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Right now in Skyrim, I have 45 active quests....ridiculous. Good ridiculous but still...
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Right now in Skyrim, I have 45 active quests....ridiculous. Good ridiculous but still...
I can't find the freaking throat of the world. I like the detail in this map, but I honestly preferred Oblivion's map where you could actually see roads and stuff like that.
Yeah, I love the detail, but wish they would have outlined roads...hell, just the major ones. I'm finding that it's better to walk than ride a horse cause I almost always end near a cliff.
Lost my horse to a pack of bears...yes a pack...there were 5 *****ing bears! I ran off while 3 bears and 2 wolf killed my horse. I was able to take down the 2 bears that chased after me. All in all, that was a bloody good time!
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Really want that game, but I have Skyrim, Gears 3, 2k12 (though I'd rather play 2k11) and AC Brotherhood that all need playing.
I'll definitely pick it up early next year though. The first Halo was my fav. I couldn't beat certain portions on Legendary, but I'd make it a game to see how fast I can beat certain levels on Herioc. Just hated the difficulty leap from Herioc to Legendary. Herioc was so simple.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Man I love games like Skyrim where its a huge open world for you to explore.
At level 15 I'm trying to buy any orc armor I find so I can get a set going. Rushing to 60 smithing for arcane blacksmith and orcish seemed to make sense, but I'm not rushing to 80. No more iron daggers for me. My flawless imperial armor (upgraded starter gear basically) isn't really holding up like it used to.
I find the sword/board style pretty compelling. I love the emphasis on striking when your oppenent is staggered or off-balance.
I don't really see the point of dual-wield melee weapons. I'm going to test out the perks but unless the non-power swings are just that much faster I doubt I keep it.
Lydia has a thing for rushing into camps of giants.
Also I have to go back a few saves because in Markath the immortal Vigilant Tyranus bugged out while trying to give a quest to me and now he chases me everywhere zapping me with lightning. I didn't hit him or anything and there's no way to make him revert from being hostile.
I accidentally punched the bard in the bannered mare during a brawl and lydia came swooping in and split him in half with her exquisite orcish battle axe. Not sure if I'm going to revert that or not.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
That spoony bard deserved it....
Assassin's Creed: Revelations. So far it's pretty standard AC. Added bombs (which aren't that cool, imo), but so far the missions are pretty much the same and nothing really cool has been added. I don't love the city they chose either (Constantinople). I thought they did a pretty good job with the Middle Eastern architecture in the first game and was hoping they would send it over to London or Paris or something. Oh well. It's still AC and I still love it.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Still on Skyrim, though my xbox froze. Letting it cool down for a bit.
I've taken on about 50 missions. I really need to stop accepting them and start working my way through some of these. LOL
I've had the Red Eagle mission since about the beginning of the game and just saw an IGN video on it. Think I'll go for that mission next. I need a cool sword.
Level 22 and still haven't seen any glass armor. Come on already!
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Right now I have 3 separate characters playing through Skyrim. Each seems like they are playing a completely different game
One of my guys is a mage doing the main quest line and siding with the Imperials eventually.
Another goes around and robs everyone blind while trying to never fight. Just getting super rich pickpocketing and breaking and entering. The pacifist thief.
My other character which I have played the most is my Assassin Archer. He is level 29 with a Glass bow and just owns everyone on master difficulty. He hasn't done hardly any of the main quest either. I am working with the Dark Brotherhood with him.
This is the best RPG I have ever played.
And Ezio is old as crap in this one. I have to say, the more I play it, the less impressed I am.
So far I'm loving it. I haven't done much of the story but I just love running around doing ****. Yes, bombs are dumb, and I don't care much for the city either, but I still giggle like a little girl every time I see the new counter kill animations.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
I mentioned yesterday that I was going after the Red Eagle sword. Never freakin happened.
Instead I took on what I thought was a simple game/quest and it turned out to be something like the Hangover. I was retracing my steps all over the place. It was a very long quest, but it was a lot of fun. I got to see more of the land and just kept getting lost in the beauty of the game. Finally finished the quest, won't spoil anything, but I did not see that coming!
This game is just full of surprises and you seriously never know what to expect.
The only down part is with the Radiant AI, and most quests are completely random, that I just have a boatload of quests. I have had to end conversations and simply say no. Next few days will be to work my way through these quests.
My smithing is up to level 60 so I can updgrade my enchanted armor. I had a cool 53 enchanted cuirass (increases hit points by 50) and I upgraded it to flawless and now it's a 73 rating!!
Need to work on enchanting now. I want to make my own enchanted armor.
This game just keeps getting better.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
I'm starting that hangover quest back up after doing many quests in Markath. However outside Rorikstead I got my *** whupped by a blood dragon (at level 19 I have 250 health and 400 armor yet this guy was tossing me around like a rag doll) and haven't had a chance to play since then. His level must have been pretty high because the other frost dragons I'd seen went down before my health was 1/3rd gone.
I just discovered pickpocketing and now I'm tempted to redo my character as a sneaky type. . .
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
So do I need to actually climb the mountain to get to the throat of the world? I'm trying to progress a bit in the actual main quest, but trying to find **** is just pissing me off.
Also, I've heard about the hangover quest, not exact details, but I am excited to see it when I get to it.
The first 3 dragons I faced were easy, but those blood dragons have upped the ante. I'm very happy they are much harder to fight now. I save constantly now, so I never have to back track much if I get killed. I have had some pretty tough boss fights too. I really need a magical item that gives me some protection against magic. Magic seems to be the only thing that kicks my ***.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Finally found High Hrothgar...blargh.
One random creature that seems pretty tough at least at level 11 is the sabre tooth tigers.
Dang TJ I just found it too and was gonna write directions.
Seems like the key is to just follow the winding roads for forever because taking direct routes just gets you lost in the wilderness.
Ran into a camp of fire mages during my search and they downed me in like two seconds.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Get the spell Clairvoyance. It will show you the way.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Anybody, know if there's a skeleton key in this game like there has been in past elder scrolls games that can pick any lock? Also, are there Daedric God quests? I haven't done much online research yet, so curious if anyone has bumped into either of those things. I'm sort of taking it slow with Skyrim right now, but will like jump in head first over Thanksgiving, just playing it at bits and pieces right now which is why I'm level 12.
I started one Daedric prince quest in Markoth...
Finished Revelations. It wasn't perfect, there was stuff I missed about Brotherhood, but stuff I liked more.
However, I'm really pissed that...Spoiler:
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
As for gameplay, the mechanics were refined from II, especially fighting. What I miss in Revelations was Brotherhood was more open. Even the horse combat was fun. I don't think you once get on a horse in Revelations. Makes sense, because the city is so cramped there's hardly enough room to breathe. I'm sure that's how Constantinople really was, and it reminds me of Acre in the first game, but it gets really claustrophobic.
That said, once you climb with a hook blade, I don't think you can go back. And parachutes are integrated from the beginning. I was so mad that I neglected the DaVinci missions in Brotherhood and didn't get the parachute until after I'd beaten the game.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
Super Mario 3D Land
Finally beat the regular version of the game, now on the Special World.
This game was definitely made with taking advantage of the 3D in mind. Lots of cool level designs and some nice retro elements. As someone who is acrophobic, some of the air levels (of which there are many) definitely create suspense in 3D. Some feel reminiscent of a roller coaster ride.
The "final" battle with Bowser gets the adrenaline flowing a bit.
The game isn't exceptionally difficult, moderate at best. Of course, I haven't gotten far into the Special World yet, so that may change.
Best 3DS game so far.


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Sentencing has been delayed until May for a Fairfield man convicted last year of second-degree murder for interrupting a pre-arranged fistfight in 2010 by shooting one of the men once in the face.
Claude S. Washington Jr., 20, was convicted in April of the gunshot slaying of 29-year-old Jamal Thornton in the parking lot of Fairfield's Armijo High School, along with three felony second-degree robbery counts and two carrying enhancements for personal use of a firearm, for his part in a pair of robberies in Fairfield and Vacaville a week before the killing.
Washington was in the Fairfield courtroom of Solano County Superior Court Judge E. Bradley Nelson on Monday for sentencing with his defense counsel, Fairfield criminal defense attorney Thomas Maas, where it was indicated that he was still waiting on transcripts of the lengthy trial testimony, a process that could take several more weeks.
Maas, who took over Washington's case after the trial from the Solano County Public Defender's Office, is expected to file a motion for a new trial.
Nelson ordered Washington back at 1:30 p.m. on May 13 for judgment and sentencing, pending the outcome of a motion for a new trial.

