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Tianze Beach Resort
- Location: Sanya Bay
- Address: Binhai Road, Sanya Bay, Sanya
- Tel: 0898-88893888 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 三亚天泽海韵度假酒店
- Lowest Price: $48
Opened in 2004 and renovated in 2009, the Tianze Beach Resort is a condominiums resort hotel with the building area of 21166 square meters. It is located in the city center of Sanya, adjacent to the Sanya Bay, about 8km away from the Sanya Railway Station and 12km away from the Pheonix International Airport.
The Tianze Beach Resort offers a total of 226 guest rooms of various types, including sea view deluxe room and sea view suite, etc. All rooms have free broadband internet access, hair dryer and IDD/DDD phone and other service amenities. Some of the rooms are provided with computer. As for dining service, the Chinese restaurant, coffee shop and bar in the hotel provide guests with a variety of Chinese and western dishes and snacks and drinks. For recreation and relaxation, massage, sauna, fitness center, swimming pool and beauty room are available. Other facilities in the hotel include business center, meeting room, parking lot and store, etc. Apart from these, the Tianze Beach Resort also provides service such as meal delivery service, pick up service, foreign currency exchange service and ticket booking and so on.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
Hotel Amenities
|Hotel Services
|Luggage service, Laundry service, Room service, Medical clinic service, Currency Exchange, Wake Up Call, 24hr Reception, Business Centre, Copy Service, E-mail, Fax Service
|Room Amenities
|Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Color Television, Coffee/tea maker, Telephone, Hair dryer, In-room safe, Electronic Lock, Refrigerator, Mini Bar, Bath and Shower, Free for Internet
Hotel Amenities: Elevator, Parking, Air-Conditioned Facilities, Outdoor Swimming Pool, Beauty Salon, Sauna, Business Center, Gift Shop, Gymnasium , Meeting Room, Deposit Box at Front Desk, Fire Detector
Dining Facilities: Chinese Restaurant, Cafe, Bar
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- 请送我到三亚天泽海韵度假酒店 ,谢谢
- Address: Binhai Road, Sanya Bay, Sanya
- 地址: 三亚 三亚湾滨海路
- Tel: 0898-88893888
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John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich,
is credited with inventing the sandwich.
A "sammitch" was something my grandmother gave us kids to shut us up when we were hungry.
Nana – Nova Scotian for grandma – had 10 children and about 40 grandchildren. At any given point in time there were a dozen of us living with her in her tiny house on a small, rocky cove outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In Nana's house one of us was always saying, "Nana, I'm hungry." She would invariably reply, "Have yourself a nice jam sammitch." Her jam sammitches are still a fond memory – cool, rich butter spread on Nana's home-baked bread and home-made jam.
The only help Nana ever got was from grandad's three sisters. They were nuns who would take time from the convent to visit and help with the chores.
Grandad used to call his sisters "The Three Sorrowful Mysteries."
He would post kids along the road as lookouts for their coming. When alerted, he and his cronies would run off into the woods.
Grandad also had individual nicknames for the sisters. I believe it was "Sister Miserable Immortality" that finally taught me that a sammitch was actually pronounced and spelled sandwich.
Notwithstanding the niceties of grammar and spelling, in our family a sandwich is still a sammitch to this day.
The actual invention of the sandwich is credited to John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, in the latter half of the 1700s.
The Earl ran the British post office for a while, but mostly he tried to diminish his family's considerable estates by drinking and gambling all day.
He and grandad would have gotten along like gangbusters.
The Earl would get so intent on drinking and gambling that he would not – or could not – get up from the gaming table even to eat. Resourceful and privileged, the Earl would get a servant to bring him a slab of salted meat between two pieces of bread so that he could dine without leaving the card table. The Earl of Sandwich had invented the sandwich.
Here on the Island we are fortunate to have access to a number of truly memorable local "sammitches".
Hurricane Hank's has just started cooking its own corned beef brisket from scratch. The result is a phenomenal classic Reuben.
The western extremities of Cortez Road have become something of a sammitch Mecca. Treat yourself to the chicken sandwich at Dandrea's. Chef-owner Andrea Rasmussen builds her acclaimed chicken sandwich with a plump breast off the grill, finishes it with chevres and fig jam and serves it on a warm ciabatta roll.
Another great Cortez sammitch destination is Jose's at 8799 Cortez Road, about a mile from the bridge, across from the 7-11 (with the limousine out front). Go soon because Jose's is about to become nationally famous – this month the TV guys are shooting Jose's as a feature on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives for the Food Channel.
Jose's Cuban-pulled pork is truly awesome as a platter with black beans, fried plantains, and rice. It also makes his Cuban sandwich unbeatable. The sandwich's Cuban authenticity is verified by the ever-present, and ever-charming, Jose. There are only about twenty seats, but service is quick so there is hardly ever a wait. The action is best at the counter stools. Ask Jose to show you his Fidel Castro toilet paper.
Savor one of these great local sammitches, think gratefully of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, and appreciate that good things can come from drinking and gambling.

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Bright Blessings.
Today is the first in a series of Michigan based Pagan product reviews of local Pagan businesses, artisans, merchants, and service providers, so let us kick this off with Lotions, Potions, and Notions. This company, owned and operated by L.J. Rose, is a one woman show online business, but she also makes her wares available during convention season. The next one will be at ConVocation 2014, an event held annually by the Magical Education Council.
The products created at this company are the creations of L.J. Rose, a virtuoso in the field of Herbalism, Magical Herbalism, Metaphysics, and Instruction, an ordained minister, a master reiki practitioner and a published writer. The company assures the buyer that
"products that are made without preservatives or animal by-products (with the exception of the rawhide rattles and beaded amulet bags) in a smoke-free and pet-free environment"
Having visited the actual location, which will not be divulged here as it is a privately held property, this writer can vouch for the veracity of that statement.
The products that were purchased and used were the Eczema Salve, Acne Face Cleanser, House Purification Incense, Bronchitis Rub (which, under full disclosure, was given without charge), and Kittie Crack. Each item was tested for effectiveness, longevity, and value.
The Eczema Salve was found to be very effective, did not turn rancid after a year, and was reasonably priced. Application to the areas with outbreak resulted in relief in as little as one day. Since it is a natural product, it is wise to store out of hot areas, as the beeswax can get really oozey when warm. It solidifies fine when returned to room temperature.
