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UK "citizens" to be known as "suspects" from July 1st
From The Independent
Civil liberties campaigners have condemned as "chilling" UK government plans to replace the term "citizen" with "suspect" on all passports and driving licences from July 1st.
The amendment was one among a number of changes approved by MPs last week as part of the controversial Coroners and Justice Reform Bill, which will also increase data sharing between government departments, and allow some inquests to be held in secret.
A Home Office spokeswoman, who asked not to be named, told the Independent that staff will be working around the clock to ensure that the changes are implemented smoothly. UK passport and driving licence holders will be asked to begin handing in their documents within the next few weeks.
The Home Office insists that the change enjoys broad public support, and merely formalises a policy that the government has been operating in practice for several years.
"Nothing is more important to us than the safety and security of the British public. This vital amendment clarifies our relationship with the people we are working so hard to protect, and will enable us to streamline our intelligence-gathering activities. Those raising questions clearly do not understand the nature of the threat we are facing."
Update – 2nd April 2009 – As readers may have deduced, this article is somewhat less than wholly accurate, but perhaps it's just a matter of time…
Roger Darlington reviews Don't Get Fooled Again
From Roger Darlington's website.
…a highly readable book which represents a refreshing gale of common sense and rationality. Wilson critiques a wide range of contemporary nonsense including:
- Pseudo-news such as the testimony of a certain 'Nurse Nayirah' in 1990 that Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait had removed babies from incubators or the insistence of American and British politicians that Saddam's Hussein's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction;
- Pseudo-science such as the efforts to show that smoking does not cause cancer or that white asbestos poses no measurable risk to health or that Trofim Lysenko in the pre-war Soviet Union had revolutionary techniques to transform agriculture or that South African President Thambo Mbeki was right in insisting that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS;
- Conspiracy theories such as the assertion by ex British agent David Shayler that the London bombings of July 2007 were not the act of terrorists;
- Relativism which, in its most radical form, asserts that there are no objective facts, only competing strands of subjective opinion, and even in 'milder' forms like cultural relativism rejects logic and evidence as 'western' or 'imperialist' modes of thinking;
- Religious fundamentalism which requires belivers to accept on faith the absolute truth of a prescribed list of written beliefs even when the relevant texts are obscure, contradictory or contrary to evidence;
- The justifications given for torture by democratic states like the USA and for terrorism given by extremist groups who likewise believe that the ends justify the means.
Wilson helpfully identifies some of the many factors that permit and indeed encourage such acts of irrationality including wishful thinking, over-idealisation, demonising perceived enemies, moral exclusion, and groupthink. In a spirited defence of rationality, he asserts: "The basic principles of logic, consistency, evidence, and 'inductive reasoning' are common to every human society and present in all belief systems".
George Monbiot on another misuse of UK government's "sweeping powers"
From The Guardian
The villagers have marched, demonstrated, and sent in letters and petitions. Some people tried to stop the company from cutting down trees by standing in the way. Their campaign was entirely peaceful. But the power company discovered that it was legally empowered to shut the protests down.
Using the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, it obtained an injunction against the villagers and anyone else who might protest. This forbids them from "coming to, remaining on, trespassing or conducting any demonstrations, or protesting or other activities" on land near the lake. If anyone breaks this injunction they could spend five years in prison.
The act, parliament was told, was meant to protect women from stalkers. But as soon as it came on to the statute books, it was used to stop peaceful protest. To obtain an injunction, a company needs to show only that someone feels "alarmed or distressed" by the protesters, a requirement so vague that it can mean almost anything. Was this an accident of sloppy drafting? No. Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden, the solicitor who specialises in using this law against protesters, boasts that his company "assisted in the drafting of the … Protection from Harassment Act 1997". In 2005 parliament was duped again, when a new clause, undebated in either chamber, was slipped into the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. It peps up the 1997 act, which can now be used to ban protest of any kind.
Mr Lawson-Cruttenden, who represented RWE npower, brags that the purpose of obtaining injunctions under the act is "the criminalisation of civil disobedience". One advantage of this approach is that very low standards of proof are required: "hearsay evidence … is admissable in civil courts". The injunctions he obtains criminalise all further activity, even though, as he admits, "any allegations made remain untested and unproven".
Last week, stung by bad publicity, npower backed down. The villagers had just started to celebrate when they made a shocking discovery: they now feature on an official list of domestic extremists.
Echoes of Sally Murrer case as senior UK opposition politician arrested by counter-terrorism police
In "Don't Get Fooled Again" I highlight the extent to which government demands for "sweeping new powers", ostensibly to protect public security, often lead to those powers being used in ways far beyond those originally intended. One among many recent examples was the use of anti-terrorist legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK.
Now counter-terrorism police have arrested the Conservative shadow Home Office minister Damian Green, after he published documents recently released by a government whistle-blower. Green was charged with "aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in public office".
Following his release on bail, Damian Green said:
"I was astonished to have spent more than nine hours under arrest for doing my job. I emphatically deny that I have done anything wrong. I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to know.
"In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the government to account. I was elected to the House of Commons precisely to do that and I certainly intend to continue doing so."
Interestingly, this charge closely resembles the spurious case brought against the local journalist Sally Murrer, in an apparent attempt to intimidate the police whistleblower Mark Kearney. According to the Press Gazette, Murrer was charged with aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring Kearney to commit the offence of "misconduct in a public office".
Weapons of Mass Derision
Gordon Brown's controversial use of the "Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act" to freeze Icelandic assets in Britain was taken by many here in the UK as further evidence that 'sweeping powers' given to the government ostensibly to fight terrorism will inevitably being used for other purposes.
But the move has also triggered an outpouring of mass derision among Icelanders, with 12% of the population of the country signing an online petition, and hundreds putting together their own quirky photographic protests, many of them with a distinctively Icelandic feel.
In "Don't Get Fooled Again" I argue that mockery is a vital tool in the fight against fearmongering politicians who seek to enhance their own powers or evade scrutiny by exploiting public anxieties over terrorism.
More on Lord West's distinguished ministerial career…
From The Guardian, 15 November 2007:
At 8.20 yesterday morning, Lord Admiral Alan West of Spithead, Gordon Brown's chief security minister, seemed pretty clear in his own mind.
Did he think the police needed more than 28 days to question terrorist suspects?
"I want to have absolute evidence that we actually need longer than 28 days," the former first sea lord told the BBC.
"I want to be totally convinced because I am not going to go and push for something that actually affects the liberty of the individual unless there is a real necessity for it. I still need to be fully convinced that we absolutely need more than 28 days and I also need to be convinced what is the best way of doing that."
But less than an hour later, following a breakfast with the prime minister, West had changed tack.
Sounding just as certain as he had barely 45 minutes before, he declared he was "personally convinced" that the 28-day limit needed extending.
"I personally, absolutely believe that within the next two or three years we will require more than that for one of those complex plots. So I am convinced that is the case."
"Another great plot is building up again" claims UK terrorism minister
Lord West: Be afraid
Amid the UK government's heavy defeat in the House of Lords over its demand for "sweeping new powers" to lock people up without charge, the terrorism minister Lord West has claimed – without offering any evidence – that "another great plot is building up again, which we are monitoring".
According to West, who was in charge of the government's attempt to get the 42-day detention proposals through the House of Lords, "The [terrorist] threat is huge. It dipped slightly and is now rising again … There are large complex plots. We unravelled one, which caused damage to al-Qaida and the plots faded slightly". But West claims that another malicious conspiracy has now been discovered.
In "Don't Get Fooled Again" I argue that conspiracy theories are not the exclusive preserve of dodgy balding men in smoky pubs – dodgy balding men in government sometimes fall for them too.
Strictly speaking, anyone who postulates a secretive, evil plot on the basis of weak or non-existent evidence, is putting forward a conspiracy theory. Recent examples of state-sponsored conspiracy theories include the UK and US governments' bogus claim that Iraq was harbouring "Weapons of Mass Destruction", and the suggestion, which we now know was made on the basis of a torture-tainted confession, that the Iraqi regime had offered chemical weapons training to senior members of Al Qaeda.
