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Cubs game recap
The Cubs lost 2-1 to the Nationals yesterday. Ryan Dempster had an incredible start, striking out ten batters in 7.2 innings. Unfortunately, after he was relieved in the 8th inning Kerry Wood walked three straight batters to tie the game. Carlos Marmol gave up a double in the 9th to Cubs Legend Chad Tracy followed by a bloop single by Ian Desmond. Ian Stewart just missed a HR off Brad Lidge in the ninth, and pinch runner Joe Mather was thrown out at home in the next at bat. To Dempster's credit, he got the strikeouts but the Cubs best defender yesterday was the wind blowing hard in from center field. Stewart's ball wasn't the only hard-hit one that would have gone out on an average day at Wrigley.
Wood had a lousy day but I still think he should be the primary set-up man. He's not as good as he once was but I don't think there's much case to say that any of the other non-Marmol relievers are better than he is right now unless he's injured.
Dempster's start was the best by game score (78) for a Cubs opener since Bill Bonham in 1974 (87).
Yesterday's TOOTBLANS
Alfonso Soriano was thrown out stealing third base in the fourth inning. Marlon Byrd later singled in Stewart, who was behind Soriano on the basepaths, for the Cubs only run.
Joe Mather was thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the ninth after running on contact. I think he was out either way, since that ball was hit pretty hard to the third baseman. I'd chalk it up to bad luck, but the TOOTBLAN definition is a harsh mistress.
Is there a Cubs game today?
Gio Gonzalez and Matt Garza face off tomorrow at noon.
Maybe Bill Murray should stop throwing out the first pitch
Ryan Dempster accidentally used the ceremonial first pitch ball for the first actual pitch of the game. Bill Murray had signed it and added "good luck, Ryan". Ian Desmond hit a single on Dempster's first pitch.
Pictures from opening day
Fellow Cubs bloggers Doc Blume and Julie DiCaro attended the game and took many pictures. Consensus all around the blog/tweet-osphere is that the new videoboard was a positive addition to the park.
Cubs interested in John Lannan
You can never have too many slightly above replacement level pitchers that are paid more than league minimum. Though maybe the best way to improve the pen is to pick up a ton on fringy starters and make them setup men. It worked wonders for Sean Marshall.
Media waiting to pile on Cubs "culture"
For some reason Cubs players are "tired of the perception that failure is institutionalized in the organization". I wonder what's perpetuating that perception?
Wait, what? moment
During yesterday's game WGN had a shot of someone wearing a "Sveamus Catuli" t-shirt. That doesn't even make sense, and was way too complicated to explain to someone who didn't get the reference. Still better than Pujols mows my lawn, though.
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The Taste For Vets Homebrew Challenge
Columbiana Mayor Brian Blakeman was wearing a different hat on Saturday as he brought two of his homebrews to The Taste for Vets Homebrew Challenge. His first beer named "Cockadoodle Brew" is Belgian Caramel wit and his second beer named "Filibuster" is a Chocolate Whiskey Barrel Stout. Blakeman relaxes making beer and enjoyed the event with his daughter, 16-year-old Sarah Blakeman at his side. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer


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TWIN LAKES, Mich. (FOX17) – Deputies responding to a call of a prowler in the Twin Lakes area of Muskegon County, Mich., got a surprise when they turned down a rural country road on Sunday night.
Sheriff deputies said Calquan Burr, 20, was standing in the middle of the road with a metal pipe in his hand.
In a dashcam video, Burr sprints straight for the cruiser, smashes into the windshield, and rolls over the top of the car. He then surrenders to police seconds later.
Deputies said Burr claimed to be sent by his father from the planet 'Zoltron' and could crush the cruiser if he wanted to.
Burr was taken to jail on charges of assault and destruction of police property. He was also wanted for outstanding warrants.


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Feeding Kids Sugar to Raise Money for Diabetes Research?
Yesterday was "Mug Root Beer Float" day at the Oakland A's baseball game, at which families brought lots of kids to enjoy meeting celebrities, watching floats, and of course drinking root beer floats.
Yes, it sounds like it was fun. And according to the press release, the event raised over $29,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
But as a friend of mine who went to the game commented, "Isn't there something a little weird about feeding kids sugar at an event dedicated to dealing with a disease that's all about the body's inability to regulate blood sugar?"
Call me a curmudgeon, but I'd say it's very weird. No one has yet found the cause of diabetes, but doctors are certainly raising alarm bells about sugar consumption and obesity, both of which are rampant in the United States. I give the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation credit for creating a business partnership that got them in the headlines and raised some significant amounts, but what a mixed message to send.
Of course, this isn't the first time that processed and sugary foods have been drafted into the cause of fundraising. And people are taking notice — and better yet, suggesting creative alternatives. For example, you'll find some helpful tips on healthy food alternatives in this guide from Canada's Nova Scotia Department of Education, called "Fundraising with Healthy Food and Beverages."


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Children's Homes and Institutions in Co. Longford, Republic of Ireland
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PHm=Probation Home; PHs=Probation Hostel; BI=Borstal; DC=Detention Centre;
DB=Barnardo's; WS=Waifs & Strays / Children's Society; NCH=National Children's Home; CC=County Council;
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I have gotten the sensor to work without level shifting it (as sda/scl are open collector).
I was under the impression the Due had internal 3.3v pull up resistors on the I2C lines. Is this correct?
Nevertheless it is working as is, but just not 100% reliable
Using I2Cscanner (http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/I2cScanner) I can easily get the address of either device (just testing them independently) using the Mega and pins 20/21. The Due fails to see these devices with the same program via the same pins 20/21. No additional pull-ups were used (my understanding is that the appropriate resistors are already present on both boards). Since the peripherals are running at 3.3V Vcc shouldn't be an issue (if anything, I'd expect the Mega to have issues with that, NOT the Due!)
I2C Scanner will not work as expected with the DUE.endTransmission is flawed with 1.5.1r2See:(I2C) Wire.endTransmission always returns non-zero. : http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,144700.0.html-Chris


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Send Me Your Doorstuffs
Now that F1@1F has made it into the NYT and the BLT regarding the SCOTUS door closure, I'm taking it upon myself to collect stories, photos, and videos of readers' experiences approaching and entering the Court's bronze doors. Please send me what you have. If I get enough by this time next week, I will post them all here on the site.
