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God's Love We Deliver
166 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212.294.8100
Fax: 212.294.8101
There's nothing more empowering than doing a kindness for others every day, and keeping it to yourself. GLWD is the perfect venue for achieving this goal.- annonymous
Thanks to God's Love We Deliver I am able to get meals that are nutritionally healthy for me as I am limited in mobility and can't cook for myself. The meals allow me to stretch my food stamps monthly and the staff assists me with having someone here at home prepare meals that I would not normally cook for myself and are healthier. Thanks God's Love, you're the best.- Lennie
This donation is from the WestBeth Beautification Committee, a part of the Westbeth Artists Residents Council. We are grateful for GLWD giving wonderful meals to so many of our residents. We are also fortunate to have George Cominskie in our building. Not only does he work for you every Wednesday morning, but he also organizes a team of volunteers to deliver to our neighbors twice a week. It feels so great to bring people food and say, "God's Love we deliver". Thank you for all you do.- Westbeth Beautification Committee
Mom did so much for others, senior citizens and especially those in need.- JoAnn Peterson-Hawker
I started delivering meals with GLWD the Christmas after my son died, in 2013. I wanted a way to turn my grief into something meaningful by making what was a hard day for me, and probably a hard day for folks receiving meals, a little bit happier, warmer, and brighter. I took the love that I had for my son but couldn't share with him and shared it with other people--the people I delivered meals to. In doing so, I felt more connected to my son and to the shared humanity of those around me. Since then, I've donated cakes on my son's birthday, delivered meals on holidays when I've missed him, and given donations in his name. It helps maintain my son's memory, which I need, and benefits people who have a different kind of need. So ultimately, it's reciprocal--the best kind of giving.- Courtney
Donating in honor of Gary, my big brother's best friend from childhood, an artist/radiologist who died on April 19, 1997. I was at his side. He was loved, and missed.- Louise
I had a great time volunteering, knowing I was doing something important for those in need and I had the pleasure of working with other volunteers I met for the first time. I enjoyed their company and guidance. The time went by rather quickly and we worked fantastic together. Two of the volunteers (Michael and Paul) I met have been doing this for some time on a consistent basis. I am glad I had the chance to meet them, they are both wonderful people. It was a fun atmosphere and look forward to the next time.- NJA
I've learned about GLWD from watching FoodTV network Chef Amanda Freitag on Chopped. I've volunteered in various capacities, since my teenage years in Gouverneur Hospital (84-87) then onto the NYPD Auxiliary Police(87-2011). In November 2017, I started out as a Van assistant, then switched to helping in the kitchen. I enjoy meeting fellow volunteers. Working with Chefs Curtis and Andre. The hands on experience, I'm gaining knowledge about food safety. I especially love working with folks from all walks of life. Thank you, GLWD for affording me the opportunity to serve others.- Cheyenne
Life is full of difficult as well as accompanying celebratory moments. I have been a food prep volunteer at God's Love We Deliver for over 6 years. I honestly love the people that I share two hours with every week including those that I see and catch-up with weekly as well as those new faces who provide fresh interactions. I think of the role of food in both this "work" and in the gift that we are passing along to those in real need. I have been in NYC since the late 80s and still remember food playing an instrumental role in the early days of HIV. Several wonderful friends and I would gather in the lobby lounge of St. Vincent's Hospital, mostly on weekends, and we would bring doughnuts which we shared lovingly with family members of young men who were dying from a difficult-to-grasp disease. Many of these fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, friends had no experience in NYC and we wanted to comfort them given the unfamiliar, unique surroundings and the unforeseeable end to loved one's lives. Food was then, and can be now, a social salve to bring all of us together in difficult and celebratory moments.- Carl
Sometimes the day just wears on and the diffuse arthritis makes it difficult to go to the kitchen for anything,let alone to cook up a meal as great as those GLWD brings!! It truly is Love,plain and simple!- Carl from S.I.
I had stage 4 ovarian cancer at age forty and a close friend arranged for me to receive meals from Gods Love We Deliver. It was an incredibly uplifting experience to have received this service. I don't know how I would have made it without this great blessing. Thank you with all my ❤.- Judy landgraf
I just wanted to drop a note and tell you I think your Nutrition Tips for Caregivers is FABULOUS. I found you by accident doing a google search trying to find something I could use as a training tool for our home services caregivers. Our girls serve elderly and disabled folks in their homes and this little book is perfect.. it is well written, laid out great, and touches perfectly on all the most important points. Thank you so much for making this available!!- Sherri
My family made donation in 1999 in honor of my brother. We have made additional contributions through the years. While he did not died of HIV/AIDS, we choose in God's Love We Deliver because it represents the values that my brother held very dear. Back in 1999, In God's Love We Deliver focussed almost exclusively on patients with HIV/AIDS but that was not the point. He truly understood that we are all responsible for each other no matter what the reason, and my family felt that this organization and its mandate truly represented him and the wonderful man he was.- Ann Louise
I just want to... THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!!! YOUR ORGANIZATION IS TRULY GODSEND. TODAY IS MY 1ST DELIVERY AND THE GENTLEMAN CAME EARLY AND GREATED ME WITH WITH A SMILE. MAY GOD GOD POUR OUT OF BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION UNTIL YOU HAVE NO ROOM TO RECIEVE...IN JESUS NAME...AMEN.- Monique
Last night I was having a beer at the legendary and now NYC landmark "Stonewall" I considered it my first time in there, first time I was too drunk to remember. I told the bartender no more drinks because I can not spend any more money, and he said oh take your shirt off and I'll get you a free one I laughed and made a joke out of it, he laughed, then he said or you could get on your knees, to what I responded immediately "if God wanted me to be on my knees he would put diamonds on the floor!" no one laughed... so I had to remind the guy next to me "that was a joke that Joan River's used to make" to what he responded "oh yeah yeah" I said to him, you don't like her? he said uhhh.... he asked the bartender, the bartender (I don't wanna use names) said in a very defensive voice "she's Joan Rivers" he clearly loved her, and so do I. The guy went on how "raci" her jokes were, how she didn't know middle-class America, all the bullcrap that no one wanted to hear because it was not true. At some point he said that he didn't like her, to what I replied "how can you not like someone you don't know?" All I could say was, I am not a sociologist and I never heard of a study on America's middle class about her, all I know is that she was amazing and that her own country treated her really bad by not giving her the recognition she deserved, she always said that she will never be taken seriously as an actress because of who she was. Altho, she was an actress playing a comedian in real life. So that argument got me thinking, if a woman like her, who made millions laugh, which is a really hard job to do, someone who is one of the people who taught me to make fun of myself before others do, and started a group of people who bring food to AIDS patients, and on thanksgiving will deliver food personally is disliked by some people, I can only imagine how many people could dislike me. Jk. But seriously, if a wonderful person like her is not remembered with anything but love, there is something wrong in this society we live in. Honoring Joan and what motivated her to help others, as a thank you for all the laughs that he brought to my face at , specially at the Laurie Beechman Theater This, and the fact that for the first time, I am experiencing somehow with AIDS, not me personally, but in someone who is very dear to me, someone i really admire and appreciate, someone I love, makes me wanna get involved and help. I might not find a cure... but I can bring a smile to many. I'm signing up to volunteer... I hope to hear back from the volunteering team soon!- For Joan...
