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The Future of Whiskey Island
Karen Schaefer: Many people may have heard of Whiskey Island, but few have ever been there. That's not surprising, because the island is hard to find. From the Cuyahoga River, trucks and trains access the industrial side by a bridge from the western shore. Other visitors must negotiate the maze of roads just east of Edgewater Park. Past a wastewater treatment plant and docks for the Port of Cleveland, a narrow lane dumps visitors at the gates of the Whiskey Island Marina. It's open to the public during the boating season - but may not be for much longer. Ed Hauser is a member of the marina. He's also president of the Friends of Whiskey Island.
Ed Hauser: From the parking lot over to the river and the Conrail fence up to the lake is 20 acres of green space up for sale since 1999. And this is what the Friends of Whiskey Island are proposing to become a public park.
KS: Along Cleveland's Lake Erie shore, less than two miles offer public access to what many consider one of the city's greatest assets. While much of Whiskey Island is actually man-made landfill, these 20 acres remain undeveloped, home to shrubby trees, native grasses - and birds.
EH: Oh, there's Paula. She comes down here at lunchtime and checks out the birds. I tagged along with you once and you were showing me some things...
Paula: Yeah, you know it's the old story. If you don't look, you don't see. You know, anything could be here. I've had snowy owls sitting out on the pier there and we had the jagers that came. I'm hoping for a snowy owl today.
KS: The island also offers stunning vistas of Lake Eire, the Cuyahoga, and the Cleveland skyline. For more than two years, Hauser has been trying to convince public officials of the value of saving this land as a park - even extending the Cleveland bike path across the river and connecting the east side with the west. But so far, neither the state Department of Natural Resources nor the city has signed on to his idea. Hauser believes there's a reason for that.
EH: Now with the Port Authority, the original master plan was to bulkhead about 300 feet out into the lake behind the Coast Guard station and connect it with the ore dock. And they were going to push all this land in and fill in this little bay, basically, and make this a shipping dock. To level Whiskey Island to build a new imported steel facility - and you know, I work in the local steel industry - I would be very against that.
KS: The Cuyahoga County-Cleveland Port Authority - which operates the Port of Cleveland - already owns nearly all of the lakeshore property between Edgewater Park and Burke Lakefront Airport. A separate Department of Port Control runs Burke and Cleveland Hopkins. The maritime Port Authority currently has dock and storage facilities at two locations. One is the Cleveland Bulk Terminal west of Whiskey Island for Great Lakes freight. The other is the International Dock beside the Cleveland Browns Stadium, where ocean-going freighters can load and off-load cargo in the port's foreign trade zone.
Gary Failor has been executive director of the Port Authority since 1993. In 1998, the port created its new master plan that would expand the city's dock and storage facilities as need demanded. Three years ago, shipping on the Great Lakes was at an all-time high and LTV Steel's furnaces were still going full-blast. But lower lake levels and a bankruptcy decision have created a decided drop in port activity. Failor believes that downturn is temporary.
Gary Failor: I've been in this business 25 years and it's a cyclical business. It comes and it goes. It comes and goes with the economy and it comes and goes with the long-term steel business. That's why steel stocks are called cyclical stocks. Frankly, I think we're just in the normal cycle and we'll see that change again. Our hope is that LTV is bought by another firm and continues to make steel as they have in the past.
KS: Under former mayor Mike White's administration, the Port Authority's expansion plans were tied to another big city project, the creation of a new convention center. Some proposals call for the new complex to be located on the lakeshore. That would mean relocating many of the port's facilities, a move that could cost an estimated $700 million. Although a new convention center could bring more income to downtown, there are those who believe that decisions about lakefront development are long overdue for public scrutiny. Genevieve Ray is director of the Waterfront Coalition, a local group that wants to make that planning process more transparent.
Genevieve Ray: It may be that the county commissioners - who name a few of the members - and the mayor - who names a lot of the members of the Port Authority board - someone could say, well, that is your public oversight, is your elected officials. But I think we've all wished for a more transparent process, so that we can really have a community discussion, a community dialogue about these major forces that shape our economy and our environment.
KS: Ray, Hauser and others believe that under the White administration, many of the decisions taken about Cleveland's waterfront were made in a vacuum, without public input and without looking at the big picture. But new Mayor Jane Campbell has already indicated a willingness to explore changes in Cleveland's waterfront through a more citizen-based approach. That could give residents more public access to the lake. Until then, the fate of Whiskey Island remains in the balance. In Cleveland, Karen Schaefer, 90.3 WCPN.


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My 5 year old daughter had a forehead scar revision 6 weeks ago, it's healing nicely. She has developed a small dog ear (2mm wide) at one end of the scar, confirmed by her PS at check up. It looks like a small pimple and sticks out a little bit. Do you think that a small dog ear such as this one could infact resolve with time or is she stuck with it? I know you can revise these after some time but I really don't want her to have surgery again. Thank you in advance.
Will a Small Dog Ear at One End of a Forehead Scar Resolve with Time?
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Most of these dog ear scars will resolve, especially in a child who is growing. I would seek the advice of your surgeon for options including waiting, scar revision, and laser.
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Will a Small Dog Ear at One End of a Forehead Scar Resolve with Time?
A small dog ear should resolve with time. Massage is often helpful but I would run this by your plastic surgeon before beginning. Since, the likelihood is high that this will resolve, I would typically recommend waiting at least 6 months before making a decision to revise that area. It is highly likely that this area will completely settle. I hope this information is helpful.
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Let us pray for the whole Church of God in Christ Jesus and for all people according to their needs. Brief Silence.
O God of our salvation, hear our prayers for Your Church, that faithfully casting the Gospel net of the Crucified and Risen Lord, all Your people may toil with zeal in sharing the Good News. Lord, in Your mercy, R.
God of our hope, remember all Church workers who struggle with depression and anxiety when they see little or no fruit from their labors. Grant them steadfast trust in Your Word and refreshment through Your unfailing promises. Lord, in Your mercy, R.
Lord of the Church, remember in mercy our Synod as we gather in convention and grant all delegates a share in the wisdom that comes from Your Spirit. Lord, in Your mercy, R.
O Lord God of hosts, remember our nation and its leaders as we give thanks to you upon this Independence Day. Strengthen and uphold them in every good deed; and surround with Your compassion all who serve in our armed forces. Lord, in Your mercy, R.
Give ear, O God of Jacob, to our prayers for those who cry out to You in difficult circumstances: the lonely and frightened, the unemployed and homeless, those in difficult family situations, the sick and the dying, and especially those who have asked our prayers... Give to each the comfort and joy that come from You alone. Lord, in Your mercy, R.
O Lord, You are our light and our salvation, and You set a feast before us that we might know Your forgiveness, taste Your kindness, and live in You forevermore. Grant us repentant faith to welcome the gift of the Savior's body and blood to our salvation and abundant blessing. Lord, in Your mercy, R.
Join our prayers and praises with those of Your faithful people of every time and place and unite them in the ceaseless petitions of our great High Priest until He comes in power and great glory as victorious Lord of all. Through Him, with Him and in Him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all power and glory are Yours, almighty Father, forever and ever.
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Someone should employ you for the Let Us Pray e-newsletter. Thanks.
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It was neat to pray these as I read your blog. Thank you so much for writing it!