The Acne Face Cleanser was creamy and pleasantly scented from the natural ingredients. It did not go bad after months of use, and was a good skin cleanser. No adverse reactions were experienced, and a better complexion was observed. Good price point as well.
House Purification Incense was a good uniform blend of even burning ingredients. The smoke was not agitating, and the scent was pleasant. The ingredients proved effective, and the incense was field tested on a volunteer's home. The tested resident's home felt good and the change in the atmosphere was reported as long lasting by the resident. The incense must be used with a charcoal burner. At $1.00, it is a steal of a buy.
Bronchitis Rub was tested in the field by the writer, who is a chronic asthmatic and worker in a child care facility by trade. Notable relief in symptoms was experienced. The ingredients listed were perfectly blended for effect. The salve was smooth and kept very well. Still effective after a year. Priced very reasonably.
Kittie Crack, the most famous of the products aimed at the furry and familiar friends many Pagans have. This is perhaps the best product this writer has ever seen when it comes to entertainment and satisfaction value regarding being good to animal companions. They absolutely go bonkers for it. Even after a year, the kitties at this homestead are going crazy for the little muslin bag, licking it, tossing it, and generally capering around the house.
The scent to humans fades a little after a year, but does not seem to bother the animals in their pursuit of it. It does need replacing after 8 months for maximum joy factor for watching the battle for bag supremacy between the cats. There are now also bunny crack and puppy crack, however these were not tested by this author. The price is actually very low in comparison to commercial treats that do not do half the job.
This company receives a hearty and enthusiastic thumbs up.
If you wish to view the products, or order them, the online site is http://lotionspotionsnotions.com.
Blessed Be.


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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is just around the corner now and it will once again raise the bar in the SharePoint Enterprise Search space. I witnessed the new SP2010 search experience first time at the SharePoint 2009 conference in Vegas last year and was overall quite pleased with what I saw there. It looks like the search team in Redmond has really listened to the community and their customers and addressed many of the annoying pain points present in the SharePoint Server 2007 search experience.
However, having worked with SP2010 Beta 2 for a while now has revealed some pain points / annoyances left behind in the product. Some of them I can understand from a technical standpoint while others just make we wonder how they could miss it again. Don't get me wrong here – I'm still a big fan of SharePoint Search and just want this part of the product to be mere perfect. Seriously, Enterprise search is an ever more vital part of most SharePoint deployments.
Anyway, I am dedicating this post to sharing the good news and the bad news I have learned so far by working with SharePoint Server 2010 Search. Please note that the FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 is not included in my evaluation here – it is technically and financially a whole other ball game.
Fortunately the list of bad news is shorter than it was for SharePoint Server 2007 back then. But let us see if we identify more good/bad news as we get to learn SharePoint 2010 Search better. I would love to hear from you out there – have you found other good or bad news on the topic?
SharePoint Search
SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Search, News
The time has come that me and many other SharePointers have anxiously been looking forward to; The SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas where we will learn about all the new goodies SharePoint 2010 has to offer. I am here together with about 230 fellow Danes! The conference will altogether accommodate about 7000 attendees!! This is a very impressive figure that shows just how much momentum SharePoint has gained.
This morning (after a tasty but unhealthy breakfast buffet at the Luxor) I went to register myself for the conference and to get the SWAG. I have to admit that I was a little disappointed that it did not include a new cool SharePoint 2010 bag and a t-shirt with the new SharePoint logo on it. The best item in the SWAG is a 250 page book with technical details about all the improvements in SharePoint 2010. I have studied it and will in a moment share some of its content here.
There is a lot of new stuff in SharePoint 2010 – too much for me to cover it all here. Hence I will stick to my favorite topic here, namely SharePoint Search. My plan is to try and cover the news on Search starting today with the stuff I have just learned from the book. Then the next four days offers a god deal of sessions on SharePoint Search and I will publish technical details from these on a daily basis. The conference offers about 230 different sessions across all SP2010 topics where 13 of them are specific to Enterprise Search.
Here is the news I got so far from studying the book handed out to all conference attendees.
This list is by no means the complete list of improvements to SP2010 search – we will for sure learn more during the next four days. Also, please note that the news above applies to the standard search engine that ships with SharePoint 2010 – they do not apply to the FAST Enterprise Search engine. The book does not say much FAST other then there will be a new product named FAST Search for SharePoint. It will provide a more conversational and visual user experience including document previews and a more advanced faceted search component capable of delivering deep refinements with exact counts,
SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Search, Conference
The first day of TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles is wrapped up and there have been many great sessions here on everything but SharePoint. But I also came here to learn about other MS technologies and to network. However, being a SharePoint guy I still had my hopes up for learning just a little more what the SharePoint team in Redmond have cooking for the next version. Having to wait until the big SharePoint conference in October is a long wait for me.
Hence I went to the OFC202 session (MOSS 2007: Overview and Roadmap) presented by General Manager Thomas Rizzo. Unfortunately the session was more Overview than Roadmap making it quite boring with an overweight of old stuff. But Thomas was not in a position to reveal many details about the roadmap for SharePoint 2010. Nevertheless, I made a note of the few things he could say and will share this in a moment along with a few more news I picked up elsewhere
A very funny thing happened in another and later non SharePoint session that I attended. The presenters here actually used the new SharePoint 2010 in a few parts of their demo, giving us a quick glimpse of the new UI in SharePoint 2010. Let it be unsaid what session this was - I'm sure they might otherwise get shot by someone in the SharePoint team!
With all this fresh in mind, let me share with you what I do know about the next SharePoint:
Release Information
System Requirements
General News
Search News
News on Development Tools
SharePoint 2010, News, TechEd


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Hostname: secret_server.homeserver.org
Port: 4033
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I don't have to have a nice GUI. What's the key to connecting to this server? I understand that SCP will copy files from a source directory to my target directory (both ways). How can I connect via SSH to this server so I can traverse the directories and find the files I need?
the following terminal command just times out:
ssh -p 4033 user@secret_server.homeserver.org
is it me or the server?


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In the Solaris Service XML
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<exec_method type="method" name="stop" exec=":kill" timeout_seconds="60" />
This works great, except for the fact that it also kills the child processes, which mostly just die after a SIGTERM. Any of these will work
- Get the PID so I can use
exec="kill -SIGUSR1 $PID"
- Prevent SIGTERM from being sent to the children. (or at least not the grandchildren)
- Use some other signal
I would prefer not to set up a separate script that has to go figure out the pid. I will do this if I have to. I would prefer to get it from an environment variable, or use a SMF built in command.


