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Brandon Pirri has agreed to a two-year extension with the Florida Panthers.
Brandon Pirri celebrated his 23rd birthday Thursday.
Brandon Pirri produced a goal and added an assist in Florida's 3-2 victory against Dallas on Sunday.
Brandon Pirri notched his 11th goal and 20th point of the season with a goal in Florida's 4-2 loss to the Islanders on Tuesday.
Brandon Pirri scored a goal in Florida's 6-3 loss to New Jersey Monday evening.
Brandon Pirri scored a goal and registered an assist in Florida's 3-2 win over San Jose Tuesday night.
Brandon Pirri had a goal and an assist for the Panthers in their 5-4 loss to the Lightning in Tamp Bay Thursday night.
Brandon Pirri tallied the Florida's only goal in a 3-1 loss to Phoenix on Tuesday night.
Brandon Pirri made his Florida debut Tuesday night against Boston.
The Florida Panthers acquired Brandon Pirri from the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday in exchange for a third-round pick in 2014 and a fifth-round selection in 2016.
Brandon Pirri isn't sure how to feel about the trade rumors surrounding him.
Don't be surprised if the Blackhawks trade Braddon Pirri later this month.
Brandon Pirri has been returned to the minors.
Brandon Pirri is projected to play on Chicago's second line on Tuesday.


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I think I am a little indifferent now what anyone thinks. Life's joy is in the doing - I murder, as usually, a quotation: I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me. And as I can't write while I'm being read, I am always a little hollow hearted; whipped up; but not so happy as in solitude.
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PNB 2275 - Enhanced Human Physiology and Anatomy
Instructors Daniel Mulkey and Xinnian Chen
Lab Director Xinnian Chen
Second semester (requires PNB 2274 which is offered in the first semester). Four credits each semester. Three class periods and one 3-hour laboratory. Prerequisite: BIOL 1107, CHEM 1124 or 1127Q. Not open to students who have passed PNB 2264-2265. PNB 2274-2275 must be taken in sequence to obtain credit.
Fundamentals of human physiology and anatomy enhanced through inquiry-based laboratories.
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Magnolia Place was brought to life in 1830, as a farmhouse overlooking beautiful Seneca Lake, in what is now considered New York's Finger Lake region. Magnolia Place sits conveniently in the heart of some of New York's finest vineyards and wineries only minutes from Watkins Glen International Raceway. Magnolia Place provides eight individually designed gue...
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Located in Lodi, The Fox and the Grapes Bed & Breakfast is minutes from Wagner Vineyards and Silver Thread Vineyard. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars and King's Garden Vineyards Winery and Tasting Room. Make yourself at home in one of the individually decorated guestrooms. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed...
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Poor 2.0
Room was just ok. A/c didn't fit window so large gaps in window. Carpet not vacuumed well. Towels thin and rough. Holes in blanket. No complimentary coffee in the am. No amenities whatsoever. The only good thing was the proximity to the Glen. Old, datedAs I said the location in Watkins Glenn was ideal. The motel sold homemade ice cream and pottery. That is the pro side. The con side is the room we were in was shabby and dated. There are no amenities whatsoever, I.e. coffee maker in room or offered in the morning. Room could have been cleaner. Pillows were wafer thin, air conditioner was too small for the window leaving large gaps on either side, towels small, thin scratchy. Was not a bargain. We travel the area frequently and have stayed in much nicer places for the same cost. I would recommend you give it a pass, except for the ice cream.
Poor 2.0
lousy bed - walls paper thin - doors poor - no bath
woken up at 8 am... walls paper thin.. no bath.. bed too small.. room very small.. room overpriced!!!do not go there
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Mediocre 4.0
The view of the Lake was outstanding
The bed was uncomfortable, we needed to put a pillow bet wend the mattress and box spring to avoid the feeling of falling out of bed. Their was hair on the walls of the shower.
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Very old building...got what you paid for
Mediocre 2.3
nothing good about any of it. Old, dirty, run-down. Not worth the money at any price.
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The Hilton Garden Inn Elmira/Corning hotel in Horseheads, New York, is conveniently located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region and 1 mile from the Elmira airport Our Elmira hotel in Horseheads offers convenient access to many attractions and companies in the area: Attractions: *Watkins Glen International Speedwa *Corning Museum of Glass *Mark Twain Communi...
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Good 7.0
The service was friendly, and the bathroom updated and clean.
The office smelled of cigarette smoke. The room smelled of some kind of cheap air freshener. The decor looked as if the place had been done up in the 1970's, and not touched since. It was a little down at the heels.
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Located in Hammondsport, 18 Vine Inn & Carriage House is in the historical district and close to Glenn H. Curtiss Museum and Bully Hill Vineyards. This bed & breakfast is within the region of Farm Sanctuary. Make yourself at home in one of the 5 individually decorated guestrooms. Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a seasonal outdoor pool or t...
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Excellent 10.0
It was clean and cheerful. The bed was amazing - I slept perfectly the entire night.
Nothing - it was a great experienceThe staff was kind and courteous, as mentioned before, the bed was the most comfortable I have ever had in a hotel. I loved this place and will definitely stay again and recommend it to my friends.
Excellent 9.0
The staff ! Jessica and Jessica, both of them, at the front desk were awesome. So much help in getting me moved when my a/c failed. Jessica #1 got me fans for until I could be moved, and they were a huge help.
Just that the a/c in my first room wasn't working. Otherwise an excellent choice and value.Clean, convenient great beds. And awesome staff. Oh, and did I mention the staff? All the girls at the front desk and the Housekeeping girl were so, so accommodating. And so friendly !
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discover great stories here.. welcome to the Hampton Inn-Elmira/Horseheads Nestled near the Pennsylvania state line in the southern reaches of upstate New York's scenic Finger Lakes region, the Hampton Inn® Elmira/Horseheads puts you minutes from wine country, world-class golfing destinations, the Corning Glass Museum, Watkins Glen International raceway and...
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Excellent 10.0
The staff was awesome friendly and helpful..great breakfast with many choices.
