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WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) -- President Obama lauded the bravery and devotion of more than 40 of the United States' "Top Cops" Saturday at a White House ceremony.
"We don't always get that opportunity to stand and applaud the men and women who keep us safe," the president said. "But they're out there, hundreds of thousands of you, patrolling our streets every single day. And we know that when we need you most, you'll be ready to dash into danger, to protect our lives even if it means putting your lives on the line.
"That's what these folks are all about. That's what the men and women standing behind me have proven -- their heart, their courage, their dedication."
Obama recounted the bravery of some of the honorees, including Brian Murphy of Wisconsin, the first officer to arrive when a gunman opened fire on a congregation in a temple.
"He fought back until help arrived and ordered his fellow officers, who are here today, to protect the safety of the Americans worshiping inside -- even though he was lying there bleeding from 12 bullet wounds," Obama said. "When he was asked how he did it, he said, 'That's just the way we're made.'
"That's what you've got to do. That's what you've got to be made of to take down homicide suspects in Los Angeles or Vegas, or shooters in Miami or Indiana or Chicago or Iowa -- saving untold numbers of lives. That's what you've got to be made of to dodge live power lines during Hurricane Sandy to free your partner pinned down by a tree, all the while saying, 'I've got you, pal.'
"Yes, this is their job. But it's not just about the uniform that they wear. It's about who they are, what they're made of. When a gunman entered a restaurant in Pasadena, Texas, it was three off-duty cops who put themselves in harm's way so that others could escape.
"Detective Ivan Marcano didn't care that he was off-duty when he saw two muggers attacking a cab driver in the Bronx. He got out of his girlfriend's car to stop them and was shot point blank in the chest, a bullet inches from his heart. But his story doesn't end there. As his girlfriend was driving him to the hospital -- I'm sure not very happy with him -- by total coincidence, they ran into the shooter's getaway car.
"So what does Detective Marcano do? He jumps out of the car -- he's been shot -- keeps pressure on his chest with his left hand, holding a service weapon with his right, he runs after the suspects. He took one of them down, which led to the capture of the others. He wasn't on the clock when any of this happened. This was his date night. It's unbelievable."
Obama then asked Marcano's girlfriend to stand.
"She deserves a really nice dinner after putting her through that," the president said to laughter.
"So today, to all our Top Cops, let me say that our nation shares that sense of gratitude. You embody America at its best and at its bravest."
Obama made an oblique reference to the issue of gun control, saying leaders must focus on "making it harder for dangerous criminals to get their hands on lethal weapons."


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The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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|Introduction | Finding the Area of Different Figures | Try It Yourself: Finding the Area of Dot-Paper Shapes | Summary | Your Journal
In order to describe, draw, and write about your ideas, you need to be aware of what you are doing and why you are doing it. As you manipulated visual representations of shapes to find the area of familiar or unfamiliar shapes, you needed to have a plan for how you would complete the task and then communicated that plan to yourself. In a classroom setting, you would communicate with others and share their ideas for finding the area.
In these activities, by thinking about and describing your own procedures, you are using communication to develop an understanding of area and how to find the area of any shape. You may also have begun to understand the origins of the formulas for area that you learned many years ago. Through the use of representations, you can communicate your thinking to yourself and others, which results in a better understanding of mathematical concepts.
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The fare at both is eclectic, and, indeed, variety is a keynote at most of the area's theaters for 2002-2003.
At Center Stage, variety comes in the form of a blend of old and new, starting with the season opener -- artistic director Irene Lewis' new take on J.M. Barrie's classic, "Peter Pan," starring Jefferson Mays as the boy who refuses to grow up.
Other highlights include the theater's first-ever co-production with Washington's Arena Stage, a revival of the Fats Waller revue "Ain't Misbehavin'" and two premieres that originated as Center Stage commissions, Warren Leight's "No Foreigners "Beyond This Point" and Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."
At Arena Players, the season begins with a revival of William Saroyan's one-act play "Hello Out There," the first play produced at that theater five decades ago. Two other Arena favorites will also be revived: Alice Childress' "Trouble in Mind" and Paul Osborne's "Morning's at Seven." And, in a season that offers a host of solid roles for women, one of the most moving plays promises to be "Having Our Say," the chronicle of the real-life centenarian Delaney sisters.
The Mechanic Theatre will launch its season on a familiar note with "42nd Street," winner of the 2001 Tony Award for best musical revival. Mechanic audiences will also be treated to the Baltimore premieres of three recent New York musicals -- "The Full Monty," "Seussical the Musical" and "tick, tick ... BOOM!" (an autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the late creator of "Rent," which comes to the Lyric Opera House a month later).
The one nonmusical in the Mechanic's subscription series will be Charles Busch's "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife." The hit comedy stars Valerie Harper as a woman undergoing a midlife crisis.
Meanwhile, besides the return engagement of "Rent," the Lyric will offer Baltimoreans their first look at two disparate musicals -- "Miss Saigon" (albeit somewhat scaled down) and "Some Like It Hot," the musical version of Billy Wilder's 1959 movie. Tony Curtis again stars, but this time, instead of playing one of the guys in drag, he plays the lovestruck tycoon.
On a more serious note, Everyman Theatre opens its season tonight with the Baltimore premiere of Ronald Harwood's "Taking Sides," an examination of the alleged Nazi sympathies of German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. The season, which also features several chestnuts -- Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" and Moss Hart's "Light Up the Sky" -- concludes with another local premiere, Craig Wright's bittersweet romance, "The Pavilion."
