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"We deal with the odd... the unexplained. Anything on Earth... or beyond.""Spearhead from Space" was the first Doctor Who story to be broadcast in colour, as well as the beginning of a long story arc (ending with "The Three Doctors") that takes place exclusively on Earth. Budgetary restraints now meant that the setting would be "contemporary Earth" for the forseeable future, with the Doctor's "exile" being a case of Real Life Writes the Plot. With the Third Doctor being confined to life with UNIT, the show's atmosphere changed completely and started drawing much inspiration from that other famous Sydney Newman show: The Avengers.
— The Brigadier sets out UNIT's mission statement
The TARDIS materialises (in colour, no less!) and a tall, white-haired man steps out and collapses.UNIT troops arrive and find the man, taking him off to hospital, where he spends some time in a coma. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart arrives and, after hearing that the man has two hearts and was found near a police box, concludes that it's probably the Doctor. When the Doctor wakes up — still with his previous personality — he's not at all happy at having regenerated, but has to admit that his new face is rather dignified. One gratuitous shower scene later, he's stolen some clothes and a car (from the "Doctors only" car park) and is on his way to UNIT, where scientist Liz Shaw is trying to make sense of the mystery of the day. An employee of the local plastic factory is claiming that he's seen a walking mannequin. And there's a meteorite shower on.The new Doctor is still suffering from amnesia (caused by both his regeneration and the Time Lords having removed large chunks of his memory) and tries to get used to his new personality while he investigates the strange meteorite shower. He discovers that the meteorites are in fact hollow globes containing the Nestene Consciousness, another disembodied alien intelligence (see "The Abominable Snowmen"), which uses plastics to achieve its ends. In one classic scene, shop dummies come to life, smashing through the shop windows and firing guns concealed in their hands, spreading panic — but the Nestene Consciousness's real plan is to create plastic replicas of world leaders and take over the Earth.The Doctor and Liz manage to repel the Consciousness back into space and the Doctor agrees to sign on as UNIT's "Scientific Advisor" for the duration of his exile, signing the paperwork as Dr. John Smith. In exchange, UNIT will give him technical facilities to try and repair the TARDIS (which has been deactivated by the Time Lords), and the use of a vintage car just like the one he had earlier appropriated from the hospital.
- All There in the Manual: The novelisation gives more detail to the hospital staff, including a rivalry between Henderson and Lomax and the medical staff's views on Beavis.
- Answer Cut:Corporal: Is he dead, sir?
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- Arm Cannon: The Autons love their folding/unfolding wrist guns.
- Artistic License Chemistry: In the scene where Liz describes how the alien plastic differs from anything known on Earth, everything she mentions is actually a real characteristic of Earthly plastics — but by the time she's finished, she's effectively said that it lacks every characteristic necessary to defining a substance as being a plastic.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: The Doctor finds the shell of a Nestene Consciousness much more interesting than his conversation with the Brig, and breaks into talking about it mid-sentence.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Dr. Henderson spends most of the first episode trying to comprehend a creature that has two hearts, unidentifiable blood, a pulse rate of 10 per minute and a flatline EEG.
- Bound and Gagged: The Doctor is kidnapped by a raiding party of Autons. He escapes. In a wheelchair.
- Brief Accent Imitation / Continuity Nod: With one of his first lines, Pertwee does his best Patrick Troughton imitation: "That's not me 'tall!"
- Could Have Been Messy: The Doctor gets shot in the head, and VERY narrowly dodges a bullet to the brain in Episode 1.
- Creepy Doll: Part 2 has a scene in a creepy doll factory.
- Darker and Edgier: Part 2 has a guy whose face gets smashed into a windshield. This trope would become a staple of Robert Holmes episodes.
- Distressed Dude: In the very first episode of his very first story, the Third Doctor gets gagged and kidnapped by the Autons, who mistakenly think the reason UNIT is interested in him is because he has information on where the Auton Spheres landed.
- Doppelgänger: The Auton facsimiles of key authority figures.
- Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods: The Nestenes create "a life-form perfectly adapted for survival and conquest on this planet"; it's basically an enormous squid.
- Fanservice: The Doctor's Shower Scene. Tempered somewhat by the tattoo on Jon's arm and fandom's attempts to explain it away. (It's generally accepted that the tattoo is a Time Lord-administered "criminal mark" that remains in place until the Doctor's exile is lifted.)
- Fingore: A meta-example: Derek Smee, who played Ransome, gashed his left index finger pretty badly while climbing over the barbed wire while on location shooting the "infiltration into the plastics factory" scene. He insisted on the doctors administering first aid and placing a flesh-coloured bandage over the finger so he could return to finish the day's shoot. Afterwards, he was immediately rushed to a hospital for surgery. Scenes shot subsequently show him with a bandage on the finger and favoring it while climbing stairs.
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: Inverted when the Doctor makes off with the surgeon's car — he needs to reverse to get out of the parking space, but starts going forward first.
- Jon Pertwee claimed that he damaged the car slightly during this sequence with that gag — he had accidentally thrown the car into the wrong gear and wrenched the transmission.
- He Knows Too Much: Ransome.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The waxworks museum where evil plastic Doppelgangers of government officials are held. And where their victims are frozen in place.
