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Announcement Follows On the Heels of Recently Cast Recurring Guest Star John Stamos
David Anders ("Once Upon a Time," "Vampire Diaries," "24," "Heroes," "Alias") has been cast as a recurring guest star in season three of USA's critically acclaimed drama series NECESSARY ROUGHNESS. This follows on the heels of a string of recent casting announcements from the network, including Emmy(R) nominated actor and producer John Stamos to recur on NECESSARY ROUGHNESS, award-winning actor Hill Harper as a series regular on COVERT AFFAIRS and Jack Coleman and Stephen Martines to recur on BURN NOTICE.
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS stars Golden Globe(R)-nominated Callie Thorne, Mehcad Brooks Scott Cohen and Marc Blucas. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series is shot in Atlanta and will film 10 episodes for season three. Anders will play Troy Cutler, second-in-command to Connor (Stamos) at V3, the world's premiere sports and talent agency. Having sacrificed his personal life for his career, Troy gets satisfaction getting his hands a little dirty for the company - something that doesn't sit well with Dr. Dani (Thorne).
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS is created and executive produced by Liz Kruger & Craig Shapiro ("Miami Medical," "The Challenge"). Kevin Dowling ("Go On") also serves as executive producer. Inspired by a true story, NECESSARY ROUGHNESS is a Sony Pictures Television and Universal Cable Productions co-production.
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City Commissioner Terry Turner moved to fire City Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini on Monday because she did not qualify for a low-cost bond, like other city officials.
His motion failed after none of the commissioners seconded the action, but Turner said he had to put his long-standing concern on the record.
"It's clear there's a problem with (Nadalini's) character and integrity," he said.
Some top city officials are required under the city charter to obtain a bond, which would protect Sarasota in case they commit any wrongdoing.
The bonds act like insurance but include rigorous background checks and are more difficult to obtain, and past issues with credit or finances can make them expensive.
Nadalini has been out of compliance with the charter since 2010, when she failed to get a bond. She has instead been covered by an insurance plan, City Attorney Robert Fournier said at a commission meeting this summer.
Nadalini said Monday she has no idea why she was not able to get a bond before.
A charter amendment on the Nov. 6 ballot would have changed the rules to allow her to use insurance instead. That amendment failed.
In the meantime, Nadalini got approved for a $100,000 bond and the city shopped around to find the best deal.
The bond is from carrier United States Fire Insurance Co. and costs $9,350 per year, roughly 20 times more expensive than the other two officials who are required to be bonded, Finance Director Chris Lyons and City Manager Tom Barwin.
If Nadalini was able to obtain the bond at a similar price to Barwin and Lyons -- $444 and $507 -- Turner said he would not have moved to fire her.
"She basically put all the commissioners in a position of violating their oaths of office for three years," he said.
Nadalini said after she initially was unable to get a bond, she was told by city staff not to worry about it.
"I kind of allowed them to handle this," she said.
But later Nadalini decided to take the matter into her own hands and get approved, because she said did not want to put the city in a bad position.
Turner said at Monday's commission meeting that Nadalini should have been fired long ago, before she became auditor and clerk, because she was operating a real estate company while at work.
Her employment agreement with the city states that she was active as a broker with Nadalini & Company Inc., and says she must make the company inactive within 60 days.
Nadalini said she did so, and was not operating her company out of City Hall.
"It's just no truth to that," she said. She was unsure whether that played into the cost of her bond, but said she just wants to continue to serve the city.
"The important thing is, I have it now," Nadalini said of the bond.
City Commissioner Terry Turner moved to fire City Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini on Monday because she did not qualify for a low-cost bond, like other city officials.


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NH resident on grounded Boston plane
Smoke in cabin prompts evacuation
A New Hampshire man was aboard a Delta flight that was evacuated in Boston because of smoke.
The plane was surrounded by fire engines and ambulances after the smoke was reported, and officials said a hot brake may be the cause.
"We were taxiing out to the end of the runway to take off, and the pilot made an announcement that one of the brakes was sticking, so a fire truck was going to follow us back to the terminal," passenger Kevin Davis said.
Davis, of Grantham, N.H., was aboard Delta Flight 2101, which was scheduled to leave Logan Airport for Atlanta, when his business trip was stopped in its tracks.
Davis, who is a professional photographer, grabbed the closest camera, which was his cellphone, and started snapping away.
"We heard a loud pop, and that was one of the tires blowing," Davis said. "The brake had actually seized up, and when it seized up on the wheel, it caused a fire."
Davis said the passengers remained calm, and within five minutes, all 143 of them and six crew members were evacuated from the MD-90.
It was only then that everyone could see and smell the problem.
"When we got off the plane, you could definitely smell smoke -- actually before we got off the plane as soon as they opened that front door -- you could smell the smoke outside," Davis said. "When we got off, they were still hosing down the wheel well."
All of the passengers were loaded onto buses on the Logan tarmac and returned to the terminal. They were able to rebook on a later flight.
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Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly indicated that a bike excursion to Montmorency Falls would depart from Montreal. Montmorency Falls is outside Quebec City. This version has been updated.
"Well, now I can cross that off my list."
Our ship, the Maasdam, was barely 10 minutes out of the gate — the cruise terminal in Montreal — when passenger Leo Croteau shortened his bucket list by one: the St. Lawrence River. Australia, Prague and a Christmas show in Branson, Mo., advanced a line.
No two travelers share the same wanderlust list. For example, none of the six ports of call or two bodies of water on Holland America's Canada and New England Discovery itinerary originally appeared on my fantasy-trip card. But on a seven-day cruise this month, I considered a revision.
From May through October, when fall's technicolors peak, the Maasdam hopscotches around the lobster claw of northeastern North America. Starting in Montreal, the ship sails along the St. Lawrence River, glides into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, then drops into the Atlantic. In Boston, the final destination, she reverses course. (Passengers can choose either direction or sail the entire 14-day loop.)
En route, the vessel weaves together a macrame of stops: Quebec City; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Sydney and Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Bar Harbor, Maine. The schedule also incorporates a full day on the St. Lawrence, a 576-mile chug that distance-counters will note as the longest leg of the 1,654-mile trip.
"The St. Lawrence is beautiful, and the cruising is intense. The ports are not easy to go into and out of, and the weather is challenging later in the season," said Arno Jutten, the Maasdam's Dutch captain. "You don't book this cruise for the sunshine."
So why commit to a cruise that's susceptible to strong winds, powerful currents and thick fog that swallows up the shore? Because of the ports rich in Canadian history and culture. Because of the fiery foliage along New England banks. Because of announcements like this one: "Whales to starboard." And because adventure should be on everyone's bucket list.