I know how important your work is to to clients and for that I am forever grateful. My wife, Sherry, has been volunteering in the kitchen for over a year and for that I am also grateful to GLWD for making such an important contribution to her life.- Shelly Marks
Thank for delivering my meals it's hard to go out shop and stand more then two minutes thank you very- margaret
When my cousin was dying of AIDS, his partner called GLWD to have food brought to their home because my cousin's taste buds and eating habit had already changed drastically. It's because of GLWD that I volunteer for GLWD as much as I can.- Millie
GLWD has had a huge impact on my life. In 1994, I came to NYC and GLWD through a summer volunteer internship, at 19 years of age. I got to experience so many aspects of the organization, which I loved, like helping to produce the first AIDS service organization guide for NYC. I learned so many skills in the kitchen, that I still use today. I even got to represent GLWD volunteers in an MTV special. My favorite memory, though, was delivering meals and interacting with clients, particularly to those who were most alone, so many of them. I recall one young female client living in an SRO, whose prior days' meals had piled up, untouched, and she was extremely emaciated. She was also addicted to crack cocaine and using prostitution to survive and support her habit. I found a way to manage her meal delivery so that I could stop during my break and get her to eat with me. We became friends, and I was her only visitor in the hospital until she died shortly after her 30th birthday. The only regret she had, was that she wished she had been more honest in her life. I believe, in part, thanks to GLWD, we don't have these kinds of stories anymore. HIV transmission has decreased, the stigma is waning, and more love through nutrition is being spread to more people in need. I am still friends with and inspired by many of the staff I met there, over 20 years ago, including the amazing Pat Costello. I dream of getting involved again some day, given my passion for nutrition and neuroscience.- Sue Peters
I am so glad there is help for people like us- Bubbles
God's Love We Deliver is my happy place! Where else can you go to do good and feel like you benefited more when you walked out?- Narda Ducheine
God's Love We Deliver is and has been a blessing to me. Since I have been a client with GLWD my health has really improved. I am eating healthier then in the past. The dietician services are also a blessing, they guide me towards better eating habits and provide information about which foods are better for me. The person who delivers my meals is really nice. I was blown away the first time I got a birthday cake from GLWD, they filled a void that was empty (on my birthday). As you read my experience it becomes obvious that GLWD is a great one! Thank you GLWD for your labor of love.- CC -From the Bronx
I have Multiple Sclerosis and have been very fortunate to have found such a wonderful organization that provides such a great service. As my condition progresses I find it more difficult to cook, your meals are very nutritious and delicious. Thanks to all of those at Gods love for your amazing service its made my days much brighter.- Evelyn
Four plus years of scooping, packing, cutting and scraping, of meeting wonderful people and making new friends, of making a difference. What more could you ask for? How about four more years? Love you guys.- Pinky
I first heard about God's Love while volunteering with other NYU Alumni in the kitchen, food prepping on Sunday shift. The experience was so rewarding that I became a regular. Now I volunteer at least once a week helping with meal kit assembling and plan to commit more hours in the near future. Here is the picture of our NYU group, who is already scheduled to repeat the shift in a few weeks: https://www.facebook.com/NYURAN/photos/a.542234769138590.132369.256832281012175/1228262250535835/?type=3&theater- Karinne
I'm fighting breast cancer. I received two deliveries until now, and I'm very impressed with the quality of the food. I really appreciate it that it's not junk! My two kids also receiving meals, and we are so very grateful! GLWD making life much easier right now, thank you!- Viktoria
My wonderful son-in-law, Nick Yarmac, is very involved and very dedicated to God's Love We Deliver.- Cathy Gove
I had surgery on my brain over a year ago. 2 tumors were removed & I thankfully was able to receive meals. If I had the strength to volunteer I would start tomorrow. I will definitely leave U in my will!- Leslie
My beloved older brother. my soulmate, died of AIDS 21 years ago. There were no treatments to save him then. He died at my mother's home surrounded by siblings, nieces, nephews and even his ex-wife. I miss him still and always will. I support God's Love We Deliver in his name. There could be no more fitting tribute to one who ministered to those in need throughout his life.- Marcia
You helped my friend Jeffrey back in 1985 when most people turned away from Aids patients. Sometimes the food delivery was his only human contact for days. The food was good and it kept him alive for awhile. I volunteer with you because you are there for people in need. Thank you.- Liz Currey
Thank you. Working full time then having to be home by a certain time to start my mom's treatment. Food shopping is not easy due to fact my mom on a special diet and it takes too long to read labels which I do not have time for. Cooking is impossible because I have only an hour to do things. It was heartbreaking for me to see my mom not getting a good meal and losing weight. I felt guilty that I fail to provide my mom with a good meal. Then a social worker guided me to God Love We Deliver , what a difference it has made; my mom gained weight and is getting stronger everyday. GLWD has remove one burden for me but providing these meals to my mom. Thank you.- ann
My gratitude to God's Love We Deliver is immeasurable. My longterm involvement with God's Love granted me the honor of serving and getting to know so many of our clients with AIDS beginning in 1987 and many opportunities to advocate for their overall care and unique service needs. I'm at a loss to adequately thank the compassionate and dedicated God's Love staff and delivery volunteers for not only providing critical nutritional assistance to so many of my friends with AIDS, particularly Joe who I shared a loving 19 year relationship with, but for also giving each one of them a sense of relevance combined with comfort and love by preparing and delivering their meals with so much joy.- Jim K
I have only been a client for a short time I am an amputee and on dialysis .the food and service is great .I was very surprised to receive a birthday cake on my birthday.many thanks and bless all involved.- bart
My husband has advanced Parkinson's with all the challenges that entails. Cooking and shopping for him had become a real burden for me (a senior citizen). GLWD was able to offer food prepared so that he can eat it (minced and pureed). It is delicious and he really does enjoy his meals. It is helping to keep his weight up. In addition GLWD is delivering meals to me, his caregiver which has helped relieve a lot of my daily stress. You are all wonderful!!- Carol G
woke up this morning with the blues staying in bed all day to snooze this date used to be great every year i couldn't wait there used to be family and friend today trying to comprehend why it all had to end everyone is gone and yet i pretend someone new might have cause to take a moment of pause and acknowledge my birthday this sad grey day then suddenly all became gay glwd arrived with a special birthday cake didn't immediately partake took some moments to reflect about this overwhelming effect glwd not only brings us food they also know to include our spirit soul food thank you for remembering my special place now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna stuff my face- forest hills senior
I would like to thank all of you for the services that your organization provided for me when I began the services I was under weight now I have gained weight and have discontinued the services. I was able to share some of my food with the other people at the shelter I live at also and some of them are now your clients I look forward to volunteering in 2015- s bullock
You helped my friend Jeffrey with meals when he could not help himself. He had full blood aids and was using drugs. He removed himself from his support system by moving to the Bronx. Yet God's Love got him hot meals every day. Sometimes it was the only human experience he had and it kept him going. This was back in 1985. I thank you for everything you did for him.- Liz Currey
Being raised Italian, food has always equated love in our family. So to me, having to worry about food when dealing with an illness is an anxiety that I wish no one would ever have to deal with; which is why I've been a volunteer with GLWD for over 10 years. It's my hope that my small contribution helps GLWD make life a little easier for all those we serve.- Jenny
I just wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to everyone at Gods Love We Deliver. My father had a heart attack and needed a lot of support when he got home from the hospital. I was so worried about him cooking and eating properly. I live 100 miles away and could only do so much. Gods Love We Deliver was incredibly kind and helpful during that difficult time. The meals were delicious and nutritious and filling. The tilapia was Dad's favorite! The service was top notch. It was good to know that kind hearted and caring folks were delivering the meals- always on time! Thank you so very much to the entire team...you really make a huge difference during a tough time!- Gabrielle
Donating today in memory and on the birthday of my Mom, Susan. She was a supporter of GLWD and very active in community outreach. The best way to honor her today is to do as she showed me and help all of you continue what you do for the GLWD clients. Love to all of you for volunteering your time and energy.- Andy
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Many treatment options are available for malocclusion ("poor bite"), and expert opinions differ about timing. Your dentist or orthodontist may give you a choice between early or later treatment or may prefer one particular approach.
Consider these points:
- An underdeveloped lower jaw (mandible) is best treated as soon as a child is old enough to co-operate with treatment (age 5 or older).
- The amount of space for teeth does not increase with time.
In fact, it gradually shortens throughout adulthood, because the teeth
naturally drift toward the front.
- In cases of severe crowding of baby (primary) teeth, the need for future orthodontic treatment is clear. Some practitioners choose early treatment using growth modification. Others use serial extraction or wait to use extraction and a single stage of orthodontic treatment.
- In mild cases of crowding (when some permanent teeth have already come in, or erupted), malocclusion may improve because of your child's jaw growth through the teen years. You may avoid orthodontic treatment altogether by waiting until more permanent teeth have come in.
- Ideal timing of two-stage treatment can vary depending on the what the condition is, when the adult teeth come in, and how much growth is needed to correct the malocclusion. Many children who begin treatment by the second or third grade are finished with orthodontic treatment before they begin high school.
- Two-stage treatment often costs more than one-stage treatment.
- Children tend to be more co-operative than teenagers when it comes to wearing their appliances for a certain number of hours a day. Children typically allow closer parental supervision than teens do. Completing two-stage treatment before the teen years may be easier.
- Two-stage treatment spans a longer period of time, with a break between the first and second stages. Parents and the dental professional must make treatment as easy as possible for the child to avoid "burnout" before the child has completed treatment.
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Catalyst Linux 8.4
[It's out. — gollum12345678 {T/C} 16:25 16 Abril 2008 (CDT)
RedHat Enterprise -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux
I mistakenly created an ugly double-redirect from RedHat Enterprise to Red Hat Enterprise (Since there should be a space in the company name), to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since this is the official name of the Red Hat family of Linux products, and just calling it Red Hat Enterprise is somewhat of a "bastardization" (with all respect), even though I can understand that you guys want to try and avoid the proliferation of having "Linux" in every distribution name. Question: will someone with edit permissions to the wiki home page please change RedHat Enterprise to Red Hat Enterprise Linux . Thank you very much.
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Catalyst 8.6
Please fix the link in the front page, 8.6 is out since June 18. Ad8253 01:52, 23 June 2008 (CDT)
Current release
...is now Catalyst 8.7. :) — SheeEttin {T/C} 11:22, 23 July 2008 (CDT)
According to http://distrowatch.com/, Arch is now more popular than both Gentoo and Red Hat. Please link to Arch from the front page. Thanks. --Trontonic 18:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
- If you're referring to "page hit ranking" then I will have to disagree with your opinion of its popularity. --Mooninite 14:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Catalyst 8.12
Please update the link in the front page, 8.12 is the current release. Ad8253 11:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
9.1 Just came out on January 28,2009... so this should be used instead!
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U.S. Equal Employment
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An evaluation component is essential to the success of any ADR program. The evaluation will assist in determining whether the ADR program has achieved its goals and will provide feedback on how the program might be made more efficient and achieve better results. One of the most informative means of evaluating a program involves using survey forms to learn the reactions of the parties, and the neutrals, to the ADR process.