Excellent 9.0
Clean,friendly and sincere staff and it lived uo to the ratings I had seen before booking.
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Enjoy our Horseheads Hotel's Outstanding Accommodations The Holiday Inn Express® Elmira-Horseheads hotel offers something for everyone. Whether you're traveling by car, bus, or plane we are conveniently located to the Elmira-Corning Airport, I-86 and area attractions. For guests who enjoy outdoor activities you can tee off at the Mark Twain or Soaring Eagles...
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Good 6.6
Easy access to and from highway, decent breakfast, friendly staff including cleaning crew
I was traveling with a small child under the age of 2, parked my car outside of the entrance next to my room. Unloaded him, bags and dinner only to not have my key card work at the door. Had to load him and everything back in car drive to front entrance only to find out they activated it for 1 night only when I had already paid for 2. Very frustrating. Definitely not a kid friendly place due to the extremely loud patrons in the hallway (mainly construction/oil workers from out of state)
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On business or pleasure visit stay at the Big Flats Country Inn & Suites. Wonderful atmostphere, friendly, warm and welcoming, home away from home. Relaxing stay, indoor pool, spa and fitness center. Located off of Route 17, minutes from Corning, Watkins Glen, Ithaca, and Elmira and many local attractions.Warm country decor featuring lobby fireplace and Comp...
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Hotel was clean, bed comfortable.
Heat/air unit had issues. Was freezing cold when we arrived. Tried to keep it cool, without the iciness. Kept clicking as if it was trying to start... never got the temperature correct.
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Staff were professional, responsive and friendly. Room was great, overall. Kids enjoyed indoor heated pool. Breakfast was included and more than enough for our needs.would recommend this hotel without hesitationInternet access, free parking, clean, good service overall. Checkout took less than a minute.


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A Silvis businessman has been accused of federal tax fraud.
An indictment filed Wednesday in the U.S. Central District of Illinois, which includes Rock Island County, alleges Mike VanDeHeede filed false tax returns from 2006 to 2008.
When contacted Thursday afternoon by the Rock Island Argus and The Dispatch, Mr. VanDeHeede said he had not been notified of the indictment. He later confirmed the indictment after checking with federal authorities.
The case appears to be related to a company he used to work for, Mr. VanDeHeede said. He added he did not know anything more about it late Thursday afternoon.
"I'm sure this will all be cleared up," he said.
Mr. VanDeHeede is a member of the River Eagle group — which also includes Matt Stern, Dan Murphy and state Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline — which has unveiled redevelopment plans for property in East Moline.
In 2010, the group announced it had bought 132 acres of the former Case-New Holland site for about $1.5 million with the intention of developing the land into a mixed business and residential district. Initially called Port of Call Quad Cities, the project has been renamed Fountainhead of the Quad Cities.
The indictment does not mention River Eagle or any of its members other than Mr. VanDeHeede.
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1500 Jackson St. NE, Northrup King Building
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Category: Art Galleries
Region: Northeast Minneapolis
So, what exactly does "Juicy Steak Moustache" mean? Who knows, but it seems to be a fitting title for a gallery show that revels in whimsy, playfulness, and spontaneity. Oddities to be explored include a moustache trophy by Atom Pechman, a church/tugboat "mash-up" sculpture by Kyle Fokken, and collages that feature colorful, detailed floating worlds by Kate Casanova. The opening party will be an interactive celebration, as Patrick Kemal Pryor is set to create choreographed elements between other guests and the artwork itself during the event. "The overall effect will be very whimsical," he says. "Like a mad dinner party on an endless loop where different actors perform different roles." Other participating artists include Betsy Ruth Byers, Josephine A. Geiger, Joan Malkerson, Dan Mather, Kelly Jean Ohl, and Karl Unnasch. The opening reception is from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21. (Kate Casanova, Orange)
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Germany has a very complex past that impacts its people and its present. Share in the narrative through the German language. Learn basic grammar, along with the everyday social situations needed to communicate with German-speaking people. German culture and geography will be explored and celebrated. Seize the opportunity!**
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Cosplayer Lyn Hargreaves > Costume of Der Tod / Death from Takarazuka: Elisabeth ~ The Rondo of Love and Death
- Most Recent Photo
- 02-27-2014
- Series
- Takarazuka: Elisabeth ~ The Rondo of Love and Death
- Character
- Der Tod / Death
- Special Variation:
- Hanagumi 2002
- Year Completed:
- 2014
- Construction Difficulty:
- Very Difficult
- Costume worn at:
- Katsucon 2014
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
So far I've used a little over 5000 rhinestones in this costume and all were beaded by hand. I estimate about 1000-3000 more are needed to complete this (but its hard to tell exactly, it should be somewhere in that range though).
This was my first time working with velvet and I kinda never want to do it again. The fabric is very uncooperative and very unforgiving.
- Personal Thoughts:
- This costume is sadly not done yet. Its about 90% at the moment. I'm a bit unhappy with a lot of it but I plan to fix that. I'm a very big fan of Takarazuka and I had been planning to do this costume with my dear friend Alyce for over 5 years now so I was very excited to finally do this. This has also turned out to be my most expensive costume and also the most time consuming, surprisingly beating Hades in both regards.
Wig Details
- How was the wig colored?
- sharpie dye
- Styling Notes
- This was my first time doing an actual sharpie dying of a wig. I've done a little bit with streaking but never something this intense. I used the rubbing alcohol spray method first, covering the whole wig in a seafoam color and then used three different shades of blue and teal streaked in by hand with sharpies to get the blend. I then took turned the turquoise sharpie I had and also turned it into a spray dye just to give it a little more tint and blend the streaks a little better.
- Wig Review
- Came out a bit more blue than intended. There is supposed to be some silver showing. Oops. ^^;; But I still love how it looks. First time working with a lace front. The wig is very nice though it can get frustrating how much the wig tangled while dying. I used a lot of Motion spray to tame it.
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WTB Pure V Race Saddle Chromoly Rails Blk-Chrome
The goal was simple: Create a trail saddle that eclipsed the original WTB SST. The result features the best body-tuned shape WTB has. Hollow chromoly rails, Flex-tuned shell with Comfort Zone, synthetic cover and embroidered chrome corners make the Pure V Race as comfortable as it is good looking.
