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It just so happens that April is National Grilled Cheese Month. Do you have your favorite grilled cheese recipes ready?
I fully subscribe to the belief that a good grilled cheese sandwich is as close to food nirvana as you can get. There is something perfectly right about grilled cheese — crisp, buttery, creamy. How can you go wrong?
Whether your tastes lean towards the standard white bread, butter, and American cheese slices — or you're a bit more adventurous and like your grilled cheese to pop, surprise, entice, and shock with the combination of flavors and textures — this is the month for you.
I've collected 30 grilled cheese recipes from some of my friends and favorite food bloggers to help you celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month in the most delicious way, from Green Eggs and Ham Grilled Cheese to Strawberries Grilled with Mascarpone, all the way to a Pepperoni Pizza Grilled Cheese. These recipes will have your mouth watering, and have you jumping into the kitchen to get your cheese on.
Sweet Pear and Rosemary Honey with Havarti Grilled Cheese 1 of 30Sweet and savory is always a winning combination, and this Pear and Havarti Grilled Cheese from Foodie Crush looks like the perfect combination of taste and texture. Get the Recipe on Foodie Crush
Spinach Artichoke Grilled Cheese 2 of 30Spinach and Artichoke Grilled Cheese - I don't really think anything else needs to be said. Spinach and Artichoke Grilled Cheese recipe from Foodie Crush
Parmesan Crusted Pesto Grilled Cheese 3 of 30Maria and Josh had me at Parmesan Crusted... paired with pesto and this sandwich is out of this world tempting.Get the recipe at Two Peas and Their Pod
Italian Grilled Cheese 4 of 30Ooey gooey melted cheese and Italian Seasonings are a match made in heaven. This delightful twist on Grilled Cheese is sure the have you singing "that's amore' Get the Recipe on Chocolate and Carrots
BBQ Pork, Guacamole Grilled Cheese 5 of 30Oh Carrian, how do I love this BBQ Pork, Guacamole grilled cheese... let me count the ways. You're speaking directly to my Texas heart with BBQ pulled pork and guacamole. Get The Recipe from Oh Sweet Basil
Grilled Cheese with Thyme and French Onion Soup 6 of 30Fresh herbs and creamy melted cheeses. Robyn nailed this recipe, and as an added bonus - a delicious French Onion Soup Recipe Get the recipe on Add a Pinch
Loaded Baked Potato Grilled Cheese 7 of 30If you've ever wanted a hand held loaded baked potato - here it is. A Loaded Baked Potato in sandwich form. Get the recipe on A Southern Fairytale
Pulled Pork and Beer Cheese Grilled Sandwich 8 of 30My dad's family is from Kentucky - and beer cheese is a Kentucky staple. Every time we go back, we get Beer Cheese and this Pulled Pork and Beer Cheese Grilled Cheese is like a siren song to my southern heart. Recipe from How Sweet Eats
Sweet Corn Grilled cheese with Smoked Gouda, Scallions, and Chile Butter 9 of 30This sandwich is over the top with sweet corn, smoked gouda, chile butter and scallions. The title alone is mouth watering. Get the recipe from Panini Happy
Grilled Mac and Cheese with Pulled Pork 10 of 30This is a southern girl's dream - two southern staples grilled and combined into one hand held delight. Kathy knocked it out of the park with this Grilled Mac and Cheese with Pulled Pork. Recipe from Panini Happy
Grilled Veggies and Pesto Panini Grilled Cheese 11 of 30This is a delightfully green grilled cheese with grilled veggies and pesto. Recipe from Tales of an Over Time Cook
Bacon, Basil, and Tomato Grilled Cheese 12 of 30This is like a BLT gone wild. Bacon, fresh basil and Tomato all combined with melted cheese and a crispy crust. mmmmmmmmmmm Get the recipe from Cooking on The Weekends
Cheddar Apple Pie Grilled Cheese 13 of 30When this recipe came across my screen, I gasped. A Grilled Apple Pie Cheddar Cheese.... Y'all have to try this! Get the recipe on The Hungry Couple
Heirloom Tomato, Avocado Grilled Cheese 14 of 30Fresh heirloom tomatoes, sliced avocados, creamy cheese and sourdough bread. This is a grilled cheese that will make you happy Get the recipe from Fifteen Spatulas
Caramelized Onion Grilled Cheese 15 of 30Talk about over the top delicious! Caramelized onions and cheese all grilled together in one delicious concoction!!! Recipe from $5 Dollar Dinners
Bacon Pretzel Grilled Cheese 16 of 30This is a stop-you-in-your-tracks sandwich. Bacon and Pretzels and Cheese. Recipe from Noble Pig
White Pizza Grilled Cheese 17 of 30Out of control cheesy, ooey, gooey, cheesy, garlicky - this white pizza grilled cheese is not for the faint of heart. Get the recipe from Kitchen Treaty
Grilled Cheese with Green Garlic Butter, Tomatoes, and Avocado 18 of 30Green goodness is all over this grilled cheese with green garlic butter, and avocados. Get the recipe from Chezus
Ultimate Grilled Cheese with Pesto 19 of 30With a name like Ultimate Grilled Cheese with Pesto, it had to be included in this round up! Get the recipe from In Erika's Kitchen
Green Eggs and Ham Grilled Cheese 20 of 30I would eat this on a boat, I would eat this with a goat, I would eat this while crossing a moat. I love the idea of a grilled breakfast sandwich, and this one has such a fun theme to go with it. Get the recipe on Simply Recipes
Double Grilled Cheese Grilled Cheese 21 of 30Double Grilled and Double Cheesed - this is a wonderful addition to the over the top round up! Get The Recipe from Cookistry
Chipotle Avocado Grilled Cheese 22 of 30Chipotles and Avocados and Cheese.. oh my! Smoky, Spicy, Creamy.... mmmmm Get the recipe on Bakeaholic Mama
Farmers Grilled Cheese Sandwich 23 of 30Fresh crisp sliced apples and creamy cheeses - this is a textural and flavorful palate pleaser! Get the recipe from The Lemon Bowl
Pepperoni Pizza Grilled Cheese 24 of 30I love folding giant pizza slices in half and making pizza sandwiches, so this pepperoni pizza grilled cheese is a great idea and would be a fun twist on Pizza Friday! Get the recipe from Never Enough Thyme
Buffalo Shrimp Grilled Cheese 25 of 30Buffalo Shrimp and creamy cheese! POW! Spicy, crispy, ooey-gooey.. This is definitely a one two punch to the taste buds! Get the recipe from Snappy Gourmet
Cheddar, Pickled Turnips, Shredded Vegetables, and Hummus Grilled Cheese 26 of 30Bold unique flavors like pickled turnips and shredded veggies and hummus made this grilled cheese a must for inclusion! Get The Recipe From Farm Fresh Feasts
Strawberry Mascarpone Grilled Cheese 27 of 30Strawberries, Mascarpone and Cake. This would be perfect for breakfast or dessert or late night snack. This isn't your everyday grilled cheese - this is a work of culinary art. Get the recipe from Bakeaholic Mama
Monica's Indian Express Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich 28 of 30This might be the most out of the ordinary grilled cheese in the list, but is definitely one that I'll be trying. I love the idea of spicy indian flavors combined in a traditional american childhood comfort food Get the recipe from A Life of Spice/a>
Gluten Free Tropical Inspired Grilled Cheese 29 of 30Tropical Flavors and Gluten Free Bread - this is a sandwich direct from an island paradise. Get the recipe from This Mama Cooks
Beets and Fennel Pollen Mayo Grilled Cheese 30 of 30The purple from the beets makes this sandwich really stand out from the crowd! Get the recipe from The Hungry Goddess


