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A harsh and revealing political exposé of two beloved presidents.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how Teddy Roosevelt, a bully, and Woodrow Wilson, a constitutional scholar, each pushed aside the Constitution's restrictions on the federal government and used it as an instrument to redistribute wealth, regulate personal behavior, and enrich the government. These two men and the Progressives who supported them have brought us, among other things:
The Progressive Era witnessed the most dramatic peaceful shift of power from persons and from the states to a new and permanent federal bureaucracy in all of American history. Theodore and Woodrow exposes two of our nation's most beloved presidents and how they helped speed the Progressive cause on its merry way.
©2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. (P)2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc.
"Not being a libertarian!"
Not being a libertarian, but more an independent conservative, I found Napolitano's book the most enlightening listen in a very long time. Get it; progressive history they didn't teach you through our progressive educational establishment-bureaucracy.
As an old-school Roman Catholic, Napolitano brings up both Roosevelt's and Wilson's Protestantism. However their Preterism is really a bigger and bolder attempt to create America's historic religious narrative and that is, mankind should attempt to create God's eternal "Shining City on a Hill," on this continent. It doesn't seem that is working out too well at the present time.
Perhaps, contrary to our wishful thinking, maybe we really are not God, nor gods!
Verbum Domini Manet In Aeternum. Jesus Christus Dominus Est. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to others, and I require the same from them.
"The Case Against Theodore and Woodrow..."
This was a fascinating and insightful look at the social/political philosophy of progressivism, and how it drove America's first progressive presidents - Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson - to fundamentally change the US Constitution. Andrew Napolitano cuts right to what he sees as the heart of the issue: Roosevelt and Wilson worked to destroy the federalism built into the US Constitution by the founders primarily through the means of: 1) progressive taxation (the income tax), 2) the expansion of the regulatory state and the scope of the federal government into state and local jurisdictions, 3) the wielding of US military power to influence political events around the globe, 4) federally directed social engineering to "improve" society, 5) the manipulation of US currency and orchestration of monetary policy through a central bank (Federal Reserve System), 6) the direct election of US Senators by popular vote.
Napolitano, a staunch, energetic, and well-spoken libertarian, makes the case that the pressing of these items from the turn-of-the century progressive's agenda by Roosevelt and Wilson sent the US on a path away from the one envisioned by the founders. Instead of limited government power, state's rights, and frugal monetary policy and budgeting, with Roosevelt and Wilson the US started a journey toward a strong and oppressive federal government, weakened state jurisdictions which have increasingly become little more than sub-jurisdictional units of the federal burocracy, an imperial executive, bloated budgets, and reckless fiscal policy. Napolitano makes no bones that his book is not a history of the two progressive administrations or a biography of the men who lead them. It is, instead his brief with which he indicts them in the court of Constitutional Originalism.
Napolitano is well researched and makes his points clearly. Liberals who worship these two giants of early 20th century American politics may be surprised to read many of the things they said and did, and what their reasoning was for pursuing a progressive agenda. Conservatives will be surprised just how much they have also strayed from ideals and mindset of the founding fathers when they compare some of the so-called "conservative" planks in their platforms with progressive ideas that found their beginning in the Roosevelt and/or Wilson administrations. A must read for all those who think they are familiar with Theodore Roosevelt and his character, or those who think they understand what caused America's entrance into The Great War (WWI).
"Something for everyone...."
Libertarian? Conservative? Democrat? Democracies are failing all around the world and the US is not too far behind. Why? Napolitano does a very good job of teeing up a litany of potential suspects. I believe the author is a libertarian, so if you can't deal with a libertarian viewpoint then this book might not be for you. Indeed, I consider myself a libertarian but have a hard time with the logical extensions that seem to be endemic in the libertarian community. Probably no different than the republican or democrat communities, but I get the sense that the libertarians keep to themselves more than the others and thus make a number of what seem to be logical extensions that for most people just leave them saying, "Huh? Are these people crazy?". Even if you're a libertarian I think you'll have a few of these moments reading this book. You almost want to distance yourself from the author at times. But take a look at some of the key issues that are discussed. I think the author has many good points. You'll get some good history if you don't close your mind to it. Our country clearly has serious deeply rooted issues. The author's deep knowledge of both history and the workings of our court and legislative system make him someone that should at least be listened to with an open mind.
For me I found some of the explanations incredibly thought provoking including the impact of the Seventeenth Amendment (went from Senators from states to Senators from the people, thereby elevating the Federal over the State and legislative). The federal reserve section seems incredibly interesting given the increasing power of this quasi-governmental agency. The increasingly interventionist nature of our federal government into foreign affairs I found interesting, though I usually dislike libertarian foreign policy immensely. Educational influence through the state school systems was also interesting. The book in general highlights that the progressive era really changed many things in America and put us on a slippery slope where increasingly government is doing more things for more people and in typical governmental fashion not doing them well. Despite many acknowledgements of the pitfalls in progressive thinking this philosophy pervades much of the republican and democratic platforms and indeed much of our political dialogue in this country. I did not enjoy learning about the racial analyses underpinning some of our presidential decision making, and found it unfair to charge folks from earlier eras as being somehow less than perfect because they held these ideas. I don't know what it was like to live in those days. If all politicians believed those things back then it is fair to hold them to today's standards? In an ideal world, they would not have been like that, but the world is never ideal.
Sorry for the rambling. I found my initial reaction to this book was to draw me away from libertarianism. The more the ideas sit with me, the more they are finding resonance. Interesting times we live in. If you want a book to challenge how you think about the times, this is a pretty good, though at times challenging book. Stay with it and keep an open mind, whether you're democrat or conservative there is something fundamental and deep here for you.
"A very enlightening history lesson."
The time was very well spent. A good history lesson most people are not fully aware of.
I enjoyed the comparisons made between the two Presidents.
Scott has an easy voice to listen to as well as good cadence to his voice.
Pay more attention to what is really being done by people in office as opposed to what they say.
"Please Do It Again and Do It Right"
historical facts revealed and the way in which they affected the law.
In the first chapter, as one of the million of so lawyers in the U.S., Mr. Moore's lack of experience with the law as he tried reading a book about the most complex of issues in the Constitution, forcing me to mentally translate his irrelevant points of stress in a sentence in to what Judge Napolitano was trying to convey.
IF you could get Judge Napolitano, or at least someone familiar with constitutional law to read this book, I would buy it again. It is truly a great book. Judge Napolitano is trying to explain the most complex of legal concepts to the layperson. Ironically, my guess is that reader Moore as a layperson is the worst type to do this.
Ian A Schneider, counselor at law
A fascinating lesson of history. Great depth, encompassing the most relevant issues. A story well told.
"Judge is the man!"
read all of his books. more must become knowledgeable of our history and law.
"Recommended audiobook"
Well-narrated expose of the beginnings of the Progressive Movement that retained my interest from start to finish. Napolitano has a Reaganesque communication style that I really appreciate and enjoy.
Just a well-narrated audiobook.
Constitutional conservatives (such as me) will certainly enjoy this book. So will Libertarians and Reagan Democrats.
"Unfortunately Napolitano misunderstands pragmatism"
Exposing these men for the destroyers they were.
Unfortunately Judge Napolitano does not understand that pragmatism is a tool of the left He incorrectly states that the founders were pragmatic. Pragmatism was not developed until nearly 100 years after the Constitution was written. The founders were intellectuals. Pragmatism is an anti intellectal method of problem solving, so called. Intellectuals investigate, debate, and exhaustively explore a given problem in an attempt to find the most viable solution possible in order to avoid unintended consequences.
Pragmatic approach is quite different. The pragmatist throws a solution, or even multiple solutions at a problem. They understand that there well be unintended consequences, but are more concerned with immediate response than they are with finding eloquent solutions which spin off minimal unintended consequences. Rather they expect unintended consequences and intend to pragmatically deal with them as they arrise.
Obviously those solutions will often result in their own unintended consequences. As can readily be grasped, this is a very sloppy method for dealing with problems. It is anti intillectual in it's nature and would have been completely reprehensible to our deep thinking intellectual founders.
