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"Pass the gravy and petition, please."
Families and friends will hear that this week at Thanksgiving Dinner tables across the state. That's because Marriage Equality supporters in Ohio want to help us collect One Million Signatures for Marriage so that voters can repeal Ohio's 2004 Marriage Ban next year.
Will you help us reach that goal?
If so, just click here to get your petition and simple instructions on "how to" collect signatures on the petition. It's super easy and frankly, I think you'll find that equality is pretty yummy!
Thanks for giving your time and attention to helping us winning marriage equality in Ohio.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and friends.
Best regards!
Ian James
FreedomOhio
Families and friends will hear that this week at Thanksgiving Dinner tables across the state. That's because Marriage Equality supporters in Ohio want to help us collect One Million Signatures for Marriage so that voters can repeal Ohio's 2004 Marriage Ban next year.
Will you help us reach that goal?
If so, just click here to get your petition and simple instructions on "how to" collect signatures on the petition. It's super easy and frankly, I think you'll find that equality is pretty yummy!
Thanks for giving your time and attention to helping us winning marriage equality in Ohio.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and friends.
Best regards!
Ian James
FreedomOhio
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The image of Hilary Ells scoring the final goal in the Capital University women’s soccer team’s 4-2 victory over John Carroll University in the 2011 Ohio Athletic Conference championship is forever etched in the mind of Crusaders coach Chris Kouns.
“After she scored, she raised her index finger in a Joe Namath style. For me, that’s just Ells,” Kouns says. “That’s the type of mentality you have to have: ‘I just did this to you. I put the ball in your net and now you have to watch me walk away.’
“I always joke with her ‘I’m constantly looking to see that kid with the finger up in there again. Where is she?’”
After missing last season with a stress fracture in her right hip, Ells has returned with a flourish. The red-shirt senior forward was selected as the OAC Forward of the Year after scoring 14 goals in the regular season.
Ells broke out of a four-game scoring slump, fittingly enough, in a 4-0 win over John Carroll in the OAC championship game on Nov. 10. Ells, who hadn’t scored since powering in four goals in a 5-0 win over Marietta on Oct.
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Through the late 70s and the entirety of the 80s, WBNS-TV here in Columbus was the home of Fritz the Nite Owl and his Nite Owl Theatre. Wearing big owl-winged glasses, Fritz Peerenboom bookended movies with clever segments that used simple green-screen effects to insert him into scenes where he could give commentary on the night’s feature. Fritz won 5 Emmy Awards for his show and was even inducted, in 2012, into the Horror Host Hall of Fame. Here in Columbus he became an icon.
The Nite Owl Theatre’s TV run ended in 1991, but thanks to the work of some longtime Fritz fans it returns to Studio 35 once a month for a healthy dose of 80s nostalgia.
And the new Night Owl Theatre is firmly planted in the 80s. When the new cinematic version of the show began at the Grandview Theatre in 2010 they were restricted to public domain movies, and while that meant they could show classics such as Night of the Living Dead and the House on Haunted Hill, it also limited them to older fare. With the move to Studio 35 they were able to screen nearly anything. November’s movie was Back to the Future, and Peerenboom arrived at Studio 35 in a vintage Delorean provided by the Free Press.
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1. With his background as a defender, it’d be easy to assume that Gregg Berhalter would bring a very defensive-minded style to the Columbus Crew this spring. In his first press conference as the Crew’s head coach and sporting director, Berhalter said he wants his team to be very aggressive offensively next season.
“I want to organize defensively,” Berhalter says. “I wouldn’t necessarily make that link though to the team being defensive minded.
“My ideas about soccer are very offensive and I want the team to play nice and attack the football. I believe in a possession-based game and I would say that the defensive side of it has to do with organization.”
Berhalter, who was named as the second-best defender in SC Cambuur Leeuwarden (Holland) history and was named to the FC Energie Cottbus (Germany) All-Time Best XI during the European portion of his career, is the seventh coach in the Crew’s 18-year history. He replaces interim coach Brian Bliss, who was 4-4 overall after taking the reins after Robert Warzycha was let go last season.
Columbus finished 12-17-5 last year, placing eighth in the 10-team Eastern Conference.
“The only premise of the book was to just go out and listen.”
And the book, edited by Miles Harvey, who is quoted above, is remarkable. It’s one of a kind, as far as I know – How Long Will I Cry? – the first publication of a newly formed nonprofit organization called Big Shoulders Books, which is affiliated with Chicago’s DePaul University. It’s available free of charge, because . . . how could a cry in the wilderness be otherwise?
It’s a cry in the wilderness punctuated by gunfire. Usually all we hear is the gunfire, emanating from “those” neighborhoods, the violent ones, “so physically and spiritually isolated from the rest of us,” as Alex Kotlowitz describes them in his foreword. How Long Will I Cry? is an attempt – no, I mean a beginning – at ending that isolation.
