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VANCOUVER - Sandor Kovacs was a proud wrestler and a dedicated promoter, but he also loved a good party with friends and family. These three facts all came together on a very rare afternoon June 25th at the Shark Club in Vancouver where the Sportsmen's Tribute to Sandor Kovacs was held.
The Shark Club is one of the premier sports bars in North America, yet the Sandor Kovacs tribute show was not a typical event for the venue. Waitresses and regular patrons of the bar were caught looking quizzically as big men with grey hair and scarred foreheads filed in. Posters of Kovacs himself were displayed on the walls and a special table had been set up with pictures of Kovacs from his days in the Navy to the last photo of him ever taken back on May 24, 1999.
And then there were the ballerinas, friends of Sandor's wife Betty, who had come to pay tribute to a man for whom they held great respect. There were others of course -- lawyers, journalists, businessmen and women, even wrestlers currently active on the local scene were in attendance as well. In all, over 100 people came to pay tribute to Sandor Kovacs -- a man many that night called the most gracious and honest they had never met. It was truly something special.
"It's great to see so many people here," Mick Sahota, the organizer of the event, said in the early moments of the tribute. When Mick, Betty and friend Ray Clark began working to make the tribute a reality, they had no idea who would come or how many. Sandor had insisted that there be no funeral after his death, only a party with a few friends. That, it turned out, would be impossible -- Sandor had simply been too likeable and charming to keep people away. Instead, veteran wrestlers he had shared both the ring and the road with came to the event -- slowly, and with some difficulty perhaps -- but come they did.
Historic wrestlers like Moose Morowski, Don Leo Jonathan, Butts Giraud, and John Quinn were all present. Dutch Savage, a good friend of Sandor's and a wrestler himself was unable to attend, but sent along a letter to be read to everyone.
For those that could make it, however, the event was nothing short of magical. After some opening remarks by Mick Sahota, Jeff Sim, a piper for the Delta Police Band, began playing his bagpipes to begin the wrestlers parade, leading the former wrestlers from the front door of the club to the spot next to the large Sandor Kovacs posters. Bar patrons looked up from their beers, many of whom had no idea who any of these men were but still seemed moved all the same.
A rare moment on a Sunday afternoon.
Then it was on to the tributes themselves, where the wrestlers shared some of their memories and stories of Sandor. Moose Morowski related how when he arrived at the Shark Club earlier, he walked over to the tribute table with all the pictures of Sandor and stared at them. "I finally beat you," he said to them. When Tom Lucas asked Moose what he meant by that, he said, "Sandor's got one cane; I've got two!"
Don Leo Jonathon, a former tag team partner of Sandor's, was up next. He too had a cane with him and spoke with the crackle of an older, wiser man. He related a story about Sandor, back in the days when the two were young men in Montreal trying to make a name for themselves.
"Sandor said, 'I'd sure like to main event around here'," Jonathon told the audience. "Back in those days, the bookings were all in the office on a gray sheet of paper with all the names of the matches on it. So Sandor said, 'I know how we can get in the main event.' He took a pencil and erased all those French names and put some English ones on instead."
When the audience finished laughing, Butts Giraud read something that Dutch Savage had written since he was unable to attend the event himself. "The only people who I can think of that didn't like Sandor, were malcontents and guys who couldn't cut the preverbal mustard in the ring," Savage wrote. "Whether most will admit it or not, I will. Sandor was a bigger part of my success than anyone else in the business. He always, and I mean always, had time for me and Sandor appreciated the few talents I had learned. The wrestling world has lost one of its bright and shinning stars now that Sandy is gone. We will not see his like pass this way again. Sandor will always be imitated, but, he will never be duplicated, he was one of a kind. My hope is that all of you guys at this Memorial Tribute, and those who couldn't make it, will remember Mr. Kovacs, (heavy on the MR.), and tell your grandkids about this fine gentleman, who helped you in your careers whether you deserved his attention or not."
There were other tributes of course, written in ink in the guestbook Betty had provided. Everyone in attendance signed the guestbook, adding their own short tributes to Sandor. "For the best promoter of them all," one entry read. "Sandor would have loved this party with so many friends," another one said.
Tom Lucas thanked everyone for coming out and invited them to stay and enjoy a burger and some drinks. So everyone did, sitting around with people they had not seen in years or had never even met before. Currently active wrestlers talked with the retired legends; wrestling fans who had only seen these same legends on television took a moment to get some of their autographs. And high school students like Michelle Yee-Lim took some time to learn about the past.
Michelle was the winner of the Prostar Sandor Kovacs Memorial Scholarship and had come to the event after receiving an invitation from Betty. "I was very honoured to get invited here today and to win the scholarship," she said. Two weeks ago, she had no idea who Sandor Kovacs yet she had come to the event and volunteered to help out with the 50/50 draw to raise more funds for the scholarship fund. It only seemed natural, she said. "Sandor sounds like a really nice guy."
As the event winded down, Mick Sahota was asked how he thought it all went. "I think it went great," he answered, refusing to take any credit for the success. "It's just the way you are supposed to do things. Whether it's 5, 15, 50 or 100 people present, everyone should be happy."
Everyone was. The event went so well that Mick is thinking of making it an annual happening. As evidenced by the crowd on hand for Sandor's tribute, there are plenty of men and women deserving of special recognition. The decision on that isn't final yet, but regardless, Sandor's legacy will live on through the scholarship in his name.
After the event was over, the pictures were put away and the guestbook became a historic document. All that remains of Sandor now is the memories he left with those fortunate enough to have crossed his path. For he left them with a lasting impression of class, honesty and the gentle spirit which belied his great yet subtle strength.
But on the afternoon of June 25, 2005, there was simply a celebration of his life and of his character, between friends, family and a few strangers who gathered in one noisy room to share stories and remember the good old days. Nobody cried for him and no one hung their head in sorrow. Instead, they just remembered his life over a few beers.
Sandor would have liked that.
Fred Johns lives in Port Coquitlam, B.C., and is the editor of the SomethingCool.ca website. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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With the conclusion of the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins' duel Sunday night in Beantown, the NHL was finally able to release their playoff schedule for the first round. The Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota Wild will open their series at the United Center at 7 p.m. Tuesday with the game being broadcast nationally on the NBC Sports Network and locally in the Chicago area on Comcast SportsNet.
