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The last morning of 2012 will be cold for Detroiters.
Monday afternoon will be chilly with mostly cloudy skies and highs just above freezing.
Motown will ring in the new year with mostly calm conditions Monday nights. Outerwear is key for the Big Drop in Campus Martius as temps will be in the 20s. Lows will be near 20 by Tuesday morning.
With sub-freezing conditions, partygoers must stay alert for a few slick spots on ramps, bridges, overpasses and any icy spots left untreated.
Happy New Year!
The first day of 2013, Tuesday, will be partly sunny and chilly, again, with highs in the low 30s.
The lucky Wolverine fans in Tampa, Florida cheering for Michigan against South Carolina in the Outback Bowl will have mostly sunny skies, daytime temps in the 70s and nighttime lows in the 50s.
Back in Michigan, colder air is on the way for Wednesday and the rest of the week. Hump Day will be cloudier with a chance of nighttime snow showers and highs in the low 30s. Thursday and Friday will be more frigid with morning lows in the teens and single digits by Friday and afternoon highs barely above 20 degrees.
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Q: Are IIDA Southwest members seeing a trend in a certain type of commercial design?
A: Although this trend has been happening nationally for quite some time, environmentally friendly design is definitely becoming more prevalent in the Southwest. There are more readily available eco-friendly products and clients are starting to embrace the benefits of designing with the environment in mind. Another trend, due to the economic downturn we have experienced, is that designers are definitely getting more creative on a tight budget. Clients have not necessarily reduced their expectations, and they still want to have the same "wow" factor, but they want that with a more conservative budget.
Q: What challenge or challenges are IIDA Southwest members facing, and what challenges do you see them facing in the future?
A: The biggest challenge the local design community is currently facing is stress as a result of the economic downturn. There are many designers that are still in search of job opportunities, and those who fortunately have not lost their jobs are suffering through various other effects of downsizing and are typically experiencing larger workloads. There are definitely signs of improvement, and we are a very tight knit group within the Southwest Chapter. We try to help our members in any way we can with networking, continuing education, and professional development opportunities. We also continually advertise job postings, as we hear about them, in our email blasts. I think the biggest challenge our community will have in the future is the loss of talented and experienced designers who have either moved out of state where the economy has improved more quickly or have moved on to new ventures in their life.
Q: Describe IIDA Southwest activities and share who is involved?
A: IIDA Southwest is run by a chapter board comprised of volunteers, and our events are coordinated and planned by another group of volunteers. We have won many international awards for the success of our chapter, and this would not be possible without countless hours of dedication from these volunteers and the generosity of our sponsors. Our chapter includes four City Centers: Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, and Albuquerque. We have major chapter events, including the PRIDE Awards (Professional Recognition of Interior Design Excellence) in the spring, a trade fair/networking event in the fall, as well as rotating winter events, which include Couture (a fashion show where the fashion is derived from commercial building products and materials) and Connect4 (a philanthropic event that happens simultaneously in all four City Centers).
Q: The future of a group such as IIDA relies on the education and training of young designers. How does the Southwest Chapter reach out to students?
A: The students are the future of our chapter and industry, and we place a great deal of attention that is specifically targeted to help develop them into the professionals we need to have emerging from our local colleges and universities. We have a VP of student affairs, a director of student affairs, and a committee within the chapter that reaches out to students on a regular basis for design critique sessions. They also plan exciting networking and educational activities tailored to the needs they have. We have special student pricing for all of our chapter and City Center events, so they have more opportunities to meet with design professionals outside of our student oriented events.
Q: Why is it important for a designer to be a member of IIDA?
A: I've found it to be vital to the success of my career to be a member of a professional organization that fosters networking, educational, and social activities within the community. For me personally, I joined because I wanted to be a part of an organization that not only facilitated growth in my own design career, but also enabled me to be able to give back to the community. I truly believe that "you get what you give" in life. What I have found to be one of the most beneficial parts of my role as the chapter president is that I now have connections around the world in the design industry. I have the resources to be able to easily learn what trends are happening in other parts of the country, and this is invaluable.
Casey Potash is president of the IIDA Southwest Chapter. Prior to moving to the Valley, she received her BS in Interior Design from Indiana University. She is NCIDQ Certified and is LEED APl. She is a sales specialist for KI & PallasTextiles.

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This highly-engaging, colorful wooden grasping toy twists, bends and flexes for hours of delightful developmental fun! Caterpillar has 6 sections that easily twist and turn to form many creative designs, making it a perfect first manipulative toy. Like all Melissa & Doug products he is crafted from select hardwoods and non-toxic dyes.
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Samsung Stratosphere outed, could launch via Verizon September 8th
0. phoneArena posted on 05 Sep 2011, 22:54
Remember the Samsung Stratosphere from the Verizon roadmap we showed you? Do you also remember that mysterious Samsung slider from a few weeks back?; many thought that both were the Samsung Galaxy S II, but it turns out that the mysterious slider and the Samsung Stratosphere are one and the same...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. firebo14 (Posts: 77; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Nice, now is it a version of the Samsung Galaxy S II or S?
2. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
they said fascinate.. so that would be an SGS1. So what... basically they are getting an LTE Epic?? blaah.
4. Thump3rDX17 (Posts: 2160; Member since: 10 May 2010)
it'll likely be like a Galaxy S+ variant and mid-range LTE offering. i don't believe in anything below Super myself but some people appreciate these kinds of phones and if Verizon is going to deliver one anyway this is a fine offering.
26. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
what is really sad, is that this Epic 4g-LTE phone comes with android 2.3 while all the other SGS1 phones are stuck on 2.2 in america. Kind of insulting really..
3. Thump3rDX17 (Posts: 2160; Member since: 10 May 2010)
it'll be a welcome addition to the line-up. hopefully it's not Binged like the Fascinate. i'd like to get that failure behind us asap.
5. bit (unregistered)
I could have told you about this last week. It's not getting released on the 8th, not even in our system yet.
6. HTCiscool (Posts: 449; Member since: 16 Jul 2011)
If I had to choose between this and the Droid 3 i'd actually choose this.
It's got a super Amoled plus screen which is awesome and LTE support. I wouldn't call this amazing but it would be cool for vzv to get a taste of super Amoled plus.
9. Thump3rDX17 (Posts: 2160; Member since: 10 May 2010)
there's definitely fair trade offs at work here in the slider space on Verizon. maybe next year we'll get a slider with it all. ;D
7. ltr (unregistered)
I guess this is what would have been the Droid 3.
This might sell well, since there are very few slider phones.
Super AMOLED plus/LTE is the big selling point of this phone.
8. BigT11 (Posts: 1; Member since: 06 Sep 2011)
A verizon rep told me that this phone was going to be a Pre-Paid phone..
Don't know how accurate seeing 4g LTE on a pre-paid phone seems a stretch in itself. But it is an interesting point.
10. DeviantDroid (Posts: 51; Member since: 28 Apr 2011)
Very excited I believe this or a Nexus Prime will be my next phone..... Come on March!!!!!!!!!
16. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1237; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
Really? March? This phone will be forgotten by March.
11. hyperwrt (unregistered)
please be a GSM phone please be a GSM phone please be....
totally sucked(for everyone outside USA) that epic 4g was a cdma phone.
12. snowgator (Posts: 3604; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Not a big fan of single core devices on Android. Purely my preference: I would rather have a dual core device which will be updated to I.C.S. and get all those features than an LTE device on single core which most likely will get a dumbed-down version or not run it well. But, this gives a great option for those who want speed over update potential.
Myself, I would still pick Droid 3 over Stratosphere. Got the feeling I might be in the minority here.....
14. Thump3rDX17 (Posts: 2160; Member since: 10 May 2010)
if you are i'm there with ya buddy.
27. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
They are different class phones. The droid 3 is an upper class phone with its hardware, and the stratosphere is a mid level phone. Do you want horsepower and probable upgrade ability to ICS, or do you want LTE and the beautiful SA+ screen knowing that this thing will never get off gingerbread more than likely?
13. hmmm (unregistered)
for me its going to be the HTC VIGOR or the Samsung Droid Prime............... hopefully they both come out next month !!!!
17. DROIDX0430 (Posts: 469; Member since: 24 Nov 2010)
Another joke of a phone. This phone is a Charge(with QWERTY). cheaper version...I don't get it. The Charge is LTE still stuck on FROYO, and then they push out a cheaper version of the Charge with Gingerbread.....If you don't stay on top of the game, you will get lost in all of this back and forth chess game these manufacturers deal out!!!!! This is why Samsung is the largest producer of smartphones. They put out 10 different versions of the same phone!!!
21. whats (unregistered)
This is not a charge or like the charge. This is a smaller device with a smaller screen and a qwerty keyboard. Just because it doesn't have the largest display or the latest and greatest features, doesn't make it a joke of a phone. Not everybody wants or needs those things. Furthermore, If you want to play that game, pick any two phones by the same company, you could say phone A is like phone B, except phone A has this or that, or B doesn't have this or that.
18. DROIDX0430 (Posts: 469; Member since: 24 Nov 2010)
I find Verizon reps to actually know nothing. When I go in there they usually don't know anything...are usually on their own smartphone updating facebook or texting and are biased as to the platform they are used to....so take it to heart, don't go into any Verizon Wireless store expecting anything but them pushing that home connect service your way,,,,you have to arm yourself with your own expertise and knowledge when you head to Verizon......
20. Simba501 (Posts: 28; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
When you head into any carrier's store really....
28. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
except mine :)
32. cupcake (Posts: 106; Member since: 15 Apr 2010)
We're probably on our phones because we're bored out of our minds and hear 'iPhone 5?' every 5 minutes... or, because our managers don't mind us being on our phones as much as they mind us reading a book.. haha
Also... I personally never push anything on anyone. But I'm not going to tell you what you want because YOU should think about it yourself for a minute before walking in, not even knowing what 3G means... (some people actually think it's the memory capacity!) Hell0o.... it's called GOOGLE now ... stop wasting my time.
19. DROIDX0430 (Posts: 469; Member since: 24 Nov 2010)
The reps know they are ahead of the pack and it's you headed into the store not them coming to you....so tell them what you want, not have them push a phone to you based on their own experience... for you BIGT11, comments 18 and 19
22. DROIDX0430 (Posts: 469; Member since: 24 Nov 2010)
hence what I said... a cheaper charge...look at it!!!!!!. you must be eyeing it for yourself if you are bothering to defend it... its a cheap charge...with QWERTY. IF YOU DON'T WANT IT, THEN GET A FEATURE PHONE AND STOP WINDOW SHOPPING. AND REGISTER YOURSELF IN THE FORUM INSTEAD OF HIDING. (WHATS)
23. Whats (unregistered)
You are hilarious. Thanks for the laughs today. Let's see, the Charge has a 4.3 inch touchscreen, the stratosphere a 4 inch touchscreen with a qwerty keyboard. And this makes them the same phone how?
29. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
they are similar phones. They are both samsung phones based off the SGS1 reference with Hummingbird CPUs, Super Amoled+, and LTE. The biggest difference is screen size and maybe memory, but we have to wait for official specs for that.
34. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
Um, no, the big difference is the keyboard! The processor, screen tech and memory could be identical, but the experience of a big slate vs. qwerty slider is significantly different. By your standards, the Bionic is just a bigger Droid 3 with more memory and LTE. I for one wouldn't buy a giant slate like the Charge or Bionic, but I'm salivating over the Stratosphere.
24. M0nkeyBr (Posts: 77; Member since: 13 Jul 2011)
Looks like a metropcs phone
33. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
My questions are:
Is the screen Super AMOLED Plus, or garden variety (pentile) Super AMOLED? We haven't seen SAMOLED+ on anything smaller than 4.3", which I thought was a limitation of the current shadow mask process. Pentile really detracts from the screen quality on 4"+ screens.
And if this is indeed a midrange LTE phone... will it get binged? :(


