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Fit at 68
Slowing down not partof his vocabulary.
Don't tell Robert Mann he's old.
Although he has no problem having birthdays and telling people his age, at 68 Mann gets angry when someone tells him he's old.
"Old is like a disease," he said.A self-described attention-deficit-disorder person, Mann does not let any grass grow under his feet.
"I don't go home and kick back because I don't even own a recliner," he said with laugh.
These days, his priority is biking—spinning his sleek Cannondale down the highways and byways of Nebraska.
Mann rides paved roads generally in the spring, summer and fall and jumps on a sturdier mountain bike for jaunts in the south hills during winter.
"It puts me on a high," Mann said. "If I get up in the morning and can't go right away because of weather, I keep watching until I can go."
If he doesn't get a chance to ride at all, it bothers him all day long, he said.
A look at Mann's calendar shows scribbles of mileage on nearly every day of the year—usually between 20 to 25 miles—plus a blurb about weather conditions daily.
Mann has ridden bikes all of his life but "more in earnest" the past 12 years.
That came about when he taught shop in Durango, CO, and a student introduced him to bike trails around the Colorado mountain town.
Mann admits to liking mountain bike riding the most even though he travels more miles in less time atop a road bike.
Depending on wind conditions, he can finish a road bike ride in about an hour and 15 minutes.
His goal for 2009 is to ride 4,000 miles. With 3,886 under his bike shorts already, Mann has pushed that target to 4,500.
Mann is not new to the Gothenburg area.
He lived in Gothenburg from 1972 through 1985 when he taught high school shop before quitting for a few years to pursue woodworking on his own.
After a move to Colorado in 1988, he later retired and returned to Gothenburg in 2004 because of the "friendliness of the people."
Mann described the Durango area as unfriendly to bikers.
"There was a guy who took swipes at bicyclists with his pickup," he said. "Here, people move all the way over when you're riding.
"They're friendly on the road and friendly everywhere."
In fact when he first moved back, he said some of the ranchers in the south hills were surprised to "see a guy in Spandex riding the pastures."
Now they're accustomed to seeing a gray-haired man on a bike wearing spandex shorts.
While in Gothenburg the first time, in 1972, Mann started exercising on a regular basis.
That was when he had a flight medical exam and was told by the doctor he was overweight at 200 pounds and had high blood pressure.
The doctor told Mann he had a diet for him.
"He told me topush myself away from the table."
Because Mann wanted a pilot's license and to be in better shape, he started roller skating, dropped 35 pounds, got his pilot's license and built two airplanes.
"Roger Peden gave me something that's just pretty neat," Mann said about the former airport manager and flight instructor who taught him to fly.
In the late 70s, he became an avid runner until injuring an ankle.
These days, he said he's proud of what he's doing whether it's biking, rebuilding his country home, rowing up the Tri-County canal, cross-country skiing, baking bread or a jumble of other activities.
"My soul belongs to God but my body belongs to me," he said, quoting Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin. "We should be responsible and take care of our bodies."
So far, Mann said he's not encountered anything he wants to do but can't physically even though he admits to losing some of his strength.
"When I do, it might be a big shock."
In the meantime, Mann plans to continue road and hill riding—especially on each birthday.
For his 68th birthday, Mann rode 68 miles from Gothenburg to Arnold to Dunning.
The Arnold-Dunning route is one of his favorites.
"Because I'm out in the middle of nowhere," he said.
His No. 2 favorite is a winding, seldom-traveled road from Brady into Wild Horse Valley.
The most traveled route is from Gothenburg to Cozad on a paved county road south of town.
Mann said he intends to bike until "the day before I take up residence at Ft. McPherson National Cemetery."
Until then, wave when you see a gray-haired man in spandex shorts pedaling down the highway.
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BTC REPORTS: Protecting the Child in Need: The past, present and future of More at Four
BTC REPORTS, April 2009
By Steve Jackson, Public Policy Analyst
Executive Summary
• There are currently legislative proposals to alter the administration, eligibility criteria and funding levels of More at Four, North Carolina's nationally lauded education program for at-risk four-year olds.
• High-quality pre-kindergarten programs targeted at low-income children at risk of later academic failure are proven to have net economic benefits. A dollar spent today can save many more dollars later in welfare, education, health and justice-related expenditures.
• More at Four is a high-quality program that served around 30,000 children in 2007-2008. Eligibility for the program is narrowly targeted at low-income and special-needs children. Three-quarters of enrollees come from families with incomes at or below 130% of the federal poverty level and therefore qualify for free lunches. More than half of the children served in 2007-2008 had never been in a formal childcare or pre-school setting prior to entering More at Four; nearly every one of these children qualified for free or reduced-price lunches.
• Class sizes are small, teacher quality is high and there is evidence that the program is spurring an across-the-board improvement in teacher knowledge, especially in More at Four classrooms in public schools.
• Successive reviews by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have concluded that learning rates in More at Four classrooms exceed forecasts and that students who have special needs learn at the same rates, at least, as their classmates.
• Teaching literacy skills to children before elementary school is vital; reading is essential to later learning. The quality of More at Four literacy instruction is high and is continuing to improve.
• Policymakers wanting to change More at Four should tread lightly. Any changes to eligibility rules need to protect child welfare first. Judgments of parents and their characteristics, history or status should be set aside. What matters is the emotional and material existence of the child.
• Changes to budgets should be done so that classroom instruction quality is not compromised. If difficult budget choices are to be made, funding per slot should be held constant.
