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In answer to Dr. King's famous call to action – "Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'" – Congress passed this sanctioned Day of Service challenging Americans to transform the King Holiday into a day of citizen action. Volunteers from Bank of America, PacifiCorp, Hands on Greater Portland in partnership with United Way , as well as individuals and families will process over 100,000 pounds of food – equivalent to more than 83,000 meals, and as much as the two facilities process in a regular work week. Oregon Food Bank is also encouraging each volunteer to donate two nutritious, nonperishable food items, with a goal of collecting over 1,000 pounds of food donations – equivalent to more than 830 meals.
Volunteer shifts will take place 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Oregon Food Bank East, 7900 NE 33rd Drive in Portland, and Oregon Food Bank West, 1870 NW 173rd Avenue in Beaverton.
"We are grateful for all the volunteers giving their time in the spirit of service embodied by Dr. King. Together we can make significant strides toward eliminating hunger in Oregon," said Sarah Schirmer, Oregon Food Bank Corporate and Foundation Relations Developer.
"I look forward to this event every year," said Roger Hinshaw, Oregon and southwest Washington market president at Bank of America. "It's a moving experience to see so many people working side-by-side to honor Dr. King's legacy. Bank of America is committed to strengthening our community, and by supporting Oregon Food Bank, we're helping make the connection between our neighbors in need and the resources to address the immediate crisis of hunger so they focus on creating a more financially stable future."
MLK Jr. Day of Service at Oregon Food Bank is presented by Bank of America with funding support from Bank of America and PacifiCorp. Olive Garden will provide hot meals for volunteers at both facilities.
About Oregon Food Bank
With sufficient public will and support of the entire community, we believe it is possible to eliminate hunger and its root causes. Oregon Food Bank collects and distributes food through a network of four Oregon Food Bank branches and 17 independent regional food banks serving Oregon and southwest Washington. The Oregon Food Bank Network helps nearly 1 in 5 households fend off hunger. Oregon Food Bank also leads statewide efforts to increase resources for hungry families and to eliminate the root causes of hunger through advocacy, nutrition education, garden education, and helping communities strengthen local food systems.
Bank of America Corporate Social Responsibility
Bank of America's commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic part of doing business globally. Our CSR efforts guide how we operate in a socially, economically, financially and environmentally responsible way around the world, to deliver for shareholders, customers, clients and employees. Our goal is to help create economically vibrant regions and communities through lending, investing and giving. By partnering with our stakeholders, we create value that empowers individuals and communities to thrive and contributes to the long-term success of our business. We have several core areas of focus for our CSR, including responsible business practices; environmental sustainability; strengthening local communities with a focus on housing, hunger and jobs; investing in global leadership development; and engaging through arts and culture. As part of these efforts, employee volunteers across the company contribute their time, passion and expertise to address issues in communities where they live and work. Learn more at www.bankofamerica.com/about and follow us on Twitter at @BofA_Community.
For more Bank of America news, visit the Bank of America newsroom. www.bankofamerica.com
Contact: Pat Kaczmarek Marketing and Communications Manger Oregon Food Bank email@example.com 503-972-2996
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Commit to Affirmative Living!
Several months ago, I began working on the development of some new products. As I began to contemplate a name that would encompass the product line, the words "Affirmative Living" came to me. I was really excited, so I shared the concept with my mastermind group. A couple of the people in the group didn't understand what the phrase meant and asked me to rethink my concept.


text: Glenview Elementary School kindergarten student Xavier Newby, 5, is introduced during an assembly to recognize Xavier's award-winning artwork at the school in Oakland on Monday. Xavier's teacher, Marcelo Granda, gets $500 and the school receives a storage unit full of school supplies after Xavier's portrait of Granda, left, was chosen as a winner in a contest sponsored by StorageMart. Above, Xavier is introduced during the assembly.


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Everyday leadership: Handled properly, competition in the workplace can be good
December 5, 2012
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West Coast Condo Values Continue to Rise
Downtown condominium prices continue to skyrocket in West Coast cities, as the booming tech industry and interest from foreign buyers sends condo prices skyward and leaving little left to buy.
Few markets are more frenzied than San Francisco, where new condominium prices are now over $1,000 per square foot, according to The Mark Co., a marketing and sales firm in San Francisco.
San Francisco's new downtown condo prices were up 13% in March from a year ago, to $1,030 per square foot. The inventory of new condos was down by roughly a third and is pretty much bare: In a press release, The Mark Co. noted that in 2007 there were about 3,000 new condo units for sales. In March there were 138.
The Mark Co.'s new condo price index is based on the per-square-foot price of a 1,000 square foot condominium that sits on the 10th floor of a new building. Naturally, penthouses – defined as a 2,000 square-foot condo on the 30th floor – are much more.
In San Francisco, new penthouses fetched $1,768 per square-foot, up 13% from a year ago.
Prices are up in in other major West Coast cities as well. In Seattle, new condo prices were up 18% in March form a year ago, to $727 per square-foot.
In downtown Los Angeles, new condo prices were up 8%, to $656/square foot.


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SAN JOSE -- A San Jose man was arrested Monday night on suspicion of arson after a fire burned about two acres on Mt. Hamilton, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
Tuan Tran, 31, was also arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine, according to a sheriff's spokesman.
At 10:15 p.m. San Jose and Cal Fire firefighters responded to a grass fire near Clayton and Mt. Hamilton roads, sheriff's Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup said. Sheriff's deputies also responded and located a man camping illegally.
Deputies say Tran was responsible for the wildfire when an illegal camp fire got out of control.
It is not known why Tran was camping in the area. Stenderup said it's not an area normally associated with homeless encampments.
Sheriff's deputies were trying to determine if there were "any telltale signs of an illegal marijuana grow."
A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman said the cause of the blaze is under investigation.
Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitter.com/markmgomez.