Also, Steve de Man, a friend I met in line at Doe v. Reed and CLS, has started a Facebook group, "Supreme Court: please reopen your steps." I encourage those who have walked through the doors, hope one day to walk through the doors, or simply value the experience's availability to American citizens, to join up. The Court isn't likely to change its position, especially because it spent so much time and treasure creating the new entrances to the visitor center, but it's worth registering your dissents.
Here's Steve and his friend Patrick O'Donnell talking shop at dawn in the Doe line:
Finally, Lawrence Hurley at Washington Briefs has posted a glimpse at the steps' new, dismal scene. Too bad we likely will have to wait for an even more dismal scene (skip to 20:00, watch through 24:00) before anyone else–spare perhaps the next justice–may walk through those doors again.
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Hi Mike!
Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your blog and watching the video at the end. It's great the way you're bringing the Supreme Court to the masses, particularly the young, it appears. I esp liked the Post story about how you shared pizza with those inspiring high schoolers from California.
I think you should do both print and tv journalism since you write so well (love those complex sentences!) and have a great voice.
Hope you keep blogging even though there's no more lines to wait in, at least not for a few months.
A new fan,
Donna Northouse (mother of Clay, who speaks very highly of you)


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Delta Air Lines is providing more details about changes to its frequent-flier program after complaints about the overhaul from some travelers.
Atlanta-based Delta is changing its program so that starting in 2015, customers will earn miles based on how much they spend, not just miles flown.
The carrier on Thursday released charts showing how many miles you'll need to earn a free trip.
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Loyalty programs at Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, JetBlue and Virgin America are already based on spending, not miles.
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It's been eleven years since Blizzard released Warcraft III. And since it doesn't look like we'll be getting an RTS sequel any time soon, a Chinese fan has gone and made himself one.
What you're looking at here is World Of Warcraft RTS: Alliance vs Horde (what was wrong with Warcraft IV?), a modified take of StarCraft II that looks a little rough, I'll grant you, but gets an A+ for effort.
If you've got StarCraft II, you can download it yourself and give it a try (it's around 150MB). Just go to SCII's arcade and search for "Alliance and Horde", it should pop right up.
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The Bible is not a book of science, though the first Chapter of Genesis, as the nineteenth-century sociologist Max Weber points out, is the necessary prelude to science. It represents the first time people saw the universe as the product of a single creative will, and therefore as intelligible rather than capricious and mysterious.
Nature has no divinity. Indeed, in the Hebrew Bible, it became "undeified" as G. W. F. Hegel put it. Hegel observed (in lectures notes his students published after his death) that it was the Israelite religion described in the Bible that altered the very nature of nature itself. This is an interesting point, which would explain the first verse neatly:
"In the Beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
It means that the heaven was created first. That is: earth is not the center of the universe. In the scientific view (the Big Bang) there is also considered to be a beginning, not only for Earth, but for the entire Universe. This does represent a point of agreement between them.
Not only is the Old Testament Israelite religion viewed as historical, in contrast to the nature religions of the pagans, but the nature of the Old Testament is also seen as unimportant and inert, in contrast with the sacred nature of the pagans. In his 1965 classic, The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox wrote that the Bible "opened nature for science" by beginning a "disenchantment process" that wrested nature free from Gods and God. "This disenchantment of the natural world," Cox wrote, "provides an absolute precondition for the development of modern science."
In itself nature is not dramatic, it is not wonderful, it is not miraculous; it is a mean. The great Italian Israeli Bible scholar Umberto Cassuto described this Israelite rejection of nature poetically in his commentary on the creation story in the Book of Genesis:
"Then came the Torah and soared aloft, as on eagle's wings, above all these nations. Not many gods but One God … not a deity associated with nature and identified with it wholly or in part, but a God who stands absolutely above nature, and outside of it." (Cassutto 1961, 8)
Bearing in mind that autistic people are deprived of theory of mind, they cannot therefore do religion. "God wants you to do …" is a meaningless statement. What you don't know is that neither can we be brainwashed by voices of disbelief – secular atheism. Where Christians believe that Yahweh is the all-powerful and all-knowing creator of the universe, Skeptical atheists believe that nature is all there is. As Gunter Grass wrote, "The only time I'm religious is when I'm sitting in the woods with paper and pencil, admiring what nature has come up with." I've never been awestruck by nature. And I am not curious or fascinated to explain away the magic of reality. There is no magic to explain away.
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"Sometimes I have a terrible need of, shall I say the word, religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
A naive evaluation of the worth of the Bible as a prelude to science might be done perhaps by judging the tree by it's fruit. In Europe we refer to the period when the Bible was most influential on the scientific outlook of contemporaries as: the Dark Ages.
The Arabs had to translate the Greek naturalist philosophers and expand on it with their own and borrowed work, before it finally was reintroduced in the 13th century via Spain and southern Italy and a beginning could be made to finally end that devastating necessary Biblical prelude to science.
Also I think reading a lot of modern science into the first sentence of Genesis is completely baseless. It does not say heaven was created first because it mentions that word first and it certainly does not convey a rudimentary understanding of the Copernican principle. Only first in sentence 14 stars are created. It is indeed not a science book.


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Saint Valentine Number: Frank Nankivel, cover illustration, Puck, v. 69, no. 1771, 8 February 1911 (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)
It was on a Sunday, in the afternoon, as I told your honour --
The old man and his wife had walked out --
Every thing was still and hush as midnight about the house --
There was not so much as a duck or a duckling about the yard --
-- When the fair Beguine came in to see me.
My wound was then in a fair way of doing well -- the inflammation had been gone off for some time, but it was succeeded with an itching both above and below my knee, so insufferable, that I had not shut my eyes the whole night for it.
Let me see it, said she, kneeling down upon the ground parallel to my knee, and laying her hand upon the part below it ---- It only wants rubbing a little, said the Beguine; so covering it with the bed clothes, she began with the forefinger of her right-hand to rub under my knee, guiding her fore-finger backwards and forwards by the edge of the flannel which kept on the dressing.
In five or six minutes I felt slightly the end of her second finger --- and presently it was laid flat with the other, and she continued rubbing in that way round and round for a good while; it then came into my head, that I should fall in love -- I blush'd when I saw how white a hand she had -- I shall never, an' please your honour, behold another hand so white whilst I live --
Though it was the most serious despair in nature to the corporal -- he could not forbear smiling.
