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Previous Artists
Loretta Becker
Loretta is a self-taught artist, influenced by her father's love and skill of painting. She paints with some nontraditional tools such as rulers, cardboard, sticks, stirrers and shells, along with the traditional brushes and palette knives. Many of her paintings are textured and rough on the surface. Most of her works would be classified as modern impressionism. She paints with oil, acrylic and watercolor and also makes sculptures from bricks and sea glass found on beaches. Many of her paintings are of the ocean and beaches and boats, because of her love for the sea. To her, the ocean represents freedom and peace, and she feels the world needs more of that. Some of her works are in private collections. She attended Alfred University, one of the best universities in the country for art, but interestingly enough the degrees she attained were a BA in Spanish and a BS in Nursing. All the while, she envied the students attending the art classes. She furthered her education, receiving a Masters in Education through the state and a Certification in School Nursing from Cedar Crest College. She is a member of AAC (Allentown Arts Collective) and ACE (Arts Community of Easton). Exhibitions: Allentown Art Museum | New Bridge Group Salemme Foundation | New Bridge Group Moravian College | New Bridge Group Nature Nurture Center | ACE (Arts Community of Easton) State Theatre | ACE Civic 514 Exhibition Center and Blink Optical Boutique | Allentown Arts Collective Allentown Arts Collective First Friday in Emmaus Exhibit Twisted Olive | Featured Artist March/April 2015 and Jan/Feb 2016
Mairin Egge
As an artist, who typically paints impressionistic scenes from nature, I believe there is no right or wrong way to create. This past year I turned a new leaf, letting go of evaluations and focusing on challenge and growth. Mastery is boring so, putting fear aside, I have challenged myself to go in a new direction with my artwork, experimenting with different processes and attitudes. Although I still enjoy recreating my interruptation of nature with paint, I am expanding my body of work to elaborate on past works, bringing a new outlook and light on ME and my art. Along with painting, Mairin enjoys working with others, especially through teaching art. When the weather permits it, she spends as much time as possible exploring the outdoors. While in nature, "I feel so small, a part of something larger than life." She is fond of hiking, kayaking, snowboarding, gardening, cooking and traveling. These activities activate her senses and nurish creativity. Having created many commission pieces of artwork, Mairin has a flair for capturing essential subject elements. She has a unique gift in understanding the needs and desires of her clients and through this talent, she creates outstanding pieces which will undoubtedly grow in sentimental and tangible worth through time. Request a commissioned work and be astounded at the result. //www.mairinegge.com/ *****40% of the proceeds for the art sold at Twisted Olive will be going to the Junior League of the Lehigh Valley***** About The Junior LeagueFounded in 1901 by social activism pioneer Mary Harriman, the Junior Leagues are charitable nonprofit organizations of women, developed as civic leaders, making a demonstratable impact on their communities.Issue Based Community Impact; our current community impact focus is on the issue of Educational Disparity. The areas of impact are improving life skills and reducing the educational gap in lower income communities.
Barbara Tracy
Barbara Tracy grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and enjoyed drawing, painting, and craft making at an early age. She attended Kutztown University, majoring in art education where she studied under Dr. Mary Erickson and Dr. Thomas Schantz, both well-published and notable artists and art educators in the national art education field. She attained a Masters Degree in Art Education from Kutztown and taught art in the public school arena for over 30 years, serving as K-12 department chair for four years. As an adjunct professor at DeSales University, she instructed classroom teachers on methodology of integrating the arts into classroom curriculum. Her art lessons have been published in DreamMakers, a Hallmark / Crayola company publication for parents and teachers. Retiring from her teaching career in 2012, Barbara devotes all her time to painting in her studio or plein air. She has a passion for depicting trees, which is derived from her early childhood memories of her grandparent's estate, where a stand of huge oak trees were part of her early imaginative play. As a mostly self-taught watercolor artist, Barbara has focused on landscapes, though she also has a love for florals and wildlife. She draws inspiration from her surroundings in Pennsylvania as well as her extensive travels. Barbara was mentored by the award winning pastel and watercolor artist, Priscilla Rosenberger Taylor, at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA. Among the many workshops and classes she has taken, Barbara recently completed an intensive painting workshop with internationally acclaimed water-colorist, Tony Couch. She is a member of the Lehigh Art Alliance, Bethlehem Palette Club and the Lehigh Valley Arts Council as well as a lifetime member of the National Education Association (NEA). She has begun to exhibit and win awards in regional and international juried exhibitions. She was a recent finalist in the international Faso Broad Brush competition. She currently maintains a studio in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her web site is: www.bctracy.fineartstudioonline.com
Karl J. Unger
Karl J. Unger is a self-taught artist from the Lehigh Valley who discovered his creativity slightly later in life. During his professional career in technology, Karl attended many webdesign classes at Northampton Community College to tap into his creative ambitions. Some of his work was selected for Earth Day and displayed throughout the college. This encouraged him to continue to express himself through his art. He is continually inspired by artistic works from digital artist Stephen Harlan, abstract / modern artist like Michael Lang, Kevin Hill, and Roger Dean. The colors and elements of light shine through their works and show the viewer a di)erent way of seeing. Karl shares their vision. His acrylic work makes light and color seem to come alive on the canvas and create a magical mood. His digital canvas creations incorporate color and contrast. The works that he creates both acrylic and digital conjure up many moods and touches deeper than the eye can see. He creates uniquely special views that can't help but attract the eye. The images created draw the viewer in almost to make them feel part of the scene. His work is both visually appealing and thought provoking. As Karl continues to challenge himself it is his wish that art lovers will see things in his creations that inspire them. What he likes about Digital Art is that it is a more accessible and a relevant way to share his art work with everyone. Hope you enjoy his talented works.
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Rebecca Rhodes
Rebecca Rhodes discovered watercolor painting in 2012, and after a rewarding career as a Public School Music Educator, is now a watercolor artist in Lehigh County, PA. Rebecca specializes in realistic paintings of nature, wildlife, music, and loves to create commissioned portraits of pets and people. You can learn more about Rebecca's art at www.rebeccarhodesart.com, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram. Contact Rebecca at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Suzanne Bartlett
Drawing inspiration from all her experiences, Suzanne creates work by mixing fabrics, paper textures and layering, giving her works an ethereal, tactile quality. The images are painterly and softly realistic.
In addition to her artistic endeavors, Suzanne is an Interior Designer for Ethan Allen. She uses her creative skills for combining color, texture and scale to create individually styled interiors.
Suzanne is available for commissioned work.
Michael Sandy
A lifelong resident of Pennyslvania nd calls the Lehigh Valley home. Michael began his journey in photography while serving in the United States Army, as a photojournalist. After his tour in the Army, Michael worked for the American Red Cross as a staff photographer. He also continued his education at The Art Institue of Philadelphia, graduating with honors in 1993.
For the past fifteen years Michael has been trekking the globe, in search of unique portraits and landscapes of nature and the human experience. Spending the majority of his time in India and Central America. Michael's works have been feature exhibits in galleries throughout the United States.
Michael is an avid and experienced outdoorsman, giving him a keep eye for the beauties of nature. Michael's works have now come full circle, returning to what he loves the most, capturing nature through the lens of his camera. Michael believes in top quality in every piece of work he delivers. All his products are produced here in the United States, utilizing local vendors.
Michael takes great pride in printing his own work and brings a master printers touch to his work. His images are all printed on gallery quality archival paper with archival links. He chooses to use exhibition quality matting and frames to highlight his photographs.
Contact info
610-393-4495 - Michael Sandy
Eric Armusik
Born in 1973, fine artist Eric Armusik grew up in the northeastern coal region of Pennsylvania. Once one of the largest coal mining operations in the county, his hometown was a landscape riddled with the depressions of post-industry. In contrast to the blight was a diverse ethnic community strong in faith. What the community lacked in public art and museums it made up for it with churches on each city block. It was there that Eric had his first experiences with art, staring at the walls and ceilings at church on Sunday. The traditions and academic realism of Catholic religious paintings and artwork made a permanent impression that continues to influence his work today.
From an early age it was evident that Eric had artistic talents and at the age of 10 he won an art competition "Why I love living in the Wyoming Valley" that included students from all of the surrounding schools and his drawing of the Swetland Homestead was exhibited in the Franklin First Federal Building in downtown Wilkes Barre. His talents continued to win him numerous competitions and in 1990 he was awarded for his Contribution to the Arts by Wilkes University where he attended their Upward Bound program.
