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More marijuana dispensaries are opening in local neighborhoods, but there is no policy about this new type of business. Cities have ordinances regulating adult entertainment, massage parlors, and many other kinds of businesses, but this came up pretty suddenly and now cities are trying to cope with neighborhood opposition while trying to draft reasonable policies.
There are two issues here: first, what to do when a group of citizens opposed to a project files a lawsuit, demands an additional community meeting or more public hearings on a subject they are opposed to. These stall tactics are used to burn up staff time and money, cost the applicant, all in the hope of killing the project.
Second, how do you respect the free speech rights of individuals who are chronic complainers, or who spend their time going from city to city to speak on many items and offer opinions and criticisms during the part of the council meeting called "public testimony"?
Many cities have seen a rise in labor grievances, in part due to the budget cuts and overall stress on the employees. In this environment, it is very difficult to come to an agreement with the employee unions, which becomes a political as well as practical (fiscal) problem for the city council.
In some cases, an individual or small groups of people become so involved in an issue that they drown out other stakeholders-basically they claim ownership of the issue and marginalize others. How should council handle this?
Negotiations with the city's unions are conducted by law behind closed doors, so that the public has little understanding of how the process works. These decisions will impact the citizens, yet there are virtually no opportunities for the public to comment on labor contracts.
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July 3, 2015
A Flash Flood Warning is now in effect for much of the Lexington metro. High water issues are likely through the evening.
A Flash Flood Warning is now in effect for much of the Lexington metro. High water issues are likely through the evening.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas has died of a heart attack.
The Las Vegas Sun reports that 52-year-old John Alleman suffered a heart attack last week while waiting at a bus stop in front of the diner. He was taken off life support Monday.
The medically-themed restaurant is famous for its huge hamburgers, extra-fat milkshakes and fries cooked in lard. It uses the tagline, "taste worth dying for."
Owner Jon Basso told the Sun that Alleman came to the diner every day. He became an unofficial mascot, and his caricature as "patient John" graced the front of the diners' menus.
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A standard eight pupil from Gatundu South will not sit his KCPE exams because he was not registered.
Simon Kagecha an orphan and a pupil at Ikuma Primary School learnt of his fate on Friday morning. His grandparents who he lives with had paid examinations fees in March.
His grand father Chomba Karanja 70 blamed the school's headteacher Joseph Ngugi for being "negligent" and "toying" with their grandchild's education.
Karanja said Kagecha has not been performing well in school and maybe that is why Ngugi did not register him "for fear of lowering the school's marks nationally." He said the headteacher did not give him any reason why Kagecha was not registered.
Speaking to the Star at their Githioro home, Kagecha's Grandparents i for messing up with the life of their grandchild whose mother Salome Wanjiru died in 2008.
According to the peasant couple Karanja is a poor performer and the reason why he might not have been registered is the fear of lowering the school's mean score.
Mzee Chomba told the Star reporter that as late as Thursday last week, the head teacher called a meeting of all guardians of candidates to the school where they were asked to clear any outstanding levies and pay a further Ksh. 250.00 for the candidate's lunch which he did.
"But the following morning, the head teacher sent for my wife and told her that Kagecha was not registered without giving any reasonable explanation since we had paid the exam fee in time" Chomba said.
Efforts to get assistance from the District Education office bore no fruits as the officer in charge of examination said it was to late to do anything about the matter.
When contacted, the head teacher passed the blame to Kagecha's grandparents insisting that they paid the exam fees late and there was nothing he could have done. He said he even tried to register the boy in the adult class at the Gatundu Adult Education office without success since he was time bared and there was no extension this year unlike past years. But when pressed as to why he had to inform the guardians on the candidates fate too late, Ngugi failed to give any reasonable explanation.
When the Star called the Gatundu District Education Office about a reprieve which appeared in the press on Monday and was attributed to Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo,, an officer whose identity cannot be revealed since he is not supposed to speak to the press said no
circular to that effect has been received and there is no way they can
act on press releases. Kagecha who despite his poor performance is a good footballer and also a long distance runner told the Star that he wanted to finish his primary education and join a Youth Polytechnic to learn driving but without a KCPE certificate, his future is now at bleak.


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Call it a triumph of capitalism that the public seems more disturbed by the loss of Twinkies rather than by the conduct of the Wall Street firms that bankrupted Hostess and put thousands of union workers out of work, says Mike Daisey in the Guardian.
