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|Hello everyone, I recently found these forums and have been doing a lot of research on starting a Plantscaping business. I came across Green-Concepts.com and was considering this program. Has anyone used it or heard anything about it? I am wondering if it would be worth the $1000? Or should I just get some contracts from somewhere else and try to do it on my own with all of your help here? Any info. or advice is much appreciated. Thank you.
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that looks like someones "green concept" to me. read between the lines and do some research on these people.i have been in the business 30 years and have never heard of them. why dont they list any way to contact any of their 800 franchisees? they don't seem to be supporters of our industry green initiative http://www.gpgb.org
need i go on?
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I don't have anything against a turn-key software package tailored to specific industries, especially an industry as specialized as ours. And I certainly don't begrudge any entrepreneur a fair profit on their intellectual property and hard work! It's the risk-takers who drive our economy, after all.
Shop around, there are several different packages and vendors out there you can look at. Shining Brow is one that has products specific to the industry. Compuscapes is another.
If it's primarily forms you're after (e.g., contracts), get in touch with Rick Wilcox of Southwest Plantscape Products (I believe he's a member of this forum); he has a library of boilerplate for the industry and shares it generously.
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Way back when, about 10 years ago, when I first started my interiorscape business, I reviewed a little of their package and wasn't impressed. I think they were asking $500 or so for it back then. Having had some experience in the industry already, I didn't think it was worth it. If I remember correctly it was heavy on the office information/sales and marketing advice and very limited on the technical side.
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With pedophile monster coach Jerry Sandusky settling in to share a bunk with "Big Bubba" at the penitentiary, probably on the receiving end, and Joe Paterno dead, in life and Nittany Lion history, I can't help to feel a reaction of outrage, as the NCAA, and NCAA President Mark Emmert, continues to stick it to students, past, present and future, and the reliant merchants and community of State College, Pa.
Sandusky, a former Penn State defensive coordinator, was found guilty in June of sexually abusing young boys, sometimes on campus. An investigation commissioned by the school and released July 12 found that Paterno, who died in January, and several other top officials at Penn State stayed quiet for years about accusations against Sandusky.
Why would Emmert decide to disembowel the football program that was built on the backs of the students and players?
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Emmert said there were concerns about the collateral damage of shutting down Penn State football for a year, and that's why the death penalty was ruled out.
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Subject: SILKWOODS
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:09:10 -0500
Solomon J. SILKWOOD b. 1830 in Ky. d. 3-23-1883 bur; Reed Cem,
married 8-11-1853 FCI
Jemima Jane MARSHALL b. 3-21-1834 Tn. d. 1-18-1895 bur. Reed Cem
#2--Chamberlain C. HUTSON Jr. (her brother-in-law) mar; 3-16-1884 FCI
1. William Levi "Bill" SILKWOOD b. 1854 mar: Manerva J. WINN
2. Benjamin F. SILKWOOD b. 1857
3. Nancy E. SILKWOOD b. 1850
4. Charles B. SILKWOOD
5, Robert SILKWOOD b. 11-16-1874 d. 6-28-1939
6. Sarah Katherine "Kate" SILKWOOD mar. Lazarus Right GULLEY
Solmon and his wife made their home near the Spring Settlement. this is now
where the town of Rend city stands in Franklin County. Only three of their
children lived to raise a family of their own, Bill, Kate and Robert.
Bill married Manerva Winn, daughter of Jim Winn oof the Spring Settlement.
Bill and his wife settled on a farm at the foot of Grammer Hill, which is
one of the highest points of Franklin County. There they raised a large
family. Amoung those were Etta, married a man named POLLY. Tracie married
a MOYERS and lived in the Mulkeytown area. Quinton, the oldest son was
killed in action at Chateau Thierry . Jim and his family were in the
Gatewood, Missouri area and Thurlow livedin the Bradley Missouri areaand a
sister Grace married a man named KING and lived in Warm Springs, Arkansas.
Another of the daughters married a Roy Wright and lived in Lake City, Il and
Bill lived inthe McGlasson Community in Franklin County.
William Levi SILKWOOD was bornin 1854 and died in June 1922 and on 2-6-1878
he married Manerva J. Winn and she died 1923.
1. Mary Etta SILKWOOD married John Polly 8-9-1903 in FCI.
a. Kenneth
b. Lillian
2. Quentin SILKWOOD died in WW2
3, Anna SILKWOOD married Roy WIRGHT
4. Tracy Elma SILKWOOD married Ed Moyers. He died 1953 and she is 1963
(his parents were Edward Churchhill Moyers and Rebecca P SILKWOOD)
5. Grace SILKWOOD married Bud KING
6. James Solomon SILKWOOD married Olive CULLISON
7. Nellie SILKWOOD married Walter HUFFMAN
8. Thurlow SILKWOOD b. 9-14-1889 and married Jettis Mary DALE on 4-1-1911
and lived in Bradley (RipleyCo) Missouri
1. Sibyl Evalia SIKLWOOD b. 9-26-1912 marr; Ernest V. PRY
a. Thomas Ernest PRY
b. Wavy J. PRY
2. Fay Jewel SILKWOOD b. 2-10-1914 married Joe Hancock
3. Noble Woodrow SILKWOOD b. 12-28-1916 married Olive COLLISON
4. Lillian Marie SILKWOOD b. 6-14-1919 married Clyde SIPES-Douglas
5. Hugh Lindell SILKWOOD b. 1-15-1922 mar; Margaret Vaughn
6. Muriel Elizabeth SILKWOOD b. 2-3-1925 mar; Ben MORGAN--HEMMING
7. Mary Maxine SILKWOOD b. 1929 mar; Dean FICKER
8. Joanna SILKWOOD b. 3-12-1931 mar; Jack BELL
9. William George SILKWOOD d. age 4 mos.
10. Shirley June SILKWOOD b. 9-24-1934 mar; Barnard McDonald
2. Benjamin F. SILKWOOD no information
3. Nancy E. SILKWOOD no information
4. Charles B. SILKWOOD no information
5. Robert SILKWOOD
6. Sarah Catherine SILKWOOD b. 1-16-1865 d. 6-6-1918 bur; Maple Hill
Married 1-22-1879 FCI to Lazarus Right GULLEY He was born 12-23-1853
Jackson Co Tn died; 4-1-1928 Bur; Maple Hill, Sesser, Il. They lost
several children as infants.