In 1991, Eric attended Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a B. F. A. in painting, with and a minor in an art history focusing on Baroque art. In 1995 he received the Margaret Giffen Shoenfelder Memorial Scholarship for the Arts and finished his art history minor abroad for a semester in Todi, Italy. During his art classes where he drew from original paintings, architecture, and sculptures by the old masters such as Michaelangelo, Bernini, Caravaggio, Rubens and Donatello. The rare opportunity to study masterworks by Baroque painters Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi had a profound effect on the quality of his work and focused the inspiration he experienced as a child. After years of learning the techniques of the Old Masters, Eric honed his skills at the Philadelphia studio of renowned international realism artist and portrait painter Nelson Shanks, Studio Incamminati. In 2003, Eric was selected to represent the United States in Florence, Italy at the Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea where he exhibited several of his paintings. Today Eric's paintings have established him as one of today's strongest purveyors of traditional figurative painting. Eric has been a finalist in four Art Renewal Center International Salons and has won the Chairman's Award for the Sixth International Art Renewal Center competition out of 1700 submissions from over 30 countries worldwide. In 2015 Eric's work was selected as a finalist for the Figurativas International Painting Competition in Barcelona, Spain. His painting was in the top 5% out of 2500 entries from 90 countries. In 2015 Eric was recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an Associate Living Master. Eric is an artist ambassador for Jerry's Artarama Art Supplies and is regularly featured in their Artist Spotlight series. Eric has been recognized as a Boldbrush Signature Artist and is a writer for their FineArtViews publication. Eric conducts several workshops in his studio on traditional painting each year and has attracted students from around the world that come to study with him.
Eric's work has been featured in such galleries and museums as the Salmagundi Art Club and the National Arts Club in New York; Allentown Art Museum; Philip and Muriel Berman Art Museum, Ursinus College; Monsoon Galleries; Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts; State Museum of Pennsylvania; and Reading Public Museum to name a few. His paintings are in the permanent collections of Howard Tullman, The Trenton City Museum, The National Shrine of Czestochowa USA, Lehigh Valley Hospital and numerous churches private collections worldwide. His artwork has been prominently featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, American Artist Magazine, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Huffington Post, Victorian Homes, and Old House Journal.
Laura A. Brady was first noticed with her gifting for fine art at an early age, which included a wide array of artistic awards, recognitions, and acknowledgments. She continued her education in both the study of illustration and graphic design. After graduating with a Bachelors in Fine Art, Brady furthered her study in illustration. She has developed her talent and gift of expression through her many forms over the years until her true passion found a home through her love for painting. Laura continues to explore and unravel the outer-earthy nature, which is inspired by the countryside at which she resides, expressing an artistic view that is unique to any other. Many have applauded dynamism and bold expression bestowing upon the viewer a new and unforgettable perspective.
Laura currently resides and works in her studio based in New Tripoli, PA.
Artist Statement
I am told that I see the world differently than most. A world created with dynamic, vivid color, where sound is transformed into shape and emotion is released in the movement of a paint brush.
By utilizing real objects, through figurative art, I seek to host a new perspective for the viewer. Approaching each piece with a move of impressionism, which carries a boldness yet softness, a parallel understanding that suggests a glimpse of a new reality. A refreshing for both the mind and the spirit, as the viewer receives what each painting has been made to release.
Artist's Biography
Allentown, PA 18106
I have been painting in watercolor for over 20 years and have won numerous awards in juried and judged shows. When I was younger, I took a few classes at Baum Art School and Barnstone Studios. The Barnstone classes were tough, but they taught me that art takes a lot of discipline and drive. In 2008 I gained signature status through the Philadelphia Water Color Society and in 2009 for the PA Watercolor Society. I have appeared in the "International Artist Magazine" twice in 2009 for a Landscape painting finalist and also a flower painting finalist. One of those paintings was accepted as a finalist in the Watercolor Magazine 2009 summer issue. The North Rim also appeared in the Splash 11 book that came out in June 2010. . In March 2011 my entry into the American Watercolor Society placed with an award and in the summer of 2012 that same painting appeared in the Splash 13 book. In 2013 appeared in June/July Issue of International Artist's magazine as a featured artist with a few page spread. I first started painting florals from my own garden and trips to Longwood Gardens, but my recent love, is painting rocks and water and the designs that I see in them. Mostly look for how the water plays with the rocks in a reflection, seeing submerged rocks or the designs of the water flow. Exploring the coasts when low tide is happening, will leave the normal picturesque images, looking a little dreary. So testing myself, I tried looking for something different and creative in the short time the rocks would be exposed.
"Lehigh Valley based artist, Ashley Dorney, has spent much of her free time falling in love with portraiture for the past several years. After studying fashion design in college, she combined her love of figure drawing and fashion illustration and started creating whimsical portraits of people. Her love of details like gold leaf and delicate prints add a unique sensitivity to her interpretation of each person she draws. Though Ashley's artistic style continues to grow and change, her portraits always reflect the same concept: to memorialize a person's face and, most importantly, their spirit."
Charles J. Daniels
Charlie was employed in the electronics industry for over 35 years.
His art interests include oriental (Ling Nan style) watercolors; Western (traditional) watercolors, drawing, and pastels and. He studied oriental painting with Martha Chang, Martha Wu, Eloise Braylove, and the world-renowned oriental painter Henry Wo Yue-Kee. Charlie studied traditional Western style watercolor painting with Phil Metzger, Dana VanHorn, William Wentz, Fred Bees, drawing with Myron Barnstone, and Les Fletcher, and pastels with Jackie Meyerson.
Artist's Statement
Bethlehem based photographer Steven Andrew has been perfecting his skills in
fine black and white photography since 2012. With a focus landscape and
street photography, Steven "chases the light" with the use of unique angles,
exposures and reflections.
His current collection is an assembly of photographs taken from various
locations along the East Coast including several in the Lehigh Valley. His
inspiration is drawn from his travels to the city, mountains, countryside and
beyond. You will often find Steven on a rainy, foggy morning in the middle of a
muddy field, chasing the perfect shot.
You can view Steven's work by following him on:
• Instagram- @steven_andrew_photography
• www.stevenandrewphotography.com
Nature is the main muse of Mandy Martin's acrylic paintings, which feature bold botanicals and bright color palettes. She practices intuitive painting, and her work explores layers of texture, rhythm and movement as she interprets it in the natural world. It is her hope that her work will inspire viewers to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in unexpected places, and to take care of the earth.
Mandy's striking acrylic paintings are available online as well as at select shows and exhibitions in Southeastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding states, where many of her collectors reside. She works in her home studio in Sellersville.
Follow Mandy on Instagram: @Mandy Martin
Jesse Graver
Jesse Graver is an artist based in the Lehigh Valley specializing in deep space astrophotography and astro-landscape photography. He travels to the darkest regions in the United States and uses his camera to capture the unseen detail of the night sky. When he is not taking photos, he works as an electrician and enjoys woodworking on the weekends.


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The automation design process is very easy to navigate. If you decide that at some step of the automation process you want your automation to send out email campaigns, then you have to add a particular type of action which is called Then send email campaign.
One of its parameters will request that you set the campaign content that will be sent out when the criteria for this particular action have been met. You will then have several options regarding the content you will use within your automation.
Let's take a closer look:
A. Fetching the content from an existing campaign
1. To use content from an existing campaign, click on the Campaign editor tab, then click on the Use a ready campaign button.
2. Next, use the drop-down list to select the campaign whose content you wish to use, whether it be a campaign that has already been sent out or just a draft of a campaign.
3. Once you have selected your campaign, click on the Import button to use its content in your automation. Tap on Save when you are done.The HTML content that each of your recipients will see will be taken from whichever campaign you selected in the step above. When utilizing this option, you might find it preferable to have your campaign design at the ready before you start the automation design process, but it ιs not necessary. You can, at any point, exit the automation design, go and design the campaign content for it, and then return to the automation design.
B. Creating a campaign from scratch
Alternatively, you have the option of creating an entirely new campaign design for your automation.
1. To do this, click the Campaign editor tab once more, then click on the Create a campaign from scratch button.
Clicking on this option takes you to the Campaign wizard where you can follow the steps to import your desired HTML content, just as you would do with a regular campaign, or create a brand new campaign from scratch.
2. Once you are happy with your design, clicking on the Update Campaign & Continue button will automatically take you back to your automation, allowing you to seamlessly continue with designing it.
C. Creating a campaign design using the Editor
1. To create a new campaign design for your automation, click the Campaign editor tab once more, then click on the Go to editor button.
Clicking on this button takes you to our Campaign Editor, where you can create a whole new design.
D. Creating a simple campaign content
Finally, you have the option of creating a simple HTML message for your automation from within the Then send email campaign window.
1. Click on the Rich text editor tab, which is the default option. Create your simple HTML message and then click on the Save button.

