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Election 2012: Incumbents Hold on to Will County Seats
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Election Day. It's finally here. After months of hard campaigning across the county, voters are ready to cast ballots that could change the face of county government.
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One of Will County's most contentious races has been that of the battle between Plainfield Republican Dave Carlson and his former boss, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow. Carlson has gone on the offensive, .
However, that is not the only contested race voters will see on the ballot Tuesday.
All of the incumbents holding countywide offices are facing challenges to their positions. County Board member Cory Singer, a Republican from Frankfort, opted not to seek re-election so he could try to unseat County Executive Larry Walsh, a Democrat. Walsh is also facing a challenge from Leonard Thompson Jr., a fellow Democrat.
The other countywide officeholders are also Democrats. Circuit Clerk Pam McGuire is facing Marlene Carlson, Recorder of Deeds Karen Stukel is facing Laurie McPhillips, Auditor Duffy Blackburn is facing Mark Batinick, and Coroner Patrick O'Neil is facing Charles Lyons.
The Will County Board is sure to see some new faces after the election.
In District 5, two incumbents — Republicans Lee Ann Goodson and John Argoudelis — are facing off against newcomer Reed Bible, an attorney and retired investigator for the Department of Homeland Security.
The District 13 race is wide open, with no incumbents — that's because the district is brand new, having been created during the Will County reapportionment process following the 2010 Cenus. The race pits Republicans Liz Collins and Tim Kraulidis against Democrat Mark Ferry. Ultimately, two board members will be elected to represent the new district.
The District 3 race is also absent of incumbents. Vying for the two spots are Republicans Victor D. Zach and Steve Engel and Democrats Beth Rice and Don Moran.
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Republicans are pushing hard to make House Speaker Mike Madigan and the Democratic majorities in the General Assembly an issue. Out in the far western suburbs, Republicans Kay Hatcher, Garrett Peck and Jim Oberweis look to make a strong showing in this traditionally conservative area. They'll take on Democrats Andrew Bernard, Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant and Corrine Pierog, respectively
42nd Senate: Peter Hurtado (R) vs. Linda Holmes (D)
Plainfield Township Park District commissioner Peter Hurtado is a small business owner who says he got his start as a laborer and worked his way up the ranks before opening his own business. Democrat Linda Holmes, the incumbent, was endorsed thusly by the Chicago Tribune: "Is this some alternative universe? Republican Peter Hurtado of Plainfield proposes a $1 per transaction tax on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to fund state pensions, a sure way to send the exchanges packing. He knocks Democratic Sen. Linda Holmes of Aurora for voting to cut Medicaid spending and end the corrupt legislative scholarship program. Holmes is endorsed."
49th Senate: Garrett Peck (R) vs. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (D)
Plainfield Republican Garrett Peck, a village trustee, was among the candidates who received endorsements from the Chicago Tribune. Peck is going up against Will County Regional Superintendent of Schools Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant.
In endorsing Peck, the Trib wrote that Bertino-Tarrant "is woefully short on specifics about how to address the state's most vexing problems," while saying Peck "speaks with confidence about how he'd fix the state's pension and workers' compensation systems, about the limitations of the new campaign finance laws, about the Catch-22 of handing out tax breaks to prevent businesses from fleeing the state. He would like to abolish the do-nothing Health Facilities Planning Board. He would bring a common-sense business perspective to state government."
97th State House: Tom Cross (R)
Incumbent Tom Cross is running unopposed, once again — but this time in a newly created district. The new 97th District encompasses portions of Plainfield, Shorewood and Oswego.
98th State House: Bob Kalnicky (R) vs. Natalie Manley (D)
Bob Kalnicky of Bolingbrook serves on the Fountaindale Public Library board and is the executive director of the Community Service Council of Northern Will County; Natalie Manley is a Joliet accountant and co-host of WJOL's "Lynne, Mary and Natalie" show. Their race has taken a nasty turn, with Kalnicky issuing an ad (complete with a photo of handcuffs) attacking Manley for a May 2012 domestic battery arrest — despite the fact that the case was dropped in August and, ultimately, no charges were filed. Some voters said they found the ad offensive, and Joliet Mayor Thomas Giarrante issued a statement chastising Kalnicky.
Click here for information on all races and available candidate bios.
State Constitutional Amendment: Also on the ballot is an amendment to the state constitution that would require a three-fifths majority for any government body to change its pension system. Both conservative and liberal lobbying groups have lined up against this amendment, saying it's bad policy and doesn't address the problems with the state's pension burdens.
Two congressional races in northern Illinois are must-watch contests. Democrat Tammy Duckworth's bid to unseat Rep. Joe Walsh, a Tea Party favorite, in the north suburbs has drawn a lot national attention and out-of-district financial support. And in the west suburbs, Rep. Judy Biggert is trying to stay in the House and fend off Bill Foster, a former one-term congressman trying to return to Congress, but the latest polling shows them in a dead heat.
11th District: Judy Biggert (R) vs. Bill Foster (D)
Republican Judy Biggert is running neck and neck against Bill Foster in the newly drawn 11th District. Biggert, who currently represents the 3rd Congressional District, is seeking an eighth term. Former Congressman Foster represented the 14th District from 2008 to 2010. A recent poll showed Foster with a slight edge heading into election day.
14th District: Randy Hultgren (R) vs. Dennis Anderson (D)
Hultgren currently represents the 14th District in Congress and seeking his second term in office. He has the endorsements of the Daily Herald, the Northwest Herald and the Chicago Tribune. This is Anderson's first time running for elected office. He is a retired assistant director at the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at the University of Loyola in Chicago.


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Former President Bill Clinton has been to Las Vegas before, but now it means even more. With less than 30 days until the election, he wasted no time bringing out the swords in this battleground state.
"Here's old, moderate Mitt," he said, remarking about last week's debate. "Where have you been, boy? I missed you these last two years."
For about 30 minutes, Clinton spoke to a crowd of just under 2,000 who obtained free tickets for the event. It was standing room only at the Springs Preserve, and the crowd was made up of mostly Barack Obama supporters.
"(Republican) policies which the current nominee wants to go back to created less than half as many private sector jobs as have been created in the last 32 months under President Obama," Clinton said as the crowd cheered.
Clinton has been a highly regarded speaker, especially in his recent address to the Democratic National Convention. During Tuesday's speech, the crowd hung on to every word.
"A lot of people listen and respect his opinions," said Vivian Roberts, who said she already supported Obama before Clinton's remarks.
"He's a big figure in the political community, so any kind of support he can give Obama helps," said attendee Mike Beemer.
