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Responsibility & Homework
Throughout the year I will encourage students to become more aware of their responsibility for behavior, homework & communication between school and home in an effort to begin to prepare them for the intermediate grades. It is important to establish a scheduled time for completing homework and assist you child in developing a sense of responsibility.
Homework may be given on a daily or weekly basis. Your child will need your help with time management. If an assignment is taking your child longer than it should to complete, just do the odd numbered problems or half of the assignment. Then write a note at the top of the homework assignment. Homework is for practice, not punishment. I'll help your child with the work at school.
All homework will be written down on the "Homework Log" in their 'Homework Folder". At the end of the day, students will organize their "Homework Folder" making sure they have their work, papers & notices. PLEASE take the time to check over all assignments and assist your child with studying. The "Homework Log" is to be checked and signed by an adult DAILY to assure that the lines of communication stay open. If the assignment is not completed or you have any questions, make a notation under comments. I check folders every morning.
If planning to celebrate a birthday, please consider bringing in fun pencils, other school supplies, a healthy snack or donate a book/game to the class instead of cupcakes or sweets.
Each day we will have a "Working Snack". Help your child choose (1) healthy snack and drink. Please provide utensils, as needed.
The classroom can get a bit hot, especially after recess. I allow the children to have water bottles on their desks as long as it does not distract from learning. If you freeze the bottle, your child can then add water to the ice throughout the day.
A Good Night's Sleep
Please help your child get back on a school schedule for bed time. It is especially hard when your child's involved in sports, I know. But a good night's sleep makes your child happy, alert and ready to learn.

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WILLIAMSPORT — Many more of us are living to see 100 years of age, but a woman in Williamsport celebrated her 108th birthday on Tuesday.
It was the birthday girl's time to shine as Anna DeWald of Williamsport turned 108 years young!
"I declare March 25th as Anna Catherine DeWald day," Williamsport Mayor Gabe Campana said.
Anna lives at the Presbyterian Home at Williamsport. Friends and family gathered to celebrate her 108th birthday.
"I'm just interested in everything. In everything? Yes! Cooking, reading, I love them all. I really do," DeWald said.
Anna's friends and family describe her as "active" and "high-energy."
"She loves to read. She's always been a good cook and she is a great mom," Anna's daughter Mary Hall said.
"She loves gardening in her room. We take her on walks. We take her outside and walk, and when it's nice, sit outside and read," Renna Engel said.
"What is your secret to staying so young? I can't say that, either. I just listen to them all," Dewald said.
Anna's daughter says although her mom enjoyed drinking a beer every once in a while…
"She always ate good. She ate good meals. Three meals a day. Lots of vegetables, lots of fruit," Hall said.
Anna also says she likes getting her nails done and watching westerns.
"I love westerns. Rip roarin' westerns," Anna said.
Employees say they are already gearing up for next year's celebration when Anna turns 109.


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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Rygelski writes on the St. Stanislaus Church in St. Louis in 'Do widzenia,' St. Stanislaus Church
It is a great reflection on what might have been with a little bit of mutual charity and living with the wisdom of original intents in relation to the parishioners ownership of its property. of course this is the wisdom of the Polish National Catholic Church which maintains its catholicity and its democratic tradition.
I never was a registered member of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish. But the Roman Catholic church founded by Polish immigrants at 20th Street and Cass Avenue was always a part of my life.
My father graduated from its grade school. My maternal grandmother was a longtime parishioner. I grew up in St. Leo Parish, a few blocks west, and we sometimes joined my grandmother for Mass at St. Stanislaus. While registered in my geographical parish as an adult, I occasionally attended St. Stanislaus, and not just the festivals. When the communist government in Poland declared martial law on a cold Sunday morning in December 1981, the appropriate place for me to attend Mass that day was St. Stanislaus.
There was an aura inside St. Stanislaus' red brick exterior befitting a house of God, enhanced by the inspirational murals, particularly the one behind the main altar depicting Christ before He is nailed to the cross, and augmented by the singing of Polish hymns. But despite its cathedral-like proportions, the church also afforded the solitary kneeling worshipper an intimate visit with the Lord.
For nearly a decade, St. Stanislaus' lay leaders battled the St. Louis Archdiocese for the church's property. The fight extended to the parish's heart and soul. Last week the archdiocese dropped its legal claims. St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is now a denominational free agent, something its members didn't want when the conflict began. Archbishop Robert Carlson's recent and sincere reconciliation efforts came too late, after the moat around St. Stanislaus became impassable during the tumultuous reign of his predecessor, Raymond Burke.
Full disclosure: I was editor of the St. Louis Review, the archdiocese's weekly, when the rival forces stopped posturing and started firing. I asked my reporters to get both sides, until word filtered down that we were to publish only Archbishop Burke's version. I obeyed but felt like a Polish Benedict Arnold, though I hoped always for a resolution that would keep St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic. Still do.
This was a tragedy in two acts. In Act One, most worshippers – Catholic or otherwise – united in opposing Archbishop Burke's request that the parish's lay board of directors turn over the property without his giving written assurance that the church would stay open. Those who declared loyalty to him, mostly recent Polish immigrants who'd had tiffs with the older Polish-Americans over the years, were given their own parish near the Anheuser-Busch brewery. In Act Two, the lay board's hiring of a renegade Polish priest to make St. Stanislaus a breakaway parish deeply divided both the board and the congregation. Some quit the board and joined the archdiocese in lawsuit to reclaim the parish for the archdiocese.
