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Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls hopes Labour bears fruit after visit to Redcar supermarket
Updated 5:48pm Friday 25th April 2014 in News By Chris Webber, Reporter (Stockton/Hartlepool)
THE man who could be in charge of the nation's money should the Labour Party come to power visited the region today (Thursday 24th April) . Reporter Chris Webber met shadow chancellor Ed Balls at a Redcar supermarket.
ED BALLS has been joking, chatting and laughing with shoppers and Tesco supermarket workers between asking them about their everyday budget concerns.
But the shadow chancellor turns serious when The Northern Echo brings up the 2009 closure of Redcar steelworks and the subsequent loss of what was once a safe Labour seat the following year.
The then Labour Government, with Mr Balls a key ally of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, refused to bail out the steelworks and 1,700 jobs were lost.
It's all history now and the story ended happily when Thai Steel giant Tata bought the plant which is now showing a profit.
But would Mr Balls bail the steelworks out if the situation repeated itself.
In town ahead of next month's European Union elections and campaigning with Redcar's parliamentary candidate, Anna Turley, prior to next year's General Election, he said: "We can't do that for every company in the country that gets into trouble.
"But we would have a proper industrial policy.
"For example, the regional development agency, One North-East was closed and the new industrial partnerships are too weak and under-resourced. We would go the extra mile for jobs."
Aware that UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage was in the region yesterday, (Wednesday), Mr Ball argued that leaving the EU could lead Sunderland-based car maker Nissan to go elsewhere at a cost of thousands of well-paid jobs.
Moving on to the general election, Mr Balls admits Labour must win back both Redcar from the Liberal Democrats and Stockton South from the Conservatives, to have any chance of forming the next Government.
To do that he'll need to win over voters like checkout worker Michael Hartley. Earlier the 27-year-old had taken his chance to ask a question a political big-hitter.
After explaining that he worked 19 hours a week and was struggling to make ends meet, he asked if it was fair that, single and without children, he did not qualify for working tax credits?
Mr Balls was non-commital.
"We'll have to look at it again," he said, before promising to help tackle youth unemployment.
"There's been a 25 per cent rise in long-term youth unemployment in Redcar," he said. "Under a Labour Government they would have to go into training after a year."
The answer gives Mr Hartley some hope. "We'll see what other policies they'll develop," he said.
Eager to meet the public, Mr Balls got out of the comfy armchair and grabbed a tray of fruit which was being offered to shoppers.
It's not every day the man who might become the second most powerful man in Government offers you pineapple chunks as you pop in for milk.
Shirley Potter was doing just that with her three-year-old daughter, Heidi, when the Shadow Chancellor approached her.
"He was very nice," she said, "But who was he?"
Slightly embarrassed when informed of his identity, she said: "I'd ask him how long this economic downturn is going to last. How many more years have we got of this and what can he do to sort the economy out?"
Unfortunately for Mrs Potter, her moment in the limelight had gone.
Mr Balls, meanwhile, will be hoping his is still to come.
The Northern Echo will be interviewing politicians from all major parties ahead of next month's Euro elections.
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Oh well given the lack of a socialist option I will have to vote Labour.
Not great, but the least worst option.
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sts for decades and now we hear that the other Ed, Mr Miliband has engaged some dodgy American fixer and extreme leftie David Axelrod, at a huge six-figure cost to the taxpayers, to help him get the Labour Party elected as the next government of the United Kingdom, USA-style …
Let's hope Axlerod's credentials and his history to enter Britain are legally better than the decent people such as Nigella Lawson, whom the selective USA stopped from entering their country … so here cometh the man who introduced the Yes-we-can slogan to Obama, which is kind of hollow now … and is being challenged to change such slogans to Ok-maybe-and-no-we-c
ouldn't after he was paid to help unknown Mario Monte's 2013 campaign to be the the PM of Italy and only got 10% of the votes, just another rich loser it seems !
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Buffalo Bills' wide receiver Donald Jones had to be carted off the field with an ankle injury during the second quarter of Sunday's loss to the Miami Dolphins. Now he may miss the next three to six weeks, according to head coach Chan Gailey. The news is a major blow to a Bills squad that not only got a blown out, but may have also lost cornerback Terrence McGee for the season.
