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Great location- Central Park just up the street. Friendly, helpful staff-gave good suggestions where to eat. Readily responsive when there was a problem.
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The location is great. Close to CPW and museums. Short staffed, but those that were there were very helpful.
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Good location. Inexpensive. Well stocked breakfast with great orange juice.
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The variety of choices at breakfast was good. The bed was wonderful!
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I loved the location. Good train access and walking distance to places nearby. Rooms were small but livable. I did get a good rate for the location and I will stay there again.
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We liked the location, a few blocks up the west side of Central Park. The bustle of Manhattan drops away for quiet nights, but all the city has to offer is close.
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bed was comfy,Television and cable were good. Staff was excellent.
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convenient location for my contacts. clean room.
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The location was absolutely amazing. Walking distance to multiple trains and half a block to central park. The staff was super friendly and helpfull. The rooms are a little small but what do you expect in manhatten.
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Friendly staff and close to transportation
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This hotel, located in the center of Manhattan's Upper West Side, is 1 block from Central Park. It offers a continental breakfast, an on-site gym, and free in-room Wi-Fi.
Rooms at Central Park West Comfort Inn are equipped with flat-screen cable TVs. An in-room coffee maker and ironing facilities are also included.
Comfort Inn Central Park West provides a free weekday newspaper in the lobby. The tour desk can help guests explore the city, and concierge services are available.
The 72nd Street Subway Station is 1 block from the West Central Park Comfort Inn. Metropolitan Opera House is a 10 minute subway ride from the hotel and the American Museum of Natural History is within a 10 minute walk.
Upper West Side is highly rated by guests for: Nature, Running, Opera
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This Manhattan hotel is across the street from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station. The hotel offers a gym and a tour desk with ticket services.
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Ideally located in Times Square, this Manhattan hotel has a 24-hour front desk. Edison Hotel - Triumph Group is just an 8-minute walk from Rockefeller Center and a 10-minute walk from Bryant Park.
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This hotel in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 10-minute subway ride from Times Square and 3 blocks from Central Park. It features a gym and rooms with 32-inch flat-screen TVs.
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Comfort Inn Near Financial District Offering a fitness center, Comfort Inn Near Financial District is in New York. Free Wi-Fi access is available. Each room here includes a TV, satellite channels and cable channels.
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the location the free wifi and the breakfast included. that s it
rooms are so small, very old, dirty, Windows sight on a black wall so impossible to open; you Wonder how they renew the air of the room. stairs are sticky ( never washed i guees i saw the sames stains during ma y stay) bad selle ( animals odors) . I asked to change of room they gave me the same. I asked for e real decent room i finally had one with a window and outside light but a very skiny bathroom. but i prefered that than a closet or a cellar. i m about tu send pictures to the direction of Comfort inn becaus i doesn'st deserve suche à label. it s a disaster !!!!
Great location- Central Park just up the street. Friendly, helpful staff-gave good suggestions where to eat. Readily responsive when there was a problem.
Only one elevator, but this is understandable with an old building. Small breakfast room- limited seating to accommodate morning rush.
I like the location of the hotel. It's behind the Central Park in Upper Manhattan and 10 minutes walking to entertainment, MoMA or other hot spots. The staffs were really nice and friendly.
The room which I stayed was really small and the corridors or general hotel ground were squalid. There were 2 small elevators which were not sufficient most of the time for 10-12 floors. However you would prefer this hotel for price and location.
The location is great. Close to CPW and museums. Short staffed, but those that were there were very helpful.
No individualized heat controls in rooms. Heat controlled by floors from front desk. Could definitely use a dusting, vacuuming. DO NOT ask for a crib. Pack n play was delivered - filthy.
Location is very good . Staff is nice and helpful.
Not clean, shower does not work properly, very tiny little room.
- Couldn't sleep because of air conditioning making a loud noise - Door of my room was wide open when I came back after midnight
Good location. Inexpensive. Well stocked breakfast with great orange juice.
Facilities are run down Tiny bathroom and draughty rooms. Long waits for the one elevator. WeekWi-Fi.
Location and bed and price
Furnishings and size of breakfast room
There was mushrooms growing out of the carpet. It was so gross, we checked out after one day. And below the bed was so dirty. The bathroom was so small.
location, next to central park. breakfast was sufficient enough to start the day.
Some of the furnitures are worn, need up grades. The hot water in the shower a bit slow to flow. The toilet seat in our room is broken, no view from the room (dark).
The variety of choices at breakfast was good. The bed was wonderful!
Both online and in room hotel information said there were workout facilities available, but there weren't. The shriveled hard-boiled eggs were unappealing.
The location of this hotel was great! As a frequent traveler to NYC, it was great to be in such a central location with a subway 1 block away. The bed was also very comfortable! Would definitely recommend this hotel to anyone who has been to New York before. If you've never been then I'd suggest a location a little closer to downtown, but this was still a great spot.
Room was a little smaller than anticipated.
Breakfast room too small and depressing. Needs to brighten up.
Location is great, not far from Central Park and subway.
Wireless was good and location and that's all
The rooms are tiny, cold and drafty..... We had to move rooms the 2nd day as the toilet overflowed and would not flush properly, the room we moved to was slightly bigger but again cold. Breakfast was awful and no where to sit...... Ate at a diner for the rest of the stay.
Location, close to parking
Room was too small, garbage wasn't picked up one day, breakfast room was too crowded, no control for room temperature
Location, bed, room size, coffee was great, and when breakfast was available it was good. Wifi stable
Elevator was slow, at 9 am breakfast was poor on the Monday morning, there was nothing there. Tuesday was good. Hot water later is poor, early in the morning was good. Furniture dusty and chairs soiled
I loved the location. Good train access and walking distance to places nearby. Rooms were small but livable. I did get a good rate for the location and I will stay there again.
I did not like the size of the bathroom. It was clean and stocked but it was very small. I needed a place with parking. The parking garage the hotel was affiliated with cost me $52.00 just the first night. They also initially tried to tell me they had no room for my car. When I asked them not to turn me away they said ok but would charge me an additional $15.00 because I had an SUV. I felt like I was taken advantage of because I had no where else to go. If I do stay at this hotel again I won't drive.
We liked the location, a few blocks up the west side of Central Park. The bustle of Manhattan drops away for quiet nights, but all the city has to offer is close.
Everything about the hotel needs a major update. The breakfast room was way too small.
The location.
The dirty, shabby, over-heated, airless tiny room. Wi-fi didn't work and they ran out of breakfast by 9:00--maybe a good thing since breakfast area was filthy.
Great location, staff were friendly, clean rooms and the bed was very comfortable, breakfast was also reasonable with a variety of different foods.