I've had this sale for a couple years now & it's getting the job done pretty well. A good seat is one of those items that don't get your attention unless they aren't getting the job done. Rarely do we ever stick a landing or drift thru a corner and say, "man my saddle is really kicking butt today!" And when was the last time you made it thru that super rocky section and exclaimed, "whew! I never would have cleaned that section with my old saddle!" When they're doing their job we forget they are there. You'll quickly forget you bought this saddle because it becomes a seamless connection between you, your bike & the trail. I've done short rides where I'm going all out & I've done 4hr XC rides with this saddle & it's got great bang for its buck. I've ridden much fancier saddles that cost a bunch more money but I'm not the kind of guy who wants to brag about how much money I blew on a saddle. That's why this saddle is a good fit. One of my riding buddies has been riding with this saddle for 6 or so years & it's still going strong. This saddle is reinforced where we bang our saddles on stuff the most but shaves weight where it can without feeling like a race saddle. The only criticism I would offer up would be to narrow the back of the saddle up a bit. Not much, but maybe a little more than it is now. I can get off the back just fine but I've ridden other saddles that got the seat between the thighs a little easier. But it is a very minor thing, this saddle is by no means deserving of a "wide load" sign so no worries there. I wear baggie shorts & still get great clearance when transferring from sitting to standing & back, without missing a single pedal stroke.
My butt and I love this saddle. Most comfy saddle I've ever been on it. Looks great with my bike. Not the lightest saddle but not overly heavy either.


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My Return to Xbox Live
Things were simpler a year ago. My original launch 360, bless its soul, had RROD'd on me, I had a decently powerful C2D GTX 260 combo in good working order and I'd recently picked up a cheap Slim PS3 from Japan. My PC had become my primarily platform, thanks mostly to Steam, and the PS3 served as backup for those pesky console-only titles. I thought I had the best possible setup. I was wrong.
I'd tried to live without it for the longest time but now I realise that this last year or so I've really been missing Xbox Live. Missing my friends, one button invites, achievements with APIs that can follow me around the net. There was a measure of substitute with Steamworks, although only some games used it, and barely anything cohesive on PSN. In fact my year of Super Street Fighter IV on the PlayStation was one of the most frustrating experiences ever. Getting people into a game and accepting invitations from others… could it have been any more convoluted? Even though the PS3 version of the now-banned Mortal Kombat is getting fighting games favourite cameo with the inclusion of Kratos, my gut would feel yucky buying a multiplayer fighter for Sony's mess of a machine.
And on a completely unrelated note, Forza Motorsport 3 is absolutely a better game than Gran Turismo 5 although I fear that argument warrents its own article.
So starting to think that the Xbox 360, as a platform, offers a better overall experience is an interesting conclusion. I'd previously considered PC to hold that accolade, and comparing Dead Space 2 on console to PC there really is no discussion about technical proficiency. Textures and resolution are paltry by comparison. However if you take matchmaking and DLC into consideration, I wonder how much weight that extra visual fidelity actually caries?
Against the sheer fragmentation of platforms and standards on PC – EA friends list, I'm looking at you – I'm beginning to see the graphics as less and less of a consideration. Not that its mode was worthwhile to begin with, I never once played DS2 online on the PC. And, by pure arrogance on the publisher's part, I'll never play the 'Severed' DLC. Thanks a lot guys. Even Steam seems to now show contempt for its customers – again most likely by publishers' edict – by charging ludicrous prices for games. Ozgameshop.com can now match day-and-date better prices for 360 versions of new releases than Steam can despite being exempt from printing and licensing overheads.
Half the fact that the cohesive nature of the Xbox platform feels so good is undoubtedly that the situation on the PC is so broken. Nevertheless I'm switching over to the 360 as my primary, despite it costing me a new console, some visual bells & whistles and despite costing me a yearly subscription to boot. Certainly wouldn't have anticipated declaring this a year ago, but for the bunch of reasons I've mentioned – and no doubt a bunch more – I'm not regretting a thing.
So come on friends, add my Gamertag Ichorid4.
Games for Windows Marketplace & More Digital Delivery Foolishness
Whether it boils down to appeasing retailers or just criminal half-arsedness, a lot of digital storefronts are content to let themselves look stupid. I recently wrote about Steam's Australia tax and generally clueless pricing. Today, I look at Microsoft's offering; the newly revamped 'Games for Windows Marketplace' and it is no less silly.
Take a look at the above screenshot. That's right. You can get Batman: Arkham Asylum for $49.99USD, or the Game of the Year Edition, which comes with more stuff, for $39.99. This tells me two things, first of which is that Microsoft doesn't give enough of a shit to curate what's chucked onto the store and check for obvious pricing curiosities like this.\
Secondly, it seems Microsoft has no interest in pricing competitively. The GOTY version of Arkham goes for $29 on Steam, arguably this service's chief competition. It also goes for $29 on retailers like Play-Asia and considering those boxed versions come with 3D specs to boot, it's not half bad a deal. Other titles like Age of Empires III for $39 and Fallout 3 (without any DLC- they come at the original $9.99 a piece) for $49 are terribly overpriced and handly beaten at retail and most other digital storefronts that sell them.
Speaking of Fallout, Fallout: New Vegas is nowhere to be seen. Nor are last year's bestseller Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 or current record-breaker Black Ops. That's because these games are tied up with Steam via Steamworks. However Microsoft is cutting off its nose to spite its face here if they exclude games using Steam's overlay and DRM- Direct2Drive learned this lesson last year and quickly added Modern Warfare 2 to its library after initially refusing to on these same grounds. What makes these notable omissions from the GFW Marketplace even more apparent though is that older instalments in each franchise are not only available, but are present on the store's 'Featured' tab. Oh dear…
So what draws does Marketplace have? Daily deals for a start, but then the prices aren't that great. Exclusive titles like Gears of War but little else- Halo and Halo 2 are inexplicably absent. Steam has auto-updates, Steamcloud and a vast library, GoG.com has its app compatibility patches and 'no DRM' policy and D2D has its no-nonsense approach. What does GFW Marketplace have to set it apart from the crowd? Nothing that I can think of.