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Carlisle Area School District is interested in purchasing the former Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Building at 540 W. North St. to improve safety and consolidate the district's maintenance, operational and transportation departments.
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How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires
First of a five-part series
The history of fire in the American Southwest is buried in a catacomb of rooms under the bleachers of the football stadium at the University of Arizona.
Here rules professor Thomas Swetnam, tree ring expert. You want to read a tree ring? You go to Tom. He's a big, burly guy with a beard and a true love for trees.
Tree sections are stacked floor to ceiling. They're like rounds chopped from a carrot, the carrot being a tree trunk. They're the size of dinner plates. When the football team scores, they rattle on their shelves.
Growth rings tell how old the sectioned tree was. But when Swetnam holds up one, he points to something else: fire scars. They're black marks, about the size of a fingernail clipping, left by fires.
"The first time here, back in the 1600s, it looks like, and it created a wound there. Basically the fire was hot enough to burn through the bark," he says. But the fire wasn't hot enough to kill the tree. So the next few rings show normal growth.
"Until the next fire occurs, and it creates another scar," he says. "And another, and another, and another, and another, and another."
Scars from thousands of sections show how often fires burned in the Southwest. It was every five or 10 years, mostly — small fires that consumed grass and shrubs and small seedlings, but left the big Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir just fine. This was the norm.
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Hide captionUniversity of Arizona professor Tom Swetnam examines a tree sample at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in Tucson, Ariz. Swetnam's research focuses on understanding how forest fires are influenced by climate change.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionSwetnam holds a tree ring sample; it shows no forest fire scars from the past 100 years. The Forest Service's aggressive efforts to fight fires over the past century have had unintended consequences.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionA tree's rings are marked on graph paper. Experts use this technique, called skeleton plotting, to help them cross-date tree-ring samples. This sample evinces no fire scars in the latest years of the tree's life.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionRex Adams, a senior research specialist at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, steps away from a band saw that he uses to slice tree ring samples.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionTree-ring samples are collected from every corner of the world and meticulously studied and stored in Swetnam's lab. The thick, dark rings on these samples are fire scars. Last year, more than 74,000 wildfires burned over 8.7 million acres in the U.S.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionSwetnam stands in the catacombs of storage boxes that house thousands of tree-ring samples. His laboratory is buried under the bleachers of the University of Arizona football stadium.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionA perfect tree-ring slice is a window in time, a slice of a forest's history.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionBy cross-dating different tree-ring samples from a given area, researchers can get a clearer picture of how a forest burns.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionAdams (left) talks with Swetnam in their laboratory, nestled under the football stadium.David Gilkey/NPR
Hide captionSwetnam leaves his laboratory for the evening. Fires in the Southwest have been getting bigger and bigger over the past two decades. The Wallow fire in Arizona, Swetnam says, was "a tornado of fire." "It burned more than 40,000 acres in the first eight hours," he says.David Gilkey/NPR
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"Around 1890 or 1900, it stops," Swetnam says. "We call it the Smokey Bear effect."
Settlers brought livestock that ate the grass, so fires had little fuel. Then when the U.S. Forest Service was formed, its marching orders were "no fires."
And it was the experts who approved the all-out ban on fires in the Southwest. They got it wrong.
That's the view of fire historian Stephen Pyne.
"The irony here is that the argument for setting these areas aside as national forests and parks was, to a large extent, to protect them from fire," Pyne says. "Instead, over time they became the major habitat for free-burning fire."
So instead of a few dozen trees per acre, the Southwestern mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah are now choked with trees of all sizes, and grass and shrubs. Essentially, it's fuel.
And now fires are burning bigger and hotter. They're not just damaging forests — they're wiping them out. Last year, more than 74,000 wildfires burned over 8.7 million acres in the U.S.
That included the huge Wallow Fire in Arizona.
"It burned more than 40,000 acres in the first eight hours," says Swetnam, the tree ring expert. "A tornado of fire."
Fires in the Southwest have been getting bigger and bigger over the past two decades.
"Now the fire behaviors are just off the charts," Swetnam says. "I mean, they are extraordinary. Actually, I think in some cases, they're fire behavior that probably these forests haven't seen in millennia or maybe even tens of thousands of years."
Over the past several years, even as fewer fires have struck the Southwest, they've burned more land. The U.S. Forest Service now spends about half its budget on firefighting.
Many fire experts embrace controlled, or "prescribed," fires — purposely set fires that do the cleanup job that small natural fires once did. It takes the tinder out of the tinder box.
But people have built homes and towns close to forests; they don't like the smoke, and prescribed burns sometimes get out of control. The Cerro Grande Fire in New Mexico in 2000 was a controlled fire — until it jumped fire lines and destroyed hundreds of homes.
I talked to veteran fire manager William Armstrong of the U.S. Forest Service about that, sitting on a ridge near Santa Fe, where he has done prescribed burns himself. Armstrong says people must accept fire in their lives.
"Large blocks of forest — if they want those — then what they must understand is that fire is inevitable," he says.
He says to save forests from total annihilation — and the wildlife and water supplies they protect — you have to set some fires and let some natural fires burn.
"The choice is not whether or not these forests burn," Armstrong says. "The choice is how they burn. What kind of intensity are we going to see those burn at?"
But as fire experts like Craig Allen, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in New Mexico, are now discovering, fire is increasingly out of their control.
"Basically, the mountains in the Southwest — you can almost think of them as caskets of fuel," Allen says. "Gunpowder has been building up in these things for a century, and now it's dangerous to try to defuse."


