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They are friends a generation apart, members of the same church and military veterans, although of different branches of the service and very different wars.
Vince Turner, 88, was an Army tank commander in World War II. Seventy years later, his voice breaks talking about a photograph of him and four Army buddies, three of whom didnÆt survive the war.
Seventy-five-year old Rod McColm is a Navy veteran of the Cold War. In the fall of 1960, he was on a ship that escorted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to New York and the United Nations, where Khrushchev famously delivered a shoe-banging rebuttal to accusations of Soviet hypocrisy.
Turner and McColm, both members of the Bluelick Bible Church, have seen a lot. On June 4, theyÆll see the nationÆs memorials to its veterans in Washington, D.C., courtesy of Honor Flight Northwest Ohio. The Honor Flight Network, which was founded in 2005, has flown about 81,000 veterans to see the memorials in Washington. McColm has never been to Washington; Turner has but has not seen the memorials.
ōWe thought that was a pretty nice deal,ö McColm said. ōI said, if IÆm eligible, IÆd like to go with Vince so we filled out applications, they accepted them and called us. TheyÆve been very, very good to us.ö
The pair will fly out of Toledo for Washington early on June 4 and return later that day. ōI guess theyÆll give us the royal treatment,ö McColm said. That royal treatment, according to Honor Flight Northwest OhioÆs website, includes ōtransportation to and from Washington, D.C., bus service to the memorials, all meals and beverages throughout the day. In addition, wheelchairs are available to each veteran making the trip.ö
ōWeÆve had a good time together, enjoyed doing things together, so this is going to be fun,ö McColm said. ōWeÆre both looking forward to it.ö
Turner and McColm earned their royal treatment.
Turner was drafted into the Army in July 1943 from his hometown of Bozeman, Mont. After basic training in Texas, Turner said, he entered a program designed to send servicemen to college.
ōI went to North Georgia College at Dahlonega, Ga., for a semester and then they decided to shut the program down and so we were sent to Camp Gordon, Ga., and assigned to the 10th Armored Division.ö
In September 1944, Turner traveled by convoy from New York to England.
ōAs I remember it took us almost two weeks on the sea because we were in convoy and the convoy couldnÆt go any faster than the slowest ship,ö Turner said. ōAnd the slowest ship was about 15 knots.ö
The day after landing in Plymouth, England, TurnerÆs unit was transported to Cherbourg, France.
ōWe initially went into combat in eastern France near a town called Metz,ö Turner said. ōAfter a few missions into combat we were pulled back into a rest area and we thought, æHey, weÆre going to spend the winter in this rest area.Æö
That thought didnÆt survive. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launched a major offensive through the heavily forested Ardennes.
ōWe moved out and headed toward Belgium and thatÆs where we got into the Battle of the Bulge. We replaced units that were just devastated, being overrun by the Germans. We actually held our position in Bastogne and caused the Germans to bypass the town. We were surrounded for a number of days before some artillery units broke through and freed us.ö
After Bastogne, TurnerÆs unit moved into Germany, ending up in Bavaria when the war ended. For a few months after the war, TurnerÆs unit worked to keep refugees from clogging the needed roads.
Turner was on a train to Liege, Belgium, bound eventually for the Pacific, when the war with Japan ended, he said. He was then assigned to the occupation forces ōand really didnÆt like it,ö Turner said, so he and a couple of buddies applied for and were accepted in an Army sponsored college program in England.
ōWe were there one semester and they decided to close that program down,ö he said.
On the transport ship back to the United States, Turner was reunited with ōall the rest of the 10th Armored Division that IÆd served with in combat. Three days later we were back in the States and a couple days later I was discharged from Camp McCoy, Wis.ö
Turner returned to Bozeman in January 1946 and the following fall entered an industrial engineering program at Montana State College. In 1950, he took a job with a consulting engineering firm in Chicago, where he received an advanced degree in industrial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Turner and his wife, Ruth, came to Lima after he accepted a job at Westinghouse.
ōI spent 33 years with them," he said. "It was a wonderful job. I couldnÆt ask for anything better.ö
McColm, a native of Canada, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1958.
ōI wasnÆt even an American citizen at the time,ö McColm said. ōI had to take out a declaration of intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. It was a good opportunity for me education-wise, so I joined. Three years later I became an American citizen.ö
McColm was a storekeeper and was on three cruises on the carrier USS Shangri La. After cruises to Asia and South America, the Shangri La was sent to the North Atlantic where it met a Soviet ship carrying Khrushchev to New York.
ōIf you remember in your history books, he took his shoe off and banged it on the table,ö McColm said. ōIt was us who got him there.ö
McColm was then assigned to an air anti-submarine squadron in Key West, Fla.
ōAt that time, Russia was coming in to Cuba and setting up their missiles, pointing them at the United States," he said. "All sorts of U.S. paratroopers and that kind of thing came in. They were like snowflakes coming down, there were so many of them.ö
After his discharge, McColm returned to the Detroit area where he met his wife, Mary Ann. McColm at that time was working in the trucking industry and was assigned to manage a terminal in Sidney.
ōI wanted the two children I had to go to a Christian school and the one that I found was best at the time was Temple Christian,ö he said.
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Brewers keep calm after sweep by Cardinals
MILWAUKEE Despite getting swept in a three-game series by the St. Louis Cardinals, the Milwaukee Brewers know they still have a big lead in the NL Central.
Albert Pujols hit a pair of home runs, including a grand slam, and went 4-for-4 as the Cardinals beat the Brewers 8-4 to pull within 7 1/2 games of Milwaukee. The Brewers have 24 games left and the Cardinals have 25 remaining.
"Seven and a half is still plenty good," said Corey Hart, who hit his 23rd home run in the third inning. "I felt like we played extremely well (most of the year). This is the first series in a while when we didn't play as we should have. You're going to get beat by good teams when you don't play well."
Prince Fielder also homered for Milwaukee, hitting his 30th homer in the eighth inning to cap the game's scoring. It was the big first baseman's fifth consecutive season with at least 30 homers, a franchise record.
Starter Yovani Gallardo (15-9) had little control on his fastball and gave up a pair of solo home runs to Rafael Furcal and Pujols in the first inning.
"It's always frustrating," Gallardo said. "You give it all you got. You try everything. You try to get the ball down, but it just wasn't consistent. I was able to make a couple good pitches, but then would fall out of rhythm and the ball was up in the zone again."
Pujols came into the game batting just .189 against the Brewers this year, but homered in the first and again in the third. The second one was the 12th grand slam of his career and it gave the Cardinals a 6-0 lead.
