Add the garlic powder, lime zest, and salt, and pepper, to taste.
To assemble the salad: In a medium salad bowl, mix the quinoa, lentils, green onions, and chopped cilantro. Top the salad with the dressing, toss to coat and serve.
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Skip to comments.Florida offers prizes for python hunters
Posted on 12/07/2012 10:33:08 AM PST by JoeProBono
DAVIE, Fla.,- Florida wildlife officials are fighting Burmese pythons with a contest offering $1,000 and $1,500 prizes for catching the snakes.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said the 2013 Python Challenge, which begins Jan. 12, will offer $1,000 to the winner who catches the longest Burmese python on public hunting lands and $1,500 for the participant who catches the largest amount of the snakes, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.
Officials said Jan. 12 will feature a daylong open house on the pythons and other invasive species at the University of Florida's Davie campus.
"The (Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission) is encouraging the public to get involved in helping us remove Burmese pythons from public lands in south Florida," said Kristen Sommers, head of the commission's Exotic Species Coordination Section. "By enlisting both the public and Florida's python permit holders in a month-long competitive harvesting of Burmese pythons, we hope to motivate more people to find and harvest these large, invasive snakes."
Are they edible?
Can you make a pair of boots out of the skins?
Seems like there should be a market for them.
"permit" "capture"
How about open season dead or alive no permit needed.
Florida authorities are idiots. They routinely complain about invasive species but let people otherwise own many exotic species. Guess what, dimwit officials: when these exotic species escape or more often are let loose by bored owners they breed like rabbits, and become a threat to the ecosystem.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Instead of complaining about being over-run by invasive species try banning their sale and ownership in the first instance.
Catch'em? why not kill'em?
If your Python boots are too tight it can lead to Stinkfoot.
A week went by, and now it's July...
Finally got em off and my girlfriend cried....STINKFOOT!
If your Python boots are too tight it can lead to
Now scientists call this disease bromadrosis! LOL
They had a story about this on the local (Panama City) news.
It actually is dead or alive. They just don't stress the dead part in reports.
Boa or Python?
look like a pair of Tony L Boas I got but shorter in the shaft.most comfortable foot wear I ever owned
Will they offer prizes to people who fail to catch a python? After all, we don't want to hurt their feelings... :)
Put a $200 cash bounty on their heads, no limit and no permit / license required. Problem solved.
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Meanwhile the snakes are holding a contest to see which one can suffocate and swallow the largest snake hunter
Meanwhile the snakes are holding a contest to see which one can suffocate and swallow the largest snake hunter
Totaly agree place a bounty on them no lic no permit a bonus if you bring in more then 5 at a time.
Roy: The mosquito's a clever little bastard. You can track him for days and days until you really get to know him like a friend. He knows you're there, and you know he's there. It's a game of wits. You hate him, then you respect him, then you kill him.
Hank: Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles.
Roy: A lot of people have asked us why we don't use fly spray. Well, where's the sport in that?
Also, no closed season and no bag limit.
The pythons are doing a dandy job of eating the invasive Nutria.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Instead of complaining about being over-run by invasive species try banning their sale and ownership in the first instance."
The DNR officially classifies cats as an "non-native invasive species", BTW.
Slippery slopes and all that.
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Great idea! They should do this with other invasive species.
I hope, though, that there will be enough educational input for the snake hunters so that some yahoo doesn't wind up harming native snakes.
Mmmmm....rat fur shoes.
It just doesn't get any better than that.
[why are they referring to the shoe as "she"?]
Like the "occupy" crowd?
Great idea! They should do this with other invasive species.
Like the "occupy" crowd?
I like the way you think....
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Debates of Nov. 3rd, 2009
House of Commons Hansard #106 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was c-50.
- Question Period
- Government Response to Petitions
- Fairness for the Self-Employed Act
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Employment Insurance Act
- Auditor General's Report
- Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development
- Health
- Billings Estate Museum
- Quebec Science and Culture Awards
- Health Care
- Capital Experience
- Emergency Workers
- Infrastructure
- Award-Winning Vineyard
- Employment Insurance
- Huntington Society of Canada
- National 4-H Month
- Gino Fracas and Tony Toldo
- Bill C-56
- Death of Three Miners
- Status of Women
- The Economy
- Health
- The Economy
- Employment Insurance
- Health
- Taxation
- Health
- The Environment
- Health
- Conservative Government
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Emergency Response
- Health
- Employment Insurance
- Financial Institutions
- Parliamentary Budget Officer
- Points of Order
- Privilege
- Points of Order
- Employment Insurance Act
- Electronic Commerce Protection Act
- Employment Insurance Act
Quebec Science and Culture Awards
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Carole Lavallée Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Prix du Québec, the highest honours awarded by the Government of Quebec in science and culture, will be presented today.
Among this year's recipients are filmmaker, actor and screenwriter Paule Baillargeon, who will be presented with the Albert Tessier award in cinema. Actor, screenwriter and playwright Roland Lepage will receive the Denise Pelletier award in performing arts in recognition of his 60-year career.
The Athanase David award in literature will go to poet Denise Desautels, the author of some 30 works; the Georges-Émile Lapalme award for promoting the French language will be presented to lexicographer and terminologist Monique C. Cormier; archeologist Marcel Moussette will be honoured with the Gérard Morisset award in heritage; and photographer Gabor Szilasi will receive the Paul-Émile Borduas award in visual arts.
I would also like to mention the recipients of the science awards: André Gosselin, Otto Kuchel, Gilles Bibeau, Victoria Kaspi and Luc Vinet.
The Bloc Québécois congratulates all the honourees on their creative and scientific genius.
Health Care
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Judy Wasylycia-Leis Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Speaker, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Canada Health Act, the foundation of our universal public health care system.
The CHA was passed unanimously by Parliament, a remarkable collaborative achievement with the NDP's Bill Blaikie working closely with the Trudeau Liberal government and health minister Monique Bégin to ensure that quality care would be available to everyone irrespective of their financial status.
Now, 25 years later, the CHA is under attack and the Conservative government is just standing by and doing nothing.
Canadians were outraged this week to learn that private clinics in Toronto and Vancouver were providing a queue-jumping service to the rich for the H1N1 vaccine. This access by wealth is just one more example of creeping privatization and a government that refuses to stop it.
New Democrats, along with the Canadian Health Coalition and concerned citizens everywhere, will continue to fight against two-tier health care and the erosion of the Canada Health Act as we have for 25 years.
Today we celebrate not only the act but Canada's fierce commitment to Tommy Douglas' dream for medicare.
Capital Experience
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Barry Devolin Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON
Mr. Speaker, there is a special group of students here today. They are participating in a program I call a "Capital Experience", where two student leaders from each of the seven high schools in my riding come to Ottawa for three days each year to learn about career opportunities in public life.
They have visited Parliament, Amnesty International, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the CHUM television station, the Press Gallery and Summa Strategies.
I wish to thank those who shared their time with these students, and to thank the businesses and service clubs that sponsored them.
Today I welcome to Parliament: Chris Oag and Sarah Hutchings from Brock; Jacob McKend and Matthew Godja from Crestwood; Jacob Nicholls, Kyle Gavin and Riley Wilson from Fenelon Falls; Graeme Lloyd, Kurran Devolin and Kyla Suchovs from Haliburton; Emily Seabrook and Iain Becking from I.E. Weldon; Graham Batty and Jacqui Van Warmerdam from L.C.V.I.; and Ashely Obress and Emily Champagne from St. Thomas Aquinas.
