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Another month has gone by and with that a new Member of the Month needed to be found. It was a tough decision, but we are glad to announce the Member of the Month for November 2012 is....
K. Wolfe
And now to the interview...
You've been around these forums for a very long time, but maybe you still remember: what brought you to Sitepoint, what made you stay?
I believe I was a Freshman or Sophomore in high school when I joined. A short time before that I was given a copy of Macromedia (yes, Macromedia) Dreamweaver. I found it so cool that I had a piece of technology that let me easily design a webpage. I believe I actually started out with a website devoted to Red Alert 2 strategies as I was huge fan of the Command & Conquer series back then. I don't remember this site ever going public, along with probably 10 other halfway done projects back then. This didn't bother me at all though as I was constantly soaking up knowledge and experience, making the anticipation of a new project so much fun. Along my journey through Google looking for solutions, I came across SP. I was very driven back then to discover everything and anything about the web and SP brought me that perfect community to be apart of.
You are putting a lot of effort in answering peoples questions. What motivates you to help others?
I've just recently returned to the forums, and honestly, my motivation is almost completely self-indulgent. Working for a very large company as a data analyst (for about two years) has opened a new way of looking at problems for me. Along with this job though came a very high amount of stress. I'm looking back at the small personal projects and the few small business sites that I put out for next to nothing and I remember how much fun I had doing it. My goal now is to try to wiggle my way back in to the web world so that I may find myself on a new career path. One which may lead to being less stressful and filled with enjoyment. I do know what it's like to be stuck on a problem for a while, pulling my hair out and then getting past that hurdle either by a revelation or from the help of another. Helping others get over a problem is always a good feeling.
I've seen you posting a lot in the PHP and the Database & MySQL forums. Very much in line with the skill set you put in your profile. Can you tell us where it all started, and how you became who you are today?
Well I suppose I already went into detail on how I found SP. All of my experience in PHP stems from personal projects, and one or two small business sites. While I knew a bit about databases at that time, most of my experience has come from the last two years as an Analyst.
Any words of wisdom you'd like to give to someone who may be aspiring to become a Database Analyst?
There's nothing wrong with being a little OCD and taking a project the whole nine yards. Even if you weren't asked to (or even get yelled at for it; in my case) as it saves yourself some trouble 9 out of 10 times down the road.
Being a resident of Columbus, OH myself, I'm interested. Did you grow up there? If not, what made you move to Columbus?
I'm actually originally from Columbiana, OH, a small country town south of Youngstown, OH. We all know the US job market isn't the greatest at the moment, and as you probably know, one of the places it shows the worst in Ohio is that Youngstown area. I struggled for some time in that area before finally yielding to a family member harping on me to move to Columbus where they had moved to and had success. I made the move two years ago and I do not regret it one bit. Now it is time to work up the courage again to make a move out of the craziness of Ohio's weather.
It's your chance to change one thing about SitePoint Forums ... what would you change?
Though I have been a member for some time, I have not been active the entire time, and only recently returned. I think I'll wait on this one until I've amounted a longer streak of activity.
In your profile you say you are interested in poker. I'm sure you have a few good stories to tell? Biggest win? Biggest loss?
Well, I play poker as long as my bankroll allows it. I have a rule to never dip into more than $50 of my own money that wasn't part of my winnings to get my bankroll going. This often means away time from the game, such as right now. I occasionally play at a local poker club, usually buying in to one of their nightly tournaments. I believe my biggest cash was for about $1700 on a $100 buy in. Eventually I hope to get a bankroll that would allow me to buy in to some of the larger ones, multiple times, for a shot at a much larger pot.
Are there any other interests (other than poker) that you are active in outside of the work place?
My recent time off has been spent diving in the web world once again in hopes to make it full time. Outside of work on top of work, I have a great group of friends that I have found myself with once I moved to Columbus. My time off is usually spent doing whatever sounds fun with the group at that time. Watching football, camping trips, etc.
This is your chance at blatant self promotion. Is there anything that you would like to promote?
No personal projects to show at this time, soon though! But for those who have not experienced the most amazing food ever (as I and I'm sure cpradio has since he is in the Columbus area):http://www.chipotle.com/Mmmm, lunchtime! Time to go!
Many congrats to K. Wolfe!! & thanks for the advice.
Congratulations, K. Wolfe. Thanks for your contributions to the forums. Keep it up! It was an enjoyable interview, guys.
Congratulations K Wolfe - keep up the good work
Congratulations. Well deserved award.And a great job from both on the interview
Congratulations! Keep it up
Ah! Thank you! This is very much appreciated! I plan on sticking around this time, answering all I can and also picking everyone's brains to learn more
I like that your first site was for Red Alert 2 in Dreamweaver. My first site was for Starcraft in MS Word.
And Poker.
Congratulations on an award well earned.That interview was top-notch (from both sides)!
Congratulations K. Wolfe. It is great to have you around. Well done.
cpradio, that was a great interview... obviously, you've learnt from a master (me?)
Hey K Wolfe,
Way to go! You've been awesome and deserve this!
@cpradio; Great job on the interview and @K_Wolfe;
And @molona, I think you meant to say that you learned your interviewing mastery from a ServerStorm Just Kidding
And @molona ;, of course I did (learned the interview mastery from you and others), along with @guido2004 ;, and @ULTiMATE ;
Oh, red alert! Now those were the days!
I remember being at a LAN party once with a guy who was playing RA2 but was so wasted he just had his head on the table and every once in a while clicked somewhere and then put his head back again. He still managed to win from the other party with ease. He was pretty good at that game
Anyway, I digress. Congatulations K. Wolfe on MOTM, and we do hope you stick around!
Yes, you say that you're kidding but you don't mean it... you're safe... for the moment
I taught them all :shifty: but you've been a good student, nevertheless... now about that whisky that you were going to serve me...