Solo-performance shows will be among the main attractions at the Theatre Project, starting with "Eleven Ex-Boyfriends Defend Their Actions," Karen Gray's commentary on sexual politics, and also including "Essential Personnel," Al Letson's hip-hop take on incarceration and the African-American male, and "I Tried to Be Normal," Frannie Sheridan's autobiographical piece about being raised Catholic by German refugee parents who hid their identity as Jewish Holocaust survivors.
In addition to the anniversary festivities at Arena Players, two very different local musical premieres are among the enticing programming at other community theaters. Fell's Point Corner Theatre kicks off its season next week with "Parade," Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's 1998 Broadway musical about the 1913 Atlanta lynching of Jewish businessman Leo Frank. And AXIS Theatre will wrap up its season with the hard-rocking, cross-dressing off-Broadway hit "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
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Nov. 21-Dec. 22: "No Foreigners Beyond This Point" (Pearlstone Theater)
Jan. 10-Feb. 16: "Ain't Misbehavin' " (Pearlstone)
Feb. 21-March 30: "Intimate Apparel" (Head)
April 4-May 4: "Mary Stuart" (Pearlstone)
May 16-June 15: "The Rainmaker" (Pearlstone)
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Nov. 21-Dec. 22: "A Delicate Balance"
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Dec. 18: "Celtic Tenors"
Dec. 20: "Christmas Extraordinaire" (Baltimore Arena)
Dec. 26-Jan. 5: "Miss Saigon"
Jan. 28-Feb. 2: "Stomp"
March 27-29: "Defending the Caveman"
April 1-6: "Rent"
April 8-13: "Some Like It Hot"
May 2-4: "Grease"
May 6-11: "Fosse"
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Sept. 24-29: The Vagina Monologues
Oct. 1-6: "42nd Street"
Oct. 22-27: "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"
Dec. 3-8: "Seussical the Musical"
March 4-9: "tick, tick ... BOOM!"
April 8-13: "Jesus Christ Superstar"
May 6-11: "The Full Monty"
, 45 W. Preston St., 410-752-8558
Sept. 21-22 Magi Ross and Moving Spirit Dance Collective
Sept. 26-29: High Zero Festival
Oct. 17-27: "Eleven Ex-Boyfriends Defend Their Actions"
Oct. 9, 29, Nov. 6: Poetry-reading series
Nov. 14-24: "Essential Personnel"
Dec. 12-22: "I Tried to Be Normal"
Jan. 24-Feb. 2: "Berlin and Munich"
Feb. 7-March 23: Solo female performance series
March 27-April 13: "Roxi Starr in 3-D"
April 24-May 4: Air Dance Bernasconi
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Through Oct. 13: "Anthems: Culture Clash in the District"
Sept. 27-Nov. 3: "The Misanthrope"
Nov. 1-Dec. 29: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"
Dec. 6-Feb. 2: "South Pacific"
Jan. 17-March 2:" Theophilus North"
Feb. 21-March 30: "Book of Days"
March 21-May 25: "Ain't Misbehavin' "
April 25-June 1: "An American Daughter"
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Nov. 22-Dec. 31: "A Christmas Carol"
Jan. 15-19: "Mark Russell"
March 13-June 1: "1776"
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Continuing: "Shear Madness"
Nov. 7-9: "Medea"
Nov. 15-17: "Carmen Jones"
Dec. 17-Jan. 12: "Tell Me on a Sunday"
Feb. 4-March 2: "Stones in His Pocket"
April 22-May 18: The Royal Shakespeare Company
June 10-July 27: "The Reducers"
June 19-22: "Zarafa"
July 5-Sept. 7: "Oklahoma!"
, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., 202-628-6161
Oct. 8-Nov. 1:"Man of La Mancha"
Nov. 27-Jan. 4: "Les Miserables"
January: A Night With Dame Edna
March: "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"
March: "42nd Street"
Spring: "Beauty and the Beast"
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Aug. 27-Oct. 20: "The Winter's Tale"
Nov. 5-Jan. 5: "Much Ado About Nothing"
March 25-May 18: "Richard III"
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Celebrate with pink flowers! Pink flower bouquets are popular to send for birthdays, new babies or 'just because'. Florist can even deliver the same-day, if you would like.
Floral gifts with posh pink, hot pink and look-out-now pink - remind us that pink is perfect, no matter who you're celebrating. The color of youth, joy, and gentility, pink flowers in soft pastels charm us with innocence and sweetness. Learn more about the symbolism of pink flowers
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UCLA Anderson Receives $3 Million Gift from GlobeOp Co-Founder to Establish Hans Hufschmid ('85) Chair in Management
Gift will support faculty research and teaching efforts
LOS ANGELES (January 22, 2013) - UCLA Anderson School of Management graduate ('85) and longtime supporter Hans Hufschmid has donated $3 million to establish the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management. The gift will set up an endowed fund to help provide ongoing support for the research and teaching efforts of a distinguished UCLA Anderson faculty member.
"Our faculty are the cornerstone for the thought leadership that emanates from Anderson, whether in the classroom or through research that has impact. Hans' generous gift helps further that work and ensures that luminary faculty will be attracted to, and retained at, the school," said Judy Olian, Dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management. "We're especially grateful to Hans and his family for their generous gift."
The appointed Chair in Management will be a faculty member specializing in the areas of finance, entrepreneurial behavior, strategic leadership, IT operations, or global markets. Hufschmid cited the influence of his UCLA experience on his career as a driver of his gift.