I ask my colleagues to join me in wishing these young people all the best as they make decisions regarding their future careers.
Emergency Workers
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Geoff Regan Halifax West, NS
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join Reverend Lisa Vaughn and the Anglican Parish of St. Timothy and St. Paul in my riding to recognize the vital work of emergency workers in our communities.
On October 25 services were held in Terence Bay and Hatchet Lake marking Emergency Workers Appreciation Sunday.
I ask the House to join me in applauding all of Canada's firefighters, paramedics, RCMP officers, police officers generally, and community volunteers for their ongoing dedication.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Bob Dechert Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report on the unprecedented amount of infrastructure funding that has been delivered to the city of Mississauga.
Mississauga and the region of Peel have received federal, provincial and municipal funding for 158 infrastructure projects under our infrastructure stimulus fund. Under the recreation infrastructure program, the city will upgrade six local swimming pools located throughout Mississauga.
Through the knowledge infrastructure program, the University of Toronto Mississauga campus received $70 million in joint funding for its new instructional centre which is well under construction. Soon, Sheridan College will break ground on its new Mississauga campus with over $31 million in funding.
Recently, city councillor and former Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish said:
The recent infusion of infrastructure stimulus dollars from several different programs is the largest pot of money ever bestowed on the City of Mississauga and the Region of Peel by our two senior levels of government.
I am pleased to see all levels of government working together to provide important job creating stimulus to the city of Mississauga.
Award-Winning Vineyard
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Claude DeBellefeuille Beauharnois—Salaberry, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I would like to recognize an outstanding vineyard in my riding of Beauharnois—Salaberry, the Vignoble du Marathonien on highway 202 in Havelock.
Owned by Jean and Line Joly, this vineyard has won dozens of medals in the past 15 years in prestigious competitions in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, the United States and France.
Moreover, last weekend, at the Montreal wine show, the vineyard won four more gold and silver medals for its late harvest and ice wines.
Today, I want to pay tribute to Jean and Line Joly for their constant concern for quality and their great respect for wine drinkers. Despite the modest size of their vineyard, which contains 7,000 vines, the owners have turned it into one of the real success stories of Quebec's wine industry. They deserve our congratulations and our admiration.
Employment Insurance
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce that this morning our Conservative government is introducing a bill that will allow all self-employed workers to have access to special benefits under the employment insurance system.
For the first time in history, self-employed workers in Quebec will receive sickness benefits and compassionate care benefits. They can rest assured knowing that they can take leave if they are sick or if they need time to take care of a family member who is suffering from a serious illness. Some 500,000 workers will be pleased to hear this good news.
I am sure they are just as anxious as I am to see whether the Bloc will be in favour of these proposals or whether it will choose, as usual, to vote against the interests of workers. Let us not forget that the Bloc did not fulfill its role by voting against Bill C-50, which aimed to provide direct financial support to Quebec workers in the manufacturing and forestry sectors who so desperately needed it.
Huntington Society of Canada
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Frank Valeriote Guelph, ON
Mr. Speaker, November is Amaryllis Month and I would encourage my colleagues in the House to join me in supporting the Huntington Society of Canada.
Huntington's disease is an inherited brain disorder that affects both body and mind. It affects thousands of Canadians across the country, leading to profound cognitive and emotional impairment and eventually incapacitation and death. The disease remains incurable, and there are no known effective treatments.
The amaryllis flower is the signature flower for the Huntington Society of Canada, whose volunteers have been selling amaryllis plants since 1985 and have raised over $1 million for the fight against this terrible affliction. This month's Inspire Hope amaryllis campaign will support today's vital programs for family services for people coping with Huntington disease and crucial research to find a cure for tomorrow.
I encourage my colleagues in the House to please join me in wearing an amaryllis lapel pin to support this campaign and to spread the word about this devastating disease.
National 4-H Month
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Earl Dreeshen Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, November is National 4-H Month. As many Canadians know, 4-H stands for head, heart, hands and health, and its mandate is to inspire youth to become leaders in their communities.
The Government of Canada has invested in the Canadian 4-H Council since it was established in 1933, and we have just recently announced an additional $3 million in support for 4-H.
Thousands of Canadians, including me and many of my rural colleagues, were given opportunities through 4-H to compete, to grow and to enhance our lifelong learning. 4-H has a long history of developing responsible citizens and building confidence in our youth.
Canada's economic action plan also focuses on our young farmers through changes to the Canadian Agricultural Loans Act to improve credit access. The Government of Canada is proud to be a long-standing supporter of 4-H and its contribution toward Canadian agriculture.
I would like to congratulate all 4-H members and the 4-H Council for their great work.
Gino Fracas and Tony Toldo
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Brian Masse Windsor West, ON
Mr. Speaker, two champions of Windsor sadly passed away last week.
Gino Fracas, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and two-time Grey Cup champion, was one of the most respected individuals in the sport. He was the founding head coach of the University of Windsor Lancers football team, a position he held for the next 20 years, leading it to its greatest successes. As a professor and a coach, Gino Fracas mentored countless students over the course of almost three decades.
Tony Toldo, a recipient of the Order of Canada, came to this country as an immigrant and built manufacturing companies that employed thousands. He donated almost $10 million to improving the lives of those in his community, and created an institution that will live on in the Toldo Foundation.
From both of these men we have learned lessons: from Tony that success includes giving back to our community, and from Gino that high achievement is truly fulfilled when the accomplishment is shared with others.
I say to Josephine and the entire Toldo family, and to Leona and the entire Fracas family, that their husbands and fathers will be missed by the entire community. They made life better for many, and their respective legacies will inspire future generations.
Bill C-56
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Greg Rickford Kenora, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to announce that this morning our Conservative government introduced legislation that will provide maternity and parental, sickness and compassionate care benefits to self-employed Canadians on a voluntary basis. Our government is not only delivering on its campaign commitment to small business, entrepreneurs and family, it is exceeding it.
Members of the House know the challenges of balancing work and family. This legislation means that self-employed Canadians no longer have to miss those important family moments, whether it is spending time with a new baby or an elderly relative. Everyone in the House knows that in life it is all about family, and our government is taking responsible steps to help more Canadian families.
Now 2.6 million more Canadians who are so vital to our economy will no longer have to choose between their families and their business responsibilities. I just hope that for once the Liberal leader will put aside politics, stop trying to obstruct all the good work our government is doing and help us pass this important bill.
Death of Three Miners
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Yvon Lévesque Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, QC
Mr. Speaker, last Friday evening I was shocked and saddened to learn of the disappearance of three miners at the Bachelor Lake mine in Desmaraisville in my riding.
Bruno Goulet, 36, Dominico Bollini, 44, and Marc Guay, 31, were working in one of the mine shafts when it flooded. The three men had descended around 11:30 p.m. to levels 11 and 12 of the mine, or roughly 485 metres below ground. Help was sent immediately when the elevator that carried them came back up empty.
Unfortunately, the three miners have since been found dead.
This is a terrible tragedy and there are no words to describe what all of Abitibi is feeling.
All of my colleagues in the Bloc join me in expressing our sympathy at this difficult time to the families, co-workers and friends of Bruno, Dominico and Marc.
Status of Women
Statements by Members
2:15 p.m.
Gerry Byrne Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL
Mr. Speaker, increasingly Canadian and international issue action groups use full and partial nudity of female employees, models and former celebrities as part of their fundraising and publicity campaigns. This is indeed a very disturbing trend.
