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IKEA Canada has decided a new and expanded store at Walker's Line and North Service Road isn't the right move.
The news was made public this morning, but Burlington councillors were informed of the decision last Friday.
Despite having the majority of necessary approvals in place, including all of the city's requirements, the site wasn't the right fit for the retailer in the end.
"We were planning to relocate the existing store," said Paul Ekelschot, properties manager with IKEA, in a press release issued by the city. "However, IKEA has assessed that the site is not the best solution for our needs and that we will continue to provide our valued customers with a great shopping experience in the current location at this time."
Madeleine Lowenborg-Frick, an IKEA spokesperson, confirmed this afternoon (Wednesday) the decision was strictly based on the site. She added IKEA Canada is doing well financially.
"At the end of the day, there really wasn't one single factor," she told the Post. "Over the three-year period, we've been going through different zoning and approvals on this site… we had all of the final results of all those processes together (and) on final review, it just wasn't a viable site for an IKEA store."
Mayor Rick Goldring said while he is discouraged about IKEA's decision, the development application identified the need for infrastructure improvements to develop business along North Service Road.
"Initially, I certainly felt some disappointment because much work had gone on for this particular development application and I thought the city had done a good job of guiding it through," Goldring told the Post. "The silver lining in all of this is the fact that all the efforts we've expended with regards to the IKEA application really made it clear to us that we have to improve transportation around the QEW corridor, specifically around the North Service Road and Walker's Line, and that should happen whether IKEA is a go or not."
An $18-million deal had also been hammered out for the necessary infrastructure improvements at Walker's Line and North Service Road. The city was going to pay $12.9M, while IKEA's share was $5.1M.
Scott Stewart, general manager of development and infrastructure at the city, told the Post the city will go forward with its share of the roadwork, with the anticipated completion date now likely bumped to spring 2016.
"The IKEA piece gave us a sense of urgency for the prosperity corridor and we'll continue that — that roadwork will have to happen on Walker's Line and North Service Road regardless of the investor," he said. "We're going to finish that and get that in place so that it is one more thing you can complete and whoever comes along, it helps with that shovel-ready-state companies are looking for."
IKEA has called its current location on Plains Road East in Aldershot home since 1991.
The company started working with the City of Burlington and other agencies, including Conservation Halton, Halton Region and the Ministry of Transportation, in 2011 to start the process of rezoning and approvals needed for relocation to the North Service Road location.
The goal was an expanded 428,500-square-foot store and national corporate headquarters on North Service Road, just off Walker's Line and the QEW.
The new store was originally expected to open in November 2015 and bring additional jobs to the city.
Ward 4 Councillor Jack Dennison, who represents the ward in which the new store was destined, said he was perplexed by IKEA's decision.
"I have two words: shocked and disappointed," he said. "I thought it (expanded store in new location) was a great move for them. I'm glad they are at least staying in Burlington and not relocating outside our community, but to not have that massive store expansion and head office expansion with significant, good-paying jobs come to Burlington, come to Ward 4, really saddens me."
Lowenborg-Frick said IKEA is continuing to review its expansion opportunities, but for now the plans are to stay at its current location. The existing site also will be considered for possible opportunities. There are no plans to leave Burlington, she added.
"At this point, there's no plans for anything other than to stay in our existing location at this time," she said.
Ward 1 Councillor Rick Craven said he was happy the business was staying in Aldershot.
He pointed out the retailer is an important part of the Aldershot business community and employer of area residents.
"I understand that this decision is a disappointment for all those who worked hard in recent years to accommodate IKEA's growth plan, but I am delighted that the store will continue full operations in Aldershot," he wrote in an email to residents Wednesday morning. "IKEA has been a great partner in the west end providing job opportunities and shopping experiences. The store is also a major contributor to the Aldershot Village Business Improvement Area. I welcome IKEA's renewed commitment to Aldershot as we continue to strengthen the retail sector along Plains Road."
A staff report about the resulting impact of IKEA's decision is expected to go before councillors at a committee meeting next week.
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Jungle retreat! Best keep secret place close to everything without the crowd. Less than a mile from Puerto Aventuras its dolphin in marina, restaurants, golf, shopping and beach. Perfect location to visit the Riviera Maya, Quiet natural jungle, but only 5 minutes from the beaches, cenotes, and close to snorkeling, Mayan ruins-Tulum, and Akumal. This location is perfect to experience Mexico off the beaten path. Our Manager on site will greet you upon arrival and tend to any need you may require.
This brand new casita will be perfect for a couple gateway, a home base for divers or for the vacation traveler searching for a tropical hideaway. Located in the lush and beautiful rain forest along the Cancun-Tulum Corridor approximately 60 miles south of Cancun, this private retreat has a fully equipped kitchen with all utensils, 1 bedroom with a queen-sized bed, a living room with 2 twin-sized sleepers and 1 bathroom with shower. Linen provided. Internet on site.