- Immune to Bullets: The Autons.
- Innocent Innuendo: It's hard to tell whether it was this or an Accidental Innuendo, but when the actual doctor meets with his superior in the restroom and they discuss the Doctor, he asks if his superior wants to review the Doctor's charts "before you examine him." Little do they know, the Doctor is showering with his back to them, in plain view. "Examine" indeed.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Doctor is not happy when he realises that his amnesia isn't just regeneration sickness, and that the Time Lords have messed with his brain.
- Murderous Mannequin: The Autons. Shop window dummies coming alive to stalk the streets is one of the most iconic moments of classic Who.
- Mr. Smith: The Doctor's chosen "alias". The Brigadier is not impressed.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: The Doctor and Liz hide in the waxworks museum in this way.
- Non-Indicative Name/Line-of-Sight Name: The name "Auton" comes from Auto Plastics, the factory where they were first made.
- To disguise non-union actors being used as Autons, internal BBC documents credited the extras as "Ivan Orton." Say it fast.
- Shower Scene: The Doctor takes a nice long shower, which to this day is still the largest amount of Doctor nudity the show has seen.
- Smash Cut: The Auton rampage in Part 4 uses a literal "smash" cut to suggest that the mannequins have broken through the shop-window.
- This Was His True Form: The Auton facsimiles revert to the default blank-faced Auton form when they're deactivated.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: While UNIT used sensible tactics, like grenades and rockets, on the Immune to Bullets Cybermen when we last saw them, they now keep shooting the equally bullet-immune Autons without result.
- Tracking Device: After UNIT takes the TARDIS into protective custody while the Doctor's in hospital, the Doctor uses a homing device to find the TARDIS and therefore UNIT HQ.
- The Autons can also track the orbs containing the Nestene consciousness, as long as they aren't shielded too much.
- Wax Museum Morgue: Likely a homage to this trope when government officials who've been replaced by Auton replicants are 'stored' under hypnosis at Madame Tussands.
- Wiper Start: When the Doctor tries to drive a car, he finds the horn before the starter, and starts in forward gear when he needs to reverse. (But no funny business with the wipers, because it's a veteran model that doesn't have any.)


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The charm and uniqueness of New York City was never more beautifully and whimsically created for children than in Miroslav Sasek's This Is New York. First published in 1960, his vision of New York nearly forty years ago still remains fresh: the hustle and bustle of Times Square, the ethnic neighborhoods, the awe-inspiring architecture. Sasek captured the essences of New York that delight children and parents, many of whom who will remember the book from their childhood.
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Let the rumbling cable car tell you the story! And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world's most enchanting cities. Illustrator Miroslav Sasek captures both the breathtaking landscape and the cosmopolitan flavor of the City by the Bay in This is San Francisco. First published in 1962, Sasek's jaunty, colorful illustrations will still dazzle kids and adults alike.
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This is London, first published in 1959, presents impressions of London with its beautiful buildings, historic monuments, bridges, parks, shops and Piccadilly Circus, black cabs, Horse Guards, and famed Underground.
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First published in 1959, brings Paris, one of the most exciting cities in the world, to life. There are famous buildings, beautiful gardens, cafes, and the Parisians-artists, concierges, flower girls, and even thousands of cats. Take a tour along the banks of the Seine, through the galleries of the Louvre, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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M. Sasek was born in Prague in 1916 and died in Switzerland in 1980. He worked as a painter and illustrator for most of his life. Starting with This is Paris published in 1958, the books he wrote painted a delightful and evocative picture of some of the world's great cities (and countries!). Having delighted children and adults for more than 50 years they are now being reissued.
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Alta Ski Resort
Alta (alta.com) is one of the smaller resorts. Nestled in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Alta is known for its plush snow and skier-friendly environment. Snowboarding is not allowed in Alta, but snowboarders head to Snowbird Resort next door, which is snowboard-only. Alta offers an old-fashioned ski resort lodge with gourmet meals. Lift tickets are cheaper at Alta than other Utah resorts, and after 3 p.m., skiing is free. Alta offers five beginner or "bunny" runs, two intermediate runs and an advanced run as part of the "free after three" program.
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Brighton (brightonresort.com) takes on an average of 500 inches of Utah's famous powder each skiing season. Also in Cottonwood Canyon, Brighton Resort offers some of the more reasonable lift ticket prices compared with other Cottonwood Canyon resorts. Families with children under 10 can enjoy free skiing for their kids. The entire resort is accessible to visitors using high-speed quads. From Monday through Saturday, night skiing is offered until 9 p.m. Brighton also offers affordable, family-friendly snow school programs and day ski lessons.
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The Canyons Ski Resort (canyonsresort.com) takes you away from the bustling Cottonwood Canyon and into the plush, thrilling adventures Park City has to offer. According to Utah.com, the Canyons Resort is the ideal family ski spot to come unwind and feel right at home. Accommodations for overnight trips are critically acclaimed, and the restaurant selection is vast. This year-round resort also offers non-skiing adventures for families who need a break from the slopes. The drive from Salt Lake City International Airport is approximately 35 minutes, depending on weather conditions. Canyons offers more than 4,000 acres of skiable land and runs for all levels.
