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Sources: Board turning against Moyes
Key Manchester United boardroom figures have now turned against David Moyes, as the prospect of the manager getting sacked has been properly raised for the first time, club sources have told ESPN FC.
• Jolly: Tim Howard backs Moyes
• Sheedy critical of Moyes approach
• Mitten: Fan patience running out
• Vidic: Slump worse than feared
• Poll: Should United fire Moyes?
The Glazer family owners are now more open to the idea of a change of manager, although they presently remain behind Moyes, but the next week could prove decisive, sources said. Over that time, United must overturn a 2-0 deficit in the Champions League against Olympiakos, before facing an awkward trip to West Ham United and then a potentially daunting second derby of the season against Manchester City.
While qualification for the quarterfinals of the Champions League would be seen as a huge positive and possibly change the entire dynamic of his job, an elimination followed by poor performances in the two games after that could well bring the pressure to breaking point. The Glazers are said to have become very "nervous" about the nature of recent performances, let alone the results, with a nadir coming in the 3-0 home defeat to Liverpool. Some United officials now openly maintain that a managerial change is needed.
Old Trafford sources also state it has been noted that Sir Alex Ferguson is no longer so vocally backing Moyes at boardroom level, although the former manager is not said to have turned against his replacement. It is also believed Moyes retains the backing of Sir Bobby Charlton.
Doubt, however, has increased at virtually every level of the club. Despite the poverty of recent performances, sources state that one of the most influential factors now has been financial concerns. A number of recently signed-up sponsors and commercial partners have reportedly let it be known to the club that they are less than enthused with now being linked to failure, especially since they specifically came on board because of the reputation for extreme success.
This is said to have most unnerved the hierarchy, and long-term damage to United as a "brand" could be the clinching point in any decision. While the club have long planned for a season out of the Champions League -- and that was known to be one initial reason behind the previously unwavering support for Moyes -- any extra negative effect on commercial revenue would be viewed with utmost seriousness.
Sources also state Louis van Gaal would be interested in a potential summer move to Old Trafford, and that the Dutch coach is a little less intent on the Tottenham Hotspur job than he was a few weeks ago. Spurs had felt that Van Gaal's appointment after the World Cup was virtually certain, but it is now more open-ended.
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Excellent. I've often battled with the option to use the IE7 script, having yet to give in to the urge. Your equations are spot on, and I will definitely use them for my next project. Along with @malarkey's contract lingo… brilliant.
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SARASOTA � As the nation hurtled from one fiscal crisis to the next last year, Democrats and Republicans argued bitterly over the best solution � tax increases or spending cuts. But members of the U.S. House did agree on one thing: There was enough money for them to travel the globe at taxpayers� expense.
SARASOTA � As the nation hurtled from one fiscal crisis to the next last year, Democrats and Republicans argued bitterly over the best solution � tax increases or spending cuts. But members of the U.S. House did agree on one thing: There was enough money for them to travel the globe at taxpayers� expense.
At least 172 House members � 14 from Florida � spent more than $1.5 million in 2012, visiting more than 90 countries and every continent but Antarctica, a Herald-Tribune investigation has found.
In all, House members spent more on 864 international stops last year than in either of the two previous years, congressional records show.
And the actual costs are much higher than Congress reported.
U.S. House members� trip reports do not include costs for flights by often-used military transports, which run more than $10,000 per hour. Instead, only commercial flight expenses are documented.
The reports also do not detail expenses for spouses, who often accompany congressional members on trips at taxpayer expense.
Nearly 20 percent of the recorded travel costs last year � $260,000 � were incurred by 20 House members no longer in Congress. Most of those members traveled after announcing they were retiring, lost re-election bids or declared they wouldn�t seek office again.
House members typically defend travel as a necessary part of their jobs, especially on defense, foreign affairs, intelligence or emerging trade zones.
But the Herald-Tribune investigation found that in 2012, France, Ireland and Spain were among the five most frequently reported destinations for House members. Seventy-three members visited one of those countries, while just 35 made stops in Afghanistan.
And no House member reported visiting Iraq.
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Other destinations included the Mediterranean island of Malta; Monaco, a city-state on the French Riviera; and the East African tourism hubs of Tanzania and Madagascar.
�If you think there are members abusing it � there are,� said U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican who says he only travels when it�s relevant to the committees on which he serves.
The Herald-Tribune�s investigation showed that:
� Former Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., was the most traveled, spending 58 days overseas visiting at least 18 countries at a minimum cost of $67,000 to taxpayers.
� A month after returning from Monaco, Democrat Dennis Cardoza, also of California � who announced in 2011 he was leaving Congress � spent seven days in Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, then abruptly quit the House three days after returning to the U.S.
� California Republican Dana Rohrabacher billed the government for the single most expensive trip, a seven-day excursion to Germany in January 2012 that cost taxpayers $38,382.
The amount spent on Congress� international travel is not a vast sum, given the $3.8 trillion federal budget. But the spending appears to contradict pleas for fiscal restraint by congressmen, who have an approval rate of just 16 percent from voters, according to a May 9 Gallup poll.
Bill would limit travel
Even some House members say the travel has gotten out of hand in a time of deep cutbacks.
Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., reintroduced a bill early this year to limit foreign travel to only the most critical needs.
�I know too many times they are taking trips to European countries or Southeast Asia where we don�t even have troops,� said Jones, who made no international trips at taxpayer expense last year.
As with other bills aimed at restricting travel or increasing disclosure, Jones� legislation has gone nowhere.
Tracking congressional travel remains notoriously difficult. House records often include general numbers and are typically filed months after the trips. They do not disclose when spouses go along, or what costs are incurred by the Defense Department for ferrying House members on more than 300 VIP planes.
And they don�t detail what, if anything, was gained during a given trip.
The Herald-Tribune investigation did not include travel by members of the U.S. Senate, which provides less detailed and accessible disclosure online than the House.
House leaders are showing more sensitivity to international travel. House Speaker John Boehner, following budget fights with President Barack Obama, told members he would not approve international trips using military transports.
The result is more commercial airfare costs in 2013. When nine members of the House and seven staffers flew to Vatican City in March for the new pope�s Installation Mass, they reported spending $32,768 in commercial airfare costs.
Since January of this year, dozens of members have traveled to locations including Switzerland, Belgium, the U.K., Germany, Israel and Afghanistan.
There are two primary ways members of Congress and their staff are allowed to travel internationally, with the reporting requirements varying for each.
Members can accept international trips paid for by various special interest groups � examples include the American Israel Education Foundation and the Turkish Coalition of America � to promote better relations.
In 2012, 78 House members traveled to 30 nations on such trips, according to the regular disclosure reports Congress requires for such travel. The reports do not include trip costs.
