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Affordable Housing Online is tracking the status of the Alamosa Housing Authority Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List. This is what we know as of our most recent update on November 13th, 2015.
Affordable Housing Online is tracking the status of the Alamosa Housing Authority Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List. This is what we know as of our most recent update on November 13th, 2015.
Did you know that you can apply for Section 8 anywhere in the country? If your local Section 8 waiting list is closed, you can apply to programs elsewhere. See all open waiting lists across the country on our Waiting Lists page.
Affordable Housing Online is tracking the status of the Alamosa Housing Authority Public Housing Waiting Lists. This is what we know as of our most recent update June 10th, 2015.
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The Housing Authority of the City of Alamosa (HACA) is currently accepting public housing waiting list applications for families and senior/disabled individuals.
Alamosa Housing Authority operates 199 affordable units across its public housing portfolio.
The bedroom sizes of Alamosa Housing Authority public housing units range from 1 bedroom apartments to 5 bedroom apartments. The housing authority's public housing inventory includes: 47% 1 bedroom apartments, 27% 2 bedroom apartments, 23% 3 bedroom apartments, 3% 4 bedroom apartments and 1% 5 bedroom apartments.
As of Alamosa Housing Authority's most recent Resident Characteristics Report (June 30, 2015), the 16-month average number of units occupied was 188 out of a total 199 rental units. This represents a 16-month average vacany rate of 5.53%.
Of the 150 households who reported head of household data in the housing authority's most recent RCR report, 22 (14.67%) were elderly, 128 (85.33%) were non-elderly, 66 (44%) were disabled, 86 (57.33%) contained children and 72 (48%) were headed by a female.
Residents of public housing pay rent based on their income. The rent contribution of the tenant is called the Total Tenant Payment (TTP). The TTP is generally 30% of a residents income with a $25 (National minimum) to $50 (some PHA's) minimum rent. Based on the information in the most recent Resident Characteristics Report (June 30, 2015) the minimum rent in Alamosa Housing Authority's public housing developments is $50.
The average tenant rent contribution for Alamosa Housing Authority's public housing developments is $265.
The TTP distribution across all public housing units in the Alamosa Housing Authority portfolio is:
The average tenant contribution for elderly residents residing in all properties across the housing authority's public housing portfolio is $295. The average rent payment for disabled residents is $267. The average TTP for non-elderly, non-disabled renters in the housing authority's public housing units is $534. Households headed by females had a total tenant payment of $268.
The HUD Resident Characteristics Report provides updated Head of Household race and ethnicity data at the housing authority and property level. Across all properties in the Alamosa Housing Authority portfolio, 2% of households identified as Black, 94% identified as White, and 68% identified as Hispanic or Latino.
HUD divides household income into four categories: Extremely Low Income (ELI) for households earning less than 30% of the median, Very Low Income (VLI) for households earning between 30% and 50% of the median, Low Income (LI) for households earning between 50% and 80% of the median and Above Low Income for households earning 81% of the median and over.
Of the public housing residents residing in Alamosa Housing Authority properties, 123 were Extremely Low Income, 49 were Very Low Income, 13 were Low Income and 2 were Above Low Income.
The average annual income of public housing residents living in Alamosa Housing Authority properties is $11,166. Of all public housing residents, 6% have no income and 4% earn more than $25,000 while 90% have incomes that fall between $0 and $25,000.
The distribution of incomes among the housing authority's public housing residents is:
The HUD RCR data includes source of income information as well. The data includes five categories of family income: wage income, welfare income, SSI/SS/Pension income, other income and no income. Some families receive income in multiple categories.
Among families residing in Alamosa Housing Authority public housing 35% have wage income, 20% have welfare income, 54% have SSI/SS/Pension income, 14% have other income and 4% have no income.
As of the last HUD RCR report (June 30, 2015), there were a total of 187 households containing 401 total persons residing in the housing authority's public housing properties. The average household size across all properties in the housing authority's public housing portfolio was 2.1.
Across all units operated by the housing authority, 57.33% of households included children. Across all household members in Alamosa Housing Authority public houins units 17.7% are aged zero to five and 24.9% are aged 6 to 17.
15.5% of all residents across the housing authority were age 62 or older and are considered seniors while 41.9% of all residents were aged 18 to 61.
The HUD RCR report includes length of stay data for Alamosa Housing Authority public housing communities. 27.81% of all families residing in public housing have lived there for less than 1 year, 8.56% have lived in public housing for 1 to 2 years while 63.63% have lived in public housing for more than 2 years.
The Alamosa Housing Authority administers both a public housing and Section 8 housing voucher program. The housing authority owns and manages 1 projects which contain 199 affordable rental units. It also administers 0 Section 8 housing vouchers.
According to HUD, Alamosa Housing Authority is determined to be a Small public housing authority, meaning it manages between 50 - 249 public housing units. Also according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the housing authority is designated as No units, meaning it administers Section 8 vouchers.
Comparing the housing assistance distribution of Alamosa Housing Authority between Public Housing Units (100%) and Section 8 Housing Vouchers (0%) to that of all housing authorities in Colorado, Alamosa Housing Authority has a larger proportion of public housing units than the average housing authority. The housing authority's proportion of Section 8 vouchers under management is smaller than the average housing authority in Colorado.Source United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (hud.gov, 2014)
Public housing authorities provide several affordable housing assistance programs to renters and sometimes homeowners. Most of these programs are funded by the Federal government through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The two primary housing programs administered by housing authorities are the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and the Low Rent Housing Program, also known as Public Housing.
Section 8 vouchers provide a rental subsidy to renters that absorbs housing costs that exceed 30% of their income. Renters can use the voucher to rent private housing in apartment communities or privately owned homes. The rent is capped based on a Payment Standard that is determined by the housing authority based on market rents in the target area. Section 8 assistance is very limited across the country and typically waiting lists for the assistance can stretch out for a decade.
Public housing is rental housing owned and managed by housing authorities. Renters pay only 30% of their adjusted income. Typically, public housing consists of apartment developments but sometimes can be scattered single family homes in some suburban or rural housing authorities. Public housing was the first form of affordable housing provided to low income Americans. It is one of the oldest housing assistance programs in the country.
Public housing agencies, also called public housing authorities, which receive funding from HUD, are required to submit and receive approval from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development of both an Annual Plan and a 5 Year Plan. These plans establish each housing authority's policies, strategies, programs and operations for meeting the housing needs of persons within their target area.
The housing authority plans include specific details about the cost of renovations to real estate (also known as capital improvements), changes to Section 8 HCV policies, planned redevelopment of public housing projects and other major administrative changes.
Following are the HUD-approved public housing agency plans for Alamosa Housing Authority.
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This center pivot didn't fare too well in the weekend wind. Six of the eight towers blew over onto their side during the strong south wind. Jon Schneller owns the pivot and said it must have blown over Sunday night. He's not sure if a small micro burst played a part in blowing it over or not. The field is planted to corn, and he said they hope to get the pivot put back up soon. No other area damage was visible. The field is located seven miles east and five south of Holyoke.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA 9) -- The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has listed 13-year-old Jai Jenkins as a critical missing person.
MPD reported that Jenkins has been missing since Sunday at 8:00 p.m. and was last seen on the 900 block of Mount Olivet Road, NE.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- The Wizards collapsed at the Verizon Center in the fourth quarter for the third time in four games, this time succumbing to the Detroit Pistons 79-77 in one of the ugliest games of the year.