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Because of increasing fraud associated with returning
store merchandise, stores are limiting their return policies, say
retail experts.
"The honest among us are paying the price for
the dishonest," says Richard Feinberg, a professor of retail
management at Purdue University.
This season, shoppers who try to
return their purchases will face more restocking fees, store credits
instead of cash and shortened return periods. But buyers can take
steps to protect themselves.
1. Look beyond the signs for the return policy
Avoid surprises by asking about return guidelines upfront. "The time to think about returning a product is before you buy it," says T. Scott Gross, a customer service expert and co-author of "When Customers Talk."
Before paying for an item, read the written return
notices that are hanging on signs in the store. Ask questions if
those notices don't address a particular concern. For example, the
sign might not say anything about restocking fees, but the store
may still charge the shopper 15 percent of the purchase price to
restock electronic returns. Or the store might accept a return,
but if the product has gone on sale, the consumer may only be credited
for the amount of the sale price.
"If a clerk tells you information about a return
policy that is not verified in writing, record the information yourself,"
says Bettye Banks, senior vice president of education for the Consumer
Credit Counseling Service in Dallas. "Write down the name of
the person, the date, the time of the conversation, your question
and their response," she says. Even better, ask the clerk to
write their response on your receipt. In either case, if you have
a future dispute, you can prove to the store that you received your
information from a legitimate source.
2. Go with gift cards
"One of the best ways to eliminate returned gift (hassles)
is to give gift
cards," say Gross. "Last year, over 50 percent of
holiday givers gave at least one person a gift card."
Feinberg says that this trend is good for the consumer. "The gift card is partly the effect of more stringent return policies," he says. "If I want to give a gift to a person, but I don't want them to return it (and deal with potential hassles), then I can give them a gift card. It solves the problem, because people are not likely to return an item that they picked out for themselves."
People who receive gift cards during the holidays get an added benefit. "That $50 gift card is worth more than $50 because of the increased sales that stores have after the holidays," says Feinberg. The item that was $50 in December might cost $40 in January.
Gift cards do have limitations, though they are probably more lenient than a store's return policy restrictions. If you receive a card, read the fine print to see if it needs to be registered in order to process a claim if it's lost. Also, check for an expiration date.
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Laurie Halse Anderson has written several bestsellers for the YA genre. Prom is just one such book. The story follows senior Ashley Hannigan, who comes from a poverty-stricken family and just wants to hang on long enough to get her diploma. Ashley hates the prom, but her best friend (along with every other girl in school) can't wait for the "big day" to arrive. End, set-up. Begin, problems: the money for the prom is stolen two weeks beforehand and Ashley somehow finds herself involved in the struggle to make it happen despite the impossibility of the situation.
If you're feeling confused, wondering why it's such a big deal for the prom money to be stolen--it can't cost that much, right?--think again. In Boise, a small city by comparison to many others, the Rose Room (where many proms are held) is $1,200 to rent for a day. Factor in food, punch, a photographer, a DJ, decorations, and maybe even some favors. Now you've got quite the price-tag on an event that doesn't seem like it should cost so much.
But Ashley's got her fair share of problems already: a no-good boyfriend, a crummy minimum-wage job, a family too big for their home, and enough detentions to take up every spare moment up until graduation. Suddenly, she's faced with the need to straighten out her poor attendance habit and get in gear in order to make her life move in the direction she wants it to.
This story is written in an enticing first-person narrative reminiscent of journal entries, but in real time. The reader gets a clear understanding of Ashley and sees first-hand all the problems she must confront as the story goes on. Ashley has a compellingly clear view of the world around her, un-fogged by euphemisms and sugar-coated fantasies. Her life is presented in an intense manner that the reader will clearly feel. She feels perfectly "ordinary" in her world, as do many teens—but she isn't really, and this is inspiring.
Prom feels like a shout-out to all those forgotten kids—the ones who don't expect much from life because life hasn't given them much. It's a reminder that these kids exist and struggle through unbelievable setbacks every day. And it's especially touching because in this story, Ashley manages to persevere through it all.


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The Rebel Passion: Eighty-Five Years of the Fellowship of Reconciliation
In his introduction to Euripedes' The Trojan Women, Gilbert Murray writes of pity as the "rebel passion. Its hand is against the strong, against the organized force of society, against conventional sanctions and accepted Gods. It is the Kingdom of Heaven within us fighting against the brute powers of the world." From this idea, Vera Brittain took the title for her history of the FOR at the time of its fiftieth anniversary: The Rebel Passion.
It was such a passion that brought the Fellowship of Reconciliation into being in 1914. Convinced that war was near, some 150 Christians came together at an international conference in Germany, seeking desperately to find a way to head off the outbreak of hostilities. The conference ended in failure; indeed, the war broke out while the meeting was being held. The participants hurried to catch trains back to their respective homelands. At the Cologne rail station, two of the participants-Henry Hodgkin, British Quaker, and Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, pacifist chaplain to the German Kaiser-believing that the bonds of Christian love transcended all national boundaries, vowed that they would refuse to sanction war or violence and that they would sow the seeds of peace and love no matter what the future might bring. As they shook hands in farewell, they agreed that they were "one in Christ and can never be at war."
Out of this vow the Fellowship of Reconciliation was born. The formal beginning came four months later at Trinity College, Cambridge, where 128 English members elected Hodgkin as their first chairperson. The founding of the German branch, Versuhnungsbund, came later. Schultze was arrested twenty-seven times during World War I and was forced to live in exile during the Nazi period.
In 1915, Hodgkin came to the United States to meet with sixty-eight men and women at Garden City, New York where the American FOR was founded on November 11, with Gilbert A. Beaver as its first chairperson. Leaders during those early years included Edward Evans, Norman Thomas, Bishop Paul Jones (who had been removed from the Episcopal Diocese of Utah because of his pacifism), and Grace Hutchins. John Haynes Holmes, Unitarian minister and one of the early FOR members pointed out that most people believe war is wrong in general, but nonetheless go on to justify each particular war. Placing the claims of the nation state below that of religious faith, Holmes wrote: "No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war."