The young Beguine, continued the corporal, perceiving it was of great service to me -- from rubbing, for some time, with two fingers -- proceeded to rub at length, with three -- till by little and little she brought down the fourth, and then rubb'd with her whole hand: I will never say another word, an' please your honour, upon hands again -- but it was softer than satin --
-- Prithee, Trim, commend it as much as thou wilt, said my uncle Toby; I shall hear thy story with the more delight -- The corporal thank'd his master most unfeignedly; but having nothing to say upon the Beguine's hand, but the same over again -- he proceeded to the effects of it.
I perceived, then, I was beginning to be in love --
As she continued rub-rub-rubbing -- I felt it spread from under her hand, an' please your honour, to every part of my frame --
The more she rubb'd, and the longer strokes she took -- the more the fire kindled in my veins -- till at length, by two or three strokes longer than the rest -- my passion rose to the highest pitch -- I seized her hand --
-- And then, thou clapped'st it to thy lips, Trim, said my uncle Toby -- and madest a speech.
Whether the corporal's amour terminated precisely in the way my uncle Toby described it, is not material; it is enough that it contain'd in it the essence of all the love-romances which ever have been wrote since the beginning of the world.
The Narrowing Target. Cupid -- I'm doing the best I can, old man, but if I make one hit in twenty these days I'm lucky: Nelson Greene, cover illustration, Puck, v. 75, no. 1928, 14 February 1914 (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)


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Mr. Ford on the NASCAR tour for years now, Jack Roush. And how will the addition of Roger Penske to the Ford equation work out? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
"I'm going to have a meeting with Roger and Jim Farley April 19th – my birthday," Roush says. "We'll sit down and break bread and see if we can make sense out of this.
"There are opportunities to do things together that would make the cars better and reduce costs.
"And Ford would like to increase the size of its footprint in NASCAR. And Ford would like to have the opportunity to run for the manufacturers' title….and it's hard to do that when you've got as few Ford teams as we have.
"So that's Ford's primary motivation – to say, 'yes, Jack and his guys can win a number of races throughout the year, but we really couldn't be effective in a championship run for the manufacturers' title without having more support'."
The Captain, Roger Penske. Can he help Ford win the NASCAR manufacturers' championship? And what will happen this season in his own engine shop? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
A big question for Dodge and Ford is how to let Penske finesse the curious role of racing Dodges this season – and remember Brad Keselowski had a great run at the Sprint Cup championship last fall – while gearing up and testing Fords and Ford engines for 2013.
Without Penske and his engine building operation, Dodge itself looks to be facing major trouble. Might be hard to sign any new teams to fill the void without having a solid NASCAR engine program in place.
And why would Dodge engineers be willing to keep Penske up to date on their latest technical tricks if he's now building a Ford operation?
Roush has been NASCAR's Mr. Ford for decades, the company's point man in virtually every aspect.
Penske, a world-class racer too for decades, has used a different business approach, signing long-term contracts with various manufacturers and switching allegiance when it makes good business sense. Penske, leaving Dodge-Chrysler at the end of the season after 10 years, will be on his third go-round with Ford, with this new five-year deal, which he says he took when Dodge declined to meet such a long-term requirement.
Roush and teammate Doug Yates have controlled the Ford-NASCAR engine operation for years, and anyone looking to run a Ford on the stock car tour essentially has to lease engines from Roush and Yates.
Edsel Ford (L) and The King. Wonder just what Ford's thinking is in the Penske move? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Enter Penske.
Penske has an 80-man engine shop, building highly competitive Dodge engines, and Penske says he will keep that engine operation up and running after the changeover. Penske has mentioned possibly continuing to build NASCAR-Dodge engines next season; however Roush says that Ford execs are not likely to go along with a deal like that.
Roush says he's willing to lease – not sell, but lease – Ford FR9s to Penske. How interested Penske might be in such a deal, essentially letting a rival racer hold control over a key part of the operation, is unclear.
Roush points out that Penske is free to build his own FR9s.
"He has not talked to me," Roush confirmed, though the deal apparently went down just days after the Daytona 500.
"My only conversation has been with Ford; I have not had conversation with any of the Penske folk. And to the best of my knowledge Doug hasn't had any conversation with his engine shop.
"I only know what I've been told.
"Somebody who has done all the things he's done, in business and in racing, can pretty much do whatever he wants. And he hasn't told us yet what he wants to do.
"We're interested in having the best Ford teams we can have for Ford Motor Company. And Roger has the prospect of carrying to us some things that could benefit everybody. And there are some things that I know and things that we do that could benefit him.
"To get started on a new engine, with such a short period of time, would be very hard. If he wants to build his own Ford engines, he's certainly welcomed to do that; the parts are available. But he's starting off two or three years behind, in terms of that set of hardware."
Remember how long it took Roush and Yates to get going wide open with the new FR9, about a year and a half after it was first introduced.
"We won't sell engines….but we'll lease engines to anyone who wants to race a Ford," Roush says. "And he would have the same power level and durability level as everything I've got."
Penske has raised the prospect that he might continue building Dodge engines in his shop, while racing Fords.
"It would be an interesting scenario if he builds Dodge engines and races Fords." Roush said. "That hasn't been done.
"I don't know how Ford would feel about that: I feel there would be some concern about where his real interests were."
This is Penske's third time through the Ford camp. He raced NASCAR with Bobby Allison in the 1970s; and then he had Fords with Rusty Wallace.
"He's changed his spots again, and we certainly wish him well, and try to help him and be helped by him when it suits our common purpose," Roush says.
"It's hard to be a single team for a manufacturer. We've undertaken it with 8 to 10 cars we've worked it….versus to have only two or three cars to be able to work with (as Penske has with Dodge).
"You're doing the engineering for everything, the kinematics, the aerodynamics, the engine, and all that. And you have to spread the costs of that off the sponsorship that can be generated, and that is really a challenging economic thing.
"I could not race with (only) two or three cars; I could get enough sponsorship money.
"For him to come in to the Ford world, and look at getting some economies of scale, that would be compelling to me from a business point of view."
