text:
Michael D. Clark reports:
There has been plenty of talk but little else since Butler County's sheriff publicly floated the idea of retired cops working as armed substitute teachers.
Still, the man behind the idea remains optimistic. Scott Miller's positive attitude is borne from painful adversity.
The former Mason Police officer was twice hit by cars during a two-year stretch while on duty, breaking his back and leaving his lower spine mangled and held together by metal. Forced into disability retirement in 2010, Miller recently came up with the novel idea, which has garnered statewide attention, during the days after the Sandy Hook school massacre in December.
In January, Miller approached his former boss, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, with his idea. Soon after, Jones called a press conference to announce his department's full backing and urged public and private schools in the county to enact the program as allowed by state law.
Districts haven't had time to consider idea
So far, none of the 10 public school boards in Butler County, nor any private schools or the Butler Tech school board, has voted to adopt the program allowing qualified and armed ex-officers to work as substitute teachers. Some district officials say discussions may be held in coming board meetings. Most school systems' governing boards say they need more time, since Jones announced the program only Jan. 17.
District officials also say they are reluctant to discuss any school security measures publicly for fear of jeopardizing student safety by pointing out what their schools currently lack.
"I knew schools would move slowly," said Miller from his Fairfield Township home. "It's a different concept and will take some time for them to digest, but some school districts will eventually sign on."
Paul Otten, superintendent of the 9,900-student Fairfield City School District, says his board has not had an opportunity to address the issue. He says the board is expected to include discussion about the idea at its next meeting, Feb. 12.
Randy Oppenheimer, spokesman for Lakota Local School District, Southwest Ohio's second-largest, says "the board has not taken any action on the sheriff's plan, (and) I'm not aware of any scheduled vote." Lakota, he says, is "fairly reluctant to go into a lot of details about the meeting topics" pertaining to security.
Hamilton City School District spokeswoman Joni Copas says "our district has a safety committee that we have reconvened after the Sandy Hook tragedy." Copas says the committee is "looking at all aspects of school safety and security" and is expected to present recommendations before the end of the current school year.
Sheriff Jones is neither surprised nor discouraged. "It's a great idea, but I want to take it slow and see how it goes.
"I have had calls from school boards and emails from (school officials) in other states about it, and it has been nothing but positive reaction," Jones says.
Subbing already to get better grasp of the job
Miller has painfully learned that disappointment can precede any success.
A Mason motorcycle patrolman, Miller was struck by a car in 2008. That accident left him with a broken, surgically repaired back. He returned to duty in 2010 only to be hit again by a car, ending his career and leaving him with metal "pins, screws and hooks at the bottom of my spine" and extensive nerve damage in one leg.
He has to do rehab daily but still misses police work. Seeing a TV news image of a military veteran standing guard – without a firearm – in front of a school in the days after Sandy Hook prompted his idea.
"Being a substitute is revenue-neutral for school districts, and they can have a certified and armed police officer in their schools," Miller says.
In recent weeks, he has filled in as a substitute – unarmed – for a few days at Fairfield and Lakota schools to familiarize himself with the job, which pays about $75 per day. He is eager to pull double duty as an armed substitute so he can also add to a school's security.
"We have to do something," Miller says. "Kids shouldn't have to worry about not being safe at school, and parents shouldn't have to worry about maybe never seeing their kid again after sending them off to school."


text:
The Wildfire Band takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Mountaineer Opry House in Milton.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $5 for children ages 12 and under. Concessions will be available.
For more information, call Larry or Mary Stephens at 304-743-5749 or visit www.mountaineeropry.com.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
On Wings of Angels Necklace
You know they're all around, guiding and protecting you...some are human, but they're all divine. This exquisite piece makes a profound statement about your life and faith -- you're carried on angels' wings!
- Reads "I will carry you"
- Pewter
- Pendant: 1.25" H (3.2 cm)
Silver-tone chain: 17" L (43 cm) - Made in the U S A
For bulk pricing on these and other items, please contact our Customer Service department at firstname.lastname@example.com.
People buying this item also bought:
Gray Ombre Alpaca Fingerless Mittens
One of our favorites!
Faceted Amethyst Drop Earrings
Everyday Value!
Freshwater Pearl Drop Earrings
From $14.95
Syrian Refugee Families - Help Now
From $15.00
Operation Sandwich - Fight Hunger in America
From $2.00
May Angels Guide the Way Car Charm
On Sale!
Global Girlfriends (Paperback)
One of our favorites!
Believe Dragonfly Measuring Spoons
Special Value!
Recent reviews:
November 30, 2013 - Simple and beautiful. It's reminiscent of the "footsteps in the sand" sentiment - "when you didn't see footsteps in the sand, my child, that is when I carried you."
February 24, 2013 - Love it! Reminds me that God carries through each and every one of my runs. I have been a runner for 33 years and He has been with me every step of the way.
January 14, 2013 - Bought this for my sisters and mom for Christmas after we had gotten news that one of my sisters that had battled breast cancer for the past year was given a clean bill of health. We've always said my dad, who passed away 2 years ago was an angel watching over her. I've gotten so many compliments as well as people ordering them after they see mine. Love it!
October 4, 2012 - I absolutely love mine. I haven't taken it off since I got it and have gotten many compliments on it. It inspires me and makes me happy :)
September 2, 2012 - Purchased 2 of these and am ordering 2 more. My granddaughters loved them.
Popular Now:
Contribute To Ending World Hunger
From $1.00
Quality Education for Haitian Girls
From $5.00
Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar!
Flowering Vine Bangle Bracelet
Special Value!
Sunshine Daydream Hooded Jacket
From $38.95
One of our favorites!
Guatemalan Eight-Strand Earth Bracelet
Special Value!


text:
Texans Talk Football talk only please. Keep it to the game, the players, the coaches and management. |
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
08-15-2013 | #41 |
All Pro
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 910
Rep Power: 15013
Re: PFT Preseason Power Rankings No. 10: Houston Texans
Given all that has happened in the offseason, I think the Ravens, Steelers,
and Patriots all take a step back. The question I have is will we stay healthy enough to take advantage of that? Or worse, will the team stumble down the stretch and give up home field to a team like the Broncos. (don't like our chances there this year) Of course, if the team/coaches play with a month long fear-boner like they did starting last year with the second Patriots game none of this will matter. I still can't believe we put up 6 points against the vikings -- at home no less! TJ |
08-15-2013 | #42 |
Join Date: Apr 2004
Age: 33
Posts: 4,592
Rep Power: 39578
Re: PFT Preseason Power Rankings No. 10: Houston Texans
i think the steelers will be back on top in the north. they always have a top 5 defense with lebeau (#1 in yards last year), and if they can find some balance on offense they're going to be a 10-12 win team. of course this assumes they can keep the offensive line healthy for once and they get rid of the ridiculously ugly air it out playcalling.
08-15-2013 | #43 |
Hall of Fame
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: I'm international
Section: Channel 700-ish on NFL Sunday Ticket
Age: 44
Posts: 8,359
Rep Power: 29650
Re: PFT Preseason Power Rankings No. 10: Houston Texans
Did y'all see that Pete Priscoe has the Bungles winning the AFC North AND the Super Bowl? I've heard of hair catching on fire, but dayum!!!!!!!
If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality. Halton Arp |
08-16-2013 | #44 |
Hall of Fame
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Northwest Houston
Age: 45
Posts: 29,962
Rep Power: 124382
Re: PFT Preseason Power Rankings No. 10: Houston Texans
I could easily see them winning that division , the other teams in that division aren't very good ... but no way in hell they in the Lombardi.
Hope is a poor mans disease. |
08-16-2013 | #45 |
Bona fide
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2,031
Rep Power: 16452
Re: PFT Preseason Power Rankings No. 10: Houston Texans
If Schaub steps up, we are likely the best team in the league. If he doesn't, 10 sounds about right.
08-17-2013 | #46 |
Hall of Fame
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: H-Town
Posts: 2,580
Rep Power: 13264
Re: PFT Preseason Power Rankings No. 10: Houston Texans
This is the yr to do it. He is not coming off an injury and has a lot to prove
WATTcha gonna do - WATTcha gonna do when he comes for you? JJ Bad boy, Bad boy (Deion Sanders stole this from me!) |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |


