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The Reluctant Widow (original 1946; edition 2008)
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The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer (1946)
A playful romp set in Regency England. Fun, tongue-in-cheek character descriptions and events. An entertaining light-hearted novel. I didn't really feel the chemistry between Elinor and Carlyon, but given that the love interest appeared to be a bit of an afterthought in the final couple of chapters, that didn't matter very much.
This was a fun diversion. Heyer is yet another author I discovered through LT. She wrote dozens of books and this is one of her Regency Romances, i.e. a Jane Austen era romance, as I like to think of it. It was great - implausible but entertaining plot about an attractive woman whose father has died leaving her no money. On her way to take a governess position, she mistakenly ends up at the home of Lord Carlyon who convinces her to marry his dying cousin. The story turns into a quasi-mystery, even treading into espionage. It was pretty silly, but the dialogue is fun and the characters were good and it was just comfortable to read.
I'd pick up more of these from the library or used but I won't necessarily seek them out. I read Faro's Daughter a year or two ago and it was much worse than this one, so I'm glad I read one of the better ones so I understand now why so many people enjoy her books!
A most gothic Heyer! I approve heartily. (To quote the heroine: "How forcibly it puts one in mind of all one's favorite romances!") And you know, Elinor was fairly Jane Eyre-ish for a Heyer character: flinty but funny, practical but warm, tough but sensitive. The plot edged away from gothicism and toward something more typically Heyerish as the plot went on...but one can't have everything.
"It was at times a bit too much peak after peak after peak of excitement but written in a way that you still want to read."
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I usually love Georgette Heyer, but this one fell flat. It started out pretty good but Elinor just isn't the kind of heroine I like, and certainly not one I expect from Heyer. I couldn't summon up too much of an interest in the resolution nor in the romance aspect.
Heyer has done much, much better.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0061001554, Paperback)Georgette Heyer is best known for her witty and charming Regency romances, but she is also responsible for a handful of mystery novels. On occasion, mystery would find its way into her romances, embroiling her well-born heroes and heroines in adventures that were alternately chilling and hilarious. In The Reluctant Widow, Eleanor Rochdale, a young woman of good birth but straitened circumstances, sets out to accept a position as a governess and ends up plunged into a tangle of foreign intrigue instead.
Eleanor's adventure begins when she inadvertently mistakes the carriage waiting at the coach stop for one sent by her prospective employer, Mrs. Macclesfield. She finds herself carried to the estate of one Ned Carlyon, whom Eleanor mistakes for Mr. Macclesfield. Carlyon, meanwhile, believes Eleanor to be the young woman he hired to marry his dying cousin, Eustace Cheviot, in order to avoid inheriting Cheviot's estate himself. Somehow, Eleanor is talked into marrying Eustace on his deathbed and thus becomes a wealthy widow almost as soon as the ring is on her finger. What starts out as a simple business arrangement soon becomes much more complicated as housebreakers, uninvited guests, a shocking murder, missing government papers, and a dog named Bouncer all contribute to this lively, frequently hilarious tale of mistaken identities, foreign espionage, and unexpected love set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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"When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death. His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited guests, and murder. And Mr Carlyon won't let her leave ..."--Publisher's website.… (more)
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The Miracle Workerby William Gibson
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- Ask the Expert
Urge students to think about the problems facing disabled individuals in their community, particularly those who are blind and deaf. Help identify local agencies or groups that might have information about the disabled. Then have students write interview questions that they would like to ask a guest speaker from one of these agencies.
- The Challenge
Helen Keller faced a great challenge in her life. On this companion worksheet to The Miracle Worker, students write about a time in their life when they were challenged.
- Concepts to Teach, and Writing Connections
Challenge students with discussion concepts and creative writing assignments.
- In Someone Else's Shoes
Have students imagine that they have suddenly lost both their sight and hearing and to consider how this new challenge might affect their normal activities. Then have them record their ideas in a two-column chart, one column labeled "Activity," the other labeled "Ways to Adjust for Blindness/Deafness."
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text: Fountains at South End to open in spring By: Payton Guion, staff writer September 26, 2012 CHARLOTTE -- An apartment complex on which construction began in February in Charlotte's South End neighborhood is on schedule to be partially open in the spring, according to the developer. Stuart Proffitt, managing principal of Proffitt Dixon Partners, the Charlotte-based company behind the $26.2 million, 208-unit Fountains at South End project, said the first of what ... Subscribe Login Email Address: Password: Already a paid subscriber but not registered for online access yet? For instructions on how to get premium web access, click here.Forgot your password? Share this:EmailPrintFacebookLinkedInTwitterGoogle +1Like this:Like Loading... 11:03 am Wed, September 26, 2012 Mecklenburg Times: News for Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties Payton Guion, staff writer


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Question: What do the following have in common?
One answer might be that these projects are not designed to deliver health services for the poorest sections of the population. The Lagos insurance scheme excludes all informal sector workers, while one IVF cycle at The Bridge Clinic costs $4,600.
A second might be that both projects make a deeply questionable contribution towards a country's attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), given their provision of services to small, predominantly urban, and comparatively wealthy elite.
A third is that they have both benefited from investments made as part of the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Health In Africa Initiative.
Health In Africa is a $1 billion investment project launched by the IFC in 2008, which aimed to 'catalyze sustained improvements in access to quality health-related goods and services in Africa [and] financial protection against the impoverishing effects of illness', through harnessing the potential of the private health sector. Specifically, it sought to improve access to capital for private health companies, and to help governments incorporate the private sector into their overall health care system. Health In Africa would do this through three mechanisms: an equity vehicle, a debt facility, and technical assistance. Perhaps of most importance, the initiative would make extra efforts to 'improve the availability of health care to Africa's poor and rural population'.