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It seems simple enough: To be labeled as "Made in America," a product sold in California must include only components manufactured and assembled in this nation.
But that's a tougher standard than elsewhere in the country, where small amounts of foreign parts don't invalidate the label. And now it's touched off a debate among business interests and consumer rights groups, as state lawmakers consider lowering the threshold included in the state's 52-year-old labeling law.
Richard Russell, chairman of the board of Russell's Furniture, is opening a new store in San Mateo on Feb. 1 that he originally planned to call "Made in America."
But he changed the name to "Russell's Furniture American Pride/Bringing Jobs Back Home" after his suppliers -- including Amish craftspeople from Ohio -- could not guarantee that every single component originated in America, which would meet the California standard for labeling a product Made in America.
"We've seen plant after plant shuttered and I want to support American manufacturing and bring jobs back to America," Russell said. "But I don't want to get sued. It blows me away that I can't say 'Made in America.' It gets me upset."
The idea of watering down California's standard bothers Richard Holober, executive director of the Consumer Federation of California, which opposed an earlier draft of the bill that would have allowed products to carry a "Made in America" label if 90 percent of the parts were made and assembled in the United States.
"It's about truth in advertising," Holober said. "The California standard is clear and you don't get into the problem of subjectivity. What's wrong with being honest? Why is it such a problem to simply say, '90 percent Made in the USA?' "
Businesses counter that they're punished in the marketplace for trying to comply with California's law because many of their competitors ignore it and label their products American made and sell them in California even when they contain foreign parts.
Nationally, the Federal Trade Commission oversees guidelines that are less restrictive than California's, saying that a product claiming to be made in the USA "must be all or virtually all" made in America, said Julia Solomon Ensor, an attorney in the enforcement division of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection.
"On the one hand, of course we think it's important for companies to promote the good work they're doing in the USA," she told this newspaper. "On the other hand, our primary goal is to prevent consumer deception."
The national standard of "all or virtually all" leaves plenty of wiggle room for interpretation. The FTC will suggest ways for companies to comply, but the decision on what meets the FTC guidelines is left to the nation's civil courts, just as California civil courts determine whether a product meets the state standard.
In California, it's against state law to include a "Made in America" or "Made in the USA" label when any part of the product "has been entirely or substantially made outside of the United States."
That means every single part essentially has to be made and assembled in the United States to carry a "Made in the USA" label in California. But representatives for business say it's a standard that's virtually impossible to meet in today's global market.
A proposed revision of the law, SB 661, would allow goods containing foreign-made parts to be advertised as "Made in America" or similar phrases -- as long as the parts cannot be found in the United States and as long as the foreign parts constitute a "negligible part" of the final product.
The law was enacted in 1961 to push back against foreign companies that were employing deceptive "Buy America promotions," according to a legislative analysis of SB 661, which would amend the law.
The author of SB 661, state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, said his proposed changes would still be the most restrictive in the country.
"You should not be allowed to claim 'Made in the USA' if parts are available in the U.S. but you choose not to buy them," Hill said. "But it will make California businesses as competitive as the rest of the businesses in all of the other 49 states."
For consumers, Hill said, the new standard would let them know "that every effort was made to manufacture 100 percent in the United States except for just one small part that could not be made here."
San Carlos-based Bulldog LED Lighting cannot get U.S.-made LEDs for its vehicle lighting systems. So Bulldog buys two separate packaging labels: One simply marked "MADE IN U.S.A." for the rest of the country and an 11-word version for California that reads, "Made in the USA CA: contains global parts not domestically available."
The wordier label has not hurt sales in California, which account for about 20 percent of Bulldog's business, according to Lisa Sievers, Bulldog's director of operations. Asked why Bulldog doesn't simply use its California label for the rest of the country, Sievers said it puts her company at an unfair disadvantage against competitors who advertise that their products are "Made in the USA" across the country.
"A few years ago, I believed every word of 'Made in the USA.' Now I know differently," Sievers said. "Now when I see the label, I think, 'There's no way. I know for a fact that wasn't 100 percent made in the USA.' "
Two separate polls by Harris and Gallup found overwhelming support among U.S. consumers who said they would pay more to buy products labeled "Made in the USA" to support American manufacturing, U.S. jobs and to push back against foreign competition.
But neither poll asked whether respondents understood that products marked "Made in America" actually are allowed to contain foreign parts.
Joel Joseph, founder and chairman of the Los Angeles-based Made in the USA Foundation, insists that savvy shoppers know that something labeled "Made in the USA" probably isn't 100 percent American made -- even in California.
Joseph called California's current standard "ridiculous" and said it's being protected by lawyers who see opportunities to take violators to court.
"Because it's so easy to prove a violation, it's the lawyers who want it -- not the consumers," Joseph said. "A lot of companies are violating California's law, which makes it a hot bed for lawsuits."
SB 661 faces a deadline of midnight Jan. 17 to get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. If not, it's dead.
In the meantime, Bulldog moved much of its operations to Texas in July, partly to reduce shipping costs and partly out of anger at California's resistance to changing the standard. Even though part of its operation is now in Texas, Bulldog still must meet the California labeling standard to sell its lights here.
"We're fighting to keep American factories in business," Sievers said. "But we're also trying to be honest with our labeling in California. Unfortunately, not everyone's playing on a level playing field."
Contact Dan Nakaso at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/dannakaso.


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Hello, i just installed this masterpiece of software on my pc, streaming everything i can to the PS3...but i'm having a problem with the JPG files and the MP3. The folders appear on the PS3 but it say "no titles" (when the actual folder in the pc is pretty much full).
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The hotel was originally established as a business and aparthotel enabling the hotel to offer you day and yearly rates.
The hotel management wish to inform guests that breakfast prices have now changed to include Continental breakfast at £6.50 and a full English breakfast for £7.50.
The hotel is perfectly catered to the business community with the hotel's conference facilities capable of accommodating for 50 delegates with modern conferencing amenities.
The hotel also offers guests The Lane Bar providing guests with modern and mouth-watering cuisine plus exotic cocktails and various events. The bar can be hired and has a capacity for 250 people.
The hotel also has ample parking for guests and business persons.
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Thursday, 03/12/1992
The Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Sparkle, Stash, IDKI Didn't Know[1], Reba, Buried Alive > Rift, Magilla, Llama, YEMYou Enjoy Myself
Set 2: GolgiGolgi Apparatus, Tweezer, Eliza > It's Ice > Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, CoilThe Squirming Coil > Uncle Pen, BowieDavid Bowie, Cold as Ice > Cracklin' Rosie > Cold as Ice, MSOMy Sweet One > Cavern
Encore: Sweet Adeline[2], Weigh > TweepriseTweezer Reprise
[1] Fish on Bag-Vac.
[2] Without microphones.
· Uncle Pen, The Squirming Coil, Bouncing Around the Room, It's Ice, Eliza, Tweezer, Golgi Apparatus, and You Enjoy Myself teases in David Bowie
· Long Tall Glasses tease in Tweezer
Noteworthy Jams: It's Ice
Average Song Gap: 2.81
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: I Didn't Know featured Fish on Bag-Vac and was dedicated to Nectar, who was in attendance. Trey teased Long Tall Glasses in Tweezer. Bowie's intro contained teases of the last eight songs played in the show in reverse order: Uncle Pen, Squirming Coil, Bouncing Around The Room, It's Ice, Eliza, Tweezer, Golgi, and YEM. Sweet Adeline was performed without microphones.
Song Distribution:
7 A Picture of Nectar
4 Rift
4 Lawn Boy
4 Junta
3 Stash
1 The White Tape
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Jennifer Lawrence Talks Breasts During a Busy Press Day
Jennifer Lawrence made a triple costume change during a busy day of press in LA yesterday. She wore a yellow Emilio Pucci dress to drop by Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she talked about discovering that her breasts are uneven in a chest X-ray taken during her battle with pneumonia. She told host Jimmy Kimmel, "I was standing there with these doctors looking at my lungs and I couldn't look anywhere else; it felt like an elephant in the room." Jennifer added, "I hope that no one ever sees my breasts in an X-ray. I hope I'm never seen in that light."
Jennifer also stepped out in a teal frock and later a sheer black blouse and red pencil skirt, which she wore for her visit to


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Here is a list of pet shelters and organizations in Caswell County.
If you do not see your organization listed, please send us an e-mail along with your county and your web address, and we will be glad to add it to the list.
Link: Animal Protection Society of Caswell County
Link: Caswell Pet Liveline
A lot of local shelters are in need of volunteers and foster homes, so if this is something you are interested in, please contact one of the shelters