Until the Holland America sojourn, my cruising CV was a single-space page of southern cruises, specifically in the Caribbean. Not to boast, but I could probably name a ship's destination based solely on the tours and souvenirs being hawked. Atlantis and conch shells — Nassau. Mayan ruins and margaritas — Cozumel. Dunn's River Falls and Bob Marley dreadlock hats — Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
The Canadian and New England ports were less self-evident. Sure, I could match the redheaded Anne of Green Gables with PEI and Acadia National Park with Bar Harbor, but the bike trip to Montmorency Falls? Hmm. The puffin nests on Bird Islands? Huh. Lunenburg, which wears the UNESCO World Heritage site badge? I was stumped. (The answers: Quebec City, Sydney and Halifax, respectively.)
Other notable differences: On Caribbean cruises, the pools resemble shallow aquariums full of squirming bodies. Chaises are hot commodities. In fact, many passengers remain onboard during port stops to enjoy the extra inch of outdoor deck real estate.
By contrast, on the Maasdam, the lounge chairs surrounding the swimming squares were often empty. When they were occupied, the individuals using them were frequently swaddled in thick blue towels worn as leg warmers and a capelet. Only a few hardy souls took a dip, often bouncing between the pool, the hot tubs and their robes.
At many of the ports, our 1,258-passenger ship was the only cruising vessel, though at 720 feet in length, the Maasdam still dwarfed the dainty settings. Many passengers disembarked early and didn't return until later in the day. (We typically had seven or eight hours on land.) My windowless inside cabin messed with my circadian rhythm (8 a.m. was as dark as midnight), so I wasn't one of the first, or even 50th, off the ship. But I tried my best to be the last to return.
In Quebec City, for instance, I spent the first half of the day scrambling around the stone walls of the fortified town and wading through the cheeses, fruit jams and pastel-colored macarons at Marché du Vieux Port, the city's largest farmers market. With a few hours left on the clock, I ventured over to Saint-Roch, a neighborhood that underwent a Cinderella transformation around the turn of the century.
Saint-Roch Church peers down upon the high-end boutiques (galoshes that slip over high heels!), cafes and home decor emporiums on Rue Saint-Joseph. The landmark building was named for the 14th-century Frenchman who suffered from bubonic plague and was nursed back to health by a dog. I entered the side door expecting to find a sacred setting of stained-glass windows and Saskatchewan marble pocked with fossil imprints. Instead, I discovered a temple of fashion featuring Quebecois designers. To make amends for buying another pair of earrings, I entered the church through the official front portal and vowed to pet the next dog I came across.
When the ship departed at 5 p.m., I joined a thin ribbon of passengers at the railing. As the city dissolved into the distance, many guests retreated inside, tempted by the warmth and the sampling of local specialties on the Lido Deck.
I remained to watch the Maasdam gracefully slide between the buoys paralleling the river banks. In the Caribbean, the water is silent, muted by the immensity of the sea. The St. Lawrence River, however, was full of soft voices. The sounds emanated from storybook homes tucked beneath florets of trees and farms pitched on groomed hills. A light glowed from inside a stone chapel, a reassuring beacon for all who sailed these darkening waters.
The Maasdam was, first and foremost, a mode of transportation. She delivered us to our promised ports. More utilitarian than romantic, I know. However, in between stops, the ship's crew members would don a toque or a professor's robe and enrich passengers with lively presentations about the upcoming destination.
This spring, the cruise line unveiled a new program called On Location, which highlights the culture, food, arts and history of the area outside your stateroom window. In Nova Scotia, the staff set up a poutine bar featuring the classic ingredients (fries, gravy, cheese curds) plus some non-traditional toppings (blue-cheese crumbles, curry ketchup sauce, hot dog bites). At the Culinary Arts Center, a demo kitchen, a chef showed guests how to prepare a New England clambake, a Julia Child production that turned into an "I Love Lucy" episode when the stove misbehaved. And during our at-sea day, from Quebec City to Charlottetown, the cruise director held a lecture called "Oh Canada!" Oh, how little I knew about Canada.
Michael Harvey, a Saskatchewan native, made us all smarter with his talk of the nation. He touched on its history (familiarize yourselves with French explorer Jacques Cartier), nomenclature ("kanata" means "village" in the language of the Huron-Iroquois), currency (the government began phasing out the one-cent coin in February) and flags (the maple leaf design first appeared in 1965). He also threw in some arcane facts that will come in handy if you're ever at a cocktail party with a Canadian lieutenant governor.
Dare to impress: Canada is a major world exporter of green lentils, with the bulk of those legumes grown in Saskatchewan. Ottawa is home to the world's largest naturally frozen ice rink, the Rideau Canal Skateway, and every year residents of Victoria count the city's flowers one blossom at a time. And on Flag Day (Feb. 15), throw out this random morsel: A wind test determined the number of points on the flag's maple leaf; 11 blurred the least on a gusty day.
To further my schooling in Canadiana, I went ashore. In Charlottetown, the provincial capital of PEI, I stepped on the same floorboards as the visionaries of the confederation. In September 1864, delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and the province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) convened in Province House to discuss the idea of a union.
"It was really about schmoozing and getting to know each other," said a Parks Canada ranger. "They wanted to see if they were compatible going forward as a nation."
On July 1, 1867, the men's seed of an idea bloomed into a country.
In Halifax, while other passengers boarded pink double-decker buses and horse-drawn trolleys, I hopped into the sidecar of a Russian motorcycle for my instruction.
Vicki Gesner, who runs Bluenose Sidecar Tours with her husband, Kevin Wile, was behind the handlebars. I was the sidekick, a kittenish Darth Vader in a black helmet with a pink camera. Together we rode through the streets of Halifax, Vicki providing running commentary through a microphone.
"When I shut up," she said as we turned into traffic, "it's because I'm concentrating on my driving."
In our motorcycle built for two (or three, if someone sits behind the driver), we zipped around the waterfront and downtown. We started along the Halifax Harbor, where Vicki pointed out the hulking Navy facility, an unbroken link to Halifax's origins as a garrison city.
"Our whole reason for being here is military," she said.
To describe the Halifax Explosion of 1917, she pulled off to the side of the road so that I could better visualize the disaster. From our position, the Norwegian vessel would have sat to my left and the explosives-laden French ship would have floated to my right, idling near nets that protected the harbor from sneaky enemy watercraft. The ships collided in the Narrows on a December morning, igniting a blast that destroyed four square miles and killed nearly 2,000 people.
Driving toward the A. Murray MacKay Bridge, I noticed a street sign that read "Africville." In the 1960s, the city evicted residents of the black community and razed their homes in the name of urban development. In 2011, the Africville Museum opened on the land of the former settlement, but the bruise on the city is slow to heal.
"It was recent history; it happened in my lifetime," Vicki said as we drove by the replica church that houses the museum. "We never learned about it in school, and we should have."
We stretched our legs only twice during the 21 / 2-hour excursion, even though the sidecar had more than enough toe-wiggle room. Pulling up to Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Vicki told me that Titanic victims are buried in three graveyards, one of many shipwreck-related misconceptions she cleared up during the tour.
"Jack Dawson was not a real person," she said, referring to the Leo DiCaprio character in the "Titanic" movie and deleting another falsehood. The "J." on the Dawson gravestone stands for James, a stoker on the doomed ship.