text:
Nicknames: | "Mark Twain", "Mark Twain & Josh" |
Place of Burial: | Elmira, New York, United States |
Birthdate: | |
Birthplace: | Florida, Monroe County, MO, USA |
Death: | Died in Redding, Fairfield County, CT, USA |
Occupation: | Author / Raconteur, Author & Humorist, American Author, Mark Twain |
Managed by: | Jeffrey Rollins |
Last Updated: |
Samuel's Top Matches
Immediate Family
About Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, wrote grand tales about Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and the mighty Mississippi River. He became nothing less than a national treasure. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".
He was born on November 30, 1835, in the tiny village of Florida, Missouri, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. He spent his boyhood in nearby Hannibal, on the banks of the Mississippi River, observing its busy life, fascinated by its romance, but chilled by the violence and bloodshed it bred. Clemens was eleven years old when his lawyer father died. In order to help the family earn money, the young Clemens began working as a store clerk and a delivery boy. He also began working as an apprentice (working to learn a trade), then a compositor (a person who sets type), with local printers, contributing occasional small pieces to local newspapers. At seventeen his comic sketch "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" was published by a sportsmen's magazine in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1853 Clemens began wandering as a journeyman printer to St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; settling briefly with his brother, Orion, in Iowa before setting out at twenty-two years old to make his fortune, he hoped, beside the lush banks of the Amazon River in South America. Instead, traveling down the Mississippi River, he became a steamboat river pilot until the outbreak of the Civil War (1861–65), when Northern forces clashed with those of the South over slavery and secession (the South's desire to leave the Union).
In 1865 the Sacramento Union commissioned Mark Twain to report on a new excursion service to Hawaii. His accounts as published in the newspaper provided the basis for his first successful lectures and years later were collected in Letters from the Sandwich Islands (1938) and Letters from Honolulu (1939). His travel accounts were so well received that he was contracted in 1866 to become a traveling correspondent for the Alta California; he would circle the globe, writing letters.
In 1870 Twain married Olivia Langdon. After a brief residence in upstate New York as an editor and part owner of the Buffalo Express, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived for twenty years; there three daughters were born, and prosperity as a writer and lecturer (in England in 1872 and 1873) seemed guaranteed. Roughing It (1872) recounted Mark Twain's travels to Nevada and reprinted some of the Sandwich Island letters.
Meanwhile Mark Twain's account of steamboating experiences for the Atlantic Monthly (1875; expanded to Life on the Mississippi, 1883) captured the beauty, glamor, and danger of the Mississippi River. Boyhood memories of life beside that river were written into The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875), which immediately attracted young and old
Twain's Tom Sawyer, better organized than Huckleberry Finn, is a narrative of innocent boyhood play that accidentally discovers evil as Tom and Huck witness a murder by Injun Joe in a graveyard at midnight. The boys run away, are thought dead, but turn up at their own funeral. Tom and Huck decide to seek out the murderer and the reward offered for his capture. It is Tom and his sweetheart who, while lost in a cave, discover the hiding place of Injun Joe. Though the townspeople unwittingly seal the murderer in the cave, they close the entrance only to keep adventuresome boys like Tom out of future trouble. In the end, it is innocent play and boyish adventuring which really triumph.
Huckleberry Finn is considered by many to be Mark Twain's finest creation. Huck lacks Tom's imagination; he is a simple boy with little education. One measure of his character is a proneness to deceit, which seems instinctive, a trait shared by other wild things and relating him to nature—in opposition to Tom's tradition-grounded, book-learned, imaginative deceptions. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a loosely strung series of adventures, can be viewed as the story of a quest for freedom and an escape from what society requires in exchange for success. Joined in flight by a black companion, Jim, who seeks freedom from slavery, Huck discovers that the Mississippi is peaceful (though he is found to be only partially correct) but that the world along its shores is full of trickery, including his own, and by cruelty and murder. When the raft on which he and Jim are floating down the river is invaded by two criminals, Huck first becomes their assistant in swindles but is finally the agent of their exposure.
Whatever its faults, Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a classic. Variously interpreted, it is often thought to suggest more than it reveals, speaking of what man has done to confuse himself about his right relation to nature. It can also be thought of as a treatment of man's failures in dealing with his fellows and of the corruption that man's only escape is in flight, perhaps even from himself. Yet it is also an apparently artless story of adventure and escape so simply and directly told that novelist Ernest Hemingway (c.1899–1961) once said that all American literature begins with this book.
After a series of unsuccessful business ventures in Europe, Twain returned to the United States in 1900. His writings grew increasingly bitter, especially after his wife's death in 1905. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) exposed corruption in a small, typical American town. Eve's Diary (1906), written partly in memory of his wife, showed a man saved from bungling only through the influence of a good woman.
In 1906 Twain began to dictate his autobiography to Albert B. Paine, recording scattered memories without any particular order. Portions from it were published in periodicals later that year. With the income from the excerpts of his autobiography, he built a large house in Redding, Connecticut, which he named Stormfield. There, after several trips to Bermuda to improve his declining health, he died on April 21, 1910.
Twain's legacy lives on today as his namesakes continue to multiply. Several schools are named after him, including Mark Twain Elementary School in Houston, Texas, which has a statue of Twain sitting on a bench, and Mark Twain Intermediate School in New York. There are several schools named Mark Twain Middle School in different states, as well as Samuel Clemens High School in Schertz, near San Antonio, Texas. There are also other structures, such as the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge.
Mark Twain Village is a United States Army installation located in the Südstadt district of Heidelberg, Germany. It is one of two American bases in the United States Army Garrison Heidelberg that house American soldiers and their families (the other being Patrick Henry Village).
Awards in his name proliferate. In 1998, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts created the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded annually. The Mark Twain Award is an award given annually to a book for children in grades four through eight by the Missouri Association of School Librarians. Stetson University in DeLand, Florida sponsors the Mark Twain Young Authors' Workshop each summer in collaboration with the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal. The program is open to young authors in grades five through eight. The museum sponsors the Mark Twain Creative Teaching Award. A plaque honoring Mark Twain on the Sydney Writers Walk in Sydney, Australia
Buildings associated with Twain, including some of his many homes, have been preserved as museums. His birthplace is preserved in Florida, Missouri. The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri preserves the setting for some of the author's best known work. The home of childhood friend Laura Hawkins, said to be the inspiration for his fictional character Becky Thatcher, is preserved as the "Thatcher House".In May 2007, a painstaking reconstruction of the home of Tom Blankenship, the inspiration for Huckleberry Finn, was opened to the public. The family home he had built in Hartford, Connecticut, where he and his wife raised their three daughters, is preserved and open to visitors as the Mark Twain House.
Actor Hal Holbrook created a one-man show called Mark Twain Tonight, which he has performed regularly for 50 years. The broadcast by CBS in 1967 won him an Emmy Award. Of the three runs on Broadway (1966, 1977, and 2005), the first won him a Tony Award.
Additionally, like countless influential individuals, Twain was honored by having an asteroid, 2362 Mark Twain, named after him.
Often, Twain is depicted in pop culture as wearing a white suit. While there is evidence that suggests that, after Livy's death in 1904, Twain began wearing white suits on the lecture circuit, modern representations suggesting that he wore them throughout his life are unfounded. There is no evidence of him wearing a white suit before 1904; however, it did eventually become his trademark, as illustrated in anecdotes about this eccentricity (such as the time he wore a white summer suit to a Congressional hearing during the winter). McMasters' "Mark Twain Encyclopedia" states that Twain did not wear a white suit in his last three years, except at one banquet speech.
(1867) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiction)
(1868) General Washington's Negro Body-Servant (fiction)
(1868) My Late Senatorial Secretaryship (fiction)
(1869) The Innocents Abroad (non-fiction travel)
(1870–71) Memoranda (monthly column for The Galaxy Magazine (1866))
(1871) Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (fiction)
(1872) Roughing It (non-fiction)
(1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (fiction, made into a play)
(1875) Sketches New and Old (fictional stories)
(1875) Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls (fiction, short story)
(1876) Old Times on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
(1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction)
(1876) A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage (fiction); (1945, private edition), (2001, Atlantic Monthly).
(1877) A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (stories)
(1877) The Invalid's Story (fiction)
(1878) Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other Sketches (fiction)
(1879) The Great Revolution in Pitcairn (fiction)
(1880) A Tramp Abroad (travel)
(1880) 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (fiction)
(1882) The Prince and the Pauper (fiction)
(1883) Life on the Mississippi (non-fiction (mainly))
(1884) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction)
(1889) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (fiction)
(1892) The American Claimant (fiction)
(1892) Merry Tales (fiction)
(1892) Those Extraordinary Twins (fiction)
(1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (fictional stories)
(1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction)
(1894) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (fiction)
(1896) Tom Sawyer, Detective (fiction)
(1896) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (fiction)
(1897) How to Tell a Story and other Essays (non-fictional essays)
(1897) Following the Equator (non-fiction travel)
(1898) Concerning the Jews (non-fiction)[2]
(1898) Is He Dead? (play)
(1900) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction)
(1900) A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth (essay)
(1901) The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (satire)
(1901) Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (political satire)
(1901) To the Person Sitting in Darkness (essay)
(1901) To My Missionary Critics (essay) The North Atlantic Review 172 (April 1901)
(1902) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (fiction)
(1904) A Dog's Tale (fiction)
(1904) Extracts from Adam's Diary (fiction)
(1905) King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire)
(1905) The War Prayer (fiction)
(1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (fiction)
(1906) What Is Man? (essay)
(1906) Eve's Diary (fiction)
(1907) Christian Science (non-fiction)
(1907) A Horse's Tale (fiction)
(1909) Is Shakespeare Dead? (non-fiction)
(1909) Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiction)
(1909) Letters from the Earth (fiction, published posthumously)
(1910) Queen Victoria's Jubilee (non-fiction)
(1912) My Platonic Sweetheart (dream journal, possibly non-fiction)
(1916) The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, possibly not by Twain, published posthumously)
(1922) The Writings of Mark Twain, 37 vols., Albert Bigelow Paine editor, Gabriel Wells, New York, 1922–1925, out-of-print definitive edition first edition.
(1923) The United States of Lyncherdom (essay, published posthumously)
(1924) Mark Twain's Autobiography (non-fiction, published posthumously)
(1935) Mark Twain's Notebook (published posthumously)
(1946) The Portable Mark Twain, Bernard DeVoto editor, Penguin Classics (2004), ISBN 0142437759
(1962) Letters from the Earth (posthumous, edited by Bernard DeVoto)
(1969) No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, published posthumously)
(1992) Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War. Jim Zwick, ed. (Syracuse University Press) ISBN 0-8156-0268-5 (previously uncollected, published posthumously)
(1995) The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood (published posthumously)
(2009) Who is Mark Twain? (HarperStudio) ISBN 9780061735004 (previously unpublished, published posthumously)
(2010) Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1. (University of California Press, November 15, 2010) (ISBN 978-0520267190) (published 100 years after death)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym "Mark Twain" after he spent two years as a steamboat
pilot. "mark twain" is a term that means that a river is the minimum depth for safe navigation. After an unsuccessful attempt
at gold and silver mining, he joined the staff of a Nevada newspaper where he first used the name "Mark Twain" to sign a
humerous travel letter. He would continue to use the name for nearly 50 years and dozens of publications.
Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, b. Florida, Mo., Nov. 30, 1835, d. Apr. 21, 1910, who achieved worldwide fame during his lifetime as an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner declaring his works--particularly HUCKLEBERRY FINN--a major influence on 20th-century American fiction.
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. His writing career began shortly after the death of his father in 1847. Apprenticed first to a printer, he soon joined his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal, supplying copy and becoming familiar with much of the frontier humor of the time, such as George W. Harris's Sut Lovingood yarns and other works of the so-called Southwestern Humorists.
From 1853 to 1857, Twain visited and periodically worked as a printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati, corresponding with his brother's newspapers under various pseudonyms. After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, he learned the difficult art of steamboat piloting, an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that furnished the background for "Old Times on the Mississippi" (1875), later included in the expanded Life on the Mississippi (1883).
In 1861, Twain traveled by stagecoach to Carson City, Nev., with his brother Orion, who had been appointed territorial secretary. After unsuccessful attempts at silver and gold mining, he returned to writing as a correspondent for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. At first he signed his humorous and imaginative sketches "Josh," but early in 1863 he adopted the now-famous name Mark Twain, borrowed from the Mississippi leadsman's call meaning "two fathoms" deep--safe water for a steamboat.
Twain went to San Francisco in 1864. Dubbed the "Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope," he achieved a measure of national fame with his story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865). A trip to Hawaii in 1866 furnished articles for the Sacramento Union and materials for the first lecture, on his return, in a long and successful career as a public speaker. The following year he traveled to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land, providing letters to the San Francisco Alta California that, in their revised form as The Innocents Abroad (1869), won immediate international attention.
In 1870, Twain married Olivia Langdon of Elmira, N.Y. After serving briefly as editor and part-owner of the Buffalo Express, he moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1871, abandoning journalism in order to devote his full attention to serious literature. There, and during summers in Elmira, he produced Roughing It (1872), an account of his Western years; The Gilded Age (1873, with Charles Dudley Warner), a satire of get-rich-quick schemes and political chicanery; the new pieces for Sketches, New and Old (1875); and TOM SAWYER (1875), his classic tale of boyhood.
A European sojourn in 1878-79 inspired A Tramp Abroad (1880), soon followed by The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Twain's first historical novel. He later turned to history again in the allegorical satire A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), a powerful fictional indictment of political and social injustice. Meanwhile, he completed Life on the Mississippi (1883) and, after establishing his own firm, Charles L. Webster and Co., published his masterpiece, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884.
Increasingly involved financial problems prompted Twain to move to Europe in 1891, just after finishing The American Claimant (1892). In 1894, following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige typesetting machine in which he had invested heavily, Twain was forced to declare bankruptcy. During this period he turned out a number of works, generally inferior to his best: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). In 1895, to help recoup his losses, he embarked on a world lecture tour, later described in Following the Equator (1897).
Although his financial situation rapidly improved, additional stress and sorrow came with the deaths of Twain's daughter Susy in 1896 and of his wife in 1904. His writings of the late 1890s and 1900s became more pessimistic than ever; "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1898) and What Is Man? (1906) are particularly scathing examinations of human nature. Yet, these works also imply that proper understanding of human motivations can result in progress. Moreover, volumes in the Mark Twain Papers series--Which Was the Dream?, and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years (1967), Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), and Mark Twain's Fables of Man (1972)--suggest that the period was not the wasteland described by some critics.
H. G. Baetzhold
Bibliography: Anderson, Frederick, and Sanderson, K. M., eds., Mark Twain: The Critical Heritage (1972); Blair, Walter, Mark Twain and Huck Finn (1960; repr. 1973); Bridgman, Richard, Traveling with Mark Twain (1987); Brooks, Van Wyck, Ordeal of Mark Twain, rev. ed. (1933; repr. 1977); Budd, Louis J., ed., Critical Essays on Mark Twain (1983); De Voto, Bernard, Mark Twain's America (1932; repr. 1978); Fatout, Paul, Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit (1960); Giddings, Robert, ed., Mark Twain (1985); Howells, William Dean, My Mark Twain (1910; repr. 1977); Kaplan, Justin, Mark Twain and His World (1974) and Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966); Lauber, John, The Inventions of Mark Twain (1990); Neider, Charles, ed., The Autobiography of Mark Twain (1975; repr. 1990); Paine, Albert B., Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 vols., (1935); Sanborn, Margaret, Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years (1990); Sanderlin, George, Mark Twain as Others Saw Him (1978); Steinbrink, Jeffrey, Getting to Be Mark Twain (1991).
Mark Twain's Timeline
1835 |
November 30, 1835
Florida, Monroe County, MO, USA
1850 |
Age 14
Hannibal, Marion, Missouri
Age 14
Hannibal, Marion, Missouri
1860 |
Age 24
St Louis Ward 6, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
1862 |
- 1868
Age 26
1870 |
February 2, 1870
Age 34
Elmira, Chemung, New York, USA
November 7, 1870
Age 34
Elmira, Chemung, New York, USA
1872 |
March 19, 1872
Age 36
Elmira, Chemung, New York, USA