Roush said he was kept informed about the status of Ford's negotiations with Penske but played no active role.
And a footnote: what is Roush's take on the Rick Hendrick-Chad Knaus-NASCAR John Middlebrook controversy?
"I chose not to comment on that," Roush says, noting that he does have strong feelings about it.
"I've had multiple problems of mine own over 25 years. And I was not successful in any of it."
"You could certainly make the case," Roush did offer, "that if someone had an affiliation with a team, as a jurist, that they might exclude themselves…or be excluded.
"In this case that didn't happen…and that leaves the question whether or not there was some nepotistic influence that occurred."
Doug Yates, Ford's powerhouse in the engine room. And how will Roger Penske own engine room, 80-men strong, fit into this new picture? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Those egos won't fit in a NASA hanger and the Captain won't let go of the control over his power plants. There needs to be diversity for the Ford engines builders - they all can't run Roush-Yates engines!
What is the deal with Roush's comment on Chad Knaus'hearing? "Nepotistic influence" in NASCAR, a family owned and run company? Really? Many chuckles.
Ford, Dodge. and Toyota are getting beat with the 'politics" of Nascar!
Things like this coming John Middelbrook scandal, is proof of someone like Rick Hendrick becoming to powerful and having to much of Nascars ear!
Until Nascar comes clean and has a clear 'conflicts of interests policy" then I dont think it is wise to spend money in the sport!
Plus legends of Ford, fans have are going to leave Nascar unless something is done, this Globetrotters Chevy verus Washington Generals Ford, Dodge and Toyota playbook has gone on for too long!
What's interesting about both organizations is the age of the leaders:
Penske is 75 and Roush is 70. I would Imagine b4 too many more years Ford's and all other business relationships will be conducted through different people even if the corporations continue on.
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- Memory Cloud-REsite MetalabMemory Cloud is a living sculpture that uses multimedia technology to collapse time and space in order to celebrate tradition for Texas A&M students. Composed of an ethereal network of 4,000 LED nodes, the lights flicker on and off to create an animation of silhouettes that appear as figures walking through a cloud. The winning commission was awarded to RE:site and METALAB by Texas A&M University for their new student center. The LED installation will be installed in the winter of 2012 and serve as a reminder of both the past and present.1
- Memory Cloud-REsite MetalabMemory Cloud is the winning design for a lighting installation in the new Memorial Student Center 12th Man Hall.2
- Memory Cloud-REsite MetalabDesigned by RE:site (Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton, Artists) and METALAB (Andrew Vrana, Joe Meppelink and Michael Gonzales, Architecture + Fabrication), the project will hang in the atrium to create an animation of students, from the past and present, walking by.3
- Memory Cloud-REsite MetalabThe silhouettes animations are created from archived footage of time-honored traditions: the Corp of Cadets, the Texas Aggie Marching Band, Kyle Field traditions, and past graduations.4
- Memory Cloud-REsite MetalabAdditionally, Memory Cloud can convert a real-time feed of students passing by into a ghost-like version.5
- Memory Cloud-REsite MetalabThe sculpture is made with 4,000 energy efficient and networked LED nodes integrated within transparent tubes of various lengths suspended from a diagrid framework.6
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Christmas is a holiday for friends,
However they may be, or not, related.
Remember that the three wise kings were strangers
In search of one remote, uncanny dream.
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Originally part of a large rural 'run', the area around Forest Hill was sub-divided into small farms in the 1880s. By the early 1900s Forest Hill was thriving and growing more produce than the older Gatton and Laidley settlements. Forest Hill was Australia's largest produce distribution centre in the early 1900s.
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Located a short drive from town is Stockton Rise Country Retreat, a three bedroom self contained house accommodation situated amongst fertile farmland.
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Coventry School System in Coventry, OH, didn't know what to do with its fitness facility, Portage Lakes Fitness Center. After all, the district managed school buildings, curriculum and students, not health club members. However, eight years ago when the school district bought a building with a bowling alley and fitness facility in it with designs to turn the building into their high school, they decided to give bowling alley and fitness center management a try. Before long, however, the bowling alley closed, and the school system turned to Akron General Health & Wellness Center in Akron, OH, to staff and manage the fitness facility.
Akron General jumped at the opportunity, not just for the revenue it would provide, but also for the opportunity to serve the community, says Doug Ribley, director of wellness and administrative services at Akron General Health & Wellness Center. Facilities such as Portage Lakes Fitness Center attract people in the community, and managing the site is a way to get the hospital's name out into the community.
"Being a not-for-profit health system, we have a different motivation than some of the other management companies out there," says Ribley. "This was a way to work with a local school system to support them."
In fact, the revenue generated by the school system's center is minimal in comparison to the millions of dollars of revenue generated at Akron General's four owned sites, says Ribley. Of the annual revenue generated at the facility, Akron General's fees end up being about 15 percent of that. Akron General is paid a monthly fee to run the facility. Any profits generated are turned over to the school district. At the end of the year, Akron General gets a percentage of the net profits.
"In the big picture, it doesn't contribute significantly to our revenue," says Ribley. "But, that's not the intent. It does make money and it justifies us being involved.
The same can be said for Wellbridge in Denver, which manages three facilities (two in St. Louis and one in Boston). While unable to disclose just how much revenue the three managed sites earn the company, CEO Ed Williams did say that the portion of the overall revenue is very small considering the millions of dollars the private company earns from its 33 owned clubs.
"It's not a major portion of our revenue," Williams says.
While these clubs are larger companies, smaller clubs looking to get into the management of on-site facilities may find the revenues earned are valuable for them. The opportunity to manage a club without most of the expense associated with owning a club can be attractive to small club owners. In addition, managing an on-site facility offers an opportunity for advancement of well-qualified, hardworking employees who otherwise would have nowhere to advance.
Ribley agrees that managing a site gives employees an opportunity to grow.
"It will give people who have worked hard and are ready for advancement an opportunity," says Ribley.
In addition, if a key staff person is out sick or on vacation, the managing club has a whole pool of people to call upon to cover for them. In Akron General's case, the school district also gets a whole pool of people whose expertise they can rely upon — marketing, finance and information system support — inexpensively.
For Wellbridge, managing a facility allows the company to use its staff's expertise. The company originally was founded as a management company, at one time managing 50 facilities. For that reason, the employee base and expertise in managing facilities is already there, and the opportunity to do so allows senior management to grow and expand.