Hufschmid is a co-founder of GlobeOp Financial Services, a leading fund administrator providing the world's most comprehensive array of financial technology products and services under a public, independent, single platform. As former Chair and CEO, he helped build and expand the company, adding more than 2,500 employees across New York, London, and India. In June 2012, GlobeOp Financial Services was acquired by SS&C Technologies Holdings. The combined entity is one of the financial market's leading fund service providers, offering complete lifecycle capabilities for hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity and managed account managers, and servicing more than 6,700 funds that have a combined $424 billion in assets under management.
"The financial training I received at UCLA Anderson and my experiences there were pivotal in shaping my professional career," said Hufschmid. "It's gratifying to be able to give back, and to know that this gift will help the school for generations to come."
Prior to becoming one of GlobeOp's founding partners in 2000, Hufschmid was a principal at Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and co-head of its London office. He also served on LTCM's risk management and management committees. He previously spent 10 years with Salomon Brothers Inc. in London and New York, the last four as global head of foreign exchange sales and trading. He received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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What is the best symphonic album ever? Could it be 'Oceanborn' by Nightwish? It's a great album,no doubt about it and it got me in to symphonic metal. My favourite tracks from it are 'Stargazer', 'The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea', 'The Pharaoh Sails to Orion' and 'Gethsemane'.
Here is a Youtube link for the song 'Gethsemane'.www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg8fXSts0nk


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Your ability to own a home is affected by where you live. Even people with modest incomes can afford homes in Decatur, Illinois, the metropolitan area with the nation's most
Your ability to own a home is affected by where you live. Even people with modest incomes can afford homes in Decatur, Illinois, the metropolitan area with the nation's most affordable houses. At the other end of the affordability spectrum is the San Jose, California, metro area, where high incomes are outmatched by stratospheric home prices.
A home is most affordable when it doesn't cost much more than a year's pay. Decatur is an affordable market because the median house costs about one and a half times the median annual income. ('Median' is the midpoint, where half of the values or incomes are lower and half are higher.) In comparison, there's San Jose, where a typical household earns a six-figure income but a median single-family house costs about 12 times what a typical household earns.
Every quarter, NerdWallet calculates home affordability for 172 metropolitan areas by comparing the median annual household income and the monthly principal-and-interest payment for a median-priced single-family home. After accounting for a 20% down payment, the house payments were calculated at an interest rate of 4.45%, the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the first quarter; payments don't include insurance, property taxes or homeowner association dues.
The comparisons revealed the five most- and least-affordable markets for buying a home in the first quarter of 2018. The rankings were compiled using data from the National Association of Realtors, the Census Bureau and NerdWallet surveys.
� MORE: How much can you afford in your area?Most-affordable metro areas1. Decatur, Illinois
Median home price: $73,000
Median household income: $46,198
Principal and interest payment: $294 (equals 7.6% of median monthly income)
The affordability of homes in Decatur is bolstered by the fact that homes don't sell quickly. In March, single-family homes for sale in Decatur had been on the market for a median of 119.5 days, according to Realtor.com. The national median for all home sales was 63 days. A longer time on market in Decatur means buyers aren't competing as much for homes, and they may have an edge in negotiations with sellers. This makes it easier to take advantage of the affordability. In March, prices in Decatur were reduced on 110 listings and increased on two listings. The median home price fell 15.2% from the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018.2. Cumberland, Maryland-West Virginia
Median home price: $86,200
Median household income: $45,808
Principal and interest payment: $347 (9.1% of monthly income)
Listed homes in Cumberland had been on the market a median of 136.75 days in March " more than twice as long as the national median. Despite the slow sales pace, home prices rose 5.4% from the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018. In March, price decreases outnumbered price increases 72 �to 2, which is good for buyers.3. Elmira, New York
Median home price: $100,800
Median household income: $51,269
Principal and interest payment: $406 (9.5% of monthly income)
Homes in Elmira had been on the market for a median of 97.5 days in March, according to Realtor.com, just over a month longer than the national median. The median home price rose 12% year over year in the first quarter. In March, 76 home listings had price cuts and no listings had a price increase.4. Binghamton, New York
Median home price: $103,000
Median household income: $51,360
Principal and interest payment: $415 (9.7% of monthly income)
Homes for sale in Binghamton had been listed a median of 108.5 days in March, a month when price decreases of listings outnumbered price increases 134 �to 2. Yet prices increased 12.9% year over year, the fastest price appreciation among the five most-affordable metros.5. Peoria, Illinois
Median home price: $114,800
Median household income: $57,090
Principal and interest payment: $463 (9.7% of monthly income)
Peoria had the highest house prices among the five most-affordable metro areas. Prices were balanced out by median household income, which also was the highest among the five most affordable. It was the quickest-selling market among the five most affordable, with homes listed a median of 77.25 days in March. Prices rose the least of the most-affordable at 2% year over year. Price decreases on listings outnumbered price increases in March, 600 �to 10.Least-affordable metro areas1. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California
Median home price: $1.37 million
Median household income: $110,040
Principal and interest payment: $5,533 (60.3% of median monthly income)
Buyers have to act fast in the San Jose area, the center of Silicon Valley: For-sale homes spent a median 17 days on the market in March, according to Realtor.com. Price cuts on listings outnumbered price increases in March, 116 to 30. The median home price rose a whopping 28.3% from the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018. It was the metro area with the greatest home-price appreciation in the nation.2. Honolulu, Hawaii
Median home price: $775,500
Median household income: $80,513
Principal and interest payment: $3,125 (46.6% of monthly income)
Honolulu, a popular market for international buyers, spent a median 52 days on the market in March, according to Realtor.com. The median home price went up 4% year over year. Price cuts outnumbered price increases in listings 474 �to 20 in March.3. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California
Median home price: $917,000
Median household income: $96,677
Principal and interest payment: $3,695 (45.9% of monthly income)
Just to the north of Silicon Valley, homes here sell almost as fast. In the San Francisco, Oakland and Hayward area, homes spent a median of just 22 days on the market in March, according to Realtor.com. The median home price went up 12.5% from the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018. Price decreases on home listings outnumbered price increases in March, 474 �to 114.4. San Diego-Carlsbad, California
Median home price: $610,000
Median household income: $70,824
Principal and interest payment: $2,458 (41.6% of monthly income)
Do you see a pattern here? California has four of the five least-affordable metro areas. San Diego homes were listed a median 32.5 days in March, according to Realtor.com. The median home price rose 8.2% in the 12 months ending in March. Among homes listed for sale in March, price cuts outnumbered price increases 1,616 �to 152.5. Los Angeles-Long Beach, California
Median home price: $545,500
Median household income: $65,950
Principal and interest payment: $2,198 (40% of monthly income)
Although homes in Southern California aren't selling as quickly as in Northern California, they're still going quickly. For-sale homes in the Los Angeles area had been on the market a median of 33.5 days in March, according to Realtor.com. The median home price rose 12.3% from the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018, and price cuts outnumbered price increases in March, 3,694 �to 528.
