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TLC Planning 1st Album In 10 Years, Casting For VH1 Biopic
Ten must be the lucky number for TLC, who has been one of R&B's most successful group of the 90's. After dealing with the death of member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, financial and health problems, they are back in the studio recording new music. The […]
Antoine Dunn: The Truth
October 16th will be the culmination of the first leg of Antoine Dunn's journey; on this date, his debut album The Truth of the Matter will be released.
Dwele – Special
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SCOTT McGleish scored twice as Chesham United came from 2-0 down against Chalfont St Peter to book their place in the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup last night.
The former Wanderers striker has now scored three goals in two games since joining Chesham United and he also netted in the 1-1 Southern League Premier Division draw with Bedfont on Saturday.
Manager Andy Leese said: "As good as my strike force can be, we just haven't been scoring enough goals and that's what he does best.
"With his professional experience and his movement, he brings a quality we haven't got.
"Just his second goal last night – he got in front of two defenders and then the ball was in the bottom corner."
McGleish didn't play the full 90 minutes in either game, but Leese expects the 38-year-old to reach peak condition sooner rather than later.
He said: "He's had three or four weeks of not playing so we're just trying to get him back up to speed.
"But he trains and plays as if his life depends on it. Football means an awful lot to him and he never coasts through any sessions.
"He's a lively character around the dressing room."
McGleish's double last night could just be the spur Chesham needed.
Saturday's draw with Bedfont wasn't the spark Leese wanted and seeing his team fall 2-0 down inside 13 minutes against Chalfont four days later won't have eased his concerns.
But McGleish dragged his side back into the cup tie with goals after 30 and 42 minutes, before Toby Little and Dave Fotherinham completed the comeback in the second half.
Leese said: "They scored two great goals and we had to show a lot of resolve to get back into it.
"We showed plenty of character, which is pleasing because I always place a lot of store in trophies, otherwise why go into it?
"It's not a top priority, that's for sure, but we got to the final last year and we'd like to get to final again to try and make up for what happened [Chesham lost to Wanderers in a highly controversial penalty shoot-out]."
Cup action for Chesham continues on Saturday with a trip to Canvey Island in the FA Trophy.
However, McGleish is cup tied.

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YORK City Knights got their first win of pre-season yesterday as they came from 14-12 down at half-time to beat Championship One rivals Gateshead 30-20 at Huntington Stadium – though the game was marred by a bizarre injury to Ben Dent.
The winger chased a kick to the corner in the opening moments of the match, skidded out of the in-goal area and collided with a steeplechase hurdle which had been left around the perimeter of the pitch.
After lengthy treatment, he was stretchered off and went straight to hospital, though fears of a bad leg break were dispelled by X-rays. Instead he needed 11 stitches to close an open gash, and will be out of action for two to three weeks.
Knights head coach Gary Thornton was thankful Dent's injury was not as bad as first feared, but demanded improvements in health and safety issues at Huntington Stadium. The ground is also used for athletics, and players have previously suffered injury due to divets in the pitch left by shot puts.
"It's obviously a concern. We've got a player badly injured and it didn't look good," said Thornton.
"I can't comment really – I didn't see it too clearly – but there were some pretty gruesome stories from the lads that saw it.
"For health and safety, someone will have to look at it. I will leave it to the powers that be, but you want an environment where it's safe to play and that was not the case (yesterday). It's very disappointing that that's happened."
As for the match itself, which saw tries by Greg Minikin, Lee Paterson, on his return to the Knights, Jake Joynt, Curtis Macdonald - both their first for the team - and Jack Lee, Thornton said: "To get a win was good, and there was a lot of good stuff out there. We've still got a lot of work to do but, for where we are in pre-season, I was reasonably happy.
"Lee Paterson was excellent, Ryan Mallinder I thought was superb, young Harry Carter did well when he came on. There were a lot of young boys out there – the likes of James Morland, Luke Tomlinson, Scott Talbot – and I was pleased with the way they came in. We had a lot of first-team squad players sat watching, and it gives us some food for thought."
Asked what the difference was between the first and second halves, Thornton said: "We played with a bit more tempo. We started really well for the first ten minutes but then stepped off a bit. We made some changes – the likes of Lee Paterson and Jack Aldous came off – and we lost it a bit.
"It's tough in these games when you make a lot of changes as you lose momentum and a bit of shape. We got a bit disjointed in the second quarter.
"We asked them at half-time to play with more tempo and that's what we did. Things went up a gear and that's when we got back on track."