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9-11: War May End the Primacy of Leftwing CultureNews at Home
In that course, we never used the term "Home Front." The subject was always "The Conduct of the American People." Nor did we ever use the term, "War Hysteria." Rather, to understand why people behaved as they did – perhaps why they'll behave as they will – I offered four guidelines.
First, you rarely hear about the incidents and abuses that don't happen. The people who don't go out at night lynching neighbors and bombing buildings don't make the news. Neither do the governmental depredations that never come to pass. I first became aware of this truth when studying for my doctoral comps. All the books cited the same outrages, usually quoting each other. How many outrages is too many? One. How many didn't happen? Lots more.
Second, to quote an old Yiddish (or maybe it's Chinese or Swahili) proverb, "There are more horses' assess in the world than horses." Peace or war, some people are jerks. Sometimes their jerkiness makes the news.
Third, it is impossible to understand why Americans behaved as they did (or will behave) without reference to prewar agendas. Sometimes these agendas are overtly political – the assault on the IWW during World War I, for example, conducted with the very non-hysterical blessing of ole Sammy Gompers. Sometimes they're economic and cultural –- the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II as a means of "redistributing" their property. Sometimes the agendas are personal and psychological – the Bill Clinton style of draft-dodging, for example, constructing elaborate intellectual cathedrals to justify and evade the facts of physical and moral cowardice. If you've never read Jim Fallows's "What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?" do look it up.
Finally, beware, always beware, the Professoriat, the Chattering Classes, the Intellectuals. Their agendas can be the most pernicious of all.
Sometimes they fall all over themselves to participate, as during the World Wars and (sadly) in recent months, some associated with the Weekly Standard, which seems determined to meet the same fate as the 1918 – 1919 "New Republic."
Sometimes they fall all over themselves to oppose, as during Vietnam (its latter stages, anyway). Daniel Hallin's The Uncensored War makes some dandy points here.
Sometimes they simply regard war as an opportunity to strut their intellectual stuff, to demonstrate their personal moral superiority, to sneer at their country and their less enlightened brethren. New York Review of Each Other's Books, anyone?
But most of all, the academic and intellectual classes have witnessed, over and over again, the destruction of favored liberal and left agendas by war. World War I ended the Progressive Era. World War II finished the New Deal. Korea ended whatever Truman's Fair Deal might have accomplished. The Great Society and Vietnam – nuff said. Desert Storm threatened (for a moment) the primacy of liberal and left culture as well as political agendas.
What next?
At issue here is the survival of what American culture has become: a rights-and-entitlements obsessed, victim-worshipping, psychologized affair in which anything goes and nothing matters . . . and in which discourse has been reduced to little more than the frantic pushing of accusation buttons: racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, whatever. And the politics and governance attendant thereon.
Could this world be ending, this world so favorable to the Intellectuals and the Pundits and the Professoriat? If so, how much of it will they try to salvage, and how?
To be continued, should anyone care to take me up on this.
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norman markowitz - 10/1/2001
Philip Gold must think that he is living in Sweden. In the United States on the planet earth, conservatives and ultra-conservatives have held political power over the last twenty years, deregulating the economy, privatizing social services, tripling the military budget under Reagan and Bush, and quadrupling the national debt. The world view of the New York review of books(I agree with Gold that it is a small clique reviewing each others books) has resembled thatt of the cultural organizations that the CIA used to found through the world in its rabid anti-Communist and anti-Soviet orientation for decades, with its serious scholarly reviewers as a sort of window dressing. Although its good that the CIA and the U.S. taxpayer don't have to fund such journals as the funded Encounter, the Partisan Review, and other journals in the past(a penny saved is a penny earned) no one outside of the late J. Edgar Hoover and his minions would consider the Review politically as a journal of the left or possibly even of the center
More importantly, the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush II governments have been governments of the right and center-right and the right again, pursuing anti-progressive, anti-New Deal, anti- Great society policies. Since we aren't dealing with Wilsonian progressivism, FDR, or for that matter LBJ(the last president who could, on domestic issues, be called a liberal in the American sense) it is much more likely that the electorate will react to this atrocity over time the way the British electorate reacted to World War II, by throwing out the Conservative party and its legion of anti-welfare politicians and
appeasers, who appeased Hitler to" quarentine" Communism, just as the conservative Republicans who largely created bin Laden and the Taliban did so to fight the Soviets.
Speaking about what Bismarck and later , of course, Hitler called the Kulterkampf(cultural war) our rightwing establishment has been fighting that for twenty years, mostly against strawmen and women, as they proclaimed the "death of Communism" and the triumph of laissez-faire capitalism, and a new, largely unstated Social Darwinism, with the same further that their former ally, bin Laden, drunk with his victory in Afghanistan, proclaimed a "revolution" in the name of his clerical fascist vision of islam.
Also, Mr. Gold, most of the "intellectuals" you mock as part of your Kulterkampf are more modern conservatives than you are. They fight with each other for rank and privelege in the academic work, built their own parallel establishments that are as likely to provide analysis for working class movements, oppressed minoirity movements, women's rights movements, peace movements, as you probably are. "Post-modernism" by both rejecting and analyzing everything, in more and more esoteric ways, is a much more effective way to run interference for conservative economic and politics than to raise the banners of Lynn Cheney and Bill Bennett, the Jihad for the Great Books, Edmund Burke, Aristotle, and Alexander Hamilton.
In any case, we may see a National Health Service, a national Industrial Policy rewarding firms for producing skilled high paying jobs rather than downsizing, a national policy to rebuild infrastructure and provide jobs for what I expect will be the burgeoning legion of unemployed, and even a post-Cold War military budget, which would be something like 150 billion, at most. If and when that happens, and scholars and intellectuals are participating in its development, Mr. Gold will have some reason to cheer on a conservative backlash(who knows, defense consulting might then be as lucrative as college teaching).
Norman Markowitz
Rutgers University.
Ronald Karr - 9/19/2001
Many historians would argue that although World War I dealt a near death blow to the radical left, the Progressives saw the war as a realization of much of what they had been trying to achieve: a powerful national government, greater efficiency and the elimination of wasteful competition (i.e., the nationalization of the railroads), and even the beginning of public housing. It was the Republican post-war reaction that ended these programs, although Herbert Hoover continued Progressive measures (i.e., zoning).
The same was true of WWII: for example, in Civil Rights Randolph's threat of a march on Washington led to civil rights gains. And even during wartime, FDR continued to champion labor (i.e., the musicians's strike). Again, it was the postwar reaction that ended extension of the New Deal (but even this did not prevent Truman's election on a Progressive/New Deal platform in 1948).
Ronald Dale Karr
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lawrence W. Levine - 9/19/2001
To use an old Yiddish (definitely not Chinese or Swahili) expression: Oy Vey!
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"The reason we expect to be able to double the process industry initiative business by 2017," said Steve Pulsifer, director of process market development, Rockwell Automation, "is because we already have delivered. I think that's why our CEO thinks we can do it. If you really look at it, we've concentrated on customer-focused innovation. And if you make customers happy and give them a world-class experience as they deal with you as a corporation, you're going to grow."
Pulsifer, along with Ben Mansfield, PlantPAx marketing manager, and Som Chakraborti, global director of Rockwell Automation's process business, discussed the status and future of the PlantPAx process automation system initiative.
"It's as simple as that, right?" Pulsifer added. "Customer satisfaction is the number one thing you have to supply. And that's the whole experience from technology to solutions and services and even the way we have selected some phenomenal partners has been extremely positive for the customers, and that builds the annuity stream."
"I think the path we have been on is testimony to the fact that doubling the business is possible," said Som Chakraborti. "Doubling is still a feat, and there's a combination of market factors and additional investments that the company is committed to making. We're focusing on certain industry groups where we expect the investment levels to continue as high as they are now."
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"Adding to that," Chakraborti said, "while there are factors we can't control, the focus will be on the products we will be launching in the next fiscal year for us and into the next operating cycle. These include the general architecture areas that have an impact on all of our control products and then further enhancements to our DCS architecture. You already saw elements of what we have been achieving in the past twelve months, and that's going to continue, so I think you're going to see an unprecedented level of new product introductions that are going to take our architecture to completely new levels."
"There are areas of the process systems business that everybody has to do, common expectations of our customers, like high availability, redundancy, fault tolerance across the architecture, engineering efficiency," Chakraborti said. "There is also something that is truly disruptive, as a technology, but that can be embraced by the plant floor and that has a dramatic impact in the years to come. At that point it becomes a 'table stake' for the company. We believe that virtualization is one of those technology anchor points. It is a proven technology well-embraced by enterprise segments of our customers' businesses, but yet to be embraced on the plant floor. We have discovered a critical mass of our customers who are ready to embrace virtualization, and those are going to be our bellwether customers."