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Geology buffs to seek tsunami data around Whidbey
Each year there are 317 earthquakes within 35 miles of Coupeville.
This factoid, offered by local oceanographer Jim Rich, shows the instability of Whidbey Island's geologic makeup. While most of these earthquakes are too small to notice, if an event is large enough it could trigger local landslides and even tsunamis.
"The one thing you don't want to do is overstate the threat," Rich said. "You don't want to understate it either. You want to hit it right on the head."
Rich, a volunteer with the county's Department of Emergency Management, presented this information to county commissioners this month as part of a push to research Whidbey Island's history of tsunamis.
A team comprised of local scientists and volunteers, along with state and national experts, will be starting research in Crescent Harbor and Dugualla Bay July 8-17.
"This is big," said Eric Brooks, deputy director of the Department of Emergency Management. "We hope it's the first of many."
Researchers from Central Washington University, University of Washington and the U.S. Geographical Survey will be visiting Oak Harbor during the July event to survey the areas and take samples from the land, marshes and beaches.
A 2004 study of the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, found extensive tsunami flooding in some areas as a result of a fault shift in the open ocean, according to Brandman University geology professor Ward Beebe.
In the Pacific Northwest, an open ocean tsunami will most likely be linked to the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an area the length of Washington and Oregon where the Juan de Fuca plate is pushing underneath the North American plate 100 miles off the West Coast.
The 2004 study showed that at some point in its geological history, a tsunami occurred and left the eastern strait deposits. In addition, other researchers have found tsunami deposits in Swantown Marsh, Beebe said.
However, there is still a lot to be discovered about the tsunami history within Puget Sound.
"There's still a lot we don't know about the geology of this area," Beebe said.
While research has been done on the effects the Cascadia Subduction Zone could have on Western Washington, very little has been done specific to Whidbey Island until recently, according to Rich.
"There's some good things to come out of this," Rich said. "No one's done any work here."
Data from a geological symposium held on Whidbey last year shows that the island has four fault systems running through it.
The South Whidbey Fault system is comprised of three parallel faults running southwest through the width of the South End; the Darrington-Devil's Mountain fault runs through the north tip of Whidbey; the Strawberry Point Fault runs across the thickest part of north Whidbey and branches out through Strawberry Point; and the Utsalady Point Fault runs southwest through Oak Harbor to the tip of Camano Island.
Rich said that these smaller fault systems can be triggered by larger earthquakes or shift all on their own. The effect can go completely unnoticed, as is common, or could potentially cause landslides or tsunamis between the islands.
"There's a potential of tsunamis from faults within the Sound," agreed Beebe. "But we're not likely going to get the same effect. I would think they would be much smaller."
The data collected in July should start to help researchers form a picture of Whidbey's tsunami risk, and how to manage it, Rich said. Soil, sand and peat samples will be taken to an Accelerator Mass Spectrometry lab in Bothell for Carbon dating.
In addition to the academic researchers involved, Island County emergency management will partner with the Coupeville Lion's Club, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, the City of Oak Harbor, the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, Candlewood Suites and Boy Scout Troops 57 and 58.
However, Rich said, the group is still seeking additional funding and manpower to complete the research project.
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i think he missed bh6 but you get the idea he was trying to convey
If,after Re3, then Bh6 would white simply double his rooks on the e-file and allow black to take his rook on e3? Surely this would be very bad for black since white retains his dark-squared bishop and,after white recaptures on e3,the dark squares around black's king are very weak.
in the critical position, where you say Kf1 was a blunder to protect the rook on e1, if Re3 was played instead, why can't play reply with Bh6?
Good analysis, gives me some ideas how to choose better squares.
"This is 100% defensive. This is 100% offensive."
Stated so simply but yet such a powerful lesson. If I was in that game I don't know that my mind would have gone to moving the rook up like that yet after you show it, it becomes so obvious.
Great point you made and hopefully it triggers something in my brain to make me look for such possibilities in my own games.
Very good analysis but what happens if Black plays Bh6 instead of Qf6 for Re3 instead of Kf1
well..there are many possibility...but good
Thank You Roman.....extremely well done. I loved the part where you explained why black's advanced queenside pawns were more valuable than white's two center pawns! Until this, I would have thought the opposite. It's true that you must understand the concrete characteristics of every position to understand fully.
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Thanks for the entertaining video. more power and hope to see more videos ahead!
Thanks GM Roman Dzindzichashvili.
the bishop maneuver to blockade the white queenside pawns really is helpfull, because that shows black has nothing to fear from white's queen getting to the queenside.
The postion were the king to f1 is bad and the rook has to protect itself by moving to e3 was especially informative to me. I liked your approach of explaining why a move was bad and what move would have been better...
Great video, but what a pathetic game. How could Black miss h5...
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Great video thanks.
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In this highly interesting Member Analysis video, two of our stronger members face off for a hard fought battle! Dzindzi provides the usual frankly critical, and very entertaining analysis for our enjoyment along the way. When our members head for an Opposite Colored Bishop ending, it seems as though the game is about to fizzle out for an easy draw... Not so fast, Dzindzi!
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You may not have noticed but down here along the upper Gulf Coast we've been preoccupied in the last few weeks with a small celebration of sorts.
We are entering the final home stretch to Mardi Gras Day and that means folks are whooping it up with abandon in anticipation of the big day. In Mobile, where this silly little party originated in the New World, there will be parades (usually more than one) every night until midnight on Fat Tuesday when it all comes to a screeching halt.
Between now and then there will be countless parties, galas, debuts, balls, cotillions, street-side parties and backyard gatherings, all in the name of fun and revelry.
The whole thing may seem foreign to a folks unaccustomed to the merriment. Your working boy has endeavored in the past week or so to educate those unschooled in the ways of the Mardi Gras and if I've been able to do anything, I hope that I've been able to show that food is a huge part of party.
While the parades and the other more familiar trappings of the party are well known, I contend offer to you that food, dining and the fellowship that goes with it are as much a part of the party as anything else.
Like just about everything else down here in the humid subtropics, we do things a little differently and Mardi Gras is just one example. Another is in the food that accompanies the big gala. As rule, we usually like it all spicy-like and packed with flavor.
It only makes sense. If you're planning a party with all the trappings of the season then you just a well include a bit of spice to make it more authentic.
I propose that there is no better way to celebrate the season than with a healthy dollop of spicy, grilled shrimp and sausage. The weather is starting to warm up here so it is the perfect way to mark the season than with this excellent recipe from our friends at Tabasco.
No matter where you live, it's a good excuse to see what all the fuss is about.
Spicy Grilled Shrimp & Sausage Skewers with Creole Mustard Dipping Sauce
Makes 6 servings
Creole Mustard Dipping Sauce
1/3 cup Creole mustard or stone-ground mustard
1 tablespoon orange marmalade
2 teaspoons Tabasco Original Red Sauce
2 bunches scallions
1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 pound Andouille sausage (see note)
2 tablespoons Tabasco Original Red Sauce
Soak skewers completely in water at least 30 minutes. Make dipping sauce by combining mustard, orange marmalade and Tabasco Sauce in small bowl. Set aside.
Preheat grill or broiler.
Divide scallions into individual strips. Blanch strips in boiling water for 30 seconds. Drain skewers. Thread 2 shrimp and 1 sausage slice onto each skewer, twisting a scallion strip around each skewer. Repeat with remaining skewers, shrimp, sausage and scallions. Brush shrimp with Tabasco Sauce.
Place skewers on grill. Grill 5 to 8 minutes, turning once until shrimp are cooked through.
Serve with dipping sauce.
Note: Andouille is a chunky, smoky, spicy sausage from Louisiana. If you can't find it in your local grocery store, any smoked sausage will work. Andouille is best, though, if you can find it.