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A big Thank You! to the Guardian for finally pointing this out. Venture capitalists loaded the company down with debt, sending it into bankruptcy. But all I heard on the news was about those dastardly unions. Didn't even mention the tripling of the CEO's pay, and the other top bosses. This from a "liberal" media.


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Last Fall, hubby and I made improvements to my little backyard vegetable garden. One of the improvements was a low tunnel. This gave me the confidence to plant my garden earlier this year than I ever had. I had frost cloth to cover my young plants if freezing weather threatened. Fortunately, I did not have to use it. This earlier start has paid off this year - so far. I have plants producing veggies earlier than ever. I picked jalapeno peppers yesterday.
I was able to get an early start on my vegetable garden this year. I guess I felt smug because I had extra frost cloth on hand if it turned off cold again. As soon as I got most of it planted, my life got very busy.
Warning - this is all about my garden. No sewing items in this one.
We had gorgeous weather last weekend. I took advantage of the weather and tried to catch up on some things that didn't get done in the Spring due to my eye surgery. Grass had also started growing in my raised vegetable beds. They are now pristine! I had already pulled up my tomato and okra plants.
I spent some time this last weekend pulling up the last of my Summer garden. The tomato and pepper plants are gone. The Okra is always the hardest to pull up because they make such big stalks. Since I am not having to worry with a garden now, sewing time has increased. As the Pioneer Woman says, "Here's what going on - on the Ranch."
You know, if you just pay attention, miracles happen around us every day. These are some observations I made today.
My plamaria blooms about this time every year. It Winters in my garage every year and loses all it's leaves. Yet every year, it sprouts leaves and blooms wonderful flowers. The hummingbirds always visit it. Speaking of hummingbirds, mine are still visiting the feeder every day. I know one day soon they will be gone.
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a project with my sister-in-law Judy (our husbands are brothers). While Judy and I don't live very far apart, we both have busy lives and don't get a chance to catch up very often. She spends her days now taking care of her 4 month old great grand daughter. In the course of our working on this project Judy ask me, "Since you don't work at the Bernina store any longer, what do you do now?" This question hit me in the face like a bucket of cold water and I could not came up with an immediate answer. My answer was that I guess
Tomorrow I will go to my one month check up after having cataract surgery. I started having problems with my right eye in January. After a trip to the emergency room, a retina doctor, my regular eye doctor, back to the retina doctor, a cornea specialist, and yet another retina doctor, I was scheduled for surgery. My hubby took great care of me and made sure I didn't do anything I shouldn't for three weeks. I could not read, get on my computer, Ipad, phone, or sew. I could watch TV and not much more. I had a difficult time convincing my hubby how miserable I
We got a ton of things accomplished this weekend. I harvested the garlic I planted last November. They don't look like garlic so not sure if they just need to dry or they turned into onions.
I have so many quilt projects I want to work on right now that I have a hard time making up my mind which to spend time on. I have been getting my garden ready to plant. I believe that it is a little too early to plant yet. I'll wait until closer to Easter since our weather has been erratic for the last six months.


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Letters to the Editor: 07.09.11
M.B. Garcia
Rose-colored glasses
I would like to respond to Bev Firmani's letter on "A beautiful city" (July 6): She must be looking at the city through rose-colored glasses. Many of the main streets are torn up, making driving very dangerous. Many neighborhoods are so unkempt, people living in those houses have no pride as to how they live — cars on the front lawns and not in the driveway, trash everywhere, dogs tied up to front porches, windows boarded up, etc. No, this is not a beautiful city.
When I moved to Corpus Christi we had a street cleaner come by at least once a month and garbage was picked up three times a week — that helped to keep our city somewhat clean.
I am sorry to disagree with her, but maybe she should drive down some of these neighborhood streets — maybe she will have a change of opinion!
Bobbie Kimbrell
Reduce crime: Shut down drug houses
In reference to Police Chief Troy Riggs looking for ways to reduce crime with a smaller budget ("Police Department faces tight budget," July 5): I have repeatedly suggested that you could kill two birds with one stone if the decades-old drug houses were shut down, because so many crimes are drug related. Hardly any family escapes the plague of a family member becoming addicted and entering a life of crime, which leads to broken homes and families and is one of the biggest drags on society that has ever existed. It breaks the budget. Federal, state, county and city grants to the police department, no matter how much, will not reduce crime as long as you have a portion of the population sucking down drugs and engaging in criminal activities.