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In the hustle and bustle of today's busy world, sometimes it's hard enough to hear yourself think, much less take a minute to stop and listen for the voice of God. But learning to recognize God's voice and the many ways in which He speaks is vital for following His plan and enjoying the happy, confident life that's in store for you. Joyce Meyer will show you how God reaches out to people every day, seeking to bless them with His guidance and love. She reveals the ways in which God delivers His Word, and the benefits of asking God for a greater ability to hear His voice. Joyce asks the question, "Are you listening?" and shares practical ways how you can do just that!
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Moos, near Schlammersdorf, near Creussen, Franconia, Germany.
On our way home from Hungary to Sweden we almost passed this and made a extra tour to the geohashe.
While passing on autobahn, all active geohashes for the day had been calculated. This one was the most accessible one. Checked it with my mobile phone to see if the satellite pictures allowed us to walk there, and it looked like a grassy field. So we decided to drive an extra bit around to find the place. Getting near there we saw that the field was fenced in, but no animals inside. We didn't drive this far not get there so I prepared the telephone with the application and the camera and climbed into the field, trying as fast as possible to find the location and take the photos before the owner or a neighbor would care about me (us). Quickly found the spot, took some photos and returned to the car and drove off. My wife said the neighbor had been watching us all the time, but didn't alert the owner. They must have some odd ideas what we're were up to. We didn't have any flyer to drop on the place with us so if they are checking the field there is no proof left about what we were doing.
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Blaine bounced back from its first loss of the season, a 3-1 score against No. 3 ranked (Class A) East Grand Forks Dec. 13, with a pair of 11-0 Northwest Suburban Conference wins against Coon Rapids Dec. 14 and Robbinsdale Armstrong Dec. 19.
The loss to East Grand Forks came in the middle of a three games in as many days stretch at Fogerty Arena; the Bengals had beaten Anoka 6-1 Dec. 12.
Blaine led 1-0 going into the third period before East Grand Forks scored three times in a span of seven minutes.
Bengals coach Dave Aus consciously made the schedule like that to simulate the stress of a tournament situation (holiday or state).
"You learn things," he said. "They have to take care of themselves and they can't lay around all day Saturday."
They also can't continue to rely on captain Alex Copa and Ian Scheid to play 30-plus minutes unless the team is in a desperate mode, Aus said.
According to Copa, the three games in three days showed the team it needs to be mentally tough and stay positive if it wants to reach the ultimate goal of the state tournament.
"You're going to get tired so we have to be more mentally tough than physical," Copa said.
"No disrespect to East Grand Forks but we just didn't very play well," Aus said. "We had a lack of fire. We had really good days of practice Monday and Tuesday."
The message was well received as a hard, but productive week of practice followed leading up to the Dec. 19 game.
"We have a different focus after the loss," Copa said. "We had to have a renewed focus the next day and this week in practice we worked a lot harder and it showed tonight {Dec. 19}."
Eight of the top nine forwards scored against Robbinsdale Armstrong.
Blaine jumped to a 2-0 lead less than 1:15 into the contest. Junior Easton Brodzinski taped in a rebound 18 seconds into the game and Zach Wylie fired a shot from the point through traffic at 1:14. Cline and Lau set up Brodzinski and Tufte and Tyler Frischmon set up Wylie.
"We just shared the puck so well tonight," Aus said. "We're just like everybody else unless we compete hard."
Blaine dropped from the top spot to third in the Class AA rankings as a result of the East Grand Forks loss and the rankings, especially before Christmas, are just to give others an idea of the top teams to watch for come February into March.
Four of the top five scorers for Blaine are seniors with sophomore Riley Tufte producing at a very high level with 11 points (seven assists) in eight games.
Senior Tyler Cline held the team scoring lead with 20 points (14 goals) over Joey Lau's 19 points (12 assists) and Brandon Notermann's 15 points (10 assists).
Cline had seven points (four goals) and Lau had eight points (five assists) in the last two games.
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Amusement device license fees lowered
West Elizabeth council decreased the license fees for mechanical amusement devices.
An ordinance adopted on Wednesday amends the costs to $100 for each juke box, nonvideo mechanical amusement device such as dart games, shuffle alley, claw machine and pin ball; $250 for each pool table; and $500 for each video mechanical amusement device and gambling device.
The previous fees were $150, $325 and $600, respectively.
The ordinance states, "Fees may be adjusted by council from time to time by resolution."
Council changed the fees back to what they were in 1999 after considering comments by Russ Martin of Murray Amusement Inc. He told borough officials that bars would be willing to purchase more machines if the license fees were lower, and that would bring more revenue to the borough with fees from additional machines.
In other news, two residents complained about the state of West Elizabeth council vice president Frank Magill's vacant house along First Street.
Resident Scott Magill said his father's house attracts raccoons, rats and opossums that come around his house.
Frank Magill said his home is on the demolition list.
"It's a health hazard," Scott Magill said. "What happens if that place falls in right now?"
Borough solicitor Matt Racunas said dilapidated structures are a common problem in many municipalities that he represents.
"Putting it on a demo list is the best thing that they can possibly do," he said.
Borough officials said they are awaiting Community Development Block Grant funding to demolish the structure.
"Where does the homeowner's responsibility end and it becomes the community's responsibility?" resident Scott Pearson asked.
He questioned that if he allows his house go to the point it's falling apart and needs to be demolished, does that absolve him of any responsibility as the owner.
"The property is leaned so that if it is ever sold then that money comes back and it gets reimbursed," Racunas said.
Frank Magill said he either will pay for the house's demolition or reimburse the borough for the grant money and no taxpayer money will be used.
Stacy Lee is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1970, or email@example.com.


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"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love"Henry Miller
The Magic of the Cities.
Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer
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JOAN Armatrading will not only play the opening night of her first solo tour at Pocklington Arts Centre, she also will rehearse there for a week.
She already has announced that the Joan alone shows in the year ahead will be her last major travelling itinerary at the age of 63. She will not be retiring from making music or from performing, but will continue on a more selective scale.
Armatrading will open Pock Arts Centre's autumn and winter season on September 20 and return for a second night on September 29. Both shows, unsurprisingly, have sold out at the outset of a season with plenty of musical attractions.
Ex-Long Ryders leader Sid Griffin and his folk, Americana and bluegrass act The Coal Porters will promote their new album, Find The One, on September 25; Cockney Rebel Steve Harley will present two evenings with his acoustic trio, picking songs from each of his 13 albums, on October 8 and 9; and Case Hardin will return to Pock on October 18 with their British take on Americana, led by songwriter and newspaper war correspondent Pete Gow. Tom Hingley, the former Inspiral Carpets singer, will be on the 8pm bill that night too with his ramshackle blues, roving folk and brooding soul.
Mary Gauthier – a French name pronounced Go-shay — has a new album to showcase at Pock on November 1. For the title, the Louisiana native turned Nashville resident picked Trouble And Love – don't they somehow always go together? – and such song titles as When A Woman Goes Cold, False From True and How You Learn To Live Alone indicate Gauthier's prevailing thoughts right now.
Stornoway may be named after a town in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland but this folk/rock band hail from Oxford. On November 11, their destination is Pock, where the audience can expect new numbers from next year's upcoming album, alongside the best of 2010's Beachcomber's Windowsill and 2013's Tales From Terra Firma.
Slide guitarist Michael Messer will lead the Acoustic Blues Weekend from November 14 to 16, joined by rhythm guitarist Ed Genis for an Acoustic Blues House Party on the Saturday night.
Canadian singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and sister of Rufus, will be joined on her November 21 bill by Virginian singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, whose 2013 album, Manifestra, was a musical and political call to action and civic engagement.
Another double bill will head to Pocklington the next night in the form of British country duo The Shires and Ward Thomas, a country & Americana duo from the country hotbed of Hampshire comprising 20-year-old twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas. Both groups have become "buzz bands" on BBC Radio 2, so much so that it is now difficult to say who is the more rightful headliner. The Shires went down a storm at Pock in July, so that gives them the edge...for now.
Tribute act Keep It Cash will walk the line with Johnny Cash on December 5 as they celebrate the life and music of the late great Man In Black, before the spotlight turns to God's Own Country. An Emerge:Yorkshire showcase for Ellen & The Escapades, Beth McCarthy and guests on January 23 will be followed by Leeds band The Dunwells, with their blend of English rock and American roots music, on February 5.
Away from this music of note, the season's spoken-word highlights include performance poet, rapper and "voice of her generation" Kate Tempest and veteran broadcaster/inquisitor and political historian Jonathan Dimbleby. Tempest will perform her first full-length piece, Hold Your Own, on October 21 and Dimbleby will discuss his book about the Second World War and the battle of El Alamein in North Africa, Destiny In The Desert, on January 28.
Look out for details of Pock's programme of theatre, comedy and satellite broadcasts in next Thursday's What's On, as arts centre manager Janet Farmer looks forward to the autumn and winter ahead.
"We're delighted to announce the new season of live events, broadcasts and exhibitions. We really do feel it has something for everyone," she says.
"Running from September to February, it features more than 40 performances, ranging from household names used to performing in much larger theatres, to new and emerging performers and companies.
"Our 2014 spring and summer brochure proved very popular with 16 sold-out performances and more than 5,700 people in attendance. We hope our new season will emulate this success."
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Minety II 22
Swindon III 20
DESPITE having few experienced three-quarters available, a makeshift Minety second string battled through for a narrow win over Swindon thirds.
Playing downhill in the first half, Swindon kicked two penalty goals to take an early lead.
Led by their pack, Minety drove back up the slope and, having spent a long time in their opponents' half, finally got on the scoreboard thanks to a powerhouse try from Morgan Lightbody.
Mike Scott's conversion put Minety one point ahead, but their lead was short-lived. The visitors soon scored a try of their own and the conversion made it 7-13 in Swindon's favour at the break.
Coming downhill in the second half, Minety's scratch three-quarter line still struggled to gain cohesion. Their forwards knew what they were doing, however, and, having battled their way to the line, worked Matt Oliver over for a try.
Linking well with Lightbody, centre Simon Rowe then broke away and made a dash for the line from his own half. His try under the posts set up an easy kick for Minety, but the referee omitted the conversion from the final score.
Minety's final points came when skipper Milo Hartley put his team's man-of-the-match Ben Langridge away for a try on his debut.
Swindon came back with a converted try to make it 22-20, but Minety fought hard to defend their narrow lead and managed to see out the game.