Nevada is still a swing state where anything can happen over the next month. The campaigns are not taking any chances - and bringing out the big names.
"Even though it seemed the crowd was mostly Obama supporters, there still had to be some people on the fence, so I think that'll help," said attendee Paula Anderson.
Republicans, however, were none too impressed with the visit.
"Look, President Obama wishes he could run on Bill Clinton's record. He should be so lucky," said Mason Harrison, Nevada communications director for Mitt Romney.
Harrison added that his campaign won't be outworked by Obama's.
"We have two candidates with very different records and very different visions for this country," he said.
And that's something both parties can agree on.
"You are a picture of America's future," Clinton said as he closed his speech. "So, go out there and claim it on election day."
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid also spoke to the crowd before Clinton took the stage. It was also a chance to boost support for Nevada Democrats, including Shelley Berkley, Steven Horsford and John Oceguera.
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Police are searching for a suspect after a man was found shot to death in the 1400 block of East 77th Street.
Public works crews heard gunshots and saw a man running from the house about 1:20 p.m. Thursday.
A suspect was seen fleeing the scene in a silver Hyundai. The shooter or a second person may have been injured.
This is the city's 95th homicide and the second that has been reported on Thursday.
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A woman who was texting while driving was impaled by guardrail pole.


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You can read more about San Francisco Fire Engine Tours here: www.fireenginetours.com This is a fantastic way to see San Francisco! They might make you sing, so be prepared ;-) From their website: Golden Gate Bridge/Presidio/Sausalito Tour This is an adventure you will always remember. Leaving Fisherman's Wharf we go through the Presidio, to Fort Point at the base of The Bridge and over the Golden Gate Bridge. On to Sausalito, a jewel of a village with magnificent views of San Francisco across the Bay. Next, a photo stop at Fort Baker and then back over the bridge, through the lovely Union Street neighborhood and returning to the Cannery. Tours depart from The Cannery at Fisherman's Wharf located on Beach Street at the foot of Columbus Avenue. Easy to reach by the Hyde Street Cable Car or the "F" Line vintage trolleys. Click here for a location map. Parking Garage located directly across the street (can not accommodate oversize vehicles). Advance reservations by telephone, e-mail, or fax necessary as seating is limited. Credit card required to guarantee reservation. (include expiration date) Please include name of hotel, date of arrival, & or local /cell phone number. Tours depart daily (except Tuesday). Daily tours depart at 1:00. Tours at 11:00, 3:00 & 5:00 are added on certain days. Telephone: (415) 333-7077
You can read more about San Francisco Fire Engine Tours here: www.fireenginetours.com This is a fanta...
You can read more about San Francisco Fire Engine Tours here: www.fireenginetours.com This is a fanta...
A view of san francisco's golden gate bridge taken from the north. Taken on a sunny day with San Fra...
A different view of the the Golden Gate Bridge. This one is in Fort Baker on the Fort Baker pier. For...
Great hiking in this area. A cool place to be in August. We hiked to the Point Cavallo Yacht Basin....
Atop Cavallo Point, near old fortifications, this pano features a stunning view of the Golden Gate Br...
Above the bunker at the Golden gate Bridge.
While visiting San Francisco I took the opportunity to capture a few land marks from the air. This wa...
Golden Gate Bridge from Hendrik point
Night view to the Golden Gate Bridge and the city of San Francisco
The Bay Area is renowned for its natural beauty, affluence, diversity, and progressive thinking new age reputation. Lots of ammenities, tours and hotels can be found all around the area.
San Francisco is the cultural and financial center of the Bay Area, and has the second highest population density of any major city in North America after New York City. It is also a major tourist destination, and transport and accommodation is plentiful, ranging from luxury hotels to cheap accommodation.
San Jose is the largest city in terms of population, land area, and industrial development, and is the center of Silicon Valley, a well-known high technology region. Oakland is a major manufacturing and distribution center, rail terminus/hub, and has the fourth largest container shipping port in the United States.
Largely because of San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Bay Area presently ranks second only to the much larger New York City region in number of Fortune 500 company headquarters (April 2010 Fortune Magazine).
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Customer Reviews
- This is a very informative book about all aspects of the camera. Review by James
My wife and i bought this book before we bought our camera, and it helped very much just to help purchase the camera that we now own. Now it's time to pick it back up to help in the picture taking part of it and beyond Thanks..
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- Simply GREAT! Review by Susanne Dingendorf
My favorite book about photographing jewelry!!! One of the most comprehensive books I've ever read, and I still could learn a few "new" things, for example: available ((day)light), backgrounds and depth of field...Thumbs UP!
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Fall 2014 textbook list
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Current Prerequisites & Course Offering
For current prerequisites for a particular course, and to view course offerings for a particular semester, see the Virginia Tech Course Timetables.
ECE 5550G Advanced Real-Time Systems (3C)
Introduction to real-time systems, real-time scheduling including multiprocessor scheduling, real-time operating systems (kernels), real-time communication, real-time programming languages, reliability and fault-tolerance, and real-time system requirements and design methods. Design, analysis, and implementation of real-time kernel mechanisms and real-time applications using kernels such as Linux and programming langauges such as C (with POSIX primitives) and real-time Java.
What is the reason for this course?
Real-time computing has become an important sub-discipline of Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Many applications such as industrial automation (process control and discrete manufacturing), defense, avionics, and telecommunications require real-time computing. This course presents the underlying theory, concepts, and practice for such systems. The main objectives of the course are to develop a strong understanding of the broad concept of real-time systems, obtain a practical understanding for the industry, and to stimulate research interest. Main topics of the course include an introduction to real-time systems, real-time scheduling, real-time operating systems (kernels), real-time communication, real-time programming languages, reliability and fault-tolerance, and real-time system requirements and design methods. Currently, our CpE curriculum does not cover real-time systems. Therefore, computer engineering students do not get an opportunity to be exposed to the field. Another value to this course is how it brings together material that students have had in other courses such as computer architecture, operating systems, programming languages, and software engineering. The course thus exposes CpE students to real-time systems, enables them to design, analyze, and implement such systems, and prepares them for careers in real-time computing and related fields (e.g., embedded systems and safety-critical systems).
Typically offered: Spring. Program Area: Computers.
