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By DAVID GREEN
Fayette is making progress in its Race to the Top efforts and school board members heard a quarterly update Monday from team member Sally Kovar.
Kovar, an education consultant with the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center, is assisting the Fayette and Evergreen districts in meeting Race to the Top (RTTT) requirements. Ohio was chosen last year to participate in the federal program that provides extra funding to districts meeting the federal requirements.
Kovar reminded the board that the RTTT transformation team consists of two elementary school teachers, two from the secondary school and one who teaches classes at both levels. Elementary school principal Dr. Luann Boyer and school board member Karen King are also part of the team.
Updates are sent monthly to the state board of education. A professional development plan was also created this year.
Dr. Boyer said the professional development funding has been very helpful to the district, but when that money runs out, administrators will have to be more creative in finding ways to continue the work.
RTTT funding also paid for a program called Next Navigator that assists teachers in moving from academic content standards to common core standards. The change will take place over the next few years, Kovar said, and Next Navigator lays out the two methods side by side to help in the transition.
Boyer and secondary principal Dan Feasel attended a meeting on the principal evaluation system.
"We're also involved in a pilot program for the Ohio teachers evaluation system," Kovar said. "It gave the teachers the chance to get their hands on the rubric, so then we have a voice in what goes on that evaluation and what does not."
Three teachers have volunteered to be involved in the evaluation program.
"Rigor and relevance" are the key words at the high school, Kovar said, and this goes hand in hand with common core.
"In years before," she said, "curriculum was an inch thick and a mile wide. Now they want fewer things covered more in depth. When you look at the common core, we're hitting the same things over and over and over again, but a little deeper at each grade level. This gives kids a much firmer foundation."
ROAD—Fayette superintendent Russ Griggs expressed his satisfaction with the newly widened and resurfaced Gamble Road in front of the school.
New lighting along the street has yet to be completed, but that should improve night vision at the school entrance.
LEVY—Griggs noted that levy renewals cannot be considered automatic anymore, and he said it was very gratifying to see the support for Fayette's renewal in the recent election.
BUDGET—District treasurer Kelly Bentley told that board that revenue has decreased significantly from the first quarter a year ago. Revenue declined by $144,000, however, expenses went down by $191,000 from the previous year, leaving the district with a gain of $47,000.
VETERANS—Feasel said 53 people attended the Veteran's Day Breakfast at the school. The event was very well received, he said.
CONFERENCE—Despite an increase in junior and high school enrollment, participation in the parent-teacher conferences declined. Feasel wondered if the reason might have been due to grade cards being distributed shortly before conferences.
DONATIONS—The following donations were approved by the board: $250 from the Christian Church to buy winter accessories for elementary school students needing warm gear; a used trumpet from Karen King; a donation of $318 from Dr. Boyer to buy supplies for the school dog;
an anonymous $37.25 donation to buy Quick Word Handbooks for Everyday Writers; and a $759 anonymous donation to give $500 for the school's cross country invitational meet, $100 for Spanish Club activities, and $159 for the Veteran's Day Breakfast.
STAFF—Cinda Metcalf was hired as a substitute teacher and Wendy Burkholder was hired as a substitute cafeteria worker and custodian.
TRIPS—The board approved a one-day train trip to Chicago for the Spanish Club on May 4, and a one-day FFA trip to Chicago to visit the Mercantile Exchange.
A four-day senior trip to Dayton, Cincinnati and West Virginia was tabled pending additional details.
VOLLEYBALL—The board approved an adult volleyball program, with Scott Wagner serving as league coordinator.
LIBRARY—Michael Figgins was granted another term on the Normal Memorial Library board of trustees.
CLOSED—The board met in a closed session to discuss a personnel issue.


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One Direction star Harry Styles has revealed his bank card was declined when he tried to download the band's own album.
The singer, 18, attempted to buy a copy of Take Me Home just hours before the group entertained thousands of fans in New York.
Fans camped out at the Rockefeller Plaza overnight - with some waiting there since Friday - to watch the quintet perform a free concert live on US TV.
The boyband used the performance, broadcast on NBC's Today Show, to confirm the release of a One Direction 3D movie next year.
Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will direct the film.
Before part of New York came to a standstill as fans watched the performance, Harry wrote on Twitter: "Soooo... I went to download our album this morning. And my card got declined. Hahaha!!"
The band made history in March as the first UK pop group to debut at No 1 on America's Billboard album chart with their first album Up All Night.
Harry, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson are thought to have amassed a £26.33 million fortune since shooting to fame on The X Factor.
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NBA.com released its annual GM survey, and there's a cornucopia of fun little items, like the fact that nobody would want to build a franchise around Kobe, but they want him taking the last shot. Tucked in at the bottom is one vaguely worded question: "Which player does the most with the least?" The answer seems to depend on pigmentation.
HoopSpeak has crunched the numbers on a few years' worth of responses to this questions, and it seems white (or at least non-black) players tend to score awfully high.
The NBA is four-fifths black and the top three vote getters are not of that group. Kevin Love leads the pack and Steve Nash makes the list out of habitual obligation.
In 2010-2011, four of the five leading vote getters were not black. In 2009-2010, six of the seven leading vote getters were not black. In 08-09, it was four of six. The names change, but the pattern remains: A disproportionate amount of Caucasian players get cited as wringing their potential for all it's worth.
Kevin Love, it must be pointed out, is 6-foot-10 and 260 pounds, with a better vertical than just about anyone else in his draft class, and is as white as the driven snow. Now maybe all these guys who have received votes in recent years — Marc Gasol, David Lee, Mehmet Okur, Hedo Turkoglu, etc. — are just getting by on pure basketball IQ. Or maybe fans and media aren't the only ones who subconsciously equate black talent with innate ability, and the men who actually sign and trade players aren't immune.
So white guys "do the most with the least?" [HoopSpeak]


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'Oblivion' is a familiar planet-in-ruins film, but twists and turns keep the story satisfying
"Oblivion" Rating: PG-13 | When: Opens Friday | Where: Wide release | Running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes | ★★★
An alien civilization bent on draining the planet's resources. A post-apocalyptic Earth of the future. A pair of humans left behind to patrol the planet's ruins. A quiet, unsettling feeling that everything isn't what it appears to be.
If this sounds like science fiction movies you've seen before, it's because Joseph Kosinski's "Oblivion" borrows from much of it, in both story and style, classic and contemporary: "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Matrix," the updated "Battlestar Galactica" TV series, "Prometheus," and many more titles that I'm sure hard-core sci-fi fans could cite all the way through the end credits. But if you choose to view it as homage, and don't look too hard for substantive meaning amid the messaging, Kosinksi ("Tron: Legacy") does manage to rework these familiar slices into a twisty-turny piece of sci-fi escapism that mostly stands on its own.
Holding up a great deal of the weight is
Impeccably groomed and donning clean, crisp garb — she in a light gray tailored dress a la Calvin Klein, and he in a perfectly smudged white pilot's suit — and ensconced high above the wreckage in their sleek, swanky tower home, Jack and Victoria have an ethereal presence about them. Perhaps it's because their memories have been wiped clean, a job requirement they've mostly accepted, except for the fact that Jack keeps having flashes of a life, and a woman (
Jack zips around the sector in a transformable jet/helicopter/motorcycle so cool that I'm even hoping for an action figure, bringing damaged drones back to life. But he can't shake the feeling that there's something significant behind this nagging memory. When the validation Jack seeks literally falls out of the sky, the rules he's been playing by are all off the table.
Perhaps the most impressive construction of this science fiction film, based on Kosinksi's own comic book, is Cruise himself. The actor seems manufactured to inhabit roles such as this: an all-American flyboy with expert skills and enough of a rebel streak to second-guess authority. It's impossible not to buy him in the role — it fits like your favorite old pair of jeans — even as you wonder when, if ever, he'll show some age. The same goes for his love interests.
Unfortunately, it's Jack's romantic life with the woman in his mysterious flashbacks that yanks us out of a good sci-fi yarn and plops us into the land of superfluous Hollywood schlock. Andrea Riseborough's brittle and beautiful-as-porcelain Victoria brings more than enough emotional string-pulling and intrigue for Jack to wrestle with. Kosinski should've just left it there.
Spoilers await at every turn in "Oblivion," but it feels safe to say that one of the key revelations is hinted at so strongly in the beginning that it can barely be called a secret. There are, however, quite a few unforeseeable plot twists that should keep your mind guessing and titillated throughout the film.
But once the puzzle pieces are carefully put in place by the film's conclusion, it dawns on you that the bigger questions behind it all not only remain unanswered, they're never even asked. Questions like "what does it this say about humanity?" are what make the heart of great science fiction beat. Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" was riddled with such deep questions, but it left the puzzle pieces in total disarray. "Oblivion's" screenwriters Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt took great effort to reassemble each fragment in its rightful place, but they didn't seem to have much curiosity about how and why they got there in the first place.


