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"Although many books are called 'inspirational memoirs,' too few live up to their label. VanLiere's is one of the finest. Her life journey got off to a rocky start. Molested twice at a very early age, VanLiere was to face other soul-ripping experiences, including miscarriage and multiple failures with fertility efforts. Somehow, through the steadfast observation of small, everyday things, VanLiere experienced life-altering epiphanies, and she shares these in an open, honest fashion. Her folksy, familiar style makes readers feel as though they're communing with a close friend. At turns poignant and humorous, her memoir is impossible to put down. Laced with thought-provoking quotations from philosophers and other great minds as well as from the Bible, Finding Grace is never preachy or didactic. It has the same appeal as Rabbi Harold S. Kushner's excellent book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1983). Author of the best-selling Christmas Hope series, VanLiere expresses wonder as she finds joy in the mundane and jubilation in life's little extras." Shelley Mosley
Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Againby Donna VanLiere
Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires— even the simplest ones—are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God/i>
Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires— even the simplest ones—are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God is when we need him most. This story is about one woman's unlikely road to motherhood. Finally, it's a book about the "undeserved gift which is life itself." It's the story of "Finding Grace."
Donna VanLiere has entertained millions with her inspirational stories. In her new book, she gives us a candid look into her own life, a life filled with suffering and pain, but one that ultimately finds peace with itself.
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"Although many books are called 'inspirational memoirs,' too few live up to their label. VanLiere's is one of the finest. Her life journey got off to a rocky start. Molested twice at a very early age, VanLiere was to face other soul-ripping experiences, including miscarriage and multiple failures with fertility efforts. Somehow, through the steadfast observation of small, everyday things, VanLiere experienced life-altering epiphanies, and she shares these in an open, honest fashion. Her folksy, familiar style makes readers feel as though they're communing with a close friend. At turns poignant and humorous, her memoir is impossible to put down. Laced with thought-provoking quotations from philosophers and other great minds as well as from the Bible, Finding Grace is never preachy or didactic. It has the same appeal as Rabbi Harold S. Kushner's excellent book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1983). Author of the best-selling Christmas Hope series, VanLiere expresses wonder as she finds joy in the mundane and jubilation in life's little extras." Shelley Mosley
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Chapter One
We moved to our home in Medina, Ohio, in the spring of 1970, when I was three. My brother, Brian, was seven and got his own room, the green one with the short, shaggy dark green carpet. I shared a room with my sister Mary Jo (we call her Josie . . . like Jocie, not Jozey), who is nearly ten years older than me. We got the baby-aspirin-orange room with the orange shag carpet, and my parents got the all-purple room. The family room was pink, the living room blue, and the kitchen had bluish-green-patterned indoor/outdoor carpeting and avocado appliances. The house screamed 1960s.
There were a few homes on our road but it was mostly farmland. Our split-level house had a long, blacktop driveway, huge front lawn, brick front, a white barn in the back that would hold my dad's tractors and gardening equipment, and over an acre of land behind the barn for a garden that could feed most of Medina County (my parents never believed in small gardens). Our neighbor Mr. Lake also had a garden behind his barn. Bud Lake had a round chest that was slick as a watermelon. It actually glistened on hot summer days when he worked outside. When we met Mr. Lake for the first time I whispered to my mother, "That man doesn't have any hair on his chest." She tried to shush me but I was three and lacked whispering skills. Mr. Lake believed in using manure for fertilizer. He'd haul in a huge load from somewhere and let it percolate inside his barn before he used it. His garden always smelled crappy, but it was lovely.
A dairy was just up the street and Mr. Lake walked to work there every morning with his lunch pail in hand. Sometimes (but not nearly enough) he'd bring home a package of ice-cream bars and hand them to me. Life couldn't get any better than on those free ice-cream-bar days. One morning as I played in the driveway I was talking to myself, weaving together an outlandish tale full of colorful characters, intrigue, and drama. I froze when I saw Mr. Lake peering from behind one of his trees, listening to me. "Go on," he said. "I can't wait to hear what happens." Stage fright hit me and I couldn't utter another word. I ran toward our garage door and heard Mr. Lake laughing from his yard.
Across the road was a pasture full of cows for the dairy and right next to us was an old farmhouse where our other neighbors lived. For the sake of this story I'll just call them the "Taylors." Theirs was not a charming farmhouse in any way. The exterior hadn't been painted in years and what was left of the old paint fell like curly, white pencil shavings around the house. A distinct odor of aged, rotting wood, cigarettes, and filth met you before stepping onto the porch. My mother was and is a no-nonsense woman. She and my father both grew up in east Tennessee working on farms that fed fifteen children in my father's family and five in my mother's. My dad's oldest sibling, my Aunt Stella, was born the same year as my maternal grandmother, Mary Hurley. As Grandma Hurley grew, got married, and began having children of her own, my paternal grandmother was still giving birth to her fifteen children. When she died in 1972, her death certificate claimed she was just worn out.
My mother was always very practical (as I write this sitting at a plastic folding table I know the apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree) and called things as she saw them. On more than one occasion I remember her looking at our neighbor's home and saying, "Move next to a dump and you live next to trash." I didn't know what she meant.
When we moved to Medina my mom worked at the latex factory, the flower container factory, and then later, the box factory. (My sister eventually worked at the pickle factory.) My mother settled on cleaning homes as a business because she could set her own hours and be home when we got off the school bus in the afternoon. My dad worked second shift in one of the steel mills in Cleveland, the same one he'd worked in since he moved to Ohio in 1955 and ultimately retired from forty years later. At night I'd fall asleep in my mother's bed and when my dad got home in the early morning hours he would carry me to my orange room. I never remembered a thing.
After I learned to read I would crawl into bed with my mom and read her stories. Mother would come home from the factory and make dinner for my siblings and me, maybe do a load of laundry, or scrub a spot on the indoor/outdoor kitchen carpet before turning in each night. I'd rifle through my books or the ones we'd picked up at the library and read one after the other out loud to my mother as she fell asleep. I'd look over at her and think, "Why are you so tired?" I'd read till I got sleepy and then turn out the light, thinking about new books to bring home.
The Franklin Sylvester Library was just off the square in Medina. I would crawl on the floor between the stacks of books in the children's section in search of two or three new ones to take home. Long before I could read I loved to flip through the pages of a book and look at the pictures. The individual volumes in the Childcraft books that still stand on my parents' shelves reveal my scribbling then as I learned my ABCs and my failed attempts to write my name (the Ns are still backward). One winter's night my mother bundled me up to take books back to the library. I set three books on top of the car while I put on my boots but forgot them as I climbed into my seat. When we got to the library I searched the car for the books, thinking I'd left them at home. Mother discovered one of the books still sitting on top of the car; the other two had no doubt come to an ugly ending somewhere along the route. I was petrified as we walked into the library, so frightened that the lady behind the desk would take away our library card or worse yet, that she'd ban me from stepping foot inside the library again. I don't remember if my mother paid for the books or if the woman behind the desk was just gracious to an absentminded child but we left that evening after checking out two new books. We went home and had a piece of chocolate cake. There was always dessert in my mother's kitchen.
