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|Mar. 22 9:52 PM PT10:52 PM MT11:52 PM CT12:52 AM ET4:52 GMT12:52 9:52 PM MST11:52 PM EST8:52 UAE05:520:52 ET10:52 PM CT3:52 - Bledsoe scored a career-high 34 points Saturday to help the Suns withstand a fourth-quarter charge by the Houston Rockets in a 117-102 victory.
Analysis: The guard was 11 of 18 from the field, and even with a 2-for-15 performance two nights prior in a win over New Orleans, he's shooting 48.2 percent in six games. He has been trying to limit turnovers and is averaging 4.9 in his last nine games.
|Mar. 20 9:43 PM PT10:43 PM MT11:43 PM CT12:43 AM ET4:43 GMT12:43 9:43 PM MST11:43 PM EST8:43 UAE05:430:43 ET10:43 PM CT3:43 - Bledsoe struggled with five points on 2-of-15 shooting in a 74-72 win over New Orleans on Thursday.
Analysis: Bledsoe had averaged 19.8 points over his previous four games and should bounce back quickly.
|Mar. 16 9:38 PM PT10:38 PM MT11:38 PM CT12:38 AM ET4:38 GMT12:38 9:38 PM MST11:38 PM EST8:38 UAE05:380:38 ET10:38 PM CT3:38 - Bledsoe fell a rebound shy of a triple-double and the Suns pulled away to beat the New York Knicks 102-89 on Sunday night.
Analysis: Bledsoe finished with 21 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds. He's averaging 19.8 points and shooting 53.8 percent in the last four games.
|Feb. 27 10:37 PM PT11:37 PM MT12:37 AM CT1:37 AM ET6:37 GMT14:37 11:37 PM MST1:37 AM EST10:37 UAE07:371:37 ET12:37 AM CT5:37 - Bledsoe scored 28 for the Suns on Thursday.
Analysis: Bledsoe just missed a triple-double with 13 rebounds and nine assists.
|Feb. 23 8:00 PM PT9:00 PM MT10:00 PM CT11:00 PM ET4:00 GMT12:00 9:00 PM MST11:00 PM EST8:00 UAE05:0023:00 ET10:00 PM CT3:00 - Bledsoe had 21 points and 10 assists against Boston on Monday.
Analysis: Bledsoe has recorded double-digit assists in six games this season after doing so once in 2013-14.
|Feb. 11 9:07 AM PT10:07 AM MT11:07 AM CT12:07 PM ET17:07 GMT1:07 10:07 AM MST12:07 PM EST21:07 UAE18:0712:07 ET11:07 AM CT15:07 - Bledsoe finished one shy of his career high set a few weeks ago with 32 points Tuesday against the Rockets.
Analysis: He scored 12 of those points in the fourth quarter. Bledsoe has averaged 20.7 points on 50.0 percent shooting over his last 10 games.
|Feb. 8 7:59 PM PT8:59 PM MT9:59 PM CT10:59 PM ET3:59 GMT11:59 8:59 PM MST10:59 PM EST7:59 UAE (+1)04:5922:59 ET9:59 PM CT1:59 - Bledsoe sat out Sunday for Phoenix.
Analysis: Bledsoe was away from the team for the birth of his child.
|Jan. 31 11:58 PM PT12:58 AM MT1:58 AM CT2:58 AM ET7:58 GMT15:58 12:58 AM MST2:58 AM EST11:58 UAE08:582:58 ET1:58 AM CT5:58 - Bledsoe scored 23 points as the Phoenix Suns held off the Chicago Bulls 99-93 on Friday night.
Analysis: Bledsoe, averaging 16.9 points, was held to eight in a 106-98 win over Washington on Wednesday.
|Jan. 24 9:14 PM PT10:14 PM MT11:14 PM CT12:14 AM ET5:14 GMT13:14 10:14 PM MST12:14 AM EST9:14 UAE06:140:14 ET11:14 PM CT3:14 - Bledsoe had 25 points, eight rebounds and nine assists in a 113-111 loss to Houston on Friday night.