Department Syllabus Information:Major Measurable Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate real-time scheduling algorithms and resource access protocols that enable the response time requirements of real-time systems to be achieved
- Demonstrate real-time scheduling algorithms for overload conditions
- Design and implement real-time scheduling algorithms within operating system kernels
- Demonstrate the facilities available in programming languages for programming real-time systems
- Design and implement real-time (and non real-time) embedded system applications
|Course Topics
|Introduction to Real-Time Systems
|Real-Time Scheduling
|Resource Access Protocols
|Handling Overload Conditions
|Real-Time Operating systems (kernel design)
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Valeria Golino
Italian with English Subtitles
96 min
New Directors Competition
This tautly written drama follows Irene - nicknamed "Miele" (Italian for "Honey") - as she treads legal and moral boundaries performing assisted suicides on elderly hospital patients. Progressively de-humanized and alienated, Irene finds what's left of her morals challenged when she is approached by a depressed, fatalistic, yet physically healthy architect who has lost his will to live. A thought-provoking, humanistic character study featuring sharp, sensitive performances, Miele represents a mature and capable directorial debut from celebrated actress Valeria Golino (Respiro).
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Producer: Riccardo Scamarcio - Viola Prestieri - Raphael Berdugo - Anne Dominique Toussaint
Principal Cast: Paolo Bonfini
Film Format: DCP
Screenplay: Francesca Marciano - Valia Santella - Valeria Golino
Producer: Riccardo Scamarcio - Viola Prestieri - Raphael Berdugo - Anne Dominique Toussaint
Editor: Giogio' Franchini
Principal Cast: Paolo Bonfini
Production Companies: Jasmine Trinca - Carlo Cecchi - Libero De Rienzo - Vinicio Marchioni - Iaia Forte


text: Expressing technology: a roundtable with James Dyson Business 20 September 11 by Tim Carmody Tweet Flickr / CC-licensed: nobihaya On 14 September, Wired hosted a roundtable with Sir James Dyson at our New York offices. Dyson and his staff began by showing off their new vacuum cleaner (the DC 41) and Dyson Hot, a new fan/space heater, which was being introduced later that day.We asked Sir James questions about every aspect of emerging and commercial technology, ranging from intellectual property and education reform to the overlap between Steve Jobs' design philosophy and his own. We learned (among other things) why research and development in battery technology and artificial intelligence are critical to the future of household cleaning, and why it's harder to sell high-end vacuum cleaners in China and Brazil.Wired's interviewers included Steven Levy, John Abell, Jason Tanz, Dave Mosher and Tim Carmody. Dawn Lim, Dave Mosher and Tim Carmody transcribed the conversation. Tim Carmody moderated the roundtable, edited the responses, and wrote this introduction. Except where noted, all images are courtesy of Dyson.com.On becoming the company's public face and namesakeSir James Dyson: The first Dyson was a 13th century female cattle rustler in Lancashire. That's the origin of the name. And it's two syllables, so it's quite nice.Right at the beginning, the retailers wouldn't take me, because they said, "you're not a brand name. Nobody's going to want to buy a 'Dyson.' They'd rather buy an Electrolux, Bosch, or Siemens" or something like that. The only way to overcome that was to be a person. They're all big, anonymous corporations, and the founders are long since gone. So the thing is to be different, and to be responsible for what you do.That's why I put myself about a bit, as you say. And I put myself about a bit now to understand what's going on in the world, rather than spending my time back where I'd probably rather be, actually: with the engineers, developing new products.On the relationship between design and technologyDyson: We're a technology company. We're employing more and more scientists, and working in lots of - we may be in more prosaic areas, we're not in this sort of sexy things. Thing that people don't bother with, that need technological improvement, which makes a big difference. That's what interests me.So that's our starting point. We look at something that has a problem, whether it's hand dryers or vacuum cleaners. Then we develop technology. We want the product to express the technology we're using, so that people understand it. Even if they don't totally understand it, they might half understand it. Even if they only one-quarter understand it, at least they see that we're doing something different that makes it work better, and perhaps gives them a bit of pleasure to see that and point it out to people.[Picks up a copy of Wired] When you say design, everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything. It's the technology it uses, how it's engineered, how it's put together, the quality, how long it lasts.I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. I want something more expressive. It's very easy to make something like a heater into a black box. It might look impressively designed for a few moments, but it has no expression.That's why our heater shows its technology; the heating component, and that's the main part, is bright blue. It's a very simple product, but at least it still expresses what it does. And it looks different, it doesn't look like an ordinary heater. On the vacuum cleaner, we show the bits that really work, like the cyclones. That's the important bit, and we want people to understand it, to know that it's more efficient than a bag, but it also looks nicer than a bag. In the whole experience of using it, the customer can start to follow the trail of the engineers and scientists making it. The retailers said, "you'll ever sell a vacuum cleaner where you can see the dirt." I'm not normally one to do market research, but we did a bit of market research, and the research confirmed it: no one wanted to see the dirt. We made it see-through, by the way, to see what was happening. It was very practical. But the engineers and I loved it. So we decided to ignore the market research. Our competitors had a good snicker about it. But we persevered. 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Cooking with fresh chilies can really spice up your food, but did you know dried chiles pack a flavorful punch, too? Here's a great recipe to try at home!
Chipotle Salsa
Makes 5 cups
1 medium onion, roughly chopped
10 dried chipotle chiles, stemmed, or 6 canned chipotle chiles
8 Roma tomatoes, cored
10 cloves garlic
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
Combine all the ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook, uncovered, for 20 minutes. The liquid should be reduced by 1/3, and the tomato skins should be falling off. Set aside to cool.
Pour the mixture into a blender or a food processor. Puree until smooth. Chill until serving time. This salsa can be stored in the refrigerator up to 5 days or frozen as long as a month.
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Art & Art History Home > Tools & Resources > Writing Guide
Writing Guide
These pages, based largely on The Chicago Manual of Style and the University of Rochester History Department's writing manual, is a guide to commonly accepted conventions governing citations, usage, and editing.
- For more suggestions and additional information consult:
- Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art, (New York: Longman, 1997)
- Henry M. Sayre, Writing About Art, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995)
- William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999)
- Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane, Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information (Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996)
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Obviously, the big story on Thursday is that, minutes after watching his team reach a better-than-.500 record by sweeping the Mariners, Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman resigned, citing a contract dispute. Riggleman wanted the Nationals to make a commitment to him and pick up his 2012 option, while the Nationals didn't want to do so just yet.
Now, we have some video of Riggleman discussing his decision with the press. Courtesy of MLB.com:
Riggleman explains that he wasn't demanding that the Nationals pick up his option. He just wanted to have a conversation about it with general manager Mike Rizzo, and Rizzo kept declining. It would appear that Rizzo's latest refusal to discuss Riggleman's contract was the last straw. Riggleman had come close to resigning before, and today he finally went through with it.
