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8140 Westlake Drive is a $49,900 property located in Parkville, MO.
Homesite in The Reserve, the maintenance provided area of Riss Lake, on the west side. Build your dream home here! Walk-out lot with trees. Maintenance ($235/month) includes lawn mowing, chemical applications, sprinkler start up and shut down, snow removal, more. Enjoy Riss Lake's 3 pools, tennis, walking trails, boating and fishing on the LAKE, more.
No Equipment Included
|Exterior Features
Amenities - Trails
Amenities - Boat Dock
Amenities - Lawn Maintenance
Amenities - Snow Removal
Amenities - Swimming Pool
Amenities - Tennis Courts
Amenities - Trash Pick Up
HOA Dues Include - Play Area
HOA Dues Include - Pool
HOA Dues Include - Tennis Courts
HOA Dues Include - Trash Pick Up
HOA Dues Include - Curbside Recycle
HOA Dues Include - Exercise Trail
Lake Privileges
Street Maintenance - Paved
Street - Public Maintenance
Utilities - Natural Gas On-Site
Utilities - Telephone On-Site
Utilities - Electricity On-Site
Buildings - No Buildings
Current Use - Single Family
Fence - None
Improvements - Curb(s) & Gutter(s)
Road Maintenance - City
Road Surface - Concrete
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Flood Plain - No
Inside City Limits - Yes
Crops - None
Finished Lot(s)
Minerals - All Rights Included
Vegetation - Natural State
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Grinder Pump
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park hill
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park hill south
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Today Google Maps has introduced quality guidelines for business listings in the Google Maps. Google has also now provided a reinclusion option. Both are available via the Google Maps Help Center.
Quality Guidelines:
The following items outline practices that could result in your business listings being permanently removed from Google Maps. While they cover the most common practices to avoid, Google may respond negatively to other practices not listed here. If you have any question about whether or not a tactic is deceptive, we recommend you stand on the side of caution.
- Represent your business exactly as it appears in real life. The name on Google Maps should match the business name, as should the address, phone number and website.
- List information that provides as direct a path to the business as you can. Given the choice, you may want to list individual location phone numbers over a central phone line, official website pages rather than a directory page, and as exact of an address as you can.
- Only include listings for businesses that you represent.
- Don't participate in any behavior with the intention or result of listing your business more times than it exists. Service area businesses, for example, should not create a listing for every town they service. Likewise, law firms or doctors should not create multiple listings to cover all of their specialties.
- Use the description and custom attribute fields to include additional information about your listing. This type of content should never appear in your business's title or address fields.
The guidelines are a first real indication of Google's standards for defining a real business listing from a spammy one. Previously the only known criteria was the single location/single listing rule. However the guideline still offer some ambiguity as to what is spam and what isn't. For example are affiliate florist's phone numbers that are listed in local phone books like Superpages using local exchanges but having no actual address considered spam?
For the first time Google has made an authoritative statement about keyword stuffing of business title. This type of content should never appear in your business's title or address fields. The word never indicates that it is a clear and unambiguous reason for being delisted but as I have found in the small business world there already is ambiguity as to naming of businesses. This reality creates a fairly broad area of both discretion for Google and unclearness for small businesses.
The reinclusion request takes on a certain confessional aspect with required self reflection and identification of the SEO firm that may have precipitated the problem.
Kudos to Google for clarifying their rules and creating an opportunity for reinclusion when appropriate. These rules provide much clearer guidance about what can and can not be done.Google Maps announces Quality Guidelines & Reinclusion Option by Mike Blumenthal

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Third 'Story' subtitled 'Coven;' Bates joins cast
LOS ANGELES -- The third season of "American Horror Story" will be subtitled "Coven," and add actress Kathy Bates to the series' ensemble, according to the TV anthology's co-creator, Ryan Murphy.
"We're far enough along in the writing that I can tell you what it's about," Murphy announced to more than 1000 of the show's fans who attended the PaleyFest panel on the series Friday night at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles.
Murphy ("Nip/Tuck," "Glee," "The New Normal") confirmed there would be witches in the new season, but failed to reveal any more plot specifics. "It's a really cool story that we've been talking about for a couple of years, actually, and this seemed the year to do it," he continued, dropping one more tidbit:
After filming the first two seasons on lots and soundstages, parts of the series three will be shot in New Orleans.
"The fun thing about doing the show is researching what are the really haunted places in America, because every year the institution is one of the lead characters," Murphy explained. "The first year was Murder House, and this year was Asylum. We have another couple doozy locales."
Joining Murphy on the panel were "American Horror Story: Asylum" cast members Frances Conroy, Naomi Grossman, Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Lily Rabe as well as executive producers Dante Di Loreto, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear. Before the event, it had been reported that Conroy, Lange, Paulson, Peters and Rabe were confirmed to be a part of the third season.
Previously, Murphy had also said Lange would be playing a "glamor cat" in her latest "Story" role. When Lange was asked about that new character, she replied, laughing, "I don't know what a 'glamor cat' is, but I am excited about it."
Late in the event, the ensemble's latest major cast addition was introduced to the audience: the Oscar-winning Bates ("Misery"), who said she was a big fan of the series and a longtime friend of Lange. Joked Murphy, "You know, I love a good Oscar winner," referring to two-time Academy Award honoree Lange, and adding that he and Lange had thought of Bates as this season-three character for some time. "So I pitched (Bates) this cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs character. I said, 'I know you have a lot going on. And we're way, way, way far ahead, but think about it for a couple weeks, and call me or write me.' And my phone rang an hour later: 'I'm in.'"
"I've always been fast," Bates injected, chuckling.
Continued Murphy, "The only thing I'll say about the part is, you know, I wanted to see a lot of scenes with Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates going at it. So, that's what you're going to see."
Murphy also said he was considering a vampire-themed 'Horror Story,' and that "I have been talking to John (FX network president and general manager John Landgraf) about doing a companion piece to 'American Horror Story,' so I think it would be really cool to do a couple different incarnations of the idea. So, we've been talking about that, but I can't talk about it."
"American Horror Story: Coven" will premiere this fall on FX.


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TORONTO - Toronto police Chief Bill Blair, who was in charge during the widely maligned G20 mass arrests four summers ago and has been a frequent target of Mayor Rob Ford's wrath, will lose his job in April after his request for a contract renewal was rejected Wednesday.
The police services board offered no substantive reasons in a statement announcing its decision.
"After considerable discussion related to the Toronto Police Service's continuing need for organizational renewal, the board has decided not to renew the employment agreement of Chief Blair," the board said.
