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The ultimate city beach break, combine culture and sunshine in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital. A vibrant destination that boasts world-class architecture, cosmopolitan shopping areas and a buzzing dining and nightlife scene. Each neighbourhood has its own personality, style and heritage - so take the time to explore each one and soak up its individual charm. Combine days of sightseeing with an afternoon at the beach, or a leisurely tapas lunch on the water's edge at Port Olimpic.
Combine the exciting culture of the city with picturesque Spanish towns and the rugged coves of the coastline on holidays in Costa Brava. Close to Barcelona, midway between the sea and mountains – you'll find the beautiful town of Girona. In the historic quarter, colourful arcaded houses line the eastern bank of the river Ter. Whereas to the west, you'll discover elegant avenues, which are lined with boutiques and cafes.
Sitges is a seaside town with a flamboyant character. Combining history and heritage with a vibrant party scene, it's hard to resist the charm of this popular Spanish resort. Visit during the summer months, when the sandy beaches host parties that rival Ibiza. The port city of Tarragona presents an exciting mix of beach life and cultural attractions. Bursting with history, this captivating old-Roman town still entices people with its ancient ruins, seaside amphitheatre and cobbled medieval alleyways.
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With peace-love-music images that harken to the freedom of the 1960s and an updated all-American bent, Chesney, 46, is set to release his latest record, The Big Revival, on Sept. 23 – and his hippie fun bus plays a central role.
"I wanted an album cover that was surprising … Not what people expect, but that also suggests anything is possible," Chesney told Billboard of the concept. "That no matter where you are in your life, how tired or lost or demoralized, with a little faith and a little help, anything is possible … Because it's all within you! Or me."
The cover features a tricked-out school bus painted with primary-colored psychedelic images – plus an American flag flying up front – as the buffed up Luttrell, Tennessee, native leads his singing charges across the desert.
"That was the thing about that bus," Chesney told Billboard of his unusual cover image. "It was so far beyond coloring outside the lines, yet what is more common than a school bus? We've all seen them, no matter how old we are, our entire lives … and yet, when you look at that bus after we were done painting it, it was a whole new notion!"
After a year spent away from touring, where he's made his mark leading his No Shoes Nation, Chesney's latest effort is hotly anticipated by country music fans who have made the singer's last seven albums No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
Like his previous beach-inspired efforts, the record speaks to Chesney's free-spirited take on life, but also marks his creative investment in the current generation, which he touts in his first single, "American Kids," as "a little messed up but we're all all right." In the song's video, Chesney returns with his ever-present country-boy smile and tan to lead a singing band of post-Millennial hippies, all fresh-faced and wearing peasant skirts and braids and playing banjos. The song has skyrocketed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in just three weeks.
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"He's just so beautiful and handsome to me," Aniston told Women's Wear Daily of her husband-to-be while attending a dinner in his honor hosted by Details at the Sunset Tower Hotel's Tower Bar in West Hollywood on Tuesday.
The Leftovers star smolders on the cover of Details' August issue.
"I love that his eyeballs are so beautifully captured because those eyes just knock me out every day," the actress, 45, said. "He just gets better every year. He's just like a lost gem in the sand, and he's just always been there and been brilliant, and now this is just in a different light."
The dinner was also attended by Aniston's friends Chelsea Handler and newly engaged Courteney Cox, who called Theroux "so handsome and cool."
"I commend him for his courage," Aniston said of her cover boy. "This is not normal for him. He's so graceful and utterly kind and golden."
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Whether Tweeting or releasing statements through reps, celebrities are reacting to Patrick Swayze's death. A small sampling:
"Patrick you are loved by so many and your light will forever shine in all of our lives. In the words of Sam to Molly. 'It's amazing Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.' I will miss you."
– Demi Moore
"I will always cherish my amazing memories of Patrick ... we had so much fun together ... come back soon, Patrick, we need you here on earth."
– Kirstie Alley
"He fought the bravest battle and sadly lost. My heart goes out to his wonderful Lisa, his wife and soulmate for 34 years."
– Barbara Walters
"Patrick Swayze was a kindred spirit and a spiritual brother of mine. His focus was center target and his purpose was ... faith, kindness, grace, understanding and love. Patrick Swayze's Book of Life will never be over because he's moved on to the spiritual plateau where life is forever."
– Gary Busey
"RIP Patrick. You were a great talent. And more importantly ... a true gentleman."
– Alyssa Milano
"I have a great deal of faith in faith; if u believe something strongly enough, it becomes true for u. Patrick Swayze RIP."
– Amanda Bynes
"RIP. My heart hurts"
– Emily Rossum
"He was so brave & he fought so valiantly"
– Rose McGowan
Patrick fought the ultimate fight as passionate as he embraced his life ... with strength, dignity and grace. His love of his work and family was inspirational. He touched so many."
– Ralph Macchio
"Not only did we lose a fine actor today, I lost my older Outsiders brother. My heart goes out to not only his entire family, but all his fans as well."
– C. Thomas Howell
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Series Five to air in the US on BBC America!
Digital Spy reports that BBC America has picked up series (season) five. Most of us in the US expected that when Sci-Fi (now SyFy) dropped the show from it's schedule, so it's no real surprise.
Anyway, here is the link to the story:
BTW: BBC America's web-site says the 5th series will air in spring - nothing more definite has been given.
I like when BBC America shows the episodes. Sci-fi always had too long of a delay, sometimes months, after the original airdate in the UK.
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NIAGARA FALLS – Police said a city man was "staggering" drunk after he drove his car into a tree in the 1800 block of Whitney Avenue early Saturday.
Christopher S. Barber, 37, of Pierce Avenue, was stopped as he attempted to back his car away from the tree just after 2:30 a.m., police said.
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The transformation of the waterfront may seem remarkable to those who live in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but what is most remarkable about it is how little is happening in the other three boroughs. A couple of scattered improvements include the new Hunts Point Riverside Park on the Bronx River and the new esplanade along the Upper Bay, and Kill van Kull on the North Shore of Staten Island. But much more should be done – and could be done, if the next mayor focused on three ways to create real momentum for improving the waterfront.
1) Make Albany and Washington DC work for New York
Part of what makes the waterfront such complicated terrain is that it is governed by state and federal laws and agencies. For too long this regulatory complexity has been looked at as a limitation rather than an opportunity.
For instance, the Water Resources Development Act that was approved by the United States House of Representatives in July authorizes federal funds for waterfront improvements throughout the nation. In our area, Perth Amboy, Carteret and Bayonne are all named beneficiaries, but little is named in New York City other than Flushing Bay and, for the first time, Newtown Creek.
Federal money could do much for the East River, where miles of crumbling esplanade are restricting access, or even Pugsley Creek, which is proof that not all parks are actually park-like. The same kind of federal aid that is going to restore the New Jersey Meadowlands would go a long way to help Jamaica Bay, whether solving the mystery of the disappearing marshlands or creating access along the east side of the bay where communities are walled off by JFK Airport.
In Albany, legislative leaders have hatched a bond issue to appear on the ballot this fall that hopes to authorize billions for transportation projects statewide. There are a handful of intelligent projects, such as the $19 million proposed for the Bronx River Greenway. But there is nothing for the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, nothing to address the chronic traffic congestion in our central business districts, nothing that addresses the movement of goods in the city. Perhaps most unfortunate is the neglect of water transit, another missed opportunity.
2) Focus mayoral agencies on constructing community improvements alongside their new and expanding facilities
Both the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Sanitation have massive capital projects in various stages of planning or development. The environmental agency has set the bar high with their work at the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant, which includes not just cost over-runs (covered well by the daily newspapers), but also (ignored by the press), a canal walk along Whale Creek, a little-known arm of Newtown Creek. Such a community improvement, when developed alongside an infrastructure improvement, illustrates the balance that public agencies throughout the nation are increasingly taking to help offset the traditionally negative impacts such facilities have on local communities.