We returned to the terminal at 3 p.m., a half-hour before boarding. Passengers were disembarking from buses.
"Give me a hug and get on the ship," Vicki said.
I waited for her to drive off, then hooked a left toward the waterfront. I walked along the river until it was really time to go.
Every day, the captain spoke to the passengers. In his announcements, he would blend nautical stats such as our distances and speed with sightseeing tips and weather alerts.
For example, after setting sail from Montreal, he informed us that en route to Quebec City, we would pass under several power lines and bridges, often clearing the structures with only feet to spare. At 11 p.m., he said, we would change pilots, and at 5:45 a.m., the ship would sail under the Quebec Bridge. During the night, we would possibly also experience strong currents.
"We might heel from time to time," he said, "but it's completely normal."
Following the visit to Charlottetown, the captain introduced a new character in the sea drama: Tropical Storm Gabrielle. The storm was about 50 miles south of Bermuda, he noted, and we would "enter the sphere of influence" in a few days. But, he assured us, "it's no threat to the ship." The next day, the storm was "still very far away." On the eve of our Maine arrival, Gabrielle was downgraded to a depression, a mere sneeze.
But the captain wasn't finished with his weather reports. In Bar Harbor, the land vanished in the morning fog. We were a fat noodle drifting in a bowl of thick gray mist. With low visibility, he halted the tenders to shore. Crew members read off excursion cancellations. Guests groaned and dealt another hand of cards. This could take a while.
While waiting for the town to materialize, I took the opportunity to update my bucket list. Cruising adventure in Canada and New England — complete.
Canada and New England Discovery
Holland America
This year, the cruise line offers the itinerary through mid-October, prime foliage-viewing time. Two ships — the Veendam and the Maasdam — follow the seven-day itinerary, which departs from Montreal, Quebec City or Boston, depending on the date. Travelers can also do the entire two-week loop. The Eurodam departs from New York and follows a similar route. A week-long trip starts at $775 per person double, including taxes and fees.
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The Tri-County Arts Council is transforming the quality of life in the Southern Tier of New York State through education, service and community outreach. Every class we teach, every child who paints, every grant we administer, every event we promote, every artist we support, every tourist we draw, every festival we organize, is for the purpose of making this beautiful place we live an even better place. An interesting place. A stimulating place. A place where people want to live, and work, and raise families.
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John William Warner, KBE (born February 18, 1927) is an American Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term United States Senator from Virginia from January 2, 1979, to January 3, 2009. He did not seek reelection in 2008. Warner was once married to actress Elizabeth Taylor. He is a veteran of World War II, and one of only five serving in the Senate at the time of his retirement.
John William Warner KBE was born on February 18, 1927 to John W. and Martha Budd Warner and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended the elite St. Albans School, but he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (A D.C. Public School) in February 1945.
He enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II in January 1945, shortly before his 18th birthday. He served until the following year, leaving as a Petty Officer 3rd Class. He went to college at Washington and Lee University, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, graduating in 1949; he then entered the University of Virginia Law School.


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Deborah Madison has been a trusty friend in my kitchen for more than 30 years, though I just met her in person last summer.
Under her guidance I discovered baked polenta ("The Greens Cookbook"), mastered Indian dahl ("Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone") and learned to love tofu ("This Can't Be Tofu").
Her books have helped me figure out how to satisfy a vegan niece and lactose-free nephew at our Thanksgiving table. Her Penne With Roasted Peppers, Saffron and Basil Cream ("Savory Way") is a recipe I can make by heart, and often do. Patient, practical and often witty, Madison is the cookbook author I turn to when I'm stumped.
As Madison's work has evolved, so has my cooking. Her recipes are now shorter, the methods more straightforward and the flavors are bolder, cleaner and sparked with surprise. She swirls miso into butter, tahini into sweet potato purée, and turns parsnips into cardamom-spiked custard, all with delicious aplomb.
Planting culinary seeds
Madison recently published her 11th book, "Vegetable Literacy," a comprehensive and whimsical guide to the kingdom of edible plants that journeys out of the kitchen and into the garden. The term "literacy" implies the full understanding of a subject.
I asked Madison about the title during a recent phone interview from her home in Santa Fe, N.M. "I wanted to get beyond a vegetable's prettiness and charms," she said. "To understand its place in the garden helps to predict how it will relate to other foods on the plate."
She organized the book into 12 botanical families, each with details of the individual vegetable, recipes, suggestions for seasoning and substitutions.
"Getting to know the plant families made it clear that, like human families, they share characteristics. This understanding gives a cook confidence and freedom," she said. "For example, knowing that dill, chervil, cumin, parsley, coriander, anise, lovage and caraway come from the umbellifer family explains why they're such good matches for another family member, carrots."
The theory played out deliciously when I tossed blanched carrots with her pesto of caraway seeds, garlic, parsley and olive oil, splashed with fresh lemon.
Madison also encourages cooks to use the whole plant, especially the stems, tops and ribs that we so often throw away. "Radish leaves are delicious," she writes in the note for a simple sauté.
"My father was a botanist," Madison said. "He had 10 green thumbs and maybe something must have rubbed off on me. He'd pluck a discarded plant from the neighbor's garbage, plunk it in the ground and it would grow right away. I'm not a good gardener and I make a lot of mistakes. But gardening makes me a more attentive cook."
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In addition to offering more than 300 recipes, "Vegetable Literacy" is a terrific read. No plant escapes Madison's curious eye, and she renders each vegetable in lively detail. Of potatoes, she writes, "If you've ever opened a forgotten bag of potatoes, you know the surprise of being greeted by a viperous nest of pale roots looking for a place to grow, so it isn't surprising that potatoes are obliging in the garden. Their eyes open and sprout; they put out their leaves and eventually charming clusters of flowers."
The book includes wilder and lesser-known vegetables — salsify, lambs quarters, amaranth, parsley root, to name a few. Burdock, a long, twisted brown root sold at farmers markets and co-ops, was a mystery to me until I followed Madison's advice to sauté it with onion and celery to make a winsome brown rice pilaf. Her recipe for Cauliflower With Saffron, Pepper Flakes, Plenty of Parsley and Pasta was a spicy, golden hit.
"Much of this was learned through trial and error, and observation, all in the garden," Madison writes in her book.
In my hurly-burly cooking, I often forget to stop and consider the plants I am working with, to wonder how they came to my pot.
"There are things the garden reveals that I revel in," she continues. And in her warm, casual prose, she ticks them off as though we're sitting together on the back stoop.
"The odd praying mantis, hummingbirds sitting on their tiny nests … pollinators at work … we know what the weather is really doing when we look at our plants because it's suddenly about them, not just us, and they can tell us a great deal. … [The garden] is a lively universe of a patch of earth that stitches us to the world at large."