"It wasn't easy," Pujols said. "These guys are playing pretty well in their ballpark. Taking three games out of three is awesome."
The Brewers scored three runs in the bottom of the inning off St. Louis starter Brandon Dickson on home runs by Jonathan Lucroy and Hart, and had two runners on in the fourth with Lucroy up again as the tying run.
St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, though, pulled Dickson, who was making his first major-league start. He replaced him with veteran Octavio Dotel (1-2), who struck out Lucroy and Gallardo to end the Milwaukee threat.
"Once Dotel came in, he really threw the ball well," Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. "We didn't touch him. Dotel was the guy who shut us down."
Matt Holliday then hit a two-run homer in the top of the fifth to make it 8-3.
Dotel pitched 2 2-3 innings, giving up one hit and one walk while striking out five.
Gallardo gave up eight runs on nine hits and a walk while striking out eight. Roenicke said the right-hander looked good while warming in the bullpen.
"We always feel good with Yo coming in and throwing a game," Roenicke said. "He has a chance to stop a good offense, which we thought he was going to do.

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Great find!
My boyfriend and I went travelling around America for 6 weeks and stayed in dozens of different hotels and this guest house was the best. The guest house is in a lovely area, very close to restraunts/cafes and the underground. Aswell as being reasonable the interior was very tasteful and the breakfast was delicious. We spoke to the owner's every morning and they were very friendly and polite!I recomend staying here.
Clean, politically incorrect
Very Clean. Convenient location.
Breakfast was just average, something homemade & warm would have been nice, rather than store bought muffins,cereal, etc...
I was a bit upset by the political comments of the male owner of the property. We felt uncomfortable about his overpowering political and religous opinions. These types of conversation are best left to the guests alone, and should not be in print left out for everyone to read.
We were made to feel like outsiders, rather than guests. When I put a bag down on a table, the female owner scooted over and was blatent about picking it up and moving it to a covered area of the table, as though I had done something bad. I didn't appreciate being treated like a small child.
The owners could use some direction from the staff, as they were lovely and warm.
Brilliant B & B
My wife & I stayed at the Woodley Park Guest House in August 2005 and loved it there. All the rooms (and the house for that matter) have been tastefully decorated. The rooms and house are spotless. We had a room with a private bathroom and although the room was not overly big it was more than adequate.
The breakfast in the morning was delicious and there was an ample amount - the fruit salad was great. If you want to chat to the other guests you can sit at the main table or if you want some quiet time you can eat your breakfast on the porch.
The position of the accommodation is fabulous. You are literally no more than 100m from the Woodley Park-Adam Morgan metro stop. Its only 2 or 3 stops to downtown ie. where the attractions etc are. The position is also good because its only a 7-10 min walk to the happening Adams Morgan area with plenty of restaurants and bars etc for evening entertainment.
Great B&B near the National Zoo
A very clean, friendly, convenient, and functional B&B...at a fair price vs. the surrounding hotels. The place is very neat and well kept, with a nice balance between "new looking" and "has character". The metro is 100 yards away along with lots of taxis, so transportation is easy. It's about a 30 min (or less) Metro ride from National.
What a great spot
I stayed at the guest house from november 19-23/04. I was in Washington attending a conference. This guest house is lovely and very close to all amenities - a block from the metro which is clean, safe and very easy to navigate. The staff were excellent, especially laura, dina, and jeff who patiently answered my endless questions about "where to eat" and "where to go." While I did not attend the morning breakfasts, other guests did and seemed to really enjoy the experience. The only draw back was that my room (which was a liitle small but tastefully decorated and really clean) was on the main floor across from where staff prepare breakfast etc. it was quite noisy at times so if you are a person who like to sleep late or needs quiet, ask for one of the rooms upstairs when making your reservation. Iwould go back in a minute - it felt like home away from home!
Fine Stay
Just recently stayed at the Woodley Park GH & had a really good time. Don't understand the previous reviewer as I found the owners & staff both helpful & knowledgable. Each day they took great trouble to make sure everybody was introduced to each other at breakfast to make conversation much easier. The rooms are perfectly ok for the price & the location is right next to a metro station (10 mins to downtown), various restaurants & a nice park.
Only possible downside was no Tv in the rooms which might upset some people but no problem to me. Overall I would definately stay there again.
Excited to stay until I met the owner
I read and researched to find a great place to stay for my week trip to Washington. I was excited about the B&B and especially about the price. The staff I spoke with on the phone was wonderful. When I arrived it was nice, the room was slightly small, but that was okay. This was until we met the owner, we had a friend who was police officer dropping us off, the owner was so incredibly rude to us that I left the B&B in shock, but was still planning on staying. I continued to be so upset, I was instilled with a certain rules of etiquette and politeness growing up in the South, that I made reservations at the Westin and then thoroughly enjoyed my trip. Would not recommend unless you enjoy being demeaned by the owner.
Lovely Place to Stay
A truly lovely place to stay. The staff is very friendly. The rooms, although a little small, are charming and incredibly clean. The neighborhood is beautiful with plenty of good places to eat. Only a few things to consider before booking. There are no TVs in the house. They also don't have amenities like blow dryers, robes, etc. And the breakfast, although delicious, mainly consists of danish and cereal. Overall, a nice experience.
Beautiful House!
The house and rooms are every bit, if not more beautiful and accommodating than advertised! Everyone was extremely nice and helpful.
We greatly enjoyed our stay and will definetely go back.
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Fresh linens on which to rest, light in which to read, food to nourish the body, conversation to tickle the mind, and friendship to fill the heart.In my travels here and abroad I've encountered nothing so serene and delightful as this home & its keepers.May God bless you and keep you, as you have done for others.
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Make it three weekends in a row.
Two weeks after the last storm, North Carolina and Virginia were again in the path of a winter storm.
13News Weather Lab meteorologistJulie Wilcox said it is remarkable to have snow in the forecast in this area three weekends in a row.
'We've certainly had bigger snows overall, but the frequency of these storms is very unusual. Saturday we've seen snow showers moving through. Up to an inch is possible Southside, with more accumulation over northeastern North Carolina. It is also going to be breezy and cold with highs just in the mid 30s,' said Wilcox.
She adds that the area won't have to wait long for its nextchance for winter weather, as. another storm rolls in on Monday.
'The computer models have been back and forth on this one, but right now it looks like primarily a rain event during the day. But it gets cold enough Monday night into Tuesday that we may once again be dealing with a mix of precipitation or snow.'