"The board extends to Chief Blair our sincere gratitude for his outstanding record of public service and inspiring leadership."
Blair, 60, had little to say in response to the statement.
"All that he's saying is that he wants to thank the board for its consideration," said Blair's spokesperson, Mark Pugash.
"He will have plenty of opportunities to address the issues as time goes on."
Blair intends to stay in the job until April 25, 2015, when his five-year contract expires.
The tall, strapping police chief found himself the target of Ford's anger over an ongoing police investigation into the mayor that, among other things, turned up a video apparently showing him smoking crack cocaine.
At a news conference announcing retrieval of the video last October, Blair said he was disappointed at what it showed.
Ford, who later admitted to smoking crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor" and took time out for addictions treatment last month, repeatedly said the probe into his activities was politically motivated. He publicly accused Blair of wasting taxpayers' money with the investigation.
The mayor also challenged the chief to arrest and charge him, prompting Blair at one point to call in provincial police to oversee the investigation.
"If he's going to arrest me, arrest me," Ford said in February. "I have done nothing wrong."
On Wednesday, however, Ford also had little to say after the board's decision. He did strike a somewhat conciliatory tone.
"I want to thank Chief Bill Blair for his service to the people of this great city for the last 10 years," Ford said at city hall.
"This is a decision that was made strictly by the police services board. That's all I can say."
Ford took no questions.
In its statement, the board said it would turn its mind now to finding a successor to Blair, who began as police chief in April 2005, replacing Julian Fantino, currently federal minister of veterans affairs.
Blair was in charge during the tumultuous G20 summit in June 2010 in which police arrested more than one thousand people in what critics denounced as one of the largest abuses of civil liberties in Canadian history.
More recently, he called in retired Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci to investigate police shootings of the mentally ill and people in crisis. Iacobucci released his report last week, and Blair promised to ensure every one of the 84 recommendations would be implemented.
Board chair Alok Mukherjee had little to add to the statement, saying the discussions were confidential. But he denied it had anything to do with Ford's relationship with Blair or his handling of the G20 protests. He did say the police service needs some "fundamental" changes in how it delivers its services.
Despite refusing to keep him on, the board praised Blair for his "long and distinguished" career in policing.
"He is widely viewed as a champion of community policing and a leader in law enforcement around the world," the board said.
"He has demonstrated his commitment to issues of human rights, diversity and integrity, among many others, and has served Toronto admirably and tirelessly."


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Arts Advocacy Day is April 17! (April 17, 2012)
Washington, D.C. - April 17 is National Arts Advocacy Day – please join with arts advocates across the country in speaking up in support of the arts! The League, a national co-sponsor of Arts Advocacy Day, participates in the legislative planning committee that creates the messages carried by arts advocates in the nation's capital and nationwide. Join us in this national day of advocacy: it only takes a few minutes to contact your Senators and Representative on the issues that matter most to you!
1) Contact your members of Congress on April 17
Customize any of the letters we have set up for you in a range of advocacy issue areas. It pays to personalize our sample letters with a few details from home. Congress wants and needs to hear real stories and examples that tell them of the local impact national policy has! Elected officials regularly ask their staff to track the top issues motivating constituents to call or write – make sure to keep the arts on Congress's radar!
Click here to see the full range of issue areas impacting orchestras and choose one or two that matter the most to you.
2) Engage with your representatives at home
Advocacy begins and is most powerfully sustained in your own community, so take some time to maintain relationships throughout the year. View our 2012 Calendar of Advocacy Opportunities to learn when your representatives will be home, schedule a meeting, and continue communicating with them throughout the spring, summer, and the rest of the year. When members of Congress are home, take advantage of the opportunity to invite them to attend your orchestra's concerts and see community programs in action.


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Jon Fires Back at Kate -- You Took $$$ Too!
In football, if both teams commit a penalty on the same play, they just do the play over. Does the same thing apply when Jon and Kate Gosselin both allegedly violate a court order?
A few days after Kate claimed Jon raided their joint bank account (a legal no-no), Jon filed papers of his own claiming she did the same. According to the papers filed last week, Jon claims Kate withdrew over $60,000 from their joint account between July and September 2009.
He also claims she took out over $1 million from February 2008 to June 2009 that have not been properly accounted for.
Sources connected to Kate contend her withdrawals were legal and note that Jon withdrew $230,000 without the necessary permission required by the arbitrator. Both sides are due back in court on Tuesday.
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From Wikipedia
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990)[1] was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States, after being expelled from middle school because of his infection. A hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment and, when diagnosed in December 1984, was given six months to live. Doctors said he posed no risk to other students, but AIDS was poorly understood at the time, and when White tried to return to school, many parents and teachers in Kokomo rallied against his attendance.[2] A lengthy legal battle with the school system ensued, and media coverage of the case made White into a national celebrity and spokesman for AIDS research and public education. He appeared frequently in the media with celebrities such as Elton John, Michael Jackson and Phil Donahue. Surprising his doctors, White lived five years longer than predicted and died in April 1990, one month prior to his high school graduation.
Before White, AIDS was a disease widely associated with the male gay community, because it was first diagnosed among gay men. That perception shifted as White and other prominent HIV-infected people, such as Magic Johnson, the Ray brothers and Kimberly Bergalis, appeared in the media to advocate for more AIDS research and public education to address the epidemic. The U.S. Congress passed a major piece of AIDS legislation, the Ryan White Care Act, shortly after White's death. The Act was reauthorized in 2006 and again on October 30, 2009; Ryan White Programs are the largest provider of services for people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.