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Conservatives distorted DNC manual to accuse Dems of dirty tricks
Following reports of a Democratic National Committee Election Day manual giving party workers advice on how to combat potential efforts to intimidate minority voters, conservative media figures repeatedly distorted the manual's content in order to claim that the Democratic Party's official policy is to make baseless allegations of voter intimidation against Republicans. In fact, the manual does no such thing; it simply advises party workers to use standard, uncontroversial communications tactics to raise public awareness about the potential for intimidation. (Click here to view The Drudge Report's image of the DNC's "Colorado Election Day Manual." )
In contrast to accusations made by several conservative media figures, the manual itself does not encourage party workers -- either implicitly or explicitly -- to fabricate stories of voter suppression. Their false accusations are based on a single sentence: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'" But the subsequent sentences make clear that a "pre-emptive strike" does not mean fabricating evidence of intimidation. Rather, the manual lays out four specific steps that would constitute an effective "pre-emptive strike," none of which constitute underhanded conduct:
- Issue a press release
- i. Reviewing Republican tactic [sic] issued in the past in your area or state
- ii. Quoting party/minority/civil rights leadership as denouncing tactics that discourage people from voting
- Prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points
- Place stories in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics
- Warn local newspapers not to accept advertising that is not properly disclaimed or that contains false warnings about voting requirements and/or about what will happen at the polls
Despite the manual's rather commonplace suggestions for raising awareness about the issue of voter intimidation, conservatives cast the document as smoking-gun proof of Democratic dirty tricks.
On his October 14 show, radio host Rush Limbaugh complained about the DNC manual, saying, "Democrats [are] gearing up now to intimidate, to warn, to accuse before a vote has even been cast, folks."
CNN co-host Tucker Carlson grossly distorted the manual on the October 14 edition of CNN's Crossfire:
CARLSON: At one point, the guide instructs Kerry operators to accuse Republicans of trying to prevent minority groups from voting even if there's no evidence that the charge is actually true, no evidence at all. Just make it up. ... In other words, manufacture a crime and divisive racially [sic] propaganda, all of it false, to whip minority voters into a frenzy of fear and hatred. ... That's disgusting, actually.
FOX News Channel senior White House correspondent Jim Angle, as substitute host on the October 15 edition of Special Report with Brit Hume, introduced a report on the manual by general assignment correspondent Major Garrett by referring to "the Democratic memo that appears to encourage people to come up with stories of Election Day skullduggery, whether it happens or not."


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Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on Taylorville High School's time in the Central State Eight Conference and its departure for the Apollo. Read the first part.
TAYLORVILLE — In the early 1990s, when Taylorville school district officials were deciding whether or not to join the Central State Eight Conference, there was genuine concern from many in the community about the ability of the high school football team to compete.
It wouldn't take long for the program to be one of the best in the new conference.
Meanwhile, the Taylorville girls' basketball program had already been excelling, sending two players on to Division I colleges: Chris Aldridge (1982 graduate, Eastern Illinois University) and Kristi McCullough (1992, Creighton).
Gary McCullough, who was an assistant girls' basketball coach before taking over the program for three seasons in 1999, said there was no hesitation from their side on joining the new conference.
"The conference didn't scare us at all as far as girls' basketball goes," said McCullough, who is Kristi's father. "I know there was some concern in football.
"But in girls' basketball, we didn't have any second thoughts. We thought we could compete. It sure didn't hurt to have the kind of talent we had when we started."
But when Allison Curtin, Lora Weber and, a year later, Suzanne Curtin came, they took the girls' basketball program to incredible heights.
Iron Curtin
Allison Curtin was a three-time CS8 girls basketball Player of the Year, a two-time girls track and field Athlete of the Year and the 1998 CS8 Female Athlete of the Year and Illinois Ms. Basketball. She remains one of the best athletes to come out of the Central State Eight — male or female.
