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Unofficial totals with all 17 precincts reporting showed voters by a 2,121 to 1,428 tally agreed to increase property taxes to pay for the bonds to be issued over the next four years. The owner of a $300,000 home will pay an extra $34 per year initially, rising to a total of $136 per year in additional property taxes to fund the work.
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Village officials say they will use the proceeds to repair and resurface 30 miles -- or about one third -- of village streets over the next several years beginning in 2013.
The village normally spends about $1 million per year on roads but has fallen behind.


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NASCAR Hall of Fame Roars into CharlotteMay 11, 2010 - 2:41 PM | by: David Lewkowict
From its gritty roots running moonshine to a shining new Hall of Fame in the uptown section of Charlotte, NC – NASCAR has a new venue for fans to explore.
The NASCAR nation is one of the most loyal – spending millions to attend races, buy souvenirs and wear the colors of their favorite driver. The city of Charlotte, NC hopes that loyalty and passion will translate into some $60 million of economic impact annually through the new NASCAR Hall of Fame.
The facility is part museum, part experience and part pilgrimage for fans.
"I wanted to see the opening of the Hall of Fame because I'm a big NASCAR fan," said an excited Dawn Corbin who traveled from Arlington, TX in order to be one of the first to enter.
A section of the facility named Glory Road, features famous cars from different eras of NASCAR racing, along a stretch of "track" with a thirty degree incline, allowing visitors a sense of what the driver feels rounding the corner at Talladega.
John Findore of Statesville, NC described it this way "One word – Awesome. They did a fantastic job. Very impressive."
Fans can participate in a pit crew challenge, or take a drive in a simulator. At nearly $200 million dollars, the state of the art building is geared to both the NASCAR fan and the city's convention and tourist populations.
"Whether you're a die hard NASCAR fan or never been around it, we believe we've got something for everybody," Winston Kelley, NASCAR Hall of Fame Executive Director said. "We've really worked hard to have something for everybody."
Hall of Fame
On May 23, 2010, the first five NASCAR legends will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Some fans didn't agree with all the choices but Kelley defended the selections.
"The debates that you've seen out there online and that you saw on the radio shows are exactly the same debate that we had in the voting panel. Should it be someone that's a driver like a David Pearson or somebody like a Bill France Jr?" Kelley said. "These five are about what they did for the sport. The next five may be more likely what they did in the sport."
2010 Inductees
Richard Petty, who won more championships and races than any other driver. Glory Road features one of Petty's signature blue number 43 cars.
Junior Johnson, started running moonshine for his father's illegal whiskey business, spent nearly a year in jail and later started racing cars. Junior, now a team owner, built a replica still for an exhibit showing the sport's roots.
Bill France, Junior and Bill France, Senior are credited for making the sport into the force that it has become. From the first race in 1959 at Daytona, to the building of Talladega Motor Speedway in Alabama, the sport's fastest track, to a 39 race season – the father son team built an enterprise that in 2007 signed a $4.5 billion (yes billion) eight year television contract.
Dale Earnhardt, died doing what he loved most, driving fast. The racing legend's signature number 3 Chevy is prominently displayed for adoring fans to see.


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Peddlers in Eldorado
"The restless spirit of the Jewish wanderer," said Dr. Jacob Voorsanger, pioneer rabbi of San Francisco, speaking of the '49 Gold Rush, "drove many of the race of Israel to the mining camps of Eldorado." Once there, however, it did not take "the Jewish wanderer" long to find out that there were more nuggets in the peddler's pack than could be pried out of the mountainside. Goods were in desperate demand, prices were sky-high, pay was in gold dust. The Jew could get goods and credit, too, from friends and relatives in business back East: his choice of the peddling profession was inevitable.
"In traveling to the mines from one end to the other," wrote the Scottish traveler J. B. Borthwick in his Three Years in California, "I never saw a Jew lift a pick or shovel." Borthwick may have found it hard to distinguish the Jews from the other bearded miners. Names were no help (William Prince and Peter Lassen, miners, were both Jewish). Still, it is hard to understand how Borthwick missed the legendary "Split-Ear" Solomon—"a man who never knew the pallid face of fear," according to his obituary; or the equally well-known Louis Sloss, whom the San Francisco Chronicle referred to in later years as the "most honest man who ever handled mining shares." Other Jewish miners in California were Lewis Gerstle; Oscar Myers of Murphy's camp in Calaveras County; Peter Lassen, after whom Lassen County was named; Isadore Meyerowitz, the most "restless Spirit" of them all, whose prospecting jaunts took him to Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, where he died. And above all, there was Bernard Marks, who reversed the usual trend by switching from pack to pick, so to speak, and that out of sheer romanticism—"I really began to be ashamed of my former occupation, longing, quixotically, of course, for the time when with calloused hands, calico shirt, cowhide boots and pick on shoulder, I could conscientiously call myself a miner."
There were others. But Borthwick was right in the main. Jews in Eldorado, with few exceptions, did not work the mines, but rather served the men who did, sparing them the burdensome trips to Sacramento for supplies, with no small risk that their claims would be jumped in their absence. The peddler's work, in fact, was harder than the miner's. The load the peddler carried on his back or dragged behind him in a Mormon-type handcart staggers the imagination. If the roadless passes, some more than 9,000 feet above sea-level, were rugged, the desert trails were worse; cactus spines tore at the traveler's legs, the alkaline water set his stomach to churning, the sun baked his skin to leather.
Clearly, this was no business for men who shrank from hard work or danger. The Gold Rush peddler could take a masculine pride in his occupation. The contents of his pack reflected the rough world that was his territory—it contained work clothing, bowie knives, shovels, revolvers, slouch hats, and boots—in contrast to the Easterner's stock-in-trade: the feminine fripperies, ribbons and bows, bonnets, pomades, laces, toilet waters.1 Moreover, the (Western) peddler was not operating on the periphery of the mercantile establishment: he was that establishment in toto. Where there were no factories to serve local needs (nor homespun industry), no rails, no roads, he supplied both goods and transportation. Such general stores as sprung up for emergency needs were ramshackle affairs, too meagerly stocked to compete with the peddler. (As a consequence, he faced none of the fines, fees, and restrictive legislation that harassed his operations in the East.) In point of fact, it is not always possible to draw the line in the mining camps between peddler and petty merchant. The shopkeeper, too, was of necessity something of a nomad. "Ich heute San Francisco verlassen," wrote Alexander Meyer to his family back East in 1850, "und get nach die mines mit mein bisjen wagon, und dort ein retail store enfangen." ("Today I leave San Francisco and go to the mines with my little wagon, there to start a retail store.") The extent of his stock that could be contained in a little wagon may be imagined, but even the store did not stay put. The boom-and-bust economy of the mines, their shifting populations, from strike to fresh strike, were hardly conducive to settled shopkeeping. The days when it was possible to pry a nugget out of the hillside with a bowie knife were of short duration, and the storekeeper's bonanza period was similarly short-lived. A mining camp, striking it rich, might burst overnight into a full-blown town, complete with brick buildings, shops, mills, saloons, gambling halls, bordellos, an opera house—and maybe a Baptist church—but the introduction of machinery soon stripped the mines of their ore and the town's reason for being went with it. Overnight the place would become a ghost town, its population, and the merchant's customers, departed for parts unknown. And even in the heyday, endemic floods and fires might wipe the merchant out, store and stock, forcing him on the road again.
