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The Glass HouseRead MoreResembling a space ship abandoned by aliens who had recently time-traveled to hang out with Le Corbusier, The Glass House is a portal to rock and dance sounds for music-lovers of all ages. It's also a cornerstone of downtown Pomona's close-knit arts district, surrounded by record stores, cafes, and vintage shops. Holiday-themed shows and fundraising concerts join young, on-the-rise bands on the calendar, along with established favorites such as New Found Glory and The Faint.200 W Second St.Pomona, CA US
Katiejakes Bar and GrillRead MoreCome to Katiejakes Bar and Grill for a sandwich and side — this eatery serves American cuisine everyone will love. Order a bottle for the table if you like — Katiejakes Bar and Grill has a full bar stocked with the best wine, beer, and more. Katiejakes Bar and Grill features some of the most affordable happy hour deals in town. Get down after dinner to some live music — restaurant often hosts bands and other musical acts. Sound levels can reach upper decibel levels at the restaurant, so sensitive ears beware! Interested in eating out over the weekend? Keep in mind that the restaurant gets swamped on Fridays and Saturdays, and service may take longer than expected. With parking onsite, it's easier to get straight to our delicious food. Who's hungry for great grub at a reasonable rate? Katiejakes Bar and Grill's yummy creations will leave a mark in your memory but not a dent in your pocketbook.750 Terrado PlzCovina, CA US
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J D Allison's Bar and GrillRead MoreLooking for a quiet bar with tasty beverages? Visit J D Allison's Bar and Grill and tip back a few. Come prepared to feast at J D Allison's Bar and Grill — with no low-fat options, any diets will need to be put aside for the moment. Great food plus TV equals the perfect fan meal. Bring the whole clan to J D Allison's Bar and Grill — kids and parents will love the menu and ambience here. Enjoy the luxury of eating a delicious meal outside at J D Allison's Bar and Grill. Your group can sit comfortably at J D Allison's Bar and Grill, a local restaurant. Amp up your evening with some music — live bands or a DJ often perform here. You'll also catch a live DJ spinning at J D Allison's Bar and Grill some evenings. For an eclectic twist on traditional dining, live music is often featured at J D Allison's Bar and Grill as well. Interested in eating out over the weekend? Keep in mind that the bar gets swamped on Fridays and Saturdays, and service may take longer than expected. Casual dining at its best, J D Allison's Bar and Grill customers are free to enjoy themselves in jeans and a T-shirt. The bar has catering services as well. Patrons will love the number of street and lot parking options close to J D Allison's Bar and Grill. J D Allison's Bar and Grill offers safe bike parking outside. Your tab at J D Allison's Bar and Grill will usually run to about $30 per guest. J D Allison's Bar and Grill has menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner — just pick your favorite meal and head over.291 N 2nd AveUpland, CA US
Hothouse Rehearsal StudiosRead MoreHothouse Studios? ?Where Music Grows? is centrally located in Santa Fe Springs, 20 minutes from Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire. We feature a professional and comfortable atmosphere with clean studios, ranging in size and price.11823 Slauson AvenueSanta Fe Springs, CA US
Maya's CafeRead MoreCorona's Maya's Cafe has tasty eats and creative beverages. Vegan, low-fat and gluten-free diners will be satisfied with the menu at Maya's Cafe. You'll find a wonderful selection of drinks from Maya's Cafe's full bar to top off your meal. The happy hour at Maya's Cafe offers deals you won't want to miss. The patio tables outside of Maya's Cafe are the perfect spot for a summer meal. Maya's Cafe keeps your ears entertained with live music or a DJ. The restaurant frequently features a DJ, so patrons can treat their ears to some of the best beats around town. Those who enjoy dancing can make their mark on the open floor. Crowds tend to pack the place on weekends, so call ahead to reserve a table. No need to be formal, business casual will pass. Maya's Cafe is located in a prime area for those who wish to park in lots. A dinner that is yummy and affordable is the standard at Maya's Cafe. Chow down on breakfast, lunch, or dinner fare at Maya's Cafe — they're open for all three meals.13627 Magnolia AveCorona, CA US

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This article on Lifehacker about substituting ingredients to make your food more healthy made me think of my own strategies for weight control over the years.
One of the keys to living a long time is maintaining a healthy weight. I have a huge appetite and if I didn't exercise as frequently as I do, I'm certain I would weigh nearly 300 lbs. Even with daily joggling, I'm considered "overweight" based on my BMI. I like to eat. So, I've tried to find ways to reduce calories without having to reduce how much I eat.
Many of my calories come from what I drink. Therefore, I made some conscious changes to reduce the effect of my drinking habits.
1. Switch from regular soda to diet soda. I love drinking soda pop. I would drink 3 or 4 cans a day. At 150 calories a can that started to add up. So, I switched from the regular soda to the diet sodas despite the fact that I couldn't stand the taste. After a couple months of drinking it, I tolerated it. After a few more months, I liked it. Now, I prefer diet sodas over regular ones. Diet Dr. Pepper is my favorite.
2. Switch from soda to other options. Another drinking change was to switch from soda to tea. I never liked coffee but could tolerate hot tea. In my younger years I used to give up soda for Lent so during that time I would drink tea. Eventually I liked it as an alternative. But with 2 sugar packets used per glass of tea, it wasn't much healthier. That's why I tried the next strategy.
3. Wean yourself off of sugar. When I first started drinking tea regularly, I would add multiple sugar packets. Then one day I started thinking that all the sugar wasn't good for my weight or my teeth. This lead to cutting back from two sugar packets to one. Then I went from one to half a packet. After about 6 months I switched to no sugar and have never gone back. I believe this change has made a significant impact on my weight. Now I drink nearly a gallon of hot tea a day and do so without any calories.
4. Switch to fat free milk. I like cereal and used to use whole milk. I switched to skim milk which has about half the calories and it tastes just as good to me. It took some time to adapt but you will adapt nonetheless.
5. Eat carrots instead of chips. I'm a huge fan of potato chips and could probably eat them every day. I don't. Instead, I get carrots and eat them instead. At first they are a poor substitute but eventually you get used to them. If you're like me you'll even come to like them.
And here are some food substitutions that were suggested in the article.
