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Thank you for enquiring about our range of hair products. We're sorry to announce that our FHI and Wahl lines have now been discontinued as our main supplier, the Italian company Futura, unfortunately went into liquidation and ceased trading. They made a premium range of hair straighteners in their time that were archetypal in their design. As we are no longer able to source these items from them, we have since decided to focus solely on our furniture lines.


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Colombia: International Organisations express grave concerns at the irregularities in the judicial process leading to the conviction of David Ravelo Crespo, Colombian human rights defender
|International Federation for Human Rights
|Publication Date
|10 December 2012
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|International Federation for Human Rights, Colombia: International Organisations express grave concerns at the irregularities in the judicial process leading to the conviction of David Ravelo Crespo, Colombian human rights defender, 10 December 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50cb1b26c.html [accessed 28 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Last Update 10 December 2012
Today, on International Human Rights day, as International NGOs and networks we would like to express our grave concerns regarding a series of irregularities that have been reported during the trial. According to the defence lawyers, these irregularities have undermined the defence of Mr. Ravelo and the integrity of the subsequent conviction.
Mr. Ravelo is a leading member of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) and the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS), which this week celebrates its 25th anniversary.
In respect of the irregularities of due process and the right to a fair trial, we wish to highlight the following:
The prosecutor from the Anti-Terrorism Unit closed the investigation stage without accepting most of the evidence submitted by David Ravelo's defence lawyer. This has significantly affected Mr. Ravelo´s right to due process and a fair hearing.
On 15 and 18 May 2012, the final statements were made bringing the trial to its conclusion, but Mr. Ravelo subsequently spent more than six months awaiting sentence.
The case against Mr. Ravelo rests heavily on the testimonies of two demobilised paramilitaries whose testimonies were given in exchange for benefits under Law 975, one of these was Mario Jaimes Mejía alias "El Panadero" whose prison sentence was reduced from 40 to a maximum of 8 years in exchange for his testimony. Mr Mejia is in prison as a direct result of Mr. Ravelo's human rights work. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, has already expressed grave concerns regarding the practice of prosecutions directed against human rights defenders that are based on "unreliable witness testimonies from demobilised individuals or informants in exchange for legal and/or pecuniary benefits".
At the end of April 2009, the regional prosecutor was considering taking no further action. However, the Attorney General ordered the case to be moved to Bogotá and investigated by the Anti-Terrorism Unit No. 22.
The investigation was led by Prosecutor William Pacheco Granados, from the Anti-terrorism Unit No. 22 of the Attorney General's Office.. He was dismissed from the police force in 1991 after being implicated in a forced disappearance and under Colombian law this disqualifies him from the exercise of any future employment in the prosecution service (Article 76 of Decree No. 261/2000)
Mr. Ravelo's human rights work documenting cases has played a key role in bringing several members of the military to justice for human rights crimes. Since he has been detained, national and international authorities have highlighted his case and the lack of compliance with national and international standards of due process. In March 2011, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, and the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, sent a combined communiqué to the Colombian government as a result of the detention of Mr. Ravelo. In this communiqué they expressed their concern that the "criminalisation of David Ravelo occurs in the context of increasing prosecutions against human rights defenders in Colombia".
Since the Attorney General's Office opened the investigation against David Ravelo in 2008, Mr Ravelo has reported surveillance by unknown persons, as well as, an increase in the number of death threats against him and his family. Recent threats against Mr Ravelo's son, David Ravelo Gutierrez are also of grave concern and we would urge the Colombian authorities to provide guarantees for his safety.
As international NGOs and networks, we will continue to monitor the next phases of the judicial process urging full respect for due process and guarantees for the safety and security of David Ravelo Crespo, his family and his lawyers.
Christian Aid
Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group
Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Frontline Defenders
Justice for Colombia
kolko – Menschenrechte für Kolumbien
Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
OIDHACO – International Office for Human Rights Action on Colombia
PBI – Peace Brigades International Colombia Project
Protection International
Solicitors International Human Rights Group, UK

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Railroad shipping: AAR reports volumes are mixed for week ending September 17
September 23, 2011
Rail traffic was mixed for the week ending September 17, according to data released by the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Carload volume—at 299,914—was down 1.4 percent year-over-year and was up compared to last week's 278,382 and in line with the previous three weeks, which hit 299,943, 300,521, and 292,266, respectively. It was also behind the week ending April 2, which hit 305,905 carloads, marking the highest weekly carload tally since the end of 2008.
Intermodal volumes at 242,250 trailers and containers are up 0.9 percent compared to last year. On a year-to-date basis, intermodal is up5.5 percent at 8,381,960. Shippers continue to turn to intermodal as an alternative to trucking movements, as they can see significant fuel savings in exchange for a longer transit time.
Of the 20 commodity groups tracked by the AAR, 11 were up annually. Petroleum products were up 19.2 percent, and grain was down 17.6 percent.
Carloads year-to-date at 10,711,775 are up 1.7 percent and intermodal volumes at 8,381,960 trailers and containers are up 5.5 percent.
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In light of the LA Clippers' bench naming themselves A Tribe Called Bench, I was wondering a) what everyone thought of the nickname, and b) what other unusual/terrible ones you've heard before, in the sports world or outside the sports world.
Technically Ellen is a nickname for Hawkeye11en1, so I'm gonna go with Ellen.
Anything ever used by Chris Berman.
1 more for Ellen
Originally Posted by djcubby
Anything ever used by Chris Berman.
Paul "Wrecking" Crew!?!?!
#TeamProhm #ProhmanEmpire #ProhmanColiseum
Is Ellen permabanned or is he/she coming back?
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one"
Tough to beat Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins.
I always thought Tulane should be the Highways.
All truisms are false. All of them.
Worst=Honey Badger
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Tough to beat Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins.