A logical next step would be for the agency to look at similar improvements alongside the gargantuan retention basins being built to capture the combined sewer effluent which pollutes our waterways during heavy rains.
A more pressing public works project is the planned retrofit and expansion of the city's marine transfer stations by the Department of Sanitation. The long term solid waste management plan approved in June constitutes a giant step towards a smarter garbage policy. The importance of this work cannot be overstated, because since Fresh Kills landfill was closed by the last mayor (who did not take the time to create another plan), the amount of funding that New York City taxpayers are spending to support the transportation of garbage is even greater than the amount we are spending through the city budget to support New York City Transit subways and buses.
Looking ahead, this case offers two lessons for the next mayor.
The first is to work openly with community and interest groups to address pressing public issues. In the case of the solid waste plan, the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods led the way towards a more enlightened policy that places a greater emphasis on water and rail-based transit and eliminates thousands of miles of truck trips each day. Affiliated groups such as the Waste Prevention Coalition helped create pressure not just for more intelligent transportation, but also a different way of looking at garbage – we could reduce the 13,000 tons of residential waste we produce each waste.
Lesson two is that even your own agencies, Mr. Mayor, may not be able to do what you expect of them. Virtually every community activist has a war story to tell involving Sanitation pick-up schedules, or performance, and while these stories are increasingly tempered with good news about low-sulfur diesel fuel, or collaborative district managers who send a truck right when it is needed, history shows that the Department of Sanitation's expertise is in pick-up and transportation, not recycling, not waste reduction, and certainly not the design or construction of facilities which anyone would call community friendly. In developing the long term solid waste management plan the city brought in the Economic Development Corporation to shepherd the project, but one has to wonder whether an organization classified as "quasi-governmental" is the appropriate one to lead and manage perhaps the most expensive and complicated multi-borough construction project started since the wave of new sewage treatment plants came along more than 30 years ago.
Nevertheless, the new solid waste plan could also be a citywide waterfront revitalization plan if the next mayor makes it a point of focus.
3) Harness State-ruled Agencies such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to work more constructively with and for the city
The city's relationship with the Port Authority is too narrowly defined. While some say the Port Authority is merely an automatic teller machine for city or state elected officials, the reality is that the agency has much more to offer the city than just cash.
The current administration missed a tremendous opportunity during the negotiation over the leases for JFK and LaGuardia Airports. While the income to the city from the leases is laudable, both Flushing and Jamaica Bays are complicated environs that the city hasn't done enough to steward or revitalize.
For an agency charged with planning and developing facilities for the movement of goods, it is obvious the Port Authority could also meaningfully contribute to the development of the city's solid waste management plan -- if they were asked.
Perhaps much of this tradition of limited engagement stems form the fact that the Port Authority is governed by a board appointed in Trenton and Albany. New York City has no voice on the board, and no power to make appointments. The next administration should seek to change this.
Waterfront Improvement Districts?
The common thread in all these recommendations -- getting more out of Washington DC and Albany, using the capital projects of mayoral agencies to fund community amenities, and engaging the Port Authority in more strategic and direct collaboration -- is that the waterfront needs a massive infusion of resources and funding.
If the rezoning of Greenpoint and Williamsburg is the wave of the future, then will the price of creating public waterfront access be limitless creation of luxury residential development? Hopefully not.
Perhaps the next mayor will look at the success of our Business Improvement Districts and create Waterfront Improvement Districts that are funded, at least in part, by tolls on bridge crossings. After all, it is ironic how the very areas where these bridges grace our shores are also the areas that need the most waterfront improvements.
Carter Craft, an urban planner, is program director of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.Â


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The Blessing of the Water is a part of Epiphany in the Eastern Orthodox Church when members commemorate the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. The service will include scripture readings, hymns, prayers and the immersion of a cross in water.
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Some analysts think the electric
vehicle market is ready for primetime. Others have been less
convinced. Last October, investment firm J.D. Power and Associates, Inc.
estimated that by 2020 electric vehicles (EVs) would only gain a slim 7.3 percent market share.
I. Hybrid/EV Outlook -- Not Good?
Now the firm has returned with another report, bumping its estimates slightly,
but remains skeptical of hybrids, electric vehicles, and clean diesel.
Mike VanNieuwkuyk, executive director of global vehicle research at J.D. Power
and Associates states in a Detroit News interview,
"Alternative powertrains face an array of challenges as they attempt to
gain widespread acceptance in the market. The bottom line is that most
consumers want to be green, but not if there is a significant personal cost to
His report estimates that by 2016, market share of hybrids and electric
vehicles will remain under 10 percent. The report's basic argument boils
down to that EVs and hybrids are too expensive for customers. It cites a
recent 4,000 person U.S. survey that it conducted, which showed that a growing
number of customers were concerned about the prices of electric vehicles.
The J.D. Power report also cited concerns about function as a factor slowing
sales -- particularly for electric vehicles.
II. Too Expensive?
Other market research firms don't necessarily agree that the price of
electrified vehicles will trump the price at the pump. Rival research
firm Deloitte LLP conducted a 1,000 person U.S. study, which found that 78
percent of people would consider purchasing an electric vehicle if gas hit $5
Subcompact cars typically start at around $11,000 USD for the cheapest
non-hybrid models and around $19K USD for the cheapest hybrid models (the subcompact Honda
Insight and CRZ hybrids). Thus you're looking at a premium of around $8,000
For the mid-sized sedan market pricing starts at around $20K USD, with the
cheapest hybrid being the new Hyundai Sonata at $26,545.
In this segment you're looking at around a $6,500
USD premium.
A recent report by the U.S.
Department of Energy stated that the annual cost of gas for the
average family is $3,625 USD (based on a gas price of $3.61 USD/gallon).
Assuming an average household has two cars and that the hybrid sedan would get
at least 33 percent better gas mileage, a family would save approximately $600
USD annually by switching to a hybrid. In other words, it would take
approximately 7 years of ownership to break even with a compact or mid-sized
III. Small Vehicle Sales Up
According to industry statistics in the first three months of 2011 large car
sales have plunged 35 percent, while small car sales have jumped 25 percent.
Hybrid sales during the period accounted for 4.7 percent of sales, up
from the average 2.6 percent in 2010.
Those numbers seem more impressive when you consider that a tax credit for
hybrid vehicles expired at the end of 2010.
It seems clear that the high price of gas this spring -- with fuel regularly
hitting $4 USD/gallon -- has motivated some customers to get hybrid vehicles.
EVs from General Motors Comp. (GM)
and Nissan Motor Comp. (7201)
are still selling slowly due to limited distribution
and volume. Both companies hope to sell a modest 10,000 units by the
year's end. Mitsubishi Corp. (8058)
just released a new EV -- but only in Hawaii to
start. Ford Motor Comp. (F),
Toyota Motor Corp. (7203),
and Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)
all will release new EVs by the end of the year as well [1][2][3].
Two factors working in the favor of electrified sales is an increasing
selection and government pressure on fuel efficiency.
One of the few somewhat seemingly positive aspects of the J.D. Power report was
an estimate that by the end of 2016, 159 hybrid and electric vehicle options
would be available for purchase -- up substantially from the 31 available in
2009. (Of course the report casts this in a negative light as well, complaining
that the market will be overcrowded.)
And the Obama administration is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to deliver new fuel efficiency mandates for the 2017-2025 period.
It is thought that those mandates would demand fleetwide average fuel efficiency reach 62.5 mpg by
2025. That could force automakers to try to limit the sales of
non-electrified models.
