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Last meeting for successful RBL branch
Posted: November 20, 2013|
A BRANCH of the Royal British Legion in North Cornwall – which three years ago received a national honour – has closed down after 67 years.
Members of the Camelford Women's Section met for the last time on Wednesday to carry out the official closure, which involved the county secretary Margaret Harris accepting the books.
However, Boscastle Royal British Legion, which the Cornish Guardian reported last week as being due to close, may continue if people come forward to serve on the committee.
Chairman Bob Pethick said a number of people had come forward and so an emergency meeting is planned for Tuesday in the Methodist Schoolroom at 7.30pm.
A decision on the future of the branch has to be made by December 5.
The Camelford branch was opened following a meeting on January 23, 1946, which invited the women of Camelford to assist in the care of the widow and children of ex-servicemen.
There was great support from the meeting and as a result a committee was formed under the leadership of Madeline Pearse, of Tregoodwell. During the following years the women went on to raise large amounts of money for the cause.
Since 1988 £14,647 has been sent to the national headquarters and £2,943 to the county RBL.
This money has been raised mainly by branch members and the support they have received from the people of Camelford.
Over the years they have received 43 certificates in recognition of their efforts from both county and national headquarters in London.
In 2010 treasurer Margaret Shillaber, went to the national conference to be awarded a silver cup, the Ashenden Award, for the most money raised per member.
"There have been many names that spring to mind who have been instrumental in making it such a successful branch and we thank them all for their inspiration and leadership," said secretary Ethel Broad.
"Sadly we close – but we feel there are many women and children whom we have been able to help in some way.
"At the same time the members have had great comradeship and fellowship from each other.
"Members have been able to join the Lady Falmouth holding branch so their link with the Women's Section will continue."
Cameron Valentine, the secretary of the Camelford RBL, said they have both male and female members, and the chairman is his wife, Lesley Valentine.
He said they were looking for younger members and invited both men and women to their next meeting on December 5.
"Anyone is welcome to join, whether they have been in the services or are a civilian.
"The aim is to raise money for ex-service people and their families."


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Stress. Can It help You Achieve Success?
While reading an article Don't Choke! How to Perform Well Under Pressure by author David Butcher of ThomasNet News Industry Market Trends, I was reminded of a book I read several years ago Stress for Success, The Proven Program for Transforming Stress into Positive Energy at Work by James E. Loehr.
Many of the lessons from this book are more pertinent today in this economy. What struck me about this book was the positive use of a an energy to improve performance much as with athletes. It was not so much about the elimination of stress but the tools and the techniques to work through the stress and maximize our recovery time between those stressful periods.
As stated in the title of the first chapter, in the corporate world you either perform or you do not achieve. In this economy it is more like you either perform or you go out of business. The reality is that stress is part of life. Physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, it is part of the human condition. To say you just shed it and forget it is denying human nature. The reality is that you need to develop the skills necessary to channel it, getting your head on straight and moving forward with passion and determination.
I am not claiming that it is easy, not at all. It takes a real focus and creating good habits during times of stress as well as during those in between periods. Athletes do it every game. While watching the recent Vikings – Jets game, I watched two quarterbacks who had their moments of stress during the game. It was during those moments on the sideline that really impacted me. Where they sitting on the bench with their heads down or were they actively participating in discussions on the sideline and getting themselves refocused? Are we using those moments to refocus and re-energize or just dwelling in the stress we just experienced.
There is a lot more to this book than what I have written hear. I highly recommend reading this book.
Press Releases have become News Releases on the Internet
The Internet has changed the role of the release. With sites like ThomasNet News as well as others, the press release can now reach customers and prospects directly bypassing the journalists. The Internet has provided a channel that circumvents the media who were the gatekeepers of the past that determined what constituted the news and what they would publish to their readers. Now your prospects and customers choose what they are interested and what they will read. And you can deliver to them what they want.
News releases are also an important part of your online strategy. Releases need to be carefully written. They need to be rich with keywords and phrases that are used by your customers and prospects. These keywords and phrases must be highly relevant to the content. Do not add keywords for the sake of having a lot of keywords. You want these releases not only to rank highly in searches on Google, Yahoo or Bing but you also want the release to read well. Remember, the news release represent you and your credibility to your market. When placed on trusted news sites such as ThomasNet News, these releases can also appear on news portals such as Google News and Yahoo News. This allows your release to reach prospects wherever they are and however they access news that interests them. Always add a URL back to your site on these releases. Preferably to a page that is directly related to the content of the release. Make it easy on your prospect. Lead them right to the page that provides the information they want. You can use both your home page as well as a link to the internal page on your site, often called a 'deep link'. These links will allow the reader to easily navigate to the pages they want as well as provide you with search engine value.
These news releases should also be posted on your site. For many companies it is often the only new content that is added from month to month. These keyword rich documents will help your site be found on search engines.
I do not have time to write releases!
As I travel the country (sounds exciting until you here where I go and how I spend my time when on the road) the one common theme I hear from industrial companies is "I do not have time to write press release." Or, "I have nothing to write about."
Hearing these laments, the voice in my head wants to scream "YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO!" But as a person who understand the pressures of time and prioritization I listen and discuss with them the challenges and issues they are facing in their business. Inevitably, the question comes up, how are you talking to the market, especially during the time before they need to buy your solution? How are you telling your story? At this point I get the answers of search strategies and web sites. While I say that is important and a critical component of their marketing efforts, by the time a buyer or specifier starts the search process they already have a company in mind. How are you reaching them before that search, before they visit your site? And the answer is many industrial marketers do not have a strategy for talking to the marketplace before the prospect realizes they have a need. This often leads to a discussion of the many ways to create an effective messaging campaign that places you in the group of suppliers a buyer is familiar with even if they have not bought from you yet. In this specific post, I am going to address one of the potential opportunities and start to answer the question "Why write a press release?"
Press releases, also called news releases, have been an important part of the marketing/communications mix for successful companies. The one thing I have learned in my over twenty years of working in the B2B space is that successful companies are usually great marketing companies. One of the important tools they use is the news release. News releases communicate the latest news about your company and its products or services to the marketplace. Journalists rely on well-written press releases for story ideas and information. Due to the Internet, releases are also reaching your target audience directly.
In this post I want to focus on new and improved product and service releases. Press releases on new product developments are important to journalists for a variety of reasons, the major one being that their readers are interested in the latest product developments in their industry. If you have a new or improved product or service you need to write a release. Hiding your product or service advancements under a bushel does your company or your prospects and customers no good. You need to stand on the mountain and shout about it to let the marketplace know how you can solve their problems.
One big objection I hear from companies is that they do not want to let their competition know what they are doing. My response is most likely your competitor s already know the problem your potential market does not.
Done properly, press releases compliment any marketing efforts you have. From SEO to display advertising campaigns, releases are part of completing the marketing puzzle. It helps keep your name in front of your market every time you have something good to announce. It tells a story that can help brand your company. Press releases are also good search engine optimization tools. A press release adds content to your site as well as provides rich keywords and phrases used by search engines.
Over the next several weeks I will break down the steps to write an effective release as well as share some great resources. I hope you stay tuned.
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Industrial NewsRoom was a name that we created to prove a concept. We wanted to prove that the market was ready for new industrial product news online. From the time we launched the original site we saw fast adoption not only in traffic but usage of our RSS feeds, subs to our newsletter Product News Alert and eventually our blog Industrial Market Trends. You can see the original pages on the Internet archive Wayback Machine. Today the original site has evolved into what it is today, ThomasNet News.
As to this site you are on today, there are two motivations. First, I am partial to the name Industrial NewsRoom. Second, I wanted a place where I can share my observations as well as the observation of others of what is happening in the Industrial space. A place where we can share with whoever is interested what we learn working with buyers and sellers. I hope you enjoy my take on the industrial world.
