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50 years of partnership
WORTHINGTON -- It started when a group of people realized how many children were getting hurt and dying of accidental causes and grew to become the largest non-profit organization dedicated to the safety of children.
Information from the National Child Safety Council (NCSC) is utilized by more than 6,000 public safety entities in the United States, including the Worthington Police Department and Nobles County Sheriff's Office.
Dan Hiscox originally initiated the community service project with former Nobles County Sheriff Dale Peters. On Wednesday, Dan's daughter, Kim Hiscox, met with Nobles County Sheriff Kent Wilkening, Worthington Public Safety Director Mike Cumiskey and Worthington School Liaison Officer Bob Fritz to discuss the organization's 50th year of child safety and crime prevention training efforts.
The NCSC is best known for its Missing Children Milk Carton program, which later led to the printing of missing children pictures on grocery bags and other everyday items. Another specialty of the NCSC -- one which local law enforcement agencies make use of -- is the educational materials.
"I just gave out a bunch of them about Halloween safety on Monday," Fritz said. "I use the materials all year round on different topics."
NCSC covers a large range of safety issues, from school bus, bike and gun safety to crime and violence prevention. Last year, the safety campaign focused on Internet safety. This year, bullying will be the prime focus.
"They really cover all aspects of safety," Cumiskey stated. "And it's not a stagnant program -- they have kept pace with the times and what society is doing."
Kim Hiscox, the NCSC area safety director, said the organization has a research and development department that uses educators, artists, writers and technicians to create hundreds of original books, games, audio tapes, DVDs and stickers to compile current and authoritative information that is educationally correct, age appropriate and appealing to children and adults.
The coloring books on a variety of subjects are sought after at the county fair, according to Fritz and Wilkening.
"Kids and parents love the pamphlets. I keep a box with different topics in my car," Fritz added.
Fritz is currently working on a curriculum about bullying for fifth-grade students, but also wants to bring the same kind of information to the younger kids. Worthington School District 518 has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to bullying, he said.
NCSC gears lessons and activities toward several age groups, even providing brochures and information for adults and seniors on an assortment of topics -- including bullying.
Wilkening said the gun safety materials are very popular at the fair, and that parents and daycares are eager to receive the coloring and activity books that deliver a safety lesson. There are also materials about sheriff and police departments to let children know what law enforcement officers do and why.
"We're very proud to be able to offer this caliber of materials for use," Hiscox said.
The safety materials are provided for all of the elementary, middle and high schools in Nobles County, including parochial and home schools, she added.
Because NCSC is a non-profit organization, local businesses are asked each year to sponsor a subject or grade level.
"We do it at $2.64 per student, which is very inexpensive," Hiscox stated. "The program for each county is custom designed."
More than 50 Nobles County businesses and groups sponsored NCSC materials in the past year, and the organization is looking for sponsorship this year.
"Anyone who would like to contribute can drop off donations at the law enforcement center," Wilkening said. "Just let us know it is for the safety council, and we'll get it to Kim for purchase of materials."


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December 14th 2012, London - Sarah Beeny's online dating site, MySingleFriend, today announced the appointment of Gail McLaughlan as Managing Director. Gail will be responsible for building the brand and steering the business into new markets.
Created by TV presenter Sarah Beeny in 2005, MySingleFriend has experienced phenomenal success with its unique position amongst traditional dating sites. At MySingleFriend the profiles are all written by friends of the user, making it fun and less daunting, as the experience is shared between friends.
Gail will work closely with Sarah Beeny and the team to raise the profile of MySingleFriend across various channels. Gail's extensive media experience will be leveraged for MySingleFriend's first TV advertising campaign that is due to break at the beginning of next year.
Sarah Beeny commented: "Gail is a high calibre, innovative marketeer and her appointment underlines our commitment to developing this fantastic brand. We wanted someone with the right fit for MySingleFriend and Gail has a proven track record of success and has been integral to building numerous high profile brands."
Gail previously held the position of Marketing Director for digital marketing agency Croud. Prior to that she headed up product development for ITV.com and was Head of Marketing and Commercial Partnerships for the Friends Reunited Group, including Friends Reunited Dating and Genes Reunited.
Commenting on her new role Gail said "MySingleFriend has always had such a unique proposition in the dating industry. Everybody knows somebody who's single and so it's an exciting business and a fun brand which I have watched grow over the years. I'm really looking forward to the challenge as I feel there is still so much that can be done to propel the site to even greater success."
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About MySingleFriend:
MySingleFriend (www.mysinglefriend.com) is a dating site with a difference. All profiles are written by member's friends, making it one of the UK's most unique dating sites, which is fun and less daunting, as the experience is shared between friends. All friends are linked on the site, so users can check out who knows who, providing a much better insight into a person's character.
MySingleFriend was created by TV presenter Sarah Beeny in 2005 and now has over 200,000 users in the UK. The site has also recently launched in Ireland at www.mysinglefriend.ie
Don't just take our word for it; Radio 1 has described MySingleFriend as the "hottest dating website in the UK", Vogue has featured us in "The List", FHM and Loaded both voted us their favourite dating site and Revolution claims we "bring the personal touch back to online dating".


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Paw Plunger: Spoiled Sweet or Spoiled Rotten?
I have to say that this new solution to muddy pawprints looks suspiciously like a coffee to-go mug but watch the video to see pet owners dunk their dogs' dogs with it.
In two sizes, it's just $29.99 to pamper your pals . . . and clean their feet without hoses or tubs. Does this product have a place in your home?


text: Hi all, I bought a no name propane smoker about two years ago (River Grille is the brand name on the smoker door). I opted for the stainless model because Minnesota weather is notoriously harsh on outdoor cooking equipment, especially if you're brave enough to cook outside in the winter, which I do. So I have to leave it out in the elements, unless I want to drag it through snow drifts to and from the garage, dismantle, and towel dry it after every use or snow/rainstorm. Anyway, I was going to smoke up some butt roast last week only to find that the burner housing has rusted out of my smoker rendering it unusable. Needless to say, I was a little upset. In the past week, I've done some looking around and it doesn't seem like any mass produced propane smokers are built out of all non-corroding metal. All of the stainless ones have regular old steel in critical places that render the extra cost of the stainless body a waste. It seems to me that an enterprising company could pretty much own the under $400 dollar smoker market if they built a model out of all non rusting (or extremely corrosion resistant) metals. I apologize for using my first post to vent, but I'm becoming a little frustrated in trying to find a propane smoker that won't rust out after two years, (short of finding a welder to custom build one). I suppose smoker manufacturers don't have much financial incentive to build a product that will never need to be replaced. Ok, enough whining, here's my question. What is the most weatherproof smoker available that also does a good job of smoking? Any input is appreciated.