6. Switch to lower calorie, more flavorful cheeses.
7. Use applesauce or oils rather than butter. Perfect idea for toast.
8. Use flavors like cinnamon, vanilla, or nutmeg instead of sugar.
9. Use herbs instead of salt.
10. Use yogurt instead of sour cream.
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WALLA WALLA — Classical music resounded at Whitman College's Kimball Theatre on Friday for what it is hoped will be the standard for the Fridays at Four concert series.
"We want to give them (students) the gift of hearing professional musicians and their own faculty, and you need an intimate space for that really," senior lecturer in music Jackie Wood said.
On Friday at 4 p.m., some of the professional classical music included the distinctly Spanish Flamenco style with a strong French impressionistic influence that is characteristic of the music of Joaquin Turina.
That music was played by world renowned and Seattle-based classical guitarist Michael Partington.
"I love to play here. The guitars do so well here, I think it sounds fantastic," Partington said, after having played for about an hour in the recital hall that seats roughly 100.
Other familiar college sounds will still be regularly heard in the hall, including the drone of lecturer's voices, the excitement of students debating, the voices of music majors performing arias, the Whitman jazz ensembles, and even the din of campus clubs as they hold regular meetings in the hall that also doubles as a movie theater.
But when it comes to Fridays at Four, starting next year the music department will hold fewer concerts to try to have a larger budget to accommodate more visiting classical artists like Partington.
The goal is to not only provide access to accomplished musicians and their music, but to allow students to experience that music in a venue that needs no amplification and yet amplifies the connection between performer and listener.
"It is very informal and the performers talk to the people and it is more interactive," Kimball Theatre coordinator Kristi Von Handorf, 20, said.
Even more, the Fridays at Four series is free and open to the public, though sometimes it is standing room only.
"It's a very popular series and we hope it will continue to be ... It's a great little hall for just friendly intimate high quality music of all kinds," Wood said.
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But the atmosphere was casual, and editors were encouraged to circulate around the showroom after the show.
The GOP lambasted the president for being too aloof and casual about leaks that endanger national security.
He was not a man given to casual affectionate display; the moment was charged with emotion.
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This is a very big book, more than 600 pages and crammed full of sumptuous examples of Zaha's many and varied works from sketch drawings to furniture interior and industrial design and her many recently realised buildings. She clearly has an astonishing gift for beauty of form and line and her buildings are uncompromisingly elegant and excitement abounds everywhere. I havn't yet read right through it which is going to take quite some time but I would recommend it as astounding value for the price. So why only 4 stars? - well, Zaha must have a dark side to her nature because the images are almost invariably a bit underexposed and some are really very dark indeed. This seems to have been done for artistic reasons to give a slightly sinister and mysterious look to everything but even the daylight shots look a bit gloomy. Her buildings and interiors tend not to look that way in reality I would have preferred to see them as bright as they actually are, although I would understand those who prefer the artistic interpretation. Still - a must have for any Architect or Zaha fan.
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Well laid out, thorough book of Zaha's accomplished works spanning her entire career. Great visuals of every project and a beautiful foil printed cover! A must have for any fan! Highly recommended.
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The engine may have a higher that normal idle at times. After cold start with an automatic transmission and when the clutch is depressed with a manual transmission. Our technicians tell us updated powertrain control module (PCM) software is available to address this concern.Google+
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The Likud Party reportedly voted overwhelmingly to approve merging its candidates list with the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party.
Likud members gathered Monday at a party convention in Tel Aviv to vote on the proposal floated last week by the Likud chairman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Liberman, the foreign minister.
A move to put the vote on the proposal to a secret ballot was denied at the convention.
The proposal included stipulations that the Likud head will choose the position of the party's candidates on the list, as determined by a party primary, and that the two parties will be represented on the list with the balance in the current government -- 27 seats for Likud and 15 for Yisrael Beiteinu.
Israeli general elections are set for Jan. 22.
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Yes another blog, partially, about L.A Noire. I know it is hardly the most uncommon of things around these boards, but it's not like any of you read these things so who care, right?
My thoughts on L.A. Noire
So yes, in my last blog I noted how it my copy hadn't arrived, even after 5 days of shipping time. It still didn't arrive for a further two days after this. So I was playing the game a full week/4 days after everybody else.
I don't really like it. It is a bad game. A bad game with some brilliant ideas that I hope will be taken that much further in the next game, or at least in games in the same vein; but a bad game nonetheless. The driving is not as good as a 2011 game should be, we all expect it to be a bit 'boaty' considering the setting but Mafia 2 seemed to do it much better and in the same time setting, and it feels lifted straight out of a game 10 years ago; the textures, not the graphics as a whole, just the textures are lazily drawn, pretty low resolution, and most of the time, anything lacking importance will be part of the texture below e.g. paintings, newspapers, tramlines, manholes, windows, keyholes etc and it make the game look very flat; the mo-cap that isn't facial is pretty poor, the characters kind of flop about when they die, and instead of recording a sprinting animation they just speed Cole up; the gun combat is terrible, the damage done doesn't change depending where you hit them -- except for the head -- so you can't incapacitate targets with a gun, only kill, which as a detective is something you don't want to be doing; and the 'brawling' consists of mashing X and occasionally Square 'til it tells you to press Circle. Now most of these are clearly filler content between clue hunting and interrogating, but still it is really obvious it is filler, which is wrong.
Then there is the interrogation sequences: these consist of you asking a suspect a series of questions, usually 3 or 4, and then gauging by the way they answer whether or not they are telling the truth. This usually boils down to did their animation stop or are they still moving their face. Simple as that. If they stare blankly at you then are telling the truth, and if they are looking around or smirking or avoiding your gaze etc, then they are lying. Now if they are lying you have two options, you press doubt if you don't have evidence and you click lie and choose the evidence if you do. Now it isn't always obvious which piece of evidence you need, as a few times I have clicked lie chose the evidence I would expect to be correct and have it be wrong. I have also had occasions where the perp has just looked at me and blinked like a normal person would so I have chosen truth and it turned out they were lying, which is a load of crap.
Obviously, these sections could be brilliant, but they are massively flawed. A lot of questions have answers that will be repeated in later questions and you'll act like you didn't know. And I know this is so if you miss it once you have another chance, but they could have at least removed them if you already know the answer, or maybe tailor it so they answer differently as they know you already know the answer. E.G. "Yeah that bar I told you about" or something similar.