Analysis: Bledsoe has a combined 58 points, 18 rebounds and 15 assists in his last two games. He's averaging 16.9 points, 6.0 assists and 5.4 rebounds this season.
|Jan. 10 9:04 PM PT10:04 PM MT11:04 PM CT12:04 AM ET5:04 GMT13:04 10:04 PM MST12:04 AM EST9:04 UAE06:040:04 ET11:04 PM CT3:04 - Bledsoe had 19 points and 10 assists in Friday's loss in San Antonio.
Analysis: It was his second double-double in the past three games.
|Dec. 31 8:13 PM PT9:13 PM MT10:13 PM CT11:13 PM ET4:13 GMT12:13 9:13 PM MST11:13 PM EST8:13 UAE05:1323:13 ET10:13 PM CT2:13 - Bledsoe scored a season-high 29 points in Phoenix's overtime loss to Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
Analysis: Bledsoe's heroic performance did not quite lead the Suns to an upset victory, but it does stand as one of his top showings this season. He converted 10 of 19 shots and dished eight assists.
|Dec. 29 9:01 PM PT10:01 PM MT11:01 PM CT12:01 AM ET5:01 GMT13:01 10:01 PM MST12:01 AM EST9:01 UAE06:010:01 ET11:01 PM CT3:01 - Bledsoe continues to fill up the stat sheet, finishing with 22 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in Sunday's win over the Lakers.
Analysis: Bledsoe is averaging 19.6 points, 8.4 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 2.2 steals over his last five games.
|Dec. 26 8:48 PM PT9:48 PM MT10:48 PM CT11:48 PM ET4:48 GMT12:48 9:48 PM MST11:48 PM EST8:48 UAE05:4823:48 ET10:48 PM CT2:48 - Bledsoe continued his recent strong play with 18 points, six assists and five rebounds in a win at Sacramento on Friday.
Analysis: Bledsoe is averaging 19.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists in his last four games.
|Dec. 24 9:58 PM PT10:58 PM MT11:58 PM CT12:58 AM ET5:58 GMT13:58 10:58 PM MST12:58 AM EST9:58 UAE06:580:58 ET11:58 PM CT3:58 - Bledsoe had 16 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in Tuesday's win over Dallas.
Analysis: It was his second career triple-double, and they've come in a span of nine games.
|Dec. 9 9:55 PM PT10:55 PM MT11:55 PM CT12:55 AM ET5:55 GMT13:55 10:55 PM MST12:55 AM EST9:55 UAE06:550:55 ET11:55 PM CT3:55 - Bledsoe had a triple-double of 27 points, a career-high 16 assists and 11 rebounds in Monday's loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
Analysis: Over his last eight games, Bledsoe is averaging 21.4 points.
|Dec. 3 10:10 PM PT11:10 PM MT12:10 AM CT1:10 AM ET6:10 GMT14:10 11:10 PM MST1:10 AM EST10:10 UAE07:101:10 ET12:10 AM CT4:10 - Bledsoe had 27 points and four steals in Tuesday's win over Indiana.
Analysis: Bledsoe is averaging 20.4 points over the last five games, up from his season mark of 15.3.
|Nov. 27 9:25 PM PT10:25 PM MT11:25 PM CT12:25 AM ET5:25 GMT13:25 10:25 PM MST12:25 AM EST9:25 UAE06:250:25 ET11:25 PM CT3:25 - Bledsoe had 21 points and matched a season high with 10 assists in Wednesday's win over Denver.
Analysis: Bledsoe gave fantasy owners a scare after going to the locker room, but he was able to return. He's averaging 23.0 points on 53.8 percent shooting in the last two games.
|Nov. 25 9:16 PM PT10:16 PM MT11:16 PM CT12:16 AM ET5:16 GMT13:16 10:16 PM MST12:16 AM EST9:16 UAE06:160:16 ET11:16 PM CT3:16 - Bledsoe had 25 points in Monday's loss at Toronto.