"Wall Street runs on virtualization," Steve Pulsifer added, "and if you consider the number of transactions that entails as opposed to the number that take place in a process plant application, there's just no comparison."
Responding to a comment that higher availability and security from having physical servers on the premises is actually a myth, Ben Mansfield noted, "All of these issues that disrupt operations, all the things that IT doesn't like or want to deal with, you can put into a virtual server. I think it is just a natural progression. More and more customers are embracing it as the future, and the industry is maturing. As a company we have been talking about convergence for a long time, and at the end of the day 'IT as a partner to automation' is the future."
Pulsifer added, "But it is when customers can look at an economic benefit, as well as a technology benefit that things really move forward."
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STAGE TUBE: Meet the Cast of A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL
A Christmas Story, The Musical will play through December 30 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Following a nationwide search, Johnny Rabe will don Ralphie's trademark spectacles. John Bolton (Spamalot, Contact, Titanic, "Boardwalk Empire," "Gossip Girl') will reprise his acclaimed performance as The Old Man from the 2011 National Tour. Joining Bolton will be Tony Award nominee Erin Dilly (Nice Work if You Can Get It, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as Mother, Zac Ballard (Oliver! at Irish Repertory Theatre) as little brother Randy, Caroline O'Connor (Chicago, Moulin Rouge) as school teacher Miss Shields, and Eddie Korbich (The Little Mermaid, The Drowsy Chaperone, Wicked) as Santa Claus. All join previously announced Dan Lauria (Broadway's Lombardi, TV's "Sullivan & Son" and "The Wonder Years") as Jean Shepherd.
Check out the recently released commercial for the show below and meet the cast with videos of them from past productions and roles!
The ensemble for the Broadway engagement will include Tia Altinay, John Babbo, Charissa Bertels, Grace Capeless, Zoe Considine, Andrew Cristi, Mathew deGuzman, Thay Flloyd, George Franklin, Nick Gaswirth, Mark Ledbetter, Jose Luaces, Jack Mastrianni, Mara Newbery, Lindsay O'Neil, Sarah Min-Kyung Park, J.D. Rodriguez, Analise Scarpaci, Lara Seibert, Jeremy Shinder, Luke Spring, Beatrice Tulchin, and Kirsten Wyatt.
A Christmas Story, The Musical will arrive on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre just in time for the 2012 holiday season. The new musical, based on the 1983 movie perennial, will play a November 5 – December 30 holiday engagement. Opening night is Monday, November 19. Tickets are now on sale at www.AChristmasStoryTheMusical.com or www.TicketMaster.com.
Dan Lauria (Jean Shepherd) has appeared in over 70 television episodic programs and more than twenty Movie Of The Week productions. His film credits include, Stakeout, Another Stakeout, the blockbusterIndependence Day and the Frank Miller production of Will Esiner's, The Spirit, and the cult comedy: Alien Trespass. Dan's a familiar face to the off-off, off and regional theatre scene having performed, written or directed over 50 professional stage productions. In 2010/11 Dan was seen on Broadway as the legendary coach Vince Lombardi in the long running production of Lombardi with the beautiful and talented Judith Light. Dan's most recognized as the Dad on the acclaimed Emmy winning, ABC television show, "The Wonder Years." Currently, Dan can be seen as Jack Sullivan on the new TBS sitcom, "Sullivan & Sons."
John Bolton (The Old Man) originated the role of the villainous Grady in Broadway's Curtains. He was in the original Broadway casts of Spamalot, Contact and Titanic, all three of which won the Tony for Best Musical, and was featured in How to Succeed... ('95) and Damn Yankees. Other NYC: New York Philharmonic soloist, extensive Off-Broadway, concert, cabaret, improv and stand-up work. TV and Film: 4 seasons recurring guest star on "Gossip Girl", roles on "Boardwalk Empire", "The Good Wife", "Law and Order: CI", "Ed", "All My Children" "As the World Turns", Heart and Soul, The Savages. Adjunct professor at Pace University. Recovering Bills fan. With appreciation for the great Darren McGavin and love and gratitude to Old Man extraordinaire Keene Bolton.
Erin Dilly (Mother) recently starred in Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It opposite Matthew Broderick. Other Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony and Outer Critics Nominations), Into The Woods, Boys From Syracuse, Follies, Encores!, Babes In Arms. National Tours: South Pacific, Martin Guerre and Beauty and The Beast. Regional: Guthrie Theatre, Alley Theatre, Papermill Playhouse and Goodspeed Opera House, among others. Film/TV: "Julie and Julia," "Too Big To Fail," "12 Men of Christmas," "Law and Order: SVU," "Nurse Jackie," "The Jury", "3 LBS," "Gossip Girl," "Elementary" and many others. Founder of the Living Studio in NYC (livingstudionyc.com). Erin is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan MT program. She sends her love to the Dillys, her daughters, Anna Lou and Catie and dashing husband, actor Stephen Buntrock.
Johnny Rabe (Ralphie) is excited to be part of this amazing show. Credits include the national tour of A Christmas Story, the Musical! (Insistent Boy), The Music Man (Winthrop) and For the Boys (Danny) at the Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire, and Shadowlands (Douglas) and Wizard of Oz (Munchkin Mayor) atProvision Theatre, Chicago. Johnny thanks the team of A Christmas Story, The Musical! for this wonderful opportunity, Mr. Samuelson and Mr. Komasa for their guidance, his parents and brother, Jimmy, for their love and support, and God for his many blessings.
Caroline O'Conner (Miss Shields) Recent credits: Gypsy (Rose); Follies (Phyllis); Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett); Assassins (Sarah Jane Moore); and Broadway debut in Chicago (Velma). West End: Mack and Mabel (Mabel)(Olivier nomination), On The Town (Hildy), Romance, Romance, Street Scene, Matador, The Rink, Cabaret, Me and My Girl, Showboat (RSC), Damn Yankees, Baby, Into the Woods, A Chorus Line. Australia: Chicago, West Side Story, Man of La Mancha, Funny Girl, Piaf, Bombsells (Olivier nomination), world premiere of End Of The Rainbow. Film's include: Moulin Rouge (Nini Legs in the Air), Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely (Ethel Merman). Solo CD's: What I did for Love, Stage to Screen, A Tribute to Piaf, and A Tribute To Garland.


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The Mad Heretic of Golf Moe Norman Preaches A Revolutionary Swing Technique Known As "Natural Golf"
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A ball soars into space, 275 yards downrange towards a red-flag target. While that missile is still airborne, three more Titleists are launched into the stratosphere with an effortless swing, each shot penetrating a stiff wind and headed for the next zip code.
Seventy-five balls later, after each drive has been blasted into orbit and eaten up airspace on the exact same path, the Wernher von Braun staging this remarkable show sips a Coca-Cola. (He drinks 20 Cokes every day.) He then continues banging out balls, another 300 (down from the 800 of his heyday), all the while laughing and muttering to himself.
"See those shots, of course they're all on the pin, why certainly!" he exclaims. "Other golf teachers? They're just garbage, a bunch of thieves. They're 80-shooters, making millions and screwing up the world."
Coupling these repetitive, rapid-fire reveries with an overly wide stance, a palm grip and a hammer-type swing that defies convention, he's been labeled everything from an "awkward-looking eccentric" (by renowned PGA golfer Ken Venturi) to a mad heretic and a freak.
But before leaving the range for his claustrophobic $400-a-month motel room in Daytona Beach, this ball-busting machine continues to awe onlookers with his sonic booms. At age 66, after sleeping in bunkers and the back seats of cars and selling Canadian Tour trophies to survive, Moe "Pipeline" Norman is finally inspiring devotion.
He has long been a magnificent ball striker, arguably the greatest in history. Recently hailed by Lee Trevino as "a genius, a living legend," the newly appreciated Norman is also the spiritual father of "Natural Golf," a teaching philosophy promising salvation to the game's struggling masses.
"I'm the Michael Jordan, even the Jesus Christ of golf," proclaims Norman, insisting that his swing is so consistently perfect, so geared to never hitting a ball off-line, that he's also the Madonna of the game that all the big boys beg to play with.
"John Daly, Ernie Els, Nick Price, they all ask me to hit balls, since out of the 40 million people playing golf, I'm the only one with the 'secret.' Only Moe has the perfect grip and controlled 365-day-a-year swing. No one else knows the move, the feeling of greatness. While all the teaching from guys like [David] Leadbetter, [Bob] Toski and [Jimmy] Ballard is a pile of crap, artificial strokes for artificial folks, I'm the machine, poetry in motion, the only man on earth who can hit the ball straight every time."