Against such catastrophes, peddling offered a kind of insurance. The ruined merchant had only to fill a pack with goods and follow the swarming miners to the fresh strikes—Washoe, Clear Creek, Alder Gulch, the Black Hills, the Couer d'Alenes. In these new regions, far removed from any coastal settlements, and therefore by the logistics of time and place from any of the amenities of civilization, the peddler's services were more than ever needed. The luckiest miner in the Shining Mountains, sitting on top of gold, lived nevertheless in total squalor—his home, like as not, a towbag tent or a hole in the mountainside; his bed a heap of dirty straw; his clothes in tatters, and himself unkempt, unshaven, and everlastingly hungry. The offering up for sale of a pair of used boots (by auction) occasioned wild hullabaloo. An article in Harper's magazine of the period describes the whooping and hollering, the firing of pistols, the passing of Taos Lightning from mouth to mouth to inspire the bidding.
With straw brooms selling at five dollars apiece, and a bowie knife worth its weight in gold, the peddler's profits were great. So, by the same token, were his risks. Indians, their lands invaded, were everywhere on the warpath; desperados, after the Civil War, infested every mountain pass. The trails were marked by the graves of the peddlers who blazed them—Louis Nathan, Henry Levy, Isaac Goldstein, scalped by Indians; Sam Rosenthal, Aaron Moss, to say nothing of the scores of anonymous victims, murdered by highwaymen. Scurvy, mountain fever, and cholera took an even larger toll.
Who were these adventurers? What sent them West? A large number were immigrants from East Europe, young Jews of the baal-agola (wagoner) type whose hardihood had already been tested in an environment dominated by rough Polish peasants or murderous Cossacks. Others, mostly from Germany, were natural rebels and soldiers-of-fortune, like August Helbing, who fled Germany in 1848 in the company of Carl Schurz; or Nathan Grossmayer, who was wounded in the Paris street-fighting in '48; or Louis Schlessinger, who had served under Kossuth and later with Walker in Nicaragua. Almost without exception they were in their twenties, and one, Otto Mears, had headed West, orphaned and alone, before he was bar mitzvah.
Isolated as they were from the Jewish community, and youthful rebels all, some assimilation was inevitable. Those few Jewish peddlers in the West who tried to keep the faith found the way of the Torah rockier and more thorny than the trail from Sacramento to Carson City. Isadore Schnayder, when long-awaited pictures of his family arrived on the Sabbath, would not cut the string until nightfall. Abraham Rackovsky sent to Denver for kosher meat, but it spoiled in transit: he turned vegetarian. By and large, however, the mining-camp peddlers and merchants found strict Orthodoxy too much to carry on backs already overburdened. Some took Indian brides, like Lassen, who drowned in Honey Lake in a vain effort to save his squaw. Others were lucky enough, in time, to find Christian girls to marry—to which circumstance we owe Barry Goldwater, grandson of Big Mike Goldwasser, peddler and saloonkeeper. What is remarkable about such intermarriages is the willingness of a Gentile girl in those days and in that place to choose a Jewish husband. The peddlers themselves explained it in this way: "The improvident Christian will not go out to peddle, to climb steep mountains, to venture into Indian country, in order to keep his wife and family in comfort."
More than youthful adaptability and isolation from one's kind is necessary to explain the alacrity with which the Western peddlers turned from the Torah. The egalitarian air of the mining camps—this was the tonic that made the salt pork that was the miner's fare palatable. Life in the camps was hard, but the hardships of the Jew were those shared by all, and not imposed on him by reason of his religion, or the order of his arrival in the new country. The Forty-Niners came from all parts of the world, and foreign accents were as common in the mining camps as American ones. Some anti-Semitism, to be sure, had been imported, but it survived only in the vaguest terms.2
Antecedents, moreover, counted for nothing at the mines; usefulness to the community and willingness to share in its hardships counted for everything. The madame of a sporting house rated high on the social scale, and the peddler was hardly less esteemed. In general a person's occupation, however mean, was not scorned, so long as he did not actually steal. "No questions of dignity," wrote Borthwick, "interfered to prevent a man from employing himself in any way that suited his convenience, providing it was honest. No one considered himself demeaned by his occupation. . . . Whatever their relative positions, men treated each other with a certain amount of deference."
This is not to say that the West did not have its own brand of snobbishness. Within a year after the Gold Rush, the Society of California Pioneers was formed—the prairie schooner was its Mayflower and Sutter's Mill its Plymouth Rock—which excluded from its ranks not only Negroes and Chinese, but also such belated emigrants as were even then rounding the Horn or laboring across the Plains. To this new elite, the Jew could hardly be denied admittance. (As a matter of fact, it was a Jew who summoned the first meeting of a similar society of pioneers in Colorado.) In California, the Jew had preceded the Forty-Niners. San Francisco had a Jewish community when it was still known by its Spanish name of Yerba Buena. The first Jewish religious services were held in a tent on Kearney Street in 1849, and within a year the community had two synagogues, one Reform, the other Orthodox.
How far West Jews had ventured before the wagon trains is uncertain. The Santa Fe Trail was opened to traders in 1820. Paul Horan, in his The Centuries of Santa Fe, refers to the mixed crews of the wagon trains that took advantage of this commerce—Creoles, Mexicans, Indians, trappers, Mountain Men guides, and Polish merchants. And who were these Polish merchants if not Jews? Philip Philipson of St. Louis spent four years trading in the Rockies a decade before Fremont set eyes on them. As early as 1843, Julius Stern, editor of the first Jewish weekly in the United States, proposed the formation of a separate Jewish state west of the Mississippi, and Rabbi Isaac Lesser, in support of the project, observed that enough Jews had already settled there to make it feasible.