Emanating from the World Bank Group, Health In Africa's focus on delivering health care for people living in poverty makes sense. Anything contrary would be at odds with the Bank's mandate and overarching goal to end extreme poverty by 2030. Oxfam welcomes World Bank President Jim Kim's emphasis on the centrality of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to see this goal attained, and the Bank's target to deliver health care for the poorest 40% by 2020.
However, it seems that with the Health In Africa initiative, the IFC may be working deeply at odds to these stated World Bank aims. Today, Oxfam launched Investing for the Few, analysing the investments made as part of Health In Africa to date. Oxfam's assessment of the sporadic investment information available finds that far from delivering health care for the poorest, Health In Africa has favoured high-end urban hospitals, many of which explicitly target a country's wealthy and expatriate populations. The initiative's biggest investment to date has been in South Africa's second largest private hospital group Life Healthcare. This $93 million endowment no doubt supported the company in its subsequent expansion (Life Healthcare acquired a 26% stake in one of India's largest hospital groups in 2011), but there is no evidence it has used this investment to expand access to health care for the 85% of South Africans without health insurance.
Oxfam's findings show that Health In Africa has also failed to deliver expansion of health care at any sufficient scale or pace to meaningfully contribute towards UHC. Instead the initiative has supported high-cost, low-impact investments. The Lagos health insurance scheme mentioned above cost triple the annual Nigerian government per capita health expenditure for example, and took over five years to secure fewer than 9,000 enrolees. In Nigeria, scaling up to reach UHC at this rate would take over 100,000 years.
Another major concern is the absence of sufficient attempts by Health In Africa to measure its performance. The initiative's own mid-term evaluation found Health In Africa had failed to define and assess its anticipated results, and that the performance indicators it has used are inadequate to measure any development impact. Whilst an equity fund employed by Health In Africa boasts of its success at reaching patients at the so-called 'base of the pyramid', one of the annual income targets used to define this group include all but the top five per cent of earners in sub-Saharan Africa. It is likely Health in Africa's use of financial intermediaries contributes to this failure to effectively measure impact on poor women and men. Such an arms-length approach to investment brings inherent problems around oversight and transparency.
Oxfam is clear that the IFC must improve the transparency and accountability of the Health In Africa initiative. Our report calls on the IFC to cease all Health In Africa investments until a robust, transparent and accountable framework is put in place to ensure that the initiative is pro-poor, and geared towards meeting unmet need. In addition, it calls on the World Bank Group to conduct a full review of the IFC's operations and impact to date in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries, to investigate how they are aligned with, and are accountable to, the overarching goals of the World Bank Group: to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.
The IFC needs to fundamentally rethink its activities in health, and ensure any potential projects are aligned with the Bank's goals. The World Bank Group should focus on supporting African governments to expand publicly provided health care – a proven way to save millions of lives worldwide.
Civil society groups at the recent World Health Assembly criticized the continued focus on insurance schemes in the push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which all too often includes significant private sector participation. Evidence to support the claim for private sector involvement of this kind remains extremely thin and a new study by the Municipal Services Project shows it could jeopardize public health in the South.
The study compares health outcomes in Chile and Costa Rica, two countries that have come to epitomize contrasting approaches to 'Universal Health Coverage' in Latin America. Chile's focus has been on insurance-based UHC while Costa Rica has built a single public health system. The research provides strong evidence to show that there are widespread and consistent advantages to promoting UHC through a strong public system that funds and provides all medical and preventive services to citizens rather than through a fragmented public-private mix.
It is important to note that both countries have achieved the lowest infant mortality rates and the highest life expectancies in the region thanks to major advances in primary care. But Chile's health 'market' has led to inefficient use of resources, with higher administrative costs and more irrational medical procedures (e.g. caesareans) resulting from oligopolies and collusion among private providers.
One of the major goals of UHC is financial protection for poor households when they face illness. Yet Chileans systematically need to make higher out-of-pocket payments to get medical care in comparison with Costa Ricans. This situation is produced in part by the fact that Chileans pay for health conditions, services or products that are not covered by their insurance (e.g. prescription drugs).
In contrast, Costa Rica's public health care system remains relatively affordable and more efficient, with total per capita health expenditure standing at US$811 compared to US$947 in Chile. Importantly, Costa Rica has also consistently prioritized preventive health care. Expenditure on prevention and public health services from 2002-2006 in Costa Rica is more than double that of Chile (6-7% vs 2-3%). This focus on prevention is more cost-effective and can yield greater public health impacts in the long term.
Using comparable data (Latinobarómetro), the Municipal Services Project study shows that twice as many people reported facing access barriers to health care in Chile compared to Costa Rica, citing distance to hospital, time to obtain an appointment, and cost of seeing a doctor as the major reasons. In addition, lack of access to health services as a result of financial barriers in Chile still stands at 4.2% compared to 0.8% in Costa Rica.
Costa Ricans continue to be largely satisfied with the quality of their healthcare services, more so than Chileans. Interestingly, LAPOP 2012 results show that most people in both countries think that government, rather than the private sector, should be responsible for health care (71.1% in Chile and 67.5% in Costa Rica).
According to the notions of "active purchasing" and "managed competition" – frequently used to promote insurance schemes – the existence of different providers competing for resources should have produced higher levels of quality at lower costs in Chile. The evidence presented in this report shows that such assumptions are not always true.
The Chilean health system is an example of how segmentation produced by the coexistence of private and public insurances is detrimental to efficiency and equity. Collusion among private providers and oligopolies are realities that are ignored in the competition argument.