Less transparent is international travel by Congress paid for by taxpayers. To travel, members need only secure approval from their committee chair or the House speaker. Those trips are reported by each committee in the Congressional Record, a near-daily publication by Congress.
Even congressional researchers are stymied in trying to assess the amount of overall travel.
�There is no single source that identifies all international travel undertaken by the House or Senate, and no means to identify the number of trips taken, destinations visited, travelers, total costs, or costs paid for by funds appropriated to government entities other than Congress,� says a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service and released in March 2012.
Departing members travel
Few trips raise more questions of value to taxpayers than those made by departing members of Congress.
The Herald-Tribune found that the most prolific traveler last year was Dreier, the former California representative. He announced in February 2012 that he would not seek re-election after California�s redistricting process essentially eliminated his district.
Following the announcement, Dreier, who chaired the Rules Committee, took seven trips to at least 18 countries over 58 days.
As a committee chairman, Dreier could travel without seeking approval from anyone else in Congress.
He did not respond to repeated attempts to reach him for comment.
Dreier, who served in Congress for 32 years, made his final trip in October, a nine-day excursion to Africa, according to a report filed with Congress one month after he was officially retired.
The Congressional Record does not specify where he went in Africa, but he billed taxpayers for $6,441 in transportation costs.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Indiana, announced his retirement in January 2012 after 30 years in Congress. He then traveled to 14 countries during four trips taken from February to September. Burton, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made his last trip in September to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. He reported spending $10,033 on commercial flights for the five-day trip.
One month after he left Congress in January 2013, Burton was named chairman of the Azerbaijan American Alliance board. That group is a U.S.-based nonprofit that says in its mission statement it aims to promote understanding between the two nations.
In all, 14 members of Congress announced their retirement, resigned or ran for another office in 2012, yet traveled at a cost of at least $230,000 to taxpayers, according to the Congressional Record.
Five members lost their primary elections early in the year, then traveled internationally at taxpayer expense.
One was Pennsylvania Democrat Tim Holden, a member of the Agriculture Committee; he lost his primary election in April, and took four international trips between May and August, hitting 17 countries.
Government watchdog groups say that because of poor recordkeeping, it�s hard to know if travel by �lame duck� members is legitimate.
�It�s an area that is ripe for abuse,� said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, which aims to bring transparency to Congress and has pushed for greater public disclosure concerning trips.
Some government watchdog groups say they expect members to build expertise by traveling.
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said she would be more concerned if members never left their districts or D.C., yet still tried to weigh in on complex global issues.
Still, Sloan acknowledged it raises eyebrows when France, Ireland and Spain are regular landing spots for many.
�When there are a lot of stops in Western Europe,� Sloan said, �it looks a lot like a vacation.�


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On Saturday, Jule 11, Hike for Tykes explored the Barber Alabama Woodlands. Kaul Wildflower Garden Curator John Manion guided our tykes through the Barber Alabama Woodlands where we talked about flower colors, how seeds work and the Alabama state tree Pinus palustris (aka the longleaf pine). Here the little ones investigated the oak-hickory-pine forest, looked under rocks and hunted for bugs.
We then explored the Japanese Gardens with Director of Education, Henry Hughes where we studied turtles and brightly colored koi fish in Long Life Lake, discovered a hidden Buddha statue within a bamboo grove and took turns ringing the Friendship Bell of Celebration.


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Grand Daddy Turns 64
Most grandfathers who are 64 years old might show some signs of aging, but not the Grand National Roadster Show. Celebrating its 10th year in Southern California at the Fairplex in Pomona (the previous 54 years were spent in NorCal's Oakland region), the Grand Daddy Of Them All continued its tradition of laying claim to the title of being the longest running indoor custom car show in the world.
And though you could find movie stars at the show (from George Lucas' American Graffiti), the real stars of the event are the several hundred cars that come from all over the country to participate. Slack-jawed first-timers are always amazed that the rumors they've heard are true: The quality of vehicles at this show blows away that of most any other event, and there are several buildings full of glossy examples to prove it.
On the north end, Building 9 is usually host to a themed group of cars (it's the same location where the 75th anniversary celebration of the '32 Ford was held a few years ago). This year, and coincidentally jiving with the event's "Aloha" theme, more than 100 woodies and wagons were on display, showing how a car made from wood could be both practical and stylish.
In Building 5 you could find the rolling artwork of John D'Agostino, Richard Zocchi (and now his son, David), Gene Winfield, and builders who can creatively wield both torch, saw, and spray gun. In Building 3 a group of Gassers from the Golden Age of drag racing were displayed with their nosebleed stance, reminding all of the power, fury, and spectacle that's surely missing from today's era of racing.
In Building 7 and 8 more hot rods, street rods, and motorcycles filled the rooms and, in Building 10 (affectionately called the Suede Palace), a more traditional feel was generated with cars and their owners who continue to live and breathe a decades-old custom car lifestyle.
But of course one of the major components of the event is the presentation of the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award, which has been part of the show's fabric since its inception in 1950. Nine-feet tall, the trophy doesn't go home with the winner (a smaller version does), but your name gets engraved on a plaque and attached to its base for all eternity. A quick walk around the trophy finds iconic hot rod names, such as Blackie Gejeian, George Barris, Don Tognotti, Art Himsl, Boyd Coddington, and SR cofounder LeRoi "Tex" Smith listed as past winners, and this year there were 12 contenders in attendance trying to add their name.
Some years it looks to be an easier job to pick a winner than in others, and this time around folks were only able to narrow it down to two or three that might win, as each were strong contenders. In the end though, it was John Mumford's '27 Ford roadster that took home the top prize. Built at Roy Brizio's Street Rods in South San Francisco, the highboy had a simple and subtle look coupled with a list of parts that would make any vintage speed equipment collector drool. From the Culver City Halibrand quickie to the Ardun-topped V-8/60 engine, the roadster exuded what a hot rod should look like, and its paintjob and attention to detail was well above par. Brizio has been involved in several AMBR contenders over the years, and his shop built the 1987 winner for James Ells.
Sue Brizio and Mel Taormino were inducted into the show's Hall of Fame along with Cole Foster. Sue is the co-patriarch of the Brizio clan since she met her husband, Andy, 50 years ago, and the two have given back to the street rod industry for decades. Taormino attended the very first National Roadster Show (as it was then called) in 1950 and has had a love affair with hot rods, and has built award-winning cars in the decades since. Foster has built cars and motorcycles for well-known rock stars as well as regular folks, too, and all of his creations have a certain stylish out understated look about them.
Each year the Grand National Roadster Show kicks off the indoor car show season and gets people motivated with their own projects, too. So, if it is any indication of what lies ahead, 2013 looks like it will be a good year for hot rodders!