• Administrative change must not come at the expense of child welfare. The process should be examined carefully before administrative changes and mergers with other programs are begun in order to properly assess any costs and benefits. Acting in haste now, especially considering the minor short-term savings may hurt child welfare. Using administrative change to initiate cuts that affect classroom instruction should be rejected.

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This sounds strange, but Ash Wednesday is one of my favorite days. We get to tell the truth, about THE FACT THAT WE'RE DUST, that our lives will end, and that even if we try our best, we are going to mess up. People bring back the palms they got on Palm Sunday [last year and then] stuck behind a mirror or on a mantel. On the SUNDAY BEFORE ASH WEDNESDAY, after the service, we invite anybody who wants to come outside. We have this setup called the "holy hibachi." It's basically a little hibachi that has stones around it. We say A PRAYER OVER THE PALMS AND WE BURN THEM. It's a bit of a messy process. I put them through a sieve and then use a mortar and pestle to grind them up. You want them to be really fine, because you don't want to scratch people's foreheads. I then mix in some chrism, usually olive oil that has been blessed and we use at baptisms. The first time I saw it done was like 14 years ago, at the church I served in Milwaukee. I think [those congregations that buy ashes online] miss a huge opportunity to LIVE THEIR FAITH. There's something that's lost when they come in a sterile form, neatly packaged. There's something lost about the mess and the risk. When I was in college, I went to an Ash Wednesday service and the person in front of me in line was BROOKE SHIELDS. That was stunning to me that she was going to hear the same words I was; both of us were being CALLED TO FACE OUR MORTALITY. "You are dust, and to dust you shall return." — As told to Elliott Davis
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Three misplaced changeups put the Milwaukee Brewers in too deep of a hole against the Texas Rangers.
Especially with Kyle Lohse pitching.
The Rangers scored one run in each of the first three innings off Lohse en route to a 4-1 victory on Wednesday night.
In Lohse's seven starts this season, the Brewers have scored a total of 14 runs. In his four losses, they've scored two.
"It's not something that I'm going around hanging my head about or saying anything, these guys are trying hard," said Lohse (1-4), who was signed as a free agent just before the start of the season after going 16-3 with a 2.86 ERA last year with St. Louis.
Lohse (1-4) allowed four runs on nine hits in 6 1-3 innings.
"I don't worry about what our offense does," Lohse said. "I've got to concentrate on what I'm doing out there. That's all I can control. If I make better pitches, we don't need runs."
Derek Holland allowed one run over seven shaky innings and Texas benefited from two Milwaukee baserunning blunders.
Holland (3-2), who struck out six and walked none, yielded 10 hits — including two in the second, three in the third and three in the sixth. He escaped with the help of some sloppy baserunning by the Brewers, who had a runner thrown out at the plate to end the third and another thrown out at third base in the sixth.
"I was making my pitches and you've got to give our defense credit," Holland said. "The play at the plate was huge."
Tanner Scheppers pitched the eighth and Joe Nathan finished for his ninth save. The Rangers remain the only team in either league without a blown save, 10 for 10.
Ian Kinsler and Mitch Moreland each homered for Texas.
Lohse escaped a 33-pitch first inning, allowing just one run, despite three consecutive singles to open and a one-out walk. He escaped a bases-loaded jam by striking out Geovany Soto and David Murphy to end the inning.
"To start off the game, they came out swinging and finding holes," Lohse said. "The first two guys, the ball didn't leave the infield. I got myself in a jam. Then I left a changeup up to (Adrian) Beltre. That was the pitch that hurt me was my changeup. I left one up to him, I left one up to Kinsler and I left one up to Moreland. I've got to do a better job of executing."
Kinsler's seventh homer, a two-out shot to left field, made it 2-0 in the second. Moreland increased the lead in the third with another solo homer, his sixth.
"We haven't really hit for him," said Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy. "It's a shame. He really pitched well and gave us a chance to win."
Milwaukee cut the lead to 3-1 in the sixth, but managed just one run despite two triples and a double. Ryan Braun, who extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a third-inning single, led off with a triple and Aramis Ramirez followed with an RBI double to right-center.
Ramirez , still rounding into shape after missing 23 games with a sprained knee, was out trying to advance to third when the ball squirted away from catcher Soto, who recovered in time to make the throw.
"Aramis, that's a judgment call," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "He thought he could make it easy. Sometimes you see things a little different. Any time a ball bounces off a catcher and rolls off, your instincts take over as to whether to go or not."
Carlos Gomez tripled with two outs when right fielder Nelson Cruz misplayed a fly ball, but struggling Rickie Weeks grounded out to end the inning.
The Rangers added a run in the seventh on Moreland's RBI single.
Texas center fielder Leonys Martin prevented another run in the third, throwing out Jean Segura on a slide at home to end the inning. Segura tried to score from second on Ramirez's single.
"Segura did slide at home, but he slowed up a little bit because they deked him," Roenicke said. "He should have ran hard and slid."
Gomez also had two singles and a double, extending his hitting streak to a career-high 14 games and raising his league-leading average to .386.
"We had a couple opportunities, but Holland knows what he's doing," Roenicke said. "I think he steps it up when he's got people on base. All of a sudden you see the 95s. He's got good stuff. He can get out of jams."
NOTES: Weeks, mired in a horrible slump, was dropped to seventh in the batting order for the first time this season. Weeks went 0 for 3, dropping his average to .188. ... With the victory, the Rangers avoided their first three-game losing streak. ... With his two hits, Braun extended his interleague hitting streak to 30 games, trailing only Matt Lawton (37 games) and Ichiro Suzuki (31 games) for longest all-time. ... The Brewers have scored just 14 runs in Lohse's seven starts this season. ... Moreland has homered in consecutive games for the first time since Aug. 17-19, 2011 against the Chicago White Sox. ... After a disappointing 3-6 homestand, the Brewers have an off day before starting a 10-game road trip to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and St. Louis — the three teams in front of them in the Central Division.