Keywords: studio, casita, cabin, bungalow
If you don't want the noise and crowds of the tourist area this is a great alternative. The Casita is clean, well kept and comfortable. The kitchen was adequate for making meals, full sized fridge, four burner gas cooker, just what was needed. The outside sitting area was comfortable, we ate a few meals outside. Internet access was very good considering we were so far out of the main area, we never had a problem checking our email etc.
You are close to Akumal, and a few other beaches , Puerto Aventuras has some great restaurants if you decide you don't want to cook. A grocery store is close by, the colonia of Puerto Aventuras has some great places to get BBQ chicken, so you have the best of everything close by.
The only negative is that there is no housekeeping offered, so if you stay more then a couple days (we were there almost 2 weeks) you need to supply your own cleaning products, toilet paper, garbage bags and dispose of your garbage somewhere off the property as there is no facilities for garbage disposal on the property.
All and all a great place,
We used la Casita as a base for a cave diving holiday. It is away from the hustle and bustle of the resorts. You can catch collectivos from the highway 200m away, but it's better to have a car. (You'll need a car to cart lots of drinking water from the supermarket in Puerto Aventuras.)
Aside from some late-night music from about 200m away, it was quiet. Having a kitchen meant we could cook and avoid eating too many fattening restaurant meals.
No washing machine.
Would we stay here again? Yes!
House is equiped for the traveler not the tourist. Could definately use a blender. House was difficult to find but will be easier once new directions are provided. Caretakers are very nice.
Had a great stay at the casita, thanks! Really peaceful place on a beatuiful jungle lot, only a short (5 minute) drive to the pueblo of Puerto Aventuras, which has everything you need. Everything's close, but a vehicle is definitely recommended! The hosts who live close by were very friendly and super helpful. The house itself is small, but well equipped and comfortable, and well maintained. The owners replied to all my questions promptly and helpfully. We've been visiting the area for the past couple of years to dive, and this was an excellent base for us.
The listing description was perfect, The photos didn't reflect rental's appeaance and amenities, they are under the reality.We were there in the fall like season full of gold color leaves, awesome.Warmely recommand this place to people seeking cocooning by nature.Place to see: beach, beaches, and more beaches....ruins and tipycal mayan village.
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On July 1, 2014, the state of California submitted a request for a fire management assistance declaration for the Butts Fire. The authorization makes FEMA funding available to reimburse up to 75 percent of the eligible firefighting costs under an approved grant for managing, mitigating and controlling the fire.
"FEMA Region IX remains in constant contact with the state of California to identify needs and provide ongoing support as requested," said acting FEMA Deputy Region IX Administrator, Farley Howell.
At the time of the request, the fire was threatening 200 primary residence homes in and around the community of Berryessa Estates with a population of 540. The State of California further reported that the fire had burned in excess of 2,700 acres of state and private land.
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LOS ANGELES—US pop icon Madonna was raped at knifepoint when she was a young struggling artist in New York, she revealed in an article published Friday.
The 55-year-old also recalled being held up at gunpoint and having her seedy apartment burgled three times, saying she was "scared shitless" at times before she started making it as a singer and dancer.
In a piece for Harper's Bazaar, she also talked about her time living in Britain married to director Guy Ritchie, saying there is "nothing more beautiful than the English countryside," and revealed that she is now studying the Koran.
Describing her arrival in the Big Apple from the Midwest, where she grew up, she wrote: "New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms," and described "paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked."
"The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time."
"The tall buildings and the massive scale of New York took my breath away. The sizzling-hot sidewalks and the noise of the traffic and the electricity of the people rushing by me on the streets was a shock to my neurotransmitters," she added.
She continued: "I felt like I had plugged into another universe. I felt like a warrior plunging my way through the crowds to survive. Blood pumping through my veins, I was poised for survival."
"I felt alive."
"But I was also scared shitless and freaked out by the smell of piss and vomit everywhere, especially in the entryway of my third-floor walk-up."
The "Material Girl" singer, whose career has ranged from "Like a Virgin" to movie roles, the 1992 coffee table book "Sex" and who last toured in 2012, wrote the cover story to accompany a fashion photoshoot of her in typically provocative gear, including a bondage-style mask and a sword.
Moving on a decade a time, she recalled being a pop star in her 20s, embracing Kabbalah in her 30s, before marrying Ritchie and moving to Britain by the age of 45.
"I consider moving to a foreign country to be a very daring act. It wasn't easy for me… I didn't understand pub culture. I didn't understand that being openly ambitious was frowned upon. Once again I felt alone.
"But I stuck it out and I found my way, and I grew to love English wit, Georgian architecture, sticky toffee pudding, and the English countryside. There is nothing more beautiful than the English countryside."
Madonna and Ritchie were divorced in 2008, and a decade later she is back in New York.
"I have started making films, which is probably the most challenging and rewarding thing I have ever done. I am building schools for girls in Islamic countries and studying the Koran. I think it is important to study all the holy books.