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|(vintage: christmas card illustration, lace, doilies, sheet music; patterned paper: reminisce; floral: prima; glossy cardstock: ranger; ink: colorbox; adhesives: staples brand gluetape runner, 3m foam tape, scotch gluestick, gluedots, sewing machine)
i should probably mention that you don't need to have any ACTUAL vintage ingredients to link up your card with us this week, we're just going for an "old fashioned" feeling, so you can use some of the wonderful brand new products that have vintage flair; or you scan/stamp (or surf for?) and print out copies of old postcards, greeting cards, etc. we're going for the vibe, here, not the provenance! in my case, i've got some of "the real deal" just because that's the sort of thing i love and collect. so my focal image is cut from one of the old christmas cards my uncle's mother used to save, the vintage lace is from the collection of a seamstress my mom's neighbor used to know, my white tree is made from garage-sale-acquired doilies, and the tree behind that one is beautifully patina-ed old sheet music.
if you'd like to see stephanie's gorgeous vintage-inspired card, not to mention a photo of our prize this week, why not hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ where you can start planning your own card, too!


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UPDATE: Dec. 4 ― Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have confirmed the name of their newborn son ― Dimitri Portwood Kutcher. The couple shared the news with A Plus, the digital media company founded by Kutcher.
Mila Kunis gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday, a rep confirmed to The Huffington Post.
This is the actress' second child with her husband and former "That '70s Show" co-star, Ashton Kutcher. The couple, who have been married since July 2015, also have a daughter, Wyatt Isabelle, born in October 2014.
In early October, Kutcher accidentally shared the sex of his second child during an interview on "The Today Show" as he told a story about his daughter.
"She points to Mila and she's like, 'baby brother,' when she points to the belly," Kutcher said. "And then she points to Dad and she goes, 'beer,' so I think she gets there's something in the belly, but I don't quite think that she knows that it's not going to be a plastic doll yet."
Now she knows. And, since Kutcher is also on record stating he wants "like 12" kids, we can hope Wyatt and her brother might have a couple more siblings down the road, too.


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This is a review post. I received this item in exchange for my honest review. Below you will find just that, my honest review.
I believe that all children need to learn the necessary skills of life. One of these is knowing how to write and read cursive. Trying to find a simple program that made it easy for the kids to learn can be hard. However, we had the chance to review CursiveLogic Quick-Start Pack and The Art of Cursive from CursiveLogic. This is the program we love for learning cursive in our house.
We have had the chance to review this once before with Moe Man, and we fell in love with how simple it was. I have tried a few different programs with Ray Ray, but they just weren't what we were looking for. Having the chance to try the newly updated program, I was excited!
What It Is
The CursiveLogic Quick-Start Pack is a workbook and access to the webinar. You will have access to this webinar for 6 months. The webinar shows you how to use the patent-pending CursiveLogic methods. These methods work on a shape-based approach. This means that your child will learn the letters that are the same shape at the same time.
As we learned the shapes, we learned a chant that helped us remember the shape. This was extremely helpful for Ray Ray to remember how to make the letters. Using this method of learning how to write cursive also allowed Ray Ray to write real words right away. This gave him a sense of satisfaction that made him want to do more.
We also received The Art of Cursive coloring book. This is just that, an adult style coloring book that works on the methods of cursive. This is a great way to practice the shapes as well as introduce them to pre-writers. It is also a great relaxing tool for mom when the kids don't steal it from me!
How We Used It
I watched the webinar first. I wanted to know how to teach Ray Ray the correct way. As I was watching, I figured that at his age he would be able to watch the webinar with me to learn how to do the methods of CursiveLogic. We sat down together and watched the first lesson of the webinar and took did the workbook pages as we went along. Ray Ray was impressed that he was able to catch on within the first lesson. This made him want to learn more.
While this program is easy to use and Ray Ray picked up on it, I realized that he wasn't ready to move as fast as they suggested. Each lesson is broken down into days, and each day you complete what is listed for that day. Instead of doing all the pages for each day, we slowed down and split the days up. This worked for us, gave us little frustration, and allowed us to continue having fun and learning.
The Art of Cursive was too "girly" for Ray Ray, and he didn't want to use it. That was fine with me, as I thought it looked like a good thing for me to do to relax at the end of the day. My only problem, Little Miss, stole it from me. The first pages go over the shapes, but after that you get pictures. These are not ordinary pictures, each image is full of the different shapes, along with a quote.
What We Thought
We loved CursiveLogic the first time we tried it, and we love it more with the updates that have been done with it. While they are not drastic changes, they are just enough to make it even more fun and easy to understand. Ray Ray didn't fight me after we adjusted the schedule to fit us and our learning. He loved that he was able to write in cursive and had to show it off when he saw that learning a and d meant that he could write dad without it being on the paper.
I loved having the webinar to help me teach the methods of CursiveLogic to Ray Ray. Having the webinar set up like it was teaching a classroom of students, made it easy to have Ray Ray watch and learn with me. Pulling that up at the beginning of each new shape method and knowing that he is getting an excellent understanding of how to do this makes me confident in knowing that he will know how to write in cursive without an issue.
Having the necessary skills in life is what I want my kids to learn. Cursive is one of those skills that I feel they need to know. Finding a program like CursiveLogic to teach this skill is a huge stress relief for me.
Check out CursiveLogic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ilovecursive/


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Scott Frank is now working on the adaptation of Don Winslow's best-selling novel.
James Mangold's next directorial project is an adaptation of Don Winslow's novel about the blurring of crime and justice in New York City. A cop realizes he might be the baddie but still feels an obligation to help his city out of a jam. Deadline reports that Scott Frank, one of Mangold's Oscar-nominated writing partners for Logan, has signed on to rewrite the script for The Force (previously handled by David Mamet). And he has the right background to turn a dose of reality into an enjoyable chunk of time at your local movie theater.
Frank has a way with these types of morally confusing or deeply conflicted characters. This past year, aside from Logan, he also wrote, directed, and produced Netflix's Western series Godless. The common element? Mostly, he remembers people are people. Things like good and evil and right and wrong usually only feel so starkly different in retrospect. In the present, it all gets fucked up.
Mangold and Frank earned Academy Award nominations for their last writing team up with Logan. The very human sendoff to Hugh Jackman's Wolverine rocked a lot of people's worlds. The Wolverine can be angry forever, but Logan is just a man at the end of it all. His body catching up with his world-weariness was haunting. But, Charles Xavier's (Patrick Stewart) deterioration was crushing. The character work earned every bit of the popular and critical acclaim and accolades the film received.
Aside from Logan, Frank has a history of popular adaptations of novels. He co-wrote Steven Spielberg's theatrical version of Philip K. Dick's "The Minority Report." Do you remember Barry Sonnenfeld's version of Elmore Leonard's "Get Shorty"? Yeah, you do. Frank wrote that as well. He also wrote Out of Sight, which earned him his first Oscar nomination.
Mangold also previously adapted a Leonard story in 3:10 to Yuma. Which, my goodness, talk about grey characters. Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is stubborn to a fault and Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) is an amoral thief and murderer who finds something fascinating in the immutability of Evans' will. Throw in the impressionable son of Evans and the psychopathy of Wade's lieutenant Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), and you've got yourself a nasty little western you can't look away from.
Do you see a pattern? These two guys have a history of taking complicated situations filled with morally ambiguous characters and heroes who are fallible and turning it into extremely satisfying cinema. They've both proven they excel at working with this type of story.
Winslow's novel "The Force" was a best seller. As much as people dug it, it's a gritty story featuring dirty cops, corrupt politicians, racial tensions, and gangsters. The book has that Leonard feel to it. Turning these kinds of stories into movies that don't feel like an emotional trudge through the reality of our times is a challenge. The American Dream as pursued by cops gone criminal is a major downer.
However, it turns out our line between distaste and entertainment is alarmingly thin. All it takes to sell those tickets is to give those all too real stories an Elmore Leonard-esque punch-up with some memorable characters. I suppose that would work for anything, though. Still, all it takes is the right bit of writing and some nuanced character work. When it's done right, we can find a connection with even the maddest of cocaine kingpins or corrupt cops.
Related Topics: Hugh Jackman, James Mangold, Logan


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How to have multiple experiences share availability
Use Bókun's combo feature to share availability and resources
To have many experiences you operate share availability or resources, you can use Bókun's combo feature as a workaround.
You create an experience that's the base and then combo connect all your experiences to the base.
How to create a Base product
Click Products > Experiences > Create experience. This experience will be the availability base for your other experiences. Example: You offer five different tours around Paris. All the tours include a visit to the Eiffel Tower. You can only offer 100 tickets per day to the Eiffel Tower in total. You create a base product that's called "Eiffel Tower tickets" and then connect all your experiences to that base. That way, the availability is shared and you won't overbook the Eiffel Tower tickets.
Add the following settings for the base product
- Enter title and click Save & continue.
- Choose Meet on location. Click Continue.
- Click Continue 3 times.
