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Peter Brown to Give Talk on the Hobbit Peopleby Karen Handley • September 9, 2005 Share:
The Wabash College Lecture Committee invites you to a lecture by Dr. Peter Brown, on Monday, September 19, at 8 p.m. in Salter Hall in the Fine Arts Center. This is Brown's first U.S. college campus visit following his team's discovery of the human skeletons of a small species dubbed the "Hobbit People." The title of his talk is "A Revolution in Evolution: Rewriting Evolutionary History."
Dr. Brown's team discovered the human skeletal remains named Homo floresiensis on the island of Flores, which is east of Bali and midway between Asia and Australia. The original skeleton, a female, stood just one meter in height and weighed only 55 pounds at the time of her death 18,000 years ago. Dr. Brown published his findings in an October 2004 issue of Natural Science; the National Geographic Society has also published the results. Researchers estimate that the tiny people lived on Flores from about 95,000 years ago until at least 13,000 years ago. Dr. Brown's team bases its theory on charred bones and stone tools found on the island. The tools, according to Brown, were used to hunt big game.
"Despite its smaller body size, smaller brain, and mixture of primitive and advanced anatomical features, the new species falls firmly within the genus Homo," wrote Hillary Mayell for the National Geographic News.
"The researchers speculate that the hobbit and her peers evolved from a normal-size, island-hopping Homo erectus population that reached Flores around 840,000 years ago."
Brown was born in Sydney, and educated in Sydney and Canberra. He has had a life-long interest in living things which resulted in a focus on zoology, primatology, and evolutionary biology when he was an undergraduate at the Australian National University. As a postgraduate student, Brown's research concentrated on the origins and evolution of people in the Australian and Asian regions—a broad research theme which has kept him busy with museum collections, field work, and the laboratory for more than 20 years. His research has taken him from the arid center of Australia to the coast, China, Japan, India, and Indonesia, and museum collections in other parts of the world.
Brown gained a tenured lectureship at the University of New England, Australia in 1981 and has developed undergraduate courses in human evolution, forensic anthropology, and paleoanthropology. In 2002-2003 he was the international research professor at Tohoku University Medical School in Japan, and is now Professorial Fellow in Palaeoanthropology at the University of New England, Australia. He has been an invited speaker in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Japan, India, Germany, and South Africa.
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The Lost
By Caridad Pineiro
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Forever
(Hachette Book Group)
Date Published: August 1, 2011
Adam Bruno is no ordinary millionaire. The heir to an ancient race possessing a dark, powerful magic, he can shapeshift and create energy. His gifts make him a living weapon and have forced him to live in seclusion. But now an inhuman force hunts down Adam-just when he finds someone who makes him feel more human than he ever imagined possible . . .
Home from combat in Iraq, Bobbie Carerra wants only peace, yet soon joins Adam in a terrifying battle against paranormal enemies who hide in plain sight. She's drawn to his strength of mind and body; he's attracted to her courage and intoxicating energy. Their scorching passion can either transport them to the heights of ecstasy or-if Adam's powers rage out of control-destroy them. But when an invisible brotherhood tightens its nets and someone Adam trusts betrays him, only a heartrending decision can save them
You Tube Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/UULi4PP4GPc
Caridad is giving away a Lost T-shirt and ebook copy of Rookie of the Year (images attached). T-shirt open to US Shipping. For a chance to win just leave a comment on this post. Ends Nov 6th.
About Sin Hunters Series
I want to thank all of you who have been writing to tell me how much you've been loving the Carrera family, as well as enjoying the towns along the Jersey Shore where the SINS series was set.
With THE LOST, I'm introducing a much darker paranormal series I'm calling SIN HUNTERS. The stories are still set along the Jersey Shore and you'll have the beloved Carreras, but now you'll also get to meet an exciting new race of people: The Light and Shadow Hunters.
Why the change? There was something about Bobbie Carrera, the heroine in THE LOST, that needed something different and something very special. Someone very special. Bobbie is an Iraq war veteran and she's home from battle, but wounded both physically and emotionally. She's busy trying to put her world back together and the last thing she needs is more conflict in her life.
But I'm a bad girl, you know. I love to challenge my characters into facing their most extreme hurts because that only makes their happiness that much sweeter. I think you love that as well because there is nothing more uplifting than seeing how love can truly conquer all.
Bobbie's challenge comes in the form of sexy millionaire Adam Bruno. Adam is different from any man she has ever met and Bobbie feels an immediate connection to him. There's just one problem: Adam has no idea who he really is and why he possesses the ability to gather energy. That ability allows him to do a myriad of things, shapeshifting, to traveling at super speed, to wielding energy and light like weapons. But those powers are challenging Adam, because as they become more powerful, the also grow harder to control and deadly.
Enter Bobbie Carrera. Bobbie brings peace to Adam's soul. Adam feels lost in the human world, but in Bobbie's arms he finds love, acceptance and the possibility for a future he had never imagined.
But before he can reach that future, he must deal with the present, and that means battling the evil Shadow Hunters and facing the shocking truth about his real identity.
I hope you will enjoy the Sin Hunters series. Look for THE CLAIMED in May 2012 which will feature someone you meet in THE LOST. Not going to spill as to who it is just yet, but keep in mind I just love stories of redemption….
Thank you all for your continued support.
Also, many thanks to our military men, women and their families for safeguarding our Liberty and our country.
THE LOST is dedicated to you for all the sacrifices you make on our behalf. God bless you and keep you safe.
"Pineiro's new series will excite readers, new and old...Her characters and red-hot writing had me looking for the nearest cold shower. THE LOST is an excellent beginning to a new series that will have readers counting the days until the second Sin Hunters book is released."~ 4 Stars RT BookReviews
How did you start your writing career?
I started writing in the fifth grade when my teacher assigned a project: to write a book that would be included in a class lending library. I ended up writing my first romance novel and have not stopped writing since that day. Shortly after my daughter was born, I decided that I was going to try and sell one of those books that I had been writing. I sat down and finished the book and sent it out. Six years later I sold my first book! I now have nearly 30 published novels and novellas.
Tell us about a favorite character from a book.
I love Bobbie Carrera from THE LOST and Diana Reyes from THE CALLING Vampire series (which will relaunch as the REBORN series in 2012). Both women are strong and kick-ass. Both are scarred emotionally, but that gives them so much depth. It also makes them so much more heroic that they can set aside their own pain in order to help others.
Where do you dream of traveling to and why?
I've always dreamed of traveling around the world to see some of the homes of ancient peoples, like
Does travel play in the writing of your books?
Travel does play a role in a number of my books. While it's great to do research, there is something about being able to travel to a new and different place and experience it live that adds depth that it is hard to get from just books or online. For THE LOST, I set the novel along the
Tell us about your current release.
My latest release is THE LOST, the first book in a new paranormal romance series about the Sin Hunters, a race of energy gatherers. THE LOST is about Adam Bruno, a man who knows he is not human and is trying to discover why he is different. The heroine in the novel is Bobbie Carrera, a hero Marine who has come home from war both emotionally and physically wounded. Despite that, Bobbie steps up to help Adam when he is attacked. The attraction is immediate and together Adam and Bobbie will fight to find out the truth about Adam's past and to save their newfound love.
Tell us about your next release.
I have two other releases this year: A VAMPIRE FOR CHRISTMAS anthology and AMAZON AWAKENING, an erotic paranormal romance. My story in the Christmas vampire anthology is a Dickens-like tale about an angel who must save a vampire from losing his soul, but finds herself failing at her task because she is falling in love with him. AMAZON AWAKENING is a very sexy story about a
Who is your favorite author?
My favorite author is J.D. Robb. I so love the IN DEATH series and whenever I need inspiration, I read one of the books in the series. They challenge me to be a better writer and analyzing them always helps me see how pacing and plotting is meant to work.
When in the day/night do you write? How long per day?
I've discovered I'm a morning person. I write on the train on the way to and from work. I also write for about 4 hours or so in the early morning on Saturday and Sunday. Since I have a full time job still, it's hard to work once I get home at night and only do that if I am really pressed by a deadline. I usually leave those night time hours to updating my website or interacting with fans.
What does your significant other and family think of your writing career?
My husband and daughter are both very supportive of my writing and I could not have realized my dreams without them. They are always helpful with what I need to do and understanding of
Do you hear from your readers? What kinds of questions do they ask?
I hear from readers all the time and love sharing time with them. Many have become long distance fans with whom I have regular conversations. I've even been lucky enough to meet many of them face-to-face. That is one of my favorite things about being a writer.
Do you have a Website or Blog?
You can visit me and my blog at www.caridad.com. You can also check out my Facebook Fan Page at www.facebook.com/caridad.author or follow my tweets at www.twitter.com/caridadpineiro.
Caridad Piñeiro® is a multi-published and award-winning author whose love of the written word developed when her fifth grade teacher assigned a project – to write a book that would be placed in a class lending library. She has been hooked on writing ever since.
From the start, Caridad's novels have received acclaim and have helped redefine the landscape of modern romance novels. In 1999, Caridad was published by Kensington as part of Encanto, the first line of bilingual Latino romance novels. In 2000, Caridad was one of the first Latino authors featured at the launch of BookExpo America's Spanish Pavillion. In December 2006, Caridad helped Silhouette launch its successful Nocturne paranormal line with DEATH CALLS, one of the novels in the award-winning THE CALLING Vampire series. In addition, Caridad has appeared at BookExpo America on numerous occasions and has captained both the multicultural and vampire genre panels at the RT BookClub Conventions.
Caridad's CHICAS novels, including her seventeenth release, SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN from Simon & Schuster's Downtown Press, have garnered praise from both fellow authors and reviewers and are helping to make Latina fiction a vital part of the publishing mainstream.
In recognition of her work, Caridad has received various awards and honors. In 2007, a year marked by the debut of six novels from Harlequin and Pocket Books, Caridad received the Golden Apple Award Author of the Year Award from the New York City Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Other honors that Caridad has received include the selection of DANGER CALLS and DEATH CALLS as the Top Fantasy Books of 2005 and 2006 by CATALINA magazine, the Cataromance Reviewers Choice Award for Best Nocturne in 2006 and the New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf award in 2001 for Best Short Contemporary. Her other titles have received a number of nominations, such as the Harlequin Readers Choice Awards and RIO Reviewers Choice Awards. Both DANGER CALLS and SEX AND THE SOUTH BEACH CHICAS have been book club selections.
Caridad's eighteenth novel, MOON FEVER, a paranormal anthology with Maggie Shayne, Susan Sizemore and Lori Handeland, debuted in late September 2007 as #32 on the New York Times Extended Bestseller list and #123 on the USA TODAY Bestseller List. HOLIDAY WITH A VAMPIRE, a paranormal anthology with Maureen Child, made the BookScan Top 100 Adult Fiction list.
In 2009, Caridad will debut a new paranormal romantic suspense series with Grand Central Publishing. The first novel in the series, SINS OF THE FLESH, will be released in November 2009.
Caridad has appeared on Romance Novel Television, Fox Television's Good Day New York Early Edition , New Jersey News' Jersey's Talking with Lee Leonard and WGN-TV's Adelante Chicago. Articles featuring Caridad's works have appeared in the New York Daily News, Catalina, RT BookClub, NJ Monthly, Star Ledger, Home Tribune News, Sun Sentinel, Variety Yahoo! Online News, Latina and the Waterbury Republican-American.
When not writing, Caridad teaches workshops on various topics related to writing and heads a writing group. Caridad is also an attorney, wife and mother.
Also about the Author:
Caridad was born in Havana, Cuba, and settled in the New York Metropolitan area. She attended Villanova University on a Presidential Scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. Caridad earned her juris doctor from St. John's University and became the first female partner of Abelman, Frayne & Schwab, an intellectual property firm in midtown Manhattan.