That is a good one. I like Vinnie "the microwave" Johnson.
Mark Sanchize
Matty Ice
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Anything ever used by Chris Berman.
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So I need a bit of guidance and the docs aren't helping.
We have ZCS4RC1 installed and working. I downloaded the Outlook Connector, and after restarting Outlook and filling out the Zimbra info, my Exchange profile was gone and Zimbra was the only email account.
I then added my Exchange profile back in, but somehow all my inbox got moved from Exchange to Zimbra (since Zimbra was the default account?). I got this worked out and Exchange set back to my default account (albeit with all the mesage times now incorrectly having today's date).
My questions is - after I add Zimbra manually back into Outlook, I don't see Zimbra's Inbox or Calendar. I only see Emailed Contacts, Journal, Notes, Outbox, Sync Issues, Tasks, Trash, and any additional folders I create.
How can I get the Zimbra Inbox and Calendar to now appear in Outlook ?
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|Swim Team in League Relays
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Holyoke Swim Team members competed in the League Relays at the Greeley Rec Center Thursday, Dec. 6.
Coach Luke Thomas said the meet was an unusual one, where every event was relay-based. The only "normal" events were the three standard relays which every meet includes.
"The girls had fun and swam really hard," said Thomas.
Top finishers included Dani Brandt, Lori McWilliams, Jayden Durbin and LaKyla Moore, who teamed up to take fourth in the 200 free relay and fifth in the 200 medley relay.
The team is looking to potentially add a meet this week, but nothing was scheduled as of Tuesday morning. The next known competition for the HHS swimmers is Saturday. Dec. 22 when they swim in the Windsor Holiday Meet.
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Dear all,
I am copy pasting a conversation I had with David, from Zimbra here, I am pretty sure that you will have lots of insightful ideas to share with me. I think my problems should be fairly common, so hopefully I can find some help here!
From: Pejvan BEIGUI
To: David Pellegrini
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 04:37:52
Subject: Re: Zimbraized!
Hello David,
Quoting David Pellegrini (20/12/2005 19:08):
> Pejvan,
> 1) We'd recommend a local zimbra server install with an OpenLDAP cache/replica in the NYC office. This way NYC employees will get much quicker response times and have a local near site webclient for access. You can also deploy an MTA in MYC so that NYC employees have a local MTA. This MTA could serve as a backup MTA ro the primary London MTA. (How-to attached)
Thank you for this idea. But does this solution provide replication of the emails too? I came up with this solution as a way to have a real time disaster recovery email server and also an offsite backup system.
Basically, I feel very lucky because the two functions I needed have been implemented in Cyrus 2.3 which i have been waiting for for a couple of months but which has been released a few days ago:
- almost real time replication
- two-way delete system
> 2) In this case we'd recommend you setup a shadow or always Bcc account for each user. This way users are free to manage mail as they choose but you'll have 100% of their mail with no deletes available in the shadow mailbox. As long as the shadow mailbox is on the same Zimbra server as the user's mailbox there is no increase in storage costs since we use hard links to keep a single copy on disk. You may also be interested in our HSM feature which will allow you to move the shadow mailbox mail off to cheaper disk arrays after say 90 days. Just an option if you have reason to free up the fast disks that will be used for Zimbra's primary mail store.
Well, this is not a feasible solution because we need to implement this as a regulation system. The regulators in the US ask us to make available 5 years of email archives, and hence we cannot allow users to tweak the settings and have BCC, etc. because even received emails have to be kept for 5 years.
I am trying to find a way to deploy Zimbra on our production systems, but I can't find a way to deal with these two issues.
Zimbra is such a great product, and is perfect for me because it can replace even the calendar and contact part of the Exchange server...
Would it be possible to imagine a Cyrus back-end for the IMAP part of Zimbra or is this out of the question?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pejvan BEIGUI
> To: David Pellegrini
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 05:53:36
> Subject: Re: Zimbraized!
> Hello David,
> Thanks for your email.
> I still need to find out two major requirements we have here and which I haven't found in the zimbra docs yet:
> 1- is it possible to use a replication scheme? we need to be able to replicate in almost real time, from our office in London to our new office in NYC.
> 2- is it possible to prevent users from deleting emails? (for example, expunging their "Thrash" folder?) this is a requirement from our regulators.
> Kind regards,
> Pejvan


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Discussion and debate with Joe Duffy
John had a bad experience with a dating agency . He paid €500 and only went on one date which didn't work out well for him.
Bart Murphy runs more than two dozen cancer charity shops in the east and south of the country . He has to close one this week because of the high cost of commercial rates.
Myles was trying to track down a recording of a song he heard in a film he saw a long time ago. Liveline listener Kevin identified the film as 'Fitzcaraldo' from 1982, starring Klaus Kinski. The song was Il Sogno and was played on the programme.
There are more offers on air for Fiver Friday , coming up on Friday the 6th of December.


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Benefit waits get longer for veterans
Story by
Aaron Glantz and Shane Shifflett, Center for Investigative Reporting
Under fire for its growing backlog of disability benefits claims, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last July set itself a goal: By year's end, 40 percent of veterans would wait no more than four months for an answer on compensation claims for conditions as serious as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
Instead, things got worse. A Center for Investigative Reporting analysis shows the ranks of veterans facing long waits increased by 18,000 since July 11, when the agency's undersecretary for benefits, Allison Hickey, told reporters that the delays were unacceptable and pledged that the backlog would begin to shrink "right now."
By early January, the total number of veterans waiting for all claims had dipped slightly but remained above 900,000, with 630,000 — 70 percent — waiting longer than four months.
Informed of the missed deadline, VA spokesman Steve Westerfeld amended the goal: The agency, he said in an email, now expects to turn the corner in 2014.