Bobby Alloway: Builder of the Year
You know you've made it when they can identify how a car looks by using your name. The Alloway Look is typically exemplified by an aggressive stance, big-block engine, an inky black paintjob (sometimes topped with flames), and an attitude that instinctively says "hot rod". Bobby Alloway won the Ridler award for himself back in 1985 and has built up an impressive portfolio of cars for customers, including George Lange, for whom Alloway built the 2003 AMBR winner. Alloway had three cars on display at the GNRS this year, including his own '56 Ford Ranch Wagon, which features an Art Morrison chassis, a 427 cammer motor under the hood, and big 17- and 20-inch wheels.
The theme of this year's show was "Aloha" and over in Building 9 more than 100 woodies of all types and descriptions were on display. The show-within-a-show ran the gamut of possible wooden examples, including John Dusckett's subtly customized '51 Mercury, which featured Richard Graves fabrication, Doug Carr woodwork, and a 2.5-inch chop. Elsewhere in the show, Brent Young's '39 Ford highlighted more of a street rod look with a supercharged Cobra motor, a six-speed trans, and 16- and 18-inch Billet Specialties wheels.


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The Department sponsors a full schedule of talks and visits by philosophers elsewhere. Each year, graduate students organize a topical spring colloquium and serve as commentators on the papers. Two graduate students serve as representatives to the Department's Executive Committee.
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After more than a year of planning and more than seven months of construction, the newly designed Eckerle Park ball field was officially dedicated Saturday, March 16. The ceremony took place before the start of the season opener for Carmi-White County High School's baseball game against the visiting Fairfield Mules.
After more than a year of planning and more than seven months of construction, the newly designed Eckerle Park ball field was officially dedicated Saturday, March 16. The ceremony took place before the start of the season opener for Carmi-White County High School's baseball game against the visiting Fairfield Mules.
Scott Rice served as emcee of the dedication ceremony and welcomed several hundred people to the event.
"Over the past 12 months, our community has engaged in a project to renovate the field Carmi has played on since 1951," announced Rice. "Today's dedication is the result of much hard work and generosity from many people. Please take note of the back of the Bulldog dugout of the many individuals and businesses who contributed to this project and are represented here."
Head Baseball Coach Craig Winter, David Hunsinger and Clay Gray formed the committee behind the renovations and project at Eckerle Park. They were joined by Jo and Charles Rankin, who were brought to home plate for a special recognition plaque presentation. Charles was at the ballpark nearly every day during construction and was dedicated to the success of the project. The plaque was inscribed with the following statement, "Presented to Charles E. Rankin for your tireless dedication to the Eckerle Project, dedicated March 16, 2013. Thank you Charles."
The CWC Bulldog players formed a half-circle behind the pitcher's mound as several future Bulldog players were called upon to throw out first pitches. First up was Isaac King on behalf of Mitchell Drilling Company. He threw a first pitch to Senior Bulldog Colin Winter.
Braden Burtis was not available to represent the Burtis Family, so Coach Winter stepped up and threw a pitch to Senior Lukas Matsel.
Zach Roark represented Roark Trucking by throwing to his cousin, Andy Vaughan, who is a junior on the Bulldog baseball team. The five seniors on the team are Lukas Matsel, Dylan Rankin, Colin Winter, Travis Thompson and Tyler Cushman. Juniors on the team include Andy Vaughan, Chase Sailer, Brodie Brown, Jamey Steed and Dakota Jolley. Other members of the Bulldogs include TC Headlee, Tyson Russell, Joseph Rulo, Tanner Thompson, Braden Masterson, Trenton Williams, Trenton Black, Tucker Gray, Drew Lucas, Wes Cutchin and Zach Vaught. The two coaches who assist Winter for CWCHS are John Choate and Justin Simmons.
Finally, Devin Rankin threw a pitch right into the glove of his older brother, Dylan Rankin, who is the senior catcher on the Bulldog Baseball team. The pitch was representative of the Rankin Family and their support of the project.
Following the first pitch portion of the program, the players from Fairfield were introduced and lined up on the first base line and the CWC Bulldog players were introduced and stood on the third base line.
The colors were presented by the VFW and American Legion. The four men, Ron Pretzsch, Dean Carter, Glenn "Sarge" Holtzclaw and John O'Daniel, hoisted the flag up the pole just off center field as the Singing Six and Singing Freshman from CWCHS performed the National Anthem.
Members of the Singing Six and Singing Freshmen included Logan Pugsley, Tabitha Mick, Lizzie Cribbs, Haley Winkleman, Faith Hohman, Jessica Bovenkerk, Carlie Gee, Emma Bryant and Rachel Fleming.
Following the varsity game, a barbeque luncheon was provided for those in attendance.


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Professor Tulu Bayar, Jose Saavedra Valdivia '13, Professor Robert Rosenberg and Megan Reid '14
Creativity, with its thorny, thrilling, luminous twists and turns, is a journey at once accessible and daunting. Wise guides and a vibrant community can be gigantic boosts along our way. As artist and Associate Professor of Art Tulu Bayar says, "Art-making does not happen as an isolated private act. It does not exist in an isolated place."
Bucknell, she has found, teems with creativity, ever more so in recent years due to the Presidential Arts Initiative that has made "Arts. Everywhere." a campus creed. Bayar and Associate Professor of English and novelist Robert Rosenberg are two of the Bucknell mentors committed to walking the creative path with their students.
Rosenberg says young artists especially need to see people living in the world as artists so they can picture where they might go with their own work. He says that the interdisciplinary overlap among the arts at Bucknell is a constant source of inspiration. "This campus is an intense colloquium with a breathtaking array of really high-quality dance, music, exhibitions, film, readings. With the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Campus Theatre and downtown Barnes & Noble at Bucknell University bookstore, the offerings rival many big cities. That's good training for students too because as an artist you learn to pick and choose where to focus."
For decades, luminaries in the arts, entertainment and media have found their start at Bucknell. As Ali Keller '12, a recent theatre graduate, says, "I've been able to stretch my creative boundaries because of the support I received from my professors. Whatever you want, they'll help you make it happen." Keep an eye out for Keller and other young Bucknell talents like Jose Saavedra Valdivia '13 and Megan Reid '14, because with a series of new initiatives Bucknell is determined to become even more of a magnet for aspiring young artists the world over.
"My students are not just trying," says Rosenberg, who aspires for everyone in his writing classes to write a publishable short story by semester's end. "They don't just imagine they're going to do it someday," he says. "They do it. I'm incredibly proud of them. They walk the walk. They create works of art."


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- resource type implementation for failover SAP liveCache database
The SAP liveCache data service is managed by the Oracle Solaris Cluster Resource Group Manager (RGM) and is configured as a LogicalHostname resource, a SAP liveCache database resource.