The 1996-97 team finished 34-1 and second in the Class AA state tournament. During the four-year tenure of Curtin and coach Carol Wilson the Tornadoes won 55 of 56 CS8 games. The Tornadoes reeled off three outright CS8 championships and one co-championship in that span.
"Those four years I was there, I thought the Central State Eight was very competitive and it was probably what helped us do as well as we did," said Wilson, currently the women's basketball coach at Lincoln College. "If we had been in another conference, we probably wouldn't have been challenged as much as we were."
Unlike the boys basketball team, which had a high finish of .500 twice (1993-94 and 2001-02), the girls' team won six conference titles, had five other finishes of second or third and wound up below .500 just five times in 21 seasons.
"The Central State Eight, I know there were teams that absolutely hated to see Taylorville to come to town because they knew what they were going to have to face," Gary McCullough said.
Fitting in
The Apollo Conference that Taylorville joins is very different compared to the one it left. Gone are Newton, Paris and Robinson. Say hello to Mattoon and Salem while Charleston, Effingham and Mount Zion remain from Taylorville's last stint.
In 1992, Taylorville had absorbed both Stonington and Mount Auburn — from grades seven through 12 — into its school district. There were 1,009 students in the high school.
In Taylorville's final year in the Central State Eight, only 858 students were enrolled. Taylorville athletic director Paul Held said the number for 2014 is 832 but won't end the school year there.
"I think the biggest thing that happened was the creeping of our enrollment down," Held said, pointing out what he says is the biggest reason for the conference change.
"I think by the end of this school year, we'll be below 800."
Despite a town population holding nearly steady, Taylorville mayor Greg Brotherton said a few factors in changing demographics have led to fewer students in classrooms. He cited families having fewer children, an increasingly aged population and the difficulty of keeping graduates in town.
Rich Wilson, Taylorville school district superintendent from July 1992 through June 2006, saw Taylorville's enrollment dip into the 800s before — in the early 2000s before rebounding again to 997 in 2007 — but said now was the time for change.
"Small towns are cyclical. You have your ups and your downs and you just kind of have to live with those," Wilson said. "The way you remain competitive is you work really hard in preparation.
"I think . . . the speed factor kept getting us and with size and strength. We just weren't as big. We'd be outnumbered. We'd go up against Chatham and they'd have two players for every one (Taylorville had)."
Mary Renner, the executive director of the Christian County Economic Development Corporation, said hope for the growth of Taylorville as a city remains with two keys important to the future — the completion of Illinois 29's four-lane expansion from Springfield and a proposed industrial and business park.
"I have three or four inquiries a month, sometimes more, from people who are interested in locating a business primarily in Taylorville," Renner said. "And we really have no place to put them here.
"Today people are looking at a park atmosphere where they have sewers, water, sidewalks, lighting, everything kind of in place. We just don't have that. We're in the process of trying to develop that."
But if that does happen, it will be too late to have kept Taylorville in the CS8.
The Illinois High School Association lists Rochester as the smallest public CS8 high school with an enrollment of 714 for 2014-15. Lincoln is next at 831 while Jacksonville and incoming CS8 school Decatur Eisenhower are each listed at 958 students.
Meanwhile, Springfield High (1,395), Southeast (1,369) and Chatham Glenwood (1,361) have grown.
"Effingham, Charleston, Mount Zion, they are good football towns and demographically, almost exactly like us," Held said.
Mark Grounds said in his 10 years as the Jacksonville football coach he's seen that high school lose over 25 percent of its students and understands what Taylorville is going through.
"We wish they were still part of it because they were an original member of the Central State Eight," Grounds said, "which is proven to be one of the preeminent conferences in all of Illinois.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
the Dark Side in a bento box
I've seen cookies and little sandwiches made with these Star Wars cookie cutters ...and even ice cream sandwiches! I attempted to make little grilled cheese sandwiches out of them with mixed results (I must not have "the force"). This Darth Vader didn't turn out too badly. The Storm Trooper was about the same, but Yoda's facial details were lost in the grilling.
Packed in the bento were also some baby carrots, strawberries, kiwi and a honey stick. I thought the honey stick looked like Vader's light saber. ;-)
I have to say making the tiny grilled cheese sandwiches was a real pain. As I was finishing up I had wholly talked myself into NEVER making them again...but the look of delight on Ethan's face when he saw them was pretty priceless. He's got plans to have Boba Fett for lunch tomorrow. What have I gotten myself into?
On a side-note, I recently hauled out all my bento boxes from the depths below to take inventory (stand by for pics, lol). I came across this black one that I got over a year ago, back when Ichiban had an online store. This box was described as a "mens medium" and the description said it was a good size for a man's lunch. I ordered it to use for my husband. I was aghast when it arrived and it was sooooo small. Littler than the lunch boxes I used for my kids! It seemed like an appropriate choice to use for today's Star Wars bento, though. :)
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- Cap Creations said... [Reply to comment]
This lunch is cool! I totally got that was a light saber before I read that it was.
I just recently started following your blog and I love it! Thanks for the great ideas. You must be the coolest mom in the neighborhood!
- June 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Wendy said... [Reply to comment]
Oh God! So COOL! I've been trying to resist the Star Wars cookie cutters, but I've seen so many cute things now that my resistance is wearing down. (I'm going to try to avoid a "come to the dark side" joke now.) And I love the light saber, of course.
- June 11, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Mommyof2girlz said... [Reply to comment]
I think the grilled cheese turned out awesome! and yes, the stick totally reminded me of his light saber..so smart! Can not wait to see your stash of boxes :)
- June 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM
- Danielle said... [Reply to comment]
Oh my my! I must have! lol really cute!