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Endo Health Solutions' (NASDAQ:ENDP) popular pain-killer drug opana may cause a "serious blood disorder" if misused, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Thursday.
The disorder, called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), has resulted in kidney failure in some cases and at least one death.
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The FDA observed the negative reaction to the drug when people abused the extended-release tablet by injecting opana into their bloodstream.
TTP causes blood to clot in small blood vessel throughout the body, which can limit or block food flow to the body's organs, including the kidneys, brain and heart. The FDA warned that TTP can cause death or lead to other complications with permanent damage such as brain damage or a stroke.
The FDA said the disease appears to only occur when the drug is abused and injected.
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Hey I just checked my account and found some more donations.
Thanks very much indeed!
I spray you all with golden teat magic goo.
Here is a list of the cream of humanity, folks who love real cartoons:
Heather Sheffield
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Emmanuel laflamme
Dominic Bisignano
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Michael Webb
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Kirk Teetzel (great last name!)
Andrew Arett
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Patrick Sevc
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This is very very appreciated. I spend a lot of time on these lessons and things, so this will really help.
Boy, if everyone who reads this blog sent 5 bucks every few weeks I could upgrade what I'm doing and make more films, so thanks very much!
Hopefully you will work for me after you become cartoon geniuses too!
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** (out of four)
Will Ferrell's absurd delivery constitutes much of what makes him hilarious. So the actor speaking Spanish, no matter how enthusiastic his declaration of "Quiero la muchacha!," risks minimizing the laughs that the big galoot can't generate with his face and often-unclothed body. And since the posters for "Casa de Mi Padre" claim it's the "funniest movie you'll ever read," clearly co-producers Ferrell and Adam McKay ("Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy") expect most of the audience to need the subtitles.
The problem: This occasionally amusing, feature-length skit doesn't give enough people enough funny lines to say in any language.
Back in "Step Brothers" mode as a disappointment compared to his brother Raul (Diego Luna), Ferrell stars as Armando, a rancher who accidentally killed his mother as a young boy. (Feel free to let me know in what culture that's funny.) With no female prospects despite a bevy of beautiful maids at his house, Armando cares more for baby cows than women until Raul's fiancé Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez of "Man on a Ledge") displays an appreciation for Armando's romantic streak.
Often "Casa" giggles at the low production values and melodramatics of Mexican telenovelas. Sometimes the relatively restrained movie (by Ferrell standards) just thinks it's funny because it's in Spanish. Frequently the deliberately cliche Western wastes time telling a story about Raul's war with a rival drug dealer (Gael Garcia Bernal, Luna's co-star of "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "Rudo Y Cursi"), at which point the movie barely counts as a comedy. Maybe writer Andrew Steele ("The Ladies Man") thought Ferrell's presence would keep things light at all times, but a mid-wedding ceremony massacre tends to darken the mood.
The fundamental joke is not so nice either. Whether Armando and Sonia sing a song consisting only of the word "La" or a DEA agent (Nick Offerman) asks, "Do you speak American?," ignorance toward Mexican culture serves as the main punchline without many characters or jokes to question, rather than encourage, racism and sexism.
By now movies like "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" should have established the poor judgment of pointing and laughing for 90 minutes only to close with, "Lesson learned. No hard feelings?"
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BrandonHall needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
REI Engine
We are starting a real estate investment business management system. Ultimately, we are providing everything a real estate investment professional would ever need to run their business under one roof. The power of the system lies in its scalability and "command center" approach.
Real Estate Investors, Real Estate Agents, Real Estate Brokers, Negotiators
REI Engine is going to be a destination site for real estate investment professionals. It will include custom software and several other features that help them run a business easily and efficiently.
The logo needs to be moderately simple and convey trust, professionalism and power.
We want a simple logo that states: REI Engine but also includes: real estate investment as a tagline in the logo. We do NOT want RealEstateInvestment spelled out like that to encompass the REI. They should be totally separate.
We will be using the logo on an assortment of backgrounds so transparency is an important consideration when producing as PNG-8 or GIF.
We would like an associated icon if possible but it is not required. With a name like REI Engine brand identity and conveying the concept quickly will be crucial. That is your challenge!
Logos we like:
- Major corporate logos
- Twitter
- Coke
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Not to include
- The obvious car engine
- Any sort of racing theme
- Stock images
- Dollars or money. We don't want any form of "get rich quick" feel for this logo.
While we know it may be a challenge avoiding these obvious themes, try to think outside the box for ways to convey Power and Engine
We would be alright with including gears of some sort. To give the user the impression of bringing everything together.
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Whichever you develop on is fine. We are not particular with file format. Just please remember logo transparency is crucial when appearing on our website or in print publications.
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Drought Monitor
Drought Monitor
It's starting to dry out across eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. That shoudn't surprise anybody with this time of the year featuring hit or miss showers and storms. Thankfully our area remains out of the drought, but that could change if our current lack of rainfall holds.
Here are some 30 day rainfall totals across parts of our area:
Benton County: 1.08"
Washington County: 0.81"
Sebastian County: 3.57"
Polk County: 2.73"
The River Valley has collected more rainfall over the last month compared to northwest Arkansas. It's not going to matter if we don't see some significant rainfall. On average the area receives around 3.00" for the month of July.


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Like all of the BTF laser-cut gussets, the "BTF Logo Gusset" is approximately 3" wide x 3" tall x 3/16" thick with a square edge. The gussets could be ground on each edge to work work in slightly more acute or obtuse angles. They could be used in a variety of cage design or suspension-bumper reinforcement situations. Our gussets are cut from high-strength steel plate.


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BALTIMORE—The UMBC women's lacrosse team (6-3) saw its three-game winning streak end in a 15-8 loss to sixth-ranked Loyola (7-0) Wednesday evening at UMBC Stadium.
The Greyhounds scored the first two goals of the game just over a minute apart, and the Retrievers did not get on the board until senior midfielder Amanda Pappas (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) converted a feed from junior midfielder Alicia Krause (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron/Duquesne) with 14:41 to play in the first half.
Loyola scored three in a row and five of the next six goals before Pappas ended the half on a high note for UMBC, tallying with 29 seconds left, but the Retrievers trailed, 7-3, at the break.
The Greyhounds scored the first three goals of the second stanza in less than four minutes, but UMBC responded with three in a row in a 58-second span to pull to within 10-6. But that would be as close as they would get, as Loyola tallied five of the final seven goals of the game for the 15-8 win.
The America East Player of the Game, Pappas scored five points on four goals and an assist. She has tallied 14 goals and 17 points in her last three contests. Senior midfielder Ashley Stodter (Silver Spring, Md./Good Counsel) added her third hat trick of the season, while Krause tallied three points on a goal and two helpers to go along with four ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover.
Loyola midfielder Grace Gavin led the Greyhounds with seven points on four goals and three assists, while midfielder Marlee Paton tallied six points on four goals and two helpers. Midfielder Taryn Vanthof also notched a hat trick for the visitors, while midfielder Meg Decker controlled seven draws.
Senior goalie Natalie Rau (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston) made four saves between the pipes for the Retrievers, while Kerry Stoothoff stopped 11 shots for Loyola.
UMBC outshot the Greyhounds, 32-24, and held an 18-12 advantage in ground balls and a 13-11 edge in draw controls.
The Retrievers return to action on Saturday, when they host America East rival New Hampshire at 12 p.m. in the conference opener for both teams.


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As hard as we try, we can't always control how we—collectively and as individuals—are perceived or what our path through the world will be. Those twists and turns form the through-line of The Second City's 101st mainstage revue, "Let Them Eat Chaos," which journeys across time on cruise ships, in dive bars, at violin lessons and all over Chicago to shed some light—and some humor—on the confusion.
To see how the cast brought order to the chaos inherent in creating a new sketch comedy revue from scratch, we asked each to share a chaotic incident from his or her personal past that proved inspirational when creating the show.
Katie Rich
Life chaos: "I was a complete accident—my brother and sister are almost 20 years older than me. My parents thought they were closed for business, so to speak. So the fact that I'm here has left me with a sense of wonder as to how it's all just chance."
Chicago chaos: "The chaos that is the gun violence on the South Side of the Chicago. It happens miles away from us and yet no one seems to give a [bleep]. Especially Rahm."
Steve Waltien
Life chaos: "Our show plays with time and takes place in a few different eras. I was inspired by memories of my grandparents and stories they told of the chaotic time they lived in. Our world seems bigger and more complicated than ever—and yet the WWII generation faced challenges that seem foreign to us. Remembering to find the humor in world events across time helps us manage the chaos."
National chaos: "I think we couldn't help but reckon with the chaos going on in the streets of Chicago and across the country with regard to gun violence. Gun death isn't funny at all, but we think the political reticence to enact reasonable measures to curb gun violence is absurd. We like calling attention to the absurd."
