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A recent ruling of the Delhi High Court has brought forth an open secret about social media- millions of minors across the world are accessing these social networking sites despite rules barring them from doing so.
The Delhi High Court in its ruling, said that it wants Facebook and Google to submit their suggestions to ensure that minors in India do not open accounts . Even as social media giants fight it out in Indian court, developments in the US, where both Facebook and Google Inc are headquartered – indicate that enforcing age restrictions has failed to keep kids off social media.
Facebook has restricted access to children under the age of 13 as per the US law, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Trolling, cyber-bullying and child pornography remain the primary reasons from disallowing kids from accessing the social networking site.
Many dos and donts of social conduct applicable in the real world become redundant in the cyber world.
"We tell our kids about good touch and bad touch. We warn them against talking to strangers. These are social codes. But do they apply in virtual world? Are the activities we do on Facebook, private or social? Social networking sites have blurred the boundaries between social and private," said Nishant Shah, Director, Research, at the Bangalore based Centre for Internet & Society.
But the fact is that under-13 children continue to create Facebook accounts by lying about their ages while completing the application form.
To know the dynamics of children accessing Facebook, more than 1,000 US parents participated in joint research conducted by Harvard, University of California, Northwestern University and Microsoft Research in 2011.
"Of all parents surveyed – including ones whose children are not on Facebook – 36 percent reported that their child joined Facebook under the age of 13 even if the child is now older than 13. When considering just the parents who report that their child is on Facebook, 72 percent reported that their child joined Facebook when the child was younger than 13," said the report.
Of the 20 million minors who actively used Facebook, at least 5.6 million were younger than 13, according to projections from Consumer Reports' State of the Net survey released in 2012.
This explains why the social media giant is exploring the possibilities of adding children under 13 in its pool of users. Facebook is testing a technology which would allow kids to access the site under parental guidance, reported the Wall Street Journal. "Mechanisms being tested include connecting children's accounts to their parents' and controls that would allow parents to decide whom their kids can "friend" and what applications they can use, people who have spoken with Facebook executives about the technology said. The under-13 features could enable Facebook and its partners to charge parents for games and other entertainment accessed by their children, the people said," noted the report.
Back in India, analysts wonder if there are easy solutions to be found. Senior advocate and cyber law expert Pawan Duggal said that a middle path between the Indian and US laws looks difficult. "As per Facebook norms, one has to sign a contract with the site to become a user. The age of majority, according to the Indian Majority Act, is 18 years. Anyone below this age is unable to enter into any kind of contract. Unless the Parliament amends this law, minors in India cannot legally access sites like Facebook," he said.
Rather than reacting in a knee jerk manner just because this is social media, the government should apply the same logic and caution it does in dealing with problems in the real world, said Nishant Shah.
"All the time, through TV, newspaper, movies, children are exposed to material which does not leave a very good impact on their. There, they are treated as consumers and hence, it is not considered harmful. But on Facebook, they are not merely consumers. They are active participants as they are involved in the act of registration on these sites. And hence, all the talk of laws and punishment," he said.
With the ease with which one can lie about age while creating a Facebook account, parental guidance or some other kind of monitoring appears the only way forward, according to Mumbai based lawyer Prashant Mali. "These sites can certainly spend a small chunk of their budget in creating mass awareness for parents so that parents are better prepared to deal with the issue. The other way can be to ensure that a minor can open an account with the help of a guarantor. Facebook community pages of the kid's school can verify the kid's details," he said.
Publish date: May 27, 2013 11:00 am| Modified date: May 27, 2013 11:00 am
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Falcone Agrees to Five-Year Ban in Stiffer Deal With SECSaijel Kishan and Dave Michaels
For Philip Falcone, the price of hanging on to his dream of building a wireless broadband network is a new, tougher settlement with U.S. regulators that requires him to admit wrongdoing and bans him from the hedge-fund industry that made him a billionaire.
Falcone will be barred from the industry for at least five years, up from two years under a proposed deal rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in July, the regulator said yesterday. The earlier settlement didn't force him or Harbinger Capital Partners LLC, his $3 billion firm, to admit any wrongdoing. In return, the agency is allowing him to continue running Harbinger Group Inc., a publicly traded company, as well as LightSquared Inc., a venture that is seeking to build a wireless broadband network.
The SEC accused Falcone, who rose to fame after betting against the U.S. housing market in 2006, of improperly borrowing money from his fund to pay his personal taxes and said he gave preferential treatment to some of his investors in returning their capital. The regulator also accused Falcone of engaging in a short squeeze of bonds held by a Canadian manufacturer.
"Falcone and Harbinger engaged in serious misconduct that harmed investors, and their admissions leave no doubt that they violated the federal securities laws," Andrew Ceresney, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division, said in yesterday's statement. "Falcone must now pay a heavy price for his misconduct by surrendering millions of dollars and being barred from the hedge-fund industry."
Fund Liquidation
The bar from the securities industry will allow Falcone to liquidate his hedge funds under the supervision of an independent monitor, the SEC said. He and his New York-based firm will pay an $18 million fine, the same amount as called for in the original settlement.
That deal, proposed in May, was rejected two months later by the commission because it was too lenient, two people with knowledge of the matter said at the time.
In June, two months after being sworn in as SEC chairman, Mary Jo White said the agency would depart from a decades-old practice of settling cases without requiring defendants to admit to wrongdoing. The decision to seek such admissions would "turn on how much harm has been done to investors, how egregious is the fraud," she said.
"I am pleased that we were able to reach a settlement to resolve these matters with the SEC," Falcone said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. "I believe putting these issues behind me now is the best course of action for me and our investors. It will allow me to continue to focus on my permanent capital vehicles and maximizing the value of LightSquared for all stakeholders."