Lush Cosmetics recently used an employee of the company to pose nude in a public area of downtown Toronto to promote one of the company's product lines. While the employee herself was nude save for makeup, the company attempted to wrap itself in a cloak of virtue with a thinly veiled association with marine mammal populations.
Other activist organizations such as PETA, competing with other groups for donations, regularly use attention-grabbing female nudity to draw attention to themselves. Former B movie celebrities are contracted as prime spokespersons. They are often people whose only achievements have been simply to surrender themselves to public female objectification.
I would like to remind the House and all Canadians that treating women as objects is wrong, and exploiting women by presenting them as nude objects of attention purely for commercial purposes and without any overarching artistic merit is wrong. It is vile.
The Economy
Statements by Members
2:15 p.m.
Andrew Saxton North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, our government continues to implement Canada's economic action plan to help combat the effects of the global recession.
Infrastructure projects across the country are up and running, and 4,000 have begun in the first six months of our 24-month plan.
We have reduced taxes on families and businesses and implemented measures such as the home renovation tax credit and the first time home buyers' tax credit. We are helping the unemployed by extending EI benefits, making it easier to qualify and expanding EI training programs. All these measures and programs are to help steer Canada through the global recession. This is what Canadians want and expect.
What they do not want is constant mudslinging, constant threats of an election and massive new spending that can only be paid for through tax hikes. These are the priorities of the Liberal leader and the Liberal Party.
We are putting the country first, and Canadians can count on us to get the job done.
Oral Questions
November 3rd, 2009 / 2:15 p.m.
Michael Ignatieff Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, today we learned from the Auditor General that for its entire time in office, the government has failed to develop any national emergency preparedness plan. That includes planning for epidemics and pandemics like H1N1. Does that not begin to explain why the government's response to this crisis has been so slow and so confused?
We have heard from the Minister of Health. When will we begin to hear from the Prime Minister? When will he stand up, take responsibility for the government's mistakes and correct the situation?


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Oni wrote:This was a prime example of the real power of teachat, now we all order from Rich Barbarian, and we will make him even richer if his tea is really better than other on the market.
Don't worry, Herb, you didn't make it sound like the best tea in all the world, and those leaves do not look like the highest quality, but I'm sure everyone will have a few good cups of tea from it. I think most of these names -- King, Wang, Supreme, etc -- are marketing hype and only tell you about the relative quality within a vendor's lineup, something the price tag also tells you.Herb_Master wrote: I hope noone is disappointed - it as after all (as pointed out elsewhere on the thread) "only a Summer Pick.
gingko wrote:Yeah! I checked out the store again and they do have autumn harvest now. Then I think I will get some too
Salsero wrote:The picture on the site is of a female. Now, I am wondering if the Autumn maybe just came out ... it seems a little late, but maybe.Herb_Master wrote: ... maybe I should check with him [though I thought I was talking to a her!] ...
Salsero wrote:Yes, December may have been an earlier harvest. Contact the Barbarian to find out. The suspense is killing me!Herb_Master wrote: I placed my order in late december
If you did get the old one, I would be happy send you a couple bags of mine when it comes. The comparison could be interesting!
Herb_Master wrote: - I feel I am going to have to order the Autumn versions -
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Wan Ling met with Joshua from Ri Shi tea today. Taking a look at there website there may be some interesting info for you. The Japanese travelogue was an eye opener for me.
Happy tea drinking,
James and Wan Ling
SMC, I think the passage below may be of special interest to yourself;
The Japanese word Kabuse means 'wrapped.' It is common to see Kabuse or wrapped tea bushes throughout Japan. Wrapping the tea bush facilitates a slower growing leaf that has deeper color concentration, less astringency and more L-Theanine amino acid. This amino acid is vital in providing the "umami," or delicious, savory flavor found in high end Japanese tea. The bushes are typically wrapped for 4-5 days just before harvest. This photo shows a tea bush that was half wrapped to demonstrate the impact wrapping has on leaf color. The deeper green portion of the tea bush represents the part that was wrapped and the lighter yellowish green portion represents the part of the bush that was not wrapped.
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Lynn Swanson
Lynn Swanson, 58, of 185 Colfax St., passed away at 7:10 p.m. Monday (April 1, 2013), in WCA Hospital.
An area resident for most of her life, she was born March 6, 1955, in Warren, Pa., a daughter of Shirley Olson Vario and the late Joseph J. Vario Sr.
In earlier years, she had worked for the Lutheran Social Services, Chautauqua Opportunities and was a paraprofessional for the Jamestown Public School System working at Bush Elementary School for several years.
She will be remembered as one who loved to spend time with her family, especially her children and grandchildren. She also loved to watch soap operas, play card games on the computer and loved her dog "Valerie."
Surviving are her mother of Jamestown; her husband Timothy L. Swanson, whom she married March 10, 1973; two daughters: Jennifer M. (John) Thompson and Randee (Al) Greco, all of Jamestown; five grandchildren: Cora Lynn Thompson, Karsen Thompson, Randi Thompson, Rowan Greco and Margo Greco, all of Jamestown; two brothers: Robert (Tammy) Goodwill of Panama, and Joseph J. Vario Jr. of Falconer; her sister, Rhonda (Scott) Stelmack of Pelham, N.H.; and her in-laws: Alfred and Shirley Swanson of Gerry, N.Y., and Pat Evans of Plant City, Fla.
Besides her father, she was preceded in death by a brother, Randy Vario; and a nephew, Scottie Stelmack.
The funeral will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Lind Funeral Home. The Rev. Dana Douglas, pastor of the Pilgrim Memorial United Church of Christ, will officiate.
Friends will be received from 6-7 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home.
You may light a candle in remembrance of Lynn at www.lindfuneralhome.com.


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Responsible Coaches Guide For Successful Practices
Most times, when people think about coaches being prepared, they think about knowing the playbook and being prepared for game-time decisions. But if you are a softball coach, you know that preparation actually happens in practice. And Responsible Coaches know that preparation is more than just the playbook: it's also about being prepared to help teach athletes how to prepare for challenges – whether it's a sport or life challenge.
The team at Liberty Mutual Insurance has gathered together experts from across youth sports – including experts from Positive Coaching Alliance and United States Softball Association (USAS) to provide valuable advice and resources. This month, the Responsible Sports team provides 11 steps for Responsible Coaches to create a successful practice.
1.Coaches Preparation: Mental preparation is especially important for volunteer coaches, who often come to practice straight from work. If it was a good day at work, it's not too hard to start practice in an upbeat mood. But if it was a tough day at the office, or important tasks were left undone in order to make the practice, it can be all too easy to let the negative feelings linger…and impact the attitude of the young athletes. Coaches should always take a few minutes to mentally leave the workday behind –and bring excitement, enthusiasm and the "A game" to the team and their practice.
2.Objective & Priorities:What do you want your players to have mastered by the end of practice? Remember, Responsible Coaches adopt a Mastery Approach. Write down one to three objectives for your practice, and rank them in order to ensure you hit the most important items before you run out of time.
3.Opening Ritual: Responsible Coaches set the tone right away, with a strong Opening Ritual. Want to know what one looks like? Watch a skilled youth softball coach lead her team in the Opening Ritual. You'll see that her Opening Ritual directly tells her athletes to leave school behind, focus on softball and your teammates and be excited about practice.