Lastly we have the clues: they operate in a user friendly manner; when the music chimes and the controller vibrates press X, and when the music stops you have found all of them. It's all kinds of simple, but it isn't boring at all, it is actually kinda cool being able to manipulate loads of different clues and possible clues to check for evidence and such, because the detail put into the important ones is pretty high.
I felt initially it was pointless to talk about the facial animation because it is so damn good and this is kind of an obvious point to talk about, but whatever, y'all be moaning so here it is. I really like the facial animation, even if it is a bit creepy seeing Greg Grunberg telling me he wasn't a killer. The tech used to recreate it is mighty impressive, and Team Bondi should be darned proud of it, I know I am. I really hope they license it out to other, more capable, studios but I really doubt Rockstar would let them, which sucks.
Now this game could have been brilliant, but as it is, it much too shallow. I kinda feel like I am offending both Detectives and Adventure games by calling it a Detective Adventure game like so many others have but hey. If the dialog had been more dynamic and I was given more freedom to choose the way I ask my questions then it would have made the game much, much better. And if the whole thing didn't look like a Playstation 2 game it would have helped me ignore the bad driving and bad gunplay. But alas, too many glaring faults makes this game pretty un-enjoyable, for the most part.
I don't think I'm much more than half way through, so I will try and sit it out 'til the end but I won't be surprised if I don't.
Ok, I am now onto the Vice missions. I really enjoyed the setting and atmosphere of the end of the last homicide case, but it was ruined by being forced to blow some dude's brains out.
If I was to give it a rating it would probably be a 6/10. Great ideas that definitely deserve praise, but they are poorly executed, and the filler content is quite obviously filler content.
Dirt 3
Now this is a bloody good game.
I have always enjoyed Rally games, ever since the first Colin McRae game back for the Playstation. This on is no exception, even if it does fail to bear the Colin Mcrae name.
Unfortunately I don't have as much to write about this: the rallying itself feels a lot better than Dirt 2, which I found felt pretty arcade-y, the wide range of cars and the re-inclusion of the WRC license are all things that make me happy.
There are only two things I'd change about the game: firstly I would bring back proper rallies, not just one off events, but multi-staged rally events where you have to take care of your car in between, much like in real rallying; and secondly I would burn that friggin' American commentator at the stake, WHY DOES HE SPEAK TO ME LIKE THIS WAS DUDE WHERE'S MY CAR? Oh a third thing actually, I would include actual rally drivers like Mikko Hirvonen, Sebatien Loeb, and Petter and Henning Solberg; not people like Dave Mirra and Travis Pastrana. Ken Block is ok because he actually does drive in the WRC now.
But I am having buckets and buckets of fun with this game, so much so I attempted to organise a race night for last Thursday, but that failed because you all suck. Yes, that is why.
Anyway I feel myself not wanting to type any more. So scores.
As a Rally game dirt 3 gets a 9/10.
As a regular video game it gets an 8/10, if only for the fact that as a Rally game, there are only two of the main areas you can excel in, graphics and gameplay.
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Chocolate Orange Souffle Roll
|Sweet baking chocolate
|8 Ounce (2 Package)
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Grand marnier/Other orange flavored liqueur
|1 Teaspoon
|8 Small, separated
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|2 Tablespoon
|Whipping cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Vanilla extract
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Powdered sugar
|1 Tablespoon
|Semisweet chocolate dipped orange sections
Grease bottom and sides of an 18- x 12-x 1-inch jellyroll pan with vegetable oil; line with wax paper.
Combine chocolate and water in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil.
Reduce heat to low; cook, stirring occasionally, until chocolate melts.
Stir in Grand Marnier; set aside to cool.
Place egg yolks in a large bowl; beat at high speed of an electric mixer until foamy.
Gradually add 1 cup sugar, beating until thick and lemon colored.
Gradually add chocolate mixture, mixing well.
Beat egg whites (at room temperature) at high speed of an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
Fold whites into chocolate mixture.
Pour into jellyroll pan, spreading evenly.
Bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
Immediately cover with a damp linen towel; cool on a wire rack 20 minutes.
Remove, towel.
Loosen edges of souffle with a metal spatula; sift cocoa over top.
Place 2 lengths of wax paper (longer than jellyroll pan) over souffle.
Holding both ends of wax paper and pan, quickly invert pan.
Remove pan and carefully peel paper from souffle.
Beat whipping cream until foamy; gradually add 3 tablespoons powdered sugar and vanilla, beating until soft peaks form.
Spoon whipped cream mixture evenly over souffle.
Starting at short side, carefully roll up jellyroll fashion, using wax paper to support as you roll.
Carefully slide roll (on wax paper) onto a plate, seam side down.
Sift additional powdered sugar over roll.
Garnish with semisweet chocolate-dipped orange sections.
Trim away excess wax paper around sides of roll.


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LÓKAL – International Theatre Festival Reykjavík is an annual event that introduces cutting edge theatre to audiences in Iceland and connects local theatre practitioners with fellow artists and presenters from abroad. LÓKAL is an independent festival, funded in part by the Icelandic Ministry of Education and Culture and the City of Reykjavík, and collaborates with institutional theatres and independent groups alike.
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Sent by Alfred Russel Wallace, Rosehill, Dorking to Charles Grant Blairfindie ("Grant") Allen [none given] on 7 October 1877.
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Clodd, Edward. (1900). Grant Allen: a Memoir. G. Richards. 1-222. [p. 63-64]
Transcriber: Smith, Charles Hyde
Transcription date: February 6, 2013
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Rosehill, Dorking,
Oct. 7th, 1877.
My dear Sir,--I have read the passages you marked, as well as a good many other parts of your book, with [[2]] [p. 64] much pleasure. I was particularly pleased with your suggestion (which had not occurred to me) that fruits, in our sense of the word, are much more recent developments than flowers, because they attract chiefly mammals and birds instead of insects.
There is, I admit, a partial contradiction between the view that 'red' excites animals on account of its glaring contrast, and that yet the perception of it by man is recent. The latter view must, I believe, be incorrect, and should be stated, I think, even more hypothetically than I have put it. I have just been reading Mr. Gladstone's interesting paper, which is almost wholly on Homer's colour terms, or rather the absence of them. The evidence is most curious, but I think it only goes to show that language was imperfect, and that 'colour' was too infinitely varied and of too little importance to early man to have received a systematic nomenclature. 'Flowers' and 'birds' and 'insects' were despised, and the colours of more important objects, as the 'sea,' 'sky,' 'earth,' 'iron,' 'brass,' etc., were not only not pure colours (generally), but subject to endless fluctuations.