With five seconds left, Rodney Stuckey was able dribble all the way to the foul line without rigid pressure from Wizards guard Jordan Crawford. The fifth year player from Eastern Washington stroked a jumper in Crawford's face with .2 seconds remaining, sending the Wizards to the locker room with a familiar feeling of disgust.
"I was able to get a little separation with my move," said Stuckey, who finished with 24 points. "After I stepped back, I felt like I had a good enough look to get my shot off."
You can make several arguments about the game. The obvious one is that at least the Wizards are playing in close games now. In the final minute with the lead bouncing back and forth like a game of ping-pong, Washington actually executed a reputable late game offense. Two of the three final shots in the game for the Wizards were on gorgeous low post moves from Nene, who had been mostly irrelevant on the night --eight points and nine boards.
So what about the lone miss in the final minute? You guessed it. John Wall.
Down 76-75 with 11 seconds left, Wall was the recipient of a smooth pass from Nene on baseline cutter. The point guard freed himself as much as humanly possible in a close fourth quarter game, launched himself at the rim, and completely short armed what could have been the game winning layup.
"I put a lot of pressure [on myself]. When we lose these games, its me as a point guard to get the best sets and best plays...All we can do is try to make shots," said Wall.
Maybe you don't entirely blame Wall, because the Wizards were able to tie the game back up at 77, before eventually letting Stuckey sucker punch the team in the gut.
Or maybe you do blame Wall. For the third straight home contest, with the game on the line, John Wall failed to prove he can score when it matters the most. And against Detroit, he floundered in his best basketball trait: taking it to the hoop.
Does Cleveland's son Kyrie Irving make that layup? Does New York Knick sensation Jeremy Lin hit the three against the Hawks? Does Ricky Rubio let the clock run off against the Pacers? Whether you hate my argument or not, the NBA, more than any other sport, is a game of comparison.
These losses are pure learning experiences for Wall, as has been the entire 2011-2012 season. If you aren't disappointed in the franchise player repeatedly coming up short, you need to stop giving Wall a break. We should be seeing Wall progressing into a borderline dominant player. Game-changing players are at their best in the fourth quarter. Being mentally elevated above other players late in games isn't something you learn in an off-season. I am starting to get nervous for John Wall.
Offensive rebounding was a big problem in the game -- a 15-8 Detroit advantage -- a common theme during this current four game losing streak. But clearly, the Wizards lack creative scoring options in close games. Both need to be addressed. It's up to Ted Leonsis and either the new general manager or Ernie Grunfeld to prioritize which is a greater need.
If you listen to the Grantland podcast with Bill Simmons and Steve Kerr, both agree that having a top five pick in this year's NBA draft isn't ideal. A player who is selected in the 20's may end up being the second best player in the draft class. The projected depth in the 2012 draft class is what supposedly is going to make this crop of rookies special. It's an interesting dilemma.
Outside of the final four minutes at the Verizon Center, the game was pathetically played by both teams. I feel like both teams wold have been fine forfeiting the game, if such a choice was available. At least there were three entertaining off the court surprises.
A) Michael Phelps was seated alongside owner Ted Leonsis. Maybe he has become Andray Blatche's training partner?
B) A man asked his gorgeous girlfriend to marry him after an awkward kiss cam exchange. I could've sworn they were on the first date with how they completely missed each others lips. Then the dude pulls out a fat rock. Could he have picked a worse game? I'm giving the marriage three years at the most.
C) Brandon Knight dove deep into the stands behind the Pistons bench, chasing after a loose ball. The rookie's acrobatic leap knocked over the water cooler, delaying the game for nearly five minutes. These kinds of things only happen in Wizards-Pistons games.
Other Notes
*Jordan Crawford has now scored more than 20 points in six straight games.
*Kevin Seraphin confirmed to me that he has a bird named April and a snake named Snakey.
*John Wall has had seven straight games without 10 assists.
*Jan Vesely played 28 and 25 minutes against Detroit and Boston respectively. Those are both his two highest minute totals in the month of March. He's averaging 16.8 total minutes in March.
*Trevor Booker sat out with a sore right knee and a left foot issue, something his mom Tracey agreed with.
*In four games played with the Wizards, Nene is averaging 14.8 ppg, 8.8 rebounds and a solid 55.8 shooting percentage, up from the 51 percent he entered the team with.


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Anne Arundel County Schools officials are canceling after-school activities and evening classes www.aacps.org
Calvert County Public Schools are closing 2 hours early today. All after-school and evening activities are cancelled
Charles County Public Schools are closing two hours early. Afternoon and evening activities are canceled http://www2.ccboe.com/
Montgomery County Public Schools officials say schools are closing early "due to emergency weather conditions."
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Morning pre-kindergarten programs and morning half-day Head Start students will be dismissed at 10:30 a.m.
Afternoon pre-kindergarten and early childhood programs as well as after school activities are canceled. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/
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Howard County Public Schools are closing 1.5 hours early. Aftercare programs, athletic practices and games are canceled http://www.hcpss.org/news/weather.shtml
Prince George's County Public Schools are closing 2 hours early. All afternoon and evening activities are canceled http://www1.pgcps.org/
Fairfax County Public Schools are closing two hours early. Morning pre-school classes dismiss at 11 a.m. Afternoon pre-school and many after school programs/activities are canceled. http://www.fcps.edu/index.shtml
Fauquier County Public Schools are closing early. Secondary schools except for Marshall Middle are dismissing at noon. Elementary schools and Marshall MS dismissing at 1 p.m. Afternoon and evening activities are canceled. http://www.fcps1.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectionid=1
Loudoun County is closing 1 hour early http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us
Prince William County Public Schools will close one hour early. Thursday HS Exams will be given today, but Friday exams are moved to Monday.
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We own the guns in this country, and we own the problem. More people are shot to death every year in America than in Australia, Canada, England, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and a dozen other countries combined. Now we can add 28 more of those deaths to the list.
We must make our leaders fight for tougher gun laws. That is the one positive step we can take, as soon as we can take any step at all. As soon as we summon our strength.
Maybe tomorrow, when the second hand moves again.
Today the clocks are stopped.
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A cold day in Moscow brought a cold-blooded end to the life of Stanislav Markelov, a Russian human-rights lawyer devoted to battling Russian abuses of Chechens. A masked assailant gunned down the 34-year-old attorney in broad daylight, less than a half mile from the Kremlin. The gunman also shot and killed Anastasia Baburova, a freelance journalist in her mid-20s who tried to intervene. Russia's state-run news agency reported the assailant used a silencer on his gun and shot Markelov at close range in the back of the head, indicating a planned killing. Authorities haven't named a suspect.
Markelov fought the early release of a Russian colonel convicted of strangling a Chechen woman in 2000, and told reporters he was considering filing an international court appeal in the case. Authorities released Col. Yuri Budanov one week before Markelov's murder.
The killing drew comparisons to the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a high-profile Russian journalist who wrote about Russian abuses in Chechnya. Politkovskaya, once a client of Markelov, was one of more than 12 journalists killed in Russia in the last eight years.
Kremlin critic and human-rights activist Lev Ponomaryov lamented the latest murder in a pattern of violence against Russian critics and said: "When one needed a bold journalist, one called Politkovskaya; when one needed a bold lawyer, one called Markelov."