4.Instruction/Skills& Drills:Every practice includes instruction. Our favorite piece of advice from the experts at PCA? Teach new skills in the "whole-part-whole" method. For example, if you want to teach players a new play that involves different intricacies for each player, it's a good idea to show them how the play is supposed to work at first. Walk them completely through it, briefly pointing out things that each player needs to do to make it all work, and assure players that you'll break it down for them so they'll be able to practice their parts later. Then, after each player learns his or her part, put the whole thing together again.
5.Conditioning: Conditioning is critical. As Responsible Coaches, you know that. But you also need to know that sometimes, this part of the practice can be a real drag for young athletes. So why not make it fun? Change the location you hold each practice. Hold mini-competitions to see who can complete one segment of the run the fastest. Pair up kids and have them talk to each other about a topic as they run, then discuss it when you circle back up.
6.Fun Activities: Sports are supposed to be fun. Don't ever forget this. And certainly don't let your young athletes forget this. Try to find ways to infuse fun into all aspects of the practice –from conditioning to rituals and everything in between.
7.Scrimmaging: Kids love playing in simulated game conditions. But a Responsible Coach also considers what a proper scrimmage looks like. Our friends at USA Hockey advocate cross-ice games. Our partners at American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) promote cross-field scrimmages. Why? Because both organizations know that when kids get to touch the puck or ball more, they develop skills faster and have more fun with the game. This could be especially valuable for defenders, who can easily get bored watching from afar while all the action happens on the other end.
8.Team Meetings as Conversation: Teams come together when they gel. When they participate with each other. When they dialogue with each other. Legendary NBA coach Phil Jackson talks about allowing players to have the first word. Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers stresses "quiet drills" to reinforce the power of communicating as a team. When coaches engage players in conversation, they are treating the athletes under their direction as equals. This is a big "tank filler", which contributes to greater performance.
9.Adding the Life Lessons Question:Responsible Coaches seek to win both inside and outside the athletic arena. While the life lesson from practice may be obvious to the coach who imparts it, it might not be so clear to your athletes. So talk about it with them. Bring it up in your team meeting. Let the young athletes talk about it and engage with the topic.
10.Closing Ritual: Just as the Opening Ritual set the tone for practice, the Closing Ritual helps set the tone for kids to take the positive experience of practice into their everyday lives. Fill tanks. We all need that in the face of at-times challenging realities and obstacles. And young men and women especially need it.
11.Assessment: Assessment happens both with your team and afterwards, in a self-reflective manner. How did practice go today? What was your favorite part, and why? Is there something you got better at? And as the coach – what did I learn about my athletes during this practice that can help me get better as their coach? A Mastery Approach holds true for both athletes and coaches alike.
Looking for more? Sign up for the Responsible Sports Weekly Coach Tipemail to get expert advice each week. Visit ResposibleSports.com to download free worksheets and tools. Or visit the Ask The Expert Panel on the Responsible Sports Facebook page. Consider reading PCA Founder and CEO Jim Thompson's book, "The Double-Goal Coach" for an in-depth look at youth sport coaching strategies.
You can also listen to Jim interview elite athletes and coaches. Each talks about the preparation they conducted in their own careers, as well as how their coaches prepared – and how they help the young athletes in their life prepare today. You can find these interviews and more in our Responsible Sports Podcast Library at ResponsilbeSports.com.


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Baxter, James K.
Baxter, James K. 1926–1972
A New Zealand poet, playwright, and critic, Baxter is generally ranked among the finest authors that country has produced. His work is strongly regional, drawing inspiration from the New Zealand wilderness, its tribal history, and natural cycles. Baxter's rejection of conventional social standards is evidenced by the unorthodoxy of much of his verse. A devout Christian, he has shaped his poetic philosophy to include elements of both religious and classical mythology, creating a viewpoint that is as highly moral as it is individualistic. To Baxter, a poem must be "a cell of good living in a corrupt society." Stylistically, his work is lyrical and metaphorical, and often shows the influence of Lawrence Durrell and Robert Lowell. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 77-80.)
E. H. McCORMICK
[James K. Baxter] is, indeed, the central figure in the contemporary scene, mediator among writers of different ages and outlooks, focus of highest hopes for the future. Not that he belongs in the category of the 'promising'; while still in his early thirties, his past as poet and critic is already substantial…. Familiar themes—nature's menace, the spiritual strength of the Polynesians, the precariousness of European occupation—reappeared [in Beyond the Palisade (1944)], acquiring fresh force through Baxter's matchless gift of phrase and lyric. This indigenous vein, with others exposed by the youthful virtuoso, might have occupied a lesser poet for the rest of his career. But Baxter has repeatedly been compelled to disappoint expectations, to follow not the predictable and approved course but the stonier path dictated by his own daimon. His next work, Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness (1948), was superficially less attractive than its predecessor, though it contained profounder poetry. It seemed to proceed from a state of spiritual depression, reflected in the images of winter pervading the collection and in the studied avoidance of rhetoric…. Recent Trends in New Zealand Poetry (1951) was remarkable not merely for the maturity of its judgments but for its strong ethical bias. Poetry, Baxter affirmed, 'should contain moral truth,' every poet 'should be a prophet according to his lights.'… The garments of teacher and exemplar are not easily assumed in our times; and in his next collection, The Fallen House (1953), Baxter himself could supply no simple message to a distracted world. Instead, like Hart Crane, he mined 'the black gold / Of prophecy' from an experience that was often bitter and sometimes sordid; he praised and in his own person illustrated a 'passionate integrity.'… (pp. 141-42)
A critical study, The Fire and the Anvil (1955), and the parodies of The Iron Breadboard (1957) may be cited as further expressions of an intelligence which has flowed, with vitalizing results, into almost every branch of contemporary letters. Baxter's presence, in fact, goes far to explain why in recent years Wellington has become the most vigorous centre of New Zealand verse. (p. 142)
E. H. McCormick, "The Middle Decades," in his New Zealand Literature: A Survey (© copyright Oxford University Press, 1959; reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press), Oxford University Press, London, 1959, pp. 136-61.∗
Roger Garfitt
When James K. Baxter, who died far too young in New Zealand last year, began his last book [Runes] with a section entitled 'after Catullus', it was anything but an academic exercise. One of the sources of Baxter's power was that when he drew on myth or literature, whether classical or Biblical, it no longer seemed an outside allusion, but became a natural source of reference, immediate and intimate…. What he shared with Catullus, and with Rimbaud, whom he translated brilliantly, was a primary intensity of feeling, an apprehension in which the passing detail retained its depth of sensuous texture, yet acquired an almost elemental force. It brings him equally close to the Jacobeans, who experienced afresh, in the tropes of classical rhetoric, the shock of mortality—'I thought, shoving my muscle through black hair, / "What is a man, this glittering dung-fed fly / Who burrows in foul earth?"' ('Henley Pub', from Selected Poems)—and gave him an affinity with his Calvinist forebears that was perhaps more formative than his own Roman Catholic belief…. [His] urgency and directness are not qualities he has learned from Catullus: they are constant throughout his work.
What he does gain from Catullus is an extra impudence, a greater colloquial freedom, which enables him to bring off the Catullan jokes perfectly…. When this freedom is added to his own world-weariness, it produces a voice that is nearly hysterical in its...
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Charles Doyle
More clearly than with many artists, Baxter's life and work are interdependent. From the first a controversial and complex figure, he apparently contained within himself profound contradictions. Deeply moral, he flaunted the conventions of his society over and over again….