Jones failed to record a catch before leaving, but had carved out a nice niche for himself as the team's No. 3 receiver this season. In week 10 he had a season-high six catches for 51 yards, adding to his yearly total of 23 catches, 231 yards and a touchdown. Jones missed the Bills' Week 6 and Week 8 matchups against the New York Giants and Washington Redskins with injuries as well.
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A DESCENDANT of a man who helped shape America's history, is set to give a talk.
Jeremiah Dixon was responsible for helping create America's Mason-Dixon line, which divided the slave-owning Southern states from abolitionist Northern states during the civil war.
Jeremiah Dixon, from Cockfield, County Durham, was commissioned 250 years ago by King George III to help resolve a dispute over boundary lines between the English colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in the US.
Maryland had been founded in 1632 by the Calvert family from Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire, as a refuge for English Catholics. About 50 years later, neighbouring Pennsylvania was created by the Quaker William Penn and inhabited by the more aggressive Puritans.
Although surveying was in its infancy, accurate boundary measurements were required to prevent continuing argument, so the royal astronomer at the Greenwich Observatory recommended his assistant Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, from Cockfield to undertake a boundary survey.
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The boundary became the Mason-Dixon, which defined the boundary of freedom for escaping black slaves and the dividing line between Southern and Northern states in the civil war.
Now one of his direct descendants, John Dixon, is to host a talk entitled Jeremiah Dixon; Revered in America, Forgotten at Home, for Northallerton and District Local History Society.
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WINFIELD, W.Va. (Darrah Wilcox) -- Expectant mothers in the areas affected by the chemical spill last week are still being advised not to drink the water.
There are eight pregnant staff members at Winfield High School in Putnam County. Erin Crouch is 23 weeks pregnant with a second boy. She said all the women at Winfield are due between March and May, and it's become kind of a running joke at the school.
"Here at Winfield, you don't want to drink the water if you don't want to get pregnant, and you also don't want to drink the water if you are pregnant," Crouch said.
Crouch and her expectant coworkers are on high alert after the Centers for Disease Control recommended Wednesday that pregnant women in the areas affected by the water crisis drink bottled water until there is no trace of the chemical present in water.
Ariene Pauly is 31 weeks pregnant with her first child.
"It's been very uneasy.," Pauly said. "This is my first child. Even before the water situations, 'Is this the right food that I should be eating. Is this going to harm the baby?' "
There is plenty of water available to the women at work, but they still have many unanswered questions. Crouch said she questions whether it's safe to wash their hands or take showers now.
Several who were in areas affected by the water ban are still making alternative plans for showering and washing clothes, just in case.
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Reta and her husband live in South Charleston and were given permission to flush their pipes Monday, but Reta said she still doesn't feel comfortable with the water quality at her home.
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Greensburg —
In the regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) Wednesday night, two requests were rejected and two approved.
Dominque Hulsbosch, owner of a dairy farm of 2,000 cows, requested his land be rezoned so he can house up to eight of his employees and their families.
Several neighbors were present, providing a nearly 50/50 consensus in approval and disapproval of Hulsbosch's request. Concern was primarily centered on whether residents would have issues among themselves, and if police would be able to respond in a timely manner.
Several others, including Dan Wilson of the Purdue Extension Office, spoke in favor of the house being built, saying Hulsbosch was a man of his word and that he'd keep his residents under control.
The house plans would include six bedrooms and three kitchens, with two of Holsbosch's employees having a wife and children.
The BZA expressed concern that the house would not be big enough if the other employees decided to start families.
In a split vote, two yes, two no, Holsbosch's plans were rejected.
The next petition was for the opening of a motorcycle repair shop in Westport for five years. The petition was approved on the condition that noise would not be a problem, and that all signs were the correct dimensions.
Following the BZA meeting, was the Decatur County Area Plan Commission also met.
Bryan and Jean Krieger requested to subdivide three acres for a future home. The Plan Commission raised concern that the house would be very close to the Krieger's 80-cow feed lock, resulting in an inevitable smell and flies. Jean Krieger responded that she was aware of the smell, and the Plan Commission approved the Kriegers' request.
Walt Moore of Mooreland, Inc. requested that 3 acres be rezoned for a house to be built. Moore made his position clear that he would be able to build the house without the Plan Commission's approval due to a loophole, but that he would like to have the option of renting the house.
The house would fall onto healthy agricultural land, but would be near other buildings on the property.
The Plan Commission attempted to find an alternative location for the house, but there were few options. Due to having to discourage people from building on farmland, the Plan Commission unanimously rejected Moore's request.