The room was tiny and there weren't enough tables and chairs in the breakfast room, we had to always eat out in the lobby or standing up and was extremely crowded for the small space.
bed was comfy,Television and cable were good. Staff was excellent.
first night there we were kept awake by the neighbors headboard banging all night.


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Mummy, where did I come from?
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MOST women imagine they will one day be a mum.
However, for many it doesn't always come easily. So whether they have tried
unsuccessfully for a child or never found a suitable partner, women are
beginning to set up a back-up plan.
The trend for having a baby without a man hit the big screen in The Back-Up
Plan (out on DVD now) which stars Jennifer Lopez, pictured above right,
as a woman who decides to get pregnant using a sperm donor. But plenty of
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MICHELLE O'SHEA, 43, a property lawyer from Gedling, Nottingham, is mum to seven-month-old Harry, who was conceived using a sperm donor.

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The American edition of the fair is part of a larger expansion; Maison & Objet Asia will debut next spring in Singapore. It will also forge a link between the Maison & Objet label and the North American, Central American and South American markets, SAFI said. No further information about the American show was available at press time.
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Some owners have opted for low-key offices in commercial settings, while others have gone all out -- painting a shade of green on everything possible. We here at Mile Highs and Lows wanted to showcase some of our favorite dispensary storefronts, for better or for worse.
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TORONTO -- Staff at a west-end hockey arena made the save of the night when a hockey player in his 60s collapsed on the ice and stopped breathing.
Two rink employees immediately sprang into action and ended up bringing him back to life Monday night.
Dany Revelle, 27, and Bartley Blair, 36, were on duty at Canlan Ice Sports on Martin Grove Rd. when someone alerted them to a player who had hit the ice and wasn't breathing.
Grabbing an automatic external defibrillator (AED) from the hallway, the two sprinted towards the rink.
"When we got to him, he was purple," Revelle recalled Thursday. "He was dead."
Blair began chest compressions as Revelle started defibrillation. The first shock "pretty much lifted him straight off the ground" as the player gasped for air.
"Right from a movie, arms shaking and everything," Revelle said.
As the man's vital signs returned, paramedics and firefighters arrived and transported him to hospital.
That's when the two men realized they had just saved someone's life.
Blair and Revelle said their "phenomenal" training in CPR and using an AED enabled them to work as a team.
"We didn't really have time to think about it, we just reacted," Blair said. "We just did what you're told to do."
The incident prompted Revelle to buy two AEDs himself: One for his home and one for his parents.
At $1,100 a piece, he said they're worth it.
Canlan spokesman Kevin Ball, 51, said the man, who suffered a heart attack, wants to remain anonymous.
Ball spoke with his family Wednesday night and confirmed the man is "doing well" and that family members "just want to thank these guys for saving his life."
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African Americans: Slavery and Freedom
Jane Giles Jane Giles was a slave belonging to Margaret Preston of Lexington. While on a trip to New York, Jane ran away. Later she wrote to her former mistress to explain why. Another letter tells us that life as a free African American during these times was not comfortable. These letters were not written during the Civil War, but six years before. Jane Giles (New York) to Margaret Wickliffe Preston
Madam. I take this oppertunity to wright you these few lines to inform you that I am well at this time and I hope you are the same. Dear madam I sopose you wonder why that I left you. Well I will tell you the Reason one Reason was because you Parted me and my housbond as tho we had no feeling and the Next Reason was because you accused me of stealing Money and I was not gilty of it but because I am coulard You sopose that I have not got any feelings I have feelings thank god as well as you and I sopose you feel the Loss of me as much as I do the loss of you. I worked for you when I was with you and dear madam I am working for my Sealf and let me inform you that I Loved my housbond as well as you do yours if I never see him again in this world but I am in hopes to meet him in Haven I sopose you will call this impedance But I do not I have nothing Against Mr. Preston he treated me well he would not have sent my husbound away had it not been for you and I would have been yet with you. But Never mind Every boddy must have trubble I Remane Yours Jane Giles (Box 49) Susan Preston Christy to Margaret Wickliffe Preston
... I heard yesterday of Jane Elder - Julia Davidson saw Mildred Peay who married a New York merchant, says Jane comes to see her very often, & told her that, she had been overpersuaded by a waiter to leave you - that the hour after she left she escaped (from the house in a back street) and tried to find your hotel & would have gone back, but could not find her way that she got a free man to write to you twice telling you how sorry she was & begging you to forgive her ("tho she says it was most too much to ask") and asking you for Gods sake to let her go back to Carry [M.W. Preston's second child]. Mildred says she speaks of William [M.W.Preston's husband] you & the children, and that when she talked of how Bunny [M.W.Preston's son, then age 5] would miss her, that her tenderness for him & anguish at leaving him was so great that she Mildred cried herself. Mrs Fennell says that since her first interview Poor Jane has lost her health, and is in the bitterest poverty - that she did not complain of you not allowing her to return & said she had been so ungrateful she "was 'at'stonished" I suppose the insolent letter you received was not dictated by her, but probably originated with the writer.... (Box 74) University of Kentucky Special Collections -- Preston Papers John Fee John Fee was a minister who was sent to tend to the needs of the families of African-American soldiers who enlisted in the Union army at Camp Nelson. There was another phase of the work at Camp Nelson, then of interest to me, and connected by principle and effect with the work at Berea. The enlistment of colored men at Camp Nelson was soon followed by the coming of their wives and children. These were at first driven out of the camp at the point of the bayonet. Thus sent back, they were exposed to the cruelty of their former masters. I saw indignation rising in the hearts and showing itself in the actions of the colored soldiers. I went to the officials and said to them, "This driving back of wives and children will breed mutiny in your camp unless you desist." The reply was, "What will you do? - will you leave the women and children with the soldiers? That will never do." I said, "No; I would draw a picket line and put the women in the west end of the camp, which is abundantly large and encircled by Kentucky river and cliffs four hundred feet high. Such a natural fortification, high, beautiful, and well-watered, was not anywhere else found in the State." "But," said the Quartermaster, "I can do nothing in the way of shelter without an order from the Secretary of War." I replied, "I know Secretary Chase personally. I will prepare a paper to be sent to his care." "Do so," said the Quartermaster, "and I will sign it." The paper was forwarded. Quickly an order came from Stanton, the Secretary of War, for the construction of buildings; and in a short time the Quartermaster had ninety-two cottages erected as homes for families, two larger buildings as hospitals for sick women and children, and other buildings as school-rooms and offices, boarding hall, and dormitory for teachers, steward and family. From Autobiography of John Fee (C) This work is the property of the University of North
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Lewis Clarke Lewis Clarke, the son of a Scottish weaver and a slave mother, was born in Kentucky in 1815. Despite an agreement that she was to be freed upon her husband's death, Clarke's mother and her nine children remained in slavery. After he learned that he was going to be sold in New Orleans, Clarke successfully fled through Ohio across Lake Erie to Canada in 1841. In an account of his life published in 1846, he provided answers to questions he was frequently asked about the impact of slavery upon slave families. [Question] Are families often separated? How many such cases have you personally known? [Answer] I never knew a whole family to live together till all were grown up in my life.