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We have a $50 cap, I have to buy something from both my husband and I - we're doing this with his sisters/brother in laws.. apparently we buy something neutral and then we pick numbers or something.. whatever. Anyone have suggestions?
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A group of people all buy neutral presents, and the presents are numbered - you draw a number and then you pick presents in that order, you're also allowed to steal from the person in front of you. Basically I just need a neutral gift that I can buy for $50 or under..
Like Dirty Santa?
We do that in our family because there are so many of us. Each couple buys one gift and puts them in a pile then everyone draws numbers. The first person picks a gift from the pile and then so on and so forth, but every person after has thathas the option of stealing another persons already opened gift or getting another one out of the pile. Once a gift has been passed three times it is dead and the person who got it last gets to keep it. Our family really gets into it. It's pretty fun.
but as for what to get..... Last year I got a stainless steel bbq grill tool set. It was really neat and it only cost like 20 bucks at Target. Ended up being a hit.
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FDA Issues Warning for Probiotic Supplements
According Forbes, two U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center directors have issued warning to healthcare providers concerning the use of probiotic supplements following the death of an infant.
About the Proboitic Warning
The warning discourages the use of dietary supplements containing live bacteria in patient with compromised immune systems.
According to a release from the FDA, the products do not require FDA approval prior to being released on the market and do not undergo the safety and efficacy tests that pharmaceuticals must undergo.
The FDA also noted concern that a hospital would be using non-FDA approved products for inpatient treatment. While the FDA acknowledges that there is no law restricting the use of such products, the agency does urge hospitals to only use supplements that are accompanied by an Investigational New Drug Application.
FDA Investigates Infant Death
- The decision follows the death of a pre-term infant in October. The child, who received a propbiotic supplement while in a neonatal care unit, died from an invasive fungal disease called mucormycosis.
- The FDA, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Connecticut Department of Health have all launched investigations into the death of the infant.
- The child was born at 29 weeks gestation and was being treated for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a condition that can occur in premature infants with under-developed organs.
- The discovery of a fungal contamination in an unopened bottle of ABC Dophilus, the supplement used to treat the infant, suggests a manufacturing issue. The product has sense been recalled.
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NY nazi-ish gun laws..any way round em?
I got to thinking last night...i plan to conceal carry in PA and that shouldn't be an issue but then i thought that probably 4-5 times a year i have to make the 6hr drive back up to see my family in the Nazi gun law state of NY..Im a NYer after all..anyway id still like to CCW but ik NY doesn't recognize other states permits.So is there anyway to do this?,beside risking 2 yr prison term cuz id like to still carry when i visit my family.
Do the crime, do the time.
Enjoy your stay in club fed.
A public forum (if anywhere) is no place to discuss circumvention of the law.
No way around it brother.... Without risking prison time.... I wouldnt take tht chance
The laws in NY suck, but they're the laws.
You have my sympathy. I'm in California and the laws here are just as bad if not worse.
You would need to go through the process of getting a concealed carry permit in NY. Keep in mind that many municipalities have different requirements, procedures and often times agendas. :mad:
Since you mentioned that you had already looked into buying a handgun than I assume you are familiar with the basic permitting procedures? :confused:
My advice, go back to NY as little as possible ... it's what I do ;)
You might think the requirements are a back breaker...But many people I know went through the process and now cc in NY...I'm from the Buffalo area so it's not AS restricted as "the City" area.....
Just do the do, get your NY license to supplement your PA one.....
You're doing an awful lot of complaining and not much to do to fix your problem.
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BREAKING: Not All Women are Shallow B*tches, Not All Nerds Have Acne
A recent article on Your Tango instructed its female readers to follow four rules when it comes to dating a "nerd." The rules were pretty simple: 1) Appreciate him; 2) Never knock his nerdy tastes; 3) Take an interest in his nerdy stuff; and 4) Find common ground.
Perhaps the article should have been titled "Really Obvious Things." Appreciate him? Never knock his nerdy tastes? Aren't those just rules to dating in general and/or being a decent human being? These fluffy, useless articles (often written by women!) are exhausting because they serve no purpose other than to boost the cliche that women are shallow and attempt to victimize a group of men who really don't need to be victimized.
This article (among many), speaks to women as if in the presence of "nerds," the only thing we know how to do is stand around in heels gawking and whispering to each other like we just discovered a rare new life form. "Some of these boys wear glasses — HOW DO WE RELATE?"
I find this offensive to both genders. What is exactly is a "nerd?" Well, according to the article's picture and way it's written, the reader can't help but picture some gross, socially inadequate, super-skinny or super-overweight computer hacker with cystic acne. I mean, the guy in the pic is literally making the "loser" symbol on his forehead. Could you blame someone for not wanting to date someone like this? A woman preferring her partner to have a job, make an attempt to stay fit and healthy, be able to hold conversation and shower regularly hardly makes her shallow…or a "b*tchy girl," as the article mentions.
On the contrary, just because a guy happens to like comic books and has a high IQ doesn't necessarily mean he's a nerd or eternal virgin. Since when couldn't someone enjoy World of Warcraft and the company of a significant other? Any correlation between the two is nonsense. A creepy dude who plays video games 10-plus hours a day in his parents' basement isn't a nerd. That's just a creepy dude who plays video games in his parents' basement 10-plus hours a day.
Any woman who is worthwhile will respect a guy with passionate interests and intelligence, which is why it's frustrating when articles like this spew superficial advice and try to make us feel guilty for not settling for an exaggerated stereotype.
Of course there are under-appreciated men out there. And yes, there are also some girls who would laugh in the face of an IT guy if he asked her out. And guess what? There are tomboys who put on a dress hoping that her crush will finally notice her and he won't. There are men who scoff at a woman who's bigger than a size 2. There are Democrats who date Republicans for crying out loud. But they are all just people — not nerds or shallow b*tches. The only rule we should be following when it comes to dating is to stop categorizing everyone and just appreciate them for who they are.
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Saying goodbye to the Bills� king of candor [4:41 PM]
Rochester City Newspaper reports: I met Winfield in April 1999 after Buffalo drafted him 23rd overall. I wrote for the independent Bills publication Shout!, and was assigned to ghostwrite an ongoing diary chronicling a player's rookie year. We chose Winfield, figuring there wouldn't be any better subject than the team's first pick. As it turned out, there probably weren't many better subjects in the NFL.
Bills' Wyche to scout free-agent QB Volek [8:53 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bills are fully committed to Drew Bledsoe for the 2004 season and are not expected to be eager to bring in a quarterback who would be considered a serious threat to their starter. Volek, given his apprenticeship in the Titans' system, would be more of a threat than Henson. Bledsoe is due to receive a contract bonus in November and his future with the team beyond this year depends on his performance.'
Volek, Bills will meet here [6:09 AM]
Nashville Tennessean reports: 'Sunday, the Bills are scheduled to meet with Volek in Nashville.'
Dolphins, Boston share an interest [6:08 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'The Dolphins and free-agent fullback Sammy Morris started contract negotiations Wednesday but didn't reach an agreement. The Dolphins want Morris, who played with Buffalo the past four seasons, as a backup to Rob Konrad after Femi Ayanbadejo signed last Saturday with Arizona.'
Roland Williams Could be a Bill [12:27 PM]
WOKR-TV reports: The Bills are in need of a backup TE to play behind Mark Campbell. Roland Williams is a free agent since being released by Bucaneers. The talks between Williams and the Bills are considered to be in the preliminary stages at the moment.
