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Robstown ISD hires new interim leader
ROBSTOWN - The Robstown Independent School District Trustees selected an interim superintendent from Pearsall on Saturday.
Alfonso Obregon, a retired school administrator, will replace former interim superintendent Tony Morales who resigned Friday.
Obregon, who has served as a school administrator for 29 years, said Sunday he retired in June after spending 11 years as superintendent in the Charlotte Independent School District near San Antonio.
"I am anxious and excited to assist the district and move forward with the things they are doing right and study those things that need work such as as performance in testing," Obregon said.
He also has worked in Asherton, Progreso and Dilley independent school districts, he said. Obregon will start his first day in Robstown today.
Trustees Pablo Avila, Richard Gonzalez, Osvaldo Romero and Roberto Tapia voted to approve Obregon's interim position. Trustees Ernesto Gallegos, Adolfo Lopez and Eva Orona did not attend Saturday's meeting. A future board meeting will determine a timeline for a permanent superintendent.
After serving as interim superintendent for four months, Morales said the job was not what he had imagined it would be and had "reached an impossible impasse" with the school trustees.
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Many moves:
1. Non-tender Gomes (only like this one if we sign Damon)
2. Not exercise Ramon's option.
3. Then, bring him back for a lower price
4. Sign Chapman
5. Sign O-Cab
6. Trade WillyT and Rosales for Aaron Miles and PTBNL/cash
7. Possibly sign Damon?
8. Or possibly sign Gomes?
Nice job Walt. Hope it works out.
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Illinois pension crisis deal announced
By Jim Hagerty Staff Writer Illinois lawmakers have reached a deal to solve the state's $100 billion pension problem, a spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan (D) reported Wednesday, Nov. 27. Details most of the plan's details...
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Trouble in Toyland report finds dangerous toys on store shelves
Online Staff Report Dangerous or toxic toys can still be found on America's store shelves, according to Illinois Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund's 28th annual Trouble in Toyland report. The survey of hazardous toys found...
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Editorial: Rockford Transformers and thankfulness
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Just now figuring out that joy and suffering are all tangled up together and to avoid one is to miss out on the other. Trying to grab hold of joy where ever it is found and hold on tight.
Gratitude- A Record
I started keeping a journal in High School. I still have it somewhere. It's a blue binder with loose leaf pages in it and on the front, emblazoned with emphatic ball point pen letters, are the words, "DO NOT OPEN."
The front page has a plea to whomever finds it after my death to burn it without reading it's contents, also written when I was a teenager. Looking at it now is really mostly funny, at the same time as it's embarrassing and painful. Every entry involves me HATING someone, mostly my parents in the middle of a divorce. I keep it around, I think, to make me humble.
Subsequent journals have been less, er, dramatic, but only slightly. They are still the place where I took all my problems and frustrations and spilled them out on the page. The conflicts with friends, the difficulties of growing up, of being afraid. There is the pathetic journal I kept during our honeymoon, oh sad, sad, honeymoon, where we couldn't have sex yet, and me trying to interpret each and every mood of the GH. And the pregnancies with the depression that sets in for 9 months, and the crazy feeling that everyone is being mean to me and hates me. They are not what you would call entertaining.
Journals have been my therapy for my entire adult life. If you read them you would think that my life was one series of traumas after another, because I never really wrote in them except when there was something painful to process. You may also conclude that I am prone to self pity, and you would be correct. These journals tell a part of the story of who I am, they tell people how I think during a conflict or when I'm stressed. If my children were to find them after I pass they would find a hidden side of me, a dark side that I wrestled with pen stroke by pen stroke.
And this is why I'm heading out to get a shiny new journal, one that hasn't been written in yet. I'm joining the Gratitude Community. I've been meaning to all month.
Beyond the immediate benefit if focusing on what I have, rather than what I haven't, I want my children to remember that I was also joyful. I want there to be a record of the things that I was thankful for, the moments that brought me joy day by day when they were small. Some of that is here already in this blog, but I want there to be more.
My plan is to post selections from my gratitude journal here every Friday. It will be the new and improved version of Small Joys Friday.
Here are a few to start.
I'm thankful that even though we're heading into week 4 with absolutely no paycheck, we still have what we need, and some of what we want. (The person the GH did work for last needs to be paid by his client before he can afford to pay us. Welcome to sub-contracting, it's fun.)
We haven't been able to buy groceries past a few dozen eggs and a gallon of milk, but our pantry is stocked well enough that it would be another month or two before we are truly hungry, though we will be bored very soon. (It's an involuntary 30 days of nothing, an unrecognized opportunity to blog.)
I'm thankful for food on the table every night.
I'm thankful for my craft cupboard, which has almost everything I need to make costumes this week.
I still have tomatoes growing on the patio.
We haven't needed to use the credit card yet.
The feeling of climbing into bed on a cool fall night and feeling the warmth start to radiate out from my body and warm the blankets as I fall asleep.
The Baby's face in the light of the nightlight, fast asleep on my arm, lashes snuggled on cheeks, mouth open.
No more fires have broken out this week.
We might get paid to day. And if we don't there is enough for tomorrow.
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I just read your honeymoon/pregnancy post that you mentioned in this entry. Thank you for sharing that. My husband and I have a similar problem (not the hymen), but after 6 months have still not been successful. We are still happy, and have sought medical advice, and my husband is as supportive as could be, and yet I still feel like a failure sometimes for not being able to give him that gift. Thanks for that post :)ReplyDelete
Friend, your strong words are always helpful in times of need. i will be in town on wednesday for a very short visit due to some issues with the oldest. I want to see you, can we take the kids to pizza my treat. I will get the oldest only for one night, I want to make it special for him... celebrating both boys birthdays!ReplyDelete
I have the same issue with my old journals from my pre-teen and teen years. I ended up burning them a couple years into our marriage!ReplyDelete
Gratitude journal - that sounds beautiful.


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Cody and Rhett Merideth of Georgetown announce the birth of a son, Carson Miles Merideth, born May 1, 2014 at East Cooper Medical Center. Maternal grandparents are Debby Summey, LaMar Moberly and Richard Summey. Paternal grandparents are Joann and Thad Hayes and Dennis and Dot Merideth. There is one other child: Cole Merideth.
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Melyndia and Edward Mitchum of Andrews announce the birth of a son, Christopher Jase Moore, born April 22, 2014 at Waccamaw Community Hospital. Maternal grandparents are Debby Moore and Chris Cantora. Paternal grandparents are Kathy and Ed Mitchum. There are two other children: Miikka Lee Mitchum, 4 years old and Sophia Monet Mitchum 4 years old.
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Dillon and Cortney Newton of Georgetown announce the birth of a daughter, Brayleigh Joyce Newton, born April 24, 2014 at Waccamaw Community Hospital. Maternal grandparents are William and Teresa Syler. Paternal grandparents are Charles and Billi Newton.
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Joshua and Michelle McBride of Georgetown announce the birth of a son, Jensen Andrew McBride, born April 28, 2014.
Maternal grandparents are Ralph Dago Johnson and Debbie Sherrod. Paternal grandparents are Buddy and Brenda Moore and Jimmy Ray McBride. There are two other children: Micquele, 8 years old and Alexa 6 years old.
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Ashley Green and Ricardo Blake of Georgetown announce the birth of a daughter, MaLaysia Ashlynn Blake, born May 5, 2014 at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Maternal grandparents are Audrey Simpson and Gregory Rivers. Paternal grandparents are Christina Mann and Neville Sumner. There are three other children: NaZariah LaSane, 7 years old; RiKye Blake, 6 years old and KaMiyah Blake 4 years old.
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The greater Haor Basin is a large flash flood zone in the northeastern part of Bangladesh. Modeling and dissemination of forecasts and warnings are weak for flash floods in Bangladesh. There is no single organization with overall responsibility for disseminating flood forecasts and warnings to potential users. This book aims to fill this gap by making extensive use of scientific and traditional knowledge to provide probability information for assessment of flash flood vulnerability. It offers new opportunities to develop and implement a user-friendly, interactive decision support system for flood forecasting and to identify the affected areas using dynamic modeling. The book concludes with an effective early warning system. This new knowledge can change the existing hazard scenario and facilitate informed decision making to adopt proper measures for preparedness, mitigation, planning and management. This kind of advance warning will help authorities for better flood preparedness and effective mitigation.