In brief, the early Jews in the West could boast that they were pioneers among pioneers. They, too, had crossed the prairie by covered wagon or taken the equally perilous Yellow Fever Route via the Isthmus of Panama. Consider, for example, the Odyssey of Abraham Rackovsky. He was a Russian Jew from Suwalk, a fugitive from a pogrom. An uncle, Alexander Rittmaster, an escaped prisoner in the Crimean War, had preceded him and established himself temporarily in Central City, Colorado. To join him, Rackovsky took a train to Council Bluff and there, his funds exhausted, attached himself to an oxcart train bound for Cheyenne. Having no wagon of his own, he followed it afoot, earning his meals by gathering buffalo chips for the camp fires and sleeping on the bare ground. He had exactly one dollar left when he reached Cheyenne, and with characteristic flair stepped into a saloon to buy a cigar. There was no change, and at this point in his journey, he may have had an inkling of the Land of Ophir that lay ahead for the Jewish merchant. Penniless and still afoot, he pushed on the hundred miles to Pueblo. There he got a job as a cowboy (the fact that the ranch was owned by a man named Nussbaum may explain how). He worked for eight months herding cattle, by the expiration of which time he may have learned to ride a horse. He had not, however, earned enough to own one, for we find him, on foot again, trudging the final stretch to Central City.
There his uncle had acquired a general store, and he supplied Abraham with goods to peddle at the mines. The load Rackovsky carried on his back has become a legend. The strongest miner, if the story is to be believed, could hardly lift one of the two packs Rackovsky toted uphill and down, balancing the load with two counterweights in front. In addition, he carried two telescope grips, one in each hand. Thus encumbered, he crossed the difficult passes to Gregory, Clear Gulch, and beyond. When the inclines were too steep, he would drag his packs one at a time to the top and then roll them downhill.
Wolfe Londoner, a smaller man, nearly matched Rackovsky in strength and endurance. He was hired to guide a wagon-freight train from Council Bluff to Denver; the wagon master, a surly Mexican, either could not read his credentials or refused to honor them. Londoner, too, had to follow the wagons on foot. Caught taking a nap in one of the wagons, he was driven with whips from the caravan, and forced to journey the remaining six-hundred miles from afar—the last one-hundred miles barefoot, his shoes having worn out.
There were Jewish women, too, riding the prairie schooners—Hester Rosenberg, Fannie Brooks, Cecilia Joel, Helena Goldberg. One of the sad mining-camp legends tells of a poor Jewish lady who, on her way to join her fiancée, was murdered by the Indians. Her lover, Isaac Goldstein, a peddler, refused to believe her dead and roamed Indian country in search of her; he was scalped by Indians in the Mountain Meadow Massacre.
For all its romanticizing, Hollywood has not utterly lied about the West. The terrain invited violence; badmen, gunfighters, bandits, rampaging Indians did abound. The peddler, thrust into the very heart of all this, could hardly escape involvement; nor could he survive without meeting trouble on its own terms. Thus August Helbing held off with drawn pistols a group of his co-religionists who objected to the burial in the Jewish cemetery of a gambler shot in a gun battle; the interment took place as scheduled. 3Sam Aaron, peddler, gambler, saloon-keeper, once chased the notorious gunman MacKinnen out of the saloon with a shotgun. "My boss," he later said, "gave me hell for not killing Mac, but it is no easy matter to take life, no matter how hard-boiled you are. Something always stops you." Not all Jewish Western peddlers were so inhibited. In Salt Lake City, a peddler named Levi Abrams was put on trial for the murder of a friendly Indian; the Western attitude toward Indians being what it was, he was released. In 1874, near Pueblo, a man named Perry was killed by one Faraber (Farber?) whose road station was known as the Jew's Rancho. "The Jew, Faraber," wrote the Pueblo Chieftain, "was considered a dangerous man by those who knew him, and his house had a bad reputation. He had been known to draw a pistol upon several persons on very slight provocation." Faraber served only four years in the penitentiary for his crime: murder in the West was not in the same category as cattle-rustling or claim-jumping. Finally, at least one Jewish peddler, Sigmund Schlesinger, distinguished himself as an Indian fighter, becoming the hero of the Battle of Arikaree Creek.4
But stressing the "horse-opera" aspects of the peddler's trade distorts the true picture. Otto Mears was, after all, more than a mere Indian trader and interpreter for the U.S. Army in the sporadic Indian wars. He negotiated the treaties under which the Indians ceded large and valuable lands to the infant state of Colorado; he introduced into Colorado the first reaping and mowing machines; he served notably in the Colorado legislature; and in later years was railroad builder and newspaper publisher. Louis Sloss and his partner, Gerstle, deserve at least a footnote in Western history, not for mining gold, but because they formed the important Alaska Commercial Company, which gave the West a substantial fur trade when Astoria was no more than a memory.5 Henry Altman, a pack peddler serving the Union Pacific Railroad, went into the cattle business with Jacob Wasserman, also a peddler, to specialize in the breeding of prize bulls: they contributed greatly to improving the breed of Western cattle, and Altman was one of the founders of the Wyoming Cattle Growers Association. Harry Jastro turned similarly to ranching, becoming known throughout the Southwest as the Cattle King of California. Adolph Sutro, who became San Francisco's most popular mayor, turned from selling cigars to vast engineering projects. He had no training as an engineer, but he devised an improved method of extracting gold from ore in Washoe, and he made possible, against odds and opposition, the construction of the Sutro Tunnel, which led to the fullest exploitation of the fabulous Comstock Lode when it was thought played out, thereby literally changing the course of American history. Meyer Guggenheim was a peddler of shoelaces and shoe-polish in the East, but in the West he founded a great mining empire whose ramifications today are worldwide.
Though the customary peddler's progress was from pack to department store, the freighting business—which linked East to West and all parts of the West with each other before the advent of the transcontinental railroads6—was to a surprising extent in the hands of former Jewish peddlers. But perhaps not so surprising, for what was freighting but a logical extension of the peddler's pack, swollen to such proportions as to contain a piano for the new opera house, or mahogany fixtures and imported chandeliers for the bar and dining room of the Grand Palace Hotel? Jews not only controlled the business, but in person guided the ox-drawn freight wagons that lumbered over the mountains or through the desert, carrying civilization as their cargo in 100-ton lots. Rackovsky and Rittmayer were a famous freighting team, as were the Kohn Brothers, who ran mule trains from Denver to Montana to Utah and Nevada; Hyman Goldberg, who served the railway construction gangs; Joseph Rosenwald, who freighted to Pike's Peak, and others. Even the firm of J. B. Doyle, whose huge warehouse in Denver was the hangout for such notables as Kit Carson and General Kearney, had as its silent partner and active spirit Fred Z. Solomon, who captained the wagons across the continent while the convivial Irishman entertained his worthies in style at home. "We are under new, repeated and continued obligations to the Brothers Solomon," Doyle acknowledged handsomely, "for sundry cans, bottles, baskets, and boxes of peaches, plums, Sweitzer cheeses, with which they are continually loading our tables." No more salt pork and corn meal.