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COL Nolde commanded the 5th Bn, 30th FA in Italy (1969-1971) and is a well remembered member of the "Hard Chargers" of the 30th Field Artillery Regiment. The "SPERRY" Missile Trophy was retired in his name in 1974, and is prominently displayed in the 30th FA Regimental Room, in Snow Hall, at Fort Sill, OK. His service with the 5th Bn, 30th FA has been recorded in "The History of the 30th FA Regiment 1918-1998". For more information about the "Hard Chargers" of the 30th FA Regiment contact MSG (R) Dan Gillotti, Historian, 30th FA Regiment, (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Colonel Nolde was inducted into the Field Artillery OCS Hall of Fame on 16 June 2006
Colonel Nolde enlisted in the Army in 1951 and served during the Korean War. He then attended OCS at Fort Sill. Among his many assignments, he was Assistant Professor of Military Science at Central Michigan University from 1962-1964 before his first tour of duty in Vietnam. He then returned to CMU as APMS for a second time, leaving that position in the fall of 1966. Colonel Nolde also served in Korea, Germany and the Far East. Prior to a third tour in Vietnam he had been stationed in Italy.
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There is only one way to get ready for the premiere of The Hobbit this weekend: Host a marathon viewing session of The Lord of the Rings. And in order to sustain the energy required for the 11+ hour viewing party (extended edition, of course), it's essential to embrace the day and Eat Like a Hobbit. Hobbits prefer six meals a day, seven if they can get it, and I say, why not? Just be sure if your guest list is at 13 that you find a 14th guest.
Now let's get started:
Breakfast: Scones and Jam
The Unexpected Party at the beginning of The Hobbit is rich with food ideas: "A big jug of coffee had just been set in the hearth, the seed-cakes were gone, and the dwarves were starting on a round of buttered scones."
There's varying opinions on how to make seed-cakes, but scones are easy enough. Serve Alton Brown's scone recipe with raspberry jam for another nod to the book. Set out meats and cheeses as well for continued munching throughout the day.
Second Breakfast: Grilled Strawberry Shortcake With Lemon Cream
When Pippin and Merry begin to grumble about the chances of Aragorn knowing about second breakfast is exactly the time to serve it. Go for Kelsey's Grilled Strawberry Shortcake and hopefully you'll remember the taste of strawberries come the third movie.
Get the Recipe: Grilled Strawberry Shortcake With Lemon Cream
Elevenses: Lembas Bread
As your journey continues into The Two Towers, I advise pausing to consume homemade Lembas bread. A quick Google search for "lembas bread recipe" turns up several options, but I recommend our sister site Food.com's lembas bread recipe.
Luncheon: Fish and Chips
Though Gollum wouldn't approve, a serving of "lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish" should suit everyone's lunchtime needs just fine.
Get the Recipe: Fish and Chips
Afternoon Tea: Honey Cakes
Any fan of The Hobbit will remember Beorn, the shape-shifter who could turn into a large black bear. It should come as no surprise, then, that the food he provided Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves involved honey. What better way to start the movie fest than with Honey Cakes? As they are almost as filling as Lembas, the meal should get you through to supper. I recommend also serving coffee or mimosas at this point, as it's said that honey cakes can make one thirsty.
Dinner/Supper: Pork Pies
It's important to remember what this viewing party is about, so let's end the meal with another throwback to the The Hobbit. During the Unexpected Party, the dwarf Bombur calls for pork pie. Serve with a salad, for balanced eating.
What else would you serve at your Hobbit/Lord of the Rings party?
An alternate (though significantly less authentic) game plan would be a quick trip to Denny's for their Hobbit-themed menu.


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"One of my shower gifts, was Thank You notes for the bride. I purchased the address labels and Love stamps . I put these on the envelope, so all she had to do was write the thank you. This was a big hit at the shower. The address labels were beautiful, the only thing I did wrong was I choose my own font, and the numbers came out small. I suggest you go with the paper divas recommend, The Love stamps were beautiful. The paper and print were excellent. I would and have recommended Wedding Paper Divas to all my friends!!!!"
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Ty Lawson suffered a right eye cornea abrasion and he is probable for Saturday's game against the Rockets.
Jae Crowder has been traded to the Cavaliers as part of a package for Kyrie Irving.
Kyrie Irving has been traded to the Celtics in exchange for Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic and Brooklyn's 2018 first-round pick.
Ben Simmons (foot) has been "cleared to resume full basketball activity for some time," according to 76ers' beat reporter Tom Moore.
The Pacers have filed tampering charges against the Lakers over Paul George, and the league has launched an independent investigation into the allegations.
Marshall Plumlee has agreed to a partially-guaranteed deal with the Clippers.
Giannis Antetokounmpo (knee) announced on his Facebook page that he is currently unable to practice and will not play for Greece at Eurobasket.
Jeff Withey agreed to a one-year deal with the Mavs.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Kristaps Porzingis has emerged as a "primary target" for Cleveland as they consider possible trade scenarios involving Kyrie Irving.
According to Ronald Tillery of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Zach Randolph could be banned from the NBA like former teammate O.J. Mayo if convicted of a felony marijuana charge.
Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy confirmed that he plans to play Boban Marjanovic extended minutes this season.
The Knicks and Rockets have re-engaged on trade talks involving Carmelo Anthony, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.com.


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Meatless Monday is a global movement, a way of life. It's not a campaign to turn everyone in the world vegetarian or vegan; in fact, many involved are meat-lovers. Eating less meat has been proven to reduce the risk of disease, curb obesity and has important environmental impacts, too. Will you join us in giving up meat, just for one day a week?
On any given day there's quite a random assortment of whacked-out ingredients in my refrigerator: a few tiny portions of leftovers I'm likely to never eat, a half bottle Sriracha, pickled dilly beans, a jar of mom's homemade blueberry jam, a hunk of aged Parmesan, a half a carton of buttermilk from last weekend's pancakes and, way in the corner, a shriveled apple that's been around since fall. Some of it, like the ancient apple and the buttermilk are bound for the trash, but some of the other assorted bits can be turned into an actual meal.
My fridge is always flush with produce in many states — whole, roasted/steamed/baked in small containers, or, like the unfortunate apple, slightly decayed. Plain old vegetables or tiny amounts of leftover cooked vegetables are not satisfying on their own, but in a couple of minutes can be turned into a complete meal — a fancy-sounding one at that: fritatta. Beat some eggs, grate some cheese and grab your vegetables — you're not only minutes away from dinner, but pretty close to a clean refrigerator as well. You can make the frittata in a skillet on the stove, or you can coat a pie plate with cooking spray, add your vegetables and enough beaten eggs to come up to the tops of the vegetables (8-10 eggs), salt and pepper (add some fresh herbs if you have them) and a sprinkle of your favorite cheese. Bake for 20 minutes or until frittata is set and cheese is bubbly.
David Rocco's Frittata di Verdura: 'Clean Out the Fridge Frittata'
Serves: 4
6 large eggs
1 cup freshly grated freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 potato, peeled, thinly sliced
1 red pepper, thinly sliced
1 onion, thinly sliced
In a bowl, beat the eggs with freshly grated cheese. Season with salt.
Heat the olive oil in a nonstick frying pan. Add the potatoes, red peppers, and onions, and cook for 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft.
Pour the egg mixture into the pan. With a fork, evenly distribute egg mixture to the edges of the pan.
Cook for approximately 3 to 4 minutes with a lid on. Carefully flip the frittata over and cook for another 2 minutes. Serve hot or cold.
More Meatless, Clean-Out-Your-Fridge Frittatas:
Frittata With Scallions
Asparagus and Jack Cheese Frittata
Frittata With Tomatoes, Onions and Basil
Get Famous Frittata
Spaghetti Frittata
Green Frittata
Broccoli and Cheddar Frittata
Zucchini Frittata
Mini Frittatas
Garden Vegetable Frittatas