The SAP liveCache database depends on the SAP xserver which is managed by data service SUNW.sap_xserver. Dependency should be set between the SAP liveCache resource group and the SAP xserver resource group.
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Maximum: 10
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Default is 2. Indicates the time in minutes over which the failures of the fault monitor are counted and corresponds to the -t option passed to the pmfadm(1M) command. If the number of times the fault monitor fails exceeds the value of Monitor_retry_count within this period, the fault monitor is not restarted by the process monitor facility. You can modify the value for this property at any time.
Default is 90. Minimum value is 30. Indicates the time-out value (in seconds) used by the fault monitor to probe a SAP liveCache database instance. You can modify the value for this property at any time.
Defaults to TRUE. Indicates whether to failover or not when retry_count is exceeded during retry_interval. You must specify this property at resource creation time.
Note - The Failover_mode=RESTART_ONLY setting matches the behavior of the Failover_enabled=False setting. The Failover_mode=LOG_ONLY setting goes a step further and prevents resources from restarting. Use the Failover_mode property instead of the Failover_enabled extension property to better control failover behavior. For more information, see the descriptions of the LOG_ONLY and RESTART_ONLY values for Failover_mode in r_properties(5).
This property is the name of the liveCache database instance. Note the name is in uppercase (LC-NAME). You must specify this property at resource creation time.
This property only has one value which is the directory for livecache software and instance directories. You must specify this property at resource creation time.
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In this example, LC4 is the SAP liveCache database instance name. The rest of the extension properties use the default values.
After the SAP liveCache database resource group and the SAP xserver resource group are created, set the dependency between them.
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In the Richmond area, a fledgling company named Nudge is test marketing a workplace application that turns meeting health goals into a team sport.
Using a computer, tablet or smartphone, employees can go online with Nudge to chronicle their daily progress on personal or company-wide health goals. They might earn points for skipping that midafternoon candy bar or getting a full eight hours of shut-eye, or they might be able to check on whether the guy in the next cubicle is meeting his weight-loss goals.
Even admitting to unhealthy activities, such as sneaking a smoke or eating fries, earns points with Nudge, which combines gaming elements with old-fashioned peer pressure to push participants toward better choices.
Nudge was founded last year with $300,000 that first-time entrepreneurs Mac Gambill, Phil Beene and Chris Garson raised from family and friends. It is co-based in Richmond and Chattanooga, Tenn.
"The premise of Nudge is to make it fun and rewarding to log in and record lifestyle activity," says the Richmond-based Gambill. "We think simple health awareness can lead to big changes in people's lives."
Cary Street Partners, a wealth-management firm in Richmond, has been using Nudge since June. "The system is simple and fits easily into our employees' busy schedules," says Donna Williamson, the firm's human resources director. "I am very pleased with the way people at every level have embraced this program."
Gambill's startup now is expanding the testing of its wired-in-for-wellness approach. Many companies make business decisions in September, he says, so he and his co-founders were "hunkered down" last month to move Nudge forward.


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They had five other children, the next of whom, Phillip, was born in 1898 and died in 1907. The 1900 census lists the family in Toledo, Ohio, with Phillip, but not this first child. I conclude the first child died prior to the 1900 census, but I've been unsuccessful in finding a record of his death. I've searched death indexes, obituaries and cemeteries. What other resources are available for death information about an infant?
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You've done well to come up with a theory—that the Gilberts' first child died—and to research this theory in all the records you can think of. Since you haven't uncovered any evidence to support that theory, explore other possibilities:
Just because a child isn't listed in the census, doesn't mean he died. More often than we'd like to think, a neighbor would guess at the names and ages if the family wasn't home when the census taker stopped by. Research later records on all the family members for clues to the missing one.
Perhaps the first child and Philip are one in the same. Take a look at the birth record alongside whatever record leads you to conclude Philip was born in 1898: An 8 and a 5 can look similar. There could be a mistake on the first child's birth record or on Philip's (or both), particularly if your information comes from a transcription rather than an actual record. I've found my grandfather's birth year as 1901, 1902 and 1913 in census records, a baptismal record and on his own resume.
Assuming the first child isn't Philip, the baby may have been stillborn or died shortly after birth (especially considering that the birth record you have lacks a name). Check with the St. Joseph County Health Department for a stillbirth or death certificate. Realize indexes miss some births and deaths.
If a child died, your ancestors' parish priest may have recorded the information. Look for nearby churches they may have attended, then contact the church (or the diocese, if the church is no longer there) to ask what records are available. The Family History Library (FHL) has some church records, too. See the August 2010 Family Tree Magazine for information on researching church records.
City directories, similar to today's telephone books, may list members of a household, letting you trace the family between censuses. The FHL has South Bend directories for some years around the turn of the century. Its Toledo directories cover the 1890s and 1900s. To find these listings, run a Place search of the online catalog on the city name and look for the Directories topic. County histories also may give clues to epidemics and other events that may have caused the child's death.


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Pensieve is a magical stone/bowl in the Harry Potter world that stores memory. Henceforth, this blog is merely the extension of my thoughts and being. Whatever I want to say, I use this blog as an outlet. Whatever I like to see, I post it here as a form of an album. Whatever I don't want to forget, it deserves an entry here.


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Molly's recent post Name Your Best IE 7 Bug Resources reminded me about a pretty obscure CSS parsing bug I found in IE 6. Since IE 7 is supposed to have fixed a number of issues with CSS parsing I thought I should probably check to see if the bug still existed there.
It does.
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Sunday 29th July 2006 saw Great Britain play a double header against Ireland at Finsbury Park cricket club — the first international baseball played in this country since 2002. These games were the conclusion of a three game series between the sides and were also notable for marking the retirement of long-time Great Britain catcher, and five baseball pundit Josh Chetwynd. GB won the first game of the day 6 to 5, but despite an impressive 2-out rally in the final inning of second game they lost that one with a reversal of the scoreline from the first game. Ireland took the series 2 - 1.
Here's some photos of the action…
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I've just returned from two days at the MoodleMoot 2006 held at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. In spite of the combination of sweltering heat and a lack of air conditioning (as well as having to stay in Milton Keynes ;-)) it turned out to be a terrific event.
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In the past I've mentioned my confusion about the differing behaviour of certain aspects of the oh-so-trendy XMLHttpRequest object, but now I have access to a couple of non-windows browsers for testing I thought I'd take a look to see how they handle it. Perhaps unsurprisingly they are also subtly different again from IE, Firefox and Opera. Is this what happens when browser makers have to reverse engineer someone else's feature instead of working with documented standards?