China bailout
Since when do capitalists urge communists to increase government spending? Since China's roaring surge toward modernization hit the global economic downturn. Growth in the fast-developing nation slowed to just 9 percent last year, down from the 13 percent of 2007 and the first time since 2002 that the number dipped below 10 percent-raising concerns that 2009 might fail to meet the baseline standard of 8 percent that Beijing officials say is necessary to maintain employment levels. Economists hope that China's $600 billion stimulus package can reverse the downward trend, but some project that growth could dip as low as 5 percent in 2009 before an upswing begins. Newly confirmed U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants China to adopt "a more aggressive stimulus package as we do our part to try to pass a stimulus package here at home."
Split decision
A Vermont judge ruled Jan. 28 that Isabella Miller, 6, should remain in the custody of her biological mother, Lisa Miller, but granted extensive visitation rights to Miller's former lesbian partner, Janet Jenkins ("Are you my mother," May 12, 2007). While Miller is still pursuing appeals in Virginia, Judge William Cohen warned her that failure to comply with the court-ordered visitation, which includes five weeks in the summer, could jeopardize her custody rights. According to Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel, which is representing Miller, the latest ruling underscores the importance of the federal Defense of Marriage Act: "If that law is repealed, it would be over for us. We would have no more hope to fight for Isabella's future."
Slower snail mail
Faced with a potential volume loss of over 15 billion pieces of mail, the U.S. Postal Service is projecting a total net loss of $5 billion this year. On Jan. 28 Postmaster General John E. Potter asked Congress to allow a one-day-a-week cut in mail delivery: "I do not make this request lightly, but I am forced to consider every option given the severity of our challenge."
Gaza recovery
When Israel ended a three-week Gaza offensive aimed at weakening Hamas, Gazans began assessing damage and looking for aid. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia offered a swift, sweeping response: a pledge of $1 billion for reconstruction. United Nations (UN) aid chief John Holmes said the UN would raise money for emergency repairs, but warned an ongoing power struggle between Gaza's Hamas rulers and the opposing Palestinian party, Fatah, would mire aid efforts.
Israeli officials said they wanted to direct international aid to moderate forces in Gaza instead of handing funds to Hamas, a militant party that launched some 6,000 rockets into Israel over the last three years.
Relief groups, including Christian organizations like Barnabas Fund and Open Doors USA, are aiding both Muslims and the region's small Christian minority, working with local Bible societies and churches to provide food vouchers to residents. World Vision is preparing emergency kits for up to 100,000 people but says distribution depends on delivery access over Israel's otherwise closed border.
Stem-cell trial
The Food and Drug Administration granted approval Jan. 23 for California biotechnology company Geron Corporation to conduct the first human clinical trial using embryonic stem cells. Researchers plan to inject the stem cells, which were derived from leftover embryos at fertility clinics prior to former President George W. Bush's 2001 research restrictions, into the spines of up to 10 patients who suffer from severe spinal cord injuries. While the study will focus primarily on the safety of using the cells in humans, many proponents view the trial as the first step to further embryonic stem-cell research under the Obama administration. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., a vocal critic of embryonic stem-cell research, questioned the FDA's decision: "With the approval of a clinical trial utilizing embryonic stem cells, the FDA has taken it upon itself to determine when human embryos should be subject to research and experimentation."
Tainted sentencing
Chinese courts handed down death sentences Jan. 22 to two men involved in the tainted-milk scandal that killed at least six children and sickened thousands more last year. Authorities allege that Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinpin intentionally produced or sold dairy products laced with melamine, a toxic chemical used to inflate the milk's protein levels. Several others also received sentences, including dairy executive Tian Wenhua, who will serve life in prison for continuing to produce and sell the contaminated milk even after her company, Sanlu Group, learned it was dangerous.
The sentencing brings little satisfaction to Chinese families who say the perpetrators are scapegoats. More than 20 companies sold the tainted milk, but thus far the government has prosecuted only Sanlu's executives. Some parents allege that officials, in an attempt to avoid embarrassment, covered up the scandal ahead of the summer Beijing Olympics and others question why government officials and health inspectors have yet to face scrutiny for their glaring oversight.
Mi casa es su casa
Author and pastor Rick Warren has reportedly told a number of Anglican leaders that he is willing to aid dissident Episcopal churches "who need a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation," according to EP News, by sharing facilities on the campus of Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
About 100 Episcopal church congregations have split from the mainline church hierarchy over orthodoxy issues, and last month the California Supreme Court ruled against a Newport Beach parish, saying departing churches have to give up their property.
Free speech now
Yuba Community College permitted free speech on its Sacramento, Calif., campus-but only for an hour at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And then only with a permit secured two weeks in advance. So last year police threatened student Ryan Dozier with arrest and expulsion for engaging in evangelism in a park-like area of the campus. But in a settlement reached Jan. 23, Yuba officials agreed to correct the school's speech code and clear Dozier's record.
Little blue book
The Jan. 12 release of a new pocket book anthology of quotations from President Barack Obama's speeches and writings is generating controversy for its likeness to Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, the "Little Red Book" that was required reading during China's Cultural Revolution. According to the History Company's website, Pocket Obama "is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times." Company spokesman Jeff Turback told WORLD the book has been pretty popular-it has already sold out once on Amazon.com. "We've gotten a lot of positive comments and an amazing amount of negative comments [about the book]," Turback said. "It was done with a good spirit but people are really polarized about Barack Obama."
Man knows not his time
Simultaneously called one of the most theological American novelists and one of the most sexually and otherwise explicit, John Updike died Jan. 27 at age 76 of lung cancer. The author of dozens of novels, short stories, and other works was a Pulitzer and National Book Award winner and a favorite of critics. Updike died with a collection of short stories set to be published in June.
"My subject is the American Protestant small-town middle class," Mr. Updike said in a 1966 interview for Life magazine. "I like middles," he continued. "It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules."
As HBO prepared to premiere The Trials of Ted Haggard, a documentary about the fallout from the former pastor's 2006 sex and drug scandal, more trials surfaced. A former volunteer at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., where Haggard, 52, was pastor, revealed that Haggard performed a sex act in front of him in a hotel room in 2006 and sent him thousands of explicit text messages. Grant Haas, who was 22 at the time of the incident, also provided KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs documents that showed he was to be paid $179,000 by New Life through this year. Haas claims he is coming forward now because the church did not follow through on promises to pay for his counseling and medical treatment.
Haggard, who headed the National Association of Evangelicals from 2003 to 2006 and was listed by Time magazine as one of the top 25 most influential evangelicals in America, said in a statement released Jan. 26 that he met with Haas two years ago-after the first allegations came to light-and asked him for "forgiveness for our inappropriate relationship."
Brady Boyd, Haggard's successor as pastor at New Life, called the money the church has given to Haas "compassionate assistance-certainly not hush money."


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- In April, we told you about how D.C. officials were wooing LivingSocial to stay in the District by proposing tax incentives. Then, earlier this month, D.C. Council approved The Social E-Commerce Job Creation Incentive Act of 2012 to allow LivingSocial to consolidate its corporate headquarters in the District. Thursday, Mayor Vincent Gray signed the bill.
Mayor Gray said in a statement Thursday:
"Keeping LivingSocial in the District is important so that we can continue to draw additional business and tech companies to D.C. and help build the New Economy I talked about in my State of the District Address. This legislation, unlike any previous incentive package in the District, also ensures that the incentives received by the company are directly tied to the creation of new jobs for District residents."