I was disappointed that Judge Napolitano so misunderstood our founders and suggests that they would ebrace such an intellectually bankrupt philosophy which has been so central in the destructive legislation which has been enacted in this and the better part of the 20th century.
Intellectuals, for instance, understand human nature and account for it in their politics. Thus they understand that government welfare necessarily revolves around the lowest common denominator. That being the case it is immediately obvious that many who are not deserving will receive it.
Furthermore, one of the stated missions of the Church tis care for the poor. That caring for the poor by the Church will tend to result in less abuse as those just wanting a free ride will generally be weeded out, where as the government being restricted to operating with out the benefit of local discrimination is forced to squander precious resources on the freeloaders.
Furthermore, that the governments intervention in the Church's work is a blurring of the separation of the Church and the State. While State governments are not necessarily so restricted, the Federal Government has no businesse in this arena for that reason as well. Of course there are myriads of examples, that is merely one such example.
As long as the reader is aware of this flaw, he can expect to learn quite a bit from this book which is good and correct technically and historically. I highly recommend it with the exception of my stated carve out.
Depends on the subject. The performance is great
Again, it depends, I've liked some of his past work
I like the performance
George Bush, Hillary Clinton,
This writer is obviously very subjective in his observations. He starts out by saying Wilson believes, Roosevelt believes, but doesn't provide the evidence. He ties in George W Bush and Hillary Clinton for his own subjective purposes. He makes a point to say that almost all US wars were illegal..where is the proof of that? He ties lynching to public education which made me scratch my head. While I am fully aware of the Progressives and the progressive era as I took the online course offered by Hillsdale college. They do not add their own personal politcal rants and complaints to the historical facts as the judge does in this book..Very disappointed.
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Romine learning from Girardi, getting comfortable
NEW YORK -- Austin Romine couldn't be in a better position. Romine, the Yankees' young catcher, is playing for a team managed by a former backstop in Joe Girardi, which means he has both a built-in support system and somebody who understands the priorities of the position.
Romine, batting just .182 this season, drew raves from Girardi for his defensive work on Sunday. Veteran catcher Francisco Cervelli is on the disabled list for New York, and Chris Stewart has been limited by injury in recent days, all but ceding the everyday job to Romine.
"I think he's gotten into a better rhythm with our pitchers. He has a better understanding," said Girardi of Romine's development this season. "He's been able to watch them a few times. He's gotten back there with I think almost everybody at this point. I think he's just getting more comfortable."
Romine, son of former Red Sox player Kevin Romine and brother of Angels prospect Andrew Romine, batted just .158 in nine games with the Yankees in 2011, but Girardi isn't worried about his bat. New York wants Romine to handle the pitching staff, and Girardi said he's beginning to excel at it.
"Its always tough when you come in the middle of a season," Girardi said. "Especially as a young catcher, to feel like you know exactly what they want to do. That can be difficult, and it can be a day where a guy doesn't have everything and that makes it harder. I think he's adjusted really well.
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The real test for a medical breakthrough or medicine sometimes comes after the clinical trials are complete and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off. One example: the vaccine against the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
"Between the mandate debates, the sex issues, the way it was rolled out, it got caught up in politics. It had a really, really rough start," said Amy Leader, a health researcher at Thomas Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center.
Public health experts have had a tough time convincing some parents that, No. 1, the vaccine is safe and, No. 2, that the shots should be one of the routine immunizations for preteen kids.
HPV can cause unsightly genital warts; in a small percentage of cases, when the virus lingers, it can lead to cancer of the cervix. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection among women in the U.S., but only about 50 percent girls have started the vaccine.
The shots are recommended for children age 11 or 12. That timing, public health officials say, is designed to make sure young people are immunized long before sexual contact.
Leader says the age recommendation has been "problematic."
In most states the vaccines are not on the list of school-mandated immunizations, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry tried to take that step, and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., made the vaccine an issue in the GOP presidential contest.
"To have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat out wrong," Bachmann said during a debate of GOP candidates on CNN.
Some say sex issue makes it tough to talk about
iPertussis and tetanus vaccines also are recommended for adolescents, but whooping cough and the lockjaw are not spread through sex. Some parents and doctors are uncomfortable having a conversation about a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease with a child who may not have hit puberty yet.
Leader says in one study, researchers asked doctors why. "The doc would say: 'Eeh, I just got a sense from mom that we didn't want to go there yet,'" she said.
Looking to better understand the barriers to the HPV vaccine, a team of Philadelphia health investigators took education directly to families. Leader, who was one of the researchers, says when you gather moms at rec centers in small groups, tell them that "cervical cancer kills" and that "the HPV vaccine is a good thing for their daughters," those families are more likely to get the vaccine.
The Pennsylvania Health Department paid for that study but, despite the findings, the way the health system sells the vaccine to moms and dads hasn't really changed.
"Competing interests, money, time. Who knows? It gets caught up in all these other things in public health that we have to worry about," Leader said. "Obesity, asthma, diabetes and healthy lunches. The list goes on and on in public health."
Commercials stumble on conveying message
Money's tight for health officials, but drugmaker Merck & Co. invested big in a marketing campaign for its vaccine, Gardasil.
In the 'one less' commercials models mention the thousands of U.S. women diagnosed with cancer each year. The ads featured independent-seeming girls and a catchy song. Leader asked girls in her study about the ads.
"They knew the commercials, they recognized them. They could sing the jingle ... They knew all about that," Leader said. "Then I said 'OK, what's the message, what's the health topic here?' ... Silence."
"I don't think a quick commercial is going to do it," said La Salle University disease prevention researcher Jillian Lucas Baker. "There's too many other factors that go along with it that you kind of just can't gloss over."
Even administering the HPV shots is complicated. The vaccine requires two follow-up shots and parents forget to bring their children back.
Another wrinkle stems from the suggestion early on from some conservatives that the vaccines would make children more likely to have sex.
Baker says some moms asked about that issue during the study of HPV education among Philadelphia families. "If I get my daughter vaccinated for HPV, am I then saying it's OK to have sex," they asked.
An October 2012 study dismisses the idea that girls who get vaccinated are more likely to be sexually active. But when sex isn't at issue, parents are concerned about safety.
There are entire Web sites dedicated to stories like this one posted on YouTube.
"In 2007, I was scared into taking the Gardasil shot," says a young woman in the video. "After my second shot, I became very, very ill ... I lost the ability to walk, I started falling down, I had head pressure."
CDC finds HPV safety on par other vaccines
Philadelphia family doctor Christopher Chambers counters that anecdotal reports are not the same as research.
"Yes, there are going to be people who have developed medical problems some time in relationship to when they got the vaccine," Chambers said. "We know that things can happen. A person can get a shot, a vaccine, and the next day get hit by a SEPTA bus. But we wouldn't say the vaccine had anything to do with it."
The federal government tracks health concerns over vaccines from the public. In a 2009 study, the government looked for patterns in those reports, and reviewed medical records and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the safety of the HPV vaccine is on par with other vaccines recommended for children.
Chambers, a longtime HPV vaccine researcher with the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, has gotten funding from the HPV vaccine drugmakers Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.
The HPV vaccine is "extraordinarily safe," Chambers said. "On the order of hep B vaccine, which is given to infants on the first day of life."
Like HPV, hepatitis B is largely passed on through unprotected sex. Different from the HPV vaccine, the hep B vaccine is a school mandate in most states and widely accepted.
Chambers talks about the health decisions he's made for his own sons when he discusses the HPV vaccine with the parents of his patients.
"Particularly for the boys, where I think there is less public discussion about the vaccine, it's very important for them to know this is something that I endorse for my own kids," Chambers said
Health officials only recommended the vaccine for boys about a year ago.
When certain HPV strains become chronic in the body, infection can lead to anal or oral cancer. Chambers says he used a medical journal article about genital warts to drive home that point with his son.
"I said: 'Hey Rex, come on over here and take a look at this picture.' He said 'Oh my God, Dad you didn't have to show me that.' That's just one of the things that the vaccine can help prevent," Chambers said.
