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Piccola Trattoria
- Address:
18302 Sierra Hwy
Canyon Country, CA 91351Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
ItalianPrice: $30 and under
Piccola Trattoria
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.piccolatrattoria.com/
- Phone: (661) 299-6952
- Hours of Operation:
Dinner: Monday - Thursday and Sundays: 5:00pm - 9:00pm, Friday - Saturday: 5:00pm - 10:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Italian, Mediterranean, Sicilian
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Bar Dining, Beer, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Wine, Wine Bar
- Private Party Facilities: Sundays only
- Private Party Contact: Carmelo Terranova 661-299-6952
A word from Piccola Trattoria
Piccola Trattoria offers delicious Italian and Sicilian cuisine in an intimate, warm and inviting atmosphere. The menu carries a variety of authentic Italian style dishes, ranging from fresh seafood and game, to homemade pasta recipes, and homemade pizzas. Join us in a memorable evening of great food, wonderful wine, and warm and knowledgeable service.Continued
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- Diners' Choice WinnerBest Overall
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Piccola Trattoria reviews from OpenTable diners
64 reviews since July 31, 2014
- Food4.7Service4.7
- Ambiance4.4Noise LevelModerate
neighborhood gem (54)special occasion (47)great for outdoor dining (32)romantic (30)fit for foodies (29)good for groups (22)notable wine list (22)kid-friendly (12)great for lunch (8)hot spot (5)great for brunch (4)late-night find (2)Show More
- Not goodSomebodyVIPDined on 11/21/2014Extremely, extremely disappointed in the food, esp considering its ratings on yelp and opentable. Great ambiance and service however.
- Hidden GemMcNamara1Dined on 11/6/2014This restaurant has been my very favorite for the past several years. The food is exquisite and the service impeccable! Whenever there is a special occasion to celebrate, we go here. It's nice that they offer the Restaurant Row coupon as well.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Awesome. A real treat.GepettoDined on 11/5/2014I wish I could be there every night. But then my wife would think I didn't like her cooking. Maybe every other night.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A favwendiDined on 11/2/2014Always a fav and always the best. One of our favs and we will continue to go as it always just gets better.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Our FavoriteTomTDined on 10/28/2014Piccola Trattoria. The name itself prepares you for an Italian outing. It never disappoints. All the amenities for delightful time are present and a enjoyable time is assured. We have been there for birthday celebrations, anniversaries, and "just because" times. It is the treasure of the Santa Clarita Valley.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great food, great service!KenHDined on 10/26/2014This was our 3rd visit here, and have not been disappointed! The menu is varied, the specials are delectable, and the service was excellent. Our waiter is from Silcily, how much more Italian can you get than that? The food was excellent, the pizza as an appetizer was scrumptious, the salad was also fresh. I had the lamb chops and they were amazing! Others in our party had the ahi tuna, and the halibut, all of which were wonderful. If you have room for dessert, try the tiramisu, and the apple pie, we could barely finish them, we were so stuffed. What is nice about this place is the help makes you feel like a welcomed guest in their home, not just another diner willing to shell out your hard earned cash. A terrific dining experience!Special Features:
- Almost perfectNotasandwichshopDined on 10/25/2014This restaurant was near perfect in everything. Good food, the waiter did everything right, etc. The main thing that ruined it was the parking. There was only valet parking when I got there. Not ideal...Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- So glad I found!!!!Alwayslooking4GrtFoodDined on 10/24/2014And not far from me at all . I moved here a year and half ago and been venturing into West Hollywood for fine dining... What? I found this place last Friday after being frustrated with having to travel the aweful traffic and I could not believe my excitement when I Read the reviews still was afraid when I saw the location ( most places in this area are run down) but this was a dream -fab I say!!!! The pumpkin filled pasta was to die for! Bringing all my out of state visitors here!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Salmon friendlysomethingfishyDined on 10/21/2014Had to try their farfalle but didn't want the smoked salmon on the menu selection. Instead, they substituted the Salmon Filet on top of a bed of farfalle and WOW, delicious!! Their special heirloom / mozarella salad was so rich with flavor and freshness.Special Features:
- Piccollapic1Dined on 10/18/2014The food was good, but we thought it was very expensive. It was also very loud, my husband and I were tucked in a corner and could still hardly hear each other. Not sure I'd go back.Special Features:
- Very good food and ambiance.bd2014Dined on 10/12/2014This is a great restaurant. My family and I have visited this place on numerous occasions (BD, Anniversary, and very special occasions.) It's a little bit pricey for dinner, but well worth it. I do have lunch there almost every other week. The sandwiches and salads are great, and very reasonable. The desserts are to die for. So if you are looking for great food, ambiance, and friendly service don't hesitate to visit this place. You won't regret it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- greatwendiDined on 10/11/2014always great ….always 100%. great service and nice atmosphere. we love going here.Special Features:
- Wonderful local findDrecksterVIPDined on 10/5/2014Nice place with good food, good location, good service, nice ambience - a winner, well worth returning toSpecial Features:
- Great Italian RestuarantLuvgoodfoodDined on 10/5/2014Tried this place for the 1st time. I had a gift card from 3 years ago. I regret I didn't use it sooner!!!! I definitely will be going back soon and telling everyone I know about this place! The Lasagna was fantastic!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Nine years getting better & better!somethingfishyDined on 10/2/2014Piccola does not waiver from making certain the quality of food and service stays consistently high. Had their grilled fresh Salmon special with an Alegra Salad (one of their designs) and it was served perfectly. Truly a hidden gem that continues to be discovered by guests far and wide!Special Features:
- Authentic and Delicious!!!!OpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 10/1/2014I was pleasantly surprised to have experienced such an authentic Italian trattoria in Canyon Country off the beaten path -- a true hidden gem in the Santa Clarita Valley. The food was superbe, the service was impeccable and the ambience was perfect!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- neighborhood gemxtinaand5Dined on 9/25/2014Amazing Authentic Italian restaurant in a strange part of town. Definitely one of the best restaurants in all of Valencia. Highly recommend if you enjoy finer dining. One of the few places you can get dressed up and have a nice classy meal, great wine, and excellent service without having to drive to Sherman Oaks.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Pleasantly surprisedOpenTable Diner Since 2014VIPDined on 9/16/2014The food and service was amazing. Going back again this weekend.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always Consistent QualityMugsterDined on 9/13/2014Again, one of our favs for great eats, friendly waiters and yummy specials. Mom loves the lasagna. I go for specials ! Great seafood pasta amongst othersSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Under the air conditionerCanyonCountry123Dined on 9/7/2014The food was great, the service excellent. But as soon as we were seated, we could feel the cold air of the air conditioner right on us. We did not ask to change tables (there weren't too many available as the restaurant was almost full, as usual). Perhaps the restaurant could look into one of those clear plastic things that attach over a vent to deflect the air so it doesn't come directly on someone. Let me re-emphasize how Great the food and service was. It is certainly one of the finer restaurants in Santa Clarita.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Foodlover44Dined on 9/6/2014Been back 3 times and each time friends and family loved the food. Service is excellent. Very attentive.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Find!OpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 8/23/2014Great food, good service. Can be a bit noisy inside when it's busy.Special Features:
