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This is the first day of a four-day series of stories, photos, videos and interactives that examine the Cape Cod National Seashore as it turns 50 years old. The Times worked in conjunction with WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR radio station, on the series. EASTHAM – It's a low-key drive into the Cape Cod National Seashore – past the Eastham post office, antique shops and clam huts – and only then, once you've shopped for swimming tubes and snacks, only then might you notice a sign for the visitor center. But that below-the-radar sense of the park belies the regional and national importance of its creation in 1961. On the Cape, the Seashore legislation is the most important federal action of the 20th century, an early acknowledgement of the region as a national treasure, said Paul Niedzwiecki, executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, the regional land-use planning and regulatory agency created in 1990. Nationally, the Seashore was even more innovative. It was the first urban national park, one that existed and thrived within a populated area of towns, businesses and residences. Before 1961, only Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina existed, created in 1953. At the time, the Northeast was booming and one-third of the country's population, 25 million people, lived within a day's drive of the Cape. At the signing of the Seashore bill on Aug. 7, 1961, President John F. Kennedy predicted a doubling of the country's population in the coming 50 years, and of the need for more places for recreation, particularly near highly developed urban areas. The original Seashore legislation encompassed 26,670 acres in the six easternmost towns of Cape Cod, including 53 miles of beaches, 8 square miles of sand dunes, 20 freshwater lakes and several historic sites."There was a significant population on the Outer Cape and it was settled, it was developed, it was functioning," said Jonathan Moore, legislative aide to U.S. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, who co-sponsored the Seashore bill with then-Senator Kennedy in 1959. "It was not a wild area. So there was a big discussion." At the time, the U.S. Department of Interior wanted to protect the region's scenic beauty, its scientific and cultural value, its undeveloped areas and the distinctive Cape Cod character of the existing homes. The break-through with the Seashore legislation was a set of zoning standards that gave the Department of Interior a say in private property development within the park's boundaries, via bylaws that the six towns had to adopt. "The Secretary of the Interior could now condemn private property if a property owner violated a zoning ordinance or if a town improperly granted a zoning variance," said Oliver Spellman of the National Parks Conservation Association, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that advocates for national parks and the National Park Service. The Seashore zoning formula, however, allowed for other national seashores and national parks to be developed, starting in 1962 with Padre Island National Seashore in Texas and Point Reyes National Seashore in California. "It was precedent setting. It's still pretty incredible," Spellman said.
Audio Seashore stories from WCAI radio
WCAI's Sean Corcoran reports that, after 50 years of existence, the National Seashore has been successful at balancing environmental protection with recreation.His audio report | More WCAI coverage Specifically, the Seashore zoning standards protected private properties within the park boundaries as long as they existed as of Sept. 1, 1959, and as long as the house and land had the same owner, said Lauren McKean, the Seashore's current planner. As long as these types of properties were redeveloped according to the town's zoning bylaws, they were exempt from condemnation by the federal government. The standards also required towns to enact additional zoning laws or leave private property in that town open to possible condemnation. This included establishing a separate Seashore zoning district and adopting minimum standards for those districts, such as 3-acre minimum lot sizes. Between 1963 and 1966, all six towns enacted those standards, McKean said. "That was the breakthrough," Moore said. But the growing demand for larger homes on Cape Cod has challenged federal officials. In the 1980s, federal guidelines for the Seashore further limited residential expansion, but only Eastham adopted them as law, said Seashore Supt. George Price. In 2008 the federal government unsuccessfully sued a property owner in Wellfleet over the size of a reconstructed house within the Seashore boundaries. Following that, the town of Wellfleet did adopt new house size limits in the Seashore, but so far Truro has not followed suit, Price said.
Interactive: National Seashore Timeline
The Cape Cod National Seashore's first 50 years has a rich history since its creation in 1961. | Check out this interactive timeline Today, about 590 private properties exist within the Seashore's boundaries: 251 in Wellfleet, 211 in Truro, 105 in Eastham, 20 in Chatham, one in Orleans and one in Provincetown, according to Seashore records. From a regional perspective, the Seashore legislation was the first of a handful of laws that have set in motion efforts to preserve "the Cape for what it is," Niedzwiecki said. After the Seashore bill came state and federal efforts starting in the late 1970s to clean-up pollution from military sites at the Massachusetts Military Reservation. And, passage of the Cape Cod Commission Act in 1989, created a region-wide mechanism to control property development. The creation of the Seashore also led to the expansion of the Cape's tourism economy, worth $2.5 billion in 2009 figures, about a third of the Cape's economy, according to commission records. "The Seashore is what started it all," Niedzwiecki said.
Jonathan Moore, who was legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, who co-sponsored the Seashore bill with then-Senator Kennedy in 1959, in a photo at Nauset Beach.(Cape Cod Times/Christine Hochkeppel)
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Time Travel
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- Release Date: May 3, 2011
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May 19, 2011Finely crafted folk is elevated towards greatness by the stunning voice of Alessi Laurent-Marke.
MojoMay 19, 2011Acquaint yourself with this successor to 2009's Notes From The Treehouse and it doesn't take long to see what Bella Union honcho Simon Raymonde saw Laurent-Marke. [May 2011, p.112]
May 19, 2011Her second, now with indie Bella Union, is a precious mix of childlike insouciance and adolescent anxiety.
May 19, 2011The 12 brief songs (five of them under two minutes long) reveal a talent that's on the verge of becoming something special.
May 19, 2011Alessi's Ark carries its ideas two-by-two, sails well above the current flood of increasingly desperate folk wannabes, and weaves a modest magic that is hard to pinpoint, yet even harder to resist. If Time Travel isn't quite a classic, it does enough to suggest that this 20-year-old has one in her Davy Jones' Locker.
May 19, 2011Time Travel has some stellar moments but is not quite the album to make a star of Alessi's Ark. The singer has time on her hands for that to happen, and happen it surely will.
May 19, 2011With that as an unavoidable comparison point and baseline, as can be heard again on songs like the title track, Time Travel is still a pleasant album, where what comes out more are the moments of variation on the form than the form itself.
May 19, 2011On the remainder of Time Travel, Alessi's Ark sounds like she can achieve mainstream success purely on her own terms.
Oct 5, 2011While they are clearly the work of a developing artist, these precocious but consistently pleasant songs are also a testament to her natural talent and hard graft.
UncutMay 19, 2011This agreeable sequel boasts a more coherent country-folk sound, ironing out some of its predecessor's quirky, hand-knitted allure. [May 2011, p.77]
May 19, 2011She's made a solid album of pleasant, though slightly conventional, country pop songs, and done a good job of it. But after showing such early promise, it seems like a shame that more people won't get to hear what Alessi Laurent-Marke is capable of.
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A Sheboygan woman accused of biting off her husband's tongue while kissing him was charged Tuesday with felony mayhem and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation.
Karen Lueders, 57, of 2833 Windepoint Court, severed half of Willard Lueders' tongue during a "manic episode" about 11 p.m. Monday, authorities said. She now faces a rarely used felony - related to intentional disfigurement or mutilation - that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
Karen Lueders made an initial appearance Thursday before Judge L. Edward Stengel, but that was adjourned when Stengel ordered that she ...