LightSquared Bankruptcy
Falcone has invested clients' money in Reston, Virginia-based LightSquared, which last year filed for bankruptcy.
The settlement, in which the SEC described Falcone and his funds as acting "recklessly," is pending approval by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The settlement marks the first use of the new policy under White to seek admissions of fault in some cases. At the same time, it doesn't bar Falcone from working as an officer or director of a public company, and doesn't include an injunction barring him from future violations of securities laws.
Ceresney said in May the SEC would better tailor injunctions to the misconduct observed in specific cases.
"So it's possible there was more than the usual horse-trading in this settlement, where the SEC gave up some of its usual relief in exchange for setting the precedent for admissions of wrongdoing," said Russell G. Ryan, a former SEC enforcement attorney and now a partner in Washington at King & Spalding LLP.
'Right Direction'
The agreement is a "step in the right direction" because it shows the SEC can carry out White's policy, said James Cox, a professor at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, who specializes in securities law. Banning Falcone from the industry for five years, instead of simply fining him, constitutes "real repercussions."
"Where we are more likely to see cases like this are in the investment-adviser and broker-dealer, market-professional areas, where the damages are more confined and contained, and the fear of mega-liability and private suits is more limited," Cox said.
The SEC said Falcone, 51, misappropriated investor assets when he took a $113 million loan in October 2009 from one of his funds to pay personal taxes. At that time, he had restricted his clients from pulling their money from that fund. While he knew in April 2009 that he would have a tax bill in the tens of millions of dollars, he continued to spend money on renovations of his $49 million Manhattan townhouse.
Client Redemptions
The same year that Falcone took out the loan, he let some large investors pull their money from his funds in return for their vote to approve a plan to restrict client redemptions from a different fund. Harbinger concealed these deals from the independent directors and fund investors, according to the SEC.
The agency also accused Falcone and two of his funds of engaging in a short squeeze of MAAX Holdings Inc. bonds, a transaction in which a buyer limits the supply of a security to drive up prices and cause losses for investors betting against the security.
Falcone will continue his role as chief executive officer of Harbinger Group, the $1.28 billion public holding company he controls.
White and two Democratic commissioners last month voted against the proposed settlement because they were concerned the deal didn't include a public-company ban, two people with knowledge of the matter said at the time, asking not to be named because the deliberations weren't public.
Long-Term Capital
The SEC agreed to settle the case without extracting that penalty because Falcone's misconduct stemmed from his work as a registered investment adviser and not as a public-company director, another person familiar with the matter said yesterday.
Regulators also decided the bar from serving as a director wasn't necessary because Falcone admitted to conduct that may serve as a warning to investors in his companies, the person said. Under the agreement, Falcone can assist with the liquidation of Harbinger's hedge funds but can't raise any new money.
Falcone has said he planned to move away from hedge-fund investing, where clients can pull out their money at regular intervals, and instead use Harbinger Group to finance long-term investments.
Harbinger Group shares gained 2.9 percent yesterday to $8.95. They have gained 16 percent this year.
LightSquared filed for bankruptcy in May 2012, listing assets of $4.48 billion and debt of $2.29 billion. It sought bankruptcy protection to reorganize while seeking regulatory approval of its wireless spectrum. U.S. regulators blocked the service in 2012 after GPS-device makers and users -- including the U.S. military and commercial airlines -- said signals from LightSquared's service would confound navigation gear.


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Feelings (disambiguation)
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|Look up feelings in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Feelings may refer to:
- Feelings (book), a 1975 collection of writings by Evan X Hyde
- Feelings (1974 film), a 1974 British film directed by Gerry O'Hara
- Feelings (2003 film), a 2003 French film
- Feelings Paul Anka album 1975 in music
- Feelings (Johnny Mathis album), 1975
- Feelings (Ferrante & Teicher album), 1977
- Feelings (David Byrne album), 1997
- Feelings (The Grass Roots album), 1968
- "Feelings" (Maroon 5 song), 2015
- "Feelings" (Morris Albert song), a 1975 song by Loulou Gaste, made famous by Morris Albert
- Feelings, a 2008 song by Basic Element from The Truth
- "Feelins'", a 1975 song by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
- Feelings, a 1998 parody of the Morris Albert song by the Offspring
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- Mixed feelings, ambivalence
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Lookin to replace my old furnace. The house is 33 years old. What furnace should I replace it with a 80 or 90 plus?
Lookin to replace my old furnace. The house is 33 years old. What furnace should I replace it with a 80 or 90 plus?
From what I have seen I personally would go with the 80 even though fuel costs are up. The 90 is more expensive initially, maintenance costs are much higher, and maintenance is required more often. I believe the extra costs far outweigh the savings in fuel cost. Just my personal opinion. I will note I am not an HVAC guy.
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I agree with McDaniel, but could you provide more info as to exactly what type of system you have in mind.
Some people refer to a hot water heating system as a "furnace", when they actually mean to say a BOILER--a boiler supplies piped hot water to room radiators, baseboard or underfloor radiant heating pipes.
A "furnace" thus specifically refers to a forced hot air heating system that supplies hot air to a duct system and hot air registers in the rooms.
Could you also advise if you now use oil or natural gas, or propane as a fuel & your general location.
Please post back.
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I live in Mentor, OH and use natural gas. The old furnace is a 175000 btu Rheem that supplies forced hot air to a duct system . The house is 2800 sq ft colonial. I have been quoted a 125000 btu Ducane furnace to replace the old one. Thank you very much for all your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
i like the 90 plus. they are much more reliable now and pretty cheap to buy. plus, venting is easier.


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Superclown, did those sites load partially with some links/options clickable or was it a complete white screen with nothing clickable at all?