Your remarks on 'nuts' are very good. I quite overlooked that case, and shall refer to you when I reprint my paper with others in a volume shortly.
I think that all the coloured fruits which are poisonous to 'man' are eatable to some birds, etc. They are far too numerous to be accounted for otherwise. --With many thanks, believe me, yours faithfully,
Alfred R. Wallace.
1. Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: First of a pair of personal letters to writer Grant Allen (1848-1899) regarding the latter's books Physiological Aesthetics and The Colour Sense, later printed in Edward Clodd's appreciation Grant Allen A Memoir in 1900.
This transcript originates from Charles H. Smith's The Alfred Russel Wallace Page website (http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/index1.htm): See http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S591A.htm
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Pantano Road Construction
Wednesday, 1 Apr 2015
Crews will work Monday - Friday for 6:30am -2:30pm on the reconstruction project taking place on Pantano Rd, from Escalante to Irvington. There will be one lane of travel in each direction on Pantano Rd. Crews will also be putting in new water lines. Please expect delay and obey all traffic control signals and watch for construction personnel and equipment in the work area. Completion is scheduled for mid-July, 2015.


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Two days from judgment by the voters, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney raced across competitive battleground states on Sunday, stressing differences on the economy, health care and more while professing a willingness to work across party lines to end gridlock in Washington.
"You have the power," Obama told thousands of cheering supporters in New Hampshire as the race moved toward a close finish.
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Press release from Marketwire
Cineplex Entertainment Brings BBC's Last Night of the Proms to Participating Movie Theatres
Media Advisory: Thursday, August 23
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Cineplex Entertainment Brings BBC's Last Night of the Proms to Participating Movie Theatres10:14 EDT Thursday, August 23, 2012TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 23, 2012) -WHAT:Cineplex Entertainment today announced it will play host to Britain's foremost classical musical celebration, bringing BBC's Last Night of the Proms live to the big screen on September 8, 2012.This year, the Last Night of the Proms features two very special guests: talented violinist and 2004 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Nicola Benedetti, as well as Joseph Calleja, a Maltese tenor who sings with elegance of the voices of a different era. More familiar home-grown British music brings down the curtain at the Last Night of the Proms, in time-honoured fashion.The Proms is an eight-week season of classical music concerts and events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, since 1895. The Last Night is a wildly popular classical music event, watched and listened to by millions of music fans around the world.WHERE:Participating Cineplex Entertainment theatres across Canada. Please visit cineplex.com/events for locations.WHEN:BBC's Last Night of the Proms plays at participating Cineplex Entertainment movie theatres on September 8 at 11:30 a.m. PDT, 1:30 p.m. CDT and 2:30 p.m. EDT.Tickets are on sale now at all participating Cineplex Entertainment box offices and online at cineplex.com/events.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Pat MarshallCineplex EntertainmentVice President, Communications and Investor email@example.com LangdonCineplex EntertainmentDirector, email@example.com


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Israel fired tank rounds and artillery into southern Lebanon on Friday, its military said, in retaliation for a bomb that targeted Israeli soldiers patrolling the border.
No injuries were reported on either side.
The Israel-Lebanon border has been mostly quiet since Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah fought an inconclusive war in 2006, even as civil war has raged in neighboring Syria over the past three years.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the Israeli fire targeted "Hezbollah terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon" and that a hit was confirmed. A Lebanese security source said six mortars had struck the area.
Hezbollah has been helping President Bashar Assad in Syria fight rebels trying to topple his government.
Earlier this month Israel said its troops shot two Hezbollah gunmen who tried to plant a bomb further east near the fence between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syrian-held territory.
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Choose from a variety of frame styles, colors and sizes to compliment your favorite Society6 gallery, or fine art print - made ready to hang. Fine-crafted from solid woods, premium shatterproof acrylic protects the face of the art print, while an acid free dust cover on the back provides a custom finish. All framed art prints include wall hanging hardware.
I remember these, if you had one at my school you where the coolest kid! (well in the 70's) lol!
Thanks, I think they are still cool and made a comeback a few years ago. I really just wanted to make an iphone cover with a calculator watch on it.
wow, cool!


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Rated 4.2 out of 5 by 629 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by BLF1963 Excellent Location This hotel is in an excellent location. Lots of attractions to walk to and plenty of restaurants. The staff at the hotel was outstanding. I was there for business meetings and the food quality was exceptional. The only thing lacking was Free WiFi. It was very spotty around the hotel and in the meeting rooms and if you wanted to use it in your room it was $14.99 a day. Alot of hotels now give that for free, at least for anyone in their loyalty program. July 14, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by caneloaldrete this hotel has great vew the staff very professional, and responsible and courteous, July 9, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by DAK137 The 4th July Stay This was a GREAT hotel for the 4th of July festivities. The North side had fantastic views of a variety of firework displays in the comfort of the 31st Floor !! Excellent Staff and a very fun District Happy Hour ! Thank you ! July 6, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by sticky27 If you get a good rate, then it's worth it. I wouldn't pay any more to stay here than I would at another hotel, but if you can get a decent rate then the beds are like clouds and the rooms are clean. July 6, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Annabella Great Hotel We had a great stay here. We needed to be at the Convention Center everyday and this was very close to it. The rooms were comfortable and quiet. Our only complaint was the pool area was small and not very exciting for my 11 year old. July 5, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nancy2595 Super Hotel With Great Staff This hotel has great staff, a fantastic exercise room (the best I have ever seen in a hotel), and reasonably priced and great food in their restaurant and at their bistro/coffee shop. The meeting spaces are fantastic (I was there for a training conference), and the access to PCs for checking email and browsing the net was great. My room was clean, comfortable, and offered a great view of the Superstition Mountains. I would recommend this hotel to vacationers, honeymooners, for family reunions, business travelers and for a place to hold large sized conferences. Just an all around great place to stay. July 2, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by MBA0824 This hotel has great features. Located in close