Madison's Spring Garden Hodgepodge of Radishes, Leeks, and Peas, Depending … recipe is a brilliant toss-up of spring crops sautéed with a little butter, a squirt of lemon, a hit of tarragon — that's it. Like all the recipes in this book, it's a compelling reason to tend a garden.
Madison has not steered me wrong for more than three decades, so I'm heading out to plant more herbs and several packs of peas and greens.
Beth Dooley is the author of "The Northern Heartland Kitchen."


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Wisdom for the Heart is an international Bible-teaching ministry based on the sermons of Dr. Stephen Davey. The broadcast Wisdom for the Heart is heard on more than 300 radio stations throughout the United States, as well as transmitted to the Middle East (Arabic), Europe (English), Latin America (Spanish), and Africa (Swahili).
Stephen Davey is the son of missionary parents and was raised to love Christ, His Church, and His Word. In his last year of high school, Stephen committed his life to serving Christ and prepared for a life of servant-leadership at Liberty University, Tennessee Temple University, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, and Dallas Theological Seminary.
Following graduation from Dallas Seminary in 1986, Stephen and Marsha trusted Christ for His provision and moved with their infant twin sons to Cary, NC, to plant Colonial Baptist Church. From the beginning, Stephen preached verse-by-verse, while Marsha created the nursery and children's programs. In those early days, word of this new church's commitment to Bible exposition spread rapidly around town, and the fellowship was soon overflowing with attendees.
After worshipping in a school for six years, Colonial moved into its first building, located on seven acres. Within a year, the church not only outgrew its first building but the entire master plan. Nine years later Colonial moved to its present location on forty acres, where several buildings have been designed to maximize outreach, discipleship, community, and worship. The church family currently engages in more than 100 ministries carried out by several thousand volunteers and led by an excellent, Christ-honoring administrative support team and pastoral staff. Their united global vision remains front and center as the Word of God continues to be expounded — and applied.
Stephen also serves as the president of Shepherds Theological Seminary, a young and exciting seminary which has already earned accreditation with TRACS and associate membership status with ATS. With an outstanding faculty and growing student body, Shepherds currently meets on the beautiful campus of Colonial. Stephen enjoys interacting with the students, as well as teaching Pastoral Theology and Creative Bible Teaching.
As the Bible teacher of Wisdom for the Heart, Stephen takes the message of the Gospel around the world. Spanish programming is currently broadcast on 90 radio stations and can be heard throughout Central and South America, reaching an estimated 70 million people. The people have responded hungrily to the teaching of God's Word.
The Arabic translations are being aired on stations located throughout the Middle East, covering much of Iraq, Kurdistan, Jerusalem, Jordan, and Palestine, reaching an estimated 10 million listeners daily in their own language. In the Middle East, there are 300 million Muslims who need to hear the Gospel.
Swahili is now reaching a potential African audience of more than 50 million listeners. Like the Arab world, spiritual darkness encompasses daily life. Most of the 180 million who use Swahili daily are Muslim; life is governed by Islamic tradition and the teachings of the Koran.
Print and audio resources are available in book and transcript form, CDs, MP3s, and podcasts. Everything Stephen has preached throughout his ministry is now available at no charge in transcript and audio formats at wisdomonline.org. We are praising God for the things He has done—and the things He is doing!
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The Gift of Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice is a time of the year that is often bittersweet. There is so much darkness, and yet the light peaks through the cracks. Winter is the time in which we are drawn inward, into the depths of ourselves, allowing the deeper, hidden aspects to arise and be seen. This can be painful, yet very freeing if it is met with acceptance and compassion.
This season, I have been aware of and feeling how much darkness there really is. When I consider that we are traveling through unknown, dark space on the very edge of a galaxy, on a small planet, heated and illuminated by one star, I sense that we are not really sure where we are… and I sense the depths of the mystery.
I have been noticing how the lights of the holidays help us cope with this darkness during this season. Imagine what it would feel like without the colors, warmth and comfort of them. Lights are one of my favorite part of the holidays and I can understand why.
Yet, the darkness is also comforting in a mysterious way. Within the darkness of winter is a gift to each of us. It allows us to go deeply within to see what has been hidden in the depths. Once seen, we can shed what is no longer true. We can let go of what no longer serves our ability to love.
This week I developed an irritation in my left eye. With what I know about body language, I could sense that there was something that I wasn't seeing. This became clear last night in a personal interaction. I literally did not see what was appearing, yet once I did, I was able to let go of it. I was able to release an old, unconscious pattern that I wasn't even aware was running until then. It was very freeing. And today the eye irritation is gone.
The darkness of the winter solstice, and the darkness of the new moon tomorrow, give us an opportunity to feel this darkness in our being. The opportunity is to not turn from it, but to embrace it, knowing it is part of who we are, and continues to reveal more of our true nature. We are both dark and light, and we are what is before both. We can live in the comfort of these polarities, allowing each to be expressed within us. In this divine balance, we are held.
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As of the 18th of December 2020, the Project Energize programme will come to an end.
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Project Energize, which began in 2005, increases children's physical activity, improves their nutrition and ultimately their overall health.
A team of Energizers delivers the project in Waikato primary and intermediate schools and each Energizer supports a number of schools in their geographic area.
Energizers are available to provide practical 'hands on' support and assistance to schools and teachers with any initiatives that will increase the quality and quantity of physical activity or improve the uptake of healthy eating.
Waikato District Health Board funds Project Energize.
We know that our children, along with the rest of our community, have increased health problems such as lack of fitness, poor teeth, poor bone strength, and increasing obesity. The health problems are all associated with decreasing physical activity, increased inactive time, decreased intake of calcium, fruit, and vegetables, and increased intake of fat and sugar-dense food and drink. Energize has been designed to improve our children's health.
Energize began in 2004 as a randomised control trial in Waikato primary schools. There were 62 programme and 63 control schools. Following a successful trial the programme was extended and offered to all control schools and eventually extended even further to include all Waikato primary and intermediate schools.
Currently Energize services the 240 primary and intermediate schools in the Waikato District Health Board catchment area which extends from Coromandel to Taumaranui.
Energize staff are available to help schools with a whole range of programmes and projects that encourage healthy eating and physical activity. For example:
The programme is tailored to each school. Working with Energize, schools develop their own plan in consultation with the children, teachers, parents and wider school community.
Energize is an "evolution not revolution" programme. Energize staff will help the schools change what they do, and how they do it, not just add another curriculum programme.
Energize is gradual, not a "big bang". Energize staff help schools identify opportunities for change, provide resources where needed, and support the change process.
For the children involved as well as their families and communities, there are a series of key messages about nutrition and activity. The messages promote activity of all kinds, and simple nutritional messages.
We are social marketers, and we find creative ways to make sure that the key messages become just a normal part of healthy living. It's important to make sure the key messages are consistent across home, school and community.
It's also important that the messages and the programme actions are the same. The focus is on encouraging small changes gradually over time - achieving great changes in small steps.
Energize is now delivered beyond the Waikato region.
In New Zealand the following Sports Trusts have taken on the programme – Sport Northland and Wellington the Heart Foundation.