But there was more to the conflict than just an archbishop trying to take the money and property of a small north St. Louis parish that had been granted a unique contract by Archbishop Peter Kenrick in 1891. That agreement gave the archbishop the right to appoint the pastor but gave the parish's lay board ownership of the church property and control of its finances. A teacher could fashion a lively course around the resulting legal/ethical issues.
The archdiocese coveted the St. Stanislaus land in 2003 while reorganizing all archdiocesan property to avoid being crippled financially if a jury ruled against it in a massive clergy sex-abuse case. Perhaps if ordained Catholic leaders across the country had properly removed the predators masquerading as priests and prevented the scandal they hushed over during the previous decades the St. Louis Archdiocese wouldn't have been interested in reclaiming a few acres at 1413 N. 20th St.
The archdiocese's 2008 lawsuit to restore the original agreement, which it dropped last week, came a few years too late. If it was going to sue, it should have when the St. Stanislaus board wrongly tinkered with the 1891 contract by cutting the pastor and archbishop out of the loop on important matters, which was before Archbishop Burke arrived. That's when the archdiocese's lawyers could have said, "If you expect us to play by the 1891 rules you'll have to also." Still, one Catholic organization suing another disregards what Christ told His disciples about reconciling with people before going to court (Matthew 5:25).
If some St. Stanislaus board members altered the agreement in hopes of saving the parish amid rumors that the archdiocese would try to sell the property to developers, they only made the situation worse. Nevertheless, they and the congregation wanted only to ensure that the parish remained open, a desirefor which they can't be faulted. The archdiocese has closed many city parishes abandoned by white people who fled to the suburbs; St. Stanislaus parishioners moved but kept coming back and kept it viable, particularly in the 1970s, when rival gang violence outside left bullet holes in the church walls.
Many St. Stanislaus parishioners descended from the immigrants who'd built and maintained that parish with their own money, labor and faith, which is what those attending St. Stanislaus have done since. This was shown in the magnificent church restoration in the late 1970 the parishioners and friends fully financed on their own, and their fully financing the decade-old Polish Heritage Center on the parish grounds. My grandmother and parents donated to the former, and I to the latter.
Some have criticized St. Stanislaus people for "disobedience to authority" in not turning over the property when first Archbishop Justin Rigali then Archbishop Burke requested it. Yet the parishioners were engaged in no collective sinful, immoral or heretical activity before the issue arose. If they had and been ordered to cease, they'd have no recourse but to comply, and no sympathy from many of us if they hadn't. Archbishop Burke and his predecessors didn't like the 1891 agreement, but it was valid. When the archdiocese has acquired property for its churches and schools, it's had to comply with the law. When it comes to property, to give God what is His, the church hierarchy has first had to give Caesar what is his.
Archbishop Burke could have granted them in writing the assurance that the parish would stay open if parishioners could continue financing its operation. It was a unique situation, and granting that assurance would have neither affected other parishes nor undermined his authority. It might have gained him respect as a shepherd making sure that the 100th sheep not be separated from the other 99 (Luke 15:4-7) rather than bringing him criticism for threatening people with eternal damnation over a few acres.
Poles have been devoted to the Catholic Church. Their liturgical language may have been Polish, but rites and beliefs were always fully Roman Catholic. They've rebelled when they perceived that ruling clergy got in the way of that devotion. There's precedent for the St. Stanislaus action: some Polish immigrants in America in the 1890s founded the Polish National Catholic Church to protest what they thought was the ruling Irish clergy's indifference to them. A local PNCC parish, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, operates near St. Stanislaus.
Last week's legal victory of St. Stanislaus is nothing to celebrate, though. Regardless how Catholic St. Stanislaus looks, it's now an orphan church. You can't pretend to be something you're not…
When the PNCC broke away, it established a creed close to that of Roman Catholicism and required its bishops, priests and lay people to follow it. St. Stanislaus' freelance pastor, former priest Marek Bozek, can remake St. Stanislaus Kostka Non-Denominational Church as he wants it, with no ecclesiastical oversight or guidance. How will that church's board replace him, if he leaves on his own or it fires him because it doesn't like what he's doing? How many excommunicated Polish priests are there to fill that post?


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Gov. Peter Shumlin and others have signed off on construction of the center, which would serve both north- and south-bound travelers in Randolph.
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Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 6 - "A Golden Crown"
I'm going to cheat a little and throw in the last half of episode five, "The Wolf and the Lion," which includes perhaps the most jaw-dropping scene of the first season (and that's a high bar): Lady Arryn of the Eyrie breast-feeding her creepy nine-year-old son Robin. It also sets the stage for the shock and awe of episode six. I was liking Game of Thrones until this point; here's where I seriously fell in love. I shall count the ways, hopefully without spoiling too much for those who have (inexplicably) never seen HBO's ambitious and gloriously realized adaptation of George R.R. Martin's epic series of fantasy novels.
1. During the first season, female fans seemed to fall in two camps: Those who preferred the reticent, greasy-haired virility of Ned Stark (Sean Bean), and those who enjoyed the more, uh, compact manfulness of Tyrion Lannister, aka the Imp, whose best weapon is his razor wit. In a show with a lot of brawn—and swordplay and mud and blood—I find Tyrion's more cerebral charms (and attention to lady genitalia) infinitely more appealing. In episode six, his cunning and wit come center stage, when he out-maneuvers the seriously wacko Lady Arryn.
2. We also briefly meet Mord, Tyrion's monosyllabic jailer (he of the "No Gold! Fuck off!"). I haven't read the books and I fear that's the last we see of him. If so, I think a sitcom spin-off is in order.