"As my friend Yaman always tells me, a good Muslim is a good Jew, and a good Jew is a good Christian, and so forth. I couldn't agree more."
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GYMNASTICS - TRAMPOLINE: 2012 Olympian, Blake Gaudry will lead a team of Australia's best trampoline athletes as they bounce into Daytona Beach, USA, to compete in the 2014 Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships when they kick off next week.
TRAMPOLINE: Blake Gaudry from South Australia has landed his ninth national senior trampoline title and Danielle Prince is preparing to defend her rhythmic title, at the 2014 Australian Championships
GYMNASTICS - TRAMPOLINE: The Australian Team of Ty Swadling, Blake Gaudry, Will Morris and Jack Penny have taken out the bronze medal in the Team Final at the 29th Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
GYMNASTICS - TRAMPOLINE: Having completed a five day preparation camp in the UK, the Australian trampoline team are ready to take on the World's best in Bulgaria.
GYMNASTICS: The journey begins from Sunday, 7 July at the 2013 Australian Gymnastics Championships held at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre, for gymnasts across the country aiming to wear the green and gold at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and ultimately, the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
GYMNASTICS: Australia's eight-member gymnastics team performed credibly across all disciplines in the London Games with Lauren Mitchell leading the way with her outstanding 5th placing in the individual floor routine, just 0.067 off a medal.
GYMNASTICS – TRAMPOLINE: Adelaide-based gymnast Blake Gaudry had a bitter-sweet experience in his Olympic debut on Day 8, missing the final with a stumble in his second jump after setting an Olympic record in his first qualifying routine.
GYMNASTICS – TRAMPOLINE: Adelaide-based gymnast Blake Gaudry didn't know trampoline was an Olympic sport when he took it up 10 years ago, but on Friday he will make his Olympic debut as Australia's only representative in the sport at the 2012 Games.
TEAM: The start of the men's road cycling race provided the perfect backdrop as Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall met some of Australia's 2012 Olympians.
GYMNASTICS: With his first Olympic competition just around the corner, Blake Gaudry is bouncing high with excitement.
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Shall we keep riding the truth train for another post? Let's shall. Lest you think my existence has been consumed with the hellhole that is graduate school, I'd like to show you how wonderful my life is beyond that. I have so, so much to be thankful for.
My family. Being the big sister has always been the core of my identity, and being away from my siblings hurts this holiday. They are an extraordinary bunch, and I am so thankful for them. They motivate and inspire me every day.
My momma. What a woman. She is my hero. I am thankful for how hard she has worked to get me where I am today, and I'm thankful for all the fun times we've had along the way.
My grandparents. I admire them for so many reasons, and I am thankful to have them in my life.
This guy. I am so thankful to have found a love like this.
Best friends. These ladies are way too far away, but I think of them every day. Dance parties aren't the same without them, but we get by with phone calls, emails, and Facebook. Mad love to you girls. I am so thankful for you.
Today it's just me and the cat. We're having turkey, stuffing, Brussels sprouts, and a sweet potato tart. I'm thankful for that wacky cat.
I'm also thankful for you. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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An extreme example of meticulous care of your used farm equipment, some/most may say obsessive, but it worked. Just look at how the 2000 John Deere 8410 tractor shines. What a beauty. You could eat your Thanksgiving turkey dinner off the hood its so clean.


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Agro-industry loans surged by 150% in 2012
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Loans released under the Agro-Industry Modernization Credit and Financing Program (AMCFP) grew by 151 percent to P1.12 billion in 2012 from that of the previous year as the number of farmer clients also grew by 15 percent to 29,496, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said in a report.
The amount of loans released by the AMCFP in 2012 was also around 4 percent higher than the P1.08 billion targeted for the year under the program.
AMCFP is the financing program of the DA, as mandated by the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) of 1997.
The Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) implements the program.
Agriculture officials said the improved performance of the AMCFP was due to the implementation of a depository scheme called AMCFP-Cooperatives Agri Lending Program (AMCFP-CBAP), which led to the immediate release of P935.6 million in loans in 2012.
Under the depository scheme, ACPC will place funds in special time deposits in participating cooperative banks. The cooperative banks will then use the funds to expand their agriculture and fishery loan portfolio.
"By putting the funds in [special time deposits] … ACPC is able to bring down the effective interest rates for end-borrowers. The number of borrowers under the AMCFP-CBAP reached 18,437 in 2012," Agriculture officials said.
Under another program of the AMCFP, the Agri-Microfinance Program (AMP), a total of P137.8 million was released to 10,136 farmers and fisherfolk in 2012. The program provides credit to qualified microfinance institutions for relending to small individual borrowers.
The implementation in 2012 of the Sikat Saka Program, jointly implemented by the ACPC and the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), also contributed to the total loans granted under the AMCFP in 2012.
The Sikat Saka Program released P49.2 million in loans to 764 rice farmers in 2012. The program provides credit for palay production to eligible members of irrigators; associations to help meet the FSSP's goal of attaining self-sufficiency in rice by 2013.