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Is it 'a mind boggling blunder' for John Key not to go to the funeral of Hugo Chavez? That's the allegation being made by ex-MP Keith Locke – Andrea Vance's Key's Chavez funeral snub 'mind-boggling'. Although the Green might be ideologically sympathetic to Venezuela's dead president, he has a point. After all, here is a chance for New Zealand's Prime Minister to join with all the leaders of Latin America in farewelling a figure of major significance to them. If for nothing more than pragmatic diplomacy, the event offers a rare opportunity for the PM while on his ten-day trip in the Latin American neighbourhood. As Toby Manhire (@toby_etc) playfully tweeted on hearing of Chavez's funeral arrangements: 'If only NZ had some senior statesman in the area'. [Read more below]
Key's logic for avoiding the funeral also seemed suspect: 'We haven't had a political relationship of any great note with Venezuela. Realistically it's been a trade relationship and that's about it'. But isn't that what these foreign trips are all about – fostering foreign political and trade relationships where they are weak? As Locke says, 'This is a funeral, attended by the Latin American presidents who are hosting Mr Key on his trip, and our Prime Minister should be there. He is missing a great opportunity to show his support to the whole of Latin America'.
Key has pointed out that Venezuela imports a lot of New Zealand milk powder. In fact, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Venezuela is actually 'New Zealand's second largest dairy export market in the world' importing 'NZ$433 million worth of goods' – see: New Zealand and Venezuela. In comparison, the trade for the other four countries being visited by Key are somewhat smaller: Mexico: $280m, Colombia: $13m, Chile: $77m, and Brazil: $81m – see Brook Sabin's Key holds talks with Mexican president. (And despite Colombia's tiny trade with New Zealand, Key says he wants to open a new embassy in Bogota.)
One report suggested that New Zealand's decision not to attend the funeral was to avoid upsetting Venezuela's foe, the US. And, Locke too, says 'One suspects Mr Key's diplomatic judgement is being clouded by the strong criticism of the left-wing Chavez administration by the United States ringing in his ears'. This is disputed by Key, who responds: 'I don't think so, really. They would say its up to us' – see Andrea Vance's Chavez's death delays Key trade talks. Nonetheless, Key's trip has been disrupted by the revolutionary leader's death, with his itinerary reconfigured so that he can still meet with the various national leaders who are going to the funeral.
Key's response to Chavez's death was also worth noting. He expressed the usual condolences, and then told media that 'There was obviously a very acrimonious relationship there [with the US] and he was no fan of Westernised capitalism, that's for sure...it's pretty obvious where he was standing. But each country to their own'. As Fran O'Sullivan points out, 'Key could have taken his cue from US president Barack Obama who said it created a chance to build a constructive relationship with the US. But he played it safe with by rolling out the usual anodyne sentiments' – see: Hugo Chavez's death turns Venezuelan politics upside down; so too, John Key's Latin American swing.
O'Sullivan has also expressed disappointment about missing the revolutionary's funeral, saying the decision is a 'Pity. A Venezuelan state funeral would introduce a new element of political theatricality to Key's Latin American swing'. What's more, O'Sullivan says Key could learn a thing or to from the late Chavez – especially with a list of insults that the Venezuelan became famous for ('Ramp it up, Prime Minister') – see: 'Vete al inferno', John Key ignores Chavez's funeral as political leaders gather to bury the 'king of insults'.
So far, the best coverage of Key's Latin American trip can be found in Claire Trevett's Leaders swap praise and promises. Trevett reports, for instance, on the flattery directed at us by Mexico's president: 'New Zealand was a role model in international diplomacy and had a vigorous civil society. It had a wonderful landscape and respect for the environment. It was tolerant, pluralistic, had an inclusive society and a dynamic economy'.
Political journalists sometimes receive flack for their reportage from these foreign affairs trips – being accused of focusing more on style than substance. But that's certainly understandable when a Prime Minister's trip is little more than a public relations journey. In this case, Trevett says that, 'At times Mr Key came across as the travelling salesman for the car yard of New Zealand'.
This explains the reports on the beauty of host politicians. In Mexico, Key was reported as feigning 'ignorance when asked about the beauty of Mr Pena Nieto's wife - a stunning actress. "I didn't notice," he said, when asked before adding "Bronagh told me to say that"' – see Andrea Vance's 'I thought she was very nice'.
Similarly, Barry Soper has given the best account of the fun side of the trip, concentrating on life as travelling journalist and what's going on behind the scenes. For instance, his report John Key's dry Mexican presser focuses on Mexico's glamorous First Lady Angelica Rivera de Pena: 'My Mexican gossip says the Pressy's wife's been given a full makeover, they thought she was a little, well she said it, trashy to be a President's wife'. Elsewhere, Soper explains that being on such trips requires no passport for entry into the US, no form filling, and that you could even wander through customs with five kilos of cocaine and not be noticed – see: Political Report: March 5.
Naturally the travelling media contingent has looked for great photo opportunities and amusing moments to report on. So when Key was given a sombrero by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, he responded immediately by saying, 'My media are going to love this' – see Andrea Vance's Key makes headway in Colombia. Vance says that 'Key has made a lasting impression on Colombia' with his hat-wearing. And in return, of course, Key gave Columbia a rugby ball.
Then there's the usual light-hearted digs at John Key for his 'Key-ologisms', which Trevett says have been limited, to the benefit of the Spanish language translator. But news reports do discuss the Latin American pronunciations of the PM's name, variously as 'Junkie' or 'Junkay'.
Locally, obituaries and analysis of Hugo Chavez have spanned the usual ideological spectrum – see Gordon Campbell's On Hugo Chavez, and the TPP, David Farrar's Chavez dies, and Paul Buchanan's Chavismo without Chavez.
Finally, the PM's trip has produced some wonderful images and – see Toby Manhire's John and Bronagh go to Mexico: in pictures, and my own blogpost, Images and coverage of John Key in Latin America.