- Great Neighborhood RestaurantAmbianceVIPDined on 8/15/2014I was really impressed with the food taste and quality as well as the service.Special Features:
- NoisyLilyinDined on 8/10/2014The noise level in this restaurant was LOUD!!!! We couldn't even hear each other speak. Finally, a large party left, and it was better, but still extremely loud.Special Features:
- Excellent AGAINsomethingfishyDined on 8/9/2014Newly remodeled / enhanced, this Santa Clarita Valley Restaurant continues to build on its success! The atmosphere is like any you'd find in the Westside, Ventura Blvd, Santa Monica or Pasadena. Food is all homemade from appetizers to desserts. Good wine selections from Italy and California. Service was exceptional.Special Features:
- Amazing Restaurant!!FlyingDutchman43Dined on 8/9/2014I can't even think of the words to describe just how great our experience was. An extensive wine list that could please any palate. Excellent service from ALL (waitress, water-pourer, bussers, runners, everyone!). The food was to-die-for. The homemade pumpkin tortelloni melted in the mouth. And the cannoli? The perfect ending.Special Features:
- Always a great experience!MaryRDined on 8/8/2014We ve been here a few times & have always had a great experience. Had waiter, Luca, again - so incredibly professional, alert to our needs. We were in no rush, so he let us sit & enjoy our appetizers & wine without pushing us to order. Food has been great each time we've been - try the pizza appetizer, & fresh mozzarella! Every pasta & seafood dish we've had has been excellent.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Place to dineSkipDined on 8/7/2014The food here is outstanding, The service could have been better we waiting way too long to get our bill and once it came it took forever for the waiter to pick it up. That's my only complaintSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not impressedluv4foodDined on 8/2/2014Well, I wanted to like this place, as it's close to home and was recommended by others.The noise level was very high, the tables very close to each other, and the wall I was looking at was only covered with wall board with holes stuffed with paper in them. No pictures, barely painted, very ugly. My ten dollar spinach salad was decent, but lacked dressing, the focaccia was dry and bland. The twenty four dollar Osco Bucco I ordered was horrible,so salty I could not even eat it. I don't think I have ever sent food back in my life, but I had to, it was so salty. I was embarrassed, and had to wait fifteen minutes for some pasta to replace it. So there you have it. I do have to say, the staff was very nice, but I will not be going back again.
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- EXCELLENTcheyenne18Dined on 7/28/2014I WENT BY THE REVIEWS I READ ONLINE. WHAT A GREAT SURPRISE. REAL ITALIAN FOOD. WAITER WAS TERRIFIC. MY NEW FAVORITE PLACE HERE IN SANTA CLARITA!Special Features:
- Favorite local Italian restaurantMinnieDined on 7/25/2014Our go to place for a special occasion or with guests!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Still Good (slipping a little)Bolomk34VIPDined on 7/23/2014I've had the pleasure of eating here MANY times and I can honestly say that I've never had a bad meal here. The service has always been outstanding and the food has always been flavorful. This most recently dining experience (7/23/2014)...well... OK, there is some fairly extensive remodeling going on. That's not a problem. What does bother me is the prices for the food vs the amount of food. My gf and I ordered some of the "daily special" ravioli and...well at the equivalent of $2.00 per...? No...I'll think twice before I go back.Special Features:
- excellent in everythingPatritziaDined on 7/19/2014True Italian food, prepared by a very fine chef, Piccola Trattoria is superb in all ways. The wine was excellent and not too expensive. The service was very good. We think this is one of the best restaurants in the Santa Clarita Valley.Special Features:
- Best Italian in SCVOpenTable Diner Since 2007Dined on 7/19/2014Authentic Italian food at a great price. The ambiance is fun and open -- we were able to chat with couples at the two adjacent tables to discuss wine pairings and dessert recommendations. Service was above average. The seafood was fresh and delicious, sauces were bold and flavorful and pasta was the best in town. Wine list was impressive for such a small venue. Although remote, the quality of food is worth the trip.Special Features:
- Enjoyable EveningFoodluvrDined on 7/19/2014The starter bruschetta was great as always. The server was very attentive. All four meals were very good. Have never had a bad dish at this restaurant. The Amarone wine was very good. This was our guests first visit and they were very impressed!Special Features:
- Not an ordinary Italian RestaurantNellyDined on 7/12/2014You've got to try this restaurant. A little pricey but the menu is full of wonderful variety. Went there for a special occasion. Recommend making a reservation if you plan to go at prime dinner time.Special Features:
- Piccola is a family favoriteJJfamilyfavoriteDined on 7/6/2014My family, friends and I always enjoy dining at Piccola Trattoria. It's a neighborhood gem. One of the very few excellent restaurants in Santa Clarita.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- NetzieDined on 7/2/2014Love the food, the ambiance, the staff and the Montelpuciano wine (not too many places serve it). I didn't think I'd find one that's comparable to my fave Italian restaurant in Pasadena.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- What a find!hateItaliantillnowDined on 7/1/2014Had s fabulous dinner in May at a Tuscan Restaurant in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. Imagine my delight at discovering this very fine Italian restaurant in our own backyard and ordering the same wonderful dishes that I so enjoyed last month. I am not an Italian food fan (except for pizza) so, "wow", what a treasure we have discovered. I guess I do like Italian if it is made the "Picolla Trattoria way. The four of us were all so very pleased with our food and with our very friendly and attentive waiter and busboy crew. We will be back.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- AmbienceBeaches2014Dined on 7/1/2014We truly enjoyed the server, the service, the food and the value. The only issue was the background music. It didn't lend to the overall experience for us. Not a big deal, but a detail for consideration.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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In Asian trading Friday, AUD/USD was lower by 0.18% at 1.0579. The pair was likely to find support at 1.0494, the session low and resistance at 1.0586, the high of December 12.
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Overtime for checking work email off the job?
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A federal lawsuit in Chicago claims that answering calls and emails from bosses on one's smartphone after hours constitutes overtime.
According to the Huffington Post, Chicago police Sgt. Jeffrey Allen claims in his suit that the city owes him and other officers millions in overtime pay for work performed on their BlackBerry phones.
"A culture has developed where police officers feel compelled to work for free in order to possibly gain a promotion and/or maintain their coveted assignment," according to a plaintiff filing.
Allen claims that he and others were discouraged from filing for overtime.
The city, however, claims that written policy tells officers to ask for overtime, and that Allen is lumping together urgent emails with emails that could have been responded to the next day.
The ruling could impact workers everywhere who use smartphones for work.
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If the criminals are dumb enough to use skype to discus their activities then they are likely to be caught soon anyway. There a way better methods, such as hushmail and services on the TOR network.
Skype's VoIP service is popular as a cheap and convenient way to make international phone calls. Its sophisticated encryption technology can also evade wire taps. That made it a valuable tool during Arab Spring, allowing dissidents to organize without being monitored. Now, gang members are using increasingly using VoIP technology to communicate discreetly to organize and commit crimes, the FBI says.