Moore stated afterward that he would build on the land anyway.
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A study in integrated environmental and economic analysis - This report, prepared within the broad framework of EEA work on environmental accounts, presents and describes the tool of environmentally extended input-output analysis and illustrates its potential uses. The report aims to: present the tool of environmentally extended input-output analysis of EE-IOT and assess its potential for answering key SCP policy questions; make use of the tool and the latest data available in Europe to identify the environmental 'hotspots' and leverage points in European consumption and production; and identify weaknesses and potential for improvement in the current application of the tool.
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Update to the European Environment State and Outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) thematic assessment
The European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes Signals each year, providing snapshot stories on issues of interest to the environmental policy debate and the wider public in the coming year.
The consumption of goods and services in EEA member countries is a major driver of global resource use and associated environmental impacts. Growth in global trade is resulting in an increasing share of environmental pressures and impacts from European consumption taking place beyond Europe. Food and drink, housing, mobility and tourism are responsible for a large part of the pressures and impacts caused by consumption in the EU. Achieving significant reductions in environmental pressures and impacts will require changing private and public consumption patterns, to supplement gains achieved through better technology and improved production processes.
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Life on Regal-Hill by Gail Hillriegel is a weekly column about the many aspects of life on a farm, including care of animals, working the land, and gardening. Recipes are shared for readers' cooking enjoyment.
This Sunday is Easter. It is one of my favorite holidays. I guess that is because it includes personal redemption that I can always use as well as getting together with family and friends besides preparing a special meal. However, it just isn't so hectic compared to Christmas since there isn't the decorating, gift-giving, sending of cards and such associated with Easter.
Now that it is spring here at Regal-Hill I had hoped the weather would stay warm, but so far this week it has been too cold during the day for the sap to run very much. Even though most of those here working at sapping needed a break, they were disappointed the sap wasn't running more. The next few days should be warmer, so the sap should be running better again.
It has been very spring-like here at Regal-Hill this week. It was supposed to rain tomorrow, but as it turned out we got snow. It snowed until everything was all white, then it stopped and in no time at all most of it had melted. It was what we call a sap snow. Sap snow is very wet and, thankfully, it comes and goes quickly. However, I am sure it will get colder and be back to more winter-like weather with colder temperatures and snowstorms.
With St. Patrick's Day almost here, there are only a few more days and spring will be here as well. Spring is supposed to begin on March 20 according to the calendar. Let's hope it will really be a glorious spring day. When I say glorious I mean at least 50 degrees, sunny and still, with no ice or snow around as far as the eye can see, except maybe on the distant mountains. Of course there will be mud, but I promise I won't complain if the mud tracks inside.
One thing we have been doing here at Regal-Hill is planning our gardening for this year and ordering seeds. I may over plan and dream too much but it sure is fun to do when the wind is blowing, the temperature is 20 degrees or less and the wind chill is minus one, even if the sun is shining.
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Pinedale's Media Scene
Back in Pinedale, the century-old Roundup and its 10-year-old rival, the Sublette Examiner, reach about 3,000 and 2,500 subscribers, respectively. The Examiner was started by disaffected reporters from the Roundup after an ownership change in 2000. The papers came under common ownership in 2006, when the Examiner was bought by the NewsMedia Corporation, an Illinois-based chain that runs 76 papers in nine mostly western states. After moving their publishing dates to opposite ends of the week, the new owners left the two papers largely alone. "They compete with each other, try to scoop each other," says Jeff Robertson, who publishes both papers and a third in Eastern Wyoming, the Torrington Telegraph.
Such an arrangement is not surprising, says Al Cross. "Newspapers develop a subscriber list," he says. "People in that community had to make a choice, I'm only going to subscribe to one. So why not keep them both going?"
Despite consolidation, weekly newspapers actually have a lower rate of chain ownership than dailies, with 60 percent owned by chains, compared to 80 percent of dailies, according to the National Newspaper Association. Nevertheless, the quality of newspapers does not strictly correspond to ownership. "If you're in a chain and you have financial resources to support you," says Al Cross, "you're willing to take more risks, to lose an advertiser over coverage, to buy libel insurance and pay lawyer's fees. But at same time, because chains are accountable to investor pressure, they can hamstring editorial operations."