IV. Clean Diesel, Where Art Thou?
A dirty little secret of the EV industry is that clean diesel vehicles can
currently get as good or better mileage as most hybrids.
In the first three months of the year, 24 percent of Volkswagen AG's (VOW) sales were clean diesel vehicles. Mazda Motor Corp. (7261)
and other companies are planning to offer new diesel models over the
next couple years.
Still J.D. Power is also pessimistic on clean diesel's prospects.
Mr. VanNieuwkuyk states, "Advocates of clean diesel engines
tend to be some of the most vocal among consumers who tout the benefits of
their chosen technology. Clean diesel technology continues to struggle not only
against concerns about cost and perceived fuel availability, but also against
the lingering perception that diesel is 'dirty.'"
Both with hybrid vehicles and with diesel, there seems to be a clear momentum
in the U.S. Yet J.D. Power seems convinced both movements will only see slow
growth at best. It remains unclear whether the pessimism is unfounded --
or whether it knows something other analysts don't.
quote: Er... I don't think it is (or at least I don't think it SHOULD BE) the federal government's role to pay for your "gas price relief". You do realize that ultimately you're just paying for that out of your taxes?
quote: Then HELP YOURSELF. You are indeed "screwed" if you just sit around with your old vehicles hoping big brother government to bail you out. If you don't like that consider options like diesel, hybrids, or budget EVs next time you purchase a vehicle. Carefully assess the price vs. gas savings and make an educated decision as a responsible consumer.
quote: There's a reason to support these technologies
quote: But it's their roll to kill exploration, drilling, and refining domestically so we're burdened with overtaxed over imported resources at the mercy of OPEC?
quote: If we were drilling our own crude and refining it, the price per barrel would be a joke, like it used to be.
quote: allow the energy industry to serve the needs of the people
quote: Another false statement. The energy industry serves it's own needs and nobody else's.
quote: If the US fell back exclusively on it's own reserves, they would be completely consumed in ~1000 days based on current rates of consumption.
quote: Another false statement.
quote: "Drill baby! Drill!" basically translates to "The sooner the we use up all our oil, the better off we will be." Please tell me you see how ludicrous this sentiment is?
quote: better invade them for making a piggish lifestyle hard to upkeep.
quote: Come back when you don't have to lie to make an argument. As recently as 2008 two TRILLION barrels of shale were discovered in Dakota. The potential oil reserves in this continent would last FAR longer than 2 or 3 years. Where did you get that absurd estimate?
quote: The USGS estimate of 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil has a mean value of 3.65 billion barrels. Scientists conducted detailed studies in stratigraphy and structural geology and the modeling of petroleum geochemistry. They also combined their findings with historical exploration and production analyses to determine the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil estimates.
quote: extraction requires the equivalent of about three barrels of water per barrel of oil
quote: I know to you the acceptable amount of oil we would use would be ZERO, but some of us live in the real world.
quote: Even above recoverable oil faces technical challenges according to the Rand Corporation
quote: Wow, this couldn't possibly be too expensive to be of assistance now could it?
quote: The example was in extreme to demonstrate to you just how small an impact such an endeavor would have considering that many reserves are not worth tapping until the prices rise significantly.
quote: I design automated demand/purchasing systems for oil/gas/electricity retailers.
quote: From my point of view I think it's absolutely silly that we aren't better exploiting our ability to produce massive amounts of cheap electricity.
quote: Aren't you getting "bailed out" if you take a 12k government handout for an EV vehicle? How is that any better?This isn't about hoping big brother "bails us out". Big brother is CHOKING us. Our energy policy is ridiculous and you know it. Gas should be cheap, dirt cheap. If we were drilling our own crude and refining it, the price per barrel would be a joke, like it used to be.But Liberals like you don't want to see that. Because then nobody would want EV's or Hybrids. Your post is absurd Jason, I can't believe even you would be so intellectually dishonest.
quote: There's also a reason to wait until they are ready or viable. If you have to pay someone 11,000 dollars to purchase one, something isn't right there.
quote: I'd prefer you avoid that and ASK me what my opinion is in the future, please.


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ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. (AP) - An announcement Wednesday that California's Sierra Nevada snowpack is a meager 15 inches in some places means bad news in a state dependent upon snowmelt to meet the water needs of 25 million people.
Resorts are suffering as skiers turn up their noses at manmade snow, especially after last year's prolific powder. And farmers are bracing for a tough summer.
The dry winter is much the same in the Rocky Mountains, where the snowpack remains below average in Utah and Colorado, and at least one death has been attributed to the dearth of fluff. Skier Asha Davenport, 19, fell off a chairlift on Sunday at Utah's Park City's Canyons resort after suffering a seizure.
"She probably hit rock-hard snow," said Beau Uriona, a federal hydrologist based in Salt Lake City. "If you land on soft snow, it's certainly going to help you out."
Officials are not hopeful the region has time to rebound.
"The probability of getting back to average is really low" this far into the winter, said Randy Julander, the Utah Snow Survey supervisor. "January doubled our snowpack and we loved that, but we're getting back into dry, warm weather."
Paltry snow means big worries this summer for California farmers in the Central Valley who depend on snowmelt delivered through aqueducts to irrigate the most prolific agricultural region in the nation.
Electronic measurements estimate the statewide snowpack at 37 percent of normal for this time of year and 23 percent of the average April 1 reading when the spring thaw starts. The 15 inches measured at Echo Summit near South Lake Tahoe contained just 3.8 inches of water.
"This is a little misleading because we only got most of the snow in the last few days and a couple of inches last night," said Frank Tehrke, chief of snow survey for the California Department of Water Resources. "It's not encouraging for our reservoirs this summer."
The monthly snowpack measurements are anticipated by water managers and users around the state, and Tehrke described it as one of the top three driest since the department began taking measurements in 1946.
"So far, we just haven't received a decent number of winter storms," DWR Director Mark Cowin said in a statement. He was more pessimistic than he had been a month earlier when he said that "we still have most of our winter ahead of us."
After an encouraging start in October, the Sierra has benefited from just a handful of storms, with none producing the snowfall that state water managers want. Squaw Valley Resort recorded a cumulative 85 inches of snow so far this year, below its average of 450 inches and nowhere near the 810 inches recorded in last year's bountiful blanketing.
But last year's snow means the state's reservoirs remain nearly full after several years of drought. Lake Shasta, the state's largest, is at 100 percent of its normal storage for this time of year, though it's only at 68 percent capacity. San Luis Reservoir, the biggest south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, is at 121 percent of average and 96 percent capacity.
Agencies that supply water to more than 25 million Californians and nearly a million acres of farmland requested slightly more than 4 million acre-feet of water this year. The Department of Water Resources has stuck with its estimate that it will be able to deliver 60 percent of the amount this year. Last year, the department was able to deliver 80 percent of the requested amount.
The prediction for state water deliveries is still far above the drought years of 2007 to 2010, when as little as 35 percent of the water requested could be delivered.
In Southern California, inland water agencies stored a record 78,000 acre feet of water in underground aquifers last year - enough to supply 300,000 people for a year. The rest of region's water needs are filled with water imported from the north.
Farmers connected through a federal system of aqueducts in the Central Valley are waiting to learn how much water they will be allocated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which also relies on snowpack for its deliveries.
Westlands Water District, with more than 600,000 acres of farmland dependent upon imported water, is planning for less than half of what its contracts promise.
"We're doing the rain dance as much as we can out here," said spokeswoman Gayle Holman.
Associated Press reporter Paul Foy in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.


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You can thank our many quirky bookstores – and our steady newspaper-reading habits.
Those are two big reasons why Buffalo has risen over the past few years on an annual ranking of the "most literate" cities in America.