text:
Florence Police need help identifying two people wanted for felony theft.
Investigators released a picture of a man reaching into a display case in a store. The picture shows a woman standing nearby.
Police did not say where the theft happened.
Anyone with information about the man and woman pictured are asked to call Investigator Brad Holmes at 256-760-6595.
Copyright 2012 WAFF. All rights reserved.


text:
Bus stops and bus shelters
The difference between a bus shelter and a bus stop
A bus stop is a designated place where buses stop for passengers to board or leave a bus.
A bus shelter is a covered structure at a bus stop providing protection against the weather for people waiting for a bus.
Report a damaged bus shelter
1. Online
2. Contact StreetLine
Report a problem with a bus stop post, sign or an electronic arrival time display unit
These are both the responsibility of Kent County Council. Their Transport Integration Unit have an arrangement with the bus operators and a contractor to update the timetable information that is displayed at stops. Their contact details are shown below:
Transport Integration
Commercial Services
Gibson Drive
Kings Hill
West Malling
Tel: 08458 247 800
email: email@example.com
For more information on public transport in Kent please visit the Kent County Council website.
Ownership of bus shelters
Bus shelters in this council's area are owned and maintained by one of 4 organisations.
1. The majority of bus shelters are owned by a company called Clear Channel. This council has entered into an agreement with Clear Channel whereby, in return for sole advertising rights, shelters are provided and maintained at no cost to the borough.
2. This council owns shelters in Blue Bell Hill, Larkfield, Hadlow and West Malling.
3. Parish councils own shelters located all over the Borough except for Tonbridge which does not have a parish council.
4. Privately owned bus shelter. This is located in Larkfield - Chaucer Way above Tesco opposite the footpath with Sassoon Close. Between the surgery and Macaulay Close. This bus shelter is owned by Tesco.
List of shelters owned by ClearChannel and Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council
Other facilities that bus shelters can have
Subject to site restrictions, where possible, each Clear Channel shelter is provided with a seat or 'perch' and an internal courtesy light.
The shelters that Clear Channel provide may or may not include advertising panels. Formal planning permission is required for the installation of a shelter displaying advertising.


