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A. American Express is increasingly becoming a popular Card with consumers, small businesses and corporations. With a strong loyalty program, and a high quality customer base, American Express Cardmembers are high spenders, average spend is 129% higher than that of Non American Express Card holders in Hong Kong1. When you put this together with our strong Corporate Card presence and our traditional Consumer Cards, it means there's a more diverse and larger range of people who carry our Cards.
Q. My competitors don't accept it. Why should I?
A. American Express® Cardmembers have been proven to have higher transaction values and spend 129% more than average spend of Non-American Express cardholders. This is supported by a strong loyalty program. American Express offers an opportunity for Merchants to attract and retain great customers. What's more, American Express Cardmembers actively seek out accepting Merchants, which gives your business the chance to stand out from the rest.
Q. How quickly am I paid for my American Express transactions?
A. This will vary, with some Merchants receiving in two business days payments. However, please note this is dependent on your agreed payment plan.
Q. Why do you pay net? Other Card issuers don't.
A. Net payments means we simply pay for the American Express charges, less the amount of the Merchant fee. We find this is a simpler & easier way of doing business which means we are not regularly deducting fees from your bank account. We provide online or paper-based reporting which makes reconciliation and reporting easy for your business.
Q. How will you help me attract American Express Cardmembers?
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Q. I am already an American Express Merchant. How do I find my Merchant number?
A. Your Merchant number can be found on the top left-hand side of your statement. It is a ten digit number, beginning with the digits 981 (Hong Kong Merchants only).
Q. What is Online Merchant Services?
A. Online Merchant Services (OMS) enables you to manage your account via the Internet. Once enrolled, you can view your statement quickly and securely, whenever you need to. For more information, please contact us on 2277 2277 (Monday to Friday, 9:00am-6:30pm) (except public holidays).
Q. Why should I manage my account online?
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- Export your statement to a spreadsheet application, for further analysis
- Easily find date, or Card number-specific settlements, transactions, adjustments or Chargebacks on your account
- View financial data for all your branches with one User ID, making it easier if your payments are reconciled centrally
Q. Do you charge for Online Merchant Services?
A. No. In fact, if you become an American Express Merchant and enrol for Online Merchant Services, you will automatically be switched to paperless statements. Saving you $50 (HKD) per statement (the amount we charge for issuing your paper one). The benefits are that you can view your statement quickly and securely, whenever you need to and is more environmentally friendly.
Q. What are the minimum technical requirements for using Online Merchant Services?
A. You may use either an IBM compatible or Apple Macintosh ® personal computer that can run Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01, IE 6.0.29 or higher. We recommend using a 28.8kbps or higher modem.
Q. Can my employees have a different username and password for my account(s)?
A. Yes, you can have more than one User ID and password for your account, so every employee using OMS can have separate access to the same account.
Q. How far back does my online statement go?
A. Your current statement shows you up to 35 days' worth of activity. Plus your last 13 months' activity is also available, if you require it. You also have the option to print and file your statements.
Q. Can I export my financial data for further analysis?
A. Yes, you can export your statement details into spreadsheet applications like Microsoft® Excel. For more details, please contact us on 2277 2277 (Monday to Friday, 9:00am-6:30pm) (except public holidays).
Q. Can I view individual transactions online?
A. Yes. You can easily view amount, date range, or Card number-specific transactions.
Q. What is a dispute?
A. Occasionally, a Cardmember contacts American Express to query a charge, either because they don't recognise it or require additional information about it. Usually, this occurs within 60 days of the Cardmember receiving their statement. This is known as a 'dispute'.
Q. What is a Chargeback?
A. When a Cardmember disputes a charge, we check the details of the transaction with the Merchant. If there's reason to uphold the dispute, we credit the Cardmember's account, and debit the Merchant's account with the transaction amount. This is known as a 'Chargeback'.
Q. Would I be notified of a dispute or Chargeback?
A. If a Cardmember questions a charge and the information we hold is insufficient to resolve the issue, we may contact you for further information. We'll send you a 'Request for Information Letter', outlining the reason for the dispute and specifying the documents we require from you. Please ensure that you respond fully by the reply-by date indicated on the letter.
In certain circumstances, we initiate a Chargeback without sending a 'Request for Information letter'. An example of this is with Merchants who receive a lot of disputes, or conduct transactions in what we consider to be risky business environments.
Anytime that an enquiry results in a Chargeback to your account, we will notify you accordingly.
Q. What is fraud, and how does it affect me?
A. Fraud comes in many forms, like stolen and counterfeit Cards, for example. It's likely you'll have to deal with attempted fraud at some point, so it's important that you recognise the telltale signs to avoid fraudulent transactions. If you're slow to react, it can result in loss of goods and revenue through Chargebacks.
Q. How can I avoid fraudulent transactions?
A. We take the security of your business very seriously, that is why we provide guidelines to help you avoid fraudulent activity, whichever type of transaction you are dealing with.
Some ways to help detect fraud include:
- Checking that the Card has not expired, and has not been altered or damaged
- Carefully comparing the customer's signature on the receipt, with the signature on the Card
- Only sending merchandise to the billing address on the Card, and obtaining signed proof of delivery
- Making sure your Internet checkout is secure, with industry-standard encryption
Q. What is the Data Security Operating Policy?
A. It's an American Express policy with which all Merchants, Processors, and Service Providers that store, process or transmit American Express® Cardmembers' information must comply. This policy has been strengthened to reflect current business conditions, provides additional requirements to help safeguard Cardmembers' information and conforms with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI Standard). The PCI Data Security Standard sets out a common set of technical requirements for safeguarding sensitive payment data which are applicable across the industry.
Q. Who does the Data Security Operating Policy apply to?
A. It applies to all entities (Merchants and Service Providers) who process, store or transmit Cardmembers' information. Its requirements apply to all equipment, systems and networks on which American Express Cardmembers' information is processed, stored or transmitted.
Q. Why is the Data Security Operating Policy important to my business?
A. Compromised data can have a negative impact on your business, other Merchants and Card issuers. Even one incident can severely damage a company's reputation and its ability to conduct business effectively. Addressing this threat by implementing security operating procedures can make your customers feel more secure and enhance the reputation of your business.