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Scott and Rowena Hoag are the proud parents of Ralph James Caprio Hoag born Feb. 15. He weighed 7lbs 6oz. They live in Troy, NY. Ralph is grandson of the late Donna Russell Hoag and Richard Hoag of Hudson Falls, NY. He is great grandson of Mulvena Russell.
Harley Dick is a patient in Glens Falls Hospital where he has double pneumonia. He is a little better.
Isabella Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of Wanda Lawrence, was born Feb. 16. She was over 6lbs.
We are sorry to hear about the death of Jimmy Duell.
Doug VanNostrand son of Don and Shellie VanNostrand is home until Feb. 28. He has been in Korea serving in the army for a year. He will go to Ft Campbell, Kentucky.
John Shafer, contractor and Fabiann Conlon worked on the steeple at the Sodom Community Church. It has been a great many years since it has been done. Good job.
There was a Boy Scout Blue and Gold Banquet held on Sunday Feb. 22 at The Wevertown Community Building. Neat cakes had to be baked about the out-of-doors. Kurt and Nate Fuller with Grandpa Corkey took the award for Best in Show". Dauphin Conlon and dad, Fabiann Conlon took 1st for their nature cake. Good job done by all.
Another great fun Day at Camp Triumph with three churches joining together. There were over 50 youth and 35 adults. So much fun and such good food. Thanks to all who joined in.
Happy Birthday to: Hunter Mulvey, Nate Watkins, Alexis Allen, Vivian Kramar, Valeria Breason, Berniece Conlon, Christopher Persons, Tim Allen, Duaine Allen, Mary Nevins, Julia Allen, Chad Lewis, Thomas Schilinski, Ron Allen Sr.
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Julie Driscoll: He's a hypocrite and a coward, and if he had any integrity at all, he'd tell his son, "Sorry, kid, just like everybody else, you don't deserve the same rights as the man-on-top/woman-on-bottom crowd get.
Baseball Has Lost Some of Its Soul
William J. Astore: But I despair at the way money and media and mercenary players have invaded the game and changed its character from a pastime to a business. Just one recent example: today's opener between the Red Sox and Yankees was moved to 8:05 PM for the benefit of ESPN Sunday night baseball in the hopes of garnering higher ratings and advertising revenue. Few seem to care about inconveniencing the fans, or flouting the tradition of opening day played in the afternoon under God's natural light.


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More East Riding village post offices – including Elloughton and Gilberdyke – face closure
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MORE East Riding village post offices are facing the threat of closure as a result of national moves to relocate sub-post offices into retail outlets.
Elloughton Post Office has confirmed it is facing closure and Gilberdyke Post Office is also at risk.
The village post office at Swanland is already under threat of relocation to a convenience store.
More than 600 people have signed an online petition launched to Save South Cave Village Post Office.
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Chris Page, the sub-postmaster at Elloughton, said his post office will be forced to close as a result of the national "modernisation plan".
Mr Page said: "We have got no option but to opt for compensation as a closure because we can't afford to stay as we are.
"It's an absolute disgrace. The Government has starved all the post offices of services. It's disgusting."
Mr Page said 4,800 post offices nationally are under threat from moves to switch services to stores with longer hours.
He said: "The post office as it stands will no longer exist.
"Effectively what they want to do is put it into a retail outlet such as a convenience store, newsagents or garage at the expense of the postmaster's job and at the expense of the community and the village environment.
"They are looking for longer opening hours in convenience stores. Some post offices will be forced to close, some will voluntarily close, some will be retiring. The post office as you know it will cease to exist."
John Shepherd, sub-postmaster at Gilberdyke, said his post office is one of those at risk.
Mr Shepherd said: "Everyone has to complete a survey and everyone is being looked at. The likelihood is that all small stand-alone post offices will no longer exist.
"They want franchise-type services which will change the face our of high streets and villages. The post offices will disappear into just a little red sign above the Costcutter, Spar, BP garage or whatever it may be.
"What we know as the traditional post office will disappear unless it's a major post office in a town centre."
Swanland's Post Office services could be relocated to McColls Retail Group in Main Street.
The Post Office is consulting residents on the move, which would lead to opening hours extended by more than 57 hours per week.
A Post Office spokesman said: "The aim is to provide modern environments and longer opening hours for customers.
"The new 'local' model is working well in more than 550 offices that have already transformed at existing Post Offices and new locations including convenience stores.
"Customers can do the majority of transactions they currently do at their post office, with the exceptions of Parcelforce Worldwide, payment by cheque and transactions without barcodes."


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We deserve better bus stops
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Wouldn't it be better to spend money on an undercover bus station instead of spending money on a new swimming pool?
It would be better for the elderly people instead of putting bus stops here, there and everywhere, messing the streets of North East Lincolnshire.
Please consider the elderly people who cannot sit down in the bus station because of the wrong bars you have put in. They are wrong.
We people of Grimsby deserve better, so let's have an undercover bus station with comfort and information and a nice cafe.
Give us something we can be proud of. Please give it consideration, OK.
Steve, Cleethorpes.