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SWINDON Town deserved at least a point for their efforts at Meadow Lane on Saturday, according to goalkeeper Wes Foderingham.
Despite enjoying plenty of chances and much of the possession against Notts County, Swindon were unable to break their hosts down and went home empty-handed thanks to Alan Judge's 27th-minute winner for the Magpies.
Foderingham put in an impressive shift in the Robins goal, making one superb save from Chris Iwelumo early in the second half but, after watching his teammates create a host of opportunities in front of goal, the stopper was disappointed not to have secured a share of the spoils.
"It was very frustrating," he said. "We created more of the clear-cut chances. I think on another day we might have taken a few of them and their keeper has made a couple of decent saves to be fair to him as well.
"He's done well, he's made a few good saves in the first half and the second half. We didn't stretch him too much but everything we threw at him he was equal to today.
"They've had one good strike from the edge of the box which has gone in and in the second half I've made a decent save from a header and that's pretty much all they created. We're pretty disappointed not to have come out with at least a draw."
Of the Notts County goal, Foderingham said: "He's picked it up on the edge of the box, there's probably a handball I think in the build-up and he's gone through.
"Wardy (Darren Ward) has made the decision to stand off to see if he can block the shot and it's blocked my vision a little bit but to be fair to him he's struck it well, it's come over Wardy's right shoulder and it's gone into the far corner so I can't really have any complaints."


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Robben Island and Table Mountain are the only 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites visible from each other.
Explore South Africa's UNESCO World Heritage Sites and get a glimpse of our natural and cultural wonders. These eight sites are the following.
Robben Island: This famous landmark in Table Bay is where Nelson Mandela and many other Freedom Struggle heroes were imprisoned. Guided tours are done by previous inmates, which together with the location, history and prison conditions make for a highly emotive experience.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park: One of the largest estuary systems in Africa, it's acclaimed for its exceptional biodiversity and over 520 bird species. Here you'll find the world's highest sand dunes, golden beaches, coral reefs, wetlands, mangrove swamps, woodlands, coastal forests and grasslands.
Cradle of Humankind: This area close to Johannesburg boasts the richest evidence of human evolution over the past 3.5-million years and has yielded the remains of some of the oldest hominids, the early ancestors of the human race.
uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park: South Africa's highest mountain range, has exceptional scenic beauty, a diverse habitat harbouring a number of endangered plant and bird species and a concentration of historic rock art paintings. An ideal place for adventure activities ranging from hiking trails to mountain climbing.
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: This Iron Age site showing evidence of a highly advanced indigenous society that existed centuries before European colonialism spread across Africa. This is where the famous golden rhinoceros and many other artifacts were found.
Cape Floral Region: The Western Cape's fynbos (indigenous flowering shrubland) is one of the richest and most diverse floral areas in the world. Around 70% of its floral species occur nowhere else on the planet. Table Mountain National Park, which is part of this remarkable wilderness area, has more plant species in its 22 000 hectares than Britain or New Zealand.
Vredefort Dome: The world's biggest meteor crater dates back two million years when a gigantic meteorite 10km in diameter hit the earth. Today this site is the oldest and largest clearly visible meteorite impact site in the world. Adventure activities abound.
The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape: A remarkable mountainous desert in the north-west of the country that is uniquely owned and managed by the Nama communities.


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Jon Hamm and Kate Upton share the cover of Esquire's March issue. Kate, who was unveiled as Sports Illustrated's 2012 Swimsuit Issue cover girl Monday, posed in skimpy lingerie for photographer Yu Tsai. Jon was also shot by Yu, but he kept covered up in stylish menswear. Jon's gearing up for the fifth season of Mad Men, which premieres with a two-hour episode on March 25. Kate got candid with the publication about the popular YouTube video of her dancing at a Clippers game, but Jon wouldn't share much about his show. Make sure to check out more from Jon in Esquire and additional Kate Upton pictures.
- Jon on season five of Mad Men: "I can't tell you anything. I can't tell anyone. None of us can. Those are my only real secrets."
- Kate on video of her doing the Dougie: "People want to see personality. Otherwise they make assumptions, like, 'Yeah, she's pretty, but she's probably a bitch.' That's why everyone likes the video. It's me. It wasn't planned for Twitter or YouTube. It's, like, real."