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Either I've missed the statements where they are gathering data, or you are promoting misinformation.
It's also possible they are collecting information without regard to their privacy policy. I'd think someone would find a reason to jump on that.
Chrome users will be more likely to fit into certain demographics, just like IE, Firefox, Opera etc users might be more likely to fit into different demographics. You'd be skewing the data based on that fact for sure. If you could collect data from a completely random third of Internet users, the aggregate data would be far more representative in my opinion.


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Plenty of "180s" in the News This Week
New York, NY —ANCHOR LEAD: President Bush, who long opposed the idea of a homeland security department, now says that's the best way to prevent terrorism. If that seems like an unusual one-eighty, WNYC's Brian Lehrer says it was actually typical of this week's news.
BRIAN: remember the Woody Allen movie sleeper? In that film, when the future arrives, it turns out that everything medical science thought it knew was wrong. Milkshakes turn out to be the healthiest food, vegetables the most likely to kill you off young.
That's kind of what the news this week has been like.
Let's start with welfare reform. One of the goals of the Clinton Gingrich reforms of 1996 was to increase marriage rates among poor single mothers. The theory was, if they couldn't laze around all day sponging off us taxpayers and watching soap operas, they'd have to find jobs and husbands to support their kids. But studies in Connecticut and Iowa - described by the New York Times as rigorous - have found as welfare recipients entered the workforce their marriage rates actually went down. The best speculation why is that as these women, like other working women, became more financially independent, they were less likely to settle for the wrong man. And, like other working moms, they had less time and energy for relationships. The big shock here for the marriage movement: poor people actually are like the rest of us, not a species apart.
Or take longer and tougher prison sentences. The theory was that locking up criminals longer - and depriving them of luxuries like job training and drug rehab - would make them suffer so much in the joint, they wouldn't dare commit crime again when they got out. But a justice department report released this week finds the recidivism rate among felons who completed their sentences has actually gone up during the get-tough years. Speculation about THIS now is that no job training left people less prepared for honest work, and no drug rehab left them more likely to do drugs. Who would have thought?
Then, there's the notion that everyone made more money in the 1990s. While the media obsessed over the NASDAQ, bill gates, and rising beamer sales, census figures released this week show that the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line was essentially unchanged from 1990-2000. In New York and California, the percentage of poor people actually went up. And marriage advocates take note: the census also shows that the median income for men actually went down in the 90s in most states... while women made more money almost everywhere. Those women are going to be picky picky picky. Better get them back on welfare, and fast.
Finally, did you see who was out at the rally for New York City education funding this week? Rap music icons like Russell Simmons, Alicia keys and Wyclef Jean - not to mention thousands of their fans. Now, hadn't we already decided that hip-hop culture was anti-education, and just wants kids to become gangstas? Oh well, pass the milkshakes.
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IUP's resident faculty string quartet will perform two world premieres on Sunday, April 10, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall.
The two works feature compositions by faculty composers David Martynuik and Jack Stamp. Dr. Martynuik's work is titled "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet" and will feature Dr. Martynuik as clarinetist. "String Quartet No. 1," by Jack Stamp, is a four-movement work. It is dedicated to faculty members Irvin Kauffman and the late Irving Godt.
The Litton Quartet will also perform Beethoven's Op. 59, no. 3 string quartet.
The Litton Quartet features faculty members Stanley Chepaitis and Linda Jennings. In addition, area professionals Swana Chepaitis and Raul Faure complete the quartet.
The ensemble is named for the late Robin Litton. Mr. Litton graduated with a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1960. He taught music and served as a band director at Grahamville High School in the New York State Public School System before entering the field of television production.
During the 1970s, Mr. Litton worked as program coordinator for ABC-TV entertainment and was senior program coordinator for Special Events for ABC-TV News during the 1980s. He produced many major events, including both Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions, launchings of the space shuttle, and the French bicentennial parade and celebrations.
Mr. Litton was named a Distinguished Alumnus of IUP in 1982 and served as a member of the IUP Alumni Association board of directors. He was a member of Kappa Delta Rho social fraternity and Phi Mu Sinfonia professional musicians fraternity.
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Conrad Murray Cries About Constant Pain In Released Voicemail
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TMZ has acquired one of the voicemails that Murray left for a friend in which he cries constantly about the pain he is in and begs for someone to save him.
In the message, he said: "I can't sleep now … it's very hard … I'm in constant pain … can someone please help me please!?"
He said he has a shoulder injury that has crippled him. He added: "I can't use my hands anymore … I have no more use of my arms."
He has been calling everyone he knows for help but no one has answered. He told his friend to call Sheriff Baca for help. He said: "Ask him to please see me, maybe he don't know what happens in here."
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Japan shares tumble on earnings
On Wednesday, Japanese stocks dropped amid gloomy corporate earnings ahead of long-awaited monetary decisions by Japanese and US major banks, while elsewhere in the region energy stocks surged amid growing oil.
The Nikkei Stock Average edged down 0,5% as market participants didn't want to put on big trades. Amidst individual shares, Shimano, bicycle parts maker went down 4.4% right after the company dared to decrease its net-revenue projection for this year, citing a weaker greenback against its Japanese rival.
Canon, electronics maker lost 5.8% after the company lowered its sales as well as revenue projections for this year. Canon was affected by China's slower economic growth and a higher yen.
This week revenues in stock markets throughout the world have been capped, as investors are waiting for a monetary policy update from the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee a bit later today. The US central bank isn't expected to increase its interest rates, though some rumors tell it might happen in June. As for the BOJ, it's going to announce its monetary decision on Thursday.


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who in this story(marriage is a private affair by chinua achebe)sees marriage as a private affair? who does not? why?give detail and quote the passages
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If you have read the story, it must be quite evident to you that Nnaemeka and Nene consider marriage a private affair.