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A cast of 28 young actors, a backstage crew of four teens and a 15-year-old director will combine their youthful talents to produce the Disney musical "Jungle Book," opening at the Lionheart Theatre on July 20. Not only is the production a showcase for some of Gwinnett's young talent, the show will also benefit area youth through Norcross Cooperative Ministry.
The play will run at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. July 20, at 2 and 7 p.m. July 21 and at 2 p.m. July 22. All tickets are $10 and reservations are highly recommended by calling 678-938-8518.
Lionheart will be donating a portion of ticket sales and the theater will collect school supplies for young students through Norcross Cooperative Ministry at each performance.
"So many families are struggling just to put food on the table and pay their electric bills that when August comes around, many times they just can't afford school supplies," co-op Director Shirley Cabe said.
Last year, the co-op gave away about 900 bags with basic school supplies to students in need. Ticketholders might consider bringing the most-needed items to the theater: new book bags, three-prong pocket folders, wide rule notebook paper, black and white composition books and pens with blue ink.
Another unique aspect of the production is its all-youth cast, particularly its 15-year-old director Sam Casey, who will enter the 10th grade at Greater Atlanta Christian School this fall.
Sam Casey is the son of Lionheart's Sean Casey, and the young actor/director is no stranger to the theater -- onstage or backstage.
"I have been acting since I was 5 and have been in many shows over the years," Sam Casey said. "My favorites are 'Beauty and the Beast' where I played the role of Cogsworth, 'Godspell' where I performed the part of Jesus, and 'Seussical' where I was the Cat in the Hat.
"A year ago I volunteered to direct the kids show at Lionheart. I have always loved the technical and production aspects of theater. As the director, I need to have a full understanding of the show, see the big picture, and plan the smallest details."
He was also stage manager for Lionheart's "Velveteen Rabbit" and for Smoke Rise Academy of Art's "Wizard of Oz." He also participated in Onion Man Production's directing workshop.
"It was a wonderful experience where we were taught the basics of putting together a show and then had the opportunity to direct our own ten minute play," he said. It was the best preparation I could have asked for."
Casey finds the all youth cast experience to have many benefits.
"The biggest advantage to having an all youth production is rehearsals are effective and less stressful," Casey said. "We hope to leave our audience with the classic songs stuck in their heads and a big smile on their faces."
Lionheart Theatre is located at 10 College St. in Historic Norcross at the College Street Playhouse. For more information about this production and many others activities, visit www.lionhearttheatre.org or call 678-938-8518.
Holley Calmes is a freelance writer and public relations consultant specializing in the arts. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Literacy Studies - looking into the future and celebrating the past - with David Barton and Mary Hamilton
Special guests: Brian Street and Roz Ivanic
This event celebrates the formal retirement of David Barton and Mary Hamilton, although they will keep a link with the university through a new 2 year ESRC grant (with Karin Tusting) on academics writing. In keeping with the tone of their work over the past 25 years, we will be as forward looking as we are backward gazing.
Members of the Literacy Research Centre will be discussing Literacy Studies (also known as New Literacy Studies) with a number of invited guests including plenary speaker Brian Street, Emeritus Professor of language in education at King's College London and Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania.
It is twenty five years since the Worlds of Literacy event was held at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe and we are delighted to be returning to the location of discussions where the original book "Worlds of Literacy" edited by Mary Hamilton, David Barton and Roz Ivanic, began to emerge.
09.30 Registration and coffee or tea
10.00 What is the future of Literacy Studies? Led by Lancaster University PhD students, with responses from David Barton and Mary Hamilton
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My frequent visitors will have noticed I haven't been doing much posting in the last while, even though it is the heart of coyote season. There's a reason, and from my perspective it's a good one. I've in effect sold this blog to a major hunting organization and will now be doing a similar predator blog for them on their website. So, after two years of independent on-line presence, this blog is now going legit. In keeping with that development most of the old Coyote School content will be taken down.
While this will effectively be my last post here, the blogging will continue in the same format, just in a different location. The site is that of the North American Hunting Club and I'll be joining a group of bloggers that includes well known writers like Ron Spomer, Richard Mann and even Jeff Foxworthy.
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Delinquent Rutland restaurant closesBy Brent Curtis
STAFF WRITER | March 18,2013It's unclear why the South Station Restaurant in Rutland is closed but there is evidence that the eatery owed tax money to the city and the state.
The popular restaurant and location of numerous civic and political functions closed suddenly on Monday.
A note taped to the front door advised members of the Rutland Rotary Club that their lunchtime meeting Monday had been moved.
Another note taped to the inner door advised that the restaurant would be closed Monday due to technical difficulties but added optimistically "See you soon."
But owner William Gillam Jr., said Monday he had little to no hope of reopening the restaurant located in the Trolley Barn at 170 South Main St.
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- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: On this day in 1249 AD, ANDRE of LONGJUMEAU is dispatched by LOUIS IX of France to meet the KHAGAN, ruler of the Mongol Empire; in 1804, during 1st Barbary War, STEPHEN DECATUR scuttles the pirate-held USS Philadelphia in Tripoli.


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Recipe by CHRIS SHELLENBARGER
"This is an extremely easy recipe that can be baked in a conventional oven or in a slow cooker. It combines potatoes with kielbasa or sausage baked in a creamy mushroom sauce."
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8 cups
cubed potatoes
1 pound
smoked sausage, sliced
1 (10.75 ounce) can
condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 (10.75 ounce) can
condensed vegetable beef soup
After reading the other reviews, I knew that this was a versatile recipe. I wasn't sure I had the right soups, but I knew I could come close. I used french onion soup instead of the vegetable beef soup and I added chopped fresh broccoli. My husband told me to make this again soon. I like the fact that I can throw this together with what I might have on hand, and have a good comfort food meal. French bread and salad were all I added to round out our dinner!! Thanks!
I made this in the slow cooker and, based on other reviewers' suggestions, added chopped onion, a drained can of corn, and a 1 lb. bag of baby carrots on top of the sausage, in that order. I also mixed the mushroom and vegetable beef soups together in a small bowl before adding them on top. It did taste good when it was done, but a little on the dry, thick side. I'm thinking maybe something like a cup of beef broth might have helped sauce it up a bit. The French onion soup, that other reviewers suggested, in place of the veggie soup might have done the trick, too, because it's a more liquidy soup to begin with. I also think it could have used some spices to jazz it up, maybe some black pepper or garlic or onion powder. If you make this in a slow cooker, I would recommend keeping the cooking time closer to the low end (6 hours) rather than the high end (8 hours). I went right down the middle with 7 hours, and if I would have cooked it that extra hour, it would have ended up way too dry.
189 Ratings
YUMMY!! My family went crazy over this recipe! I made some adjustments based on other suggestions. 7 sliced peeled potatoes, 2 packages turkey smoked sausage, 1 (40% larger than normal sized) cream of mushroom soup,1 can condensed french onion soup, large onion chopped, lots of garlic powder. Put it in the crockpot til well cooked! Will be on the regular rotation...
Very easy to put together, especially with those pre-cubed potatoes you can get in the produce section now. Doing this in a slow cooker, it probably needs stirred at least once midway through cooking time as the potatoes on the bottom were a little mushy and the ones on the top were less cooked. But very nice blend of flavors -- would probably like better with a little more sauce as well. Will have to try the oven method next time too.
Absolutely delicious! I added some carrots and used sweet italian sausage. My family loved it!
I just want to add... It's been a year since I first made this and it has become a regular meal in my house. We have it at leat once a month. We all love it and it comes out perfect everytime. Very eay prep. A long cooking time, but hey, it gives me time to do other things since it is basically set it and forget it.
You really can't mess this up and it is soooo tasty. Makes it's own gravy too.
The only thing I might suggest since I do it in the oven id to take the foil of for the last 15 or 20 minutes to let the top brown.
It is a little too much food for my small family but I still make the full recipe, in fact I might even increase it a bit, but it freezes well, so I don't mind.
Quick and easy recipe. My kids love it. I've made this several times with the beef soup. One night I did not have beef soup on hand so I tried Campbell's Southwestern chicken soup...BETTER YET! Adds wonderful flavor. I also use more sausage than called for (2 #) and add fresh sliced mushrooms. Top with shredded cheddar cheese, perfect!
i got this recipe when i was looking for crock pot recipes. The vegetable soup kind of threw me at first, but since it seemed a cheap meal to make i decided to give it a try. My children just loved it. my 2 year old is very picky about what she eats, but she just loved it. the only change i made was to add a can of whole kernal corn because my husband loves corn. thanks for the great recipe!!!
My boyfriend and I loved this recipe. It was very easy to make, although I might recommend spraying the baking dish with cooking spray before baking.
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Off-Duty Prisons Officer Shot On South Side
An off-duty Cook County corrections officer was shot multiple times after he thought he was being followed while driving his car.
Corrections Officer Remembered After Hit-And-Run That Took Her Life
Police on Friday morning were questioning a suspect in the deadly hit-and-run crash in which a Cook County corrections officer was killed.
Police: Hit-And-Run Driver Sped Up Before Killing Officer
Police in northwest Indiana are focusing their search on a dark blue GMC pickup truck or SUV in their investigation into the hit-and-run crash that killed a Lake County Sheriff's correctional officer and seriously injured three others. Authorities also said the driver apparently accelerated shortly before hitting the officers as they were jogging.
Corrections Officer Killed, 3 Others Injured In Hit-And-Run In NW Ind.
A northwest Indiana corrections officer was killed and three others were injured Tuesday night when a hit-and-run driver struck them as they were jogging in Crown Point.
A 25-year-old woman whose rape kit went untested for 10 years sues the city of Harvey.