Q. Why should my business comply with Data Security Operating Policy?
A. The Data Security Operating Policy is a sound business practice and a requirement of American Express. By accepting American Express ® Cards, you agree to be bound to terms and conditions of our Card Acceptance Agreement, which includes data security requirements and mandates compliance with American Express policies and procedures.
Q. Does the Data Security Operating Policy still apply to me if I do not store Cardmembers' information?
A. Yes, the policy still applies to any of your equipment, systems, and networks that transmit or process Cardmembers' information.
Q. Can a Merchant or Service Provider be considered compliant if it has outstanding non-compliance issues?
A. We encourage Merchants and Service Providers to complete an initial review, develop a remediation plan, complete items on the remediation plan, and revalidate compliance of those outstanding items. This plan can be submitted to American Express for review until full compliance can be achieved. If American Express accepts the plan, at its sole discretion, it can choose not to impose the non-validation fees for a Merchant's failure to provide the documentation validating its compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard. A Merchant may still remain liable for fraud as a result of a security compromise.
Q. How does the Data Security Operating Policy compare to the PCI Data Security Standard?
A. The PCI Data Security Standard is the technical foundation for the Data Security Operating Policy, allowing Merchants and Service Providers to comply with one set of data security technical standards. The Data Security Operating Policy defines the levels, requirements and validation deadline for American Express.
Q. I've been contacted by a company called Trustwave on behalf of American Express. I don't know who this Trustwave company is, and this sounds like a phishing scam. How do I know this isn't a scam?
A. American Express has retained Trustwave to help us administer our Data Security Compliance Program. Trustwave is a leading provider of information security and compliance management solutions to Merchants and Service Providers. We are glad you're checking up on this - we can assure you that this company is reputable and will adhere to all American Express privacy principles.
Q. Can I use another company other than Trustwave to conduct the required assessment and/or scans?
A. Yes. You may use any of the approved vendors listed at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/approved_companies_providers/index.php
Q. If I used another company to conduct my scan, do I have to provide it to Trustwave?
A. Yes, it will be necessary for you or your chosen authorized security vendor to submit this information to Trustwave (TW). TW has been contracted and authorized to collect this information on behalf of American Express.
Q. May I submit my validation documentation directly to Trustwave?
A. Yes, you may submit your validation documentation to Trustwave via our secure portal. Send an email to Trustwave at email@example.com and request a customised link to the secure portal. Uploading your validation documentation is quick and easy.
A. The criteria that we use to assess the eligibility of your Establishments are:
· Your Establishment currently accepts Card Present Charges (excluding Establishments that only conduct Internet, mail or telephone orders)
· Your Establishment is not in an industry that we consider "high risk". See below list of "high risk" industries.
· Your Establishment is not on our Fraud Full Recourse Program.
· For enquiry, please contact our Merchant Services Hotline on 2277 2277 (Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 6:30pm) (except public holidays).
Q. What do you consider to be "high risk" industries?
A. We consider high risk industries, as follows:
· Auction Sales
· Bail Bondsman
· Cardmember Activated Terminals (such as Road Tolls, Car Parking Stations and Garages, Petrol Pumps, Cinema Kiosks, and Railway Self-Service Ticketing)
· Detective Agencies
· Charities
· Door to Door Sales
· Financial Services
· Internet Electronic Services
· Night Clubs
· Online Pharmacies
· Payment Service Providers (Aggregators)
· Personal Services
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By Sean Collins
Being a distance runner is not something that a lot of people who aren't distance runners really understand. They hear all of the questions, "Don't you hate running over 20 laps around the track? Doesn't it get boring doing the same every day? For practice you just…run?"
But at the University of Arizona, the distance runners themselves love it; it's what they do. They wake up early nearly every morning and run for miles at different locations in Tucson. One particular Wildcat, Nicci Corbin, who is in her third year at Arizona, loves running miles and miles. Under the tutelage of head coach James Li and assistant coach Maureen Huber, Corbin has improved dramatically over the course of her career at Arizona. She is a junior on the No. 2 women's cross country team (she is a junior for indoor track and a sophomore for outdoor track).
The long runs are not something she dreads like the average person does. She embraces them and tries to give her very best each and every day.
"I think that I have improved because I have always been very hard working," Corbin said. "It sounds cliché but with everything I do, I make sure it's my best effort. I think that effort has a lot to do with success."
Corbin is a sponge for success, always listening to successful people and seeing what they did in order to become successful.
"I just watched a video about John Wooden," Corbin said. "He was really successful and he said that success is all about your effort. I think that's really the main reason behind my improvement, just putting 100 percent mentally and physically every day."
Corbin's freshman year on the cross country team in the fall of 2011 was a learning experience. She learned from her teammates and coaches and knew what she was going to do differently next time around in order to improve.
"Jen Bergman helped me out," Corbin said. "Without all of my teammates to push me, I wouldn't be able to achieve so much as well. I always have to have my teammates there."
Corbin's freshman year ended at the NCAA West Regional as she was not selected as one of the ladies to travel to the NCAA Championships. Rather than get upset by it and let it negatively affect her, Corbin turned it into motivation to make sure it didn't happen again.
"That made me want to dig down deeper and dig even more," Corbin said. "I didn't travel to the last meet and that got me down but I put a lot more focus, time and dedication into the next season. I had a really good indoor season and set a personal-best mark in the mile by a lot. I changed my attitude after the cross country season, so what that I didn't go, I did the best I could."
Corbin's last indoor race was not how she wanted to end the season; she was running with a stress fracture. The x-rays showed she had a stress fracture and she had to redshirt the outdoor season.
"I had to do a lot of cross training," Corbin said. "It was a lot of work, to equivocate how much mileage and how much effort we exert in a day when we run, without actually running, is very difficult. I would wake up really early morning and swim laps, I would just freestyle for a while and then I would do the elliptical for about 60 minutes or even longer. I would work out like three hours a day and just wear myself out in order to get myself stronger. "
Director of Cross Country and Track and Field Fred Harvey has an email signature and in all caps at the end of it, it says, "When the sun comes up, you better be running." Unfortunately, Corbin couldn't run, so she found other ways to improve herself as a competitor.