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Manteca, CA
Karen Eileen Lindeman
June 24, 1952 - December 26, 2012
Karen Eileen Lindeman, 60, entered into rest on December 26, 2012 in Manteca. She was born on
June 24, 1952 Stockton. She was a resident of Manteca for over 30 years.
Ms. Lindeman is survived by her two loving daughters Sara Whetten (Wayne) and Savannah Cox. She was blessed with three grandchildren Noelle, Hailey and Konner Whetten. Her two sisters are Janet Fiore (Frank) and Denise Ahearn. In addition she had many nieces and nephews who she adored; Ashley Ahearn, Stephanie Farmer, Amie Mullen, Todd Fiore (Heather),
Denise Newell, and Gina Rosomond (Joe). She also had numerous extended family members who loved her dearly.
Karen worked for MUSD for over 20 years. For the past 10 years she worked at East Union High School as a Librarian. To keep busy Karen also worked a second job which she thoroughly enjoyed as a Barista at Starbucks for the past 7 years. She always lived by the Mother Teresa quote "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle; I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
P.L. Fry & Son is honored to be serving the Lindeman family. Graveside Service will be held on Friday January 4, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. held at Park View Cemetery. Following the Graveside Memorial will be at 12:30 p.m. held the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, 1233 Northgate Dr., Manteca. An online guest book is available for condolences at www.plfryandson.com (search obituaries).


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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Unilever PLC, the maker of consumer products such as Dove soaps and Magnum ice cream, says sales rose 7.8 percent to €12.6 billion ($16.8 billion) in the fourth quarter thanks to strong demand in developing economies, the company's biggest market in 2012.
Along with the fourth-quarter figures, the company reported full-year net profit was up 4.5 percent to €4.25 billion, on sales that were 10.5 percent higher to €51.3 billion.
The company said Wednesday it improved full-year profit margins by 0.3 percentage points to 13.8 percent, despite higher commodity costs, by hiking prices, cutting costs, and selling more higher-margin products.
The margin improvement is impressive for a company of Unilever's size, especially amid a weak global economy, though Europe, the weakest region geographically, has become less central to the Anglo-Dutch company's fortunes.
"Unilever delivered a stellar performance in the fourth quarter," said analyst Richard Withagen of SNS Securities. "Top-line growth continues to exceed expectations, while the operating margin was broadly in line with estimates."
Shares rose 2 percent in Amsterdam to €30.07, a 52-week high.
Chief executive Paul Polman said that in 2013 the company is targeting "another year of profitable volume growth ahead of our markets, steady and sustainable core operating margin improvement and strong cash flow."
Sales figures for the fourth quarter clearly showed the skew between economies, with growth of 11 percent in developing countries, compared with only 4 percent in mature economies. In Europe, fourth-quarter sales were up 0.2 percent, as selling prices fell but volumes grew slightly more.
Among product categories, the standout continued to be Unilever's personal care division, where sales increased 12 percent, with more than 7 percent of that due to volume growth. The company said it is benefitting from recent acquisitions, as it uses its marketing muscles to increase sales of brands such as hair product Tresemmme. Unilever said the brand performed very well in Brazil, and has been rolled out in India and Indonesia, where it will have room to grow.
Unilever also owns Axe, Rexona and Sunsilk, a brand which passed a billion euros in sales for the first time last year.
The company said it saw strong growth at its refreshments division, which includes Lipton tea and Magnum ice cream, another brand that passed a billion in full-year sales.
"Ben & Jerry's also performed well although we saw intense competition in take home ice cream, particularly in the U.S.," the company said.
Unilever said its weakest category was foods, where it sells Knorr soups, Hellmann's mayonnaise and Becel spreads, among others. Unilever said that demand for spreads was weak and the company was forced to lower prices, while competition is fierce in other areas, and it is being forced to invest heavily in advertising, hurting margins.


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An Alabama police officer is on administrative leave during an investigation into his alleged shooting of a deer on federal property while on duty.
A Muscle Shoals officer has been accused of shooting a deer on Tennessee Valley Authority property while on duty, according to the Decatur Daily newspaper.
Officials with the Muscle Shoals police department, TVA and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources declined comment to the Daily. The case is under review by those agencies along with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation.
No charges have been filed yet.
For the full story from the Daily, click here.
The Daily reported here that 47-year old Greg Scoggins of Muscle Shoals was terminated Dec. 27 by the Muscle Shoals Police Department and has been charged with three misdemeanors.
Scoggins was charged by the Alabama Department of Conservation Game and Fish Division with reckless endangerment, hunting without a permit and hunting with the aid of a motor vehicle. He was released on signature bond after being arrested Friday, Dec. 27.
The reckless endangerment charge carries a year in jail and fine upon conviction. The other two charges carry fines but no jail time.
All three charges are misdemeanors. Reckless endangerment is punishable by a year in jail and a fine if convicted, while the other two charges are punishable by fines.
Scoggins was an 11-year member of the Muscle Shoals Police Department. He reportedly used his own personal rifle to shoot the deer from his patrol car after bringing the firearm from his home.
Fired police officer Greg Scoggins plans to appeal his dismissal, with his attorney, Billy Underwood, serving notice to city officials to do so as is required.
Part of the appeal notice letter indicated Scoggins may have performed a public service by killing the deer on federal property in the middle of the night with his personal rifle from a police vehicle.