According to D.C. officials, LivingSocial employs over 1,000 people in D.C., and half of them are District residents. LivingSocial has almost 5,000 employees worldwide.
In April, LivingSocial said in a statement:
"If passed, this legislation will help ensure LivingSocial creates more than a thousand new jobs in Washington, DC. Though a number of other cities approached us with compelling relocation offers, Washington, DC is LivingSocial's home and in our DNA. We are very grateful to Mayor Gray for his leadership and support in designing this mutually beneficial legislation, and we look forward to working with the City Council on its quick passage, which will allow LivingSocial to continue to grow and prosper with the District."
Under the legislation, at least 50 percent of LivingSocial's new hires have to be DC residents for it to receive "$32.5 million in benefits tied to real property and corporate franchise tax abatements." Officials say the bill also included "District commitments from LivingSocial, such as hiring local youth in the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) and assisting small businesses located along corridors affected by construction."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two groups with ties to the 1950s R&B group The Clovers who had been fighting over the use of the band's name have come to an agreement.
Lawyers for the two groups filed a document Friday in federal court in Washington saying they've settled a lawsuit over the name.
The original group The Clovers started performing in the Washington area and gained fame in the 1950s, in particular for their song "Love Potion No. 9." The group's fame fell off in the 1960s, however, and the members moved on.
Earlier this year, Florida resident Harold Winley, who was part of the group in the 1950s, sued to be able to use the name when performing.
The groups will now be known as Harold Winley and the Clovers and The Clovers.


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Oscar's filter
Academy Awards | It's worldview, not artistic merit, that helps unpopular films dominate the Academy Awards
Nine films are competing for the Best Picture award to be handed out at the 2012 Academy Awards extravaganza on Feb. 26-and the average box office gross of the nominees is one of the lowest in the last 20 years. Only one of the nine, The Help, could be considered a genuine hit. And, as with popular nominees of the previous two years, few industry insiders give it much chance of winning. (One Oscar betting site currently pegs its odds at 33 to 1.)
Since underrepresentation of crowd-pleasers prompted the Academy's decision in 2009 to have up to 10 Best Picture nominees each year rather than five, the natural question when sizing up this year's race is, what gives? The answer lies in a story that shows how worldviews make a difference both in making movies and choosing winners.
Let's start with that expansion decision, which followed years of sliding Oscar night ratings. The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis, said in a press conference that the Academy's goal was to expand the playing field for worthy films: "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize."
Yet while the move wasn't without precedent (prior to 1943, the Best Picture category often included as many as 12 nominees), many skeptical industry watchers surmised that while a desire to cater to the movie-going public played a part in the Academy's decision, the Academy had been shamed into it.
The 81st Academy Awards four months earlier saw the snubbing of The Dark Knight, one of the most financially successful, critically acclaimed films of the last decade: It was the highest-grossing movie of 2008 and also received a 94 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that averages the scores of film critics across the country. It received neither Best Picture nor Best Director nominations. Instead, less-regarded films like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Reader, which received only 72 percent and 62 percent positive averages, respectively, and grossed only small fractions of The Dark Knight's haul, made the cut.
Speculation that its popularity and superhero subject matter caused Oscar voters to diss The Dark Knight sparked widespread outrage across the blogosphere. Awards Daily, in a piece titled Oscar Shoots Self in Foot, wondered what criteria could have possibly accounted for the Academy's choice. "They don't think about ratings, they don't think about critics, they don't think about the public anymore (they certainly used to). So what do they think about?" wrote Sasha Stone. The Chicago Tribune's Marc Caro warned that Oscar might be flirting with irrelevance: "When the Academy denies top recognition to such critically and popularly beloved movies as The Dark Knight and Wall•E ... it risks confirming the suspicions of those who think it has grown out of touch with mainstream tastes."
During the question-and-answer session following his 2010 announcement of the Best Picture expansion, Ganis admitted, "I would not be telling you the truth if I said the words 'Dark Knight' did not come up."
The new, enlarged 2010 ceremony featured indie productions like The Hurt Locker and An Education going head-to-head with crowd-pleasers like Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, and Up. The widely publicized insider wisdom was that Avatar, based on the seismic impact it had on the entertainment landscape, stood a good chance of winning, and the other three nominations were pure audience bait with little to no hope of taking home the big award. In the end, all the big box-office players lost out to the low-budget war drama, The Hurt Locker (which made less money at the box office than any Best Picture winner in modern Oscar history), and 5 million more viewers tuned in.
Why did that happen? Britain's Daily Telegraph argued that the Academy refuses to "bow cravenly to box-office success; instead it rewards serious, accomplished filmmaking." But here's another suggestion: Filmmakers with the talent and resources to make excellent movies (which usually means movies that treat ideas seriously) are choosing themes that the broad swath of Americans find uninspiring if not outright offensive.
Think about Best Picture nominees that also have big box-office numbers. They tend to be films in which the main characters struggle to overcome either their own inner weaknesses or outer obstacles to achieve a specific moral ideal. Gladiator, Erin Brockovich, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Juno, Up, Inglourious Basterds, Seabiscuit, Slumdog Millionaire, The Departed, Avatar-all of these high-grossing Best Picture contenders of the last 10 years, whether you ascribe to their worldview or not, present a fixed concept of virtue. Character development and the subtext of the story serve to reinforce, not deconstruct, that concept.
Take last year's big winner, the natty, quintessentially aristocratic The King's Speech. For the good of his country King George perseveres to overcome his stutter and thus deliver a speech that uplifts and steels the hearts of his people during a war. Though it bore none of the usual markings of a movie likely to top $100 million, word of its excellence spread, and it eventually became a bona fide blockbuster. This year's sleeper hit, The Help, in which a young white journalist helps black maids in the segregated South speak out against oppression, followed a similar (indeed, even more dramatic) trajectory, as did 2009's The Blind Side, in which a wealthy family adopts an impoverished teenager. (It goes without saying that, though a conflicted character, The Dark Knight stands with those who battle on behalf of unconditional morality.)
The films Oscar voters have tended to award in recent years, on the other hand, frequently have themes of inner uncertainty and lack of a fixed moral compass. The characters may start out clutching onto an ideological ideal, but events of the story conspire to show how misguided or naïve they have been in trying to consistently apply that ideal to the vagaries of life.
For example, The Hurt Locker, while an excellent film, features soldiers unsure of their role in the Iraq War, questioning whether they fight because their cause is just or because they love the rush that comes from combat. The Descendants, one of the favorites to win Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards on Feb. 26, follows a man whose concept of marriage and family is decimated after he discovers his comatose wife had been cheating on him. He must learn, through blow after blow to his ego and his notion of what it means to be a parent, to accept new ideals, drawing wisdom from his teenage daughter and her pot-smoking boyfriend. When one minor character tries to apply an overarching virtue-forgiveness-to the distressing situation, she is portrayed as something of an embarrassment.
The 2010 indie nominee, The Kids Are All Right, which superficially made the case for same-sex parenting, featured partners who, along with cheating and lying to each other, are unsure of their sexual feelings and unsure whether those feelings are good or bad. Besides the inessentiality of fathers, the only moral ideal the film leaves its characters with is that acknowledging their uncertainty and slogging on despite it is better than fixing on a single definition of marriage and family.
Though not a Best Picture nominee, The Iron Lady (for which Meryl Streep is considered the frontrunner for Best Actress) serves as perhaps the best illustration this year of how a filmmaker's thematic choices may keep the public away from a movie they would otherwise have great interest in.