The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act (Ryan White Care Act, Ryan White, Pub.L. 101-381, 104 Stat. 576, enacted August 18, 1990) was an Act of the U.S. Congress named in honor of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS through a tainted hemophilia treatment in 1984, and was expelled from school because of the disease. White became a well-known advocate for AIDS research and awareness, until his death on April 8, 1990.[2]
The act is the United States's largest federally funded program for people living with HIV/AIDS. The act sought funding to improve availability of care for low-income, uninsured and under-insured victims of AIDS and their families.[3]
Unlike Medicare or Medicaid, Ryan White programs are "payer of last resort", which fund treatment when no other resources are available. As AIDS has spread, the funding of the program has increased. In 1991, the first year funds were appropriated, around US$220 million were spent; by the early 2000s, this number had almost increased 10-fold. The Ryan White Care Act was reauthorized in 1996, 2000 and 2006. The program provides some level of care for around 500,000 people a year and, in 2004, provided funds to 2,567 organizations. The Ryan White programs also fund local and State primary medical care providers, support services, healthcare provider training programs, and provide technical assistance to such organizations.[3]
In fiscal year 2005, federal funding for the Ryan White Care Act was $2.1 billion. As of 2005, roughly one third of this money went to the AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) which provides drugs for 30 percent of HIV-infected patients.[4] The primary activity of ADAP is providing FDA-approved prescription medication.[5]
The Ryan White CARE Act mandates that EMS personnel can find out whether they were exposed to life threatening diseases while providing care. The clauses protecting emergency personnel were removed by congressional staffers in a renewal of the bill. The reason for the removal is unclear; some allege the staffers removed the clauses protecting emergency personnel because they did not understand why they were in the original Ryan White act.[6]
1. "A Timeline of Key Events in Ryan's Life". Ryanwhite.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
2. Johnson, Dirk (April 9, 1990). "Ryan White Dies of AIDS at 18; His Struggle Helped Pierce Myths". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 14, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
3. "The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program". Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
4. AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fact Sheet
5. Jessamy Taylor (2005-08-22). Caring for "Ryan White": The Fundamentals of HIV/AIDS Treatment Policy. The George Washington University. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
6. Bryan Bledsoe (March 2008). "Ryan White Notification Law Repealed". Retrieved 2008-04-11. [dead link]


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This is a wonderful and easy romantic berry cake that any level baker can whip up like a pro. I am hosting a Sheva Berachot next week and this cake is tops on my dessert menu. Save this in your desserts folder for any heart shaped themed dessert such as Mother's Day, a Bridal Shower, and Sheva Berachot. I would also cut out a dreidel shape for Hanukka, or triangle for Purim. Why not? The fillings are unlimited too! Use a tree shape for Tu bishvat and mound with new fruits and voila! You've got your own unique dessert creation! Have fun and send me your fruit filled cakes- I would LOVE to see what you've come up with!
p.s.- This cake is also a perfect pre-Passover excuse to start baking up the Hametz ingredients in the kitchen…
Many thanks to Emanuelle my Jewish Hostess Instagram follower from London (!) for sharing this fabulous recipe. Check out her blog www.manusmenu.blogspot.com.
- 11/2 cups superfine sugar
- 11/2 cups softened butter (margarine/dairy free butter)
- 4 eggs beaten
- 11/2 cups self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp milk soya milk
- 1 cup butter/dairy free butter
- 1 cup icing sugar
- strawberry jam
- (To make icing mix together butter and icing sugar in a food processor)
- red berries of your choice
- Pre-heat oven to 180 Degrees C or 350 Degrees F.
- Mix all cake ingredients together. (Make sure eggs are beaten before hand and butter is beaten before hand). Make sure the mixture is smooth and there are no lumps.
- Grease two round 8 inch cake trays.
- Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- While the cakes are in the oven, take an A4 piece of paper and fold it in half.
- Draw half of a heart on one side of the fold.
- Cut out the drawn half heart shape while the paper is still folded. You should come out with a heart shape.
- When the cakes have baked and cooled, CAREFULLY remove them from their cake trays and place them on a large flat surface.
- Place the heart stencil on the top side of one of the cakes. Carefully, with a sharp knife, cut around the shape. Make sure the cake is fully cooled. (You might want to keep your icing in the refrigerator until needed).
- Evenly spread a medium layer of icing on the other piece of cake.
- Spread jam on top of the icing, but leave centre (where heart will be) without jam.
- Gently and carefully place the cut-out-heart piece of cake (with a large spatula and help from a friend if possible!) on top of the other piece.
- Make sure it is placed evenly (and the heart actually looks like a heart!)
- Pour the fresh red berries in to the heart shaped 'hole'.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar. Enjoy!


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This is the Hour of Lead-
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow-
First - Chill - then Stupor - then the letting go -
When 19th century poet Emily Dickinson wrote those lines, she was describing the terrible paralysis of grief. A good century later, analysts for the Environmental Defense Fund, would also note that the last line "aptly describes some of the symptoms of lead intoxication."
I've always suspected that they also just liked the poem and wanted to use it - certainly that's partly my motive here. But I've also been thinking about one phrase in Dickinson's verse because it seems to me, recently, that as a human society we seemed perpetually caught - by which I mean poisoned - in an endless" hour of lead."
The chemical symbol for lead is Pb, from the Latin word "plumbum" which referred to a malleable metal. The term plumbing comes from the use of lead pipes by the Romans; a plumber fixes them, a plumb bob refers to a lead weight, a plumb line is pulled straight by such a weight. An old-fashioned term for lead poisoning is plumbism. We are surrounded by references to what is arguably the most important poison in human history.
Many scholars have argued, for instance, that the plumbum-loving Roman empire - enthusiastically using lead pipes, bottles, and wine cups, leaded cosmetics and paint - came to its end partly due to lead-poisoning of its upper classes. One U.S. Environmental Protection Agency paper on the history of lead poisoning, cites "the conspicuous pattern of mental incompetence that came to be synonymous with the Roman elite" as evidence of lead's destructive effects.
Interestingly, the EPA paper also cites poetry to illustrate the evils of lead poisoning, a scrap of anonymous verse, attributed to a Roman hermit and translated in 1829:
The feeble offspring curse their crazy sires,
And, tainted from his birth, the youth expires.
The key points there being, of course, crazy sires and dead children. "No safe blood lead level has been identified," notes a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) backgrounder on exposure risks. Lead is a broad spectrum poison - it interferes with enzyme production, especially enzymes needed by red blood cells, and is known to cause lethal anemias. It targets neurons, disrupting the production of neurotransmitters such as glutamate (which plays a key role in learning by enhancing plasticity). It deposits itself into bones and stays there - the half-life of lead in human bones is up to 30 years. Muscle weakness, numbness and tingling, nausea, severe stomach pain, depression, fatigue, sleeplessness, loss of libido - all are symptoms of lead poisoning and all speak to its ability to impact every part of the body.
The Romans weren't the only major civilization from our past to be affected by lead poisoning. This summer, environmental scientists in Japan reported the results of an investigation into lead exposure in the Edo period, which lasted from 1603 to 1867, a time when the country was dominated by shogun leaders, and laws enforced by an aristocratic class of samurai warriors.