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Obama Fried Chicken? Yep, It's Available in China
In China, copyright infringement is common as the day is long. But one would think that KFC would not be too happy about the latest chicken joint to pop up in the communist country. It's called OFC, which stands for Obama Fried Chicken.
The billboard (as you can see here) looks exactly like KFC's with the exception of Colonel Sander's face being replaced by Barrack Obama's. He's even rockin' the suspenders and bow tie. That's just wrong. It's funny but wrong!


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Anchorage Waters has one of the best locations - you can walk everywhere! It's just 600 metres to Cavill Avenue, 400 metres to Surfers Paradise Beach, and 250 metres to the Surfers tram stop.
Enjoy wide waterfront with gorgeous skyline views of the iconic Q1 building.
The house accommodates up to 20 adult guests and four small children in seven en-suited bedrooms (two downstairs), all with flatscreen televisions. There are eight generous bathrooms, a large pool and heated eight seater spa, alfresco entertaining area with barbecue and lawn area, open plan interior with pool table, dining and lounge with Foxtel channels, an additional lounge with Foxtel, a fully equipped chefs kitchen, ducted air-conditioning, and WiFi throughout. There is parking for four cars.
Cots, highchairs, and stair gates are all provided free of charge, making it easy to stay with children.
Crabbing or fishing can be enjoyed from the private pontoon, and kayaks are provided so you can explore the waterways.
This is an idyllic, tranquil location, just minutes away from the glitz and glam of Surfers Paradise.
Anchorage Waters has a strict no party and no function policy. The property is not available to groups of singles or schoolies.


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Guardians Of The Galaxy Gets New Writer
Chris McCoy is working on the script
Though the news leaked before the event, the Marvel team still managed to create waves with their announcement at Comic-Con that one of the studio's big new movies would be Guardians Of The Galaxy. The development process is continuing on the film, with Chris McCoy drafted in to rewrite the script.
McCoy is taking over from Marvel writing graduate Nicole Perlman, who wrote the initial draft bringing Drax The Destroyer (a human brought back from the dead to battle Thanos), Groot (a living tree creature), Star-Lord (a half-human / half-alien vigilante), Rocket Raccoon (a… racoon who likes to use heavy weaponry), Gamora (the last of her species who Thanos thought would work for him as an assassin, but who turned against him) and more to the big screen.
Though he hasn't actually had a script produced yet, McCoy's work has cropped up no less than three times on the Black List of Hollywood's favourite unproduced screenplays. Get Back appeared in 2007, Good Looking in 2009 and Good Kids in 2011.
Marvel wants the finished film in cinemas by August 2014.