text:
Union 28 Giveaways
Increase your chances of winning a $25 gift certificate to Union 28. Enter at each participating blog! Thanks so much for joining us for the Honoring Daddy series!
Finer Things (just in case you missed it) – ends Monday, June 20
Life as Mom – ends Wednesday, June 22
Motherhood Your Way – ends Wednesday, June 22…


text:
Sophie, McKenzie and Natalie enjoy a nice day outside. McKenzie's parents are Matt and Chrystal Woods of Eveleth, and Natalie and Sophie's parents are Tim Woods of Eveleth and Missy Rielly of Duluth. Great-grandparents are Len and Dolores Hotakainen of Gilbert.
Read the article: Grandma's Brag Book for April 6


text:
Posted on April 29, 2010 at 4:30pm 4 Comments 0 Likes
Hello everyone,
Haven't wrote a blog in about a year, been busy. Anyway, I'm reading breaking dawn now and it's one of the best. I Love It. Eclipse was so boring in the middle, it just dragged and dragged. Does anyone agree? I liked the first few chapters and i liked the battle and everything after. The Eclipse trailor looks phanominal. Its was good…
ContinuePosted on August 11, 2009 at 12:56am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Posted on August 4, 2009 at 9:29am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Posted on July 27, 2009 at 8:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
© 2014 Created by Hachette Book Group.
Report an Issue | Guidelines | Report an Issue | Terms of Service


text:
Facebook Share Button
Replaces {fshare} tag in any content with Facebook Share Button Module. See example above-right. This plugin provides full URL of the article to the Facebook module, which effectively means that each of your article containing this tag will be shared on Facebook once the visitor clicks on it. Plugin parameters are configurable.v1.0.1, v1.7.1: new parameter og:url meta tag can be switched off
v1.0.2, v1.7.2: Facebook Open Graph parameters are more strict, fix to handle this
v1.0.3, v1.7.3: method="upgrade" added to installation XML
v1.0.4, v1.7.4: MAJOR release, the component is updated to reflect Facebook policy change of the share button. Unfortunately site-specific AppID is required for share from now on!
v1.0.5, v1.7.5: There is still an older interface for FB share, which does not require AppID and can post to different walls. A new plugin option lets you decide which interface to use.
v1.0.6, v1.7.6: title bug fixed
v3.0.7: Joomla 3.0 version
Your reviews are very much appreciated, it helps me keep up my efforts. Thank you all!
That happens if you mistakenly install the wrong version of the plugin.
There are two versions, one version is for Joomla 1.5.x and the other is for later Joomla releases.


text:
View single post by younglobo | |||||||||||||
Posted: Mon Apr 2nd, 2007 09:22 pm |
younglobo Member
Was reading the post on the new James movie coming up and remembered quotes from movies that we always do at reenactments. Got me to wondering what is everyones favorite movie quote thought it might be fun. 1) " you got really pretty hands wanna keep em" (while pulling colt) "just a request mister" "I got a request of my own im a good old rebel" (gold piece optional) ----- Longriders 2) " you gonna draw those pistols or whistle dixie?" ----- Outlaw Josey Whales Last edited on Mon Apr 2nd, 2007 09:24 pm by younglobo |


text:
T.I. Reflects On Working With Meek Mill For "Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head"
T.I. explains his relationship with Meek Mill, which extends back several years.
T.I. and Meek Mill have been associates for years, as the latter was briefly signed to his Grand Hustle movement around the time Tip was recording 2008's Paper Trail. During an interview with Rap-Up.com, the King of the South talked about their upcoming collaboration "G Season" for Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head, stating that he's proud of the Maybach Music Group rapper for observing his grind and applying it to his own work ethic.
"Meek Mill's a homie of mine. I remember when his hair was long, down past his shoulders, and he was poppin' wheelies on dirt bikes in Philly and freestyling on corners, getting his YouTube shine on. He's come a long way," he said. "I remember when he was around me like every day for about two months while I was working on the Paper Trail album. I think he was in the studio when I did 'Dead and Gone,' I think he was there when I was performing for the MTV VMAs, when me and Rihanna premiered the video for 'Live Your Life.' He was around to observe a lot and he took it and he used it to his advantage, which is extremely commendable. There's not many times youngsters get around cats who are already established and are able to observe the way the established artist moves, and actually take note of it, not disregarding the significance of this moment."
Watch the interview below, where he also speaks on collaborating with R. Kelly for "Can You Learn."
More News On HipHopDX
Reply To This Comment
Got an account with one of these? Log in here, or just enter your info and leave a comment below.


text:
Louisiana Seafood Festival
Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:00 AM
The Louisiana Seafood Festival is held every October in Woldenberg Park in the New Orleans French Quarter.
The free festival features live entertainment, local arts and crafts, and world-famous cuisine from top New Orleans restaurants, including Acme Oyster House, Arnaud's, Drago's, Galatoire's, Mr. B's Bistro, Red Fish Grill, Remoulade, Saltwater Grill, and more.
Louisiana seafood is what's on the menu at this festival — Shrimp, crab, oysters, crawfish and more are featured in a multitude of creative dishes from top New Orleans chefs.
The festival also features a broad line-up of local New Orleans live music, as well as artists' booths featuring some of the New Orleans area's most talented artists in jewelry, woodworks, textiles and other arts.
Event Dates:
- Friday, October 11, 2013
- Saturday, October 12, 2013
- Sunday, October 13, 2013
Tags: family-friendly, louisiana seafood festival, louisiana seafood festival new orleans, new orleans festivals, new orleans food, new orleans live music, new orleans music
You might also like
Oak Street Po-Boy Festival 2012 New Orleans Po-Boy: A Classic What is known in some parts of the country as a "submarine sandwich" and... | Louisiana Swamp Festival 2012 When you think of Louisiana, what images come to mind? Cypress trees festooned with Spanish moss draped... | Bywater Mirliton Festival 2012 Bywater's signature Mirliton Festival began in 1989 as a small neighborhood party: Residents celebrated... | Halloween Weekend & Voodoo Music Experience 2012 The Voodoo Music Experience is here once again for Halloween weekend. New Orleans is slowly becoming... |


text:
Difference between revisions of "Barcelona/Ciutat Vella"
Latest revision as of 14:58, 21 January 2014Ciutat Vella [1] (Catalan for Old city) is, as its name suggests, the oldest part of Barcelona. It includes buildings and attractions from all the city history and has the most important monuments (except the most famous modernist ones). [edit] UnderstandThe district is divided in four quarters:
[edit] Get inSince Ciutat Vella is also the city center, nearly all public transportation leads you there. The transportation center is Plaça Catalunya, and is possible to arrive by train, subway (L1, L3, L6, L7) and bus (many regular ones during day, all the night lines and Aerobus to the Airport). There are also two other places very close to Plaça Catalunya where the subway and the buses stop, Plaça Universitat, with L1 and L2 lines and Plaça Urquinaona, with L4 and L2 lines. To reach the other parts of the district, the maximum time to get to the furthest part of the city is twenty minutes. [edit][add listing] See[edit] La Ribera
[edit] Museums
[edit] Barri Gòtic
[edit] Museums
[edit] Raval
[edit] Museums
[edit] Barceloneta
[edit] Museums
[edit][add listing] Do
[edit][add listing] Buy
[edit] Food
[edit] Clothes, shoes, and accessories
[edit][add listing] Eat
[edit] Budget
[edit] Mid-range
[edit] Traditional Spanish food
[edit] Modern creative cuisine
[edit] Non-Spanish cuisine
[edit] Breakfast
[edit] Splurge
[edit][add listing] Drink[edit] Cafes
[edit] Bars
[edit][add listing] Sleep[edit] Youth Hostels
[edit] Hostels and B&B
[edit] Hotels
[edit] Apartments
[edit] Stay safeWatch out for purse snatchers along the seafront, and never leave anything valuable unattended while going for a swim. On busy days there will usually be patrolling police along the beach. Thieves tend to steal peoples bags on the beach (they even attempt to do so while you are there with your bag).


text:
Featured Events
We're sorry, but we currently have no tickets available for this event.
Check out our full selection of Rock tickets or sign up to be notified when tickets for this event are available.
Urbanites are coming to town! Get ready to rock as Urbanites bring their high-octane show to a stage near you. Vivid Seats is here to make sure you have a great seat as Urbanites blows through your town. To purchase tickets to Urbanites concerts, just click on one of the Urbanites tour dates above. All sales are final and refunds will only be given in the event that Urbanites cancel the show which you purchased tickets for. Urbanites will rock you. Guaranteed. Vivid Seats has Urbanites concert tickets. Guaranteed. So don't delay in choosing Urbanites tickets that are right for you! View Urbanites concert schedule and other tour information above.
Here is some information about Urbanites tour ticket purchases from Vivid Seats:
Feel free to contact us for any reason, toll free, at : 1.866.848.TIXX


text:
Abbi Noah and Cody Panasuk, both of Detroit Lakes, Minn., announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage. Their parents are Larry and Marcie Noah, Detroit Lakes, and Gary and Jan Panasuk, Minot.
She attended Bemiji State in Bemidji, Minn., and Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minn. She is employed by Noah Insurance, Detroit Lakes.
He graduated from North Dakota State University, Fargo, with a bachelor's degree in construction management and a minor in business. He is employed in Detroit Lakes.
The wedding will be May 18 in Detroit Lakes.


