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Capitol Theater to be revived
By BEN DUDLEYThe Wilson Post
The Capitol Theater, located just off the west side of the historic Lebanon Public Square, has been several different things since it closed in 1978 including a furniture consignment store, but has mostly it has stayed vacant.
Not anymore. The building's new owners intend to bring it back to its heyday.
That's right. The Capitol Theater was sold Tuesday, Nov. 3, to Bob and Pam Black, of Lebanon, who intend to turn the old theater into an event center. The action will assist Mayor Philip Craighead in his mission to revitalize downtown Lebanon.
"Ever since we moved here eight years ago," Black said, "I've loved the Capitol Theater. For a long time, the price just wasn't right; but when the opportunity presented itself, we jumped on it."
Black and his wife moved to Lebanon from Memphis. His wife is originally from Old Hickory.
He said that the previous owner of the building wanted to turn it back into a working theater, but with the slow economy, he was never able to accomplish his plan.
"He only sold it to us because we shared his dream of bringing the theater back to its heyday," Black said. "We want it to be an event center to hold meetings as well as entertainment. We would rent it out for music video shoots, plays, musicals and weddings."
Black said that they would have matinee showings of classic movies at least one weekend a month. He said that they could not have accomplished this without the help of Craighead.
"Philip shares this dream with us of making downtown Lebanon into a place people want to be," Black said. "I think reopening the Capitol Theater is a key step in revitalizing downtown Lebanon."
Black said that there was some work to be done on the building, but that he intended to keep the theater's old style. The roof, he said, would be the first task followed by fixing up the marquee.
The Capitol Theater opened in 1949 as a part of the Martin chain. It closed when they opened the Martin Triple Theatre in the Kmart shopping center on West Main Street.
There was a restriction on the deed of sale that the Capitol could not be used as a theater for 20 years. The Martin Triple was closed by the opening of the Roxy in 2004 and is now a Dollar General Market.
"I'm glad that someone local bought the theater," Craighead said. "I'm excited about his plans for the theater and for downtown Lebanon."
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Despite all of the excitement, anticipation, and positive energy heading into tonight's game, the energy was anything but positive as the Rush lose the 2013 season opener to the Iowa Barnstormers. Miscues and poor offense in the first half, followed by some bad plays and turnovers in the second half, left the Rush playing catch up all night.
Some costly errors within the first few minutes of tonight's contest put the Rush behind early. Here is how it all went down:
The first quarter was a very low scoring affair. Iowa scored first when J.J. Raterink threw a touchdown pass from midfield to wide receiver Collin Taylor. Assisting that play was Rush defensive back Jorrick Calvin who slipped and fell on the turf while in coverage. The good thing is that defensive end Anthony Hoke sacked the holder to break up the extra point, Iowa led 6-0 early on.
On the Rush's opening possession they marched into the red zone in just five plays. But after three straight incomplete passes by Carson Coffman, the Rush attempted a 12-yard field goal. Joe Martinez missed wide right allowing the Barnstormers to hang onto their 6-0 lead.
A couple of drives later, the Barnstormers would score again. After an unnecessary roughness penalty put them at 3rd and 20 from their own 8-yard line, Raterink again found some luck when Rush defensive back Joe Phinisee lost his footing on the turf allowing Darius Reynolds to score. Iowa missed the extra point again but still lead 12-0.
The Rush's only score in the first came from a 4-yard touchdown pass from Carson Coffman to Reggie Gray. This cut the deficit to 12-7. As the second quarter began, Iowa again created another scoring drive capped off by a Raterink touchdown pass to receiver Marco Thomas off of a screen pass from three yards out. Iowa increased their lead to 19-7 at that point.
Midway through the second, the Rush would get back into it when Carson Coffman found Rodney Wright from 14 yards away to cut Iowa's lead to 19-14. Just before the one minute warning J.J. Raterink found Iowa wide receiver Darius Reynolds for the second time in the corner of the end zone from 10 yards away to add to their lead, it was now 26-14.
On the ensuing kickoff, Rodney Wright could not recover the ball for the Rush after it bounced off of the net. Iowa would recover and score an easy touchdown, the Barnstormers led 33-14 by this point. The Rush would try to score one more time, but a sack on Coffman and poor clock management prevented that.
Then with just 10 seconds before halftime, Iowa would score again to add insult to injury. A pass by Raterink bounced off of the net but was recovered by Collin Taylor for his second touchdown of the evening. They would once again miss an extra point but the damage was none the less as they now led 39-14.
The Rush would manage to get some form of damage control before halftime. The Rush had one more play and Carson Coffman threw a 6-yard bullet to Reggie Gray for his second touchdown of the game. Iowa took at 39-21 lead into the locker room at halftime. When the second half began the Rush had the first possession and made good use of it.
Coffman threw his fourth touchdown pass to Reggie Gray from 24 yards out. It was Gray's third TD catch of the night, and it cut Iowa's lead to 39-28. But the Barnstormers would come back on their next drive and despite three straight penalties in the red zone, Iowa still managed to score to increase their lead to 46-28.
The Rush would come right back on the next drive as Reggie Gray would haul in his fourth touchdown catch of the night. This cut Iowa's lead to 11, 46-35. Once the fourth quarter began, Iowa was hanging onto that 11-point lead. But they would add to it with a J.J. Raterink quarterback sneak, they were now up 53-35.
The Rush would make it a back and forth affair after Rodney Wright caught his second touchdown pass to make it a 53-41 game. The Barnstormers would come right back with 5:50 remaining and increase their lead to 19, 60-41. On the ensuing possession, Carson Coffman would throw his first pick in a Rush uniform to kill a four play, 20 plus yard drive.
The Rush would get the ball back but only for Coffman to throw another drive killing pick. After that pick things started to get chippy as both teams began to push and shove, leading to penalties and two ejections, one for each team. The Barnstormers would continue to add insult to injury by adding a field goal at the one minute warning to make it a 63-41 ball game.
The Rush would get one last drive, but they decided to run out the clock to end the game instead of scoring. The Rush lose their 2013 home opener, and their first home opener since since 2008 by the final score of 63-41. Here is tonight's box score:
Even though they allowed J.J. Raterink and Darius Reynolds to combine for four of Iowa's six touchdowns, among the other mistakes, there were still some positives. Reggie Gray caught four touchdown passes tonight, he now has 101 touchdown receptions for his career.
Rush linebacker Kelvin Morris went unnoticed for his nine tackles, and new quarterback Carson Coffman managed to throw for 225 yards and 6 touchdowns in his first game in a Rush uniform. After the game, head coach Bob McMillen, receiver Reggie Gray, and defensive back Jorrick Calvin all spoke at the post-game press conference.
I give them a ton of credit for speaking with the media considering how much of a foul mood they were all in. You'll see what I mean when you look at their body language in the video below:
I also spoke with a visibly upset Reggie Gray:
Next week the Rush will resume the season on Easter Sunday when the Spokane Shock comes into town. The Shock has always given the Rush a hard, they split the season series last year 1-1. Both teams are physical against one another and I expect next week to be no different.