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Since the global financial crisis struck back in 2008, MotoGP's primary focus has been on cutting costs. These efforts have met with varying success – sometimes reducing costs over the long-term, after a short-term increase, sometimes having no discernible impact whatsoever – and as a result, the grids in all three classes are filling up again.
Further changes are afoot – chiefly, the promise by Honda and Yamaha to supply cheaper machinery to private teams, either in the form of production racers, such as Honda's RC213V clone, or Yamaha's offer to lease engines to chassis builders – but there is a limit to how much can be achieved by cutting costs. What is really needed is for the series to raise its revenues, something which the series has signally failed to do.
In truth, the series has never really recovered from the loss of tobacco sponsorship, something for which it should have been prepared, given that it had had many years' warning of the ruling finally being applied.
The underlying problem was that the raising of sponsorship had been outsourced and the marketing of the series had been outsourced to a large degree to the tobacco companies, and once they left – with the honorable, if confusing, exception of Philip Morris – those skills disappeared with them. There was nobody left to try to increase the amount of money coming into the sport.


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HAMILTON — Churubusco's baseball team fought off a seventh-frame Hamilton rally to defeat the Marines Friday night in the semi-final game of the Northeast Corner Conference tournament.
The Eagles had a 7-2 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning.
With the Marines up to bat, Hamilton scored three runs, had to runners on base and the winning run up to bat.
The Eagles held on for the 7-5 win.
The game started off uneventful offensively.
The score was tied at one until the bottom of the third when Hamilton scored off a sacrifice bunt down the third-base line.
Churubusco's Logan Harris answered with the start of a four-run inning for the Eagles.
Harris got on base and stole second base before scoring the tying run.
With two outs, Austin Goepfrich and Alan Meeks crossed home plate after a wild throw to first base.
Kody Poyser finished the inning in prime fashion, stealing home plate after a wild Marine pitch. The inning finished with the Eagles up 5-2.
Churubusco chipped in another run in the sixth. Cody Schaefer crossed home plate after another Hamilton error; a dropped ball at first base after a hit from Poyser.
Harris scored again in the top of the seventh to take a comfortable 7-2 lead going into the final three outs.
The Marines scored three runs, making the score a threatening 7-5.
The Eagles managed the final out with two runners on base.
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Q: How much longer do you envision inspections taking? And will the U.S. [inaudible]?
Wolfowitz: It's not a question of how long the inspections take. It's a question of whether or not Saddam Hussein is going to disarm cooperatively.
We've seen in the 1990s, at least three countries saw benefit -- Kazakhstan, Ukraine and quite a few others, some others -- gave up their weapons quite willingly in an open way. In the absence of that kind of cooperation there's no way, as the President said, 108 inspectors can scavenge through a country the size of France or the state of California, and there's no way they can expect to find things when Saddam threatens the people who might cooperate with them with death and death to their families.
So it's not up to the inspectors, it's not up to the United States, it's up to Saddam Hussein and there's very little time for him to change his behavior.
Q: A lot of people in Britain and also the United States are still skeptical about this. They still want to see more evidence. More evidence of Iraq's weapons capacity and also links to terrorism. Will there be more evidence?
Wolfowitz: There is already an enormous amount of evidence and I suppose some people will never be convinced by any amount of evidence. There is more, and depending on how people calculate the risks of revealing it. Some of this evidence comes from people who risk their lives to give it to us and I'm not sure it can be revealed in a way to put somebody's name on it. Some of it comes from special means that we may decide are okay to sacrifice. But the evidence-- even just quite public and open--that the UN declared five years ago on the stocks of anthrax and botulinum toxin and ricin, which is now the weapon of choice of the terrorists in London apparently. Saddam had these large quantities five years ago. The UN provided the evidence that he had them, and he hasn't even seen fit to come clean on those.
It's an astonishing pattern of complete non-cooperation.
Q: The President said that America alone will decide its course of action. Was that a sign that ultimately America will go ahead without the backing of the UN if it doesn't feel it can get a second resolution?
Wolfowitz: Resolution 1441 never required a second resolution. It requires a second meeting of the United Nations. We're not going to be acting alone. There are many many countries that have made it quite clear that they will be with us when the time comes. I think part of the decision on when the time comes depends on what other countries tell us.
If you look at the vote that was taken in Brussels last week when we talked about NATO taking action, there were 15 countries with us and four countries who said let's take some more time. So I would say just on that measure alone there's a great deal of support. And there are countries in the Middle East that are sitting on the fence because they don't want to declare themselves before it's clear that there's going to be an action.
We will protect our own security; the President made that clear. But we're not going to have to do it by ourselves.
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A 235-room outpost of the trendy hotel chain offers a sleek, modern alternative to traditional Boston.
"Boston Uncommon" reads the promotional signage wrapping its way around the base of the shiny glass tower that is the W Boston. It's a fitting slogan for the hotel since its location is just a few blocks from the Boston Common park and it strikes a significantly different note than most of the city's other hotels. In a historic town filled with both charming old hotels and charmless chains, the W is thoroughly modern and trendy. (It's not the only hotel that boasts these qualities, though; both the Mandarin Oriental and the Ames Hotel -- part of the same hotel group as Miami party hotels the Delano and Shore Club -- opened around the same time as the W.) Of course, while the W Boston feels like no other hotel in Boston, it feels a lot like many other W properties.
First and foremost, there's the stylish lobby, quiet by day, happening bar by night -- a hallmark of the W brand. Of course, this being Boston, the young, attractive crowd sips their pineapple martinis around a crackling fire that warms the cool, modern space with its sleek booths, oversize suede chairs, metal curtains, and trickling water panels. There are signature W touches throughout. Doormats and elevator rugs are changed throughout the day to read "Good Morning," "Good Afternoon," or "Good Evening." Rooms have sleek design, well-stocked minibars, and Bliss toiletries. And, of course, there's a full Bliss spa, a regular W partner.
All the expected W details mix with surprises, like artwork in rooms subtly emblazoned with Thoreau quotes and whimsical photo murals in the hallways. Fans of the W will find plenty to like at the Boston property. It's a more stylish, but not necessarily more expensive, alternative to traditional chains in nearby Back Bay like the Westin and the Hilton, although some may find the W's bar-lobby scene a bit much. An equally happening spot with a more mature crowd can be found at the Liberty Hotel, a stunning boutique set in an old jail that mixes new design with a bit of Boston history.
Good, but falls short of full luxury
Service at the W is both hip and helpful, but it's not the full-on luxury offered by more expensive hotels like the Four Seasons and Mandarin Oriental. The W's service philosophy is "whatever/whenever" and the hotel strives to be accommodating but casual; it's also a bit cutesy. Hotel staffers are called "talent," and doormen are called "door ambassadors." As a whole, the "talent" tends younger and more attractive than your average hotel staff. Door ambassadors, who are friendly and ever-present, forgo stiff uniforms in favor of pinstripe pants and gray V-neck sweaters. For in-room help, guests press a "whatever/whenever" button on the phone and are instantly connected to a friendly voice asking "what's your wish?" For the most part, my wishes were dealt with quite well, but when I inquired about using the pool at a sister property I was told they'd have to check and call me back, which they never did.
Centrally located in the up-and-coming Theater District
The W sits on the busy corner of Stuart and Tremont streets in the Theater District, a central, up-and-coming area in downtown Boston, just south of the Back Bay area. The portion of Tremont Street just outside the hotel is lined with old, restored theaters like the Wilbur, which regularly hosts comics and indie rockers, and the Shubert Theatre, home to local community arts organizations. The less bohemian Stuart Street features a number of chain restaurants, from Dunkin' Donuts to Rock Bottom Brewery. Though the area isn't as pretty, and as touristy, as say Beacon Hill, there's plenty to eat, drink, and do, and more on the way as it's further developed. It's also central for exploring other parts of the city. Boston's Chinatown is just a couple blocks to the east, while the tony Back Bay area, a haven for shopping, is a few blocks west.