Sharlene Whitley, Portland
Trashed beach
I have written about this subject before, but I'm really angry now. On Tuesday, my husband and I went to North Beach to go metal detecting. Should have been good hunting after the holiday. We were between the Lexington and the Radisson Hotel. It was after 5 p.m. The garbage should have been picked up. It wasn't. It was awful. I don't understand the city of Corpus Christi allowing such a nasty mess. It seems to me that it would be cheaper to hire someone to patrol the beaches, give tickets for fines, and pay that person's salary with the money received from the fines than it would be to pick all the nasty stuff up two or three days after it has been left behind. How else are we ever going to teach people that we are not filthy people? Or are we? What a way to get tourists to come to the "Garbage Dump by the Sea." What a pity. We were such a beautiful city.
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Kevin Turner served as President of Local 1442 (City of Scappoose)
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A TOTAL OF 473 people have died and 4 679 have been injured in 2 698 car accidents this year to date and as the festive season approaches, these figures are expected to escalate.
Everyone is urged to save the number 081 9682 on their cellphones. This is the Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund's Accident Response Line for reporting accidents.
The statistics were released at the launch of the annual Xupifa Eemenyo 'Save Lives' campaign in Windhoek. The campaign was established in 2005.
Through the campaign the MVA Fund has educated the public with its 'Don't be a dummy' advertisements and enhanced the medical response services with the recruitment of qualified paramedics, transport of accident victims to the nearest medical facilities and rehabilitation.
Police Deputy Commissioner Joseph Shikongo said during last year, 5 359 people were injured and 492 died in 2 902 accidents.
"These statistics show that there is no reversal to this trend this year. This is a matter of concern for all of us," he said.
"Please refrain from inconsiderate, reckless driving and driving under the influence. Roadblocks will be set up across the country to monitor and maintain law and order," he warned.
The permanent secretary of Works and Transport, Peter Mwatile, said young people between the ages of 15 and 35 accounted for 218 of this year's road fatalities.
"Road crashes have now joined HIV-AIDS and malaria as one of the serious causes of deaths in our country. However, we will be unrealistically optimistic to bring about interventions, join resources to come up with comprehensive strategies to curb road crashes."
The CEO of the MVA Fund, Jerry Muadinohamba, said he would like the Fund to "adopt" the National Road Safety Council or fund them in order to work closely together in curbing road accidents.
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Why Interfaith Organizing Matters: Social Change Starts With Values
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Sometimes, as an activist, you look upon the world and think you will never be able to see the changes you seek in your own lifetime. It's easy to despair, to succumb to the isolation and self-doubt that come from being a thoughtful person trying to change the status quo.
In those moments, I've learned to find renewal and hope not in myself, but in other organizers, in our shared values and experiences. Saul Alinsky wrote, "We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it." A shared belief in what is actually possible to achieve, despite what others may tell us: that is the organizer's gift.
In one respect, this principle sounds self-evident. And yet, while our social movements are often full of talk about policy, tactics or messaging, values are regularly left to linger in the background. They become things that are left to theologians to debate, or we allow values to be a walled-off part of the political conversation.
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Compatibility between plasma and reduced activation ferritic steel, which is the leading candidate for the structural material of a fusion demonstration reactor, has been investigated in the Advanced Material Tokamak EXperiment (AMTEX). Ferritic plates (FPs) were installed progressively in the JFT-2M tokamak. The effect of ferromagnetism on plasma production, control, confinement, and stability has been investigated. Impurity release behavior has also been investigated. Even when the inside vacuum vessel wall was fully covered with the FPs and the tokamak plasma was operated close to the wall, no deleterious effect was observed, and the normalized beta could be increased up to ~3.5. Thus, encouraging results are obtained for application of this material to the demonstration reactor.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers set for Cape Town
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Fazielah Williams has lived in and loved her Mother City since birth. Having lived all over the Peninsula during her childhood, she now calls the picturesque City Bowl home and likes nothing more than watching the sun set over Table Bay from the window of her apartment.
A lover of the arts and proud Cape Town fanatic, Fazielah began her writing career by spending many hours as a child conjuring fantastical stories that featured independent heroines from faraway lands who saved the Prince instead. This Capetonian princess has enjoyed stints as a magical arts PRO and TV publicist before finding her calling as a travel writer.