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lindaluv posted...zodiac_sword posted...lindaluv posted...NO, you are actually the majority who enjoyed FF12, its one of my favorites. DOnt forget that this is gfaqs, where the minority scream with the voice of a thousand beiber crazed fans just to push their opinion as fact. NOT until I came to gfaqs did I actually finds someone who didnt enjoy it.
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Lord ZhouYu 4 years ago#22
FFT being the *only game set in Ivalice I care at all for so far, I'd love to see the same mechanics elsewhere.
*I haven't played Vagrant Story.
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Equinox_Oscuras 4 years ago#23
Lord ZhouYu posted...
FFT being the *only game set in Ivalice I care at all for so far, I'd love to see the same mechanics elsewhere.
Vagrant Story is a gray area. The connection to Ivalice was, after all, unintentional. And if I remember correctly, the mechanics aren't quite the same.
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DustyMcPants 4 years ago#24
I really don't see how the FFTA series fits in with the Ivalice alliance. Look at the world of FFXII and FFT and compare them to the world of FFTA. How is that supposed to be the same place.
Gritty, harsh, realistic world vs. baby-fun-play-time-with-rabbits.
FFT is one of my favorite games of all time. When I heard they were making a new one and that it was going to be set in Ivalice I was bursting with excitement up until it came out. I don't think It's possible to be more disappointed with a game than I was with FFTA. When pressing move and then attack is the most advanced tactical stratagem required to beat the game you know you might be playing a game marketed to toddlers.
zodiac_sword (Topic Creator)4 years ago#25
DustyMcPants posted...
I really don't see how the FFTA series fits in with the Ivalice alliance. Look at the world of FFXII and FFT and compare them to the world of FFTA. How is that supposed to be the same place.
Your complaints are quite asinine IMO. Those games could take place in a brighter part of the history of Ivalice. That solves you problems with tone. You also seem to be glorifying the original tactics for some reason. Treating it as if it were some super hard game that made you pull you're hair out trying to figure out ways to win. Tactics was a fine game but FFTA definitely made improvements to the overall gameplay design.
What do you think it means when a girl leaves a fake mustache at your house?
I disagree man. For every glimpse of improvement they've tried, they took 2 steps back. Judges system, if done right, could provide some flavor but as it is it's just annoying (artificial limitation).
Learning skills from equipment is ok as a design decision, but it's not superior to traditional class systems (FFIX skill system is shallow - it's basically a way to make sure players only have access to certain skills at specific "story points" plus the possibility of missing skills altogether - similar to VII Materia system, only worse). In this case specifically, I think it's generally worse, it's only better in preventing the player from breaking the game through skill grinding (but you lose so much freedom, it's not worth it IMO).
The general feeling I got from FFTA is...gimmick. Example: On paper, the idea of the map system is ok but the way implementation with treasures was done is very stupid.
I actually enjoyed the "fairy tale" tone of FFTA, but let's face it, it's kiddy and didn't do justice to the franchise. It would be better if they simply made those games with another name for the place instead of Ivalice.
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As others have said, FFT is very gritty and realistic compared to the later installments in the series. In FFT/WotL people die, are betrayed, and unethical things happen all over the place.
FFT's "sequels" are essentially the 'Disney-fied' version of FFT where if you "behave/follow the law" nothing bad can truly happen to you like death; talk about anvilicious! The sequels' plots are also paper-thin and conjured up as a dream world ala Neverending Story so the hero can learn some morals about friendship and yadda yadda. *YAWN*!
Not only are skills tied to pieces of weapons and armor, but the specific races, classes, etc are all gated and tied to quests!
There is nothing strategic about having an MP bar that constantly regenerates every turn, nor is there any fun in waiting to find new items to craft new gear because you've run out of stuff to train. But hey.... at least you can use the Auction House to buy all the good stuff once you unlock it!
Spells in FFTA/2 have no charge time, and quite a few spells are *extremely* OP like White Wind, and Ultima attack, and other gamebreaking skills. The only thing I actually liked about FFTA2 was the ability to lay traps, which was very fun in itself.
Even the villains are far and away more compelling in the original FFT. Demons possessing human vessels by way of the 'Sacred Holy Stones' that are plotting to revive their master to take over the world... compare that to the MacGuffin of FFTA/2 and you have a laughable joke. I will concede that Frimelda was one of the best story lines of FFTA2, although her story is similar to Reis.
I guess maybe it's my age, but I like to have more realistic settings than "boy magically journeys through a book" in some 'coming of age' farce. Tactics Ogre, Disgaea, Fire Emblem, etc, are all way *way* better than FFTA/2.
Marche and Luso are basically player-insert characters who have no real character development compared to Ramza and the host of other characters in FFT. Ramza deals with political intrigue, a brother who is almost wholly evil, a sister kidnapped by demons who want to use her to be the host of the head demon, being branded a heretic with nearly the entire country of Ivalice after his head... and more. Marche and Luso? Don't even get me started, lol! "We're in a guild letz have some fun!!"
It's a shame really. What I would give for a proper FFT prequel (about Barbaneth and Cid) or a sequel that took place immediately after King Delita died or where Ramza went after the events of FFT.
Alas.... we will never have such a game.
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DustyMcPants 4 years ago#28
"All such tales of gods and their miracles are false. Those who would lead prefer that history suit their needs, and rewrite it to see that it does. And why shouldn't they? The fault lies not with them. The reeking masses yearn for gods and miracles. It is their opiate, and they consume it greedily. The people do not endeavor towards greatness, but rather mire themselves in their petty strifes - shackles on the feet of man. Their leaders give them no more than that for which they clamor. It is history's oldest and most oft-repeated tale. Do men exploit this weakness to dominate their fellows? Mayhap they do. But they succeed only because the people are eager to know such dominion. Gods are only illusions born of man's fear. It is they who see this charade for what it is and join in the pageantry who are to blame." -- Wiegraf Folles FFT
"I...I don't know. I'm all confused. And to top it off, I'm talking to a stuffed animal!" -- Marche FFTA
I was going to make a counterpoint argument defending FFTA a little bit based on the fact it was released on a much weaker platform targeting casual play - by making a comparison with the other strategy/tactical RPGs available to the system (GBA).
Then I remembered Shining Force and Knight of Lodis. I won't even talk about Fire Emblem and Advance Wars since they're a different kind of strategy.
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We'll cut Amy Wino, er, Winehouse a break. She's been working hard, hunkering down in a north London studio with producer Mark Ronson on that tune for the new James Bond flick, The Quantum of Solace.
Amy was just uninvited to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala on May 5, her first chance in a while to wow the States in person.
Then there's that nasty-ass impetigo, the contagious skin disease that leaves her with pimple-like bumps all over. Ewww. Hasn't been a good go for the girl.
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Mind Of Man: Why Guys Want "Starts With An A, Ends With -Nal" Sex
Finally. I thought I'd answer one of the big questions I've been asked over and over again, the question you ladies are dying to know the answer to. Are you ready?
We want anal sex because if we ask you if we can, and you say yes, even begrudgingly, then that is awesome. I don't even know if the majority of guys even like anal sex, but that you'd say "yes" to such a dirty, unladylike request is what makes it oh-so-worthwhile.