- Choose the booking cut-off for your product. Click Continue.
- Click Continue.
- Add all the start times your base product needs. Click Save & continue.
- Add the total availability for your base product. Click Save & continue.
- Choose the pricing categories you want your base product to have. Click Continue.
- Click Save & continue.
- Add "0" as the price for all pricing categories. Click Save prices.
How to connect your Experiences' availability to the base
Click Products > Experiences. Click the Experience you want to combo connect to the base product.
1. In the left-hand side menu, click Experiences > Advanced. Click This experience is a combination of other experiences. Make sure you have the Express setup disabled to be able to see this option.
2. In the left-hand side menu click Availability > Start times.
3. Click Connect with other experiences.
4. Choose yourself as the supplier and your Base product as Experience. Then, choose the start time you'd like to connect. Click +Add start time and then click Submit.
5. Click the 0/1 mapped under Map CSTs. Connect the rates and price categories together and click Submit.
6. Click Save & continue.
7. Repeat steps 1-6 for all experiences you'd like to share availability.
Your base product availability is now shared across all the connected experiences.
Ticket settings for combo tours
You can edit the ticket settings for combo tours in the Advanced product settings.
Toggle is grey - Customer receives a ticket only for the combo experience. We recommend you choose this option.
Toggle is green - Customer receives a ticket for both the combo experience and the experiences that are part of the combo.


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Here's a tip for you when you are installing Windows XP on a new hard drive. Make sure it's the only drive in the computer, otherwise XP will label your primary partition as E:. That's whats happened to me, and there doesn't seem to be any way for me to change it short of re-installing. Anyway, I recieved my new 120GB Seagate harddrive. It kicks. Can I interest anyone in a 6GB hard drive?
With my new hard drive installed, I've gone and installed Unreal Tournament 2003. If you haven't played UT2k3 or it's XBox counterpart Unreal Championship, you haven't lived. And talking of 3D, UselessCreations has released a new version of their ever-so-popular Matrix Reloaded 3D screensaver. The new version is interactive; you can move the mouse to track around the code simulation. Also check out their Inside the Matrix screensaver,
featuring a low-polygon model of Neo flying round an infinite city of buildings which are dripping with the matrix code. Not as cool as the Matrix Reloaded 3D screensaver though.
Smileychris pointed me at Enhancer 017 for Winamp 2.x. As I had just installed Winamp and hadn't yet turned on the Equaliser, installing this plugin instantly improved the quality of the sound output.


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Infinity Symbol
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Jerome Abram Bettis Sr. (born February 16, 1972) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nicknamed "the Bus" for his large size and running style, he was selected 10th overall by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1993 NFL Draft. Bettis was a member of the Rams for three seasons before being traded to the Steelers, where he spent the remainder of his career. A six-time Pro Bowl and two-time first-team All-Pro selection, he is regarded as one of the greatest power runners of all time and ranks eighth in NFL rushing yards.[1] He retired in 2006 after helping the Steelers win a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XL, the franchise's first in over two decades. Bettis was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.[2]
|No. 36
|Running back
|Personal information
|February 16, 1972
Detroit, Michigan
|5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
|255 lb (116 kg)
|Career information
|High school:
|Detroit (MI) Mackenzie
|Notre Dame
|NFL Draft:
|1993 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10
|Career history
|Career highlights and awards
|Career NFL statistics
|Player stats at NFL.com · PFR
Early lifeEdit
Bettis was born February 16, 1972, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the oldest of three children of Gladys Elizabeth (née Bougard) and Johnnie E. Bettis.[3] Bettis did not start playing football until high school, as his primary passion as a youth had been bowling. At age 14, he was diagnosed with asthma.[4] As a youth in Detroit, Bettis and his brother made ends meet by selling crack cocaine.[5] He attended Mackenzie High School in Detroit, where he was a standout running back and linebacker. As a senior, he was rated the top player in the state by the Detroit Free Press, and was the Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year award winner.
College careerEdit
Bettis enrolled at the University of Notre Dame to play college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Bettis finished his career with 337 rushing attempts for 1,912 yards (5.7 yards per attempt), and made 32 receptions for 429 yards (13.4 yards per reception). In his last game as a junior, a 28-3 win by Notre Dame over Texas A&M in the 1993 Cotton Bowl, he rushed 20 times for 75 yards, ran for two touchdowns and caught a 26-yard touchdown pass. In his sophomore year, he set the Notre Dame touchdown record with 20 in one season, with 16 rushing, and 4 receiving (23 total touchdowns including the 1992 Sugar Bowl, a record which still stands).
- 1990: 15 carries for 115 yards and 1 touchdown.[6]
- 1991: 168 carries for 972 yards and 16 touchdowns. 17 catches for 190 yards and 4 touchdowns.
- 1992: 154 carries for 825 yards and 10 touchdowns. 15 catches for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Bettis did not graduate from college[7] at that time. He left Notre Dame in what would have been his senior year to enter the 1993 NFL Draft. He returned to Notre Dame in 1996 when he was having a dispute with the St. Louis Rams and was considering retirement. He took courses in "history, philosophy, marketing and business" totaling a heavy 18 credit class load.[7] He returned to the NFL shortly thereafter.
As of 2021, Bettis was again taking courses at Notre Dame,[8][9] and on May 15, 2022, Bettis officially graduated with a business degree from Notre Dame.[10]
Professional careerEdit
|Arm length
|Hand span
|40-yard dash
|5 ft 11 in
(1.80 m)
|248 lb
(112 kg)
|33+3⁄4 in
(0.86 m)
|10+1⁄8 in
(0.26 m)
|4.70 s
|All values from NFL Combine[11][12][13]
Los Angeles / St. Louis RamsEdit
The Los Angeles Rams selected Bettis in the first round, with the 10th overall selection, of the 1993 NFL Draft. On July 22, 1993, Bettis signed a three-year, $4.625 million contract with a signing bonus in excess of $2 million.[14] As a rookie, he flourished under Chuck Knox's ground-oriented offense. He quickly earned the nickname "The Battering Ram" as he rushed for 1,429 yards (second in the NFL), drawing comparisons to Earl Campbell.[15] Bettis also had an NFL-best 79 rushing first downs and an NFL-best 38 runs of 10 or more yards, and tied for the league lead with seven 100-yard rushing games despite not becoming the full-time starter until the sixth game of the season. Bettis was named a First-team All-Pro (the only rookie named to the team) and Consensus NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. He rushed for over 1,000 yards and was selected for the NFC's Pro Bowl team in each of his first two seasons with the Rams.
The Rams moved to St. Louis for the 1995 season. New coach Rich Brooks instituted a more pass-oriented offense, a major reason why Bettis was limited to 637 yards,[16] a significant dropoff from his 1993 and 1994 totals. Brooks asked Bettis whether he wanted to move to fullback for the upcoming 1996 season or preferred to be traded. Bettis stated he thought he could still help an NFL team with his running.
Trade to PittsburghEdit
In what would become one of the more lopsided trades in NFL history, on April 20, 1996, Bettis was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers with a third-round pick in the 1996 NFL Draft, in exchange for the Steelers' second-round pick and their fourth-round pick in the 1997 NFL Draft.[17] The Rams gave Bettis the option of which team he wanted to be traded to, and he chose the Steelers over their AFC Central rival Houston Oilers (who would draft Eddie George that year instead) due to the Steelers' more storied history.[18]
In exchange for Bettis, the Rams drafted Ernie Conwell (second round of 1996 draft) and also received the Steelers fourth-round pick in 1997. In 1997, the Rams had multiple trade deals including moving up to the number 1 draft slot to draft Orlando Pace. The Rams traded their fourth-round pick from the Steelers to the Dolphins along with two sixth-round picks, in order to move up nine slots and draft offensive tackle Ryan Tucker. The Steelers drafted Steve Conley (third round of 1996 draft) with the draft selection they acquired from the Bettis trade with the Rams. Conley was traded to the Colts two seasons later for a fifth-round pick.
The Steelers were in need of a running back because Bam Morris, their power running back for the 1994 and 1995 seasons, was arrested in March 1996 for marijuana possession.[19] The Steelers traded for Bettis on the day of the 1996 NFL Draft. Morris eventually pleaded guilty to marijuana possession and was cut by the team in June 1996, leaving Bettis as the featured back.
Pittsburgh SteelersEdit
In his first season in Pittsburgh, Bettis rushed for a then career-high 1,431 yards and 11 touchdowns and was named to his second 1st team All-Pro team. He also won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year, NFL Alumni Running Back of the Year, was voted Steelers' team MVP and finished the 1996 season as the leader in Football Outsiders rushing DYAR metric.[20]
Bettis rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his first six seasons with the Steelers between 1996 and 2001. Included in that run were three campaigns of over 1,300 yards. In 1997, Bettis rushed for a career-best 1,665 yards in the team's first 15 games. However, because the team had already wrapped up its playoff position, he was rested for the regular-season finale and finished 26 yards short of the team's single-season record. Bettis does hold the Steelers' franchise record for rushing yards in a single season when including postseason play.[21] Bettis was a second-team All-Pro choice in 1997 and set a then NFL record with two overtime touchdowns in the same season.