"This probably would be a good opportunity to do something to keep someone from being killed by a deer crossing Second Street into the city limits from the TVA Reservation. It's a hazard that may have grave consequences," Underwood wrote in the letter.
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Davante Gardner scored 26 points and Jake Thomas added a career-high 22 points to lead Marquette to 75-73 win over Georgetown Thursday.
The win was Marquette's fifth in its last sixth games as the Golden Eagles (17-11, 9-6 Big East) try to capture a berth in the NCAA tournament. The Golden Eagles now face a tough two-game road trip at 8th ranked Villanova on March 2 and at Providence on March 4 before closing out the regular season at home against St. John's March 8.
Georgetown (16-12, 7-9), which is also fighting to get an NCAA tournament bid, lost for the third time in its last four games. The Hoyas were done in by poor shooting, hitting just 7 of 26 shots in the second half.
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Jeannette's Striking Striped Kitchen
Jeannette's tiny kitchen is right in the middle of her 900-square-foot apartment, which is actually just one big room comprised of the entryway, living room, dining room and kitchen. While she admits her ideal kitchen would have "a concrete countertop and subway tiles to the ceiling," she made the most of the space by painting large black stripes on the kitchen wall!
The stripes turned the kitchen into a dramatic focal point. It fits in quite clearly with her home and kitchen design advice:
Think of your space as an art project. There's nothing you're stuck with, so feel free to bring new things in, and take old things out; have fun and let the space evolve to be an expression of who you are in the moment, on any given day, or week, or year.
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Do you use browser extensions to manage your social media?
Are you looking for more browser-based tools?
There are a number of options to help community managers kick normal workflows into hyperdrive.
In this article, you'll discover five web apps and extensions to turn your browser into a productive social media machine.
Why Web Browser Apps and Extensions?
With a bit of retooling, browsers can become the perfect place to manage your social networks and services by building a personalized combination of apps and extensions to handle the unique needs of your online presence.
It's up to you which browser you use, but I suggest Chrome. Not only is it the most widely used browser (at 56%), it's also the platform where the most exciting web development is happening right now.
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By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a property-rights case that could have national implications about what government can require landowners to do in exchange for allowing them to develop their property.
The plaintiff, Coy Koontz Jr., took over the case for his deceased father who in 1994 sued Florida's St. Johns River Water Management District after it denied him permits to dredge and fill in wetlands on his 15-acre (6-hectare) parcel because of concerns about possible environmental damage.
Koontz's original development plan called for destroying more than three acres of protected wetlands in the Econlockhatchee River Hydrologic Basin near Orlando, Florida.
Koontz offered to mitigate the damage by preserving about 11 acres of the site, but the water management district told him the law required him to do more.
The district offered several solutions, including reducing the size of his proposed building project to one acre, or making improvements to wetlands somewhere else in the Econ Basin. Koontz refused and sued.
Koontz won in trial court in 2002, and subsequently on appeal, with a lower court finding that the district failed to show a relationship between the harm that would be caused by Koontz's proposed development and the district's suggested improvement of wetlands a few miles away.
The court also found that the district's refusal to grant the permits was a "temporary taking" of his land, and awarded him $327,500 in damages.
However, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the decision.
Koontz's attorney, Paul Beard II, of the Pacific Legal Foundation called the district's suggestion that Koontz improve off-site wetlands in exchange for a permit "extortion."
"It happens every day all across the country," Beard said.
William Congdon Jr., who represents the district, said the case has the potential to impact the way that government regulators can negotiate with landowners.
"I consider it good government that if you're going to deny someone's application, you should tell them what they need to do to fix it," Congdon said. "The upshot of this is that by telling people what you can do, you set yourself up for this sort of exaction-taking claim that we have here."
The property remains undeveloped. During the initial trial, the wetlands on Koontz's property dried up for unknown reasons to the extent that only one acre of wetlands would be destroyed by Koontz's development plan, according to Congdon.
As such, the district granted the permits to Koontz who subsequently sold the property, Congdon said.
The case is Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 11-1447.
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By Brendan O'Brien
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A single bullet hole.
Surrounded by peeling orange paint. Marked by a small plaque inscribed with "We Are One" and "8-5-12."
While diminutive, it is a powerful reminder to those who come now to pray here of the carnage that descended on this Sikh temple nearly five months ago. A white supremacist went on a rampage, killing six worshipers and wounding four, including a police officer, before being shot by police and then taking his own life.
"We left one bullet hole to remember them ... to honor them by," said Kanwardeep Singh Kaleka, 29, a nephew of one of the victims and a member of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee.
"This is the one we wanted to keep to remember that day and what happened. For us, it was a very important day for all of us here. It changes our perspective on things," he said.
As they search for a way to cope with their loss, to remember and to honor the massacre's victims, Kaleka and his family and fellow congregants share a profoundly melancholic bond with hundreds of others from around the United States who survived or lost loved ones in one of the year's other shooting rampages.
In a country that averages nearly 11 shooting deaths per day -- more than 12,000 people were killed a year in gun-related homicides or accidents on average between 2008 and 2010, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence -- 2012's mass shootings have a distinct and tragic hue if for no other reason than the everyday nature of their locations.
In addition to the six dead in Oak Creek, the year's tally includes:
* Four killed in an Atlanta day spa in February
* Five killed at a Seattle coffee shop in May
* Six killed at a Minneapolis sign company in September
* Seven killed at an Oakland religious college in April
* Twelve killed and 58 wounded in a Denver-area movie theater in July
The most shattering of all, however, was also the year's last: Twenty six killed -- including 20 first graders and six adults -- at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"Particularly schools, Sandy Hook, when you are talking about kindergartners or first-graders being mowed down, that is something that is almost unimaginable," said Robert Sampson, a professor of social sciences at Harvard University.