I had a girlfriend once who told me she loved doing it. She didn't, of course, but she loved me, and I loved her, and when she whispered in my ear one night that she'd love me to do that, I thought, "Awww, how romantic." She assumed that since I was a guy, I'd be into anal sex. I wasn't, and am not, but her loving offer was sizzling hot. Like, sizzling hot enough to make pancakes. Or waffles. WAFFLES!
Of course, weeks later, she asked me to itch a particular scratch of hers, and out came the silk scarves. Silk scarves? Really? Don't birthday magicians pull those out of sleeves? We tried it, and she tied me up with silk scarves. We did this more than once, and while it did nothing for me, the fact that it reduced her to a puddle of sentient liquid steel from which she would later reform herself a la "Terminator II" was what eventually turned me. And, huh, that's the point.
Men are a lil' bit obsessed with anal sex, sure, and it is clear our obsession is making many of you (even more) neurotic. Hell, I'm obsessed with it, but in the abstract. Much like mouth love, I am not particularly fond of, um, "non-traditional penetrative sex." I'm not a prude. I just like it very "let's do it my genital in your genital"-style and then, later, role-playing "Minotaur versus Sexy Ninja." Guess who's the Minotaur? (Wrong.)
Men are obsessed with carnal posterior affection partly because we want what we're denied, but mainly it's a power thing. Sure. Absolutely. It does not look like it feels especially great for the woman receiving this special gift. I mean, in pornography that particular act usually looks like the woman is being split in half. Done properly, slowly, with enough lubricant, safe word agreed upon, there should be no ouchies. But, from what I understand, it's uncomfortable, and then there's the cost of doing business, namely the very natural byproduct, substances if you will, that are present, and expected, from that part of the anatomy. But if we ask, and you say yes, chances are that's all we really want. Not to lord over you, to force you to do something you don't want, but to just get a kinky green light.
And here's the thing: You should let him explore your dark sun, at least once. I'm assuming, of course, that he'd be the sort of guy who would react positively, if not sensitively, to you screaming, "Get that the hell out of me, you son of a walrus!" In a loving, committed, monogamous relationship, there should be no penalty for asking to indulge in a taboo fetish, providing no one is getting emotionally or physically damaged. That goes both ways, of course. I mean, it would be wrong for me to say it's just dudes who are bashful about talking about what turns them on, and revealing the names of the naughty little sex goblins in their subconscious. (I've named mine Little Miss Tickles, Consuela, and She-Ra.) Women are equally as insecure about admitting what it is they need to turn them on and get them off. Let's just stop that, shall we? Understand that your partner needs stuff, and you should provide it, within reason, to the best of your abilities, because it will be reciprocated. I will add the disclaimer: ideally.
Be safe, honest, no pointing and laughing, no spontaneous barfing, and try what he needs once. Just once. If your displeasure is so acute, more so than his pleasure, then a game of "we gave it the ol' college try" should suffice. Any bullying or cajoling or begging thereafter is ungentlemanly and, therefore, tantamount to douchebaggery. It's not that, err, bottom sex is a better fit, really. So don't buy that line. If it's sexy it's because it's wrong. Wrong can be right in this regard. It's wrong, and taboo, and permission to explore that, as I've said, is totes wow.
Which brings me to another topic. There isn't a classy way to write about anal sex, is there? Even if I referred to it by another name, one that doesn't use the word "anal," or "butt," it would still probs mortify my mother, for instance. Even if I referred to it as, I don't know, "buttering the scone," or "reading Virginia Woolf out loud," or "buckling the elf's itty bitty boot," we'd still know what I was writing about, and it would still sound gross. Surfing the forbidden flume? No? OK.


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There is no question: I have a good chest. Not so big that it demands bras from specialty retailers, but big enough so that button-down shirts always pull. My breasts are firm enough to let me saunter down the block in layered tank tops, no bra.
People look, and I let them. I used to have a tomato-red swimsuit that came undone every time I leapt into the water. I dove and dove, put my breasts back in place and redid the halter's clasp, aware that even underwater, I was being ogled by the adolescent lifeguard.
My chest has commanded attention my whole life. At age one I was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a disease that wreaks havoc on the respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and exocrine systems. No organ goes untouched, but the lung damage is what ultimately proves fatal.
Long before I understood why my brother could go shirtless at the beach and I couldn't, I knew my chest was problematic. It made itself heard through relentless coughing, my lower lungs contracting in fits. It made itself seen in the Kleenexes I filled with mucus as I coughed and spit, coughed, spit, coughed. Cover your mouth, the adults scolded. Nothing contagious, but still, something that makes people nervous.
My father learned to perform physical therapy when I was first diagnosed, and the routine remained his responsibility. The treatments were intended to loosen the mucus in my lungs — caked in there like dried Elmer's, it made breathing hard and infections persistent. "I'd sit in that chair and you'd fall asleep in my lap," he'd tell me later, wistful for my toddler-aged compliance. After I outgrew my dad's lap, PT sessions were relocated to my parents' bed. For twenty minutes before school, my dad would thump my chest while I watched Small Wonder or Underdog, television being the sole incentive for cooperation on my part.
When I was ten, we switched to a less complex method of airway clearance: exercise. My dad handed me a jump rope each morning; at night, unconvinced by my fake snoring, he pulled me out of bed to jump. Still in my pajamas, I whipped the rope around while he sat on our pink couch and counted aloud.
We stopped doing traditional chest percussion because I got busy and belligerent, not because I had developed the breasts to render it awkward. "You're going to develop a couple years late," my pediatrician informed me. Just another symptom of the illness.
So I waited. My mother bought me a bra when I was eleven, after I had constructed my own by cutting ten inches off the bottom of a teddy-bear-patterned undershirt. I weighed seventy pounds and had nothing to support other than the delusion that my body was normal for my age. I filled Ziploc bags with pudding, a trick my best friend learned from the film Now and Then. She was growing rapidly. I'd borrow her bra and tuck the pudding bags inside, then tour the mirrors of the house. I took shoulder pads from my mother's sewing table and tried those. Tried tissues. Looked at the gel cups advertised in fashion magazines and thought, if it comes to that…
But I knew from Seventeen that healthy girls need not panic over permanent flatness unless they were over sixteen. And by sixteen, I was growing. When the radiology tech asked, "Are you wearing anything metal?" I pulled my bra out through my sleeve. Enough time in medical institutions can make anyone lose their modesty. You lose the property rights to your body. But I owned my breasts. I wanted to show them off. At the children's hospital I attended, the gowns were sized for pre-pubescents. My flesh swelled under the fabric; cartoon clowns splashed across my nipples. I told the nurse she didn't need to hunt down a larger size.
My one piece of fancy A-Cup lingerie, a teal lace bra, was forced into the giveaway pile. Certain styles of clothes, I learned, would never work on my body. This was caused partly by my breast size, and partly by the shape of my ribcage — the muscles surrounding my lungs had overdeveloped after years of exertion. The air trapped in my small airways gave me a barrel chest. I wanted fifties-style sundresses, strapless with structured tops that ballooned into full skirts. But they were out, as was the prom gown with the mermaid bodice.
Jumping rope was another casualty of development. Even with a bra, my breasts slammed against me with each landing. My dad sat there counting, my brother stood waiting to insult my jumping skills, and my cleavage sped up, threatening to fly across the room.