2 players mulling Patriots' offers [5:17 AM]
Providence Journal reports: 'Morris, who's been a valuable special teams player the past three seasons in Buffalo, visited the Miami Dolphins yesterday, according to his agent, Mark Slough. Earlier, Morris met with the Cleveland Browns. Slough pointed out that two of the teams interested in his client had to face Morris a combined four times each season. "I don't think that's coincidence," Slough said of the interest in Morris, a 6-foot, 220-pounder. "Obviously, they scout the division closely and know what people can do."'
New Tight Ends Coach Familiar Face to Colts [10:43 PM]
colts.com reports: Ricky Thomas, the Colts� offensive quality control coach the past two seasons, was promoted recently to tight ends coach. The quality control position has been filled by former NFL tight end Pete Metzelaars. Metzelaars, 43, worked with the Colts during 2003 training camp, helping coach the team�s tight ends. He played 16 NFL seasons with four NFL teams, playing with Seattle from 1982-84, Buffalo from 1984-1994, Carolina in 1995 and Detroit from 1996-97. Metzelaars caught 383 passes in the NFL for 3,686 yards and 29 touchdowns.
Tuesday Roundup: Move Keeps Madison in Miami [10:39 PM]
ESPN.com reports: The Indianapolis Colts have hired former NFL standout tight end Pete Metzelaars as offensive quality control coach, the club announced Tuesday.
Bills talk with Macklin, Terrelle Smith [8:52 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The 5-foot-9 Macklin isn't in Winfield's class as a consistent cover man. However, the 25-year-old plays aggressively and has good quickness. He played his best later in the season for the Colts and had four takeaways (two interceptions and two fumble recoveries) in the playoffs. A former third-round pick, he has seven interceptions in four years. Macklin also visited Cincinnati over the weekend.'
Bills check out two more free agents [5:16 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'Macklin is an intriguing, younger option. A third-round pick in 2000 out of Penn State, he has started 63 games, totaling 177 tackles, 37 pass breakups, and seven interceptions. In three playoff games last season, the 5-foot-9, 196-pound Macklin made 12 tackles with two fumble recoveries and two interceptions, both against Denver.'
Free-agent LB Polk pays Texans a visit [5:15 AM]
Houston Chronicle reports: 'During Polk's rookie season at Buffalo, the Bills used a 3-4 defense, and Polk said he could play inside or outside. Monday marked Polk's first free-agent visit, and he will meet with the New York Jets today. He spent part of his Texans visit having lunch with linebacker Jay Foreman, a former teammate with the Bills.'
Time may be right for Pats [5:14 AM]
Boston Herald reports: 'Morris' agent, Mark Slough, said Morris accepts the fact he won't be a primary back next season, but he wants to go to a team that involves him in the offense. The 6-foot, 225-pound Morris was a three-time special teams captain for the Bills, another attraction for the Pats.'
Ex-Titan, former Bill interested in Patriots [5:13 AM]
Providence Journal reports: 'Whether he's being brought in to simply add numbers to a backfield that has only one player signed right now (Kevin Faulk) or if the Patriots see something in Morris that has not yet been tapped by the Bills is unclear. He's a good special-teams player, serving as the Bills' special-teams captain last season.'
Macklin And Smith Come To Town [8:07 PM]
WGR-AM reports: 'The Bills had two players in for visits on Monday. Indianapolis free agent CB David Macklin was in town as was New Orleans free agent FB Terrelle Smith.'
Bills bring in two players for visits [7:12 PM]
AP reports: 'Smith, 25, was drafted in the fourth round of the 2000 draft by the New Orleans Saints. He rushed for 150 yards on 39 carries in his four-year career with the Saints, and started 36 of the 59 games that he has appeared in. Macklin, 25, had 36 tackles and one interception for Indianapolis in 2003. The Colts selected Macklin in the third round of the 2000 draft. Macklin has also played on special teams during his career.'
Inside slant [7:01 AM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'Rarely has Villarrial been beaten, which couldn't be said about Brown.'
Strategy and personnel [7:00 AM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'The Minnesota Vikings canceled a visit with Bruener and the Bills could be his only option. He was due to earn $2.4 million with the Steelers.'
Notes, quotes, anecdotes [6:59 AM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'There are plenty of big-name pass rushers on the market, including ex-Bill fan favorite Marcellus Wiley, cut by San Diego, but Buffalo isn't likely to spend any significant money in this area.'
Brown's contributions went beyond football [5:15 AM]
Business First of Buffalo reports: 'Brown, the Bills' No. 1 pick in 1995 whose career here ended in a strange twist that saw him sit out the 2003 season finale, was a favorite target of critics. They never understood how it was he kept getting elected to the Pro Bowl. See a penalty flag in the vicinity of the offensive line? The guess was No. 79 was cited for some infraction.'
Bills wooed Villarrial, and that's bad news for Bears [5:14 AM]
Chicago Tribune reports: 'Villarrial received the red-carpet treatment from the Bills when free agency opened at midnight Wednesday. New coach Mike Mularkey called Villarrial at 12:10 a.m., and Villarrial was at Bills headquarters by noon. He was signed by nightfall.'
Redskins will pay the price for Daniel Snyder's spending spree [9:00 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bills have a $2 million option payment that's due Teague sometime in the next month. It wasn't due the first day of the league year, like a lot of other bonuses. The option payment would lock Teague up through 2005. If they don't pay the option bonus, then they would have to pay Teague an extra $1 million in base salary this year (bringing his base to $2.5 million) plus a $1 million reporting bonus. That's not going to happen. So the choices are pay him the $2 million option payment or find another center and release Teague. Stay tuned for the Bober visit.'
Morris scheduled to visit Pats today [5:41 AM]
Metro West Daily News reports: 'Morris, who turns 27 later this month, was scheduled to arrive in Foxboro today after a visit with the Browns in Cleveland. He also has trips scheduled for Miami, Denver and Oakland this week, according to Slough.'
Winfield off to snowy Minnesota [8:52 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Winfield built a reputation in Buffalo as a solid cover corner and one of the best tackling defensive backs in the NFL. He is not known for big plays. He has just one interception in his last 37 games. The Vikings, however, are in dire need of cornerback help and had $33 million to spend under the salary cap.'
Bills� Donahoe looks to upgrade roster [5:15 AM]
Olean Times Herald reports: '�We like the group,� Donahoe said of his defensive ends including right side starter Aaron Schobel and McKenzie. �We�ve got to improve ... got to get better. (But) we finished ninth in sacks last season, which seems to get lost. Am I saying we wouldn�t look at a pass rusher, �No.� But I think we feel better about that group than some of the (media) people in this room.�'
Vikings sign cornerback Winfield to six-year deal [5:14 AM]
Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: '"I saw the snow and was like, 'This is home,' " Winfield said. "I live in Buffalo."'
Vikings get their man [5:13 AM]
St. Paul Pioneer Press reports: 'Winfield is considered one of the NFL's top 10 cornerbacks. He has just six career interceptions but is known for not giving up big plays. "He's a unique player," said Cottrell, the Bills' defensive coordinator when Winfield was the No. 23 overall draft pick out of Ohio State in 1999. "I coached him for two years and loved it. He's one of the best defensive players in the league."'