When not waxing lyrical about the Fairest Cape's most loved attractions and activities and embarking on unexpected adventures, Fazielah can usually be found taking in a show at one of the City's fabulous theatres.
It's official: award-winning rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to rock the Mother City's world at the Cape Town Stadium in Green Point on Tuesday February 5, 2013.
Big Concerts, South Africa's biggest live entertainment promoter, is certainly indulging our musical tastes by bringing a dazzling array of rock and pop artists to our shores. Linkin Park, in November, and the queen of innovation Lady Gaga, in December, are just a few of the world-renowned acts we can look forward to.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, recent inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are sure to set our summer season on fire with their highly-anticipated performance.
The band, which has been performing since 1988, includes singer Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer (who joined in 2009).
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Local zef band, Die Antwoord, has been taking the world by storm and will now have the honour of opening for the Chili Peppers.
Tickets go on sale on Thursday August 30, 2012, and range between R215 and R665. Get your tickets early by visiting the Computicket kiosk at the Cape Town Tourism Burg Street Visitor Information Centre. Doors open at 09h00.
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Smart Grid -- Starting at the generator, ending at the refrigerator
In this interview with FierceSmartGrid Editor Barbara Vergetis Lundin, Professor Saifur Rahman, founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, discusses the concept of smart grid and how to grow public awareness and acceptance of it.
Rahman is an IEEE Fellow and the vice president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment at Virginia Tech.
Saifur Rahman
FierceSmartGrid: There are many definitions of "smart grid" -- how do you define it?
Saifur Rahman: "Smart grid" is a concept with many elements -- it's not a physical thing. I like to say that a smart grid starts at the generator and ends at the refrigerator.
If we can monitor and control each element in the chain of generation, transmission, distribution and end-use we can make our electricity use more efficient. I mention efficiency right away because in the United States, for instance, 20 percent of the generation capacity is used only 5 percent of the time. If we can avoid that peak, 5 percent of the time usage, we don't need the 20 percent capacity sitting idle 95 percent of the time. So one smart grid element is improved capacity utilization.
Another element is its ability to balance supply and demand in real-time by monitoring the load and redistributing electricity among end-users according to need. That way, no single home would cause an overload problem by turning everything on at the same time, beyond available capacity. Today, to avoid that, we keep significant capacity idle -- at great cost.
Let's be clear: I'm not saying the power company or somebody outside my home is going to control my life. The power company should stop at my "front door," which is the electric meter. What I do inside my home is my business. At Virginia Tech, we're working on technology that would allow the homeowner to set priorities among critical loads and for those loads to operate more efficiently whenever the utility sent a signal it needed to reduce load.
The consumer is a sleeping giant. Once you can demonstrate for the consumer that things can be done differently, they are willing to think differently.
FierceSmartGrid: Despite progress on grid modernization, it appears that the public and other stakeholders need to understand that we're in an early phase of an ongoing process. Do you agree?
SR: That's true. In fact, in my lectures I use a pyramid to illustrate the meaning of "smart grid." At the top is technology. The layer below is standards. Below that are rates and regulations. The foundation of that pyramid is public awareness and acceptance. We have work to do on that part. Unless we are successful in that endeavor, the rest will not matter.
FierceSmartGrid: What sort of efforts will grow that public awareness and acceptance?
SR: It's a slow process. First, people are not willing to spend more money than they must. That's common sense. Early adopters will spend money just to see what's possible, but that's not everybody.
So I would promote the notion that laying the technical foundations for a smarter grid enables monitoring and control, which in turn lead to efficiencies. That serves the consumer -- who pays for the system -- because it avoids the model of the past, in which we built over-capacity to serve peaks loads that occur only 5 percent of the time.
A second issue that should make our case easier to convey is Hurricane Sandy's destruction in New York and New Jersey this past fall. If you look at the $50 billion reconstruction fund that Congress just approved, 80 percent of that money is for infrastructure, which is a good thing. And the governors of New York and New Jersey realize that we have to approach reconstruction in a new way. In some cases, they will build new infrastructure from the ground up. Smart grid concepts should be considered as building blocks, both in rebuilding infrastructure and promoting awareness that a smarter grid is less costly in the long run. It should be pointed out that in the aftermath of such a destructive event, we could end up paying a lot more for repairs than we would for a more resilient grid.