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Longoria OK physically but dealing with mental fatigue
Longoria OK physically but dealing with mental fatigue
The third baseman recently noted that he's far more mentally drained at this point than he was during any of his previous seasons in the Majors.
"The monotony and the repetition of playing every day, you don't even really think about it," Longoria said. "It's just what you do. You train for it and you get your body in shape for it and you play. And the two years that I've had when I was pretty healthy ... I'm more tired now just having to sit around and mentally dote on what I could or couldn't have done and how I'm progressing. That stuff weighs on you more than actually going out and playing every day."
Although he did a lot of physical work preparing to make his return on Aug. 7, Longoria said that being in baseball shape is different.
"We worked hard for about a month and a half before I came back," he said. "It's just a different kind of ... You can't really compare the two. It's gym work as compared to baseball shape. That's what we always say -- we kind of play our way into baseball shape during Spring Training.
"Unless you're playing baseball, you can't do it. You can run all you want. You can lift all you want. But it's just nine innings of being on your feet wearing cleats, standing around in the heat, running 90 feet, stopping. Stuff you can't do unless you're doing it."


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Girls of all ages are fascinated by shoes. There can never ever be enough shoes in the closet. Every occasion needs the perfect matching footwear.
What do we get if girls take electronics and upgrade their shoes? – Project Walkway where eight teenage girls learned to mix technology with fashion.
Project Walkway spanned 6 weeks starting in March and ending in a walkway show in May during the book launch of Sabine Seymour's Fashionable Technology at Eyebeam.
Project Walkway, a collaboration between artist Norene Leddy, New York City public high school Bayard Rustin Academy for Art and Music, and Eyebeam was a creative getting together in which young women transformed existing footwear and some smart electronics into objects of desire.
The aim of the workshop was to teack prototyping skills, basic electronics and presentation skills. The girls had the opportunity to work alongside two of Eyebeam's current Research & Development Fellows, Ayah Bdeir and Jessica Banks, highly skilled female engineers whose work as artists and designers made a perfect skill match with the workshops objective.
The extensive workshop started with an introduction about the history of shoes which have always been closely linked with identity and social status, key issues for adolescent girls, from the Chopines of 16th century Venice, to Manolo Blahnik stilettos up to Chloe, Gucci and D&G.
The Aphrodite Project from Norene Leddy served as the starting point for the shoe hacking workshop: 'Platforms, which open the conversation to issues of sex, sex work, the role of contemporary artists in society, police protection and personal safety'.
The focus for the students was less on aesthetics but to investigate issues of personal safety and utility: what would be helpful for young women today who navigate the streets of New York City (and other major cities around the world).
The result of the platform hacking workshop is amazingly creative: light seems to be a natural attraction point for any clothing item. Where conventional fashion uses materials like metal parts, glass beads and other shiny objects to reflect light and add some glitter, wearable technology designer use LEDs to create active light effects to add sparkle to their designs. Addressing the safety aspect, small alarm modules have been incorporated into the heel giving an additional dimension of security in our not so secure cities.
Visit Project Walkway's photostream on Flickr for more photos, Project Walkway's blog with all the details and video links and a podcast by Science & the City.
Thanks Alana for pointing us to this project.


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Last week, I was denied the ability of unlocking my bootloader a mere hour before getting home I decided to find some other way to free my phone.
A few friends and I pooled together and purchased a JavaCard and the required files to be able to do things like S-OFF, factory unlock, etc.
Everything wont be here till next week (Tuesday/Wednesday) so I won't be able to provide proof and all that until then. However, I will be able to do 5-10 S-OFF's free of charge to any known devs who feel they would be able to use an S-OFF'd phone to provide the community with a public way to unlock our bootloaders/S-OFF etc. To anyone else, I'll be able to do about 250 phones or so via this one card. If anyone wants to talk more about this over PM feel free to contact me.
Edit: To clear up confusion. You CAN unlock your bootloader with S-OFF. You just have to change your CID via fastboot and unlock via HTCDev.


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|Gloria Loring
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"To Tell the Truth" has been one of Mark Goodson Productions' most durable formats, and this 1990 represented the fourth revival of the popular game show. The format remained the same--three contestants claim to be associated with a story, read as an affidavit at the start of each game. Only one is actually the person he claims to be; the other two are lying. The four celebrity panelists, one at a time, question the three contestants (addressing them by No. 1, No. 2. and No. 3) in an attempt to expose the liars and determine who was telling the truth. After all four celebrities have had their turn to question the team, they voted separately as to who they thought was the real person associated with the story. Payoffs were based on the team's ability to fool the panel - $500 per incorrect vote and $3,000 if they fooled all four panelists. Two such games were played per show. After the second game, a new segment, "One on One" was played with two more contestants, one an audience member ... Written by Brian Rathjen <email@example.com>
Discover actors turned director, including Michael B. Jordan, and find out more about "Grey's Anatomy," the ground-breaking 300th episode, and the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes.


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Brian Costello @BrianCoz 1m
When Sanchez left MetLife last night he had an ice wrap on his shoulder but no sling or anything. Positive sign for him
Rich Cimini @RichCimini 1m
Hearing that Mark Sanchez does not have a fractured collarbone. So there's that. MRI will tell extent of soft-tissue damage, if any
Brian Costello @BrianCoz 1m
When Sanchez left MetLife last night he had an ice wrap on his shoulder but no sling or anything. Positive sign for him
He actually threw a few passes on the sideline after the injury and before getting iced......Jet doctors are as bad as the coaching staff.....why have him do anything but go to the locker room?
How can a professional sports reporting organization allow such substandard professionalism to persist is beyond me. If people in my organization behaved this way, especially publicly they'd be fired. And they have been.
"I got my story, the rest is moot"
"That's going in tomorrow's headlines"
Self serving jack ass. Yes, you. I know you read these forums you smug jackass.
I never realized what a d-bag cimini was til now. The press just loves crushing Rex and the Jets. It's the thing to do I guess
Did any of you see the tweet that Manish deleted? "jets win. So what."
I trolled him on twitter with the hash tag #assclown
IR him now and get the roster spot back. I never actually wished him injury but I have always say he should just be IRed this year to get the roster spot back. Lets see who gets cut the next 2 weeks and sign 2 of them IMO.