No quit in Tice, who shows how it's done [5:12 AM]
St. Paul Pioneer Press reports: 'Tice never stopped trying to call Winfield's agent Thursday. When he got through, he persuaded Winfield to take a late flight to Minnesota. Tice sent a friend's private jet to Long Island to fetch Winfield, his wife and his two agents out from under the Jets. "I didn't feel good until he was in a limo and on the way to the airport," Tice said.'
Questions surround Couch's situation [5:11 AM]
Akron Beacon Journal reports: 'The Browns entertained three free agents in addition to Garcia on Friday: Guard Ron Stone of San Francisco, running back/special teamer Sammy Morris of Buffalo and fullback Jameel Cook of Tampa Bay. If any sign, Stone seems most likely.'
Antoine Winfield signs with Minnesota [9:47 PM]
AP reports: 'When asked what made him decide on the Vikings, Winfield said, ``Once we got off the plane, I seen the snow and I was like, 'This is home.''''
Vikings agree to terms with free agent CB Winfield [9:46 PM]
Sportsticker reports: 'A 1999 first-round pick, Winfield spent his first five seasons with the Buffalo Bills. Despite being just 5-9, he is an aggressive cover corner.'
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wow! good draw... i NEVER draw cats with whiskers! it makes MY cats look like idiots.
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I want quite an extensive gap btwn my thighs. 1. I think it looks absoslutly fab. 2. no more chubb rub. 3 i would love to wear pants & be able to pull them up ALL the way up. All d inner thigh smart lipo pics ive seen so far have been minimal gaps. How much can u safely remove from d inner thigh & still look ok? Exercise and dieting has not done anything for me as far as creating a gap. That's no longer an option for me. Are any surgeons in d D.C, VA, or MD area that can achieve this look?
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liposculpting for the inner thighs can create a gap in between legs and I have treated patients for that. the problem is that sometime if all the fat is removed it may not look as aesthetic as u would like it to be. my advice to you would be to make sure u discuss this with your physician at great lengths to make sure u agree with exactly what u want and what they can provide
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Full Circle
Werner Kleeman lives alone in a little white house at the end of a short street in Queens, N.Y., where ghosts of the Holocaust float through his 91-year-old mind. His hearing is nearly gone. He recently suffered a stroke. But his memory is sharp, and he recollects in vivid, passionate detail the events of a seven-year span that can never be forgotten.
Werner was a young man with a new driver's license on Nov. 9, 1938. On that day, he had driven his older brother from their family's home in a small German farm village to the U.S. Consulate in Stuttgart. They were there to obtain for his brother a visa and passport that would ultimately get him out of Germany and on his way to the United States or Israel. When the two young men came out of the consulate at about 5 p.m., they saw what they feared was coming. Jewish-owned businesses, inns and homes were under siege by mobs of newly uniformed Nazis. The "night of broken glass" had begun.
"We had a sense, a feeling, that it was coming, but you didn't expect it to come so sudden and so severe," Kleeman says. "When Nov. 9 came, the Kristallnacht, that's when all hell broke loose. They destroyed everything. Every window. Every cup. Everything that was breakable was smashed to the floor. There was not a piece left. No furniture. Not a cup and saucer. Nothing. It was all completely destroyed in one night. And all the men were taken away."
There could be no delay for his brother, who was bidden an urgent farewell and boarded a train bound for Switzerland. Werner, just 19 at the time, then began a tense four-hour drive back to the village of his childhood, where his father had been a successful grain dealer for more than 25 years. As he drove, he passed village after town, each under state-sanctioned attack against Jewish citizens.
Within a few miles of home, Werner pulled over and used a public telephone to call his father. "He told me to stay away. The Nazis were coming. So I went on to the home of a farmer I knew and asked him to spend the night there. He let me stay, but at 5 in the morning, he asked me to leave because he had servants, and they may have told other people he was hiding somebody. In the morning, I had to go home. I couldn't go anyplace else, because of my car."
By the time Werner reached the village, he recalls, "They were waiting for me."
His father had already been arrested and taken to a jail in the nearby town of Ochsenfurt. An estimated 30,000 Jews were similarly captured and jailed across the country during the mayhem of Nov. 9-10.
"In the middle of the destruction, I was thinking about how I had grown up with these people, gone to school with them, worked with them," Werner recalled in a 2006 memoir. "We were all on a first-name basis with each other. Some of them were friends, some business acquaintances ... we just could not believe that this was happening." The family later learned that two farmers with whom the Kleemans had previously done business had set a big bonfire outside the local synagogue, and were burning its contents one item at a time. The fire marshal finally called a halt to the destruction, in order to keep the entire village from going up in flames.
Werner was taken to Ochsenfurt and placed in the same jail cell as his father.
"All the Jews from all the surrounding villages were in that jail," he explains. "And you couldn't talk to one another." He remembers the spiritual anguish his father felt as they awaited their fate. "My father was from an Orthodox family and never ate anything that wasn't kosher. The first thing my father said was, 'You'd better eat what they give you. You will need your strength.'"
One week later, the elder Kleeman was released and sent home because he was a veteran of the German army during World War I.
Werner was shipped to Dachau.
The first concentration camp opened by the German government, Dachau began holding political prisoners as early as 1933. Kleeman says they had heard about Dachau in his home village, as had most Jews during the period known as "Aryanization" - when the Nazi Party was rising to power, and any Jew or perceived opponent of the party could be snatched from a normal existence and imprisoned without cause or warning. The camp was divided into two separate areas: one for work, the other for cremation of the dead. Accounts vary regarding how many perished in captivity at Dachau and its surrounding minicamps. The toll is generally estimated at approximately 35,000 over a 12-year span, a tiny fraction of the millions who perished at the much larger Auschwitz concentration camp, and by other Nazi extermination programs throughout Eastern Europe during the Holocaust.
"You were loaded onto a bus, but you didn't know where you were going," Kleeman says of the trip from the Ochsenfurt jail. "You only knew it was Dachau after the bus went about 100 miles and you passed Nuremberg."
Upon arrival, Dachau prisoners were stripped of their civilian clothes and put into thin, striped fatigues. Their heads were shaved, and they were compelled to do whatever their captors desired. "You couldn't do anything," Werner remembers. "You had to do what they told you. If they told you to stand 16 hours in the cold weather, you stood 16 hours in the cold weather. If one prisoner was missing, you weren't allowed in the barracks until they found the missing prisoner. The meals, you would get a bowl of soup, which was mostly water, during the day. I was only there from Nov. 16 to Dec. 22. I lost over 10 pounds."
The leading causes of death at Dachau were usually attributed to malnutrition, disease caused by unsanitary conditions, and suicide. At the time Werner Kleeman was there, he witnessed other causes, as he huddled in the cold among thousands of other captives. "They were getting killed on the electrified fence every day ... we saw others starving, sick and dying. About 10 to 12 people died every day, some from beating, some from having been torn to shreds by vicious dogs, and some from starvation ... We were all part of one, large suffering body."