Yet two initiatives to reduce the logjam have failed to produce results so far, according to a CIR analysis of VA data. Four years after it was widely touted, a $537 million computer system has successfully processed 75 claims. And an effort to offload claims from the busiest offices has overloaded offices that previously had been performing well.
Veterans groups are outraged and argue it is time for President Barack Obama to step in.
"Who is being held accountable? Who's being fired? What change is being made?" said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "We've been patient for a long time and to hear, 'Be patient for a while longer' when you're a disabled veteran is ridiculous."
There are a few bright spots. In Northern California, where a report by The Bay Citizen — now part of the Center for Investigative Reporting — touched off congressional outrage, nearly 5,000 fewer veterans have been waiting for more than four months. The VA's Oakland office closed in June while its staff was retrained.
Fewer veterans also are waiting in other areas where media outlets picked up CIR's coverage, including Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Waco, Texas.
Many factors no doubt play a role. In an interview, Diana Rubens, the VA's deputy undersecretary for field operations, agreed that offices in those areas had received extra attention from Washington, but said she wasn't sure if it was the result of media scrutiny.
"Coincidence?" she said. "I don't know."
On an anecdotal basis, however, shining the spotlight on individual claims made a difference. Veterans featured in The Bay Citizen's stories about wait times typically received benefits shortly after a reporter contacted the VA about them.
*The VA approved a pension benefits claim from World War II veteran James Alderson on Dec. 12, the day after CIR asked the agency about his case for a story about veterans who died while awaiting an answer. A week later, the agency sent a $6,057 retroactive benefit check to his widow.
*Navy medic Rachael Hairston received a call from the VA saying her claim had been approved Jan. 15, a day after CIR asked about her post-traumatic stress disorder claim while reporting this story. The Iraq veteran and her toddler had become homeless while she waited for two years. That same day, the VA transferred $39,075 in back pay to her bank account.
*The same week Army veteran Michael Grabski was featured in a story on delays at the Oakland office, the veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan received a call from a VA official who expedited his 2-year-old claim for post-traumatic stress disorder and a knee injury sustained during a patrol in Afghanistan. Grabski subsequently received two retroactive benefits checks totaling $45,000.


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These reusable straws come in three different colors and feature a ridge at the bottom to prevent them from sliding out of your Tall Cold Cup lid. They make great stirrers, too. BPA-free and dishwasher safe. Also available in Grande and Venti sizes.
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I've got a user with a Palm Pre, syncing to Zimbra via Zimbra Mobile / EAS (NE 5.0.18).
Some of his messages (maybe 10%) come through with no sender name. For those messages, the Pre doesn't allow him to reply or forward the message - the options are greyed out.
There are two posts on Palm's forums (below) that mention the exact same issue with Palm Pres and Zimbra Mobile. However, there are no replies.
Sender Missing on Several EAS Messages on Palm Pre - Wireless Email - Palm Support Community
Can't Reply or Forward Messages - Wireless Email - Palm Support Community
Anyone else seeing this issue? Anyone have any other info about it?


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FREDERICK, MD (WUSA) -- Imagine your little girl goes outside to play with friends and she never comes home. No one knows where she is, and for 25 years you have to wait and hope.
The Goines family of Frederick, Maryland have been living this nightmare. Tiffany Goines was just 12 when she vanished on December 5, 1987.
MORE: The Washington Post Story on Tiffany Goines
Tiffany, who attended Gov. Thomas Johnson Middle School, was last seen getting into a red convertible near her home at the John Hanson Apartments on North Bentz Street.
As the 25th anniversary of Goines' dissapearance approaches, The Washington Post is profiling the case both online Thursday and in the paper on Friday. Goines' story is the first in a series of reports the paper is doing about missing people of color. They call the series "Vanished."
Almost 679,000 people in the United States were reported missing last year. This is according to FBI statistics. Forty percent of those individuals were people of color.
Once every few weeks Washington Post reporter Anqoinette Crosby will profile a local case of a missing person in the Post's The Root DC section. Tiffany Goines story will be in the paper on Friday, November 30.
Please take a close look at the images of Tiffany on this webpage. There is a picture of Tiffany at the age of 12 when she vanished. Then there is an age enhance image of her provided by the National Center for Missing and Exloited Children in Alexandria, Virginia.
If you have any information about Tiffany Goines' disappearance please call 301-600-TIPS.


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People in a Warner Robins neighborhood said police knocked on their doors Saturday and told them to evacuate.
Officers told them to leave due to a suspicious package found in a house nearby on Hedlund Drive. People on Todd Circle and nearby streets were told to leave the area. The neighborhood is about a half-mile north of Russell Parkway.
According to U.S. Attorney Michael Moore, FBI agents were serving a warrant at a home when they found possible explosives inside. For safety reasons people in the area were evacuated.
In a written statement late Saturday, Moore said all materials in question were removed and there's no danger to the public.
FBI officials would not say who the warrant was for. Houston County Tax records show the owner of the home as Robert Shubert, Sr.
One neighbor told 13WMAZ's Tom George that Shubert is retired from the U.S. Air Force at Robins, and has been working at the V.A. office in Florida, coming home periodically.
He says Shubert's home seemed normal and there was never any suspicious activity.
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Let's say I've got 500GB of mail to migrate.
I don't want to create over 500GB of archived redologs while doing the migration. Is there a way not to?
Repeatedly purging redolog/archive only solves part of the problem -- presumably, the multiphase commit slows things down. Since I have copies all safe and sound on the original IMAP server, I'd be ok disabling redologs entirely. Is that how the open source edition behaves? Is there some switch that can make NE behave that way temporarily? Or does this really not create the overhead I'm assuming it does?


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The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it plans to stop delivering mail on Saturdays, but continue delivering packages six days a week.