- June 11, 2010 at 8:29 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
WOoo for Star Wars lunches! Amusingly enough, this is the EXACT bento box I packed Kidlet's SW sandwiches in!
Grilled cheese is brilliant, I am adding that to my list of things to turn in to SW shapes.
- June 11, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Looks yummy and cute to me :)
- June 12, 2010 at 1:25 AM
- Tifani says... said... [Reply to comment]
Don't let Wendy avoid that Dark Side joke. It must be made! It must be made!!
- June 12, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- Raji P. said... [Reply to comment]
I cannot wait, I mean CANNOT WAIT to see your entire collection of lunch making stuff!
- June 13, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- elizabeth said... [Reply to comment]
I like this blog!
- June 13, 2010 at 12:42 PM
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- June 14, 2010 at 8:16 PM
- Sandy said... [Reply to comment]
awesome lunch.. I can't wait to see your entire collection.. When you pack grill cheese, do you make it the night before or do you need to make it in the morning before the kids head to school?
- June 14, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Hi Sandy! Good question - my kids are already on summer vacation, and this was made for a backyard picnic. ;-) I do cool the sandwiches on a cooling rack before putting in the box, but this particular one never had a lid on it so no moisture to worry about. With the past paninis I've made those were cooled completely before being packed. Making them the night before WOULD be good...I'm woefully terrible about doing lunches the night before though. If I manage to get the fruit cut the night before I'm doing good. I usually do everything in the morning.
- June 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Sandy said... [Reply to comment]
Melissa, you are good.. I wish I could make lunch in the morning but my son and husband leaves the house at 630 and there is no time in the morning for me to make lunches for them... My son loves grill cheese so I'm trying to see if I can pack that for his school lunch.
- June 14, 2010 at 10:20 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Oof! 6:30! Ouch. My boys are out the door around 8, so it's not too bad. I am *so* NOT a morning person, so it really would behoove me to prep lunches the night before, but I am just so dog tired at the end of the day I don't want to mess around in the kitchen any longer than absolutely necessary!
- June 14, 2010 at 11:46 PM
- Hen Jen said... [Reply to comment]
oh wow, that is adorable! I love the honey stick, nice touch! I have to go get these cookie cutters!
- June 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM


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[Solved] How to Fix Mortal Kombat 11 Launching Issue on PC
Mortal Kombat 11 released for PC in the meantime on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. While many haven't had any issues playing on their PCs, others have detailed the smashing at release, or it just not propelling by any stretch of the imagination. On the off chance that you're one of these disastrous spirits, at that point we can help. In the guide beneath we'll go more than a few conceivable fixes that should help fix Mortal Kombat 11 smashing on PC.
In the event that you're encountering this issue, at that point trust me, I realize how disappointing it very well may be. Lamentably, it appears that Mortal Kombat 11 doesn't actually get along with some outsider applications. Applications like MSI Afterburner, SteelSeries Engine, or even other mouse and console programming. In case you're encountering an issue that shields the diversion from propelling, or in the event that it just crashes, at that point you can have a go at handicapping these bits of programming to make the amusement work.
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Advance toward your neighborhood envelope in %appdata%. To do this you'll need Hidden Files and Folders set to appear in Windows settings. You can likewise advance toward this organizer by exploring to C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local. Once here, explore down to the MK11 envelope. Here you'll discover a Usersettings.ini. Open it up utilizing Notepad and search for the lines that read "RGBPeripherals" and "RGBKeyLighting". Set both of these to off, at that point leave the record (in the wake of sparing it) and relaunch Mortal Kombat 11.
This should resolve any issues that you were having getting Mortal Kombat 11 on PC. In case regardless you're encountering issues with Mortal Kombat 11 slamming on PC, at that point ensure that you don't have any extra bits of programming that may conflict with the amusement. For more help in the diversion, come back to our Mortal Kombat 11 center point, where you'll discover a lot of extraordinary substance to help you as you investigate the Krypt and take on the different amusement modes accessible in MK11.
Google Announces 'Stadia': A Cloud-Based Gaming Service
We all know Google as the search engine, YouTube, Gmail, Maps and of course their tracking our movements and all that jazz but they are bringing something else into their portfolio, something Big. The company announced a Gaming and entertainment service named 'Stadia' at GDC 2019, a cloud-based game streaming service. The concept is not new by a long shot but when a company like Google announces it, it becomes legit and a big deal.
The Service
Any game that is available on the service is yours, allegedly and theoretically. No matter the hardware, as long as you have a screen that has an internet connection such as a smartphone, tablet, laptop, tv etc.
Running high fidelity games, and upcoming titles, the services requires so much juice at the back end to make this service viable. To which, Google has come up with a spec sheet for their cloud units which can easily compete with a fully decked out gaming pc out there.
Let's check out the specs shall we:
GPU – 10.7 teraflops – 56 computing units – HBM2 Memory
CPU – Custom x86 Processor – 2.7 GHz – Hyperthreaded – AVX 2
Memory – 16GB RAM – 484GB/s transfer speed – L2+L3 Cache of 9.5MB
Now let's get some perspective from the current benchmarks.
Google compared the stats on stage, PS4 Pro runs on 4.2 teraflops while Xbox One X stays capped at 6 teraflops and the rest can be balanced from here. In plain words, these units that Stadia with custom AMD GPU can easily leave a current generation console a run for their money and matches PC is terms of speed and quality, at least in theory.