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Definition of Wyandot in English:
(also Wyandotte)
1A member of an American Indian community formed by Huron-speaking peoples, originally in Ontario, now living mainly in Oklahoma and Quebec.
Example sentences
- Among the tribes represented were Delawares, Iroquois, Wyandots, Miamis, Ottawas, Pottawattamies, Creeks, Sac and Fox, Choctaw.
- An attack on an outlying settlement in January 1791 had prompted more than four years of conflict with the local Delawares and Wyandots.
- The chiefs and clan mothers of the Wyandot from Kansas, the Huron Wendat of Wendake, Que., and the Wendats from Michigan, joined the Wyandottes of Oklahoma for a ceremonial canoe trip down the Wye River.
2 [mass noun] The extinct Iroquoian language of the Wyandot.
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- This is a modern reprint of John Johnston's 1820 vocabulary of Wyandot (Huron), an unfortunately extinct Iroquoian Indian language.
- These clan names are all expressed in Wyandot, words so long and hard to properly pronounce that they are omitted here.
3 (usually Wyandotte) A domestic chicken of a medium-sized American breed.
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- Six laying hefts follow her everywhere - two each of the Buff Orpington, Silver-laced Wyandotte and White Leghorn breeds.
- The Plymouth Rock was developed from Cochin, Dorking, and Malay stock; the Wyandotte, a utility bird, had Cochin, Hamburgh, and Sebright bantam genes.
- In September 1945, and a five half month old Wyandotte rooster was pecking through the dust of Fruita, Colorado when its owner decided to prepare him for the pot.
Relating to the Wyandot people or their language.
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- The Wyandot language has no native speakers today, so these vocabulary words come from early 19th-century sources and their pronunciation is uncertain.
- If you need to know a Wyandot word that is not currently on our page, you can take part in our Indian translations fundraiser, buy a Wyandot dictionary, or visit our main Wyandot language site for more free resources.
Mid 18th century: from French Ouendat, from Huron Wendat.
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[Info from Peter Whitley's book Rethinking Hopi Ethnography]
From Whitley's book, I also discovered that the Hopi way of life is threatened with imminent extinction. In the 1960s, the Peabody Coal Company was given a concession to mine coal on their land. They were also awarded the right to use water from the aquifer under Black Mesa to slurry the coal down a pipeline, built by the Enron Corporation. This operation extracts 1.3 billion gallons of pure drinking water annually from the aquifer that sustains Hopi life. There are, of course, other ways to transport coal, but this is the cheapest for Peabody, and the company has continually fought against and effectively delayed efforts to change its practices. In the 1980s, it was discovered that the lawyer who negotiated the original deal for the Hopi was, at the same time, on the payroll of the Peabody Corporation – and the Hopi had received a tiny fraction of the revenue they deserve from the concession, while forfeiting control of their own destiny. According to U.S. government Geological Surveys, by the year 2011, the aquifer will be almost completely depleted – already the Hopi are finding that the local springs on which they rely are drying up.
Daniel Pinchbeck
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 387
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Power of Positive Thinking: How to Find Joy Within You
If you want to increase the amount of joy in your life, it has to begin with the way you love, treat and honor yourself. If you are reaching outside of yourself for people, things, food, drugs, alcohol or jobs to be your source of joy, you will be at the mercy of circumstance. Real power comes when you realize you can feel joy for no reason at all.


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Clint Eastwood's son, Scott, is Hollywood's next rising star.
It seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in Scott's latest shoot in Town & Country magazine.
Scott was born March 21, 1986 (age 27)
He has 5 half-siblings.
Scott has appeared in some of his father's films including Gran Torino
Scott didn't change his last name to Eastwood until he was an adult
Scott's real name is Scott Clinton Reeves
Scott was born in Carmel, California, and grew up in Hawaii
He is the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood and flight attendant Jacelyn Allen Reeves
Scott & his half-sister Alison Eastwood.
He's held valet and construction worker jobs before being an actor.
Scott & Holston Sage
Scott was quoted in Town & Country as saying he wants to be a "man's man" like his father.
He enjoys fishing a surfing.
Until recently, his stage name was Scott Reeves.
Scott is looking to start his own whiskey business.
Scott & Audrina Patridge
Scott Eastwood and Audrina presented at the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards
Many consider him to be a new star on the rise.
The first film he was in was Flags of our Fathers
Scott at Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards
We look forward to seeing more of him!
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Funeral services for Bob Allen Brown will be held 2 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 at the First Baptist Church of Davis with Pastor Luke Pantor officiating. Interment will follow at the Green Hill Cemetery.
Bob was born Feb. 18, 1934 in Davis to Isham Gene & Leona Dell (Rogers) Brown. He died Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 in Sulphur, at the age of 78 years 9 months and 6 days.
Bob was a lifetime resident of Davis. Early in his teenage years, he worked for Doyle Dalley at the Ice Dock and delivering drilling mud. He then began working in the oilfield where he rough necked with his brother-in-law Wayne and Tom Jack Knapp. In his later years, Bob worked with Tom Jack doing custom hay bailing for the public. Bob had a great love for horses and rodeos. He enjoyed going to the coffee shop every morning visiting with his friends. Bob was a member of the First Baptist Church of Davis, joining in 1956.
Survivors include his two sisters, Betty Webb & husband Wayne of Davis and Velma Wells of Norman; aunt, Dora Lee Stewart of Pauls Valley; uncle, Carl Brown of Ardmore; two great nieces, Whitney & Courtney Wells of Blanchard; two great nephews, Tristin White of Tecumseh and Sage Gandenburg of Norman; as well as numerous cousins.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents; nephew Chad Webb and his very best friend, Tom Jack Knapp.
Serving as pallbearers will be Bobby Webb, Roy Webb, Houston "Hoot" Rogers, Charley "Gub" Rogers, Darin Rogers and Monte "Goober" Holland. Honorary bearers will be Cecil Sides, Carl Summers, Billy "PeeWee" Thomasson and W.A. England.
On line condolences may be offered at halesfuneralhomes.com.
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Wildflower Seed Paper Matchbook
These delightful Wildflower Seed Paper Matchbooks are a garden in a matchbook. There are 20 sticks of seed paper within each pack, and when you plant the sticks, you'll grow a garden of wildflowers. The sticks can be planted indoors in a pot or outside in a garden.
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Recording and hanging out with El Gran Combo was a lot of fun. Eddie Perez and Robertito Roena were my favorites. In fact, they were both on the Alegre payroll working out of our office in Miramar, P.R. The radio station was up the block and the Radio Bar, where we lunched, was across the street. I nearly always stayed at the Miramar Charterhouse nearby. When Felipe Rodriguez Alegre LP 828 was released (1963), we threw a wine and cheese party at the Charterhouse to publicize it. I remember a picture in a newspaper the following day showing Franklyn Hernandez (our radio promotion expert) with a cast on his foot. He was fixing a tire on the highway when another car plowed into him. The picture also included Tite Curet Alonso, who at that time was our publicity man. By the way, I remember that Curet Alonso was the first person I saw utilizing a cassette player as a tool in writing his compositions. This was way back in 1963. Later, he wrote many hit songs, especially those great boleros for La Lupe.
I met Rafael Ithier (leader of El Gran Combo, pictured here) at the noon radio show, which was broadcast every weekday. The audience got in free to a large auditorium and saw EGC and Felipe and Davilita. Afterwards, we would cross the street and lunch at the Radio Bar, where the owner insulted everyone and served good Rican food at very reasonable prices. Mickie Cruz, the bass player, always had the hots for my sunglasses. He was a big guy and I had to get stern. I dont really know if he just wanted to bust my chops or what. Anyway, he eventually got my glasses.
I decided to record the P.R. All Stars, and had Kako and Chivirico fly in from New York. I used the EGC rhythm section, including Ithier and Eddies alto. For brass, I got topnotch guys. Cesar Concepcion, Miguelito Miranda and Mario Ortiz. What a trumpet section! For the trombone chair we got Fernandito Arvelo. Yet, there were no real charts, it was mostly improvising descarga style. The recording started at midnight at Ochoa Recording Studios. Johnny Rodriguez (Titos older brother), who had already recorded an LP for Alegre, showed up and said, Youre not leaving me out of this, Im singing one tune. Johnny is another big guy I didnt say no to. All this took place in 1963. We recorded through the night and had a great time. At 7:00 a.m. we left and all went to breakfast at a nearby restaurant.
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I hope it is not a conspiracy. I think it was done with good intentions, but Im not sure. Sometimes I think it was done to keep Latinos from forming a political bloc and (God forbid!) hooking up with blacks. What am I talking about? Im talking about so much bilingualism: the telephone bill, Con Ed, train stations, the airport. All have Spanish along with the English. The voting literacy test and drivers tests are also available in Spanish. We have Channel 41 and 47, Radio WADO, etc., all in Spanish. There are local movies in Spanish and neighborhood record shops with Latino lyrics galore. Why should a Latino bother to learn English? You can live, work and find entertainment in New York without learning English. I dont like it! My parents came from Puerto Rico in the late twenties and had to learn English...and they did. I wish my people would learn English so that they can better themselves...but its easy to not have to learn. Too bad, too too bad. I hope it is not a conspiracybut, Im not sure.
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Thought for the Week
I cannot understand it when I read about people getting arrested because antiquated gambling laws are on the books, while New York State is advertising and encouraging us to play Lotto. The blue laws regarding retail stores opening on Sundays are no longer in effect. Thanks to James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, we can now, if we wish, drink hard booze legally. Yet statistics show hard drinking is down, as is cigarette smoking. So, let the gamblers gamble. Its not their lungs, liver or kidneys at stake. Its their bucks.
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Dont read this column for laughs, this issue is serious stuff. Prominent psychologists have stated their views on the stages of development in children. My contribution to this theme is milestones in a mans life. My first notable respectability experience was when I was called mister by a pre-teenaged boy. I was fourteen. My second experience was when I was in my early fifties and a young corporate exec called me Pop. This was, of course, not a pleasant experience, but. . . thats life. My third experience (July 1996) was complimentary, flattering and an honor. Benny Mendez, my auto mechanic, called me Don Santiago. Don not as in Ameche or Drysdale, but as in Quijote. It is a title of respect and why, as a tribute to my father, I titled a Latin jazz composition Don Alfredo. It is included on the CD by Orlando Marin called Saxophobia. The sweetest sound to ones ear is the sound of ones name. Titles arent bad either.