Debates over the best institutional arrangements to organize universal health care are far from over, but this case study demonstrates that insurance schemes as promoted by some proponents of the UHC agenda are neither the only nor the best option.
Luis Ortiz Hernández is Professor in the Health Care Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico and visiting professor at Queen's University, Canada. His most recent publication, "Chile and Costa Rica: Different roads to universal health in Latin America," is available here.
This great new two minute video captures the motivation and the rationale for the movement against a greater role for the private sector in the health care systems of low- and middle-income countries.
The video highlights the manipulation of the Universal Health Coverage agenda to serve the interests of profit making companies while simultaneously starving already crumbling public health services from badly needed investment.
Giorgi's shy innocent face stares out of a billboard in Tbilisi. The words 'I have a right to live' are printed across the frame. A famous Georgian journalist tenderly holds Giorgi's hand, urging the country to hear their urgent call to action. 13-year-old Giorgi has just a few critical months to find a bone marrow donor to save his life.
Giorgi is part of a campaign run by leading Georgian journalists, and supported by Oxfam, to ask the Government to urgently invest in the healthcare sector, and save the lives of children affected by leukaemia. For Giorgi, the journalists' crusade is his last hope. Giorgi's mother, Jakhia, explains,
"We have no money. We only receive 125 lari (£48) per month from the state, which is barely enough to feed my family. We have nothing to sell, and I don't know how we'll cope," she says wiping away tears.
Although the Georgian government provides chemotherapy and medicines to children affected by leukaemia, there are currently no facilities in the country to facilitate bone marrow transplants and no database to find donor matches. Giorgi's mother may be forced to seek refugee status abroad to pay for her son's transplant which costs around 100, 000 euros (£85, 000)– an insurmountable amount for the majority of Georgia's population.
Giorgi's story is representative of hundreds of people across Georgia who are struggling to access affordable health care. The health system in Georgia requires families to take drastic measures to save their children's lives.
In Gori, the former home of Stalin, Maya, a young single working mother largely dependent on social benefits, is unable to afford the cost of her post cancer treatment. Rising food prices are also having an impact on her family and pushing health care even further out of reach. Maya looks sadly out of the window of her small dilapidated ex Soviet apartment, which she shares with fourteen other families "Sometimes I go to bed hungry at night so I can pay for medicine for my daughter."
Elsewhere, people like Elguja, who used to be an actor, have no choice but to buy low quality cheap medicines. Elguja who turned blind at 22, says, "My pension is 125 lari (£48) each month but medicine costs 100 lari (£38). I have to buy cheap medicines but it makes my asthma worse. You can't imagine what it's like when you can't breathe, especially at night." Elguja often has pain in his eyes but cannot afford the high costs of eye medication. "I miss being able to see people's eyes on stage," Elguja wistfully remembers, "The eyes are the window to the soul," he waves his walking stick like a wand as if he is playing the part of a blind man in a play.
For Giorgi, Maya, and Elguja, the new Government's pledge for universal free healthcare for Georgia's population, and the promise to establish a transplant centre for children affected with leukaemia offers hope. Oxfam is working to raise awareness amongst young people about their health rights and have a say in the future health care system. For young Madea, who is taking part in the project, it gives her a chance to have a voice, "Healthcare is the most important thing, especially for children as they are the future of the country. We often have meetings with municipality representatives to have a say in the healthcare system and lobby for changes."
Meanwhile, Giorgi's message 'I have a right to live' remains on billboards across the capital, a stark reminder of the urgent need for healthcare reform in Georgia. I hope that Oxfam's campaign gives Giorgi, Maya and Elguja a second chance.
Caroline Berger is the Oxfam Regional Digital Media Coordinator for the CIS
John Lister is well-known as a researcher, writer and campaigner against cutbacks and privatisation in the NHS. But his new book Global Health Versus Private Profit focuses on the changes taking place in global health care systems. It has received glowing endorsements from a number of specialists in the field, and described as "penetrating, highly readable, and extremely well researched". We caught up with John and asked him to talk about the book.
Can you sum up the book's main point in two sentences?
Who will be interested in reading the book?
This book is for all those working to achieve universal access to health care, and anyone interested in the evolution of international health and the different ways in which the
I also hope it might be read by some of the people working for the institutions assessed in the book including the WHO, World Bank (and especially IFC), for national health care systems and for NGOs and donor agencies. My analysis is based on research, analysis, literature and evidence, and I would be delighted to see a debate on issues which people find contentious. neoliberal agenda has brought its influence to bear on international health over time.
Global Health versus Private Profit offers a detailed analysis of the main "menu" of market-style reforms to health care systems that have been rolled out in country after country, despite the absence of evidence for their effectiveness, and ignoring the evidence of harm that is being done.
These include the emphasis on competition rather than planning and cooperation, the splitting of health care systems into purchasers and providers, privatisation in various guises – including buying in services from the private sector that were previously delivered by public sector providers – the imposition of user fees, and the focus on health insurance and managed care in place of social provision and universal coverage.
Many of these policies are being implemented in rich countries and poor alike, but they are having the most devastating impact on the poorest. They sap vital resources, dislocate and fragment systems, prevent them from responding to health needs, and obstruct the development of planning.
What evidence does the book bring to light of this conflict between global health and private profit?
Perhaps the most important examples come in the chapter entitled "The Missing Millennium Development Goals" which underlines the massive global gaps in provision of care for the growing elderly population, in mental health care and services for people with physical disabilities.