1. Daisy GULLEY married Joshua SMITH
a. Flora SMITH married William OVERTURF
b. FLossie SMITH NM
c. Loyd SMITH married Delsa CLANCEY
2. Della GULLEY married Ben F. WInn
a. Kate married Everett LANCE
3. Roy Arbi GULLEY 1887--1945 mar; Mary ALice MARTEL
a. Gearld GULLEY
b. Mary Katherine GULLEY maried Leonard DANIELS
1. Richard DANIELS
2. David DANIELS
3. Linda DANIELS
c. Lida GULLEY married Hershel PYLE
1. Susan PYLE
2. Robert PLYE
D. Ronald GULLEY mar; Lorraine MISEGADES
1. JoAnn GULLEY
2. Elaine GULLEY
E. Halbert GULLEY mar; Nadine DAUDERMAN
1. Gearld GULLEY
2. Beth GULLEY
3. William GULLEY
F. Maurine GULLEY married George YARBRO
1. Jane Ellen YARBRO
2. Carole YARBRO
3. Maureen YARBRO
4. George Ann YARBRO
G. Roy GULLEY Jr. married Lina KELLOGG
1. Michael married Sharow HALL
2. Thomas GULLEY married Jane DONOSKY
3. Mary Lou GULLEY married Kenneth PAYNE
4. John GULLEY
5. Joyce GULLEY
4. Roscoe GULLEY married Sadie GILBERT
A. Dean GULLEY married #1 #2 Maaxine
B. Donald GULLEY married Thelma HART
1. Shelba Jean GULLEY
2. Donna GULLEY
C. Max Lee GULLEY married Kathryn VENELL
1. Michael GULLEY
2. Patrick GULLEY
D. Robert GULLEY married Barbara (A native of Canada)
1. Chris GULLEY
2. Cara GULLEY
5. ALice GULLEY married Monroe McMILLAN
A. Roy McMILLAN (ADopted)
B. Mildren McMILLAN (Adopted)
6. Golda GULLEY married Charley TEFFERTILLER
7. Robert GULLEY married Clara ?
I also have the following SILKWOOD children listed but do not kno whothey
belong to;
(I reallly think that they belong to Robert SILKWOOD)
Mary SILKWOOD b. 1-26-1909 married #1 FORNEAR #2 Curtis DARR
Mima SILKWOOD b. 12-25-1911 married HAMMONDS
Judith SILKWOOD b. 1-7-1914 married WHITE
Freda SILKWOOD b. 10-20- married BOYD
Nellie SILKWOOD b. 5-6-1919
Any help with this family will appreciated. I have several blakns to fill
in, so if you can help, let me knoe
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Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Palestinians, who elected a new leader just last month, are not saying much about Sunday´s historic election in Iraq.
Iraqis braved the threat of terror attacks and turned out in large numbers to vote in their first free elections in more than 50 years on Sunday. Arab-Muslim media reacted mostly positively to the polls, but Palestinian media and officials have been silent on the subject.
One observer, who is close to the Palestinian Authority leadership but asked not to be named, said officially, Palestinian leaders want to keep their distance from the subject.
On the one hand they don´t want to speak against the elections because it shows that elections can be held even under "occupation." They also don´t want to speak against the Americans or antagonize the White House or State Department -- especially at a time when the U.S. is getting more involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, he said.
Many Palestinians believe that the elections are only a first step in solving Iraq´s problems. Also, he added, the Palestinians are currently caught up in their own affairs.
According to the independent Israeli watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian television reported on the Iraq elections - without commentary.
The Palestinians are in an awkward position, Palestinian Media Watch said: They don´t approve of the Americans being in Iraq but they´re glad the Iraqis were able to vote in democratic elections, just as the Palestinians have done. So they don´t say anything, PMW said.
In the run-up to the elections last week, cartoons from other Arab papers appeared in the Palestinian press, warning about the upcoming elections in Iraq.
Palestinians considered former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein a hero because of his support for their cause. Prior to the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq, Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip rallied behind Saddam.
Former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians were among the few who supported Saddam´s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas apologized to the Kuwaitis only recently.
More recently, during the first years of the intifadah, Saddam paid $10,000 and more to the families of each Palestinian suicide bomber and smaller sums to those killed in clashes with Israel.
In East Jerusalem, interest in the Iraqi elections was low.
"I personally don´t care about Iraq. Why should I care about Iraq? It doesn´t affect us here. There´s no relationship between Israel and Iraq. There´s no connection whatsoever. Even the Palestinians don´t have any relations to Iraq now," said George, who runs a toy store in eastern Jerusalem.
He said the Americans might see the elections as a way to prolong the occupation, but he said it won´t stop the violence. "I mean, more and more violence [is] going to take place. What do elections solve for[the Iraqi people]?" he asked.
"I don´t think it will solve any problems for them. It´s only good for propaganda purposes for [President] Bush, for [Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice, but the ordinary life of the people won´t improve," he said - and if it does, it will take a long time.
Twenty-eight-year-old Alaa -- born in Jerusalem and raised in Jordan -- helps run a family business, a cigarette and cellular telephone shop, in eastern Jerusalem. He is skeptical about the whole process.
"Nothing´s real," said Alaa of the Iraqi elections. "The people are miserable. They don´t really understand the politics. That is especially true in the Arab world. That is our problem. According to what you see, the people are miserable, the people are poor. They want only something to live on [and] because of this you see celebration," he said.
"Maybe in the future there will be something good for them," Alaa said.
Describing the situation in Iraq as "hard," Alaa said that Iraqis are not like the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. The people, he said, are divided into many factions and it will be hard to unite them.
"The people, they have strength but they´re confused. They don´t know what is right and what is wrong," he said. He said he didn´t believe there could ever be democracy in the Arab world.
Mohammed, 21, was more upbeat.
"Yes, it´s a good thing and the people [are] happy because the situation [was] very bad before the elections," said Mohammed. "Now it´s getting better. I think it´s a good thing." (copyright 1998- 2005 Cybercast News Service. 02/01/05)
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Tessa Fudge will join the Holland College Hurricanes women's soccer team this fall after spending last season with the UPEI Panthers.
The New Ross native will be entering the college's dental assisting program.
"I'm very excited about attending Holland College this fall and I'm ready to learn," she said.
Fudge was UPEI's rookie of the year last season, helping the team reach the Atlantic University Sport championship after scoring the winning goal in a game with Acadia.
During the summer, Fudge plays for the South Shore United Football Club.
"Any time you can add a player of Tessa's calibre you are going to be excited," said head coach Kris McKinnon. "She brings pace, awareness and a keen ability to score. . . She will step into our program as a leader and a player capable of being a game changer."
The Hurricanes Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) regular season begins Sept. 6, in Fredericton against the St. Thomas Tommies.
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I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas by Adam Roberts
Given that Yellow Blue Tibia by Roberts was both the maddest and best SF book I read this year, I had high hopes of this zombie take on Dickens' A Christmas Carol as a bit of fun this festive season. Would it live up to the fun I had with Pride & Prejudice & Zombies ? (reviewed here last year).
Whereas P&P&Z keeps Austen's prose moreorless intact, adding the 'zombie mayhem' into the original, I am Scrooge keeps the main characters and then riffs on the story telling of a rather different Christmas night for Scrooge as the ghosts show him how the world will become populated by zombies if he doesn't change his ways.
Marley was dead, to begin with. Dead for about three minutes, that is: then he got up again. The clergyman, the clerk and the undertaker had all certified him dead: and these were all men experienced in the business of dealing with dead bodies. They were all astonished, then – and more than astonished – to hear his corpse groan, and to see it shake and move. If their surprise did not last long, it was only because it very quickly turned to terror as Marley reached out and sank his fingers into the soft flesh of the clerk's and the undertaker's throats, and, using them as leverage, pulled himself forward to bite down hard into the face of the clergyman…
So it begins – and I stopped the quote before it gets truly gory! Marley is the first zombie of many lurching out in search of brains to eat, but Marley wants Scrooge's in particular. The story starts promisingly, with touches of corny humour and bucketloads of gore, but goes downhill with the arrival of the second ghost of Christmas future. This phantom is irritating to the core, talking in modern argot like Ali G – with nah, innit, bruv and amirite all over the place – this was bizarre as the future Scrooge is shown is 1899. Sadly, this wasn't funny at all and submerges the plot under its weight. I did like the twist at the end though …
This one misfired for me, but it won't stop me reading more of Roberts' SF though. (6/10) O
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Two masks of faces are mounted side by sideone is concave, the other convex. Viewed from a distance, the masks look two-dimensional. From experience people know that faces are convex. As the viewer walks back and forth in front of the masks though, one seems to move. Parallax refers to the rule that more distant objects move less. Since the nose of this mask moves the least, it would seem to indicate a concave face. Experience overrides this conclusion and the result is the observer sees a moving face, rather than a concave one.