3. In one of the grossest scenes of the season (and I mean that in the best possible way), the newly pregnant Daenerys Targaryen must eat the raw heart of a horse in front of her husband Khal Drogo, King of the dumb and hunky Dothraki. She nearly pukes the whole thing up (hell, I nearly puked it up), but in keeping the bloody mess down, Daenerys not only proves she's got the balls to be queen of the horse-worshipping Dothraki, she finally gains the upper hand with her bullying, petulant baby-man of a brother, Viserys. (Am I the only one who thinks these names are straight out of Star Trek?)
4. Speaking of Viserys, although we will miss his mincing and whining, he comes to one of the small screen's most spectacular ends. I won't give it away, but there's a clue in the title of the episode.—Mary Kaye Schilling
Louie, Season 2, Episode 5—"Country Drive"
Louis C.K. threw the television equivalent of a perfect game this year. Every episode of his show's second season had at least one "holy shit" moment. And it wasn't just the funny stuff, either. I remember watching the series premiere of Louie back in 2010, expecting little more than a translation of the best stand-up act in comedy—an outcome I would've been totally fine with, by the way—and instead I was stunned by the conceptual daring of the show, its willingness to mess with the rules of television, of storytelling, of character, of tempo, of comedy... I remember thinking, "Wow, he's really trying to do something here." That was season one. And season two blew that away. The "transcendent season" is a new development in the history of television, and season two of Louie has already joined that rare crop that culture geeks talk about in shorthand, with the kind of awe that used to be reserved for movies of the 1970s: the first season of The Sopranos, the third season of Seinfeld, and the fourth season of The Wire. The second season of Louie.
Now here comes the hard part: picking a single episode. Picking the show was a no-brainer. Picking the episode is almost impossible. I'm not trying to be all Sophie's Choice about this, either. There's a structural reason it's so tough to decide: each episode of Louie is pastiche of two or three "mini-episodes" that often don't intersect at all. An easier task would be to Frankenstein together my favorite sequences—the bit where Louie's moment of grace listening to a subway violinist is wrecked by a fat, fetid homeless guy bathing himself on the platform a few feet away; the bit where Louie's daughter cheerfully explains to him why she much prefers his ex-wife's house; the startling, art-imitating-life-imitating-art confrontation with joke-thieving nemesis Dane Cook—but one episode beginning to end? Oy.
After way, way too much time spent mulling what is, let's face it, a pretty trivial matter, I went with "Country Drive," partly because it's the most conventionally "episode-y" episode of the season (in the sense that its three segments all fit clearly and neatly together) but mostly because it's so, so not conventional in every other meaningful way. The opening scene, in which Louie drives his two young daughters to meet a distant, aging relative before she dies, is easily the wildest stretch of television I saw all year. After The Who's "Who Are You" comes on the radio, Louie begins loudly singing along, air-drumming, blissfully rocking out, while his daughters stare desperately ahead, trapped in the car with this overgrown doofus, a thousand future humiliations foretold in the blank, dejected look in their eyes. But what's amazing is Louis-the-director's commitment to the bit: he does the whole entire song, start to finish. Four solid minutes. No cuts. No interruption. One take. The damn-it-all confidence to stick with it, the quiet anti-payoff at the end—I've never seen anything like it.
The episode's middle segment is set at the aging relative's house, and rather than spoil the magic, I'll just say that it's a hilariously awkward portrayal of what happens when an old lady, in the presence of two young girls, starts casually salting the conversation with the worst racial epithet in the book. And then comes the episode capper: an atypically long bit of stand-up from Louie—probably the fullest stretch of stand-up in any episode to date. It's a bravura riff about reading Tom Sawyer to his daughters and getting terrified when Huckleberry Finn—reckless, racist, shit-stirring Huck Finn—makes an unwanted cameo in the book. More generational dread, with more nuance than the novels he's joking about.
Everything I love about Louie is on display in "Country Drive": its inventiveness with storytelling, its fearlessness around racial taboo, its pure comic inspiration, its unrivaled gift for the syntax of stand-up. The whole thing is just—there's that word again—perfect. And there were 12 other episodes this year that were every bit as good.—Devin Gordon
Breaking Bad, Season Four, Episode 12—"End Times"
The throat-slitting premiere was flat-out bad-ass. Breaking Bad slipped the slightest bit after that. Then episodes five through 13 were one of the most electric, unpredictable strings of television in recent history—as pure as Walter White's blue meth. Walt's "I am the one who knocks" monologue? Mamet can't touch that. Those stone-cold opens with the chicken-truck murders? Eat it, Michael Mann. The Grand Guignol malice of Gus's cartel mass-murder? Tarantino, take note. That viciously sloppy brawl between Walt and Jesse? That was no-holds-barred naturalistic nastiness to rival the UFC. And that bell-ringing finale, when the invincible Gus gets half his face blown off, then straightens his tie? It was just the hasta la vista that hermano deserved.