According to Tamiji Nakashima, an anatomist at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Kitakyushu, the investigators studied the remains of samurai men, their wives and children, about 70 in total. Earlier tests had found unusually high levels in the women compared to men; the last study looked at the children. The researchers tested for lead in rib bones, x-rayed the childrens' arm and leg bones looking for signs of lead poisoning.
The Japanese scientists had already concluded that the lead levels in women were directly related to the white face paint popular in aristocratic circles, which turned out to be loaded with lead. They wondered if exposure to the same material might have harmed the children and the new results showed them precisely right; they found evidence of lead levels more than 120 times background level as well as bands of lead deposits in the bones.
Nakashima and his colleagues believe that the children were poisoned by touch, as they were fed, hugged, carried by their mothers, the lead-rich paint rubbed off on them. They also speculate that the gradual lead-poisoning - with its inevitable taint of death and disability - helped put an end to the shogunate reign in the late 19th century, setting up the transfer of power to an emperor.
It has only been in the last century, of course, that we've realized just how dangerous lead actually is. That knowledge has resulted from the new ability of scientists to detect it in very tiny amounts and to connect those trace exposures with health problems. In the dawn of lead awareness, governments have banned lead paint and leaded gasoline, moved to replace lead pipes in water systems, squeezed down allowable lead levels in consumer products.
Is this a smart response? Yes, obviously, if we are talking about poison unsafe at all levels. But only if said governments are actively - and honestly - trying to enforcement protective standards. For instance, as reported this spring by The Washington Post, when inspections discovered massive lead contamination from pipes in Washington D.C. in 2004, the Bush administration not only issued misleading reassurances but moved to loosen protective measures designed to protect against lead poisoning.
Or consider last year's discovery of lead in popular lipstick brands sold in the United States. Although some of these products showed clear lead contamination in amounts above EPA safety levels - and although women inevitably swallow some lipstick - the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared that the lipsticks were perfectly safe. And, in fact, they may pose no serious risk. But the FDA has also refused to release the full details of its study and the result has been an exasperated consumer movement, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
Finally, just today a coalition of five environmental groups filed a petition with the EPA, trying to force the agency to regulate the use of lead shot in hunting, which advocates say is now killing more than 10 million birds and animals every year, mostly due to consumption of spent lead pellets. contaminated by lead.
"It's long past time do something about this deadly - and preventable - epidemic of lead poisoning in the wild," said Jeff Miller, conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity. The government does ban the use of lead pellets in shooting waterfowl but conservationists say this barely touches the problem. Still, the EPA has been notably reluctant to take an this issue angrily opposed by hunting groups, who are already describing the petition as an attack on traditional hunting values.
This is not to suggest that lead problems - or even the worst lead problems - are concentrated in the United States. Last year, more than 1,300 children were sickened in China by lead exposure from nearby smelting plants, leading to furious protests from their parents against government cover-ups.
This year, the real lead horror story has come from Nigeria, where health experts now believe that some 18,000 people have been poisoned - and more than 200 children have died - as a result of lead exposure related to gold mining. The Chinese smelters were working with manganese ore, the Nigerians were not seeking to find lead, but many ores, as we know to our cost, are far from pure.
The eternal hour of lead, as I see it, is created by our decisions - we began by using lead before we understood its risks (or really had full ability to to do) and we've kept it close at hand ever since - accidentally, carelessly, stubbornly. But to misquote Emily Dickson, perhaps we've not yet finished our lead stupor, perhaps eventually we'll reach the point where we can let it go.


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Saturday, December 27, 2008
2008 in Review: Graphic Novels
Before this year, my only exposure to the graphic novel form had been the first four volumes of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and (unfortunately) some Jack Chick tracts. Needless to say (overlooking the tackiness of the last), I had virtually no experience in reading the graphic novel form. This year, I managed to read 15 graphic novels, 13 of them published this year (the other two being Alan Moore's classic Watchmen, which I highly recommend, by the way, and the graphic adaptation of some of horror writer Thomas Ligotti's tales, The Nightmare Factory: Volume I), thanks in equal measure to various publishing firms sending me unsolicited copies and to Jeff VanderMeer, whose generosity helped expose me to some talented storytellers whose works I would never have heard of, much less read, if he hadn't sent me a few spare copies of work he had received.
If the YA books I mentioned in my previous column seemed to be a bit eclectic in tone, theme, and writing style, that is nothing compared to the diversity of this group, united solely on the basis of drawn art being as much a part of the storytelling process as any words appearing on their pages. No less than 5 out of the 12 are histories, biographies, and autobiographies told with the use of comic-style illustrations (Howard Zinn, A People's History of American Empire; Alissa Torres, American Widow; Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography; Harvey Pekar and Gary Dumm, Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History; and Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, After 9/11: America's War on Terror (2001 - )), plus another (Appollo and Lewis Trondheim's Bourbon island 1730) that is largely historical in nature.
Since it is very difficult for me to talk at length about graphic novels, since I am not well-trained enough to say more than "Hey, this group of stories is great!" or "Hey, the artwork is cool!," I am going to take a more general approach there than I will for the other categories in my 2008 in Review series. Considering the non-fiction entries I've mentioned above, what I first noticed is how vivid the authors use the visual media form to reinforce their stories. While I certainly wouldn't consider the Zinn, Pekar/Dumm, Geary, or Jacobson/Colón books to be masterpieces of research and insight, their sometimes incendiary commentary, when matched with equally controversial drawings, serve to create texts that argue their points forcefully and with such power that whether one agrees with them or not (I only did to a point, sympathetic to Leftist causes as I may be), the reader's attention is grabbed immediately. These were excellent introductions to their chosen topics and despite wearing their Left-leaning biases on their sleeves proudly, these works are well worth the effort to read them.
Alissa Torres' autobiography, American Widow, takes the sad tale of a 9/11 widow (one who was pregnant with her first child when her husband died in the attacks on the World Trade Center) and personalizes it even more with the illustrations. The reader experiences not just Torres' hassles with the Red Cross and other relief organizations through her own words, but the illustrations serve to convey the alternating senses of grief, confusion, despair, anger, and forlorn hope in a way that words alone would struggle to accomplish. It was reading her tale that I began to understand better how graphic novels can carry an emotional resonance that traditional novels do not carry.