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Traders React to ICE-NYSE Deal: 'We're Naturally a Little Nervous'
The big question on traders' minds following the ICE's announced deal for NYSE: What will happen to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange?
NYSE Euronext agreed to sell itself to rival IntercontinentalExchange for about $8.2 billion, a deal that would end more than two centuries of independence for the NYSE. ICE has said it would preserve the NYSE brand. But details remain light at the moment, prompting some trades to speculate about what could happen next.
The Big Board had been the U.S. stock market's dominant exchange for decades. But the exchange began to draw significant competition in the 1990s with the emergence of all-electronic rival Nasdaq Stock Market, along with new rules that allowed shares to be traded more freely across multiple venues.
MarketBeat got in touch with a few of the traders down on the floor of the NYSE. Here are their reactions.
Keith Bliss, senior vice president at Cuttone & Co., a brokerage with operations on the NYSE floor:
"As you can imagine, traders are feeling a little cautious about the deal," Bliss told MarketBeat. "We don't really know what's going to happen. There haven't been any meat-and-potato details of how they envision the floor being structured going forward."
Bliss talked about the dynamic of having an upstart exchange, such as ICE, purchasing the NYSE, one of the most enduring symbols of American capitalism.
"You have an all electronic exchange buying an exchange, which is predominately electronic but still has a pretty vibrant human base component to it," Bliss said. "Given the human base of what people do down here, especially in the market maker business, we're naturally a little nervous and wondering what's going to happen.
"There's always that fear and speculation that the human element will go away," he added. "No announcement has been made one way or another and this may be many months in the making if the market is transformed at all…The less you know, the more you mind tends to wander toward the worst-case situation possible."
Some potential benefits of the deal, he said, include additional capital that could be poured into the business. "The upside is it becomes a smoother operation," Bliss says. "There's more capital to be put into greater R&D inside the equity space that could attract more listings and order flow."
Still, Bliss remained cautious about the future. "It's a mix of emotions right now," he said. "You're looking at venerable 225-year-old institution, the center of American capitalism, being acquired by an upstart exchange. But you have to be realistic about the way the world works today. We're optimistic about the future."
Michael Shea, a managing partner at Direct Access Partners, an institutional brokerage firm:
"I would be surprised if anybody who buys the NYSE doesn't understand the value in terms of branding and marketing that having the floor brings to them," said Shea, who works at the NYSE.
Shea pointed to previous merger attempts in recent years that hit regulatory snafus and weren't completed.
"This isn't anybody's first dance on the floor," he says. "I would call this familiar territory. I think people are going to wait and see what this looks like.
"It's no secret how the business has changed. You walk on the floor of the NYSE now as opposed to 10 years ago, there are less people and less trading. This is not inside baseball. That doesn't mean the floor has become irrelevant. It just means it has changed."
He said preliminary details suggest the deal may have a better chance of being approved than previous attempts.
"On its face, it certainly appears to be a more palatable deal for regulators than the previous ones," Shea said. "Clearly ICE doesn't trade equities. So you're getting an exchange that now crosses over into equities as well as ICE's traditional stuff. You would think that is a potential positive. But the devil is in the details. Lets see what it looks like."
Ben Willis, managing director at Albert Fried & Co., a broker on the NYSE floor:
"From our perspective on the trading floor, this is an evolution of the business that we knew was coming," said Willis, who's been working down on the NYSE floor since 1985. "I'm not sad. It was anticipated."
On the prospect of losing the human presence on the NYSE floor, Willis said: "Is it a possibility? Absolutely. Is it probable? I don't think so at this date."
Willis noted that ICE is an NYSE-listed stock, underscoring how the company at the time voluntarily chose to list with the Big Board as opposed to Nasdaq.
"ICE had a choice to list on an electronic venue and they didn't," he said. "They understand the value of the human element. The question from a business-model perspective is what do you do with it?"
Willis expressed frustration at how the market has shifted in recent years toward more electronic trading.
"We're still trying to make sure we understand our niche inside this electronic trading world that the marketplace has progressed to," he says. "The pendulum may've gone too far. Hopefully we'll still be in place when the pendulum swings back."
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For more than a decade, he packed and repacked his treasure chest, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric "mirrors" of hammered gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds.
Forrest Fenn was creating a bounty, and the art and antiquities dealer says his goal was to make sure it was "valuable enough to entice searchers and desirable enough visibly to strike awe."
Occasionally, he would test that premise, pulling out the chest and asking his friends to open the lid.
"Mostly, when they took the first look," he says, "they started laughing," hardly able the grasp his amazing plan.
Was Fenn really going to give this glistening treasure trove away?
Three years ago, he lay two of his most beloved pieces of jewelry in the chest: a turquoise bracelet and a Tairona and Sinu Indian necklace adorned with exotic jewels. At the bottom of the chest, in an olive jar, he placed a detailed autobiography, printed so small a reader will need a magnifying glass. After that, he says, he carted the chest of loot, now weighing more than 40 pounds, into the mountains somewhere north of Santa Fe and left it there.
Next, Fenn self-published a memoir, "The Thrill of the Chase," distilling the autobiography and, intriguingly, including a poem that he says offers clues to lead some clever -- or lucky -- treasure hunter to the bounty.
It wasn't long before word of the hidden trove got out, and the publicity has caused a mini-gold rush in northern New Mexico.
But it has also set off a debate: Has Fenn truly hidden the treasure chest or was this, for the idiosyncratic, publicity-loving 82-year-old who loves to tell tales, just another way to have fun, a great caper to bolster his legacy?
One friend, Michael McGarrity, an author and former Santa Fe County sheriff's deputy, acknowledges it could be "a private joke," though he believes "Forrest has certainly buried something." If it was the treasure he saw, well, "it really is quite an astonishing sight to see."
There certainly seems to be no shortage of believers, including Doug Preston, whose novel "The Codex" about a notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber who buries himself and his treasure as a final challenge to his three sons, is loosely based on Fenn's story.
"I've seen the treasure. I've handled it. He has had it for almost as long as I've known him. It's real. And I can tell you that it is no longer in his vault," says Preston.
"I am 100 percent sure that he really did go out and hide this thing. I am actually surprised that anyone who knows him would think he was blowing hot air. It is just not his personality. He is not a tricky, conspiratorial, slick or dishonest person at all."
Fenn says his main goal is to get people, particularly children, away from their texting devices and looking for adventure outdoors.
But probably few are having more fun with the whole adventure than Fenn himself, a self-described schmoozer and endless flirt who is reveling in what he says are 13,000 emails from treasure hunters -- not to mention 18 marriage proposals.
"His net worth is much higher than what he put in the bounty," says Preston, guessing the treasure's value is in the million-dollar range. "He is having way more than $1 million worth of fun with this."
It all began, Fenn says, more than 20 years ago, when he was diagnosed with cancer and given just a few years to live.
That's when he decided to buy the treasure chest and fill it with some of his favorite things
."Nobody knows where it was going to be but me," he recalls thinking. He revised the clue-poem's wording several times over the years, and made other changes in his plans. For a time, he thought of having his bones with the treasure chest, though how that might have been accomplished is unclear.
"But then," Fenn says with a mischievous twinkle in his blue eyes, "I ruined the story by getting well."
In "The Thrill of the Chase," he lays out his unusual rags-to-riches story while sharing memories of his favorite adventures and mischief-making.
From the outset, the book tells readers the recollections "are as true to history as one man can average out that truth, considering the fact that one of my natural instincts is to embellish."
Average out the truth? Instinct to embellish? Well, one thing is certain: He certainly knows how to tell a tale.
Fenn was raised in Temple, Texas, where his father was a school principal, according to the book. The family was poor, he says, only eating meat on Sundays if there was a chicken to kill. But, Fenn writes,