Given this track record, it seems prudent to treat Lord West's new – yet decidedly vague – assertions with a heavy dose of scepticism.
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A Spanish teacher at Pen Argyl Area High School died this morning as a result of injuries suffered in a crash between her car and a box truck in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, according to the county coroner's office and a school administrator.
Police, the county coroner and high school principal would not identify the woman. However, a post on the Pen Argyl football Facebook page identified the woman as 29-year-old Angela Pessina.
"This morning, Pen Argyl Area High School lost a great teacher and an even better person in Angela Pessina," said a post from the Pen Argyl Green Knights Football page on Facebook. "Our hearts go out to her family, and we will always remember her."
John C. Smith, the high school's principal, did not want to name the victim because the coroner's office had not made her name public.
Smith did confirm the woman was a Spanish teacher who worked for Pen Argyl for five to six years."It was a shock, a terrible tragedy," he said.
The wreck happened about 2:40 this morning on Route 22 West near mile marker 323.2, the coroner's office reports. The 29-year-old woman was driving a Mercury Mariner when she rear-ended a Freightliner box truck driven by Paul David Haney, according to police.
The Mariner's driver apparently didn't see slowed traffic from a previous, unrelated rollover accident, police said, causing her to crash into the box truck, which The Morning Call is reporting belonged to the newspaper.
As a result of the crash, the Mariner became entrapped under the truck. The Mariner's driver had to be cut from the vehicle and she was transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township, where she later died at 4:26 a.m. from severe head injuries, authorities said. Haney was able able to drive the truck from the scene, police said.


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County clerk: Firing is shameful
I feel I need to express my thoughts regarding the present situation of the Island County Clerks office.
Having retired from that position after 28 years of service to the county I feel I know the circumstances well.
I was very disappointed in the county commissioners decision to appoint Mrs. Koetje to complete the remaining year of my term of office. They completely ignored the most important issue, that being qualifications for the position. Why they would appoint someone who knew nothing about that office over someone with 20 years of experience as chief deputy was not only a disappointment to me but made me question the politics behind their decision.
Now I hear that Mrs. Koetje has fired the chief deputy Sharon Franzen. Koetje has every right to put anyone in that position that she chooses to, however, she waited until after filing for the office was closed to ensure she had no competition from Ms. Franzen.
Mrs. Koetje has used Sharons knowledge and expertise to get her through a very rough first year and now no longer needs her. She fired her on the spot, told her to clean out her desk and leave when that was completed. What an appalling way for Island County management to treat an employee with 20 years of service to the county.
There will be those out there who will think that was a smart political move on Koetjes part. There are all kinds of political moves, and I for one think that was dirty politics. Shame on you Jane!
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So last week after Merco I went out on Tuesday and popped eight repeats up McCullough at 330+ watts, feeling great all the way to the end.
This Tuesday, after Madera, I went to M2 due to foul weather in the morning and thought my legs were going to fall off. By the time the second set was done, I was happy to be in doors and not suffering up Hawk Hill – not that indoors was much easier. By the end of the workout, I was really in a lot of pain. I thought about it and decided to call this a rest week.
On my original schedule, this would have to have been another 200+ miler with next week being the rest week, but due to my previously set skiing plans this weekend, getting 200 miles in while showing up for work each day would be damn near impossible. No to mention, the weather sucks. I'm already mentally prepared to be soaked four days out of the week next week (all between a set of hill repeats, intervals, Mad Marchness and Bariani), but I don't mind holding off on riding in the rain until Monday.
Seems like everything came together nicely, screaming for me to take it easy this week and I intend to do just that. After logging an hour and a half at M2 on Tuesday and rolling around the Headlands on Thursday, I'll call this a week at 60 miles and about four hours on the bike. I am, however, very much looking forward to giving my quads a workout hitting the slopes this weekend. Hopefully the time off the bike will help my body rest up and my mind get motivated for rainy riding next week, brrrr.
The good news that the rain brings is that it looks like I'm going to have some sweet powder to ski on this weekend. Pending Highway 80 staying open tonight.


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CARNEYS POINT TWP.— The Christmas Season is here again and the Salem Community College Oak Singers, under the direction of Charles Musser and accompanied by Laurie Goforth, are looking forward to ushering in the holidays with song.
The Oak Singers will be sharing a number of well-known Christmas favorites, as well as a few very appealing new selections.
Featured this year will be Jenna Garrett, from Vineland. A junior in the Salem County Vo-Tech Music Academy at Pennsville Memorial High School, Jenna is a talented vocalist, bassoonist and flautist.
She will be auditioning for All South Jersey Region III Band in December on both flute and bassoon. Jenna will accompany the Oak Singers on two selections: an arrangement of "Patapan" by noted regional composer and New Ark Chorale Director Michael Larkin, and "A Circle of Friends," sung by the women of the choir. Marjorie Roberts on finger cymbals and Zack Oliver on Bodhran will also accompany "Patapan."
The program opens with a rousing rendition of "Sleigh Bells" arranged by Earlene Rentz. Shannon Sheridan will join Laurie Goforth at the piano for "Ding! Dong! Merrily on High," arranged by Mack Wilburg.
Two multicultural Christmas songs include a traditional Spanish carol titled "A La Nita Nana," and a spirited rendition of a Trinidad, West Indies carol "The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy." The choir will also perform the famous Gustav Holst "Christmas Day" which will feature a number of fine soloists.
A favorite selection of the Oak Singers is a beautiful and powerful version of "The First Noel" arranged by Dan Forrest. "A Holiday Sing Along" will get the audience inspired as well as renditions of "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Tonight Jesus Is Born," a Quodlibet with Silent Night featuring soloists Mary Jane Scruggs and Rhonda Gage.
The program concludes featuring the fresh voice of Joshua Powell, a new member of the Oak Singers in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
The concert will be held on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m., and again on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 3 p.m. in Davidow Theatre at Salem Community College Campus, 460 Hollywood Ave.
Tickets, available at the door, cost $8. There is ample parking, and the theatre is handicapped accessible.
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I have recently realised that the exhortation "Rest as much as you play" does not mean to play until fatigued and then rest, but to break practice sessions up into very small portions with rest for the same length as playing ie if you play an 8 bar phrase, rest for the same time. This is where the 19/30s exercise excells in improving tone and range, playing each note for 30 seconds and then resting 30 seconds.
Regards, Stuart.
too much practice and not enough playing.
Nothing much to add other than I can play for hours and I will regret it the following day so I don't 40 mins at a throw is enough for me
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No one on here can make a determination on your problem without seeing you play in person, knowing your history, etc…. I can tell you that 3 hours practice a day for me, turns my chops into monster chops, very powerful and no end in sight. 3 hours practice for any one should do the same to them. Doc says 3 hours a day minimum if you want to play professionally. The key is that you are practicing correctly, no bad habits. If you are practicing bad habits you can practice 24/7 and you will continue to play worse because that's how you're practicing. Personally if I had a teacher that was not improving my playing and I was putting in 3 hours practice a day under his / her instruction, it would be Bye Bye, don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, to the teacher and I would be looking elsewhere. 3 hours a day on the horn is a LOT of time to spend to be digressing……..
Great advice and thankfully no one has mentioned getting a new mpc!! Phew!
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By the inch it's a cinch, by the yard, it's hard!
The 19/30 exercise, is almost identical to a method developed by Jaroslav Cimera more than 65 years ago, who was known as "The Dean Of All Brass Teachers" in the Chicago Area. This method is used as a remedial method to develop the smaller aperture needed for upper register playing, while at the same time giving you "aperture control." While you wait 30 seconds between notes, in the Cimera method he moistens the lip between notes. If you also gradually play softer as you ascend you will greatly reduce both the wind power and mouthpiece pressure, thereby forcing the tongue level and embouchure contraction to do most of the work. If practiced correctly this method will increase your range dramatically and immediately, build the strongest embouchure you can imagine, thus increasing endurance, reduce the amount of pressure you now using, which will save the lip, and give you the "feel" for any given note on the horn and allow you to develop the proper size aperture needed for high note playing, while allowing you to move throughout the entire range of the horn without using an embouchure shift.