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Salman Khan is Katrina Kaif's new fitness hunky instructor!!
Is Salman Khan turning into a Bollywood muscle trainer? First he helped Ishaqzaade star Arjun Kapoor trim those extra kilos now he is teaching his ex-girlfriend Katrina Kiaf new fitness techniques.
Katrina Kaif is getting ready for her role in Dhoom 3 where she needs to kick some butt. Salman Khan started off with giving her some tips then decided that he might as well just start to train her.
Salman loves working out and has helped other Bollywood men get in shape like Hrithik Roshan but let's hope that he does not turn Katrina Kaif in to a muscle woman.
Somehow we don't think that rippled muscles is what Katrina is looking for although it's easy to break into sweat with a hunky instructor like Salman Khan
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Though the suspected bomb in a box turned out to be a book, an Ithaca man may wind up behind bars for creating a scare last fall on The Commons.
Following his arrest in October, Matthew Whitney, 37, told Ithaca Police and FBI investigators that he placed a brown cardboard Nike box marked "Bomb" on The Commons to promote his "free energy cause," according to court records.
Whitney, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree placing a false bomb or hazardous substance, is facing a maximum of four years in prison. ...


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When someone gives him great service, Blayne Blowers makes an unusual offer: he hands that person a card that reads, "I was impressed by your service. If you're ever looking for a job, please call me." Blowers, director of store operations for the Clean Duds laundry chain, based in Des Moines, swears by the card as a screening tool.
Blowers first used cards for recruiting in 1986, when he managed 13 fast-food restaurants. The idea has caught on at Clean Duds; everyone in the home office, including the CEO, hands the cards out to recruit new employees for the two company-owned stores. And the company has ordered 30,000 cards for its 65 franchises.
Blowers looks for people who are "sincere, responsive, with a friendly smile -- not forced -- who enjoy serving." When card holders call, Blowers interviews them carefully, but he has already confirmed an important and elusive quality. He says the cards reduce the cost of bad hires and save training time. "Customer service is the hardest thing to teach." -- Phaedra Hise* * *


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Repeal Won't Go Quietly In Connecticut
We thought we'd be celebrating Connecticut ending the death penalty right about now.
But, earlier this month, the repeal bill the media called a shoe-in was derailed when two pro-repeal Senators decided to postpone their votes. The Senators were accommodating the request of Dr. William Petit, whose family was murdered in a high-profile case that's still pending.
The postponement came as a shock to many, and the outraged responses started pouring in. The Connecticut Post had a piece in its opinion pages entitled "Forget what the law says - there is no death penalty."
Ridgefield Police Commissioner George Kain and retired police officer Terrence Dwyer put out an op-ed saying, "What [the two Senators] did not tell us, though, is that it will be years and years of continued waiting for these or any executions to occur, or if any executions will actually ever occur at all."
The Hartford Courant put out an editorial arguing that the Senators' temporary switch on repeal will just make things worse for families of murder victims. But many of the responses came from Connecticut's community of murder victims' family members themselves.
Earlier this year 83 such family members signed a letter asking lawmakers to repeal. The letter pointed out the way death sentences plunge families into an endless quagmire of uncertainty and media attention. It also talked about the way the death penalty system divides families.
Victoria Coward, whose 18-year-old son was murdered, said in a recent op-ed:
"The bigger picture is that the death penalty is given in fewer than 1 percent of cases, yet it sucks up millions and millions of dollars that could be put toward crime prevention or victims' services… I feel for Dr. Petit, and I understand his pain better than most. The last thing I want is to appear to be "against" Dr. Petit – and I assure you, I most certainly am not. But that is the illusion that the death penalty system creates. It has said to us that some cases are different, some cases are worthier of our attention, some hurt is deeper."
EJUSA's Colleen Cunningham, who has been working on the ground in Connecticut throughout the repeal campaign, said that it should only take one more year: "We already have the votes in the Senate, more than enough votes in the House, the support of the Governor, and continued momentum for repeal across the state. Repeal is inevitable. And we look forward to 2012, when we can finally kick it out the door."