Members of the Fellowship bore gallant witness to the insanity of war and the belief that truth is stronger than falsehood, that love overcomes hate, and that nonviolence is more enduring than violence. For them, religious faith broke down the barriers of nation and race, class and tradition. Spreading this vision, even in wartime, has remained the central witness of the Fellowship.
A major focus has been working for the rights of conscientious objectors, who were treated harshly during the first World War. Except for those from the historic peace churches(who usually were granted CO status), many were imprisoned, left without clothes in cold cells, firehosed and manacled in their cells. Prison sentences ranged from twenty-five years to life!
John Nevin Sayre, American churchman and early chair of the FOR, went directly to President Wilson to protest the inhumane treatment and the torture was ended. After extensive lobbying by FOR and others, concessions were made that led finally to legal recognition of conscientious objection during World War II. In that war, more than 16,000 men performed "work of national importance" in public service camps. Some, however, still went to prison when their beliefs clashed with Selective Service rules. These included five FOR staff members: Roger Axford, Caleb Foote, Alfred Hassler, Bayard Rustin and Glenn Smiley.
While war has been the central social evil the FOR has sought to eradicate, an expanding social vision has moved the Fellowship into other critical areas needing the work of reconciliation and the establishment of justice. In 1918, it helped found Brookwood Labor College. In 1919, A.J.Muste, who was then head of the Boston FOR, rose to prominence during the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the power of nonviolent action was effectively demonstrated.
Another area of enduring FOR concern has been to eradicate the evil of racism and to build what Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the Beloved Community." Years before there was a civil rights movement, the FOR was active in this effort. With the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), FOR sponsored the first interracial sit-in, in 1943. As a consequence of its interracial Journey of Reconciliation through the South in 1947, FOR race relations secretaries received the Jefferson Award of the Council Against Intolerance. FOR was instrumental in ending segregation in public facilities in such cities as Denver and Washington, D.C. and in 1957, staff member Glenn Smiley worked beside Martin Luther King, Jr. in the decisive Montgomery bus boycott. Staff member James Lawson, based in Nashville led nonviolence trainings throughout the South that were of seminal importance to the civil rights movement. The FOR provided speakers in churches, synagogues and schools, held workshops, raised money for bombed churches and produced films and literature (including the film "Walk to Freedom" and the Martin Luther King Jr. comic book in English and Spanish) that were widely distributed across the country.
Alongside such efforts of the FOR in the United States, the work of the Fellowship was growing worldwide. The International FOR was established in 1919 to coordinate the new national chapters that were being formed. Its first secretary was Pierre Ceresole, the Swiss pacifist who was jailed time and again for his peace witness, and from whose vision and labors came the modern work camp movement. It first brought together volunteers from former enemy nations to undertake reconstruction projects in war-ravaged Europe. Relief for the victims of war was carried out, and international conferences and meetings spread the work of peace to many other parts of the globe. In 1932, the IFOR led a Youth Crusade across Europe in support of the Geneva World Disarmament Conference. Protestants and Catholics from all over converged on Geneva by various routes, reaching over 50,000 people and presenting to the Conference a petition calling for total disarmament among the nations. As the clouds of war gathered across Europe later in that decade, the IFOR established Embassies of Reconciliation that initiated peace efforts not only in Europe but in Japan and China as well.
"Ambassadors of Reconciliation," such as George Lansbury, Muriel Lester and Anne Seesholtz, visited many world leaders, including Hitler, Mussolini, Leon Blum and Roosevelt. Muriel Lester, English social worker, served as IFOR traveling secretary throughout the world, helping to establish its work in many countries. A stirring speaker and writer, she was a practical mystic who was equally at home holding a School of Prayer in Uruguay, working with Gandhi for India's independence, or fighting the drug trade in China. When World War II erupted, many European members of the FOR were in the front ranks of nonviolent resistance to totalitarianism and to all the dehumanizing aspects of the war. Many were imprisoned and scores were executed. Heroic efforts were undertaken to aid the victims of war.
Thousands of Jews and other refugees were successfully hidden and smuggled to safety, as in the south of France, where Andre and Magda Trocme led the villagers of Le Chambon to establish a haven in the midst of Nazi and Vichy terror. Even in Germany itself, members of the Versohnungsbund, like Heinz Kloppenburg, Irmgard Schuchardt and Martin Nieomuller were active in the nonviolent resistance to fascism.
In the United States, FOR took action when the US government ordered Japanese-Americans into internment camps in 1942. FOR held public protests of the action and extended concrete help to the victims (such as caring for the property of those forcibly evacuated). An FOR member, Gordon Hirabayashi, was the only Nisei to refuse to register for evacuation; his case went to the Supreme Court. FOR provided for visits to the camps and set up a travel loan fund to help resettle people after they were released from the relocation centers. The national office added a young Japanese-American to its staff to interpret to schools, churches and FOR groups what was happening to people of Japanese ancestry.
In 1944, the FOR published Vera Brittain's "Massacre by Bombing," a carefully documented study of the saturation bombing of Germany by the Allies. Signed by twenty-eight prominent American church leaders, the publication aroused international concern over the effects of obliteration bombing and heightened public awareness of the savagery of modern warfare. Bringing such information to the public has been one of FOR's main functions. Its first magazine, The World Tomorrow, was begun in 1918. By 1934, its circulation had risen to 40,000. Editors over the years included Norman Thomas, Devere Allen, Kirby Page and Reinhold Niebuhr. The World Tomorrow was succeeded in 1935 by Fellowship, edited by Harold Fey; later editors included John Nevin Sayre, Alfred Hassler, William Miller, James Forest, and Virginia Baron.
After World War II, there was a major effort to establish a year of permanent military training for all young men in the US, to be followed by seven years of reserve service. Under the leadership of John Swomley, FOR worked with a large coalition to form the National Council Against Conscription, which waged a successful campaign to defeat the proposal for Universal Military Training.
The end of World War II brought in its wake a new and unprecedented moral issue: nuclear weapons. From the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the FOR condemned nuclear weapons. In the 1950s, the FOR opposed atomic testing and sent a public statement to Japan expressing sorrow over the tragedy of fishermen who were radioactively burned by the Pacific bomb tests. It also spoke out against the civil defense program that conditioned people to be ready for still another war.