In an announcement scheduled for later Wednesday, the service is expected to say the cut, beginning in August, would mean a cost saving of about $2 billion annually.
The move accentuates one of the agency's strong points -- package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010. The delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet use.
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Original Paint Finishing - Paint And BodyWritten by on January 1, 2001 Roger Gibson's Secrets To Getting That OE Look
During a conversation over frosty beverages with Roger Gibson one evening, we discussed the finer points of restoration. One of the things we found interesting was the difficulty he had early in his restoration career with customers' expectations. They'd want the car painted perfectly on their concours restoration, and Roger would paint it perfectly-for a concours restoration. But the customer would see the paint job and be upset because there was orange peel in the paint, and they expected a perfect paint job. Roger's definition of "perfect" is to have the finish exactly the way it looked from the factory, orange peel and all. Most customers' definition of "perfect" paint is a mirror smooth, slick finish that looks wet, without a single flaw-an idealized version of what they thought the car looked like when it was shipped from the factory.
Once Roger figured out that his definition and his customers' usually differed, life for him became a lot easier because he knew to ask if they wanted it to look genuinely original, or what they perceived as being original, which were two different things.
According to Roger, an OE finish on a Mopar has a matte look to it, whereas new cars today have a glossy finish. The matte finish comes from the fine orange peel. "Some guys want glossy, and that's okay," Roger said, "it just isn't factory original. If you want your car to look factory original, it has to have this fine-grain orange peel."
Getting this finish would be a simple matter of using the original acrylic enamel paint, except that acrylic enamel as it used to be isn't available anymore. About 1981, federal law dictated that-without getting too technical-fumes and particles were getting into the air, so manufacturers had to make paints thicker so the overspray didn't go into the atmosphere. They also took out the lead, which is why today's acrylic enamels are much less durable than they were in the 1960s. Finally, the traditional siphon-feed spray guns (which put up to 50 percent of the paint into the air and on the floor instead of on the car) were replaced with gravity feed or high volume/low pressure (HVLP) spray systems.
Though acrylic enamels are still on the market, they won't give you the original, fine-grain orange-peel matte finish that is 100 percent factory stock. So the big question is, "How do you get this look with today's paints?" The secret, according to Roger, is to start with a modern urethane and reduce it more than the directions say, then spray on four, five, or six thin coats rather than two or three thick coats. If you reduce modern urethanes according to the directions on the can, you'll get the same wet, glossy finish that you see on new cars. Then when you sand it, the paint will have that glossy look that isn't original to cars of the musclecar era.
So how much do you reduce the paint? According to Roger, "sometimes up to twice." It depends on painting technique and the spray gun itself (Roger prefers one of the new gravity-feed spray guns).
Also, when you pick a urethane, it has to be one in which the catalyst is not in the reducer-the paint must use the catalyst separate from the reducer so that it dries properly. Then Roger paints until the finish "looks right." The instructions on most cans say to apply two to three coats, but you can apply as many as five or six thin coats. Says Roger, "I'm interested in getting the stock look with my paint gun. I'm not painting just to cover the car and sanding it to get the look I want. I want it to look like it's supposed to when I'm done painting."
A close-up of the finish on this Gibson-painted '69 Charger R/T shows the fine-grain orange peel that gives that matte finish, stock OE look.


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MARTINS FERRY - Experience paid big dividends for Indian Creek on Friday night.
The senior-laden Redskins delivered one clutch play after another down the stretch en route to a 64-60 against a game, but youthful Martins Ferry squad.
The victory was the ninth in 12 starts for Coach Joe Dunlevy, whose charges were coming off a last-second loss to powerful Dover.
The Purple Riders, who played two freshmen and two sophomores at times, dropped to 5-4 despite playing their best game of the campaign.
''We had the lead with 1:30 to play. But we hurt ourselves by missing a layup and the front end of two one-and-ones,'' Ferry coach Jeff Sabatino said. ''Indian Creek, meanwhile, made nine straight free throws down the stretch by role players.''
The loss spoiled another brilliant effort by Martins Ferry's Cody Schau. The 6-foot-3 leaper knocked down a game-high 29 points, 11 coming in the final quarter. Junior Robert Vargo was strong support with 18 points.
''Ferry is a load. They have size and a super player in Schau, and they are always so well-coached,'' Dunlevy said. ''A big key was when the game was on the line we had seniors on the floor and Ferry has much younger kids out there.''
Dunlevy coached the game with a heavy heart, as his mother died Thursday. She was 92. He arrived Friday just prior to tipoff.
Senior standout Alex Young was his usual self for the Redskins. He poured in 23 points, 11 coming in the third quarter. Southpaw Frankie Kamarec delivered excellent support with 14 points while Matt Furda added nine.
Creek led the entire first half, owning a 17-14 edge after one quarter and a 28-22 halftime advantage.
Ferry emerged energized after intermission, cutting the margin to two late in the third quarter before Creek escaped with a 44-39 lead entering the fourth.
Back-to-back buckets by Schau and 6-8 freshman Emilio Appolloni brought Ferry to within 44-43. Young countered with a hoop before Vargo delivered two success buckets off feeds from sophomore Jake Barritt, staking the Riders to a 47-46 lead with just over five minutes to play.
Ferry continued its fine play and after Schau scored off another Barritt dish, the hosts found themselves holding a 54-49 advantage with 3:20 remaining.
Kamarec drained a trey, drawing Creek to within two. The next three Purple Riders possessions came up dry, missing the front-end of two 1-and-1s combined with a turnover. In the interim, Creek was going to work at the foul line, punctuated by two Furda freebies with 55 ticks left for a 59-54 Creek advantage.


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|Hospital dist. audit reviewed
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Overall it was good news for members of East Phillips County Hospital District after hearing a report from Rick Steen of Eide Bailly on the 2009 audited financials.