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North Syracuse Central School District has canceled all outdoor activities between 3 and 6:30 p.m. All athletic practices in the Liverpool Central School District will be moved indoors.
Also, in the Liverpool school district, boys golf is canceled and the girls junior varsity tennis match versus Oswego is canceled. The girls and boys varsity cross country meet has been postponed until Thursday.
Meteorologist Dave Eichorn reported hot and humid weather conditions for today with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. The high will be 91 to 94 degrees.
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People whose marriages are less than two years old at the time of their approval for a green card or entry to the U.S. receive conditional green cards, which expire in two years.
Ten Things to Know About Conditional Permanent Residency Based on Marriage to a U.S. CitizenUnderstanding the two-year immigration testing period for new marriages.
Conditional Residence and TravelConditional residents' rights to travel outside the U.S. and return.
Eligibility & Process for Removing Conditional Resident StatusHow conditional U.S. residents can prove that they deserve to convert to permanent residents.
When Do I Need to Use an I-751 Form?Who needs to file Form I-751 to convert from conditional to permanent residence, and by when.
Petition to Remove the Conditions of Residence (I-751)How to fill out the primary form used to convert from conditional to permanent U.S. residence in a marriage case.
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A panel of Baton Rouge principals will speak Wednesday about what they would like to see in terms of education reform.
Many local principals spoke out against recent legislative efforts to overhaul the district. In particular, they testified against a bill backed by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber that would have given principals more autonomy, and said they didn't need or want the autonomy the legislation provided.
One Community, One School District is hosting Wednesday's meeting to "give parents and community leaders the opportunity to learn what principals from a cross-section of public schools believe is needed to actually improve student achievement in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System."
The group did not specify which principals will be speaking.
The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the large meeting room at the Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Boulevard.


text: This is not sounding promising for pullup bars. On the positive side, I realized out in the back yard we have this pole thing that supports a hanging hammock chair. I can use that! Problem solved, except for the not being able to do any pullups at all, not even close.


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Despite acknowledging that all the old military ordnance may not have been recovered from the sands of Surf City and Ship Bottom beaches, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's safe to hit the sand, probably by Friday.
The munitions came ashore on Long Beach Island in sand grabbed from the ocean floor and used to replenish the two beaches. It's possible the old ordnance, some dating back to World War I, had been dumped before ocean dumping was outlawed in the 1970s.
According to KYW Newsradio, once local and state officials give their approval, the beaches will be good to go -- although visitors should expect a ban on digging more than a foot and using metal detectors.


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Is anybody else here looking forward to download the Streets of Rage and Golden Axe games?
nes: contra, metroid, baby boomer, predator and mike tysons punch out
Snes: super metroid, earhbound, the illusion of time, the legend of zelda: a link to the past super mario world 1 and 2 kirbys dreamland, ghouls n ghosts, starwing, donkey kong country 1,2 and 3 and maybe the lawnmower man.
N64: donkey kong 64, diddy kong racer, starshot, lylat wars, banjo kazoozie1 and 2.
sega: super hang on, toejam and earl and mortal kombat
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I am leader of the Super Metroid fanclub
Is anybody else here looking forward to download the Streets of Rage and Golden Axe games?
yes i am looking forward to golden axe and streets of rage but if i can get a copy of them for my genesis i wont download it ... i have half of the sonic games just need #2 and sonic and knuckles
Wii setup: 1 Wii console, 2 Wii motes, 2 Nunchuck attachments, and Wii sports
Wii owner since friday the 13th july 2007
Nintendo Fanboy: 39%Sony Fanboy: 43%Microsoft Fanboy: 36%
This means you're: Not a fanboy
Are we getting ahead of ourselves here, is it confirmed that Nintendo is able to put any game on the VC regardless of the game publisher/developer ?
For example, how could Nintendo release Goldeneye N64 to VC when Rare is now a Microsoft company ?
Well most if not all first party games will be availiable (Sega games on MD, Hudson games on TG and Nintendo games on NES, SNES and N64) and companies who have good relations with Nintendo such as Konami, Capcom, Square and Namco are also likely to support it. Rare unfortunatly is another matter, as thet are now owned by M$ it is unlikly that they'll support the VC. I mean why would a 2nd party of M$ support one of their rival consoles?Originally Posted by zoomer
P.S: I also hope to try some Mega Man games.
well donkey kong country just got re released on the gba and that was a rare game so we might have some hope yet.. and microsoft does like nintendo alot more then sony so we should wait and see
Wii setup: 1 Wii console, 2 Wii motes, 2 Nunchuck attachments, and Wii sports
Wii owner since friday the 13th july 2007
Nintendo Fanboy: 39%Sony Fanboy: 43%Microsoft Fanboy: 36%
This means you're: Not a fanboy
Nintendo published the early Rare titles so I would guess they have the distributive rights?
"You Mac users... are on your way to hell. A weird, glossy white plastic hell"
I wrote my list on the assumption that a number of publishers would allow them to be rereleased. Of course, there's every chance they won't, it's basically a wish list.Originally Posted by zoomer
We should see all of Rare's DK games on the Wii as the DK franchise is Nintendo's property not Rare's. You should look at this from a busiuness perspective, Microsoft want to make money (just like Nintendo and Sony), and to make money they need people to buy the XBOX 360. If they want people to do this then they don't want people to buy the Wii and PS3, if they want people to not buy the Wii do you think they'll let Rare support it? The answer is no.Originally Posted by martini178
One game people continue to mention is Goldeneye. The question is who owns this game? Rare of course made this game, but it is EA who now own the James Bond video game franchise.
Golden Axe and Ecco rule !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


text: James E. Miller, 57, of Schenectady, N.Y., passed away on June 29, 2012, at Nathan Littauer Hospital, Gloversville, N.Y. He was born July 7, 1954, in Amsterdam, N.Y., the son of Donald E. and Jeannette Stearns Miller. He graduated from Fonda-Fultonville High School and for 30 years owned and operated the Clinton St. Pub in Schenectady. He was the former owner of Just Jimmy's Diner and dealt in antiques. Mr. Miller was a former member of the First Methodist Church of Johnstown and a former member of the Johnstown Moose Lodge No. 1185. Mr. Miller is survived by his parents and three sisters, Judith L. Murphy of Charleston, S.C., Sandra J. Miller of Johnstown, N.Y., Susan Madia of Schenectady, N.Y.; and two brothers, George P. Miller of St. Johnsville, N.Y. and Gary D. Miller of Johnstown, N.Y. He was predeceased by a brother, Samuel Miller in 1991. There will be no visiting hours. Friends are invited to attend a celebration of James' life from 1 to 4 p.m. on July 8, at the Johnstown Moose Lodge. Arrangements are by the Ehle Funeral Home. Cremation took place at Vale Crematory, Schenectady, N.Y. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of choice.