Saturday's snow came after an area of low pressure moved off the Florida coast and strengthened off the South Carolina coast Friday night.


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Review: 'Dallas'
The program returns from its surprisingly tasty maiden run clicking on all cylinders.
The program returns from its surprisingly tasty maiden run clicking on all cylinders.
Tyler Perry has tapped Nia Long, Amy Smart, Zulay Henao, Cocoa Brown, Ryan Eggold, William Levy, Terry Crews and Eddie Cibrian to star in his next movie "Single Mom's Club," to be distributed by…
Actor Larry Hagman, who for more than a decade ruled as the despotic J.R. Ewing on the nighttime soap opera "Dallas" and earlier starred in "I Dream of Jeannie," has died.
As of this writing, my Klout score is 62.
It took Washington a few years to find her career in casting, but now she has no plans to leave.
Regency and 20th Century Fox are overhauling the bigscreen adaptation of TV series "Dallas," about the oil-rich Ewing clan, and this time they're drilling for laughs.
Scott Caan likely grew up watching films his father James made during the late-1960s/early-1970s, and the influence shows in his debut as writer-director, "Dallas 362." Set and shot in grimy…
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Chinese authorities have arrested five Tibetans, mostly Buddhist monks, whom they allege persuaded three people to self-immolate at the behest of foreign forces.
The official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday the five Tibetans were arrested by police in the north-western Gansu province and included a 21-year-old monk from neighbouring Sichuan.
The five are accused of recruiting three people and encouraging them to self-immolate in late October and November last year, saying their sacrifice would contribute to the Tibetan cause.


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If store's are going to enforce this vague policy they should be required to post, by the item, the limit. What a mess this could be at certain stores.
I'm not concerned about my regular stores/bas, as long as the register doesn't impose something with our cards, however when companies put out these policies to allow cashiers/managers/stores to all add their own twist then it generally turns into chaos at some point.
Meijer is a perfect example. I'm currently talking to corporate and they themselves can't clarify their policy because it allows for managers/dm's to put their spin on it.
How is a consumer supposed to follow the rules when they aren't consistent or even clear, at most stores?
A reasonable household amount. Really? How dumb is that? On the hot deals the shelves are cleared quickly anyway. Not as fast as RA, but still in a day so I'm not sure why companies think adding more restrictions to couponers is even necessary. One of these days there will be a CAS originating from couponers to various stores.
If I want to purchase 20 widgets and there are only 22, is it ok if I'm not using coupons?
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Hmm, that is interesting, now isn't it?
IMO, all this will do, probably, is provide some documentation to backup the museum stores who want to limit everything to 1 FARR item per person.
The Balance Rewards rules already said the "reasonable household usage" bit. So this phraseology has been on their mind for some time now.
If they don't want to sell as much as they do now then they should limit. I'm sure limiting will lesson sales more then it will provide stock for other customers. Of course the later is true, but you know there will be stores that excessively limit or ones that won't sell all their stock of an RR item, because they are limiting.
IMHO they are just shooting themselves in the foot again, first with the points and now this. Instead they should just mandate no shelf clearing and help pre-order enough for their customers. The only WAGS I shop at now pre-orders for me, always has stock for other customers(even other couponers) and rarely has mass stock left over from the current week's sales.
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If you're going to insult someone on this forum it should be funny, or at least make sense. That's a forum rule, I think.
Maybe that's why your earlier incarnations here got banned.
I've been a 3.0 for about 1.5 years, since coming back at 65 with active Crohn's disease. I've been able to play tennis maybe 10 months out of that year and a half. In 75-76, when I played for about a year, I was probably a 4.0+ competitor (judging by what I've experienced in the past 1.5 years).
Most importantly, I'm improving.
So much for "forever 3.0".
As for you calling my attitude "low level", I think you've got it backwards. People who are satisfied with winning because of their opponents' misfortune or bad play have a "low level" attitude. Playing for fun and to improve, and wishing the same for one's opponents, is a rather higher level attitude, I should think.
I have no earlier incarnations here. My posts were reported and the mods confirmed peoples assumptions of me being an old poster were wrong.
I know a guy who has your attitude, he got annoyed when i said "come on", he got annoyed if I scrambled and sliced and moonballed and did whatever it took for me to win. He wanted to play clean tennis win or lose. He was French so i guess that explains it.
I want to make my opponents feel like sheet on the court. I want them to feel the pressure of my return and double fault as a result. I want them to go for too much on there shots as they cant hit past me any other way and rack up tonnes of unforced errors. I want them to feel helpless that they have no way of winning points against me.
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Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
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The minor in the Roman World is a sub set of Latin.
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US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait
Army Maj. Ronald W. Culver
Ronald Culver - better known by his middle name, Wayne - enrolled in Tae Kwon Do with his two children so they would learn about respect and discipline. All three had hoped to get their black belts.
Culver was deployed overseas before he got there. But he told Michelle, now 15, and Wayne Jr., now 13, to stick with it and earn their black belts.
They kept their promise, but their dad didn't make it home to earn his.
Culver, 44, of Shreveport, La., was killed May 24 in Numaniyah, Iraq, when the vehicle in which he was riding was hit by a roadside bomb. The Army National Guard soldier was based in Shreveport. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Shreveport in 1989.
Sgt. Maj. Steve Stuckey, who said he had known Culver almost all his life, recalled their time in Boy Scouts and hijinks together.
"We got quite a few watermelons from the patch around the corner," Stuckey said of their childhood.
Culver's family wrote in an obituary that the soldier was dedicated to his family, often taking his wife, Tracey, and the kids to concerts and NASCAR races. He also attended all of Wayne Jr.'s football games and took his daughter to father-daughter dances when she was younger.
Army Staff Sgt. Esau S.A. Gonzales
Esau Gonzales was a charmer and a people-magnet. He drew all sorts into his orbit: the relatives who filled up nine rows at his funeral, the childhood friends who put miniature skateboards on his casket to honor his hobby, and his kids, Ava and Samuel, for whom he turned the backyard into a makeshift water park.
"Esau was funny, witty, ornery, mischievous," retired Col. Clayton Hoffman said, "but God gave him the ability to love and to empathize with others."
The military said only that the 30-year-old from White Deer, Texas, died May 3 in Mosul, Iraq, of a chest wound not related to combat. He was on his third tour of duty and was assigned to Fort Stewart.
He graduated in 1998 from Panhandle High School. He served with the Navy before joining the Army and volunteering to serve overseas, said Sherry Dougwright, whose son was friends with Gonzales.