proximity to the airport. Bar and lounge was comfortable and inviting with TV's to watch sports and socialize. Located near several restaurants and a movie theater just across the street! Conference rooms were set up nicely. Gift Shop had a nice selection of souvenirs and snacks. Staff was very friendly. I would definitely recommend this hotel! June 30, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Karen02 Great experience! I cannot say enough positive things about my stay at the Sheraton. My room was clean, spacious and included a mini frig and a desk with a charging station. The view from my room was spectacular! The people at Guest Services and throughout the hotel were always polite and helpful. Room service personnel were very friendly and efficient. Room service was much faster than the norm. I attended a week-long conference and found the facilities to be excellent. I would definitely stay there again! June 29, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by TomOconnor65 Location This is the best hotel downtown since it is near the stadium and convention centers. It is all within walking distance and there are so many restaurants with different themes that it is easy to choose depending on your taste or style June 27, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bippy Great business hotel I had a wonderful experience at the hotel. Its proximity to the airport was great, my room was very comfortable and I got a good nights rest each night. I appreciated their Green program and the $5 voucher or 500 point promotion. The staff I encountered were all very friendly, helpful and prompt. The fitness center was well equipped and kept very clean. I appreciated the many lounge areas for meetign with colleagues and the proximity (within walking distance) to some very tasty restaurants. June 27, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jin21 Journey hightened from staying here! This was the first time I have been to Phoenix downtown. The hotel is within walking distance of the Convention Center. The Staff ALL of them- Very personable and professional! Our room was wonderful! and a beautiful view. I would recommend to all. June 26, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by ctwesme Staff is excellent I would just like to say that our stay was extra special thanks to Cedrick at check in. Thank you for being so kind! June 25, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by LOU812 HITS Hotel was fantastic. I had a poor breakfast at the breakfast bar. Old stale food. I felt the bar was overpriced. One premium drink for $16.00. Very expensive!! June 24, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Norma58 June 21st First Day of Summer The hotel room and hotel itself was very comfortable. The only problem we had which was time consuming and a hassle was the parking. I was told my room card keys was what we needed to use to come in and out of the parking lot. They didn't work so we got them replaced, those didn't work either so I had to go back and forth with the hotel parking lot personnel to help us to finally leave the parking lot. June 23, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Pam89 Starwood Downtown Phoenix What stands out about my stay are the friendly people at your hotel. Everyone was so helpful. We had dinner at the District restaurant twice and it was excellent. The staff was very accommodating to our large party. June 17, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by nameless104 novice traveler Really nice hotel. Great value for price. June 17, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by woodman0000 Our stay in Phoenix The hotel and staff were great with the exception of the TV that we had to fight with to get out of the Sheraton page and slow WiFi. We won't discuss breakfast... June 17, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by edna46 Beautiful hotel The hotel is well-placed for those who have activities at the Convention Center, although the 1.5 block walk was a bit long for the heat (106). Service is excellent. The housekeeping staff excelled - especially AMELIA (Brazil) who took exceptional care to make sure our room and the amenities were in excellent condition during our five day stay. June 17, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Larcon321 Visit To Phoenix This was one of my best getaways in quite some time and I will surly stay at the Downtown Sheraton Phoenix very soon. Beautiful Hotel and Great Staff!!!!! June 16, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by jL8ve Great Family Visit Such a wonderful property and such wonderful staff. Front Desk and the Gift Shop were particularly helpful and friendly. June 16, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Mlife Excellent staff and facilities My first encounter with my first stay at this property couldn't have been more excellent! Felisa Moorehead is exactly what you want in a first expression for a SPG guest, friendly, professionally and a good listener. She took such good care of us! I travel extensively and it would be great to have a Felisa at every property!! June 13, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Shuta74 Business Trip Review I stayed as part of a business trip in early June 2014. The weather was very hot outside, but very comfortable inside the hotel. The staff was very pleasant and attentive. June 12, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Boomer79 Seriously disappointed with Front Desk It's amazing how one person can ruin an experience for a guest. EVERYTHING at the Sheraton was above average or excellent... until I checked out. When I arrived, the gentleman at the front desk was very nice. He called me by name and acknowledged my platinum status. My room had been upgraded to a nice 1 bedroom suite on the 30th floor. It was clean, comfortable, with decent amenities. If it were up to me, I would upgrade the flat screen TV's. They seemed to be kind of old and the one in the bedroom was on the small side considering the size of the room, but still acceptable. The fitness room was great. The Lounge on the 28th floor was always stocked and the attendant there was very friendly. I called down to guest services at one point to ask for more towels and they were delivered within minutes with a smile. All in all, it was really great. Then it came time to check out. There were two people working at the front desk. One at a normal desk and one at the SPG Gold & Platinum desk. I stood in line there and was next to be helped. There was a woman in the line next to me in back of a man that was having some issue getting checked in. Now all I wanted to do was tell them I was vacating the room and to get my bill. I waited patiently as the woman at the front desk was helping the guest in front of me. It was nice to see that she was spending time with the guest, so I can appreciate that, but when she was done helping him, and I started to walk towards the desk, it was like she looked right at me with a look on her face like "You're Not Next!" then looked at the woman that was waiting in the line next to me. She said "Ma'am, I'll help you now." So here I am, waiting int he gold and platinum line, wanting to just check out, and she helps a different customer who definitely was not a gold or platinum member because I could overhear them talking about getting the woman signed up. So now I am waiting for the front desk clerk to sign up the woman for the SPG program. Then she gets checked in to the hotel. There's no one else waiting. It's just me. But instead of then calling me up to the desk... she walks over to the other agents desk and begins to help her. No "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be right with you." or "Please excuse the wait. We're having a problem with our system". Nothing. She just looked at me like "Oh well, he can wait". I don't understand the point of having a line to recognize peoples status in SPG and then go out of