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Game 1: Farmingdale State - 23, Purchase College - 3 (5 innings)
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 12, Purchase College - 2 (5 innings)
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The freshmen pitching staff of Taylor Tedeschi (Levittown, N.Y.), Chelsea La Marca (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) and Lisa Bonacasa (Deer Park, N.Y.) combined for two run-rule victories over Purchase College (2-6, 0-2) today in a Skyline Conference doubleheader.
In game one, Tedeschi threw four innings allowing just five hits and striking out six batters. Bonacasa pitched the final inning for Farmingdale State with no hits and one walk. Offensively, the Rams combined for 25 hits in 38 at-bats. Senior first baseman Aubrey Walker (West Babylon, N.Y.) went 3-for-3 with five RBI's, while senior left fielder Rebecca Richman (West Islip, N.Y.) was 3-for-5 with five RBI's. Junior third baseman Kristen Flint (Brentwood, N.Y.) went 2-for-4 with five RBI's as the Rams rolled to a 23-3 victory.
La Marca pitched the second game in a 12-2 complete game victory, striking out five and walking just one while allowing only four hits. Flint finished with five more RBI's on 3-of-4 batting with one run scored. Freshman centerfielder Patricia Johnson (Patchogue, N.Y.) was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI's.
The Rams next will host Mount Saint Mary in another Skyline doubleheader on Sunday, March 25 at Noon.


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This recipe came from our time in Japan. We made this for special occasions because it is such a process. We call it a "labor of love." This year it was our Christmas dinner.
Chicken cutlet (however much you want to make): Dip in flour, dip in egg, cover in bread crumbs (we made our own- crushed saltine crackers and wheat germ- half cup of each mixed). Your hands will get messy and you will have to replenish each of these bowls several times.
Deep fat fry in oil to cover meat for 10-15 min @350. Be sure to cook both sides. Done when brown and meat is cooked.
Remove chicken from frying pan and pour out oil. Sauce: 1/2 c soy sauce, 1/3 c water, 4-6 T sugar. (You might have to make a few batches of this sauce depending on how much chicken you have). Slice onion and dump in pan. Pour in sauce. When onion done, lay cutlets evenly in pan. Swish around in pan for sauce to cover chicken.
Take chicken out and put in pan. Serve over rice. All done! Be sure to make plenty for leftovers! YUM!!


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If you are a college football fan, chances are you are familiar with the University of Alabama�s domination under Coach Nick Saban, having won three National Championships in the past four years.
If you are a college football fan, chances are you are familiar with the University of Alabama�s domination under Coach Nick Saban, having won three National Championships in the past four years.
If you are not an Alabama or football fan, don�t stop reading, because this is not just about football.
Talking heads on television, newspaper columnists and radio know-it-alls talk about �The Process� when referring to Nick Saban�s reason for success at the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University, having won four total National Championships for the two schools.
Barrett Jones, a former All-American at Alabama who now plays for the St. Louis Rams in the NFL has been asked to describe The Process on several occasions. Jones usually notes something to the effect of, �The Process means not focusing on the results, but focusing on how you get there.� In other words, The Process is about doing the little things right and letting the big things take care of themselves.
My understanding of the real meaning of The Process came as a result of the Alabama-Tennessee game that took place on Saturday, October 26, 2013.
That being said, I would like to say that The Process does not belong to Nick Saban � he didn�t invent it. He seems to just do a good job of what his parents taught him to do.
This �Process� is prevalent throughout the Southeastern United States and I�m pretty sure it is elsewhere because Coach Saban himself came from West Virginia. I don�t think West Virginia is in the South or the north; it�s in the mountains or something.
Coach Saban learned under the legendary Coach Don James who recently passed away. Coach James coached for many years at the University of Washington and before that, Kent State University, in Ohio.
Is The Process Coach James?
No, Coach James was born in Ohio and I�m pretty sure he had good parents who taught him The Process.
It�s common sense.
Work hard, help people reach their goals, be kind and generous and raise a family that thinks the same way.
That is what I think The Process really is.
I�m willing to bet that Coach Saban would agree.
My most recent experience with The Process was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on the weekend of the Alabama-Tennessee game, but didn�t involve anything that Coach Saban did before or during the game.
It involved me getting inside to see the game. Therefore, I�m very sure that it (The Process) was at the University of Alabama before Nick Saban was.
Living out of state, I can generally get to one Alabama game each year. My main reason for going is not to see the game, but to see my oldest daughter who is a junior at the University of Alabama. (She presently has a 4.0 and I want to say �Summa Cum Laude Mercy� more than I want to say �Roll Tide.�)
We paid too much for our four tickets back in July from one of those online ticket sales places. If you want to go to just one game, you almost have to do that. We paid about double what the tickets were worth. In other words, we invested somewhere around $600 just to be able to see the Alabama-Tennessee game.
A couple of nights before our flight South, we realized we could not find the tickets. We were sick, there was yelling and there was crying. It was the Alabama-Tennessee game and we did want to go and it was $600 down the drain.
We came to the conclusion that the envelope containing the tickets had been thrown away by mistake.
There was still sickness, yelling and crying.
From the time we realized this to the time we were about to board the plane, I was on the telephone begging and trying to find a way to have the tickets reissued. If I talked to the online ticket folks once, I talked to them at least twenty times (or more).
The online ticket folks were just middlemen for the person who sold us the tickets. It turned out the person who sold us the tickets was just a middleman for the person who sold him the tickets. It didn�t stop there.
There were a lot of �middlemen.�
So many, the folks from the internet ticket place couldn�t get it figured it out.
We were out of luck and it was our fault.
Without the original purchaser�s permission, the University of Alabama ticket office couldn�t just reissue tickets. They were kind, but they had a policy that had to be followed.
We were going to see our daughter and were just going to see what we could do when we got there.
The Friday before the game, my second daughter had an official visit scheduled to tour the University of Alabama with her mother. She wants to study history and through her hard work and excellent test scores she has been offered a full academic scholarship to the University of Alabama.
She loved her visit and the people there showed her The Process of working hard, helping people reach their goals, being kind and generous and exhibiting these qualities to others.
After hearing our story, those folks at the Office of Admissions gave us four tickets. A fellow named Paul just put them in an envelope and gave them to us.
The next day was game day and even though we had been given four tickets, the $600 still was eating at me. Tim, the fellow who runs the ticket office had told me to stop by and see him at �Gate 32� before the game and he would see what he could do.
I did.
Tim was kind and told me to wait for ten minutes.
Tim went upstairs to talk to the Tennessee ticket fellow and they figured out that the tickets I had originally purchased were from a Tennessee fan who was unable to travel to Alabama for the game.
They just printed me four new tickets. Please note that I had proof of paying for these and what the seat numbers were, etc.
Tim handed them to me outside the ticket window. I hugged Tim.
Good people in Alabama and Tennessee (and Ohio, West Virginia and Washington). When I say Washington, I am referring to the state where Don James was a college football coach.
Now I had eight tickets and I felt a little bad. We decided the best thing to do was to find someone who needed them.
Folks were standing outside the stadium scalping tickets for a lot of money. We had no right to sell tickets that were given to us, thus I had to interview some folks.
The first fellow I met was there celebrating his 56th birthday, he was a minister of sorts who runs a program that uses sports for mission type work. His mother had given him the money to buy tickets for him and his wife for his birthday.
I told him to just put the money in the collection plate at church, or use it for his mission work or give it back to his mama. He hugged me.
The other two tickets were given to a man and his son from Daphne, Alabama. We watched folks walk up to them and the daddy just kept shaking his head �no.� I asked the little boy how old he was and he said, �Twelve.� I said, �Someday you are going to be old like me and I want you to do something nice for someone.�
The little boy just smiled.
The game was great. Well, if you were an Alabama fan, it was great. The Tennessee folks around us were nice, as were the Alabama fans.
So, The Process does not belong to Nick Saban, it can and should belong to all of us. It involves working hard, helping people reach their goals (and find their tickets), being kind and generous and raising a family that thinks the same way.
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In Kentucky, buffalo carved a pathway followed by America's first explorers. Those brave pioneers distilled whiskey using traditional methods and drank it right off the still. They called it White Dog. This raw distillate was clear, un-aged and had a hint of sweet corn. Later distillers discovered this spirit was perfect for aging - creating what we know today as fine Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. We're still making whiskey on the spot where ancient buffalo once crossed the Kentucky River and following centuries of time-honored distilling tradition. Enjoy this White Dog the way Americans did more than 200 years ago.
Made in Kentucky, Enjoyed Worldwide
White Dog
Sweet aroma, with a slight burn. The corn coats the tongue with oil and vanilla.
Dating back to George Washington and the birth of a nation is a proud history of crafting whiskey. Some of the first whiskey distilled in America was Straight Rye. Keeping with the traditions of America's founding fathers, Buffalo Trace Distillery offers this raw, clear, un-aged and high-proof distillate right off the still. The taste has a hint of spicy rye. This whiskey is known as White Dog. It was later discovered this spirit was perfect for aging and gave way to what we today know as Straight Rye Whiskey. Enjoy this White Dog the way early Americans did more than 200 years ago.
Seriously spicy, with some corn sweetness and lingering earthiness.
William Larue Weller was a distilling pioneer. He took a traditional bourbon recipe and substituted wheat where rye was normally used. This created a soft, mellow spirit perfect for sipping. Before this whiskey ever made its way into the barrel for aging it was drank straight off the still. It was called White Dog. This raw distillate was clear, un-aged and hinted of wheat and sweet corn. Enjoy this wheat recipe White Dog the way William Larue Weller and early Americans did more than a century ago
Smooth start, with a bouquet of wheat bread and subtle spiciness.