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This astonishingly large ski resort offers 7,000 acres of skiable terrain and is considered one of the largest ski areas in North America. Powder Mountain (powdermountain.com) has more than enough terrain and ski runs for skiers of all levels. The Burton "Learn to Ride Center" reserves two terrains for itself to teach new skiers and snowboarders. Those interested in the backcountry ski routes can purchase a guided tour; family rates available. Vacation rentals, including townhouses and condominiums, are available for short- and long-term stays. Powder Mountain has a variety of convenient restaurants scattered on top of the slopes so that a family can get a meal regardless of the run they are on. Rated as the No. 1 Value Ski Resort in North America by the readers of "Ski" magazine, Powder Mountain offers big skiing adventures with low prices. Powder Mountain is 55 miles north of the Salt Lake International Airport and 19 miles from downtown Ogden, Utah.
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We started small back in 1997, just growing pumpkins and selling them at a road side stand.
In 1999, we grew into somewhat of a small business. We put in our own 5 acre corn maze. Now we had a place to call a pumpkin patch/corn maze. The corn maze provided a means to bring the people to us. We built two hay ride wagons to carry people back and forth to the pumpkin patch. Since there was such a good response, we added Indian corn, gourds, corn stocks and baked goods.
Each year it seems like we add something new. We now have a bounce house and small corn box for the kids. There are also cows on site, wich are part of our working dairy farm.
Everything at the farm is done by family, friends and neighbors.
For 2009, we will be running a train ride with two more small wagons. This will transport people to and from the pumpkin patch.
This year marks the 10th year we have been open, and it has been very enjoyable meeting lots of people who continue to come back every year.
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A recent concert in Los Angeles featured the blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin giving the world premiere of the orchestral setting of a poem she wrote, "Do You Dream in Color?" by the contemporary American composer Bruce Adolphe. It's a successful, affecting, thought-provoking piece perfectly suited for programming during Disability Awareness Month-or any time.
In different musical circles I had heard of Ms. Rubin; but the main reason I happened to go that night was that a lobby art display by blind or partially sighted artists from the Braille Institute included a print by a close friend of mine. I'm grateful for the chance encounter with Rubin, because I purchased a copy of her memoir, "Do You Dream in Color? Insights from a Girl Without Sight" (Seven Stories Press, 2012) during the intermission. Maybe I would learn something about what it involves to be friends with a blind person.
Rubin's book reminds me somewhat of another inspiring memoir about disability, Harriet McBryde Johnson's "Too Late to Die Young," highly recommended for its searing, scathing perceptions of a world not set up for the physically challenged. While Johnson makes no secret of her avowed socialist outlook, and Rubin doesn't even mention the word, any reader will be moved by the similar expression of honesty and clarity about how we look upon difference.
Rubin calls it as she sees it. Lucky for her, she was born into a family with an enviable level of creature comforts, who spared nothing to give her the best education and the widest opportunities to develop her singing voice. Her gratitude for that is boundless, as it is for those along the way who saw what she could do and gave her the chances to do it. At the same time, Rubin also questions the institutional rigidity and shallow understanding of human potential found in schools and some governmental and charitable organizations meant to help.
In simple, direct language with little pretense, and with an artful economy of storytelling, Rubin recounts her life as a gradual unfolding of self-understanding that also grants her understanding about the world around her, with its snobbishness, exclusivity, and limited imagination. Surely she is aware that not all kids grow up with the advantages she enjoyed: It's perhaps the only criticism I might have of her book, that she doesn't use it, except by inference, to comment on the generally inadequate resources provided for most blind people.
In a book explicitly published "for young readers," Rubin is to be congratulated for the way she portrays her emerging sexuality. From the very beginning we are aware that Rubin has matured into an open lesbian, with her life partner Jenny named first and lovingly on her dedication page. In her exuberant uniqueness, she represents Everywoman, entitled to her quirks of personality, her individuality, and her commonality with all of us as we experience the human condition.
"Everyone in the world wants to feel needed," she writes, "and to understand her purpose. Mine is to be an artist, an educator, a responsible tax-paying citizen who is paid her worth, and to be a contributing member to society who just so happens to be blind."
Rubin's book is a heart-warming "human interest" story a reader will grow from, into a wiser, more compassionate fellow citizen. I can only hope her book earns her a heap more lucrative singing gigs. And let's hope we find some good social purposes for the income tax she'll responsibly pay!
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The hippocampal theta rhythm is required for accurate navigation and spatial memory but its relation to sensorimotor activities associated with locomotion are poorly understood. We addressed this issue by precisely quantifying the rhythmical dynamics of locomotion while simultaneously recording hippocampal neuronal activity in freely moving rats. We report that when rats run, their heads oscillate at 6-12 Hz in a speed-dependent manner. This periodic movement modulates the phases and amplitudes of the hippocampal theta rhythm, suggesting a mechanism to update the hippocampal network activity with information about self-movement.
Three rats were trained to collect drops of water alternatively delivered at the two extremities of a 1.6 meter long maze. Hippocampal local field potentials (LFPs) were recorded close to the pyramidal layer in the dorsal part of hippocampal area CA1. We quantified the rhythmical dynamics of locomotion by recording vertical head acceleration using a miniature accelerometer attached to the head of the rats.