To emphasize his being "an island of purity" in a corrupt world, alone every night in a motel room refining his golf swing and "wrestling with the demons" of traditional golf instruction, he grabs a longer than usual driver. Conventional golfers will place the club in their fingers, using the revered Vardon overlapping grip that creates a two-axis system between the right arm and club shaft. But Norman holds all his clubs with the handle aligned with his right forearm. He keeps his hands separated and awkwardly looks as if he's wielding a sledgehammer.
"Just look at that straight line, the single axis," cries the potbellied Norman, holding his outstretched arm in a single line with the club shaft. "Why am I the best? I have everything working on the same plane during the swing. Unlike the stuff that's always taught--the two-axis rotary motion with the turning hips, shoulders, arms, club and hands--I make it simple with one axis. Less moving parts." Holding onto his trusty driver, Norman again demonstrates what he's perfected over 50 years, ever since he picked up clubs as a teenager in Kitchener, Ontario, and ignored his father calling him "a sissy" for choosing golf over hockey.
"I have my legs far apart, far apart; you need an extra wide stance for the right balance," shouts the beet-faced Norman, wearing a Hawaiian shirt with plain polyester pants from the 1950s. He then yells, "That's it, spread 'em, spread 'em."
Norman places the driver a foot behind the ball, keeps his right leg firmly planted (reducing upper-body motion) and, without taking the customary practice swing, brings his hands to shoulder height. It's a compact swing, without the usual spinning of the hips or shoulders, and certainly not the violent, arching thrust of a John Daly or Greg Norman. Yet it brings results.
"I haven't hit a ball out of bounds in 11 years," Moe Norman claims with a laugh, equally proud of his playing with the same tee since 1989.
"Golf my way is just a walk in the park. I buckle, sit, slide and bump. Just watch!" Breaking down the movements, he flexes his knees (the buckle), assumes a slightly sitting position with his behind extended rearward (the sit), shifts his weight from the right to the left leg, which is well forward of the left shoulder (the slide), and hangs his body back at impact, facing the ball (the bump). "That's it: Buckle, sit, slide and bump," he says.
Repeating this mantra about a dozen times, Norman punctuates each chant with a 270-yard to 280-yard tee shot, all dead on a pin. Like a machine gun, he hits the balls in rapid succession without ever pausing.
That free-spirited approach, coupled with his ball-striking artistry, made him the Gretzky of Canadian golf for three decades. Winning 54 Canadian tournaments in the 1960s and '70s, then seven consecutive CPGA senior championships starting in 1979, he was always an entertaining show, clownishly playing to the galleries by teeing balls atop Coke bottles and women's shoes.
But along with his mythical prowess, Norman was also a mysterious absurdity, his tattered clothes and rotting teeth too easy a target for straight-laced golf traditionalists. Unable to win on the American pro tour ("I just couldn't putt back then," he admits), and ever lapsing into short repetitive speech bursts like Dustin Hoffman's autistic character in Rain Man, Norman was mocked, his swing mechanics never taken seriously by the game's high priests.
But now, in this era of downsizing, Moe's minimalist swing, with fewer body motions, is suddenly gaining new disciples. He violates every rule of conventional shot making-- palming the club, abbreviating swing extension, facing the ball at impact and letting his right hand dominate the action. Norman even looks weird, a John Madden look-alike, wielding longer than normal clubs with twice as fat grips, and swinging like he was pounding nails in an Ace Hardware ad.
Yet that unorthodoxy is also his charm, for the athletic movements of a Jack Nicklaus or a Nick Faldo--demanding the keenest coordination of hips, shoulders, arms, hands and club--are generally too complicated for the Everyman. The average guy will occasionally reach the promised land of blasting balls with a square club face, but for every scratch shooter, there are thousands of slashers struggling in hellish rough.
Their desperation has spawned a multimillion-dollar industry of golf instruction, featuring a supermarket array of swing doctors along with scores of "miracle-working gizmos."
Amid all these traditional tipsters and gurus, it takes a certain leap of faith to discard the teachings of a Harvey Penick or David Leadbetter, men long celebrated for working with the PGA Tour's brightest stars. But for too many weekend golfers, the old-time religion just doesn't work. Instead of improving, they only know the continuing frustration of infernal double-bogeys.
Among these sufferers, Natural Golf (a recent start-up corporation using Norman as a consultant) is sounding a message of hope and redemption. Very 1990s, the catch come-on is, of course, "user friendly," for unlike those Richard Simmons-like contortions in conventional golf, Norman's "less maintenance" system promises "by keeping everything so simple, there's less potential to screw up."
"People laugh at me, but that's OK," insists Norman. "They also reviled another reformer, Jesus Christ. I'm the only person who can make tight fairways seem wide and open. I'm one of a kind."
After that Messiah-like reference, Norman shows that Natural Golf is indeed on the upswing. He gets into his car and drives off, smiling behind the wheel of his new gold Cadillac DeVille.
A few days later I'd enjoy my own taste of "Heaven." But first came a trip to golf school.
Stuck with a 14-handicap, unable to improve even with repeated instruction, I was an excellent candidate for Moe's less-is-more approach. His $100,000 price tag for a month's worth of personalized teaching was a bit too steep for me, so I did the next best thing. I took my troubled swing to a Natural Golf executive camp, checking into The Registry Resort in Naples, Florida, for two days ($1,900--higher for longer visits) of sumptuous beachfront accommodations and a golf overhaul.
Natural Golf will dismantle your entire swing--starting anew with totally different mechanics--so be prepared for a radical break with conventional teaching. That's why Natural Golf advocates like to say their program is best suited for beginners. These unseasoned golfers come to The Registry with little baggage, fewer bad habits--and much less skepticism to overcome.
My own transformation began pleasurably enough. No boot camp wake-up calls. No drill sergeant barking orders to a platoon of wanna-bes on a firing range. Remember, this wasn't one of those oversubscribed "factory" schools where you're given the shaft and told to bomb away. It was an executive camp, so I lingered over breakfast, reporting for work on the putting green at a very manageable 10 a.m.
It's rare that putting, the constant lament of most golfers, gets such early attention. Most schools move right into full-swing mechanics, but according to Peter Fox, the Natural Golf teacher (and corporate communications director) who greeted me, "We want a small number of students to get their feet wet slowly, in an easygoing atmosphere. Putting is a first step, a confidence builder, which will hopefully have students saying, 'Gee, if Natural Golf is right about that, I wonder if they're right about the swing.' "
Natural Golf is such a nascent movement (the firm was founded in 1991 by Jack Kuykendall, an entrepreneur and frustrated professional golfer, who in turn hired Norman to conduct clinics) that it's dependent on word-of-mouth reviews. The learning process must be intimate and relaxed, so clinics are usually limited to three students for each teacher, with an assistant.
Having attended golf camps where large groups moved from one activity to another on veritable assembly lines, I was still surprised to find only one other camper joining me. George Imperial, a New Jersey attorney "naturalized" once before, was so focused on his own putting that he barely watched the magic show taking place around him.
Nearby, a svelte, 30-year-old Oklahoman kept sinking (or lipping) putts--from eight feet, then from 10 feet, 15 feet, 20 feet and beyond. It was Todd "Little Moe" Graves, a player on the Asian and Canadian tours, making everything look easy with an odd, football-shaped putter.
"It's dynamically balanced, center-shafted and zero degrees of loft, so the ball rolls truer," says Fox, showing me a Natural Golf putter, with its uniquely styled fat, square grip. Holding the club tightly in his right hand and positioning it one to four inches behind a ball, Fox continues. "Nerve endings are concentrated in your dominant hand. We engineered the grip so that an optimum amount of space connects with an optimum amount of nerves, sending your brain signals on where to putt."
Instead of using a looping "pendulum" stroke long favored by Ben Crenshaw and other green-side masters, Fox drives into the ball, hitting it with a piston-like motion. "Pendulum putting comes inside the [intended] line of a putt, down to square and back inside again. Yet by taking the shoulders out of putting, using the left arm only as a stabilizer and turning your right arm into a piston, we keep that putter on line longer. Much longer!"
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Jim Mulhern, Chief Operating Officer of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), released the following statement regarding the final farm bill:
"At long last, the House and Senate are poised to finish their work on a final farm bill package. For America's dairy farmers, this is no time for a game of congressional trick or treat. The final product must provide farmers real stability, and not be a costumed disguise that masks the serious problems that will result if the House dairy program were enacted.
"The Senate's bipartisan Dairy Security Act is the only option that will provide help to farmers when they need it most, while also limiting taxpayers' exposure through its market stabilization mechanism. It's an important safety net to farmers when they need it, and not an underfunded liability to the government when the program is in operation.