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STOW -- Many residents in Summit County are still cleaning up after Monday's downpour only to find out that they don't have enough insurance to cover their water damage.
In a matter of minutes, Connie Schlimm lost everything in the lower two levels of her home in Stow.
"I went into shock. All I could think about was that electrical box under water, so I got the dog and got out of the house," said Schlimm.
The water came up from her sump pump and rose seven feet to the basement ceiling, destroying her washer and dryer, furnace and everything else.
The pressure was so intense, the water burst through the wall, filling the next level up with another four feet of water.
It destroyed everything in Schlimm's office and all her furniture.
"I do a lot of home remodeling but this the worst I've seen," said Bill Thompson from Rent A Man Renovations.
Schlimm thought she had insurance but it was not enough to replace all she lost.
"Just don't assume things are covered. It's the worst thing you can do to assume you have coverage for water loss. Everyone's home situation is different," said Scott Keller from State Farm Insurance.
Keller says you can add extra coverage to your homeowner's insurance in case the sewer or drains back up.
For $50 a year you can get $10,000 to help replace permanently attached items like water heaters, walls and carpet.
For $130 a year that coverage jumps to $25,000 to also cover personal property like furniture and TVs.
Schlimm found out the hard way but still has a good attitude.
"I can make a bad situation worse with a different attitude, so I'm trying to think of it as my spring cleaning," laughed Schlimm.
To get official flood insurance you need to meet certain criteria.
You can work with your insurance agent, who can act as a broker, to obtain the insurance through FEMA.


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Medline ® Abstract for Reference 16
of 'Oral food challenges for diagnosis and management of food allergies'
Modified oral food challenge used with sensitization biomarkers provides more real-life clinical thresholds for peanut allergy.
Blumchen K, Beder A, Beschorner J, Ahrens F, Gruebl A, Hamelmann E, Hansen G, Heinzmann A, Nemat K, Niggemann B, Wahn U, Beyer K
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Aug;134(2):390-8. Epub 2014 May 13.
BACKGROUND: Threshold levels for peanut allergy determined by using oral challenges are important for the food industry with regard to allergen labeling. Moreover, the utility of biological markers in predicting threshold levels is uncertain.
OBJECTIVE: We sought to use a modified oral food challenge regimen that might determine threshold levels for peanut allergy mimicking a more real-life exposure and to correlate the eliciting dose (ED) and severity of clinical reaction in children with peanut allergy with B-cell, T-cell, and effector cell markers.
METHODS: A modified food challenge procedure with doses scheduled 2 hours apart was used in 63 children with peanut allergy. All children received a maximum of 8 semi-log increasing titration steps of roasted peanuts ranging from 3 to 4500 mg of peanut protein until objective allergic reactions occurred. Severity of symptoms was graded from I to V. Biological markers were measured before challenge.
RESULTS: Forty-five of 63 patients showed objective symptoms after greater than 30 minutes, with a median latency of clinical reaction of 55 minutes. By using a log-normal dose-distribution model, the ED5 was calculated to be 1.95 mg of peanut protein. The ED was significantly and inversely correlated with peanut- and Ara h 2-specific IgE levels, skin prick test responses, basophil activation, and TH2 cytokine production by PBMCs. Symptom severity did not correlate with any of the markers or the ED.
CONCLUSION: This modified food challenge procedure might better reflect threshold levels for peanut allergy than the standard procedure because most of the patients reacted at a time interval of greater than 30 minutes. By using this model, threshold levels, but not severity, could be correlated with biological markers.
Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: email@example.com.


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After a two year planning process and unexpected delays caused by Hurricane Katrina, the St. Charles Parish Hospital is on pace to open a $24 million addition slightly ahead of schedule in January of 2008.
It's the first major expansion the hospital has undergone since the 1970's, according to Chief Operating Officer Karen Guillot. The three-story expansion to the 56-bed hospital is being constructed to replace all inpatient areas, medical and surgical patient rooms, inpatient psychiatric rooms and the intensive care unit.
While the project is actually a bit ahead of schedule now, the circumstances that caused the original delays were quite a handful to overcome, Guillot said, especially with the rising costs of construction post-Katrina. She and her staff soon discovered the $18.5 million total set aside for the expansion was only about 75 percent of what they would actually need.
"We were set to accept bids for the project originally in either September or October of 2005," Guillot said. "When we finally did go to bid, construction costs had gone through the roof. We had to secure another $5.5 million because construction costs went up about 35 to 40 percent."
Voters approved the loan for the necessary funds in July of 2006, and now the biggest obstacle they face during construction is the weather due to the initial phase of the project consisting primarily of outdoor labor.
"Luckily the weather has been kind," Guillot said.
The expansion will increase the total number of available licensed beds from 56 to 59, but many of the beds will be transferred to private rooms incresing overall compacity. Their current set-up sometimes leaves many of the beds unused depending on the condition of a patient. Certain patients require private rooms and that ultimately leads to a room with two beds only being half used.
"Overall, we will be able to utilize the beds more efficiently and have the capacity for higher occupancy," Guillot said.
St. Charles Parish Hospital currently has 20 private medical surgery rooms and 8 overflow beds that are not private. The expansion will increase to 31 private medical surgery rooms. The psychiatric unit, which is located in the oldest part of the hospital, will exchange a combination of 23 private and semi private beds for 20 private rooms.
Rounding out the revamped medical facility will be a new dialysis department in addition to a new cardiology department for outpatient cardiac rehab and cardiac studies including stress test and cardiac ultrasounds. The current facility has those areas spread out in various places of the hospital, Guillot noted. The new facility will join all of those areas into a central location to streamline services and care.
While the additional space will no doubt be helpful, Guillot said, it's important to note that the expansion was designed and is being constructed using current concepts in health care and healing environments coupled with the latest technology.
In fact, the hospital will actually be ahead of the curve for storing patient records electronically, a process that will be required by all hospitals in Louisiana by 2010. It's something that would not have been possible using the current facility, Guillot pointed out.
"The older areas would have had limited ability to use electronic records at best," Guillot said. "It just wasn't built for those sorts of applications in the 1970's."