Long prior to Kristallnacht, knowing that tension was rising toward a violent apex, Kleeman had communicated with a second cousin in the United States to seek sponsorship, a requirement for anyone trying to leave the country at the time. The cousin responded by vouching in writing that should Werner be allowed to leave Germany, he would not become a public burden. The British Consulate confirmed in a letter dated Dec. 9, 1938, that Werner had indeed been granted a visa. The young Dachau prisoner was then forced to pay the German government 2,000 marks to obtain a "certificate of good behavior" in order to complete the process. On Dec. 22, he was finally released and went back to his village, where his family's home was about to be appropriated by the Nazis. His father, mother, sister and brother were alive for now, but their futures depended solely on Werner's ability to get them out.
On Jan. 10, 1939, the young man left Germany for London, determined to save their lives.
He stayed at kosher boardinghouses in North London, where by luck he met a diamond dealer named Norbert Lehman, who had been a childhood friend of Werner's father back in Germany. Lehman arranged for work permits for Werner's brother and sister, and affidavits necessary for the parents to take refuge in England. "Very few families had the luck that I had, to save my immediate family from the ovens and gas chambers."
Having learned English in high school, Werner was able to find a clerical job in London, and his siblings went to work as well, his brother as a carpenter and his sister as a domestic helper. Finally, in early 1940, four months after war was declared and Great Britain stood directly in the crosshairs of Hitler's despotic ambitions, Werner's visa to go to the United States came through. Once again, the young man went westward ahead of his family, hoping to deliver them to freedom as Nazi Germany was closing in. He raised enough in donations to buy the least expensive ticket he could find, and crossed the Atlantic. He had $2.50 in his pocket when he arrived in New York. Upon seeing the city skyline as the ship neared, he remembers, "I felt that I was safe. I took my suitcase and rode the subway to Jackson Heights to look for a relative."
He soon found work as a stock boy for a department store, and later as a clothing salesman. Two months after his arrival, he greeted the rest of his family at the U.S. port. For the second time in two years, they were reunited in a faraway place, sure of only one thing: they had survived.
On Aug. 10, 1942, Kleeman was drafted into the U.S. Army. "And from there, everything happened very quickly," he later wrote. He went to boot camp in Macon, Ga., where he became a U.S. citizen in a ceremony with 600 other soldiers, and trained at various installations along the East Coast until mid-January 1944, when he sailed for England. As D-Day approached, he was transferred to 4th Division Headquarters as an interpreter, which meant that he would not go in with the first wave at Utah Beach, as he had been trained to do, in the Allied invasion of France. That transfer, he is sure, saved his life. As an interpreter, he faced considerable danger in the European campaign, but his new role gave him a fighting chance to at least live through the opening scene.
While training in England, Werner came to know many top U.S. military officers, and became friends with J.D. Salinger, later one of the 20th century's most prominent American authors.
Werner, a T5 specialist, was assigned to serve as a personal guide and interpreter for a gung-ho young major named Gatling. They followed the first wave into France on June 6, 1944. Crossing the turbulent channel that day "was an experience in itself," Werner remembers. "You saw yourself halfway down, feeding the fish." After coming ashore, Kleeman and the major moved inland amid a barrage of artillery fire, passing dozens of fallen troops, on their way to help establish a division headquarters in the combat theater.
Because he did not speak French, Kleeman spent much of his time during the Normandy campaign providing support for eight or nine soldiers at a time, drawing rations, cleaning clothes and keeping vehicles fueled as Allied forces secured the Cotentin Peninsula and began their eastward march toward Berlin.
It was during the bloody Normandy battles that Werner lost much of his hearing, in the company of someone he would never forget. "On July 25, 1944, it was the biggest bombardment in World War II to concentrate on one small area, maybe three or four miles by six miles, where the Germans were sitting in front of Normandy to hold off the Americans. For two weeks, it rained every day. They couldn't turn the bombers loose. All of a sudden one morning, word came: 'Today is the day.' I was burying animals up on the front line to clear the fields, so the troops wouldn't smell them. About 9:30, I got word: 'Get out!' I took my jeep and went back 400 or 500 yards. I parked it at a farmhouse, where I crept under a table. A guy comes up next to me, and it turns out it was Ernie Pyle. He was looking for a haven, like I was."
The famous war correspondent later wrote about that moment taking cover with Kleeman. "The rattle was right down upon us. I remember hitting the ground flat ... We lay with our heads slightly up, like two snakes, staring at each other. I know it was in both our minds, and in our eyes, asking each other what to do. Neither of us knew. We said nothing."
"I lost my hearing that day," he recalls. "I didn't realize how bad it was until two weeks later, when I went into a beach hospital for a half a day. They tested and said there was nothing they could do. Go back to duty."
Kleeman moved with the division headquarters through France and Belgium. "It was tough going. You had no idea if the Germans would surrender or not. Your mind worked mostly from day to day."
When the Allies reached Berlin and Hitler's reign of terror was over, Kleeman felt vindicated, but he had more in mind. "That was an achievement, to bring the war home to Germany. But it did not change anything. They were stubborn. They didn't want to give one inch."
Kleeman's postwar military responsibility was to help secure and re-establish cities and towns under temporary U.S. occupational governance across Germany. He was astonished by the defeated Germans' continued flashes of resistance.
The major he guided throughout the campaign had become a colonel by that time, and offered Kleeman an opportunity to go on with him to Austria. "I said, 'Colonel, I would love to, but I have a special mission.' The next morning, I packed my bundle - a duffel bag with a change of clothes and a pair of shoes. I went where they sent out a jeep every day with mail and whatever has to go to each unit. I said to the guy, 'Where are you going?'
"'Can I come with you?' He said yes, so I got a ride. The Army didn't allow it. They didn't want you to go and raise hell. I went without anyone knowing. They could have sent the military police to arrest me. They could have done a lot of things. But they left me alone."
When he reached the little farm village he had fled nearly seven years earlier, Kleeman found what he expected. "There were no Jews left. They had all been taken away and killed. The Germans had taken everything. There was nothing you could claim. I gave them two hours to get out of the houses they had taken or I would take them out in the woods. The Germans were die-hard, even though it was over. They didn't want to lose the war, even though it was over. They also knew they were in trouble."
He had sent word ahead to the village that he was coming. "The news went around very fast that I was there, and the people did not like it," Werner wrote in his memoir, "From Dachau to D-Day," with assistance from writer Elizabeth Uhlig. "When I approached the door of the house, I was in tears, remembering all that we had been through. My parents had been forced to sell our beautiful house at a ridiculously low price. The village had bought it and used it as a school, but at the time of my arrival, it was occupied by 50 French POWs."
Werner recognized many of the townspeople, and those who had perpetrated Kristallnacht. He spent weeks there with his fellow soldiers, gathering information about missing families and intelligence about the Nazis who replaced them. "I had to be very careful. I couldn't just go up and shoot anybody." As he and his fellow soldiers established their presence in the town, he assembled a list of everyone who participated in the attacks of Nov. 9-10, 1938, including those who burned the contents of the synagogue. He immediately ordered their arrests. "I had them put in the same jail I had been in, where Jews had been held. I gave strong instructions that there were to be no visitors, no packages, no contact with the outside world. They would be treated as we had been. I made each one sign a confession about what he had done on Kristallnacht."
He ignored family members who pleaded for their release. "I did not feel vengeful. I felt justified." He continued to remove former Nazis from homes that had been seized or forcibly purchased from Jewish families. He ordered others to repair a Jewish cemetery that had been devastated after Kristallnacht. He left the village not knowing or caring whatever became of the men he had jailed.
When he returned to New York, he explains, "We didn't talk much about the war. We did not have that type of conversation."