He was "an old soul and a small-town Mama's boy" who enjoyed funny movies, historical books and collecting coins, according to his obituary. He also loved riding motorcycles and working on cars.
Other survivors include his wife, Melissa; parents, Atanacio Gonzales and Sandra Lanier; two sisters; and a stepbrother.
Army Sgt. Amilcar H. Gonzalez
When Jim Silva was in trouble, he knew he could turn to his buddy "Gonzo" for advice.
Silva said his friend Amilcar Gonzalez was a caring young man who often attended church services. Others said Gonzalez was a quiet teen who blossomed into an Army sergeant after he skipped his senior year at Southridge High School to join the military.
Gonzalez enlisted just six days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The Army tank commander from Miami was killed by insurgents May 21 in Ash Shura, Iraq. He was assigned to Fort Stewart.


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Inter Milan coach Andrea Stramaccioni says he's counting on Diego Milito for next season.
Milito underwent knee surgery yesterday.
"We spoke after the game. We are all with him and await his return with open arms," said Stramaccioni in his Press conference.
"I cannot see an Inter without Milito next season. Our objectives will not change, as we simply all have to give something more. We need those who haven't played much lately, such as Tommaso Rocchi and Ricky Alvarez.
"It's only right that the club continues to monitor the situation of out of contract players, but so far no name has been suggested to me. A one-striker system with two supporting players is possible."


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I ask the two sisters about the general gripe against them, that they are spoiled and indolent girls. The charge gets Dallas visibly upset.
"People say I don't do anything. That's so retarded. I do plenty of stuff. Like just last night, I did a benefit dance at Club Espuma."
"Ha!" cracks Frenchie. "For the benefit of Ryan Phillippe."
"Shut up! You weren't even there."
"I was too. Who do you think pulled you off Chris Isaak's lap at four o'clock in the morning."
"Oh, I know—he's a total stalker."
"Look," Frenchie tells me, "I realized a long time ago that this is what I want to do. And I work really hard at it." It's not clear what she's referring to: living in a hotel?
A moment later, Damon, the concierge, rings the doorbell. "I'm here to smell the fish tanks," he says with utter sincerity.
"I THINK MY DOG has hoof-and-mouth. I'll call you later." Dallas Marriot snaps her cell phone shut and sighs expansively. The sisters and their bodyguard, Tigre (pronounced tee-gra), are in a limo speeding down Park Avenue, headed to the family veterinarian. Dallas's longhaired Chihuahua, Moby, quivers in her lap. This morning Moby, who is half blind and more than half lame, jumped onto one of the room-service carts, ate caviar and threw up orange fish eggs on the hotel carpet. Dallas says she called her friend Tara Reid, who told her about hoof-and-mouth and got her "all freaked-out."
"Your dog doesn't have hoof-and-mouth," I assure her. "It doesn't even have hooves."
She looks down at the dog. "That's Mother's doing," she says, kneading Moby's grotesquely declawed paws.
She kisses the dog's head repeatedly. "You don't understand," she says. "I'm very attached to my dog. I don't walk him personally, but I would die if we had to burn him or something."
Suddenly, she bangs against the glass. "EDDIE!" she screams. "Stop the car! Jesus Christ!!!"—she hits Frenchie in the arm—"You didn't tell me there was a sale at Phaedre!" The limo screeches to a halt. "Here," she says, handing the dog off to Tigre. "He seems fine now," she says, patting the dog dismissively and grabbing her purse.
Inside the store, the Marriots are treated to exquisite, smothering service, including use of a luxury changing suite. I sit just outside the curtain and watch an army of hip, severe-looking salespeople bring item after item. Luke, a pale clerk with a nose stud and shoe-polish black hair, tells Frenchie about shooting heroin as he passes her the clothes.
"You totally forget about everything, even consciousness."
"Cool," she says from behind the curtain.
"But it does hurt a little going in."
"You get used to it, though, and then you love it."
"Sometimes blood gets stuck in the syringe."
"But you don't care. You're totally in another time and place."
"Cool." The girls buy several thousands of dollars' worth of clothes, all of which fit into two tiny bags. They start squealing with excitement, saying they can't wait to wear the new clothes out tonight at Crawlspace. On the way back to the car, I ask them how they managed to break into New York's nightlife, how they get into the clubs night after night, when they're both under 21.
"Well, Frenchie has a fake ID," says Dallas.
Frenchie pipes in eagerly, "And Dallas has fake—"
"Shut up!" says Dallas, elbowing her. "I swear to God, you're the biggest exaggerator in the whole universe."
PIPER MARRIOT RUNS the house like an Israeli security checkpoint, which is odd considering that she lets her daughters run unchecked through the city's nightlife. In addition to hotel security, she has a bank of surveillance cameras next to her makeup desk, as well as a network of six panic rooms hidden throughout the penthouse ("We've only used them once, during the Puerto Rican parade").
She takes me for an elaborate tour of the place, explaining her precautions. "I don't want to mention any names, but Dallas had a stalker problem with the lead singer of the Bareback Boyz," she says. It terrified Piper, so she tightened security. "I know everyone who's been up to these floors in the past three years to see my daughters," she says, pointing to a file on her computer marked IN/OUT. "I know their names; I know their entry points."
I ask her if the actor Ryan Phillippe has been over to the house, as certain news reports have indicated. Not recognizing the name, she puts it into the database. "Felipé? Is he Mexican?"
"No," I say. "He's blond."
"Oh, well then, I'm sure he has," she says, waving the computer away.
Piper, 37, met Denver Marriot when she was only 14 at a hotel-management course in Monrovia, California ("He just picked me out of the crowd!"). Two years later, they were married. Though her face still exudes a bruised optimism, her frequent breast surgeries (two enlargements, one reduction) have failed to settle properly, giving her right breast the appearance of an overly poached egg.
Sipping on a glass of Laurier lemon soda in her parlor, she professes herself nonplussed by the media attention her daughters have generated, calling them "shy girls at heart." She doesn't know where the press gets half its stories. "I read a piece in Page Six that said Frenchie was traipsing around Tribeca in a flasher's jacket, a fishnet bra and a black Dolce & Gabbana thong. Well, Dolce & Gabbana doesn't make a black thong. Honestly! It's just so outrageous, the stories you hear."
"Ridiculous! Dallas and Frenchie would never strip in a bar without my consent. Ever."


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Desperate Men Commit Inside Job in Crime of the Century, Stealing $65,000 Worth of Chicken Wings
The brains behind a fowl crime in Georgia's Gwinnett County thought they'd get away with it on a wing and a prayer.
Especially a wing.