The basic facts of Margaret Thatcher's life are these-a lower-middle-class grocer's daughter struggles to win acceptance in the male-dominated Tory party of the 1970s before going on to become first leader of her party and then prime minister of Great Britain. During her time in office she triumphs over her political rivals, governs her country to renewed economic prosperity, and collaborates with other world leaders to help end the Cold War.
It would not have taken a hagiography to make a movie about Thatcher that resonated with American moviegoers. But it would have taken the perspective that Thatcher deeply believed in her stated political and moral ideologies, and that her dedication to them was what drove her to overcome all obstacles. Instead, in between showing a young Thatcher as blindly enthralled by politicians as other young girls were by the Beatles, director Phyllida Lloyd shows Thatcher's motivations and her own feelings about her goals to be suspect.
Told through the conceit of Thatcher looking back on her life while enduring the hectoring of her now-deceased husband, she considers that it may have been ambition rather than righteous passion that drove her: She quietly grieves what her triumphs may have cost her. In the end, the ideologies the Iron Lady stands on are shifting sand-perhaps not worth her lifetime of dedication. No wonder, despite its brilliant acting and riveting subject, the film failed to win much attention from moviegoers.
As in the case of The Iron Lady, filmmakers don't necessarily have to believe in absolute moral values to draw audiences, but if they want to make movies that make money for something other than mammoth spectacle and genre pandering, they should probably create characters who do. If Academy members want to draw more viewers to their TV screens next year, they might give more attention to well-made movies that feature crusaders, caped or otherwise.
Listen to Megan Basham discuss the Academy Awards on WORLD's radio news magazine The World and Everything in It.
Choice reviews
Since 2006 it's been my blessing and privilege to write movie reviews for WORLD. The following 20 films, representing all rating levels and genres, are some of my favorites:
October Baby PG-13 (Dec. 3, 2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes PG-13 (Aug. 27, 2011)
True Grit PG-13 (Jan. 15, 2011)
Of Gods and Men PG-13 (March 26, 2011)
Inception PG-13 (July 31, 2010)
Sherlock Holmes PG-13 (Jan. 16, 2010)
Babies G (May 22, 2010)
The Damned United R (Dec. 5, 2009)
The Blind Side PG-13 (Nov. 21, 2009)
Up G (June 6, 2009)
Star Trek PG-13 (May 23, 2009)
The Visitor PG-13 (March 14, 2009)
Gran Torino R (Jan. 17, 2009)
Frost/Nixon R (Dec. 13, 2008)
Wall•E G (June 28, 2008)
Prince Caspian PG (May 17, 2008)
Henry Poole Is Here PG (Sep. 6, 2008)
3:10 to Yuma R (Sep. 22, 2007)
Spider Man 3 PG-13 (May 5, 2007)
Astronaut Farmer PG (March 10, 2007)
Success in the arts
An artist should focus on service, not merely self-expression
By John Erickson
When I speak to young people about writing, I wonder if they will have the discipline and fortitude to endure the years of hardship that most apprentice writers have to experience. I also wonder if they will have the wisdom to cope with success, should it ever come their way.
As an aspiring author in the 1960s and '70s, I had a powerful drive to succeed. If I had been pressed to define the term, I would have said that a successful author is one who is able to support himself and his family through his writing. He should be able to make a living with his craft.
But there was more to it. I began to notice that many of the "successful" people in creative fields suffered fractured lives that led them into depression, burn-out, alcoholism, drug abuse, hedonism, and divorce-estrangement from faith, family, and community, everything that really mattered.
It seemed a cruel hoax. After an author, actor, musician, or artist had mastered his craft, after struggling and clawing his way to center stage, there he encountered a mockery of his ambitions, a dark mirror image that was, in fact, the direct opposite of success.
"Success" is a powerful concept in American culture. We are often described as "success-driven." We want our children to succeed, and we use success as a standard to measure a life and a career. We might suppose that anything so important would have a clear definition, but that's not the case in artistic professions.
I think it's important that people in creative fields define themselves and their ambitions outside the context of popular culture. Popular culture offers fame and fortune, but has no moral center. It's a fire that warms itself and uses artistic people as fuel. The fire burns hot for a while, then the ashes go to the dump.
It's a familiar story, and should remind us of the question Jesus asked in Mark 8:36. To paraphrase: "What's left of you after you've become a star?"
Until fairly recent times, art was viewed as more than the self-expression of an individual. It served a community and had a moral, ultimately religious, function: to present a coherent vision of who we are as human beings, and to provide guidance on how we should conduct ourselves in the short span of time we have on this earth.
The sense of community that nurtured and inspired artists in the past is hard to find in the present day, but not impossible. I have found remnants of it among people who try to view experience through the lens of a Christian worldview.
In such environments, artistic people can find a purpose, an audience, and a professional identity (some call it a "vocation") within the same stream of thought and belief that has nurtured great writers, composers, artists, and thinkers for the past 2,000 years-4,000, if we include our rich heritage from the Old Testament.
In that context, the artist serves something higher than himself. His art should be more than a summary of his lust, nightmares, and petty desires. And even though success in America is inextricably linked with money, success in the arts should deliver more than a fat bank account.
Christian artists must balance the needs of the flesh with the needs of the soul, bearing in mind that some things should not be put up for sale. If you're writing or performing for someone else's children, while your own children live as orphans, you're not selling your talent; you're selling your children-your soul.
Further, there are some songs that maybe you shouldn't sing, some books you shouldn't write, some movie roles you shouldn't take, and some words you shouldn't say.
Popular culture might not understand that kind of thinking, but our grandparents' generation would have had no problem understanding it. There are some things you shouldn't do for money.
From a Christian perspective, something is amiss when the artist entertains his audience but corrupts himself and the people he loves. As Francis Schaeffer once observed, the artist's ultimate work should be his own life.
-John Erickson is the author of the Hank the Cowdog book series


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Playing at the Mead, Sunday, December 2: A Fierce Green Fire
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Making its New York premiere on Sunday, December 2, at the Museum's Margaret Mead Film Festival, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet takes viewers deep inside the history of environmental movements around the world. Watch the trailer below.
MESSENGER Update with Sean Solomon: Monday, 11/5
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Learn about Sean Solomon and his work as a principal investigator for the MESSENGER spacecraft, which successfully entered Mercury's orbit in March 2011, at a Hayden Planetarium event tonight at 7:30 pm. What are the latest findings about the small, mysterious planet closest to the Sun?
Take a TR Tour of the Museum
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Learn more about President Theodore Roosevelt's connections to the Museum and to conservation, in a new self-guided tour, available as part of the Museum's Explorer app, or on our Web site.
The renovated Theodore Roosevelt Memorial reopens on Saturday, October 27. Join us for the all-day opening celebration!
Stunning Hall of North American Mammals Now Open: Meet the Curator
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Ross MacPhee, a curator in the Museum's Department of Mammalogy, served as the supervising curator for the stunningly restored Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals. Learn more about him and his work in a video from amnh.tv.
Adventures in the Global Kitchen: Modernist Cuisine
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For some professional chefs, an interest in science and technology has transformed their kitchens into laboratories where centrifuges and freeze dryers are just as useful as pots and pans. In this podcast, Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, co-author of the book, "Modernist Cuisine at Home," discusses ways that home cooks can use common kitchen tools to create astounding flavors.
This "Adventures in the Global Kitchen" event took place at the Museum on October 11, 2012.