This is not the picture of the mining-camp Jew presented by contemporary observers from the East or by visiting journalists, who either ignore his existence or refer to him in the most derogatory terms. Borthwick's comment has already been noted, and J. Ross Browne, writing for Harper's magazine, was no less unkind to the Jewish merchants of Virginia City:
The Jew clothing store presents the most marvelous fertility of invention. . . . Bills are posted all over the doorways, on the pavements, in the windows, and on the various articles of clothing hung up for sale: "NOW OR NEVERI Cheapest clothes in the world!! PANTS GIVEN AWAYIII WALK IN GENTS. . . ." And so on without limit. New clothes and clothes doubtful are offered for sale at these prolific establishments, which are always selling off at cost or suicidal prices, yet never seem to be reduced in stock. I verily believe I saw hanging at the door of one of these shops the identical pair of stockings stolen from me several years ago at Strawberry.
The description has a familiar ring. There can be no doubt that some Jewish businesses in the West were conducted along the "drag 'em in" lines of Hester or Broome Street in New York City. Therein may lie an explanation of the neglect (perhaps out of mistaken kindness) of the pioneer Jew by writers of Western history and folklore. The writers recognized as Jewish only the cheapjack methods, and only the raucous hucksters as Jews. (Mark Twain, surely no anti-Semite, meeting Sutro for the first time, noted neither his Jewishness nor his achievements, but was struck solely by the man's lack of humor—"he did not mind a joke any more than a dead man would.")
The Jew's neighbors and fellow pioneers in the West were more generous. Place-names in the West are an acknowledgment of the peddler's pathfinding role: Lassen County; Castro County; Solomonville; Helene, Montana (after Helena Goldberg, if the story is to be believed); Mears Pass; Sutro Forest. Parenthetically, Ed Schieffelin gave Tombstone, which he founded, its ominous name. Western Jews (of the first generation) also held political office to a degree unprecedented anywhere else in the world. Solomon Heydenfeldt was chief justice of the California Supreme Court; Simon Bamburger was governor of Utah. Dodge City had three Jewish mayors, one of whom served five terms. Early state legislatures in the West abound with Jewish names.
The peddlers, to be sure, were a select group, more enterprising, more daring than the merchants who stuck close to the few urban centers in the West. But even the meanest hawker who did business in Sidney Town in San Francisco, harassed by criminal gangs from Australia (the Ducks) or from the Bowery (the Hounds), deserved more credit than was given him for courage in those rowdy and dangerous days. Rabbi Voorsanger, in a spirited reply to an anti-Semitic remark made by a member of the California State Legislature, put the case as follows:
They [the Jews] came from all directions; they entered on every ship that touched the harbor, and their numbers increased when the Pacific Mail Line came twice monthly from the East. They came overland, driving their oxteams, like the rest of the adventurers, braving the dangers of desert and floods, the raids of the Indians, and the attacks of desperados, and halted at various points, where they pitched their tents and went to work like brave men. They located in every mining town and, faithful to their wonted pursuits, started the commerce of the New World. They were careful, abstemious in the midst of success, saving in the midst of extravagance, for their ultimate object was to secure a future home for their familes.
Their intimate connections with Eastern traders and mercantile houses enabled them to assist the mining populations in rapidly obtaining the comforts of Eastern civilization, and many a prosperous inland town owes its rise and present solidarity to the pluck and perseverance of the Hebrew merchants, who gave life to the places in which they were located, and fostered every new enterprise by personal encouragement and generous financial aid.
This lavish speech, delivered in the heat of controversy, is close to the sober truth.
1 The word "notions," describing the contents of the Eastern peddler's pack, is significant, implying female vanity and extravagance. The women might hail the peddler's arrival, but the men, often as not, would resent it.
2 "There is little prejudice towards us Jews in social intercourse," wrote a Sonora Jew. "In fact, there is no persuasion more esteemed for moral conduct than the Jew."
3 Intra-Jewish gunplay reached absurd limits in an encounter between a rabbi and a member of his congregation (Portland, Oregon, 1880). Rabbi M. May was accosted in the street by a merchant named Waldman, who had a grievance which he tried to settle Old Country style by delivering a patsch that broke the Rabbi's glasses. The more assimilated Rabbi May borrowed a gun and took a potshot at his assailant. Luckily his aim was poor.
4 Schlesinger was also the subject of a barrack-room ballad:
When the foe charged the breastworks
with the madness of despair,
And the bravest of souls were tested,
the little Jew was there.
5 As a lesser contribution to the winning of the West, one might mention the introduction of levis and the ten-gallon hat—both brought in by the Jewish peddler.
6 "The freighting business had grown to such important proportions that there was nearly as much excitement over suddenly acquired toll road fortunes as over the wonderful silver mines." Mark Twain, Roughing It.


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Orchard Park, NY (Sports Network) - C.J. Spiller debuted in front of the Bills' faithful and rushed for two touchdowns while Trent Edwards firmed his grip on the starting quarterback role, as Buffalo defeated the Cincinnati Bengals, 35-20, in preseason play from Ralph Wilson Stadium.
Spiller, selected with the ninth overall pick in April's draft, scored on a 20-yard dash and a one-yard plunge as part of a 52-yard outing resulting from 12 totes. He added two catches for 33 yards.
Edwards played the first half and was a crisp 13-of-17 passing for 153 yards while tossing a 12-yard touchdown to Roscoe Parrish. Parrish led the receiving corps with four grabs and 56 yards as Buffalo improved to 2-1 this preseason.
Ryan Fitzpatrick came on in the second half and led a nine-play, 74-yard jaunt that resulted in a 20-yard TD strike to rookie wideout David Nelson and a 28-17 Bills lead. He ended 6-of-9 for 77 yards in making his case to challenge Edwards' expected role.
Carson Palmer played two quarters and was efficient in completing 9-of-11 passes while connecting with Chad Ochocinco on a six-yard touchdown and rookie tight end Jermaine Gresham for a nine-yard score.
Terrell Owens, who experienced a lackluster one-year stay with Buffalo in 2009, caught three passes for 35 yards in making his return. Cedric Benson rushed for 50 yards on eight carries, while Gresham totaled 45 yards on four receptions.
Bengals third-string QB Jordan Palmer was picked off in the fourth quarter by Reggie Corner, who returned it 20 yards for a touchdown to essentially seal the outcome as the Bengals dropped to 2-2 in preseason play.


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A&M Consolidated defeated Boerne Champion 6-0 Thursday night. Stephen Schlett went 2 for 2 at the dish with a double, three RBIs, and a walk. Derrick Dick went 2 for 2 with an RBI, scoring two runs. Tyler Landers also added a double to the 10 hits Consol had on the evening.