There is almost always, in every family, some one or more keen and bright, or else sullen and
stubborn slave, whose influence they are afraid of on the rest of the family, and such a one
must take a walking ticket to the south.
[Question] Have you ever known a slave mother to kill her own children? [Answer] There was a slave mother near where I lived, who took her child into the cellar and killed it. She did it to prevent being separated from her child. Another slave mother took her three children and threw them into a well, and then jumped in with them, and they were all drowned. Other instances I have frequently heard of. At the death of many and many a slave child, I have seen the two feelings struggling in the bosom of a mother -- joy, that it was beyond the reach of the slave monsters, and the natural grief of a mother over her child. In the presence of the master, grief seems to predominate; when away from them, they rejoice that there is one whom the slave-killer will never torment. Source: Interesting Memoirs and Documents Relating to American Slavery,
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Thomas James Thomas James was an African-American minister sent by the American Missionary Society to care for the families of black Union soldiers in Louisville. He gave this stirring account of the conditions for slaves and freedmen in Louisville during the Civil War. I returned to Rochester in 1856, and took charge of the colored church in this city. In 1862 I received an appointment from the American Missionary Society to labor among the colored people of Tennessee and Louisiana, but I never reached either of these states. I left Rochester with my daughter, and reported at St. Louis, where I received orders to proceed to Louisville, Kentucky. On the train, between St. Louis and Louisville, a party of forty Missouri ruffians entered the car at an intermediate station, and threatened to throw me and my daughter off the train. They robbed me of my watch. The conductor undertook to protect us, but, finding it out of his power, brought a number of Government officers and passengers from the next car to our assistance. At Louisville the government took me out of the hands of the Missionary Society to take charge of freed and refugee blacks, to visit the prisons of that commonwealth, and to set free all colored persons found confined without charge of crime. I served first under the orders of General Burbage, and then under those of his successor, General Palmer. The homeless colored people, for whom I was to care, were gathered in a camp covering ten acres of ground on the outskirts of the city. They were housed in light buildings, and supplied with rations from the commissary stores. Nearly all the persons in the camp were women and children, for the colored men were sworn into the United States service as soldiers as fast as they came in. My first duty, after arranging the affairs of the camp, was to visit the slave pens, of which there were five in the city. The largest, known as Garrison's, was located on Market Street, and to that I made my first visit. When I entered it, and was about to make a thorough inspection of it, Garrison stopped me with the insolent remark, "I guess no nigger will go over me in this pen." I showed him my orders, whereupon he asked time to consult the mayor. He started for the entrance, but was stopped by the guard I had stationed there. I told him he would not leave the pen until I had gone through every part of it. "So," said I, "throw open your doors, or I will put you under arrest." I found hidden away in that pen 260 colored persons, part of them in irons. I took them all to my camp, and they were free. I next called at Otterman's pen on Second Street, from which also I took a large number of slaves. A third large pen was named Clark's, and there were two smaller ones besides. I liberated the slaves in all of them. One morning it was reported to me that a slave trader had nine colored men locked in a room in the National hotel. A waiter from the hotel brought the information at daybreak. I took a squad of soldiers with me to the place, and demanded the surrender of the blacks. The clerk said there were none in the house. Their owners had gone off with "the boys" at daybreak. I answered that I could take no man's word in such a case, but must see for myself. When I was about to begin the search, a colored man secretly gave me the number of the room the men were in. The room was locked, and the porter refused to give up the keys. A threat to place him under arrest brought him to reason, and I found the colored men inside, as I had anticipated. One of them, an old man, who sat with his face between his hands, said as I entered: "So'thin' tole me last night that so'thin' was a goin' to happen to me." That very day I mustered the nine men into the service of the government, and that made them free men. So much anger was excited by these proceedings, that the mayor and common council of Louisville visited General Burbage at his headquarters, and warned him that if I was not sent away within forty-eight hours my life would pay the forfeit. The General sternly answered them: "If James is killed, I will hold responsible for the act every man who fills an office under your city government. I will hang them all higher than Haman was hung, and I have 15,000 troops behind me to carry out the order. Your only salvation lies in protecting this colored man's life." During my first year and a half at Louisville, a guard was stationed at the door of my room every night, as a necessary precaution in view of the threats of violence of which I was the object. One night I received a suggestive hint of the treatment the rebel sympathizers had in store for me should I chance to fall into their hands. A party of them approached the house where I was lodged protected by a guard. The soldiers, who were new recruits, ran off in afright. I found escape by the street cut off, and as I ran for the rear alley I discovered that avenue also guarded by a squad of my enemies. As a last resort I jumped a side fence, and stole along until out of sight and hearing of the enemy. Making my way to the house of a colored man named White, I exchanged my uniform for an old suit of his, and then, sallying forth, mingled with the rebel party, to learn, if possible, the nature of their intentions. Not finding me, and not having noticed my escape, they concluded that they must have been misinformed as to my lodging place for that night. Leaving the locality they proceeded to the house of another friend of mine, named Bridle, whose home was on Tenth Street. After vainly searching every room in Bridle's house, they dispersed with the threat that if they got me I should hang to the nearest lamp-post. For a long time after I was placed in charge of the camp, I was forced to forbid the display of lights in any of the buildings at night, for fear of drawing the fire of rebel bushwhackers. All the fugitives in the camp made their beds on the floor, to escape danger from rifle balls fired through the thin siding of the frame structures. I established a Sunday and a day school in my camp and held religious services twice a week as well as on Sundays. I was ordered by General Palmer to marry every colored woman that came into camp to a soldier unless she objected to such a proceeding. The ceremony was a mere form to secure the freedom of the female colored refugees; for Congress had passed a law giving freedom to the wives and children of all colored soldiers and sailors in the service of the government. The emancipation proclamation, applying as it did only to states in rebellion, failed to meet the case of slaves in Kentucky, and we were obliged to resort to this ruse to escape the necessity of giving up to their masters many of the runaway slave women and children who flocked to our camp. I had a contest of this kind with a slave trader known as Bill Hurd. He demanded the surrender of a colored woman in my camp who claimed her freedom on the plea that her husband had enlisted in the federal army. She wished to go to Cincinnati, and General Palmer, giving me a railway pass for her, cautioned me to see her on board the cars for the North before I left her. At the levee I saw Hurd and a policeman, and suspecting that they intended a rescue, I left the girl with the guard at the river and returned to the general for a detail of one or more men. During my absence Hurd claimed the