Sleek and thoroughly modern, with huge windows and up-to-the-minute electronics
With huge windows along the entire back wall, sleekly modern furnishings, and a bright color scheme, rooms at the W stand apart from the subdued, often historic, elegance that pervades most of the city's hotels. At 360 square feet, the standard rooms, called "Wonderful Rooms," are a bit bigger than average, and they feel especially airy thanks to the large windows and clean design. Small touches throughout range from cutesy -- a telescope on a stand that reads "wish" -- to cheeky -- a minibar with the requisite intimacy kit, emblazoned with the words "get lucky." Combine that with bathrooms that look into the rooms through a bit of artwork on a translucent canvas, offering a bit of a peep show, and well, this is no hotel room for grandma. Still, there are also useful details, like a charging center with jacks for seemingly every kind of cell phone, and power strips with AV jacks for hooking computers up to the TV, making the room particularly well suited to business travelers.
A beautiful gym and top spa
The hotel has some, dare I say, "w"-onderful amenities. When I visited just after the hotel had opened in late 2009, both the fitness center and the business center were up and running (Bliss spa had not yet opened but did in August 2010). An underground nightclub called Descent opened in October of 2011.The 4th-floor, 24-hour fitness center, or "Sweat" as the W calls it, is bright and modern. It has three TechnoGym treadmills, three ellipticals, two Cardio Wave machines, two bicycles, a handful of weight machines, and a selection of free weights and fitness balls as well as yoga mats and blocks; cardio machines have individual TVs. Water, fruit, headphones, and Bliss "tidy towels" are provided.
Modern and squeaky clean
The W Boston opened in late 2009 in a shimmering glass building. The rooms and public spaces are spotless.
Not geared toward families, but able to accommodate them
With its hip aura, peek-a-boo bathrooms, and a lobby that literally turns into a bar each evening, the hotel is not family focused, but it can accommodate children.
Bar and the Breakfast Lounge
There's no full restaurant, but guests can get breakfast, like an omelette or a muffin, in the Breakfast Lounge. The entire lobby transforms into a hotel bar, loosely known as the "W Lounge", come nightfall. Even on a midweek night, young guys in suits and girls in tight jeans and black tanks crowd up to the bar. Cocktails include pineapple mojitos and ginger margaritas. There's also a menu of small plates.
Dogs and cats up to 40 pounds allowed, but it'll cost you
Simple yet snazzy options, and a lot of them
With large, stylish rooms, a happening bar, and a Bliss spa, the sleek, 235-room outpost of the trendy brand offers a striking, modern alternative to Boston's historic hotels and traditional chains. Too bad it lacks a full restaurant and the unique charms of smaller boutique properties.
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A compensation analyst who left Houston ISD for the KIPP charter school about a year ago is returning to the district. Amy Dale will start Aug. 1 working in HISD's human resources department, according to district spokesman Jason Spencer. Dale was one of at least 13 HISD administrators and central office employees who left the […] [Read More]


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Posted: May 15, 2014|
THE new work of celebrated Cornish artist Robert Jones is to be highlighted in a new solo exhibition at Beside the Wave gallery in Falmouth.
The aptly named An Eye On The Weather exhibition runs from tomorrow to May 29 and gallery manager Sarah Wimperis said she was thrilled to be able to focus on Jones' work.
"I am a huge fan of Robert's and love to discuss his pieces with visitors at the gallery," she explained.
"His popularity as an artist is well established, but interest in his work has soared in recent years and this exhibition is a wonderful opportunity for art lovers to immerse themselves in his new work."
Jenny Pery, who authored a book on Jones, said he brings "the two elements of observation and memory together in his work".
"He is able to simplify without generalising and to create a tension between abstract shapes in the pictures and their figurative meaning," she said.
"The less that is in the picture, the more it suggests action or distance outside the frame. In his work small statements often stand for large concepts."
Speaking about the upcoming exhibition, Robert said he has felt compelled to create since childhood.
"I paint about places and things that interest me; that catch my eye," he asserted.
"I make paintings of places that have meaning to me and there are subjects I return to often; but for me painting is about more than just subject matter. It somehow shares some of the values that architecture is concerned with - the shapes of things and the shape of spaces around them, and how they relate to each other within the picture."
For many years Jones worked in black and white and it wasn't until his mid-forties that colour came into his work.
"I find as I grow older that I am more interested in colour and combinations of colour," Jones continued.
"I am interested in the process of creating the illusion of depth in the painting, but at the same time to remind the viewer of the surface of the paintings and the marks and texture of the paint."
Jones added that many of his current pieces evolve over a long period, through a process of continual repainting until "something feels right and emerges".
"That rightness is something that only can be said in paint," he added.
Jones has been painting seascapes, Atlantic beaches and seas and clouds, soaring gulls, landscapes, summer oaks, winter trees, cows, the Isles of Scilly, chickens and goats painted on islands in Greece and still lifes, all of which will feature in the exhibition.
He is also the author of the acclaimed book on the life of St Ives artist Alfred Wallis: Alfred Wallis, Artist And Mariner and the biography Reuben Chappell, Pierhead Painter.
For further information visit www.beside-the-wave.co.uk/exhibitions


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Swing For The Fences is a perk found in the data files of the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout. It does not appear in the game and can only be obtained with console commands.
It grants a bonus damage of 10 with all Melee Weapons.
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- Presumably, this perk may have been what Desmond Lockheart was talking about when he said he could offer you "more training". It just wasn't properly implemented like Superior Defender was.
- Even though the perk affects Melee damage, the icon shows Vault Boy fighting unarmed.


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Cťsar ChŠvez: A Voice for Farmworkers
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As a boy, Cťsar ChŠvez picked peas, grapes, and other crops in the hot sun. It was a life of exhaustion, poverty, and despair. His experiences as a migrant farm worker had a profound effect on ChŠvez. With a strong belief in nonviolence, ChŠvez staged boycotts, strikes, and other protests to bring national attention to the terrible working and living conditions of the farm workers. He organized a labor union, which became the United Farm Workers Union, to demand higher pay and better treatment. Cťsar ChŠvez never earned much money. He never owned a car or a house. He was simply an ordinary man with extraordinary vision and commitment.
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NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. – A special town meeting highlights events in Northbridge this week. On Tuesday, voters will be asked to make a decision on the future of the town's Department of Public Works. For more to do, visit our Events page.
Monday, Dec. 3
Earth Removal Board Meeting 6 p.m. Memorial town Hall, 7 Main St., Whtinsville
Tuesday, Dec. 4
Senior Citizens and Friends Luncheon. 11:30 a.m. Shepherd's pie, seasonal vegetables, dinner roll, apple crisp, and coffee, tea or milk will be served. $3.50. Northbridge High School, 427 Linwood Ave., Whitinsville.
Jingle and Mingle. 5:30 p.m. Free admission with toy donation for Blackstone Valley Family Services. Members $10; nonmembers $20. Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce at the Grafton Inn, 25 on the Common, Grafton.
Special Town Meeting. 7 p.m. Northbridge Middle School, 171 Linwood Ave., Whtinsville.
Wednesday, Dec. 5
Knitting and Needlework. 6 p.m. New and experienced knitters invited to join the group. Whitinsville Social Library.
Northbridge Parent Teacher Association. 7 p.m. Balmer and Northbridge Elementary School parents are encouraged to attend. Northbridge Elementary School on Cross Street.
Thursday, Dec. 6
Story and Craft Time. 10 a.m. For toddlers age 2 and up. Whitinsville Social Library.
Local author Ken Amidon. 7 p.m. Amidon will talk about his new book "Stray Threads," a mystery/romance set in Portland, Maine, in 1977. His focus will be on the process of creating his book. Free and open to the public. Copies of his book will be available for purchase and signing. Whitinsville Social Library, Church Street.