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Today I set out to answer the oh-so exciting question "What is the fastest way to create a loop in
JavaScript?" After some
tedious , cross browser testing
these are my results…
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With the recent changes to how Internet Explorer handles active content, such as Flash, there has been a lot of attention paid to various JavaScript solutions that allow you to continue to seamlessly embed this content into pages. Probably the most popular of which being the pretty neat FlashObject, uh, sorry thanks to Adobe that's now SWFObject — well, what else would you expect from the people behind the guidelines on the Proper use of the Photoshop trademark. Neat as SWFObject is, one problem with scripts such as this is that they never seem to work in pages served using application/xhtml+xml. I needed a script that did, so here it is.
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While searching through some files I stumbled across this game that was part of my old site. I think the original version must've been written back in the days of Flash 5. Much to my surprise (and very unlike most of the Flash games I ever made) I found it almost manages to be fun to play.
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There are a couple of lesser known CSS display properties,
run-in and
that while probably not the most exciting (or useful) parts of the CSS specifications do still
look fairly interesting. Recently I have found a couple of places where the use of
run-in or
compact would've been neater
than the workaround solutions I ended up with.
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Since I last posted about it my CSS Inspector User JavaScript/Greasemonkey script has undergone a few little tweaks and changes.
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Recently I've been doing some work on a PHP script that has to process a bunch of XML files (in this case they're imsmanifest files) however a few of them weren't being parsed successfully.
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I just downloaded the lastest Opera weekly
(build 8265) to checkout the new acid 2 fixes. Aside from being the first Windows browser to pass Acid2 I was very pleased to see they've also made good progress on sorting out the box model for
textareas. In the past
Opera appeared to include borders and padding within the width and height of the
but not anymore. This fix along with some fixes for
offset and
offset means my resizable
textareas now look and work as intended. Nice.
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A little site I worked on with James from Drunkfoundation. todayis is a simple concept. We figure everyone always wants something at some time and thought it might be interesting to show all those little wants on a site. You are welcome to post whatever you want, it's totally anonymous. No information is recorded other than what you type in the two boxes.
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Since Google just published their Web Authoring Statistics I thought I'd look back my findings from a few years ago when I looked at markup validity and usage of things like Flash and JavaScript in a small (very small compared to Google's dataset) random sample of pages. The results — which utilise such complex analytical techniques as adding up numbers and drawing bar charts — are presented here.
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Some holiday snaps from a long weekend in and around Reykjavík. It's a great city and a stunningly beautiful country that my decidedly amateur photography does very little justice to. It's just a shame that while we were there we didn't get to see the northern lights – I guess that's a good excuse to go back there.
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It's just about the end of the year, so like almost everyone else I can't resist the urge to create a list of some of records I liked from the previous 12 months. I'm sure the people who made them will feel validated by my endorsement of their work.
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The Hope College Great Performance Series will feature Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The Hope College Great Performance Series will feature Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Rudresh Mahanthappa, a Guggenheim Fellow and 2009 "Downbeat" International Critics Poll winner, is considered one of the most innovative young musicians and composers in jazz today. Named Alto Saxophonist of the Year for 2009 by the Jazz Journalist Association, he has incorporated the culture of his Indian ancestry and has fused myriad influences to create a truly groundbreaking artistic vision.
As a performer, he leads or co-leads seven groups to critical acclaim. He is joined in the Indo-Pak Coalition, which debuted at Joe's Pub in January 2006, by Pakistani-American guitarist Rez Abbasi and rising tabla star Dan Weiss. The ensemble released a CD, "Apti," in November 2008.
Synthesizing jazz with the astutely improvised musical forms of South Asia, the Indo-Pak Coalition transcends any preconception of Indo-jazz fusion and has earned critical acclaim.
David Fricke of "Rolling Stone Magazine" said of "Apti," "In this stark, dynamic trio of alto sax, guitar and tabla, Mahanthappa's horn does heavy lifting, fusing the raga-sitar aspirations of late-period Coltrane and the vocal flight of Karnatic hymns. Guitarist Rez Abbasi and hand drummer Dan Weiss chase the holy with their own joyful purpose, darting under and through Mahanthappa's graceful impatience like daredevil pilots showing him the long, wild way to nirvana."
Mahanthappa's recent release for Pi Recordings, "Kinsmen," featuring Carnatic saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath, has been named one of the top jazz CDs of 2008 by numerous news sources including the "New York Times," NPR, BBC, "Boston Globe," slate.com, "Jazz Times" and the "Village Voice." His previous quartet release, "Codebook," was named one of the top jazz albums of 2006 by "The Village Voice," "Jazztimes" and "The Denver Post," and received rave reviews from "Downbeat," wired.com, and even "Science Magazine." In Europe, "Codebook" received the "CHOC DE L'ANNÉE" (album of the year) for 2007 in France's Jazzman, four stars in the UK's Jazzwise and the "Bollino di Marzo" from Italy's Musica Jazz.
As a saxophonist, Mahanthappa has achieved international recognition, performing regularly at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide. As a composer, he has received commission grants from the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund, American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, and the New York State Council on the Arts to develop new work.
Mahanthappa holds a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz performance from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Music degree in jazz composition from Chicago's DePaul University. He now teaches at The New School University and lives in New York.
Tickets for the performance are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $17 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/gps.


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Beyonce No Longer Attached to 'A Star Is Born'
Bad news for Beyonce fans. So many bees in the Beyhive were stoked for the singer's turn in 'A Star Is Born,' but now the multi-hyphenate star has left the project.
Clint Eastwood was set to direct the remake of the classic film, which only excited film and Beyonce buffs even more, but sources revealed to Variety that the lack of a start date posed an issue. Between her own records and balancing work with Blue Ivy, the lack of a timetable made scheduling too difficult for Bey, who was set to reprise Barbra Streisand's role in the film.
Production on the film was first stalled because of Beyonce's pregnancy, and once Blue Ivy was born, Eastwood had already taken an acting role alongside Justin Timberlake in 'Trouble With the Curve.' Another complication? No male lead has been cast yet, further delaying even scheduling filming of the movie.
One rumored replacement for Queen Bey is said to be jazz singer Esperanza Spaulding, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, Tom Cruise, Christian Bale and Johnny Depp all said to be (or have been) in talks for the male lead.
This doesn't mean that Bey will be absent from the silver screen entirely, though. She's one of the lead voices in the Fox animated feature 'Epic,' due in theaters May 24, 2013.
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Miley Cyrus' secret new music video is so sexy ... she and her DJ friend had to hire a smoking hot PORN STAR to do the job right -- TMZ has learned.
The video was shot a couple weeks ago at Beacher's Madhouse at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood -- for Miley's new song "Decisions" with Israeli DJ Borgore.