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In 2013, Sport Waikato in partnership with local early childhood centres, Maaori and Pacific health providers and the Ministry of Health, began delivery of Under 5 Energize in areas including Hauraki, Thames, Tokoroa, Putaruru, Huntly, Ngaruawahia and with the Waikato Kindergarten Association in Hamilton. Under 5 Energizers work closely with early childhood centres and organisations associated with early childhood.
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Services for Frank Kulczak Sr., 1328 Buckingham, who died Saturday in his home after a brief illness, will be 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in 1325 Nebraska Ave. and at 9 a.m. in St. Anthony's Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Mr. Kulczak, a Toledo resident for 64 years, retired as a city employee four years ago. He was a member of the Polish Catholic Alliance and the Polish National Alliance.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; sons, Frank, Jr., Matthew, Leo, Clarence, and Lous, and Corp. Alphonse, in the army in France; daughter, Mrs. Helen Szczechowiak; brother, Martin, Bay City, Mich.; sister, Mrs. Mary Kryszak, Bay City, and 12 grandchildren.


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Preview: Rapids cling to postseason hopes against LA
COLORADO RAPIDS vs LA GALAXY
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK, Commerce City, Colo.
September 30, 2012 (WEEK 30, MLS Game #292)
5 p.m. MT (Galavisión; Altitude; KDOC)
The Colorado Rapids face a near do-or-die situation when they play host to the LA Galaxy in a matchup of the last two MLS Cup winners on Sunday evening at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. The Rapids return home knowing they'll likely have to win to stay in contention for a playoff spot, after coming back for a 2-2 draw at Vancouver last weekend. The Galaxy have already booked their spot in the MLS Cup Playoffs, winning a fourth on the trot last weekend in a 4-2 home victory vs. Toronto FC.
REFEREE: Allen Chapman. AR1 (bench): Greg Barkey; AR2 (opposite): Jason Cullum; 4th: Mark Declouet
MLS Career: 10 games; FC/gm: 21.8; Y/gm: 3.4; R: 1; pens: 2
- COLORADO RAPIDS – OUT: DF Anthony Wallace (L Achilles tear); MF Pablo Mastroeni (headaches); FW Edu (R foot contusion); MF Davy Armstrong (personal medical issue); QUESTIONABLE: MF Brian Mullan (L hamstring strain); PROBABLE: FW Omar Cummings (R ankle soreness); FW Conor Casey (R knee soreness); FW Tony Cascio (L ankle sprain) …
- LA GALAXY – OUT: DF Leonardo (R knee inflammation); MF Kyle Nakazawa (back spasms); QUESTIONABLE: MF David Beckham (L ankle sprain)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none
- SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: COL: Tyson Wahl … LA: A.J. DeLaGarza, Marcelo Sarvas
- SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: COL: Jaime Castrillon, Jeff Larentowicz, Tyrone Marshall, Drew Moor, Martin Rivero … LA: David Beckham, David Junior Lopes
ALL-TIME (58 meetings): Galaxy 31 wins (2 shootout), 92 goals … Rapids 21 wins (1 shootout), 67 goals … Ties 6
AT COLORADO (29 meetings): Rapids 15 wins (0 shootout), 38 goals … Galaxy 9 wins (1 shootout), 33 goals … Ties 4
4/21: COL 1, LA 2 (Cummings 63 – own goal 21; Donovan 39)
9/14: LA 2, COL 0 (Sarvas 15; Wilhelmsson 58)
- The teams are meeting for the third time this year, the second in a span of three weeks. An own goal and a Landon Donovan strike gave the Galaxy a 2-1 win April 21 in Commerce City, before goals from Robbie Keane and Christian Wilhelmsson led LA to a 2-0 win on Sept. 14 at The Home Depot Center.
- The Galaxy have won each of their last three visits to Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
- Coaches record: Bruce Arena vs. COL: P20 W13 L5 D2 … Oscar Pareja vs. LA: P2 W0 L2 D0
- The Galaxy took a 15th-minute lead on a neat passing sequence. Marcelo Sarvas played a give-and-go with Sean Franklin on the right flank, then squared the ball toward Robbie Keane. He dummied the ball for Landon Donovan, who played a quick through ball to the heart of the box and Keane easily side-footed past Rapids 'keeper Matt Pickens.
- Christian Wilhelmsson made his Major League Soccer debut one to remember, after a Sarvas long ball found him racing behind Colorado's backline in the 58th minute. He spun around to avoid two defenders at the top of the box, then fired low from 20 yards off the hands of the outstretched Pickens for the second Galaxy goal.
- LA GALAXY (4-4-2): Josh Saunders - Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Todd Dunivant - Christian Wilhelmsson (Hector Jimenez 61), Marcelo Sarvas (Michael Stephens 83), Juninho, Mike Magee - Robbie Keane, Landon Donovan (Edson Buddle 78).
- COLORADO RAPIDS (4-2-3-1): Matt Pickens - Drew Moor, Marvell Wynne, Tyrone Marshall, Luis Zapata - Jeff Larentowicz (Brian Mullan 74), Hendry Thomas - Jaime Castrillon, Martin Rivero, Tony Cascio (Omar Cummings 41) - Andre Akpan (Conor Casey 63).
The Colorado Rapids saw their long road losing streak extended, despite coming back for a 2-2 draw with Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Sunday afternoon at BC Place. The Rapids are in seventh place in the Western Conference with 30 points from 30 games.
- The Rapids hit for the opener 34 minutes in. Martin Rivero had beaten Brad Knighton after an unhindered 30-yard run, but his shot smacked the left post before falling kindly to Omar Cummings, who slipped into the open goal.
- But Whitecaps FC took the lead with two goals in a five-minute span. In the 64th minute, Gershon Koffie chased down a deflected corner and juked past Cummings in the right corner before driving a low ball into the goalmouth that Alain Rochat cleverly poked past Matt Pickens from close range.
- Then Kenny Miller gave the Whitecaps the lead in the 68th minute, latching onto a through ball from fellow Designated Player Barry Robson and taking a touch before curling the ball past Pickens.
- But Colorado found an equalizer in the 86th minute, when Jamie Smith latched onto the ball after Rochat and Lee Young-Pyo failed to clear their lines and curled an effort past Knighton from inside the area.
- Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja made two changes to the side that fell to a 2-0 decision to the LA Galaxy at The Home Depot Center. Omar Cummings started on the wing in place of Tony Cascio and Conor Casey came in up top for Andre Akpan.
- COLORADO RAPIDS (4-2-3-1): Matt Pickens - Drew Moor, Marvell Wynne, Tyrone Marshall, Luis Zapata - Hendry Thomas (Andre Akpan 82), Jeff Larentowicz - Omar Cummings, Martin Rivero (Jamie Smith 73), Jaime Castrillon - Conor Casey (Joseph Nane 89)
WATCH: Rapids, 'Caps end in stalemate
- The Rapids ended their club-record road losing streak at nine games, though their winless streak on their travels still continued, gaining points on the road for the first time since a 2-0 win at FC Dallas on May 6.