Chambers said, actually, he does not get much pushback from parents when he offers the vaccine to longtime patients.
Trust in a doctor can make the difference
It was a recommendation from a trusted doctor that convinced Bucks County mom Irene Pontarelli.
"Just talking to my daughter's pediatrician, she said I want you to make up your mind, but my recommendation is that she get it," Pontarelli said. "Because I trust my pediatrician I felt good about the decision."
That kind of long-term relationship was missing for Karen Cherubini, a mother of two. She and her children's new doctor were just getting to know each other this summer when the pediatrician suggested that Cherubini's son get the HPV shot that day.
"I was not even close to ready. I was completely thrown off," said Cherubini, a science teacher, who lives in Philadelphia.
"I had no expectation that my son would need it, first of all. And second of all, at age 11," Cherubini said. "He's not sexually active. He's not there yet, thank goodness. You know a sexually active teenager is a much different parenting scenario than where I've been. And so this is definitely new territory.
"In learning more, I have realized that this is one I'm going to have to trust the experts on," she says.
Nonetheless, Cherubini said she still worries about long-term safety.
"These vaccines have been tested all over the world but not over a lifetime," she said.
Health researcher Amy Leader, who's currently working on a new HPV education study, this time funded by Merck, said lots of parents are on the fence.
"We are hitting this from all these different angles, I don't know what else needs to be tried," Leader said. "It's a government-recommended vaccine, it's rolled into the regular schedule. We're educating parents, providers, systems. I think we just have to keep working at it."
Health officials say they'll continue to promote the vaccine because HPV is a very common infection. It usually goes away on its own, but when it doesn't, it can lead to deadly cancer.
The HPV vaccine saga shows up the tension between the job that public health people do versus the job moms and dads do -- thinking about the needs, risks and health care access for a particular child versus an entire population.
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Cook playing catch-up in bullpen
ARLINGTON -- Ryan Cook hasn't been forgotten as a setup man. The A's right-hander has simply been playing catch-up.
Cook pitched the sixth and seventh innings of a game the A's gained a significant lead in the early going in Texas on Tuesday, but that's not because his role has changed.
"If I didn't have Luke [Gregerson] available on a particular day, it's easy to stick him in the eighth inning," said manager Bob Melvin. "One of the things we wanted to do is stretch him out, because he hadn't had that. He really didn't go through what everyone else did in Spring Training.
"To be able to get him those two innings yesterday was important."
Cook spent all of Spring Training nursing a sore shoulder back to health, and he didn't make his season debut until April 7. Since, he's allowed just two hits in 9 1/3 innings but has also walked seven, though he's currently riding a six-game scoreless streak.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Nailsworth restaurant owner cooks up fundraising campaign
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12:00pm Sunday 23rd March 2014
By SNJ Reporter
A RESTAURANT owner from Nailsworth is cooking up a fundraising campaign as he aims to raise money for charity.
Paddy Clatworthy, who owns the Olive Tree Restaurant, is hoping to raise over £10,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
"My mum passed away two years ago, with the last six weeks of her life being spent in the hands of the caring staff from Marie Curie," said Paddy.
"My brother Jay and I, with family friend Aron Adams, wanted to show how grateful we were for the exceptional care the charity showed our mum, and decided to do some fund-raising ."
The brothers have organised several live music events in Cornwall, where Jay lives, and Paddy has arranged a charity ball for 120 friends and family on Saturday, June 14, at Egypt Mill in Nailsworth.
Paddy said: "We're sure the evening will be a roaring success with live music, a raffle and an auction of promises which include Quarter Final tickets for Wimbledon, and a week in a luxury apartment in the South of France."
Together with Adam, Paddy and Jay are also undertaking a number of sporting challenges.
"I've already run the Bath Half Marathon, and have signed up for the Brighton Marathon on April 6, but our main team challenge is to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats, starting on August 28, hoping to cover the 1,000 miles in 10 days," added Paddy.
If anyone would like to sponsor Team Rainbow please visit www.justgiving.com/sheilaclatworthy
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The Talent Company Presents the Broadway Hit Musical Comedy ALL SHOOK, 7/29-8/15
The Talent Company Presents the Broadway Hit Musical Comedy ALL SHOOK UP in the New Times Theatre, Art & Home Center, NYS Fairgrounds, July 29-August 15, 2010, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.
The story is all new. The hits are all Elvis. Inspired by and featuring the classic 50's songs of rock legend Elvis Presley, this hilarious musical comedy guarantees your whole family will be jumpin' out of their blue suede shoes with hits like "Jailhouse Rock," "Heartbreak Hotel,"
"It's Now or Never," "Hound Dog," "Love Me Tender," "Don't Be Cruel," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Teddy Bear," "Burning Love," "Can't Help Falling In Love," and the title song "All Shook Up." Written by Joe DiPietro, loosely based on William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night,"
ALL SHOOK UP mixes a little bit of Shakespeare with a whole lot of The King.
It's the summer of 1955, in a small you-never-heard-of-it town somewhere in the Midwest. During a twenty-four hour period, Chad (Tom Warner), a rovin' roustabout with a song in his heart, changes the town forever. For the townspeople: Natalie (Danielle Lovier) a young mechanic and her best friend Dennis (David Cotter); Natalie's widowed father Jim (Todd Ellis), local honky tonk owner Sylvia (Jacque Tara Washington) and her daughter Lorraine (Bianca Grant); straight-laced Mayor Matilda (Christine Lightcap) and her military schooled son Dean (Chris Wiacek); the law enforcing, yet silent, Sheriff Earl (Jimmy Wachter); the curvaceous museum owner Miss Sandra (Danielle Barletta); and the high energy kids of the town (Daryl Acevedo, Nicole Attaie, Taylor Bigelow, Carleena Manzi, Paige Marsteller, Sean McAnaney, Edmond O'Neal, Nina Pelligra, Eddie Powers, Samantha Rey, Jordan Westfall, and Mike Winslow), life will never be the same. ALL SHOOK UP is produced by Christine Lightcap and directed by Shawn Forster, with choreography by Michael Groesbeck and music direction by Roy George. Costumes are by Jeanette Reyner, set design by Navroz Dabu, lighting design by Cindy Shippers, and sound design by Tony Vadala. Brenda Neuss is associate producer.
ALL SHOOK UP will play July 29-August 15, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm in the New Times Theatre, NYS Fairgrounds. Tickets are $30; $25 for seniors and students; and $20 for children 12 and under. Group discounts are available. For tickets and information call The Talent Company Box-Office at (315) 479-SHOW or visit The Talent Company website at thetalentco.com.


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A STATISTICIAN lost six stone in less than a year and will now run the half-marathon to raise money for three-year-old girl with cerebral palsy.
Marco Oliver, 24, from Christchurch, Newport, decided to lose weight after being asked to sit in a wider seat on an amusement ride while on holiday in America.
He started exercising for two hours everyday and at one point was eating just 1,000 calories a day, half the recommended daily allowance for an adult man.
Mr Oliver said: "I was doing at least two hours of exercise every night, running, gym classes, spinning, everything. But I soon found you actually need to eat when you're doing that much exercise.
"Now it has all sort of evened out and I can eat what I want to an extent, because I'm still doing a lot of exercise."
All his hard work has paid off, and now Mr Oliver will run the Cardiff half-marathon in October for Olivia Robinson, a workmate's daughter who has cerebral palsy.
He said: "I work with Olivia's dad Daniel at the National Office for Statistics, so that's how I heard about her. She's only three and she has already been through a lot."
Olivia from Risca, attends Footsteps, a specialist school for children and young adults with neurological disorders.
At Footsteps, Olivia receives specialist one to one physiotherapy to help her learn how to crawl, walk and achieve their milestones other children take for granted.
However, Footsteps physiotherapy programmes are not available on the NHS, which is why Mr Oliver is hoping to raise £500 towards the £6,000 a year Footsteps fees.
He said: "It's not a lot, but I'm hoping people will give what they can. The programme has already made such a difference for Olivia, the money is really worth it."