When Nnaemeka told his father that he did not love Ugoye Nweke, he showed that his marriage his rightly his decision, and he has the right to marry his beloved(Nene)
I mean it is impossible for me to marry Nweke's daughter
On the other hand, Okeke, Nnaemeka's father, found that marriage was not by choice but by chance. If a particular is from the Ibo tribe, then she was eligible to marry.(Seems like a contest, isn't it!!)
Nnaemeka : I dont love her
Okeke : Nobody said you did, why should you?
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Rihanna closed this week's Saturday Night Live with a spare, elegant rendition of her new ballad "Stay," from the forthcoming album Unapologetic. Earlier in the show she played her huge hit "Diamonds," for which she premiered a new video a few days ago. It's been a busy week for the singer, who offered a preview of the new album in exchange for pledges to benefit Sandy victims at an event in New York on Friday.


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A new book recounts the history of Nintendo as seen through the tiny black pixel-eyes of Mario, the Japanese gamemaker's most famous export.
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, written by Jeff Ryan and to published this week by Penguin, is the life story of Mario, from the character's humble beginnings as nameless protagonist of an unknown arcade game to his current status as the unlikely face of the world's biggest game company.
The story of Mario is the story of Nintendo, and by way of describing each game in the series, Ryan takes the reader through the gamemaker's many ups and downs.
Super Mario is a fine book for the casual audience, written for the person who has never heard any of the stories that became part of gaming lore: Universal Pictures suing Nintendo over similarities between Donkey Kong and King Kong; Nintendo's poor treatment of its onetime partner Sony, which directly led the latter to produce PlayStation; Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto making hit games based on his hobbies, e.g., dog ownership.
The larger theme of the book hits the nail right on the head: Ryan links the various wins and failures of Nintendo to illustrate the company's philosophy as "lateral thinking with seasoned technology" — using old, cheap hardware in innovative ways to surprise consumers with low-cost alternatives. This explains flops like Virtual Boy as well as smash hits like Wii.
For me, Super Mario was something of a letdown because it is a collation of facts from books, gaming blogs and Wikipedia. Though Ryan says he scored an interview with Miyamoto, there's little to show for it here: Practically everything in Super Mario is nicked from other reference materials.
Ryan also assiduously avoids the use of direct quotes, which tends to keep the reader at a distance. David Sheff might have played fast and loose with the chronology of Nintendo's early years in his seminal 1993 book Game Over, but he made his subjects feel human. In the whole of Super Mario, there are maybe four direct quotes, one of which I was chagrined to find was lifted without attribution from Wired.com.
That said, I'm thankful Ryan pays such attention to detail; for a book so filled to bursting with obscure nomenclature — game titles, names of enemy characters, etc. — it is largely free of error. That said, it's always a little irksome when the copy editor falls asleep at the keyboard, and Super Mario is no exception, from names (typos include "Alexis Pajitnov," "Enzo Rubik") to companies ("Komani," "Kokatu").
Nintendo's 30-year history in the gaming business is long and convoluted, and Ryan does a game job of narrowing it down while cramming everything into a single, readable tome. Next, I'd like to see him apply his considerable writing talent to a subject that hasn't already been covered several times over.


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Eight months after the Central African Republic (CAR) descended into chaos following a coup by a coalition of predominantly Muslim rebels known as Seleka, the world has finally awoken to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the land-locked, resource-rich nation. More than 400,000 people – or 10 per cent of the population – have been displaced, and since 5 December, more than 500 people have been slaughtered in a violent outbreak between mainly Christian anti-Balaka (anti-machete) militia and ex-Seleka rebels.
That same the day, the UN Security Council voted unanimously to authorize France, CAR's former colonial ruler, to intervene to restore order and protect civilians by assisting African troops already on the ground. Belgium – along with Britain, Denmark and Poland – has also promised practical help.
But if the international community is now belatedly turning its attention to a crisis that has been mounting for months, the media is still largely overlooking its complex causes.
For as much as poor governance and a weak state, this is a conflict driven by a battle for natural resources.
'What we have been facing in the provinces is a struggle between different militia for control over natural resources such as diamond, timber, ivory and others, rather than willingness to actually change politics,' says Paul Doko, a leading figure in CAR's civil society, whose years spent fighting for community land rights were recognized when he was nominated as Minister of Environment and Ecology in January, a post he maintained after the coup.
Outside of the capital Bangui, the impact of this struggle has been devastating, and Seleka commanders have seized control of artisanal timber exploitation, ivory poaching and diamond mines.
Even under ideal circumstances, CAR's responsible ministries lacked the means to control illegal practices on the ground. But this has been impossible since July 2013, when the transitional government's money ran out. In Birao, in the north of the country, an underlying cause for taking up arms was the former president's plans to exploit petroleum resources without including or informing the local stakeholders.
It is remarkable, therefore, that in the midst of the current violence and lawlessness the Ministry of Forestry has just launched a bidding process for five forest concessions covering an area of over a million hectares in the southwestern region. How this bidding process can occur without the necessary institutional structure to oversee it, and in a climate where several timber operators have been looted and are not operational, raises serious concerns over just how transparent it will be, and whether the present chaos is providing cover for some to gain control over natural resources.
The long-term solution to the present turmoil in CAR lies in decentralization and promoting local development through land-tenure reform and increased recognition of people's customary rights. To this end, local elections would enable setting up administrations at community level that could ensure citizens' participation in decision-making.
The price for not doing so is bluntly spelled out by Paul Doko: 'The current way of doing politics in CAR is in the hands of a small aristocracy that is conservative and dangerous to the extent that it has almost led us to a genocide,' he says.