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Former Sydney bikie boss Sam Ibrahim has been sent back to jail for allegedly breaching his parole. The 46-year-old was arrested yesterday at his home in Sydney's north-west at Bella Vista by a police strike force targeting the city's bikie gun war. The New South Wales Parole Authority revoked parole for the former Nomads boss after receiving a report from parole officers alleging he had been taking prohibited drugs and failing to obey directions. The arrest followed a police raid of his house last Friday, which was part of an operation targeting 18 homes and businesses linked to feuding Hells Angels and Nomads bikies. The house had been sprayed with bullets only a week earlier, in one of nine tit-for-tat shootings between the gangs in just over a week. Ibrahim is being held at Silverwater jail, ahead of a public hearing by the NSW Parole Board later this month. The board will decide whether to keep the former Nomads boss in prison until his sentence expires on October 7, or whether to extend his jail time. Ibrahim spent five months in jail as part of the 15-month sentence over the violent kidnapping of a 15-year-old boy in 2009. His arrest was part of a crackdown by the Gangs Squad's Strike Force Kinnara, which was set up to combat an escalation in bikie gun crime. The strike force also arrested convicted Sydney drug boss Bill Bayeh a fortnight ago for an alleged breach of parole.
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Would Affirmative Action Help Women in Japan?
Would affirmative action help close Japan's notorious gender gap? That was one question raised at a Tokyo panel July 2 on the possibilities of "womenomics," featuring Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Ms. Sandberg's book "Lean In," released in Japanese last week, argues that women need to be more assertive in order to win leadership positions for themselves in government and business.
Ms. Sandberg and her fellow panelists — Tomoko Namba, founder of mobile gaming firm DeNA Co.; Goldman Sachs managing director and Japan strategist Kathy Matsui; and Yuko Kawamoto from Waseda University Graduate School of Finance – were somewhat skeptical of the idea of setting quotas or targets for women's participation in the public sector and private industry. That topic has been raised recently everywhere from Japanese TV shows to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.


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Okay, I need to know if this is really as bizarre as I think it is! I have just received Teiglin's registration papers, but the name and tattoo are for a different dog! :yikes Could this just be a simple mistake, and more importantly, can it be easily fixed!?!?!?!? I've written to my breeder but I just wanted some input, as I've never dealt with this sort of situation before.
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BLOOD DRIVE from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 1 at Pine Valley United Methodist Church, 910 Pine Valley Road.
NABVETs Marines No. 54 meets at 11 a.m. Dec. 1 at First Baptist Church, Broadhurst Road. Information call 910-346-2977.
FESTIVAL of Trees held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 1; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 2 and 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 3 at the American Legion Building. Admission $2 donation. Call 910-324-1650.
JACKSONVILLE Winterfest from 2 to 8 p.m. Dec. 1 at Riverwalk Park with real snow sledding, ice sculptures, petting zoo, pony rides, pictures with Santa and more. Call 910-938-5317.
JONES County DSS is accepting applications for its energy assistance program �LIEAP beginning Dec. 1-Jan. 31 as long as monies are available. Priority given to seniors 60 and older.
JACKSONVILLE Breakfast Rotary hosts its annual Christmas Flotilla held Dec. 1 on the New River at the Boardwalk. Information call 910-455-3200.
COASTAL Carolina Community Choir present the holiday concert �Beautiful Earth� at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at Brookwood Baptist Church. Free and open to the public.
JACKSONVILLE VFW Post 9133 ladies auxiliary hosts its Christmas Bazaar from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 1 at the post home, 1450 Piney Green Road with Chinese auction, bake sale and more.
CHRISTMAS party for all present/former employees of Carolina Telephone, Sprint, Century Link and Embarq at 1 p.m. Dec. 1 at Golden Corral, Marine Blvd. Call 910-353-4341.
CEDAR FORK Ruritan Club hosts a barbecue dinner fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Cedar Fork Community Center. Eat in or take out.
MCIVER�S ENSEMBLE presents a Christmas concert at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at Premier Care Nursing Facility.
N.C COASTAL Federation seeks volunteers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 30 to fill bags with oyster shell for a shoreline restoration at the Morris Landing Preserve in Holly Ridge. Call 252-393-8185.
SURF CITY Parks and Recreation hosts �Breakfast with Santa� from 8 to 10 a.m. Dec. 15 at the community center. Photos with Santa available. Advance tickets $5, $6 at door. Call 910-328-4887.
SPECIAL Olympics Onslow County Fall games from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 30 at MCAS New River building 4400. Opening ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Call 910-265-1756.
CONCERNED Citizens Association will be distributing new/gently used coats from 8:30 a.m. to noon Dec. 1 at Sandy Run Apartments community center. Parents must be present for children to receive coats.
MAYSVILLE Fire/EMS hosts its annual Christmas Parade at 11 a.m. Dec. 1 with barbecue plate fundraiser following at the firehouse. Plates $6. Information call 910-743-2709.
SEASIDE ARTS Council presents at Celtic Christmas at 2 p.m. Dec. 2 at Swansboro Middle School featuring Jennifer Licko. Tickets $15. seasideartscouncil.com.
VERONA Community Tree Lighting Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at Verona Volunteer Fire Department. Santa arrives at 6 p.m. Bring donation of canned goods for Onslow Christmas Cheer.
BOWLING Extravaganza fundraiser from noon to 3 p.m. Dec. 1 at Bowlarena, Western Blvd., with food, games and prizes.
WOUNDED Warriors Cut-A-Thon fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 15 at Starz & Stripes, 1368 Piney Green Road. Haircuts $20. Call or stop in for appointment. Call 910-333-8220.
VERONA UM Church Men meets for breakfast at 8 a.m. Dec. 2 in the fellowship hall. All faiths welcome. Call 910-347-1979.
JACKSONVILLE Kennel Club meets at 5 p.m. Dec. 1 at Las Finkus Restaurant, Swansboro. Information call 910-265-3412.