Already the Hawks had a conflict with the Bulls that had to be addressed, hence why Game 2 is Friday instead of Thursday. Also, Games 6 and 7 of this series will be played on back-to-back days in order to allow NBC to air either game if it so chooses.
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Game 1: Minnesota at Chicago, 7 p.m. Tuesday NBCSN
Game 2: Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Friday NBCSN
Game 3: Chicago at Minnesota, 2 p.m. Sunday NBC
Game 4: Chicago at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. 5/7 NBCSN
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An Indiana school district reeling from the uproar over a teacher's comments that she believes gays have no purpose in life suspended the woman Wednesday.
Superintendent Mark Baker of the Northeast School Corp. in western Indiana's Sullivan County issued a statement saying the teacher has been placed on administrative leave out of concern "for the safety and security of everyone in our buildings." He added that "as a precaution" the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department and Indiana State Police "have deemed it necessary to station an officer" at North Central Junior-Senior High School in Farmersburg, about 75 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
He said the "administration and one school employee in particular" at the school have received "aggressive email messages."
"We are turning over to law enforcement all such communications," Baker said.
The superintendent did not identify the teacher, but special education teacher Diana Medley's comments have circulated widely on social networking sites amid news coverage in nearby Sullivan of a non-school sanctioned prom that would ban gay students. Sullivan, a city of about 4,200, is near the Illinois border.
"I just ... I don't understand it," Medley said when asked whether homosexuals have a purpose in life. She was speaking to WTWO-TV of Terre Haute at a planning meeting earlier this month for the anti-gay dance.
Medley, who has no published telephone number, couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday. She didn't immediately respond to a message that The Associated Press sent to her school email account.
"As many of you know and appreciate, our school corporation is continuing to manage as responsibly and respectfully as possible the fallout from comments made by an employee as she attended a meeting outside of school or a school activity," Baker said. "We have conveyed our disappointment and our disagreement with these statements and have emphasized her comments do not reflect our schools' views or opinions."
As of Wednesday, a petition on Change.org calling for Medley's dismissal had generated more than 19,500 signatures from as far away as the United Kingdom, and a Facebook page supporting a prom that includes all students had more than 28,000 likes. Meanwhile, some gay rights groups are trying to bolster the confidence of gay teens with a Facebook page that will collect supportive videos.


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Corner history book set for re-release
After several years of unavailability, Coy Barefoot's history of the UVA Corner district is set for republication June 3.
The move comes as a rescue of sorts for the copiously illustrated volume which first appeared in 2001. Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s and all the way up to the turn of the century, the mix of history, image, and anecdote sold briskly at the UVA Bookstore and other local shops. However, the subsequent dissolution of the publishing house, the Howell Press, prevented many readers from buying a copy.
Barefoot, also author of Thomas Jefferson on Leadership, relates that he personally put in a bid to successfully snag nearly 1,000 copies on a pallet at a Waynesboro-area sheriff's auction a couple of years ago. But more permanent salvation came in the form of the UVA Alumni Association, which is acting as publisher for what's not quite a new edition but which does come with dust-cover praise from such luminaries as John Casteen and Larry Sabato.
For Barefoot, who divides his days between a public policy institute and a news/talk radio station, the Association's decision to republish on June 3 touches off a wave of signing events–- and gratitude.
"Fortunately," says Barefoot, "the folks at the Alumni Association loved the book as much as I do."
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Kudos to Coy!
Not to take anything away from the positive news about a new printing...but I was able to find a new copy pretty readily at a local bookstore just a year ago.
where can one buy it?
It's a great book; I bought a copy of it in 2004 or 05. Glad to see it's back in print.


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Test Team for OI 92 please keep this page updated
OIslander Test Team Efforts and Strategies
Ideals to try
- Greet new residents as someone normal, but slightly more built up from prolonged time on grid --Patchouli Woollahra 13:03, 1 June 2007 (PDT)
- Give out 25L seed money to new residents. --Destiny Niles 09:16, 5 June 2007 (PDT)
- Give out redemable linden certificate that can be cashed in in-world on my parcel worth from 25L to 100L and must be redemmed by 6/9/07. --Destiny Niles 09:16, 5 June 2007 (PDT)
- After a couple of days of collecting names spam the new residents with a group invite. --Destiny Niles 09:07, 6 June 2007 (PDT)
Diary of Events
1 June 2007
- Giving out copies of Multi Language Welcome Notecard --Destiny Niles 08:45, 1 June 2007 (PDT)
- Giving out Babblers, use of Babblers (each Volunteer on station picks up on one language for Babbling and focuses on giving out help on it when necessary, switching only when nobody requires that language. --Patchouli Woollahra 13:24, 1 June 2007 (PDT)
5 June 07
- Gwynnie and I spent 4 to 5 hours resetting scripts on OI 92 testing the new Orientation Guide trying to determine why it repeatedly would not work on our island properly. We went to several other islands using fresh copies of the Orientation Guide as comparison benchmarks. Often the same area scripts would not work for us, but just as frequently the same areas worked perfectly on other islands. --Amber Linden
- Greeting new residents as a tiny (white tiger), was well received. The residents were more talkative than to my normal 6.11" male AV.--Destiny Niles 09:16, 5 June 2007 (PDT)
Notes up to and including 6/7/07: I'm still noticing that most of the residents landing at 92, regardless of time of day, are non-US and speak little to no English. I always give out relevant notecards and LMs to their country/language areas when I have them, but it renders the HUD and tutorial areas useless to them bc they're all in English (except for the Chinese option on 2.0.) Having guides in many languages will be the single biggest factor in retention for these folks, which isn't news to any of us, but is still true. Most residents are confused about the HUD, which sometimes fails for no clear reason, and want to TP off of 92 (typical OI experience!) rather than do the tutorials. Again, the language barrier is most likely the cause of this, since anyone who can't go through the tutorials or understand the HUD will get bored to death pretty quickly on an OI! Otherwise, I find that greeting residents, repeatedly offering to answer questions, assisting with HUD issues, pointing out the HI LM sign, and just chatting with residents in a friendly manner seems to move things along. --Gwynnie Boffin