Kyle, I'd agree you might as well practice applying your website skills on based a hobby if you want to keep up the enthusiasm and passion when beginning and experimenting. Yes they do say you have to have some obsessive traits and tenacity to be a quality webmaster, etc.
It's good to hear you are planning on following something you enjoy doing and learning more; rather than just stressing. Congratulations with the November MOTM.
Thank you very much @xhtmlcoder ;!


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Need help preparing your students to thrive in an increasingly flat world? Below, the Asia Society, a leading force in forging closer ties between East and West and our partners in global learning, offers nine ways to modernize your lesson plans for 21st century learning.
Share your thoughts with our community of educators in the comments section below: are these tips helpful? What are you doing to prepare your students with 21st century skills and knowledge. We'd love to hear what you're doing!
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Nine Lessons on How to Teach 21st Century Skills and Knowledge
As Thomas Friedman put it in a New York Times column, globalization compounds the urgency for students to develop the skills and knowledge they need for economic and civic success in the 21st century. Yet despite widespread agreement among parents, educators, employers, and policymakers worldwide that students need skills like critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and creativity, these skills are stubbornly difficult to teach and learn.
The "transmission" model, through which teachers transmit factual knowledge via lectures and textbooks, remains the dominant approach to compulsory education in much of the world. Students taught through this method typically do not practice applying knowledge to new contexts, communicating it in complex ways, solving problems, or developing creativity. In short, as our new paper lays out, it is not the most effective way to teach 21st century skills.
Decades of empirical research about how individuals learn, however, provide valuable insight into how pedagogy can address the need for 21st century skills. Indeed, the research suggests nine lessons that inform how to teach these skills:
- Make it relevant. The relevance of learning specific knowledge and skills is much clearer to students—and much more motivating—if they understand how a given topic fits into "the big picture," or a meaningful context.
- Teach through the disciplines. Students develop their 21st century skills and knowledge as they learn why each academic discipline is important, how experts create new knowledge, and how they communicate about it.
- Develop lower and higher order thinking skills—at the same time. Students need to comprehend relationships between given variables and how to apply this understanding to different contexts.
- Encourage transfer of learning. Students need to develop the ability to apply skills, concepts, knowledge, attitudes, and/or strategies they develop in one context, situation or application to another, reflexively (low-road transfer) or after deliberate thought and analysis (high-road transfer).
- Teach students to learn to learn (metacognition). Since there is a limit to how much students learn through formal schooling, they also must learn to learn on their own.
- Address misunderstandings directly. People have many misunderstandings about how the world works that persist until they have the opportunity to develop alternative explanations.
- Promote teamwork as a process and outcome. The ability to work collaboratively is an important 21st century skill, not to mention an important condition for optimal learning of other key skills.
- Exploit technology to support learning. Use of technology is another critical 21st century skill, essential to help develop many of the other skills mentioned here.
- Foster students' creativity. Creative development requires structure and intentionality—the ability of the mind to form representations—from teachers and students, and can be learned through each of the disciplines, not just through the arts.
Progressing from the outdated "transmission" model to the "21st century" model will involve entire educational systems. As educational purposes change, curriculum frameworks, instructional methods, and assessments must also. The changes demand increased teacher and administrator capacity and affect many facets of human capital, including teacher training, professional development, career mobility, and the teaching profession's cultural standing.
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This study was presented as part of Asia Society's Global Cities Education Network Symposium in May2012 at our new Centre in Hong Kong. Anna R. Saavedra is an associate policy researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, and V. Darleen Opfer is director of RAND Education.
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Joan SobleOctober 8, 2013 @ 10:25 PM
I also want to say I'm particularly excited about the "Address misunderstandings directly" lesson/guideline. Recently, I've been part of several conversations about the place of expertise, and I would assume that includes cultural expertise, as variegated as that must necessarily be, given all the viewpoints, experiences, and sensibilities of those who are part of something that "coheres" as a culture. Regardless of who has the authority to judge that there is some misunderstanding, my real point is that there are moments when constructivist approaches alone don't suffice: there is something to understand, there is an explanation -- or multiple explanations -- to understand if not embrace and accept.
Thanks for sharing this report, which I'm looking forward to sharing with others! JSS
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Another great resource for those who want to go a bit deeper into the "how" is "Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World" by Veronica Boix-Mansilla and Anthony Jackson. The handbook and other resources focused on teaching for global competence can be downloaded for free on our Innovation Resources page.
Be sure to read our blog often, as we'll be sharing classroom activities integrated with global competence skills and developed by our Global Learning Fellows. These lessons can soon also be found on BetterLesson.com, where you and other educators can interact and discuss these questions further.


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International humanitarian organizations Action Against Hunger | ACF International, Islamic Relief (IR), and Save the Children (SC-UK) have issued a joint appeal for urgent action to contain and reverse the alarming rates of acute malnutrition uncovered in Kenya's northeastern province. Independent annual surveys carried out in the greater Mandera District (January-March 2009) document rates of global acute malnutrition at 30% on average—twice the World Health Organization's emergency threshold of 15%—while 5% of the region's children are faced with severe acute malnutrition, a clear indication of a serious nutritional crisis.
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Bradley Cooper
Thanks to box office hits like Yes Man, He's Just Not That Into You and The Hangover I and II, American actor Bradley Cooper has escaped from the over-populated "Oh, I know that guy" acting pool and has started headlining the "Hey, it's Bradley Cooper" list amidst a crop of growing supporters. Until now, he hasn't been at the point where audiences are lining up just to see him. That all changed with Limitless, in which Cooper starred alongside Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish as a writer who discovers a top-secret drug that gives him superhuman abilities.