"What else is there to do? I wasn't running so I figured I might as well do something," Corbin said. "I think that also propelled me to improve, I used different muscles and the time and effort I put into all of that, it made the actual running so much easier and I was able to improve different areas. I think the injury was a blessing in disguise. It seemed to be a good thing."
As a sophomore, Corbin was a member of the cross country team that took second place at the 2012 Pac-12 Championships and earned a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. As a redshirt freshman on the track in the spring of 2013, Corbin earned all-conference honors in the 1,500-meter race and the 5,000-meter race. She competed in the 5K at the NCAA Championships and earned second-team NCAA All-America honors.
"As I see myself improve, I surprise myself." Corbin said. "I never thought I could be at this level right now. It gives me more confidence in myself and in what I'm capable of, what anybody is capable of. Coach Harvey always says, 'Once you get to this level, it's 90% mental.' You just have to be positive, focused, passionate and dedicated. My first outdoor season was so exciting and every season is a propeller for the next. I always picture it as there's another step I can climb to."
Corbin has a very confident outlook heading into the final race of the 2013 cross country season. She has goals clearly set for herself and she is also striving to complete the team's ultimate goal of winning the NCAA Championship.
"The team has been amazing this year," Corbin said. "Everybody is 100 percent focused and all-in and that's the kind of team you need to win an NCAA Championship. We're not going to do anything extraordinary, we're going to keep doing what we've been doing. I want to make sure that I give it my all; I want to collapse at the finish line. My main goal is to finish in the top 25 and be a first-team All-American."
Corbin has improved and grown as a runner. This cross country season she earned all-conference honors, taking sixth place at the Pac-12 Championships. She followed up that performance with a 12th-place finish at the NCAA West Regional Championships, earning all-region honors. All-America accolades seem like a very attainable goal for Corbin on Saturday.

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I have new mainshaft, new thrust washers, new bearings..have measured the thrust washers and they are all correct sizes..
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OR is there a difference in clutch gears between model years..ie...two bolt vs. three bolt mounted xmsn's??
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Park City may be known for its athletes, but they've never had a male alpine skier who won multiple Olympic golds. Come to think of it, neither has the rest of the United States. Meet legendary Olympian Ted Ligety as he returns to his roots on March 29.
Last month, Ted came home from Sochi with a gold in alpine Giant Slalom. His first gold medal was at Turin eight years ago. Of course, Ted also just won his fifth World Cup giant slalom season title in Switzerland this month.
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Salt Lake City fave Rachel Yamagata is playing a sold-out concert Friday night at The State Room. Most sell-outs at this venue feature a few tickets available out front about an hour before showtime, but that's likely your only way in to this and I wouldn't even bet on that for this gig. Here's Rachel's latest video:
Also Friday, local band Afro Omega will be at The Depot as part of the venue's "Trench Town Rock" evening. Should be fun and tickets are only $10.
Another option Friday is over at Kilby Court as Little Scream makes an appearance. Their release, "The Golden Record," is worth checking into, as this concert will be. Music starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are just $8.
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- 4 flour tortillas (6 inches)
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- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Cut each tortilla into eight wedges; place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Meanwhile, in a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening. Stir until smooth; keep warm.
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine confectioners' sugar and cinnamon. Add tortilla wedges a few at a time; shake to coat. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Drizzle with melted chocolate. Refrigerate until serving. Yield: 32 cookies.
Reviews for Mexican Cookies
"These were good and I didn't have any trouble with the powdered sugar or chocolate sticking to the tortilla but maybe next time I will follow the suggestion of lightly spraying the wedge before putting in the bag of sugar and cinnamon. Very easy to make and I'm sure these will be added to my Christmas Bake Day!"
"These tasted so good! Definitely give them a heavy coating of the butter flavored spray; and get your chocolate thin & runnier than perhaps usual and it will stick better. Also putting them somewhere to cool right after drizzling the chocolate will help make the chocolate stick even better to the powdered sugar."
"I made these cookies for my son's Spanish class on Cinco de Mayo. The kids and teachers loved them. They all want the recipe. I followed the suggestion of spraying the tortilla wedges with butter spray. The powdered sugar clung perfectly to the tortillas."
"Made these for Cinco de Mayo. They tasted good but the chocolate would not stick to the powdered sugar. How did Taste of Home get their chocolate to stick?"
"Made these last night for today (Cinco de Mayo) - I took advice from other bakers to spray with butter - worked good! Will make them again and again! Maybe for Cinco de June !! :)"


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Despite being a Viking's fan, I am not writing this as a fan bitter about the loss. The Lions outplayed them and were actually hosed out of touchdown (Calvin Johnson was jobbed)
However, I'm just tired of seeing Ndamukong Suh rack up injury after injury with illegal hits. A man with his athletic ability does not need to result in such repeated cheap shots. Yesterday's shot on Sullivan was just another on the list of really violent cheap shots. I'd love to see him get suspended for his play.
I'm not a big die-hard pro sports guy, so I guess I find it easier for me to say this, but I wouldn't want him on my team because I would have a hard time cheering for him. I remember when Albert Haynesworth became a free agent and some fellow Viking's fans were talking him up. All I could think was, "There is no way in hell that I can ever root for a guy like that." That cleating incident made me root for him to fail, and that is not in my character.
Suh is starting to drift towards that level with me. I'm interested to hear a Lion's fan's point of view on him. I know he does a ton of charity work, so don't pepper me with that argument please. I just want to know if you get tired of having to defend his actions to the point of you not wanting him on your team, or if the results on the field allow him a pass.
Dirty players gonna be dirty.
Eyes closed, head first, can't lose.
Take a look at where he learned that from...
Cyclones | Vikings | Royals | Red Wings
Hey, watch your mouth. He may be a bugeater but as a Lions fan, I forgive him :)
Cheap hit, hope he is suspended, no place in football for a low hit like that behind the play.
Go Cyclones!!
**** Iowa!!
Completely uncalled for
I don't know. Something just doesn't add up with this guy. If we're playing armchair shrink, I would guess he has an anger management problem that so far has only manifested on the football field.