Werner started a business selling a line of children's clothing, working out of his home. The business grew and evolved. He began selling curtains and shades for hospitals and, later, the U.S. Navy. He got married and started a family. They moved to the little white house in Queens, where his two daughters grew up and his self-employed business flourished. He remains in that house today.
In later years, Kleeman was able to return to Germany from time to time. He stayed in touch with his Army buddies, including Col. Gatling. He wrote back and forth with the reclusive Salinger, who won worldwide acclaim with his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye." He became friends with the family of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who received the Medal of Honor after leading his men - Kleeman among them - into Normandy on D-Day. He has contributed to books and studies on the Jewish experience during World War II and has been interviewed on national television by former NBC News broadcaster Tom Brokaw, and was once profiled in The New York Times. In 2007, he returned to Dachau to deliver a speech to a new generation of Germans trying to make sense of that horrific span of time seven decades ago.
Today, as he looks back upon his life, Werner does not take lightly the opportunity the United States gave him to arrest those who would have sent him and his family to death by genocide. Equally important is the opportunity America gave him to restore his family's prosperity within his lifetime.
"I feel like I am the best example of a young American. I was poor, and I had to work myself up, but I was finally able to send two daughters to college - one to city college and the other to state college. They graduated and became schoolteachers. For my grandchildren, I was able to offer them education and pick whatever college they wanted. Do you understand what that means to me? That is what I see as success."
Jeff Stoffer is editor of The American Legion Magazine.


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Lily Tomlin talks about Richard Pryor, turning down $500,000 and working a stage at 69
When I met comic Lily Tomlin on the telephone, it would be days before bratty Batman star Christian Bale brought the celebrity meltdown back to prominence with a profanity-drenched tirade leaked from the set of the latest Terminator movie.
You'd never know, from her talkative manner and willingness to answer any question, that Tomlin once starred in her own widely watched meltdown -- a YouTube-immortalized fit from the 2003 set of the quirky film I Heart Huckabees, in which Tomlin flips off the camera and calls director David O. Russell some very choice names.
That attitude seems a world away now; instead, she offers a weary wisdom that can only come from 40 years in the snakepit of show business.
In an hourlong interview previewing her Valentine's Day show Saturday at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tomlin dishes on her friendship with Richard Pryor, the youthful spirit that led her to turn down a $500,000 endorsement deal in the early '70s, and why she's still working a stage at 69.
Deggans: Unlike a lot of comics, your act is almost entirely rooted in characters. So who will we see when you come here?
T: "I do a little bit of Trudy, the bag lady. Ernestine (the telephone operator) now has been working in a big health care insurance company –- you know, denying health care to everyone (laughs). I'll do 10 or 12 characters, talk to the audience and talk about Tampa and talk about we've got a new president and all that stuff."
D: If you're Chris Rock and you want to talk about Obama's election, you just kind of come up with an extra bit, but for you it sounds like you might have to create another character, right?
T: (laughs) Sort of. Ernestine's a particularly facile character for that. Before the war started, she'd always had a kind of reality-based Webcast chat show called "Ernestine Calls You on It and You'd Better Have an Answer." So in the beginning, she would get Bush and Saddam and Kim Jong Il, or whoever was in the news, and she'd get them on the phone and try to, you know, be satirical about going to war, or why were they at each others' throats.
D: What do you tell folks when they ask why you're still doing stage performances?
T: I think 'cause I don't realize how long I've been doing it. And Jane, my partner, always says I think you like to work live because it's the only two hours of the day that you're in the present. So I've never not done it. I've been making an act since I was a kid, doing it on the back porch, trying to get people from the apartment house to come and see it. Sometimes I think I was the first performance artist.
D: Steve Martin definitively closed the book on his stand-up career at a certain point . . . But there are other performers who never do. What's the difference?
T: Well, Steve has the luxury of doing movies all he wants, and I've never had that luxury, really. (Tomlin teams up with Martin in a small role in his current film, The Pink Panther 2.) Not too many women have had that kind of . . . think of the kids on SNL. The boys had lots of chances to make movies; there's the old rule, you have three films in the air at any time -- one's just out, one's in preparation and one is being shot. And so if you have a clunker, you've already got another one in the can. Gilda (Radner) never had a real movie career and, sadly enough, Madeline never . . . Madeline wasn't on SNL but Madeline Kahn never had a real movie career. Whatever Steve is able to do or sell, I never had that capacity.
D: Comics like George Carlin and Richard Pryor, they seemed to have this period where they kind of were more commercial and then they figured out what they really wanted to say. Today's comics, by the time you see them on Comedy Central you kind of get whatever their act is.
T: Truthfully, there aren't two worlds today. There was in those times. I mean, things were . . . nothing's taboo anymore. George kinda doing the hippy-dippy weatherman and stuff . . . he did that because he couldn't do the other stuff in Vegas. He'd get run out. There weren't that many places to work.
A few years ago, before Richard died, I presented him with an award . . . he was very, very physically impaired by then. I sat behind him for two hours, watching clips at this festival, and I knew he was, like, sort of sobbing. It was killing him, 'cause the guy on the screen was so wonderful and so . . . incredibly magnetic and charismatic on the screen, and he was (by then) so completely isolated in his body.
D: I have to ask: Did AT&T actually offer you a half-million dollars to do Ernestine?
T: Yeah, and that was in 1970, I guess. But I was . . . my feelings were . . . I was insulted. I literally burst into tears.
D: So what did your agent think -– that this was gonna be a great thing to tell you and . . .
T: (laughs) Oh, yeah. My manager, this English girl, you know, and I was making $750 a week on Laugh-In and she was making, whatever, 10 percent of that (laughs).
D: Yeah, she had visions in her eyes of 10 percent of half a million…
T: She was so out of breath. I mean, she was so hyperventilating to have to tell me, really excited because that was just for the New England states. They thought if it caught on, then they would move it across the country because Ernestine was so big. Oh, she was a monster. You know, I had to literally kind of not do her, stop doing her, just so I could put her in perspective 'cause if I'd go on an old variety show in the old days, like Glen Campbell or Flip Wilson or –- there were so many of them -– and we'd have a sketch, like a health food store sketch, they'd write it for Ernestine to do 'cause she was so funny. You know, she could make anything seem funny.
D: So do you look back now on that and wish you could have done it differently?
T: Coming up in the '60s, you know, we had a different vision of the world, however naïve it might have been . . . you only were supposed to do well by doing good. And getting money . . . if you got money or you became a huge financial success, you better have done something good, unlike today (laughs).
Mervyn LeRoy, who produced Wizard of Oz, came to me and wanted to do, like, a Walter Mitty movie with Ernestine that first year. Well, I wouldn't do it, stupid as I am. And I wouldn't do it because I didn't want to exploit Ernestine (laughs). I wanted to be whatever my idea was of being more of an artist. Well, I wish Mervyn LeRoy was still alive. (laughs)
D: Although, you know, the person that you were then . . . would you have felt comfortable doing that? Could you have been funny doing that?
T: No, I couldn't have done it. No, that's why I didn't do it.
D: So you made the right choice for yourself.
T: But if it had been just 10 years later, I probably would have done it (laughs).
D: So, now, you're on Desperate Housewives.
T: Well, I did four and I'm probably going to go back and do a wrap-up at the end. They put us on during sweeps week, you know?