Kyle Barfield went the distance on the mound to get the win for the Tigers, only allowing three hits. Of 70 pitches, 48 were strikes; and of the 20 batters he faced, he threw 14 first-pitch strikes.
Consol won a nail-biter against Pflugerville, as the Tigers were one run and one hit better than the Panthers even with two errors.
Derrick Dick had two hits on the night and Kyle Barfield's solo homerun stood as the lone run of the game.
Jared Herrmann threw 53 pitches for strikes of the 89 pitches thrown. Exactly half of his 24 batters faced received first pitch strikes, and his defense recorded seven ground-outs and five fly-outs.
The Tigers now hold a 5-2 record, and will play Friday in the New Braunfels tournament. San Antonio O'Conner will be the first opponent at 12 noon, followed by Seguin at 7 p.m.
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PolitFact hands Marco Rubio ad material and helps shove Charlie Crist over the political cliff with this:
Republicans banking on hopes that Gov. Charlie Crist would return donations they made when he was the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate were in for a rude awakening on May 12, 2010, when Crist made it clear he is keeping their money. … The decision to hold on to nearly $10 million in campaign donations prompted cries that Crist was flip-flopping. …
After laboriously tracing all of Crist's statements, PolitFact concludes: "So in less than three weeks, Crist went from telling reporters he had yet to make a decision on running for independent, to running as an independent and 'probably' giving the money back, to 'officially' declaring he would keep the money." This earns Crist the verdict of "Full Flop."
But it's more than that. It is confirmation of Crist's abject lack of principles and his disdain for the voters. He is, in a very real sense, the Arlen Specter of the Florida race. He does an about-face and scoffs at those who expected him to keep his word. In a year during which voters are looking for conviction and for candidates who don't seem like run-of-the-mill slippery politicians, Crist is precisely the wrong sort of candidate, entirely unsuited to the political moment.


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text: Celebrities who love being nakedUpdated 11:31 AM ET, Wed February 4, 2015Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosChanning Tatum shows off some of his better assets in the movie "Magic Mike," and he's set to do that again in a sequel. But as he told Elle magazine, he enjoys being in the buff off-camera, too. "I have a really nice back porch where the pool is," he said. "Once the shoes are off, the socks come off too, and then everything else downstairs just follows at some point." Hide Caption 1 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosBelieve it or not, Matthew McConaughey is passing up an opportunity to shed some of his clothes. The actor won't reprise his role of male stripper Dallas in the "Magic Mike" sequel, "Magic Mike XXL," because he's busy filming a Gus Van Sant drama instead. This doesn't mean McConaughey's changed his ways; he told GQ magazine in December 2013 that yes, he does still like to play the bongo drums naked. Hide Caption 2 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosJames Franco and Seth Rogen had to survive in the wild in the altogether in an episode of Discovery's "Naked and Afraid" series. Franco expressed his love for being nude while Rogen asked, "Can you make the blur big? Like a giant blur?"Hide Caption 3 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosSome of you might be more familiar with Kim Kardashian's curves than your own physique. Kardashian appeared nude in a recent photo shoot for Paper magazine. The reality star became famous with a sex tape and stayed famous with her reality show and photos such as this one, which she did for W magazine in 2010. Though Kardashian later said she didn't think she'd ever pose nude again, she still frequently posts the next best thing on her Instagram account. Hide Caption 4 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosIs it any shock that Rihanna showed up in a see-through dress to receive a Fashion Icon award at the 2014 CFDA fashion awards on June 2? After all, she has a perfume called Nude. (You can search around for the more explicit pics, as we are a family-friendly site.)Hide Caption 5 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosJustin Bieber is a documented fan of public shirtlessness and singing songs to his grandmother in the nude. We can now also call the "Baby" singer a fan of the public striptease. At the 2014 charity event Fashion Rocks, Bieber removed everything but his underwear while on stage with co-presenter Lara Stone, explaining that he just didn't feel comfortable unless he was in his "Calvins."Hide Caption 6 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosWhat better way to get in touch with nature than to leave behind your clothes? That's what "True Blood" star Alexander Skarsgard did on a trip to the South Pole, as captured by adventure guide Inge Solheim. The snapshot isn't too surprising -- even considering the frigid temperature -- since this is one actor who has zero problems with nudity. On the job, "if we're naked in the scene, then I'm naked," Skarsgard once explained to Rolling Stone. Hide Caption 7 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosIt's just too easy to make the joke about Shia LaBeouf's loving to be in "la buff." He recently tweeted a nude photo of himself from the 2013 film "Charlie Countryman" and has not been shy about appearing naked in movies and a music video. Hide Caption 8 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosLady Gaga will pretty much get nude anywhere, it seems: magazine spreads, music videos, whatever. 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If you complain about it or procrastinate, it's not going to go away. It's a profoundly bizarre thing to do. As actors, you talk about it all the time."Hide Caption 12 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosDaniel Radcliffe spent so much time naked on the sets of films and productions, he had to ask the producers of his Brit drama, "A Young Doctor's Notebook," to let him keep some clothes on. "I think there was a discussion about possible nudity for one scene," Radcliffe recalled to The Independent, "and I think my comment was, 'I got naked in three films last year, please can I not?' "Hide Caption 13 of 14Celebrities who love being naked 14 photosEven those who've never watched a single episode of Lena Dunham's "Girls" know that the show includes plenty of nudity -- and most often, it's Dunham herself showing skin. While Dunham's said that her frequent nakedness isn't a political statement and is more about creative expression, she does acknowledge that it can have cultural impact. "We have this insane culture where women who don't look like the cast of 'Gossip Girl' are put into like sweaters and nightgowns to sleep in," she told CBS News in 2013. "What I love are the films of the '70s where a person gets out of bed and you see half their nipple because that's what it looks like when a person gets out of bed."Hide Caption 14 of 14More from showbizLinda Lovelace: Inside the life of the 'Deep Throat' starThe Cosby controversy: From TV dad to accused sexual predatorGlen Campbell releases powerful final song and videoInside Iran'Screech' guilty of misdemeanors, but not felony in Wisconsin bar stabbing


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La.Pi.S: Jelly Confectionery
Fridays at 3pm in the office is lolly time and I could still remember the 1st time I fell in love with these delightful jelly confectionery. Yummy, soft, sweet but 99% fat-free with no artificial flavors or colors. I don't have a huge sweet tooth but I can eat a 180g pack of these all by myself! Confection to perfection!
Delicious fruity flavors of wild blackcurrant, ripe raspberry and succulent strawberry. All for Lasang Pinoy, Sundays. Eye Candy.
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Looks good. My dad loves jelly! We used to buy those shaped like orange slices.
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We love those too! kahit hindi sugar-coated masarap pa din! Enjoy your week!
oh! that looks oh soooo yummy Iska!