Student Council Movie Night 6:30 p.m. Northbridge High School Student Council will show the Movie 'Christmas Vacation. Free admission; money raised through the sale of refreshments will be donated to Michael DeLuca who travels to South Korea next year to compete in the Special Olympics.
Saturday, Dec. 8
Girl Scouts Caring Tree. 8 a.m. to noon. Northbridge Girl Scouts Cadette Troop 11530 will trim the holiday tree with donations of hats, mittens, gloves, socks and scarves for those in need. Refreshments will be served. On the Whitinsville Town Common.
Santa Claus Visit. 10 a.m. to noon. The Blackstone Valley Children's Place staff will host games, crafts, dancing, and art in the gymnasium while children wait for their visit with Santa. Free and open to the public. Whitin Community Center on Main Street.
Christmas-themed Arts and Crafts. 1 to 2 p.m. The free event is open to children ages 12 and under. Space is limited so reservations are requested by calling Monique Boucher, director of Outreach, at 508-234-0272. Whitin Community Center on Main Street
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Elizabeth Georgialene Bolton, 82, of Urbandale, IA went peacefully home, surrounded by her loved ones at Mercy Hospice, May 1, 2013. Known to friends and family as Georgia, she was welcomed into the world as the first baby born in the Kansas City, MO metropolitan area on January 1, 1931. She was the daughter of the late George and Ethel Hibbard.
Georgia married the love of her life, Sidney Bolton in 1952 in Creston, Iowa. They lived in Creston, Iowa City, then Urbandale, Iowa sharing 56 years together.
Georgia loved and lived life to it's fullest each day. Her love for her family, friends and serving her Lord most defined her. She expressed compassion and unconditional love for her children and grandchildren. Georgia's caring and authentic nature touched the lives of her large circle of friends and all those she met. She was devoted to her church family and the ministries at Aldersgate United Methodist Church.
Georgia had a lifelong interest in basketball and enjoyed many years as a Drake woman's basketball team season ticket holder, attending the games with dear friends. She enjoyed tending her flower gardens, swimming, sewing, cross-stitch and cooking. Her door was always open to friends and family and she always made room "for one more" at the kitchen table. She greatly enjoyed the company of her dear friends, "The Tuesday Girls", at their monthly lunch outings.
The fond memories of Georgia's life are celebrated by her children, Sid and Trecie Bolton of Bettendorf, IA, Barbara and William Schoeben of Cedar Rapids, IA and Rebecca and Brad Smith of DeKalb, IL; grandchildren, Annie (Ryan) Peyton, Molly (Dustyn) Menninga and Becca Bolton and Nate Pierson; Brandon (Megan) Smith, Andrew Smith, Marcus McGlothan and Symone McGlothan; and great-grandchildren, Logan Peyton, Maxwell Peyton and Emma Mae Smith.
In agreement with Georgia's wishes, cremation rites have been accorded. The family will greet friends from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 3, at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, in Urbandale. A celebration of Georgia's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, at the church.
Georgia's family request memorial donations be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church or the America Cancer Society.
The Iles Funeral Homes, Westover Chapel in Des Moines is assisting the family with arrangements. Online condolences may be shared at IlesCares.com.


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EPOX have introduced two new motherboards into their LGA775 Pentium4 lineup today, both based on older and well respected chipsets. These boards go by the model names EP-5PDAJ (left image) and EP-5PLAI (right image). Each one differs in that the 5PDAJ makes use of the trusted and decent performing 865PE chipset, with the 5PLAI using it's sister chipset, the 848P. All the usual array of features you'd expect from a mainstream motherboard of today are apparant, and it looks like either of these could be a solid cost friendly means to move into LGA775 territory with your existing AGP graphics card etc. - Further details in EPOX's official PR folks.
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CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson, one of the only mainstream media reporters who has relentlessly pursued the Administration of President Barack Obama for the truth behind its handling of the Benghazi, Libya, embassy attack, was spied on via her own computer before and during the period when the scandal (which is still a scandal) was at its height.
CBS News confirmed Friday that Attkisson's computer was hacked, by "an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012." The Benghazi attack, which claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, occurred on Sept. 11.
Attkisson was already on the government's radar for her dogged coverage of the Fast and Furious scandal, and has since found herself fighting an uphill battle to get the Obama Administration to respond to her questions, even as other reporters' access to the White House remains unchanged. She told POLITICO last month that she already knew that someone was doing a sophisticated hack on her computers as early as February 2011, but CBS News didn't confirm that assertion until revealing the results of a forensic investigation by an independent cybersecurity firm on Friday.
Neither Attkisson nor CBS News has yet put forward any speculation about what persons or agencies might be behind the spying. But the investigation found the third-party surveillance to be sophisticated:
Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion. CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.
In its story, CBS News also mentioned last month's scandal involving seizure of an ABC News reporter's emails and phone records by the U.S. Department of Justice — and then said this:
To be clear, the federal government has not been accused in the intrusion of Attkisson's computer; CBS News is continuing to work to identify the responsible party.


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I have one announcement. We have a press advisory for you telling you that Secretary of the Army Togo West is in Panama today visiting soldiers in Southern Command, and he will travel tomorrow to Haiti to get a first-hand look at how our forces are operating there. The Army's Vice Chief of Staff, General Tilleli, will also be in Haiti tomorrow with the Secretary.
With that, I will try to answer your questions.
Q: How is the new Bosnia policy operation working? Have any arms been detected on the ships for Bosnia?
A: I've gotten no reports of any intercepts that included any arms that were bound for Bosnia. I don't have anything positively on that.
Q: Would you get them... Or does the new policy mean that you wouldn't know?
A: I suspect because of the attention the subject has drawn, I would probably get something on that. And I have not. I wouldn't rule it out entirely.
Q: Could you comment on increasingly widespread reports that American military personnel are involved in training Bosnian forces -- either in uniform or out of uniform?
A: No DoD personnel are conducting training or [conducting] any other military activity in support of any Bosnian government forces.
Q: What about intelligence sharing and other kinds of support?
A: As you know, we have a long-standing policy not to address intelligence matters.
Q: Is there anything the Defense Department is doing in connection with Bosnia?
A: Could you narrow that down a little bit? (Laughter)
Q: You say you're not involved in training, supplying weapons?
A: Perhaps part of this comes from the notion that there have been U.S. military personnel in uniform seen in Bosnia. That shouldn't be a surprise. We have somewhere between 20 and 30 military personnel assigned to the Bosnia region. They are essentially involved in the nuts and bolts kinds of support activities to UNPROFOR, to the UNHCR effort, to the humanitarian effort. They are doing logistics, air operations, administrative support, convoy support. So clearly, we have a very, very small presence in Bosnia of U.S. military personnel. They are entirely engaged in activities that support UN and UNHCR. They are not in any way, shape or form engaged in activities that support the Bosnian forces.
Q: What about this reported meeting between General Charles Boyd and an important Bosnian army commander?
A: I'm told General Boyd, in fact, did make a trip to the region along with a number of other government officials. He did not participate in, nor is he aware of, any discussions about U.S. military assistance to the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Any reports to the contrary are just flat wrong.
Q: Did he meet this guy, or...
A: I'm not sure. I would refer you to European Command for his itinerary specifically.
Q: Can you give us an update on Bihac -- the situation? When last we met, Ken said NATO and the UN were considering several options, one of which was a possible exclusion zone. Has there been any further narrowing of the options or any decisions at all?
A: No, there's been no decisions on the exclusion zone specifically. Those are discussions that continue. The situation in Bosnia worsens. The situation in Bihac is also quite bad. We continue to discuss with our allies -- with NATO, with the UN -- ways to improve the situation. It is very difficult. And we again urge all parties to exercise restraint -- particularly in the Bihac region -- to preclude the extension of the hostilities and the widening of the war.
Q: Has the UN and/or NATO -- or both given -- themselves any deadline as to when they're going to make a decision? Or is it still open-ended?