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When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then – and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass. As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the 'free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II. With the help of Luis Buñuel's favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, director Volker Schlöndorff turns Günter Grass's magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join.
Arrow Academy presents Volker Schlöndorff's masterpiece in its original theatrical version and the Director's Cut, seen for the first time in the UK after its Cannes Film Festival premiere.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – Eleven years of disappointment and heartbreak vs. top-three teams came to a screeching halt for the Mississippi State softball program Sunday afternoon at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium, as the Bulldogs (24-14, 3-9 SEC) exploded for a five-run second inning en route to a 6-5 victory against No. 3 Florida.
The win was the first for MSU against a team ranked in the top three since a 7-1 victory against No. 1 Arizona on Feb. 9, 2002. State also snapped a 17-game losing streak against Florida, which dated back to April 2007.
"Our players are gutsy and resilient," Head Coach Vann Stuedeman said. "We came back from a heartbreaking loss Saturday and took game three, and that is part of changing a culture."
The Bully Bombers pounded out 11 base hits, the most for MSU in conference play this year and the most allowed in 2013 by the No. 3 Gators in a seven-inning game. Junior Heidi Shape (2-for-3, two runs), redshirt junior Erin Nesbit (2-for-3, RBI), redshirt sophomore Briana Bell (2-for-4, RBI, run) and freshman Loryn Nichols (2-for-3, RBI, run) all had multiple hits. Junior Logan Foulks (1-for-4, RBI), senior Jessica Cooley (1-for-3, 2 RBI) and junior Jessica Offutt (1-for-3, run) also collected base knocks for MSU, while junior Sam Lenahan scored a run.
"Coach (Alan) Reach and Coach (Beth) Mullins really sat down Saturday night and studied a lot of film," Stuedeman said. "Credit both of those coaches. Each player was willing to stick to the plan and execute it."
Right-hander Alison Owen improved to 13-6 in 2013 for the Bulldogs, striking out five and allowing just one hit in 5.0 innings of relief.
After totaling six hits in the first two games of the series, State jumped out of the gates with five runs off seven hits in the top of the second. Bell led off the top of the frame by denting the towering scoreboard in left for her seventh homer of the season. Shape followed up Bell's long ball with her second triple of her junior campaign. Following the first out of the inning, Nesbit pulled a liner off Florida third baseman Stephanie Tofft's glove at third for a single, driving in Shape.
With Nesbit on first, Offutt singled to right field and Nichols dropped a perfect bunt in front of the UF catcher. The bases were juiced for Cooley, who with two outs hit a worm burner up the middle that drove in a pair of Bulldogs to double their lead. Foulks then doubled down the left-field line to extend the lead to 5-0 in favor of the Maroon and White.
The Gators came within one run of tying MSU in the bottom of the second courtesy of a grand slam by catcher Taylore Fuller. After the second inning, the two teams evened out by scoring one run each to give the game its final score of 6-5.
Starkville's Team heads back home for a critical three-game conference clash starting Friday against in-state rival Ole Miss. Game one will be broadcast live on ESPNU at 7 p.m. CT. First pitch on Saturday and Sunday is at 1 p.m. CT. Admission is free to all events at the MSU Softball Stadium, but if you cannot attend, free live audio as well as video (except Friday) will be available online to HailStateTV subscribers (www.HailState.com/hstvlive).
For live in-game updates of MSU's rivalry series in Starkville, follow the program on Twitter at @MStateSB. For pictures, like the team on Facebook at Facebook.com/MStateSB and visit the team's Instagram account at MStateSB. For pregame and postgame video, check out MSU's official YouTube channel at YouTube.com/HailState.
Rivalry Weekend Promotions vs. Ole Miss
Friday, April 12th – Ole Miss (7:00 p.m.)
– GIVEAWAY: 100 Hail State Sunglasses to First Fans in Attendance
– GIVEAWAY: MSU Custom Fans to First 50 Fans in Attendance – Honoring One MSU Senior
– Facebook Friday Giveaway
– 2 Bulldog Coalition Points for Students
Saturday, April 13th – Ole Miss (1:00 p.m.)
– GIVEAWAY: 250 "Thank You" T-Shirts to First Fans in Attendance
– Easter Egg Claim from Around Campus – Prizes Ranging from Gift Cards & Electronics to MSU Gear
– "2013 Greek Day at the Park"
– In-Game Twitter Trivia Giveaways
– Celebrity Home Run Derby Post-Game – MSU Coaches vs. MSU Players
– Barnes & Noble Softball Store on Site
– 2 Bulldog Coalition Points for Students
Sunday, April 14th – Ole Miss (1:00 p.m.)
– GIVEAWAY: 100 Pink "Nerf" Softballs to First Fans in Attendance
– "STRIKE OUT CANCER" Game
– Sunday Bingo with Giftcard Giveaways


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Written on: 24/03/2001 by Jon. (1 review written)
Good Points
Good sturdy little phone. Nice and compact
Bad Points
No choice of message ring tones. poor text message receiver, as does not say who from.
General Comments
Overall great value for money, in which you get one of the best phones you can get for the price. Due to the bad points I decided to upgrade to a C35i.