text:
Asus spiffs up Transformer, FonePad, Memo Pad lines
Asus, at its press event at the technology trade show IFA in Berlin, trotted out a trio (well, a trio and a half) of new products. The Transformer Book T300 is a hybrid that becomes a tablet by unclipping the screen of the laptop; a FonePad 7 2014 Edition quickly follows up the debut of the original phone/tablet in February; and duo of Memo Pad budget slates in expanded 8- and 10-inch screen sizes.
"Asus has been around for 24 years. ... Our success in the past two decades has been from responding quickly to innovation," … Read more


text:
It's no secret that social media and a subscription business model doesn't exactly go hand and hand. There's a reason that the world's most popular social media websites are free to use.
But just how difficult would it be for a company like Twitter to charge its users? According to the 2010 USC Annenberg Digital Future Study (PDF), zero percent of users polled indicated that they'd be willing to pay for Twitter. That makes finding a way for newspapers to charge for their websites look like a walk in the park.
Read more...
by Patricio Robles 27 July 2010 10:20am 4 comments


text:
Brooklyn >
Food & Dining > Obzhora Sushi Bar & CafeMonday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Sunday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Neighborhoods: Sheepshead Bay
Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Facebook to see what your friends are up to!
Do you have a review of Obzhora Sushi Bar & Cafe on your blog? If you include the Citysearch image link (shown below) in your post, we'll automatically link to your review from the business profile page. Here's how our Linkback system works:
The Linkback system is free and automatic. It's really that easy.
To link to our business profile page, copy the html below to your web page.


text:
[JURIST] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [official profile; BBC profile] should be brought to trial for inciting genocide against Christians and Jews during remarks he made last month, former Israeli prime minister and current opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu [official website] said on Sunday. Ahmadinejad said at a two-day conference in Tehran [BBC report] in December that Israel's days were numbered, repeating previous calls for violence against the Jewish state. At a Palestinian conference last April, he said Israel is heading toward annihilation, dismissed the Holocaust as a "myth", and called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" [Guardian report], a statement which immediately drew international condemnation. Reuters has more.In December, then-US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton [official profile] called for international criminal charges to be brought against Ahmadinejad [JURIST report] for the same reasons. Bolton, who was joined by former Israeli UN Ambassador Dore Gold [JCPA profile] and former Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Irwin Cotler [official profile], said that Ahmadinejad's remarks violated the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [text], which prohibits "direct and public incitement to commit genocide." Last spring, the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs reported that it was preparing a document [JURIST report] recommending a lawsuit against Ahmadinejad for his remarks. Israeli lawyer Eran Shahar, representing the civil rights group Civil Coalition, filed a lawsuit [JURIST report] against Ahmadinejad in Germany last February on charges of incitement and denying the existence of the World War II Holocaust.
[JURIST] Growing criticism [JURIST report] of the circumstances behind the Guantanamo detention of German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz [JURIST news archive] has focused on German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier [BBC profile] following German media reports over the weekend. Kurnaz, arrested by US officials in Pakistan shortly after September 11, was held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] from 2002 to 2006 and released last August [JURIST report] in response to repeated appeals to US authorities by current German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official website, in German]. State television network ARD [media website] and the Süddeutsche Zeitung [media website] newspaper alleged [SZ report, in German] Sunday that documents from 2005 revealed that Steinmeier's office secretly solicited additional intelligence from the United States to actually strengthen terrorism charges against Kurnaz. ARD also reported that Germany refused a 2002 offer from the US to release Kurnaz. Steinmeier, who was chief of staff to former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder until the end of Schroeder's term in November 2005, has not commented on the allegations but will address a German parliamentary committee [ARD report] investigating Kurnaz's detention. Reuters has more. Kurnaz has alleged he suffered abuse and torture [Deutsche Welle report] as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay; last October Germany began a probe [JURIST report] into the charges. Various German party political leaders are calling for Schroeder to face the legal consequences of his alleged complicity in allowing Kurnaz to languish in the detention facility for so long. Schroeder's Social Democrat party rejects the allegations. Kurnaz's lawyer acknowledges that a Greens party official in the then-governing coalition responded to the release offer in 2001, but Kurnaz's Turkish citizenship made it difficult for the government to arrange for his release.
[JURIST] One of the most complex criminal trials in Canadian legal history gets under way Monday in New Westminster, British Columbia, as Robert William Pickton [CBC case backgrounder] stands accused of murdering 26 women [indictment text], most of them prostitutes and drug addicts in the Vancouver area in the 1990s. The trial will focus on charges relating to six of these murders under Section 235 of the Canadian Criminal Code [text] after BC Supreme Court Justice James Williams decided last summer to divide the counts [CBC report] to avoid overburdening the jury. Pickton has pleaded not guilty to each charge. Pickton was arrested in 2002 after remains were discovered on his pig farm; preliminary hearings for the case have lasted over a year. The trial is also expected to be protracted, with prosecutors expected to call 240 witnesses.Media frenzy around the case led to a publication ban [court documents] to avoid swaying potential jurors; the ban has been lifted for the trial. Currently the worst serial killer in Canadian history is Marc Lepine, who shot 14 women and himself in Montreal in 1989. AP has more.
[JURIST] The United Nations will work with Nepali leaders to bring human rights violators to justice, according to a statement [text] from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile]. Arbour is on a six-day visit to the transitioning nation in conjunction with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal) [official website]. Arbour's visit will focus on the issues of
ending impunity for serious human rights violations, including the need to resolve all outstanding cases of disappearances; the need for a well-functioning law enforcement and criminal justice system as an essential means of strengthening human rights protection; and the need to address long-standing discrimination and social exclusion.
[JURIST] A former Nigeria [JURIST news archive] oil minister, Dan Etete, will stand trial in France to face money laundering charges, according to a report Sunday by the Journal du Dimanche [media website] newspaper. The money laundering is in connection with kickbacks suspected to have been paid by oil companies, including French company Elf-Aquitaine [Wikipedia backgrounder] and Canadian Addax Petroleum [corporate website], in exchange for drilling rights in Nigeria. Elf-Aquitaine, which is now a part of TotalFinaElf, was at the center of one of the largest judicial corruption inquiries in French history, which ended after seven years of investigations [DW report] in 2002. Three former executives were jailed in 2003 [Guardian report], after investigators suggested that around $530 million had been misappropriated by the company. Etete, who served late Nigerian dictator Sani Abachafrom from 1993 to 1998 and now lives in England, has denied the charges. Investigations have swarmed around his numerous purchases of luxury properties in France, which totaled $19.5 million within a single year. Sunday's report said that the trial order was signed on Wednesday, but no date was mentioned. AFP has more.The announcement of the trial is the latest in a string of corruption charges streaming out of Nigeria, with allegations [BBC report] being made both by and about senior political leaders. In the wake of new laws governing conduct in the Nigerian civil service a recent report [text] by Global Integrity, a DC based non-profit tracking governance and corruption trends worldwide, ranked Nigeria as "moderate", up from a "weak" integrity rating in 2004 [report text]. Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission reported last year that 31 of 36 Nigerian state governors are currently under investigation [VOA report] in an attempt to crack down on corruption [BBC report] domestically.
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary John Reid [official profile], the country's most senior justice official, has drawn up plans to split Britain's Home Office [official website] into two departments covering justice and security matters respectively, according to a reports published Sunday in British papers. The change would be the most drastic one made to the core government department since it was first established in 1782. The plans appear to have the support of the current Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, who argues that the current ministry is "not fit for the purpose." In recent years, a series of blunders ranging from the mistaken release of foreign prisoners [JURIST report] to losing terror suspects subject to restrictive "control orders" [Independent report] has led critics to call for reform in the Home Office. Though they have advocated the creation of a separate minister for terrorism, the opposition Conservative Party has expressed concern that dividing the Home Office "may well create a whole new set of problems." The London Telegraph has more. The Guardian has additional coverage.
[JURIST] A UK House of Commons committee called Sunday for the British government to work with the United States to develop an alternative to the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] prison and speed up its closure. The panel, seven of whose members visited the US facility in September last year, urged the government in an 83-page report [text, PDF] to "engage actively with the US administration and with the international community to assist the process of closing Guantanamo as soon as may be consistent with the overriding need to protect the public from terrorist threats."The committee was sharply critical of US Guantanamo policy in several respects, concluding that "the facilities at Guantánamo are broadly comparable with those at the United Kingdoms only maximum security detention facility, but the conditions are not. Guantánamo scores highly on diet and on health provision; but it fails to achieve minimum United Kingdom standards on access to exercise and recreation, to lawyers, and to the outside world through educational facilities and the media." More ominously, the panel found that "abuse of detainees at Guantánamo Bay has almost certainly taken place in the past, but we believe it is unlikely to be taking place now. Although violence and low-level abuse are endemic in any high-security prison situation, it is the duty of the detaining authority to strive to its utmost to minimise them. We recommend that the Government continue to raise with the United States authorities human rights concerns about the treatment of detainees." The committee also ventured that "in choosing unilaterally to interpret terms and provisions of the Geneva Conventions, the United States risks undermining this important body of international law." More generally it observed that:
the Geneva Conventions are failing to provide necessary protection because they lack clarity and are out of date. We recommend that the Government work with other signatories to the Geneva Conventions and with the International Committee of the Red Cross to update the Conventions in a way that deals more satisfactorily with asymmetric warfare, with international terrorism, with the status of irregular combatants, and with the treatment of detainees.
JURIST offers a news ticker and preformatted headline boxes updated in real time. Get the code.
Feedroll provides free Paper Chase news boxes with headlines or digests precisely tailored to your website's look and feel, with content updated every 15 minutes. Customize and get the code.