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Hi all,
This may be a dumb question. But for example: how can I change hundreds of shapes in Metal1 to Metal2 in an easy way? I am using IC61. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
If you have them selected, you can use Edit Properties, hit the common button, and change the layer in the cyclic field. Or you could use the property assistant (Window->Assistants->Property Editor), change the top left cyclic to All, and then next to the + for Layer click where it says Metal1 drawing, and then you can change on the drop-down cyclic field to Metal2 drawing.
Or you could use Tools->Find/Replace.
Or you could see this post
Kind Regards,
In reply to Andrew Beckett:
Hi Andrew,
Thanks a lot for your help. The property assistant is very useful. If you don't mind, may I ask another question?
I am working on IBM_7RF technology. Now I have to change the top metal layer of my design from ML to AM. That causes the issue that I have to reinstall another PDK and create another workspace for the new top metal layer option, which basically means a new technology version. What I do is copy my design library folder into the new workspace and re-define cds.lib, and then change metal layer of the shapes. When this is done, I tried to test Assura DRC and LVS. Both give errors about "failed on building up VDB". Is the reason from compatibility of my design, or from the Assura itself? I am using IC614 with Assura41. Thanks again for your time.
Best regards,
In reply to bjbit:
Hard to be sure whether it's a setup or a tool issue (it's unlikely to be due to the change in the design itself though). Please post the precise (and complete) error message (maybe you could also try using the latest hotfix of ASSURA41?)
THe error message of DRC is
ERROR (AVVSI-10001): Input layout is incomplete. If you still want to continue the run, remove undefined placements from the layout or set '?errorOnMissingMaster nil' option in the RSF-file. (The default value of parameter '?errorOnMissingMaster' is 't'.)
*WARNING* Error while building the VDB
*WARNING* Failed to build VDB. Cannot submit DRC Run.
However I don't really find any undefined shapes or instances. If I run DRC again, Cadence will crash. Here I attach the crash report log. Thanks for your time.
Finally I found the placement that caused errors. Now DRC and LVS works. Thanks a lot for your kind helps.
Sorry to bother you again. But I have a new following problem when DRC the shapes in top metal layer AM. Sometimes the DRC run just stay there for hours without finishing or errors. Log file shows that DRC stays at this line:
Executing: am_to_check = geomGetEdge(am coincident am_ft_not_low_ind)
It seems DRC is checking AM shape edge but I am not sure about its exact meaning. Do you have any ideas? Thanks a lot for your time.
Hi bjbit,
Presumably the am_ft_not_low_ind is some derived shape (you'll have to see how it is being produced), and am is the original top layer metal. There's a good description of what the geomGetEdge command does with the coincident operator in the Assura documentation (in $ASSURAHOME/doc/assuracommandref.pdf) - there's a picture explaining it very clearly.
Without knowing the volume of data on each of the source layers in the command, it's hard to know why it's being so slow.


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Buttermilk Biscuits - Southern
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 15 mins
This recipe comes from "Baking" by Dorie Greenspan, a fabulous book. I have been doing a lot of research on flour and for biscuits the consensus is use White Lily flour. Unfortunately, it's not easy to find in the PNW, so here is a great compromise, cake and unbleached flour. Dorie also suggests using you hands to quickly incorporate the butter into the flour, the butter should end up coated and NOT uniform in size. The dough can be made, wrapped air-tight and frozen for up to 2 months. If you like a crisper edge, do not let the baking biscuits touch. If you like a softer edge on the biscuit, place the biscuits on the baking tray touching each other.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄3 cup cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, 3/4 stick, cold and cut into 12 pieces
- 3⁄4 cup buttermilk
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- Whisk the flours, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Drop in butter and using your fingers, toss to coat the pieces with flour and cut and rub the butter into the flour mixture until it is pebbly with different sized pieces from very small to pea-size.
- Pour the buttermilk over the dry ingredients and toss gently with a fork and turn the ingredients until you have a nice soft dough.
- In the bowl, give the dough 3- 4 kneads to bring the dough together.
- Lightly dust a work surface with flour and turn out the dough.
- Dust the top of the dough very lightly with flour and quickly pat the dough with your hands until it is about 1/2-inch high.
- Use a biscuit cutter to cut as many biscuits as you can.
- Re-roll remaining dough and cut more biscuits until dough is used up.
- Place biscuits on baking sheet.
- Bake the biscuits for 14- 18 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.
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Amazing!!! We all loved these biscuits. They were so easy to make, too! My batch made 12 perfect biscuits. Almost all were eaten at dinner (by...ahem...3 people). I'm glad there are a few leftover for breakfast. Delish! Made for the International Agents of QUEST for the Culinary Quest US Southern region.
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The federal government shutdown could affect the early part of Penn State's ice hockey's season, with Army on the schedule for Oct. 11.
But the football teams from the U.S. military academies will play this weekend, despite the spending impasse, a senior defense official said Wednesday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the decision affects this weekend's games only, and future games will be evaluated as events in Washington unfold.
The teams will be allowed to play because the games are paid for with nonappropriated funds and have been long planned. Nonappropriated funds generally come from outside sources and are not approved through Congress.
Army is to travel to Boston College this weekend, and Air Force will play at Navy in Annapolis, Md.
The shutdown, which began Tuesday with the new fiscal year, resulted from Congress not approving a spending plan for 2013-14. Many federal agencies have closed and employees have been sent home over a disagreement about tying funding for the Affordable Care Act to a measure to pay for government operations.
The Nittany Lions ice hockey team is to face Army in its season opener in the first game to be played at the new Pegula Ice Arena. Penn State is to travel to Air Force for games on Oct. 18 and 19.
As of Tuesday night, the game between the Nittany Lions and Black Knights was on.
"At this point, the game has not been directly affected," said Matt Caracappa, Penn State's assistant director of athletic communications. "We're aware of the Defense Department's statement from earlier today and we're continuing to monitor the situation. It's a fluid situation and we'll provide any updates when they become available to us."
Naval Academy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Wednesday that his athletic department provided information to Pentagon officials to assure them that no government funds will be spent on any aspect of the game. Gladchuk said a Navy home game brings in about $4 million from tickets, sponsorship, television and radio rights fees and other revenues such as parking and concessions. The game essentially pays for itself, he said.
Football revenue also funds most of Navy's 32 other sports teams.
"It would be devastating to our budget," Gladchuk said of having a home game canceled.
Boston College athletic director Brad Bates said in a statement Wednesday that the school had been considering providing financial assistance to Army for travel to Chestnut Hill, Mass.
"We have been told by officials at the U.S. Military Academy, however, that this is not solely a financial decision," Bates said.
Before word came that the football games would go ahead, coaches and players were preparing for the contests.
"I wouldn't say they're oblivious, but they are practicing and trying to maintain that laser focus," Gladchuk said earlier Wednesday.
"In my mind, we are playing on Saturday. It's just how I feel," Boston College coach Steve Addazio said before getting the news.


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Triple Alliance (1668)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of this term, see Triple Alliance (disambiguation).
The Triple Alliance (1668) of England, Sweden, and the United Provinces was formed to halt the expansion of Louis XIV's France in the War of Devolution. The alliance never engaged in combat against France, but it was enough of a threat to force Louis to halt his offensive and sign the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with Spain.
See also[edit]
- Lynn, John A. The French Wars 1667-1714. London: Osprey Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-361-6
External links[edit]
- Political history of France
- 17th-century military alliances
- 1668 treaties
- Treaties of the Dutch Republic
- Treaties of the Swedish Empire
- Military alliances involving England
- Military alliances involving Sweden
- Military alliances involving the Dutch Republic
- 1668 in the Dutch Republic
- 1668 in England
- 1668 in Sweden


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A Tigard climber who fell to his death last week on Mount Hood died as a result of head injuries, reports the Oregon State Medical Examiner.
Jared Townsley, 32, summited just after 1 a.m. on Feb. 6 and fell while descending Illumination Rock, about 1,700 feet below the peak of the 11,245-foot mountain, said Sgt. James Rhodes, spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
Townsley, an experienced climber, suffered skull fractures when he tumbled roughly 500 feet, said Dr. Larry Lewman, deputy state medical examiner.
Searchers found Townsley's body a day after he was last seen by other climbers.
A memorial service for Townsley was set for Feb. 18 in Beaverton.