Instead of using cell phones and e-mail, the FBI says gang members are increasingly modifying and exploiting existing technologies to create communication networks that are difficult to intercept or monitor by law enforcement, according to a previously unreleased version of the FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment.
The public version of the report was released last year on FBI.gov. The California Gang Investigators Association recently posted the law enforcement sensitive version on its Web site. This more recent version contains 20 additional pages, including a section on how gangs use technology like Skype to communicate.
Gang members are using VoIP services, gaming systems, and virtual worlds to communicate internationally, the report says. Law enforcement officials say drug traffickers have in the past used Skype to communicate between United States, Europe, Asia, and Mexico to "discuss criminal transactions."
The U.S. Army says the Taliban and terrorist organizations use the same technology to disguise their voices when communicating via VoIP, according to the report. In several states, gang members have used the Xbox's VoIP function to communicate with drug suppliers. FBI reporting indicates that gang members in California and Chicago used gaming consoles to talk on webcam and VoIP.
Skype's high level of encryption comes from the company's commitment to privacy for its users – it wanted to make sure users couldn't eavesdrop on other's conversations.
"Skype is tough to intercept not only because of its design, but also due to its legal status," The Wall Street Journal reported in June. "In the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere, laws require telecommunications providers to install interception capabilities, so police can eavesdrop on criminals if necessary." Skype, of Luxembourg, doesn't see itself as falling under those laws (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act).
And because Skype calls don't pass through Skype servers – calls are linked directly from computer to computer – even Skype can't intercept the calls. Only the computers on the call have the encryption/decryption codes. For Skype calls made from landline or mobile phones, the parts of the call that take place on the public switched telephone network aren't encrypted.
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Uzbek police; photo: Elena Urlayeva (c)
This secret draft law was discussed by actor Dmitriy Rezepin, filmmaker Oleg Karpov and linguist Aleksey Ulko.
"We are going to have a law on police which is so classified that perhaps not every police officer would know about," Karpov suggested.
"What is most interesting, as far as I know, is no other country knows about a law on police," Rezepin said. "There are certain rights and obligations of police officers but specific laws are not publicised and this is acceptable."
"Well, if there is some draft law, then I would like to get involved in discussing it," Karpov said.
"Yes, otherwise it is like a joke: 'A question to experts: where is a base of SS-20 missiles located?' 'We do not know.' 'Correct, no-one should know where this base is'," Rezepin joked.
"My question is: didn't we have any law on police until now?" Ulko asked.
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"No, there was only lawlessness by police," Karpov joked.
"I tell you frankly from my personal experience that I have very good relations with police," Rezepin said. "They like to party with actors."
"A new law was adopted this year: a fine for pedestrians crossing the road in a wrong place," the actor said. "Now imagine an old woman crossing the road with a crowd of grandchildren and a traffic patrol officer approaches her and tells her to pay a certain fine. Do you think it is realistic?"
"No, then the number of police should be trebled," Karpov said.
"Yes, I also believe Uzbek people should be educated not by fines but by increasing the police numbers," Rezepin said. "The opinion that we have more police than ordinary people is a nonsense. I believe people['s documents] should be checked when they use the underground."
"How can they check there?" Karpov asked. "I am always tempted to bet for this operation: I would take to the airport or the underground a huge bag mocking an explosive. And I can argue that with our fake security guards I would be able to do this, even though I am not a professional [criminal]. Our police are so numerous that they do nothing - they do not guard anyone from anything."
"If something happens, we will be looking for them because they hide so far away that no-one can find them," Karpov continued.
"When I was young one thief told me that a lock had been invented for honest people," Rezepin said. "This is what I believe - let this lock be symbolic but exist."
"As for the law, perhaps it is not linked to putting the activities of rank officers in order," Ulko said. "It may imply the re-subordination of the Interior Ministry to other structures, for example prosecutor's offices or SNB [National Security Service] will have more power over police."
"No but where else can we go?" Karpov asked. "Our Interior Ministry is already subordinated to the SNB - everyone knows that each police station has an official SNB representative."
"Generally, SNB representatives are everywhere and this is the necessity and it is right," Rezepin said. "Our state is at the stage of development and I believe the fact that we do not have [terrorist] explosions is their achievement."
"I have a different attitude to explosions: usually explosions all over the world not just in our country are carried out by security services," Karpov said. "At least they are always involved in them. All so-called terrorist organisations are always borne by security services."
"I am personally not aware of this information but there are simple notions that this is good and this is bad," Rezepin said. "For example, theft is bad."
"But people steal not because there are police or no police, it is a state of mind," Karpov said.
"Yes if a thief know that there are police nearby he would not go there," Rezepin said.
"No-one would rob a policeman's house," Karpov joked.
"He would not even go to a house next to a policeman's," the actor said.
"This means an officer should be attached to each house," Karpov joked.
"Interestingly, this law on police will change anything or does it aim to maintain the status quo?" Ulko asked.
"I believe rather the status quo, that means it aims to maintain some things they have got used to," Karpov believes. "For example, a presumption of innocence. In principle, this should have been stipulated in the legislation a long time ago."
"Preventive criminal law," Ulko said. "This means an arrest before committing a crime."
"Well, everyone always shout 'torture, torture'. As soon as torture will be recognised as our national mentality they would stop taking about it," Karpov suggested.
The details of the discussion of the future law on police and whether it will be adopted and in which form and whether it is that needed are in the latest issue of the joint video programme by the Shoot Me open society and Uznews.net
The programme is also available on Youtube.


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Consumers wanting to add additional storage capacity to their networks face an almost dizzying array of choices. On the low end, "brain dead" simple single-drive NASes such as Buffalo's LinkStation EZ (reviewed) require almost no setup, and correspondingly lack many features.
If you want a fault-tolerant NAS, you need a device with at least two drives in order to configure it for RAID 1 (mirroring). For two-drive NASes, there are a lot of choices, but they basically fall into two categories: BYOD (bring your own drive); or devices that ship with the drives already built in.
If you browse through SmallNetBuilder, you'll find a number of feature-rich two-drive BYOD NASes; including the QNAP TS-209 Pro (reviewed), the Synology Disk Station DS-207 (reviewed), the D-Link DNS-323 (reviewed), and several others. For each of those devices, you have to buy and install your own drives—something that not everyone feels comfortable doing.
For those wanting the simplicity of a two-drive NAS with drives already installed, there are relatively few choices. Recently, I reviewed the two-drive LinkStation Pro Duo. Now I'm going to take a look at another two-drive device from LaCie—a name long familiar to Mac users.
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LaCie chose an interesting name for their two-drive NAS entry—2big network. Though you might think that the large button on the front panel is a power switch, you'd be wrong. The button is actually for automatically copying the contents of an inserted USB key to a network share. Under normal conditions, the button glows blue, but it changes color to reflect degraded RAID status. (More on that later).
The case is formed from heavy-duty extruded aluminum. This is probably the most solid NAS enclosure I've seen. Its sheer mass alone gives it excellent cooling capacity, but the 2big does include a two-speed temperature-controlled miniature blower.