Edgar Blackmon
Life chaos: "Steve Waltien and I were across the street [from The Second City] at Corcoran's, and we met a woman who said that she loved our show and that she and her date had a great time. An hour later, as we were getting ready to leave, we noticed that this same woman was drunk, and her 'date' had no problem putting another glass of wine in front of her. So when we walked by, we asked her if she wanted to leave with us in a cab and we would get her home. Needless to say, her 'date' didn't like us monkey wrenching his plans, so he got in our faces a little, but we quickly put that action to rest. We jumped in a cab with our drunk damsel and after 20 minutes of drunk directions, we got that young woman to her place. Just another day in the life of a Second City mainstage actor."
Chicago chaos: "You know what's chaotic right now? Basketball. My bracket is all messed up; I don't know when Derrick Rose is coming back. All I have are questions, and not enough answers. Derrick, we need you!"
Tawny Newsome
Life chaos: "I once bought pot from a magician and called the cops on myself."
World chaos: "I've always been fascinated with how Americans view the world, and in turn how the rest of the world views us. Lately, some particularly scary travel warnings from the state department have made me realize how serious the latter half of that sentence is. I see this as a call to action. We need to take responsibility for how we're perceived, then change it."
Ross Bryant
Life chaos: "Moving from Texas to North Carolina when I was in high school was sort of chaotic—[and] getting punched up on my bike."
World chaos: "Giovanni di Stefano."
Holly Laurent
Life chaos: "I was recently at the dog park and watched a bench full of children all glued to cell phones and devices in their hands as puppies jumped at their ankles begging to be played with. Puppies! None of the kids looked up once. It saddened and then scared the [bleep] out of me. That's not really humorous, but it inspired a scene in our show called 'Digital Natives.'"
National chaos: "Our schools, marriage equality, DOMA, Prop 8, the arguments in the Supreme Court this week, guns, gun laws, illegal guns, guns, guns, guns ... we sing about guns in the show. Come see it!"
Julie Nichols (musical director)
Life chaos: "A few years back I went to Sydney with my metal band, with a few other pals who were trying to escape these BS possession charges. Anyway, we lived in an abandoned lumberyard and we used to have bonfires at night. There were lots of stray dogs and fist fights. I wouldn't call it chaotic—but it was definitely inspiring."
Chicago chaos: "Probably babies and children being shot. Sorry to chill the room."
"Let Them Eat Chaos"
Go: 8 p.m. Wednesday (open run; eight shows per week) at The Second City, 1616 N. Wells St.
Tickets: $23-$28. 312-337-3992; secondcity.com


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Sometimes, its the small details that make an outfit look particularly polished and well thought out. And whilst 80s digital watches are nice, they have become a bit ubiquitous. Striped, military style watch straps – particularly when paired with a vintage watch face – can make a statement. Actually part of the preppy uniform (those bold colours and stripes) and available at stores like Rugby Ralph Lauren in the States, the striped military watch strap can also be found here on grooming site, Carter and Bond.
Brandish's too good for Father's Day gallery
We're all for giving, but how many times have you been out shopping for someone and bought something for yours truly? Our Father's Day gift guide is great if you want to give your dad a push in the right style direction, there's nothing too out there or kooky, just a few pieces that will give a little panache to …
Casio dual time silver watch
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This watch is the silver version of the black dual time Casio which we featured a while back. It wouldn't normally warrant a mention but the combination of silver strap and black face is odd enough to give this watch another look.
Timex 80 now in 4 colours at OkiNi
The Timex 80 watch is available in four new metallic colours at OkiNi: bronze, burgundy, black and white, adding a fresh note to the now-ubiquitous timepiece. The black and white versions, in particular look very sharp in a two-tone 60s way.
Leonardo DiCaprio takes over from Brad Pitt at Tag Heuer
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Leonardo DiCaprio scrubbed up fairly well for the Golden Globes last night, the shiny pinstripe material was bad but it's nice to see him go for something slightly different.
Present Tense: last minute Christmas gifts
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Everyone is guilty of it, (well not everyone, I have a colour-coded Google Docs spreadsheet, natch!) but last-minute Christmas shopping can often leave you with gifts that have an air of desperation about them.
French Connection launch watches
From next week you can get some French Connection Time, the new watch collection from the retailer debuts on Monday. Prices range from £80 to £160 which is a good price for your first 'proper' watch.
Casio's black watch hides its skeezyness behind a black resin strap
I know Casio watches are a bit ubiquitous nowadays but I'm still hankering after a gold Dual Time Casio for that sleazy uncle/skeezy factor. There's something amazingly creepy about having two kinds of time on one watch, and I love it.
Gucci limited edition Olympic watch
Commemorative items usually have more value in their 'collectability' than practical appeal. More often than not they're emblazoned in dates and logos, losing the piece its timelessness – it becomes a snapshot of a moment, rather than something you can use day in, day out for years to come.
De Grisogono 'Meccanico DG'
There's always demand for gimmicky watches. Or at least there must be, as one gets released every other month. De Grisogono have jumped on the bandwagon with a 'mechanical-digital' watch, which uses a standard wind-up mechanism to switch LED-style segments and fake a digital screen. Nice idea. Couple more detailed pics after the jump…
Luke 1977 'Cool Hand' red dial watch
Red's a bit of an unusual choice for a watch but a subtle flash of colour doesn't go unnoticed and the Cool Hand watch is a classy timepiece.
Pick of the blogs
Off the Cuff and Iluwfashion encourages men to 'watch' the trends this year with some great watch suggestions.
A Suitable Wardrobe reflects Fred Astaire shiny chic.
Shiny Video Review: Tutorial on how to read Tokyo Flash watches, part 2
Tech Digest's Kat has embedded the 2nd part of her Tokyo Flash tutorials for your otaku pleasure. She's showing you how to use two more of their beauteous watches, specifically the 'Pimp' and 'Barcode' models. Both retail for £99.90, and you can pick them up from Tech Deals. Tokyo Flash watches at Tech Deals
Shiny Video Review: Tutorial on how to read Tokyo Flash watches
Our two geeky sisters in the know, Kat from Tech Digest and Susi from Shiny Shiny, recently got their gadget-obsessed hands on a couple of watches from Tokyo Flash, which we've…
Brandish Competitions: Guess watch
A bottle of Amouage fragrance is being sent to a lucky Brandish reader as we speak, but fear not we have a fantastic competition for you this week. Sitting in Shiny Towers is a retro Guess watch with croco leather strap which retails for an impressive 109 quid. It's a pretty classy watch with a polished silver rectangular face, multifunction …
Wear the watch of a real man with Casio's snappily titled WVQ-570DBE-1AVER chronograph
I love a sleek but unfussy steel n' leather watch as much as the next man. The sort of watch that forces you to "subtly" pull up the cuff of your Saville Row tailored shirt just so the guys at the gentleman's club can get an eyeful of your smart timepiece and feel a little tingle of pride as they …
Yay or Nay: Eleeno's Radar watch
Okay, am I justified in thinking that this is a really, really, really cool watch, or am I giving into some misplaced desire that's a product of my disadvantaged childhood? When I think about it, this is the sort of watch I'd have loved when I was ten years old, but would've got a clout round the ear instead. Taking …
Diesel watches make you look stupid by pretending to be bracelets
How sexy are these shiny industrial-style watches from Diesel? Based on a cursory glance, they look just like a couple of men's bracelets, but by the power of a pinch of the side buttons on either side of the watch face, the time magically appears courtesy of the aqua-coloured OLED display. The watches do have serious retro appeal despite their …
High-concept Incognito Watch is also highly invisible
Would you hand over £275,000 of your own cash in return for a product that you'd not even seen, let alone layed your hands on it so you can have a tinker with it? No? Well, there's a surprise. However, that's exactly what one doofus with more money than sense has done, buying a timepiece that has yet to be …
Cool Japanese robo-watch tells time, stares dumbly
I love the cute "classic" toy robot design of this Japanese watch from Dipiu. And in true Transformers fashion, this is a watch in disguise as, not content with just been worn on the wrist, the little mechanical blighter pops off the wrist-strap so that he (I think it's male) can sit happily on your desk. And, if you're inclined …


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Did you ever try Hellsing? It's like that tits scene, but on the violence side of the crazy coin.
This episode was weird.
I liked it.
I think realism is the wrong word to use when talking about DOA or any fighting game really. I'm completely okay with the tits of DOA a long as the devs don't try to pretend that it's anything more then either cheap wank material or a stupid joke.
I think I'd be embarrassed to buy one of these games...
This is a story that demands it be told.
Let me ask you this question. How is it "bad"? This focus on the negative and thus should be changed logically does not make sense. When you have a product you need to know how to advertise it to the demographic you want because the franchise has existed for so long it's pretty clear cut that they actually like to develop a fighting game that has earned the respect of players to be the way it is.
Also they don't have to be culturally sensitive. If anything the only way we really have learned about other countries culture for better or for worse is when we let the culture be the culture it is. We don't learn everything by basically being cultural imperialists where you demand a company take on the burden of being representative of an entire culture that honestly is so microscopic that it really should be left up to the actual representatives such as religions and the government and the holidays they choose to revere.