My mother was and still is an amazing cook. She had dinner on the table every night. A little neighbor girl up the road timed her visits to our house at dinnertime and was always ecstatic when my mom asked if she wanted to stay for dinner. "Oh, is it dinnertime? I guess I could stay," she'd say, filling her plate. She was accustomed to Ramen noodles or a cold sandwich and was just beside herself when my mother put mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, coleslaw, corn bread, and baked chicken on the table. My mother was raised on a Southern farm and in the South you do not have a meal unless there are at least three vegetables on the table. That's the rule. We had a little dog named Jack; he was part Pekingese and part Pomeranian, not a good mix for children. He was high strung and temperamental and my arms still bear scars from more than one run-in with him. After any meal we could drop a piece of food into his dish, plink, plunk, and he'd come tearing through the house. My mother took him to the joint vocational school to get his hair cut once and the students shaved him bald except for the fur on his head. He looked like a Dr. Seuss cartoon animal and was so ashamed that he came home and hid under the drum table in the corner of the blue living room. One morning my mother caught him taking his daily constitution in her bedroom and she was so angry that she picked him up and shook him. Tiny poop shot out like torpedoes onto the purple carpet and she ran for the door with Jack hanging like a sack of potatoes in front of her. That was high comedy for a kid and I fell down laughing. My mother didn't. Jack was mean, but I loved him; he was a constant playmate. Give me a few Barbies, baby dolls, and Jack, and I was set for the day. I was a happy kid.
George and Tess Taylor lived next door to us with their five children, all of whom were much older than me except Tom, who was my age. Sometime after our move I walked with my mother across the field that divided our homes and met the Taylors. Tom was in the yard playing with the family's shaggy, bounding yellow dog. "I'm Tom," he said, pounding the dog's side. "And this is Ziggy, the butt-sniffing dog." He smacked the dog's muzzle back and forth and took off running. Ziggy chased after him and pushed his snoot into Tom's rear end, hoisting him into the air. "That's why we call him a butt sniffer," Tom yelled, laughing.
"Stop doing that to that dog," Tess said, taking a drag off her cigarette. "You'll turn him mean." Tess had a mess of reddish-orange hair and the longest toenails I'd ever seen in my life. She was wearing sandals (no way those nails could .t inside a shoe) and an orange jumpsuit with a belt that tied in the front. Although it was the seventies I can proudly say that my mother never owned a polyester jumpsuit. Tess was down to earth and warm, and called me "Sugar Pop" most of the time.
Tom had dark hair and eyes like his dad, his brother Kevin, and his sister Cindy, who had enormous breasts. Of course the hugeness was accentuated by the lack of bra she often excluded. As Tom and I played in the backyard one day he stopped, doubled over, and vomited right on his feet. I ran to the house to find Cindy. She was on the front porch, ironing. Her breasts swayed from side to side as she moved the iron back and forth over a shirt. "Tom just puked," I said.
"He did what?"
I couldn't remember the other word for puke. My mind raced: It was a grown-up word, what did it start with? Hurry. Hurry. Oh, I got nothing. "He just opened his mouth and all sorts of chunks flew out," I said. She jumped off the porch and I couldn't believe that whatever was under her T-shirt was actually attached to her body. She helped Tom to the porch and went back to her ironing. I watched in silence then finally asked, "Do you have water balloons under there?" She reared back her head and laughed. I didn't know if that was a yes or no.
I don't know where George worked and I don't think Tess did anything more than smoke cigarettes and paint her toenails. I'd often catch her slathering on a new coat of candy-apple red when I'd be playing at their house. I'd look down at those ugly, glistening nails when she was finished and wonder if she took the skin off George's shins in bed each evening. These were the things that kept me up at night. That, and why Tarzan didn't have a beard.
I never really got to know the oldest siblings, Marty and Tabitha. They weren't interested in me and I don't remember having a conversation with them. Kevin was in the middle: younger than Cindy and older than Tom, he had long, greasy hair and a dour personality. "There's just something about that kid that I don't like," my mother said time and again. I didn't like him, either, but I didn't know why. He'd never done anything to me, and like his older siblings he never paid attention to me, but I hated it when he called Tom a little shit or piss head and I wondered why George or Tess didn't make him stop. Cindy was definitely my favorite of Tom's siblings. She gave me a piece of candy any time I asked for it and that made her tops in my book. After awhile I learned to ignore her great, heaving breasts and love her for the buxom candy dispenser that she was.
Tom was either at my house in our giant sandbox making what he called "butt butt trails" or I was crossing through the field to play with him and Ziggy. My mother was at the grocery store one afternoon when Tom came over to play. We wandered into the barn, a place my mother had told me countless times I "had no business being in," and I climbed on top of a huge oil barrel with a lid. I was pretending to be a bus driver when my weight collapsed the outer rim of the lid and my leg fell down into the barrel. I screamed as sharp metal broke the skin on my thigh, just above my knee, and my leg was immersed in oil. To this day I don't know why my dad had a huge barrel of oil inside the barn but he did and I took a bath in it. I tried to pull myself out but couldn't get a good grip; my hands were too slippery. Tom yanked on my arms till I was able to hoist myself up and over the rim.
A dark mixture of oil and blood streamed down my leg and I grabbed one of my dad's barn rags to wipe it off. Tom found a rag and began wiping as well. I was a bloody, oily mess and my mother wasn't home. I sat on the barn floor and pressed the oily rag onto the cut, waiting for it to stop bleeding but it wouldn't. Tom pushed the rag harder into my leg as we waited. With my vast medical knowledge of boo-boos, I quickly surmised that I needed a Band-Aid. I stood and bent over, holding the rag in place as I made my way to the house and down the mudroom stairs. I took short, quick steps through the family room, careful not to drip oil or bleed onto the pink shag carpeting, and climbed to the middle of the stairs that led to the kitchen. My teenage sister was sitting at the table, eating. "Donna needs a Band-Aid," Tom said, standing beside me.
"What for?"
"She scratched herself in the barn." I felt the blood soaking through the rag and pressed harder before I bled on the blue stairs.
"Let me see it," Josie said.
"I don't want to come upstairs," I said. "Just throw a Band-Aid down to me."
Josie got up and saw the rag I was holding to my oilstreaked leg. She took me into the mudroom and cleaned me up, using a clean rag to stop the blood. "By the time you grow up that scar will be two inches long," she said. It's not, by the way. When my mother got home from the market she was told by the doctor that it was too late to put stitches in my leg because it had stopped bleeding. Later that night she said, "I told you you've got no business playing out in that barn. Guess you learned the hard way." Parents always fall back on that.
After I fell out of the apple tree (the same one my mother told me not to climb) and broke my arm, my mom said, "Guess you learned the hard way." After I fell down the stairs (the ones my mother told me not to run on) and broke my other arm, my mom said, "Guess you learned the hard way." And after I broke my first arm again trying to jump over a lamp on the end table in the family room while watching The Carol Burnett Show (the lamp my mother told me to stop trying to jump over), my mom said, "Guess you learned the hard way." I never got to finish that episode of The Carol Burnett Show.