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Unitarian Church of All Souls
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The Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City was the first Unitarian Universalist church in New York City.[1] It is one of the largest and most influential congregations in the United States. It has provided a pulpit for some of the movement's leading theologians and has also recorded many eminent persons in its membership.
All Souls was the first Unitarian congregation to be organized in New York and originated in 1819 when Lucy Channing Russell invited forty friends and neighbors into her Lower Manhattan home, to listen to an address by her brother, William Ellery Channing, the minister of the Federal Street Church in Boston. Channing was making a stop in New York while traveling to Baltimore to preach the famous sermon in which he would articulate the distinctive tenets of Unitarian Christianity, the most salient of which were the rejection of the Trinity in favor of absolute Monotheism, and the imperative to interpret the Bible through reason. In New York, the enthusiasm aroused by Channing culminated in the formation of the First Congregational Church (Unitarian), which proceeded to erect its first building, on Chambers Street between Broadway and Church Street, before it had even found a minister. The task of recruitment was difficult since few ministers could be persuaded to venture away from the stability of the Unitarian heartland in New England and risk their careers in new congregations beyond. Finally, on December 18, 1821, William Ware was installed as the first minister.
In 1844, the congregation moved to a new building at 548 Broadway and renamed itself the Church of the Divine Unity the following year. In 1855, the present name, All Souls, was taken by an American church for the first time when the congregation dedicated its third building at 249 Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South) at 20th Street. The address was conversely listed as 249 4th Avenue. In partnership with minister Henry Whitney Bellows, who served for over four decades from 1839 to 1882, All Souls grew to include some of the leading social reformers and cultural figures of the city, such as Peter Cooper, Herman Melville, and others listed at the end of this article.
One famous member was the novelist Catharine Sedgwick, who remarked upon the diverse backgrounds of the people who were attracted to the freedom of ethical inquiry which All Souls offered: "strangers from inland and outland, English radicals and daughters of Erin, Germans and Hollanders, philosophic gentiles and unbelieving Jews . . . In this, our ass'n, there is at least one of every sort." In evolving from its roots in Unitarian Christianity, All Souls has embraced an enlarging religious pluralism that continues to this day.
All Souls relocated to its current building on the Upper East Side at 1157 Lexington Avenue at 80th Street in 1932. The prolific author and theologian, the late Forrest Church served as Senior Minister for almost thirty years until the beginning of 2007, when, due to terminal cancer, he was succeeded by Galen Guengerich and assumed the less strenuous duties of Minister of Public Theology.
Notable members[edit]
- George Fisher Baker, financier, philanthropist
- William Cullen Bryant, poet, journalist
- Peter Cooper industrialist, philanthropist (founder of Cooper Union)
- Nathaniel Currier, lithographer, co-founder of Currier and Ives
- Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, lawyer, civil service reformer
- Caroline Kirkland, writer
- Herman Melville, writer
- Laura Pedersen, author, journalist, playwright, humorist
- Louisa Lee Schuyler, Sanitary Commission organizer, founder of America's first nursing school at Bellevue Hospital
- Catharine Sedgwick, writer
- ^ "All Souls' Church Animates One With the Spirit of the Boston 'Liberals.'". New York Times. September 14, 1924. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
First Unitarian Church Here. All Souls' was the first Unitarian Church foundation in New York. The Unitarian Society was incorporated in 1818 ...
Further reading[edit]
- "Unitarian Church of All Souls," The New York City Organ Project, The New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
- Kring, Walter Donald. History of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City in 3 vols.
- Liberals Among the Orthodox: Unitarian Beginnings in New York City, 1819-1839 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1974)
- Henry Whitney Bellows (Boston: Skinner House, 1979)
- Safely Onward (New York: Unitarian Church of All Souls, 1991)
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Casting Call: Would You Discuss Your Mental Illness on Television?
So, sometimes when you've spent years bleeding all over the Internet, people turn up you wouldn't otherwise expect. For example, a casting producer from an Emmy-award-winning reality television production company left a message on my voicemail Friday afternoon.
The message was that he'd seen my work with Families for Depression Awareness and wanted to know if I'd help get the word out for a new show currently being cast that focuses on mental illness. I hung up my voicemail and looked at my husband and told him what the message was. After we laughed about the absurdity of life sometimes, I said, "Of course I'm not going to call him back."
But my husband questioned that. He asked why not, when there are clearly plenty of people who are at their wits' end and can't afford the resources the show could provide. That gave me pause. And he pointed out I've shared my struggles with eating disorders and anxiety disorder publicly for years via blogging. I had to concede I might be filtering my response via an anti-reality-television bias. I'm always ambivalent about reality television. I love how it brings light to talent via singing shows and design shows. I love how it educates about interesting or dangerous jobs. I hate how it sometimes encourages narcissism and celebrates in-fighting when the show is about dating or spending money in ridiculous ways. And I worry worry worry about it exploiting people instead of helping them.
But ... I'm human. I will watch anything that has to do with eating disorders after my own experiences. I watched the entire season of Starving Secrets with Tracey Gold, and while I didn't really mind Tracey, I disapproved of the way the clinics handled their patients:
I didn't see a lot of treatment going on for the mental illness piece of the eating disorder other than just telling the patient she was doing it wrong. I didn't see much compassion, either. I know I didn't see most of their sessions, but showing just the parts where therapists were telling the patients they were being ridiculous isn't helpful in the fight to convince society that you can't shame a person out of an eating disorder.
I hemmed and hawed all weekend about whether or not to call the producer back. I did some research on the grandmother of rehab shows, Intervention. I was surprised. I found this from Natasha Vargas-Cooper writing at The Daily Beast:
Of the 161 addicts that have appeared on A&E's show Intervention in the past five years, 130 are sober today. There is no standard metric for recovery, but you take into account the high recidivism of drug offenders going back to jail, the chronic relapsing of people who have passed through state-based rehab programs, and anyone who has dealt with an addict in his or her personal life, the 71 percent recovery rate is, by any standard, astonishingly high.
But why is the success rate so high? Because that seems bizarre, and assuming the camera achieved the success seems a little correlation-without-causation to me. Upon further research, it appears a lot of time goes into working with the family of the addict before the intervention itself:
A key factor in the show's high recovery rate only gets about two minutes of air-time: the intervention training with the addict's loved ones. The trainings are six- to eight-hours long and are conducted by Finnigan or VanVonderen the day before the actual intervention. One part of the training is spent unearthing the various ways the family has been hurt by the addict's behavior, with the interventionist providing insight into the physiological science of addiction.
I am not a doctor, but after forty years of living with my own mental illness and five or six years of answering three or four emails a week from anorexics or their loved ones who email me after seeing one of my eating disorder posts, I believe strongly that treating mental illness straight-up or mental illness with a side of addiction or cutting or starving or other self-harming behaviors requires talking to the family members/boyfriends/girlfriends/friends, too. If you're struggling with mental illness and everyone around you is asking why you can't just fix yourself, that's a problem. The education of the family and friends can't be conducted by the struggling person. It has to be a medical professional. If this show they're proposing—which is not about addiction, but rather about women struggling with bipolar disorder, self-harm disorders, and/or postpartum depression—could really educate the women's families and friends about their pain and provide them with 10-15 sessions after the show airs, is this okay? Is it then okay to film them? Could the filming help other people, the way documentaries often do? Or will it do more harm than good?
The producer assured me that with this show, everyone knows what's going on, as opposed to Intervention, where the addict thought he or she was doing a show about addiction in general. He also said they are looking for people who have shared about their experiences on social media, looking for help. And then kind of struck home, because hey, I know this story!.
But on the flipside, there's this opinion from Katherine Stone of Postpartum Progress, a good friend and fellow anxiety sufferer as well as the founder of her incredibly helpful, successful and influential resource for women suffering from PPD.


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20 apartments for rent near Susan B Anthony, Rochester, NY
Apartments in Susan B Anthony, Rochester, NY
The Susan B. Anthony neighborhood is located in Monroe County, Rochester, New York, in the 14608 zip code. This historic urban neighborhood was once home to suffragist Susan B. Anthony, and is now a preservation district on the National Registry of Historic Places. The median age of residents in this residential and business community is 29.1 years. Consisting of Single-family homes and apartments, the Susan B. Anthony neighborhood is bordered by Jefferson Avenue to the west, Interstate 490 to the north, West broad Street to the east, and West Main Street to the south.
The Susan B. Anthony neighborhood is located on a bus route, is pedestrian friendly, with sidewalks, and is within walking distance of downtown Rochester. Residents can join the Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood Association. Public schools in the area include School 4-George Mather Forbes, School 2-Clara Barton, Monroe Middle School, Madison High School, and Thomas Jefferson High School. Universities in the area include the University of Rochester, Monroe Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Saint John Fisher College.
Golf Courses and Clubs in the area include Oak Hill Country Club, Shadow Pines Golf Club, Country Club of Rochester, and Locust Hill Country Club, where the Wegmans LPGA Tournament is played annually. Sports fans will enjoy watching a Rochester American hockey game at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial, or taking in a Rochester Red Wing baseball game at Frontier Field.
There are many attractions in the area such as the Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester Museum and Science Center, George Eastman House, Strong National Museum of Play, Seabreeze Amusement Park, and the Susan B. Anthony House, where Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872.
The United States Government minted the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin in her honor, which can still occasionally be seen in circulation today.
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A few weeks ago I talked about "show don't tell," and how "showing" dramatized a scene I was writing and, in my opinion, made the story richer. In the comments, Diana asked an excellent question: could "show don't tell" ever make a scene shorter, or does it basically always mean expand? I've had a chance to ponder this, and in some of my reading and writing came upon a particular situation in which the answer is yes, showing can make a scene tighter and shorter, at least in terms of word count.
It happens in sections of dialog. Have you ever read a scene where the text surrounding the dialog basically explains the dialog over again? For example (I just made this up off the top of my head):
I was so nervous, my words stammered out, "I-I'm not sure. . .the mashed potatoes. . .I-I left them right there. . ."
The first half of that sentence, "I was so nervous my words stammered out," is "telling." It's unnecessary, because the dialog demonstrates ("showing") very well that the character is stammering, most likely out of nervousness. So, a better — more dramatic — way to write the sentence is to let the dialog "speak" for itself:
"I-I'm not sure. . .the mashed potatoes. . .I-I left them right there. . ."
If the dialog is written well enough, it expresses the emotion the character is feeling without the narrator having to explain it.
This off-the-cuff example is overly-simplistic, but I'm sure we've all run across that sort of thing in our reading. It's a bit pernicious, because we usually slide right on by sentences like that — both in what we read and what we write — without thinking of it. It's not wrong exactly, but it's wordy, and often not as immediate.