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Miles John Breuer, (1889 – 1947) a U.S. doctor by trade, is better known to science fiction aficionadoes as a writer for many pulp magazines, including Amazing Stories and Argosy. His best known works are his story "The Gostak and the Doshes," and his collaborative work with Jack Williamson, including The Birth of a New Republic.
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Jada Pinkett Smith has donated $1 million to her former high school, Maryland's Baltimore School of the Arts.
Actress-singer Jada Pinkett Smith has made a $1 million donation to alma mater, Maryland's Baltimore School of the Arts, from which she graduated and started on a successful acting career.
The donation is said to come from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, which is based in Baltimore and had previously given $112,500 to the school.
Smith wants the new school theater to be named after fellow classmate, rapper Tupac Shakur, who was shot and killed in 1996. "She knew how brilliant he was and just thought it was only fitting to dedicate it to him," Karen Banfield Evans, Pinkett Smith's aunt and executive director of the Smith Family Foundation told the Associated Press.
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In Athens all the aquatic events are taking place in the same venue, the first time this has happened.
Some controversy surrounds the aquatics venue though as it hasn't been finished. The builders didn't have time to put a roof over it, so swimmers and spectators will get very warm at the Games.
Everyone knows how the swimming works, although swimmers will have to be wary as if they make a single false start in their event they will be disqualified.
Diving takes place from a series of high boards, with judges scoring on the difficulty of the dive and the skill of completing it.
Synchronised swimming sees pairs or groups of swimmers 'dance' to music. They must complete the complicated moves at the same time to score well.
In water polo swimmers try and throw the ball into a goal, a bit like football. Amazingly, players aren't allowed to touch the sides or the bottom of the pool during the game, so they have to keep treading water.
Who are the British hopes for Athens?
In diving, synchronised pair Leon Taylor and Peter Waterfield are tipped to do well and Tony Ally is an experienced GB Olympian.
Four years ago in Sydney there were no British medallists in the pool, now things are very different.
An Australian coach called Bill Sweetenham now runs the team and after a complete reorganisation has got lots of top medal hopes.
Sarah Price and 200m world champ Katy Sexton in the women's backstroke are strong contenders, as are world 50m champ James Gibson and Darren Mew in the breastroke.
Who are the big stars?
In the men's swimming look out for Ian 'Thorpedo' Thorpe from Australia and US star Michael Phelps. Both are young and are entering lots of events to try and win multiple gold medals.
Phelps is hoping to break the record for most golds in a single Games, set by another swimmer Mark Spitz at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The state auditor says he's ready to release results of an investigation into manipulation of attendance data in Ohio's largest school district.
Auditor Dave Yost has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday on findings involving the Columbus city schools.
District employees have been accused of altering attendance records for struggling students to improve performance ratings, which can be used to determine government funding and employee bonuses. The practice is called scrubbing.
The investigation in Columbus has been joined by federal authorities.
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A former staff member of the Fujian branch of Rufengda Express Delivery Service, Chinese B2C clothing website Vancl's Beijing-based logistics and distribution network subsidiary, has reported that Rufengda has begun major layoffs as Vancl's business suffers. Another former employee disclosed that Vancl CEO Chen Nian intends to dissolve the entire Rufengda business to save costs, while Vancl vice president and Rufengda general manager Li Hongyi has voiced his desire to preserve at least a portion of Rufengda's local branches.
The above-mentioned former Rufengda Fujian employee reported that currently Rufengda has approximately 150-160 distribution sites throughout mainland China, and that the cuts may result in the shutdown of many of those sites that have not been profitable. The former Fujian employee himself was suddenly asked to leave at the end of March. Rufengda Fujian manages only two sites, one in Fuzhou and one in Xiamen, with a total of approximately 50 employees. If in the next two months business conditions do not improve, the two sites will likely be dissolved before the end of June.
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By PAULINE ARRILLAGA
Originally printed 3/1/2012 (Issue 2009 - Between The Lines News)
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) -
A few days ago, the Yavapai Tea Party gathered at a church in rural Arizona to discuss the all-too-familiar topic of illegal immigration. Among the conservative, mostly over-55 crowd, it is a subject seen in black and white. Build a fence, add agents, reject amnesty - period.
And so it was all the more striking when, off to the side in a room with "Jesus Loves Us!!" written on a chalkboard, the conversation turned to the subject on everyone's mind, if not the agenda: The conservative Arizona sheriff and Republican candidate for Congress who less than a week earlier had admitted to reporters, his constituents - indeed to the world - that he is gay.
The absolutes were, in large part, absent.
Consider the comments of Bill Halpin, a 64-year-old ex-Air Force pilot who serves on the local tea party board: "I care less. I just care less. Don't preach it on me. Don't push it on me and, by golly, I respect your rights." And this from Mona Patton, the 60-year-old real estate agent who is the group's president: "I'm a Christian, but who am I to make a judgment about somebody else? I don't have that right, and I look beyond that. ... I still believe in him. I still back him. I still like him. That doesn't affect that."
Sheriff Paul Babeu's "coming out" moment on Feb. 18 was surreal enough, given the man, his politics and the venue - a news conference in front of the Pinal County Sheriff's Department with Babeu, in uniform, surrounded by deputies. Then, of course, there was the startling reason for the sudden admission: a story in an alternative weekly publication in which a former lover accused Babeu of threatening his immigration status if he revealed their relationship.
Now the conversations that have ensued here since - in one of the most politically conservative states in all the union - are astonishing in their own right. There are questions, many of them, about Babeu and his "choices" and judgment, about whether the sheriff may have somehow abused his power. Yet voters, Republican voters in particular, are also asking some intriguing questions of themselves, about acceptance and identity and values, about what really matters most to them.
"This may be a litmus test," said Patton, not just of whether a gay man can survive running for Congress in a deeply conservative district in a red state but, more so, of the contrast between how far society has come - and still has to go. "I have many, many, many friends in my life that are gay and have been gay, and I don't have issues with it. But, you know, it's a hurdle for a lot of people, and it's, I think, a shame. ... I think he's going to have a hard row to hoe."
Before all of this, the 43-year-old was considered a rising star in Republican politics. A retired major in the Army National Guard and an ex-police officer, Babeu was the first Republican elected sheriff in Pinal County, nestled between Phoenix and Tucson in a culturally diverse part of Arizona. Having previously commanded a National Guard unit in the border town of Yuma, Babeu quickly became known for his tough stance on illegal immigration. He appeared alongside Sen. John McCain in a 2010 ad in which McCain advocated completion of a border fence, and last year was chosen as America's "Sheriff of the Year" by his colleagues in the National Sheriffs' Association.
In January, he announced his candidacy for Arizona's newly drawn 4th Congressional District, and polls soon showed him as the favorite against an incumbent tea party Republican who switched districts to run and a GOP state senator who once sponsored legislation to define marriage as being between one man and one woman.
Then came the Feb. 17 headline on the website of the Phoenix New Times: "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation."