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Players from the 01 MYSA Cheetahs and 01 MYSA Pride joined together over Memorial Day weekend to play in the Wrangler/McDonald's Soccer Tournament in Greensboro. Playing at beautiful Bryan Park in hot sunny weather, the 'Cheetah-Pride' played four exciting matches against teams from eastern and western North Carolina. The girls scored 19 goals and won the U9 Girls Platinum Division with a 3-1-0 record. Congratulations Ladies!!!


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"It took a little time, but I finally realized, 'If they can do this to me they can do it to anyone,' " said Snider, whose effort to evict a problem tenant led to a confrontation with Fort Wayne Police that cost him his pistol and license to carry it, even though the .45-caliber automatic never left the holster and the department ultimately paid him $3,500 for his trouble.
It wasn't nearly enough, Snider insists, because some things really are far more precious than money.
The story began three years ago when Snider, a contractor who also owns seven
apartments, began efforts to evict Albert J. Smith from a unit on Randall Court for nonpayment of rent. After several heated confrontations and a perceived threat to his safety, Snider did what many other red-blooded Americans have done:
He bought a gun, got a license to carry it and made sure Smith knew it.
Problem solved, right?
Wrong. Snider was working in his shop a few days later when a Fort Wayne Police officer called to ask whether he was armed, then ordered him outside – where Snider was greeted by several officers with guns drawn, "some pointing at my head."
As even the May 8, 2009 police report admits, Snider was told he could pick up his Springfield Armory pistol later. But after going to department headquarters, which was then on Creighton Avenue, Snider was told the pistol would be sent to Indianapolis for testing. Six week later, Snider said, he was informed the gun would not be returned because of his "propensity for violence."
So Snider did something else millions of red-blooded Americans do: He made a federal case out of it, arguing in U.S. District Court that several of his constitutional rights had been violated. In May 2011 the city paid him $3,500 to settle the suit, with neither side acknowledging wrongdoing.
But Snider never did get his gun back and, to add injury to insult, the State Police had refused to renew his carry license just four months earlier.
"I served (in the Persian Gulf) for freedom, and this was a slap in the face," Snider said. "They take your freedom a little at a time and before you know it, 'Whoa!' People just usually say, 'Oh, well,' but when the police overstep, you have to do something."
Chief Rusty York, of course, sees things differently.
York defended his officers' decision to confiscate Snider's weapon "to protect public safety," noting that they placed much of the blame for the escalating landlord-tenant hostilities and mutual charges of battery on Snider. "Due to (his) instigation and unpredictable behavior, along with signs of growing aggression, we confiscated his weapon," a May 8, 2009 report states.
Given that unpredictability and the State Police's revocation of Snider's license, York's department kept the gun to protect the public and avoid any liability that might have come from its misuse had it been returned, York said. Besides, he added, Snider's acceptance of the $3,500 payment require him to give up the $700 weapon, which will be destroyed – part of the reason the money was offered in the first place.
Snider denies he instigated the conflict with Smith and wonders why the police didn't take him into custody if he was so "unstable." On the other hand, imagine what might have happened had the police not intervened and Snider had used that gun to do more than intimidate.
But does that justify the permanent confiscation of Snider's weapon or denial of his license? York said he couldn't remember a similar case, but I wrote about one just four years ago – which, if not quite a pattern, does at least indicate Snider's experience was not unique.
In the earlier case, Kimmel resident Jim Grimes lost his 9 mm pistol and carry license after firing his weapon to stop another driver from fleeing following a suspicious 2006 traffic accident. Those decisions were never reversed despite Grimes' subsequent acquittal on charges of illegally "pointing a firearm."
But Snider never fired his weapon under circumstances far less questionable and, in fact, legally bought another just like the one he was deemed unfit to own or carry. As for his judgment, consider this:
When Smith was charged with drug-related crimes in 2011, federal authorities called him "a danger to the community." The feds also noted his "record of violence" for resisting law enforcement during a previous confrontation.
That was in 2001 – several years before Snider concluded he had reason to fear the same thing.


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There are plenty of wide-open spaces and parks and the city has plenty of cultural and historical attractions. It's an easy place to navigate and, being very flat, is best seen either from on foot or from the saddle of a bicycle. There is an abundance of cycle paths and you can hire bikes from most places. Flights to Indianapolis can be booked through most international airports.
A trip to Indianapolis wouldn't be complete without visiting the Landmark for Peace, one of the city's most important spots. Located at 17th and Broadway, this was erected to commemorate Dr Martin Luther King.
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The Indiana Repertory Theatre could well be a highlight on your trip to Indianapolis. Situated in a beautiful, historic building, you'll get the chance to see some of the biggest Broadway shows, alongside American classics and spectacular musicals. Alternatively, the Phoenix Theatre offers smaller productions, in more intimate surroundings, allowing you to see some of the USA's rising stars at close quarters.
If you prefer your cultural experiences to be a little more sedate, the Indianapolis Museum of Art houses an extensive collection of modern works, alongside African and fine art. In addition, you'll find beautiful gardens to enjoy and various artistic activities you can take part in.
If you decided to travel to Indianapolis in search of great food then you won't be disappointed. Most restaurants are located in the downtown area and you can enjoy fast food and fine-dining experiences from virtually every corner of the globe.
However, if you want to eat like the locals do, then hunt out diners or restaurants that serve dishes such as corn on the cob, which the locals consider to be the best in the world. Indiana is right in the heart of the American Midwest, so be sure to try the popular dish of steak and potatoes if you're hungry.
Given the city's proximity to the sea, fresh seafood is available in abundance. Look out for oyster stew and scalloped oysters, which are a local favourite. However, if you have a sweet tooth then Persimmon Pie is a traditional dessert, often served with ice-cream or whipped cream.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - If you were one of the thousands of people awaken by an Amber Alert text message early Monday morning, it may have startled you out of your sleep.
The Wireless Emergency Alert system deployed by cell phone providers last year sends now sends such messages to smartphones.
When Denise Hernandez, a 2-year-old South Florida girl went missing Monday morning from her home, authorities in Collier County rang the alarm -- literally.
The toddler was found safe in a field near her home within a few hours, but thousands got the news of her disappearance in the middle of the night. But others did not.
"I think if it was my missing kid, I certainly would want everyone to know about it," mother Suzzane Travis said.
"I heard the phone going off, and I went over and it said, 'Amber Alert, check with your local media,'" said James Rouchette, who was woken up by the text message.
Thousands across the state received the alert at 1:42 a.m., but Rouchette said the text left out some critical details.
"It didn't give me any info. It said check with the local news," he said. "If you're going to tell me if there's an Amber Alert, wake me up and tell me what's going on as well."
Hundreds of people went to Facebook on Monday morning and posted their comments about receiving the alert on their phone, leaving others to wonder how come they didn't get the same message in the first place.
So why didn't everyone get the text message? Well, for those who are AT&T customers, the Emergency Alert page isn't supported on their iPhone. Also, to subscribe, customers have to have the iOS 6 operating system, and in settings on the notifications page, users need to scroll to the bottom and turn it on.
For more information about participating providers and how to turn the alerts on and off, visit FCC.gov/guides/commercial-mobile-alert-system-cmas. Alerts are also available via email from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Opinions vary on whether the system is intrusive or if it's a lifesaver.
"I think it's a bit of an intrusion on privacy," said Bob Smith, who was woken up by the text. "I think missing kids are a major issue, but I think there are other avenues police can take."
"I have no problem with that," another man added.
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An air of hushed tranquility cloaks the Boulder Junior Academy, an unpretentious cinder-block school in a residential section of the town whose name it sports, on this early October Sunday. A smattering of cars occupies spaces in its parking lot, and a handful of casually clad families -- some carrying baked goods, others toting Bibles -- can be seen heading toward its yawning doors. Yet there's little else to indicate that in ten minutes or so, a gathering of men, women and children will be trying to raise the roof in honor of their Lord and Savior.