"Daddy, I can't do this anymore. Things are getting in the way." He had poured his paternal protectiveness into my chest, and now the borders of his territory were being scaled back, my sexuality requisitioning the space for itself.
Toward the end of high school, my lung function dropped temporarily. The pros were called in. Chris, a physical therapist, came to my house to perform the same chest percussion routine my dad had once done. "You might want to cover up," he would say, and I'd throw a t-shirt on over my camisole before lying down on my bed. I was always underdressed when Chris arrived — bralessness and short shorts were my ways of reminding him just how much intimacy he was demanding.
Hands cupped, Chris would clap a section of my chest for three minutes, then have me rearrange myself into a new position. I'd toss my SAT II review across the bed and flip over. I never gloated about providing a fringe benefit Chris didn't get from pediatric or male patients. He was trespassing, arriving in my doorway and hitting my breasts and arranging my pillows and pocketing his check.
My breasts rewrote the way in which my upper body received attention. Construction workers catcall. The Victoria's Secret saleswoman says, "I'll get you the next size up," and I take that as proof of goodness. A chest that hasn't given in to gravity, that's remained creamy while my arms and face have freckled, that makes me feel desirable even if my stomach looks similarly convex: how could it not be my best feature? When I take off my sweater in a coffee shop, the maneuver pulls down the wifebeater underneath. I feel eyes peeking at the exposed satin of my bra and I agree with the approval. Never mind that I've asked the barista for an extra cup because I'm coughing up too much mucus to spit into tissues.
My breasts are decoys, distracting the customer from the muck underneath. So maybe I can get a man's attention with a neckline. Does that mean he's going to find it sexy when he has to furrow under hospital gowns and EKG sensors and skin I haven't washed in a week because I'm too exhausted? Because that is what he's getting into — not at the end, when the numbers go down for good, but now.
The median life expectancy for a person with CF is thirty-eight, up from thirty-two in 2000. I'm twenty-three. But my private prognosis is a fickle thing. Ask me how long I'm going to live, and my answer will have little to do with the drugs in the pipeline. When I see photos of Madonna, nearly fifty, I bask in the prospect that older isn't synonymous with decrepit and asexual, and my predicted lifespan rises accordingly.
My last-ditch option for buying more time is lung transplantation. If I don't die waiting, a surgeon will scrape out my lungs and replace them with a cadaver's, and my great rack will be sacrificed — the scarring from the surgery will mutilate it. That's the trade-off: a functioning interior for a disfigured surface. The success rate of lung transplants is increasing, but it's still an imperfect science. Mortality — my own, or my breasts' — looms large.
I'd like to say that, spurred on by the prospect of an early death, I've made impressive headway into my lifetime sexual to-do list. I haven't. When it comes to sex, I'm equally convinced that I've missed my window, and that the best is yet to come. I imagine the future as one of loss, in which I'm debilitated, exhausted and tethered to an oxygen concentrator. I also fantasize, like my peers, that the next five years will bring sophistication, money for lingerie, and a roommate-free home with extravagant granite countertops upon which to have sex.
She still has CF, that woman I dream of becoming. She needs someone who can take that. And while there are potential mates out there who don't want a sick girlfriend, there are also those who can cope just fine. "You have nothing to be ashamed of," a dormmate once said after seeing me topless. I can imagine a partner feeding me the same line in reference to CF. He fancies himself understanding; he finds my body attractive in spite of what's wrong with it.
But there's a difference between the absence of shame and the presence of desire. There's a difference between someone who can overlook what's wrong with me and someone who wants to look directly at it. This is how I want to be loved. I want the disease inside my chest to be recognized, and touched with as much tenderness as the flesh on top, and maybe even lusted after like that, or loved.
Last spring I met a guy who liked my body. He contacted me after reading an essay I'd written, so he knew about my CF before knowing I was stacked. He had his own medical problems, and he said I felt like home. Lucky for us both, he was a breast man.
He wanted sex to be a break from our bodies' freakish tendencies, not a showcase for them. I wanted the opposite. I dreamed of an eroticized wound, one that could be circled with permanent marker, licked and coated in semen. I wanted my disease to have the same substantiality that my flesh did when clamped between his teeth.
One Saturday during sex — the best, most strenuous sex I'd had to date — my breathing became ragged and painful. Afterward, I got gloomy. "I'm not going to be able to do this when my lung function goes down," I told him. I wanted normal. I wanted fifty more years of heart-pumping sex, with him, and with other people. At such times, it hurts that my disease is an issue, that it shapes sex, makes its presence known. But the alternative hurts more.
"My lips are all salty," he said, after he'd kissed his way down my torso and up again. "That's so cool." He knew what the taste meant. It had been covered in his biology textbook: faulty chloride channels affect the movement of salt throughout my body, giving the skin its telltale flavor. I touched his lips; they had the crinkly texture that comes after eating a bucket of popcorn. My disease, made manifest on his mouth. I held my breasts up to him, and trusted that even if he wanted them for their size, for how they felt in his hands and how they looked in a t-shirt, he remembered what lay beneath.


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U.S. forces kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan raid
WASHINGTON Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the world's most wanted man, was killed in a targeted raid in Pakistan, President Obama said late Sunday in an announcement that surprised the world.
Bin Laden met his end 10 years after the 9/11 attacks in a firefight with a small team of U.S. forces that launched a daring raid on the compound where he was holed up with some trusted advisers. He was hiding only 35 miles from Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
"The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al-Qaeda," the president said in a dramatic White House announcement made shortly before midnight. An unnamed U.S. official told the Associated Press Monday that bin Laden was buried at sea.
The news of bin Laden's death touched off spontaneous outpourings of emotion in New York and Washington.
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A jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House, waving American flags. At the Mets-Phillies game fans began chanting "USA, USA!" when word began showing up on cellphones.
Bin Laden's death was hailed as a historic success in America's war on terror, but al-Qaeda has proved resilient and it is not clear what role in the organnization bin Laden played in recent years.
"It's not going to mean the end of the movement because there are still those feeding off the anger," said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. "They will take up arms. This movement has grown beyond this man. "
Bin Laden's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, remains at large. He could assume bin Laden's position at the head of al-Qaeda.
The United States has put embassies around the world on alert in the event terrorists attempt retaliation. Administration officials say they haven't received specific threats but they are concerned about retaliatory acts.
"His death does not mark the end of our effort," Obama said. "There's no doubt that al-Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us."
Sunday's raid was the culmination of years of painstaking intelligence work, according to senior administration officials who asked not to be named. Intelligence officials secured a major intelligence breakthrough about four years ago when they learned the name of a trusted courier believed to be living with Osama, according to senior administration officials who asked not to be named.
Two years ago intelligence officials learned the courier was living in an elaborate compound somewhere. In August they pinpointed its location outside Pakistan's capital.
It was a massive compound that overshadowed other homes in the community, an affluent neighborhood popular among retired military officers.
The compound was ringed by walls 12 to 18 feet high and topped with concertina wire. Access was tightly controlled by security gates.
The secret operation was conducted by U.S. forces without the knowledge of any other country. The U.S. government has always maintained the right to unilaterally go after bin Laden if he was located.
In addition to bin Laden, two couriers and bin Laden's son were killed in the raid, which lasted no more than 40 minutes. No Americans were hurt in the raid.