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This article was published 9/8/2014 (1109 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
NEAR WAWANESA — It would make a great TV show, people often say when they hear the story of the Criddle-Vane family.
It was perhaps the most unusual pioneer family to ever break soil in Manitoba. In 1882, Englishman Percy Criddle arrived from London, England, with his wife and four children — and his German mistress and their five children.
Let the fun begin. Percy, who fancied himself an aristocrat and intellectually superior to everyone around him, had less farming skill than Eva Gabor, never mind Eddie Albert, of another TV show, Green Acres. They proceeded to break every trope in the pioneer handbook of clichés, scratching out a farming life on the Manitoba prairie.
Even their homestead, just southeast of Brandon, was on land only a dunderhead like Percy could pick. Someone told him land with wild roses indicated fertility. So he chose poor, sandy soil whose only agricultural value today is as pasture or for an irrigation crop such as potatoes.
You can almost see the Hollywood posters for this imaginary show. A James Garner-type poised in front — or perhaps someone more modern, like Seth MacFarlane from A Million Ways to Die in the West — braving the frontier, with his wife, arms crossed, and their four children trailing on one side, and his mistress, ready to throttle him with a rolling pin, and their five children on the other. Female trouble on the Manitoba frontier!
At least that has been the version going around since 1973. That's when Alma Criddle, the granddaughter of Percy and Alice Criddle, self-published her book, Criddle-de-diddle-ensis, based on Percy's diaries and stories handed down in the family. Criddle-de-diddle-ensis, which was the name Percy wanted to use if he discovered a new type of butterfly, broke the silence on the family secret. The Criddles had always claimed the woman living with them, Elise Vane, was a widow, and they had taken her and her children in as servants. In fact, she had been Percy's lover in England.
This was the version Neil Holliday, professor emeritus of entomology at the University of Manitoba, repeated in a lecture at a Manitoba Naturalists Society meeting in 2005. Holliday mentioned the story because the son of Percy and Alice was Norman Criddle, who became the father of entomology in Western Canada.
However, sitting in the audience that day was Oriole Vane Veldhuis. The usual smiles and snickers went round when Holliday mentioned the "mistress," much to the chagrin of Veldhuis.
She'd been hearing those snickers all her life.
Veldhuis held her tongue but approached Holliday after the class. She can be sharp and irascible and, frankly, in that regard, seems more like a Criddle than a Vane. Veldhuis told Holliday he had the story wrong, and she should know. She was the great-granddaughter of the so-called "mistress."
At the time, Veldhuis was halfway through a 12-year odyssey, researching a book on Elise Vane.
That odyssey began with putting a nameplate on Elise's unmarked headstone in the Criddle cemetery, located on the original homestead.
Her book, For Elise, released two years ago, is the second self-published book on the Criddle-Vane family. It divulges scandalous new details about the Criddles against the backdrop of the 1880s, when women had few legal rights and when British orphans were being shipped to Canada as servants and farmhands. More importantly, it gives long overdue voice to the invisible woman in the love triangle.
To get a proper picture of Percy Criddle, you have to know the Criddles and Vanes arrived in Manitoba too late in 1882 to put in a crop. That was his first mistake. The family nearly starved to death that winter.
Percy had planned to live in Brandon the first year, but the city was populated by virtually all men, and that meant alcohol abuse and other vices. "Percy decided he was not prepared to raise his children in that kind of environment," said Marg Trollope, a great-granddaughter of the Criddles who lives in Brandon.
On their new homestead, Percy and Alice and an infant basically lived in a closet at first but they were still better off than the others. Elise Vane and her children, and the three remaining Criddle children, were forced to live in a tent until nearly Christmas. A proper house was finally built to accommodate all.
When the next year's growing season started, it became obvious where Percy's priorities lay. Tennis anyone?
After breaking the land and seeding his first crop, he built a tennis court. Or at least his children built it. A scythe couldn't cut grass short enough, so the children got down on hands and knees and cut each blade with scissors and knives. Tennis parties soon arrived and southwestern Manitoba would never be the same. This practise of cutting the tennis lawns — he would expand to three courts — continued for 23 years before Percy purchased a lawn mower.
"He was more interested in having fun" than farming, said Trollope.
"He knew nothing about this kind of living. A lot of immigrants came from farms. Percy knew how to shoot a gun and shoot pheasants but he had no skills. Now he was in the middle of nowhere trying to homestead."
Percy called it St. Albans, in the English manner of giving homes names. But the farm always struggled, and the family never had enough money because Percy would trundle off to Brandon to play poker.
He fancied himself a gentleman farmer and would head off over the fields to catch butterflies. That was a sport among upper-class Englishmen. Percy, ever the Englishman, even had calling cards made to distribute to people, many of whom had never seen one before.
Among his first expenditures was for a harmonium — a pump organ. He would play it and sing, and parties followed.
Percy was a former first tenor at Royal Albert Hall in London in 1873, and he would sing Italian arias to the bewildered neighbours at his parties. (Reviews are mixed. The story handed down is he couldn't sing that well.) Among the children, the Vane boys seemed to own the singing voices. Edwy and Harry Vane would join to form a trio. Eventually, when the last Criddle house was built in 1906, guests could dance in a circuit down the hallways and through the house. That home had eight upstairs bedrooms, a music/billiard room and a library on the main floor.
"Percy had a real charisma. He wrote music compositions on his own. He had parties and wouldn't allow anyone to bring anything. It was a great honour to be invited," said Trollope.
He could definitely be a misanthrope, however. He was better-educated than other homesteaders and looked down on them. He had relations — people were amused by him — but then he would be very cutting later, sometimes hilariously so, sometimes shockingly. Those comments come through in his diaries.
He wrote in them virtually every day — from January 1883 until two weeks before his death in 1918. (At age 76, he contracted a skin disease called erysipelas that affected his vision. While groping his way up the stairs, he was gripped with paralysis and plunged down. He never recovered.)
His diaries comprise four volumes weighing at least 41/2 kilograms. They make up 1,219 pages, with about 500 words each on single-spaced pages. It's an extraordinary account of pioneer life in Manitoba from the province's most eccentric pioneer.
"I think all the other farmers around here laughed at them but they're the ones in here. They weren't run-of-the-mill," said Marguerite Cory, the curator of the Sipiweske Museum in Wawanesa, which has a permanent exhibit of the Criddle-Vane family. It also has an extraordinary online exhibit.
This is in addition to the Carberry Plains Museum in Carberry that has three watercolour paintings by Percy's artist mother, Mary Ann Alabaster Criddle. The paintings were discovered in the attic of the Criddle-Vane home when it was abandoned in 1960. The main exhibit, of course, is the Criddle-Vane homestead, which was declared a provincial park in 2004. Unfortunately, the home burned down in June, a suspected case of arson. Several buildings still exist, and there is a walking trail with information signs. The two museums and provincial park make for an interesting road trip for any Manitobans wanting a one-day "stay-cation" this summer.
Another reason for the family's fame came from the children's work in the sciences. Both Criddles and Vanes were early naturalists who made a significant impact with their research. Norman Criddle, a shy, sickly youth, would became the founder of entomology in Western Canada. Norman published more than 160 scholarly articles on Manitoba butterflies and insects, and painted hundreds of pictures of Manitoba's flora that had never been recorded before. His two illustrated books on prairie farm weeds for the federal government became literature in every rural classroom on the Prairies.
Harry Vane's experiments with hybrid roses drew public attention and interest from horticulturalists. He also developed, with Norman, a powder that helped control grasshoppers. Stuart Criddle studied gophers, moles and other small animals. He was always experimenting with grafting lilies and eventually had a lily named after him.
They took after the old man. Percy set up a weather station and kept records for Manitoba from the early 1880s. The weather records were continued by family long after his passing.
The Vanes and Criddles were terrific at sports, too. It was a trait that they worked hard but played hard (although the Vanes worked harder.)
In sport, Maida, Stuart and Talbot Criddle won tennis tournaments locally and in Winnipeg. Edwy, Harry and Cecil Vane were great football players, and Cecil was also a wrestler of note. Edwy continued the tradition of building tennis courts and hosting lawn parties after he left the homestead to start his own farm.
Percy even built a golf course at St. Albans, starting with four holes.
Like the tennis courts, the sand-green course added to the social and sports culture of the area. People from all around would drop in for a round. The children became excellent golfers. Norman and Stuart Criddle, and Harry Vane, would regularly win tournaments in Brandon. There is a story Evelyn Criddle entered a golf tournament in Pine Ridge Golf Course in Winnipeg. He arrived carrying his four clubs in a burlap sack, much to the snickers of the other golfers with their leather bags. Evelyn proceeded to wipe the smiles off their faces by nearly stealing the tournament.
And the golf tradition has continued through subsequent Vane and Criddle generations. Percy Criddle, the grandson of Percy, built a golf course on Vancouver Island, where he lives, called Glen Meadows.
Veldhuis, a retired teacher and United Church minister like her husband, offers a different account of the Criddles. She alleges Percy and Alice Criddle were cruel and abusive masters, and that Elise and her children were victims of abuse.
Veldhuis begins her story with previously unpublished details about the lives of Percy and Elise before they crossed the Atlantic.
Percy was born Nov. 21, 1844, the only child of Harry Criddle and the former Mary Ann Alabaster. Percy's father died when he was 13 and left the family without money. His mother was an artist, having more than 60 artworks on display in London during her career, including 11 in the Royal Academy of Art. She also painted portraits of rich Londoners.
Norman Criddle, the eldest son of Percy and Alice Criddle, said at his father's funeral Percy was "spoiled." He might have added "rotten."
Veldhuis believes the spoiled Percy was already getting into trouble with women at age 16, and that may have been a reason he was sent to school in Heidelberg, Germany. However, Criddle descendants maintain Percy had merely been sent to Germany to study music under German masters. Either way, Veldhuis maintains the studies didn't go well. She could only find documents proving Percy took a single course.
In Manitoba, Percy claimed to have some schooling in law and medicine. Accounts from Criddle descendants say he served as amateur doctor and lawyer to other homesteaders who couldn't afford to pay for professional help in Brandon. According to his son, Norman, Percy did so without charge. Veldhuis could find no documented proof. She maintains Percy was a fraud and never had the education he claimed.
It will become clear there are two portrayals of Percy. In the Criddle version, he's a kind of Basil Fawlty of the Prairies; the stuffy, hot-headed character made famous by comedian John Cleese of Monty Python fame. In Veldhuis's version, he's a cruel and heartless chauvinist and a parenting nightmare along the lines of Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest.
In Heidelberg, Elise was an excellent student and attended school for the upper-class daughters in Germany. She studied German literature, grammar, music and art, in a German education system superior to that in England. Elise was also a talented painter. The cover of For Elise is believed to be her self-portrait.
We can see Elise was a pretty woman. Alma Criddle, in Criddle-de-diddle-ensis, described her dark hair as "a coronet." She was likely shy and introverted. Veldhuis hired someone with training in linguistics analysis to study the writing of Elise, as well as that of Percy and Alice Criddle, and she concluded Elise was also kind and thoughtful. Percy, meanwhile, was nothing but confidence, which must have seemed attractive to Elise. (This is not taken from the linguistics analyst. Veldhuis asked the analysis of Percy not be used for this article.)
Elise's family, the Harrers (Vane is a name Percy made up for her when they immigrated to Canada, possibly taken after a family friend, Lord Harry Vane), lived kitty corner to where Percy was staying. They knew English and soon Percy was a friend of the family, and soon after that, he and Elise started to show interest in each other.
In addition to being several inches taller than Percy, who was short, Elise was also four years older.
Being older, and with Percy being in a foreign country with a foreign language, would have given Elise some advantages in their relationship. Veldhuis doesn't see it that way. She thinks it was more the case Percy, even at age 16, was the proverbial fox in the hen house. "Men don't care about age as long as they have someone to make out with," she said.
They were engaged within two years. Percy was 18, and Elise, 22. But in Heidelberg, they needed the government's approval to marry, and the government turned them down not once, but twice, because it didn't believe Percy could support his bride.
Percy had returned to London but continued a long-distance relationship for about four years. Then Elise became pregnant. The pregnancy changed everything.
During her term, she moved to London, perhaps so her family wouldn't find out. Veldhuis suggests Percy may have promised to marry her to persuade her to move. From later letters from her family, it is clear the Harrers assumed she was married to Percy.
Elise would have six children with Percy out of wedlock, the first one dying after eight months. One of Veldhuis's goals was to find a marriage certificate for Percy and Elise, either in Germany or England. That would legitimize their relationship and erase the "mistress" stigma. She never did. Regardless, Veldhuis maintains an engagement was considered as good as a marriage in Germany. But if that's so, why did the government twice deny them a wedding?
Elise had a residence in London near where Percy ran a wine shop, his vocation, but they did not live together. The Criddle family maintains Percy's mother kept up a relationship with the children and likely helped them financially. By all descriptions, he was a poor businessman. He spent freely as if part of the leisure class but didn't have a talent for making or managing money.
During the time Percy and Elise were having children together, Percy met Alice Nicol and carried on relations with the two women for several years. "That's what Englishmen did," Veldhuis said.