Judy Muller says that she expected to hear complaints about chain ownership of rural and small town newspapers. "I expected to hear that only family owned multi-generational papers had high standards," says Judy Muller, "but I did not find that. Either way, you can have weak unethical people working for corporations or weak unethical people who cave in to people from the bank."
The Roundup and the Examiner are similar in form and content, each of them recently flush with color photographs of local events like the high school prom and graduation, horseshoe pitches, cattle brandings, and reader-submitted wildlife photos (which, in this region, are spectacular). And surely to the lasting pride of Mariah Strike's parents, both papers published the full text of the Pinedale High School valedictorian's address, a sign not only of hyper-local interest, but also of papers with ad pages to spare, positively groaning with legal announcements like foreclosure listings and regulatory filings, the kind that have long fattened newspapers in county seats like Pinedale.
The newsrooms of both papers--which stand only 30 to 50 feet apart in an office complex made out of a former grocery store--are comprised of almost uniformly young reporters, like the 24 year-old editor of the Roundup, Casey Dean. The pay is low, says Dean, but it is supplemented by the free housing that the company offers. "One of my reporters, my intern and an Examiner reporter live in one house," says Dean. "The ad director and one of the Examiner's reporters live in company housing. Their office manager and myself live together, and that's actually because she used to work for both offices."
At both papers, the staffs are small and efficiencies are everywhere. NewsMedia maintains their nearly identical websites, and the newspapers are laid out in South Dakota. "I've never seen her in person," says Dean, "but I'm on iChat all day long with my designer."
The editors take pride in their reporting on local issues, like the dam breach, federal redistricting, wolf management and the 800-pound gorilla of economic development, the natural gas industry.
Dean, the Roundup's editor, grew up in Pinedale before going to college in North Carolina. She thinks the industry should disclose the chemicals they are using to extract gas through hydraulic fracturing, but she acknowledges the benefits that the boom has brought. "I'm with a lot of the community as far as understanding how much it has made possible economically," she says. But the community also wants to be "very careful and monitoring it and protecting the things that make Wyoming what it is," she adds, "because this boom won't last forever. We don't want to be a ghost town in 20 years."
Like a number of rural newspapers that target advertisers with niche-oriented supplements, the Roundup has a monthly section for the gas industry called "The Roughneck." "We try to keep it positive for the industry," says the publisher Jeff Robertson, "But if something more newsworthy comes out that's against that, we won't shy away from publishing it."
Ron Aiken, until recently the editor of the Examiner, took a more skeptical stance on the energy bonanza, focusing on the disruption to the large herds of mule deer, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep that have made Pinedale a magnet for hunters and adventure sports enthusiast "People will say things like, 'I never had a deer paying a local mortgage,'" he said. Aiken, who spent several years working at a daily newspaper and an alternative weekly in South Carolina, wrote a cheeky column on June 7 that lampooned the county's boom in publicly-funded water parks, bowling alleys and agricultural halls. "So what is there left that, in keeping with the cautious nature of how oil and gas money has thus far been spent, would best serve Sublette County residents?" he asked, under the headline, "What Sublette County Needs is a Monorail."
Aiken says that small-town papers have more room to innovate, citing the Examiner's popular column "Grins and Gripes," which runs 150-word blind items submitted anonymously by residents. "It's a way to let people who wouldn't normally write letters to the editor into the paper," he says.
Local papers have largely resisted the pressure to offer content free online, sometimes capitalizing on their virtual monopoly on local news. Despite the competition with each other and from the free website Pinedale Online!, both the Roundup and the Examiner limit most online stories to one or two paragraph teases for the print edition and paid electronic downloads.
While they are careful to protect their core product from free online access, they still consider themselves open to new media. The Examiner uploads photographs to Facebook and often "tweets" news items before they appear in print. "These are things that the smallest papers can do just as effectively as larger newspapers," says Aiken, "maybe more so."
Al Cross thinks that community newspapers need to embrace the web, in spite of the risks. He says that as rural workers commute farther and farther to work, they will have less time to read newspapers and will be more likely to read hometown news at work on their computers or smartphones. "One third of papers don't have websites," he says, expressing concern about the growth of online-only startups from hyperlocal sites like the Post in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to the over 700 franchise-based Patch sites being propagated by AOL. "None of this is major competition for local newspapers, but like worms eating at their shoes, they ignore it at their peril."