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"Confection to perfection", indeed! Spot on!
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love those jellies! will buy some tomorrow.
Looks perfect for Chinese New Year celebration. Yummy…:)
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I can almost taste it. YUM!
oh, i love chewing on these too! gummy bears and sour patch are my top choices though when it comes to jelly confecs…so you're back to work, eh?
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gummy delights, and fat free? give me some, Iska!!
i love these stuff! the only thing i hate is it sticks to your teeth, so i make sure i've got a glass of water at hand when i gobble on these!
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About 15 years ago, I appeared on a syndicated talk show in Chicago. It was an hour long show on people who had risked their lives for their animals and animals who had risked their lives for people. I was there to give an award to a person for their heroic efforts. Thankfully, that person […] [Read More]
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Free Fishing Weekend, June 12, is an attempt to expose children and inexperienced anglers to the joys of fishing, according to an ODFW press release. Each event features knowledgeable volunteers and loaner rods and reels. While license and tag fees and requirements have been waived, all other angling restrictions apply.


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Immigration legislative and administrative policies, legal statutes and court decisions, and regulations collectively shape nations' immigration systems—from visa allotments and immigrant-selection mechanisms to immigrant integration programs, border controls, and more. As international migration has increased in size and spread and as a number of nations are more flexibly adjusting their immigration systems, the research offered here examines the many permutations of immigration policy and law, often with a comparative lens.
Since 1999, concern about immigration in Britain has reached levels never seen before in the history of public opinion research, and surveys show strong support for tougher immigration laws. But opinions vary: younger, better-educated people and those who tend to live in areas with a longer history of immigration are more tolerant than older, less-educated people in more settled communities with low levels of immigration.
The size and characteristics of immigration to the UK have changed significantly. Immigrants are more numerous, more mobile, and more diverse than ever before. This report looks at the differing immigration patterns.
In this memo, a veteran immigrant-rights strategist, Frank Sharry, offers his views on the politics and policy of achieving immigration reform.
The print and broadcast media in the United Kingdom cover only a very narrow range of migration stories, primarily focusing on asylum seekers, refugees, illegal immigrants, and migrant workers. This report discusses the media's reliance on "templates" to frame migration stories, which is often set from the government's agenda on migration.
What politicians say about a crisis — and the venues they choose tocommunicate with their constituents — have a disproportionate effect on the public's perception of that crisis. In the Netherlands, the rhetoric used by right-wing populist politicians is often more effective than that of moderates because their rhetoric conveys passion and emotion, and is more readily picked up by modern media who favor crisis and controversy.
Since 2000, the German government has undertaken a series of steps to reform laws and shape public opinion in order to bring about better integration and managed migration. This can be said to constitute a new policy paradigm, the goal of which is to integrate nonnationals and promote harmonious community relations.
Voters' brains connect words, phrases, images, values, and emotions, and these connections — known as networks of association — influence their receptiveness to political messages, often far more strongly than facts and rational arguments. This report shows that to reach those who have not yet made up their mind on a particular issue, advocates and leaders need to understand the associations a term such as "immigrant" spark in the mind of the electorate and strengthen positive associations while weakening negative ones.
This discussion focuses on E-Verify, the federal government's electronic employment verification system, and the release of an MPI report that assesses the program's strengths and weaknesses.


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J.D. Collins is the father of four, a U.S. Navy veteran, a former City of Macon sergeant and currently chief investigator for the Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's office. In the announcement for his candidacy, Collins said he knows that investing in schools is the single biggest determining factor in their future success.
"As someone who has had the honor of serving my country in the Navy, and the honor of serving my community by being a peace officer, as someone who loves this community enough to relocate here and for my wife and I to raise our child here, I've seen firsthand that every challenge we face – every victory we score – starts in our kids' schools," he said.
Collins said he is a product of a public school system and so are his children.
"I believe in our schools. And I can't stand by and not invest directly in helping them be the best they can be. I'm honored to throw my knowledge, skill sets, and voice as a parent of a child currently enrolled, for this incredibly important position."
He said he currently serves as the chief investigator for the Macon Judicial Circuit, where he oversees a three-county area. He is also the lead trainer and consultant for Niko's Training and Consulting Firm.
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By now the KISS Army are aware that the band's induction into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame was marred by some serious infighting. The dispute centered around founding members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's desire to perform with band-mates past and present, including current drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer. The Hall of Fame were only honoring the original line-up that included Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, and wanted to limit the new member's involvement. The whole matter gets complicated (our experts have broken it down here in great detail) but in the end, the band did not end up performing during the ceremony. It's sad that the disagreements got in the way of the music, and some of rock's luminaries took the time to weigh in on the whole ordeal!
Stevie Nicks, who recently announced a tour with formerly estranged Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie, had some strong words for the band. "You will be sorry later that you didn't just go and do it because it's important." Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, no stranger to band beef himself, chose a more positive outlook. "Tonight isn't about what didn't happen, tonight is about what did happen. KISS, after a long way, are in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame." Later that night he presented the band with their Hall of Fame statutes.
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Only the Irish could tell it. This story from the People's Republic of Cork this week: An investigation has been launched by the Royal Cork Yacht Club after a yacht was seen on the Northside of Cork city this week.
'large posh thing' in trouble of a different kind
The yacht measuring over 25ft, which was spotted on Blarney Street by a passer-by, was attached to a trailer being towed by a landrover which was unable to complete its descent to Shandon Street as the yacht's mast got stuck against the wall of a house at St. Vincent's Place.
Gardaí from the leafy suburb of Douglas were quickly on the scene and verified the presence of a large posh thing on the Northside to their superiors in Crosshaven.
Reaction across the Southside has been one of shock. The inquiry's terms and conditions have yet to be agreed but it will focus on how a yacht managed to end up on the Northside - a mystery put on a par by many Southsiders with how a Malaysian airline heading north ended up off Australia.
'This is outrageous', said one shopper in Douglas Village Shopping Centre leafing through a copy of Yachts & Yachting Monthly, 'is anything sacred? The next thing you know people up there will be sending their children to rugby schools. '
Northsiders have found themselves equally shocked at the sight of a yacht nestling in a bed of fail on Blarney Street.
'C'mere buoy, this is very embarrassing for the area', said Assumpta Walsh, a life-long professional elderly lady, 'but it's going to be fantastic for anyone who knows the owner. The wind-ups and ball-hopping they are going to endure for the rest of their lives after getting caught on Blarney Street with a YACHT…morto, like!'
The Anti-Austerity Alliance are holding a meeting tonight at The Hut in Gurranabraher demanding yachts for everyone.