When the rats run, the acceleration signal showed prominent oscillations along the vertical axis (up and down). The peak frequency of these oscillations was close to 9 Hz, very similar to the frequency of the simultaneously recorded hippocampal theta. We estimated the 'instantaneous' frequency, phase and amplitude of the LFP and vertical head oscillations by finding the sine wave that best described the data in short sliding windows. Phase synchrony was investigated by computing the difference of the estimated phases for pairs of data windows in which both LFP and head acceleration show strong power in the theta band and moreover had similar frequencies. The phase differences for the three rats deviated significantly from a uniform distribution. Given the sinusoidal nature of the oscillations, this is a strong indication of phase synchrony. Further evidence for a modulation of hippocampal theta by the movement dynamics was provided by the observation that theta amplitude was highest when hippocampal theta and head oscillations were in phase.
To better understand the mechanism behind these hippocampal theta modulations we constructed a simple model of hippocampal theta activity. When this model is forced by an input proportional to the head acceleration signal, it shows phase-locking and amplitude-modulation quantitatively in agreement with the experimental results. This suggests that the hippocampus receives inputs phase-locked to the head movements, e.g. through the vestibular system, and that these inputs effectively forces the theta rhythm to synchronize to the dynamics of locomotion.
This work was funded by a national grant from the Ministerio de Cienca e Innovación (BFU2008-03946, to D.R) and a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (IRG230976 to D.R.). A.L. and D.R. were supported by Ramon-Y-Cajal fellowships from the Ministerio de Cienca e Innovación.


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Is Lawrence Block giving his stamp-collecting hit man the last word?
If 'Hit Me' (Mulholland Books) turns out to be Lawrence Block's last work of fiction, as the 74-year-old mystery grandmaster suggested to the New York Daily News it might be, then it's a fine finale for a writer who never stopped growing, and who allowed some of his series characters the same privilege of changing.
I can't remember if I first found Block through his old fiction-writing column in Writer's Digest, or through one of his early Matthew Scudder or Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries. But from the beginning I found his writing like pizza: good even in its ordinary manifestations, mind-blowing in its excellent ones. As a reader, I feel the same way about his late friend and occasional collaborator, Donald E. Westlake. As professional writers of popular fiction, they saw their job as keeping readers entertained enough to turn the page, and turn the pages we did. »Read Full Blog Post
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The Bel Canto Chorus and its music director Richard Hynson celebrated Hynson's 25th anniversary with the chorus Sunday afternoon by doing that thing they do - singing.
Performing at the St. Joseph Center Chapel on S. Layton Blvd., Hynson and the singers of Bel Canto chose the Rachmaninoff "All-Night Vigil" for their celebration, a 15-movement a cappella tour de force for chorus that is sung in Russian. »Read Full Article
Repaired after fire, Bourbon & Tunns expected to reopen March 15
Bourbon & Tunns, the former Palms restaurant at 221 N. Broadway, is set to reopen March 15. It closed for repairs after sustaining damage from a basement fire in late December.
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Monday brunch is on at the Garage on Brady
Milwaukee has another Monday brunch option: at the Garage, 1709 N. Arlington Place, off Brady St.
The brunch, launched a few weeks ago, starts at 10 a.m. and wraps up at 3 p.m. It's aimed at service industry workers (many of whom work Sunday brunch), but is open to anyone with no particular place to be midday on a Monday, of course. »Read Full Blog Post
Sapiro and Zempel shine in Acacia's 'Heaven Sent'
As children sing Christmas carols in the gathering gloom, a man bends over his work desk, trying to ignore the sound. Asked by a neighbor for help, he first wants to ensure she can pay. Encouraged to come join his fellows, he grumpily refuses, preferring to count his safely stowed money.
I could be describing Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," but I'm actually recounting the first scene in playwright Rick Whelan's "Heaven Sent," which is receiving its Midwest premiere courtesy of www.acaciatheatre.com/">Acacia Theatre, under directors Elaine Wyler and Michael Landers. »Read Full Article
Countertenor Terry Barber travels through time with Ensemble Musical Offering
Hearing a finely honed countertenor voice singing the music of the Baroque period is like hearing moments of the past come alive.
Countertenor Terry Barber, internationally known for an exceptionally wide vocal range that ranges from high baritone to octaves usually populated by altos and mezzo-sopranos, has just the voice to make the centuries fall away. »Read Full Article
Mid-April opening expected for Refuge Smoothie Cafe on Farwell
A cafe selling smoothies and on-the-go foods like protein bars will open in mid-April on the east side.
Refuge Smoothie Cafe will open at 2328 N. Farwell Ave. Owner Joshua Janis, who owns the Water St. bars Red Rock Saloon and McGillycuddy's, said the idea for the smoothie cafe grew out of his own inclination toward more healthful foods these days. »Read Full Blog Post
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As the British were preparing to attack New York in 1776, Gen. George Washington wrote to his estate manager about what trees he wanted planted at Mount Vernon - all American natives. Author Andrea Wulf discusses Washington and the other framers of our nation from the point of view of their gardens in "Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation." She will give a lecture on the topic Thursday at 6:15 p.m. in the Lubar Auditorium of the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive. Afterward, there will be a reception in the Café Calatrava. The lecture is free with museum admission ($15 for adults; $12 for students, seniors and members of the military; free for members and children under 12). The reception costs $30 and reservations are requested: call (414) 224-3293. »Read Full Article


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Then he said he could probably do the job for $2800 if his Manager would approve. I told him I would have to think about this and drove back to work. On my drive back George called and told me his Manager approved doing the job for $2800. I then demanded he tell me how much it would cost to just repair the elbow and he $700!