The details can be found at http://www.latorremusic.com find the book "The Knevitt-Cimera Method for Developing the Upper Register on Trumpet, there's also an accompaning recording.
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Get a new mouthpiece!! ... just kidding, just kidding.
Try adding this to your morning .... BEFORE you play. Take a huge breath, blow it out in 2 seconds (the loose lip flap). Do this 20 times before you start warming up. It's like a massage and helps rid your lips of builtup lactic acid. Works a wonder ... I don't sound good in the morning (or anytime else for that matter) if I don't do this first.
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Yah, you really shouldn't practice that long long every day, what i like to do, especially with marching band, is too save my chops for rehersal then take the next day and just to play in my lower register so that way i save my chops. It's a great way to warm up the chops and keeping them in shape in my opinion. Just don't over do you're warm ups every day is how i see it. BEST OF LUCK MY FRIEND!
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The Is Hip Hop History? Conference will take place February 19-20, 2010, at the City College of New York, Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10004.
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The conference was created to facilitate dialogue between hip hop pioneers, legends, tastemakers, fans, college students, and scholars. The conference will initiate an ambitious project to create a platform for the ongoing research and study of hip hop and popular culture at the Center for Worker Education (CWE).
In 2010, the conference inaugurates a hip hop educational program that includes a class entitled History, Culture and Politics of Hip Hop. In this course, 30 students will participate in a 15-week long exploration of, "Nothing less, my man, than the marriage of heaven and hell, of New World African ingenuity and that trick of the devil known as global hyper-capitalism." (Greg Tate)
During the scheduled two-days, conference participants can select from panel discussions about the commercialization of hip hop, the changing role of hip hop media, the goals and contours of hip hop activism.
The conference will also help fund several scholarships for outstanding students conducting research on hip hop and popular culture. The Is Hip Hop History? Conference is part of CWEs annual celebration of Black History Month.
The conference will be held in the CWE auditorium, located at 25 Broadway, 7th floor, in Lower Manhattan. Admission fees are $5 per day for students with a valid college I.D., $15 for one day or $25 for two days for the general public. The conference is sponsored in part by Brooklyn College, Pelle Pelle, Belton Tax & Financial Service and the Student Government of CWE (SGCWE). For additional information about the conference, including biographies of the speakers, visit http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ishiphophistory or http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe.
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Friday, February 19
Conference Registration 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Opening Reception 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Music by Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno, special performance by Lifted and keynote address by legendary veejay Ralph McDaniels (Hot 97)
Saturday, February 20
Conference Registration 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address 10 a.m. – 12 noon
Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University
Panels: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Hip-Hop Media: From Paper to Blogs (1:00 – 3:00 pm)
Michaela Angela Davis, creative consultant, speaker, writer (moderator); Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AllHipHop.com; Datwon Thomas, COO/EIC, GlobalGrind.com, and Sonya Magett, blogger, tyra.com.
Is Hip-Hop History? (1:00 – 3:00 pm)
Carlito Rodriguez, writer and TV producer (moderator); DJ Red Alert "Bio" Feliciano, co-founder, Tats cru; Rokafella, co-founder, Full Circle Productions, and Lando Felix, founder of The Blind Spot and co-founder/former vice president, production and design, for Enyce and Mecca USA.
From My Life to the Paper: Writing the Hip-Hop Experience (3:00 – 5:00 p.m.)
Jay Smooth, host of WBAI's "The Underground Railroad," New York City's longest-running hip-hop radio show, and proprietor of hiphopmusic.com and illdoctrine.com (moderator); Adam Mansbach, author and 2009-2010 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University; Raquel Cepeda, award-winning editor, multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker; Dr. James Braxton Peterson, Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University, and Dr. Joseph G. Schloss, author and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College.
United We Stand (3:00 – 5:00 p.m.)
Hon. George Martinez, founder/chairman of the Global Block Association, board member emeritus, Hip-Hop Association and political science adjunct at Pace University (moderator); Jeffrey Kazembe-Batts and Luis "Plot" Sosa, co-chairpersons in the Universal Hip-Hop Parade for Social Justice Organization; Rosa Clemente, community organizer, activist, radio journalist (WBAI) and 2008 Green Party candidate for Vice President; Mariaelena Jorge, CCNY alumna and entrepreneur; Andre T. Mitchell, founder and chief executive officer of several organizations and initiatives including Man Up! Inc, Hip-Hop SUV (Stand Up & Vote) and F.I.P.A. (Formerly Incarcerated People Association), and Mike "Hollywood" Christie, founder and president of Talent Driven Network.


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BATON ROUGE -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain has a comfortable lead over Democratic opponent Barack Obama in Louisiana, but McCain's coattails do not appear long enough to help GOP Treasurer John Kennedy defeat U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., according to an independent poll released Monday by Southeastern Louisiana University.
The poll has McCain leading Obama 50.6 percent to 38.3 percent with support for other candidates at 1.7 percent, and the rest undecided or refused to say.
The same voters, however, favored a third term for Landrieu, 53.2 percent to 33.9 percent, over Kennedy. Another 1.4 percent favored another candidate and 11.6 percent either refused to say or were undecided.
The poll was conducted among 503 registered voters between Oct. 20-23 and has an error margin of 4.46 percentage points.
"While John McCain appears to have a comfortable lead over Barack Obama in the 2008 race for Louisiana's Electoral College votes, his electoral coattails do not help fellow Republican John Kennedy in his attempt to unseat" Landrieu, said Kurt Corbello, an SLU political scientist who spearheaded the survey with other faculty and students of the Southeastern Social Science Research Center.
Corbello cautioned that the results are a measurement of attitudes "two weeks away from Election Day, a time in which many things can happen to alter the patterns that we see."
Corbello said McCain is getting about 73 percent of the white vote and Obama getting 85.4 percent of the African-American vote in Louisiana. The only crossover, he said, comes from a small percentage of whites -- about 17 percent -- who prefer Obama.
Corbello said that among "chronic voters," those who vote in almost every election, McCain's leads goes to 17 points.
In the U.S. Senate race, Kennedy gets 46 percent of the white vote and 7.1 percent of the African-American vote, while Landrieu gets 39.9 percent of the white vote and 83.3 percent of the African-American vote.
The poll also shows Landrieu leading Kennedy in all regions of the state: the largest margin is in southeast Louisiana, where she leads 57.8 to 32.4 percent; her smallest lead is in Acadiana area, where she leads Kennedy 44.3 percent to 39.7 percent.
The Kennedy campaign's communications director, Leonardo Alcivar, disputed the poll's findings, saying sarcastically that those who did the poll must be "smoking crack. . . . Nobody believes this poll." Last week, Kennedy's internal polling showed Landrieu holding onto a 47 percent to 42 percent margin.
"The poll is certainly encouraging and shows that Sen. Landrieu's message of fighting and delivering for Louisiana is resonating with voters, but it is still just a poll," Landrieu campaign spokesman Scott Schneider said. "The only poll that matters will be on Nov. 4."
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The complete poll can be accessed on the university's Web site, www.selu.edu.
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Dear Marylou: I want to give my cherished beige wool Chanel suit to my 12-year-old daughter. She's too young to wear it now, of course, so I'd like to preserve it for her -- confident that a true classic never goes out of fashion. I've outgrown the suit or I would be wearing it now. Any ideas for storage? -- B.A.J., Denver
Dear B.A.J.: I just received a really good new Fabric Care Guide published by the makers of Downy Wrinkle Releaser and written by Janie Bryant, the acclaimed costume designer of "Mad Men" and winner of the Fashion Group International's Night of Stars' Edith Head Award. In this illustrated booklet, Bryant writes that "a wool garment can last a lifetime with the proper care." She goes on to recommend wrapping that garment in acid-free paper and storing in an unsealed box with cedar blocks, cloves or lavender sachets to repel moths.
"During the winter," she continues, "wool pants and jackets can be hung on wooden hangers lined with acid-free paper, while sweaters should be rolled or folded to prevent stretching. Vintage wool sometimes comes with an unpleasant musty smell, which can be remedied by spritzing it with Downy Wrinkle Releaser." (She's writing this for Downy, of course, but she's absolutely correct. I tried it, and it works.)