Analysis: Bledsoe added seven rebounds, six assists, two steals and two blocks for an overall terrific stat line. He had averaged just 11.2 points over the previous five games.
|Nov. 15 10:01 PM PT11:01 PM MT12:01 AM CT1:01 AM ET6:01 GMT14:01 11:01 PM MST1:01 AM EST10:01 UAE07:011:01 ET12:01 AM CT4:01 - Bledsoe had 22 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in Friday's loss to Charlotte.
Analysis: Bledsoe is averaging 14.7 points, but he's scored at least 22 in three of the last five games.
|Nov. 8 9:09 PM PT10:09 PM MT11:09 PM CT12:09 AM ET5:09 GMT13:09 10:09 PM MST12:09 AM EST9:09 UAE06:090:09 ET11:09 PM CT3:09 - Bledsoe scored 23 points Friday.
Analysis: Bledsoe has consecutive 23-point efforts as he is getting into a strong fantasy groove for Phoenix. He is heating up for the Suns.
|Nov. 6 10:24 PM PT11:24 PM MT12:24 AM CT1:24 AM ET6:24 GMT14:24 11:24 PM MST1:24 AM EST10:24 UAE07:241:24 ET12:24 AM CT4:24 - Bledsoe had a season-high 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting in a 102-91 loss to Memphis on Wednesday.
Analysis: The Phoenix guard averaged 11.0 points and shot 35.1 percent (13 of 37) in the first four games. He had six points in a win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday.
|Sep. 24 2:22 PM PT3:22 PM MT4:22 PM CT5:22 PM ET21:22 GMT5:22 2:22 PM MST4:22 PM EST1:22 UAE (+1)23:2217:22 ET4:22 PM CT20:22 - A person with knowledge of the deal says the Phoenix Suns and Eric Bledsoe have reached agreement on a five-year, $70 million contract. The person spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the agreement has not been officially announced.
Analysis: The Suns see Bledsoe as a critical part of their double point-guard system. He missed much of last season after undergoing his second surgery to repair a meniscus in his right knee.
|Sep. 23 8:44 PM PT9:44 PM MT10:44 PM CT11:44 PM ET3:44 GMT11:44 8:44 PM MST10:44 PM EST7:44 UAE (+1)05:4423:44 ET10:44 PM CT2:44 - A person with knowledge of the situation says the Phoenix Suns and Bledsoe have made progress over the past few days on a new contract. The person asked to remain anonymous because the talks were ongoing.
Analysis: It is the first report of any movement in the talks between the team and Bledsoe, a restricted free agent.


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November 22 2012
New Brunswick Real Estate: Should You Buy a Home with Security?
Whether it's New Brunswick or anywhere else in the country, many prospective buyers face the question of what to do when they purchase a home with security already installed. Most of the time, these systems are largely inert and can easily be removed at the discretion of the new owner, but is that really the best way to go?
Home security systems help stop and prevent home invasions and robberies, but they also do something more – they can help give the homeowner and the family living inside that peace of mind that everyone is entitled to. And just because the existing hardware was under someone else's name doesn't mean you can't make the transfer.
Services like ADT make it easy to not only reactivate existing security equipment, but it can actually be cheaper, as well. That's because there's not installation cost – it's already there. All you have to do is set up a new account and cover the monthlies which, if you click that link, you'll notice can be quite agreeable.
Wherever you are, be it New Brunswick or New York, if you find yourself moving into a home with existing security tech, think before you tear it down. It could come in handy.

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Total Team Victory
It wasn't the prettiest win of the season. Heck, the score was 35-34 at halftime with the Heat leading despite scoring just 11 points in the first quarter. It was downright ugly at times. BUT…. there is something to be said for being able to win the ugly games, especially on the road. Two of the "ugliest" wins of the season (Dec. 8 @ Orlando and last night) are arguably the two biggest wins.