When I got back to work I told an Engineer around here at Boeing what ARS said and he told me that was WAY too much and I only needed the Elbow replaced. He gave me the name of a long time Plumbing company in Dickinson and they came out that afternoon. They removed the elbow and placed it with $9.70 of plastic pipe and charged me $138.00!!!!!!! I then asked him what they would charge to run the pipe from the meter to the house (under the driveway) and he said around $700!!!
Total Rip Off Artists these guys are!! So Buyer beware!!! BTW, I called and tried to get ARS to refund my $75.00 and they said no way!! I am telling everyone I know about this!
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Salix Homes scoops top award for helping tenants get online
Published by James Allan for Salix Homes in Housing and also in Care and Support, Education, Universal Credit
Georgina Neild and Jackie Crook from Salix Homes with the NFA Award
A social housing provider is celebrating after scooping a national award for helping its tenants 'go digital'.
Salford-based Salix Homes won an NFA Award (National Federation of ALMOs) in recognition of its 'Connecting Customers' project, which teaches tenants essential IT skills and money management.
Salix Homes, which manages 8,500 homes across Central Salford, launched the project in January this year to help prepare tenants for the introduction of Universal Credit, which combines six key benefits paid in one monthly payment and requires residents to apply for and monitor it online.
As part of the project, tenants who have been identified as unemployed and claiming benefits, have been taking part in free computer classes where they've been learning essential IT skills as well as tips and training on job searches, CV writing and interview techniques.
Judges were impressed with how the project taught tenants' essential computer skills while also encouraging people to save, as a requirement of the course is that all participants must open a savings account with Salford Credit Union, which they could then use to purchase a low-cost lap-top through the scheme.
Sue Sutton, chief executive at Salix Homes, said: "We are absolutely delighted that our project has been recognised on a national scale and winning this prestigious housing award is a real testament to the hard work and commitment of everyone involved.
"With the onset of Universal Credit, we are increasingly dependent on our tenants having internet access and the skills to manage their finances online and this project has really helped to address some of these issues.
"The aim of 'Connecting Customers' is to not only help prepare tenants for Universal Credit, but to teach them essential skills that will help them find employment and we are thrilled at its success."
The project, which is now being introduced across Salford, won the Helping Prepare Tenants for Universal Credit through Digital Inclusion Award.
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Moving And Storage USA7323 Ethel Ave North Hollywood, California U.S.A.
Moving And Storage USA moving company, fraud, ripoff, storage North Hollywood California
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On the date of the move, no one showed and when I called I was greeted by an individual who identified the company as 12moving.com. I then called back on their other listed number and again was greeted by the same individual. I asked him about Moving and Storage USA and was told that the company had closed as of the day before and that there were no records of moves or deposits which existed. He then told me that he could still send movers if I would pay him another $500 up front.
Everthing from the calls to the websites were fraudulant. Movingandstorageusa.com is still on the internet. 12 months ago I made the decision to move out to California in order to volunteer for 1 year to provide care (dentist) to active duty soldiers who were scheduled for deployment to Iraq as well as to those veterans who were returning home to the US; now I am leaving and have been scammed both, on my move to the West Coast(upon arrival, they would not release my belongings unless I paid an additional $1000; and this was for a car) and on my return to the East Coast.
Needless to say, I am extremely disappointed with the lack of action which the government has displayed in an effort to punish these criminals. In total, my losses (had to extend my rental period for apartment and car, was unable to begin on the expected working date in New york as planned, etc) totaled $5500. I have already contacted my attorney and will continue to pursue this matter until these individuals are judged.
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ROCHESTER —At approximately 9:45 p.m. Wednesday police and rescue crews reponded to 22 Franklin Heights for a reported vehicle into a building.
On scene, officers learned that Mark Harmon, 38, of East Rochester was operating a Toyota Camry in the parking lot of Franklin Heights. When he attempted to park, the vehicle went over a small retaining wall, through a fence and into a residence through a sliding glass door.
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The vehicle sustained front end damage and was towed. The residence sustained damage and was attended to immediately by property management.
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In March of this year, a Gallup poll highlighted an interesting tension in American thinking on global warming: While a majority of respondents said they believe global warming has already begun, a majority also said they don't expect to suffer any hardships from global warming within their lifetimes. What the survey didn't ask was how many people across the country are already reacting to rising temperatures—and preparing for those ahead.
This past summer, twenty-somethings Allie Goldstein and Kirsten Howard took a road trip to document stories of what they call "climate resilience"—examples of individuals and communities finding creative ways to adapt to hotter summers, stronger storms, bigger wildfires, rising sea levels, and more. They visited 31 states and offset their minivan's carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits from Terrapass. Whether learning about Ann Arbor, Michigan's newly structured stormwater utility or evaluating the use of public art to mark evacuation routes in New Orleans, Goldstein and Howard found these examples everywhere they looked—suggesting that perhaps the rest of us don't have to travel far at all to witness similar initiatives being implemented.