My days were filled with as much playtime as I could pack into them. There were plenty of trips to the emergency room but I had fun getting there. That was still the time when mothers told their children to go outside and play, and called them inside at dark to take a bath. If there were problems in the world, I was unaware of them, but that would change.
When I was five or so Tom ran into his garage and I followed. I hated the Taylors' garage. It had a dirt floor that had turned black from what I imagine was junk-car oil leaks and, of course, it smelled. There was always that pervading smell anywhere in the Taylors' house. Kevin was working on his dirt bike. Tom knew all the right buttons to push with his brother and in a .ash Kevin was on top of him, smacking him in the head. The whole beating-each-other-up thing was foreign to me. I'd never seen siblings all-out slug each other but the Taylors did it on a daily basis. Tom squirmed and screamed until Kevin released him. "Get out of here, you little shit," he said, kicking Tom's leg. Tom laughed and we turned to go. "Hey," Kevin shouted. "Come here." Tom stepped to him and Kevin pushed him away. "Show me your crotch," he said, looking at me. I had no idea what he meant.
"What's that?" Tom asked.
"Your vagina, you idiot," Kevin said, as he continued to look at me. I still didn't know what he was talking about. He lunged for me and pulled down my shorts. He held them at my ankles and I fell, yanking up my underwear. He laughed at me and I scrambled to my feet, running after Tom again.
In my mind I assumed that Kevin was just being a jerk. He was always a bully and a tormenter to Tom, and I thought that was what he was doing to me. I didn't tell Tess what he did. I didn't even tell Cindy, and when I got home I didn't tell my mother because she might not understand that Kevin was just being an idiot and because of him she might not let me play with Tom anymore. It made perfect sense to me at the time. We always replay scenes in our minds of what we should have done and in those instances we always say and do the right thing. It never happens that way in real life.
Tom picked all the best places to hide. His house was full of tiny doors that led to a small attic or crawl space but I never went into them. They were dark and smelly, and in my mind I always imagined there'd be rats or snakes in those tight, damp spots. Tom would creep inside one of those small doors and wait for me. He would wait for what felt like hours as I traipsed from room to room looking for him.
I was five or six years old and hadn't entered kindergarten yet when we played hide-and-seek one stifling day. I don't know why we chose to play inside on such a warm day but I heard Tom running through the hallway above me as I counted. Then I heard Kevin yelling, "Get out of here, piss head!" The door closed and I heard Tom scramble farther down the hall. I tiptoed upstairs and pulled open the small attic door at the top of the landing. The attic spaces in the house had long lost any sort of insulation and a blast of heat hit me in the face. Slivers of light streamed into the space and I shut the door. Tom wasn't in there. I looked behind the door of the girls' room and crept to their closet, swinging open the door. Kevin and Tom's door was open and as I walked past I noticed the room was empty. I went into the bathroom at the end of the hall and snatched back the shower curtain. Tom wasn't in the room at the end of the hall, either, so I knew he had to be in his and Kevin's room or that creepy little attic entrance inside the room.
I crept into the room and waded through the clothes and debris on the floor toward the attic door. I reached for the handle when I heard the bedroom door close and lock behind me. I turned to see Kevin; his pants were open. In an instant he grabbed my arms and pushed me to the floor, holding me down. He laughed at me and pulled my face toward his naked body. He laughed louder and I tried to get up to run home but he held me down, pushing my head hard onto the floor. I lost all feeling. No one burst through the door to save me. The walls didn't crumble on, the floor didn't swallow up, and a bolt of lightning didn't strike down what was happening.
I never discovered where Tom was hiding that day. I think he was probably crouched down inside that attic and stayed there long after I left. I don't know how long I was in that room or remember any details of how I got out the door. I have no memory of walking home or what I did once I got there but I do remember knowing that what had happened was wrong and that I should never talk about it. So I didn't.
Excerpted from FINDING GRACE by DONNA VANLIERECopyright © 2009 by Donna VanlierePublished in April 2009 by St. Martin's Press
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Meet the Author
Donna VanLiere is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. Her much-loved Christmas Hope series includes The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing, both of which were adapted into movies for CBS Television; The Christmas Secret; The Christmas Journey; and The Christmas Hope, which was adapted into a film by Lifetime. She is also the author of The Angels of Morgan Hill. VanLiere is the recipient of a Retailer's Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, an Audie Award for best inspirational fiction, and a nominee for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year. She is a gifted speaker who speaks regularly at conferences. She lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband and their children.
Donna VanLiere is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. Her much-loved Christmas Hope series includes The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing, both of which were adapted into movies for CBS Television, The Christmas Secret, The Christmas Journey and The Christmas Hope, which was adapted into a film by Lifetime. She is also the author of The Angels of Morgan Hill and Finding Grace. VanLiere is the recipient of a Retailer's Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, an Audie Award for best inspirational fiction, and a nominee for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year. She is a gifted speaker speaks regularly at conferences. She lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband and their children.
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Chevrolet "Blue Maxi" Camaro Z/29
We set out to prove that a mere automobile can transcend the obvious device of transportation and become an experience, and we have succeeded.
As appears in its final, Z/29 form, the Blue Maxi differs very little from its sibling Z/28. The whole secret was (as we have been telling you for some time) a careful selection of parts—and fine tuning.
The engine is next year's incarnation of a Z/28, the LT-1, a stroker 302 with 0.48 inches more arm. It was actually converted from a 350 cu. in. 350-hp Corvette, vintage 1969. The conversion included the solid-lifter A/28 camshaft, Z/28 intake manifold and carburetor, and 800 cubic-feet-per-minute Holley 4-barrel. Forged 11.0-to-one compression pistons and 4-bolt main bearing caps are a standard part of the package. The result is a 370-hp Z/29 engine compared to the 290 hp of the original 302 unit in the Z/28.
It is true that some modifications were made—why else Roger Penske? If there is a pipeline from Chevrolet Engineering, and Chevrolet would deny that in extremis, it must make at least a short stop in Philadelphia on its way to Midland, Texas. Initial problems with the carburetion were solved by quiet recalibration by Sam Eckerd, and it would come as no surprise if it were done with the help of coded messages from the factory.
Basically, it was just re-jetted with some additional help in the off-idle transfer system. The timing was also advanced a bit.
The result is a transformation of the engine.
When we first ran the car in preliminary tests the best we could do was 14.2 seconds at 100 mph; with the magic of Penske attendant upon it, the times improved dramatically to 13.7 and the speed to 104.
Equally important, the braking—which was abominable at first—returned figures which are the third best in our history. The car stopped in 220 feet, generating .97G.
The ducted hood is not to be ignored in all this. It is an especially valuable addition on an air conditioned car—and air conditioning was a part of our required package when we decided on what was necessary to produce a thoroughly acceptable GT. With A/C, the underhood temperatures are very high. That not only reduces performance, but also contributes to rough idle and low speed operation.