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An offer to Selkirk to buy Mungo Park's trunk for a reduced price has been made by its Kiwi owner, Peter Love, after the Yarrow Valley explorer's case failed to find a buyer at auction in New Zealand last month.
Mr Love is offering a 50 per cent discount from the original auction price of NZ$50,000 to NZ$24,500 (roughly £12,000) – and he is giving Selkirk 20 months of sole buying rights to raise the cash. The 81-year-old Maori chief said: "Mungo Park should be Scotland's hero, as Edmund Hillary is New Zealand's hero."
The bullock-hide trunk accompanied Park, born at Foulshiels in 1771, on his travels to discover the source of the Niger in West Africa.
At Monday's community council meeting, secretary Alistair Pattullo mused: "It would be great for the town, but think of the things we could spend £12,000 on."
SBC councillor Michelle Ballantyne added: "The public would have something to say if we spent £12,000 on a trunk."
SBC councillor Gordon Edgar agreed, replying: "Thanks, but no thanks."
Another of Park's trunks was used to store his belongings at Selkirk Jail.


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No matter which Republican ends up running against him, Gov. Jon Corzine knows what he's up against in the coming election year: The economy.
It's his bad luck to be starting a campaign in the worst economic climate in memory. And unlike Barack Obama, he can't use that to his advantage as the challenger promising change. Corzine is running as an incumbent with a record to tout, and to defend.
It's also his bad luck to have taken office after years of reckless borrowing and spending by both Republican and Democratic administrations that dug the state into a deep pit.
But sometimes you've got to make your own luck, and Corzine hasn't helped himself much in that department.
He came into office proclaiming: "The games are over. New Jersey must put its fiscal house in order. The time of one-shot budget fixes is past. It's time to balance the books."
To his credit he has made progress. He battled the Legislature, even shutting down state government for a week, to win approval of his first budget, which increased sales and other taxes to cover growing expenses. After another round of growth the following year he pushed through a 2008-09 budget that actually cut spending by about $600 million. Then he signed an executive order requiring that future budgets must match spending to revenue without relying on one-shot gimmicks.
But even with the cuts, this year's $32.9 billion budget is 15 percent larger than the one he inherited at the start of 2005. And matching spending to revenue doesn't solve enormous problems threatening the state's long-term fiscal health: The $32 billion in debt the state is carrying; the looming pension crisis caused by years of underfunding the state's retirement funds; the ballooning costs of school aid and health care programs.
Of course, Corzine did come up with a Big Idea for reducing that debt burden. A Really Big Idea. So big that no one could make any sense out of it.
It went something like this: Pay off the all that borrowed money by... um, borrowing $40 billion. But it wouldn't really be state debt anymore, see, because it would be backed by tolls on the Turnpike and Parkway. Which would, um, go up by 800 percent. But that wouldn't happen right away -- the pain would hit between 2010 (after the next election) and 2022 (when they would be someone else's problem).
Somehow, now matter how many town hall meetings Corzine held to explain his plan, the public and the Legislature never bought it. And we'll never know whether, if the plan had been approved, it would have fallen apart along with all the other "securi tization" schemes that came unglued in the global debt crisis this summer.
Corzine also made limited progress on retirement benefits. He increased state payments into the pension fund, but it remains underfunded and the stock market slump has worsened its balance sheet. He negotiated a state worker contract that called for retirees to start contributing to their health coverage -- then backed down and dropped that provision. He raised the retirement age for new state employees to 62, but those hired in the past can still retire at 55.
And now with the sudden downturn of the economy causing the state's revenue stream to shrink sharply, the books are out of balance again. Administration officials last month predicted a $1.2 billion gap in the current budget and a shortfall of up to $5 billion for the year that begins July 1.
The governor is now caught in a quandry: He's warning that spending cuts, possibly including state worker layoffs, will be needed to make up for the losses -- while at the same time an nouncing spending increases on programs to assist the newly needy and to spur job growth.
And where is that money coming from? Out of the $650 million Corzine and the Legislature set aside just months ago to pay off a chunk of the looming debt. So much for that.
In his year-end interview with The Star-Ledger, Corzine said the economy will be the overwhelming issue in the coming year. "All I can do is do the best job I can -- that's my fundamental platform, and people will have to draw their own conclusions from that," he said.
So far the people aren't overly pleased. A Quinnipiac poll last month showed voters disapproved of Corzine's performance as governor by a narrow margin (46 percent to 43 percent) and a majority were at least somewhat dissatisfied with "the way things are going in New Jersey."
His political fate -- and the state's economic health -- will de pend on what Corzine does in the next few months as he puts together a new state budget. Can he somehow cut billions in spend ing, shore up state finances for the future and at the same time spur economic revival?
A trick like that might take more political and economic magic than he's been able to perform so far. Not to mention a whole lot of luck.


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ALLENDALE, Mich. - The Grand Valley State women's lacrosse team led from the first draw to the final whistle as the Lakers downed Findlay, 17-2, in GLIAC action on Sunday afternoon at the Laker Lacrosse Field.
Nine Lakers scored in the win to move GVSU to 2-0 in GLIAC play and 5-5 on the year.
GVSU limited Findlay to just five first-half shots, while taking 24 on keeper Emily Dinda who picked up nine saves in the loss.
Sophomore Audrey Kobe and junior Lindsay McCarty split time in the net, picking up two saves each.
Grand Valley State returns to action on Friday, April 12 at Alderson-Broaddus at 4 p.m. Alderson-Broaddus is currently 0-8 in its first-season of varsity lacrosse.