All of this is health need, but countless millions of people can't pay a market price for care, and so they are the "customers the private sector doesn't want". The longer health care is shaped by the quest for private profit the larger these gaps will become.
So are we just looking at wrong-headed ideas, or is there more to it than that?
My book argues that these so called "reforms" are driven not by evidence, but by ideology – but that behind the ideology is a massive material factor: the insatiable pressure from the private sector which is desperate to recapture a much larger share of the massive $5 trillion-plus global health care industry, much of which only exists because of public funding.
That's why rather than relying on hopes of expanding on the basis of private insurance, the private sector has been eager to get a larger slice from public sector budgets.
Why do you draw specific attention to the UK's NHS in your book?
The costly experiments with competition, and slicing up publicly provided services to encourage private providers, have gone furthest in England, but that's partly because compared with other countries there was a more integrated and publicly-provided service to dismantle.
But sadly England is not unique. Similar "reforms" from the same discredited menu are being adapted in different ways to different systems across much of Europe, and are even being driven in to the poorest developing countries where they are even less appropriate and more disastrous in their consequences.
For example, one growing problem is the international spread of "Public Private Partnerships," to finance new hospitals, many of them drawing on the trail-blazing Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK, which is proving itself to be a major liability, bankrupting hospitals in a cash-strapped NHS.
Despite many costly flaws, failures, and false starts, more PPPs (P3s in Canada) are now under way in OECD countries, but also in Latin America, Asia, South Africa and even Lesotho – in a costly $120m scheme I have written about for Global Health Check.
Where do you get the information for your critique?
I have made a point of using the most up to date material available from the World Bank (and its privatisation wing, the International Finance Corporation) and the IMF, as well as official figures from governments and the rich countries' club, the OECD. It's important to use data that cannot be refuted – and in many case, let's be honest, these are the only figures available.
Does the book raise any new issues?
I am not claiming to have invented many of the ideas in the book, but I hope I have helped to update, popularise and develop the argument for them.
And my concluding chapter "It doesn't have to be this way" brings together a lot of different ideas, emphasising that the policies we are opposing are not inevitable products or even a rational response to the current situation, but choices that have been deliberately made by politicians working to a neoliberal agenda. They can be rejected and defeated by mass political action.
How do you hope the book will be used?
As I say in the preface, good ideas must be turned into political action to change the world. Bad ideas must be fought through political action too.
Sometimes good arguments can begin to prevail, such as the success that has been achieved by Oxfam and other campaigners challenging the logic of imposing user fees on health care.
So I hope my book will not sit gathering dust on library shelves, but be brandished — even used as a weapon — by those fighting for change.
A reinforced hardback edition may yet be needed to ensure we win!
Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit, by John Lister is available from www.libripublishing.co.uk
(use voucher code HPR13 when purchasing to get discounted price of £20).


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BSP seen under pressure to hike rates
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) may be preparing the market for a hike in interest rates to combat price pressures that have started to crop up, as suggested by its "hawkish" tone following its policy stance meeting last week.
Financial giant Citi over the weekend likewise warned that the Philippine economy could exit the so-called "sweet spot" anytime soon, after it greatly benefited from high growth rates and low inflation.
With rising tensions in the Middle East, along with the expected "tapering" of the US Federal Reserve, policymakers in emerging countries like the Philippines may be compelled to hike interest rates.
"The key implication behind the Monetary Board's (MB) hawkish citation is that oil price pressures remain at the core of upside inflation risk for a net oil importing country with upbeat growth prospects," Citi said in a research note.
After the MB's policy meeting last week, when key overnight lending and borrowing rates were kept at their respective record lows of 3.5 and 5.5 percent, BSP Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said the inflation outlook had shifted "slightly toward the upside as oil prices have become more volatile amid ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East."
Inflation averaged at 2.8 percent at the end of August, slightly lower than the BSP's full-year target of 3 to 5 percent.
"While the MB's tone doesn't signal alarming inflation risk, it may be the start of gradual erosion of the economy's 'sweet spot' of strong growth amid low inflation," the American giant added.
It said the erosion in its early phase may not necessarily prompt the BSP to respond aggressively.
Over time, however, once the US Fed starts to taper its monthly asset purchase program, Citi said, the BSP may have no choice but to start tightening its monetary policy.
Citi said the BSP's first move may be a 25-basis-point hike in yields for Special Deposit Accounts (SDA), which currently stand at 2 percent across all maturities.
A hike in SDA rates will prompt most banks to park their funds with the BSP, given the higher yields. As a result, excess cash will be siphoned off from financial circulation and temper demand that may push consumer prices up.
Another risk the BSP faces, Citi said, would be a self-inflicted one. Recent restrictions that ban individual investments from being parked in SDA funds will continue to fuel double-digit growth in the country's money supply, also known as M3.
The BSP earlier ordered banks to pull out 30 percent of non-pooled SDA funds last July. Because of this development, M3 grew by over 30.1 percent at the end of July—the fastest growth in nearly a decade.
The remaining 70 percent of non-pooled funds would have to be pulled out of SDAs by November.
"Caveat, in our view, would come from exiting SDA monies, beefing up deposits that would revive strong bank lending. Not all of bank lending would fund investments that could render faster consumer-driven growth susceptible to upside inflation risk," Citi explained.
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An incident took place over the weekend near the Lake Sweetwater Golf Course on Sunday, July 31.
The incident involved some golfers on the course and an individual driving by the course. An argument between one of the golfers and the driver of the vehicle escalated and became aggressive, resulting in injuries to that golfer and three people, who were riding in the vehicle at the time of the altercation.
John Cox has been awarded the dual honor of Teacher of the Year in 2010-2011 for the HOBBS Alternative School and the Secondary Teacher of the Year for SISD.