Bettis was leading the league with 1,072 rushing yards in 2001 when he suffered a serious hip and groin injury that sidelined him for the remainder of the regular season. Injuries would also cost him significant parts of the 2002 season and he then began the 2003 season as a backup to Amos Zereoué. Despite regaining his starting role midway through the 2003 season, Bettis again found himself a backup to start the 2004 season, this time to free-agent acquisition Duce Staley. But when an injury took Staley out of action midway through the year, Bettis stepped in and gained 100-plus yards in six of the next eight games, and in seven consecutive starts. The late-season effort led to the sixth Pro-Bowl berth of his career.
Bettis spent the 2005 season as a short-yardage running back, but managed two notable games along the way: First, a 101-yard, two-touchdown effort in a pivotal week 14 win over Chicago (his second-to-last game in Pittsburgh). This game included a play in which he ran over Bears' safety Mike Green and the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year linebacker Brian Urlacher on the goal line during a heavy snow squall. Secondly, he scored three touchdowns in a win over Detroit to clinch a playoff berth on the last day of the season, which was his last game in Pittsburgh. He finished the season and his career as the NFL's 5th leading all-time rusher.
Bettis was also at the center of one of the most controversial calls in NFL history. During a Thanksgiving Day game with the Detroit Lions on November 26, 1998, Bettis was sent out as the Steelers representative for the overtime coin toss. Bettis appeared to call "tails" while the coin was in the air but referee Phil Luckett declared that Bettis called "heads" and awarded possession to Detroit, who would go on to win the game before Pittsburgh had the chance to have possession. After reviewing the incident, the NFL changed the rule and declared that the call of "heads" or "tails" would be made before the coin was tossed rather than during the coin toss and that at least two officials would be present during the coin toss. The readers of ESPN voted the incident as No. 8 on its list of the ten worst sports officiating calls of all time, even though later sound enhancements of the audio showed that Bettis said "hea-tails" and Bettis admitted starting to call "heads" before changing it to tails.[22] Immediately after the incident, however, Bettis commented "I did not say 'heads-tails."[23] Bettis later put together one of the most bizarre single-game statistics in NFL history. In the 2004 season opener, he carried the ball five times for a total of only one yard, a 0.2 yards per carry average.[24] However, he scored 18 points on those carries with three touchdowns.
During that 2004 season, Bettis and New York Jets running back Curtis Martin dueled for position on the all-time rushing yards leaderboard. Bettis entered the season in 6th place all-time and 684 yards ahead of Martin in 9th place. Because Bettis was the backup in Pittsburgh for the start of the season, Martin was able to pass Bettis in week 13 until the Steelers played their game later in the day and Bettis retook the lead by 6 yards. When the Jets traveled to Martin's home town of Pittsburgh to play the Steelers the following week, both backs would cross the 13,000-yard mark, making this the first time two players crossed the 13,000 yard mark (or other similarly high yardage milestones) in the same game. Their combined career totals were also one of the biggest combined career totals for opposing running backs in history. At the end of the game, Martin would lead Bettis by 9 yards. Two weeks later in week 16, Bettis would again pass Martin and establish himself with a lead of 81 yards. In doing so, Bettis passed Eric Dickerson for 4th place on the all-time list. Bettis sat out the final week of the season, and when Martin rushed for 153 yards that week he passed Dickerson and Bettis for the final time.
After the Steelers' defeat in the 2004 AFC Championship Game on January 23, 2005, Bettis announced that he was considering retirement, but would not make a final decision for several months to prevent the sting of the defeat from clouding his judgment. Later, Bettis agreed to stay with the Steelers for another season. He stated he would love to play in the Super Bowl in 2006 since it was to be played in his hometown of Detroit. His wish came true as the Steelers played in, and won, Super Bowl XL (40) against the Seattle Seahawks, 21–10, on February 5, 2006.
Bettis finished his 13 NFL seasons as the NFL's 5th all-time leading rusher with 13,662 yards and 91 touchdowns. He also caught 200 passes for 1,449 yards and 3 touchdowns and threw 3 career touchdown passes. He was named to the Pro Bowl in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, and 2004. Bettis won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award in 1996, and in 2002 he was the recipient of the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. While Bettis finished with 1,542 more yards than Franco Harris on the NFL's all-time rushing list, Harris remains the Steelers all-time leading rusher because 3,091 of those yards came while Bettis was with the Rams.
Radio color commentator Myron Cope popularized the nickname "The Bus" after hearing a brother of a fellow Notre Dame alumnus call Jerome "Bussy" in Green Bay.[citation needed] The nickname comes from his ability to carry multiple defenders on his back, like a bus ride, during his carries. It was during the Green Bay broadcast that Cope started using the nickname "The Bus." Jerome credits the Notre Dame school newspaper with first using the nickname.[25]
Another lesser-known nickname for Bettis was "The Closer." He was given this nickname by former Steeler head coach Bill Cowher because whenever Pittsburgh was ahead and was ready to close out the game, Cowher would send in Bettis to run out the clock. He did this because of Bettis's very low fumbling percentage and the fact that he was difficult to tackle.[citation needed]
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Shortly after the Steelers lost the 2004–2005 AFC Championship game to the eventual Super Bowl XXXIX champion New England Patriots, Ben Roethlisberger approached Bettis. He promised Bettis that if he came back for one last season, he would get him to the Super Bowl. Apparently, it was this promise that got Jerome Bettis to play one last season.[citation needed] In 12 NFL seasons, Bettis had reached the playoffs five times, but had never been in the Super Bowl.
In week 17 of the 2005 NFL season, Bettis rushed for 41 yards and three touchdowns against the Detroit Lions.[26] The Steelers won, 35–21, and thanks to Bettis's three touchdowns, they clinched a playoff berth. When Bill Cowher pulled Bettis from the game late in the fourth quarter, he was given a standing ovation from the Steeler fans. This game would be the last home game (not including the neutral-site Super Bowl) for Jerome Bettis.
Bettis contributed 52 yards and a touchdown in the Steelers' wildcard playoff victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on January 8. After their wildcard win, Ben Roethlisberger revealed to the team that he promised to Bettis that he would get him to the Super Bowl, in order to get him to come back for the 2005 season.
On January 15, 2006, Bettis was the center of one of football's most memorable[according to whom?] endings in a divisional playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts. While the Steelers offensive attack was mostly pass-driven during the game, Bettis ran well, taking in 46 yards on 17 rushes, including one touchdown. When the Steelers took possession of the ball on the Indianapolis 2-yard line with 1:20 remaining in the game, leading 21-18, the outcome seemed almost certain. The first play from scrimmage went to the surehanded Bettis, who had not fumbled once the entire year. As Bettis ran towards the end zone, Colts linebacker Gary Brackett popped the ball out of Jerome's hands, where, in seemingly another occurrence of the Sports Illustrated "cover jinx," it was picked up by cornerback Nick Harper, who was stopped from returning the fumble all the way for a touchdown by Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Ultimately, however, Bettis's mistake did not result in a Steelers loss, as Colts kicker Mike Vanderjagt missed a 46-yard game-tying field goal, ending the game with a 21-18 Steelers victory.
The next week, the Steelers were set to face off against the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship game. Bettis delivered a rousing speech to his teammates the day before the game, asking them to "Just get me to Detroit", his hometown, where Super Bowl XL was to be played.[citation needed] Bettis's wish was granted, as he and the Steelers advanced to Super Bowl XL with a 34–17 win over the Broncos, led by Ben Roethlisberger's arm and Bettis's 39 yards on 15 carries, including a touchdown. After the game was over, Bettis found his parents in the crowd and mouthed the words "We're going home" to them.
NFL career statisticsEdit
|Won the Super Bowl
|Career high
Regular seasonEdit
Retirement from footballEdit
Asked about the possibility of retirement, Bettis announced, "I played this game for a championship. I'm a champion, and I think the Bus' last stop is here in Detroit." Thus, Jerome Bettis officially announced his retirement standing on the champions' podium, holding the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Hines Ward, the MVP of the game, said during the Super Bowl commercial, "I'm going to Disney World and I'm taking The Bus!"
Although the Steelers have not officially retired Bettis' #36, they have not reissued it since his retirement and it is understood that no Steeler will ever wear it again. His number joins a list of other unofficially retired numbers such as those of Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, and Hines Ward.