"Plus, the company gets a quality product because we have more senior management in that area," Williams says.
Twelve years ago, Wellbridge managed 10 sites, but recently the company changed its focus to one of ownership of clubs rather than management of clubs. By switching to its focus, the club minimizes the various challenges that club owners must face when managing a corporation's fitness center.
Akron General has had small issues with determining how to work with the school and its support services to fix things such as a leaky faucet. Akron General has to work with the school system's maintenance department to get repairs done. In addition, Akron General's finance department has to interface with the comptroller of the school system on a regular basis so funds are accounted for appropriately.
"Figuring out who to work with and what is expected, how to report to the school board — those are the challenges and things that need to be worked out," Ribley says. "You have to know what is expected. You have to develop things up front and be clear on everything."
Generally, oversight by the owning entities isn't a major challenge, say Ribley and Williams, because the oversight into the day-to-day running of the facilities is minimal.
For Wellbridge, oversight is almost non-existent other than the fact that the employees who work at the companies come into the club everyday, putting them under some sort of daily scrutiny. Wellbridge meets with the owners on a monthly or quarterly basis to go over the revenue with the companies.
Akron General must answer to a school board and a school administration about the facility. However, they have been given a lot of support and flexibility to make things work.
"It's their center. They own it," says Ribley. "They've hired us to come in. They have the ultimate authority. But, they know what their strengths are and what ours are. As long as we submit a budget and stay with that, they've been very arms length."
However, for the most part, the challenges a club faces when managing an on-site facility is not unlike the challenges a club faces in managing its own facility, says Ribley. First and foremost, the facility must be successful. Initially, that was a challenge at the Coventry site. The school system considered closing the site because it couldn't justify using taxpayer money to run an unprofitable business. However, Akron General helped turn the business around by looking at the membership structure, the program and the facility.
Despite the challenges being similar, the club management business is different from the club ownership business. A club owner who wants to do on-site managing must make sure they are providing the service that the facility owner expects. The details of what is expected of both sides must be ironed out before anything goes forward, Ribley says.
"If you are used to being an entrepreneur, this is not the type of business to get into," says Williams. "You are working for someone else. You don't have the flexibility. You have to do it within their constraints. You have to understand the business that you are getting into. You are going back to work for someone else."
Some clubs have found it worth their time to develop divisions devoted to just managing on-site facilities: Club One, Fitcorp and Tennis Corporation of America are just three larger health club companies that do this.
Fitcorp, based in Boston, operates 14 public centers in the Boston area and manages 22 private centers for corporations.
Tennis Corporation of America began more than 30 years ago by opening its Mid-Town Tennis Club. Starting in the 1990s, TCA began managing corporate fitness centers. Now, TCA owns or manages more than 40 clubs in North America.
Club One's ProServices division provides on-site staffing, facility management, wellness services and special event coordination to more than 150 companies in the United States. The team manages 33 facilities in various cities across the country. ProServices staff provides a performance report for the corporate facility owners on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
When it comes to managing the Portage Lakes Fitness Center in Coventry, OH (a suburb of Akron, OH), Akron General Health & Wellness devotes much time, effort and staff to the facility. The center requires 25 employees — all but five of which are part timers. The employees are Akron General employees on Akron General's compensation benefits program. Akron General handles the staffing and all the financial aspects of the facility, including payroll. The school district audits the facility annually and pays Akron General a monthly fee to run the facility. Any profits generated are turned over to the school district. At the end of the year, Akron General gets a percentage of the net profits.
Teachers and students can join the facility at a discounted rate although the facility is also open to the community at a higher rate. Of the club's 1,400 members, most come from the community.
The facility itself is 15,000 square feet with an indoor running/walking track, group exercise studio, full cardio/strength area, racquetball courts, a swimming pool, steam room, sauna, whirlpool and locker rooms.


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VEX2 Competition
|In normal ROBOTC programming, every program is based around a "task main" function, as shown below:
task main() { }
In a competition program, things are a little different. To keep things simple, however, a Competition Template program is built into ROBOTC for use in VEX Competitions. The template provides a common starting point for teams when competing in an event. Rather than a single "main" task, the template has three sections, each matched to a specific section of the competition:
The template and its accompanying "include" file handle the background work for the competition, such as monitoring the duration of each phase during a match, and communicating with the Vex Field Controller. All you need to do is tell the robot what to do in each phase.
Open a Competition Template
|To open a competition template:
Set Up Competition Control and Timing
With ROBOTC, the competition control is completely user defined and controlled via software, so there are no jumpers required for testing. By changing these settings, the template can be adapted to work with any competition. The three lines above set the VEX controller into the "competition" mode and specify the timing for the match.
#pragma competitionControl(competition_mode) – Controls the Competition mode that the Vex robot will function in. There are two different competition modes that you can pass to this statement:


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An attorney for death-row inmate Rickey Dale Newman argued Thursday before the state Supreme Court that Newman should be granted a new trial because he was not competent to stand trial at the time of his 2002 conviction in Crawford County Circuit Court.
An attorney for the state argued there was sufficient evidence to support the trial judge's ruling that Newman was competent at the time.
The high court heard oral arguments but did not immediately issue a ruling in the appeal by Newman, now 56. Newman has been sentenced to die for the 2001 mutilation death of 46-year-old Marie Cholette at a transient camp in Van Buren.
Julie Brain, formerly of the federal public defender's office in Little Rock and now a private lawyer based in Philadelphia, told the justices that Newman has severe brain impairment, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and an IQ of 67.
She acknowledged that he initially told police and later told the jury at his trial that he was guilty and deserved execution, but she said he did so because of mental illness and suicidal impulses. She argued that he was wrongly convicted and is innocent of Cholette's murder.
"He knew he was innocent, but he wanted to die," she said.
Deputy Attorney General Darnisa Johnson argued that despite his brain damage and low IQ, Newman exhibited an understanding of his case. She said that in a series of letters to the trial court he showed that he understood the charges against him and his rights.
"Due process only requires that a defendant have an understanding of the essentials," she said.
Brain said some of the letters were not in Newman's handwriting, suggesting that someone wrote them for him. She said other letters were in his handwriting but exceeded Newman's reading and writing ability, which she said is below a first-grade level.