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The year is off to a good start! I just finished reading my first novel of 2009, and loved every word of it. Jonathan Miles' Dear American Airlines is a terrific read. I confess, even though the novel showed up on a number of Best of 2008 lists, I was leery about whether a true novel could be contained within the comic conceit of an angry rant letter to American Airlines. Trust me, it can.
[Random association tangent: I tend to read most of my books via that most underutilized of places, the library. I put a number of the books called the Best of 2008 on the reserve list, and about FIVE of them have shown up for me at the exact same time. Has that happened to anyone else? Thus, expect a number of book posts for the next couple weeks as I read as fast as my fingers can turn the pages.]
The premise of the book is simple: Bennie Ford is stuck in Chicago's O'Hare airport, about to miss the wedding of his heretofore-estranged daughter, and full of pent-up fury, begins to write the powers that be at American Airlines a letter. He asks:
So talk to me. Did banal old greed induce you to overschedule your flights, a la bank robbers unable to stop stuffing their bags despite the wails of nearing sirens? . . . Or do you plan so tightly and rigidly that the delay of one plane in, say, Dallas can cause a monumental backup akin to a stalled tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge at 8:30 am? Or, similarly, are airlines like yourself susceptible to something like the Butterfly Effect, so that a delay caused by a pickled passenger trying to board an early-morning flight in Ibiza can provoke a chain reaction, with delay piling upon delay, and then cancellation upon cancellation, until poor Chicago O'Hare – the sacrificial goat of air travel – is shut down completely?
But the genius of the book is that Miles manages to combine Ford's extremely funny perspective with a tragic history of his own making; and then layers the story with yet another story within a story of the Polish novel Ford is translating, reinforcing the tragicomic air of the downtrodden hero. The language is lush and dense, and even the cameo characters are rendered fascinating from Ford's eyes. It is a fantastic book and a perfect way to start out the year. If you experienced lengthy waits in airports over the holiday season, however, you might want to hold off reading it for a month or two.


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Tap ceremony
The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association will hold its annual tree-tapping ceremony at Fadden's Sugar House, 99 Main St., North Woodstock, on Thursday, March 8, at 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
While many rejoice about the warm, nearly snow-free winter, the state's maple producers are left wondering how long their season will last. Only halfway into February, many maple trees in the southern part of New Hampshire were already tapped out, said Peter Thompson, past president of the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association.
"Some have already made maple syrup," he said. "Some will probably be making toward the end of next week."
The ideal maple sugaring climate is 40-degree days and 20-degrees night, said Thompson, who does his sugaring at Mt. Cube Farm in Orford, but a concern shared by many producers as the season kicks off is: where is the snow? The snow, Thompson said, serves as insulation to keep the roots of the maple trees cold, which allows for more days of boiling.
"Without any snow — if we have four or five really warm, hot days as we do once in a while — then the buds will start coming out," Thompson said. "Once the buds start, then it's on the downhill side after that." There is no equipment or machinery that can insulate the roots as well as a blanket of snow, he said. "We can have the most technological equipment possible in the world but we can't do anything with the product we will ultimately boil," he said.
Maple producers in the northern part of the state typically tap their trees at the end of February, while those in the south often start at the beginning of the month, Thompson said. Thompson, who has been making maple syrup for 60 years, typically boils his syrup from the first week of March through the third week of April.
Thompson said usually around April 20, maple producers have an idea as to how their season went.
"That's when the … little frogs start peeping at night," he said. "When the peepers start peeping, the season is over."
Thompson taps 9,000 trees annually on his mountainside. His lower trees will deliver sap first, because they have been exposed to the warmest temperatures.
"With 40-degree weather and the wind coming out of the west, you're going to get some good runs of sap … what we're afraid of is that maybe things will start off really good now and next week we'll have a two-feet snowstorm," he said, adding that in the last 20 years he has not seen the ground bare for most of a winter.
"Down in Concord the ground is, for all intents and purposes, brown," he said. "That's not a good omen, I think."
Dean Wilbur, owner of Mapletree Farm in Concord, said he expects his season to start early and be short but has no prediction of how much maple he will be able to produce this season.
"Mother Nature controls that," Wilbur said.
Marc Moran, of Hopewell Farm in Newbury, planned to tap his trees on Feb. 15. Moran was able to salvage the wood from an old sugarhouse on the farm that collapsed before he bought the property three years ago. Scrawled on the wood in pencil are the tree- tapping dates and production amounts dating back to 1903. This year will mark the earliest that trees have ever been tapped at his farm, he said. The next earliest tree tapping date on record is Feb. 20, in 1955.
"It's a great resource," Moran said of the handwritten records. "It not only gives us an indication of what was produced, but [we] can find out the climates through USGS [U.S. Geological Survey], so we can tell what made a good year and what made a bad year back then."
"I'm not writing this year off yet," he said. "I think everything is going to be OK."