Figure 1: Rear view of the 2big network NAS
The rear panel has two drive-status LEDs, two USB 2.0 ports, a power connector, and two removable drives. The USB ports are only for attaching external storage such as a flash drive or external USB hard drives—the 2big lacks UPS support and does not include a print server.
You lock the drives into position using a screwdriver to turn the slotted locking screw. The rear panel also has a three-position power switch (on/off/auto). If the on/auto/off power switch on the 2big is set to auto, the Shut Down button in the web admin interface will restart the 2big, not shut it down. The 10/100/1000 LAN port supports 4k and 9k jumbo frames.
LaCie made an interesting design decision by putting a RAID selection switch on the rear panel. You can change the RAID switch from "BIG" to "SAFE 100." "BIG" (JBOD) is the default setting, in which the drives are concatenated for maximum storage (1TB). The name "SAFE 100" refers to the fact that it sets the drives to a "safe" mode, i.e. RAID 1 (mirroring) with 100% data redundancy.
To change RAID levels, you need a jeweler's screwdriver—a normal small slotted screwdriver is too large. Once you change the selection switch, you also have to log into the management console to confirm the change. Noticeably missing from the back panel is a security slot for use with a security cable.
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Educelerate VIII: Current Trends for Career Colleges
This Educelerate Event was recorded on January 22, 2013 and presented by Christopher Nyren, Founder of Educelerate. Educelerate holds a gathering space for Ed Tech leaders in the industry with the educators and entrepreneurs who share their interests. In this next episode, taken from Educelerate VIII, we discuss how Career Colleges are taking advantage of the disruption in the education market, and how that disruption stands to change education for the long run.
Panelists included:
- J. Michael Locke, CEO of Rasmussen College. Former SVP for Collegis (acquired by SunGard in 2004) and former head of Bank of America's education and training investment banking group.
- Chris Boehm, CFO and EVP of Corporate Development at Education Corporation of America. Previously a Managing Director for over 10 years at Willis Stein & Partners.
- Jim Bland, HCP, one of the first private equity funds to re-enter this market with the acquisition of the Career Training Academy in February 2012.
- Jason Rosenberg, Principal at Sterling Partners, a growth oriented private equity firm with a long history of successful investing in the education sector, and recent acquiror of the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in January 2013.
The event was hosted and moderated by Charlie Rose, an education industry lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath in Chicago and Washington, D.C. and the former general counsel at the U.S. Department of Education.


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First Edition. An expose on racketeering practices of the early 1930s by Clapper, one of UP's most renowned field reporters. A book that was the result of many years the journalist spent calmly exposing back room deals in Washington, the publication of which came with much anticipation, as it attracted the support of Henry Ford (who wrote the foreword, quoted on the rear jacket panel) and many of the greatest political cartoonists of the day, including Donahey, Duffy, Kirby, Norman, Parrish, Spencer, and Talburt.
Many early leaves uncut. Near Fine in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Contemporary owner name and date on the front endpaper, small numeric notation at the bottom right corner of the front pastedown. Jacket is quite nice, somewhat toned at the spine panel, with a few tiny chips at the spine ends and light soil to the rear panel. An attractive copy.
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With memories of the decimated country fresh in his mind, Dalton, Ga., surgeon Rod Rodriguez is preparing for his third trip to Haiti, one year after a major earthquake there killed or displaced more than 1 million people.
Rodriguez is among dozens of Chattanooga-area medical personnel who have journeyed to the Caribbean island, offering their medical skills in the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake.
Poorly constructed, multi-story structures "pancaked" during the Jan. 12 quake, resulting in many crush injuries and widespread amputation of limbs, Rodriguez said.
"It was utter chaos. The infrastructure and whatever medical services there were were just completely overwhelmed," he said.
Rodriguez took his first trip just a few weeks after the disaster and spent much of his time treating infections after amputations done in field hospitals under desperate conditions, he said.
Five months later on his second trip, Rodriguez said he found the country still in shambles and health clinics and hospitals still under-supplied, despite millions in international aid donations.
"To say it's better isn't really saying much," he said. "You see all these reports of how much money was donated to all these organizations. There's all this money, but I'm not seeing where it's been spent."
Next month, Rodriguez will travel with Clinicians of the World, a nonprofit organization formed by a doctor based at the Mayo Clinic whom Rodriguez met on a trip to Haiti. Rodriguez is the group's surgical director.
The earthquake killed more than 230,000 people and displaced 1.3 million, according to United Nations statistics. A recent outbreak of cholera, fueled by unsanitary conditions and contaminated water supply, has resulted in 97,595 hospital visits and 2,193 deaths in the nation, according to the World Health Organization.
Violence resulting from the disputed results of the November presidential election in Haiti also has undermined the medical response to the epidemic, with the instability hindering the transport of resources, according to the health organization.
The Chattanooga-based Children's Nutrition Program in Haiti has done development work there for more than a decade and sent medical personnel on relief trips after the earthquake, Executive Director Kerry Kelly said. But a trip scheduled for late January has been canceled because of political unrest in Haiti, she said.
Money for rebuilding has been slow to funnel into the country, and a lot of preliminary work has to be done before the recovery effort can take effect in earnest, she said.
"Once the relief effort starts, once they're able to figure out how to get this ball rolling and the money starts going in, I think we will be able to see results," she said.
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Pedro Feliz Fever has hit my fantasy league. Someone claimed the Phillies third baseman from the free agent pile this morning after his 3-for-4, 3 RBI night. Actually for $2, compared to $10 for someone like Casey Blake, it's not a bad gamble for an everyday player. Feliz has outshined every No. 7 hitter in baseball so far with the exception of Matt Kemp by hitting .359/.438/.513 in 46 plate appearances.
He's also the owner of one of my favorite stats of the young season. He already has seven walks. He had a total of 33 all of last season and just 29 the year before in San Francisco. If there's any hope for a 34-year-old like Feliz to break free from the sub-mediocrity in back of his baseball card (career OBP is an unwavering .292), better pitch selection could be it. He's a much better hitter when he gets ahead in the count, and it's maddening to watch him look first-pitch fastball all the time. I'm never totally certain how lineup construction works to alter what a hitter sees, but Raul Ibanez, batting sixth, represents a much tougher challenge than most pitchers face that far down the lineup. Feliz has an opportunity to sneak up on teams like he did last night, but the ball is in his court.
Self promotion: A couple of items to pass along. In honor of Harry Kalas, the Greater Reading Film Festival will screen "Richie Ashburn: A Baseball Life," narrated by Kalas, at the R/C Reading Movies 11 & IMAX on April 26 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7. I've been invited to be a featured panelist for the post-screening discussion. Hope to see you there. Also, look for my column on Jimmy Rollins in today's Philadelphia Metro.


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Output 5
Led by Dr Richard Graham.