"He could not have written them on his own," Brain said.
Johnson said there was no evidence in the record that Newman had help writing the letters. She also noted that during a mental evaluation, Newman became upset and said he did not want to talk about his traumatic childhood because he did not want to bring it all back and then have to deal with it all by himself.
Newman's actions showed that he was able to understand the potential consequences of actions, Johnson argued.
Brain argued that Newman would have helped his case by talking about his childhood, but his mental illness was so severe that it prevented him from acting in his own best interest. He lacked rationality, she said.
Justice Paul Danielson asked Brain if she was arguing that Newman was like a person who knows it is raining but does not know to come in out of the rain. Brain said that was correct.
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It was in the early 1950s when Totton P. Heffelfinger, a giant in the grain business and one of the top officials in the Minikahda Club, came up with the idea of selling the very valuable land where the golf course was located across from Lake Calhoun and building a new golf club in Chaska that turned out to be Hazeltine National.
The historic clubhouse would remain, but the golf course land would be sold and, being in such a great location in the city and overlooking the lake, would raise enough money to build the new club in the western suburbs.
Heffelfinger worked hard to get the votes from Minikahda members to make the move. But he failed, and his group was stuck with the land it had bought that today is the site of this weekend's 2009 PGA Championship.
Heffelfinger, president of the U.S. Golf Association from 1952 to 1953, wanted to build a course that would be a host of major championships, which were becoming larger events. Minikahda had been the host of the 1916 U.S. Open and the 1927 U.S. Amateur (won by Bobby Jones).
There were many financial difficulties Heffelfinger faced before Hazeltine opened in 1962.
But if it wasn't for the persistence Heffelfinger and his partners, who went through with the opening of Hazeltine even though Minikahda remained, there wouldn't have been all of the big tournaments here.
With Heffelfinger's influence in the golf world, the first major golf tournament to be held at the Chaska course was the 1966 U.S. Women's Open.
Again using his influence as former president of the USGA, Heffelfinger brought the 1970 U.S. Open to the course that still needed a lot of development to be first-class. The difficulty of the course and the windy conditions escalated scores, leading to criticism from the golfers and a poor first impression.
"They ruined a cow pasture by building the course," said golfer Dave Hill, who was among many of the golfers who ripped the course and got national publicity by doing so. Jack Nicklaus didn't like the layout. Many of the top golf officials thought this was the end of Hazeltine as the site of major golf tournaments.
However, the turning point of Hazeltine might have been the 1983 U.S. Senior Open. The previous criticism turned to praise, and the course was now first-class.
Then came the 1991 U.S. Open, when Payne Stewart beat Scott Simpson in an 18-hole playoff. In tha tournament, several new revenue innovations were put in and the financial results of the event set new standards for the major tournaments.
Since then, Hazeltine has been host of the 1994 U.S. Mid-Amateur, the 2002 PGA, the 2006 U.S. Amateur and the current PGA, and it will be the host of the 2016 Ryder Cup.
Not many clubs less than 50 years old have produced a résumé of major tournaments.
Yes, the great Tott Heffelfinger and his partners made this happen. And while Hazeltine will bring a lot of golf notice to this area and make some big bucks, Minikahda continues to be one of the finest golf courses in the country -- but because of its size it never would have attracted the tournaments that Hazeltine has.Twins 2010 opener
Twins President Dave St. Peter said that a National League team definitely will play the Twins in two exhibition games at the new Target Field on April 2 and April 3 to open the stadium, but at this point he can't reveal the team. ... With the eighth appearance of the Twins on the Fox network Saturday, they have appeared more times either nationally or regionally than any other major league team.. ... Current indications are that the Twins' attendance for the season will be the highest since 1992, when the club drew 2,482,428. ... The Twins expect to have a record 16,000 season tickets when the new stadium opens. They sold 11,000 this season.
Compare the records of the Twins starters in 2008 with this year, and you realize why the club has pitching problems: At this point in 2008, Scott Baker was 7-3 and had a 3.78 ERA. In 2009, he's 10-7, 4.54 ERA. Nick Blackburn was 9-6 with a 3.99 ERA last year, 8-7, 3.99 in 2009; Francisco Liriano was 3-3, 4.97 in 2008, 5-11, 5.39 now; Glen Perkins was 9-3, 4.07 in 2008, 6-7, 5.89 now; and then you have a positive in Kevin Slowey, who is out for the year. He was 9-8, 3.94 ERA a year ago, 10-3 and 4.86 ERA in 2009.Jottings
Timberwolves President David Kahn was asked if he would have drafted Ricky Rubio as the fifth player in the NBA draft had he known all of the problems he would run into to get the Spanish star to Minnesota. "Absolutely," Kahn said. "He is 18. He is too young and he has too much value and he has too much upside for us not to have done what we did. I have been saying consistently: I recognize that if it doesn't happen right away, the worst-case scenario for us as a team is that we wait a year or two. In our sport there have been many instances where teams had to wait a year or two, not only for European players but other situations were really rewarded for their patience. Of course we would have done it, I have absolutely no second thoughts."
Timberwolves star Al Jefferson, who missed most of last season after injuring his knee, was asked how close he was to being 100 percent. "I think I'm 90 percent, I really think I can do contact work," he said. "I know for a fact that I will be ready for training camp. I will be 100 percent, nonstop, I'll go two-a-days."
Archie Givens, a former Gophers quarterback, is the new head of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. Givens has served on the alumni board since 2002. He is chief executive of Legacy and Management Corp. in Edina.
The athlete in the family of J Robinson is not the Gophers wrestling coach, but his wife, Sue Rubens, 42, who does Ironman Triathlons. An Ironman competition consists of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run (marathon). Her best time is 10 hours and 14 minutes in the Florida Ironman in 2007. She has done three of them, and she qualified for the World Championship last year in her age group and competed in her age group in the World Championship in Hawaii last October. In 2008 she was the masters champion for her age group in Minnesota. She is now training for the Canadian Ironman Championship to be held in British Columbia on Aug. 30.
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By Kay S. Pedrotti
Katelyn Womack of Barnesville could be defined as an overachiever, except that everything she does prepares her for a productive life as an adult contributor to her home community, state and nation. Nothing is on her achievement list just because it looks good.