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26 comments:
- John (Ad Orientem) said...
It looks like a maximum security prison.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- Annie said...
Every so often I have to drive by it and cannot IMAGINE what they were thinking.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Leggos and toilet paper tubes.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM
Scrooge McDuck's money vault.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:43 PM
- John said...
From my perspective it is a maximum security prison.
- February 1, 2012 at 8:57 PM
- Laurentius Rhenanius said...
- February 2, 2012 at 4:25 AM
Well I read the article so I see what they meant, but boy did they mess it up. Looks like a 3 year olds junk project, cereal box loo roll tubes et voila I builder a castle at nursery!
- February 2, 2012 at 5:29 AM
What is it with western Michigan and really bad church architecture? Muskegon has that neo-fascist St. Francis de Sales parish. Yikes!
- February 2, 2012 at 6:31 AM
- Howard said...
I'm afraid I've seen worse.
Just off the top of my head, in Bay County, FL, I know of two Protestant churches that are in competition. One I call the "Worship Depot"; it looks like someone took a Home Depot and converted it into a church without changing the architecture at all. The other I call "the Hotbox". It's covered in tin and has no windows and only the main door out front. No windows! I have no idea what goes on inside, but that just sounds creepy in a church.
- February 2, 2012 at 7:28 AM
Pictures of the inside, before it's 2007 sale, indicate thoughtful and quite beautiful architectural expression of the liturgical renewal's emphasis on the people of God gathered by Word and Sacrament.
The unfortunate fortress-like aspect of the exterior seems to be the unintended consequence of trying to turn a building into a symbol, in this case a crown. One tower for the bells might have been a better choice.
Pity the diocese lost it.
- February 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- Ray Anselmo said...
The more pictures of the exterior I see, the more it seems to say "unfinished government storage facility." You could imagine the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark taking place inside ...
And yeah, the new attachment screams "Circuit City." Episcopalians don't have the market on ugly architecture cornered.
- February 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM
The first thing that came to my mind was "Hydro substation". But what is that small structure in the left foreground? Is it an incinerator? A small heating plant for the church?
- February 3, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Andy said...
If they had a Cathederal in Mordor, I supose it'd look like this.
- February 3, 2012 at 4:16 PM
In my opinion the architecture is very foreboding. It seems to conflict with what the modern, liturgical-movement inspired interior tries to accomplish: welcomeness; the priesthood of all believers; everyone together in unity and family.
No doubt this diocese, like most in TEC, is theologically heterodox. But I wonder if it went into better hands going to some non-denominational church that has "services" that look like a U2 concert?
- February 6, 2012 at 6:38 PM
While nowhere near This ugly, there's a church 3 miles from our house that totally lacks in anything architecturally spiritual. We thought it was a sort of prison at first. J. wondered where they were putting the watch tower so they could shoot people who tried to leave early....heh heh.
SB Smith
- February 8, 2012 at 8:12 PM
There is a special place in hell for bad architects ... and it looks quite a bit like this.
- February 10, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Combination Episcopal Church and nuclear power plant.
- February 11, 2012 at 12:39 AM
You know who built this hideous cathedral, don't you? I was the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Bennison, Sr. Bennison, Sr. is the father of the current Bishop of Pennsylvania. Under Bennison, Jr., Philadelphia's Episcopal Cathedral was gutted. It's really terrible what happened to it.
- February 16, 2012 at 8:03 AM
I agree that it looks unfinished. Could the spaces between each bell tower be filled with a brick wall and a nice vaulted ceiling be put in? (One with nice murrals like the Sistene Chapel?)
- February 29, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Surrender Dorothy!
- February 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM
- The Bovina Bloviator said...
But what is that small structure in the left foreground? Is it an incinerator?
Pat, you're correct, sort of; it's a crematory.
- March 1, 2012 at 11:45 AM
- Fire and Light Studio said...
I was a little girl when this was built, and my daddy was a priest in Western Michigan. He did not like the building, but told me it was supposed to be a crown to symbolize Christ the King. It truly is ugly, but there is an Roman Catholic church in Hamilton, Ontario that I think is even worse.
- April 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Not just ugly, but fugly.
Hard to believe somebody would actually buy this building on purpose. They must have been desperate for a worship space and not particularly caring what it looked like.
It does have a maximum-security prison feel to it. Where's the concertina wire?
- April 16, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Looks like the things I used to build out of Legos when I was five. Of course, mommy was obliged to humor me and congratulate me on such a beautiful "whatever..." Of course, as an adult now, my mom has the decency to tell me what sbe REALLY thinks!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:09 PM
- Alex Ignatiev said...
It's the God Factory!
- May 28, 2012 at 2:06 PM
- Josephine Robertson said...
I actually worshiped there as a college student. I know it looks horrible outside. And weird inside in pictures. But it was actually a really neat space.
The light through the colored bricks moved as the sun moved, and it was beautiful. An ugly duckly that I grew to love. Very sad it got sold, but I understand it was horribly expensive to maintain.
- December 4, 2012 at 11:42 AM


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With the chicken-salad sandwich lunch rush looming, Pam Wright wastes no time sprinkling just enough water on the butter and flour mixture on her countertop to bind the pie dough. The owner of the Cobbler Lady in Leimert Park gathers up a butter-speckled ball and rolls it out in quick strokes, then dangles the dough over one corner of a small rectangular aluminum pan, letting it buckle generously into sporadic folds on top of the peach filling.
"Customers always ask for more crust, so I experimented to get the most in there without drying out the filling," she explains, adding that she slips a layer of dough into the middle of each fruit-filled pan to lend a dumpling-like texture to the filling.
A blue-ribbon-worthy presentation is not Wright's goal. She's weathered one too many sour business deals over the last 20 years, including a failed restaurant that left her penniless (and homeless), to worry about how a wrinkle or two in the crust might appear.
"Really, everyone doesn't make cobbler this way?" asks the 57-year-old L.A. native, who was less influenced by her North Carolina grandmother's fruit cobblers than her own ingenuity.
Taking her customers' suggestions to heart for more of that shaggy crust has given Wright more time to focus on the trickiest part of making cobbler for a living — figuring out how to expand the business without losing everything.
For Wright, it's been remarkably generous customers, family and friends, and even the occasional landlord who have given her more support over the years than any bank loan ever could. (Her winning smile and those fresh-from-the-oven peach cobblers haven't hurt either.)
"I don't talk a lot, but I listen," says Wright, adjusting her lime green chef's jacket as she takes a seat at one of a handful of small tables in her nondescript strip mall cafe. "Like when people first told me they wanted cobbler, even though I didn't really know much about Southern cooking when I started."
Although Wright's family is from North Carolina, she and her mother were raised in California, so the 7-Up cakes and sweet potato pies also lining her bakery case are not part of her childhood memories. "But when I get something in my head, I find a way to do it."
Figuring out how to give Southern-style cobblers year-round appeal when the main ingredient — peaches, initially — is seasonal was the first challenge. Wright says she experimented using frozen peaches, but they didn't have the flavor her customers preferred. For her peach and apple cobblers, she ultimately settled on canned fruit. (She prefers frozen fruit for the blackberry and cherry cobblers she later added to the menu.) "It really is all about the butter crust," she says.
For several years, Wright made cobblers to order for friends and family, but owning a commercial oven was always in the back of her mind.
In the mid-1980s, she took a job as an independent wholesale car dealer, hoping to scrape together enough money to open a small bakery. "Someone told me it would take $40,000 to open a shop, which sounded like $400,000 back then," she recalls.
With little saved after three years in the car business, Wright decided to look for a more direct route to making cobblers for a living. She scoured the Recycler's classified ads every Wednesday for deals. In 1989, she found an affordable 500-square-foot retail space in a Westchester strip mall and promptly signed on the dotted line.
But there was one rather pressing problem. The space didn't have a kitchen, nor did Wright have enough capital to build one. "I had no idea what I was doing running a food business back then," she says, waving to an employee from a nearby bank who has stopped by the cafe to pick up the sandwich-soda-cobbler lunch special to go.
Wright eventually persuaded the owners of a small restaurant upstairs to allow her to use their ovens in the early-morning hours. She couldn't afford a retail sign in front of the shop, but it didn't seem to matter. "When people smelled the warm cobblers, they came right in," she says, pushing thick black curls from her face.
Wright's cobbler luck continued to carry her through those first months. A customer offered to sell her a discounted storefront sign for the Cobbler Cafe, the bakery's original name, if Wright added blackberry cobbler to the menu. And she landed a used oven for half of the asking price when she told the seller her story. "He said he liked my karma."
But success wasn't always sweet. Wright's landlord noticed the growing line of cobbler devotees in front of the shop and raised the rent. "It was such a tiny space, there'd be a line out the door with almost no one in there," Wright says.
With barely six months of professional dough-making under her belt, Wright couldn't justify the higher rent at such a small space, nor could she afford a larger space.
After several rejections, one prospective landlord offered to stagger her rent payments for the first few months after seeing her in cobbler-making action. "I couldn't believe someone I didn't know would do that for me."
At her Inglewood location, Wright added boxed lunches to the menu to keep the cobblers coming out of the oven. "Lunch is how you keep going."
In 1995, Wright decided to try her hand at wholesale cobbler baking. "My problem is when something is going well, I get bored and want to do something new," she says. "I love the wheeling and dealing of setting up new businesses."
But the wholesale business folded within a few months. Three years later, Wright opened a small Southern-style restaurant, Cobbler Cafe No. 2, but it never got off the ground either. With debt from those failed businesses growing, Wright was forced to close the Cobbler Cafe in 2000.
"I was spent, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and I never wanted to be back in the kitchen again," she says. She was also homeless, having sold her home in Windsor Hills to pay off business loans. For more than a year, she hopped sofas at friends' and family's homes with her two dogs in tow.
But Wright couldn't get cobbler off her mind. "Customers were asking when I was going to start back up, and this little seed was starting to grow again — I just had to figure out how."
She still had plenty of good cobbler karma. Her niece, Angela Spires, offered her own credit as loan collateral. A landlord in Leimert Park, charmed by the Cobbler Lady, gave Wright her first few months rent free. "I had no money, I couldn't have done it without him," says Wright, tears welling up in her eyes as she looks around the small shop where she's been selling cobblers, still warm from the oven, to loyal neighborhood customers for eight years.
With the business going strong, this time around she has one thing on her mind. "The next time I get bored, I need to go on vacation."