One helicopter experienced mechanical difficulties and the team destroyed it before leaving so as not to let it fall into hostile hands.
Former president George W. Bush, who was in office on the day of the attacks, hailed the news. "The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done."
Victims of the 9/11 attack were processing the news Sunday night along with millions of other Americans.
"It means a lot," said Carie Lemack, whose mother, Judy LaRocque was aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Lemack, who was sobbing at the news, said she was contacted by the White House about half an hour before Obama spoke and told to watch. No one told her the subject.
She was with her father and sister, celebrating her sister's birthday.
"I just want to make sure we focus on the people he murdered," she said. "I don't want this day to be about him."
Crowther of Nyack, N.Y., whose 24-year-old son Welles Crowther was killed at the World Trade Center, had fallen asleep on the couch after a long day of caring for grandchildren. She awoke suddenly to see the news on television, and went to find her husband, who asked: "Why are you crying?" I said, "Osama bin Laden's dead!"
"I'm so overwhelmed," she said. "What a relief."
Obama said the killing or capture of bin Laden was the top priority of the war on terrorism, and thanked the "tireless" work of the U.S. military and counterterrorist professionals in getting him.
Bin Laden, 54, was a member of a wealthy Saudi family who rose to prominence in the worldwide Islamist movement after helping to create al-Qaeda, the Muslim terror group devoted to a worldwide Islamic theocracy. He fought in Afghanistan with Muslim Mujahideen against the former Soviet Union before turning his sites on his former home of Saudi Arabia and the west.
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists under al-Qaeda hijacked three airliners in the United States and flew them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers in New York. A fourth jet crashed in Shanksville, Pa., when passengers attacked the cockpit before it reached its destination. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. All 19 hijackers were killed.
Bin Laden took credit for the attack three years later.
He escaped the invasion of Afghanistan by a U.S. coalition in 2001 and thereafter would surface periodically to issue statements against the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Al-Qaeda has remained one of the most resilient terror organizations in the world. Smaller al-Qaeda affiliated organizations have emerged in Yemen, North Africa and elsewhere. These organizations are believed to be only loosely tied to al-Qaeda.
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The title characters in Sally Potter's heartfelt drama "Ginger & Rosa" are convinced the world is coming to an end.
They know this because: 1) It's 1962, and talk of nuclear missiles and impending doomsday is all over the place; and 2) they're teenage girls, and every little heartbreak feels like the end of the world.
Ginger ("Super 8's" Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert, from "Beautiful Creatures") have been friends literally since birth; their mothers, Natalie (Christina Hendricks) and Anoushka (Jodhi May), met in a London maternity ward in 1945, just after the bombing of Hiroshima. They grew up as playmates, sharing every secret and weathering every storm such as when Rosa's father moved out.
The movie picks up when the girls are 17 and the Cuban Missile Crisis is looming. Ginger becomes a determined anti-nuclear protester, inspired by her father, Roland (Alessandro Nivola), a liberal college lecturer who did prison time as a conscientious objector during World War II. Rosa, also fearful of apocalypse, aims to satisfy her sexual desires while there's still time and her choice of a partner drives a permanent wedge between the friends.
Potter gorgeously captures the surface details of Ginger and Rosa's friendship, and the '60s setting, with spare strokes and well-observed intimate details. She also treats matter-of-factly the idiosyncratic nature of Ginger's family, including Roland's contrarian views on marriage, the presence of Ginger's two gay godfathers (Timothy Spall and Oliver Platt), and the support of a radical "aunt," Bella (Annette Bening).
Fanning and Englert are a dynamic pairing. Englert brings a brittle intensity to Rosa, deluded by love and her first taste of adult passions. But the star is Fanning, who brings a fragility and a fire to the idealistic Ginger.
Potter's script takes a few predictable turns toward the finale, but along the way "Ginger & Rosa" paints an indelible portrait of teen friendship that is tested to the breaking point.
'Ginger and Rosa'
The trials of first love and nuclear fears are played out by two teens in 1962 London in this beautiful drama.
Where • Broadway Centre Cinemas.
When • Opens Friday.
Rating • PG-13 for mature disturbing thematic material involving teen choices sexuality, drinking, smoking ' and for language.
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Kamp Korea
The Eye-Opening Truth About North Korea's Regime
by Faith McDonnell
I shut my eyes at the moment of the first execution. I could not watch the death of this poor refugee, who had been forcibly repatriated by the Chinese when he was discovered trying to escape from North Korea. When the second execution took place, I opened my eyes.
Sitting on Capitol Hill, watching a March 2005 secret film of public executions in North Korea, I was ashamed to do less than the hundreds of North Korean citizens summoned to learn their government's lesson: "Criminals" did not deserve to live. The film, a courageous collaboration by dissidents and the Japanese media, gives the first-ever photographic evidence of the regime's merciless treatment of those who try to flee.
Kim's Hell
Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il cut off the country from the rest of the world, but now the testimonies and daring actions of defectors, refugees, and activists are exposing this totalitarian state. The same irrationality and evil that make the regime a danger to the national security of the United States have made it hell on earth for the North Koreans.
But word gets out. German activist Dr. Norbert Vollertsen was one of the first to mobilize American advocacy for human rights in North Korea. In 1999, volunteering as an emergency-room doctor in Pyongyang, he donated skin for a graft for a burn victim. The North Koreans rewarded him with a "Friendship Medal," a car, and a V.I.P. passport, affording him the kind of access never given to those on state visits.
Vollertsen was undone when he saw the real North Korea: the country of mass starvation; villages with no sanitation or running water; no medical care; and orphanages full of dying children. Since that time, he has devoted his life to efforts to bring freedom to that country. He and other heroes regularly risk their lives helping North Korean escapees.
While all of North Korea—whose official name is the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea—can rightly be called a prison, an estimated 200,000 North Koreans now suffer in actual prison labor camps, and 400,000 have died in them in the last three decades. In 2003, the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps. The report includes groundbreaking high-resolution satellite photographs and the testimonies of dozens of former political prisoners and defectors. Details in the close-up photos correspond exactly with details from the witnesses.
Most inmates have been imprisoned for trumped-up political "crimes." Such offenses include reading a foreign newspaper, singing a South Korean pop song, or "insulting the authority" of the North Korean leadership. Three generations of the family of the offender are also arrested and imprisoned, with no legal recourse or judicial process, according to North Korea's "heredity rule." Even offenders' babies are "guilty" and are killed at birth.
All prisoners suffer unimaginable agony in the camps. The Hidden Gulag maintains that "the camps feature the gamut of abnormal and aberrant human behavior that results from treating people like animals." Prisoners are deliberately semi-starved, yet expected to fulfill absurd quotas in mining, timber cutting, and other hazardous work.
North Korea's Evil
A 2004 BBC documentary, Access to Evil, provided another shocking revelation. A producer and an investigative journalist were invited to North Korea to film a political documentary in which the regime offered its perspective on the nuclear crisis. Undeterred by the propaganda the authorities organized for them, the filmmakers interviewed several defectors now living in Seoul and ended up revealing North Korea's gas chambers and chemical experiments to the world.