The air intake system has been modified so that cold air is ducted to the carburetor at all times now—simply by removing the vacuum-controlled valve in the hood scoop and plugging the under-hood air cleaner snorkle. It may have to be changed back for winter time operation.
Since the car itself was originally built as an SS350, the Blue Maxi came with the standard intended-to-be-quiet-rather-than-high performance muffler. It acted as a cork. A later change to a 1968 Z/28 muffler not only helped the sound but added about 2 mph to the trap speed in the quarter. A free-breathing engine like the LT-1 can't stand a restrictive exhaust.
Air conditioning adds 97 pounds to the weight of the car, 89 of them on the front wheels. This is just enough to require chassis modifications if the goal of fine balance in handling and braking is to be achieved.
The initial problem in braking was that the rear wheels unloaded too much during hard application, with resulting rear wheel lock-up and axle tramp. A proportioning valve compensation solved that nicely.
At present, the car is an understeerer, though not unpleasantly so. To overcome it requires only 4 psi more in the front tires, but if it is decided that it is a really bothersome characteristic, the rear springs would have to be less stiff than the dealer-available Camaro HD units yet stiffer than the standard springs.
We have lived with our Z/29 for three months and it is like living with a beautiful woman. She's there, she's yours, she's unpredictable. You marvel the magic will last. It is all astonishing and not for mere mortals.
The Blue Maxi has served as the course car at Bridgehampton during a driver's school where flat-out speed and evasive maneuverability spell the difference between survival and statistic. We were mobbed by people who wanted just one lap in the car. Those who got it wandered away in shock. A "road car" that was more of a race car than most of them had ever been in, no less driven.
Driven like a race car, the Z/29 has some very endearing characteristics. It is easy to drive. We said last year (C/D, July, 1968) that we wondered, along with test driver Sam Posey, why power steering did not find more currency in racing equipment. Maxi emphasizes the point. The car is enormously responsive, easy to direct and is almost flawless in transient situations.
As delightful as it is to find a race driver who gets in our Company Car and wails around the track to become an instant convert, it is, if anything, even more delectatious to feel the car on the street and bask in the attention it draws.
For most people, Blue Maxi is an event, a moment's surcease in a drab and unrewarding day. Properly so. We set out to prove that a mere automobile can transcend the obvious device of transportation and become an experience, and we have succeeded.
C/D's car will find its way into the hands of people who know about cars in the months to come. Not very many, just a few who understand. And what they will understand when they drive it is that until that moment they haven't understood at all.
That's what the Blue Maxi does for you.
And that was the whole idea.

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Marine Corps Pfc. Ashley M. Perry, daughter of Lisa A. Bradshaw of Russell Springs and Bobby R. Hayes of Campbellsville, recently completed the administrative clerk course at Personnel Administration School, Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools, at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
During the eight-week course, Perry learned basic skills and knowledge in personnel management and administration procedures.
A few topics have been weighing on my mind lately, so I thought I would address them all at the same time.
First up, the Fiscal Court contracting with Campbellsville Baptist Church to operate Veterans Memorial Park.
I have to say that when I first heard that magistrates wanted to investigate whether leasing the park could save them some money, I immediately thought, don't we have bigger - and more costly - issues to worry about?
The history of local African-Americans is being recorded for posterity's sake, thanks to Greater Campbellsville United.
Oral history interviews with 32 African-Americans in Taylor and Green counties were presented on CDs recently to Taylor County Public Library, Campbellsville University, the Heistand House, the Kentucky Oral History Commission and Green County Public Library.
The presentation was the result of a grant obtained by Greater Campbellsville United. Jon Allen interviewed key individuals who were knowledgeable about the African-American community.
Fruit of the Loom's 1000 Unit met for a reunion on Feb. 28 at Ponderosa Restaurant.
Those attending were Gilda Keltner, Joyce Tungate, Rosie Hurt, Wanda Pierce, Jean Milby, Wanda Curry, Leora Wilson, Betty Powell, Shirley Garrett, Mildred Raikes (floor boss), Joyce Bagby, Nancy Blandford, Alma Wise, JoAnn Wethington, Brenda Popplewell, Bernice Stillwell, Joyce Baker and Aleda Thompson.
"The lifestyle of drugs and alcohol can send your life spiraling out of control," said Eric Berry, the speaker for Campbellsville University's March 4 chapel.
Berry, a former construction worker, T-ball and basketball coach and father to a 16-year-old son, spoke to CU's students, faculty, staff and coaches about how drugs and alcohol had taken over his life, and how he now has his life under control with the help of Jesus Christ.
So many times, we hear complaints that there's nothing to do. Well, we don't want to hear that for at least the next few weeks, because judging from our Calendar of Events page, there's no possible way anyone couldn't find something fun to do.
This past Tuesday night alone was a treat - with a performance by the renowned Vienna Boys' Choir and then a public meeting to discuss proposals for the Heartland Parkway.
E. Poe Young recently celebrated his 99th birthday with family and friends at Good Hope Baptist Church Christian Life Center. He is pictured with his son Murrell, his grandson Troy and his great-grandson Weston.
Many Kentuckians, just like many across the country, are struggling to get by during this economic crisis. Unemployment is at a 25-year high. Too many have seen their hard-earned savings dwindle. And people are worried about paying for education, health care or the mortgage.
At a time like this, Americans have a right to expect that as they are cutting back, so is their government.
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The following Q&A is part of a sponsored interview that USA TODAY held with eight-time Olympic medal-winning speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno.
Apolo, let's get the question everyone's thinking about out of the way right at the top: How strongly are you considering a return for 2014?
At this point in time, I'm taking a break and perhaps putting my competitive skating career on hold. But I'm not in any way closing the door. Down the road, if my heart still says yes, then I'll pursue it one more time.
If you did return, you'd be 31. How does an athlete stay at the top of his game in a sport with such emphasis on youth and speed?
In your twenties, when you're younger, you have the advantage physically. But when you're older, you have a better grasp on what to eat and how to take care of your body. You have a presence on the ice as an athlete. You've been there before on the biggest stages, so you know what it takes to get the job done.
You are the most decorated winter athlete in U.S. history. Of all your medals, which means the most to you?
My entire experience in 2010 was awesome. At that point in my career, I felt like I was competing more than just for medals. That's why I love this sport so much. The weight was off my shoulders and it was back to basics for me.
Think back to when you represented your country at this level for the first time. Any advice for those people who will be embarking on this experience?
For the first timers, this is what I would say: Enjoy every single moment of it. Enjoy representing your country, it's your time to shine. I believe so wholeheartedly in old-school American toughness. That's why, no matter what the situation, whether you're sick or injured, go out and perform your best.
Do you have anything going on this summer you'd like people to know about?
I'm going to be a reporter working on some really cool programming for the broadcast from London, doing the whole "fish-out-of-water" angle. It's going to be fun to experience everything as a spectator, to go walk and talk around the city and offer my insight. Other than that, I'm always keeping busy.