Katelyn Womack, 15, enjoys all sorts of riding events as she shows four quarter horses and a Morab. Here "Challenge for Cash," known in the barn as Jack, runs poles with Katelyn, showing agility, stamina and mount control. She also has done dressage, Western riding, jumping and other types of show riding.
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September 15, 1942 - March 9, 2013
Woodside, NY - Formerly of Ellenville, NY
Marjorie Kemmerer Convery, 70, from Woodside, NY died in the Elmhurst, NY Hospital on March 9, 2013.
Marge was born in Ellenville, NY on September 15, 1942. She was predeceased by her parents, Lois Vanderlyn Schonbachler and Henry L. Kemmerer, and was also predeceased by her husband, William Convery.
She is survived by her sisters: Patricia Kemmerer Kearney of Connecticut and Judith Kemmerer of Louisiana; her nephew, Vincent Poppo of New York, and her niece, Angelique Alvarez of Louisiana.
Marge graduated from Ellenville High School in 1960 and worked as a legal administrative assistant in the New York City law firm of Smith, Steibel, Alexander and Saskor, P.C.
Marge loved to socialize and collect antiques. She enjoyed the beach and did beautiful needlepoint.
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Where you stand on Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, will depend on how much things like atmosphere, characterisation, storyline and style matter in the games you play. Look at it one way, and it is merely a competent action/adventure game with stunning graphics, linear gameplay and a handful of neat twists. Look at it another, and it's one of the most dazzling and immersive gaming experiences of the year. If you're inclined to obsess over innovative game mechanics and deep combat systems instead of getting caught up in a well-told tale, then this might not be the game for you, but if you're wired the other way around, then this is the sort of game you've been yearning for.
Inspired by Journey to the West, the same Chinese classic that bought us the much-loved 80s BBC2 teatime favourite, Monkey, Enslaved follows a young female hacker, Trip, and her unwilling bodyguard, Monkey, as they journey across an American landscape in some undefined, post-apocalyptic future. Having made an escape from slavers, Trip plans to return to her father in an isolated enclave, but needs our agile warrior hero to get her there in one piece. To ensure cooperation, she has placed a slaver's headband on his nut. If our grumpy hero doesn't play ball, he suffers. If she dies, he dies too.
It's an interesting setup, and one the game runs with through a combination of platforming, cover-based shooting and close combat that takes as much from the Uncharted series as it does from a Devil May Cry or God of War. When you're not leaping around the scenery, looking for a way to get Trip through the next barrier or up to the next level, you're battling vicious-looking mechs with an energy staff that doubles as a handy plasma cannon. The game also plays with a few ideas from Sony's much-loved Ico, with Monkey having to throw Trip up onto ledges or over gaps, then leap over himself to drag her up before she falls. These moments are fewer and farer between than you might wish, but at least the game never feels like one giant, irritating escort mission. In fact, with a last-ditch EMP pulse weapon, a decoy projector and a nice line in platforming herself, Trip actually works as a useful companion.
Enslaved's biggest weakness is that, while all the elements work perfectly well, neither the platforming nor the combat is what you might call state of the art. As far as the first goes, your way up or across each section is so clearly signified by shining handholds, and the controls are so determined to stop you going wrong, that all you can do is follow the trail from one to the next. In a few cases there's timing involved, but a lot of the time this is the most undemanding platformer since Ubisoft's controversial 2008 Prince of Persia reboot. The fighting is a bit more interesting, with a handful of blocks and combos, plus some moves you'll need to break mech shields - not to mention a basic, RPG style upgrade system - but it's still not long before you start relying on the same attacks.
Where it's most interesting is in the strategy department. Before most fights you'll get a flyby of the situation outlining mechs with weak points or bearing weapons which you might be able to turn against their robot chums. Target these first, and you'll quickly gain an edge on your metallic foes. The game also scores highly for its intriguing, inventive boss battles, even if most of these go on a good 5 minutes longer than might be strictly necessary.
Still, it must be said that the gameplay could be a little more inspired, and that it doesn't do enough with the most interesting idea: making Trip and Monkey work together. Normally, we'd chastise the game in question at this point and send it home with a condescending verdict. Enslaved, however, deserves better.
For a start, it's a beautiful looking game. Think post-apocalyptic and you usually think of something in the mould of Fallout 3 or Borderlands, but Enslaved gives us a much more attractive vision, where the ruins of New York are now covered in lush vegetation, and even wastelands peppered with rusting mechs have brightly coloured wetlands and glowing sunset skies. It's the kind of sci-fi dystopia that you might actually want to visit. Both the human protagonists and mechanical enemies are richly detailed and brilliantly animated, and while Enslaved can't match Uncharted's lifelike facial animation, the close-ups still look pretty believable.
But, more importantly, it's an exceptionally cinematic game - and we actually mean that in a good way. The script, by The Beach/28 Days Later writer Alex Garland should be a model for other game writers to follow, giving you enough background detail and nuance to make the world and the characters come to life, but not whacking you over the head with endless exposition or over-wrought emotion. The motion-captured performances, directed by Andy Serkis (who also plays Monkey) bring a real sense of humanity to the games' heroes, and make the game's deeper moments work.
Finally, Nitin Sawhney's score - a nice mix of Eastern and Western themes and instrumentation - is pitch-perfect, building up the action when you need it, and creating an atmosphere during the quieter moments of exploration. Most importantly, this is never a game that forgets it's not a movie. Much of the narrative happens while you're playing, and the short cutscenes rarely outstay their welcome. Whatever you're doing, there's always some new funny line or muttered aside to remind you that you're not just playing another generic action game, but taking part in a grand adventure.
In the end, it's not the shortcomings of the gameplay that you'll remember from Enslaved, but its rich and enthralling narrative, and the wonder of its post-apocalyptic world. It's not as flawless or advanced an interactive blockbuster as Uncharted 2, but it's not all that far off, and it's one of those games where, the more you play, the deeper those narrative hooks sink in. Enslaved might not be the best game you play this year, but don't be surprised if it becomes one of your favourites.


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54-year-old extreme sports enthusiast Yves Rossy, also known as "Jetman", successfully performed his latest stunt on his four engined carbon-Kevlar jetwing when he flew around and across Mount Fuji.
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Totally stealing this one from Kzinti.