In fact, the philandering Percy didn't tell Alice about Elise and their five children until after the wedding. In fact, he continued conjugal relations with Elise right up until the nuptials. Elise's last child with Percy, named Cecil, was born April 19, 1875 — seven months after the wedding. Percy's first child with Alice, Norman, was born May 14, 1875. The births were 25 days apart. "It's unreal how much power a man could have back then. It's just unreal in today's life," said Veldhuis.
Alice may have had thoughts about calling off her marriage when told about the other women and children, but she was now pregnant by Percy, too. "In the 1880s, if the guy had a mistress, if his wife got wind of it, she'd pretend it didn't happen because that's the way British women are. They don't see what they don't want to see," maintained Veldhuis who, although a Vane and German on one side, is also a Criddle and English on the other.
Today, of course, Elise would have been Percy's common-law wife, and he would share legal responsibility for the children.
Meanwhile, Elise's family thought the world of Percy. Her parents' trust was probably the biggest mistake in the whole affair. Perhaps they worried Elise would never marry. She was 27 when she had her first child with Percy.
"History from the underside is what I call it. It was very depressing, doing research and finding out what Percy had done to this educated woman," said Veldhuis.
Little is known about what happened in the next eight years. Veldhuis said Percy had moved on from Elise. There must have been some child support from Percy and perhaps his mother, as Elise and the children didn't starve to death. "She wasn't the only wife abandoned in England. Lots of guys did that," said Veldhuis.
During those eight years, Alice had four children, Percy's mother died, and Percy went broke. He was 40, and Elise was 44, when he decided his future lay in the New World.
The most-asked question is why did Elise accompany him to Manitoba? Veldhuis maintains Elise was an excellent seamstress who could have supported herself and the children without Percy. As well, the eldest daughter, Minnie, was in her early teens and could have already gone to work as a domestic.
Veldhuis speculates Alice refused to go to Canada without servants and believes Percy had to trick Elise into joining them, possibly promising farmland for Elise's sons.
Her theory is problematic on a number of fronts, and no one I talked to on either side of the family, or people who read the books and have followed the story, agrees with Veldhuis. The majority believe Elise had very little choice but to go to Canada because she couldn't support a family on her own.
Percy was her child support. She may have also thought it important the children have a father figure in their lives.
The other question is, why did Percy take them along? The law didn't require it. It was during a period when nearly 120,000 British children born out of wedlock, called British Home Children, were being shipped to Canada to become servants. This would undoubtedly have informed some of Percy's treatment of the children.
Criddle descendant Trollope, a real estate agent in Brandon, believes either Percy finally showed a shred of human decency, or Alice refused to let him abandon his children. But Veldhuis makes a compelling argument Percy didn't treat the Vane children as equals, but more like British Home Children.
It was on the boat to Canada Alice and Elise met for the first time. The stories handed down by Criddle descendants is the women got along well, and home-schooled the children together. However, there was no question Alice was the female head of the household.
The Vane children learned they would be treated differently as soon as they started the 10-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. They, along with Elise, travelled in steerage. The Criddles didn't travel first class — they couldn't afford it — but did travel intermediate class.
The Vane children were also told their last names were no longer Criddle but Vane, and they could no longer address Percy as their father but as Mr. Criddle. Their living arrangement would be regarded as too scandalous if people were to know the truth.
The Criddle children were also better-dressed than the Vanes. (Alice's family back in England would send boxes of clothes and books only for the Criddle children. Her family was quite successful: Her father and a brother were lawyers and another brother was an Egyptologist.)
Alice and Percy Criddle would have four more children together in Manitoba, bringing their total to eight, not counting the five Percy had with Elise.
The linguistic analyst claimed Alice was very extroverted and said whatever came into her head. That doesn't jive with accounts. Most people think a woman like that wouldn't last five minutes with Percy. Percy needed to be the centre of attention, and any wife would be pushed to the background. Indeed, Alice almost never left the farm.
The Criddles maintain Alice was the peacemaker who smoothed things over with the children when Percy flew off the handle, which he often did. She was well-educated and could reputedly speak seven languages, but — despite developing scurvy along with some of the children in the early years — still pulled the plow on occasion.
Veldhuis paints a different picture. She disputes claims Alice was a polyglot, and says the Vane children were treated like slaves, and Alice shares responsibility for that.
In some letters discovered by Veldhuis, she maintains Alice was condescending toward Elise. Veldhuis found one incident in particular where Elise's oldest daughter, now grown up and living in Brandon, sent clothes for her mother to wear. Veldhuis discovered Alice took the clothes for herself.
While Criddle descendants concede Percy had many faults, they maintain Alice was a kind, gentle lady. If Percy and Alice were such rotten people, why did the Vane and Criddle children turn out to be "all gentle people," as Trollope puts it, and productive members of society?
Another controversy is Percy's odd nickname for Elise. He called her "Dutchman." Veldhuis maintains Dutchman was a name Percy probably used to keep him and Elise separate from their past lives as lovers. But Veldhuis also says it was cruel and derogatory. The Dutch, to Britain, were regarded as an enemy and to call someone Dutch was a slur. The "man" part seems an insult to her femininity.
The Criddle family denies this. That's a lot of cruelty to practise day in and day out to someone who lives under your roof. No one knows why Percy called her Dutchman. Alma Criddle, in Criddle-de-diddle-ensis, maintained "Dutch" is a derivative of Deutsch, meaning German, which Elise was. "It was a fun nickname," said Trollope. The children called her Mamma Dutchy, or Hucky.
And so the book goes. Veldhuis maintains the Vanes were victims of abuse because they were worked so hard and received so little in return — not so different than the British Home Children.
"They were indentured servants. They never got paid," she said.
But the Criddles aren't so sure. "Percy was hard on all the kids," said Trollope. Two people who live in the area of the original homestead and are familiar with the Criddle-Vane story, said if the Criddles were guilty of abusing their children with hard work and little reward, then Child and Family Services would have to seize half the kids growing up on rural Manitoba farms in the late 1800s.
However, Gary Everard, 73, a great-grandson to Elise, and cousin to Veldhuis, thinks his cousin is spot on. "I think Percy was using people," said Everard. "The impression I got was Elise was the worker and Alice was the lady."
Everard feels vindicated by Veldhuis's book. His late aunt, Mona, the granddaughter of Percy and Elise, always referred to Percy as "an old devil."
It is about 300 pages into For Elise one finds an act of unequivocal cruelty that forever damns Percy. It is when Percy won't let Elise attend the wedding of her eldest daughter, Minnie. There is no explanation given. It may be he was embarrassed by how Elise's looks had deteriorated. That's not a reason but may explain how his mind worked. One can only imagine the heartbreak for Elise.
Elise aged rapidly after arriving in Manitoba. Veldhuis maintains she lost her looks due to illness and because the Criddles overworked her. Several years after settling, Elise contracted a lengthy illness that almost took her life, and she never fully recovered, said Veldhuis. It caused her hair to thin to the extent she took to always wearing a bonnet. In two family portraits of the Criddles, Elise is barely recognizable as the woman Percy fell in love with, and she seems to be hiding her face.
Both Criddles and Vanes have nothing but condemnation for her exclusion from her daughter's wedding.
"It's just heartbreaking. I cried when I read that," said Trollope. Added Patricia Jacquest, another Criddle descendant now living in Souris, "I don't know how you justify that treatment."
"That was Percy, the aristocrat, the snob," said Trollope, a founding member of the Criddle-Vane Homestead Committee that started and looks after the Criddle-Vane park.
Percy, who would weasel money out of Elise, also committed a grave injustice by virtually leaving the Vane children out of his will. A couple of Vane girls received $100 each, which is the equivalent of about $2,000 today adjusted for inflation. Edwy, his oldest son with Elise, received a mere $50. Yet without Edwy, the Criddles would never have survived. Edwy was the leader and cornerstone among the children who made that farm run.
Injustices in a will can run deep within families, and this one has endured for generations. The rest of the estate — it was either $10,000 or $18,000, it is not legible on the original document Veldhuis secured — was left to Alice and six children. Alice died less than a month after Percy, so it went to the six children — he had left two Criddle daughters out of his will because they married husbands he didn't approve of. (Only four of the eight Criddle children ever married, possibly because they didn't want to risk their father's wrath.)
Even so, the Vanes were never entirely servants, or never entirely family. That surfaces in Percy's diaries.
He doesn't say a lot about family members, but after Elise died in 1903, he showed a rare display of emotion, in an entry excerpted by Criddle-de-diddle-ensis.
"The first time in at least 40 years that I am without a birthday greeting from Elise," he wrote, using her real name for the first time since they'd left England.
"My memory keeps going backwards and forwards over the 41 years of changes and vicissitudes through which we have travelled together. On every side too here, I see a thousand things to tell me of her work and doings — and how steadily and quietly she laboured for the general good."
One of the problems with self-published books is they don't usually have editors, and that's obvious in For Elise. One publisher who rejected the manuscript told Veldhuis, For Elise is so black-and-white in its portrayals it almost defies belief. The book is also overly long at about 500 pages, and the material could have been organized better, although so much research material would have challenged even the most accomplished writer.
Veldhuis has also written it as creative non-fiction. She tries to get inside Elise's head and puts her thoughts in italics. For the most part, this is effective, allowing her to finally speak. However, there are places where it can be misleading, like when Elise speaks Veldhuis's theory Percy promised farmland for her boys to persuade her to immigrate. That's only speculation but a reader can mistake it for fact. As someone in academic circles said, For Elise should not be considered the authoritative book on the Criddle and Vane families.
As well, Veldhuis ignores most of Percy's diaries. She believes the letters she obtained trump them. Her argument for doing so — that diaries aren't reliable because they only portray the writer in a positive light — isn't convincing. The diarist is bound to reveal things both intentionally and unintentionally about him or herself.
For example, while flipping through Percy's diaries, Louis Riel's name leaped out on one page. It was an entry from 1885, the year Riel led the Northwest Rebellion. Criddle admitted to not knowing much about Riel but viewed him as a threat to the British Crown in Canada. He wrote he hoped Canada would act like the Americans for once and shoot Riel and his aboriginal supporters on sight. It's typical Percy.
One of the difficulties in being a history detective is figuring out what can be blamed on the mores of those times, as well as the circumstances and conditions in southwestern Manitoba, versus how much blame rests with individuals. Other husbands may have been just as controlling as Percy.
"Englishmen were the king of the castle and women were like their possessions almost," said Marguerite Cory, curator of the museum in Wawanesa. "Englishmen thought they were so superior to women."
In her defence, Veldhuis said she was writing for the Vanes, not the Criddles. "I didn't write the book to be vindictive. I wrote it for my family to recover. A social worker said to me, 'You're recovering from a third-generation trauma,' " Veldhuis said.
Around Wawanesa, the book by Alma Criddle is sometimes dubbed The Gospel According to the Criddles, and Veldhuis's book is The Gospel According to the Vanes.
Even so, For Elise, which won the Margaret McWilliams Award for local Manitoba history, is remarkable. It sold out its first print of 1,000 copies, and is well on its way to selling out the second print of 1,000. That's pretty good for a local book and very good for a self-published one.
What sets the book apart is Veldhuis's research. It is breathtaking. Veldhuis, 80, made three trips to Germany and two side trips to England to uncover lost documents and make contact with Criddle and Vane descendants. She lived her great-grandmother's life for 12 years. While her interpretations can be questioned, few would have gone to such lengths. It became a massive retirement project but also a commitment to her family to set the record straight. Veldhuis said what needed to be said: That is, the Criddles wouldn't have survived without the Vanes. The Vane children were more solidly built and knew how to work with their hands. The Criddle children were well-educated and went on to have extraordinary careers, but they were effete when it came to farm work.
Percy tried to avoid manual labour at all costs, sitting in his library reading up on botany or astronomy or whatever seized his brain at the time, while the children did the work. Percy may have been the straw that stirred the drink but the Vanes set down the glass and poured it.
Elise was Percy's first wife. We see that now. If it's any consolation, entomology professor Neil Holliday stopped referring to Elise as "mistress," after his encounter with Veldhuis. He began referring to Elise as Percy's "former common-law wife."
Elise raised beautiful children. She did the age-old thing immigrants do: She sacrificed herself so her kids could have a better life. Edwy, her oldest son, eventually left the Criddle homestead and became a much-admired farmer in the area.
Even today, four generations later, Vanes and Criddles socialize with each other.
Gary Everard played baseball with Paul and Dave Criddle, grandsons of Percy and Alice. Everard used to hunt with Dave Criddle, who has since passed away. Everard worked with Paul on restoring the buildings and the grounds at Criddle-Vane Homestead Provincial Park. Other Vanes and Criddles also worked together to make the park a reality.
The Criddles agree Elise didn't get a fair shake. She was a dedicated, hard-working woman, and she raised her kids to be responsible adults.
"The Criddle got all the glory, the Vanes got nothing," said Trollope. She applauds Veldhuis for making the correction and heaps praise on the book, even if she doesn't agree with all of it.


