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Just five days after the shooting at a Newtown, CT, elementary school that left 20 children and six adults dead, President Barack Obama announced the creation of a guns task force that will recommend policy change by next month.
In a broadcasted Wednesday press conference, Obama confirmed morning reports of the task force's formation and explained that the panel would not only deal with mass shootings but the "epidemic" of gun violence.
"This is a team that has a very specific task," the president said, adding that it is to put together "real reforms right now."
The task force will be led by Vice President Joe Biden, along with cabinet members and people he described as stakeholders.
Touting the vice president's planned role, Obama noted Biden's work as a U.S. Senator in backing a 1994 crime bill that included the now-expired assault weapons ban.
At the press conference, the president called for swift action, arguing that the response from the task force will not be a long study.
Obama acknowledged that while the second amendment to the Constitution "guarantees an individual right to bear arms," he called for a range of gun control measures to tackle violence. While Obama did not endorse specific legislation, he gave general support for more items such as regulation of gun show purchases and making it harder for people with mental health issues to obtain guns.
In general, Obama promised that he will use "all the power of this office," to help prevent gun violence.
Stressing that his initiative includes more than just major shootings, the president noted gun violence that has occurred since Friday's mass homicide, including a police officer who was killed in Memphis and a drive-by death in Missouri.
"Violence that we cannot accept as routine," Obama said.
Following his remarks, Obama took questions from reporters, including whether he gave enough attention to gun violence during his first term and whether a short domestic attention span will be an issue for the group. Responding, the president said that the group is "not going to be a commission," noting that there are already plans it can look at as part of its review.
The end product of the group, Obama told the press, is to come up with a "concrete set of recommendations in about a month." He added that as soon as he gets recommendations, "I will be putting forward very specific proposals."
The president also plans to address the issue in his 2013 Station of the Union address to Congress, and called for congressional action on gun control.
At one point, the president had a tense exchange with a reporter who asked whether he paid enough attention to gun control previously.
"Where have you been?" he was asked.
"I don't think I've been on vacation," the president responded, and noted that other parts of his agenda, including working on the economy and healthcare reform, also help those who will benefit from more gun safety. However, Obama said that he feels there needs to be "some reflection on how we prioritize what we do here in Washington."
With regards to public attention spans, the president doubted that such a loss would occur in only a month after the Newtown deaths.
Kenneth Mitchell, superintendent of the South Orangetown school district in Rockland County and member of the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents, reacted positively when told about reports of Obama's plan for a task force.
"A task force is a great idea, as long as it does not get mired down in political churn or produces more rhetoric than action," he wrote to Patch. "There are decades worth of data out there about the extent to which children have been killed or injured by guns. Such a group should be able to be move rapidly."
Mitchell, who in 2009 was able to stop a parent with a unloaded gun who came into his office, called for more support from the federal and state governments in dealing with mental health, noting cuts that have been made for investment in it.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) reacted favorably with the following statement:
"I stand firmly with President Obama's call to action today for a comprehensive approach that refuses to accept gun violence as routine. Congress has ducked action on commonsense gun laws for too long. We have an obligation to prevent tomorrow's senseless deaths by coming together and ensuring that guns stay out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill. Keeping our children safe from the scourge of gun violence is not a Republican or a Democratic principle, this is an issue for all Americans. There is no political ideology that finds this loss of life acceptable. The truth is that supporting the Second Amendment and reducing gun violence are compatible and consistent. Responsible gun owners vehemently oppose the kind of gun violence afflicting the streets of America. I am optimistic the mothers, fathers and reasonable gun owners of America will take back this conversation, and with the support of this new interagency task force, led by Vice President Joe Biden, Congress can come together and agree that no American should have access to the high capacity ammunition clips made for our military, agree to close the gun show loophole, ban military style weapons that have no recreational sports use and stop the flow of illegal guns that are devastating our communities."


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By REBEKAH R. BLOMENBERG
By KELLY SICKAFOOSE
Executive Director,
Substance Abuse Awareness Council
(260) 724-5368
The rate of youth using alcohol for the first time doubles in the months of June and July, largely due to summer being an unsupervised time when teens are alone or with their peers.
By DYLAN MALONE
Happy 4th of July, everyone. I hope the fireworks, family, friends and food was as amazing for you as it was for me.
It's not very often that I get to sit in on a professional press conference but the opportunity presented itself last week when Sycamore Hills hosted an event for several media members in the region at their clubhouse in support for the upcoming PGA event in September.
As the NBA goes, it will never be as popular as the NFL. The Heat and Spurs gave it a good go on Thursday night, however, leaving basketball fans breathless with big shot after big shot ending with LeBron and company's second straight title.
If you're like me and you don't live in Miami, the outcome of the game probably made you sick to your stomach.
By Joe Spaulding
By DYLAN MALONE
I already know what some readers will think when I write this but it needs to be said anyway...
Adams Central's run in softball and baseball was phenomenal. Period.
Say what you want, non-AC fans. Tell me I'm a traitor for liking the Jets more than Bellmont or South Adams. Remind me that I graduated from there and clearly still have too much invested at that school to properly cover all three schools equally.
By J SWYGART
By BOB SHRALUKA
The recent passing of Carl Bennett at the age of 97 may well have taken the last living link to Zollner Piston basketball in Fort Wayne.
The Pistons, of course, played for years in Fort Wayne under the stewardship of industrialist Fred Zollner and were the key reason the Memorial Coliseum was constructed. Zollner played a major role in the merger that birthed the National Basketball Association (NBA); in fact, the deal was hammered out in his home.
By MARK TURNER
Donald Westlake was one of the greatest crime authors to ever put word to paper. His books have been turned into numerous films, but most have been based on the character he created under the pseudonym Richard Stark. That character's name is Parker and such films as PAYBACK and POINT BLANK have been about him but never used his name. That changes with the release of PARKER.

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Table of Blog Contents/posts (new stuff at top)
Welcome to Kiefair.com!
You have found our home page.
It functions effectively as a table of contents for all the
information you can find on this site related to
cannabis, art, poetry and more.