On January 31, 2006, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the City Council presented the key to the city to Bettis and declared the week "Jerome Bettis Week" for being "a shining example of what a kid with a dream from Detroit can accomplish with hard work and determination."[28] Currently, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.[29]
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm of the State of Michigan declared February 1, 2006, to be Jerome Bettis Day.[30]
On May 21, 2006, Bettis received an honorary Doctoral degree from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan.
Before the Steelers' home opener of the 2006 NFL season, a large school bus drove onto the field, and Bettis stepped out to a massive crowd ovation. He was one of several Steelers players being honored as part of the celebration of their five Super Bowl victories; Lynn Swann and Franco Harris were also present.
Post-football careerEdit
In February 2006, at the 2006 Winter Olympics, NBC Sports announced that Bettis had been signed as a studio commentator for NBC's new Football Night in America Sunday night pregame show where he was through the 2008 season.
In April 2006, Bettis and his parents teamed up with Don Barden, the head of PITG Gaming LLC, in a bid for a casino on Pittsburgh's Northside to be called the Majestic Star. Their plan would aid the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins with funding for a new ice arena. Barden said that he would give $7.5 million a year for 30 years to help build a new arena.[31]
Bettis opened a restaurant called "Jerome Bettis' Grille 36" on June 5, 2007, on Pittsburgh's Northside.[32][33]
Bettis makes a cameo as himself in the episode "The Convention" of season 3 of the NBC comedy series The Office. Signing autographs at a paper convention, Michael Scott tries to invite him to a room party, which Bettis declines. Later, Michael claims Bettis is nicknamed "The Bus" because he is afraid of flying.
In 2010, Bettis joined School of the Legends (SOTL), an online community and partner of the NFLPA.[34] He was featured in an article on the D1 Training website in February 2011 and filmed training courses for SOTL that focused on his position as a running back.[35]
Bettis is currently the host of The Jerome Bettis Show on WPXI-TV, filmed at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, airing Saturdays at 7:00 PM and 1:00 AM. He was a commentator for the NFL Network and a former NBC studio analyst for Football Night in America. Now he is an NFL analyst for different ESPN programs, such as SportsCenter.
The Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation and other agencies sponsor the Jerome Bettis Asthma and Sports Camp annually for children with asthma.[36] Bettis has also delivered over 1000 pairs of cleats to children in the Detroit school system.[37]
After falling short as a finalist in 2013,[38] on January 31, 2015, Bettis was voted into The Pro Football Hall of Fame.[39] Bettis returned to NBC to help Bob Costas preside over the Vince Lombardi Trophy presentation at the end of Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, 2015.
Bettis starred in a Geico commercial in 2019, playing a running back in flag football that dominates the competition (49-0).
Bettis portrays himself in the episode "Welcome to the Ex-Files" in Season 4 of the CBS comedy series The Neighborhood, where he visits the home of principal characters Calvin and Tina Butler for dinner after running into them at a restaurant. In the course of the evening, characters learn that Bettis & Tina had a "summer fling" when they were teenagers, triggering jealousy in Calvin that gets resolved by the end of the episode.
Bettis returned on campus at the University of Notre Dame in 2021-2022 to finish his bachelor's degree, something he started nearly 30 years ago. He graduated in May 2022 with a bachelor's degree in business.[10]
Personal lifeEdit
Bettis had made political donations to both Democratic and Republican candidates; specifically the Congressional campaign of Democratic U.S. Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, and the 2004 campaign of Republican President George W. Bush.[40] On March 29, 2008, Bettis accompanied Barack Obama on a campaign visit to the US Steel plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania.[41]
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- ^ "Jerome Bettis elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame". Ed Bouchette. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^ Stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, March 9, 2012
- ^ "Biography". Jerome Bettis. WebMD. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
- ^ Jahnke, James (July 24, 2015). "Jerome Bettis: I sold crack, shot at people in Detroit". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ^ Jerome Bettis College & Pro Football Statistics. Totalfootballstats.com. Retrieved on July 23, 2013.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Lee (February 4, 2006). "With That Old College Retry, Bettis Revived His Career". The New York Times. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
- ^ Bettis, Jerome. "Verified LinkedIn Profile Post".
- ^ "Football World Reacts to Jerome Bettis' Awesome News". January 11, 2022.
- ^ a b McCarriston, Shanna (May 13, 2022). "Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis completes his business degree at Notre Dame 28 years after leaving university". CBS Sports.
- ^ "Jerome Bettis, Combine Results, FB - Notre Dame". nflcombineresults.com. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^ "Adding Up the Numbers: A Rookie Impact On the Pittsburgh Steelers Running Game". bleacherreport.com. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^ "NFL Draft 2001: The fuss over 40". old.post-gazette.com. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^ Simers, J.T. (July 23, 1993). "Rams Reach Agreement With Bettis Football: No. 1 pick expected to sign and practice today". Los Angeles Times Retrieved September 10, 2010.
- ^ SIMERS, T. J. (December 8, 1993). "Bettis' Pounding Runs Haven't Rescued Rams : NFL: Rookie running back is gaining yards and attention, but the offense remains ineffective because of a shoddy passing attack". Retrieved December 25, 2017 – via LA Times.
- ^ "Pro Football Hall of Fame: Steelers' Jerome Bettis redefined big, quick RBs". Ryan Wilson. CBSSports.com. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^ Clarochi, Paul (April 21, 1996), "Steelers Bet on Bettis to Fill RB Void".Beaver County Times Retrieved September 12, 2010.
- ^ "Jerome Bettis talks about the trade that changed his life | Pittsburgh Steelers". YouTube.
- ^ "Steelers' Morris Indicted On Drug Charges". ChicagoTribune.com. March 27, 1996. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
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- ^ The Readers' List:Worst calls in history. ESPN. August 27, 2001. Retrieved on 2013-07-23.
- ^ "PRO FOOTBALL; 'Heads'? 'Tails'? Referee Chooses, Then Steelers Lose". New York Times. Associated Press. November 27, 1998. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ^ "NFL Football Scores - NFL Scoreboard - ESPN". ESPN.com. September 12, 2004. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
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- ^ [3]. espn.go.com (January 1, 2006). Retrieved on August 20, 2015.
- ^ "Jerome Bettis Stats". ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ^ "Officially, today is Jerome Bettis Day". Beaver County Times. February 1, 2006.
- ^ "TV Talk: Steelers legend Jerome Bettis guest stars on CBS sitcom 'The Neighborhood'". November 5, 2021.
- ^ Jerome Bettis Day Proclamations, Michigan.gov
- ^ Bettis joins bid for new Pittsburgh arena Associated Press article at tsn.ca, April 18, 2006
- ^ Jerome Bettis Grille 36 opens Tuesday on N. Side Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dining Guide, May 31, 2007
- ^ Bettis' Grille 36 in the works Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sports, July 11, 2007
- ^ "Veteran Running Backs Offer Rookies Advice in Exclusive School of the Legends Interview". Business Wire. June 3, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
- ^ "Jerome Bettis Stops by D1". D1SportingTraining. February 21, 2011.
- ^ "Jerome Bettis Hosts Children's Asthma Sports Camp At Heinz Field". WPXI. July 22, 2010.
- ^ Evans, Gavin (September 11, 2013). "Where Are They Now? Your Favorite NFL Players of the '90s". Complex. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
- ^ Corbett, Jim (February 2, 2013). "Parcells, Carter finally make Pro Football Hall of Fame". USA Today. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
- ^ Mello, Igor (January 31, 2015). "Pro Football Hall of Fame: Jerome Bettis among the 2015 class". CBSSports.com. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^ Jerome Bettis Archived April 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Newsmeat.com, Accessed March 31, 2008.
- ^ Michael David Smith, Barack Obama's Pennsylvania Strategy: Appear With Franco Harris, Jerome Bettis, Accessed March 31, 2008.
External linksEdit
- Jerome Bettis at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- The Jerome Bettis Show on WPXI
- The Bus Stops Here Foundation
- Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · ESPN · Yahoo! Sports · SI.com · Pro Football Reference · Rotoworld


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So one more year passed and finally I was able to go to DL for New Year's Eve. It was 1981 and back then, the park would close at 7:00 p.m. and then reopen at 8:30 for a separately ticketed New Year's Eve event. Again, this is the year that I was working at the park, so I had to perform in a 2:00 parade during the day (there was only one parade performance on the 31st), then I went home and got ready to go out for the evening, then I went back to the park that night for the party, then went home and slept, and then went back to the park the next day for a 2:00 and 9:00 parade performance. I can't imagine doing that now.....29 years later. I will be going out to a party tonight, but fortunately I am off both today and tomorrow!
Here's the entertainment guide from that night:
Tickets for this event were "advanced sale" and could be purchased either at Disneyland or at Ticketron locations. Remember Ticketron? This ticket was purchased at a Ticketron that happened to be located in the basement of a Sears Department Store!