'How come diss fella got a yacht? Where's my yacht?', said a party spokesman almost bursting a blood vessel, 'This is a stern warning to the government: it's a boat time we were all treated fairly. This incident on Blarney street is totally unfathomable at a time when people are experiencing fierce hardship.'
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In an attempt to ensure a 'consistent experience,' Twitter has changed the rules in version 1.1 of their API. This rule change includes a cap of users per 3rd party client (normally at 100K users). This isn't a one-at-a-time limit but a per-user limit. That means if someone installed a 3rd party Twitter client like Tweetbot, and then uninstalled it, the token would be spent. (Unless they made sure to revoke their token.)
This cap is why Tapbots has revoked the link for the Tweetbot Alpha client for Mac. If users installed the app, logged in with multiple accounts, and then uninstalled the app without revoking access, the tokens would be burnt. The situation is such that Tapbots will still be releasing Tweebot for Mac for sale in the near future, but they're antsy about releasing a free beta under the current situation.
The limit in version 1.1 of Twitter's API for each client is 100K tokens (or double the current number of users, whichever is higher). After reaching 100K users, permission to access additional users must come directly from Twitter. After a million user tokens have been registered, Twitter will require the developers to work with the company 'directly.'
My guess is this would involve a licencing fee, which would be bad for freeware Twitter clients. The fact that these rules seem to encourage multiple alternative clients versus one big client makes me question what Michael Sippey means by a 'consistent Twitter experience.' It's interesting this is happening when the question of Twitter's magnetization has come up in publications such as Forbes.
At the end of the day, the core issue isn't going to be limited to Tweetbot. Would you miss alternative Twitter clients? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.


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Miracle Defeat Marauders 3-2 in Series Opener
BRADENTON – The Fort Myers Miracle (34-24, 75-52) defeated the Marauders (35-22, 70-56) for the 10th time this season, taking Tuesday's series opener at McKechnie Field 3-2. The loss leaves the Marauders one game ahead of the Palm Beach Cardinals for first place in the South Division standings for the second half.
Brett Lee (W, 10-4) scattered 11 hits over seven innings for the Miracle. The lefty struck out three and walked only one. Nick Burdi and Zack Jones (S, 1) each pitched an inning for the Miracle.
The Marauders opened the scoring in the bottom of the second. Jose Osuna and Eric Wood opened the inning with consecutive singles. Max Moroff singled in the first run, putting the hosts up 1-0. Lee escaped the inning without further trouble thanks in part to a diving catch by Max Kepler in right field to deny Jacob Stallings a hit.
Fort Myers scored twice against Shane Carle (L, 2-3) in the top of the third. One run came in on a fly ball single from Travis Harrison that was nearly caught by Justin Howard, but popped out of his glove as he ran into the wall. An errant throw by Carle on a delayed steal brought home the second run to put Fort Myers up 2-1.
Jose Osuna singled in the tying run in the bottom of the third, but Lee was able to induce three straight inning ending double plays to stymie the Marauders despite allowing so many hits. The Marauders stranded seven runners in the game.
The winning run came in for the Miracle in the fifth inning. Jason Kanzler singled and went first to third on Aderling Mejia's third hit of the game. Niko Goodrum brought home Kanzler with a sacrifice fly.
Game two of the series is Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. Jason Creasy will start for the Marauders. Fort Myers will turn to Steven Gruver. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
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There aren't many trends that run the gamut from Elizabeth II to Anna Wintour, or from French establishment to punk, but tweed is as much a cultural mix as wool.
A typically British fabric, it was used by divergent designers in their autumn collections, who played on both its strength of association and its characteristic chameleon qualities. It is a textile equally at home on both traditional and fashion-forward wearers, making it a commercial dream.
Miuccia Prada created a naive-looking overcoat in red and charcoal-stippled tweed, which straddled the boundary between traditional schoolgirl in outerwear and Bardot-esque ingénue caught in the cold. Given the overall 50s theme of the collection, the connotations overlap brilliantly: tweed is symbolic of a practical, outdoorsy sort of existence that has been assimilated into an aesthetic scene.
At Jil Sander, Raf Simons showed checked tweed mini-dresses of a length many archetypal wearers of the fabric would be shocked by. The collection was inspired by Tomb Raider and The September Issue, Simons claims, and the micro-skirts were more can-do than conservative, to be accessorised with a gun and grappling hook rather than a chain of pearls.
It was Vivienne Westwood who spun the textile in a new way: her 1987 Harris Tweed collection catalogued her passion for the eccentric yarn beloved by royals and gamekeepers alike. Having made her name via the punk movement, the SEX boutique and the Seditionaries label, Westwood brought verve to classic clothes that were fitted and historical, even self-referential. The look came full-circle when the Princess of Wales, whose forebears the collection was originally based on, turned her attention to the label and began wearing it. Milliner Stephen Jones even created a crown from the material for the show, which Westwood claims she still wears for dinner every so often.
Likewise, Dolce & Gabbana gave tweed an ironic royal spin for autumn/winter 2008, holding up our own Queen Liz as their muse and sending models down the catwalk in headscarves tied under the chin.
If tweed is an essentially British affair, then its dominance in Gallic wardrobes should confirm its fluidity of style. Where we like ours baggy, often shapeless, a bit grotty and covered in dog hair, the French take theirs on skirt suits and chic daytime shifts, popularised by Coco Chanel and shown again for autumn by Karl Lagerfeld. Worn in the show by models who had to navigate a giant iceberg and polar bears, it was yet further proof of tweed being suitable for practically every occasion.
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I did notary work for Mr Bailey, that's why they are after me! I am apparently under investigation by Piccola, and the County Commissioners! They tried to get me for medicaid fraud, because I applied for LIHEAP, I appealled and won. I got $100.00 which went straight to the gas company. If this gets posted. The PN knows all about what is going on.
My bad, Probation Officers work for the DAUPHIN COUNTY, and they are so busy doing whatever it is that they do.
As a matter of fact, the Probation Officers need to be utilzed more effectively all around.
They should be hiring off duty Probation Officers. They know whose's supposed to be down there and who is not. Folks on probation and parole, don't go anywhere near a bar when they know they will be busted, even if they are not misbehavin, cause they are not supposed to be there.
So now they are saying the owner is getting death threats??? Can't wait to hear who and where they are coming from.
What they got was BUSTED!, Who submitted the picture and what time was it taken?
So we are supposed to believe that some kid from the neighborhood, climbed up on that billboard and scrapped that sign off with a "knife" and that the company found out about it and repaired the sign and replaced it by 8:00 in the morning, yea right!