COMING SOON! What's a Mutant to do? Look to the Ancient Medical Texts
Coming soon! Importance of Emotional Support Service Animals
August 2014
Cannabis Community, Skunk Magazine Honors: Dr. Maya Angelou: Tribute to a Phenomenal Life
Guest Author Steve Bass:The Next One
Guest Author Steve Bass: Also Done With Mirrors (from El Paso County Jail )
Guest Author Steve Bass: Willie and Waylon and Some Other Guy: A story about weed, marriage, and Texas tall tales. Part I
July 2014
House of Mirrors Guest author post by Steve Bass
June 2014
Tokin Female: Pot Pioneer, Toni Fox with Pebbles Trippet (SKUNK MAGAZINE VOLUME 9 ISSUE 8
June/July 1014)
(Reprinted with unprecedented special permission from the SKUNK MAGAZINE STAFF)
Broken Back Blues: Hope and a call for prayer for Gramma Maggic 420
May 2014
RIP Maya Angelou honoring her cannabis connections
Cannabis and Me: My Testimony of a Plant Christ Created: From: Gramma Maggic 420′s tales
County Line Alternative Medicine: First Morning as a Volunteer Gramma Maggic 420′s tales
Hippocracy of the Alternative From: Gramma Maggic 420′s tales
April 2014
4/18/2014 Set Up and Opening day of the LaMay CANNABIS MUSEUM™ OF COLORADO Behind the scenes
Cannabis and Me: My Testimony of a Plant Christ Created: From: Gramma Maggic 420′s tales
County Line Alternative Medicine: First Morning as a Volunteer Gramma Maggic 420′s tales
Hippocracy of the Alternative From: Gramma Maggic 420′s tales
March 2014
Book review "Baked Italian" and italian cannabis cookbook
How to Make Cannabis Cure oil without alerting the neighbors
Do's and Don'ts of Helping a friend with social anxiety or Phobias (Sting and Paul Simon Serenade)
February 2014
Post that got me a new roomate:
Cannabis Activism Home Movies from the Kiefair Journey
Genesis Pure Product Line Review
January 2014
Weight Gain Journey of an Intractably Nauseous Stomach
Hannah Hurnard's "Hind's Feet on High Places" audiobook video series NEW Chapters!
"Of Poetry Pain and Pot" New Verses
Toking Through Tin Pan Alley
Viewer's Choice videos of 2013 THANK YOU VIEWERS!
Kiefair.com Reader's Choice Posts for 2013
December 2013
Solstice Gift! free ecopy "Of Pain, Poetry and Pot" One Day Only!
WELCOME new writer: Kharmarose Rambling Rose
My Message to Others
Journey of an Unfit Mother
November 2013
Give the Gift of Cannabis Art this Season
PTSD People and Passive Aggressive People… a toxic mix
September 2013
Of Pain, Poetry, And Pot
Amish Kid forced on Chemo: What's the Matter Here? and Why the cannabis community should care!
Breezy Kiefair a poem by
Maggie Slighte
August 2013
Update: Tale of a True Reefer Gurl
DIY Cannabis Cure oil healing: The tale of Wren
CDPHE, Please keep to the LAW Regarding Privacy
July 2013
Hannah Hurnard's "Hind's Feet on High Places" audiobook video series
June 2013
Over 420 People say FREE RONNIE SMITH
Breezy Wants You to write an Inmate (updated post with new prisoners to write!)
Atmos Rx Vaporizer Review and Dixie Med-A-Mints vs. Growing Kitchen's Chill Pills
Tolkien Was a Stoner… was Lembas bread made of hemp seed?
May 2013
How to Extract Cannabis Cure Oil with alcohol (Phoenix Tears)
A few words on the properties of Isopropyl alcohol
Free Ronnie Smith
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Help Defend Ronnie Smith!
April 2013
Do You Have Greenfaith?
an Interview with Reverend Brandon Baker
Boulder County Dispensary Reviews by Kiefair.com
Updated Post DUI BILL ADVANCES
Posts from Breezy's Digital Journal April 2013
March 2013
Colorado Cannabis Corruption, as predicted!
Results? The Poorest and Sickest Cannabis Patients are Caught Between Financial Rock Bottom and a Need For Hash Place
Medicinal Cannabis Activist Creed
February 2013
Amendment 64 task force meets to outline plan for recreational marijuana sales in Colorado
January 2013
Mary Janes Medicinals Product Reviews
Reblog: Amendment 64 task force meets to outline plan for recreational marijuana sales in Colorado
Have you noticed the art of Kiefair.com?
Cannabis Parody of Children's song "This Old Man"
Pink Floyd, Animals, Art and Activism
First post of the year!
A tale of a true Reefer Gurl
Kiefair.com Reader's Choice Posts for 2012
December 2012
WordPress year in review for Kiefair.com
Pain and People "Management" by: Gramma Maggic420
Top 10 Posts on Kiefair.com of 2012
Book Reviews By Breezy
MarQaha soda, and Cannabis Xtract Capsules purchased at JP Wellness
Dixie Elixirs, Dixie Script, Dixie Dewdrops and The Clinic Colorado Review
Marijuana legalization task force meets for first time Monday
Reviews of The Secret Stash in Colorado Springs
Jp Wellness Reviews Updated
From Shaved head to cancer free in a little under a month!
Telemarketer's machine gets a cannabis cancer cure turn around
Cheap Stash Jars… Recycling Rocks!
Top 11 Herbs for cats (yes they love cannabis!)
2012-05-29 1144 making oil for ma legal or not!
"Iron Butterfly-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" artistic video
Dark Side of the Moon Decomposed
Shall We Call it Wail Oil or Phoenix Tears?
November 2012
Rick Simpson on Visual Inspection and Quality of Oils: Debunked
History of Essential oil Perfumery and Methods of Extracting Herbs
REBLOG: United Nations Moves to Impose International Treaties On States Legalizing Marijuana Alex Jones Infowars: Theres a war on for your mind!
Music video: Dr34m by DJ Krankzinnig to Kiefair Portraits
The Little Black Book of Marijuana by Steve Elliot book review
Mountain Medicals Review
***** Disclaimer****** This is the site of a Medicinal Cannabis Activist! (updated 11/4/2012)
October 2012
Corporate Greed is not Legal Weed! Colorado, Vote NO on 64!