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#17162 Apr 2, 2013
Did you pay taxes, and registration fees on those things you bought? If you did; per your own words they aren't yours. You can't have it both ways a--hole. If I can't own my home and land you can't own your solar panels and car.
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#17164 Apr 3, 2013
The question was "How does increasing rates increase FUTURE DEBT to taxpayers?" Not costs.
My point is that toll roads are financed through bond sales, built, then leased to an operator. The lease pays the debt and the drivers pay to use the toll roads. Where do the taxpayers come into play? Correct me if I'm wrong.
#17165 Apr 3, 2013
What entity is the soveriegnty in this situation?
#17168 Apr 5, 2013
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#17171 Apr 6, 2013
Good luck Texas! We love you :)
#17172 Apr 6, 2013
Future debt is in the increase to say the toll charges. Debt is not paid off any more than when one rents. In business there is a break even point with properties. Then they become losses and are allow to fall into disrepair. Called bleeding the property. Just as those that rent our infrastructures will do when they reach the point of parody. Lease up and infrastructure repairs falls to the taxpayer. Roadway will then be assessed to its potential earnings of what the raised service cost was. Note; Profit of the private industry is added into the assessment, thus once again raising taxes for the infrastructure they have already paid for ,Plus the profits that were derived will be maintained . Taxpayer paid once, twice, thrice for the same infrastructure and the profits that were obtained by the private enterprise is theirs to keep and reinvest.
Another example; Mineral rights are leased out to private enterprises. Now the majority of times lease is not put up for auction, which has proven to be most effective for returns to taxpayers. Common practice its behind closed doors with one bid. Bid turns out to be say $100,000,000 for a $500 Billion transaction. Less infrastructure to recoup minerals and profits go to the leaser of say $20 Billion! Land returned to govt. in distress and taxpayers pay for the clean up and restoration both in monetary and health. If you are interested in a more in depth knowledge of these lease/rent scenarios I can refer you to Book recently written by Nobel Economic writer and author.
#17173 Apr 6, 2013
The USA in this perticular situations. All nations that are reconized by the UN are soveriegn within their borders.
#17174 Apr 6, 2013
Yes we finally agree. What I build will return back to the cosmos regardless of how I manage it. There will be others that will use it when I no longer can afford to manage it all. That is the circle of life. We are but temporary landlords, if so wish for a more proper title.
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#17175 Apr 7, 2013
Gov Good Hair does NOT speak for me
#17176 Apr 7, 2013
Come and take it!
#17177 Apr 7, 2013
You are way to long winded my friend. What brings you here in my city with all of this???Besides this thread is way out dated, go get a life.
#17178 Apr 7, 2013
Yeaaa what brings a ranger on here? This forum is outdated and closed you nuckel head.
#17179 Apr 7, 2013
Now what kind of handle is new soul? You people need to go get a life,really this topic is why outdated. My fellow great friends of north richland hills are tired of reading this so go find another forum.
#17180 Apr 8, 2013
Not sure
#17181 Apr 8, 2013
No Bernard we do not agree, not on anything. Take your so called intellect and shove it where the sun dosen't shine. I merely pointed out that you claimed ownership, something you denied my right to do, and now you want to rationalize or whatever you want to call it. AND I DON'T CARE! Stinking Commie Puke.
#17183 Apr 8, 2013
Mayor Castro from San Antonio will be Governor one day....stay tuned citizens of Texas...you will soon verify what a shallow jokester Perry really is... its all about his pocket book....who the hell lied and told him he had a chance for President....what were they thinking.!!!!!! although i am glad he did....now he knows what he is not capable of...a.proud texan! Drcruz
#17184 Apr 8, 2013
I have known Perry for what he really is for years, and it was his crackpot wife Annita that lied and said that God told her to tell him to run for president. Unfortunatly he still doesn't have a clue.
#17185 Apr 8, 2013
Perry is a riot to watch in action. Texas deserves him.
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#17186 Apr 8, 2013
Good job
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ARM and Partners Deliver First ARM Server Platform Standardby Johan De Gelas on 1/29/2014 1:05 PM EST
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kpb321 - Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - linkFrom what I understand this is a bigger deal than it would seem. Unlike x86 where pretty much everyone builds cpus/chipset with a set baseline that is needed to boot windows ARM SOCs aren't as standardized and might have different types of buses available, might handle the boot sequence differently etc which is a difficulty for the OS and part of the reason why most ARM SOCs can't just compile and run the standard linux kernel.
Interestingly, Microsoft did something similar for their Windows Phone and tablets to make things easier on them. Reply
FwFred - Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - linkMuch needed move, good to see this is already implemented on the first AMD ARM soc.
Unfortunately this underscores the challenge facing the ARM server ecosystem. x86 architecture just isn't the ISA. Reply
Krysto - Thursday, January 30, 2014 - linkAgreed. I hope this leaks into the mobile market, too, so we can finally have that standardized OS image for smartphones. I hope Android 5.0 allows for that, especially if it comes with kernel 3.8+, which I believe supports device-tree, which should make it easier to do this.
I realize we probably still won't see Samsung OS images running on Sony hardware, but it would be nice if at the very least a Sony OS image would run on ALL Sony mobile hardware, or a Samsung OS image running on ALL Samsung mobile hardware, and so on. I really hope Google and their partners have been working on this already, and it's ready for Android 5.0. It would be by far the biggest announcement for Android this year (even if it will take a bit to see the results of that with new hardware). Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - link"As a result, the maximum number of CPUs in the system is 8"
Isn't that gonna become a problem... really quickly? Reply
bobbozzo - Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - linkHrel, That's the BASE system with the base interrupt controller. Reply
extide - Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - linkNot really, many of these high density ARM setups (like moonshot, etc) consist of many small servers, so that limit would apply to each server, not the whole thing. Reply
Krysto - Thursday, January 30, 2014 - linkNo. If a CPU is an atom, think of the whole thing as a molecule. Things are built of many molecules, and so are server farms. They could've decided to make it 4-core only, but I guess they thought the whole system makes more sense with 8-cores. They can probably upgrade the spec in 2 years for 16-cores anyway, for 16nm-10nm processes. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Thursday, January 30, 2014 - linkExactly, this is the first spec. Reply
npz - Friday, January 31, 2014 - linkThe problem is that it prevents licensees like AMD in creating a multi-socket system or multi-processor on a die, say, using their own proprietary interconnect. It really limits this first version of the spec to pure micro-server duties, restricting scaling out only in the form of individual, separate but networked systems (small dense blades, etc). Reply
btb - Friday, January 31, 2014 - linkIf the primary intended use is lots and lots of small blades, perhaps it makes good sense? Just guessing here, but its probably simpler to nail down a design spec if they dont have to deal with multi-socket issues, interconnects etc. Reply
BMNify - Friday, January 31, 2014 - linkif you assume that they are using existing generic ARM IP then the interconnect isnt really a big problem they have whats now called NOC (Network On Chip) the current The ARM® CoreLink™ CCN-508 Cache Coherent Network scaling up to 32 processor cores can deliver up to 1.6 terabits of sustained usable system bandwidth per second with a peak bandwidth of 2 terabits per second (256 igaBytes/s) at processor speeds, but its probable that AMD are using the older CCN-504 scaling to 16 processor cores and one Terabit of usable system bandwidth per second.
OC if you actually look a little deeper into current and near term interconnects rather than relying on most high profile tech sites that don't seem to look to far beyond the usual PR suspects...
... then you find the "Si photonics" and packaging is to see Si photonics (at 40Gbit/s per interconnect link) commoditized as in easy to obtain on chip/package perhaps by 2016/17, the foundries and volume packagers are all ready now with 2.5D and even 3D ready to go apparently.
Si Photonics: 3D ASIP's Pre-game Show
"At this week's 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging (3D ASIP) which took place Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, it became clear that High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is more likely to be the application that brings 3D TSVs to volume manufacturing. However, according to Dim-Lee Kwong, executive director of IME in Singapore, Si Photonics holds the key for integration of memory and logic, and enables wafer level integration of multiple components. Individually, While Si photonics and through silicon interposers (TSI) each provide advantages over scaling and monolithic SoCs, Kwong says together they can move "Moore's Mountain" as we approach CMOS scaling limits."
"TSI provides a nice platform for interconnecting photonic ICs (PIC), logic, Memory and CMOS as close as possible on the interposer." said Kwong.
only the mass markets fabless providers only need to actually design Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, January 30, 2014 - linkIt's OK for the target market of many small servers. It wouldn't work for HPC, but there you'll typically want either GPUs (or similar designs) for embarrassingly parallel tasks or fewer fat cores and unified memory for other tasks due to limited scalability. I don't see much space for solutions in between these extremes.. which is not yet covered by x86.
What I wonder, though, is if the whole concept of micro servers really makes sense from a load balancing point of view. If I'd put many more energy efficient cores into a big box and run many more VMs on them, wouldn't that be better than many small independent servers? It would still be quite energy-efficient, but the CPUs and memory can be shared among the entire system. Well, the high performance interconnects needed in this case must not consume too much power.. but I don't think this would be troublesome at 8 cores. Reply
duploxxx - Friday, January 31, 2014 - linkwhile this article mentions the standardization of server specs, that doesn't mean the arm cpu can't be used for anything else...
HP moonshot is the example you refer too where virtualization is not needed (yet) but specific target markets are already addressed. other types and designs will probably follow soon. It market is changing quite a bit, default server layout will change more soon. Reply
BMNify - Friday, January 31, 2014 - linkthats true , OC the Calxeda and moonshot 32bit ARM prototypes where fine as a proof of concept, but their first product layout of their but ugly SLED's use of the available space what nothing but shameful ,tons of useless metal and wasted space in a given U configuration restricting airflow etc...
Calxeda's NOC was apparently good but they should have sacked the SLED designers , using small self contained COM (computer On Modules) and providing a simple PCB plastic slide mount at minimal distance between PCB cards to direct airflow would have been far more rewarding and cst less to produce, as you could then re-purpose these separate COM when it became time to upgrade.... it's a shame really , lets hope someone in the server space learns that lesson and provides what people want to actually buy this time around.
on a side not its funny that Microsoft have now also joined this ARM imitative :)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245854/Mic... Reply
lwatcdr - Monday, February 10, 2014 - linkI do not think so. This should really work well in the SAN and NAS space as well as web servers. Reply