text:
Select () or exclude () categories to narrow your recipe search.
As you select categories, the number of matching recipes will update.
Find exactly what you're looking for with the web's most powerful recipe filtering tool.
Prep Time:
Cook Time:
10 mins
20 mins
These delicious cookies always make my annual Christmas baking list. They are the best cookie recipe my mom ever gave to me. Try this, and you'll agree--these are easy and addicting. UPDATE: notice that I fixed the pan size--these will fit in a square baking pan).
Save this recipe in your online cookbook to access when you need it.
Add this recipe to a weekly meal plan.
Add this recipe's ingredients to your weekly shopping list.
Note pairing ideas, substitutions and more - only you can see it!
Spot a typo or missing ingredient? Submit your correction for review.
Get answers about this recipe in our Cooking Q&A forum.
Units: US | Metric
Serving Size: 1 (1136 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 1


text:
Harvey C. CouchRobert A. Ainsworth Professor of Courts & the Federal SystemBA, 1959, Hendrix College; MA, 1962, LLB, 1963, Vanderbilt University
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Telephone: 504.865.5961 Office: Weinmann Hall, Room 359-E
Biography: Professor Couch clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, practiced law in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was an instructor at the University of Michigan Law School before coming to Tulane. His teaching encompasses conflict of laws, domestic relations, and torts. He is the author of A History of the Fifth Circuit 1891-1981. Professor Couch served as acting dean on two occasions during the period from 1984 through 1986.
Professor Couch's CV
For media inquiries, contact:Linda P. CampbellDirector of Communicationstel firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Sort by:
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Local EPA
- Season rehearses and performs in Berkeley, CA.
- Auditions: Mar 24, 31 in Berkeley, CA
Casting Berkeley Repertory Theatre's 2014-15 season. Season includes: "An Audience with Meow Meow" (Meow Meow and Emma Rice, writers; Emma Rice, dir. Rehearsals begin Aug. 5; previews begin Sept. 5; runs Sept. 12-Oct. 19, 2014 with possible extension through Nov. 2); "Party People" (a musical) (Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Steven Sapp & ...


text:
COLUMBIA — At least one shot was fired following a domestic dispute between a man and woman shortly after noon Friday at a gas station east of Columbia.
Domestic dispute at convenience store escalates into gunfire
Friday, April 20, 2012 | 5:29 p.m. CDT;
updated 7:10 p.m. CDT, Friday, April 20, 2012
To read the full article, please sign up or login.
Get full access to the Columbia Missourian on your computer, phone, and tablet for just $5.95 per month.
* Unlimited access on your iPhone, iPad, Android phone and Android tablet
* All the high-quality, in-depth journalism of the Columbia Missourian and Vox Magazine, updated 24/7
* Your news. Your device. Your time.
If you'd like to read more about the value of being a member, read this column from the Missourian's executive editor, Tom Warhover.


text:
Cal Poly Mustangs
The Cal Poly Mustangs are the football team representing California Polytechnic State University located in San Luis Obispo, California. The team plays its home games in Alex G. Spanos Stadium. The current head coach is Tim Walsh, who began his tenure in 2009.
Cal Poly Mustangs Reviews & Ratings
No Reviews / Ratings Yet
Submit a Review


text:
Repairing the Book of the Dead
Repairing papyrus can be a little like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. In order to make sense of the many small pieces at hand, we take advantage of the various examination techniques we have here in the lab. Read more
Read more
Read more


text:
Guy Needs a Change of Underwear After Close Call What the hell are you doing!!! 1/30/2014 9:52:23 AM 15,260
Change The Way You Look At Boobs More boob facts than you can handle. All the breast facts we could squeeze out. 10/1/2013 11:03:42 AM 16,358
Paying For A Parking Ticket With Change Money is money and this guy decides to pay for his parking ticket using only change. That's one way to stick it to them. 9/24/2013 11:05:33 AM 19,129
Time To Change Your Underwear That's a clear sign it's time to change the draws. 1/29/2013 9:18:23 PM 6,476
Strongest Girl In The World Prank The adults are dumbfounded that she can carry those buckets of change and they can't! 8/8/2012 12:00:00 AM 26,024
Exact Change A man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him. The waitress asks them for thei...read more 6/29/2010 12:00:00 AM 4,495


text:
free Template for Photoshop Elements
by Media cafe
Posted: 19-May-10
"By clicking Download from Publisher, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the Consumer Marketplace Agreement"
Occasion is a wonderful time -Our wedding photo Templates are a perfect way to capture this fabulous moment for a wedding photo album that will keep the warm memories of the wedding for a lifetime and give color to each day. You can also let the couple know you appreciate and love them with a wedding templates.
Flag this Offering
6 |
Cost: | Free |
Language: | English |
Version: | 8 |
Platform: | Mac | Windows |
Downloads: | 48 |
Trial: | No |
Adobe Terms of Use | |
Publisher Terms of Use |


text:
Uno is a popular card game that consists of 108 cards, of which you will have 19 of each color. Each card represents a number and players must use a wild card/pass card or use the corresponding number card that they have. The game is good for ages 7 and up.
Next Slide: Scattegories» |
previousnext |


text:
Shawty Lo - Dey Know (Remix) ft. Ludacris, Jeezy, Plies & Lil' Wayne
Artist: Shawty Lo
Featuring: Young Jeezy , Ludacris , Plies , Lil Wayne
Producer: Balis
Album: Units In Da City
Avg Rating: 4.2 ( 176 total votes )
"A rapper has taken Atlanta by storm over the past two months." When you read that statement, who was the first artist that came to mind? Ludacris? Young Jeezy? T.I.? While all three have taken the ATL by storm at one time or another, the mystery artist behind that opening statement is…drum roll please… D4L's Shawty Lo. (If you're surprised you shouldn't be.) Reppin' Bankhead and his ultra 'slow flow,' the D4L founder is blowing up the radio, the dance floors and the strip clubs with his debut solo single, Dey Know. After releasing a plethora of remixes featuring artists Guerilla Zoe and E-40, Shawty Lo used his rising star status and scooped up heavy hitters Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Plies and Lil' Wayne for an official remix. Amongst the five MCs I think it's safe to say: Dey Know.
Listen to More: Shawty Lo , Young Jeezy , Ludacris , Plies , Lil Wayne , Club Written by DJ Z
First DJ Booth Appearance:
"Dey Know" (2007)
Member Reviews and Ratings
- 25 Most Popular Hip-Hop & R&B Songs of February 2014
- Pharrell - G I R L
- Rick Ross - Mastermind
- ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
- A 15 Song Tour Through Pharrell's Career
- SchoolBoy Q ft. 2 Chainz - What They Want
- Future ft. Pharrell, Pusha T & Casino - Move That Dope
- Nyzzy Nyce - Nothing Nyce
- Devin Miles - Where the DJs At?
- The Best Hip Hop Songs & Albums of 2013!


text:
It's Election Day and team Product Girl is urging you to get out there and exercise your right to vote! Whether you're team "O-Bama Orange" or "Mint Romney" (according to Bliss' eau-lection body lotions!), it's important to be involved. And on the bright side, all of the political ads will be over come Wednesday. As someone who conducted exit polls for fun in college, I can't wait to see the democratic process in action. My only gripe? I early voted and I didn't get my sticker this year!
There's an E- and Eau-lection Happening Today
November 6th, 2012
1 Comment
One Response to "There's an E- and Eau-lection Happening Today"
I love Bliss products. These are so cute.