FAQ's about Phoenix Tears Therapy for the Beginner
Hemp Seed and Hemp Seed Oil ~ a superfood, but not a cancer cure…
Familial Mediterranean Fever ~ a Rare genetic disease
September 2012
Living in Low income Land: Hameed Style
August 2012
Levity Wellness Agent Orange, Jack Herer, and Super Lemon Haze Review
2012-08-16 1247 Review of Denver Dispensary Alameda Wellness Strain: Bubba Kush
High Crimes and Hijinks by guest blogger Steve Bass
Rest In Peace Duke (his battle with cancer has ended)
July 2012
Phoenix Tears Healing a Diabetic Ulcer (8 months of treatment)
Bubblegum Bagseed Grow Journal (video)
Pink Floyd: "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" to the art of Breezy Kiefair
JP Wellness Reviews
Naphtha is not good for you!
June 2012
Would you like to pick my brain today?
Black Zombie, Hawaiian, and White from A Cut Above Astrozon
At Home Baked Baked at home revisited: Gluten Free & Blondie
Phoenix Tears for Pets too!
A conversation with Betty Aldworth of Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (Amendment 64)
Pikes Peak Cannabis Caregivers Review by proxy
May 2012
Phoenix Tears Healing a Diabetic Ulcer (updated Journey)
Words to the father of my son through his lover
Parody: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
Remembering a Murdered boy: Westley Thorin Keaton Roberts. Happy would-be 13th birthday 7:47pm (birth minute)
Do you still need proof that marijuana cures cancer?
Cannabis Roots for Medicinal Use
New Study Quantifies Wal-Mart's Damage to Local Economies
A mother's grief 12 years later: Westley Thorin Keaton Roberts
Mad Cow Disease Found At Central California Dairy
Using Google's Public Data Service to Visualize FBI Uniform Crime Report Data
April 2012
Help a homeless family stay together! (update)
A conversation with the CO MMIG about low income patients
Warning Sign of Alzheimer's: Challenges in Planning and Solving Problems
Math Not Meth (with Master Debate Marijuana VS. Crystal Meth)
8 Gorgeous Nature Blogs for Earth Day
In pot we trust
Colorado Canna Relief? or Cannabis Like Alcohol or Tobacco…. you decide.
Low income? Make your own Black Gold Cheap!
The Literary Lineage of Breezy Kiefair
Colorado Canna Relief? or Cannabis Like Alcohol or Tobacco…. you decide.
Breezy's Broken Butt Bone… Need some things to heal
Help a homeless family stay together!
Vapor Brothers Donate Vape to save WONPR president's life
Where Have All The Flowers Gone Parody for Cannabis Prohibition
Ricing the side
At Home Baked, Baked at Home
February 2012
Why is Obama So Chicken, Unwilling to Even Address the Question of Pot and the Failed Drug War?
January 2012
2011-11-05 "Howl" By Allen Ginsberg remixed by Breezy Kiefair with video reading
The Origin of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers as told by Fat Freddy
Tea Partying With the Freak Brothers By: Steve Bass
November 2011
Phoenix Tears Healing a Diabetic Ulcer (the healing begins)
Smear Campaign against Oppression of Hemp
October 2011
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg updated for the Occupation
"America" by Allen Ginsberg updated for the Occupation (with Ballad of the skeletons)
Remembering a Murdered boy: Westley Thorin Keaton Roberts. Happy would-be 13th birthday 7:47pm (birth minute)
The October 2011 Activism Activities of Breezy Kiefair
Medical marijuana strains and Fibromyalgia
I am the 99% they don't want you to see….
September 2011
Karma, Hate and Haters
How many scriptures can you come up with where the holy spirit is associated with flame, fire, smoke, or herbs.
Letter to my senator to KILL FED Bill S.1310, the "Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011″
August 2011
Breezy Wants you to write an inmate
July 2011
A letter in support of the lawsuit against HB-1284 in the State of Colorado…
May 2011
4 Strains from 4 Real Cannabis Supply in Fort Garland
April 2011
AN Update for those planning on attending the Week Long Birthday Bonfire Bash for Breezy Kiefair the week of May 19, 2011
Leaving Mesa Kamp Kiefair
March 2011
My response to Maine RE my Civil Citations for my Sacramental Pipes
The Traveling Medical Cannabis Patient Story #1 Mr. Marvin Reeves
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December 2010
The Story of Angels on the Pass from 1981
November 2010
Living in Low Income Land, Kiefair Style
August 2010
The Kiefairs are Packin it up and movin out! Online access nil for a while.
January 2010
***** Disclaimer****** This is the site of a Medical Marijuana Activist!
Who We are, How We Came to Be, Why we Give back
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special topics:
Westley Thorin Keaton Roberts
updated: Remembering a Murdered boy: Westley Thorin Keaton Roberts. Happy would-be 13th birthday 7:47pm (birth minute)
A mother's grief 12 years later: Westley Thorin
Keaton Roberts
Remembering a Murdered boy: Westley Thorin Keaton Roberts. Happy would-be 13th birthday 7:47pm (birth minute)
Poetry & Art
Pink Floyd: "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" to the art of Breezy Kiefair
Would you like to pick my brain today?
Parody: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
The Literary Lineage of Breezy Kiefair
Where Have All The Flowers Gone Parody for Cannabis Prohibition
2011-11-05 "Howl" By Allen Ginsberg remixed by Breezy Kiefair with video reading
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg updated for the Occupation
"America" by Allen Ginsberg updated for the Occupation (with Ballad of the skeletons)
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- International Humanitarian Law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts - ICRC report
- Prohibition and punishment of torture and other forms of ill-treatment
- What is the difference between humanitarian law and human rights law?
- International humanitarian law, human rights and peace operations
- Concerning the optional Protocol to the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishments
The interplay between international humanitarian law and internationalhuman rights law in situations of armed conflict
International human rights law and international humanitarian law are traditionally two distinct branches of law. Yet, developments in international and national jurisprudence and practice have led to the recognition that these two bodies of law not only share a common humanist ideal of dignity and integrity but overlap substantially in practice.
26-12-2007 | International Law Forum, University of Jerusalem | Cordula Droege
Human rights obligations of non-state actors in conflict situations
The author addresses the international obligations of belligerents, national liberation movements and insurgent entities, looks at the growing demands that such armed groups respect human rights norms and considers some of the options for holding private military companies accountable with regard to human rights abuses.
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Bright and cheery 1840 ft furnished home in a golf and tennis
community located in the foothills north of Tuscon. Two master
bedroom suites, great room with open kitchen, dining and family
room, living room, office/laundry area and two-car garage. Covered
back deck has beautiful mountain views. Living area has ceramic
tile while the bedrooms are carpeted. The Preserve and Mountain
View golf courses are part of the community for you to enjoy. The
community also has spacious clubhouses, tennis courts, pools and
exercise rooms for your use.