- "To be quite honest, I feel that unfortunate feeling again, not getting the three points. Saying that we're happy to walk away with a point is very difficult," Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja said postgame. "We're the best team on the field all game, then in key points we lose concentration, but we had options to put them away in the first half, then again in the second half, we had a couple options to walk away with the three points."
- Omar Cummings, who returned to the starting lineup for the first time in five matches, scored his first goal since July 14.
- Making his eighth appearance of the season, Jamie Smith scored his first goal since netting on his 2012 debut, June 30 vs. Portland.
- "It was kind of disappointing not to take all three points. We played well enough to do that, created some good chances," said Smith. "Everyone was fighting for 90 minutes. Picking up a point is better than no points. Overall there's maybe some disappointment that we should've won the game, but we'll take it."
- After two matches out of the starting lineup, Conor Casey came back and played 89 minutes as the out-and-out striker.
- For a seventh time this season, the Rapids weren't able to take the full three points after scoring the first goal (they are 8-5-2 when scoring first). Only three teams have failed to win more times after scoring first (Montréal, Dallas, New England).
- "I think there are many games in the season where we score the [first] goal, and then we create the chances to put the game away, and we always talk about [that] killer instinct, and tonight, we didn't do it," Pareja said.
- If Vancouver wins at home vs. Seattle on Saturday evening, a loss to the Galaxy will eliminate the Rapids from playoff consideration.
- "We don't know what it means yet. We know it was a tie and we wanted a win, so we're not sure. We'll see. We fought hard to come back. They came out strong in the second half and it was a pretty even match, but we did well to fight back," said Jeff Larentowicz. " … We've got to win. We have games at home. Hopefully something can happen. Our next game is a difficult one, but it's at home so we have to win."
- "This is a team that doesn't stop fighting. It would have been very easy to quit for the last 15 minutes after giving away those two goals but the team kept pushing and I think they deserve more than the point we walked away with," said Pareja. " … The game has punished us the whole season – we fall asleep and give up one or two goals and then we have to come back and today was the same story that we've been carrying all season."
The LA Galaxy stretched their winning and unbeaten streaks in league play, cruising to a 4-2 victory against Toronto FC on Saturday evening at The Home Depot Center. The Galaxy are in a tie for second place in the Western Conference with 48 points from 30 games.
- The Galaxy took the lead in the 11th minute, after Christian Wilhelmsson was spilled just outside the 18 to the left of goal. Juninho stepped up and curled the ball around the wall and toward the upper-right corner, leaving goalkeeper Freddy Hall flat-footed as it hit the net.
- Juninho doubled the lead in the 33rd minute with a special goal, a first-time blast from about 32 yards that streaked into the upper-right corner. Then three minutes later Robbie Keane made it 3-0, deftly chipping over a goalmouth scrum after Landon Donovan and Magee twisted to deliver passes into the box.
- Just two minutes later, TFC began their fightback. From a throw-in on the right wing, Luis Silva flicked a header toward the far post, where Terry Dunfield had drifted away for an open header inside the six-yard box.
- Toronto FC cut the lead to a goal in the 86th minute when a shot from Silva from the left side of the goal area deflected off defender Omar Gonzalez and over leaping goalkeeper Josh Saunders. But Keane restored the cushion two minutes into stoppage time after juking past Ashtone Morgan in the TFC box and slamming home a low shot.
- Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena made no changes to the team that defeated the Colorado Rapids 2-0 at The Home Depot Center.
- LA GALAXY (4-4-2): Josh Saunders - Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Todd Dunivant - Christian Wilhelmsson (Edson Buddle 68), Marcelo Sarvas, Juninho, Mike Magee (Michael Stephens 78) - Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane.
WATCH: Galaxy topple Toronto FC
- The Galaxy have won four games in a row, their longest winning streak of the season. Since back-to-back losses June 30-July 4, LA is 10-1-2.
- "In May, this would have been an unlikely scenario, so it's been a terrific run probably of close to 20 games for our team," said Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena. "The resurgence has been outstanding. It's a real character test on the group, and not many teams would have positioned themselves where we are right now. Having said that, I think we all understand there's a lot of soccer to be played this season."
- With the victory, the Galaxy guaranteed their place in the MLS Cup Playoffs, now one of three Western Conference clubs (along with San Jose and Real Salt Lake) to have booked their postseason tickets.
- "I think the expectation is that we're going to make the playoffs, at a minimum," Landon Donovan said. "Regardless of how we started, that's the expectation, so that's good. That's out of the way. We want to keep climbing as high as we can. Obviously, first place is out of the question, but if we can keep this going and [finish] second, that would be a huge boost."
- Said midfielder Mike Magee: "With the playoff format, you don't want to be in the play-in game. But I think it says a lot to see the form that we've been on in the last two months, I think we've only lost one game, and we're still not top of the league, so I think it shows how poorly we played to start the season."
- The Toronto FC goal in the first half put an end to the Galaxy's shutout streak at 351 minutes, the sixth-longest in MLS this season.
- Landon Donovan is now tied for the MLS assist lead with 14, with Sporting KC's Graham Zusi, after setting up both of Robbie Keane's goals. "We're playing Landon back to fitness. I thought Landon's second half was pretty good tonight. He got moving again, he needed that. The team's getting better," said Arena.
- Keane pulled into a tie for second in the MLS Golden Boot standings with his 13th and 14th goals – now with 10 in his last 12 games. Since returning from the European Championships, he has a goal or an assist in 13 of the 15 games that he has played, tallying 11 goals and six assists in that time.
- "He's very easy to play with. He's very predictable in a lot of ways, the way he moves, so him and I have a really good understanding. I know how he wants the ball, where he wants it, and it's on me to make sure I give him the right pass, the right way and the right time," said Donovan. "He makes it very clear how he wants it done and if I do those things well, he's going to score goals."
- Juninho scored two goals vs. Toronto, now with four goals over the last four games – and once again, both were from outside the area. Of the 13 goals Juninho has scored in MLS play, nine have been from outside the penalty area.
- "Whenever he gets it he needs to just shoot. The form he's in right now is literally like nothing I've ever seen, not in practice, not in games, not on TV or anything. Every time he shoots it's either going in or hitting a post or something," said Magee. " … They all look the same, right? Every time he scores a goal it's like déjà vu. So I don't know which one is better, but it's literally bizarre, it's absolutely bizarre the streak he's on right now."
- David Beckham missed a second consecutive league match (also having missed a CONCACAF Champions League fixture) with an ankle sprain suffered in the win vs. Vancouver on Sept. 1. But he says he will be ready for selection this weekend.
- "Still a little bit of discomfort, but it's good to be back on the field. [I was out] three weeks in the end. I wasn't expecting that, but I'm back now. I hope [I can play in Colorado]. Trying to get my fitness back – I was working on fitness while I was injured, but nothing, obviously, like playing games and being in training. Hopefully, I can get out on the field and stay fit this week and be involved," said Beckham.