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While people with consoles sitting in their living rooms thinking about the new generation machines to come out with better internals and better games, Google is trying to change the game altogether.
Google claims that at launch, gamers will be able to enjoy 4K resolution with 60 fps with HDR and better quality surround sound. Not only that, similar resolution and fidelity will be translated into streaming the game live on YouTube channel will be possible. All of this sounds so promising and a gamers and streamers dream. In future, the stats will move to 8K at 120 fps but there is no solid word on that front.
It sounds ridiculous to any PC gamer who hears that the streaming service will be able to run the titles in 4K while most PCs today can't do that but imagine if your game can't run in 4K but the servers a lot you a secondary unit and now you are running the game with not one but two gaming PCs. This however requires back end support from the developers to allow such a thing to happen, but I am not certain if that will be possible right from the get-go.
Stadia controller is something I am really interested in especially if it will connect to multiple devices including mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, or even consoles. The controller looks similar to DualShock by Sony but with a cleaner look and two new buttons: Capture and Smart function. In case you are not interested in buying yet another controller and find a place to charge it, then you can use any controller you want as long as it connects to the internet device running the Stadia app or service.
The caveats are two major ones with this service; it won't be available worldwide and you require one heck of an internet connection to play and stream the game. If you can surpass these hurdles and Google is able to deliver on these alleged perks then this will be the new gaming benchmarks and may end up reforming the industry.
Devil May Cry 5 Mod: The 'Kylo Ren' Plays from the Star Wars Character
Devil May Cry 5 is one of our preferred rounds of 2019, and CAPCOM has been on a flat out move this year, with recreations like Resident Evil 2 Remake, and the new development for Monster Hunter: World. Presently, we as a whole realize V looks a great deal like Adam Driver, who plays Kylo Ren in the ebb and flow Star Wars set of three, and this Devil May Cry 5 Mod gives you a chance to play as him in the game.
We're actually shocked this mod has just barely discharged, as individuals made examinations since the V as a character was uncovered in the trailers.
'Kylo Ren' will swap V's ensemble and his stick with Kylo's lightsaber in both red and purple hues. To introduce this mod, you'll have to pursue the means underneath;
Prior to running the mod director just because, guarantee all PAK records in your DMC 5 organizer introduce are unmodified (to effortlessly do this, right-click the game in Steam and pick "confirm document trustworthiness")
Run mod chief, click on "Oversee Mods" and snap on mods to introduce or uninstall them, for this situation, introduce the Kylo Ren mod. That is all you'll have to do and you can play as Kylo Ren in Devil May Cry 5 with alternatives of both the Red and Purple Lightsaber.
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Microsoft 'Halo Infinite' Now Run On Xbox Scarlett, What to Expect
The current year's E3 was a noteworthy occasion, and fans got the opportunity to see such a significant number of recreations being exhibited at the occasion. In any case, there was one specific game which was making its arrival after an extremely lengthy timespan, and it is the forthcoming Halo Infinite. Fans have been energized as far back as Microsoft first uncovered the game, and after the current year's exhibit, the promotion has expanded exponentially.
343 Industries built up the principal individual shooter game, and it will be the starting title for Xbox Scarlett, so fans have incredibly high expectations from, and it's a conspicuous response, as the Halo establishment is a fan-top pick. It is the 6th portion in the arrangement, and it will be proceeding with the story after Halo 5: Guardians. As of late, Microsoft uncovered what fans could anticipate from the up and coming title, and we have accumulated all the ongoing updates and data with respect to the game, so here is all that you have to think about the up and coming Halo Infinite.
In a meeting with Euro Gamer, manager of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty said that their first-party studio has direct access with the group chipping away at the Xbox Scarlett and the group taking a shot at Halo gets immediate access to what is being kept running on the equipment of Project Scarlett.
So the group will have more thought on the cutting edge reassure, and ideally, the group can utilize that to further their full potential benefit while creating Halo Infinite. Matt uncovered that clearly, the game would run well on Xbox One and different gadgets at the same time, the presentation is best on Xbox Scarlett.
Matt prodded that the up and coming Halo Infinite will have a greater thickness of life in its reality and they will work acquire more subtleties the light of the world. Matt hasn't uncovered the full subtleties as he needs to stay quiet till the discharge date, in any case, this is sufficient to get fans progressively energized.
Corona Infinite is required to discharge at some point in 2020 alongside Xbox Scarlett. Stay tuned to Otakukart for more updates.
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|Finding aid encoded by Lacy SchutzMarch 7, 2007
|Finding aid written in English.
A Guide to the Financial Series
|Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives
225 South St.
Williamstown, MA 01267
|Clark, Robert Sterling, (1877-1956)
|Financial Series
|1903 - 1955 (inclusive)
|1921 - 1954 (bulk)
|3.3 linear feet
|This series contains financial records, including bills and receipts, check registers, and bank statements.