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- NWHS networks with sanctuaries, organizations and government agencies to assist in finding places for wildlife needing placement.
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Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access -- And It's Working
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Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access. Along the way publishers have tried various counter-attacks, which all proved dismal failures. But there are signs that they have changed tack, and come up with a more subtle -- and increasingly successful -- approach.
Here, for example, is a fascinating analysis by Mike Taylor of what he calls "The progressive erosion of the RCUK open access policy". The RCUK is Research Councils UK, the umbrella group for the UK's seven Research Councils that hand out grants to academics. A year ago, RCUK released its draft policy on open access. As Taylor says:
it was excellent. It did not accept non-commercial clauses (on either Gold or Green OA), and allowed Green-OA embargoes of no more that six months (with a twelve-month exception for two humanities councils). "It is anticipated that the revised policy will be adopted in summer 2012"
A crucial issue here is the distinction between "Gold" open access, which takes place through journals, and "Green" open access, which uses online repositories. Here's how Wikipedia defines the two terms:
Green OA Self Archiving
Authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article for free public use in their institutional repository, in a central repository (such as PubMed Central), or on some other OA website. What is deposited is the peer-reviewed postprint -- either the author's refereed, revised final draft or the publisher's version of record. Green OA journal publishers endorse immediate OA self-archiving by their authors.
Gold OA Publishing
Authors publish in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website. (Hybrid open access journals provide Gold OA only for those individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay an OA publishing fee.)
As Taylor noted above, the original RCUK policy did not accept non-commercial clauses for either kind, limited Green OA embargoes to six months (Gold OA would have no embargoes), and would start in summer 2012. Here's what happened afterwards:
July 2012: actual policy released. Weakened to allow publishers to impose non-commercial clauses on Green OA. (They didn't tell anyone they'd made this change, as far as I ever saw. I discovered it for myself.) "The policy applies to all research papers whose work was funded by RCUK being submitted for publication from 1 April 2013"
As Taylor puts it bluntly:
November 2012: RCUK announce that they will only fund APCs ["author processing charges" -- fees paid by authors' academic institutions so that articles can be released free of charge] for 45% of articles as Gold OA.
January 2013: RCUK announce that they "will not enforce" embargo periods.
February 2013: In response to House of Lords enquiry, RCUK clarifies "that it will gradually phase in its open access policy over a five year implementation phase". BIS [UK Government's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills] and RCUK both endorse embargo-period "decision tree" that allows embargoes of up to two years.
At every single step of the way, the RCUK policy has been weakened. From being the best and most progressive in the world, it's now considerably weaker than policies already in action elsewhere in the world, and hardly represents an increment on their 2006 policy.
And he asks:
Can anyone doubt that the nobbling of a truly progressive policy was the result of lobbying by a truly regressive publishing industry? It's been a tragedy to watch this policy erode away from something dramatic to almost nothing. Once more, it's publishers versus everyone else.
This seems to be the publishers' new strategy against open access: not to fight it directly, but to use constant lobbying to inflict a kind of death by a thousand cuts -- slicing off a provision here, lengthening an embargo there, pushing implementation further and further into the future -- until the final result is almost no different from the status quo.
Disturbingly, there are signs this has may be happening in the US, too. As Michael Eisen points out on his blog, the recent statement from the White House on public access to publicly-funded research has one retrogressive element that may presage worse to come:
When the NIH policy was announced, people like me who believe that publicly funded works should be immediately freely available looked at the 12 month embargo period as a kind of opening bid -- a concession to publishers that was necessary to get the policy off the ground, but which would ultimately disappear.
But now the White House has taken the 12 months embargo period and reified it. Year long delays are no longer an experiment by one agency. They are, in effect, the law of the land.
Clearly the publishers got what they wanted out of the White House. And do you really think it's going to stop there? They have established their ability to corrupt policy making, and will continue to exploit it. I predict that as these policies are implemented in different agencies, that they will be heavily tilted towards what the publishers want. There will be no central archives – just links out to publishers websites. And there will be pressure to increase -- not decrease -- embargo periods.
Just as they have already done in the UK.
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Cat ladies get a bad rap: They're old, smelly, and creepy. But as a cat lady myself, I am here to tell you these stereotypes are simply untrue. Women who love cats are chic, well-dressed, and classy. Here are 23 women throughout history who prove this to be true.
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I'm still so in love with this project!! I most likely will have some type of withdrawal once Christmas arrives (besides the obvious post-holiday depression). I've tried to keep it simple in order to keep up with each day. Using Ali's layered templates and full page photos are the way to go for me!!
Here are days 9-15.
Day 9
Our Christmas book tradition
Day 10
I took my daughter to see The Nutcracker. Totally amazing watching the ballet through a two-year old's eyes!
Day 11
"Around the house". Completely copied Ali's awesome layout for the most part.
Day 12
Building our gingerbread house.
Day 13
My letter to my little guy.
After seeing the block stamp Ali used for this layout, I tried to re-create it using her Christmas Boxes brushes. Love the way it turned out!!
I added a few pictures in the page protectors in the middle. Totally love it!
Day 14
Visit to a train garden and lunch with some friends
Day 15
Our Christmas cards


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Before d0c or anyone else goes off on a rant on how this has nothing to do with Sci-Fi, neither does eMule. Anyways ...
I need a PDF (prefered) on good ways to scan for PDFs, use OCR when scanning or in Acrobat (reliably), & use Acrobat to make good PDFs that have indexes & all that good $#!+. I know how to do most of it well, but I need verified techniques. Links to helper apps would be good too.
Anyone have a link for this one?
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Or a good website would do too. TIA!!!
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In need of a simple and quick lunch after church on Sunday, we made Pizza Muffins.
Pizza Muffins - Adapted from Let's Dish
{Print Recipe}
3/4 C white wheat flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1 T Italian seasoning
pinch of sea salt
3/4 C milk
1 egg
1 C mozzarella cheese
1/2 C diced pepperoni
Spaghetti sauce, for dipping
Mix together the flour, baking powder, Italian seasonings and salt. Stir well.
Then, add in the egg and milk, mixing until moist.
Stir in the cheese and pepperoni.
Then, let the mixture sit for 10 minutes.
Scoop into 12 lightly greased muffin tins.
Bake at 375 for 25 minutes, until muffins are lightly browned.
Serve with spaghetti sauce.
This recipe is linked to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, Your Recipe, My Kitchen.