Riggleman, for his part, certainly seems comfortable with his decision and confident that he did the right thing, even if this means he's unlikely to find another job later on. He just didn't enjoy working with such uncertainty hanging over his head, and whether or not that would be true for everyone, it was true for Riggleman, so he bailed. Now it's on the Nationals to find a replacement in the middle of a surprisingly successful season, with the best candidates being John McLaren and Bo Porter.


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When traveling to a cruise where weather is a possible factor (e.g., winter in the northeast US), it's a *very* good idea to arrive a day early, just in case something goes wrong with travel. We flew into Miami the day before and stayed at the JW Marriott, in the financial district, downtown. Aside from the usual hassles at the Miami airport, the trip was routine, and the JW Marriott is a very nice hotel. Dinner the night before was at a nice restaurant in the Mary Brickell Village area, and we had a leisurely breakfast in the hotel the next morning.
For those in regular (not concierge or better) cabins, there's not much point in arriving at the port before about 2pm, as it only results in waiting a while in the terminal, plus once onboard, the cabins won't be available until about 3pm. We took a taxi from the hotel, and arrived a bit before 2pm; we embarked after a short wait, and spent the about an hour in Horizons (deck 10 forward lounge) before our cabin became available.
Our cabin was a B2 balcony (veranda) cabin on deck 6 towards the front of the ship. A balcony makes a big difference, and we would not now cruise the Caribbean without one. This is a nice location on the ship, as it's near the front staircases/elevators, and between decks 5 and 9 where most of the ship's activities are (as well as the Horizons lounge on deck 10), and is convenient to the gangway (or tender dock) which was on deck 3 forward at every port on this cruise.
Regatta is small (30,000 tons, less than 650 passengers) by comparison to other larger ships in the Caribbean. We like the ship's size, as it's easy to find one's way around. The crew is international, with heavy representation from Eastern Europe, Central America and the Philippines - overall, service was excellent, although one occasionally has to explain oneself slowly to someone whose first language is not English. A few words in the native language of the crew member (start with "Thank You") go a long way.
The food was excellent across the board. Jacques Pepin oversees cuisine and the results are evident. Among the pleasant surprises were the outstanding fruit sorbets prepared on board, and the variety of interesting food available at both the lunch and dinner buffets (the latter is called "Tapas on the Terrace" but tends to be broader than just Tapas). The only thing we'd knock is that their sushi has considerable room for improvement. Oceania's 4pm high tea has a well-deserved reputation - their pastry chefs do an outstanding job and the deck 10 Horizons lounge is a wonderful setting.
Disembarkation was orderly and quick, but occurred during rush hour in Miami - we left the ship just before 9am - resulting in a taxi shortage. We joined a shared-ride van to the airport. As Regatta was the only ship in port that day, the Miami airport was not the madhouse that it can be; check-in was quick, and we spent several hours in the terminal waiting for our flight to board (better to have the time and not need it than be worried about missing a flight). The American terminal in Miami is still a construction zone, and nobody has any idea when they'll finally be done.
Overall, we had a wonderful time and will be back on board Oceania in the future.
Port information is in the port reviews, but here's a quick summary: - Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos: Treat this as a beach day or diving day. We found a wonderful conch shell on the beach near the cruise terminal. - Samana, Dominican Republic: Not a good port, no access to Cayo Levantado. Oceania should find another port. - Tortola, BVI: Probably our favorite port aside from St. Barts. Shopping, beach, interesting island. - Antigua: Very busy, four ships in port. Lots of beaches, so not too crowded. - St. Lucia: At the very least, get above the city as the views are spectacular. - Dominica: Great place to go river tubing. - St. Barts, FWI: A little slice of France in the Caribbean with overtones of Monaco. Neat place, but not cheap. - Virgin Gorda, BVI: The Baths are a "must see" attraction. Devil's Bay beach on the far side of the Baths is better than the beach at the Baths.


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A homeowner is now dealing with a sticky situation after he found thousands of unwanted visitors in one of his large trees.
The homeowner and neighbors in the area of 67th Street and Lamar Avenue found out bees had been calling one of the trees home for quite some time, possibly for years.
The tree, which was hollowed out and most likely weakened by the recent storms, fell overnight and it landed in Stefanie Hardacre's yard about 1:30 a.m.
She woke up to police lights and city crews picking up branches.
That would have been enough of a surprise until a city crew member motioned her to the tree.
"He turns on his flashlight and there were thousands of bees that we could see. They weren't moving. They were just still, laying on the honeycomb. This is the coolest thing, so we thought, 'what's the next step?' You gotta call a beekeeper. We can't move this," Hardacre said.
A beekeeper was brought in and after conducting a full inspection, took a section of the tree back to his house to transfer the combs to a standard hive he uses.
"This (motions to base of tree) was exposed, actually turned up, and it rained on them, so a lot of the bees are pretty wet. Right now they're not flying. If it warmed up and the sun shined on them, you'd have a lot more bees in the air flying around than we have right now," said beekeeper Cecil Sweeney. "But also, by this tree dropping, it disoriented the group a little bit."
Sweeney suspects, based on the number of honeycombs, that between 50,000 and 60,000 bees had been calling it home.
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The Family House hosted its 10th annual Christmas Magic Luncheon today at the hotel.
The organization offers a place to stay for patients' families receiving medical and nursing care in Peoria.
The luncheon included a visit from Mr. Claus, Christmas themed crafts,a silent auction and raffle.
There was also a reading of The Polar Express, each child who attended the luncheon received a copy of the book.
More than 150 children and their families attended today's event.


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Medicare ruling approved; quick benefit soughtBy Gordon Dritschilo
Staff Writer | January 27,2013Advocates hope Vermont Medicare patients wont have to wait a year to reap the benefits of a class-action lawsuit that was settled last week.
Vermont Legal Aid and the Center for Medicare Advocacy settled a class-action lawsuit against the federal government over Medicare coverage of maintenance therapy. When U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss approved the settlement Thursday to cover such treatment, the government said it would set out to revise its relevant policies and prepare a three-month educational campaign for the Medicare system.
Full implementation will take a year from today, Michael Benvenuto, director of Vermont Legal Aids Medicare Advocacy Project, said Friday. Because they have agreed this is what Medicare should always have been, were going to be pushing that changes should be taking place faster.
Benvenuto said the case was over Medicare coverage of therapy to maintain a patients condition or to prevent deterioration, rather than just treatments aimed at improvements.