Finding much in New Zealand life to attack, he yet realized that his true personal center was inseparable from his own country. (p. 19)
His four books of poetry … were widely recognized as the work of a major talent. Presumably, had he been a British or American poet his name would now be much better known. Yet, although one of the finest poets of his generation writing in English, he made virtually no effort to establish a reputation outside the confines of his own small country. This circumstance derives from one of his great strengths, his rootedness in the land and community in which he lived. (p. 20)
Indications throughout Baxter's writings, at every stage, suggest that he was naturally disposed to a belief in God, and that for him the Christian religion was a matter of serious concern. (pp. 30-1)
Pervaded by spirituality as they are, his last writings continue to manifest such apparent contradictions [as Baxter's lifestyle itself did, combining the spiritual with the crude]. But they may be more apparent than real. Baxter had always been this kind of mixture, and at the end, many would say, his life was an integrated whole, the meeting of yin and yang. (p. 35)
Many key poems of Baxter's first volume, Beyond the Palisade, were written by the time he was seventeen…. Work contained in [the notebooks from which Baxter drew this volume] has a greater range both in substance and technique, than is revealed in Beyond the Palisade. Available to him was a considerably larger collection, looser and more colloquial in texture; the making of the book was a considerable act of self-criticism and self-shaping.
As it is, Beyond the Palisade displays versatility in polished use of short-lined quatrains and longer, more ruminative forms. Its themes include the force of nature ("Eagle"); nature's cruelty and menace …; man's cruelty within nature;… the difference between Maori and pakeha (white settler) in terms of belonging to the land, the poverty of pakeha existence in relation to it, and the consequent poverty of pakeha history. Dominating the whole book is a sense of isolated man in the clutch of mortality and cruel, indifferent nature…. (pp. 38-9)
[Baxter essentially] chose to continue his selection for his first published book so that it centered on New Zealand. From the notebooks he could have taken work concerned with war in Europe, or containing references to Van Gogh, El Greco, Napoleon, etc.—poems which (leaving aside the question of merit) would have given the book a different aura, a larger and more outward-looking perspective. Absent from Beyond the Palisade but present here and there in the notebooks is a certain lack of reverence, an attitude which was to prove so fruitful in Baxter's maturity. In 1944 he might not, perhaps, have made a better book, but he could have produced one equally competent and yet not so pervasively solemn as the one we have. Yet, reading both sets of material, one is convinced that right instinct led to his limiting of focus, refusing the easy light, attaching himself instead to a small group of symbols which grasp, intuitively, a New Zealand still empty of man…. To the end of his life and with ever-deepening commitment, Baxter believed in the need for the tribe, attributing the desperate state of society to the destruction of "the stubborn clans" and man's failure to rebuild them. In this respect he anticipated the work and attitudes of Gary Snyder and others…. From an early stage his work shows signs of his longing for a positive human community.
Two books, Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness (1948) and its successor The Fallen House (1953), established Baxter's reputation as a poet…. Within a very few years Baxter was to astonish with the lyric elegance and grace of much of his work, so that in later years critics coping with the jagged, spiky poems of the 1960s showed at first a tendency to hark back to the mellifluous sweetness of the early work. (pp. 40-1)
Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness, pervaded by a youthful romanticism, is preoccupied for three-quarters of its length with the idea of death and with man's Promethean struggle amid life's solitariness…. Almost every poem deals with death and the grave…. From the charnel-house tone a casual reader might gather that here is another poet more than "half in love with easeful death"; but Death is "no barren cycle," rather "A truth as eternal as life is eternal". Sometimes the two attitudes, wallowing in death or incorporating it into the meaning of one's life, seem fused…. (pp. 42-3)
"Earth does at length her own sweet brood devour": recognition of this, the struggle to accept and assimilate it, is the chief ground of Baxter's early work. (p. 43)
Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness is, at its center, the locating and clarifying of a personal quest of the soul and, equally, it continues Baxter's discovery of his own voice as poet…. As [Allen] Curnow saw it, the older poets [of the country] had turned away from "assertions about New Zealand" in favor of more personal and universal themes. He concludes: "The way in which certain conceptions of his country haunt the background of Mr. Baxter's poetry, having receded from the positive foreground of older poets, encourages the belief that something of continuing effect was achieved by them." For a "tradition" of good poetry not more than a quarter of a century old, this was an important consideration! Baxter more than bore out the implied hope that he would continue to build and strengthen the national poetry. In later years he was to take an antichauvinist position in literary quarrels about New Zealand, but ultimately he was to prove much ampler, as a poet and individual, than both parties to the argument. (pp. 50-1)
The Night Shift (1957) [is] a joint work containing "poems on aspects of love" by Baxter, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson, and Kendrick Smithyman…. Baxter's section, "Songs of the Desert," was described not unfairly by Erik Schwimmer as "a series of loudly intoned approximations," and it does exhibit Baxter's dangerous facility in employing the stock responses of decadent romanticism. Yet, inevitably, even these poems (and it has been said that Baxter's are the weakest in the book) have their moments of powerful perception…. (p. 51)
The first phase of Baxter's career may be seen as culminating in the publication of Poems Unpleasant (1952), another joint book, this time with Louis Johnson and Anton Vogt….
What Baxter shares with Johnson, here and elsewhere, is a faculty for seeing experience in mythological terms, for perceiving the archetype behind the commonplace….