Inside the Academy's gymnasium, distinguished by a peaked ceiling and a clock with no hands, believers settle into folding chairs arrayed in rows opposite a blue and white wall hanging displayed between two basketball rims. Near the top of the banner are the words "Calvary Chapel" and a stylized depiction of a dove in flight; farther down, the phrase "For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:10" is just visible over a combination lectern/loudspeaker, a floral arrangement and an assemblage of six men and one woman clustered tightly together. Several hold musical instruments, but according to guitar-packing associate pastor Michael Patrick, they're not a band. Instead, they're a "worship team."
When the huddle breaks, a trim, vigorous man in his fifties with graying hair, wire-rimmed glasses and the only necktie in the room charges forward, extending his arm to the pilgrims around him. (Before the day is done, they'll number just south of a hundred.) He introduces himself to those he doesn't know with a boisterous "Hello! I'm Pastor Richie!" and his subsequent remarks are equally spirited.
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"God bless you this morning!"
"You came up from the Springs today? How nice of you to grace our gymnasium!"
Suddenly the school's bell rings. Without skipping a beat, Pastor Richie declares, "Okay, class! I hope you all brought a pencil!"
The congregation chuckles appreciatively as Pastor Richie scurries to the front of the gym to rejoin the rest of the team: worship leader Scott Sellen, who alternates between guitar and banjo; bassist Sam Fan; Patrick; and vocalists Joan Chiszar, Greg Stewart and Rex Reed. Within seconds, the group jumps directly into a rendition of a folk-rock tune called "Where Could I Go but to the Lord." As the singers proclaim, "Striving alone to face temptation's sword -- where could I go but to the Lord!" with the men occupying the middle range and Chiszar handling the high harmonies in the grand tradition of Emmylou Harris, the sounds of ecstatic strumming fill the hall.
But Pastor Richie, who as Richie Furay is an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, doesn't push himself to the forefront. Instead he takes up the rear, lost in his own private reverie. After all, he's not here for self-aggrandizement. He's here for Jesus Christ.
During his years as a secular musician, Richie Furay kept some select company. His first major band, Buffalo Springfield (the one with which he reached the Hall of Fame), featured Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Jim Messina, who with partner Kenny Loggins created numerous radio staples. He later moved on to co-found Poco, a combo that helped spur the rise of country rock but never truly cashed in on its enormous popularity as did acts such as the Eagles, which poached two members (Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmidt) from Poco's ranks. And when his interest in Poco waned, he formed the Souther Hillman Furay Band with Eagles cohort J.D. Souther and former Byrds instrumentalist Chris Hillman at the suggestion of none other than David Geffen, the mega-mogul who, along with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, runs the multi-media DreamWorks operation. In The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood, a current biography by author Tom King, Geffen is portrayed as a megalomaniacal puppet master of mythical proportions, but Furay (who's read the book and liked it) has a different take. "I hadn't talked to David for a long time, but I wrote him a letter last year thanking him for helping us," he says, "and I got a letter back from him in seven days. That shows you what kind of guy he really is."
Additionally, Furay serves as a historical footnote in the career of journalist-turned-movie-director Cameron Crowe. In a recent Rolling Stone article ballyhooing Almost Famous, Crowe's autobiographical tale about his experiences as a teenage rock scribe, Crowe reveals that the first prominent musician he interviewed was Furay; hence the publication of a Cameron-and-Richie photo as part of a collage of shots showing the writer with other R&R heroes. "There was Cameron Crowe with Roger Daltrey, Cameron Crowe with Elton John...and Cameron Crowe with Richie Furay?" he says, laughing. "I mean, what's wrong with this picture?"
That, in large part, is the story of Furay's dalliances with the fair mistress Fame: He twirled her around the dance floor a time or two but never truly managed to consummate their relationship. For a time, he concedes, the unfairness of this fate obsessed him, and his comments occasionally hint at some lingering bitterness. Nonetheless, he's currently got his eyes on another prize: spreading glad tidings about the Man From Galilee.
Doing so has been a struggle at times, and Furay's surprising approach to his faith hasn't always made things easier. Observers who know something about his slant on country rock would likely expect his church to be as laid-back as much of his music, and on the surface it appears to be: There are no flowing robes or burning incense pots in sight, and worshipers and celebrants eschew formal attire for jeans and other weekend wear. But Furay's spiritual philosophy is harder than the Rock of Ages. He's affiliated with Calvary Chapel, a theologically conservative non-denominational church whose roots stretch back to the early '70s, when Pastor Chuck Smith formed the first Chapel in Costa Mesa, California. As such, Furay views the Bible as the actual word of God and is critical of those who take some parts of it to heart while dismissing others as anachronistic or not meant to be taken literally. It's all or nothing for him, which helps explain his rigid opinions about hot-button issues such as homosexuality ("The lifestyle is an abomination unto God") and abortion ("In Psalm 139, David talks about how 'You knew me from my mother's womb,' which tells me that a child is a child from the moment of conception. What is that pill RU-486 doing? It's killing. It's RU-486ing those kids").
The Bible doesn't allow for compromises, Furay feels. "I believe Jesus said what He meant and He meant what He said. And if that's offensive to people, then that's offensive. But I can't do anything about it."
Selling this heavenly vision has been tough in Boulder, a community whose essential liberalism attracts purveyors of religions miles from the mainstream. Not that Furay's efforts have been a bust. Since starting his first Bible study group in 1983, his flock has grown steadily, now numbering just over a hundred adults and around eighty kids, and his status as a rock-biz luminary regularly draws curious visitors from far and wide. But he laments that after seventeen years, the church still can't afford a building of its own. (That's another challenge Boulder presents: sky-high real estate prices.) Funds are being collected for this purpose, but Furay's reticence to shake down his followers has prevented the campaign from gathering a great deal of momentum.
"We don't believe in pounding people over the head for donations. We believe that where God guides, He provides, and we need to be thankful for what He's provided for us. It would be nice to have our own identity, but the rent at the school is pretty reasonable. And what's most important is that we have a place to offer praise in His name."
Applause is certainly warranted at the conclusion of "Where Could I Go but to the Lord," but none is forthcoming. Instead, the congregants -- a mainly middle-aged bunch, but with a sizable number of folks on either side of that range in attendance -- merely turn to each other and smile, as if checking to make sure that the people with them enjoyed the ditty as much as they did. Shortly thereafter, the worship team rolls into "I Just Want to Worship," a slightly stodgier slab of folk gospel that, thanks to the musicians, still manages to rouse.
The song's last notes are still bouncing around the rafters when Sellen, who's co-written compositions with Pastor Richie for years, speaks up. He greets the faithful, inviting them to stick around after the service "so we can fellowship with each other" before launching into an apparently extemporaneous prayer thanking the "Lord of Lords" for the opportunity to worship Him.
An "amen" later, the worship team is back at it, blazing through "From the Rising of the Sun," and for the first time, Pastor Richie's light, crystalline tenor floats freely over the other voices. It retains its prominent place in the mix for a fourth tune, "Glorify You," but Pastor Richie stays in the background, gladly granting the spotlight to his son-in-law Dave Aragon, who steps to the lectern after the song fades to read Psalm 115.
"Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy, and because of Your truth," Aragon intones. "Why should the Gentiles say, 'Where now is their God?' But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold..."
Silver & Gold? Isn't that the name of Neil Young's latest album?
Shortly after Furay's birth in Dayton, Ohio, he moved across the state with his family to the tiny burg of Yellow Springs. There, his father, a pharmacist, opened a drugstore, where his mom also worked. That was followed by a small gift shop, which the clan's patriarch still owned when he died. Richie was thirteen when that happened.
Losing a father at such a tumultuous age has caused a good many youngsters to turn to God's son for succor, but not Furay. He was more interested in music than in anything else. From the first time he'd seen Ricky Nelson rocking on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, he'd been smitten, and his tastes broadened over time. He arrived at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, near Columbus, during a period when the Kingston Trio was sanitizing folk music for the masses, and he reacted by forming a folk band in its image. When an a cappella group he was also in headed to New York City for a performance, Furay and a buddy slipped away to Greenwich Village, ground zero for young folkies. That night, they convinced a couple of club owners to let them serenade crowds between shows, and the reception they received was just the push Furay needed. Goodbye, Columbus, and the rest of Ohio, too.