Steen reported everything looked good, but there were a couple of things he pointed out while going through the information during the board meeting Tuesday, June 22.
Operation costs is an area Steen urged the board to look into. Price adjustments is something he mentioned which MMH has already been looking into with the charge description master review.
Other items are the preparation of financial statements and segregation of duties. Steen said segregation of duties is difficult with a smaller facility. Administrator John Ayoub said these two findings have appeared on past audits as well.
Steen ran through comparative graphs outlining where MMH stands in regard to other critical access hospitals in Colorado. He stressed MMH needs to focus on the operating margin if they want to generate cash in the long term.
Both Ayoub and MMH CFO Greg Was reported the audit team did a wonderful job throughout the process.
Administrator reports activity
Administrator Ayoub said with Dr. Kevin Cuccinelli's announcement of plans to leave, MMH needs to pick up another provider. He said Cuccinelli's term will be filled through the end of the year by Dr. Ted Lin.
Long-term plans have been set in motion to hire a new physician. MMH will use Delta Physician Placement to search for a new doctor, and Ayoub feels confident in the company and said he has heard good things about them.
Peggi Pearson of Colby, Kan. was hired to fill the vacant compliance officer/quality director position and will begin July 12. The position opened up in May with the resignation of Erica Brady.
The administrator said the community linkages committee has a good feel to merge back into one health fair but plans to come up with ideas to continue to reach out and educate the Hispanic community.
Ayoub reported they had a successful first-quarter employee forum with staff. The balanced scorecard was reviewed and an employee survey was handed out.
Ayoub said payments from Medicaid to providers will be delayed due to a state fiscal emergency. He added the hospital will not see a negative impact as a result.
MMH will see an increase in matching funds beginning with fiscal year 2010, according to Ayoub.
Under capital purchases, Ayoub said the new ultrasound machine was a good investment and a big benefit. With the old machine, MMH performed an average of 30 ultrasounds a month. Ayoub reported within the first week 20 ultrasounds were performed and 32 within the first two weeks.
A special bed is also being looked at for possible purchase. A striker sleep surface bed is a bed for patients who are susceptible to pressure ulcers or other skin problems. MMH currently rents one when needed.
EPCHD board members were elected to offices with Steve Young continuing on as the president, Steve Deaver vice president and Sheryl Farnsworth secretary/treasurer.
Credentialing was approved for new appointments for Sidney Adler, MD, (OB/GYN) and Mark Hoenig, MD, (family practice); James Swinehart, MD, (dermatology) two-year reappointment; and Chris Schults, PA, (cardiology) six-month provisional end, two-year appointment.
Medical staff bylaws have been returned from legal with numerous suggested changes. Deaver and Ayoub said they are in the process of going through them to look at the suggestions.
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In other business June 22, the hospital board:
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Planning Pregnancy: Genetic Counseling & Testing
In our section called The Stages of Pregnancy, we have outlined the planning of your pregnancy, each stage of pregnancy, giving birth, and the early period after birth. This link is devoted to genetic counseling and testing while planning for your pregnancy.
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March of Dimes:Genetic Counseling: provides a guide to genetic counseling
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March of Dimes: Birth Defects and Genetic Conditions: comprehensive list with links to fact sheets
Kids Health for Parents: An Introduction to Genetics and Genetic Testing
Kids Health for Parents: Genetic Counseling
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General: offers a basic family medical history tree; follow
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|CSAP, parent-teacher conferences on school schedule next week
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Parent-teacher conferences and grade 6-10 CSAP testing are scheduled in Holyoke School District Re-1J next week. There will be no school at the end of the week, on Friday, March 20.
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CSAP testing is scheduled for students in grades 6-10 March 16-19, and juniors and seniors will not have school at all during the week.
Students taking CSAPs must be at school by 8:45 a.m., as testing will start promptly at that time. Those who are late will not be allowed to start testing, and therefore will have to make the tests up. Students will be dismissed at 3:32 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Parent-teacher conferences planned at both buildings
Parent-teacher conferences will be held for JR/SR High students Monday and Tuesday, March 16 and 17; and at the elementary school Tuesday and Thursday, March 17 and 19.
Parents of elementary students should have received letters designating scheduled conference times this week. Fifteen-minute conferences have been planned for students in grades K-4, while 20-minute sessions will be conducted for the student-led fifth grade conferences.
Parents of students in grades 6-12 should have received letters last week with scheduled student-led conference times with the student's ILT or exploratory teacher.
Walk-in times to visit other classroom teachers follow: junior high teachers, Monday from 6-8 p.m. and Tuesday from 4-6 p.m.; and high school teachers, Monday from 4-6 p.m. and Tuesday from 6-8 p.m.
Additionally, an ACT test preparation workshop for interested parents and students will be held Monday, March 16 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium.
Community clean-up
A community clean-up performed by JR/SR High students will take place Wednesday and Thursday, March 18-19 from 2-3:30 p.m. Both days will also include a food drive, so residents are urged to have canned food ready to pick up. On March 18, the food drive will cover the west side of town, with the east side being covered on March 19.


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Santa Chiara Monastic Complex (Church, Monastery and Majolica Cloister) - Naples
The Church and Monastic Complex of Santa Chiara (Saint Clare) were built between 1310 and 1340 according to the wishes of Robert d'Anjou and Queen Sancia, near the western city wall, at the beginning of the "Lower Decuman" (today known as Via San Biagio dei Librai or "Spaccanapoli").
The Church was originally constructed with the "Gothic forms of Provence" by Gagliardo Primario, however between the 17th and 18th centuries it was lavishly renovated in the Baroque style.