My only clear memory from that night is of riding the original version of Snow White's Adventure's and seeing that the Wicked Witch's apple was laying on the ground right next to the path of the ride vehicles. Someone must have attempted to grab it and it had fallen. It was right there on the ground within reach! I wanted to go back and try to get it, but my friends thought I was crazy and I caved to the peer pressure. Or is that "reverse peer pressure"? Maybe they did me a favor. I could have lost a finger, or ended up in the Disneyland jail.....or both! I wonder where that apple is today?
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1966 Brian Wilson's genius gives birth to "Good Vibrations," the final track of his abandoned epic SMiLE.
1966 The show Gene Roddenberry once pitched as Wagon Train to the Stars, now called Star Trek, finally debuts on national television.
1985 Bob Carlton amalgamates all of the above to create and direct a cult hit (under a traveling tent in London) called Return to the Forbidden Planet.
Return to the Forbidden Planet is: a play, a Shakespeare review, a musical cabaret, a science fiction spoof, a Shakespeare spoof, a musical spoof, and a rock concert. Carlton's play starts with the same premise Wilcox used for his film: "let's do The Tempest in outer space, sort of." In both versions of Planet, we have a mad scientist, Doctor Prospero; his daughter, raised in isolation, Miranda; and a robot (Wilcox calls his Robby, Carlton calls his Ariel). Carlton adds both literary and wacky dimensions not found in the film by making ninety-five percent of the dialogue lines from Shakespeare (or riffs off Shakespeare lines we call "Makespeare"). Using lines from sixteen Shakespeare plays, two sonnets, and one line from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Carlton creates such intergalactic gems as:
Two parents, both alike in dignity
In outer space, where we our play locate.
[looking at scanner]
CREW: But hold, I think I have another beep.
CPT: A second beep?:
CREW: Well, I'm not really sure.
CPT: Two beeps, or not two beeps?
CREW: That is the question.
Into this sci-fi/Shakespeare concoction, he also mixes in pop songs from the 1950's and 60's at strategic spots that contribute to his unhinged narrative. As the space ship dodges flaming
asteroids, the crew breaks into Great Balls of Fire; when Miranda falls in love with the Captain and her father speaks
disapprovingly to her, she expresses her emotional state with Teenager in Love. So the play truly becomes a rock and roll Shakespeare musical in outer space. And if all of the above isn't enough to make your head spin in delight and wonder, this musical was originally designed for the actors to be the musicians while they play and sing onstage for the whole show.
We've taken Carlton's musical fantasy and added a few more unique layers for your pleasure. We're doing every piece
of music live onstage with ACOUSTIC instruments, without electronic special effects (or microphones) as we leave the lights on the audience and make you shipmates on this adventure. By the time we're done putting this show together, each actor will most likely be playing at least two instruments and singing.
Finally, we are not afraid to poke fun at Shakespeare (or musicals or Star Trek or rock and roll). But we also hope that we use the Shakespeare and Makespeare that Carlton gives us to take you on a "routine scientific survey flight" you will never forget. Thanks for coming. Enjoy the ride.
Uh 1-2-3-4…
ASC Co-founder and Artistic Director
Students from the Heifetz International Music Institute will join ASC actors in special Return to the Forbidden Planet pre-show performances July 11 through August 9.


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I wanted to be able to specify a particular command-line flag more than once in a Go program. I was about to throw my hands up in despair because I didn't think that the Go flag package could process multiple instances of a command-line flag. I was wrong.
While I was tempted to write my own command-line options parser, I chose to find the idiomatic way to approach the problem. If I have learned nothing else from my GoMentors, I have learned to try to follow the idioms and to try not to reinvent the wheel.
I found an example by visiting http://golang.org/pkg/flag/ . I had to search for the string "FlagSet" in my browser. Immediately under the paragraph where the word "FlagSet" first appears, is a clickable item labeled "Example". Click the example item and take a look at the code.
I copied the code and toyed with it until I thought I understood it. Then, I tried to simplify it and rewrite it. My example program will simply accept one or more command-line flags with the label -i. Each argument to -i should be an integer. I want to be able to specify -i multiple times on the command-line. The program should populate a slice of integers while adhering to the above command-line syntax.
Here's my code … flagstuff.go :
// Copyright 2013 - by Jim Lawless
// License: MIT / X11
// See: http://www.mailsend-online.com/license2013.php
// Bear with me ... I'm a Go noob.
package main
import (
// Define a type named "intslice" as a slice of ints
type intslice []int
// Now, for our new type, implement the two methods of
// the flag.Value interface...
// The first method is String() string
func (i *intslice) String() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("%d", *i)
// The second method is Set(value string) error
func (i *intslice) Set(value string) error {
fmt.Printf("%s\n", value)
tmp, err := strconv.Atoi(value)
if err != nil {
*i = append(*i, -1)
} else {
*i = append(*i, tmp)
return nil
var myints intslice
func main() {
flag.Var(&myints, "i", "List of integers")
if flag.NFlag() == 0 {
} else {
fmt.Println("Here are the values in 'myints'")
for i := 0; i < len(myints); i++ {
fmt.Printf("%d\n", myints[i])
Let's dissect the code one section at a time … not necessarily in the order presented in the source code above.
First, I define a type called intslice that refers to a slice of ints:
type intslice []int
Later, I define a variable named myints of type intslice.
var myints intslice
Later in the code, I'm going to be calling flag.Var() passing in &myints as the first argument. The type of the first value to flag.Var() must conform to the flag.Value interface which is defined as:
type Value interface {
String() string
Set(string) error
I must now define a String() method and a Set() method for my intslice type:
func (i *intslice) String() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("%d", *i)
func (i *intslice) Set(value string) error {
fmt.Printf("%s\n", value)
tmp, err := strconv.Atoi(value)
if err != nil {
*i = append(*i, -1)
} else {
*i = append(*i, tmp)
return nil
The above methods will be called by the parsing engine in the flag package when I invoke flag.Parse(). In the String() method, I need to return a string-representation of the argument. In the Set() method, I then need to append the string value to the specified intslice variable by first converting value to an int variable named tmp. If an error occurs during conversion, I append an int value of -1 to the intslice variable.
The main body looks like this:
func main() {
flag.Var(&myints, "i", "List of integers")
if flag.NFlag() == 0 {
} else {
fmt.Println("Here are the values in 'myints'")
for i := 0; i < len(myints); i++ {
fmt.Printf("%d\n", myints[i])
Here are a few sample command-line invocations and the output that they produce ( I've added a blank line between each command and the counterpart response lines for clarity):
No parameters. I've added a check to make sure that more than zero flags are specified.
-i=[]: List of integers
Let's specify an invalid flag (-x):
flagstuff -x
flag provided but not defined: -x
Usage of flagstuff:
-i=[]: List of integers
Let's specify -i without an argument:
flagstuff -i
Usage of flagstuff:
-i=[]: List of integers
Now, let's specify a single -i parameter with an integer value:
flagstuff -i 5
Here are the values in 'myints'
At each invocation of the intslice.Set() method, I display the string that has been passed in so that I could observe the mechanics of the parsing process. In each example that provide arguments for -i, we'll first see those values, then we'll see what the slice contains via the for loop that occurs just a little later in the code.
Let's specify a string instead of an int as an argument:
flagstuff -i twelve
Here are the values in 'myints'
Note that this causes the error condition in the call to strconv.Atoi(). I have chosen to add the value -1 to the slice when the argument doesn't cleanly parse as an integer. You may choose to handle the error differently.
Here is an example with three valid integers:
flagstuff -i 5 -i 6 -i 7
Here are the values in 'myints'
Note that the example at golang.org contains a section that splits the string value passed to Set() based on the presence of the comma character. This allows that code to also accept multiple arguments to a single command-line flag. I have chosen to avoid doing that to simplify my example.
Knowing how to handle multiple occurrences of a given flag without customizing the command-line parser is going to be very helpful for a couple of programs that I plan to write. I'm glad that I spent the time going over the example golang.org code. I hope to tinker with more exotic command-line processing features of the flag package in the near future.
原文地址:https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/filling-a-slice-using-command-line-flags-in-go-golang/ 太长了懒得翻译了,又不是不能看。。。
18 Feb 2016 #golang


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'Dancing With the Stars' Results: Lisa Vanderpump Voted Off in Week 4
Following a rough week in which she fainted during rehearsals, reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump was the latest star to be voted off the ballroom floor of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
"It's been six long weeks I have to say, and boy, it's taken a toll," Vanderpump told ABC News backstage after her elimination. "It's the hardest thing I've ever done."