D: How did that come about?
T: (Housewives co-star) Kathryn Joosten (Mrs. McCluskey) is a friend. She had that part on West Wing as the president's assistant and I'm thinking, how in the hell did Kathryn get that part? (laughs) And I wanted to be on the show. I got on West Wing as Kathryn's replacement when her character got killed in a car crash and we just stayed friendly. And so then we were at a meeting and she said, my sister's gonna come on the show, why don't you come on and play it? We had a lot of chemistry, we had a lot of response around those two sisters. So now we're thinking about developing a series.
D: You talk a lot about your partner Jane Wagner, and I think we're in an interesting place regarding gay people and America; on the one hand, performers can be as open as they've ever been, but on the other hand, we just had many states pass anti-marriage laws. Does it feel like a contradictory environment?
T: My family is Southern Fundamentalist. I grew up in that church. It's not unusual to me, you know. Some of my friends were just absolutely beside themselves about Rick Warren speaking at the inauguration, and I thought, it's like my uncle giving the invocation (laughs). People have got to be more tolerant, but you're not gonna change people's minds, people who believe deeply in the Bible and that interpretation. Some peoples likes ya and some people's don't (laughs).
D: When did you sort of feel comfortable being public about your sexual orientation?
T: Well, you know, it's a funny thing 'cause I've been around so long that it was certainly no secret in the industry. Jane and I were very out and doing stuff and we always produced and worked together. I even had one of our writers say to me one day, You know, I think you and Jane should come to work in different cars. (laughs) And I said, Well, why would we do that –- aside from the fact that we don't have two cars? She was probably being protective but also her own politics, you know, her own prejudices were getting the better of her.
Lily Tomlin performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Morsani Hall at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N MacInnes Place, Tampa. Tickets are $25.50 and up. (813) 229-7827; tbpac.org.


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Ferguson: United loanees will return
Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed that Manchester United's on loan youngsters will return to the club's first team squad next season.
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Danny Welbeck, Tom Cleverley and Federico Macheda are plying their trade at Sunderland, Wigan and Sampdoria respectively, but Ferguson has no intention of letting any of them remain on loan.
Infact, Ferguson insists that all three have a prominent role to play in Manchester United's future.
"They will come back into the first-team squad and they will get plenty of games next season," he told United's official website. "They are part of the band of young players coming through at this club. They will all come back in.
"At that point, we will then review our squad because that's the important thing. But we will always put players out on loan.
"Cleverley has done very well, particularly in his spell at Watford and then at Wigan. He has improved in each case and he is going to be a top player.
"Welbeck has been fantastic too, it's just unfortunate that he picked up a bad injury. But they will all be ready for next year."
Ferguson also revealed that Senegalese striker Mame Biram Diouf will return from his stint with Blackburn.
"Mame Diouf has done well at Blackburn too and he'll come back in - they've all done well. It proves we were right in putting them there in the first place.
"For them, it's that experience of being exposed to regular football that really brings them on so that they are ready to play for us."
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Matt Besler is a popular man these days, but despite plenty of interest from clubs around Europe, the Sporting Kansas City defender may just prefer to stay right where he is.
According to a report Thursday evening in The Kansas City Star, Besler would prefer to stay in Kansas City on a long-term deal. Besler's agent, Eddie Rock, told the paper that discussions between both parties are "at an advanced stage" and that a conclusion to the talks could be near.
Besler, 27, announced himself on the world stage with a strong showing for the US men's national team at the World Cup, missing just 45 minutes of the 390 that the US played, after picking up an injury in the team's opener against Ghana, forcing his substitution at halftime.
The 2012 MLS Defender of the Year, recently named to his third All-Star team, has been the subject of transfer interest from a few top-flight European teams. Besler himself mentioned England's Sunderland and Fulham by name earlier this week, and SC Freiburg of the Germany Bundesliga were also reportedly interested.
When contacted by MLSsoccer.com about the contract negotiations, a Sporting spokesperson said, "Robb [Heinemann, Sporting KC owner] has said all along we're committed to retaining the club's core players and Besler – as our captain – is very much a part of those plans. Both sides have been ongoing in discussions over his future."


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In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. —Ephesians 1:11-12
Discovering that Jesus is the essential source of spiritual delight is an important part of our progression toward maturity, and the Lord does not want that process disturbed. He leaves us right where we are for a season: growing in the knowledge of His loveliness and faithfulness and feeling increasingly secure and satisfied. But while we are discovering His beauty and delighting ourselves in Him, the Lord is sealing our spirits. We will never again be content with a life of compromise that neglects spiritual intimacy. We have an inheritance in God, but God also has an inheritance in us. What an incredible thought: God, who possesses everything, has something He waits for—His inheritance in us.
Father, when I feel as though I am merely "marking time" instead of marching into victory, help me to understand that You are placing me in a season of spiritual growth and preparation for what lies ahead.
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Columbus (Ohio) Brookhaven is home to not just one, but two of the top athletes in Ohio. Everybody already knows about four-star athlete Alex Daniels, but three-star standout Keith Massey is also making a name for himself and moving up the recruiting wishlists for many schools.
Two of those teams are Miami and Oklahoma.
Massey, who is 6-foot and 186 pounds, will visit Oklahoma on November 12 with Daniels, and he said there is a chance he could commit to the Sooners if he gets an offer on the visit.
"The position coach, Bo Pelini, said if the like me when I come down for the visit, then I would probably get an offer," he said. "There is a very good chance that both Alex and I both would commit when we're down there. I really like the way that Oklahoma plays. They like their corners taller like I am. I think it would be a good fit."
Miami has stepped into the mix with calls the past few weeks. The Canes have yet to offer a scholarship, but if they do, they too would propel themselves up Massey's list.
Massey does have offers from Michigan State, Purdue and Wisconsin. He does not have any other official visits lined up at this point.


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PARIS, OCTOBER 19, 2016: (DGW) One of the judges who was also arrested during the clampdown on 'corrupt' judges has again opened a can of worms on the events preceding his arrest.
Justice John Iyang Okoro of the Supreme Could in his letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria Mahmud Mohammed alleged that he was arrested for refusing to do a deal with the former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi.
The former Rivers Governor , he said , told him from Buhari that the cases before his court with reference to election appeals of Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia States must be given in favour of the APC and this he , said, was against his professional ethics and honorably bowed out of the infamous deal to compromise the verdict.
Said Justice John Iyang Okoro in a letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria and part of it reads:
"On Friday, the 7th day of October, 2016, at about 9.00 pm, I received a phone call from an unfamiliar caller. He introduced himself as an official from the Presidency. He told me he had a letter for me from Mr. President.
"I immediately left my study room and went to open the door. Upon the door being opened, l saw so many heavily armed men with an inscription 'DSS' on their uniform.
"One of them, who was in mufti, told me they were to search my house. I requested that I be allowed to inform the Chief Justice of Nigeria, but they rebuffed, rather they seized my phone from me.
"My Lord, the operatives of the Department of State Security searched all the rooms in the house meticulously. They also searched the boy's quarters and my official vehicles parked outside.
"At the end of the search, which lasted till about 1.30am of 8th October, 2016, they took away the following items:
One (1) iPad
Three phones (only one active)
USD 38,800 (Thirty eight thousand, eight hundred dollars)
N3.5m (three million, five hundred thousand naira) only
Cheque books (Four in number)
"The above items were documented on the back page of the search warrant they produced and we signed. Also, the DSS operatives informed me that their Director-General wanted to see me that night.