I Googled acid-free tissue paper and found it at shopping.google.com. Twelve sheets of 20-by-30-inch paper costs $5.70. Six sheets cost $3.32.
You might also want to go to downywrinklereleaser.com/janiebryant to read more of her clothing care tips.
Dear Marylou: Because of skin problems, my dermatologist says I should not wear clothes made from synthetic fibers. I can find silk, wool, linen and cotton clothes -- and cotton underwear -- but I cannot find a cotton swimsuit. And I need a cotton swimsuit for my January stay in the Bahamas. Surely women went swimming before the development of man-made fibers. I have visions of Mack Sennett bathing beauties cavorting all over the beach in tank suits. These must have been made of cotton, right? Can you help? -- A.M., Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Dear A.M.: Chances are the Mack Sennett bathing beauties did indeed wear cotton. Or wool. Both of these fibers were long used in swimwear before the advent of nylon, polyester and spandex. You'll find cotton swimsuits at ceebswimwear.com/cfacosw.html. Many were on sale when I checked.
Dear Marylou: People talk about fashion defining a time -- an era. Who defines fashion? -- P.J.M., Kansas City, Mo.
Dear P.J.M.: I love, love, love your question. Here are some thoughts:
Mark Twain called fashion man's only protection against finding himself out.
Shakespeare said fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Elizabeth Hawes said fashion is spinach.
Oscar Wilde called fashion that form of ugliness so intolerable it must be altered every six months.
Alexander Pope cautioned us: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
One of my favorite definitions of fashion, which seems especially appropriate for people in the fashion industry, is also from Wilde. "Fashion," he said, "is what one wears one's self. What is unfashionable is what other people wear."
Clotheslines readers, please tell me your definition of fashion.
Marylou Luther


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One in two Americans will develop knee osteoarthritis at some point in his or her lifetime, and if you suffer from this painful joint disease, you know how challenging it can be to stay moving.
But what if changing something as simple as your shoes could cut down on knee pain without medication or surgery?
Every step you take puts five times your body's weight on your knees and joints, but for those with osteoarthritis, the pressure can be unbearable.
"When that pain won't go away, it's debilitating," said Jim Harvey, whose pain began decades ago while carrying his two young girls. "I missed a step and I felt something go on my knee."
Harvey considered surgery, but instead enrolled in a new study that did not involve a trip to the operating room.
"We hope that if we can reduce load in some way, that we will prevent progression of arthritis and improve pain," said Dr. Najia Shakoor, associate professor of medicine and rheumatologist, Rush University Medical Center.
Prior research shows walking barefoot is the best way to reduce load on the knees, but that's not always practical. That's where the new mobility shoe comes in.
"We designed the shoe to essentially mimic being barefoot. So, you would still have some protective cover on your foot, but you would get a very natural barefoot-like gait," Shakoor said.
Results show after six-months, participants saw an 18 percent decrease in joint load, without drugs or surgery.
You may also find relief by just looking for a flat, flexible-soled shoe.
"Go out there and find a shoe that bends. See if it is sole bends and try it out," Shakoor suggested.
For Jim, it's been life-changing.
"Now, I don't want to take them off," Jim said.
It's a simple shoe that is making life more comfortable.
The mobility shoes run between $129 and $149.


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Randi Lucas of Tyrone and Zachary Fay of Bellwood are engaged to be married.
Miss Lucas is the daughter of Teresa Zimmerman of Lewistown and Mark Lucas of Tyrone and stepfather, Tony Confer of Bellefonte.
She is a 2002 graduate of Tyrone Area High School and a 2006 graduate of South Hills School of Business and Technology with an associate's degree in business administration, management and marketing.
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UPDATE 1:10 p.m.: Osgood said after practice that he won't be playing Saturday. Anwar will have more on that later.
ALLEN PARK -- Because the Detroit Lions officially signed Kassim Osgood on Wednesday, the veteran wide receiver and special teams ace will be eligible to play in the team's third preseason game on Saturday against the Oakland Raiders.
As part of the league's collective bargaining agreement, there is a required three-day acclimation period when a player first reports to practice during the preseason. On the first day, the player can only have a physical and attend meetings. On the second and third days, the player can practice, but only in a helmet and shell padding. After that, the player can suit up in full pads.
Because Thursday is technically Osgood's second with the Lions organization, he was on the field with the team at morning practice.
After wearing the No. 81 jersey in Jacksonville and San Diego, Osgood will switch to No. 10 with the Lions.


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MOBILE, Alabama -- Dr. Joyce C. Woodruff, who from1996 until her retirement in 2006 served as chairwoman of
the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at the University of South
Alabama, died Saturday. She was 64.
Born Nov. 7, 1946, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Woodruff earned a bachelor of science degree from Louisiana State University, a masters from the University of South Alabama and an Ed.D. from Auburn University.
Woodruff's life-long career in education began as a middle school science teacher and ended as a professor at the college level. While chairwoman of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at USA, Woodruff developed many new courses for the department, including online courses, according to her obituary. Woodruff was awarded the 2006 Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Continuing Education. Her professional activities included service on many USA committees, instructor for Freshman Leadership classes, Elderhostel and the Leadership Institute for Older Adults.
Woodruff was a member of the Adult Higher Education Alliance, the American Council of Higher Education, the American Counseling Association and the USA Council on Gerontology. Woodruff was a licensed professional counselor and served as an officer and board member of the Mobile Licensed Professional Counselor Association for more than 20 years.
Woodruff's volunteer activities included the Faculty Mentoring program, Victim's Advocate program, GED tutoring and the AARP Reading Buddy program. She was a member of the Baha'i Faith and served on the Local Spiritual Assembly, the administrative body for the Baha'i Faith, for more than 30 years.
Woodruff was preceded in death by her father, H. Newton Carter. She is survived by her mother, Floye B. Carter; her brother, F. Dale Carter; her husband of 43 years, Robert S. Woodruff; a son, John S. Woodruff; a daughter, Traci W. Phillips; 3 granddaughters; and numerous other friends and relatives.For more information, including service times, you may read Woodruff's complete obituary. You may also view and sign her guestbook. Links to all of today's coastal Alabama regional obituaries from the Press-Register follow:
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- Nichols, Margaret
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- Porter, Leslie J.
- Pugh, Ada
- Ware, Leo Pierce
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A stolen cellphone led police to two people who robbed three others early this morning near South Sixth and Pine streets in Easton, according to court papers.
Tywain Kahili Range, 24, of the 1200 block of Spruce Street, who was accompanied by a 17-year-old girl, pointed a black, semiautomatic handgun at Dallas Vietty, Kristen Jas Vietty and Jason Black about 12:33 this morning and told them to "empty your pockets," court papers say.
Dallas Vietty surrendered a black Apple iPhone 5 and credit cards; Kristen Jas Vietty gave up a brown wallet with credit cards, and Black turned over a black iPhone 4, Nissan car keys and several receipts, court papers say.
Dallas Vietty called his cellular provider and soon received a call back saying the phone was at 15 N. Union St., just a few blocks away, court papers say. He reported this to police and they responded to Apartment 4C at the location, where they found Range, who tried but failed to jump out a third floor, rear window, court papers say.
Range was taken into custody as were others in the apartment, court papers say. The three victims were brought to the scene and identified Range and the 17-year-old as the robbers, court papers say.
Range was arraigned on three counts of robbery and theft before on-call District Judge Patricia Romig-Passaro and sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $150,000 bail. The 17-year-old was also charged with robbery and theft, Easton police said, but was not arraigned before Romig-Passaro, an employee of the judge's Bethlehem court said.
Dallas Vietty said he didn't want to comment on the crime.


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The annual Soybean and Small Grains Congress is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at the Holiday Inn on Route 414 in Waterloo.
The event features updated information on soybean and small grain production and marketing for growers, plus an associated trade show of vendors of farm supplies and services.