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Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures have entered into a three year 50-50 co-financing, co-producing, co-development deal for a minimum of two feature films per annum with budgets up to $65m. All films under this new arrangement will be released theatrically in the US through Cross Creek's slate distribution deal with Universal Pictures. Exclusive Media will retain and sell international rights to the titles. The announcement was made today by Exclusive Media Co-Chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East and Cross Creek President, BrIan Oliver.
Following the partnership on Ron Howard's RUSH, also to be released through Cross Creek's distribution deal with Universal Pictures, the first film being produced and financed under this new far reaching arrangement is the thriller A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES starring Liam Neeson (TAKEN). Written and to be directed by Scott Frank (THE LOOKOUT), the film is one of the popular 'Matt Scudder' book series written by Lawrence Block.
Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are producing with Danny DeVito and his company, Jersey Films. Principal photography is set to start in February 2013 on location in New York City.
"We feel like we won the trifecta by getting the one star who is perfect for Scott's great script that he was born to direct," said Shamberg and Sher.
Formerly a cop with the NYPD, now an unlicensed private eye and a recovering alcoholic haunted by past mistakes, Matt Scudder (NEESON) is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. He operates just outside the law where the police don't go to track down the kidnappers, who he discovers have been involved in multiple kidnappings and brutal murders.
"We have long enjoyed a fulfilling business partnership with Brian and his team at Cross Creek, creating success with THE IDES OF MARCH, THE WOMAN IN BLACK and now RUSH, among others. We feel very confident to formalise and strengthen our development, financing and production arrangement with Brian and we are thrilled to start this new chapter with such a commercial project," commented Nigel Sinclair and Guy East
Exclusive Media's COO Marc Schipper negotiated the development and production deal with Cross Creek's BrIan Oliver. Tobin Armbrust, Exclusive Media's President of Worldwide Production and Acquisitions will be overseeing the new relationship.
The arrangement also gives both companies the first opportunity right to co-finance and co-produce pictures outside those set for the Universal pipeline.
In addition to the picture by picture financing responsibilities, both companies are jointly creating a six figure revolving development fund to source additional properties.
Alex Walton, Exclusive Media's President of International Sales and Distribution will introduce A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES to overseas buyers at the Cannes Film Market.
Oscar nominee Liam Neeson is one of Hollywood's most in-demand actors having starred in three hit films released in 2012 so far: Open Road Films' THE GREY opposite Dermot Mulroney and Frank Grillo, Warner Bros. Pictures' WRATH OF THE TITANS opposite Sam Worthington and Ralph Fiennes, and Universal's BATTLESHIP co-starring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård and Rihanna, with the last two films currently in theatres. He will next be seen in the highly anticipated final installment in Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES to be released in July. He also starred in the worldwide box office hit TAKEN opposite Maggie Grace and will be reprising his role as Bryan Mills in the sequel, TAKEN 2 to be distributed in October via 20th Century Fox. Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Steven Spielberg's SCHLINDER'S LIST.
Writer/director Scott Frank was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's OUT OF SIGHT, starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. His extensive writing credits include GET SHORTY, MINORITY REPORT, THE INTERPRETER, and MARLEY AND ME. He made his impressive feature film directing debut with the critically acclaimed THE LOOKOUT starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode and Isla Fisher, which he also wrote and was released through Miramax Films. The film won the Best First Feature Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.


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Making new plumbing connect to old Cast Iron plumbing
Hello all, first time posting here. To put it plainly the plumbing in my bathroom is a mess. Instead of telling storys I'll get right into it. I can do about most any thing, but I may not know all the correct terms, so bare with me.
This jack legg was hired before I moved into this place by someone else to fix a few things. He replaced the floor in the bathroom (the plywood, top layer), well it seems all of it except around the toiler which, after I thought I had a bad wax ring (had a leak), found out the floor is so rotted around the toilet, there is not enough material for the toilet flange to bolt to so the toilet is just sitting there.... (naturally, this is afterI removed the toilet flange, but it really wasnt doing much work as is, lol)
Now the floor, iv never done, but I can make it work. My problem is connecting into what will be the new PVC and toilet flange into the cast iron plumbing below. Currently a, thin metal pipe just dumps right into the cast iron plumbing from the toilet. Its smaller in diameter, so its not sealed. is just hovers in the cast iron, nice smell under the house.... :huh:
Thats my biggest question... How do I connect into that cast iron with new pvc???
Thanks for all the help. This house is really screwed up. ill say I added a trap to the bath tub today. its just as bad as this is. the tub has like 1 1/2" pvc going into a 2" pvc pipe just like pictured above. not sealed. going into the same type of black abs? like 4" id guess drain.... and whoever decided to run a 2" piece of pvc into a 4" drain decided using Masonary patch would be a awesome way of connecting them! :bangin: Can't make this stuff up.
If that was mine I'd be removing and replacing all if that old steel and cast iron with new PVC or ABS.
It is going to leak and plug up on the insides at some point if it's not already.
They do make a donut shaped gasket to convert that hub to a new piece of PVC, but you still would have all that other mess to deal with.
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Joe's right.
You need to remove the CI fitting back to the ABS. The lead pipe will never seal properly to a new flange. Also replace what appears to be a line to a lav.
Thanks for the reply. I didn't pay much attention as to what the iron pipes going into that hub. I'd guess vents? Ill have to get under there and look at it all again. And again I'm no plumber so I'm not sure if I would be capable to replacing all that old iron pipe, especially If it is vents and goes up through the walls???
If I started replacing it, but I could no longer go farther with it, is there a simplier product to connect (I'm guessing that's 1 1/2" iron pipe) 1 1/2" iron to 1 1/2" PVC?
All that's doesn't sound as bad as I thought though.
What's a lav?
Edit- actually, I think that's not a vent but the drain for the sink. The sink is actually to the right in the picture, but the pipe also goes left.,, not sure why..... Nothing is there, unless its a hold drain for the bathtub that's no longer used...
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They make almost all connectors you can think of. Try a 1.5" iron pipe x 1.5" plastic shield coupling made by manufacturers such as Tyler, Mission, Proflex or Fernco
A lav is short for lavatory, aka bathroom sink
That's great stuff. I'm sure I could go to lowes and look and look and probably figure most of this out After 3 hours, but thanks to you all I know exactly what I need!
Big thanks!
Replace all the way down to abs.:thumbsup: A plumber would knock it out in 1 hour or mine would. Its not a bad job for a experience plumbers.
Ps. I bet the toliet to cast iron is old school rope sealing the connection. I forget what its called. They actually used rope back in the day to seal connections like this.
Fall....don't be afraid of it....it really is a lot easier than it looks once you get past the stigma of working with cast iron pipe....I did something similar.....Once you cut that pipe with your sawzall....it gets easy after that....hard part is crawling on your back in the crawl space....
The more I look at it, plus the info I got here, I'm not too worried. I got back under the house to check out the lines going into that cast hub. Like I figured the pipe going to the left in the picture is a old drain pipe that is sealed off now for the tub. The line going "behind" the hub goes up into the wall, has to be a vent. The sink has its own drain and doesn't tie into what's pictured.