Also your last point doesn't make sense. The DOA franchise has always been a successful franchise because they have always improved on the actual core of the game which is the fighting and they have as I stated before have constantly reduced the breast size of all the DOA women from game to game and yet people still complain and want them smaller and smaller. Hard fact is that the video game religious right here don't actually do any research but once again run along with the internet meme that the DOA women have the largest breasts in video games. The real problem here is that people like Jim and the video game version of the religious right feel some moral obligation or authority to demand that games be designed to be super realistic and be respectful to all races, genders religions regardless of the actual wishes of the developers who put their actual financial security on the line to make their product successful.
EDIT: I should note that their marketing for DOA this time is "I'm a fighter". Also the one time that Tecmo actually did their look at my breasts was because of the new technology in the PS3 controllers with the release of Ninja Gaiden 2, you know when the console was new and developers could show what exactly even in the most hilarious way they could do with the technology. I mean the companies marketing department makes fun of their own franchise and fans.
I thought we would be over moralizing over these kinds of things by now. Like Jim, I also personally find the team-ninja game to be extremely unsexy and rather low and I do find them rather laughable and stupid and immature, but I think that about alot of things. I thought it was stupid that the Tomb Raider-games had to have a heroine with enourmos cans as well, but it just doesn't bother me. If all games where like that? Sure, it would bother me. But they aren't, and never will be because peoples tastes differ. If some studio want to make games like that and find a market of people wanting to play them, so let them. What does it matter? Porn will always exist, and this is just borderline porn dressed up as a game, but so what?
I've never payed much mind to the DoA series, but what kind of irks me is how the massive breasts and weird physics has went from "Cool, boobs," to, "oh god wtf this is just sick whats wrong with u team ninja," in the past year or two. Why the sudden change in attitude? I sure didn't see anyone complaining when DoA4 came out a couple years ago and hell I didn't see a whole lot on that ridiculous beach volleyball game either.
And while I can understand criticizing Team Ninja for trying to make piss poor excuses instead of just being upfront on how they make their games, I don't really understand the point of criticizing them over these things in the first place when Team Ninja's style has ALWAYS been like that. They're not hurting anybody, and if you're really opposed to how they're representing women then just don't buy their games.
I can't help but to sigh after this. Honestly who gives a fuck about tits not behaving naturally in DOA? They won't change it and even if they do it wouldn't actually matter on the game industry. And the way you acted grossed out was kinda unexpected, it is someone's fetish and it's not even that weird compared to other stuff people beat off to...
I like it more when you talk about important things.
I really think that Fleshlight is missing something. Perhaps a photo of Jonathan Holmes glued to it?
:P Now that that's out of the way, I understand where Jim is coming from with this, but the "cultural explination" actually does hold some water. On the first page of comments I see someone has already posted the legendary High School of the Dead Bullet Boobie Dance and there-in lies the point. They don't water down their anime which is loaded with gratuitous amounts of...ahem, "Fan Service" when they release said anime for international markets. For crying out loud, Adult Swim used to have a bump featuring a pic of a Japanese subway train going into a tunnel that is being straddled by a giant statue of an anime school girl.
It IS part of their culture. I'm not saying we have to accept or even like that it's part of their culture, but there's a pretty large difference between a country that has oversexualized fantasies about younger girls with disproportionate physiques and a country that mutilates the genitals of females. One is something you can "tolerate" because it's a culture different from your own, the other is something you condemn because they're bringing active physical harm to other human beings.
Look, Dead or Alive is known for one thing: "jiggle physics". Granted, this new interpretation of physics defies the laws of gravity and friction, but just like in anime: it's all "fan service". People don't buy Dead or Alive games because they REALLY love playing paper-rock-scissors and wanted that to be translated into a fighting game. No, they buy it because it's paper-rock-scissors with big honkin' breasts. Don't like it? Well then you likely don't buy or play Dead or Alive games.
Now the Dead or Alive volleyball games, on the other hand, are straight-up masturbation material and anyone claiming to buy those for any reason other than that is a damn dirty liar. :P
I tried to watch Gurren Lagann, but I couldn't get past the first episode. I used to be able to resist fan service and pandering better, but now it feels so freaking stupid.
Some days ago friends of mine were talking about HSOTD saying it was awesome, and it may be, but with that level of fan service I won't be able to watch it.
Shame :(
Best DOA game ever. And I loved DOA4. It feels like a smoother and more refined Tekken. Best 3D fighter on the market right now (and 2nd best fighter behind SSF4:AE:2012). Lots of improvements across the board.
Was going to post a video but i can't, so nothing.
I wasn't even aware he ever used something from bad dragon as a prop. I thought that site was just an elaborate joke.
First minute in, and Jim becomes a hypocrite.
Seriously, he's wrong this time. There's nothing wrong with having a fetish for unrealistic boobs. But there is something wrong with promoting hate and intolerance towards people with that fetish. What have we ever done to you?
And no, there's nothing wrong with selling that game internationally either. If you don't like Dead or Alive's breast physics, then guess what? Dead or Alive wasn't designed for you. It was designed for me. Don't impose your morals and your preferences on a demographic that isn't yours. Jim seems to be implying that every game ever made has to be designed to be marketable to everybody, and that's just silly.
So to recap:
Seriously Jim? Pretending to throw up near the end? Calling the Dead or Alive girls "kids"? For Petesake. You used to be logical. That's just tacky.
There seems to be a lot of generalization in this thread about Japanese tastes. Let's be careful about what we're critiquing here and the words we use. I'm not seeing any credit given to folks in Japan for being self-aware or having a sense of humor and in my experience folks there were possessed of an abundance of both those virtues.
Not to knock what Jim's saying - he was speaking specifically to Team Ninja and addressing specific things they'd said. Fair enough, thank god for Jim, etc etc.
But FWIW, I always figured the admittedly odd jiggle physics were an attempt by programmers to simulate something real, not unlike the Sims attempt to simulate human behavior. I don't actually think anyone figured they got it 'right' and I've always thought criticisms along the lines of 'have they never seen a real woman' to be needlessly mean-spirited. Programming is tough, and someone here is taking a crack at making a physics engine simulate organic movement.
Climbing out of the uncanny valley is incredibly hard and I'm not sure I can fault folks who, midway through their efforts, start chuckling at how ludicrious what they're doing is and decide to go silly instead of real. I have absolutely no proof that this is what happened, but it jives better with my understanding of how people work than "Oh, those whacky Japanese with their crazy sex fetishes, if only they were enlightened like us."
I bought DoA5 today and its awesome.
Really, the pervyness of these games has never really bothered me, its easy to ignore. The only time they have bothered me is when the developers choose it over the story. Like in DoA4 when you complete the game with the main character Kasumi I was expecting some ending video against her clone, but no, we got some retarded mermaid scene that had nothing to do with anything.
This game (and dimensions) seems a lot more story focused so far and I'm enjoying it. If the ending is another God damn mermaid scene though, I'll never defend this title again ~_~
No I think he's just jumping on his opinion of "The breast physics are completely unappealing and why the hell would you even want breasts to move like that?"
Maybe you should, like, actually watch the video before you put words in someone else's mouth and attack them like they said that.
EDIT: BTW, I don't understand the whole "Japanese Culture" thing. Taste in breast size seems to be extremely polarized with most of the popular anime coming out today featuring girls with flat chests, and people backlashing because fanartists increase the breast size of their favorite characters.
To say super huge breasts and breast physics are a part of Japanese culture may just be Team Ninja trying to use other's ignorance to defend their actions (at Japan's expense)
This is exactly why I can't watch anime newer than say cowboy bebop. You just can't find one made in the last 20 years that doesn't have at least one portion of it sexualizing adolescents. And adolescents is being generous. Most anime has a very strong pedo vibe to it.
A friend of mine wanted to get to me to show me some he liked and I told him I would watch it if it didn't have any panty shots or worse. And he couldn't find any.
The team ninja guy is right that fetishization of breasts on kids is a product of japanese culture and I counter with my opinion that this specific portion of the culture is degenerate and should be minimized instead of celebrated.
I guess it's just another fetish, like those people who like dolls and such, but a company trying to sell us a fetish as a "cutlure"? Really?
From a horribly shot unscripted dude with a dodgy mic to freakin' Mini Willem Dafoe's head in a fleshlight!
Now THAT's entertainment!
People grow up, their hormones die down and then complain about stuff that are blatantly for teenagers. Every generation has teenagers, the industry is not just for your age demographic.
It's bad because the female characters look unappealing and might be considered by many sexist or immature and people don't want to buy products that they find unappealing, sexist or immature. It's increasing the audience by doing a small action, you don't have to dumb down the game or remove the boobs, just make them charming.
Sure you don't need to be culturally sensitive to release something to international markets but you can't be surprised that if you include a Mexican racist caricature, a lot of Mexicans will be pissed off, sure include it, but be expected to receive criticism. Acting surprised and blaming people for being offended when that happens is just acting like a baby. Even worse, your casual racism or sexism that occurs in your culture isn't the best part of your culture to showcase in your games, especially if it's released everywhere.