To get the win last night the Hawks had to get contributions from the entire line-up. Marvin Williams didn't make the trip, missing his 10th straight game with a back injury. Then the Hawks lost another starter in the third quarter when Al Horford tweaked his ankle (stay tuned to Hawks.com for Al's status updates).
With Marvin and Al unavailable, several bench players were forced into extended minutes. Most notable were Zaza (most minutes since Dec. 3), Mo (just the second time over 30 minutes this season), and Damien Wilkins. All three veteran players made a positive impact, helping the Hawks battle through a couple cold spells and earn the victory. Damien and Zaza, as always, provided hustle and defense, while Mo stepped up to hit a couple huge baskets in overtime.
It is an 82 game season, and teams are going to have to deal with injuries and nights when shots simply aren't falling. The result is often an ugly game. One thing is certain, it never looks ugly when the number in the win column keeps growing.


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Annual Washington Post Bucket Event 2010
Supporters of question 4 in Maryland, The Maryland Dream Act, talk to... News PhotoAsking,Day,Democracy,Election,Entering,Entrance,Horizontal,Human Interest,Maryland - State,Polling Place,Supporter,Talking,USA,VotingPhotographer The Washington PostCollection: The Washington Post 2012 The Washington PostGLENARDEN, MD - NOVEMBER 6: Supporters of question 4 in Maryland, The Maryland Dream Act, talk to voters at Glenarden Woods Elementary School in Glenarden, Maryland as they enter the polling site on election day. On the left is is Daniel Niño , 17, of Colombia. He is an undocumented student at Montgomery Community studying Computer Science. He currently lives in Aspen Hill. On the right is Tsega Tefera, 17, of Ethiopia. He is a legal resident but is a friend of many dreamers. He lives in Wheaton and attends Northwood High School. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)


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GAIL MARTIN, Independent Editor
While the infrastructure deficit of $63 million is a daunting proposition, the township is facing it the best way it can, by setting priorities.
Here is a small sample of some of Woolwich's most pressing needs:
Floradale Road Bridge
This bridge, located 550m north of Florapine Road, is currently under a 10-tonne load limit, making it a significant concern for private transportation companies, local farmers, and emergency service vehicles.
The township conducted a class environmental assessment on the bridge, and approved replacing the bridge earlier this year. The estimated cost of this project is $695,021.
Maryhill Isley Watermain
Replacement of this watermain has been prioritized because of water quality issues, as well as increased maintenance and and high operating costs. The watermains, which use ductile iron and cast iron pipes, were installed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Budgetary constraints will require that this project is done in two phases, with the ductile watermain replaced first.
The work will also include reconstruction of Notre Dame Avenue and Isley Avenue, which were identified in the 2009 Road Needs Study as being of top priority. This work is estimated to cost $973,958.
Woolwich Street South
Reconstruction of this street in Breslau is also on the agenda, and is expected to cost $1.09 million.
Maintenance paving
The township plans on conducting its annual maintenance paving program again in 2013, which is aimed at roads which require reconstruction and are incurring a high maintenance cost due to their condition, but are not included in the capital forecast due to budgetary constraints. In the 2013 capital forecast, approximately $114,000 has been set aside.
Hot-mix resurfacing
Similarly, the township uses hot-mix resurfacing to try to maintain towship roads. Benjamin Road, Centre Street, Snyder Avenue North, and Water Street and Young Street are in the capital forecast for 2013, with an estimated cost of $667,000.
Woolwich Township Arena
Roof repairs are becoming a priority for this aging facility, which was built in 1974. The project is estimated to cost $293,000, and the township is pinning its hopes on infrastructure funding from the federal government to help with this cost.
A further concern is the money that would be needed to replace the arena. That cost is estimated at $8.3 million.
Leaning light towers
Soccer fields in Elmira have several leaning light towers, which pose a safety concern. The township has applied for funding with the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund, seeking $281,600 towards the $563,200 cost.