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From the Rangers:
January 25, 2010 – New York Rangers 2, Pittsburgh Penguins 4 (Game #53, Home #28)
· The Rangers were defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-2, tonight at Madison Square Garden, and are now 10-6-4 in their last 20 games.
· The Blueshirts have now posted a record of 24-22-7 (55 pts.) overall, including a 12-12-4 (28 pts.) mark at home this season.
· Rookie forward Artem Anisimov recorded his first career multi-goal game with two goals and established a career-high with six shots on net; he also won a team-high 11 faceoffs in 15 attempts for a success rate of 73%.
· Christopher Higgins tallied the primary assist on Anisimov's goal at 13:04 of the second period, and finished with a plus-two rating in 18:35 of icetime; he has now registered three points (one goal and two assists) in the last four games, and has posted a plus or even rating in eight of the last nine games for a plus-three rating over the span.
· Enver Lisin registered one assist and a plus-two rating in 10:51 of icetime; the plus-two rating tied his season-high (Oct. 24 at Montreal); Lisin has now recorded two points (one goal and one assist) and a plus-two rating in the last four games.
· Defenseman Dan Girardi recorded an assist on Anisimov's goal at 3:15 of the third period, and logged 19:42 of icetime; Girardi has tallied two points (one goal and one assist) in the last four games, and has posted a plus or even rating in eight of the last 12 for a plus-three rating during the stretch.
· Ryan Callahan registered six hits and four shots on goal in 19:20 of icetime while skating in his 200th career NHL game.
· Marc Staal led the team with a personal season-high seven hits, and tied for the team-high with 23:12 of icetime.
· The Rangers return to action when they will face-off against the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m.), in their fourth and final meeting this season; the game will be televised live on MSG Network and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio.
John Tortorella on Artem Anisimov… "He has played well. Although he has not put up a lot of numbers, he has really. He is one of the guys I am using quite a bit away from the puck, late in games. His defensive awareness has really improved. As he grows and gets stronger, he is just a kid, he is going to be a very good player."
Henrik Lundqvist on tonight's game… "This one was painful. We battled back and it was a pretty good game. In the second period we played pretty well and we came out in the third and kept it going. I don't know what to say. That was bad timing , when we got that penalty, they get a lucky goal on a deflection off our player. We have had a bunch of these games this year. It could be a different story if we manage to win these games. We have a tough time winning games like this but we definitely played a lot better than the last two games. That is a good thing."
Brandon Dubinsky on the 2nd intermission… "I thought we were good here in the room and we knew we just had to fight for another 20 minutes out there to try and get 2 points. Arty (Artem Anisimov) scores a big goal there, but we have to respond after that. It starts with my line. We have to make sure we are strong defensively, especially when it's tough to put pucks in the net. We have to make sure we are doing our jobs and try and keep confident here. From now on we have to try and stay confident and believe in what we got here. We have to believe in what we can do and get over this."
Bonus quotes (from me):
Marian Gaborik: "We've got to manage to keep the lead if we have it in the third period like that. It happened in the last game against these guys too. We play a good game, but we have to hold onto the lead. … when they tied it, we can't let them score the go-ahead goal."
Dubinsky (on the winning goal): "I was maybe a little late trying to get there. I'm not going to sit here and say it was my guy or another guy's. We've got to do a better job and make sure we've got to make sure we've got a high guy and make sure they don't get an odd-man rush and make sure they don't even get that opportunity."
On the six-minute power play: "We've got to find a way to get that going. It's certainly a privilege to be on the power play there, and guys gotta make sure, all of us, the 10 guys who go out there night in and night out, we've got to find a way to get those timely goals. It would have been big. We had three in a row, and if we get one early there, or two there, it's a different game. We've just got to find a way to battle hard and at least get some momentum off it. I felt that they got momentum off it because we didn't get anything going. Those are big plays."
Lundqvist (on the long power play): "They're a good team. They made it tough to get something going on our power play. Special teams were the difference and it's funny but a lot of times against Pittsurgh, the special teams in the end will be the difference."
On the winning goal: "It was just bad positioning. I tried to reach for it on the rebound and I went down to make a block and he just found a hole there above my pad. You know, everything happens so fast. You sit here and maybe think what I would have done differently — maybe not reach for the puck and just get back in position. But I didn't see the guy coming, I reached for the puck, and then I saw him and I was a little too late there."
You should know that Tortorella answered only three questions, because by now nobody wants to be shouted down when they ask something he won't answer.
I asked him about the six-minute PP
"Yeah, we struggled," he said. "We would like to score a goal there and yet we end up leading 2-1 after that. Power play struggled."
And before the quote above about Anisimov, he said, "We played much better as far as away fro the puck, in our end zone, we played better. We have to find a way to win a gane when we're up 2-1."
After the Anisimov quote, there was a long pause and he said, "Thank you" and left.