Medicare never wanted to cover people just to maintain their present condition, he said. The impact on your grandmother would be if she needs a skilled nurse to come in every two weeks to maintain her position, that should be covered.
Vermonts position in the national class-action lawsuit was unusual, Benvenuto said, in that the Vermont Medicaid program often covers such treatment. Providers will be able to get reimbursed more by billing Medicare, he said, and the state will save money with those claims no longer going to Medicaid.
Benvenuto also said the decision would apply to preventive services, reducing overall costs from hospitalization and complications.
The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit was a Vermont woman, Glenda Jimmo of Lincoln. Blind and diabetic, Jimmo was denied Medicare coverage for home health care because her condition was deemed unlikely to improve.
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – While hundreds of New York City firefighters risked their lives and died helping others on Sept. 11, a group of six men were in the middle of a 16-week academy for the North Kingstown Fire Department and, reflecting on that day 10 years later, they all remember being in awe of what was happening just a few hundred miles away.
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – Mike Pignataro, a Vietnam vet, thought his war efforts were over until Sept. 11, 2001, when he was thrust onto the front lines of what is now called the War on Terror.
The Purple Heart recipient, who lost part of his left leg flying in combat, recalls the shocking events with the introspection of someone who had already experienced hell only to face the same sort of devastation decades later.
September 11th, 2001 was a day that forever changed an entire generation of Americans. Whether you were in New York, Washington or Pennsylvania or just going about your day in any of the other parts of the country, chances are you remember every little detail about that Tuesday morning.
This week, the Standard Times brings you a special look at the events of September 11th, 2011 as seen through the eyes of local residents closest to the attacks.
CRANSTON – Michael Woodmansee, who killed South Kingstown's five-year old Jason Foreman in 1975 will be early released today, two days before his scheduled release.
"The [Foreman] family is upset and rightfully so. This is the third release date change from when they first heard back in the spring that he was being released early after serving only 29 years of a 40 year prison sentence," Erik Wallin, the Foreman's lawyer said.
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Close to 200 hundred people braved the raw and rainy weather conditions to turn out for a stop on the Tea Party Express "Reclaiming America" tour that made a pit stop at Wilson Park, North Kingstown Wednesday morning.
So besides an earthquake and a hurricane, not all that much happened last week.
The earthquake only tickled us gently; it was more of a curiosity than a disaster in these parts.
I can't say anything about Hurricane Irene because she hadn't arrived as of this writing (We had to put the newspaper out early so we can make sure it gets to you in the optimistic expectation that you will have lights to read it by).
Let's hope everyone weathered the storm safe and dry. Meanwhile, politics marches on.
CRANSTON – Convicted child killer Michael Woodmansee has been ordered to stay in prison a little while longer due to a disciplinary infraction he committed in prison on Aug. 20.
Woodmansee was scheduled to be released Thursday, Sept. 1 but after he failed to stand for the prison count, his release date was pushed back to Sunday, Sept. 11, Rhode Island Department of Corrections spokeswoman, Tracy Zeckhausen said. The convicted child killer has agreed to commit himself voluntarily to a state mental health facility rather than be released into the community.
NORTH KINGSTOWN – John Amaral has a photo of himself at age three, in an old wooden 16-foot lobster boat.
"It weighed about eight million pounds," he laughs. "I'm wearing a little sailor hat, a bathing suit and a big smile. I've been messing around in boats ever since."
As the dust settled and people around Southern Rhode Island were finally able to take stock of just how much damage was caused by last weekend's encounter with Irene, a tropical storm by the time it graced the Ocean State with its presence, there was one lesson that really stood out more than any other.
RICHMOND - Richmond police officers had little chance to rest at last month's Washington County Fair, racking up a whopping 33 arrests in just four days.
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— The Logansport area has no shortage of Halloween activities to choose from this year. From pumpkin patches to hayrides to haunted houses to trick or treating, you might have trouble deciding which events to attend.
• The town's trick-or-treating hours are 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31.
• Trick-or-treating hours are 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Businesses and civic organizations will be passing out treats along Main Street. The Lions Club is sponsoring a Halloween party at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Building, 153 W. Main St.
• The Adams Mill will be decorated as a haunted, scary place. Outside, tractor-drawn hayrides take visitors through the haunted forest and then down to the warm campfire. Warm drinks and other treats are available under the overhang at the front of the Mill. This year's Haunted Mill will be 6 to 10 p.m. Oct. 19, 25, 26 and 31.
• Wabash and Erie Canal, 3198 N. 700 West, Delphi, is hosting a Harvest Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19.
There will be a Pioneer Village buzzing with craft people and live artisan demonstrations, some selling their wares, including blacksmiths, basket and broom makers, spinners (with live alpacas from Heritage Farms on-site if weather permit), leather crafters, jewelry makers, sewers and crocheters.
• The town will have a Halloween parade through town on Thursday, Oct. 31. Trick-or-Treating Kids will meet at First Farmers bank at 4:30 and 5 p.m. Trick or treating will follow the parade from 6 to 8 p.m.
• The town is having trick or treating from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, and a parade at 5 p.m. Local businesses will pass out candy and books from 6 to 8 p.m. as part of Boo-Fest! at the library.
• Trick or treating will be 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 31. Residents are asked to turn on their porch lights if they wish to participate.
• France Park will offer zipline rides from 4 to 7 p.m. and the Sleepy Hallow Haunted Hayride Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 26.
• The Cass County Humane Society is hosting a Pet Walk from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 19. Voorhees Studios will be taking professional photos of participants and their pets. The pet will be judged for the best costume, and prizes will be given for first- and second-place winners. The entry fee is $15 and includes a T-shirt. The humane society can be contacted at 574-516-1526 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
• The Logansport Art Association is hosting Boo Run Run at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19. Check-in begins at 8:15 a.m., with participants encouraged to dress in costume. Registration is 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., with the race starting at 9 a.m. The race will start and end at the Logansport Art Association, 424 Front St. A Family Fall Festival will be held after the race from 10 a.m. to noon and includes refreshments, games, arts and crafts. For questions or to obtain an entry form, call 574-735-2915.
• The YMCA is having a Haunted House from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 25, 26, 30 and 31. Cost is $5, and it is open for children ages 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Contact the Y for more information. There is also an event free to the community 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 25. There will be a bounce house, crafts and custom contest.
• Logansport Martin's Pumpkin Painting is from 11 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. The cost is $3 a pumpkin. Customers can pick a small pumpkin in the produce department and decorate it with googly eyes, pom poms, paint, etc. There will be a Martin's employee available to help with decorating.