There was also the Cooperatives Agri Lending Program (CALP), which released loans amounting to P5.5 million to 159 borrowers in 2012. The CALP was implemented starting March 2011. It was a joint program of the ACPC and the Development Bank of the Philippines, which provided a revolving credit line for cooperatives.
From the time it was first implemented in 2003, the AMCFP has already granted a total of P5.44 billion in loans benefiting 198,085 farmer and fisherfolk nationwide as of December 2012.
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In the wake of yesterday's tefillin-grounded flight, Agudath Israel America—the governing body of non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodoxy—said (in an email) that it has already been working with the Transportation Security Administration and several airlines to spread awareness of tefillin and other Jewish religious practices. However, sensitivity is a two-way street, according to Agudath Israel's government affairs director: "we have also cautioned members of our own community that they must understand that many citizens may not be familiar with Jewish prayer rituals, and that they should explain the practice to individuals in authority."
Yesterday's incident certainly indicated that a little more mutual knowledge could go a long way. In the video below, the Philadelphia Police Department's chief inspector explained that the whole thing was indeed a misunderstanding—"there was no threat, there never was threat." The male passenger, he explained, "was wearing what is known as an olfactory." Er, that's phylactery! At least the Philly inspector … smelled … no fear: "It is completely harmless," he said of the tefillin. You know, except for those red marks it sometimes leaves on your forearm, but those go away pretty quickly.
Oh, and want to know more about tefillin? Slate's got you covered (or wrapped).
Earlier: BREAKING: N.Y. Plane Grounded Due to Tefillin Scare
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Members of a mosque in Wichita continue renovation efforts after a fire severely damaged their west side building on October 31, 2011.
Abdelkarim Jibril, president of the Islamic Association of Mid Kansas, says the fire caused an estimated $150,000 in damage.
The west side mosque at 3406 W. Taft was the first established in Wichita in 1978.
"The mosque now has a new roof and windows but there's still lots of work to be done and there is a lot of money being spent to rebuild," said Jibril.
The FBI and the Wichita Fire Department announced Wednesday the ATF will offer a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for fire at the Islamic Association of Mid-Kansas.
The fire was reported around 12:45PM on October 31, 2011 and caused approximately $150,000 in damage. No injuries were reported.
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Mount Zion Baptist Church will celebrate men and women's annual day during the morning worship at 9 a.m. The Rev. Claude Axel will be guest speaker, 1605 Comanche St. 289-1400.
Corpus Christi Cathedral's Pontifical Chorale performs during the 9:30 a.m. televised Mass on Channel 13 (Fox), and the Youth Chorale and Choristers perform at the 12:15 p.m. Masses celebrating the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Under the direction of Lee Gwozdz and accompaniment by local brass, cathedral kettle drums, handbells and pipe organ, 505 N. Upper Broadway. Free. 883-4213.
Galilean Lutheran Church recognizes the Sunday School students and staff at the 10:30 a.m. worship. Graduating seniors also will be recognized and a reception will follow the worship. A free-will offering luncheon will be served, 3321 Cimarron Blvd. 991-4593.
St. John's United Methodist Church Missionary Gaston Ntambo, United Methodist missionary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and his wife, Jeanne, will describe his ministry at a luncheon beginning at 11:30 a.m. Meal is free and donations will be accepted. Ntambo also will preach at St. John's on May 27, 5300 S. Alameda St. 991-4342.
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It seemed just a short time ago that fans were bundled in blankets or winter coats watching the first week of Wyoming Valley Conference softball. Things have changed quickly. The weather is nice and the final full week of the season starts today.
It's flown by so rapidly that we need to catch up on the divisional playoff races. Here's a look at the three heading into the week.
Division 1: Hazleton Area (11-1) and Nanticoke (9-3) are the only teams in contention. They play at 11 a.m. Saturday at Nanticoke, but whether that game decides the title or will be a tune-up for the District 2 playoffs will be determined this week.
Hazleton Area's magic number is two, meaning any combination of Hazleton Area wins and Nanticoke losses equaling two will give the Cougars the championship.
Hazleton Area is home versus Pittston Area (2-10) today and Crestwood (4-7) on Thursday. The Cougars handled both easily the first time around, winning 12-1 and 7-1.
Nanticoke hosts Wyoming Valley West (5-7) on Tuesday and Coughlin (4-8) on Thursday. The Trojanettes defeated both previously.
Division 2: It's a three-horse race between Berwick (9-2), Tunkhannock (8-3) and Wyoming Area (8-4).
The key game is Thursday when Berwick visits Tunkhannock. That's provided Tunkhannock gets past Lake-Lehman (0-12) on Wednesday.
Tunkhannock coach John Keefe voiced his concerns about Lehman last week. As ridiculous as that sounds, consider Lehman has lost three one-run games, another in extra innings and has a pair of 2-0 losses to Tunkhannock and Berwick. So a Tunkhannock victory isn't a given.