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Fla. man accused of having guns at Capitol grounds
A Florida man who brought guns and ammunition onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building was arrested, police said.
Ty Carroll Mitchum, 59, of Clearwater, Fla., was confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers at about 12:50 p.m. Sunday on the West Front of the Capitol Building because he was acting suspiciously. While he was being interviewed, Mitchum told officers that he had firearms in his car, which was parked in the unit block of Constitution Avenue Northwest.
When officers searched Mitchum's car, they found three firearms, several rounds of ammunition and a high-capacity ammo feeding device, according to police and court records.
Church leader accused of smoking pot with teens
An Anne Arundel County substitute teacher and church group leader was accused of giving and smoking marijuana with two teenagers.
Police say Benjamin James Siggers, of Baltimore, shared marijuana with two members of the Severn United Methodist youth group and smoked it with them on their way to an overnight camp in Edgewater in April 2012. He also served as the church's counselor.
Siggers, 31, was fired from Anne Arundel County Public Schools when police began investigating allegations in February. He was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and two counts of possession of marijuana.
Body found in fire near highway
Fairfax County firefighters discovered a man's body after they put out a fire near highways in the Fair Oaks area, officials said.
Shortly after noon on Sunday, firefighters found grass, brush, and several trees on fire near the eastbound ramp of Lee-Jackson Highway to the Fairfax County Parkway. After the fire was extinguished, a man's body was found near the fire's location.
A medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of the man's death, and fire investigators and police are investigating the incident.
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Hey there,
I am new like a whole lot of people here , so a big hi to everyone. I was looking forward to seeing GC ( MSK being one of my all time fave male characters) and KS ( Only she could have pulled off Jhansi Ki Rani with that stellar performance) in 'Punar Vivah'. And I so not disappointed by the first episode. The graph was perfect , honestly. A soft and subtle start – the different shades of your delicate heroine – an ugly face of the society – and a powerful scene topped with a supercool freeze.
Aarti. Just look at her run all over that palace in her earthy beauty and those brilliant brilliant doe eyes and that soft feminine smile. A woman who exudes beauty , warmth, mischief, mystery and above all LOVE. No wonder nobody can take their eyes off her . Anyone can be besotted with that lyrical beauty who appeared more like poetry in motion. Strange isn't it? Aarti is an ideal woman but she was not ideal enough for someone who scarred and abandoned her for life. Does that show on her face? Or in her voice and eyes when she lovingly hugs her son? No. You cannot tell what Aarti suffers inside from that brilliant face. But all that hidden pain and wounded innocence breaks through the faade of that lovely face when someone pricks her septic .
Aarti , an earthy shy Princess who is told that she is damned to roam aimlessly in a huge castle as a sorcerer has cast a spell on her. She believes in the spell and lives it…. Until one fine day , her knight in shining armour opens a sky of roses on her so that she can breathe an air that she has forgotten to breathe…
So, we look forward to Aarti's 'Once Upon A Time' receding away as a 'Happily Ever After' takes its first steps in her life tomorrow.
Are you ready for it, Princess? The Knight is on his way.
Love and luck always,
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Let me warn you at the start that this might probably not be the best book to cuddle up with at Christmas, for it's about as far removed from a jolly festive read as can be imagined. At least Dickens's 'Christmas Carol' has a happy ending. This does not. In literary terms, this is 'Fairytale of New York' (which with its encounter and dialogue between an alcoholic and a streetwalker is anything but a fairytale), rather than the sleighbell confectionery of 'Winter Wonderland' or 'All I Want for Christmas is You'.
Published in 1939, the novel has as its central character Charley Mason, a 23-year-old Englishman who has been given an all-expenses paid couple of days in Paris as a treat, after having worked in his father's office for a year and passed his final exams. He has been to the city before with the family, but as he takes the train from Victoria to sail to Calais on Christmas Eve, this is his first time there alone. Although the political situation in Europe is casting a long shadow,he is planning to have the time of his life as he meets up with his old schoolfriend Simon Fenimore for a good time.
Simon has found a job in Paris as a foreign correspondent and intends to get some experience of Europe before returning to England and standing for Parliament as a Labour candidate. Always more radical and left-inclined than Charley, he has become a communist, increasingly contemptuous of what he sees as his old friend's cosy middle-class family and outlook, and so it appears, his personality as well, if not the human race. As Charley later muses to himself, Simon has become 'as mad as a hatter', and seems to be preaching revolution with bitter earnestness. Keen to try and shock Charley out of his (and his family's) narrow little world, he knows what Charley has really come to Paris for, and has in fact has tacitly been encouraged by his father, who sees no reason why the lad shouldn't sow a few wild oats while he's unattached - and takes him to a brothel.
There Charley is introduced to Lydia, a young Russian woman who was left homeless after the outbreak of the Bolshevik revolution and fled the country. In France she married Robert Berger, who turned out to be a drug dealer and was later sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude for murder. Having covered the trial for the press, Simon is well aware of this, and knew exactly what he was letting his friend in for. She has since had to go into prostitution in order to make ends meet. They spend Christmas Day together and she tells him the story of her unhappy life. He suggests that they visit the Louvre together, as he and his family have always been fascinated by art and this was one of the sights he came to see, but as they walk through the galleries he is slightly saddened, even irritated, when he finds her totally unmoved by the pictures about which he feels so passionately.
That night they sleep together - in the sense that they sleep in the same bed. For she is far too tired and he too emotionally overwrought for there to be any possibility of making love with each other. It proves to be the high point of his Christmas holiday. or perhaps the least low of all the low points. What happens then - that's for you as the reader to discover.
As a novel, perhaps it is comparable with Christopher Isherwood's 'Goodbye to Berlin' in that both capture a snapshot of Europe immediately before the Second World War. I tried reading the latter a few years ago but totally failed to get into it, and barely reached halfway before putting it aside. On the other hand, I have read 'Christmas Holiday' twice - once in my teens, soon after I discovered Maugham and read almost everything by him that I could get my hands on, and again very recently after I had completely forgotten almost everything about it.
It is an uncomfortable and pretty cheerless novel, but quite a page turner in its way. Maugham was not the jolliest of souls, but he is a master storyteller in pushing the plot forward and evoking the atmosphere of Paris in that last pre-war Christmas, conveying how it must have felt for a young man at what should have been the happiest time of the year, away from his family, suddenly discovering that the man he thought to be his lifelong friend has turned out to be anything but. It appears that he had some kind of mission in writing the book, in order to try and shake the British out of their complacency about what was happening in Europe during the late 1930s. If you're prepared for a depressing but oddly engrossing read, I would certainly recommend it.
'Christmas Holiday' was filmed in 1944. I've never seen it, but it appears that Hollywood took more than a few liberties with the plot and the setting. If Maugham ever watched it himself, he would probably have wondered why they even used the title of his book.
At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business, he is now looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon Fenimore, his oldest friend. Yet Paris is not what he expects. And in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the horror and ugly drama of its underworld. Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, Maugham's purpose in Christmas Holiday was to warn the complacent, insular British middle-class of the immense upheavals taking place on the Continent.