Vanderpump, who stars in "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," had struggled throughout the competition. Her busy schedule combined with the grueling physical requirements of rehearsal led to her collapse during practice this past weekend, and judges acknowledged that her performance of the cha cha cha on Monday had suffered due to the lack of rehearsal.
"It was just a perfect storm. It was just swollen glands, a fever, my blood pressure was low, everything," Vanderpump explained.
Vanderpump, 51, smiled when the results were announced on the show Tuesday night, and thanked her pro dance partner, Gleb Savchenko, saying being paired with him was "a gift."
"Thank you for giving me a last dance," Savchenko told her. "It was really good."
Vanderpump's daughter also praised her mother's accomplishments on the show.
"She is incredible. Amazing," Pandora Sabo said. "It is so inspirational to watch. She is my hero."
PHOTOS: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 16: Celebs and Pro Partners Take to Dance Floor
Vanderpump and boxer Victor Ortiz had been the two lowest scorers following their performances on Monday night - where she tied with Ortiz for last place. The star with the lowest overall total after judges' scores and viewer votes are combined is the one who is voted off the show. Country music legend Wynonna Judd was eliminated from the competition last week.
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Tuesday's show featured live performances from country music star Brad Paisley, and a duet from pop star Jennifer Lopez and opera legend Andrea Bocelli.
Returning to the competition on Monday are Ortiz, Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman, Disney star Zendaya, country music singer Kellie Pickler, NFL player Jacoby Jones, soap opera star Ingo Rademacher, comedians Andy Dick and D.L. Hughley, and reality TV star Sean Lowe. "Dancing With the Stars" is now in its 16th season.
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Art imitates life with real 'Goon'
There are few professional hockey players who learned to skate on a pond at age 19. Even fewer of those late developers went on to become feared enforcers and win a championship at the pro level. And there is only one player who did both, then had a book and Hollywood movie written about his incredible life.
That man is Doug Smith, a native New Englander raised as a Golden Gloves boxing competitor before a series of rare opportunities gave him the chance to become a minor league goon at a level as high as the American League. The book of his life, Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey, was made into the recent film, Goon (now out on Blu-ray and DVD), starring Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel.
And for the now-47-year-old Smith, each experience he's had talking about the book or promoting the film has added to his fairy-tale-with-a-twist life story. "I'm just a regular guy from a small town in Massachusetts, so even to be interviewed by The Hockey News is a huge honor," said Smith, who has worked as a police officer the past 20 years.
"I realize what I did on the ice was a big accomplishment, but to have a book written and a movie based on me – a nobody who fell into something like this – it never gets old. I'm humbled by it, trust me."
Smith was equally humbled at the start of his adventure, which began in 1988 when the ECHL's Carolina Thunderbirds saw enough in him – OK, maybe it was all in his thunderous punches and willingness to fight anyone bigger or smaller than his 6-foot-2 frame – to sign him for the final 28 games of the 1988-89 season. Amazingly, Smith and the Thunderbirds won the championship that year, earning the rookie a ring he cherishes to this day.
However, there was no Hollywood happily-ever-after angle to Smith's role in the win since he didn't play in a single playoff game. Just as you see in the NHL now, there was no room for a one-dimensional tough guy to play when the games really mattered. And Smith completely understands. He still sees the honor existent among the enforcer community, but he also realizes that times change.
"There were plenty of games I played in where there was no reason to fight," said Smith, who still holds fighters' camps in the Boston area for NHLers and AHLers. "The guy on the other side of the ice, he's the same as me – no reason to fight. So you've just got two egos on the ice figuring, 'Let's see who the tougher guy is.' I understand hockey's point of view in trying to eliminate that stuff, but I didn't have a problem with that. To employ a so-called goon in today's hockey isn't going to float anymore. I guarantee you if Doug Smith wanted to play hockey in today's day and age, he wouldn't make it. I was lucky 20 years ago they allowed that type of nonsense."
Smith played only 37 pro games over the course of five seasons, often going one or two years between opportunities and usually only receiving a one-or-two-game tryout before he moved on. But the Slap Shot fan got to play for the ECHL's Johnstown Chiefs – under famous Hanson Brother and then-Chiefs coach Steve Carlson – and played in Moncton and Springfield of the AHL as well as Phoenix of the International League and Louisiana of the ECHL before he retired following the 1997-98 campaign.
He finished his pro career with 234 penalty minutes and one assist – and while the helper would have been a source of pride for some enforcers, Smith was disappointed.
"In the games I played, however many there were going to be, I wanted the statistics line to read: zero goals, zero assists, zero points and five or six hundred penalty minutes," Smith said. "I just always had that dream. It was nutty, I know. But when I got the puck on my stick, it was like a hot potato. I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. So I'm sure that assist was a complete accident."


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Lawmaker Cohen 'dismayed' model Victoria Brink is not his daughter
Published July 21, 2013
Rep. Steve Cohen expressed dismay at evidence that bikini model Victoria Brink was not his daughter.
"I was stunned and dismayed when DNA tests disproved what Victoria and I believed about our relationship," Cohen (D-Tenn.) said in a statement July 18 after DNA tests organized by CNN proved that John Brink was the father. "I still love Victoria, hold dear the time I have shared with her, and hope to continue to be a part of her life."
Cohen's revelation of his belief that Brink was his daughter came in February after he sent her Twitter account loving messages while he was attending President Obama's State of the Union address. The Jewish lawmaker deleted the tweets, but reporters already were questioning the relationship between the two, neither of whom is married.
Cohen then revealed that Brink's mother, who had divorced her husband a year after Brink's birth in 1988, had told him four years ago that he was Brink's father.
Cohen and Brink's mother, Cynthia White Sinatra, knew each other at the time, but it was not clear in what capacity.
Cohen then contacted Brink and they became close; she accompanied him to last year's White House Christmas party.
CNN sought DNA tests from Cohen, Brink and John Brink, who had believed he was Victoria's father. The tests proved conclusively that John Brink was the father.


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By KEVIN HENRY
TULSA, Okla. — This wasn't the way the Springfield Armor wanted to start a critical road trip.
Leading 86-83 with 6:49 to play, the Armor saw the Tulsa 66ers piece together a 16-4 run and then hold on for a 106-97 victory in an NBA Development League clash on Friday night at the Tulsa Convention Center.
The loss, Springfield's fourth in its last five outings, started a road trip that has the Armor playing four games in five nights, including a back-to-back set with Tulsa that concludes on Saturday night.
After battling back from a 13-point second-half deficit, Dennis Horner connected on a jumper to give the Armor an 86-83 edge with 6:49 left. Tulsa, however, would answer with a 9-0 burst and never trail again.
Horner led Springfield (22-17) with 28 points while JamesOn Curry added 23 and a game-high eight assists.
"They (the 66ers) made some plays down the stretch," said Springfield head coach Robert MacKinnon, who saw his team lose its second game in two outings against Tulsa this season. "We got in here in the middle of the night and were playing shorthanded, so considering what we were going through, I thought we fought very hard."
Springfield took a quick 4-2 lead on back-to-back jumpers by Jamar Brown and Curry, but that would be the Armor's last lead of the first quarter. Tulsa reeled off a 6-0 lead, including a four-point play by Robert Vaden, to grab the early momentum and put the 66ers in front.
Tulsa would lead by as many as five in the first quarter but Horner kept the 66ers' early advantage from getting any larger. The forward scored eight of the Armor's first 21 points, including a putback that trimmed the Tulsa lead to 24-21 with 2:23 to play in the opening period.
Springfield would pull within 24-23 on Zendon Hamilton's inside shot, but Tulsa would finish the quarter on a 6-2 skein to hold a 30-25 edge after one quarter.
Springfield pulling close and Tulsa pulling away would be a familiar theme in the second quarter. The Armor could never grab the lead, coming within 41-40 on two free throws by Lance Hurdle with 5:11 to play before intermission. Tulsa, however, would answer with an 8-2 run, highlighted by a three-point play from Ryan Reid, assigned earlier in the day to Tulsa from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
After it appeared Reid would end the half with an exclamation point with a dunk that gave the 66ers a 57-49 lead with 7.9 seconds left before halftime, Hurdle would give Springfield a push heading into the locker room. The guard hit an acrobatic jumper just before the halftime buzzer to trim the Tulsa lead to 57-51 at halftime.
Horner would be the offensive catalyst for the Armor in the first half, finishing with 14 points on 7-of-12 shooting.
SMITH CALLED UP: Prior to Friday's game, the New Jersey Nets signed Armor guard Jerry Smith. Smith has appeared in 32 games, 29 as a starter, for the Armor this season, averaging 19.1 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 34.5 minutes. An NBA D-League All-Star, Smith has scored in double figures in 30 games this season, including a season-high 31 points in a 104-97 loss to the Maine Red Claws on Jan. 14.
By KEVIN HENRY
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