"In contrast, the proposal that finally emerged from the House is a bad trick: it would be fiscally irresponsible and ineffective. Lacking the Senate's market stabilization program, the House approach would cause farmers to suffer prolonged periods of poor margins, while taxpayers subsidize dairy processors through artificially-low milk prices.
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Brewers continue hunt for bullpen help via trade
LOS ANGELES -- After coming up empty at the non-waiver Trade Deadline, the Brewers are still actively seeking to fortify their bullpen, principal owner Mark Attanasio said Saturday.
Teams can still make trades after July 31, but players must first be exposed to waivers.
"Listen, we put in claims literally today for relief pitchers," Attanasio said. "Literally, today."
The tricky part is whether any of those players get to the Brewers, who are in next-to-last claiming position in the National League by virtue of a win-loss record that ranks second to the Dodgers.
General manager Doug Melvin had hoped to add a reliever in July, making what he characterized as serious offers for a number of players. Among those in whom Melvin expressed interest were Joaquin Benoit of the Padres, Koji Uehera of the Red Sox and Addison Reed and Brad Ziegler of the D-backs.
The Brewers found no deals to their liking. Multiple clubs requested Milwaukee's top prospect, 25-year-old starting pitcher Jimmy Nelson, in straight-up trades for a reliever. With Nelson in the Brewers' big league rotation since before the All-Star break, Melvin was not willing to go there.
"We left no stone unturned this trade season, or now this waiver season in an overall [effort] to make our club better," Attanasio said. "We've done everything we could."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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What a treat we are in for today! Just for you, we have a special guest blogger from Peachy Keen Stamps, Angelica Suarez. Angelica is a Peachy Keen stamping pro and shows us some of the fun ways to use today's steal, Peachy Keen Stamp Sets.
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Angelica here from Peachy Keen Stamps, and if there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that people love customizing when they craft! We all want to receive a card with a personal touch, and we love to give those cards even more. What better way to do that than choosing a face that goes perfectly with the occasion?
My parents started Peachy Keen Stamps back in 2003, and since then, my mom Kathy has been illustrating her signature line of Peachy Faces and took the die-cutting world by storm! Luckily, she also draws some pretty cute shapes, and I'm super excited to share some ideas with you today!
This sweet card was created using Faceless Fruit and Basic Paper Doll Faces.
Paper piecing is a fun way to give an instant pop to your projects without having to be the world's greatest coloring guru. I simply stamped the pear from "Faceless Fruits" onto some patterned paper from Echo Park and again on a sheet of pear-colored cardstock. After I cut the patterned paper pear, I put some foam dimensionals on the back so it appears more 3D.
I used Versafine Onyx ink which stamps like a dream (but just a warning, it is not Copic or alcohol marker compatible. It works wonderfully with water-based coloring methods)! To give my little pear a bit more pizzaz I used some chalks in a pink shade and colored a little tongue with a red gel pen.
This Bubbly Bumble Bee card was created using Faceless Bugs!
The "Faceless Bugs" stamps that are in the Scrapbook Steals bundle were later made into dies when Kathy teamed up with the folks at Cottage Cutz! While I used the die for this particular project, this bundle comes with the stamps which is just as easy -- simply paper piece as I did in the pear card or color your bumble bee in with Copics, pencils, or watercolors!
To make the antennae appear on the black cardstock, I heat embossed them with white embossing powder. Super easy: stamp with clear embossing ink (I used Versamagic), sprinkle with white embossing powder, tap off excess and heat with a heat tool until it sets.
Sweet and simple cheerful flower card created using Faceless Flowers, Flower Centers, and Simple Sallies Assortment.
If there's one thing I love about card making -- it's the endless options you get when you pair ink and stamps. Here I've stamped four different flowers using Memento Ink in Cantaloupe and Distress Ink in Tea Dye. As you can see, I started by stamping my flowers off the paper and created a sense of movement. By layering positive and negative images, you can create your own custom flowers and looks. The 3/8" Simple Sallies fit perfectly in these flowers.
I hope you enjoyed today's inspiration. The sentiments on these cards were all stamped from PK-225 Happy Flowers and Cheerful Phrases. I used my caption maker for the bee card sentiment. Have a Peachy Day!
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Thank you Angelica for sharing your incredible talents with us! Be sure to check out Angelica's blog for all sorts of amazing creative inspiration.
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Cannon Flowers has teamed up with Resource Center Dallas on a project to gauge and meet the needs of LGBT seniors
David Webb | Contributing Writer
It was an irony of life that caused community activist Cannon Flowers to develop an even more compelling concern for the challenges some LGBT people face as they grow older and struggle to maintain basic living standards.
Flowers had already drafted his proposal for the "Mature LGBT Project for North Texas" for presentation to an audience of community leaders when he slipped on a rainy sidewalk while walking his dog in early November and broke his leg. The accident put Flowers in the hospital, and his injury required surgery that left him recovering in a wheelchair.
The activist, who has supported a number of LGBT community causes over the past 10 years, suddenly became unable to properly care for himself, putting him in a similar position as the targeted group his project would benefit.
"I don't think I could have made it without help," said Flowers, who fortunately had a partner and several close friends upon whom he could rely for help until he recovered. "I think there would have been days I would have had to go without eating if I hadn't had anyone to help me."
Flowers, 53, said the experience gave him a new appreciation for the hardships LGBT seniors sometimes experience. And it strengthened his resolve to help provide more community resources for them.
The plight of disadvantaged LGBT seniors had already been highlighted a year earlier by the discovery that an elderly gay political activist suffering from dementia had wound up living on the streets of Dallas before he was arrested by police and later placed in a nursing home.
"I've been thinking about it for the last couple of years," said Flowers, who noted that his concerns about some older friends' isolation had sparked the idea. "I see them, and I realize they shouldn't be alone. It doesn't have to be a holiday. They just shouldn't be alone."
The project's proposal includes statistical information derived from the 2010 U.S. Census that estimates there are 30,000 LGBT people between the ages of 45-90 living in Dallas County. The data also indicates that 27 percent of all people 65 and older live alone.
Flowers' proposal identifies numerous unique challenges faced by older members of the LGBT, including loneliness caused by the loss of life partners and the absence of children and other family members in their lives. It also points to financial and legal problems caused by the lack of protection through traditional marriage rights and a lack of social services and living facilities specifically geared to the LGBT population.
The proposal notes that although there are programs and living facilities for the general population that LGBT seniors can access, there often are barriers created by real or perceived anti-gay discrimination. LGBT seniors fear they would be forced to go back into the closet in order to access resources devoted to the general population, according to the proposal.
In announcing a national summit recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that LGBT seniors face additional stresses because they are more likely to age without the benefit of a partner, children and other family support. And Services and Advocacy for GLBT
Elders and the National Academy on an Aging Society released their "Public Policy & Aging Report" that shows LGBT seniors face significant barriers to successful aging that include poor health outcomes, a lack of economic security, social isolation and unequal treatment under the law and in general population aging programs.
Those national reports show the needs of LGBT seniors are easily understood and documented, but they aren't being fully addressed at this time in Dallas, Flowers said.
"There's just not any organization spearheading it," Flowers said. "In the last two years I've talked about it a lot, and I've thought somebody has got to do something about it."
The overall project proposed by Flowers appears to be far-reaching and ambitious, providing for services that would include social networking and consultation and education services for diet, medical needs, legal services, life coaching, finances, grief support, retirement living and travel.
The preliminary results from a survey Flowers sent out to LGBT people in Dallas showed the primary areas of interest were LGBT-dedicated living facilities, programs for promoting lifelong friends and programs sponsoring social events.
Flowers has been in contact with Resource Center Dallas officials on his project, and he is collaborating with them as a volunteer in an effort to get the project launched.
Cece Cox, executive director and chief executive officer for Resource Center Dallas, said she agrees there is much work to be done to meet the needs of LGBT seniors, and said center officials welcome the work Flowers is doing.
"I think it is important work," Cox said. "I'm supportive of it."
Cox said that Flowers is helping the center staff develop and implement an assessment tool that can be used to gauge the suitability of general-population facilities and programs for LGBT seniors.
It would be beneficial if the other components of Flowers' project could be coordinated with the center, which is already addressing some needs of LGBT seniors, Cox said.
The center administers a program called GAIN — the LGBT Aging Interests Network — that provides learning, entertainment and social activities and referrals for LGBT seniors.
The survey Flowers sent out also shows that a majority of people would prefer an existing agency like Resource Center Dallas undertake
the project rather than creating an independent agency dedicated to LGBT seniors.
The center is in the process of developing a strategic plan for expanding its services for LGBT seniors, Cox said. Center staff recently provided cultural competency training to the senior ombudsman for the Texas Department of Aging, and similar training is planned for other professionals who deal with seniors as the needs are identified, she said.