Members such as Dorothy Day and A.J. Muste refused to take shelter in New York City during air raid drills. Their repeated arrests for civil disobedience helped to build public awareness that there is no shelter from nuclear war. In 1995 FOR executive secretary Jo Becker led a delegation to Japan with a message of repentance for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that helped challenge anew the official US view of the necessity of those bombings.
FOR responded creatively to the fad for fallout shelters with its Shelters for the Shelterless campaign that built dwellings for homeless people in India. It also made the first proposal that American surplus food be sent to communist China. In 1954, the FOR launched a six-year Food for China Program in response to Chinese famine. Tens of thousands of miniature bags of grain were sent to President Eisenhower with the inscription, "If thine enemy hunger, feed him."
During this period, the witch hunts of Senator Joseph McCarthy intimidated many leaders. Communists and blacklisted persons were denied access to speaking platforms. FOR sponsored a public forum in which A.J.Muste and Norman Thomas debated two Communist leaders in a forceful and daring affirmation of free speech at Carnegie Hall in New York. In the 1960s the FOR formed the International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam, with 10,000 clergy in forty countries. Contact with the Vietnamese Buddhist pacifist movement was established, spearheaded by the untiring efforts of the US executive secretary, Alfred Hassler. In 1968, at the height of the suffering in Vietnam, FOR sponsored a world tour by Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, whose poetry and other writings, as well as his speeches and presence, made a profound impact wherever he went. FOR's "Meals of Reconciliation" raised money for medical aid for all areas of Vietnam. In 1969, the FOR Study Team on Religious and Political Freedom documented Saigon's reliance on torture and initiated a prodigious effort to gain the release of Vietnamese political prisoners, some of whom had been crippled for life. These various missions to Vietnam continued a tradition of FOR since its inception, in which missions of reconciliation and friendship have been sent to such places as the Philippines (1925), Haiti (1926), Central America (in the 1920s,1980s and 1990s), the USSR throughout the 1980s, Libya in 1989, Iraq and Israel/Palestine in the 1990s. After the Vietnamese war ended, a campaign for amnesty for US war resisters was launched, as well as a program to help support Vietnamese orphans. In 1970, Dai Dong was founded as a groundbreaking transnational project linking war, environmental problems, poverty and other social issues. Thousands of scientists around the world were reached through this program, as evidenced by the Menton Statement, signed by 2,200 biologists (including four Nobel Prize Laureates). The full statement, "A Message to our 3 1/2 Billion Neighbors on Planet Earth," was published in the UNESCO Courier and received worldwide attention. In 1972, in an effort to move public opinion beyond the constraints of national self-interest, Dai Dong sponsored an alternative environmental conference in Stockholm at the time of the UN Environmental Conference.
With the end of the Vietnam War, FOR placed major emphasis on ending the Cold War, reversing the arms race, meeting human needs and building global solidarity. FOR was part of a growing number of groups-peace, environmental, minority rights, women, anti-intervention-that worked for a more compassionate domestic and foreign policy. It joined in campaigns, marches, educational projects, and civil disobedience. At sessions of the World Council of Churches and the UN, FOR sponsored Plowshares Coffee Houses to provide an alternative forum for critical issues facing the world community.
In the 1980s, as the Cold War deepened, FOR launched a major emphasis on US-USSR Reconciliation to undergird its disarmament efforts and to root out the enemy image that had so poisoned East-West relations. Through people-to-people projects and exchanges, FOR made a significant contribution to the dramatic turnaround in US-Soviet relations that occurred in the late 1980s. FOR also pioneered in bringing nonviolence education and training to Russia and Lithuania as the Soviet Union broke up.
Recent years have seen the growth of IFOR branches and affiliates in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The seeds planted earlier by traveling secretaries like Muriel Lester and John Nevin Sayre bore fruit, along with the decades of seminars in active nonviolence carried out by Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr of Paris and Vienna, three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. From such labors arose Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) throughout Latin America. SERPAJ's Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980. IFOR training in active nonviolence contributed significantly to the people power overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines in 1986, as well as the growth of nonviolent movements in Asia and Africa. The Goss-Mayrs, IFOR Honorary Presidents, were central to the global spread of active nonviolence.
FOR, under the work of executive secretary Doug Hostetter, made valiant efforts to stop the Gulf War through repeated delegations to Iraq that sought to keep open possibilities of a peaceful resolution of the crisis brought on by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. After the war one million dollars in medical supplies were taken to victims of the war. Efforts to build peace with Iraq and to stop the sanctions that killed so many innocent Iraqis have continued through the 1990s.
In response to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, FOR initiated the Bosnian Student Project to bring Bosnian students to the US for study due to the disruption of their lives by the war. This effort was matched by work camps for reconstruction and reconciliation in Bosnia.
Despite the end of the Cold War, the US military budget remained obscenely high, leading FOR to issue an Interfaith Call to Restore Sanity and Compassion to the National Agenda. FOR has also joined with other religious peace groups to foster a New Abolitionist Covenant to get rid of all nuclear weapons. FOR has placed special emphasis on youth through its Peacemaker Training Institute and its peace internships.
Also in this period FOR worked for racial and economic justice, especially for women of color in the workplace who so often work under dangerous and degrading conditions. There has also been a healing emphasis on racial dialogue and reconciliation in the U.S.
FOR's vigorous work in Latin America has been highlighted by its national leadership to ensure that the US fulfill its historic promise to decolonize and demilitarize the US presence in Panama and to faithfully comply with the Panama Canal Treaties. FOR joined with other groups to organize SIPAZ(International Service for Peace) to support a just and lasting peace in Chiapas.
With the assistance of FOR and its members, over the years a wide variety of parallel groups have come into existence: the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Workers Defense League, the Committee for Social Responsibility in Science, the Committee on Militarism in Education, and the American Committee on Africa. Such organizations have taken up tasks in such specific fields as civil liberties or the support of African independence movements. The FOR has sought to remain on the cutting edge of nonviolent witness in each generation.
While the Fellowship has been religious in inspiration and outlook since its inception, the nature and dimensions of this commitment have broadened over the years. Founded by Christians, the Fellowship was at first centered in the ethic of love that Jesus taught, and this remains the faith of many FOR members. At the same time, the remarkable growth of nonviolent thought and life in the twentieth century has had a profound impact on the Fellowship. It was deeply affected by Gandhi and the freedom struggle in India, with its roots in the ancient teachings of Hinduism. Jews have brought to the FOR a commitment to nonviolence that grows out of Judaism's allegiance to universalism, justice and love. The powerful pacifist movement in Vietnam brought to the world's attention the great tradition of nonviolence that derives from Buddhism. One of IFOR's new Asian branches, in Bangladesh, includes many Muslims, as well as Hindus and Christians. Out of FOR's work against the Gulf War and the continuing sanctions in Iraq, FOR has joined increasingly with Muslims in peacemaking. The Muslim Peace Fellowship has become one of FOR's vital affiliates.