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You are hereForums › Digital Scrapbooking › Pixel Scrapper Blog Trains › PS Oct 2013 Blog Train: Working
PS Oct 2013 Blog Train: Working
I would love to participate. This will be my 1st blog train, yay!
Thanks so much Marissa for running this and letting newbies in.
Count me in to, it will also be my first blog train
Love these colors and theme! I can't wait to get started!
Love this palette. Such rich colors.
Beautiful colors! I will try to get time to make something and join in )
Wow, so many people joining in, this is going to be an AWESOME Blogtrain!!! I can't wait to see everything!! I will definitely try to throw something together!!
This blogtrain thing is gradually becoming a huge choochoo!! So cool there are fresh designers joining in every month. Welcome!
count me in, love this palette
Mines all made and ready to go
I would like to have some glitter sticker...but as I'm french, it's a little bit hard to find some others word "thankful" or thank you...but "what's else????" ..;TYSM in advance
Can't wait to see all your parts Ladies...
@Marina, not all synonyms, but what about: gratitude, blessings, celebrate, traditions, memories, harvest, bountiful, feast, cornucopia
Well, I finished mine and here it is. This was quite the challenge for me with these colors. I am more of a pumpkin, scarecrow, and all things Fall kinda girl. I really couldn't think of what to add, I'm not creative like that, until my sweet daughter made me some apple and acorn clipart. I decided to just go with that, and of course I had to throw some burlap in there. My daughter and I made some twine bows, curly strings and other fun stuff to photo, then I extracted them and threw them in the mix. I think it turned out cute, different, but cute:) I will make a better
preview and post the link when the time comes and Marisa puts up the thread for it. Until then, happy designing ladies, I can't wait to see what
everyone else has made.
Wow Sheila, this is great! Love it, you did an awesome job!!
Your kit looks adorable Sheila! Better get a move on my own
@Shelia,your kit is soooooo cute,love the elements,twine (can i have some?) Hehehehehe and the papers.Great job,you always make such great kits,you are a blessed and talented designer.
I am almost finished with mine,almost,tho it won't be as big as my last one,lol,but if i don't stop making elements,i think it will.
Thank you all for the great compliments... I didn't know if it would coordinate well or not... I forgot to mention that my kit will, as always, be
commercial use friendly when it goes live:)
@Mersija: Thanks so much for the compliments. I know what you mean about not being able to stop making elements..haha. I get that way
sometimes, its just so neat when you get on a roll:)
Oh, Can I post my preview too? Mine is also ready. I had a bit of a hard time too with this pallete but because of different reasons. This color pallete and the theme made me think of a BIG reverse I had in my life some 6 years ago, and the lots of humility I learned. And than I thought about how grateful I was and still am for my faith that really kept me going through the hard days... The kit came out reflecting all of this, I guess. Sort of serious and very Roman Catholic oriented. But I am hopeful everyone will find something here to scrap their faith pics... (It is so hard to find kits for this theme isn't it?) It'll be up the first next month!
I have to go know,but will come back and answer you ladies.I am a volunteer peer counselor at a pro-life ministry the pregnancy center in my town and have a few clients today.I will talk with you later.
Cintia, this is a beautiful kit! I especially love your flowers and the round element of Christ with the lamb.
I really need to get my butt in gear designing my kit!
Thank you Mersija and Catherine!
@Mersija:What a beautiful job you have!!!
@Sheila: Oh, I love your kit!!! I can't wait for next month to come! I wish I was "not creative" like you!!!!!
@Catherine: Go get it girl!!! Put your thinking cap on!
Cinthia: I´m not a Christian, but I´ll for sure have use for your Christian ellies - already thought of at least two pages to make with them. You are growing a lot as a designer! Congratz!
Sheilla: I don´t know what to say about your portion without being repetitive: Like your previous kits, I simply love it...
OMG, I didn´t even begin mine... And I want to try making everything from scratch this time...
Looking good! I'm also starting to feel the pressure to get started now, maybe today...
Thank you girls!!! I am sure they will be fabulous!
@ lórien; I can't wait to see what you scrap.
@Cintia: I absolutely LOVE your kit! It is so inpiring to me. Especially love the flowers and Jesus and the Lamb, and the little praying children, well, just everything,lol!
@Cintia: I LOVE your kit!
I truly enjoy the religious theme and can't wait to upload it.
Great job sweetie!!
You and i had similar idea's about the kit and i agree we don't see very many religious kits out there.
@Sheila... awesome preview, i love your kit, you got me excited & can't wait to start working on mine too.
thank you so much with those ideas!!!!
Ladies all you part are awesome...well done!!!


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note: pink doesnt pick up well on my camera, but it does look like the colour in the tube photos
A quirky vibrant bubblegum pink almost neon lipstick with as equally as bright pink lipgloss to go with it. I've never worn a hot pink lipstick before because I normally stick to the paler warmer pinks rather than brighter ones! The tube claims the lipsticks side is matte, but its not at all. In formulation it reminds me of MAC glazes with a slippy sort of feel. The product actually has a slightly glossy finish and takes a few applications to make it full coverage. It doesn't specify if its meant to be sheer or not so I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much! It lasts a few hours on the lips before needing reapplication. The lipgloss side is VERY strongly scented, it smells like the Collection 2000 Cream Puff's but stronger and lingers more. It really bothers me as I hate scented products as they can make my lips tingle and irritated! Regardless I was surprised at how pigmented the lipgloss actually was, as I have dark lips, but it did leave a nice bright pink finish.
I want to love this Look Beauty Double Hit Lip product as the colour is really fun and pushed me out of my confort zone and in all fairness I have worn it the last two days. I just find the smell off putting and I'm just not sure what I'm expecting from the product itself. Depends if scented products offend you as much as they do me! I think I'm going to look into buying a hot pink MAC lipstick next time I'm around a counter instead!
I will be reviewing a few items of LOOK Beauty stuff over the next few weeks so please don't completely disregard the range after this review, there is some great stuff in the product line. This product just wasn't for me, you might like it you never know! Dont always take a bloggers word for it!