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EASTON — The goal has changed for Stroudsburg's boys basketball team.
EASTON — The goal has changed for Stroudsburg's boys basketball team.
Hoping to win their first District 11 championship since 1999, the Mounties now have their sights set on a state playoff berth.
Freedom made sure of altering Stroudsburg's plans Wednesday night. Nyreef Jackson led the Patriots with 17 points, including a baseline jumper that gave the fourth-seeded Pats the lead for good in a 53-49 victory over the ninth-seeded Mounties in the Class AAAA semifinal at Easton Middle School.
David Clowney and Jacob Battle each finished with 15 points for Stroudsburg.
Stroudsburg, playing in its first consolation final since 2009, will take on Liberty at noon Saturday at Easton Middle School. The winner will earn a berth in the state tournament. Liberty lost to Parkland, 62-59, in overtime in the other semifinal Wednesday night. Parkland meets Freedom for the district crown Saturday.
"We said, 'OK, change the goal,'" Stroudsburg coach Shawn Thornton said after the loss. "The goal is now the state tournament. We didn't talk about it much because our goal was winning the district and getting to the state tournament was a bonus.
"Now that's the brass ring."
Only five Stroudsburg teams have reached this point in the postseason. It looked like the Mounties (14-12) were going to get its first shot since 1999 of winning a district title.
Donovan Clay hit a shot in the paint for a 44-43 lead with 1:47 to play. It was Stroudsburg's first lead since having a 14-11 advantage early in the second quarter.
But as soon as the Mounties got the lead late, Freedom's Jackson took it away. The 6-foot-5 senior forward hit a pretty jumpshot for a 45-44 lead with 1:30 to go.
"When Jackson hit that turn-around, that was big," Thornton said.
Freedom scored its final eight points from the free throw line, going 8-for-12 in the final minute.
Trailing 48-44 with about 51 seconds to play, Stroudsburg's Battle (15 points) was just off the mark on a 3-pointer. Battle had connected on back-to-back 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter to rally Stroudsburg from a 37-28 deficit at the start of the fourth quarter.
This was the second meeting between Stroudsburg and Freedom (17-8) this year. Freedom won 69-51 on Jan. 26, but it was evident early this matchup would be closer.
The Mounties finished the first quarter with a bucket in the paint by Clay with 3 seconds to play. Chris Cayo stole the inbounds pass and a quick layup put the Mounties up 10-6.
Freedom rallied with a 13-0 run in the second quarter to stake a 24-18 lead at the half.
Freedom built its lead to nine (37-28) as Jackson carried the Patriots with seven points.
But Battle opened the fourth quarter with a pair of 3-pointers to cut Freedom's lead to 39-36.
"I told the guys, we didn't get outplayed, we got outscored," Thornton said. "You can point to a lot of things in the game. If there was one area we really got outplayed in, we really got outrebounded. The number of offensive rebounds they got really hurt us."
District 11 Class AAAA semifinal
No. 4 Freedom 53, No. 9 Stroudsburg 49
Clay 5 0-0 10, Cayo 3 1-2 7, Brandt 1 0-0 2, Clowney 7 0-1 15, Battle 5 2-2 15, Bragg 0 0-2 0, Lopez 0 0-0 0, Watson 0 0-0 0. Totals 21 3-7 49.
Uliana 0 0-2 0, Arner 0 0-0 0, Long 4 7-8 16, Connor 1 0-0 2, Chiclana 5 0-2 10, Williams 4 0-1 8, Jackson 5 5-9 17. Totals 19 12-22 53.
Stroudsburg 10 8 10 21 — 49
Freedom 6 18 13 16 — 53
3-pointers — S 4 (Battle 3, Clowney); Fr 3 (Jackson 2, Long).
Records — Stroudsburg 14-12, Freedom 17-8.


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February 11, 2010
Equinix Adds Four Companies to Carrier Ethernet Exchange Development Program, Preps for Global Rollout
Paris, France (at the MPLS Ethernet World Congress 2010) - February 11, 2010 - Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Easynet Global Services, euNetworks, PacketExchange and BroadbandONE have joined the final-phase development program for the company's Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange. Originally revealed in October 2009, this global service will provide a multi-carrier environment for the exchange of data traffic between providers of Ethernet services. The development program for the service, which also includes original participants AboveNet, Exponential-e, Hibernia Atlantic, Level 3 Communications, PCCW Global, Reliance Globalcom and Tinet, is entering its final stages as Equinix preps for the global rollout of the service.
The Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange is scheduled for a phased rollout in Q2 2010, starting with the New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and London metro regions, and will expand to 12 other metro regions throughout the year. This announcement strengthens Equinix's position as a provider of Ethernet services, an expanding industry that is expected to reach $40 billion by 2014.
Ethernet services, which provide significant speed, quality, and cost advantages over traditional networks, have been limited to the geographic areas in which a carrier's network is deployed. As a result, carriers have been unable to capitalize on the worldwide demand for universal Ethernet services and have been confined to their preexisting service areas due to the complex and time consuming challenges of establishing multiple, separate interconnection agreements with other carriers.
Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange will remove the technical boundaries associated with offering Ethernet services by providing a platform for multi-provider carrier Ethernet interconnection. Fully compliant with Metro Ethernet Forum standards, the Equinix platform will enable carriers to translate between different carrier Ethernet offerings to ensure transparent service by providing an interconnection technical specification. The service, which will utilize Alcatel-Lucent's service routing portfolio, will also include an online marketplace to enable carriers to partner on Ethernet services to extend their global reach and depth.
Trial Update
"The technology trial testing has progressed to plan, and we are pleased with the results," said Dr. Kamran Sistanizadeh, Chief Technology Officer, Reliance Globalcom. "The Equinix exchange platform is designed to reduce the carrier's time to market, lower operational costs and accelerate revenue growth. Reliance Globalcom welcomes the opportunity to capitalize on these benefits as the development program approaches the final stages of its global rollout."
"Building on successful trials with several of the world's largest network service providers, we're pleased to welcome EasyNet Global Services, euNetworks, Packet Exchange and WV Fiber to the development program for the Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange," said Jarrett Appleby, chief marketing officer for Equinix. "Our development participants tell us that the service will catalyze a significant evolution in the carrier Ethernet industry by enabling them to develop the next generation of enhanced services that fulfill a critical need for their customers."
"As a leading provider of last-mile connectivity in Western Europe, euNetworks continues to look for ways to better enable our customers to access our broad metropolitan footprint," said Uwe Nickl, Chief Marketing Officer at euNetworks. "The Equinix Ethernet Exchange will allow us to easily interconnect our customers onto our footprint, reducing time to deliver end to end services. In addition, as we look to extend our reach beyond Western Europe, the Exchange will provide us with connectivity to a number of carrier partners that can support our customers' needs."
"The success of our business lies in being able to offer a high performance network delivery system that provides customers with a real business advantage," said Andy Johnson SVP Business Development at PacketExchange. "While we have long advocated the merits of Ethernet services, to date it has been difficult to truly satisfy customers' demands for higher quality global connectivity beyond our own footprint. By reducing the overall complexity of the process, Equinix's Carrier Ethernet Exchange platform will provide us with an enhanced level of service that not only meets the strategic needs of our customers today, but also prepares them for the challenges of tomorrow."
Equinix has more than 10 years of expertise in facilitating network interconnection through its pioneering Internet Core Exchange (ICE) service that facilitates data exchange between Tier 1 network service providers, and the Equinix Exchange service which facilitates IP and content peering between networks.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 49 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor relations page of its website located at www.equinix.com/investors. We encourage you to check Equinix's website regularly for the most up-to-date information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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Property Here - Tuesday, April 02, 2013
John Dakin NZX-listed Goodman Property Trust could own the new $60 million to $80 million Fonterra headquarters to be built near Auckland's waterfront.
John Dakin, chief executive of the trust with a $1.2 billion market capitalisation, signalled strong intentions for the widely held listed landlord to eventually add the new HQ to its portfolio.
"At this stage it is highly likely that Goodman Property Trust will be involved with the Fonterra development. The independent directors of the trust have expressed a strong interest in owning the asset and the trust has first rights over any Goodman Group activity in New Zealand," he said.
Keith Smith, Leonie Freeman, Susan Paterson and Peter Simmonds are independent directors of the business in which Goodman Group owns about 17 per cent, and OnePath, ACC and BT have stakes.
But Dakin said no NZX statement has been issued on the deal yet because it was too early and nothing was decided.
"As Fonterra said, they have run a selection process with a preferred developer, but there's a period of final negotiation and design and planning so we have an incomplete proposal.
Till there's certainty around all of those things, there's nothing to be announced in terms of the trust," he said, adding that professional advice had "obviously" been taken on whether to issue an NZX announcement.
"At this stage, the focus of the joint venture partners of Fletcher and Goodman is working through all the detail around final design, size, planning, and remaining commercial issues. This work will be finalised over the next few months," Dakin said.
"Once this is resolved the final parameters of the development will be assessed and the involvement of the trust finalised. Goodman Group and the trust have a strong track record of working well in partnership for the benefit of all investors and I expect this to continue with this particular development," he said.
But he said people who criticised the deal and questioned the independence of decisions should not rush to judge arrangements too soon.
"Everyone is getting ahead of themselves in terms of the scale and size before any decisions have been made," he said, after reports of a $500 million deal on the site where up to five big new office blocks could rise.
Asked how much potential profit a $60 million to $80 million project could yield, Dakin said he was not prepared to say "because none of the detail has been knocked out yet".
Institutional investors said they could not judge the trust's fortunes after Goodman Group and Fletcher were this month shortlisted to develop the block opposite Victoria Park.
Professional investors see the potential for a conflict of interest on the deal, with the manager cutting out trust investors, but they say not enough information is yet before them to say how the deal will stack up for the trust.
Dakin said the trust and its manager had a successful relationship which enhanced the interests of investors.
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Goodman Group
ASX listed, trading at A$4.80
Industrial landlord with $10b market cap
World's second biggest industrial property manager by market value
In 36 countries, owns 400 properties
Sydney headquartered
CEO: Greg Goodman
Goodman Property Trust
NZX listed, trading at $1.05
Market capitalisation: $1.2b
Industrial landlord, only in NZ
Auckland headquartered
CEO: John Dakin