7 June 2007
- Only a couple of residents where on the island, 2 have been in-world for a couple of days and where still trying to get off the island. One of them had lost her guide so I gave her a new one and she completed and was off in about 10 minutes. Another one said that the guide keep having her start over again from the beginning and the Help Island billboard did not give her a landmark. I gave her one and she was off. One resident was totally none responsive, underwater in the corner of the sim. No new residents landed during my stay.--Destiny Niles 18:59, 7 June 2007 (PDT)
8 June 2007
- Attended OI92 09.30-10.40pm PDT - only two visitors to the region. Questions on how to become monied remain a popular topic despite extensive writing on the official Website and Knowledge Base regarding the L$. Also: continued stubborness by most newbies to stay on the ground, causing issues with Orientation Guide's way of handling transitions between pavilions... May need to rerig at later date with a zone-based rather than a llSensorVolume based system? Handed out landmarks to several newbie support groups and foreign help islands to both visitors. Spent rest of time delivering OI A/B places of interest LM+pics to Don Misfit as previously requested.--Patchouli Woollahra 22:49, 8 June 2007 (PDT)
- Giving out Babblers, use of Babblers - Seems to have worked reasonably well in terms of teasing out people to communicate in some fashion in differing languages, especially amongst each other.--Patchouli Woollahra 11:35, 8 June 2007 (PDT)
9 June 2007
- Attended OI92 04-07am PDT, 09/06/2007 - Heavy influx of Spanish speaking residents. attempted to walk through basic steps required of the orientation. OG continues to be ignored/poorly read by newcomers despite repeated requests to check them out. support portal requirements to login prior to using Knowledge Base / Solution Finders continues to hinder attempts to link to commonly asked questions. Couple of clear write-offs during my shift: 1) newbie who believed he knew more than me about Second Life (so why isn't he skipping the OI?) 2) couple of residents insisting on coming in naked or topless despite repeated requests to do otherwise. 3) lack of Spanish materials. (props to Seathal Sawchuk for providing a link to a Windows live group that supports Spanish SLers. ) 4) failures in literacy / refusal to read the Orientation Guide properly. The non-linearity of the Orientation Island experience continues to be a bit of a hindrance to orientation: a lot of people have absolutely no idea where to go and what to do in terms of learning stuff... Generally a disaster as usual on a general scale with occasional successes where newbie brought a learning-hungry and open mind to the process. Too few of them unfortunately. =sigh= --Patchouli Woollahra 07:32, 9 June 2007 (PDT)
18 June 2007
- ALL CLEAR (no technical issues)--Hermia Linden 11:05, 18 June 2007 (PDT)
Given 25L to
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--Destiny Niles 22:02, 13 June 2007 (PDT)
12 June 2007 - Tuesday evening OI92 had over 1000 prims worth of stuck vehicles in the move area. The region crashed during the clean up process. Once the island was back and vehicles fixed I observed new residents arrive and all went smoothly. --Lexie Linden
13 June 2007 - Wednesday early afternoon OI92 had 2 vehicles with one dupe each. --Lexie Linden
Don Misfit's Humble Opinions
I do have a few thoughts on retention of newbies that I wanted to put into words... I've communicated a bit of this to some of you already, but this is probably a good place to put it for further discussion.
First, no offense to Destiny's "seed money" idea, but I have a bit of a different philosophy on that. I try to convey to newbies - particularly in response to the "how do I get money" question - that you don't *need* any money to enjoy Second Life. Most activities are completely free, plus they'll find thousands and thousands of freebies all over SL. Clothing, vehicles, houses, gadgets of all kinds... People can spend months here without ever spending a single L$ and still have a great time. Giving the impression that they will need money to buy stuff in order to enjoy SL just seems like "not quite the right approach" ...
Next, the new OI format is a big improvement. Unfortunately, the newbies go from a place with a cool castle, city-block, map-room, etc... to a very drab Help Island, and from there, often to a very drab Welcome Area. The very frequent questions I hear are:
- What's there to do?
- Where's the rest of the "game"?
- Where's "the city"?
In other words, the typical newbie has learned *how* to use the software, but has no idea *why* to use Second Life.
I think, very early on, more emphasis needs to be placed on "What's to Come" – give them something to look forward to... a little motivation for sticking around and figuring this thing out.
I'd like to see – on OI – more information (and visuals) about what all is "out there" in the SL world. Slide shows and/or videos of cool, exciting places and activities, for example. Give them some destinations to pick from, as opposed to the current "just go find something" approach. I realize there may be an issue with directing traffic to specific areas... so the destinations would have to be non-commercial spots – but certainly there should be plenty of suitable locations.
A side note: I know there are a few videos already available on the OIs. However, it took me a few visits before I realized there was more than one video! All of the video screens use the same texture, so there is no indication that they play different clips. Particularly when you take into account the fact that, if you are standing in the pavilion area watching a video, and you look around, you see multiple screens playing the same clip. Really tough to guess that you will see a different video if you walk over and stand closer to one of the other screens.
I'm putting together a simple slide-show attachment (since we can't build on OI 92) that some of us may want to try using. If anyone has any snapshots / images they'd like to contribute (already got a few from Destiny), please send them my way. Cool builds, fun activities, people dancing, etc... (please keep 'em PG :) If you would, make them 512x512 and prefix the name with "AB - " to make it easy for me to know what it's for.
As soon as I have a decent sampling, I'll hand 'em out - assuming anyone else thinks it's a worthwhile idea to try :)
End of my ramblings for now --Don Misfit 22:35, 6 June 2007 (PDT)
When you get the slide-show together send me a copy. Also my ideal about the free lindens is that you are right Don about the freebies (really tens of thousands-my inventory is a testimony to that), but some things do cost a little, upload of snapshots for profiles (my next push is to get the newbies to put something in their profiles), and the 1L items for example. And it is crappy that we can't build on OI. --Destiny Niles 09:05, 7 June 2007 (PDT)


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By Mark Hosenball, Aruna Viswanatha and Oliver Hirt
WASHINGTON/ZURICH, May 6 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Group AG is in talks with the U.S. Justice Department to pay as much as $1.6 billion to resolve an investigation into the bank's role in helping Americans evade U.S. taxes, a person familiar with the matter said.