• Boo Fest will be 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at Riverside Park. Hayrides, Monster Mash costume contest at 1 p.m., riding in the carousel for 50 cents, a bounce house, face painting by the Logansport High School Berryettes and Logansport Police Department will be serving hot dogs and beverages for a nominal fee.
• Elks Parade will be 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. It will start and finish at City Hall. First place will win $100, second place will win $50 and two third-place winners will win $25. After the parade, members will hand out candy bags.
• Downtown Spooktacular will be 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. Trick-or-treaters will easily be able to identify a participating merchant. There will also be flyers listing all participating locations to assist trick-or-treaters that afternoon. The annual Elks Halloween Parade will follow immediately after the Spooktacular.
• Trick-or-treat night at Martin's will 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Children up to 12 years old in costume and accompanied by an adult will receive a candy treat from employees who will be dressed in costume throughout the store.
• The town is having trick or treating from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., visit the local business and the church, if the light is one, there might be some treats.
• There will be a Halloween Costume Contest at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Fulton Town Hall/Liberty Township Fire Department street area. All ages are welcome to compete. Judging will begin with the youngest group through age 3. Each group will be judged for three placings with cash awards. After each group's judging, Lions' Treat bags will be handed out and participants will be dismissed for trick or treating.
• The town will have trick or treating from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31.
• The Fulton County Museum will have a Haunted Woods Walk from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 37 E. 375 North. There will be a free tram ride to the woods. There will be walking involved. There is an admission fee.
• Rochester downtown merchants host Boofest, which is trick-or-treating in the downtown area, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 31, followed by a costume contest at 5:30 p.m. at Beacon Credit Union, 504 Main St.
• There will be a Costume Party at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at Community Presbyterian Church, 530 Jefferson St. The Wabash Community Band will be in Halloween costumes playing spooky, but fun music. Halloween refreshments will be served following the program and all children will receive a bag of treats to take home. Donations will be accepted. If you have any questions, call Karen at 574-598-2875.
• E.W.C.C. (Eastern Woodland Carvers Club) trick or treating will be 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 at at EWCC Hall, 101 S. Jefferson St. For more information, contact Gary Freeman at 765-395-3943.
• Doud Orchards will host pumpkin patch-pick in the field. There will also be a fall festival, corn maze, wagon rides, cider mill (fresh apple cider is made on the premises), snacks and refreshment stand. The orchard is located at 8971 N. Ind. 19. For more information, call 765-985-3937 or email email@example.com.
• Trick-or-treating will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at Miller's Merry Manor. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information, call 765-473-4426.
• The fifth annual Ringmasters Revenge, a production of the Circus Hall of Fame, will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. every weekend until Nov. 2. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 for children under 12. For more information, call 765-437-7783.
• "Streaper's Nightmare Haunted Adventure" will be 7 to 11 p.m. every weekend until Nov. 2 at Miami Nation of Indians, 71 W. Seventh St. Tickets are $11 each. Not recommended for children under 7. For more information, call 260-341-2150.
• A Fall Party will be 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Peru Public Library. There will be games, prizes, candy and food. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information, call 765-473-3069.
• "Not So Scary" Halloween at the Miami County Museum from 5 to 8 p.m., Oct. 31. There will be fun for the whole family on all 3 floors of the Museum. For more information call Miami County Museum at 765-473-9183.
• CCC Community "Light in the Night" Party will be 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, on Eward Street. For more information, call CCC office at 765-395-3361.
• McClure's Orchard will have pumpkins, pick-your-own apples, pumpkin patch (pick your own available), fall festival, tractor-pulled hay rides, honey from hives on the farm, cider mill (fresh apple cider made on the premises), gift shop, snacks and refreshment stand, restrooms, picnic area, pony rides, petting zoo and farm animals. Contact the orchard at 5450 N. U.S. 31 by calling 765-985-9000 or by email at email@example.com
• Two Little Girls Pumpkin Patch will have pumpkins for sale in the shop or farmstand, pumpkin patch (pick your own available) tractor-pulled hay rides, wagon rides. The patch, 5315 W. 500 North, will be open until Oct. 31. Hours are 2 to 7:30 p.m. Monday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Contact them at 574-225-0956, 219-363-3554, or by email at email@example.com.
• The town will have trick or treating from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31.
• Kent's Cucurbits will have a pumpkin patch, corn maze and school tours at 1595 E. Ind. 18 until Thursday, Oct. 31. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call 765-563-3472 or email to email@example.com.
• A Halloween Parade will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, with registration at 2:15 p.m. Oct. 26. There will also be costume judging. Trick or treating will be 6 to 8 p.m. that night.
• Trick or treating will be 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at North White High School. There will be a Halloween costume contest.


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---- — Gayland Kitch doesn't feel a bit sheepish about not having a storm cellar.
That's in spite of his job as director of emergency management in Moore, Okla., which in May 1999 faced one of the most violent tornadoes on record in May 1999.
It isn't that Kitch is resisting the $3,000 or so it would take to build. It's that during tornado weather, he's not home. He's at the office, which has its own shelter. His wife is there, too, volunteering. When their kids lived at home, they came, as well.
Kitch isn't stupid, though. When he retires, he said, "I will probably install one."
A lot of people in Moore have done just that since the 1999 tornado, with wind speeds greater than 300 mph, killed 43 people in the Oklahoma City area.
Kitch says more than 10 percent of Moore's homes — about 2,500 — now have a safe room or shelter. Helping homeowners make the investment has been a federal program that has paid up to $2,000 of the cost.
Every person has to make decisions about what to spend on preparedness for natural disasters. Buy a house with a view or live a few blocks from the beach? Build a storm shelter or make friends with a neighbor who has one? Get a weather radio? Buy earthquake insurance?
Towns, too, must set building codes and choose whether to restrict the use of cheap building materials. They decide whether to allow development in flood plains and whether to invest in sophisticated emergency equipment.
These are all down payments on the cost of a disaster. The rule of thumb is that every dollar spent on preparedness saves $4 in recovery costs, according to a report by the National Institute of Building Sciences' Mutihazard Mitigation Council, which others confirm. That's $4 taxpayers won't have to spend.
The government increasingly covers the costs of disasters.
The burden of disaster recovery is growing. In the 1950s, disasters in the United States caused a combined $53.6 billion in insured losses, according to an assessment by the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the 1990s, losses reached $778 billion.