The brains behind a fowl crime in Georgia's Gwinnett County thought they'd get away with it on a wing and a prayer.
Especially a wing.
When a student fails a driving test, they sometimes respond emotionally.
Love the smell of bacon, beer, and other "manly" meats, drinks and things of this world? Would you like to smell like this stuff all the time? Well, you don't have to bathe in a tub full of beer to smell like the frothy stuff, just order some beer-scented ManHands soap.
Having the uncontrollable urge to smoosh your neighbor's adorable puppy or punch a random kitten in the face is "completely normal," according to a new study. So basically, researchers have found that the human race is full of psychopaths with a naturally aggressive response to things they find adorably vulnerable. Excellent.
Three thieves wanted to knock over a small shop in the Columbian village of Juan de Acosta. For their getaway, they enlisted the services of a donkey.
We've done some dumb things after a night of drinking -- ask us about our butterfly tattoo -- but getting stuck in a piece of furniture (as far as we can recall) isn't one of them. That's not the case for our heroine today, though: a drunk 31-year-old mother, who intentionally wedged herself in a high chair and had to be rescued by the fire department.
America's controversial condiment just became Japan's newest pizza topping...
Everyone knows you can't use your hands in soccer, but that's causing quite a stir in New York City.
Larry Gasper didn't have two pennies to rub together.
No, he had a few thousand.
2013 looks to be a good year for Super Bowl commercials, assuming you like topless women, Doritos or 'Gangnam Style.' And if you don't like any of those things, are you sure you're actually human and not a goldfish that learned how to use a computer? Brace yourself, you snobby goldfish, because Psy is doing a pistachio commercial. It is going to be awesome.
It was 2:30 AM Sunday morning and Austin Lee Westfall Presler wanted to keep the party going, but the South Carolina man had run out of supplies. What's a party animal to do? Bust down the front door of the local convenience store, which was closed, and take what you need, that's what. Apparently.
We're not big fans of winter. The only good part of this season is that it's socially acceptable to grow a burly bush of upper lip hair to keep us warm, but other than that it's just cold, dreary and it's also the season of the flu. Just thinking about the chills, the aching, and the fevers makes us want to curl up and cry for our mommy-- it's awful.


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Steinway Artist Dr. Kadisha Onalbayeva was born in Kazakhstan and began her musical training at the age of five. She is the first pianist from Kazakhstan to be named a Steinway Artist. She attended the Jubanov Special School for Talented Children in Almaty, Kazakhstan. While at Jubanov she studied piano and composition, gave piano recitals and was involved in both piano and composition festivals and competitions. Awards include the Soviet Union's New Talent competition and various prizes in national piano competitions and Central Asia piano competitions. She also participated in international music festivals in Germany, Turkey, Russia, and Uzbekistan. After graduating from the Jubanov School, Kadisha entered the Kurmangazy National Conservatory of Music. She was awarded the President's Award for Young Artists and Chevron's Award for Talented Students in piano and composition.
Dr. Onalbayeva continued her performances as a recitalist, chamber musician, composer, and as an orchestral soloist. She received a Soros Prize for her work in development of international cultural exchanges. She earned two M.M degrees in both composition and piano performance at the University of New Orleans. She then received her Doctoral of Musical Arts in piano performance at Louisiana State University. Throughout her career, Dr. Onalbayeva has been a strong supporter of new music and she has been particularly interested in introducing the music of Kazakhstan to the United States. She has continued performances of her music and has participated in international new music festivals as composer, performer and organizer throughout Central Asia, Austria, England, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan. While in the U.S. she has participated in new music activities and performances as piano soloist and chamber musician in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Chicago, Illinois.Dr. Onalbayeva is Associate Professor at the University of Mobile and is founder, co-director and pianist of the chamber ensemble The Gulf Coast Virtuosi. She currently serves as President of the Gulf Coast Steinway Society (Alabama, Mississippi and Florida). She was recently commissioned to write a symphonic poem titled Zherym (My Motherland) which was premiered on May 17, 2014 by the Kazakhstan National Orchestra and she also performed the Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 on the same concert.


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Disgraced cloning expert convicted in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world's first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related to faked research, but avoided jail.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Hwang Woo-suk to two years in prison for embezzling research funds and illegally buying human eggs. However, it suspended the penalty, allowing him to stay free if he breaks no laws for three years.
Prosecutors had asked for four years in prison, but Judge Bae Ki-yeol said the 56-year-old scientist had shown remorse and had notable achievements in dog cloning.
Hwang, who appeared confident as he walked into the courthouse, made no comment as he left. His lawyer, Yoo Chul-min, suggested in an interview with the YTN television network that he would not appeal, saying Hwang had been unable to concentrate on his research because of the "time-consuming" trial.
Prosecutors were not immediately available for comment late Monday.
The verdict was the culmination of a long fall from grace for a man once hailed as a pioneer in stem cell research.
Hwang gained worldwide fame in 2004 when he and his former colleagues at Seoul National University claimed in a paper published in the journal Science that they had created the world's first cloned human embryos – and had extracted stem cells from them.
A year later, Hwang's team also claimed in the journal that they had created human embryonic stem cells genetically matched to specific patients, a purported breakthrough that promised a way to withstand rejection by a patient's immune system.
Stem cell research is highly controversial, and Hwang had been the only South Korean scientist allowed to carry out studies on the master cells that scientists say could lead to revolutionary cures for hard-to-treat diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The South Korean government showered him with lavish perks, designating him the country's first "top scientist," giving him generous research funds and assigning personal bodyguards and a diplomat to assist him with international contacts. Korean Air gave Hwang and his wife free first-class flights for a decade, calling the scientist a "national treasure."
But Hwang's reputation quickly eroded after questions about his claims led to an investigation by a university committee. It concluded that the 2005 paper was based on faked data, and also cast doubt on the previous findings. The journal, Science, retracted both papers.
The South Korean government stripped him of the right to conduct stem cell research and other privileges in 2006.
He was charged later that year with fraud for allegedly accepting some 2 billion won (about $2 million) in private donations under false pretenses. He also was accused of embezzling 800 million won (about $800,000) and buying human eggs for research in violation of South Korea's bioethics laws.
Hwang eventually admitted the data was faked but claimed he had been deceived by a fellow researcher.
The trial, which heard testimony from more than 60 witnesses, lasted more than three years. During an August hearing, Hwang pleaded for leniency, saying he was ready to "pour the last of my passion" into his research.


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Critical Review by Tod D. Swanson
SOURCE: A review of God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, in Journal of Religion, Vol. 75, No. 1, January, 1995, pp. 161-62.