The witnesses included a former prison-camp security chief who had watched parents and children die by poisonous gas injected into a small glass cubicle, and a doctor who had actually performed the experiments. Those the regime considered enemies of the state, including Christians, were selected for the experiments.
The South Korean government was outraged by Access to Evil. Not by the horrendous human rights abuses taking place in North Korea, but by the threat to their policy of constructive engagement with Pyongyang. The former security chief, Kwan Hyuk, has been harassed by the country's National Intelligence Service from the moment the BBC film was shown. Both he and the prison-camp physician, Dr. Kim, have had their passports cancelled.
Seeing the disastrous financial ramifications of reunification in Germany, the world's twelfth-largest economy is not eager for the same experience. Recent South Korean governments have propped up the northern regime with millions of dollars in aid and illegal payments to Kim Jong Il.
Christian Enemies
The treatment of Christians is especially bad, because being a Christian is viewed as one of the most serious crimes. Yet some experts say there are as many as 200,000 secret believers in North Korea.
Christians and other political prisoners receive life sentences of hard labor, tantamount to a drawn-out, torturous death sentence. Soon Ok Lee, a former North Korean government worker and prisoner, witnessed the persecution and death of many Christians. She saw prison officials pour molten lead over one group of elderly believers. The uncompromising faith of Christian prisoners deeply moved Mrs. Lee, who has become a Christian and a tireless activist.
North Korea is currently designated by the US State Department as a "Country of Particular Concern for Severe Violations of Religious Freedom" under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. The others on the list are Burma, China, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam. (A list provided by the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] includes all those countries plus Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.)
Although three years ago the regime told the UN that the country had freedom of religion and conscience, North Korean officials are reliably reported to have "arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes executed North Korean citizens who were found to have ties with overseas Christian evangelical groups operating across the border in China, as well as those who engaged in unauthorized religious activities such as public religious expression and persuasion," the USCIRF's vice chair told a UN meeting in mid-March.
People who have escaped the country say that "religion has been prohibited in the guise that it is an opium of the people," reported David Hawk, former executive director of Amnesty International/USA. It is an axiom favored by Kim Il Sung, the first president of North Korea, designated the "Eternal Leader" by the Communist party and now almost worshiped as a god under the North Korean state ideology, called Juche. His son clearly believes that North Koreans should have no other gods before him.
The West's Response
In the West, differing political opinions hamper efforts to bring freedom to North Korea.
Some leaders would shut their eyes to the appalling human rights abuses and offer subsidies to the Pyongyang regime in return for promises to restrain their work on weapons of mass destruction. The financial incentives for these promises, promises that Kim Jong Il has repeatedly broken in the past, would do nothing more than support the building of more gulags and advance the starvation and repression that keep him in power.
The release of refuseniks, dissidents, and the persecuted helped to open up and finally bring down the Soviet Union, as Nathan Sharansky has pointed out in The Case for Democracy. In the same manner, US policies offering support and safe haven for refugees and would-be defectors from North Korea would help to bring about that nation's internal collapse and lead to a free North Korea.
Such polices are included in the North Korea Human Rights Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in October 2004. But the implementation of these policies is being held up at the State Department.
Some activists and political leaders are also calling on the UN to protect the refugees, and particularly for its High Commissioner for Refugees to pressure China to keep its commitments to refugees under a UN treaty. The political leaders include Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Frank Wolfe of Virginia, and the activists include the National Association of Evangelicals, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, North Korea Freedom Coalition, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Freedom House, the Institute for Religion and Democracy, and the Korean American Church Coalition.
"It is time for us to call China to account, not just through protests but through concrete methods . . . to develop creative ways to force China to choose between its continued support for the regime of Kim Jong Il and its own economic progress," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, at a press conference in April. The methods could include economic boycotts and relocating the 2008 Olympics set for Beijing or boycotting them entirely, he said.
Partly Responsible
" It is time for those of us who are resolved to do what we can," Land continued, "to insist that the considerable influence and the considerable resources of the United States are on the side of the oppressed and not the oppressors. . . . We become partly responsible for the oppression when we continue to treat an oppressor nation as if it were a civilized one."
It is neither honorable nor prudent to appease the creators of death camps and the persecutors of our fellow Christians and others. Now that the extent of the suffering inflicted by Kim Jong Il's regime has been undeniably revealed, we are accountable. We must not shut our eyes.
— Additional reporting by David Mills
Faith McDonnell is Director of the Church Alliance for a New Sudan (CANS) at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (www.ird-renew.org) in Washington, D.C.
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From the Goucher Quarterly, Fall 2009
Thank you for the need-based grant awarded to my daughter for this coming year," began the e-mail I received the other day from the father of a rising sophomore. "It comes as a surprise and allows her to continue her studies at Goucher this year with much less worry."
His message was addressed not only to me, but also to several members of the college's staff who had paid attention a few months earlier to this man's news of how the recession had suddenly devastated his family. I was glad to have received his e-mail, relieved that it did not get blocked by all the filters put in place by Goucher's exceptionally talented information technology people to keep unwanted messages away.
As you might imagine, I get quite a bit of e-mail every day: the usual quotient of junk mail offering me improved health, financial windfalls, and enhanced companionship of various sorts; invitations to attend student-recruitment fairs and to promote Goucher in the most unlikely of places; announcements of seminars and "webinars" and hootenannies of all kinds that, if only I or one of my colleagues took part, would enable the college to achieve immediate perfection.
I get some good stuff out of cyberspace, too, of course— news headlines and information from bulletins, blogs, and listservs tailored to keep me up-to-date on issues where I have relevant background and genuine interest. I allow a few establishments and institutions to hector me at regular intervals, just in case I might come across some product or service or event that I cannot possibly live without. Naturally, we also conduct a great deal of the college's business online, and I entertain the belief—perhaps it's really a fantasy—that this helps avoid unnecessary phone calls and meetings. To be sure, there is the occasional scathing or vituperative e-mail from some member of the extended Goucher community, whose author probably never would have sent it had he or she paused to think about it for a minute. But more frequent are the unsolicited messages I get from parents like the father who thanked us for his daughter's need-based grant, or from our remarkable students. These notes arrive at all hours, sometimes from a residence hall across campus, sometimes from one of Goucher's study-abroad locations around the world, and various points in between, and they help me learn a great deal about the issues before us and, hopefully, do my job better.
One of those came late in the summer, from a very thoughtful science major who was outraged to learn that we would have a visit to campus this fall by Karl Rove, the mastermind of President George W. Bush's political campaigns and policy formulation. My experience of Goucher students is that they are both principled and articulate, and while this young man was not the only one to object, he did so with particular eloquence. A few faculty members and alums also sent e-mails protesting Rove's invitation; such a confluence of reactions always makes me think harder about what we are doing at Goucher and how we are explaining it.
The objections landed in my e-mail box this time, though, just as I was working on the annual revisions to the syllabus for my fall freshman seminar on free speech—to be taught this year with John Bond, immediate past chair of our Board of Trustees. I was reminded of my own principle that we cannot get into the business of drawing a thick line in the sand between those who are appropriate to invite and engage in discussion and those who are not. If we did, who would keep the lists of acceptable and unacceptable speakers? Should it be a committee? How would its membership be chosen? Do we want to hear primarily from those with whom we agree? Would the committee or the community vote on every speaker? Would there be a provision for appeals? The process of filtering out unwelcome views (without the aid of sophisticated computer algorithms, no less) might be at least as thorny and divisive as certain guests, renowned or reviled, who might offend our sensibilities while challenging our perspectives.