Driving up the costs are population growth and urbanization. In 2004, Florida alone had $1.9 trillion in insured assets along its high-risk coastal areas, according to the Wharton Risk Management Center's report.
And the insurance industry is balking. Private insurers, stung by huge costs of doing business over the last decade, have stopped writing policies for some areas or charge such high premiums that people decide to take their chances.
Even the National Flood Insurance Program, which will run a $28 billion deficit after Hurricane Sandy, won't insure against flooding in some areas.
Many assets aren't insured, which places more of a burden on government recovery programs. Taxpayers paid out about 62 percent of the recovery costs of disasters between 2000 and 2008, the Wharton Center reported.
"You didn't see the governor of New Jersey make a big deal about having only 30 to 40 percent market penetration for flood insurance" after Hurricane Sandy, said Jeffrey Czajkowski, a research fellow at the Wharton Center.
He noted many people live in areas where they could get flood insurance from the government but do not.
"The other 60 percent should have insurance, and if they don't, why should they get fast aid?" he said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is the main source of disaster recovery funds. It's also the primary source of money for preparedness, though groups like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also have budgets for preparedness projects.
In 2012, FEMA spent more than $7 billion on recovery. By comparison, it spent $2 billion on disaster preparedness for various events, including possible terrorism.
FEMA has drawn fire from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for its slowness in paying out those funds; it has billions in unspent preparedness money on hand.
The agency keeps money in reserve for ongoing projects, but a high bar to get FEMA funds may also be part of the reason for the delay. Most of FEMA's awards are reimbursement grants. In other words, a community or a person pays money for a project and then applies for reimbursement.
In the case of Salisbury, Mass., for example, the application process took "hundreds of hours over three years," said Jerry Klima, a retired corporate lawyer and town selectman.
Salisbury got a grant to protect a business district and a portion of U.S. Route 1 from flooding that can close the highway for days at a time. The grant means the town can repair a culvert beneath an old rail bed that will drain water away from the commercial area during storms.
Politics can also bog down FEMA's grants. In New Jersey, for example, some beachfront property owners are resisting community efforts to shore up protective dunes that would blunt the impact of coastal storms such as Sandy. Their lack of support threatens some plans, despite promised money from FEMA.
In a now-famous case, a couple won a judgment against their town for building a protective dune that blocked their ocean view — and eventually protected their property from Sandy's impact.
FEMA's preparedness money "has been an issue of confusion over the years," acknowledged Timothy W. Manning, deputy director for protection and national preparedness.
The money is reserved for projects in process, like transit station reinforcements or infrastructure improvements to ports, he said. FEMA has moved to speed its grant process and now has $4.5 billion on hand, versus $9 billion a year ago.
FEMA's former (and first) undersecretary of preparedness, George W. Foresman, said the agency has become tremendously more efficient since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005.
But he also said that "we get so focused on bells and whistles that we fail to remember that behind every successful program is a good accountant and a good accounting infrastructure."
FEMA's heightened emphasis on preparedness has had a broad effect, coinciding with a boost in preparedness by states and communities. A 2012 FEMA report shows that 69 percent of the population lives in the 18,000 communities with a disaster mitigation plan, up from 57 percent of the population in 2007.
More than 75 percent of communities are confident of their abilities to respond to a disaster, according to the FEMA report, and 95 percent have participated in preparation exercises.
FEMA uses money — and its "build first, then rebate" model — to induce local planning, said Louise Comfort at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Disaster Management.
"FEMA is trying to create some leverage on the community to do their hazard assessment, which all communities are supposed to do, and to identify the most critical hazards," she said.
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Earlier this afternoon Tennessee Titans' QB Jake Locker left the field to have his left shoulder looked at following a sack from Quin Glover, which the QB didn't see coming. He is officially listed as 'questionable' by the team, but reports from the stadium have Locker sitting on the Titans' bench, out of uniform, and wearing a sling on his left arm.
Without Locker, Tennessee are relying on 37-year-old veteran Matt Hasselbeck to perform this week against the Houston Texans. As it stands he's completed 5-of-7 passes, for 82 yards and a touchdown. The Titans are currently trailing by a score of 14-to-7.
This was to be Jake Lockers' season to shine. Last year he played understudy to Hasselbeck for much of the year, and thus far in his first year as a starter he has struggled with his left shoulder. Facing the San Diego Chargers in week two he left the game due to injury, and today's sack may have exacerbated the injury.


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One more thing about Paul McCartney turning 70.
For those of us who grew up with the Beatles, the idea of Paul being 70 years old just doesn't compute. But I guess old is the new young. To mark the occasion, Time Magazine's "light box" website posted 70 iconic images of Paul. "The Legend Rocks on" is the title of a new book on McCartney being published by the magazine.
Sir Paul celebrated his birthday in private on Monday. He's preparing for the London Olympics opening ceremony July 27. Paul will be the closing act that night.
By the way, we resisted the temptation to play "When I'm 64", but it should be noted that when Paul wrote that song he was only 15. And sadly only two of the beetles made it to age 64.
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Madera about the only stage race we have in California has the potential to be made into something so much better than a low budget throw together race.
I'll never understand how the same mistakes and carelessness continues year after year. Or maybe it is simply the lack of interest to make something better than it was the previous year. Is it the thought or mentality of "why should I bother making the product better, people are paying and showing up".
Every year these low budget races with poor promotion have the feel like it's the first time the race has ever been put on and the promoter is dealing with a learning curve.
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Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2013. There are 319 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 15, 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.
On this date:
In 1942, the British colony Singapore surrendered to Japanese forces during World War II.
In 1952, a funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's King George VI, who had died nine days earlier.
In 1953, Tenley Albright became the first American woman to win the world figure skating championship, held in Davos, Switzerland.
In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
In 1965, Canada's new maple-leaf flag was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.
In 1971, Britain and Ireland "decimalised" their currencies, making one pound equal to 100 new pence instead of 240 pence.
In 1982, 84 men were killed when a huge oil-drilling rig, the Ocean Ranger, sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a fierce storm.
In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention.
In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. Benjamin L. Hooks announced plans to retire as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In 2002, a private funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.
Ten years ago: Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the prospect of a U.S. attack on Iraq.
Five years ago: Business tycoon Steve Fossett, 63, was declared dead by a judge in Cook County, Ill., five months after his small plane vanished after taking off from an airstrip near Yerington, Nev. (Fossett's remains were discovered in late October 2008 in California's Sierra Nevada.)
One year ago: Congressional negotiators sealed an agreement on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more. In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said it was dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighed tougher pressure on the Tehran government.