your way to ignore them. After another couple minutes of her looking over the shoulder of the other agent and not doing anything or saying anything, she finally came back and then called me forward. I was waiting in the lobby for 14 minutes to checkout when there was no one ahead of me other than the man she was helping when I arrived there. It shouldn't take that long. Ever. But it did. Maybe it was all because I was in gym clothes instead of a suit, but that really shouldn't matter. You don't ignore customers... But FeLisa sure did. All the way up until the point that she looked up my room number and realized I was a platinum member. Then she seemed to backtrack a little and tried to recover, but it was too late. I hate to give a negative review for the whole hotel based on my experience with just one person, but it really did kind of ruin the whole stay for me. June 10, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Chrome007 This hotel is close to everything. I love staying here at this hotel. I've stayed here in the past and would stay here in the future. June 9, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by CatePhD Check in Staff ROCKS Cedric at the front desk check-in is personable, efficient, and welcoming! He helped me reserve a room for a second night so I did not have to change hotels. He was patient and knowledgeable. He is an asset and deserves commendation! June 9, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Theresa39 Wonderful Hotel I really enjoy staying here. Everyone is so friendly. The rooms are fabulous and comfortable. The night view from the hotel is awesome. It' a quiet hotel. Rooms are very clean. I've stayed here 3 times and never had a problem. June 6, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Gage2004 Local stay Stayed downtown for a concert and was very surprised on the attention to customer service that we recieved. Districts resturant was great, check in was smooth, all staff encountered were above par. Well worth the money. June 3, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by RoloT Great Staff, Good downtown location When I was being checked in by a young man at the front desk, he let me know that I had been upgraded to a suite on the Club level. I thanked him, because that was truly a pleasant surprise. He seemed to be a trainee and when I got to my room, it was on the Club Level, but not a suite, just a regular king room. I was only staying one night and leaving very early the next day, so I didn't bother asking what happened to the suite. Anyway, it kept my streak alive of no complimentary suite upgrades for more than six month now at any SPG property. Otherwise, the staff (including the person that checked me in) were very pleasant and helpful. The hotel is in a good location if you want the advantages of being downtown and still very close to PHX. My only "complaint" would be that the food/snack offerings in the Club Level (evening) were pretty poor, even by comparison to other Sheratons. That being said, I would not hesitate to return to this hotel. June 1, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Brown48 Breakfast Breakfast service was slow if you did not want to eat the buffet. May 30, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by USAVOpen Green room I was a little confused about hanging the green sign on the door. I thought that meant the bed sheets would not be changed. I didn't think it meant that fresh towels would not be supplied or garbage cans emptied or new coffee and cups supplied. It seemed like when I hung the sign, housekeeping just passed my room. May 30, 2014


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Geographic Range
Presbytis melalophos is found in the rainforests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and western Borneo. (Oates, et al., 1994)
Mitred leaf monkeys inhabit lowland and submontane dipterocarp and evergreen forests. They are also found on the margins of rivers. They prefer discontinuous understory at approximately ninety feet from the ground, but are occasionally found in the continuous main canopy and the highest, emergent layers of the forest. ("Old World Primates", 1990; Aimi and Bakar, 1996; Richard, 1985)
- Habitat Regions
- tropical
- terrestrial
- Terrestrial Biomes
- rainforest
Physical Description
Like all members of the genus Presbytis, mitred leaf-monkeys have a short rostrum and weakly-developed brow ridges. Mitred leaf monkeys have long forelimbs and relatively long hindlimbs, which is consistent with their preferred mode of locomotion, leaping and brachiation. They have long, bicolored tails and weigh an average of 6.0 kilograms. Males weigh only slightly more than females. Mitred leaf-monkeys are distinguished from other Presbytis species by their single-phrase call, pelage characters, and skull features such as long nasals and narrow interorbitals. (Bennett and Davies, 1994; Aimi and Bakar, 1996; Bennett and Davies, 1994; Meijaard and Groves, 2004)
Presbytis melalophos has brownish-gray pelage with the ventral side lighter than the dorsum. The tail is bicolored and the head has a distinct black crest. There are four subspecies of Presbytis melalophos based on pelage differences, distinctions in vocalizations, and geographic location. P. m. bicolor is the whitest subspecies and P. m. sumatrana is the darkest subspecies. The pelage color of P. m. mitrata and P. m. sumatrana is intermediate. Neonates are white with a pale face and a dark, reddish-brown spinal stripe. ("Old World Primates", 1990; Aimi and Bakar, 1996; Meijaard and Groves, 2004)
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- homoiothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- male larger
- Average mass
- 6.0 kg
- 13.22 lb
- Average mass
- 6540 g
- 230.48 oz
- AnAge
Mitred leaf monkeys live in single-male groups with five to seventeen females. The single male of the group mates with females in the group. Females exhibit no external sign of estrus and solicit copulation. (Newton and Dunbar, 1994)
- Mating System
- polygynous
General reproductive behavior, including breeding season, number of offspring per breeding season, gestation period, and age at sexual maturity, has not been studied in P. melalophos. In other colobines, males reach maturity at 34-47 months and females reach maturity at 35-60 months. Gestation period is 155-226 days. Most colobines that have been studied breed throughout the year, with 16-25 month interbirth intervals. In Presbytis thomasi, a close relative of P. melalophos, females give birth to one offspring per interval. The young are weaned at 12-15 months. (Matthews and Myers, 2004; Newton and Dunbar, 1994)
- Key Reproductive Features
- year-round breeding
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- viviparous
- Breeding interval
- Colobine monkeys breed every 16-25 months.
- Breeding season
- Most colobines breed year round.
- Average number of offspring
- 1
- Average number of offspring
- 1
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- Range gestation period
- 155 to 226 days
- Range weaning age
- 12 to 15 months
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 35 to 60 months
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 38 to 47 months
In many colobines, infants are transferred between the mother and other group females; however, this behavior has not been observed in P. melalophos. Females nurse and care for their young until they become independent. Immature males disperse from their natal group when they are half-grown, while females remain in their natal group. The role of male mitred leaf monkeys is unclear in raising young. (Newton and Dunbar, 1994)
- Parental Investment
- provisioning
- female
- female
- female
- provisioning
- female
- female
- provisioning
- post-independence association with parents
- extended period of juvenile learning
There is little available information on the lifespan of P. melalophos, either in the wild or in captivity.