In 1964, Village resident Furay met Stephen Stills, and together they formed a New Christy Minstrels-esque collective that won the house-band gig at a well-known venue, the Cafe Au Go Go. Dubbed the Au Go Go Singers, they earned a smidgen of notoriety, appearing on a TV show hosted by crooner Rudy Vallee and making a record christened They Call Us Au Go Go Singers in a span of about six months. But that wasn't enough for Stills: He headed to California, where his family lived, leaving Furay to make a living working at an aircraft plant in Connecticut. He was still toiling at the factory when his friend and fellow musician Gram Parsons, who'd been a neighbor in the Village, played him the first album by a California outfit called the Byrds. Furay was fired up by the group's folk rock, and after contacting Stills and wrangling an invitation to collaborate again, he headed west to Los Angeles.
By then, both partners had made Neil Young's acquaintance, and when Furay played Stills a song Young had taught him -- "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" -- they decided they had to hook up with him. In an oft-told story confirmed by Furay, who contributed to a book about those days by writer John Einarson titled There's Something Happening Here: The Buffalo Springfield Story -- For What It's Worth, he and Stills had spent a week trying to track down Young when they spotted him and bassist Bruce Palmer driving the opposite way down the traffic-jammed Sunset Strip in a hearse. Furay and Stills quickly did a U-turn and flagged down the pair. Young and Palmer promptly agreed to join a band that, supplemented by drummer Dewey Martin, became Buffalo Springfield.
In all, the group lasted less than two years, from May 1966 to April 1968, but it managed to leave a considerable mark. As Furay notes, "For What It's Worth," the act's signature effort, wasn't even on the first pressings of Buffalo Springfield, its debut platter; Stills had written it after the LP's release, and when Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun heard it, he insisted that it be added to the lineup ("Baby Don't Scold Me" was removed to make room for it). "I really didn't see that much special about the song," Furay confesses. "But luckily, people smarter than me did." It become a Top 10 smash, and since then, this tune about a largely forgotten event -- a Sunset Strip demonstration over the institution of a curfew -- has become one of the most famous protest tracks of the era.
Even though the next two Springfield albums, 1967's Buffalo Springfield Again and 1968's Last Time Around, contained some prime cuts, including Furay's "Kind Woman," that was it for the hit singles. Meanwhile, ego battles between Stills and Young and a host of other factors made Springfield's demise unavoidable. "At the very beginning, it was awesome, and quite frankly, we didn't think we had any competition but the Beatles," Furay says. "But it seemed like we would take two steps forward and get knocked back three." Young ultimately set out on his own, and after an unsatisfying tour with the Beach Boys -- "We had to sit with our hankies and flowers and fruit and be indoctrinated with the Maharishi before they'd let us go with them," Furay grumbles -- the survivors, including latecomer Jim Messina, decided to cash it in as well.
Over the decades, the band has been the object of substantial nostalgia, but few figured that Young, the first to split, would be struck by such sentiments. Wrong: He's been working for years on a Buffalo Springfield boxed set that may (but probably won't) come out before the holidays. Even more unanticipated was "Buffalo Springfield Again," the centerpiece of Young's Silver & Gold, which hit stores a few months back. In it, he warbles, "Like to see those guys again/And give it a shot/Maybe now we can show the world/ What we got/But I'd just like to play for the fun we had/Buffalo Springfield again."
Does Young seriously want to reunite a band that broke up when Lyndon Johnson was president? Furay isn't sure, but during Young's three-night run at Red Rocks in late September, he spent more time with the legendary chameleon than he has in years. Neither brought up "Buffalo Springfield Again," which was fine by Furay. "It was really about re-establishing a close friendship, and I didn't want it to be about more than that," he says.
Furay adds that he and Young didn't play any music together during the visit -- "but we did play golf."
After Aragon wraps up Psalm 115, the worship team strikes up "You Are My King." The vocalists wail out lines about Christ's "amazing love" as two men pass velvety collection bags down the aisles. Nearly every person puts a little something into the open pouches before turning back to the lyrics printed in photocopied programs that were distributed prior to the start of the service. But at least one woman knows the words by heart. She sits in a chair, her voice raised, her head tilted back, her eyes clenched shut in divine ecstasy, her hands held out in a gesture of supplication. Her infant daughter clings to her blouse, holding on for dear life.
The final chords of "You Are My King" soon give way to worship leader Sellen, who again launches into a prayer. "As we prepare to hear what You have for us in your word," he says, "we ask you to anoint Pastor Richie as he teaches us here today..."
Pastor Richie listens to these words, head bowed, waiting to feel the hand of the Lord on his shoulder.
With Buffalo Springfield finished, Furay and Messina, who'd grown close, began mulling over what they should do next. It didn't take them long to decide. "Jimmy had even more of a country influence than people said I did," Furay notes. "And when we put our heads together, we thought, let's incorporate steel guitar, have a lot of vocal harmonies, and work toward a bridge between country and rock."
This idea was in the air in 1968, and Furay's pal Gram Parsons, who died half a decade later, deserves much of the credit. That year, Parsons's group, the International Submarine Band, issued Safe at Home, which dared to place covers associated with the likes of Merle Haggard in a rock context -- and after the Submarine Band fractured, Parsons joined his cherished Byrds long enough to put his imprint on Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a platter that became a country-rock signpost.
As these albums circulated among the cognoscenti, Furay and Messina were gathering kindred spirits. They wound up with two Denverites, drummer George Grantham and Rusty Young, whose steel guitar had graced "Kind Woman," plus bassist Randy Meisner. Their original moniker was Pogo, after the Walt Kelly comic strip, but under the threat of legal action by Kelly, the band replaced the "g" with a "c."
Poco's 1969 bow, Pickin' Up the Pieces, reissued on CD last year, is among the genre's brightest moments. The sense that the players were heading into unexplored territory is palpable, and their innocence and enthusiasm contrast sharply with the smarmy slickness that would taint much of the country rock that came afterward. "It was raw, and it had that raw excitement to it," Furay allows. "We were the house band at the Troubador [in Los Angeles], and we had a great time seeing the people that were getting turned on by the music." One such fan was future Eagle Glenn Frey, who "used to come over to our house when we were rehearsing and watch us work out our vocal harmonies," Furay says. "He took a lot from us" -- including Meisner, as it turned out.
Frey also had a commercial knack that eluded Poco. Pieces wasn't the smash it deserved to be, and management problems nearly prevented the band from waxing a followup. Furay credits Geffen with straightening out the latter mess, but he wasn't able to fix every disaster. "Poco was asked to play Woodstock, but our manager said, 'No, I've got a better gig for you,'" recalls an incredulous Furay. "And since I can't even remember the other gig, you can guess how much better it must have been."
Even so, Poco was able to keep recording despite personnel changes -- Messina was replaced by Paul Cotton, while Timothy B. Schmidt took over bass duties from Meisner before later flying to the Eagles, too. But Deliverin', a more rock-oriented offering than Pieces, went nowhere, and From the Inside, produced by Steve Cropper, wasn't a good fit. Furay felt more confident about the commercial prospects for A Good Feelin' to Know, but his hopes came crashing down on the way to a show in Connecticut, when he turned on the radio and heard not Poco, but "Take It Easy," by the Eagles. "That's when I thought, 'It's not going to happen for us,'" he says. He stuck around for the making of one more album, Crazy Eyes (it was the band's bestseller until 1978's Legend, for which Furay briefly returned), before taking the advice of Geffen, then the boss at Asylum Records, and joining the Souther Hillman Furay Band, an attempt at creating a country-rock variation on Crosby, Stills and Nash. But its two long-players, Souther Hillman Furay Band and Trouble in Paradise, failed to meet sales expectations -- and worse, Furay was in the midst of a spiritual crisis. "My marriage was falling apart," he says.