AppealBradley Cooper's confident swagger resonates well with the fairer sex. He's very clear about what he finds attractive in a woman -- namely a natural style that emphasizes T-shirts and underwear over trashy makeup and clothes that leave no skin to the imagination (no dice, Paris Hilton). A solid believer in relationship chemistry and date ideas that are original and unforgettable (think bungee jumping), Cooper also asks that women accept his evening habit of watching The Charlie Rose Show while eating Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
Cooper has been involved in several high-profile relationships. In 2005, he dated Jamie King, his costar on Kitchen Confidential, but ended up marrying Spin City actress Jennifer Esposito a year later. Unfortunately, Cooper wasn't the one to reverse Hollywood's short-term marriage trend (we'll leave that to you, Pamela Anderson), and he divorced Esposito a year later.
Cooper dated Renee Zellweger for two years, all the while denying rumors linking him to Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston. They split up in March 2011, and Cooper has since been romantically linked to Olivia Wilde.
SuccessBradley Cooper is an accomplished actor on stage, in movies and also on television. We say "accomplished" because he has already mastered two of the essential roles that every male actor needs for career survival: the heartless jerk and the supportive best friend. As a brash, adulterous hothead in Wedding Crashers, he made touch football look dangerous and made Dick Cheney's hunting skills look sharp. In projects like Alias and Yes Man, Cooper eased nicely into the "best friend" role -- you know, the friend who will support the story's main character, even if the lead is a spy who puts lives in danger or a slightly crazy guy who will say yes to anything.
With the jerk and the best friend roles firmly in his corner, Bradley Cooper is now gearing up to make the roles of comedy lead and hero his own. His characterization of the de facto leader of the group in The Hangover I and II somehow made headaches and double-vision fun (again?), while his interpretation of Faceman in the big-screen A-Team made him a friend of neglected 1980s TV fans.
While it was The Hangover that turned Cooper into what industry types call a "bankable" star, he made his transition from member-of-the-gang to his first leading role in this past spring's Limitless.
Bradley Cooper BiographyBradley Cooper, he caught the acting bug from an elephant -- or more specifically an elephant man. A native of Pennsylvania, Cooper had just completed an honors degree in English from Georgetown University when he developed an uncontrollable urge to head to the Big Apple and try acting. This urge was due to a long appreciation for the acting craft, courtesy of The Elephant Man, a movie that left a lasting impression on him. After successfully gaining acceptance into New York's prestigious Actors Studio Drama School, he learned from the best (like acting legend Ellen Burstyn) and played John Merrick (the real-life Elephant Man) for his thesis project.
Before he had even graduated from the Actors Studio, Cooper began paying his acting and pop culture lexicon dues with a one-shot guest appearance as Jake on Sex and the City in 1998. The experience of working on a female-driven show would come in handy later on. After co-starring in the feature film Wet Hot American Summer and hosting Lifetime's travel and nature-themed Treks in a Lonely World in 2000, Bradley Cooper won a starring role on The $treet, the newest New York-set brainchild of Sex and the City creator Darren Star. Unfortunately, longevity wasn't in the cards, and the series was scrapped after less than 15 episodes.
Bradley Cooper Stars On Alias And Wedding CrashersWith his schooling complete and a promising career temporarily derailed by uncertainty, Bradley Cooper switched coasts and moved to Los Angeles. He also auditioned for the role of Clay, a journalist and friend to a spy whose life is stupendously complicated. The show was called Alias and by the time it launched in 2001, Clay was renamed Will. In no time, the show's ardent popularity made She-Spies sexy, Jennifer Garner tabloid material and slapped J.J. Abrams with the tag of television genius.
Cooper was a regular on Alias for two seasons before leaving to pursue other opportunities on the entertainment circuit. The most notable one came in 2005, as he took on the role of the cheating lout "Sack" Lodge in Wedding Crashers, the movie that capitalized on the long-at-play male ritual of picking up at weddings. Not content to just injure Vince Vaughn's character in an innocent touch football game, he also fired a few shots into his backside during a hunting trip gone wrong. A likable character he was not, but a perfect one to incite laughter and hate from audiences, he most certainly was. Mission accomplished.
Bradley Cooper Stars In Yes Man And The HangoverHot from Wedding Crashers, Bradley Cooper took his heat into the kitchen for the chef-inspired FOX series, Kitchen Confidential. Low ratings turned any heat down for good and the show was canceled. After a Broadway stage run with Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd in Three Days of Rain and a recurring role on Nip/Tuck, Cooper went back to focusing his primary attention on films. In 2008, he played best buddy to Jim Carrey's Yes Man, watching in disbelief while his friend said yes to every opportunity, including over-matched bar fights and horny old ladies -- dentures and all.
If 2001 was Cooper's breakout year on television, 2009 was his breakout year in film. He started by playing a man caught between Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson (there are worse places to be) in He's Just Not That into You. Next was the surprise summer hit The Hangover, where he played a smug teacher who finances a bachelor party in Vegas by ripping off his students. His role also required him to take on the none-too-pleasant tasks of wrestling a naked gangster and dry-humping Mike Tyson's tiger against a police car.
Bradley Cooper Stars In Limitless And The Hangover Part IIWith his breakout film debuts far behind him, Bradley Cooper still has a lot to prove, but he's finally getting his chance to join the 30-something A-list. Alongside actors like , and, to some degree, , Cooper is steadily making his way to the top.
In the film Limitless, Cooper proved he could play a leading man and stood his ground alongside Robert De Niro. And although The Hangover II didn't live up to the hype, we have to admit that Cooper's comedic timing was a huge part of why we still went to see it on opening weekend, and why our girlfriends agreed to come with.
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HOUSTON - Jurors sentenced Jessica Tata to 80 years in prison Tuesday. The former day-care owner was found guilty of felony murder after a fire that killed four children.
Tata was found guilty on Nov. 13 of murdering 16-month-old Elias Castillo. Tata's murder conviction carried a possible sentence between 5 years and life in prison.
She was also fined $10,000. Tata did not say anything after the verdict was read. The victims' impact statements will be read Tuesday afternoon.