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An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing three-year-old girl from the south side of Chicago.
The advisory from the Illinois State Police describes Marilyn Ali as being two-feet-six-inches tall and black. She has brown braided hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a pink shirt and khaki pants.
The Chicago police department said Ali was abducted by a woman who was allowed into the child's home to use the telephone.
The suspected abductor was described as a black female who is about five-feet-two-inches tall and 135 pounds.
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The AMBER Plan
The AMBER Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS), formerly called the Emergency Broadcast System, to air a description of the missing child and suspected abductor.
This is the same concept used during severe weather emergencies. The goal of the AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe return of the child.
AMBER Creation
How Does the AMBER Plan Work?
AMBER Plans Nationwide
Source: http://www.missingkids.org/ (The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Web site)


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"They told me they want to feature a hungry and underrated kid from Miami in their offense and that I am a four-star in their eyes."
Chestnut had double-digit scholarship offers when he chose the Red Raiders and he is a strong commitment, but is he done with the process?
"I am a solid commitment to them, but I am still open. I am still looking at Miami, Florida State, and West Virginia."
The three-star running back out of Columbus High School is 5-feet 9-inches tall and he weighs 190 pounds.


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Hi all.
Been playing RPGs for 20 years, mapping for myself about half that time. Too bad many of my maps were lost when I moved a few years ago; I hate when that happens.
Anyway, I recently started a new RPG campaign with my kids in a land I've been brewing for a few years. I've sketched a basic map of the area, but hit upon what I believe is a unique way to develop the map- I'm cross stitching the map, stitch by stitch. This allows me time to consider what I'm adding to the map, rather then get ahead of myself in the process.
Another memory comes to mind-
I spent a week with family at a lake in Maine, USA a few years back. Along the shore I found a semi-flat rock with lots of surface character. I drew and developed a map based on the shape and surface characteristics of that rock. That was fun!
Glad to be aboard.


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Saturday news, October 6
Le Mars Fire Department Responds To False Alarms At School
(Le Mars) -- Over a twelve hour time span, the Le Mars Fire and Rescue Department was called to the Le Mars Community High School three separate times for what turned out to be a faulty alarm system that kept sounding. Fortunately, no fire was reported at any time. Fire officials first responded to the alarm on Friday afternoon at about 4:30 p.m. Le Mars High School girls' volleyball team was told to evacuate the building while fire officials investigated. The volleyball team sought refuge in the school's bus barn while officials investigated. The second alarm came in this morning at about 4:45 a.m. Within a half hour, the alarm once again was activated at the Le Mars Community High School sending fire officials to again investigate.
Plymouth County Historical Museum Schedule October Events
(Le Mars) -- A Halloween haunted house, is on the October schedule for the Plymouth County Historical Museum in Le Mars. The Halloween event set for Saturday, October 20th, is intended for all ages and will be staged from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The haunted house will take place in the museum's basement. The haunted house tour will wrap up with "Candy at the Cabin." This will be at the Weber Log Cabin on the east lawn of the museum. Other activities scheduled for October at the Plymouth County Historical Museum includes Nathan Summerside presenting another Civil War battle. Summerside is scheduled to speak on Sunday, October 21st. The museum is planning to feature a ghost town exhibit at the old study hall. The many ghost towns of Plymouth County will be honored with photos and memorabilia. At the end of the month, the museum will feature its ethnic food fair which is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 28th.
Mapleton Receives Loan For Tornado Recovery
(Mapleton) -- The city of Mapleton has received a loan for more than $295,000 from the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division to help with recovery efforts after the 2011 tornado. Mapleton city clerk, Karla Uhl, says the community disaster loan will help fill gaps in the city's budget in line with projected revenue losses. Damage from the tornado has led to lower property tax collections. Uhl did not comment on when the loan is needing to be repaid.
Upper Iowa College President On Sabbatical
FAYETTE, Iowa (AP) - Upper Iowa University in Fayette says its president will be on sabbatical.
The private college says in a statement Friday that its Board of Trustees granted Alan Walker a sabbatical for the rest of the academic year.
Trustees Chairman Robert Firth says the board is aware of the "schedule and pace" that Walker has kept and the sabbatical is "well-deserved." He says Walker will be on sabbatical through
June 2013, and he plans to spend time reading, conducting research and spending time with family and friends.
The college acknowledged earlier this week that Walker was on a leave of absence, but wouldn't say why.
Walker has led Upper Iowa for more than eight years.
Waco School District To Try Four-Day Week
WAYLAND, Iowa (AP) - The Waco school district in southeast Iowa is planning a four-day school week with extended classes Monday through Thursday and optional time for activities Friday.
The Gazette in Cedar Rapids says the district is working toward the four-day week ahead of next year. The district has about 500 students and includes Wayland, Crawfordsville and Olds.
The plan, which has been approved by the state Department of Education, will be closely watched by education officials.
School Board President Tim Graber says Waco is the first in Iowa to be given the opportunity.
While school on Friday is optional, officials believe most students will participate. The activities will vary between grade levels. Elementary students, for example, will get reading assistance while high school students will be directed toward career advancement.
Woman Injured When Bridge Trestle Falls On SUV
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A woman has been injured when part of a railroad bridge fell on her SUV in Des Moines.
Authorities say the trestle was damaged Friday afternoon after it was hit by a pickup truck towing a crane on the city's north side. Parts of the metal support beams were knocked off and fell on
the SUV.
Jana Rooker of the Polk County sheriff's office says the driver of the SUV was rescued and flown to a hospital. There was no immediate word on her condition, but authorities say she was talking to rescuers.
Officials brought in another crane to lift the beams off the car.
Council Bluffs Investigate Home Invasion
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - Council Bluffs police are searching for suspects in a home invasion where a man ended up in the hospital with a head injury.
The Daily Nonpareil newspaper in Council Bluffs says the man was injured Friday morning when he and a brother tried to fight off three masked men.
Emergency Medical Services Director Rick Benson says the injured man was taken to a hospital in Omaha, Neb. He says the man was likely struck in the head with a blunt object, and had likely been
shot with a pellet gun.
Benson says the man was alert and talking when paramedics took him to the hospital.
Coralville Woman To Use Intoxication As Defense
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - An attorney for a Coralville woman charged in a house fire that killed a 14-year-old relative plans to use intoxication as a defense during her trial.
Court documents show the attorney for 50-year-old Lillie Williams filed notices of intoxication and diminished responsibility on Friday in Johnson County District Court.
Williams is charged with first-degree murder in the fire that killed Raymone Bryant in September 2011.
Williams' attorney, Sarah Hradek, also filed a motion to move the trial, citing pre-trial publicity.
Earlier this week, a judge ruled that Williams' 6-year-old grandson is competent to testify. The boy told authorities that he saw his grandmother pouring gasoline on a pillow and later saw the
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Leap Into Reading for Preschoolers
"Leap Into Reading" is a Minnesota Department of Education Initiative encouraging families to read together. We have a program scheduled at the Staples Public Library on Tuesday, Aug. 7 (6:00 to 6:30 p.m.). Branch Assistant Angie Johnson will lead a "Light up The Night With Storytime" for preschool through second-grade children. This fun program highlights Leap Into Reading and our summer reading program theme Dream Big Read.
Library Aide Judy Wolak is pictured with her display that encourages young families to include reading together as a fun and educational activity. Judy, a retired elementary school teacher, used her teaching talents in putting together the display.