"Publishers in small and medium communities largely think they are safe from the readership and advertising declines that are eating away at most metro newspapers," wrote the former publisher and media analyst Alan Mutter in a 2010 blog post. "Are they? Yes, no and maybe," he concluded. Internet competition might be the least of the threats to local papers, he wrote, compared to the wider demographic shifts. Rural areas are aging faster than urban and suburban ones, and younger readers may be less likely to buy newspapers, even when they get older. For small papers, long-time subsidies may be at risk as well: as the U.S. Postal Service looks for ways to stem its growing losses, the generous subsidy provided by free in-county mail delivery has once again come under scrutiny, as well as mail delivery on Saturdays. Perhaps most worrisome of all, rural papers still live and die with local businesses; Wal-Mart, for example, has little use for newspaper advertising, says Al Cross, and most national chains prefer to advertise in national media.
Still, community papers are looking like a haven in the media storm. Near the end of Emus Loose in Egnar, Muller cites a remark by Benjy Hamm, editorial director of a rural newspaper chain in South Carolina: "He is seeing more and more resumés from eager, young editors and big-city journalists who have either been victims of downsizing or growing weary of wondering if they will be next."
"As the number of journalism jobs in metro papers declines," says Al Cross, "I think rural journalism will be an increasingly popular outlet for people who want to take it on as a career. The monetary rewards are not as great, but there's a great deal of personal reward that can come with it, and also an opportunity to get in on the ownership side."
Muller agrees, "The reason a weekly thrives is because no one else on Earth can cover what they cover, people will not know what's going on in their town in any other way. They've got a monopoly, a little fiefdom, for as long as the advertiser needs the market."
As for local readers, she adds, "as long as refrigerator magnets exist, there will be things to clip and put on refrigerator, if your son was on the high school football team, it's going on the fridge."
This article was produced by the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University.


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A Tourist's ParadoxThe hills of Sagaing, right across the Ayeyarwady River some 10 miles southwest of Mandalay, look like an archetypal vision of Asia. Buddhist stupas rise amid thickly forested hillsides, their golden spires gleaming in the late afternoon light. Monks and nuns stroll the shaded lanes in red and pink robes; at sunrise; their chants evaporate with the fog. Climbing one of the serpentine stairways and gazing out over the landscape, you can imagine you have returned to the Burma of Kublai Khan or Rudyard Kipling--a golden land awash in riches, illuminated by the inimitable light of Asia.
But the Burma of today is an ambiguous place, where one person's dream is another's nightmare. Drinking tea at a quiet monastery in the Sagaing hills that welcomes Westerners for annual vipassana retreats, I struggled with the conflict that dogs every mindful visitor to the country called Myanmar by its rulers. It was a question of ahimsa, the yogic directive of "nonharming." Does my presence here help the Burmese people or contribute to their continued oppression? Is it appropriate to sightsee, relax, or even study meditation in Burma, knowing that a portion of the money I'm spending here goes to support a brutal dictatorship?
To Visit or Not to Visit
Known as the "golden land" by Western adventurers who visited five centuries ago, Burma was once a great Buddhist center, a treasury of teak and gems, and Southeast Asia's largest exporter of rice. All of this changed in the years following World War II, when a popular leader named Bogyoke Aung San was assassinated and a despotic general named Ne Win took his place. For the next half century, the country was dragged down the road to an exploitative and ineffectual socialism.
The country's military rulers--who slaughtered more than 3,000 demonstrators during a peaceful uprising in 1988--proclaimed 1996 "Visit Myanmar Year." Their goal: to lure half a million visitors annually to the country and attract some of the tourist dollars lavished on neighboring Thailand.
To make its impoverished country more attractive, the government began building luxury hotels, roads, golf courses, and airports. Much of this work was done by forced labor, often at gunpoint. Men, women, and children were pulled from their villages and thrust onto construction sites. Clearing the vast moat around one potential tourist magnet--Mandalay Palace--required 20,000 laborers alone, according to BurmaNet News. The strategy seemed to work: The junta, says Burma Campaign UK, claims to earn $100 million a year from tourism. And 40 percent of its budget is spent on the military.
Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced "ong sahn soo chee"), the legally elected leader of the country--while under house arrest in 1990, she won a landslide victory that the junta refused to recognize--responded to "Visit Myanmar Year" by calling for a tourism boycott. Her goal was to deny the military regime the profits of tourism and diminish their credibility in the eyes of the free world. In July 1996, I wrote an op-ed piece that was published in the Washington Post, supporting her position. "Let us turn our backs on Myanmar's despotic regime," I wrote, "and demonstrate our solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy movement by voting with our wings."