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Shin Sangoku Musou: Multi Raid 2 Second Demo Arrives
Koei has made available the second demo for Shin Sangoku Musou: Multi Raid 2 (aka Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2) today. Zhen Ji, Sun Shang Xiang and Jiang Wei (above) are the playable characters this time. A couple of quests are available, one of them is new and you can play with your friends locally through the Ad-Hoc Mode. The direct link to the download page is .
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Turk – Physical Gold Buyers Won the Day, Shorts to Retreat
March 19, 2012
With gold and silver holding firm, despite bearish news, today King World News interviewed James Turk out of Spain. Turk told King World News the critical levels to look for in both gold and silver. But first, here is what Turk had to say about today's action: "The precious metals ended last week on the ropes, Eric. The news at the open this morning here in Europe was bleak because the Indian government announced a doubling of the import tax on gold. Given that India is world's the largest purchaser of gold, this news was bearish."
James Turk continues:
"Then the auction for the Greek credit default swaps concluded smoothly, suggesting the Greek default would not be disruptive. So the shorts had every chance today to deliver another crushing blow to the precious metals to continue the selling pressure from last week. But it didn't happen, Eric. The precious metals came back and put in a good day by holding above important support at $1650 for gold and $32 for silver.
So while the precious metals market may appear quiet on the surface, there are some meaningful crosscurrents going on underneath. Today's action is another good example that the paper shorts can only push the gold and silver market so far, even with news that should have helped them pressure prices….
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Nearly shut down, FR wrestling now on top
What a difference 12 years can make.
After securing the school's first county title in history and with a spot in next week's WPIAL Class AAA team tournament secure, times are good for Franklin Regional wrestling.
Those successes would have been hard to envision during the 2000-01 school year, however, as it was little more than a decade ago that a plan to ditch Franklin Regional's varsity wrestling program as a cost-cutting measure seemed imminent.
But from its near death at the hands of a budget-minded school board, the Panthers have gone through a renaissance on the mats, with individuals claiming major titles and now the team appearing to be its most potent since sometime in the last century.
"It's really quite gratifying to see where the program is today and to see it in such good hands," said Dom Colangelo, a math teacher at Franklin Regional Middle School and a former coach in the FR program.
"It was always a program that had two or three really strong wrestlers but not much else. In fairness, what the school board wanted to do was understandable because we only had six or seven kids on the varsity team. I think if we hadn't intervened, the program would be gone now."
The wrestling program wasn't the only target for cuts, as many departments within the school were ordered to make budget cuts. With participation waning and a varsity coach, Bob Gordon, who worked outside of the district, the decision was made to cut the high school program and the paid coaching positions but keep the middle school team intact.
Knowing that not having a varsity program would likely kill interest in the younger athletes, a group that included people from the FR boosters and the Junior Olympic wrestling program went to the board with a proposal.
"It blindsided us, but we didn't want to take that lying down," Colangelo said. "I gave a speech to the board and said that I'd be willing to coach the junior high team without pay, and our junior high head coach at the time would take over the varsity team. The boosters arranged it so that they would be able to pay him a salary."
That arrangement suited the school board well enough to give the program a stay of execution for the upcoming year, and it wouldn't even take that long for its fortunes to rebound.
Around the same time, the school district hired Chad Roland, a newly graduated teacher from Duquesne University who also happened to be a member of the Dukes wrestling team. Roland, who is now the principal at Kiski Area High Schol, took on the varsity coaching job with the booster-sponsored paycheck and essentially began to rebuild the program from the ground up.
The next year, the school board reinstated the program's paid positions, but that was still no indicator of future success by the team. Roland did well to field competitive teams with many wrestlers who had limited experience, and in 2005, the team's current head coach, Eric Mausser, joined Roland's staff as an assistant.
"What I notice when I got here was that a good elementary and junior high program were in place, and that was starting to work its way up to varsity," Mausser said.
"My first year was the year the football team went to the state championship, and (Roland) coached football, so my first month it was me and about eight kids working in the room until mid-December."
Mausser took over the head coaching position two years later, in 2007-08, when Roland left to take an administrative position at Burrell. That same year, a freshman wrestler named Nico Megaludis put himself — and the FR program — on the map with Powerade Tournament and WPIAL titles and a third-place finish at states.
That Megaludis was the program's first major champion since its rebirth was fitting, as his father, Dan, was involved with the coaching in the Junior Olympic program and a major part of the movement to keep the team, seven years before.
"What the program is doing now is a credit to all the coaches that have been here at every level. Mr. Megaludis deserves a lot of credit for what he did to keep the program around for the young wrestlers at the time," Colangelo said. "It's guys like that and the varsity coaches now that are so dedicated, it becomes contagious."
The success of Nico Megaludis and other wrestlers near his age, such as Trevor Medlang and Andrew Farbarik, set an example for a new crop of middle schoolers who make up the current varsity roster, which currently boasts five state qualifiers, two Powerade champs and a WPIAL champ.
"When I started here (in 2007), the program was already pretty good and had a marquee wrestler in Nico," Franklin Regional athletic director Zach Kessler said. "That brought a lot of attention to wrestling here.
"The program has been built up from the bottom. A lot of people in the community helped build the JO program, and we have great coaching at the high school with guys like Eric and (assistant coach) Ron Tarquinio."
The task now for FR's program is to continue on its upward trend. With a county title in the books, the next team goals for the Panthers are section and WPIAL titles, both of which could come in the near future with the team's current depth.
"Look at our county championship. Last year, we had four champions and a runner-up, but this year, we had 10 place winners and six finalists, even though we only had three champs. It was a complete team effort," Mausser said. "Now a section title and a WPIAL title are on our radar."
Whatever the next few years hold for the Franklin Regional wrestling program, everyone involved with the team can be proud of helping it get to a far better place than it was in 2001.
"Like any good program, such as what (coach) Greg (Botta) does with our football team, the names will change, but the system is in place now for success," Kessler said.
"I marvel at what it has become. You see five, six, seven kids in each class now that are going to be very good varsity wrestlers, and they have four guys there now that will probably get a full ride to wherever they want to go for college," Colangelo said.
"My time in the program has come and gone, but it's good to feel like you played a small part of helping to keep this together."
Matt Grubba is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-388-5830 or email@example.com.


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On the Ethics of Management Research: An Exploratory Investigation
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- Cynthia Stohl & Michael Stohl & Lucy Popova, 2009. "A New Generation of Corporate Codes of Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 90(4), pages 607-622, December.
- Kolbe, Richard H & Burnett, Melissa S, 1991. " Content-Analysis Research: An Examination of Applications with Directives for Improving Research Reliability and Objectivity," Journal of Consumer Research, Oxford University Press, vol. 18(2), pages 243-250, September.
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EPOC (operating system)
EPOC is a discontinued family of graphical operating systems developed by Psion for portable devices, primarily PDAs. EPOC came from epoch, the beginning of an era, but was backfitted by the engineers to "Electronic Piece Of Cheese".[1] It was succeeded by Symbian in 1998.
EPOC16, originally simply named EPOC, was the operating system developed by Psion in the late 1980s and early 1990s for Psion's "SIBO" (SIxteen Bit Organisers) devices. All EPOC16 devices featured an 8086-family processor and a 16-bit architecture. EPOC16 was a single-user preemptive multitasking operating system, written in Intel 8086 assembler language and C and designed to be delivered in ROM. It supported a simple programming language called Open Programming Language (OPL) and an integrated development environment (IDE) called OVAL. SIBO devices included the: MC200, MC400, Series 3 (1991–98), Series 3a, Series 3c, Series 3mx, Siena, Workabout and Workabout mx. The MC400 and MC200, the first EPOC16 devices, shipped in 1989.
In the late 1990s, the operating system was referred to as EPOC16 to distinguish it from Psion's then-new EPOC32 OS.
EPOC32 (releases 1 to 5)[edit]
The first version of EPOC32, Release 1 appeared on the Psion Series 5 ROM v1.0 in 1997. Later, ROM v1.1 featured Release 3 (Release 2 was never publicly available.) These were followed by the Psion Series 5mx, Revo / Revo plus, Psion Series 7 / netBook and netPad (which all featured Release 5).
The EPOC32 operating system, at the time simply referred to as EPOC, was later renamed Symbian OS. Adding to the confusion with names, before the change to Symbian, EPOC16 was often referred to as SIBO to distinguish it from the "new" EPOC. Despite the similarity of the names, EPOC32 and EPOC16 were completely different operating systems, EPOC32 being written in C++ from a new codebase with development beginning during the mid-1990s.
EPOC32 was a pre-emptive multitasking, single user operating system with memory protection, which encourages the application developer to separate their program into an engine and an interface. The Psion line of PDAs come with a graphical user interface called EIKON which is specifically tailored for handheld machines with a keyboard (thus looking perhaps more similar to desktop GUIs than palmtop GUIs [2]). However, one of EPOC's characteristics is the ease with which new GUIs can be developed based on a core set of GUI classes, a feature which has been widely explored from Ericsson R380 and onwards.
EPOC32 was originally developed for the ARM family of processors, including the ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM and Intel's XScale, but can be compiled towards target devices using several other processor types.
During the development of EPOC32, Psion planned to license EPOC to third-party device manufacturers, and spin off its software division as Psion Software. One of the first licensees was the short-lived Geofox, which halted production with less than 1,000 units sold. Ericsson marketed a rebranded Psion Series 5mx called the MC218, and later created the EPOC Release 5.1 based smartphone, the R380. Oregon Scientific also released a budget EPOC device, the Osaris (notable as the only EPOC device to ship with Release 4).
Work started on the 32-bit version in late 1994.
The Series 5 device, released in June 1997, used the first iterations of the EPOC32 OS, codenamed "Protea", and the "Eikon" graphical user interface.
The Oregon Scientific Osaris was the only PDA to use the ER4.
The Psion Series 5mx, Psion Series 7, Psion Revo, Diamond Mako, Psion netBook and Ericsson MC218 were released in 1999 using ER5. A phone project was announced at CeBIT, the Phillips Illium/Accent, but did not achieve a commercial release. This release has been retrospectively dubbed Symbian OS 5.
The first phone using ER5u, the Ericsson R380 was released in November 2000. It was not an 'open' phone – software could not be installed. Notably, a number of never-released Psion prototypes for next generation PDAs, including a Bluetooth Revo successor codenamed "Conan" were using ER5u. The 'u' in the name refers to the fact that it supported Unicode.
In June 1998, Psion Software became Symbian Ltd., a major joint venture between Psion and phone manufacturers Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia. As of Release 6, EPOC became known simply as Symbian OS.
- ^ Hood, Ann (2000-05-15). "Wireless warrior - Salon.com". Archive.salon.com. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ Marcin Wichary. "GUIdebook - Screenshots - EPOC R5/Psion Revo". Guidebookgallery.org. Retrieved 2010-08-12.