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ANTIOCH -- The weather balloon experiment that sent a Hello Kitty toy almost 18 miles above the Earth is now an award-winning science project that is sending its creator to a regional competition.
Lauren Rojas, 13, was named one of four top award winners at Cornerstone Christian School's seventh-grade science fair. Awards were announced and passed out during the school's chapel service Wednesday morning.
"I was really excited," said Rojas, flashing her braces with a smile.
She was one of two winners in the physical science category for her weather balloon's 90-minute test of the effects of air pressure and temperature.
Students in the auditorium cheered and whistled loudly when Lauren's name was called and she received a medal.
"I think it reaffirms her desire to study and will push her that much more," said science teacher Annette Cluck, noting there were a lot of good experiments from the 32-student class.
Before the accolade, there was some nervousness among the Rojas family about her chances of winning.
"I had some butterflies in my stomach," the seventh-grader said.
Added mother Cheryl Martinez: "I couldn't help but think what would have happened, and I didn't want her to be discouraged."
The Hello Kitty faux rocket's flight, the four-camera documentation of its journey, and YouTube video of flight footage over pop music earned the shy teenager national and international attention earlier this month.
As of Wednesday morning, the video had more than 782,000 views.
Lauren and her father, Rod, launched the balloon about two months ago from a Livermore parking lot. It remained airborne for about 90 minutes before landing in a tree in a park area west of San Jose -- 47.5 miles from its takeoff spot. They found the balloon by attaching a GPS tracking device.
A fan of Hello Kitty since age 6, Lauren added a tiny figurine she received from her dad to the rocket, along with a pink ribbon sticker to honor breast cancer survivors in her family. She also fastened some pink Hello Kitty-themed tape to the capsule.
The experiment has received national and international media attention, including from Canada, India and the Discovery Channel. Sanrio, the company that created Hello Kitty, and High Altitude Science, the company that created the weather balloon and flight computer, both feature the flight on their websites.
The school is still abuzz about video and its popularity.
"It was just so creative. I loved it," said fifth-grader Sarah Leiss.
Added fellow fifth-grader Rachel Wood: "Everyone's been talking about it around here a lot."
But the video did not count toward the project's judging in the science fair.
The standards for the project were based on a poster board display of the project, a written report, and an oral presentation. The criteria the panel of 10 high school seniors used to judge the project included points for creativity, following the scientific method, thoroughness, technical skill, and neatness.
"(The judges) are usually really tough -- a lot tougher than if parents did it," Cluck said. "They tend to scrutinize (the projects) more since they remember having to do those projects."
To make matters worse, Lauren was suffering from the flu and had a sore throat on the day of her oral presentation.
"She had to suck it up. It speaks very highly of her and her dedication to the project," Cluck said.
Martinez said she had to tried to reschedule the presentation to no avail, and she had to drag Lauren out of bed to get her there.
"I was just hoping they could understand what I was saying," Lauren said.
The Association of Christian Schools International science fair competition for the Northern California region will be held in early March at Cornerstone, school officials said.
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Over the next several days, GoIslanders.com will bring you "Postcards from London," as assistant soccer coach Lauren "Money" Molinaro blogs about her trip to the XXX Olympiad. Here is her second entry, discussing her first full day overseas, July 29.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Waking up this morning is not as easy as I think it's going to be. Last night, I did everything humanly possible, short of sticking toothpicks in my eyelids, to stay awake until 11 p.m. It was sort of a preemptive strike against jetlag, but it appears to have failed since I'm just opening my eyeballs now and the glow of my cell phone displays 12:06 p.m. You think getting 13 hours of sleep would make my morning run easier, but that saying, "more equals better" does not necessarily apply to sleep. Regardless, I run for a few miles through Greenwich, during which I learn the importance of looking BOTH ways in a country that drives on the left hand side of the street. I also, oddly enough, run through a carnival blasting the song "Close to You" by Maxi Priest. As a child of the '80s and '90s I couldn't be happier.
I arrive back at Gabe's flat to find an awesome Facebook message waiting for me. My good friends, Nata and Gaven are in London near Hyde Park until Tuesday morning, and they want to hang out. "Lovely," I think. And then I think "Lovely? Really, Lauren?" I've been here for a day and the British are already rubbing off on me.
A quick shower and a morning coffee from the corner shop, and I'm on my way to find the Tube. I say find because yesterday I had Gabe with me. Today is a different story. Conveniently, there are 12 workers wearing the London 2012 purple and orange who direct me to the Greenwich station. I head the opposite way today, west, into London Bridge and then Green Park. This process is made easier by Matt, a London native, who walks me to my change from the DLR to the Jubilee line. During our time together, I learn he spent a year at Duke and that he almost took a job in Groton, Conn., 30 minutes from my old house. The world really is small.
I reach Green Park station and head straight for Buckingham Palace. This is exciting for two reasons. One, the finish line for women's cycling is there, and two, it's Buckingham Palace, and I've never seen it in person. Add to that the thrill of seeing my old friends and the possibility of seeing the Changing of the Guard, and I'm one happy camper.
The plan is to meet outside Buckingham Palace at the Canadian gate. The tricky thing is none of us have cell phones, and I'm 30 minutes later than our scheduled meeting time, so I'm kind of just hoping that they are near the gate. At this point there are literally hu ndreds of people leaving Hyde Park as I am trying to get in. I can only conclude that women's cycling has ended, but I continue on, hilariously navigating the crowd like a fish swimming upstream.
I reach the gate, scan the crowd, and then I hear familiar voices shouting my name. We're reunited, and yes, it feels so good. Gaven's mom is here too, and the four of us head for the Palace gates. This is where I introduce them to Izzy. They love him! And we all take pictures by Buckingham Palace. Sadly, there is no Changing of the Guard ceremony today, but the grandeur of the Palace is enough for me. And the fountains across from it are simply beautiful.
After a quick peek at the map, we decide to hike to Tower Hill where the Olympic Rings are hanging from the Tower Hill Bridge. This is the bridge from the Opening Ceremony, and it's supposed to be impressive. We reach the bottom of a hill by London's Middle Tower, and the sight of the hanging rings is really cool. Loads of tourists are there snapping pictures, and we are no different. We also jump in line to grab a picture with the Beefeater Mandeville. (Izzy desperately wanted one, and we couldn't say no.)
Now it's 6 p.m. and time to begin our travels to the Olympic Park back in Stratford. At Stratford, we part ways. My friends do not have tickets and apparently, overall, non-Europeans are having a hard time finding tickets. No one can buy them at the venues, and word on the street is you must order them online with a European ID and corresponding European address.
I meet Gabe at Riverbank Arena. It's Sunday, so it's time for some field hockey. The first game is Great Britain vs. Japan. It is simply incredible being in the stands with the home crowd. Chants of "GB" fill up the stadium, and a brass band plays "When the Saints Go Marching In" as the host nation floors past Japan 4-0.
Next is Germany versus USA. Germany is apparently ranked number 1, and they are a very technical team. They remind me of the Japanese women's soccer team, and they are also strong, fast and creative. The neat thing is that the United States are strong as well. This game is incredible. The Germans go up 2-0 in the first half, with their second goal being one of the best I've ever seen. Not that I've seen a ton of field hockey in my time, but to use soccer terms, a midfielder sends a through ball to a forward who literally slaps the ball with her backhand into the near post, "Upper 90." It's awesome!
In the second half, the Americans play great, score an excellent goal, and battle to the end, but ultimately just fall short of a draw. Exiting the stadium, I see the Statue of Liberty walking with Uncle Sam and an American Flag. It is really neat to see people with such national pride. I mean, perhaps they just like dressing up. Whatever the case, I like it.
I round out the night with some cactus tacos, ceviche layered chips, and fried squid. Who knew I would enjoy fried squid so much? I mean I can't say I feel the same about cactus in a taco, but if I were starving in the desert, I'm sure it would suffice. Gabe and I grab a quick cappuccino for our Tube ride home and he introduces me to the Paralympic sport of blind soccer. This is the most incredible sport I have ever heard of, and I can't wait to watch it during the paralympics in September. Here's a link and an introduction to the sport. It's truly incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyffyZLoIkc
Apparently, I don't know how to make a short postcard entry… So I guess you can expect the same tomorrow.
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We are losing World War II veterans at a staggering pace, and with that, we are losing their stories, but Joe Blanks, an engineer and 40 year WTOK veteran, was in the Navy during World War II, and he shared his story Wednesday.
Blanks served overseas in the Philippines starting in September of 1945, that's the same month that a formal surrender was signed in Japan.
"In Manila Bay I saw a lot of sunken ships that had not been cleared out of the bay," recalls Blanks, "ships that were sunk by [US] submarines."
Joe saw the effects of war up close and personal, he served on a ship that transported 5,000 Japanese POWs to Guam.
A few years later Blanks was in the National Guard in New York and was deployed to serve in the Korean War.
"I was deployed to Korea for 14 months, and saw a lot of the battles in Korea," says Blanks, "but I had a good job I was in the telephone equipment operations in Korea."
"One of the greatest things that I can think of that's happened as a result of the wars is that we've taken Christianity to Japan and South Korea and most any of the other places."
Joe remembers clearly two wars that have shaped the history of the world, and he serves as a vital resource to all of us who may not know all they need to know about The Greatest Generation.
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TALENT — An attic fire scorched a portion of a garage used as a registered medical marijuana growing site in the 8000 block of Wagner Creek Road in Talent.
The structure fire was reported just before 9:30 a.m. Friday by a neighbor who saw smoke rolling from the large outbuilding.
Jackson County Fire District No. 5 Fire Chief Dan Marshall said the district, Medford Fire-Rescue and Ashland Fire-Rescue responded with a total of three fire engines and three water tankers.
"Upon arrival we had heavy smoke in the attic area," Marshall said.
Crews were able to stop the fire before it could burn into the main level of the building. It took firefighters about 15 minutes to stop the flames from spreading to the bottom level of the garage. No one was hurt.
Marshall said attic fires take longer to extinguish because of the difficulty in getting access to the upper levels of buildings.
"An attic fire's a little more difficult to fight," he said.
Marshall said the address is registered as a marijuana growing site under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program.
As of Friday afternoon, the fire's cause was still under investigation, but it was suspected to be electrical. Fire officials do not believe the grow operation was connected to the fire's cause.
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The Henderson County Chamber of Commerce 15th Annual Golf Classic will be held June 24 with registration at 10:30 a.m. and an 11:30 shotgun start at the Kenmure Country Club.
Proceeds will go to support education and workforce development programs in Henderson County and other activities like the New Teachers Dinner, N.C. Scholars Luncheon and the Junior Leadership Program.
The cost is $200 per player and $800 for a team of four. Hole sponsorships are available for $150 or $100 for teams of four.
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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SALISH, PEND d ORIELLES AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION 15 C HAR-KOOSTA Volume 3 - Number 2 4 Full Moon of Courtship April 15,1974 JOE McDONALD RESIGNS TRIBAL COUNCIL SEAT (see page two for story] Constitution Proposal To Attorney's For Final Draft Con-con Bows Out, Constitution Accepted Dixon: A new draft of the Tribe's 38 year old constitution will go to the resident voters of the tribes sometime this summer. The new document will be based on a 12 page Revised Constitution and By-Laws recommendation submitted by the nine-member Constitutional Committee during the second quarterly meeting held in the Dixon Gym on April 5. After a day-long review of the change recommendations, the report was accepted by the Tribal Council and will be submitted to the tribal attorneys for final draft. On hand to hear the reading of the constitutional proposal were some 150 tribal members including Indian Studies students from Arlee, St. Ignatius and Poison. Before reviewing the new document, Committee Chairman Doug Allard, St. Ignatius, explained how the committee determined what changes should be made in the old constitution. He said the committee made no revisions until after a reservation-wide series of district-: meetings were held. "This proposal (the new constitution draft) is the mandate of the people. They told us what they want and now we are telling you (the Tribal Council)". Allard said that meetings held before the district sessions, which started in February, were organizational ....to plot the direction of the committee's work and background it with advice from the Bureau of Indian Affairs resource people and the tribal attorneys. He said the real work of the committee began after the district meetings. "We covered a lot of ground with the people of the tribe and putting all the suggestions into the form of a constitutional recommendation was a difficult, time consuming task. Allard noted that during the week prior to the committee's April 5 deadline, some three separate drafts of the proposal were composed along with "eight or nine" revisions. "We felt obligated to complete our work before ...Con-Con Presentation (continued on page 6) Proposed Constitution, Something Old and New A time limit on new enrollments ... a bill of rights for the reservation lands...and a streamlined elections procedure are a few of the features of the proposed Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The 12 page proposal was submitted to the Tribal Council April 5 by the Constitutional Committee. It represents three months work by the committee and the desires and wishes of the people of the tribe and gleaned from six district meetings held in February. The Council accepted the proposed draft but it must still undergo review and possible legal revision by the tribal attorneys before it can be submitted to the voters for final approval. Char-Koosta will print the entire text of the proposed document when it has been hammered into its final form. The proposed draft is a mixture of old and new. Although much of the flavor of the 1935 Tribal Constitution remains, there are several new ingredients. Persons qualified to enroll with the tribes will have to do so within a specific time limit. The new draft calls for a three year limit from the time of birth, if the parents are to have the child enrolled, or a three year deadline from the age of 18 if a person wishes to enroll himself. There would also be two methods of recording blood quantum. The first would be a "Membership Roll", which corresponds to the present method of enrollment. The second would be a "Census Roll" ... a record of all Indian blood for persons related to enrolled members but not qualifying for enrollment themselves. The purpose of the census roll will be to assist non-members in maintaining Indian identity. It would also mean that blood could be more accurately quantified in the offspring of marriages between enrolled members and non-members on the census rolls. Districting: ...Changes in Constitution (Continued on page 6)
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13.125 The unreliable evidence upon which, according to the Defendants, Irving was unjustified in relying is set out in the preceding paragraph. Historical evidence cannot of course be compartmentalised into reliable and unreliable evidence. It is part of the skill of an historian to evaluate the degree of individual items of evidence, seeking to adopt a consistent approach throughout.
13.126 It appears to me that the evidence which I have summarised in paragraph 13.124 affords a very slender basis for the claims which Irving has made for the numbers killed in the raids. The evidence of Mehnert, Fetscher and Frau Grosse was secondhand and unverified. In the absence of any indication on what they were based, I do not consider the Irving should have given any credence to estimates in letters from unidentified individuals. His speculation about the number of refugees does little to cast doubt on the reliability of the figures quoted in the official reports. Voigt's evidence was uncorroborated and unlikely to be correct in the light of the number of deaths recorded on the official cards. In my view, Irving should not have quoted numbers based on this evidence. Irving should have taken far greater account of the doubts about the genuineness of TB47; of the cogent and credible evidence of Miller and above all of the figures contained in the Final Report and in Situation Report No 1404. Having done so, Irving should have discounted altogether the unsatisfactory evidence collected in paragraph 13.124 above. In my judgment the estimates of 100,000 and more deaths which Irving continued to put about in the 1990s lacked any evidential basis and were such as no responsible historian would have made.