In all, 140 people were killed or wounded in seven mass shootings in 2012, making it the bloodiest year for these types of incidents in modern U.S. history, according to an accounting by Mother Jones, the liberal-leaning magazine.
But as the nation struggles to come to grips with these horrific episodes and continues to grapple with its gun-control policies, researchers say it is too early to say if 2012 marks a broader trend of increasing mass shootings in the United States.
"There have been some years when there have been spikes and other years when there have been low points, but you can't say because we had one year in 2012 of a number of high profile cases that this is a trend. It's not," said Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, who writes a blog about crime and the justice system for the Boston Globe.
During the last 35 years, there has been an average of about 20 shooting rampages annually with about 100 casualties, according to Fox, who uses a broader definition of a mass shooting than Mother Jones.
"Some years we have several large ones and those are the times when people start talking (whether this) is a new thing, an epidemic. It's not. Because the following years, things are quieter," Fox said.
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PITTSBURGH — As a Red Cross employee during World War II, Elizabeth Black longed to be more than a "Donut Dolly," serving coffee and doughnuts to weary American soldiers in Europe. The Pittsburgh native possessed artistic skills, an engaging manner and a pretty face, with blue eyes and dark hair.
PITTSBURGH — As a Red Cross employee during World War II, Elizabeth Black longed to be more than a "Donut Dolly," serving coffee and doughnuts to weary American soldiers in Europe. The Pittsburgh native possessed artistic skills, an engaging manner and a pretty face, with blue eyes and dark hair.
She began sketching American soldiers and mailing her portraits to their anxious families back in the U.S., a project that carried her across England, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
Before the war ended, she had sketched more than 1,000 grateful GIs, including Leopold Koppel of Crafton Heights. Betty Koppel Houston, 77, was about 8 years old when her father's image, autographed to his wife, Betty, "with love and kisses," arrived rolled up in a mailing tube.
"I hadn't seen my dad. I was excited and my mother was excited. She thought it was a good likeness of my dad," Houston said, adding that her mother framed the picture and hung it in the family's living room, where it stayed for 45 years.
A documentary about Black, produced by WQED, aired locally last November. Since 2012, WQED producer David Solomon has managed to connect 30 families with images of their loved ones' portraits because Black photographed the sketches and kept four notebooks that soldiers signed with messages to her. Solomon is pursuing good leads on 25 people whose portraits can be seen at the website http://wqed.org/tv/specials/portraits.
"Portraits for the Home Front: The Story of Elizabeth Black" has been picked up for national broadcast by American Public Television. Since the documentary was broadcast locally last year, researchers from Connecticut to Hawaii have volunteered to help find relatives of people who sat for the artist.
Koppel, an infantryman who served with the Army in the Battle of the Bulge, was enjoying some rest and relaxation in Holland on Feb. 2, 1945, when Black sketched him. The drawing hangs today in Houston's Irwin home near the framed American flag that draped her father's casket in 2002.
Finding Houston was relatively easy compared with tracing "Lulu," the only woman in the 100 surviving portraits found by Black's son, John, in a trunk in 2010. Debby Griffith MacSwain, a Colorado woman who served in Vietnam and is president of the American Red Cross Overseas Association, found that Lulu was Mary Louise Weller Chapman, 95, of Berkeley, Calif.
In a telephone interview, Chapman said she served overseas with the Red Cross during World War II. She retired in 1984 and spent much of her career as the youth director for the Red Cross Bay Area chapter. Last year, she celebrated 70 years with the organization and still helps select young Red Cross volunteers from all over the world who apply for a leadership scholarship that bears her name.
During the 1940s, Chapman was teaching physical education to elementary students in Tarrytown, N.Y., and wondering how to help the war effort. "Everybody was doing something," she said.
Inspiration struck when she saw an ad in Mademoiselle magazine.
"There was a picture of a Red Cross gal in a uniform and an American GI on a knoll in England with their bicycles nearby," she said.
Her mother was the volunteer chairman of the Red Cross chapter in her hometown of Oriskany, N.Y.
"I felt at home in the Red Cross," Chapman said, adding that she was 24 when she sailed to England on the Aquitania and arrived in September 1943. A co-worker named Edna gave Chapman her nickname, taking it from an Andrews Sisters song, "Don't Bring Lulu."
On one of their rare breaks from a six-day work week, Chapman sat for her portrait in the English home where she was staying.
As she sketched, Black told her subject, "I think I do men better than women."
But Chapman was pleased with the likeness.
Although the original was lost, Chapman still treasures a copy of the artwork that shows her wearing a pin with the name Lulu. A pilot made it for her out of brass wiring.
"I do think that Elizabeth really made a lasting contribution. Families have these portraits forever," she said.


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It is becoming increasingly popular to buy jewellery online as savvy shoppers can find massive discounts and a huge range of items at just the click of a mouse. Internet shopping has seen a massive rise in popularity as less people are venturing onto the high street or into shopping centres. Consumers can purchase anything imaginable through the internet including their weekly food, clothes, electronics and even houses! The jewellery market has been quick to respond to this shift in shopping habits and there is now a huge range of jewellery available to buy online. The large brands have secured a presence for themselves on their own websites by adding a shopping section onto their original website or creating a new one. Smaller stockists and independent retailers are starting to take advantage of the internet to promote and sell their products and their presence is growing. Complete pieces of jewellery can be purchased over the internet and there is also an increase in the number of designers offering a custom-made service where they will design a piece of jewellery to your exact requirements based on an online specification form filled in by the customer.