In following review, Swanson lauds how Deloria has updated his God Is Red for the 1990s.
The second edition of God Is Red is a badly needed updating of a groundbreaking book. Before it was first published in 1973, scholars tended to portray Native traditions either as though they were frozen in a timeless past or as though they were precarious survivals of premodern times. By contrast, Vine Deloria presented the Native religions as a viable alternative for modern Indian people. Just as Jewish theologians had started with the holocaust, Deloria started with the religion of contemporary Indian people as they had emerged from the nineteenth-century massacres, from the twentieth-century policies of termination, and finally from the Indian renaissance of the early 1970s.
The book was also groundbreaking in the way it treated Christianity as a contrasting field. Deloria is well aware of the diversity between the Native traditions, but when they are contrasted with Christianity, strong family resemblances between them emerge. While Christianity is a religion of universal history (which for Deloria translates into manifest destiny), the Native religions begin and end with specific places. "Tribal religions," he writes "are actually complexes of attitudes, beliefs, and practices fine-tuned to harmonize with the lands on which the people live." Differences between tribal traditions are largely attributable to differences in the lands which the ceremonies engage. Secular scholars had often portrayed the Indian religions as though Christian contact had not happened. Christian scholars portrayed them either as inferior to, as preparation for, or as compatible with Christianity. Deloria's approach is fundamentally different. Chapter by chapter he contrasted the most basic Native assumptions about the world to those of Christianity from the perspective of their encounter. Deloria's comparisons are not, of course, neutral (the book is an apologia for Native religion), but they are thought-provoking.
Twenty years later God is Red has not been surpassed in any of these regards. But because Deloria took his starting point from the contemporary reservation life of the early 1970s, the book had become outdated. The second edition is a thorough rewriting of the book from the perspective of the 1990s. Important political and religious developments that have affected the reservations during the twenty-year interval are taken into account. In its rewritten form God Is Red can be used as a textbook without continual reference to the twenty-year gap. Because many American college students are of Christian background, Deloria's stark contrasts make good classroom discussion material either for broader courses on comparative religion or for more specific courses on Native American religions.
Perhaps the most controversial section in the first edition was Deloria's use of Immanuel Velikovsky's theories on the extraterrestrial origins of Native religion. For many readers this one section tended to throw the credibility of the whole book into question. Undoubtedly, many of Deloria's fans hoped that he would drop this section from the new edition, but he did not. I think the reasons go deeper than simple loyalty to an old mentor; perhaps it is that Deloria is a believer who takes Native origin myths seriously: messengers from the spirit world did indeed bring tobacco, the pipe, the ceremonies, and so on. This naturally raises the question of where the spirit messengers come from. As an answer to this question, extraterrestrial theories are appealing. Deloria is of course aware of the Eliadian and other nonliteralist approaches to the study of myth, but from a native perspective all of these can appear to be secularized Christian approaches. Hence, Deloria sticks with his extraterrestrial theories. For those who do not wish to read or assign them, the sections on extraterrestrial origins are confined to discrete chapters, and the rest of the book reads well without them.
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"The great thing about minions is that they never last long enough to work up a horrid stench."
"A necromancer is a practitioner of the dark arts who summons the dead, wields the power of lost souls, and literally sucks the lifeblood of the enemy. A necromancer feeds on life force, which he can use to cheat death or bring allies back from the brink.
A necromancer feeds on death and decay. Life force is the energy that a necromancer uses to extend his own life. Using specific skills, a necromancer builds up life force by attacking and killing enemies. Rather than going into a downed state when he runs out of health, a necromancer automatically activates the Death Shroud ability. A necromancer can continue fighting in the ghostly Death Shroud form until he either runs out of life force or he gets a kill, rallying back into his own corpse."
Wells are persistent spells that allow a necromancer to control the area around him. Created at the necromancer's location, wells affect targets within the skill's range. Well of Blood, for example, applies a regeneration boon to all allies within it. A necromancer can only have one well skill active at any time.
The necromancer summons undead minions to attack foes and do his bidding. Every minion-summoning spell has an associated secondary spell that appears after the minion has been summoned. This secondary spell destroys the minion while providing a powerful effect to the necromancer. For example, necromancers have a healing skill called Summon Blood Fiend that creates a minion that heals its master while it attacks. After the minion has been summoned, the Summon Blood Fiend skill is replaced by the skill Taste of Death, which allows a necromancer to destroy the minion to gain a larger amount of health.
Necromancers can also place marks - ground-targeted spells with a variety of potent effects. For instance, Mark of Blood damages enemies while placing a regeneration boon on nearby allies. Marks will trigger after a set period of time, but a necromancer can always trigger their marks on command by hitting the skill again.
Necromancers use a condition not available to any other profession: fear. A removable condition, fear makes an enemy flee directly away from a necromancer for a short period of time. For example, a necromancer can use Doom to instil fear in a single target.
Power: Increases attack.
Precision: Increases critical hit chance.
Toughness: Increases defense.
Vitality: Increases maximum health.
Prowess: Improves the damage multiplier on critical strikes.
Malice: Improves the damage done by conditions like burning, poison, confusion, and bleeding.
Expertise: Improves the duration of all conditions inflicted by the character.
Concentration: Improves the duration of all boons applied by the character.
Compassion: Improves all outgoing heals that your character does, including self heals.
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Hunger: Increases the size of the necromancer's life-force pool.
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BOISE -- A federal judge says an Idaho jury will decide whether the government misused a law designed to ensure key witnesses show up for trial to target Muslim men after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Thursday evening's ruling from U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge in Boise enacts a recommendation made by a magistrate earlier this year. It's a win for former Idaho man Abdullah al-Kidd, who has been embroiled in a lawsuit against the government for seven years, contending his arrest as a material witness in 2003 was simply a way for the FBI to keep him locked up while it investigated him for any potential crimes.
Lodge agreed that al-Kidd was falsely imprisoned. He said a jury should decide if the government's motives for the arrest were pure.