Baxter's poems, still, are haunted by literary echoes …, and he is much preoccupied by, and skillful with, traditional literary forms. More clearly now he perceives the terrifying split between deadening habit and the forgotten "language of the heart."… Here again is the lament for the creative energy of the lost, whole, animistic vision. (p. 52)
Baxter was not an intellectually complex poet, but his vision of human experience goes far beyond the merely intellectual, and this is apparent even in his early work. His vision encompasses the child born to darkness, whose fall from innocence is his awakening to death. Without this awareness the child would dwell in the earthly paradise, but it is in his death-discovery that he becomes a man. By definition, man is his own destroyer. In life he can attain a temporary contact with Eden through following his sexual instinct. Through it he creates, but he does so in the knowledge that whatever is created by man must die. However, any one human death is not final and life itself is, in some sense, eternal. With this sense of the eternal, Baxter set out on his later journey, toward eventual fruitfulness. (p. 54)
Throughout The Fallen House poem after poem suggests fear of the outside world. For the protagonist entering the world (and the world entering him) becomes more deeply alone. (p. 58)
Poem after poem in The Fallen House shows advance on his earlier work, chiefly by increase of what Baxter himself later referred to as "experiential knowledge" which he thought the very basis of poetry. With a few lapses, they are based on detailed recording of concrete experiences. Since Baxter is primarily a maker of parables and perceiver of myths this adherence to the concrete is vitally necessary. He is not a poet of ideas, but of mythologized events…. His parable-making and mythologizing methods imply teaching and imply archetypes behind incidents. Concreteness, therefore, is of the essence. Strange and disappointing then that his next work, Traveller's Litany (1955), should fall into the twin snares of pastiche and generalization; all the more strange because he had, in the interim, spoken cogently on modern poetry in his MacMillan Brown lectures, published that same year as The Fire and the Anvil. (p. 62)
Traveller's Litany expresses Baxter's Marian devotion…. In what might well have been a major statement he contrasts Eros … and Mary, Mother …; but the sequence rises to no necessary order and, redolent of literary echoes as it is, makes uncomfortable reading as a devotional act. What it does is to bring into somewhat muzzy focus Baxter's sense of the split nature of woman. At the same time he was becoming progressively more conscious of man's split nature. In "Notes Towards an Aesthetic" he sees the split as between Orpheus and Promethus, figure of song and figure of power…. "Freedom to do good and evil" worked in Baxter's psyche in those years to make both him and his work appear extremely erratic; but beneath this had begun, it now seems, the slow awakening of an interior harmony. (pp. 62-3)
In Fires of No Return provides a quite coherent and full account of the talents of the young Baxter. Three poems in section 2 collected for the first time are particularly interesting: "Seraphion," "Elegy at the Year's End" and "Lament for Barney Flanagan." Never a proponent of art for its own sake (nor, I believe, of the New Critical dogma that art should be considered without reference to its creator), it is nonetheless possible that as late as 1954 Baxter saw art as the supreme human activity, the artist therefore as privileged. From different angles, in each of the three poems mentioned above is a convergence of life and art…. Baxter was much interested in the interconnections between artists' lives and their work. Speaking of Wilde and Villon, he makes the important observation that "their work was a creative recognition of precisely those situations which their vices had helped to create." (p. 66)
For all its brilliant moments, however, the last section of In Fires of No Return (the new poems) offers no clear development from earlier work, although a change is astir. Still the engagement with Christianity is not wholly unequivocal; concern for humanity is there, but somehow blurred, and often marginal; also present is continued lament for the lost simplicities of the past. New development is confined largely to the technical level. A new tone is beginning to emerge, which, heard in retrospect, is harsher, stonier, sparser. The rhetorical fullness and richness on display in earlier poems such as "Rocket Show," "The Bay," and even "Elegy at the Year's End" are giving way to a textural spareness evident in the book's title poem, in "Auckland" …, and in "At Akitio." Here are the first signs of change which resulted, within a few years, in the gristly directness of Pig Island Letters, a directness achieved with no loss of richness. Alongside these signs of what is to come, and making them harder to recognize, are moments of what [J. E.] Weir justly calls baroque rhetoric. The two combined gave some commentators the feeling that Baxter had lost genuine contact with his Muse, but the matter was before too long to become clearer. From this time on, there gradually comes into the foreground Baxter's engagement with … his society, which ultimately was to absorb his full attention. (p. 71)
[By the early 1960s] Baxter has arrived at "the middle years" for which are kept the knowledge of man's difficult struggle to find the fragments of his soul and piece them together. Becoming a Catholic convert did not, as he knew it would not, solve that problem but merely brought it more clearly into focus. (pp. 72-3)
Evidence of change begins with the "current" poems of In Fires of No Return. If one looks for marked change in the Asian poems of Howrah Bridge … one will find little obviously new. At first reading, despite their density of local color, they may seem somewhat disappointing, without new preoccupations or particular insights. Baxter's experiences of gruesome poverty in India led him to condemn social systems based on economic values, but for him this is not especially new, as witness such New Zealand pieces as "A Rope for Harry Fat."… What is new in the poems is a tone of voice, a sinewy quality which signals the banishment from then on of displays of rhetoric merely for its own sake.
Baxter has been much discussed as a consummate imitator of models…. More or less beneficent influences in earlier stages had included Auden and MacNeice, Yeats and Hardy. Even a cursory look at the early work shows that Yeats was on the whole a bad influence, Hardy a good one…. All the influences mentioned were formative, but [Lawrence Durrell] a different kind of poet from any of these (and indeed from Baxter himself) now helped him to make a quantum leap in finding his own true voice. (pp. 73-4)
Since Baxter matched a mellifluous and resonant voice with a mental tendency to mellifluence and resonance, [the] astringency learned from Durrell was a great boon and is a likely source of the change, a shift of consciousness toward a sparser, tauter attitude. The better new poems in Howrah Bridge … manifest the change…. (pp. 74-5)
What Baxter felt imprisoned by was man's schizoid condition in our society, that condition which he felt as "Pig Island."… [He] speaks of "the great white heart of Pig Island, that wild interior island of the mind," presumably … the precious animistic core of experience, which, for him, had ultimate value…. Baxter has two "starting-points". One is the remembered childhood paradise, the other that "man is a walking grave."… "Pig Island," then, inward and wild, is itself a schizoid conception. First, it is what the pakeha has done to Ao-tea-Roa; second, it is both the "tough" life to which man is condemned and the wrestling ground whereon he must fight for salvation, for the transformation of his mirage-laden desert into the green, well-watered garden. (pp. 75-6)
[With Pig Island Letters, Baxter] seems to reach an entirely new level of achievement, especially in the title poem. Old faults, shopworn rhetoric and stock response, still linger, but not importantly. Newly evident is a remarkable conjunction of tautness and freedom.
Dominant is the thirteen-part "Pig Island Letters". It must have occurred to Baxter, since he adopted and developed the form, that the sequence is suited to his particular bent of mind, his tendency to return to, and meditate upon, the same few concerns. Technically influenced both by Lawrence Durrell and Robert Lowell, Pig Island Letters is distinctively Baxter's and is, besides, free of the formal stiffness and artificiality of his youthful "Cressida" and the pastiche mauve dolors of Traveller's Litany. Most eloquently, it is a weighing and judging born of "experiential knowledge." (p. 76)
By the end of his life Baxter clearly felt that there was some special grace (I mean the term, if I may, somewhere...
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Skip to comments.Celebs Mangle Facts, Call for Wendy's Boycott Over ObamaCare Cutbacks
Posted on 01/08/2013 10:17:35 PM PST by chessplayer
Liberal celebrities are piling on the Wendy's fast food chain, facts and economic realities be darned.
Dan Savage, Nathan Fillion and Sarah Silverman are tweeting for others to join their Wendy's boycott after news leaked that the hamburger chain will be slashing some workers' hours due to restrictions placed upon them by ObamaCare.
Too bad the trio didn't read the fine print - or look beyond standard far-left outlets like ThinkProgress. The worker cuts in question are only applicable to a handful of Wendy's outlets, not the whole chain itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Looks like Obamacare really does hurt businesses
"As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion."
..... they still don't have a clue that it just might be a necessary financial move for survival because of the financial stress as a result of the Blessed and Holy Obamacare sent to us from the One they worship.
.... After all .... something so genuinely wonderful could never cause any negative effects or problems for anyone .... could it?
Natahan Fillion is turning against the exact same people that made him a celebrity to begin with.
What the F is wrong with these MORONS?
I need to quit clicking on anything that has "Celebrities" in the title.
I am (was?) a BIG fan of Natahan Fillion since "Firefly" and it just HURTS reading that he is as stupid as so many of our "stars".
I can honestly say I have heard of none of them.
I have to fall back on that great philosopher/humanitarian/elephant dung picker upper, Joe Don Looney's 'words of wisdom'.
My employer has "only" a $25,000 annual limit ,so got a waiver because obamacare mandates over a million $$ annual medical limit.MY employer certified that coverage at that level is unaffordable..
Nathan Fillion is a Canadian. Who cares what he thinks about the U.S.?
If he doesn't like it, he can haul his arse home, across the northern border.
He's an Alberta, born and bred,so you'd think he'd know better.
huh? It's amazing what qualifies for a celebrity these days.