At any rate, hes reached the point where if I was a GM I wouldn't want him on my team. The potential is there, but the results just don't outweigh the distractions at this point. On the other hand, the Lions have already sunk so much money into him that they're kind of stuck with him for better or worse.
Originally Posted by cyclonespiker33
Completely uncalled for
Yeah, I just don't get that. That OLineman was not gonna catch him. Total ****** move.
wow, hadn't seen that yet. Wouldn't be surprised to see another suspension with his history.
"But lets see if the Cyclones can give everyone a nice big ****burger to eat. Opportunity awaits." -Brent Blum
"I am the one who knocks" -Walter White
Man if you think Lions fans are bad trying to defend, you should hear the husker half-wits doing it. Ridiculous.
Never heard the extent of Sullivan's injury. I despise Suh, you can tell he has no remorse at all.
Ndamukong Suh of Detroit Lions faces discipline from NFL for low block on John Sullivan of Minnesota Vikings - ESPN
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
Originally Posted by jbindm
I don't know. Something just doesn't add up with this guy. If we're playing armchair shrink, I would guess he has an anger management problem that so far has only manifested on the football field.
I'd guess that he's a guy that plays with a lot of hate and anger on the field and hasn't learned how to keep it under control. I've seen his "apologies" after the stomp and I think it's pretty obvious that he never thinks he's in the wrong.
I've seen ALOT worse than that. I must be the only one that isn't horrified by that block.
Originally Posted by isuno1fan
I've seen ALOT worse than that. I must be the only one that isn't horrified by that block.
Next tailgate we can get together so I can try Suh's "block" on you while you run at full speed. Then we'll see how bad it is.
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Diest, set in a bend of the River Demer, is a peaceful town with partly-preserved ramparts. It was once a stronghold of the House of Orange, whose most famous member was William of Nassau, leader of the United Provinces revolt against Spain. He also founded the Orange-Nassau dynasty to which Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands belongs. St Jan Berchmans, patron saint of pupils, was born in the street bearing his name in 1599 and died here in 1621.
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Begijnenstraat B - 3290 Diest
This 13C Beguine convent is one of the largest in Belgium. Its Baroque entrance (1671) is adorned with a niche housing a Virgin and Child. The 90 current buildings, ornamented with gables and niches, date from the 17C and 18C. The former Apostelen co..
Stadsmuseum De Hofstadt
B - 3290 Diest
The Town Hall crypt setting enhances the museum's appeal. Under 14C red sandstone Gothic vaulting, note a 15C painting on wood depicting the Last Judgement, the replica of a famous marble statue of the Virgin and Child and 15C-16C armour. The Romanes..
Main Square
B - 3290 Diest
The church of St Sulpitius and St Denis stands in the middle of this pretty square, lined with 17C and 18C houses and an 18C neo-Classical town hall.
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Hotel De Franse Kroon
Leuvensestraat 26-28 B - 3290 Diest
The charming 3-star Hotel De Fransche Kroon is centrally located in the historical city of Diest. Find yourself comfortably settled at walking distance from the Grote Markt and the Begijnhof. Rooms are nicely decorated and have their own bathroom. T..
Hotel The Lodge Diest
Refugiestraat 23 B - 3290 Diest
Located in a characteristic 16th-century building, this romantic hotel offers tastefully decorated guest rooms. Across the street in the restaurant is a bright conservatory and a quiet courtyard terrace. Benefit from free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel. ..
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De Groene Munt
Veemarkt 2 B - 3290 Diest
Townhouse overlooking the square where the cattle market used to be held. Cosy classic and modern setting, fine terrace courtyard, carefully prepared dishes under cover.
Casa Iberico
Kautershoek 1 B - 3290 Diest
In the mood for some sunshine without having to fly off to Spain? Try the perfectly prepared paella here and you will feel like you are there.
De Proosdij
Cleynaertsstraat 14 B - 3290 Diest
Although the Inquisition tribunals met here in the 17C, nowadays your only hard decision will be to choose the right dish among all the classics created by the chef.


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Patagonia's 2006-2007 environmental campaign is devoted to the oceans. In this first essay of an 18-month series, the eminent author and ecologist, Dr. Carl Safina, reminds us, through the story of one Kemp's ridley turtle, of both the abundance and fragility of life in the sea.
The morning chill carried that clean-sheet crispness; that cleansing sort of air. Actually, for the tip of Long Island in early December, this weather was a little late in coming. But walking from our house to the shore of the bay, the new crystal air made me finally look ahead toward winter and turn my back to what had been a spectacular, lingering fall.
Every autumn here witnesses two great migrations: one axiomatic and one nearly unknown. Everybody knows birds fly south for the winter. Here, the marshes and barrier islands are interstate arteries for heavy traffic of songbirds, waterfowl, hawks and others. But except for people who fish, almost no one realizes the greater migration begins just beyond the beach.
This year, as usual, swarms of fish had arrived from New England in the last few weeks and departed down the coast in great migrating waves. They included millions and millions of anchovies and menhaden, pursued to the surface by armies of bluefish, striped bass, little tuna. Along the seafloor battalions of summer flounder, black sea bass, tautog, porgies and others moved to deeper grounds. Offshore, beyond sight of land on the rolling blue prairies of the sea, sharks and tunas passed like herds on the Serengeti (though now, like those herds, much diminished). Herring and mackerel had arrived mid-November with dolphins on their tails, and the remaining schools of striped bass, fattening for their long run to winter grounds, gobbled them greedily. Even now, into December, a few boats were still hunting bass. But we had caught enough, our freezer was stocked for winter and our smoker racks were busy, and we'd just hauled the boat.
Patricia and I put our footsteps to the gravelly beach and walked to the inlet to see who'd recently arrived. Bonaparte's gulls, a few long-tailed ducks, some black scoters and in the distance the feathered missiles called gannets were sending geysers skyward as a flock poured into a herring school. To me, this seasonal sense of place in the path of migrations, this finger on the pulse of the planet, is the purest joy.
We were just rounding the inlet entrance when, among the shells and tide-wrack, my gaze caught something so unexpected – here, and in this near-frost – it seemed improbable as a fallen angel: a sea turtle.