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"Batman" and "Justice League" are two of the most popular New 52 titles from DC Comics. This week, Augie looks at their first collections before weighing in on the latest "Before Watchmen" promotion.
Each week, CSBG examines abandoned comic book stories later explained away by later writers, including the strange example of Justice Leaguer Triumph, a retcon character who got... retconned.
In addition to clips from this weekend's all-new episodes of "Young Justice" and "Green Lantern: TAS," Cartoon Network has released excerpts from its newest short featuring Justice League Detroit member Vibe!
DC Comics has released their full solicitations text and images for product being released in August, 2012, including the latest from Before Watchmen, "Earth 2," "Green Lantern," "Justice League" and more.
In less than a day, you'll be able to get your hands on the full issue, but to whet your appetite, DC Comics has released Jim Lee's 4-page gatefold image from Geoff Johns' New 52 Free Comic Book Day Justice League story.
Cartoon Network has released clips and stills from this weekend's new "Green Lantern" episode and the Season 2 premiere of "Young Justice," featuring Lobo and Wonder Girl!
Geoff Johns spoke with CBR TV at C2E2, divulging further details about the publisher's incoming Free Comic Book Day offering, the recent controversy surrounding a new character in "Aquaman" and more.
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VINCENT - Sylvia and Sandra Young aren't fans of retirement dinners, but the staff and administration at Warren High School and their former students weren't going to let them close the doors on more than 50 years of teaching without saying goodbye.
Tuesday's annual open house for the high school art show doubled as a send-off for the twin sisters who began teaching at Warren in 1961 - the year the high school opened. They started out together at the high school but Sandra soon took over the art duties at neighboring Barlow-Vincent Elementary. For the last two years, they've been teaching in the same classroom again.
"We started together. ... We're ending together," said Sandra, who's been volunteering in her sister's class after retiring two years ago.
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Art teachers Sandra, left, and Sylvia Young, center, talk with 2008 Warren High School graduate Faith Daigle, a former student of Sylvia's, during Tuesday's open house for the annual high school art show, which also served as a retirement celebration for the twin sisters, who have taught in the district since 1961.
EVAN BEVINS The Marietta Times
Aaron Place, center, a 1996 Warren High School graduate who will take over as the high school art teacher next year, holds his daughter, Addison, and speaks with longtime Beverly-Center Elementary art teacher Sandra Young, left, and her twin sister, longtime high school art teacher Sylvia Young, Tuesday during the open house for the annual high school art exhibit.
Current and former students and co-workers walked the halls looking at paintings, drawings, sculptures and more created by the Youngs' pupils this year, and many took time to speak to the sisters.
"We've seen a lot of students that I haven't seen for years," Sylvia Young said.
The Youngs were surprised to find two cakes - identical, of course - and punch set up for them in the cafeteria. Warren High School Principal Dan Leffingwell said something had to be done since the sisters "wouldn't hear of" a retirement dinner.
"You guys are great and we appreciate it and we love you and we're going to miss you," he said. "But we're going to keep you on in an advisory capacity," he added with a laugh.
Vincent resident Rebekah Grose, 34, came to see the artwork her son Dylan produced in his freshman year and to say goodbye to the women she calls "living legends." Grose and her father were students of the Youngs, and knowing Dylan was going to learn from them as well was "an awesome feeling," she said.
"They're very dedicated to what they do, and you just knew that if your child had them they are going to have a good experience," Grose said.
2012 graduate Adam Lankford called the sisters his "inspiration."
"I'm a graphic design student (at Washington State Community College), and they're the ones who set me on my artistic career," he said.
Among those influenced heavily by Sylvia Young is Aaron Place, a 1996 graduate who has been teaching art at the district's elementary schools. With the 2013-14 school year, he will take over the program at the high school.
"(Sylvia) was the motivation that made me go on to be an artist in college and to hopefully take after her here," he said. "Taking after this legacy is making me nervous, but I'm super-excited."
He's got the confidence of his former teacher.
"I have no doubt that he will do a phenomenal job," Sylvia said.
Place said the annual art show will go on, as will other traditions Sylvia has established.
"There's no need to fix something that works so well," he said.
Place described Sylvia as "a natural motivator."
"She didn't allow you to not succeed. She really pushed you to do your best," he said.
Faith Daigle, a 2008 Warren graduate who recently earned her degree from The Ohio State University in art history and psychology, said Sylvia's willingness to take time with students, and her own artistic talent, made her "a wonderful teacher."
"She knows her art. She's a wonderful artist," Daigle said.
Both sisters gave their students whatever help they needed, Lankford said.
"They are so focused on you, on the individual. They'll help you no matter what," he said.
The sisters have also left impressions on their fellow teachers.
Barlow-Vincent music teacher Donna Marcinko said going to work the last couple years has been very different without her friend and mentor, Sandra Young.
"I needed someone to lean on," Marcinko said, recalling her early days at the elementary school. "She would always say, 'Don't worry; everything will be OK.'"
But just because they don't see each other at work doesn't mean the friends have lost touch.
"When she retired, she promised she'd call me every day," Marcinko said. "We talk every morning. She helps me get motivated for the day."
Marcinko was also impressed by Sandra's ability to "foster creativity in children," calling it "unbelievable."
"She understands the kids. They had so much respect for her. She had a sense of humor with them that they could relate to," she said. "She believed that all children could express themselves through art."
Former Warren agriculture teacher and FFA adviser Allen Clark said he appreciates the sisters' tenacity, pointing out that they were teaching in the district when he was a student and are leaving a year after he retired.
"I admire them a lot," he said, noting the arts aren't always given as much attention as some other subjects but they can be good for students, especially those that aren't involved in sports or other activities. "They provide a real good outlet for those kids, and some have found careers through that."
The sisters said they are looking forward to painting more, taking short trips and visiting friends in their retirement, but they haven't made any specific plans.
"We're going to make it up as we go along," Sandra told one inquiring well-wisher, "like Indiana Jones."