Sure then can improve on the franchise's mechanics I'm not debating that. Team Ninja needs to learn criticism and not blame others for their mistakes. Jim is not trying to censor anyone, nor trying to imply every game needs to be Politically Correct or cater to his needs, he is just saying the DOA girls are creepy as shit. Besides why wouldn't you normally be respectful to other cultures, races, sexes, religions, and genders. When you are criticizing something like a religion, you are being respectful, even if you can't believe that.
I watched it and even though I caught up in the action at that moment looking back at that scene screams WTF and HOW THE F*** IS THAT POSSIBLE especially being able to dodge a .50 cal shot by hopping over it and dodging it by you swaying boobage....I don't what to say anymore about HOTD...
A) The first part was mostly intended for humor.
I remember in the fourth grade, when I and my friend have played DoA demo on PS, we were very confused by jumping breasts. Today it looks already familiar and common, heh
A) Fair enough.
Well he said at the expo he knew all about breast physics and he really backed it up.
"Plastic children" - Desperately grasping for a demonized (rightfully) buzz word that doesn't remotely apply. No one looks at DoA girls and thinks, oh what a well endowed child. Your better than that, that's Fox News territory. These are blatantly not pre-teen or early teen models, maybe mid at a reach, if Japan wants you to see a child in porn you'll know it.
Lets face it, this is interactive soft porn. Are you going to go to a porn studio and rant about how big man parts objectify and enforce untrue information about the average man? This is a fantasy game, it's meant for... ::drum roll::... fantasizing. Reality doesn't belong just as much as when your day dreaming about William Dafoe.
Boob render quality - If you don't like one soft porn mag, buy another or don't buy one at all. Team Ninja doesn't owe you your personal brand of realistic jiggle physics and size. They're attempting to supply a particular type of fantasy to a niche market who enjoys it and they've put their time in to produce it.
I feel this is coming from anger about indoctrinating a ridiculous visual standard, please look at it this way...
Porn is like candy and candy will always be around. It's bad for you but it's fun once in a while and if you become disappointed that all food doesn't taste like candy then sooner or later you'll get hit by the reality bus. This is the natural progression of maturity inherit in all experiences and it doesn't make liking candy wrong. Your problem is with a brand of candy you have no taste for and an assumption that everyone's grasp on reality is extremely fragile, grow up.
P.S. Love all your thought provoking videos! :)
You just witnessed High School of the Dead. The show itself is weird and over the top that it makes it awesome.
Well at least the HOSTD creator flat out said he liked big t*** instead of making excuses like team ninja does. Meh I'm going to disagree with you Jim there just cgi fictional charter and I know breast don't work this way IRL and still find them attractive on a few levels. Hey if you don't that's cool and we all have reasons why >_>
These are in no way children's bodies. Sorry, you're completely wrong there.
They, or rather IT (there's only one body type honestly) is around the age of 17-25. The faces yeah, you can argue that they're childlike, but not the bodies.
The boobs themselves are also disappointing, since they all appear to be one size and with terrible physics. At least have some size variety FFS,
I agree with the overall sentiment of the video, but that one plain falsehood (children's bodies) ruins its impact.
B) You're arguing now that it's WRONG. Not that it's hypocritical.
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The Fender Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar Electric Guitar. New for 2012.
The first big release of 2012 is here, and it's from the maker of the world's finest collection of signature guitars. Dolphin Music are delighted to introduce the Fender Signature Johnny Marr Jaguar electric guitar, putting the sounds of one of the UK's greatest modern-era guitarists in your hands.
Johnny Marr: A strikingly dynamic and influential anti-hero guitarist-arranger-all-round-musical-wunderkind
Johnny Marr is known for his brilliant guitar work in The Smiths, which not only redefined and ruled UK pop throughout their reign in the 1980's but is still prevalent in influencing today's musician and music lovers. After his highly distinctive and influential period with The Smiths, Marr became known as a master of melody, layering and texture, and has done the same with his post-Smiths projects with the likes of The Pretenders, Modest Mouse, the Cribs and innumerable guest appearances.
The Fender Johnny Marr Signature Guitar and it's main features
Taken from the Fender.com website, here's what Marr himself has to say on the making of his Jaguar.
"Primarily, I was attracted to the Jag by the way it sounded – this big, clear, ringing sound. My first proper experience playing one was with Modest Mouse in 2005. I had this riff kicking around that ended up becoming the song 'Dashboard', and it went from there really. The Jag suited the way I'd evolved as a guitar player, but at the same time my old stuff sounded absolutely right on it. It sounds like I'm supposed to sound."
"Aesthetically, I think the Jag is beautiful. I love the body shape and chrome; the early-'60s idea of space-age design. When Fender approached me to make my own signature Jaguar, I wanted to iron out some of the flaws that I felt the guitar had, and spent months on the road going through as many as fifteen old Jags working out what I liked and didn't like about each one. I wanted to prove the naysayers wrong about the Jag and my world became the guitar and the length of my guitar lead!"
Marr comments on how he chose the final decisions of the switching and pickups of his Signature Jaguar. His decision for the chrome panels and pickups were taken from the original models he played on during his time with the Smiths, but decided to change the guitar's remove its 'over-complicated switching system' with a single four-way Telecaster style switchblade. The first three positions are standard, bridge, both on and neck pickup selections, but when pushed forward into the fourth position it puts the two pickups in series where they act as one big humbucker to give a darker, thicker sound that's not usually heard on a Jaguar. You can see the full video interview with Johnny Marr below...
You can pre-order the Johnny Marr Jaguar here at Dolphin Music or simply view more info...
This the first of many new releases that will make history within musicians all over the world this month.
Dolphin Music will be keeping you up to date with the latest product releases, artist info and music technology updates from the NAMM show throughout January 2012.
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Chapman University offers $46 million for Crystal Cathedral site
Chapman University has made an offer to purchase the Crystal Cathedral property for $46 million.
Chapman would use the property as a satellite campus, according to bankruptcy documents filed Tuesday. The university's plan, however, requires bankruptcy judge Robert Kwan to terminate the church's exclusivity, which had been granted last month.
The Crystal Cathedral filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late last year. This new reorganization plan, which was filed by a creditors committee, is designed to compete with a plan filed by the church in May. In that original plan, Greenlaw Partners, a Newport Beach-based real estate developer, would purchase the church campus for the same amount.
One key difference, however, are the lease-back terms for the Crystal Cathedral. Under the new plan, the church will be able to lease back ministry buildings for $150,000 per month compared to $212,000 a month under the plan involving Greenlaw.
The church also would be able to repurchase the ministry buildings for $23.5 million compared to $30 million under the original exit plan.
Moreover, Chapman's plan claims to save the church $1.75 million in rent in the first year alone, helping to address what it said are operating deficiencies.
The Crystal Cathedral is "strategically located just three miles from Chapman University's City of Orange campus," according to a statement from the university. "The Cathedral is a well-known icon in Orange County, and the surrounding property includes seven major buildings representing more than 329,000 square feet of space."
The school's board of trustees authorized the proposal at its June 27 meeting.
"The offer is designed to address community concerns about the uncertainty of the Crystal Cathedral's present situation as well as provide growth opportunities for Chapman University," according to the statement.
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Theodore G. Lewis (1890-1934)
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
The justice who never sat.
"The life of 'Ted' Lewis, from country boy to the Supreme Court, should forever keep aglow the cherished American tradition that determination, effort, and honest devotion to one's chosen field, lead with certainty to the most cherished of all our rewards-the fullness and enjoyment of life..."- William R. Curkeet, Lewis' memorial service (1936)
Theodore Gorman Lewis was born on a farm in McFarland, Wisconsin, on November 19, 1890. He graduated from Cambridge High School in 1909 and attended business college in Madison. Lewis received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1913 and a law degree two years later. He was admitted to the bar and joined a Madison law firm.
During World War I, Lewis enrolled in Officer Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He was commissioned second lieutenant in August 1917 and was promoted to first lieutenant later that year. He was active in the 32nd division in Europe until he was wounded in a battle in France. After recovering, Lewis served with the Army of Occupation in Germany. He was honorably discharged in June 1919 and was awarded the Purple Heart for his distinguished service.
Lewis returned to Madison and resumed law practice, but remained active in military affairs. From 1921 to 1925, he served as district attorney for Dane County and was elected to two terms as city attorney in the early 1930s. In 1933, Lewis was named executive secretary to Governor Albert G. Schmedeman (who had been the mayor of Madison when Lewis was the city attorney). Public confidence in Lewis helped smooth problems facing the executive office during this period.
On November 15, 1934, Schmedeman appointed Lewis, 43, to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Walter C. Owen. Lewis died of pneumonia 20 days later, on December 5, 1934, never having heard a case.
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The Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office, which handles background checks and fingerprinting for those applying to get their handgun licenses, is averaging about 150 applications each month.
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office, which handles background checks and fingerprinting for those applying to get their handgun licenses, is averaging about 150 applications each month.
With permit requests increasing over the past few months, it has kept sheriff's office personnel busy juggling many tasks on a given day.