He'd married his wife, Nancy, in March 1967, and the relationship had lasted through innumerable tours and an early-'70s separation precipitated by a mistake on his part that he declines to detail, but which sounds an awful lot like infidelity. There was also the little matter of a conflict in beliefs. Nancy had "received Christ in her heart," as Furay puts it, after reading a Hal Lindsey book called Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth that was given to her by Debbie Perkins, wife of Al Perkins, the pedal-steel guitarist in the Souther Hillman Furay Band. Furay, meanwhile, remained unsaved.
Al, who had formerly played with the Flying Burrito Brothers, another country-rock combo founded by Gram Parsons, had been working on changing that. One night after dinner, he'd sat Furay down and played him two tapes of Calvary Chapel pastor Chuck Smith. But Furay resisted further entreaties until one night in July 1974 when, after a rehearsal in Aspen, Al asked if he'd pray with him. Furay's still not sure why he accepted this invitation; perhaps it had something to do with being away from Nancy, who was in their home in the Boulder area, where they'd moved four years earlier because of their growing disgust with Los Angeles. But for whatever reason, he joined Al in prayer -- and before the evening was out, he says, "I had accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord."
If Furay thought this epiphany would magically repair his marriage, he was soon disabused of the notion: Nancy had pretty much made up her mind that their relationship was over. That left him to do some solitary soul-searching -- and during a walk on a beach in St. Petersburg, Florida, he looked to the sky "and asked God, 'What's going on in my life, and with my wife?' And I heard His voice tell me, 'You made a commitment to Me. Now let's talk about it.'"
Following a pause, Furay says, "People think I'm weird. Well, I admit it: I am weird. But I heard it as clear as anything, and that was when I knew things would be changing in my life."
Assistant pastor Patrick makes several announcements about church projects before tossing the ball to Pastor Richie, who bounds to the lectern like a man with springs for shoes. "Morning, and welcome to the gymnasium!" he says. "That's what we're going to start calling the church: the gymnasium, where we get spiritual exercise! And when the bell rings, that means I have to stop."
As if on cue, the bell rings. Pastor Richie pulls a face. "You got that backwards!" he says over the laughter resounding through the room.
But that's where the levity ends. Today's readings are from the Book of Revelation, a section of the Bible that makes even some Christians uncomfortable, as Pastor Richie acknowledges. "It's a book of the future, and not very far in the future from where we are now, I might add," he says. "It documents the end of the world as we know it today. It is the unveiling of Jesus Christ not as the suffering savior, but as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords here to judge us in righteousness!"
To prove it, Pastor Richie reads all 24 verses of Revelation, chapter 18, sprinkling the prose with personal commentary and references to additional biblical verses that cause churchgoers to flip frantically through their own dog-earned copies. But he's cautious not to omit any of Revelation's vividly portrayed imagery. He waves his arms in sweeping gestures to illustrate the fiery text:
"Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgement come...And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, 'Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all'...And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
Strong words, these, and Pastor Richie's interpretation of their meaning does nothing to weaken them.
"We have the word of God, and set it against what men and women might say," he points out in a rising voice, shaking his Bible in one hand. "And if we're wrong about the Bible being the living word, then we're all in the same boat. But if we're right that Jesus is the way, the truth and the light, then those who have willfully chosen to reject Him will have all eternity to reflect on the consequences!"
After he'd wandered in the wilderness for seven months, a miracle took place: The Furay marriage was healed -- and the quarter-century since has only deepened the bond between Furay and his family. He and Nancy have four daughters -- Timmie, Katie, Polly and Jesse -- between the ages of 21 and 30, as well as two grandchildren whom they adore.
Life in the music business hasn't gone nearly as smoothly. After patching up things with Nancy, Furay wanted to create a solo album that would chronicle what they'd just gone through as openly as possible -- which meant sharing his religious breakthrough. Asylum's Geffen, who had signed Furay as a solo artist, gave him the go-ahead, but Furay didn't take this as permission to proselytize on vinyl. "I don't think the name 'Jesus' is anywhere on the album," he says of 1976's I've Got a Reason. "Which offended the Christian community. If they didn't hear 'Jesus loves me, this I know,' they weren't happy. And the secular community wasn't happy because I was alluding to Jesus. I couldn't win."
This pattern repeated itself again and again. Solo albums such as Dance a Little failed to win over listeners and radio programmers suspicious that Furay was trying to sneak that old-time religion past them, and his attempt to work the other side of the fence with Seasons of Change, made for the gospel imprint Myrrh, didn't make him a hero to Christians, either. That left him with some decisions to make. Although he still wanted to make music, he had to earn a living; his royalty statements were nice, but as he concedes, "I didn't write 'For What It's Worth.'" At his wit's end, he returned to Boulder, started his Bible study group, and unexpectedly found a calling that would allow him to play, sing and extol the wisdom of God from morning until night.
He hasn't completely left the business of music behind. In 1997 he put out In My Father's House, an inspirational CD, on a label dubbed Calvary Chapel Music, and when Poco comes to town, he often sits in. Indeed, the band, which continues to be anchored by Rusty Young, George Grantham and Paul Cotton, has scheduled a visit to the Grizzly Rose on Friday, October 27, and Furay will be there. He's sure he'll have a good time, too. But at this stage of his life, even taking a stage in front of a keyed-up throng can't quite match the buzz he gets from his day job.
"There's something about knowing you're standing in a pulpit as God's spokesman, representing Him," he says. "I don't think there's anything that can really compare to that."
For the better part of an hour, Pastor Richie has plumbed the depths of Revelation, chapter 18 -- and at last, the moment has come for a closing prayer.
"Father," Pastor Richie says, "there are things we have trouble with, but we know that everything You do is righteous and just. Lord, I pray that if You have gathered with us any today who have not felt the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, may their eyes and ears and hearts be opened." He looks out at the congregation. "If that is your wish, can I pray for you?"
A young man wearing a down vest stands, hands clasped, head down.
"Is this the day for you?" Pastor Richie asks him.
The young man nods.
"He's nodding yes!" Pastor Richie exults. "He's saying, 'This is the day I change everything in my life.'" Again, he takes in the crowd. "Will you join him?"
No one else stands, but Pastor Richie understands. They've already been saved. So he keeps going.
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"Thank you, Jesus, for caring for us -- for saving us..."
Then the worship team starts playing, this time with Pastor Richie front and center, singing as loudly as he's ever sung in his life. And at this moment, he doesn't seem to care that he never became as famous as some of his friends, or that his church has to meet in a gymnasium, or even that the way he chooses to worship is misunderstood by so many people in the town he calls home. Instead, he's enraptured because he's just successfully recruited another soldier for the army of God -- and it feels good.
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Special rules for tuning level controllers
Loss of level controls can kill a process in a heartbeat, so tuning them properly should be a priority. F.G. Shinskey reports on the different tuning rules that apply to level loops based on vessels being regulated.
ALMOST HALF OF THE controllers in a typical process plant are flow controllers, and the next most c ommon regulate liquid level, many of which set flow in cascade. Level loops differ from others in their economic objectives, in that there may be no economic penalty associated with a particular deviation from set point–yet a loss of level control can shut down an entire plant. They also differ in that their task is to regulate a process that is fundamentally non-self-regulating. This characteristic leads to limit-cycling of a PI (proportional + integral) controller in the presence of any deadband in the control valv e, avoided by using either a valve positioner or a cascade flow loop. This combination of properties results in the need for different rules for tuning level controllers than are applied to flow, temperature, pressure and composition controllers.
There are different categories of level loops based on the vessel being regulated, and different tuning rules apply to each. Four categories are suggested here:
Surge tanks feeding critical processes
Material-balance regulators between process stages
Levels affected by shrink-swell and inverse response, such as boiler drums
Levels with resonance (manometer effect)
Surge Tanks Serve to Deliver
A surge tank accumulates feedstock from one or more sources–some may be batch–and serves to deliver a smooth average feed rate to a critical downstream process such as a reactor, evaporator, distillation column, or recovery boiler. To minimize disturbances to the downstream process, its feed rate should be constant, but must represent the average value of the total flow entering the surge tank. Averaging takes place over the closed-loop time constant of the surge tank–typically 20 minutes to several hours–and this application is called "averaging level control." The tank accumulates volume based on the integral of the difference between total inflow and manipulated outflow rates. Its integrating time constant is the time required to empty the tank from 100 to 0% level with zero inflow and 100% outflow (or by any other percentage level with the same percentage difference between inflow and outflow rates).