text:
PHP Quiz
Daniweb PHP Discussion Community
Sponsored Link
News Archive
January 2013
(35 posts)
December 2012
(242 posts)
November 2012
(227 posts)
October 2012
(211 posts)
September 2012
(144 posts)
August 2012
(197 posts)
July 2012
(184 posts)
June 2012
(186 posts)
May 2012
(199 posts)
April 2012
(183 posts)
March 2012
(250 posts)
February 2012
(183 posts)
January 2012
(227 posts)
December 2011
(225 posts)
November 2011
(182 posts)
October 2011
(211 posts)
September 2011
(219 posts)
August 2011
(214 posts)
July 2011
(171 posts)
June 2011
(224 posts)
May 2011
(215 posts)
April 2011
(248 posts)
March 2011
(304 posts)
February 2011
(242 posts)
January 2011
(251 posts)
December 2010
(270 posts)
November 2010
(240 posts)
October 2010
(246 posts)
September 2010
(256 posts)
August 2010
(277 posts)
July 2010
(246 posts)
June 2010
(103 posts)
May 2010
(18 posts)
April 2010
(11 posts)
March 2010
(17 posts)
February 2010
(9 posts)
January 2010
(2 posts)
December 2009
(4 posts)
November 2009
(4 posts)
October 2009
(5 posts)
September 2009
(3 posts)
August 2009
(1 post)
July 2009
(3 posts)
PhpRiot Newsletter
Your Email Address:
More information
» July 2010
Displaying blog posts
Site News: Job Postings for the week of 07.25.2010
, 31 July 2010
Job postings for the past week:Job Posting: Broadcast Interactive Media Seeks PHP Developer (Madison, WI) Job Posting: Return Path, Inc. Seeks PHP Web Developer (Broomfield, CO)
Read More ...
Features in PHP trunk: Array dereferencing
Planet PHP
, 31 July 2010
I was writing about new features in the upcoming PHP version (5.4, 6.0?) before. Today's topic reads like this in the NEWS file: - Added array dereferencing support. (Felipe) Now you might wonder what this typical short entry means. when doing OO-style PHP you might make use of a sntax feature which one might call "object dereferencing" which looks like this: func()-bar(); ? So one can chain method calls or property access. Now for a long time people requested the same thing for array offset...
Read More ...
New Site is Live
Planet PHP
, 31 July 2010
This may be premature, but it looks like I'm live with the new site design and new blog engine. The design is html5 (i.e., it looks great to me in Chrome, not sure what it'll be like elsewhere) and the new engine is jekyll. What does this mean for you, my loyal reader? Not much, really. I believe my port is transparent.Actually, the only problem I'm seeing right now is related to disqus-some of my comments that I know are imported are not showing up yet. I just dumped nearly 2,000 comments into their...
Read More ...
NETTUTS.com: How to Use CakePHP's Access Control Lists
, 31 July 2010
On NETTUTS.com today there's a new detailed tutorial on how to use the access control list functionality that comes with the CakePHP framework.If you're building a CMS, you'll probably need different user roles'"superusers, admins, users - with different permission levels. Too complicated to code? Enter CakePHP's ACL (Access Control Lists). With the right setup, you'll be checking user permissions with just one line.They talk about what "access control lists" are but shows you an example of one including...
Read More ...
Developer.com: 10 Experimental PHP Projects Pushing the Envelope
, 31 July 2010
On Developer.com today there's a new post listing ten experimental projects that are "pushing the envelope" in the PHP languages:As the saying goes, "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should." But in the world of programming, stretching boundaries is just part of the fun. The PHP community has never been one to shy away from bending their favorite language more ways than a shopping mall pretzel, and as the ten wild projects introduced in this article indicate, the fervor for...
Read More ...
Ask About PHP: Codeigniter: Creating dynamic graphs using JQuery and FusionCharts
, 31 July 2010
On the Ask About PHP blog today there's a new tutorial about integrating the OpenFlashCharts tool into a CodeIgniter application to display data.I recently upgraded some of my Codeigniter applications that used OpenFlashCharts to using FusionCharts Free, and at the same time incorporated some javascript to allow me to change the graphs dynamically at the client-side. This has greatly improved the usability of my charts and graphs that I pump out. As such, I thought I would share how I did this and...
Read More ...
Zend Framework 1.10.7 Released
Zend Developer Zone
, 31 July 2010
Zend Framework
The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.7, our sevent maintenance release in the 1.10 series. This release includes around 60 bug fixes. For those uses of Zend_Service_Twitter, please ensure you upgrade to 1.10.6 or 1.10.7 ASAP. These releases introduce a change in the Zend_Service_TWitter API that enforces the use of OAuth by default when using methods that require authentication. The change was introduced to help prepare Zend Framework users for the...
Read More ...
Chris Hartjes' Blog: Snakes and Elephants Playing Nice Together: PHPUnit and py.test with Hudson
, 31 July 2010
In the latest post to his blog Chris Hartjes talks about how he got python and PHP working together as a part of his testing with Hudson.These days, it's becoming increasingly harder to find web applications that are homogenous in terms of the tools they use to Get Things Done. [...] Loosely coupled components, passing messages to each other, is great architecture to try and build if you have both the skills and patience to make it work.His technique combines the testing of PHPUnit for PHP with the...
Read More ...
Symfony Project Blog: Translations (Documentation)
, 31 July 2010
Have a flair for translation and want to help out an open source project in need? Consider helping the Symfony Project with their translation efforts for their manual.The Symfony2 documentation is written in English and many people are involved in the translation process. First, become familiar with the markup language used by the documentation. Then, subscribe to the Symfony docs mailing-list, as collaboration happens there. Finally, find the master repository for the language you want to contribute...
Read More ...
Testing legacy code
Planet PHP
, 31 July 2010
Today we know about the benefits of Test Driven Development and normally also start new projects using TDD. Most projects from the last couple of years integrated this method in their daily development process, which often results in in good code coverage results of 90% and above. But what about all the other old projects, you still manage in your daily work?
Read More ...
PHPBuilder.com: The PHP Content Management/Framework Upgrades in ExpressionEngine 2
, 30 July 2010
On PHPBuilder.com there's a recent article detailing some of the updates in the latest version of the ExpressionEngine product (CMS) from EllisLab.This popular Web development solution recently took another major step forward with the July 12 release of ExpressionEngine 2.1, the product's first major upgrade in several years. Version 2 sports a number of new features and significant improvements over its predecessor, many of which I'll highlight in this article.He touches on a few of the updates in this...
Read More ...
Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 07.30.2010
, 30 July 2010
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:I Am Learning PHP Blog: Do Web-Scripting Languages Really Need OOP? PHPClasses.org Blog: Lately in PHP podcast - PHP for Android, PHP 6 canceled, APC in PHP 5.4 JoomlaBlogger.net: How to understand Joomla templates in five easy steps WordPress Blog: PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement Zend Developer Zone: Twice the Amount of Bugs and Twice the Amount of Winners! John Hamelink's Blog: Top codeigniter libraries I can't live without. Sebastian...
Read More ...
Sandboxed DOM API
Planet PHP
, 30 July 2010
Description I finally sat down and started work on a sandboxed DOM API. Originally I was just going to develop a new framework because the DOM is messy but instead I decided it would be cool to have a safe simulated DOM instead and build a framework on top of that. It isn't complete yet and there's still a lot of work to do but it's working pretty good. I still need to run some tests on it and try to break it but I don't have time at the moment as I need to do other stuff. One of the problems making a...
Read More ...
Auto Increment with MongoDB
Planet PHP
, 30 July 2010
We are currently working on an app that uses a number of technologies, including PHP, Python, and MongoDB. Recently, a need arose to use sequential identifiers for users, similar to an auto_increment column in MySQL. If you've used MongoDB, you might be familiar with the default behavior of using a UUID as the primary key. This is convenient, especially if you partition your database across servers, because you don't have to coordinate the primary key in any way. If you use sequential identifiers (as I...
Read More ...
Sean Coates' Blog: A Case of Mistaken Iterator
, 30 July 2010
In a new post to his blog today Sean Coates talks about some of his work with Iterators in PHP and how, despite a bad example in the manual, he solved his issue (and updated the PHP manual too).In the back end, we have models that connect to CouchDB. These models implement the Iterator pattern to allow easy traversal of a record's keys. [...] Little did I realize that this implementation is very broken. [...] Over the past few years, I've implemented many iterators in this way, using PHP's implicit array...
Read More ...
TigerFish Interactive: Drupal 6: Posting AJAX callbacks in SimpleTest
, 30 July 2010
On the TigerFish Interactive blog today there's a new post for Drupal-ers out there about using the SimpleTest plugin for Drupal 6 to run automated tests against Ajax callbacks.In Drupal 6's excellent SimpleTest module, a method called drupalPost() allows you to simulate a button press on a form by taking the form's data and using HTTP POST to submit it. But what if you want to POST data to an AJAX callback URL? By default, SimpleTest checks which submit button you have pressed, but of course, when...
Read More ...
DevShed.com: Asirra Captcha PHP Integration
, 30 July 2010
On DevShed.com today there's a new tutorial about implementing the Asirra CAPTCHA system (from Microsoft) into your application for spam prevention.Unlike other types of captcha that utilize difficult text obfuscation techniques (such as Google reCaptcha), this system utilizes images of dogs and cats, such as those shown in this screenshot.They describe some of the reasons to use the system (hard to break, doesn't use sessions, easy to integrate) and how it works. They show how to implement the system on...
Read More ...
A Case of Mistaken Iterator
Planet PHP
, 30 July 2010
Earlier this week, I spent most of a day tracing through code in search of the source of a bug that was causing part of our application to fail in strange ways. In the back end, we have models that connect to CouchDB. These models implement the Iterator pattern to allow easy traversal of a record's keys. When I wrote the code to implement Iterator several months ago, I dutifully checked the PHP Manual and adapted the reference example that I found there: _data); } public function current() { return...
Read More ...
Jani Hartikainen's Blog: The "do X or die()" pattern must die
, 29 July 2010
Jani Hartikainen has a suggestion for all PHP developers out there - stop using die() for handling errors!What's the most common pattern for error handling you see in beginner's PHP code? - That's right, do_X() or die('do_X failed);. That's nice and all, as at least you have some sort of error handling, but I think this way of handling errors must go. There is no place for it in modern PHP code - it's the worst way to handle errors, not much better than not handling them at all.He talks about why die()...
Read More ...
symfony 2 documentation team looking for translators
Zend Developer Zone
, 29 July 2010
As tweeted by Fabien Potencier, symfony2 now has a aotranslationsa page on their site. If you read and write English and another language, they want you!
Read More ...