An Bollen is the Forest Governance Campaigner for West and CentralAfrica for FERN, the environmental and social justice NGO. She organized a civil society workshop on legal reform in the forest sector in the Central African Republic in March and was forced to leave the country hours before the coup.


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The family is staying in a hotel and they lost everything in the blaze, said Ms. Donnell. The Perrysburg Township Police and Fire Department, 26711 Lime City Road is accepting donations for the family and a Web site fundly.com/ bill-cross-fire-fund was established to accept donations, she said.
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We are up early and decide to visit the summit of Mt. Battie, an 800' mountain situated overlooking Camden Harbor. Unfortunately, as we aim to get home before sundown, we didn't have time for the one hour climb, nor the inclination today, so we joined the majority of tourists and drove to the summit, the centerpiece of Camden Hills State Park. Lame I know, but sometimes, you just can't fit everything in. I'll definitely camp here again. So close to downtown Camden, another picturesque DownEast town with colorful and stately historic homes, a lively arts scene and an active sailing community
From the summit, you can look down on all of this. I have to say, it's one of the most charming, most picturesque views I've ever looked upon. Church steeples rise over curved streets while sailboats emerge from the tiny port in Camden, while hundreds of green islands dot West Penobscot Harbor. This view is breathtaking, and since we were blessed with such clear weather, we were able to see all the way across the Penobscot to Bar Harbor, with a view of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. Absolutely gorgeous!
There's a small memorial tower you can climb, which makes the views even more stunning by expanding it to 360 degrees. Perhaps local poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's words are best, from her poem Renascence:
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IT'S the ultimate des res in the centre of Edinburgh - as long as you don't mind occasionally noisy neighbours.
Potential tenants willing to pay 2000 a month can secure a four-bedroom penthouse flat with stunning panoramic views of the city and a ringside seat at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Located at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle, 14 Ramsay Garden has been put on the letting market by its owner, a Scottish investment broker based in Hong Kong, after the current tenants decided to move out.
Designed by the city's planning pioneer Sir Patrick Geddes, the flat has been described as the "Eyrie in the Sky" and has breathtaking views stretching from the Pentland Hills to the Firth of Forth.
Overlooking the Esplanade, it also gives its occupants the finest seat in the house for the Tattoo, firework displays and concerts in Princes Street Gardens.
And the new tenants will be rubbing shoulders with some well-known neighbours including Dr Michael Shea, the Queen's former press secretary.
Brian Adair of Ryden Lettings, said the location was unrivalled by any private property in the city.
"The panoramic views are truly incomparable," he said. "The bonus is the proximity of the Castle and everything that happens on the Esplanade.
"The view of the Tattoo rivals the view from the royal box and the fireworks and concerts can be seen from many of the windows.
"It really is an extremely dramatic location with a backdrop to rival the finest cities in Europe."
The apartment is on the top floor of the five-storey block which forms one of the most prominent skylines in Edinburgh. The Grade 'B' listed complex was built in the late 19th century as part of a redesign of the Old Town.
Mr Adair said Ryden had looked after the property for a number of years and it was a unique opportunity to live in a "truly breathtaking" location.
He added: "When you consider what's being asked for newly built apartments, particularly in the New Town, 2000 a month for a property as unique as No 14 isn't at all extortionate."
To the north and west, the windows look out over Princes Street Gardens, the New Town, the Firth of Forth and across to Fife.
To the east and south west, the views extend all the way from the Isle of May and North Berwick Law to Arthur's Seat and the Pentland Hills.
The letting agents are warning that any prospective clients must be fully mobile as they have to climb 94 steps to reach the flat.
The apartment below was inherited by the National Trust, while another property in the "cluster" is the home to the Tattoo Administration.
The brochure for the property describes the home saying: "No king or queen ever had finer outlooks from palace windows.
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• Although a relatively new addition to the Old Town, Ramsay Garden is one of Edinburgh's most desirable addresses.
It was conceived by Sir Patrick Geddes and built in 1892 as part of a his plan of urban renewal in Edinburgh's Old Town to attract the middle classes back into the area.
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it depends how far out from the France date you want as there are quite a few 1/2 IM events in May and June.
May - Marshman, Swashbuckler, Belvoir
June - Bala, Wimbleball 70.3
that's just a few off the top of my head
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My aim was for Marshman but I missed the signup and its sold out. I will check out the others though.
I'm thinking I don't want it too close but end of April or May should be fine. Just want to use it as a prolonged training session and transition practice after months of training.
you won't find any UK halfs in April - Marshman is the traditional opener in early May. weather can be hit and miss though - this year it became a duathlon as the water was too cold and it was pissing down as well.
Marshman hasn't sold out btw - it's not even opened for entries yet and the website is only showing this year's date which will show sold out as it has gone. Mike (who runs VE) usually opens up for next year's events in Autumn so keep an eye on the website for when entries open. someone will usually pop a thread up on here to let people know as well
Ah okay its just me not paying attention!!
Yeah I emailed Mike in June and he said Aug the 1st but obviously this hasn't happened yet. I think that's what confuseed me when I saw the 'Sold Out' on the website.
I've just dropped him another email so I will post on here any dates he gives me.
I was one of the refs at this year's events and no doubt will either be doing the same next year, or competing instead.
Yeah I had a look at that. its the Thomas Cook sponsored one (I think). have you done this before TE?
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The European Union may set aside carbon allowances in its cap-and-trade program for companies that invest in new emission-reduction technologies, Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said.
"We're working on what we're calling an innovation accelerator," Hedegaard told a briefing in Brussels today. "We think there are some areas where the likelihood is a surplus of allowances that could be handed out to those who invest in totally new technologies."
The European trading system, started in 2005, caps emissions for more than 12,000 factories and power stations, allowing them to buy and sell allowances.