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Unknown Soldiers | Remember the brave ones and their families
This weekly column is about the thousands of brave men and women in uniform who selflessly serve and sacrifice.
It's also about their families, who shoulder an immense burden that few outside the military community can comprehend.
I've learned many things while talking to these fine Americans.
One is that every single man and woman who volunteers to defend freedom is brave. Another is that, when a U.S. service member is killed — by hostile fire, accident or suicide — every family member responds differently.
Kelsey Mills has been through more than most young wives could imagine.
On April 10, 2012, her husband, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, then 25, lost his arms and legs during an enemy improvised explosive attack in Afghanistan.
"I'm happy that my husband is still alive," Kelsey told The Unknown Soldiers less than a month after the explosion. "He's still here."
Every day since, Travis and Kelsey, who are raising a little girl, have inspired us with their dignity and courage. In my mind, it is people like them — not Miley Cyrus — who define what it means to be a true celebrity.
I wish more people agreed.
Bob Bagosy, whom I met through the Travis Manion Foundation, watched in agony as his son, U.S. Marine Sgt. Tommy Bagosy, drifted toward depression and despair because of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. At age 25, Tommy, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, killed himself.
Bob was haunted by the mystery of Tommy's suicide.
"I know the who, what, where, when and how," Bob said. "But the 'why' has been eluding me."
Having spent time with Bob, I have seen the fortitude he has displayed while honoring his son's memory by helping other military families that have been forced to cope with tragedy.
He and his wife are great parents and truly inspirational people.
Emily Feeks has served in the U.S. Navy and deployed to Afghanistan. She also watched her husband, Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Feeks, deploy to Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL while she was serving in the Philippines.
On Aug. 16, 2012, Patrick, 28, died in a helicopter crash that killed seven Americans.
"You look around and everyone is happy-go-lucky, and you wonder why you can't have that," Emily said less than three months after the crash. "Why does it have to happen to you?"
During a June trip to San Diego, I finally met Emily, along with Karlyn Deveau, who lost her fiance, Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 2nd Class David Warsen, 27, in the same crash.
While tears were shed, both of these young women showed the same tenacity that their loved ones displayed as Navy SEALs. If my daughter grows up to be like Emily and Karlyn, I will be proud.
Thad Forester lost his younger brother, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Mark Forester, 29, in Afghanistan on Sept. 29, 2010. When we spoke less than three years after Mark died while trying to save his unit's medic, Thad was in a state of proud reflection.
"We all have missions on this earth and some of them are different for each person," Thad said. "One of Mark's was to help defeat terrorism, and he did it."
On Sept. 23, Thad released a book about Mark called "My Brother in Arms," which was written with Matthew Glencoe. I hope everyone who reads this column also will take the time to read the story of this remarkable American hero.
Beth Strickland Funk, who courageously spoke with The Unknown Soldiers for a recent column, is not thinking about anything other than caring for her family and making it through the next day.
Her son, U.S. Army Sgt. Joshua "Jay" Strickland, was killed in Afghanistan on Sept. 21.
"We're all going back and forth between the anger and the grieving," Beth said 10 days after her son was killed by small-arms fire.
When I go to sleep at night, I think of people like Beth Strickland Funk and everyone else mentioned above. They've been through more pain than most of us will in a lifetime.
Our men and women in uniform are incredibly brave. Hopefully, everyone will join me in realizing that their families are, too.


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ATLANTA - An electric utility company headquartered in Atlanta unlawfully discriminated against a class of employees and applicants because of their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today in Atlanta.
According to the EEOC's suit, Georgia Power Company violated federal law by not allowing employees to return to work after receiving treatment for their conditions and being cleared by their treating physicians. The agency also charges Georgia Power with refusing to hire applicants because of their disabilities or because it perceived them as disabled. According to the EEOC's complaint, Georgia Power's medical director disregarded the employees' and applicants' treating physicians' opinions as to their ability to work and, without independently evaluating them, simply recommended against hiring or returning them to work. Georgia Power subsequently discharged the employees who were not allowed to return.
Disability discrimination violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees and applicants with disabilities or with a record of a disability. In addition, it is a violation of the ADA for employers to discriminate against employees because the employer perceives such persons to be disabled. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Georgia Power Company, Civil Action No. 1:13-cv-03225) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC is seeking reinstatement, back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for the employees and applicants, as well as injunctive relief designed to prevent future discrimination practices.
"An employer cannot terminate or refuse to hire an employee because of a disability, or merely because it perceives that person to be disabled," said Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office. "Here, the employees and applicants were ready, willing and able to work, but the company refused to let them work because of their disabilities or what it assumed were disabilities. Such conduct violates federal law."
Bernice Williams-Kimbrough, district director of the Atlanta office, said, "The EEOC is committed to stopping workplace disability discrimination in Georgia and across the country. Given the size of the employer and the number of people it employs in Georgia, this lawsuit could assist in protecting the rights of a large number of employees."
Eliminating barriers in recruitment and hiring, especially class-based recruitment and hiring practices that discriminate against racial, ethnic and religious groups, older workers, women, and people with disabilities, is one of six national priorities identified by the EEOC's Strategic Enforcement Plan.
The Atlanta District Office of the EEOC enforces the federal employment discrimination laws in Georgia and parts of South Carolina. The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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DAC Collection Artist Information
Philippe de Champaigne
French painter and draftsman
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Philippe de Champaigne was known as one of the greatest portrait painters of 17th-century France. His art was based in an analytical study of appearances and on psychological truth. He was also one of the principal instigators of the Classical tendency and a founder-member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He developed an interest in Jansenist thinking, typified by a severe plainness of style. His career overall is marked by a successful integration of foreign elements into French culture and as the representative of the most intellectual current of French painting, having developed from late Mannerism and moving into powerful Baroque images, influenced as much by the Flemish Rubens as by Vouet, and ending with an aesthetic vision of the world and of humanity.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115355.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Philippe de Champaigne:
|Jean Morin after Philippe de Champaigne
|Théophile Brachet, 17th century
|Etching and engraving
|Robert Nanteuil after Philippe de Champaigne
|Portrait of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, 17th century
|Engraving on laid paper
ULAN biographical content is displayed with permission of the Getty Research Institute. Some ULAN content in some DAC artist records has been lightly edited. Content from the Getty Research Institute is © 2019 The J. Paul Getty Trust. All rights reserved.