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This set includes a printed sheet set and a solid sheet set - mix and match on the bed or keep one set on hand for washing!
Full Size:
Flat sheet: 81" x 96"
Fitted sheet: 54" x 75" + 15"
Standard pillowcase: 20" x 30"
Queen Size:
Flat sheet: 90" x 102"
Fitted sheet: 60" x 80" + 15"
Standard pillowcase: 20" x 30"
King Size:
Flat sheet: 108" x 102"
Fitted sheet: 78" x 80" + 15"
King pillowcases: 20" x 40"
California King Size:
Flat sheet: 108" x 102"
Fitted sheet: 72" x 84" + 15"
King pillowcases: 20" x 40"
Machine wash cold on gentle cycle. Do not bleach. Tumble dry low. Light iron as needed.
Made in China.
Complete with the matching:
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Also, due to the printing process of the pattern, slight imperfections in the pattern may exist.
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Family Days Out near to Congleton
Thanks for all the great things to do in Congleton with kids you keep sending in.
Now we have the easter and summer holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find the best days out and as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, horse riding, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, outdoor play at the best local parks, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys with many historical and educational atractions listed
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't shown above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people visiting on holidays and all the other children in Cheshire can enjoy the great day out as well.
Places to go in Cheshire | Kids fun in Staffordshire | Things to do in Chester
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Swimming in Congleton | Play centres in Congleton | Zoos in Congleton
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Microfiber is soft, durable and easy to care for. The flat sheet and pillowcases showcase a lace hem for a touch of elegance. The fitted sheet has a 15" pocket depth to fit today's mattresses up to 17" thick. Machine wash and dry this set for easy care. Offered in light, refreshing colors for a delicate look. Made from 100% polyester; made in China.
Full Size:
Flat sheet: 81" x 96"
Fitted sheet: 54" x 75" + 15"
Standard pillowcase: 20" x 30"
Queen Size:
Flat sheet: 90" x 102"
Fitted sheet: 60" x 80" + 15"
Standard pillowcase: 20" x 30"
King Size:
Flat sheet: 108" x 102"
Fitted sheet: 78" x 80" + 15"
King pillowcases: 20" x 40"
California King Size:
Flat sheet: 108" x 102"
Fitted sheet: 72" x 84" + 15"
King pillowcases: 20" x 40"
Complete with the matching pillowcase pair: 433-302.
Machine wash cold on gentle cycle. Do not bleach. Tumble dry low. Light iron as needed.
PLEASE NOTE: We make every effort to ensure colors are represented accurately online. Due to possible variances in manufacturer dye lots, however, colors may vary slightly from what is depicted.
Sheets can be made from many different fabrications. Various fibers and weaves are ultimately responsible for the particular performance characteristics of a sheet set.
Microfiber: Microfibers are tiny synthetic fibers. They measure less than one denier in size. They are one of the most commonly used fabrics in the upholstery industry; this is because of their ability to repel moisture and their strength and durability against wear and tear. This fabric can be used to make woven, non-woven and knitted textiles. Microfibers are also very soft to the touch, so they are great in water repellent clothing.


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'Modern Family' actor pushes for gay marriage
CHICAGO (AP) -- Advocates of gay marriage in Illinois are getting a boost from a television star from ABC's "Modern Family."
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is openly gay and plays Mitchell Pritchett on the show. He's launching a "Bow Tie Lobby Day" in Springfield Thursday. It symbolizes tying the knot.
In Chicago on Wednesday, Ferguson said he struggled with coming out but having a president who supports gay marriage gives him hope.
Lawmakers have reconvened in Springfield and plan to consider a proposal legalizing gay marriage.
Supporters say momentum in other states will work in their favor. They've received support from top business executives, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and some clergy members.
However, some religious groups aren't on board. Chicago's Cardinal Francis George has urged parishioners to let legislators know they oppose gay marriage.
ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Lawmakers are looking to take civil unions a step further. A senate committee will debate the legalization of gay marriage on Thursday. Both sides of the issue are campaigning hard to gather support in Springfield.
Reverend David Meggers of Christ the Rock Lutheran Church in Rockford is one of 1,700 religious leaders from around Illinois urging lawmakers to vote no on the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act. In a letter to state lawmakers, these faith groups say, this proposal would compel their congregations to compromise their long held beliefs.
"I wouldn't use the word gay and marriage in the same sentence because marriage is between one man and one woman. Marriage for us is the inion between one man and one woman," says Meggers.
Catholics, Lutherans, Muslims and others came together to pen the letter, a move that Meggers says is encouraging.
"Quite often we are more at odds then we are in agreement over something so it is good to see these groups coalesce around something like this," Meggers adds.
However, he and the other religious organizations face some high profile competition. Hollywood actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson appeared in Chicago on Wednesday to drum up support for marriage equity in Illinois, with the state's lieutenant governor at his side.
"I wish I were an odds maker, but I can't tell you but I'm optimistic and I'm pleased to be part of the effort," says Lt. Gov. Shelia Simon, when asked if she thinks the bill will pass.
The top Republican in the state, party chair Pat Brady, is even calling on fellow lawmakers to pass the bill. President Obama has also thrown his support behind the measure.
No matter the outcome, Meggers hopes the discussion on gay marriage in Illinois will remain respectful.
"I think that's what makes me glad to be a citizen of the united states is that we can have these kinds of disagreements that doesn't mean we dislike each other, we can argue over these kinds of issues."
"If the legislature passes the marriage equality bill, Illinois would become the 10th state to legalize same sex marriage. Civil unions became legal in 2011.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Members of Illinois religious groups -- from Catholic to Muslim -- have sent every state lawmaker a letter calling gay marriage "dangerous" to religious freedom.
The letter sent Wednesday is signed or supported by leaders of more than 1,700 churches, congregations and faith groups. It was given to The Associated Press in advance.
A legislative proposal to grant same-sex marriage could come before the Senate on Wednesday night.
Proponents say it would legalize civil marriage. Religious organizations would not have to recognize them.
But the letter says religious freedom extends beyond the house of worship. A law would "compel" faith groups to treat same-sex unions as the equivalent of traditional marriage.


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I have installed Zimbra 7.1.4_GA_2555.
After install I have open all port included in the zcs-ne-admin-guide.
Once downloaded Zimbra connector for Outlook and installed I open Outlook 2010 32bit and it asks me for:
Server name
Email address
I fill all the fields with Use secure connection unchecked it gives me the message:
Zimbra authorization Failure: you account could not be validated against the Zimbra server. Please make sure you are online, and that you entered the correct information
But If I go to the web access https://mail01.domain.com I can acces with the user and pass.
Then I try to use the connector with Use Secure connection Checked. And the message is completely diferent, it says:
Zimbra Authorization Failure: Your account could not be validated against the Zimbra server. Unable to establish a secure connection to the server because the identity of the server could noy be verified due to a problem with the servers certificate. Contact you system administrator for assistance. (As a temporary measure, you may be able to establish a non.secure connection by un checking the Use Secure Connection box on the profiles dialog.)
Please any idea?
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For those who grew up with Birkenstock sandals, their super-duper comfy, moldable footbed has attained something along the lines of legendary status. But what's a Birkenstock fan to do when the weather gets cold? Commit the socks-with-sandals fashion faux pas?! Surely not!