After the heavy bombardments of 1943, which caused great damage, and a fire that almost destroyed it entirely, the Church was stripped back to its original Gothic style with restoration work that was finished in 1953.
The facade is sober and imposing, with a large central "rose-window".
The bell-tower is separate from the main structure and was begun in 1328, but finished only in the 1500s, when it was equipped with five bells.
The bells fell in the bombardment of 1943 were put back in place in 1949.
The external perimeter is made of yellow tufa stone with a few elements in piperno stone which were highlighted in the pronaos with its three ogival arches, the central one being the highest.
The buttresses present on the left side are characteristic of the Provencal Gothic style, with the alternating single hols and pointed arches.
On the facade there is also a rosette which is unique of its kind, enclosed in a larger oculus where six circles turn on tangents to create five more.
The large portal in red and yellow marble, placed beneath the rosette, is topped by decorations on the jambs and lintels and the coat of arms of Queen Sancia.
The interior is made up of a rectangular room that is 82 metres long, 30 metres wide and 46 metre high, with ten chapels on each side and a flat far wall with two small rosettes, that create a central space where the Angevin tombs lie.
Behind the main altar there is the grand "Sepulchre of Roberto", only slightly damaged by the bombardments; it is a work by the brothers Giovanni and Pacio Bertini, representing the seated figure of King Roberto, and above it there is an epigraph attributed to Francesco Petrarca ("cernite Robertum regem virtute refertum"), a great admirer of the Angevin sovereign.
The ninth chapel retains the Baroque structure, and hold the remains of the Bourbons: in particular, the sumptuous tomb of Prince Phillip, first son of Charles III, made by Giuseppe Sanmartino (1777); opposite this there is the sepulchre of the venerable Maria Cristina of Savoy, Queen of Naples.
The first chapel on the left, next to the entrance, holds the remains of "Salvo d'Acquisto", the carabineer who sacrificed his life during the Second World War to save a group of civilians from Nazi reprisal.
Next to the Church is the "Clarissan Choir", which still retains the 14th century structure with the remains of the original frescoes attributed to Giotto and his workshop.
The library contains the particularly important fresco of the "Crucifixion" that Gennaro Pierro painted between 1769 and 1773 and others representing monastic life.
The grand "Majolica Cloister" of the Clarissans: originally in the Gothic style, it was transformed in 1742 by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro who decorated the structure and the 72 octagonal pilasters with splendid "polychrome tiles" in Rococo style, designed by Vaccaro himself and manufactured by the Neapolitan "riggiolari" Donato and Giuseppe Massa.
The pilasters which are connected by seats, are decorated with motifs of vines wisteria, that wind in a spiral up to the capital which supports the pergola.
On the backrests of the majolica seats there are rural, marine and mythological motifs.
The Cloister has two large internal avenues that meet in the centre, and generous, mostly orchard, garden areas; the themes of the decorations also show that in its time it was more a garden of delights than simply place of prayer.
Today it is a efficient refuge for those who are looking for a peaceful and quiet corner in the heart of the city.
On the 14th of August 1943, a heavy bombardment hit Santa Chiara and devastated the structure and its works of art.
The immense fire burned continuously for five days, because of the extremely high temperatures, the marble calcified, the sculptures disintegrated and many paintings and frescoes were totally destroyed.
After that the restoration work was led by the Franciscan P. Gaudenzio dell'Aja who restored the building to its ancient Gothic splendour, re-establishing its historical and artistic value.
While the treasures of Santa Chiara could not all be saved, many wooden and marble fragments of masterpieces from various epochs are now collected in the rooms of the "Museum of the Works of Santa Chiara".
For almost fifty years, in fact every thing that could be saved from the fire was left in a state of semi-abandon in the warehouses of the holy Complex.
The Museum of the Works of Santa Chiara, whose reopening ceremony was exactly 10 years ago, is a place of ideal synthesis between the various components – archaeological, historical, architectonic and artistic – of the monumental Complex.
It is made up 4 rooms, and an attempt has been made to identify the salient stages of a very complex series of events that developed there over almost two thousands years of religious and artistic life: the "Archaeological and Thermal Spa Room", the "History Room", the "Marble Room" and the "Relics Room".
In the Archaeological Room there is a display of the more important archaeological finds found in the area of Santa Chiara, dating from the 1st to the 4th centuries a.D.; from this room there is access to the digs that have brought to light the remains of a thermal spa building that dated back to the first centuries a.D., which represents the most complete recorded examples of the thermal spa in the ancient City of Neapolis.
It comprises a pool, located in a covered ambient, and whose benches and access stairs for the bathers have survived; and area into which the pool looks that was possibly a gym; a sector for the actual spa plant at ground floor and basement level.
A "laconicum" (a room used for hot air "baths"), a "tepidarium" (for warm water bathing) and other rooms have been identified, but not all the applications are certain, as well as the waster supply pipes.
A large brick structure, later used as a cistern, may well be the "frigidarium" (for cold water bathing) or a "nymphaeum".
In the History Room there are illustrations of the story of the conventual Complex from its origins to its current state.
Among these are the only two surviving exquisite vases of an abundant series which Domenico Antonio Vaccaro had designed to decorate the renewed Majolica Cloister.
In the Marble Room there is the collection of fragments of marble works from the Basilica, from the annexed Monastery of the Clarissans and from the near by small Convent of Minor Friars, dating from the 14th century onwards.
Among these there is the splendid frieze of approximately 18 metres, with episodes of the life and martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the 14th century pulpit.
In the Relics Room there is display of imposing holy parameters, rich reliquaries from the 17th and 18th centuries, wooden works of great expressive intensity, such as the work by Giovanni of Nola (1520 ca.), the "Ecce Homo", and a fragment of the "Holy Family", by an anonymous 17th century sculptor.