In some places, climate change is an explicit factor driving a city's action; such is the case in Baltimore, Maryland, which has a Climate Action Plan and a recently appointed "Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation Planner" who is trying to build more tree canopy in the city's neighborhoods so that residents may benefit from increased shade during heat waves. In addition to combating the "urban heat island effect" (increased canopy can cool the city by up to 9 degrees Fahrenheit), planting more trees has a host of other benefits: increasing property values and decreasing crime, according to Goldstein. These "co-benefits" were observed all around the country, Goldstein says, pointing out that sometimes "responding to climate change" is a co-benefit in itself, tertiary to the main goal of attracting tourists or reducing crime.
"When we started this trip," says Goldstein, "someone told us we wouldn't find anyone to talk to about climate change in the south." That prediction proved false. "There are definitely people who are still skeptical of the science or don't really believe that the impacts of climate change will come to their community in particular, but in general we found that this kind of politicized, black and white, 'believe or don't believe' thing that's presented in the news a lot is really a lot more nuanced than that."
On the coast of North Carolina, they met Todd Thompson, the Chairman of the Board of NC-20, a conservative organization that Stephen Colbert poked fun at in 2012. Thompson may be "skeptical" of projections of a 39-inch sea-level rise in his area, but his objection to the plans to prepare for it—elevating homes, raising flood insurance rates—has more to do with his concerns about impoverishing the community, Goldstein and Howard write on their blog. "My view of the world," he tells them, "is as someone who has seen a lot of poverty… I just love this area and I want to protect it."
Goldstein and Howard have also talked to Colorado fruit growers who are adapting to fluctuations in temperature without necessarily agreeing on the cause of the changes. "The farmers we spoke with, for the most part," they write, "aren't attributing the longer growing season to climate change." The farmers view fluctuating weather patterns as normal. But in response to the latest variations, they are diversifying their harvests in anticipation of losing some crops each season, and using wind machines to nudge the air temperatures in the fields by half degrees to prevent freezing.
Howard tells me she was "amazed by the number of places where at the municipal level they had some sort of effort to actually identify their climate variability and predict what the local impact to their communities would be." The great takeaway from this project, she says, seems to be that "people are really in touch with 'their place.'" Even if they aren't concerned about climate change on a global scale or they think it doesn't affect them, "once you get down to talking about their neighborhoods, their cities, they know so much… and are, in a lot of cases, working really hard to make it the best place to live."
Changing attitudes toward climate change on a larger scale were evident at the 7 national parks Goldstein and Howard visited. At Montana's Glacier National Park, for example, more and more tourists are attracted precisely because of scientific estimates that the park's glaciers will be gone by 2030. In addition, learning about glacial retreat is now an integral part of the visitor experience at GNP. On their blog, Goldstein and Howard quote a National Park Service staff member who gives weekly presentations titled "Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?" and said: "At first, [the Park Service's] attitude was, 'people are on vacation, don't upset them by talking about global warming.' Now, we have a mandate to talk about it."
Besides communicating more explicitly about the effects of global warming, Park Service staff are also initiating ecological interventions—"perhaps a little more heavy-handedly than they have in the past," Goldstein and Howard write. In 2003, the Park Service deliberately directed a forest fire away from the region's huckleberries, which bears eat; to prevent invasive species from reaching the park's Quartz Lake, they constructed a barrier in Quartz Creek.
It's a similar story at Joshua Tree National Park in California, where, like Montana's glaciers, Joshua Trees are disappearing. Park Service specialists are trying to better understand the factors determining survival and death of the trees, and they're also weighing some drastic interventions to preserve the tree population, such as manually relocating trees to areas with "future favorable climates."
It would be a shame for these parks to lose their namesakes, but Goldstein and Howard's observations across America suggest that cities and towns may be better poised to adapt to climate change than wilderness areas are. The stories from the cities seem hopeful; the dispatches from Glacier and Joshua Tree, less so. Perhaps that is because existential threats—changes that would alter the defining characteristics of a place—are more difficult to contemplate before they occur. Who would have thought, ten or twenty or fifty years ago, that a glacier-less Glacier National Park was possible?
In Napa Valley, though, exactly that kind of forethought is taking place. The region is well-known as wine country. Local vintners, write Goldstein and Howard, formed a climate task force in 2006 to meticulously track temperature changes and develop strategies to manipulate microclimates in the vineyards. They installed weather stations in the vineyards, sifted through farmers' harvest logs from past decades, and are even testing solar-powered sensors on their vines to monitor plant hydration day by day. What they have found is, so far, a much slower progression in temperatures in Napa Valley than has been measured elsewhere, allowing growers to put scientists' projections into context, and gauge when it might be time to start switching cultivars. They're doing their homework, in other words, and providing a standout example of what it takes to stay ahead of existential threats — climate change may mean the end of glaciers, but it won't, hopefully, mean the end of California wine.