I like the layout of the Games for Windows Marketplace, but entering the market now, it is essentially asking me to convert over from Steam and I think that's how most people in a position to buy and download games online will see it too. That said, it doesn't seem very interested in competing on price, on the strength of its library or bringing anything else to the table. I see little reason to buy into this store and Microsoft needs to step things up right quick if it doesn't want to see this venture dift into obscurity.
Visit the [Games for Windows Marketplace] if you dare…
A Full OS for Tablets, Please
The guys over at PC World published an article a few months ago outlining why Windows 7 shouldn't go on tablets. I paid little mind to that, considering Steve Ballmer confirmed tablets with Microsoft's desktop OS would be releasing before Christmas. However it seems like the software giant has since decided to cede to this curious contingent of the tech-o-sphere and release Windows Embedded 7 Compact as MS's de facto tablet OS. Umm… can I say no thanks?
What's really wrong with the iPad and the Android based tablets coming out now is that they aren't fully fledged OS's. iOS' hidden filesystem takes the cake but there are a million more little things that hamper productivity and make basic tasks beyond looking at web pages more of a pain than they should be. Grabbing an image, cropping it, throwing it in a blog post like this and then publishing the thing is a trial. Then there's the issue of file type compatibility, needing separate native apps to make the web usable.. etc etc.
Then there's actual application compatibility. Think of the suites of programs; full versions of CS5 and Office, libraries of games and so forth that can run on Windows. They could all run on a tablet with Windows 7. They currently cannot on iOS or Android, and, from the sounds of things, won't on WE7C either. A cut down OS is even more limiting when you start to think of the situation in these terms.


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Haunted by Clues From the Grave
Who really hired the bungling hit man who confessed to the murder of beautiful Sara Tokars? Riveted by the mystery, Atlanta discovers things aren't what they seem.
ERIC HARRISON | TIMES STAFF WRITER | March 01, 1993
ATLANTA — For a contract hit, the killing of Sara Tokars could hardly have been more bungled.
The first time the killers came calling, sneaking into the house through an unlocked sliding glass door, a barking spaniel sent them scurrying. Scrambling back out into the night, the intruders glimpsed a light flick on somewhere in the house–somebody was getting up.
The second time the killers came calling, nobody was home. Nosing around, the one called Yankee got jumpy when he saw the number "22″ lit up on the home's burglar alarm panel. A rail-thin cocaine addict, in over his head, he thought it meant they had 22 seconds to scoot before the police arrived.
He and his companion fled down the street and waited until Yankee calmed down enough to go back inside. There was other craziness, too–more signs of inexperience and ineptitude. But in the end it made little difference.
Sara Tokars came home that night last year–it was Nov. 29th, end of the Thanksgiving weekend–and found a stranger waiting in her kitchen. Waving a sawed-off shotgun, Yankee forced her back into the car with her two children. They were going for a little drive.
Who knows why some crimes catch the public's imagination, sucking a community into their pathos, pulling a city into their mysteries like a pulp novel come to life?
The death of Sara Tokars immediately became the focus of intense local public interest. This was so in part, perhaps, because she was blonde and beautiful, the 39-year-old wife of a well-known attorney, and was brutally slain in front of her 4- and 6-year-old sons, in a "safe" suburb, no less.
But the murder was made more unsettling by the inability of anyone to decipher why it happened or what it meant. A crime so chilling should have a moral. But the people of Atlanta were at a loss to figure out what it was.
Lawyers here–leading the stampede to acquire alarm systems and firearms–theorized at first that she was slain in revenge, "Cape Fear" style, either by one of her husband's former clients or someone he sent to jail in the days when he had been an assistant district attorney.
The police in the beginning investigated the more mundane possibilities that it had been a botched kidnapping or that the victim had interrupted a burglary.
But then Sara Tokars herself reached back from the grave to provide a possible clue, and it hinted at more complex and sinister motives.
A private detective presented the police with documents Tokars had given him before she died. He said they secretly had been taken from her husband's safe and that she believed they implicated Fredric Tokars in drug trafficking and money laundering.
For quite some time, said the private detective, Sara had been deathly afraid of her husband, who she said had been leading a double life.
'Take This to Police'
"If anything happens to me," she told the detective, "take this to the police."
Now here was a scenario people could latch on to. After all, hadn't they seen it already at the movies?
Suddenly Fred Tokars became a suspect. The police publicly said so, even though they made no move to arrest him. The FBI began investigating his business dealings and associates, who, it turned out, included convicted drug traffickers and one man who was killed last summer in what police believed was a professional hit. Television news crews began to follow Fred around.
How does a city comprehend such a mystery if not through the language of crime shows and detective thrillers? This story played itself out on television, in news reports sandwiched between episodes of "Hard Copy" and the "Movie of the Week." Everyone, it seemed, had a theory.
It was, in the public mind, almost like an episode of "Columbo," in which you see the suave bad guy kill his wife in the opening segment and then stay tuned to watch him slowly disintegrate under pressure. Only this was real. Fred Tokars' life was being publicly destroyed, and he had not been charged with any crime. The only people who knew–really knew –who ordered the killing of Sara Tokars weren't talking.
Very soon a strange and troubling portrait of Fred began to emerge.
Here was a respected member of the community, a seeming straight-arrow whose friends included movers and shakers in the political and legal worlds–a state Supreme Court justice rushed to Fred's house to console him the day after Sara's murder–yet someone who also moved with seeming ease through the city's underside. Drug dealers, exotic dancers, the fast-living owners of some of the city's hottest nightclubs–these were Fred's friends.
This world was completely at odds with what was known of his background.
Fred Tokars and Sara Ambrusko, both the children of doctors, had known each other in high school in Amherst, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb. They became reacquainted in Atlanta, more than a decade later, in the mid-1980s, by pure chance.
Fred had come to the city after graduating from the University of Miami. He began working as an assistant Fulton County district attorney after getting a law degree here.