Internet only shopping sites such as ASOS have become extremely popular over recent years and the market has opened up for internet jewellery shops too, specialising in unique pieces and on trend designs. This has been reflected in the shopping sections of glossy magazines who regularly recommend online jewellery stockists for their contemporary designs and value for money. Some people say that a picture says a thousand words and many high end jewellery designers are taking advantage of advertising in magazines and newspapers to promote a new range or collection and including only their website name and possibly a telephone contact number. This automatically directs possible consumers onto their website where, if the pages are shopper friendly, they sell their products. The majority of larger businesses offer reasonable delivery prices and a free returns service if you are unhappy with your purchase, all supported through secure payment methods and assured delivery processes.
Whether you have a specific piece of jewellery in mind or are looking for advice on good investment pieces, jewellery stockists can provide consumers with information of everything jewellery related, be it different types of metal, what colour stone suits which colouring, how to match the perfect engagement and wedding ring and how to choose the perfect gift for a loved one.
Men are no longer purchasing jewellery solely for their female friends and family. There has been a sharp rise in the sale of male jewellery, developing from the classic sovereign rings and solid chains into more sophisticated designs incorporating colour and shape. According to a study by Mintel, the reported sales of men's jewellery reached £275 million last year representing 11% of the overall UK jewellery market. Overall the UK jewellery market was worth £2.5 billion in 2008, a rise of 7% over the previous five years. With figures like this it is obvious that the market for jewellery is increasing as are the ways in which consumers can purchase inexpensive or top end pieces. This is an outcome of the way in which jewellery designers are following the direction of fashion houses and bringing out more ranges per year to complement the different fashions and trends each season.
The presence of jewellery designers at the major fashion shows is growing sharply as designers are keen to draw inspiration from the catwalk. London Fashion Week included a jewellery exhibition in the grounds of the National History Museum, signifying the combination of influences from history and the modern world on jewellery designs of today. There will always be a market for jewellery and if you buy jewellery online you can find an exact match for your specification, sourcing the perfect colour, size and price. For consumers demanding ever higher quality and value for money the internet offers the best forum through which to buy jewellery.
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The Walrus Says
Dorothy Strang's observations this week concern cupolas, loosely defined as a small structure built on top of a roof or building for a lookout or to complete a design.
She writes, "Jamestown's shingled, sea-side architecture encompasses styles from several historical eras. In the town's residential architecture, older and newer, the cupola is a frequent addition or embellishment. This question, though, concerns Jamestown's public and business buildings:
"How many of Jamestown's in-town public and commercial buildings incorporate a cupola into their design? My dog, Lyla, and I have found nine. Can you name the buildings?
"Disclaimer: One of those nine cupolas may actually be a 'tower,' and one of them is, strictly speaking, on a private residence."
Answers at the bottom of the column.
What would you like for Valentine's Day?
"My boyfriend to take me out for a romantic dinner" – Katrina Westall
"A boy who'll stay loyal" – Dakota Migliori
"A one-pound box of Godiva chocolates" – Laura Smith
"A candlelight dinner alone with my husband" – Karen Gordon
"A single red rose" – Christie Beebe
"A romantic dinner with my husband" – Kathy Cote
"Anything with dark chocolate" – Laura Brown
"Chocolates" – Neil Yeomans
"A quiet day with my wife and family" – Robb Roach
We note that the state D.O.T has announced eight new projects for the coming year, only one of which has anything to do with roads. Can you just fix the roads, please?
Is it just me, or does anyone else have sore thumbs and broken thumbnails from trying to open plastic food containers?
Was everyone off the island last week? We received no response from Beej's poser or from the question about "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
"In you I found a fragrance, I'll love you till I die
I just love you, love you, love you, I don't even know the reason why."
The line that follows is: "Hummingbird don't fly away, fly away. Hummingbird don't fly away, fly away." The song is "Hummingbird" by Seals and Croft.
The sharp politician in the movie was played by Edward Arnold.
Now that everyone is back in town, let's try this poser from B.J.:
"If I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now there's too many places I gotta see."
Ran into Matt Bolles, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, in Mc- Quade's on Sunday. He said he's teaching guitar, bass and voice, and is as happy as a clam.
*** The 1952 movie "Love in the Afternoon" was a four-star comedy starring Gary Cooper. Who was his co-star, who played the daughter of a Paris detective?
I feel sad reading about the fighting and lawsuits going on regarding the America's Cup races in Europe. When they were here off Newport every four years, everyone had a wonderful and congenial time. Can we take the "America" out of the name of the thing that's going on now?
Peter Pemantell writes that the answer to his question about who was Jingle Jones is Andy Devine. "He played the deputy marshal on the show "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," playing alongside Guy Madison, which was televised from the early 1950s to 1958 or 1959. I really thought John A. Murphy would jump on this one!"
No, but John did write: "Larry Lewis' erudite comments on service men returning home from war brought to mind an incident that occurred shortly after the end of World War II. A black soldier, traveling in uniform and returning home after service overseas, stepped off the train in a rural town in South Carolina. The presence of a black man in uniform in this little town brought unwanted attention. He was set upon by thugs, beaten and blinded. This was one of the reasons that led the new president, Harry Truman, himself brought up in a section of Missouri sympathetic to the south, to order the integration of the armed forces."
Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts.