A: No, I don't think there's been any deadline. I think they look at the situation daily and discuss it daily, if not more frequently. But I know of no time table for that.
Q: Can we return a moment to the question of whether or not the United States is providing satellite pictures to the Bosnians which would be of enormous tactical help to the Bosnian forces? Again, there have been many reports that those satellite pictures and other intelligence information have been handed over to them [full scale] by the U.S. By not commenting at all, you're leaving open the possibility that that is happening.
A: Let me read my statement to you. "No DoD personnel are conducting training or any other military activity in support of the Bosnian government forces." If you want to take a very broad interpretation of that, I would not dissuade you. That's really as far as I can go.
Q: When you say that DoD is not doing it, you're certainly not ruling out that other parts of our government are providing that kind of information, are you?
A: I'm not ruling it in or out. I'm simply speaking for the Pentagon, and that's as far as I'm willing to go.
Q: It appears that there is some evidence -- some trend -- to support some of the conclusions that the United States government generally -- and especially the Department of Defense -- is surrendering, giving up its neutrality in Bosnia in favor of the Bosnian government. Is this a valid conclusion?
A: Every time you ask me that question I give you the same answer. It is not a valid conclusion. I think you have to factor in reality here. Let's look at who the aggressors are. Let's look at who has not yet signed up to the peace agreement. That's the Bosnian-Serb side of this. We encourage all sides to stop fighting. We encourage Bosnian-Serbs to sign up to the Contact Group peace plan, and end the killing. That's the position that we've taken.
Q: There's frequent mention of the dual-key system required for air strikes. Is there a situation now where NATO and/or the U.S. is in a position of wanting to turn that key and the UN is not?
A: We have said consistently that we stand ready to live up to the obligations within NATO and to UNPROFOR. But it will take UNPROFOR, logically, the ones that are on the ground, to ask and turn that key first.
Q: Specifically with relation to Bihac and the sort of intensified fighting. Is there a specific push on the part of NATO in the direction of the use of air power that's being either ignored or rejected by UNPROFOR?
A: The discussion within NATO is whether to declare an exclusion zone. By declaring an exclusion zone -- that decision, by the way, would be made along with the UN -- in declaring an exclusion zone, I think it's a statement in and of itself that there's a greater willingness and desire to enforce the heavy weapons exclusion and try to bring some of the killing to an end.
Q: I believe the Nunn/Mitchell law requires that the U.S. submit a plan for training the Bosnian Muslims to Congress. Has a plan been submitted, and what can you tell us about it?
A: The consultations are underway with the Congress. I can't give you very much on it. I hope to be able to have something a little later in the week or early next week. As required by the Nunn/Mitchell legislation, we are discussing with them -- and briefing them on -- a plan for the lifting of the arms embargo and for the training of Bosnian troops. In the course of that discussion, we are making a clear indication to them that there are serious implications that come along with those actions -- implications for the Alliance, implications for UNPROFOR, implications for the continuation of humanitarian aid. So those are the kinds of generic discussions that we're having with them, but I really can't get very specific with you at this point.
Q: Implications you don't like?
A: Implications that will have a potentially negative effect on all those areas I just mentioned.
Q: Is there any update on the situation regarding the Cubans at Guantanamo with families and the disposition of them coming to the United States?
A: No. To my knowledge, no final decision has been made on the immigration policy. That's probably a question better addressed either at the White House or at INS.
Q: Back to Bosnia. Cardinal Law, attending the National Bishops Conference this morning, commented that the Vatican, especially the Holy See, agonizes greatly over the situation in Bosnia -- [and] is very much involved in attempting to solve it. The new Cardinal Keeler with the Bishops Conference said that all Catholics, in fact all Christians, would be urged to pray and fast for peace there.
My question is -- as it relates to the Defense Department -- would the Department of Defense welcome this kind of spiritual support to bring about a peaceful solution to the conflict in Bosnia? And secondly, would the military chaplaincy be free to pursue this line of remedy?
A: I can't answer the last piece of your question. I would suggest you deal with the services chaplains. But let me editorialize a little bit here. The whole world agonizes over what's happening in Bosnia, at least the vast majority of it, as we do. So there's no question that we would embrace any help we can get -- spiritual or otherwise -- to bring an end to this.
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Ben Bernanke told Congress today that the economy will still struggle to add jobs in the next couple years. Being the innocent bystander that he is, Bernanke merely forecast these struggles as immutable reality and not something he could possibly work to change:
In recent weeks, there have been a series of positive readings on the economy, including news that job growth was its strongest in three years in March and a report Wednesday that March retail sales rose a strong 1.6 percent. But in describing his view of the economic outlook to the Joint Economic Committee, Bernanke sounded the same restrained tone in describing his expectations that he did in testimony back in the winter.
"On balance, the incoming data suggest that growth in private final demand will be sufficient to promote a moderate economic recovery in coming quarters," Bernanke said in prepared testimony. He added later that, "if the pace of recovery is moderate, as I expect, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the 8 1/2 million jobs that were lost during the past two years."
So the chairman of the Federal Reserve, someone with enormous power over monetary policy to improve market conditions for hiring, is telling the unemployed that they'll have to wait "a significant amount of time" for any jobs to come up. Too bad, so sad.
The Fed chair has several options to promote a faster economic recovery; he has not pulled the string on what can be done. Furthermore, since he has been so willing to enter into conversations about fiscal policy, he should have no problem endorsing the funding for direct hiring in the Local Jobs for America Act, the best jobs bill on the horizon.
A collection of House Democrats and the National Association of Counties urged Congress and the Obama administration Wednesday to support the Local Jobs For America Act, a piece of legislation intended to spur job growth at the local level.
"This critical piece of legislation will help put people to work by allocating funds directly to local communities to stimulate job creation in the public and private sector," said the association's President-elect Glen Whitley.
If passed, the bill will provide communities $100 billion over the next two years to prevent businesses and local governments from being forced to cut jobs.
"We need more than just Wall Street improving, we need the jobs on main street," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.).
Policymakers are not innocent bystanders who report on the economy and shrug their shoulders at those left behind. Maybe official Washington is comfortable with a slow, gradual, U-shaped recovery, but the demographic groups bearing the brunt of unemployment – non-white, urban, less educated communities – most certainly are not. "This will be bad for a while" just doesn't cut it.


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Join us for an examination of the immigration issues that are faced by entertainers. We will talk about general issues that entertainment attorneys face when dealing with foreign artists, ways in which immigration attorneys help foreign artists come to the U.S. successfully, and current hot topics and issues facing the intersection of the two fields. Panel participants will include:
Daniel Parisi – Partner, TGL Shipley Parisi
Mr. Parisi practices U.S. immigration law in London. He has extensive experience with employment and business – related immigration, and focuses specifically on consular processing waivers of ineligibility for those with criminal issues seeking to enter the U.S.
Matthew Covey – Director, Tamizdat Artist Services
Mr. Covey owns and operates Tamizdat Artist Services, an organization that serves as the petitioner on visa applications for performing artists. To date, Tamizdat has successfully petitioned for over 3,000 individuals and bands to perform in the U.S.
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Mr. Tottenham practices in New York City. He specializes in business immigration and has extensive experience with O, L, H and E visas as well as EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 immigrant petitions and PERM Labor Certifications. Mr. Tottenham also specializes in consular processing issues.
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Mr. Michelen practices immigration law at his firm's Long Island Office. He deals mostly with musical artists through his representation of production companies. He also represents film festivals and often deals with bringing foreign directors/producers to the U.S.
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Seven Years?! It took seven years to help these children!? I try not to judge people whoses shoe I have not walked in, but really seven years? Way to go Children and Youth. Makes you wonder how many kids are out there right now who need help and have to wait years and years to get it!