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity
- 16.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
Mitred leaf monkeys live in groups consisting of one male and five to seven females. Groups with smaller home ranges are generally more territorial than groups with larger home ranges; territoriality is directly related to the supply of resources. Males identify the group's territory with vocalizations and displays. When groups approach each other, harem males will call to each other and may become physically agressive. Males may also be solitary or live in all-male bands. Solitary males are chased away from females by harem males and are generally confined to a resource-poor area of the forest. ("Old World Primates", 1990; Bennett and Davies, 1994; Van Schaik, et al., 1992)
Females determine their group's movement and are responsible for encounters with another group. However, females remain uninvolved in intergroup conflicts. Females in a group show no evidence of a dominance hierarchy. (Van Schaik, et al., 1992)
Mitred leaf monkeys are arboreal. They spend most of their time in the understory of the forest, leaping between small branch supports and are primarily active during the day. (Fleagle, 1979)
- Range territory size
- 140,000 to 300,000 m^2
Home Range
Home ranges are 14-30 hectares; groups may travel up to 950 meters in a day. There is a 20-30 percent overlap of home ranges but an overlap of 79 percent has been recorded. Habitat destruction has resulted in greater home range overlap and increased territoriality. (Johns, 1986; Van Schaik, et al., 1992)
Communication and Perception
Males announce their territory to other groups in the area with loud calls and distinct leaps. Males of neighboring groups call in chorus at intervals throughout the night. Males also call when two groups approach each other. These territorial calls are quite distinct from the alert calls sounded by a group member when a predator is spotted. ("Old World Primates", 1990; Bennett and Davies, 1994)
- Other Communication Modes
- choruses
- pheromones
Food Habits
Mitred leaf monkeys are frugivorous and folivorous. Fruit comprises 50-60 percent of the diet; the rest consists of leaves and, occasionally, seed and flowers. The foregut is enlarged and has the capacity for microbial fermentation. Presbytis melalophos feeds from up to 197 different tree species. It prefers new leaves to mature leaves. (Bennett and Davies, 1994; Richard, 1985)
- Plant Foods
- leaves
- seeds, grains, and nuts
- fruit
The main predators of P. melalophos are birds of prey, including Spilornis cheela, and snakes in the genus Python. When a member of the group detects a predator, it issues an alert cry to other members of the group. The harem male attempts to distract the predator with loud cries and leaps, drawing the predator away from the rest of the group by as much as 240 feet. ("Old World Primates", 1990; Bennett and Davies, 1994)
- Known Predators
Ecosystem Roles
The diet of P. melalophos includes lots of fruits, the seeds of which are dispersed in its feces. (Bennett and Davies, 1994)
- Ecosystem Impact
- disperses seeds
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Little information is available on the benefits provided to humans by P. melalophos. They are important members of healthy ecosystems.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
There is little information available on the adverse affects of P. melalophos on humans. However, because its diet consists of fruits and leaves, P. melalophos may be a potential crop pest for farmers near its territory.
Conservation Status
Presbytis melalophos is highly vulnerable to habitat loss, especially due to the logging industry. Logging decreases the density and availablility of food supplies, altering the behavioral ecology of P. melalophos. In areas where logging has occurred, groups must range more widely or fission into smaller subgroups to forage. After selective logging, groups often reoccupy forested territories. Habitat loss also occurs as a result of spreading agriculture and human development. (Davies, 1994; Eudey and Members of the Primate Specialist Group 2000, 2004; Johns, 1986)
- IUCN Red List
More information
- US Federal List
- No special status
- No special status
Tanya Dewey (editor), Animal Diversity Web.
Dana Tedesco (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Phil Myers (editor, instructor), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- acoustic
uses sound to communicate
- arboreal
Referring to an animal that lives in trees; tree-climbing.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- choruses
to jointly display, usually with sounds, at the same time as two or more other individuals of the same or different species
- diurnal
- active during the day, 2. lasting for one day.
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- frugivore
an animal that mainly eats fruit
- herbivore
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- oriental
found in the oriental region of the world. In other words, India and southeast Asia.
- pheromones
chemicals released into air or water that are detected by and responded to by other animals of the same species
- polygynous
having more than one female as a mate at one time
- rainforest
rainforests, both temperate and tropical, are dominated by trees often forming a closed canopy with little light reaching the ground. Epiphytes and climbing plants are also abundant. Precipitation is typically not limiting, but may be somewhat seasonal.
- sedentary
remains in the same area
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- social
associates with others of its species; forms social groups.
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- terrestrial
Living on the ground.
- territorial
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
- tropical
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
- visual
uses sight to communicate
- viviparous
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
- year-round breeding
breeding takes place throughout the year
1990. Old World Primates. S Parker, ed. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals, Vol. 2, 1 Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Aimi, M., A. Bakar. 1996. Distribution and deployment of Presbytis melalophos group in Sumatera, Indonesia. Primates, 37: 399-409.
Bennett, E., A. Davies. 1994. The ecology of Asian colobines. Pp. 129-172 in A Davies, J Oates, eds. Colobines: Their Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Davies, A. 1994. Colobine populations. Pp. 285-310 in A Davies, J Oates, eds. Colobines: Their Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Eudey, A., Members of the Primate Specialist Group 2000. 2004. "Presbytis melalophos" (On-line). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed March 04, 2006 at http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=18129.
Fleagle, J. 1977. Locomotor behavior and muscular anatomy of sympatric Malaysian leaf-monkeys (Presbytis obscura and Presbytis melalophos). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 46: 297-308.
Fleagle, J. 1979. Primate positional behavior and anatomy: naturalistic and experimental approaches. Pp. 313-325 in M Morbeck, H Preuschoft, N Gomberg, eds. Environment, Behavior, and Morphology: Dynamic Interactions in Primates. New York: Gustav Fisher.
Johns, A. 1986. Effects of Selective Logging on the Behavioral Ecology of West Malaysian Primates. Ecology, 67: 684-694.
Kay, R., A. Davies. 1994. Digestive physiology. Pp. 229-249 in A Davies, J Oates, eds. Colobines: Their Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Matthews, M., P. Myers. 2004. "Presbytis thomasi" (On-line). Animal Diversity Web. Accessed April 18, 2006 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Presbytis_thomasi.html..
Meijaard, E., C. Groves. 2004. The biogeographical evolution and phylogeny of the genus Presbytis . Primate Report, 68: 71-86.
Newton, P., R. Dunbar. 1994. Colobine monkey Society. Pp. 311-346 in A Davies, J Oates, eds. Colobines: Their Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Oates, J., A. Davies, E. Delson. 1994. The diversity of living colobines. Pp. 45-73 in A Davies, J Oates, eds. Colobine Monkeys: Their Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Richard, A. 1985. Primates in Nature. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co..