Answers: (1) library, (2) firehouse, (3) firehouse museum, though this may really be a "tower," (4) mini-mart at the Mobil station, (5) northern-most porch of the Bay View, though the building is, strictly speaking, private residences, (6) the Bay Voyage, (7) old section of the Town Hall, (8) Jamestown Early Learning Center on North Main Road and (9) Jack's Electric at 14 Clinton St.
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Like an ancient roman slave, held captive under the coliseum, Heidi does not know what to expect. Is she to be given as a prize to the winning Gladiator?Blindfolded and shackled to a chair, she fears the worst might happen. Yet suddenly there is a feeling of pure heaven between her legs.
After her 'punishment', Heidi enjoys a sensual water ritual, cleansing her body of stress and worry.
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Topic Overview
Walking is a simple but powerful exercise forvertigothat can help your balance. Walking with greater balance will allow you to function better on your own, which in turn may lead to improved self-confidence. As you walk, you will also be working your muscles, which helps you keep muscle tone and may increase your strength.
Because you are moving, there is an increased risk of falling. If possible, do your walking next to a wall with a handrail or in a hall, or be sure to have someone with you.
If you are concerned about falling, always have someone with you.
Walking exercise 1
Walk 5 steps and stop abruptly. Wait 10 seconds or until any dizziness goes away. Repeat this until you have walked about 50 ft (15 m).
Do this exercise twice. To chart your progress, gradually work up to walking 100 ft (30 m).
Walking exercise 2
Walk 5 steps, and then turn around and walk back. Wait 10 seconds or until any dizziness goes away. Repeat 5 times.
Do this exercise twice. To chart your progress, gradually work up to repeating the exercise 10 times.
Walking exercise 3
- Walk and turn your head to the left and then to the right, every other step. Try to walk about 50 ft (15 m).
- Walk about 50 ft (15 m) while moving your head up and down.
- Walk about 50 ft (15 m) while tipping your head side to side (tip your ear toward your shoulder).
When first starting this exercise, you will probably weave considerably. Weaving less while doing the exercise is a sign of progress. This is a more difficult walking exercise, so consider having someone with you.
Do this exercise twice each day. To chart your progress, gradually work up to walking 100 ft (30 m).
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Another standing-room-only crowd was on hand Wednesday night as the Planning Board voted its unanimous approval, with conditions, of a special permit for a proposed asphalt plant at 586 Quaker Highway.
About 40 residents, some holding small signs opposing the plant, filled the seats and lined the walls of the selectmen's meeting room.
The asphalt plant proposed by Evergreen Development of Medway had drawn vocal opposition at the public hearing. Opponents cited health, environmental and quality-of-life concerns. Several residents highlighted concerns about the proposed plant's proximity to the new high school.
At the Wednesday night meeting, Planning Board members added conditions to the special permit to mitigate noise, light, air quality and traffic impacts, in response to issues raised at the public hearing two weeks ago.
Major conditions include requirements that back-up alarms on trucks be minimized; exterior lights must be off by 8 p.m. and security lights must have covered tops; the developer must pave sections of River Road within one year of Conservation Commission approval; the state Department of Environmental Protection's Air Quality Plan Approval letter must be incorporated into the permit; the building inspector and Board of Health agent must have access for inspection within two hours of a phone call, or without notice for cause; and the developer must plant 12 crimson king maple trees on the site and enclose the facility with a stockade fence and gated entry.
The asphalt plant proposal was also caught in a controversy stemming from lost zoning bylaws that were amended in 1995 to prohibit asphalt manufacturing. While the 1995 vote was properly certified, the amendment did not make it into the zoning bylaws book. Subsequent action at town meeting to recodify and amend the bylaws in 2008 and 2011 left out any prohibition of asphalt manufacturing.
Michael Kling, a resident opposed to the plant, submitted a statement to the board asking members to delay action on the proposed plant until town counsel could further review the applicability of the zoning bylaws.
He said a lawyer representing the "Residents of Uxbridge" and the South Uxbridge Community Association submitted a letter to town officials, after the public hearing was closed, that disputed town counsel's opinion that the 2008 and 2011 bylaw amendments superseded the 1995 prohibition of asphalt plants.
"We're now going to pursue the next step in the appeals process," Mr. Kling said after the meeting.
In separate action at the meeting, board members voted unanimously to approve a preliminary plan, subject to filing of a definitive plan, of a three-lot subdivision on the same site as the asphalt plant.
The proposed subdivision, Evergreen Forest Industrial Park, was filed for preliminary approval to preserve the developer's zoning rights for other industrial use in case the asphalt plant doesn't get built, according to Joseph Antonellis, trustee of 586 Quaker Uxbridge Acquisition Realty Trust.
Mr. Antonellis said, "Because of the very unique aspect of financing projects, one must be able to tell the banks that a developer has the right to build."
Steve O'Connell from Andrews Survey and Engineering presented the preliminary plans for three lots, acknowledging their full development would require Conservation Commission approval for filling wetlands.
"It is industrially zoned. We don't have any proposed uses at this time," Mr. O'Connell said.
Jill Kendrick, a resident opposed to the asphalt plant, which she said was inextricably linked to the subdivision, said in frustration during public comments, "I know it's a done deal from the beginning."
When asked for a comment afterward, Evergreen Development project owner Steven Bevilacqua said, "I think the unanimous decision (in our favor) is exactly what I would say."
"We presented our evidence and the board ruled on it," said Mr. Antonellis.


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Memorial Tree Planted in Honor of Beloved CIU Vice President
Don Jones, the director of human resources at Columbia International University, remembers Bob Kallgren as "a godly man filled with wisdom, grace and gentleness" who had a major impact on CIU and the Columbia community.