I'm sorry I was under the belief that PARENTS are to raise their children, not the state department. While I agree that some parents do fail miserably at this job, it is still THEIR JOB. Not the governments. However, if the Dept. of Education is truely concerned for our children's well-being and feels that they absolutely MUST make some sort of junkfood restrictions, I suggust they ban all those PIZZA and CANDY FUNDRAISERS the schools force upon us several times a year! And perhaps take the vending machine out of the cafeteries, or maybe even reevaluate the "nutrional value" of the school meals offered daily. (I see kids eating Poptarts for breakfast every single day at our school) But THAT would mean a loss of revenue, so of course those options probably were not even considered.
I guess a child actually has to die or be kidnapped before anyone realizes that the so-called parents aren't fit. The key word here is "repeatedly". I mean really ,if you have to take a course to know that a baby should not be wandering the streets alone, you probably shouldn't be in charge of said child. I just pray the poor thing has a guardian angel watching over him, cause no one else seems to be.
Ever wonder why your required to get a license to own a dog, but not for having children? Not that I'm one for government interference into our lives, but seriously, some people just should NOT have children.
Really people what's in a name? How can anyone critize unless they've actually seen it and judged it appropriately on its content? And even then you must realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. These kids should be supported simply because they are putting forth their best effort and everything else is moot. I'd also like to agree that other musicals with questionable content have not recieved such hullabaloo in the past, so why this one? (Example: "Sweenty Todd" is about murder, "Tommy" is about child abuse and molestation, etc.)
Also if you really want to get "pissy" about something, how about the fact that they stock Captain Underpants books in the elementary school libraries? Where are all you "concered citizens" on that one?
This is such a tragedy and my heart goes out to Jabob's family. We as the general public cannot put blame on anyone because quite frankly we were not there and do not know all the facts. What I can spout off about is that quality childcare is not quite as easy to come by as the government would have you believe. I don't know many families that can afford to have a stay at home parent, and yet the price of childcare is so high, many of us are barely making enough to cover the cost, especially if you have more than one child. And the so-called childcare assistance is a joke. They put you on a six month waiting list. Well, where are the kids suppossed to go for 6 months? Parents are really up against a wall and forced to put their children at risk in unliscensed centers because they simply cannot afford anything else. (Not that a liscense makes that much of a difference anyway.) Perhaps if this event calls attention to this issue some good may come out of it. But that is a shallow comfort for Jacob's family.
While it is true that if someone intends to end a life, he/she will find a way to do so with or with out a handgun. However, guns certainly do make it easier and much more fatal in a moment of passion. Saying that people will kill anyway may be true, but it is also like saying a drug addict will find a way to get high anyway so let's just stock the Rite-aid shelves with crack! Or a pedaphile will look at kiddie porn anyway so why not legalize it? Wake up people and realize that guns are BAD!


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Falling in Love with God Again On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: "I don't want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, maid, or housekeeper to any leading attorney who will defend him and bring about his vindication." One of San Francisco's greatest attorneys, Vincent Hallinan, read or heard about the ad and contacted Gladys Kidd, who had placed it. Her husband, Robert Lee Kidd, was about to be tried for the slaying of an elderly antique dealer. Kidd's fingerprints had been found on a bloodstained ornate sword in the victim's shop. During the trial, Hallinan proved that the antique dealer had not been killed by the sword, and that Kidd's fingerprints and blood on the sword got there because Kidd had once toyed with it while playfully dueling with a friend when they were both out shopping. The jury, after 11 hours, found Kidd to be not guilty. The attorney Hallinan refused Gladys Kidd's offer of 10 years' servitude. [She was willing to do whatever it took keep that relationship with the one she loved, whatever the sacrifice] Remember falling in love? - When we love someone, what do we do? - When we are in love with someone, how do we behave? - Would you describe the flame of that relationship as cool, warm or hot? What is a "New" love like?- - Describe the flame- red hot - Describe the behavior toward each other - Want to be with them all the time - Can hardly think about anything else - Almost physically hurts to be apart What is a Mature love like?- - Describe the flame- warm glow - Describe behavior toward each other - Comfortable around each other - Enjoy each other's company - Prefer each other's company What is a Complacent or Lukewarm love like?- - Describe the flame- cool, barely visible - Describe the behavior toward each other - Don't really care much if you see them or not - Cordial maybe, but no affection - May even try to avoid them Read verses: Mark 12:29; Deuteronomy 30:20; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 91:14; 1 John 5:3; John 14:21; John 14:23; Matthew 22:37 How would you describe your love for God…New, Mature, or Complacent? Is your relationship with God what you want it to be? God has another promise for us in James 4:8a. "draw near to God and He will draw near to you". Maybe we need to make a resolution to fan the flame of our love for God this next year. It all starts with prayer and Bible study. Resolve-Commit Resolve to spend time each day with God reading from His word and in prayer. That's a New Year's resolution that will bring true joy to your life and that has eternal consequences as well!
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This poll is about the interface for adding a comment to a post. (It is not about comment threading. We'll deal with that separately.)
This poll is about the interface for adding a comment to a post. (It is not about comment threading. We'll deal with that separately.)
File this under "noteworthy": apparently, KFOR in Oklahoma City is not an affiliate of The Onion. And this means that when Kaitlin Nootbaar, valedictorian at Prague High School— home of the Red Devils— employed the word "hell" in a quote during her valedictory speech, David Smith the principal of Prague High School— home of the Red Devils— decided to hold her diploma hostage until she had composed and submitted a letter of apology.
This crisis is apparently still underway. Superintendent Rick Martin is reportedly holding his tongue, lest he inadvertently mutter imprecations seldom heard in mixed company.
Please tell me this is a hoax.
The African War on Goats continues with a new arrest:
"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.
"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said.
We know that evidence of flight from the authorities is generally admissible to prove consciousness of guilt, given a sufficient nexus between the crime and the flight. Therefore I submit that evidence of turning into a goat to elude capture would also be admissible, and would be quite powerful evidence. I would want to voir dire the jurors quite carefully, though, to see if any had any particularly strong feelings for or against goats.
Patrick, in guest-blogging at Overlawyered, alerts us that aWoolworth's in the UK will only sell toy lightsabers to adults, as they might be mistaken for guns and thus lead to some sort of unpleasantness. But it's not entirely clear what sort of unpleasantness the shopwarn clarks over in those green and pleasant lands have in mind. Are they worried that someone might rob their local with a lightsaber? If so, couldn't that fear apply to nearly any piece of plastic? Perhaps they are worried that a constable might mistake the saber in little Trevor's hand for a weapon, leading to a tragic police shooting. But if that's the case, they will have to start restricting the sales of all sorts of seemingly innocuous objects, from wallets to hairbrushes to cans of soda, wouldn't they?
TJIC points us to the list of questions to Slate's "Explainer" that, tragically, were never answered.
They range from the scientific:
If someone with DNA from the Stone Age were born today, would they be normal?
…to the cultural….
Can men eat the Activia yogurt that is advertised exclusively to the modern woman in khakis? Will it have the same internal regulatory effects on the male system that are promised for the female bowels? If not, why not?
…to the legal….
I have been accused of assault in Ohio. The woman fell over a box in the hall backward, and my brother opened the door, saw her lying there, and started hitting me. I got him down and held him down. It was all over a fight concerning my niece. What do you think will happen?
…to the psycho-social:
Why does some music make you want to shake your butt?
Remember — these people walk among us.
The Max Planck Institute — a prestigious research group in Germany, named after the famous physicist — wanted the latest issue of its journal to focus on China. So its graphic designers picked some attractive Chinese characters for the cover.
This is how those characters translated:
With high salaries, we have cordially invited for an extended series of matinées
KK and Jiamei as directors, who will personally lead jade-like girls in the spring of youth,
Beauties from the north who have a distinguished air of elegance and allure,
Young housewives having figures that will turn you on;
Their enchanting and coquettish performance will begin within the next few days.
Yep, that's pretty much what you think it is.
Clearly this is an advertisement for some kind of burlesque business. I did find quite a few references on the Web to a "KK Juggy" from a group called "Machine Gun Fellatio," and apparently the KK in her name stands for "Knickers" and "Knockers."