It was a baby, with a platter-sized shell. Species: Kemp's ridley, most endangered of all Atlantic turtles. Stunned by the boreal air and 49-degree water, the turtle's only sign of life was a mark in the wet sand suggesting a flipper had moved sometime since high tide had left it and withdrawn.
This nation that sees itself stretching from sea to shining sea conceals beneath her broad, waving skirts of bordering oceans some of the greatest wildlife in the world. And because it's so effectively hidden, it's some of the least understood.
Though the saltiness of our blood and tears speaks from within of our parent ocean, for most people oceans seem distant, out of sight and generally out of mind. Even many who love nature, who see our landscape and imagine herds of bison and skies darkened by passenger pigeons and clouds of waterfowl, who escape into the woods or mountains or even the shore, seem to get their vision stranded on the beach as though wildlife stops at the high-tide line, where our little stunned turtle reminded us that so much actually begins.
The water makes a perfect disguise that heightens the mystery, but in some ways that's a great pity, because the closest thing we have left to the thundering herds and great flocks is in the sea. Extending your vision into the grand swirl and suck of the many-fingered tides and beyond will grant you a renewed sense of both the abundance and fragility of life.
Whether or not we can see, hear, or feel the ocean from our own home territory, the ocean certainly feels all of us. Between a third and half the world's people now live within 50 miles of a coast (as any traveler can attest). In China, population density is three times higher in coastal areas than elsewhere. The collective weight of humanity may rest on land, but we levy heavy pressure on the sea. Most of us exert our most direct interaction with the sea through the seafood we buy. But even air quality affects water quality because what goes up alights elsewhere, and climate change is challenging ocean habitats by melting sea ice and cooking corals, undermining food supplies for penguins, polar bears and reef fishes.
People who think of themselves as conservationists carry a concern for wildlife, wildlands and habitat quality as part of their sense of right and wrong. It is time to take these concerns below high tide. Most people would not question a hawk's place in the sky, nor ask what good is a gazelle, nor wonder whether the world really needs wild orchids. Yet when told of the plight of, say, sharks, many still think it quite reasonable to inquire, "What good are they; why do we need them?" Fifty million buffalo once roamed the rolling green prairies of North America. Gunners reduced them to near-extinction. Now, hunters cut from the same cloth are at work on the rolling blue prairies of the sea and, already, the big fish – including miracles like thousand-pound, warm-blooded bluefin tuna – are 90 percent gone. What we regret happening on land may again happen in the sea. Those who care about wildlife should get to know about oceans.
We brought the turtle home and warmed it a bit in the sun. It began to shed tears, a sign of ongoing glandular function and, for us, heightened hope. Soon a flipper waved – a certain signal of persistent life. Shortly thereafter, the aquarium people arrived to bring our little patient into veterinary rehab. Slowly warmed, within a few hours it was conscious and swimming, safe until release next spring.
Whether we help one unlucky creature or wish to save the world, for each of us the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake – with our minds, hearts and hands – to restore its abundance. Where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire more hopefulness than the great, life-making sea, home to creatures of mystery and majesty, whose future now depends on human compassion, and our next move.
Comes a Turtle, Comes the World
by Carl Safina
Featured in our Heart of Winter 2006 catalog
Patagonia's 2006-2007 environmental campaign is devoted to the oceans. In this first essay of an 18-month series, the eminent author and ecologist, Dr. Carl Safina, reminds us, through the story of one Kemp's ridley turtle, of both the abundance and fragility of life in the sea.
Carl Safina's books include Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross. His conservation work has been profiled in The New York Times, on Nightline and in the Bill Moyer's television special "Earth on Edge." A recipient of the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Writer's Medal and fellowships from the Pew and MacArthur foundations and the World Wildlife Fund, he is founding president of Blue Ocean Institute, which seeks to inspire a closer relationship with the sea.


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- Date submitted: 31 Oct 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: ICEF-International Court of the Environment Foundation
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Full SubmissionRio+20 Conference CALL FOR ACTION BY THE PARTICIPATING STATES OF THE RIO+20 CONFERENCE (4-6 JUNE 2012) To Adopt the Project for the International Court of the Environment presented firstly by ICEF at the UNCED Conference in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 and Re-proposed at UNCED Conference in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 Considering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948; Considering that this Declaration aims at guaranteeing the universal and effective recognition and application of the rights provided for in it; Considering that the environment is one of the fundamental human rights and that life is the very basis of fundamental freedoms; Considering that environmental protection is, at the same time, a fundamental duty of all mankind, particularly with regard to future generations, including the utilisation of resources compatible with the needs of life in general on the planet; Considering that the principles of the Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950 and the Protocol to the Convention signed in Paris on 20 March 1952 must be extended to the entire world because they constitute a common universal heritage and the basis for democratic, just and peaceful governments in a new international order; Considering that Art. 13 of the United Nations Declaration on Social Progress and Development (1969), declares that ?the protection and improvement of the human environment" is one of the aims in attaining social development and progress; Considering that, under Art. 22 of the Declaration of United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) held in Stockholm, States are under a duty to "co-operate" in further developing international environmental law and, under Art. 21, have "the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not produce damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction"; Considering that Art. 30 of the 1974 Resolution of the General Assembly, known as the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States declares that all States are responsible for the protection, preservation and improvement of the environment for present and future generations; Considering that Art. 19 of the Report on State Responsibility, approved by the International Law Commission in 1976, considers the concept of the international crime of a State as an offence against the entire International Community to be applicable to serious acts of pollution and degradation of the planet (serious violations of the fundamentally important international obligation to protect and pre-serve the human environment - "environmental crimes"); Considering that the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea recognises the sea bed as "a common heritage of mankind" and set up a special International Sea-Bed Authority; Considering that Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration states that States shall make "effective access to judicial and administrative proceedings, including redress and remedy" available; information widely available; Considering the various environmental disasters that have occurred without adequate reparation for the environmental damage done: the Torrey Canyon in 1967; the Amoco Cadiz in 1978; the collision of the Atlantic Express with the Aegean Captain outside Tobago in 1979; Exxon Valdez in 1989; Seveso in 1976; Bhopal in 1984; Chernobyl in 1986; Sandoz in 1988; Haven in 1991, Sea Empress off the Welsh coast in 1996, Erika