The consumer is a sleeping giant. Once you can demonstrate for the consumer that things can be done differently, they are willing to think differently. Hurricane Sandy and other storms that have struck the East Coast in the last couple of years have shown the sort of havoc that comes with the loss of power.
FierceSmartGrid: Do you see other avenues to public awareness?
SR: Another avenue is education at the primary school level. For example, if you can give elementary school teachers a demonstration, a slideshow or a video clip, the kids will go home, talk to their parents and the parents will realize it makes sense. They'll learn, too. The younger the group you reach, the more willing they are to learn and to accept new ideas.
FierceSmartGrid: Hurricane Sandy also underscored that systems cannot be built cost-effectively to withstand massive physical destruction. That underscores both resiliency and a role for the end-user. Would you agree?
SR: Systems will fail no matter what. Given that understanding, what can end-users do to ensure that loads critical to their survival are served? Distributed energy sources -- perhaps solar photovoltaics in urban areas, wind turbines in rural areas -- could provide the power and energy storage could provide the buffer for emergencies. Citizens have a role to play. They need to explore the possibilities so they are not left in the dark. Now people have a metric by which to judge the value of uninterrupted power. They're starting to realize that, for instance, rooftop solar could keep their critical, low-power appliances running in an emergency. Everyone has a role to play. If the system fails, we cannot just complain.
FierceSmartGrid: You are serving as the general chair for IEEE PES' Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) 2013 conference, which has an international flair. Why is this important?
SR: We are bringing global, smart grid implementation issues to the attention of attendees from 29 countries. Through panels and paper sessions we'll examine how various technologies have been deployed in different countries and the lessons learned of the host utilities, government agencies, vendors and consultants.
The international perspective is important. In Japan, for instance, they are exploring very specific applications for monitoring the performance of the distribution network in Tokyo City, which is much more densely populated than many U.S. cities. Knowing how the Japanese have approached issues such as microgrid-level power conditioning means the rest of us do not have to reinvent solutions to these problems down the road. The conference is also a networking opportunity for attendees to share ideas on their specific challenges.
FierceSmartGrid: Is it important to emphasize that infrastructure renewal and grid modernization is critical to the economy and economic growth, particularly in a globally competitive environment?
SR: Indeed. We are becoming more dependent on electricity, not just for heating, cooling and cooking, but for many other instruments of productivity that support our lifestyles, such as laptop computers, the Internet, cell phones, most which didn't exist 20 years ago. That means we need not only electricity; we need very high-quality electricity all the time. We must think differently than we have in the past about how best to provide it and how to use it.
FierceSmartGrid: What are you working on at Virginia Tech?
SR: I mentioned the need to enable end-users to prioritize loads and enable new efficiencies within the appliances themselves when the utility sends a signal. Under a grant from the National Science Foundation and contracts with the Department of Defense, we are exploring how to do this by enabling the homeowner to make these decisions.
Many utilities, including my local power company, Dominion Virginia Power, have direct load control programs that -- with the homeowner's permission -- turn off your air conditioner on very hot summer days, when peak load exceeds the system's capacity. Typically, the utility offers a modest payment. Cooperating is the right thing to do, but at times that can be inconvenient.
If instead the power company said, "Save us four kilowatts," and I'm equipped with a home energy management system (HEMS), I could prioritize the major loads in my home and perhaps trigger more efficient cycles for some of them. The pre-programmed HEMS will find and manage these savings without sacrificing my comfort or convenience.
The principle is simple: I want the power company to tell me how much load relief it needs, but not to tell me how I should do it. How I run my home is my business. That's the difference between traditional direct load control and how we'll do things going forward. I think people will embrace this idea because it answers objections about privacy and autonomy.


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Barrow man warns of PPI claimers targeted in phone scam
Last updated at 16:36, Tuesday, 04 December 2012
A SON has warned people to be on their guard after his 68-year-old mother almost fell foul to an expensive telephone scam.
The latest in a number of telephone scams reported to the Evening Mail by concerned readers, the callers in this case claimed to be from a company helping people reclaim wrongly sold payment protection insurance (PPI).
Charles Walduck, 44, said his 68-year-old mother had been bombarded with calls saying she had been awarded £3,800 as a result of a PPI claim she had made.
However, the callers claimed the money would only be couriered to her Barrow address if she bought a Ukash voucher for £175.