- The Galaxy had a season-high 27 attempts at goal, tied for the third-most by a team in a single game this season.
- "I can't remember the last time I saw an MLS game that had 27 shots for a team and I think we're just really playing well, really clicking well defensively," said Donovan. "That's without one of our most dangerous players on the field in, David. We're happy with where we are offensively. We're not happy to give up two goals, but a little fluky and it's going to happen, but still good to win."


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Spruce things up a bit, and they will come. And spend more. Appearances and different menu items seem to have helped McDonald's enjoy rosier profits.
McDonald's profits rose 5% in the first quarter to $1.27bn, helped by a revamp of its restaurants.
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IT'S CLEAR: Children, teens and adults who are physically active have healthier bodies and minds than people who aren't. Regular physical activity keeps your heart healthy and strong and it helps you build healthy muscles, bones and joints.Physical activity can also raise your self-esteem, improve your mood, help you sleep better and give you more energy. Making physical activity a part of your everyday life is also a good way to help achieve and maintain a healthy body weight. It's important to be physically active every day.
Physical activity should be as important to your daily routine as brushing your teeth, bathing and getting enough sleep.
How much physical activity should I be getting to stay healthy?The American Heart Association recommends that children and adolescents get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic activity every day. Examples of moderate activity include bike riding, swimming and brisk walking. Vigorous activities include jogging, soccer, aerobics or dancing. If your workout makes you breathe harder and sweat, you're helping your heart stay healthy.
FACT: Less than 30% of high school students get enough physical activity each day to keep their hearts healthy.
How can I make physical activity part of my daily routine?There are many ways to get more physical activity. The hard part is making the decision to get off the couch and be active. You don't have to exercise until you're exhausted. Just get your body up and get moving. Tell yourself that getting moving is something you need to do each day and decide what you want to do today!
Here are some ideas:
- Try brisk walking, dancing and biking for some fun physical activity.
- Go outside and play instead of watching TV or sitting down and playing games on the computer.
- When you play video games, play games that require you to get up and move, like those that involve dancing, exercise and sports.
- If you have time while you're doing other things, take physical activity breaks. Try short, brisk walks for at least 10 minutes at a time.
- After dinner, take your friend or your dog (or both!) along for a brisk walk around the neighborhood.
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Dare you enter the deadly domain of Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection? This eerie PlayStation 3 shooter comprises Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, and gives them a High Definition makeover to send a shiver down your spine.
Both titles throw you into a world overrun by a frightening variety of undead beasts. From zombies and giant scorpions to mutated monkeys and unstoppable monsters, every step could be your last - and the convincingly creepy visuals and haunting sound effects make you feel right in the thick of it.
As curtains flap in the wind and windows shatter, you can blast bits off the detailed environments as well as your enemies. However, be careful not to shoot out the lights as well, unless you really want shrieking fiends leaping at you from the darkness you've created.
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With the ability to check out all story cutscenes, collected items and goodies, Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection offers plenty of features to sink your teeth into... and plenty of enemies looking to sink their teeth into you. Crank up the volume and get ready for the fight - and fright - of your life.
Grab your PlayStation Move motion controller - it's time to fend off the undead hordes in Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection on PlayStation 3. Set during and around events of the survival horror series, including Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Resident Evil 4, this shooter challenges you to survive an onslaught of monstrous foes in a series of deadly scenarios. From mansions to a South American village, no area is safe from a bloodthirsty threat.
Your movement through each level is automatic (with the occasional choice of paths), leaving you to focus on taking down the army of zombies and other beasts in your way. A computer-controlled companion is always at your side offering advice and warnings, however you're the one with the finger on the trigger, and you'll need sharp reflexes and quick wits to defeat some of the tougher foes. Keep your eye on interactive objects and scenery, such as mines, explosive barrels and loose masonry to put an end to these tricky tyrants.
Some baddies have specific weak spots you can target to put them down quickly, and this is where PS Move comes into its own. Letting you pinpoint precise areas creates a satisfying experience to really engage you into the dark intensity of Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection. Whichever title you decide to tackle first in this hectic blaster - Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles or Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - you can be sure of a challenging and action-packed adventure through survival horror history.
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National TIR Seminar in Belgrade on 13 December 2006
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MARSHALLTOWN – Todd and Lila Metge along with Kevin and Kim Swartz, all of Marshalltown, are pleased to announce the engagement of Shannon Elizabeth Metge to Austin Harold Swartz. A June wedding is planned at Trinity Lutheran Church in Marshalltown.
Shannon is a 2012 graduate of the University of Iowa and works at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City as a registered nurse.
Austin is a 2012 graduate of the University of Iowa and works at DuPont in Cedar Rapids as a chemical engineer.
Grandparents of the couple are Larry and Bev Metge of Wahpeton, Doris Case of Marshalltown, Albert and Carol Swartz of Dolliver and Harold and Janet Knudson of Estherville.


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Party Recap
Sound the alarm! What little boy wouldn't love to be a firefighter for the day? For my little mister's 3rd birthday we headed on over to the Westmont Fire Company in Haddon Heights, NJ for a fun filled afternoon he and his guests would never forget.
Rebekah of A Blissful Nest designed the most adorable set of party printables that incorporated bright, vibrant colors with a modern touch. With traditional firehouse colors of red and black and a hint of yellow, everything from the invite to the cupcake toppers to the favor tags really made the party "pop" inside the firehouse.
As soon as the kids got to the firehouse, they were allowed to check out the rows of engines with the firefighters. The kids got to sit up front and "drive" and had a blast checking out all the different types of equipment the firefighters use. The men of the engine company couldn't have been more wonderful with the kids and showed them all how fast they had to get dressed during a fire alarm. The kids even got to try on some of the equipment!
After the kids met with all the firefighters it was "break time". To make it an easy lunch, I got bright yellow lunch bags from the party store and filled them with simple treats such as yogurt, applesauce, goldfish, raisins and a water bottle. We finished up the party with cake and cupcakes topped with the most adorable fondant toppers from Cakes and Kids! They matched the theme perfectly!
Each child was sent home with a favor bag that included a delish chocolate lollipop from Suckers by Steph shaped as a fire engine, a personalized cup from I Have A Favor and a decorated sugar cookie from Batches. The engine company also gave each child a fire safety bag that included a coloring book, a fire hat and other goodies!
The best part of the whole day was the family ride through town in the fire engine. What 3 year old can say they rode in a real fire truck! It was the best surprise from the engine company and one we will never forget!
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firehouse cookies, cake, cupcakes, chocolate lollipops and twizzlers
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personalized firehouse cups, cookie, lollipop, fire helmets
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The kids all were able to check out all the fire engines in the station and the firefighters let them put on equipment.
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"snack time" lunch bags were filled with yogurts, applesauce, raisins, goldfish and bottled water
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The most memorable part of the whole day was the family ride in the fire engine through town! We will never forget it!