Prosecutors have also been pushing for Credit Suisse to plead guilty in connection with the probe, two people with knowledge of the talks said.
A spokesman for Credit Suisse declined comment.
The penalty would exceed the 895 million Swiss francs ($1 billion) that Credit Suisse has set aside to pay potential penalties to the United States.
It's also much tougher than the settlement the Justice Department reached in 2009 with Credit Suisse's hometown rival UBS AG, which was also accused of helping Americans dodge taxes.
In that settlement, UBS paid $780 million to settle similar charges, roughly half the amount being discussed for Credit Suisse, even though the latter's offshore private banking business was much smaller than UBS's.
Also, UBS was allowed to enter a deferred prosecution agreement and criminal charges were later dropped against the firm.
Shares in Credit Suisse fell nearly 1 percent by 1000 GMT, lagging European banks as a whole, which were down 0.2 percent.
"The shares should have priced in the penalty of $1.6 billion and will likely bounce back when the final figure is on the table," a trader said.
"It's a hefty sum, but is not likely to knock Credit Suisse out. Worst-case scenario is the bank will simply report no profit, or just a small profit."
It was unclear what sort of impact a criminal plea could have on Credit Suisse. Historically, the Justice Department has rarely pursued criminal prosecutions against financial firms, especially global companies that could become destabilized following an indictment.
Much of the concern stems from the 2002 indictment and eventual demise of accounting firm Arthur Andersen, which led to the loss of about 25,000 jobs and greater consolidation in the industry.
But the Justice Department has recently taken a harder stance, in the wake of criticism about its record.
The Department on Monday posted a video in which Attorney General Eric Holder said close cooperation with regulators was paving the way for criminal actions against financial institutions, though he did not name them.
"I intend to reaffirm the principle that no individual or entity that does harm to our economy is ever above the law," Holder said. "There is no such thing as 'too big to jail.'"
The Justice Department came under particularly intense fire from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which in February accused the agency of not aggressively pursuing Swiss banks that helped Americans dodge taxes, including Credit Suisse.
U.S. lawmakers and influential U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of Manhattan have more broadly accused the Justice Department of shying away from high-level financial prosecutions.
Credit Suisse in February agreed to pay $196 million to resolve a related case from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which accused the bank of providing services to U.S. clients without registering with the SEC.
In a sign of the delicate nature of the Justice Department negotiations, Switzerland's finance minister met with Holder in Washington on Friday to discuss the investigation of Swiss banks.
A Swiss ministry spokesman said the minister, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, was seeking "fair and equal treatment" of the Swiss banks involved in the probe.
That discussion followed a meeting U.S. Justice Department officials held with U.S. regulators last month to make sure a criminal plea would not cripple the bank's ability to do business in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said.
A Swiss government source said on Monday the most likely result from the recent negotiations is a guilty plea from Credit Suisse. "My impression is that it will go quickly and it could be in the coming weeks," the source said.
The source added that the Justice Department is being careful to minimize any unintended ripple effects of a guilty plea. "The DoJ has no intention of destabilizing Credit Suisse," the source said. ($1 = 0.8778 Swiss Francs) (Additional reporting by Josh Franklin and Ruppert Pretterklieber in Zurich; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and David Holmes)


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Hello everyone! My apologies to everyone that's stopped by and found the site missing…due to some technical difficulties the site was down for some time…fortunately, the problem has been solved and the site is back up! Unfortunately, some of the old features (namely the slide shows) are no longer functional because they were disabled by the designer of the plug in because of a security vulnerability… I'm working on finding a solution, but in the mean time everything else on the site (including the forum) are now back to normal.
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Events Calendar
Wandering Seeds: Experiencing and Engaging Haiti Through Study Abroad
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Date and TimeFriday, October 26, 2018
6:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
- Red Wall Gallery, Lake Ontario Hall
"the tall tree says it sees far, the wandering seed says it sees more" – Hatian proverb
Between May 20 – June 19, 2018 a dozen Grand Valley State University (GVSU) students and two faculty traveled to Haiti as part of a study abroad program. The course, led by Professor Peter Wampler (Geology/Frederik Meijer Honors College), was designed to provide students from various backgrounds the opportunity to experience Haitian culture and gain an understanding of daily life in rural Haiti. In addition, students participated in a variety of service learning and community-based teaching experiences, allowing them to contribute their energy toward real-world problems in Haiti. During the first week of the trip, Assistant Professor Ellen Adams (Art Gallery/Frederik Meijer Honors College) also assisted in mediating experiences with Haitian artists and art collectives at various sites.
Included in this exhibition are narratives and reflections by both the faculty and students who participated in the trip. Additionally, a number of photographs document their encounters, and a variety of original Haitian works of art attest to the vibrant and diverse artistic culture in the country.
This exhibit can be viewed from July 13 – December 14, 2018. Free and open to the public. Visit our web site for more information.
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I have a very simple IPA recipe with a twist which I really liked. It's a single malt (Pale malt, 7EBC Full-grain), single hop IPA, but I 'dryhopped' it with tea.
Single temperature mash @ 66C/150F, for 60 minutes OG:1070Gr/l, Yeast is dry Safale US05. One package (11.5gr) on a 19L batch. don't have my notes here but I think FG was between 1018 or such.
I would like to tweak the recipe in order to achieve a more 'dry' or crisp mouthfeel and flavor (less 'sticky', sugary, syrupy, 'full', malty).
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- replace % of the malts with rice? (like kuhnhenn double rice IPA)
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas President Bill Powers gave coach Mack Brown his ``full support'' on Thursday, saying Brown will remain the Longhorns head coach after an 8-4 regular season and missing a BCS bowl for the third consecutive year.
Writing on his university blog, Powers cited an ``increase in media speculation'' about Brown's future.