Sources close to production tell TMZ, the song's about 20-year-old porn star Jessie Andrews -- who used to date Borgore -- so Miley and Borgore asked Jessie to star in it.
Jessie -- who won this year's AVN Award for Best Actress -- happily obliged, and we're told the entire video went off without a hitch. FYI, the pic was taken the night of filming, and shows the dress Jessie wore in the video.
And since the entire thing was filmed at Beacher's -- we're told you can expect a music video filled with little people, a unicorn, a goat, and a woman with watermelon-smashing boobs.
It's due out later this week. Oh yeah, Miley's in it too.


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You can see here a basic map of Mexico City from OpenStreetMap, but you can switch easily to other types of the map: Just choose the second option above the map and you can see Bing Maps, which offer other types of detailed maps of Mexico City, related countries, geographical places etc. You can also switch to aerial and birds eye maps of Mexico City there.
You may remember we offered other types of maps here also in the past, for example Google Maps, Nokia Maps and MapQuest Maps, and many kinds of their infomaps, like the traffic map, bike trails, weather map, map with photos and map of public transport from these sources. But some of these services cancelled their operations or changed the conditions under which their maps may be displayed. We sincerely hope you appreciate these new kinds of maps here, as you can see, for example, the difference between the OpenStreetMap vector map tiles from Mapzen shown by Leaflet here and the bitmap tiles from Bing Maps. We are considering adding more maps of Mexico City in the near future again.
You may not only switch among different types of maps using the switches above the map, but you can also change settings of the map using controls on the map. See more details of Mexico City using the zoom control on the left side or see street or terrain map of Mexico City using the controls on the top of the map (Bing Maps). In the past you could also place the yellow figure (Google Maps) to see a street view of any interesting place, but this feature is not available here anymore. But you can see the Birds eye view on the Bing Maps here. Notice: Not all features are available everywhere. Some maps offer more details then the others.
Look below to see more useful information regarding Mexico City and the map of Mexico City. You can find links to other places related to Mexico City, but there are also tips about how to easily print the map of Mexico City, where to find detailed information about Mexico City, how to plan your journey and much more. Our primary target is to allow you to compare different types of maps, but we would also like to offer you more when considering your travels and learning about the World.
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This page discusses how to choose the best TV resolution for your Xbox One console. Learn about TV resolutions and the resolutions that Xbox One X and Xbox One S support.
480p resolution is also known as Enhanced Definition TV (EDTV). EDTV does the following:
Note This resolution is supported on the Xbox One console but is not recommended.
When you set your TV to 480p, you'll see a widescreen image letterboxed into a 4:3 space. You'll see bars of empty space on the right and left side of the screen when a 4:3 aspect ratio picture is displayed on a 16:9 HDTV.
This is because the images are designed to display widescreen at a 16:9 aspect ratio. The picture is squeezed down on the sides until it fits on a 4:3 screen and will show bars of empty space on the top and bottom.
720p resolution does the following:
720p is the lowest resolution on most HDTVs. However, the picture is still excellent, and the quality of the images in 720p is nearly indistinguishable from higher resolution HDTV sets on a screen smaller than 37 inches. If your HDTV offers only 720p and 1080i, you should select 720p for the best resolution.
1080i resolution does the following:
The "i" in 1080i stands for interlaced scan. This means that half the lines that make up screen images are "redrawn" by your HDTV 60 times a second. This format looks great with most content, but there is a slight blur (called "motion-blur") with fast-moving video. For this reason, Xbox One doesn't support interlaced resolutions.
1080p resolution does the following:
1080p is the most common resolution for movies, TV, gaming, and many of the experiences that Xbox One has to offer. A 1080p television makes no compromises in image quality, so you can enjoy content like Blu-ray movies at their intended resolution. Each line of pixels on the screen is redrawn 60 times a second or faster. This reduces motion-blur and creates a crisp picture.
Note If you have an Xbox One S or an Xbox One X and your TV supports 120Hz over HDMI, selecting this resolution allows you to change the refresh rate to 120Hz. For more information, see How to adjust the display settings on your Xbox One console.
1440p resolution does the following:
A growing number of computer monitors are sporting a 1440p resolution and becoming a popular choice among gamers. It's sometimes referred to as "Quad HD," because it offers four times the resolution of 720p HD display.
4K UHD resolution does the following:
With four times the resolution of 1080p HD, 4K Ultra HD delivers the clearest, most realistic video possible. Play games on your Xbox One X natively at 4K UHD, or stream 4K content on Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and Amazon Video, and watch Ultra HD Blu-ray movies in stunning visual fidelity with HDR (high dynamic range) on your Xbox One X or Xbox One S.
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Despite the existence of inexpensive and efficient means of treatment, diarrhoea kills more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, according to a report issued today by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report, titled Diarrhoea: Why Children Are Still Dying and What Can Be Done, includes information on the causes of diarrhoea, data on access to means of prevention and treatment, and a seven-point plan to reduce diarrhoea deaths.
"It is a tragedy that diarrhoea, which is little more than an inconvenience in the developed world, kills an estimated 1.5 million children each year," said UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman. "Inexpensive and effective treatments for diarrhoea exist, but in developing countries only 39 per cent of children with diarrhoea receive the recommended treatment."
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, said: "We know where children are dying of diarrhoea. We know what must be done to prevent those deaths. We must work with governments and partners to put this seven-point plan into action."
Diarrhoea is a common symptom of gastrointestinal infection, which can have a variety of sources. However just a handful of organisms are responsible for most acute cases of diarrhoea and one, Rotavirus, is responsible for more than 40 per cent of all diarrhoea-related hospital admissions of children under five. A new vaccine for Rotavirus has been found to be safe and effective but is still largely unavailable in most developing countries.
Though most episodes of childhood diarrhoea are mild, acute cases can lead to significant fluid loss and dehydration. This dehydration can lead to death unless fluids are quickly replaced. Oral rehydration therapy is the cornerstone of fluid replacement and the new low-osmolarity formula of oral rehydration salts (ORS) is a simple, inexpensive and life-saving remedy that prevents dehydration in children suffering diarrhoea.
Some 88 percent of diarrhoeal deaths worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. As of 2006, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world were not using adequate sanitation facilities, and about 1 in 4 people in developing countries practiced open defecation.
Access to clean water and good hygiene practices are extremely effective in preventing childhood diarrhoea. Hand washing with soap has been shown to reduce the incidence of diarrhoeal disease by over 40 per cent, making it one of the most cost-effective interventions for reducing child deaths caused by this neglected killer.
The overall health and nutrition of children is also critical to their susceptibility to diarrhoea and the damage it can cause. Undernourished children are at higher risk of suffering more frequent, severe and prolonged episodes of diarrhoea, and repeated bouts of diarrhoea also place children at greater risk of worsening nutritional status.