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Tuban, Kuta Febri's Hotel and Spa
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Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 2 Days before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the full cost of the reservation. Deposits paid are non refundable.
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Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 2 Days before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the full cost of the reservation. Deposits paid are non refundable.
Spacious accommodation with sleek contemporary tropical ambiance at prime central location. Great for mature travellers and families. Well-known for its value and cleanliness.
Ranked among the top 3-star hotels in Bali, Febri's Hotel & Spa is centrally located at Jalan Kartika Plaza, South Kuta Beach. The area with Discovery Mall, Waterbom Park, Kuta Centre and Kuta Square, has become the shopping mecca of Bali. As well, there are many DVD stores, food stalls, tattoo parlours, paintings, handicrafts, clothing and sarong stores, all with very reasonable prices. Jalan Kartika Plaza has become a centre of attraction for mid market shopping with new shopping facilities, many new restaurants and family entertainments. Because of this convenient location, the area buzzes with international guests all year round.
South Kuta Beach (formerly known as Tuban Beach) is close to the hotel. The beach offers a quiet and romantic gateway for lovers and honeymooners as they can walk hand in hand undisturbed by crowds. A recent reclamation program has widened and beautified the beach and constructed an elevated walk way which stretches from the International airport to Legian Beach (approximately 7 km).
Inspired by the Tirtagangga Water Palace, Febri's Hotel is of contemporary design with high ceilings and large open spaces. Providing a pleasant ambience with clean rooms and a relaxing swimming pool surrounded by beautiful frangipani gardens, Febri's is ideal for mature travellers, honeymooners and families.
The hotel boasts of providing one of the best value spas on the island, offering a wide range of relaxing treatments in tranquil ambiance within anyone's budget. Basic treatments and short packages are offered in a modern air- conditioned studio including the soothing background sound of a waterfall. More sophisticated treatments and packages are offered in private spa cottages, each of which has its own spacious garden, shower and bathing facilities surrounded by high walls for personal privacy and luxury. Signature treatments in these spa cottages use chocolate and various natural products. Another unique value-for-money spa facility is a large cottage accommodating 4 persons in luxury. This large cottage is ideal for a family or close friends to enjoy the pampering spa treatments together. Prior and after the treatments, guests can enjoy the complimentary outdoor Jacuzzi and steam room.
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Normal check-in time is generally at 2 pm (room is readily cool and fresh) providing flight details or information on check-in time are fully submitted. Failing that, the room will be made available at 6 pm. Due to general electricity shortage in Bali, hotel is legally obliged to switch off air-conditioner when room is unattended. Consequently, without information on desired check-in time, the room won't be cool and fresh flowers won't be prepared either for check in.
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Desired check-in time or flight details must be submitted to hotel. Failing that, the room will be made ready at 6pm, the room won't be cool and fresh flowers won't be prepared either for check in
A contemporarily designed room with soft mellow colours, high ceiling and sleek furniture, All main beds are orthopaedically designed for proper spinal alignment, hence are perfect for travellers with sensitive backs. Every room has a sofa bed which unfolds into an extra bed, ensuite bathroom, a private balcony or terrace, and a large refrigerator (unstocked) as guests are free to stock their own drinks and food. A 24-hour minimart is located next door.
Superior Rooms are located at the central area of the hotel (referred to as the Main Wing), close to the main pool.
A 55 square-meter room, offering great value for the whole family or for close friends, accommodates up to 5 persons with 1 king-size bed and 2 single beds (an extra bed can be added). This spacious room has friendly ambiance with locally designed wooden furniture, complete with all modern Western amenities. For extra comfort, each room comes with a large refrigerator (unstocked), WiFi access, a spacious en-suite bathroom, and a wide private balcony/terrace overlooking frangipani garden. All rooms of this type are located at the back/East area of the hotel (referred to as the Family Deluxe Wing).
Take left turn to Jl. Kartika Plaza (also known as Jl. Dewi Sartika), follow the main street for 5 km. The hotel is on right side (opposite Santika Hotel).
Desired check-in time or flight details must be submitted to the hotel. Failing that, the room will be made ready at 6pm, the room won't be cool and fresh flowers won't be prepared either for check in although normal check-in is at 2pm..
One of the cleanest rooms in all hotels we ever stayed in Bali...!
They have 2 swimming pools: big pool at the front (a great place to meet people from around the world) and the small pool at the back (quieter end of the hotel, apparently more older people stayed there). Both have plenty of sunloungers - no umbrellas but the surrounding frangipani trees provide sufficient shade. Unfortunately both pools are closed from 10 pm so we can't get into the pool after late night clubbing :o)
Staff are very friendly from the reception, housekeeping, massage/spa, and especially the waiters at the restaurant. They are very approachable and are always happy to help.
On our last day (after check out), my girlfriend and I tried their spa package (the whole lots for 3 hours). We are both massage-addicts and have tried several other spas around Kuta almost every day simply because the spa at Febri's seemed to be more expensive. We wished we had tried Febri's Spa earlier as the staff and services were so much better. We paid less than $40 each for the whole 3 hours of bliss in our own private spa villa.
During our stay, the hotel was constructing lifts near our room so it was quite noisy during the day. Fortunately the projects started around 10 am and stopped right at 5 pm every day with many rest times in between. Many guests apparently tried to book ground floor rooms but we were quite happy to stay on the top floor because the room has beautiful aerial view and a lot more private than lower floor rooms. The stairs seemed too much on the first two days but we got used to them after that. After all, we need to work out after all the parties and great foods.
This hotel is definitely recommended....!
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People are all very friendly and rooms very clean.
I didn't find the restaurant value for money,the more fancy restaurants charged the same or cheaper and you got a better variety on the menu.
The pool is alot smaller than it looks on the website.
The only thing that annoyed me about my stay, when I checked in they converted the bill from us to bali currency but used a really high rate of 9200 and the rate was only around 8800 at the money changers.
Overall, nice clean hotel and people very friendly.
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Charges dropped in road rage crash case after surveillance video reveals suspect was not at fault
FT. COLLINS, Colo. - Surveillance video contained the evidence necessary to prove a driver accused of road rage in Ft. Collins was innocent. Police dropped the charges against him, but have not yet decided if the other driver will be ticketed.
In Darrell True's telling of the story, the other driver in the case was irate for no reason.
"I proceeded past this party and he raised his hands and was waving his fingers and cussing and yelling at me," said True. "He traveled eastbound in the westbound lanes of traffic, cut in front of me, locked up his brakes and I had a collision with him."
But because True rear-ended the other driver, police cited True for careless driving. The impact broke the grill on True's '85 Chevy pick-up.
"This is where his bumper hitch made contact," explained True as he pointed out the damage to 7NEWS.
A few weeks after the incident, surveillance video surfaced from a neighboring business called Hersh Trucking.
While it's hard to make out, True says it shows the other guy crossing into oncoming traffic to get around him, slamming on his brakes and causing True to hit him.
"He stops his vehicle and causes me to collide into the rear end of the vehicle. He jumps out immediately and is telling me, 'You're going to jail. You're going to jail - hahaha. What are you going to do now?'"
The Ft. Collins city attorney reviewed the video and dropped the case against True. Police now plan to review the video and say it's possible the new evidence could result in charges for the other driver -- but that has not happened yet.
The other driver does have a drunk driving charge on his record, but 7NEWS is not releasing his name because he has not been charged yet in this case.
"They allowed the video to exonerate me, but not prosecute him," said True. "And it's the same video. He was endangering my life, his life and everyone in the area."