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Amelia & Brett Engagement Party: Berry Chocolate Mud Cake, Austinmer (12 June 2010)
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12 comments:
- Phuoc'n Delicious said...
Ooo so pretty and oh my... look at that cake! Simply gorgeous.
- June 20, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- Laura said...
Omg, that cake. i'm stealing that idea
- June 20, 2010 at 5:14 PM
- Sara @ Belly Rumbles said...
That cake looked fantastic, I think I may steal that idea too!
- June 20, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- YaYa said...
OMG, are you sure there's enough chocolate on that cake! What a wonderful spread!
- June 20, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- Angie Lives to Eat (and Cook)! said...
Wow look at all that food! And the cake! The house/back yard looks gorgeous too.
- June 20, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Maria said...
Very generous and delicious looking offerings! And of course the cake looks stunning!
- June 21, 2010 at 5:52 AM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
The wheelbarrow of beer is inspired!
- June 22, 2010 at 10:32 PM
- Amy @ cookbookmaniac.com said...
The cake is amazing! I smiled with joy when I saw your pile of food and desserts. What a lovely engagement party!
- June 22, 2010 at 11:04 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi phuoc, i'm so glad i got to try some :-)
hi laura, i stole it first though :-) i've never seen anything quite like it before.
hi sara, you'll need to get in line to steel this cake idea, i'm first, then laura then you hehe
hi yaya, you can never have enough chocolate on a cake, but actually i think this one got pretty close to the limit :-)
hi angie, was such a nice back yard to have an engagement party. was quite resort and tropical like.
hi maria, there was certainly enough food and cake to go around — twice! :-)
hi lorraine, i wish i had a wheelbarrow to store the beers for my next party. and a great way to wheel them around too hehe :-)
hi amy, i always try and get a little bit of everything at these buffet style food tables although i didn't quite get to fit the lasagne.
- June 22, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- Anna said...
Looks like a lovely party to celebrate an engagement. I love the booze barrow and the cake - I can't decide which is better! :D
- June 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Simon Leong said...
hi ladybird, i love the booze in the barrow as well. it's so cool :-)
- June 28, 2010 at 10:53 PM
- Vivian - vxdollface said...
love it love it love it! beautiful decor and stunning cake :D may re-create that cake for mum's birthday next month ^^
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Juan Williams signed a lucrative deal with Fox News Thursday, hours after the liberal ex-Washington Post columnist was fired from his job on National Public Radio for telling conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly that Muslims on planes make him nervous.
Williams' new contract nets the Fox contributor about $2 million a year for three years, according to TheWrap.com, which cited a source close to the network.
U.S. & World
"Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at FOX News in 1997," FNC chief Roger Ailes said in a statement. "He's an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by FOX News on a daily basis."
The conversation that led to Williams' firing from NPR stemmed from O'Reilly's appearance on ABC's "The View," in which he ticked off Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, who thought he unfairly characterized Muslims as terrorists.
"Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams told O'Reilly in a Monday Fox appearance. "You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
Even though Williams, 56, went on to caution O'Reilly about lumping all Muslims together, NPR moved quickly to cut him loose.
"His remarks on The O'Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR," the statement read.
An article on NPR's own web site said "Williams' presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives."
Muslim advocacy groups reacted with outrage at Williams' comments.
"NPR should address the fact that one of its news analysts seems to believe that all airline passengers who are perceived to be Muslim can legitimately be viewed as security threats," Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
But conservative pundits were equally outraged with what they viewed as NPR's political correctness.
Blogger Erick Erickson, of redstate.com, called the firing "disgusting," and noted that NPR recently ran a segment on how to speak "tea bagger," a derisive term for members of the conservative Tea Party.
"All Juan Williams did is say both exactly how he feels and how many, many other Americans feel on this subject," Erickson wrote. "The man's body of work makes clear he is no bigot. But we sure can't offend Muslims can we?"
"The firing of Juan Williams was a total mistake and it sends the wrong message," Goldberg said on "The View."
NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller drew added fire for telling the Atlanta Press Club Thursday that Williams should have only shared his Muslim fears with "his psychiatrist."
She later apologized in a statement "to Juan and others for my thoughtless remark," but maintained it was the right thing to do to fire him.
Williams has been booked for another appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight.
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Buses that deliver health care to children who need it most can now be seen in 16 states and the District of Columbia after the flagship program started in New York.
Over several days in January, NBC Nightly News followed the Montefiore Mobile Health Clinic as it made routine stops in the streets of New York City, providing healthcare where it simply doesn't exist: for the homeless.
"We know that homeless youth are not going to come to a hospital or health center unless it's an emergency," Dr. Alan Shapiro said. "So we bring the mobile clinic to them."
Mobile doctors extend free health care and check-ups to impoverished families in South Bronx.
The mobile clinic – known as the "big blue bus" in some communities – travels throughout New York City's boroughs, complete with nurses, a physician and fully equipped examination rooms. Parents are able to get check-ups for their kids, and consult the doctors when they have questions or concerns – all for free.
Shapiro has been working on the mobile clinics for more than 20 years.
"We bring [the mobile clinics] to a drop-in center where they're getting food, where they can rest, where they can get clothing. It makes it a lot easier for them to access care," he said.
The mobile health care units first hit the road in 1987 as an initiative started by the Children's Health Fund. There are now more than 50 mobile health units across the country – including in Michigan, West Virginia and Louisiana, each affiliated with a major local hospital system. Irwin Redlener, the founder of Children's Health Fund, said they're designed to fight the consequences of poverty.
"The health status of people that come to a clinic like this is affected by factors which are way more than infections and trauma,"Redlener said. "This has to do with the issues of poverty influencing health status – people who are in inadequate housing or who are homeless and people who are having transportation issues, and people who are experiencing severe domestic violence in their home."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 15 percent of the country – 46.5 million people – were living in poverty in 2012. In that same year, 16.1 million children under the age of 18 were impoverished. Those rates skyrocket in the South Bronx – where Shapiro spends most of his time working -- where one in every two children live below the poverty line.
For the kids and their families who utilize the services of the "big blue bus," the presence of the mobile clinic has had a significant impact – one that arguably goes beyond better health.
Juan Robles, one of Shapiro's first patients, is now following in his footsteps.
Robles began visiting Shapiro's mobile healthcare unit in his high school parking lot in the early 1990s, after he moved to the United States from Honduras with his four siblings. As he provided medical care to Robles and his family over the years, Shapiro eventually became a family friend – and mentor.
"He came to my wedding, he came to my graduation, so he has become, actually, part of our family," Robles said. "And from that moment when we met -- many years ago -- I felt that compassion, that friendship that he brought into the patient-doctor relationship made a big difference."
Shapiro inspired Robles to pursue a career in medicine. Robles recently graduated from medical school, and as part of his residency at Montefiore, completed a rotation on the "big blue bus." He now hopes to carry on Shapiro's work in the South Bronx.
"We have made significant progress, but there is a lot more that we can do," Robles said. "These children who have tremendous potential to become physicians, lawyers, we just, we got to do something with them."