The Museum also has an Exhibition Room where a number of exhibitions have been held, including the permanent exhibition entitled "Suffering and Hope" about the disasters of war in the world.
The museum is run by the Franciscan Centre of Culture "Oltre il Chiostro". (Gianmaria Romano)
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the final lap and win Sunday's Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway, a race
delayed 3 hours, 36 minutes due to rain.
Ragan and Gilliland drafted through the field during the last lap before Ragan
pulled in front of Carl Edwards, the pole sitter, for the lead between turns 3
and 4. Ragan then beat Gilliland to the finish line by 0.2 seconds for his
second career Sprint Cup Series victory.
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underfunded three-car operation. Ragan's first victory in the series came in
July 2011 at Daytona International Speedway (64 races ago) when he drove for
Roush Fenway Racing.
Matt Kenseth led 142 laps and ran in front for the final restart, but Kenseth
was shuffled back in the draft during the two-lap overtime finish and wound up
finishing 8th. A 12-car accident on the backstretch set up the green-white-
checkered finish.
Edwards finished third, while Michael Waltrip and Jimmie Johnson, who won the
Daytona 500 in February, rounded out the top-five.
The first "big one" -- a 16-car pileup -- occurred on lap 42. After 125 laps
were completed, heavy rain forced NASCAR to stop the race in what would be a
lengthy delay. NASCAR felt there was enough daylight left to conclude the
scheduled 500-mile distance.
Denny Hamlin competed in his first race since he suffered a serious back
injury during an accident six weeks ago at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana,
Hamlin ran the first 23 laps under green before the first caution came. He
pitted during the caution period and made the driver exchange with Brian
Vickers in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Vickers was later caught up in
the first major wreck. He returned to the track after spending more than 40
laps in the garage for repairs. Hamlin was credited with a 34th-place finish.
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Dead Space 2, Release: 25th(US) 28th(EU) - January - 2011
Dead Space 2, Release: 25th(US) 28th(EU) - January - 2011
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The Demo is out now on the Playstation store. So go check it out!
I just played it today. Bloody hell was it a scary experience. For those of you that have played the first one, you'll know how claustrophobic and overwhelming this game can be at times. The demo for the second one doesn't disappoint. One good thing about the demo, is that they have put you right into the game with a a decent loadout, not just the laser cutter, which is comforting.
Enemies. From the moment i stepped in, i noticed some changes. There is a nice balance of new enemies which is always good. no-one wants all the same enemies from the old game. And they've moved in a freaky direction, what with those children alien mutations!
First impressions on the demo were great. And I'm sure to pick up the next instalment in this nice underrated franchise.
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The funny thing about this game is the demo always puts me off from buying it. (I'm talking about part 1 and 2)
I don't know, It's kind of challenging a bit to be swarmed and I really don't know what the correct strategy for taking them out is ... the only hints we get is that you have to try to blow their limbs off, which is fine when you only have 1 or 2 against you. And yeah I guess this is the claustrophobia at work.
The demo for the first game I never managed to get through it, but the demo for this one I made it through in about 3-4 tries.
Survival Horror isn't really my thing, I guess.
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I really liked Dead Space 1 but I was planning on renting Dead Space 2. However, i'd like to see a dead space 3 (assuming the reviews are good) so i'll probably buy it .
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Not much news but it's something.
Here's a nice bonus for fans of the original Dead Space. If you have any save file -- completed or not -- from the first title, you'll unlock the original plasma cutter right off the bat for use in the upcoming sequel. Hardcore players should be more than familiar with the gun, thanks to an Achievement that forces players to complete an entire playthrough using only that gun.
But don't expect the plasma cutter to give you much of an advantage at the beginning of the Dead Space 2 campaign. Although you'll get access to the gun, Visceral Games' Louis Gascoigne told us that the upgrades you purchased for the weapon won't carry over into the sequel. Isaac Clarke just can't get a break, can he?
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We are using zimbra desktop 7.1.1 and zimbra server 7.0.0.GA_3077.
One user on XP using the dekstop client, when opening a piece of mail in a seperate window, can not forward that email. Hitting the send button produces a spinning icon that never sends. If they reopen that same email in the main desktop or use the web interface, it works.
Another user on Mac using the desktop, when opening a piece of mail in a seperate windows, can not save attachments to the briefcase. If they turn on quickview, they can save that same attachment to the briefcase with no problems. If they use the web interface and launch in separate window, they can save attachments directly to briefcase also.
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I've tried to use the isync plug-in 0.99 but all I get is authentication failed, I've checked the logs on the server and it does not looks like the plugin even tried to connect.
I've tested this on my Macbook pro(Intel) and on my Imac G5 and I get the same result.
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We have a number of non techie users testing the betas in the real world and I thought it would be helpful if I collated some UI changes to B3 suggested that might help.
Rather than an enhancement in bugzilla I thought mentioning it here might get some more input before a request is fired in.
It has been suggested that the account setup fields be named slightly different and have sample information populate the fields.
1) Change Zimbra as the server type Zimbra Mailbox.
2) Rename incoming mail server to your Zimbra server name.
3) Offer example text eg firstname.lastname@example.com or your.zimbra.server etc.
4) Follow this throughout the setup interface for other account types.
It was pointed out that most intelligent, confident and capable people still don't read manuals but do expect the software to guide them. We who live in techie stuff and RTFM will find this almost prickly ;-) but then it isn't us techies we need to use the software!
Simple consistent terms and the small things would make a real difference!
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I have a small Hobby company that I publish materials for a RPG through.
Currently I am developing ships for an RPG called Traveller. Later projects will be for other Scifi and Fantasy settings. All based on OGL game systems.
Production goals: I plan to produce 1 supplement ever 3 months.
Commission Type: Paid, please send me a PM to discuss rates. I would prefer a royalty with option to purchase outright after an initial period.