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Informational Meeting on Iowa County PRRS Control Project Scheduled for Dec. 13
Dr. Jim McKean, ISU extension veterinarian, (515) 294-8792
Ms. Tiffany Yoder, Research Associate, (515) 294-0711
Ms. Tracy Ann Raef, Veterinary Communications, (515) 294-4602
Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and the Iowa Pork Producers Association are conducting a Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) control project in Iowa County.
Since September one third of the projected sites have been enrolled. These sites are undergoing diagnostic protocols to determine initial PRRS status. An informational meeting to report these results and to discuss further implementation efforts is scheduled for Monday December 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM. This meeting will be held at the Farm Bureau building located at 212 W State St., Williamsburg, Iowa.
Producers who participate in the proposed project will receive valuable personalized assistance with PRRS control techniques and be offered a site biosecurity risk assessment tool. Five veterinarians from three local practices have agreed to assist Iowa County producers with the project.
All Iowa County pork producers are encouraged to attend this important discussion meeting.


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Anybody from this area? My oldest son lives there and we visit at least once a year. He was in the Air Force, but now works at the Honda/Yamaha dealer there. If you are in the area stop in and say hello. Then tell him his dad sent you to check up on him. His name is Danny, and no I not trying to drum up business or him he's pretty good at that all by himself.
Me and the wife should be theresometime in August. I post again when the time gets closer, maybe a "meet & greet" is in order.


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The Chinese government claims Google is using an attempted targeted Gmail phishing scam as a "political tool for slandering other countries," according to a scathing front-page editorial in the People's Daily today, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote to Google CEO Larry Page yesterday, requesting the names of all federal employees that were targeted and all communications related to Google's response by June 17:
"This event is of particular concern to the committee not only because of our interest in the broader issue of cybersecurity and its national-security implications, but also because news accounts of this cyberattack have implicated the possible involvement of hackers from within the People's Republic of China and senior U.S. government officials' personal Google email (Gmail) accounts."
Google, What Do You Want?
"Many international bystanders believe that Google's charge is thickly tainted with political colours and one can't dismiss the fact that Google is taking advantage and provoking new Sino-American internet security disputes with sinister intentions. What was once a model of leading internet innovation has now become a political tool for slandering other countries…" according to the editorial (appearing under the headline "Google, What Do You Want?"), which appeared in Monday's international editions of the People's Daily. "Once the international winds change, Google might become a political sacrifice and might be discarded by the market."
In response, Google told the Sydney Morning Herald that what Google wants is to "protect its users and help them stay safe online, which is why it went public with the hacking allegations."
China Goes Spear Phishing
Image via contagio of a Feb. 2011 Gmail phishing scam
A technique known as spear phishing was used to trick recipients into revealing their email passwords. Google said the attacks originated in Jinan, China.
China last week called the allegations unfounded and that Google had "ulterior motives" in revealing the attacks, which targeted hundreds of users, including "senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists" via a blog post.
Google said the goal of the scammers was to "monitor the contents of these users' emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples' forwarding and delegation settings. (Gmail enables you to forward your emails automatically, as well as grant others access to your account.)"
U.S. officials say no confidential information was obtained. The FBI is investigating.
Earlier this year, Google also accused China of blocking access to Gmail users, who reported being unable to send email or access their address books. China called the accusation "unacceptable" at the time.
This follows last year's highly sophisticated Aurora attack, which we covered in "Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web."


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It's not always perfect but we try very hard to make the experience memorable and a whole lot of fun here at The Pfeiffer Cottage Inn!
Experiencing our second busiest month since we opened our inn last May, March was a quite a lovely surprise and brought us guests from all over the country. April hasn't been too shabby either. So, on May 1st, we celebrate our one year anniversary and are completely booked the entire weekend. It is Mother's Weekend at Oregon State University and since we are only about 15 minutes from the campus in Corvallis, Oregon, we have the delightful pleasure of hosting several women and their daughters here at our inn. Oh yeah, we are also expecting about 700 people dropping by for wine tasting as we are on Albany's first ever "wine walk."
Spring has also delighted us with tulips, daffodils, bleeding heart, and the beginnings of our little cottage garden. We will be planting our zucchini, tomato and crook neck squash seedlings this afternoon and begin looking for recipes that include our home grown veggies. A little picture of what our winter was like in early January is below and still surprised that the wonderful sunny days far outweighed the snowy cold ones here in the valley but we are so enjoying the "warm" that comes with the sun this time of year.
My husband is finishing up breakfast dishes now that our guests are off to enjoy their day. They were treated to fresh cantaloupe, Chili Rellano casserole, pico de gallo, ham steaks, Cottage oven red potatoes with sweet onion and asiago cheese along with homemade cherry scones, lemon curd, sweet butter and orange marmalade. (I had to try a scone and oh my gosh! Not to toot my own horn, but what the heck. It was yummy!)
This evening brings another lovely Oregon wine and Chris's farmer's market Marion Berry Pie to the table as we gather with our guests to share about their day, their families and friends, and most of all for us, what our second year as innkeepers is going to bring.


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Hieu Tran gets a shot from Lisa Sobiek at the Senior Fest at the Reno Town Mall. Hundreds of seniors showed up at the annual event to take advantage of free flu shots and medical screenings.
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American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) President Bob Stallman Tuesday said that the House-passed climate legislation will have little to no impact on global temperatures. Testifying before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Stallman said without the adoption of similar actions by other countries, the U.S. will be embarking on a fools errand. AFBF is opposed to H.R. 2454, the House-passed climate change bill being examined by the Senate and that will serve as the basis for writing a Senate companion bill.Unilateral cap-and-trade legislation will have little or no impact on the climate because greenhouse gas emissions require a global response, said Stallman. A ton of GHG (greenhouse gases) emitted in China is the same as a ton of GHG emitted in Virginia. Regulating emissions in Virginia without regulating emissions in China will have little or no effect on the environment.Stallman noted that most experts agree that if the House legislation worked exactly as planned, it would not lower temperatures by more than a few tenths of a degree by 2050. Further, most experts agree the U.S. cant solve the problem alone.AFBF also contends that the bill will raise food prices for consumers unless an offset program is put into place to defray production input costs. An agricultural offsets program administered by the Agriculture Department is an essential cost containment measure, but revenues from offsets will only partially defray increased costs and not all agriculture sectors will benefit from offset opportunities.Inclusion of an offset program is not the complete answer, said Stallman. Even with a robust agricultural offset program, the bill still does not make economic sense for producers because a number of sectors will be not able to participate.Participating in an offset program will depend to a great degree on where the producer is located, what he or she grows and if his or her business can take advantage of the program, Stallman noted. Not every dairy farmer can afford to capture methane. Not every farmer lives in a region where wind turbines are an option. Not every farmer can take advantage of no-till. And not every farmer has the land to set aside to plant trees, according to Stallman.Yet, these producers will incur the same increased fuel, fertilizer and energy costs as their counterparts who can benefit from the offsets market, said Stallman.Another contention AFBF has with H.R. 2454 is that it would reduce the use of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but does not specify what energy source will plug the hole left by these reductions.This could lead to energy shortages and much higher energy prices.We remain very concerned about the many broad potential adverse impacts of H.R. 2454 and cap-and-trade in general, concluded Stallman.