off Brittany in 1999 and the burning oil wells in the Gulf in 1991, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010; Considering that an answer must be found for objectively supranational problems (the oceans, space, the Antarctica, the Amazon, the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, transfrontier pollution, genetic manipulation, toxic products, etc.) on the same level in terms of regulations, sanctions and organs for prevention, management and control and that the entire International Community must assume responsibility for saving life on the earth by creating new more effective regulations and permanently structured administrative and judicial bodies; Considering the positive role that religions can serve in encouraging stewardship of life on Earth, as for instance in the Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI Caritas in Veritate 2009 which concerns the need for a ?world political authority? capable of assisting States to protect the environment as an integral part of sustainable development, and capable of providing international solidarity for attaining the ethical objectives of preventing and remedying environmental damage. Considering that the European Parliament in its Motion for a Resolution in view of developing a common EU position ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) (B7-0000/2011 of 12.9.2011) reiterates its proposal for an international environmental court, so that global environmental legislation becomes more binding and enforceable, or at least an international authority, such as an ombudsman with mediation powers; Considering that, for this purpose, the role of existing state and international institutions must be strengthened and new organs be created for the environment on a global level: - an International Environmental Agency within the United Nations - an International Court of the Environment within the United Nations Based on the principles that: 1) Everyone has a fundamental right to the environment and an absolute duty to preserve life on earth for the benefit of present and future generations 2) Everyone has the right of access to environmental information and the duty to provide any environmental information in his/her possession 3) Everyone has the right to participate in procedures that may involve the environment, subject to the fact that the public authorities are deemed to have final responsibility with regard to the environmental decision-making processes 4) Everyone, whether an individual or an association, has the right to take legal action to prevent activities that are harmful to the environment and to seek compensation for any environmental damage 5) Everyone is under a duty to utilise natural resources with equity and care, by ensuring the maximum saving of energy, the minimum consumption of resources and by actively and efficiently co-operating in reducing the amount and kinds of waste produced and in its recycling and re-utilisation. 6) The States shall recognise and guarantee the human right to the environment, and foster conditions that make this right effective 7) The States are legally responsible to the entire International Community for acts that cause substantial damage to the environment in their own territory, in that of other States or in areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction and shall adopt all measures to prevent such damage 8) The States, in particular, shall: a) adopt all policies in accordance with the global principle of complete compatibility with the equilibrium of the earth's ecosystem b) adopt all policies in accordance with an equitable principle for the utilisation of the earth's common resources by all peoples c) adopt all policies in accordance with a principle respecting the right to the environment of future generations d) prohibit all activities that may cause irreversible damage to the basic natural processes of the biosphere and, as a precautionary measure, suspend those activities whose affects cannot be determined until all such uncertainty has been removed e) take action to restore degraded ecosystems f) prevent the transfer of environmental harm and risks to other parts of the world g) prevent military action that procures irreversible environmental damage h) adopt environmental standards that have been recommended at an international level and, in their absence, other standards aimed at preventing or significantly reducing the various kinds of pollution and at guaranteeing the equitable utilisation of resources i) adopt procedures for environmental impact assessment with regard to legislation, planning and programming and for public and private works of great impact on the environment j) urgently implement control and monitoring systems that are global, continuous, transparent, well publicized and comprehensible to everyone k) prohibit forms of propaganda for the manufacturing and production and for the utilisation of resources considered to be incompatible with the requirements of education and the right to correct and complete environmental information l) conserve terrestrial, coastal and marine habitats together with the species of flora and fauna subject to special protection m) conserve the quality of agricultural land and related products against the excessive use of pesticides n) adopt the principle of ecological compatibility for rivers and lakes whereby they are given the capacity to resist and regenerate by requiring that productive and agricultural activities be authorised o) make the scientific and technical information necessary for protecting the environment available p) co-operate in Research and monitoring and assist in cases of environmental disasters q) subject economical initiatives with other States and especially with the South of the planet to environmental impact assessment r) encourage the conservation of large ecosystems through the creation of international parks and reserves, acknowledging that all of nature is a legal and economic resource and a common heritage and that national sovereignty is a obligation at the service of human values ICEF calls on World Leaders to establish an: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY An International Environmental Agency shall be established as a permanent organ. Composition The Agency shall consist of 15 members, appointed by the United Nations General Assembly from among persons of high moral character and qualifications, from a list of 100 candidates submitted to the Secretary General of the United Nations Functions The functions of the Agency shall be: a) to control and monitor the state of the environment on the planet; b) to promote and carry out Research, also with the assistance of independent experts, Research centres and universities, on the actual state of the environment on the planet and on the evolution of large terrestrial, marine and atmospheric ecosystems; c) to plan global initiatives for environmental protection and restoration; d) to manage the World Environmental Fund; e) to establish acceptable standards regarding polluting activities, which the single States may only make stricter; f) to promote any other useful initiative for environmental protection, including a vast world-wide educational campaign on the environment; g) to publish an Official Report once every three years on the ecological evolution of the planet. Term of Office. The members shall be in office for a period of 7 years and are not eligible for re-appointment. They shall elect a Director with the role of representing and co-ordinating the activities of the Agency. The Director may only be re-elected once; and an: INTERNATIONAL COURT OF THE ENVIRONMENT An International Court of the Environment shall be established as a permanent organ. Organization of the Court The Court shall be composed of 15 independent judges, elected by the United Nations General Assembly from a list submitted by the Secretary General. The judges shall be in office for a period of 7 years and shall be eligible for re-election. The President of the Court shall be directly elected by the United Nations Secretary General and shall be eligible for re-election. The judges shall enjoy the prerogative of absolute independence with regard to their States of origin and shall receive a salary which will be paid out of the budget of the United Nations. Functions The functions of the Court shall be: a) to protect the environment as a fundamental human right in the name of the International Community; b) to decide any international