woman from the guard and the latter brought all the parties to the provost marshal's headquarters, although I had directed him to report to General Palmer with the woman in case of trouble; for I feared that the provost marshal's sympathies were on the slave owner's side. I met Hurd, the policeman and the woman at the corner of Sixth and Green streets and halted them. Hurd said the provost marshal had decided that she was his property. I answered -- what I had just learned that the provost marshal was not at his headquarters and that his subordinate had no authority to decide such a case. I said further that I had orders to take the party before General Palmer and proposed to do it. They saw it was not prudent to resist, as I had a guard to enforce the order. When the parties were heard before the general, Hurd said the girl had obtained her freedom and a pass by false pretenses. She was his property; he had paid $500 for her; she was single when he bought her and she had not married since. Therefore she could claim no rights under the law giving freedom to the wives of colored soldiers. The general answered that the charge of false pretenses was a criminal one and the woman would be held for trial upon it. "But," said Hurd, "she is my property and I want her." "No," answered the general, "we keep our own prisoners." The general said to me privately, after Hurd was gone: "The woman has a husband in our service and I know it; but never mind that. We'll beat these rebels at their own game." Hurd hung about headquarters two or three days until General Palmer said finally: "I have no time to try this case; take it before the provost marshal." The latter, who had been given the hint, delayed action for several days more, and then turned over the case to General Dodge. After another delay, which still further tortured the slave trader, General Dodge said to me one day: "James, bring Mary to my headquarters, supply her with rations, have a guard ready, and call Hurd as a witness." When the slave trader had made his statement to the same effect as before, General Dodge delivered judgment in the following words: "Hurd, you are an honest man. It is a clear case. All I have to do, Mary, is to sentence you to keep away from this department during the remainder of the present war. James, take her across the river and see her on board the cars." "But, general," whined Hurd, "that won't do. I shall lose her services if you send her north." "You have nothing to do with it; you are only a witness in this case," answered the general. I carried out the order strictly, to remain with Mary until the cars started; and under the protection of a file of guards, she was soon placed on the train en route for Cincinnati. Among the slaves I rescued and brought to the refugee camp was a girl named Laura, who had been locked up by her mistress in a cellar and left to remain there two days and as many nights without food or drink. Two refugee slave women were seen by their master making toward my camp, and calling upon a policeman he had then seized and taken to the house of his brother-in-law on Washington street. When the facts were reported to me, I took a squad of guards to the house and rescued them. As I came out of the house with the slave women, their master asked me: "What are you going to do with them?" I answered that they would probably take care of themselves. He protested that he had always used the runaway women well, and appealing to one of them, asked: "Have I not, Angelina?" I directed the woman to answer the question, saying that she had as good a right to speak as he had, and that I would protect her in that right. She then said: "He tied my dress over my head Sunday and whipped me for refusing to carry victuals to the bushwhackers and guerrillas in the woods." I brought the women to camp, and soon afterwards sent them north to find homes. I sent one girl rescued by me under somewhat similar circumstances as far as this city to find a home with Colonel Klinck's family. Up to that time in my career I had never received serious injury at any man's hands. I was several times reviled and hustled by mobs in my first tour of the district about the city of Rochester, and once when I was lecturing in New Hampshire a reckless, half-drunken fellow in the lobby fired a pistol at me, the ball shattering the plaster a few feet from my head. But, as I said, I had never received serious injury. Now, however, I received a blow, the effects of which I shall carry to my grave. General Palmer sent me to the shop of a blacksmith who was suspected of bushwhacking, with an order requiring the latter to report at headquarters. The rebel, who was a powerful man, raised a short iron bar as I entered and aimed a savage blow at my head. By an instinctive movement I saved my life, but the blow fell on my neck and shoulders, and I was for a long time afterwards disabled by the injury. My right hand remains partially paralyzed and almost wholly useless to this day. Many a sad scene I witnessed at my camp of colored refugees in Louisville. There was the
mother bereaved of her children, who had been sold and sent farther South lest they should
escape in the general rush for the federal lines and freedom; children, orphaned in fact if
not in name, for separation from parents among the colored people in those days left no hope
of reunion this side the grave; wives forever parted from their husbands, and husbands who
might never hope to catch again the brightening eye and the welcoming smile of the help-mates
whose hearts God and nature had joined to theirs. Such recollections come fresh to me when
with trembling voice I sing the old familiar song of anti-slavery days:
I remained at Louisville a little over three years, staying for some months after the war closed in charge of the colored camp, the hospital, dispensary and government stores. Wonderful Eventful Life of Rev. Thomas James, by himself
George Browder George Browder was a slave-holding minister in Logan County. This is his account of the day all his slaves ran away. June 8, 1864 A day of strange feelings! Found my plantation entirely deserted by negroes - not one left! Abram, Bob, Jeff, George & Ellen, Dolly Underwood, William, Ida, Nicholas, & Lucy all gone! Took my wagon, old carriage, two horses & two mules. We felt lighter some how than usual, felt poorer, but freer, more dependent, yet more self-reliant. Lizzie got breakfast & I milked the cows. The children seemed gleeful & at the family prayer we earnestly involved Gods blessing guidance and good providence in our new circumstances. William & I with a number of others set out in search of our horses and wagons. Ten negroes left me -- 3 from father -- 8 from Nelson Waters -- six from McCulloch, 3 from John Vick & others in a different neighborhood. We met part of the troop arrested and brought back -- & had a vast deal of trouble and vexation in separated & deciding what to do with them. George & Ellen & all mine except Jeff and Abe escaped leaving their clothes & all their goods. We put the men under guard to send to Louisville & just as my wagon and carriage got in with the baggage, my brother William came with all the rest of the fugitives -- looking worn, sad and confounded. They had been overtaken in a few miles of Clarksville. We whipped Jeff & Bob & Lucy, & Ellen made herself sick -- quite sick -- in the long tramp through heat, mud & rain, after they left the wagons. Poor unfortunate creatures, how I pity them, deceived & misled as they have been, yet listening to strangers rather than those who have raised & cared for them. They have been greatly abused in their minds. I should have been glad if they had gotten safe into Clarksville without my responsibility. The Heavens Are Weeping: The Diaries of George R. Browder
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Dennis Calvin Sipe, 66, a lifelong resident of Cleveland, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 10, 2013.
He was born on Aug. 27, 1946, a son of the late Otis and Arietta Sipe.
He was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Macedonia Baptist Church in which he was very involved and active.
He worked since the age of 16 until his retirement as a brick and block mason locally. He was an avid HAM radio operator, antique car enthusiast, and horseman, but will be most remembered for being a loving and caring husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by an infant sister, Elaine Sipe.