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From piracy to privacy, and cybersecurity to spectrum, Congress this year will be wading into several potentially blockbuster issues that could affect a wide swath of the tech community.
Below are just a few of the major issues to watch for.
Online Piracy
When the House returns later this month, Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, has vowed to continue a markup he started before the holiday break on legislation that would provide new tools to curb piracy and counterfeiting on foreign websites.
The committee spent two days last month wading through dozens of amendments to legislation known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The bill aims to cut off funding and U.S. access to foreign websites that offer pirated movies, music, counterfeit running shoes, luxury purses, prescription drugs, and other items. The amendments were offered by a bipartisan group of critics on the committee, and the bill is expected to now pass the committee.
Smith has said he would consider a request by some opponents to hold another hearing that would examine concerns that the legislation could interfere with efforts to bolster the security of the Internet's domain-name system. But he plans to continue the markup regardless.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved its own version of piracy legislation in May, but Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has been blocking it from moving to the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has scheduled a vote for Jan. 24 on a motion to begin debate.
Leaders in both chambers have promised to move forward with wide-ranging cybersecurity legislation this year. While the intent may be clear, the details remain murky.
Reid plans to bring comprehensive cybersecurity legislation to the floor during the first month of work after the Senate returns on Jan. 23. Various draft legislation has been making the rounds.
Potential proposals include clarifying the role and authority of government agencies to tackle cyberthreats, defining what "critical infrastructure" may warrant additional government protection, and ways to increase information sharing between the government and corporations.
While the Senate plans to tackle cybersecurity in a comprehensive bill, the House may be taking a more roundabout approach. In October, the House Republican Cybersecurity Task Force proposed developing smaller pieces of legislation in the various standing committees that could be packaged into a larger bill.
"We are generally skeptical of large, 'comprehensive' bills on complex topics, at least as the bills are being written," the task force wrote in its report. House members have proposed several bills, including one from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., that aims to allow the government to share more information with businesses.
Congress will also continue work in the second session on legislation that would free up more spectrum to meet the public's growing demand for wireless technologies.
The spectrum legislation is likely to be part of the larger debate over whether to pass a one-year extension of the payroll-tax holiday. The House included spectrum legislation in a payroll tax bill it passed last month. And some of the key players in the spectrum debate have been named as conferees to help negotiate with the Senate on the issue, including Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich.; Energy and Commerce ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif.; and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
Privacy will continue to make waves on the Hill and regulatory agencies, but the chances that lawmakers will actually pass a bill at this point appear remote. Nonetheless, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Commerce and Trade is expected to hold more hearings. The panel's chairwoman, Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., has said she is still undecided on the need for legislation.
Her panel has approved legislation that would set national standards for how companies must respond to data breaches. The data-breach bill, however, is still awaiting action by the full committee.
In the Senate, a spokesman for Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said privacy remains a priority but the panel is still crafting its agenda for the second session.
Cloud Computing
While the government has joined businesses in moving toward cloud computing, significant legislation on the issue has been delayed in Congress.
Cloud computing, in which data and programs are stored on remote servers and usually accessed online, offers ways to cut costs and increase efficiency but poses a range of concerns over privacy, security, and liability.
Many industry leaders say legislation is needed to clarify existing law and provide certainty to encourage investment in the new technology.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar's Cloud Computing Act of 2011 generated a lot of buzz when the Minnesota Democrat announced it at a Best Buy store in her home state in April. But seven months later, the bill floundered after Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who was originally floated as a cosponsor, bailed.
Late last year Klobuchar said she is working with new authors to introduce the bill.
Other issues that could emerge this session include debate over legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales taxes from out-of-state customers. Also on the Senate's docket are two nominees to the Federal Communications Commission. They were approved by the Senate Commerce Committee but their final confirmation vote is on hold while Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, spars with the FCC over the handling of the LightSquared proceeding.


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GEE retakes in Lafayette set for Oct. 21-25
Students who need to pass the state's old Graduate Exit Exam have another chance to take the exam in Lafayette this month.
KATC-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/17OIgvW) students who were 10th graders during the 1999 to 2000 school year were the last required to pass the GEE to earn a high school diploma.
Any student who entered 10th grade between 1988 and 1999 and did not pass the GEE are eligible for the fall administration of the test from Oct. 21 to Oct. 25 at the Lafayette Parish School Board office.
The GEE includes five tests: Written Composition, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. Retest students are required to take only those parts they did not pass.
Contact Susan Kahn at 337-521-7029 to register by the Oct. 18 deadline.
Information from: KATC-TV, http://katc.com


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The Builddown
OMB's pass-back memo has been leaked. That memo includes the topline numbers that will make up the President's defense request this coming February. It has two interesting implications:
- If you assume DoD keeps the same proportion of the 050 budget function, the toplines fit under the BCA's revised security caps (which is budget function 050, national defense) that go into effect this January now that the supercommittee has failed. And means the administration isn't budgeting for sequester.
- Staying under those caps also means the budget will erode in real terms. The average nominal growth is about 2%, which after FY14 is slightly under inflation projections. So the budget is actually shrinking, as expected.* Although as we've said after 10 years that is still only a 7% reduction in real terms, far below historical builddowns.
Kudos to CBO as well, who way back in January had projected an $83B OCO number for FY13--what the admin is proposing now--when they offered their policy alternative for a drawdown to 45K troops by 2015. And a hopeful sign that there won't be a lot of base to OCO shenanigans, especially with the administration telling DoD to begin moving all enduring war costs to the base. Reclaiming war costs would bring us closer to historical builddown percentages, although the base budget still probably has some way to go to.
* the original draft included an assumption for FY18-21, which did not match the guidance provided.


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Ad hoc networks of dash-mounted smartphone cameras help pace cars between traffic lights. MIT researchers say ubiquitous cellphone cameras could also track gasoline prices.