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Rocket Voicemail/Fax Communications334 East Lake Road Palm Harbour, Florida United States of America
Rocket Voicemail/Fax Communications Rocket Communications Ripoff Fraudulent Charges made by Rocket/Communications/Vmail and Efaxing to my phone bill Palm Harbour, Florida
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Apparently, all they need is your name and email address to bill your telephone company for these bogus services. I have voicemail with my phone company and an answering machine, and have no need for faxing services, why on earth would I agree to pay these frauds $12.95 a month for something I do not need. When contacting my telephone provider I was told they do not have any affliation with this company that if I have a problem with billing I need to take it up with them that they just bill me because they were billed by this company, and in no way do they try to verify that their customers authorized the services to be billed to their telephone bill.
I am unhappy with my telephone provider for this reason, I believe they should better protect their customers by bringing these charges to the customers attention to verify that the customer actually authorized them. I indeed overlooked this charge as I have paperless billing and a bundled package with my phone company, it was easily overlooked until I printed my bill and went over it in detail. Now I am trying to get my money refunded from this company. My phone provider told me they could not help me. Please pay close attention to your phone bills folks, these type people are being allowed to tack additional bills on to our accounts with no customer verification what so ever.
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Nokia's shares traded higher Monday amid intense market speculation that the world's largest mobile phone maker may soon announce a major shake-up to its management team as it strives to recast its business and win back ground in the premium handset market.
Over the weekend, persons familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal that several senior Nokia managers are expected to leave the company as part of new CEO Stephen Elop's plans to revamp the company's strategy.
Nokia has hired executive recruiters to find a new head of operating systems and a new head of R&D, one person said, while another said the company has also started the search for a new head of its North American business. Exactly who would leave the board remains unclear, as executives themselves won't be briefed until a day before the company's strategy update on February 11, the persons said.
Nokia spokesman Tomi Kuuppelomaki Monday declined to comment on the matter.
There is no doubt that Stephen Elop, who took the helm at Nokia last autumn, has a mandate for radical change. Analysts and investors expect the company to announce far-reaching adjustments to its current strategy as it strives to fight back against its fast-growing rivals.
Over the past few years, Nokia has lost high-end market share to iPhone-maker Apple Inc and to Google Inc's Android, which according to research firm Canalys overtook Nokia's Symbian as the world's most widespread smartphone platform during the fourth quarter last year. In particular, analysts believe Nokia would need to boost its market position in the important U.S. market, where it has so far struggled against the competition.
The Finnish company's challenges were reflected in its fourth-quarter report late last month, when it posted falling earnings from a year earlier and gave a bearish outlook for the current quarter.
Analysts said the weak report at least strengthened Elop's mandate for deep surgery.
"There is one positive for Nokia in these very negative results and guidance," analysts from Bernstein said in a note to investors. "Nokia's new CEO now has the legitimacy to undertake major changes."
Apart from the expected management shake-up, market watchers also believe that Nokia will announce a new software strategy on the upcoming Feb. 11 briefing, including plans to build new smartphones based either on Android or on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform.
Nokia's new CEO has so far hinted that he is determined to soon carry through some far-reaching initiatives in order to regain the lead in the handset market, so investors are right to expect interesting news at Friday's briefing.
"Our industry has changed," Elop said following last month's report. "It's time for Nokia to change faster."


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Complaint Review: JST MERCHANT SERVICES
JST MERCHANT SERVICES5727 N 7th Street Ste 401 Phoenix, Arizona United States of America
JST MERCHANT SERVICES RIPOFF OF $35,000. YES $35,000.00 !!! Phoenix, Arizona
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so now we are in July I have not yet booked any business,I get a call from Ron Zink how they can help me, since i am so busy, full time job, kids, ect, they can help me, very simple, we can do all the work for you, we get leads that are businesses that are already looking for this service, people that are already interested in this service, we will do all the calling for you.
These leads cost just over $5.00 each but are really good leads and we will do the work for you. So he asks me if I have money in savings, checking accounts, credit cards, I tell him no. He continues to ask if I have a pension, or 401, i happen to just get a settlement from my divorce that was IRA money and I put into an IR, he tells me i can use that money, I told him no thats all I have and I would have to pay penalties on that money if I took it out.
Not to worry he says, for $35,000 I can get 6,000 leads good leads, people so interested i would get about 300 people sign up from that. It wouldn't matter if i had penalties this return would more than .I got a call from John Jones who gave me the info to wire the $35,000 to , and off I sent it. What a big mistake. He even gave me an extra 1,000 leads because of waiting time i had.
I am a single mom of 3 , just making it month by month and i loose $35,000 just like that!!!!!!
Each week i would talk to the marketing dep. Betty would tell me how many people they spoke to, how many are interested in it , each week she would tell me we are waiting for this one, and that one to get back to us, we are waiting for the paperwork, and at the end NO ONE was approved ever !
I cant believe that out of 7,000 good leads not one was interested. I need help to get back my $35,000.
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Some victims who had paid by credit card were able to get their money back by disputing the charges with their credit card company but otherwise, most people lost everything they paid these scammers.
From what I read quickly online, nobody seems to have had any stories of luck when fighting them and I didn't see anything about any lawsuits against the company, successful or otherwise.
You might have a case for fraud if you can find a lawyer, but they likely won't work on something like this on contingency, which means you'd have to pay them upfront. It could be expensive for you but worth it if they're able to get back your "investment." Sometimes, it just takes a real lawyer to file a real lawsuit against these companies to get them to settle and avoid being dragged into the light of a courtroom.