He leaves behind to cherish his memory his loving wife of 21 years, Debra Hafley Sipe; one daughter, Kimberly Denise Sipe; one son and daughter-in-law, Tony Lorne and Jaime Sipe; two stepsons: Tony Jones and Tim Jones; one sister, Faye Thomas-Morris; one brother, Larry Sipe; 11 grandchildren; one great-granddaughter who was the "apple of his eye"; and several other extended family members and friends.
A celebration of his life is planned for today, Jan. 13, 2013, at 4 p.m. at the Macedonia Baptist Church, 3119 Spring Place Road in Cleveland, with Pastor Rusty Langford, the Rev. Jim Hensley, and the Rev. Steve Ross officiating.
Interment will follow in the Cedar Spring Baptist Church Cemetery with Nick Sipe, Tony Jones, Tim Jones, Eric Hall, Jerry Arms, and Johnny Sosebee serving as pallbearers.
The family will receive friends today from 1 to 4 p.m. prior to the service at church.
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday night approved $50 billion in aid for areas hit by Hurricane Sandy in October.
But the final draft did not include an amendment being pushed by freshman Grace Meng (D-Queens) that would have allowed houses of worship damaged or destroyed in he storm to apply for money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"Despite roadblocks and inexcusable delays the House finally did the right thing by approving this critical funding," Meng said in a statement on Wednesday morning.
Meng reiterated that many New Yorkers continue to suffer from the storm that hit more than two months ago, and that the relief on the way is desperately needed.
"The battle we had to fight to secure this aid was outrageous," she said
The Senate is expected to take up the measure next week. It would bring the total amount of federal Sandy aid to $60 billion.
Meng attempted to attach an amendment to the House measure that would allow churches, synagogues and mosques that were damaged to apply to FEMA for grants.
Speaking two days before the vote at a breakfast hosted by the Queens Jewish Community Council in Kew Gardens Hills, she said houses of worship, like most nonprofits, are ineligible for FEMA grants.
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Every first Saturday in May, the citizens of Prague, Oklahoma, welcome people from around the world to join them in celebrating the rich Czech culture that played a vital role in the city's founding. The Kolache Festival offers dance, song, food, crafts, a parade, carnival rides and royalty. The festival symbolizes the warmth and fellowship of the Bohemian people. We are proud of the heritage we celebrate and invite you to this wonderful celebration.
Visit our local businesses, eat your fill of Kolaches – our famous Czech dessert, a sweet roll with fruit center – and Klobasneks, and get to know our town and townspeople. Check out the Entertainment Grandstand located on Main Street at the City Park. There will be Czech music playing there all afternoon by the band Czech & Then Some from Ennis, Texas. The Arts & Crafts Show located in the parking lot along Main Street behind BancFirst. The exciting carnival, the food booths, and the parade. Make sure you stay for the Concerts and Street Dancing starting at 7:00 pm. You won't want to miss the Chicken Dance – always a highlight of the evening.
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CISL's Cape Town team produced 'South Africa 2035', a 10-minute animated film that paints a picture of a plausibly hopeful future. It is a future where electricity is cheap even while carbon is quite heavily taxed, where the gap between rich and poor has been narrowed, political and corporate power devolved and smart investments in education and renewable technologies have ensured a more equitable and prosperous life for all. The film is inspired by a memorable live-format discussion at a side event of COP 17 in Durban in December 2011 between two CISL Senior Associates, development economist Anton Cartwright and the late Peet Du Plooy. Peter Willis, South African Director of CISL, says that they decided to produce the film partly to commemorate Peet Du Plooy, a brilliant and much-loved Senior Associate who was murdered in March 2013, and partly to inspire people to think more creatively about what kind of future is possible.
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Having joined CISL in 2008, Elspeth is also a tutor on the Anglo American Advanced Social Management programme. From 2003–2006 she was the director of the University of Cape Town's Graduate School MBA. She was instrumental in the introduction of the Modular MBA programme and introduced 'The Role of Business in Society' as an integrating course on the MBA. From 2006 she was an independent executive education consultant. She designed and directed various leadership programmes for companies through the UCT Graduate School of Business. Elspeth also led the design of the entire curriculum for TSIBA Education, an innovative Cape Town business school for students from impoverished backgrounds and is Chair of the Board of Christel House South Africa, a privately run school for children from impoverished backgrounds. Elspeth has a BSc and an MBA from University of Cape Town.
Magda de Kok is Operations Manager of CISL's South African office. She joined The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme in May 2002, after being with the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business for five years. There she ran a research programme in entrepreneurship and was instrumental in sourcing the funding and setting up of the UCT Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Previously she was involved in the Language Facilitation Programme at the University of the Free State. Magda holds qualifications in anthropology and languages from the Rand Afrikaans University and the University of South Africa.
Having set up the South African office of CISL in Cape Town in 2002 and run it until 2014, Peter remains South African Seminar Director for the The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme. He also works as an independent facilitator, advisor and mentor based in Cape Town. He has been in the field of sustainability and leadership since moving to South Africa in the mid-1990's. In the 1980s and early 1990s in the UK he created and ran several small businesses in the field of fine art publishing and marketing. He has degrees in History (Oxford) and Education (London).
Enos is a South African entrepreneur and investment banker who is founder and CEO of the Freetel Group of Companies. Freetel focuses on fund management, portfolio investments and investment and transaction advice to a select number of sovereign and international clients. Enos has advised in some of the seminal transactions in South Africa, including the then ground breaking partial privatisation of Telkom SA. He has served as chairman of the South African National Electricity Regulator and Chairman of the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit of the SA Government. He was country head for Credit Suisse First Boston (a global investment bank) and later, head of Africa for HSBC Corporate and Investment Bank, after which he established Freetel. He has developed policies in ICT and drafted national laws in telecommunications and municipal finance and BEE. He is admitted to the New York law bar, and he is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Enos is a member of the Board of MMC Norilsk Nickel and the Chairman of the company's budget committee, and is on the Board of Supergroup.
Anton is an economist at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. His research is focused on the interactions between ecological degradation and human well-being in cities. He is director of Econologic where he has completed contracts for the World Bank, The European Union, DfID, WWF, local and international companies, NGOs and local governments. He is the founder of the Promoting Access to Carbon Equity (PACE) centre, which enables small-scale renewable energy and energy efficiency projects to benefit from carbon market investments. He is an associate of the Stockholm Environment Institute. At the African Centre for Cities he previously convened the City of Cape Town's Climate Change Think Tank, an inter-disciplinary partnership between civil society, business and government. Currently his research position is funded by the Mistra Urban Futures programme and involves a three year knowledge co-generation project with the City of Cape Town around the green economy. His postgraduate qualifications were obtained from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Edgar is holder of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, directs the African Centre for Cities and is Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town. He has served as a Faculty Member of the Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme at several seminars worldwide. In earlier roles he served as Special Advisor to the Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Government and directed a number of urban policy think tanks before his stint in government. He is a founder member of Isandla Institute, serves on the Boards of the Sustainability Institute and the Cape Town Partnership; and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Gauteng City-region Observatory and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He regularly provides advisory services to international development agencies such as: UN-Habitat, African Development Bank, DBSA, National Planning Commission, OECD urban division and UNEP. Edgar holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, The Netherlands) and BA-Honours from the University of the Western Cape.