The primary objective of the CSRP is to increase the knowledge pool on African climate drivers with a view to improving their representation in climate models and thereby enhancing the skill of climate predictions. The main research output will consist of articles in peer reviewed journals and a prototype set of tailored climate products that will be evaluated as part of the research collaboration with African stakeholders. The delivery of operational products is outside of the scope of this programme. In addition, targeted policy briefs and technical reports will be written to inform strategic policy forums (e.g. Nairobi Work Programme, Regional Climate Outlook Forums) and decision makers.
The project will aim to maximise the potential use of research outputs by decision makers in Africa. The training workshops proposed in Output 4 will be used to disseminate the climate products to partners. PhD topics suggested for the long-term capacity building plan (in Output 4) will be used as case studies to test and demonstrate the usefulness of climate information to humanitarian, development and climate adaptation processes.
The project will start with a consultation to identify the climate variables that are most useful to African stakeholders and to tailor products and services that are most relevant to the most vulnerable groups in Africa prior to initiating the science activities outlined in Outputs 1, 2 and 3. The feasibility will be tested of supporting 'Research Into Use Champions' as part of the capacity building exercise under Output 4, to promote the use of climate products in the existing development projects.


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'Time Travel' tribute brings out Rhymesayers A-list for Metro concert
BY MOIRA MCCORMICK April 10, 2013 1:44PM
MC Slug and DJ Ant of Atmosphere
Time Travel Reunion
♦ 9 p.m. April 13
♦ Metro, 3730 N. Clark
♦ Sold Out
When indie hip-hop luminaries including Atmosphere and Brother Ali headlinethe April 13 "Time Travel Reunion" show at Metro — a sold-out concert honoring the influential college radio program "Time Travel," which aired on Northwestern University's WNUR-FM (89.3) for nearly a decade — they're writing the latest chapter in a mutually-beneficial saga that began almost 20 years ago.
The performance features a phalanx of big names from Minneapolis-based Rhymesayers Entertainment (RSE). "Time Travel" was crucial in popularizing the trailblazing indie label's artists well beyond Minnesota.
"Chicago was the first big market for Atmosphere outside Minneapolis because of my radio show," says Kevin Beacham, aka Formless, originator/host of "Time Travel" from 1995 to 2002.
Beacham, who will emcee the reunion concert with "Time Travel" co-hosts J Pratt and Foster Garvin, grew up an "Army brat" with an abiding passion for rap. The future Formless lived in the North Chicago/Waukegan area during high school, and Evanston-headquartered WNUR "was the only station I could tune in up there that played hip-hop."
After first trying his hand at rhyming and beat-making, Beacham became a radio-promotion man for indie and major rap labels, drumming up airplay primarily at Chicago's college stations. Evanston was the last stop on Beacham's regular promo trips to and from the city, and he started hanging out at WNUR; his encyclopedic command of hip-hop history earned him frequent on-air guest slots. Beacham secured his own shift in April 1995, Thursdays from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
"Time Travel" went on to establish a unique foothold in urban radio, making "the education of Hip Hop culture…as important as the musical selection," Beacham later wrote in his Internet chronicle, "The Chicago Hip Hop [sic] Story." His program made an indelible impact on young rap devotees like Far South Side native and North Side transplant Keter Darker, who assiduously captured "Time Travel" on cassette every week as a Mather High School student.
"The show traveled through hip-hop and revisited classics — transforming what due to the industry becomes disposable commodity, into valued cultural artifact," says Darker, a Chicago emcee who recently hosted his own WNUR show, "Sun Moon Radio." Formless and company "completed the circuit as older brothers transmitting the roots to a younger generation."
It was on a New York trip in the late '90s that Beacham and co-host Pratt were given a copy of Atmosphere's arresting RSE debut, "Overcast."
"We started playing Rhymesayers artists a lot," says Beacham, noting that it led to continued reciprocity between "Time Travel" and the RSE crew: "They'd drive down from Minneapolis to freestyle on the air, do a quick interview, then head right back — a 12-hour round trip." (Beacham was eventually hired in 2002 by Rhymesayers, where he continues to work in marketing.)
Former co-host Garvin, a hip-hop authority whose scholarship rivals Beacham's own (as Formless readily acknowledges), credits WNUR with "giving me a positive outlet." Now an artist manager raising two young sons in Ohio, Garvin observes, "If not for 'Time Travel,' I don't know what I would have been into."
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During the First Succession War, Coordinator Minoru Kurita personally lead the Sixth in an offensive to take Kentares IV from elements of the Seventh Crucis Lancers. During the attack Minoru was assassinated by a Lancers sniper, the trigger event for what would later become known as the Kentares Massacre.
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The Lyran Operation Freedom began in February 2913 and initially went well, as DCMS commanders were shocked the supposedly inferior Lyran soldiers could launch such an offensive. Personally commanding the Third Royal Guards, Eric Steiner led the attack on the planet Freedom, outmaneuvering the Sixth Sword of Light and trapping two battalions of the regiment in a valley facing artillery and air support fire. After wearing the stunned Kuritans down, Eric personally led his BattleMech forces into the valley, completely destroying the Sixth Sword of Light[1].
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The team announced he would not return for the fourth quarter of the game against Virginia. The school confirmed Harris was taken to St. Elizabeth's Medical Center for an MRI. He will meet Sunday morning with team physicians and consult with coaches to determine his status for next Saturday's game against Syracuse.
Harris ran a cutback for four yards and a touchdown late in the third quarter to give Boston College the lead, 17-13, in a game that Eagles needed to become bowl eligible. Harris appeared to injure the knee two runs later on BC's next offensive series. Before leaving due to his injury, Harris had 24 carries for 114 yards, giving him exactly 3,600 for his career, three more than Mike Cloud, and just 125 behind Derrick Knight.


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This early horror film relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare whose arrival in a town coincides with savage killings. Secretly Caligari was an asylum director who hypnotizes Cesare to reenact murders. But the final reel contains something which will leave the audience shattered .


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Denver Dough
The HAHO's Alternative Currency
Alternative Currencies:
Why they're important and why we implement them!
Currencies are like social DNA, in that they prescribe how we interact with
our economy and with our community. Right now we have a system, the
U.S. Dollar, which is based on the premise that money is scarce and is hard
to come by. This perceived scarcity leads to unemployment, because
businesses are reluctant to part with the money they have. This doesn't
mean, however, that there is a lack of work or a lack of people willing to
do work. If there is work needing to be done and people needing work,
why can't these people get to work?
How can we change this?
By creating complementary currencies (currencies to be used alongside
the U.S. Dollar) we can create new social DNA that incentivizes us to act in
different ways.
We need to create a currency (a new social DNA if you will) that:
- Is abundant
- Encourages people to use it, to promote more interactions and therefore
more work
- Keeps the money circulating locally for longer (not sent to corporate
headquarters far away)
- Measures and stores tangible value for the local community
- Is widely accepted!
Why use Denver Dough?
By creating a local currency we have the ability to influence how we interact with our money.
You commit directly to helping our local community thrive!
Denver Dough will:
- Serve as a way to keep our money circulating in our communities for
- Serve as a way to promote and support locally owned businesses
- Will create an income for local crafters, artists, carpenters, car
mechanics, and foodies
- Will stimulate micro-business start ups (fancy talk for "you starting a
small business!")