|English, French
Arrangement of the PapersThe distinction between business records and receipts was maintained from the original organization of the material. The receipts are in alphabetical and then chronological order. The remaining financial material is arranged chronologically, with the exception of three folders that contain the records of RSC's interactions with the Equitable Trust Company; Gardner, Mountain & Company; and Tiffany & Company. Checkbooks are arranged chronologically, separate from the business records.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The business records span the years 1903-1955. The material consists of bank statements; assets statements; cash statements; statements of holdings and earning on the Bond and Stock markets; expense reports on RSC's various businesses and properties; and reports on financial and investments accounts for RSC, Francine and RSC's companies. The Equitable Trust company folder contains bank statements; the Tiffany & Co. folder contains receipts and appraisals for jewelry; and the Gardner, Mountain & Co. folder contains receipts and insurance policies, many of them forwarded from Lloyd's of London. In addition to these companies, there are many assets statements from William Allen & Co.; bank statements from Chase National Bank and Bankers Trust Company; and financial and investment reports from R.G. Rankin & Co. The receipts series contains receipts from 1920-1955 for a variety of goods and services such as jewelry, horse breeding and care, rare books, clothing, luggage, medical expenses and hotel bills. There are significant quantities from the book dealers James F. Drake, Inc., Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. and the Estate of George D. Smith. There are many receipts for horse breeding and care from the British Bloodstock Agency, A.B. Hancock and the Kentucky Association. There are many bills from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Folder 20a contains a number of records received from the office of Talcott Banks related to insurance and shipping. At the end of the receipts, there are two folders: one contains some real estate records; the other contains reports from private investigators RSC engaged to scrutinize people who asked him for money. The checkbooks span the years of 1937-1948.
Biographical Note
Born in 1877, Robert Sterling Clark, along with his three brothers, was heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Their father, Alfred Corning Clark, was the son of Edward Corning Clark, Isaac Singer's business partner. RSC attended Yale University and graduated in 1899 with a degree in engineering. He joined the army and his service during the Boxer Rebellion earned him the commission of first lieutenant. In 1908, RSC undertook an expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in a remote area of northern China. He intended to carry out ethnographic and zoological research, as well as conduct surveys and create maps. His partner in this undertaking was Arthur de Carle Sowerby. Sowerby, in addition to being a naturalist, explorer, artist and editor, collected specimens for the British Museum and other museums of natural history in the United States and China. The expedition came to an abrupt end when Hazrat Ali, their translator and surveyor, was murdered.
Shortly thereafter, RSC moved to Paris. In 1909 he inherited various pieces of art from his family and these pieces became the foundation of the collection he was to build over the ensuing decades. He made his first purchases in 1912 and was initially attracted primarily to Dutch, Flemish and Italian old masters. Soon, his interests expanded to include silver, prints and drawings, rare books, and more contemporary artists such as Renoir, Degas, Sargent and Homer.
During this time RSC met Francine Clary. Formerly an actress with the Comedie Francaise, Francine was the mother of a daughter, Viviane Modzelewska. Francine and RSC began seeing one another in 1910, but didn't marry until 1919. Their relationship was a source of tension with RSC's family and eventually led to a rift between him and his brother, Stephen. Stephen, the youngest of the Clark brothers, had shouldered the daily administration of the family's fortunes. RSC felt that he was at a disadvantage because of the way the Singer trusts were constructed. Should something befall RSC, the money would pass back into the Clark family rather than to Francine and her daughter. When he was unable to resolve the issue within the family, he and Stephen had a falling out that would never be mended and RSC sued unsuccessfully in court to break up the trusts.
RSC and Francine were partners in assembling the collections that would eventually be housed at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, visiting galleries and dealers together. Another keen interest was horse breeding. RSC owned large operations that bred, raised and trained racehorses, first in Belgium and then in Virginia. In 1951, his horse, Never Say Die, won the Epsom Derby, the first American-bred horse ever to do so.
After considering various options for the eventual disposition of their artworks and objects, including donation to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and founding a museum in New York City, RSC and Francine decided to locate their collections in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1950 and continuing through RSC's death late in 1956, their lives were focused on building the Institute, both physically and administratively.
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[Cite the item (as appropriate)], Financial Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Acquisition Information
Most of these items were found in a filing cabinet in the office of David Brooke (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Director, 1977-1994. The book dealers' records came from the office of the Librarian. A handful of receipts were added from records found in the office of the Registrar in December 2007.
Processing Information
The distinction between business records and receipts was maintained from the original organization of the material. Because most of the business associates with whom RSC corresponded were also friends, letters were removed and integrated into the Correspondence series. The receipts were found in alphabetical order. There was no obvious organization of the business records with the exception of three folders that contained all the records of Clark's interactions with particular companies. The organization of these three folders, for the Equitable Trust Company; Gardner, Mountain & Company; and Tiffany & Company, was maintained and the remaining financial material was arranged chronologically. The receipts are arranged alphabetically and chronologically if there is more than one item from a company. Checkbooks are arranged chronologically, separate from the business records. These records were processed by Lacy Schutz, Archivist; Danielle Ryan, Archives Assistant; and Alex Grimley, Archives intern.
Related Material
Related or similar material can be found in the following series in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Records, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Diaries Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Correspondence Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Images Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Personal Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; and Realia Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers.
On the occasion of the Clark Art Institute's 50th anniversary, the Clark published: The Clark brothers collect: impressionist and early modern paintings / Michael Conforti ... [et al.] ; with additional contributions by Daniel Cohen-McFall ... [et al.], Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006
Related or similar material can be found in the following series in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Correspondence Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Diaries Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Images Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Personal Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; and Realia Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Records and Papers of David Brooke; Institutional Oral Histories.


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One day, in my dreams, I just wish that the decision making individuals would just stop thinking so much. If its a good country song, let it speak in its own words from the writer and performer. It just may surprise you the success it will have.


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Other notes from the game:
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Babak Parviz, a key engineer on Google's Project Glass, just revealed some new details about the wearable-computing project in an interview with IEEE Spectrum.
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