My bud works here for WB, and Fillion was the voice of Green Lantern on one of WB's DC direct to video movies. From what he told me, Fillion is an arrogant ass clown.
Doesn't surprise me.
Sometimes people get caught up in the character but not the actor.
Often times that "Actor" is a flaming pile of feces.
Not saying that Fillion is Feces or anything......
Yeah, Silverman had a cute schtick many years ago when she was young. I don't even know if she's still working these days, although she did pop up on 'Monk' a few years ago. I guess it can't really be a surprise to anybody that she's a moron.
See Nathan doesn't have to worry no more.
Now he's "CASTLE"......Whatever that is....
Just like David Caruso, Shelly Long and that sidekick from Conan he believes he has a huge future just from his looks and brilliant acting career.
Good Luck with that Nathan......
sad to see you go....
See Nathan doesn't have to worry no more.
Now he's "CASTLE"......Whatever that is....
Just like David Caruso, Shelly Long and that sidekick from Conan he believes he has a huge future just from his looks and brilliant acting career.
Good Luck with that Nathan......
sad to see you go....
Never heard of him/it.
Yea most people wouldn't.
He is a D class celebrity.
He was the captain of the ship on the show called Firefly.
He was the captain of the ship on the movie called Serenity.
Now i guess he's some loud-mouthed liberal douchebag from the show "Castle"
FIRE his pretty boy ass!!!
Someone needs to tell Animal Mother about his former co-star.
Sarah Silverman was once the quinisetional Cute Jew Chick.
She looked awesome in that Voyager episode, So super cute and perky and yummy and tasty and delic.....ugh, sorry.
Sarah was once a Fine actress!
E-mail me Sarah, there a par-do going on next week and i need a date.
Possible Keg......
LOL, I think that's what they call, "casting against type".
From the something I didn't know about that department.
REVEALED: Sarah Silverman was almost a Star Trek: Voyager regular
I've honestly never heard of Filion or Savage before. I have heard of Sarah Silverman before, unfortunately. She is easily one of the least funny people on this planet.
Well, who knew his "tight pants" were cutting off circulation to his brain ???
A real shame to see one of my favorite actors (Fillion) exposing his ignorance like that. For those who care, on "Castle" he plays the title character, a "famous" mystery writer who occasionally plays poker (or did early in the series) with well-known screenwriters. In-show, he's rich enough to buy a New York restaurant on a whim, and lives in a downright huge apartment in the city. The show is ok, not great, and is *really* formulaic, but he is a good actor, so it is still enjoyable.
Boycott Hollywood. Repeal ObamaCare.
I got a notice from my employer provided insurance in Oct, 2010 that my premiums were going up 30% starting Jan 2011, one reason given explicitly was that due to a provision in the "affordable care act", going into effect as of Jan 2011, that required no life time limit. It was previously $5 million limit.
The other reason, also explicitly stated was that, up to 26 year old children must be included on the policy.
My premiums are now almost 50% higher than they were in 2010.
I cannot afford any more of this "free" insurance.
I got a notice from my employer provided insurance in Oct, 2010 that my premiums were going up 30% starting Jan 2011, one reason given explicitly was that due to a provision in the "affordable care act", going into effect as of Jan 2011, that required no life time limit. It was previously $5 million limit.
The other reason, also explicitly stated was that, up to 26 year old children must be included on the policy.
My premiums are now almost 50% higher than they were in 2010.
I cannot afford any more of this "free" insurance.
Say it ain't so!
Wendys Cuts Employee hrs to Avoid Obamacare say.ly/mTT4UOe
I just boycotted Wendy's. And broke up with Wendy. Via tweet.
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I'm boycotting Neiman Marcus and Saks.
It's not just Wendy's - all fast food restaurants are letting full timers go as well. My daughter runs 5 McDonalds and her heart grieves for the people she has to let go or cut back - but these are the times obummer gave us.
Yes...Wendy's is not the only place....many fast food chains are dropping hours (to below 29 hours) on part timers, and laying off full timers that are on benefits...
If actors and actresses knew anything about numbers, business, economics, etc. would they pay such horrendous fees and percentages to agents and business managers? Actors and actresses are the last people anyone should look to for advice or an opinion on business. Go back to memorizing your lines and working on that pouty face look sweetheart. Real businesses have to deal with real world income and expenses. obamacare has upped the expense side, gotta cut other expenses to balance the books.
I've recently been following Adam Baldwin on Twitter. Adam played Jayne Cobb in Firefly. I swear the man is or was a Freeper. Look him up, it will warm your heart and maybe restore a bit of faith.
Does anyone know the impact of Obamacare on seasonal contract labor? Is health insurance not required as long as weekly hours are kept below 29?
This is a 3-4 month a year operation when contract laborers will work up to 29 hours/week. The rest of the year, hours will be less per week and only a day or two per week.
As an aside, how to make a homemade Wendy's Frosty.
Wendy's Frosty
Freeze the ice cream maker bowl for 24 to 48 hours.
Put plastic wrap on the bowl to prevent ice crystals
from forming.
1 quart rich, thick chocolate milk
14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
In a medium bowl, whisk together chocolate milk and
sweetened condensed milk until combined. Pour into
canister of 1-1/2 quart ice cream maker and freeze
according to your ice cream maker's directions.
Turn your ice cream maker on before pouring. This
helps to prevent the liquid from sticking to the
sides right away. Pull off the plastic wrap from your
ice cream maker bowl, and pour the mixture into the
bowl as it is turning. Blend for about 25 minutes for
a thick consistency. Serve in cups (with spoons).
With a blender
In a large mixing bowl, combine chocolate milk and
sweetened condensed milk. Mix the ingredients using a
large blender. Once thoroughly combined, put the mixture
into a freezer safe container and freeze for 2 or more
hours, making sure you stir thoroughly every half hour
until desired thickness is reached.
I have always suspected that the reason that people like this into show business in the first place is because they don't have the brains or character to do anything else. JMHO
Thanks for the info on Adam Baldwin.
Glad to find out he is exactly as I hoped.
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Performances will feature the music of Grieg's Holberg Suite, Schubert's Symphony No. 5, and Mozart's Violin Concerto No, 4 in D Major.
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nGrinder distributes the script into multiple agent machines and each agent invokes multiple processes containing designated multiple threads per process. It follows basic The Grinder execution logic. Sometimes, some user asked me how to make each thread does diffent job. Usually, it's to simulate the real world senario which a lot of users are involved or to eliminate the cache effect.
The most easiest way to achieve this is to use grinder.threadNumber property to get the current thread number. grinder.threadNumber returns the thread number starting from 0 within a single process. A script can make branches to act differently depending on this value. However if more than 100 threads are necessary, it's better to combine the agent number, the process number and the thread number to generate the unique thread id. Following code shows how to do this.
def curNumber; @BeforeThread public void beforeThread() { int totalProcessCount = grinder.getProperties().getInt("grinder.processes", 1); int totalThreadCount = grinder.getProperties().getInt("grinder.threads", 1); int agentNumber = grinder.agentNumber int processNumber = grinder.processNumber int threadNumber = grinder.threadNumber // Calc the current thread's unique id curNumber = (agentNumber * totalProcessCount * totalThreadCount) + (processNumber * totalThreadCount) + threadNumber; } @Test public doTest() { // Make branches with curNumber. }
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Completing a merger transaction between the former NEC Electronics Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp., the newly established Renesas Electronics Corp. has announced that it had commenced business operations.