One day Sara, who had moved to Atlanta with her first husband, turned on the television and there was Fred, that guy from high school, on the news discussing a case. Divorced now, she called him up.
Liked His Ambition
"I think the things she really liked about him was the common family background–being from Buffalo, the big family, both fathers were doctors and all that stuff," said Krissy Ambrusko, one of Sara's six sisters who by that time had also moved to Atlanta and become her roommate.
Another thing she and other family members liked about Fred was his ambition, said her father, John Ambrusko, now retired in Florida.
When Fred left the district attorney's office to open his own defense practice, Sara reportedly was concerned about the shady characters he dealt with. Driven to make money, to be successful, he soon expanded the practice to include tax matters. His advertisements could be seen around town on billboards and in magazines, and in time, he began to attract prominent clients. One was the estranged wife of Evander Holyfield, whom he represented in her divorce of the former heavyweight boxing champion.
The shady characters, though, did not go away. And soon other serious problems developed within the marriage.
Looking back now, after all that has happened and all that's been in the papers, John Ambrusko marvels at how little he knew about his daughter's life.
The family knew Sara as a devoted mom, a former high school cheerleading captain so attached to her sons that she volunteered at kindergarten and put her youngest child in preschool so she could be near them both all day, just about everyday.
Of the seven daughters, Sara was the one most like their mother, say her sisters–selfless, home-loving, unfailingly generous, a small woman with a big heart and a movie-star smile. "She was like George Bailey," said one sister, Joni Ambrusko-Crain, comparing her to the character Jimmy Stewart played in "It's a Wonderful Life." "Her whole life was devoted to everybody else."
The Ambruskos had a loving, close-knit family, and John Ambrusko had been especially close to Sara, the middle child. But her last years, apparently, were hellish–and it saddens him that he had no hint of it. It was from news reports, for example, that he learned Sara had hired a private detective.
Fred recently publicly admitted having had an affair. But it ended long ago, he said, and he and Sara had patched things up. Ralph F. Perdomo, the private eye who was hired by Sara to follow Fred, said that is a lie.
Didn't File for Divorce
Fed up with the marriage and wanting out, Sara had met several times with a divorce attorney but never actually filed for divorce. "She was scared to death of (Fred)," said Perdomo, who said fear kept her in the marriage. "He had her intimidated.
"Sara knew she was going to die," he continued. "She knew it for a long time, and nobody would believe her–including me."
For a woman with such problems, Sara had seemed happy the last time her father saw her. She'd come down to Sarasota, Fla., with the kids to spend Thanksgiving. They left right after brunch on Sunday, Nov. 29th. It had been a farewell meal at the nearby country club–the last meal for Sara, it turned out.
This usually was when the crying started. But this time Sara and the boys were joyous, looking forward to coming back at Christmastime. As she drove off–unaware of what awaited her in Atlanta–Rick and Mike started singing: "We'll be home for Christmas!"
Looking back now, there was much that was unusual about that last visit, not that anyone paid attention at the time. There was Fred, for instance, playing with the kids, acting more carefree and happy and attentive than anyone had ever seen him. He flew down on his own for the holiday and then had left a day early–the day before his wife's death–to attend to business. Of course, no one but Sara knew the type of people he did business with.
After her murder, the family learned that one of Fred's associates–an executive in an entertainment company Fred had incorporated–had been killed last summer in Detroit in what authorities believed was a possible contract hit. Two other business associates are in prison, convicted of distributing large quantities of cocaine, allegedly part of an international drug trafficking network with operations in Detroit, Houston and other cities.
The men, along with Fred, were all involved in what police call a "tangled web" of local businesses, mainly nightclubs. It is Fred's links to these men that the FBI is investigating for evidence of money laundering.
A lawyer who formerly shared an office with Fred recently told a television station that records relating to these men and their companies had been mysteriously erased from her office computers. She also said she has been getting anonymous death threats since Sara's death.
One of Fred's closest business associates was Eddie Lawrence, with whom he owned a construction and real estate company. Lawrence had been to the Tokars home, had met Sara. Who would have expected that he soon would be sitting in prison, accused of hiring the man who killed her and of personally bringing him into her home to do the deed?
Yankee told her to drive.
Sara was scared, not sure what to do. The madman sat behind her, the shotgun to her head.
Sara didn't know where she was going. She was following orders, driving.
Rick, 6 years old, was in the front seat with his mother. Four-year-old Mike was on the back seat the whole time, close beside the sharp-featured gunman with the Dick Tracy nose.
Sara feared that he would harm the children. But Yankee–scared, too, and frustrated, and in need of another fix–maintains now that all he wanted was to get out of the suburbs and back to the city. He was afraid Lawrence had abandoned him, after taking him to the house.
Alone now, Yankee waited for his victim. He'd been promised $5,000 to commit the murder and make it look like a burglary, he later told police. He hadn't been paid–he said Lawrence told him he'd have to get the money later, from a lawyer named Fred.
After Sara had left the maze of lanes around her Cobb County subdivision and reached open road, Yankee caught sight of Lawrence's white pickup truck, parked in a cul-de-sac of half-built houses less than a mile from the Tokars' home. He ordered Sara to turn in. She refused, pulling over onto the shoulder instead.
That was where it happened, although the exact circumstances are in dispute. Yankee told friends later that little Rick had been so much trouble that night that he'd almost shot him. The boy was noncompliant and observant enough to notice Yankee's chapped lips and the taped handle of his sawed-off shotgun. He told police that when his mother refused to turn, the gunman cursed her and shot her in the head, right before Rick's eyes.
Yankee maintains, in an account disputed by the police, that Eddie Lawrence approached the stopped vehicle and that the gun went off while the two men struggled over it. When the blast took off the back of Sara's head, the car lurched, knocking Lawrence to the ground, Yankee told police. The car rolled across the road and stopped.
Snatching up Sara's red purse, Yankee jumped out, and the two men ran to the pickup truck and sped away.
Rick grabbed his little brother and fled for help to a building he spotted across an open field.
Yankee was under the bed when the SWAT team knocked down his door.
"Hiding," said the police.