1. Why did you sign up for writing your blog? There are many reasons. To stave off boredom. To give myself somewhere to write. Because I can't resist sharing my opinion. I started off hand-coding an HTML site years and years ago (it was dreadful) and eventually hopped over to Blogger, Vox, TypePad, WordPress.org, WordPress.com and Tumblr.
2. Why did you choose your blog's name? What does it mean? Angelchrys is something I came up in sophomore year of high school. Angel was sarcasm because, well, it's me and Chrys is for Christy. The Queen of Awesome bit is a nickname that was awarded to me by a few people online because I kept finding awesome links, pictures, etc.
3. Do you own another blog? I own many other blogs, but the only other one I update with any regularity is my Tumblr.
4. What do you do online when you're not on your blog? I spend a LOT of quality time on Twitter and Tumblr. I'm also always in my Google Reader, checking up on my feeds.
5. How about when you're not on the computer? There's a time when I'm not on my computer? Weird. Lots of movie/TV watching, knitting and reading happens in my non-computer time.
6. What do you wish people who read your blog knew about you? I would like more comments. I would like another Pepsi. Honestly, I'm not sure what to put here. Feel free to ask me questions in the comments and I will write a blog with an answer within the week.
7. What is your favorite community in the blogosphere? This is going to be way nerdy, but I adore the folks on Tumblr who are obsessed with Supernatural and Jensen Ackles. They are insane and just fully commit to it. These people have tags dedicated to the back of his neck and it just gives me the giggles. But in a good way, not in a mocking way.
8. What is your philosophy on your blog layout? "This doesn't make me feel like stabbing anyone right now. I think I'll keep it until I get bored or have an ooh shiny moment." Seriously the thought that runs through my head as I click on a blog theme.
9. Tell me about your picture you use to represent you on your blog. Uhh…it's me staring at the camera and proving to the world that I do occasionally remember to apply lipstick.
10. Pick 3 random blogs from your blogroll and tell us about them.
Uncovering Pamela is a lovely person. I started following her blog when I started out with Weight Watchers and eventually figured out that she was a local. At one point, I talked her into joining Twitter. We then met so I could make her watch Dr Horrible. This sounds all stalker-ish, but it really wasn't. Now I feel creepy. Moving on to 217 Experiment run by Aaron, my brother-in-law. As you may note, he is a slazy (new word I just made up combining slacker and lazy, mostly because I can't type and am therefore also slazy) mofo who hasn't updated his blog since 7/31. Lame. Finally, I will point you to Bitch in a Bonnet, who has been snarking his way through Jane Austen's novels.
11. What features do you think your blog should have that it doesn't currently? Um. It should have all the features that I could upgrade to for $99 if I weren't so poor. I already pay for the domain name mapping, but no ads, videos, extra storage space and a custom design would be pretty damn nifty.
12. What do you consider the 10 most "telling" interests that we would infer from what you blog persona? 10? Wow. Um, let's see:
1. I've been known to swear a bit.
2. Sarcasm. It is in me.
3. I have a fondness for Doctor Who.
4. I have an especial fondness for David Tennant.
5. I think the actors in Supernatural are somewhat attractive.
6. I am a liberal.
7. I watch too much TV.
8. I like many types of music.
9. I tend to ignore my blog.
10. I think more people should follow the rule of Wheaton: Don't be a dick.
13. Do you have any unique interests that you have never shared before? What are they? I haven't done that because they're too nerdy for you people. But fine, I'll give you this one: I have been known to read fanfiction.
14. The best thing about blogging is all of the friends that you make. Beside from those folks, do you think your blog has fans? Judging by the fact that if I get 25 views in a day, I must have done something fancy (like post), probably I just get people who got curious and clicked over from Twitter or Facebook. If I have actual fans, um, tell me?
15. What's your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination? I'm not sure I currently have an obsession. Weird.
16. What are you glad you did but haven't really had a chance to post about? I'm glad I went to Seattle. I didn't really put much about it on the blog, but it was great.
17. How many people that first became a blog friend, have you met face to face? Pam is probably wondering why the hell I'm linking her like crazy today.
18. What don't you talk about here, either because it's too personal or because you don't have the energy? On the list of things I will probably never talk about on my blog are boys, depression, growing up and most any other angsty bullshit.
19. What's a question that you'd love to answer? The one that you put down below in the comments.
20. Have you ever lost a blogging friendship and regretted it? When Vox disappeared, a lot of the people I was friends with on there disappeared from my radar.
21. Have you ever lost a blogging friendship and thought, "Was that overdue!" I've lost a few friendships in real life where I've had that thought, but I never really get all crotchety over blog friendships. I save that for people who have seen my bad hair days.


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Two teenage employees of an Illinois nursing home have been charged with physically abusing an elderly resident and videotaping the incident.
South Elgin residents Chemyra Barnett, 18, of the 300 block of Watch Court; and Jacqueline Santos, 18, of the 1300 block of Timber Lane, are charged with aggravated battery of a person over 60, and unlawful videotaping, St. Charles policed reported Friday.
Their Facebook pages indicate both are students at South Elgin High School.
They appeared in bond court Friday morning at the Kane County Judicial Center. Bail was set at $15,000 for each, and they were given March 27 court dates.
Conditions of the bail included no entry to the care center and no contact with the victim or the family, officials said.
Both also were banned from possessing a cell phone or disseminating the video in any way as part of their bail.
According to St. Charles Police spokesperson Lisa Blackwell, St. Charles police were called Thursday to the Rosewood Care Center, 850 Dunham Road.
An administrator at the center told police that two employees, Santos and Barnett, were suspected of physically abusing an elderly resident at the facility and videotaping the incident.
The victim, who officials said is 98 years old, was reportedly uninjured during this incident, Blackwell said.
Following further investigation by St. Charles police, the two suspects were arrested and charged, Blackwell said.
Both Barnett and Santos worked at the facility for less than a year, police said.
The St. Charles Police Department is asking that if anyone has any additional information or concerns, to please contact them at 630-377-4435 or the Drug & Crime Tip Line at 1-866-378-4267.
Teens Charged With Abusing Nursing Home Resident, Videotaping Incident
Officials say the victim is 98 years old
Two teenage employees of an Illinois nursing home have been charged with physically abusing an elderly resident and videotaping the incident.


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