They then asked her to provide them with the voucher's serial number after she had bought it, so that they could claim the money back from Ukash.
Mr Walduck, who lives in Manchester, said his mother had been susceptible to the scam as she had made a PPI claim.
She had been close to doing as the caller asked before she rang her son for advice.
Mr Walduck told his mother to ignore them, he told the Evening Mail.
"I just want to warn other people," he said.
"She is in her very late sixties and she gets very confused.
"She has had six calls from them already.
"They say things like 'But don't you want this money?'. It is all pressure and bare-faced cheek. It has really distressed her."
There have been reports of similar scams involving Ukash vouchers in the UK, including in North Yorkshire.
Ukash advise people never to pass on a voucher code over the phone or by email because they risk losing their money.
The company's website says only participating Ukash merchants use the vouchers for making payments online and they would never ask for details to be sent via email or over the phone.
A spokesman for Cumbria police said people should always verify who was calling them if they claimed to be from a business.
If they had any suspicion or doubt at all they should refuse to do what they asked, he said.
Anyone who thinks they have been contacted by a telephone scammer can ring Cumbria police on 101 to report it.
First published at 16:32, Tuesday, 04 December 2012
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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Ex-Directory doesn't mean that people can not contact you. There are other ways that companies get hold of your phone number. One of the major reasons why you get these type of calls is companies that you deal with - energy suppliers, telephone service providers, etc - sell your data on to other companies or companies who are list brokers. List brokers can then sell your data on to others who want to buy it & depending on what details of yours were sold on, services could be highly targeted at you. For example, a wheelchair service company could go to a list broker and buy data that only includes data of people who are 60 years old or over.If you'd like help with your nuisance phone calls, come through to www.optoutuk.com . We'd be more than happy to help you. After all, it's what we do.
I'm fed up with these calls regarding ppi,they ring my house they ring my mobile and even text my mobile.Surely there's a law on this,i'm x directory so how do they get my number


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Nissan India is planning to join the biggies and increase prices across all its vehicles from January.
The company sells just three locally assembled models - the Micra hatchback, the Sunny sedan and the Evalia multipurpose vehicle.
"The price increase is being contemplated to offset the rising input costs and currency fluctuation," the Japanese auto major said in a statement, without disclosing the quantum of increase.
Other companies like Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, Toyota and General Motors have already announced their plans to raise prices to the tune of 1 to 3 per cent from January, even though most of them are facing sales degrowth.
Premium car maker Mercedes Benz also said it will hike prices effective from January.
German luxury car maker BMW will increase prices by 10 per cent on some of its products from January. Audi India, too, has announced a price hike by up to 5 per cent.
Despite festive sales, the overall car sales fell over 8 per cent in November, according to data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) recently.
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Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old man who tops the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center's wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War II.
Laszlo Csatary was found guilty in absentia in 1948 of whipping or torturing Jews and helping to deport them to the death camp while serving as police commander in the Nazi-occupied eastern Slovak city of Kosice in 1944.
He was sentenced to death and lived on the run for decades until Hungarian authorities detained him and put him under house arrest in Budapest in July last year. He has denied any guilt.
In March, a Slovak court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.
"He is charged with the unlawful execution and torture of people, (thus) committing war crimes partly as a perpetrator, partly as an accomplice," said Bettina Bagoly, a spokeswoman for the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office. She said Csatary's case would go to trial within three months.
The Wiesenthal Center named Csatary their most wanted war crimes suspect last year.
In April his detention terms were changed to a ban on leaving Hungary, but prosecutors have now applied to put him back under house arrest, Bagoly said.
In a statement, the prosecutors said Csatary had regularly hit Jewish prisoners with a dog-whip in 1944 when he was a police commander overseeing a detention camp in Kosice, which was then part of Hungary and is now in Slovakia.
Around 12,000 Jews were deported from Kosice to various concentration camps, mostly to Auschwitz.
"With his actions, Laszlo Csatary ... deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to concentration camps ... from Kosice," the prosecutors' statement said.
Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Kevin Liffey
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Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.
The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover.
First published in 1962, Morte D'Urban has been praised by writers as various as Gore Vidal, William Gass, Mary Gordon, and Philip Roth. This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.