The seven point plan to save the lives of children stricken by diarrhoea includes two treatment and five prevention elements.
The two treatment elements are:
1. fluid replacement to prevent dehydration; and
2. zinc treatments, which decrease the severity and duration of the attack.
The five prevention elements are:
1. immunization against rotavirus and measles;
2. early and exclusive breastfeeding and vitamin A supplementation;
3. handwashing with soap;
4. improved water supply quantity and quality; and
5. promoting community-wide sanitation.
Campaigns targeting childhood diarrhoea in the 1970s and 1980s achieved success by educating caregivers and scaling up oral rehydration therapy to prevent dehydration. The campaigns delivered promising results but following that success, focus shifted to other health problems. There is now an urgent need to shift attention and resources back to treating and preventing diarrhoea.
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Thanks to all you lovely people that entered our Brown and Blue challenge, the entries were brilliant, but sadly once again several amazing entries had to be deleted due to not following the challenge rules, and to keep it fair for those that do.
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This week our challenge is "A Child's Christmas" so we would like to see something made for a child, either a card, or a gift (or both), a scrapbook page, etc.
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Wendy A. Cox and Charlene B. Rizzo are among 272 students who were awarded degrees during Tusculum College's spring commencement.
Cox, of Kingston, earned a Master of Arts degree in education, with a concentration in curriculum and instruction and an emphasis in teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Rizzo, of Oliver Springs, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies, elementary K-6, education.
Tusculum College is in Greeneville.
Katelyn Harvey of Oliver Springs earned placement on Tennessee Wesleyan College's honors list during spring semester.
To be eligible for the honor's list, a student must be registered for 12 or more hours and attain a grade-point average of at least 3.70 with no grade below B.
Tennessee Wesleyan College is in Athens.
Seven Lincoln Memorial University students from Roane County were among the 496 graduates who received their degrees last month.
The graduates and their degrees are:
Harriman — Kathryn Booher, Bachelor of Arts in English; James Bowling, Bachelor of Science in environmental science; Wendy Henderson and Cathy Abston, both of whom earned a Master of Science in nursing (family nurse practitioner).
Kingston — Robert Simpson, Doctor of Jurisprudence.
Nineteen East Tennessee State University students from Roane County have earned placement on the dean's list for spring semester.
They are:
Harriman — Allie T. Copeland, Crysten F. Dulling, Lindsey M. Higgins, Casandra B. Johnson, Caitlyn N. Swymer and Robert W. Taylor.
Kingston — Danielle V. Casaus, Kovay E. Hatfield, Allie G. Scherf, Claire A. Simmons, Erika B. Smith and Shawn M. Van Horn.
Oliver Springs — Victoria S. Cox, Amber M. Eskridge and Robert J. Gardner.
Reanna L. Henderson of Rockwood recently graduated from Cottey College.
Henderson, daughter of Rhonda Henderson of Rockwood, earned a bachelor's degree in psychology.
She was also on the dean's list for her scholastic performance during spring semester.
Students on the dean's list must earn a grade-point average between 3.5 and 3.74 on a 4.0 scale, with a minimum of 12 credit hours completed.
Cottey College, owned by the PEO Sisterhood, is in Nevada, Mo.
Two Bob Jones University students from Oliver Springs earned academic honors for spring semester.
Anna Craig, a freshman nursing major, is among 480 students named to the spring president's list.
The president's list recognizes students who earn a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher.
Barbara Gibbs earned placement on the dean's list. She is a freshman exercise science major.
The dean's list recognizes students who earn a 3.00-3.74 grade-point average.
Bob Jones University is in Greenville, S.C.
Berea College
Zane McKinney of Kingston recently received a bachelor's degree with a major in business administration from Berea College.
McKinney plans to travel to Denmark for a year to attend Ollerup, a physical activity school.
Berea College is in Berea, Ky.
Plans are underway for Roane County High School's annual band camp.
The camp will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 27-31 and Aug. 3-7 at the RCHS band room, Kingston.
Band members should bring their instrument, sunscreen, a water bottle and comfortable marching shoes each day. No flip-flops or sandals of any kind will be permitted, including Chacos and Tevas.
Lunch break will be from noon to 1 p.m. daily. Students may leave the campus or bring a lunch and eat in the band room.
Roane State Community College Geographic Information Systems student Chris Zerr said she has "loved maps since I was a little kid."
"They're like putting together a puzzle that has lots of pieces," she said. "Maps allow you to discover what's there and what's not there."
Maps that Zerr recently designed are helping people discover where they can find affordable and often much-needed medical care.
For those interested in behind-the-scenes careers in health care, Roane State Community College has a variety of options for the fall semester.
Options include:
Healthcare documentation specialist (Medical transcription/speech editing). Students are taught to transcribe and edit speech-generated medical record reports dictated by physicians.
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All right, the secret is out… I was so incredibly over Winter and it's dreariness. In fact, I'm ready to skip Spring too and head straight for Summer a.k.a. Grilling Season. Nothing excites me more than the thought of charred burgers, grilled corn on the cob and oozing fruit-filled desserts. Oh, and the mouth-watering smoky smell of barbecue…but I digress!
So, with some sunshine this past weekend, those in the Northwest do what they do best: bring out the grill! Even though this might have been a little premature (yes, I did attempt to wear a dress and found I was a little bit too ambitious… it was still cold!), I was ecstatic to get my "grill on" even if that meant wearing a light jacket and pants.
For this weekend, we decided to make Southwest Chicken Burgers with Grilled Lime Corn Salad.
The best part about this recipe? No exact sizes of ingredients needed – just some good 'ole eyeballing and taste-testing!
Southwest Chicken Burgers
Ground Chicken
Black Beans
Green Peppers
Red Onion
Bread Crumbs
Pepper Jack Cheese
Salt and Pepper
1. Mix ground chicken together with garlic, black beans, green peppers, red onion, cilantro and corn. Add salt and pepper.
2. Form ground chicken mixture into patties.
3. Put onto grill. Grill on each side for a few minutes (test to make sure that it is cooked all the way through).
4. At the last minute of grilling, add a slice of pepper jack cheese and toast buns.
5. Assemble buns and chicken patties together. Add necessary other sauces!
Grilled Lime Corn Salad
Olive Oil
Green Pepper
Red Onion
Salt and Pepper
1. Grill corn
2. Add grilled corn with chopped red onion, green peppers, cilantro.
3. Mix lime juice with olive oil to taste. Add dressing to corn mixture.
4. Serve immediately (with above chicken burger of course)!
I think the key in both of these items is the use of cilantro. It's not often that I use it; however, when I do, it feels the same way that a fashionista would utilize a statement piece.