That's why Jones and his wife Marty have planted a memorial tree on the CIU campus in honor of Kallgren, who served CIU for 39 years until his death in 2011.
"Looking past position, class, status, and race, Bob knew no strangers and was loving to all," Jones said. "He saw men and women made in the image of God with a great potential for the Kingdom of God."
Jones remembers Kallgren as a wise counselor with a jovial disposition who many sought out for advice, not only on the CIU campus, but also within higher education in the United States, and around Columbia where Kallgren was involved in the community.
"Bob knew when to rebuke, exhort, pray, comfort, cry, and laugh," Jones said. "Because of his godly impact on my life and Marty's life, CIU, the Columbia community, Christian higher education institutions throughout the United States, and people serving the Lord around the world, we want the life and legacy of Bob Kallgren always to be remembered."
The tree was planted in July near the new CIU soccer field. A memorial stone with an inscription and Kallgren's photo was placed in front of it.


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The Iowa State volleyball team is having another strong season under head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch. The Cyclones have defeated three top-25 teams this season, including a marquee victory over then No. 1 Nebraska.
As always, defense has been a key component of the team's success on the court, but this season, a new weapon has been added to the Cyclone arsenal. Iowa State freshman right side hitter Mackenzie Bigbee burst on to the scene this year and has given the offense an explosive attack.
Bigbee finished high school as the 36th ranked prospect by Prepvolleyball.com and was named to the 2011 Under Armour All-America First Team. When deciding which school was best for her, Bigbee says choosing Iowa State was easy.
"I'm very interested in chemical or materials engineering. That really had the biggest impact, in that Iowa State has an elite [volleyball] program and they have the schooling that I wanted," Bigbee said.
The left-handed hitter from Williamsburg, Iowa has been an integral part of the Cyclone attack since day one. Bigbee has notched double figures in kills in 11 of her 14 matches this season, with two matches eclipsing 20 kills. As the competition has elevated, so has her production. In matches played against teams ranked in the top-25, Bigbee has reached double-digit kills in five of the team's seven contests. Included in those matches is a 10-kill effort against the Cornhuskers and an Iowa State freshman record tying performance against No. 19 Illinois in which she tallied 25 kills.
Bigbee attributes a lot of this success to her on-court demeanor.
"I don't really get nervous, and I think that helps me a lot," Bigbee said. "I keep my composure, focus on the game and don't think about anything else. I don't let the crowd get in my head."
That focus has boosted the freshman's play onto the Big 12 leaderboard. Bigbee has recorded 177 kills this season and her 3.11 kill-per-set average ranks seventh in the Big 12. After factoring in her defensive contributions (two solo blocks and 23 block assists), the freshman hitter has tallied 190.5 points and averages 3.34 points per set, ranking 10th in the conference. Bigbee is the only freshman ranked in either category.
Iowa State head volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch has been very pleased with the freshman's production this season.
"She's just a terminator," Johnson-Lynch said. "She has a great arm. She's a great athlete. She hits the ball very hard, and she hits the ball at angles that people aren't used to seeing. I think a lot of it comes from her athletic ability and her great arm speed."
Not even Bigbee herself expected to have such a strong impact in her first season.
"I wasn't even sure if I was going to be able to start this year," Bigbee said. "I just wanted to do everything I could do to contribute. I wanted to do my best to help the team, and I had no idea I would have such an early impact."
Cyclone setter Alison Landwehr, who is ranked third in the Big 12 with 11.03 assists per set, has been pleasantly surprised by Bigbee's emergence.
"I don't think we really knew what to expect from the freshmen coming into the season," Landwehr said. "It was kind of a surprise. She's been doing great. She definitely opens us up and gives us more options on offense, which is nice, especially for me [as a setter]. She moves well back there, which means I can run across the court and send it back to her. Since she's left-handed, she can get her feet around the ball and get a better shot."
Even with her success thus far, there are areas for improvement. Bigbee sees the importance of improving her play from the defensive side of the ball and playing in the front row. By coupling a stronger defense with her continually improving attack, Bigbee believes she will be able to elevate her game to an even higher level.
"Defense is always very important," she said. "I didn't play much defense in high school, so there's a lot of room for improvement there. With hitting, I'm starting to see a bigger block with two people on me at all times, so I need to work on being able to hit the high hands."
Johnson-Lynch has always placed a great value on a player's ability to play defense. However, she sees untapped talent in Bigbee's attack.
"She needs to get used to hitting against a good solid block," Johnson-Lynch said. "She has to get more shots and more angles. She's got a couple shots that she is comfortable with, and we need her to have three or four shots that she's comfortable with."
Bigbee is in the hunt for Big 12 Newcomer of the Year honors, and her production will have to continue against some of the nation's stiffest competition, as the Cyclones are in the meat of their league schedule. Iowa State will play six of its last 12 games against RPI top-15 teams. The remaining slate includes matches against No. 9 Kansas State and No. 14 Kansas, as well as two matches against both No. 8 Texas and No. 17 Oklahoma.


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WASHINGTON – The government is reminding the public to use a national fraud hotline to report any suspected fraud related to relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
In a statement Thursday, the Justice Department, the FBI and the National Center for Disaster Fraud said scams perpetrated by criminals are always a danger in the aftermath of a natural disaster and that people can alert authorities by calling a toll-free fraud center hotline that is staffed by a live operator 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The hotline is at 866-720-5721.
The center was established in 2005 by the Justice Department to investigate, prosecute and deter fraud in federal disaster relief programs following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.


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