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Electronic Literature & Tales of Computational Life
Electronic Literature & Tales of Computational Life
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Jim Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UW-Madison, takes a journey back to 1999 to look at how people were using computers and software in their lives as compared to present day. Brown explores electronic literature focusing on "Reagan Library" created in 1999 by Stuart Moulthrop.
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This article titled "A new carton recycling plant could mean an end to shipping waste overseas" was written by Tim Smedley, for theguardian.com on Thursday 15th August 2013 08.18 UTC
I am standing in what will soon be the UK's only carton recycling facility in Stainland near Halifax, Yorkshire. In front of me are huge bales of waste cartons – Tetra Pak, to you and me – waiting to be recycled. I wonder where they're from. "That one's from the Nottingham hub", answers Fay Dashper, recycling operations manager, ACE UK, pointing at a bale seemingly indistinguishable from any other. "You can tell from the shape of the bale and the quality of the material… I'm a bit of a carton geek".
It's Dashper's job to be a carton geek. While Tetra Pak has become the colloquial term for the plastic-coated cardboard that packages fruit juice and pureed tomatoes, there are two other manufacturers – Elopak and SIG Combibloc. ACE UK (the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment) represents all three. It has teamed up with recycling company Sonoco Alcore to create this processing plant to stop cartons being shipped overseas or, worse, to landfill. This one factory alone will process up to 40% of the UK's cartons when officially operational in September, turning them into "coreboard" tubes with uses from carpet rolls to clingfilm.
By bringing new recycling capability to the UK, ACE is hoping to promote the environmental credentials of its product. "Because we are opening this recycling facility, a lot of local authorities are very interested in bringing cartons here", informs Dashper. "We are talking to one group of seven Local Authorities right now that are going to start taking cartons at kerb-side because this facility is opening, and we expect several more will follow."
Cartons, ACE UK believes, have had some unfair press. Three types of virgin wood go into one carton (recycled fibres aren't strong enough): spruce, pine and birch. They are lined with polyethelyne and/or aluminium (not wax, as some believe). Until recently the majority of local authorities didn't accept them for recycling, so they went to landfill.
ACE UK argues that councils have previously had no incentive to find recycling outlets for cartons. Local authority recycling targets are weight-based, with the effect of huge increases for food and garden waste recycling but not for the lightweight carton. With plenty of carton recycling factories overseas but none in the UK, some councils' ethical "no export" policy has even had the perverse effect of sending recyclable material to landfill. ACE UK attempted to counter this by installing their own Bringbank recycling banks for eco-conscious consumers to take their cartons to, which were then shipped to Europe. However, the success of the scheme was limited. Dashper tells of one Bringbank found with two prosthetic legs jammed in it. One still had a slipper on.
The story of cartons is not dissimilar to that of UK recycling at large. We currently produce more recyclate (the industry term for recyclable waste) than we have the capacity to recycle domestically. In part this is because we've got much better at collecting it – we now recycle 43% of household waste compared to just 14% ten years ago.
A survey last year by industry body the Resource Association and You-Gov found that 73% of UK adults did not know what happened to their recycling, and 32% said that better information would make them more likely to recycle. "We genuinely believe that transparency is the name of the game", says Ray Georgeson, chief executive of the Resource Association and former director of WRAP. "The more you can demonstrate to people what actually happens to recyclate and where it goes, the more confidence you will build in the industry".
An added need for keeping recycling at home is that China is increasingly refusing our refuse. Operation Green Fence was initiated in February by President Xi Jinping to ensure the recycling exported to China meets far stricter quality standards. "Because of the way we collect a lot of our material there is often contamination", says Georgeson. "The Chinese have now got very fussy; they are protecting their own increasingly high end manufacturing base, plus they are generating more of their own recyclate through increased domestic consumption, and so need less of ours." He says this has "sent shock waves" though the industry, but also argues it is an opportunity for the industry to change tack and build the domestic market.
The new carton facility in Yorkshire could be seen as part of that broader trend. Georgeson cites other recent manufacturing success stories in UK recycling such as Closed Loop in East London, Saica in Manchester, Eco Plastics in Lincolnshire – the world's biggest plastic bottle recycling manufacturing plant – and UPM's huge paper plant in North Wales. However there have also been closures, including a previous short-lived attempt to recycle cartons by the Smith Anderson Group in Fife, Scotland.


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Some parts of Mexico City could be compared to Spanish or German cities, the study found, but other parts were more like the poorest parts of Africa.
The UN Development Programme study found that more needed to be done to close the nation's wealth gap.
It added that a lot had already been done to reduce the sharp divide.
Us and them
"Because of the advances of the last 50 years, Mexico has tackled the goal of reducing the gap between its communities, especially in the (larger) municipalities," said UN representative to Mexico Thierry Lemaresquier.
However, the report made clear that more needed to be done.
Using the UN Human Development Index, the report rated 2,426 major Mexican cities and towns based on the life expectancy of their residents, available education programmes per capita and the level of capital investment that flows into the areas.
The wealthiest zones of Mexico City and the industrial hub of Monterrey in the north could be compared to rich European cities, but other parts of the capital and rural areas in the south of the country could have been in Africa, the report found.
The town of Metlatonoc, in the southern state of Guerrero, was found to be the most deprived in Mexico.
Other southern states that scored poorly in the index were Oaxaca and Chiapas.