"This is one of the ideas we're exploring: If there are surplus allowances, how they could be used to benefit those, who are moving in the right direction," Hedegaard said, declining to elaborate.
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This Nonexistent AA+ Bond Is Colombia's Plan B for Roads
Colombia's beleaguered efforts to line up financing for President Juan Manuel Santos's $25 billion highway program now lie in a bond that doesn't even exist.
The infrastructure agency helped develop a hypothetical bond over the past two years to serve as a model for peso-denominated notes that could be sold to fund projects. This month, Fitch Ratings said such a security would merit an AA+ grade on its national scale, one level below its top AAA. Now, the agency is showing the rating to builders to persuade them that they could obtain cheaper financing in the bond market than the preliminary rates that banks are offering.
While Santos has made the highway program a centerpiece of his agenda as he seeks re-election, the country has received just seven proposals on the first four projects out of 40 approved bidders. The government says banks' high interest demands are one of the obstacles for would-be bids, and it's sought to encourage alternative backers including pension funds and international lenders. Bond buyers are the new hope.
"If we let the market figure it out by itself, it's going to take too long," Luis Andrade, the head of the Colombian infrastructure agency ANI, said by phone from Bogota.
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Santos, who took office in 2010, finished second in Colombia's first round of presidential elections on May 25 to Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, an ally of former President Alvaro Uribe. The two candidates head for a runoff on June 15.
Zuluaga campaign officials didn't respond to an e-mail message seeking comment on whether he would continue the infrastructure program and what he might do differently. In an April 4 statement, his Democratic Center party said the government isn't offering high enough returns on the projects for builders to close on financing.
The highway program aims to cut travel times between Colombia's major population centers by as much as 47 percent while reducing the cost of transporting raw goods and finished products between industrial zones in the Andes mountains to Caribbean and Pacific ports.
Santos has said that removing transportation bottlenecks can help the country achieve "Asian" growth rates and estimates the infrastructure spending will employ 200,000 Colombians.
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Financing for projects has become a bigger challenge since the government stopped making upfront payments to builders, a practice that had led to allegations of inefficiency and corruption. Under the new rules, builders must line up their own financial backing as part of any project proposal.
The government's hypothetical bond is for 320 billion pesos ($167 million) and is secured by eventual payments that the builder would receive from the government. It carries a partial guarantee from the country's development bank, Fondo de Desarrollo Nacional, or FDN, which helped structure the bond.
The Fitch rating helped "demystify" the process and implies an interest rate of at most 6 percentage points above inflation once construction is finished, according to Clemente del Valle, FDN's president. Colombia started working on the bond about two years ago as part of a World Bank program that aims to boost local-currency bond markets, del Valle said.
Bancolombia SA, the country's biggest bank, said it's quoting builders preliminary rates of 9 percent over inflation for project loans.
"It's a creative thing to do, and it kind of makes sense if you can get people thinking a little bit differently," Norman Anderson, the chief executive officer of Washington-based consulting company CG/LA Infrastructure Inc., said in a telephone interview.
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Today the infrastructure agency said that two proposals were received -- out of 10 approved bidders -- for the Pacific 3 concession, a 146-kilometer road project in western Colombia's coffee-growing region.
The World Bank paid Fitch for the rating, Andrade said. Fitch and the World Bank didn't reply to e-mailed questions about how much it cost.
The Colombian currency weakened 0.3 percent to 1,916.53 per U.S. dollar at 11:26 a.m. in Bogota.
Gonzalo Toro, vice president of business and government at Medellin-based Bancolombia, said in a phone interview that it's too early to discuss where interest rates on the projects will ultimately land. The lender had already approved 4.6 trillion pesos ($2.4 billion) of loan commitments for the first projects.
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The country ranks 130th out of 148 economies in terms of the quality of its roads, behind Venezuela at 128th and Madagascar at 129th on the World Economic Forum's global competitiveness index.
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Hey! I liked it! What do you do in this band?
My husband used to be a singer in a band here quite a few years ago. They were really going places... their music was being played in Austin and San Marcos area, but he left the band when his ex wife got pregnant.....
Reminds me of older BioHazard (the song they did for the older punisher movie..song called punishment I think.....the guitar has a similar sound).
Thanks for all the kind replies fellas..but I have a confession to make.
That recording was over 10 years ago.
We thought that we were on our way....but then something that I don't want to talk about happened, (not my fault), and we were just never the same afterwords.
Ole Ma nature can be a B**** sometimes.
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…to turning the moon into a giant disco ball and installing it in low orbit around the earth! We choose to discofy the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!
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the Giants have Ballard mending, Pascoe, Hopkins, and Bennet. To trade up is waste....
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
A group of four hip, young (adult) dancers (who can sing too) who host a 30-minute local children's television show. The group is composed of two boys and two girls. The show will focus on basic elementary information, such as manners, the alphabet and numbers. Each topic will be presented musically through song and dance.
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An attempted traffic stop resulted in a chase through two counties on Sept. 4.
According to a report from the Grayson County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Travis Jefferson attempted to stop a gray GMC truck near the county line on Ivanhoe Road near Fries at 11:30 p.m.
The vehicle accelerated and attempted to elude Jefferson, who pursued the vehicle traveling north into Carroll County.
"The vehicle reached speeds in excess of 70 mph and was driving in a very reckless manner," the police report said.
HILLSVILLE — A 20-year-old Hillsville man has been charged after allegedly resisting arrest while appearing drunk in public on Aug. 31, according to town police.
Joshua Edward Stanley was taken into custody after an altercation on North Main Street at about 9:45 p.m., according to a news release from the Hillsville Police Department.