``I'd like to state unequivocally that Coach Brown has my full support as well as the support of Men's Athletics Director DeLoss Dodds. Put succinctly, Mack Brown is and will remain the Longhorns' head football coach,'' Powers wrote.
``Coach Brown restored Texas' winning tradition. He embodies the Texas character, is a superb ambassador for The University of Texas, and runs a program that is both winning and clean, a program that all alumni and fans can and should be proud of. Mack cares about the young men on the team as people, as students, and as players, in that order, and he models the kind of leadership that will serve our players for the rest of their lives,'' Powers wrote.
Brown is 149-43 in 15 seasons at Texas, with two Big 12 championships and the 2005 national championship. But since playing for the 2009 national title, Texas is just 21-16 overall and 11-16 in the Big 12.
Texas will play Oregon State (9-3) in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29. Speaking at a bowl news conference in San Antonio on Thursday, Brown said he wasn't happy about missing the BCS three years in a row but said he optimistic about the future.
``I really believe we're headed in the right way, in the right direction,'' Brown said. ``The future looks very, very bright. Football coaches don't look back. You don't want to sit back and talk about all the things that you didn't get accomplished. I'm fortunate to be at a place where the standards are very high and we're going to fight to make sure we get back to those standards.
``If you ask me if I'm happy with three years of non BCS games, I would say no. That's for me, much less everybody else,'' Brown said.
Powers' statement could be an attempt to quell any rumors about Brown's job on the recruiting trail. Brown spent part of Thursday recruiting and the team is scheduled to host several recruits at its annual football team banquet Friday night.
Also Thursday, Brown would not commit to either David Ash or Case McCoy as his starting quarterback for the bowl game.
Ash started the first 11 games but was pulled during Texas' loss to TCU on Thanksgiving and suffered a rib injury in that game.
McCoy made his only start in Texas' 42-24 loss at Kansas State. At one point, McCoy has 17 consecutive completions but also threw two interceptions that led to Kansas State touchdowns.


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I gotta give it to Atlus this time I tried the demo today just for the sake of trying and I can't believe how surprised I was!I did have some experience with EOIII and while I liked some of it, I did have my gripes with other things like the learning curve, difficulty, XP rate, etc.This one, however, I'm liking way more than the other. There are some measures of the strengh of FOEs on the map, also the possibility to know which creature you'll face. The casual mode is also very welcome as I hated that the game was already super hard and a little too much meant complete waste. Now the star of the show here, for me, is the soundtrack. I had no idea it was going to be this good. I did hear people on GameFaqs talk about, and when I entered the game, nothing special, until you go to the dungeon, I was just mesmerized. I literally went to get my high end headphones just to experience the music! Soundtracks like this, Dragon Quest VIII, Ni no Kuni, are what can make me smile even when I have to grind for hours. What in most games would be a bore, in these, I can't get mad listening to these spectacular songs!
I noticed I sunk 3 hours into the demo. And I really want more. Now whether to try taking on FOEs, booting back up EO2 or 3, or just wait until 4 hits...
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So what did I like about this title? I loved the controls! I'm serious. Flying around from place to place, hovering, unleashing my secondary weapons, firing the Unibeam, waylaying troops, and tearing through tanks was like second nature. It's awesome to be so free in the open world design. Because Iron Man can fly, hover, and land, obstacles such as buildings, mountains, and walls become valuable cover rather than substantial impediments. I loved flying to an objective-filled chokepoint, hovering in place while I took out four helicopters, then landing to take out three tanks, and then launching back up again and slamming onto a roof in order to take out four AA turrets simultaneously! I really felt like Iron Man! That experience is something that many licensed titles can't come close to capturing, but it's something Iron Man does quite well indeed.
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The Daily Prompt rolled through my inbox this morning and stated: "A place from your past or childhood, one that you're fond of, is destroyed. Write it a memorial."
Nothing stood out as I pondered this prompt, and then I remembered my Aunt Lulu's stately home on 668 East Beach, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA. Gulfport was a long drive from the alluvial cotton fields of my Mississippi Delta childhood, and my father made that journey about once a year to see his sister Lulu Williams Anderson. Daddy was born in 1913, and I don't remember how much older she was than he. I do remember that she sometimes seemed – (to me, the baby child of Aunt Lulu's baby brother) – as old as God! Continue reading


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Scottish oil company worker released unharmed after kidnapping in Indonesia's Aceh province
LANGSA, Indonesia – A British national working at an oil company was released unharmed Thursday after being abducted by gunmen in Indonesia's Aceh province, police said.
Malcolm Primrose, 61, of Scotland, who is a contract worker for PT Medco E&P Malaka, was found alone at a security post inside a remote palm oil plantation, said East Aceh district police chief Lt. Col. Muhajir, who uses only one name.
Primrose was kidnapped by four gunmen Tuesday when his car was ambushed. His driver was tied up and left, while Primrose was driven away by the captors.
"We are delighted to confirm that Malcolm Primrose has been released," said a statement from the British Embassy in Jakarta. "Embassy officials are with Mr. Primrose and are providing consular assistance."
Muhajir said the abductors had contacted Primrose's family and requested a $500,000 ransom, but decided to release him after scores of police and troops fanned out to hunt for them. A Medco spokesman, however, said the company was unaware of any demands for money.
A release from Medco said Primrose is a drilling expert who has worked with oil and gas companies in Aceh for more than 30 years.
"With the release of Primrose, we hope that the security situation in East Aceh and our operation area, in particular, will go back to normal for the sake of the investment climate," it said.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the kidnapping. Aceh has a long history of violence, but the government and separatist rebels signed a peace deal in the province in 2005, ending 29 years of fighting that killed an estimated 15,000 people.
Efforts to end the civil war gained momentum after a massive earthquake struck in December 2004, triggering a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Aceh.
Under the peace agreement, the rebels gave up their long-held demand for independence and handed over their weapons. The government allowed them to participate in local politics and permitted the predominantly Muslim province to implement a version of Sharia law while enjoying semi-autonomy from the central government.
In 2008, a French World Bank consultant was abducted by suspected former rebels in Aceh but released unharmed 24 hours later.


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Thursday, September 12, 2013
How Many Miles to 1,000?