- Will allow Denver area residents to find local solutions to their needs.
1 USD to 1 Denver Dough Exchange Rate
- We will be starting with a 1 to 1 exchange rate to create trust in the
Denver Dough
- We want small, local businesses to feel comfortable exchanging their
goods/services for Denver Dough
- Once the currency becomes more established we may look at changing
this exchange rate to increase the use of the currency.
Only HAHO vendors, registered small businesses and Denver Dough skill
share participants can redeem Dough for U.S. Dollars. This ensures that
HAHO members spend their money locally and helps keep supporting
local vendors and businesses if they have left over Dough. You can also
give Denver Dough as a gift.
Denver dough skill share
Alternative Currency Articles:
Good Articles to get you started:
The Trouble With Money
by Thomas Greco
"What if... We Stopped Using Money" by Keith Farnish
"Dollars with Good Sense: DIY Cash" - Yes Magazine
"Beyond Greed and Scarcity" by Bernard Lietaer
"What is a Time Bank?" - TimeBank USA
Links to help you along:
- New Currency Frontier
- The MetaCurrency Project
- Denver TimeBank
- Join Denver's TimeBank!
A Good Book:
Local Money by Peter North
(we have a copy if you want to see this!)


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|AA Curse of Mirrors
by directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
eople have often asked us whether we give any credence to "The Curse of Don Quixote"–a superstition that those who undertake adaptations of Cervantes' novel are doomed to failure. Orson Welles certainly would have acknowledged the curse, especially after trying for twenty years to produce his own Quixote adaptation and suffering through a few Paul Masson commercials to help finance it. Some would say that the musical version, Man of La Mancha, is a kind of curse in itself. Certainly, Lost in La Mancha, our documentary about Terry Gilliam's painfully catastrophic production of Quixote, presents some convincing evidence of its own.
Superstitious or not, most people are unaware that Cervantes actually embedded a curse within the text itself. The trick is that one must get through both volumes of Don Quixote–all 1200 pages–to find it. Attached as a coda to the second volume are the following lines:
me alone was Don Quixote born,
The warning was actually directed at an author who had effectively scooped Cervantes by publishing an "unauthorized" sequel before Cervantes had had the chance to pen his own. But, judging by the fates of Welles and Gilliam, the curse may have been meant to cast a wider net.
The nature of the curse appears to be this: those who attempt to adapt Quixote are doomed to become Quixote, to set out on their own impossible quests to turn fantasy into reality. Not so surprising as the evil brainchild of an author who had such a playful sense of self-reflexivity and mirroring. Cervantes' Don Quixote is a book about books, a story about a character who becomes so caught up in fantasy novels that he attempts to enact them. The author holds up a mirror to make us see our own interaction with storytelling.
Making films whose subject is the struggle to make films turns out to be an equally self-reflexive endeavor. And with Lost in La Mancha, the process itself quickly became its own labyrinth of mirrors. It was painful enough for us to spend eight months wrestling a tidy story out of 120 hours of not so tidy footage. But it was even more painful to look up at our editing screen to see Terry Gilliam looking up at his own screen–one on which he views the shards of a film that may never be completed. It's never a far stretch of the imagination when you're making a film–especially a documentary film–to think that you'll never be able to afford the time to finish it properly, that no one will want to buy it, and by extension, that no one will ever see it. That our film happened to take these kinds of anxieties as its subject matter was definitely its own kind of curse.
Regardless of the unpleasantries of taking on your vocation as subject matter, we've felt compelled to keep trying our hands at movies about movies–largely because there aren't a lot of good ones out there. We often compare the real machinations of the film industry to the wizard in The Wizard of Oz. He's the man behind the curtain, and you're not supposed to look behind the curtain. What you're supposed to believe about filmmaking is what you see on Access Hollywood. Someone holds out a clapper board, someone says "Action!," the actors are always incredibly perky, and the director always uncannily confident. The truth is, of course, infinitely more fragile. Lost in La Mancha's story of a floundering film production is a lot more common than the industry would like us to know.
In our previous film about Terry Gilliam, The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 12 Monkeys, we poked our cameras into test screenings and marketing meetings, into places that producers would insist we weren't welcome, into rooms that marketing people would protectively claim no one wants to see: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" But these are precisely the elements that really qualify moviemaking. Because it's such a hugely expensive medium, filmmaking is inherently as much about contracts and bean-counting as it is about art, and we think it's the juggling of these seemingly incongruous elements that makes it such compelling subject matter. But then we've often wondered about another component of our own personal curse. Is it really that wise to hold mirrors to the cherished secrets of the very industry in which you want to forge a career? Some of our potential employers might say, "Maybe not."
Fortunately for us, Lost in La Mancha may hold up just enough mirrors that it turns itself back into a harmless fiction, swallows its own tail and its authors with it. It's not just a film about filmmaking but a film about a filmmaker who becomes the protagonist of his own film–the tale of a man who battles gallantly for his dreams until he's beaten down by the harsh slap of reality. Gilliam becoming Quixote as he tries to adapt Quixote. As one of the characters in La Mancha actually points out, if you tried to write this kind of story as a fiction script, no one would believe it. It's stranger than fiction. But if it's hard to believe, how can it be true? And if it isn't true, who can blame us? We're just a couple of harmless documentarians.
But at the end of this hall of mirrors, we may very well find ourselves the next victims of the curse. When we're feeling cocky, we do like to claim that Lost in La Mancha is its own adaptation of Don Quixote. Which puts us right back, dead in the path of Cervantes' warning. It would probably be wiser to let "the mouldering bones of Don Quixote" rest in peace. And let filmmaking return to the "lights, camera, action" myth that it generates so well.


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Bone Collector Grabs Two Top-10 Finishes in AtlantaPosted in The NEWS on February 25, 2013 | Comments
Columbus, Ga. (February 25, 2013) – Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto and Jake Weimer both scored top-10 finishes Saturday during the Monster Energy Supercross at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Carrying the Bone Collector logo on their front fenders, both Villopoto and Weimer looked impressive on the Georgia clay.
Villopoto got a great jump out of the gate and tucked in right behind the leader. He continued to pressure him throughout the race but was unable to make the pass.
"The track was slippery tonight, so I just focused on keeping it on two wheels," said Villopoto. "The Atlanta race is always exciting for us because there are so many fans and I'm happy we were able to get on the podium for Michael and the Bone Collector guys who supported us this week. I know Michael loves riding his Kawasaki and it was great to have him as part of the team this week."
Weimer raced the main event while still recovering from two fractured ribs and although he wasn't 100%, he gave his best effort to score an eighth-place finish.
More than 68,000 fans packed the Georgia Dome for the race and many of them were in the pits during the day. Michael Waddell joined the Kawasaki boys during their autograph session and also was interviewed for the Georgia Dome crowd just before the racing started.


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Brandi Glanville, Chelsea Handler and more have managed to bring the awkies to the show.
The RHOA star also reveals whether she would host Fashion Police.
Gail discusses the very serious competition in Boston and why she doesn't believe Michael liked his own dish.