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No candidate wants to embrace a national unemployment rate of 8.3 percent and suggest it is an accomplishment of a president's first four years in office. On the other hand, it is imperative the president remind the nation how far the economy had fallen in the aftermath of President George W. Bush's policies, explain the depth of the Great Recession and the underlying reasons that prompted it, and promote how current policies are producing slow but steady improvement.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — After more than a half-century of debate, traffic studies, engineering designs and numerous referenda, Middlebury is now firmly on the road to building a new in-town bridge.
Local voters saw to that on Tuesday as they overwhelmingly endorsed two Town Meeting Day initiatives that municipal officials believe could result in the new span being completed at Cross Street as soon as the fall of 2010.
"I couldn't be more thrilled," Middlebury selectboard Chairman John Tenny said of the March 4 votes. "I'm very excited about our ability to go forward."
In a stellar turnout boosted by Tuesday's presidential primaries, residents voted 1,535 to 673 to authorize a 30-year, $16 million bond issue to fund the project, the centerpiece of which will be a span that will link Main Street to Court Street over the Otter Creek via Cross Street.
Residents also voted 1,358 to 829 in favor of asking the Vermont Legislature to amend Middlebury's town charter so that the community will have the opportunity, in the future, of implementing local option taxes to help cover $7 million of the project's cost. Middlebury College has pledged to bankroll the remaining $9 million.
Tenny said the selectboard will now turn its attention to crafting a local options tax proposal he hopes can be presented to voters by late-spring, before area schools get out and before many area residents disperse for summer vacations.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
ADDISON COUNTY — Area residents at town meetings and in Tuesday Australian balloting backed budgets for all four local union schools, the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center, and every town's elementary school except Hancock (see story).
The support for Addison County and Brandon-area schools mirrored a statewide trend. As of late Wednesday morning, officials at the Vermont Superintendents' Association knew of only three Vermont high school plans and five elementary school budgets that had failed.
Even though all results were not in at that hour, one superintendents' association official called that tally "a really low number of defeats."
Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Bill Mathis said the statewide support for school spending showed that Vermont officials' focus on more school finance reform may be misplaced.
"The governor and the legislator must live in a different state than the voters … All we've heard is unrelenting talk of property taxes and school costs," Mathis said. "My feeling is the people have spoken very clearly and universally … that they support their schools."
Mathis said he has data that shows, once prebates are factored in, that Vermonters are spending a smaller percentage of their incomes on education than they were 10 years ago. That was before the Legislature passed Act 60, Vermont's landmark school finance reform law, and, more recently, Act 68, which updated Act 60.
He noted that many towns' tax rates are level, or up only slightly, despite inflationary increases in school spending.
"The big message is first of all it means that Act 60 and Act 68 are working, and income sensitivity is working," Mathis said. "For all the criticism of Act 68, obviously Act 68 is working."
ADDISON COUNTY — With the exception of tiny Hancock, residents in towns throughout Addison County overwhelmingly supported presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton to determine who will be the candidate representing the Democratic Party in its effort to recapture the White House. Meanwhile, Republicans overwhelmingly endorsed Sen. John McCain to be their party's candidate over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Countywide (with the results of Goshen — pop. 227 — unreported), residents supported Sen. Obama, 6,454 to 3,863 or 62.5 percent to 37.5 percent, over Sen. Clinton, and supported Sen. McCain, 1,889 to 420 or 82 percent to 18 percent, over former Gov. Huckabee.
Those results mirrored the rest of Vermont, where Obama swept the state with 60 percent of the vote compared to Clinton's 38 percent (John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich, who have pulled suspended campaigning, each got 1 percent).
On the Republican side, McCain garnered 72 percent of the vote compared to Huckabee's 14 percent. Conservative Ron Paul captured 7 percent of the vote, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who have both pulled out of the race, received 4 percent and 2 percent, respectively.
Of the 12,626 votes cast in the primary in Addison County, 82 percent voted in the Democratic primary.
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Wayne Raimey sped over a sandy wash, leaving plumes of dust in his wake, as his family and friends idled on their ATVs. For the better part of a Saturday, the six had roamed the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle area north of Big Bear, enjoying unencumbered landscape that stretched to the horizon on machines that climb rocks and skid through the sand with ease.
Raimey, who lives in Santa Ana, used to quad closer to home, but he started visiting Johnson Valley because "It's just so much easier going," he said. "You can ride for a while without seeing anybody. It's more open. It's more free."
Spanning 188,000 acres, Johnson Valley is currently the country's largest off-highway vehicle area. Under a plan the Secretary of the Navy announced in February, however, 103,600 of its acres would be absorbed by the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms for live-ammunition training; 43,000 acres would be shared by the Marines and the off-road community; and the remaining 41,400 acres would be designated as a Johnson Valley National Recreation Area.
The plan, which needs Congressional approval to take effect, has inspired a rare coalition among ordinarily disparate off-road groups, who have hired a Washington D.C. lobbyist to fight on their behalf.
"We're not opposed to the Marines being able to meet their training objectives," said Jeff Knoll, co-founder of the annual King of the Hammers off-road race in Johnson Valley and member of the California Motorized Recreational Council.
The coalition of eight off-road groups collected 28,303 signatures in 30 days and sent them to the White House to protest the base expansion one day before the Secretary of the Navy published its Record of Decision to take over the majority of Johnson Valley.
"We're asking them to use this area under a permit like any other event would. Just don't absorb it into the base," said Knoll, who estimates the Johnson Valley OHV draws between 300,000 and 1 million visitors each year.
The Marines' plan would reduce the amount of OHV land in California by about half, Knoll said.
The proposed land division, known as Alternative Six, was one of a half dozen proposals the Marines considered to expand the 935-square-mile Combat Center at Twentynine Palms. Despite being the largest Marine Corps base in the country, just 40% of the property is available for training due to terrain and wildlife issues, according to Twentynine Palms spokesman Capt. Nicholas Mannweiler.
He said the Johnson Valley land is needed to conduct training operations involving tens of thousands of Marines using aircraft, tanks and heavy weapons, such as laser-guided bombs, missiles and artillery that can travel as far 14 miles.
Some have questioned the need for such training when the Iraq War ended in 2009 and combat operations in Afghanistan will be terminated next year. According to Mannweiler, the training that will take place in Johnson Valley has nothing to do with either war. The training is preparation for future conflicts that are likely to include assaults on land and water and may involve the global supply of oil, 50% of which is shipped "through strategic choke points that a hostile country could block off," he said.
"This land expansion is needed to support the men and women asked to go into harm's way to handle situations that could have very severe effects on our nation, our well being and our way of life if not handled appropriately," Mannweiler said. "The best way to support those Marines is to provide them with tough, realistic training."
The battle for Johnson Valley began in August 2008, when the Marines first filed an application with the Bureau of Land Management to add the OHV area to the Twentynine Palms base. That application has its roots in a 2004 U.S. Navy study that reported none of the country's military bases were spacious enough to support large-scale live ammunition training.