After the Tunkhannock game, Berwick finishes up next week with two road games – at Wyoming Area on May 13 and at Crestwood (4-7) on May 15.
Tunkhannock ends its regular season against visiting Dallas (4-7) on May 13. Wyoming Area needs plenty of help to get the division. The Warriors play Tuesday at Dallas, which defeated them 5-2 on April 8.
Division 3: Holy Redeemer (8-0), Hanover Area (9-1) and Northwest (7-2) are vying for the title.
The division will essentially come down to Tuesday's Hanover Area at Redeemer game, which starts at 4 p.m.
Redeemer, which defeated Hanover Area 8-1 on April 15, would all but clinch the division with a victory. The Royals would go up two games in the loss column and would have to lose at least two of their final three for either Hanover Area or Northwest to have a chance. The Royals have defeated their final three opponents this season by a combined 40-9 score.
Northwest needs to sweep its final three and have Hanover Area win on Tuesday to have any shot.
Schedule change
The Tunkhannock at Lake-Lehman game scheduled for today has been moved to Wednesday. Some Lehman players are unavailable today due to a senior field trip.
True grit
I love catchers. I was one and my son catches in Little League. So I can appreciate what Nanticoke's Kayla Benjamin did last week.
Benjamin took a nasty foul ball off her hand last Monday against Berwick. The direct hit sounded like someone throwing a raw porterhouse steak to the floor. She had to leave the game, but after some ice and a day's rest she was good to go.
Two days after the injury, Benjamin had two hits against Pittston Area. Then last Friday, she was 3-for-4 with four runs scored against Crestwood.
First-year coach Ryan Stetz has singled out his three seniors – Benjamin, Allie Matulewski and Kayley Schinski – as the three players who have been the glue to an otherwise young team.
Grand time
As best as we can tell, there have been two grand slams this season. Holy Redeemer's Audrey Zavada had one in a victory over Northwest on April 24. Northwest's Olivia McCorkel did the same against Meyers on April 9.
District dates set
Here are the dates for the District 2 softball tournaments. Today is the deadline for teams to decide whether they will participate. All rain dates are the day following the original dates.
Class 4A: Tuesday, May 21; Thursday, May 23; Wednesday, May 29.
Class 3A and 2A: Monday, May 20; Wednesday, May 22; Friday, May 24; Tuesday, May 28.
Class A: Tuesday, May 21; Thursday, May 23; Tuesday, May 28.
Only the tournament champions advance to the state playoffs, which begin June 3.
District games will start at 4:30 p.m at the site of the higher seed for all rounds but the championship. The title games will be at neutral sites.
Week in review
Hanover Area's Mary Kate Penczkowski picked up her ninth victory in the circle, tying her with Berwick's Margaret Bridge for the most by a WVC pitcher. … Bridge picked up three wins in the circle, allowing just two earned runs and striking out 21 in 21 innings. … Hazleton Area's Maria Trivelpiece finished the week with nine hits. … Wyoming Seminary's Megan Bresnahan threw her first shutout in a 6-0 victory over MMI Prep. … Coughlin's Marissa Ross had five hits in the Crusaders' two victories. … Berwick's Kylene Welsh was 5-for-9 with four RBI and three runs in three wins.


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Toyota Develops Collision Avoidance Assist System Effective at High Speeds System Effective in More Than 90% of Speed Ranges in Rear-end Collisions Toyota City, Japan, Nov 12, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a Pre-collision System (PCS) with collision avoidance assist that is effective in helping mitigate even high-speed(1) collisions. The newly developed PCS uses millimeter-wave radar to detect the risk of a rear-end collision with a preceding vehicle, with the system warning the driver via sound and display alerts to prompt braking when such a risk is detected. When the driver applies the brakes, PCS enables deceleration of up to 60 km/h(2) by greatly increasing the braking force up to twice(3) that of the average force applied by drivers. If the brakes are not applied, automatic deceleration(4) of 15 km/h to approximately 30 km/h(5) is possible(6). More than 90 percent of rear-end collisions occur when the difference in speed between the preceding and following vehicle is within 60 km/h(7). TMC aimed to develop a system based on real-world collision data, and has, with its newly developed system, achieved rear-end-collision reducing-effects at the highest level in the industry. The new PCS was developed to be used in a wide variety of models, and is to be rolled out starting with soon-to-be-launched models. To contribute to the elimination of traffic accident fatalities and injuries - the ultimate goal of a society that values mobility - TMC is conducting research and development on individual onboard safety devices and systems based on its Integrated Safety Management Concept(8), an approach that gives direction to safety technology and vehicle development. TMC is pressing forward with the development of safer vehicles and technologies and is intensifying its wide-ranging traffic-safety initiatives by participating in the development of traffic environments and conducting educational traffic-safety activities. (1) Research has shown that a speed of 40 km/h to 60 km/h at the time of a rear-end collision is the range in which the number of fatal and injury-causing accidents increases (2) When the driver's car is traveling at 80 km/h and the preceding car is traveling at 20 km/h (3) According to analysis of U.S. accident data (4) Deceleration when no brake is applied is initiated from 15 km/h (5) When the driver's car is traveling at 50 km/h and the preceding car is traveling at 20 km/h (6) Full capabilities may not be possible in certain road environments or under certain weather conditions (7) Preliminary calculations from traffic accident statistics from the Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis (ITARDA) (8) An approach to safety - not focused solely on independent safety systems - that seeks to provide the driver with comprehensive support in all aspects of driving. About Toyota Supported by people around the world, Toyota Motor Corporation (TSE: 7203; NYSE: TM), has endeavored since its establishment in 1937 to serve society by creating better products. As of the end of March 2012, Toyota conducts its business worldwide with 50 overseas manufacturing companies in 27 countries and regions. Toyota's vehicles are sold in more than 160 countries and regions. For more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com. Contact: Toyota Motor Corporation Corporate Communications Department Public Affairs Division Tel: +81-3-3817-9150 Copyright 2012 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.japancorp.net Provider ID: 00025855