Cox is a 9th-12th Math and Computer teacher at HOBBS Alternative School for a variety of subjects such as Algebra One, Geometry, Algebra Two, Pre-calculus and BCIS/BIM. He has taught for the past 18 years, with the past two years of that time in Sweetwater ISD.
The Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly Chamber Coffee at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the Sweetwater Independent School District Mustang Bowl, located at 1205 Ragland. Sweetwater ISD's Superintendent is Terry Pittman. Mustang Bowl was founded in 1939 and is the home of the Sweetwater Mustangs and hosted 10 playoff games last season. SISD employs 380 faculty and staff members. "Mustang football has begun! Join in the excitement by attending the monthly Chamber Coffee at the Mustang Bowl concession stand," said hosts.
Pictured above are two of the winners of the Kiwanis Club raffle for school supplies. From left to right are Noah Martinez, Victor Treviño and Nancy Howlett. The Sweetwater Kiwanis Club hosted a pre-teen free swim day at the Sweetwater Municipal Pool on Thursday, July 28, 2011. They served sno cones and drew for school supply packages.
The Sweetwater Police Department (SPD) received 170 calls for service, issued 11 citations and made nine arrests from July 29-31, 2011.
The SPD received 69, 911 calls.
• 1010 block of Lamar.
• 1900 block of Lamar.
Calls for service:
• Burglary of a vehicle — 700 block of SE Georgia.
• Family violence assault — Sweetwater area.
• Burglary of a vehicle — 1400 block of Hughes.
• Burglary of a building — 200 block of FK Williams.
• Burglary of a habitation — 400 block of Canfil.
• Burglary of vehicle — 1600 block of Elm.
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3 days in!
The T Rail is a fantastic ride. At this point, we are very pleased to be on 250's rather than 650's, as washouts, trail closures etc require a few steep rocky climbs, and quite a lot of deep shingle and sand in patches.
The scenery is amazing, and locals have been very welcoming, but accommodation is certainly more expensive than what we experienced on the TAT 3 years back (but of a higher quality). Note: we don't camp unless demanded
We would suggest anyone on a big bike should consider hitting the highway after Howley as the dam soon after is closed, which demands a tricky water crossing followed by some deep shingle and sand for extended periods.
I concur with the big bike avoidance of the Howley to Deer lake suggestion but when you get to the TCH from Howley there is a dirt road on the other side of the TCH that takes a rider to Sir Rchard Squires Park and comes out at Cormack and the Viking Trail. This used to be the original TCH route.
I have been following your Spot page and glad you are enjoying what our island offers for scenery. The views will change tomorrow on the Northern Peninsula.
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Before you waste any time or $, do a wet, and dry compression test...pm me the set of #'s, or post them on this thread, and I or someone else, will run through it with you, and everyone else, if you want. You need to do it for each cylinder. If I recall correctly... you said something to the effect that it was running great, and had about 1700 hrs? And there was oil in the heat exchanger? Don't pull the head, yet! Please....
What else could it be other than a blown gasket or cracked head? I don't have an oil cooler or tranny cooler.
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Born on 22nd February 1962 to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Irwin moved with his parents as a child to Queensland in 1970. Bob Irwin was a reptile enthusiast and when the family moved, Bob and Lyn Irwin started the small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where Steve grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles.
Irwin became involved with the park in a number of ways, including taking part in daily animal feedings, as well as care and maintenance activities. On his sixth birthday he was given a scrub python. He began handling crocodiles at the age of nine, after his father had educated him on reptiles from an early age.
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UpdateIt was Steve's anniversary on the 4th so im gonna try and update this band(sugestions welcome,put them on my page). New skin by Martin Byers<My-New-Trend> and here are some quotes...
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Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
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I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
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That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
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Posted 23 March 2009 - 09:27 AM
Now that I got the new apple mini hooked up and configured to run PLEX; after getting my videos all show up nicely within the MOVIES section ...
... I got hit with a "HAMMER" by my wife: How do you block access to the RATED-R movies?
Here is what I found / did:
Setup USER profiles (need PM Skin for this) and designate one just to the kids. Sharing the library seam not to work properly ... so I just copied the files and folders in the USERS directory accordingly.
Now I have TWO profiles ... one for the kids ... one for the adults.
Next I created an alphanumeric MASTER-LOCK for the adult profile (this is needed to enter the profile when PLEX starts).
The KIDS account can now be locked using this same master-lock pw. I did disable all sections but FAVORITES.
Unfortunately I was not able to just lock movies or the video section ... there is only one lock for both.
At least its kind of working now ... however here are some suggestions / requests for improvement beside a full fledged PARENTAL CONTROL implementation:
As I understand this, this is more a function of the SKIN than a function of PLEX?! Mediastream being an integral part of PLEX ... ==> thus the post here:
- Create a FILTER based on RATINGS, which is lockable using the profile locking mechanism. For me this is only needed in the MOVIES section; however one would need the ability to lock not just all VIDEO sections but the individual ones too (e.g. Video / Movies / TV)
- Be able to BROWSE the FAVORITES section using the same views as in the VIDEO / MOVIES section .... I guess this is not that easy as the favorite section has all kind of media in it?!
Thanks for taking a look at this.
Posted 23 March 2009 - 02:42 PM
As a parent with two young kids this is something that I've had discussions with the Devs about several times. One part of future library enhancements will be a more robust parental control module that will allow for more control not only on the source level but on the individual movie level. Not all PG movies are created equally these days for the younger ones Thank you for the suggestions.