Buffalo now occupies the 29th position on the list, up from 47th place as recently as 2005.
The change is a reflection of how Buffalonians behave in ways that show literacy – and literariness – in daily life, according to Jack Miller, the president of Central Connecticut State University and author of the study.
"Literacy is more than how well you can read," said Miller, who started the annual survey 10 years ago. "Or how well you learned to read. It's whether you do."
The study measures U.S. cities of more than 250,000 people – just the cities, not the metro areas – in six broad categories, Miller said. He uses existing databases; no new data is created.
Washington, D.C., is rated No. 1 among literate cities. Then come Seattle and Minneapolis. Pittsburgh is ranked fourth, and Denver is fifth.
St. Paul, Boston, Atlanta, St. Louis and Portland, Ore., round out the top 10.
The categories include booksellers, educational levels, Internet reading habits, libraries, periodical and magazine publications, and newspaper circulation, Miller said. Categories are further broken down into subcategories.
"For each one of those, every city gets a rank," said Miller. "And then I combine those three ranks together for an overall ranking."
The study is designed to show not basic levels of functional literacy, but rather how word- and idea-oriented the people of a city are in daily life.
"I call it literate behavior," said Miller. "It means your actions – your behaviors – are such that you are engaging in things literate people do. You read books, you read newspapers, you go online and read."
Buffalo was ranked 33.5 on the list last year and 41 the year before that.
"I think it's a positive," Miller said of Buffalo's improvement. "Moving up is a good thing. Sometimes I think the old – what used to be called the 'Rust Belt cities' – don't get their due."
That feeling was echoed by one local bookstore owner, who said Buffalonians are a decidedly curious, inquisitive, appreciative audience.
"I think it's a pretty funky city," said Tom McDonnell, owner of Dog Ears Bookstore and Cafe in South Buffalo. "The strength of Buffalo is the people itself. We're a very diverse city, a very friendly city, a very open city."
"We may not have as many shows as Toronto or Broadway, but our shows are well-attended," said McDonnell.
"We may not have as many literary offerings as Toronto and New York, but ours are well-attended. We are a curious people."
Buffalo's upward momentum on the annual survey is due in large part to the city's strong results in the categories of bookstores and newspaper circulation, Miller said.
For bookstores, the study measured the number of bookstores per capita within the city, including independents, Miller said.
Per capita newspaper circulation is another key measure, he said.
"[Buffalo] was No. 11 on the bookstores and No. 12 for newspaper circulation," Miller said.
The number of bookstores in Buffalo really struck Miller as a particularly strong result.
Ten years ago, he said, the city had five bookshops that were members of an independent booksellers group, as calculated by the survey.
In 2012, Buffalo had six such stores, Miller said. "That has maintained or gone up slightly, while everything else is going down," Miller said, comparing Buffalo with other cities. "It's slightly higher than it was. That's very uncommon. Elsewhere in the country, that is not going on."
"Atlanta had 17, now they have seven," he said about independent bookstores.
Miller cautioned that the survey results shouldn't be taken with unbridled optimism.
In some categories, the survey author said, most cities might be going down overall – in newspaper circulation, for instance – so while upward movement is a good thing, it also might be a case of doing the best among others that are declining faster.
"Just because your ranking moves up," Miller said, "you could be going down slower."
But McDonnell, the bookstore owner, said that he thinks literate – and literary – Buffalo is a fact of life here that will not change and that may even grow.
"Buffalo's been bashed for years," McDonnell said. "We've been called the armpit of the world. I don't get it.
"You want to bash us? That's fine. Letterman and Leno can make fun of us all they want. Move here."
For results of the 2012 literacy rankings, go to www.ccsu.edu, and search for "literacy rankings."
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How has the recent mainstream lacrosse exposure helped our game?
Has it really? Or do we just think it has?
Is there a tangible way to even know?
There has been mainstream 90210, the back drop to ads for hit show House, the subject for numerous Law and Order episodes and even a Duke Lacrosse movie currently being written by a legit Hollywood writer for Home Box Office or HBO.
The old adage is all pub is good pub except when it come to the MLL…here is the exception the the rule your mother always told you about.
There is some back room talk about what happens next, nothing to bring out just yet…but there are good changes coming.
For all you laxers, keep laxing, for all you baseball players, keep laxing.
Btw- Congrats to Coach Pressler for his first RE-D1 win vs Sacred Heart!


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A variation on the term "douche bag." Slightly classier when used in a public setting.
Look at those douchemen inside that frat bar with their popped collars and fake tans.
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One who pees on TV's and hangs with stage 5's.
He just peed on a TV. What a doucheman.
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MARTINSBURG — Feeling that inadequate measures are being taken to ensure clean water in Berkeley County, nonprofit organization Potomac Riverkeeper is prepared to get a resolution from federal cour....
Majoritarian.. you need something better to do than to sit on here and comment negatively on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE. Get a LIFE!
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Just tell me how to make out the check.
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I'm glad to see someone is finally going to make sure Berkeley County is going to take care of their failing treatment plants; other than smoke & mirror- face value, concession making. Too bad our elected officals, planning commission and others charged with this responsibility are inept(with the exception of a few) to take care of these problems. Back Creek (the cental water body) is the only small river not 303d listed in Berkeley Co. to the EPA as impaired by fecal coliforms; as to annual & recent testing etc..However not for long if Berkeley County & the state are allowed to keep on their habits of allowing pollution to the tributarys though. WV (the state)as well needs to do their homework on NPDES permitting,water quality, and health related issues which has been lacking for decades with their "understanding". Rivers and Streams never were destined to be "open public sewers". THANK YOU Potomac River Keeper for doing some real work on behalf of kee
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For several months I have been reading the comments section fully understanding that some people think before posting and some...well not so much. When are we, as a group, going to realize that there is no government without the people. If the people we elect are not doing the job they were sent to do we can vote them out. It is not their fault that most of us are stupid enough to vote for the "guy" with the most money to spend. Try attending some meetings to see what is going on. This sewer issue is local and is controlled by elected local officials. If you don't like what is going on then run for office or at least learn to spell.(((You seem to forget the ' quite a lot.)))
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I grew up here.The Opequon and Back Creek were both clean up until about the last 15 years or so... what changed? THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO MOVED HERE.THAT'S where the trouble started on many fronts.
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The sewer plant on Scrabble Road is a disgrace. I feel so sorry for the people living around it. It makes me gag every time I go by it. I have never encountered anything like it. Something isnt right for the stentch to be that overwhelming. The neighbors should sue for degradation of quality of life
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"Feeling that inadequate measures are being taken to ensure clean water in Berkeley County, nonprofit organization Potomac Riverkeeper is prepared to get a resolution from federal court." Yipes. Writing is easy. Good writing is difficult. Try harder, much harder.
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noun- someone who takes a dump in the shower and tries to crush it down the drain with their feet
"I went to jump in the shower after Steve had finished only to find that fuckin' waffle stomper had left shrapnel all over the floor"
"You waffle stompin' son of a bitch!"
"You waffle stompin' son of a bitch!"
מאת bdams19 from hoboken 1 בפברואר, 2007
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Boots or shoes with big tread resembling a waffle iron.
"It looks like someone stomped the victim to death. It looks like the were wearing Mikey Waffle Stompers, men's size 11."
מאת Shelly Bozdog 4 באוגוסט, 2006
when you take a shit in the shower and stomp it thru the drain
the toilet was backed up so Bill King tookk a wafflestomper.
מאת Crazy Eyes 1 במרץ, 2005
One who shits in the shower and stomps on it untill it goes down the drain.