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Located in Vestavia Hills, this hotel is 1.6 mi (2.5 km) from Birmingham Ballet and 2.4 mi (3.9 km) from Aldridge Gardens. Riverchase Galleria and Moss Rock Preserve are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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Baymont Inn and Suites Birmingham/Vestavia features a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Event facilities include conference space and meeting rooms. This Birmingham hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, express check-in, and express check-out. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Ann Curtis, a renowned swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1948 Olympics, the last time the event was held in London, has died. She was 86.
Her daughter Carrie Cuneo said Thursday she died at her San Rafael, Calif., home of complications of Alzheimer's disease on June 26, weeks before the games returned to the city where she won international acclaim.
Born in 1926 in San Francisco, Curtis started her swimming career at the age of 12. She didn't get to compete in the Olympics until they resumed in 1948 following a 12-year hiatus due to World War II. By then, she had already won eight national titles and broken 18 U.S. records.
"I was lucky that the Games restarted at a time I was still competing. There were awfully good swimmers before my time, and it was too late for them," Curtis told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2008.
It was Curtis' only Olympics. She took medals in all three events she competed in: gold in the 400-meter freestyle, gold in the 4x100-meter relay and silver in the 100-meter freestyle. She would go on to become a paid athlete, participating in water shows and competing in U.S. masters championships. She was elected to the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1966.
"She swam in the Olympics in her prime, and it's hard to revisit that," Cuneo said.
Curtis married Gordon Cuneo a year after the Olympics, and they had their first of five children in 1950. Her daughter recalls Curtis' modesty about her success and fame, never discussing her career unless asked.
"We came across the medals going through the drawers and asked 'What's this? It's pretty. Can I play with it,'" Cuneo said.
In the early 60s, Curtis moved to San Rafael and started a swimming school, where she coached for 25 years. Her students included Olympians Rick DeMont and Ben Wildman-Tobriner.
Curtis stopped swimming several years ago, but took up water aerobics and water wal king, her daughter said. Curtis' husband died in 2010. She is survived by four children.
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Critical Review by Penelope Fitzgerald
SOURCE: "Ninjo," in London Review of Books, Vol. 15, No. 2, January 28, 1993, p. 20.
An English novelist, biographer, and critic, Fitzgerald is the author of several novels, including The Golden Child (1977), Offshore (1979), and Innocence (1986). She is known for combining a humanistic approach and a compressed, witty narrative style in her fiction to reveal the strength and nobility of her characters as they cope with life in contemporary society. In the following review, she contends that the pieces included in Kitchen emphasize the theme of coping with loss.
Banana Yoshimoto contributes a respectful preface to her book [Kitchen], dedicating it to her publisher, and thanking the manager of the restaurant where she supported herself while she was writing it and the professors who voted her a prize—'it made me so very happy.' This dutifulness sounds traditional. Traditional, too, when you get to the novellas themselves, are the violent emotions restrained within cramped but manageable limits and the compelling need for analogy between the human predicament and the natural world. 'I understood it from the colour of the sky, the shape of the moon, the blackness of the night sky under which we passed.' 'The sky outside was a dull gray. Waves of clouds were being pushed around by the wind with amazing force. In this world there is no place for sadness.' 'The scratching of our pens mingled with the sound of raindrops beginning to fall in the transparent stillness of evening.'
But at the same time the two novellas in Kitchen are the work of an original, a truly determined individual. 'For a very long time,' Yoshimoto says, 'there was something I wanted to say in a novel, and I wanted, no matter what it took, to continue writing until I got the saying of it out of my system. This book is what resulted from that history of persistence.' When it first came out in Japan five years ago (the publishers tell us) the country was swept by Bananamania and Kitchen spent a year on the best-seller list. They also suggest that it recalls the early Marguerite Duras. This I don't quite see, although both writers are concerned with the formidable barriers of loneliness. Loneliness for Duras, however, is a personal disability which leaves her characters not communicating, but talking endlessly to themselves. For Yoshimoto, to feel lonely is to share the universal sense of mortality. 'Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time,' she writes. 'The space that cannot be filled, no matter how cheerfully a child and an old person are living together—the deathly silence that panting in a corner of the room, pushes its way in like a shudder. I felt it very early, although no one told me about it.'