Only question I believe I now have is what will be the best way to connect abs into the cast iron vent? the cast iron is threaded, naturally, at the 90 bend, could I just unscrew it (if possible) and find a piece of abs that's threaded for it? Or would I be best to use one of those rubber connectors with clamps?
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Cast iron is usually not threaded although it is cast with female threads- doubt it will unthread.
What I am looking at is out of the picture above. It has to be the vent, nothing else it could be, the pipe goes from that hub, to the tee, then straight back then 90s up the wall, that's what I am talking about. (At the tee is where the now capped off old drain for the bath tub comes in).
I have pictures, but I can't post them from the phone, I found this online which is what my pipes look like, only nicer.
I was doubting they would unscrew. So what would be my easiest bet, taking a sawsall to the piece of straight pipe coming off the hub after the tee and before the 90 and just add abs and use one of those rubber couplers like this?
If I got that right, seems like a cake walk, only thing I can't ask is any cool tricks to cutting the soon to be new abs toilet pipe flush with the floor?
That's galvinized pipe not cast.
Okay boys, thanks to your help I nearly got it done, well the plumbing is, I just have to put the new floor in, had to stop to attend a wedding.
Anyways, the vent pipe was full of nasty junk and rust. But I think I cleared it out. The real problem I ran into... That 4" abs, apperantly is a much smaller diameter 4". I put a 4" coupler on it and it just slid down. I had no idea what I could do, other than using a big rubber coupler, that I didn't have on hand, so I slathered it in abs cement and added the new piece to hold it there to seal.
Nothing ever goes right, what was the correct way to do that? The rubber coupler or a special plastic coupler?
Ill post pictures of my work once I'm done and can get on the computer to size em down.
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NEW YORK -- Today, REVOLT CEO Keith Clinkscales announced the multi-genre, multi-platform music network will hold its first music conference in the fall in Miami to further position the growing network as the new #1 name in music, in addition to the appointment of music veteran Andre Harrell to a new role of vice chairman of REVOLT. In his new role at REVOLT, Harrell will use his extensive music knowledge to lead the inaugural REVOLT Music Conference (RMC) taking place this October in Miami. Through the music conference, Harrell will also create new opportunities for REVOLT with technology companies, brands, and the music industry largely focusing on business development, outreach and strategic partnerships.
REVOLT CEO Keith Clinkscales stated, "The REVOLT Music Conference presents an opportunity for industry professionals to have credible, informed conversations that can impact the future of the industry, including brands and technology leaders as catalysts." He continued, "We are also proud to announce that music industry pioneer Andre Harrell has been named vice chairman of REVOLT TV, with the first order of leading development and outreach for the conference."
For more information about the music conference: http://www.revolt.tv/rmc2014.
New Vice Chairman Andre Harrell is an entertainment powerhouse with an unmatched track record spanning film, television, music, and branding. In his illustrious career spanning four decades, Harrell counts among his highlights:
Film & Television: Executive produced Strictly Business, starring Halle Berry in her first role and executive produced hit-show "New York Undercover" with television mainstay Dick Wolf. Later executive produced dance film Honey starring Jessica Alba.
Music: One of the only music executives with a hit in every decade since the 1970s, most recently executive producing Robin Thicke's chart-topping "Blurred Lines," the most played song on radio in 2013 and biggest single in radio history. Additionally, Harrell discovered artists including Sean "Puffy" Combs, Mary J Blige, Robin Thicke, Jodeci, Harrell also founded Uptown Records and served as the president of Motown and Bad Boy Records.


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By Giuseppe Muro
Johan Djourou admits he did not want to watch football during his prolonged spell on the sidelines.
The Swiss central defender missed virtually the whole of last season with a knee problem after requiring surgery to cure a complicated injury.
He has since returned to full strength and has been one of Arsenal's stand-out performers this season but confesses he struggled to watch his team-mates in action during his recovery.
"For me I took a break sometimes," he said. "Because when you're watching games you just think 'I wish I was playing' and it's not really good for your head. Sometimes I was watching it but not all the time.
"It was a nightmare. I mean for a footballer, for anyone that loves what they're doing, to be unable to do the thing you love is just a handicap.
"That's the sort of thing you realise, how lucky you are to be living your profession. Because as a professional that's the thing you love and it makes you realise that when you're out it is difficult and how fortunate you are to be playing the game."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Swedish Gingerbread House
Use this recipe when assembling our Swedish Gingerbread House How-To.Sweet details like piped icicle boughs of greenery, and a cinnamon-stick woodpile lend realistic charm to a simple cottage. A light dusting of confectioners' sugar mimics freshly fallen snow.
- Servings: 1
- Yield: Makes one house
Source: Martha Stewart Living, Holiday 2009
- Molasses-Gingerbread Cookie Dough
- All-purpose flour, for dusting
- Caramel Syrup for Gingerbread House
- Royal Icing
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll out gingerbread dough to about 1/8 inch thick. Chill until firm, about 1 hour. Lightly dust top of dough with flour. Place templates on top and cut out shapes with a paring knife. (Use a small utility knife to cut out the windows.) Transfer shapes to parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until just beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. Let cool completely.
Make caramel syrup, and assemble house.
Place royal icing in a pastry bag fitted with a medium plain tip (No. 5 or 6). Pipe to outline windows, doorway, and edges of chimney, including top and base. Outline the four joining points of house, sides, and top of roof. Decorate roof: Starting at the top, pipe a horizontal line of icing in a scallop pattern, making curves in even intervals; pipe another scalloped line so the peaks join the scallops above them in the middle. Pipe icicles around edges. Dust roof with confectioners' sugar.
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In case your wondering the pic is the same as my avatar. I took that picture quite a long time ago and I posted it a few days ago on another board and it got me to thinking. Every since I took that picture I have been wanting to email MMM and thank them for the product. So today I finally got around to it and did it. :DI just wanted to thank you guys for marketing such a wonderful product like the MMM fanny pack. I obtained two(second hand). These will work wonderfully for my intended purpose. I was so overjoyed when I recieved them. I now wear one at least once a day. The ones I got cost alittle more than what you advertise them for but thats ok because the money is going to a good cause. A gentleman notified me that if I were to send him a Money Order made out the the Missouri Legal Defence Fund for $30 then he would gladly send me two of these amazing packs. I believe that me wearing this fanny pack and using it in the manner I propose with significantly reduce gun violence against me and mine. Again, thanks.
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I remember it having 5'11" headroom, but you're right, with a dropped cabin sole, you could get an extra inch or two.
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Gillmer, who was a long-time professor of naval architecture at the US Naval Academy, did other small boat designs, including the Allied Seawind, the first fiberglass boat to circumnavigate.
On standing headroom: My Privateer ketch has over six feet. However, it was (is) an owner-completed bare hull project. The first owner may have set the cabin sole a bit lower than the factory boats.
FYI, Gillmer also did the last refit on Old Ironsides, about 1992. When last I checked, he was still alive and in his nineties in the Baltimore area.