Overall, a nice change from the usual burger and a great mix of flavors!
Cheers to Grilling Season!


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When I was a kid, I lied a lot. Lying, for me, was easier than learning to tie my shoes. I could tell lies like my best friend, Dave, could eat French fries — by the fistful.
When I was in junior high school, I used to cut class and take the bus downtown to watch movies in the big, old, rat-infested theaters. If you were a kid you could get into R-rated movies, no problem, as long as you paid. My classmates liked to hear my renditions of those movies, in all their gory detail. "Deliverance," "The Godfather" and "Walking Tall" went over especially well.
For some reason, I missed the opening of "The Poseidon Adventure." Even though it wasn't an R-rated movie, it was a Disaster Movie — and Disaster Movies were the next best thing to R-rated movies.
Instead of telling my classmates I hadn't seen the movie, I just pretended I had. The more I went into detail about what happened (the movie poster was extremely helpful because the one-liner screamed "Hell Upside Down!"), the more I became convinced I had actually seen the movie.
Some people might call that pathological. I call that "The Beginning of How I Became a Writer."
Eventually, I would become a writer. But deep down, I didn't want to be just a writer — I wanted to be a monologuist.
I knew I was hooked when, in the 1980s, I saw Jonathan Demme's movie version of Spalding Gray's "Swimming to Cambodia." Sure, it was great, but more important, there was this part in it where Spalding admitted he wasn't telling the truth.
This, to me, was an epiphany. I needed to know that it was sometimes OK for writers to lie. Until then, all the playwrights I had been studying — guys like Arthur Miller — were saying things like, "All plays are political." And truthfully, I didn't understand that. What's political about "The Odd Couple"? It's just funny.
In the mid-'90s, when I was a graduate student in the University of Iowa's Playwrights Workshop, I actually spent time with Spalding Gray. Honestly, I did. This isn't a lie. In fact, I once took him owling — which involves going out into the woods late at night and calling owls. Really. I even have friends back in the Midwest who can use their vocal chords to call owls. Me? I cheat and use a boombox with a Peterson Field Guide tape with owl calls on it.
By this time I had seen most of Spalding's work, and because there isn't a whole lot to do in Iowa City late at night except drink beer, Spalding actually agreed to go owling with me one night. So there I stood, holding my boombox aloft — like John Cusack in "Say Anything " — and the owls came. Beautiful, snow-white, barred owls. After half an hour or so, Spalding asked me if I knew where he could get a hot dog at that hour. That's not a lie, either.
So while I watched him eat his hot dog at a truck stop — yes, I once watched Spalding Gray eat a hot dog at a truck stop in Iowa, that's not a lie — I asked him how much of his other stuff might have not exactly been, you know, truthful.
Finally — I think he was getting fed up with me by this point — he said, "It's called 'poetic license,' kid." Actually, he didn't call me "kid," that was just my own example of poetic license.
By the time I made it out to Los Angeles, there were a lot of monologuists at work. Great ones too: Anna Deveare Smith, Kevin Kling, Julia Sweeney, John Leguizamo, Lewis Black, my own good friend Evan Handler. But within a few years, the market seemed glutted.
There was one guy who had a one-man show and, I swear to God, his show was about growing up as an orphaned girl who got abused by her foster parents, then in her 20s became a transgendered transsexual, then got hit by a bus. The show was called "The Bumpy Road to Recovery" — and supposedly it was all true, and there was even "life-affirming" humor in it. I thought, "Enough."
I quit writing monologues and started writing for television and film. I also started reading a lot of nonfiction. One day I picked up Mark Perry's "Grant and Twain" and discovered that Mark Twain did one-man shows! All this time I thought it was performance artists in the 1980s who invented them. (My first monologue play, "Skinny White Boy," got reviewed in the Performance Art section of the Chicago Reader. I never could figure that out.)
Anyway, Twain could tell a tall tale and make it as believable as an everyday anecdote. And he could relate an everyday anecdote and make it as entertaining as a tall tale.
Touring around the country and playing theaters to plug his latest book, Twain told stories. Some were true, some were not — but it didn't matter. What mattered was that they were famously entertaining.
Because he was Mark Twain, he'd occasionally have famous people in his audience — a wealthy industrialist or poet or even an ex-president or two. Speaking extemporaneously — or not — he'd sometimes lampoon those people as part of that evening's entertainment. But not everyone found humor in the joke. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes were among those not amused.
On the other hand, if you were famous and happened to have a sense of humor about yourself, you and Twain might become buddies. That's how Twain met and befriended Ulysses S. Grant — and they remained friends for life. In fact, many scholars believe that if the two hadn't met, Grant never would have written his memoirs, and Twain might never have finished "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
I've been working on "My Buddy Bill" for a little over a year now. Reading Perry's and other books about Twain inspired me — as did the real-life events that occurred over a couple of years during and after I wrote for the first season of "The West Wing."
Most of my work on the play has been in front of audiences. Audiences, unlike writers, never lie. If a joke or a line is funny, they laugh. But if they're bored or not engaged, they cough, shift in their seats or unwrap the crinkly wrappers off their hard candies.
After one performance at the Berkshire Theatre Festival over the summer, a woman came up to me and told me, "You're the next Garrison Keillor." I was hoping for someone younger, like David Sedaris. Another person told me, "You're the next Rick Moranis." That was flattering because not only is Rick Moranis very funny, he happens to be my 9-year-old daughter's favorite actor. One woman told me — and this was my personal favorite — "You're no Elaine Stritch."
"My Buddy Bill" is about my unlikely and somewhat fantastic friendship with former President Clinton. You'd be surprised what the real-life, behind-the-scenes White House looks like. It's not at all the beautifully lighted mahogany you see in "The West Wing." In real life, at least when I was there, the walls needed paint, the desks were beat up and the computers were at least 10 years old. And what's more, did you know there's a souvenir shop inside the Situation Room of the White House? The Situation Room is the room where the president convenes with all his Cabinet members during times of crisis. And there's a souvenir shop in it. I bought stuff there. I don't know if it's still in operation under the current administration, but it was under Bill's.
Now that I've admitted that I'm pretty much a pathological liar, you might be tempted to disbelieve the stories I tell in this play. "This guy was never friends with Bill Clinton," you might think. But sometimes the truth, at least in my life, really is weirder than fiction. Swear to God.
Playwright Rick Cleveland's other plays include "Danny Bouncing" and "The Nauseated Traveler." He won an Emmy award in 2000 for "The West Wing" and spent five seasons as a writer and producer for HBO's "Six Feet Under."
Truth, and other overrated ideas
When I was a kid, I lied a lot. Lying, for me, was easier than learning to tie my shoes. I could tell lies like my best friend, Dave, could eat French fries — by the fistful.