Mikage Sakurai, who tells her own story in Kitchen, is in fact left alone, when her grandmother dies, in their Tokyo apartment. She quits college to train as a catering instructress, and from this point of view can manage her life well enough, but feels she 'was tied by blood to no creature in this world'. Enter, with a ring on the doorbell, an unexpected saviour, Yuichi Tanabe, a college boy a year younger than herself. He works in the evenings at the shop where Mikage's grandmother had often bought flowers; he had adored the old lady, and now invites Mikage to come and live for as long as she wants to in his own home. The delicate relationship between the two, which never quite defines itself, is described, day by day, with a kind of touching persistence, as though the narrator's life depended on the reader understanding it exactly. Meanwhile the translation, with what accuracy I can't tell, alternates rather bewilderingly between the (more or less) contemporary and the magical. 'It sounds like I was possessed. His attitude was so totally "cool", though, I felt I could trust him. In the bleak gloom before my eyes (as it always is in cases of bewitchment), I saw a straight road leading from me to him. He seemed to glow with white light.'
Although she is anxious to govern her life by free will and choice, Mikage accepts his invitation almost without giving it thought. Yuichi, however, does not live alone, but with his mother, a dazzlingly beautiful woman, too strikingly dressed for any ordinary daytime job. She works, it turns out, in a nightclub, and, as Yuichi tells Mikage with barely concealed amusement, she is really his father. 'After my real mother died, Eriko quit her job, gathered me up, and asked herself: "What do I want to do now?'" What 'she' decided was to 'become a woman'. With the help of a plastic surgeon she had 'everything done' with singular success, and with the money left over from the surgery she bought the nightclub. Here then is willpower in action. Eriko is presented as having true greatness, with the physical attraction of greatness. Whatever Mikage feels, or doesn't feel, about Yuichi, she is certainly in love with Eriko. Both of them lie awake in anxiety until they hear the sound of humming and the click of high-heeled shoes as she comes back, sometimes drunk, in the small hours. But Eriko is murdered, stabbed by one of the club's unbalanced customers who fancied her as a woman. She manages, before she dies, to beat this man to death with the bar-bell. 'That makes us even.' Yuichi is proud that his mother (or father) died fighting. If the Tokyo police make any sort of enquiry, we don't hear about it. Violence, for this novelist, is not significant either socially or morally. Like everything else, it is a matter for the emotions. Both Yuichi and Mikage, left without their protector, experience a sickness to the depth of the soul, and the rest of their story is concerned with the ordeal of rehabilitation.
When Mikage first comes to live in the Tanabe household, she sleeps on an outsize sofa ('a dog too big to keep in Japan could stretch out across it sideways') next door to the kitchen. This kitchen is not the traditional 'Japanese room' of the apartment—that is kept for the TV. On the contrary, it has fluorescent lighting, a Silverstone frying pan and a German-made vegetable peeler, while in the fitted cupboards 'all kinds of plates silently awaited their turn'. To Mikage all kitchens are of importance. 'A kitchen,' she says, not at all ironically, 'represents some distant longing engraved on my soul.' She would like, when the time comes, to die in one, so that she could feel 'How good'. And from its opening paragraphs this novella proposes food and cooking as a metaphor for love. English readers got used to this device in Dickens—the supreme example is the fowl which Captain Cuttle cooks for Florence Dombey—but not to this strangely obsessive effect. Even in the depths of her grief for her grandmother's death (although she has the feeling that she isn't weeping for one sad thing, but rather for many), Mikage feels soothed by the sound of knives clattering and the voices of people at work the other side of a brightly-lit kitchen window. At the sight of it she implores the gods, after all, to let her live. During her stay at the Tanabes' she teaches herself to cook, driving herself to make her dishes resemble the illustrations in the book, or staring sometimes at a single red tomato, 'loving it for dear life'. When she is left living alone in the apartment with Yuichi, now an orphan like herself, they don't make love, they buy enormous quantities of food from the supermarket and eat for many hours. 'Deep-fried tofu, steamed greens, beanthread with chicken (each of them with various sauces), chicken Kiev, sweet and sour pork, steamed Chinese dumplings …' Much of one's life history, Mikage reflects, is etched on the senses. A nightmare banquet (Yuichi gets very drunk) cannot resolve the situation between them, but she has been right to recognise food's power. She is selected for her job as assistant to an august cookery instructress, in preference to the other candidates, for the singular reason that she lives on the edge, whereas the rest have been taught, 'probably by caring parents, not to exceed the boundaries of happiness'. When Yuichi goes missing and takes refuge in a country inn, Mikage climbs into his room by moonlight to bring him a pork-and-rice katsudon from the take-away. In this way, and in no other, she touches the springs of his grief. The katsudon is excellent, and 'the darkness no longer harbours death.'