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Copper, which has just become BBC America's biggest hit show ever, is set in the Irish heart of New York City in 1865 and it has just returned for a second season. Set on the brink of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the story explores the shifting political landscape that ties the mostly lawless Irish immigrants to the wider nation. Cahir O'Doherty talks to the show runner Thomas Kelly and to its breakout new Irish star Kevin Ryan.
Lethal gangs, race wars, drugs and prostitutes. The daily life of New York in the mid 19-century can sound an awful lot like a New York gangster rap song of the 21-century.
In fact, watching BBC America's hit show Copper is a stark reminder that sex, drugs and what once passed for rock and roll really haven't changed all that much since our great, great grandparents time.
Each week Copper takes us through the lawless Irish neighborhood of the Five Points, courtesy of a massive fully recreated set built in Canada (where the show is filmed) featuring early New York City in all of its gaudy glory. Having arrived here destitute on the coffin ships from famine-ravaged island, the Irish understood the struggle on America's mean streets was the struggle to simply survive.
The story of how the Irish clawed their way out of poverty and political powerlessness to become one of the most influential ethnic groups in America is a crackingly good tale, of course, which is why Copper makes for such compulsive viewing.
Executive producer and show runner Thomas Kelly (best known as the writer on the Irish American drama series The Black Donnelly's and Blue Bloods) is the perfect choice to oversee the series. The Irish American author, who's father hails from County Cavan, is the author of three critically acclaimed novels and is widely considered the best urban novelist of his generation.
Kelly knows Manhattan's history and unique character like the back of his hand, he's the perfect choice to guide the show. It helps that he has worked in New York a journalist for so long, with his byline appearing in Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post and New York Daily News. But his main qualification for running Copper is his enthusiasm for the material.
"It's not a show I created but it's the kind of show I would have created," Kelly tells the Irish Voice. "It worked out nicely. The history of the time I know well and I'm passionate about. In my last book I wrote about the grandchildren of this generation, in other books I've written about the great-great children of these characters, so it's been a lot of fun."
The cast, which includes breakout new Irish star Kevin Ryan, is terrific as are the writers and even the remarkably faithful set (the show is filmed in Canada) tells half the tail. "I didn't have to do much research, I walked into it ready to go," Kelly laughs.
As the only genuinely Irish actor on set, it's particularly interesting for Dublin born Ryan, 29, to see the Irish stronghold of the Five Points come to life. "When I read the script initially I was hooked on the first two pages," he tells the Irish Voice. "It's exciting to be the only Irish actor there. Now that the show's exploring the famine and the civil war it's another perspective, another new layer. In Ireland we learned about our relationship with the British during famine times but here it's about the Americans and the Irish. It's a whole different thing."
Newcomers be warned, Copper is a very violent show. As Ryan puts it: "It's so different from anything else on TV. We get to be crazy as shit." Ryan plays the often hapless but well meaning Maguire, best friend to Detective Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones).
Attempting to uphold the law in the Five Points, whilst wrestling you're your own personal demons, is hard enough but when your daily grind eventually also includes the betrayal of your wife and your best friend you get an idea of how dramatically hard hitting Coppers actually is.
In the new season Tammany Hall's outspoken General Brendan Donovan returns from the Civil War to restore his own special idea of law and order to the Sixth Ward, all the while remaining as corrupt as his own neighborhood. Acclaimed actor Donal Logue plays Donovan and the results are television gold dust, as he turns in one of the most perfectly realized performances in a television drama in years.
For Kelly, the story of the Irish in the Five Points hasn't properly been told to date. "My first novel was about the Sandhogs, a heavily Irish union in New York," he says. "I had thought the Irish story in America had already been told but doing that book I saw that it really hadn't. It's so big and there are so many different versions of it. The working class blue-collar side of that story had never been told except for the cops and robbers stuff. It felt like natural story to cover for me."