Thought for Today: "Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine." -- Katherine Anne Porter, American author (1894-1980).


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Just before the sun rose, when the city was beginning to stir and the traffic on Madison Road in Cincinnati was starting to roll heavy, Sandy Vierling heard the knock on the door.
She knew it would be Dwayne, and she knew he needed coffee and that he couldn't wait for her to open, so she went to the front door of the Cafe DeSales in East Walnut Hills neighborhood and let him in.
In January, the previous owner of the cafe walked away and Vierling, who had been the manager, decided to buy what was suddenly a stripped-down coffee shop. She knew she needed help, and customers responded.
Ed bought her a coffee maker. Gerald showed up one morning with a refrigerator. Chris offered financial support. "I know their name and their story, and I know what they drink," Vierling said. "But I don't know their last names. Ed is my customer, a really nice guy, and he drinks a dirty chai."
And now Cafe DeSales is the community's "living room."
Cafe DeSales sits at the corner of Woodburn Avenue and Madison Road under the looming bell tower of St. Francis De Sales church.
Almost as soon as Vierling, 62 and a retired school teacher, started working at the cafe two years ago, she loved it. "Within a week, it was my passion."
She liked the people and the pace and notion that customers would come to her job to find some peace, or the joy of a good cup of coffee.
And then she and her husband suffered a cataclysmic loss. Their son Brian, one of their six children, died in a car accident. Brian Vierling was 36 years old, a husband, and the father of baby girl.
"It was devastating. Maybe that's why this place became so important to me," Vierling said. "It kept me busy and gave me a sense of purpose."
During this time, Vierling learned her customers' names and their drinks. She started putting a dog bowl filled with water out in front. She would let homeless men and woman come in and sit with some dignity for a while. Her customers never seemed to notice, or maybe they just approved.
She felt like the previous owner had other dreams and maybe never really loved the place as she did.
She thought his bills were mounting but still she was shocked, she said, to arrive one day in late December and find her coffee shop closed.
"I knew it could happen, but still it was a shock," Vierling said.
"It took me a minute to decide I wanted to buy it."
Right away she covered the glass windows and said that the place was closed but just temporarily, and only for remodeling. But the customers could see past the paper on the windows and knew it was more than that. So they started leaving notes.
"Sandy, what can we do?"
"Sandy, do you need some help?"
"Sandy, tell me you are going to reopen."
When the customers saw her inside working, they knocked on the door and helped.
Some painted.
Some found tables and chairs.
Some cleaned walls.
"I will never forget what this community did for me," Vierling said.
Ray Oldenburg is not surprised at all when a neighborhood rallies around a place like Cafe DeSales.
Oldenburg, an urban sociologist, wrote a seminal book on the importance of informal gathering places and what they can mean to a community.
Oldenburg wrote that "third places" -- home is first, work is second -- are where people meet and talk, where they make friends and plans.
And with the increasing use of the Internet as a virtual gathering hall, the corner cafe is more important than ever.
"On the Internet, people search out people who think just like they do," Oldenburg, a retired professor, said from his home in Florida. "People need real connectedness. And every once in a while, they need to hear somebody say: 'You know what? You are as crazy as hell.'"
Oldenburg points to the old neighborhood tavern as the place where this usually happened. He said research indicates 80 percent of traditional tavern drinkers lived within two blocks of the place. But people stopped going, or started driving to a place farther away.
A local coffee shop, like Cafe DeSales, is where the conversation can start again.
"All of a sudden, people know each other," Oldenburg said. "They learn what is important to each other and they trust each other and they help each other."
Ed Pfetzing comes to Cafe DeSales every morning for his coffee and a little breakfast. But what he is really there for is the community. He is the vice president of the East Walnut Hills Assembly, and this is where people find him.
"It's what I call the unplanned meeting. It's where communities happen and every neighborhood needs one," Pfetzing said, sitting with his wife, Carol. She joins him most mornings. "It's the living room of our community."
And Vierling began to find some joy after the loss of her son. Her grief is like a brick around her neck, she said, that gets little bit smaller here and there. Someday, she said, she hopes it is like a polished stone.
She comes and opens her coffee shop seven mornings a week. Then she leaves and comes back through the day.
Cafe DeSales is making a little money now, Vierling says. Monday morning was rainy, but traffic was steady. Business people, then high school students, then people who have a little more time on their hands.
At lunch, there is a rush and then after school, the students come back. Sometimes, Vierling sits with a customer. Every table, every chair, she says, has a story.
"We opened with eight chairs and a couple of tables. When we made a little money, we bought a new chair. Somebody would bring in a table top, somebody else would bring in a base. It works."
Then she turned and looked around her coffee shop. All the customers were busy talking.
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The 2012 Autumn Glory exhibit, which spotlights the annual Fall Classic, will be unveiled in November and remain on display through the 2013 World Series. Admission to the exhibit is included with a regular Hall of Fame ticket.
The San Francisco Giants donated the equipment after beating the Detroit Tigers on Sunday night.
• The bat used by third baseman Pablo Sandoval to hit two of his three home runs in Game 1.
• The jersey worn by pitcher Ryan Vogelsong throughout the postseason.
• The warm-up jacket worn by manager Bruce Bochy throughout the World Series.
• The glove used by leftfielder Gregor Blanco throughout the regular season and postseason.
• A bat used throughout the World Series by rightfielder Hunter Pence, including for his sacrifice fly in Game 2.
• The spikes worn by second baseman Marco Scutaro throughout the postseason.
• The cap worn by shortstop Brandon Crawford during the postseason.
• The spikes worn by starting pitcher Matt Cain during the World Series.
The Autumn Glory exhibit will feature additional elements as well, including press pins, tickets, photos and more.
The museum collections contain many artifacts documenting the entire history of World Series and postseason play, including Don Larsen's cap and Yogi Berra's mitt from Larsen's 1956 perfect game; Bill Mazeroski's (1960) and Joe Carter's (1993) bats from their Series-ending blasts; and World Series rings from the last century of Fall Classic competition.


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9:00am Saturday 5th January 2013 in Letters
I HAVE just gone to book tickets for the pantomime at the Arts Centre in January for which the Phoenix Theatre Group are putting on Mother Goose and was stunned that it does not seem to be very well supported this year.
I struggled for tickets last year so what has happened this year Evesham?
Let's not get to the time when we say "I remember when Evesham had its own pantomime".
Let's support local events and, after all, pantomime is great family fun (oh yes it is).
Let's keep tradition going and support the pantomime.
MRS SHARON REYNOLDS Harvington
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