"Moonlight Shadow" is the companion [story] to Kitchen. It is set in a provincial university town, so that instead of the skies of Tokyo you look for the soul's reflection at the river and its bridge and the rows of waterside houses 'which hung in a faint mist, as though submerged in an ocean of blue air'. The elements of Kitchen recur—the violent incident which is reported rather than seen directly, the very young protagonists whose emotional life is threatened almost before it has begun, the background of part-time jobs, college classes and tea-houses, the mysterious (and in this case magical) intervention of an odd woman. Hitoshi and Satsuki (still a schoolgirl) are student lovers. 'Children that we were, we hurt each other many times over,' but Yoshimoto effectively shows that for four years this could only be described as true love. They live on op-
Satsuki's resource, rather than lying awake waiting for the sky to grow light, is an early-morning run. The Japanese national uniform is now a two-piece sweat suit, and she buys one, and a container for hot tea. Her run always takes her to the bridge, the fatal spot of the accident, but also, at the dawn hour, the most beautiful place in the city. Here, one morning out of so many which seem alike, she is 'spoken to' by a stranger asking to share her tea, a woman whose age can't be guessed, and who gives her name as Urara. Yoshimoto's technique in this story is less assured (though even more touching) than in Kitchen, and the reader sees through Urara as soon as her eyes are said to be 'knowing and serene'. She is the wise woman, necessary in many a fairy tale to assist chance or fate.
Since the 18-year-old Hiiragi has also lost his lover in the accident, Satsuki feels an affinity with him, and arranges to meet him in the coffee-shop of a department store. 'In he came, wearing a sailor-style girl's uniform, complete with middy blouse and skirt.' Hiiragi's sailor suit, like Eriko's cross-dressing, is unsettling, but the correct reaction is compassion. His classmates, it seems, are understanding, recognising that the suit belonged to his lost sweetheart. Both Satsuki and Hiiragi, then, are the victims of obsession, in need of deliverance from the dead who captivate them. Urara, waiting again by the bridge, tells Satsuki that, for an unexplained moment, the dimensions of time and space are going to shift: 'Got it?' To which Satsuki can only reply: 'Got it.' What she gets will be the spirit-seeing of the classic ghost story. It doesn't seem out of place. Throughout these two moving novellas Yoshimoto has concentrated less on crowded contemporary Japan than on ninjo, the impulses of the human heart.
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Eighty-five Major League Baseball All-Star Games have been played since the inaugural one in 1933. The National League (NL) has won 43, while the American League (AL) has won 40; two games ended in ties.[1] The NL has the longest winning streak of 11 games from 1972–1982; the AL held a 13-game unbeaten streak from 1997–2009 (including a tie in 2002). The AL previously dominated from 1933–1949, winning 12 of the first 16. The NL dominated from 1950–1987, winning 33 of 42 with 1 tie, including a stretch from 1963–1982 when they won 19 of 20. Since 1988 the American League has dominated, winning 20 of 27 with 1 tie, including a 13 game unbeaten streak (12–0–1) from 1997 to 2009.
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First there are many factors here. The biggest one is that the last officer to arrive was most likely unaware of the children in the vehicle (Since it looks like he had just arrived at the end of the video.)
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China has become increasingly diligent about quashing critical voices, apparently fearful that they could spark protests like those that unseated autocrats in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya last year. The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
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In Beijing, activist Hu Jia said police questioned him for about 7 hours Thursday, criticizing him for his frequent comments on Twitter about sensitive subjects, including the denial of visitors to prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who is serving a three-year jail sentence in China's remote Xinjiang region, and the failure of U.S. lawmaker Chris Smith to visit a blind activist in eastern China in November because he could not get a visa.
Hu said police were most concerned however about a letter he wrote last month to the Nobel Peace Prize committee, appealing for greater attention to the plight of jailed Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest for more than a year.
"It was a very official warning," Hu said. "They said if I continue this way, they will seize my computers and I could be detained for up to 15 days."
Hu's and his wife's computers were taken from his home Wednesday night by police and have yet to be returned, he said.
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Have you Moved to Another State and Found that your Rating there May be Different?
Have you ever went from a Tennis haven, say Florida, SC or GA........moved to a different state...I don't know......lets just say a State up North that doesnt play year round.......and said WOW......What a difference a State makes.....I'm going to need to play up.....to keep my competetive edge?
Im from SC, where there are alot of Tennis facilities, year round tennis.......so Im thinking a 4.5(not me) there.....wouldnt have the same struggles as he would, say if he entered a Tourney in the Boondocks of West Virginia(just an example). Now I know.....there will always be the exception to the rule......
Anyone ever notice a HUGE shift in skill level upon moving?
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