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Caspofungin is an antifungal medicine that fights infections caused by fungus.
Caspofungin is used to treat fungal infections of the stomach, lungs, esophagus, or other internal body areas.
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This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Caspofungin is injected into a vein through an IV. A healthcare provider will give you this injection.
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Notes from the Backfields: Jupiter, FL, Day 1 of 3
I'm currently in Jupiter, Florida, as a guest both of (a) my 91-year-old grandfather and (a) the Miami Marlins of Florida. Today was Day 1 of 3 of my time here. I'll be spending time on the backfields, watching some minor-league games and providing mediocre analysis on same.
Today, I watched mostly the High-A game between the Marlins and Cardinals — or, alternately, the Jupiter Hammerheads and Palm Beach Cardinals, of the Sally and Florida State League, respectively.
Regarding Grant Dayton
Left-hander Grant Dayton, 24, pitched for Miami and was generally excellent — although, perhaps, less excellent in consideration of his age. He threw what appeared to be four or five pitches, depending on how all the breaking balls are split up: a fastball at 88-91 mph, a cutter at ca. 85 mph, a slider at around 80 mph, and a change at 82-83 mph. There were a couple of breaking balls in the high 70s, too, so it's possible that he was throwing a curve. In any case, the shape of the pitch was pretty similar to the slider.
His second time facing Cardinals second baseman Starlin Rodriguez represents a great example of the degree to which Dayton was able to mix both his pitches and locations. After throwing a change at 83 for a ball outside — and maybe compelling Rodriguez to look outside on the next pitch — he came back with a 78 mph breaking ball on Rodriguez's hands which the latter was only able to foul off. The third pitch in the sequence was another change on the outside corner, this time for a called strike. Finally, Dayton got the out on the next pitch, throwing a fastball at 91, high out of the zone, inducing a foul pop.
The reports on Dayton generally profile him as a relief pitcher — and those reports are written by people who are definitely smarter than me — but, given the degree to which Dayton was able to command multiple pitches, it seems as though starting could work.
Regarding Zach Russell
Right-hander Zach Russell, 22, had less success pitching for the Cardinals. From what I could tell, he was throwing four pitches: a fastball at 90 mph, a slider at 83 mph, a change at about 82 mph, and a mid-70s curveball. He threw a number of backdoor curves with success, getting strikes looking that way to a number of right-handed batters, but had much less luck with throwing either of his breaking balls for swings and misses away to righties. His fastball was at its best when Russell was able to throw from a higher release point and hit the lower part of the zone. Hitters seemed to have more difficulty with that. But too often he was missing in the zone or high, perhaps as a result of lowering his release point slightly.
The highlight of Russell's day came against Marlins top prospect Christian Yelich, during the latter's second plate appearance. Yelich hit an impressive home run off of a high fastball (or maybe it was change, but I think not) from Russell during his (i.e. Yelich's) first AB. Russell struck Yelich out the second time, getting strike two looking on a well-placed curve on the outside corner against the lefty-batting Yelich. Strike three, also looking, was on an equally well-placed slider to Yelich's back foot.
Again, though, the fastball location was a bit of a mess for Russell, and he allowed quite a few hard-hit balls.
In Brief
• I saw three PAs from Yelich: the home run and then two strikeouts looking. I don't know much about Yelich's plate discipline (he had a 10.6% walk rate as a 19-year-old — which seems high-ish, I guess), but he seemed to have a pretty specific idea of what he did and did not want to hit.
• Yelich had both (a) the hardest-hit ball and (b) thinnest legs of any player that I saw in the High-A game. If Yelich's home run wasn't the hardest-hit ball, then corner infielder Johnny Rodriguez's home run was. He did something disgusting to a Dayton changepiece that got up in the zone.
• No. 2 Marlins prospect, outfielder Marcell Ozuna, was hit in the face by a Russell fastball on third pitch (I think it was) of the former's first plate appearance and left the game immediately. He walked away from the incident, but was also holding his jaw intently and was escorted by a trainer.
• I also saw Marlins major leaguers Logan Morrison and Mike Stanton, and Cardinals top prospects Oscar Taveras and Kolten Wong briefly in the Double-A game, but have little to report — except that (a) Cardinals left-hander John Gast handled Stanton well, striking him out with a series of two or three consecutive changeups at one point and (b) I'm excited to see Oscar Taveras again.
• I saw this on the ground, outside the left-field fence. I think maybe it's a spider egg sac.
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Attempting to sell the first pics of her newborn daughter to the highest bidder, she reportedly would donate some profits of the sales to the Multiple Sclerosis Children's Fund.
Giving birth to her first baby on Sunday, August 24, Alessandra Ambrosio is wasting no time to cash in on her infant's pictures. It's been claimed that the Victoria's Secret angel is attempting to sell the first pictures of her newborn daughter, Anja Louise Ambrosio Mazur, to several weekly publications in the U.S.
The New York Post broke the news Tuesday, August 26. It even quoted a source close to the model's camp as saying that Ambrosio would probably donate some of the profits from the sales of her baby's pics to the Multiple Sclerosis Children's Fund.
Ambrosio gave birth to Anja in Brazil. She confirmed the arrival of her baby to People magazine, saying "To all of our family and friends, we are pleased to announce that our little princess Anja Louise Ambrosio Mazur was born on Sunday Aug 24 at 7:32 P.M. She is 6.3 lbs. and absolutely perfect."
Anja is the first child of Ambrosio and her longtime boyfriend Jamie Mazur, a California businessman. The pair reportedly have been dating since 2005. She broke her pregnancy for public to know back in March.