The resulting "apology" is delicious:
In its apology, the institute – which is named after the German physicist credited as the founder of quantum theory – said the Chinese text "had been chosen by our editorial office in order to symbolically illustrate the magazine's focus on China".
"Unfortunately, it has now transpired that this text contains inappropriate content of a suggestive nature," the apology states.
"To our sincere regret, however, it has now emerged that the text contains deeper levels of meaning, which are not immediately accessible to a non-native speaker."
Meaning "our graphics department copied the sign at that hootchie bar totally not knowing that it was suggestive."
Methinks someone is going to be looking very closely at this month's expense reports from that editorial department.
Knowing that all and sundry before them are captive, judges tell the damndest stories sometimes.
It's getting increasingly difficult during busy weeks like this one to resist the temptation to abandon original content altogether and just copy and paste stuff from my co-blogger Patrick's increasingly great new blog Social Services for Feral Children. Case in point — Patrick takes the story of the rise and fall of the CEO of a company that sold imaginary gold and items from online role-playing games, and unerringly plucks the most fascinating and appalling element from it: not the fact that a child star developed a company that sold imaginary gold that could be used only in games in which buying such imaginary gold was against the rules, but the fact that Goldman freaking Sachs invested a large amount of money in the business.
I'm thinking that Goldman didn't quite comprehend the gold-farming business, or for that matter online games. I'm at least hoping that they didn't understand that they were investing tens of millions in a product made by Company A (IGE) that could only be used on the premises of Company B (Blizzard), despite the fact that Company B forbade the use of the product on its premises and had the will to use its substantial war chest to fight against use of that product through both programming and litigation.
In their defense, they might have run out of the kindling necessary to simply set that much money on fire. Plus, smoke is bad. Global warming. You know.
You know, I find other cultures fascinating, and do my best to puzzle them out, moving my lips and rubbing my increasingly hairless brow in confusion. It's like a sudoku or something, you know?
Today, let's try with the French.
This country has a strong gun culture. Fortunately in the case of most people serious about guns, it is accompanied by an equally strong gun safety culture, characterized by the level of caution and professionalism and respect you should use towards any deadly tool. Unfortunately, America is also choked with slobs, Travis-Bickle-wannabees, and nimrods who think that hold-the-pistol-sideways-like-a-ganga thing looks cool. Many such people are careless about gun safety.
Now, carelessness is not a uniquely American trait. But I am beginning to suspect that proud, defiant carelessness — and sympathy for the same — are.
I am not svelte. However, I do not yet require two airplane seats to fly. People with a penchant for algorithmic progression who look at pictures of me circa 1991 and then 2008 may conclude that I will reach that stage sometime in the next decade, though. If that happens, and the traveling spirit strikes me, I ought to go to Canada. Because there, apparently, I would be legally entitled to two airline seats for the price of one, if I can't fit into just one.
Because clearly, in some cosmic sense, it is the airlines' fault that I can eat an entire large pizza in one sitting.
No word yet if legal norms in Canada require the airlines to bring me a steady stream of peanuts and cream sodas and wipe my enormous mouth with hot towels from First Class while I go NOM NOM NOM NOM.
Where was the judge when the shit hit the fan? On the bench.
"The judge said, 'Is your name Cornell Tyler?' " Lagerwall said. "He said, 'My name is Self Destruction, but you can call me Smitty—well, I mean [expletive].' "
Tyler then quickly reached down the front of his pants and pulled out the baggie but the deputies beside him pounced on him.
"In that scuffle, he did throw the excrement toward the front of the courtroom," Mateck said. "The judge was not injured, but unfortunately our deputies were . . . adversely affected."
"Adversely affected." I'm sure that's just the term they used.
Mickey Mouse must die. Says who? Oh, come on, you can guess this one.
Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is "one of Satan's soldiers" and makes everything it touches impure.
But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney's Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable.
The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed.
Mr Munajid was asked to give Islam's teaching on mice during a religious affairs programme broadcast on al-Majd TV, an Arab television network.
Harsh. But, apparently, just as Tinky-Winky taught teh gay and Murphy Brown taught people to hate fathers, cute mice teach tolerance for filth:
"According to Islamic law, the mouse is a repulsive, corrupting creature. How do you think children view mice today – after Tom and Jerry?
Actually Jerry made me think that mice are assholes.
I eagerly await a fatwah on truly irritating cartoons, though. Where's the death threats for the freakishly proportioned Family Circus children? The pathological Cathy? That unforgivably unfunny neocon duck?
1. If you are a lawyer, or forced to speak with one, you might have heard of the concepts of in personam and in rem. In personam denotes an action against a person, whereas in rem denotes an action against a thing, in as United States v. Bitchin' Yacht We Seized From A Drug Dealer and Now Want To Sell To Help Fund The War on Drugs..
Of course, there's a gray area between person and thing. I give you in goat.
Deputy Justice Minister Claude Nyamugabo said he was on a routine visit to the Kinshasa jail recently when he was surprised to find a herd of goats in one of the cells. Prison officials told him that the goats had been charged with "being sold illegally by the roadside" and were due to appear in court to answer for their crimes. Outraged, Nyamugabo ordered the goats released immediately. (The goat-sellers themselves apparently are still incarcerated.) He said that local police apparently had "serious gaps in their knowledge" and would be sent for retraining, suggesting that the Congo Police Academy has a course that covers whether or not to put goats in jail.
Which raises the eternal question that faces us with many warning labels, training courses, and cautionary statements: if someone is stupid enough to do it in the first place, what makes us think he'd understand or heed a warning?
2. And speaking of goats — I assure you we were — please visit me in the City of Angels, where goats are expected to work for a living.
Leaders of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency hired 100 goats to nibble away thick weeds on a steep slope at the corner of 4th and Hill streets, next to the Angels Flight funicular.
Agency officials said the goats were cheaper and more environmentally friendly than two-legged brush-clearers armed with gasoline-powered weed-whackers.
I would like to believe that the L.A. Times is using the word "hire" in its slightly archaic sense of "rent", as in "I hired a car for the day." However, I actually read the L.A. Times, so I'm pretty sure the word is being used as part of a PETA-driven agenda. Anyway, whether chattel, at-will employees, or independent contractors, the goats are perhaps not as cheap as you might expect:
An electrified fence helps corral the goats and keeps them from falling over a retaining wall at the base of the slope. Security guards will be on duty when he is not there to watch over the herd, said Gonzales, 71, of Chino.
You can't really blame the goats for demanding these benefits. If I were hanging out in a vacant lot at 4th and Hill I'd want an electric fence and a security guard too.
But you thought your boss was harsh about goofing off on the job? Check this:
Most of the South African Boer goats are female, Gonzales said. To keep them focused on their eating, males in the herd have been castrated, he said.
I may walk past there tomorrow on my way to lunch. I suspect it will be the biggest collection of smelly, scruffy, rude weed-seekers I've encountered since my sophomore dorm.
Via GamePolitics: guards have been ordered to treat an imprisoned child killer nicely to deter further suicide attempts or threats. From a probably questionable UK source:
Prison guards have been told to play Wii computer games with Soham monster Ian Huntley in a bid to stop him killing himself.
They have also been instructed to call the murderer by his first name – and treat him like family.
Bosses issued the order because Huntley has tried suicide three times since getting life in 2003 for killing ten-year-old schoolpals Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
And they fear he will try again unless they keep him sweet.
So taxpayers have picked up the bill to put a £179 Nintendo Wii console in Huntley's cell at Frankland Prison in Co Durham.
And warders will join him in games which require players to replicate real-life actions in sports like tennis, golf and fishing.
A jail source said: "Huntley has been asking for a Wii for months.
"When he moved to Frankland in February he was given a Nintendo Game Cube – but after only a few weeks he began complaining it was out of date.