Sander Cole is a waffle stomper and he over uses the term too
מאת Spencer 8 באפריל, 2005
heavy hiking boots (from the pattern the soles make in the footprints)
A pair of waffle-stompers were found in the car and were covered in either the perpatrator's or the victims blood.
מאת The Return of Light Joker 23 באוקטובר, 2011
noun - someone who takes a dump in the shower and tries to stomp it down the drain.
All the stalls were full, so Tina, being the waffle stomper she is, had to man up and take a dump in the shower.
מאת bdams the original 20 בינואר, 2007
A person male or female, with abnormally large sneakers or feet. The term waffle stomper refers to the stomping noise the sneakers make when they are walked in.
Wow, did you see that chic she was definatley a waffle stomper.
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quote: and log off, sign back in as one of your aliases and post more biased tripe... Really, do you think you are swaying anyone's opinions with your campaign? The very thought of your campaign bring into question your motives here, but that is a separate debate on an issue that you will never fess up to. _
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quote: The GS3 is the most popular high-end Samsung device around, so why wouldn't I bring it up here? It uses a trash screen, sorry.
quote: You replied directly to my post talking about 1080p screens on newer devices then replied with your same old tired line about the GS3 screen
quote: Anyhow I mentioned the latest 5 inch 1080p screens like the Droid DNS, the Oppo, and hte other one linked above and you mentioned HTC's one X briefly
quote: What are they going to do go 2272x1280 ?
quote: The point isn't that all Android phones have bad screens, it is that Samsung's aren't particularly good
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LEWISTOWN - Sara K. Rieffannacht, 23, of 448 W. Fourth St., Lewistown, went to be with the Lord Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at AI DuPont Hospital, Wilmington, Del.
She is survived by: her parents, Nelson E. and Mary Lee (Ritter) Rieffannacht; brother, Nelson and wife, Kim, whom she loved like a sister; grandparents, Kathryn V. Rieffannacht, paternal, and Connie and Richard Fortney, maternal; uncle, Robert L. Ritter; and aunts, Suzanne M. Ritter, Susie Burkett and Mary M. Gahagan.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Robert L. Ritter, Sara L. Royer and Barbara L. Ritter.
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Sara K. Rieffannacht
Sara was a 2009 Homeschool graduate. She loved camping at Buttonwood Campground, cooking, baking and trying new recipes, listening to music, puzzles, beads and her family and friends. During her teen years, Sara was an active member of the Pine Glen Alliance Youth Group, enjoying friends and activities there. She also was involved in the Mifflin 4-H where she received multiple Grand Champion awards in glass etching and tie-dye. Sara attended Evangel Baptist Church.
Sara is blessed to have had many people who faithfully brought her before God's throne in prayer throughout her full and complete life. Spanning the globe, her prayer partners were faithful in answering the call when urgent prayer was needed. Like the paralyzed man in Mark 2:3-4, her faithful friends carried her to Jesus for a healing touch when she was weak or unable to go herself. We will be eternally grateful for the faith of those few close friends and to God for every day and his miraculous touch. Sara knew and loved the Lord Jesus Christ and in this we rest that Sara now walks with Jesus in perfect healing.
Sara and her family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6, at Barr Funeral Home, Inc. 120 Logan St.
A celebration of Sara's life and her journey to the one who created her will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Barr Funeral Home with the Rev. Jerry Wise officiating. There will be a time of sharing during the service.
Sara's family will provide flowers and have requested that donations be made to The Sara Rieffannacht Memorial Fund, c/o 375 W Fifth St, Lewistown, PA 17044.
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OMAHA BEACH, Normandy -- So this ruddy-faced Englishman outfitted in the olive-drab jump uniform of a World War II U.S. 101st Airborne officer is telling me how he smuggled his Thompson submachine gun onto the Chunnel train.
The conductor saw the weapon, and the fact that my English friend had boarded fully clad in field-dress, helmet, jump boots and Screaming Eagle patch on his shoulder, as if he were ready for combat.
With a "wink-wink," the ticket-taker opted to pretend the gun wasn't there.
"He told me to just bury it at the bottom of my kit while he looked the other way," he said.
The downside? He had to leave his six-inch paratrooper knife at home.
The biggest untold story behind the annual D-Day remembrances is of the hundreds of World War II re-enactors who descend on the northwestern coast of France during the first week of June each year.
Almost all of these men are European, primarily from the U.K., France and The Netherlands. Some don't speak a word of English. Yet, just like their Confederate re-enactor counterparts in the United States, they are accurate in every detail in presenting their American helmets, uniforms, decorations, weapons and even their surplus Willys Jeeps that dominate the highways.
I discovered all of this during the greatest sunrise of my life.
On June 7, I turned 50. But months before, my wife came up with the idea of spending my 5-0 on the D-Day beaches. She knew that I'd been fascinated with The Longest Day since I was a teenager.
To me, the Normandy invasion stands as the greatest single-day accomplishment of the 20th century. There was a great evil loose in Europe and the Allies were the last-line decider of what the world would look like.
But June 6, 1944, was more than a day of right versus wrong. Historian Stephen Ambrose put it better than most when he described the sheer heroics and logistics of punching a hole into Nazi-occupied France.
"It was as if the cities of Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, were picked up and moved — every man, woman and child, every automobile and truck — to the east side of Lake Michigan in one night," he said. And that is without anyone in the State of Michigan suspecting they were coming.
Getting there
After landing in Paris on Air France from Atlanta, our trip to the coast started with a train ride to Rouen to pick up our four-door Fiat rental. Rouen is some 70 miles from Paris and is worth an overnight stop. It's where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake and the cathedral there is a stand-in for Notre Dame but without the two-hour lines.
Driving the French roads soon became second-nature, though the highway route numbers weren't as well marked as we'd hoped.
Along the coast road heading into Normandy we quickly discover a series of coastal beach communities that mirror Myrtle Beach for kitsch. In our favor is that in early June these roads and resort towns are mostly abandoned, as the famous French summer vacation exodus was still a few weeks away.
In an hour we hit our first D-Day landmark: Pegasus Bridge. This span over the Orne River was the site of the first significant action of the invasion, as British glider troops landed in the dark to secure the eastern sector of the landings. It is one of dozens of well-established monuments and museums along the length of the Normandy coast for most every aspect of the invasion, from the paratroopers who landed by the thousands to the destroyers and landing craft that fed the invasion from offshore.
Where to stay
We had decided to try the tiny dot village of Tracy-sur-Mer, near the beach town of Arromanches, within the British zone. It is one of dozens of stay opportunities along the 50-mile sector that made up the landings.
Before checking in at La Ferme de la Petite Noe, a working equestrian training farm that doubles as a bed-and-breakfast, we stop on a high cliff and take pictures of the "Mulberries" a mile offshore, the massive concrete barriers that were towed over from England shortly after the invasion to create a semi-circle artificial harbor for Allied supplies.
By extraordinary stroke of luck and unknown to us, Arromanches is also the unofficial headquarters for many of the English veterans who landed in Normandy who come back every year.
While we met no American Normandy vets during our three days there, on our first night we found more than a dozen veteran English pilots, soldiers and sailors drinking heavily at the Hotel D'Arromanches and the accompanying bar, Le Pappagall.
They seem to especially like American visitors, chattering freely about what they remember from June 6.
Late on the 5th, The drinks begin to flow and Englishman Len Cox takes us under his wing, and gives us a photograph of him in his Army uniform at age 18 around the time he landed up the coast. Meanwhile, I refuse to take a 10 Euro note from another beret-wearing upper octogenarian whose chest is full of medals, putting his Jameson's Irish whiskey on my tab.
The re-enactors
The week of the D-Day anniversary is like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Gettysburg all rolled into one for the re-enactors decked out in all form of American G.I. uniform.