D'Urban is a gem—a supremely funny tale about Father Urban, a Midwestern priest who believes in golf, baseball, scotch, and the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps in that order. Fr. Urban's struggles with the management of a parish are rendered with a comic's timing, and Powers's prose and dialogue are as sharp as anything in Flannery O'Connor. Is anyone as funny today? Maybe David Gates; maybe Tom Drury.
—Publishers Weekly
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Maryland's highest court on Tuesday partly backed off its April decision that pit bulls are inherently dangerous, admitting that it went too far when it applied its standard to cross-bred dogs. But the new ruling, which affects only purebred animals, does not clear the waters, according to experts.
The issue, they say, is that "pit bull" is not a specific dog breed and that it's difficult to positively identify a pit bull.


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Malcolm Butler
LA Tech fans have plenty of events to choose from during the weekend
Tech's eight awards most among state schools
White, Weatherspoon to talk Tech hoops
White, Weatherspoon to talk Tech hoops
Coach White, Coach Weatherspoon to talk LA Tech basketball
Malcolm Butler begins his 16th year in the Louisiana Tech Athletics Department, his eighth as the associate athletic director in charge of communications.
A 1994 graduate of the Louisiana Tech journalism department, Butler joined the athletic department in July of 1999 as the assistant athletic media relations director. Butler was then promoted to director four months later and served in that capacity until the fall of 2007 when he was promoted to associate athletic director.
The Ruston native is in charge of media relations for women's basketball and softball and also serves as the secondary contact for football while overseeing the daily operations for the entire department.
He is a member of Tommy McClelland's senior staff and also serves as the sports supervisor for women's tennis.
During his time at Louisiana Tech, Butler has been instrumental in promoting numerous high-profile student-athletes including record-setting quarterbacks Tim Rattay and Luke McCown, and All-American women's basketball players Tamicha Jackson and Cheryl Ford. He has also worked closely with a number of highly-successful head coaches, including 4-time Hall of Famer Leon Barmore, former Tennessee head football coach Derek Dooley and current Lady Techster women's basketball coach Tyler Summitt, son of legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt.
Over the course of his tenure, Louisiana Tech's Athletic Communications Department has proven to be one of the most successful in the state. Over the past 13 years, members of the department have won a total of 52 awards at the annual Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA) SID contest, the second most behind only LSU.
During that same period of time, Butler has personally garnered 28 awards, second most among all state SIDs behind only LSU Associate Athletics Director Michael Bonnette (30).
Butler is part of a senior staff at LA Tech that has been instrumental in garnering a number of national awards, including the 2010 Turnkey PRISM Award - which recognizes colleges for managerial excellence across four areas: marketing/branding; fan development; community relations; and customer/client service.
The Tech athletics department also finished in the Top 10 three times in the Excellence in Management Cup, which recognizes the most efficient athletic departments in the nation.
He was instrumental in forming the partnership between Louisiana Tech and CBS Interactive in the fall of 2007, including the redesign and hosting of the athletic departments website, LATechSports.com.
As part of the agreement with CBS Interactive, a webstreaming platform - LA Tech All-Access -- was created, allowing fans from all over the world to watch live streams of almost all of the university's home athletic events. LA Tech All-Access annually streams more than 125 live events.
Butler has served as the host media coordinator for three NCAA Women's Basketball First- and Second-Round sites hosted by Louisiana Tech (2000, 2001 and 2003) while also serving as the host media coordinator for the 2008 WAC Baseball Championships and the 2013 WAC Softball Championships hosted by Louisiana Tech.
In addition to his media relations responsibilities, Butler serves as the radio play-by-play voice for the nationally-prominent Louisiana Tech Lady Techster basketball team.
Butler has broadcast more than 480 women's basketball games, including 15 NCAA Tournament games, during his 14 years behind the mic. He finished second in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association College Radio Play by Play category in 2013.
He has also broadcast in excess of 200 softball games, including four in the 2008 NCAA Tournament, and served as the color commentator on numerous Bulldog football and basketball broadcasts. He served as the sideline reporter for the Bulldog football broadcasts in 2014. Butler joins Dave Nitz as the co-hosts of Inside Tech Basketball, an hour-long coaches radio show during the winter.
Butler implemented a fundraising campaign for his department in the fall of 2007 and since that time it has raised over $40,000, which has been used to purchase additional equipment, software and other essentials within the media relations department.
He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA), United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and Football Writers Association of America (FWAA). He is also a proxy voter for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame committee.


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