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Ripping Llama to open up first set, then right into a solid, tight Guelah. Rift was much better in the solo timing, but not quite there yet. Stash was also very solid tonight. Reba had some tiny off spots in the middle, but a great ending jam. My Friend also had rough spots, though it really rocked by the end. Pen was good and tight. Sample also rocked even though it's still pretty new. IDK brings Fish out on trombone for Nancy. Bowie was pretty weak again in my opinion, they may need to retool this lackluster closer.
It seems like it's been a while since I've heard Buried Alive and this one was pretty good. Same with Halley's. Last time I don't remember it being that good, but this one was reasonably tight. Ice was good, but average, so was Bouncing, and Chalk Dust. Then we have kind of a mini bust out with TMWSIY and Avenu. The whole trio of songs was nicely played tonight. The back end of this set continues to give with another trio of songs. Mike's rocked, and again you can hear the seeds of Simple being planted. Hydrogen was actually really good; it's been a while since I've said that. Weekapaug started off very awkwardly with no Mike, and sounded like there was in-fighting going on during the jam. It rocked anyway... HYHU brings Fish back out to do a well practiced, better than expected, Rosie. Poor Heart was solid and Golgi was a rocking closer to this pretty good second set.
Coil gets the call tonight and this one is ok, a few spots from Trey early on, but of course Page brings it at the end. Very funny stage banter during the shushing, prompting the boys to tease Suzy and eventually do a whole Carolina.
I really thought about giving this one five stars just to bring the average up, but I'm sticking with four.


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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:45 pm
Post subject: gonna be a 20 year old mum :D
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Hey hunnie - i turned 21 a few weeks after i had Alfie.
Yeah, im a young mum and like you my mum had her concerns. but i LOVE being a mummy, couldnt imagine life without my little man. And my mum tells me all thre time how good i am with him and how proud of me she is
Your right, there is no right age to have a baby. Its all down to being ready and wanting to be a mum. Congrats on the pregnancy and hope it all goes well for you xxx
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I'm 19 as well and will turn 20 a few weeks after my due date. The pregnancy was a complete surprise but I'm starting to get excited about it all, it'll probably be the best thing that ever happened to me. My mum is even starting to get excited even though she thinks she's too young to be a granny! I still have nervous moments though where i suddenly get overwhelmed by everything and have a cry but i think that happens no matter your age. Was your pregnancy planned? Congratulations and i hope you have a morning sickness free first trimester!
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I was 17 when I had my first and 19 for my second. NO.1 is now training to become a fireman and no.2 has just qualified as a midwife. Lots of things have gone wrong along the way but nothing to do with my being a young mum and I am so proud of my children. Good luck to you all, you will be great mums!
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yep dont matter about age as long as ur ready.
im now 22 and have a 3 year old and a new baby.
i had louise wen i was 18 and had been with my now husband for 10 months wen we fell pregnant. we married wen louise was 5 months and october last year had our 2nd little girl.
no matter wether ur 17 or 37 it cud be the wron or rite age but if ur ready then thats fine:)
congratulations on ur pregnancy:)
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hi i was 16 when i had my first 17 two weeks later 19 with my second and i am now 24 just had my third x
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<3 <3 xxx my 3 big boys xxx <3 <3
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congratulations on being a mummy greatest thing in the world!!
i was 16 when i had my first, im now 24 and just had my third (and final!)
but when i was pregnant with my first of course my parents werent happy but they wouldnt change my kids for the world now!
i used to get funny looks when iwas pregnant with my first as i looked A LOT younger than 16, but i felt like anyother pregnant mummy, and i thnk ive done as good a job as any other mummy, so as long as baby got everything it needs then it doesnt really matter about age! xXx


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Being a girl can be a lot of work sometimes – as you may have read in my previous post about dinner dates. I've heard "pain is beauty" a million times, but I've never heard that beauty makes you broke. But I am no longer amazed at how quickly I can spend WAY TOO MUCH money on haircuts, color, waxing, nails, etc.
My personal maintenance has seriously declined since becoming a college student. This means that things like painting my nails, eyebrow waxing, and haircuts and styles are last on my list. I've come to realize that I FEEL better when I'm taking care of myself. Although I can easily give up pedicures and I can color my hair myself over my sink (usually), I can't just go cold turkey on my routine. Below are some of the tricks I use to save myself money.
1) Go to a cosmetology school, most cities and towns have them and the girls there are going to school to become beauty specialists. They need real-life models and the prices are usually seriously reduced. The services offered at these schools range from hair coloring, styling and cuts to waxing and even facials.
2) Coupon and Discount websites can pretty much be used to save money on any product nowadays. Groupon and Living Social have featured some pretty awesome deals in my area including up to 50% off massages, deep cleaning facials, and haircut/color combos.
3) Get some friends together and learn how to do it yourself. Sometimes DIY is the best way to save money on a service. Although you may not be as good people you pay to wax, cut, buff, and color for you at first, practice makes perfect. One of my friends can cut and re-dye hair to keep a style after its been professionally done. You can also get home waxing kits and pedicure/manicure kits. All it takes is a little time.
An important part of saving money is spending the time and energy researching to make sure that you have the best possible deal. Once you do that, you may be amazed at how much you can save yourself in monthly maintenance costs. Anyone hear a GIRL'S NIGHT calling her name?