But the best episode was the penultimate, "End Times," which flaunted everything that made the show the best drug on TV All the best actors—Cranston, Paul, Esposito, and Norris—get their moments. The script is cookie-full-of-arsenic sharp. ("There's gotta be another way," says Skyler. "There isn't," says Walt. "There was. But now there isn't.") The white-knuckle pacing of the show, which has always been its most audacious trademark, is thrillingly headlong: Jesse goes from pointing a gun at Walt's head to planning Gus's murder in less than a half hour and you barely doubt it, even as you're being conned along with him. Cranston has often been as good but never better than he is in that critical scene with Aaron Paul, when Walt convinces Jesse that he's helpless ("Gus has been ten steps ahead of me at every turn"), especially since the finale reveals that the whole desperate monologue is manipulative bullshit. Giancarlo Esposito's walk to his car is almost unbearably tense, but it's that final, perfect shot—one of several I'd stack up against any Oscar contender—that gets you: Beaten and bruised and defeated, Walt stares up at the sky above the parking deck. That throbbing, clanging song (Apollo Sunshine's "We Are Born When We Die") swells and rises, then cuts out completely, leaving Cranston, and all of his fans, breathless.—Logan Hill
The Killing, Season One, Episode 4—"A Soundless Echo"
God, do you remember how good this show was at first? It's hard since the rubble of that finale seems still smoldering—the bitter flailings of showrunner Veena Sud's backtalk ("We never said you'll get closure," etc.) having left not such a good taste in our mouth. But before the season's unhinged, unplotted tumble toward the finish line, there was the wrenching, artful stacking of four pretty perfect television episodes to open the series. Those four hours, after all, were what filled us with the untenable expectations.
"A Soundless Echo," the fourth (and final) great episode of The Killing, was so fresh and strange and riveting that re-watching it makes me hurt for what could've been. For those of you who followed the show, "A Soundless Echo" contains: that video tape of the squish-faced rich kid and his cracked-out best bro double-teaming a girl who appears to be Rosie in that creepy high school dungeon; Rosie's parents shopping for her casket; legitimate intrigue in the mayoral race—including the introduction of a Mark Cuban-esque Seattle billionaire; the honeymoonish clackety-clack between partners Linden and Holder; the first glimpse of Papa Larsen's mob ties; the show's best episode-wrapping reveal—the one implicating the teacher for the first time; and probably my favorite sixty seconds in the whole season: an over-the-shoulder shot of Sterling walking through the halls of her high school with her earbuds in, listening to Belle and Sebastian's Sleep the Clock Around," privately mourning the death of her best friend. All while attempting to carry on with the miserable ritual of gloomy mid-week classes, even as male classmates make rape jokes ("Remember Sterling, 'no' means 'yes.'") at her expense.
If ever you've experienced a death at a high school—a friend of yours, a peer of your child's—you know the impossible mechanics of it. The teachers reluctantly asking students if they'd like to discuss their feelings. The disastrously uncomfortable private grief counseling. The makeshift shrines at the locker. And looming largest (what I remember most vividly, at least): the music. The one or two songs that make the rounds, that sort of drown out attempts at conversation. I'd argue that The Killing lost its way when it moved away from the high school; it was the part of the show that felt most clearly rendered and darkly nerve-plucking. When this episode ended, I thought I'd found a new TV love. But then, like some '70s radical, she left school, got into drugs and terrorism, drowned some hookers, got a little too paranoid for her own health, and, naturally, ended up shooting the mayor.—Daniel Riley


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Reader's letter: Slow election count in Bristol was no surprise
Posted: June 03, 2014|
I AM not at all surprised that Bristol was one of the slowest in the country in counting the votes at the recent elections.
The fact that the delay was put down to hundreds of postal votes coming in at the last moment was also no surprise when Bristol Council didn't even post them out until May 7. Anyone on a two week holiday would have had to scramble to get them posted at all. This could also be why the Bristol vote was only 37 per cent.
I have referred the matter to the Electoral Commission who have advised me to write to the Cabinet Office regarding the rules surrounding the postal dates and I await a reply.
Let's hope Bristol manage to get their act together before the General Election.
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The former director of a Monroe County program that offers early release to
jail inmates who perform community service is going to jail after being sentenced today for sexually assaulting two female inmates. 28 year old Adam Helgerson of Sparta, director of the Monroe County Community Service Work Program, plead guilty to five charges that he assaulted an inmate once in December 2010 and four times in February 2011. He spoke in a Monroe County courtroom this morning.
Judge Mark Goodman rejected a plea deal between attorney's and sentenced Helgerson to 9 months in jail, probation and sex offender treatment. This is the third time in 5 years that a Monroe County employee has been charged with assaulting inmates.


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This turned out quite a good topic with a lot of good comments from several experts, ending up discussing manometers!!!!!!!.......
Well I suppose I could start a new topic.... well let's see what the opinions will be as it is related.
Cable adjustment on throttle and choke.
I have briefly read a few articles on tuning and adjusting the cables....
Now this is where it gets difficult to describe and maybe test.
Let's assume the carbs are tuned, balanced, cables adjusted and synchronised etc.
I believe that there should be some sorts of test or check preformed to confirm your adjustments you have just made are correct other that riding.
When opening the throttle fully open on the handle bar how do you know that the carb is opening up all the way? Is there a check that can be performed other that using you finger to pull up the throttle lever or cable to check that it is opening all the way up to the maximum or stop lever?
I would have thought if the pipes from the air filters were disconnected at the time of doing adjustments then you could look in the back end of the carb you would be able to see the opening and closing of the butterfly as the throttle is twisted. (Assuming that going beyond this point would be closing the flow of air???) Once the butterfly reaches the midpoint or the horizontal position in the throat that this would be the fully open throttle position even though there was still room to move the lever or cables more upwards as if to accelerate more. Please give me your thoughts.
Similarly what would the test be to check adjustment on the choke cable? For example the handle bar lever is moved to the 1/2 choke position. What position must the start valve be in? Also for the fully cocked lever position, how do you check that the start valve is where it is supposed to be?