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I would've agreed with you in the 90s, but the food I've eaten at these places in the past year have been mediocre at best. The entrees we ordered at Carlyle last night fell betwee $18-25.00. I can't say they were worth the price.
And you and I both know that a long wait isn't a surefire indication of quality. Otherwise we'd all be touting the virtues of the Cheescake Factory.
What's wrong with the Cheescake Factory? I am not saying the quality is good, however many people enjoy the food there. Is is really fair to pick on chains? They do serve a purpose to some, and are not all that bad.


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Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel
The Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel is ideally located at "the Gateway to the Nation's Capital," Washington, DC. Our 16 story hotel features 393 Standard and Club Level guestrooms including 17 suites; non-smoking and disabled facilities. Ideally located for both business and leisure travelers, the Sheraton Pentagon is with-in easy access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC Metro, the Pentagon and all area attractions including the White House, Smithsonian, Arlington Cemetery, and the Capitol.
LOCAL INFORMATION: Reagan National Airport-1.5 Miles; Dulles International Airport 25 Miles The Pentagon-.5 Mile; Crystal City Offices-1 Mile; The Fashion Centre @ Pentagon City-1 Mile; Kennedy Center 2 Miles; The White House-3 Miles; MCI Center-3 Miles; Complimentary Shuttle to/from DC Metro, Reagan National Airport & local area venues


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John Carmack: Sony NGP a 'generation beyond' smartphones
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id Software head says Sony NGP well beyond phones
id Software co-founder John Carmack said in the wake of the Sony NGP that the new console was in an entirely different class than smartphones for gaming. The hardware would be a "generation beyond" in performance even next to phones that shipped with performance similar to the quad-core processor and graphics that aren't yet on any other device. Sony will have the advantage of low-level programming standards that will help any game run faster than it would if it had to use a higher level standard, like OpenGL.
The call-out suggests Sony has landed at least a temporary advantage against companies like Apple, HTC and Motorola. Quad-core phones are generally predicted to be ready by 2012, when the processors should be efficient enough to fit into devices smaller than the NGP, but will usually have to talk to OpenGL and would have to show reduced detail or run at slower frame rates. Apple is predicted to be using processors and graphics using the same basic architectures as in the NGP this year, but they would be dual-core at most and would have half the theoretical performance.
Officially, Sony has said the NGP's visual quality approaches that of a PS3, which no mobile devices can match so far. Many of the technology demos shown at the Tokyo PlayStation event on Thursday were ports of PS3 in-game cutscenes or sequences, like Metal Gear Solid 4, that could run nearly as well as on the much larger TV game system.
Carmack has often been a bellwether for mobile gaming and usually given credit to Apple for being the performance leader. The Wolfenstein and Quake developer's experience in writing game code, especially graphics engines, has often led him to choose iOS over Android and other competing platforms when exploring handheld gaming. He has estimated that the iPad and iPhone 4 are faster than the Nintendo Wii and sometimes outperform the Xbox 360 despite theoretically being slower.


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|Stuart Walton's essay on wine bottle back labels has met with equal parts agreement and disagreement so far. A selection of visitors' responses
are printed below. Where Stuart or I have something to add to the debate I have included our replies.
Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to respond on what makes for good, or bad, back labels.
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|Tom's response to Graham:
I confess I rarely use the specific food-matching suggestions, which as Stuart argues, are usually too general: "great with fish" or "great with cheese" is just too simplistic: goat's cheese? cream cheese? blue cheese? cheddar? I defy any wine to match all four! A local recipe is a really nice idea - and not one I've come across. Having a specific suggestion and recipe for a Spanish dish to go with that bottle of Rioja or Albariño would be a much better use of ink and paper!
Daron Fincham
He does shouty. He does quiet. Then he does shouty again. Wine-pages' self-styled Simon Templar sounds off once more. Now he's peeved 'cos wine producers are publishing their personal philosophies/menus on their rear labels. Or lamenting the bare-arsed cheek of Château Latour. That's right, Stuart - years of ISO slammers tend to turn even the most level headed pundit into the 21st century schizoid man. But why should they bother with a back label when they've got the Wine Advocate to do it for them? It can tell you that the Latour contains 1% petit verdot. (Yes! a whole 1%.) Meanwhile, does anyone have a suggestion for a wine to go with Stuart Walton, a.k.a. ham role? (With apologies to Ali Catterall.)
|Stuart's response to Daron:
Love me or hate me, Ali, I always try to give good shouty. I'd be delighted to know what wine is thought best to go with me, by the way. Anybody who says anything Australian will be treated to total ignoral.
Melvyn Crann
A pity about your embargo on Australian wine as your accompaniment, Stuart. In view of Daron's comments the obvious one is Little Boomey Petit Verbose (Tesco £5.99) - awarded Top Trophy at the Adelaide Show.
|Stuart's response to Melvyn:
Many thanks. I even think I've recommended this myself somewhere.
David Pearce
For once I agree with you, but the only reason I can see for the article is to encourage debate. I am sure that all wine-pages readers (by sheer virtue that they have visited the site) realise that back labels are generally marketing products that are of no great interest to someone with more than a passing interest in wine. It is pretty much irrelevant that the food/wine pairing does not go together, as the consumer will think it does as they have been told it will. How many blind tastings have you been too when the speaker asks the audience to guess the region of origin? Someone offers up Italy, the speaker replies with South? Yes, do you think it may be Puglia suggests the speaker. Yes says the taster. The speaker identifies the wine as being Pinot Noir from Oregan People (however knowledgable) will generally believe what they are told as they have no reason not too. I have seen people really enjoy a Spatlese from Germany with their Grouse. All down to personal taste once again. To extend your point, on a recent research trip to Australia, I could not count the times a cellar door member of staff thrust the winemakers tasting notes under my nose and tried to make me read them. The fact that I had book in hand and was quite happily making my own tasting notes (and not marketing ones) didn't seem to matter. I suppose they are just doing there job as they have been trained to do, so no offence to them as most did a great job.
|Tom's response to David:
Stuart is now on holiday. I agree that a) many more "sophisticated" wine-lovers will pay little attention to the back label anyway (impossible on most French AOC wines of course), and that b) it's all just marketing and so we shoud accept it: wine is a consumer product, consumer products need marketing, ergo back labels. But there is an opportunity there for some meaningful, creative, useful marketing info rather than the various silly/useless/vague examples cited by Stuart.
Peter May
Stuart asks whether back labels "really tell us anything worth knowing" and answers his own question by saying they certainly can do. Not much controversy there then. He shows some back labels are useful and some aren't, some have meaningless marketing drivel, others winemaking details to excite the geek. I am a big fan of back labels. They are a way of giving information that cannot be squeezed onto the front label. I like the well-designed back labels on supermarket wines that use symbols and text to explain the wine in a standard way to non geeks. Another useful function of back labels is to carry country specific information. A winery can use a front label - which is the corporate image - which remains the same in all markets. Then different back labels can be affixed for each market containing descriptions in the language of that country and the legal and other information needed by that country such as bar code, recycling logos, health warnings etc. I'm sure if Stuart was living in the USA he'd prefer to buy his Mouton-Rothschild with its classic label unsullied and the nonsensical Surgeon Generals health warning on a separate back label where it can be ignored. And then there's instances where the back label is actually the front label. I bought a case of 'Clos de May' where its classy front label contains just the name and logo. The back label has all the messy legal stuff, alcohol level, bottle size appellations etc. A similar thing happens in Wales. Since the Welsh language isn't legally recognised for wine labels by the EU a small plain label contains all the required information in English and is officially the 'front' label while the big label with a picture and Welsh text is the 'back" label. But we know which label faces outwards on the shelf. It's easy to scoff at food matching suggestions. I am a sceptic on the subject but there is no doubt that many people are worried by food & wine matching and appreciate suggestions. I particularly liked Sainsburys Wine & Recipe Selection range which has a recipe and a picture of the finished dish on a label that is easily peeled off to be stuck in a recipe book. My favourite label design is by California's Ridge Vineyards which show the precise percentage of each variety in their field blends (even though not legally required to), have winemakers notes and winery philosophy. Of course, since they use just one very wide label, no back label is involved.
|Tom's response to Peter:
Peter, you make many good and powerful points, and the examples you cite make a lot of sense. I think all the arguments for market-specific back labels that reflect local market language and culture makes perfect sense for example, as long as they don't just translate "great with meat" into a dozen tongues :-). Peter runs a cracking little wine label site where some of the examples in his reply can be seen. Its at www.winelabels.org.
Geoff Smith (Napa, California)
Stuart Walton is spot-on with his analysis of back label blather. This phenomenon, which is mostly found on New World back labels, is ridiculous, and should be banned. In the best of cases, the back label blather gives us insight about the psychological make-up of a particular winery owner; however, in the worst of cases, which are predominant, this nonsense rides the farcical wave of wine-gibberish. My own personal favorite from a wine bottle long since forgotten, recommended the contents of the bottle with everything one could possibly eat. That was brilliant. This back label problem however is typical of a cultural cerebral shut-down which is occurring on many levels in our culture (Anglophone?) today. One has only to visit any bookstore in California to find dozens of various "Dummies' Guide To . . ." or "Idiots' Guide to . . ." and, yes, there are guides for wineconsumers! Regarding the back labels, how nice it is not to have to think about what would go best with wine X. How wonderful it is entirely not to have to think at all.
|Stuart's response to Geoff:
I quite agree Geoff. Back label blather is all part of that culture in which, as the means for communication have continued to expand, the individuals using them have less and less to say to each other..