Can anyone in the UK source this better?
Let me add that prison abuse is a serious issue, and I would not mock measures calculated to force guards to treat prisoners like human beings. But that does not necessarily require chumminess. And I see no reason that any prisoner should get a console.


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About Ninja Mom
The dream of Ninja Mom started almost 20 years ago when Ren Hanámi began creating a female ninja action hero called Ninja Girl. Ren referred to her as a She-ro—A sexy crime fighter inspired by the comic book characters SHADO from The Green Arrow series and SHI by Billy Tucci. Several years and outlines later Ninja Girl morphed into Ninja Mom, a do-gooder mom with some substantial secrets. The family movie series begins with a trilogy about Ninja Mom protecting her brilliant scientist husband from a corporate band of thugs, who are after his latest discovery that could change the world; all while raising a 13 year old tomboy daughter, precocious 6-year-old son and a toddler daughter.
Rounding out the Ninja Mom Movie Team is Noah Wyle, Ninja Dad & Executive Producer; Ryan Angel, Producer & Actress; John Holly, Associate Producer; Nathan Wang, Composer; and of course Ren Hanami as Ninja Mom.
The Creative Team
Ren Hanami
Multi-talented REN HANAMI (Creator/Producer/Ninja Mom) brings her brand of "Aloha Spirit" to everything she does. Ren acts, sings and dances on stage, screen and television. Her film and television credits include working alongside Academy Award winners Glenn Close in Airforce One, Martin Landau and Lee Grant in The Ali Gertz Story, Patty Duke in One Woman's Courage, and Sally Field in a recurring role on ER, as well as numerous other network series and movies such as The Storm, SouthLAnd, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, and Without A Trace. Ren has enjoyed many regional stage productions including Company, My Fair Lady, The King and I, South Pacific with Reba McEntire at The Hollywood Bowl, and Makeover at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. Ren is also very proud of her early leading roles in Performance Anxiety and Canton Jazz Club at East West Players, the oldest Asian American theater in the country.
Ren is greatly influenced by her multi-cultural family, especially the strong ties to her Hawaiian heritage. One of Ren's most important on-going roles is as the television host and spokesperson for AAA Hawaii. She is also the National Chairman of the SAG-AFTRA Asian Pacific American Media Committee.
Noah Wyle
NOAH WYLE (Executive Producer/Ninja Dad) is an extremely accomplished and award-winning actor and producer. Born in Los Angeles, Noah Wyle is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor, best known for his twelve seasons as Dr. John Carter on the NBC drama, ER. Noah serves as the Artistic Producer for The Blank Theatre Company in Los Angeles, which celebrates its 20th season this year.
Noah splits his time between Los Angeles and Santa Ynez with his children Owen and Auden Wyle. Noah can be seen in the series Falling Skies on TNT, from DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
Ryan Angel
RYAN ANGEL (Producer/Actress) has been in the entertainment industry for twenty plus years. She began as a child actor and continued her studies at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU on an acting scholarship where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with distinction in acting. During her time at NYU and beyond, she explored multiple aspects of stage and screen production. She worked extensively, while living in NYC, in all areas of production. From scenic design and directing to line producing, she studied many different aspects of bringing a script to life.
Having established a presence in LA, she has formed AngelBaby Productions, setting a new standard of excellence in filmmaking. She is currently working on producing four feature films: Picture This, a romantic comedy; Ninja Mom, a comedy-action superhero film; 200 Hours, a biopic about Peter Tripp, a DJ in the 50's; and Message to Shigatse, based on Isabel Hilton's non-fiction book The Search for the Panchen Lama.
Her goal and the goal of her company is to continue to produce high quality movies that entertain, delight, inspire and inform. www.angelbabyfilms.com
John Holly
JOHN HOLLY (Associate Producer) is President and CEO of John Holly Consulting, a professional entertainment firm which serves the industry by utilizing his experience and resources as an Actor, Stage Manager, Director, Manager, Producer and Union Executive. For nearly ten years, John was the chief union negotiator and executive covering fourteen states while serving as the Western Regional Director for Actors' Equity Association. He has proven skills in artistic production, financial operations and human relations.
John has produced and/or directed over 175 productions while serving as Executive Producer at major theatrical venues across the nation, including Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, Texas, The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington, and Music Theatre of Wichita and the Wichita Children's Theatre in Kansas. John was also an Actor and Stage Manager in New York where he performed on Broadway (Vince Fontaine in Grease), as well as performing in various shows off-Broadway and in Stock, Dinner Theatre, Children's shows. He also stage managed national tours and international trade shows.
Nathan Wang
NATHAN WANG (Composer) started his musical studies at the age of four. When he was nine, he was accepted to the University of Southern California to study musical theory and composition. However, after high school he decided to get a liberal arts education from Pomona College and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at Oxford University, England. He is proud of having started his career in theater, composing music for shows such as The Traveler at the Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Old Globe in San Diego and Bouncers at the Tiffany Theater. Nathan has composed over the years for East West Players, the oldest Asian American theater in the United States. He has worked on shows there as Big Hunk of Burnin' Love, Performance Anxiety, Sisters Matsumoto, and for Chay Yew's Reds. He has written two musicals for East West which received NEA funding: The Canton Jazz Club, which was one of East West Players' most successful musical runs in the history of the theater, and a reading of The Cathayian Pirate.
Nathan has composed for the CD interactive games, "The Muppet Treasure Island" and "The Return to Zork." For television, Nathan has worked on the popular animated series "Eekstravanza," as well as "China Beach," and "The Excellent Adventures of Bill and Ted." Nathan's movie credits include scoring Jackie Chan's Who Am I? and the Asian versions of Rumble in the Bronx and First Strike. He worked with Hans Zimmer on The Last Days for DreamWorks, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Don Schmidt
DON SCHMIDT (Artist) began drawing at the age of five and found inspiration in the cartoons, books, movies, and comics of his childhood. In keeping with the philosophy of his teacher, he strives to "Keep Going" and polish his art. Decades later, Don still finds that he is inspired by cartoons, books, movies, and comics and has found himself collaborating with Ninja Mom's very own Ren Hanami on the all-ages comic strip entitled "My Mom's A Ninja" and with Mike Wellman of Atomic Basement on two of their upcoming anthologies. When not drawing, Don may be found teaching a centuries-old martial tradition to aspiring ninjas. Don's artwork may be found at http://bujinkomix.deviantart.com.


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West Des Moines is among a select few cities across the country with national accreditation for all three major public safety departments.
But these departments - police, fire and emergency medical services - are constantly evolving to meet the demands of a growing city.
In West Des Moines, the public safety sector receives 47 percent of the city's annual budget. ...


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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
OUP Oxford, Nov 30, 2006 - History - 1024 pages
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments. Earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.
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Exxon Awards Grant to Lincoln-Erdman
On Tuesday, October 21, 2008, Lincoln-Erdman Elementary School was awarded a $500 grant from the Exxon Mobil Educational Alliance Program.
This additional funding will help to enrich scientific learning of Lincoln-Erdman students as they take part in the Lincoln-Erdman Environmental and Fitness Trail program (LEEF Trail). The school has been working for two years to develop an environmental study area for four- and five-year-old students that can also be used by the community during non-school hours.
Lori Gregoire, the manager of Petro Center, 3801 Superior Avenue, Sheboygan (pictured here) worked closely with John Pfaff to secure the grant.
"As a Mobile retailer, I am proud to help young people of Sheboygan," said Gregoire. The grant is one of 4,000 made available by Exxon and Mobil stations to schools across the country.
Petro Center of Sheboygan met stringent eligibility criteria before applying for and being awarded this grant including a commitment to provide a superior buying experience for customers.
The Exxon Mobil Educational Alliance Program is designed to provide Exxon and Mobil retailers with an opportunity to invest in the future of their communities through educational grants to neighborhood schools.
Sheboygan Area School District Press Release
November 4, 2008