Posted 23 March 2009 - 04:18 PM
1. Separate the sources into two shares on the NAS: parents and kids
2. two user profiles: kids (no password), parents (password)
3. lock down everything possible on the kids user account (only access movies/tv/music/pictures)
the separate shares lets me guarantee that they will not have access to anything they shouldn't.
I would be interested in beta-testing any builds with improved parental controls, please let me know if I can help.
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Posted 23 March 2009 - 05:02 PM
There have been no new parental control features implemented yet, so there's nothing to beta test - it's all conceptual at this stage
Hopefully all of our kids aren't old enough to watch R rated movies before this come out...eh James
(Just a little good natured ribbing between friends)
Posted 24 March 2009 - 12:01 AM
This one is R, This one is PG. This one is HD, this one is SD. Then a filter system can fix not only the parental issue, but the "what happens when I have an HD and SD copy of a file" as well...
Posted 24 March 2009 - 12:22 AM
First trick is to be able to tag shows.
This one is R, This one is PG. This one is HD, this one is SD. Then a filter system can fix not only the parental issue, but the "what happens when I have an HD and SD copy of a file" as well...
Ladies and gentleman...you just witnessed the rare feat of being on topic and off topic at the same time
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Although I am playing less I still find this game just as good as it always was and in a lot of ways better. People really just need to take a break when they feel the game is getting to them.
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The short coming of Star Trek Online are greatly execrated. But I have been informed by the Wood Fairy that lives in my underwear draw the following facts :
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CHENGAM: There is an urgent need to upgrade the medical facilities offered to the poor at the six Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the Chengam block in Tiruvannamalai district. Almost all PHCs in the Chengam block are not in a position to offer good medical facilities owing to shortage of doctors and other paramedical staff, including nurses.
There are a total of six PHCs in the Chengam block. The headquarter is situated at Melpallipattu.
Apart from Melpallipattu, PHCs existed at Arathavadi, Chennasamudram, Paramanandal, Penathoor and Elamkuni.
Even the medical facilities offered in the Pudupalayam block near Chengam are poor much to the anguish of the residents. A representative of a non- governmental organisation told The Hindu that two doctors and three nurses should man the PHCs as per government rules. The PHCs should function round the clock to cater for the people who came under below the poverty line (BPL).
Most of the PHCs in the Chengam block faced shortage of doctors.
Repeated representations have been made to the officials concerned, but no action had been taken so far.
Apart from the prescribed staff strength, each of the PHCs should have six village nurses. The main duty of the village nurse was that they should regularly visit the villages and attend to health problems. But this was seldom followed.
Even in Tirupattur, no specific measure has been taken to upgrade the PHCs, which have been also affected by shortage of doctors and nurses.
In most of the PHCs in Tirupattur and Chengam, the doctors are not available to attend to the patients as they have been deputed to attend to various medical camps conducted in the villages.
Moreover, the doctors are forced to go for regular training. In fact, a situation exists where the doctors at the PHCs are not available for more than 10 days, according to some of the patients at Chengam and Tirupattur.
In Chengam alone 15 posts of doctors have been lying vacant.
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The beaten up hero looks at his lover from a train that has just started to pull out of a station in rural Punjab. The woman pleads with her authoritarian father to set her free. The patriarch suddenly lets go of her arm. The woman flips her hair back and runs towards the hero, who now has his hand outstretched. Their palms finally touch. The hero pulls her into the train compartment. A nation sighs and box office history is made.
To the 26-year-old Bangalore-based computer engineer Abhinav Bhatt from Minimal Movie Posters India, the climax of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was so definitive that he decided his minimalist movie poster for the movie could simply show two hands reaching out against the background of a train.
While definitions of a minimalist poster vary, most designers agree that the posters focus on a specific concept or image and that — as Bhatt insists — they do not have pictures of the movie's stars. Yet, 'minimalist' is a word that is bandied rather freely in Bollywood. For instance, movie websites have gushed about Agent Vinod's "slick minimalist poster" (the one that has the letters 'A' and 'V' with a gun-bearing Saif Ali Khan). Bhatt opines that the poster does not qualify as one that is minimalist. "You still have the hero in the poster," he points out.
Weeks ago, Bhatt uploaded his poster for the Irrfan Khan-starrer Paan Singh Tomar on Minimal Movie Posters India, a tumblog dedicated to minimalist posters for Hindi movies. A couple of days later, he saw this comment on the website — 'Irrfan wants this poster. He loves it'. The name beside the comment read Anurag Kashyap. Unsure of the comment's authenticity, Bhatt replied and the man did indeed turn out to be the director himself. Bhatt also got in touch with Khan and emailed him a copy of the poster. So does this mean that Bollywood is finally willing to experiment with poster designs, even if it is at the expense of not having a star's face in the poster? Bhatt laughs. "I got a comment from Anurag Kashyap. Not Aditya Chopra."
Director Anurag Kashyap, who loves minimalist movie posters so much that a friend once gifted him a minimalist poster of his own film Dev.D, admits that he would have such a poster probably only at a film festival. "Movies are studio owned so they would need a poster that would attract attention," says Kashyap. "But I will have more such posters if I had more of a say in the matter."
By now, we all know how the filmmakers of the Akshay Kumar-starrer Rowdy Rathore hired street painters to paint the movie's poster. But does mainstream Bollywood prefer to play it safe? We are, after all, revisiting a trend from the '80s which is now so hackneyed that even a book has been written about it. Are filmmakers of big budget movies uncomfortable with banning stars' faces from posters? Or is the average Hindi movie viewer yet to move on from the loud, bold and colourful?