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When ESPN The Laddie Mag's Body Issue was announced, tWWL was assertive about not becoming Playboy, a magazine for which Danica Patrick has not posed nude. The Body Issue may — or may not! — distinguish itself in that way.
Patrick has graced the pages of FHM and Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue, but declined an offer to go clothesless in Hef's shrine to womankind. But ESPN The Mag? That's a dealbreaker, ladies, SportsByBrooks reported Thursday night. Darren Rovell did some gumshoe reporting and got comments from Mr. Gary Belsky and Patrick's camp, which was shocked — shocked! — to hear the report. (Your paycheck, ma'am.)
So says Patrick's rep:
Lewis Kay of BNC public relations, which helps represent Patrick, came back with this note. "Danica is NOT confirmed to appear in the issue, nor has she even been approached," Kay wrote.
And from the desk of Gary Belsky, (our emphasis):
"We are not announcing which athletes are participating in The Body Issue at this time," Belsky, wrote in an e-mail. "When we do reveal the participant list, we will not reveal who disrobed and who did not. The photos will answer most such questions, of course; and we will otherwise let the individual athletes reveal, should they so choose, whether they removed all clothing for our shoots."
"Some are fully disrobing, some are not. That's why we're calling it The Body Issue, not The Nude Issue. In every case, the photos are appropriate and tasteful. The Body Issue is a celebration and exploration of the athletic form in all its glory and extremes, situated within the boundaries of taste and the frontiers of artistic excellence upon which ESPN The Magazine and ESPN have built their reputations."
Personally, though, I don't understand the fuss. So what if ESPN The Mag is trying to be a more refined copycat of Playboy once a year? I read it for the articles anyway.
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Welcome to dcollections
dcollections is an implementation of collection classes inspired by Tango, Java, and C++. The goal of dcollections is to provide an efficient collections implementation that uses as many D ideas as possible.
Dcollections 1.0 has been released! This version is exactly the same as 0.03, except the README has been updated. It is available in tarball and zip formats. See below on how to access source via svn.
Dcollections 2.0 has gone into beta. Version 2.0 is built for D2, and will not work with D1. The version numbers will be 2.0a, 2.0b, etc. until it comes out of beta, and then it will be just called 2.0. The current beta release 2.0c is available in tarball and zip formats.
Jordi Sayol has also been kind enough to create .deb packages for dcollections. A .deb package is available for [116] for the library and docs. Note the version for these is 1.99 so it can upgrade to 2.0 once it comes out (apparently debian doesn't agree with my wacky versioning scheme!) These packages come from his google code site http://code.google.com/p/d-packages. Note that these contain compiled libs for both x86 and x86_64.
dcollections 1.0 is Open Source software distributed under the BSD License. See the full license here.
dcollections 2.0 is Open Source software distributed under the Boost License. See the full license here.
- Hash, RBTree, Link, Array, and Deque (D2 only) implementations for appropriate containers.
- List, Set, Map, and Multiset containers provided.
- Able to swap out underlying implementation of a container, or customize implementation.
- Minimized heap activity. All cursors and ranges are struct-based.
- version 1.0 compatible with Tango and Phobos, version 2.0 compatible with D2 phobos.
- Safe slicing for D2.
- Removal while traversing.
- Removal of elements does not invalidate cursors or ranges when possible.
- Cursors and ranges can be kept for later use (such as O(1) removal if supported by the container).
- Interfaces for implementation-independent code.
- Concatenation and appending for lists.
- dup functions.
- Set/Map intersection.
- Filter, transform, and chain iterators.
- Custom allocators.
Changes from 1.0 to 2.0
Some noteworthy changes:
- Ranges!
- Filled out slicing for all containers
- Cursors are now non-movable. Use ranges for safe iteration.
- The interfaces have been cut down significantly. The question I asked myself when deciding whether I wanted to keep an interface is "would anyone use this interface?"
- Functions that should be fast but can be slow (O(n)) have been removed from all interfaces, and in most cases, from the containers. Notably missing is searching a non-quick lookup container for a value. Use std.algorithm.find for that.
- ArrayMultiset has been removed -- it's complexity functions did not fit with the multiset requirements (specifically, quick lookup of an element's presence).
- ArrayList slicing now simply returns a range instead of a "live" slice. Note that an ArrayList? range is aliased to a D array.
- Full unit tests added for all container types.
- const/inout decorations (not everything works yet).
See the full ChangeLog
DDoc is used to generate all the API documentation, which can be found here. Note this is 1.0 documentation, the 2.0 documentation cannot be automatically generated, and so is in a state of limbo at the moment. Eventually, an online version of the documentation will be available. The releases will have the generated documentation available (currently in basic ddoc format). Note, there is a nicely built debian package for the D2 documentation thanks to Epileg.
I will build some sort of tutorial eventually.
Note, version 1.0 is frozen, and will not gain any new features. This TODO list reflects items that will be done for the 2.0 version only.
In no specific order:
- Add debug-mode code to allow ranges and cursors to check validity for testing.
- Remove workarounds when compiler is fixed.
- Figure out how to make const cursors/ranges work (need tail-const for this).
- Look into how to have shared containers.
- tutorial
Get it
trunk (D1 version):
svn co http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dcollections/trunk
d2 branch: (this will eventually become trunk)
svn co http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dcollections/branches/d2
Version X.XX:
svn co http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dcollections/tags/version-X.XX
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Humane Society offering another spay/neuter transport
September 2, 2010
The Leavenworth County Humane Society will offer its next pet spay/neuter transport Sept. 16 and 17 from Easton City Hall. This LCHS program partnership with No More Homeless Pets Kansas City has spayed or neutered and vaccinated 331 dogs and cats throughout Leavenworth County in just more than one year, preventing more than 2,000 puppies and kittens from needing homes. Cats must weigh 3 pounds to participate (about 16 weeks) and dogs must be at least eight weeks of age. Feral (barn) cats are welcome as well. The feral package includes spay/neuter, vaccinations, parasite treatment and an ear-tip to identify that the cat is sterilized. Cat (indoor/outdoor or indoor) package (spay/neuter + vaccinations) starts at $55. Package price for dogs is based on weight, starting at $82. Additional services are available (microchip, nail trim, de-worm, etc.) for a small additional fee. For more details and to register, email email@example.com or register on the web at lchsinc.org. For those without Internet access, call 913-728-2881 and leave a message.
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Actress and dancer Jenna Dewan-Tatum plays the witch Freya Beauchamp.
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Fox 21 and 3 Arts Entertainment are getting ready to begin shooting the new one-hour series pilot episode of "The Witches of East End" for Lifetime Television, and auditions are underway in Los Angeles, New York, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The extras casting director is also accepting submissions from all types and ages of people interested in working as fully paid background performers. The movie is based on the best-selling novel series "The Beauchamp Family" by Melissa de la Cruz. Filming begins on October 17, 2012 in Wilmington and Western North Carolina.