If the first five books represent historical events drawn in a realistic fashion, then Appollo and Lewis Trondheim's Bourbon Island 1730 presents a historical situation (the settlement of the Indian Ocean island formerly known as Bourbon Island during the 17th and 18th century) via the use of animals to stand in place of the various human ethnic groups who either chose or were forced to stay on that isolated isle. While the blurbs claim this book is told in the tradition of Watership Down, it might be more honest to note that symbolicly, the characters are more akin to Spiegelman's Maus than anything else. It is a tale of yearning and of freedom and the comic style suits the narrative well. While it doesn't contain the deep personal nature of Spiegelman's classic, Appollo and Trondheim do manage to show the humanity of the disparate ethnic groups involved in mutual (albeit antagonistic at times toward each other) struggles for survival on a new island precisely by drawing these groups as animals rather than as human beings.
There were two outstanding graphic anthologies included in my readings this year, the collaboratively-edited Out of Picture Volume 2 and the Kazu Kibuishi-edited Flight: Volume 5. In each of these anthologies, a wide cast of very talented illustrators, many of whom have worked for major animation studios, have drawn short sketches, some of which are almost entirely wordless stories. The vignettes are very colorful, striking not just in their visual appearance, but also in the depth of humanity that can be conveyed in the images. There is a wide range of styles employed in both anthologies and I cannot choose a favorite, either from one of the selections in each anthology, or between the anthologies themselves.
David Petersen's Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 has already garnered two Eisner Award wins for Best Publication for Kids and for Best Graphic Album - Reprint (it originally appeared as a set of comics, before being bound together in book form). The story is a clever one involving a set of brave mice who seek to protect their homes in the face of predatory threats, as well as from traitors in their midst. Petersen's illustrations are gorgeous and the story unfolds beautifully. It is in turns amusing and sad, with ever darker tones as the tale progresses to a close. Petersen is currently working on a second related series called Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 and when it is available in book form, I plan on purchasing it.
I had heard of Jim Butcher's urban fantasy/detective series The Dresden Files before, but until I received a finished version of his first graphic novel, Welcome to the Jungle (illustrated by the Dabel Brothers), I had never bothered reading any of his fiction. This graphic novel is a prequel to his series and it introduces one of wizard Harry Dresden's first cases. While the artwork is stunning (the colors in particular are very well-done), the story was merely adequate; it moved from plot point to plot point and served its purpose of providing something around which the illustrators could work. It was adequate to good, but in terms of story, it was the weakest of the graphic fictions I read this year.
The adaptation of several of Thomas Ligotti's horror stories in The Nightmare Factory: Volume Two, however, went much smoother. Not only did the adapters do a very good job in capturing much of Ligotti's tone and pacing (inevitably, there were some losses in effect, but much of this was made up in the illustrations), but the images (which varied from story to story) fit the story descriptions very well, creating a creepy, unsettling effect for most of the tales. A highlight for me was the adaptation of "The Clown Puppet," with its chilling conclusion being matched by the illustrator's drawings, while "The Chymist" is even more terrifying with the way the characters are drawn. Hopefully, there will be future adaptations of Ligotti's work in the near future.
Cyril Pedrosa's Three Shadows is a very poignantly-written (and drawn) tale of a family trying to avoid a nasty, shadowy threat, and the love that unites father, mother, and young son. Pedrosa does a good job in using his illustrations to underscore the story, rather than letting the story be overwhelmed with the visual images. The ending was very touching, perhaps the second-most moving out of the books listed here, with the exception of the final book to be discussed.
Nate Powell's Swallow Me Whole is the tale of two suburban kids in a blended family who struggle with incipient schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, while their parents and they struggle with the grandmother's slow decline into dementia and death. Powell has some well-drawn images and the pauses in the dialogue speaks volumes about the characters' conflicts and their attempts to fit in despite the mental illnesses they bear. As a high school teacher who has had students suffer through similar conditions, Swallow Me Whole was at times very uncomfortable to read, as it felt so personal. It is this sense of the real that makes Powell's story such a compelling one to read.
Hopefully, 2009 will lead to more graphic novel discoveries, as with one exception already noted, the fiction pieces were outstanding and the non-fiction not too shabby as well. Anyone else have any graphic novels from 2008 that they think ought to be considered among the year's best?
Next up will be a brief look at the debut authors/novelists I read this year, followed perhaps by a discussion of foreign fiction, translated and untranslated alike, that I enjoyed this year.
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- Eileen said...
Thanks for this. Having read quite a few manga, (I strongly recommend Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell), I've been wanting to get into American graphic novels. I got The Watchmen for Christmas (hardcover!) and it is absolutely amazing. Cannot WAIT for that movie!
Maus was awesome too.
- Joe said...
Very interesting list. I'm only starting to read more graphic novels, too, so I don't know what's out there.
So, I used this list to place a bunch of holds at the library.
Hey, have you read Shooting War from Anthony Lappe? VanderMeer recommended it earlier this year and it was outstanding.
- Lsrry said...
Will look into it in the near future, although I might take a slight break in book buying, after ordering a few hundred dollars' worth of books in the past couple of weeks!
No, I haven't, but considering Jeff is one of the few people whose recs I'll take without reservation, I'll look into it in a month or so, when I will permit myself to buy more books. And if you want to know which ones Jeff sent me, they were the Zinn, Powell, Pedrosa, and Appollo/Trondheim ones. The rest I received from Farrar, Straus, & Giraux, Villard, and I think Del Rey. Unsolicited, I ought to add, but appreciated nonetheless!
- ediFanoB said...
I also started to discover the world of graphic novels within this year. My first read was THE SANDMAN PRELUDES and NOCTURNES by Neil Gaiman.
Next one I read: WATCHMEN by Alan Moore
which left me dumbfounded.
I look forward to watch the movie:
MOUSEGARD:1152 and more SANDMAN books are on my list for 2009.
Anwy I would like to add:
Apocalypse Suite: v. 1 (Umbrella Academy) by Gerard Way
I got the first volume of a fantastic graphic novel/manga series on Christmas which I recommend:
Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 1: The Assassin's Road: 1 by Kazuo Koike
Anyway I look forward to read more about your discoveries in the world of graphic novels.
Does my heart good to see one of the reviewers I follow engaging with the comics. Er. Graphic novels. Right. You *might* enjoy Ultra (do you have any idea how hard it is to recommend stuff to you? I hate you so much), the first issue (1/8 of the print) of which can be read free here:
Boom Studios and Image also have Free Samples on Teh Intarwebs:
http://webcomics.boom-studios.net/2008/12/24/2-guns-page-125/ (heard some good things about this one but haven't gotten around to reading it myself)
http://www.imagecomics.com/onlinecomics.php (Age of Bronze and A Distant Soil might be your sort of thing. Maybe.)
I really need to get around to reading the Flight anthologies.