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As predictable as the winter influx of whooping cranes in Aransas Pass, the Texas congressional delegation has made its regular migration from Washington to the state capitol in Austin, just about the time that the Texas Legislature tackles the issue of congressional redistricting. This ritual happens once every decade, in the spring of years ending with the number 1, when Texas' 30 members of Congress (soon to be 32) set out in search of new nesting grounds in which to run in subsequent years, until the cycle starts anew. Some of the new arrivals haven't been spotted in these parts since the 1991 redistricting battle. This year, though, the esteemed visitors from the East have come with ruffled feathers, for the stakes are higher than ever: not only their own survival, but also control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Nationally, the Republican party is counting on the great strides the GOP has made in Texas to bolster its hold on the U.S. House—in particular, by creating new Republican districts to offset the expected efforts of the California legislature to create more Democratic districts.In addition to drawing new boundaries for Congress, the Legislature, over the next few weeks, will have to come up with new maps for the Texas House and Senate and the State Board of Education. Partisan control of these bodies too is in the balance. Legislative redistricting in particular is expected to lead to open partisan warfare, as lawmakers debate their own futures. But the congressional map will have nationwide impact. The edge seems to belong to Republicans. Continuing population growth in Republican strongholds gives the GOP a chance to win new seats, and the committee chairs who will oversee the redistricting process in both the House and the Senate are Republicans. What more could Republicans ask for?
Enter state representative Delwin Jones, a 77-year-old retired small-business owner from Lubbock, named by Speaker Pete Laney, a Democrat from nearby Hale Center, to chair the House Redistricting Committee. In 1972 Jones was seeking his fifth term in the Texas House as a Democrat when, as he now tells it, a radio talk show host asked him about his opponent, a young cotton farmer named—Pete Laney. "I'd gotten to know Pete on the campaign trail," Jones recalls, "and so I made the honest but not particularly smart statement that I liked him a lot—so much that if I wasn't the other candidate, I'd be voting for him." Twenty-nine years later, there's not a trace of regret about what happened next: "My campaign folks told me that was not smart politics, and I guess they were right because he beat me."
In the three decades that followed, Laney became an enduring power in the Texas House, serving as an influential committee chairman under two Speakers and then claiming the office for himself in 1993. Jones returned to the House in 1989, after switching to the Republican party. But he remains very much the guileless politician he was during that 1972 race, when he declined the opportunity to excoriate Laney over the radio waves. Now the state's political future, and perhaps the nation's, is in the hands of someone who belongs to an old-fashioned era of Texas politics, in which relationships mattered more than partisanship.
Instead of the expected Republican romp, redistricting has emerged as a struggle between the old and the new styles of Texas politics. Traditionally, redistricting has operated to protect incumbents (who until the eighties were mostly Democrats). This year, however, powerful Republicans hope the new lines will be drawn to eliminate vulnerable Democrats like Martin Frost in Dallas and Ken Bentsen in Houston, increasing Republican numbers in the state's congressional delegation, which now has seventeen Democrats and thirteen Republicans. Laney's appointment of Jones signaled his belief that the old way of doing business in Texas was superior to the virulent party struggles conducted on the national scene—or, to put it another way, that incumbents should be protected.
The Republican lieutenant governor, Bill Ratliff, likewise engineered a bipartisan redistricting committee in the Texas Senate. A state senator from Mount Pleasant who was chosen by his peers in December to fill the vacancy left when Rick Perry became governor, Ratliff won his office with considerable backing from Democrats. He responded by splitting the membership of the Senate redistricting committee evenly between Republicans and Democrats and naming Jeff Wentworth, a San Antonio Republican, as the panel's chair. Like Jones, Wentworth is unlikely to take his marching orders from the national GOP. A maverick who was censured by the state Republican executive committee four years ago for opposing legislation requiring parental notification before a minor girl could obtain an abortion, Wentworth holds similarly heretical views on redistricting. He believes that politicians should not be responsible for drawing their own boundary lines. For the past four sessions, he has sponsored legislation taking the issue away from the Legislature and giving the task to a citizens panel split evenly between Democrats and Republicans. Twelve states now employ such a system to create political boundaries, but Texas isn't one of them: Wentworth's proposal never got serious consideration.
Republicans argue that they are due at least 60 percent of the seats in Congress to reflect their share of all of the votes in congressional elections. But redistricting is based on population, not voter participation. In any case, Wentworth rejects his party's contention that the object of redistricting should be to maximize its representation. To Wentworth, the goal should be to increase voter participation by creating as many competitive districts as possible. If people are certain that their party's candidate is going to win an election, he reasons, then they are less likely to show up at the polls on Election Day. "Truthfully, I am not here as the agent of the Republican National Committee," says Wentworth. "I don't want to trade a one-party Democratic Texas for a one-party Republican Texas. I want true competition and a true two-party system."
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Elizabeth Kastelic, M.D.
Johns Hopkins Children's Center psychiatrist Elizabeth Kastelic, M.D., has made The Washingtonian magazine's "Top Therapists" list of best mental-health professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Appearing in the July 2009 issue, the list features psychiatrists and psychologists selected by mental health professionals asked to recommend practitioners to whom they would send members of their own families.
Kastelic is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Hopkins and directs the Young Adult Affective Disorders Center at Hopkins Children's.
"It is my hope that the list will draw attention to the critical importance of diagnosing and treating mental health and emotional problems in children, teens and adults," says Kastelic, whose research and clinical practice focus on affective disorders in children and teens and familial bipolar disorder.
She is an investigator on an NIH-funded multi-center research to study familial bipolar disorder in teens.
Kastelic received her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin and completed her general medicine and psychiatry residencies at Hopkins followed by a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.
Founded in 1912 as the children's hospital of the Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center offers one of the most comprehensive pediatric medical programs in the country, with more than 92,000 patient visits and nearly 9,000 admissions each year. Johns Hopkins Children Center is consistently ranked among the top children's hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. It is Maryland's largest children's hospital and the only state-designated Trauma Service and Burn Unit for pediatric patients. It has recognized Centers of Excellence in dozens of pediatric subspecialties, including allergy, cardiology, cystic fibrosis, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, pulmonary, and transplant. For more information, visit www.hopkinschildrens.org.
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The "Asbestos Workshop: The New Declaration of Helsinki" was held on Thursday April 3, 2:00pm - 5:00pm.Learn more [PDF]
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36th Annual Scientific Meeting
March 20, 2015
36th Annual NY/NJ ERC Scientific Meeting Occupational Health and Safety in Construction: New Preventive Models for Large Construction Projects
35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center
April 5, 2014
Research in Post-Disaster Safety and Hazard Protection
Remembering 911: Dr. Charles A. Powell Receives Recognition of Excellence in Service Award
September 17, 2013
Cancer-Incidence Rates Higher Than Expected Among World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers
April 23, 2013
Comprehensive study by Mount Sinai's WTC Health Program published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Reuters - "U.S. to Cover Cancer Treatment for 9-11 Responders"
September 10, 2012
The 70,000 surviving firefighters, police officers and other first responders who raced to the World Trade Center after the attacks of September 11, 2001 will be entitled to free monitoring and treatment for some 50 forms of cancer.