It's a little bit of all three. New age filmmakers are open to the idea of experimenting with minimalist posters but filmmakers who have been around for a while and have been delivering hits would prefer other posters, explains Rajeev Chudasama, Founder and Creative Director of Marching Ants, the design studio behind posters of movies like Kahaani, Lakshya, Dev.D and Paan Singh Tomar. "In India, we work almost six days a week and have long hours. In Europe, people work five days, go fishing …. that is the kind of the space you need to be in to enjoy minimalism," he says. But our audiences, he adds, might well be on the road to such nuanced appreciation. "It will happen when our ideas get bigger than the actors."
Things in the West, however, aren't also quite as simple as fishing. Cameron Crowe's 2011 movie We Bought a Zoo, which stars Matt Damon and Scarlet Johansson, has a legitimate minimalist movie poster to its credit: The poster has a tree with green paw prints for leaves, sticking to the movie's storyline of a family moving into a rundown zoo. "If a studio hires a bankable star, they want to use that star as a sales tool," explains Ethan Archer, Creative Director of ARSONAL, the California-based design company behind the We Bought a Zoo posters. "Most (filmmakers) do not have the final say. That's usually up to the studio distributing the film."
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EU agrees extension to derogation for organic pullets and feed
It was only last month in the Ranger that John Retson, former chairman of the British Free Range Egg Producers' Association (BFREPA), who is involved in the business of rearing organic pullets, warned of an imminent crisis unless the EU allowed the organic egg sector to continue using non-organic pullets. He said that a decision was needed urgently so that pullet rearers had the confidence to order chicks knowing that they would not be illegal after the end of the year. The derogation allowing the use of non-organic pullets was due to expire on December 31 this year.
John, whose business JSR Services has rearing farms in Perthshire, Stirlingshire, Ayrshire and Lan-arkshire, rearing between 150,000 and 200,000 organic pullets each year, said that any rearer order-ing chicks now would be taking a risk. "I need to be placing orders for chicks now to rear pullets for December. But as things stand, the pullets I reared from the chicks I ordered now could be illegal by December, so to orders those chicks at the moment is to take a risk." He said he would be having to gamble on someone deciding to extend the derogation. "That is a big risk and for some pullet rearers it may be too big a risk to take. They may well decide not to order chicks until they know for sure what the rules will be," said John.
Farming leaders have been pressing European Union officials for an early decision to extend the derogation. A farming delegation, it seems, recently received an assurance that the derogation would be extended, but the decision was in the hands of the Standing Committee on Organic Farm-ing (SCOF). The committee met recently and it has now finally agreed to the extension. This was confirmed to the Ranger by a spokeswoman for Agriculture & Rural Development at the European Commission.
She said in a written statement, "The SCOF adopted unanimously on 9 July an amendment of the implementing rules to extend the current derogation for use of non-organic pullets until 1 Jan 2017 and to extend the current allowance for 5 per cent non-organic feed until 1 Jan 2017. These rules were due to expire at the end of the year and so it was important to extend them without pre-judging the ongoing discussions with Council and the new European Parliament about longer-term changes to the rules."
John Retson told us that he welcomed the decision, but he said that egg industry leaders must now press for new rules to be drawn up as soon as possible. "It is great news that somebody has made a decision to allow the derogation to continue so that we know what we are doing until January 2017. There is a big but, though. Although it is two years away, we need to be urging those people to get together and agree standards so that farmers can prepare for the change."
John said that organic production was a niche sector and unless farmers new what they were going to be doing in the years ahead the sector could be damaged. "We need to know the standards by the end of 2014 so that we have time to farm ourselves towards them. Producers need to know what the rules will be so that they have time to make decisions and do the things that need to be done."
The committee's decision was welcomed by BFREPA's director of policy Robert Gooch. "It is ex-cellent news. It was common sense for them to do that, so that we don't have to worry now until 2017. But BFREPA will have to sit down and decide how we move forward. There are members who believe that we should be going for 100 per cent organic and others who do not."
The derogation was originally due to finish at the end of 2011, with producers expected to use 100 per cent organic feed from January 1, 2012. However, it was extended to the end of 2014 after in-dustry representatives argued that there was insufficient quantity or quality of organic feed to allow producers to feed a 100 per cent organic diet.
The industry made its argument on welfare grounds, saying that feeding animals lower quality diets could lead to stress on nutritional requirements, which would significantly impact on animal wel-fare. It said this could potentially damage the organic brand. The European Commission followed the advice of the EU Organic Expert Group in extending the derogation, although the decision was delayed, with the extension having to be applied retrospectively after legislation to continue the derogation was introduced in 2012.
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Book your room at SpringHill Suites Philadelphia Airport Ridley Park
3-star hotel with free breakfast and free airport shuttle
Situated near the airport, this hotel is 2.3 mi (3.6 km) from Harrah's Casino and Racetrack and 2.6 mi (4.2 km) from Widener University. PPL Park and Hedgerow Theatre are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a restaurant, an indoor pool, and a 24-hour fitness center. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a 24-hour business center, and coffee/tea in the lobby.
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All 130 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, LCD TVs with cable channels, and comforts like pillowtop beds and premium bedding. Guests will also find iPod docks, sofa beds, and sitting areas.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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SpringHill Suites Philadelphia Airport Ridley Park features an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 655 square feet (61 square meters). This Ridley Park hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, coffee/tea in the lobby, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available on request). Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
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On Thursday evening, when Chandrika Sharma's colleagues said goodbye to her and wished her safe travel to Mongolia, little did they realise that luck would not keep her company.
Chandrika Sharma was on Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 from Malaysia to Beijing that reportedly crashed into the sea off the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc early Saturday. Nothing is as yet known about the fate of the 239 persons on board.