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Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, email@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [RM] Jan. 30, 2008 $5.85 Million in Local Park Grants Awarded to 15 Texas Communities AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Jan. 24 approved $5.85 million in grants for 15 Texas communities to acquire or develop city park outdoor and indoor recreational sites. Commissioners approved $3.78 million in funds from the 2008 fiscal year Texas Recreation and Parks Account program revenue for outdoor grants. The amount was divided among 10 out of 19 eligible applicants based on site visits and analysis. Since the Texas Legislature restored the appropriation for indoor grants for the 2008-2009 biennium, $2.07 million in funds also was available for indoor grants. This amount was divided among five out of eight eligible applicants. The funding for the grants is provided in part by the TRPA, which dedicates a portion of the state sales tax on sporting goods to help local governments provide indoor and outdoor recreation. The program was authorized in 1993. Outdoor recreation grants are additionally made available through the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund supported by offshore oil and gas lease royalties. The top projects recommended by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff from those submitted by 27 sponsors were selected based on a competitive scoring system and ranked in descending order of priority. For more information on local park grants, including how to apply for funding, contact TPWD's Recreation Grants Program at (512) 912-7124 or see the department Web site. The commission awarded outdoor recreation grants to the following cities organized by county below: --Angelina County -- The City of Diboll was awarded $400,000 to further develop the Old Orchard Park sports complex with the renovation of its sporting facilities, pavilions, wildlife viewing platform and playgrounds. --Cameron County -- The City of Laureles was awarded $400,000 to further develop Laureles Regional Park to include several lighted sports facilities, a 0.75 mile trail and a community garden. --Denton County -- The City of Justin was awarded $400,000 to further develop Community Park to include a new trail featuring two overlooks, a lighted baseball field, two soccer fields and upgraded playground equipment. --Grayson County -- The City of Pottsboro was awarded $400,000 to further develop Pottsboro Park to include a 0.7 mile trail with six exercise stations, a skateboard park, a playground, multiple sporting fields and facilities, and a 2.5 acre pond. --Guadalupe County -- The City of Cibolo was awarded $400,000 to further develop Town Creek Park West to include approximately 40 additional acres of land for open space and a 1.5 mile trail with educational and historical signs. --Jefferson County -- The City of Port Arthur was awarded $400,000 to further develop Adams Park to include approximately 20 acres of land leased from the Port Arthur Independent School District. The additional land will be used for a wetland restoration with plantings, an outdoor learning center, a boardwalk, a soccer field and a 1 mile trail with exercise stations. --Kimble County -- The City of Junction was awarded $400,000 to further develop Schreiner City Park to include splash pad, gazebo and interpretive signs; playground equipment; a 2 mile trail with benches and exercise stations; --Kleberg County -- The City of Kingsville was awarded $184,898 to further develop Dick Kleberg Park to include a bird/wildlife observation station, a hummingbird/butterfly garden, sports facilities and exercise stations. --Limestone County -- The City of Groesbeck was awarded $400,000 to further develop the Groesbeck City Park to include a 2.0 acre open space dedication, a 1.14 mile trail, two lighted baseball fields and two playgrounds. --Williamson County -- The City of Hutto was awarded $400,000 to further develop Lake Park to include new trails, fishing access and bird-watching platforms and environmental and historical educational signs. The commission approved indoor recreation grants for projects in the following amounts: --Coryell County -- The City of Copperas Cove was awarded $417,563 for the development of a 36,792 square foot community recreation center in Ogletree Gap Regional Park. The new facility will include a natatorium with a leisure pool, a weight room, a gymnasium for basketball and volleyball and several multi-purpose rooms. --Frio County -- The City of Dilley was awarded $416, 000 to further develop the Dilley City-School Recreation Facility to include new rooms for exercise, weightlifting and multipurpose use. --Jefferson County -- The City of Port Arthur was awarded $417,563 to develop a 13,000 square foot addition to an existing 23,000 community recreation center. The new facility will include a gym with track, a climbing wall, an exercise room and several multi-purpose rooms --LaSalle County -- The City of Cotulla was awarded $417,500 to further develop the 13,000 square foot Convention and Nature Center to include renovation to the existing auditorium, offices and a new space for nature displays and exhibits. --Williamson County -- The City of Cedar Park was awarded $400,000 to develop a 50,000 square foot community recreational facility, which will include: an elevated track, a double gymnasium and several multi-purpose rooms. --- On the Net: More about TPWD grants: http://tpwd.texas.gov/business/grants -30-


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Plans to regenerate South Park Gardens were approved despite opposition from neighbours.
The picturesque gardens in the centre of Wimbledon will soon have a community pavilion with a refreshment kiosk, storage areas and toilets after the current building housing toilets and storage is demolished.
The dilapidated toilet block and storage sheds in the western corner of the park in Dudley Road will be demolished, and the timber refreshment kiosk will be removed.
The new storage space will be used for the Friends of South Park Gardens to store equipment for events.
Opposition from residents included concerns that a covered terrace would attract rough sleepers, drug dealers and will encourage people to congregate near neighbouring houses in the Victorian square.
The concerns were lodged as part of two stages of consultation process.
Other issues raised included an opposition to cab drivers using the new facilities, concerns over the community space being used by a playgroup and the proposed materials being out of character with the park.
More than 100 letters of support were also received after a public meeting in November last year.
The 2.4 hectare park was opened in 1901 and restored with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2009.
The gardens are Grade II listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Interest.
The plans were unanimously approved by the Merton Council planning committee on Thursday, March 27.


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Hockey sweaters—with their body-checking and wrist shot-taking awesomeness—have become the latest inspiration for high fashion. Brands such as Casely-Hayford have reiterated the uniforms, that are known for being worn by beer-guzzling fans and popping-up in '90s rap videos, into the must-have item for stylish dudes. But with all the fashionable options, we often overlook the jerseys that are actually worn on the ice.
U.S. Hockey has released the first images of its 2014 Winter Olympics uniforms, and they pay homage to the sweaters of the past, as they include faux-lace-up neck. But there's also something for the fashion-set: such as subtle features, like monochrome stars on the shoulders, that fans of Givenchy will go crazy for.
This time at the Olympics, hopefully, the U.S. can get its revenge on its neighbors to the north, Canada, and can capture Olympic gold for the first time since the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980. If so, their style will be top-notch, too.
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president – marking the succession of the Southern United states.
Honest Abe was brought to the nation's attention following his heated debates with Stephan Douglas, a competitor for the U.S. Senate seat in 1858. Douglas proposed that states should be able to decide whether slavery should be legal – Abe said "no" to the spread of this practice. Douglas won the seat, but Lincoln put the rising Republican party on the map.
Within two years, Lincoln had won the Republican party's presidential nomination. You go, Abe.
In the 1860 election, Douglas and Lincoln went at it again. Douglas, who was the nomination for a feuding Democratic party, lost to Abe's honesty… and all-around more reasonable policies. (Like not enslaving people!)
He even rap battled Chuck Norris once…
By the time ole' Abe was taking his oath, seven states had officially seceded, and the Confederate States of America had been formed. Jefferson Davis, the elected Confederate president, had another thing coming…
Within a month, the Civil War had begun. In 1863, Lincoln freed the slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation. The following year he won the re-election. (Imagine that!)
In 1865, while attending a theater performance, Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate-supporter John Wilkes Booth. He must not have gotten the memo – the war had ended less than a week earlier.
Though the end of his presidency was met with tragedy, Abraham Lincoln is known as one of our nation's most influential and outstanding leaders. It didn't hurt that the man was well-dressed, well liked and sported one hell of a beard. Here's to you Abe!