Tata, 24, left children in a home on Crest Park near Waypark alone with a pan of grease heating on a stove while she went shopping on Feb. 24, 2011. When she got home, the house was on fire. Elias, Shomari Dickerson, 3, Elizabeth Kojah, 20 months, and Kendyll Stradford, 20 months, all died in the fire. Three other children were hurt.
Jurors took eight hours to decide on punishment. Tata will be eligible for parole in 30 years.
Closing arguments in the punishment phase were held on Monday morning. Tata wiped away tears as her attorney, Mike DeGeurin, said the fire and deaths were an accident. He said Tata made a mistake and never intended for the children to be hurt because she loved them.
"She should have called for help or she should have said to herself, 'I'll wait until they wake up, change their diapers, I'll load them up in the car and we'll go to Target together,'" DeGeurin said. "But she didn't."
DeGeurin said that Tata will pay forever, no matter how long she spends in prison, for using bad judgment.
"She thought, 'They'll be fine. I'll be back in 20 to 30 minutes and they'll be fine.' That is where she was wrong and that is where she's going to live with that decision for the rest of her life. She mourns for those children," DeGeurin said.
Assistant District Attorney Connie Spence said there was evidence that Tata left the children home alone in the past. She said the children came second to Tata's personal desires.
"If that was the first time she had ever left those babies alone, she would be in a hurry," Spence said. "She would be panicked, thinking, 'OK, I need to get home. I need to get home.' She made her life the priority, not those babies. She was going to do what she needed to do and work around the babies."
DeGeurin urged the jury to not let emotions be the driving force in how many years they decide Tata should spend in prison.
"Guard against being whipped up into emotion and doing something out of anger," DeGeurin said.
"What we want is justice," Spend said. "Not vengeance."
Prosecutors pushed for the maximum sentence.
"What's a child's life worth? How can you put a number on a child's life? They will never be back, and what could have been will never be," Spence said.
As attorney's went over the evidence for the last time in this trial, Elias' and Shomari's mothers held hands and wept.
Jurors heard from several witnesses during the punishment phase, including Tata's sister and the victim's mother.
After the fire but before she was charged, Tata went to Nigeria. She was arrested in that country in March 2011 and returned to the United States. Tata was born in the U.S. but has Nigerian citizenship.
Tata's sister, Jennifer, told jurors that her sister was distraught after the fire.
Jennifer Tata said her sister went to Nigeria after she was released from the hospital to talk with her father. Jennifer Tata said her sister had no intention of not returning to the United States.
Elias' mother also took the stand.
Keisha Brown chuckled as she described Elias as a happy baby who seemed to always be smiling. Tears began to flow when she recounted how she learned her son had been hurt in the fire at the day care. Brown said she rushed to the hospital where Elias was being treated. She had all the hope a mother could that he would pull through, but he died the next day.
"Can't nobody say a single word and make you feel better ... because your heart is breaking," Brown said.
As Brown testified, one of the jurors was seen crying. Jessica Tata stared down at the table in front of her.
Jessica Tata did not take the stand in her defense. She faces three additional counts of murder, three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child. Trials on those charges have not yet been scheduled.
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Open data—machine-readable information, particularly government data, that's made available to others—has generated a great deal of excitement around the world for its potential to empower citizens, change how government works, and improve the delivery of public services. It may also generate significant economic value, according to a new McKinsey report.1 1.The research for this report was jointly conducted by McKinsey's Business Technology Office, the McKinsey Global Institute, and the public sector practice, which incorporates the McKinsey Center for Government. Our research suggests that seven sectors alone could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data, which is already giving rise to hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses and helping established companies to segment markets, define new products and services, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
Although the open-data phenomenon is in its early days, we see a clear potential to unlock significant economic value by applying advanced analytics to both open and proprietary knowledge. Open data can become an instrument for breaking down information gaps across industries, allowing companies to share benchmarks and spread best practices that raise productivity. Blended with proprietary data sets, it can propel innovation and help organizations replace traditional and intuitive decision-making approaches with data-driven ones. Open-data analytics can also help uncover consumer preferences, allowing companies to improve new products and to uncover anomalies and needless variations. That can lead to leaner, more reliable processes.
However, investments in technology and expertise are required to use the data effectively. And there is much work to be done by governments, companies, and consumers to craft policies that protect privacy and intellectual property, as well as establish standards to speed the flow of data that is not only open but also "liquid." After all, consumers have serious privacy concerns, and companies are reluctant to share proprietary information—even when anonymity is assured—for fear of losing competitive advantage.
Open data can help unlock $3 trillion to $5 trillion in economic value annually across seven sectors.
Our research sought to quantify the potential value of open data by examining applications in seven fields of the global economy: education, transportation, consumer products, electricity, oil and gas, health care, and consumer finance (exhibit). For each of these, we identified ways that open data may create economic value, explored potential barriers to adoption, and considered which actions would be required for capturing value with open data. In fact, we found numerous ways it could drive growth and innovation across industries and sectors. In summary, the use of open data:
The benefits of open data can be self-reinforcing: they will increase as individuals perceive the advantages and help to improve the accuracy and detail of the information available. However, this cycle can gather momentum only if private industry and public agencies cultivate a vibrant open-data ecosystem and implement policies to protect stakeholders. For companies, that means putting in place the technologies and talent to collect and analyze data. For individuals—as both consumers and citizens—it means being vigilant, savvy providers and users of open data.
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JODY BEVAN is a number cruncher by day but for months the only figure on his mind has been 250.
The 35-year-old warhorse can now rest easy as he scored his 250th senior* goal in Cirencester Town's 2-2 draw with Fleet Town on Saturday. Ironically, the striker made his Southern League debut against the same side in October, 1996.
"I was so taken up by the moment that I forgot to do the goal celebration I had prepared and I was the grumpiest player in the team after the game because it was so disappointing that we did not go on and get all three points after my equaliser," he said.
"But myself and some of the other Gloucester-based lads went out for a few beers in the evening."