A day later, Babeu found himself before microphones and reporters, denying the threats but acknowledging, with stark candor, that he is gay.
"I'm here to say that all these allegations ... are absolutely completely false except for the issues that refer to me as being gay. Because that's the truth."
Some Arizona political insiders were quick to declare Babeu's congressional aspirations - indeed, his political career - over, in large part because of questions that go beyond his sexual orientation. An independent investigation, begun at Babeu's behest, is looking into the allegations of intimidation and threatening behavior. Babeu has denied threatening his ex-boyfriend with deportation and said his understanding is that the man, originally from Mexico, is in the country legally. The former boyfriend also told CNN that he was here legally.
Still others have questioned Babeu's judgment because of a photograph the New Times published showing him shirtless and standing in his underpants. Babeu had sent the picture to his former boyfriend, and his campaign manager and attorney, Chris DeRose, said Babeu "realizes that was a mistake, and he shouldn't have done that." The New Times also published an old profile of Babeu's from a gay dating website showing another shirtless photograph, with Babeu's face mostly cut out.
Then, on Friday, The Arizona Republic reported that the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether one or more of Babeu's employees at the sheriff's office engaged in on-the-job politicking.
As a columnist for that newspaper wrote earlier in the week: "Sheriff Babeu is not in political (or perhaps legal) trouble because his lifestyle has been exposed. He's in trouble because he was involved in a messy relationship that spilled over into his public life and has raised questions about his judgment. And when you're running for the U.S. Congress your judgment is an issue. ... It isn't a gay thing. It's a trust thing."
Whatever the "thing" is, the reaction to it has - thus far - not been quite what some may have expected.
When Babeu posted a link to his news conference on his Facebook page and implored voters to "stand with me as we talk about the issues that matter," more than 1,000 comments flooded in. While some expressed disappointment and said that the sheriff had lost their support or branded him a hypocrite for being gay and Republican, the vast majority supported Babeu - from locals who know him to out-of-staters declaring that they, too, are conservative and gay.
"First gay man I can agree with," read one post. "We conservatives have his back," said another. And: "We still support you Sheriff. Gay or straight. Let's get this country back on the right track."
DeRose said Friday that Babeu had received $17,000 in political donations since his news conference, and that his supporters in Arizona "are more enthusiastic than ever."
Whether this is all just political posturing or even, political correctness that may soon fade remains to be seen. Babeu, who declined an interview request, has vowed to stay in the congressional race, and the primary is still six months off. He continues to make campaign appearances, including a speech at a Lincoln Day dinner the same day he admitted being gay.
"So, how is YOUR weekend going?" he joked, and his audience laughed.
The event was held in Yavapai County in the heart of the congressional district, which covers a huge swath stretching from the border near Yuma through the horse pastures of Prescott Valley up north to the conservative stronghold of Mohave County near the Nevada border. Phoenix political consultant Chuck Coughlin described the district as one of the most right-leaning in the state - with a rural, older demographic that does not "lend one to believe that there is a high degree of likelihood" of Babeu winning the congressional seat or even staying in the race for the long haul.
There have been no openly gay Republicans in Congress since 2006, when another Arizonan - U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe - retired. And the nation's 7,382 state legislators include 93 openly gay Democrats but not a single openly gay Republican, according to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
"If you're an openly gay Republican, you face a platform that is sometimes not welcoming," said Chuck Wolfe, the fund's president. "It's going to take a while to reverse that feeling."
Kolbe, who represented a more diverse, swing district than the one that Babeu hopes to win, was elected to Congress in 1985 and disclosed in 1996 that he was gay. Last week, he endorsed Babeu, and he said in an interview that while no one could predict whether Babeu will emerge from this and still be able to succeed politically, "we have come a long way."
"I think in a few years the media won't be paying that much attention to this issue. The public clearly is ahead of the media on this, and as the polls show people don't seem to be that concerned about this kind of an issue," he said. "The issue is whether Paul's a good candidate for Congress or not, and I think he is."
Coughlin and others noted that Babeu has a few things working in his favor: He's charismatic. Arizonans like his stance on illegal immigration and other conservative issues, but they also genuinely like him. Several voters also said that the sheriff's sexual orientation was one of the worst-kept secrets in Arizona political circles and that while they wish it hadn't come out the way it did, the fact itself was hardly surprising.
"Everybody knew on some level, and we never gave it a second thought," said Republican Shawna Thornton, 38, a before-and-after Babeu supporter who lives in Lake Havasu City, within the 4th District, and believes that the now openly gay sheriff still has a chance.
Old assumptions of how party affiliation defines a voter's position on social issues such as homosexuality no longer ring true, insisted Thornton, noting that for her and many others "conservatism" isn't about abortion or gay marriage but rather limited government, fiscal responsibility and "values" in the sense of understanding right from wrong.
"I'm finding that people are more middle of the road, less extreme, more accepting of how different people are deep down inside," she said.
Added Coughlin: "Life's a mosaic of issues and people, and although we want to see the world in black and white there's very little of that around. It's a lot of grays, and a lot of colors in between."
Some voters contacted for this story were hesitant to discuss the situation as they await the outcome of the independent probe. But the ones who did appeared to be genuinely muddling through all that had happened _ and their own feelings about it _ in ways that shunned the extremes.
"Well ... I just think that ... You know, I don't know," said Barry Denton, 52, a horse trainer and president of the Yavapai Republican Men's Forum, whose group played host to Babeu for a speech only days before all the "news" of his private life broke. As always, Denton said, he was well received.
"I think he's done an extremely good job as sheriff, and I think he's done a great thing by making people more aware of the immigration problem. I guess I wish he had come out with the gay thing sooner. I think he should have been a little more upfront, `cause he's a pretty upfront guy.
"I don't agree with his lifestyle. That's his business," he said, "But as far as what he's accomplished, it's been impressive. ... I'm just disappointed."
Denton said he thinks the allegations against Babeu will prove unfounded, and that he hadn't yet picked a candidate to back. When asked whether all of this might persuade him to choose someone other than Babeu, he said: "I haven't come to any conclusion there yet."
There were similarly mixed feelings at the tea party meeting on illegal immigration, at which Babeu was initially scheduled to speak. Tea party representatives and Babeu's campaign manager said the sheriff had to cancel because of another previously scheduled event.
Jeff Tomb, a businessman who is running for county supervisor in the area, was frank in allowing that he didn't think, in his district, that "the homosexual thing is going to go over real well." But only moments later he questioned his own conclusion: "I don't know. People are getting more and more accepting now. He came out and said it and he was honest about it, which is a big plus. That's a good sign of a good honest man, and we need an honest man."
Halpin and Patton, the tea party board member and president, were among those who said they didn't care whether Babeu is gay. As for whether that meant they could vote for him, Halpin said he wouldn't rule it out, should Babeu remain in the race. (He is, however, adamantly opposed to the Babeu opponent who switched districts.) Patton went further, saying she probably would support the sheriff. But then she admitted that, in reality, she doubted he would remain in the race _ or that he could win if he does.
"You know, we put people in boxes and we expect them to behave a certain way and then when people are outside the lines ... there's punitive measures that happen," she said. "I don't know. I just hope people are bigger than that, and I don't know that they're going to be. I don't know what to tell you. This is such a difficult situation. I wish it had not come down the way it did. I wish it hadn't happened."
"But," she said, "here we are."