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These stylishly classic shoes are every bit as comfy as their sandal counterparts with the Birkenstock signature anatomically-correct molded footbed, but perfect for colder weather. Whether it's after hitting the ski slopes or just hanging out on the weekends, these Birkenstock shoes would make any Birkenstock fan a believer!


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- Covers nursing and allied health in with full text for more than 620 journals and 218 books/monographs. Also covers Pre-CINAHL. Provided by the MUSC Library in partnership with PASCAL, via EBSCO.
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- Covers nursing and allied health primarily as well as other medical disciplines. Citations and abstracts with some full text. Provided by the MUSC Library in partnership with PASCAL and Collegiate DISCUS, via EBSCO.
- IHM - Images from the History of Medicine
(National Library of Medicine)
- The Images from the History of Medicine database provides access to the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, posters and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine
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- This database provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
- PsycINFO
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- PsycINFO is a database of psychological literature provided by the American Psychological Association. Updated weekly, this resource contains citations from journals, dissertations, and book chapters from the 1800's to the present.
- PubMed
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- Recent Dissertations in the Medical Humanities
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- South Carolina Digital Library
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After announcing her withdrawal from the Olympics yesterday, it looks like Maria Sharapova will also be skipping the US Open due to the nagging shoulder injury. The news comes from an anonymous US Open official who didn't want their name revealed since Shrieka hasn't officially confirmed the withdrawal.
All in all, I say it's a very smart move. In fact, the Russian should close down shop and not come out until next year or, at the very least, the WTA Championships if she qualifies. She needs a good amount of down time to recover.
Happy healing Shrieka...
UPDATE: Maria posted the following update on her website confirming her withdrawal from the US Open -
Well my 24 hour medical tour came to an end yesterday after I met with Dr. David Altchek who is the premier shoulder doctor in the world. He looked at all my tests from April and today and informed me that I have been playing with a moderate tear in my rotator cuff tendon since April. He actually couldn't believe that I've been playing this long with this injury. You can imagine that I was not very thrilled to hear that my medical team did not see this tear in my shoulder back in April.
The good news is that it didn't get much worse since April but we could have started the healing time back then instead of now.
He does not believe that I need surgery and is sending me to work with a specialist in Arizona next week to do extensive rehab and strength work and he believes that I should be ready to play in 2-3 months. It hurts me so much to miss the Olympics and the US Open, you have no idea, just to type those words hurt!! I think this will be the first grand slam I have ever missed.
Now I need to move forward and stay positive. I am going to work hard to get healthy. I am going to do some extra work for my amazing sponsors who are always patient with me while I am playing tournaments and training. And I'm going to work on some business projects that I never have time to do, which will definitely keep me busy.
Once I'm healthy, I'm sure I'll look at this as a blessing in disguise. Right now it's a bit painful of course, but every athlete goes through these patches and I'm just grateful that this isn't as bad as it could have been.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of your support. Will give you another update in a week or so....
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But, the MaXx-D is powerful enough to use alone. Its aerospace grade, exquisitely CNC'd aluminum body mounts to your handlebars via a small, but sturdy CNC-machined aluminum clamp assembly for 31.8mm bars, and it includes a shim for 25.4mm bars. The clamp features a spring loaded button that holds it securely for trail use or over broken pavement. When you need to remove the light for charging you simply pull the red button and the lamp unit slides right out
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- Federal health advisers said overwhelmingly that the Roche drug Avastin's approval for breast cancer should be withdrawn after follow-up studies failed to show meaningful benefits for patients.
A Food and Drug Administration panel of experts voted 12-1 in favor of removing the drug's indication for use in breast cancer patients alongside chemotherapy on Tuesday.
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Ruston, LA (Sports Network) - Kenneth Dixon ran for 102 yards and four
touchdowns as the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs ran away from the UNLV Rebels,
58-31, in non-conference action at Joe Aillet Stadium.
Dixon carried the ball 16 times for the Bulldogs (5-0) as they remained
perfect on the season. Ray Holley led all ball carriers with 139 yards and
scored once on 22 attempts. Quarterback Colby Cameron converted 31-of-45
passes for 316 yards and a score for the hosts as well.
The Rebels (1-4), losers of two straight, were paced by Nick Sherry who hit on
22-of-46 passes for 378 yards and four touchdowns and was picked off once in
the losing cause. Devante Davis caught eight passes for a game-high 186 yards
and a score.
After just 15 minutes of action the Bulldogs owned a 20-7 advantage as Cameron
had a six-yard TD pass to Quinton Patton, Holley found the end zone on a nine-
yard run and kicker Matt Nelson knocked through field goals of 27 and 33
The Rebels managed to score a touchdown of their own at the 9:42 mark of the
first frame when Sherry hooked up with Taylor Barnhill on a 33-yard pass play.
Dixon scored the first of his TDs in the second period when he capped a 10-
play, 98-yard drive with a one-yard run to make the score 27-7.
Refusing to go away quietly, UNLV scored 10 points in the final six minutes of
the first half as Sherry and Davis combined on a 27-yard TD pass and kicker
Nolan Kohorst made good on a 25-yard field goal, cutting the deficit to 27-17
at the break.
Sherry took the Rebels down the field on their first possession of the third
quarter, threading the needle on several passes, one of those being a 46-yard
effort to Marcus Sullivan which ended up in the end zone. However, Sherry was
hit hard on the final play of the drive and he was clearly in pain on the
sidelines as a result.
Aided by a pass interference penalty on the Rebels, Louisiana Tech marched
right down the field in less than two minutes and scored a touchdown of their
own as Dixon crossed the goal line from 10 yards out to push the difference
to double figures once more.
Nelson added a field goal of 43 yards for the Bulldogs and later in the frame
Dixon scored his third touchdown of the night on a 15-yard run up the middle
to give the hosts a commanding 44-24 advantage.
Less than three minutes into the fourth quarter it was Dixon yet again for the
Bulldogs as he bulled his way into the end zone from seven yards out to extend
the LaTech lead to 27 points. Eating up almost four and a half minutes on the
clock, the Bulldogs finished off an eight-play, 55-yard drive with a 17-yard
touchdown run by Hunter Lee in order to reach a season-high 58 points.
Barely a minute later Sherry rushed the Rebels down the field once more and
managed to register one more score, thanks to a 13-yard TD pass to Anthony
Williams but by then it was too little, too late.
Ranked first in the Western Athletic Conference and fifth in the nation in
scoring (52.0 ppg) heading into the week, Louisiana Tech is now undefeated
through five games for the first time since 1975 and has extended its regular-
season win streak to 12 straight.
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Ive installed zimbra on an ubuntu server. Seems to work great but I cannot receive mail unless i turn off dns lookups in zimbra. Then, i can receive mail fine but cannot send.
In looking at the zimbra wiki it states the steps to check your domain and server MX and A records with 'host -t mx' and 'host -t a'. We did these and additionally went to dnsreports.com and everything looks perfect. Is there something else we can check to see whats going on?
fyi in the zimbra admin console i can see the incoming emails being deferred because the connection is refused. Zimbra sits on the same physical box as the host the records are pointing to.
I would greatly appreciate any help.


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Chamber music > Piano Quintets
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto (Harpsichord) G major Hob. XVIII:4
Editor: Bettina Wackernagel, Horst Walter
Fingering: Klaus Schilde
Cadenza: Axel Ruoff
Figured bass realization: Siegfried Petrenz
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Urtext Edition, Viola
Pages: 6, Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
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