Suppose you are taking a trip. Your destination is 1,000 miles away. You're starting to get VERY bored in the car, so you decide to figure out how much farther you have to go. You ask your dad how far you've already gone, and he says you've just reached mile 632. How do you figure out how many miles are left of your trip?
The kids then use whatever strategy they wish to solve the problem. Just as with our addition lesson, the kids show their different strategies. There are always many different ones! These are just a few we saw in our room. The most interesting thing is that even though this is technically a subtraction problem because we need to find the difference, most the kids turned the problem into an addition problem. They are so much more comfortable with addition! Most didn't even realize they had done this until we pointed it out in class.
This activity will lead us into examining our different subtraction strategies tomorrow.
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Starter Problems for Flexibility with Numbers
For me, the most important outcome of this lesson (and I mention it A LOT during the lesson) is that the children learn to think flexibly with their numbers. This is why I love math! In no other subject can you change up what you're given to make the outcome easier to figure out! The sooner we learn to think this way, the easier harder operations will become!!
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Friday, September 6, 2013
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Keep an eye out for the tree-top storm debris which embedded itself amongst the tree tops during a wind storm. The debris has been up there for more than 20 years, surviving many wet season cyclones.
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Below is an excerpt from Devon Karn's extended interview with Geo Honigford of Hurricane Flats Farm. Read Devon's full article here.
DK: When you heard on the news that the storm was coming, what did you think?
Geo Honigford: I know from history that storms and floods happen. It never occurred to me that we'd get that much rain. The standard joke when I was on jobsites the week after the hurricane—I spent the whole time working on other people's houses—was 'oh we don't have to do that, the river will never get THIS high again.' It never occurred to me that the river would get up there. We were buttoned down for wind. We had greenhouses full of crops and we were really concerned about wind. And it turned out that we had no wind whatsoever. Just copious amounts of rain. The sides of my greenhouses are slashed – we did that. We waded out into the river, and the pressure was building up on the greenhouse sides and was going to collapse it. So we had to let the water go through the greenhouse, basically reverse the process; instead of battening them up, we had to open them up. We didn't have time to open them up properly so we just took knives to them. It's a lot cheaper to lose the plastic than to lose the frame.
DK: Once the water went down, what did you do?
I got involved in the wider clean-up effort and worked in other houses all over the place. And since I'm one of the people who knows a little bit about construction I could help tell people what to do. We started getting in volunteers and realized that the homeowners were in shock and incapable of managing the volunteers, and didn't want to manage volunteers. And the volunteers were wandering around trying to be useful, but they didn't know what to do. There were people washing hardwood floors that we had to tear out instead. On day two, we had a big meeting at my house and came back and changed our approach. We basically went to the homeowners and said, we're not going to tell you guys what to do, but we're going to tell the volunteers what to do.
DK: Do you look at the river differently now?
I used to love the river. I'm a little – I don't know if the word is 'mad'—at the river. The river's hurt my feelings [he says with a sarcastic chuckle]. If it were summer now, I don't think I'd go for a swim in it, let's put it that way. A lot if this is because what they've been doing to it, too. People have been in it with heavy equipment, and have really done some things to it they shouldn't have. The governor had given people permission to do what they need to do, and boy did they do it. In some areas they've literally channelized the river, completely straightened it, narrowed, it made it deeper. All they've done is increased the power of the river. It's like if you put your finger over the end of a garden hose, you make a fast current. They've also taken too much material off the sides, and that's going to cause a lot of damage. I'm a member of the White River Partnership, and I've been aware of these issues for a long time.
That's part of the gamble you take when you farm on my land. Other farmers have been envious of my land – there's no rocks, it drains fast, I've got 20 feet of topsoil. It's a great place to farm. But the risk is the flooding. All these years, the guys have been like 'Oh, you're so lucky to be down there, I love that river bottom land.' After I got flooded, I said, 'What do you think of that land now?' And they're like, 'We like where we farm.' That's the thing. I've got to take the good with the bad. There are parts of the world where communities farm the volcanic land, where there's very good soil. But you gotta live next to a volcano. That's how it is.
DK: How are you coming along?
We're putting it all back together. The heavy equipment is done. We've got the erosion holes filled, the sand is piled by the river. And I've got new drainage ditches cut, all the debris picked up. If you take a look at it, it looks almost like springtime. Tilled and ready to plant. Those are areas where we scraped the sand off. That's the best we can do for this year.


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"I'd say that my favorite thing at the moment is the crispy, slow-roasted pork belly, fried Brussels sprouts, pickled greens and pork jus at Tivoli & Lee. It's a simple but incredible combo thanks to the deft execution of Chef Michael Nirenberg. He is definitely a name to watch in NOLA over the next few years."
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"Stroll down Frenchmen Street after 9 p.m. or so. It's a collection of eight or 10 clubs in a two-block stretch, and music spills out into the street. Most clubs don't charge a cover, so you can stop in and check out the band. Stick around and order a drink if you'd like. Then move on and try something else. There's drinking here, but it's not Bourbon Street. People come here for the music first and foremost, the drinking is incidental."
Nick Detrich (Cane & Table)
"Grab a few pounds of crawfish from Big Fisherman on Magazine, and a 6-pack of NOLA Hopitouldas from the Breaux mart right there and take it up to The Fly on the River Bend. Watch the dogs, runners, kites and the Mississippi go by."
Avery Glasser (Bittermens)
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Abigail Gullo (SoBou)
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Donald Link (Cochon)
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Todd Price (Times-Picayune)
"Don't miss morning call at City Park. I go because the waiters wear paper hats, the café au lait is mixed from two enormous old kettles (one for milk, one for chicory laced coffee), and you can order your beignets thick, thin or crispy. I also love Avenue Pub. Far more than a bar, the Avenue Pub is like a cultural center dedicated to malt and hops with a packed schedule of tastings and events. I can't think of a more enjoyable place in the city to drink a pint."
Ann Tuennerman (Tales of the Cocktail)
"Start the day with early-morning coffee and beignets from Cafe Du Monde, just as the city begins to wake up, and watch the world go by."