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0415 Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Date: October 16, 2012 2:37:33 AM EDT
Subject: Juliet is the Sun
I found Larry Weiss's comment interesting because "natural philosophers" of the Renaissance such as Giordano Bruno were positing the existence of tiny sub-visible particles (building on the work of some ancient Greek philosophers). "Romeo and Juliet" also shows exquisite scientific awareness. Thus when Romeo returns to the Capulet house after the mask, he says (to himself) "Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out". This is a reference to the contemporary debate surrounding heliocentrism, which Giordano Bruno was involved in as well. In fact, " Romeo and Juliet" expresses the latest heliocentric science of the Renaissance, since people were just beginning to understand that the relationships and dependencies involved in the new cosmic framework implied that the sun and only the sun was available, ultimately, to power the earth. In other words, the heliocentric idea was starting to have a thermodynamic dimension.
Besides "atomi" we might also note that another word scientific word ("infinite") (also associated with Giordano Bruno and his new conception of an infinite cosmos) of the Renaissance appears in "Romeo and Juliet" when Juliet says "My bounty is as boundless as the sea/My love as deep, the more I give to thee, / the more I have, for both are infinite." Of course, this imagery of a boundless bounty also fits in nicely with a non-depleting energy source.


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The Tommyknockers
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|Stephen King
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|United States
|Science fiction
|November 10, 1987
|Media type
|Print (Hardcover)
The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is more of an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods.
King would later look back on the novel unfavorably, describing it as "an awful book."[1]
Plot summary[edit]
While walking in the woods near the small town of Haven, Maine, Roberta (Bobbi) Anderson, a writer of Wild West-themed fiction, stumbles upon a metal object that turns out to be a protrusion of a long-buried alien spacecraft. Once exposed, the spacecraft begins to release an invisible gas into the atmosphere that gradually transforms people into beings similar to the aliens who populated the ship. The transformation, or "becoming," provides them with a limited form of genius which makes them very inventive but does not provide any philosophical or ethical insight into their inventions. The spacecraft also prevents those affected by it from leaving town, provokes psychotic violence in some people, and causes the disappearance of a young boy, David Brown, whose older brother Hilly teleports him to the planet referred to as Altair 4 by the Havenites.
The book's central character is James Eric Gardener, a poet and friend of Bobbi Anderson, who goes by the nickname "Gard". He is somewhat immune to the ship's effects because of the steel plate in his head, a souvenir of a teenage skiing accident. Gard is also an alcoholic and is prone to binges that result in violent outbursts followed by lengthy blackouts. As Bobbi is almost totally overcome by the euphoria of "becoming" one with the spacecraft, Gard increasingly sees her health worsen and her sanity disappear.
Seeing the transformation of the townspeople worsen, the torture and manipulation of Bobbi's dog Peter, and people being killed or worse when they pry too deeply into the strange events, Gard eventually manipulates Bobbi into allowing him into the ship. After he sees that Bobbi is not entirely his old friend and lover, he shoots and kills her; before she dies, she telepathically calls to the townspeople who then swarm to her place, intent on killing him. Ev Hillman, David and Hilly's grandfather, helps Gardener escape into the woods in exchange for saving David Brown from Altair-4. Gard enters the ship near death after his struggle with the townspeople. With his last ounce of strength, he activates the ship and telepathically launches it into space. This results in the eventual deaths of nearly all of the changed townspeople but prevents the possibly disastrous consequences of the ship's influence spreading to the outside world. Very shortly afterward, agents from the FBI, CIA, and "The Shop" invade Haven and take as many of the Havenites as possible, killing nearly a quarter of the survivors and a few of the devices created by the altered people of Haven.
In the last pages, David Brown is discovered safe and sound in Hilly Brown's hospital room.
In his autobiography On Writing, King attributes the basic premise to the short story "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft. He also used a poem from his childhood for the preamble, which went: Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can, 'cause I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker man.
The writer and critic Kim Newman has cited another influence on the novel, saying that in it King had "more or less rewritten Quatermass and the Pit",[2] a 1950s BBC television science-fiction serial involving the excavation of a long-buried alien spacecraft, and the growing influence of the dormant machine on surrounding human beings.
The novel was written during the height of King's experiences with his own addictions and is filled with metaphors for the stranglehold of substance abuse.[3] In an interview with Rolling Stone, King acknowledged that the quality of his writing suffered during his period of drug use, saying, "The Tommyknockers is an awful book. That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act."[1]
Other themes in the book include the dangers of nuclear power and radioactive fallout, as evidenced by the physical transformations of the townspeople which resemble the effects of radiation exposure, of unchecked technological advancement, and of the corrupting influence of power.[4]
The original 1987 hardcover edition was issued with three different dust jackets. The most common have the author's name in gold (pictured at the top right of this page) or red lettering. The rarer dust jacket features the author's name in silver lettering and pale blue light shining from under the door, as opposed to green as in the other two.
A two-part television miniseries based on the novel was shown in 1993 on ABC, starring Jimmy Smits as Jim Gardner and Marg Helgenberger as Bobbi Anderson.
NBC announced in July 2013 that they would be producing a new miniseries based on The Tommyknockers.[5][6][7]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Greene, Andy. "Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview, Rolling Stone Issue 1221, November 6, 2014". Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ Newman, Kim in Producer – Tom Ware; Executive Producer – Michael Poole (October 15, 2003). "The Kneale Tapes". Timsehift. BBC Four.
- ^ Smythe, James (August 28, 2013). "Rereading Stephen King, chapter 25: The Tommyknockers". Retrieved February 15, 2015.
- ^ Magistrale, Tony. Stephen King - Second Decade: 'Danse Macabre' to 'The Dark Half'. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0805739572.
- ^ NBC Orders Hillary Clinton, 'Rosemary's Baby,' Stephen King's 'Tommyknockers,' Plymouth Rock Miniseries
- ^ Collins, Scott (July 27, 2013). "TCA press tour: NBC preps Hillary Clinton bio and 'Tommyknockers'". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Goldman, Eric. "NBC Announces Remakes of Rosemary's Baby and The Tommyknockers". IGN.


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The Malthouse
May 21
The middle event in the three-part Metropolis series was a less exciting experience than the opening night. Saturday's concert highlighted three Australian works, displaying passages of wit and elegantly spun textural interplay but little by way of solid content.
Elena Kats-Chernin's Cadences, Deviations and Scarlatti involves a sprightly re-examination of a Scarlatti sonata with the composer's individualistic spin and her habit of worrying a motif to distraction. The intent is not a re-evaluation but a bouncing of ideas round the ensemble.
Tristan Coelho juxtaposes and intermingles background and foreground sounds in his Glass Canvas. For a while, this work's fabric offers this duality; then differences become less clear until you are hard-pressed to discern what is important and what is subservient or extraneous.
Coelho constructs a varied field of block and individual timbres - just as well, as there is little melody and harmonic development appears minimal. For all his insistence on sonorities and textures as the score's fulcrum, the work labours because there are few hangers for the listener but, rather, observations that stand on their own although avoiding a clear structure.
Nicholas Ng proposes a fusion of formal orchestra with electro-acoustical elements in his Secret of the Golden Flower: Spirals, which, like Coelho's work, was commissioned for this series. Ng's Chinese-sounding melodies and lucid scoring set up an intentionally naive framework across which the contributions of improvising sound-performer Warwick Lynch enjoyed high prominence.