Oops. I think you should check out The Nightly News on the Image page as well. Yay double posting.
- Lsrry said...
Backwards Bona Fide,
Seems as though we both have quite a few more graphic novels to discover in the coming year, no? :D
I'll try to keep those recs in mind in the next month or so, when I resume book buying.
- Mark Newton said...
A bit late commenting on this, Larry - but did you pick up a copy of Jonathan Lethem's "Omega the Unknown" at all? That was a very fine and fun piece that came out this year.


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First joint meeting on antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infectionsArchived
This was the first joint annual plenary meeting of the EARS-Net and HAI-Net participants and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Focal Points.
EARS-Net and HAI-Net Coordination group meetingArchived
This will be the first joint meeting of the EARS-Net and HAI-Net Coordination groups. The meeting will address epidemiological, microbiological and technical aspects related to surveillance and reporting of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections.
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Annual meeting of healthcare-associated infections surveillance network (HAI-Net) and HAI-Net coordination groupArchived
The annual meeting of the healthcare-associated infections surveillance network (HAI-Net) and of the HAI-Net coordination group took place in Stockholm on 19-21 June 2012.
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Second joint meeting of Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-associated Infections (ARHAI) NetworksArchived
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TRICE-IS project (Implementation of a training strategy for Infection Control in the European Union)
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Court Halts Alleged Fake Debt Collector Calls from India, Grants FTC Request to Stop Defendants Who Often Posed as Law Enforcement
As posted on February 21, 2012 on www.ftc.gov
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation that the FTC alleges collected phantom payday loan "debts" that consumers did not owe. Consumers received millions of collection calls from India, and that since January 2010 the operation took in more than $5 million from victims, according to the FTC.
In tough economic times, many consumers turn to high-interest, short-term payday loans between paychecks. The FTC alleges that information submitted by consumers who applied online for these loans found its way into the hands of the defendants.
Often pretending to be law enforcement or other government authorities, the callers working with the defendants would falsely threaten to immediately arrest and jail consumers if they did not agree to make a payment on a delinquent payday loan, the FTC's court papers stated. Claiming to be law enforcement, such as a local police department, the "Federal Department of Crime and Prevention," or simply a "federal investigator," the callers typically demanded more than $300, and sometimes as much as $2,000. At other times, the callers said they were filing a large lawsuit against the consumer because of the delinquent payday loan or would have the consumer fired from his or her job, according to the FTC.
But the consumers did not owe money to defendants – either the payday loan debts did not exist or the defendants had no authority to collect them because they are owed to someone else, according to the FTC. The court order stops the illegal conduct and freezes the operation's assets while the FTC moves forward with the case.
"This is a brazen operation based on pure fraud, and the FTC is committed to shutting it down," said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "Consumers should not be pressured into paying debt they don't remember owing. Legitimate debt collectors must provide consumers with both written information about the debt, and instructions for protecting themselves if they don't think they owe the debt."
The case of Mark Merola is typical of consumers the defendants targeted. A caller with an Indian accent reached his wife at home and told her Merola would be arrested and immediately imprisoned if he did not pay what he owed on a payday loan. The caller later said he knew where Merola worked and threatened to send police there to arrest him. Despite not being delinquent on any loan and not owing money to the caller, Merola was afraid of the threatened arrest, so he paid $523.87 to the defendants.
As part of its continuing crackdown on scams that target consumers in financial distress, the FTC charged Villa Park, California-based American Credit Crunchers, LLC, an affiliated company called Ebeeze, LLC, and the companies' owner, Varang K. Thaker, with violating the FTC Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Over the last two years, consumers have filed more than 4,000 complaints with the FTC and state attorneys general about fraudulent debt collection calls.
According to the FTC's complaint, Thaker obtained information – often including Social Security or bank account numbers – about consumers who had inquired about, applied for, or obtained online payday loans. Thaker worked with telephone callers in India who called consumers using deceptive statements and threats to convince them to pay debts that were not owed or that he was not authorized to collect, the FTC alleged.
Thaker also profited handsomely from this scheme, according to documents filed with the court. He has withdrawn tens of thousands of dollars from the American Credit Crunchers and Ebeeze bank accounts, the FTC alleged.
According to the complaint, Thaker and his companies:
- falsely told consumers they were delinquent on a loan, they must pay it, and the defendants had the authority to collect it.
- falsely claimed to be law enforcement authorities or attorneys.
- made false threats against consumers who refused to pay the alleged debts, including threats of arrest or imprisonment.
- harassed and threatened consumers so that they often paid the alleged debts out of fear of being arrested or sued.
For more information about how to handle callers who claim to be debt collectors, see Who's Calling? That Debt Collector Could Be a Fake.


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Crockpot Chili with Spicy Sausage
(My Sister's Favorite Chili Recipe)
The favorite chili recipe from our family cookbook, made with simple but beautifully balanced ingredients. The technique is simple too, just brown the ground beef and spicy pork sausage, dump everything else in, then cook slowly. A cousin calls my sister's sausage chili recipe "magnificent"! I agree – it's now my own go-to recipe for hearty, man-friendly chili.
"...what a great chili recipe. It's got just the right amount of spice, the right amount of meat." ~ Anonymous
In 2003, my family on my mother's side published a family cookbook, collecting 350 recipes from more than a dozen families and three countries. What a collection of tried-and-true family recipes!
At family gatherings, we stand in the kitchen – fussing over the food, of course – and compare notes from the cookbook. "Did you try Laura's Carrot Soup?" "What about That Pink Salad?"
Still, some times a great recipe is overlooked until someone saves the day, as happened when Cousin Ingrid wrote, "Before the Super Bowl, you must tell your readers about the wonders of your sister's Crockpot Chili. It's absolutely magnificent and would make a great Game Day meal."
So for anyone with a pot of chili in Super Bowl plans, this is my sister's magnificent chili. It takes just a few minutes to cook the meat and sausage, then throw the rest into the slow cooker – yes, those onions and peppers go straight in, raw, and the results are great.
Another tip from my sister: chili served with – preferably over – homemade cornbread is one of her teenage boys' favorite things to eat. I'm willing to bet they're not alone.
CROCKPOT CHILI with SPICY SAUSAGE
Time to table: 7 – 24 hours
Makes 6 cups
- 1 pound hamburger
- 1 pound spicy pork sausage (a key ingredient, don't skip!)