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Mark Nilssen 925-828-4476
house rental amenities
King bed in one of the master bedrooms while the other bedroom has
two full beds. Each bedroom has its own private full bath and walk-
in closet
TVs in each bedroom and in family room. wireless internet access
Kitchen has a wrap-around counter with seating
Back patio is covered, has a table and chairs for outdoor dining and
offers magnificent mountain views: Nature abounds!
activities and attractions in Saddlebrooke Arizona
Golf, tennis, swimming, biking, hiking, exercising and dining all
available for you to use in the community.
vacation rental rates
June - October: $1600 per month
November - December: $2400 per month
April - May: $2400 per month
January - March: $2800 per month
Mark Nilssen 925-828-4476
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Manager: Thorsten Fink
Key Additions: Rene Adler, Maximilian Beister (loan returnee),
Key Losses: Mladen Petric, Jose Guerrero, Gökhan Töre
2011-2012 Finish: Bundesliga 15th
2012-2013 Prediction: Last season did not start off well for Hamburg at all. With Michael Oenning running the show, Hamburg struggled to get anything going in a positive direction. With 1 point out of their first 18, Frank Arnesen had no choice but to send Oenning packing. Arnesen moved to sign FC Basel's Thorsten Fink who was in the process of pulling a huge European upset by having his side advance to the Champions League knockout rounds ahead of Manchester United. Fink turned things around and managed to move Hamburg above the relegation zone. The finished the year in 15th place and five points safe from relegation.
Rene Adler has left Bayer Leverkusen for Hamburg. The former Germany number one lost his starting position for Leverkusen last season due to injury and was unable to gain it back. He will take the number one spot from Jaroslav Drobny, but the Czech should continue to push him for that spot. Maximilian Beister has returned from his two year long loan at Fortuna Düsseldorf and will add something different to the attacking midfield. Another transfer to watch is Artjoms Rudnevs joining from Lech Poznan. The Latvian striker could be a pleasant surprise. On the way out of Hamburg is Paolo Guerrero (Corinthians), Mladen Petric (Fulham), and Gökhan Töre (Rubin Kazan). Of the three, Töre will be missed the most as the young Turkish international was really coming into his own last year.
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Distinguished panelists from across the country will contextualize the Museum's exhibition on 14th century tapestries.
Dr. John Marciari is the Curator of European Art and the Head of Provenance Research at The San Diego Museum of Art. He is responsible for the planning and implementation of the iteration of The Invention of Glory at the Museum.
Dr. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Since receiving her Ph.D at New York University, Dr. von Barghahn has been a prolific writer, contributing texts to many important art historical publications and authoring multiple books, including Age of Gold, Age of Iron: Renaissance Spain and Symbols of Monarchy. Her talk is titled "Defining the Perfect Prince in an Age of Chivalry: Portugal's Moroccan Campaign and the Pastrana Tapestries."
From Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece commemorating the 1415 conquest of Ceuta to Flemish tapestries that documented the 1471 taking of Tangier, this lecture will consider: "portraits of power" in the context of chivalric ideals; the imaging of triumph in the clash of arms; the palatine display of tapestries as a visual chronicle of a contemporary epic; and the fame accrued from Portuguese expeditions to North Africa which initiated an age of navigation and a transformation of the medieval world picture.
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Feel the Fun!! Beach Front Modern 3-BR w/ Pool & Wifi! in Wildwood Crest
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2½
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Royal Crest Condos
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vacation rental description
With this rental, you get an Ocean-Facing unit giving you direct, full-width, unobstructed ocean and beach views! Don't be fooled by other advertised units that make you crane your neck around a corner to see a small sliver of the ocean. Ask for a picture from their balcony and compare it to ours!
You get a beautiful modern condo located in one of the most desirable areas of Wildwood Crest (Myrtle Rd and Ocean Ave) adjacent to a new park. You will enjoy Royal Crest's many amenities including a large, in-ground, professionally-maintained pool with child area, gas grills, pool bathroom, outside shower, elevator & reserved, off-street parking for two cars.
With this newly-updated, immaculate, fully-equipped unit you'll get 3 bedrooms (Master BR: King, BR 2: Queen, BR3: two twin-sized beds), 2.5 baths, kitchen and dining area, spacious living room w/ slider to your private balcony, and breathtaking, unobstructed direct ocean views. 55-inch High Def flat-screen TV with digital cable and DVD player, secured high-speed WiFi internet access, and AM/FM/CD stereo are also supplied.
You will also get additional features that include in-unit full-capacity side-by-side washer and dryer (not those tiny stacked units), central heat & air conditioning, hardwood floors in kitchen/living areas, Queen-size sleep-sofa in living room, 9-ft ceilings, ceiling fan and TV in all bedrooms (flatscreen TV in Master BR), oversized Main Bathroom, large entry foyer, walk-in closet in Master Bedroom, and Master Bath with double vanity.
You get to enjoy a fully-equipped, oversized kitchen with Granite counter tops, a stainless steel double sink, stainless steel appliances, pantry, gas range and drop-down lighting over kitchen island. Coffee-maker, blender, and toaster are also provided. You get seating for 8 at dining room table, 3 at kitchen island, and 3 more at a high-top table.
Your Master bedroom has sliding door and the other two bedrooms have windows to allow lots of natural light and fresh ocean air if you desire.
We rent to families or groups of mature adults (over 25 years of age). Families with children are always welcome. To keep the unit in good shape for our renters, we don't do "High-School Senior Week" or Prom rentals. Being this is YOUR vacation, keep your pets at home please. For your health and our other guests' comfort, smoking is not permitted in the unit.
We know what you value on vacation, and we work hard to deliver it for our guests:
- No hassle check-in: you retrieve the keys yourself from a secure location, on your schedule, so there is no stopping at a busy realtor's office just to get keys and sign paperwork.
- Cleanliness: the unit is professionally and thoroughly cleaned before each tenant's arrival, so you can relax upon arrival.
- Location and Convenience: walk across the public park to the beach entrance using the supplied beach cart, umbrella and beach chairs.
- Comfortable: High-quality furnishings and bedding make sure you feel good, allowing you to fully enjoy your vacation.
What our Guests are saying:
Kristy: June 2013:
"We loved the full ocean view, we could watch dolphins jumping from our deck!"