Rather than complementing the formal scored element, Lynch's output became insistently attention-grabbing so that Ng's intended junction turned into a placid set of melodies punctuated by forceful interpolations, with few signs of interconnection.
Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No.7 constituted the night's brief second part. Like many other Schnittke scores, it gives the impression it has been written over many years, so different are the voices heard. The symphony communicates the composer's bleak world view, which often moves into unfathomable territory. Apart from Wilma Smith's opening violin solo, the performance proved unhappy: muffed horn chords, disparity in passages for unison violins, two unhappy solos.
Tonight at 8pm, the final Metropolis program comprises works by Australians Natalie Williams and Barry Conyngham, and Americans Morton Feldman and John Adams.
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About Francis Chan
Francis Chan is senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California. He is the founder of Eternity Bible College and sits on the board of Children's Hunger Fund. His debut book, Crazy Love, has sold 300,000 copies in its first year, and has been published in over ten languages. Francis and his family make their home in Southern California.


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As I posted last week, nothing had happened in the Tutts' attempts to regain custody of their children in the three weeks since the judge's ruling on January 7, when four of the children were restored to the Tutts, two in process of adoption were kept in foster care, and one child from a previous marriage was placed with the biological father.
On January 27 we wrote a letter to the Texas commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), asking for an investigation into the caseworker who had testified in court that she had not asked for the removal of the Tutt children but had facilitated that action (by Judge Graciela Olvera) by adding to her report statutory language that the children were in danger when she knew that not to be the case.
On January 28 we issued a call to action, asking supporters of the Tutt family to call Governor Perry and the legislative offices of the Texas House and Senate Committees who have legislative oversight of CPS and urge them to contact DFPS and seek an investigation of this matter. Many callers received assurances that these legislators were contacting DFPS.
Some offices made comments that this case was out of their jurisdiction since it did not happen in their districts. We responded that these legislators have oversight of CPS and that they should contact DFPS for an investigation because of the egregious nature of this caseworker's action; it does not matter where it happened. We encourage people to call these legislative offices again next week; please most especially note to the office if you live in the district of the state representative or state senator whom you are calling. We would also appreciate hearing any feedback you get from those offices.
On January 29 we held a press conference on the courthouse steps in Dallas, alongside family friends of the Tutts who had been present at one or both hearings. We called for an investigation of not only the CPS caseworker involved but also her supervisor. We also called on local judges who had appointed Judge Olvera to remove her from office for her illegal taking of the Tutt children. You can view the video of the Tutt press conference and the comments from the Tutt friends and supporters.
The good news is that our actions have resulted in movement. The Tutts have been contacted by a new caseworker, who gave direction about where Mr. and Mrs. Tutt could get psychological evaluations, and those are now in process. This new caseworker also called last Friday to set up visitation between the Tutts and those children still in foster care. The caseworker said she would take the children to this visitation, but Mrs. Tutt replied that she would take the children and supervise the visit herself.
The children have all been placed in public school except for the five-year-old, whom the local school said they could not accommodate due to a space issue. Mrs. Tutt has requested academic assessment of the children by school officials, as required by the court. Many of the adopted children came out of bad situations and were very far behind academically when they came to the Tutt family.
The counseling sessions required by the court of Mrs. Tutt and her son who was placed with his biological father have not been completed to this point, as the father has not taken his son to the sessions, while Mrs. Tutt has been available, as required by the court.
THSC also sought a copy of the transcript of the January 7 hearing in Judge Tena Callahan's court. We were informed this week that the district attorney and the attorney for the biological father have objected to our request, and a hearing has been set for March in which they will seek to prevent THSC from buying that transcript and to seal those court records. While it is common to protect children involved in these kinds of cases by not using their names, we believe the intent in this action is to prevent the public from having evidence of what actually happened in the courtroom.
The Tutt family continues to sort through the trauma they and the children experienced as a result of the taking of their children. Please continue to pray for Mr. and Mrs. Tutt and their children as they continue to try to heal and recover from this ongoing travesty of justice.


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Marcia Jean Cheatham, 60, of Scott, passed away May 26.
She was born March 23, 1946, in Little Rock to the late Bernest Rab Overton and Lorene Carpenter Overton. She graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1964.
Also preceding her in death were her husband, Robert Herschel Cheatham and one brother, Wayne Overton.
Survivors include two sons, Mike and wife Clara Hughes of Keo and James Cheat-ham of Car-lisle; a daughter, Lisa and husband Jeff Goodman of Scott; two brothers, James Over-ton of Beebe and Boyd Overton of Paragould; five grandchildren, Michael-Ryan and Caitlyn Hughes and Daniel Cheatham of Keo, Melissa and Andrew Goodman of Scott; two very special best friends, Bonnie Mae and Mildred; two uncles, Charles Ouzts and Floyd S. Hines Sr.; along with numerous other family members and friends.
Visitation will be held from 1 to 9 p.m. today with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Toltec Baptist Church in Scott with Bro. Ron Pierce officiating. Interment will follow at Arkan-sas Memorial Gardens in North Little Rock.
James Overton, Boyd Overton, Michael-Ryan Hughes, Michael Hughes and Jeff Goodman are active pallbearers, and Charles Ouzts, Stanley Fleming, Tommy Goodman, Daniel Cheatham and Andrew Goodman are honorary pallbearers. Arrangements are by Thomas Funeral Service in Cabot.
Wesley Chad May, 17, of McRae, drowned May 28 at the lake at Heber Springs.
He would have been a 2007 graduate of Beebe High School. He played football, ran track and played in the band. He was an employee of Heritage. Chad is survived by his father, Dwayne May of McRae; his mother, Wendy Conway of Kensett; one brother, Joel May of McRae; grandparents, Sonny and Linda May of McRae and Virginia Prestige of Greenville, Texas, and lots of aunts and uncles. His family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the family home, 450 Tweedy Road, McRae, Ark., 72102.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Westbrook Fu-neral Home in Beebe. Burial will be in Weir Cemetery.
Mitchell Alan Smith, 38, of Lonoke, passed away May 27. He was born Feb. 8, 1968, in Huntington Park, Calif., to Marvin Smith and Mary Jane Ellis Bay. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Mary Jane and Dennis Bayles of Lonoke; father, Marvin Smith of San Antonio, Texas; five children: Mitchell, Jane, Traci, Anthony and Russell; brother Michael and Suzanne Smith of Minnesota and aunt Betty Earnhart of California.
Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Monk Cemetery in Ward with arrangements by Thomas Funeral Service in Cabot.
John Henry Jackson, Sr., 92, of North Little Rock, died May 28. He was a World War II Veteran who served as a medic in the Army in the Fiji Islands. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Trinity Methodist Church on Lynch Drive. John loved to watch Arkansas Razorback football and baseball at Travelers Field. He loved fishing at the White River with Arkansas veterans and he loved to dance. He always had a smile and kind words. He loved to spend time with his family. He attended the Nazarene Church on Hwy. 107.
John was preceded in death by his first wife, Vida Combs Jackson.
He is survived by his wife, Wanda Jackson of Jacksonville; one son, John Jackson, Jr. and wife, Debbie of Cabot; one stepdaughter, Beverly Cole of Jacksonville; two grandsons, Travis and Justin Jackson of Cabot, and one sister, Alcidean Liles of Beebe. His family will receive visitors from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at West-brook Funeral Home in Beebe.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Westbrook Funeral Home with burial in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens.