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Known for its tropical climate, laid-back lifestyle and cruise ship visitors, Key West, Fla., now is staking its claim as the southernmost home of youth lacrosse in the continental United States.
Located closer to Havana than Miami, this tiny island has developed a reputation as an enticing vacation destination for mainlanders. But don't be misled, said Alex Smith, co-founder of the Key West Youth Lacrosse League (KWYLL). "There are a lot of families down here too."
The Key West Youth Lacrosse League is for girls and boys ages 5-15 years. Emphasis will be placed on having fun, skill development, teamwork, sportsmanship, and promoting good will among all teams and individuals.


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Protests Block Bulgaria's Capital City
Filed Under: Opinion, Politics | Posted: 06/15/2012 at 8:45AM
Comments | Region: Bulgaria
Written by Ruslan Trad
This week, Bulgaria's capital Sofia was blocked for two days, June 13 and 14, due to the unsanctioned protests against the modification of the vague Forest Act, known as the "Amendments 'Vitosha ski' [1]" because the changes were made allegedly under pressure from the company that owns ski resorts on Vitosha Mountain near Sofia. Around 5,000 people (2,000 on the first day and 3,000 on the second) took part in the protests.
The Forest Act already permits installation of certain skiing facilities and equipment without changing the status of the land. Many people think that the "oligarchs," with their lobbies in the Parliament, want these lands for private use.
Environmental activists and other people self-organize with the help of Facebook [2] [bg], Twitter, and text messages.
June 13, the first day of the protests, was the birthday of the Bulgarian PM Boiko Borisov [3], suspected to have ties with the "oligarchs."
Bulgarian journalist Ivan Bedrov wrote "Happy birthday, dear Boiko" on his blog [4] [bg], posting a video from the June 13 rally:vimeo.com/44003411
The police arrested the total of 24 people in the two days of the protests, and three people were reported injured.
Below is a video recorded by the author of this post, showing the beginning of the arrests on June 13:youtu.be/kOFS-v7-l14
After the June 14 rally, the people spontaneously set off for the President's office building. This video shows heavy police presence:youtu.be/ipzEGEWsiIY
More videos from the protests are here [6] and here [7].
Facebook page "Occupy Bulgaria" (with more than 14,000 members) posted 44 photos [8] from the June 14 protest.
There is a petition on Avaaz: "Call Bulgaria's president to veto the new Forests Act and end unscrupulous Government aid to oligarchs" [9].
The third protest is scheduled to take place today, on June 15. The Facebook event [10] [bg] for it is titled "Block Orlov Bridge III."
Article printed from Global Voices: http://globalvoicesonline.org
URL to article: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/06/15/bulgaria-protests-against-forest-act-in-sofia/


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Parks Canada wishes to advise anglers that Trout River, Trout River Pond
and tributaries in Gros Morne National Park will be closed to angling until
further notice. The closure is a conservation measure that will help to
rebuild Atlantic salmon and sea-run trout populations that have declined in
the river to a point where both are at risk.
The closure will be in effect from one hour after sunset on May 31, 2013 until further notice.
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Fishing is a popular activity in Gros Morne. Trout and salmon can be caught
in many scenic rivers and brooks. Make sure your fishing trip is relaxing by
learning about the regulations before you head out. Children under 16 years
of age do not require a licence or permit if accompanied by a licensed
angler. Their catch counts towards said angler's catch limits. In
addition to fishing permits and licences, anglers require a park pass.
The most important regulations are summarized below. Detailed information can
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Zanu-PF will reward best performing provinces during its Annual National People's Conference in a move meant to enhance competence in the revolutionary party. This is the first time that Zanu-PF has embarked on such an exercise.
The party's national political commissar Cde Webster Shamu confirmed the development in an interview with the Herald on the sidelines of yesterday's central committee meeting.
"We are going to judge the performance of our 10 provinces on the basis of how they carried out their restructuring exercises and verification of party structures.
"That is, where the restructuring exercise completed and were they done properly," he said.
Cde Shamu said judges would also look into the state of the provinces' registers and data on party members in all structures from the cell level to the provincial level.
Consideration would also be made on whether the provinces were implementing decision made by the party hierarchy.
The province that will scoop the first award will get US$6 000, runner up US$3 000, third placed US$1 000 while the fourth will be given the Zanu-PF constitution.


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The Coat of Arms of Canada (also known as the Royal Arms of Canada or, more properly, the Arms of His/Her Majesty in Right of Canada) is, since 1921, the official coat of arms of the Canadian monarch, and thus also of Canada. It is closely modelled after the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom particularly those of the Jacobean era though with distinctive Canadian elements replacing or added to those derived from the British.
The maple leaves in the shield, originally green, were redrawn gules (red) in 1957, and a circlet of the Order of Canada was added to the arms for limited use in 1987. The shield design forms the Royal Standard of Canada, and the shield is found on the Canadian Red Ensign. The Flag of the Governor General of Canada, which formerly used the shield over the Union Jack, now uses the crest of the arms on a blue field.
The new layout closely reflected the arms of the United Kingdom—except for the fleurs-de-lis in the fourth quarter and the sprig of maple leaves in the base—and was adopted in 1921, when it was proclaimed by King George V as the Arms or Ensigns Armorial of the Dominion of Canada, on November 21. By 1957, the arms were redrawn by Alan Beddoe so as to have red leaves, and to change the royal crown from one of a Tudor design to one more resembling the St. Edward's Crown, as preferred by Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1994, the Queen approved a new design for general use (already in limited use from 1987) for the arms by Cathy Bursey-Sabourin, which had added to it an annulus behind the shield with the motto of the Order of Canada. It was soon adopted as the version used by the federal government within the Federal Identity Program.