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All eyes were on Nick Montana at Wednesday's practice, begging the question: Where's Keith Price?
Montana took first unit snaps at the University of Washington while Price seemed to blend into the background. Coach Steve Sarkisian said that although Price was moving around better than he was the past two days, the issue is with mobility and the current inability to avoid inevitable game-day hits.
Sarkisian also has said that there is no structural damage to Price's knee, however, it is sprained and swollen.
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Price was scheduled to get treatment Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Thursday, Sarkisian said he will probably make the call on who will be starting in Saturday's game at Oregon State - but he will only be telling the team.
Sarkisian doesn't seem worried about the possibility of Montana making his first career start for Washington (6-4).
"I think he's gotten better consistently the entire time he's been here," said Sarkisian, "especially the last month."
Now that Montana has had time experiencing how fast the game is, Sarkisian said there is a noticeable difference in his ability and accuracy.
Looking ahead to the game against Oregon State, Sarkisian noted two of the many variables the Huskies will face.
"The weather is one," he said. "Two, you're on the road in a hostile environment with a kid who is potentially making his first start."
Sarkisian described the Beavers (2-8) as a good team that is well coached, plays hard at home and has good fans to cheer them on.
Past history shows that when Washington plays Oregon State in Corvallis, "they (the Beavers) play really well. They don't make any mistakes."
In order for the Huskies to win on Saturday, Sarkisian said the team will have to go with the mindset of also playing well and executing their plays with amazing effort.
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Price is frustrated, naturally, since he is such a competitor, said Sarkisian.
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This past weekend, I guided the Birding Club of Costa Rica's trip to Esquinas Rainforest Lodge and surroundings. I've been there once before and as with that first experience, I am just dying to get back there!
The birding is pretty much first rate, the herps are pretty darn good too, the service is excellent, they have trained, bilingual guides, the service is good, and the food is excellent. It's no wonder that guidebooks have raved about the place and called it one of the top eco-lodges in the country. After the recent trip, I have to say that I agree with those accolades.
Watching birds at Esquinas Rainforest Lodge.
I won't bore with too many details about the lodge because there's too much to say about the birds. The road from the highway to the lodge passes through fields and edge habitats that turn up rather local species in Costa Rica such as Pale-breasted Spinetail, Ruddy-breasted Seedeater, Red-breasted Blackbird, Scrub Greenlet, and others. Even though we started birding that road at the hot lowland hour of 11:30 A.M., we picked up several of the targets in less than an hour. The spinetail came to the edge of the road and as several birds bathed in puddles, we got great looks at the seedeater as it perched in a roadside tree.
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater.
Those bathing birds.
Smooth-billed Anis also put on a long-tailed, arch-billed show.
Other interesting species could certainly occur in the marshy ditches that run along part of the road but we didn't have time to adequately investigate them (nor good access).
Rice fields near the lodge have unfortunately been converted into pasture but they still held Southern Lapwing, Red-breasted Blackbird, and Striped Cuckoo among other species. At Esquinas itself, the gardens around the lodge were busy with birds more or less all day long and provided easy looks at a good variety of edge and forest species. Just after dawn, I saw more than one Black-faced Antthrush doing its rail-walk through the gardens and even near the rooms. Gray-chested Doves were also easily seen at that hour while Orange-billed Sparrows hopped around in plain view throughout the day.
We got repeated, great looks at nice birds like Green Honeycreeper, Golden-naped Woodpecker, Spot-crowned Euphonia, Cherrie's Tanager, Bananaquit, Riverside Wren, Chestnut-backed Antbird, Black-hooded Antshrike, Yellow Tyrannulet, and brief views of less common species such as Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet, White-vented Euphonia, and Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager. Gray-necked Wood-Rails were common and easy to see every day of the trip and on the last morning, we got killer looks at Great Curassows feeding in the garden (!). After my recent experience at Esquinas, I think this lodge tops La Selva for curassow encounters.
When I showed my daughter this photo she said it was a peacock.
We also saw Gray-headed Tanagers on several occasions.
A Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher was nesting over the stream and thus allowed prolonged studies of this smart little rainforest flycatcher.
Crested Guans hung out and called from the canopy in the morning and we got scope views of Mealy and Blue-headed Parrots and Orange-chinned Parakeets while four other Psittacid species were flyovers. A pair of Spectacled Owls also called from the vicinity of the lodge and the place looks very promising for owls in general. On our one owl search, although we didn't hear any (probably wrong time of the year), we got fantastic looks at a Striped Owl in the fields just before reaching the lodge. On another night, some of the group did a fantastic frog tour with the excellent local guide, Mario while my friend Susan and I searched for frogs and snakes on our own. In a matter of minutes, we saw several frogs and this Blunt-headed Snake with an anole in its jaws!
The gardens were also excellent for hummingbirds and we recorded a total of 11 species during our stay. Charming Hummingbird was the most common species.
Here you can see why the Charming Hummingbird was formerly known as Beryl-crowned Hummingbird.
Nesting Bronzy Hermit constantly posed for photos!
Although the lodge has trails through primary and secondary forest, we spent little on them because several are steep and slippery. Our one foray onto parts of the Bird Trail turned up very few species but we spent little time on it and it looked promising. A few of us did a bit of birding on the Laguna Trail and we got great looks at Black-bellied Wren, Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager, Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher, Eye-ringed Flatbill, Tawny-winged Woodcreeper, Orange-collared Manakin, and other species of old second growth.
I was a bit surprised by the dearth of trogons (heard 3 species, only saw one) and raptors seem scarce but overall, the birding was great and we recorded more than 160 species. Several of those were uncommon, I was impressed with the excellent looks that we got at most of them, and the photo opps for birds were likewise excellent. For example, on our final morning, I was amazed to get this shot…
Little Tinamou !- although common, this second growth skulker is typically shy and tough to see. This individual came right to the edge of the road and looked at us! Yes, Esquinas is pretty darn good. It's expensive but you truly get what you pay for and some at this first class eco-lodge.
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Pat O'Donnell started watching birds at the age of seven in Niagara Falls, New York. The birding was good in western New York but no amount of gulls could distract him from the siren song of neotropical birds. Ever since a first, fateful trip to Costa Rica in 1992, he has focused on the incredible wealth of birds found in the American Tropics. A biologist by training, Pat has participated in ornithological studies in North America and Peru, and has birded in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. A freelance writer and bird guide, he resides in Costa Rica with his wife and daughter. Pat also blogs about birds and birding in Costa Rica at http://birdingcraft.com/wordpress
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UK's Independent Writes of Prof. Matt Hertenstein's Research on Communicating through Touch
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October 10, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - An article on the therapeutic effects of touch on pain and fighting disease, published in today's edition of the UK's Independent, cites the research of a DePauw University professor and his students. Recent studies "may explain why the touch of a loved one can be therapeutic. But they do not explain why the touch of practitioners and strangers can have a similar effect," writes the Independent's Roger Dobson. "At DePauw University in Indiana, Dr. Matthew Hertenstein may have found an answer. He has discovered that touch communicates emotions. When people were touched by a stranger they could not see, who had been instructed to try to communicate a particular emotion, they were able to tell the emotional state of the other person with great accuracy."
Dobson continues, "The findings show that people can communicate several distinct emotions through touch alone, including anger, fear, disgust, love, gratitude, and sympathy. Accuracy rates ranged from 48 per cent to 83 per cent, comparable with those found in studies of emotions shown in faces and voices."
Hertenstein, assistant professor of psychology at DePauw, tells the Independent, "The evidence indicates that humans can communicate several distinct emotions through touch. Our study is the first to provide rigorous evidence showing that humans can reliably signal love, gratitude and sympathy with touch. These findings raise the interesting possibility that touch may convey more positive emotions than the face."
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NEW YORK — A chilling photograph of small boy, gnawing on a pistol clutched in his tiny hands, dressed in camouflage and with a grenade and ammunition belt in his lap, was recovered from the weapon-filled home of the Sandy Hook school killer Adam Lanza.
The picture, released as part of the final police report into America's worst school massacre, shows a toddler who looks barely half the age of the six- and seven-year-old children shot dead in their classrooms last December.
It was unclear whether the child in the uncaptioned photograph was Lanza or his older brother Ryan, both of whom were reportedly taught to shoot almost as soon as they could hold a weapon by their mother Nancy, a gun fanatic.
The image, which shows an open gunrack with at least eight weapons behind the toddler, was part of more than 7,000 pages of documents, photographs videos and audio recordings made public by the Connecticut authorities.
The report provided the most detailed account of the morning when Lanza shot his mother dead in her bed, then gunned down 20 first-year children and six staff at Sandy Hook elementary school before taking his own life as police arrived.
His rampage began hours after Mrs. Lanza returned from a test trip away designed to demonstrate that Lanza could stay at home alone.
An unidentified witness said Lanza "apparently felt" that his mother, a volunteer at the elementary school he once attended, loved the children there more than him.
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The authorities released a summary of the report last month. That account detailed how, for his final three months, Lanza would communicate with his mother only by email and virtually never left his bedroom, in which the windows were covered with black garbage bags.
That summary also recorded his fascination with massacres, keeping a spreadsheet of shootings dating back to 1891. He downloaded material about two boys who shot 12 students and a teacher at Columbine high school in 1999.
The authorities heavily edited the final reports and photographs to protect the names of children and withhold some of the most gruesome details, but it still conveys the horror of those six minutes inside the school.
There were also photographs inside the Lanza home showing rounds of ammunition, gun magazines, shot-up paper targets from a practice range, gun cases and an open gun safe with a rifle in it.
A rifle was seen on the floor of the bedroom where Lanza shot his mother as she lay. Near it was a book titled Train Your Brain to Get Happy.
The New York Daily News quoted an unnamed source as saying that the boy photographed holding a pistol was Adam. A representative for Mrs. Lanza's ex-husband Peter told The New York Post that the child was not Adam, but did not identify him.
However, in a book released last month, Marvin LaFontaine, an old family friend, described how Adam was "comfortable with a firearm" at the age of four. He said Mrs. Lanza would take her two young sons to his property for shooting practice. "From the beginning you could tell that Adam liked the feel of the gun in his hands," he said. The book, Newtown: An American Tragedy, continued: "Adam's tiny face would tense up as he concentrated while his mother would patiently go over, step by step, the proper hold and technique for the firearm."
The new report details how Lanza went on his killing spree the morning after his mother returned from a two-day trip to New Hampshire. She told a friend that she took the excursion "as an experiment to allow Adam to stay at home alone for a few days."
A former teacher told investigators that, as a teenager, Lanza showed anti-social behaviour, rarely mixed with other students and wrote obsessively "about battles, destruction and war." The teacher said: "I have known boys to talk about things like this, but Adam's level of violence was disturbing. [His] creative writing was so graphic that it could not be shared."
The documents also gave the fullest version of the terrifying events inside the school after Lanza shot his way in through the locked front door at 9.34am. Rick Thorne, the janitor, was heard by other staff members confronting the heavily armed intruder. One teacher, who was hiding in a cupboard, heard Mr. Thorne yelling: "Put the gun down!" A teaching aide said that after she heard gunfire, the janitor told her to close her door and take cover. Mr. Thorne survived.
Kaitlin Roig, a teacher, described the blasts of "rapid-fire shooting" near her classroom. She rushed her charges into a bathroom, pulled a storage unit in front of the door as a barricade and then locked it. At one stage, she he heard a voice say, "Oh, please, no. Please, no."
When police arrived and slid their badges under the bathroom door, she refused to come out, telling them that if they were genuine, they would be able to find the key to open the door – which they did.
For others, there was no escape. Lt Christopher Vanghele described how he and another officer found about 15 bodies packed into another bathroom. So many had tried to hide that they apparently could not close the door as Lanza bore down on them.
Lanza was diagnosed in 2006 with "profound autism spectrum disorder, with rigidity, isolation and a lack of comprehension of ordinary social interaction and communications." He also displayed symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
But Robert King, a professor at Yale's Child Study Centre, told investigators that he observed nothing in the teenager's behaviour that would have predicted he would become a mass killer.
Kathleen Koenig, a nurse at the centre, said Lanza obsessively washed his hands and changed his socks up to 20 times a day.
She said Mrs. Lanza declined to give him prescribed anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication because she blamed the drugs for problems he had raising his arm.
Ms Koenig assured her that the medicine was not responsible, but to no avail, and Mrs. Lanza did not schedule a follow-up visit after her son missed an appointment.
Mrs. Lanza maintained an upbeat appearance with friends, even as she acknowledged that her son's problems were worsening. During her trip to New Hampshire, she "described a difficult life but gave the impression that she was courageous and 'handling everything'" to a male acquaintance over lunch.
She "accepted the obligations of caring for Adam" and was "very proud of Adam's accomplishments."
But the documents also throw lights on his decline. An ex-boyfriend told police that Mrs. Lanza cancelled a trip to London just days before shooting because of "a couple last-minute problems on the home front."
Despite living together, they communicated only by email and Lanza had told his mother that he would not feel bad if something happened to her.
Mrs. Lanza told a friend two weeks earlier that her son was "increasingly despondent" and that he had refused to leave his room for three months. She said that he had been sent "over the edge" after their house lost power following Hurricane Sandy in late October 2012.
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I have interviewed a few truly famous authors in my time. South Africa's Athol Fugard is one. Playwright August Wilson is another.
But the only famous author I can say that I truly knew was Dr. Ferrol Sams of Fayetteville. I got to know him as a newspaper man in the county seat of Fayette County. I was editor of the now defunct Fayette Sun, and you were not much of a news man if you didn't bump up against "Sambo" more than a few times in Fayette County.
Sambo was the good doctor's nickname from childhood, and it stuck, as mostly happens to folks who are born, live and die all in the same town. Almost everybody called him Sambo (I called him Dr. Sams), because 1) he was not pretentious in any way, and 2) he was such a genuine article. He truly liked people, and was pleased to be liked by others.
He led a most remarkable life. He grew up in the agricultural South before World War II. That is to say it was closer in many ways to 1840 than 1940. He and his wife Helen, also a doctor, (they met in Emory University Medical School, just like in the movies) settled down after the war to make their clinic the closest thing to a hospital Fayette County had.
That is how I first met Dr. Sams. When I came to Fayetteville in the 1980s, this county of 60,000 people had no hospital. It was a fast-growing suburban county by then. Peachtree City had sprung up just a few miles down Ga. 54 and was as cosmopolitan as any brand-new city could be.
It's still the city of golf carts.
But they had no hospital in those days because of the arcane "certificate of need" (CON) process then in place in Georgia. The idea was that it was not good for hospitals to compete, so any new hospital needed a CON to show that it would not hurt any other hospital within, oh, let's just say 50 miles.
Any CON in those days was immediately faced with a good half-dozen lawsuits – all filed by hospitals that wanted no kind of hospital that would in the least way impinge on their well-insured patients who might decide a 30-mile trip into Atlanta was not worth passing up a local hospital down the street – especially if they had just had a heart attack.
Well, you get the picture. Dr. Sams was one of the many community leaders who were fighting in the courts and at the Legislature for some sane solution that would give them a hospital.
That was my first big story in Fayetteville, and I must say when the courts finally granted the CON, every hospital that argued there was no need for one in Fayette County was there to file their own application to build their own – well respected institutions of healing, every one, but as hypocritical a TV evangelist.
So that is how I got to know Dr. Sams, which is as familiar as I got with him. But I also got to know him as an author. Somewhere north of 50, Dr. Sams decided to put pen to paper and write what was to become his trilogy of growing up Southern. They are "Run with the Horsemen" (1984); "The Whisper of the River" (1986); and "When All the World Was Young" (1992). I had it on good authority that the books were loosely autobiographical.
When he writes about plowing his father's field with a mule, he writes with the conviction of one who has done it. And if you read the opening chapter of "Run with the Horsemen," you will never think of plowing behind a mule in quite the same way.
The director of the Fayette County Historical Society told me that the people of Fayetteville could tell you who the "real" characters were portrayed in his books. Except that they would not tell you unless you were born in Fayette County, because if you weren't born in Fayette, "Sambo's" books were not to be shared.
She told me she moved to Fayette County with her husband "only" 30 years ago, and thus native county folk would never confirm a suspicion for her.
What discomfited me about Dr. Sams was that he put the lie to all my reasons for never sitting down to write a book. In fact, I asked him how he found the time to write a novel (ultimately nine books and short story collections).
When he was writing, he would arise at 3 a.m. and write until 7 a.m. Then he would have breakfast and go to work.
See? It's really easy to find the time, I just never thought about it hard enough. There is more to it of course.
In his obituary in the New York Times, it quoted the paper's book reviewer who said, "The writing is elegant, reflective and amused. Mr. Sams is a storyteller sure of his audience, in no particular hurry and gifted with perfect timing."
I recommend his books. It is time I plowed those fields again myself as I am of an age when re-reading is very much like first-reading.
I had many conversations with Dr. Sams in the three short years I spent there. I treasured those moments, especially when we weren't talking local politics. If I was smart, I just kept my mouth shut and listened. Wish I'd said less.