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Peace Agitator, by Nat Hentoff
The Radicalism of A. J. Muste
Peace Agitator.
by Nat Hentoff.
Macmillan. 269 pp. $5.95.
A. J. Muste—Abraham Johannes—the well-known pacifist, has been an active American radical for over fifty years. Seeking for most of his life to transform society through the "power of non-violence," he has been a distinctly untypical reformer on the American political landscape. These days, moreover, when concern with pacifism and the techniques of civil disobedience loom so large in the thought and action of both civil rights groups and the intellectual community, Muste appears as a particularly pertinent figure. Unfortunately, Nat Hentoff's biography of Muste hardly scratches the surface of its subject. Not much more than an intermittently useful guide to the main facts of Muste's life, it offers little sense of the intellectual and emotional world a pacifist inhabits, nor any clear assessment of Muste's influence on either American radicalism or the larger society. Somehow it even avoids a serious estimate of pacifism.
Still, the facts about Muste are worth having, even in the undigested form in which Hentoff presents them. Especially interesting are the details about the radical's manifestly unradical upbringing and the first years of his career. In 1891, when he was six, his family emigrated from Holland and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan—a hard-working, conservative Dutch community that Muste remembers as being "allergic to unions or 'agitators' of any kind." At the age of thirteen or so, disciplined, bright, and resolute, he decided to become a minister, and pursued his objective with characteristic diligence. He graduated from a (Calvinist) Dutch Reformed College, completed his ministerial training at a seminary in New Jersey, and then married a young girl whose father was also a minister—a small fact that gives a nice sense of the homeliness of his early life.
Muste started on the road to radicalism during his seminary days. As part of his training—it was 1908—he assisted at a church on New York's Lower East Side, and for the first time saw the misery of a true slum. "This was a very different poverty," Muste recalls in Peace Agitator, "than that of the furniture-factory workers [of Grand Rapids] or even that of the poor farmers of the Middle West during 'the hard times.'" In the next few years he witnessed such dismaying and brutal events as the Triangle fire disaster and the IWW-led strikes in Paterson. Muste began to explore the literature of radicalism, and found his theology changing as his social concerns became more intense. By 1914 he no longer could accept the literal interpretation of the Bible or the whole of Calvinist dogma.
The decisive fork in the road came with the approach of World War I. Muste saw no way to deny his belief that "just" wars were a practical impossibility. He declared himself a pacifist, advocated non-violence in all spheres of life, and thereby ended his days as an ordinary if devoted man of the cloth. From this point, his career became that of a confirmed radical, and in one way or another, he became involved with every major radical concern of the next fifty years.
At the close of the war, he set himself to organizing locals and leading strikes—all the while advocating non-violence. Then the problems of lower-class education began to absorb him, and he helped establish and direct the influential Brookwood Labor College, where union members came to study labor history and contemporary social problems. In the 30's, impelled by the intense and widespread feeling among radicals that the struggle of the working class demanded direct participation, Muste turned to politics and helped found the American Workers party, an organization he hoped would be both democratic and revolutionary.
It was during this period that Muste briefly but passionately diverged from the non-violent doctrines to which he has devoted most of his career. "I had become a Trotskyite Marxist Leninist," he reports, "and had accordingly ceased to think of myself as a Christian and a pacifist." This detour in Muste's life, a curious and intriguing episode which the reader must fit together from a scattering of facts and comments, involves the most distressing aspects of radical politics during the 30's. Muste had tried to get Brook-wood to devote less of its time to "passive" teaching and to enter more directly into the midst of the labor struggle, and in his demand had become bitterly adamant and even wild. "That evenness of temperament we'd all thought was an unchangeable characteristic of A.J.," a staff member recalls, "was gone." It was upon losing the fight at Brookwood that he formed the Workers party. For the first and only time in his career Muste apparently had caught the radical's fever—an absolute knowledge of how the future could and should be made—and his new certainty left little room for dissent or for merely moderate commitment. Even his wife, ordinarily unquestioning in her support, found occasion to complain.
If one reads between the lines of Peace Agitator, it is clear that the pacifist's turn to revolutionary politics exacted a practical and psychic cost he had never anticipated. His difficulties began when he merged his Workers party with the Trotskyites. A precondition of the merger was the latter's promise that they would not join the Socialist party (as their French counterparts had done) in order to take it over from within. Yet once the merger was completed, the Trotskyites proceeded to do just that. Muste found himself powerless, and the democratic and revolutionary party which he had envisioned and had worked for so devotedly (and almost violently) was swallowed up in bitter factionalism.
It took several unhappy months and a long vacation in Europe to give Muste back his sense of himself. It was the summer of 1936, and Muste, exhausted by the internecine struggles he had left behind, was further dismayed by the arms buildup that was everywhere visible. One day while sitting in a church on the Left Bank, he was overcome by a sudden feeling of absolute clarity: "This is where you belong, in the church, not outside it." For Muste, this recon-version to pacifism did not signify a break with socialism, only a return, as he would phrase it, to Christian non-violence. It meant saying "no" to the man he briefly had been and to any ideology that led to acts not justifiable in themselves.
Since then, Muste has continued to apply himself with apparently limitless vigor to the issues of integration and peace, and to the problems of the new nations in Africa. He advocates civil disobedience as strongly as ever, and regularly practices it—he has paid no federal taxes since 1948. Admired by the young and respected by his contemporaries, he has become the "grand old man" of American pacifism.
In examining Muste's life, Hentoff is weakest and least sophisticated on precisely those issues which currently make such an examination so relevant: the influence, validity, and future importance of pacifism. Hentoff suggests in general that pacifism has been a major source of the peace movement and the civil rights struggle, and that pacifist "ideology" can provide a viable basis for systematic political action. But he treats these notions as tentatively as if they were merely chance observations. His analysis of Muste's own ideas follows suit. He quotes the pacifist as saying that "the peace movement either has to take part in the development of new political forces and new political organizations, or it has itself to be somehow or other a force for political change." In response, he typically hedges—"Muste may be correct, at least in part," he begins—thereby making even vaguer what was hardly concrete to begin with.
In such manner, he overlooks perhaps the two most obvious long-range implications of the current interest in pacifism. One is that the tactics of non-violence, used in an increasing variety of situations, probably will become permanent weapons in the arsenal of citizen protest: they offer extremely effective means to fight City Hall. The second is that the spirit of these tactics and of pacifism in general very likely will continue to work upon the future attitudes of many people now between the ages, say, of fifteen and twenty-five, just as the spirit of Marxism and revolutionary politics has remained with those who were young in the 30's.
So far as Muste personally is concerned, he emerges from Peace Agitator as even more than a notably honest and good man. He also appears to be a wholly contented and inwardly peaceful one. It is clear he has not worked to change the world simply because it held no place for him, the motive that moves so many radicals. He has been inspired by thoroughly affirmative desires—to make life more humane, to make all men leaders, to show others that they themselves could change the world if they wanted to.
Several years ago, I heard Muste explain almost angrily to a group intending to stage a protest march against fallout that they should not concern themselves with the many people who refused to join them. Each person in the march, he admonished, should be concerned only with what he himself was doing. In comments such as these, almost second nature to the pacifist, he matter-of-factly displays his own motives. Neither vindictiveness nor imagined superiority charges his radicalism, but a robust, a dignifying assurance and a vital self-satisfaction. These are unusual and happy traits in any man, and particularly so in someone who takes a position as recalcitrant as Muste's. Indeed, his most significant contribution to his younger followers may well turn out to be neither his thought nor the variety of radical organizations he has helped found, but rather his style and the example of his character. His firmness has not destroyed his humanity. Muste is one of those rare reformers who has stood opposed to American society for half a century, yet still continues to honor his fellow men.