Bevan's admirers, and Town boss Brian Hughes has long been one of them, would never describe the veteran hitman as elegant or stylish – but he does the toughest job in football, banging in the goals season after season, all 17 of them. And he has fought his way back from two career-threatening injuries.
To see his unwavering enthusiasm for the game in a Town shirt this season is a great tribute to the man, whose first goal – in fact it was a brace – came for Cinderford Town against Buckingham Town 17 years ago.
"I came off the bench and scored two in a 7-0 victory," recalled Bevan, who works as a credit controller in the insurance services industry.
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"I have always had an affinity with Ciren," said the big No.9. "My grandparents always lived in the town and Hughesie and I go back a long way. He first knew me as an 18-year-old when he was manager at Trowbridge."
That Bevan is playing at all is remarkable having been advised to quit in 2006.
"At the age of 27, after 10 years in the game, I had finally been given the chance to play for my home town club Gloucester City, the team I had watched as a kid and for whom I played as a youth in the nineties.
"But on my 28th birthday, I broke my left leg and tore my ACL in an FA Trophy game for them at Tiverton.
"The surgeon said he had to remove all the cartilage in my knee and he advised that I should pack it in, but that was never an option – although it was a year before I was back playing again.
"Then just before I rejoined Ciren (second spell) in 2009 I had surgery to repair a double hernia that had troubled me for the second half of the 2008/09 season while at Cinderford. The 2009/10 season was the one we gained promotion in amazing circumstances. We had finished just fifth in the league but we came through two epic play-off matches, finally seeing off Bridgwater 4-3 in extra time. In our first season in the Southern Premier we finished mid-table and I surprised myself by scoring 24 goals.
"But in the first home league game of the following season, I tore the ACL in my right knee. Being on the sidelines that season broke me. The team really struggled and it quickly became apparent that we were going to be in a relegation battle.
"I did not require surgery that time just rehab and I had a crazy notion that I could help the lads stave off relegation. I came back far too early and it was not to be.
"Then, last season, I was offered the role as a player-coach with Shortwood. I had a fantastic year but it was frustrating not playing much and coaching does not come naturally to me."
When he was released by Shortwood, it was again Hughes who resurrected Bevan's career and gave him the chance to score the landmark goal he so craved in his third spell at Ciren.
"It was looking more and more likely that I would not get another chance in the Southern League and then Hughesie gave me an olive branch and we agreed to take it one game at a time.
"I worked very hard on my fitness and I surprised myself in pre-season.
"I thought I can still do this, I can still have an impact, and I still love the game.
"We knew we had a decent bunch of players at the start of the campaign but now we are near the top of the table our expectations are changing.
"No one comes to Cirencester for a payday and the team spirit is excellent.
"We gained promotion with 78 points last time and we are already on 53 so we have the opportunity to have a real go this season."
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Past summers I've been gorging myself with summer fruit like mangoes, cherries, nectarines and berries, but this summer I'll be concentrating on veggies instead. My juicer has been churning almost daily lately and I've been making fresh vegetable juices of all imaginable combinations - celery, cucumber and ginger has been my favourite so far, but I've also been adding in some spinach, fresh herbs, whatever greens I've happened to have at hand. My new Vitamix has proven to be the best purchase yet, and even my fiance is now enjoying a glass of almond milk daily! Rhubarb and almond milk shakes have been my favourite. I add a healthy touch of cinnamon in the mix and it's just perfect.
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ATLANTA — Michigan Technological University is ranked ninth on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division II Academic Honor Roll, which was released July 18. The Huskies boasted a combined grade point average of 3.524.
Tech was the second-highest ranked NCAA Tournament team on the list, behind No. 8 Colorado Mesa (3.525). Two fellow GLIAC schools were also included in the top 25, including No. 1 Ohio Dominican (3.699) and No. 11 Ashland (3.517), which claimed the 2013 national title.
"We are fortunate to have such amazing student-athletes," said head coach Kim Cameron. "Year in and year out, the ladies make it a priority to do well in the classroom. I am extremely proud of their effort both on and off the court."
Michigan Tech is coming off a successful season that saw it post a 21-9 record and claim the GLIAC North Division title. The Huskies advanced to the semifinal of the NCAA Midwest Regional where it was defeated by the eventual national champion.
Grade point averages for the WBCA Honor Roll are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by each student-athlete on an institution's roster in the given academic terms by the total number of hours earned by the team. The GPAs are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point.
The women's basketball program has a history of top 10 finishes on the WBCA Division II Academic Honor Roll with six in the last seven years. The 2009-10 Elite Eight squad achieved No. 1.
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DETROIT - Fresh off winning back-to-back games for the first time in more than a month, the Detroit Red Wings go for a season-high third straight victory at home on Sunday against the Florida Panthers. The Red Wings are coming off impressive home wins over Original Six rivals Chicago and Montreal - the first time they have won back-to-back games at Joe Louis Arena since mid-October.
"The two big wins were huge," rookie center Riley Sheahan said. "I know the guys are going to get fired up ... and just try to keep it going."
The Panthers have the second-fewest wins in the Eastern Conference but they have hardly been pushovers, particularly against some of the league's better teams. Florida owns a pair of victories over Pittsburgh, snapping the Penguins' franchise-record 13-game home winning streak on Monday, and have won two of three against Detroit this season - with each decided by one goal. The Panthers, who lost a 3-2 decision at home to Colorado on Friday night, are kicking off a four-game road trip.
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ABOUT THE PANTHERS (20-24-7): Rookie center Aleksander Barkov did not travel with the team to Detroit and will miss his second straight game with a knee injury, but coach Peter Horachek is hopeful that Florida's leading scorer will join the team during the four-game trip. Veteran Scott Gomez, a healthy scratch for 11 straight games, took Barkov's place in Friday's contest by centering the top line of Brad Boyes and Sean Bergenheim.
"Not playing for a while, he really showed well," Horachek said. "Winning that many faceoffs (10-of-13) takes a lot of work and experience."