NEC Electronics, semiconductor manufacturing division of NEC, and Renesas, a joint venture between Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, agreed almost a year ago to enter into negotiations to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas.
Renesas Electronics will focus on three areas of technology expertise, including microcontrollers, SoC solutions, and analog & power devices. The company aims to generate synergies to establish a strong new semiconductor company that is capable of consistently achieving high earnings in order to withstand changing semiconductor market conditions. In addition, Renesas Electronics will leverage its resources generated through streamlined operations and focus on expanding businesses in the global market.
Upon approvals from the Renesas Electronics board of directors held on Thursday, Junshi Yamaguchi became the chairman and Yasushi Akao became the President of the board of directors of Renesas Electronics. Renesas Electronics also announced that the company issued shares of its common stock to NEC Corp. Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in exchange for an aggregate of approximately ¥134.6 billion ($1.434 billion).
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Well, it comes to a knock-down, drag-out fight over $100,000 in the 2014 City of Homer budget. Why?
For some reason, this money represents the pivotal appropriation between success and ruin. If you fund any recreation, "you are doing it on the backs of the employees" (Barbara Howard quote).
This is a city with a budget of $25 million and reserves of over $11 million that can, have and will be used for any purpose the council agrees to. Maybe money for more bathrooms or to tear down the gym and build a bigger jail?
Who knows? Certainly not the public; we're just the taxpayers, rate payers, and assessment payers.
I plan to provide some push-back at the city council meeting on Dec. 9 and hope that some of your readers will join me.
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- 3 1/2 pound frying chicken, cut into 8 serving pieces
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 teaspoons red pepper sauce
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon granulated garlic
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon cayenne
- 4 cups peanut oil, for frying
Rinse the chicken pieces and pat dry with paper towels. In a shallow platter, combine the buttermilk, water, and red pepper sauce. Soak the chicken pieces, turn to coat, then cover, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. If time allows, marinate the chicken for up to 24 hours because the buttermilk promotes tenderness. Place flour in a shallow platter. Season it by mixing in salt, pepper, oregano, garlic, paprika, and cayenne. Roll the marinated chicken pieces in the flour, a few at a time, until well coated. Then, dip chicken in the buttermilk bath again followed by another coat of seasoned flour. Allow the chicken to sit in the flour and dry out while preparing the oil, this will help the coating stay on better. The buttermilk will keep absorbing the seasoned flour, which then fries up to form a crunchy crust. Heat oil in a large electric skillet to 350 degrees F. There should be about 1-inch of fat in the pan. Carefully add the chicken pieces in a single layer, skin side down. Do not crowd the pan or the temperature will plummet; make sure the fat continues to bubble around the chicken. Fry for 5 minutes, then turn the pieces over and fry the other side 5 minutes. Turn again, frying a total of 15 minutes. The turning will produce a golden-crisp skin with even color. Remove chicken to a plate lined with paper towels to drain. Do not put hot chicken directly in a bowl or container, the air can not circulate and the steam will cause the crust to fall off. Serve immediately or cool to room temperature.
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Win A Year of Casefile Clues-Find Ella in 1920
According to "A Family History of the Johann Christopher Janssen and Elske Fecht Janssen", privately published in 1983 by Carrie Johnson, (page 5) she was born on 22 May 1889 in Basco, Hancock County, Illinois, and was named Elkea Johanna Janssen and was the daughter of Jans Jurgens Janssen and Fredericka Maria (Sartorius) Janssen. She married Wilhelm (William) Tammen in Quincy, Adams, Illinois in 1922.
The question is: Where is she in the 1920 census? She has been found in 1900, 1910, and 1930 as shown below. Readers of Casefile Clues may remember that she was living in Quincy, Illinois, at the time her grandmother Sartorius' estate was settled. See below for instructions on winning the contest.
1900 Census--with John Johnson--her father--Bear Creek Township, Hancock County, Illinois
1910 Census--with John Johnson--her father--Bear Creek Township, Hancock County, Illinois
Ella died in 1987 and appears in the Social Security Death Index under number 321-32-3553.
Ella is my great-grandmother's sister. I do not know where she is located.
To win:
Submit your entry to Michael John Neill at firstname.lastname@example.com. Your submission must contain a complete citation to Ella's enumeration in 1920. Keep in mind that the enumeration should be consistent with what is known about Ella. The winning entry will be determined solely by Michael John Neill. The winner of this contest will receive a year of Casefile Clues.
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Never assume that there cannot be people with the same or similar names, even in a rural location. Assuming that there is just one John and Reka Johnson in Bear Creek Township might not be a valid assumption.
- AnonymousOctober 30, 2011 at 7:55 PM
You're right. I just looked through the complete 1920 census looking for Elkea (Ella J) Johnson . Did not find her but did find another John Johnson family with a wife named RekaReplyDelete
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This is a different John and Reka Johnson. I'm posting an image of the transcription as a separate blog post.ReplyDelete
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Name: John J JohnVon
ReVidence: Bear Creek Township Basco Village, Hancock, Illinois
birth year: 1857
Age: 63
Birthplace: Germany
Relationship to head of household: Self
gender: male
race: white
marital status: widowed
film number: 1820370
digital folder number: 4300534
image number: 00637
sheet number: 5
name: William TammenReplyDelete
residence: Bear Creek Township Basco Village, Hancock, Illinois
estimated birth year: 1890
age: 30
birthplace: Nebraska
relationship to head of household: Brother
gender: Male
race: White
marital status: Single
father's birthplace:
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digital folder number: 4300534
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Scott Guthrie & Charlie Kindel celebrate Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Release
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I love you guys, but how can you have a video that I can download that even states the "non-beta" tools are available and yet it still shows the Beta from 2 months ago?
C'mon, gimme gimme gimme!
Finally, the day has come!
Thank you.
It's 3.30pm UK time - tools are still Beta from 7/26/2010.
tick, tick, tick....c'mon MS - update the website.
The website has not been updated yet.
Hey Now,
Great Vid!
Thx 4 the info,
In the Windows Phone 7 developer site, the link still said download "Beta" tool but it take you to the download page for the RTM tool... Someone should update that soon I hope so people are not waiting or confused...
The tools are live....you can get instructions here
It's been a long road, and I'm very happy the tools are released. I loved Brandon Watson's comment, "go get 'em, be inspired, be awesome, stay nerdy".
I have been waiting for WM7 for a year to find out today, that there is no CDMA version? I'm really dissapointed...
No CDMA = No Sprint and No Verizon = All the customers that have no IPhone that probably didn't move because they like their carrier and potentially could have gotten a WM7 at launch.
2011 for WM7-CDMA is too late. IPhone will be on Verizon and there will go our potential customers.
Is there something that you can do to push the CDMA version before the end of this year?
Excellent work with the phone OS platform, but please don't miss the "Window" of opportunity.
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Kate began reading romance in 1979 when she picked up a copy of Kathleen Woodiwiss's Ashes in the Wind. She read the book from cover to cover in one very long night and was immediately hooked on the genre.
The next morning, she was standing at the door to her local Waldenbooks and when they opened, she hurried inside and asked for everything else written by Woodiwiss. At the same time, she found wonderful books by Rosemary Rogers, Laurie McBain, and Jennifer Blake.
Nearly 10 years later, while working as an advertising copywriter, Kate decided to try writing a romance of her own. After a history of interesting jobs in teaching, retailing, advertising, and nonprofit work, she was determined to add romance author to that list.
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