"Zonked out on drugs," said Yankee's attorney.
Either way, before the day was through–and without even consulting an attorney–the small-time hustler confessed to his role in the plot, if not to the actual killing.
Inquired About Guns
For someone as on-the-ball as Eddie Lawrence supposedly was, he had been incredibly stupid when it came to hiring a hit man, if the police version of events is true. Official documents say he had gone to a number of people inquiring about guns and murderers. Some of those people later told what they knew to the police.
One of them was Edderick Wheeler, a business associate of Lawrence who said he was offered the job and refused it. In early November, Lawrence had taken Wheeler to a shopping center in Cobb County, where the Tokars' home is located, to discuss the killing, Wheeler told police. As the two men sat in his truck, Wheeler said, Lawrence pulled out a pistol. The gun went off, striking Lawrence in the foot.
He still walked with a limp when police arrested him in mid-December.
Lawrence even supposedly approached Toozdae Rower, who for a short time had worked for him as a receptionist. She introduced him to her boyfriend, who said he also turned him down, and to her brother, Curtis, a 22-year-old ninth-grade dropout and convicted car thief known on the street as Yankee.
Person of Substance
In nearly every way, the 27-year-old Eddie Lawrence was Curtis (Yankee) Rower's opposite. He appeared to be a man of substance, a comer in Atlanta's large black business community, a self-described "self-made man" who had started his real estate business with empty pockets seven years earlier. Fred Tokars became the money man behind his enterprises.
"It's my belief that Lawrence was a very well-known, very well-respected black businessman in the city and had worked for a couple of Fred's clients," said Jerome J. Froelich, Tokars' attorney, explaining how the two men met and became business partners.
Originally arrested Dec. 12, 1992, on a two-year-old charge of writing bad checks, Lawrence on Dec. 23 was charged along with Rower with Sara Tokars' murder. Since his arrest, it has emerged that this "well-respected businessman" saw fit to occasionally use an alias, had at least two different social security numbers and had given three separate birth dates on court documents over the years.
It also has been learned that Fred Tokars loaned him more than $70,000 in several installments last year. Peculiarly, Tokars sued Lawrence twice to recover the money even while still making loans. Tokars' lawyer said the loans were for Lawrence to pay rent for office space to avoid being evicted.
And as for those supposedly incriminating papers taken from Fred's safe, Froelich points out that Fred is a criminal attorney with many unsavory clients. Who knows what documents related to them he might have taken home to work on?
Since the murder, Fred's lawyers have complained that he's been crucified in the press. "His clients have remained loyal to him," said Froelich. Nevertheless, he said, Tokars couldn't work. "Emotionally and mentally, I wouldn't let him go into a courtroom."
Fred Tokars reached his nadir on Christmas Eve. In Sarasota, Fla., to visit his sons, who have been staying with Sara's parents, Fred tried to kill himself. The day after detectives phoned him there to tell of the arrests, he skipped out on a family outing, supposedly to work. He locked himself in his hotel room, propped a chair against the door and took an overdose of tranquilizers, washing it down with cans of beer.
Found Unconscious
He was saved by Sara's father. John Ambrusko feared that the 39-year-old lawyer, who had complained lately of chest pains, had suffered a heart attack when he didn't answer phone calls. Ambrusko went to the hotel with two of his daughters and got police to force open the door. They found Fred unconscious on the bed.
The lanky, bespectacled Tokars held a tearful press conference after he got out of the hospital at which he pleaded with the press to leave him and his children alone and emphatically denied involvement in his wife's murder. He took the pills, he said, because he was overwhelmed with grief.
"I began to think of Sara and my two sons, Rick and Mike, and became extremely depressed," he said, choking back tears. "I started to think of the lifestyle I was losing; not only my wife, but my lifestyle."
But Ambrusko and the rest of the family already had become distrustful of Fred, even though they tried to take him at his word.
"I tortured myself every second when they arrested those two guys," recalled Ambrusko-Crain, Sara's sister. "I was just screaming at Fred: 'This was your business partner and God-damn, God-damn, how could this be? What happened? Tell it to me!' "
She said his response was, " 'I don't know anything. I'm too upset to talk.' "
"I have asked him pretty point-blank if he had anything to do with it," John Ambrusko said of Sara's murder. "If anybody had pointed a finger at me with these innuendoes, I'd lead the charge down there" to the police station, he said. "I'd be down there pounding the desk and saying I want this cleared up. I said, 'Why the hell aren't you doing that?' "
Fred responded that he'd hired private detectives to conduct a parallel investigation. He assured Ambrusko that their findings would be turned over to the police.
When the facts are all out, he promised, a lot of people would owe him an apology.
But with so much uncertainty, the strains within the family were growing. And with Fred's strange behavior and all of the stories in the press–including reports that he'd taken out a $2-million insurance policy on his wife–how could the Ambruskos not be suspicious?
Told of Confession
On the day before the suicide attempt, a Cobb County police detective had called for Tokars at the Ambrusko home. He informed Fred of the arrests and of Yankee's confession.
Afterward, Fred calmly handed the phone to his father-in-law. The detective repeated the news to Ambrusko and then asked what Fred's reaction had been.
"Nothing," the older man said, starkly. "No reaction at all."
In recent weeks, the police, while still insisting that Fred Tokars is a suspect, have stood by and watched as he has put his house up for sale, dissolved his law firm, relinquished his downtown office, applied to renew his passport, cashed in his retirement savings accounts and made plans to leave the country.
Fred wants to take his widowed mother on a vacation to London before moving permanently to Florida, said his attorney.
He is moving, Froelich said, because his life here has been shattered and because he wants to be nearer his two traumatized sons.
Because Fred hasn't been indicted–"and he is their father"–John Ambrusko can't keep him from visiting them. But he has been decidedly less than warm, putting limits on when Fred can see his sons. It was mid-February before he allowed Fred to take them out alone, and then, fearing that he would abscond with them, he secured a promise from Fred to check in by phone every two hours.
Living in Fear
Since Sara's death the children have become afraid of the dark, Ambrusko said, and can't stand to be alone. For a time after the murder, they feared returning to their grandparents' house after going out–maybe a strange man would be waiting inside when they returned.