The FOR has seen these and other expressions of nonviolence as indications of an unfolding understanding of the meaning of truth and the way of love.
As a result, the FOR has become interfaith, and as such is a religious pioneer, pushing beyond contemporary ecumenism. It encourages people to live out the full dimensions of their beliefs, even as they are enriched and strengthened by traditions other than their own.
The FOR has fostered and encouraged peace fellowships within the various religious traditions and with these fellowships has often led the way in challenging (and assisting) established religious bodies to take up the peacemaking task, from combating homophobia and anti-Muslim prejudice to witnessing against handgun violence at home and support of dictatorial and exploitative regimes abroad.
As we enter the twenty-first century, the challenge to peacemakers continues, not only to rid the world of nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction, but to remove the occasion for war, oppression and hostility between and within nations, and to build a just peace and to save the earth. Under the vigorous leadership of executive secretary John Dear (the first priest in that position) and its national chairperson, James Lawson, FOR called for a forty day People's Campaign for peace and justice in the summer of 2000 in Washington, DC
Throughout the world, people are showing their determination to be free and to be treated justly; they are learning the great power of nonviolent struggle, compassion and reconciliation, even in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. The UN declaration of the first decade of the new millennium as a decade for a culture of peace and nonviolence is evidence of this hope.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, with its message of peace and active nonviolence, grounded in faith and tested over many years, is uniquely equipped to speak to the present age and the universal longing for peace and justice.


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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Chapter 13 Summary
How It All Goes Down
Detention With Dolores
- At dinner that night, Harry hears people muttering about his scene in Defense Against the Dark Arts.
- Hermione finally levels with Harry: "It's just that before the truth [about the return of Voldemort] could sink in [at the end of the last school year], everyone went home for the summer, where they spent two months reading about how you're a nutcase and Dumbledore's going senile!" (13.13).
- As they settle in to do homework in the Gryffindor common room, Hermione sees Fred and George up to something.
- They're testing their Skiving Snackboxes on a bunch of first years.
- Hermione shrieks, "I told you this morning, you can't test your rubbish on students!" (13.34).
- Hermione agrees that she won't give them detention – she'll just write to their mother.
- The twins "looked thunderstruck. It was clear that as far as they were concerned, Hermione's threat was way below the belt" (13.55).
- After this confrontation, Hermione starts pulling out a couple of weird, woolly objects.
- They're hats for the Hogwarts house-elves.
- A house-elf can only be freed from its wizarding service if its Master gives it a gift of clothes.
- Hermione thinks house-elf servitude is basically slavery.
- So, she's trying to free them through trickery, by covering these hats she has knitted with trash so that the house-elves accidentally pick them up.
- Ron does not approve: "You're setting them free when they might not want to be free" (13.65).
- The next morning, both Professor Flitwick (Charms) and Professor McGonagall (Transfiguration) spend the beginning of class terrifying the students about how important their OWLs are.
- At Care of Magical Creatures, Professor Grubbly-Plank introduces Bowtruckles, tree guardians that live inside trees and eat wood lice.
- Harry asks where Hagrid is, but Professor Grubbly-Plank won't answer.
- Draco says meaningly: "Maybe he's messing with stuff that's too big for him, if you get my drift" (13.98).
- Luna Lovegood is coming from one of the nearby greenhouses when she stops, turns to Harry, and says, "I believe He Who Must Not Be Named is back and I believe you fought him and escaped from him" (13.111).
- Unfortunately, this show of support doesn't do much good, since Luna is wearing a pair of radish earrings that make everyone laugh at her.
- Still, it's nice to have someone who believes you, even if she does have a reputation for being crazy.
- Angelina Johnson confronts Harry at dinner: "How come you've landed yourself in detention for five o'clock on Friday?" (13.124). He's going to miss Quidditch Keeper tryouts!
- Angelina tells Harry to tell Professor Umbridge off: "Tell her You-Know-Who's a figment of your imagination if you like, just make sure you're there!" (13.128).
- So, Harry reports to detention with Professor Umbridge and asks whether he can do his Friday detention another night.
- He knows even before he finishes asking that she is going to say no. Of course, she flatly refuses.
- Professor Umbridge wants Harry to write, "I must not tell lies[...] as long as it takes for the message to sink in" (13.154-6).
- Professor Umbridge hands him a special quill to use.
- This quill writes the message with Harry's own blood.
- Every time he writes out this sentence, he feels pain on the back of his hand, as though the words are being cut into his skin. The wounds heal over, but they reappear when he starts writing again.
- After hours of this, Professor Umbridge wants to see Harry's hand.
- She says, "Tut, tut, I don't seem to have made much of an impression yet [...] Well, we'll just have to try again tomorrow evening, won't we?" (13.172).
- Harry has to do all of his homework early the next morning thanks to Professor Umbridge's (horrible, horrible) detention, so all of his classes go badly.
- The next detention is just as bad, but Harry is proud that he doesn't show the pain he's feeling. He doesn't even tell his friends the truth about the Blood Quill.
- Harry is exhausted all the time with trying to fit his homework in when he can.
- He can't figure out why Ron seems to be equally exhausted, though.
- What is he up to?
- Harry's hand is starting to scar from all of the lines Professor Umbridge makes him write.
- On his way back from detention one night, he bumps into Ron.
- Ron confesses that he "thought [he'd] try out for Gryffindor Keeper now that [he's] got a decent broom. There. Go on. Laugh" (13.209).
- But Harry think it'd be great if Ron gets on the team. He's excited that Ron is practicing.
- Ron notices the marks on the back of his hand, so Harry finally confesses what Professor Umbridge is having him do.
- Ron sums up all of our feelings: "The old hag! [...] She's sick!" (13.221).
- Harry won't go to Professor McGonagall or Dumbledore for help, though.
- On Friday night, Harry starts writing out his lines again.
- His hand bleeds freshly.
- Harry is trying to watch the Quidditch tryouts through the window as he writes.