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This commission was won through an RIBA International Design Contest in 2007. The building was completed by Hackett Hall McKnight in February 2012, providing performance spaces, art galleries and supporting facilities.
A new public space for the city has been provided in the foyers which recall the tight streetscape of the neighbourhood – a compressed urban environment characterised by top–light. The approach to material and construction evokes a relationship to the robust character of the preceding Victorian merchant city; large scale tough brick buildings. The construction uses the structural insitu concrete as well as the brick as an exposed finish.
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I have been digging buckthorns out for years to no avail. Root remnants left in the ground breakout anew with even more vigor and stems. How to I end the invasion once and for all?? |
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What I always do is look out for them in the spring and fall, when the soil is soaked (for the roots to come). At less than a foot high, grasping the stem firmly usually does it, with a reasonable strength exerted. At more than a foot high, I always carry a shovel, get a good grasp on the stem with a leather-palmed garden glove, then pull and dig out the root simultaneously. I have good success with that method. But I understand larger shrubs require a lot of work to get all the root out. Keep up! |
Greetings! Location is everything, this method will not work in a planting bed. In hedge rows or wilds, I lop off the stem/trunk within a foot of the ground. Using a steel spade or hatchet, I split the stump or remainder of the stem. Then, pack a handful of Halite or rock salt into the wound. As the salt dissolves, it is absorbed into the Buckthorn's root system. Dead!! Forever. |
Matt, good idea to pack a poison into the wound. Though I might use Round Up Brush Killer sprayed into the split stump. It's not supposed to stay around for years like salt would. |
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text: The 24th season grand finale concert of the uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series presents Mustard's Retreat (David Tamulevich and Michael Hough). For their part, Mustard's Retreat is celebrating their 35th anniversary of entertaining audiences with their special brand of folk music. Their music has been called "music to cure what ails you" and described as "community music ... music that speaks to people's hearts and lives and binds them together as an audience." Whether singing their own silly songs, parodies, gentle love songs and vivid ballads, telling tall tales, or offering treasures from America's vast traditional song bag, a Mustard's Retreat show always feels like it's designed for the people who have come to see them that day. Multi-instrumentalists (acoustic guitar, electric bass, dulcimer, mandolin, harmonica, penny whistle), their large repertoire draws on the dual influences they both experienced when growing up: the folk revival of the '60s as well as the explosive singer-songwriter movement. Highly acclaimed as not only songwriters, but as interpreters of traditional and contemporary songs and stories, their show is full of enthusiasm, good humor and fine musicianship. Traditional to pop and all points in between, their show moves effortlessly along with equal doses of humor, history, insight and emotion. The moments upon which they hang their songs are moments all of us have felt: hands held in the kitchen during a quiet moment of rekindled love, the careless remark that reveals too much about a relationship withering from inattention, the hectic symphony of a busy city street, the timeless pleasure of gathering in shared song. And it is their glowing ode to the coffeehouse volunteers, whose enthusiasm keeps the folk embers glowing, that will give this audience an opportunity sing their thanks for another season of folk music. uNi Coffeehouse Concerts feature a lovely wooded location bordering on Longmeadow and the Forest Park woodlands; acoustic music (not electric, not excessively loud), some very old songs and tunes, some very new; experienced performers from across the United States, Canada and Great Britain; a coffeehouse-style atmosphere, which is relaxed and informal, with a low stage and candlelight but no alcohol or smoke; lively concert hall sound in an intimate setting; and refreshments, from home baked goodies and hot spiced cider to coffee, tea and just popped popcorn. The Mustard's Retreat concert costs $15 per person at the door. For more information or reservations, call 562-3990 or visit uNiCoffeehouse.org. |


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Jerry Davich: 'Watching the world go by without me'
Jerry Davich firstname.lastname@example.com November 20, 2012 3:54PM
Richard Biggs. | Provided Photo~Sun-Times Media ptmet
Help is available
National Alliance on Mental Illness — Porter County: 764-2958 or visit www.namiporter
National Alliance on Mental Illness — Lake County: 886-4335 or 887-0629
Regional Mental Health Center: 736-7200 or (888) 398-7050, or visit www.regional
Porter-Starke Services Inc. in Valparaiso: 531-3500
Updated: December 22, 2012 6:24AM
Richard Biggs has a disease and, similar to thousands of other region residents with the same affliction, it flares up around the holidays.
The 1983 Portage High School graduate has been battling the quiet, lonely disease of depression for more than a dozen years. Like relentless waves crashing against an eroding beach.
"My life has slowly been destroyed," the long-time registered nurse told me.
Those emotional waves have been dulled by various medications, temporarily subdued by mental health treatments and calmed by years of counseling. But they always return with a vengeance, causing Biggs to lose jobs, lose relationships and almost lose his life to suicide attempts.
"I have lost everything to this disease, yet not enough is written on this subject. I find it nearly criminal," he said.
I hear this repeatedly from others who suffer from the far-reaching tentacles of depression, especially around Thanksgiving, which gives us time to pause and reflect on our lives.
What better time than now to readdress this sensitive, still-stigmatized topic, and offer a reminder that Biggs, and others, are not alone. More importantly, that help is out there.
"It's been the toughest year of my life. I am unemployed. I have very few friends left. No insurance to cover my medications, and I face a legal battle in the courts," said Biggs, who also lost his home and now lives above his parents' garage in Porter. "But I don't look for sympathy and I don't want a handout from anyone."
Biggs has been labeled an addict, an alcoholic and a malcontent — all symptoms of his depression, he says.
"I'm not the only one. Millions of people suffer from this disease. Turn on the TV and count the number of commercials you see for antidepressants."
"Everyone says, 'Here, take a pill,' but as I can attest, it doesn't always work," he noted.
Dealing with depression is like walking around with a constant toothache each and every day.
"It affects you physically as well as emotionally. My body aches and I don't sleep," explained Biggs, who has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder and anxiety disorder with an 80 percent chance of a relapse.
"I walk around as if in a dream watching the world go by without me."
People don't understand
Major (clinical) depression is a mood state that goes well beyond feeling blue or sad, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness — Porter County. It's a life-long medical illness that affects a person's thoughts, feelings, behavior and overall health.
Such clinical depression affects 5 percent to 10 percent of Americans, though numbers are unclear because it's still considered a shameful condition.
"We have support groups that meet twice a month for those who suffer from a mental illness, as well as for their family members and friends," said Barbara Layton, the organization's director. "At any given meeting, three quarters of those attending have suffered from depression at one time or another."