Adele: July 2013:
"Extremely well appointed. You can tell the owners care and treat the renters as if we were themselves. Best equipped kitchen we've been in throughout our summers."
Cindy and Robert: July 2013:
"The unit was very clean and comfortable. We found the unit to be the nicest and prettiest unit we have rented in the Crest."
Cathy: July 2013:
"Great View! Beautiful and clean unit in a great location. We had a wonderful vacation."
Steve: August 2013:
"Beautiful Property! Owner was a gem to work with, answered all of my questions."
Stephanie: August 2013:
"Great location on the island and great location in the complex. The front unit is wonderful."
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Frank Costantini 856 467-0749
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You get a unit that includes a private ground-floor storage room equipped with beach cart, four high-quality beach chairs and a beach umbrella. With this location, you get a large public park directly across the street containing a playground, gazebo, and bike rentals. You get to watch your kids play in the park from your private balcony!
You get this newly-updated condo fully-furnished with the following amenities:
-Central Air/Heat, Full-Sized Washer/Dryer
-Built-in Microwave, Coffee Maker, Blender, Toaster, Iron, hair dryers
-55-inch flat-screen TV, Digital Hi-Def Cable and secured high-speed WiFi
-TV in each bedroom (flatscreen in Master Bedroom)
-Blankets and pillows are provided for all beds.
-Kitchen is fully-stocked with all the utensils and appliances that you'd need.
Lots of seating options: Dining Room seats 8; Kitchen Island seats 3; High-top Table Seats 3; Living Room seats 8.
activities and attractions in Wildwood Crest New Jersey
A walk, drive, or bike ride to the World Famous Wildwood Boardwalk where you can
spend hours on the rides, shops, eateries, arcades, etc. Also enjoy hours of fun and relaxation directly in front of the unit at the large, free Wildwood Crest Beach. For the kids, directly across the street is a modern playground with jungle gym, slides and bike rentals, and you can watch the kids play from your private balcony. Historic Cape May is only 4 miles away with its extensive shopping and resturants.
You can also take a day and go fishing, water-skiing, boating, parasailing, 18-hole golfing, tennis courts, skate park, miniature golf, Biking, Dolphin/Whale watching, basketball, amusement parks, Cape May County Zoo, movies, etc.
vacation rental rates
The per-week rental rates and availability for 2014 are as follows:
4/5/14 - 4/12/14 - $1350 -
4/12/14 - 4/19/14 - $1350 -
4/19/14 - 4/26/14 - $1350 -
4/26/14 - 5/3/14 - $1350 -
5/3/14 – 5/10/14 - $1350 -
5/10/14 - 5/17/14 - $1350 -
5/17/14 - 5/24/14 - $1750 -
5/24/14 – 5/31/14 - $1750 -
5/31/14 – 6/07/14 - $1950 -
6/07/14 - 6/14/14 - $1950 -
6/14/14 - 6/21/14 - $1950 -
6/21/14 – 6/28/14 - $2850 - RENTED - Repeat Tenant
6/28/14 – 7/05/14 - $3250 - RENTED - Repeat Tenant
7/12/14 - 7/19/14 - $3250 - RENTED - Repeat Tenant
7/26/14 - 8/02/14 - $3250 - RENTED - Repeat Tenant
8/02/14 - 8/09/14 - $3250 - Not Available
8/23/14 - 9/2/14 - $3850 - RENTED - Repeat Tenant
9/4/14 - 9/10/14 - $425 per night, RENTED - Repeat Tenant
9/10/14 – 9/17/14 - $400 per night, RENTED - Repeat Tenant
9/17/14 – 9/24/14 - $325 per night, 3 night minimum - AVAILABLE
9/24/14 – 10/29/14 - $275 per night, 3 night minimum - AVAILABLE
All the above rates include professional cleaning at the end of your stay.
1/2 the weekly rental due within ten days of reservation with a signed contract. Balance due 45 days before arrival. Security deposit is $ 400.00 for a normal family rental. Security deposit is fully refundable within 45 days if unit is left undamaged and ready for cleaning.
Cancellation/Refund Policy:
Refund of deposit if condo is re-rented for the time booked minus $100.00 for expenses. Written cancellation must be received no later than 45 days prior to rental start. The more notice the better!
Frank Costantini 856 467-0749
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in Wildwood Crest
- Enjoy the Beach
- Enjoy a bike ride on the Boardwalk
- Enjoy the Rides and Arcades on the Boardwalk
- Rent jetskis and have a blast
- Take a boat ride to see dolphins or parasail
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Coburn's Obstruction Wins the Day in the Senate
by Charles Lemos, Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 11:58:00 AM EST
Early today Senator Tom Coburn, a member of the Grand Obstructionist Party from Oklahoma, objected to a request to dispense with the reading of an amendment offered by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont proposing a single-payer system. Though normally a courtesy that is almost always granted to fellow senators, the petulant Tom Coburn forced the Senate clerk to read aloud a 767-page amendment to healthcare reform legislation, paralyzing action on the chamber floor as Democrats approach their self-imposed Christmas deadline. It would have taken at least eight hours to read the amendment.
Senator Sanders has now withdrawn his amendment. From The Hill:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday withdrew his single-payer healthcare amendment after Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) initiated a procedural maneuver to shipwreck the measure.
Coburn earlier in the day forced the Senate clerk to read aloud Sanders's 767-page amendment to the Senate healthcare bill in an effort to halt the healthcare debate.
Sanders, a self-described "democratic socialist," spoke on the Senate floor to announce the withdrawal of the measure.
"The day will come, although I recognize it's not today, when the U.S. Congress will have to vote to stand up to ... all those who profit every single year off of human sickness," Sanders said. "That day will come."
Sanders's decision to withdraw the amendment will stop the reading and allow debate to continue.
The amendment would have extended Medicare coverage to all who wanted it.
Their obsession with free markets, that aren't free, will destroy this country. To protect the narrow interests and profane profits of the insurance industry, they are willing to condemn thousands to an early grave. Their lack of empathy for the rights of the poor and their disregard for the decline in American living standards under their rule is beyond comprehension. Here's their record:
When Clinton left office nearly 11.6 million children lived in poverty, according to the Census. When Bush left office that number had swelled to just under 14.1 million, an increase of more than 21 per cent.
The story is similar again for access to health care. When Clinton left office, the number of uninsured Americans stood at 38.4 million. By the time Bush left office that number had grown to just over 46.3 million, an increase of nearly 8 million or 20.6 per cent.