Also, Ambrusko noticed that Rick, the oldest child, is cool toward Fred now. "The little one seems to be very happy to see him," he said. "Sometimes the older one isn't. . . . "
In early February, a special federal grand jury was convened to investigate Fred's business dealings, reportedly including allegations that he had laundered money and kept offshore bank accounts. This new development would seem to throw his travel plans in doubt.
But if it is true that Fred is involved with organized crime, as it is alleged, couldn't he hire professional hit men? Why would he choose such amateurs to kill his wife?
Perdomo, the private eye, is not troubled by the seeming contradiction. He thinks it is in character. "Money is his God," he said of Fred Tokars, who lived frugally in a $140,000 house–modest for the neighborhood–and reportedly was loathe to make repairs. "This is his only goal in life–the possession of money. He doesn't like to spend it."
Matter of Associations
At this point, with Fred not officially accused of any crime, the worst that can be said of him is that he associated with very bad men. And whether or not he is ever charged with murder, whether or not he had anything to do with it, those associations in some fashion seem to have led to his wife's death.
The how and why of it remain a mystery; the public fascination continues and the police seem fixated. The two lead detectives on the case have virtually turned their lives over to it; to keep themselves focused, they keep color photographs of Sara and her two sons on their desks.
Given the police department's stance toward him, Tokars' strategy is to prepare for the worst. For that reason, he has already assembled his defense team. Perhaps befitting a case closely watched by the public as if it were a particularly riveting TV crime show, he recently retained celebrated Georgia defense lawyer Bobby Lee Cook, the real-life prototype of television's "Matlock."
And as for the information uncovered by Fred's private investigators, he has refused to turn it over to the police, even fighting successfully to quash the district attorney's subpoenas.
"Any trial lawyer who doesn't expect the worst and prepare for the worst is crazy," said Froelich, explaining why his client seems to be operating under the assumption that he is going to be charged.
Yankee Is Indicted
Last Wednesday, a grand jury indicted Curtis (Yankee) Rower and Eddie Lawrence for murder, kidnaping and robbery. District Atty. Thomas J. Charron left open the possibility of more indictments since the investigation, he said, is continuing. In the meantime, the Ambrusko family is doing what it can to keep the case before the public eye and hold up under the strain.
"It's been a horrible tragedy for all of our family," said John Ambrusko. "It's just about destroyed our family. . . . There's so much uncertainty."
Joni Ambrusko-Crain said she still can hardly believe the way her sister died. "This stuff happens to, like, the girl who's involved with the guy who's in the underworld or the girl who's in between boyfriends so she's out at bars every Friday night–this doesn't happen to Sara," she said. "She's the mom and the kindergarten teacher. That's all she did, night and day."
"We'll never understand it," said Gretchen Schaeffer, another sister, a Los Angeles nurse. "There are so many questions that need to be answered. . . . I lay awake at night and I think to myself, 'Sara, please help us and tell us why this happened.' Because she knows everything now."
Times researcher Edith Stanley contributed to this story.


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Commentary on "The geography of entrepreneurship in the New York metropolitan area"
AbstractThis article is commentary on a paper presented at a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in April 2005, "Urban Dynamics in New York City." The goal of the conference was threefold: to examine the historical transformations of the engine-of-growth industries in New York and distill the main determinants of the city's historical dominance as well as the challenges to its continued success; to study the nature and evolution of immigration flows into New York; and to analyze recent trends in a range of socioeconomic outcomes, both for the general population and recent immigrants more specifically.
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The 'F' Word
I became a bitchy, irrational, depressed crybaby who could no longer be around any expectant mothers or children for more than 30 minutes. I felt full-on panicked. I no longer believed I would ever get pregnant.
Julia Childless: Fertically challenged. Is that even a word? Well, I think that's what I am. I am trying not to say "infertile," and I refuse to hit up the TTC (Trying to Conceive) boards to research what acronyms they're using these days. The last time I visited one of those sites was almost a year ago, when I became so confused and overwhelmed I closed the window without commenting, leaving a trail of "baby dust" behind me.
When I first started trying to get pregnant, everyone told me to just relax and not to worry. I'm in my early 30s, and come from a long line of super-reproductive folk (my parents are both one of 10 siblings). My gynecologist did the requisite blood work at my annual, neglecting to inform me that my free "well woman exam" was now being billed as "pre-conception counseling." When that hefty invoice arrived, I discovered my health insurance didn't cover infertility treatment. The pressure to conceive cheaply -- the old-fashioned way -- was on.
The first six months I took charge of my fertility (with the help of Toni Weschler's requisite book). I upped my yoga classes and meditation tapes. I quit caffeine and alcohol and artificial sweeteners. My husband altered his diet as well, in solidarity -- he also stopped biking and started sporting boxers -- even though his sperm count was well above normal. And, of course, we had lots and lots of sex followed by the recommended postcoital 30-minute position -- going against everything I had learned about preventing bladder infections. I was starting to get concerned.
In the meantime, everyone around me was getting knocked up. Friends, family members, strangers whose blogs I read. I made no secret about my baby-making attempts -- I assumed it would happen for me, just like it did for everyone around me. In fact, many people began asking if I WAS pregnant, but that's an issue for a whole other blog entry.
We stopped dining out regularly and went to the movies less, using the money to do some more out-of-pocket testing. It had been less than a year, so I was still assuming that pregnancy was just a matter of time. I continued doing more affordable remedies, like over-the-counter progesterone cream and acupuncture; I didn't want to go whole-hog on the medical treatments, unless they were absolutely necessary. Then I became confused by what my gynecologist thought was necessary and wound up switching doctors. Twice. Finally, I found someone I could understand and communicate with, and she recommended Clomid.
My cycles had already been puzzling. Charting my temperatures and checking my cervical mucus for 365 days straight showed me one thing -- none of it made sense. There was always something "wrong" -- no thermal shift or too many of them, abnormal luteal phase lengths, cycles that were too short, and ones that went on and on ... the months on Clomid were even more frustrating. I was showing zero signs of ovulation, which nobody could explain beyond, "Well that's weird." Plus, I became a bitchy, irrational, depressed crybaby who could no longer be around any expectant mothers or children for more than 30 minutes. I felt full-on panicked. I no longer believed I would ever get pregnant.