text: As a five year-old, Angelique saw a live performance of a cello ensemble in Haiti - and she was hooked. She started her musical career soon after on a toy cello her parents made out of cardboard. Since then, Angelique's life has has taken her from Haiti to New York City to New Orleans, but music has been a constant companion. In the summer of 2012, she played in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, a collection of musicians from widely different backgrounds who share Angelique's passion for music.


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This is the winning burnout of Austalia's annual festival of horsepower and tire smoke, Summernats. It is the burning, roaring definition of how to do a proper burnout.
The car is a 1974 Holden HQ sedan; the driver is Warren Eustace. We don't know what kind of power the car is making, but it's not the smoke that makes this burnout so good; it's that the driver hardly lifts as the car spins by walls packed with spectators. The engine sound doesn't hurt, either.
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- a jar of canned grape leaves ( 2 lb )
- 2 cups of uncooked rice
- 1/2 bunch of green onion ( chopped )
- 1 large size of onion ( chopped )
- 10 cloves of garlic ( chopped )
- 1/2 cup of olive oil
- 1 tsp of black pepper
- 2 lemon's juice
- 1 tbsp of salt
- 2 tbsp of tomato paste
- 1 tbsp of red pepper paste
- 1 cup of boiling water
Take the jar of grape leaves and drain its juice. Wash the leaves and drain the excess water.
Take one of leaves on a flat surface. Place one tbsp of filling on the upper side of it and fold the sides inside and roll it. Repeat this step for all off the leaves.
Place all the rolls horizontally, side-by-side in a large pot. Add boiling water into the pot slowly, just to cover the rolls. Take the pot over medium heat and bring it to the boil. Turn the heat down to low as soon as it starts to bubble. Cover the lid and simmer for one hour or until the rolls are tender. Serve it warm or cold.
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Aebleskiver & Hay
Difficulty: Hard
Servings: 1-2
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 40 mins
1. Toast the hay at 200°C for one hour.
2. The cream will have taken on the flavour of toasted hay.
3. Place the egg yolks and cream into the mixing bowl with the whisk attached to the MUM5. Whisk at speed 7 for several minutes until the mixture has thickened slightly.
4. Lower the settings to speed 3 and add the flour in a little at a time. When the flour has been completely incorporated into the mixture, increase speed to 6.
5. When egg yolk and cream mixture is no longer lumpy, add melted butter and sea salt. Continue to whisk for another 5 minutes. Set aside in a deep bowl.
6. Place egg whites with whisk attachment into the MUM5 and set to speed 7. Whisk until the egg whites are stiff.
7. Gently fold in the egg whites with the egg yolk and cream mixture.
8. Burn the hay with a handheld blowtorch until it is completely burnt. When it is cool, pass ash through a fine sieve.
9. Mix the icing sugar with ash. Puree 6 Granny Smith Apples. Next, squeeze in lemon juice.
10. Peel and dice the apples into even chunks.
11. Cook in a dry non-stick frying pan over very low heat to sweat the apples. Be careful not to colour the apples.
12. When soft and still warm, place apples in the MUM5 with the blender attachment. Blend on speed 7 until it becomes a smooth puree. Add a little lemon juice if necessary.
Special thanks to Chef Michael Han
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A powerful kitchen machine that boasts an award-winning design and exceptional Bosch quality, the MUM5 is a true all-rounder.


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STAGE TUBE: 2013 Stratford Shakespeare Festival Lineup Announced!
Antoni Cimolino today announced the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's playbill for 2013, his first season as Artistic Director, and began to outline his vision for the Festival's future during his tenure.
Combining intimate chamber pieces with works of larger scope, the 2013 season offers a rich variety of repertoire, from classics to light-hearted comedy to powerfully emotive musicals. It also invites audiences to enhance their enjoyment of the productions by exploring various thematic strands that run through the playbill as a whole.
"I have selected a season that I hope will touch both the hearts and minds of our audiences, not only engaging them emotionally but also provoking discussion and debate," said Mr. Cimolino. "These plays complement and reflect one another, while at the same time connecting with contemporary social issues. Each will offer a complete and fulfilling experience on its own – but the experience will be even richer for those who see several of the productions and take advantage of the opportunity to draw connections among them.
"Our audiences have always expected us to tell the great stories, and to tell them superbly," he added, "but I believe that today they also want to explore, to ask questions, to interact with us and to better understand the artist's goals."
To that end, Mr. Cimolino will complement his playbill with a new initiative, the Forum: an interactive program of talks, discussions, music and dance, and other ancillary events that will offer a diverse range of perspectives and invite debate on the season's themes.
"Many of these plays, for instance, deal with the bonds that hold communities together and the differences that divide them," said Mr. Cimolino. "Several of them feature characters whose 'otherness' challenges the status quo. The Forum will invite our audiences to pursue these and other topics raised on our stages by participating in a lively exchange of ideas."
Acclaimed directors featured throughout the season
The 2013 season will open at the Festival Theatre with Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's great tragedy of young lovers who defy their families' ancient hatred. It will be directed by Tim Carroll, who helmed 2010's Peter Pan and is currently directing Mark Rylance in Richard III and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe in England.
Donna Feore, whose previous work on the Festival's thrust stage has included such hugely Popular Productions as Oklahoma! and Oliver!, will direct and choreograph one of Broadway's most celebrated musicals, Fiddler on the Roof, the humorous yet heart-wrenching story of a community whose traditions – and very existence – are assailed by the winds of change.
The solidarity of comrades-in-arms is pitted against the machinations of church and state in the swashbuckling adventure The Three Musketeers. Based on Alexandre Dumas's classic novel, this adaptation by Peter Raby was written in 1968 especially for the Festival stage and will appeal to audiences of all ages. It will be directed by Miles Potter, whose StratfoRD Productions include the highly lauded Richard III, Medea and Orpheus Descending.
Brian Bedford to play Shylock
Completing the line-up at the Festival Theatre will be The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare's perennially popular yet always controversial story of a despised outsider who seeks horrific vengeance for the abuse to which he has been subjected. It will be directed by Mr. Cimolino, whose prior Festival productions include the current season's widely acclaimed Cymbeline. The production will feature Brian Bedford as Shylock.