- When Professor Umbridge takes Harry's hand to see how scarred it is, "pain seared, not across the back of his hand, but across the scar on his forehead" (13.246).
- Professor Umbridge smiles and says, "Yes, it hurts, doesn't it?" (13.248).
- Harry isn't sure if Professor Umbridge is aware of the pain from his curse scar.
- Harry is so freaked out by his suspicion that Professor Umbridge is connected to Voldemort that he can't work up very much excitement over Ron being made Keeper on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
- Angelina admits privately to Harry that Ron isn't the greatest player, but she's hoping he'll turn out all right with some training.
- Harry tells Hermione his suspicion that Professor Umbridge is possessed by Voldemort.
- Hermione wonders if it's a coincidence.
- She suggests that Harry go to Dumbledore to say his scar hurts.
- Harry retorts, "that's the only bit of me Dumbledore cares about, isn't it, my scar?" (13.278).
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Every Halloween, there is a Horror Fest show showing four back-to-back films on one screen (including black and white classics on certain weekends). There is a small haunted house for patrons to tour at their leisure, and the staff even creeps around scaring the viewers in their cars.
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This drive-in opened as the Arrown Drive-In in 1954, it became the Point Drive-In in 1958. Opened as a single screen drive-in. The website is no longer an active website. They only have a facebook page. It is listed as the Point 3 Drive-In. Open seasonally April thru September. 600 car capacity and has made the conversion to digital projection. Facebook page
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Chelan County PUD is expecting Lake Chelan to reach its full mark by early next week- and has already passed the August first target level of 1099 feet above sea level.
Under the terms of it's federal license, Chelan CountyPUD must make a reasonable effort to comply with the lake level management practices as defined in the settlement agreement.
Many factors affect the lake level including precipitation, temperature, snowpack and spring run-off, but Scott Buehn, Power Resources Engineer for Chelan County PUD, says it's a balance that requires them to estimate what's going to happen and plan forward to manage the lake.
Lake Chelan is considered full when it reaches 1100 feet above sea level, and is listed as 5 inches below that today."CLICK HERE" for Audio


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By Kathryn McCarthy, MPA '15, Associate Consultant
In line with the need for the President to bring the nation up to speed on the State of the Union, it is...
By Alan Sable, Associate Consultant
Michigan is poised to become the 24th state to pass "Right-to-Work" (RTW) legislation in the United States. This legislation takes away union members ability to negotiate paying union dues as a condition of employment into a union contract. In non-RTW states there are some union workplaces where paying dues is optional because union members have not negotiated mandatory dues into their contracts. In order for union dues to be mandatory in a non-RTW state, management must agree to include it in the contract and workers most vote to approve it. In RTW states, negotiating for this type of contract clause is illegal. Opponents of the bill refer to it as "Right-to-Work-for-Less" legislation because they say that it erodes the resources and bargaining power of union members. As this fight heats up both sides increasingly cite the positive or negative effects RTW legislation has on individual states' economies. With almost 50 years of data since the passage of the first RTW legislation, one would think there would be a consensus on its impact. A closer look at the research behind the seemingly contradictory statistics reveals the heart of the disagreement.
Frequently pundits cherry pick data comparing RTW states with non-RTW states suggesting that correlation indicates causality. For example, back in 2011 Mitt Romney stated that, "Right-to-work states, those 22, have created 3 million jobs over the last 10 years. The union states have lost about half a million jobs. So right to work is the way to go if you want good jobs." As Gordon Lafer, associate professor at the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center points out, "It's the same as saying that states with names that start with the letters 'n' through 'z' grew faster over the past decade. That's actually true, but it's not meaningful in policy terms." With so many factors contributing to a state's economy, a more sophisticated statistical analysis is clearly warranted.
The most frequently cited statistical analyses of the effects of RTW legislation are by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Richard Vedder of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Both groups use regression analyses that seek to account for demographic, geographic and other differences among states to isolate the impact of RTW laws. With Dick Cheney and Peter Coors on the board of the AEI it will come as no surprise that Vedder's work demonstrates the positive economic effects of RTW legislation. Nor, with the Presidents of the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union, and the American Federation of Teachers on the board of EPI is it surprising that their research consistently shows the negative impact of RTW laws. But let's assume that both groups are engaging in intellectually honest and dispassionate statistical analysis. How they choose to measure economic impact is very revealing. Vedder's research shows the positive impact of RTW laws by demonstrating that per-capita income growth is higher in RTW states. EPI, on the other hand, shows that median income is significantly lower in RTW states. Is it possible that they are both correct? Yes.
If the income benefits from RTW legislation skew disproportionately to upper income earners and redistribute income from the typical worker to the highest paid then these findings are consistent. If they are both right, then "Right-to-Work" legislation does contribute to overall income growth, but it lowers wages for typical workers and contributes to greater income inequality.
The one thing both sides agree on is that RTW legislation lowers union membership. And while the debate rages over RTW legislation, there is an academic consensus that declines in union membership contribute significantly to rising income inequality (See Richard Freeman; David Card et al.; and Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfeld among others). Thus the real debate is over what type of economic growth we value. According to the EPI and the AEI, if Michigan politicians choose "right-to-Work" legislation then they are choosing overall income growth at the expense of a typical workers paycheck.Related News:


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Green Lantern v2 #88, 1972 - Like many of DC's 52-page bronze age comics, this issue is comprised mostly of reprints. Neal Adams supplies the montage-like cover (except for the bottom panel), showcasing the two original Green Lanterns. Not among his best efforts, details fall short on the small illustrations. Compensating for this is Adams' exquisite pencil sketch for Green Lantern #89. This rough cover increases anticipation for the next issue. An unpublished golden age tale by Carmine Infantino accompanies the silver age reprints. This is number 14 of 15 Green Lantern issues with Adams art and/or covers. See today's posts or more Adams or Green Lantern issues. See also this blog's Adams checklist or Top 10 Adams comics.
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There's a strong chance the most recognizable figure on Wadsworth's football team won't be around when the Grizzlies open their season Aug. 29 at Ashland.
Head coach Greg Dennison, who is entering his 20th year with Wadsworth, hasn't stepped down or been non-renewed. The winningest coach in school history, Dennison will likely still be recuperating after having his right kidney removed.