Some topics on the agenda include: Future Management of Rust, Blights and White Mold in Soybean; Wheat Health Management with Rotations, Varieties & Fungicides; Small Grains Variety Trial Update; 2009 Changes in Soybean Crop Insurance Policies; Dandelion and Lambsquarter Control in Soybeans; Armyworm and Cereal Leaf Beetle; and Soybean Management Studies.
Certified pesticide applicators can earn 2.0 DEC recertification credits, and CCA continuing education credits can also be earned. Participants are reminded to bring their DEC license to receive credit.
Call Cathy Wallace at (585) 343-3040, ext 138 to register. The cost is $40 for the first person from each farm and $35 for each subsequent person from the same farm.


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Federal prosecution of George Zimmerman is unlikely if history has any bearing. Data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University shows that 76 percent of the racial violence cases referred to federal prosecutors are not pursued.
The likely federal charge against Zimmerman would be racial violence. According to information from the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecutors had a total of 11 convictions for racial violence so far this year, according to TRAC.
When all categories of civil rights charges are considered, federal prosecutors only went forward with 19 percent of the referred cases, according to TRAC's analysis.
The conviction rate is high, though, for the cases that do go forward. Prosecutors convicted defendants in 92 percent of all racial violence cases prosecuted this year.
See the report and an examination of all federal civil rights prosecutions since 1995.
Contact Marnie Eisenstadt at email@example.com or 315-470-2246.


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Khaseem Greene, Rutgers LB
Elizabeth native had a career-high 22 tackles and a forced fumble (his NCAA-leading sixth of the season) in a 28-7 victory over Army. Tackle total was the 3rd-highest in school history and ranks fifth on the Big East all-time singe-game chart. Earned Big East Defensive Player of Week honors.
Alec Lemon, Syracuse WR
Senior had nine catches for 176 yards and two TDs in a stunning 45-26 upset victory over previously undefeated Louisville. His two TDs came as part of a 21-0 second-quarter. Special mention: QB Ryan Nassib (15 of 23 for 246 yards, three TDs and no INTs) and RB Jerome Smith (144 yards rushing). Orange had no turnovers and tallied 524 yards total offense.
Rutgers special teams
Had two blocked field goals in a 28-7 victory over Army. Also forced a shanked punt of nine yards and a high snap on a punt that gave offense the ball at the Army 1-yard-line. Both miscues led to touchdowns. Leads the country with eight blocked kicks this season and have an NCAA-leading 31 blocks since 2009.
Chris Coyer, Temple QB
Junior was benched at halftime in a 34-10 loss to Cincinnati, completing just five of 16 passes for 56 yards and an interception in first half. With Coyer at quarterback, the Owls have scored only 47 over the past 3 ½ games. Junior backup QB Clinton Granger sparked team in second half vs. Cincinnati may get start this week at Army.
Louisville defense
Unit has been suspect all season and had a meltdown in a stunning 45-26 loss to Syracuse, giving up 278 yards rushing and 524 yards total offense. Point total was the most given up since a 63-14 beatdown by Rutgers in 2008.
One week after a triple-overtime loss to then-No. 3 Notre Dame, the Panthers had a major letdown in a 24-17 loss to offensively-challenged Connecticut. Pitt, which fell behind 24-0 at the half, remains one of the most enigmatic teams in the country, playing great one week and not showing up the next.
1. Rutgers (8-1, 4-0 in Big East)
Scarlet Knights, ranked No. 22 in the Associated Press rankings, take over the top spot following Louisville's loss to Syracuse but crunch time begins this week at Cincinnati. Once again, Knights didn't score any style points in a 28-7 victory over Army but they'll take it.
2. Louisville (9-1, 4-1)
Cardinals haven't received any respect nationally and now we see why following a 45-26 loss to Syracuse. This was a bad loss and their defense was exposed. Unit ranks fifth in scoring defense in Big East, allowing 24.6 ppg. They drop from No. 10 to No. 19 in the BCS standings.
3. Cincinnati (7-2, 3-1)
Bearcats are a dangerous team, even more so now that backup senior quarterback Brendon Kay, who replaced the struggling Munchie Legaux, has the offense back on track. Kay completed 13 of 21 points for 244 yards and two TDs and ran for 71 yards on seven carries in 34-10 romp over Temple.
4. Syracuse (5-5, 4-2)
We have liked the Orange for some time and they finally put it all together vs. Louisville. Orange salvage their season – and quiet talk about coach Doug Marrone's job – in knocking off the No. 11 ranked team in the AP poll for second straight season (Syracuse beat then-No. 11 West Virginia last season).
5. Pittsburgh (4-6, 1-4)
Talent-wise, the Panthers belong here despite their embarrassing 24-17 loss to Connecticut. Pitt, which has played five straight games without a turnover, have some of the best skill position players in the Big East in QB Tino Sunseri (16 TDs, two INTs), WR Devin Street (59 catches, 806 yards, 4 TDs) and RB Ray Graham (835 yards rushingg, 8 TDs).
6. Connecticut (4-6, 1-4)
Huskies defense has been lights-out all season and the offense finally showed up – for one half at least – in a 24-17 victory over a flat Pittsburgh team to snap a four-game losing streak. UConn raced to 24-0 halftime lead and held on. QB Chandler Whtimer hits 19 of 25 for 213 yards, one TD, one INT.
7. South Florida (3-6, 1-4)
Bulls, who snapped a six-game losing streak two weeks ago vs. Connecticut, had a bye and begins life without quarterback B.J. Daniels, who suffered a season-ending broken left ankle against UConn. Redshirt freshman QB Matt Floyd takes over.
8. Temple (3-6, 2-4)
After starting Big East play with victories over South Florida and Connecticut, the Owls have lost four straight – all conference games – and haven't been competitive, being outscored 161-54.
Rutgers at Cincinnati, Saturday, noon
The skinny: Scarlet Knights offense is going to have to get on the plane. Coaching staff was ultra-conservative with QB Gary Nova (14 of 17 for 123 yards, one TD, one INT) vs. Army. Cincinnati, which has a new starting QB in Brendon Kay, leads the Big East in scoring (34.2 ppg).
Temple at Army, Saturday, noon
The skinny: Yikes! This one figures to be hard to watch. Black Knights will pound the Owls with their triple-option offense. Temple can't find end zone with a GPS and will likely have a new quarterback in junior Clinton Granger, who may replace Chris Coyer.
South Florida vs. Miami (Fla.), Saturday, 3 p.m.
The skinny: Bulls face Hurricanes (5-5) and true freshman sensation Duke Johnson, who amassed 368 all-purpose yards in a 41-40 loss to Virginia, including 150 yards rushing and a 95-yard KO return.
Syracuse at Missouri, Saturday, 7 p.m.
The skinny: Orange must guard against a letdown following a victory over previously undefeated Louisville that saved their season. Tigers (5-5) are coming off a 51-48 four-overtime victory against Tennessee.
Next game: Nov. 24 at Louisville
Next game: Nov. 24 vs. Connecticut
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14 - Other currencies
Is there a way to get our other currencies to show up next to the gold display ?
Blizzard has set it up so that if you go to the currency tab and click on a specific currency such as Badges of Justice ( as a example ) you get a side pop-out menu to:
1 make hidden ( this moves the currency to a category called Hidden currency or something like that,
2. Show in bags ( makes this currency show below your gold silver copper coun in your bags
so I was wandering if you did put check marks by these could you have them shown as well next to or below the gold display in ArkInventory??
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NEW ULM - A family with a local connection - Luke and Stephanie Pekrul, and their son Augustin, age six months - are relocating to Nicaragua early next month, to help improve local people's access to safe, clean water.
Luke is the son of New Ulm residents William and Peggy Pekrul.
Growing up, Luke had long imagined being involved, in some capacity, with solving the challenges of the Third World.
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Photos courtesy of Bill Pekrul/Nuevas Esperanzas
Above: Luke and Stephanie Pekrul (with son Augustin) leave the New Ulm home of Luke's parents next month, to help improve water supply to poor farming communities in Nicaragua.
Above: People haul barrels of water by ox and cart from a water spring.
Above: Children often have the responsibility for collecting water on horseback.