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A Pensacola woman, Ashley Taylor Wright, has been arrested after authorities say they tried arrest her for shoplifting and she threw the baby at a deputy as she tried to escape.
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The Whitley County Health Department shut down the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant after the owner admitted to bringing in roadkill, a deer found dead on the highway.
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Customer Katie Hopkins says she was the one who called authorities after watching the animal being wheeled in during lunch last week.
"There was this tail, a big, white, fuzzy, tail. A leg was sticking out of the garbage can. They had a box on top of it. They were wheeling it in there, like really quick, like trying to hurry. One of the other employees was mopping up blood that was dripping out of the garbage and on to the floor."
Customers say they don't know if they'll be back in the future.
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A classic recipe from Puglia, but with broccoli rabe in season it tastes just as good in Rome. 500 g orecchiette 1 kg broccoli rabe 2 cloves of garlic 2-4 full chili peppers 3 small anchovies Olive oil Preparation Pick through the rabe, getting rid of all the big leaves and stems, keeping only the … Continue reading
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Travel on the Cheap: Trenitalia Promotions
This fall, in honor of Italy's 150th birthday, Trenitalia is offering some pretty sweet deals, with super low fares across the country. The first is the MINI Promotion, with discounts of up to 60% to many of the top locations, determined by what looks to be some kind of arbitrary algorithm. There are a limited … Continue reading
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Raphael After Dark
The Villa Farnesina, long known for its Raphael frescoes and bizarre hours, is now open on Thursday evenings! Once a week, from 7:30-9pm the doors of this Renaissance villa in Trastevere will be open to those who have never quite managed to make it on weekday mornings at 9 (seriously?). As an added bonus, they … Continue reading
This Weekend: European Heritage Days
This weekend, in honor of European Heritage Days, Rome is throwing open the doors to all kinds of museums and historical sites…for free! European Heritage Days is a twenty-year old initiative, originally launched by the Council of Europe to unite citizens across cultural boundaries by providing access to new cultural assets and opening up those … Continue reading
Falling in Love…
I've been a little down on Rome lately. Despite the fact that it's September, the temperature remains 90 degrees. The heat intensifies and bakes the already-pervasive urine smell of my street, causing me to dry-heave every time I step out of my door. It's noisy, it's stinky, and nothing seems to work (where is my … Continue reading
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VFNO Recap: Rome hosts first-ever Vogue Fashion's Night Out
By Tess Amodeo-Vickery, Runway Passport Fashion enthusiasts filled the streets of the Via del Corso and the area surrounding Piazza di Spagna last night for the city's first-ever Vogue Fashion's Night Out. Events were held in all forms, from exclusive cocktail parties hosted by legacy stores like Fendi, Gucci and Chanel to parties held in … Continue reading
Colosseum After Dark
UPDATE: As of May 5, 2012, the Colosseum is once again offering evening tours on Friday and Saturday evenings, all the way through October. Read on here for more info on how to book a tour of the Colosseum under the stars, or click here for exact tour times. The Nerone show mentioned below is … Continue reading
UPDATED: Fashion's Night Out Comes to Rome
Fashion's Night Out, sponsored by Vogue, has been kicking off New York Fashion Week for the last few years, but tomorrow night it's hopping the pond and coming to Rome for the first time. While it seems unlikely that the games of "How many times can you spot Anna Wintour" will be as commonplace here … Continue reading


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Their recents gifts of books are trickling back in from the catalogers and are available for researchers. They include the following books:
Swedish Voters in Chicago 1888 by Nils William Olsson G929.377311 O528swe 1999
Svenskarna i Nya Zeeland [The Swedes in New Zeeland: the Swedish Emigration to New Zealand until 1940] by Sten Aminoff G325.2485 A517sve 1988
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.....Jill Seaholm and the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Rock Island, Illinois for making the donation of these books possible!
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — For one day at least, it wasn't about expectations for John Lackey, his spot in the rotation or whether he could live up to his big contract. It was simply a chance to play.
Lackey had gone 515 days without pitching in a real game. His right elbow gave out by the end of the 2011 season, the ulnar collateral ligament so frayed that doctors were surprised he found a way to get the ball to the plate.


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