Josh explains how he was able to sell one of the most famous LA estates while facing problems at home.
Now you can snag art and furniture fit for a royal—see what she's unloading.
Amber Marchese explains what inspired her to open up about her battle with cancer.
"I'm extremely happy!" she says of the court outcome.
The new RHOA star teams up with Da Brat for "100."
Richard Blais disucsses his transition to the other side of the Judges Table and what really happened with George.
Tom Colicchio shares his thoughts on the premiere episode and which dishes really wowed him.
The comedian scores a cameo role on Mindy Kaling's hit show.
The Top Chef album is honored in Esquire's annual food awards.


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The in-game looks amazing! I liked the old skin, but think the new one is 10x better. My only (perhaps small) complaint is that her picture shows off a lot more skin than the old one. That was something I really liked about her too. Don't get me wrong, I like a scantily clad miss proportioned female character as much as the last guy, but I appreciated Karma being modest and...realistically proportioned. In my mind I can take her more seriously that way, and after all, Karma is supposed to be... serious.
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Menorah lighting celebrates the miracle
Aeryn Harris placed her bet by pushing a nubby, "carrot-orange" crayon toward the center of the table. Then she spun her plastic top like a seasoned dreidel player.
But Sunday marked the 12-year-old's first foray into Hanukkah. Her father, Clinton, recently went to Beth Sholom Temple in Stafford County to study the Torah in an attempt to deepen his Christian faith. He is now in the midst of converting to Judaism.
"I like to say that I followed Jesus into the synagogue," Clinton said as Aeryn raked in waxy loot after a successful spin of the dreidel.
The family plans to celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas this year. But a car accident last Wednesday made for an inauspicious start for the Harris's Han-ukkah début.
Clinton studied the holiday, learning that Jews celebrate Hanukkah to remember the Macabees, a small band of Jews who rebelled against Greek rule and took back their temple in 160 B.C.
When the Macabees rededicated the Jewish temple, they only had enough oil to light the candle for one night. But that oil lasted for eight nights, until new oil could be purified. An eight-day festival was instituted to mark that miracle.
But while Clinton knew the holiday's origins, he wasn't quite sure how to celebrate. Sunday evening's event helped his family learn how to embrace this new tradition.
"You can ask questions and read whatever you want, but to see it in action is awesome," he said.
Clinton's wife Liz isn't joining his conversion journey. But she is on board for adding Hanukkah to the celebratory lineup.
"I like learning what other religions believe and celebrate," she said. "They all have one goal in common. "
" Community," her husband finished, gesturing at the table where children lined up to play with dreidels, eat doughnuts and color holiday pictures.
And community was exactly what local developer Adam Fried, a member of Beth Sholom Temple, envisioned when he decided to order a 12-foot menorah to shine publicly.
Beth Sholom organized the area's first public menorah lighting ceremony Sunday evening, an event attended by about 100 people—and two Chihuahuas wearing puffy winter coats.
The lighting provided not just a place for temple members and others to celebrate Hanukkah in public but also provided an opportunity to fulfill a mitzvah, or Jewish commandment.
Hanukkah has a mitzvah to publicize the miracle of light and so menorahs are supposed to be on display—in Israel, they are often hung outside. In America, menorahs often sit in window-sills.
"Hanukkah is not meant to be hidden," said Rob Jobrack, temple president. "A menorah's supposed to be outside to remind people of the miracle—and it's great that we're having this lighting here in Fredericksburg, which is the home of the Statute of Religious Freedom, because the story of Hanukkah is about a fight for religious freedom."
That fight still lingers, Jobrack said. There are no rebel armies or revolts. But Jews are quietly trying to give the Festival of Lights its own limelight outside of the glow of Christmas.
Sunday evening, 16-year-old Colin Lightfoot lit some of the menorah's wicks as part of the public celebration. The gentle whiz of cars driving by the menorah just west of U.S. 1 at Twin Lake Drive, provided the soundtrack.
The menorah's candles let off a mere glimmer of light but it was enough for the holiday to step out of the shadows produced by fiery yule logs and twinkling trees.
As the menorah winked against the dusk sky, Rabbi Ronda Wanderman Young told the crowd, "A great miracle happened here in Fredericksburg: the first public menorah."
Then she and Rabbi Neumiro DeSilva led the audience in a rousing song from the Scriptures, "Not by power, not by might but by spirit alone."
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The Camrose Booster
April 4, 2006
This weekend's Wild Rose Celebration will feature a Saturday night
program geared specifically toward the younger generation.
Organizers are inviting the teenagers and young adults of Camrose
to leave their parents at home, grab a few friends and come out to
hear Christian rock group Tree63 blast the roof off the Leduc Black
Gold Centre.
"A lot of young people out there don't think that God can be
'cool'," says area youth pastor Curtis Neal, a member of the Wild
Rose Celebration committee. "The fact is that God can rock
your world in ways you'll never imagine. Letting Him touch
your life is the wildest ride you'll ever experience!"
Neal says the organizing committee wanted to offer something
specially tailored to youth, starting at 7:00p.m., so the message
of faith could be communicated in a way that's meaningful and
relevant to this critical age group.
Saturday night's band, Tree63, started in Durban, South Africa,
as an alternative Christian rock group. They quickly soared to
success. The Answer To The Question is Tree63's most
successful album to date, with Blessed Be Your Name taking the #1
Christian song on the 2004 Billboard charts. Their most
recent release, Worship Volume 1: I Stand For You, is already a hit
with fans and critics alike.
Following Tree63's performance, 30 year-old Will Graham,
grandson of renowned evangelist Billy Graham, will share a dynamic
message on how God can transform your life through faith in
"We are praying for a ton of kids to come to this event on
Saturday night," says Neal. "The music will be phenomenal and
God is going to touch people. It's going to be really
The Wild Rose Celebration is an event of the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association of Canada. From April 7 to 9, 2006,
the Black Gold Centre in Leduc will play host to Christian musical
artists; Rebecca St. James, Tree63 and Alberta's own Kim Haller,
along with Will Graham, grandson of evangelist Billy Graham.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada
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Grips: to grab someone while in a fight
he had to grips then he boxed him in his face piece
by Mickey Kay January 11, 2005
$10,000. Named so due to the size of the wad of bills. Unlike a "stack" which is how 10 $100 bills are put together (in a stack), a grip is 10 stacks, only way to hold it is to grip it because its all rolled up.
"Walk around like I got a grip in my pants, yea thats about 10 stacks..." -Young Jeezy
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Reveal your Self through the practice of Yoga and Meditation. The Yoga is Hatha and combines the precision of Iyengar with the dynamism of Ashtanga. Be introduced to Pranayama, Asanas, relaxation techniques and yogic activities.
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Tennessee Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. JulietPhoto by Contributed Photo /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
NASHVILLE — Tennessee lawmakers plan to trip up manufacturers and retailers who have until now sidestepped efforts to outlaw "designer" drugs mimicking the effects of stimulants and other substances.
Gone are the detailed descriptions of complex chemical chains of organic compounds.