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Tonight is all about working on projects! If you have a project you'd like to work on in the company of others, bring it on down. We have tools, knowhow, and lots of people who would love to participate.
What's going on September 25th at Gainesville Hackerspace:
- Lots of hanging out and working on projects! Here's a partial list of what people will be working on:
- A field trip to the old space to work on the decorative cargo pallet room dividers (Effie and hopefully lots of other people)
- A Twitter social experiment project (Amir, cvk, Justin K., Preston)
- RaspberryPi hacking
- … much, much more!
- The new RFID cards are finally here. If you're a member, come pick up your new card and start enjoying 24-hour access to the space!
Tuesday nights are open to all. Doors open at 7pm. Please bring a project to work on!
This meeting will be held at our new location, 101 SE 2nd Pl, Ste 100, Gainesville, FL 32601. (We are located in the basement level of the Sun Center, in the former location of the club Wise Guys. Our entrance is on the south side of the building, near the large arch at the north end of the main parking lot, beneath the large green awning.)


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Susan Sarandon Calls the Pope a "Nazi," Is Utterly Unapologetic About It
Yep: Susan Sarandon called the Pope a "Nazi." Thoughts on this?
-Lucia Peters
Susan Sarandon may be an incredible actress, but her most notable quality perhaps isn't her talented on screen—it's that she's never afraid to speak her mind, even if it's a thought that most wouldn't dare say. Scratch that—ESPECIALLY if it's a thought that most wouldn't dare say.
Case in point: Susan dropped by the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY on Saturday for an interview with fellow actor Bob Balaban. According to Newsday, she touched on Occupy Wall Street, her encounters with the NYPD during the Amadou Daillo shooting in 1999, and the current Pope, Benedict XVI—whom she called a "Nazi."
How, exactly, did the Pope make his way into the conversation? Well, Apparently Susan was talking about Dead Man Walking, the 1995 film she made based on the anti-death-penalty book by Sister Helen Prejean. During the filming, Susan had sent a copy of the book to the Pope. "The last one," she clarified, "not this Nazi one we have now."
Read Video: Behind the Scenes with Sofia Vergara
Now, the term "Nazi" is obviously not one to use lightly. Susan apparently got a laugh at the comment—especially at her response to Balaban's admonishing her, which was simply to repeat the remark—and Newsday noted that "of all the places on largely Catholic Long Island, perhaps only in the Hamptons" could this happen. And yes, there's a constant joke circulating that Pope Benedict looks kind of evil. Is he really a Nazi in the strictest sense of the word? Probably not. We do know that he was in the Hitler Youth as a teen, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's still a Nazi today. Maybe by using the term, Susan was calling him "dictatorial." Who knows.
But I do give her credit for not backpedaling or apologizing for speaking her mind. Susan is well-known for her political outspokenness, and she always sticks to her guns—which is an admirable quality. She might want to think twice before casually tossing around such loaded words in the future, but still. Keep on sticking to your guns. We need more people like that in the world.
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Other Girls With Dragon Tattoos
Probably the biggest movie this holiday season? Unquestionably "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." And as such, its star, Rooney Mara, is on the brink of major mega stardom. Her dystopian take on Lisbeth Salander, shaved eyebrows, piercings, tattoos and all — has become the talked about look this season, and is already being reflected on some runways. But what might the movie — and Lisbeth — been had she been played by other well-known actresses? Say, Scarlett Johansson (a blonde Lisbeth?) Or Keira Knightley (a highbrow British Salander)? The ladies of the blog But You're Like Really Pretty re-imagined Ms. Dragon Tattoo as such. Take a look. [But You're Like Really Pretty]


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Bella Pictures recently partnered with famed celebrity wedding photojournalist Denis Reggie to capture the wedding of Today Show wedding couple, Melissa McMillan and Jeremy Gilbert on September 30, 2010.
(As a side note, you might also notice that the couple used Wedding Paper Divas menus for their ceremony!)
Denis Reggie is the most celebrated wedding photographer of our time. Anointed "the best in the business" by Oprah Winfrey and dubbed "the great wedding photographer of our day" by Town and Country magazine, Denis Reggie may be best known for capturing the single most viewed and most iconic wedding image of our lifetime: John F. Kennedy Jr. kissing the hand of his bride, Carolyn Bessette.
Although he enjoys a wide celebrity following, Denis' vision is to offer all brides the same opportunity to access his famed photojournalistic approach, and to provide super luxurious wedding albums and videos that document the defining moments unique to each wedding couple's special day.
"All brides deserve to be a celebrity on their wedding day. The bride is the focal point of the wedding, and my approach is to document the special moments as they naturally unfold," said Reggie. "Bella Pictures is already known for their photojournalism and their great service and style, so the partnership was a perfect fit for this exclusive experience," he added.
Now brides can choose the Denis Reggie Experience exclusively at Bella Pictures. The Denis Reggie Experience is for couples seeking the Denis Reggie photojournalistic imprint and for those who want wedding keepsakes that are produced at the highest level of quality and design. They are personally overseen by Denis Reggie and reflect his own unique and exacting standards of a clean, understated and elegant storytelling perspective.
For more information on the Denis Reggie Experience from Bella Pictures, visit www.bellapictures.com/denisreggie.
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Bella Pictures is the most recognized name in premium wedding photography and video, and we're proud to announce the launch of our brand new website.
Bella now offers an expansive wedding photography portfolio, with hundreds of wedding galleries and slideshows from all around the country, as well as a daily blog and a helpful planning section that features engagement session ideas, wedding day photo itineraries, budget-saving tips and more.
Most importantly, Bella now provides a completely transparent shopping experience, allowing couples to customize and buy photography, video and albums online.


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Ya, you read that right. Even better? It's called "The Choice." Original, right?
Kicking off this June, Fox brings you the next reality dating
flop show. Since Joe Millionaire worked so well for Fox, it's time for their next best attempt. This upcoming six-episode series will bring you the "world's most eligible celebrities" looking for love in all the right places. The catch? You probably guessed it … they can't see their potential dates.
Pulling from The Voice, each episode will hold their own set of "Blind" auditions, where celebrity bachelors will sit on rotating chairs and only hear the voices of the singles looking to snag a date with a famous stud. Should the celebrity approve based on the voice, they can turn their "love handles" to spin their chair. Just like NBC's hit singing competition, if more than one celeb grabs their love handles, the celebrities must battle it out for the affection of the average Jane. Forget the battle rounds. The Choice brings you speed dating with a catch. After the blind stages, each bachelorette will have mere seconds to convince the celebrity studs why they should be taken on to the final round.
The show's final round, hosted by So You Think You Can Dance's Cat Deeley, will pit the final contestants in each "team" against each other. They will be asked questions a la Miss America and the celebrities will have to choose between one of the two women. Then, and only then, can they partake in their dream date with one another.
One episode of the series will feature female celebs looking for love with average Joes. The celebs, per Fox, will include "a good mix of sports stars, music stars, TV stars, reality stars," who must be "successful, famous, very attractive and single."
Folks, I'm not kidding about this show. It's really happening and it's coming to a TV near you on June 7. Thoughts? You KNOW you wanna sound off below.


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Closure free on PS Plus tomorrow, Critter Crunch $1.40
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Ninety minutes, six topics and a discussion on foreign policy -- that's the format for Monday night's presidential debate.
This is the final time President Obama and Mitt Romney will face each other before the November election.
Channel 4 spoke to a political science professor and some voters about what to expect.
"I'm looking for more like facts, numbers, plans, rather than just insulting each other or calling each other liars," undecided voter Marco Palomino said.
Marco Palomino hasn't decided who he's voting for. He's hoping Monday night's final presidential debate will help make up his mind.
The debate in the sunshine state will focus exclusively on foreign policy issues including the deadly attacks in Libya and the war in Afghanistan.
"The Obama side will talk a lot about Osama Bin Laden and try to put the pressure forward that they've had a strong foreign policy," University of North Florida Political Science Professor Matthew Corrigan said. "I think it's a little harder for both of them to talk about concrete solutions because it's so complicated and I also think it's more complicated for voters to understand what's going on."
Experts predict Romney will hone in on the way the Obama administration handled the attack on the US Consulate.
But what the candidates say, will be just as important as how they say it. A major mistake could cost either candidate the election.
"Best example in history was when President Ford said that Poland wasn't being dominated by the Soviet Union," Corrigan said. "What he was trying to say is in their hearts they're not dominated, but obviously the Soviet Union was having a huge influence over Poland during the time and it turned out to be a major mistake that Jimmy Carter capitalized on."
Even voters who have made up their minds will be watching with a critical ear.
"I think I'll look for a lot more policy from Romney," voter Emily Simpson said. "Because he always talk a lot about, you know, he had his policy. I've read it but he doesn't talk a lot about it which is weird. But I hope he really steps up and lets people know what he's doing."
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It's all really new and there's not much developed yet, but I think it will come out real good.
Plus, it's my first conlang to be accompanied by a conscript! Yay, that's right ^^ Finally some char art I feel like is worth putting up here.
Let's get to it:
Vowels are
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[a i o u]
Consonants are (In nDaña collation with standard Latin transcription):
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[m]: M
[n]: N
[ɲ]: Ñ
[m͡b]: mB
[n͡d]: nD
[ŋ͡ɡ]: nG
[p]: P
[t]: T
[k]: K
[ʔ]: '
[t͡s]: C
[t͡ʃ]: Č
[θ]: Ŧ
[ʃ]: Š
[x]: X
[ʁ]: Ħ
[ʁ͡r]: Ř
[ɦ]: H
[w]: W
[l]: L
[j]: Y
[r]: R
[ʢ]: J
[ɬ]: S
This phonology is very much attached to the script, and unfortunately it is not yet online. As soon as I find my camera's cable I'll post it.
A little bit of grammar:
Basic word order is OSV. Don't know how these languages handle relative clauses though, so I'll have to look into that.
We have four marked cases, ACC, GEN, LOC and DAT. Nominative is just left unmarked. I thought about going Ergative-Absolutive on this one but I think I'll hold it to the next.
Personal pronouns come in Subjective, Objective and Possessive flavor.
Subjectives are:
1.S. ma
2.S. ña
3.S. nda (male) ndaŧ (female)
1.P. miña
2.P. siña
3.P. nda'a (male) ndaŧya (female) ndaña (generic)
Well, I'll post some more later. For now, Imma concentrate myself on my cable's searches
What do you people think?


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