The trends look the same when examining shares of the population that are poor or uninsured, rather than the absolute numbers in those groups. When Clinton left office in 2000 13.7 per cent of Americans were uninsured; when Bush left that number stood at 15.4 per cent. (Under Bush, the share of Americans who received health insurance through their employer declined every year of his presidency-from 64.2 per cent in 2000 to 58.5 per cent in 2008.)
When Clinton left the number of Americans in poverty stood at 11.3 percent; when Bush left that had increased to 13.2 percent. The poverty rate for children jumped from 16.2 per cent when Clinton left office to 19 per cent when Bush stepped down.
It is probably pointless to note that the most effective healthcare programs in the United States are single payer systems. The best kept secret in the country is the healthcare provided by the Veterans Administration, a single payer system. So extending a successful program that saves lives and cuts costs is a naturally an object of GOP disdain simply because it is government-run. Their love of free markets will kill us all.
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i have enjoyed blogging for most of the time, and i have been blogging years now
but ever since cees and i broke up, i haven't felt like it any longer
i got sick of taking pictures of my own face over and over again
i got sick of myself, and sharing things about myself
and i needed to focus on different things in life
besides breaking up my relation, i had to break down my plans for the future as well
the future i had thought would be ours, i now had to face alone again
and being alone scared me terribly,
the feeling of not belonging anywhere scared me even more
"who am i without someone loving me like that" i've asked myself for quite some time
but this summer i have found a different side of life
i have met so many new, loving, special and caring people
they all took me in so easily, and for the first time in my life i actually have a social life.
i'm having a taste of how my puberty could have been; going to parties and dancing at night
having drinks, meeting people and trying out life in any possible way
being unable to lead the 'normal' life has defined me for so long
i have felt worthless, lonely, guilty and ashamed for not being able
to function the way i am 'supposed to' in this society
we are supposed to be successful, beautiful, functional
we are supposed to have a lot of friends, and party every weekend
we are supposed to choose our carreer at the age of fourteen
to study so we'll get a good job that will secure our future.
and i am none of these things.
i believe a lot of people from my generation have suffered the pressure of society
or maybe not really the pressure, i think it is mostly because the world is changing so rapidly fast
depression, anxiety issues and other mental issues are so common these days
and personally i believe this is one of the reasons.
at least it is for me.
what a terrible question i think it is when someone asks me 'what i do'
because i have to admit to them, and myself, that i dont 'do' something
because with asking 'what i do' they're asking me whether i study or work
and i don't. and i used to be ashamed of that, and still am sometimes
these days i don't lie about that any longer and tell those who ask straightforward
and i will tell you, my dear readers and writers, straightforward
because i don't think it's good to pretend to be more than i am
i haven't been able to do school, and have been sick and in and out of hospitals and clinics
for the past eight years.
my life has been lived for me for years
i haven't developed myself the way i should, or more importantly, not the way i wanted
when i finally got out of the sick world i lived in
i thought moving out and living together with cees would be the start of my life
but it turned out to be the end of our relationship
and i had to move again and start over again, as i have done so many times before
and now i finally feel like i am settling down
i am starting to accept that i am not going to be the regular girl, with the regular life
i am starting to accept that my body works like an old ladies body
within time, i'll try building up my life again
but for now i am trying to make my life meaningful in my own way
by taking care of people around me, by taking them as they are and loving them
by noticing the invisible and by learning about myself through talking to strangers
if there is one thing i have learned these past years
is that everybody has their own flaws and struggles, their own battles to fight
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A pair of Jamaica Plain farmers are just weeks away from sprouting their first sky-high veggies atop the Boston Design Center.
Higher Ground founders Courtney Hennessey and John Stoddard plan to start growing in June, supplying produce to five Boston restaurants as well as a farm stand near the South Boston waterfront.
"We've been working on this for almost three years," said Hennessey. "Now it's really happening. We hope to grow two tons of produce this year. It's exciting. It's been such a growth for us."
Their farm's final fundraiser will happen tonight at the design center. Tickets are available for $100 on Eventbrite.com.
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Prison firefighting crew and others working to protect 'hallowed ground' in Yarnell
YARNELL -- Almost one month after the Yarnell Hill wildfire took the lives of 19 Granite Mountain hotshots, crews are at work trying to protect the site where they died from flooding out.
Yarnell received heavy rain Friday. Jim Paxon with the Arizona State Forestry said a 20-person firefighting crew from Lewis Prison along with others from various state agencies have moved into the canyon to place 400 sandbags where the 19 firefighters deployed their shelters on June 30.
"All of that water has to go somewhere," Paxon said. "There's no brush, grass, vegetation to hold the water back. This is steep country. It comes out of these canyons with a lot of velocity."
The prison crew helping deploy sandbags Friday was on the Yarnell Hill fire Saturday June 29 and worked through June 30. The Lewis crew is one of five prison firefighting teams. Four made up of all men, the other crew is all women.
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The Discourse of German Nationalism and Anti-Semitism 1871-1924
Felicity Rash has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust major research grant in collaboration with Geraldine Horan (University College, London) for £184, 755 for the years 2008-2012. The broad aim of this project was to investigate the discourse of a number of nationalistically-inclined and/or overtly anti-Semitic authors of German propaganda published before and during the First World War, some of which influenced the discourse of early National Socialism. An online database has been set up to provide public access to rare documents and text that have been prepared for digital analysis.
Project Leaders: Professor Felicity Rash (Queen Mary, University of London) and Dr Geraldine Horan (University College, London)
Research Assistant: Dr Stefan Baumgarten (RA1); Dr Wayne Stables (RA2)
Postgraduate Research Student: Ms Camilla Leathem
Duration: 2008-2012
The broad aim of this project has been to investigate the ideological and linguistic influence of a number of nationalistically-inclined and/or overtly anti-Semitic authors on German propaganda before and during the First World War, and, subsequently, on the discourse of nationalist thinkers and politicians in the period leading up to the foundation of the Third Reich.