Charles Eugene Haley Sr., 73, of McRae, left his earthly home to be with the Lord on May 27.
He was born May 19, 1933, to Carson and Dora Mapps Haley at Luxora. His hobbies were rebuilding guns, fishing, gardening and woodworking. He retired from Harding University and was a founding member of Gracepoint Church at Beebe. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Cecil Horace Haley and Carson Mayfield Haley. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Shirley Vernon Haley; two sons, Charles Haley, Jr. and wife Charlotte of McRae, and David Haley and wife Shirley of Beebe; one daughter, Diane McCollum and husband Tom, of McRae; five grandchildren, Bethany Manuel and husband Eric of Cave City, Seth McCollum and wife Jaunte of McRae, Megan Haley of Beebe, Cole Haley and Caitlin McCollum both of McRae; three great-grandchildren, Cris and Amy Reeve and Elijah Manuel. His two surviving sisters are Vernice Wilson of Pocahontas and Louise Vincent of Glendale, Ariz.
Family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Westbrook Funeral Home, Beebe. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with burial in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens.
Donnie Cleveland Watson, 45, of Cabot, passed away May 29. He was born Aug. 10, 1960, in Mendota, Ill., to Joyce Parish and the late Carl Watson. Also preceding him in death is one son Chad Watson; paternal ggrandparents, Lawrence and Grace Watson and maternal grandparents, Sherman and Onie Parish.
Survivors include his wife Donna; daughter, Ashley; two sons, Adam Watson of Cabot and Eric Jones of Fayetteville; his mother and stepfather, Joyce and Charlie Win-gate of Cabot; sister, Phyllis Henry of Searcy; brother, Steve Watson of Romance, and two stepbrothers, Tommy and Richard Wingate of Cabot; along with many loving aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and friends. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday night. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Christ Worship Center with interment following at Romance Cemetery.
Arrangements are by Thomas Funeral Service in Cabot.
Christine Jeanette Studer-Reh-bach, 48, of Cabot, went to be with the Lord on May 26. She was born April 5, 1958, in Oakland City, Ind. She was preceded in death by her father, William Edward Studer; a grandson, Jonathan Jackson; and two grandfathers, Clarence Martin and John Eckert.
She is survived by her mother, Beulah Ray and step-father, H.L. Ray of Cabot; a son, Toby Rehbach and a daughter, Amy Jackson, both of Jacksonville; four grandsons, Justin, Jordan, Jeffery and Skyler; two brothers, Bill and (wife) Pat Studer of Jacksonville and David and (wife) Amy Studer of Cabot; a sister Katina Ray of Cabot; two grandmothers, Naomi Eckert of West Baden Springs, Ind., and Elizabeth Martin of Winslow, Ind., and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends.
Funeral services were held May 28 at Mt. Springs Baptist Church in Cabot with arrangements by Thomas Funeral Service in Cabot.
Tireless farmer, perfectionist, devoted husband, father of three, traveler, self-taught from the eighth grade, Carl Frederick Stecks went to be with the Lord at the age of 91 from a stroke and subsequent pneumonia. He was born Nov. 25, 1914, to Carl Gustave and Minnie Bock Stecks in Stuttgart. He was the son of early Arkansas settlers who introduced rice farming to the communities of Almyra and Crocketts Bluff.
He attended the Prairie Dell School, a one-room school north of Al-myra and a three mile walk from the family farm. In 1932, the Stecks family moved their machinery and livestock to a farm be-tween Lonoke and Scott. With wife and children he was named Farm Family of the Year for Arkansas in 1963. Carl and wife of 68 years, Ida Mae, retired to Sherwood where he lived at the time of his death. Preceding him in death were his beloved wife; parents; and brothers, William H. Stecks and Ervin G. Stecks.
Survivors are his sister, Eunice Watson; children, Carl Freddie Jr. and Jane Stecks, Michael and Jo Anne Stecks, Brenda and Randall Smith; grandchildren, Carl Stecks, III, and sons, Carl, IV, and Ethan; Gregory Stecks; Leigh and Brendan Quirk and children, Lily, James and Ernest; Kevin and Alecia Stecks and daughter, Haven; Michael Stecks, Jr., and daughter, Kennedy; Ami Stecks, Sarah, Stephen, Ben and Eric Smith.
Funeral services were held Tues-day at Lonoke United Methodist Church with interment in Lonoke Cemetery with arrangements by Boyd Funeral Home, Lonoke.
Serving as pallbearers will be his grandsons. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Lonoke United Methodist Church, Lonoke County Library, St. Jude Childrens Hospital or a charity of choice.
Elmer Durward Shubert, 87, of Cabot passed away May 26.
He was born April 19, 1919, in Mt. Pleasant to the late Carl Carroll and Mary Frances Carmichael Shubert.
Shubert was a lifelong member of Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church. He was a Petty Officer First Class in the Navy from 1938 to 1945. He served our country in the Second World War in the South Pacific and was an Honor Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, A. Aleene Chancey Shubert and his second wife, Murrel Moran Shu-bert; as well as two sisters, Dorothy Brannon and Elzera Gwin. He is survived by his children, Dwight Shu-bert of North Little Rock and Kathy Ragar of Cabot; one sister, Maude Brannon of Cabot; two grandchildren, Heather Wagner of Monticello and Dr. Brent Ragar of Boston, Mass. He is also survived by one niece, Barbara Raley of Sherwood, and four nephews, Thomas Bran-non and Vernon Brannon, both of Cabot, Wayne Brannon of Jack-sonville, and Kenny Gwin of San Diego, Calif. Funeral services were held May 28 in the chapel of Cabot Funeral Home. Burial followed at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Irma Jean Boyd, 71, of Austin, went to be with the Lord on May 27. She was born July 2, 1934, to the late Russell Edison Davis and Ila Davis Johnson.
She was a member of Austin Station Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School for many years. She served as acting mayor of Austin, city recorder and served on the Austin City Council. She was the editor of the Austin News for the Cabot Star Herald for many years. She was a member of the Nail Benders for Jesus and Grannies On The Go. She was a homemaker and a beloved wife, mother, and grandmother.
She is preceded in death by her father, Russell Davis and brother Leland Davis.
She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Kenneth L. Boyd; two sons, Benjamin Boyd of Mississippi and Kenny Boyd of Austin; three daughters, Marilyn Trammell of Mt. View, Carolyn Oakes of Ward and Vickie Harmon of Austin; her mother, Ila Johnson of Beebe; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Jim Davis of Vilonia and Gary Davis of Beebe; three sisters, Laveda Freeman and Rachel Campbell, both of Beebe, and Deb McCormack of Little Rock.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at Austin Station Baptist Church, with burial in Sylvania Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Rebsamen Home Health, 1400 Braden St., Jacksonville, Ark., 72076; Arkansas Hospice, 5600 West 12th St., Little Rock, Ark., 72204, or Austin Station Baptist Church, P.O. Box 130, Austin, Ark., 72007.
Alex Pop Boryschtsck Sr., 81, of Cabot, passed away May 26.
Survivors include his son Alex, Jr.; grandson Alex Shane Boryschtsck, two great-grandchildren and his caregivers Alisha and Brian Brooks.
Memorial services were held Tuesday at Holiness Tabernacle in Cabot.
His family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Holiness Tabernacle. Arrange-ments were by Thomas Funeral Service, Cabot.