text:
What Could the Mets Have Gotten For Jose Reyes?
The Mets didn't trade Jose Reyes, likely wisely. But what COULD they have gotten for him?
Skip to content, or skip to search.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
The Mets didn't trade Jose Reyes, likely wisely. But what COULD they have gotten for him?
The Mets' general manager aces his first substantial move as general manager.
Sandy Alderson said the Mets' playoff chances will dictate what his team will do in the trade market. So, do they have any chance?
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson reminds everyone that the season is not, in fact, over.
The Mets' playoff chances dwindle, and Carlos Beltran won't be around much longer.
The Mets' winning streak ends at four, and now questions loom.
Sandy Alderson: "Jose's situation is not a function of whether we're winning or losing on a short-term basis in July."
It'll be more than $100 million, but less than $140 million.
The Mets have cut ties with the second baseman.
They both agree on a "great prospect." Spoiler alert: It's you!
He beat out Bob Melvin, Chip Hale, and Wally Backman for the job.
The Mets have told SNY to be at Citi Field on Tuesday.
A look at Terry Collins, Bob Melvin, Chip Hale, and Wally Backman.


text:
An ingrown hair is a hair that curls and penetrates the skin with its tip, causing inflammation. Ingrown hairs are more common among people with very curly hair. Most ingrown hairs occur in the beard area on men and the bikini or groin area on women.
The most common symptom of an ingrown hair is redness and inflammation of the skin, followed by pus formation. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. The symptoms of an ingrown hair may resemble other skin conditions. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
Diagnosis of an ingrown hair can be confirmed with a medical history and a physical examination.
An ingrown hair often heals on its own. However, in the case of chronic ingrown hairs, treatment may include:
Allowing the hair to grow longer prior to shaving it
Removing the hair permanently through electrolysis, laser, or depilatory methods (liquids or creams)
ER and Physicians Care Express wait times are approximate and provided for informational purposes only. If you are having a medical emergency, call 911.
Our wait times are updated every 15 minutes. The wait time provided displays the amount of time (in minutes) that it takes for a patient to see a qualified medical professional from the time of their arrival at the Emergency Room or Physicians Care Express location. The wait time displayed represents a rolling-average of the previous 120-minutes for all patients who are currently visiting our Emergency Room or Physicians Care Express locations.


text:
Training for the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is recommended for all colleges, departments, and divisions' campus wide. This training can be requested at any time by simply contacting the Office of the Registrar and making arrangements for a representative to conduct a workshop or seminar on the subject.
844-6444 or e-mail email@example.com.
For the convenience of all Auburn University faculty and staff, a self-guided tutorial is available on line at: http://www.auburn.edu/administration/internal_auditing/ferpa.html
There is a test at the conclusion of the narrative to assess your learning skills! This tutorial outlines specifics concerning the privacy of student records and the confidentiality of such records.
Please review the Power Point presentations utilized in FERPA training that can be downloaded prior to a workshop or seminar.
FERPA PowerPoint Presentation for Employees
For a complete copy of Auburn University's Policy on the Confidentiality of Student Records Pursuant to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Please review
Policy on the Confidentiality of Student Records (FERPA)
Statement of Confidentiality - AU Employees
Statement of Confidentiality - Student Workers


text:
I See London, I See France: 3-D "Nudie" Scanners Coming To An Airport Near You
I know what you're thinking, because I thought the same thing, "holy shit, Han Solo in Carbonite!", but no. These are images of people using a 3D scanner that will soon be utilized in airports across the country to ensure you don't have any explosive material in the back of your pants.
The $150,000 contraptions, already tested in 23 U.S. airports, on their way to many more locations soon -- the TSA ordered 150 more of the machines.
According to the New York Daily News, many airline passengers said they were "all for whole body scanners at airports, if it means better flight safety."
Sure, why not? I'm all for better and more efficient screening procedures provided this thing can't tell a dress sock from a penis. I mean, not that it matters because I'm alllllll Gold Toe penis, baby!
150 more 'naked scanners' on the way [dvice]
Some guy working security at Heathrow Airport in London caught a female employee accidentally walking through a body scanner and seized the opportunity to look at her privates or whatever the hell it is you see with one of those newfangled soul-stealers. Now whether this fello... / Continue →
Note: I censor-barred the image (in case you couldn't tell) but you can hit the jump for a NSFW version of what the pasties actually look like if you want. Just don't come crying to me if your mom catches you and you end up grounded from the internet. Flying Pasties are 2-3mm... / Continue →
Looks like the larger of the two just had a fairly significant meal as well. Just sayin', give it a couple hours and she'll only be a 246 pounder. Also, I highly don't recommend it but if you look hard enough I think you can make out their vaginas. So, yeah -- have fun with ... / Continue →


text:
04/20/2013 W. Tennis Clinches Outright MW Title, Defeats Air ForceWT: Aztecs down AFA to clinch outright MW title 04/19/2013 W. Tennis Clinch Share Of MW Title; Top Seed In TourneyNo. 41 WT defeat Wyoming, 5-1 04/18/2013 W. Tennis Extends Win Streak; Keeps Hold On MW Top SpotWT extends win streak; stays in top MW spot 04/16/2013 Women's Tennis Sweeps UCSD; Celebrates Senior DayNo. 41 WT sweeps UCSD; celebrates seniors 04/14/2013 WT Remains Perfect In League Play; Edges Nevada, 4-3No. 48 WT moves up to 16-4 on the season Fall 2013
As a Sophomore (2012-2013)
As a Freshman
Prior to SDSU |


text:
The City of Redlands Recreation Division will begin offering Ballet One classes for children ages 5 - 7 at the Redlands Community Center. Class sessions are $30 per child and consist of four classes.
With Ballet One, your child will be taught proper fundamentals such as ballet positions, port de bras, movement across floor, beginning ballet steps and song and dance. Wear your favorite leotard, tights or tutu. Ballet shoes are recommended. Classes will be held on Saturdays from 10:15 to 11 a.m. at the Redlands Community Center. Class sessions are scheduled as followed:
Come and enjoy Ballroom dance in a comfortable and fun setting.
Nightclub two-step will be taught Mondays beginning June 3, and ending June 24.
Class runs from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. Registration fee is $8 per person. Partners are not required
Contract class instructors are needed to teach a wide range of classes, such as arts and crafts, fitness classes, and dance at the Joslyn Senior Center. The Recreation Division of the Quality of Life Department is always searching for qualified instructors to teach new or existing classes.
If you are interested in being a contract instructor please contact the Joslyn Senior Center at (909) 798-7550 or visit at 21 Grant St. Redlands, CA 92374.
The Coffee with the Council scheduled for Saturday, May 18, has been cancelled in order to accommodate City Council members and others who wish to attend memorial services for the son of Mayor Pro Tem Paul Foster. Coffee with the Council will resume in June.
The City of Redlands will conduct a public workshop next month seeking input on the City's proposed bicycle lane connectivity plan.
The workshop will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, June 10, in the City Council Chambers, 35 Cajon St.
This workshop will summarize the input received from the community since a Jan. 23 workshop to discuss desired routes for bike lane connectivity within the City and which lanes the community considers as priority projects. The City will incorporate information received during the workshops into a master planning document for implementation when funding becomes available.
A local grocery chain outlet recently joined Redlands in celebrating the City's 125th Anniversary.
Albertsons' Redlands store at 450 E. Cypress Ave. recently began selling reusable shopping bags that include an image of the City of Redlands' 125th Anniversary logo on an orange crate on one side and the logo for local craft brewery Hangar 24 on the other side.
Store manager Mike Enright said the bags celebrating the City's anniversary were a natural fit for his store, which has previously sold bags featuring historic Redlands locations.
A joint Town Hall meeting with Redlands Police Chief Mark A. Garcia and Fire Chief Jeff L. Frazier has been rescheduled to 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict. The Town Hall meeting will be held in the Redlands City Council Chambers and will be televised live to cable television customers on Redlands TV.
Frazier and Garcia will answer questions regarding public safety issues.
As motorists take to the roads for the Memorial Day holiday, Redlands police are urging everyone to buckle up. Redlands Police will be lending their support to the 2013 national Click It or Ticket seat belt law campaign and looking for motorists who are not belted.
"As we kick-off the busy summer driving season it's important that everyone buckles up every time they go out, both day and night – no excuses," said Redlands Police Traffic Sgt. Jeremy Floyd. "Our officers are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing their seat belt – Click It or Ticket."
Redlands Police are investigating a series of incidents in which teenage or younger females have been followed on their way to or from school. In most of the incidents the driver of the vehicle attempts to engage the girls in conversation. In one incident a 17-year-old high school student got into a car with the suspect before being dropped off a few minutes later.
The most recent incident occurred Monday, May 6, shortly before 9 a.m. when a teenage girl was approached as she walked to Redlands High School in the area of Church Street. A silver or white Mercedes Benz with tinted lens covers over the head lights and brake lights passed her several times before pulling into a parking lot near Church Street and Central Avenue and attempted to engage the girl in conversation and tried to get her in to his vehicle.
Police arrested a 34-year-old Yucaipa man for theft of copper wire from City light posts early Wednesday morning, the first success for the department's newly created Community Response Unit.
Stanley Ray Tankersley was arrested shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, after police stopped him near the intersection of Colton Avenue and Orange Street for code violations and driving erratically. When they made contact with Tankersley, officers discovered gloves, tools and four coils of 8-guage wire in his 1994 Chevrolet Impala.
After investigation and interviews with Tankersley, officers determined he had recently stolen the wire from City light posts in the area of Crown Street, and Highland and Cedar avenues.