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Leonard doesn't fear his father's shadow
Whenever he's writing, novelist Peter Leonard says his father's looking over his shoulder.
It's the truth.
Hanging on the wall of his home office is a portrait of the late Elmore (Dutch) Leonard taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz. Sometimes called the "Dickens of Detroit," the elder Leonard penned nearly 50 novels; many were adapted for movies and television, including FX's Emmy-winning "Justified." He died last year at age 87.
"I hear him saying, 'If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.' If I see myself writing something that goes on too long or isn't interesting enough, I'll hear him say, 'Leave out the parts readers tend to skip. ... (Readers) want the story to keep moving,' " says Peter Leonard, 62.
Leonard lives in Birmingham, Mich., with Julie, his wife of 33 years, and has four children. His latest novel, "Eyes Closed Tight," arrived in stores last week — his first release since his father died.
"It took a while to get back into the swing of things after he died. I was distracted. But now I'm back in business," he says. "I don't think about him while I'm working. It doesn't affect what I'm doing ... my ability to concentrate. I gain inspiration looking at his photo."
He says he treats writing "like a business — that's what it is. I write all day in a paneled den just like my father (did)," Leonard says. "I used to watch him and think, 'Boy, does that look difficult.' Now that I do what he did all those years, I see why he did it — it's so much fun, it's so satisfying, it's so enjoyable. I can't imagine doing anything I'd like better."
Leonard knows he's living in his father's long shadow — something he embraces. He also knows he'd be foolish not to.
"He's considered the greatest crime-fiction writer of all time by critics," Leonard says. "He had a great sense of humor and was a very funny man. He'd see humor in many situations that weren't funny. You could read his books and see that — humor in crime. That's what made him so distinctively different than many others."
Peter Leonard is the second of five children Elmore had with his first wife, Beverly Decker. For 30 years, he co-owned an advertising agency, Leonard Mayer & Tocco, Inc.
"I was content, and Elmore became very famous along the way," Leonard explains. He didn't want to do what his father did because his father was so good at it. He thought it wouldn't be smart to write fiction and be compared to him. "Then I decided, 'What the heck?' I wanted to do it, and I'm gonna do it."
This epiphany came nearly a decade ago, after he pitched an ad campaign to Volkswagen, and the manager flung his storyboard across the conference room.
"He (bought) the campaign, but I was frustrated. I went to visit Elmore. I was wearing a coat and tie; he was wearing Birkenstocks, jeans and a Nine Inch Nails T-shirt. He had a bounce in his step. He really loved what he was doing," Leonard recalls. "He picked up a scene he'd been writing and read it to me. I thought, 'This guy loves what he's doing,' and I really didn't. I started writing (several) months later."
The result was 2009's "Quiver," his first novel. Peter left the advertising business in 2009 to pursue writing full time and hasn't looked back.
"I read Peter's first book and knew he had it in the blood. The same crisp characters and dialogue I knew from another Detroit writer with the same last name. Like many of us, he had a great teacher," said New York Times best-selling novelist Michael Connelly.
"Eyes Closed Tight" is Leonard's sixth novel. He brings back O'Clair from his second novel, "Trust Me." A retired Detroit homicide detective, O'Clair moved to Florida and bought a hotel. When a girl is found dead, it's hauntingly similar to a case he solved six years earlier.
"In the opening scene, (O'Clair) sees that one of the lounge chairs is missing, looks down at the beach and sees it there. He walks down and sees this pretty young girl asleep on the lounge chair," Leonard says. "He touches her arm and knows right away she's dead — her skin's cold and her body's starting to rigor. That begins this novel."
Most of the novel occurs in Detroit during the winter.
"With the white snow and the white sky, all you see is this monochromatic world we live in several months a year," Leonard says. "The grittiness of Detroit against this white background is pretty effective."
Currently, he's finishing his seventh novel — "Unknown Remains," due next year — in which two loan sharks collect from a broker at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Leonard didn't outline "Unknown Remains"; he just let the characters tell the story, something his father did.
"I didn't know what the story was about and just sat down every day and tried to advance the novel. It was tricky. It was way more challenging. I don't know if I'll do that again," he confesses.
He's researching a novel starring Elmore's Raylan Givens, portrayed by Timothy Olyphant on "Justified."
"I'm going to write a couple chapters and see how I feel about (Raylan)," he says. "If Raylan doesn't work for me, I'll just change his name and make him my own U.S. marshal."
Like his father, Leonard writes longhand. But unlike him, he uses a computer, too.
"I feel it connects me to what I'm doing; it connects me to the story. I may write a chapter longhand, then transpose it to the computer," he says. "I was so fortunate to have a dad who happened to be a famous writer that I could talk to several nights a week about writing. It almost seems unfair, but that's the way it was."
Kurt Anthony Krug is a staff writer for the Detroit Free Press.


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Believe it or not, that's what this week's Scripps column is about. It started out as a response to S.T. Karnick's blog post at The American Culture asserting that Sheen's recent Tour of Self-Destruction signified some deeper illness in American society—an illness due to "moral relativism."
My take:
My take:
Is there a larger societal lesson to be learned from Charlie Sheen? Not really.Quick note: "Moral scolds," in retrospect, is a kind of easy name-calling I wish I'd avoided.
If Sheen has taught us anything, it's stuff we've known for a long time: Too much wealth and privilege can be corrosive in the wrong hands. And there's nothing Americans love more than watching the rich and powerful crash and burn.
But nobody's really endorsing Sheen's behavior or making excuses for him. Where's the relativism? Who is looking at Sheen and offering him up as an example for our youth? Who is endorsing the idea that it is OK to go on cocaine binges, abuse your wife and flake out on your job ... if that's what you really want to do? Nobody, except perhaps for the straw men who exist in the imaginations of moral scolds among us.
If there's hay to be made here, perhaps it's in the fact that so many Americans have made sport of Sheen's erratic and bizarre media appearances. Who hasn't made or heard a Charlie Sheen joke in recent weeks? The man appears to be destroying his career and many of his relationships, yet we treat the whole matter like it's another, somewhat diverting episode of his sitcom. It's ugly and sordid: Pass the popcorn.
Even then, it's hard to get worked up: Such impulses are as old as gladiator fights, the bearded lady at the circus, and rubbernecking at car crashes. Humans rarely turn their eyes away from disasters and mayhem. Sheen seems to be providing plenty of both.
What's he getting for his efforts? A lost job, apparently. The mockery of an entire nation. Perhaps a lawsuit or two. Charlie Sheen is nobody's hero. If that's moral relativism, heaven help us when America finds its moral rectitude again.


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