ABOUT THE RED WINGS (23-18-10): Forwards Daniel Alfredsson and Darren Helm, defenseman Jonathan Ericsson and backup goaltender Jonas Gustavsson came back from injuries this week and Johan Franzen could rejoin the lineup Sunday after sitting out the past 16 games due to a concussion. Franzen is still fifth on the team in scoring despite the lengthy absence and had 17 points in 17 games before he was sidelined.
"He played really well before he got injured," Ericsson said. "Hopefully it doesn't take him too long to get back to that same form. We really need him at his best game."
1. Gustavsson will make his third consecutive start Sunday in place of an injured Jimmy Howard.
2. The Panthers have failed to convert on a franchise-record 38 consecutive power plays.
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The BEST day of the YEAR! Happy Birthday, Jeff. All our good wishes and Love....Lainy and Teddy
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Have a GREAT day!! Eat lots of cake and ice cream!!! MY Mom's 80th birthday is tomorrow(she's a 23 year colon cancer survivor) and Tom's is Tues. January is a special month!! Happy, Happy Birthday!! Mary
Jeff, Wishing you a Happy, Happy Birthday! Lots of love, prayers and happy thoughts comin' your way!
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Hi Jeff,
Happy birthday to you!! I so hope that you have a good day, you deserve it so much and I hope you will enjoy this very special day.
All the very very best to you. Good wishes and good thoughts to you and your family.
Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to Jeff..Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!!!! cyber singing certainly sounds better than my real singing. Jeff sending you only the very best wishes to an amazing man! Thanks for being you!!!!!! hugs, deb
Wishing you a very happy birthday, Jeff.
Thank You Marion and everyone else! I had a nice birthday. I watched the PatrickSwayze interview with Barbara Walters also tonight. I must say he is was an inspiration for me! Marion no spanks or a pinch to grow an inch! Ha! Your turn is next. Thanks again all! Feel only one day older..nighty nite and don't let the bed bugs bite. Charlie ,I pray your itching Goes away, Put your mind over matter in high gear my friend and I'll do the same. Look deep into your mind and say it's gone,trance yourself to feel good. Start at the top and work your way down neck ,arms,chest, back,legs,and feet, you just might be asleep before you know it. Think of things wonderful other than sheep. Best massage in the world with aloe vera will work for starters , put yourelsf incontrol for about 30 minutes.
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Wishing you a belated Happy Birthday Jeff...probably past bedtime where you are! I do hope it was a VERY good day!! I just finished watching the Patrick Swayze interview too...it was inspirational and very moving. Was so glad I watched it. I thought of you while I was watching it and then saw that you had seen it as well. I wanted you to know that YOU are such an inspiration too, for so many here! Wishing all the best to you!
Wishing you many, many happy returns. Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday Jeff. It's so odd to see that you are in Kansas. So are we. I hope you had a great birthday.
Happy Birthday Jeff. It's always wonderful to have one more.
Jeff -a very sincere wish for a happy birthday to you ( make it last a few days, you deserve it). You have touched and helped so many of us for such a long time, please know that many of us are grateful for your inspirational words, and watching Patrick Swayze last nite made me think of you -and my sweet Tom -who like you, fought as hard as possible- and you are still winning the fight. Thank you for giving many of us hope and sound advice for so long, and I hope you had a wonderful day with your family. I have been off this site for some time and thought of your courage -so came back on tonite to see how so many of us in the CC family have been faring...hang in there.
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William Hite's reputation as an engaging and expressive artist has led to appearances spanning three decades with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, American Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, New York City Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, New York Collegium, National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa), Charlotte Symphony, Boston Baroque, Toronto Consort, Emmanuel Music, Tafelmusik and Philharmonia Baroque under the direction of Bernard Haitink, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Nicholas McGegan, Christopher Hogwood, Jane Glover, Robert Spano, Grant Llewellyn, Leon Botstein, Craig Smith, John Harbison, Julian Wachner and Peter Schreier.
Mr. Hite's upcoming engagements include Schubert's Winterreise with pianist Gilles Vonsattel at Bargemusic, Britten's War Requiem at Symphony Hall in Boston, the role of the Evangelist in the St. John Passion at Trinity Church Wall Street and with the Bach Society of Minnesota, Messiah at Duke University and the title roles in both Jephtha and Judas Maccabaeus with the New Haven Chorale. Recent performances include the central role of Father Cheverus in the world premiere of Eric Sawyer's opera The Garden of Martyrs, an all-Britten recital at Trinity Church, Wall Street, Britten's Serenade with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa (Mexico), Britten's Nocturne with the Fairfax (VA) Symphony Orchestra as well as Elijah with the Cantata Singers (Boston), the St. Matthew Passion Evangelist with the Boston Cecilia Society, the title role in La clemenza di Tito with Emmanuel Music (Boston), Handel's Acis and Galatea at the Theater an der Wien and Britten's War Requiem with the Hartt School of Music.
The tenor's operatic credits include the title roles in The Rake's Progress, Acis and Galatea, Handel's Jephtha and Belshazzar, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and Cavalli's L'Ormindo, as well the role of Roderick Usher in the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera The Fall of the House of Usher at the American Repertory Theater and the Kentucky Opera. He performed the role of Orfeo in Peri's Euridice with the Long Beach Opera and has been a regular at the Boston Early Music Festival in period stagings of Matthison's Boris Goudenow andMonteverdi's L'Orfeo. Mr. Hite has sung in world premieres of operas by Theodore Antoniou, Ellen Ruehr, Lew Spratlan, Scott Wheeler and Eric Sawyer.