Ripley, S. 1979. Environmental grain, niche diversification, and positional behavior in Neogene primates: an evolutionary hypothesis.. Pp. 37-74 in M Morbeck, H Preuschoft, N Gomberg, eds. Environment, Behavior, and Morphology: Dynamic Interactions in Primates. New York: Gustav Fisher.
Van Schaik, C., P. Assink, N. Salafsky. 1992. Territorial behavior in Southeast Asian langurs: resource defense or mate defense?. American Journal of Primatology, 26: 333-342.


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Sweetwater Emergency Services responded to a wreck on Thursday evening, Feb. 9, 2012, north of Roscoe. A student fell asleep and rolled into the culvert.
"She was banged up but not seriously injured," said Sweetwater Emergency Services Director Grant Madden. "We did not transport her to the hospital," he added.
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Last Saturday Sweetwater High School Band member Crysten Ivy gave the performance of a lifetime, performing with the Texas All-State Band in San Antonio. The concert was witnessed by an enthusiastic audience of several thousand music educators, family members and supporters. It was the culmination of the annual Texas Music Educators Convention, which involves more than 10,000 elementary music teachers and band, choir and orchestra directors.
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We just call it "Bell Curve City."
Either way, real.
We just call it "Bell Curve City."
Either way, real.
St. Ann
We already have plenty of his sort here, without having to import any from the other side of the state.
If it isn't just plain mental illness, I'm anxiously awaiting to find out his motive. That is, if the authorities are in the mood to find it, and the media are in the mood to report it.
St. Louis looks to Kansas City for help with homicide onslaught
While Kansas City experienced a significant drop in homicides last year, St. Louis saw an explosive growth.
Despite a significantly smaller population, St. Louis recorded 159 homicides — more than twice Kansas City's 78.
And St. Louis has 22 already this year, ahead of last year's pace when it had 18 at the same time.
Meanwhile, Kansas City's 10 killings this year is only one more than this point last year, when the city recorded fewer than 80 homicides for the first time since 1972.
That stark contrast in homicide rates between Missouri's two largest cities has prompted a contingent of St. Louis community and law enforcement officials to visit Kansas City on Monday to look at what many attribute to Kansas City's success in decreasing homicides: the Kansas City No Violence Alliance.
KC NoVa is made up of a broad coalition of leaders from the political, law enforcement, community, academic, clergy and social service areas.
It employs a two-pronged strategy of identifying the most active criminal groups and targeting them for increased law enforcement scrutiny while offering social service help to those who want to escape the criminal lifestyle.
Using information gathered from police, UMKC professors have used social networking software to map connections between individuals within the criminal groups. Key members are targeted to receive the message that violence no longer will be tolerated. If they continue to commit violent acts, then they and their associates will be subject to intense law enforcement action.
But they also are offered the opportunity to get help with job training, housing, education, substance abuse treatment and child care.
The worst ooks are either sent to prison, or given "help" with "housing," meaning they're given Section 8 vouchers so that they're dumped on Kansas City's suburbs. Either way, they won't be KCMO's problem anymore.
Voila. Fewer murders.
Kansas City has more of the comprehensive crowd than St. Louis, which means these kinds of stories about the area pop up from time to time.
The actual story doesn't name any of those indicted. But luckily, I have Google, and I can find the U.S. Attorney's Office for Western Missouri, and I can find press releases there.
However, the people who own the megaphone aren't going to scream these names through the megaphone, because comprehensive immigration reform and Dreamers.
Kansas City
There they go again, yoots being yooty.
To match similar mobs in Memphis, Pittsburgh and Sacramento.
Note to the black undertow: The USA does not celebrate Boxing Day, and even so, it has nothing to do with pugilism.
Charlie Cook, one of the most respected political experts in the country, believes Hillary Clinton has only a 25-30 percent chance of not running for President. Despite Clinton's "disastrous book tour," and other missteps, Cook still believes chances are still great that Clinton will run.
And like I said earlier this month in this space, in spite of the conventional wisdom, the #HillarysLosers hashtag, the fact that a whole lot of candidates she endorsed lost, HRC actually comes out of this election season stronger at least in terms of winning the Democrat nomination, and I think that was her only real hurdle. Three major people who could have taken the nomination away from her, Mark Warner, Martin O'Malley and Andrew Cuomo, came out of election day with weaker hands. And HRC will beat either Bush or Romney in November, easily. Clinton, Bush, Romney, because change.
The author of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report newsletter for almost 30 years also disappointed a local audience when he did not give Jeb Bush much of a chance of gaining the Republican nomination.
"Disappointed" that Jeb Bush won't win the Republican nomination? What kind of a crowd was this? Well, three paragraphs down, we find the answer: It was a private event, which means some high dollar donor confab.
"Bush has two issues working against him to win the Republican primary for the 2016 presidential election," Cook said. "One is immigration reform, which he favors; and two, is his advocacy of education reform."
Neither of those causes would sit well with Republican primary voters, Cook said.
He expects the next Republican nominee to be either a tea party Senator or a governor from the Midwest. He wouldn't predict beyond that.
As for Missouri, Cook echoed what many are predicting, which is that U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill will run for Missouri governor.
"Many?" This is the first I'm hearing of this. For all I know, Chris Koster is the 2016 Democrat nominee for Governor, pretty much a done deal, even counting his recent scandal. Don't forget, CMcC ran for Governor in 2004 but lost. If she does run, it would be a free run for her, because her Senate term isn't up until 2018. If she wins, she will be able to appoint her own Senate replacement.
A dozen students at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy stood and raised their hands during a speech by Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday, apparently in protest of the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo.
Nixon was at Lincoln in Kansas City to recognize its status as a National Blue Ribbon School, one of the nation's top awards for academic excellence.
The students walked out of the speech shortly after it began. It wasn't clear if their walkout was planned or if school officials told them to leave the auditorium.


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Originally written on Steelers Depot | Last updated 3/13/13
We haven't heard much news regarding Pittsburgh Steelers free agent cornerback Keenan Lewis since the 2013 free agency signing period started on Tuesday, but on Wednesday Lewis posted on Twitter that he would be visiting the New Orleans Saints. Lewis is from the New Orleans area and the Saints could definitely use some help in their secondary as they move to a 3-4 defense under new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. The Saints. much like the Steelers, don't have a lot of salary cap room to work with, however, and they were forced to restructure quite a few contracts over the course of the last Read more [...]
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