- 1 large onion, chopped in big pieces (see TIPS)
- 1 sweet bell pepper, red or green, chopped big
- 1 poblano pepper, chopped big, optional
- 2 ribs celery, chopped big
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 15 ounces canned red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 28 ounces canned diced tomatoes
- 6 ounces tomato paste (don't skip, it really adds)
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- Pepper or cayenne pepper to taste
Brown meats in a skillet, don't be afraid to let a little 'burn' form on the meat pieces, it adds flavor and texture. While the meat cooks, add the remaining ingredients to a crockpot or Dutch oven. When it's cooked, drain the excess fat off the meat, add to the pot and stir well to combine.
CROCKPOT Cover and cook on high for 6 hours or on low for 8 – 10 hours. Best served the second day.
OVEN Bring to a boil on the stove, then cover and cook at 250F for 5 hours, stirring occasionally. Great on the first day, especially if cooked early in the day.
STOVETOP My sister says her chili can be cooked on the stovetop, just make sure your stovetop can hold a slow simmer.
A Super Bowl Menu
Crockpot Chili (above)
Alice Waters' Coleslaw
Savory Cornbread Muffins
Vanilla Brownies
~ more Super Bowl recipe ideas ~
More Hot Soups for Chilly Winter Days
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Seneca Township residents have until Jan. 25 to register for the recall election scheduled Feb. 23 at the township hall.
Absentee ballots must be requested from Morenci City Hall because city officials were appointed by the Lenawee County Clerk's office to oversee the election.
Township resident Dayna Cordts filed a petition for recall in September, seeking to remove clerk Allison Ott and treasurer Marie Meinke from office.
Cordts's recall petition alleges rude and disrespectful behavior during the Sept. 14 township meeting. The petition also faults the pair for voting in favor of enforcing a special use permit for Cordts's child care facility.
Township residents can register to vote by contacting the clerk, Ott, at her residence at 5732 Ridgeville Rd., or by contacting the county clerk's office at 425 N. Main St., Adrian.
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I don't know anyone who kicks quite as much ass as Desiree Schell does. I don't know that she does anything that isn't designed to make the world a better place. Nor does she do it in any sort of haphazard way. She studies. She takes the best of what's been done before and avoids what didn't work.
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The new Major League Soccer season is still just over a month away, but, come on, you know you've got the itch already. You've been jonesin' for a fix since the moment the final whistle blew to end the MLS Cup last December.
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So it's time to call your friends, make a league, and pick your team. The winner of your league gets bragging rights, of course, but the winner of the overall league will win much, much more: A trip for two to the 2014 MLS All-Star Game. (Terms and conditions apply.)
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There are lots of decisions to make, of course. Should you play a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3? Should you go for several high-priced stars and fill in the rest of the roster with low-priced player who might not get a lot of points? Or should you take a more balanced approach? These are just a few of the strategy questions you'll need to answer.
You can set up leagues with your friends. Each league member can pick any MLS player to be on his/her team.
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This year's edition of FS:M is full of new features. Here are a few:
- Transfers roll over, giving you more flexibility to manage your team.
- Manager Substitutions, update your team during the week, make sure you optimize your points.
- A second wildcard is available for the summer transfer window.
- Users can now login through Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft. They can also create an MLSsoccer account.
One of the most notable adjustements to the FS:M rules this year, however, revolves around the substitution policy. In 2013, managers are able to make mid-round substitutions. That means that after the completion of MLS matches on any given day, players can adjust their lineups before the MLS matches taking place the next day, though there are some rules that apply.Managers will also be able to change their captains under the same rules.
In addition, the transfer system has been tweaked. Transfers will now roll over, giving managers more opportunity to improve their rosters over time. Plus, managers will have a second wildcard available for the summer transfer window.
Y tambien...This year, you can also play FS:M in Spanish.
Stay connected with @MLSFantasy
This year, you can get the best FS:M advice and answers to any of your questions via the MLS fantasy Twitter handle: @MLSFantasy.
All in all, it makes for the best MLS fantasy game available.


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OTTAWA – The federal access-to-information watchdog, already investigating complaints that the government's central bureaucracy is withholding documents about the Senate scandal, is now being asked to widen its probe — again.
The request from the Liberals comes after months of the Privy Council Office saying it has no documents regarding Sen. Mike Duffy or the deal he struck over his housing expenses with Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff. The opposition parties are trying to find any kind of additional paper trail about that deal.
This week, the NDP pushed Prime Minister Stephen Harper on how much information was being blacked out from documents that have been publicly released. The Liberals started making similar complaints in the summer, and this month asked Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault to widen her office's probe of the PCO for the second time.
Postmedia News has also filed complaints with over the PCO's handling of access-to-information requests on the Senate spending affair.
The PCO has responded to multiple requests for documents by saying it either has none under its control — saying it's a matter inside the Prime Minister's Office, which isn't subject to the Access to Information Act — or that the documents don't exist.
In one case, Liberal MP Ralph Goodale asked for emails from former PMO legal adviser Benjamin Perrin, who court documents allege played a role in Wright's deal with Duffy. The PCO told Goodale it didn't have any of Perrin's emails – weeks after telling the RCMP in December that it had archived Perrin's email account after he left the PMO in April 2013.
"They're non-answers – deliberate avoidance of the issue. You just get the blather kind of answer, which is process rather than substance," Goodale said outside the House of Commons.
"It simply adds to the public's frustration, adds to the public's conviction that something very serious has gone wrong here and the public will keep wanting to have answers to their questions."
On Tuesday, the government tabled to five written questions from opposition parties in the House of Commons, including two from the Liberals, about whether the PCO would renew searches for documents after misplacing Perrin's emails, and one from the NDP about the Wright-Duffy deal. The government responded that PCO wasn't involved, had no documents and had followed the access-to-information law.


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Louisville fends off Illinois State 69-66
Russ Smith scored 24 points and Peyton Siva added 20, including four 3-pointers, to help No. 5 Louisville edge Illinois State 69-66 on Saturday.
Down 3 with a chance to tie, Illinois State's Tyler Brown airballed a 3-pointer with eight seconds left that was saved by Bryant Allen to Jackie Carmichael. Carmichael found Brown for another chance at overtime, drawing considerable contact from Louisville's Chane Behanan as the buzzer sounded. Louisville (6-1) claimed the win with the shot awry and no foul called.
Up 67-66 with 43 seconds left, Behanan missed two free throws but made amends on the next defensive possession, pinning a Carmichael shot on the glass and grabbing the rebound. That set up Siva for two free throws for the game's final margin.