The dialogue has continued, though, and it is lively. We can afford to carry on this discussion on a rather high plane and test our boundaries, even in these tough economic times, because we have a fund from an anonymous donor that permits us to host some controversial speakers without having to dip into the college's precious resources. (Other students, by the way, have praised the invitation of Rove, saying he will be a welcome change—thus proving just how hard it is to come up with a single, universally accepted standard for deciding whom we would like to hear and meet.) Another key difference at Goucher is that many of Rove's stalwart critics on campus will be able to look him in the eye and challenge him while he is here.
It seems amazing to some of us who can remember sending letters home from college through "snail mail" and talking only occasionally to family members and friends on the phone, but all of these issues—the good, the bad, the hotly contested, and the humanitarian—are dealt with today at breakneck speed through technologies that are shifting all the time. We have to be agile as well as wise. As we launch our celebration of Goucher's 125th anniversary, it is important to recognize how very much has changed about the way we communicate with each other, and, at the same time, to use all the new instruments at our command to honor, rather than subvert, the unchanging values of this splendid college.


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Didn't the airport respond to that excuse? Oh yes, they did.
Tom Wertman of Mufon declared "They are Airplanes"
Too bad he didn't contact the Cleveland Airports and the FAA just like MSNBC did, he would have found out the following...
FAA & Cleveland Airports report Lake Erie UFO's Not In Normal Flight Paths, Not Showing Up On Radar and Nothing They Are Doing!!!
MSNBC contacted the FAA and all local Cleveland Airports who said These objects are
not in normal flight paths
, NOT FAA Light Configurations that none of these objects were anything they were doing and these objects were not showing up on any of the airports radar as well!
And Tom Wertmans Bosses "Bigelow Aerospace" did not agree with Wertmans conclusion and were very vocal about it!
here is that proof...
Friday night on The Alien Agenda radio, both Eugene Erlikh and Michael Lee Hill were featured on the show. Both had filmed unknown multicolored orb/craft over Lake Erie and coincidentally live within 5 minutes of each other in Cleveland. Michael's videos go further back to 2006 and Eugene's are more recent. On April 6, 2010 Michael and Eugene unknowingly and simultaneously filmed similar multicolored orb/craft on the same night and at the same time or within minutes of each other. Both videographers made this discovery just yesterday as well.
According to Erlikh, at approximately 6:45pm EST, on Thursday night (April 8, 2010) a private telephone call came into his residence. Eugene answered and the man on the other end assumed to know it was Eugene and called him by name. The man identified himself as a member of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, his name is Investigator Garu Hernadez. In fact, His name is linked to the BAASS.ORG domain name and now featured on the Skinwalker Ranch website. He asked Eugene a number of questions pertaining to the sightings over Lake Erie. The man then demanded Eugene give up the exact coordinates of the location the lights are appearing. When Eugene questioned the man,
Gary Hernandez stated he knew the lights were not terrestrial or from this planet
and there's big money involved in obtaining that technology. He instructed Eugene to email him the coordinates. Eugene immediately hung up the telephone.
The host of the Radio show then E-mailed this BAASS Investigator and asked, "Hey, why are you guys calling Egene when Mufon already Stated that these are just Airplanes "Case Closed"?"
This is Bigelow investigator Gary Hernandez actual response.
In Regards to the Lights over Lake Erie I am not absolutely convinced that they are coming from conventional aircraft. As an investigator I must be completely objective with any UFO's reported which has multiple witnesses. BAASS employees are paid professionals, all the investigators are former law enforcement detectives who have a higher level set of skills and experience. MUFON Takes anyone who pays the money and passes the test and works for free. That does not make them a credible source for information for me to except they're conclusions. - Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Investigator
Interestingly enough, Tom Wertman of Mufon had publicly released the following statement a day before his handlers told him what they wanted him to say it seems like....
Just after 8 p.m., Tom Wertman said he was able to see "something very faint, like the head of a pin, pop in, and pop out."
So what exactly is this object?
He says the movement of the first sighting
"was way too quick" for conventional aircraft. "It went from 10 degrees to 290 degrees and disappeared in a matter of just a few minutes," Wertman said.
He (Wertman) said that during the second sighting, the object was "too stationary for too long. It didn't act like a normal aircraft. If it was making a loop turn and heading back to the airport, the landing light would be getting brighter, not dimmer. And if it was moving away, wouldn't the light we were seeing be facing the other direction?"
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"Abby's Dance-a-Thon" is a special episode of season 2, originally airing on July 3, 2012. In the episode, Abby goes through every dance from the past two seasons, counting down from worst to best. The "Pop Quiz Pyramid" from Abby's Most OMG Moments returns, and "Abby's Extras" are also shown, including disastrous dances, a never-before-seen dance, and the funkiest and cutest dances. Additionally, each dance shown is extended from its previous cut in its episode.
Abby counts down the best and worst dance performances.[1]
Abby's Best and Worst
10. "Pin-Up Girls/Pin-Up Dolls/I Want It" trio - Maddie, Paige, and Chloe (The Competition Begins)
9. Vivi-Anne's "Honeybee" solo (Stealing the Show)
8. "Hurt Them First (Jailbirds)" (Abbygeddon)
7. Brooke's "Garden of Eden" solo (Return of the Candy Apples)
6. "My Pumps" (Cathy Brings It On)
5. Chloe's "Dream On A Star" solo (Cathy Brings It On)
4. Maddie's "Angel" solo (She's a Fighter)
3. "Black Swan" duet - Maddie and Chloe (It All Ends Here)
2. "This Is My Beauty" (It All Ends Here)
1. "Where Have All The Children Gone" (Dying to Dance)
Other Featured Dances
- Paige's unaired "People" solo (World Premiere Dance Performance) (performed during the filming for Love on the Dance Floor)
- Paige's solo "Gemini" (Disastrous Dance) (Stealing the Show)
- Chloe's solo "Another Season" (Disastrous Dance) (It All Ends Here)
- Nia's solo "Baila" (Disastrous Dance) (Miami Heat Wave)
- Maddie's solo "In My Heart" (Disastrous Dance) (Abbygeddon)
- The Moms' Dance (The Dance That Should Have Never Seen the Light Of Day) (When Stars Collide)
- Nia's solo "They Call Me Laquifa" (The Funkiest Dance) (She's a Fighter)
- Mackenzie's solo "My Parade" (The Cutest Dance) (Brooke's Turning Point)
- "Private Eyes (Secret Agents)" (From Pittsburgh with Love) (Bullets and Ballet)
To view the gallery for Abby's Dance-a-Thon, click here.
To view the video gallery for "Abby's Dance-a-Thon," visit subpage Abby's Dance-a-Thon/Videos.