While her family, husband and daughter, were inconsolable and not available for comment, her colleagues recalled her passion for helping the fishing community and her fantastic work ethic. Ms. Sharma was the executive secretary of the International Collective in Support of Fish Workers, based in Chennai.
An expert in fisheries sector and issues related to fishermen, Ms. Sharma, a resident of Velachery, was heading to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to attend a regional conference for Asia and the Pacific hosted by Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
Her colleagues, who are busy helping out the family trace Ms. Sharma, say she was a very a warm person to work with. "She used to co-ordinate with ICSF offices across the world and help small scale fishermen. I met her last on Thursday evening when she came to my office room to say goodbye. She was to return to Chennai on March 15," said N. Venugopal, her colleague.
With a Masters degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and M.Phil from Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, she worked in Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi and Aruna Roy's Social Work and Research Centre before joining ICSF as programme associate in 1995. She became the executive secretary of ICSF in 2002.
Ms. Sharma had travelled from Chennai on Friday to Kuala Lumpur and boarded the Malaysian Airlines flight to Beijing to attend a consultation meeting on Saturday. Her husband is a consultant based in Chennai and their only daughter is pursuing studies English literature in Ambedkar University, Delhi are in a shock after the news broke out about the flight crash.
M.J. Vijayan of National Fish Workers Forum, who has worked closely with Ms. Chandrika, expressed shock over the reports of her flight crashing. "She was a very modest, silent person, less visible… but when she is in a conference you realise that she makes a substantive contribution to the cause. She would make very specific interventions," he said. "For the past one year, she has been flying frequently due to all the negotiations going on with the FAO and ILO… in fact we used to joke about her globetrotting," he added.
Jesurethinam, Convenor, Coastal Action Network, said she knew Ms. Sharma for over 10 years now and that before she became executive secretary, she was a member. "She was very sensitive to issues and played a major role in influencing policies at the FAO," she said.
Fifty-one year-old Ms. Sharma was to celebrate her birthday later this month.
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TEMECULA: No call for changes to Old Town liquor rules
Backed by data from the Police Department that didn't show a sharp uptick in alcohol-related calls for service in Old Town, a Temecula City Council committee has recommended making no changes to the city's rules on alcohol sales in the historic area .
The decision was greeted by applause from many in the audience for Wednesday night's committee meeting, which included owners and bartenders of popular restaurants, landowners and developers.
"I think we're doing fine," said Councilman Ron Roberts, one-half of the committee that includes fellow Councilman Mike Naggar. "I'm not ready to change anything."
Naggar concurred, saying the success of Old Town in recent years, which has become a nightlife destination for locals and tourists, was part of the city's plan for the area, a dream realized.
"We set out to do exactly what we've done," he said.
The committee meeting was held, in part, to address anecdotal reports of bad behavior in Old Town and a complaint by an Old Town business owner at a council meeting about "binge drinking" in the area.
After listening to owners describe their security procedures, staff members talk about the procedures in place for revoking a permit and the Police Department share its data, Naggar said he's confident the city is on the right course.
"I see no evidence there is an alcohol problem," he said.
Naggar said there had been internal discussions leading up to Wednesday's gathering about a possible cap on permits in Old Town or reviews of the conditional use permits that have been issued to the 30 businesses there that sell alcohol.
At the conclusion the meeting, however, Naggar said none of those items needed to be acted upon, a sentiment shared by Roberts.
During his presentation, Temecula police Lt. Greg Negron said that in the first five months of 2012, the number of calls for service in Old Town is running below the pace of recent years.
In 2010, the department logged 2,352 calls for service, including 54 for drunk in public and 43 for driving under the influence.
In 2011, the number was 2,343 calls, with 52 for drunk in public and 35 for DUI.
In the first five months of 2012, the department logged 898 calls, with 34 for drunk in public and 15 for DUI.
The lower number of calls, Negron said, can be attributed to the use of a special team of officers assigned to the Old Town area to proactively tackle issues and maintain a visible presence.
He said the work of that team in Old Town could also explain the slight uptick in drunk in public calls so far this year.
Asked by Naggar if he feels there is an alcohol problem in Old Town, Negron said that he didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
In some respects, he said, Temecula is ahead of other jurisdictions because of the high level of communication between the department and business owners.
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Try THIS!
When I found that in the Wii Version you actually have to move your arms around to jump, climb, duck, ect. I thought to myself: That probably makes the nightmare sequences a lot scarier. Then I was disappointed, that that feature obviously doesn't come with the PS2 Version. Then I had an Idea.
This may sound a little silly now, but you have to try. It will be a different, but very good gaming experience.
During Nightmare sequences you stand up (make sure there's enough room around you) and you mimic the moves Harry does with your whole body. You crawl when he crawls, jump when he jumps. And you strike your elbows as if the monsters were clinging to your right side, not Harry's. Of course you shouldn't forget to press the right buttons on the controller as well, but that's not difficult.
Told you it was going to sound silly. But it really is a lot of fun. Everyone who complains, that this game isn't scary enough (that included me) should have a good, nightmarish time playing it this way.
There is really only one move that is a little difficult to perform indoors without breaking anything. That is climbing over fences and stuff. I just get on tip toes as high as I can and mimic the way Harry lands on the ground on the other side.
How long does it take before a topic gets archived? I'd love to get some opinions on this.
Forget it. I tried to get answers recently but this board is dead. Plus, this "Silent Hill" game feels like the least in the series - not even a zombie nurse in sight.
While it's certainly not as good as other SH's it's not a bad game at all.