environmental disputes involving the responsibility of States to the International Community which has not been settled through conciliation or arbitration within a period of 18 months; c) to decide any disputes concerning environmental damage, caused by private or public parties, including the State, where it is presumed that, due to its size, characteristics and kind, this damage affects interests that are fundamental for safeguarding and protecting the human environment on earth; d) to adopt urgent and precautionary measures when any environ-mental disaster concerning the International Community is involved; e) to provide, at the request of the organs of the United Nations and other members of the International Community, advisory opinions on important questions regarding the environment on a global level; f) to arbitrate, upon request, without prejudice to its judicial role; g) to carry out, upon request, investigations and inspections with the assistance of independent technical and scientific bodies when there is environmental risk or damage and, ex officio, when considered necessary and urgent. Preliminary Rulings A national court may request the Court to give a preliminary ruling on the international or national nature of the question brought before it. Procedure The procedure of the Court shall provide that: a) a Court hearing shall be public; b) all parties shall have the right to a defence; c) a judgment shall state the reasons on which it is based and shall be final; d) civil remedies shall include an interlocutory or perpetual injunction, or an order directing the party against whom judgment is made to pay the costs of restoring the damaged environ-ment, where this is possible, and, failing that, to compensation for damages, with an order to pay the relative sum into the World Environmental Fund; e) the enforcement of judgments shall be entrusted to the United Nations Security Council. The Court shall sit with 5 judges. The Presiding Judge and the Judge-rapporteur shall be nominated by the President of the Court. Procedural Rules The Court shall draw up its own rules and determine its own procedure. Locus Standi The following parties may appear before the Court: a) individuals; b) non-governmental organizations and environmental associations; c) States; d) supranational organizations, such as the European Union; e) international organizations under the United Nations and the individual organs of the United Nations. Legal action by an individual or non-governmental organization or environmental association shall be subject to two conditions: a) that a claim has been made before the national courts and has been held to be inadmissible because there is no judicial remedy under national law or has been dismissed on the merits; b) that the claim, having been filtered in terms of its admissibility, not as a matter of whether there is a cause of action, which is admitted as a general principle, but with regard to the international importance of the question raised (the same principle of inadmissibility shall be applied by the International Court of the Environment in camera and cannot be appealed against). Individuals or associations may bring an action for the violation of the human right to the environment on the grounds that they have been prevented from gaining access to information, from participating in environmental decision-making processes or from taking legal action or for serious environmental risk, harm or damage of international importance caused by any party whatsoever in violation of international law. Sanctions Whenever the Court finds in favour of an individual or association, it shall adopt any measures considered necessary for remedying the violated right, by ordering, in accordance with the circumstances, whatever the party, or even the State, guilty of the alleged violation is or is not required to do. If the claim by an individual or association is related to environmental damage, the judgment which orders the offender to pay the costs of restoring the damaged environment shall redress the claims of the claimant and of the International Community. If the claim for compensation for general environmental damage by an individual or association is upheld, an order shall be made in favour of the World Environmental Fund, while any claim for residual individual damage may only be made before the national courts and the claimant shall only have the right to costs before the International Court.


text: Doing pro-life work is not simply a response to a cause or a movement, an ideology or a political platform. It is a vocation, a charism of the Holy Spirit. The Christian pro-life commitment is a spirituality, which has particular characteristics and virtues, and which shapes the particular strategies and tactics that the pro-life activist carries out. This spirituality, taught by Priests for Life, roots the activist in his or her faith in God, and ensures that pro-life activism will lead the activist back to God. It helps us keep our balance amidst the conflicting emotions we have in the pro-life battle, as we deal with successes and failures, as we rejoice in the gift of life and mourn the taking of life. Learn more about this pro-life spirituality at priestsforlife.org/missionary.


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If your child has a sharp, dull, or burning pain in his ear, he's suffering an earache, a common reason parents take their children to the doctor.
Several things can cause earaches, including Swimmer's ear (where the skin of the ear canal is inflamed), pressure or elevation changes (that stretch the sensitive ear drum), and ear infections. The Eustachian tube runs from the middle of each ear to the back of the throat. This tube drains fluid normally made in the middle ear. If the tube gets blocked, fluid can build up, leading to infection. This can lead to pressure behind the ear drum or an ear infection.
If your child has an earache, your child will complain of ear pain. Babies with an earache will often be fussy and not sleep well. Many children have temporary hearing loss during, and right after, an ear infection or other cause of earache.
Children under 6 months old who might have an ear infection need to see a doctor. Your child's doctor will look inside the child's ear using an instrument called an otoscope. The doctor might see areas of redness, air bubbles behind the ear drum, and fluid inside the middle ear.
You can relieve an earache by placing a warm or cold pack or a warm or cold wet wash cloth to your child's ear for 20 minutes. For children old enough to safely chew gum, chewing may help relieve the pain and pressure of an earache. Oral pain medications or over-the-counter ear drops can help, as long as your child's eardrum has not ruptured. Vibrating devices, such as the EarDoc, are one way to relieve pain without medications.
If an infection caused your child's earache, it is very treatable, but it may come back again. If your child has to take an antibiotic, make sure he takes all of the medicine.
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Local theater at its best in 2012
By Jenny Lower 12/27/2012
Lists are fun, and dare we say, the best lists are Best Of lists. Here are the shows and performances this year that kept us thinking long past final curtain call.
Skyway Playhouse's Assassins impressed us with costume design spanning two centuries, from faithful period pieces to delicious retro throwbacks. Elite's Woman in Black took the cake for best lighting with its eerie blackouts, and High Street's The Music Man captured River City tranquility with set design featuring streetlamps, storefronts and a snowy-white gazebo.
The Rubicon's first Spanish-language production, Arístides Vargas' La Razón Blindada, pushed boundaries on two fronts: it showcased characters whose humanity transcended the language barrier, and it redefined dynamic, vibrant staging by keeping its actors seated throughout.
The young cast of David Ralphe's Spring Awakening at Simi Valley ARTS blew us away with their foot-stomping energy, raucous rock anthems and lyrical ballads, earning our props for best musical direction, choreography and ensemble.
SENGA's Women of Troy showcased some of the season's best female dramatic performances, with standouts from Adrian Bailey as the grief-stricken Hecuba and MiMi Alain as tough-as-nails Andromache. In the kooky musical Assassins, Julie Bermel did an outstanding comic turn as Ford's scatter-brained, wannabe killer Sara Jane Moore.