St. Jacobs Library
This building will, at some point, require upgrades to provide more accessibility. If the township had to replace this building, it would cost $567,300.


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Christmas Tree Lighting
Christmas Tree Lighting
Sunday, December 1, 2013
4:00-6:00 p.m. Balboa Island Fire Station at Marine and Park Avenues. Cider, Cookies and SNOW FOR THE KIDS
Santa and Mrs. Santa arrive at 4:00 p.m. Tree lighting and caroling at dusk.
Fire Station – Marine Avenue and Park Avenue Cider, Cookies, Pocorn and Candy. Snow to Play In. Christmas Caroling and a chance for the "little people" to visit with Santa Claus who is schuedule to drop by for a visit.
The Balboa Christmas Tree Lighting is now a showcase for Balboa Island's Official Holiday Season. During the Festival pubs, restaurants and hotels were promoting holiday specials as well as organising events and entertainment for all age groups.


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Even when the story of the Zambia-Tanzania railway is is one of triumph and togetherness, there's still a current of anxiety flowing beneath the surface.
The train starts with a clattering lurch. In the kitchen of the dining car, a pool of grease slops up against the side of a blackened pan. Beer bottles clink in the bar car and a semi-inebriated hoot of triumph rings out from one of the first-class sleepers.
The Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) is in weekly express mode, wheels chugging against the tracks as it departs the blazing hot afternoon of Kapiri Mposhi, around 200 km north of Zambia's capital Lusaka and around 1,800 km southwest of Dar Es Salaam, the rail's historic departure point in Tanzania.
The whole trip is supposed to take three days, but it could take four or five, and maybe even longer if there's a breakdown. And as TAZARA's debt mounts and an overdue feasibility study looms like a storm cloud, it's feels more and more like the journey may soon not happen at all.
Twiddling the cord of his headphones, Larry Pangani looks worried. He's been making the trip with resigned regularity ever since his father took a job in Dar and he and his mother stayed back in Lusaka. He knows how temperamental the machines can be, and it makes him anxious. "If the train breaks down," he says, a semi-ironic smile on his face, "they'll run out of food and beer. It happens too often."
A shaky track record
If you want to translate TAZARA's patois of meanings and associations into one key word, then 'anxiety' is probably your best bet.
It's the word that tells us why the railway was built, about how the lived space in the cars changes shape and significance as they rattle along, about how race and class and language blend, buckle and boil, and about how business, family and tourism fuse in the bar car and then diffuse on the station platforms.
Even when TAZARA's story is one of triumph and togetherness, there's still a current of anxiety flowing beneath the surface.
If you want to understand what TAZARA means - and what it'll mean if Tanzania and Zambia decide to decommission it - anxiety is the place to start.
Historically, Zambia's trade routes were southbound conduits, with copper shovelled out of the country's southwest and shipped to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa.
But Rhodesia's 1965 unilateral declaration of independence overturned all that, separating the colony from the British Empire, and triggering a whole new trade paradigm for the region.
With the route south now blocked, Zambia looked to Tanzania's ports, but it was unable to efficiently truck its copper up the muddy Great North Road all the way to Dar Es Salaam. As the newly-independent country began losing money at a handwringing rate, the idea for the railway was mooted.
President Kenneth Kaunda went West, pleading unsuccessfully with uninterested parties to fund the project and rescue Zambia's single-commodity economy. But Tanzania's Julius Nyerere went East, attracting Chairman Mao's attention and securing a no-interest Chinese loan for the project.
In 1970, a team of Chinese workers - prisoners, say many - began construction, each one a human symbol of how anxious disintegration in the south inspired ambitious integration, however self-serving, further north.
Those two words - 'integration' and 'disintegration' - also tell us a lot about the TAZARA story. The railway integrates urbanites and villagers, the wealthy and the poor, products with markets, Westerners and Africans, and industry with nature. At the best of times, it does this remarkably well.