Depression does not have a single cause, but usually a blitz of multiple factors or triggers. It involves both nature and nurture, your genetics and your environment, with little rhyme or reason.
"It is as if I am being punished for having a disease," Biggs said emphatically.
Society simply doesn't understand the effects of depression, sufferers such as Biggs say, especially compared to other "real diseases" such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease.
Data shows that one in five people surveyed still believe depression is a legitimate sign of "personal weakness."
"Because of this, people with depression feel embarrassed to seek treatment," said Biggs, who is now on a new round of medication and with a new counselor.
His "treatment" now also involves court-ordered classes for alcohol dependency, among other addiction-type classes. At this point, Biggs is even considering electroshock therapy, which sounds barbarian to laymen such as myself.
"I am told it is working wonders but I have no insurance so it's not an option," Biggs admitted.
Biggs' personal story is much more complex than what I've mentioned in this column, including a marriage to his "soul mate," his dream job and a beautiful home in the Arizona desert.
Depression followed him there and drowned everything in its wake, he said.
"I had a life at one time, but that life is becoming more and more of a distant memory."


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The New Supportive Housing Development Will Add 65 New Affordable Units to the West Farms Neighborhood
Bronx, NY – The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), New York State Office of Temporary Disability Assistance (OTDA), and Comunilife celebrated the start of construction on El Rio Residences, its newest supportive housing residence in the Bronx. El Rio, which is located in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx, will provide housing to 26 low-income individuals and 39 formerly homeless individuals living with mental illness. Also attending the groundbreaking were Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene, Red Stone Equity, GranKreigel Associates and Fasio Construction.
The El Rio Residence was developed under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan (NHMP), a multibillion dollar initiative to finance 165,000 units of affordable housing for half a million New Yorkers by the close of the 2014 fiscal year. To date, the plan has funded the creation or preservation of over 156,397 units of affordable housing across the five boroughs; 49,162 of those units in the Bronx with 3,954 units located in Community District 6 where El Rio Residence is located.
"Supportive housing provides New Yorkers who are at-risk and least able to find housing with an opportunity to create a stable and productive future," said HPD Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas. "The El Rio Residence will be that touchstone for the future tenants who deserve a hand-up and a safe place to call home. Comunilife has been a valued partner to HPD in our mission to provide quality affordable housing and supportive services to our most vulnerable citizens. My thanks to Comunilife, OTDA, DOHMH, Borough President Diaz and all of our partners for their commitment to this great project."
Dr. Rosa M. Gil, Comunilife's President and CEO stated that, "We are very excited to have broken ground on the El Rio Supportive Housing Residence - Comunilife's second mixed population building – our first – Prospect residence opened in October 2011 and has become a model for the delivery of affordable housing in New York City. Our goal is to help at-risk New Yorkers build a foundation to become self-sufficient, live independently in their communities and be good neighbors to us all. We are grateful to our partners whose help is vital to making El Rio a reality"
El Rio Residence will be an eight-story building that features 65 studio apartments, two outdoor spaces, a large community room with a kitchen and a laundry area. With funding from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the New York State Office of Mental Health, El Rio will be staffed with a program manager, case managers and 24/7 security.
HPD is providing Project Based Section 8 Vouchers for the 39 formerly homeless residents living with mental illness. The remaining units will be available to individuals earning no more than 60% Area Median Income (AMI), or $36,120 annually for an individual. AMI levels are calculated annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
El Rio is being developed with funding from the New York State OTDA, the Bronx Borough President's Office and the HPD Supportive Housing Loan Program. The total development cost is approximately $20.9 million. HPD will provide $11.3 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits which will be syndicated by Red Stone Equity Partners. HPD will also provide $7.2 million in federal HOME funding. The State will provide $450,000 in HHAP funding and the Bronx Borough President will provide $744,000 in Reso A funds. The remaining balance will be made up of developer contributions.
The City of New York requires that subsidized apartments be rented or sold through an open lottery system to ensure fair and equitable distribution of housing to eligible applicants. Marketing of the apartments and the application process for the lottery typically begin when construction is approximately 70 percent complete. For more information regarding the lottery process, current housing lotteries, how to apply to an open lottery, and if you would like to receive an e-mail when HPD updates its available apartment and home website listings for City-subsidized housing in the five boroughs, please visit the Apartment Seekers and Homebuyers pages at www.nyc.gov.
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About the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD):
HPD is the nation's largest municipal housing preservation and development agency. Its mission is to promote quality housing and viable neighborhoods for New Yorkers through education, outreach, loan and development programs, and enforcement of housing quality standards. It is responsible for implementing Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan to finance the construction or preservation of 165,000 units of affordable housing by the end of fiscal year 2014. Since the plan's inception, more than 156,397 affordable homes have been created or preserved. For regular updates on news and services, connect with us via www.facebook.com/nychpd and www.twitter.com/nychousing. For more information, visit our website at www.nyc.gov/hpd.
About Comunilife:
Comunilife's mission is to improve the quality of life and create a healthier tomorrow for New Yorkers with special needs in the Hispanic and broader communities, by providing culturally competent health and human services and a continuum of affordable and supportive housing. Through its 1,438 units of supportive housing for persons living with HIV/AIDS and/or mental illness and outpatient mental health clinic Comunilife serves more than 3,000 New Yorkers annually.


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According to Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, G Caleb Schlauderaff, CB Bradian Ross and WR Diondre Borel were the first Packers roster cuts on Saturday.
Packers GM Ted Thompson usually tries to keep his draft picks, but chose to cut ties with Schlauderaff, a 6th round pick out of Utah. Does this mean Nick McDonald has a better chance of making the roster? How about Ray Dominguez?
It wouldn't surprise me to see Schlauderaff back on the practice squad if he clears waivers.
Ross and Borel were both undrafted rookie free agents.
Update: Add undrafted rookie G Sampson Genus to the list of 2011 roster cuts.
Keep checking AllGreenBayPackers.com for the latest Packers cuts and roster moves.
——————Adam Czech is a freelance reporter and a Packers fan living in the Twin Cities. Follow Adam on Twitter. Read more of Adam\\\'s writing on the Packers here.