In June 2008 MP Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House Of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
The shield is divided into five sections:
The first division at the viewer's top left contains the three golden lions that have been a symbol of England since at least the reign of King Richard I. The second quarter bears the red lion rampant of Scotland in a double tressure border with fleurs-de-lis, used as a symbol of Scotland since at least the reign of William I. The third quarter shows the Irish harp of Tara. Legend states that this golden harp with silver strings was used in royal banquets at Tara, a capital of ancient Ireland, and was later given to Henry VIII by the pope during his attempt to succeed to the Irish throne. The gold fleurs-de-lis of royal France, the first post-medieval European emblem raised in Canada by Jacques Cartier, during his landing at Gaspé, fill the fourth quarter.The tinctures of the quarters are Gules (red), Or (gold), Azure (blue), Azure and Argent (silver) respectively.
The fifth charge, a sprig of red maple leaves at the bottom is a distinctly Canadian symbol that became gradually identified with the country throughout the 19th century. They were first proposed as a symbol in 1834, were established in 1868 on the arms of Quebec and Ontario and officially became the national emblem in 1965, with the proclamation of the Flag of Canada. Initially, the leaves were depicted as coloured green on the coat of arms because it was thought to represent youth, as opposed to the red colour of dying leaves in autumn (however, they are blazoned as "proper," so could be shown as either red or green, and it is the blazon, rather than any depiction, which is regarded as authoritative). The leaves were later redrawn in official depictions in 1957 with the current colour to be in line with the official colours of Canada. The shield forms the basis of the royal standard of Canada.
The ribbon is marked desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "desiring a better country." It is the motto of the Order of Canada. This component was added, by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister, to the arms used to represent the Queen in 1987, after a new Canadian "law of arms" was created, which included the rule that the motto of the Order of Canada would be included around the personal coat of arms of any Canadian who received an appointment to the Order, while the arms used by government ministers and departments remained without the ribbon. Since 1994 the arms used by government ministers and institutions now reflect the personal arms of the Queen.
The arms show a royal helmet, which is a barred helm of gold looking outward, and draped in a mantle of white and red which are the official colours of Canada. The golden helmet facing the viewer symbolizes Canada's sovereignty.
The crest is based on the Royal Crest of England but differenced by the addition of a maple leaf, and appears on the Governor General's blue flag denoting that the Governor General is a representative of the Sovereign.
It consists of a crowned gold lion standing on a twisted wreath of red and white silk and holding a maple leaf in its right paw. Above the crest is St Edward's Crown, the style preferred by the Queen. (See the article on the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom for a discussion of different styles of crown historically used in the Commonwealth.)
The 1921 design was a Tudor crown, and the style was modernized to its current form in 1957 by the Canadian government, although the Queen had indicated her preference in May 1952, shortly after ascending the throne in February 1952.
The motto of Canada is in Latin a mari usque ad mare (From sea to sea), a part of Psalm 72:8. This phrase was first suggested by Samuel Leonard Tilley, a Father of Confederation. The motto appears at the base of the arms. The motto was originally used in 1906 on the head of the mace of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. It was included in the Arms of Canada in 1921.
In March 2006, the premiers of Canada's three territories called for the amendment of the motto to better reflect the vast geographic nature of Canada's territory—Canada has three coastlines on the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. Two suggestions for a new motto are A mari ad mare ad mare (from sea to sea to sea) and A mari usque ad maria (from the sea to the other seas). The motto remains unchanged.
Supporting the shield on either side are the English lion and Scottish unicorn, which are also the supporters of the UK coat of arms. The lion stands on the viewer's left and holds a gold-pointed silver lance flying the Union Flag. The unicorn has a gold horn, a gold mane, gold hooves, and around its neck a gold, chained coronet of crosses and fleurs-de-lis; it holds a lance flying the three gold fleurs-de-lis of royal France on a blue background. Unlike the British version, the lion is not crowned, nor is it facing the viewer. Supporters holding lances displaying flags are elements adopted from the Royal coat of arms of Scotland.
The heraldic blazon of Canada's coat of arms, proclaimed in 1921 was:
Tierced in fesse the first and second divisions containing the quarterly coat following, namely, 1st Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or, 2nd, Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory gules, 3rd, Azure a harp or stringed argent, 4th, Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, and the third division Argent three maple leaves conjoined on one stem proper. And upon a Royal helmet mantled argent doubled gules the Crest, that is to say, On a wreath of the colours argent and gules a lion passant guardant or imperially crowned proper and holding in the dexter paw a maple leaf gules. And for Supporters On the dexter a lion rampant or holding a lance argent, point or, flying therefrom to the dexter the Union Flag, and on the sinister A unicorn argent armed crined and unguled or, gorged with a coronet composed of crosses-patée and fleurs-de-lis a chain affixed thereto reflexed of the last, and holding a like lance flying therefrom to the sinister a banner azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis or; the whole ensigned with the Imperial Crown proper and below the shield upon a wreath composed of roses, thistles, shamrocks and lillies a scroll azure inscribed with the motto A mari usque ad mare.
The circlet of the Order of Canada was added around the shield for limited use in 1987, and for general use in 1994.
The coat of arms is also found on the 50 cent coin, a coin that is rarely used, but in circulation.