You see scruffy village kids shriek and wave as the train hammers past, overjoyed by the sight of it, this semi-regular colossus from some far-flung industrial abstraction. At the stops, you get petty traders in tatty clothes transacting with slick business types in unbuttoned collars.
You get Swahili mixing with Bemba mixing with English, German, and French. You get Peace Corps volunteers pissing it up with migrant workers in the dining car.
Out the windows, you see a galloping giraffe and a lounging monkey; you see a profoundly touching sunset behind a range of lush, green mountains.
In the evening, people jostle against the tumbling bar, competing to buy each other rounds. They swap stories and the purposes of their journeys, and you learn that one person is going to buy goats at the border, another is on his way to pick up a car from the port, and a third is just travelling, just loves train rides and wants to experience as many of the world's railways as she can.
All throughout the day, there's the steady din of friendship and friendliness. Ideas like local and foreign become porous and a little bit silly.
In their place you imagine this train throttling along, unloading human psychological baggage as it goes; what it takes on instead is all that 1960s hippy Pangaea stuff that usually seems impossible after just 20 minutes of the evening news. But here on TAZARA, not only is it possible, it's actually happening.
Except, of course, when it's not. After all, anxiety and disintegration are never far away. They can rear up and punch through the hippy mojo like nails through flesh.
The most alarming symbols of this are the crashed cargo cars abandoned in the forests, phantom limbs of the industrial complex, so odd and out of place in such an otherwise pristine environment.
Ever since construction was completed in the mid-70s, the rail line has been gradually collapsing. Labour strife and structural dysfunction have compounded over the years, propelling it into a state of debt nauseating enough for one politician or another to perennially pronounce TAZARA's imminent demise.
Seen through a prism of freight economics, it's almost farcical, hauling less and less copper all the time. Strikes have paralysed it. The Zambian government prefers to invest largely in roads, even as it makes deals with Congo and Tanzania to facilitate shipment by rail.
Chinese cash injections can't seem to turn around its fortunes, and it'll cost an estimated $1 billion to recapitalise the network.
It loses millions of dollars a month, and past efforts to privatise have been hopeless, although that hasn't stopped management from recently passing a new five-year, $211 million plan reliant on 15% private sector sourcing.
Tension in transit
Small-scale tourism stubbornly persists, however, contributing at least a little bit to the inevitable tensions that develop when two classes are lumped together in a confined space.
That tension sometimes spills out the windows of the train, like when a young black woman tries to give her baby to whites, like when tourists anxiously stare at each other, pretending, however absurdly, that 15 children with rags for clothes aren't crowding the window asking for money.
That tension thickens at night, when third-class passengers make incursions on the sleeper cabins, pounding on the doors, shouting furiously that they too have tickets on TAZARA, that they too want to lie down and sleep. In fact, the whole train gets angry at night.
The hallways look stark and grey and stained. The only people around are drunk, bobbing ludicrously on their stools as the cars bounce over buckling contours in the rail bed.
Exterior doors slam open and closed, the world outside a pitch black eternity that could suck a person in whole, no trace, no future, just a suitcase in the cargo hold.
Except there are people out there too, aren't there? Some of the poorest ones, far beyond the reach of either country's electrical capacity, alone with just each other and their brick kilns and windows. "I don't know what they do," Pangani says, peering into the night, his normally sly features smooth with wonder. "But they're there."
With that, the whole Pangaea thing disintegrates. Here we drift apart, off to occupy our various corners of a vast and emotionally disturbed sea.
In the morning, a slight edge remains, an uncomfortable memory of last night's negativity that takes a few hours - and beers - to wash away.
Amity returns by noon, even as the iconography morphs again, as the currency shifts from kwacha to shillings, as the guards change national uniforms, as the flatlands leap into the clouds. TAZARA is a moody wanderer, its meanings as transient as its boxcars.