The concrete objectives of the project were as follows:
1. To develop an archive of primary historical sources and to publish these on the project web-site.
2. To host a conference on pre-1924 nationalist and anti-Semitic propaganda.
3. To publish an annotated bibliography of German newspapers and journals for the period 1871-1924.
4. To use the existing research methodologies of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), most specifically the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA), for a critical analysis of a selection of primary texts. The findings of these investigations have been presented and discussed at workshops and published in monographs and periodicals during the period of the project. Research has concentrated upon the discourses of a number of key figures in German politics, philosophy and education during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, most particularly Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Heinrich von Treitschke and Paul Rohrbach. The major works of these authors as well as journalistic and political texts have been examined within the context of influences upon German political discourses prior to and during the First World War and upon the later discourse of National Socialism.
5. To establish a scholarly network for the continued collaborative study of nationalist and anti-Semitic discourse, not merely for the German-speaking world but for at least the European nations and their present and former colonies.
All of the above objectives have been realized, although it was decided to limit the edited bibliography of German newspapers and journals to the period 1912-1918, due to the size of the database which RA1 assembled for the period 1871-1924 (which ran to several million titles). The period 1912-1918 is of particular significance, since it spans the years running up to and during the First World War, which ties in with the Project Leaders' plans for the continuation of the project past the end of its Leverhulme Trust funding.
The project leaders organized an international conference, 'English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1945', which was hosted at QMUL on November 10-11, 2010 in collaboration with the Leo Baeck Institute, London. RA1 played a major role in the organization of the conference.
The conference was attended by over sixty delegates and aimed to contribute to and promote the study of nationalism and anti-Semitism in English language and German contexts from the beginning of the German Second Reich (1871) to the end of World War II (1945). Another aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary contacts between researchers working in the fields of discourse analysis, political science, historiography and other disciplines. Scholars from universities in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Russia, the USA, Australia and Hong Kong contributed papers reflecting a wide range of specializations, including political, cultural and art history, linguistics, musicology, literature, film and political theory. Key-note addresses were given by Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster) on 'The Discourse of Syncretic Antisemitism: "Anything goes!"' and Professor Andreas Musolff (UEA) on 'How to Identify the Enemy of the German Body Politic: Carl Schmitt's Nationalist "Concept of the Political"'.
1. With Prof. A. Musolff: a workskop on the subject of nationalist and anti-Semitic discourse at the joint conference of the Forum for German Language Studies, the German Linguistics Annual Conference and Studies in the History of the English Language held April 29th-May 3rd, 2009 in Banff, Canada. Both project leaders and RA1 read papers at this workshop.
2. With Prof. A. Musolff: a workskop on the subject of German nationalist discourse, held at QMUL on December 14th, 2009. This workshop discussed a proposed collection of papers for publication in the journal Patterns of Prejudice. A special issue of this journal has since appeared, in 2011, edited and introduced by Felicity Rash and Andreas Musolff.
Felicity Rash
Authored monograph:
- German Images of the Self and the Other in Nationalist, Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 222 pp.
Edited special journal issue (with Andreas Musolff):
- German Nationalist and Colonialist Discourse. A Special Issue of Patterns of Prejudice 45/5, 2011.
Journal Papers:
- 'A Linguistic Hermeneutics Approach to Paul Rohrbach's Kriegsbotschaften.' In: Journal of Germanic Linguistics 21.2: 113-130, 2009.
- 'Images of the Self and the Other in Paul Rohrbach's "German Idea".' In: German Nationalist and Colonialist Discourse. A Special Issue of Patterns of Prejudice 45/5, 381-397, 2011.
- 'Images of the Self and the Other in the Nationalist Writing of Houston Stewart Chamberlain.' In: Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 2012.
FJR also spoke on 'Images of the Self and the Other in German Colonialist Literature' at the Conference of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik held in Warsaw in July 2010.
Geraldine Horan
Journal Papers:
- 'Discourses of gender and nationalism in early twentieth-century Germany and Ireland: an analysis of four nationalist women's texts'. In: Patterns of Prejudice. 2. Vol.45, no.5, pp. 469-497, 2011.
- '"Not a foreign goddess": Germania, the Niederwald Monument, and Discourses of Gender and Nationalism'. In: Christina Lee/Nicola McLelland (eds), Germania Remembered 1500-2009: commemorating and inventing a Germanic past. Tuscon, Az: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012, pp. 137-152.
- '"Die östliche Gefahr"'. The discursive construction of German and Polish identity in Käthe Schirmacher's Ostmark speeches, 1906-1913.' The article will be submitted to the journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism for consideration in January 2013.
GH is also planning a follow-up project on 'The language of German anti-feminism and nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany 1871-1918', which will result in a monograph and a digitised corpus of key anti-feminist texts. Peter Lang has expressed an interest in publishing the monograph.
GH also spoke on 'Germania, the Niederwald Monument, and Discourses of Gender and Nationalism' at the conference 'Germania Remembered', held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, in November 2009; and on 'Discourses of nationalism and anti-feminism in Wilhelmine Germany' at the Conference of the Association for German Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, April 2011.
Geraldine Horan and Felicity Rash
Conference proceedings:
- Edited with Daniel Wildmann, with an introductory chapter by Felicity Rash: English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1945. Peter Lang: Oxford.
Over a three-year period, RA1 set up and edited the project web-site, assisted FJR and GH with their individual research, and organized the 2010 conference described above. In particular, he prepared a large number of significant primary texts for discourse analysis using digital concordance software. Three corpus types are now available on the project web-site:
1. Open Access Corpus (OAC), pdf files for public use.
2. Restricted Access Corpus (RAC), reserved for use by project team.
3. Empirical Analysis Corpus (EAC), a selection of texts from the RAC, converted to text file format for corpus linguistic analysis. 15,000 pages of text (around 3.5 million words) have been converted using the Abbyy Fine Reader software package which converts the German Fraktur typeface to Roman typeface. The texts have been carefully checked for accuracy and are available to the public via the project web-site.
RA1 has also assisted in the preparation of the above-mentioned bibliography of German journals and newspapers. His initial research demonstrated that it would not be feasible to annotate and publish a full bibliography for the period 1871-1924, particularly since this task involved the translation of the archival source information into English. It was therefore decided that RA2, who took over RA1's role in February 2012, would prepare a smaller bibliography for publication, based on the data already collected by RA1. This smaller, 300 page-long bibliography, spanning the years 1912-1918 is now available on the project web-site.
Camilla Leathem has been enrolled since July 1st, 2009, at Queen Mary, University of London. She is working on a detailed textual analysis of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's "Kriegsaufsätze" (war essays) using the methods of CDA, in particular DHA. Following the submission of a substantial body of written work and an interview, Ms Leathem was permitted to "upgrade" from M.Phil. to Ph.D. status in May 2011. She transferred to "writing up" status in July 2013 and is on track to submit her Ph.D. thesis in June 2103.