They flood into towns setting up camps almost wherever they please, be it a field or in some cases, taking over central squares. Soon olive drab tents go up, clothes are hung from drying lines and barbecue smoke fills the air.
Both the British islanders and the Continental Europeans bring their World War II surplus Jeeps and vehicles in for the celebration.
We see 21/2-ton trucks, armored cars, vintage motorcycles and jeeps in all sorts of markings. All are owned by private individuals. There's even magazines available (in French and English) advertising how to buy the most accurate gear.
American G.I's remain the preferred soldier to re-create for two reasons: the enormous sacrifice the U.S. troops made that is still acknowledged today, and the fact that the U.S. landing beaches were the site of the most significant fighting.
But there are no German-uniformed re-enactors anywhere. "The Germans still aren't too well-liked around here," one Welsh re-enactor tells me in the understatement of the day.
The only German anything I see is a truck with an iron cross painted on it driven by faux G.I.s indicating it's been "captured."
Over drinks one night, we learn than some of the re-enactors are known to take their roles extremely seriously. Case in point: I hear a story of 15 Dutchmen dressed as members of the 101st Airborne. True to their realism, they spend D-Day week camping in the hedgerows and walking from battle-site to battle-site going through the stages of what happened there 69 years ago.
At night, they were known to leap from the woods and abruptly stop vehicles driven by other re-enactors on the darkened two-lane roads checking for "passes" and making sure other re-enactors were authentic enough, even holding some at the point of a carbine.
Afterward, they'd slip off into the darkness.
Fireworks shows are common during the week, too, with the biggest over the town of Arromanches on June 6.
We got a ride on a Jeep driven by one of the re-enactors staying at the horse farm. He was from Switzerland, doesn't speak a word of English but is dressed as a U.S. Sherman tank driver.
Must-see sites
The good news for trying to accommodate as many sites into your visitation schedule as possible is that because France is so far north on the globe that the June sun rarely sets before 10 p.m., allowing for long traveling days.
The American Cemetery. More than 9,300 white marble crosses and Stars of David fill the rows of a flat area overlooking Omaha Beach. Worth a quiet reflective walk to absorb the names, states and dates of the U.S. service losses.
The beaches themselves. We spent much of our time visiting stretches of Omaha and Utah beaches in the American sector. Like at Gettysburg, monuments to the heroics of the day dot each of them. The walking, parking and roads in are easy and accessible.
Pointe Du Hoc. The Ranger Monument and leftover pillboxes tell the story of the Army Rangers who had to climb the steep cliffs here under constant fire. Deep bomb craters remain all over hundreds of yards that were part of the German strong-point overlooking the American landings. It was the most crowded of our stops.
The city of Bayeux. After my camera battery went dead and I'd forgotten the charger, we found a camera store in Bayeux that agreed to re-charge mine for $6.50. We visited the Battle of Normandy Memorial Museum, which was worth seeing for its collection of uniforms, tanks and re-creations of the battle line. Across the street is the British military cemetery. We also had our best meal in Bayeux: three courses, including Normandy salad, simple roast chicken smothered in a delicious gravy followed by chocolate mousse cake at Restaurant Le Petit Normand. Cost: $25.
While there were other sites to see that remain too numerous to list, there's also the chance of surprises for anyone who visits around D-Day. By sheer luck as we stepped out of our rental car at the official Omaha Beach invasion memorial, we spotted two British Spitfires and one American P-51 Mustang flying together overhead.
These are each million-dollar-plus aircraft and over the next three days, we would catch glimpses of them entertainingly cruising high above.
Sunrise, June 6, Omaha Beach
We awoke at 5:30 a.m. and just started driving west along the coast, not sure where we were going to end up. Our goal was to be on the beaches to catch the sunrise and to finish a special mission we dreamed up months before.
Less than 10 kilometers from our inn, we found an excellent paved road that meanders through the woods down to the beach.
We end up where elements of the Army's "Big Red One" First Infantry Division came ashore. One of the beach markers explained that no more than about 40 Germans held off masses of Americans spilling onto shore who were stalled by the Germans' topographical height advantage.
What's most stunning about the Normandy beaches is that at low tide, the expanse in some areas goes out for hundreds of yards. What's most disturbing, is the hills seem to go straight up in places, further indicating how brutal the conquest was.
Coupled with the steep climb is the noticeably dense vegetation that controls the landscape before it breaks off into endless fields of yellow mustard flowers that we see ranging across the French countryside.
Back on the wet beach, our stay in Normandy on D-Day morning came to an end. The water temperatures was in the mid-50s, while the air temperature was headed up to the 70s for the day.
Out of the blue, an older man wearing a baseball cap from The Citadel stops to talk, explaining he'd graduated from there in the 1960s but had since moved to northern Alabama. We chat briefly.
Watching the sun come up, and out of respect to the day, we plant 50 tiny American flags in the sand and step away, watching as the tides of the English Channel creep back in.
Reach Schuyler Kropf at 937-5551.
On June 6, we leave 50 tiny American flags in the sand on Omaha Beach at sunrise.×
These French-speaking re-enactors meet on Omaha Beach at the time of the landings. They represent the 1st Infantry Division.×
Poppy flowers growing among fields of mustard is a common site in the Normandy countryside.×
French re-enactors go through the motions as American soldiers cleaning out a bunker on Omaha Beach.×
One of more than 9,000 American graves in the U.S. cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach.×


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Webcamgate is the twitter hashtag for the scandal that plagued the lower merion school district after they handed out laptops to all the kids at the school. some dick named blake robbins sued for invasion of privacy because he took pictures of himself doing drugs on his school computer and got in trouble.
#Webcamgate has been trending ever since the story was picked up by the associated press.
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A village where tradition is alive and well, and where rural life is in harmony with nature. Here the mighty mountains are reflected in the deep blue waters of Lake Brienz, and the wild brooks and rivers of the glaciers in the Jungfrau Region unite and come to rest.
Bönigen at Lake Brienz near Interlaken delights visitors with its natural beauty and a myriad of leisure opportunities as well as the excellent tourism infrastruction of the Jungfrau Region and Lake Brienz. The Jungfrau Region has a network of marked hiking trails that extend over 500 kilometers, ranging from easy walks, to adventure trails, to challenging mountain tours and fixed rope routes. The extensive mountain train network of the Jungfrau Railways, with Europe's highest railway station on the Jungfraujoch (3,454 meters above sea level), is one of the highlights of the Jungfrau Region.
Easy, magnificent one to two hour walking tours along the lake, biking along the wild Lütschinen River into the Lauterbrunnen Valley, or gliding at your own pace with a canoe across the lake. Experience the power of the mountain water: revitalizing, invigorating and energizing.
Lake Brienz is one of Switzerland's largest and deepest mountain lakes. It is famous for its impressive play of colors – crystal clear, emerald green and turquoise. What is the secret of this interplay of colors? Is it the sun's rays that cast a magic spell on the lake by trying to penetrate the depth of 260 meters? Do the mighty mountains that are reflected in Lake Brienz impart something extraordinary to this image? Or do the glacial rivers carry the mystical secrets from the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau trio into Lake Brienz?
These questions can best be answered during a visit of Lake Brienz.
- Historic village center of national importance – with narrow lanes and wooden houses decorated with woodcarvings from the 16th - 18th century.
- Cruises on Lake Brienz – with the "Lötschberg", a renovated steamer from the year 1914.
- "Trail of the Three Waterfalls" – from Bönigen to Iseltwald, past the Erschwanden and Mülibach Waterfalls up to the Giessbach Falls.
- Two-Lakes Footbridge – viewing platform on the Harder Kulm with a view over Lake Brienz and Lake Thun.