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The University of Northern Iowa swim and dive team are set to begin the Missouri Valley Conference Championships on Thursday in Carbondale, Illinois. The meet will take place February 14-16 at the Dr. Edward Shea Natataorium on the campus of Southern Illinois University. Preliminaries will begin at 11:00 a.m. on both Thursday and Friday and will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Finals are slated to begin at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and will start at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. For diving, 1-meter preliminaries will start at 1:00 p.m. at Thursday and the finals for that event will be held Thursday night at 7:05. 3-meter preliminaries will begin at 1:00 on Friday. First half finals for the 3-meter dive will begin at 7:00 on Friday night, and the second half will be held Saturday night at 6:00.
Last year, the Panthers placed fifth at the MVC Championships. Bethany Hovland took fourth in the 1-meter dive and 6th in the 3-meter dive. Natalie Johnson placed seventh in the 100 backstroke with a season best time of 58.07. Lindsey Phelps took 10th place in the 200 freestyle with a season best time of 1:55.38. Stephanie Paape placed 11th in the 200 breaststroke and 13th in the 100 breaststroke.
UNI fell in their final meet of the 2012-13 regular season. The Panthers were defeated by the Iowa State Cyclones 195-103 on January 26th. Freshman Taylor Ostrowski continued dominance in the 200 butterfly, narrowly defeating Tiana Wollin of ISU. Ostrowski finished with a time of 2:10.27 and Wollin of ISU finished at 2:10.44. Stephanie Frederick took first in the 100 freestyle for the Panthers. She finished with a time of 54.45 in the event. Frederick also took the runner up spot in the 50 freestyle, finishing with a time of 24.87. Bethany Hovland took second place in both dive events. She finished with 256.42 points in the 1-meter dive and 262.27 points in the 3-meter dive. Natalie Johnson took a pair of third place finishes home for the Panthers as well. Johnson finished with a time of 1:00.07 in the 100 backstroke and had a time of 2:11.91 in the 200 backstroke.
"We're looking forward to culminating a year of hard work and growth for this team and to put together everything that we can for a great competition starting on Thursday and running through Saturday," said head coach Doug Humphrey. "It's an exciting time for this program. We have a young squad going down to Carbondale to show off what they have worked so hard for. It's also a time for us to hopefully wipe out some records. That's my expectation that we are going to rewrite that record board, starting this weekend hopefully with multiple people adding their name to the list of the all-time greats here at UNI."


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SIGNING: Bronte's Dakota Rawls signs letter of intent to play basketball for ASU
BRONTE — Just over a month ago, Dakota Rawls was leading his Bronte High School basketball team to the Class 1A, Division II state championship game at the Frank Erwin Center, for the second consecutive season.
Wednesday, he signed an official letter-of-intent to play for Angelo State University, fulfilling a dream he has had since he was young.
"I've been watching them my entire life, as I was growing up," Rawls said. His brother Logan has been a student assistant at ASU, "and he has always said good things (about the program) and that it was a good place to play. I am making a dream a reality."
The 6-foot-5 guard followed up a junior season in which he helped the Longhorns go on a run to the state championship game, with an even better senior year. He capped off his high school career by being named the Texas Class 1A Player of the Year for the second straight season.
This season he averaged 20.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in leading the Longhorns back to the Class 1A title game, even with the giant bull's-eye of being the preseason No. 1-ranked team.
He excelled not just on the court but on the football field, on the golf course and on the track. Now, he will have the chance to focus on just basketball at ASU.
"He has been such a multisport athlete at Bronte, he will finally get to settle down and focus on one," his high school coach and father, Rocky Rawls, said.
ASU head coach Fred Rike said in a news release that getting the chance to play basketball full time gives him a huge opportunity to improve.
"In high school he played football, so that took some of his time out of the gym, but now he has 12 months out of the year to play basketball," Rike said. "He has a very high ceiling for improvement and he has a great upside. He is a talented guy, and I think he can play multiple positions for us. We are excited about him."
Dakota Rawls said that the proximity of ASU helped in the decision-making process as his family and friends will be able to watch him play. He said he never thought seriously about playing collegiately until last year, when schools started to contact him.
Rocky Rawls said his son showed signs during last year's playoffs that he could play in college. Then, "We went to some team camps last summer — one at A&M — and he really excelled at that, against bigger competition. I really thought then that he had the opportunity."
Rike called Rawls "one of the better high school players from our area in a long time."
"Dakota can do a lot of things," Rike said. "He can shoot the basketball and he is very athletic — I think he had around 60 dunks this year. I think he is going to be a good player in the Lone Star Conference. This is a good start for us with a recruiting class that is going to be big."
After dominating 1A competition for four years, Dakota Rawls knows he will have to adapt to Division II basketball.
"I think there is a big difference, and I will have to adapt pretty quickly to get started there but I think I should be fine," he said. "They have a good staff. They are tough and I am going to have to work hard, but that is pretty much like (playing for) my dad. It will be different than what I'm used to, but it will be good for me."
Rocky Rawls is excited about having the opportunity to see his son play at the nearby Junell Center.
"It gives us an opportunity to watch him, and gives him a chance to grow as a basketball player and a student-athlete," Rocky Rawls said. "Logan has told him lots of things to get him ready. As a mom and dad, we are real happy that he is playing for Coach Rike. He is a good
Christian man, and we know he is going to be taken care of."
The proud father had the chance to play collegiately at Southwestern University in Georgetown, and is pleased his son will get his shot.
"This means a whole lot," Rocky Rawls said. "I was fortunate enough when I was his age to get the chance to play college basketball and I am happy that he will get to experience that."
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Maybach Exelero sold for $8 million - report
Bought by the Birdman
Sure, you can buy a Maybach 57S Cruiserio Coupe for a million dollars (€675,000) but why bother when you can have the real thing for just $7 million (€4,721,200) more?