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- Yarn: Lily® Sugar'n Cream (70.9 g / 2.5 oz)
Main Color (MC): #00001 (White) 1 ball
Contrast A: #00095 (Red) 1 ball
- Knitting Needles: Size 4.5 mm (U.S. 7) knitting needles or size needed to obtain gauge
- Stuffing
- 2 chenille stems
- Buttons
Size: Approx 9 ins [23 cm] tall stuffed, excluding Hat.
Gauge: 20 sts and 26 rows = 4 ins [10 cm] in stocking st.
Body: With MC, cast on 9 sts.
1st and 2nd rows: *K1. Inc 1 st in next st. Rep from * to last st. K1. 19 sts after 2nd row.
3rd row: Inc 1 st in each st to end of row. 38 sts.
4th row: *K1. Inc 1 st in next st. Rep from * to end of row. 57 sts.
Proceed in stocking st for 7 ins [18 cm].
Next row: *K2. K2tog. Rep from * to last st. K1. 43 sts. Place marker at each end of last row.
**Beg with a purl row, cont even in stocking st for 4 ins [10 cm].
Next row: *K2tog. Rep from * to last st. K1. 22 sts.
Break yarn, leaving a long end. Thread end through rem sts and draw up firmly. Fasten securely.** Sew back seam, stuffing as you sew.
Hat: With A, cast on 43 sts.
Knit 1 row. Rep from ** to ** as given above. Sew back seam.
Weave yarn along marked row. Pull to gather slightly for Neck and fasten securely. Sew Hat to Head. Sew on black button for eyes and mouth. Sew on orange button for nose. Fold chenille stems in half and twist to form arms. Push ends into Body as shown in picture.
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It doesn't add up: Dean Young's strategist said that it was Democrats who voted for Bradley Byrne. I think he's wrong. If you look at the precincts, the areas with the most educated people voted for Byrne because they felt that he was the smartest candidate. He also said that independents should not be allowed to cross over and vote. But that's what independents are. They aren't tied to a particular party. If we restrict them, that's not the way that democracy works.
Crossed: Frances Coleman's article in Sunday's paper about the last election was very good. I'm a Democrat that voted for Bradley Byrne and I crossed over because I feel like our government is getting too extreme.
No love at home: Dean Young couldn't even win his home district of Orange Beach or of Gulf Shores. Those are the people that know him best. Can't he just go back to Mississippi and crawl under the rock he came out of?
Wrong place for Young: I'm an independent and I like Dean Young's strong stance for what he believes. But he's too much of a loose cannon right now. The big political monster in Washington would chew him up and spit him out. The conservatives and Republicans need to unite. Being more divided is what the Democrats want. That's how they've gained the power they have now.
Shoot the moon: I can't believe they're going to continue the Moon Pie drop. This promotes kids eating too much sugar and they need to do away with it. This thing is ugly.
Blame game: Sam Jones, Barbara Drummond, and Fred Richardson had 10 full months to prepare for the Moon Pie drop and now they want to blame the newly elected mayor if it doesn't come off in time? Something stinks about this.
Long-term pain: As to Governor Bentley declining federal funding to expand Medicaid: this money is not free. It's coming out of our taxes. Secondly, the federal funding only covers the first three years. After that, the state would be faced with a burden it could not afford. It would bankrupt our state. That's why the governor made this decision.
Homefront first: People on the right don't understand the difference between aid and entitlements. When we give money to people overseas, it is called aid. When we give money to people in this country, it is called entitlements. It should be the other way around. We should always take care of our own first. When we help people here, we have some hope that they are paying taxes or otherwise contributing to our society. When we send money overseas, we know that we will never see any benefit from it.
Foul play: There will possibly be a Costco and two shopping centers on land that at one time was set aside for recreational fields for soccer and baseball. We got sold out. They never developed any fields and now they have given us old swampland on the other side of Moffett Road instead of where it was supposed to be. I guess that's progress. We'll see what happens and how much it costs us.
Insurance scam: The person who called Sound Off about insurance was not accurate. I don't support Obamacare, but liability insurance is not for your vehicle, it's to protect the other people on the road. No one has to pay for homeowner's insurance if they own their house outright. It's the mortgage company that requires their investment be protected.
Bad weather report: Senator Sessions did an opinion piece for the paper stating that climate change is not a big deal and that superstorms like Sandy are an ordinary occurrence that are unrelated to global warming. He ought to have to talk to the people in the Philippines who just faced a typhoon with sustained 195 mile per hour winds with gusts up to 235 mph. That's never been heard of. Don't tell me things are not changing, Mr. Sessions. You're wrong.
Name game: Why do they call Monday Veteran's Day? They ought to call it Government Day because everyone in the government gets to have a day off. They don't care about veterans. They just want another holiday and another three-day weekend. They have more vacation days than working days as it is. Veterans aren't getting anything extra out of this.
Payment due: A woman went into a credit union, deposited worthless checks, and drew money against them. They let her out of jail today because she repaid the money. So are we going to let bank robbers go now if they return the money? What is going on in this city?
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BRIDGETON — An unidentified man was shot and killed in the area of the 300 block of Bank Street shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday, according to reports.
The victim was said to have been shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at approximately 11:45. A possible suspect was reported fleeing the scene in a white vehicle.
State Police from the Bridgeton barracks assisted in the response and were able to confirm that the incident occurred but could not provide any details.
Bridgeton Police were unavailable for comment Sunday morning to provide more details on the incident including the identity of the victim, a motive and whether there were any possible suspects.
This latest killing comes amidst a rash of shootings that have plagued the city over the past week.
On Monday night, 20-year-old Quantasia Bessix was killed in front of her Cohansey Street home during a drive-by shooting.
Police said she was not the intended target.
On Wednesday, Bridgeton police officers were shot at while responding to a burglary call on North Street.
More information about Saturday night's killing will be posted when available.
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"Belleville Stompers!" Clap, clap, stomp, stomp.
Applause greeted the three dozen adolescent girls of the Belleville Stompers spirit ensemble as they chanted, clapped hands and stomped their feet in unison in front of the reviewing stand at the Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade.
Roland Straten's introduction, however, drew a collective shrug.
Straten had marched behind bagpipers, Boy Scouts, cheerleaders and church groups in his bid to represent the Stompers and others in New Jersey's 8th Congressional District, which includes 21 towns in Passaic and Essex counties.
To do so, he'll have unseat the longtime Democratic incumbent, Rep. Bill Pascrell, on Nov. 2.
Straten, a 69-year-old community activist and retired businessman from Montclair, shook hands and introduced himself, while an SUV pulled a billboard summing up his platform: "Straten: Less Government = More Jobs."
"The equation is so simple and so straightforward," he said later. "People understand it and people get it."
But whether it will get Straten elected is an open question. The contest is a rematch of the 2008 race, when Pascrell, a former assemblyman and Paterson mayor, trounced Straten by a 71-29 percent margin. This year, the Republican repeat-challenger is hoping a different set of circumstances will improve his performance.
"There's no comparison," Straten said of the two races.
For one thing, Pascrell and fellow Democrats will not have Barack Obama's coattails to ride, as they did in '08. By contrast, Democratic incumbents are vying in these midterm elections as the party in power during tough economic times. There is also the anti-incumbent zeal of the tea party movement, which has tended to support — without formally endorsing — Republicans. Straten has the support of the North Jersey tea party group.
"I believe there's a grass-roots movement right now to unseat government as it stands," said Andrew Carchia, 44, of Nutley, a registered Republican and North Jersey tea party group member, who sat on the grass watching the parade with his 5-year-old son, Andrew. "I'm for a major change in November. A major change. So I'm voting Republican all the way."
Even so, New Jersey's 8th District has not been identified as vulnerable by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in its push to win back the House. Likewise, Democrats have not singled out the district as needing special support.
Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district, 134,245 to 58,523, according to the latest figures from the state Division of Elections. But Republicans are counting on the district's 174,904 unaffiliated voters to poll heavily for Straten, who also has the support of one of the state's leading conservatives, Bret Schundler, the former state education commissioner and a one-time Republican gubernatorial nominee.
Pascrell, 73, who lives in Paterson, said he is committed to creating new manufacturing jobs, in part through trade reform to boost exports. He differs from many fellow Democrats in his support for a temporarily extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, at least for individuals earning up to $400,000 and couples earning up to $500,000, twice the income levels proposed by President Obama as a cutoff. He would also extend the capital gains tax cut.
Pascrell said his experience in office has taught him the value of compromise in the interest of getting things done.
"The enemy of the good is the perfect," he said.
Despite having been elected seven times, Pascrell said he is taking the tea party and Straten seriously, and campaigning harder than ever.
"I'm everywhere," Pascrell said in a telephone interview during a week full of appearances at senior centers, firehouses and local endorsement events. "Believe me, I'm working just as hard. I take nothing for granted."
One 2-year term
Party: Democrat
Age: 73
Hometown: Paterson
Occupation: Member of Congress
Family: Married, 3 children
Political experience: Elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, and re-elected six times since then. former mayor of Paterson; former state assemblyman
Top 3 issues:
• Senior citizens: opposes privatization of Social Security
• Jobs and the economy: supports increased minimum wage; opposes expansion of alternative minimum tax; supports trade reform to encourage exports
• Energy and the environment: encouraging renewable energy sources and energy efficiency through government incentives.
Party: Republican
Age: 69
Hometown: Montclair
Occupation: Retired as head of Associated Fire Protection in Paterson, a fire safety firm.
Family: Married, 3 children
Political experience: Never elected to public office; ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008; commissioner, New Jersey Fire Commission; chairman, Paterson Redevelopment Corporation.
Top 3 issues:
• Jobs and the economy: Supports extension of 2001 tax cuts to encourage private-sector growth
• Health care: Supports repeal of health care reform law
• National security: supports liberalized rules of engagement for troops; opposes civilian trials for enemy combatants