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It delivers services to both individuals and companies ranging from information communication services to consulting. Currently it is servicing Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Assam, Kolkata, and North East service areas in India
Reliance communications has taken many initiatives to build a robust system of communication and telephony connecting over four lakhs of villages. Reliance Communications laid the largest optical fiber cable all over India covering over 135,000 kms from 2003-2005. It also reduced its 3G charges by more than 50% to attract subscription. Also, it has pioneered into building the 4G services that will be available pan India by the end of 2017, formerly known as Reliance Infotel Broadband services, Reliance Jio is a Mukesh Ambani initiative in collaboration with Reliance Communications to provide 4G services that will be based on LTE technology.
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Russell Crowe will make his directorial debut on a film covering the life of the late, revered comedian Bill Hicks. Hicks was just 32 when he died of pancreatic cancer in 1994.
This news comes courtesy of Australia's The Daily Telegraph, which spoke with the film's screenwriter Mark Staufer, who is Crowe's former schoolmate. Crowe will not star in the film, which is scheduled to start production early next year.
Film Drunk is frustrated about Crowe covering Hicks, stressing that the actor doesn't "understand comedy." Well, Bob Fosse wasn't a comedic genius and "Lenny" is a damn good movie because Lenny Bruce was hell-bent on being a martyr. And it's a safe bet that Crowe won't be directing a straight-up comedy since Hicks' life was turbulent. Check out this excerpt from "Entertainment Weekly's" terrific remembrance.
Hicks joined the comedy circuit for good in 1980. By 1983 he was opening for [Jay] Leno, which led to his first appearance on [David] Letterman's show. But the following year, Hicks took the drugs-and-drink detour. Night after night, he and [Sam] Kinison would stay up snorting coke, downing whiskey, and dissecting religion. (A spiritual man, Hicks had read the Bible several dozen times, studied Hindu texts, and meditated regularly.) The partying didn't help his act. "He'd have these terrible shows," says David Johndrow, a friend of Hicks' since high school. "By the end, he'd just be sitting on the edge of the stage, depressed, telling the audience how f—ed up they were and how f—ed up he was."
"I was an embarrassing drunk," Hicks once admitted. "I'd get pulled over by the cops and I'd be so drunk I'd be dancing in their lights thinking I'd made it to the next club. What's this, a leather bar?"
By most accounts, Hicks hit bottom in Austin, Tex., one night in 1988, when a bartender threw him up against a jukebox and broke his leg. Shortly thereafter he went cold turkey.
Of course, we don't know who's playing Hicks, the quality of the screenplay, or if Crowe picked up any tips working with the likes of Michael Mann and Ridley Scott. But the great comic's abrupt life seems to fit Crowe's intense sensibilities. That has to count for something.