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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
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Enjoy the latest episode of our show Room 4 Rent
Tag Archive: Matthew Budija
As some of you are aware I write and create webisodes and short movies. Room 4 Rent is a comedy series we started late last year, and while it's been on the back burner for quite sometime, here is the finished third episode. To view more of our movies you can go to our website http://www.kinghitstudios.com


text: Just curious about an apparent omission. While ClamTK is available on AppCafe, ClamAV is not. This is curious, as the tool kit is useless without the base program. Retired and rusty as I am, and being at best a superficial C programmer anyway, I found the ClamAV source code and successfully compiled and linked it without errors. But now how do I get ClamTK to find and activate ClamAV? I am a Linux/HP-UX person, and BSD seems to store everything in a different place. I can't figure out h0ow to make the two packages connect. Thanks for any help that you might offer. Ed Lukacs -- "All parts should go together without forcing. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1975 -- He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear. -- from The Buddha and his Dhamma by Dr. B.R.Ambedka


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Turkey's competitiveness in the European Union: A comparison with five candidate countries - Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania - and the EU15
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the international competitiveness of the Turkish economy and the structure of specialisation in foreign trade in comparison with the five EU candidate countries Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland and the EU/15. This research work attempts to find out Turkey's ability to overcome difficulties and challenges that might arise from the hard competition with the enlarged EU, mainly in the field of foreign trade.
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Exclusive: Crank 2 Details
And Jason Statham will return!
Empire caught up with Crank co-directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine recently and they spilled some details about the Crank sequel, set to shoot early next year. Warning: There are spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the first film.
"Crank 2 will pick up exactly where Crank one ends," says Taylor. "It's a true sequel. Jason Statham will return. It's not a prequel, it's not his brother, it's not a dream sequence. He will [scrape himself off the floor]".
As you'll no doubt remember, Crank ended with Jason Statham plummeting from a helicopter clutching the bad guy, since he was already doomed due to the poison that had been injected into his body and would kill him if his heart rate dropped below rutting rabbit levels. This would seem to make it tricky for the character to come back.
"We're finding that a lot of people were thinking, 'Oh, Crank 2 can't be done'," adds Neveldine. "But we came up with an idea, we wrote the script, and after the studio read it they couldn't believe that we pulled it off. And of course, the best test was giving it to Jason and Jason turned down every other project so he could do this, start this in the spring of next year. He was so excited, he couldn't believe it".
As are we! For ridiculous, hilarious, literally adrenaline-fuelled antics, Crank was hard to beat. And the directors promise this will go bigger.
"It's going to be more sexual, more violent – more of everything," laughs Taylor. "We realise with a movie like Crank, you can't do a sequel and do 60% or 70% of what the original was. You have to go twice as hard. So that's what we're going to do. If we're going to live up to the first one with the sequel – we're taking it WAY past the point of the first one".
Crank 2 is set to start shooting on April 25, 2008.


text: Known as one of the "Fathers of Pop Art," Roy Lichtenstein's visual masterpieces and influence will soon be celebrated at both at the Art Institute of Chicago and on Bank of America's iconic mural wall space adjacent to the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago. Bank of America announced today a unique student art partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), in conjunction with its global sponsorship of the new "Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective" exhibit that debuts at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 16. The partnership demonstrates the bank's support of the local community by creating shared cultural experiences and fostering art education in Chicago. Students from SAIC were recently asked to create original artwork that is a tribute to Chicago and in the style of Pop Art. A selection committee, comprised of representatives from the three partnering organizations, the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein and advertising agency BBDO, will then choose one student's design to be painted as the mural to adorn three walls of the building that is located off the Kennedy Expressway near N. Ashland Ave. and W. Armitage Ave. in the Bucktown neighborhood. The commissioned artist's work will be announced in mid-March and then unveiled on the wall mural prior to the new Lichtenstein exhibition opening. The wall currently displays a placeholder to give the public a "teaser" about what is to come and directs them to bankofamerica.com/chicago to learn more about the program. "Bank of America is proud to support Roy Lichtenstein's legacy and encourage a new generation of artists to celebrate what makes Chicago such a great city," said Tim Maloney, Illinois president for Bank of America. "This partnership demonstrates our continued commitment to support arts organizations, and strengthens the economic and social health of our local communities."


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Clay Zavada was a 30th-round draft selection in 2006 before taking the 2007 season off to help his family cope with the death of his father. He returned in 2008, playing ball for the Southern Illinois Miners of the Frontier league before being part of a pseudo-trade that got him back into the Diamondbacks organization. He was literally unhittable for South Bend that year and went 1-0 with a 2.60 ERA for the BayBears this season in 17 1/3 innings.
Zavada was called up along with teammate Gerardo Parra earlier in the month, but returned to Mobile after just one day on the big league roster. He got promoted once again today, and was called upon to pitch the seventh inning of a one-run game, with the D-backs trailing the Marlins 3-2.
Zavada's fastball did not top 88 MPH, but it had the movement and location to be effective. Zavada induced a weak popout from the opposing pitcher with his fastball, then engineered two swinging strikeouts on his 80 MPH changeup. One of those whiffs came from ex-Diamondback Emilio Bonifacio.
Kyler Newby also joined the D-backs in Florida. The former 50th-round
draft selection had a rough go in big league camp, having allowed four homers
and eight runs in three innings. Nevertheless, after going 1-0 with a 3.38 ERA
for the BayBears this year in 18 2/3 innings, Newby was promoted to the majors
along with Zavada. These fresh arms help offset the loss of Scott Schoeneweis, who is on the bereavement list after the tragic death of his wife
on Wednesday.
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Spotlight Recipe: Chocolate-Covered Banana Popsby Kristine Brabson in Healthy Recipes, February 14, 2009
Recruit the kids to help make this Valentine's Day treat. These frozen fruit pops feature firm ripe bananas, dipped in dark chocolate and drizzled with peanuts. Peanuts, chocolate and bananas? I don't know about you, but that would win my heart any day!
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Rutgers, Missouri, Cincinnati and South Florida are the four schools at the top, said Jesuit head coach James Harrell.
Planning official visits to Missouri Jan. 18 and Rutgers Jan. 25, expect a decision to come close to National Signing Day, Harrell said.
He will be at Cincinnati this weekend.
"His final trip will be at Rutgers and then he'll make a decision either on signing day or close to then," Rutgers is his last one. They've been recruiting him for a while as a tight end."
Johnson decommitted from Miami and the Hurricanes are no longer involved in his recruitment, Harrell said.
"As to why or what happened, that's all up to him and how he feels, but I know he's very happy with the direction of his recruiting," Harrell said.
Rutgers has tight end commitments from Archbishop Wood's (Warminster, Pa.) Nick Arcidiacono and Lake Mary (Fla.) Taylor Marini but has been involved enough with Johnson to schedule him for an official visit.
"He's a pretty versatile level and will probably be the same at the college level," Harrell said. "He has decent size, 235-pound kid right now. Once he gets in the weight room and puts on some muscle mass and gets used to that level, I think he'll be a pretty good player."
Jesuit used Johnson primarily as an interior receiver in the spread offense, but also as a safety, wildcat quarterback and kick returner.
"He has excellent hands," Harrell said. "He goes up, has good ball skills and he's a learner. He's an inside guy, whether you got him attached [to the line] at tight end or flexed out in the spread, either one works. We moved him around in multiple formations. By the end of the season, we had him blocking pretty well too, but that's something that would have to get stronger in a pro-style [offense]."