Left: A completed cement tank with a domed roof and taps.
Left: Rainwater has been mostly overlooked in terms of its potential for providing the water needs of communities, despite a significant amount of rainfall.
"I just didn't know exactly what I'd do," he says. "I thought perhaps I'd be a doctor with Doctors Without Borders or something..."
He ended up earning bachelor's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., with a double major in International Development and Spanish. He would later graduate from Clark with a master's degree in International Development.
Luke worked in Worcester as a program director at Centro Las Americas, a community-based multi-service Latino organization. He volunteered in humanitarian efforts in Africa and Nicaragua; and taught English classes to Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
As a result of four months of volunteering in Nicaragua, Luke had learned about the work of a non-profit organization started in that country by a British couple.
Originally funded by international foundations and individuals under the umbrella of global charity Mercy Ships, the non-profit organization, now called Nuevas Esperanzas UK, seeks to increase the capacity of communities to meet their water needs, reduce water-related diseases and improve the management of natural resources.
With a similar vision, the Pekruls are now starting an independent arm, Nuevas Esperanzas US.
The organization will work with small communities located on the slopes of western Nicaragua's volcanic ranges.
The soil in that area is good, so people choose to live and farm there, despite the lack of easy access to water, says Luke.
The water supply is poor - it is a four to five-hour trip to a clean water spring. "You can't dig a well on the side of volcano," Luke explains.
The Pekruls want to help these communities collect rainwater. The area has a dry and rainy season - it rains during half of the year - and the rainfall is sufficient to justify the idea.
The non-profit will provide the materials and instructions to build water cisterns. The cisterns can be built to almost any scale, says Luke - for households, schools or health clinics. A 7,000-gallon cistern costs $1,500 and can be maintained for 20 years. It requires a couple of a cleanings a year, and Nuevas Esperanzas teaches the cistern recipients how to do those cleanings. The cisterns can fully meet people's washing and drinking needs.
Improving access to clean water has the potential to profoundly change the people's lives.
"If people do not have to spend four hours each day just getting water, they can spend more time working, or in school," says Luke.
"Worse, the lack of access to safe water is the second largest cause of infant deaths - because of water-born diseases."5
"If we can change that - we can reduce infant mortality rates in communities like that, by up to 50 percent... These are fundamental human impacts."
The recipients of the cisterns themselves put in most of the labor constructing the tanks. "Seeing the beneficiaries take ownership of these cisterns through their own effort and sacrifices is a very satisfying aspect of the work," says Luke.
The first, model project completed by the British group in 2005 directly affected about 2,400 people, including some 800 school children, in the community of San Jacinto. The group built 14 cisterns: one for the school, one for the clinic and 12 for individual households.
In addition to building water cisterns, the organization will do some road construction - otherwise materials have to be hauled on horseback, notes Luke.
Other aspects of the organization's work concern environmental conservation - efforts to stop deforestation and promote reforestation. This can be done in some simple ways - by helping people install more efficient wood burning stoves and manage run-off, for example.
Luke will be acting as project manager, doing things such as purchasing and distributing materials, supervising employees on the ground, and writing grants and contracts. The family will be based in the Central American nation's second largest city, Leon, and he will travel to project sites.
Stephanie will be involved in fund raising and some bookkeeping for the program.
Before making a commitment, the Pekruls traveled to the country to ensure that relocating there would be a good fit for the entire family, and not just for Luke - "it was us interviewing them," puts in Stephanie.
She had not been to Nicaragua, but had spent time in nearby Costa Rica as part of her own college experiences - she is an elementary teacher. She was easily sold on the Nicaragua project.
The family has made an indefinite time commitment, and they leave Luke's parents' New Ulm home at the beginning of September.
While the non-profit organization welcomes financial support, it is not the Pekruls' primarily reason for sharing their story.
Motivated by Christian faith, the couple hopes to help educate people about the predicament of others.
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2014 Cortland men's lacrosse
Season opener: Saturday at Albright, 1 p.m.
Key games: vs. No. 1 Stevenson in Uniondale, N.Y., March 21; vs. No. 2 RIT at the Carrier Dome, March 12; vs. No. 10 Nazareth, April 15.
Key losses: Senior goalie Mike Kaminski (first-team All-American, 18-1 record, 5.98 goals-against average, .633 save percentage in 2013); defenseman C.J. Nye (second on team with 45 ground balls).
Key returnees: Senior midfielder Joe Slavik (ECAC Offensive Player of the Year, first-team All-American, scored team-high 33 goals); senior defenseman Brian Winterfeldt (second-team All-American); senior attack Cody Consul (third on team in points with 54 — 28 goals and 26 assists).
Notable: Cortland is ranked No. 3 in the USILA poll. ... The team was 19-1 last season, the only loss coming to RIT, 10-9, in the Division III semifinals. ... Cortland has played in the NCAA tournament for 13 years in a row, winning the title in 2006 and 2009. ... Red Dragons have won six consecutive SUNYAC titles.


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Located along the River Orne, this terraced town house has a great view overlooking the river. Located in the little town of Pont d'Ouilly, the heart of Little Switzerland, with all facilities near by, the holiday property is ideal for those interested in canoeing, swimming, climbing and hiking. Historic Falaise with William the Conqueror's castle is 20km. Caen with the Peace Museum, horse racing and good shopping is 50km. Bagnoles de l'Orne, the famous spa centre with casino, lake, large forest and sports facilities is 50km. Shop and café/bar 25m, restaurant 100m.
Ground floor: Lounge, kitchen/diner, bathroom with toilet and basin. First floor: 1 twin bedroom. Second floor: Shower room with toilet and basin, 1 double bedroom. Third floor: 1 twin bedroom.
Electric heating, cot, colour TV (for DVD use only), DVD player, washing machine, tumble dryer, microwave, patio, outdoor furniture, barbecue, on street parking. Sorry, no pets.
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This charming 19th century holiday home has been lovingly renovated and elegantly refurbished to offer every comfort, it's beautiful and peaceful surroundings will ensure a relaxing and stress free break. The fantastic Mediterranean style garden is divided into individual spaces with terraces and planted with beautifully cropped bushes providing a nice place to enjoy the fresh and the rural surroundings. During sunshine the seating area in front of the house is very inviting; here you have excellent views to the spacious garden and to the two brooklets that run across the lot. The house is ideally situated to enjoy maximum sunshine in a rustic ambience.
Living/dining room. Kitchen. Three bedrooms: Two double, one twin. Bathroom with shower (no WC). Two separate WC
Location: 13km from Caen (war museums, castles, shops and restaurants), 26km from Bayeux (tapestry, cathedrals, museums).
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This large, pretty, stone holiday cottage, with private grounds, is comfortably furnished and perfect for a family getaway. Located in the grounds of the owners' home, it has a long drive and is surrounded by pretty gardens full of trees and flowers. The open fire in the lounge helps to create a cosy atmoshphere. Sitauted at the heart of the Suisse Normande region, it is ideal for holidays enjoying the countryside and outdoor sports. Canoeing and climbing are available locally and there is a golf course just 10km away. Visit the nearby city of Caen, just 20km away, with its castle, beautiful men's abbey, many museums, including Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen, and memorial. For day trips further afield, guests will love Cabourg (31km), Lisieux (37km) and Saint-Lô (91km). Shop and restaurant 4km, beach 20km.
Ground floor: Lounge/diner, kitchen, shower room with basin (no toilet), separate toilet. First floor: Bathroom with toilet and basin, 4 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 twin, 2 single.
Electric heating, open fire in lounge, cot, highchair, satellite TV, DVD player, washing machine, tumble dryer (until 2017), dishwasher, microwave, shared lawned garden, garden furniture, barbecue, off road parking for 1 car. Sorry, no pets. NB: Pond in garden.