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Jury hears rock musician died in freak incident
Posted: November 09, 2012|
A founder member of the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in a freak accident when a half-tonne hay bale rolled down a steep field onto his vehicle, a jury was told.
Mike Edwards, 62, was a cellist with the 1970s ELO band, and was killed in September 2010 when the bale, of either hay or silage, rolled down the grass field, through a wire fence and thin hedge into the path of his van as he drove along a busy A road near Halwell in Devon. Yesterday, the farmer and an agricultural contractor both went on trial, each charged with two health-and-safety offences, which they both deny.
As the case began at Plymouth Crown Court, trial judge Paul Darlow told the jury: "The deceased person driving the van was someone who was, certainly to some of us of a certain generation, quite a well-known musician."
Prosecutor Rupert Lowe told the jury: "The case arises out of a fatal accident which took place two years ago in September 2010. It was September 3 just before lunchtime when a man called Mike Edwards was driving along the A381 near Halwell in Devon when a large round bale of hay weighing half a tonne burst through a hedge near where he was driving and crashed on to the roof of his car (van). He was crushed and killed in the impact and was declared dead at the scene.
"It was a most dreadful farming accident. It could have been any member of the public but he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Mr Lowe said the defendants – farmer Brian Burden, then 44, and agricultural contractor Russell Williams, then 21 – did not deliberately cause his death or they would have been charged with murder or manslaughter.
"This was a farming accident. But it was one which was preventable, easily preventable. The two men in the dock are charged with offences over the way they carried out their work."
He said anyone running a business should not put members of the public at risk of injury or death as they carry out their work. He said the bale, which was "extremely heavy" weighing between 400 and 600kg or half a tonne, rolled down the steep grass hill in Long Lands field on to the busy A381 road "where people drive past all the time". Mr Lowe said: "If they decide to roll down a significant slope there is simply no stopping them."
He said the risk of bales rolling down the slope would have "obvious consequences".
The court heard Williams, now 23, of Blackawton, Devon, was a self-employed contractor who was paid by the bale to do the work of baling up the cut grass for silage on Burden's farm. Burden, of Halwell, Devon, was an experienced farmer who used to do the job himself in the same field for many years before contracting it out to Williams some years before.
Mr Lowe stressed to the jury: "They are both decent, hard-working men who you would never expect to be in a court like this."
Mr Lowe said the bales were around 5ft tall and even wider. Williams had been baling the day before the tragedy but suffered a puncture and had to finish the job the next day – when Burden was not around to help and a farmhand took over from him.
Williams told investigators he left the bale "half way down the field" on a clear, dry day.
The jury was shown TV images of how a baler works and then the steep field where the bale rolled down.
Mr Lowe said: "You can just see how steep it is going down to that main road. Russell Williams told investigators he put the offending bale somewhere half way down the field, that is the bale that landed on the unfortunate Mike Edwards."
Burden and Williams both deny failing to discharge their duty and a second count of contravening a health-and-safety regulation.
Their trial continues.