I feel like the defender of all things privateer!
One day last year I came in from a sail and a guy named john who owns a Santa Cruz 27 came up and asked me how I was going so fast.... Not saying a privateer could beat a santa cruz every day, or that the privateer doesnt have it's problems. It is a small boat. But she sails just as easy and just as fast as any other boat in her class.
|My parents had a 26' (31' LOA) Kenner Privateer ketch years ago. I remember it being a slow boat, with little space, but tons of character. Biggest problem for me we was lack of headroom and small berths. Pretty boat, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone much over average height.
The Privateer 26 and Privateer 35 were designed by Thomas Gillmer. He designed big schooners. The pride of Baltimore 1 and 2, Lady Maryland. I believe the Privateers were his only ventures into personal boats.
They are small inside. The privateer 35 has about as much space inside as a modern 30' boat would have. The main reason for this is both the privateer 26 and 35 are about 2 feet narrower when compared to other boats of similar length.
As for sail setup... All the privateers were sent from the factory with a normal ketch or cutter rig sail plan. Just as easy to sail as any other boat. I sail my privateer single handed 99% of the time. An owner of a privateer 35 I know sails single handed much of his time on the boat.
The boat I have now is a CS. (moved to Ontario - went native).
The schooner I had when I lived in Nova Scotia (we're talking 20 years ago) was a bit of an anomaly. It was designed by a man named Gerald Stevens, and built by an independent builder using "West System" strip planks. Composit construction was just becoming popular then. There is a small group of these boats on the East Coast, some built in fibreglass, a few in composite wood/epoxy, but most of them are wooden.
Their sole purpose in life is to go as fast as the schooner rig can go. They are called Tancook schooners - primarily because they are full-keeled boats with the same springy sheer and fairly prominent spoon bow, and secondarily because Tancook Island is about a half mile from the (late) designer's drawing board - but they are not perfect replicas of the fishing schooners. They are narrower, lighter, and a lot of them are smaller than the working schooners were.
The Whaler is an actual workboat, with higher freeboard, much more beamy and usually open, occasionally they were built with small cuddies. They tend to be just under 30 feet in length and had very shallow keels with centreboards. They were the basic design used for many lifeboats from about 1910 to the mid-eighties, and are still seen today.
The Tancook prefix is used to describe a whaler that has a prettier than normal sheer. It comes from the style of boat that developed on Tancook Island, in Chester and to some degree in Lunenberg in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The primary characteristics of a 'Tancook' are low freeboard with a fairly prominent, spoon bow line and a springy counter. The Whalers tend to be symmetrical bow and stern.
I have seen some designs on the Internet over the years labelled "Tancook" this or that. Some of them approach the graceful shape, but I have yet to see anyone draw as pretty (or quick) a schooner as Gerald Stevens did.
Did you have a Tancock Whaler or one of the later schooners?
Schooners were built to make passages with minimum crew. (Check the history of Maine coasters to learn how large a vessel was sailed by three or four crew.)
They maintain a balanced sail plan when reefed. Their sails are of smaller, more manageable size than single masted rigs, and total center of effort is (vertically) lower too.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but they do have some advantages.
|Kenner built some of the "Pearson" Tritons, most of which seem to still be floating around somewhere...their hulls were quite sound. As far as a schooner rig goes...there is no disputing the fact that they are a lot of work, more expensive to maintain and don't point as well as a bermudan sloop. However, as far as being seaworthy, they are about as good as it gets. I owned, cruised and raced a Tancook schooner for years, off the coast of Nova Scotia and New England. When more modern designs were heading for shore, we dropped a couple of sails and carried on, safely with a good turn of speed. When the winds were light, we flew all our canvas and looked like a postcard. To each their own, a schooner is a niche boat, and there are bigger, easier, more comfortable options out there, but as far as versatility and beauty go, they cannot be beaten. That said - you'll note that we are now sailing a bermudan sloop with standing headroom and a shower...
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The Willow Theater had one screen, with seating on the main floor in three sections (left, center, right). It also had a leather, large circular seating area between the lobby, concession stand and regualr seats which was used as the meeting place after the movie ended.
A special area upstairs for parents to take kids in case they cried was also installed which allowed patrons to still be able to see and hear the movie. It also had a payphone room built in to the structure with wood and glass doors so you could still see the movie while talking on the phone.
The theater also used to use a color wheel projected on the screen before the shorts would start.
It has since been demolished.
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The Willow closed in 1977 after a fire destroyed the theatre, which was caused by juveniles setting fire to the seats.
The willow was one of our theaters to show single features right after their downtown first run. The other theaters were Stillwell in Bedford, Berea and Vine in Willoughby. These theaters had three Saturday night showings with the last feature after 11 pm.
Like 1968 picture much better.IT IS OPEN!!
Nice looking marquee on the Willow.
This opened on June 22nd, 1950. ad: View link
Grand opening ad in the photo section
I grew up in the Brecksville-Broadview Heights area just to the south of Independence. The Willow was the nearest movie theater. There really wasn't much of a built up town around the Willow so most all patrons arrived by car—especially those of us coming from neighboring suburbs. Parents would drop off kids and come back later to pick them up. If a parent was late for the pickup there was a period of time when kids were unsupervised and a certain amount of mischief went on. Mondays at school were filled with conversations about everyone's weekend adventures at the Willow – popcorn fights, minor brawling, evading the ticket takers and ushers etc.
The name of the theatre, Willow, may have something to do with a stop or station on a 19th century Cleveland area railroad called the Cleveland Terminal and Valley Line (which in 1915 was absorbed by the B&O railroad) that ran from Cleveland alongside the Cuyahoga river and the Ohio and Erie Canal south to the Tuscarawas valley coal fields. A stop on the line near Newburgh Heights/Cuyahoga Heights was called "Willow Station." When a T-shaped freeway system was planned by the City of Cleveland in 1927 to run along the lakeshore (upper crossarms of the T) with an extension south, (leg of the T), the southern leg was called the Willow Freeway. The freeway had a large cloverleaf style interchange with State Route 17 (Granger Road) near the Independence incorporation limits. This was Ohio's first cloverleaf style interchange. It is at this cloverleaf, completed in October of 1940, where the freeway ended as a divided freeway and seamlessly joined the existing US Route 21 and continued on as such south the to center of Independence, right past the Willow theater, and further on to the center of Brecksville. This "Willow" freeway, when finally completed after WWII, provided 15/25 minute commuting times to downtown Cleveland and industrial flats jobs from Independence and Brecksville and favored the blossoming of these communities into bedroom suburbs. It was their lifeblood. More research is needed into how the area around the station got the name Willow.
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Being very frustrated at the very high volume of fraudulent adds on autotrader in doing a recent search of BMW's within 10 miles of my place I talked to someone at autotrader.com in the customer service department that handles frauds and scammers on autotrader. She told me that they put in place about a week ago a new set of filters for online adds that will try to curb the high number of fraudulent adds.