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth attributes part of that rush to uncertainty. Booth, who said many might be worried about federal bans on certain firearms or executive orders regarding the second amendment, said he supports a citizen's right to bear arms.
"Many people — good honest citizens — carry weapons and I have no problem with that," Booth said. "This way, the good guys have guns."
Booth said it's obvious from the numbers of applicants that more and more people are exercising their second amendment right to purchase firearms. As a result, many also want to become licensed to carry them, either concealed or openly as now allowed by state law.
PCSO employee Debra Christian, who handles the paperwork and background checks for handgun permits, said those tasks are just part of her many duties within the sheriff's office, but are often the most demanding of her time as more and more people are applying for permits.
"Most of the time, it's about all I can do — there will be three or four at a time lined up," she said, with fingerprinting going non-stop.
Deputy Al Turner, whose main responsibility is working the front door screening area for courthouse security, handles the fingerprinting process for applicants.
With him having more and more applicants to fingerprint, he said reserve deputies are helping fill in his duties at front door security area.
While the typical number of applications averaged a steady pace of about 100 per month for a while, Christian said they've seen a definite increase over the past few months and now see between 140 to 150 applicants per month.
"We've had a rash the last three to five months," Turner said, adding that one afternoon, he rolled 18 sets of fingerprints, one right after the other.
Turner said it's not uncommon on busy days to fingerprint about 15 to 25 sets a day and it's not unusual for there to be several people waiting at times.
Despite the workload, both Christian and Turner keep up the pace.
Booth, who said they have been quite busy with the permits, said the way his budget is for personnel, many staff members have collateral duties that change. That's been the case with handgun license procedures, Booth said, but they do their best to have an open door policy to accommodate applicants at different times, which he feels is part of their job to protect and serve the community.
The ability for his personnel to juggle all these tasks and serve the public is "a good example of the kind of people we have at the sheriff's office," Booth said, praising their ongoing efforts.
It appears other sheriffs also are dealing with a busy workload.
While Carter County Sheriff Ken Grace said he supports the rights of citizens to own and bear arms, the influx of those seeking open carry licenses is costing his department in dollars and manpower.
In 2012, 800 Carter County residents applied for an open carry license. This year, 215 people have already applied — a sign the 2013 numbers will exceed the 2012 total.
"It is costing us. It has meant pulling someone from their regular job to handle the applications. The processing has become a full time job in itself and that in turn means it's costing us financially — primarily in overtime pay," Grace said. "Although the sheriff's departments are handling the majority of the processing involved, sheriffs are only seeing $25 per application to cover costs, while the OSBI is getting $100 per application."
Carter County Undersheriff Milton Anthony said applicants first must prove they have successfully completed an appropriate gun handling/safety course.
"Then they call the sheriff's department to make an appointment to come in and begin the process," Anthony said. "We make every effort to set appointments as quickly as we can. Right now that's about 120 days from the time someone calls for an appointment."
The problem? Each application, which includes taking fingerprints, takes approximately 45 minutes to one hour to complete.
"We are processing as quickly as we can. Some days we are seeing 12 to 14 people," Anthony said.
Once the sheriff's department processes the application, the information is sent to the OSBI for the completion of background checks and licensing approval.
"The bottom line is we have tremendous backlog and we're not alone. It's a frustrating situation. We know it's frustrating for those people who are attempting to get licensed. They're doing what they are supposed to do. They are taking their responsibility seriously. It's just as frustrating for us. We're doing our very best to move things along as quickly as we can," Grace said.


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Budget Battles
McConnell: Entitlement Cuts Probably Won't Happen Under Trump
Republicans Ignore the Obvious Effect of Their Tax Cuts
Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent to $779 Billion
Trump's Border Wall: A Christmastime Clash Is Coming
GOP Lawmakers Push Back on Trump's Federal Pay Freeze
Larry Kudlow Wants to Put a 'Big Dent' in Government Spending
Four States That Will Founder When the Next Recession Hits
Trump Is Hitting Economy's Accelerator and Brakes at the Same Time: Analyst
Stocks have experienced some dramatic swings in recent days as investors try to digest and make sense of corporate earnings; rising interest rates and conflicting monetary and fiscal policy;...
Republicans Ignore the Obvious Effect of Their Tax Cuts
President Trump, top administration officials and Republican congressional leaders claim that the rising deficit, which grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal 2018, is not the result of their tax...
Mitch McConnell on Rising Deficit: 'It's Not a Republican Problem'
The quotes: "It's disappointing, but it's not a Republican problem. It's a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the...
Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent to $779 Billion
Despite a strong economy and robust job market, the federal budget deficit swelled to $779 billion in fiscal 2018, up $113 billion from 2017, according to final numbers released Monday by the...
Mnuchin Spins a False Claim About Tax Cuts and the Deficit
The Congressional Budget Office projected last week that the federal government's fiscal 2018 deficit would total $782 billion. The final numbers will be released by the Treasury Department, but...
A Fiscal Hawk's New Plan to 'Avert a Debt Crisis'
The national debt rose by more than $1 trillion in fiscal 2018, and yet lawmakers have evinced little concern about it ahead of this year's elections, instead pushing tax cuts and spending increases...
How GOP Rhetoric on Entitlements Has ChangedBy The Fiscal Times Staff
The Washington Post's David Weigel describes how Republicans have changed their tune on Medicare and, for this year at least, largely abandoned the idea of entitlement reform: "[O]ver eight years,...
The Post-Election Outlook: 'Debt, Debt and More Debt'
The 2018 elections are looking like a lose-lose proposition for the U.S. bond market, according to Bloomberg's Liz McCormick and Alex Harris : "If Democrats take the House, it raises the odds that...
Deficit Jumped to $782 Billion in 2018 – and It's Only Going to Get BiggerBy Michael Rainey
You might have missed this with everything else going on in the world, but the Congressional Budget Office said Friday that the deficit for fiscal year 2018 rose to $782 billion, a big jump from the...
Why Rising Interest Rates Really MatterBy Michael Rainey
The job market is "sizzling," says Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, thanks in part to the deficit-financed tax cuts and government spending increases that went into effect this year. The...
Larry Kudlow Wants to Put a 'Big Dent' in Government Spending
Larry Kudlow, the director of President Trump's National Economic Council, is once again talking up the economy and talking down the threat posed by rising debt and deficits. And once again, he's...
Congress Added $2.4 Trillion to the National Debt in 2018: ReportBy The Fiscal Times Staff
Fiscal 2018 ends on Monday, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calculates that lawmakers added $2.423 trillion to the national debt through 2027 through legislation enacted over the...
The Deficit Is Heading to $1 Trillion. How Worried Should We Be?By Michael Rainey
Should we be worried about the rising federal deficit? If not, when should we start worrying – when it hits $1 trillion a year? $2 trillion? Never? That's the topic of debate in a Bloomberg piece...
'Beware Trillion-Dollar Deficits,' Barron's Says
In the latest Barron's cover story, Jack Hough warns of the long-term risks of rising U.S. public debt. While noting that there's little chance of hitting debt-related turbulence anytime soon and...
Are Deficit Hawks Dead or Just Playing Possum?
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Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: AL East is still a beastDAVE D'ONOFRIO
June 16. 2013 12:02AM
THAT THE Red Sox reached Saturday with the best record in the American League could certainly be considered a surprise to some, considering the tempered expectations for the team coming into this season, and the fact most believed this to be a bridge between last year's stay in the basement and the promise of the future after the franchise reset itself. Entering Saturday at 41-28, they were probably better than many had anticipated they would be.
But the unfortunate part, at least for those hoping Boston's strong start prompts a return to the postseason, is that the AL East appears to be every bit as competitively balanced as it was expected to be. And if there is any surprise in the division besides Toronto's faltering, it's that four of the five teams may actually be better than believed to be.
The anticipation was always that the East would be tight, and through Flag Day that has come to fruition, with first and fourth places separated by a mere five games after Friday. The National League West, where the spread is four games, is only the division where the first four teams are tighter.
However, many had expected the closeness of the AL East race would be predominantly the product of parity, and the battle would be waged among the ranks of the mediocre - where a mid-80s win total might be good enough. Yet after almost half a season the East is home to four of the league's seven teams that entered Saturday with more wins than losses. And with the Sox, Orioles and Yankees all on pace to win at least 89 games, and the Rays projecting to win 85, the reality appears to be that the eventual winner of the division won't merely have to be the best of the bunch, it'll also likely have to be one of the best in baseball.Most encouraging for the Red Sox, then, is that they're well on their way. Before dropping their first two games in Baltimore, they needed to go only 49-45 the rest of the way to finish with 90 wins, which would at the very least put them in contention and on the cusp of the elite. They've also handled their business against their chief competition, taking two of three from the Yankees in the Bronx two weeks ago, doing the same against the Rays last week, and sitting at 17-12 against the East even after getting beat by the Orioles in close games Thursday and Friday.
It's critical that the Sox keep that up, since 40 of their remaining 90 games after against intradivision opponents, though that doesn't project to be easy task, in part because each of the teams chasing them can be reasonably expected to improve, based on comparisons of what they've done thus far to what are believed to be the strengths and capabilities of their rosters.