"I requested to visit their office upon the break of the day, but they refused. In view of the presence of the heavily armed men, who accompanied them and who were pointing their gun at me from all angles, I had no choice than to follow them to their office that night.
"I was detained by them in their office till Sunday, 9th October, 2016 and upon your Lordship's intervention that Sunday, they released me in the evening of that Sunday.
"My Lord, I noticed that they also brought other judicial officers serving and retired to their office. So, before releasing us, they asked me to make a statement concerning the money found in my house.
"I told them that having received the sum of USD24,000.00 (Twenty four thousand dollars) and £10,000 (Ten thousand pounds) a year for the past three years of my sojourn in this court as annual medical/vacation allowances, and having not spent more than £5,000 (Five thousand pounds) on each of three trips I have so far made abroad, I was entitled to have more than the amount recovered from me.
"Put differently, My Lord, the money was the balance of my estacode received from this court for the past three years. This is quite outside the estacodes I have received for the International Conferences I have so far attended since joining the bench of this court.
"My Lord, as at the time of writing this report, the DSS has not confronted me with any petition or complaint from any quarters whatsoever. Rather, they have grilled me, asking questions on some none existing properties around the country.
"They have also doubted the age of my children, alleging that they are toddlers. This is sad and unbelievable.
"My Lord, I strongly believe that this my travail is not unconnected with the verbal report I made to you on 1st February, 2016 about the visit to my official residence by HE, Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State and now Minister of Transportation.
"In that report, I told you My Lord, that Mr. Amaechi said that the President of Nigeria and the All Progressives Congress mandated him to inform me that they must win their election appeals in respect of Rivers State, Akwa Ibom State and Abia State at all costs.
"For Akwa Ibom State, he alleged that he sponsored Mr. Umana Umana, candidate of All Progressives Congress for that election and that if he lost Akwa Ibom appeal, he would have lost a fortune.
"Mr. Amaechi also said that he had already visited you and that you had agreed to make me a member of the panel that would hear the appeals.
"He further told me that Mr. Umana would be paying me millions of naira monthly if I co-operated with them. My response, as I told you on that date was that it does not lie within my power to grant his request and that I would do all within my power not to be in the panel for Akwa Ibom State. My Lord graciously left me out of the panel for Akwa Ibom State.
"That notwithstanding, the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State, which lost the appeal at the Supreme Court, believe that my presence in the Supreme Court made them to lose the appeal.
"Could I have resigned from the Supreme Court simply because people of Akwa Ibom State had a matter before it?
"My Lord will recall that I also reported that Mr. Umana Umana visited my residence before Amaechi's visit.
"He also made the same request of assistance to win his appeal at the Supreme Court. Mr. Umana talked about 'seeing' the Justices who would hear the appeal.
"Pastor (Dr) Ebebe Ukpong, who led Mr. Umana Umana to my house, intercepted and said that the issue of 'seeing' the justices was not part of their visit and that as a Pastor, he would not be part of such a discussion.
"Mr. Umana apologised. I advised them to go and pray about the matter and get a good lawyer. That was how they left my house.
"My Lord, up till now, I do not know what I have done. Over the years, from the Magistracy till date, I have done my best to eschew all forms of corrupt practices.
"I have not received any bribe from anybody. My Lord is quite aware of my position as regards those who take bribe in the judiciary. I detest it and have no room for any adjustment. That is the truth.
I urge my Lord and the National Judicial Council to disregard all the lies and media campaign orchestrated by those who felt I purposely refused to help them win their election appeals in the Supreme Court.
"I am confident that God will vindicate me at the end of this ordeal. I take it as a temporary setback. I remain loyal to my oath of office and the need to be just and fair in handling matters before me," Justice John Iyang Okoro said.
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Syracuse, NY -- State police Sunday morning released the name of the man who led them on a wild, high-speed chase Saturday night through four counties on the state Thruway.
Jesse A. Corson, 26, of 9 W. Main St., Honeoye Falls, was the man in the pickup truck taken into custody near Utica.
The chase, which lasted more than an hour, began when a trooper tried to pull Corson over during a traffic stop in the town of Tyre, state police said.
Corson kept driving the black 2012 GMC pickup truck east on the Thruway as police pursued him through Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison and Oneida counties, troopers said.
Additional troopers were called to help try and slow the man's pickup truck, state police say Corson "rammed the rear of a state police vehicle, striking it several times before causing it to spin out of control and leave the roadway onto the south shoulder where it rolled over."
The trooper in the car that rolled over near Exit 39, by the state Fairgrounds in Onondaga County, was taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse after the suspect forced the trooper's vehicle to crash, state police have said. The trooper, who has not been identified, has been released from the hospital. No private vehicles were involved, and no civilians were hurt.
The chase continued east and troopers reported to dispatchers that the speed reached 110 mph.
Corson kept driving until a tire deflation device was deployed and flattened all four tires on the pickup truck, troopers reported. Corson was then taken into custody without incident, according to state police.
Corson was charged with second-degree assault, third-degree unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree criminal mischief and various vehicle and traffic law violations.
Corson was arraigned in Van Buren Town Court and sent to the Onondaga County Correctional Facility in lieu of $100,000 bail or bond. He is scheduled to return to court at 2 p.m. Friday.


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Surprisingly quite good, considering that awfully bombastic trailer... This engrossing, very well cast drama uses 9/11 as a springboard for a story about dealing with grief under any circumstances. Although the imagery is potent, it is also tasteful and non exploitative. It's about grief without wallowing in that grief, and it remembers to sprinkle doses of... human comedy at just the right places. The emotions are truthful and the film ultimately earns its catharsis with honesty. I'd be lying if I said it is an easy film to watch. But it is definitely watchable and, some coy moments aside, somewhat inspiring. By the way, keep your eyes on this Thomas Horn kid. He's really good. And he'll probably age more gracefully than Haley Joel Osment.


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Marriner avoids punishment for error
Referee Andre Marriner appears to have avoided any punishment despite sending off Kieran Gibbs instead of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain during Arsenal's 6-0 defeat at Chelsea on Saturday after being given a Premier League game to officiate this weekend.
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Gibbs was shown a red card in the first half at Stamford Bridge by Marriner after Gunners teammate Oxlade-Chamberlain was ruled to have handballed Eden Hazard's shot at goal inside the area.
The official appeared to wrongly identify left-back Gibbs as the player who handled the ball and gave him his marching orders, despite Oxlade-Chamberlain's apparent protestations that he was the guilty party.
Marriner, who admitted his mistake to Arsenal after the game, was expected to be taken off duty in the Premier League this weekend following the incident.
However, the Premier League confirmed on Monday that the 43-year-old will take charge of Southampton vs. Newcastle at St Mary's on Saturday.
Andre Marriner has been appointed referee for Southampton v Newcastle on Saturday 29 March #SOUNEW
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Marriner caused controversy earlier this season after giving Chelsea a late penalty against West Brom, despite Ramires appearing to dive.
After the game, then-Baggies boss Steve Clarke claimed that he had a phone call from head of Professional Game and Match Officials Ltd Mike Riley to apologise for the mistake.
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