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BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - The death toll in Arkansas has risen to
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A Haughton man was arrested Tuesday on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Labryan Jeremy Dotson, 27, of the 600 block of Winnfield Road, was taken into custody after he and his girlfriend had an argument at a Bossier fire station in the 3600 block of Bellevue Road, according to Bossier Sheriff's Office Spokesman Lt. Ed Baswell.
The girlfriend told Bossier sheriff's deputies Dotson walked outside with a .22 rifle and said, "Get off the property or I'll shoot you." She told the deputies, in spite of the threat, she didn't feel scared, alarmed or in fear for her life, Baswell said.
When deputies went to the fire station and contacted Dotson, he was alone, Baswell said.
A loaded .22 rifle was found leaning against the wall, approximately five feet from where Dotson had been sleeping, Baswell said. Dotson said he knew the rifle was there and loaded, but denied threatening his girlfriend.
On Jan. 25, 2003, Dotson was arrested on an aggravated burglary charge and was found guilty Sept. 16, 2003, of simple burglary.
Dotson was taken to the Bossier Maximum Security Prison and booked. His bond is pending.
Suspect arrested in home invasion
About 8:50 p.m. Monday, Shreveport Police investigators went to a residence in the 1400 block of State Street to locate Clifton Mosley, 33, for his part in a home invasion.
Investigators said Mosley was observed in the front yard smoking marijuana and was subsequently taken into custody for the offense, police spokesman Sgt. Jim Taliaferro said.
During the arrest, police searched Mosely and found he had a ski mask and a handgun along with about 25 grams of marijuana, Taliaferro said.
He was arrested on armed robbery and aggravated burglary charges for the March 13 home invasion and shooting in the 2700 block of Valley Ridge. Mosely also was charged for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
In addition to Mosley's arrest, Patrick Simpson, 35, was arrested on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to sell. The investigation is continuing.
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Shreveport police investigators arrested a man in connection with a home invasion and shooting that took place in the 4200 block of Rightway on March 22.
During the investigation, Demario Johnson, 22, was positively identified as one of three gunmen who committed the home invasion and shooting on Rightway Street that left the victim in critical condition, police spokesman Sgt. Jim Taliaferro said.
Johnson was taken into custody and charged with home invasion and attempted first-degree murder.
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Condé Shakeups; The Observer Ups Online EffortsSeptember 16, 2011
Big changes are coming to Condé Nast. Brides editor-in-chief Millie Martini Bratten is out after 25 years as editor-in-chief. Anne Fulenwider, formerly the executive editor at Marie Claire, takes over. (Marie Claire also recently lost Abigail Pesta to Tina Brown.) WWD hears Brides publisher Carolyn Kremins will jump to Traveler in the same role, replacing Chris Mitchell, who will continue as publisher at GQ. Lucky publisher Michelle Myers is in the hot seat as well. Finally, Self's Laura McEwen is fighting with EIC Lucy Danziger and could be moving on soon... Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski will pen a monthly column on career confidence, empowerment and getting ahead in the workplace for Cosmopolitan... Chris Dixon says goodbye to New York for the design director role at Vanity Fair. David Harris steps down but will remain on as a design editor-at-large... Michael Wolff may be on his way out at Adweek, although no one seems to have told the firebrand... Jon Meacham officially joins Time...
Elizabeth Spiers makes another impact hire, recruiting Mediagazer editor Megan McCarthy (@Megan) as news editor. Presumably, the new hire will play a big part in the New York Observer's increased online efforts... Johann Hari takes leave from the Independent after accusations of plagiarism surfaced... Greenspun Media lays off 12 as the recession begins to take hold (again)... The Guardian snags Ana Marie Cox for its United States site and moves Nick Davies to America as well...
Jon Banner scores a promotion at ABC, moving to senior executive producer of division wide initiatives. Michael Corn takes over the ABC World News role Banner held for eight years. (That tenure made him the longest-serving evening news EP.)... Paul Telegdy gets bumped up to president, alternative and late night programming at NBC... Gary Marsh will head Disney Channels Worldwide... Shelley Lewis joins Current TV as executive VP of programming...
Spotify snags former AOL ad sales boss Jeff Levick as chief advertising officer. Out of the frying pan into the nice, comfortable fire... Former Twitter and LinkedIn project manager Josh Elman joins Greylock Partners. Former Linked Iners Adam Nash, D.J. Patil and ex-CEO Reid Hoffman also work there... And there are changes at BeautyBlitz.com, The Financial Times and more...
September 16, 2011: Carolyn Kremins has been named publisher at Condé Nast Traveler. She had been publisher at Brides. (WWD)
September 16, 2011: Shahien Nasiripour has been named financial and regulatory correspondent at The Financial Times. He had been chief business correspondent at The Huffington Post. (release)
September 16, 2011: Michael Mackenzie has been named U.S. markets editor at The Financial Times. He had been U.S. markets correspondent there. (release)
September 16, 2011: Christine Spolar has been named investigations and special projects editor at The Financial Times. She had been economy and enterprise editor at Bloomberg News. (release)
September 16, 2011: Garrett McClure has been named director of affiliate partnerships for the West region at Centro. He had been senior manager of channel sales at Yahoo. (mb)
September 16, 2011: Ben Pashman has been named VP of business development at Centro. He had been SVP of business development at Gigya. (mb)
September 16, 2011: Anne Fulenwider has been named editor-in-chief at Brides. She had been executive editor at Marie Claire. (FishbowlNY)
September 15, 2011: Wendy Rodewald has been named executive editor at BeautyBlitz.com. She had been senior online editor there. (mb)
September 15, 2011: Kaitlyn Dreyling has been named senior beauty editor at BeautyBlitz.com. She had been beauty editor there. (mb)
September 15, 2011: Courtney Fallon has been named weekend sports anchor and reporter at WLNE-TV in Providence, R.I. She had been newsroom writer at WHDH-TV in Boston. (TVSpy)
September 15, 2011: Michael Corn has been named executive producer at ABC World News. He had been senior producer there. (TVNewser)
September 15, 2011: Jon Banner has been named senior executive producer at ABC News. He had been executive producer at ABC World News. (TVNewser)
September 15, 2011: Dave Serwatka has been named vice president at Current & Cross Platform Productions. He had been vice president of production there. (release)