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hab fan in leaf jungle - (Nik Palekar)
Member since April 18, 2010Toronto, Ontario
Habs fan since: 1960
Favorite current player: Josh Gorges
All-time favorite player: Jean Beliveau
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Hey you morons and other scum who waste your lives fantasizing about a team of losers, this is an article to wish M.Beliveau a Happy Birthday. Show some respect for the greatest player ever to wear a Habs jersey. He has been my hero ever since I was a child. Go discuss the possible line combos of a bunch of losers who now play for the Habs when the article calls for it. Geez!!! Show some respect you idiots and get a life.. Happy Birthday M.Beliveau. - Comment on Galchenyuk sets sights on Sochi with Team USA (2013-09-03 00:17:19)
Galchenyuk will win Gold at Sochi. - Comment on Montreal fans get first up-close look at new Hab Parros (2013-09-03 00:08:12)
He is a huge improvement over that fraud Laraque...way more character and he is an Ivy League graduate. I doubt Laraque could even spell Ivy League. - Comment on New career: Darche puts McGill degree to good use with Delmar International (2013-09-02 23:46:53)
Darche was the kind of player that embodied all that is good about hockey players. Blessed with only limited talent, he made up for it with grit, hard work and character and wound up living his dream wearing the CH on his chest. Good luck, Mathieu. You're one of the good guys in the sport. - Comment on Hockey is just around the corner (2013-09-01 18:44:06)
Get ready for the Habs to start losing. No goaltending...Price is not even as good as a Junior A goalie. No coach...Therrien got out-coached by a f'in Junior coach like McLean and we saw the old emotional out-of-control MT so we know the Therrien 2.0 is just an act...Still no goal scorers with size and another French guy who is way over the hill in Briere taking up a roster spot and salary cap money...After PK there is no talent on D...A convicted thug in Beaulieu as the hot prospect but hey he's a Frenchie so it's all good. Trade that thug for someone with no criminal record and some character and real talent...DD at almost 4 million as the smurf who can't score but as a French guy gets the nod over others...Pleks and Gionta round out the smurf brigade...Detroit is now in the East so good luck making the playoffs...Geez can somebody with brains please take over this team and stop drafting and signing these no-good lazy French-Canadians. I want to see a Cup in Montreal before I die. - Comment on A very short honeymoon for Carey Price (2013-09-01 18:20:53)
Carey, Go on a long honeymoon for several years so the Habs can stop paying you and get a real goalie who actually knows how to stop a puck that's lobbed at the net from the lower end of the faceoff circle. Let's get Tokarski as the back-up to Budaj or bring in a veteran goalie till Fucale is ready to go. - Comment on Habs reach agreement with free-agent defenceman Douglas Murray (2013-08-23 11:47:43)
Great signing for that kind of money; and he is not French-Canadian and is willing to play tough and fight. Now the Habs have the Ivy League Pugilist Parade on their squad. He and Parros can swap old college anecdotes. Now get rid of all the fairies on D like Diaz, Gorges, Bouillon, Drewiske, Markov and that thug Beaulieu whose only toughness is ganging up on an innocent guy who tells him not to destroy another guy's property. Send him to Chicago where he and Kane can go to the local Seniors home and beat the crap out of old folks in wheelchairs to indulge their sick violent bloodlust without risking any injury to themselves. - Comment on Subban No. 23 in THN's top-50 player rankings; Price No. 48 (2013-08-20 01:30:12)
Subban deserves the ranking. Price is the worst goalie in the NHL. - Comment on Armstrong's Habs career ends, while Brière's begins (2013-08-20 01:25:45)
What a joke!!! This guy shunned the Habs when he had some talent and now that he sucks and couldn't play in a beer league the Habs waste a uniform and cap space on this worthless piece of crap. - Comment on Nathan Beaulieu and his father Jacques plead guilty to assault (2013-08-20 01:22:45)
Another great French-Canadian father-son team of beer-swilling pugilistic troglodytes. Now sign Roy Jr. who knows how to bushwhack an innocent kid on the advice of his father and bring back Theodore so he and his Dad can re-kindle their loan-sharking business beating up guys who can't manage to keep up interest payments of 500% per week. Trade this Beaulieu kid. He has no talent (anyone watch the WJC?) and thugs should not be wearing the CH. French Canadians can't play hockey any more and lack the character to be role models. Hey Molson explain to your kids how it's OK to gang up on a guy and beat him up for telling you not to smash up the garage of someone whose house you are a guest in, as long as you can play a bit of hockey and speak French. Beaulieu is sick in the head like his Dad. The Habs know nothing about talent and have loaded up with French players and management all of whom are lazy and worthless. The Bulldogs are the worst team in the AHL French players can't and won't play the real tough hockey that is necessary to win Cups. You can delude yourselves into believing they can but a Cup parade will never happen in Montreal with these French guys wearing those sweaters. Briere???? Really?


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Establishment Republicans have circled the wagons against Newt Gingrich and they are determined to take him out. Governor Chris Christie who yesterday appointed a Homosexual to the New Jersey Supreme Court and has often be floated as a VP pick by Romney allies is out on the circuit savaging Newt. I am so pleased to see Sarah Palin standing up for Newt as she earlier stood up for Ron Paul. She is clearly establishing herself as the voice of the Tea Party, and her willingness to buck the GOP establishment in DC is a breath of fresh air.
You say Sarah Palin is clearly establishing herself as the Voice of the Tea Party; well if that's so, then we might as well kiss illegal alien reform goodbye because she is willing to grant a fast track to citizenship to all the illegal aliens now in this country. How's that for rewarding criminals who break our laws? And she says she is NOT for AMNESTY! Really Sarah?


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That spirit powers a Seattle City Council effort to ensure that borrowers who use tax-refund anticipation loans know their full costs, obligations and options. These loans represent advances on expected tax refunds, and they are made by banks but brokered through tax preparers. The appeal for borrowers, especially low-income clients, is fast cash. They get money quickly, but with fees and what can be stiff interest rates. Customers can decide for themselves if they get value for the service, but they need to be fully informed of the costs and of tax-filing options that provide returns quickly and at less expense than a tax-refund anticipation loan. Such a measure sponsored by City Councilman Tom Rasmussen passed out of council committee with a 3-1 vote. The full council weighs in next Monday. Rasmussen's legislation would disclose the annualized interest rate, a comparative date when a refund could be expected via electronic filing, and the amount the consumer receives after fees are applied. The legislation is not about industry regulations or caps on interest rates, only disclosure. Seattle has a chance to create model legislation for the state. Let this loan service stand the test of a fully informed marketplace. Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company
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These intricate cut-out creations are full of pint-sized features and diligent craftsmanship. It is necessary to get up close and personal with these works to appreciate their delicate, detailed forms.
There are a number of ways to create these elaborate pieces, ranging from high-tech lasers to no-frills office supplies. Laser cutters provide accuracy and allow designers to transfer painstaking patterns onto various surfaces. Other artists prefer to take an old-fashioned route, using scissors and paper to craft exquisite sculptures and cut-outs.
While your elementary school snowflakes are worthy of the fridge door, they are no match for these delicate beauties. The peak-a-boo pattern continues onto the runway, as fashion designers incorporate slashes and crocheted details into their ensembles.
Add flair to your home or closet with these breathtaking crafted cut-out creations.