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Alfa Romeo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
North Coast Classic Sports Car Club
The North Coast Classic Sports Car Club (aka NCCSCC) is a group of vintage sports car (pre-1976) enthusiasts who have annual car shows, tours, and meets in the northern most region of California on the redwood coast. We are a casual lot who don't mind greasy knuckles and we appreciate older sports cars (all brands although mostly European) in every condition from projects to garage queens.
Our desired audience is two fold. First, "prospective members for our club"... classic sports car nuts like us! For the most part it will be a male audience (ages 16 - 76) however women are more than welcome as members.
Our other target audience is the general community who we entice to come out to our shows via posters and other print advertisements. Hopefully this segment will also want to buy our logo merchandise.
1. We want a timeless, classic, retro, vintage logo that features a vintage (1930's - 1970's) sports car (or cars) on a twisting mountainous coastal Northern California road. For the car(s) a list of our favorites are: 1969 Alfa Romeo GTV 1750, 1938 BMW 328, 1955 Porsche 550 and 356, Triumph TR3, Austin Healey 3000. For the "twisting mountainous coastal Northern California road"... think fast, redwood trees, mountains, ocean.
2. We would like the logo to work well in both full color and black and white (or white on black).
3. We would like the logo to look appealing on T-shirts, hats, keychains as well as in print (letterhead, website, posters, advertisements and sponsorship banners, signs, etc).
4. The font for "North Coast Classic Sports Car Club" should be easy to read yet interesting and fit the design of the logo. Maybe a font similar to a classic sports car brand... maybe not.
5. Last but not least... if you think you have a better idea to represent our club... who are we to restrain your creativity? Maybe drop us an email first so you don't spend time in the wrong direction.
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Tom Monteleone has announced that Borderlands will be doing a third series of Little Books, starting with A Little Gray Book of Shadows by William F. Nolan.
Perhaps of more interest to the folks here, one of the authors Borderlands is in negotiations with for this series is Stephen King. After the absolute fiasco that was the Joe Hill Little Book release, it may be wise to bite the bullet and collect the whole of series 3. Worst case, you end up paying the usual price for a Stephen King limited edition because you bought the other 14 books, but judging by who is already committed and the other authors they're trying to land, I suspect buying the whole thing will be well worth it.
The full announcement from Tom:
One of our most popular ongoing projects has been our highly collectible "Little Books" Series which has now reached 30 titles with the long-sold-out Series I and the recently completed Series II.
(We recently saw a complete matched set of Series I selling at the World Fantasy Convention for $950.00!)
Our Little Book series has been a virtual Who's Who of writers of Dark Fantasy, Horror, and Suspense (many of whom have been awarded the HWA's Lifetime Achievement Award)including Gary Braunbeck, Dennis Etchison, Neil Gaiman, Ray Garton, Rick Hautala, Joe Hill, Jack Ketchum, Joe Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Thomas F. Monteleone, David Morrell, David Schow, Peter Straub, Karl Wagner, and F. Paul Wilson.
We are currently assembling the roster of writers for Series III and have already signed Ramsey Campbell, Mort Castle, Richard Chizmar, Heather Graham, Charles L. Grant, Owen King, Josh Malerman, William F. Nolan, and Tim Waggoner. In the coming months, pending negotiations, we hope to announce the addition of writers such as Thomas Ligotti, Bentley Little, Gahan Wilson, Caitlyn Kiernan, and Stephen King.
If you wish to guarantee you acquire a complete matched set of Series III, be sure to pre-order the first Title below and send us a note indicating you would like reserve the same number for the entire Series. firstname.lastname@example.com. Limited to 350 copies, all books are signed by the author (Charles Grant edition signed by the editor, Kathryn Ptacek), and we expect the series to sell out completely . . . . so don't delay!


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – Juan Toja scored his first goal as a member of the New England Revolution, giving the Revs a 1-0 lead at halftime, but the Colorado Rapids responded with a pair of quick goals in the second half to claim a 2-1 win on Wednesday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
The Revolution (6-7-6, 24 pts.) took the one-goal lead, courtesy of Toja's free-kick goal, into halftime, but the Rapids (8-7-6, 30 pts.) responded with a goal by Nick LaBrocca in the 62nd minute and then a Jose Goncalves own goal in the 67th minute gave Colorado the one-goal advantage, which held to the end of the game.
The defeat gave the Revs back-to-back losses in MLS play for the first time this season, following Saturday's 2-1 loss to Houston at home. Wednesday's game was the team's second of three games in an eight-day span, which concludes Saturday in Columbus.
The Revolution made four changes to the lineup from its last match. Coming in for left back Chris Tierney (left knee irritation) was Darrius Barnes, making his third start of the season. At forward, Jerry Bengtson replaced Chad Barrett, while Toja came in Kelyn Rowe in an attacking midfield role. Ryan Guy replaced Saer Sene (hip contusion) on the right wing.
Colorado had the game's first chance in the ninth minute when Deshorn Brown broke through the Revs' backline and picked up a through ball, but after pulling Bobby Shuttleworth off his line, pulled his shot just wide of the far post.
A Hendry Thomas handball two yards outside the box set up a Revs free kick 15 minutes into the game. With Toja and Lee Nguyen standing over the ball, Toja stepped up and curled his left-footed shot around the five-man wall and inside Clint Irwin's far post to stake the Revs to a 1-0 lead.
Jerry Bengtson was streaking into the area unmarked as the ball approached, but wisely stepped over it and let it sneak into the corner of the goal for Revolution advantage. The goal was Toja's first as a member of the Revolution and his first MLS goal in almost five years – since July 19, 2008.
Barnes nearly made it a two-goal New England advantage in the 19th minute when he rose up and connected with a Nguyen corner kick, but his snapped header was just high of Irwin's crossbar.
Colorado went close in first-half stoppage time when the Revs struggled to clear a Rapids corner. Marvell Wynne tracked down Nate Sturgis' through ball into the far corner. Wynne got around the ball before it went over the end line and sent a pass back into the heart of the area, where Brown was unmarked and got off a clean first-time shot, but it sailed high of Shuttleworth's goal.
At the break, the Revs trailed in possession, 34.4 percent to 65.6 percent, while Colorado had out-passed New England by an almost 2-to-1 margin: 246 to 125. However, the Revs maintained their 1-0 lead.
Colorado had a chance to level in the 54th minute when halftime substitute Atiba Harris connected with Nick LaBrocca's pass, but Shuttleworth bobbled the save. With the ball loose, Edson Buddle pounced but found only side netting from close distance.
Moments later, the Revs' defense – which entered the game ranked first in MLS – was forced into an unexpected change. Stephen McCarthy was forced off the field after a collision in the 58th minute, his second such incident of the game. In the first half, the central defender was cut on his head, requiring medical attention at halftime. A.J. Soares came on to replace him and partner with Goncalves at center back.
The Rapids finally broke through four minutes later when LaBrocca took a feed from Dillon Powers and rifled a 30-yard shot just inside the near post through traffic, leveling the score at 1-1.
The Revs almost converted the go-ahead goal in the 63rd minute when Nguyen dribbled toward the Rapids' goal and let loose a blast from near the top of the penalty arc back across the goal, but Irwin made a diving finger-tip save to prevent the goal. Outside of Toja's goal, Nguyen's shot was the team's only other shot on target in the game.
The back-and-forth action continued when Colorado benefited from a Revs miscue in the 67th minute. Goncalves slipped to the ground close to goal and re-directed Powers' cross in through a narrow sliver of space between Shuttleworth and the post. The own goal gave Colorado a 2-1 lead after several earlier chances to go ahead.
Nguyen had a go to equalize off a Rowe corner kick in the 77th minute, sending in blast off from the corner of the penalty area, back across goal and narrowly wide of the far upper corner past a diving Irwin.
Shuttleworth gave the Revs a chance to stay in the game with a pair of highlight-level saves late in the game. In the 79th minute, he came out off his line to strip Brown in a one-on-one situation. In the 85th minute, Shuttleworth stepped up to stop Chris Klute from point-blank range.
While the Revs were out-shot 16-7 by Colorado, the Rapids maintained a 62.7% to 37.3% advantage in possession. Colorado also passed at an 80.9% clip, while the Revs managed a 66.2 percentage in the same category.
The Revolution returns to action on Saturday, July 20, when they travel to face the Columbus Crew at Crew Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on TV by Comcast SportsNet and on the radio by 98.5 The Sports Hub.
New England Revolution at Colorado Rapids
July 17, 2013 – Dick's Sporting Goods Park (Commerce City, Colo.)
Colorado Rapids 2, New England Revolution 1
Scoring Summary:
NE – Juan Toja (unassisted) 15
COL – Nick LaBrocca (Dillon Powers) 62
COL – Own goal (Jose Goncalves) 67
New England Revolution: Bobby Shuttleworth, Darrius Barnes (Kelyn Rowe 69), Jose Goncalves ©, Stephen McCarthy (A.J. Soares 58), Andrew Farrell, Diego Fagundez, Lee Nguyen, Scott Caldwell, Juan Toja, Ryan Guy, Jerry Bengtson (Chad Barrett 72)
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Reis, Clyde Simms, Kevin Alston, Donnie Smith
STATS: Shots 7, Shots on Target 2, Corner Kicks 7, Saves 4, Fouls 8, Offsides 3, Passes 260 (66.2%), Possession 37.3%
Colorado Rapids: Clint Irwin, Chris Klute, Shane O'Neill, Drew Moor, Marvell Wynne, Nick LaBrocca, Hendry Thomas (Atiba Harris 46), Dillon Powers, Nate Sturgis, Deshorn Brown (German Mera 87), Edson Buddle (Jaime Castrillon 72)
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Pickens, Anthony Wallace, Kevin Harbottle, Tony Cascio
STATS: Shots 16, Shots on Target 5, Corner Kicks 7, Saves 1, Fouls 13, Offsides 0, Passes 444 (80.9%), Possession 62.7%
* Note that all statistics are unofficial as supplied by Opta
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Jose Goncalves (caution) 74
Referee: Allen Chapman
Assistant Referees: Ian Anderson (AR1), Jeff Hosking (AR2)
Fourth Official: Fotis Bazakos
Weather: Sunny, 89 degrees
Attendance: 13,833
Team Records
New England Revolution – 6-7-6 (24 pts.)
Colorado Rapids – 8-7-6 (30 pts.)
- With the loss, the Revs moved to 12-19-9 all-time against Colorado
- On the road, the Revolution is 3-13-4 in Colorado, including an 0-3-3 mark at Dick's Sporting Goods Park … New England has not won in Colorado since the 2002 season
- The loss handed the team back-to-back defeats for the first time in 2013 … the Revs lost to Houston, 2-1, on Saturday at Gillette Stadium
- New England is now 2-4-3 on the road this season
- Tonight's game was the Revs' final match against a Western Conference opponent this season … the Revs went 2-4-3 against the West this year
- Juan Toja's 15th minute goal was his first as a member of the Revolution … his goal was also his first goal in MLS since July 19, 2008 – a span of almost five years (two days shy) – when he was a member of FC Dallas
- Tonight's game was Juan Toja's third career goal – in six matches – against Colorado … he previously scored two goals in five games as a member of FC Dallas (2007-08)
- Kevin Alston was a member of the 18-man roster for the first time since April 30, when the Revs hosted FC Dallas … he was activated off the Disabled List on Monday and had missed 14 games – and three-and-a-half months of action – while undergoing treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Darrius Barnes made his first start since May 18 – a 2-0 win at Houston … he has started at left back in each of his three starts this season
- A.J. Soares' appearance, when he came on the second half for Stephen McCarthy, was his first since April 20 – a 4-1 loss at New York in which he left the game in the 18th minute with a hamstring injury.
- The own goal the Revs allowed was the first one allowed by the Revs since August 13, 2011 in a 3-1 loss at Columbus … Kevin Alston was credited with re-directing a Columbus ball for a goal
- Chris Tierney (L knee irritation) and Saer Sene (hip contusion) did not travel with the team to Colorado because of injury
- Dimitry Imbongo missed the game while serving a one-game suspension after being shown a red card in Saturday night's match against Houston
- The Revs entered the match with a game in hand on most of the other Eastern Conference teams, but as the only Eastern squad in action mid-week, they made up the game and will be level with most teams when this weekend schedule kicks off