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Rev. Marvin A. McMickle, Ph.D., a respected preacher, author and figure in the struggles for social, racial and economic justice, will give a guest lecture Oct. 9 at Gannon University.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Yehl Ballroom of Gannon University's Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th St. It is titled, "Economic Justice in Today's World."
On Jan. 2, 2012, McMickle became president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, N.Y. His inauguration will be held Oct. 16-17.
He previously served 24 years as senior pastor at Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland and led Antioch Baptist in establishing a ministry for people with or affected by HIV/AIDS. The ministry was the first of its kind nationally.
McMickle earned a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, a doctor of philosophy degree from Case Western Reserve University and a doctor of ministry degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Ordained in 1973, McMickle served churches in New York and New Jersey and has taught at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State University, Princeton and Fordham, and more recently at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees at Cleveland State.
McMickle also is a past president of the Cleveland NAACP, the Urban League of Cleveland and the Shaker Heights (Ohio) school board. He is the author of numerous books and articles in professional journals and other publications.
His lecture is sponsored by Inter-Church Ministries and Gannon University's Campus Ministry Office and Center for Social Concerns.
Gannon University is a Catholic, Diocesan university offering nearly 100 academic programs, including doctoral programs in physical therapy and organizational learning and leadership. Gannon enrolls more than 4,000 academically talented and diverse students.
Gannon is ranked in the top tier in the new edition of "America's Best Colleges" for the ninth consecutive year and is included in the annual guide's list of "Great Schools at Great Prices" for the seventh time. Learn more here.
Gannon University announces the launch of the Institute for Health and Cyber Knowledge (I-HACK).


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There are a wide range of different factors that insurers take into account to work out the likelihood of you making a claim when you apply for a policy. Some insurers assign you to a risk tier, i.e. you are grouped with people who represent a similar level of risk, or you are given a score, i.e. like a credit score. Each company has its own system for assessing your risk profile. That's why it's always worth shopping around. What some insurers classify as high risk, may be treated as less threatening by others. So premium rates can vary quite significantly between the insurers. However, there are a number of common factors in deciding whether you get cheap auto insurance.
Who you are is one of the first factors that insurers take into account with their being more accidents involving young and inexperienced drivers and seniors aged 65 or over. Gender is important as women tend to drive more safely than men. Now we get into the variables. Where you live and your job directly affect the rates. Some ZIP codes have high rates of theft and vehicle damage. Some jobs are associated with poor levels of vehicle maintenance and higher numbers of accidents. How far you drive every week and what the road conditions are like directly affect the risk of an accident. Finally, according to the statistics, young married couples have fewer accidents than singles or older couples.
Now we come to the really important factors. If you buy a make and model with an excellent safety record which is difficult to steal, the cheap auto insurance rates will be low. But if you buy a high-powered monster that's very expensive to repair or replace, the rates will be high. It's the same with your driving record. If you have never picked up a ticket in thirty years of claim-free driving, you have qualified for cheap car insurance. If you have multiple violations, particularly involving alcohol or drugs, you will be classified as high risk and the premium rates will be astronomical. Indeed you may find it difficult to buy any insurance on the voluntary market.


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Community colleges in Canada are government-regulated post-secondary institutions offering 1- to 2-year academic and pre-professional certificates, diplomas, 2-year associate's degrees and even 3- and 4-year specialized bachelor's degrees. Community colleges aim to make post-secondary education available to as many students as possible, and one school will often operate multiple campuses in different regions. Across all of Canada, more than 150 community colleges operate over 900 campuses.
Community colleges in Canada may also be called institutes, institutes of technology, technical colleges, regional colleges, university colleges or simply colleges. They aren't just lesser versions of universities, though; community colleges fill a unique niche in the province's education system, combining high quality, comprehensive academics with employer-centred programs, industry connections and internship opportunities.
So what can you study at a community college in Canada? Community colleges offer academic courses in the arts and sciences as well as specialized career and language training. The college itself may be a general education school offering a variety of programs in different fields (such as health, business, technology, trades, academic upgrading, applied and creative arts, social services, hospitality, and university preparation), or it may be a single field-, industry-specific college (for example, college of forestry, college of art and design, college of justice and public safety). Community colleges may also be faith-based, offering specialized Christian programs in leadership, ministry and theology.
Compared to universities, community colleges in Canada have smaller classes, more options for off-campus courses, a greater ratio of laboratory space to classroom space, more interactive teaching, more co-op and practicum opportunities and more inclusive admissions requirements. Many community colleges have university transfer agreements, so you can transfer your credits toward a university degree program.
Use the links in the menu on the right to read more about preparing for, choosing, and applying to community college in Canada. We've also provided information on scholarships for international students, community college accreditation, going from community college to university in Canada, plus a section of stats on the largest community colleges in Canada and answers to some common questions about community colleges. Profiles of featured community colleges will tell you still more specific details about individual schools. Curious about community colleges in Canada? Start here!


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It has been four days since the Washington Post published its misleading story by Jonathan Finer and Doug Struck on blogger Bill Roggio. We linked to Roggio's response earlier this week. The Post has yet to respond to Roggio's points in print or to run any corrections.
Today Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist and blogger Jack Kelly calls the Post out: "WaPo's preemptive strike against Bill Roggio." Kelly calls the article "the journalistic equivalent of a drive-by shooting" and comments: "Drive-by shootings are notoriously inaccurate, and the story by Mr. Finer and Mr. Struck, which ran last Monday, contained so many errors it should be an embarrassment to the Washington Post."


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The Redskins are at home Sunday to play host to a Bengals team that got on track last week with a seven-point win over the Browns. The Skins are 1-1 after a disheartening loss in St.Louis.
Robert Griffin III will have plenty of drool over as he watches film of the Bengals D. Last week vs the Browns, the Bengals were outgained 439-375 in total offense.
This game could easily turn into a wild west shootout, with RGII and Bengals QB Andy Dalton each having big afternoons. Last week vs the Browns, Dalton threw for 318 yards and a career best-tying three touchdowns.
The Bengals D has allowed an average of 434.5 yards to rank 30th in the league. This from a team that last season have up 316.3 yards per game. The club is still trying to get use to not having Thomas Howard. last season's leading tackler.
"I know that we are a better defense than we've been showing," defensive lineman Domata Peko said. "I think we've just got to settle down. It seems like everybody's eyes have been too wide open, like a deer in the headlights."
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Child Identification Program Comes to Hot Springs
PIERRE - The South Dakota Child Identification Program is coming to Hot Springs.
Parents and guardians are invited to the Hot Springs Elementary School's multi-purpose room from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday to take part in a program that collects identifying items from children.
The items include dental impressions, DNA cheek swabs, digital still photos and fingerprints. The materials generated by the program are given to the child's family to be kept as an identification kit in the event the youngster goes missing. The program is free.
Jackley calls the program "comprehensive" in a statement released Wednesday. It's an offshoot of an initiative launched by the Masons of North Dakota. For more information online, go to www.sd-chip.org.
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Carol Kennedy married Steven DeMocker on Oct. 10,
"48 Hours": End of the Trail
Credit: Jim DeMocker
The couple was married for 25 years before they
divorced in 2008.
Carol Kennedy and Steven DeMocker with their two daughters, Katie, left, and Charlotte.
Steve DeMocker and Carol Kennedy shared a love
for the outdoors.
Carol Kennedy is shown kayaking during a
family vacation in 1996.
Carol Kennedy and Steve DeMocker enjoyed scuba diving during a
family vacation
The DeMockers frequently explored the outdoors. From
left, Carol, Katie, Charlotte and Steve together during a family
Credit: Jim deMocker
There was no doubt that Steve DeMocker loves his
The DeMockers looked picture perfect during this
family vacation with Steve's parents, John and Janice DeMocker.
Steve and Carol DeMocker share a smile during happier days of
their marriage.
Carol Kennedy was an artist with a knack for
Video: Carol's friends on her love of art
Credit: Katie and Charlotte DeMocker
Carol Kennedy spent hours in the studio working on her
"48 Hours" End of the Trail
Printmaking is an art form that brings the disciplines
of drawing, painting and graphic arts into one arena.
In 2005, Carol Kennedy and Steve DeMocker separated. Their divorce was finalized on May 28, 2008.
Carol Kennedy's friend, Betsy Petit, said that Carol's
difficult time with her divorce was expressed in her art.
Credit: Albert Kadosh, Spectrum 77 Photography
According to her friends, Carol Kennedy started using darker, moodier colors in her art work at the time of her divorce.
On June 28, 2008, Carol, Steve and Charlotte took
Katie, left, to the airport before she left to travel abroad. This photo was taken
just four days before Carol was murdered.
Credit: Yavapai County Attorney's Office
Steven DeMocker and Charlotte, right, pose with
Katie at the airport when the family sent her off to study abroad.
Credit: : Yavapai County Attorney's Office
Carol Kennedy and her youngest daughter, Charlotte,
smile for the camera. Carol was brutally killed in her home four days later.