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The Eiger, Monch, and Jungfrau, the "north face of the Alps"
These three formidable peaks in the Bernese Alps, with their sheer granite walls, are among the most sought-after prizes in European mountaineering.
Switzerland: The Via Alpina
One of the Great Hikes of the World
Trip Details at-a-Glance
|Cost From:
|11 days
|Lucerne, Switzerland
|Kandersteg, Switzerland
|10 nights hotels and mountain inns
|All meals included except 2 lunches and 2 dinners
|Hiking / Trekking
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10 hiking days on moderate to steep trails, 5-8 hours a day, altitudes up to 9,120 feet, van support (for luggage or tired feet), team of up to three Trip Leaders
- Feast your eyes on stunning views of the North Face of the Alps, including the mighty Eiger
- Enjoy delicious Swiss specialties, from artisan cheeses (raclette!) to chocolate
- Cozy hotels, including the historic "base camp" inn for Victorian-era climbers attempting to scale the Eiger
The trip exceeded my expectations, and I was able to see the Alps for the third time and be in awe of the mountains. The food and accommodations overall have to be some of the best on any of my trips.Terrell N.—Los Angeles, CA
Choosing the Right Trip
We work hard to help you choose the right trip for you, paying attention to your individual interests, abilities, and needs. If you have questions about the level of comfort or any of the activities described in this itinerary, please contact us.
We are proud to have an exceptionally high rate of repeat travelers. For more information, we would be happy to put you in touch with a client who has traveled with us.
Departure Notes
Once you have signed up on the trip, we send a complete packing list, relevant health information, and required travel documents.
The Via Alpina, Europe's first trans-Alps trail, links a network of ancient footpaths through seven countries along the backbone of Europe's greatest mountain range. We've chosen the most spectacular section—a 75-mile stretch across Switzerland's legendary mountain landscapes, a true "hiker's hike" that brings you from lovely lakeside Lucerne to the alpine village of Kandersteg, ringed by snowy mountains. You'll follow airy balcony trails below ice-crowned peaks, cross a series of gorgeous passes, stay in welcoming inns in historic mountain hamlets, and enjoy up-close views of the major massifs of the Alps including the Eiger (13,025'), the Monch (13,401'), and the Jungfrau (13,642')—the venerated North Face of the Alps.
Itinerary at a Glance
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Days 1-4
Lucerne / Meiringen
From Lucerne, hike across passes with views of icy mountains, then down to Engelberg, set beneath Mt. Titlis and surrounded by a huge sweep of craggy peaks. Heading through isolated valleys, follow a scenic trail through alpine meadows that leads to Meiringen, an ideal spot for a rest day or optional hikes.
Days 5-6
Grosse Scheidegg Pass / Grindelwald / Kleine Scheidegg
Head to Grosse Scheidegg Pass (6,500'), with its marvelous views of a wall of glaciated mountains, then along on a dramatic trail beside waterfalls close to the infamous North Face of the Eiger.
Days 7-8
Lauterbrunnen / Murren
A gorgeous hike brings you to the Lauterbrunnen Valley (2,640'), graced by some 72 cascading waterfalls. In car-free Murren (5,413'), enjoy a day to explore, with optional hikes including a route into a beautiful hanging valley.
Days 9-11
Sefinenfurke Pass / Kandersteg
The dramatic Sefinenfurke Pass (8,600') is a highlight of the Via Alpina, with a magnificent panorama of the giants of the Alps. From the Hohturli Pass (9,120'), descend past icefalls and glaciers to Oeschinensee (5,250'), a turquoise-hued glacial lake set in an amphitheater of snowy peaks. Depart on Day 11 via Kandersteg.
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What the Trip is Like
This trip is Level 5+, Strenuous, and good hiking experience is essential (no climbing or mountaineering experience is necessary). Most hiking is between 4,000 and 9,100 feet, with a good bit of up-and-down hiking (often 3,000- to 4,500-foot gain or loss in elevation) during the 5-8 hours on the trail each day. Our support vehicle will transport the group's luggage, so you only need to carry a daypack for items you need for the day (rain gear, sweater, camera, water bottle).
At lower elevations the trails are usually packed dirt, but at higher elevations they are often much rockier and steeper, with occasional sections of glacial snow, loose scree, and large boulders. On some days you will encounter short sections of narrow trails with exposure. Your experienced mountain guides are very safety conscious and are there to assist you if needed on the few tricky parts that you will come across on the trail.
We strongly urge you to "train up" for your trip. These are challenging hikes, so you must be in top physical condition. (Of course, you are always free to skip a day's hike and travel to the next destination in the support vehicle, which transports the group's luggage from day to day.) The best training for hiking is hiking, especially over hills or rough terrain. Next best are running, swimming, bicycling or other sports exercise (stair-climbing machines are excellent preparation for hiking uphill). It's important to take time to build up muscle and endurance prior to your trip. Try to incorporate exercise into your daily schedule at least a couple of months before departure. Your feet should also be well prepared—make sure your hiking boots are sturdy and thoroughly broken-in.
We spend our nights in a mix of comfortable small and larger hotels, many of them historic. Although the rooms in our alpine hotels and inns are not always of uniform or international size, our leaders try their best to assign rooms in a fair way so that all participants experience an equal advantage throughout the trip as a whole. Lunches will be in mountain huts, restaurants, or will be carried as picnic meals, and most evenings we have dinner at our hotel. Vegetarians please note: we will try to accommodate dietary needs as best as possible, but it is a good idea to bring along protein bars and other supplements.
Luggage space is limited in our van, so we ask that you restrict your luggage to one piece, plus your daypack. Please note that in Europe, the dinner hour is considerably later than what it is in the US. We do our best to secure early reservations for our groups, but most often the evening meal will be at 7:30 pm.
Departures & Leaders
Aug 11-21, 2015
Jul 25-Aug 4, 2016
Aug 21-31, 2016
Trip Cost
Prices are for 2015
$6695 (12-14 members)
$6995 (10-11 members)
$7295 (6-9 members)
Single supplement: $750
Forced single supplement: $550
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Trip Payment Schedule
At time of reservation: $500
120 days prior to departure: 20% of trip cost
60 days prior to departure: Balance
Cancellation and Transfer Fee Schedule
More than 90 days prior to departure: No charge!
90-46 days prior to departure: 25% of trip cost
45 days or less: 100% of trip cost
Trip Cost Includes:
- Expert leadership of at least two Wilderness Travel Trip Leaders (and sometimes three, depending on group size)
- Accommodations in hotels and inns
- All meals included except 2 lunches and 2 dinners
- A glass of wine or beer with dinner
- Ground transportation throughout the trip
- Sightseeing and entrance fees on group tours
- Cable cars, chairlifts, gondolas to and from trailheads for scheduled hikes
Trip Cost Does Not Include:International airfare, airport transfers, any meals not specified, airport departure taxes, optional tipping or gratuities to leaders or staff, additional hotel nights made necessary by airline schedule changes or other factors, pre-trip expenses such as immunizations (if any), travel insurance, or passports and visas, and other expenses of a personal nature (alcoholic beverages, laundry, etc.).
Arrival & Departure InformationYou are responsible for your own transportation arriving to Lucerne, Switzerland, and departing from Kandersteg, Switzerland. For more detailed information, including transfers, please download the Detailed Itinerary.
Please do not purchase your tickets until you are confirmed on the trip and have reviewed your proposed air schedule with our office. Once your tickets have been purchased, please send us a copy of your airline schedule.
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Lucerne, Switzerland
Date: Day 1
Suggested Arrival Airport:
Zurich, Switzerland (airport code ZRH) or Geneva, Switzerland (airport code GVA)
Suggested Flight Arrival Time: anytime prior to Day 1
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Date: Day 11
Suggested Airport for Departure:
Zurich, Switzerland (airport code ZRH) or Geneva, Switzerland (airport code GVA)
Suggested Flight Departure Time: No earlier than 10:30 am if flying from Zurich. No earlier than 11:30 am if flying from Geneva
Hotel des Balances
Day 1 (1 night), Lucerne, Switzerland
The Hotel des Balances is, hands down, the place to stay in Lucerne. Set right on the waterfront and in the heart of Lucerne's Old ...
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Day 2 (1 night), Engelberg, Switzerland
At this traditional Victorian-era hotel, we stay in spacious, newly renovated rooms that offer fantastic views and spiffy modern touches. Relax on ...
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Hotel Victoria
Days 3 to 4 (2 nights), Meiringen, Switzerland
This boutique-style hotel is conveniently located in the center of Meiringen, right across the street from the Sherlock Holmes Museum. The 18 guest ...
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Sunstar Hotel
Day 5 (1 night), Grindelwald, Switzerland
The views can't get any better than those from the Sunstar Hotel, with its knock-'em-dead vistas of the Eiger, First, and the ...
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Hotel Bellevue des Alpes
Day 6 (1 night), Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland
This historic, family-run hotel is set right on the Kleine Scheidegg pass, and was once the "home base" of climbers attempting the ...
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Hotel Bellevue
Days 7 to 8 (2 nights), Murren, Switzerland
Centrally located in the quiet little village of Murren, the Hotel Bellevue is an absolutely charming place to stay, with great chalet-style decor, ...
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Griesalp Hotel
Day 9 (1 night), Kiental, Switzerland
In Griesalp we stay at a resort-like hotel complex at the foot of the Blumlisalp that offers welcoming and cozy accommodations in the midst of a ...
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Waldhotel Doldenhorn
Day 10 (1 night), Kandersteg, Switzerland
Situated in a quiet garden-like setting just outside the village of Kandersteg, the Waldhotel Doldenhorn is a great place to relax after our ...
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Note: Listed above are our signature accommodations for this trip. Although it is highly unlikely, we may make substitutions when necessary.
Our Trip Leaders
Here are the Trip Leaders scheduled for this journey (please note that leader assignments are subject to change).
Nicos Caravellas, born and raised in Greece, gained his love of nature early on family outings in northern Greece's mountainous countryside. During his university years, while earning his degree in teaching, he developed his mountaineering skills and decided to become a professional guide."I ...
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Marian Gibert has been a world traveler from a young age. She was born in Bilbao, Spain, grew up in Venezuela, and later lived in Britain, where she studied Business Administration at Cambridge. She also lived and worked in Engelberg, a resort in the Swiss Alps, picking up the Swiss-German and ...
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Born in Florence, Italy, of an American mother and proud Florentine father, Tania Masi was raised with an appreciation for both American and European cultures. With nine languages and a Master of Geography under her belt—not to mention a career as a journalist and documentary film director ...
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Client Comments
The trip exceeded my expectations, and I was able to see the Alps for the third time and be in awe of the mountains. The food and accommodations overall have to be some of the best on any of my trips.Terrell N., Los Angeles, CA
Well seasoned trip leaders, great company, and a excellent Swiss experience.Jorge A., Council Rocks, IA