The big things that will shut down an add are if the phone number is incorrect or no longer in service or if the car is not in the location that the add claims it to be in. In my case I had a guy with 5 cars in Maylene, AL about 4 miles from me but all the phone numbers were disconnected and when he replied to my e-mail requesting a $500 or $1,000 deposit before purchase he said he was in New York and the car was in Michigan. Typical scammer using a 3rd party escrow service.
So, autotrader.com locates the adds in their database by phone number, that was all she needed to find the specific ones I was calling about. She said that in the future if we report to them an add with a disconnected number or clear fraud case that if we forward the phone number on the add to them it will be investigated quickly and removed if found to be fraud. One of the ones I e-mailed in yesterday was removed by this morning.
The point of this posting is to encourage my fellow BMW people to report fraudulent adds to autotrader.com through their customer support centers and do the same on ebay, I went so far on one ebay scam for a car that I knew was grossly misrepresented that I sent an e-mail through ebay to all of the people bidding on the car so they would cease bidding and report it to ebay.
Send the phone numbers for fraud adds on autotrader along with a brief description of why its a fraud to the following e-mail address or call 1-888-512-0094.
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Former Tiffany exec to revamp elite Italian brand
By Antonella Ciancio
MILAN (Reuters Life!) - After leading Tiffany & Co's expansion in Europe, Italian jeweler Cesare Settepassi is on a new mission -- turning an elite jewelry brand into a global player.
The 67-year-old member of one of Italy's oldest goldsmith families told Reuters last week he saw scope to relaunch niche brand Faraone, known as the former jeweler of Italy's royal Savoy family and opera diva Maria Callas, to meet growing demand from wealthy families in both mature and emerging markets.
"Money has not dried up during the crisis. Big spenders are everywhere, from Milan to New York, from Dubai to China," Settepassi said at the opening of his showroom in Italy's fashion capital. "Money never stops, it changes hands," he said.
The Florence-born family, experts in pearls and precious gems for four centuries, took over Faraone in 1960 and developed it together with Tiffany until 2000, when the shop they co-owned was put on sale and the U.S. company moved to a new location.
Settepassi eventually left Tiffany last year, after leading its European operations for two decades, and decided to focus on the family business.
"We are family jewelers and will always be," he said at the revamped shop on the exclusive Montenapoleone street he once shared with Tiffany.
He said he expected to break even next year, helped by recovery in the luxury industry.
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As for movies, I'm pretty easy to please, I like Sci-Fi, The Matrix, Serenity, Dune, fun stuff like Hot Fuzz, Ámelie, Shawn of the Dead, Kinky Boots, Up, Monsters Inc, Blazing Saddles, good martial arts movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, fun things like Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Art and Foreign films are wonderful, I recall watching the Fall and just being floored at the beauty of it and I have a big soft spot for Miyazki. I like more documentary style things like Mongol as well, and nature or cultural documentaries like Wild China. I find it easy to suspend my disbelief, so I rarely have a bad time at the movies.
For music, I like everything from Telemann and Bach to Lady Gaga and Mumford & Sons, and much of what's in between. I enjoy classical music of most periods as well as jazz, blues, zydeco and contemporary popular music. I'm enjoying show tunes now too, and just found a new love for the Beetles. I enjoy music from all over the world, particularly Scandinavia it seems, Kate Havnevik, Jónsi, Björk. More musical artists particularly like Imogen Heap and Steve Vai. I like classic rock too, Tom Petty, Dance and Techno and House and Dubstep as well, Mord Fustang a current favourite. I just like music pretty much period.


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Baton Rouge, LA - December 22, 2012
Today Campus Federal Credit Union was presented with the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center (MBPCC) Corporate Champion award for monetary support during the inaugural 2012 'Geaux Pink' breast cancer awareness initiative during the month of November.
We are honored to be recognized as a corporate champion by Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, say Ron Moreau, vice president of business development and community relations. Since the Campus Federal merger with the OLOL credit union in April 2012, and the recent announcement that MBPCC is now part of the Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, providing support for this worthy cause ties directly to our community service program and builds on our relationship with the entire OLOL campus, says Moreau.
During the month of November, employees and members had opportunities to support the 'Geaux Pink' initiative by purchasing pink lapel pins and ribbons in the branches, while employees could make donations for select dress down days. The credit union also sold plates of jambalaya with all the proceeds dedicated to the 'Geaux Pink' effort.
Pictured in photo: (From left to right: Blaine Grimes, Ethan Bush, John Milazzo, Dawn Harris, Danielle Mack, and Ron Moreau)
About Campus Federal Credit Union
Campus Federal is a progressive financial institution providing flexible, competitive financial and related products to meet consumer and business needs by providing world-class second to none service. Formed in 1934 by seven employees of Louisiana State University, Campus Federal is financially sound and has grown to over 38,000 memberships and seven locations in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport.


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6 in. Composite Digital Caliper
This digital caliper is made from impact-resistant composite material for light weight and durability. The digital caliper has digital LCD display for clear easy-to-see readings. The caliper has a 12 month average battery life - 1.5V button cell battery included.
Use for inside, outside, depth and step measurements
Accurate within +/- 0.001 in. (0.02 mm)
Measures up to 6 in.
Throat depth: 1-9/16 in. (outside jaws) / 5/8 in. (inside jaws)
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Name 6 in. Composite Digital Caliper
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The technique I use is: stretched heavy canvases on resistant wooden reinforced chassis and professional acrylic pigments. At the end I covered with a glossy coat of varnish, to protect it for the UV and dust.
Dimensions: 160x80 cm
A little about me: what you might think it's an accident it is in reality a lot of years of studies and researches, a lot of experiments with many materials, some bought some made myself from old recipe. I painted in churches for more than 12 years in fresco, the same technique that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, and now, for 4 years I started to paint in watercolors, acrylics and oil colors. I enjoy the most big painting - after so much church painting it is easier for me in large formats - abstract or not.
I sign and date on the front and I also put my relief signet as you can see in the last picture.
I also attache an certificate of authenticity for every piece of art that I sold.
It is ready to hang on the wall and have the edges also painted.
I ship this work in cardboard boxes careful wrapped in bubble foil.
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unframed original oil on gessoed board
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This painting is available directly from the artist.
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District 49 respects and appreciates a parent's decision to homeschool their own children. We recognize that when a parent chooses to homeschool their children they are taking on the responsibility for totally educating their students while abiding by the state requirements for Colorado listed in the Colorado Homeschool Law (C.R.S. 22-33-104.5). We strive to assist families who have undertaken this endeavor.
The district enrollment office would prefer that you submit your notice of intent directly to the homeschool department. This will help make you aware of the homeschooling support available through District 49 and create a more streamlined document handling process. There are several options:
• Scan and email it directly to firstname.lastname@example.com and you will get an electronic receipt in return
• Mail it using your local post office to the homeschool building at 3850 Pony Tracks Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80922
If you have any questions or concerns don't hesitate to contact Theresa Klinitski, District 49 Homeschool Liaison, at 719-357-7674 (call or text) or firstname.lastname@example.com.