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Adore! I would love to dress up and go to one of those late shows!!
Love, love, love!!! My mom introduced the movie to me when I was about 12. I didn't think I'd like it, but the music is SO catchy, and it's such a campy movie! It is still one of my moms fave movies (it has been since it first came out in the 70s), and now is one of mine as well! Hubby doesn't like it, though, he turned it off after the giant singing lips...couldn't even get past that part. LOL.
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New Orleans police officers charged in connection with the shooting of an Algiers man and the burning of his body in a car after Hurricane Katrina should be allowed to argue they were following orders from superior officers, their attorneys argued Thursday.
In filings submitted to U.S. District Judge Lance Africk, lawyers for four of the five indicted officers didn't assert they definitely will claim to have received orders before taking action that day. But they argued that the statements of the New Orleans Police Department rank may have to come up at trial, either as related to specific decisions the indicted officers made or to provide jurors context about the generally chaotic circumstances of the post-Katrina environment.
The motion filed last week by federal prosecutors argued that at the scheduled November trial defense attorneys should be barred from using a "Nuremberg defense" -- essentially telling jurors they were "just following orders." If officers did receive improper orders, the government argued, they should have known that their subsequent actions were illegal.
But that argument was too broad, as well as premature, argued defense attorneys J. Michael Small and M. Allyn Stroud, who represent Lt. Travis McCabe.
Both McCabe and former Lt. Robert Italiano are accused of writing a false police report about the shooting of 31-year-old Henry Glover, an Algiers man shot by then-officer David Warren on Sept. 2, 2005. Glover was shot as he and a friend approached the strip mall where Warren and a partner were guarding the 4th District's detective bureau. Glover's body was subsequently burned in a car on the Algiers levee.
The judge won't be able to tell whether testimony about any orders are relevant until evidence is presented at trial, McCabe's attorneys wrote. They took particular issue with the government's plan to use evidence that it wants to prevent the defense from using. Prosecutors have said they will present evidence that McCabe told federal investigators he was acting at the direction of his "supervisors" as part of their case that he wrote a false report and lied to FBI agents, but they want to block the officer's attorneys from making use of the same statements in his defense.
"This contradiction appears rooted in a flawed assumption by the government that any order given to Mr. McCabe was an order to engage in illegal conduct," McCabe's attorneys wrote. "For example, if it were the case that Mr. McCabe acted on orders to engage in conduct that is legal, e.g., preparing a true and accurate report, such evidence would be highly relevant in explaining his actions or the pertinent course of events."
Steven Lemoine, an attorney representing Italiano, wrote that his client had no intention of claiming that "his commanding officer told him to arrange the writing of a bogus report relative to Mr. Glover." Italiano's decisions in helping craft the shooting report were based on his "professional judgement," Lemoine wrote.
But Lemoine also emphasized that jurors will have to hear about the special circumstances after Katrina, when a 4th District officer had been shot in the head and officers all over town were being told by people in authority to "take back the city."
Prosecutors specifically asked Africk to bar any reference to a contention by some officers that they were told by then-Deputy Superintendent Warren Riley that they could "shoot looters" in an effort to get control of the chaotic streets. Riley has denied giving such an order.
Attorneys for Warren said he never heard such an order and have said they don't plan to present evidence related to those allegations at trial. In police documents, Warren has stated he felt threatened by the man who approached the strip mall, who he believed to be carrying a weapon.
But Lemoine wrote that he should be able to present evidence about public figures making statements about martial law having been declared. The statements show the context in which officers were operating, he wrote.
"Rather than claiming that their actions were specifically authorized by the pronouncements of those removed from the front lines, Mr. Warren and Mr. Italiano have the right to expect that their actions be judged in the context of the historically anomalous and disconcerting things they, and they alone, were expected to control," he wrote.
Attorneys for Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann also told the judge that they might raise issues about orders from superior officers as part of the defense against charges that Scheuermann and another officer, Greg McRae, burned the car containing Glover's body. These two officers are also charged with beating two men who tried to help the wounded man.
A decision about what kind of defense to wage has not yet been made, wrote Scheuermann's attorneys. Frank DeSalvo, an attorney for McRae, did not file his own memorandum, but told Africk he was adopting the same arguments as McCabe's lawyers.
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text: On June 1 nearly 110 kids came together at the Community Y campus for the 2012 Kids Safety Camp. The kids ranged from second through fourth grade and came from schools in Marshalltown, Marshall County and neighboring counties. The Marshalltown Police Department and Community Y have co-hosted this event since 2000. This event was not held the last two years due to low number of sign-ups, but with more than 100 kids and a beautiful day, the return was a great success.


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Tadao "Tad" Murata, 92
Tadao "Tad" Murata, 92, of Wailuku, passed away peacefully on June 2, 2014, surrounded by his family, at his Wailuku home under the care of Hospice Maui. He was born on August 19, 1921 in Kahului, Maui.
Private funeral services were held at Wailuku Hongwanji Mission.
Tadao was a World War II veteran in the United States Army assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He retired as the President and General Manager of Mid Pac Sales, a wholesale distributor of confectionary products.
He is survived by his wife, Misayo; sons, Donald (Noreen), Brian, Alan (Ruth), and Craig; grandsons, Reece and Jonathan; granddaughter, Misa; and sister, Hisako Tatsumoto of Kaneohe.
The family requests no koden. Donations can be sent to Wailuku Hongwanji Mission or Hospice Maui in remembrance of Tadao Murata.