Conference "Perspectives on the Great War", 1-4 August, 2014
To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, an international, multi-disciplinary conference is being organized by the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film (QMUL), the School of History (QMUL), the Open University, and the German Department of University College London. The organizers are working in association with the Imperial War Museum, the Leo Baeck Institute (London), the German Historical Institute (London), and the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (QMUL).
A network of some 150 international scholars, which has, in part grown out of the 2010 conference described above, will meet at QMUL between 1st and 4th August 2014. The broad topics of the conference, as have emerged from the initial call for papers, are as follows: political and military history; colonial history; social and cultural history; religious history; medical science and technology; historiography; discourse analysis; legacy, memory and 21st-century cultural reflexes. A wide range of regional and national perspectives will be covered: the perspectives of Germany and Austria, Great Britain, the U.S.A, Canada, Ireland, the Middle East and India, Japan and China, Australia and New Zealand, the African colonies of both Germany and Britain; the Balkan, Polish and Russian perspectives and the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese perspectives.
Finally, FJR and GH have been approached by the publishers Palgrave MacMillan to edit and Handbook, "Perspectives on the Great War", which will cover the major topics of the 2014 conference (although it is not intended as a collection of conference proceedings).
The 2014 conference and the proposed Handbook will ensure that the present project has a legacy which will last beyond 2104.
GH is also planning a follow-up project on 'Discourses of anti-feminism and nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany', which will consist of a monograph, an open access corpus of key texts, and a colloquium on 'Discourses of anti-feminism in politics and the media', to be completed in autumn 2014.
Final Report: 30.1.2013


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Parker Fire Department responded to Jeannie's Coin Laundry on North Tyndall Parkway after 911 calls were made by customers. Witnesses say they started to smell smoke when they saw the store managers running with a fire extinguisher.
The building was evacuated and fire fighters were on scene in just a few minutes. Gas and electricity were turned off as firefighters secured the building. Chief Andrew Kelly from Parker Fire says thanks to fast acting employees and department fire fighters this small blaze was contained quickly.
"The manager on duty attempted to extinguish it with an extinguisher," said Kelly. "And in just a couple minutes we had it knocked down with water and evacuated the smoke from the building."
"I was just thinking 'Oh my God I hope it doesn't enflame the dryer next to it because my baby's clothes are in there,'" said Karie Jones.
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If you havent been to The College of Idaho in Caldwell, I recommend it as one of the nicest campuses Ive ever experienced even with winter frostings of snow and ice (or, perhaps because of it, depending on your perspective). New visitors and returning alumni consistently marvel at this surprising (re)discovery. Its more than just a well-connected set of pathways framed by eclectic architecture and anchored by a clock tower sentry in its quadrangle. The campus provides a sense of place, beyond simple utility or function.
Our communities and businesses can play similar roles in helping to create a sense of place. Customers rarely make shopping choices based solely on physical layout or structural qualities of a building. What distinguishes places that you have enjoyed visiting where you wanted to spend more time, and where you want to visit again?
Your memories likely involve sensory experiences. Does it evoke a smile to think of the lilting music you heard, or the fragrant aromas you breathed in, or the relaxing sight and sound effects of meandering water flowing between parklike riverbanks and capped by quaint bridges? For me, it could be the Thames or the Seine. But it could also be Indian Creek in Caldwell, or along the Boise River, or many other special places.
Now connect these places and memories and feelings with the experiences of shopping and dining, and the enjoyment of various services. Thats what effective use of open space integrated with business space can do: bring it all together with a sense of place.
Well-planned, coordinated spaces can be pathways to encourage and direct customer traffic flow more efficiently, havens to recharge energy for that next round of purchases, and social hubs to connect and reflect on shared experiences. Nature and nurture would take on new meaning in the case of personal care service providers enhanced by serving customers in a parklike setting.
Renowned development expert Roger Brooks, who shared his ideas in Caldwell last year and has helped to revitalize many business areas, extols the benefits of open space. In his view, public plazas and permanent year-round public markets are the top two downtown revitalization projects. He cites two key statistics:
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Springfield (AP) -- Education officials have announced 11 finalists for Illinois Teacher of the Year. The winner will be announced Oct. 19 at a banquet in Normal.
This year's finalists include John Bierbaum at Normal Community West High School in Normal, Mark Buesing at Libertyville High School in Libertyville and Amanda Dearmond at DuQuoin Middle School in DuQuoin.
Other finalists: William Fritz at Adlai Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, DeLores Mannes at Parker Junior High School in Flossmoor, Kerry (Fran) Meyers at Brimfield Grade School in Brimfield, Pam Reilly at Woodbury Elementary School in Sandwich, Sina Rowe at Goshen Elementary School in Edwardsville, Aaron Sitze at Oregon High School in Oregon, Amy Walsh at Tioga School in Bensenville and Donna Whitaker at West Junior High School in Belleville.
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A Berlin man is accused of sexually assaulting women who he met online at various locations throughout Connecticut.
Frank Mete, 55, was arrested Friday by Manchester police on charges that he sexually assaulted multiple women in multiple towns including Manchester, Enfield, Windsor Locks, East Hartford and Hartford.
Police throughout the Greater Hartford Area are investigating if he hit other Connecticut towns and they believe there are more victims.
Mete is accused of trolling the internet for prostitutes, traveling the state to meet them at hotels, then posing as a police officer, and blackmailing them for sex and money in exchange for not being arrested.
Investigators arrested Mete at the Residence Inn in Manchester after the prostitute he was trying to bait went to police. In a matter of hours, officers told Eyewitness News they were able to link Mete to a handful of other cases in various cities and towns. Police said the common thread was Craigslist or a website like it.
Mete is being held on $500,000 for numerous counts including first-degree sexual assault, unlawful restraint, first-degree robbery, impersonating a police officer and sixth-degree larceny.
Eyewitness News went to Mete's home where neighbors said he lived with his wife, however there was no answer.
"They're very private, we sometimes see them walking, relatively friendly and never had suspicions of anything," said Karenne Mackiewicz of West Hartford.
Neighbors said they were "shocked" to learn about the arrest of Mete.
"It's frightening for all of the people here and we're disappointed," said Shelia Martinotti of West Hartford.
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