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I plan to publish then in two formats one optimized for screen viewing, the other for printing. The screen view will be landscape 11" x 8.5", the printer friendly will be 8.5" 11" and page ordered to be painted double sided at 11" x 17".
Dimensions of map: 2x maps one for screen viewing the other for the printer friendly 8.5 x 11 inch pages. I will also want Section Cuts of the maps for detailed viewing along side the section descriptions.
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The Ranch RunWritten on April 28, 2005 Kicking off 2005 With a 90-Mile Ride
Spoiled rotten is the only way to describe how I felt flying through the canyons of northern San Diego County in the shotgun seat of a roadster on a sunny Saturday in the middle of January.
Don Dillard was driving his recently finished Deuce ("Readers' Rods," Apr. '05) and I was providing ballast on the passenger side. We were in one of more than 100 traditional rods and customs that showed up that day for the Ranch Run, the annual endurance run organized by Jim and Carrie Benitez. C&G Early Ford Repair, Hot Rods & Custom Stuff, and KustomImaging.com help sponsor the event.
The day started out like it does every year, early in the morning in downtown Temecula, a little Western-style town about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. After 90 winding miles through valleys, hills, and canyons, and some of the sweetest scenery you'll ever see, the trip terminated at the Benitez's hilltop home outside of San Diego, where Jim and Carrie, little Samuel B, a big pot of chili, a cooler of refreshments, and the band had all been waiting for us to show up. After a few more hours of hanging around and having fun, it was time to go home and start reviewing our photos from a fun January Saturday.
You'll find a lot more photos from the 2005 Ranch Run on Don Dillard's site (donshotrodpage.net)
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This channeled Model A roadster with a suicide frontend and cool grille shell 'striping was once a drag car, according to owner Rex Jaramillo. It's powered by a '68 327 and wears disc brakes at all four wheels for safety.Sammy V's modified A rolls into the valley. Built on a custom-engineered chassis, the small-block roadster was a "four-Sunday build" finished three weeks before the Ranch Run. The roadster behind it belongs to Rick Tokiyeda and has been his daily ride for three years.Back at the ranch, Mark Van Schyndel (left) brags on his A roadster to Tim Sutton from KustomImaging.com. Homemade in the style of a budget dirt track car, Mark's first rod (powered by a 305 Chevy) was built for $1,800, starting with the $20 backyard body.Big 'n' littles with kidney beans and knock-offs, some sweet pinstriping, and a blown 355 set off Chick Koszis' black Deuce highboy. Chick lives in Valley Center and is a Ranch Run regular.This bare-metal turtle-deck T is another Ranch Run vet. Dave Eltholtz built the entire car, including the hand-fabricated flip-off top on what used to be a roadster body and the rear portion of the body, built from VW fenders.The gray primer was added at midnight before the Run to cover the chop seams and shaved handles on Rich Norton's '49 Ford. The sedan is powered by the original Flathead that is now backed with a C4 gearbox.Rodney Bauman's dad first built this '28 touring back in the early '60s. It was rebuilt in the '80s and is now driven by Rodney and his wife Marlene. The Chevy small-block is hooked to a TH350 automatic.Randy Haught's '32 Chevy RPU is loaded with great details, including the '33-'34 Chevy grille, '55 dash, and '40 Packard headlights. The engine is a 250ci I-6 Chevy. Human-skull door-hinge pins are too small to see here.


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Manchin asked to help end tax breaks for some corporations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Citizen Action Group, a member of Americans for Tax Fairness, visited the Charleston offices of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Wednesday, asking him to fight for corporate tax reform to end tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs and profits offshore.
CAG delivered a poster-sized IRS W-2 form to Manchin's office with the names of six national companies that have major operations in West Virginia, but have paid no federal income taxes for at least one of the last four years.
Gary Zuckett, executive director of CAG, said, "The reason we are doing it now is that working people get their W-2 forms by the end of this month.
"We wanted to highlight the fact that there were 30 corporations that didn't pay any income taxes in 2008, 2009 or 2010 - the 'Dirty Thirty.' Many got millions of dollars back from the federal government," Zuckett said.
The visit to Manchin's office was part of a national day of action involving state and national labor, advocacy and faith groups calling for "Fair Taxes, Not Cuts" in 18 states.
Manchin said, "I appreciate [Citizen] Action Group sharing their ideas with my office. Since arriving in the Senate, I have fought for comprehensive tax reform that levels the playing field and makes sure that everyone pays their fair share.
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Zuckett said, "National discussions about cutting the federal deficit have been talking about cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, child care and education.
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Those corporations operating in West Virginia include: General Electric, American Electric Power, DuPont, Verizon, First Energy and NiSource, Zuckett said.
NiSource is the parent company of Columbia Gas Transmission, the company whose gas pipelines recently exploded along the interstate in Sissonville.
(A report about the 30 corporations, which Zuckett said are exploiting tax loopholes, is available at: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/03/360185/30-corporations-no-taxes.)
"We need to bring some of the revenues back home from places like the Cayman Islands," Zuckett said. "We need to put people back to work rebuilding our infrastructure -- our roads and bridges -- and to keep paying our teachers.
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Sam Hickman, CEO of the West Virginia chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, said, "Most people don't realize what a great investment social programs are.
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Does anyone remember a pool hall that used to be on queens blvd named J.C,s billiards academy ? It was originally in flushing on main street but moved.
The owners name was Jimmy Cattrano and he was a hell of nice old guy and his son of the same name was a good guy also. The son was a good 3 cushion player.
I was just curious if anyone knows what happened to the pool room, if they relocated, etc.
I spent a lot of time there and they used to have an old 5x10 with tough pockets that i used to play on all the time and man im telling you, when you made a long shot on that table you felt like you really did something great.