Mr. Hite's extensive discography now contains over 40 recordings spanning a wide spectrum of musical idioms. He may be heard in Messiah with Chicago's Apollo Chorus on the Clarion label, Acis and Galatea on NCA and The Construction of Boston by Scott Wheeler on Naxos. On the Koch label he may be heard in the St. John Passion with Emmanuel Music. He has also recorded the Mozart Requiem with Andrew Parrott for Denon and Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth on the Centaur label. William Hite has sung in music festivals at Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Monadnock, Banff and Vancouver as well as the Vermont Mozart Festival. In Europe he has performed at the Athens Festival, Festival Mitte Europa, Academie Musicale in Sainte, the Holland Early Music Festival and the festival at Aix-en-Provence. He is Senior Lecturer in Voice and Coordinator of the Voice area at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Please visit williamhitetenor.com.
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Rookie pitches seven solid innings; four Giants errors help Colorado
SAN FRANCISCO -- Blustery ballparks by the San Francisco Bay haven't been kind to the Rockies throughout their franchise history. But on Monday night, the Rockies capitalized on some sloppy play by San Francisco in a 3-2 victory.
In the process, Colorado ran its win streak in San Francisco to a franchise-best four games.
"It's been a house of horrors for us for a long time," manager Walt Weiss said. "It's great to see us win some games here, some tight games, some games in the past that we used to lose. Those one-run games like tonight, in the past the Giants would always seem to find a way to win those games. We've been putting those games away here. It's good to see."
It's always entertaining when these two teams meet, and Monday was no exception. In a contest marked by errors, a balk, a review challenge and close plays at the plate, the Rockies came out on top.
It also helped to have rookie southpaw Tyler Matzek on the mound. Despite entering the game with a five-game losing streak, Matzek (3-9, 5.14 ERA) tossed seven solid innings to earn his first win since July 26. He only needed 90 pitches to get through the outing, allowing two earned runs on eight hits and two walks while striking out seven.
The 23-year-old said he and catcher Michael McKenry made an adjustment in the third inning that helped his offspeed stuff and led to five shutout innings to end his evening.
"They're an aggressive team," Matzek said. "I was just looking to make quality pitches and get early outs. When you do that and you have a great defense behind you, it usually turns out to be an efficient way to pitch a baseball game."
As Matzek noted, he benefitted from a solid defensive effort from his teammates, who turned four double plays on the evening. For the year, the Rockies have executed a National League-best 134 double plays.
"That's a testament to our pitchers being able to put it on the ground when they need to get two outs," Weiss said. "We've done a nice job of that, especially lately."
The first at-bat of the contest set the tone for what would become a bizarre ballgame.
Charlie Blackmon led it off with a slow roller to second base but reached because of a throwing error by Joe Panik. Then Blackmon moved to third on a bad pickoff throw by Giants starter Jake Peavy before coming around to score the game's first run on a Justin Morneau sacrifice fly.
Blackmon earned the praise of his manager for manufacturing a run by hustling, while the outfielder chalked it up to everyday effort.
"It's important to play the game like that," Blackmon said. "I don't know if the guy made a bad throw, or maybe he looked up and I was further down the line than he thought. You never really know, but I think if you put the pressure on, you're more likely to score runs."
More lapses by the Giants -- consecutive throwing errors by shortstop Brandon Crawford and an awkward balk by Peavy -- helped the Rockies reclaim a 3-2 lead in the fourth inning.
"I was just picking my leg up; Morneau couldn't have timed it any better," Peavy said after giving up three runs (one earned) in seven innings. "As I was picking my leg up, he was starting to go. You're going to home plate and then you hear 'Step off,' and I tried to hop off the back of the mound. Crazy night, all the way around."
San Francisco leveled the score at 1 when Buster Posey drove home Angel Pagan in the first inning with an RBI single. Catcher Andrew Susac hit a solo shot against Matzek in the second to give the Giants a short-lived 2-1 lead, but they couldn't manufacture much more offense as Matzek settled down.
Matzek also played a role in a wild sequence in the seventh, when it appeared that he was thrown out at the plate for the final out of the inning. But after a Giants replay challenge, the umpires determined that DJ LaMahieu was actually thrown out at the plate earlier in the play, despite being ruled safe originally. An inning later, Giants manager Bruce Bochy was ejected for arguing balls and strikes.
"It never ceases to amaze me," Weiss said of the wild game.
The victory marked Colorado's third straight and sixth in eight contests. Even with Matzek's pitch count at 90, Weiss said he had no hesitation to tap Adam Ottavino for a scoreless eighth before LaTroy Hawkins closed out the ninth to record his 21st save in 22 chances.
"He's had a hell of a year for us," Weiss said. "That was his third night in a row, pushing the envelope a little bit there. But our bullpen was pretty beat up because of the last series we had at home, and Hawk answered the bell again."
Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A catastrophic flood 100 years ago in southwest Ohio will be marked by a new program arranged by a history buff who directs walking tours.
Leon Bey, a retired Dayton Metro Library employee, will take participants on tours recalling survival amid the 1913 flood destruction in Dayton.
His Gem City Walking Tours, now in its seventh year, hosted walks for at least 1,000 people in 2012.
Dayton library history specialist Nancy Horlacher tells the Dayton Daily News (bit.ly/VshIKZ) the library is planning new exhibits to commemorate the flood.
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The Tampa Bay Mutiny has traded forward Peter Hattrup to the Dallas Burn, team GM Nick Sakiewicz announced today.
In return, the Mutiny receive Dallas' first pick (#6 overall) in the 1997 MLS Supplemental Draft, which will be held Feb. 2 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and a third-round pick in the 1998 MLS College Draft.
Here is the order for the 1997 MLS Collegiate Draft and the 1997 MLS Supplemental Draft, to be held Feb. 1-2 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
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Hello! The following is not exactly a translation request, but I wasn't sure which was the most appropriate forum so I'm posting here.
I don't know any Tibetan, but I'd like to add the Tibetan edition of "Tintin in Tibet" to the Grand Comics Database. Can someone please help a bit?