September 15, 2011: Megan McCarthy has been named news editor at The New York Observer. She had been founder at Mediagazer. (release)
September 15, 2011: Shelley Lewis has been named executive vice president of programming at Current TV. She had been executive producer at Need to Know. (release)
September 15, 2011: Thom Meintel has been named executive editor at TravelSquire.com. He had been director of travel at Architectural Digest. (release)
September 15, 2011: James Sims has been named digital content editor at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. He had been senior new media specialist at American Museum of Natural History. (mb)
September 15, 2011: Brooke Hovey has been named EVP of the digital practice in the Americas at Cohn & Wolfe. She had been managing director and senior vice president there. (PRNewser)
September 15, 2011: Jimmy Cromwell has been named vice president and general manager at WJTV-TV in Jackson, Miss. and WHLT-TV in Hattiesburg, Miss. He had been director of revenue at WJTV-TV in Jackson, Miss. (FishbowlDC)
September 15, 2011: Frank Baker has been named California news editor at The Associated Press. He had been assistant chief of bureau there. (FishbowlDC)
September 15, 2011: Mandi Norwood has been named editorial director at Niche Media. She had been editor at Shop Etc.. (FishbowlNY)
September 14, 2011: Chris Dixon has been named design director at Vanity Fair. He had been design director at New York. (FishbowlNY)
September 14, 2011: Abigail Pesta has been named editorial director of Women in the World at The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. She had been editor-at-large at Marie Claire. (FishbowlNY)
September 14, 2011: Jeffrey Smith has been named national security editor at Center for Public Integrity. He had been reporter at Washington Post. (FishbowlDC)
September 14, 2011: Terri Hernandez Rosales has been named vice president of community affairs and communications at NBC4 LA. She had been vice president of communication at Los Angeles Universal Preschool. (FishbowlLA)
September 14, 2011: Kristen Caggiano has been named managing editor at TravelSquire.com. She had been assistant managing editor there. (release)
September 14, 2011: Sean Cullinane has been named vice president of sales at Digital Trends. He had been vice president of national sales at CNET. (release)
September 14, 2011: Nic Jones has been named senior vice president, international, at VEVO. He had been chief digital officer at Starcom MediaVest. (release)
September 14, 2011: Julie Raimondi has been named editorial director at Lover.ly. She had been editor-in-chief of Brides Local Magazines and Brides.com. (mb)
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Male Donation Frequency - Information for donors
Men can now donate blood four times in 12 months instead of three.
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has reviewed practice from other countries where men are allowed to donate more frequently. This has shown to be safe for men, so we have decided to implement this change for our male donors to give four times in 12 months, as long as they wait 12 weeks between donations. It is hoped that some of those men who donate three times per year at the moment, will start to donate at, or close to, 12-week cycles — potentially collecting 100,000 extra units of blood every year.
Why has the change been made for men and not women?
Female donors do not have the same levels of stored iron as male donors for lots of reasons. This means that they cannot donate as often as their male counterparts as to do so could potentially put them at risk of anaemia, and NHSBT will never risk the health of donors.
Does this mean women are not really important as donors? Not at all. Every blood donor is important and plays a vital part in keeping the supply chain moving and supplying hospitals with a regular and safe supply of blood. Women are just as important as men when it comes to donating and we need donors from all blood groups to maintain a regular pattern of donation to provide patients in hospital with life-saving transfusions.
Will increased frequency of donations affect iron levels in men?
No. Increasing the regularity of donations from three to four times in 12 months is unlikely to affect iron levels in men. Ways to reduce this risk and increase iron intake include eating a healthy, balanced diet that consists of iron-rich food such as meat, green vegetables, dried fruit and pulses such as chickpeas and lentils. It is also proven that vitamin C helps to absorb iron, so drinking a glass of orange juice with meals may help to boost the body's iron levels. Coffee and tea can prevent iron absorption. It is recommended that these should not be consumed within two hours prior to and following your main iron-rich meal.
How does this change fit with other countries who have blood services? The change brings NHSBT in line with countries such as Portugal who also allow men to donate four times and women three times a year. Although other countries suchas Belgium, Denmark and Germany allow all donors to give more often, NHSBT remains at the cautious end of the spectrum in order to protect the health of the donor and maintain our excellent record in blood safety.
Further information:
If you would like more information about why male donors can give every 12 weeks please visit: www.blood.co.uk or write to:Customer Services
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J. Clin. Med. 2013, 2(3), 151-175; doi:10.3390/jcm2030151
Prevention and Treatment of Bone Metastases in Breast Cancer
1 Supportive Care in Cancer Unit, Department of Haematology and Pediatric Onco-Haematology Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan 20133, Italy 2 Oncology Department, Radiation Oncology Centre, Santa Maria Hospital, Via T. di Joannuccio, Terni 05100, Italy
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AbstractIn breast cancer patients, bone is the most common site of metastases. Medical therapies are the basic therapy to prevent distant metastases and recurrence and to cure them. Radiotherapy has a primary role in pain relief, recalcification and stabilization of the bone, as well as the reduction of the risk of complications (e.g., bone fractures, spinal cord compression). Bisphosphonates, as potent inhibitors of osteoclastic-mediated bone resorption are a well-established, standard-of-care treatment option to reduce the frequency, severity and time of onset of the skeletal related events in breast cancer patients with bone metastases. Moreover bisphosphonates prevent cancer treatment-induced bone loss. Recent data shows the anti-tumor activity of bisphosphonates, in particular, in postmenopausal women and in older premenopausal women with hormone-sensitive disease treated with ovarian suppression. Pain is the most frequent symptom reported in patients with bone metastases, and its prevention and treatment must be considered at any stage of the disease. The prevention and treatment of bone metastases in breast cancer must consider an integrated multidisciplinary approach.
Keywords: breast cancer; bone metastases; radiotherapy; bisphosphonates; endocrine therapy; chemotherapy; bone pain relief
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