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October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Except for Kate's re-cap of her visit to Occupy Ottawa, things have been a little quiet around here on the topic of Occupy Canada. But don't take that silence for disinterest, I've been visiting Occupy Ottawa semi-regularly over the past couple of weeks (and you can read some of my observations at Examiner.com), and I'm quite sympathetic. Sure, I'm not going to agree with a lot of the prominent political positions of the movement (today, one of the Occupiers asked me if I was a communist), but I'm in agreement with a lot of the underlying principles.
I hate the term social justice, and I tend to be repelled by any movement that throws around that semi-vacuous phrase. Ditto, inequality (to a lesser extent). Too much is made of the wealth gap between the rich and the poor. Similarly, the increase in that gap may be undesirable, but it's probably not worth trading prosperity for equality. But to a great extent, that's all beside the point. I'm not worried about the gap between the rich and the poor so much as I'm concerned by the fact that there is the poor. I don't care what your political philosophy is, or what you think the best way to help the poor is, if you're not concerned – at least a little bit – that there people starving and sleeping on the street, you're seriously lacking in the being human department.
The protesters may be overplaying their hand when it comes to corporate greed. Sure, it might be fun to hate on Gordon Gekko (though it's fun to watch that movie and root for evil Michael Douglas), but in real life corporate self-interest alone isn't going to destroy society. No, government overreach and political-corporate alliances are the real demons, and this, when you drill down, is what a lot of the protests are about. Bailouts suck; rent-seeking makes us all poorer; regulatory capture is a real threat to our liberty. You don't have to be the stereotypical left-wing hippy to see that. Conservatives, libertarians and whatever-the-hell-the-Liberals-are should all stand up in opposition.
I know some of our readers might object to the Occupy movement on an aesthetic level. The protest culture isn't for everyone (you don't see me camping there), and the sloganeering can be quite a turn off (they definitely lost me a bit when I saw signs declaring "Glass-Steagall or Die"), but in the end, there is something pretty great about a group of citizens coming together to highlight injustice (yeah, I just used that word) and try to make things just a little bit better.
To that extent, I'm in their corner.
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One Response to "Occupying Sympathy"
R. Mowat
October 27th, 2011 @ 1:21 pm
Hell, I think everyone is concerned about the poor. It's human nature. I think the problem here is that these folks think that I should be *as concerned as they are* about it. And they are *mightily* concerned, I can tell, since they are, you know, sitting around in a park. And, if sitting around in a park don't get things done, well, then you don't know my Grandpa Joe who sits for four hours on Sundays (in the summer) in the park. He feeds the poor, all right. The poor pigeons.
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The midfielder has been widely linked with a move to West Ham this summer, and speculation over his future increased when he missed the 1-1 draw with the Seagulls.
But Hughton has insisted the Scotland international was not in attendance due to a "family issue", and he expects Snodgrass to rejoin the squad by the end of the week.
"It's very simple and I can set the record straight," said Hughton. "It's a family issue.
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Newspaper reports in Scotland have suggested that Snodgrass returned to Scotland on Tuesday following a car crash involving his pregnant partner.
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One of the main reasons that inflation is bad is because it can be unpredictable. When it is unpredictable, people cannot prepare for it. If, however, inflation is predictable, people can prepare for it and the harm from a rate in the range of 7% would not be very severe.
If everyone knows the inflation rate will be right around 7%, they can plan for it. Banks can set interest rates to get them a return over and above inflation. Firms can know how much they will need to increase their workers' pay. By contrast, if the inflation rate is sometimes 2% and sometimes 8%, it is much harder to plan. If a bank plans for a 2% inflation rate and sets its interest rates at, say 5%, it actually loses money on loans that it makes if the actual inflation rate ends up at 8%. The bank will not, in that case, know what interest rate to set and may be less willing to lend.
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I should make double, triple clear that if someone has physical access to your iPhone, the passcode/password is your best friend. Make sure you're using one.
Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix
A bug has been discovered in iOS 7 that causes email attachments to not be encrypted. Before anyone panics, however, in order for an attacker to exploit the bug they'd need to a) steal your device and, b) brute force or jailbreak-bypass the passcode or password, which c) currently means there's no risk to iPhone 4s and later devices running iOS 7.1 or later software. When reached for comment about the bug, Apple provided us with the following statement:
"We're aware of the issue," an Apple spokeswoman told iMore, "and are working on a fix which we will deliver in a future software update."
The bug was first reported by Andreas Kurtz:
I verified this issue by restoring an iPhone 4 (GSM) device to the most recent iOS versions (7.1 and 7.1.1) and setting up an IMAP email account1, which provided me with some test emails and attachments. Afterwards, I shut down the device and accessed the file system using well-known techniques (DFU mode, custom ramdisk, SSH over usbmux). Finally, I mounted the iOS data partition and navigated to the actual email folder. Within this folder, I found all attachments accessible without any encryption/restriction:
Kurtz claims he successfully duplicated the tests on an iPhone 5s and an iPad 2 running iOS 7.0.4, though he makes no claim of testing them successfully or unsuccessfully on iOS 7.1.1. Given the requirements, anyone running an iPhone 4s or later (Apple A5* chipset or later) and iOS 7.1.x or later should not be vulnerable to this bug.
That means the only current, updated hardware affected is the iPhone 4, and an attacker would still need prolonged access to your device to perform this attack, which also means preventing Find my iPhone from wiping it. They'd also need to get around the passcode or password. (If you don't have a Passcode set they could just launch Mail.app and see all your attachments, and everything else on your device, anyway.)
With iOS, Apple has made the iPhone and iPad amazingly strong crypto bricks but bugs like this need to be squashed and fast to keep them that way.
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Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix
Ok, I'm confused. If they have the phone, and they're able to somehow get your password/passcode... what difference does it make if attachments are encrypted or not? They'll just log in at the lock screen and read your mail, right?
Pretty much.
The subtle difference is if they can jailbreak the device, they can access the file system directly.
But, yeah, physical access + passcode/password bypass is endgame.
And people wonder why Apple squashes the bugs that lead to jailbreaks so quickly.
I have passcode with TouchID on my 5s with 7.1.1.
Likewise, sounds like you're well protected :)
I've always been forced to have a password due to corporate Exchange polices, glad I'm covered. I was concerned when I first heard about this bug.
I think initial reports lacked a lot of context and, unfortunately, scared people without cause. Security is a topic that doesn't benefit from sensationalism :-/


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The console uses many of those 2-digit IOS files to perform basic functions. You uninstall one of those and your Wii may cease to be.
I did unistall it.. but it seems fine.. but the Gamma didnt install.. I think it was (-ret)? something like that... ill look again to be specific.. what do you mean uninstall IOS under 200?
The console uses many of those 2-digit IOS files to perform basic functions. You uninstall one of those and your Wii may cease to be.
"I think that the Wii is a beautiful piece of hardware, and a broken Wii is a tragedy. It doesnt matter why or how." -- Bushing
im lucky i guess.. for now.. ill post the error here later on... IF you may say i get bricked is there a way to get unbricked?
Yes it was more the number after the ret- we needed.
Wasn't 2011, 1035 or something like that was it?
Removing IOS60 is potentially very dangerous, good thing you hadn't updated to 4.1 when you did it or you'd be looking at something like this right now when you switch your Wii on.
Best to avoid removing IOS in future, just to be safe. Go crazy with named channels like Neogamma though, no harm doing that.
Not really doing much Wii stuff these days.
yea.. but i thought i did update to 4.1??(coz i did upto step 3 and unsure of 4 then the error, http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...d-any-wii.html) black screen.. LOL nooo.. Ill see it what error what it was.. but are there ways to unbrick?
Best to avoid getting Bricked in the first place. Bootmii/boot2 (not IOS) is the best and Priiloader is good brick protection.
Step 4 is the bit with the upgrade to IOS60 and System Menu.
It really depends on the brick. The Bricked Issues Only forum has a great topic by Mauifrog on how to avoid bricks.
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Newcastle United are reportedly ready to make a shock move for Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov.
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