According to recent reports, the Birdman (aka rapper Bryan Williams) plopped down a hefty wad of cash to purchase a Maybach Exelero coupe. We weren't aware any were for sale, but the original show car was handed over to German tire company Fulda Reifenwerke and we haven't heard much about it since then.
As we have previously reported, the Exelero features a 6.0-liter biturbo V12 engine that produces 691 hp (515 kW / 700 PS) and 1,020 Nm (752 lb-ft) of torque. It enables the car to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds and hit a top speed of 218 mph (351 km/h).
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Cadillac lacked the financial resources to make the Sixteen which I believe was inspired by Bugatti Veyron 16.4 contemporarily. It could have put Cadillac on the globe again and their prestige profile could have been much higher than present. In my humble opinion, an opportunity lost.
May 2, 2011 10:58 am
Okay, so now you will see this car in every GodDamn Music Video Birdman or Lil Wayne will produce with half naked chicks rubbing on or around the car.
May 2, 2011 10:39 am
You could have a custom car maker like Chop Foose make a car like this, which looks much better, for much much less. Madness.
May 2, 2011 2:50 am
the front grill is way too sexual for me
May 1, 2011 8:27 pm
Please Birdman... don't go Hammer time (no disrespect to Hammer)
May 1, 2011 6:21 am
Broseph Stalin
I can't wait till this rapper dude turns this thing chorme
May 1, 2011 12:47 am
Because all the guys from Dubai and London don't do that right?! Ha!
May 1, 2011 1:37 pm
For $8 million, Cadillac would've sold him the Sixteen, which in my opinion is a billion times better, sexier and the interior doesnt look cheesy.
Apr 30, 2011 5:14 pm
I sure wish Cadillac had produced the sixteen. I am a Benz man , but the sixteen was sex on wheels.
May 1, 2011 3:13 pm
Interior is totally at odds with flamboyant exterior. This was the Concept car that could have defined Maybach! Now it's a joke.
Apr 30, 2011 4:54 pm
This car looks so cheaply done. Roadside tuners have a similar design air in my country.
Apr 30, 2011 1:19 pm
this is funny , for those who understand German : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM3ic-9sXaQ
Apr 30, 2011 12:47 pm
Yes, the "stock" interior isn't so spectacular but him being him - he'll most likely have it revised if he doesn't fancy it. More money yes, but apparently he can afford it.
Apr 30, 2011 10:45 am
As far as I recollect - there are more than one, despite the popular claim that there was only one produced.
Apr 30, 2011 10:43 am
I'm pretty sure there's only one original Maybach-built car, then there are licensed replicas made by an independent company
Apr 30, 2011 5:45 pm
Apr 30, 2011 5:21 am
many cars don't have fog lights... BMW M5 & M6 off the top of my head
Apr 30, 2011 7:47 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_(rapper) according to wiki, he is worth 100M...
Apr 30, 2011 5:05 am
This is probably the kind of car rich people might buy before the Bugatti Veyron appeared. Btw if Dracula was alive this would be the car he drives !!
Apr 30, 2011 3:41 am


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"Refill with Tamamori Tamagotchi P's pink seal will be released November 2012 ★ [] ★"
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At the close of the first week of Kenya's military campaign against the group, al Shabaab ratcheted up its war rhetoric, warning that Kenya will pay dearly for its campaign.
On Thursday, al Shabaab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage displayed more than 70 bodies of alleged African Union peacekeepers claimed to have been killed in a showdown in Mogadishu, saying "this is a message to Kenya that has invaded our country".
The group claimed that it killed the peace-keeping soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) following a fierce firefight.
However, AU has dismissed the al Shabaab figures, insisting only 16 of its soldiers were killed. (READ: 16 soldiers killed in Mogadishu)
Security analysts say that both sides are probably cooking up the numbers of casualties, but they nonetheless agree that the incident illustrates how adept al Shabaab is at peddling propaganda at a time of dwindling support for their cause.
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In order to receive support and gain a sense of legitimacy, every conflict is fought on at least two fronts: the battlefield, and in the minds of the people via propaganda, an inevitable element of every conflict.
In this regard, military analysts have been less than impressed by the manner in which the Army and government have handled communication about the Somalia offensive. "Kenyans have little information about the progress," said security analyst, Capt (Rtd) Simiyu Werunga.
Elsewhere, especially in the West, declarations of war are characterised by lofty speeches of triumphalism by political leaders.
In contrast, the announcement by Internal Security minister George Saitoti and Defence minister Yusuf Haji resembled a security briefing.
But it seems a deliberate tactic by the State, says Capt Werunga. The government has stated that it is not at war with Somalia or its people but with elements bent on disrupting Kenya's way of life.
"A grand statement by the President would probably have given it such a shade and given more arsenal to al Shabaab," he said.
The President has stressed the need for the operation and has received overwhelming backing from Cabinet, Parliament and the general public.
Assailed at home by counter-insurgency groups and now facing military action from regional countries, al Shabaab is fast losing support.
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James May drives the new Lada Niva
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However, and at the risk of being branded a right poof, here is an extract from the owner's manual for the car I've just been driving.
"Pull up the door handle to open the door from the outside. The courtesy light comes on automatically when the door is opened." How about that? I'd have struggled to work that one out for myself. It goes on:
"The doors have locks, which can be engaged from outside using button 1, or from inside using button 4. From inside, the door can be opened by pulling the handle, irrespective of the lock button position."
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