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The shale natural gas industry continues to commit talent and technology to multiple emerging shale plays beyond the now traditional domains of the US, Canada and Australia. Shale gas resources are so globally dispersed and potentially so large that a majority of the world's nations are candidates for study and eventual development.
In Europe, Poland has the clear lead, and in Asia it is China. Eastern Europe and Turkey are ahead of Western Europe, and India is about 3 to 5 years behind China. In Latin America, Argentina has decided to be the exploration leader (Exxon-Mobil (NYSE:XOM) has been granted 2 blocks in the Neuquen basin, which has substantial shale and tight sands natural gas potential according to Repsol YPF (REP), the Argentine company), while in Africa (via Sasol (NYSE:SSL)), Morocco and Tunisia have evinced the greatest interest. Russia, Brazil and very likely the Middle East have tremendous shale gas resources, but the conventional gas opportunities there are so vast that there is no pressing strategic reason to explore, much less develop shale gas.
It takes the right combination of technology, entrepreneurial acumen, business practices, access to physical infrastructure, mineral ownership rights and laws, regulatory system and network of many field service companies to turn the resource into reserves and then commercial production. Only in the US can an emerging play go from declination to production in a year. It takes longer in Canada and Australia and will take much longer everywhere else because the right combination does not exist and will have to be fashioned. This is why Poland and China are of such interest to the rest of the world: their models may have more to offer Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America than the US model.
The pressure on China to develop all of its natural gas resources and not only shale is large and immediate. While natural gas use per capita is declining in the US, it is growing rapidly in China and India. In the US, natural gas use is projected (by the US government) to be virtually stagnant over the next 20 years; it is forecast to at least double in China (over the next 10 years) and India over the next 5 years (according to their government agencies).
Currently natural gas accounts for less than 5% of primary energy use in China and 10% in India compared with the global average of 24%. China wants to sharply increase the share of natural gas in domestic consumption over the next 3 decades (quadrupling use over the next 20 years). By the end of this decade primary energy consumption in China may well exceed that in the US. In China, demand for space heating, auto fuel, petrochemicals and fertilizer is propelling gas use.
The Chinese claim that their shale natural gas resource base is over 1,000 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) even though systematic exploration for shale gas is in its infancy. The Chinese know that rapid development requires access to American technology, talent, operating experience and business practices. The two ways to obtain this are by investing in US and Canadian shale projects and leading companies (as do the Europeans, Indians and Africans as evinced by investments, alliances and partnerships involving, for example, Statoil (NYSE:STO), Reliance Industries and Sasol) and by inducing foreign, chiefly, American companies to invest in Chinese shale (as well as tight sands and coal bed methane) exploration and production.
Later, of course, the Chinese will use their experience to invest in and control shale gas projects in several countries and compete with the very companies that taught and mentored them. The Chinese government has a goal of producing about half to a trillion cubic feet per year from shale gas reserves within ten years. BP (NYSE:BP), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Statoil are reportedly interested in investing in Chinese shale as are a few very large American independents. Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) has an alliance with PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) to develop the Fushun shale gas block in Sichuan province. China, of course, wants to nurture domestic skills and investment in shale. In November, 2010, China announced a licensing round for shale set aside for domestic companies. China will allow foreign companies to jointly bid with Chinese national oil companies on 6 shale play auctions in 2011.
India is proceeding at a much slower pace. Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) just completed the drilling of that country's first shale gas well in the Damodar valley, under contract to the Oil and Natural Gas Commission. Schlumberger will drill 3 more wells as part of a seven stage pilot project in West Bengal and Jamarkand. Schlumberger estimates that India's shale gas resource base is 600 to 2,0000 Tcf, which would make it comparable to or notably bigger than the estimate for China. However, Indi is even less explored for shale gas than China. Commercial production in India is perhaps 5 to 7 years away.
Poland is estimated to have a high quality resource shale resource base of 40 to 90 Tcf. It has attracted drilling commitment from Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips (NYSE:COP), Marathon (NYSE:MRO) and several small independents.
FX Energy (NASDAQ:FXEN) is drilling 3 wells at present in partnership with the Polish Oil and Gas Company. LNG Energy (OTC:LNGYF) also spudded its first shale gas well in early January 2011. LNG Energy is using the same contractor, crews and equipment that a Conoco-Phillips/ Lane Energy joint venture used to drill 2 shale gas wells , not far from the LNG Energy well. Talisman Energy (NYSE:TLM) plans to drill its first shale gas well in August 2011 followed by two more with the third well completion scheduled for January 2012. The Talisman well locations are close to those of LNG Energy, the Conoco-Phillips joint venture and PGNiG, Poland's dominant gas distributor.
Based on the E&P success in China, Poland and later India, several more countries in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe are likely to accelerate current licensing and exploration activities or start soliciting interest from foreign oil and gas companies to explore for shale gas. By the end of this decade shale natural gas production could be a commercial business in almost a dozen nations.
Disclosure: Author long XOM, CVX, MRO and COP


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About 100 boar were freed from a farm near the village of West Anstey last month, but 40-odd have been caught.
Dogs and people on foot and quad bikes are hoping to flush out the remaining animals at one end of a valley, and herd them back to their pens.
Police believe animal rights activists may have freed the animals.
Anthony Allibones, who is providing the dogs which will help round up the boar, said he did not know if they would succeed.
"We've never, ever done it before, so it will be a trial job. We're hoping to flush them out of the covers.
"It's going to be a big job," Mr Allibones added.
Some of the boar have been shot and others have been killed on the road.
Mr Allibones was unsure how many boars they would encounter.
"We're going to do one valley, but we're not even sure how many are in the valley."
Two animals have been spotted 40 miles away near Plymouth after making the journey across Dartmoor.
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Allan Dedames, who owns the Woodland Wild Boar Farm, said the boar were not dangerous unless cornered.
He has also employed the local hunt to help but stressed the hunt group would not harm the creatures when they saddle up on Wednesday morning.
He said: "There's no hunting going on. It's literally they're helping me to round up the animals."
The senior master of the Dulverton Farmers' Hunt, Susie Maund, said it was going to be difficult even to find the boar, adding: "We are going to need all the luck we can get.


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Elite Restaurant Equipment is happy to offer a great selection of concession equipment manufactured by Benchmark USA. Domed Lids are among our vast collection. Half-size domed lid. These half size lids are available in both flat and domed styles. Both have handles and the domed style provides added capacity to the pan. Made from 18/8 stainless steel for years of service. Measures 12-1/2" length by 10-1/4" width by 3" height. Weight 2 pounds. Elite Restaurant Equipment ensures that Benchmark USA 56747 - Half Sized Domed Lids is easy to use.
Product Description
|Benchmark USA
|Ship Weight:
|2.2 lbs.
|Item Weight:
|1 lbs.
|Dimension (H x W x D):
|3" x 10.25" x 12.5"
|Domed Lid
|Number of Items:


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White House press secretary Jay Carney began Tuesday's press briefing with a swift dismissal of the false Associated Press report sent out on Twitter.
"Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured," read an alert sent on the Associated Press Twitter account shortly before Carney began the press briefing.
"The president is fine, I was just with him," Carney said.
"Please ignore AP tweet on explosions, we've been hacked," noted Associated Press reporter Sam Hananel, shortly after the erroneous report hit Twitter.
Later, the Associated Press addressed the situation using its AP Stylebook Twitter account to send out a statement.
"The @AP Twitter account has been suspended after it was hacked. The tweet about an attack on the White House was false," the statement read.