You'll also want to start preparing yourself both financially and mentally that mistakes were made and the money is likely gone for good. You'll live and its a lesson learned and if something happens to go your way later on this later, then great! Just don't count on it. If you can cope with the loss, you'll be fine no matter what the final outcome may be.
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Toni, smoother then she looks.
Another dumb male cop intimidated by a gorgeous female firefighter. Toni, you are a law-breaker. You are no better than DIRK! Guess he rubbed off on ya.
And SO glad Greg did not bring Dirk back as a cop. Better an intimidated cop than Dirk.
There's still so much that could go wrong. And, why shouldn't Quill get that letter. Never underestimate the power of a well-written love-letter. ;)
Ah, the sense of empowerment………
I bet Luann changes her mind at the last minute. Saturday's strip will show her deciding to let Quill receive the letter and let the chips fall where they may. Then we'll have a few weeks of other arcs before seeing the result of Luann's love letter.
And it is really dumb to try to grab anything, much less one particular letter from a mail box. They were specifically designed to thwart any attempt to retrieve a mailed letter. Best of luck to you guys. Maybe someone should ask Lu Ann just what she wrote before committing a federal offense to recover it. Just my 2 cents.
Perhaps they'll be like the firefighters in "Fahrenheit 451."
"Thank God we got here in time to set fire and burn the contents before anyone got to read it!"
Oops, I meant firemen.
a more reasonable explanation would be that someone reported hearing a noise from the mailbox, possibly a small animal stuck inside. Legitimate reason to at least check things out inside the box.
"At least she didn't say something like, "How would you like me to put out your fire, Jim?"
He'd probably rather hear, "How would you like me to light your fire, Jim?"
Not meaning Jim Morrison of The Doors, of course….
I still say that the letter never makes it. Luann would probably just put a "forever" stamp on it, which is only good for domestic postage, and she probably never considered putting extra postage on it for an international letter.
According to usps.com, the rate from the U.S. to Australia is $1.05 for a letter rather than the usual 45¢ for a domestic letter.
Just sending a letter across the border to a friend of mine in Canada costs 85¢.
Yesterday's "Zits" had Jeremy's mom ask Jeremy to get a postage stamp out of the kitchen. He looked high and low and then asked his mom, "What's a postage stamp?"
Jeremy and Luann are both about the same age, and kids that age are not used to using the mail to communicate.
It would cost my Canadian friend $1.19 CAD to send me a letter, according to canadapost.ca. It costs Canadians 69¢ to send a domestic letter.
There's another cop sitting in the car… (Dirk?) This is going to come back to haunt them!
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Managers for Family Dollar are salaried, and have to work something like 52-53 hours a week. My manager does it a little differently. He is usually scheduled to come in at 6am, but unlike everyone else's hours, his sometimes end in a blank (eg, 6am-[blank]). That wouldn't be cause for alarm, except that I worked out the hours he's actually in the store (I've never seen him there past 4pm), and he can't be working more than 45 hours a week, if that. There have been a couple of instances where I was working until close, and he, despite not being there for most of my shift, had not clocked out. I only learned about his required hourage when I started asking people about it, and it was implied that he does this purposefully. I have not worked to close on a day he has worked since.
His other hourage issue is that he's sometimes late, and not by a little. Two days in the same week, he was scheduled for 6am, and myself at 7. On both occasions, I waited at least half an hour until he showed up, meaning over the course of that week, he was at least three hours late. He left around 3pm on those days, despite his missing hours and his open schedule of 6am-[blank].
His conduct toward other employees is unacceptable. He has said some offensive things, and more often than not, they're about women. I've also seen him hold his hand to his chest in a way suggesting that he thought the stock guy he was talking to was mentally handicapped. That same employee was later solely blamed for not catching shoplifters, and was absolutely yelled at. The manager didn't give the newer hires any flack about it because he had forgotten to give them their loss-prevention sheets two and three weeks ago when they started.
I'm a little intimidated about contacting corporate and telling them their Golden Boy is abusing the rules and his employees. And I KNOW that stock guy isn't going to say anything, because after being rebuked, the manager started writing his (likely negative) 45-day review.
Dearborn, Michigan
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11 News has confirmed that both the hostage and the suspect involved in a standoff at a Colorado Springs Apartment complex have died. The hostage and the suspect were both transported to Penrose Main Hospital after the standoff ended.
The suspect has been identified as 39-year old Barnell Stidham.
Police identified the victim as 60 year old Della Paulson.
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The stand-off lasted about two hours. SWAT Teams were in contact with the suspect, but say when it became clear the suspect was not going to give-up, SWAT teams threw flash grenades at the apartment.
That's when gunshots rang out, and when officers made their way into the apartment, they found both the suspect and the hostage had been shot. 11 News has been told police did not fire any shots.
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Soon Pil Hong He is only certified as a 8th dan through Kukkiwon Niles Michigan
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He claims that he teaches family values. He was served jail time for beating up his ex-wife (public records at niles, mi). He was reported to child's protective services many times by elementary school. Do any of brain-washed member of hong's taekwondo know whatever happened to his 2 children?
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