Flowers' work helping center staff survey and assess senior facilities and programs will assist in the improvement of referral services for LGBT seniors, Cox said. Other alliances with organizations serving general populations will likely be announced in 2012, she said.
"There is a lot happening," said Cox, who noted the Women's Communities Association has been collecting undergarments and socks for nursing home residents for years.
Interest in and work on LGBT senior issues has been steadily building momentum for at least the past five years, Cox said. The work has begun to attract more attention because of more data being produced about it, she said.
Also, more attention is being paid to LGBT seniors because there are more openly LGBT seniors than ever before, Cox said.
"We focus on what is important to us," Cox said. "We are aging so that has become more important to us."
In relation to other big U.S. cities' progress in the area of LGBT senior services, Cox said Dallas is behind some cities and ahead of others.
Cox said it is unlikely a living facility for LGBT seniors would be built in Dallas because of the expense and the difficulty that would be encountered in obtaining funding for it.
Perhaps one way to compensate for the lack of a dedicated living facility is to ensure that LGBT seniors receive interaction with other like-minded people.
One of the major components of Flowers' project would pair needy LGBT seniors with young people who would volunteer to visit with and assist them.
"I really do believe there is a value to having young people in your life," said Flowers, whose friends include younger people with whom he became acquainted through his adult children. "It forces you to stay young that much longer."
Flowers has already recruited two younger people to his project who are willing to volunteer their time to interact with LGBT seniors and to help Flowers attract more youthful volunteers. Candace Thompson, a social worker, and Beau Bumpas, a photographer, both 31, said they are eager to help Flowers kick off the project.
Thompson said she is the primary caregiver for her 90-year-old grandfather so she is already involved in the type of assistance that is needed. Flowers said she will be helping him develop guidelines for the volunteer work.
"I've always gravitated toward older people," Thompson said. "Aging is a reality. It will happen at one point in time, so everyone needs to be prepared for it."
Bumpas said that in addition to helping Flowers who has been his mentor, he also wants to see the project implemented for personal reasons — even though he is still relatively young.
"I'm single, and I don't see myself getting a partner," Bumpas said. "It scares me to wonder who is going to take care of me when I get old. I'm all alone."
Flowers said that Thompson and Bumpas would be providing invaluable assistance to him as he figures out how to market his project to the community at large to gain volunteers and to gather support for funding it. For the project to work, there must draw support from all ages of LGBT people, as there has been for programs helping LGBT youth, he said.
Flowers said LGBT youth programs have been successful because LGBT adults remember what it was like to be young and gay. The challenge will be to create an "emotional aspect" that helps younger LGBT people imagine what it would be like to be old and gay and in need.
LGBT publications are often geared toward a youth-appreciative audience, but at least one Web site wants to attract a different type of reader.
LGBTSR.com, which was launched in March of this year, is tailored to attract LGBT readers who are 50-plus years of age. The website "embraces age and celebrates life over 50, with all the ups and downs of living long enough to tell about it," according to the Website's mission statement, which promises to provide readers with news, reviews, opinion pieces and a "thing or two to hold up to the light."
Mark McNease, 53, of New York City, is the founder of LGBTSR.com. He lives in Manhattan with his partner Frank of five years, whom he plans to soon marry under the state's new marriage equality law. The couple also owns a country home in rural New Jersey where they plan to retire someday.
"It's an upbeat publication," McNease said of the website in a telephone interview. "I'm over 50, but I'm alive and I feel great."
Publishing the website is a labor of love, said McNease, who also writes a column for the publication. In the column, Mark's Café Moi, McNease shares his views on life and the events that affect it. In a recent column, he recounted the day two airplanes struck the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001.
"I love our audience," said McNease, who also holds down a full-time job as an executive assistant for a group of senior editors at the global news agency Reuters. "This is their place."
In addition to original pieces authored by a small staff of regular freelance writers, the website reports news from all over that focuses on LGBT people who are 50 years and older. Some of the recent stories include news about the development of a residential building in Chicago that will provide one of the nation's first affordable apartment buildings for LGBT people, age discrimination within the LGBT community and the failure of the nation's medical community to keep up with the number of transgender people who are becoming medical patients because professionals are inexperienced with the population.
The news feed also regularly includes stories about health, legal matters and other items of interest for anyone 50 and older, in addition to LGBT news stories that are of interest to people of all ages.
McNease, who has been a writer since childhood, began his journalism career in Los Angeles writing fiction and reviews for Edge, an LGBT publication that went out of business. Afterwards, he wrote plays, eventually seeing six of them produced.
He worked in children's television for nine years, including several years at Sesame Workshop as the story editor for foreign co-productions of the children's program. In 2001 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program for Into the Outdoors.
One of the advisors and writers for LGBTSR.com is Rick Rose, a writer, director and producer, with whom McNease collaborated on the Emmy-award winning children's series. Rose has also been nominated for Emmy Awards for his Discover Wisconsin travel series.
The creation of LGBTSR.com is the fulfillment of a three-decade dream, said McNease, who noted he considers himself fortunate to have survived the AIDS epidemic that struck down so many of his contemporaries, including a former partner. Even his 20s, he realized that LGBT cultural offerings seemed to ignore anyone who was over 50 years of age.
"I started to notice that people over 40 started to disappear in the gay media," McNease said. "I knew then that I wanted to create something for people over 50."
McNease said that he is pleased with the growth of the readership of the website because about 35 percent of the hits each month appear to be from return visitors. His initial goal is to see a 10-fold increase in readership, which he hopes a pending redesign of the website will help accomplish.
McNease said that he is planning to soon survey readers to find out what they would like to see happen on the website, and that he is seeking submissions from people who would like to add to the publication's dialogue.
"This is something I've wanted to do for years," said McNease, who is currently underwriting the cost of the publication from a small inheritance he received from his family in Indiana where he grew up. "I'm very proud of it, and I'm going to continue publishing it."
—David Webb
David Webb is a veteran journalist who has covered LGBT issues for the mainstream and alternative media for three decades. Contact him at email@example.com or facebook.com/therarereporter.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition December 16, 2011.


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With appologies to the distaff side of the board.
With appologies to the distaff side of the board.
Hey Rem, I was at Laguna Seca for the historics on Sat and Sunday. Maybe you saw me, I was the white guy in the baseball cap.
Sorry to have missed you Rojo. Let's see, were you the 'white guy in the baseball cap' or the 'guy in the white baseball cap'?
I was in the Marriott Newport Coast Villas booth. Sorry I missed you but I think we're doing the race there next month. I'll probably either be there or at the Monterey Jazz Festival the same weekend. I don't have my assignment yet.
Next time, stop by and say hi! Would love to meet a fellow 'zoner' on the left coast.
Hey Rem, would we have found you in the Bargin Basement section of that store? :angel:
Will trade this space for a #1 starter.
Ouch!!Hey Rem, would we have found you in the Bargin Basement section of that store?
I guess that's better than the 25 cent bin on the sidewalk.
OK, OK, OK...... Let me let you in on something, if you PROMISE not to pass it on. OK? Fine, here it is...
I have requested certain people from around the country to do some SERP undercover operations. If you people keep bringing up that they aren't posting, you are going to blow their cover. If you are at a ballgame and you see a guy that looks like this or this :hat: or has a look of :evilgrin: , just raise your beer and and put on your , so you can look around so no one can see you looking around. When the SERP undercover ops complete their tasks as given, the Reds will be in the playoffs, and the other teams will be scratching their head wondering how they fell off the map.
Oh and rem, I said get to the other players, not be a playa, I need your activity report ASAP, so I can see where we need to go from here. Thanks.
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
This is the first time I've read this thread so sorry that this question comes from the second post but appears on the page 3!Originally posted by ramp101
as far as i know it was a go...i dont exactly know the players but brad penny and ty howington were involved...i think florida wanted austin kearns back ....
What exactly did you mean by the Marlins wanted Austin Kearns "back"? As the Reds drafted him, to my knowledge the Marlins never had him... or am I totally reading this wrong.
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
sorry if i confused you...i meant to say the marlins wanted austin kearns "back" in a trade if penny was involved
woo woo woo, you know it
I may be cheap but I ain't no bargain! :evilgrin:
Originally posted by remdog
I may be cheap but I ain't no bargain! :evilgrin:
We're not cheap, Rem. We're reasonably priced.
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?
True, 62. And housebroken, too!
Hey Phil,Originally posted by Phil in BG
remdog and Larkin Fan are also AWOL.
Thanks for noticing my absence. I still read the board regularly, but I've pretty much lost my desire to post on a regular basis. I've been dealing with some health issues of late again, so that's definitely been my top priority.