ABC News - "World Trade Center Health Program Will Care for Ground Zero Cancer Victims"
September 10, 2012
CBS42.com - "9-11 First Responders Struggle with Cancer"
August 26, 2012
Ten years after the World Trade Center attack some of the first responders to the disaster are now finding out they have cancer.
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text: Fishing websites? [Archive] - Glock Talk Glock Talk > The Great Outdoors > Hunting, Fishing & Camping > Fishing websites? PDA View Full Version : Fishing websites? J. Parker03-23-2005, 19:39Hi good folks, Does anybody know of any good fishing websites/forums? Thanks, John J.P.03-24-2005, 11:10For flyfishing,the best is: www.flyanglersonline.com For regular fishing: www.bassfishin.com fajizzle nizzle03-27-2005, 02:40Since you're from washington... www.washingtonlakes.com www.steelheader.net www.piscatorialpursuits.com J. Parker03-27-2005, 10:46Thanks, I appreciate the info. I just picked up a 1968 Silverline 16' runabout. I've been a fisherman all my life and this is my first boat. I'm excited but the weathers crappy! Most of my fishing is in central Washington State.......the Sun Lakes region, Banks Lake, Potholes res, the Quincy Lakes, etc. Thanks again, John Dan in Alaska04-02-2005, 02:38You should also check these out: www.thehulltruth.com - lots of nationwide boating and fishing information www.ifish.net - fishing & boating forum just for your neck of the woods J. Parker04-02-2005, 15:47Thanks for the websites, I appreciate it. I've got thehulltruth in my favorites list but it seems like most of the folks are eastern costal/Florida off-shore fisherman. I mostly use NWfishing.com. Take care, John vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2015, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.


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NEW ORLEANS - As the Patriots and Giants went head to head in Super Bowl XLVI, a group of New Orleanians were ramping up for next year's big game.
The Super Bowl is coming back to the Crescent City for the first time in a decade.
'Beginning tonight at midnight the game is ours, its on, the game is on,' said Mark Romig, CEO of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation and a member of the Super Bowl XLVII host committee. 'So 2013 is just right around the corner, and efforts are nonstop right now to put on the best party ever.'
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'2013 is going to be quite an interesting year for us,' Romig said. 'If you want to be anywhere to party, it's going to be in New Orleans, because you've got the Super Bowl sandwiched in between Mardi Gras.'
A lot has changed since 2002, the last time New Orleans hosted the Super Bowl.
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High profile leaders of Uganda's churches have dedicated their New Year's messages to calling on the Ugandan parliament to pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill while reports say police may be arresting people under charges that anticipate MPs passing the Kill the Gays legislation.
The bill, widely tipped to pass by the end of 2012 by Uganda's own lawmakers but which stalled due to talks on other legislation, was featured in several New Year messages from Evangelical and Catholic leaders alike at the seventh annual National Prayer Day and Night at Nakivubo Stadium, where tens of thousands of people had gathered, as well as in wider calls made in religious buildings throughout Uganda.
According to the Daily Monitor, Bishop David Kiganda, the leader of Christianity Focus Ministries (CFM) and overseer of Bornagain Churches, said, "We ask Members of Parliament to stop wasting time debating the Bill but simply pass it to save school-going children, who are at risk of being recruited. Our leaders should desist from any act that would frustrate this proposed law because it has delayed."
The leader of the so-called Born Again Federation of Uganda, Dr. Joseph Sserwadda, is also quoted as saying there is an urgent need for the bill and that when lawmakers reconvene in February the legislation should be their top priority.
The Bishop of Mbale, Rt Rev. Patrick Gimadu decried homosexuality among other issues like corruption, child sacrifice and recent murders.
This comes as a well known Ugandan LGBT rights advocate was arrested for supposedly recruiting minors into homosexuality.
Kaweesi Joseph, one among the founders of the Ugandan LGBT advocacy group Youth on Rock Foundation, was arrested on December 30. Police have said this is due to "acts of homosexuality and recruiting juveniles."
This is especially worrying as, under current laws, there seems little to no provision for charging Jospeh on "recruitment" grounds, leading many commentators, including prominent civil rights attorney and journalist Melanie Nathan, to term this a preemptive strike in anticipation of provisions in the Kill the Gays bill.
"Although there is an existing law which people can be charged under for "carnal knowledge or defilement," there is currently no law that speaks to the so called "recruitment" of homosexuals," writes Nathan in a blog post. "While we all know such is impossible to do, the Ugandan AHB seeks to make the misnomer a crime."
Nathan goes on to say a competent jury would be expected throw out the charges given they have such little grounding–that is, until the Kill the Gays bill passes.
While calls to strip the legislation of its death penalty provision have at least been heard among some of Uganda's lawmakers, with a (yet to be adopted) committee report recommending the death penalty be dropped, the legislation even without its death penalty clause is extraordinarily corrosive to human rights and not just for gay people but all in the country who risk being victims of the bill's ill formed definitions of what constitutes a crime.
For instance, and as noted above, "attempted homosexuality" is a possible provision in the bill, yet how one would define such an offense is entirely unclear and seems a license for abuse and victimization.
There is at least one small good to come from recent events in Uganda, that being news the case against British theater producer David Cecil, who faced charges for daring to include a gay character in a play, has been thrown out by a Ugandan court, with the BBC reporting that the court found a "lack of will or a lack of evidence" to try him.
Cecil was arrested in September for supposedly "disobeying lawful orders" by staging The River and the Mountain without authorization.
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This is a timely reminder of the differences between cultures; some countries are legalizing gay marriage, and others want to kill gays.
How are so many people soooo fearful, hateful, ignorant, and intolerant???? How is it ever going to stop?
Why don't we kill those Bitches?
As in Sodom & Gomorrah for instance with the pillars of salt (was it salt?)
Careful, Charli......that logical and humane comment will have you FLAMED because you're "bashing Christians!" (They're SO SENSITIVE!)
Maybe it's time to get rid of the "priests" and a government that doesn't protect ALL their people.
Elaine A. "While I do not condone the "Lifestyle", this does not warrant death to anyone and for anyone to suggest that they be killed, is wrong."
God created homosexuals. The proof is the FACT that homosexuality shows up in the same percentages in EVERY species on earth. Insects, mammals, reptiles, etc all have the same %'s of homosexual members. Now you have to ask yourself if this is true will God punish YOU because you failed to treat all people fairly?
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