- Panorama Trail Schynige Platte – one of the most beautiful panoramic paths in the Bernese Oberland with magnificent vistas of Lake Brienz and Lake Thun as well as the Bernese Alps, with a view of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau mountain trio.
- Top of Europe – Jungfraujoch, Europe's highest train station, located at 3,454 meters above sea level, with a high alpine wonderworld of ice, snow and rock.
- Canoe ride – at your own pace across the crystal clear Lake Brienz
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- Unit: 4B
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- Price: $685,000
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- Taxes: $27
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Located in prime South Williamsburg territory, 199 South Street is a boutique condominium that blends high-design and incomparable style. In addition to the exciting location and easy lifestyle, this residence also comes with a 25-year tax abatement to enhance the value.
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Church in South Carolina that is on fire for Christ. They use video clips, personal stories, live bands, and great preaching in real language to teach the Bible and salvation.
My family went to NewSpring and met Jesus. Now our lives are filled with joy.
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cultish church in South Carolina which uses mind control and repetitive sermons intermixed with pop/rock music to draw its followers
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Fiesch is situated on a low hill on the sunny side of the valley of the upper Rhone, where it is met by the Fiescher valley. In the old part of the village you can see the typical weathered houses of the Valais. In the heart of the forest on the edge of the village is the well-known "Fiesch Sport and Leisure Centre", offering accommodation for groups, professional and amateur sportsmen and women, and numerous sport and leisure facilities such as an indoor pool, sports halls, outdoor climbing wall etc.
Fiesch is one of the family-friendly Swiss resorts to have been awarded the "Families Welcome" seal of quality.
In summer the Aletsch resorts of Fiesch, Fiescheralp, Bettmeralp, Riederalp and Belalp offer a pleasant walking area close to the Aletsch Glacier in the UNESCO natural World Heritage Site of the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch.
From spring right through to autumn, the holiday destinations of Fiesch – Fieschertal – Lax offer you the most beautiful high-altitude walks, glacier crossings and breathtaking views of the surrounding Alps. Rest and relaxation go hand in hand with a varied and action-packed cultural and sports programme. Families with children will definitely get their money's worth in this holiday destination. Attractions vary from discovery tours in the animal park to exciting film shows to hikes with the dwarfs.
The region around Fiesch is a paradise on earth for mountaineers and hikers. There are innumerable mountain tours, over 100 kilometres of hiking paths and 100 kilometres of mountain bike trails where you can experience the unique mountain scenery and regain your strength. The most popular tourist destination is the Eggishorn at 2927 m, reached by cable-car from Fiesch. The walk is called "From the ice to the water" and takes you in four hours down to the Fiescheralp. From the small but charming Märjelensee, walkers enjoy a wonderful view of the nearby ice-sheet of the Aletsch Glacier.
And if you're looking for something more exclusive – you definitely won't get bored paragliding at Fiescheralp.
Todos adoram vir a este resort de esportes de inverno porque aqui não falta neve. Desfrute da neve em mais de 99 km de pistas! A área de esqui de Aletsch Arena oferece recursos para iniciantes, especialistas e conhecedores. Rampas para iniciantes, snowparks, halfpipes e pistas noturnas iluminadas. Aqueles em busca de desafios maiores podem experimentar seu próprio êxtase de adrenalina nas três pistas para estilo livre, em Fiescheralp. A propósito, os instrutores de esqui conhecem alguns percursos de pista livre começando em Eggishorn e indo até a Geleira Aletsch, e até além. Amantes do esqui nórdico podem alcançar a maravilhosa região de férias de Goms, com 100 km de pistas inclinadas de esqui nórdico.
Há muita coisa para se fazer também se você prefere dar passeios na neve. O platô de Aletsch, apropriado para toda a família, oferece 72 quilômetros de trilhas de inverno muito bem mantidas. E se você está buscando um pouco de variedade, por que não se aventurar nas pistas de tobogã? Elas têm 13 quilômetros de comprimento, indo desde Fiescheralp até Lax, vale abaixo.
- Eggishorn – from the summit, at 2927 m, beautiful views over the whole length of the Aletsch Glacier, the smaller Fiescher Glacier and the mighty peaks of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau right as far as the Matterhorn.
- Huge Aletsch Glacier – the largest glacier in the Alps, 23 kilometres long, 27 billion tonnes of ice, the high point of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Jungfrau-Aletsch.
- Fieschertal – a spick-and-span village consisting of seven hamlets, with fine views up to the Fiescher glacier, a vast area including most of the Aletsch Glacier and extending as far as the Mönch and the Jungfrau.
- Binntal – a side valley of the Rhone valley near Fiesch, unspoilt nature, a walker's paradise with the largest mineral reserves in Europe.
- Goms – a sunny upland valley in the Upper Valais, with unspoilt villages clustered round white churches, a cross-country skiing paradise in winter.
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- Aletsch Half Marathon – in the week before the Half Marathon there is a training week on the Bettmeralp, led by professionals and aimed primarily at amateur runners (June).
- Aletsch Alpine Open-Air Film Festival – less well-known films are shown at Riederfurka, with a backdrop of snow-capped peaks and the full moon (July).
- Riederalp Alpine Festival – big alpine festival with procession (August).
- "Gratzugnacht" beside the Märjelensee – spooky full moon event based on the legend of the Gratzug, where the traditions of witches, goblins and dwarves (Gogwärgini) are revived (August).
- Big Advent market – Christmas market in Fiesch (November).


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It is a wall hung appliance, similar to a conventional gas boiler, which uses a Free Piston Stirling Engine to generate up to 1kW of electricity that can be used in your home.� Maximum cost savings can be achieved by using the electricity from the Baxi Ecogen as you generate it. For example, you could do your washing or ironing in the evening while your heating is on.
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Fostering Innovation in Collaboration between Higher Education and Industry. A Systemic Model Based on Case Study
Laine, Kari
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2010-11-26
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication; 929
University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Technology Management
Department: Tampere University of Technology, Pori
This research focuses on collaboration between higher education and industry in connection to innovation and entrepreneurship creation. Competitiveness of firms, regions and nations depends on their innovativeness. Higher education fosters innovation and entrepreneurship by producing knowledge that sums to the existing knowledge of industry. There is a gap in research in combining entrepreneurial university research to the other mainstream theories. This research fills the gap by linking it to innovation management theory. It focuses on practical collaboration models between higher education and industry and creates a systemic model based on innovation management theories. In this research the regional context is Satakunta region in Finland. It has a rich, diverse industrial base and has experienced a structural change and has been able to sustain its competitiveness. Satakunta University of Applied Sciences is used as a higher education case study and case firms are from automation, ICT and knowledge intensive business service sectors. The research is a constructive qualitative research where models are created and tested. Experimentation gives insights to the developed models and their application. According to the research the systemic innovation management approach should be used in fostering innovation between higher education and industry. In this approach strategy, partnerships, dynamic networks, knowledge creation and combination, and created knowledge intensive firms, are important. The co-creation of innovations requires new completing combinations of knowledge. Knowledge intensive business firms started by students have an important role in interaction as innovators and in the transfer of knowledge. Actions based on a strategy create a sustainable basis for fostering innovation. Collaboration can develop into partnerships between actors. Teachers and students are a central resource. Considering students as equal actors means that students can grow into partnership with higher education. The research has implications both for theory and practice. The created models can be utilised in management of interaction and creation of innovations and entrepreneurship in collaboration between higher education and firms.
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A person who has a sudden love for the band 5 Seconds Of Summer after hearing their "first" song She Looks So Perfect.
Pronounced 5-es-oh-es.
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Girl1: OMFG I JUST LISTENED TO 5 ES OH ES NEW SONG SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT! IM THEIR #1 FAN 5SOSER FOR LIFE!
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burls! that chic is ugly!