Illinois State (5-2) led 61-60 with 4:25 to play after being up nearly the entire first half. Brown led all scorers with 25 points. Carmichael added 20.
Playing their second game without injured center Gorgui Dieng, Louisville started flat and trailed by 13 more than eight minutes in before its backcourt and defense rallied.
Junior Stephan Van Treese played 34 minutes in Dieng's absence and provided much-needed energy to go with his eight rebounds and six points.
Louisville trailed for all but the first 39 seconds of the first half, enduring a scoring drought of more than seven minutes after Behanan's opening basket, and went into the break down 33-25. Brown and Carmichael combined for 27 in the first half, outscoring Louisville in the opening 20 minutes.
The Cardinals took just their second lead at 37-35 with 16:37 left since scoring the game's first basket but Illinois State continued to battle in the second half.
Siva - the Big East preseason player of the year - went to the bench with his fourth foul with 13:09 to play. Smith then carried the Louisville offense with his backcourt partner out, driving to the basket and drawing fouls. He hit six of eight free throws in a three-minute stretch, the last cutting the Illinois State lead to 55-51 with 10:03 to play.
Siva returned with 9:07 left, Illinois State up 57-51. Smith's steal from Johnny Hill and layup 21 seconds later was Louisville's first field goal in nearly four minutes. Luke Hancock immediately drew a charge on Hill on the next possession and Siva's 3-pointer off an inbounds play with 8:33 remaining cut the lead to one.
Behanan, who finished with 15 points and nine rebounds, hit an elbow jumper at the 6:08 mark to give Louisville its first lead in more than 10 minutes at 60-59. Johnny Wilkins' answered with 4:25 left for the Redbirds' last lead at 61-60 before Siva's final three from the right elbow put Louisville up for good nine seconds later.


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Carlo DeFranco's love affair with Mustangs began back in 1994 at age 14 when he would lie awake on summer nights and listen for the distinctive rumble of his neighbor's red '94 GT convertible cruising by. He loved the new cars while growing up, but movies such as Bullitt and Gone In 60 Seconds fueled his desire to own a vintage Mustang one day. Years down the road, Carlo was performing an extensive search of '67-69 Mustangs and found this '69 SportsRoof car in lower Wisconsin. Seeing that it was an original California car with a solid undercarriage and very little rust throughout the body, he jumped at the chance. The story from the seller is that it was shipped to Schaumburg, Illinois, in the mid 1980s where it was painted red, then put into storage. It was purchased again in late 2008 and received a full restoration and repaint back to the original Black Jade Metallic—a wise decision, we think. That's how it looked when Carlo purchased the car in 2009 and brought it to Dundee, Illinois, very close to its second owner in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Carlo loves the vintage look, but doesn't consider himself a purist, so he decided to personalize his Mustang with touches like sequential LED taillights, LED instrument cluster lights, wood rim steering wheel, Flowmaster exhaust, and Mach 1style air dam and spoiler. For performance, he upgraded the distributer, replaced the two-barrel carb with a four-barrel, and swapped on Magnum 500 wheels with BFGoodrich Radial T/A tires for more grip.
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Instead of a comfortable retreat, 13-year-old Wesley's bedroom had become the place he associated with being stuck in bed, too sick to get out of the house. When it came time to choose a wish, Wesley knew he wanted to create a new space where he could find peace and escape his cancer diagnosis."I wish to have a video recording studio in my basement," he told Make-A-Wish® Connecticut. "Somewhere I can make videos to share with my friends online."
Wish granters got to work transforming the small space into a high-tech studio — complete with recording equipment, dual screen computer monitors and state-of-the-art editing software. A mural decorates a corner of the room, showing a dark, graffitied tunnel with a bright light at the end — a symbol of Wesley's strength and perseverance.
"Wesley recently had an unexpected relapse, but he's dealing with it differently this time," said Wesley's mom, Jackie. "He goes to the new studio as a distraction, to take a break from everything. It's made a difference in my attitude, too. I feel so much better knowing my son isn't trapped in his room, but is finding freedom with his online friends thanks to the studio."
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As ridiculous as Donald Trump's claims may be regarding President Obama's birth certificate and what his "hired investigators" are finding in Hawaii, the issue is just not dying down. So, in a two-episode series airing this week, AC360 is serving as a sort of Snopes.com by sending their own team of investigative reporters to Hawaii to speak to officials from the state health department, the school Obama's mother attended, other families who were int he hospital the same time Obama was born, and two state officials who have actually seen the birth certificate in the state's vault. In an interview with Donald Trump on last night's episode, Cooper presented all of these findings—which, in fact, prove that President Obama was born in Hawaii—and wanted to know where Trump was getting his information to the contrary.
Trump, however, would not reveal his sources and instead turned to a different urban legend, this time insisting that Obama's grandmother admitted that her grandson was born in Kenya. However, Cooper had the original phone call from which this rumor stemmed, and played it for Trump. Unbelievably, Trump refused to concede on this point. As one analyst on the show later told Cooper, "You keep making the mistake of making logical arguments."


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In 1988, David received his first achievement when he was awarded the Artiste FIAP (AFIAP) by the Federation International De L'Art Photographique (International Federational of Photographic Art) of Switzerland. The following year (1989) being elected as an Associate member of the Photographic Society of New York (APSNY).
His greatest achievement came in 1993 when the Photographic Society of America - Colour Slide Division, bestowed a PSA Galaxy Three Exhibitor Award for outstanding accomplishment in Colour Slides and also his active participation in the recognized exhibitions all over the world. In January 1991, He had gained the Licentiateship (LBIPP) from the British Institute of Professional Photography and also in 1994, he had also gained the Licentiateship (LMPA) from the Master Photographers Association(UK).
His most outstanding achievement in my career is one of his works was selected by the Photographic Society of America (PSA) for the World Exhibition 1992 PSA Convention. This piece of work is now at the PSA - Colour Slides Division Permanent Collection. It is only shown at Special PSA Events. The other achievements includes being selected as an Active Exhibitor by the Award Committee of the Photographic Society of Penang (AEPSP), the Active Exhibitor of Photographic Society of Penang (1986) and an Senior Associate member of Wilmington,USA.
His active participations in the Photographic of Singapore where he held various key appointments were as a Honorary Secretary (1989), Assistant Secretary (1988) and the Chairman of the Singapore International of Photography (1990). In 1993, he earned a Fellowship of the Photographic Society of Malaysia which is the highest award. Following the year of 1996, he had earned his Licentiateship in the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers of London. In 2014 he received his EPSA.
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