Travellers from Zambia may reach Dar at any time, day or night. The train wheezes into the terminal and its cars are mobbed by taxi drivers and boda-boda riders, straining hawkers and grabby totes, all shouting, waving their arms, reaching for luggage, bidding for business.
Passengers pour out the doors. They pool up on the platforms and push through the throngs. On the other side of the guarded exits, one of East Africa's central port cities awaits, textured with religious diversity and rife with its own anxieties, its own collisions of friendliness and deception, its apparent beauty and occasional violence.
This place is every bit the bustle of the train, except that here everything's unpackaged. Everything's sprawling, sticky, and still.
For that special breeze to pick up again, you have to wait for TAZARA to head back south, for its porters to load the cargo and its passengers to fret the journey.
That's supposed to happen every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, but it could take longer. Nothing is certain.
Paul Carlucci is a Canadian writer and journalist based in Lusaka, Zambia. He has reported from Ghana and Ivory Coast for Think Africa Press, IPS Africa, Al Jazeera English, the Toronto Star, and the Toronto Standard. His short fiction has been published in Canadian journals and magazines. His collection of short stories 'The Secret Life of Fission' is available through Oberon Press.


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Four Points Cambridge Kitchenerhotel is located in directly off Highway 401 and Exit 278, within minutes of Kitchener and Waterloo. Numerous corporate headquarters, including Cambridge/Kitchener business park and the Tri-cities technology triange, are moments away from our Kitchener hotel. Traveling for leisure? The tri-city region has many things to do in Kitchener and Cambridge. Endless attractions, shopping and recreation are just a few of the activities located only moments away from our Kitchener hotel. Enjoy all the year-round local events and attractions that makes it the perfect Canadian getaway.
Amenities at our Kitchener Hotel
Whether you are traveling to Four Points Cambridge Kitchener for business or pleasure, you're in for a great stay. Make the most of your stay with fast & free WiFi and bottled water in your guest room, plus free parking. Traveling out of Kitchener-Waterloo Regional Airport? Take advantage of our free roundtrip shuttle service 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Cap off your evenings with great, local craft Best Brews at Preston Bar & Lounge.
Kitchener Meetings & Events
Meetings at Four Points Cambridge Kitchener have the style and service you want. In addition to our convenient location, we have your Kitchener meeting & event needs covered.
With over 1,500 square feet of flexible meeting space, we can host any special event, including corporate meetings, training seminars, church socials, college and military reunions, weddings and rehearsal dinner.


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Back when George W. Bush was in the White House, then-Mayor Krom attended an event for the president held in Irvine.
"I've told this story several times, but no one has ever published it," Krom told me last week when we sat down for coffee. At the event, when she had the chance to shake the president's hand, she proudly told him of her Austin connection – she graduated with a B.S. degree in education from the University of Texas. What happened next, and the president's reaction, drew stares from everyone else in the room.
Krom had been a teacher in Texas in the early part of her career. Scott McClellen, the White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush, was an elementary school student of hers. When Krom told this story to the president, his face lit up and said, "Scotty is here," and called over an aide to escort Krom to meet him in a back room.
Krom explained with a smile, "To the heavily Republican crowd in the room, the sight of me, a registered Democrat, chatting with the president and then being ushered through a side door by the Secret Service likely conjured all kinds of thoughts."
Raised in upstate New York, Krom's father was an anchorman and her mother was active in the community, including with the League of Women Voters. She says half-jokingly that her father worked so much that if they wanted to see him, they needed to turn on the TV.
Krom's first entrance into Irvine politics came in 2004 when she filed to run for city council, just four days before the close of filing. She had known then-Mayor Larry Agran from the University Park community, and because Krom's husband had his optometry office near Agran's campaign office in University Center across from UCI. The driving force behind her campaign was to ensure a commercial airport was never built at the former El Toro Marine Base.
Krom is running for re-election this year and will almost certainly win. Knowing she was a shoe-in to keep her seat, it's hard to believe that she had any doubts about running.