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noun- an assortment of objects collected by an individual. A colloquialism native to the Skagit valley located in northwest Washington state, popularized by twenty-somethings during the early twenty-first century.
I went over there and he was just sitting, sorting thru his burl with a wild look in his eye.
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Anything has the potential to be burl. A man being eaten by a shark is burl. a guy with huge biceps is burl. someone who is really ugly is burl.
Damn dude Amanda Johnsons face is fucking burl.
My mom fucking took my dank..it was burl
dude, johnny just got burled by jose.
My mom fucking took my dank..it was burl
dude, johnny just got burled by jose.
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To give something a go
Dave: we should try out the new motor
Jesz: ok, let's give it a burl
Jesz: ok, let's give it a burl
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When dinkleberrys get caught in pube hair that is all dried and frizzed up.
I heard you licked samantha's burls
yea it was disgusting
yea it was disgusting
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Derived from the Tumwater term, "Go Burls", it's synonymous with "awesome" or any other term of praise.
Did you see that touchdown run? That was so Burls!
Man, that dude is so Burls!
We pwned them, it was so Burls!
Man, that dude is so Burls!
We pwned them, it was so Burls!
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To give something a go. To put something through its paces.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
On Saturday, May 4, the Arthritis Foundation will hold the 2013 Charleston Arthritis Walk, presented by Trident Pain Center, which is a nationwide signature event that raises funds and awareness to fight arthritis. This year, Arthritis Foundation will honor the Medical University of South Carolina Pediatric Rheumatologist Natasha Ruth, MD, as the Medical Honoree, Melissa Whaley as the Pediatric Honoree and in memory of Linda Klomparens, who will be celebrated as an Honoree. The Arthritis Walk celebrates National Arthritis Month in more than 300 communities nationwide to fund arthritis research, health education and government advocacy initiatives.
Melissa Whaley, 14 years old, woke up one Saturday in May of 2000 with a limp. By Monday, her leg was stiff. She was only 15 months old. The doctor said it was a toddler fracture that would heal in about two weeks, but her condition got worse.
In July 2000, she was diagnosed with JRA. Her parents were referred to MUSC. She had to sleep with braces on her legs and wrist. She is now doing great and is very active in sports of all kinds.
For Whaley's strength, Arthritis Foundation honors her.
Linda Klomparens' battle with RA began in 1978 with joint pain in her hands. In the spring of 1980, she was diagnosed with RA at Mayo Clinic. She had joint replacements in 1985 and 1986 in both hands.
With the help of great doctors, Klomparens had several years of lessened pain. But as years went on, her pain and inflammation became more severe. Klomparens was hospitalized in February of 2012 and lost her courageous 32-year-battle with RA from respiratory complications in April 2012.
For being brave and always remaining hopeful, Arthritis Foundation celebrates her life.
Melissa Whaley is only one reason why participating in Arthritis Walks is very important. Nearly 300,000 children in the United States have some sort of arthritis. This disease can affect children as early as a year old. Without treatment, arthritis can interfere with a child's normal growth and development. There is currently no cure for arthritis, only a series of treatments that aim to control and prevent further damage to the joints and other tissues.
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"Duce's Juice" can be attributed to El Duce, the alcoholic drummer and vocalist of the Mentors, a Metal/Punk band. The Mentors gained fame in the 1980s for their lyrics which usually dealt with sex and heavy alcohol/drug use. El Duce was quite fond of Malt Liquour. In one "zine" interview, he claimed to have consumed 18 forty ounce containers of Malt Liquor in a sitting. In April 1997, he was hit and killed by a train, while apparently intoxicated.
Friday after work, I went to my local liquor store to get three forties of Duce's Juice. It only cost me eight bucks and within two hours, I was figuratively flying over my damn house.
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Hymns features beautiful renditions of sacred music from this celebrated songwriter. Most selections come from Roman liturgy, with two pieces sung in English, and one original, "Hymn to Mary." Some pieces are performed a cappella, while others feature sparce accompaniment from harps, cello, and classical guitar. The album is an awe-inspiring collection of traditional classics.
1. Ave Verum Corpus
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NIAGARA FALLS – New plans call for the Robert Moses Parkway to be dramatically altered at the entrance to Niagara Falls State Park.
A two-lane road, nature trails and public access points will replace much of the existing freeway, State Parks officials said Friday.
The plan would slow traffic and connect people to the water after decades of cutting them off from it.
"Robert Moses did some good things, but this was not one of them," said Sam Hoyt, regional president of Empire State Development.
"It doesn't say 'Come to the waterfront' by having an expressway there."
The project could cost as much as $20 million, and state officials have just $5 million allocated at this point.
But they believe the plan could receive money from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's billion-dollar Buffalo fund.
The billion-dollar plan calls for Niagara Falls State Park to offer new ways for tourists to hike, bike, rock-climb and interact with nature.
And the new Moses plan, they say, allows pedestrians to do just that.
Tourists who once had to follow a complicated maze to get to the water would now be directed to three new access points.
Those areas would allow people to cross the parkway at Fourth Street, Riverside Drive and near the upper rapids.
Joggers and walkers would then have access to a new web of trails that stretch along the water's edge.
New pull-off parking areas would also be installed before the entrance to the park to direct motorists to the trails.
"There's been a clamoring for improved waterfront access," said Niagara Falls Mayor Paul A. Dyster.
He added, "We want to see the river, be able to use the river. We don't want to feel like we're criminals to use the water."
A new traffic circle at John B. Daly Boulevard would slow traffic, creating a true low-speed parkway like the one in Niagara Falls, Ont.
That entire area would be lowered, removing an embankment that walled off many of the city's homes from what would have been a waterfront view.
The new plan is the latest chapter of a long history of unsuccessful attempts to reverse the work of Moses, the state's "master builder."
The new plan will be available for public viewing from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Conference Center Niagara Falls, 101 Old Falls St.
A final design will be developed next year, with construction expected to begin in 2014.
New designs for the northern section of the parkway, between Niagara Falls and Lewiston, will be released in January.
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Lowering the somatic cell count (SCC) limit has received a lot of press lately, but reducing SCC has many benefits for dairy producers regardless of regulations. Higher premiums and improved cow health are just a few of the advantages. So, what are some of the best ways to reach a lower SCC?
"Lowering herd SCC requires a systematic approach and the use of good herd records, including monthly individual cow SCC testing, bulk tank and individual cow culturing, and excellent on-farm observations," said Jeff Reneau, D.V.M., from the University of Minnesota at the recent Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference.
Dr. Reneau provided not only insight on ways to lower SCC, but offered tools to help farmers identify problems. A milk quality self-assessment test, click here, asks questions about various management practices from bedding type and condition to udder preparation. After finishing the test, a score is given showing how your farm measures up on milk quality.
Also available from the University of Minnesota Extension is a spreadsheet that uses average bulk tank SCC values and ranges from one pickup to the next to estimate the probability your bulk tank SCC will hit the 400,000 mark. It is quite possible that, even if the average bulk tank SCC on farm is under 200,000 the variation from pickup to pickup is enough for that bulk tank SCC to go over 400,000 about one-third of the time.


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Throughout the year, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa creates many exclusive and fun events for our guests to enjoy. The town of Ojai also hosts a steady stream of cultural events, culinary delights, concerts, and festivals. Check out what's happening in Ojai California, and at Ojai Valley Inn & Spa!
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To be caught in an embarrasing predicament, to do something or to act in a heavy handed and clumsy manor.
'I felt such an ompse yesterday'
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to make a fool of oneself or fumble over a task. or to create an embarassing situation.
whilst teetering down the road in her 5 inch stilettos, the girl got one foot stuck in a drain, she made an ompse.
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