It all started on a non-descript day in late June when Dennison found blood in his urine. After a trip to the hospital, a mass was found on the kidney. Tests determined it was cancer and surgery was slated for Aug. 12.
"I hadn't been feeling bad, but I had blood in my urine one day out of nowhere," he said. "I went to the hospital and they thought it might be a kidney stone or something like that. But that's when they found it. From there, I went through a series of tests.
"I was shocked. I don't feel different. You start going through everything and you go through the tests and it's a process. Any time you hear that word (cancer), you worry immediately and think worst-case scenario."
Fortunately for Dennison, 49, the news was as good as it could be. He is expected to be back within three weeks with a clean bill of health. That doesn't mean Dennison, who has coached at the high school level for 27 years, won't be itching to get back.
He'll open practice Friday with the Grizzlies, coach until Aug. 11 and then have surgery the day after that.
Defensive coordinator Rob Karovic, 44, will take over until Dennison returns, but doesn't expect things to be any different.
"Nothing has changed in terms of his behavior," said Karovic, who is entering his sixth season with the Grizzlies. "As the word has spread, it's been business as usual, which speaks volumes for his character.
"We'll wear a few more hats and divvy up the responsibilities between the coaches, but Greg will be a part of us. We'll be filming practice for him and will still take care of things he thinks we need to address."
One of the things that won't need to be addressed is player attitude, as Wadsworth has used the situation as a rallying point.
Many found out about the situation in a mass email from Dennison. Just about all of them have lent a shoulder for Dennison when he needs it.
Returning All-Gazette senior safety/wide receiver Austin White knows many of his teammates have bought orange cleats — the symbolic color for kidney cancer awareness — to honor their coach while he is away.
"It touched my heart," White said. "He loves the game of football. He'll be missed. It's going to be hard. He gets us ready every single week and puts so much time into the game of football.
"Not having him there is going to be tough. Everyone will play that game for Coach Dennison. He won't be there, but I'm sure he'll be getting text messages at home."
That might be the toughest part for Dennison, who has always liked to stay busy.
Dennison said he'll likely only stay in the hospital for a night. It's the 20 days that follow that will be the test, as home rest is what the doctor has ordered.
Dennison expects to come back Sept. 1. In fact, he's banking on it.
"I don't know how it's going to be," Dennison said. "It's something I'll have to get through. I think there was shock everywhere at first, but we're keeping things as normal as possible."
As for what happens during the 21 days he's away, that is probably the easiest question of all to answer.
"We know how he wants things done and what his expectations are," Karovic said. "We'll just continue with that. There's no sense in reinventing the wheel."
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Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Lego Movie" was No. 1 at the U.S. and Canadian box office for the weekend ending Feb. 9, 2014. According to a Box Office Mojo report published on Feb. 9, "The Lego Movie" had $69 million in ticket sales for the weekend ending Feb. 9, 2014. Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks lead the voice cast of "The Lego Movie" which is an animated film based on Lego toys.
The other two movies that opened in wide release in the U.S. and Canada on Feb. 7, 2014, were Columbia Pictures' action-thriller "The Monuments Men" (starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray), which debuted at No. 2, with $22.7 million. The Weinstein Company's teen horror flick "Vampire Academy" (starring Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry) debuted at No. 7, with only $4.1 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada for the movie's opening weekend.
According to Box Office Mojo, here are the Top 5 movies in the U.S. and Canada for the weekend ending Feb. 9, 2014:
1. "The Lego Movie" — $69 million
2. "The Monuments Men" — $22.7 million
3. "Ride Along" — $9.4 million
4. "Frozen" — $6.9 million
5. "That Awkward Moment" — $5.5 million
And here are the opening-weekend box-office numbers for the movies that opened in limited release on Feb. 7, 2014:
- "Kids for Cash" — $40,800 from four theaters
- "The Last of the Unjust" — $14,500 from eight theaters
- "Field in England" — $5,000 from 10 theaters


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It must have been sometime in early January of 2008 that I traveled to Reykjavík, Iceland for an international Judo tournament. Being there for a competition rather than on holiday, I had the pleasure of seeing little else in Iceland outside the hotel and tournament arenas. I was in the best shape of my life, and at 5 feet 11 inches tall, I was competing at a very slender 145lbs.
One late night in the hotel, I found myself in a small sauna trying to shed water-weight for next morning's weigh-ins. I must have been in the hot wooden room for a couple hours before a man entered wearing a towel about his head not unlike a turban. He took a seat in the hot box, and it took a few minutes before it registered that I knew this man. It felt as though I must have stared at him for a bit before timidly asking, "You're Bill Murray, right?" He took a moment and then responded in typical Murray fashion with a "Yeah… that seems about right." Continue reading


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Mitsubishi Minatomirai Industrial Museum
A fun space for both adults and children to see, touch and
experience science technology with all their senses
Mitsubishi Minatomirai Industrial Museum opened in 1994 to expose visitors to inspiring science and technology in its six zones: Aerospace, Ocean, Transportation, Daily Life Discovery, Environment, Energy and Technology Quest.
Its exhibits include: an actual rocket engine used for firing test, a large-scale model of Shinkai 6500 (manned submergence research vessel), Eco-town friendly to the earth and people, the history of ships, airplanes and railway that have supported Japan's development, and many more. You could forget the passage of time at their sheer diversity
Trial Square is a space to learn an aspect of advanced technologies. Visitors can experience designing a jet aircraft, helicopter, ferry or deep submergence vehicle, fabricating a steam locomotive or a concept car, and operating a helicopter. The square is so popular that you might have to wait for your turn.
The museum holds a variety of events loved by children such as movie screenings and stamp rallies during spring, summer and winter vacations. How about experiencing the science of tomorrow together with your kids?
Address: Mitsubishijuko Yokohama Building, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa
Phone: 045-200-7351
Hours open to visitors: 10:00-17:00 (admission until 16:30)
Admission Fee: 300 yen (adults); 200 yen (junior and senior high school students); 100 yen (elementary school students)
Closed: Every Monday (following day if Monday falls on a national holiday), at the year-end and New Year, and on specified closed days
Directions: 8 minutes on a moving walkway from Sakuragicho Station on the JR Keihin Tohoku Line (40 minutes from Tokyo Station); or 3-minute walk from Minatomirai Station on the Minatomirai Line. (Car) In front of Minatomirai Entrance on the Metropolitan Expressway (Parking with charge).