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Fifty pairs of eyes mark your entrance into the studio. A menagerie of animals -- coyote, beaver, ducks -- once living in the wild. Now, in death, they are frozen in various poses, encased in Plexiglas tableaux. This one warily eying his surroundings; that one spooked by something, about to run for cover. They are not reanimated, but essentially dis-integrated and then re-integrated -- painstakingly, realistically, perhaps lovingly.
Big Daddy's Taxidermy Studio opened three years ago on North Main in St. Charles' Frenchtown neighborhood. It is the livelihood of Jim Miller, a former construction worker who, after 30 years of breathing drywall dust, finally decided to pursue his passion of taxidermy.
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CENTRALIA - Devoted husband, father, grandfather and uncle, 78 died Tuesday, June 14, 2011, at home in Centralia.
Jim was born on May 23, 1933, in Saco, MT, in a log cabin. His parents (Jess and Edith) and his brothers (Stan and David) all preceded him in death.
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GRAND TERRACE - Councilman Jim Miller, who has been charged a single felony count for an alleged conflict-of-interest violation, has resigned.
Miller's letter to City Hall stated his resignation became effective Wednesday.
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Steven R. Hickman, Frasier, Frasier & Hickman, LLP, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
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went peacefully to be with his Lord and Savior surrounded by his family on May 1, 2005. Jim was born in Waitsburg, Washington on October 10, 1928 to Bert and Rasmine Miller. He lived in Pomeroy, Washington from 1931 until he moved to Yakima, Washington in 1945. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1946 proudly serving his country for twenty-one years before retiring as a Chief Aviation Storekeeper in 1966. Jim worked for the Naches Water plant for fifteen years, retiring from the City of Yakima in1990.
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Before it even reached the stores in late May, a book authored by Tom Shales and Jim Miller called "Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World at ESPN" created its own Twitter account and Facebook page.
Excerpts were leaked judiciously in GQ and Entertainment Weekly.
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On Wednesday, Jim Miller was directing.
The professor of theater at the University of Missouri-Columbia has directed, choreographed and designed costumes for more than 80 musicals and plays since arriving in Columbia from New York in 1979.
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By LINDA HALL
Staff Writer
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
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After the death of his parents, which came just a few weeks apart in late 2000, Jim Miller took a temporary job at a local retirement community to help him deal with his grief by being around people his parents' age.
For fun, he started writing a column for senior citizens in his local paper, The Norman Transcript, as a means to channel useful information and valuable resources in an entertaining and easy-to- understand format. Miller gained an immediate response to the weekly question-and-answer information column that he took to self- syndication a year later.