The second-place Orioles, for instance, have used their impressive offense (and the most home runs of any big-league attack) to make up for a pitching staff that started play Saturday with the second-worst earned run average in all of baseball (4.44), though Chris Tillman showed the Sox on Friday that he is becoming a front-of-the-rotation type of arm, and if the starters and bullpen can at least get nearer to their form of a year ago, the O's could be playoff-worthy.
It's a similar story for the Rays. Though they have a reputation of relying heavily on strong pitching, their 4.38 ERA is better than only Baltimore and Houston in the American League. A case could be made that Tampa Bay's bats might not be able to sustain their current level of success, which ranked them as the majors' sixth-most prolific after Friday, though reigning Cy Young winner David Price will return from injury soon, and if the rest of their young staff can simply be more consistent, the talent is there to lower that ERA significantly.
The Yankees, on the other hand, had the division's best ERA, but had conversely scored its fewest runs. And while it might be hard for the potential health of their various injured veterans to make a major difference offensively, with New York there's always the ability and willingness to be aggressive on the trade market - so as long as their aging pitching staff continues to perform, general manager Brian Cashman won't hesitate to make the moves he thinks necessary to get his lineup where it needs to be.
And the wild card in all this could turn out to be the Blue Jays. They've got a long way to crawl their way back into the mix as contenders, but have actually been pretty good for more than a month - going 20-15 between May 5 and June 14 - and still have 40 games against division foes themselves. They play the Yankees and Red Sox nine times each, while facing the Rays and Orioles 11 times apiece, and depending on how Toronto is going when those games arise the Jays could have a significant say in how the division turns out.
Of course, that was always supposed to the case all along. The Jays loaded up over the winter, and were predicted by many to be the team to beat. If anyone, they were the only team given all that much chance of being better than mediocre - but now it's looking like the opposite.
So it should be no surprise if the quest for the division crown proves especially difficult.
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STAT OF THE WEEK: The Red Sox took the AL's second-best road record into Saturday's game, a 20-14 mark buoyed by the second-best offense (5.06 runs per game) and pitching (3.43 ERA) in the AL.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Here at Jazz88.3 we have implemented a very nice technology created and provided by Amazon.com - the ability to search and extract the album cover images of every album played on our radio station, so that we could display them on our website. It works great, when it works. Unfortunately, sometimes people make
mistakes. Of course, I'm not talking about us! I'm talking about those people who actually submit those images to Amazon.
The submission process to Amazon is typically done by the recording company, who produces the albums, but lately it has become possible for the musicians to produce their own albums by themselves. Now-days every musician can record his or her music in a rented studio and then print a small batch of CD's keeping all the profit to him/herself, without sharing it with those greedy label companies.


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Assembling the collection of classic video game characters that inhabit Walt Disney Animation Studio's upcoming "Wreck-It Ralph" was a lot like casting a movie full of A-list actors — first you have to snare the star.
"Pac-Man was the first one we got that was big, and then we were able to say to Nintendo, 'Pac-Man's in it, so you've gotta be in it,'" said "Wreck-It Ralph" director Rich Moore, in an interview at Comic-Con after he presented 10 minutes of footage with voice cast members John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman during the Disney panel.
"Wreck-It Ralph" is about a video game villain who longs to be a hero — Ralph (Reilly), from a fictional 8-bit arcade game called "Fix-It Felix." Filled with mid-life ennui, Ralph attends a support group for other disillusioned digital bad guys, including a Pac-Man ghost and Bowser, the turtle-like nemesis from Super Mario Bros. On a quest for something better, Ralph starts hopping through the other games in the arcade, where he meets Sergeant Calhoun (Jane Lynch), of the first-person shooter game Hero's Duty, and Vanellope von Schweetz (Silverman), of the car-racing game Sugar Rush.
Moore began working on a concept for a video game movie four years ago, and the idea for "Wreck-It Ralph" came from his own frustration about the limitations of the format.
"I was thinking it would be so boring that these things are programmed around avatars and sprites that do the same thing day in and day out," Moore said. "They have no free will. This is depressing. Why am I even considering this for a movie? And then it hit me — that's a great conflict! That's a great wall to be bashing your head against — if you were someone in there who was unhappy with your existence, if you did not like what your role was in that dynamic."
Once the story was hatched, the trick became how to populate the video game cast, which includes a massive list of 182 characters. "Early on, I decided, if we're going to do this, it's only going to be worth it if we have the real characters," Moore said. "If we're just doing ersatz types, it's not going to feel as if there's much authenticity, so let's proceed as if we have them."
Accordingly, Moore and his producer Clark Spencer launched a charm offensive on the video game industry.
"We started building relationships with people at NAMCO, Capcom, SEGA, meeting with them, pitching the movie to them," Moore said. "Once it broke down to the human level of creating relationships — and I'm sure the lawyers at Disney will say, 'Oh my God there was a zillion I's to dot and T's to cross' — but the actual moment was very personal, and I think it was the right way to go, rather than sending out legal people. They got that, OK, they're being respectful and having some fun with it, and it's just a great way to get their properties out there."
Moore's team didn't get everything they wanted, however — Nintendo's Mario from Super Mario Bros. is still holding out.
But they did get a different kind of embrace from the video game industry. SEGA is adding "Wreck-It Ralph" to the cast of one of its Sonic the Hedgehog games — the upcoming racing game "Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed," which comes out in November.
"Wreck-It Ralph" opens Nov. 2.
–Rebecca Keegan
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Bonnie Bolte, one of the famous June Taylor Dancers, is still kicking up her heels at 100.
Bonnie Bolte, one of the famous June Taylor Dancers, is still kicking up her heels at 100.
"I gave a tap dance lesson two weeks ago," said Bolte at a birthday celebration held in her honor Monday morning at the city of Ocala's Eighth Avenue Senior Center.
Bolte has instructed dance at the location for 23 years and continues to give lessons, according to volunteer Anne Woodall.
Bolte, accompanied by her son Alan Bolte, was surrounded by about 30 friends and members of her senior class dance troupes, the Dapper Tappers, Bonnie's Belles and the Senior Strutters, which are based on level of experience.
"We call her the Energizer Bunny because she keeps going and going," said Bolte's neighbor, Bob Hauck, who attended the party.
Bolte, who was born Jan. 29, 1913, said she started swaying to the rhythm as an infant.
"My father was a musician and music teacher. His music created (my) movement," she said.
Bolte was born Birmingham, Alabama, where her father went deaf for two years and credited a chiropractor for curing his hearing loss. After a series of moves, the family settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, where both of her parents entered the chiropractic profession.
One of their patients asked about dance lessons for his daughter and was told to bring her over to the family's basement, where Bolte, then 20, a graduate of Barnard College who had "studied dance under Russian dancer Sonia Serova," started giving lessons.
"I always wanted to be a ballerina," Bolte said.
Alan Bolte, 69, a retired television writer and producer for several networks, including National Geographic and The Learning Channel, said his mother's instructional work centered on "tap, modern dance and tumbling, and she taught ballroom dance in the (local) schools."
"My mother taught about 10,000 students from 1933 to 1974," he said.
He added that she "gave dance instructions to bandleader Tommy Dorsey's wife."
Bolte said she has enjoyed all the forms of dancing she has seen.
"I liked all the dances that came along, from the Lindy Hop to the Twist," she said. "Some of the dancing today (on television) is more acrobatics with jumps and throws. I dance to steps."
She credits her career and enthusiasm to her "wonderful marriage" to her husband Alan Bolte Sr., who died in 1994 at age 85.
"My dad, Alan Sr., was with Hearst publishing and a semi-professional actor. He was the (ethereal) voice in the cartoon which would beckon for Mighty Mouse," Alan Bolte said.
"In the 1980s, my mom and dad retired and moved to West Palm Beach and by 1984 to Ocala. When my mother attended a dance session at the Senior Center and the tap dance instructor didn't show up, she took over as a 'temp.' She's been a temp for 23 years," he said.
The center's dance groups have performed shows, often in costumes designed by Bolte, at venues including the Paddock Mall, Oak Run, On Top of the World, Dunnellon's Boomtown Days and special events such as trips to Jacksonville, Orlando and Tallahassee while Jeb Bush was governor, according to 19-year dance troupe member Arlene Tice, 72.
"We met Bob Dole while we were in Tallahassee," Tice said.
"I love it," said Dorothy Smith, 82, a 20-plus year member of Bonnie's Belles. "We used to meet two to three times a week; now our troupe gets together once a week. Bonnie still choreographs our numbers."
Beth Steen, 84, came to the birthday event ready to dance.
"I wore my tap shoes," said Steen, a tapper and avid jitterbug dancer. She said she used to "fall to the floor and jump for my husband Jay to catch me" while bands like Glenn Miller and the Dorsey Brothers played.
"Beth still dances. In fact, she would jump over the back fence but our neighbors would complain," said Jay Steen with a smile.
Beth Steen performed a few dance steps with Alan Bolte during the event.
Dapper Tappers member Sara O'Conner, 85, has been tapping with Bolte for 23 years.
"It makes you feel good — young at heart," O'Conner said.