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AtticRep and the Vex open 'God of Carnage' and 'Oliver!'
Bad behavior — ranging from childish arguments between adults to the exploitation of orphans — runs through "God of Carnage" and "Oliver!," the shows that AtticRep and the Sheldon Vexler Theatre are opening this week.
Here's a look:
Playwright Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage" opens in the middle of a scene. And so to help the actors springboard into the heart of the scene in rehearsals, director Roberto Prestigiacomo had them improvise the moments leading up to the encounter.
In the play, two couples — one portrayed by Andrew Thornton and Gloria Sanchez, the other by Rick Frederick and Christy Huffman — meet to discuss an altercation between their sons. The kids' fight left one minus some teeth; the escalating differences between the adults, who begin things civilly, exacts a toll, as well.
The play zips along with no intermission, and no one is offstage for more than a few minutes at a time.
"Everyone has to be at the top of their game," said Prestigiacomo. "There's no place to hide."
"God of Carnage" can be seen at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through May 27 at Trinity University's Attic Theatre. Tickets cost $10-$25; call 210-999-8524 for reservations or visit atticrep.org to buy online.
If he has done nothing else, director Ken Frazier has prompted a spike in sales of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," the basis of the musical "Oliver!"
"At the first meeting that we had, six kids showed up with the book," Frazier said.
Smart move. Because Frazier decided to go back to the novel for the show, which tells of an orphan (Diego Martinez) who falls in with a gang of pickpockets. For his production, Frazier has worked to strike a balance between the grittiness of the novel and the brighter elements of the musical that those who know the show will expect to find.
"I want to please Dickens while I please the audience," he said.
The cast also includes Trevor Chauvin, Michael Benson, Jenn Harris and Morgan Clyde.
"Oliver" can be seen at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through June 10 at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Highway (no performance May 26). Tickets cost $14-$20; call 210-302-6835 for reservations.


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Dear Miss Snark,
If an agent requests a full after reading a partial (say chapters 1-2), then do I have to resend the partial or assume that the agent has held on to the pages and just requires the remainder of the manuscript (i.e. everything but chapters 1-2)?
If the agent hasn't specified, ask him/her. There's no industry standard on this. I ask for the entire thing all over again, but I also ask for it electronically, not on pages. I do this because as I've read the partial I've noted all the typos and told you about them, and expect them to be fixed not just in the partial but in the full. This is one of the things that tells me a lot about what an author is like to work with.
For example if I've pointed out the misuse of "lay" (and that's the #1 error on otherwise well honed mss) on page 3, I expect you to search out all uses of "lay" in your ms and FIX THEM before I see a full.
Don't worry about asking question at this point. If an agent is interested in your work, your questions aren't in the "don't bug me about your query" category. I'm interested in working with you, you're interested in working with me, we're getting to know each other.


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Dan's a decent man
It's a little strange to read an article [July 14 cover story: "Gas by the glass: North Garden's contaminated water"] when you know the person. I was able to judge the accuracy of the report instead of accepting the written word at face value.
I don't know Ann Messina. What happened to her well is terrible. It appears the culprits are the management of Charlottesville Oil who tried to weasel out of their responsibility for the gas leak, officials in various government agencies who weaseled out of their responsibility to protect people like Ann Messina, and finally the gas station owner.
Ann Messina is angry. I would be too. But Ann can't get back at the oil company (she can't even get them to pay her water treatment bills on time!), and she can't get back at the government. So she manipulates the County to strike out at the one person who doesn't have a thing to do with any of this: Dan McLaughlin.
Dan is one heck of a stand-up guy. While no one is perfect, it isn't hyperbole to say Dan is a man of integrity who is kind and generous to a fault.
Why didn't Ann speak to Dan before she went to the County? Why did the County pass a regulation specifically aimed at stopping Dan from building his rental units without notifying him? How did Ann get the County to act in secret? Would the County have done that to a developer of something like Forest Lakes?
Those are questions I wouldn't have minded reading the answers to.
But the biggest and most disturbing manipulation in the article was forcing Dan to deny an outrageous slander. Maybe your reporter could have had Ann vehemently deny she needs anger management counseling.
Though the article highlighted a serious environmental tragedy in Red Hill, you could have done a better job reporting the issues.
Tom Scala