Before the holidays, we made the decision to see a reproductive endocrinologist, using the money we had put aside for the down payment on a house.
We went to see our specialist right after the New Year, and I really like her. She has a few theories as to why I may not be getting pregnant -- two of them requiring minor surgery, which fully freaks me out -- but further testing has to be done. Every time she opens her mouth, I hear the sound of the cash register ringing simultaneously, and I know that's something I have to let go of. As my mother-in-law says, you don't go shopping at Barney's and ask what's on sale.
Even though I've been "fertically challenged" for a while now, I feel like this journey is just beginning -- I hope you'll come along for the ride with me.
|Julia Childless is a working actress living in Los Angeles without fertility insurance who has been trying to produce a bun in the oven for over a year.
Adopt having a house is more important than seeing a fertility doctor some people just cant have kids but you can adopt
Not only am I childless after losing my full term baby at three days old (fifteen years ago), I was adopted at age five.
Last summer I had an amazing experience of reuniting with both my birth mother, birth father and meeting a younger half-sister I never even knew existed. Life as difficult as it can be at times, can accurately point you to see what is really important and tell you which direction you should go in. There are so many children right here in our own country who need loving homes and if your arms and heart are open, an adopted child really can love you back.
I can assure you that I loved my adopted parents as much as I loved my birth-parents (who divorced shortly when I was around the age of 3). And we are a very happy and now a larger family.
Good luck to you in seeing what direction your life is telling you to go. May many blessings come your way!
My husband and I found ourselves visiting a fertility specialist and undergoing all sorts of tests after 4 years of trying. Once we saw what was in store physically and the actual odds of conceiving, we quite cheerfully began contacting adoption agencies. We are now the proud parents of 2 1/2 years old twin boys via open adoption.
Adoption is a great option, but every couple needs to decide what works best for them. I'm sure that by now you have put a lot of thought into this and have your reasons for pursuing the path that you're taking. Good luck and keep us posted.
My husband & I had a beautiful, 7-yr-old daughter when we started trying to have another baby. Although I didn't know we'd "started trying"; I thought it would be as easy as having our first was. It was not. Many tests, treatments, scheduled sex, depressing years of getting a period and 2 painful miscarriages later, I found a new ob/gyn & hired a personal trainer to lose some weight & get into better shape. It finally worked, and our adorable son will be 3 years old in 6 weeks. It wasn't easy—and I often dispaired of ever having another child (and our two are 9-1/2 yrs apart)—but ultimately it worked out for us. I hope & pray it works for you, too. Good luck to you!
And to "gbmonkey": Dear Lord, please take a basic English & grammar class and learn to use capitalization & punctutation. Your response was one muddled, run-on sentence that made no sense at all as it was written. Use a comma & a period, for pete's sake!! You look ignorant & uneducated when you write like that. The Internet is not a license to abandon all the rules of grammar you ever learned in school.
Dear Julia,
When I decided to have a baby, I had a premonition that after years of trying not to be pregnant, I would have difficulty conceiving …and boy was I right! I started trying at 35 and went through much of what you are going through, with all my friends getting pregnant around me ("but you have one ovary?" "on your first try?"). My husband and I tried au natural for the first 6 months, then we saw a fertility specialist. Before I tried any treatments, I had a presumed ectopic pregnancy, and that combined with my husband's low sperm count sent me straight to IVF. So, the reality is that IVF is rough, but not as rough as it is in your mind. It is super-stressful, and it is rare to hit one your first, second, or even third try. But rare is not never. I had to do it 4 times before I conceived my incredible twins.
They just finally came out with the statistics that women under 35 with fertility challenges who undergo 5 cycles of IVF have the same chance of conceiving (and bringing a baby to term) as someone without challeges of the same age.
I hear that you want your own child. That's a legitimate desire. You can think about the other options, like adoption, down the road. As you go on this crazy journey, be kind to yourself ( I did tons of yoga and acupuncture) and your partner.
I'm crossing my fingers and toes for you.
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Burnout: Is It Really a Problem?
More than 40 people from 17 countries came together in late October for the FPMT Foundation Service Seminar, organized by FPMT Education Services and hosted by Jamyang Buddhist Centre London. The gathering drew together a wide array of dedicated FPMT staff for five full days of service learning sessions on skillfully offering service within the FPMT mandala. About 20 people stayed for an additional three days of sessions as part of a program to become qualified to facilitate the seminar in their home center, country or region. Sarah Brooks, spiritual program coordinator (SPC) at Kadampa Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, attended the seminar and shares some ideas and remedies for burnout that were discussed there for Mandala's January-March 2014 online content.
When we started discussing antidotes for burnout at the Foundation Service Seminar, Ven. Robina Courtin asked the group if this was really an issue for us. All around the room hands went up with voices chanting, "Yes!" There was wide agreement that we struggle with it in our service at our Dharma centers and projects, and see other volunteers and staff struggle as well.
As SPC at Kadampa Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, I had faced this exhausted feeling for months before the seminar, and was seeing eight days of training as a vacation – that's how much I needed to get away for a while! Our center has experienced strong growth in attendance and programs, particularly over the past year (which is fantastic!), but our resources and staff are not growing as quickly. The result has been an undercurrent of burnout running throughout our staff and key volunteers, who were already overstretched.
From what I've seen and heard, this is common across the FPMT; we are inspired by Lama Zopa Rinpoche's huge bodhichitta and never-give-up attitude, on top of which, the needs of sentient beings are countless. When my self-pity kicks in, I start wondering how I can possibly keep up. I have felt like I can never give or offer enough, yet out of dedication, I keep pushing to do more. At times I become overwhelmed, feeling like there's no more to give. When am I going to sprout a thousand arms?! When I have felt as if I can't possibly do one more thing on top of everything else, I have sometimes thought that maybe quitting would be the only way to feel sane again. …
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