Now, the cover text is: (taken mostly from the Wikipedia article article - please tell me if there are any mistakes)
།ཧར་རྗེར། (Author - "Hergé")
༄༅།། ཏིན་ཏིན་གྱི་དཔའ་རྩལ། (Series title - "Brave Tintin"?)
ཏིན་ཏིན་བོད་ལ་ཕྱིན་པ།། (Book title - "Tintin went to Tibet"?)
།ཀསཏར་མན། (Publisher - "Casterman")
My main question is, should I enter the above in the database exactly like this? I'm unsure, because I noticed some differences between what's on the cover and the Wikipedia entries.
For example, the entry for the book title has a single shad. Should the book be indexed like this, or with two shad as shown on the cover? And should they be input as two U+0F0D "།" characters, or as a single U+0F0E "༎"?
The author and publisher names as shown on the cover also have a shad in front, but the corresponding Wikipedia article for Hergé doesn't - it's under "ཧར་རྗེར།".
Finally, what does the "༄༅།།" sign mean? Is it part of the series name or should it be left out?
I tried searching the web for the transliterations of the series and book title, to see what's their literal meaning in English - are the translations above correct?
I sent this message to the Unicode mailing list before, but didn't get any answers - well, it wasn't actually on-topic there, so that didn't surprise me.
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Countless problems with Droid Charge...eternal_deed Jan 23, 2012 3:08 PM
I dont usually write in forums, but im going to make an exception this time.
I have several things to say about the Droid Charge model. So this might be a bit long.
Basically, i purchased my new phone last year in June because i was eligible for upgrade and i wanted to pick a phone before july 7th so that i could be grandfathered to the unlimited data plan. i wanted to wait for a better phone, but i wanted the unlimited deal. So i picked the Droid Charge because of 4G, beautiful display and 1600 mah battery being the best of that time. Overall it was the best model back then.
i was a little dissappointed with the outdated hardware in the phone; it had only a single core processor and 512 mb ram (only 328 mb ram available for apps). For $300 i expected the phone the phone to atleast have 768mb of ram like the Droid incredible 2; Not to mention a dual core processor like the Droid 3. I decided not to think much of it because it was my first smartphone and didnt expect the outdated hardware to have any noticable effects on the functionality.
Now it has been nearly 8 months and i have every possible issue u can have with a phone. im going to list them.
1) Within the first week i noticed lost text messages. With my old phone, i wud send myself a text nd receive any messages that might have gotten stuck or lost. i cant do that that with this phone. Also, there is no notification light. an advanced smartphone with no light notification?
2) Constantly drops data: I can understand the phone dropping 4G since it's a new technology, but 3G?. The phone cant even hold on to 3G whether im sitting in one spot at home or driving around near downtown. I cant use youtube, Netflix or the internet for too long without being interupted.
3) GPS is horrible: I want to use google maps naviagation and it wont get a lock on my location. for the next 20 minutes in the car, all i see is "your location is temporarily unavailable"
4) WiFi is weak all the time: my router has really good bandwith and no matter how close i am to the Wifi unit, i will only have 1 bar. 2 bars if am lucky. The 3rd bar is pretty much non existant.
5) This phone has lag in almost everything i use it for: I cant visit websites with flash content without disabling Java and Plug-ins. Also, sometimes i press the application button and it takes forever to load my application list. i have to keep clearing memory in my task manager to make space for other applications since i only have 328 mb ram available (3 quarters of it being used up regardless if i have anything running or not).
6) Random rebooting: i will play a game for about 20-30 minutes and when press exit on the game, it exits to my application list and then it goes to a black screen with the buttons lighting up. i cant turn it off or on with the power button; i have to remove the battery.
7) Drops Calls: i will be on a call with my friend and after a certain amount of time it drops the call. i call him again and it drops again. when i look at my screen to see what happened....there is no notification tht said my call ended nd how long it lasted. just my home screen. This *SMART*phone cant even handle a basic function for a phone?
8) Extended battery: The battery life of the original battery is not enough for handling 4G or games. So i decided on finding an extended battery. Finding one has been impossible. i need a battery tht comes with an extended battery cover and extended battery silicone cover. Trexcell and Hyperion have all 3, but with bad quality covers that chip and crack easily. even though the reviews said that, i bought one from trexcell anyway and it turned out to be true. the back cover chipped because i had to keep removing the cover when the phone stops responding and goes to a black screen.
With all these problems...i have been very patient with this phone. i was told that software updates would fix my phone's problems. so far i have received 2 updates for this phone. 1 regular update in the summer and a gingerbread update in early december, yet i see the same problems continue. I have been reading the forums for my phone for the past 2 weeks and all i see are other people who are frustrated with this phone for the same reasons that i am. i also have read that other droid charge owners have received their 5th and even 6th refurbished replacements and still have the same problems. I met someone at a wedding last month with the same phone. the discussion came right to the problems with the device and he was on his 2nd refurbished replacement with continued issues.
I am fully confident that the Droid Charge model is defective. It is unfair to me that i paid $300 and am paying $30 a month for a phone that doesnt work properly in any feature i want to use. i beleive i atleast deserve a replacement phone of a different model. I think i have been robbed enough.
I apologize for the long complaint.


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Ernest Gerald Harber, who was born February 7, 1921 in Abilene, Texas, passed away September 27, 2004.
He attended Abilene High School, McMurray College, and Texas Tech University. Ernest served in the U.S. Air Force in World War II and married Isla Mae (Scottye) Fewell. He was a member of Mesquite Cumberland Presbyterian Church and lived in Mesquite for 35 years. Ernest moved to New Braunfels two years ago to be near his children. He was a non-grocery salesman for many years. Ernest worked with little league baseball and was active in the Boy Scouts for many years.
Ernest is survived by his wife; two sons: Gary D. Harber of New Braunfels and Dale Harber; a daughter, Geni Denease Harber of New Braunfels; eight grandchildren; and one step-brother, Dr. William King of Abilene.
Services were held at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at Restland's Wildwood Chapel.