Sgt. Alan Gravley approached to arrest Stanley, who appeared to be intoxicated
LAUREL FORK — Firefighters responded to a report of a fire at 8062 Dugspur Road Aug. 26 at about 6:19 a.m.
Laurel Fork Fire Department volunteers found smoke coming out of the eaves of the home, owned by Mark Bolt, according to information from the fire department. Firefighters made entry and knocked down the fire in the living room.
Some of the fire got up into the attic.
HILLSVILLE — In a 12-month period, Twin County E-911 dispatchers received 25,000 calls, which turned into 44,000 dispatches for emergency responders and Galax police, according to Jolena Young.
The regional 911 director shared information about the dispatching service with the Carroll Board of Supervisors at its August meeting.
HILLSVILLE — Investigators have found that an Aug. 17 Interstate 77 accident, which resulted in the death of a 53-year-old Portsmouth motorcyclist, arose from his 2009 Yamaha being in a blind spot.
Robert Terrell Hensley had been traveling north near the 2 mile marker in the center lane when a white van driven by Joe Cook moved to the right due to mechanical problems, according to a Virginia State Police report.
That caused the motorcycle to strike an International tractor-trailer being operated by a Mario Garcia.
LAMBSBURG — Charges are pending in the Aug. 17 van-vs.-motorcycle crash on Interstate 77 that left a 53-year-old Portsmouth man dead.
Virginia State Police Trooper John Delp reported that victim Robert Terrell Hensely was northbound near I-77's 1.8 mile marker in the center lane when the incident occurred. That's when a 1998 Chrysler van, operated by Joe Cook of Woodlawn, changed lanes from the left to the center, the report said. That caused the motorcycle to strike an International tractor-trailer being operated by a Mario Garcia.
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- Translocation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pif1 helicase monomers on single-stranded DNARoberto Galletto
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 The prequel-sequel bookend of last year's studio ATM, Paranormal Activity 2 picks up with Kristi (Sprague Grayden), sister of the first film's Katie, bringing home her firstborn son. That the child is named Hunter should give a fairly good idea of the class of home it is, and the home itself is the movie's star, in absence of any competition. In the family videos that comprise the long setup of the movie, no one says anything interesting, nor is any performance allowed to go beyond the adequately "realistic." When inexplicable little tremors begin in the house, the Hispanic help (who seemingly has seminary training) promptly diagnoses demons, but everyone else needs to see with their own eyes — which are everywhere, as narrative information is filtered through a six-camera home surveillance circuit and ever-ready camcorders. Where The Last Exorcism was sustained by artfully balanced skepticism and a feel for character, Paranormal 2, putatively directed by Tod Williams, can only hold an audience with the understood promise of big jolts around the corner — and they come, as Hunter becomes the hunted. (Sorry.) A nullity of a ghost story, whose idea of creating atmosphere is preparing a blank surface for sound-track bumps-in-the-night to resound off. (Nick Pinkerton) (Citywide)
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National Park Service Superintendent Steve Chaney announced today that Redwood National and State Parks will conduct a series of prescribed burns this fall in the prairies and oak woodlands in the Bald Hills east of Orick, Calif., as well as in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
The prescribed fire season in the parks will begin in September or early October as weather conditions permit. This year fire will be used as a management tool in five specific burn units in the Bald Hills: Upper Elk Camp Prairie, Dolason Prairie, Williams Ridge, Lower Lyons Ranch Prairie, and South Boundary Prairie. Combined, all five units total about 600 acres. An additional 150 acres will be burned at Elk (Boyes) Prairie in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
For thousands of years, Yurok, Tolowa, and Chilula people managed prairies, oak woodlands, and some coastal areas that are now within the parks with periodic fire. Burning provided grazing and hunting areas for elk and deer, maintained important resources like tanoak trees to improve acorn production and plants for medicines and various basket weaving materials, kept trail and travel corridors open, and lessened the prevalence of parasites, such as ticks, in the prairies. Settlers who later homesteaded the prairies practiced broadcast burning until it was outlawed by the state in the 1930s. Since then, many of the prairies and oak woodlands have become encroached with Douglas fir and other conifers which can eventually eliminate these important plant communities.
The parks' 2010 Fire Management Plan provides for the use of fire to restore natural and cultural processes and manage exotic plants and conifers encroaching into prairie and oak woodland plant communities. The parks have successfully used prescribed fires to achieve these objectives since the early 1980's.
If you are in the parks over the next couple of months, there will likely be additional activity and equipment on and near Bald Hills Road. Smoke may linger on the roadways and traffic control may be in place. Please be cautious for your safety, as well as for those working on the prescribed burns.
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Biden: I don't blame people for voting for that inmate in West Virginia instead of for us
posted at 4:05 pm on May 18, 2012 by Allahpundit
Via the Examiner, this is actually a fairly deft, politic response to a realllly bad outcome. He can't say "voters are stupid" or, as his party believes, "voters are racist," so instead he absolves them and lays the whole thing implicitly on — who else? — George W. Bush. But since no one takes Biden seriously, it transforms instantly into a late-afternoon giggle about the VP kinda sorta admitting they deserve to lose to a felon. Can't wait for that Arkansas primary.
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If you have got teenage children who regularly run up enormous mobile phone bills, the network 3 has come to your aid with the UK's first Skype-enabled mobile. It offers free calls between users for more than two hours a day.
The specially produced phones, launched this week, will be available on both on a pay-as-you-go or contract basis. The real selling point for teenagers will be that two friends who both own this phone will be able to talk long into the night for nothing.
Until now the Skype service, which sends voice calls over the internet, has largely been limited to those sitting in front of a personal computer.
The 3 Skypephone allows users to make free calls on the move to anyone else who is registered with Skype - either to a computer or another similarly enabled mobile. They can also access its instant messaging service and watch TV while on the move.