Simply Proportional Only
The simplest method of averaging level control is proportional-only. Consider the case of 100% proportional control, where the controller at 100% level sets outflow at 100%, and at zero level sets outflow at zero. This produces a closed-loop time constant equal to the integrating time of the tank. The outflow at any point in time consequently represents the exponentially weighted average value of the inflow, averaged over the integrating time constant of the tank. The closed-loop time constant of the tank is that portion of the tank volume covered by the proportional band P of the controller.
It could only exceed the time constant by setting P beyond 100 %, but then outflow could not be manipulated over its full range, and the controller could not prevent the tank from overflowing or emptying. In most cases, operators choose a safety margin such as 10% at both ends of the tank, which requires a proportional band of 80%.
Proportional Controllers
A proportional control algorithm manipulates outflow m in relation to the deviation of controlled level c from set point r where b is an adjustable output bias also known as "manual reset." Ideally, m should be the set point of a linear flow controller.
If r = 50 and b = 50, then the proportional band will be distributed uniformly across the level measurement. One drawback of proportional control is that the level will almost never be at set point, leading operators to suspect that the controller is not working properly. One way of avoiding this misconception is to set r at the desired low limit of level, and b at zero, so that flow is zero when the level falls to that low limit. Full outflow is then reached when the level rises.
Some digital controllers are unable to execute pure proportional control, in that bias b cannot be fixed, but floats, changing every time the controller is transferred between automatic and manual. Such a controller cannot be used in this application. But a proportional controller can be made from a digital scaler or calculation block, performing the function: where cl and ch are set low and high limits respectively.
Proportional-lag Control
The maximum rate-of-change of outflow following a step change to inflow fi occurs immediately following the step. The initial steady state is at 50% flow and level. Because the proportional band of the controller is 80%, the level change is 80% of the steady-state flow change.
Its value can be reduced by inserting a first-order lag at either the input or output of the controller. The upper set of curves in Figure 1 shows the effect of a lag whose time constant f = 0.4. This is about the highest value recommended, in that it produces a second-order closed loop with a damping factor of 0.707–note the slight overshoot in flow and in level. At the same time, it reduces the maximum rate-of-change of outflow to a factor of 0.65 of what is calculated. It also effectively filters noise and other high-frequency transients.
Nonlinear Proportional Control
To further reduce the rate-of-change of outflow, some have used a nonlinear characterizer on the controller deviation, such as an error-squared function or a three-zone characterizer, both of which provide a reduced gain to small deviations. (Note: the "error-squared" function is really the product of the deviation and its absolute value.) However, the low gain around setpoint necessitates a substantially higher gain elsewhere, to satisfy the same high and low limits of level.
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From the early days of silent pictures to the present day, a sprinkling of stardust has stuck to the names of some of the most iconic glamour girls. Whether their allure was sexy or serene, these superstars' names make Nameberry's top dozen.
Audrey— The radiant Belgian-born actress (born Edda), style icon and humanitarian lent a luminous glow to her name– an Old English saint's appellation– which is being appreciated anew by modern parents, who have brought it into the Top 50.
Ava – One of the great hits of the decade, Ava still calls up the image of sultry Hollywood beauty Ava Gardner. Beginning with Heather Locklear, and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe in the late 90s, it's has been a wildly popular celebrity fave.
Brigitte – Brigitte Bardot, saucy French 'sex kitten' of the 1950s, left a permanent imprint on her alliterative full name—in fact one current celebrity has used her surname for his daughter.
Charlize—Contemporary actress Charlize Theron was born in South Africa to parents of German, French and Dutch ancestry, and was given her distinctive name in honor of her father, Charles. It has just started to be used in this country in the past few years, with that 'z' adding sizzle to Charlie.
Greta – Early film icon Greta Garbo had an exotic and mysterious aura which still clings to her name. A German diminutive of Margarethe, Greta has been used for their daughters by David Caruso, and by Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline.
Harlow—This is one rare case where the last name is more glamorous than the first—Jean—of the sensual 1930s Platinum Blonde. Patricia Arquette was the first to use it for her daughter, followed by Nicole Richie and Joel Madden—and it's sure to catch on with other parents.


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Stow -- The Summit County Board of Elections certified most nominating petitions for candidates who have filed to run for judge and clerk seats at Stow Municipal Court this year.
However, the petition for incumbent Judge Kim Hoover, who has filed to run as a nonpartisan candidate in this fall's election, won't need certified for a couple months because of different deadlines for nonpartisan candidates.
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At least two candidates are expected to challenge Hoover for his seat this November.
The board certified nominating petitions for Linda Malek (D-Cuyahoga Falls) and Kandi O'Connor (R-Hudson) Feb. 15.
The filing deadline for partisan candidates was Feb. 6, but the deadline for nonpartisan and independent candidates isn't until May 6. The filing deadline for write-in candidates is Feb. 25, according to the board of elections.
Board of elections director Joseph Masich said Hoover has already filed his nominating petition, but the board has until July 15 to certify petitions for nonpartisan and independent candidates, according to the Ohio Revised Code.
By filing nonpartisan, Hoover -- who is a registered Republican, according to board of elections voter information -- can bypass a primary and move on directly to the fall's general election.
Hoover has run nonpartisan in his last three elections -- his first race was in 1994 -- and said he intends to take the same approach in the coming election.
A state law passed since Hoover's last election actually requires the judge's race to have partisan primaries and nonpartisan elections. Because only one candidate for each major political party has filed, though, a primary this spring won't be necessary.
Masich has questioned whether Hoover's approach to filing is legitimate because of the various election laws surrounding party affiliations or lack thereof.
"I do not want to politicize a judicial campaign, so I refused to file as a [Republican], though I am," Hoover said.
In a letter to the board dated Feb. 14, Hoover attempted to address the questions surrounding his approach to filing.
He noted the Ohio Supreme Court has already addressed the issue.
"In [State ex. rel. Allen v. Warren County Bd. Of Elections], the Ohio Supreme Court held that 'nonpartisan' candidates for municipal court judge ... are not governed by the same 'non-affiliation' requirement that ordinarily apply to independent candidates," wrote Hoover. "In essence, the Supreme Court has drawn a substantive distinction between 'nonpartisan' candidates who run for municipal court judge and 'independent' candidates who run for other political offices."
"I trust that this memorandum fully answers the questions that have been raised about the validity of my nominating petition," wrote Hoover in a concluding paragraph.
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Fast Lane readers know that yesterday I took the Department's message to the people. And not just a handful of people either --our virtual town hall discussion reached thousands of participants from coast to coast, even as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam.
While I certainly appreciated the opportunity to make the case for a long-term transportation bill that truly funds our nation's needs and provides states, counties, and cities the certainty they need to plan for their future, I was even more grateful to see the steady stream of more than 300 questions pouring in from the town hall website, email, and Twitter. That tells me that Americans are engaged in this issue, an issue that touches their everyday lives, their families, their jobs, and their businesses.
So, now what? Well, now we do the heavy lifting. Now we get a little noisier.
That means sharing your interest in this with your friends, your family, your online communities, and your coworkers. It means engaging your Members of Congress on long-term funding, explaining why we can't wait until May and why upping our investment in transportation is so important.
Here's how you can help. You can let your Members of Congress know that this is what their constituents want. You can give them permission to do the right thing.
President Lincoln said, "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis."
Well, anyone who's wrestled with traffic, felt the jolt of a pothole, or waited for a bus in nasty weather knows that we've got the crisis. And after yesterday's discussion, we've all got the facts.
Let's do something with those facts. Let's let Congress know it's okay to GROW AMERICA.
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