BTW, I just realized that I don't have your e-mail address. So drop me a line, if you'd like. All of us from the CincyTalk family need to stick together and keep in touch.
You know, it's saddening. The majority of my (and so many other posters) favorite posters have either left or hardly post anymore. This includes guys like Redstorm, 62, Spitball, M2, among many others. It's a great loss for this board not to have all of these great contributors contributing on a regular basis.
I'd like to add my support for the missing Team Clark and Redstorm, not to mention all the missing posters Larkin Fan mentioned (and you too Larkin Fan). Team Clark brought the insider's perspective without being condescending or defensive, and seemed to know where to draw the line about releasing information. Redstorm has been my favorite poster all the way back to the days when all we had was the muck of the Enquirer board. He was insightful, he put great thought into his posts, and he would admit when he got it wrong. Truly both Team Clark and Redstorm are class acts. Perhaps we will see them both again in the glory year to come of 2003, with the GAB and a young but hungry team running away with the Central.
I think many of us from the old Enquirer board drew together as a result of all the turmoil there. Those of us that were attacked by Nux especially. Many are missing now due to health reasons or busy schedules.....very understandable. Team Clark and Red Storm, IMO, are missing because of the apparent atack relating to their scoops on possible trades with the Marlins. They didn't do anything wrong other than letting us in on inside information. True, they didn't happen, but there is no doubt there were talks in the works. Most of us would welcome both of you back without any admonition. Hopefully you're just on sabbatical.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
Appreciate any help
I experienced an erection injury about 15 years ago when I was only 20 years age. I should probably should have given it all up by now but everyday I have pain and discomfort, and am unable to take a erection naturally. The pain can be sharp and, feels like pulling or twisting motion. Lasting several hours a day. Together with internal hemorrhoids when extreme painfull appear around backpassage.
I have had them banded 2 times and then stapled 3rd time. After this there is immeidate releive and improvment for passing urine and stools. Also my penis feels fuller. But each time this only lasts a few days and things go bad again! So they (doctors) won`t do it again?
There`s blood and tighening of my urethra. My scrotum is usually up tight and sore and my penis tight and small until things ease again. I`ve seen various urologists and now I`m to try a alpha blocker prescription. Although few years ago something similar was tried using Flomax which had no benefit or change at all.
I am emailing you because I feel there must be some other help available or treatment today. I already think this new drug will make no difference and that`s a big worry for me. I can`t move on in life.
Kind regards.
I do not understand your question. If erectile dysfunction was caused by injury (fractured penis), it should have been treated. Pelvic pressure and hemorrhoids are unrelated. If the trouble is pelvic fracture as the result of an accident that also is treatable. Please forward your question as simple as you can.
Ahmad Hamidinia, MD
Formerly, Professor of Clinical Surgery
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Join Foster at the 33rd Meet in the Street Festival in historic downtown Wake Forest outside of White Street Brewing Company Saturday May 4th from 12-2pm. There will be food, live music, arts and crafts and plenty of family activities.
There will also be a Beer Garden brought to you by White Street Brewing Company and Ray Price Harley Davidson will have their Jumpstart Rider Experience!


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One of them came into this week's AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am red hot. The other one came out of the blue.
Going into Saturday's third round, Brandt Snedeker, who had a 4-under 68 at Spyglass Hill and Ted Potter Jr., who posted a 3-under 67 on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club, share the lead at 8-under 134.
The 32-year-old Snedeker has been hotter than even defending AT&T Pro-Am champion and recent Phoenix Open winner Phil Mickelson.
Following his FedEx Cup victory at the Tour Championship last September, Snedeker went on to close out his 2012 campaign with a fourth-place at the Franklin Templeton Shootout. In his four starts this season, Snedeker boasts a third place finish at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, a second-place tie at the Farmers Insurance Open and a runner-up finish behind Mickelson in Phoenix.
Not surprisingly, the four-time PGA Tour winner still has the mojo going.
"I take nothing but positives away from the way I've played the last couple of events," Snedeker said. "I know I'll have a lot of fun this weekend, so I just need to recreate that. That's how you win out here. You keep putting yourself in position and the more time you do, then the more success you're going to have."
For Potter Jr., meanwhile, it wasn't just the change in weather and course conditions that he had to deal with during the second round.
Thanks to his solid play,the 29-year-old Florida native has suddenly found himself as a center of attention.
"I'm not used to being in front of a camera," Potter Jr. said.
The last time Potter, whose nickname is "The Wizard," was in the spotlight was at last year's Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia. Potter held on to win after defeating Troy Kelly in a three-hole playoff. He birdied his last four holes to get into the playoff.
Prior to his win there, Potter missed the cut in six of seven starts. At the one tournament where he did make the cut, the Shell Houston Open, he finished tied for 69th.
"I think it's just golf," Potter Jr. said. "It's a funny game like that. Some weeks you play well and you get the right kicks and everything goes well. And then there's weeks you can hit the ball well and get the bad kicks."
Potter, a two-time Player of the Year on the NGA/Hooter Tour (a mini-tour) ? never had golf lessons while growing up. His father, Ted Sr., was a golf course maintenance worker and would take his son out to play after work.
The game grew on the younger Potter, who swings left-handed because he copied his father's swing. After high school, he opted to bypass college and turn pro. After years of toiling on the mini-tour circuit, financed by money saved from his job in a cart barn, Potter Jr. eventually got to the Web.com Tour. He earned his PGA Tour playing privileges in 2011 thanks to two wins on the developmental tour.
"Winning last year definitely helped my confidence coming out here this year," Potter Jr. said. "I had a good experience on the mini-tours and and played well on the Web.com Tour. So going into last year I felt good but couldn't get comfortable. The Greenbrier win helped me build confidence."
Snedeker, on the other hand, didn't just play in college but excelled, earning All-SEC honors at Vanderbilt University three times. Having been introduced to the game by his maternal grandmother, who ran a course in Missouri, he made his professional debut at the 2004 Masters after winning the 2003 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
"I'm doing a better job this week of making my way around the golf courses and not putting myself in bad spots and getting out of tough situations quickly," Snedeker said. "It's been real promising the way I've taken that momentum from last week into this one."
The two can't relax, though. Just a stroke behind is a group of four players. Another four are just two off the pace.
Snedeker's third round will tee off at 8:22 a.m. at Pebble Beach. Potter Jr.'s third round starts at 9:50 a.m. at Spyglass Hill.
"It'd be nice to get a win at Pebble Beach," Snedeker said.
"I've definitely got my work cut out for tomorrow being at Spyglass," Potter Jr. said. "Hopefully I stay on top and where I have a chance to go to Pebble on Sunday and do something."


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Southwestern is the only American Bar Association-approved law school offering four programs of study leading to a J.D. degree that differ in scheduling and instructional approach. In addition to traditional full-time day and part-time evening programs, Southwestern has developed two innovative options: PLEAS, one of the only part-time day programs in the country designed to meet the needs of students with child or elder care responsibilities, and SCALE®, a unique two-year J.D. course of instruction with an alternative approach.
The required traditional curriculum includes 17 courses, while nearly 250 elective courses, more than 150 externship placements, a myriad of practicums, three clinical programs and two certificate programs allow students to design a broad-based legal education or emphasize an area of law. In addition, summer programs on campus and abroad, diverse cocurricular programs, and a multitude of enriching extracurricular activities enable students to customize the law school experience to suit their needs.
Recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for innovation, Southwestern's cutting-edge first-year curriculum provides a unique opportunity for J.D. students to choose one of three tracks in their legal research and writing course - appellate, negotiation or trial advocacy - and to take an elective as early as their second semester. Upper division enhancements include a January intersession, capstone courses, and special "mini-term" courses taught by international legal experts.
Southwestern has also established a concurrent J.D./M.B.A. degree program with The Drucker Graduate School of Management of Claremont Graduate University, as well as California State University, Dominguez Hills for a unique J.D./M.A. in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding. Additional collaborations include Certificate Programs in Law and Public Policy with the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a Certificate Program in Bioscience Industry Law and Policy with the Keck Graduate Institute. For those who already have a law degree, LL.M. programs are offered in individualized studies and entertainment and media law.


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Secret Witness reward offered in case of baby found in trash
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) - Weeks after the body of a newborn was found in an Oildale trash can, investigators said Monday that they've run out of leads and they need more tips from the public.
Meanwhile, neighbors in the area said they want more information from the officers.
"We know there's somebody out there who can help us with this case," Kern County Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt told Eyewitness News. "Help us solve this case. And, this child deserves that.
The infant's body was found June 21 in a resident's trash can in the 500 block of Beardsley Avenue. Pruitt said investigators got dozens of tips, and they've followed up on all of them.