The fact that the PN printed this story about the sign being "torn down" by vandals, while the picture shows clearly that it was scraped off professionally, and the fact that the sign, has been replaced by on sponsored by the Harrisburg Symphony only further illustrates the real TRUTH about the whole situation. Instead of printing the Truth and thanking those decent people in Harrisburg who found a way to deal with the situation. The billboard is down, the police don't have an excuse to go after the boyz in the hood like they were planning to do, and it proves that there are still some decent people in Harrisburg. Thank You Harrisburg Symphony, the sign looks very nice.
The fact that the PN printed this story about the sign being "torn down" by vandals, while the picture shows clearly that it was scraped off professionally, and the fact that the sign, has been replaced by on sponsored by the Harrisburg Symphony only further illustrates the real TRUTH about the whole situation. Instead of printing the Truth and thanking those decent people in Harrisburg who found a way to deal with the situation. The billboard is down, the police don't have an excuse to go after the boyz in the hood like they were planning to do, and it proves that there are still some decent people in Harrisburg. Thank You Harrisburg Symphony, the sign looks very nice.
So folks are offended by the Billboard, but this goes unnoticed??? I don't see anything in his qualification about the "UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" which is part of both HARRISBURG and the Civil War! Is history about to be re-written in the Keystone State? Resevoir Park used to be known as SPRINDALE, it was the site of the SCHOOLHOUSE. Met a woman who told me her grandmother told her that all the blacks went to the same school in Resevoir Park, and her grandmother used to walk everyday from Middletown. They torn down the school when the took over to make the park. In 2001, they kicked us out of the park again to build the Civil War Museum!
Don't even try it bydlo, we know that game. Some "boys" with hoods will probably distroy the sign and blame it on the boys in the "hood", and everything will be back to normal on the plantation.
no problem thelagerman, I feel you. by some standards it may be obnoxious and unclassy, but it is the TRUTH! And for ALL THE SLAVES (are not just us), the truth will set you free!
Leave that sign up! Why would "so-called" African Americans be offended by that sign and not be offended by the Civil War Museum that sits up on flattop? Or the distruction of an entire community?
The writer needs to change the headline to SOME african americans are offended. This "so-called" african american is not offended by the truth. The African American Churches need to take the opportuntity to teach the truth to our young people in terms they can relate to. It may have been intended as bait, but Yah works in mysterious ways.
Some of those non-profit should get their own independent eco-consultant to meet the certification requirements instead of waiting for them to be provided by the city. They are out there http://www.greenirene.com/Default.asp?Click=158
By the way, what you are showing in your photo is not "REAL" AFRICAN/ETHIOPIAN or AMERICAN HAIR! It's man made. The only time an our scalp gets DAMAGED is when we DAMAGE it ourselves by taking it out of its natural state. If the state really had their best interest at heart, they would leave them alone. They were doing fine all this time.
I wear locks and I either do my hair myself or I let someone from the Island do my hair, they use natural herbs and soups. NO CHEMICALS! If I know a sister is using those chemicals or products somebody else has conjured up, I would not let them TOUCH my head.
He should know what he's talking about when it come to Mussolini. After all the Pope blessed the bombs that were dropped on the "blameless" Ethiopians. And did not the whole world turn their backs on H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah? And why is it that no one from the ADL, ACLU wants to hear the truth when it comes to who is doing what to whom?
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|It's a bit easier and positive to climb the face just right of the thin crack.
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|2nd pitch of this climb is full value - steep 5.8 face... long, enjoyable, and fun...
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|The beginning first 15ft is a highball problem with no pro - I could not fit any thin gear. You can connect with the Wild Horses crack, and then traverse right to follow the corner, 2 #2 C4s useful. I found the route easier than the 5.9 var. of Raunchy.
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rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
|Climbed this (P1 only) years ago (mid 1990s?). Onsight lead in good style. I seem to recall the protection was quite thin (v. small wires).
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rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
The start is fun, maybe 5.7, but yes it is a high-ball with little gear possibility. Crux is fun but literally one move. Above the crux, staying out of the small right facing corner and moving straight up the face makes for a more interesting and consistent route in my opinion.
Also, this route is to the right of Wild Horses, but MP has it left of Raunchy so maybe an admin could fix that in the order listing? Got it - thanks! JSH
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"After peaking at 5.2% in 2007 and dropping to 0.9% in 2008, the Finnish economy entered into recession, which resulted in a GDP contraction of 8% in 2009. Finland's economy recovered to register a growth rate of 2.6% in 2010. Datamonitor's forecasts indicate that the country's growth rate is expected to register a modest increase, reaching 3% in 2011. Forecasts also indicate that a return to pre-crisis levels is not expected during 2012–15."
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Legal analysis 24
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Environmental analysis 26
Political Landscape 29
Summary 29
Evolution 30
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Performance 34
Outlook 35
Economic Landscape 36
Summary 36
Evolution 36
Structure and policies 38
Performance 40
Outlook 49
Social Landscape 50
Summary 50
Evolution 50
Structure and policies 50
Performance 52
Outlook 55
Technological Landscape 56
Summary 56
Evolution 56
Structure and policies 56
Performance 57
Outlook 59
Legal Landscape 60
Summary 60
Evolution 60
Structure and policies 60
Performance 62
Outlook 62
Environmental Landscape 64
Summary 64
Evolution 64
Structure and policies 64
Performance 65
Outlook 65
Appendix 67
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Datamonitor consulting 67
Disclaimer 67
Figure 1: Map of Finland 10
Figure 2: Finland – political events timeline 30
Figure 3: Finland – key political figures 31
Figure 4: Composition of Finland's parliament 32
Figure 5: Finland – historical GDP growth, 1991–2010 37
Figure 6: GDP and GDP growth rate in Finland, 2004–14 40
Figure 7: GDP composition by sectors, 2010 41
Figure 8: Agricultural output of Finland, 2005–10 42
Figure 9: Industrial output of Finland, 2005–10 43
Figure 10: Services output of Finland, 2005–10 44
Figure 11: External trade of Finland, 2006–10 46
Figure 12: Consumer price index and CPI-based inflation in Finland, 2004–14 47
Figure 13: Rate of unemployment in Finland, 2004–14 49
Figure 14: Expenditure on healthcare in Finland, 2002–13 53
Figure 15: Government expenditure on education in Finland, 2002–13 54
Figure 16: Growth rate of mobile and fixed line subscribers in Finland, 2002–13 58
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Table 3: Analysis of Finland's political landscape 12
Table 4: Analysis of Finland's economy 15
Table 5: Analysis of Finland's social system 18
Table 6: Analysis of Finland's technology landscape 21
Table 7: Comparative performance on receipt of patents, 2000–10 22
Table 8: Analysis of Finland's legal landscape 24
Table 9: Analysis of Finland's environmental landscape 26
Table 10: Mid-year population by age, 2010 51
Table 11: Comparative performance on receipt of patents, 2000–10 (USPTO) 57
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