Two of the season's strongest featured male performances appeared in Santa Paula Theater Center's Elephant's Graveyard. Taylor Kasch broke our hearts as Big Mary's handler turned executioner, while Dan Tullis' deadpan delivery as the town's Greek chorus raised goosebumps. On the lighter side, John Medeiros united humor and pathos as the awkward childhood friend in Ojai ACT's Brooklyn Boy.
Our favorite female leads included two very weary spouses, both in Transport productions: Vivien Latham as a gentlewoman wed to a lout in The Provoked Wife, and Linda Livingston as a woman renegotiating delicate marital terrain in Pinter's The Lover. Ron Feltner, as a conflicted hit man in Transport's other Pinter play, The Dumb Waiter, and Ronald Rezac, playing a playwright, doctor, and host of other characters in Skyway's The Laramie Project, were our picks for male leads.
John Vanbrugh's Restoration comedy The Provoked Wife, directed by Richard Kuhlman, had us rooting for the lovers while cringing at the boorish antics of Sir John Brute. It gains our nod for best laughs. Best overall dramatic production goes to Rubicon's The Gem of the Ocean, the first play in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, directed by James O'Neil. With a phenomenal cast and a set that transformed a parlor into a slave ship, the show captivated from start to finish.
And now, five reasons we can't wait for 2013: the think-pink, made-from-movie musical Legally Blonde at Simi ARTS in February; an adaptation of the Oresteia trilogy, The Curse of the House of Atreus, at SENGA in April; the return of James O'Neil's folk journey Lonesome Traveler in May; the sleazebag Producers at High Street in June; and the steamy Weimar-era musical Cabaret at Skyway in July. Who says you can't beat the post-holiday blues?
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By Tim Pompey 11/27/2013
The Source Family
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It's easy to forget how strange life was more than 40 years ago in Los Angeles. It was a generation torn apart by war and disillusioned by Nixonian politics. Under the influence of rock and roll, feminism and free love, many young people escaped to the Sunset Strip and chose to live under a new banner.
In the documentary The Source Family, the Ventura Film Society's season-ending film, we get a glimpse into this left coast way of life. In 1969, Jim Baker, otherwise known as Father Yod or Ya Ho Wha, opened a health food establishment called The Source Restaurant on the Sunset Strip and for five years used it as a recruiting base. His followers (many of them underage girls) became known as the Source Family.
Director Jodi Wille first learned about Baker from listening to a box set of his music in 1999. Then, she saw a student film that interviewed some of the actual Source Family members. "I was struck by how intelligent, charming and self-aware the family members seemed," she said, "and at that point I felt I had to track them down."
In 2007, she helped edit a book written by former family members Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian called The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wha 13 and the Source Family. Eventually, Wille and her friend and colleague Maria Demopoulos decided to direct a full-scale documentary.
Demopoulos elaborated on the charisma that drew people to Baker. "From the time he was a young boy, he was a heroic mythic figure," she explained. "A war hero, a successful restaurateur, a martial arts expert, everything that he put his mind to, he succeeded at."
But Baker also had a dark past filled with violence and drug use. When he lost a partnership in his chain of restaurants in the mid 1960s, he decided to start over and focus on his spiritual development.
Demopoulos believes the success of the Source Family reflected a crucial moment when a young generation flooded the Sunset Strip just as the power of rock stardom and New Age thinking converged. "I think it was sort of a perfect storm," she said. "A lot of his followers were seekers, trying to find an alternative to what was being told to them by an older generation."
You can sense Baker's charisma in the film's opening frames. As the camera rests on his striking face, one member testifies how "his eyes burned into them." Another swore that she saw "lightning bolts coming out of his ears." Still another called the Source Family "the most interesting game in town."
No surprise then that, after Baker purchased a Beverly Hills mansion, filled it with beautiful women and declared marijuana to be spiritual, the family rapidly expanded. And with Baker free to make up his own rules, life in the family continued to grow stranger by the day.
For Ventura Film Society director Lorenzo DeStefano, The Source Family brought back some memories of his early days in the film industry. "When I first moved to L.A. in 1978 as a young filmmaker, I ate at The Source," he said. "So when I heard about this film, it sort of took me back to that time."
He believes that this particular closing night film represents exactly what the VFS strives to bring to the screen. "It was a good way to end the season," he noted. "We opened with The Blue Lagoon and we're closing with The Source Family. I like that."
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Officers made a total of 92 charges at a Wilmington Police Department DWI checkpoint late Friday and early Saturday in the 3400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
The police department was assisted by officers from a number of other agencies, including the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office, the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office, the Leland Police Department and the Carolina Beach Police Department, among others.
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– 16 driving with a revoked license
– 5 no driver's license
– 25 expired registration
– 6 possession of marijuana
– 3 possession of drug paraphernalia
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– 1 speed greater than 100 mph
– 23 other charges
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Almost end of the half, amazing, mayb thier best game yet. I wonder, this is without Crawford and his inconsistancy, I'm thinking here. Another thing is Ariza, amazing game. If the Knicks ran like that all the time he'd be in the running for rookie of the year...... That's the offense he trives in. Crawford out isnt as bad as I thought it would be...... Jerome Williams, too much heart, haha. He works hard, amazing as well. Everyone is doing well. I think Crawford will need to work to get back in his starting role. I wish they played like this all the time. I hope they don't blow it too.....
Almost blew it, don't like Allan stepping out in the middle of the game, and he did miss two free throws...... Other than that i'm happy, they did almost blow it, but I'll take it, especially against this Orlando team........
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yeah very nice win! We scored 74 points in the first half, we haven't done that since 1991!!!!!
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woohooo we scored 70+ points in one half against the worst defense in the league (sarcasm) lets be real against any team that plays some defense were not going to be able to do that and were going to need betetr defense to win and allowing 100+ points isnt good defense.....but overall i was impressed with the consistency they played with and stephs agression he took the pg matchup personal and he won it. I give him player of the game in my book
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notice, he attacked all the time, leading to him scoring 34 pts, and setting up his teammates so well (knicks had a season high in assists in this game), i love watching games like these where they ATTACK, keep it up guys, l8r