Instead, sponsors of a bill use a strategy that bans "analogue" substances having the same effect of the stimulants, depressants or hallucinogens.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Mae Beavers, R-Mount Juliet, told committee colleagues the approach "attacks the plague that is synthetic drugs, and it's designed to capture present synthetic or designer drugs as well as those created in the future."
It easily passed the committee.
The legislation also changes penalties from a misdemeanor to a felony for the manufacture, sale or possession of substances like bath salts and plant food that are sold for human consumption with the intention of producing cheap and sometimes dangerous highs.
"Here's the problem," said Rep. Tony Shipley, R-Kingsport, the House sponsor of the bill. "Last year, we thought we had it [the problem] cornered and we named long, organic compounds."
But, Shipley said, "the ink was still wet on the legislation and they [manufacturers] dropped one carbon ion and replaced it with a chloride ion on the end. And it was no longer illegal."
"This legislation moves to [effects]," the lawmaker added. "It says if it acts like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck and you're going to jail."
The beefed-up felony penalties also would apply to a similar law passed last year that attacked the use of synthetic cannabinoids that mimic the effect of marijuana.
Legislation also adds the offenses of intent to manufacture and conspiracy. Offenders could wind up on the state's methamphetamine registry.
During Tuesday's hearing, Beavers said that perhaps the most important definition in the bill is an examination of price differences between what is sold for ingestion and the original substance.
"You can probably buy 10 pounds of actual bath salts or plant food for what you pay for a gram of synthetic plant food or bath salts," Beavers said.
Andy Sher is a Nashville-based staff writer covering Tennessee state government and politics for the Times Free Press. A Washington correspondent from 1999-2005 for the Times Free Press, Andy previously headed up state Capitol coverage for The Chattanooga Times, worked as a state Capitol reporter for The Nashville Banner and was a contributor to The Tennessee Journal, among other publications. Andy worked for 17 years at The Chattanooga Times covering police, health care, county government, ...


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The pilot said he was taxiing to runway 19 for departure. The reported winds were from 190 degrees at 18 knots gusting to 26 knots. The pilot taxied to the end of the runway after performing all the preflight checks and he turned to a downwind direction to check for landing traffic. As the airplane turned, the right wing began to rise and the airplane nosed over, bending and wrinkling both wings, the empennage, and the rudder.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
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Select "Yes" from the popup window and you're done!
By Tiffany Shepherd
MILWAUKEE COUNTY — A topless woman driving on a motorcycle is arrested after crashing her bike on the highway.
Police spotted the woman riding down I-43 with a shirt on, but her breast were exposed and she was driving with no hands.
Police said that she was screaming at every car on the freeway and kind of assaulting people with her motorcycle creating danger not only for herself, but for others on the road as well.
The woman drove into Ozaukee County and lost control of her motorcycle and crashed in the middle of the highway. Police said that the woman was on prescription drugs. She was arrested for her 2nd OWI.


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Did Jessica Carson and Blaine Milam really believe Amora Bain Carson was possessed when they beat her to death?
No. It's just another excuse.
No. It's just another excuse.
Amora Bain Carson is the 13-month-old girl who was allegedly beaten to death by her mother, Jessica Carson (18) and a 19-year-old named Blaine Milam. The two say they were trying to exorcise demons from the baby girl.


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Tennessee probably staved off the loss of millions of dollars in crime aid by changing its sex offender laws.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation estimated that some $5 million in federal grant money would have been lost if the state didn't put in its application by the end of July to show it meets requirements of the 2006 Adam Walsh Act.
Part of those requirements included scanning all sex offender records into computers and a requirement that juvenile sex offenders aged 14 to 17 be included in the state's sex offender registry. Youth advocates opposed putting juveniles on the registry, but the state was able to work out a compromise: Juvenile sex offenders will be added to a special private registry available only to law enforcement agencies.
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The Houston Ship Channel is looking a tad busier in the fourth day since a collision spilled close to 170,000 gallons of oil into Galveston Bay. This morning the ship channel opened to barge traffic, but full use is still a no-go. According to Lt. Sam Danus of the U.S. Coast Guard, inbound and outb ... More >>
Just last month a Caribbean Princess cruise had to cut itstrip short. It returned to Bayport Cruise Terminal in Pasadenaa day early so folks from the Centers for Disease Control could investigate what caused 181 passengers and 11 crew members to get sick, a nast little bug called norovirus.&nbs ... More >>
Leave it to a wily country artist to get into some serious shenanigans with his impersonator, while on a cruise dedicated to himself. The lyrics to the twangy, semi-obnoxious song nearly write themselves, don't they? So, if you haven't heard, Trace Adkins, the country music crooner who brought you ... More >>
What do younger people have against cruises? You can (sometimes) gamble, drink, eat all you want, and there is always tons of grim people watching to do. You don't have to drive anywhere, and if you want you can just hole yourself up in your cabin and not do a damned thing. Rocks Off has detailed ... More >>
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If I was ever planning on taking a cruise again (and I'm not), I'd have serious doubts about buying tickets on any Carnival ship: Thousands of passengers on a towed cruise ship will disembark in San Diego, California, Thursday with their own tales from a three-day ordeal that left them witho ... More >>
The Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, based out of Galveston, was in the news again today: Cruise ship guests recalled Thursday their wild ride when the captain of the Carnival Ecstasy made an emergency maneuver to avoid an adrift buoy, causing the ship to list to one side. Guests and equipment ... More >>
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Okay, fine. We can deal with not having a lady president (still), but with the recent overflow of testicle-wearing late night hosts, it got me thinking, why no late night lady hosts?Joan Rivers tried once and was ridiculed (and yeah, Joan isn't my favorite lady comedian of all time, but come on, ... More >>
For the past six months, the music business has been aghast and/or enthralled with the AutoTune craze. There seems to be no stopping the phenomenon, which is now crawling into the public's brain at an alarming rate. No one seems to be immune to the 'Tune, with rappers Lil' Wayne and T-Pain seemingl ... More >>
And they said it would never happen. The brand-new $81 million cruise terminal at the Port of Houston's Bayport terminal is finished and has been able to handle ships for a while now. Not so's you'd notice, because no cruise companies have signed up to use it, as the Houston Chronicle reported. Bu ... More >>
Here's a picture of John Mayer playing on the deck of a cruise ship in the Bahamas this past weekend. I would be inclined to make a snide remark about his bitchin' Stevie Ray tat, but you're dealing with a guy who has the Rolling Stones lips logo tattooed on his arm for life. Carry on, you tall, mag ... More >>
Salma's shorts get top billing in an otherwise unwatchable caper
A cruise is a great way to take a break � as long as you're not belowdecks
The wild fight between an entrepreneur and the Galveston port for loot from cruise-ship lots
A hot historic painting gets a cool Crawl reception
Birders and the port are new buds seeking to block the proposed toll span at Bolivar
The creators of The Last Session bring The Big Voice to Stages
Unread evidence and claims of shredding send a cruise suit into the shoals
Once the handicapped come aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines, they may never leave -- no matter how badly they want to
The Mad Science Group educates kids with rock music and science