Users making calls on Skype are limited to 4,000 minutes a month, which is just over two hours a day.
"Skype is now truly mobile. This new handset is incredibly easy to use and lets you make free mobile Skype calls when you are on the move to other users all over the world, no matter where they are," says Michael van Swaaij, acting chief executive at the company. He claims that "it couldn't be simpler - put Skype in your pocket and make free mobile calls and send free instant messages at the touch of a single button."
To get the phone, pay-as-you-go customers will have to pay £49.99 for the handset and will need to top up with at least £10 every 30 days to get free Skype calls. Monthly contract customers (minimum spend is £12 a month) can get the 3 Skypephone for free. They can make Skype calls and send Skype instant messages on top of their normal call and text allowance.
Customers who want to watch live TV pay 49p a day or £5 a month - channels on offer include BBC1, ITV and BBC News 24. The phones also feature a two megapixel camera.
The only downside is that some Skype calls can sound a bit tinny when compared with standard calls. That is something that may not bother most teenagers, or those talking to relatives overseas - particularly when the call is free.
Standard mobile calls can be made as normal, over the mobile network. Pay-as-you-go customers are charged a flat rate of 12p per minute for calls and 12p per text; access to voicemail is free. Contract customers get a set amount of inclusive calls and texts each month.
Steve Weller at price comparison website uSwitch.com praised 3's move. "They are not asking for much of a financial commitment to get the free calls," he says.
Kevin Russell, chief executive of 3 UK, says: "3 wants to make the mobile internet available to everyone. To do this, we believe that services need to be simple to access and affordable." He adds that Skype "is the leader in internet communications. To enable Skype to go mobile in this way brings free internet calls together with an affordable 3G handset. Mobile has the potential to massively increase access to internet calling."
Rob Barnes, the head of mobiles at moneysupermarket.com, points out that Skype can be a great way for frequent travellers to save money. "However, this is only a great offer if you are already one of Skype's registered customers or if you can convince your friends and family to also buy a 3 Skypephone. While people remain on different networks, this is not really a viable purchase," he says.
Meanwhile, the long-awaited launch of Apple's iPhone may have finally come and gone, but the search is now on to find ways of unlocking it to enable it to be used on any phone network.
If you want one, you have to come up with the £269 purchase price for the handset, and to be prepared to sign an 18-month contract with O2. The company has the exclusive rights to offer the iPhone in the UK.
O2's cheapest iPhone tariff is £35 a month, bringing the overall cost of the phone to £899 over the 18 months. For that, you get 200 minutes of calls and 200 texts, along with "unlimited" internet usage.
Steve Alder, iPhone director at O2, warns buyers against unlocking. "We have the best package of unlimited data and all the benefits of the iPhone. Unlocking it would mean you won't get the full benefit of the iPhone. It also voids the Apple warranty."


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For years Inna and Jeff kept saying "No" to their grandmothers for trying to set up a blind date for them. It was too old-school to arrange a meeting, yet alone a wedding! Much for the disappointment of their grandparents they were both stubborn as one would get and never caved in. Time passed, both Inna and Jeff were content with their lives. But it always felt like something was missing, something was not right. Perhaps they were not happy…
The day Inna and Jeff met face to face grandmothers were not involved. They day was perfectly orchestrated by the will of destiny… Well, besides the flu Jeff had that day, everything was perfectly orchestrated, let me put it that way. A simple birthday party they both were too tired to attend turned into a love story. That day Inna became Jeff's Nyqil. After that night and for the eternity they are now a perfect match and love of each others lives.
Work it, Inna! You are B E A U T I F U L!
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The most recent home video release of Chicken Run movie is November 20, 2000. Here are some details…
DVD Release Date: 21 November 2000
Like other Dreamworks' DVD releases (including the award winning Prince of Egypt DVD), this disk is chock full of information about the movie and the people who created it. Two extensive documentaries illustrate the painstaking process required to create the over one-hundred-thousand individual pictures that form Chicken Run. You also learn about the history of Aardman Productions and creators Peter Lord and Nick Park.
Another section of the disk provides a host of detailed biographies on every cast member and many of the crew while pushing a couple more buttons generates a wealth of written production notes.
Finally the disk includes a running commentary with directors Lord and Park talking you through every step of the movie.
Needless to say, the images are superb, the sound amazing, and the movie is even more enjoyable when you can stop and take a good look at those chickens. Not meaning to egg you on, but this is a DVD worth cracking open.
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In September, Ministry Our Lady of Victory Rehab Department hosted a professional conference on aquatic therapy for other rehabilitation professionals. Participation in the conference exceeded expectations and the rehab team decided to donate the surplus funds back to the pool that makes aquatic rehab at MOLVH possible.
MOLVH's director of rehabilitation services, Steve Seiberling, DPT, helped organize the conference. He said, "We are pleased to be able to financially support the pool. Not only are they an excellent partner in our therapy program, they are a resource for the community for exercise and healthy activity. It's a great facility, and swimming is a healthy option for families looking for something fun to do together."
Cynthia Eichman, president of MOLVH, said, "When Steve suggested donating the money that was raised through this professional conference back to the pool program, we were very supportive. We shared his suggestion with our Board of Directors and they approved it unanimously and very enthusiastically. We think the partnership we have had with the Stanley-Boyd School since the inception of this Aquatic Therapy program in 2007 has been exceptional, and this donation is our way of giving back."
Jim Jones, administrator for Stanley Boyd schools, says, "We are proud of our relationship with the local hospital and clinic and will use this donation toward the purchase of a large screen for the gymnasium for future presentations."
Laura Schlichting, elementary school principal, added, "Thank you so much to MOLVH for their continued support of the Stanley Boyd School District"
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