And the book, edited by Miles Harvey, who is quoted above, is remarkable. It’s one of a kind, as far as I know – How Long Will I Cry? – the first publication of a newly formed nonprofit organization called Big Shoulders Books, which is affiliated with Chicago’s DePaul University. It’s available free of charge, because . . . how could a cry in the wilderness be otherwise?
It’s a cry in the wilderness punctuated by gunfire. Usually all we hear is the gunfire, emanating from “those” neighborhoods, the violent ones, “so physically and spiritually isolated from the rest of us,” as Alex Kotlowitz describes them in his foreword. How Long Will I Cry? is an attempt – no, I mean a beginning – at ending that isolation.
Four years ago, countless Democratic leaders and allies pushed for passage of Barack Obama’s complex healthcare act while arguing that his entire presidency was at stake. The party hierarchy whipped the Congressional Progressive Caucus into line, while MoveOn and other loyal groups stayed in step along with many liberal pundits.
Lauding the president’s healthcare plan for its structure of “regulation, mandates, subsidies and competition,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote in July 2009 that the administration’s fate hung in the balance: “Knock away any of the four main pillars of reform, and the whole thing will collapse -- and probably take the Obama presidency down with it.” Such warnings were habitual until Obamacare became law eight months later.
Lauding the president’s healthcare plan for its structure of “regulation, mandates, subsidies and competition,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote in July 2009 that the administration’s fate hung in the balance: “Knock away any of the four main pillars of reform, and the whole thing will collapse -- and probably take the Obama presidency down with it.” Such warnings were habitual until Obamacare became law eight months later.
NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden has asked for Clemency so he can come home. The debate his revelations ignited has spawned multiple reform bills in Congress including one from Senate Intelligence committee chair Diane Fienstein. However, the White House and Feinstein continue to scream for his blood in the media. The media has failed to report that Feinstein's bill normalizes rather than reforms the NSA spying on the whole world. The media has also failed to report on the massive profits Diane Feinstien reaps from her husband’s business dealings with the intelligence community and the military.
According to Associated Press reports, Feistein responded to Snowden's clemency appeal by describing it as an "enormous disservice to our country," and declaring "I think the answer is no clemency." Only the President may grant clemency. It is that same legal theory that underpins all of the expanded powers the NSA has been granted in the last twelve years. These are the powers that Senator Feinstein's “reform” bill, the FISA Improvement Act of 2013, further regularizes and entrenches.
According to Associated Press reports, Feistein responded to Snowden's clemency appeal by describing it as an "enormous disservice to our country," and declaring "I think the answer is no clemency." Only the President may grant clemency. It is that same legal theory that underpins all of the expanded powers the NSA has been granted in the last twelve years. These are the powers that Senator Feinstein's “reform” bill, the FISA Improvement Act of 2013, further regularizes and entrenches.
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Fellow Geek Ladies, there's a sinister threat plaguing our culture: An influx of self-proclaimed geeks who come to our conventions, our message boards, even our Tumblr dashboards not to share in our love of things but to show off for our attention, trying to get us to date them. It is imperative that we drive them out before they corrupt everything we’ve worked so hard for.
That's right: I'm talking about the terrible scourge of Fake Geek Boys.
Look, if superhero stories were supposed to be for men they wouldn't be such soap operas. The X-Men comics have become as much about Cyclops and Wolverine angsting over their lost friendship as about fighting any kind of actual threats. Remember Chris Claremont’s 2004 Excalibur series where Magneto was cooking breakfast for Professor X? We all know the point of Thor: The Dark World wasn’t punching evil elves, it was the vaguely homoerotic tension between Thor and his (adopted!) brother Loki. Also there was a female love interest in there somewhere because Thor is just that good. DC Comics even had to hook Superman up with Wonder Woman to make him interesting! Superheroes are clearly not for men.
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Nov. 7-9 may have been one of the most important three days for the Ohio State University football team’s pursuit of a national championship. All Buckeyes linebacker Ryan Shazier and his teammates could do was watch.
Ohio State had the week off but got some help in the BCS rankings. Third-ranked Oregon stumbled against fifth-ranked Stanford 26-20 and fifth-ranked Baylor defeated No. 10 Oklahoma 41-12 on Nov. 7 and top-ranked Alabama easily handled No. 13 Louisiana State 38-17 and third ranked Florida State throttled Wake Forest 59-3 on Nov. 9. When the dust had settled, the Buckeyes moved up to No. 3 in the BCS rankings.
“I’m definitely going to watch,” Shazier told a group of reporters before the slew of games. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pulling (for Stanford). I want to see how we compare with these guys. I’ve seen a little bit of both (Baylor and Oregon) but I feel with a good defense, you can stop anyone.”
“I'll be there (in front of the TV) on Thursday night and watching them,” coach Urban Meyer said. “There's some great football to watch.”
Shazier admits he may not be the best guy to kick back and watch these kinds of games with.