This delightful terraced cottage is conveniently situated in Le Molay-Littry. It has remarkable character, with its comfortable furnishings and welcoming interior design, this will be your home away from home. The large open terrace and garden furniture are perfect for barbecues and al fresco dining. The cottage has a 900 m² lawned landscaped garden which is ideal for quietly relaxing or entertaining in the fresh outdoors. The region of Calvados is best known for its famous namesake apple brandy, but also attracts tourists with its beautiful sandy beaches which are perfect for water sports. With things to see and do for all ages, you will undoubtedly be spoilt for choice for things to do on your unforgettable holiday. Within easy driving distance awaits the medieval towns of Bayeux and Caen where there are a wealth of historical castles, tapestries and monasteries to explore. Immerse yourself in the history of WWII by visiting the D-Day landing beaches, Memorial de Caen or the British War Cemetery in Bayeux. 18km from Saint-Lô. Golf course nearby. Shops and restaurant 500m.
Lounge, dining room, kitchen, 4 bedrooms: 3 double, 1 single, 2 shower rooms with basins, 1 with toilet, two separate toilets.
Central heating, colour TV (French channels only), DVD player, video, CD player, washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, microwave, large open terrace, lawned landscaped garden, garden furniture, barbecue, ample parking. Sorry, no pets. No smoking please. NB: Curving stairs to first floor.
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State police have cited a 74-year-old man for harassment because they say he's been parking in the fire lane outside a western Pennsylvania store and making sexually suggestive comments to women as they leave.
Troopers from the Indiana, Pa., barracks say in a news release that John Fleck, of Black Lick, has also followed the women to their cars on several occasions.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Fleck and his home telephone was disconnected Wednesday.
Police have cited him specifically with harassing a 35-year-old woman outside a Wal-Mart store in Burrell Township on July 26, but say he's done the same thing to other women at the store about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh.


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FRUITLAND TOWNSHIP — While the road to an approved 2008-09 budget was bumpy for the Fruitland Township Board, the spending plan that is effective April 1 will likely lead to a smooth ride on one of the township's bumpy roads.
The township board of trustees, in a split vote Monday night, adopted a budget that maintains most of the spending reforms set in place in the 2007-08 budget and earmarked funds for reconstruction of a stretch of Orshal Road. The board approved the budget by a 4-3 vote.
The general fund budget for the upcoming fiscal year calls for $931,628 in revenues and $903,171 in expenditures, similar figures to those established for the previous fiscal year when the board trimmed nearly 10 percent of the township's spending. The overall budget also features additional, separate funds, including a larger public roads fund.
Trustee Norma Binns credited Supervisor Greg Boughton, whose job as fiscal officer is to prepare the proposed budget, with designing a spending plan that follows the direction given by the board.
"I'm comfortable that you did the job we asked you to do," Binns said.
Others, such as Trustee Mary Eley, disagreed with that assessment. She said she wanted more opportunities for public discussion and input with additional meetings being held, a formula she contends led to the reduced spending in the previous year's budget.
"Mr. Supervisor, this is not the best we can do," Eley said.
Boughton defended the budget process, having provided a copy to trustees in February, and called it a "good budget."
"If this violates you, vote no," Boughton said. "Vote your conscience."
One of the highlights in the budget is $150,000 set aside for road repair on Orshal Road, which was ranked as the top priority by a special roads committee last year. The township's public roads fund features $520,494, a substantial growth from the $326,000 the fund had at the start of the 2007-08 fiscal year.
The board has directed other funds into that account and more may be added when the final budget adjustments are made for the current fiscal year at a special meeting on March 31.
Boughton said the Muskegon County Road Commission will kick in $75,000 for the project that is tentatively slated on the commission's summer work schedule. The tentative plans for the project call for the work to start at Duck Lake Road and extend south to River Road.
The debate over ways to fix the township's deteriorating roads lasted for months. At one point early last year, township residents expected to go to the polls to vote on a proposed 1-mill road tax, but the board pulled the question last March after hearing opposition.
Boughton said the plan is to use money from the public roads fund, when available, to repair the roads. A special roads committee originally made up a priority list of eight projects.


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Early this week, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain travelled to Nairobi, Kenya to attend the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit, an international meeting organized by the Microcredit Summit Campaign which took place from April 7th to 10th. More than 2,000 people from 40 countries worldwide were present at the meeting, whose main goal is to spread the use of the microfinance in order to eradicate poverty, especially in Africa … Continue readingPosted in Spanish Royals | Tagged Audience, Co-Operation Trip, Ethiopia, Health, Kenya, Microcredit, President Kibaki, President Wolde-Giorgis, Queen Sofia | Leave a comment
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HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein made a short trip to Kenya on January 8, 2010 in her role as a UN Messenger of Peace. The purpose of the visit was to encourage a local and global response to catastrophic food shortages. "As many as 20 million people in the region around the Horn of Africa are suffering from food shortages that have been exacerbated by the prolonged drought. One in … Continue readingPosted in Jordanian Royals, UAE Royals | Tagged Dubai, Health, Kenya, Patronage, Poverty, President Kibaki, Princess Haya, United Nations, Working Visit | Leave a comment


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The NJSIAA released the sectional classifications for the 2014 boys soccer season. Several teams around the state switched groups and sections, so check to see where your team stands.
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MARQUETTE, MI -- The search for Michigan's Best Pizza is now over, and all that's left is the real work: Deciding the Top 10.
While I go over my notes, as well as those by photographer/reporter Fritz Klug -- who has traveled with me to each and every stop -- I thought I would share with you links to stories and photographs from our crews all over the state.
All the reporters and photographers did a fantastic job of chronicling each stop, which will you will see if you check out the links.
Our Top 10 list will be revealed at 7 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, online and in our print newspapers in all markets.
Who's going to win the title?
All of the restaurants are worthy of recognition, each making the initial cut by gathering enough votes to be tops in their markets.
And my job for the last nine days has been to travel to all 33 of our finalists to come up with my list.
Here are the links of photos, galleries and stories to all of our visits to this point:
Sunday, Nov. 10-Kalamazoo, Vicksburg
• Jaspare's Pizza introduces new pizza, shows off Sweet Memphis, pepperoni
• Oh my gouda!: Erbelli's amazes with variety of new specialty pizzas, classics
• Bimbo's Pizza slices into the Michigan's Best Pizza contest with family recipes
Monday, Nov. 11-Muskegon, Grand Haven
• Bernie O's 'The Twist' one of Gonzo's favorite pizzas on the trip so far
• Fricano's Pizza Tavern impresses with thin-crust pizza, traditional style
Tuesday, Nov. 12-Jerome, Spring Arbor, Jackson, Chelsea, Ann Arbor
• A pizza for any taste at Ann Arbor's Pizza House
• Thompson's serves up hometown classic pizza
• Mani Osteria brings imaginative ingredients and authentic approach to pizza
• Klavon's Pizzeria and Pub's mighty Chicago-style stuffed pie impresses during Michigan's Best Pizza tour
• Laughlin's Slice of Spice provides taste of old Italy during Michigan's Best Pizza tour (with video and gallery)
• The Deck Down Under showcases innovative recipes during Michigan's Best Pizza spot (with gallery and video)
Wednesday, Nov. 13-Flint, Flushing, Detroit, Millington
• Gonzalez praises Luigi's 55-year-old recipe, tradition
• Roma Pizzeria in Mt. Morris impresses tasters with time-honored recipes
• Gina's impresses MLive reporters with renowned breadsticks, stacked toppings
• Supino to expand at Detroit's Eastern Market in 'early 2014,' owner says
• Buddy's stays true to its Detroit roots, expands offerings
• Surprise Visit: Millington's Cardinal Country Pizza specializes in community spirit and one-of-a-kind pies
Thursday, Nov. 14-Frankenmuth, Hemlock, Bay City, Linwood
• Hemlock's MaMa Mia's Pizzeria offers a sweet sauce and a sense of home
• Gonzo says the unique PastaPitza is worth a try at Tiffany's of Frankenmuth
• Creativity and a great selection of pizzas greet Gonzo at T.Dub's of Frankenmuth
• D'Angelo's Pizza is last stop in Bay County in MLive's search for Michigan's Best Pizza
• Bay County's B&C Pizza welcomes crew from MLive in search of Michigan's Best Pizza
• MLive crew makes its way to Linwood Hotel for Michigan's Best Pizza search
Friday, Nov. 15, Lansing, Alma and Ludington
• Pizza Sam's mainstay in Alma; recipes loved by students, community
• Chuck Wagon in Ludington offers great piece in an intimate atmosphere
• Cugino's calzones and variety impress Gonzo and the MLive crew
• DeLuca's variety -- including a baked potato pizza -- is a big hit with the MLive Lansing crew
Saturday, Nov. 16, Grand Rapids, Grand Haven
• Gonzo helps Mitten Brewing celebrate anniversary
• Harmony Brewing delivers local flavor on Gonzo's search
• Gonzo tries Mr. Scrib's popular pizzas
Sunday, Nov. 17-Manistee
• Big Al's in Mainstee serves us family recipe, delicious strombolis
Monday, Nov. 18--Houghton, Iron River, Ishpeming
• The Ambassador in Houghton offers tostada pizza with red sauce
• Riverside Pizzeria in western UP offers same pizzas as 50 years ago
• Want Cudighi on a pizza? Look no further than Congress Pizzas in Ishpeming
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What is it really like to live in Jerusalem? Promises offers touching and fresh insight into the Middle East conflict when filmmakers Shaprio, Goldberg, and Bolado travel to this complex and charged city to see what seven children — Palestinian and Israeli — think about war, peace, and just growing up. Living within 20 minutes of each other, these children are nevertheless locked in separate worlds. Through candid interviews, the film explores a legacy of distrust and bitterness, but signs of hope emerge when some of the children dare to cross the checkpoints to meet one another.