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Let's say that your phone rings tomorrow morning, and it's a call from the manager of your bank. He tells you, "I received a very unusual call the other day. Someone who loves you very much and is quite wealthy has given you a large sum of money. This anonymous donor will be depositing 86,400 cents into your account every single day."
"How's that again?" you ask.
"Every single day, this person will deposit 86,400 cents into your account."
Is that much money? you wonder at first. Then you get out your calculator and figure out that it amounts to $864 every day. That's pretty good, you're thinking.
"But there is one condition," the banker continues. "You have to spend it every single day. You can't save it up. You can't add it to the next day's balance. Every day, you must spend that money. What is not spent will be taken away. This person will do this each and every day, but the condition is that you must spend the money."
So you go back to your calculator and figure out that $864 times 7 equals $6,048 per week. That amount, multiplied by 52, comes to $314,496 per year. That's a pretty good deal. And that is also a fantasy.
So let's deal with reality. Someone who really does love you very much deposits into your bank of time 86,400 seconds every single day. That someone is God. And the condition is that you must spend it. You can't save up time today and apply it toward tomorrow-there's no such thing as a 27-hour day. Each and every day, you have the opportunity to invest your precious commodity of time.
The psalmist wrote "Show me, O Lord, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life" (Psalm 39:4).
I also like the way Paul wrote about this in Ephesians 5:15-17 (NIV): "Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is."
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