Mr. Bedford, whose recent double triumph as director and star of The Importance of Being Earnest thrilled audiences first in Stratford and then on Broadway, and was broadcast in high definition on cinema screens, will also direct Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward's hilariously witty comedy of ghostly visitation from the "other side." The production will be presented at the Avon Theatre.
Des McAnuff returns to direct Tommy
Also at the Avon, Des McAnuff, whose tenure as Artistic Director ends after the 2012 season, will return to direct The Who's Tommy, which he co-wrote with Pete Townshend and for which he won a Tony for Best Director in 1993. The spectacular rock musical tells the story of a young man who, despite having lost the faculties of speech, sight and hearing, becomes a pinball virtuoso – and the centre of a celebrity cult.
In his first Shakespearean assignment at Stratford, Chris Abraham, director of this year's critically lauded production of The Matchmaker, will direct Othello, the classic tragedy of an interracial marriage fatally undermined by the deadly insinuations of a master manipulator.
At the Tom Patterson Theatre, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure will explore the problems and paradoxes inherent in the state's attempts to regulate sexual morality. It will be directed by Martha Henry, whose renowned StratfoRD Productions most recently included Chekhov's Three Sisters in 2009.
Brian Dennehy returns for Mary Stuart and Waiting for Godot
Meanwhile, at the same theatre, Mr. Cimolino will direct Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart. This gripping historical drama about the power struggle between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, offers a timely exploration of the often dangerous relationship between religion and politics. Brian Dennehy will return for his third season at Stratford to play Talbot.
Jennifer Tarver, who won international plaudits for her 2008 production of Krapp's Last Tape featuring Mr. Dennehy, will continue her exploration of Samuel Beckett's work with Waiting for Godot, a 20th-century classic that raises fundamental questions about the meaning of human life in a seemingly indifferent universe. She will once again be working with Mr. Dennehy, who will play Pozzo.
Martha Henry takes the lead in Taking Shakespeare
Two Canadian plays will be presented at the Studio Theatre. Diana Leblanc, whose remarkable career includes the Festival's celebrated 1994 production of Long Day's Journey into Night, returns to direct John Murrell's Taking Shakespeare, in which a disenchanted professor and her student undertake an exploration of Othello, a journey that leads them to a new understanding of themselves and each other. The play will feature Martha Henry as the Prof, a role that was written expressly for her.
Dean Gabourie, who this year is directing the première of Daniel MacIvor's The Best Brothers, will bring another world première to the stage in 2013: Judith Thompson's The Thrill. Commissioned by the Festival, this spirited new play concerns a disability activist who confronts a champion of the right-to-die movement – with results that catch them both unawares.
Two new initiatives focus on innovation and exploration
In outlining his future plans, Mr. Cimolino – a 25-year Stratford veteran – said that he intends to build in three specific ways on the achievements that have already earned the Festival its reputation as North America's leading classical theatre company.
"First, I will put the actor and the text firmly at the centre of what we do. That was the principle on which our Festival was founded 60 years ago, and I think it has become even more important today. In a culture that has become so visually oriented, I think people crave the kind of storytelling that relies above all on the uniquely compelling power of the spoken word.
"At the same time, I want the Festival to be a world leader in artistic innovation and exploration. The very act of exploration, of trying things in new ways and expanding the skills we have, is critically important to a great company examining the classics. With that in mind, I shall also launch a second initiative, the Laboratory, which will be for the artist what the Forum is for the audience."
Incorporating the Festival's existing new play development activities into a program with wider aims, the Laboratory will enable playwrights to work on a grander scale, emulating the scope of the classics. It will also provide opportunities to experiment with existing works.
"The Laboratory will be a workshop but also a playground," explained Mr. Cimolino. "It will enable us to work with artists from other countries and to form partnerships with other disciplines. It will encourage innovative approaches to the great classical texts, so that we can find new ways of telling these familiar stories, and it will also enable us to explore classics with which we are less familiar, so that we may discover the overlooked treasures of other eras and other cultures.
"My third goal for the future," he added, "is to establish our Festival and its beautiful city of Stratford as an unrivalled spiritual, emotional and intellectual retreat. Tyrone Guthrie, our first Artistic Director, conceived of Stratford as a place removed from a major metropolis where you could lay aside for a moment the demands of daily life and give yourself time to enjoy, to think and to feel – and then go home refreshed, restored and inspired. Hence my introduction of the Forum as a means of enabling audiences to enjoy theatre in a deeper and more dynamic way, using the work they see on our stages to prompt ideas, raise questions and open the door to good-hearted and open-minded debate."
Specific details regarding casting, the Forum and the Laboratory will be announced at a later date.
"We are excited about both the 2013 playbill and the vision for the Festival outlined by our incoming Artistic Director," said Dr. David Goldbloom, Chair of the Board of Governors. "It reconfirms our commitment to classical theatre while promoting new talent and innovation through the Laboratory. Antoni's plans for the playbill bring a coherence to the offerings that we hope provokes curiosity and discussion – not only before and after performances but also in the Forum."


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Amy Michelle West, daughter of Steven and Sherry West, of Roberts, Wis., and Chase Christian Crosby, son of Fred and Mary Crosby, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., are pleased to announce their engagement. Amy is the granddaughter of Virgil and Viola West of Wallingford, and Marcia Hill and the late Donald Hill of Spirit Lake.
Amy recently graduated with a B.S. degree in vocational rehabilitation/independent living from UW-Stout.
Chase has a B.S. degree in technical communication/marketing and business Management from UW-Stout. He is employed by Humana Inc.
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Amy and Chase
A June 17, 2011 wedding is planned at Immanuel Lutheran Church of rural Estherville.


text: Wow, I had the exact same crash around the exact same tests. It's burnout. Definitely. 27 knocked me out cold with a 163 when I took it the first time. Took it a second time after three or four weeks and got a 178. Take 2-3 days off. I know it's last minute and the test is around the corner, but I PROMISE it will work wonders. And don't be like me and underestimate your progress because of one test -- definitely does more harm than good! After a few days of mental rest, just tell yourself it was a flake and proceed forward. It should all work out okay Good luck!