"Unfortunately, nothing has panned out," he said.
That's why a Secret Witness reward is now being offered for "information leading to the person or persons responsible" for putting the baby's body in the trash can.
Pruitt said the case is being investigated as a possible homicide, but they simply have very little to go on. That's why they hope the reward will bring in more information.
"Of course they need more information," Reggie Groves said. He's the man who found the child in his trash can as he brought it in from the curb that morning. "But obviously, I think they need to put out more information."
Pruitt said officers can't release everything, because they don't want the case compromised while the investigation is still active.
"There are some certain details that we haven't released," he said.
Officers have said the baby was a girl, who was probably full-term and born no more than several days before the body was found. Pruitt said the body was probably put into the trash can the night before Groves found it, or very early that morning.
A shaken Groves had told Eyewitness News the infant's body appeared to be discolored, with possibly an injury to the head. Again, Pruitt said there's only so much investigators can say at this point.
"There was trauma to the upper area, the upper portion of the infant's body," he said.
Pruitt said officers believe the baby's mother is most likely local. He said if someone from out of the area wanted to leave the body someplace, they would have picked a location closer to a freeway.
"We know somebody in this community knows who this baby is," Pruitt insisted. "And potentially knows who the mother is."
Groves wondered if that mother was also a victim of foul play.
"Maybe she's missing and dead," he speculated.
Groves said neighbors had heard there was a missing woman in the area. Pruitt said he had no information about that. Pruitt also said officers had checked into reports a woman in the neighborhood had been pregnant, and had no baby. The spokesman said that didn't pan out.
Another neighbor asked when officers will release information on the cause of the infant's death. Pruitt said the initial autopsy didn't pinpoint that, and the coroner needs more test results to make a determination.
After the discovery of the baby's body, neighbors had set up an impromptu memorial where the trash can had been. Groves said he just removed the candles and stuffed animals, it was just too hard to see that day after day.
Eyewitness News has discovered plans to bury the infant in a special, new section of Union Cemetery. A nonprofit group called Garden of Innocence is just organizing here, and on Friday they met with cemetery and coroner officials.
The cemetery director said it's likely this baby can be laid to rest in the new section in early September.
Pruitt said officers have very little evidence from the scene, and no witnesses.
"We're continuing to ask for the community's assistance in solving this case in identifying this child," Pruitt said. "These are the types of cases that can be solved, because somebody knows something about this baby. Babies just don't go missing."
Anyone with information is urged to call Secret Witness at (661) 322-4040. Callers can remain anonymous.
Neighbors hope someone does come forward. Steven Peterson said he's not surprised the case still hasn't been solved, but he is disappointed.
Groves wants to know what happened.
"I just wish somebody would come forward," Groves said. "I just wish the person that did it would come forward with their conscience."


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(Green Bean Salad with Greek Olives and Feta Cheese was first posted in 2005 and updated with better photos in 2008 and again in 2016, so you can tell this has been a well-loved recipe!)
Green Bean Salad with Greek Olives and Feta Cheese
(Makes 4-6 servings; recipe created by Kalyn.)
1 lb. fresh green beans (about 4-5 cups beans)
1 red onion or sweet white onion, cut in half crosswise, then into slivers the same size as the beans
1/2 cup or more pitted Kalamata Olives, cut in half (or use any type of black olives that you like)
3/4 C - 1 C crumbled Feta cheese (I used my favorite feta cheese)
Dressing Ingredients:
3 T white balsamic vinegar (or use white vinegar or white wine vinegar and a pinch of sweetener)
2 T extra-virgin olive oil
2 tsp. fresh lemon juice (I use my fresh-frozen lemon juice)
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. Greek seasoning
fresh-ground black pepper to taste
Combine beans, olives, and onions in plastic or glass bowl, pour dressing over and stir a few times so all vegetables are well covered. Gently stir in Feta and serve.
(You can chill several hours to allow flavors to blend and then gently stir in the Feta when you serve the salad, but we skipped the chilling step this time and it was still fantastic.)
This will keep for a few days in the refrigerator, but I think it's best the day you make it.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
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More Salads with Green Beans:
Mexican Green Bean Salad from Simply Recipes
Green Bean, Tomato, Onion, and Basil Summer Salad ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Fresh Green Bean Salad with Asian Dressing from A Veggie Venture


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September 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017
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September 27, 2017
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September 28, 2017
San Mateo Senior Center
January 23, 2017, 10:00 AM - March 4, 2017, 5:00 PM
Join the Family Read Aloud Program! This program is designed for participants, regardless of age, to read aloud to each other as a means of spending quality time together and to promote lifelong literacy.
Enjoy reading together for at least 6 hours between January 23 and March 4, win a free book for each child and enter your name for drawing prizes. Sign up at any of the three San Mateo Public Libraries - Main, Marina or Hillsdale.
February 28, 2017, 10:15 AM
Stories, songs, and rhymes for infants not yet walking.
Stories, songs, and rhymes for infants up to 23 months.
February 28, 2017, 11:00 AM
Stories, songs, and rhymes for children 2-4 years of age accompanied by a participating adult.
February 28, 2017, 11:15 AM
February 28, 2017, 4:00 PM
Bilingual English/Spanish stories and songs
February 28, 2017, 6:45 PM
Stories and rhymes for the whole family.
January 5, 2017 - February 28, 2017 @ Library Art Gallery, 1st Floor
A comfort zone may be a place, a technique, a concept or a culture. And while it may be restful and secure to stay within one's comfort zone, the best ideas and greatest spiritual growth often come from traveling out beyond those boundaries, and mixing concepts, cultures and techniques. Peninsula Women's Caucus for Art artists Lorraine Capparell, Kris Idarius, Pat Keefe, Rebecca Lambing, Marie LaPrade, Tanya Lin, Alysanne McGaffey, Yvonne Newhouse, Bonnie J. Smith, Deanna Taubman, Leigh Toldi, and Marian Yap have stepped out of their comfort zone to create art for this exhibit.
January 10, 2017 - February 28, 2017 @ Exhibit Case, 2nd Floor
In the artist's own words, "Ever since I became aware of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union, I have become fascinated with the countries of Russia and Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe. I always wondered what lovely treasures lay behind the 'Iron Curtain'." The display features several reproductions of Russian and Polish embroidery, which the artist embroidered, along with needlework from other Eastern European States. The display also shows items from the artist's personal collection of folk art from the East, including paper cutting (Wycinanki in Polish) from Poland and other interesting pieces. Brooks Brager has a Master's Degree in German Literature and has taken classes in Russian grammar and literature.
February 28, 2017, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Oak Room, 1st Floor
The Library will host the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's touring production of "Twelfth Night"-- Shakespeare's comedy about castaway twins who are separated in an unfamiliar land full of lovesick suitors and mischievous revelers. The actors will be available for a "Q&A" session following the play. Funding support for this program is provided by the San Mateo Public Library Foundation. For more information, 650-522-7818.


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Revel Gets a Second Chance in 2013 [AUDIO]
Atlantic City's newest casino did not experience the 2012 it was expecting, but the new year brings plenty of opportunity for a turnaround.
Revel opened in April and has since ranked among the bottom of the city's 12 casinos each month when looking at revenue taken from gamblers. Casino executives have said Revel depends more on other revenue, like hotel bookings, than other Atlantic City gaming halls.
The multi-billion dollar resort entered the market with a solid business model, essentially split into four parts – the leisure traveler, the group traveler, walk-ins and the gambler. However, according to Dr. Israel Posner with the Lloyd D. Levinson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Revel's marketing effort toward "the gambler" was not implemented as strongly as its other business model sectors.
"What I think you're going to see in 2013 is a turbo-charged enhancement of the marketing campaign implementation focusing on the gambling customers," Posner said. "In particular, you'll see a focus on new amenities that are attractive to the Asian market."
Last week, Revel launched a new rewards program that "takes gaming to the next level." Guests can earn resort dollars property-wide, and enjoy free Wi-Fi and complimentary offers just for playing, staying or partying at Revel.
Posner noted, though, succeeding as a new Atlantic City casino is not as simple as it used to be. With the overload of competition in neighboring states, the aforementioned business model is a must. Revel has framed itself as the "complete resort experience." That experience could get a major boost with Revel Beach scheduled to open later this year.
"2013 is going to be an important year, but so will 2014 and 2015," Posner said. "The first several years of the business will be important for setting the stage in how the consumer views this resort."
Atlantic City has been struggling for the past few years, but the resort town still represents a significant piece of the economy in south Jersey and the entire state. Atlantic City is home to approximately 35,000 residents; the city employs more than 30,000 people in its casino industry.