"I needed to be 100 percent sure I wanted to run," she told me. "People in public life have personal lives too. I decided to continue strengthening the fabric of our city." Krom told me that the best compliments she gets come from people who knew her before she held public office, and who say she is the same person today.
"People don't think of Irvine as a big city, but we are. Our challenge is to preserve the quality of life for our growing 200,000 and counting residents," Krom said. "In the midst of the Great Park development, we need to recognize what an amazing asset it is. Bringing the full spectrum of housing to the Great Park will bring thousands of short- and long-term jobs to Irvine."
Answering critics who suggest that rolling out amenities at the Great Park might be progressing too slowly, Krom puts things into perspective by explaining it took decades to complete the 843-acre Central Park in New York City, and stating emphatically that "Irvine has 1,300 acres of public land that we will never sell."
Freelance columnist Adam Probolsky lives in Rancho San Joaquin and is CEO of Probolsky Research LLC, which specializes in opinion research for government, corporate and political clients. Follow him @AdamProbolsky or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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About Us
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) provides this catalyst for change, the mechanism enabling all those concerned with the future of agriculture and its role in development around the world to come together and address key global needs. GFAR brings together their voices and collective actions through processes that are inclusive and equitable, fostering rapid actions and working to ensure agricultural innovation delivers its intended development impact.
To find out more about what we do see "Our Work".
Participants in GFAR seek to integrate research with the societies it aims to serve and put meeting the needs of farmers (in particular resource-poor farmers) and the poor at the very core of agricultural research and innovation systems. Jointly agreed actions are delivered directly through the organizations, networks and agencies involved in systems of agricultural innovation around the world. Those involved in GFAR cover the continuum from farmers and consumers to researchers, working to deliver developmental change and impacts through global, regional and thematic fora, networks and institutions. GFAR is an open and inclusive form, involving all those concerned with generating, sharing, transforming and using agricultural knowledge in public, academic, private and civil society institutions.
Each of these sectors are represented in this Global Forum and steer its activities. They include: Regional Fora (bringing together regional perspectives and actions) intergovernmental agencies, international research centers, farmers' organizations, non-governmental organizations and private sector interests (through their own associations at regional and global scales), as well as development funding agencies. To find out more about GFAR main stakeholders see the links on the left.


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Review of the European Standardisation System Publicado em: 24/03/2010, Última atualização: 26/03/2010
- Data limite:
- 21/05/2010.
The DG Enterprise and Industry has launched a public consultation on the review of the European Standardisation System.
Comments and suggestions are invited by 21 May 2010 and should be sent by following the instructions that you can find in the introduction page.
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Proof of Defendant's Predisposition (to Rebut Entrapment Defense) Is Not Same as Proof that Defendant Had the Requisite Intent / Mens Rea
Nonetheless, the Panel clarifies that assertion of an entrapment defense is not at all equivalent to a denial of criminal intent. Specifically, the Government's proof that a defendant was predisposed to commit the crime is not the same as proof that he had the requisite mens rea (though the same evidence may be used to establish both predisposition and mens rea). Op. 7; see id. ("It bears emphasizing that no matter how intertwined intent and predisposition may be, they remain separate concepts."). Rather, "[p]redisposition focuses on the source of the criminal intent: whether the government placed the criminal intent in the defendant." Op. 7 (emphasis added).


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The Egg Nutrition Center and American Egg Board (ENC-AEB) funds a dissertation fellowship program to support students pursuing a doctoral degree in nutrition with emphasis on understanding the nutritional value of eggs in a healthy diet.
Applicants should be Ph.D. degree candidates studying nutrition or nutrition-related fields at an accredited university. Preference shall be given to U.S. citizens with the desire for a career in teaching and research in nutrition.
Total fellowship support provides up to $38,000 per year with maximum length of three years based on satisfactory progress and continuous enrollment.
The 2015 RFP is now closed.