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- Carlos BoladoProducer
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"France has opened the gates of hell for all the French." Actually, Obama has, by enabling the growth of this Islamic supremacist movement in Mali. They're using weapons they got from the Libya jihadists, who were supplied by...the U.S.
Mali Islamists counter attack, promise France long war Reuters January 14 (thanks to Vijay)
BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels launched a counteroffensive in Mali on Monday after four days of French air strikes on their northern strongholds, seizing the central town of Diabaly and promising to drag France into a brutal Afghanistan-style war.
France, which has poured hundreds of troops into the capital Bamako in recent days, carried out more air raids on Monday in the vast desert area seized last year by an Islamist alliance grouping al Qaeda's north African wing AQIM alongside Mali's home-grown MUJWA and Ansar Dine militant groups.
"France has opened the gates of hell for all the French," a spokesman for MUJWA, Oumar Ould Hamaha, told Europe 1 radio. "She has fallen into a trap which is much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia."
Paris is determined to shatter Islamist domination of northern Mali, which many fear could become a launchpad for terrorism attacks on the West and a base for coordination with al Qaeda in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa.
MUJWA, which has imposed strict sharia law in its northern fiefdom of Gao, promised France would pay for air strikes on the city. Dozens of its fighters died on Sunday when rockets hit a fuel depot and a customs house being used as a headquarters.
Launching a counter-attack far to the southwest of recent fighting, Islamists dislodged government forces from the town of Diabaly, just 350 km (220 miles) northeast of Bamako. French and Malian troops attempting to retake the town were battling Islamists shouting 'Allahu akbar', residents said.
The rebels infiltrated the town overnight from the porous border region with Mauritania, home to AQIM camps housing well-equipped and trained foreign fighters.
France, which has repeatedly said it has abandoned its role as the policeman of its former African colonies, convened a U.N. Security Council meeting for Monday to discuss the Mali crisis....


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On Wednesday, Christian churches that observe the season of Lent will overflow with ordinary people, waiting in line for a smudge of ashes, the familiar refrain that they are sinners and an assurance that, if they turn away from sin, they will be redeemed. Pastors have long wondered why more people turn out for Ash Wednesday than for Easter services.
But even that sacramental moment has been secularized in a culture where cyclist Lance Armstrong's doping confession took two nights on cable television and required the sympathetic mediation of Oprah Winfrey. Maybe Frohnmayer is on to something. Are attitudes toward sin changing?
These days, the writer and former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities farms nine acres near Jefferson, east of Albany. A former seminary student, he says he's "parted ways" with the Christian church, but sin is still on his mind.
Recently he dissected the seven deadly vices in a piece he wrote for Oregon Humanities magazine. He began with the fourth-century list composed by a Greek monastic and edited 200 years later by Pope Gregory I. The sins that made the first list are lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
It's a list that doesn't work for him anymore, Frohnmayer says.
Human beings need a healthy sense of pride in themselves, he says. "When Muhammad Ali declared, 'I am the greatest,' he was just telling the truth," Frohnmayer argues.
"Envy is positive when it inspires us to do better." We need more righteous anger, not less, he writes. "Without lust, the human race is toast."
The original sense of sin is something that offends God, Frohnmayer says in an interview. "But sin, or whatever you want to call it, really is much more important if it offends society now than a higher power."
Frohnmayer's revised list includes distraction (think pervasive electronic devices), selfishness (think reality television), apathy (think nonvoters), dishonesty (think Wall Street), hypocrisy ("Americans still think we are exceptional"), cowardice (think laughing at a friend's racist joke) and ignorance (think talk shows).
Frohnmayer's secular sense of sin reflects the changing attitudes toward temptation and vice revealed in a study released last month by the Barna Group, a California-based Christian research organization. In a national survey that included 1,021 online interviews, Americans confessed to three broad categories of temptations: "new" ones involving technology, "old" ones that echo some of the original seven deadlies and others dubbed "peculiarly Western."
Leading the list of new temptations were "spending too much time on media" (44 percent said they did), viewing pornography or sexually inappropriate content (18 percent confessed) and "going off" on someone via text or email (11 percent admitted to it).
The top old-school sins included "eating too much" (55 percent said they had), "spending too much money" (44 percent) and "gossiping" (26 percent). Much lower on this list were lying or cheating (12 percent) or sexually inappropriate behavior (9 percent), leading to the familiar observation that survey takers sometimes paint themselves in the best possible light.
The Rev. Peter Byrne, a member of the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, wonders if a shifting attitude toward sin is the result of people's tendency to want to name things and often trivialize them in the process.
To think of gluttony as "eating too much" doesn't seem as bad as the willful and reckless consumption implied in the original term, for example.
"Ultimately, pride is the great sin," Byrne says. "But we use different words for it. We know we need a good healthy pride, but biblical pride is over-exaggerated, more like the Greek word 'hubris.'" When hubris runs rampant, individuals – let alone entire countries – are not able to name it right, he says.
A twisted sense of what Byrne calls "American exceptionalism" may be at play in the third category of the Barna study: 41 percent of Americans admitted to being lazy, 60 percent said they were guilty of procrastinating and an equal percentage confessed the sin of "worrying."
"Worrying?" It was enough to make Brian Doyle, a Portland writer whose confessions appear regularly online and in print, laugh out loud. "Worrying is normal," he says, especially for parents, children, lovers and friends.
Doyle, who edits the University of Portland magazine, has confessed in writing to missing his cousin's funeral, being surly to his parents, taking his wife for granted, snarling at his children, judging his friends and stealing -- shampoo or notepads from hotels and seats from old ladies on public buses. His sins are the sort that don't often make "deadly" lists, but he recognizes them for what they are.
"Everybody has a sense of sin, developed through evolution," he says in an interview. "You have a deep sense of doing something wrong." As a practicing Catholic and a writer, he doesn't set much store in lists of deadly sins.
"All the lists, even the Ten Commandments, are all the same sins," he says, "sins of selfishness. Sin itself is not a religious idea. It's a deeply spiritual and human thing."
He is, however, a true believer when it comes to the power of confession.
"People know full well when they screw up. It's cathartic and healthy to say so," he says. "To have a blunt admission of what you do wrong opens up a window to what you can do right."
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A little Christmassy music box loop.
If you have a nice usage for it, please let me know.
Used it for what will be a rather twisted family video Christmas card. Thanks!
Just amazing, I used it for one of my Christmas game, and people loved it.
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This is exactly what I was looking for! I used it for a christmas thing here: https://vimeo.com/115388449 Thanks for putting this up and happy christmas!
Lovely song <3
used it last year in my animated christmas card.
Love it and want to use it in a non-commercial new Christmas song.
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